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Could Pope Francis be the False Prophet?

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Today, The Bible & You

Today’s Front Page

The Nation’s Christian Newspaper

October 2021

Could Pope Francis be the 

False Prophet?

Pope Francis at the United Nations with his right hand raised up

 According to Scripture, the greatest religious leader in history, the Antichrist’s right-hand man called the False Prophet, will arise from Rome to force humanity to worship the Antichrist and deceive countless people near the time of Christ’s return. The false prophet is the leader of the false church (“the harlot”) in Revelation 17:1-5, and there is strong evidence that this false church is the Roman Catholic religion.  It is highly likely that the pope has been specifically placed there to be the false prophet who works with the Antichrist throughout the tribulation period.

The Vatican and St. Peter Basilca in Rome, Italy

 From a prophetic standpoint, out of all the popes who have come and gone in the past century, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (a.k.a. Pope Francis), who became pope of the Catholic religion on the 13th of March 2013, has accomplished more in the last two years than all popes combined to bring the pagan religious bride of Antichrist together!

Pope Francis and French President Emmanuel Macron hugging each other in a warm embrace

 The false prophet will promote the worship of Antichrist (Revelation 13:12) and will likely be a leading religious figure, prior to the rapture, in order to ensure a global following for an Antichrist “declaring himself god” (2nd Thessalonians 2:4).  Not only is Pope Francis the top religious figure, but he is also more popular than any political leader, according to a recent poll. Pope Francis holds the record for amassing one million followers on Instagram in the shortest amount of time (under 12 hours) and is one of the most influential world leaders on Twitter, followed by more than 40 million accounts!  Pope Francis also rules over half of Christendom with its 1.3 billion Roman Catholics!  The pope is positioned better than anyone on the scene to fulfill this prophecy.

Chrislam -- One World Religion under Pope Franis's leadership

 The false prophet sets up a “living” image (statue) of the Antichrist that must be worshiped (Revelation 13:14-15).  Pope Francis is already beginning to prepare people of the world to worship image figures of living men. On April 16, 2017, a wax figure of Pope Francis was set up for an Easter celebration.  The statue was afterward transferred to the Petropolis Wax Museum, where it is on permanent display.

Wax Statue of Pope Francis standing in a car

 The Roman Catholic religion has always used Idolatry / idol worship as a means of deception and have been making images for people to worship for many centuries. Is it really any wonder that Pope Francis and the Catholic religion are starting to use wax figures to deceive their flock?

French President replaced by a humanoid robot

 There is also speculation about whether this “image of the beast” (Revelation 13:15) is going to be an Artificial Intelligence (AI) robot, and interestingly Pope Francis has attended many technology conferences on the topic of AI and even mentioned it at this year’s World Economic Forum, which many news reports admitted was “an unusual topic for a pontiff”.  Could Pope Francis be preparing for the creation of a future AI robot in the likeness of the Antichrist?

Miracle Healing of Boy by Pope Francis

 The false prophet will show his power by performing great deceptive miracles (Revelation 13:13-14).  Performing miracles is nothing new to Pope Francis.  Pope Francis is credited with many healing miracles and has already performed one miracle in which he turned dried blood into liquid.

Implanted Microchip -- The Mark of the Beast

 The false prophet will force mankind to receive the “mark of the beast” (Revelation 13:16-17).  Many Evangelicals and Catholics believe that RFID implants are the “mark of the beast” and are outraged by the technology.  Yet, in a controversial move by the Catholic religion, Pope Francis has come out in vocal support of RFID Chip technologies and the extraordinary potential they hold for mankind!  Francis said:

 “We have examined the scriptures thoroughly, and I can conclusively say that there’s nothing to indicate that RFID Chips are Satanic in anyway. If anything, these devices are a blessing from God himself, bestowed upon humanity to solve many of the world’s ills.”

 In addition, Pope Francis’ private meetings with tech giants including: Apple CEO Tim Cook, former Google CEO and Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, makes you wonder…  Could Pope Francis be preparing for the implementation of the “mark of the beast” in America and around the world?  (Note: Apple, Google and Facebook are part of five American Tech companies that dominate and control every part of the digital life of an individual).

Pope Francis meeting with Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg Pope Francis meeting with Google CEO Eric Schmidt

 The false prophet, along with the Antichrist, will promote and enforce a totalitarian world government, a global economic system, and a universal religion (Revelation 13:12).  Ever since the very beginning of his papacy, Pope Francis has been pushing for global unity in religious matters, global unity in economic matters and global unity in political matters (calling for a “one world government” and a new “global politically authority”).

Pope Francis and Former Israeli President Shimon Peres embracing each other

 Interestingly, Shimon Peres (former Israeli President) wanted to establish an international body representing the world’s major religions with Pope Francis as its leader!  Peres stated, “perhaps for the first time in history the Holy Father is a leader who’s respected, not just by a lot of people, but also by different religions and their representatives”.

The False Prophet has two horns like a Lamb

 The false prophet has “two horns like a lamb” (Revelation 13:11). In the Bible, the Lamb represents Christ, the Lamb of God. The pope takes the title “Vicar of Christ” meaning he is presented as Christ on Earth, in his place.  So, he is literally the most famous man on earth to be “like a lamb,” or like THE lamb.  In addition, the pope’s mitre literally has two horns.  If you go to the Catholic Encyclopedia, they themselves call it a “two horned mitre!”  Indeed, the pope is a like a lamb with two horns!  (Notes: This verse is clearly symbolic, although it’s interesting how it also fits in a literal sense!)

 The false prophet’s message of the devil and Satan (Revelation 13:11). Even the media have picked upon the fact that Pope Francis talks a lot about Satan, the devil.  Nonetheless, Pope Francis’ false doctrine, alone, makes it clear who he serves. Pope Francis declares Lucifer as God, declares having a personal relationship with Jesus is dangerous, denies the existence of hell, claims atheists will go to heaven if they’re good people and that salvation is free, agrees with the evolution / Big Bang theory and rejects Creationism, sees nothing wrong with homosexuality… All the greatest heresies and lies of Satan!

Pope Francis in the Cobra Snake's head at the Vatican

 The false prophet will deceive many, even the elect (Matthew 24:24).  Pope Francis speaks boldly against the Bible almost every week without anyone to stop him!  The silence of many proves that Pope Francis is the greatest false prophet in the history of what has been known as Christendom. The Catholic religion has never actually been part of the true born-again church of Jesus Christ.

Cobra Shaped building at the Vatican

 The false prophet’s inward impression is fierce and dangerous (Revelation 13:11). Pope Francis has been known to attack anyone who opposes or dares voice disagreement with him.  Just this year, the Vatican took new measures to punish critics of Pope Francis in a move that seems to belie the pope’s earlier calls for greater dialogue and debate with the Church.

The Dictator Pope -- The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy

  The Vatican suspended historian Henry Sire after he was revealed to be the author of the bestselling book The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy, a critical examination of the pontificate of Pope Francis.  In it, Sire portrayed Francis as an authoritarian leader who does not brook opposition or criticism.  Contrary to his public persona as a jovial man of the people, Sire wrote that Francis has turned out to be “a papal tyrant the like of whom has not been seen for many centuries” and under his administration, “the Vatican is systematically silencing, eliminating and replacing critics of the Pope’s views.”   He declared:

 “When the publicity cameras are off him, Pope Francis turns into a different figure: arrogant, dismissive of people, prodigal of bad language and notorious for furious outbursts of temper which are known to everyone from the cardinals to the chauffeurs.”

 The false prophet kills people who don’t follow the Antichrist (Revelation 13:15).  Pope Francis is the first such pope in the history of the Roman Catholic religion to be a JESUIT!  Who can cause more harm and martyrdom than a Jesuit pope?  The main enforcer of the Roman Catholic Inquisitions were the Jesuits who were in charge of murdering.  For two or three centuries, many Protestants have given figures concerning the total number of people killed directly or indirectly by the Roman Catholic Papacy during the Middle Ages. The numbers given include 50 million, 68 million, 100 million, 120 million, and 150 million. Roman Catholics typically give much smaller numbers.  Frequently the figures are stated without any information about where they came from or how they were computed.  One can excuse a few thousand cases as exceptional, but millions and millions of victims can only be the result of a systematic policy, thereby showing the harmful results of church-state unions.

The Roman Catholic Jesuit Order Iniquistion methods of Torture that killed Millions

 Pope Francis has taken and administered this same Satanic Jesuit oath which includes the following appalling statements:  

 “I promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage war, secretly and openly, against all heretics and protestants as I am directed to do, to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex nor condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive those infamous heretics; rip open their stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race.”

 The false prophet intends to change times and laws (Daniel 7:8; 20-22; 24-25).  Pope Francis can modify divine law as he pleases. One Roman Catholic writer quotes: “. . . the pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God… “In Francis’ first year as Pope, various possible changes to Catholic doctrine were discussed around the Vatican:  

  • change to grant Communion to Catholic couples who are divorced and civilly remarried.
  • change to grant Communion to non-Catholics.
  • change to grant Church blessings to gay unions.

 The false prophet will influence the “kings of the earth” (Revelation 16:14; Revelation 18:3). Today, so many of the European Union’s political leaders are turning and guidance.  In an historic moment back in 2014, Pope Francis addressed the leaders of Europe, the European Parliament in Strasbourg! 

Building of the European Parliament

 French President Emmanuel Macron held an “intense” meeting with Pope Francis, discussing global issues including the fate of migrants coming to Europe.  The very fact that this religious leader is able to influence the leaders of Europe in this way, helping to give them advice and exhortation, shows the great authority this particular religion has in the heights of power in Europe.  No other religious leader has been given such a privilege as the papacy.

Pope Francis intense meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron

 The ultimate source of the false prophet’s power is Satan (Revelation 13:2), so it is expected the false prophet to be surrounded by religious and demonic symbolism.  The religious and demonic symbolism around Pope Francis is very troubling.

Pope Francis flashing Satanic hand signs 

 Evil groups such as the Illuminati and the Freemasons use various hand signals to show their allegiance to Satan, and Pope Francis has been flashing satanic hand signs for years now!  Many times, in public, during his papacy, Francis has flashed the 666-hand signal, the satanic horned hand symbol, and the “hidden hand” masonic sign.

Pope Franicis and a Philippian Cardinal flashing Satan Hand Gestures

  The Bible makes clear that the man of lawlessness (the Antichrist) will not be revealed until the Restrainer (Holy Spirit-indwelt Church) is removed (2nd Thessalonians 2:3; 7-8).  Since the false prophet rises to power after the Antichrist (Revelation 13:11), no one will know for sure who the false prophet is until the rapture occurs.  That being said, we can speculate, and it certainly looks like a possibility, especially given the shortness of time.

The Best Rapture illustration of Jesus Christ in the Clouds at the Rapture of the Church

 We are not saying that he is THE false prophet, Pope Francis certainly is an Antichrist in theology, life and prototype. The point of this article is not to identify who the false prophet is, but to warn those here for tribulation.  Also, whether Pope Francis is THE false prophet or not, Francis is certainly fulfilling his role as a false prophet and possibly paving the way for the final false prophet.

Seven Seals, Seven Trumpets and Seven Bowls of Wrath of the Tribulation Period

  “For false messiahs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.” (Matthew 24:24; Mark 13:22).

At that Time if Anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Messiah' or 'There he is do not believe it.'

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Today, The Bible & You Q & A

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January 2022

Q & A

Question: It is so difficult to understand the Bible when I try to read it.  The words seem simple enough, but understanding what those words mean has been very difficult for me.  How is it possible to understand the Bible?  Is there an easy step by step way?

Answer: Your question shows that you are on the right track.  God promises us in Proverbs 8:17, “I love them that love me; and those that seek me shall find me.” 

 The first chapter of the book of Genesis tells us that God made two great lights and set them in the firmament of the heavens, a greater light (the sun) to rule the day, and a lesser light (the moon) to rule the night.  The moon, however, is lightless of itself.  It shines into the darkness only by virtue of its relationship to the greater light, the sun.  It has nothing of itself to offer a world in the dark; it has only the sunlight that it receives and faithfully reflects, just as we have only the light of the Lord, and nothing of our own, to offer the world of darkness around us.  We must take our attention away from us — to the Lord Jesus.  This is what repentance means.

 True repentance is not being sorry for something you have done wrong.  Now if you do something wrong, you should be sorry; but that is not real repentance.  Real repentance is hilariously exciting.  It is facing the facts of life, recognizing how God made you, how you were intended to function, and then being restored to that relationship of mutual inter-availability that the Lord Jesus enjoyed between Himself and the Father, a mutual inter-availability in which you are prepared to let Him be God.  That is true repentance.

 You give Him your hands for Him to work with, your feet for Him to walk with, your lips for Him to speak with, your eyes for Him to see with, your ears Him to hear with, your mind for Him to think with, your heart for Him to love with.  You tell Him, “Thank You for being my Creator within the creature.  You are in Business.” 

 Faith means letting Him live in you through HIs Word.  In any particular situation you encounter, any particular need and responsibility that faces you, you will never let Him until you are prepared to admit that you cannot, and only God can.

  • In what ways, have you tried to live the Christian life for the Lord Jesus, instead of allowing Him to live it through you?
  • In growing faith, what do you need to allow the Lord to be in your life at this time?

 Do you know what it is to live purposefully?

 Is there an urgent sense of mission or some compelling thrust within you which makes life add up to the sheer adventure that God always intended life to be?  If so, there is good news awaiting you, good news about the treasury of purpose and truth and wisdom to be found in the person of Christ, for living purposefully means trading our poverty for Christ’s wealth … our weakness for Christ’s strength.  We exchange the bankruptcy of the fallen Adam for all the fullness of the Life of Christ, and we discover the sheer adventure of allowing Jesus Christ to be God in our experience, for God He is!

 Are you experiencing the indwelling life of Christ?  Are you standing aside, fully recognizing that you can do nothing on your own?  Are you allowing the Jesus in you, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to act on your behalf?  Have you allowed God to inhabit all of your life, or are you still cordoning off portions of your life, where our Lord Jesus is not allowed?  Our Lord Jesus desires to indwell each of His followers to the point where their heart’s desire is “All of Him in All of Me.”

The Best picture of a man reading an open Bible

 So many today are trying to claim Christianity apart of Jesus, THE Christ, THE Messiah, THE Savior, THE Son of God, God himself.  They call themselves Christian for many reasons.  Some claim Christianity because they admire Jesus.  Some say they are Christian they are Christians because they were raised in a home where their parents were Christian.  Others refer to themselves as Christians because they attend a Christian church.  Some say they are Christians because they believe in God.  Still others call themselves Christian to fit in, to gain business, to impress others, to cover up a secret life.  Others falsely think an emotional experience, or a baby baptism is enough for them to call themselves Christian.  Some claim to be Christian because they went to a Christian school, lived a good life, or went forward in a church service when invited to do so without true conversion.

 Let me help you here if you have doubts as to whether you may truly be a Christian.  None of the above “reasons” are enough to refer to yourself as a Christian!  These are simply lame excuses, and none are not supported by God’s Word, The Bible.  The Bible teaches that there is only one way you can rightfully refer to yourself as a Christian … you must be “born-again.”  Our Lord Jesus Himself addressed this topic directly in a personal conversation with a devout Jewish Pharisee named Nicodemus telling him: “… Verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:3).”

 Only one way?  Yes, only one way!  That is exactly what the Bible teaches!  No other way!  The Bible describes a process through which you can be “born again.”  There are many scriptures that could be cited to explain the process, but here are the ones that I use when asked:

  1. Realize that you are “lost” — totally estranged from God and separated from God by a sinful nature. (Romans 3:23 — “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”)
  2. Acknowledge that sin deserves punishment. (Romans 6:23 — “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”)
  3. Acknowledge that the Lord Jesus took the punishment for your sins by dying on the cross. (Romans 5:8 — “But God demonstrated his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”)
  4. Ask the Lord Jesus to forgive you of your sins and come into your life. (1st John 1:7, 9, “The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. . . If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”)

 The harsh reality is that if you cannot point to a specific time in your life when you truly went through the above process, then you are not a Christian.

You can become a Christian right now.

Use the following prayer as your own or pray one that contains these elements:

“Dear God, I admit that you are holy and that my sins have separated me from you.  I am a sinner.  I recognize that I deserve punishment.  I also know that the Lord Jesus died for my sins and that He was raised from the dead.  I turn from self and sin and trust You to be my Savior and Lord. Forgive me Lord Jesus.  Take control of my life and help me to be the person that you want me to be.  Thank You, Lord, for hearing my prayer and saving my soul. Amen.” 

 God promises in the Bible that anyone who asks the Lord Jesus to forgive them, then He will. (Romans 10:13 — “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”)  If you prayed the above prayer or one equivalent to it and meant it, you can be assured that God has saved you and you are “born again.”

 The Bible offers many other words of assurance about your salvation.  One of the clearest descriptions of that assurance can be found in 1st John 5:11-13, “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.  He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.  These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”

 NOW, as a “born-again” believer you can call yourself a Christian.  You should unite with a local church where you can grow by learning more about Jesus, God the Father and the Holy Spirit through the preaching of the Word and through small group Bible study with other “born again” Christians.

An Open Bible with Romans 10 verse 9 above the Bible

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Candidates for the ANTICHRIST : Is He Alive at this Time?

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Today’s Front Page

The Nation’s Christian Newspaper

October 2021

Candidates for the ANTICHRIST

Is He Alive at this Time?

  There are many candidates!

 Many in the past have wanted to be the President of the Entire World.  There are many today who greatly desire to be that ominous leader.  We did an article a while back on the prospect of Emmanuel Macron becoming that leader of the world.  Could he, be it?  According to Scripture, the greatest political leader in history — the man of lawlessness (the Antichrist) — will arise from Europe to seek world domination and deceive the world at the end of this Church age.

Barack Obama as The Antichrist

Donald Trump as The Antichrist   Jared Kushner as the Antichrist  Pope Francis as The Antichrist

 Because of the convergence of so many prophecies that are given for the last days, it appears almost certain the Antichrist is on earth and waiting in the shadows for his time to appear and there is much speculation about his identity.  Among the speculation, some of the more popular Antichrist candidates include Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Jared Kusner and Pope Francis and several others.

Could Emmanuel Macron be the Antichrist

 Yet, out of all the Antichrist candidates who have come and gone, Emmanuel Macron, who became President of France on May 14, 2017, has generated more end-time buzz than any other world leader that I know!  This is because Macron seems to fit the exact characteristics of the Antichrist in so many ways.

Landslide Victory for Emmanuel Macron

 God’s Word tells us the Antichrist will rise suddenly from obscurity (Daniel 7:8; Daniel 8:9).  Many news sources have reported on Macron’s meteoric rise, appearing out of nowhere!  A year before the French election, Macron had no political party and no previous electoral experience.  Two years before, he was a virtual nobody.  France has been in chaos from all the terrorist attacks and the far-right Front National candidate, Marine Le Pen, seemed the only answer to the madness.  And yet, Emmanuel Macon won a landslide victory over Marine Le Pen in the French election.  At age 39, he is the youngest President France has ever had, and not since 1958 and Charles de Gaulle has a French President ever won such a powerful majority, taking 351 out of 577 seats!  His rise has been nothing short of meteoric and unprecedented!

E.W. Bullinger (1837 -- 1913)

 The number 666 related to the Antichrist and is possible to be computed (Revelation 13:18).  According to Dr. E.W. Bullinger, “when the name of the Antichrist is known its gematria will doubtless be found to be the number 666”.  There are 36 (6 x 6) total characters in Macron’s name (32 letters, 1 dash, 3 spaces).  If you give each character a value of its position and calculate the sum, you get 666 (1+2+3+…+36 = 666).  Macron won the French presidency by 66.06% of the vote and assumed office on May 14, 2017 (Israel’s 69th anniversary as a reborn nation, what a coincidence!)

Macron Declares he will Govern like a Roman god, Jupiter

 The Antichrist will claim to be God and is worshiped (2nd Thessalonians 2:3-4).  Macron has already claimed he will “Rule like the Roman god Jupiter,” in homage to the highest pagan god of all the Roman and Greek pantheons, the king of all the gods in ancient Roman religions.  In open reference to this, Macron’s own nickname in France now is “Jupiter”.  Other names given to him include: “Jesus Macron”, “Europe’s Savior” and “the new Louis XIV” (or the “Sun King” reborn).

 Macron seems to adore the attention, even (jestingly) allowing people to draw attention to the origin of his own name “Emmanuel,” which of course means in Hebrew “God is with us.”  In fact, all parts of his name call him some sort of God or Jesus. except his last name meaning: “a written or printed mark”! Considering that Macron’s parents are atheists, isn’t it a bit odd they named their child like this?

  This is his full name and its meaning:

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frederic Macron

Emmanuel – God with us

Jean – gift from God

Michel – who is like God?

Frederic – peaceful ruler (“Prince of Peace” is the title for Jesus Christ – Isaiah 9:6-7)

Macron – a written or printed mark

(Revelation 13 tells us “the mark … is the name of the beast (Antichrist)”.

Coincidence?  Or an incredible play on words? 

 Coincidently, Macron’s name in the English gematria totals to 888 (“Jesus” in Greek gematria), also causing some to see him as a Jesus type figure, and he was born on 21 December 1977, which is the Winter Solstice or the shortest day of the year.  It is interesting to note that the reason December 24 and December 25 were picked for Jesus’ birthday is because those were considered to be the Winter Solstice or the shortest day of the year at the time.

Merry Christmas Jesus Christ, it's your Birthday

 Orthodox Bible scholars all recognize that our Lord Jesus was born in the latter part of September, not December.  Technically the world religious system believes our Lord Jesus was born on what is observed as Christmas, December 25th.  With the name of “Emmanuel”, Macron could falsely claim that he is the fulfillment of the prophecy given in Isaiah 7:14:

  “Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” 

Emmanuel Macron, co-prince of Andorra

 The Bible tells us Antichrist will be a prince (Daniel 7:8; Daniel 9:26).  Unlike most European and western leaders, Macron is technically a prince.  Macron became co-prince of Andorra, a small principality located between France and Spain, at the same time he assumed office!

Emmanuel Macron has Roman Ancestry

 The Bible tells us Antichrist will be of Roman descent, rising out of the revived Roman Empire (the European Union) (Daniel 9:26).  Macron has Roman ancestry through both sides of his family, and his country, France, is part of the Revived Roman Empire (EU).  Macron is working on uniting Europe which would be a return of this power and is currently leader of one of the two most powerful countries in the EU.

Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron

 The Antichrist will be a sexual pervert and show no regard “for the desire of women” (Daniel 11:37).  Strangely, young Emmanuel Macron (at age 15) fell in love with Brigitte Trogneux, a married teacher at his school, who at the time was 39!  Despite her initial rejection of him and the fact that she was already a married mother-of-three, Macron did as he pleased and began an affair with Trogneux as a teenage boy anyway.

 The desire of women is to have a family and children.  Macron said he doesn’t want kids of his own. There are also rumors he’s homosexual and has had affairs with a few men.  Macron openly supports gay marriage.

Antichrist Emmanuel Macron possessed by the Devil

 Because Lucifer himself will possess his chosen leader, the Antichrist will be an extremely charismatic leader, who is seemingly friendly and charming.  Macron is young, good looking and charming, according to many articles.  Haaretz News had this to say about Macron:

 “When he takes the stage at rallies, you can feel Emmanuel Macron’s messianic dimensions — the audience’s near-sexual ecstasy, his followers’ blind faith, his speech writers’ evangelical messages.  People yearn to get a picture with him. speak with him, touch him.” 

Emmanuel Macron, grand seducteur

 Macron’s friend describes how the president is a “grand seducteur,” a man who uses his prodigious gifts to get whatever he wants. Macron, he explains, is a polymath, a person who is able to acquire significant expertise in a variety of different subjects to quickly become an expert in them, and that he uses this ability to ingratiate himself with others.

Emmanuel Macron, irresistable charmer

 The Financial Times, quoting a source who has known Macron well for years, detailed how, “…he seduces everyone.  And then he kills.”  The FT source says Macron is always charming, especially with enemies and those hostile to him.  During the election, for example, Macron took particular pleasure in always trying to meet his opponents, even the most hostile, face to face.  He did this, so the source says, because he was and is so confident of his own charm, and in his ability to “win people over.”

Emmanuel Macron, a clever ruthless, psychopath

 I expect the Antichrist to be a clever psychopath who is ruthless towards others behind the scenes (Daniel 8:23).  Macron’s leadership style is beginning to emerge, and it IS ruthless.  For instance, after President Francois Hollande made Macron a government minister, Macron abandoned Hollande and ultimately took his job.  Macron then purged three well-established and senior ministers in the first few days of his administration.  Macron has wasted no time in also lecturing, and greatly offending eastern and central European leaders on what he perceives as their collective failure to accept adequate amounts of refugees from the Middle East into their nations.

Psychiatrist, Andriano Sagatori

 Macron’s consistently scornful approach to the normal rules and boundaries of life has led leading European psychiatrist Adriano Sagatori, who has studied Macron extensively, to actually declare him as a potential psychopath.

Emmanuel Macron, Globalist Ruler of the World

 The Antichrist will become the ruler of the world (Revelation 13:7), beginning his rise to prominence as a person who addresses some of the world’s major problems through diplomacy.  He will appear to be the savior of the world (Revelation 6:2).  Emmanuel Macron is the darling of globalism, he is its very embodiment.  Macron is such a globalist that he has stated that “the French culture does not exist.”  One prime example of Macron addressing world problems is his role of leadership in the “Climate Change” global farce.  Interestingly, climate change, formerly known as “Global Warming”, has always been considered the vehicle by which the globalists will dominate and control the world’s economies.

Jesus Macron Europe's Savior

 Macron has already been successful in France by representing all that is wrong in Europe:  Socialism, no borders, immigration madness, Islam exaltation, and Godlessness.  As a result, Macron has been called “Jesus Macron”, Europe’s Savior and “Sun King” reborn.  Last year, the Rothschild magazine even portrayed Macron as Christ-like walking-on-water photo with the headline “Europe’s Saviour?”

Emmanuel Macron, the god king

 The Antichrist will be the most arrogant person of all time (Daniel 11:36; Daniel 8:25) since he will have the audacity to claim that he is God and will demand the world to worship him (2nd Thessalonians 2:3-4).  Macron’s claim that he will “Rule like the Roman god Jupiter,” is in effect a statement that he wants to rule “above every god” (Daniel 11:36).

Emmanuel Macron and France's Bastille Day

 Macron has been criticized for taking an arrogant approach, such as when he didn’t conduct the traditional French presidents’ Bastille Day TV interview because his thoughts are “too complex” for such a forum.  Leading European psychiatrist Adriano Sagatori states, “Like all psychopaths, he believes in his higher purpose.  Macron does not love France and will not fight for the French people.”  Sagatori continued, “Macron loves only himself … The paradox is that he appears normal, but we have a case of full-blown narcissism.”

 This impression of Macron is not isolated; it seems to be echoed by many others.  Even his wife ‘thinks he is arrogant’!

 The ultimate source of the Antichrist’s power is Satan (Revelation 13:2), and Satan has [some] supernatural abilities (John 12:31; 2nd Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 2:2).  Thus, I expect the Antichrist to possess some unusual or unique traits.  A reporter followed Macron for a week and noticed some unique traits he displayed.  These include not breaking in sweltering heat, possessing relentless energy (which he is renowned for), being able to look at someone and convince them to trust him with his “penetrating blue eyes”, being able to recite perfect Greek, and playing both sides in a bid for a newspaper.

The Antichrist will rule a Ten-nation Confederacy

 The Antichrist will rule a ten-nation confederacy which will rise out of a revived Roman Empire (the European Union) (Daniel 2:31-35; 40-45; Daniel 7:7-8; 19-24; Revelation 13:1-2; Revelation 17:3; Revelation 7:12-16).  Macron’s been pushing to bring together a core 10-nation “Coalition of the Willing” EU Army to prepare European armed forces to take action together in emergencies, and to bind Britian into military cooperation as it leaves the EU.  A coalition of ten European militaries ready to defend i.e., the continent’s borders have been unveiled in Paris, just days after Emmanuel Macron called for a “real European army”.

Fast Facts on the United Kingdom   Fast Facts on France -- Nuclear Weapons

 The Antichrist will have a very strong military (Revelation 13:2; Daniel 7:6).  Macron’s own country, France itself, has the first or second most powerful military in the EU given that it along with the U.K. are the only two countries in the EU that possess nuclear arsenals!  In addition, the guillotine, and perhaps main weapon that the Antichrist will use to kill the martyrs during the Great Tribulation (Revelation 20:4), was invented in France and used extensively in French history.

 I do find it interesting that Macron consistently speaks the most common language of the day — English.  A vast number of Europeans speak (or at least understand) English as a second language.  Thus, is it any surprise that Macron would abandon use of his native tongue in favor of a common language?  He also speaks German.

The Antichrist to make a 7 year peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians (PA)

 The Antichrist is going to make, and sign, a seven-year peace treaty with Israel (Daniel 9:27).  Interestingly, even Macron has wanted to offer Israel “Safety and Security” as he attempts to do what no one to date has been able to do; to bring peace between Israel and the PA.  Macron is interested in being a significant factor in the attempts to renew talks between Israel and the PA, and the French are already working on their own peace plan!

 Betraying the Jewish state, the Antichrist will seek the destruction of the Jews (Daniel 11:40-41).  French Jews reacted in horror at reports President Emmanuel Macron decision to honor Marshal Philippe Petain, the disgraced Nazi collaborator who authorized the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews to death camps.

Emmanuel Macron, a Rothschild Financial Genius

 The Antichrist will be economically smart, controlling the world’s economy (Revelation 13:16-17).  Also, some think the Antichrist will be a Rothschild or one their puppets — a must for all Antichrists with their love of global financial domination.  Macron is very smart economically having worked for the Rothschilds banking corporation!  In 2012, Macron left Rothschild to become deputy secretary-general at the Elysee for two years, then was quickly promoted to Minister of Economy and Finance.  Ex-minister and senior civil servant Jean-Pierre Jouyet, told Macron at the time he took the job as economy minister: “You’re the boss now.”  Macron is indeed a financial genius.

Emmanuel Macron, an European Union Politcal Genius

 The Antichrist is also a politician (Revelation 17:11-12).  Macron’s now arguably the most important political leader in Europe today, aside from Angela Merkel.  After creating his own party En Marche (named with his own initials), then winning 350 out of 577 seats in the French parliament, all within one year of its creation, and now exploring creating his own party for the European Union and even his own political school — Macron’s considered a political genius!

 The Antichrist will change times and the laws (Daniel 7:25).  Ever since Macron took office, he’s been completely changing many labor laws in France, which have caused multiple violent protests, and wants to change Sunday work times.

Macon and Pope Francis share Common Jesuit Educations

 The Antichrist eventually forms his one-world religion (Revelation 17;18).  There is a strong case for this one-world religion being the Roman Catholic religion.  Emmanuel Macron was born to non-religious, liberal parents but decided he wanted to be baptized a Catholic, at the age of 12, despite his parents’ misgivings.  He then received a Jesuit education until his last year of high school.

Pope Francis and Emmanuel Macron embrace each other cheek to cheek

 Macron visited the pope at the Vatican (headquarters of the Roman Catholic religion and was granted an unusually long meeting behind closed doors with a head of state) in which they discussed migration issues, conflict in the Middle East and the future unity of Europe.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen face each other at French Presidential Debate

 Macron has given another speech on a stage shaped like the Masonic unfinished pyramid, as well as a stage that was lit up in the shape of a cross.  In his debate with Marine Le Pen, Macron flashed the 666 hands signal many times, even on both hands at the same time.  On other occasions, Macron has held up the satanic horned hand symbol.

Could Macron be the Antichrist?

 The Bible makes clear that the man of lawlessness (the Antichrist) will not be revealed until the Restrainer (Holy Spirit-indwelt Church) is removed (2nd Thessalonians 2:3; 7-8).  So, no one will know for sure who the Antichrist is until the Rapture occurs. It certainly looks like a possibility as Macron certainly seems to possess many of the credentials of Antichrist.

Pictures about the Rapture of the Church

 The point of this article is not to identify who the Antichrist is, but to warn those here for tribulation.  Whether Macron is the Antichrist or not, it is a guarantee that Macron will rise to a prominent position in European leadership.

  Amir Tsarfati says of Macron:

  “I believe that in Emmanuel Macron’s case I can very clearly say that we are watching a young, West European leader who was groomed by the “one world order’ gang for this powerful position. I am not talking about grooming him to be the Antichrist, but definitely toward leadership of Europe.”

Some other possible Antichrist candidates:

 Here are some more of the key figures we are watching with great suspicion.  Basic biographical information is shown, and reasons given why any of them might fit the role of the Antichrist.

Jared Kushner as the Antichrist no. 2

Jared Kushner

Title & Position: former Senior 

Advisor to President Trump, former

de facto Chief Negotiator for Middle

East Peace 

Age: 36 years old

Born: Livingston, NJ

  Matching Biblical descriptors of antichrist: Denies that Jesus Christ is the Messiah (1st John 4:3; 2nd John 1:7), possibly fulfils an alternative ancestral view of who the antichrist might be as an Orthodox Jew who will fulfill the Torah and claim to be the Jewish Messiah, possible Roman ancestry as well through various European family ties, apparently supports dividing the land of Israel.

Jared Kushner purchase of 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City, NY

  Notes: Donald Trump’s son in law remains mostly a mystery, but he has risen in the ranks of world power very quickly.  He caught the attention of the Bible prophecy community for two reasons.  First, he was appointed by President Trump to lead the U.S. effort to make a final status agreement between Israel and Palestine.  He has since made two separate trips to the Middle East, which are largely shrouded in mystery.  His second trip occurred around the time of the Jubilee celebrations in Jerusalem and the 70th prophetic year anniversary of Israel.  Second, in 2007, Kushner purchased the tower at 666 Fifth Avenue for $600 + $600 + $600 million dollars.  Just coincidence?

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Resigns

 Alexis Tsipras

Title & Position: Prime Minister 

of Greece

Age: 42 years old.

Born: Greece in the area of the 

ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine empires.

  Matching Biblical descriptors of antichrist: Very close match of Daniel 11:37, many anti-Israel statements and positions, born in the area of “the people of the prince who is to come”, rejects Christ, the Greek Antiochus IV Epiphanes would be a fitting foreshadowing.

 Notes: A sudden appearance, only a couple of years ago was considered a militant communist nobody but is now the wildly popular Prime Minister of Greece.  He is an atheist (no regard for any god — Daniel 11:37) and also living in a non-marital relationship with a woman (“no regard for the desire of women”).  He has two children, one named after the god Apollo, and the other after the pagan prophet Orpheus.  Young, attractive, and charismatic, he carries a messiah-appeal in Greece.  For the first time in modern history, he refused to follow the traditional Christian swearing-in ceremony.  He was essentially elected with one purpose: to roll back austerity in Greece.  If he succeeds, his popularity will skyrocket and could be set for a grand entrance into a large leadership position in the EU.

King Abdullah II, King of Jordan

 King Abdullah II

 Title & Position: King of Jordan.

 Age: 55 years old

Born: Amman, Jordan

 Matching Biblical descriptors of antichrist: Many anti-Israel statements and positions, amazingly both Roman ancestry through his mother and Assyrian ancestry through his father, rejects Christ & YHWH (Daniel 11:37), was literally a prince, his country is physically sandwiched between the potential kings of the north and south of Bible prophecy.

King Abdullah II, Custodian of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel

 Notes: He is relatively young and charismatic.  Interestingly, his command of the English world linga franca is better than his Arabic.  He is seen as peaceful, progressive and uniquely popular in both the West and the Muslim world.  He is the direct descendent and the closest living relative to Muhammad himself.  His probability went up considerably most recently with threats of invading Iraq to drive out ISIS.  Iraq is the most seat of ancient Babylon.  He also happens to be the technical custodian of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which would give him power and persuasive influence to suggest rebuilding the Jewish Temple.

Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada

 Justin Trudeau

 Title & Position: Prime Minister of Canada

 Age: 45 years old

 Born: Ottawa, Canada

 Matching Biblical descriptors of antichrist: Direct Roman ancestry (Daniel 9:26), anti-Zionist, pro-global government promotes lawlessness and immorality (2nd Thessalonians 2:3), leader of the northernmost country on earth (some scholars argue the “king of the north” is the antichrist). 

 Notes: His name is quite interesting: Justin Pierre James Trudeau.  Peter (Pierre) and James were the top leaders of the early Church.  He named one of his sons Hadrien (French version of Hadrian), which is the name of the Emperor Hadrian who ruled from 117 to 138.  Emperor Hadrian was considered to be one of the forerunners of antichrist because Hadrian desecrated the site of the Biblical temple by erecting a temple to the supreme pagan god Jupiter directly over its ruins. Hadrian is also responsible for renaming the land of Israel to ‘Palestina’ in 135 A.D. (Palestina is the Latin version of Philistia, the chief enemy of ancient Israel).  Spelling variations of the name “Trudeau” include Trudon and Trudel, either of which would make the number of letters in his name 6, 6, and 6: Justin (6) Pierre (6) Trudon / Trudel (6).

Zoltan Istvan, Founder of the Transhumanist Party -- Candidate for U.S. President

 Zoltan Istvan

 Title & Position: Founder of the 

Transhumanist Party and candidate

for U.S. President.

Age: 44 years old.

Born: Los Angeles, California 

 Matching Biblical descriptors of antichrist: Direct Roman ancestry (Daniel 9:26), atheist (Daniel 11:37), rejects Christ (1st John 2:22), false messianic tendencies including offering his followers eternal life through “transhumanism”, anti-Zionist, pro-global government.

 Notes: His first, middle and last names each have six letters.  He effectually denounces all forms of morality, calling morality “chains” (see 2nd Thessalonians2:3).  He idolizes science and technology in possible fulfillment of Daniel 11:38 and he voluntarily had his hand implanted with an RFID chip, which uniquely connects him with a possible implementation of the Mark of the Beast.

The little horn with a big mouth, The Antichrist which causes the Abomination of Desolation

 While the antichrist might come from this list, it is also entirely possible he might not come from this list at all, so keep your eyes wide open and your mind fervently fixed on God’s Word.  The antichrist will not be unequivocally revealed until after the Rapture (2nd Thessalonians 2:3, 7-8) or after the Abomination of Desolation.  There is also growing speculation that the antichrist might be a fallen angel or Nephilim or some sort of spiritual entity that arrives after the War in Heaven described in Revelation 12.

Come Lord Jesus

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10 Proofs for the Pretribulation Rapture

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10 Proofs for the Pretribulation Rapture

The Pretribulation Rapture

  Matthew 24:29-31 is the hands-down favorite passage of Pretribulation Rapture deniers, yet contained in those passages is the VERY PROOF that the RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH and the THE SECOND COMING are two separate events.

  Matthew paints a picture of stark terror and physical judgments falling upon the Earth, and then people shall see the ‘Son of man’ coming down from Heaven. Paul on the other hand, talks about none of these things being connected with the Rapture of the Church. Furthermore, Paul says in the Rapture that Jesus comes for us personally and pulls us up into the clouds with Him, but Matthew says Jesus sends His angels for His elect at the Second Coming.

 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” — 2nd Timothy 2:15 (KJV)

  The Bible gives Christians in the Church Age a clear command to study the word of God. Not only that, we are also commanded to ‘rightly divide’ what we read there.  There are 3 groups in the Bible that God can be talking to at any given time, they are not the same. First, you have the Jews and Israel as one group, the redeemed Church as the second group, and the unsaved gentiles which make up the rest of the world population at any given time.

Understanding The Differences Between

The Rapture and The Second Coming

# 1. THE 24 ELDERS ARE WEARING THEIR CROWNS BEFORE THE START OF THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE.

Revelation -- Twenty-Four Elders Cast Their Crowns Before the Throne of God

  Paul says in 2nd Timothy that believers will receive crowns in that day’ that takes place at the time of the Rapture of the Church.  John, in Revelation 4, is taken up in type in the Rapture and when he gets there he witnesses elders with crowns 2 chapters before the start of the time of Jacob’s trouble in Revelation 6.

  “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” — 2nd Timothy 4:8 (KJV)

  “And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.” — Revelation 4:4 (KJV)

 # 2. THE BIBLE DOESN’T MENTION A RESURRECTION AT THE SECOND COMING BUT IT DOES FOR THE RAPTURE.

The Three Comings of Jesus Christ -- Calvary, Rapture and Armageddon

  In Revelation 19:11-21, we clearly see the Second Coming of Jesus Christ at the Battle of Armageddon. Church saints mount up on white horses and return with Him. Nowhere in the passage does it mention a resurrection will take place at this time, in stark contrast to the resurrection of Church saints Paul talks about in 1st Thessalonians 4.

 “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” — 1st Thessalonians 4:16, 17 (KJV)

# 3. AT THE SECOND COMING THE WORLD WILL MOURN, BUT AT THE RAPTURE IT’S A TIME OF REJOICING.

Beacon Ministries -- 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 16

  Matthew 24:29-31 contains the very proof that the Rapture of the Church and the Second Coming are two separate events.  Matthew paints a picture of stark terror and physical judgments falling upon the Earth, and then people shall see the ‘Son of man’ coming down from Heaven.  Paul on the other hand, talks about none of these things being connected with the Rapture of the Church.   Furthermore, Paul says in the Rapture that Jesus comes for us personally and pulls us up into the clouds with Him, but Matthew says Jesus sends His angels for His elect at the Second Coming.

 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man coming in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” — Matthew 24:29-31 (KJV) — Second Coming 

 “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment , in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” — 1st Corinthians 15:51, 52 (KJV) — The Pretribulation Rapture

#4. THE EVERY NAME GIVEN TO THE TIME OF GREAT TRIBULATION IS A DIRECT REFERENCE TO NATIONAL ISRAEL AND THE JEWS.

The Time of Jacob's Trouble is Nigh at Hand

  In Matthew 24, Jesus says that there will be a time of ‘great tribulation’, but He does not call it so.  The actual name for this 7 year period of time is found in Jeremiah 30. where the prophet tells us clearly who this time of trial and testing is for.  It’s for Israel.  Jacob’s name was changed from Jacob, his name when he was lost and in rebellion to God, to Israel, the name, God gave him after he ‘wrestled with God’ and got right.  The Bible says that the physical regathering of Israel, which took place in 1948, the Jews and Israel would be in the land but far from God in their hearts and minds.  This is the exact condition we see today in places like Tel Aviv, which is the Sodomite capital of the world.

  “Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble but he shall be saved out of it.” — Jeremiah 30:7 (KJV)

# 5. AT THE TIME OF THE SECOND COMING, JESUS RETURNS FROM A WEDDING.

What is the Marriage Supper of the Lamb

  Luke says that when Jesus returns for His people Israel at the Second Coming. He has already been at the wedding.  Paul tells us that after the Rapture of the Church we meet the Lord for the great Marriage of the Lamb wedding supper. This event has nothing to do with Israel and is for the Church only.  At the Second Coming this event has already taken place.

 “Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord, when He will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto Him immediately.  Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when He cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird Himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.  And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.” — Luke 12:35-40 (KJV) — Second Coming  

  “For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.” — 2nd Corinthians 11:2 (KJV) –– The Pretribulation Rapture

  “And He saith unto me, “Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.  And He saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.” — Revelation 19:9 (KJV)

#6. TWO OPENINGS OF THE DOOR IN HEAVEN.

Stairway to heaven with a White Cross at the top Stock Photo illustration

  In the book of Revelation, Heaven is opened two times, and both of them are connected with the Church. In the first one, John, who is a type of the Church, is taken up to Heaven in a type of the Rapture.  The second time occurs in Revelation 19 where the redeemed saints already in Heaven mount up on white horses and return with Jesus at the Second Coming.

 “After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.” — Revelation 4:1 (KJV)

 “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war.” — Revelation19:11 (KJV)

#7. THE DAY OF THE RAPTURE IS UNKNOWN WHILE THE DAY OF THE LORD’S SECOND COMING IS MENTIONED SPECIFICALLY.

The Rapture -- Jesus in Coming

  Nowhere in Paul’s writings does he mention the date that the Rapture of the Church will take place.  He gives us time clues in 2nd Thessalonians, but not actual day.  John, on the other hand tells us in Revelation precisely when the Day of the Lord will occur. He says that the Second Coming happens 1,260 days (three and a half years) after the Jews flee to the Red Rock City of Selah Petra to hide from the Antichrist.

 “That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;” — 2nd Thessalonians 2:2, 3 (KJV) — The Pretribulation Rapture

  “And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” — Revelation 12:6 (KJV) — Second Coming

#8. THE LORD RETURNS TO THE EARTH WITH HIS CHURCH — NOT FOR HIS CHURCH.

Second Coming of Christ with Church-Age Saints Return on White Horses

  Jude talks about Enoch who is a type of a Christian living in the days before the Law of Moses.  Enoch walks with God and then one day God takes him up and out of here in a type of the Rapture. Enoch was not Jewish and had no connection to Israel of any kind. That same Enoch prophesied that at the Second Coming.  Jesus Christ will return with HIs redeemed saints already in tow.

 “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,” — Jude 1:14 (KJV)

#9. THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB HAPPENS BEFORE THE SECOND COMING.

Marriage Supper of the Lamb illustration

  A spectacular event happens in Heaven right before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ at the Battle of Armageddon, the great Wedding Supper of Jesus and His Bride, the blood-washed redeemed Church.  You will take careful note that if the Wedding Supper happens before the Second Coming, then it must be that the Church is already up in Heaven with Jesus.  Where do we go on our ‘honeymoon’? We take a Joy ride on a white horse and return to the Earth in the triumphal Second Coming. Revelation 19:11 starts the ‘honeymoon’ in amazing fashion!  These passages alone show proof  positive that the Church is already in heaven prior to the Second Coming, there is no other way the marriage could take place.

 “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready.  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white.  for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And He saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.  And He saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.” — Revelation 19:9 (KJV) — first the wedding.

 “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Fearful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.” — Revelation 19:11, 14 (KJV) — then the honeymoon.  

#10. AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH AND LOT SO SHALL IT BE IN THE END TIMES.

As in The Days of Noah and Lot so will be the Coming of The Son of Man

  Jesus in the gospels says this time period will be like the days of Noah, and like the days of Lot. Wow, talk about conflicting events!  In the days of Noah, a vey small group of people are told to ‘get in the ark’, and are saved when the Door closes shut them in.  Jesus of John 10 says that He is the door, thus we see that being in the ark is a type picture of the born-again believer being ‘in Christ Jesus’.  Not only that, before the judgment falls, the people in the ark are taken ‘up and out;’ as they rise above what rages below.  So we see that this is a type picture of the Church, redeemed in Jesus the Door, being removed prior to judgment.

  In Lot’s day, the opposite happens.  Lot is not taken out, he is told to run away!  And where does he flee to?  Why, he is told to ‘flee to the mountain’. Where do Jews in the time of Jacob’s trouble flee to?  They run and hide to the Selah Petra, where they wait 3.5 years, 1260 days, for the Lord to come get them at the Revelation 19:14 Second Coming. Who does the Lord come with?  Us, the Church. 

  “But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” — Matthew 24:37 (KJV)

  “Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.” — Luke 17:28, 29 (KJV)

  Noah and Lot represent two very different events that have two very different conclusions.  So it is with the Rapture of the Church and the Second Coming. They are two remarkably distinct and different events with two polar opposite conclusions.

  Keep looking up, Jesus is coming to get us soon!

 “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;” — Titus 2:13 (KJV)

Jew's blowing Ram's Horns -- What is the Time of Jacob's Trouble.

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Overcoming the Problem of Failing to Become What You Are in Christ Jesus

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Overcoming the Problem of Failing to

Become What You Are in Christ Jesus

How Can a Young Man Cleanse His Way, Psalm 119 verse 9 illustration no. 2

2nd Corinthians 5:17-19, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconcilation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconcilation.”

 The reason many new believers drop-out of church and serving the Lord Jesus is the frustration many experience when they become that New Creature in Christ — having old things pass away and exclaiming, “Behold, all things are become new.”

  Their most common complaint?  Why is it so hard to live the Christian life?

 The question we should all ask ourselves is, Am I what I became — a new creature in Christ?  Have any of my friends and relatives noticed that I have become a new creation in Christ Jesus?  Most believers find it very difficult to live the Christian life.  The answer is that the only person who can live the Christian life is Jesus Christ.  God made us a new creation in Christ, so that HE could live the Christian life in us.

 In talking to many believers through the years, most cannot understand that after BECOMING a Christian, they find it so difficult to be the Christian that they’ve become.  Most have never even been taught of the resources we have by the indwelling presence of our Lord Jesus in us.

1st John 3:8 tells us God’s purpose in redeeming us, “…For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.“  He came to destroy the effects of the Seed of Adam in us.

 The Bible speaks of two seeds, the Seed of Sinners by Adam and the See of Promise in Jesus Christ.  Having been born as a son of Adam, we are born sinners by nature.  We become a new creation when we are born again of the Seed of Promise in Christ Jesus.

Romans 5:18-19, “Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.  For as by one man’s disobeciience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”

Galatians 3:19, “Wherefore then serves the law?  It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.” 

Galatians 3:29, “And if ye be Christ’s then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

1st John 3:9, “Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”

 This is what God is trying to explain to us in 2nd Corinthians 5:17 when he tells us, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.“  When we are born again, God’s seed was planted in us by his Spirit, and that new Seed can only Produce Good Fruit, and the Seed of Adam can only produce Bad Fruit.  Nothing good can come out of Adam’s Seed, NOTHING.

Romans 12:2 puts it this way, “And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind: that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”  This is how the new seed we have received is to transform us into becoming what we are in Christ Jesus.

Be ye transformed — The Greek word for Metamorphosis, is the same as our English word metamorphosed: transfigured, appear as new persons, with new habits, as God has filled us with his Spirit, whereby we can now worship him in Spirit and in Truth, as how we are told the true worshippers will worship him.

metamorphosis: The life cycle of a butterfly includes a process called metmorphosis where each butterfly goes through 4 stages from an egg to a larva, then to a pupa and finally, they turn into an adult butterfly. These 4 stages of a butter- flies life varies slightly depending on the specific type of butterfly.

 It is similar in the life of a believer.  We are as ugly as a cocoon, but God intends for us to become a beautful butterfly. This is in reference not to the first work of conversion and renovation.  In this sense these persons were transformed, metamorphosed, changed and renewed already.  But the believer continues to progress and grow as we carry on the work of renovation, the renewing of our mind day by day as we read and study God’s Word.  Every believer should be desirous of, and pray for, and make use of those means which the Spirit of God owns us for this purpose.  The new creation in us should be desirous of reading God’s Word, in meditation of his Word, in prayer, and in the ministration of the Word — which is the reverse of being conformed to the world.

 That you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God;  This does not refer to the secret will of God, which cannot be searched into, proved, or known, until time and facts work it out.  It refers to the revealed will of God, as in the hands of Christ, which contains nothing but what is good.  It refers to what we are taught in Romans 8:2, “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.”  It refers to the perfect law of liberty which is to be proved and approved of by all the saints, who delight in it after the inward man.  It refers to those who are daily renewed in the spirit of their minds, and proved, tried and approved of, even by all such who have their spiritual senses.

 This is the reason why people who seek psychological help are so disappointed.  If people have not been born of the Spirit and do not have the Seed of Christ in them, they are incapable of doing good.  They only have the Seed of Adam which can only produce sin.

 God tells us in Psalms 119:9, “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?  by taking heed thereto according to thy word.”

 Many parents and those seeking help ask this question every day, “How can anyone seeking help correct their problem and keep their way pure?” And of course God himself provides us with the answer.  By paying close attention to their manner of life and living their life in response to God’s word.

 God continues to explain to us in Psalms 119:11-12, “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.  Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statues.”

 When we begin to treasure up the Word of God and keep it stored in our heart, we are promised that it will keep us from sinning against God.  The result will be continual response to God of praise and worship.  It will cause a person to want to learn more of God’s eternal Word.

 Unfortunately, because most Biblically illiterate Christians think that they can live the Christian life apart from God. They cannot.  It is as if someone were to plant a peach seed into the ground, and then be disappointed that the tree did not produce oranges.  The Seed of Adam can only produce after its own kind.  We are told in Romans 8:7-8, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.  So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.” 

 Our natural mind is in fact the enemy of God.  It is incapable to submit itself to the law of God.  In the same way that the law of the nature of a Peach Seed is incapable of submitting to the Law of an Orange Seed, it is totally incapable of producing oranges.

 This is why every human being needs to have the Seed of God planted within them.

1st John 3:9, “Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” 

Galatians 5:24-25, “They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

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The Emerging Church and its Ultimate Goal

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Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

 Our Lord Jesus, before He ascended to Heaven, spent a great deal of His time warning the disciples of the wolves who would enter into the sheepfold.

Emergent Advocate Mathematician, Eric Temple Bell

 This is how emerging advocate mathematician Eric Temple Bell, defined the Emerging Church, “Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.”  The Emerging Church movement has many assumptions to examine because it buys into popular cultural notions of right and wrong, truth and error.  These popular cultural notions, however, have been shaped and molded by philosophical influences decades and centuries in advance.  It is precisely these notions that become assumptions under which popular culture operates today.  Yesterday’s philosophies are today’s politics and the Emerging Church movement is a political movement to be sure.

The Emerging Church as a Political Movement

 Indeed, one of the difficulties in examining contemporary religious movements is the numerous philosophical influences involved.  The Emerging Church movement exhibits traits of many of the following philosophies: communism, existentialism, postmodernism, relativism, subjectivism, pragmatism, humanism, and philosophies have their own underratedness that is difficult enough to discern.  The task becomes proportionately more difficult enough to discern. Like mining for ore, we may be able to trace some nuggets in the stream of current activity to the originating vein of thought.

Communism PowerPoint SlideSecular Humanism is a Religion        

Acts 20:26-32 “Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.  For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.  Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.  For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.  Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Grievous Wolves of Acts 20 verse 29

 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.  And now brethren, I command you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and the give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified”.

Paganism and Gnosticism

 The Emerging Church is modern day Gnosticism. What is Gnosticism?  The definition of the word Gnostic is derived from the Greek word gnosis, meaning “to know.”  It basically wants you to believe the lie — any lie, regardless of what religious setting you are in.  Once you mix the truth with the lie, you become a gnostic, controlled by the prince of the power of the air.

Yahweh -- Jesus Names   Lucifer the Devil image

 Basically, the Gnostic believes in acquiring special, mystical knowledge as the means for salvation.  According to Gnostic beliefs, there is a Great God that is good and perfect, but impersonal and unknowable. The creator of the universe was actually a lesser deity, a cheap knock-off of the “true God”—who wanted to create a flawless material universe but botched the job.  This is what you find in every form of Gnosticism and esoteric groups. They teach their adherents that there are two gods, one good and one evil.  They teach Yahweh / Jesus is the evil God and that Lucifer, the devil, is the good god. That they are both fighting for the souls of men.

A Utopian Society by 2050   Why Does God Allow Pain and Misery and Suffering PowerPoint Slide

 They teach that instead of having a utopia, we ended up with a world infected with pain, misery, and intellectual and spiritual blindness; all matter is now corrupt and evil.  However, when the lesser deity created man, he accidentally imbued humanity with a spark of the “true” God’s spirit, making man an inherently good soul trapped in the confines of an evil, material body.

Was Jesus Christ a Gnostic illustration

The Gnostic Jesus

 Contrary to a message of salvation through Christ alone (Acts 4:12, “Neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.”), the Gnostic Jesus brings a message of self-redemption.  Man only needs to examine his inner “spark” to find the knowledge needed to free himself from his material body and reach God.  This alleged purity of heart is the exact opposite of what is stated in Jeremiah 17:9: “The heart is deceitful above all things an desperately wicked who can know it?”

Carl Gustav Jung

 Today, Gnosticism has evolved and branched out from the exclusively spiritual into the secular and scientific. Psychologist C. G. Jung praised Gnosticism as superior to traditional Christianity as a way of thinking.  Another form of Gnosticism denies the existence of God altogether, while embracing an eternal flawed universe.  This atheistic form of Gnosticism doesn’t see the material world as totally evil, but as flawed and incomplete.  Mankind becomes the “deity,” and has the right to improve the human body and the world through their own wisdom.

The Gnostic Scriptures -- The Nag Hummadi Library

 Christianity and Gnosticism are mutually exclusive — it is easy for a Gnostic mindset to seep into our own thinking if we’re not careful (1st Peter 5:8). “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour.”  The Gnostic is pursuing goodness, but instead of seeking to be regenerated by Christ, they grab hold of a man-centered purpose for living.  Gnostic thought makes man “wise in their own eyes” (Isaiah 5:21), something that is also pointed out in (Proverbs 3:7), “Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.” 

The Holy Word of God -- God cannot make an Error J.C. Ryrie -- What is the best safeguard. The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied

 Gnostic thinking claims that deeper truth can be found apart from God.  But Proverbs 1:7 says “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”  Instead of searching our corrupt, flawed “inner selves for answers, we should instead test everything against the revealed Word of God.  In the end, if it is God’s truth alone that can be trusted.

Isaiah 8:20, “To the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this world. It is because there is no light in them.” 

Did the Garden of Eden have a Talking Snake. The Snake talking to Eve in the Garden of Eden.   The Battle between Good and Evil with Angels and Demons illustration

 From the very beginning, the battle between good and evil has been a battle of the truth.  The serpent, in the Garden of Eden, began his temptation by questioning the truthfulness of God’s previous instruction by questioning the truthfulness of God’s previous instruction.  “Indeed hath God said, ‘Ye shall not eat from any tree of the garden? . . . Ye surely shall not die!  For God knoweth that in the day you eat thereof your eyes will be opened, and ye will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:1, 4, 5).  And this has been his tactic ever since, casting doubt on the revelation of God.

The Emerging Church Pastor, Doug Pagitt

 The Emergent Church is this same form of Paganism.  One emergent pastor, Doug Pagitt is a Universalist, that everyone will go to heaven, no one will be damned. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Buddhist, a Hindu or a Muslim.  That’s just classic Universal-ism.

Two Wolves Snarling -- The Emergent Church

 What you have here is a form of false religion.  A form of paganism that basically wants to be thought of as Christian because it gains a certain ground.  But the underlying bottom line of this whole emerging movement is they don’t believe in any doctrine, they don’t believe in any theology.

The Emergent Church Pastor, Brian McLaren

 Another emergent pastor, Brian McLaren says nobody has ever gotten it right, so let’s not make an issue out of anything.  Let’s just be open to everything. Let’s not take a position on theology or for that matter, on morality or behavior because hey, there’s no judgment anyway so we’ve all going to end up in God in some ethereal, eternal relationship.  And that’s just non-Christian. It is blatantly, flagrantly non-Christian.  It’s as non-Christian as any false religion.

Rick Warrern -- The False Gospel of the Emergent Church Leaders Exposed Oasis Baptist Church -- What we Believe sign

 God’s people have one function, to guard the truth, to proclaim the truth and to live the truth.  That’s not the mission in a seeker / emergent church. God has this word for those who may be involved in Christ-centric, Bible-centric Church.

A Gospel Centered Church diagram

Revelation 18:4 -5, “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plaques.  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” 

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The Remarkable Story of Donald Trump’s family Bible and its Connection to Revival

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Could a Bible sitting in the Oval Office

be America’s connection to a Coming Revival?

By Mark Ellis

Images -- President Trump holding his Hebrides Revival Bible

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 The president and founder of Crown College, Dr. Clarence Sexton, makes note of the extraordinary provenance of the 45th president’s family Bible on a You Tube video, wondering if its current place of residence heralds something significant coming to America.

 In the late 1940’s two elderly sisters, Peggy and Christine Smith had begun to pray for revival on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, approximately 50 miles off the west coast of Scotland.

images -- The Hebrides Revival 1949 -- 1952

 “One was blind and one was humped over so badly with spinal stenosis, but they had a passion for revival,” Dr. Sexton noted “They wanted God to work.”

 Because of the two sisters’ physical condition, they couldn’t get to the church to pray or worship.  “Their house became a place to meet; people came in.  They had a passion about revival coming to their island, the Isle of Lewis.”

 They persuaded their pastor to invite an evangelist named Duncan Campbell to come to their island and preach the gospel. He had been ministering in the area around Edinburgh, Scotland, and initially resisted the call.

 It was only at the third invitation that Campbell accepted.  Over the following years he traveled from village to village on the Isle of Lewis preaching the Word with power, and many people were converted, according to Andrew Woolsey’s biography of the evangelist.

 “The fire of God struck that tiny little obscure place off the coast of Scotland,” Dr. Sexton recounted. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit between 1949 and 1952 became known as the Lewis Awakening or the Hebrides Revival.

 “There was a teenage boy who got saved in it.  His name was Donald Smith. The preacher became so dependent on Donald he would ask him to lead in public prayers and help him with the meetings.”

  On the same island, a young cousin of Donald’s, Mary Anne, grew up and immigrated to America in 1930, arriving one day after her 18th birthday.

  Mary Anne came ashore with $50 to her name and worked for at least four years as a domestic servant, living with her older sister on Long Island.

  She met a man named Fred Trump; they fell in love, and were married.

 The two older women, who were her aunts, sent Mary Anne a copy of the Bible that had been used in a special way in the Hebrides Revival.

 Fred and Mary Anne’s fourth child was named after someone special that touched Mary Anne’s life.  “She was so impacted by this teenage boy that God used in that Revival in the Hebrides, she named him Donald,” Dr. Sexton explained.

 “And she gave him that Bible, the Hebrides revival Bible.  He was born in 1946. He is now the 45th president of the United States and that revival Bible is in the Oval Office.”

 Dr. Sexton is struck by the background of the Bible, and its possible connection to this historical moment.  “I don’t know how it all comes together, but I believe God is putting some things together to give us a window-just a window-if He could find some open people who know what the window is for,” Dr. Sexton said.

 “Could this be the time when the windows open, providentially, God has prepared the moment?  And will we become the people of prayer, pleading with God — this is the plea — ‘Will Thou not revive us again?”  Will you be a part of that?  Will you?”

 Postscript: Duncan Campbell became a visiting lecturer at YWAM’s School of Evangelism at Lausanne in Switzerland, and died while lecturing there.

 “He was outspoken about two aspects of the work of the Holy Spirit.  The first was that, in his view, a true revival was a move of God that affected, not only church members, but the surrounding community in a way that was visible to all parties concerned (work stopping, bars closing, crime ceasing, etc.).

 “The second was the definite and profound experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit subsequent to conversion.  His practices in evangelistic meetings was not to make the usual altar call, but to invite people to come to another room to pray and seek God.  In his ministry in Lewis, he sought to transcend denomination boundaries, but this was at times difficult.

 “Duncan Campbell was before everything else, a man of prayer and almost invariably started the day with a period of prayer and study of the Bible.  He said, “Revival is a community saturated with God.”  Campbell witnessed firsthand the Spirit of God descending upon a community and learned to let the Holy Spirit have His way.  In his own words, “Seventy-five percent (of the people) were gloriously saved before they came near a meeting….. the power of God was moving!” — Wikipedia.

 Watch this video: https://youtu.be/jy2Mjxk9ZSU

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A Gospel Message

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A Gospel Message

By Dr. Richard D. Ledet, November 27, 2013

 I want you to know that God loves you. And I want you to know that Jesus loves you too.  And that God the Father sent His only begotten Son, Jesus to the Earth. And there is a reason why He came.

 Adam sinned. Adam and Eve sinned. And because of their sin we have a sin nature.  We desire to sin and want to sin where the flesh just loves to sin.  Okay!  But God requires perfection in order to get into Heaven. And none of us can be perfect, so therefore in order to satisfy our sin nature. What God wanted to do was remove our sins as far as the East is from the West and into the Sea of Forgetfulness to be remembered no more. [Psalm 103:12; Micah 7:19].

 It required someone who never did sin to pay the price for the sin of mankind. Jesus did not sin, not even one time. And as a result, it took a man who never did sin to pay the price of death on the Cross of Calvary.

 God looked the whole world over and could not find one that was without sin. Not one person. Even in the days when Mary, His mother lived on the Earth. There was not that had not sinned. So therefore, it required someone who never did sin to pay the ultimate price.  It required a man. So, God sent His only Begotten Son, Jesus to pay the price.  He was the only one that could. He was the only one worthy of opening the scroll.

 So, as a result. He went to the Cross and He paid the price. We ourselves deserve crucifixion, but Jesus took our place.  He was our Barabbas so to speak. They gave the Jews a choice, either release Jesus or Barabbas. And they chose Barabbas. And Barabbas knew that Jesus never did sin.  And he was amazed that they chose to let him, go.  Barabbas rather than Jesus and therefore it is the same thing with us

 We deserve crucifixion. We deserve a horrible death, but Jesus took our place. And if you recognize that and if you can believe that it is not through your works of righteousness. Because your works, our works of righteousness are as filthy rags! [Isaiah 64:6].  And therefore, you can’t work to get to Heaven.  All the works you did to get to Heaven don’t count!  To get to Heaven all you have to do is receive the free gift of Eternal Life, to be Spiritually Born-again by asking God the Father in the name of Jesus to forgive you of your sin. He took your place on the Cross of Calvary. If should have been you!  And if you ask Him to and you mean it in your heart. That you are a sincere about wanting to get forgiven.  And you are repenting of your sins, then God will forgive you!  He will put your sins as far as the East is from the West.  And the Holy Spirit, when you get Spiritually Born-again will come in to live inside of you.  You have to be Spiritually Born-again to get into Heaven.  Jesus told a Pharisee named Nicodemus that in the Gospel of John chapter three. [John 3:1-8].

 So, to be Spiritually Born-again, you got to be Born of water and the spirit.  To be Born of water that means you were born physically out of your mother’s womb.  But that is not enough to get into Heaven, just because you were born physically on Earth.  If Adam wouldn’t have sinned that would have been possible because of their sin you have a sin nature.  And that sin nature was not taken away. You still have it.

 And therefore, because God said you have to be born of water.  You came out.  You came out.  Your were physically in your mother’s womb in water.  Now you have to be born of the Spirit.  You got to be born of the Spirit.

 You see you are made up of three parts, the spirit, the soul and the body. You have a spirit man or a spirit woman, who lives inside of you.  For you to get into Heaven, you have to be Spiritually Born-again.  Old things have passed away, all things have become new. [2nd Corinthians 5:17].  Your spirit man or spirit woman is brand new.

 Now, you can still sin, but before you got Spiritually Born-again you practiced your sin [1st John 3:9].  You do it over and over again.  If you a Roman Catholic, you go tell your sins to a Catholic priest in confession.  The same old routine.  You could bring a IC Recorder and play that device telling the same sins over and over again.  But when you get Spiritually Born-again you aren’t convicted. You say, I’ll go tell the priest that particular sin when I go to confession. That is not Repentance.

 You are enriched with the Holy Spirit to help you.  Before you get Spiritually Born-again, all you have to fight sin is your will power and your conscience.  Now, you have the Holy Spirit to help  you.  And there is no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man.  But God is faithful, He will not allow you to be tempted above  what you are able to.  But with the temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it. [1st Corinthians 10:13].

 Therefore now, if you want to, it is up to you,  You can ask Him to forgive you for your sins.  Turn away from those sins which you have in your life is called Repentance. The Holy Spirit will help you turn away, but you have to mean it in your Heart. God the Father knows if you mean to do Business or not.  And He will forgive you and you can get Spiritually Born-again.

 Salvation is not a matter of a simple prayer that someone says, and then returns to living just the way they did before saying the prayer. This prayer must contain a Heart-felt regret for having lived a prideful, self-centered life of disbelief, rebellion and sin. It requires Repentance, or turning away from those things that are displeasing to God.  It should also include a commitment to be a whole Hearted follower of Jesus Christ. [2nd Corinthians 7:10].

 2nd Corinthians 7:10 (KJV)

 “For godly sorrow (sorrow instigated by the Holy Spirit over wrongdoing) works Repentance to Salvation not to be repented of (means that such action will never be regretted); but the sorrow of the world works death.” (This presents a sorrow that is merely remorse often despair.)

 If  you desire to be fully forgiven by God the Father — if you want to move from Spiritual death to Spiritual life — you can tell Him in a simple prayer like this:

 “Lord Jesus, I need You.  I admit that I have sinned.  I understand that the punishment for my sins is death, to be spiritually separated from You.  Yet, because of Your Great Love, You made a plan to save me.  I believe that what You said in Your Word is true, that You sent Jesus Christ to pay the penalty I should have to pay. Jesus thank You for dying on the cross for my sins and taking the punishment in my place. Right now, I ask You to come into my life to be my Lord and Savior. Take control of my life and make me the person you created me to be. Thank you for Your unconditional love that will last forever!  And thank you for Your mercy.  In Your holy name.  Amen.”

  If you sincerely prayed this prayer, listen to what God says!

 “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!  And that is what we are!” (1st John 3:1).

1.) There are Fatal Consequences for anyone who teaches or believes a Different or Another Man Centered Gospel and not according to God’s Word or in the Scriptures!

Galatians 1:6 (KJV)

 “I marvel that you are so soon removed from Him (the Holy Spirit) Who called you into the Grace of Christ (made possible by the Cross) unto another gospel” (anything which doesn’t have the Cross as its Object of Faith):

Galatians 1:7 (KJV)

 “Which is not another (presents the fact that Satan’s aim is not so much to deny the Gospel, which he can little do, as to corrupt it); but there be some who trouble you, and would pervert the Gospel of Christ” (once again, to make the object of Faith something other than the Cross).

Galatians 1:8 (KJV)

 “But though we (Paul and his associates), or an Angel from Heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you (Jesus Christ and Him Crucified), let him be accursed” (eternally condemned; the Holy Spirit speaks this through Paul, making this very serious).

Galatians 1:9 (KJV)

  “As we said before, so say I now again (at some time past, be had said the same thing to them, making their defection even more serious), If any man preach any other gospel unto you ( anything other than the Cross) than that you have received (which Saved your souls), let him be accursed” (“eternally condemned,” which means the loss of the soul).

 Then start reading the Bible in the book of Saint John, the fourth gospel.  And you will see that the Bible you haven’t read it that very much because it didn’t make much sense.  But now that you are Spiritually Born-again with the Holy Spirit inside of you. He is the author of the Bible.  And you will be amazed at what you are going to get understanding of.  And you are going to get a desire to read the Word of God.  Amen.  God Bless you.

 Suppose one claims to believe that Christ died for man’s sins, but that one must add to their beliefs of good deeds or good works, trust in Mary, the mother of Jesus to intercede, suffer in Purgatory, belong to the Roman Catholic church or keep certain rules or Sacraments in order to be Saved, or that Christ must be sacrificed again and again and again in the Catholic Mass.  Is that man or woman Saved?  The Bible says, “No!”  To believe that anything else is necessary for Salvation is to deny that Christ paid the penalty in full, thus rejecting the Gospel.  How can those who trust in a church for Salvation be trusting only in Christ and His finished work?

John 19:30 (KJV)

 “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar (pertained to the moistening of the lips and tongue, which had dried out because of the loss of body fluid; mos probably He asked for this in order that He might speak the last words), He said, It is finished (proclaims the greatest Word, albeit at great price, that any sinner could ever hear; in effect, the world’s debt was paid, every iota of the Law had been fulfilled): and He bowed His Head and gave up the ghost” (Jesus did not die from His Wounds: He freely gave up His Life, in fact, dying when the Holy Spirit told Him to die [Hebrews 9:14]).

The Correct Meaning of “Repent”

 When God tells an unsaved man or woman to “Repent,” He means for that man or woman to change his or her mind about how to reach God and accept God’s Way of Salvation.  This person must CHANGE HIS OR HER MIND from any idea of Religion he or she may have to save himself or herself, and trust Christ’s substitutionary payment for everything he or she has done wrong.

 

 

 

 

 

Discovering The Amazing Power of JESUS

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Discovering The Amazing Power of JESUS

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 The Christian life is supposed to be a life lived by faith.  Yet, most Christians never realize the life of the Spirit our Creator designed for us to live by.  In one of the most common prayers in all of Christendom — the Lord’s Prayer — finishes with an overwhelming statement.  The last verse of the Lord’s Prayer is found in Matthew 6:13, “. . . . And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:  For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen.”

 Most have never discovered this POWER our Lord Jesus left for us to live by.  Like Adam and Eve, Christendom continues to think that they can put God off, and never lose anything — only to discover they lost it all.  As God tells us in Matthew 10:39, “He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it.“

image -- God is Omnipotent, Onniscient, and Omnipresent

 Our Lord Jesus wants us to know that he has provided us with his attributes to live by.  The Three Big O’s: His Omnipotence — Omnipresence — Omniscience. God wants you to know that he is All-Powerful, Everywhere Present and Knows Everything, including all of the future.  He is totally aware of every detail of your life.

Our Most Powerful Weapon

images -- Prayer -- Our Most Powerful Weapon

 One of the most powerful tools God has left for us is the power of PRAYER.  Frequent are the times when we all find ourselves at our wits end and need to pray.

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 Then there are other times when WE COULD USE A PRAYER PARTNER. Do You Have a Prayer Partner?  If not, ask God to bring one to you.  Matthew 18:19-20, “Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.  For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” 

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 The Gospel of Matthew, chapters 8 thru 12 are critical to the understanding of the life of Christ.  Matthew records a series of miracles preformed by Jesus Christ.  God records this in order for us to know the power he has available for us.

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 The Gospel of Matthew presents Jesus to us as King.  The Gospel of Mark presents him to us as Servant, the Gospel of Luke as the Son of Man and the Gospel of John as the Son of God.

 Matthew in chapters 8 through 12 reveals to us WHO Jesus is, and WHAT he is going to offer to those who SUFFER.  God explains to us why he came in 1st John 3:8, “. . . For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”  

images -- Jesus walking on the Water with The Miracles of Jesus sign

 God wants us to understand that His miracles were God’s way of demonstrating the deity of His Son, and what the future would be for all who would be born into his family.  All of this is still a mystery to most Christians.

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 1st Corinthians 15:51-58, “Behold, I shew you a mystery;  We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:  for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on in-corruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.  So when this corruptible shall have put on in-corruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.  O death, where is thy sting?  O grave, where is thy victory?  The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” 

images -- MD Anderson in Houston, Texas

 Take a moment to think about this.  These are things that the world renown hospital MD Anderson in Houston cannot offer. No, not the famous Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, not the St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Not the Shriner’s Hospital that offers hope to children.  Nothing compares to the hope God extends to us.  Yet, most are not even aware of these amazing benefits we have in Christ Jesus.

        images -- The Gospel of John presents Jesus as with the I AM statements   images -- Chrst Jesus,the Haad of the Church  

 God wants us to know that the Creator of all things came down to this earth and took upon himself the form of a human being.  In John 1:14 we read this.  “And the Word,” — that refers to the Deity Himself, to God Himself, “And the Word was made flesh…and dwelt among us...” John says.  ” … and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only Begotten of the Father.”  The apostle John is telling, “Deity became Man, and we beheld His deity.”  That’s what he’s saying — We saw His glory.  We saw essential deity.  We saw God!  But how, John?  How did you see that?  Where was it made known to us?  Through the life of his only begotten Son here on earth, and through the lives of the born-again believers who will allow the Lord Jesus to continue living his life on earth through us.

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 Yes, we can continue to see our Lord Jesus, the invisible God, I see him every single day.  And we can see him exactly as Moses did.  It is written of Moses in Hebrews 11:24–27, “By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.  Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.  By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: fro he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.”

images -- Israelites move on out of Egyt at the Exodus

 God wants us to provide Him with the same opportunity Moses finally allowed His Creator to do.  After running away from God’s call upon his life, Moses finally allowed said yes to God, and allowed Him to demonstrate His power through him in setting the people of God free from the bondage of Pharaoh.  These are the words of our Lord in John 10:25, “Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.” 

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 In the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, we find that the works our Lord Jesus did was designed to do just that — to show that they bore witness of Jesus as Immanuel, God with us.  In performing all of these miracles, our Lord Jesus was presenting his credentials to the world that he was indeed the King of Kings, God manifest in the flesh.

images -- Colorful picture of the Pharisee's pointing their fiingers at Jesus

 Our Lord Jesus literally turned their religious world topsy-turvy.  He told them that their teaching was wrong,  and their living was wrong. He overturned their entire religious system.  He stripped them naked.  He unmasked them as the spiritual phonies that they were. This brought the wrath of many first century Jews upon him and caused them to say things like this:

 Who is this saying these things?  By what authority does He speak?  Why should we hear this?  Why should we believe this?  What gives Him the right to say these things and to affirm that they are true?

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images --Peter's mother-in-law is healed

 Now, let’s begin with the first three miracles in the eighth chapter of Matthew:  the healing of a leper, the healing of the centurion’s servant and the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law.

images - According to the Bible What is Jesus Glorified Body

 They begin at the lowest level of human need — the physical. He is able to HEAL us. He will also give us a NEW BODY!

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 Later on in Matthew 8, in the second set of miracles, He cast out demons and calms the wind and the waves of the sea. Here our Lord deals more with the spiritual.

images -- A Joyful Noise, Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead

 Then in the third set of miracles (Matthew 9:18-26), the Lord Jesus even touches on the ultimate enemy of man, death itself, as He raises the dead.

 Another thing to note, in just in a kind of an overview, is that our Lord Jesus responds in love and grace to all who came to him. He never turns anyone away. This showcases His compassion and mercy. In one case, in Matthew 8:2, the leper says to Him, “And, behold, there came a leper and worshiped him, saying, Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.” In the second case, in Matthew 8:6-7, the friends of the centurion come to him, “And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto him, i will come and heal him.”

 In the third case, according to what Luke 4:38-41 adds in the parallel passage, the friends of the family of Peter say to Jesus, “And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her. And he stood over her and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and and ministered unto them. Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ..” In all three cases, our Lord responded to the appeal of the heart of the people.

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 Another thing to note in these three miracles is, in every case, our Lord Jesus acts on His own will. Though he is sympathetic and though He is at the same time deeply compassionate, he is also sovereign; and that is an important thing. In each case, he acts on His own volition. “I will come down and heal him.” He reached out His hand and touched her, and the fever left.”

images-- Jesus at the Well with an Samaritan Woman

 Again, in each of these miracles, our Lord Jesus Christ touches someone who, in the terms of the understanding of the Pharisees and the Jews, was at the lowest level of human existence. First a leper, unclean and the scum of the earth. Second, a Gentile; and third, a woman…In just that alone, there is a subtlety here that devastates the Jewish pride, the Pharisees’ pride. It can readily be seen where our Lord Jesus puts His emphasis — on the humble, the meek, and the outcast. The first person our Lord ever revealed His Messiah-ship to was a harlot in Samaria who wasn’t even a Jew! That said something to the Jewish society of His day. We can see that from the very start, our Lord Jesus makes it clear that He is going to establish His authority by showing WHO he is, by demonstrating his power. At the same time, God is revealing his love for those who are hurting at the lowest level of human need. He is compassionately going to respond to the cries of their friends and those who have acute needs; and, yet, our Lord Jesus is going to act sovereign as the Lord that He is.

images -- Three Reasons Jesus work was hated by the Pharisee's

 And as it is with the sons of Adam, the sad thing, the thing that just breaks the heart of every servant of God — is that with all of this, they turned their backs on the Savior. Those reprobate religious leaders accuse him in chapter 12, that what the Lord Jesus is doing, he does by the power of Beelzebub, the prince of demons. They hated Him. In fact, they hated him so much, they had to kill Him; because he upset their religious security. All in accordance with the eternal plan of God in bringing our redemption.

images -- What if Jesus had not died, What if Jesus had not risen

 This same hatred and worldliness continues to this day. You can see it in the same way that caused many of some of his disciples to walk away from him. Many are still walking away from their Creator and Savior today. We read in John 6:64-69, “But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. From that time, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou are that Christ, the Son of the living God.”

images -- Unless You Are Born Again, You Cannot See The Kingdom of God

 Friend, God is waiting for you to allow him to demonstrate his power in and through your life. Turn to Him and let Him.

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Pope Francis I is Planning a Global Meeting to Promote An Aggressive “New Humanism”!

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Pope Francis I is Planning

A Global Meeting to Promote

An Aggressive “New Humanism”!

Pope Francis I with a sign of May 14, 2020 Prophecy

(CanadaFreePress.com, February 29, 2020) Pope Francis, under the weather for the past two days, canceled his official audiences Friday.

“The Vatican hasn’t said what exactly Francis has come down with, but he was coughing and blowing his nose during Ash Wednesday Mass this week, Global Education Pact.

 “His illness comes amid an outbreak of the coronavirus in Italy that has sickened more than 650 people, almost all of them in the north.  Rome had three cases, but all three recovered.”

  Pope Francis may, according to God’s Will, rally back from whatever it is that is ailing him.  But in the meantime, he is inflicting upon humanity—on a deadline of May 14— “A Sickness of the Soul’.

 All Marxist-inspired projects are introduced in a fashion that can be best described as cunning.  The ‘Sickness of the Soul’ set to infect the entire Christian world, comes May 14, 2020, is benignly being called the ‘Global Education Pact’ that will usher in a “new humanism”.

  No one does a better job describing the ‘Global Education Pact’ than writer David Martin in today’s Canada Free Press (CFP) column.

According to the Vatican,

God “Withdraws” so we can be “Free”.

 “Archbishop Vincernzo Zani, secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education who has been tasked with organizing the event explains the theological vision behind this “new humanism,” saying that God “withdraws” in order that might be free.

  In an interview with LifeSiteNews Vatican correspondent Diane Montragne, Zani made reference to “God who gives man strength, Liberty, and life but leaves him free.  It is an encounter of freedom.”

 Zani said that the teaching on Creation — which he says is not exclusively a Christian one — places the focus on man.  “It’s the centrality of the person.  God creates but then withdraws.  He leaves man, saying, “Go!”

 Montagna interjected: “Pardon me, but is this the Christian idea of man’s creation?  As Christians we do not believe in a God who leaves us alone. We believe in His supernatural action in the world.”

 Zani responded, “Yes, in the moment when God creates man, he gives him intelligence, heart, and the capacity for activity, and he tells him: ‘Go!'”

 This glaringly contrasts Christ’s appeal to “Come follow me.” The idea that God withdraws to allow for the possibility of human freedom is a Masonic idea.  It implies that if God doesn’t withdraw, we are not free.  It implies that our freedom consists in being away from God.  It advocates the Masonic freedoms.

  Atheists, modernist, and Freemasons see God as a “boogie-man,” and accordingly they see His Commandments as oppressive rules that we need to be “liberated” from. Their idea of freedom is to escape God and live in their own hellish zone.

  Accordingly, they maintain that there is no eternal damnation after death.  [Ring any bells?]  It calls to mind an often-expressed line of the Freemasons that “hell is nothing more than being away from God and what’s so bad about that!”

  In LifeSite’s interview with Archbishop Zani, also discussed the Global Education Pact “manifesto that will be signed at a globally televised event on May 14, 2020. Its relation to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal on education, and the role of the other monotheistic religions play in the Global Education Pact initiative.

  Why should anyone doubt that Pope Francis I is working against the true God of the Bible, for that is the true nature of Roman Catholicism!

 But Francis is also working toward achieving the global position which the Bible calls the False Prophet.  No one can understand what Pope Francis is doing if they do not understand Daniel, Chapter 10!

 As we detail in the DVD “Angels / Demonic Warfare in The Heavenlies”, daily battling between Godly Angels and ungodly demons in the Heavenlies determines the flow of history, precisely as Daniel 10 reveals.  Request a copy of this informative DVD for a gift of $20.00 or more by calling 1-918-279-1136.

  Godly angels are constantly battling ungodly demons over who would have control of human leaders.  The Demonic Overlord assigned to the Pope from the beginning of the Catholic Church, worked to bring that church from lukewarm Christian to Black Magick Satanism, so that Catholicism and its Pope could be ‘proper receptors to the New Age Christ (Antichrist).  You will see Catholicism in a completely different light.

 Since the Pope is the major world candidate to become the False Prophet of Revelation 13:11-18, we should not be too surprised that he is deliberately organizing a global pagan religion.

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