By now, we have seen almost half a millennium of various kinds of churches, other religions, secular authorities and political parties persecuting God’s most faithful elect. And we have also seen effects of their testimonies in public councils and courts. As those elect rightly interpreted the Scriptures, according to what Jesus taught to their spirits, as they stood against injustices and false teachings from fake churches, we have seen how those truths eventually brought about reforms, how that light from God caused the laws and ways of their lands to change for the better, especially in the nations where the Reformation and great 18th century revivals took hold. And Jesus told us this would be one of the last signs before the end times, the days when the “birth pains” of His just and loving kingdom would be most strongly and frequently felt. False humanistic churches and secular governments have resisted those truths violently, through terrorism, and still do to this day, and they will to the very end, even as the Satan-manipulated beast rules over them at the end of the fourth kingdom. The truth of God will prevail. And God’s wrath against Satan’s fourth kingdom causes its end to draw near.
Although this persecution of God’s elect took place from the earliest days of humanism, the era of its strongest works began only about a hundred years ago. Thus, the end times, when God’s unbridled wrath will be poured out upon the wicked and unjust, will come soon. Of course, we must not panic then either. Rather, that is when we will need to make our most wise and sound judgments, and do the most just, equitable, loving works ever done throughout history, through a better knowledge and wisdom from Jesus than ever before. Now we must do God’s loving will on earth as it is in heaven.
We now live in times when all four horsemen, as well as the “birth pains” of the fifth seal, are all busily labouring upon this planet. And Satan’s fourth kingdom knows what most elect do not seem to realize. Satan’s world order knows it will soon see the end of all its humanistic Roman economic systems, political hierarchies, injustice systems, false religions, educational citizen-making factories, military tools serving its elite’s greed, and all of its other institutions of criminal exploitation. So the devil’s world order is now ramping up its efforts to destroy truths and God’s faithful elect. Yet so many of the elect seem to be asleep, and compromising His truth with lies from humanistic churches Page 1598
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and secular liars, just to save their own comfortable flesh. But Jesus will wake us all. Now we live in the times Jesus described when He said: “many will stumble [into sin] and will betray one another and hate one another. Also many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And, because the lawlessness [is] to be increased, the love of many will be evaporated. Yet the one persevering [in just and God-like love] unto the end, this one will be saved. And this, the Gospel of the kingdom, will be proclaimed in the entire world’s population, for a testimony to all the people groupings. And the end times will arrive” (Mat. 24:10-14). Today, we see all this happening before our eyes. No honest elect soul can deny this any longer, not if one dares to open one’s eyes. No other time in history could be more accurately described by these words than these times in our current generation. There never has been an era which met all the criteria of these plain prophecies. So the end times will soon arrive.
Jesus told us that, just before the end times, “many” will “stumble into sin.” And He used a passive form of the verb σκανδαλίζω (meaning many would be “brought to a downfall, cause[d] to sin,”
BDAG3). Our English verb “scandalize” came from this verb, and the passive voice would indicate being brought into shame, discredited or disgraced, usually through either a true or false accusation of committing a sin. And here Jesus indicated that this being caused to sin would be common. Jesus was saying that religious, political and cultural influencers would cause many people to sin. Think about how, in the past, even while humanists committed their ruthless secular and religious crimes, many still considered the smallest of sins, such as an overt displays of covetousness, to be a disgrace or at least embarrassing. Even greed had to be hidden from public scrutiny. Yes, many were indeed covetous. Yet even humanists knew that coveting caused harm through ruthless selfish ambitions. So they avoided any appearance of this sin. The greedy citizens of the fourth kingdom usually lied to themselves and to each other about sins like covetousness. But they wanted to discourage it as much as possible. Then, if they caught one committing the worse sin of lying about one’s own greed, a sin they all did themselves on a daily basis, they hypocritically cast great shame on the one caught lying.
In the past, even many humanists would publicly practise telling the truth at all cost to themselves, or did everything in their power to cover up their incessant lies. Then the disgrace of being caught doing the even more lawless deeds which all did, such as theft, sexual misconduct or murder, were hidden even more zealously, since having those sins exposed could utterly destroy one’s reputation.
An exposed sinner could no longer find a job, marry, go to church or hold any place of esteem in the community, although a hypocritical expert at hiding his or her sins could, and even became one of the elite in those humanistic hierarchies. Usually, in the humanistic world order, they treated sinners unjustly too, and awarded no mercy nor forgiveness to the truly repentant. Instead, they branded all sinners for life, including the falsely accused, those who sinned through just motives and intentions, those who repented and those whom they themselves coerced into committing those sins. However, humanist always held to some external moral standards, to make themselves look good. Yet Jesus spoke of a time when there would be a total breakdown of moral standards, near the end times, an era when routine, common and socially acceptable covetousness, lying, stealing, exploitative sexual gratification, murdering of the innocent, and numerous sins would occur, including sins directly in opposition to God, such as slandering God’s good name. So, clearly, Jesus was talking about the times we live in now. This is the only time in history when such things have become so common that they are yawned at. There is no longer shame associated with most sins, even for the church leaders.
Of course, this is not to say that we need more humanistic terrorism to enforce their unjust moral standards and laws, with more of their violent, painful and unjust punishments for sins and crimes, and must more cruelly ostracize sinners and criminals, even without fair trials, even through forms of vigilantism led by ego-inflated militias and fake churches. This does not mean that we must Page 1599
combat sin by adopting “zero tolerance” policies and more brutal “law enforcement,” which shows no mercy for those duped into sin, which do not provide any chance of forgiveness through repentance. For all those practices originate from Satan, and are all practised by his most favoured religion of humanism. So the elect, especially the priesthood of the Christ’s true New Covenant church, must never practise them. Nor should we ever define sins in the same way humanists do. For instance, humanists declare that, if authorities in their hierarchical systems do not declare that a marriage is valid, then that couple is “living in sin.” But God’s Law declares that, if the spirits of the two have made loving covenants with one another, then God Himself will recognize their union as a valid marriage. On the other hand, if both their spirits did not made true covenants, no earthly nor heavenly authority can possibly validate their marriage, and they are living in sin. Thus, God calls most “legal” marriages in Satan’s humanistic kingdom of the world order “adultery,” since God condemns marriages that are solely for economic, social or political gain as “prostitution.” Then another example might be the way God judges individually, by the motives and intentions of one’s spirit. As a result, if an individual’s sins are caused by a corporate body—such as a soldier’s sin of warring against the innocent because he was convinced to do so through government propaganda, or an individual’s homosexuality caused by the materialism of his surrounding community—then God will not count those sins against the individual. Rather, God will send His faithful servants to judge that sinning corporate body. And His true servants will judge by teaching truth and exposing lies.
Actually, in our day, we should thank God that the hypocrisy, external and fake civility, dishonest honesty and self-serving false justice of Satan’s fourth kingdom has almost completely vanished. For God’s true elect can now more clearly see the religion of humanism for what it actually is, since they are no longer continuously deceived by the false morality of the devil’s religious kingdom. Now that so many truths have so often and so adeptly the lies and delusions of humanism, Satan’s kingdom will seldom even bother to pretend any more. And this collapse of their hypocritical morality is good. For the inherently honest and just minds of the infantile and easily duped elect can now more easily recognize when churches are false, and discover that those churches are actually the agents of the devil’s world order. Likewise, even the most gullible elect are beginning to see how their secular governments and institutions only create and enforce the laws and precepts taught by their priests of humanism, who are usually false teachers from humanistic churches, mosques and synagogues, but can also be teachers of atheistic secular humanism. These priests of humanism cause literally all governments, judicial systems and other institutions to serve Satan’s unjust Roman kingdom. So, being able to openly see all of this is a great benefit for God’s kingdom, although their injustice becomes even more frustrating and painful. Still, as more of His elect children see the humanistic lies exposed and the spiritual truths of God revealed, more flee from their humanistic enslavers, and from the human gods ruling over them. More turn away from those liars who want to trap them in dungeons of delusions. But this exposure of humanists also means that Satan’s fourth kingdom will no longer require them. It means the world-wide secular Roman Empire will soon burn the false churches which can no longer lure in the elect. The Great Whore of Babylon and her harlot daughter churches will be destroyed like useless refuse. For, once fake churches fail to dupe and enslave the elect, and cannot provide their demonic family with valuable slave labour from God’s honest sons and daughters, their ruthless secular siblings will kill them without mercy, then plunder their houses.
Since this superficial and fake kind of morality is no longer practised by illicit humanistic authorities of the world, yet they all must still try to purge their lands of God’s truths and ways to protect their own lies and unjust ways, nothing remains to provide order and stability in their lawless lands. So now those weak, foolish, wretched, immoral, selfish little elite human gods at the tops of Roman Page 1600
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hierarchies are desperately hording Satan’s invention of money, so they might purchase mercenary armies and strong fortresses in their father’s dying world order, hoping to survive the chaos they caused. Yet they never stop trying to conquer the vulnerable, and still send spies to sabotage lands belonging to their rival siblings in their highly factious and internally warring fourth kingdom of Rome. Then they continue to ruthlessly exploit their own people to death, leaving them without the human resources they need. So they eagerly call on Death and Hades to help them preserve their unjust power and illicit incomes, but kep causing their own destruction even as they flee from it.
Humanists are always busily creating more self-destructive evils. And now that they have stolen all the trust, faith, peace and spiritual truths from the hearts of their people, those dupes are constantly betraying one another into the hands of their elite human gods, hoping that those with wealth and power might reward them with scraps of stale bread. So their people have not only lost their love for one another, due to a loss of trust, but are now actively hating one another, since they know anyone could betray them at any time. Meanwhile, the elect among them still crave someone to trust and love. So this has produced a perfect environment for psychopathic deceivers, those who are able to confidently pretend to be good and trustworthy servants of God, to trick the ignorant sleeping elect into following them blindly, together with their insecure non-elect dupes. Thus, due to these chaotic times (and mass media), more “false prophets,” more cult leaders who claim to be speaking the very words of God, have been able to deceive far more people than they have at any other time in history.
Because we are now seeing an unprecedented increase in fake religions and “lawlessness” (ἀνομία,
“state or condition of being disposed to what is lawless, lawlessness,” BDAG3), Jesus told us “the love of many will be evaporated” or “grow cold” (ψυγήσεται ἡ ἀγάπη τῶν πολλῶν). Many elect have seen so much injustice and death that they have lost the ability to love. They are like those who breathed their last breath at the moment of death, and their spirits now sit in their hearts and souls silenced, staring at the nothingness all around them. Since love depends on a person’s spirit trusting another spirit, but the injustice, inequity and betrayals of lawlessness and fake religion drives away all trust from their hearts, they find it impossible to love, and no longer even look for it. Each elect soul has cocooned into a safe little corner of the world and hides from all others. Their souls are self-incarcerated, locked in empty, futile, small, dark prisons of their own making. All that matters to them are temporary distractions to entertain their meaningless lives, any superficial and worthless forms of amusement they can find for their still-existing bodies and brains of flesh. For the only purpose remaining for their lives is to engage in a servile worship of the psychopathic human gods who are able to easily exploit them, the very same elite manipulators who had caused their pathetic, exploited, wretched state of existence in the first place. Still, God offers an escape from all of this.
Jesus told us, “the one persevering [in just and God-like love] unto the end, this one will be saved.”
Yet how can we persevere (ὑπομένω, “maintain a belief or course of action in the face of opposition, stand one’s ground, hold out, endure,” BDAG3). How can we keep loving while we serve as slaves to the untrustworthy and exploiting elite in Satan’s fourth kingdom? The answer is that we cannot.
During these times of “lawlessness” and fake religion in the devil’s collapsing world-wide empire, we must step out of their kingdom, realize that we were not born to be slaves, and build up the true, just, equitable, loving kingdom of God, as our new home. The only way we can possibly persevere, and still be able to love in a just and God-like way, is if we flee into another kingdom, into the kingdom which our Creator and the Judge of the earth is building for us. And His kingdom is not far from us, because it exists beside all elect spirits, and our spirits are already dwelling in it. The elect must abandon Satan’s world order and its dominant religion of humanism, including all of its false churches. We must forsake its worship of Mammon, its justice systems based on terrorism, its steep Page 1601
hierarchies of exploiting and exploited classes, and its lying propaganda which promotes the blind worship of human gods. Now we must pray, beg for God’s kingdom to come, and let our God reason with our spirits in our hearts, until we develop sound minds, with Him as our only Head. Then all the elect, all whose spirits long to love in truth, must work together. We must let Jesus draw us close to Him and one another in true churches, let Him teach and train our very spirits, so we can learn to form just, equitable governments in the lands He will choose to claim for Himself. We must keep on doing this, more and better, throughout the end times and to the very end of them. We must build the kingdom that both His Word and His natural creations testify about. In this current chaos, the one and only way an elect spirit can keep on loving is by trusting and relying upon the real Jesus, our God, by fleeing into His kingdom, where we are able to fully trust one another through faith in Him.
Jesus ended His description of the first five eras with a concluding remark: “And this, the Gospel of the kingdom, will be proclaimed in the entire world’s population for a testimony to all the people groupings. And then the end times will arrive” (Mat. 24:14). The actual and true Gospel of Jesus Christ’s New Covenant salvation—a genuine account of how our God Himself will write His Law on our hearts through His own personal teaching and training of our spirits—has to be proclaimed or preached “in the entire world’s population for a testimony to all the people groupings” (ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ
οἰκουμένῃ εἰς μαρτύριον πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν). Here Jesus repeats two phrases referring to everyone on earth: (1) ὅλῃ τῇ οἰκουμένῃ, “whole of the populated earth,” and, (2) πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, “all the people groupings,” including all the nations, races and other grouping of people. So here Jesus was emphasizing literally every inhabited place on earth, with no exceptions. The true Gospel, not the fake humanistic gospel, is to be proclaimed literally everywhere, at a time occurring just before the end times shall begin, just before Jesus will open the sixth seal. And this only became possible in recent history, now that we have translations of the Bible in all languages, even in electronic media.
Mark told us that Jesus prophesied, “And first it is necessary to publicly proclaim the Gospel for all the people groups” (Mark 13:10, from: καὶ εἰς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη πρῶτον δεῖ κηρυχθῆναι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, SBLGNT). So every race, tribe, ethnic group, culture and nation on earth must hear the Gospel, the true message of the Messiah’s New Covenant salvation worked by God’s personal writing of His Law upon individual hearts, by His personal teaching and training of each elect spirit. And the context strongly suggests that this, to a large part, shall occur through a process of testimonies given by the elect who are brought before false churches and governing authorities in public hearings. So the end times will begin soon after a public proclamation of the Gospel occurs in the fifth seal’s era.
Since Jesus said the end times (i.e., the sixth and seventh seals’ eras described in the Revelation) would begin after the world-wide proclamation of the true Gospel, He was clearly implying that the greatest proclamation of the true Gospel would occur during the last part of the fifth seal’s era, which is occurring right now. Soon after the true Gospel reaches the entire world, the era of the sixth seal, lasting only about twenty years, will start. And the beginning of that sixth era will be obvious, since it is initiated with world-wide earthquakes and “stars” falling from the sky onto the earth—causing the terrified people to seek shelter in caves and under rocks, since meteors strike the ground with explosions like bombs. (Or the falling “stars” might be the first-century phenomenological language attempting to describe actual bombs, even nuclear bombs, although I doubt it.) Due to this worldwide disaster, all nations will be in turmoil. For their infrastructures, economies and other systems will be disrupted and mostly destroyed. But this weakening of every aspect of the devil’s financial, political, judiciary, military, communication, transportation, medical, educational and other systems in their very physically oriented fourth kingdom around the world, shall result in a kind of spiritual freedom for the elect. Although the religious and secular humanists will continue to oppose the truth Page 1602
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during that sixth seal’s era, and revive somewhat during the seventh seal’s era, those humanists will be severely weakened, and will also remain just as factious as ever. So their divisiveness, along with the collapse of the systems they most heavily rely upon, will hinder their ability to deceive the elect.
This is likely why God will send this world-wide disaster of the sixth seal, along with the hiatus of about 20 years after the disaster of falling meteors and earthquakes throughout the world. This first blow against Satan’s fourth kingdom will be for that very purpose. Since the core strength of the devil’s centralized, hierarchical secular and religious institutions will collapse, their ability to deny, suppress, twist, corrupt and persecute the true elect will be severely hampered. Thus, the faithful, called and sent servants of God—those whom Jesus Himself chooses, teaches and trains from among the awakened elect—will be able to work in unhindered harmony to effectively preach Christ’s real Gospel of salvation. So this will enable the prophesied time of great revival forming His true church.
And that sixth seal’s revival will not be like any other revivals in history. For it will be characterized by accurate biblical teachings that effectively lead to real repentance into His genuine truths, with effective, permanent changes to individual lives and produce true local church bodies. Those revived people and their churches will become so pure and pleasing to God that they will last until the earth ends. So this will be the greatest revival during the entire existence of the earth. And this is why the biblical prophecies only ever mention one time when God shall revive His true church of Israel, only one revival shall occur after Jesus formed His true apostolic church during His first advent. That one and only revival, during the sixth seal’s era, will see Jesus seal His ownership of 144,000 virgin male Jews in Israel, along with countless other Jews and Gentiles. In fact, the martyrs among those other sealed saints, who likely will be about half of the total, were called “a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages” (Rev. 7:9, WEB). And all the 144,000 Jews will be martyred too, killed by Satan’s world order, with all those others saints.
Still, none will sleep after they die. All will go directly to the gates of heaven. All will remain fully awake and standing before the throne of Jesus, testifying about His salvation. Yet, if this revival is to take place during the era of the sixth seal, then the real Gospel must begin to become available to all on earth during the time of the fifth seal, which is what Jesus’ prophecy in Matthew 24 also implies.
I believe a world-wide proclamation of the true Gospel has already begun. The Bible is now available to almost everyone in the world, in almost every language, through the internet and mass media. Also, even as I write this book, the utterly holy Spirit of Jesus is now teaching the spirits of many thousands of other elect souls around the world, about the same true Gospel that He is now teaching to me. And those elect are believing Him with same genuine saving faith, learning His ways from Him personally, being trained to rightly apply His truths through just and God-like love. The minds of their spirits are now beginning to acknowledge the wisdom of God’s Word, and are now rejecting lies of fake humanistic churches, as well as the lies of secular humanists. So we must be coming to the end of the fifth seal’s era. So end times will soon begin with the disasters of the sixth seal, possibly within decades. Even our children or grandchildren might see Jesus return to the earth.
Mat. 24:15-22,
The End Times
“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house. Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes. But Page 1603
woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days! Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath, for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened” (Mat. 24:15-22, WEB).
Here Jesus primarily spoke about one particular event that will occur during the last days, since that event will mostly affect the Jews living in Israel, and especially those living in Jerusalem, or those who flee to that city for refuge. And Jesus focused on this event because He was in Jerusalem when He was teaching about the end times. He was also speaking in the presence of Jews who came from all parts of Israel, as well as Jews from the world-wide diaspora, all who gathered there for Passover celebrations. That terrible time would occur during a period lasting about three and a half years, and would be the climax of the end times. This event would begin after the leader of the dominant world power—Satan’s “beast,” the ruler of that devil’s fourth Roman kingdom, as well as the high priest of that evil spirit’s religion of humanism, the evil “anointed one” or messiah of Satan—will murder the two prophets whom God will send to Jerusalem. And that event will end on the day Jesus physically returns, when Jesus will walk through the Kidron Valley again, through the Golden Gate and into the third temple of God, which the Jews will build during the end times. For, as Jesus descends upon Jerusalem, literally all the non-elect soldiers and citizens of Satan’s fourth kingdom will simply die.
When Jesus spoke of this, He gave us a warning: “Therefore, when you people might fully observe the abomination producing desolation having stood in the Holy Place [with the effect of committing blasphemy], that [which] had been written through Daniel the prophet, the one who is reading [that prophecy] must understand, then those in Judea must flee over the mountains” (Mat. 24:15-16, from: Ὅταν οὖν ἴδητε τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ Δανιὴλ τοῦ προφήτου ἑστὸς ἐν τόπῳ
ἁγίῳ, ὁ ἀναγινώσκων νοείτω, τότε οἱ ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ φευγέτωσαν ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη, SBLGNT). Now Daniel first prophesied about a time for the “end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy”
(Dan. 9:24, WEB). This “most holy” anointed one or Messiah is Jesus, who began to work God’s prophesied New Covenant salvation in AD 25, in the very year Daniel prophesied that He would (i.e., 69 weeks of years or 483 years after Artaxerxes I issued the decree to restore Jerusalem and its temple worship in 459 BC, see Dan. 9:25; cf., Ezra 7:6-27). Jesus did “seal up vision and prophecy,”
all that pertained to salvation through God’s personal works inside His people. Through His death and His resurrection, and His gift of His Holy Spirit to His true church, Jesus fulfilled all that Daniel prophesied about to the church Israel. All the elect on earth have received these works of God inside them, because Jesus purchased an “end of sins” through His death on the cross, in order “to make reconciliation for iniquity,” to mend their broken relationships with God. Then, by His Holy Spirit’s teaching and training, His awakened elect are growing “everlasting righteousness” in their hearts.
Daniel also prophesied that Satan’s fourth kingdom would “cut off” (kill) the Messiah, usually translated as the “anointed one.” Then, after killing the Messiah, that fourth Roman kingdom was prophesied to destroy the temple as well. Thus, just as Daniel prophesied, Rome murdered Jesus in about AD 28, and Rome later destroyed the temple, in about AD 70. Furthermore, Daniel prophesied that, after this, an unspecified period of wars causing desolations would occur. Following this long but unspecified period of time, there would be a Sabbath or week of years. So those seven years will occur during the end times. Within those seven years, the “prince” or “ruler” of Satan’s fourth kingdom, who is the “beast,” will make a firm covenant with many other rulers on earth, but will not get them to unite in his attempt to kill all the elect in Israel until the end of his seven-year rule. But, Page 1604
as the “beast” is trying to unite those armies against God’s elect, he will attack Israel, in the midst of his seven year rule, overcome it and enter the Jerusalem temple. Then he “shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate” (Dan. 9:27, WEB). But, since Israel will not worship him, that beast will increase his persecutions of all the elect, not only of the Jews in Israel, but also of all the true Christians who support Israel, as many as he can find all over the world. And he will return with allies at the end of his reign, in an attempt to kill everyone in Israel. But that last attack on Israel will be interrupted by Jesus returning to the earth, to save Israel and destroy the beast, along with his allies and all the other surviving non-elect.
So Daniel prophesied that the “beast” would stop the renewed practice of offering animal sacrifices and other gifts to God in a third temple, which has not yet been built, but will be erected soon, either immediately before or during the beast’s seven year reign. For sacrifices and offering can only be made in a legitimate temple built on the place God chose for it in Jerusalem. But this stopping of the temple sacrifices must occur at an undetermined time after the “beast’s” kingdom had already destroyed the temple at the time he “cut off” the Anointed One (i.e., the Messiah). The temple seeing Jesus work His salvation was the second temple, which Satan’s fourth kingdom of Rome destroyed in AD 70. So here Daniel is talking about a new temple that has not yet been built in Jerusalem, a third temple. But it will be built, and in the same place where the second temple was located. For the only place on earth that God’s Law allows sacrifices and offerings is in His Jerusalem temple. And God’s Law also commanded Israel to build His temple only at the place He chose. And God chose, once and for all time, to build His temple over a threshing floor on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Then Daniel described the ruler of the devil’s fourth kingdom, who stops sacrifices in the third temple, as “one who makes desolate.” And he performs this evil deed by putting a “desolation/filthy thing/idol” (Hebrew: shikkoots) “on/over/above” (Hebrew: al) the “wing/edge/pinnacle” (Hebrew: kanaph) of the temple. This is what Jesus, and many Jewish scholars, had called “the abomination producing desolation” (τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως). This is the event which most other Jews knew from the Septuagint as “the abomination of desolations upon the temple” (ἐπὶ τὸ ἱερὸν βδέλυγμα τῶν
ἐρημώσεων). Then Jesus also prophesied that the wicked one (the “beast”) would stand “in the Holy Place,” in the room of the temple where God’s promised His presence to reside, and where only sanctified Aaronic priests were allowed to enter. So we know the “beast,” the dominant world ruler of Satan’s fourth kingdom, will conquer Israel, enter the temple and set up an idol (likely an image of himself, since he will make all his entire empire worship him), placing it within the third temple.
From the day the “beast” stops sacrifices to God and defiles that third temple, there will be great suffering for Israel, lasting throughout the last half of the beast’s seven-year rule. Now a half of seven years is about 1,278 days. But Daniel prophesied that this time of Israel’s tribulation will be about 12 days more than that, followed by another 45 days before sacrifices will resume again:
“From the time that the continual burnt offering shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days. Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days” (Dan. 12:11-12, WEB). And, during this 1,290-day period, the “beast’s” armies “shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and no one shall help him” (Dan. 11:45, WEB).
So Daniel said the “beast” of the fourth kingdom would camp between the Mediterranean sea and
“the glorious holy mountain” (which is the Temple Mount in Jerusalem). The “beast’s” armies at that time, together with his allies, would remain in Israel, camped in the valleys, for much of last half of his prophesied and appointed seven years of rule over the devil’s fourth kingdom, that is, for about Page 1605
1,335 days, tormenting the elect in Israel. And the “beast” himself would often come to Israel. But, during the first half of the “beast’s” rule, God’s two prophets will prophesy in Jerusalem for three and a half years (1,260 days, see Rev. 11:3). Only after the time of the two prophets blessing Israel and destroying the enemies of God, will the “beast,” who has already taken political control over Israel during the first half of his reign, make war and fully occupy Israel. So Israel will likely make some kind of treaty with the “beast” when he first conquers Israel. But, it seems that, after the first three and a half years, the “beast” will think the treaty is broken and send in his armies. Then he
“will make war with [the two prophets], and overcome them, and kill them” (Rev. 11:7, WEB). So he will murder the two prophets, likely together with the 144,000 virgin male Jewish evangelists, as well as countless other elect souls in Israel and throughout the world, in the last half of his reign.
Daniel also prophesied, “The fourth animal [i.e., beast] shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.... He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the Law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time [i.e., his last three and a half years, the last half of his seven-year rule].
But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end. The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him” (Dan. 7:23,25-27, WEB). So Daniel prophesied that the
“beast” will persecute God’s awakened elect everywhere in the entire world for the last three and a half years of his life on earth, as he will “change the times and the Law” in ways that devour, tread down and break the world to pieces—as a secular humanist, who worships mankind, but worships himself in particular. He will blindly and obsessively speak against God and His people, the “saints”
(God’s set-apart ones). Many of these will be the “souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand” (Rev. 20:4, WEB). By this, we know the preferred method execution used by the beast. His army will cut off our heads. So, as the Revelation, Daniel and other prophets said, since that beast bears a consuming hatred of God and His church, he will gather armies from all over the world against Israel, and spend the last half of his reign trying to destroy it, until he draws near Jerusalem. Then he and his armies will meet their own doom instead.
This is why our God Jesus told us, “The one who is reading [Daniel] must understand, then those in Judea must flee over the mountains.” The beast’s massive armies will enter Israel primarily through ports of north-western Israel, such as Haifa. Most of his armies will march south toward Jerusalem, through the valley stretching out below the ancient city of Megiddo, sometimes called Armageddon.
And that valley is where they will establish their main camps. But they will spread out and attack all parts of Israel. And some armies of his humanistic allies will enter Israel by land, from lands east of Jerusalem. So the entire region will be under siege, and most surrounding allies of Israel will also succumb to the beast’s armies, although some of her allies will resist and remain free to the end. But God will strengthen the people of Israel with wisdom, and also by providing what they will need to resist the armies of the “beast” during his second and final attack. The superior forces of the beast will gradually overtake most of Israel, but will not completely subdue Jerusalem and some of the hills of Judea. For armed Israelites will hide in the hills, then attack his armies at will, engaging in guerrilla warfare. So it seems that Israel will plan carefully, by storing munitions and supplies in various hiding places within the hills. Thus, they will endure against the invading armies of the beast for the last three and a half years of his rule on earth, until Jesus comes to destroy those humanists.
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Nevertheless, the beast will move very quickly and strategically, likely with trained, coordinated and well equipped modern armies. They will likely also establish surveillance of the entire area within hours, such as through armed drones and so on, and may begin to do so even before they set foot on land. So Israel must be ready to move very fast, without delay, so as many as possible can flee into hidden camps throughout the Judaean hill country, to avoid being spotted by the beast’s surveillance.
If some leave too late, they will be seen, gunned down or bombed as they flee. Or enemies might mark their locations and track them to their camps. Therefore, there will not be much warning before they must flee. But, once they are safely hidden in their camps, and if the surveillance did not see them fleeing from their cities, the enemy will not be able to kill or track them. Then the “beast” will not be able to send out enough drones to find them, as they scatter throughout the hill country where drones are shot down, hiding in caves where even infrared cameras cannot detect them underground.
This is likely why Jesus warned Israel: “The one upon the housetop, do not even begin to go down to pick up things out of his house. And the one in the field, do not even begin to turn back again to pick up his garment. So, during those days, woe to those having [a baby] in the womb and those nursing.
But make prayers of supplication, that your fleeing might not happen during a storm, nor during a Sabbath” (Mat. 24:17-20, ALT). The urgency of those times will cause a few minutes of delay to make the difference between life and death. So, if clothing and other needed supplies are not already stored in the hidden caves of the hill country, and it will be too late to bring them from home, then the pregnant and nursing women, their children, the aged and the infirmed coming there will suffer greatly. If inclement weather impedes the journey to those camps, few will get there alive. If some Jews refuse to travel on a Sabbath, or are meeting in Sabbath gatherings that take time to disperse, they will be seen and slaughtered by the armies of the beast. Every visible populated area in Israel, every city, town or village, will be attacked. And, judging by the extremely urgent commands of Jesus, all populated areas that are visible will be bombed, then overrun with soldiers, who will murder everyone left alive. For the beast’s totally humanistic armies will be like those of Hitler and Putin, without any inner consciences, without any mercy for those whom they mentally dehumanize.
Now many like to dream that all these words of Jesus were about a past event, and most say it refers to the devastation of Israel by Rome during the Jewish rebellions occurring between AD 66-135.
And some say this must be true because the fourth kingdom of Rome no longer exists. But they forget that Daniel, the other prophets and the apostles all said that Satan’s fourth kingdom of Rome was going to continuously grow until it conquered the entire world. Then the “beast” would rule an empire of seven nations which would become the dominant world power, albeit not the only world power, not even the only humanistic kingdom in the world. And God’s Word also told us that the fourth kingdom would not fall until the Messiah came to completely destroy it, until the Messiah physically returned to rule the entire world. Therefore, since Jesus has not physically returned to rule the entire world, in a way where His wise and loving justice is literally everywhere, this means that Satan’s fourth religious kingdom of the Roman Empire has never been destroyed and still exists. It means Satan’s kingdom will continue to conquer and destroy until the real second advent of Jesus.
Furthermore, Jesus’ own words here make it impossible for us to believe that He was referring to the Jewish rebellion of the first and second centuries. He said: “For then there will be great tribulation, of the sort that did not effectively occur from the beginning of the world order until now. Neither, most definitely should it not occur! And, if those days had not been shortened, all flesh would not be safe. Yet, on account of the elect, those days will be shortened” (Mat. 24:21-22, ALT). Here the emphatic command of our God Jesus, with triple negatives and an aorist subjunctive (οὐδʼ οὐ μὴ
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γένηται, “Neither, most definitely should it not occur!”), means this “great tribulation” shall not be equalled throughout literally all time on the earth, from the planet’s very beginning to its very end.
I know that many theologians use a lot of rhetoric and euphemisms to disguise the fact that they believe Jesus was talking about Rome’s conquest and annihilation of Israel by the second century, when He prophesied this. They say Jesus was simply employing emotional exaggeration to describe the tribulations of Israel during their rebellions against Rome. And they think Jesus was merely a common man, and not nearly as brilliant as them, the secular humanists teaching Platonism in their Roman churches. So Jesus merely saw the political and religious signs of the times and, like many others in His day, predicted the destruction of Israel by Rome in the not-so-distant future. Thus, when Jesus predicted the scary abomination in the Jerusalem temple and Rome’s attacks against Israel, He let His imagination run wild. This was all from His limited local perspective, as a man who never travelled outside the region, who saw the whole world as His land of Israel. This is what caused Him to perceive Rome’s destruction of Israel as the worst event that could ever occur on earth throughout history. However, all of this kind of thinking by these small-minded and arrogant little middle-class theologians fits either the text of these prophesies by Jesus and Daniel, which both clearly possess a global scope, nor the consistent descriptions of Jesus’ personality. Those “liberal”
theologians, who teach this nonsense, also act as though they are much wiser than Jesus. Yet, inside, they know that all their speculations are not true. For Jesus did cite prophecies of Daniel that were clearly about world-wide events and obviously referred to literally all times in the world’s entire existence. Then they also face another dilemma. For Jesus’ words either prove that He willingly sought His own death through total delusions and for no good reason as a completely insane man, or else He was actually speaking as God, as a Spirit who saw all of the past, present and future times.
Since all the physical evidence proves that Jesus spoke only verifiable facts about the current men and situations all around Him, as well as perfect descriptions of future events, and did all this through His own Spirit within Him, without the help of God or man, we must admit that Jesus is God Himself. Likewise, Daniel claimed that he received the prophecies he wrote from God and His angels, and those prophecies have proved to be true in hundreds of details, without any ever having proved to be false. Thus, we believe that Daniel did indeed receive his knowledge of the future from God Himself. Both the words of Jesus nor Daniel prove to be trustworthy, and only the words of those “liberal” theologians prove to be the ramblings of a fool. Looking at the evidence of the now verified testimonies of sane, responsible, intelligent and extremely honest first-century writers, we must rationally conclude, with open and unbiased minds, that Jesus was sane, rational, profoundly insightful and wise. Then even Jesus’ contemporary enemies admitted that He did many genuine miracles, and dared to call any of His miracles fake, not while thousands of reliable eye witnesses could testify that they were real. So, yes, we believe Jesus is God, that His Spirit is the Spirit who created all existing material and spiritual realities. Therefore, as we also look at the history of Israel during the days of its rebellion, and see how its conquest by Rome clearly was not much worse than the times when the Assyrians and Babylonians starved, tortured, raped and murdered the people of Israel, we cannot believe that Jesus made this prophecy about that Jewish rebellion in AD 66-135.
Rather, the context and grammar indicate that Jesus definitely was prophesying about the end times, and about the very worst global tribulations that will ever occur in the entire history of the world.
Obviously, when Jesus referred to the “great tribulation,” He spoke of extreme suffering throughout the entire world, a time when “all flesh would not be safe,” not even the “flesh” of plants and the smallest of creatures, like insects. It will be a time when all life on earth faces annihilation. And our God Jesus commanded that the entire “world order” (κόσμος), all earth’s inhabitants, will never ever Page 1608
see such a time, not until the end times. For that kind of world-wide tribulation would completely overwhelm all. It would not only destroy all order in human civilizations, but many living plants and animals as well. Clearly, Jesus was teaching about the end times here, about the days of the seven trumpets and seven bowls of wrath in the era of the seventh seal, all that the Revelation warned us about. And all this would come after world-wide earthquakes and meteors strike various places on earth, like bombs, which is then followed by the great revival of the true church. In particular, Jesus was warning Israel about the days of the beast, whom Daniel and John wrote about, the terrible but brief time of Israel’s warfare with the most powerful enemy she had ever encountered, the days that Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel and the other prophets knew would come before the Messiah’s second advent.
“Yet, on account of the elect, those days will be shortened,” on account of those with spirits created from the substance of God’s just and loving Spirit, His children made in His image. Those days of God’s wrath upon the humanistic world order will be shortened to only one generation, which was traditionally about 40 years, and is limited by God to 120 years (Gen. 6:3). Then the power of the Creator God Jesus will restore all order and all nature, for the surviving humans, animals and plants.
From the start of the sixth seal’s events to the return of Jesus, when Jesus destroys the beast and all his followers so only He might rule the earth, it will be merely four decades, or up to twelve. And we will soon be able to determine almost the very day of His coming. After the beast stops sacrifices in the third temple of Jerusalem, Jesus will return in three and a half years, specifically, in 1,290 days.
Of course, we still will not know the precise day or hour of His return, even after we see the beast stop sacrifices in the third temple. For Jewish days, both in the time of Daniel and during the time of Christ’s first advent, began at sunset. And, in addition to this, the Jews who maintain this belief have always considered a day to be any part of its hours. So, according to their system, even the last few minutes before the official moment of sunset is the first day within a series of days. And any part of the first few minutes after the official sunset is the last day in the series. Thus, Daniel’s 1,290 days actually refers to somewhere between 1,288 and 1,290 of the 24-hour-periods we would call “days.”
Those last three and a half years of the beast’s rule on earth will be the worst time in history, for both the New and Old Covenant branches of Israel, but especially for elect Jews in the land of Israel. Very many will die. For Isaiah was not prophesying about Israel during the time of the Assyrian invasion when he wrote: “The remnant of the trees of His forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number. It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them [i.e., not on the enemy nation they had trusted in, instead of God’s truths and ways], but
shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth . A
remnant will return [to God], even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return [to God]. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, in the midst of all the earth” (Is. 10:19-23, WEB, cf. Rom. 9:27-28). So this greatest of all tribulations which is “determined” or predestined for His priesthood of Israel will kill most, leaving only a “remnant.” Yet, after this, Yahweh God will cause the souls of literally all the Jewish survivors to turn to Him, to worship Him in truth, on the day He returns in His body of flesh.
As the elect remnant in Israel see the flesh of the beast’s armies filling the Megiddo Valley, they will also see a great light in the sky. They will realize that Yahweh God is descending upon the Mount of Olives in a body of human flesh. Thus, as Jesus walks across the Kidron Valley to the third temple in Jerusalem, there will be much godly sorrow leading to repentance. “It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to Me Page 1609
whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for Him, as one grieves for his firstborn. In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon” (Zech. 12:9-11, WEB).
All this godly sorrow in the hearts of the remnant in Israel, will bring their repentance into the truth.
But this repentance will not come until all elect Gentiles turn to Jesus first. And all elect Gentiles will not repent until some time after the prophesied true revival of God’s New Covenant church, during the era of the sixth seal, which will occur only after all those Gentile elect utterly reject the Roman religion of humanism, and after they see how that fourth kingdom’s “beast” is obsessively warring against God Himself. Then Jesus will descend to the earth and restore all things. So, until that day of our returning Lord and God Jesus, “a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, ‘There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. This is My covenant to them, when I will take away their sins.’ Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake [i.e., this indicates that many in Israel’s Old Covenant branch of His church will persecute and slander the New Covenant branch, as their ‘enemy,’ even until the day Jesus returns]. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake [i.e., for the sake of the patriarchs such as Abraham, Jacob, the prophets and so on]. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (Rom. 11:25b-29, WEB). So we see, the elect can even be enemies of Christ’s true and real church, yet still be His elect destined for heaven.
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“Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it. For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. Behold, I have told you beforehand. If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it. For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For wherever the carcass is, there is where the vultures gather together.
“But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other” (Mat. 24:23-31, WEB).
So Jesus had just finished speaking about the entire span of the last days, which would begin when He completed His work of salvation on the cross and end with Israel’s final tribulation, caused by the beast at the very end of the end times, mere days before His second, victorious, glorious return to restore the whole earth and rule with loving justice. Then He gave His disciples another warning. He began this with a particle, τότε (“then, at that time”). And the time He referred to, in context, would have been the time He had been prophesying about during this entire teaching session. Thus, it was a warning about the worst deceptions they would face throughout all the last days, from the moment He sent the Holy Spirit into the hearts of His true disciples on the day of the Pentecost, until the very last hour of the beast’s reign on earth. Here Jesus was warning them about the kind of deceit that the devil and his minions used from the beginning, but especially the kind Satan’s humanistic kingdoms Page 1610
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would use after all the citizens of his unjust world order had been deluded into thinking they were gods who ruled their own destinies, and could even rule over other human beings. Here Jesus was warning about fake preachers, false teachers in the church. And even in the days of Christ’s true apostles, they were already telling us that the devil had been sending out “false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works” (II Cor. 11:13-15, WEB). So this deceiving by the brood of Satan from lying pulpits in humanistic fake churches began long ago, and continues to this day.
Here Jesus warned us: “At that time, if anyone says to you people, ‘Look! There is the anointed one!” Or, ‘There!’ Do not trust [them]! For false anointed ones and false prophets will be raised up, then give great signs and omens so as to fully seduce, if possible, even the elect. Look, I effectively reasoned with you people beforehand. Therefore, if they reason with you, ‘Look, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, [or say,] ‘Look, [He is] in the inner rooms,’ do not trust [them]” (Mat.
24:23-26, from: τότε ἐάν τις ὑμῖν εἴπῃ· Ἰδοὺ ὧδε ὁ χριστός, ἤ· Ὧδε, μὴ πιστεύσητε· ἐγερθήσονται
γὰρ ψευδόχριστοι καὶ ψευδοπροφῆται, καὶ δώσουσιν σημεῖα μεγάλα καὶ τέρατα ὥστε πλανῆσαι εἰ
δυνατὸν καὶ τοὺς ἐκλεκτούς· ἰδοὺ προείρηκα ὑμῖν. ἐὰν οὖν εἴπωσιν ὑμῖν· Ἰδοὺ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ἐστίν, μὴ ἐξέλθητε· Ἰδοὺ ἐν τοῖς ταμείοις, μὴ πιστεύσητε, SBLGNT). Notice here that Jesus emphatically and twice commanded us, His disciples, “do not trust them” (μὴ πιστεύσητε). And Jesus commanded us to not trust a specific kind of person, a gullible kind who follows after deceiving “anointed ones.”
So let us carefully define these terms used by Jesus. The noun χριστός literally means “anointed one.” As an ecclesiastical term used by Jews in Jesus’ day, and by Christians to this day, it referred to anyone appointed and approved by God to serve Him as a priest, prophet, ruler or agent to carry out some kind of mission. And χριστός is equivalent to the Hebrew word that we translate into English as the noun Messiah. Then Jesus was thee “Anointed One,” thee eternal High King and High Priest appointed and approved by God. But, in this context, χριστός clearly did not refer to thee Anointed One, not to thee Messiah Jesus. Rather, because Jesus also referred to plural “anointed ones,” and specifically to “false anointed ones” (ψευδόχριστοι), He referred to any kind of fake “anointed one,”
to any priest, prophet or ruler who falsely claimed to be appointed and approved of by God. Then the phrase, μὴ πιστεύσητε, with the negative and an aorist subjunctive form of πιστεύω, is a grammatical construction “used to forbid the occurrence of an action ... its force is equivalent to an imperative after μή; hence, it should be translated Do not rather than You should not” ( Greek Grammar, Beyond the Basics, Daniel B. Wallace). Also, the verb πιστεύω primarily means, “to consider something to be true and therefore worthy of one’s trust” (BDAG3). Since Jesus used a second person plural aorist form in a teaching which was to be passed on to all generations of disciples living through the entire period of the last days, He was forbidding all His true disciples in all time from ever trusting any of the sensationalistic reports about a person who falsely claims to be anointed by God, as His servant.
Now we need to further define the kind of “anointed one” which those foolish deceived souls would blindly trust, and would be asking us to follow with them. And we must know the kinds of people who believed the lies of those kinds of deceivers. By using a future passive form of ἐγείρω, Jesus indicated that the deceivers “will be raised up” by the people they deceive, will be highly esteemed by them. That is, they definitely will not be raised up by God, but by humans. So all those religious deceivers will not be anointed by God, only by their blind dupes. Mindless, ill-informed, unwise and utterly gullible fools will “raise up” those deceivers into positions of power and influence. Then their humanistic dupes will also give those self-indulgent human gods much wealth too. For, in the fourth Roman kingdom of Satan’s world order, this was an absolutely essential aspect of being “raised up.”
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Here Jesus was drawing us a picture of dupes esteeming and serving deceivers, whom they raise up and worship as human gods. Now Jesus called those human gods the ψευδόχριστοι (“false anointed ones”). And, in context, Jesus implied that there would be many deceiving “anointed ones.” They would be commonly seen throughout the last days. But, I repeat, Jesus was not saying that there would be many people claiming to be thee prophesied Messiah descended from David, whom God appointed to be the King of the universe. Rather, these deceivers would falsely claim to be the kinds of χριστόι who were divinely appointed prophets, priests, rulers and kings, since all these kinds of people were also called “anointed ones” in biblical times. And even some of the most wicked kings of Israel had falsely claimed to be “anointed ones” too. Those kinds of deceivers wanted the people to believe that they were chosen by God and bore His authority to do whatever they pleased, all their evil and destructive deeds which the real God actually detested and condemned. And false prophets and fake priests did the same. Jesus referred to the kinds of deceivers who say God chose them to bear great authority or prophesy or teach doctrines. And these “false anointed ones” will be either political animals who use false religion to gain influence, power and wealth, or else false preachers.
Jesus emphasized one kind of deceiver that He forbade us to ever trust, a type who fools the gullible souls in the worst of ways. These were the ψευδοπροφῆται (“false prophets”), who will often, but not always, falsely claim to God’s “anointed ones.” Now God defined a true prophet as a person He causes to speak in His name. For God declared this about true prophets: “I w
ill put M y words in his
mouth, and he
shall speak to them al
l that I shall command him . It shall happen, that whoever will
not listen to M
y words which h e shall speak in M
y name , I will require it of him” (Deut. 18:18-19,
WEB). So God must give a true prophet all the concepts that he or she speaks or writes, and put those words in him or her. And a true prophet speaks or writes only what God’s Spirit commands his or her spirit to speak or write. Thus, a true prophet gives the people the very words of God, speaks or writes in the name of God, provides words that bear all the authority, power and attributes of God.
And this is why God told His priesthood of Israel that He would hold them accountable for not hearing and heeding the words which He spoke through His true prophets. On the other hand, when His people heeded the words of fake prophets, and treated their words as the words of God Himself, those fake prophets would lead those people into some terrible crimes and sins through their lies. Or, when their fake prophecies proved to be false, God’s good name would be severely slandered among His people, even in a way where they would lose their saving faith and reject Him. So those who claimed to be prophets had to be tested, and prove that they fulfilled all the requirements of God’s definition a true prophet in Deuteronomy 18:18-19. And all the prophets who wrote all that exists in our canon of Scriptures did fulfill all those requirements. All their words did prove to be God’s truth.
Therefore, “false prophets” are those whose spirits do not receive their words, dreams and visions directly from the Creator’s utterly holy Spirit. Rather, they are those who speak or write what they imagine in their own little minds of flesh or in the even more wretched and wicked minds of their non-elect spirits. And they do not tell the people what God commands them to say, but rather what the people want to believe, or what they want their dupes to believe, so they can trick the people into saying and doing things which serve their own nefarious purposes. Yet those fake prophets will do all this lying and deceiving, all this cajoling and manipulation, in God’s name. They will falsely claim their teachings, prophecies and visions originate from God and from God’s Word, and, therefore, must be trusted and heeded, because their words bear all the authority, power and attributes of the almighty Creator of the universe. Also, very much of what we know about God is derived from God’s words delivered to us through His true prophets. Thus, we worship the God described by their words, the God who said and did what they say He said and did. But those who Page 1612
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listen to false prophets will get to know a very different and false god, the god who said and did what the false prophet says that god said and did. Therefore, all false prophets, as well as all teachers of false doctrines, lead their trusting dupes into the worship of false gods, into the sin of idolatry. And humanistic false prophets and false teachers also lead people into the worship of themselves as gods.
Then Jesus told us some the devices, other than deceptive words, that these fake “anointed ones” and
“false prophets” will practise through their false religion of Satan’s fourth kingdom, the methods they will use to strengthen their mental and spiritual hold on the humanistic fools who worship them as their human gods and saviours. These liars will “give great signs and omens so as to fully seduce, if possible, even the elect.” And, throughout history, we have seen countless fakes give many “great signs and omens.” We’ve even seen millions of elect souls enslaved by “false anointed ones” and by
“false prophets,” because they saw fake wonders and believed in those who falsely produced them.
The first types of deceptions were σημεῖα μεγάλα, “great signs.” Now the kind of “sign” (σημεῖον) Jesus spoke about, in this context of being able to fool souls, was “an event that is an indication or confirmation of intervention by transcendent powers” (BDAG3). More specifically, it referred to any kind of phenomenon, spectacle or wonder that a religious deceiver can falsely claim to be sign of God’s approval or disapproval of something. And liars are very good at using just about any kind of unusual or noteworthy circumstance as a “sign” of God’s endorsement of themselves and their lies.
Then, to a humanist, the adjective “great” (μέγας) is defined in a way that their religious faith in human gods has severely distorted. So, to humanists, the word “great” connotes extensive strength and power, particularly over human lives and circumstances. Then it also usually suggests that
“great” humans should also possess very much of Satan’s invention of money, so they can live self-indulgent lives befitting a human god. Thus, “great” wealth is also a “sign” of God’s approval and anointing. To a churchy humanist, all “great” people possess the power to do whatever they want, no matter how much others oppose them, and regardless of how much their words and deeds might harm or kill other people. To humanists, all “great” people possess the right or “freedom” to appease all the desires of their selfish human wills. So, considering how the demonic Roman religion of humanism has influenced religious dupes throughout history, who are the ones Jesus was talking about here, we can define those “great signs” here as either: (1) fake miracles that impress, flatter or exalt those who pretend to perform them, although they are produced through the same kind of trickery used by showmen and magicians; (2) false interpretations of notable current events by liars, who attempt to use them in manipulating the people for their own personal gain, and to also bolster the trust of the people in themselves, to fool them into thinking God has approved of them and that God is helping them become powerful and rich; (3) any other kind of deception regarding spectacles like eclipses and meteors, which they can use to promote their own “greatness” as wanna-be human gods; or (4) actual miracles worked by demons through God’s permission, as a punishment used to delude those who do not love the truth, and worked through extremely dark and deluded non-elect slaves of Satan, through psychopaths to whom God gave His permission to kill in a stubborn land.
The second kind of thing that deceivers use to enslave their dupes are “omens” (τέρατα). A τέρας is
“something that astounds because of transcendent association” (BDAG3). This can be anything, such as an economic downturn during the term of a political leader, which can be lied about and used as an “omen” to “prove” that God hates that leader, and that God demands that the liar, who points to that “omen,” should replace that terrible leader. And these “omens” are never examined, to find out why they occurred or what caused them. If an international cartel caused the economic failures all over the world, and that political leader even limited those bad effects in a brilliant and godly way, it does not matter. For those adept liars are able to effectively use that false “omen” to convince their Page 1613
dupes to hate and destroy that leader. And, wow, we have seen so many “omens” used by fake
“anointed ones” and “false prophets” throughout history. To this day, countless psychopathic
“anointed ones” are pointing to all kinds of fake omens which supposedly “prove” that God wants the people to trust them as human gods, as their only qualified saviours. For instance, Trump has constantly made false claims about every little newsworthy event, good or bad, declaring that they are “omens” which “prove” that God wants him, and him alone, to be the president. Trump claims that it is God who tells him to utter all his unjust, racist, slandering lies and to do all his destructive deeds. Trump uses every fake “omen” he can to convince his dupes that he is God’s “anointed one,”
the one whom God appointed to destroy biblical democracies and establish biblically condemned forms of injustice throughout the world, in a psychopathic, dictatorial, self-serving fascist regime.
And many other wanna-be gods have done the same throughout history, and will do so in the future, as little prototypes of Satan’s “beast.” Then we also see many “false prophets” and teachers of false doctrines in fake humanistic churches point to the same kinds of “omens,” trying to stir up fear in the people, while declaring that they alone can save them from what those omens portend, so the people will run to them and worship them, giving them all their money and serving them diligently through blind trust. Then many of these religious deceivers imply or outright proclaim that, if “Christians” do not bow before them, while aiding and abetting in their crimes, then God will curse and destroy their lands. Yet the opposite is true! When the people do not “test” those who claim to be God’s “anointed ones” and prophets by weighing their words and deeds against God just and loving laws which Jesus came to fulfill, then thoroughly reject the liars, then God will rebuke the fake “Christian” dupe who believe those liars. If His people have willingly let liars deceive them, God will send them many troubles and hardships for their flesh. And, if those dupes continue to trust those liars and their fake
“omens,” if they keep on aiding and abetting the war of those psychopaths against God and His ways, He will curse them, and justly destroy both those stubborn people and their unjust nations.
History has proven, over and over again, that rulers who falsely claim to be “anointed” by God, the wanna-be gods who are “raised up” by fake churches, including the “false prophets” pretending to speak “omens” in the name of God Himself, are all liars and murderers like their hellish father. All have caused unjust suffering and death. None have never accomplished anything genuinely useful, good, just and godly. The only things those kinds of people do well is gain power and wealth for themselves, but at a huge spiritual, physical and financial cost to all the dupes who follow them.
Nothing but chaos and death follows pretenders like the false secular authorities pretending to be
“anointed” and the fake “prophets” who endorse them, who ride on the backs of those despots. They are parasites with nothing useful to give, since they are sent by the devil. Yet they convince their dupes to worship them with the kind of esteem and service that should be reserved for God alone, with the kind of worship that must never be offered to any being in heaven or on earth. Dupes who place all their faith and confidence in those kinds of liars become so spiritually and mentally blind that they can no longer think nor feel any of the obvious, blatant realities existing all around them, even when those realities strike their faces with enough force to kill them. They grow so dead and unfeeling that they are unable to repent or even acknowledge the wounds of real truth God grants to their enslaved flesh. For their deceivers constantly tell them that all they see, hear or perceive with their senses is not real, and explain all away through false reasoning. Thus, those gullible fools fall ever deeper into a dark mental dungeon of delusions, terrors, conspiracy theories and blind biases.
And their fake “saviours” work those delusions in them for a self-serving purpose, so they can use that mental fog to gain more power and income. And they also need their dupes to fight for their
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their dupes to easily stir up a blind rage in them, against any who contradict or denounce them and their lies. So the deluded wrath of their dupes dehumanizes, persecutes and murders innocent and honest souls in their land, especially those whom the real God sends them. For God always sends some of His true servants to call them to repent into the truth, though most ignore Him. So there is nothing left for God to do but destroy even the elect trapped by those humanists. Thus, God calls one psychopathic wanna-be god to war against the other, to send one’s own dupes to murder the other one’s dupes, until both possess only bloodied, devastated, depopulated lands. God crushes the lands of Satan’s fourth kingdom, over and over again, so He can send His deceived elect home and purify them from their lies and delusions on the judgment day. So, to avoid all this, heed Jesus’ warning!
God created this temporary material universe, and His power transfers a perception of its realities to our spirits, to teach and train those spirits. Earth is an educational institution for all the spirits in it, for all who are destined to enter God’s home in the brighter part of the permanent spiritual realm. So the work of elect spirits is to heed God, to be educated by Him. “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent” (John 6:29, WEB). We trust in Jesus, our Head Teacher, so He can teach and train our spirits to love according to His just, equitable and beneficial ways, because that learning is the whole purpose for living on earth, and that is His salvation. Even the plant and animal spirits gain knowledge of God-like love through their times in flesh on earth. But the elect human spirits, made in the Creator’s image, are created even more infantile than those spirits, and more slowly learn to do His will, albeit, the human elect learn far more in greater detail. So our salvation teaches us to silence and oppose liars and deceivers, to work against them, as our Father and oldest Brother do. This is why our God Jesus commanded us, “Do not trust them!” Thus, even if everyone in a community or false church wants us to come with them to hear the lies of a fake
“anointed” one of any political stripe, or a “false prophet” of some kind, we do not go. For our God Jesus forbade us to trust those followers of deceivers. And, if we must not trust them, we certainly must not trust the deceivers themselves! But exactly how do we fulfill His command to not trust those liars and their dupes? What must we do to remain the faithful disciples who trust in Jesus?
Well, since about 1450 BC, when God revealed a basic summary of His laws and ways to Moses, who wrote all that down for us, God and His Word has been commanding us to honestly and diligently investigate all claims made by those coming to us in His name. And what did God tell us to look for? First, we were to determine whether or not their claims proved true, whether or not the evidence proved that their teachings were just, equitable and beneficial to our siblings in humankind and whether or not their prophecies were actually fulfilled. If their words proved false, we were not only to reject those words, but were forbidden to have anything to do with those lying leaders. But our principal responsibility is to apply the wisdom of God in judging those claiming the authority to lead and influence the people. Are those claimants leading the people away from God and further from His just, loving ways? If those making the claims promote injustice and hate, if they oppose God’s intended meaning of His Law, if they do not confess God’s will that He clearly revealed in His natural creations and in His Word, we are to outright reject both their claims and them. Jesus told us not to trust them. And, if they ruthlessly lie, murder and destroy, God even commanded us to justly judge and punish them, even sentence some to death, to preserve peace and the souls of the innocent.
I repeat again that our God Jesus did not nullify God’s Law, but came to fulfill it. But that Law even commanded us to judge against liars who perform real signs and wonders, since God has merely allowed demonic powers to work through those self-promoting teachers of false doctrines and workers of evil. And remember, it was actually our God Jesus who, in the days of Moses, clearly commanded us: “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises in your midst you, and he gives you a Page 1615
s ign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass , of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’ (which you have not known) ‘and let us serve them’ [this includes the human gods worshipped by humanists]; you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Y
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c ommandments, and obey H i s voice, and you shall serve H i m, and cling to H i m . [In fact, this is exactly what occurs in our spirits through Christ’s New Covenant salvation.] ... [t he false prophet] has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God ... to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in ... If ... certain base fellows have gone out from your midst, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known; then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and t he thing certain, that such abomination was done in your midst , you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city” (Deut. 13:1-4,5,13-16a, WEB). So, if we do diligent research, and are certain that certain people are following a deceiver, we must then “strike” both the people and their deceiver.
Now, since Jesus did not nullify this law, but rather fulfills it in us and through us, we spontaneously practise it. Thus does not mean that we act impulsively, but rather through the inner conscience which our God builds within the minds of our spirits. It means that, when we see evil, we begin to
“inquire, and make search, and ask diligently” about what we are seeing. Then, “if it is true” that we have found someone leading others into lies and sins, if we are “certain that such abomination” has been found among us, we mobilize our justice systems, make arrests, take both the deceiver and his or her followers to court. We “strike” against them. And, since Jesus fulfills this law in so many of us, we no longer need the death penalty to physically protect the innocent from most deceivers. We can simply put most in a prison, to keep them separated from potential innocent victims, and to give the elect trapped among them an opportunity to repent. Yet we definitely need to determine who the deceivers actually are, and we need to “strike” back at them, with fair, just trials, as God commanded in all of His laws. We must maintain truth and justice in our lands. If a “base fellow,” a lying fraud, is found, we absolutely need to “strike” back with justice, for the sakes of our people and to maintain our good relationship with our almighty, wise, just and loving Creator. For God commanded us to do all this, and to keep on doing all this throughout history, lest we fall to destruction in fascist regimes.
In this law from our God Jesus, who was with God from the beginning of the universe and is God, we see that He is teaching and training our elect spirits to carry out this duty and responsibility, to judge whether or not a worker of signs (or omens) and wonders is leading souls to the real Creator God or away from Him. And it does not matter if that deceiver’s signs and omens turn out to be true or real, for they may be worked by evil supernatural powers. After all, we know that not all signs and wonders are worked by God Himself. For God does indeed sometimes allow Satan to work miracles, or use his spiritual power to alter events and entities in the material world. God surely will grant the demons permission to delude those who do not love the truth. But God allows this, at times, to “test”
His elect in the same way we “test” metal, to strengthen our resolve, so we might stand more firmly in His just, equitable, loving ways, so we might more strongly defend His truth and the good which reflects His core attributes. Our Creator “tests” us as in fire to burn away our weakening impurities.
And there is no greater fire than the deluding power of demons. In my own experience with that fire, I have found that my mind of flesh is extremely weak and easily succumbs, for a time. But then, to my amazement, God wakes and calls my spirit, counsels it with wisdom, and soon overcomes the deluding lies of demons. So this builds up my faith in my almighty Creator God and Saviour Jesus.
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There are many bad experiences in our lives, including many which traumatize and cause feelings of emptiness, futility and loss. Some even lead our minds of flesh into thoughts of murder, including the murder of our own bodies in suicide. Yet the Father of our elect spirits is also here with us, in our lives and very near to all of His elect children. For the material universe has been set within heaven, like a tiny drop of water floating near God’s throne. And the only things of any real size or substance inside that drop are the living spirits of humans, animals and plants. Each spirit consists of eternal matter and energy which is far bigger than the entire material universe, larger than all the galaxies put together, moving through a spiritual space and time which fully encompasses the tiny universe.
We need to remember that our heavenly Father stands outside of both material and spiritual time and space. And this non-material God, this creating Spirit, is well able to converse with our elect spirits.
He is continuously teaching and training each elect spirit. As soon as He awakens our spirits, we can hear Him and instantly comprehend every concept He offers us, as soon as He passes those concepts to the minds of our spirits. And none of the concepts that the minds of our spirits receive from Him are ambiguous and vague. When He speaks, there is no misunderstanding in our spirits. Nor can the minds of our spirits forget His words, though our minds of flesh can forget, and often strive to forget the demands of love and justice which our spirits makes upon that flesh. So now, if anyone searches all history and the present world for words of wisdom invented by men, they will find nothing that is truly rational and wise, except the precepts revealed to man by God. All words of men lead to loss, pain and death through injustice, inequity and plain foolishness. But concepts that our spirits receive from God, each harmonizing and building upon the other, prove truly beneficial, rational and wise.
Therefore, if the minds of our flesh allow the minds of our wakened spirits to work with them in the chambers of our our souls, to “inquire, and make search, and ask diligently”; if our spirits check that our sources are reliable and testify about God’s created realities, then also seek the truth from God Himself and from His human servants, we will find that genuine truth. And, if our spirits learn the wisdom of God from God Himself, which He freely and willingly provides us, we will rightly apply His truths. We will be able to judge whether an “anointed” leader, or a prophet, who claims to speak in God’s name, has actually been sent by God, or if he has deviously sent himself to us for his own personal gain, or even if a demon has sent that one. Then we will not be deceived by men like Hitler or Trump, nor by all the fake prophets and false churches which utter flattering lies about those kinds of liars. Then we will guard and preserve justice, equity and love for our people and for our lands.
Then we will escape the just wrath of God, who hands lovers of lies over to Satan for the deluding and destroying of their flesh. In other words, we need the effective power of Jesus working His true New Covenant salvation in us, His teaching and training of our spirits to “walk after Yahweh God, fear Him, keep His commandments, and obey His voice,” so our spirits might worship Him in truth, and therefore “serve Him, and cling to Him.” In all this, we will come to know Him better than any other living spirits can. And the more our elect spirits know Him, the more we will “love Yahweh our God with all our heart and with all our soul.” So it is not solely for justice that we work so hard and so carefully to “inquire, research and ask” about claims of secular and religious leaders. Rather, this work is an important part of our salvation process, training our spirits which dwell in our flesh.
And make no mistake, the religion of humanism is indeed leading us to other gods, away from the one true God. Rather than teaching our spirits to esteem and serve the true God alone, which is what the Bible defines as “worship,” both secular and theistic humanists lead, teach and train our spirits to esteem and serve human gods. They want us to actually worship broken human beings. And, rather than acknowledging the fact that our welfare and destinies, both physical and spiritual, rest entirely in God’s hands, humanists want us to believe that human beings can save themselves, can own and Page 1617
rule over their own earthly and eternal lives, even over the lives of others. They want us to think that humans can be the saviours and gods of all God’s creations, in ways which determine the welfare and destinies of all living spirits. And it is because humanists worship humans as gods that they insist on giving arrogant titles of esteem to the elite gods in their steep and deep hierarchical systems in all their institutions. Yet all laws and true wisdom are spiritual and come from God. So all must be applied by spirits. But humanists do all through their flesh and for their flesh alone, where many do not even acknowledge the existence of their own spirits. Or, if a humanist will recognize the reality of one’s own spirit, even other spirits, that one keeps one’s own spirit infantile, ignorant and far from God, who is the only source of all spiritual knowledge and wisdom needed to make right judgments.
We need to realize that all human beings are infantile sinners, that all are bound to very temporary and tenuous bodies of flesh, to a flesh which is dying, stinks and will be removed from our spirits in death. But humanists want us to focus solely upon our flesh. So they promote the practise of profane and banal means of hyper-focusing upon the flesh. They insist that we must frequently utter words that remind us of the attributes of the flesh, and every second word needs to turn our attention to the most lowly functions of the body, like sex, bowl movements, urination and so on. At the same time, they love to extol the supposedly god-like characteristics of physical strength and beauty, along with fashions to glamorize and enhance the greatness and sexuality of the flesh. Yet all the truly humble servants of God care nothing for any of that nonsense. In fact, although God’s Law encouraged many forms of cleanliness and personal hygiene, most of his true servants were denied such things. And our God Jesus said the greatest prophet of Old Covenant Israel was John the Baptist, who dressed in rags, was forced to hide out in the wilderness, and likely looked and smelled worse than homeless souls wandering our city streets. For God wants us to focus on spiritual matters of love and justice.
Therefore, theistic humanists in almost all the current churches of the world, as well as the secular humanists, are indeed telling us, “Let us go after other gods ... and let us serve them.” And we need to fulfill God’s Law, in Jesus our Messiah, by not trusting them. We need to heed the command of our God Jesus: “Do not trust them!” And those who are wilfully causing harm and deaths through hate-filled lies or even criminal negligence must be denied all positions of decision-making power and influence, and may even need to be removed from society by being put in prisons. Some of the most psychopathic spirits born of Satan, who love to harm and kill others, may even need to be executed. Of course, we are all merely wretched and ignorant human beings ourselves, with infantile spirits and unruly minds of flesh, who always fail and fall into truly destructive sins. So we must watch ourselves, be careful to let our spirits hear God, and humbly worship our true God by serving Him as His unworthy servants, through honest introspection, and by working the true biblical justice that He teaches and trains our spirits to apply, through the loving mercy and compassion that God Himself grants to terrible sinners like ourselves. And, knowing that we are not gods, who have no power to wake and inform our own spirits, much less the spirits of other human beings, we must provide freedom of conscience and freedom of religion for all. For God alone can wake elect spirits.
The elect spirits whom the real God has not yet awakened, because He has an appointed time for each one, must be allowed to act on most of the beliefs held by them, as long as those beliefs do not harm or kill others in the ways that God’s natural laws forbid. And, even if those false beliefs do harm or kill others, such as through abortions, we must weigh God’s laws against one another, to determine which laws take precedence over the others. So, for example, in the cases of aborting a baby conceived by a woman who is too young, too poor or a victim of rape, there are laws of God which: (1) prioritize the life of the mother over the child, meaning she can have an abortion for medical reasons; (2) laws which command a community to provide for all the needs of impoverished Page 1618
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mothers and their children, especially unwed mothers and their children (since the Bible calls all unwed women the χῆραι, which is wrongly translated as “widows,” and calls all their children
“orphans,” since an “orphan” is biblically defined as a child of any age without a father, even a child who still has a mother), and a community that refuses to care for these, when it has the ability to do so, frees the women from any obligation to bear children, although one can give birth if she desires; and (3) laws that deny a rapist or incestuous man the right to live, much less to receive God’s blessing of having a child, meaning that his victim is free to abort his child, if she chooses to do so.
Then, regarding anyone, from a pauper to a king, God said: “If there is found in your midst [which excludes all those not found in the midst of the people whom God called Israel], within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you [which excludes all those who are not members of Israel, all those to whom God did not grant an inheritance, all who dwell behind gates which God has not expressly given to them), a man or woman who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, i n transgressing H is covenant [that is, this law only applies to those bound by His covenant, and excludes all who are not bound by His covenant, where this law also condemns only those who break God’s intended meanings of His laws which He revealed in His covenant], and has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them [including those who claim to be members of His church of Israel, but worship human gods, by esteeming and serving them more than their real God and instead of their real God], or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded; and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently . Behold, if it is true, and the t hing certain , that such abomination i s done in Israel [God commanded that we only judge those in His church, if they worship human gods and other gods, and calls this idolatry within His church an abomination], then you shall bring out that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing” (Deut. 17:2-5a, WEB).
Now, regarding this law of God, we need to notice, first and foremost, that it only applies to church members. Here God is telling us what to do if we discover that His laws against idolatry are broken by someone who claims to belong to His church, to the priesthood of Israel that He created through His covenant with Abraham, which He further delineated through His laws granted through Moses.
If a professing member of church or synagogue does “that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing His covenant,” then we should “bring out” that person. We are to expel only the sinners who claim to belong to God’s priesthood of Israel, especially those who commit the
“abomination” of serving “other gods” while they claim to be “in Israel.” So this law does not apply to “outsiders” or “Gentiles,” not to those who are not claiming to belong to the church of Israel, nor even to people from false churches who claim to be separate and apart from God’s true church of Israel. And, historically, we find that Israel interpreted this law in this way. For king David and other rulers of Israel did not enforce these laws of faith upon any of the pagan Gentiles living in the land of Israel, because God commanded His church of Israel to only enforce His laws of faith, all that are summarized by the first five of the Ten Commandments, within His nation of priests. Only Israel had to obey God’s laws of faith. But the Gentiles were only subject to a cut-down subset of God’s natural laws, only judged if they committed obvious intentional infractions against the laws of the last five of the Ten Commandments, and only if the perpetrators had clearly wicked motives and intentions.
It is obvious that Deuteronomy 17:2-5 does not apply to Gentiles in the land of Israel, nor to any Jew who did not claim to be a member of the church of Israel. But, if none of God’s laws of faith can ever applied to those who set themselves apart His church of Israel, then we must also conclude that God’s Law has never allowed His church to establish any kind of theocracy, not any possible type of so-called “Christian” theocracy nor any possible type of “Jewish” theocracy. For, if true Jews all commit to obeying God’s Old Covenant Law, and if all true Christians are being taught by Jesus to fulfill that very same law, then no nation ruled by them will ever be allowed to enforce any laws of Page 1619
faith and worship upon all of its people, but only to those who claim to belong to God’s covenant and to His true church. The only laws God has ever allowed Israel to enforce on people outside His church were the natural laws. Only the outsiders who intentionally and maliciously lied to harm others, or committed fraud or theft, especially the theft of human lives as slaves, or committed acts of sexual exploitation which damaged other lives, or acts of violence and murder, or sinned against a subset of other laws covered by the last six of the archetypal Ten Commandments, could be fairly tried in courts of law, according to God’s just laws regarding judgments and, if found guilty, could be punished. But the laws of worship did not apply to any people or nation that was defined by physical or geographical borders, only and exclusively to those professing to be members of the church of Israel, to God’s elect people in Israel and in the diaspora scattered throughout the world. Yet His laws of worship will always apply to His true church of Israel, to both His Old and New Covenant branches, no matter where His visible or invisible churches might be physically located on the earth.
We should remember that God uttered this command solely to His priesthood of Israel, which has always consisted of both Jewish and Gentile worshippers of Yahweh. And God gave them this commandment while they were still wandering through the Gentile wilderness, long before they entered the physical land of Israel, long before they created any national borders. Thus, when God spoke here about a deliberate sinner or a deceiver who worshipped a false god, about an idolater who is “found in your midst, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you,” God was definitely referring to figurative “gates,” to the spiritual kind that He gave them when He made an eternal covenant with them through Abraham, when He gave His infallible promise to work within their hearts until He became their only God. That is, God was referring to the entrance or “gate” to His own personal presence in their hearts. This is the “gate” He “gives to” each of them. Then, in this law, God referred to intentional sinners who worshipped false gods, who passed through the
“gates” of His people’s hearts. If deceivers pretended to be siblings in God’s family, and confidently walked through the gates of their homes, meeting places and workshops, even into the “gates” of their hearts, but only to proclaim lies in ways that deeply and adversely affected their relationship with God, those liars must be cast out of the church, out of the lives of God’s people. Only the true and awakened elect should become an intimate part of the lives of His sanctified priesthood, the people whom God separated from all other peoples, so they might serve Him by speaking truths and administering His true justice through the love He created in their spirits. But all who lied, who did not do His works, who did not serve His own good, just, equitable, loving purposes, must be not be allowed to join with those who do. For the faithless hinder and sabotage the works of the faithful.
Only if God Himself is teaching and training one’s spirit to be loving, fair, equitable and just, can one do God’s works. A sibling in God’s family cannot be an intentional sinner, nor worship any god but God, and still do the works of God together with the rest of God heirs. Yes, God’s priestly family can freely associate with anyone outside of God’s household, even with the worst of pagans. But only those learning God’s ways can be coworkers in His family, sharing the lives of other siblings.
Do not be fooled. Jesus still fulfills this law in us and through us, for our salvation. And, in His true church of the first century, if His true apostles saw an intentional sinner or anyone who worshipped human gods, they would command that church to do exactly what Paul commanded the Corinthian church: “In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.... I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world. But as it is, Page 1620
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I wrote to you not
to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person. For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within? But those who are outside, God judges [not the church!]. ‘Put away the wicked man
from among yourselves’” (I Cor. 5:4-5,9-13, WEB). This quote is actually a paraphrase derived from Deuteronomy 17:7, and a few verses below it. The apostles referred to those same kind of intentional sinners and idolaters. And, even now, God is telling His church to expel unrepentant evil ones “from your midst” or “from among yourselves” (also see Deut. 19:19; 21:21; 24:7), but He has never commanded us to judge sinners and idolaters from a foreign people or nation in the same way.
In Christ’s fulfilled Law, a deliberate and unrepentant sinner or worshipper of a false god must be expelled from our church, not killed. And if the sinner commits a crime against God’s natural laws, then the secular government must judge that criminal, not us. Now, since His true New Covenant church is no longer limited by the vague shadow of God’s Law in the Old Covenant, which regulates physical behaviours of bodies of flesh, we must apply the fuller and wiser principles of that same Law in the ways Jesus’ Holy Spirit is teaching us to apply them. For we possess a new relationship with God, a far more personal communion between His Spirit and our human spirits. So we no longer need to physically guard ourselves from spiritual attacks. Now His Spirit guards our spirits.
This means that we must still remove deliberate sinners from our midst, and stop allowing elite psychopathic human gods to exert influence over our lives. For we are to nullify and oppose lies and sins, not aid and abet them. We must never enable those who intentionally lie and sin, never allow those sinners to take comfort among us. And we certainly must not let unrepentant, deliberate sinners weaken or sabotage the loving works of service done through our worship of God, especially when those liars exploit and take advantage of the people God calls us to serve. God does not want us to trust unrepentant sinners and idolaters, not until we see their spirits repent into the truth and bear real fruits of repentance through God’s genuine Holy Spirit. If we aid and abet idolaters, then we partake in their sin of worshipping false gods, who lead us into lies and sins. And God certainly does not want us to worship infantile human sinners who falsely and stupidly claim to be our saving gods.
Yet fake humanistic churches, full of those who deliberately practise idolatry, by worshipping human beings, are always striving to fellowship with us and share in our works. For they think that, if we accept and trust them, they can make us spiritually dull and criminally negligent, just like them, and possibly lead us into their cabal of false churches belonging to the unjust world order. But know this, they have always been worshipping horribly intentional sinners as gods, criminals who have never even thought about repenting, even extremely immoral, destructive liars and frauds, both secular and church deceivers who murdered, raped, stole defenceless lives and slandered the innocent, either with their own ruthless hands or indirectly through their henchmen, to keep their distance and look clean. Those fake churches have definitely esteemed and served, therefore worshipped, countless evil human gods. And those pretenders may not physically murder with their own filthy hands, yet they frequently and actively incite others to murder the innocent for their own political or financial gain. So God is handing those false churches that worship psychopathic human gods over to Satan for the destruction of their flesh. And their supposed “free wills” will not be able to resist the devil’s deluding power. Thus, they will become immoral, lying, murdering idolaters like their human gods.
Now I ask the awakened elect, all who know the real God, Jesus the Messiah, how I am supposed to have any kind of fellowship with those humanistic churches, who outwardly claim to trust in God and in His words, but remain deliberate, ruthless, unrepentant sinners who worship human gods? For Jesus Himself has begun to fulfill His Law in me and through me, for my salvation. And His Holy Page 1621
Spirit is commanding my infantile, wretched and weak human spirit this: “Do not trust them!” Jesus is telling my spirit to remove them from my personal life, and from the lives of my loved ones. He wants me to have nothing to do with them, other than to testify about the real Jesus and His real truth to them, or to engage in strictly superficial communications. Yes, I love and pray for many of them, and deeply concern myself with their welfare. For Jesus tells me to love even my enemies. So I also love the lost elect souls who have been lured into the worship of human gods and into other sins. But I also know that the intentional sinners and idolaters, who are responsible for deliberately deceiving my loved ones, shall indeed be handed over to demonic spirits for their own destruction. Meanwhile, God forbids my spirit to ever allow any of the deceived ones through the “gates” of my personal and spiritual life, where He is seated above my spirit as my only Head Teacher and Lord. Yet, at the same time, God has never allowed my spirit to stop allowing honest and loving elect souls into my life, for those elect have been innocently deceived, through extenuating circumstances and ignorance. Nor do many even claim to be members of God’s church. So God wants me to welcome those sleeping elect spirits who either attend overtly humanist churches or don’t go to any church at all, but are still worshipping human gods according to the traditions and teachings of Satan’s world order, and do not yet realize the Scriptures are inerrant concepts of God Himself, penned by His own faithful servants.
Likewise, I do not trust books, sermons, songs or anything else originating from those fake and idolatrous humanistic churches, since that would be trusting the authors and letting them through the
“gate” of my soul. And I definitely cannot trust any of their conspiracy theories, hate propaganda and sensationalistic warnings against common and innocent people who are not even as evil as they are themselves. For I have witnessed their slanderous lying for many years. So how can I trust habitual liars like that? They claim to tell the truth, yet intentionally contradict their own words and the words of others in their own churches and denominations, which logically means that they are liars. Thus, I do not rise up to answer their calls to take action “for God” or “His church” together with them, because I know they are lying. They are not really calling me to serve God and His true church, but rather to serve them in their false church kingdoms ruled by them. I frequently and continuously see those frauds stirring up their people into a carnal, emotional frenzies, for false causes designed solely to bolster their own fame, influence, power and wealth. And when their dupes say, “Look, the real power of Jesus is working through that human god preaching there, in that far off place,” or “God is working through this human god in this building here,” I do not believe them. My spirit cannot trust them, not while Jesus is in me and commands my heart: “If they reason with you, ‘Look, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or if they say, ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not trust them!” All those super-spiritual-hero-giants from evangelical and mainline churches have proven to be idolaters who want to be worshipped as human gods by lesser human gods with “free wills” enslaved by their own manipulations, and somehow think they are true servants of God in spite of all the ruthless evil they commit on a daily basis. So let the awakened elect stop trusting them, just as Jesus commanded.
Then we also need to reject their sensationalistic eschatological lies. Some of their doctrines about the end times are so bizarre that their dupes actually believe those lies must be true, because they see that those deceivers have at least half a brain, so they could not be stupid enough to invent such wild nonsense. Therefore, their dupes start to place faith in those insane lies, trusting that they are the true revelations of God! For instance, some fake pastors have been claiming, since the fourth century, that the end times have already arrived and that Jesus has come back down to the earth, but is hiding
“in the wilderness” or “in the inner room.” That is, those fake churches claim that Jesus “spiritually”
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in spite of the massive amount evidence in God’s Word that those men are lying, and even when they have seen those liars torture, murder, exploit, exploit, abuse and rob them. Then there have been an almost infinite variety of other lies, since lies are never limited or confined by facts and realities like real truth, and can be easily created out of nothing, for any nefarious purpose those greedy little parasites choose. So some will say, in a confidently assuring manner, that Jesus speaks through them or other human gods, and that truth is a lie but their lie is the truth. Yet Jesus clearly denied all this!
Jesus told us that His appearing, and therefore all of the other prophesied events of the end times, will be plain and obvious to all living on earth: “For, just as the lightning comes out from the east and is seen as far as the west, just so will be the coming of the Son of mankind. Wherever the corpse might be, the vultures will be gathered together there into one place” (Mat. 24:27-28, from: ὥσπερ
γὰρ ἡ ἀστραπὴ ἐξέρχεται ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν καὶ φαίνεται ἕως δυσμῶν, οὕτως ἔσται ἡ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ
τοῦ ἀνθρώπου· ὅπου ἐὰν ᾖ τὸ πτῶμα, ἐκεῖ συναχθήσονται οἱ ἀετοί, SBLGNT). Here Jesus indicated two things: (1) His second coming will be clearly seen by massive numbers of people, or all souls, just as lightning can be seen by all, even though it may strike a great distance from those who see it, and (2) just as we can tell approximately where a corpse might be located when we spot vultures hovering over a certain location, we will also be able to determine where the corpses of the beast and his armies, as well as all his worshippers, will be deposited when you see Jesus descending upon the land of Israel. For all the prophecies in God’s Word tell us that the second coming of Jesus will bring God’s wrath and His deadly judgments against all the stubborn, unrepentant wicked souls on earth.
Still insisting that the signs of the end times will be physical, clear and unmistakable, Jesus went on to say: “So immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light and the stars will fall from the sky. Even the forces of the skies will be shaken.
Then, at that time, the sign of the Son of mankind will appear in the sky and, at that time, all the clans of the earth will grieve. Then they will watch the Son of mankind coming upon the clouds of the sky with force and much glory” (Mat. 24:29-30, from: Εὐθέως δὲ μετὰ τὴν θλῖψιν τῶν ἡμερῶν
ἐκείνων ὁ ἥλιος σκοτισθήσεται, καὶ ἡ σελήνη οὐ δώσει τὸ φέγγος αὐτῆς, καὶ οἱ ἀστέρες πεσοῦνται
ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ αἱ δυνάμεις τῶν οὐρανῶν σαλευθήσονται. καὶ τότε φανήσεται τὸ σημεῖον τοῦ
υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, καὶ τότε κόψονται πᾶσαι αἱ φυλαὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ ὄψονται τὸν υἱὸν
τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐρχόμενον ἐπὶ τῶν νεφελῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ μετὰ δυνάμεως καὶ δόξης πολλῆς, SBLGNT). Here Jesus is talking about the last three of the seven bowls of God’s wrath poured out upon the devil’s fourth kingdom of Rome near the end of the beast’s seven-year reign. These last three plagues upon the devil’s fourth Roman religious kingdom will be followed by Christ’s return.
Within the last few months of the beast’s warfare in Israel, during the time when the beast burns the false church located at the seven hills of the city of Rome, God will send a quick succession of plagues upon that beast’s ruthless, humanistic citizens. God apparently does this so the elect who still remain among them might repent. However, very few elect will join the beast, so most citizens of the beast’s kingdom will not repent. Still, God will find the few elect still deceived and enslaved by Roman humanism and lead them out of that evil kingdom during those last few months when He pours out His last three bowls of wrath. This is the “tribulation” Jesus described (in Mat. 24:29-30).
The prophecy about the third from the last bowl, which was the fifth bowl, was this: “And the fifth
[angel] poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast [which is in Rome]. Then his kingdom [which is primarily Rome, now called Italy, but include six other nations as well] became effectively darkened and they were gnashing their teeth from anguish, and they slandered the God of heaven from their anguish and from [the pain of] their sores [I.e., some weeks or months earlier, God sent a plague of sores, as His first bowl of wrath, upon all who took the mark of the beast upon their foreheads or hands (Rev. 16:2), upon all who became Page 1623
citizens of the beast’s kingdom and worshipped him. Thus, when this fifth plague occurred, the citizens of the beast’s lands were still feeling pain from those sores, a few weeks after the first bowl of wrath was poured out.], and they did not repent from their works” (Rev. 16:8-9, ALT). So this fifth plague is sent only to the beast’s lands.
The seven bowls of wrath will begin to be poured out more than three years after the beast had begun to invade Israel and after he had beheaded many awakened elect of the revival, including the two prophets God sent to Jerusalem and the 144,000 virgin, male, Jewish evangelists who preach within Israel. Thus, Jesus told us these plagues will occur “immediately after the tribulation of those days.” And, when Jesus prophesied that “the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light,” He was obviously talking about the fifth bowl of wrath, which pours out effective or almost total darkness over all of the beast’s kingdom. Some kind of smog or dark clouds will cover the lands of the beast’s kingdom, thick enough to darken the sun and moon. Then Jesus prophesied about the second and third bowls of wrath (Rev. 16:3-4), by saying that “the stars will fall from the sky.”
These “stars” falling from the sky are what we now call meteors, which often consist of almost pure iron. Now, as meteors fall through the atmosphere, they heat up and can break apart into oxidized iron dust or rust dust. And, in water, this red rust (ferrous oxide), looks like ferrous sulphate in blood.
Now the third bowl of wrath was this: “For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this” (Rev. 16:6, WEB). So this may be how the Mediterranean Sea beside the beast’s Roman kingdom, and the fresh waters of the rivers and lakes in the beast’s lands, will turn to “blood” during the second and third plagues of the seven bowls of wrath. Also notice that the times of the seven trumpets and seven bowls of wrath all occur during the beginning of the era of the seventh seal, all within about 20 years. Therefore, when we consider that the sixth seal begins with falling meteors, then the plagues of the seven trumpets and the plagues of the seven bowls of wrath, which both occur in the seventh seal’s era, also involve many falling meteors, the one generation which lives during the end times will definitely see many “stars” and
“mountains” with much fire falling from the sky. Those 40 years will have much meteoric activity.
Now, when the sixth bowl of wrath is poured out, God will send out demons to help the beast and his false prophet persuade other humanistic kings of the earth to join him in his insane war against Israel (Rev. 16:12-16). For the beast will obviously be unable to cope with Israel’s resistance. So numerous God-hating armies will join the beast and gather in a valley below Megiddo called “Armageddon.”
And, as Jesus revealed this to John, He said: “Look, I am coming like a thief. The watching one, also guarding his garments [of righteousness], [is] blessed, so that he might not walk about naked and they perceive his indecency” (Rev. 16:15, ALT). So this implies that the armies gathering against Israel will be a sign that Jesus is returning very soon and will destroy them. Then, even as Jesus spoke these words of doom for the beast and all the humanistic haters of God on earth, but of hope for Israel and all the suffering elect on earth, an angel poured out the seventh bowl of God’s wrath.
“The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, ‘It is done!’ There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty.
The great city [i.e., Rome] was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great [i.e., ‘Babylon’ actually refers to the devil’s fourth kingdom of Rome, since the apostle John considered Babylon to be the founder of Rome, as Daniel’s prophecy said, but the title of ‘Babylon the Great’ likely refers to the great false church in Rome, the one sitting at the seven hills] was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found
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would refer only to the people in Rome, and possibly in some allied lands, whom God is cursing with this plague].
People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe”
(Rev. 16:17-21, WEB). These events of the seventh bowl of wrath were what Jesus was talking about when He told us that “the powers of the heavens [or skies] will be shaken” (Mat. 24:29, WEB). And, at that time, a loud voice from heaven’s temple (i.e., this heavenly temple is Jesus) shouts, “It occurred with the effect of victory!” (i.e., the voice said, “Γέγονεν,” which is the perfect active indicative form of γίνομαι and was the war cry of Roman armies when they gained a victory. It indicates all the effects or results of the past completed action mentioned in the context). So that shaking of the beast’s kingdom signalled the return of Jesus, the day He would utterly destroy Roman humanism and all the unrepentant, the day He would begin to rule over all the world.
So the seventh bowl of God’s wrath against the devil’s fourth humanistic kingdom—against the beast, against the beast’s armies, against the beast’s citizens who took his mark on the forehead or hand, and against the humanistic armies of the world who join the beast in his battle against God’s priesthood of Israel—signals Christ’s absolute and complete victory at His second advent. The second coming of the Messiah will occur immediately after this seven bowl of wrath is poured out.
Within a hours after this shaking of the skies all around the city of Rome, Jesus will return to destroy all who do not repent. Every non-elect soul on earth will drop dead, with none left to bury them.
Jesus told us that “at that time” (τότε) there will be “the sign of the Son of mankind,” that is, just after the sun and moon are darkened and the powers of the skies are shaken. And this sign “will appear in the sky.” Now the smog that darkens the kingdom of the beast, as well as the extremely dark clouds of severe hailstorms, will cover Rome and much of the earth “at that time.” But we are told that the sky or “heaven” will “open” at the second coming of Jesus (e.g., Rev. 19:11). Therefore, this “sign” of Jesus seems to involve a miraculous dissipation and vanishing of that smog and those dark clouds covering the earth, with bright light shining through. Also “at that time” (τότε is used here again), “all the clans of the earth will grieve.” That is, all the elect survivors of the plagues and the slaughter of the non-elect at His return will grieve. The reason is obvious. For one thing, all of their non-elect extended family members will die that day, in every clan on earth, and many of these will be loved by those elect—although their love for them was never truly reciprocated. In addition to this, much of the earth will be in ruins, due to the plagues of natural disasters and wars occurring during the times of the seven trumpets and seven bowls of God’s wrath. For God works through His created and ongoing miracle of nature, even to express His wrath. Furthermore, the sleeping and lost elect, who will repent into the truth and believe in Jesus when they see His light, will also grieve in godly sorrow over their past blindness and wasted years of pursuing material gain, over all the cruel, foolish sins they committed through ignorance and unbelief. As they “watch the Son of mankind coming upon the clouds of the sky with force and much glory,” their grief will cleanse their souls.
After Jesus returns, He will restore nature to a state of beauty and peace unknown since the days of the garden, where Adam and Eve dwelt before their fall. And the surviving elect, together with countless faithful martyrs whom Jesus will bring with Him and bring to life again, during the first resurrection on the day of His return, will soon rebuild the towns and cities, but in a far more natural, humble, equitable and beneficial way than they are built now, possibly as agricultural communities.
From that day on, the earth will know justice and live abundantly loving lives. For our God told us:
“‘They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat [i.e., this implies the elimination of money]: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of My people, and My chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands [i.e., they will live very long lives and be healthy Page 1625
enough to work well into their old age]. They shall not labor in vain, nor give birth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them. It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food [i.e., nature will be restored to the way it was in the garden where Adam and Eve dwelt].
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,’ says Yahweh” (Is. 65:21-25, WEB).
After Jesus restores and rules the earth for a thousand years, all human beings who have ever lived from the beginning will experience the most critical event in their entire existences. The earth will vanish and all will face a just biblical judgment. Jesus described it like this: “And He will send out His angels on a mission, accompanied by a great trumpeting. Then they will gather together His elect upon one place, out of the four winds, from the ends of the heavens up to their [other] ends” (Mat.
24:31, from: καὶ ἀποστελεῖ τοὺς ἀγγέλους αὐτοῦ μετὰ σάλπιγγος μεγάλης, καὶ ἐπισυνάξουσιν τοὺς
ἐκλεκτοὺς αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῶν τεσσάρων ἀνέμων ἀπʼ ἄκρων οὐρανῶν ἕως τῶν ἄκρων αὐτῶν, SBLGNT).
Now, when this judgment day occurs, God will have withdrawn His power from the entire material universe, so it will “burn,” that is, dissipate into literally nothing. Only His eternal spiritual creations will remain. All spirits that ever lived on earth, human and otherwise, will remain alive. The spirits of animal and plant life will go directly to God’s homeland of heaven but all human spirits will go to a place that may be called the gates of heaven. When the non-elect and the sleeping elect died, their spirits had gone to the skies above heaven, to wait for judgment in a semi-conscious state. But on the last day, all will be gathered at heaven’s gate. Then the non-elect will be cast into a relatively tiny, dark and bottomless empty vacuum of hell, where the demons will greet them. But, after the living elect leave the earth, and the material universe vanishes, their spirits, along with the spirits of sleeping elect gathered from the skies, will receive new bodies made of a spiritual substance, then sit at Jesus’s feet to be corrected, taught and trained to perfection, in a long day equivalent to more than a thousand earthly years. These elect will be able to float or fly through the skies in the spiritual realm. And all the elect will indeed fly through those skies immediately after the judgment day. All the elect will descend from heaven’s gate, through the sky, down into the new Jerusalem. This may seem strange, but time and space are very different in the spiritual realm and we will be able to fly without wings. For wings in the spiritual realm seem to be used solely for covering, or for warming and cooling those whom winged ones serve. And elect humans will serve their Father in other ways.
So Jesus said He would send out His angels on a mission, since He used the verb ἀποστέλλω, indicating the sending out for a task that will serve the purposes of the one sending them. And they shall gather all the sleeping elect human beings who ever lived, from the four winds of heaven’s skies. And here Jesus obviously was not talking about skies over the earth. He was not referring to the earth’s atmosphere and outer space. Rather, since both those skies, both the earth’s atmosphere and outer space, already will have been “burned” into nothing by this time, Jesus was actually referring to the eternal skies of the heavenly realm. And, by the time the judgment day begins, God will have sent only the demons and two human beings (i.e., the “beast” and his false prophet, see Rev. 19:20) into hell, and those two will have no earthly flesh, only spiritual bodies. Thus, Jesus definitely was referring to the skies above the lands of heaven when He said this. With the sound of trumpeting, to officially herald and celebrate the beginning of the judgment day, His angels will fly out to the “four winds” of heaven’s skies, so they might “gather together into one place” all the spirits of all the human beings who have ever lived on earth. So these skies above the lands of heaven must be the waiting place of the earthly dead, perhaps what is called “Hades.” And the verb ἐπισυνάγω definitely indicates that they will all be brought to one location, “upon one place,” since Page 1626
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this is what the preposition prefix ἐπί placed before the verb συνάγω indicates. Therefore, Jesus is clearly talking about the judgment day here, at heaven’s gate. So the judgment day will be the first time when all the elect who ever lived will be gathered together as an assembly in one large place.
Here Jesus was literally, not figuratively, saying the sleeping elect will be scattered “from the ends of the heavens/skies up to their other ends” (ἀπʼ ἄκρων οὐρανῶν ἕως τῶν ἄκρων αὐτῶν). And Jesus specifically mentioned that the angels will be gathering “elect ones” (ἐκλεκτοὺς), where the context infers that all these elect will have died during and before the last days He was teaching about. He is talking about all the elect who died from Adam to the last one living at the end of His millennium of rule on earth. Yet we also see in Scriptures how some elect go to be with Jesus immediately after their flesh dies, such as in the parable about Abraham and the beggar, Lazarus; or those talking with Jesus around His throne in heaven before the bowls of wrath are poured out (i.e., these seem to be beside His throne at the gates of heaven); or those returning with Jesus at the first resurrection. Thus, we know that not all the deceased elect will be scattered in the “four winds” of heaven’s skies, because a large number of deceased elect will go directly to Jesus in heaven, to His land and throne.
Thus, many deceased elect, but not all, will drift in the “four winds” of the spiritual realm’s skies after the deaths of their flesh, and will need to be gathered for judgment. Also, these drifting ones must be “sleeping” in some kind of semi-conscious state, if they are scattered and drifting there. For, if they were awake, they would search for a place to land, where they could feast and be with Jesus, since heaven’s lands would be clearly seen by them from the skies, because the eyes of their new spiritual bodies would be very good, able to see great distances. And, yes, they surely will have already received their new bodies before they began to drift in heaven’s skies, or they would not be able to drift there. For the spiritual substance of winds in the spiritual space-time continuum would require some kind of body made of similar substances to carry and scatter. All the dead will be granted new bodies made of a spiritual substance immediately after their spirits and souls leave their earthly bodies, and before any are judged, since their spirits will need the eyes of a new body to see Jesus and ears to hear His judgments. But, if they all have good eyes in new bodies, and those new bodies can obviously fly, then all who drift in heaven’s skies would be able to see the brightness of Jesus and His vast heavenly lands below, and go there, unless they were sleeping. It would be easy see from vast distances, no matter where they were in the sky, just as we can see stars millions of light years away from us, through our skies. So the spiritual bodies of many deceased elect must be
“sleeping,” kept in an semi-conscious state with closed eyes, after they have lost their earthly bodies.
Since the elect whom the angels gather are not yet with Jesus, and cannot be fully conscious, they must be the elect whose infantile spirits on earth had not been learning much of anything from the Holy Spirit of Jesus. Their spirits did not hear His Spirit counselling them. They must be the elect whose spirits possessed very little God-like love, who lived their whole lives focused on things of the flesh. For they do not immediately go to be with Jesus after death. Only the loving, just elect, whose spirits had been awakened while they still lived in bodies of flesh on earth, go directly to the gates of heaven to be with Jesus. In the Scriptures, we read about the awakened elect, including ancient men like Abraham, going directly to the gates of heaven after their flesh dies, where Jesus will continue to teach and train them, as they wait for the last day to end. These are called the “born again,” those whose eyes and ears of their elect spirits have been opened, so they begin to live a new kind of life. Jesus makes their spirits aware of His Spirit and the spiritual realm existing all around them, while they live in flesh on earth. He teaches and trains their spirits to love in a just, equitable, merciful way on earth. Our God Jesus begins to write His laws on their hearts through His personal teaching and training of their spirits. These more just and loving elect, who walked in the truth and Page 1627
wisdom which Jesus’ Holy Spirit had taught to their spirits, who did not always walk according to desires of their minds of flesh, will be lifted straight up to the gates of heaven after their flesh dies.
Then, after Jesus further teaches and trains them, they will serve the other elect when they come, much like Abraham served Lazarus after he died and went to the gates of heaven. Then all these more mature elect disciples of Jesus, awake at those gates for some time, will also help Jesus teach and train the sleeping elect on the judgment day, after the angels gather them from heaven’s skies.
But notice that Jesus did not say anything here (in Mat. 24:31) about the non-elect, about those who would go to hell. This was likely because He was giving a very brief summary of the last days and only to His elect disciples at that time, warning and comforting them. But all the non-elect who ever lived on earth throughout history, until the earth ends, also will be sleeping in heaven’s skies until the judgment day. For none of the non-elect will have been sent to hell yet. None will go to hell until the angels have gathered all the sleeping dead at heaven’s gates for judgment. For God ordained that all must face a just, biblical judgment, a fair trial with evidence interpreted by multiple witnesses, in a court case which publicly exposes their malicious intentions. God will not allow the non-elect to be sentenced to hell before that judgment is completed. For His Law demanded that all law breakers have the right to a fair trial in front of an impartial judge, and God never breaks His Law, since His essence of His just and loving thoughts from His heart are in His Law. Thus, if God broke His own Law, He would break His own heart. Besides, an omnipotent God cannot oppose Himself or He would destroy Himself with His own power. Neither can an omniscient God reason against His own perfect reasoning. So God will not ignore His Law’s demand for a fair trial for every accused soul.
Thus, all non-elect humans will be justly tried on the judgment day. Of course, this will not take long, since God can reveal and confirm all their lies and sins to billions of witnesses in a moment, to win the condemnation of them all. For He can instantly reveal images of all their deeds throughout their lives, along with the sounds of all their lies, to all those gathered at the gates. Regardless, the non-elect will have their “day in court.” However, until the day that the angels gather all the sleeping dead, none will have ever faced God’s “supreme court” trial and judgment, except the beast and his false prophet, who will be judged and sentenced while Jesus descends at His second advent. Until the day God “burns” the material universe and begins His judgment day, the only ones whom He will have judged, condemned and sentenced in His highest court of heaven will have been the fallen angels and those two human beings. For the sins of the “beast,” whose human spirit will have been replaced by Satan’s spirit dwelling in his soul and flesh, to transform him into the messiah, king and high priest of Satan’s earthly kingdom, will already have been exposed, and even in God’s Word written millenniums before his birth. Then the sins of the false prophet who serves the beast, whose spirit will be replaced by another demon, will have been exposed to all as well, in the same ways.
Consequently, we must logically conclude that literally all non-elect human spirits will first receive new bodies after death, then will be sent to drift in the skies of the spiritual realm, outside of hell, where they shall sleep in a deluded semi-conscious state until the judgment day. They definitely will not be awake and walking on the lands at heaven’s gate, together with the awakened elect, who have also received their new bodies. Jesus will not allow the non-elect, nor even many of His spiritually immature elect, to interfere with in His finishing education for His awakened elect. He did allow them to interfere during the elementary education of His awakened elect when all dwelt on the training ground of the earth. And the teaching and training at heaven’s gate will use all of the bad experienced by His awakened ones to further their education at the gates. But the learning at the gates will be soft, slow, brightening and deep, involving preponderances without distraction. Thus, those non-elect must be safely scattered far away, in the skies of the spiritual realm, drifting in Page 1628
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“sleeping” new bodies made of a spiritual substance. Then the non-elect and immature elect will be gathered by the angels, set “upon” the place of judgment at the gates of heaven. But the non-elect shall likely be gathered after the scattered elect are awakened and gathered at the gates of heaven.
Nevertheless, although the non-elect probably will be gathered last, they will be the first whom Jesus will judge. For all are clearly guilty and it will take the least amount of time to judge them. From Scriptures, we also see how the non-elect will be judged collectively, as a group with very shallow, mass-produced, cheap and identical spirits. Within the first minute of the judgment day, all non-elect humans will be tried, exposed, condemned, sentenced and driven into hell like a herd of bleating and protesting goats. This will leave the rest of that long last day for Jesus to complete His judgment works of saving His elect from lies and sins. Literally all elect sinners will be justly acquitted, by His payment on the cross and through their repentance into the truth, because those elect had the excuse of ignorance in extenuating circumstances. Then all will be perfected and completed on that day.
After all the spirits born in the Father’s image are carefully taught and trained in that comforting and beautiful “campus” at the gates of heaven, after they all learn to serve heaven’s living creatures in the same way Jesus always has, they will all be entirely ready to enter His holy community in His homeland, to serve as the heirs of the King. And this education is so vast and complex that those elect will need a very long, unhurried time to learn all they need to know. Therefore, that season of judgment will be a timeless and very long time. For one day with our God Jesus is as a thousand of the most blessed years on earth, even much more. Jesus’ works of judgment will individually teach truth to all the elect for the equivalent of a perfect earthly millennium, continuously feeding them with spiritual nourishment, all they lacked during their lives on earth. And every last one will repent joyfully into all His truths, in ecstatic epiphanies, and will receive the total forgiveness of all sins committed on earth, which Jesus fully and justly paid for on His earthly cross. So His work on that day will solidify a perfect, complete atonement of their relationship with Jesus and their one Father.
We know all this is true because God’s saving works have already begun in the lives of awakened elect, as they have lived in bodies of flesh on this earth. And these reliably testified to this in ways the other elect can comprehend. Through completely harmonious and consistent testimonies of those very honest souls, we have realized that the eyes and ears of those awakened elect spirits have often seen and heard Jesus, and experienced the spiritual realm. Yes, while enduring earth, elect spirits see dimly, and those sights are often clouded by the fog of the flesh. And the voice of Jesus is always being interfered with by the clanging, shouting, ordained “accidents” of daily life on earth. But, if we piece together their glimpses of God and His spiritual space-time continuum, with the teachings they heard directly from His Holy Spirit, as well as all that our own spirits have seen and heard, we can confidently trust that everything revealed about God and heaven in the Scriptures is absolutely true.
Then there is the one thing that all the elect eventually learn, a thing related to the tribulations and the deaths of the elect on earth during the last days, especially during the coming end times. That one thing is that God, not anyone nor anything else, controls all. Our life in the flesh is extremely fragile, beautifully tenuous. Life of the flesh can end at any moment, for reasons far beyond anyone’s own control. Death can, and often does, come in a way we had never imagined. Not only do accidents and nature take our lives, but our bodies can be easily killed by the hands of deluded criminals and the insane. And those deluded ones are never able to prevent themselves from being manipulated by the evil spirits whom God sent to enslave them. All humans are manipulated. All earthly and eternal lives are entirely determined by God’s will, and His power maintains our perceptions of this tenuous material space-time continuum for one purpose, to grant our elect spirits His educating experiences.
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So, with this in mind, let the elect pray for the awakening of their spirits, then focus solely upon the work of gathering spiritual treasures of truth, wisdom, justice and love. Let the elect turn away from the infinitely vast array of ways their flesh seeks to experience ego-boosting delusions and pleasures, before it dies at any moment. Now let their daily thoughts and chores build up abundant life, the kind that God leads them into, by allowing their spirits to deeply trust in the teaching and training of their God Jesus. Let them know that God’s omniscient omnipotence, expressed through His love, will complete the saving works He began in each of them. And let all elect spirits realize that they cannot possibly die, nor will Jesus ever fail to complete the ordained works He set out to do in the spirits He gave to each one, for the experiencing of everlasting life. Now let all His children work as a family to complete the God-ordained works Jesus began on earth, by heeding His counsel. Now we must justly and carefully nullify Satan’s works, so we might build up His earthly kingdom, as training for our even more gratifying future heavenly labours. Then, if we die before we can complete them ourselves, He will finish what we did not. All we must do is press on toward the goal of salvation, learning to become loving, wise, just, equitable servants of God for the benefit of all life on earth.
Mat. 24:32-36,
He Comes as the Summer
“Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near. Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away. But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only” (Mat. 24:32-36, WEB).
Here Jesus was referring to the day “the Son of mankind will appear in the sky ... the Son of mankind coming upon the clouds of the sky with force and much glory” (Mat. 24:30, ALT). This is the coming summer He spoke about here. In this “winter of discontent,” with it numbing cold and perpetual hunger, with its dangers always threatening death, we long for the fruitful, trouble-free millennium of His just, loving kingdom on earth. So will our future generations. And one future generation will see all the signs Jesus prophesied about, then that fruit-bearing summer. One generation will realize that the time has arrived, that the day “is near, even at the doors.” Yet, just before that day, they will also see the world plunge into chaos, into a love-draining lawlessness.
Most in the last generation before His second advent will die in wars, famines, earthquakes and other plagues striking the entire world. All this will enable deceiving, exploiting false prophets to rise up, psychopaths who rip out the trust and love from most hearts. At the same time, those days will also stimulate the preaching of the true Gospel everywhere on earth. And, finally, Jesus will revive His genuine church, will awaken the elect, strengthen them to persevere in just and God-like love to the end. Therefore, these two clashing events will divide the elect from the non-elect, and dichotomize the earth. Thus, a remnant of faithful elect will survive from that generation and, “at that time the end will come” (Mat. 24:14, ALT), that is, the end of Satan’s world order. Only a few living elect will see the devil’s oppressive economic, military and unjust judicial systems fall when Jesus sets foot on the Mount of Olives again. But “this generation” (ἡ γενεὰ αὕτη), those living in the era of the seventh seal, the elect who witness the signs Jesus prophesied about, “definitely and absolutely will not pass away” (οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ), not all of them, not before some see Jesus return to Jerusalem in His body of flesh. There will be a remnant of elect from that generation who survive “until all these Page 1630
Mat. 24:32-36, He Comes as the Summer
things might occur” (ἕως ἂν πάντα ταῦτα γένηται), who will see Satan’s humanistic kingdom fall, the earth restored and God’s kingdom come, then the final day too, which completes their salvation.
Here Jesus also reiterated the fact that the length of the entire end times (i.e., the eras of the sixth and seventh seals) “will be shortened” (i.e., Jesus used the verb κολοβωθήσονται, a future passive form of the verb κολοβόω in Mat. 24:22, meaning, “reduce the duration of something, shorten,” BDAG3).