Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Generation

Are we already in the apocalypse?

Today I turned on an audio Bible while I prayed, and I decided to listen to the Revelation. I listen to different books at different times. I ask God what I should listen to, or I listen to whatever is already cued up. It’s not like I listen to the Revelation over and over, along with Daniel, trying to get myself and my stockpile of pemmican and ammunition ready for our national reenactment of The Walking Dead.

Jesus spoke to 7 churches in the Revelation, and we all know he commended the church of Philadelphia above all the others. Here is what he said:

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

I am just guessing, but I suspect “Philadelphia,” which means the love among brothers, is intended to be a prophetic signal. I think it means those churches which are full of the Holy Spirit and God’s love. Charismatic churches where people speak in tongues and don’t worship money.

The only real unifying force in this world is the Holy Spirit, and he unifies with love, not fear or harsh discipline. When Christians are led by the Holy Spirit, they are unified regardless of race and national origin.

The hour of temptation is the tribulation which occurs before Jesus returns. It happens after the rapture. So Jesus is saying people who are like the church of Philadelphia will be taken in the rapture. They will be spared the full-blown expression of God’s wrath.

We know the tribulation is a time of temptation, because the Bible makes it clear that people will still be able to be saved, and it says those who refuse to worship Satan will be killed. They will be tempted to recant. They won’t be able to buy or sell. They will be abused very badly. The ones who won’t make it will be like Esau, who sold his birthright for a bowl of soup. They’ll go to hell in spite of trying to turn to God.

It’s nice that Jesus doesn’t say people in the other churches will go to hell, but it seems obvious that if they aren’t taken in the rapture, they aren’t saved as of that moment. It appears that they will be left here, unsaved, with the option of repenting and going to heaven later, after much unnecessary suffering.

This morning I turned on a Youtube video about the popularity of 10mm in Alaska, where it’s used for bear defense. The man in the video started talking about the difficulty of buying ammunition during the current “apocalypse.” This was the first time I had heard anyone say something like that so casually. I don’t think he was serious, but what if he was right?

People have predicted the time of the end many times in the past, and they were wrong, but they didn’t live in 2020. Our population is pushing 8 billion. Technology is destroying free will and government. The greatest Christian nation in history has fallen away, and the majority is being oppressed by minorities and sexual deviants. We have a micro-plague and a mini-famine. Violence and hatred are everywhere. Delusion approaching psychosis is mainstream among leftists and some other groups. We have never seen a time like this. The earth appears to be ripe for the end.

Scientists think the earth can only sustain 10 billion people. We’ll be there soon. I admit, scientists are wrong a lot, but they ought to have some sort of clue about this.

It’s strange to hear someone use the word “apocalypse” with such nonchalance. Maybe it will become more common.

We have a tendency to deny things for long periods, then acknowledge them facetiously and intermittently, and then admit them openly. Remember the animosity Barack Obama had for Israel? People said friction between Obama and the Israelis didn’t exist. Then they started joking about it. Then journalists started discussing it as though it were undeniable and well-known to everyone. Maybe the apocalypse will work that way.

Biden’s obvious dementia will work that way. Now he’s making pathetic Youtube ads in which he makes grammatical errors and slurs his speech.

What’s happening to human beings is a little bit like falling into a black hole. When you’re far away, you’re pulled in slowly. Your speed doesn’t change much from one year to the next. When you get closer, the gravitational force, which increases as the inverse of the square of the distance from the singularity, rises more quickly every second. You speed up faster and faster. It’s not linear. Not only are we more depraved, deluded, and cruel than were in the past; we are becoming depraved, deluded and cruel more quickly every day. The difference between 2019 and 2020 is worse than the difference between 2010 and 2019. What will the rest of the year be like?

The thing to focus on is the promise Jesus gave the Philadelphians. He said they didn’t have to be around for the tribulation. You can avoid it, too. Temptation to fall away is getting stronger and stronger. If you don’t take the bait, you’ll be fine. If you do take the bait, you’ll find yourself in a world where it’s much harder to turn back to God and harder still to stay with him. It’s not the right move.

I would be happy to leave during the next second. I don’t want to see furious imbeciles storm the White House or go on rape rampages in our suburbs. I don’t want to see Christians who don’t know the Holy Spirit shooting protestors as they charge their houses in waves. What we’re seeing now is sufficient for me.

The other day a crowd of demon puppets put a guillotine outside a house belonging to Jeff Bezos. That should chill everyone. It’s a death threat, just like hanging a noose outside a black family’s house. In the French Revolution, angry peasants pulled aristocrats out of their homes and severed their heads. Bezos is a leftist! He’s also a powerful agent of the Beast. His type of commerce is putting control of buying and selling in the hands of a few, making it easier to cut Christians off from goods and services in the future. The Beast’s silly children are threatening one of their best friends. Not sure why. Maybe they prefer Ebay.

No, they prefer stealing.

Is this really happening? Am I really living in the end of the end time? I suppose the coming weeks will tell me.