What’s in the Scroll?

It’s very weird how the truth, and by “truth,” I mean the only truth, which is God’s truth, works. It’s not hard to understand, and it’s generally very obvious, but we are often unable to see it. We can’t see the truth until God shows it to us with supernatural revelation, and then it appears simple and obvious, because it is.

Human beings are born blind and deaf. We don’t have the equipment to perceive the truth. It has to be revealed to us by God. The reason we don’t understand things is that we are supernaturally blocked.

I have wanted to put together an end time timeline so I would know what was going on around me. I used to sit around with Microsoft Word open, trying to make a list. I looked at the Bible, and I wrote things down. It should have been very easy, but it wasn’t, and I made mistakes.

Yesterday I decided to try again, and it all came together in a very short time. That’s how things work when God helps you.

Here’s how it looks:

1. Falling away.
2. Persecution.
3. Rapture.
4. Tribulation and the rule of the Antichrist.
5. Return of Jesus.
6. Satan and other inferior spirits bound.
7. Messianic age, with Jesus on earth, ruling with resurrected believers.
8. Satan released to tempt the world.
9. Satan defeated and imprisoned forever, along with the damned.
10. Heaven and earth destroyed.

That’s not everything, but it’s a few things I consider important. Right now, it seems pretty sound.

The age of the Gentiles, which I call the Church Age, is over. God isn’t watering the plant, and it’s withering. If we’re not in the apocalypse, which comes next, we’re in some kind of interstitial transition period.

Yesterday, I wrote about the rapture. I wasn’t sure what to expect. I keep feeling that God is telling me I am not going to be on earth next year. On the other hand, people love to say we can’t predict anything. While Jesus was with the disciples, he said he didn’t know when the end would come. People point to that and say Jesus still doesn’t know, so we won’t know, either. He said his “day” would come like a thief in the night, and he said he would return when the disciples thought not. Many Christians think we’re going to be taken by surprise.

I opined that Jesus had probably been told the date of the rapture at some point after saying he didn’t know it, because the Bible didn’t say he would never be told. I guessed that he would give his people warning, because the Bible says God doesn’t do anything without telling the prophets.

In my comments, Juliette Ochieng, AKA Baldilocks, piped up with the answer. In 1 Thessalonians 5, we see this:

But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Well, there you go.

I read the Bible, and I listen to the Bible, but I don’t remember all of it all the time. The answer was right there, and I didn’t remember reading it.

Jesus warned Lot, and he warned Noah. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the flood were pictures of the apocalypse. God works in repetitive patterns. He’s not going to take his favor away from the world suddenly, fail to inform his children, and leave them in the world to suffer not only the torments intended for the lost but also unrestrained persecution.

So the news is very good.

What about redemption, though? I don’t mean salvation. I mean restoration. The world has been cursed for thousands of years. Many saved people have died young. They’ve even died in the womb. They’ve been barren. They’ve had deformities. They’ve died single. They’ve been poor and diseased. They’ve been murdered by unbelievers, including rabbis, popes, and priests. What about compensation?

The Bible clearly says believers will rule the world with Jesus for a thousand years. It’s not referring to believers who appear out of nowhere. It refers to those who lived before the return of Jesus.

This means you get a second chance at life. If you were deformed, maimed, or sick, you get to live whole and healthy. If you were mentally ill, you get to live with a healthy mind. If you were poor, you live in abundance. If you were persecuted, you live in safety. You get to prosper. You get to marry your childhood sweetheart and have an ideal life.

The Bible says people in heaven don’t marry, but the Messianic age will take place on earth, not just in heaven. It says people will live long lives. It says, “the child shall die an hundred years old.” It doesn’t say, “the resurrected person will die an hundred years old.” There will be marriage and reproduction.

It ties up a lot of loose ends. The Bible is full of wonderful promises for us, but we often die without seeing them realized. It also promises things to the Messiah, but Jesus was killed before they came to pass. We know the reward of Jesus comes after his return, fulfilling every prophecy, and we know we are his body, and we inherit the blessings he earned. It makes sense that we, too, would be fulfilled in the Messianic age.

This is how I see things at the moment. I don’t see any reason to doubt it.

There are lots of promises about people who have been thwarted, receiving all the things of which they have been deprived. How can those promises be true if we don’t get a do-over, just like Jesus?

It’s astounding to see how disgusting the world has gotten. We see filthy language on billboards. The Internet has made us murderous and vicious. The lowest of the low are our celebrities and role models. We even have Sports Illustrated trying to turn men into homosexuals.

Imagine going back to 1980 and telling the staffers at Sports Illustrated they were going to try to convert heterosexual men. They would have assumed you were insane. But Sports Illustrated now has a castrated male swimsuit model, and the intention of their swimsuit photos is to arouse heterosexual men sexually. They’re trying to convince straight American males it’s okay to lust after a man. This guy also works for Victoria’s Secret, so men have already seen him prancing around in women’s underwear.

It’s going to work. Mark my words. There is no idiocy human beings can’t swallow when the Holy Spirit is gone and peer pressure is applied.

It’s going to be a bad time for women when homosexuality diverts males in large numbers. Women are hard for men to get along with, and they have babies. They expect to be supported. They earn less money. Selfish men who have no sexual desire for women will have great incentive to abandon them.

When two gay men get together, they have some advantages. They understand each other well. They have similar desires and opinions. They don’t have to worry about babies popping up to interfere with their selfish lives. They don’t have to have the burden and fear of long-term commitment. They are likely to have more money than a straight couple. These truths will put women in a bad spot.

When it comes to sex, men love novelty. Men in gay relationships can switch and swap all the time, keeping sex interesting. No wife can pull that off. Marry the most beautiful woman on earth, and in a few months or even weeks, you’ll find her less exciting than other women. It’s just the way men work.

Of course, the tribulation will be terrible for women, and everyone else, in many other ways.

I wonder what will happen to the unborn in the rapture. The unborn are people, and they have no sin. Will they be taken? Will pregnant women find they are suddenly no longer pregnant? Will children below the age of accountability disappear? Will people who lack the mental capacity to sin disappear? Am I the only one who wonders about these things?

How will TV preachers explain it when the rapture comes and they’re still here doing their shows? What excuses will they come up with? Maybe they’ll say God chose his special, anointed, exalted servants to stay during the tribulation, preach to the unsaved, and, of course, collect a lot of offerings.

I think we’ll have a very good idea when the rapture is coming. I think it will be very soon. I think the rewards for people who make it will be far better than anything we can imagine. I don’t believe we have anything to worry about.