Blast of Fire E-Book

Benjamin Thomas

• Herausgeber: Gloriam Media LLC
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Revelation Riddle
• Sprache: Englisch

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

The second installment of the Revelation Riddle series chronicles God’s tactical plan to usher in the next age – rebooting the world. While humanity endures a siege and it appears the evil cabal ruling the world possesses the money and influence to bring forth their plan, many wonder: Does God’s plan trump evil in the end? Or are current world challenges birth pangs for something new?

This book presents fresh revelation from the Book of the prophet Ezra. God showed Ezra everything the world suffers today along with His magnificent plan for our future down to the exact detail. This book also reveals palace intrigue, a lion roused, military mutiny, a man-in-a-mountain and other wild events shown through prophecy. Reading this you will learn about:

The Plan: The cunning plan God executes to usher humanity into the Kingdom Age of the Saints, toppling governments and using angels to implement a great awakening. As well as how America and Israel attain peace and freedom.

The Man: How the mysterious “man of the sea” in the Bible likely refers to President Trump. If so, how President Trump comes back in a surprising way.

The Command: Why Christians should toss their rapture mats and instead discover themselves in the Bible to achieve their high calling, like Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, King Cyrus and so many others.

The Bible contains breadcrumbs revealing an epic future filled with joy and freedom. God foretells a day of rest for His people to enjoy a refreshed earth, returning to the Garden of Eden. We are extraordinarily blessed to live in this generation – we get to usher in the next age after Satan suffers a devastating judgment. Everything changes – are you prepared? NOW is the time to get ready!

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REVELATION RIDDLE:

BLAST OF FIRE

Benjamin Thomas

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REVELATION RIDDLE: BLAST OF FIRE

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Introduction

Contrary to how things look, we live in an amazing time. God spoke to the prophet Ezra and told him the age would end in 2,500 years – about 2,500 years ago!According to the prophecy, God refreshes the earth asHe ushers in a new age. The seven pillars of cultural influence in society come into alignment with the way God designed them to function. Our children are blessed and our nations are healed.

The parables and sayings of Jesus contain apocalyptic clues. Jesus tells us the current dark times are birth pangs for something new; the last days of evil before we transition to the Kingdom Age of the Saints. The Stone Judgment, the third major judgment of humanity, pulverizes the enemies of the Church and sets up Soldier Saints to lead the world. All those currently on Satan’s payroll are judged – humanity set free.

I outlined the big picture in the first book of the Revelation Riddle series, Kingdom Age of the Saints: End Times for the New World Order.Over time, governments became infiltrated by satanic forces, who now control them through privately-held central banks and debt slavery. Satan infiltrated Christianity and Judaism with paganism and compromise. I outlined how the fourth secular “beast” shown to the prophet Daniel controls the world using three subdued power-centers. The fourth beast, rooted in ancient Rome, exercises power through an alliance of like-minded nations who enact the bidding of the little horn, a satanic overlord. World leaders call today’s secular government system the “New World Order.” Society woke up to the New World Order after experiencing near-simultaneous lock-downs and the rollout of vaccine protocols after the Covid-19 pandemic. Churches and small businesses shut down while major corporations continued uninterrupted. Meanwhile, the medical establishment quickly rolled out dangerous vaccines and governments forced many to take them or risk losing their jobs. The New World Order no longer operates behind-the-scenes – society began to wake up to the “matrix.” Our enemy lost his cover, and now truth begins to wear down his armor.

The sinister forces controlling humanity masterfully executed a plan over the course of hundreds of years to enslave humanity. The fourth beast infiltrated and now exercises dominion over all seven pillars of society: religion, family, education, business, government, media, and arts. Christians fail to rule over even a single pillar! The evangelical church taught Christians to stay home and wait for Jesus to return in the Rapture. As a result, Christians shunned getting involved on school boards and local or national political races. Most Christians today believe the world spirals into more chaos and then Jesus rescues His Church. This doctrine created “rapture paralysis,” causing the Church to sit idly by while Satan took over everything. However, we all know God wins.

In my first book I show howGod laid out an amazing plan to judge evil and usher in the Kingdom Age of the Saints. He plans to put His Soldier Saints in charge of the earth, geopolitically. While this seems radical, we must not forget we serve an all-powerful God who never runs from evil. In the first book, I showed how the religious doctrine of a “rescue rapture,” where saints are whisked away to escape evil, is entirely unbiblical, as it fails to consider a judgment before the Great Tribulation (a time when an anti-Christ rules the planet). In addition, this flawed doctrine flies in the face of how God operated in the past. When God rescued His people in times of Noah and Egypt, He subsequently put His people in charge. Judgment led to victory, not defeat.

This book represents a continuation of my first book. In Blast of Fire, I detail how it happens. God uses divine chess moves to put things in place for a spectacular show! Nothing can stop what God planned. No man or demon can interrupt God’s timeline. God loves to put evil empires down in a single day. Only this time, He plans to complete His work in a single hour!

Most nations on earth will join God’s new Kingdom Economy. However, a few will sit it out. Anyone attracted to God’s presence experiences glory like never before. We are in for a treat!

After my first book, I received a lot of great feedback. A couple Bible scholars told me that they needed to reread the Bible. End Times teachers almost never discuss the Stone Judgment, the third and most significant judgment in the Bible. Once one sees the Stone Judgment event in the Bible, the puzzle pieces of the biblical timeline fall into place. I believe God kept His timeline a mystery on purpose. He planned to unseal the revelation for the generation that would see it – our generation.

God chose us to be alive in the most blessed days in human history since the Garden of Eden. If you are reading this book, you are called to lead in the next age. It’s time to dream again. It’s time to boldly move out against tyranny and take the promise land. It’s time to discover ourselves in the Bible and fulfill our high calling.

1. It LOOKS Like We Die!

Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good!

– Ps. 14:1 NLT

If you follow the mainstream news, our chaotic world teeters on the edge of complete shutdown. Crime skyrockets nearly everywhere, especially in Democrat-controlled cities. The banking system rapidly rolls out central bank digital currencies and by all appearances soon controls how we spend money. The Great Reset, the brainchild of Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum, details a master plan to enslave humanity with specific foundational building blocks already laid. Out-of-control illegal immigration roars down the path to destroy America, paralleling many European nations. Disease X threatens to eradicate humanity. The Doomsday Clock registers 90 seconds from midnight, marking the closest to global destruction since its construction in 1947.1 Things look very dark.

The doomsday preppers are encouraging people to get ready with food, water, weapons, and fighting skills. The evangelical Christians say, “Don’t worry about it, we expected the world to fall apart – Jesus is coming soon to rescue us.” The Democrats blame the Republicans. The conservatives blame the communists and George Soros’ checkbook. The liberals blame President Trump. Nearly all blame their own government for the chaos, in part.

In the natural, there are lot of reasons to fear. A tiny bit of Fentanyl kills even large animals, and can easily be hidden in food, candy or drinking water. Recently a friend explained to me, expressing himself with wildly flailing arms, that all China needs to do is dump Fentanyl in our water supply and “America is done.” Admittedly I got spooked when my kids were exposed to kids passing candy around at school since we had already heard stories of neighborhood children dying from Fentanyl in tainted candy. When you have children, you pay more attention.

Many of us either know people personally hurt or read about others injured by the Covid-19 vaccine, often leading to extermination. The “vaccine death count” continues to rise. We observe professional athletes collapsing on the field on live television, with no explanation from the media. Medical personnel simply carry the collapsed athletes off the field and then the game continues – an eerie experience. Perhaps the oddest dynamic relates to parents that lost children to the Covid-19 vaccine only to remain silent. To lose priceless treasure to medical tyranny and then stay mum continues to shock me. Why aren’t parents shouting from the rooftops? Does this mean they quickly executed a settlement and non-disclosure agreement? Is the media deliberately censuring the news, meaning parents have nowhere to tell their stories? Given the scale of the issue, it feels like we live in the Twilight Zone.

If you live in the United States, Brazil or many other countries, election integrity remains a forefront issue. Clearly, the election was stolen in 2020 in the United States. The movie 2000 Mules demonstrated evidence of vote tampering.2 Voters went to bed on November 3, 2020 with sweet dreams, grateful that Donald J. Trump won the election. The next day, we woke up to the horror after “missing ballots” suddenly reversed the momentum with the media screaming, “Joe Biden Next President!” Patriots called a foul and outrage slowly grew on alternative social media platforms, culminating with a historic demonstration on January 6, 2021. A day of peaceful protests turned into another nightmare after embedded feds instigated violence and manipulated the crowds by opening the doors to the U.S. Capitol, allowing live-recording media plants to film the “violent terrorists.” To this day, we can’t access all the J-6 footage despite repeated promises by politicians. In a display of shock and awe, federal authorities stormed patriots’ homes in the middle of the night in SWAT gear and locked up ordinary Americans and threw away the key. Scores of political prisoners remain incarcerated – yet the mainstream media reports not one corrupt government official serving jail time.

With every visit to the grocery store, humanity realizes that our paper money loses value each day. The daily exchange rates posted on the Forex fail to tell the full story. Comparing movements of the value of the British pound with the U.S. dollar might look relatively stable. However, both the Englishman and the American sense a bag of groceries costs more than it used to – a whole lot more. Society slowly wakes up to the reality that all currencies worldwide are rapidly losing value, as the private-central-banks tasked with limiting inflation fail in their charters – everywhere and all at once.

An extension of the FISA program, which legalizes spying on Americans, sailed through Congress without even a fight, despite proven fraught with abuses on multiple occasions. The most recent FISA extension occurred under the watch of our “new and improved” speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Meanwhile, when we log on to our computers, we see a “revised privacy policy” from nearly every platform we use. Since most utilize multiple cloud platforms and are distracted trying to earn enough income to survive, we often fail to study the policy details and simply accept new terms. Every time, we know we yield “just a little bit more” of our privacy – a disgusting feeling.

Illegal immigration continues to be an issue for many people across the world. Without public notice or approval, humanity wakes up each morning with an endless stream of new “neighbors” we don’t recognize and did not invite into our communities, who likely don’t share our values. The “tent cities” popping up in thousands of communities worldwide feature beautiful, expensive and durable tents that consumers would be lucky to find at REI Coop. Worse, in America, our beautiful hotels are filled with illegal aliens who roam the streets, steal scooters, and appear to be living a life of anarchy, all compliments of the U.S. taxpayer. We remember the decades of struggles we endured to create vibrant communities, slowly improving our homes to increase the value of our neighborhood, and working hard to keep our streets clean. Yet a swarm of dangerous interlopers erodes the value of communities in a matter of weeks as crime rises exponentially and basic security falls by the wayside. Our local police forces, deflated by the “defund the police” movement, feel less motivated to protect the communities they serve after being vilified by the media on a continual basis.

What about the global level of debt? Today, worldwide debt approaches nearly half a quadrillion dollars, including public and private debt. The human mind cannot begin to comprehend this number. It’s a number comparable to grains of sand on a seashore or stars in the sky. The result? Most people filing their tax returns are left with a greasy, ugly feeling inside – knowing their tax dollars are consumed by interest payments, and not used on needed infrastructure. We feel let down, as if all the institutions pulled a fast-one on us. Now we are relegated to a human hamster-wheel leading to nowhere. If we stop paying taxes, our government arrests us, even though they got us in trouble with wild spending. Paying taxes compares with holding your nose while drinking rancid milk. A great number of U.S. citizens simply stopped filing tax returns.

How about artificial intelligence (AI)? We suspect secret government programs paid for the advanced development of AI, evidenced by a growing number of videos online demonstrating robots armed with military grade munitions in “trials” on city streets. Luminaries like Elon Musk warn of the dangers of AI, yet the average world citizen feels powerless to stop it. The latest apocalyptic film, Leave the World Behind, paints a picture of complete societal breakdown following a blackout, when citizens are forced into bunkers to survive.3 Phones don’t work, airplanes crash, and wrecked Teslas block the highways. Barack and Michelle Obama are credited as executive producers. What are they trying to tell us? Is this a warning about future planned events? The Leave the World Behind plot follows many apocalyptic movies in the last decade that end with no hero, no hope, no solution. These movies are satanic dreams.

What Does God See?

In the natural, everything I mentioned is scary sh*t. It looks like Satan is winning. But are looks everything? What do you think God sees in each of these scenarios? For instance, let’s explore the digital banking threat. God sees the lease of the fourth beast nearly up, and attempts to further enslave humanity futile. Desperate elites try to tether humanity to a digital banking system that looks, feels, tastes and sounds like the mark of the beast described in the book of Revelation. However, if it’s not the anti-Christ’s time, efforts to rollout the beast’s mark amount to an expensive but shelved McKinsey proposal.

Consider Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset program. Klaus would love to believe he is the anti-Christ. As if to project he is the anti-Christ, he travels around with a false prophet, much like the real anti-Christ does in Revelation 16:13. Schwab’s false prophet is Yuval Noah Harari, a homosexual Jewish author. Harari routinely mocks God and makes veiled threats to humanity, as if he smugly knows the whole program and fooled the peasants. In his book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Harari says, “History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.” He then goes on to say in the same book, “Homo sapiens have no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.”4 The “us” Harari mentions are the elites, the people who he believes know best – unelected “thinkers” like Harari.

If you study the Babylonian Talmud, the primary law of modern Rabbinic Judaism, you know that the elite class of Khazarian Jews don’t believe that anyone else has value and that certain classes of people, namely Christians, deserve death due to their stupidity for believing in Jesus Christ.5 In reality Schwab and Harari are not atheists. They do believe in their god – Satan. Satan wants freedom from God, because Satan knows his time short and he soon faces judgment. When foolish men like Schwab and Harari gloat in human suffering and mock the Creator, they are simply parroting what Satan would say if he spoke to you face-to-face. God already told us what He thinks about such foolishness:

The kings of the earth prepare to fight, and their leaders make plans together against the Lord and his appointed one. They say, “Let’s break the chains that hold us back and throw off the ropes that tie us down.” But the one who sits in heaven laughs; the Lord makes fun of them (Ps. 2:2-6 NCV).

All plans Klaus, Harari, and others coerce are ultimately destroyed by God’s plan in a blast of fire. God makes fun of them in heaven and laughs. Does this sound like concern to you?

What we don’t see regarding the Fentanyl crisis are the sheer number of people God already saved from Fentanyl poisoning. I am certain our enemies are scratching their heads wondering why Fentanyl laced envelopes and food products failed to wipe out thousands of people. A Soldier Saint friend and deep state enemy received an envelope of Fentanyl powder in the mail at home. God warned them in advance, but when the envelope arrived, they handled the Fentanyl – it did not hurt them. Jesus promises, “They will be able to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink anything poisonous, it won’t hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick, and they will be healed” (Mark 16:18 NLT). Many Christians fail to recognize the authority we already possess over our enemies. If Satan could kill us, he would have done it years ago. Between the marvels of the God-designed human immune system and the divine protection afforded in the Word of God, Satan can’t touch us. Outbreaks of Fentanyl in a community are most likely because city leaders dedicated that city to Satan and the residents allowed it. Begin to thank God for His protective shield on your life!

How does God look at the FISA program extension and the continuous additional privacy infractions by the deep state? God recognizes Satan’s vulnerability. For God knows where all the bodies are buried. He does not need technology to expose the wickedness the fourth beast commits against humanity. Listen to His promise, “Everything that is covered up will be revealed, and all that is secret will be made known to all” (Luke 12:2). Our enemies need technology, including machine learning, AI, search-indexing, etc. to entrap and discover our whereabouts. God needs no such tools – He knows who they are. We are seeing a flood of the promise of Luke 12:2 – our enemy no longer concealed. The Internet is not kind to the deep state. All deep state plans are revealed at lightning speed. When they used weapons against citizens in Maui, Hawaii, the truth-seekers came out in full force, exposing discrepancies of the news-media-narrative and even booking flights to Hawaii to expose the truth. The Soldier Saint army is onto the deep state.

Swarms of immigrants cross national borders worldwide, part of a United Nations Agenda 2030 plan to erase national sovereignty. Without borders, all nations ultimately fail. The globalist plan to destroy national identity through porous borders flies in the face of the promise, “He maketh peace at your borders, he puts the best bread on your tables” (Ps. 147:14 KJV). The planned turmoil at national borders allows strangers into our lands who don’t respect our laws. Again, God laughs. He knows the time of rule of the fourth beast ends soon.

According to the Institute of International Finance, global debt topped $300 trillion in 2023, including public and private debts.6 I know what constitutes private debt, but what about public debt? As a freshmen in high school, I first learned about public debt from my history teacher. He told the class that countries around the world owe each other money and this is why the “national debts” are so high. I immediately put up my hand and asked my teacher (who happened to be a football coach), “If all the countries of the world owe each other money, then why don’t they simply forgive each others’ debt?” He stared at me for a long time, but he could not answer the question.

I now know the answer to my question; the central banks that print the currency and set the interest rates in nearly all countries of the world are privately held monopolies of money creation. It is to these private institutions the public owes our debt. The world is swimming in debt, and the debt slavery dungeon holds us hostage. In the natural, there is no way to pay it off – just the way they want it. So what does God think about this? He’s keeping account. In the law of Moses God set forth a year of Jubilee, where all debts are forgiven. The principal legislation and related obligations for the Jubilee include: a) all debts forgiven, b) the release of slaves, and c) repatriation of property to its God appointed owner (see Lev. 25). The Jubilee occurred every fifty years, regardless of prevailing circumstances or king in power. Society failed to experience a Jubilee during the entire reign of the secular fourth beast, which according to the Bible lasts 2,150 years.7 This means we are 43 Jubilees behind. Listen to David cry out for judgment in Psalm 43:1, “Declare me innocent, O God! Defend me against these ungodly people. Rescue me from these unjust liars” (NLT). Next, we will experience a Jubilee of Jubilees!

Birth Pangs

Are all the horrible things we see happening around the world signs of the end of the world or rather the beginning of something new? If you ask many Christians, we lose all battles in the geopolitical sphere while we live on earth and then are rescued in the Rapture. These Christians expect things to decline until a rescue occurs. They believe the next judgment of our enemies occurs in the battle of Armageddon. However, the rescue rapture theology fails to accommodate a judgment in the Bible which is before the Great Tribulation. The prophets Isaiah, Daniel, Ezra and John predict a judgment that brings down the evil cabal ruling our world prior to the Great Tribulation. Jesus told us the tumultuous time on earth is a precursor to a hugely important judgment event which leads to a new age. Before the new age begins, Jesus said the world would experience birth pangs. Birth pangs occur before a new life comes into the world.

Jesus’ disciples asked Him to answer three different questions about the future, “And as he was sitting upon the mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be, and what is the sign of thy coming and the completion of the age?” (Matt. 24:3 Darby). In the next verse, Jesus answers their last question first, concerning the signs of the completion of the age:

Jesus answered, “Be careful that no one fools you. Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will fool many people. You will hear about wars and stories of wars that are coming, but don’t be afraid. These things must happen before the end comes. Nations will fight against other nations; kingdoms will fight against other kingdoms. There will be times when there is no food for people to eat, and there will be earthquakes in different places. These things are like the first pains when something new is about to be born.

Then people will arrest you, hand you over to be hurt, and kill you. They will hate you because you believe in me. At that time, many will lose their faith, and they will turn against each other and hate each other. Many false prophets will come and cause many people to believe lies. There will be more and more evil in the world, so most people will stop showing their love for each other. But those people who keep their faith until the end will be saved (Matt. 24:4-13 NCV, emphasis added).

Jesus points to false religion, wars, earthquakes, extreme famine, etc. as birth pangs. In the last two hundred years, the world suffered harshly. Wars, war-related famine, disease, and abortion claimed the lives of roughly 2 billion people, or 25% of the present day world population.8 Humanity suffered more deaths from war in the last 200 years than the prior 20 centuries, combined. Earthquakes routinely appear in strange places with increasing frequency. Several false religions launched between the fourth and sixth centuries and more recently. Today, Christian persecution tops the scales of history with 13 Christians martyred (or murdered) every day.9

Note that Jesus points out that those people who keep their faith until the end will be saved. The Greek word “saved” literally means “to make safe, sound,” or to “deliver from a direct threat,” or “to bring safe and sound out of a difficult situation.” Many will interpret this as the Rapture. But could it mean something else? And what is being birthed after the birth pangs that Jesus discusses? We get additional clues in the book of Romans where birth pangs are again mentioned:

That’s why I don’t think there’s any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what’s coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens.

All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it’s not only around us; it’s within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We’re also feeling the birth pangs. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don’t see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy (Rom. 8:24-25 MSG).

Many point to this scripture as a picture of Heaven. But why would the created world rejoice about what happens in Heaven? Other scholars believe the passage refers to the Millennial Reign of Christ, when Jesus rules the world in the flesh for a thousand years. This makes a bit more sense, but what if I told you that Jesus is not coming back until His children move into perfection, and set things right on earth? Plus, the disciples asked Jesus what are the signs for the completion of the age. What does this mean? We will get to that in later chapters.

Put Away Your Rapture Mat!

Many Christians are awaiting the Rapture. They patiently check their watch and keep their rapture mats pressed and ready to go, looking to the sky. These same Christians typically don’t get involved with school boards, politics, or changing their community. “Why bother?,” they ask. If you believe the world declines and then we as the Church get rescued, why would we bother? It would be a waste of time. Many Christians believe in the Rapture, a miraculous event that whisks Christians away out of this world and into Heaven to be with Jesus for a special marriage ceremony, while the earth endures a tyrannical reign under the anti-Christ during a brutal time of tribulation, called the Great Tribulation. The vast majority of Christians believe the Rapture event occurs in a time of great suffering and decline. In fact, I conducted a survey on my Gab social media channel that asked a simple question: “When does Jesus come for His Church?” The available answers included: a) The Church is under extreme distress, b) The Church is in a place of great victory, or c) I don’t know.10No one responded that Jesus comes in time of victory – most believed time of distress. You see, the Church is worn out by the powers ruling the world, and we suffer fatigue in much the same way Israel suffered in Egypt. When Moses shared the good news of the promised land, they could not process it (Ex. 6:9). Years of slavery altered their brains – they could only process bad news!

Did you know God laid out a different plan than we were taught in Sunday school? Jesus makes no plans to return to rule the earth until we, the Church, are perfected and all things are made right in the world. It’s time to put away our rapture mats and get involved. In 2 Corinthians 13:1, the Bible discusses the concept of God’s Word being established in the mouth of two or three witnesses. Let’s look at three scriptures that clearly indicate Jesus is not coming back right now. Jesus said, “The Lord said to my Lord, Sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet” (Matt. 22:44 NLT). For the avoidance of doubt, Jesus goes on in the next verse to explain this scripture, originally written by King David, refers to Messiah (Jesus) when it says “my Lord.” Jesus stays at the Father’s side until His enemies are a footstool – under the feet of His Body, the Church.

In Acts, Jesus tells us He stays in heaven until a time of victory, “But Jesus must stay in heaven until the time comes when all things will be made right again. God told about this time long ago when he spoke through his holy prophets” (Acts 3:21 NCV, emphasis added). The words “right again” in the passage are also translated as “times of restitution,” or “restoration.” Astronomers use these words to describe the return of the constellations to their original positions. Note the verse refers back to events prophesied by the holy prophets. Could this verse be referring to the prophecy in Daniel chapter 7 when he describes a judgment event followed by a transfer of geopolitical dominion to the saints of God and subsequent fall of God’s glory? I believe so – the Bible lists many promises related to a victorious age for the Church.

Finally, Paul states, “That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” (Eph. 5:27 KJV). The Church today is not ready to meet Jesus for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. We are weak, spineless, and powerless. We have allowed Satan to infiltrate our various denominations and there are great hypocrisies within our walls, including pedophilia. Religious institutions, such as the Roman Catholic Church, are riddled with idolatry, mixing pagan idol-worship of the sun, Jupiter and Apollo with Christian practices. Other organized churches deny God’s power. Many churches today conduct gay marriages, in contravention with God’s Word. In the most recent Covid-19 related lock-downs, we saw timidity within the Church in the face of government tyranny. No, the Church is not ready for Jesus to come. Jesus makes no plans to marry a dirty, infiltrated bride that smells bad. He is going to wait for the perfected Church – one that is beautiful, spotless, and shining with His glory. Jesus told us the condition His Church needs to achieve before He marries Her. His plan is perfect and far better than our minds imagine.

When God “Rescues”

In public interviews I regularly call the Rapture teaching of the evangelical church the “rescue rapture.” However, “rescue” fails to describe the Rapture teaching accurately. When God rescued in the Bible, He then put His people in charge of the world! From now on, I plan to refer to the Rapture teaching as the “surrender rapture.” The idea that God needs to whisk Christians away to save them from Satan’s anti-Christ defies every pattern of how God acted in the past. When we consider any doctrine, we need to ask ourselves, “Does this line up with how God operated before?”

With the whole earth full of evil, God planned to start over with Noah and his family. Noah built an ark over 100 years and then it started to rain. The Flood came and Noah, his family, and the animals survived. Who was in charge of the world after this “rescue?” God put Noah in charge!

When God delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt, He transferred all of Egypt’s wealth to Israel (Ex. 12:35-36). Then in a few generations, God gave Israel a kingdom. Who was in charge of the world after this “rescue?” God put His people Israel in charge!

Don’t Give Up Hope, Church!

God is not planning to “rescue” His Church and hand the world over to Satan. Satan’s season to reign over this earth geopolitically draws to a close soon. God is not done with America. God is not done with the bloodline of Jacob, the people of Israel (differentiated from the State of Israel). God is not done with this earth. God’s plans for humanity are extravagantly good. Many in the Church already gave up. The Lord told my mom recently (who is in her 80s) that He was sad that many in her age bracket are tired and ready to go home. They have given up, emotionally. After years of hearing about a surrender rapture, reading books about how God planned to take His children home in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, etc., they lost hope. Very prominent ministers came out with date predictions that proved wrong. What’s worse, the world continued to get darker and leaders we thought had our back, we later discovered amoral. Scandal-after-scandal hit church groups, institutions and governments. The depths of corruption of the system seem endless and irreparable.

God promises the “wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just” (Prov 13:22). Yet, the last major wealth transfer event occurred thousands of years ago during the time of Pharaoh, when God led Israel out of bondage. Plus, Jesus made no effort during His earthly ministry to topple pagan and corrupt Rome, but rather taught His followers how to take authority over Satan by casting him out, healing the sick, and raising the dead. All Jesus’ disciples except one suffered brutal torture