Churchwork
12-27-2006, 04:31 AM
With the advent of the first rapture and acknowledging the disappearance of millions of people included in the first rapture, and the world miraculously recovering from virtual total annihilation, the Antichrist proclaims himself to be God our creator.
Saved from the brink of war will be a miraculous event. It will be because of something like Islam firing chemical weapons into Israel and Israel retaliates with a nuclear weapon against the capital of Iran. Then all the nations move to the middle east to protect their oil interests. Maybe the miraculous event through God's mercy is the disappearance of all the nuclear weapons on the planet. Perhaps they were all fired simultaneously in an immediate chain reaction by mankind, but as the warheads were flying overhead, they disappeared. Man is so dull in his spirit all around the globe, he thinks nothing at all at pushing the button, for no other option is feasible once someone starts it off. Every other nations just reacts.
The Antichrist claims he did it, that he is the one that made all the nuclear weapons disappear (or some similar miracle). He claims to be God and that Jesus was a very cunning imposter, who could not form the sudden peace he now establishes. The Antichrist claims to be that peacemaker with this amazing treaty between Israel and Islam for 7 years. Israel accepts him because they believe he is their long awaited Messiah. They never had accepted Jesus as the Messiah. People are overcome by a new love. It is ecstatic. The Antichrist says he gave you the knowledge of him in your soul to do amazing things and you will be gods; and now that he is here, great things will be accomplished in this millennial kingdom of love and peace. The most appealing thing of all to the masses in the backdrop of this peace is the idea that God does not want you to know you can attain godhood. But through the false Messiah, he professes you can have it by circumventing God's will just like Eve ate of the forbidden fruit. If you eat of this fruit what this false Christ is offering (power) you can become like God. The Christians who were not ready yet to be received at the first rapture will be those who speak against this fraud.
The Antichrist is claiming he did the things that God miraculously did such as causing the vanishing of all the nuclear weapons on the planet and removing people from the planet deemed to be haters: the tares. He makes it very logical why Christians needed to be removed from the face of the Earth. The Antichrist also claims there is still a remnant of some haters left who speak against him. People longing for a reason to reject the Bible, find the reason to speak up against Christians. The martyrdom of Christians increases: we refuse to renounce Christ. We become this fantastic threat to what the world perceives as amazing peace taking shape everywhere. All wars had stopped, while believers keep saying it is a lie. Crimes will be committed but Christians will be setup for those crimes. Evidence will be planted on us to promote us as haters. We will be made to feel guilty for not taking the mark. People will look at us oddly as though we are haters against the unification of the world's peace.
The Antichrist has the crazy idea that if all Christians can be annihilated, Christ will have no reason to return. In order to annihilate people who don't take the mark of the beast, which was voluntary initially, later becomes forced on people to prevent them from being able to buy or sell. More than that though, if they refuse the mark, it later causes death. Even at the return of Christ there will still be some Christians who are "alive" and "left" who were not raptured at the first rapture, nor were martyred during the Tribulation. They refused the mark, could not buy or sell, and had not yet been put into that situation that would cause them to die for refusing the mark. Amazing stuff eh?
It is all about one side verses the other, and every type of person in between. The spiritual warfare is escalating and will come head to head in the showdown of the Great Tribulation. Through the mark you will be tested on whether you want that fruit of temptation and power and other desires of yours to be fulfilled, or if you place Christ first in your life. Christians will already respond one way, but those who are wishy washy, the liberal and nominal Christians could go either way since they are not saved yet, not having yet been born again, so they are not true Christians. Satan only wants to do one thing really, to kill the people of God. If he can't have victory at least he can have this, to take souls with him to Hell. Every soul he wins over, God loses. This is Satan's great accomplishment and what gives him such great pleasure.
Deep down inside he knows he is going to hell. He knows his time is short. When the first rapture takes place there is only 7 years left. Satan the Restrainer stops holding the Antichrist back, and lets him perform great deception. His appeal to people is that people think that he figured out God's secret for you to be a god and unleash your divine powers, which God prevents you from having. This is called trying to access the latent power of the soul which means that before man fell, he was giving great responsibility to rule over the whole earth. But, when man fell, he lost his rights, but through the latent power of the soul, man tries to reclaim that latent ability; but in so doing, evil manifests because it is against God's will. Man was locked out of the garden of Eden and still is locked out. But the False Prophet teaches Satan can only give it to you if you show your allegiance to the Antichrist.
The great psychosis of the unholy trinity is this: Satan thinks (with the Antichrist and False Prophet) that every soul lost to God is a great victory to spend an eternity with him in Hell, and the more he can get, the greater the victory. Isn't he delusional? He doesn't mind at all he is going to spend an eternity in hell. He has hardened himself for so long, it is no big deal to him. He can weather eternal separation from God. So the objective is to simply get more people to follow him, for what else is there for him to do since he will never repent. Perhaps if he can get enough, he can push out of Hell with his army of pawns. His decision to fall from grace was an eternal one and he knew the consequences. That he can even get one person to follow him gives him great pleasure, but billions and billions is even better he thinks.
Satan's ultimate delusion and his irrevocable sin was to think that he is just like God. The point of the mark is that it is the climax of the test for our will in this dispensation. Satan wants to kill every last soul on earth so that none remain except those who follow him explicitly. I truly believe this is what the Devil wants. Many who say they are Christians in actuality will be too weak to die for their faith. Some who are not Christians will make a last minute split decision for God and be saved. But would you want to risk a last minute split second decision or have the confidence now you can endure anything Satan throws your way? Once you realize you can handle anything in life Satan throws your way, do you realize what joy that is and how powerful that is? It is the very power of God's uncreated life to walk by the Holy Spirit in your spirit with the ability to know God. This is grace for God to give us His indwelling Holy Spirit is to endure trials and tribulations.
The temple in Jerusalem begins to be built which will take about eight to nine months to finish. For the first three and a half years of the treaty and world peace, people don't die in great amounts. However, the earth is damaged in the first 4 trumpets of the 7 year Tribulation because God is using nature to show His wrath. But then the Antichrist breaks the treaty and the Great Tribulation begins. The first woe of the Great Tribulation hurts people but doesn't kill them; it is connected to the mark of the beast. This lasts 5 months. Then the 2nd woe occurs which lasts 13 months and the mark is forced on people in great numbers. Then the 7th trumpet rapture of the saints take place: both those who are asleep since Adam and who are "alive" and "left" who were not raptured at the first rapture. 1/3 of the people of the Earth die (Rev. 9.18) and armies amass over 200 million machines in the middle east. Is it not ironic, even though all the nuclear weapons are gone, that man still manages to almost destroy himself anyway? That's why the Bible says, if Christ does not return in Person we would all destroy ourselves.
It is important to understand how this all began. Remember, Islam does something to Israel and Israel reacts with mighty force to defend itself. But we have to ask the question, what finally got Islam to be so bold to do what they did which they have not had the will to act out before? It is because Christianity is getting so organized according to Biblical locality that Islam sees this as a fantastic threat, so they take it out on the little brother, Israel. And since religion is blamed as being the cause of hate, all Bibles are burned and banned as well as the Koran and other significant religious texts.
What's amazing to me in all this is many people I know will take the mark of the beast, and they will value this world leader. I have asked them even many who falsely call themselves Christians say it would be easier for shopping purposes, especially at Christmas. I have no idea how they could think like this, but that is what it means to be on the other side still not being saved. I suppose I would have been just as oblivious before I was saved because my spirit was dead to God and had not yet been quickened by the Holy Spirit to be sensitive to things of God and His will.
The Antichrist and His fallen angels seek to unit mankind against God in the unity of the tower of babel. God broke this unity by giving many different languages to confound mankind. It is another way of saying, you are moving too fast for your own good. Slow down or you will hurt yourself. The Antichrist believes if he can cause the unification of mankind, this is powerful enough to defeat God and rise above him or at least on his same level. The Antichrist (666 is the number of Neron Kaisar in Aramaic, telling us that he is going to be resurrected) is insane!
The most dangerous time the world has ever seen will happen (Jer. 30): "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" (v.7). "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be" (Matt. 24.21).
99% of the world still don't believe in God. They believe in a god, but not THE God. Many even believe there is a creator, but they don't accept THE Creator. For you to know this is true, record the next 100 people you talk to and ask them these seven questions to have fairly good confidence whether they are saved or not (observing their fruit and sincerity of their answers):
1) Do you believe Jesus is literally God who died for you on the cross and was resurrected physically?
2) God is defined as the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit: the 3 Persons are co-eternal and of one substance?
3) Do you believe you will be resurrected from the grave to meet the Lord in the air?
4) Do you try to read the Bible at least one chapter every day and feel uneasy when you don't?
5) Do you believe you have eternal consciousness to be with God to live forever, but the unsaved will have eternal consciousness in hell forever? (i.e., There is no such thing as annihilation of your soul and spirit.)
6) Do you believe the Great Tribulation is coming, the Antichrist will rule the world for no more than 7 years, but will kill 1/3 of the people of the earth and force the mark of the beast onto people that causes you to have no more opportunity to be saved? (Remember, God's grace has for a very long time been warning us this will happen one day.)
7) Do you believe Jesus will return in Person and step down, just like He was raised up bodily, to rule on earth for 1000 years (a large length of time) before the Earth is burnt up?
Remember, we can't be confident someone is always a Christian just because they say they are. That would be overassuming, so let these questions test their humility in their response. They may not know the answer, but if they are humble in their response saying they are unsure, but accepting Christ, they could be saved. But if any speak against these truths adamantly, you know they are not Christians.
People today seem very committed to their idea already that it makes it almost impossible to change. It seems like that commitment to being unsaved forever is like the mark of the beast. It is not much of a leap from wanting to remain unsaved today to taking the mark of the beast to prevent any opportunity of being saved. Today, the Bible shows us that nobody can blaspheme the Holy Spirit. In other words, they still can be saved. Blaspheming to prevent any future opportunity of salvation only was the case when Christ was on Earth and various other conditions were required to blaspheme the Holy Spirit right to Jesus' face. This explains why when the angels fall, there is no redemption for them by the precious blood or any other means. It is an eternal choice they are making. They have blasphemed the Holy Spirit, because they are in the presence of God and still reject Him.
For the first time in history the image of the beast is possible through computer programming. "And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast [Antichrist]; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast [Antichrist], which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast [Antichrist], that the image of the beast [Antichrist] should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast [Antichrist] should be killed" (Rev. 13.15,16).
Imagine a person dying, but being reanimated in a computer program, convincingly enough in the way characters in computer games are going; but, rendering a the human image so clear who could speak so well, people could not tell the difference between the real and the image programmed.
I think what happens to people, why they don't get saved, is because they are so arrogant and strong and proud of their capabilities, they think nothing can stop them. They can even overcome God. So Lucifer convinces them either consciously or subconsciously that God casted Satan out of heaven because God was afraid of what Lucifer realized, that Lucifer could now overcome God's control of him. It's not true, but that is what that crazy psychopath Satan believes. Even so, Satan does know he is going to hell. He knows he is not beyond God's control to put him in Hell forever, so he must be thinking that he can escape God's control when he goes to Hell. But in the meantime, he is mustering his army of gaining every last soul he possibly can to bring to Hell with him. Satan seems like he can't wait to get to Hell as though there are new opportunities for him there.
Satan thinks he is in control, but he is not. He still has to go to that place of Hell which he can never leave. Forever, he will be cut off from God there. Why is the mark such an amazing point of division? It is because anyone who looks back on this eternal choice will be glad they didn't choose it. They will appreciate how wonderful it was to refuse the mark in their hearts. And though not everyone will be raptured, because not everyone was in the body of Christ or an Old Testament saint, there are still the nations of peoples on Earth. They will be transferred livingly into the millennial kingdom when Christ reigns in Person on Earth. When Christ is reigning on Earth, the people of the nations will still need to believe individually to be saved, for the church has passed. There is no more baptism into the church, because the the dispensation of the church will have passed. The bride has become the wife to reign with Christ in the millennium over the nations. Some who are saved will receive this reward and return with Christ.
No matter what happens before the millennium, most people will not change their minds about the Antichrist. They will cling to him. If people expose him as a fraud, the masses will rationalize in their mind his goodness. This shows how perverse the deception is. God will be put on trial. The whole world will be watching which implicates all Christians. All the while, Christians will be starving to death, because they don't have the mark of the beast.
What causes the uniting of mankind under the Antichrist is the focus on this one man, and all previous beliefs are forsaken because his miracles are so convincing. He must be what he says he is: the one who will give us our own divinity, for if he himself performs such acts, how could he not give the same to us as he promises? And thereby, non-believers shall usurp God's requirement for salvation in Christ.
People believe in what they see. During what they call the Christian era which we call the dispensation of grace, there was constant wars and rumors of wars, ethnic cleansing and no possibility of peace. What the Antichrist does in a few short years, the Antichrist says God could not ever do. Military has nothing to do during the peace of the Antichrist. But what is the real reason behind this? People actually fear what will happen to them and their nation if they do rise up against Satan, because they know the powers the Antichrist can perform over them such as making things vanish as well as mass murder if necessary to deal with any haters.
The power Lucifer keeps saying is in you, not outside you like God who is outside of creation. Actually though God is everywhere in reality. He is omnipresent. Just because you can't see Him with your own two eyes does not mean He is not operating right next to you, on you, about you and inside you. The power that Lucifer says that is inside you is the power he wants you to access, because in your spirit is the evil spirit due to the fall which is closely united to the latent power of the soul and will use it unethically. In fact, God says don't go there at all! Wait upon the leading of the Holy Spirit in your spirit once saved!
Satan will tell you that he is not going to bring you a new heaven and a new earth tomorrow, but heaven on earth today. Did you know God says He is going to bring heaven together with earth in the new earth and new city? Satan tries to copy everything God offers, but does it in such a way so as to cause you to still reject Christ. Isn't that an amazing power? Isn't that the most evil power that has ever existed or ever will exist? Jesus died on the cross for you, for your sins. He was murdered because of man's jealousy. Satan says God is jealous of Lucifer's popularity. People don't like to be called sinners, so Lucifer doesn't call people sinners, but God does. Which is reality?
For me I know the Holy Spirit calls me to fight against this liars plans, and never stop the good fight. It is strange because the deeper you grow in Christ, the more you can't even sense what it is to be a pawn of Satan that so many are. May the truth continues to be told, for the truth shall set you free. The world grows into fear of the Lucifer's powers. It is not a reverent fear of God, but a scarred feeling of Lucifer's wrath. It grows colder and people become numb more so day by day. It is their crutch so they don't have to feel love without strings attached.
It is amazing how unified the world can be against Christ when they put their minds to it. But thing about it. When this climax of hate happens which they call love, Christ returns and the human race will never return to such a grand deception ever again. It is the greatest lesson that only Christ can reign; no angel and no man. You are either for Christ or against Him; nothing in between. Of the millions of angels, and the eldest angels of the universe-the 24 archangels (Rev. 4)-, none of them qualify to rule either. God says the angels will be under the authority of God's sons and daughters when He returns. Their work was to assist men and women who would receive His Son. This is the purpose of the angels.
Just as Israel will never accept their Messiah until He returns in Person to reign from Jerusalem when He saves the world from Satan's unleashed destruction, similarly, the world will give true Christians no value either until they are raptured and overcomer believers return with Christ to reign over the world. God says Christians have authority, but the world does not recognize us; but that reward will be given in His kingdom. I think this is important for Christians to realize this because we are sojourners today just passing through. We can not succeed in terms of the world's determination of success because our conscience convicts us not to do the many things that are required in the world to get ahead. All we can really expect is to be brought down to the lowest places, but still we have joy and peace. We will be taken advantage of and abused, but still we are comforted by the eternal promise that is before us. This is authentic life. It is the life Jesus lived. The lesson here is, if you walk by the spirit to the glory of God, don't be dejected, for it is expected the there are consequence for being in the truth in a system run by Satan whom is the god of this world.
Isn't it amazing? Stand a Christian next to any unsaved person. Just sense and feel their disposition. Let your intuition sense it. If you had to spend 30 years on an island with one or the other, who would it be? Who is a better person that would give peace instead of disturb you with their antics? It is always the Christian who is of good conscience, for there is something deep down inside us we are attracted to in each other. What is it? It is the Comforter-the Holy Spirit! Who indwells the quickened sensitive spirit.
People can't trust a book almost 2000 years ago that was well documented and comprehensively of eternal religio-historical importance. They can't trust the eyewitness accounts of men who ran from Christ, but when they saw Him resurrected they received Him, preached His resurrection and went to their martyrdom for it. Can you imagine any scenario where people would be so unethical to preach they saw Jesus resurrected knowingly lying about it? I can tell you right now, if the apostles were liars, they are the most evil men that ever lived for fabricating such a horrendous lie. But if they really did see Jesus resurrected, then they have a heavy burden to bear.
Have cult leaders in the past made false claims about seeing a resurrected savior? No. However there have been claims of seeing things like golden plates, for example (I am using Mormons as a proxy for other religions). Were they martyred for it? Yes. But where do you find in history multiple attestation like we have in the Bible?: 11 different group sizes of 11 different settings seeing Jesus resurrected. One time 500 people together saw Jesus resurrected. People would surely have spoken up against it if Paul lied about it, because Paul said many of those people were still alive which included most of the apostles (including female apostles) and the women noted in the Bible who saw Jesus resurrected.
All the apostles remained faithful. Can we say the same of those who said they saw golden plates, which says nothing of its content and is not the resurrected Jesus who could eat, speak and the apostles touched? Apparently 6 of those 11 eyewitnesses of golden plates left that cult, but the 12 Biblical apostles remained faithful. Christianity always wins with truth! They eyewitness testimony included Paul's testimony, John's, Peter's and James. Peter and John spent three and a half years with Jesus in His ministry. James grew up with his brother Jesus. Paul met with James and Peter; that is a certainty as Paul expresses this fact exceedingly plainly, and they met more than once over the years.
John wrote his books of the New Testament, Peter wrote his, James the brother of Jesus wrote his, and Matthew wrote his portion. Jude, brother of Jesus, wrote his testimony. There is no reason to think otherwise. Accusers say all these books were made up. How can so many people be lying then give their lives for that eyewitness testimony? It truly would be the greatest lie ever told and the most insane lot of people! But where is the evidence for any foul play or insanity?
God loves your faith towards Him. Since nothing in creation happens all by itself, know therefore the uncreated created. We have just proven the cause of nature is uncaused. Know it. That is the evidence God exists. Jesus shows forth the love of the Father. People usually don't deny Jesus existed or died, but they do deny He is God. Jesus definitely said He is God in many different ways. So if Jesus is not God, he is a most deceitful and vile man. A Christian looks at all this information and makes a choice. Is it worth being wrong? Yes. Why? Because Jesus said He is God, lived it like no man ever could. He walked the walk and talked the talk. Those who followed Him do the same. When we peruse all the information in the world, we see these people called Christians have a countenance about them that is of the most sound mind and body, clearness and clarity of conscience. Who can deny this? This is what I stand for, my brothers and sisters in Christ, and I would give my life to any Christian, because I know I will spend an eternity with them. A few decades in this body is nothing compared to the backdrop of 13.7 billion years. If I am broke and my back is against the wall, it really is of no account.
Why is it that nobody is willing to die for the Antichrist, the coming world leader, but Christians are willing to die for Christ because He died for us? There is something inherently selfish in Satan and everyone else who are not for Christ. They are selfish people-so selfish in fact, they have the gall to call Jesus a liar even though He is more than amply testified by His apostles. He is more of a man than any man could ever be!
What if Jesus conquered death through His love for us? If this Earth is going to pass away, then by simple belief you can have an eternal paradise with Him and His sons and daughters. Non-Christians don't like the peace they have created for themselves because it is uprooted by the peace Christians can display. So the non-Christians get jealous, agitated, losing that feeling self-exaltation in their self-generated peace, which is bound to crumble sooner or later. So they react by attacking Christians. This has always been the reaction of the non-believer. Take for example Islam. They reject Christ adamantly as being God. Consequently, they are getting harder and harder. I think we all witness to this fact, for they have no appreciation of life with the ultimate expression of their faith as suicide mass-murderers, the hate they have towards Israel wanting to wipe it off the face of the Earth, and the plan to take over the world by any means with the coming of the 12th Iman. This requires the greatest holocaust the world has ever seen which Satan is counting on.
Saved from the brink of war will be a miraculous event. It will be because of something like Islam firing chemical weapons into Israel and Israel retaliates with a nuclear weapon against the capital of Iran. Then all the nations move to the middle east to protect their oil interests. Maybe the miraculous event through God's mercy is the disappearance of all the nuclear weapons on the planet. Perhaps they were all fired simultaneously in an immediate chain reaction by mankind, but as the warheads were flying overhead, they disappeared. Man is so dull in his spirit all around the globe, he thinks nothing at all at pushing the button, for no other option is feasible once someone starts it off. Every other nations just reacts.
The Antichrist claims he did it, that he is the one that made all the nuclear weapons disappear (or some similar miracle). He claims to be God and that Jesus was a very cunning imposter, who could not form the sudden peace he now establishes. The Antichrist claims to be that peacemaker with this amazing treaty between Israel and Islam for 7 years. Israel accepts him because they believe he is their long awaited Messiah. They never had accepted Jesus as the Messiah. People are overcome by a new love. It is ecstatic. The Antichrist says he gave you the knowledge of him in your soul to do amazing things and you will be gods; and now that he is here, great things will be accomplished in this millennial kingdom of love and peace. The most appealing thing of all to the masses in the backdrop of this peace is the idea that God does not want you to know you can attain godhood. But through the false Messiah, he professes you can have it by circumventing God's will just like Eve ate of the forbidden fruit. If you eat of this fruit what this false Christ is offering (power) you can become like God. The Christians who were not ready yet to be received at the first rapture will be those who speak against this fraud.
The Antichrist is claiming he did the things that God miraculously did such as causing the vanishing of all the nuclear weapons on the planet and removing people from the planet deemed to be haters: the tares. He makes it very logical why Christians needed to be removed from the face of the Earth. The Antichrist also claims there is still a remnant of some haters left who speak against him. People longing for a reason to reject the Bible, find the reason to speak up against Christians. The martyrdom of Christians increases: we refuse to renounce Christ. We become this fantastic threat to what the world perceives as amazing peace taking shape everywhere. All wars had stopped, while believers keep saying it is a lie. Crimes will be committed but Christians will be setup for those crimes. Evidence will be planted on us to promote us as haters. We will be made to feel guilty for not taking the mark. People will look at us oddly as though we are haters against the unification of the world's peace.
The Antichrist has the crazy idea that if all Christians can be annihilated, Christ will have no reason to return. In order to annihilate people who don't take the mark of the beast, which was voluntary initially, later becomes forced on people to prevent them from being able to buy or sell. More than that though, if they refuse the mark, it later causes death. Even at the return of Christ there will still be some Christians who are "alive" and "left" who were not raptured at the first rapture, nor were martyred during the Tribulation. They refused the mark, could not buy or sell, and had not yet been put into that situation that would cause them to die for refusing the mark. Amazing stuff eh?
It is all about one side verses the other, and every type of person in between. The spiritual warfare is escalating and will come head to head in the showdown of the Great Tribulation. Through the mark you will be tested on whether you want that fruit of temptation and power and other desires of yours to be fulfilled, or if you place Christ first in your life. Christians will already respond one way, but those who are wishy washy, the liberal and nominal Christians could go either way since they are not saved yet, not having yet been born again, so they are not true Christians. Satan only wants to do one thing really, to kill the people of God. If he can't have victory at least he can have this, to take souls with him to Hell. Every soul he wins over, God loses. This is Satan's great accomplishment and what gives him such great pleasure.
Deep down inside he knows he is going to hell. He knows his time is short. When the first rapture takes place there is only 7 years left. Satan the Restrainer stops holding the Antichrist back, and lets him perform great deception. His appeal to people is that people think that he figured out God's secret for you to be a god and unleash your divine powers, which God prevents you from having. This is called trying to access the latent power of the soul which means that before man fell, he was giving great responsibility to rule over the whole earth. But, when man fell, he lost his rights, but through the latent power of the soul, man tries to reclaim that latent ability; but in so doing, evil manifests because it is against God's will. Man was locked out of the garden of Eden and still is locked out. But the False Prophet teaches Satan can only give it to you if you show your allegiance to the Antichrist.
The great psychosis of the unholy trinity is this: Satan thinks (with the Antichrist and False Prophet) that every soul lost to God is a great victory to spend an eternity with him in Hell, and the more he can get, the greater the victory. Isn't he delusional? He doesn't mind at all he is going to spend an eternity in hell. He has hardened himself for so long, it is no big deal to him. He can weather eternal separation from God. So the objective is to simply get more people to follow him, for what else is there for him to do since he will never repent. Perhaps if he can get enough, he can push out of Hell with his army of pawns. His decision to fall from grace was an eternal one and he knew the consequences. That he can even get one person to follow him gives him great pleasure, but billions and billions is even better he thinks.
Satan's ultimate delusion and his irrevocable sin was to think that he is just like God. The point of the mark is that it is the climax of the test for our will in this dispensation. Satan wants to kill every last soul on earth so that none remain except those who follow him explicitly. I truly believe this is what the Devil wants. Many who say they are Christians in actuality will be too weak to die for their faith. Some who are not Christians will make a last minute split decision for God and be saved. But would you want to risk a last minute split second decision or have the confidence now you can endure anything Satan throws your way? Once you realize you can handle anything in life Satan throws your way, do you realize what joy that is and how powerful that is? It is the very power of God's uncreated life to walk by the Holy Spirit in your spirit with the ability to know God. This is grace for God to give us His indwelling Holy Spirit is to endure trials and tribulations.
The temple in Jerusalem begins to be built which will take about eight to nine months to finish. For the first three and a half years of the treaty and world peace, people don't die in great amounts. However, the earth is damaged in the first 4 trumpets of the 7 year Tribulation because God is using nature to show His wrath. But then the Antichrist breaks the treaty and the Great Tribulation begins. The first woe of the Great Tribulation hurts people but doesn't kill them; it is connected to the mark of the beast. This lasts 5 months. Then the 2nd woe occurs which lasts 13 months and the mark is forced on people in great numbers. Then the 7th trumpet rapture of the saints take place: both those who are asleep since Adam and who are "alive" and "left" who were not raptured at the first rapture. 1/3 of the people of the Earth die (Rev. 9.18) and armies amass over 200 million machines in the middle east. Is it not ironic, even though all the nuclear weapons are gone, that man still manages to almost destroy himself anyway? That's why the Bible says, if Christ does not return in Person we would all destroy ourselves.
It is important to understand how this all began. Remember, Islam does something to Israel and Israel reacts with mighty force to defend itself. But we have to ask the question, what finally got Islam to be so bold to do what they did which they have not had the will to act out before? It is because Christianity is getting so organized according to Biblical locality that Islam sees this as a fantastic threat, so they take it out on the little brother, Israel. And since religion is blamed as being the cause of hate, all Bibles are burned and banned as well as the Koran and other significant religious texts.
What's amazing to me in all this is many people I know will take the mark of the beast, and they will value this world leader. I have asked them even many who falsely call themselves Christians say it would be easier for shopping purposes, especially at Christmas. I have no idea how they could think like this, but that is what it means to be on the other side still not being saved. I suppose I would have been just as oblivious before I was saved because my spirit was dead to God and had not yet been quickened by the Holy Spirit to be sensitive to things of God and His will.
The Antichrist and His fallen angels seek to unit mankind against God in the unity of the tower of babel. God broke this unity by giving many different languages to confound mankind. It is another way of saying, you are moving too fast for your own good. Slow down or you will hurt yourself. The Antichrist believes if he can cause the unification of mankind, this is powerful enough to defeat God and rise above him or at least on his same level. The Antichrist (666 is the number of Neron Kaisar in Aramaic, telling us that he is going to be resurrected) is insane!
The most dangerous time the world has ever seen will happen (Jer. 30): "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" (v.7). "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be" (Matt. 24.21).
99% of the world still don't believe in God. They believe in a god, but not THE God. Many even believe there is a creator, but they don't accept THE Creator. For you to know this is true, record the next 100 people you talk to and ask them these seven questions to have fairly good confidence whether they are saved or not (observing their fruit and sincerity of their answers):
1) Do you believe Jesus is literally God who died for you on the cross and was resurrected physically?
2) God is defined as the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit: the 3 Persons are co-eternal and of one substance?
3) Do you believe you will be resurrected from the grave to meet the Lord in the air?
4) Do you try to read the Bible at least one chapter every day and feel uneasy when you don't?
5) Do you believe you have eternal consciousness to be with God to live forever, but the unsaved will have eternal consciousness in hell forever? (i.e., There is no such thing as annihilation of your soul and spirit.)
6) Do you believe the Great Tribulation is coming, the Antichrist will rule the world for no more than 7 years, but will kill 1/3 of the people of the earth and force the mark of the beast onto people that causes you to have no more opportunity to be saved? (Remember, God's grace has for a very long time been warning us this will happen one day.)
7) Do you believe Jesus will return in Person and step down, just like He was raised up bodily, to rule on earth for 1000 years (a large length of time) before the Earth is burnt up?
Remember, we can't be confident someone is always a Christian just because they say they are. That would be overassuming, so let these questions test their humility in their response. They may not know the answer, but if they are humble in their response saying they are unsure, but accepting Christ, they could be saved. But if any speak against these truths adamantly, you know they are not Christians.
People today seem very committed to their idea already that it makes it almost impossible to change. It seems like that commitment to being unsaved forever is like the mark of the beast. It is not much of a leap from wanting to remain unsaved today to taking the mark of the beast to prevent any opportunity of being saved. Today, the Bible shows us that nobody can blaspheme the Holy Spirit. In other words, they still can be saved. Blaspheming to prevent any future opportunity of salvation only was the case when Christ was on Earth and various other conditions were required to blaspheme the Holy Spirit right to Jesus' face. This explains why when the angels fall, there is no redemption for them by the precious blood or any other means. It is an eternal choice they are making. They have blasphemed the Holy Spirit, because they are in the presence of God and still reject Him.
For the first time in history the image of the beast is possible through computer programming. "And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast [Antichrist]; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast [Antichrist], which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast [Antichrist], that the image of the beast [Antichrist] should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast [Antichrist] should be killed" (Rev. 13.15,16).
Imagine a person dying, but being reanimated in a computer program, convincingly enough in the way characters in computer games are going; but, rendering a the human image so clear who could speak so well, people could not tell the difference between the real and the image programmed.
I think what happens to people, why they don't get saved, is because they are so arrogant and strong and proud of their capabilities, they think nothing can stop them. They can even overcome God. So Lucifer convinces them either consciously or subconsciously that God casted Satan out of heaven because God was afraid of what Lucifer realized, that Lucifer could now overcome God's control of him. It's not true, but that is what that crazy psychopath Satan believes. Even so, Satan does know he is going to hell. He knows he is not beyond God's control to put him in Hell forever, so he must be thinking that he can escape God's control when he goes to Hell. But in the meantime, he is mustering his army of gaining every last soul he possibly can to bring to Hell with him. Satan seems like he can't wait to get to Hell as though there are new opportunities for him there.
Satan thinks he is in control, but he is not. He still has to go to that place of Hell which he can never leave. Forever, he will be cut off from God there. Why is the mark such an amazing point of division? It is because anyone who looks back on this eternal choice will be glad they didn't choose it. They will appreciate how wonderful it was to refuse the mark in their hearts. And though not everyone will be raptured, because not everyone was in the body of Christ or an Old Testament saint, there are still the nations of peoples on Earth. They will be transferred livingly into the millennial kingdom when Christ reigns in Person on Earth. When Christ is reigning on Earth, the people of the nations will still need to believe individually to be saved, for the church has passed. There is no more baptism into the church, because the the dispensation of the church will have passed. The bride has become the wife to reign with Christ in the millennium over the nations. Some who are saved will receive this reward and return with Christ.
No matter what happens before the millennium, most people will not change their minds about the Antichrist. They will cling to him. If people expose him as a fraud, the masses will rationalize in their mind his goodness. This shows how perverse the deception is. God will be put on trial. The whole world will be watching which implicates all Christians. All the while, Christians will be starving to death, because they don't have the mark of the beast.
What causes the uniting of mankind under the Antichrist is the focus on this one man, and all previous beliefs are forsaken because his miracles are so convincing. He must be what he says he is: the one who will give us our own divinity, for if he himself performs such acts, how could he not give the same to us as he promises? And thereby, non-believers shall usurp God's requirement for salvation in Christ.
People believe in what they see. During what they call the Christian era which we call the dispensation of grace, there was constant wars and rumors of wars, ethnic cleansing and no possibility of peace. What the Antichrist does in a few short years, the Antichrist says God could not ever do. Military has nothing to do during the peace of the Antichrist. But what is the real reason behind this? People actually fear what will happen to them and their nation if they do rise up against Satan, because they know the powers the Antichrist can perform over them such as making things vanish as well as mass murder if necessary to deal with any haters.
The power Lucifer keeps saying is in you, not outside you like God who is outside of creation. Actually though God is everywhere in reality. He is omnipresent. Just because you can't see Him with your own two eyes does not mean He is not operating right next to you, on you, about you and inside you. The power that Lucifer says that is inside you is the power he wants you to access, because in your spirit is the evil spirit due to the fall which is closely united to the latent power of the soul and will use it unethically. In fact, God says don't go there at all! Wait upon the leading of the Holy Spirit in your spirit once saved!
Satan will tell you that he is not going to bring you a new heaven and a new earth tomorrow, but heaven on earth today. Did you know God says He is going to bring heaven together with earth in the new earth and new city? Satan tries to copy everything God offers, but does it in such a way so as to cause you to still reject Christ. Isn't that an amazing power? Isn't that the most evil power that has ever existed or ever will exist? Jesus died on the cross for you, for your sins. He was murdered because of man's jealousy. Satan says God is jealous of Lucifer's popularity. People don't like to be called sinners, so Lucifer doesn't call people sinners, but God does. Which is reality?
For me I know the Holy Spirit calls me to fight against this liars plans, and never stop the good fight. It is strange because the deeper you grow in Christ, the more you can't even sense what it is to be a pawn of Satan that so many are. May the truth continues to be told, for the truth shall set you free. The world grows into fear of the Lucifer's powers. It is not a reverent fear of God, but a scarred feeling of Lucifer's wrath. It grows colder and people become numb more so day by day. It is their crutch so they don't have to feel love without strings attached.
It is amazing how unified the world can be against Christ when they put their minds to it. But thing about it. When this climax of hate happens which they call love, Christ returns and the human race will never return to such a grand deception ever again. It is the greatest lesson that only Christ can reign; no angel and no man. You are either for Christ or against Him; nothing in between. Of the millions of angels, and the eldest angels of the universe-the 24 archangels (Rev. 4)-, none of them qualify to rule either. God says the angels will be under the authority of God's sons and daughters when He returns. Their work was to assist men and women who would receive His Son. This is the purpose of the angels.
Just as Israel will never accept their Messiah until He returns in Person to reign from Jerusalem when He saves the world from Satan's unleashed destruction, similarly, the world will give true Christians no value either until they are raptured and overcomer believers return with Christ to reign over the world. God says Christians have authority, but the world does not recognize us; but that reward will be given in His kingdom. I think this is important for Christians to realize this because we are sojourners today just passing through. We can not succeed in terms of the world's determination of success because our conscience convicts us not to do the many things that are required in the world to get ahead. All we can really expect is to be brought down to the lowest places, but still we have joy and peace. We will be taken advantage of and abused, but still we are comforted by the eternal promise that is before us. This is authentic life. It is the life Jesus lived. The lesson here is, if you walk by the spirit to the glory of God, don't be dejected, for it is expected the there are consequence for being in the truth in a system run by Satan whom is the god of this world.
Isn't it amazing? Stand a Christian next to any unsaved person. Just sense and feel their disposition. Let your intuition sense it. If you had to spend 30 years on an island with one or the other, who would it be? Who is a better person that would give peace instead of disturb you with their antics? It is always the Christian who is of good conscience, for there is something deep down inside us we are attracted to in each other. What is it? It is the Comforter-the Holy Spirit! Who indwells the quickened sensitive spirit.
People can't trust a book almost 2000 years ago that was well documented and comprehensively of eternal religio-historical importance. They can't trust the eyewitness accounts of men who ran from Christ, but when they saw Him resurrected they received Him, preached His resurrection and went to their martyrdom for it. Can you imagine any scenario where people would be so unethical to preach they saw Jesus resurrected knowingly lying about it? I can tell you right now, if the apostles were liars, they are the most evil men that ever lived for fabricating such a horrendous lie. But if they really did see Jesus resurrected, then they have a heavy burden to bear.
Have cult leaders in the past made false claims about seeing a resurrected savior? No. However there have been claims of seeing things like golden plates, for example (I am using Mormons as a proxy for other religions). Were they martyred for it? Yes. But where do you find in history multiple attestation like we have in the Bible?: 11 different group sizes of 11 different settings seeing Jesus resurrected. One time 500 people together saw Jesus resurrected. People would surely have spoken up against it if Paul lied about it, because Paul said many of those people were still alive which included most of the apostles (including female apostles) and the women noted in the Bible who saw Jesus resurrected.
All the apostles remained faithful. Can we say the same of those who said they saw golden plates, which says nothing of its content and is not the resurrected Jesus who could eat, speak and the apostles touched? Apparently 6 of those 11 eyewitnesses of golden plates left that cult, but the 12 Biblical apostles remained faithful. Christianity always wins with truth! They eyewitness testimony included Paul's testimony, John's, Peter's and James. Peter and John spent three and a half years with Jesus in His ministry. James grew up with his brother Jesus. Paul met with James and Peter; that is a certainty as Paul expresses this fact exceedingly plainly, and they met more than once over the years.
John wrote his books of the New Testament, Peter wrote his, James the brother of Jesus wrote his, and Matthew wrote his portion. Jude, brother of Jesus, wrote his testimony. There is no reason to think otherwise. Accusers say all these books were made up. How can so many people be lying then give their lives for that eyewitness testimony? It truly would be the greatest lie ever told and the most insane lot of people! But where is the evidence for any foul play or insanity?
God loves your faith towards Him. Since nothing in creation happens all by itself, know therefore the uncreated created. We have just proven the cause of nature is uncaused. Know it. That is the evidence God exists. Jesus shows forth the love of the Father. People usually don't deny Jesus existed or died, but they do deny He is God. Jesus definitely said He is God in many different ways. So if Jesus is not God, he is a most deceitful and vile man. A Christian looks at all this information and makes a choice. Is it worth being wrong? Yes. Why? Because Jesus said He is God, lived it like no man ever could. He walked the walk and talked the talk. Those who followed Him do the same. When we peruse all the information in the world, we see these people called Christians have a countenance about them that is of the most sound mind and body, clearness and clarity of conscience. Who can deny this? This is what I stand for, my brothers and sisters in Christ, and I would give my life to any Christian, because I know I will spend an eternity with them. A few decades in this body is nothing compared to the backdrop of 13.7 billion years. If I am broke and my back is against the wall, it really is of no account.
Why is it that nobody is willing to die for the Antichrist, the coming world leader, but Christians are willing to die for Christ because He died for us? There is something inherently selfish in Satan and everyone else who are not for Christ. They are selfish people-so selfish in fact, they have the gall to call Jesus a liar even though He is more than amply testified by His apostles. He is more of a man than any man could ever be!
What if Jesus conquered death through His love for us? If this Earth is going to pass away, then by simple belief you can have an eternal paradise with Him and His sons and daughters. Non-Christians don't like the peace they have created for themselves because it is uprooted by the peace Christians can display. So the non-Christians get jealous, agitated, losing that feeling self-exaltation in their self-generated peace, which is bound to crumble sooner or later. So they react by attacking Christians. This has always been the reaction of the non-believer. Take for example Islam. They reject Christ adamantly as being God. Consequently, they are getting harder and harder. I think we all witness to this fact, for they have no appreciation of life with the ultimate expression of their faith as suicide mass-murderers, the hate they have towards Israel wanting to wipe it off the face of the Earth, and the plan to take over the world by any means with the coming of the 12th Iman. This requires the greatest holocaust the world has ever seen which Satan is counting on.