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I had a disturbing moment a couple of days back while thinking about the Bible.

In Genesis 6, God says:

And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Some people claim this means he limited people’s lifespans to 120, but that’s clearly not correct. Abraham and others beat that figure, as did Noah, the most prominent person in Genesis 6.

Others think it meant that God was bringing the flood 120 years later. Perhaps that is true. I have believed it. But what if there is another meaning? What if it applies to our time as well as Noah’s?

God’s Spirit–the Holy Spirit–was not known to many people before Yeshua. The baptism with the Holy Spirit did not exist. People did not pray in tongues. Prophecy was a rare gift; Moses wished it were more common, proving it was not. Miracles were rare.

If the Holy Spirit was not dealing with many people, why would God say his Spirit would not strive with men forever? It looks like the Holy Spirit was not striving much at the time.

Sometimes God puts verses in places where they don’t seem to fit, and we try to make them blend into their context when we should be asking ourselves why he said things that don’t match the surrounding language well.

The Holy Spirit didn’t really have a major influence on the church until the last months of 1903. Yes, the early church had the baptism with the Spirit, but the flame appears to have blown out before the end of the first century A.D. Cessationists like to say miracles died with the apostles. It looks like there were never a lot of people full of the fruit and gifts of the Spirit until the 20th century.

Many people think the modern revival of the baptism with the Holy Spirit started with Azusa Street in Los Angeles, but that isn’t correct. The best candidate for Patient Zero in the charismatic movement was a woman who got the baptism in Arkansas on the first day of the 20th century: January 1, 1901. Before and after this, there were fits and starts elsewhere, but nothing resembling a real revival, with large numbers of baptisms, took place until the winter of 1903.

The Azusa Street revival started in 1906.

Over the last 2000 years, there have been other accounts of Christians speaking in tongues, but it wasn’t like today. There are now something like 600 million of us, and it’s not a flash in the pan that will pass away during the current age.

For the first time in history, we live in a time where billions have been offered the opportunity to be filled with the Spirit of God.

So what I wonder is this: was God saying that once the Spirit got his first real foothold in 1903, a 120-year period would start to tick away, to be followed by the rapture?

Before Yeshua was born in the flesh, people who knew God dealt with Yahweh. While Yeshua was here, people dealt with him. When Yeshua was crucified, the Holy Spirit was unleashed on the world. He made his grand appearance a few weeks later. Since then, we have been obligated to get to know him and become one with him.

There is no fourth person of the trinity, so once man rejects the Holy Spirit decisively, after getting a good chance to get with the program, God has no one left to send. It makes sense that rejection of the Holy Spirit would trigger the rapture.

As his reason for giving man a time limit, God said man “also” was flesh, suggesting that God knew that most humans, being part spirit and part flesh, would end up serving the flesh, not God. If you serve the flesh, you serve demons. If you serve demons, you serve Satan.

The book of Enoch says God destroyed the giants–the abomination bastard children of angels and women–because they were giants in the flesh but not in the spirit. The old books say the bastards God killed went on to become demons. There is a parallel between the giants and the people who reject God. The flesh overpowers the spirit.

Verse 2 Peter 2:7 says God “rescued” Lot, whom God called righteous. It says Lot was “worn out” by the “sensual” behavior of the lawless. “Sensual” means “of the pleasures of the flesh.” Lot’s perverted neighbors lived to please the flesh, so they were spiritual midgets.

These are the literal translations of the Greek words in the verse.

Lot reached a point where he could not stand it, after years of being worn down. Then God removed him and his daughters. Just like the rapture. Does this sound familiar to anyone who is tired of our new world of universal grooming? Does anyone else want a change of atmosphere?

There are some plagues that require a mask over the eyes and ears, not just the nose and mouth.

God has said we don’t know the day or hour when he will return, but he never said we wouldn’t know the year or month, and he made it clear he expected us to know when the rapture was imminent. There is no Biblical reason to say we won’t narrow it down. We’re required to do it.

Am I claiming God will definitely come for us this winter? No. I don’t pretend to know the answer. But I plan to pray about it and study.

Jesus said he would return in times that were like the days of Noah and the days of Lot. The perversion movement fulfills the prophecy about Lot’s time. I’m not sure if our time is sufficiently like Noah’s to bring Yeshua here to get us, but maybe it is. And maybe a second 120-year opportunity to get close to God is one thing that makes this time like Noah’s.

When I consider the possibility of being raptured this winter, all I can think about is how great it would be to be free of this place. No riots. No mobs. No running from men in pink wigs. No socialism. No violence. No disease. No weird religions or atheism.

No reading glasses.

I’m going to look at the story of Lot and see if I can see anything else that looks like what secular people would, ironically, call an Easter egg. Maybe there is something there.

If you want to see another reminder that America is irretrievably defeated, check out this video of a man with a moustache, working at Disney World, wearing a dress, selling dresses to random little girls whose families show up without requesting a transvestite. Imagine the conversations families have had back at the Intercontinental.

Project yourself back to 1970 and try to imagine seeing this guy on The Wonderful World of Disney, maybe in a humorous episode about Rascal the feisty raccoon. “Rascal didn’t know what to make of the nice lady’s moustache, but he was mighty grateful for those biscuits.”

You and your grandparents are sitting on the couch on a Sunday night, sharing some s’mores and cocoa, and up pops the son Milton Berle cut out of his will.

I would say things are going to get worse, but I wonder if that’s still possible.