The scriptures are clear that the Anti-Christ will make war with the saints and overcome them. (Dan. 7:25, Rev. 13:7)
I want to point out how this is likely to occur and how it is already
started. I am not giving a prophecy here. I’m just pointing out some
things.
If you believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, we will not be in
agreement here. I believe the saints will be on Earth till the Lord
returns and we will meet Him in the air at that time, as the scriptures
teach and as the Apostles believed.
Once you toss out that pre-tribulation rapture false teaching. The Word opens up and you start to see Truth.
Understand that Satan is building his kingdom for the Anti-Christ
right now, and has been working on it since he caused Adam and Eve to
fall in the Garden. One of his tools, is the spirit of antichrist spoken
of in First John. (1 John 4:3)
This spirit along with the fallen angels, demons and unclean spirits
have enslaved humanity and used them to build the Luciferian kingdom,
seen the image of Daniel chapter two.
When Jesus died and rose He broke their yoke of power in the spirit,
and the Saints began spreading the Gospel to get people saved before
Jesus Christ’s return.
Satan and his forces have infiltrated every human institution. They
use everything to build his demonic kingdom on Earth to prepare for the
Anti-Christ to come.
In the mean time, the saints have been disrupting this building and saving souls.
The forces of Satan have worked to corrupt the Church, and divide it
and destroy it since it’s inception. But, the people in the Church who
are really saved, have continued to serve Christ through all these
years. Creating new denominations and new ministries, despite
persecution.
Fast forward to today.
The spirit of antichrist has continued to break up churches and
denominations over many things, women as pastors, homosexuals as
pastors, gay marriage, abortion, politics, social concerns, vaccines,
and the treatment of illegal immigrants.
These hot button issues, along with how churches have treated people
in general because of false brethren being in leadership has created an
atmosphere where there are two separate churches.
The Right wing church and the Left wing church. Currently, both are
still united in Christ, because there are many on both sides who still
confess Him as Lord.
But, there is great anger between these two sides. Satan has caused
it. It is simply a divide and conquer strategy. The people in the
various churches have ignored the Word and the Spirit and have let these
things divide them and get them to take their eye off Christ’s true
mission. Saving souls, and helping people. Love conquers all.
The American culture war has been brought into the Church.
So here we are perched on a cliff.
The scriptures say that the saints will be given over to the Anti-Christ to overcome them. (Rev. 13:7)
This is probably what Paul is talking about when He speaks of the restrainer being removed. (2 Thess. 2)
The Holy Spirit will not be removed in a rapture, but will stop
restraining the Anti-Christ. Deception will increase, and the elect
saints will only know the truth because they know the Word and listen to
the Holy Spirit teaching them (1 John 2:27, Matt. 24:24)
That time has been prepared.
The Trump administration has interpreted laws and executive orders in
such a way as to use them to fight against the Communists who seek to
destroy America.
If Trump and the Right lose power and the Left comes to power. Those
same methods could be used against the Right, and the Church.
By executive order churches who have tax exempt status can be forced
to accept things they do not want to accept or lose the exemption. (It
should not be hard to imagine what sorts of things churches would be
forced to accept or do.)
This will require faith to resist and will destroy many churches financially.
Hate speech and disinformation laws could be enacted to silence
preaching and the Gospel or go to jail. It has already been done world
wide.
Homeschooling and religious schooling can be shut down, and kids
forced to go to schools, colleges and universities where they are
brainwashed, to prepare them to accept the Anti-Christ system to come.
The indoctrination is already happening.
The hatred toward the Church can be amped up and certain Christian
groups could be labeled hate groups or even terrorist organizations;
unless the church has a government trained and licensed pastor, and
accepts the things forced on them.
This is similar to what they do in China. They have two churches; the
government sanctioned churches and the illegal underground church. The
government churches have pastors who are licensed and required to report
on church members who show signs of being real Christians, or who do
not support the government. They will be beaten, jailed and killed. The
underground church is hunted.
Along with the rise of the Anti-Christ, will come the False Prophet.
We do not know a lot about this guy, but from what I can tell he will
create a religion that will serve everyone. It will incorporate the
doctrines of all religions. It will answer questions people never knew.
It will be spiritual but also scientifically accurate. But, it will
reject Jesus Christ as Lord. Jesus will be taught. But, He won’t be
considered Lord. They will believe there have been many christs, and
Jesus is one.
People will flock to this religion and many people who have claimed
to be Christian will turn to it as well. This could be the great falling
away. This will be the Apostate Church.
When the Anti-Christ rises up, there will be large amounts of people
in the church who have believed in the Pre-tribulation rapture who will
be shocked. The Anti-Christ is not supposed to rise up yet, they will
say. But, here he is.
Now, so the false teachers can keep their pride they will come up
with some excuse why the rapture hasn’t happened yet. They will claim
the Lord has delayed His coming.
Jesus said “But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord
delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and
maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken”—Luke 12:45
These false brethren will turn back to the world, and join the
Apostate Church and will join in the persecution of the saints when the
Anti-Christ comes.
And the Anti-Christ will allow or sanction persecution of the saints.
As the Lord said “the brother shall deliver up the brother to death,
and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their
parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all
men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be
saved.” (Matt. 10:21-22)
False brethren will betray the saints. Children brainwashed in
government schools will snitch on parents. Fathers will betray kids who
hear about Jesus, to cause them to be put to death.
We see cancel culture on the internet all the time. It will get far worse.
The saints will be forced into hiding, like they do in China and other countries.
The United States is the last country where we are free to preach,
and spread the Gospel. Satan seeks to destroy that freedom, and stop the
Word.
Throughout history Satan and his fallen angels and demons have caused
human suffering. They tempt and twisted and lead humans to sin and
fall. They have caused or twisted every bad thing in history.
It will get worse as the four horsemen do their work. (Rev. 6)
Now, the Anti-Christ will solve all those problems Satan created. The
whole world will run after him. The false prophet will proclaim Him as a
god, sent from above to help us, like many christs before.
And the Apostate Church who have joined with the False Prophet’s
religion will agree and worship the Anti-Christ, and will receive the
Mark. (Rev. 13)
While the Saints are in hiding, being murdered and tortured. Starving
and suffering because they reject the Mark and cannot buy or sell
anything.
The Mark will probably be connected to ID, Bank Accounts, Medical
Records, Criminal Records, and not having the Mark will destroy a person
and make them “illegal”.
Consider what happened during Covid when the government demanded
people take the vaccine or get fired. Remember, how many businesses and
companies agreed globally. That was a test by the Luciferian forces.
Do not be deceived. The time is drawing close.
And the saints will be wore out, and overcome.
I do not say defeated, because we have victory in Christ. Jesus does not allow us to be defeated.
Then, the Lord comes and destroys the False Prophet and Anti-Christ. He sets up His kingdom on Earth.
And this is when the false brethren will come out to meet Him with no oil. (Matt. 25)
They will have buried their gift in a napkin. (Luke 19:12-27)
They will say “Lord Lord, have we not done wonderful works?” and be told to depart because they never knew Him. (Matt. 7:21-23)
They will be sent into darkness, because they refused to help the least of these Christ’s brethren. (Matt. 25)
Probably during the persecution, and because these false brethren
never had the Holy Spirit, so never really served Christ at all despite
the works they did. They never really confessed Him as Lord.
The time is drawing near.
Turn to the Lord and ask Him to save you. Give yourself to Him fully
and trust Him to save you. Not because you obey this rule or do this
work, but because He promises to. (Rom. 10:9-10)
Turn to God and ask Him to save you. Confess Jesus is the Lord, and
believe God raised Him from the dead. Get baptized. Take communion. Read
and study God’s Word. Let the Holy Spirit guide you.
You can see the direction things are going.
Do not be caught on the wrong side of the fence. When the time of
deception comes, it will be harder and harder to discern the truth and
turn to God.
Eventually the door will be shut, and there will be time no more.
Grace and salvation will end. Just like when God shut the door on Noah’s
Ark. Just like when the angels shut Lot’s door, and struck those
outside blind. (Gen. 7:16, Gen 19:10-11)
There will be a point when the good news of the Gospel is over, and the bad news comes.
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