Challenging Traditions, Challenging Religion

This is truly a tall order that might be completely answered in a 5 hour daily Bible study for the next 365 days, if not longer. So we will only cover your question in a brief basic highlight of what God’s Word (the Holy Bible) teaches. Jesus Christ’s death, resurrection and ascension was the mark of the beginning of the end-times (Acts 2:17-21). Furthermore, God never gave anyone a specific time, day or Nano second when all the events that will lead up to the end will take place.

Matthew 24:36

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.”

Why? As we read on, the Lord Jesus mentions the reason why in: Verse 37-39

“But as the days of Noah were (referring to Genesis chapters 6), so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”

So the point of Jesus Christ’s teaching here is, judgment of God will be swift and sudden for those who are not ready or paying attention. For those who has rejected Jesus Christ, the Holy Bible and or refused to believe in it’s truth. As we read on in Matthew 24:40 on through chapter 25 Jesus is telling all humanity, get ready for eternity. We must get right with God and ready spiritually and daily according to His standards and conditions before the end of our life or His return, whichever comes first. Another word’s, “Repent or perish” (Luke 13:1-5). In Mark 13 tells us 7 times this very theme. So all the warnings are in place according to the Holy Bible. But who is paying attention, who understands and who believes our report?

And even though He did not tell us the date and time when the end will be, He did tell us in His Word (the Holy Bible) the signs and events that will lead up to the End of the World. And this where we will begin, a basic, brief highlight of major signs and events that will lead to the end according to the Holy Bible.

The Beginning of Sorrows (today)

Revelation 2-3 deals with the great apostasy (Gr. Apo= away-Stasis= falling) which concurs with 2 Thessalonians 2:3. Revelation 2-3 mentions 7 churches. 5 churches were wrong in the sight of the Lord:

The loveless church (Rev 2:1-7)

The compromising church (Rev. 2:12-18)

The corrupt church (Rev. 2:19-29)

The dead church (Rev.3:1-6)

The lukewarm church (Rev. 3:14-22)

Only 2 churches were right in the sight of the Lord

The persecuted church (Rev. 2:9-11)

The faithful church (Rev. 3:7-13)

Showing us in the Holy Scriptures that the majority of the churches and people are not right in the sight of the Lord, but only a remnant are. And Jesus Christ testifies this to be true in Matthew 7:13-14

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

This is happening today all over the world, the great apostasy. Now Revelation 6 is closely paralleled with Matthew 24 and both are dealing with the same events of today that Jesus calls “the beginning of sorrow’s” (according to Matthew 24:8)

Matthew 24:4: False Christ’s (Rev. 6:2)

Matthew 24:6: Wars And Rumors of Wars (Rev.6:4)

Rev. 6:5: Inflation

Matthew 24:7-8: Famines; Natural Disasters And Pestilence (Rev. 6:7)

Matthew 24:9-12: Christian Persecution (Rev. 6:9-11)

Matthew 24:29-31: Comic Disturbances (Rev. 6:12-17)

All these signs is leading up to the “Rapture,” where the church (people who are right with God and ready) will be taken from this earth before the Great Tribulation begins (Rev. 8-18) which is the wrath of God to come upon this earth, where Hell on earth will be literally unleashed by the authority of God Himself.

The Rapture

Is the next event that the church is waiting for which has not happened yet. The Holy Bible does not use the word “rapture” in any translation. But the evidence of such an event is found in many places in the Holy Bible (the Word of God). The reason why the word “rapture” is not found in the Holy Bible is because The New Testament was completed around 89 AD of the 1^st Century. The “Rapture Doctrine” was formulated by several Bible scholars around the 18^th Century by evidence found in the Holy Bible, 17 Centuries after the Holy Bible was completed.

Jesus Christ Himself ministers about this event we call the “rapture” in Matthew 24:30-31

“Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

This also parallels in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18

“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.”

But before the rapture takes place, the signs must happen as follows:

Revelation 6:12

“I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.”

Matthew 24:29 Testifies this same event

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.”

A shacking must occur both geographically and spiritually in Heaven and in earth as it is written in Hebrews 12:25-27

“See that you do not refuse Him (God the Father) who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

After the sun is darkened and a great shacking that shakes heaven and earth, Then the rapture with take place as Jesus ministered in Matthew 24:30-31

“Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

The Great Tribulation Period

Revelation 8-9 deals with the seven literal trumpet judgments that everyone one who is left behind will hear and go through physically. Each trumpet announces the direct judgments of God. There are 7 judgments in all.

Note: the point of the judgments is Gods way to brings people back to their senses and back to repentance in order to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior in order to be saved, not to get back at people.

Revelation 13 deals with the rising of the antichrist. Remember 2 Thessalonians 2:3-9 also tells us the “son of perdition” must be revealed before the coming of the Lord. The coming of the Lord is what we call the 2^nd coming of Jesus Christ, when He will literally step foot on earth. Not to be confused with the rapture, where He only appears in the clouds and never physically stepped foot on earth. We’ll get to that in a minute.

God will give satan the authority to deceive the nations. Satan will literally inhabit a physical man and will give his power to a false prophet to perform signs and lying wonders to deceive as it is written in 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

“and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

The strong delusion is the antichrist, that satan will empower by the authority of God. satan can do nothing without the permission of God Himself according the Book of Job chapter 1-2 as an example. Same thing here “And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” The anitchrist will become the one world leader, under a one world government, under a one world sinning religion, under a one world currency and all this is already at work in every nation right now.

People all over the world are looking to prime ministers, presidents and dictators for answers and guidance. People all over the world are looking for a religion that will accept and worship sin. People are fight for a borderless nation in America. And if America becomes a borderless nation, then all nations will follow. And Bit Coins are being used all over the world today as a form of paperless currency.

Revelation 17-18 deals with the rise and fall of the antichrist nation which is the world. Many scholars have taught in the past that the antichrist will rule the world through a specific nation. One who was once in power, but have fallen and will rise again. And they quote Revelation 13:3. But the Holy Bible teaches here that the antichrist will bring the world in unity under his authority that God gave satan.

We see this first in Revelation 13:1 which is explained in Revelation 17:9-13

“Seven heads are seven mountains.” There are 7 continents that make up the world. Also in Revelation 18:9-18 mentions a long list of merchandise that came out of “her, the great city of Babylon” is not a specific place, but all nations combined as one universal nation. For not one nation can produce all these goods, but many together. And the third reason why “Babylon is not one nation but nations combined as one, is because Revelation 17:1-2

“The great harlot who sits on many waters” many waters are the earth’s oceans “with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication,” is telling us in code that the all the leaders of nations have given up their rule and borders in order for the antichrist and his system to have dominion over all the earth.

Revelation 16 tells us the earthly judgments that will take place where God will order His Holy angels to pour His bowls of wrath upon the whole earth as His finality of earthly judgments. During Revelation 16:16-21 is occurring Jesus Christ comes in his 2^nd return which is known as His “second Coming”

Revelation 19 deals with the 2^nd coming of Jesus Christ and His Millennial reign. Where He will fight against the armies of the antichrist and destroy them (Armageddon, Rev.19:11-19) Then the beast (the antichrist) and the false prophet were captured and cast into the lake of fire. satan was then bound for a thousand years into the bottomless pit and the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ happens for a thousand years (Revelation 19:20 through chapter 20:6)

Revelation 20:7-10 tells us how satan will be released from his prison for a short time and then will be thrown into the lake of fire. All life must come to an end before the judgment since Revelation 20:11 says, “Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God”

So how does all life end? God will destroy the earth itself with fire as it is written: “For our God is a consuming fire” (Hebrews 12:29). In the book of Malachi 4:1 testifies by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. “For behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch.”

Also 2 Peter 3:7-13

“But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.”

Once Heaven and earth passes away as Jesus Christ has promised (Matthew 24:34-35), then Revelation 20:11-15 will occur as it is known as “The Final Eternal Judgment”

“ Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.

Many books will be opened on that day (the day of the eternal judgment) on all people from every human generation, of every tribe, language, nations and tongues. This is God’s standards of judgment to come on all people from beginning to end. So what are the Books?

The Book of Idle Words (Matthew 12:36-37)

The Book of Deeds (Matthew 16:27-28)

The Book of Remembrance (Malachi 3:16)

The Book of Life (Revelation 20:15)

“And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.”

Before people are cast into the lake of fire, Jesus will separate sheep (the righteous) from the goats (the sinful, abominable, wicked and the rebellious who did not repent from all sins or had a close daily relationship with Jesus Christ in this life) according to Matthew 25:32-46.

After the eternal separation, Revelation 21-22 is where eternity begins when God will create a New Heaven and a New Earth.

I hope this helps in your personal studying. And I pray, “May the Lord Jesus Christ open your understanding of the Holy Scriptures (The Holy Bible) that you may comprehend it’s truth, causing you to walk circumspectly before the Lord all the days of your Life with all diligence, strength and joy in the peace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.”

 

 

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