Has the Hope of the Second Coming Pacified the Church and Furthered End Times Prophesy?
Part 2: What Happened?
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Quick Recap – Part 1
In the first part, I discussed the three culprits I believe are responsible for both the pacification of the church as well as the furthering of end times prophecy. I established that we are on a doom train, headed towards hell, and Satan is driving. Then, we have the national and global disobedience and falling away from God acting as a non-stop heaping of the dirtiest coal into the engine of this doom train to constantly increase the acceleration towards its destination. Then we have the holy Church of God. Each of us being diamonds that were brought out of the coal. However, I argued we are by in large, the lukewarm church we were warned of in Revelation.
What happened?
As I suggest in the title, I believe there is ample evidence to suggest that the church has been pacified into a lukewarm state that has allowed Satan, the nations around the world (especially America), and people as groups and individuals, to push us closer to the end times, and further away from God, with very little resistance. I will not go into the more than a century long decline of America into collectivism in this publication. I’ll keep it in the context of our “post-p(l)andemic” (using Psaki’s word not mine) totalitarian dystopia. So, what do I mean? What exactly has happened in the last two years that signals we have moved closer to the end times? I would argue that there has been a subtle (maybe not so subtle if you are paying attention) progression that has moved us from a place where things like “a system to implement the mark of the beast” have gone from being theoretically possible though the details and timing were sketchy, to being established before our very eyes, though the exact mark of the beast is still sketchy. Remember when you read my publications that I will talk in terms of systems. Systems operate because of the interactions of its subsystems and components. Therefore, I encourage you always to think in those broader terms.
The most concerning trend I have witnessed in the last few years was the explicit strategy to remove our religious liberties (everyone’s, not just Christian’s). Remember, at every step of the way we have had unelected individuals / organizations and governments “mandating” or providing “guidance” that leads to “mandates” at a lower level. They fail to recognize that, “All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.” Marbury vs. Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176 (1803), and they didn’t even go as far as passing legislation in most cases. They have instead used the tactics of fearmongering, bullying, coercion, and even forcing everyone to not leave their house, not to go to church, not to fellowship, to not go to gatherings, not to praise and worship, not to smile at anyone, not to ask questions about the insanity, not to speak up against the proven liars leading this clown world, and that’s only a small portion of what happened. Again, by in large we let it happen. We chose to disobey God and allowed the fruits of the ungodly to force us to live in fear, which allowed them to further erode and deal some potentially fatal blows to our religious liberties. I’d argue they convinced us we must “turn the other cheek,” and we did, when we should have “flipped over the tables of the money changers who were fleecing God’s people.” I don’t fault the church for the initial caution. I fault the church for the lack of righteous and American pushback once we understood what was happening, which was fast for many (even in the scientific and medical communities), although that fact has been continuously censored from your newsfeed by the big-tech fascists, in case you didn’t know.
I will preface the next part by saying this is neither a publication nor a debate about the Covid vaccine. Fundamentally, I am not anti-vaccine. I believe we have demonstrated that there are specific use cases where their use provided more benefit than harm when analyzed from a true risk-based decision-making perspective. You know, the same kinds of risk-based decisions that safety professionals like me do in the airline industry every day to ensure that we have “an acceptable level of risk” relative to plane crashes? We really do that kind of stuff if you didn’t know. Your risk level is at least 1 in a million when you fly. So, if your plane crashed, and killed 500 people, that would cover 500 million others who flew without incident. What that means is we recognize that nothing is safe, and we can die at any time, however, to live we each make daily risk-based decisions. People who don’t want to accept the risk of dying in an airplane crash do not fly on airplanes, and hopefully pray to God that one does not crash onto them one day also. I will also say that I do have concerns about the long term effects of the new mRNA technology. I am a safety engineer and the data simply does not exist. It will become available over time, and I will be able to close my risk assessment. Ultimately, I understand everyone has their own situation, risks, and ultimately freedom. I couldn’t care less if you injected yourself with heroine. So go ahead and get the Covid vaccine if your personal risk assessment and convictions tell you to do so. I will only advise you against doing so and provide solid justification to back that up. Just don’t demand that I also inject me and my family with heroine or the Covid vaccine. Consider, how lucrative a heroine mandate would be to the heroine dealers? Also consider, if you would be shocked to see heroine dealers and other parties who get kickbacks from heroine sales support such a mandate?
Let’s face it, it is not a big leap for me to now say that, if we fail to correct the trajectory of our situation, eventually the global powers, the “New World Order” as the Aussie Health Chief recently called [them], will mandate that everyone get the mark of the beast, or they will not be able to buy or sell and will ultimately be martyred for their free will and belief. Revelation 13:16-18 states, “He [the beast from the sea] causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.” Although I do not believe that the current vaccines are the “mark of the beast,” I do believe that the things that are being done with them, and in some cases with their cohorts the “vaccine passport,” are clear warning signs and indications that this is where we are headed. The bible provides the blueprint for the rest of our story. Although we do not have specific details, in general we know where the rest of the story goes and how it ends. Therefore, I challenge you to seriously consider which army you will do battle for as we move forward? God’s army or Satan’s army? Remember, manning the middle ground and being lukewarm is what led us to our current situation. Satan owns the fruits of middle ground holding, lukewarm Christians. True repentance is our only hope.
James 1:21-27 states, “Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” Emphasis added
Now we know what happened. In the next publication I will discuss where it happened.
Patriots in Progress. I saw it implied in the title of this article but then didn't see you discuss the subject...pretribulation rapture that I believe has led to Christian passivity. I've attended many different churches over the years and read books geared towards the subject of the rapture of the church. I've not met even one Christian who didn't believe in that theory!
Many years ago I came across an article that claimed this theory was invented by a Jesuit priest named Father Ribera. Knowing what I knew about the Jesuits, I thought it made perfect sense. If Christians believe that Christ will come to rescue them before the great tribulation, it tends to make them passive. They don't feel they need to prepare for anything bad because Jesus will come on a white horse and snatch them out of it. Darby was a pastor in America who furthered this theory.
In Jesus' parable about the wheat and the tares, verse 30 (of Matthew 13) says "Let them both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, 'First gather the tares & bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.'"
Patriots in Progress... I seem to agree with most all you say. If I find something I do not agree with, I will take some time to think about it and probably comment but I will do my best to make it like constructive criticism. I feel we grow with constructive criticism, it is much like edification of other Believers, at least, that is what I think. Blessings