IT STANDS TO REASON

IT STANDS TO REASON

                “And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them; and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him. And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, every one whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain.”

                “And he Causes all, the small and the great and thee rich and the poor and the free men and the slaves to be given a mark on their right hand or one their forehead and he provides that no one should be able to buy or to sell except the one who has the mark either the name of the beast or the number of his name.”

                We can argue or discuss the rapture all we want to and quibble over whether it be pre, mid, or post, but there is one thing I know from the above texts: (Along with 2 Thess. 2:1-4) We will all be here to face the Mark of the Beast. The saints along with every tribe and people and tongue and nation will be here for this great event and we will have life or death choices to make. The saints can be nothing but the church.

                One thing I have noticed about us humans. Once we embrace a doctrine or a tradition and it becomes a part of our lives, no matter how loud the Bible may shout contrary to what we believe, we remain blind, deaf and dumb to everything that does not fit our tradition. But here it tells us straight forward that the saints will be here and we will be overcome by the Beast (the antichrist and his system) for a time. And while we firmly believe that the gate of hell will not ultimately prevail against the church, we can nevertheless point to many revolutions and inquisitions where thousands or even millions of Christians have been slaughtered.

                We may like to cozy up in our churches here in free America and comfort ourselves that we will escape all trouble and tribulation, but the truth is Jesus promised that we would have both in this world and we need to take a frank look at our escapist mentality.

                This is not an argument per se about the doctrine of the rapture and its timing. I am just looking at world history over the past 2000 years and I will say that most Christians have escaped only through  death in one form or another and we spoiled Americans may have some jolting surprises in our near future. Many things in say Matthew 24 happen before the tribulation proper and the real tribulation is called the “Wrath of God.”  So we need to build up our faith to include things that we may go through before the rapture. Both our text above and Paul’s treatise on the rapture show us being here for the great falling away and the revealing of the Man of sin including his enforcement of the Mark of the Beast. And right now this system is being formed all around us and yet many remain ignorant. So like I always say, we need to hope for the best, but prepare for the worst and that means having the faith to lose our lives if necessary for the sake of the gospel of Jesus Christ .

                The 5G network that is being rushed into service around the globe along with quantum AI technology is now making the controlling of the entire world’s buying and selling available for the first time in history. Doctor Oz was on Fox News the other day saying that the chip implant would be a good thing because it will be able to monitor our health and let us know what needs to be done to keep us healthy. Tell me something. How dumb can a smart person be?

                If a chip can monitor your health, then insurance companies can use that same information to decide whether or not to cover you, companies can decide whether or not to hire you… Hospitals can decide whether or not to take your case. Is that what we want?

                China is already operating on a system called the social credit score. It is like our financial credit score here, but it also includes our social status in the community. If you operate on the shady side and keep getting into trouble, your social credit score goes down and when it reaches a certain low point, stores, businesses and banks and so on can refuse to serve you. This also includes you choice of religion and whether they consider it to be subversive in nature. If you religion, for instance, requires you to worship your God first and your government second, that lowers your social credit score drastically.

                Mark Zuckerberg has been behind closed doors with Congress lately offering a new cashless bit coin type system connected to Facebook. And contrary to other bit coin systems that help you to remain anonymous, this system would come with a social credit score based upon social media. What you say and what you believe can be held against you by lowering your social credit score until you are rejected in stores, banks and businesses and jobs and you are out of luck on all counts.

                His new bit coin is called Libra (which ironically means scales) and we find ourselves wondering if we too are being weighed in the balances and found wanting. What they are wanting to do is to rein in all of those people who deal in cash only, thus escaping the clutches of the IRS and so on.

                Now this chip in the hand is touted as a good thing. Once you have one, you can do away with all licenses, credit cards, and all forms of ID, keys and lines at the airport. With this implant doors to your business, your home and your car automatically open for you… purchases in the store require nothing more than a walk by. Policemen won’t have to call in your license plate number because everything about you from your financial, business and social status will be signaled to them by radio frequency. It will literally change the way we live… and you could walk down the street with a million dollars hanging out of your pockets and no one would bother to grab it because it is only paper and worthless. However there may come a time when they would kill you for a can of beans.

                Whether Mark Zuckerberg’s Libra bit coin system will be embraced by Congress or some other company’s system, one thing is certain. The Mark of the beast technology  is racing toward us at lightning speed and now we can clearly see how these Bible prophecies can easily be fulfilled in our lifetime and indeed sooner than we think.

                Given the goals of the New World Order elite to reduce the population to 500 million and to wipe out Christianity, (which they call the “Old world Order”) and to gain absolute control of the population, to bring in a new golden age of transhumanism and self-made evolution and to become the gods of the New Age, the power brokers of the world are racing to fulfill their Luciferian plan, which includes among other things a new global king. He will come in with promises to solve all of the world’s divisions and problems with super human wisdom and the people will fall for it only to discover with horror that his solution includes wiping out all of the “deplorables” from society.

                This means euthanizing all of the terminally sick, lame and mentally ill. It means continuing to slaughter all unwanted babies. It means the mass genocide of various types of people whom they deem to be a drag on society as well as subversives like Christians… anyone who will not sign on the dotted line with the coming global religion that Pope Francis is in the process of forming.

                Isn’t it strange that so much of the church has stopped studying Bible prophecy at this most critical of all times in history? Isn’t it strange that huge swathes of the main stream and evangelical church leaders are going to Rome to sign up for the coming world religion? Isn’t it strange that so many are flocking to the Cabbalistic Jewish  political Zionist movement to support them in their building of the third temple in spite of the fact that Cabbalists openly worship Lucifer and that their Messiah is not Jesus? How is this possible?

                What kind of a stupor has fallen upon God’s people that they have become miserable and blind and poor and naked? And where are the Remnant people of God who obey Him and proudly wear the banner of Christ and His Word?

                After all, when I join Paul in speaking against the Law, I am not promoting lawlessness. What I am saying is that Jesus brought us something infinitely better and more powerful than the Law. We have become temples of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is more than a philosophy or a doctrine for us… He is resident in our innermost being and He issues forth in rivers of living water. We are being transformed into His image and this as Paul says, is something that the Law could not do. So we are not promoting lawlessness… we are promoting a new kind of obedience powered by Jesus Christ Himself… and we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the surpassing greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves. This is the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus that we are talking about and it is a pitiful thing to cling to the Old Covenant when Jesus gave His infinite life and shed His infinite blood to bring this New Covenant to us.

                We have important choices to make and even as it is happening all over the world right now, Christians are being tortured and killed because they refuse to renounce Jesus Christ and that is going to be what the Mark of the Beast is about as well. In fact, the only way to receive the Mark of the Beast when it actually comes is to renounce your faith specifically in Jesus Christ whom the world hates.

                In my personal prayer life I have begun making declarations of my faith in Jesus Christ. He is who He says He is. His Word is what it claims to be. God is everything that the Word claims Him to be. He is Creator, Sustainer, Savior, Lord and King. He came to earth, born of a virgin. He lived a sinless life and then died at our hands. He then rose from the dead and returned to the Father to be our High Priest after the order of Melchizedek… but soon He will return as Judge and King and He will take those who love Him to be with Him.

                He loved me and called me. He is not far off, but resident in my being. He is working out His will in me. His Word is working mightily in me transforming me by His Holy Spirit into the kind of Person who can reign with Him in eternity. He has made Himself responsible to get me to that point, not by my works of the Law, but by His mighty power and surpassing greatness working in me. He has planted me in His Body of believers so that each of us by functioning according to the gifts that the Holy Spirit has given to us may bless the whole of the Body that is being built together into a temple of the Lord.

                My life is not pointless and my faith is indeed something worth dying for if it should come to that. In days of old God spoke in various ways through His prophets, but now He has spoken to us through His Son. All of God’s promises were written to Jesus and when we have Jesus we also have all that was promised to Abraham.  We become Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise. We are walking in partnership and friendship with the Creator of the Universe. AS with Abraham, our faith is reckoned as righteousness and it is this faith in Him that will save us, for He is able to rescue us and to transform us and to make us like Him.

                So the Mark Zuckerbergs and the global power brokers may be setting up a system to rule the world, but they will be instantly destroyed by the brightness of His coming and whether we live or die in the process, we belong to the Lord. For me to live is Christ and to die is gain. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to them that believe. Do you believe? Then declare it to God. Even in hearing yourself make these bold declarations it can bolster your faith and perspective. “For with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness and with the mouth he confesses resulting in salvation. For as the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be disappointed.” Romans 10:10, 11.

                Hearing about the things that are coming upon the world should not make us afraid, but rather they should strengthen our resolve to stand in the faith of our fathers… and having done all to stand.