1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and His disciples came to Him for to show Him the buildings of the temple.
2 And Jesus said unto them, Do you not see all these things? Verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
³ And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?

[The Gospel of Luke also records the same event as Christ's disciples questioning Jesus, asking, Master, but when shall these things be? And what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? ^{(See Luke 21:5-9.)}]

Warning Signs: In Luke 21 verse 25 thru 27, Jesus tells his disciples specifically of the warning signs that take place during those beginning days of woe.  And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, (Note: Within the last 70 year period there have been 3 Tetrads of blood moons and solar eclipses) and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (See prophetic warning Tsunami Dream) Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: For the powers of heaven shall be shaken.  ^R And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.)

The Revelation of Jesus Christ!

Write the things which thou has seen, and the things which are, and the things to come.

Having been imprisoned on the isle of Patmos, the Apostle John, through the Spirit of God, was given a prophetic revelation that brought further light upon the Almighty's timeline for the Salvation of mankind.  John's revelation vision absolutely fell in line with the Prophetic Words of his Savior Jesus Christ, and that of the prophets of old.  Jesus the Christ, being the Very Word of God, is the victorious Son of Man, Who, in the perfection of His Love and obedience to His Father, Yahweh God Almighty, conquered sin and death for our Salvation, and then presented Himself to His Father in the perfection of His Love and obedience to the glory of His Father God. ^{(See Chagigah. the Presentation offering)} 

The Word of Holy God Almighty, eternally holds within Him Self the perfection of Truth, therefore His Promised Messiah of the Garden of Eden had to be, in Truth, of God's original genetic roots from His very good creation of the first Man/Adam.  The Last Adam, Jesus the Messiah, had to be of the genetics of the first Man so as to save fallen man kind from their rebellious of nature of sin and death.  Holy God maintained the perfections of the genetics of His creation of the original Man through ten generations, to that of the good seed of Noah.  Noah, with faith in God's Word, built the Ark, and after God's destructive flood that destroyed the wicked of the seed of angelic corruption, then the patriarch Noah's generational seed from Adam through Seth, would continue in lineage through to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob continuing to King David; and then in God's time, His Word was conceived in the ovum within the womb of the virgin Mary, who was the generational Hebrew granddaughter of the first Adam. 

In the midst of the book of Revelation, is the encapsulating chapter 12 of history, where John beholds a wondrous heavenly sign.  He sees a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon is under her feet, and upon her head was a crown of twelve stars.  John, obviously knew what Mary the mother of Jesus looked like, but his description of the woman is not that of Mary.  But rather, the woman is likely a depiction of the 12 tribes of Jacob as seen by Jacob's son, Joseph.  ^{(See Genesis 37:9.)} God will yet bring forth His Promised Glory to Jacob/Israel depicted as the sun, and to his wife Rachel depicted as the moon, who will bare her son Benjamin, who with Judah is in the lineage of Jesus Christ.  So then God's Glory is revealed in Israel: She, (the Hebrew virgin) brought forth a Man Child, Who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: And her Child was caught up unto God and His throne. ^{(See Revelation 12:1-17.)} And there appeared another wondrous sign in heaven: And behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his head.  The dragon is Satan, the deceiving devil, who stood against the conception of the Word of God within the true genetic seed of Ishshah, who was known after the fall as Eve, a giver of life. and the only wife of the first Man Adam.  The True Word of God brought forth in time the incarnation of the Man Child of God, conceived by His Holy Father God, within the genetic seed of the Hebrew virgin woman Mary.  For Mary, in the genetic lineage of King David of the tribe of Judah, gave birth to Emanuel, meaning God with us, in the flesh of Man.

Continuing in the same chapter 12 of Revelation, John reveals that Satan shall not prevail in the war in heaven, for he, with his host of angelic corruption will be cast down to the earth, and Satan, in great wrath, will wage war against the all the children born of God's seed (Jesus/Yeshua) from the Woman.  This genetic seed of Adam is birthed from the Woman that is from the tribe of Judah, of the nation of Israel.  Now in God's revealing portal of time, John sees Jesus/Yeshua, as the Lamb of God that was slain from the foundation of the world for the sins of the world.  Jesus, as the risen Lamb of God, is alone the only One found to be worthy to open the Book with the seven seals. ^{(See Revelation 5:1-12.)} This Book with the seven seals preexisted before the foundation of the World, and is a prophetic history of that which has been, and is, and is to be. ^{(Consider the Truth in Revelation 4:8.)}

Thru God's Spirit, the first 3 chapters of the book of  Revelation, begins to reveal, to the eyes of John, the glorious appearance and supreme authority of our Lord Jesus Christ. ^{(See Revelation 1:12-20.)}  Then we hear the Lord, the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last Word of God's creation, speaking to all of His ecclesia for the edification of all.  John is commanded to write the revelation letter and to send it to all of the assemblies, and as such, the letter is to be a correction, to bring about the singularity of the heart of all of the churches, and remains an admonishment to the exclusive thinking of the various assemblies of even today. 

Even though Christ Jesus seemingly addresses the differing sin problems within the seven assemblies in Asia Minor, the corruption of sin is not singular to only a specific assembly, but needs to be seen as common to all, and to be confessed and repented by all, and then the sin is cleansed by Christ's Communion Blood within the One Holy Body of our Lord Jesus Christ.  We should understand that the whole of the reproof in the Word's of Jesus Christ is amplified 7 times, for the Lord says to each of His Ecclesia and thus to all seven: He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the ecclesia/churches/assemblies.   The Lord of Glory, both encourages His people in their accomplishments, and yet He calls for repentance from sin within all of His ecclesia/churches. 

Cause and effect are laid in the balance of God's justice, tempered with His Grace and Mercy to those "in" Christ Jesus.  The cause, is renegade sin, with its devastating violence, and has its ending in separating corruption and death.  Death will have its end in death. The historical violence of sin has been offset at times with God's merciful interventions that tempered the destructive force of sin in the world, until the fulfillment of time would come to its end.  Even so, the enemies of the only God of the Living, are relentless, and the renegade destructive force of sin and death will continue to accumulate in the earth, until it finally explodes into the catastrophic events at the end of this age.

Let us draw from the Word of God and present the contradictions to the philosophical fabrications of select informed individuals being raptured or caught up before the great Tribulation that will come upon the whole world.  Pertaining to that which is the ecclesia, known generically as the church, there is only One Body, and all of the living members of the One Body of Christ will go through the great trial of faith that is to come.  Christ Jesus, the Savior of all of mankind, is not divided into Jewish believers and Gentile believers: For as the (human) body is one, and has many members (cells), and all the members  (cellular structures) of that one (human) body, being many, are one body: So also is Christ. For by One Spirit [of Grace] are we all baptized into the One Body (of Christ), whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have all been given of the One Spirit to drink.  For the Body (of Christ) is not one member, but many. ^{(See 1st Corinthians 12:12-14.)}  And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: Them also I must bring, and they shall hear My Voice; and there shall be one fold, and one Shepherd. ^{(See John 10:15-17.)} If there shall be one fold and one Shepherd, then there is only the one ecclesia (church) body that listens to the Voice of its One Master.  The Body of Christ, is the church/ecclesia, and the church/ecclesia Body of Christ is made up of the many called out persons within the One Faith of Christ, whether they are Jew or Gentile believers.  For There is One Body, and One Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One God and Father of all, Who is above all, and through all, and in you all. ^{(Ephesians 4:4-6.)}

Within the One Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, it is impossible to have the many exclusive divisions that think of themselves as being superior to another prideful sect or denomination.  This thinking is with the mind of flesh, and that mind will develop its own doctrine of superiority.  Now with this individualistic mindset, you can pick and choose to follow the doctrine of the Catholics, or of the Orthodoxy or of Luther, or of Calvin, or of Wesley, or of the Messianic believers, and even those who think they are of Paul or Apolios.  Oh yes, and now you can choose the doctrine of the early rapture, and the left behind.  Not withstanding the prejudices, the church, that is the ecclesia and the fullness of the  One Body of Christ, consist of both the Jew and the Gentile peoples of faith, and they will be tried in the tribulation of sin's own making, where the faithful will wash their garments in the Blood of the Lamb of God:  Notwithstanding, the Jewish nation with its people, will be at the forefront of Satan's persecution during the great trials seen in the Revelation of John, even as it was previously prophesied by the prophets of old.  God Almighty's Word is from everlasting and the culmination of the Tribulation time will be the fulfillment to the Eternal Word of God, and bring forth the Day of the Lord's Wrath against the wicked who will not repent.

⁴ And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. ⁵ For many shall come in My Name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Unfortunately, there are those who take Scripture out of context to make it say what their minds of flesh want it to say to the ears of flesh.  The designated Chapter 4 of Revelation is twisted to accommodate their own misguided philosophy.   After this (the correction to the churches), I looked and behold, a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; Which said:  Come up here, and I will show you things which must be hereafter (from that point on to the future ending).  And then immediately I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. Look again at the Words of the Prophesy, and understand that this is for the eyes of John alone to witness for us of the Revelation of Christ, and thereby we are to see through the eyes of John, the Spirit of Prophesy.  John alone is called up in the Spirit of Prophesy to witness for the people of Faith, the Word of Christ Jesus in vision, and it is not the church that disappears in this time of great trouble.

2nd Thessalonians 2:¹ Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him,² That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. ^{( See Mounce Greek interlinear 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3.)}

The Word of the Lord to the Church of Philadelphia: Because you have "kept" the Word of Patience, I will also "keep" thee from the hour (of the time) of temptation (testing), which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.  Behold I come quickly: Hold that fast which thou has that no man take they crown. ^{(See Revelation 3 verse 10 thru 12.)} The word "kept" and the word "keep" are both translated from the Greek word 'Tereos' (Strongs G5083.) Do not be confused. This is not a premature rapture, but the Lord is saying that He will keep the person secure in their patience during the time of great testing that will come upon all that are living upon the earth.

This section on the Sixth Seal is still somewhat open, and will be amended for better communication or left alone to God's revealing thunder of time. First comes the Lightening of His Word. ^{(See Revelation 6:12-17.)}

And I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earth quake, and the sun became black as sack cloth of hair, and the moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree when she is shaken of a mighty wind.  And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
And all those that hid themselves in rocks of the mountain said to the rocks: Fall on us and hide us from the Face of Him that sits on the throne, and from the Wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of His wrath is (to) come, and (then) who will be able to stand?

Clicking on the green linked word 'come' will remove the confusion of the statement, and reveal the true English transliteration of the Greek word 'erchomai'.  The Wrath of God and His Lamb is yet coming, and at that time of the Wrath of God's Judgment, then, who will be able to stand:  For every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God His Father. (See Isaiah 45:21-25.) No one of any tongue will be left standing!

See First  Revelation 7:1-17

Two Lightening events are revealed to John at this point of the Revelation.

The First: The Word of God is sealed in the minds of the Jewish Servants of God

Begins with John saying: And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that the winds should not blow on the earth, not on the sea, nor on any tree. Then I saw another angel ascending from east (the rising of the sun), and having the seal of God: and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt not the earth and the sea. Saying : Hurt not he earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them that were sealed; one hundred and forty four thousand of every tribe of the children of Israel.

The one hundred and forty four thousands end time servants of God, are not just from the nation of Israel, but are selected from the scattered children of Jacob throughout the nations of the world.

The Second:  Salvation is of God and His Lamb slain before the foundation of the World.

This begins with John saying: After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands. And they cried out with a loud voice, saying: Salvation to our God, Who sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

Then all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces and worshiped God, saying: Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor and power and might be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

And one of the elders asked me: What are these which are arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?  And I said to him: Sir you know. Then he said to me: These are they which came out of great tribulation (persecution), and have washed their robes, and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.

The sixth seal like the rest of the earlier opened seals is not closed as if it were a solitary happening.  During the great tribulation or persecution of the saints of the saved of God, the trial of faith would continue until there was no more time given for repentance.

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The 7 messenger angels, with the sounding of their trumpets, begin to signal one warning of judgment after another with each trumpet calling for a full return to Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God the Almighty.   ^{(See Revelation 8:6-12.)}

[Now learn the parable of the fig tree. Truly I say unto you: This generation shall not pass, until all these things be fulfilled.  ^{(See Matthew 24:32-36.)}]

The Seven Trumpets

The Seventh Trumpet.

Then the seventh angel sounded: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ and He shall reign for ever and ever. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven: ^{(See Revelation 11:15-19.)}

And I heard a loud voice in Heaven  Say: Now is come Salvation, and Strength and the Kingdom of our God, and the Power of His Christ: For the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night: But (For) they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto death. ^{(See Revelation 12:10-12.)}

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the Faith of the Son of God, Who Loved me, and gave Himself for me. ^{(Galatians 2:20.)} Witness here the Power of the Spirit of the Life Blood of God's Salvation and Strength of Christ Jesus that brings forth to His people the Entrance into the Kingdom of our God. For they overcame the him (Satan) by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony (of Faith in Christ Jesus), and they loved not their lives unto death.

 

The Third Woe revealed. Satan has been cast down to earth The Wrath of Satan revealed and then the Seven Seals Judgments that are to come. WOE to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knows that he has but a short time. When the dragon (Satan the devil) saw that he was cast down unto the earth, he "persecuted" the Women (Israel), which brought forth the Man Child.  And to the Women (Israel) was given two wings of a great eagle so that she might fly into the wilderness, where she is nourished for a time, and time and half a time (1260 days) from the face of the serpent.  (See Revelation 12:12-17.) This short period of time, within the end of days, is when the great wrath of Satan and his nature of sin is perpetrated in the human form of the anti-Christ.  This is the time when Satan is cast down to earth, and instigates his fearful tribulation persecution of Israel and the redeemed saints of God.  (Consider Isaiah 54 verse 14 thru 16.) For says the Lord our Righteousness: Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by Me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I AM the Door of the sheep. By Me if any man enter in (through the Door), he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I AM come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.  (See John 10:7-10.) Satan is the thief that has come to steal, and to kill and to destroy the works of God, but we know for a certainty that our Lord Jesus came to bring life to the fallen of faithless mankind.  Therefore, we should understand that this set aside 42 month period is not the wrath of God, but that of Satan.  The noted day of the Lord will only come at the very end of Satan's tribulation wrath of 42 months.  It is at the finale ending of sin's corrupting force that the Only Holy Lord God Almighty will remove that is "rapture" His saints from His day of judgmental wrath against the wicked and the ungodly. Paul speaks of the time before the great day of the Lord's wrath against the wicked.  For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep (at rest). For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a Shout, with the Voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise (stand up) first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (1st Thessalonians 4:16-17.) The simplicity of thought is that Paul knows the Word of his Lord and Master through the Gospels and this is what he alludes to: For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord.  Paul's thoughts do not deviate from the Words of his Master as described in what were set in chapter and verses of Mathew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21.  To be clear, it is the Word of the Lord in Matthew 24 that brings Paul to say: that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord.   But NOTE again: Satan is the thief and murderer and should be seen as the perpetrator of what is called the Tribulation.  If not for God's intervention, pertaining to the wrathful persecution of Satan, the thief and murderer, then there would be no flesh alive. The destructive wrath of the man of sin would leave the world in total desolation, And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. (See Matthew 24:20 and Mark 13:22.) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds! Note the word 'remain' should be seen as a remnant of those who are yet alive. The Words of our Lord Jesus Christ says it this way in Mark 13 verse 19: For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation of God, until this time neither shall be. Notice in the link that the transliterated word 'affliction' is linked to tribulation, and this affliction is the result of Satan's persecution of the elect of God. Tragically, there are noted writers and men of the pulpit that defend their false assumptions by compounding their error with opinionated accusations that disparage the Love of Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty.  They fail to recognize the wrath of the man of sin, and sin itself that brings near total destruction of the world.  It is God's intervention that removes His people at this time, bringing an end to the desolation of sin; and at that time,  God brings His judgment against the wicked destroyers of His creation of man. Robert Van Kampen states in one of his books: "God will deliver His faithful elect from persecution and then on the same day begin His destruction of the wicked who remain". There is a definite distinction and demarcation between the wrath of Satan, the accuser of the brethren, and God's day of judgment against the wicked.  Satan's (tribulation persecution) of God's saints ends in chaos, and then the day of the Lord's final judgment against the wicked begins and ends within the length of that day of the Lord. Note that the KJV's word for  'tribulation' in Strong's concordance G2347, translates in the following manner: tribulation (21x), affliction (17x), trouble (3x), anguish (1x), persecution (1x), burdened (1x), to be afflicted (with G1519) (1x). Perhaps the one notation of 'persecution' would be more suitable for a better understanding of the greater trial of faith that will take place.  Also take note of this Word of Truth: God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: Who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him. (See Acts 10:37-43.) The oppression and persecution is of the devil; for in this world the saved by the Grace of God, will suffer affliction from the persecuting wrath of Satan. (See the Words of Christ John 16:33.) Magnifying the Word of God in Revelation, we see that after the opening of the seventh seal, the noted third woe reveals the tribulation (persecution) wrath of Satan, with that time culminating just before the Day of the Lord's final judgment against the wicked.  Satan is exposed during this time. as the enemy of the Almighty God, and Satan knowing of his short time, will make his last attempt to be glorified as god.  Therefore, the day of the Lord is not 42 months of the wrath of God, but the last 42 months is the wrath of Satan, the author of sin, as he will ferociously persecute the nation of Israel and the believers in Christ Jesus. In his self deceit, Satan, as always, will be seeking to discredit the Almighty God Yahweh, and establish his own domain. Abomination of desolation 2nd Thessalonians 2 6 And now you know what [Who] withholds that he [anti-Christ] might be revealed in his time. 15 Therefore when you shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:) [Luke 21:20 And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.]  [John 5:43 Jesus says: I AM come in My Father's Name, and you receive Me not: If another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.] 2nd Thessalonians 2:3 Paul continues and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as god sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is god. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?  6 And now you know what (Power) withholds, that he [antichrist] might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work, only He (God's Holy Spirit Power in Christ Jesus) Who now lets (holds back) will let (hold back) until "he" (anti-Christ) be taken (Ginomai [to arise, appear in history, come upon the stage]) out of the way (mesos [in the midst]). Because of its transliteration in the KJV, this verse 7 has been laid open to speculation with natural confusion as to who "he" refers to, and how the words "taken" and "out of the way" have been transliterated from the Greek.  The Holy Spirit of God the Father and the Son does not abandon His Covenant people in the midst of these greatest of trials, but the Almighty will see the faithful believer through to victory in Christ by the Blood of the Lamb.  (See Revelation 12:9-12.) After the resurrection of Christ: Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying: "All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth." (Matthew 28:18.)  The Apostle Paul writes to the Thessalonians "now you know what withholds". The misinterpret "what", is actually  "Who" of Whom the Thessalonians know: Because in the beginning of the Paul's letter, he reminds the Thessalonians of Whom they believe in, "the Man Jesus Christ:, and of the righteous power that is Emanuel, the Holy One of God. (See amplified 2nd Thessalonians 1:6-10.) For by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers are made subject unto Him. (1st Peter 3:10-11.) The earth is the Lord's and the fullness there of.  The Creator does not abandon what belongs to Him. The interpretation given above is amplified when Psalm 76 is seen in the Light of God's correcting Word.   Thou [The Almighty] caused judgment to be heard from heaven: The earth feared, and was still, when God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The remainder of wrath shall Thou restrain. (See Psalm 76:8-12) God, by His Spirit, has always been the restrainer of the violence of man's sin.  2nd Thessalonians 2 verse 7 as seen in the original Greek: τὸ3588 that γὰρ1063 for μυστήριον3466 secret ἤδη2355 now ἐνεργεῖται1754 put forth power τῆς3588 this,that ἀνομίας0458 iniquity μόνον3441 forsaken, alone  ὁ3588 that κατέχων2772 hold back ἄρτι0737 this moment ἕως2193 until  ἐκ1537 out of μέσου3319 in the midst, middle γένηται1096 appear in history.   For clarification of thought, perhaps this specific verse 7 and the following verse 8 might be rendered: "For the mystery of iniquity does already work, only He (the Power of Jesus Christ that is of Almighty God) Who now holds back, will hold back until he (the son of perdition) comes upon the stage in the midst of the following away." "So then, Christ Jesus will permit, only until the anti-Christ, the man of sin, be taken out of the way."  For a certainty, the abomination of desolation will be revealed as "all wickedness", when he, the anti-Christ will be seen to stand in the holy place declaring himself to be god.  2nd Thessalonians 2 8 And then shall that Wicked (one) be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of His Mouth, and destroy with the brightness of His coming.  On the future "Day of the Lord", and with the brightness of His coming, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Living Word of  God Almighty, will, with the gleaming two edged Sword of His mouth, destroy the anti-Christ along with his cohorts and with the wicked that remain after the tribulation persecution. (See Revelation 19:11-16.) (See also the full end of Satan in Isaiah 14:12-24 and Ezekiel 28:12-19.) For the only Holy, Holy Holy Lord God Almighty will bring Satan, the wicked deceiver, to be seen as ashes upon the ground. ^return to Apologetic Menu

¹⁶ Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

[Luke 21^:21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter there into.] ^{(See Mark 13:14-19, Luke 21:19-22.)}

[^{Luke 21:22} For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. ²³ But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people (of Israel).²⁴ And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and  Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, ^{(See ? Ezekiel 30:1-5.)} until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. ^{(See Revelation 11:2.) 32} Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.]

¹⁷ Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
¹⁸ Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
¹⁹ And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
²⁰ But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:

²¹ For then shall be great tribulation, ^{(Consider the cup of Jeremiah 25:15-37.)} such as was not since the beginning of the world (Noah's flood?) to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [Luke 17:26 As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man.  They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. (God's Judgment of the un-godly) Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven. (God's Judgment of the un-godly). Even  thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.]  It must be seen that even the coming seven vial judgments of God are contained within the seventh seal that the Lamb of God opens.  The mystery of confusion is exposed by the Angel of great Power and Glory, and then before the seven vial judgments are poured out, another Voice calls from heaven: Come out of her My people that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues: For her sins have reached unto heaven and God has remembered her iniquities.

The Beginning Revelation of Mystery Babylon

The Seven Vial Judgments of God occur during the sounding of the Last Trumpet.
And Then shall the End Come.
 

The Words of the Lord Jesus Christ
Shall not Pass Away.
 

³² Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh:
³³ So likewise, when you  shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

³⁴ Verily I say unto you: This (That) generation shall not pass, until all these things be fulfilled.

³⁵ Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away. ^{(See Matthew, Mark and Luke.)}

No doubt there are those who will put their own prideful spin on the Words of Jesus Christ that will not pass away.  Be careful.  The Spirit of Truth reveals that we are all liars that need to repent and look with faith to His Mercy.  God's Mercy is ministered thought His Spirit of Grace Who is One within the New Covenant Blood of His Son Jesus Christ; and the Word of Jesus Christ says:  Take and drink all of you: This is My Blood of the New Covenant which is shed for many for the remission of sin.
 
Jesus the incarnate Word of God says: My Doctrine is not Mine, but His that sent Me. ^{(John 7 verse 16.)}  Even as the Father said unto Me, so I speak. ^{(See John 12 verse 50.)}  Be most careful, for God will not hold guiltless those who tread upon His Word of Salvation.  ^{(See Hebrews 10:29-31.)}

³⁶ But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but My Father only.

³⁷ But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
³⁸ For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
³⁹ And (they) knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. ^{(See also Luke 17:26-30.)}

2nd Thessalonians 2^:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the Truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: ¹² That they all might be damned who believed not the Truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

⁴⁰ Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

⁴¹ Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

^R1st Corinthians 15^:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

1st Thessalonians 4^:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. ¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, ^{(See above Matthew 24 verse 40 thru 41)} that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede them which are asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: ¹⁷ Then we which are alive and remain (as a remnant at that time) shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. ¹⁸ Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 

Is not Paul talking to the Church/Ecclesia, about the Church/Ecclesia, as concerning the timing of the Lord Christ's return during the tribulation?   Quote: Then we which are alive and remain: unquote: The Words should be a dead give away as to those of the church who are yet alive at the end of the great trial of the tribulation, then they would be caught up in glory with the rest of the saints to be with the Lord forever more.

There is a well know charismatic televangelist teacher of the prophetic, that says he was persuaded against the mid or post-tribulation rapture because of Revelation 19 verse 14.  He calls it the "U Turn Teaching".  However on this point and the others in Revelation, he, misunderstands that its not that the saints are raptured up in the clouds of glory, only to do an about face, and return to do battle alongside of the King of kings.  No! The Scripture in sequence reads: And the armies which were in heaven followed Him (King of kings) upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.  ^{(See Revelation 19:11-16.)} This prophesied event would appear to take place after the wedding feast for all of those that are called in Christ Jesus and Love their Lord. ^{(See Revelation 19:5-10.)} Then it is after this blessed event of the marriage of the Lamb of God, that John sees the heavens are opened up and the Lord of Hosts is leading His armies to battle in the valley of Har-Megeddon. Twice the scriptures report the confirming Words of the Lord of Host: For whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My Words, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when He shall come in His Own Glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels. ^{(Mark 8:38.)} The Bride of Christ is not part of the armies of the Lord, for the Bride is probably yet resting from her own works and enjoying the great peace that she has in God's Kingdom.  It is the incarnate last Son of Adam/Man from the Seed of Ishshah/Woman that is coming forth to crush the head of all evil, Satan. When the Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory: ^{(See Matthew 25:30-32.)}

⁴² Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your Lord doth come.

⁴³ But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

⁴⁴ Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of Man cometh. ^{(See continuation Matthew 24:45-51.)}

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through (in, with) sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the Truth: ^{(See the sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ 1 Peter 1:2, and Hebrews 10:19-25. )
14} Whereunto He called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
¹⁵ Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

Traditions

Salvation and Sanctification is of the One Holy Spirit of God Almighty, wherein we, as new creations in His New Blood Covenant, would stand fast in God's Word of Truth.  But when the kindness of God our Savior and His Love for mankind appeared, He saved us; not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration: By Faith in the Truth, We were cleansed from our past sins, in the Serum Water of our Baptism into the death of Jesus Christ.  But in our soiled flesh we have left off the Spirit of Truth's Sanctifying Blood of Holy Communion that separates our redeemed souls from our present sins of our corrupted flesh.   Also by renewing of the Holy Spirit,  He poured out His Spirit on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that having been justified by His Grace, we may become heirs with the hope of Eternal Life. ^{(See Titus 3:4-7.)} Yahweh God, through the abundance of His Spirit of Grace and Life,  gave everything in His New Blood Covenant that the redeemed of the Lord have need of, so that His Spirit's Grace would make them more than a conquer in Jesus Christ Who Loved them.

The True Form of Doctrine

But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but now you have obeyed from the heart that Form of Doctrine which was delivered unto you.  Being then made free from sin, you became servants of God. ^{(See Romans 6 verse 16 thru 23.)}

That Form of Doctrine was established at our Lord's final Passover Table, when the True Bread of Heaven, in the form of the flesh of Man, ended the old covenant in the blood of sacrificial animals, and ordained the New Covenant in His Blood as the Redeeming Son of Man/Adam.  For the Lord Jesus had previously declared in time: Unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood you have no Life within you.  Those Word's of the Christ of God, are not an allegory, but are the True Substance of the Spirit of the Word of God, given for the Sanctification of the flesh of the redeemed.  God is not glorified in the flesh of man, but in the spirit of the person who is yielded to the Spirit of Yahweh God Almighty.  For God's Unleavened Salvation Bread says on that first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: Take and eat: This is My Body given for you.  Take and drink all of you: For this is My Blood of the New Covenant that is shed for many for the remission of sin. ^{(Matthew 26:26-28.)}

However, our flesh, being corrupted in sin, is dismissive of the essential Holy Tradition that the Christ of God ordained for the remission of sins of the flesh for all of His disciples.  From the time of Constantine until now we have followed in the way of Rome, and established through our own ignorance, our own trivialized communion event that lacks the unseen substance of the Spirit of God.  The Roman Catholic institution, with their evolving doctrine of Transubstantiation, would dismiss the giving of the New Covenant Blood of Christ Jesus, as being inclusive in the communion bread.  The satanic enemy of God, remains present in the protestant and catholic churches to foster false doctrines that satisfy the flesh of sinful mankind, but tramples underfoot the Sanctifying Blood of Jesus Christ.  The scriptures admonishes us not to grieve the Holy Spirit of God: For even as the Holy Spirit of God is not symbolic, neither is the Communion Blood symbolic, but is of the unseen Substance of Life that is of the Holy Spirit of God. ^{(See Hebrews 10 verse 26 thru 31.)} God's Gift of His Holy Spirit of Life is One with the Serum Water of washing and the Life giving Blood that Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, shed on the cross at Calvary.  Through Faith, we are born of the Spirit of God, and as children of the Most High, God will nurture and bring correction to His children through His Holy Spirit that is One with His incarnate Son, born of the genetic flesh of Adam/Man. 

We have entered into Covenant with God, not by our will of the flesh, but by the saving Will of God, and the Will of God is that we would cease to do evil, and learn to do well and Live.  We do not stand in the strength of corrupted flesh that perishes because of corrupting sin, but we stand in the Strength of God's Spirit of Life, as children of the Living God, Who is the Giver of His Spirit of Life. 

Because of the trite traditions of men, the fullness of God's New Covenant of Grace in the Life Blood of His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, is negated, for God's Communion Table of Grace is seen as a non effectual tradition that does nothing to negate the flesh of mankind.  And now, even the children of promise continue in their sins of the flesh, becoming numb and ignoring the reproof from God's Holy Spirit, and see no need of receiving His Covenant correction through the sanctifying Blood of Jesus Christ.  Jesus, the Living Vine, declares at the Passover Table:  I AM the True Vine you are the branches.  He that lives in Me, and I in him, the same branch brings forth much fruit:  For with out Me (the True Vine) you can do nothing. ^{(See John 15:1-8.)} Even so, without the remembrance of the Truth, the Lord's ordained Tradition of Communion, has become an empty tradition without the Life of the Spirit, just like faith without works is dead.  Holy Communion is God's Living Tradition of Love given for the sanctification of the heart of the person that repents from the core of their being.  The Spirit of Life flows through the only True Vine of God's only begotten Son, and if the flow of the Spirit is being stifled because of the corruption of unbelieving sin, then the branch within the Vine will die, and fall away from the Life Source that is in the Blood of the Vine.

Apparently, as a warning to us, Ananias with his wife Sapphira were self deceived within their own covetous hearts and broke covenant with Holy Holy, Holy God Almighty, and forfeited their lives with lies. ^{(See Acts 5 verse 1 thru 11.)}

16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, Who has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.  And they overcame the evil one by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (Revelation 12:10-11.)

With  the coming of God's Salvation in Christ Jesus, heresies continue to flourish through the same spirit of anti-christ that bought mankind into captivity.  In our corrupted humanity, we are all guilty before God, and our minds of flesh will inevitably center on the call of our own self serving flesh, causing us to forget God's doctrine of the crucified incarnate Christ of God, and we, his called disciples with Him.  In our cultivated unbelief's, we have ignored God's Covenant provisions given through His Spirit for the remission of sins for the Body of Christ, and have settled into our own little clicks of special privileged doctrines.  We will all be tried by our own sins of idolatrous separation from holy, holy, holy God Almighty.  Our unrepentant sins are producing more sin, and the folly of our sins will seek us out, and bring its own rewards in the sowing and the reaping to the flesh.

The millennial reign of the Christ of God, and the events within this time period are yet to be fully revealed.  

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