At no time prior to these last hundred years did man have within his hands the power to annihilate all life from this planet. Starting with the chemical weapons of the First World War to the massive destructive power of the first atomic bomb, we have come of age as a destroyer of life, all human life on earth.
Even as the time ticked closer and closer to the very End of the Age, we have been seeing mankind gaining more and more knowledge power to harvest the laws of nature and cosmology. And just as these knowledge power have advanced and empowered the social order of mankind to be able to do and sample things that we could not have imagined we would be able to do just a century or more ago, these power also put into our hands more and more ways to destroy one another and the other life forms of this planet together with us,
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Even as the time ticked closer and closer to the very End of the Age, we have been seeing mankind gaining more and more knowledge power to harvest the laws of nature and cosmology. And just as these knowledge power have advanced and empowered the social order of mankind to be able to do and sample things that we could not have imagined we would be able to do just a century or more ago, these power also put into our hands more and more ways to destroy one another and the other life forms of this planet together with us,
Today we have advanced so much that we have refined our capability for the mass destruction of life down to an art. We have perfected mechanical, chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological weapons. We have perfect the mechanisms to deliver them. We have perfected the strategies to deliver them. We have exceeded the total requirement to destroy all life on this earth by countless times.
YouTube video on the destructive power of nuclear bombs
This threat of multiple over destruction of our planet is so great and frightening that it had managed to keep the military super powers of the world from starting just such a war. So they fought through proxies, North Korea versus the South, same in Vietnam and the Middle East. But with the increased proliferation of these weapons, now going into the hand of many nations with unstable leaders how long can mankind contain this weapons from being used on a wide scale?
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Will potential mutual destruction be enough to stop a nuclear war? Don't count on it.
You can read in the post, ‘The End Of The World Or Not? Part 3’, how mankind have always been very prone to believing in all manner of ridiculous things to understand that rational behavior is not a hallmark of mankind but rather irrational behavior has been ever since the beginning of human civilization. And this irrational behavior to believe and subscribe to ridiculous preposterous falsehoods and lies are not the preferred behavior of just the uneducated but even the brightest minds alive today too choose to believe ridiculous preposterous falsehoods and lies. This is discussed in numerous posts of this work such ‘Science Making A Monkey Of Itself’, ‘The Big Bang For Real’ and ‘The Reality Of The Big Bang’ (which is the explanatory post for the former, ‘The Big Bang For Real’, for all those who in deliberated stupidity just don't get it (i.e. comprehend the utter insanity of proclaiming that the reason everything exist is because or by reason of absolutely nothing preexisting), primarily all the proclaimed and acclaimed Superlatives of science).
The history of the world as well as the contemporary daily news has shown that despite great advances in all kinds of knowledge, mankind is still very prone to irrational behaviors. How else then can you explain leaders like Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein and numerous others, many of them still ruling over nations today. Even in nations with nuclear weapons, war mongering nations with leaders who are forever on power trips. What if just one such leader were to commandeer a nation such as Russia or USA or China or even a union of nations in Europe? Think it won't happen? Think again.
Some two thousand years ago JESUS answering HIS disciples' questions about the End of the Age told of exactly such a time:
For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive ............
Sign Number 3. Worldwide Environmental Meltdown.
Ozone depletion, global warming, global deforestation, environment pollution and habitat destruction issues have being brought up internationally since more then five decades ago (from 2010 C.E.). Today with serious effects already manifesting in climate change, rising ocean level, warming oceans we are still nowhere near putting serious and concrete effort to stamp the tide of pollution and environmental exploitation that is at the root cause of this environmental meltdown.
When are we going to get serious, when it is too late or isn't it already too late? The effects we see now are time lagged effects from our contribution over half a century ago. In the period between the last fifty years and now we have poured an ever increasing amount of these contaminants year after year fueled by our never abating lust for materialism in an ever increasing throw-away global society. Have we stopped? Unfortunately not. More than six and half billion strong (as at 2010 C.E.) and ever growing. Everyone contributing, everyday to this destruction of the very environment that sustains our fragile life on this planet.
In the book of Revelation it was recorded that one of the reasons mankind is going to be destroyed at the End of the Age is because,
......they have been destroying the earth
(Revelation 11:18).
......they have been destroying the earth
(Revelation 11:18).
Our oceans for hundred of years have being used as a garbage dump for all our waste materials. Starting from the eighteen century with the industrial revolution through the nuclear age to this current ‘throw away’ age countless billions tonnes of the chemical waste, biological waste and nuclear waste have continued to contribute to making the oceans of our earth such a poisonous and hazardous waste ground that GOD will have to wipe out all life in the oceans at the coming End of the Age (Revelation 16:3) in order to start life on a earth on a fresh clean slate.
The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
Because they have transgressed the laws,
Changed the ordinance,
Broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 24:5
Sign Number 4. The Modern Day Descendants of the Nation Of Judah Is Reestablished In The Same Land.
During the period of JESUS CHRIST ministry as a Son of man, HE gave many prophesies pertaining to the End of the Age and how it will be like for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Quite a few of these are Dual, a Type of which was fulfilled during the apostolic time with the actual fulfillment to occur at the End of the Age.
Talking about the days just before the Great Tribulation JESUS warned:
And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.
What is clear from these prophecies is that both the Church of GOD and also many of GOD’s Elect who are not in the membership of the Church, will actually be in the city of Jerusalem just prior to the Great Tribulation. It is also clear the people of Jewish religion will also be living there in great numbers and having authority over that city such that their restrictive and regimented observation of the Sabbath will be enforced.
Sign Number 5. The Mail Route Is In The Final Lap.
I mentioned earlier that the Bible is very focused and dealt mainly with concepts and issues relevant to GOD’s primary purpose for HIS Family. This being the creation of physical (i.e. composed of organic chemical matter) man made in the image of GOD in man’s journey to becoming a completed perfect Spirit personage. This is covered in more detail in the chapters, ‘Angels, Demons and Man’, ‘The Elect’ and ‘GOD IS’ of ‘Bible 101 – The Holy Bible Expounded’*1.
In the book of Revelation there is this account of seven churches in Asia (Asia Minor) on a mail route which most Bible scholars of the Christmas religion has no clue what these are all about. That of course is not at all surprising.
First, the context and framework for the book of Revelation is prophecy. Read Revelation chapter 1 verse 1:
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.
How much clearer does it need to be? Why were all these so called experts and teachers of religion from throughout the centuries until today, unable to read and understand a simple sentence in the Christian Bible? It is no small wonder that they have perverted the whole teaching of the Bible advancing doctrines, celebrations and observation that were totally from other religions rather than the plain, simple and straight forward writings and teachings of the Prophets and Apostles of the ALMIGHTY GOD. Please understand that not all the teachings of the Prophets and Apostles are all simple and straight forward even as the greater majority of the teachings are.
The whole mail route tells us of the journey of the Church of GOD, the Church that JESUS CHRIST founded, from the Apostolic period to today (Revelation 3:20) which is the End of the Age. The Ephesus Church was the first era started on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1) through the time of the Apostles until the Ephesus Church lost its First Love many years after John the last of the original twelve Apostles died. Through some surviving members of this first era who still kept the First Love, GOD raised up a new Church era in Smyrna.
In the Pergamos period with the congregations of the Church of the Antichrist out numbering that of the true Church of GOD, many members who were of and in GOD's Church were selling themselves (i.e. their loyalties and affiliations) for monetary and material gains (Revelation 2:14 first part) to observe the celebrations and doctrines of the opulently wealthy universal Church of the Antichrist, the church backed by the first instance of the fourth Beast power, Imperial Rome, under the sway of the Great Harlot.
The whole mail route tells us of the journey of the Church of GOD, the Church that JESUS CHRIST founded, from the Apostolic period to today (Revelation 3:20) which is the End of the Age. The Ephesus Church was the first era started on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1) through the time of the Apostles until the Ephesus Church lost its First Love many years after John the last of the original twelve Apostles died. Through some surviving members of this first era who still kept the First Love, GOD raised up a new Church era in Smyrna.
The Smyrna era bore the brunt of the vicious Roman persecution and many if not most of the Saints of this period including the last Messenger or human Angel (the last administration of the era or period) were martyred (Revelation 2:10). It is also in this era that the Churches of the Antichrist began to take root all over the Roman Empire (Revelation 2:9 last part) growing to replace most to almost all of the true members of GOD's Church throughout the far reaches of the Roman Empire by the beginning of the Pergamos era.
In the Pergamos period with the congregations of the Church of the Antichrist out numbering that of the true Church of GOD, many members who were of and in GOD's Church were selling themselves (i.e. their loyalties and affiliations) for monetary and material gains (Revelation 2:14 first part) to observe the celebrations and doctrines of the opulently wealthy universal Church of the Antichrist, the church backed by the first instance of the fourth Beast power, Imperial Rome, under the sway of the Great Harlot.
These celebrations being what was claimed to be the days of JESUS CHRIST's birth (Revelation 2:15) on Christmas day and resurrection on Easter Sunday of the so called “Christian Passover” (Revelation 2:14, 7 last part; Psalm 16:4; Revelation 2:20). Today these celebrations are called Christmas and Easter respectively.
In Revelation chapter 3 verse 11 the context of that verse tell us that the time setting is the time of CHRIST imminent return and verse 20 builds on that, pointing to the fact that the Church which was named (Revelation 3:14) is the last era of GOD's Church to which JESUS CHRIST will return (verse 20). Also verse 10 spoke of the ‘Hour of Trial’ that is to come upon the whole earth. That includes the last era of the Church as this verse is about the Church of GOD in Philadelphia which is (Revelation 3:7) before the the last, the Church of GOD of Laodicea (Revelation 3:14) in the mail route.
The ‘hour’ mentions here is the same as that mentioned in 1 John 2 verse 18. This ‘Hour of Trial’ comes upon the whole world which includes GOD’s Church today. Tying this verse with 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 3 we get a clear picture of the apostasy, how the Son of Perdition, this very specific Antichrist came into office to take over the Church of GOD. In the context of the Church as a Spiritual entity if the advent of this Antichrist, the Son of Perdition, causing a great ‘Falling Away’ is not a serious trial, you tell me what is. To get the full perspective on this Son of Perdition and his evil works read the post ‘The New Covenant Part III – The Final Covenant’ from the chapter ‘The Old Testament And The New Testament’ of ‘Bible 101 – The Holy Bible Expounded’*1 published in the blog of these first two chapters of this book.
Now read Revelation 3 verse 10.
Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
If you can still remember whereby I mentioned briefly earlier that the Church of GOD will be taken (i.e. flee under the protection of GOD, from the army of the Beast) to a place away from the presence of Satan the Devil, you will understand that the scope of this verse about the ‘Hour of Trial’ covers a period before that event happen. So this trial of Revelation 3 verse 10 has a larger scope covering from the time after the Philadelphia era, to the Day of the LORD itself which is also part of this ‘Hour of Trial’ of Revelation 3 verse 10. Basically this trial encompasses the testing of the Elect, which started with the apostasy and ‘Falling Away’ (2 Thessalonian 2:3) and the Elect ‘vomited or spewed out’ (Revelation 3:16) from the first administration (i.e. the leadership of the first Messenger or human Angel) of this last era, through the Tribulation and the Day of the LORD. It is an ‘Hour of Trial’ for the whole earth (Revelation 3:10) to expose all those who are fully given over to evil from their lusts focused lives. The trial and test then becomes the conviction point for the destruction of all those who are fully focused on lust driven evils refusing to repent even against the face of GOD's punishing plagues of the Day of the LORD. This is exactly as during the Antediluvian era, all the wicked of that time period (i.e. age or era) sought to kill Enoch as he spoke against their evils, warning of their destruction if they refused to repent. This the testimony of two witnesses parallels, only this time around GOD will allow HIS witnessing servants to be martyred at their hands as the final nail that absolutely without a doubt convicts all those in cohort and in complicity with the Beast and the False Prophet. the Later in the chapter ‘What's Next In Prophecy’, we will discuss the various time concepts of the Christian Holy Scriptures which should help you understand what this ‘Hour of Trial’ is of physical earth time measurement in the context of the timeframe of GOD's allocated process time for mankind made in the image and likeness of GOD to be completed. This is why Creation (or rather Recreation) Week is six days plus the seventh day.
Sign Number 6. The Great Falling Away.
In 2 Thessalonians 2:1 - 4 Paul wrote:
‘Now we beg you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as [if it were] by us, as that the day of the Lord is present. Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because [it will not be] unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition; who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
(Darby Translation).
The coming of the LORD JESUS CHRIST was prophesied to be preceded by a great apostasy or falling away. This apostasy or falling away from the truth leading to the dishonoring, disregarding and invalidating and thus the breaking of both, GOD's commandments and the New Testament Covenant was prophesied to happen in GOD's one and only true Church, before the great and terrible Day of the LORD which will see the Saints of GOD resurrected into Spirit personages at LORD JESUS CHRIST's coming (2 Thessalonians 2:1 - 3).
Many to nearly all (before this post was first published in 2010 C.E.) of the proclaimed and acclaimed Superlatives of religious knowledge (including most to all those of the Elect) had tied this prophecy with that of the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by the Prophet Daniel which is of course incorrect. The falling away in context refers to only the Church of GOD as well as all the Elect (who are outside of the membership of the Church) of GOD and does not have any bearing on the rest of mankind who are not GOD's Elect or in GOD's Church. You can't fall away from some thing or some place that you were never in, in the first place.
The Abomination of Desolation refers to the image of the Beast (Revelation 13:14 - 15). This Beast is a political and military leader of a union of nations (Revelation 17:12). This Beast will be captured alive together with the False Prophet and thrown into the Lake of Fire (Revelation 19:20). Noticed there is a False Prophet involved.
So the Abomination of Desolation is a image representing the Beast whereas the Son of Perdition is a person, a religious leader, who took over the leadership in the one and only true Church of GOD and turned the globe spanning work apostate. On these the Scriptures are very clear.
About the Beast and image of this Beast:
And forces shall be mustered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation.
Daniel 11:31
And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Daniel 12:11In the Gospel accounts, JESUS told HIS disciples (members of the Church of GOD in a future time) and all those who will understand (from having a believing faith as opposed to a self expedient “faith”):
“So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Mark 13:14
Here we have JESUS advising HIS disciples many (but not all with the bulk of the discipleship actually not in the Church) of whom would be members of the Church of GOD (and including also all those who would believe HIM) to flee to the mountains. How is this Abomination of Desolation (an image or so sort of statue) going to sit as the head (human leader or Angel)) of the Church of GOD in the Church of GOD (‘temple of GOD’) replacing LORD JESUS as the Spiritual head of (the ONE actually leading) the Church of GOD when she, the Church of GOD has already fled? Remember the Church of GOD must obey GOD and keep the commandments of LORD JESUS and the FATHER, or be rejected and ejected (i.e. will be vomited or spewed out). Therefore the Church of GOD would (at the appointed time) flee finally in obedience to the commandment of JESUS otherwise GOD will destroy all life on earth (Malachi 4:6 very last past). How would the Son of Perdition replace LORD JESUS as the head? By overruling, invalidating and abolishing through changing everything important that was directly and explicitly instituted and commanded by LORD JESUS to HIS one true Church of GOD. And if you can believe this and then understand this then you would also know why both the Church of GOD and all the Elect (on the outside) are sinning against the FATHER and LORD JESUS. Though all these are paying lip services to all the things commanded (honoring them with their mouths but not their hearts) by LORD JESUS (Matthew 15:8; Mark 7:6), they are practicing the same behavior as the Son of Perdition. They are ignoring, invalidating and abolishing all the things LORD JESUS instituted and commanded which they could not be able to use to advance themselves as these super righteous, super humble, super brotherly loving, super zealous, super noble faithful remnants (and whatever else) proclaimed and acclaimed Superlatives of GOD.
The falling away or apostasy refers to changing from the true worship of GOD to a false or pretense worship. True worship of (i.e. fully honoring, completely trusting and obeying) GOD throughout the written record of the Christian Holy Scriptures, the whole of the Christian Bible, centered around obeying GOD and keeping HIS Covenant and HIS commandments, all of HIS commandments including HIS ordained Sabbath and Holy Feast days, in sincere love, complete trust and genuine contrite repentance.
The Church of GOD is a commandment keeping Church (John 15:1 -2, 6, 10, 16), even if just only with their mouths (i.e. just paying lip service to honor the commandments), and has been since the days of the Apostles. During the time of Apostles not long after the Church of GOD was founded on the day of the Feast of First Fruit (aka Pentecost) as was recorded in the book of Acts, many joined the Church, some of whom through a false conversion (Acts 5:1 -10) while others through deceit to prey (Acts 8:9 - 13, 18 - 20; 20:29) on the Christians. It is not any different throughout the journey of the Church of GOD from then through the centuries until today. This is recorded in the prophecy of Revelation chapters 2 and 3. False converts and false disciples had from then until this very day continued to join the Church of GOD. Even until right at the very end of this age in the very midst of the Great Tribulation these false deceitful disciples will continue to join the ranks of the persecuted Saints (Daniel 11:34, 31 - 35).
Through this apostasy the Son of Perdition would be revealed, that is his identity will become known. This Son of Destruction would be the cause of this apostasy in GOD’s Church. He would become the human leader in GOD’s Church through which he placed himself as the head (usurping the authority of LORD JESUS) of the Church of GOD ruling by his own authority and agenda, setting himself up to displace the LORD JESUS CHRIST as the head of the Church (2 Thessalonians 2:4 last part).
Because the head of the Church of GOD is JESUS CHRIST (Ephesians 1:22; 5:23; Colossians 1:18) not any single man or group of men. That means whoever the human leader is that GOD appoints over HIS Church (as HIS agent aka Angel or Messenger), that man must sincerely, truthfully and spiritually (i.e. fully led by the HOLY SPIRIT) be seeking (2 Chronicles 12:14) the direction (through the HOLY SPIRIT) from JESUS CHRIST and be in sync and accord with the teachings of the Scriptures. It is not someone who set his own agenda, goals and doctrines for the Church, ruling by his self appointed supreme overbearing authority, over ruling, rejecting (through twists and spins) and replacing (through superseding, annually and invalidating) the commandments and instructions of GOD while pretending to be keeping them but just honoring them with his mouth. These being the doctrines of LORD JESUS which were testified to and recorded by the Holy Christian Scriptures.
No man has nor can ever have the authority to change GOD's commandments or to nullify the Everlasting New Testament Covenant, or for that matter to change the commission of LORD JESUS to HIS one and only Church of GOD which is as it was and has been to: teach the Gospel as a witness; make disciples of those who believed and repented; and feed the sheep (i.e. the Elect of GOD). JESUS CHRIST did not change HIS FATHER's commandments and work (John 10:37, 14:10) but HE performed them (John 15:10) carrying out HIS FATHER's will and work (John 4:34, 5:30, 6:38, 10:37, 14:10; Matthew 12:50; 7:21). JESUS CHRIST is the definitive example (John 13:15) that GOD had ordained (Matthew 21:42; 1 Perter 2:6 – 7; 1 Corinthians 3:11;) for all HIS faithful to follow, so that all who reject GOD, implicitly andor explicitly through elevating themselves as greater than and supreme over GOD may be fully exposed for the self expedient blasphemous liars that they are, irregardless whether they are the Elect or Antichrists.
This man, the Son of Perdition would take over (‘sits as God in the temple of God’) the Church of GOD changing it from obeying GOD, keeping GOD's commandments, to one which opposed GOD and LORD JESUS. That is why he is The Antichrist mentioned by the Apostle John (1 John 2:18). His appearance or revelation in the Church, very swiftly rising up to the pole position as Pastor General, is a key milestone event in prophecy. It marks, sets the beginning of as well as tells us that the last hour of GOD's timeframe for man has started.
How? By teaching and requiring the breaking of GOD's commandments. And also voiding the Grace of GOD by commanding the breaking through the replacing of the New Testament Covenant (Hebrews 10:29; 13:20) which is the commemoration (1 Corinthians 11:25) of the Passover, with Easter of the Nicene Creed. The same Passover that JESUS CHRIST ordained and commanded to be observed (Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25) as the New Covenant in HIS BLOOD represented by the Cup of Wine of the Passover commemoration. Anyone who would go against this Son of Perdition's agenda, would be cast out from ‘his church’, the Church of GOD under the first Laodicea administration turned to apostasy. From that point (a process of around ten years, starting around 1990, hitting crisis point in 1995 and culminating as fully apostate around 2000 C.E.) that organization ceased to be GOD's Church but an apostate church of Antichrists, becoming a daughter harlot of that Great Harlot (Revelation 17:1, 19:2) of the Christmas religion. A similar event also happened as a Type during the Apostolic period. Read about it in the Epistles of the New Testament Scriptures.
Remember the Church of GOD is a commandment keeping Church. A Church that keeps (even it is just in lip service) GOD's commandments, ordained Feasts including the Passover and the Sabbath. The Son of Perdition would stop this and would change the keeping of the Sabbath and the Passover and through these introduced a slow and definite lawlessness among the membership through their disregarding and rejecting of GOD's commandment of love.
Yes the very same agenda as that of the Councils of the Antichrist a couple of centuries after the Apostolic era because the protagonist behind both is the same, it is none other than Satan the Devil.
This Son of Perdition would swiftly and fully replace the Saturday Sabbath with Catholic Sunday, the Passover with Easter and the doctrines of JESUS CHRIST with the doctrines of the Christmas religion, the Creed of Nicene. These are Trinity, Christmas, Easter, the Catholic Sunday and numerous other explicitly ridiculous and implicitly blasphemous doctrines such as sin is falling short of the mark of the perfection of God, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is sex, God's love is unconditional, etc.
All of you who are the Elect, you know all these things have surely already come to pass. And you know all that I am writing here in this work are exactly what the Scriptures foretold some two thousands years ago.
This Son of Perdition would swiftly and fully replace the Saturday Sabbath with Catholic Sunday, the Passover with Easter and the doctrines of JESUS CHRIST with the doctrines of the Christmas religion, the Creed of Nicene. These are Trinity, Christmas, Easter, the Catholic Sunday and numerous other explicitly ridiculous and implicitly blasphemous doctrines such as sin is falling short of the mark of the perfection of God, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is sex, God's love is unconditional, etc.
All of you who are the Elect, you know all these things have surely already come to pass. And you know all that I am writing here in this work are exactly what the Scriptures foretold some two thousands years ago.
And even as you, the Elect both inside and outside of the membership of the one and only true Church of GOD, would (or should anyway) know these things to an absolute certainty, many to most of you will stubbornly refused to believe the messages and testimonies of this work. Understand that freewill and being intelligent is all about knowledge. And fully knowing the truth you will stubbornly hardened your heart to reject it and thus be convicted (Luke 12:47 – 48). GOD is not unjust to punish those who are faithfully obedient, sincerely seeking to do HIS will, to let them fall into the hands and power of the Satan the Devil.
That is the very reason why there will be a great martyrdom of the Elect (the people of GOD by Covenant), persecuted, tortured and slaughtered by the Beast power and all of the rest mankind in cohort or in complicit with the Beast at the behest and command of the False Prophet of the Great Harlot Church.
Satan the Devil's agenda is the same, then and now (2 Thessalonians 2:9 - 10), Satan the Devil will do all in his power to turn the Spirit Angels and men from obeying GOD (Genesis 3:1 - 4; Revelation 12:3 - 4)). He has been doing this since before the Age of Man. The advance record (i.e. prophecy) of the Scriptures showed that he will never stop even after he has been imprisoned for a thousand years (Revelation 20:7 - 9).
In similitude as a Type, the new administration (under a new Messenger or Angel who GOD raised up), of the Church of GOD was started with a just tiny fraction of the Elect from the previous administration, because the Church of GOD as is consistent to the will and purpose of GOD, cannot be allowed to cease (Matthew 16:18; Malachi 3:6) due to the failure of the Elect. That is also the reason from the context of prophecy the Elect outside (the membership of) the Church is symbolically referred to as Israel and Samaria and those in (the membership of) the Church of GOD as Judah and Jerusalem. For a list of the symbolism used in the Christian Holy Scriptures and what they referred to please read the post, ‘Keys To Unlocking The Mystery Part 4’ in the blog, ‘The Holy Bible Expounded’.
GOD is always consistent and faithful (Hebrews 13:8; Malachi 3:6; Lamentations 3:22) — for this one reason alone, those who have the eyes to see will know that the “Christianity” of the world today, the one which near to all of the whole world think is Christianity, is not that of the disciples of JESUS CHRIST; is not Christian at all but Antichrists.
Even as all these (the Falling Away or Apostasy and the ejecting or spewing out of all the Elect from the first administration of the Laodicea era) were coming to pass (began to be fulfilled), GOD had a few years earlier raised up a new leadership or administration (i.e. human Angel or Messenger) who would still honor (i.e. respectfully accept as a valid legal requirement and obligation) HIS government, commandments and Covenant. And even as King Rehoboam the heir to King Solomon too like his father was not faithful to GOD, so too this new leadership (i.e. Angel or Messenger) too was not faithful, being fully full (Revelation 3:17 – 18) of himself, believing and holding himself as the supremely mega super truth loving proclaimed and acclaimed Superlative The Prophet of GOD. And this is just as the Christian Holy Scriptures had precisely and explicitly prophesied some two thousand and more years ago.
But in the meantime GOD waits patiently for HIS Church as well as those of HIS Elect who were cast out as well as the genealogical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (including any of the rest of mankind who will believe) to repent as HE sends HIS witnesses (i.e. Prophets) to testify against them that they should turn from their perverse and wicked ways. When they continued to disregard these warning refusing to repent from their disobedience and wicked deeds (i.e. speech and acts) HE will punish them through the wrath and vengeance of the Satan the Adversary in the Great Tribulation letting them fall under the power of the Beast and the Great Harlot.
■ Last Updated: 2022 03 02
Added 2022 01 04
On this day 2022 01 004 five nuclear power nations all having seats in the UN Security Council issued a joint statement that a nuclear war cannot be won and pledged that 'a nuclear war must not be fought'
Now how much do you think that pledge is worth? Not the paper it is written on. Did you note the conditions that they all stated when they pledge 'no nuclear war'. That is correct because 'at the moment' it is not a winnable war, the nanosecond that condition changed or one of these nations believe (whether valid or not) that they can win a nuclear 'all hell is gonna to break loose'. You can bet your life that they will carry out a preemptive strike to take out the nuclear capabilities of their rivals.
Do you still remember just a few months earlier that China threaten to nuke Japan if Japan comes to the aid of Taiwan if Taiwan is invaded by China?
How about a few years ago when Russian threatened Finland with a similar threat.
That is the biggest problem with mankind, their words are only worth as much as their lust seeded, fueled and driven proclamations and their next mood swings.
And (i.e. in end of February 2022 C.E.) Russian has placed their nuclear force on high alert just because they did not like that the world and particularly Europe and the USA sanctioned them for their warring invasion of Ukraine.
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4. Scriptures quoted are from New King James Version unless otherwise indicated. Anyone who wants to prove or disprove what is written here should first read the Christian Bible thoroughly and extensively (from cover to cover at least three or more times) with the goal that of basic reading comprehension, to understand what was recorded. The various chapters and articles discussed here are by no means exhaustive of the doctrines, prophesies, subjects and answers to questions on the Christian Holy Scriptures.
6. While the early discussions of this work covered basic foundation doctrines, the later discussions in this work discussed more in depth teachings and doctrines some of which may not be fully comprehensible without first understanding the foundation, fundamental or basic doctrines discussed earlier (before 2014 C.E.) in the various other blogs of this work.
7. For the complete listing of titles of the discussions of this author on the Christian faith and worship (or religion) please refer to the Start or Home page of 'The Holy Bible Expounded'. Also listed in this main posts listing page are the latest published posts of all the Christian topic blogs of this author.
8. The extensively lavish uses of hyperbole and extreme superlatives in this work is intended to highlight the glaringly extreme ego supergorging lust of mankind and particularly near all the Elect of GOD both leaders and lay members, both inside and outside of the membership of the one true Church of GOD in this last days.
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