SECTION LIV: The Last Trump Does NOT Sound “RETREAT!!!”

The version of Christianity that I grew up with was enraptured with the idea of The Last Trump heralding the Rapture of the Saved to heaven to escape The Great Tribulation.

The problem with Dispensational Christianity is the lack of willingness to fight and suffer for what is right, the conviction that heaven begins with earthly prosperity and superiority, and the cowardly conviction that believers escape the earth at the first sign of trouble rather than remaining to rescue so much as their own loved ones. There is no historical precedent of this whatsoever in the entire Bible. God’s people don’t retreat. We face the enemy, fearlessly!

Well, actually, we fear, but are exhorted to buck up and overcome our fear.

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children / followers to their fathers / godly religious leaders, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” (Malachi 4:5-6)

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295) He Cometh With The Most Powerful Weapon Yet

  1. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake….
  2. Immediately after the tribulation of those days…shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
  3. “then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn,
  4. and / when they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory / VICTORY! ” (Matthew 24:30)

What could trigger such an outcry of wailing from these people who were previously so impressed with Antichrist’s amazing light show breaking through the firmament?

SEEING ALL THEIR KILLS COME BACK TO LIFE AS IMMORTALS IN JUDGMENT!

“For when they shall say, Peace and safety [world-wide under Antichrist’s rule]; then sudden destruction cometh upon them

  1. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven…with the trump of God 
  2. AND the dead in Christ shall rise first…In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed…
  3. THEN we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.” (I Thessalonians 5:3-10. 4:16-17, I Corinthians 15:52

“behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.” (Revelation 14:14-16)

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296) The Vials Of Wrath – Revelation 19

 “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever…And the temple of God was opened in heaven…And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth…For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. (Revelation 11:15,19; 16:1, Isaiah 26:21)

The Greek word φιάλη (phiálē) is translated in the King James Bible as “vial”. We can recognize its transliteration from the pronunciation of the Greek word.

But this doesn’t mean that two thousands of years later our transliteration applies. Is it a larger object like bowl as translated in other Bible versions, or a small cylinder used to safeguard a strong medicine or poison? Since this Greek word is found only in this circumstance in Revelation, we can’t visualize it by seeing how it’s used in another setting in the gospels or letters.

We are forced to drill down into the word itself. Etymology. According to  Beekes, the root word άλη is found in σκυτ-άλη (staff, stem, handle) and γύ-αλον (hollowed space). OK., that’s no help. Still a variety of applications.

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297) Outer Darkness

“And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies…

  • The sorrows / binding, noose of hell compassed me about;
  • the snares / trap of death…

[But then!] The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice…For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.” (II Samuel 22)

Jesus, more readily recognized as the name of the LORD when translated as YHVH’s Savior, then details exactly what are these sorrows – hell-sent bindings and traps causing anguish and grief driving God’s people to call upon his name.

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298) The Millennial Reign

SECTION LV: The Day Of The LORD

“John…who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ…was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day / day of the Lord” (Revelation 1)

John is not expressing cultural sensitivity to avoid specifying Sunday for Christians vs Saturday for Jewish or Seventh Day Adventist worship.

The day of the LORD is exactly as during Creation Week – an era of restoration by works of Light / God following the Adversary’s night / era of works of darkness.

By specifying that he was “in the Spirit” John is letting us know he was transported to the future to provide prophetic encouragement to those experiencing tribulation during the Adversary’s “night”. History informs us of the terrible persecution of believers in Jesus the Christ during John’s lifetime and prophecy informs us that it recurs before the Millenium reign and and again at the end. The Adversary just never lets up.

The day of the Lord is when YHVH / Creator and his sanctified ones – finally!- seize control back from the Adversary and his followers. His war banner reads “Vengeance is mine! I will repay!” confirming the parallel circumstances of Creation Week.

Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.” (Isaiah 13:6).

“the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.” (Isaiah 13:9)

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299) The Book Of Life

“I saw a great white throne…And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne…before God;

  1. and the books were opened:
  2. and another book was opened, which is the book of life:

and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works

Repeated – one can only conclude for emphasis:

they were judged every [hu]man according to their works.

WORKS. NOT WORDS. “Accepting” Jesus, “Asking” Jesus to come into your heart, “Praying the sinner’s prayer” are meaningless if not followed up with correspondent works proving repentance.

I [Paul]…shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should

  1. repent and turn to God,
  2. AND do works meet / fit for repentance.” (Acts 26:19-21)

“And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:11-15)

Diverse interpretations of how one’s name gets written down can be found among Christian denominations as well as non-Christian religions.

For example: “To properly understand the Book of Life, you must realize that there are really two Books of Life. One is called “the book of life”; the other, “the Lamb’s book of life”…the book of life or the Lamb’s book of life was never mentioned in the Old Testament as such. Of course, the “mystery” regarding the new covenant concerning the Law of Grace was not to be known to those of the Old Testament. One’s name is not written in…by the sovereign choice of God. A person’s name is written in the Lamb’s book of Life only because he or she chooses to ask God to place it there.”

Wow. Doesn’t that make a human a higher sovereign than God?

How about we stick with the source document instead of a religious cult?

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301) Judgment Day

If you’ve ever had occasion to appear in court, you understand that the essential service an attorney / advocate gives is advice. What to do, what not to do, and what to stop doing. 

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“if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous…the propitiation for…the sins of the whole world. ” (I John 2:1-2)

There you go. Christian doctrine is that Jesus paid the price of my sin so I’m good to go, right?

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Wrong.

Jesus’ death provides the opportunity to judicially transfer his sentence because he was sinless.

This does not grant the “freedom” to keep on sinning.

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk / live daily life not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For the law / authority, control of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law / authority, control of sin and death…That the righteousness of the law [of God] might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

 If Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (Romans 8)

“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven…depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (Matthew 7:21-23)

The last-ditch effort to explain exactly what salvation is, and what it looks like expands on the essential dichotomy of self-centered materialism vs God-centered spirituality.

Love [merge identity] not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.” (I John 2:15-16)

If we love one another, God dwelleth in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.(I John 4:11-13)

  • and every one that loveth him that begat – God
  • loveth him also that is begotten of him – humanity
  • By this we know that we love the children of God [that were scattered abroad]
  • when we love God, and keep his commandments. 
  • For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments:” I John 5:1-3)

“In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil:

  • whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother…
    • Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. 
  • We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.
    • He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 
    • Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 
  • Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 
    • But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him…in deed and in truth.” (I John 4)

The proof that one has indeed become a son of God is the presence of God’s spirit expressing his righteous characteristics through freely chosen actions consistent with God’s values.

“work out your own salvation…For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure…That ye may be…the sons of God, ” (Philippians 2:12-14)

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God…The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God” (Romans 8:14-16) 

Humanity’s only choice is connection to, or intentional separation from, from the source of life.

Is it so hard to understand that the Singularity couldn’t create the opportunity for some individuals to freely choose to identify with / love him, without necessarily including the alternative – to freely reject associating him?

The easiest way we can understand God is to put ourselves in his place. Can you imagine watching your own beloved children suffer at the hands of evil people? What banishment is appropriate for someone who will continue to deceive most of your children into hating you and running away from you in order to betray and trap them into a lifetime of misery and eternity separated from you, while torturing and murdering as many of your faithful children as he can?

The dangerous thing about the chemical reactions in fire is the fact that they are self-perpetuating. 

Admittedly, the idea of burning for eternity is absolutely horrible. This is where most people choose to reject the Bible on the basis of “A good God wouldn’t send anyone to hell.”  The reality is that a good God doesn’t – he provided a way of escape which every person has the freedom to choose, or not.

“And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.”

Scientifically speaking, “no place for them” means these things no longer exist in space, i.e. no longer have mass. So according to the laws of physics, using Einstein’s Singularity formula of e=mc2 algebraically rewritten as m=e/c2, mass has been converted to nothing but energy, i.e. spirit / c2 the eternal Force of Creation. Or in biblical terms “God is all in all”:

“And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.” (I Corinthians 15:28)

the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him…that ye may know

  1. what is the hope of his calling,
  2. and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
  3. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe,
  4. according to the working of his mighty power,Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places
  5. and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
  6. Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.” (Ephesians 1:17-23)

302) The Lake Of Fire Demanded By The Laws Of Physics

“And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.”

Scientifically speaking, “no place” means the universe as we know it no longer exists as mass.

“the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” (II Peter 3:10)

Due to the laws of physics, their mass has converted into pure energy. This happens when any entity is separated from the infinite c2 force that maintains mass.

“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.”

  • And the sea [chaotic outer space abode of alien evil hyper dimensional beings] gave up the dead [disconnected from the Singularity Source of Life] which were in it;
  • and death [the final format of the energy pattern comprising the soul]
  • and hell [a force-field retaining boundary like the firmament preventing dead souls from affecting the living] delivered up the dead which were in them:

and they were judged every man according to their works.” (Revelation 20:11-13)

What that soul will experience for eternity depends on the choices made during this lifetime to reconnect to the source of life – or not.

“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life.” (Revelation 22:14)

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” (Revelation 21:5-18, 20:14-15)

Using basic literature analysis, this lake of fire must be the pure energy remnant of the heavens and earth described at the beginning of this post – what had been created “in the beginning” that has been thoroughly corrupted.

So everything God created good that has become corrupted by disconnection from the Singularity c2 energy maintenance- by mankind by the way, to whom was given dominion – degenerates to pure energy.

The dangerous thing about the chemical reactions in fire is the fact that they are self-perpetuating. 

Admittedly, the idea of burning for eternity is absolutely horrible. This is where most people choose to reject the Bible on the basis of “A good God wouldn’t send anyone to hell.”  

Is it so hard to understand that the Singularity, i.e. E=mc2, can’t eliminate one aspect of being without eliminating the entire physics basis of reality.

Or that the Singularity couldn’t create the opportunity for some individuals to freely choose to identify with / love him/her, without necessarily generating the opportunity for other individuals to freely reject associating with him/her.

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304) It’s A Wrap! The Ten Days Of Creation

    The Hindu religion, which preserves the most comprehensive and oldest accounts of the activities of the fallen angels / gods from this time period, confirms the biblical depiction of the seventh night as when time, as mortal humans understand and experience it, begins.

    In Hinduism…Kala means both time and death. From a spiritual perspective time exists when we are in a state of duality when we are separated from God but disappears when we enter in the state of unity with God.

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