Good Leaders are Consistent

Some Christians, myself included, believe the rapture and tribulation are close because the Bible seems to say these things will happen after 6 millennia from Adam. We are in the Hebrew year 5781. This figure is based on a calculation by Maimonides. Obviously, the Hebrews have not kept a calendar for 5781 years. They didn’t exist until Abraham was born. Maimonides may be wrong, as he was about other things, but he is probably within the ballpark.

I have numerous other reasons for believing the end of the age is upon us.

Jesus said the gospel of the kingdom would be preached in all the world for a witness to all peoples. That has pretty much been done. You can argue about what “gospel of the kingdom” means, because it’s not the same thing as the gospel of salvation or the gospel of buying Joel Osteen another Airbus A319. It’s not the gospel of homosexuality being okay with Jesus. You can argue about what “all the world” means. Do we have to get inside every house and hut, everywhere? You can also argue about what “all peoples” means. Does it mean every subset of every group has to get a fair shot at hearing the message? Regardless of the answers to these questions, the gospel of the kingdom is traveling like never before. By radio, TV, satellite transmissions, the Internet, mail, smuggled materials, and the efforts of traveling preachers, the information is penetrating even places like Saudi Arabia and Burma.

The Revelation says that before the tribulation, three evil spirits will be released on the world: murder, death, and lack. We’re already hearing their entrance music. Coronavirus appears to be a permanent and ever-changing addition to our lives, it brought shortages, and hatred and violence are increasing. We also had the VD explosion in the 1980’s, including AIDS, which killed tens of millions of people in Africa alone.

Technology has become so advanced and so common, we are losing free will. We are close to a state of constant surveillance, and when we get there, free will will disappear. Without free will, there can be no judgment, so there will be no reason for this age to continue.

Jesus said the love of many would grow cold. That has already happened. People give lip service to God, but they don’t belong to him, and a big percentage of people from formerly Christian nations don’t believe in him at all. In the UK, outright hatred for Christians is common and open.

He said the end times would be like the days of Lot and Noah. In Lot’s time, sexually corrupt mobs ruled Sodom and Gomorrah, and justice was perverted. In the modern West, Christians run from homosexuals now. They take away our jobs. They drive us out of public life. They wreck our businesses. They hold parades where they literally march naked in our streets, while decent people are forced to hide. Homosexuals just put Youtube’s biggest preacher out of business because he cast demons of perversion out of people. In Noah’s time, people were filthy, just as they are today.

There are plenty of reasons to believe things are, mercifully, winding up.

As for the millennial theory, I just heard someone put forth new evidence from the Bible. He mentioned something I had never heard of. He connected events in Exodus with the rapture.

In Exodus 19, God told Moses he was going to appear before the people on Mount Sinai. He told Moses to sanctify the people and command them to wash their garments. This was their task for the first two days, in preparation for his appearance on the third day.

The parallels are obvious when you look at the story.

Jesus was crucified, and since then, two millennia have passed. The Bible says that with God, a day is like a thousand years. People who believe in a return after six millennia believe every millennium is like a day, and we are coming to the close of day 6. The seventh day will be like the sabbath. It will be a day of rest, dedicated to God. Curses will be removed from the earth, along with ungodly people and the spirits they serve. Even animals will give up predation and fighting.

God gave us two thousand years to receive salvation, washing our garments. The Bible makes it clear that white garments represent salvation. In Hebrew, the world for salvation is “Yeshua,” the name of Jesus. It appears the third post-crucifixion millennium will be like the day God appeared on the mountain. After his appearance, he handed down the law, representing the way he will put his law in people’s hearts after the tribulation. He will fill people with the Holy Spirit, remove temptation and troublemakers, and rule as Earth’s king.

I didn’t notice the signs in Exodus until I saw a video by a Scottish man who calls himself Brother Grahame. God has been telling him a lot of things.

It’s amazing how God tells different people the same things in different ways. This sets cessationist churches, which receive no revelation, apart from Spirit-led people, who hear from the Holy Spirit every day. Here is how God put it in Psalm 133:

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

“Ointment” means the oil of anointing, which represents the Holy Spirit. Hermon is a place where spirits descended from heaven. Enoch mentions it. Satan and his cohorts descended there to have sex with women and create their own race of losers.

People who hear from the Holy Spirit agree because God tells all of them the same things. When people agree, there is peace. Order and peace are the same thing.

God alone orders people. Satan is the author of confusion, and it’s no coincidence that the Bible says sexual perversion is confusion. It says this specifically about sex with animals, but it is also true of homosexual relations. Love of sexual perversion is bringing hatred and murder to the world. It’s the main thing that drives persecution in America now.

Sometimes I wonder if the mark of the Beast will be a rainbow flag tattoo. Maybe you’ll have to have the mark in order to show you endorse perversion. Some people have the idea that coronavirus vaccines are the mark, but that doesn’t line up with the Bible.

The other day, I looked up Stella Immanuel, the Nigerian doctor who got in trouble for saying she had cured coronavirus with a combination of medications. She’s a Christian. She says people will go to hell for getting the shots. I don’t know where she got that idea. It isn’t true. God never said it was true. She said Facebook’s servers would crash because she was censored. That didn’t happen. She may be a fine person, but I question her prophetic insights.

Only the Holy Spirit brings peace. We already have many examples of his work. I’ll mention one. Negotiators have worked for decades to bring peace to the Middle East, trying to appease the Muslims. It will never work, but right now, you can go to Israel and see Jews and former terrorists going to church together as brothers. For people who listen to the Holy Spirit, peace is already here. They will testify against the people who rejected Jesus and didn’t seek the Holy Spirit’s help. They prove peace is possible.

I am trying to get my garments clean. I had an experience the other day which highlighted dishonesty in my heart, and it was disturbing. I want to get everything straightened out. My feeling is that God will leave people here during the rapture if they continue to squabble and scam over earthly wealth and other fleeting blessings.

I don’t want to wash my own garments, because I can’t. I’m not good enough. Paul said we should approach the throne of grace with our requests. Grace is anything God does for you. If you do it for yourself, it’s not grace. The Bible says faith comes from God, not us. It says our righteousness is from him, not ourselves. God said he, not we, would carry our burdens.

I hope I am married before the rapture. I hope we go together. I have concerns about the visa process outlasting this age.

I hope people find the video informative and useful.