THE GREAT TRIBULATION OF REVELATION

The most fearful time in this age’s history is most likely at the door. The period of the Great Tribulation. The period of time much of the Bible prepares us for. That’s an important observation for one reason. Much of the Bible talks about what happens in the end times and tells us to get ready. To put on our armor. If that’s all true, and it is, then why do people expect to be raptured away? There will absolutely be no rapture. You can read more on that in my blog “The Rapture”.

As it is written, the tribulation is the worst time ever in our age. The book of Revelation lays out the different plagues and hardships this creation must go through before they see the end. What most people assume is that the Great Tribulation will start off with this set of horrible circumstances. That’s wrong. Actually the opposite is true. More than likely the first day of the tribulation period will be a day of celebration. Men will be so highminded and empowered, which are the true enemy of man, they will think they can do everything themselves. I hear it all of the time from so-called scholars on those History Channel shows that believe the Bible is real that man can avoid everything that is written, and that the Bible is God’s warning for men that they have the power to change the future. Stupid. Doesn’t get much more stupid than that. It’s written, therefore it will be done. It’s concrete. It’s etched in stone. Everything will happen just as it is written. Most people don’t have a destiny, but our creation does.

In Daniel 7 it says that the Antichrist will confirm a peace covenant that will last a week. That is really a seven year period as most know. The peace covenant most likely will be between Israel and countries in the Arab World. Could be many countries. It doesn’t say the Antichrist will be the one to broker the covenant. Just confirm it. When things happen to Israel, Madrid steps in since that is where the power of the European Union lies. Keep an eye on that. For those who know of the European Union’s real existence you know what I’m talking about. In the midst of that seven year treaty, all Hell will break loose. War will finally breakout after a three and a half year buildup. The Antichrist will die and seemingly rise again. The next thing this world will see will not be the Antichrist anymore. It will be Satan himself. Then will be the real horrors of the tribulation period. For three and a half years the horrors will pale the damage WWII did. It won’t just be Satan here. The fallen angels will be here. They are the ones whose master is Apollyon aka Abaddon. Those are other terms for the Devil. They will have most of their power for the last five months of the Great Tribulation. At that point, the spirit of slumber will be lifted and everyone will know what the right choice is. Everyone will know who Satan is and know Jesus was the Messiah, and also know the Bible is genuinely God’s word. Satan and the fallen will do their best to prey on every human weakness which will be magnified at the time, so even though men will know the right choice it will seem to many to be an impossible choice to make to keep their faith. For those who think if this creation only knew all of these things that they will make the right choice, in many cases you are sadly wrong. Many, many will knowingly make the wrong choice. It is written. As it says in Matthew 25, people will be divided to the left and right of Jesus when this age is over. People who’ve kept their faith and those who have not.

Yes, the Great Tribulation is a nightmarish scenario. There will be survivors. There will be many survivors. The elect will not be among those. Their day will come about five months before the end. They will return with Jesus and reign with him for a thousand years. The saints who aren’t of the elect also will reign with Jesus. The elect will be kings and queens though. If it wasn’t for God’s incredible heart in making sure as many souls can be saved, then the elect wouldn’t even have had to live. Let those who have ears hear. Their faith was always intact and their judgment was already given to them before this age started. They are ONLY here for the rest of this creation. Not themselves. Keep that in mind after the true elect are revealed. They really don’t have to be here, except for God’s will to not destroy souls He created. The tribulation isn’t for them. It’s for everyone else. They do have jobs to do in showing the Way, but the plagues will not be upon them. God bless the elect. When the elect are revealed, you better make sure you thank God for making them live and suffer through something that they didn’t bring upon themselves. God bless the elect!

GOD’S STANDARDS FOR SAINTHOOD

What God sees as a saint is far different than what men do. For some reason men have raised standards for sainthood far past God’s standards. The Catholic church makes it impossible in their own doctrine to become a saint. According to the Catholic church, a person has to perform three miracles in order to be qualified for canonization. That in itself is an error. No man performs a miracle. God does through that man or woman. That’s something the Catholic church should know on their own.

To become a saint in God’s eyes all a person has to do is have their faith in Jesus as the Messiah intact. Everyone who dies with their faith is a saint. Everyone. There are many, many saints upon this Earth right now. As is written in Ephesians 1:1, there were saints in Ephesus Paul wrote to. Those were just people who were Christians. People who accepted Christ fully in their hearts and humbled themselves before their Lord. Not people who brought fire out of the sky or healed the lame by having a missing limb grow back. As if men on their own had the ability to do that anyway. In Revelation 20 which is about the next age after Jesus returns, Jesus will reign on Earth with his saints for a thousand years. That is everyone who in this life has made the right choice will be here reaping their rewards and being with their loved ones, at least those who made the right choice. Not just those who Catholic doctrine says are saints.

So why do the standards of men far outreach the standards of God? An incredible amount of conceit, that’s why. That’s also why most teachers feel God’s elect are people who just chose Christ, even though the term is GOD’S elect. God’s choice, not man’s. Such highmindedness and self-empowerment is not what God wants us to have. To set standards higher than God’s isn’t something that makes God happy. That’s like saying to a soul that has done great things in the eyes of God “you can be His saint, but you’re not worthy of being one of ours. You should have performed three miracles which were all witnessed as well as this and that and then you could have joined us.” I’d rather be one of God’s saints than a saint in the eyes of men anytime anyway.

CHESS PIECES ARE IN POSITION PT. 2

First of all, I would like to say that I am happy for all of the black Americans out there. I say “black Americans” because most didn’t actually move here from Africa. I like what Smokey Robinson said, “I’m not an African-American. I didn’t come from Africa. I’m black.” I am sincerely happy for blacks in this country because now they have reached the highest plateau in our country. Now they can tell their childrens that they can become whatever they want and point to President Obama as an example. I do understand how important that really is. I wished he had lost, but I am happy that we have crossed that road in our country. Just forty years ago blacks in this country were fighting to be equal and not segregated. Now there is a black President. That time is overdue, but it has come. So for that, I congratulate the black Americans in this country. I hope this inspires all of you to realize your potential and pass it on to your children. God bless the black people in this country. Your day of not reaching the ceiling is over. Now run with it.

 

Now the lovefest is over though : )   For a few weeks now I decided to listen to my gut on this election and realized that Obama would become President. I should have bowed to my instinct months ago. As a matter of fact, I should have even predicted that Obama would pick Joe Biden to be his running mate. I had my eyes on Biden since he wanted to partition Iraq into three countries. Why I did was because of the prophecy of Isaiah 18:1-3 which I have understood for many years to be about our country and Iraq. We are the land shadowing with wings (bald eagle is our symbol) beyond the rivers of Ethiopia. Ethiopia back then was a very big country and mostly in a different place than it is now. It used to be the westernmost country in Africa. If the Bible had a name for this land, it would have said it. Instead all it said was that this land was beyond the rivers of Ethiopia. We are the country that will send our ships swiftly across the sea. More proof of the land the Bible was talking about was a yet to be discovered one. We are the nation that lifted a sign in the mountains with Mount Rushmore, which was finished in 1941. Right when we entered WWII and then became a superpower. It told the world to listen to everything this country says and pay attention to everything this country does after the sign in the mountains is up. That certainly happened. Iraq is the country that will be meted out and trodden down. They are the people terrible (actual translation is “fearful”) from their beginning. That was code for the Babylonians. Babylon is in Iraq today. They are the ones that will have spoiling rivers with the Euphrates and Tigris. I know traditional teaching says that this prophecy was about something that happened a long time ago, but I just proved beyond a shadow of a doubt it hasn’t happened. The Bible would have named the land in Isaiah 18:1 if this land had a name. Joe Biden just a couple of years ago said he wanted to divide Iraq into three parts. This was thought of as a bad idea, but when things were going terribly in Iraq he came up with this idea. Obama has promised to pull troops out no matter what is said to him by anyone. If things get really bad again after we’re gone, Obama has vowed he would send the troops back. That’s where Biden will come in. Iraq will be divided just as it says in Isaiah 18:2. What will happen to the US is unclear although it will be much worse than 9/11. It says “woe to” America when we send our ambassadors to Iraq after it is divided. Since 9/11 isn’t written anywhere, this will be much worse. No matter how you feel about the warn in Iraq, we were destined to go in. It’s written. It was inescapable. I told all of my friends many years ago that we were not done with Iraq because of those verses.

 

As I wrote in the first “CHESS PIECES ARE IN POSITION”, people would vote against their best interests because we are a very confused country right now. Just as the Babylonians were millennia ago, we don’t know what is up or what is down. To prove that just look at the polls. When Americans were asked who was more prepared to be President, McCain won overwhelmingly. Americans also realize the importance of the time we’re living in right now. When asked who would be better to handle a crisis, national or international, McCain again won overwhelmingly. When asked who was more patriotic, McCain again won overwhelmingly. When asked who was better to handle the economy, Obama won but when asked if taxes should be raised on ANYONE right now, 65% of Americans voted no. Is your head swirling? Mine is, because the only way I can make sense of these polls is that we are incredibly confused right now. There is no other explanation because the results from those questions have no linear thought to Obama becoming President with over five million votes to spare. People can blame Bush for being incompetent, which I have as well, but over 60% of Americans in an AOL poll a while back know that McCain wasn’t anything like Bush. We have become the new land of confusion. That does not bode well for our future.

 

As it says in Isaiah 18, “woe to the country shadowing with wings”. Our woe is very near. The end of the age (not world as is written in the original Greek) is also very near. I can point to a thousand things like that the star named “wormwood” in Revelation 8:11 is “chernobyl” in the Ukrainian language or how all of the nations predicted to align in the last days are now aligned, but all you have to do is look at the adoration of the world over Barack Obama. He’s not the Antichrist, so don’t even think it. BUT, it just goes to show you that the secular world will be more than happy having their own lord. The ones who at the very least repel the mention of God in the public square are the most susceptible to bowing to a false one. Obama doesn’t have the tenth of the charisma the Antichrist will have and look what he was able to do. The world and the media adore him. The media worked their tails off to elect him and take down anyone that dared get in the way, ala Joe “the plumber”. The legislative branches in this country are about to take away freedoms that give voice for the opposition. The chess pieces are most definitely now in place. After Iraq is divided into three (and it will happen), and we send our ambassadors there, be ready to flee to the higher hills. I don’t know what will happen but it will make 9/11 pale by comparison. When the Bible says “woe”, you better lift up your head and keep those eyes open. God is warning us. That’s why it was written. Be prepared and ready. It is coming.

CHESS PIECES ARE IN POSITION

I don’t like to get into politics in these religious blogs, but much of the end times will be focused on politics. What we see coming in the last days written in the Bible look to many as being so far away. After reading this blog, which is solely dedicated to the political repercussions of the choices we make, you might have a different view on how far away the tribulation is.

To say Americans take their freedoms for granted is understated. Americans are about to choose to have freedoms taken away from them just with this election. Let’s forget that Americans are about to vote for the most unqualified person to be President ever and the only things they know about him are things that should disturb us. Let’s forget that they are still willing to elect a man that said he would “spread the wealth around”, which is the socialist motto. I don’t care what anyone tries to turn that into. It’s socialism. Let’s only focus on the things that surround Obama and the dems that have been revealed just this last election cycle. The mainstream media has always been in the tank for the dems. We all know this. Even Americans that really don’t pay attention know this. What has happened this time though is unprecedented. The appearance of any threat to the “secular-progressive” movement they are all for, they must be taken down by the MSM. After Palin’s first speech after being nominated just before the Republican Convention, her and her family were picked apart like they were a deer carcass in the midst of wolves. They immediately saw her as a threat and had to take her down for their future. Not even because she helped McCain’s chances at beating Obama, but because she immediately became a long-term threat. She’s young, attractive, speaks well, and has a lot of moxy. She is anything but a S-P that kept a baby even after finding out it would have Down’s Syndrome. She must be taken down. That’s why there have been more stories about her by the MSM since her nomination than the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. Then came the real appearance of the MSM’s fervor to take down any threat to their aspirations of turning America into Eurotopia with the appearance of Joe “the plumber” Wurzelbacher. Ole Joe was just playing catch with his son as Barack Obama made his way down his street. Still sweating, Joe asked a good question in a respectful manner. Joe wasn’t rude. Joe wasn’t anything but respectful. Obama then let the cat out of the bag by giving America a look into who he really is. Obama told Joe he would spread the wealth around. Americans don’t like that. Americans for the most part like to earn their money and be able to keep it when they do earn it. Call us crazy. Because Obama said something he feels he shouldn’t have said and McCain brought him up in the last debate, the MSM had their phasers set on “kill”. Even Obama and Biden both mocked Joe “the plumber” by saying “no plumber I know makes $250,000″. Maybe if he bought that business he would be, which was exactly Joe’s point. Dennis Miller said that he found that creepy that Obama and Biden would laugh and mock Joe just for asking a question and trying to live the American Dream. The MSM vetted Joe like HE was a candidate for the highest office in the land. Jon Stewart even said “why are they vetting this guy?” Because he dared to ask their lord a question and their lord let out his plans that he had been keeping back so long. We found out Joe didn’t have a plumber’s license, even though he is about to get one and had been a plumber for years. We found out that he had some unpaid taxes, which may or may not be true. Then there was this thing about possible delinquent child support payments which Joe totally denies. The question is why do we even know about these things? It didn’t just stop with the media going after Joe though. An Ohio newspaper said the dems themselves were trying to dig up dirt on Joe. No “Joe Dirt” jokes please. A Toledo police clerk was charged with snooping into Joe’s files illegally. Then Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services with the permission (at least afterward since he said he was okay with it) of democratic Gov. Ted Strickland looked into Joe’s files to dig up some dirt. Jones-Kelley was appointed that job by Gov. Strickland. When asked why she would do this, she said she does this often when a name pops up like when someone wins a lottery or something. Joe didn’t win a lottery. When asked to cite one time Jones-Kelley did this snooping on someone that just “popped up” she couldn’t do it. She later admitted that she looked more extensivly into Joe’s records than previously stated. We have a blatant attempt by the MSM and government officials to subvert an opposing voice that might carry momentum.

If Obama wins and the dems win a supermajority, there will be major changes to freedoms in our country. First up is the “Fairness Doctrine”. This is where the government forces radio stations to put on liberals the same amount of time as conservatives. That’s unamerican. Let the market place decide. Because talk radio is dominated by conservatives just like the MSM is dominated by the liberals, their voices must be taken down. That is what their objective is afterall. Not to actually give equal time to unprofitable liberal radio voices, but to make radio stations take down conservative shows. That’s what happened in the 70’s when there was a Fairness Doctrine. To keep unprofitable radio off the air, the radio stations just took most political shows off the air. This should disturb more Americans than it is.

 

They will also pass a law to make union elections open-ballot. That means dissenting voices within unions will be known by everyone, especially the “higher ups”. Who is going to go against the strength of their union when they know there will be repercussions since everyone will know who they’re voting for? One of the most liberal people ever, former Sen. George McGovern is doing ads against this law saying it will take away freedoms. The MSM will not voice anything about this proposed law called ironically the “Employee Freedom Choice Act”, because Americans will not let it happen if they knew about it. Luckily for the dems, Americans don’t know about it. To allow unions to have open ballot elections so dissent will be dealt with is not even socialistic or communistic. It’s fascist. Yes, it’s fascist. Just like it’s fascist to shout down people’s speech if you don’t like it ala what we see in our universities. Like making radio stations put on things, no matter what it is on the radio. Like the MSM attacking anyone they see as a threat to their aspirations for “a better America”. Twenty years ago if someone said these things were going to happen in this country, most would think you’re crazy. Yet, here they are staring us right in the face. Not only are Americans going to vote them in, but they don’t even know what is coming after. That’s the scariest thing yet.

My head and heart always felt that America wouldn’t elect Obama because they know nothing about him, and they still don’t. My gut has told me for many months that Obama will win. That feeling became stronger when Obama nominated Joe Biden as his VP. Why? Because of a prophecy I have come to know to be about America and Iraq I discovered about ten years ago. Isaiah 18:1-3 is about our two countries. We are the land shadowing with wings (bald eagle is our symbol) beyond the rivers of Ethiopia. Ethiopia back then was a very big country and mostly in a different place than it is now. It used to be the westernmost country in Africa. If the Bible had a name for this land, it would have said it. Instead all it said was that this land was beyond the rivers of Ethiopia. We are the country that will send our ships swiftly across the sea. More proof of the land the Bible was talking about was a yet to be discovered one. We are the nation that lifted a sign in the mountains with Mount Rushmore, which was finished in 1941. Right when we entered WWII and then became a superpower. It told the world to listen to everything this country says and pay attention to everything this country does after the sign is up. That certainly happened. Iraq is the country that will be meted out and trodden down. They are the people terrible (actual translation is “fearful”) from their beginning. That was code for the Babylonians. Babylon is in Iraq today. They are the ones that will have spoiling rivers with the Euphrates and Tigris. I know traditional teaching says that this prophecy was about something that happened a long time ago, but I just proved beyond a shadow of a doubt it hasn’t happened. The Bible would have named the land in Isaiah 18:1 if this land had a name. Joe Biden just a couple of years ago said he wanted to divide Iraq into three parts. This was thought of as a bad idea, but when things were going terribly in Iraq he came up with this idea. Obama has promised to pull troops out no matter what is said to him by anyone. If things get really bad again after we’re gone, Obama has vowed he would send the troops back. That’s where Biden will come in. Iraq will be divided just as it says in Isaiah 18:2. What will happen to the US is unclear although it will be much worse than 9/11. It says “woe to” America when we send our ambassadors to Iraq after it is divided. Since 9/11 isn’t written anywhere, this will be much worse. No matter how you feel about the warn in Iraq, we were destined to go in. It’s written. It was inescapable. That’s why I told everyone I knew we weren’t done with Iraq ten years ago.

Biden warned America that Obama will be tested within the first six months he takes office. He’s right. What he didn’t say though, or maybe doesn’t know that this test won’t come from one event or country. This entire world will come at America because Obama is seen as weak and appeasing like Chamberlain was. America will be confronted on all fronts by its enemies. What will President Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi do if our enemies take advantage of our supposed weakness? That thought should scare you, but it will happen. This may be a nightmarish scenario that one might find to be impossible, but all of us will live to see these days fulfilled. Christians will be sought out and labeled. This country itself became entranced by someone that spoke well about absolutely nothing and he’s just a human being. Just wait until this world sees a human being with the spirit of Satan inside him. The adoration and zombie-like following he will receive will make Obama look like a stumbling amateur. Strap on your boots and be ready to keep that chin up. Mark my words. We will live to see these days. This may be a nightmarish scenario that one might find to be impossible, but all of us will live to see these days fulfilled.