Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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Final Warning -- Moses (3)
Deuteronomy 32:21 They made me jealous by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
Money is a worthless idol. People worship it, will do anything for it, but then when the economy collapses it will be as worthless as leaves on a tree. What nation is this? Russia? Venezuela? N. Korea? How about these 10 million illegals who have come into this country?
22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,
one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.
It will devour the earth and its harvests
and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
We are talking about a massive volcanic eruption and we are talking about a massive loss to the harvests. If Yosemite explodes it will wipe out the harvests in the midwest, cause massive fires and be completely devastating to the US and all that live there.
23 “I will heap calamities on them
and spend my arrows against them.
God's arrows would include meteors, lightning, tornadoes. This would be heaping calamities on us. Very often after a massive volcanic eruption you get landslides and floods when it rains.
24 I will send wasting famine against them,
consuming pestilence and deadly plague;
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,
the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
Famine sets you up for pestilence, especially dysentery. Poverty sets you up for rats and plague. Rats will attract snakes.
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror will reign.
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with gray hair.
Gang violence, and then you have a Mad Max like environment where anyone who isn't part of the gang is killed.
26 I said I would scatter them
and erase their name from human memory,
The US and those left behind will be reduced to the point this becomes a possibility.
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.’”
Lord open our eyes to see that the Lord has done this and the Lord has triumphed. On the cross there were two thieves with Jesus. One mocked him and said "save yourself and us". He was not saved. The other confessed his sin, repented, and believed in the Lord. He was saved.
28 They are a nation without sense,
there is no discernment in them.
Pray for discernment, without it you will be the first thief, with it you will be the second.
29 If only they were wise and would understand this
and discern what their end will be!
No one thinks about what their end will be. They don't realize that in the end they must appear before the Lord and answer for all the things they have done in this life.
30 How could one man chase a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the Lord had given them up?
The US is amazingly strong. It is one of the few countries where the citizens own guns, there are around 350 million guns in the US. You can use missiles, bombs, and tanks to seize military sites, but if you want to control the country of 300 million with ten million people you will be outnumbered 30 to 1. If all those people have guns there is no way to stay safe if they start picking you off one by one. You can buy enough food to last you for one year for $1,000 (Joseph's kitchen). If people prepared 10k would be enough for a family of five to last two years without any additional food. We have the most powerful military in the world, we are protected by two oceans, how could the US fall unless the Rock had sold them? The only way the US falls is if the Lord had given us up.
Deuteronomy 32:21 They made me jealous by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
Money is a worthless idol. People worship it, will do anything for it, but then when the economy collapses it will be as worthless as leaves on a tree. What nation is this? Russia? Venezuela? N. Korea? How about these 10 million illegals who have come into this country?
22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,
one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.
It will devour the earth and its harvests
and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
We are talking about a massive volcanic eruption and we are talking about a massive loss to the harvests. If Yosemite explodes it will wipe out the harvests in the midwest, cause massive fires and be completely devastating to the US and all that live there.
23 “I will heap calamities on them
and spend my arrows against them.
God's arrows would include meteors, lightning, tornadoes. This would be heaping calamities on us. Very often after a massive volcanic eruption you get landslides and floods when it rains.
24 I will send wasting famine against them,
consuming pestilence and deadly plague;
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,
the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
Famine sets you up for pestilence, especially dysentery. Poverty sets you up for rats and plague. Rats will attract snakes.
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror will reign.
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with gray hair.
Gang violence, and then you have a Mad Max like environment where anyone who isn't part of the gang is killed.
26 I said I would scatter them
and erase their name from human memory,
The US and those left behind will be reduced to the point this becomes a possibility.
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.’”
Lord open our eyes to see that the Lord has done this and the Lord has triumphed. On the cross there were two thieves with Jesus. One mocked him and said "save yourself and us". He was not saved. The other confessed his sin, repented, and believed in the Lord. He was saved.
28 They are a nation without sense,
there is no discernment in them.
Pray for discernment, without it you will be the first thief, with it you will be the second.
29 If only they were wise and would understand this
and discern what their end will be!
No one thinks about what their end will be. They don't realize that in the end they must appear before the Lord and answer for all the things they have done in this life.
30 How could one man chase a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the Lord had given them up?
The US is amazingly strong. It is one of the few countries where the citizens own guns, there are around 350 million guns in the US. You can use missiles, bombs, and tanks to seize military sites, but if you want to control the country of 300 million with ten million people you will be outnumbered 30 to 1. If all those people have guns there is no way to stay safe if they start picking you off one by one. You can buy enough food to last you for one year for $1,000 (Joseph's kitchen). If people prepared 10k would be enough for a family of five to last two years without any additional food. We have the most powerful military in the world, we are protected by two oceans, how could the US fall unless the Rock had sold them? The only way the US falls is if the Lord had given us up.
Summary of Moses Final Warning
1. We proclaim the word of God, His teachings fall like rain.
2. The corrupt, crooked generation repay the Lord’s kindness with foolishness and behave unwisely by rejecting God the Father.
3. We are told to remember the days of old when the Lord rescued us. The Lord alone led us out of captivity.
4. The Lord made us to ride on high. We were rich. We ate the finest food.
5. The US grew rich, fat, and abandoned God and the rock their savior.
6. They made God jealous with their detestable idols.
7. They sacrificed to false gods. They deserted the Rock and forgot God that gave us birth.
8. The Lord saw this and rejected them.
9. He hid His face from them (organized Christianity dried up)
10. They made God jealous so He made them envious — Sheiks in the Mid East rich, the Japanese were rich, even Russian mobsters.
11. Then a fire was kindled that devoured the earth and its harvests (all of this talk of climate change and the need to get rid of beef and fertilizer, etc)
12. The volcanoes awaken
13. Natural calamity after natural calamity takes place. 120 tornados. Floods, fires, volcanoes, earthquakes. This is where we are right now.
14. Then we will get wasting famine.
15. Consuming pestilence
16. Deadly plague
17. Wild beasts and vipers.
18. Gang violence in the streets, homeless, drugs, shooting, and terror in the house with constant fear porn, school shootings, and threats of nuclear war.
19. Only then do we have an invading force, 300,000 causing 300 million to be put to flight.
20. At this point we wake up and realize their rock is not like our rock. Their grapes are filled with poison, the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. (The mandated vaccine — but only now is the world waking up to this poison).
21. Then the Lord will vindicate His people, those who sounded the warning, stood up to the evil.
22. Then in the midst of the tribulation the Lord will say “let them rise up to help you, let them give you shelter”.
23. Then the Lord’s flashing sword will take vengeance on His adversaries. He will avenge the blood of His servants.
1. We proclaim the word of God, His teachings fall like rain.
2. The corrupt, crooked generation repay the Lord’s kindness with foolishness and behave unwisely by rejecting God the Father.
3. We are told to remember the days of old when the Lord rescued us. The Lord alone led us out of captivity.
4. The Lord made us to ride on high. We were rich. We ate the finest food.
5. The US grew rich, fat, and abandoned God and the rock their savior.
6. They made God jealous with their detestable idols.
7. They sacrificed to false gods. They deserted the Rock and forgot God that gave us birth.
8. The Lord saw this and rejected them.
9. He hid His face from them (organized Christianity dried up)
10. They made God jealous so He made them envious — Sheiks in the Mid East rich, the Japanese were rich, even Russian mobsters.
11. Then a fire was kindled that devoured the earth and its harvests (all of this talk of climate change and the need to get rid of beef and fertilizer, etc)
12. The volcanoes awaken
13. Natural calamity after natural calamity takes place. 120 tornados. Floods, fires, volcanoes, earthquakes. This is where we are right now.
14. Then we will get wasting famine.
15. Consuming pestilence
16. Deadly plague
17. Wild beasts and vipers.
18. Gang violence in the streets, homeless, drugs, shooting, and terror in the house with constant fear porn, school shootings, and threats of nuclear war.
19. Only then do we have an invading force, 300,000 causing 300 million to be put to flight.
20. At this point we wake up and realize their rock is not like our rock. Their grapes are filled with poison, the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. (The mandated vaccine — but only now is the world waking up to this poison).
21. Then the Lord will vindicate His people, those who sounded the warning, stood up to the evil.
22. Then in the midst of the tribulation the Lord will say “let them rise up to help you, let them give you shelter”.
23. Then the Lord’s flashing sword will take vengeance on His adversaries. He will avenge the blood of His servants.
"Blighted by the East Wind"
Genesis 41:6 6 After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—thin and scorched by the east wind.
The grain is "scorched" by the "East wind" in Pharaoh's dream. Ukraine is the bread basket of Europe and right now Russia is going through a severe drought. These seven "heads" represent seven years. This would be the first year that they are "scorched" by the East wind. If this begins this Fall it would indicate the seven good years began in 2017 the year the US recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and so received a blessing. The seven bad years begins. The seven bad years begins in 2024, the year these discussions about dividing Israel's land take place and probably we'll see the UN vote to divide Israel. The US has already allowed them to call Israeli leaders war criminals.
Genesis 41:6 6 After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—thin and scorched by the east wind.
The grain is "scorched" by the "East wind" in Pharaoh's dream. Ukraine is the bread basket of Europe and right now Russia is going through a severe drought. These seven "heads" represent seven years. This would be the first year that they are "scorched" by the East wind. If this begins this Fall it would indicate the seven good years began in 2017 the year the US recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and so received a blessing. The seven bad years begins. The seven bad years begins in 2024, the year these discussions about dividing Israel's land take place and probably we'll see the UN vote to divide Israel. The US has already allowed them to call Israeli leaders war criminals.
It is tedious listening to this brother. Most of what he shares is repetitious and I generally would not post it, however, his point that the Essene calendar has the six thousand years of human history ending in 2031 and the Millennial reign beginning in 2032 is very significant piece of news and his point that Pharaoh calls Joseph at the end of two full years and not "after" two full years is also significant. If 2032 would be "after two full years" then the tribulation would take place the seven years prior to that.
Building Your Prayer Closet: Protection in the Day of Trouble - Stan Johnson
A very strong message. Not what you typically hear. In my own experience I am often reminded of what Watchman Nee shared. If you take rice and wash it in the river the water drains out and you don't retain that much water, but the rice gets clean. His point was that many people say "I read the Bible and don't get anything from it". Well you get cleaned. If you don't get in the word every day you will be dirty, you need that word to wash and renew your mind. Either our mind is on the things of the flesh or it is on the things of the Spirit. By reading the word you put your mind on the things of the Spirit. By singing hymns, praying, praising and worshipping you put your mind on the things of the Spirit. But for me I spend most of my time in the word. You can pray the word, but if you pray without the word it becomes flat, ineffective and even fleshly, natural and selfish. You can worship, but in my feeling most modern Christian songs are very light on the sanctifying power of the word. They are like potato chips, yes they are food, but too much of that is unhealthy. Pull out the old hymns, look at "Hark the Herald Angels sing" and you will see a hymn that is packed full of the word of God. Compare that with a hymn today and the word of God has been mostly removed, like white flour instead of whole wheat. When I was younger we sang the word of God. We had put the entire books of Ephesians and Colossians to music. I would listen to those song tapes over and over and over. We also sang Psalms, that also is the word of God. My point is that we are sanctified by the word of God, that is a fact. If you realize you are not sanctified that is a good thing, most worldly Christians don't even realize that. But listening to Christian music stations may be OK driving to work, but that is not going to do the job of sanctifying you. Spend time in the word of God every day. The Lord gave us the truth and it is the truth that sanctifies us.
A very strong message. Not what you typically hear. In my own experience I am often reminded of what Watchman Nee shared. If you take rice and wash it in the river the water drains out and you don't retain that much water, but the rice gets clean. His point was that many people say "I read the Bible and don't get anything from it". Well you get cleaned. If you don't get in the word every day you will be dirty, you need that word to wash and renew your mind. Either our mind is on the things of the flesh or it is on the things of the Spirit. By reading the word you put your mind on the things of the Spirit. By singing hymns, praying, praising and worshipping you put your mind on the things of the Spirit. But for me I spend most of my time in the word. You can pray the word, but if you pray without the word it becomes flat, ineffective and even fleshly, natural and selfish. You can worship, but in my feeling most modern Christian songs are very light on the sanctifying power of the word. They are like potato chips, yes they are food, but too much of that is unhealthy. Pull out the old hymns, look at "Hark the Herald Angels sing" and you will see a hymn that is packed full of the word of God. Compare that with a hymn today and the word of God has been mostly removed, like white flour instead of whole wheat. When I was younger we sang the word of God. We had put the entire books of Ephesians and Colossians to music. I would listen to those song tapes over and over and over. We also sang Psalms, that also is the word of God. My point is that we are sanctified by the word of God, that is a fact. If you realize you are not sanctified that is a good thing, most worldly Christians don't even realize that. But listening to Christian music stations may be OK driving to work, but that is not going to do the job of sanctifying you. Spend time in the word of God every day. The Lord gave us the truth and it is the truth that sanctifies us.
I was taught differently. I was taught that if you try to live Christlike you will fail, and that is what it sounds like with Stan about 1 hour and 16 minutes into the video. What we were taught is Romans 7 is that person trying to live Christ like, and Romans 8 -- "the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace" is the secret. At first you must "set your mind" and they describe that as putting something on a very slippery place, so you set your mind on the spirit and before you know it you are back on the flesh. But you keep doing that. What I did when I was in college was every hour I would take a break from studying and spend five minutes reading the word. Also we had six meetings a week which also helped set your mind on the spirit. We had morning watch, which helped start the day. We had meetings everyday at lunch time in the cafeteria, so that is five more times where you are setting your mind on the spirit. We had trainings twice a year where we would have thirty messages in ten days, again setting your mind on the spirit throughout the entire day. We had conferences, hospitality, etc. Instead of trying to be like Christ we focused on setting our mind on Christ and filling our spirit with His word.
Another example they gave us, suppose you are a vessel like a glass and you are filled with dirty water, could be filthy water, could be poison and toxic liquid. If you pour fresh clean water into the class it will displace the other liquid until it is all but gone. But you still wouldn't drink out of that glass. You need to wash it clean, that is what the blood of Jesus does. So you take the blood of Jesus, you repent of your sins, you repent of everything the Lord bothers you about, everything your conscience bothers you about and now when that glass is filled with water you will drink from it. Now you are a vessel "fit for the master's use". You want to have a ministry, you want to minister the word to others, or healing, or the gospel or whatever the Lord has burdened you for. Now you are fit to be used. But remember nature abhors a vacuum, and "living water" is like a river, not a lake. You can't be filled with yesterday's word. So this process of filling yourself with the word, setting your mind on the Spirit and washing with the blood, this is a daily process. Just because you were fit for the master's use yesterday does not mean you are fit today.
For example, this is Post #11,693 and there have been 1,158 days from the first day I posted. That is more than 10 posts per day, every day since March 4, 2021. That was the main reason I started this blog. It is a way to set my mind on the Spirit and fill myself with the word on a daily basis. Yes, I had a purpose, but I knew that if I simply set my mind on the Spirit every day and filled myself with the word that in and of itself would be more than enough reason to do this.
For example, this is Post #11,693 and there have been 1,158 days from the first day I posted. That is more than 10 posts per day, every day since March 4, 2021. That was the main reason I started this blog. It is a way to set my mind on the Spirit and fill myself with the word on a daily basis. Yes, I had a purpose, but I knew that if I simply set my mind on the Spirit every day and filled myself with the word that in and of itself would be more than enough reason to do this.
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
If you want the glory of being "Champion of the world" then shouldn't you have to play in the championship game and win that? If you want the glory of being a champion prize fighter shouldn't you have to fight the current champion and win? If you want the glory of "the Lord of Life" shouldn't you have to defeat death?
What about the church? What ought the church to do to get the crown of life? How about the crown of rejoicing? Likewise, what must we do to get the crown of righteousness? What about the crown of glory?
In the gospels there is only one crown mentioned and that is the crown of thorns. If we are to take up our cross and follow the Lord doesn't that include wearing the crown of thorns in this life?
If you want the glory of being "Champion of the world" then shouldn't you have to play in the championship game and win that? If you want the glory of being a champion prize fighter shouldn't you have to fight the current champion and win? If you want the glory of "the Lord of Life" shouldn't you have to defeat death?
What about the church? What ought the church to do to get the crown of life? How about the crown of rejoicing? Likewise, what must we do to get the crown of righteousness? What about the crown of glory?
In the gospels there is only one crown mentioned and that is the crown of thorns. If we are to take up our cross and follow the Lord doesn't that include wearing the crown of thorns in this life?
Judges 15 -- Jawbone of an Ass? Why not just say Donald Trump?
1 But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in. 2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her. 3 And Samson said unto them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief. 4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails. 5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards. 6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. 7 And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. 8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
When the US rejected the Lord He turned his face from us. It was reasonable to think that the Lord utterly hated us, but we have a covenant with Him and He is a covenant God. When you join Corporate America with Social Justice Warrior by the tail (two foxes) and then light that with Cancel Culture (fire brand) the result is their crops are ruined. As they say “get woke, go broke”. MLB moved the All Star game from Atlanta to Denver because they “got woke”. Major disaster. Disney’s revenue was down $636 million in the second quarter shortly after cancelling a star actress for comments she made. NBA’s ratings are down 40-45% depending on which network and what time frame you are looking at. CNN has gone broke, Facebook has gone broke, and now the entire US stock market is down 33% because Biden has gone woke. What was the slight in Judges that provoked Samson, his wife was given to a Philistine. That could easily refer to a job or a house. But then they go and burn her and her father with fire. This would be like the police killing an unarmed person. Biden stole the election, Facebook and CNN were involved in suppressing the Hunter Biden story. Jesus is the strong man and He is paying them back.
The Lord is painting a picture for us, so it is important for us to understand. Samson is supposed to be separated unto the Lord. However, he tries to straddle the fence. He wants a Philistine wife, he wants to live according to the flesh, but he wants to appear to be a nazarite by not cutting his hair. He is worshipping the Lord outwardly, but not in truth. This is organized Christianity in the US. But Delilah, the "deep state", shaved his head. The US at the time of LBJ instituted IRS regulations concerning 501 c3, this allowed FreeMasons to get on the board of directors of churches. They pumped money into them building up big tele evangelist ministries and radio ministries and Christian music ministries. But by doing that they were able to get control, gouged out the eyes of organized Christianity and said not to preach on prophecy or the end times. You can talk about anything but that. Anything deemed "political" was justification to annul the tax exempt status of these churches. The final straw for them was when they took his wife and gave it to his companion. The church tried to get into politics and soon the "religious right" became involved in political activism while organized Christianity was left on the sidelines.
9 Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. 10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us. 11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them. 12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves. 13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock. 14 When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands. 15 And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith. 16 And Samson said,
With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps,
With the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.
A jawbone of an ass? This deplorable Israelite killed them with the jawbone of an ass? What, was he making mean tweets? Why are they calling it “the jawbone of an ass” why not just come out and say Donald Trump? Who delivered Trump up? It was the RINO republicans and the apostate Christians.
Why would the Lord Jesus, the strongman, use the jawbone of an ass, why would He use Trump? It puts them to an open shame that with all their weapons, all the tens of millions they put into these election campaigns with all the attack ads, and all the lies of the very best liars that even so there is going to be a huge red wave. Jesus is having fun.
But we need to consider this, why would Jesus use organized Christians who have taken up the jawbone of an ass? They are blind and they are caught and exposed by their daliance with Delilah, and they have been humiliated by being shaved, and they are now being mocked daily by the MSM and all the Philistines in their temple to Baal. But it is at this time that the hair signifying their separation grows, it is at this time that they do call out to the Lord, and it is at this time that they fully repent of not being sanctified, fully give themselves to the Lord and bring down this house of cards.
Yes, organized religion is a failure, but they are still the Lord's children and the Lord is still the savior working out salvation to them.
1 But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in. 2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her. 3 And Samson said unto them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief. 4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails. 5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards. 6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. 7 And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. 8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
When the US rejected the Lord He turned his face from us. It was reasonable to think that the Lord utterly hated us, but we have a covenant with Him and He is a covenant God. When you join Corporate America with Social Justice Warrior by the tail (two foxes) and then light that with Cancel Culture (fire brand) the result is their crops are ruined. As they say “get woke, go broke”. MLB moved the All Star game from Atlanta to Denver because they “got woke”. Major disaster. Disney’s revenue was down $636 million in the second quarter shortly after cancelling a star actress for comments she made. NBA’s ratings are down 40-45% depending on which network and what time frame you are looking at. CNN has gone broke, Facebook has gone broke, and now the entire US stock market is down 33% because Biden has gone woke. What was the slight in Judges that provoked Samson, his wife was given to a Philistine. That could easily refer to a job or a house. But then they go and burn her and her father with fire. This would be like the police killing an unarmed person. Biden stole the election, Facebook and CNN were involved in suppressing the Hunter Biden story. Jesus is the strong man and He is paying them back.
The Lord is painting a picture for us, so it is important for us to understand. Samson is supposed to be separated unto the Lord. However, he tries to straddle the fence. He wants a Philistine wife, he wants to live according to the flesh, but he wants to appear to be a nazarite by not cutting his hair. He is worshipping the Lord outwardly, but not in truth. This is organized Christianity in the US. But Delilah, the "deep state", shaved his head. The US at the time of LBJ instituted IRS regulations concerning 501 c3, this allowed FreeMasons to get on the board of directors of churches. They pumped money into them building up big tele evangelist ministries and radio ministries and Christian music ministries. But by doing that they were able to get control, gouged out the eyes of organized Christianity and said not to preach on prophecy or the end times. You can talk about anything but that. Anything deemed "political" was justification to annul the tax exempt status of these churches. The final straw for them was when they took his wife and gave it to his companion. The church tried to get into politics and soon the "religious right" became involved in political activism while organized Christianity was left on the sidelines.
9 Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. 10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us. 11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them. 12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves. 13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock. 14 When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands. 15 And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith. 16 And Samson said,
With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps,
With the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.
A jawbone of an ass? This deplorable Israelite killed them with the jawbone of an ass? What, was he making mean tweets? Why are they calling it “the jawbone of an ass” why not just come out and say Donald Trump? Who delivered Trump up? It was the RINO republicans and the apostate Christians.
Why would the Lord Jesus, the strongman, use the jawbone of an ass, why would He use Trump? It puts them to an open shame that with all their weapons, all the tens of millions they put into these election campaigns with all the attack ads, and all the lies of the very best liars that even so there is going to be a huge red wave. Jesus is having fun.
But we need to consider this, why would Jesus use organized Christians who have taken up the jawbone of an ass? They are blind and they are caught and exposed by their daliance with Delilah, and they have been humiliated by being shaved, and they are now being mocked daily by the MSM and all the Philistines in their temple to Baal. But it is at this time that the hair signifying their separation grows, it is at this time that they do call out to the Lord, and it is at this time that they fully repent of not being sanctified, fully give themselves to the Lord and bring down this house of cards.
Yes, organized religion is a failure, but they are still the Lord's children and the Lord is still the savior working out salvation to them.
1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James,
Jude was the brother of Jesus just as James was and yet he doesn't make that claim. Can you imagine a false prophet not bringing that up? I find it very instructive that neither James nor Jude try to use their relationship in the flesh to Jesus to give them some special standing. Likewise they both make it clear that they are servants of the Lord Jesus.
To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
Called -- 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
Romans 8 gives us 5 things: Foreknew and predestinated (Abraham), Called (Isaac), Justified (Jacob) and glorified (Joseph).
We can see these five in the structure of the children of Abraham. We are children of Abraham, children of the promise.
loved in God -- 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
These verses by the Lord describe what it means to be loved in God and what it means to be loved even as God loved the Lord. Think about it, the birth of the man child will be "just as" the Lord's birth. Their birth will be so that the world may believe. No doubt this refers to the testimony of saints who have been reborn over the last two thousand years. However, it also seems reasonable that it could refer to the rapture as an event, just like Jesus birth, that could spark a marvelous revival.
Kept for Jesus Christ -- We are talking about the bride of Christ who keeps herself as a virgin. No other epistle uses this term, it refers to watchful care. It is a direct reference to the Lord charging us to watch for His return and the word in greek actually means 'continually kept". This is not once for all. This word is used for Peter when he was 'kept' in prison, confined. It is also used concerning our heavenly inheritance which is kept for us. This word is used again in this epistle when it says the fallen angels kept not their first estate. The idea is that we are constantly vigilant to watch and keep ourselves from falling but that the lord will also work together with us to keep us. The concept here is a direct contradiction to the "once saved always saved" doctrine going around now that we don't need to worry about sin. The word is also used for the church in Philadelphia where it says "He will keep us from the hour of trial". This verse indicates the Lord is keeping us, verse 21 tells us we need to keep ourselves. 1Thessalonians 5:3 says we are kept blameless unto the coming of our Lord and savior.
2 Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
Mercy is a direct reference to judgement and "the royal law" in James. Jesus said "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". James interprets that to mean that we are to treat others with mercy since we also want to be judged with mercy. Grace is getting what you don't deserve, Mercy is not getting what you do deserve. Mercy implies we are a failure and so we need God's grace and mercy. Contrast that with the whole Santa "gospel" is that you get what you deserve and if you are bad you had better watch out. No mercy with Santa.
Peace -- this is a big term during Christmas, "Peace on earth and good will towards man". We have peace through Jesus Christ. However, there is no peace for the wicked Isaiah 57:21.
Love -- This is the mark of the saints, the way in which the world identifies us. Everyone is talking about the mark of the beast, well we also have a mark and it is love. So consider the mark of the beast the opposite of love. They promise you that if you get the mark you will be able to buy and sell, in other words it is an offer you can't refuse, just like the Godfather offers. You are not motivated by love, you are motivated by fear, or by greed.
These three terms all point to the Lord's coming. We are praying for mercy, we are not worrying about anything but praying about everything and trusting that we will be kept from the hour of trial. And like Philadelphia we are keeping the Lord's command to love others as ourselves.
But this also leads us into the discussion of the apostasy. Where does it begin? With Ephesus losing their first love. Next they lose peace. Finally if they are completely apostate they treat others without mercy like Jezebel and the inquisition.
Incidentally all these elements show up in the birth of Jesus. The scribes and Pharisees had lost their first love, they knew Jesus was to be born in Bethlehem but didn't so much as go to see. However, hearing about His birth caused everyone in the city to lose peace and they responded without mercy, killing the 2,000 kids.
Jude was the brother of Jesus just as James was and yet he doesn't make that claim. Can you imagine a false prophet not bringing that up? I find it very instructive that neither James nor Jude try to use their relationship in the flesh to Jesus to give them some special standing. Likewise they both make it clear that they are servants of the Lord Jesus.
To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
Called -- 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
Romans 8 gives us 5 things: Foreknew and predestinated (Abraham), Called (Isaac), Justified (Jacob) and glorified (Joseph).
We can see these five in the structure of the children of Abraham. We are children of Abraham, children of the promise.
loved in God -- 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
These verses by the Lord describe what it means to be loved in God and what it means to be loved even as God loved the Lord. Think about it, the birth of the man child will be "just as" the Lord's birth. Their birth will be so that the world may believe. No doubt this refers to the testimony of saints who have been reborn over the last two thousand years. However, it also seems reasonable that it could refer to the rapture as an event, just like Jesus birth, that could spark a marvelous revival.
Kept for Jesus Christ -- We are talking about the bride of Christ who keeps herself as a virgin. No other epistle uses this term, it refers to watchful care. It is a direct reference to the Lord charging us to watch for His return and the word in greek actually means 'continually kept". This is not once for all. This word is used for Peter when he was 'kept' in prison, confined. It is also used concerning our heavenly inheritance which is kept for us. This word is used again in this epistle when it says the fallen angels kept not their first estate. The idea is that we are constantly vigilant to watch and keep ourselves from falling but that the lord will also work together with us to keep us. The concept here is a direct contradiction to the "once saved always saved" doctrine going around now that we don't need to worry about sin. The word is also used for the church in Philadelphia where it says "He will keep us from the hour of trial". This verse indicates the Lord is keeping us, verse 21 tells us we need to keep ourselves. 1Thessalonians 5:3 says we are kept blameless unto the coming of our Lord and savior.
2 Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
Mercy is a direct reference to judgement and "the royal law" in James. Jesus said "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". James interprets that to mean that we are to treat others with mercy since we also want to be judged with mercy. Grace is getting what you don't deserve, Mercy is not getting what you do deserve. Mercy implies we are a failure and so we need God's grace and mercy. Contrast that with the whole Santa "gospel" is that you get what you deserve and if you are bad you had better watch out. No mercy with Santa.
Peace -- this is a big term during Christmas, "Peace on earth and good will towards man". We have peace through Jesus Christ. However, there is no peace for the wicked Isaiah 57:21.
Love -- This is the mark of the saints, the way in which the world identifies us. Everyone is talking about the mark of the beast, well we also have a mark and it is love. So consider the mark of the beast the opposite of love. They promise you that if you get the mark you will be able to buy and sell, in other words it is an offer you can't refuse, just like the Godfather offers. You are not motivated by love, you are motivated by fear, or by greed.
These three terms all point to the Lord's coming. We are praying for mercy, we are not worrying about anything but praying about everything and trusting that we will be kept from the hour of trial. And like Philadelphia we are keeping the Lord's command to love others as ourselves.
But this also leads us into the discussion of the apostasy. Where does it begin? With Ephesus losing their first love. Next they lose peace. Finally if they are completely apostate they treat others without mercy like Jezebel and the inquisition.
Incidentally all these elements show up in the birth of Jesus. The scribes and Pharisees had lost their first love, they knew Jesus was to be born in Bethlehem but didn't so much as go to see. However, hearing about His birth caused everyone in the city to lose peace and they responded without mercy, killing the 2,000 kids.
47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
We are preaching repentance and remission of sins. If you repent you will have your sins forgiven. However, Jesus says to wait until they are endued with power from on high before preaching. The proof that the sins are forgiven is that signs and wonders follow them. We saw this in the story of the paralytic man being healed, the Lord healed him so that we would know that He had the authority to forgive sins.
48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
We are preaching repentance and remission of sins. If you repent you will have your sins forgiven. However, Jesus says to wait until they are endued with power from on high before preaching. The proof that the sins are forgiven is that signs and wonders follow them. We saw this in the story of the paralytic man being healed, the Lord healed him so that we would know that He had the authority to forgive sins.
Jeroboam set up two golden calves and said they were the gods. Clearly a picture of the prosperity gospel. A picture of king Midas who whatever he touches turns to gold. Jeroboam also put the lowest of people as priests. So what do we consider "the lowest of people"? A used car salesman? Flim flam men? Snake oil salesmen?
I say this because Asa was commended greatly for destroying idols, even holding his mother accountable for her worship of idols.
We should pray to deal with the idols in our heart.
I say this because Asa was commended greatly for destroying idols, even holding his mother accountable for her worship of idols.
We should pray to deal with the idols in our heart.