Posted on 11/15/2022 5:35:39 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
"Who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes?" Flip Wilson
Are you as confused as I am by the flood of prophetic signs we are seeing today? It seems like the sheer volume of the signs of the times is not only overwhelming but all over the place. Even the best of us, are struggling to keep up and make sense of what's happening. For example:
The chaotic and unprecedented events of 2020
"Mostly peaceful" riots
January 6th viewed as worse than 9/11
The "jab" being used to alter the human genome
Ridicule of this idea (by the media, big pharma, and "experts") despite evidence to the contrary
The Internet of Bodies (part of the 4th Industrial Revolution) which is part of the Great Reset
The dismissal of these unprecedented events as "conspiracy theory"
The Great Reset as put forth by the WEF
The Great Reset ridiculed as a "conspiracy theory" by the mainstream media
The Euphrates River drying up
The concerted effort to oust PM Netanyahu
The popular reelection of PM Netanyahu
The public announcement of the Yakuna
Red Heifers arriving in Israel
The bizarre destruction of the Georgia Guidestones
The new climate change ten commandments
Election fraud concerns over mail-in ballots
Election concerns dismissed by states who overwhelmingly vote Democratic
Turkey's bizarre/chaotic relationship with NATO, Russia, and Iran
PM Zelensky's continued and bizarre taunting of Russia
Russia's invasion of Ukraine
China's increased aggression toward Taiwan
China's potential economic collapse
The Democrat's pursuit of a one-party government
The FBI raiding Pres. Trump's Mar-a-Lago home
The increased nuclear saber-ratting rhetoric between the US, North Korea, Iran, and Russia
Seriously, world events are all over the place these days, and were it not for Bible prophecy, we would be struggling like everyone else to make sense of where this is all leading. The problem we are currently having isn't seeing the forest for the trees (Bible prophecy helps in this regard), but being overwhelmed by the size and spread of this rapidly growing forest. IOW, things are happening at such a pace and intensity, that it's simply impossible to keep up with everything. No one ministry (no matter how well staffed) can keep up with the size and scope of all that is transpiring.
This is why it's imperative to routinely pull back and look at the major muscle movements from a more macro perspective, before drilling into the micro. Allow me to paraphrase Dr. Andy Woods's sentiments regarding this new (since 9/11) phenomenon in that regardless of what is happening "world events are always trending toward biblical fulfillment, never away from it."
If we try and follow the logic of current events only through the media and other secular sources, it would be like the proverbial fear-inducing roller coaster, with its twists and turns causing your stomach to start doing summersaults.
This uncomfortableness is by design.
When things begin to get so chaotic that nothing makes sense, understand this is by design. It is a form of distraction to overwhelm you with information so that you grow apathetic and unplug. Satan needs you watching believers, unengaged because he is attempting to mask something from the world and is hiding it in a flurry of other seemingly unrelated events.
So what is Satan hiding?
At its core, it is the establishment of his final kingdom on earth.
Green Screens & Pipe Dreams
Greenscreen definition: In modern video and photographic backdrops, a green screen is used as a 'placeholder' that can be later edited to change the background to whatever you (the editor) want it to be. This has become incredibly popular in movies and news media in order to hide/change/alter the background of what is being filmed/photographed. In other words, it is used to create fake backgrounds. Similarly, green suits are used by actors to alter the visual effects of how they appear on the screen.
Underneath and behind all of the drama and spectacles of the last few years, the kingdom of the Beast is coalescing. This kingdom, with its ten kings, antichrist, and false prophet as the main antagonists, is in the process of coming together. If you remember just one thing from this article, remember that despite everything else you see and hear, remember the general direction everything keeps moving.
This kingdom is coming together in three distinct and yet, connected, arenas: a unified global economy, a unified global political system, and the formation of a global religion.
As for all the news and events surrounding climate change, the sodomite agenda, woke politics, various peace plans, climate repentance, economic turbulence, social media drama, artificial intelligence, et. al. news of our day, it's all smoke and mirrors from Satan's vantage point. It's very much like the nations of this world who are currently treading water in the choppy waves, unaware of the undertow pulling them further away from the shore so he (Satan) can drown them. He has to drown them so he can resurrect them into the future chimeric monstrosity of a global government and then bring them back to the shore to conquer.
Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” Revelation 13:1-4
Although steeped in symbolism, the symbolism in the passage above is not arbitrary or unknowable. Its attributes and definitions can be found in Daniel 2, 7-8 and Revelation 17. This global government is coming, and its formation is almost complete. But before it can fully coalesce, the old world order, with its nationalism, fiat currencies, diverse religions, and fractured economies, MUST be broken. The old world order has to be broken before it can be welded back together through regional imperialism (via the Great Reset), into its monstrous final form.
Although the globalists are currently using "woke politics" and progressive ideology to help break the current system, it (the beast kingdom) will not actually allow these things to be part of their new world order. They know these progressive policies don't actually work and they know how destructive they are, however, at present, it is simply a tool being used today to create an army of useful idiots (ex. see Covid jab and mask propagandists) to help speed the destruction along.
For the record, if these jabby stormtroopers weren't complicit in this illegal and unethical social intimidation to force an untested and ineffective on an unwilling population, why are they now asking for amnesty?
Conclusion
Now, with regard to God's overarching prophetic plans for the human race, we need not ever worry. His strategic vision will always outmaneuver Satan's schemes, no matter how devious. To this end, take comfort in the fact that Satan has been both duped and thwarted at each key turning point of our storied history here on planet earth. His most notable setbacks were:
The curse (the Protoevangelium) in the garden (Genesis 3:15)
The Noahic Flood (Gen. 6:9-10)
The dispersion at the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-10)
At the birth of Christ (Matthew 2:16)
At the Cross (1 Corinthians 2:7-8)
As I mentioned in my "Building Back Babel" article, Satan's growing desperation is forcing him to abandon smaller skirmishes like Roe v. Wade in favor of his wider agenda. In his mind, he will no longer risk losing the war at the expense of winning a few battles. Making an assumption here, but he must understand (at some level) that the deck is stacked impossibly against him, yet, he knows his fate is beyond horror and he is doing everything he can to avoid that. This is why, whatever he does, and whatever he has his demonic minions doing, is only ever to keep advancing the ball forward. Sometimes, it's a battle of inches (the slow and methodical march of corruption over time), and sometimes, it's the Hail Mary throw that gets him close to the goal line (ex. the Holocaust).
His problem, at least for the past two thousand years, is that there has been a Holy Spirit-infused body of believers known as the Church, which is being used as a mighty weapon against his devilish machinations.
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16:18-19
Just like a corrupt government does not want an educated and informed public, neither does Satan want a prophetically astute and alert Church. That is why he spent this same two thousand years attempting to confuse and divide the Church, especially with regard to biblical eschatology. Back in the second and third centuries, Satan even used well-intentioned Christians like Origen and Augustine to promulgate unbiblical hermeneutics and eschatologies. At the time, it didn't seem like a big deal. However, those little seeds of error inculcated centuries-long periods of church dormancy which has allowed Satan to kingdom-build in a rather unimpeded fashion.
All that preparatory work is finally paying off in this final generation. At a time when the Church should have been most effective in warning the world of the signs of the times, rather, she is largely asleep at the wheel. From Satan's perspective, it's much easier to label and cancel a small group of believers as "conspiracy theorists" for believing in something like "the Rapture," than it is to cancel one billion Christians.
Regardless of all of Satan's smoke and mirror operations, and his gratuitous use of green screens to alter people's perceptions, God is neither confused nor distracted. Despite the Church's predicted failings with regard to being watchmen, God's got it all under control. He gave Israel (via the Old Testament) and the Church (via the Old and New) Bible prophecy to forewarn us of things to come. Furthermore, He gave us Bible prophecy not to tantalize our imaginations but to let us share in His glory in preparing the world to come. However, precious few have taken up this mantle. Nevertheless, time is running out for our adversary as the clock continues to wind down. Satan, his demonic legions, and the wicked of this world are heading for defeat and ruin, but we have a glorious victory up ahead. Our fifth quarter activities will include a celebration unlike any has ever seen.
Don't let Satan's current political theatrics deceive you into believing that they are winning; they aren't. Wickedness might be rising, but its fate is already sealed, and judgment is coming. They will not escape the hour of testing that is coming upon the world. In the meantime, continue to warn your friends, family, and neighbors about what is coming. They may not listen, but the seeds will be planted nonetheless. Stay alert, stay engaged, and lean into the storm. We are near the finish line, and our future is exceedingly bright and unbelievably glorious.
Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown. He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” ’ Rev. 3:11-13
Maranatha!
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Yes, the signs are almost literally overwhelming now. So much so that I am making peace with the fact that there is now no way out. It’s too far gone. The system/government is now too corrupt, and the people are too in love with their sin. Just review 2 Timothy 3:1-7 and note especially verse 6 and tell me about abortion.
Unless there is a broad and deep revival, I see no turning back from the path we have chosen. And, at this point there seems not even a whisper of revival - anywhere. Can it happen? Of course. I just see no sign of it in this country.
For me, it is to live my life knowing that my citizenship is not here and while I am awaiting my destination I will cheerfully brace, brace, brace.
Amen 🙏!!!!
Bkmrk.
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In addition, too many people keep looking to man to correct the course instead of looking to the Lord Jesus.
A question for the ages.
Only the guilty need amnesty. By their asking for it for themselves, it is a tacit admission of guilt.
Agreed.
There are many, especially of the word of faith and/or Pentecostal persuasions, who keep carrying on about a great revival.
But I don’t see it either. Perhaps God will make one last great harvest before the beginning of the Tribulation, but Scripture indicates more a moving away from godliness than towards it.
I think President Trump was our last chance and when we rejected that, it set God’s plans for the fulfillment of time into motion with no turning back.
Even when God judge Israel in the OT and they went into the Babylonian captivity, there was that point of no return that had been reached where events were set in motion that there was no stopping them.
The other day I was pondering a question which haunted my early years in the Baptist community: 'what is the unforgivable sin?' Not too long ago God showed me the answer to this question. To understand the answer one should look at what JESUS said in John 6 about how salvation comes to one. Jesus repeatedly stated 'believe', believe in Whom God has sent for your deliverance. So when I read and reread what Jesus said in John 16 regarding the work of the Comforter He would send, the Holy Spirit, and what The Holy Spirit work through the believers would be, it dawned on me that the ONLY Sin which cannot be wiped away by the blood of the lamb is UNBELIEF. The Holy Spirit is convicting the world of Sin (unbelief), Righteousness (what one must have in order to enter God's Presence), and Judgment (what is awaiting ALL who do not believe. Now that means truly believe in Him and trust that He, Jesus, is The Savior and the ONLY way to the Father.
So what is the unforgivable sin? Unbelief. God's Grace in Christ Jesus can handle ALL behavioral sins. But if one is unbelieving in That Grace in Christ then there is no other remedy for sin in the life of a child descended from Adam.
If you're lie me and have beloved relatives who are not saved, the force of evangelism must be focused on bringing them to BELIEVE in Whom God sent for their deliverance. Get them to that point and GOD's Spirit can do the rest for them. I know, because I have a life lived learning that wonderful Promise.
I know that you, MHGinTN, has the same certainty that the Scripture written by Beloved John to his recruited, regenerated, and inducted volunteer members of the Company of the Committed is 1 John 3:9, a principle summed up in two words in any language, plain-literal subject noun and verb: Jesus saves!
When that truth is preached, someone hears. When they are heard, they have the power to create confidence that the Savior exists and rescues the soul who assents for tge rescue to take place, in which a new spirit person takes form in the spiritual realm -- is "born" there, to live frever in communion with his/her Creator and Sustainer.
To deny and reject the understandable news of the Promise and the empowered Promiser, is to remain under the condemnation of not only physical, but also eternal spiritual death.
(”world events are always trending toward biblical fulfillment, never away from it.”)
Yep. I have great confidence that all that the Lord foretold will come true.
Absolutely 100% MHGinTN!
Believe and have Belief in the One God sent.
Mankind is a prideful little vermin that tries to complicate, confound, and muddle the meaning of Our Savior’s Words into actions, works, deeds, or habits.
To Blaspheme the Holy Spirit is to deny that Jesus is The Christ and deny that John 14:6 is true.
OSAS, THE WHOLE STORY
https://gracethrufaith.com/topical-studies/eternal-security/osas-the-whole-story/
A few weeks after I realized the above, I came to a higher realization.
Why do people steal? Why so much emphasis on theft? How do I reconcile the idea of theft with Lucifer's rebellion? Then it hit me--theft itself is merely another symptom.
Pride is the only sin. Pride in oneself, in one's accomplishments, in one's existence. Pride cause people to justify in their hearts that what ever it is they want, they deserve. Pride is what caused Lucifer's downfall. Pride is what causes every single person on the planet to sin.
Pride is the only sin. Every single other action that we call sin is merely a symptom of that pride. Pride itself is not a symptom. It comes from within. It comes from ourselves. No one can force pride upon us, though we are persuaded quite often.
I bring all this up, because of your post wondering what the unforgivable sin is. It's Pride. Pride to not believe that there is a higher, better, more perfect Being than you.
What Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost was directly addressing the Sin of unbelief which caused the leadership of Israel to turn Jesus over to the Romans for execution.
The message from Jesus in John 16 regarding the Holy Spirit illuminates the thing the Holy Spirit DID with the three thousand on the Day of Pentecost as Peter preached the truth of Who Jesus IS. Three thousand souls Believed and the Holy Spirit then took up residence in their spirits, to abide with them forever.
Pride is an emotional response to the behavioral exchange, where in the will of the soul centers upon self. Salvation is not in the soul (mind, emotions, will), it is in the spirit, and Hebrews 4:12 tells us that The Word of God separates the soul/behavior mechanism and spirit, else the righteousness of God could not abide with the born again spirit.
Once we are born again, born from above and the spirit made pristine in righteousness because He is then IN the born again spirit, GOD changes the soul, the behavior mechanism to the extent that a born again BELIEVER submits to the leadership of the Spirit within.
In the moment of the Rapture, GOD gives all believers a new glorified body AND soul/behavior mechanism. We don't take our old sin-laden behavior mechanism to Heaven. Those with Jesus right now are with Him as spirit bodies. God will bring those with Jesus for the great departure into the clouds to meet the Lord in Bodies like His, with behavior mechanisms which are not tempted to behavior sins.
Un belief opens the gate for pride to rule the self. God focuses on the unbelief, convicting the world of Sin, Righteousness, and Judgment. When one 'sees' the reverse order -judgment is coming to ALL who do not have the righteousness required to enter God's Presence- well the Sin of unbelief is being targeted. Why?
Because Jesus went to that horrific cross to atone for the behavioral sins of men and women so that the damning sin of Unbelief can be surfaced and the convicted then Believes in Whom God sent for their deliverance. Jesus told us repeatedly in John 6 that Salvation is found by believing in Whom God has provided, THAT IS THE GRACE OF GOD IN CHRIST.
He died! He died that I might live. He rose from the grave so that we may know He is going to keep His Promise of a new glorified body and 'clean behavior mechanism' for our born again spirit to occupy eternally.
Pride is a function of the behavioral mechanism of mind, will and emotion. Salvation is not about the behavior mechanism/soul, it is about the most important part of the soul, the spirit. God saves the spirit when we believe/trust in Whom He sent for our salvation. Salvation is the moment our spirit is separated from our sin-laden soul, so that God's Spirit can abide in the born again spirit. The corollary belief is that He is going to give us a new glorified body with sinless soul 'at any moment'.
Very good post, MHG. I really appreciated it.
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