The devil is in a furious rage, he has only a few years left before he is locked up for a thousand years after which he comes out in one last fit of fury and is then cast into unquenchable fire. His children, the children of the lie, being all of the spirit of Satan, are expressing the devil's hatred toward humanity, an infernal hatred for the image of God, born of envy and pride. The unquenchable fires of Gehenna are licking at their heels. Although humanity is a severely corrupted image of God, it is still His image and He intends to correct it permanently, He will not tolerate this corrupted form forever.
Rev 12:12 KJV Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
The devil's time has been short since he was cast out of the realm of high authority but he still exerts authority over the unrepentant children of perdition and his time is now almost over, so his anger and rage and hatred toward humanity is through the roof. He is acting out but his inevitable end ineluctably approaches and, just as no man can stop the stars in their paths, the devil cannot stop the eternal clock. His time is just about up. God rules eternity and everything in-between.
So, why does the Ever Living allow this insanity to continue, seemingly unabated? In order that the wicked are fully condemned, they will be condemned by their own words. They must fill up the full measure of sin and, thus, be forever sentenced, never to return. There must be left absolutely no possibility of any hope of escape, no possible alibi, no possible excuse available to them, when they stand before the great seat of judgement, that could cast the slightest, even infinitesimal, doubt upon God's righteous judgement and upon the complete condemnation of their thoroughly wicked and utterly and completely evil souls. They will have not even a skerrick of the image of God remaining, nothing at all left worth saving.
In order to bring this about at the appointed time of the end, the Lord, the Ever Living God, takes the one who restrains out of the way, releasing from their long standing stations the powerful angels who hold back the four winds. Once they are freed, these angels of destruction, exemplified by the four winds, are sent forth to bring calamities upon the earth. Each type of calamity represented is mentioned in the outcome of the release of the four horsemen; death by war, by famine, by plague and by the beasts of the earth, just as the Lord had described to Isaiah would happen to Israel for their relentless rebellion against God. These are the four winds, that is, four spirits, of destruction held back until the right time for their release. This is the tribulation.
At the same time The Ever Living pours out upon His elect His Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth and of prophecy. These two actions, taking out of the way the one who restrains and the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, work together as the latter rains before a great harvest, to bring both the darnell and the wheat to full maturity so that the harvesting angels, who go out ahead of the Lord on His return, gather the darnell in bundles to be burned (the third and final woe and the reason the nations mourn) and never mistake wheat for darnell. This is in precise accordance with the words of the Lord, Yeshua. Upon His return, as stated in Revelation, the kingdom of the world has become His kingdom, so all that is filthy and sinful is removed out of it and His elect will then shine in the Kingdom of their Father. Immediately after that is the wedding feast in Israel, which is the gathering of the wheat into His barn and, simultaneously, the seven plagues in the valley of Yehoshephat, the valley of judgement, where the "bundles of darnell to be burned" are stored up for destruction.
Do not be like the many foolish virgins who, even now, think they will escape in the early hours of the night, the great darkness, before the darkest hour which, by definition, is midnight, and they are unprepared for the long, dark night ahead, but be like the wise virgins who knew ahead of time that they would have to wait right through to beyond midnight, the darkest hour, before their Lord would return and gather them into the wedding feast. These are the ones who, in the midst of global persecution and calamity, will walk between the waters on dry ground, that is, through the nations untouched by the enemy, as the witnesses raise their staffs and part the waters making a way for the faithful, which is to part the unrepentant nations, protecting the righteous in Christ, and then bring calamity upon the world for their stubborn refusal to repent and acknowledge God.
I have spoken before, in years gone by, about the foolishness of the "rapture" belief and I have shown extensively, with multiple absolutely clear scriptural references, that it is completely contrary to the teachings of the Lord (though I will not republish them now, for that time is past, and had you followed my blog then you would already know) but, even now, millions of foolish virgins abound, cowering before the fury of the wicked and hoping to escape soon. Do not be like them. Just as Noah did not at all escape the great flood but went right through the midst of it protected by the ark, a symbol of God's promise, pray that, by the ark of the covenant that is implanted in your heart, the Holy Spirit of God that is His mark upon your soul, God will protect you through these last tumultuous days and years and that you will hold to your faith even unto the end, even death. For such there awaits the crown of eternal life in the never-ending kingdom of the eternal Ever Living God.
So, why does the Ever Living allow this insanity to continue, seemingly unabated? In order that the wicked are fully condemned, they will be condemned by their own words. They must fill up the full measure of sin and, thus, be forever sentenced, never to return. There must be left absolutely no possibility of any hope of escape, no possible alibi, no possible excuse available to them, when they stand before the great seat of judgement, that could cast the slightest, even infinitesimal, doubt upon God's righteous judgement and upon the complete condemnation of their thoroughly wicked and utterly and completely evil souls. They will have not even a skerrick of the image of God remaining, nothing at all left worth saving.
In order to bring this about at the appointed time of the end, the Lord, the Ever Living God, takes the one who restrains out of the way, releasing from their long standing stations the powerful angels who hold back the four winds. Once they are freed, these angels of destruction, exemplified by the four winds, are sent forth to bring calamities upon the earth. Each type of calamity represented is mentioned in the outcome of the release of the four horsemen; death by war, by famine, by plague and by the beasts of the earth, just as the Lord had described to Isaiah would happen to Israel for their relentless rebellion against God. These are the four winds, that is, four spirits, of destruction held back until the right time for their release. This is the tribulation.
At the same time The Ever Living pours out upon His elect His Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth and of prophecy. These two actions, taking out of the way the one who restrains and the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, work together as the latter rains before a great harvest, to bring both the darnell and the wheat to full maturity so that the harvesting angels, who go out ahead of the Lord on His return, gather the darnell in bundles to be burned (the third and final woe and the reason the nations mourn) and never mistake wheat for darnell. This is in precise accordance with the words of the Lord, Yeshua. Upon His return, as stated in Revelation, the kingdom of the world has become His kingdom, so all that is filthy and sinful is removed out of it and His elect will then shine in the Kingdom of their Father. Immediately after that is the wedding feast in Israel, which is the gathering of the wheat into His barn and, simultaneously, the seven plagues in the valley of Yehoshephat, the valley of judgement, where the "bundles of darnell to be burned" are stored up for destruction.
Do not be like the many foolish virgins who, even now, think they will escape in the early hours of the night, the great darkness, before the darkest hour which, by definition, is midnight, and they are unprepared for the long, dark night ahead, but be like the wise virgins who knew ahead of time that they would have to wait right through to beyond midnight, the darkest hour, before their Lord would return and gather them into the wedding feast. These are the ones who, in the midst of global persecution and calamity, will walk between the waters on dry ground, that is, through the nations untouched by the enemy, as the witnesses raise their staffs and part the waters making a way for the faithful, which is to part the unrepentant nations, protecting the righteous in Christ, and then bring calamity upon the world for their stubborn refusal to repent and acknowledge God.
I have spoken before, in years gone by, about the foolishness of the "rapture" belief and I have shown extensively, with multiple absolutely clear scriptural references, that it is completely contrary to the teachings of the Lord (though I will not republish them now, for that time is past, and had you followed my blog then you would already know) but, even now, millions of foolish virgins abound, cowering before the fury of the wicked and hoping to escape soon. Do not be like them. Just as Noah did not at all escape the great flood but went right through the midst of it protected by the ark, a symbol of God's promise, pray that, by the ark of the covenant that is implanted in your heart, the Holy Spirit of God that is His mark upon your soul, God will protect you through these last tumultuous days and years and that you will hold to your faith even unto the end, even death. For such there awaits the crown of eternal life in the never-ending kingdom of the eternal Ever Living God.
