Matthew 12 -- The sign of Jesus Coming

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1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.” Most Christians understand that there is no law to keep the Sabbath in the New Testament. According to Paul some are persuaded that everyday is holy to the Lord, others are persuaded that they need to keep the Sabbath day holy, and still others keep the first day of the week, the day of the Lord’s resurrection holy. However, there is a taboo at this time and that is to talk about the rapture and the signs of the Lord’s coming. There are words concerning this sprinkled throughout the Bible, like grains of wheat that we can eat. 3 He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. 5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent? 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” This is quite strange, David eating the bread in the Temple does not seem to expound on the Sabbath. Likewise, circumcision does not seem to expound on the Sabbath. But it is interesting in that these are things that seem more egregious and yet these same Bible teachers don’t condemn David or the Priests. We see the same thing with teachings on the rapture and signs of the Lord’s coming. Does anyone condemn the Magi for seeing the star of Bethlehem and coming to worship Jesus? Yet because astrology is evil and satanic they have condemned any and all who would see the signs that God has placed in the heavens. That seems hypocritical. The second major condemnation is that “you can’t know the day nor the hour”. However, this charge doesn’t hold up well under scrutiny. In Luke the Lord says that as you see these things happening you know the day is approaching. In Revelation the Lord tells Sardis to watch or else He will come as a thief and they won’t know the day nor the hour. This warning doesn’t make any sense if watching will not help you to know the day nor the hour. This chapter gives us the sign of the Lord’s coming that will be given to the evil and adulterous age. That is huge, if they are evil and adulterous they certainly are not holy and spiritual. If someone who is evil and adulterous can see this sign, then it will be something that the fleshly and materialistic can see. This is the sign that will be on the front page of the newspapers. Yes, there are many other signs in the Bible, but this is the one that any and all will be able to see.
 

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Statisticians can easily and quickly identify if there has been fraud and where those fraudulent ballots are.

1. Cities like Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee have incredibly high turnouts, so incredible as to not be believable. So that would be the first place to look.

2. Some ballots only vote for President, we are seeing an extremely high percentage this year unlike all previous elections, but not only so we are seeing these extremely high percentages for Biden and only in certain swing states. So the numbers are relatively standard in many of the states that are solidly red or blue and for those who voted for Trump. But mail in ballots in swing states are completely off the charts as far as voting solely for Biden without any down ballot votes. Those ballots should be examined very closely.

3. Using Bedford's number we can identify the counties where it is most likely to find fraudulent votes.

4. You can go through the voters and remove all the dead people who voted and all those who voted twice and all those who were ineligible to vote. That will be pretty simple process.

5. Doing the above four will show further patterns like when and where these ballots were tallied. That in turn will allow investigators to question, interview and ultimately interrogate those who were there. That would be very bad because the workers at these stations are minor players and investigators will definitely be offering deals to get testimony. If they already have 200+ signed affidavits you can see how that will quickly multiply to 400 or 600 signed affidavits.

6. Based on this information and testimony it may be very easy for a judge to throw out large swathes of votes like all votes tallied at certain times in certain counties, etc.
 
In many ways this year is unlike other years

In the past people had to request an absentee ballot and then, presumably, they would be checked for being a registered voter. Since they requested it and they want it mailed to an address in that state we can also assume the numbers sent to those who were dead at the time of the election or that no longer live in the state would be very low.

However, this year many states mailed out ballots, not applications, but ballots to everyone. Many that they sent it to might be ineligible to vote. For example, if they roles were not updated for those who died they would be sent to people who had recently died and in a year with a Pandemic that would very likely be 200,000 more people than in previous elections. Also they would be sending them to people who had moved.

So these two events could be a result of the faithful execution of the laws and not "vote rigging" or "voter fraud". So even though we know these things have taken place evidence of these things is not evidence of "vote rigging". You still need to take this a few steps further.

For example, let's talk about "dead people voting". Let's say you live in a house where they send you three ballots, one to a person who has died prior to the election. You might actually make a mistake and send the wrong ballot back. That could be confirmed and I would hate to think that someone in the midst of their grief is then charged with a felony for this kind of mistake.

Second, a person in the family might decide to vote for everyone. So let's say my wife is very sick, I fill out both of our ballots, but she dies and a few days later I drop these ballots in the mail. This is something of a gray area to me, if she expressed her wishes to me at a time that others were legally voting the only reason this looks illegal is because I was more concerned with my terminally ill wife than with dropping these ballots in the mail. Once again, I don't think this is something the person needs to be convicted of a felony for. In fact one advantage of these mail in ballots is that people who are too sick to actually go to the polls also get to have a voice.

However, if we have people who have been dead for more than a year and they are voting we have neither of these first two cases. But again, that in and of itself is not proof of "widespread" voter fraud. Yes, a man who has been dead for 100 years voting is voter fraud. But who is doing it? Is this some prank by one person? To know that it is "widespread" what is the criteria? Would 100 cases be "widespread"? Suppose in a very close election one State was decided by 10,000 votes, would 10,000 votes be considered "widespread"? Or do we have to find it in many states for it to be widespread? Right now we have 6 states that are the key Swing states in this election. If there is no big issue with dead voting in 44 states does that mean it isn't "widespread"? So this term is too vague and since it isn't defined it is useless. A much better term is "significant". If the number of votes could actually flip a swing state from one candidate to another then it is certainly "significant". If people were required to request a ballot after September 1 and then died prior to mailing it in by November 2nd this would very likely be a very rare and insignificant problem.

What is great is we can very easily check the record of who voted with the death certificate record. Database software could do this quickly and efficiently and we could easily see exactly how big a problem this is and whether or not it is potentially significant. Again, I introduce a new caveat, "potentially" significant. Let's assume one candidate is currently leading in a state by 100,000 votes and your search shows that 10,000 dead people voted. Those 10,000 are not going to swing the election, but they potentially might when other forms of fraud are taken into account (people ineligible, people who no longer live in the state, etc). So although the 10,000 doesn't change the outcome in and of itself I want to know more. Did all 10,000 vote for the same candidate? That would suggest (not prove) widespread voter fraud. Were these ballots even mailed to those homes? If not that is even more concerning. Were these ballots input at a time when no Republican observers were allowed in? That would also suggest widespread fraud.

My Definition of Widespread -- Organized by people with access to the election process demonstrating a planned strategy to flip the votes of a particular state.
 
11,000 incidents of witnesses coming forward to assert voter fraud. Lawyers are interviewing them and have 500 signed affidavits so far.
 
9 Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, 10 and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus, they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” 11 He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? 12 How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” 13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other.

I have seen some amazing Bible expositions on Youtube. They are unveiling amazing revelations concerning the end of the age. Many Christians had a “shriveled hand” when it came to this topic due to the various taboos associated with it. But what we are seeing is that in the last few years many Christians have woken up and are now gathering little nuggets from the word just like the disciples picking the grain in the fields. What is really emphasized here is that this is the Sabbath. Matthew has used the word “Sabbath” eight times in the first 11 verses. The Sabbath is a law that says the old creation cannot do any work for the Lord. Jesus was raised in the first day of the week, He is the new creation, and if you are in Jesus you are not in the Sabbath rest for the old creation, instead you are in the new creation.

14 But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.

This is what we need to see about the Lord’s coming. He is coming to rapture His church, His believers, His overcomers, but He is also coming to judge this evil and adulterous age. These priests are plotting in secret to kill Jesus. The Lord will bring to light all of their evil intrigues. We are the salt and the light, so this is part of our mission during this age.

15 Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him, and he healed all who were ill. 16 He warned them not to tell others about him. 17 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: 18 “Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations. 19 He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear his voice in the streets. 20 A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he has brought justice through to victory. 21 In his name the nations will put their hope.”

This is a really critical section. The main stream media is force fed to everyone. If you have cable it comes with your cable. If you access Youtube it will be recommended to you. They are crying out to all the simple, all the gullible, to eat what they are serving. Much of what they teach is simply propaganda which many have simplified to “orange man bad”. So then, if you want to get a more reliable view of what is happening you have to search, Jesus has withdrawn from being highly visible. He is still here speaking and teaching, but no one is going to hear his voice in the streets. No billboards, no ad campaigns, etc. You need to seek and find. He isn’t quarrelling and getting into rancorous debates. He is not snarky, dismissive, or acting superior. Also, He has a mission. To bring justice through victory. This age will not end until we see that victory. Also, look at this final verse “in his name the nations hope”. The antichrist will be the photographic negative of that. You will see big crowds putting their hope in him, just like the Germans did with Hitler.

22 Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see. 23 All the people were astonished and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”

If you are spouting whatever the enemy wants you to say and believe through their propaganda arm then you are “demon possessed”. What does this demon possession do to people? It makes them blind and mute. If you can’t see what is going on and cannot speak in a clear and informed way on what is going on you are blind and mute due to this demon possession. I used to listen to CNN and MSNBC and even Fox but soon realized it was a complete waste of time. I was not being educated about any of the things going on, I wasn’t being enlightened, I was simply hearing the same message repeated ad infinitum: “orange man bad” or “orange man good”.

24 But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.”

I have heard some really stupid things. I have heard things repeated by people I thought no one was that stupid to buy into. For example, one person told me that Donald Trump, President of the US said “stop counting the votes”. If I hear something as outrageous as this I am not interested in the 5 second sound bite, I want to hear the speech. I do a search until I get the whole speech and learn what he and his press secretary have been saying repeatedly is that “they want every legal vote counted and every illegal vote to not be counted”. They were arguing that Pa was counting votes without observers from the Republican party present which is their legal right. Ultimately they counted 600,000 votes without Republican observers and in violation of a court order. That was what he was talking about when he said to “stop counting the votes”.

25 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. 26 If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?

First he is saying what many in these “stop the steal” protests are saying. If we don’t have elections we trust then we no longer have a democracy, our constitution will collapse, and this is bad for everyone regardless of your political affiliation.

27 And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. 28 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

Wow, wow, wow! Did you get that? At the beginning of the age Jesus drove out these demons of mind control that blinded us to what was going on and made us mute. But at the end of the age we will see “your people” drive them out. This tells us that the kingdom of God has come upon you. These protests right now with “stop the steal” are telling us that the kingdom has come upon us! Once again we have to go back to the earlier verses. You aren’t seeing these protests advertised on Facebook or Twitter (they are being censored as provoking violence even though these have been peaceful protests of Christians praying on their knees). You don’t see any mention of them on mainstream media, rather only dismissive and insulting comments from them about how childish they are for not accepting their declaration that the race is over. Whoopi Goldberg said they needed to “suck it up” and “do what the Democrats did” which was if they found any evidence of a possible crime to bring it to the courts and deal with it that way. That is, precisely what they are doing right now. Time to wake up! The kingdom of God has come among us.

29 “Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

The rapture is likened to a thief in the night. The saints that the Lord takes are the “possessions” of this evil age. Do you realize they value you based on your labor, the taxes you pay, and the things you buy. The Lord will not be taking the corrupt ones, He won’t be taking the thieves, or liars, or adulterers. Instead He will be taking those that the society and the economy depend on. But before we get this rapture we must first “bind the strong man”. What do you think is going on right now? If we can convict the strong man of voter fraud and lock everyone of them up we will “bind the strongman”.