The Texas Chainsaw Bible Massacre

Back in the day, those claiming to know bible prophecy befuddled me. Little did I know how their forecasts came to be. After many failed prophecies about the Lord’s return, first in 1988, one generation after Israel occupied Palestine. And more predictions, all failing their predicted time, I began to wonder. And on top of this, many failed predictions of the Antichrist being everyone from Henry Kissinger to Mikhail Gorbachev, I began to question my sanity for listening to them.

It turns out, much of their platform came from the hallucinations of young Margaret MacDonald, a Scottish lass who in the 1800s predicted the PreTrib Rapture while burning up with a fever. And then picked up on by J. Darby and Later C.I. Scofield wrote of it alongside scripture in his Scofield Reference Bible in the early 1900s.

This became part of Dispensationalism. A new prophetic framework through which people could relate the bible to current events. Prophecy buffs worldwide spent many hours gleaning the headlines in search of the Antichrist who already had them twirling on his string while they searched for him.

In fact, this sort of futurism is the result of a plan designed by the Jesuits to offset the Reformers who identified the papacy as the Antichrist. The Jesuits inserted a gap of unlimited time between Daniel’s 69th and 70th weeks (Daniel 9:24ff). Saying the 70th week is on hold until Antichrist arrives.

But in doing this, they turned Jesus who already fulfilled the 70th week, into a future Antichrist who would fulfill the 70th week in the distant future. Now more than 2000 years later. The Jesuits thought by doing so, people would think the Antichrist is yet future, so he cannot be the Pope.

It worked having affected a broad swath of Christendom. Placing them into a futuristic mode of reading the bible while missing the present and past fulfillments in prophecy. But the gap, no matter how far into the future, needed a few things.

The original backdrop of the first century had the Roman Empire. The time in which the Kingdom of Christ came. But now disregarded and changed into a Jewish millennium of the future.

This meant, they needed a restored Roman Empire. A rebuilt temple for Antichrist to desecrate. Another great tribulation, and all that belonged to the original 70th week’s prophecy, already fulfilled.

But this forms much of their prophecy today. Already fulfilled prophecy is now said to have “double fulfillment”. So they predict a restored Roman Empire. A new Temple with animal sacrifices for Antichrist to end and so on. Not realizing they missed it the same way the Jews did. The kingdom is spiritual and not the physical kingdom they remain looking for.

And so here we are. The bible scavenger hunt began in the 1800s. Looking for scripture to support this “new way” of reading the bible. A system not based on the bible, but based instead on an imaginary Gap the bible never mentions. This meant sawing one text after another from its original setting. And trying to recreate it in the future with modern technology. An example is Ezekiel 38 -39 where spears become submarines. Horses become jet planes. And the attempt to steal Israel’s cattle becomes oil or any reason battles happen today.

And ancient Gog and Magog become Russia. Without one mention of any of this in scripture. Yet many believe the current wave of false prophecy. Not knowing it comes from an imaginary gap inserted in the bible by Jesuits to deceive Protestants at war with the Reformers of the 1600s.

The pretrib rapture is imminent; it can happen at any moment.

“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 12:13 (KJV 1900)

More evidence. Paul refers to Christian people as 'Jews or Gentiles.' He doesn't just call them all 'Israel.'

The gospel binds him from deceiving the nations (gentiles elected to salvation) to fulfill the promise made to Abraham. If we think the binding consists of more than that, we add to Revelation.

More evidence. Paul refers to Christian people as 'Jews or Gentiles.' He doesn't just call them all 'Israel.'

When does this occur?

“But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.” Luke 11:20 (KJV 1900)

When did the thousand year of Satan’s binding occur? Now? Satan is the god of this world. He is the ruler of the darkness of this world. He is certainly not bound right now.

God bound him with the gospel from deceiving the nations...only. God still used him and presently uses him in all the suffering you see. Jesus healed all who were oppressed by the Devil.

The nations in the millennium. Then he will be released to deceive them one last time.

Jesus taught against the Millennium in the gospels if you notice. It's a false prophecy of the Pharisees that will never come about.

God bound him with the gospel from deceiving the nations...only. God still used him and presently uses him in all the suffering you see. Jesus healed all who were oppressed by the Devil.

If you could just see the difference between the KOG and the KOH.😉

Go through and look up kingdom of God passages in Mark and kingdom of heaven passages in Matthew. Matthew uses 'kingdom of heaven' and Mark uses 'kingdom of God' in the same teachings. Some Jews observed a custom of avoiding referring to God by name, then extended that further to using other terms besides 'God'.

I have many times. Both kingdoms were at hand during Christ’s earthly ministry.

Let me ask you, when Jesus preached these same teachings, did He actually say kingdom of God or did He say kingdom of heaven? Why the two different phrases? Did the Spirit lead the writers to write different phrases for the same meaning, or could each have a different meaning?

But if Jesus repeated His teachings and said 'kingdom of God' one time and 'kingdom of heaven' the next, then what does that imply?

There are multiplied millions of Hindus bowing down to idols and worshipping devils, not just Hindus, but other idolators engaged in literal idolatry all over the world. The number of Mu ham mad ans who deny that Jesus is the son of God is closer to 2 billion than 1 billion. There are those who call themselves Christian who have cultic beliefs or accept the libertine morality of this current evil age. There are millions of people in the US who think it is okay to murder a child in the womb. There are ministers performing so-called 'gay' so-called 'weddings.' Are the nations deceived?

It implies they are different kingdoms, one spiritual and the other physical. God is a spirit. Heaven is a physical place.

Where does the Bible say that heaven is a physical place? Why can't a Spirit live in a physical place? Where does the Bible teach that?