Before your Brain is Fried

 

Ok, which is it?  Pre, Mid, or Post-conflagration rapture of the Church.   We know it is neither pre, mid, or post-tribulation.   For one reason, these later three misguided scenarios are predicated on a mythical seven year great tribulation, one that presupposed all that is after Revelation 4:1 is great tribulation.   Such is nonsense.   We know VERY clearly that the time of the Beast, the Antichrist, is 42 months according to Revelation 13, we read:

 

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.    And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.   And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.   And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?  And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. [Revelation 13:1-5, KJV]

 

Scriptures does not tell us of such activities during the preceding period of the two witnesses.   They just do not.    To suggest so, is to add words to the prophecy.   In fact, the very first activity of the son of perdition to make note is when he kills the two witnesses, at the very end of their ministry.   He may have been revealed beforehand, but this is the first indication of his activity in the Scriptures.   Therefore, it would be highly presumptuous to say that the period of the two witnesses would be tribulation, activities of the son of perdition, which our Lord said in His Olivet Discourse would precede the tribulation of those days. 

 

We know this.  That in the sequence of chronological events that unfolded in the vision of John of Patmos, the Revelation or more precisely, the Apocalypse, we see may events that take place before the introduction of the Beast, or that son of perdition that kills the two witnesses.    These are the Birth Pangs our Lord and Savior spoke to His disciples when questioned “when will these things be?”  Jesus Christ (Y’shua Ha Messiah) was very precise in his answer.    It should not be overlooked when attempting to understand the chronology of eschatological events.  We see many of these events unfold in the seal and first six trumpet events of the Revelation.   In fact, history of the first half of the twentieth century has seen all of these with great precision; yet the final conflagration of the Sixth Trumpet is yet to unfold.    We see this very next prophetic event as the killing of on third of mankind by the fire, the smoke and the brimstone.  The weapons described in the message of Revelation 9:14-19 look very much like cruise missiles, or missiles of some kind.   The effect of the conflagration looks very much like nuclear war.    Understand that the preceding trumpet event, the fifth, introduced atomic warfare falling from the sky.   The sixth trumpet conflagration will be instigated by forces once bound at the great river Euphrates.    For about 1400 years, this has been the Mohammedan world.   In today’s parlance, this looks very much like Islamic terrorist will at least instigate that great war of conflagration.   This is the second from the last war described in Scriptures, the last beings the final battle for Jerusalem AFTER the gathering at Har Megiddo.   That last war takes place after the tribulation of those days, involves our Lord directly, and occurs during God’s “Day of the Lord,” where judgments are poured out on all remaining mankind.   But as for this great conflagration which will next take place, we not something most remarkable.   It is the description of those who survive on the planet that great conflagration.   They cannot describe anyone who is a true believer and is “in Jesus Christ.”    It is impossible to do so, for we read:

 

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. [Revelation 9:20-21, KJV]

 

This must mean at some point prior to this post conflagration description of those left behind alive, the so call rapture, that being caught up in the air with Him, must have occurred.   Remarkably, this is from reading the above, pre-tribulation rapture of the Church.    But we get there entirely different from the nonsense of those who believe it happened at Revelation 4.   For we know this: the Sixth Trumpet had sounded when modern Israel became a nation.   When the first of for angelic messages came upon them in a form of a war where the Arab nation attacked them in 1948.   God survived Israel in 1949.   The second angelic message, with their survival occurred in 1967, the Six Day War, and the third in 1973 Yon Kippur War.   The fourth is yet to come.   Very soon I believe.

 

So now is the real question Christians should ponder; yet we have now real answers from the Word of God.  Not that it is pretribulation, we know that.  But is it pre, mid, or post great conflagration? We really do not know.

 

The salient point is that the time difference between these three scenarios may be just minutes, or seconds.  Therefore, it behooves us to be ready now.  For it may happen at any moment from now.  Nuclear war may last only seconds, minutes at best.  You may not have the opportunity to hear the emergency broadcast.  You may die unsaved before your mouth melts, or perhaps before your brain in fried.

 

Are you ready?

 

 

Sequence of Eschatological Events:

 

Things that were (have happened):

Seal 1, HUMANISM, that rider on the white horse going forth conquering but not killing (bow but no arrows).  Began circa 1997 with the first Zionist Convention and the humanistic supporters thereof.; yet while humanism has bee going on since perhaps the Greeks, not it has reached crescendo from the philosophies of the 1800’s.

 

Seals 2-7, Wars (global: nations against nations, kingdoms against kingdom), Pestilence, Famine, Death.  The Great War (WWI).

 

Half hour silence in heaven.  One 48^th of a day in heaven, one 48^th of 1000 years on earth, which is: 20 years, 304 days, 8 hours and some 48 minutes.  The precise time from when General Allenby signed an armistice with the Ottoman Turks in Jerusalem, to the time Hitler had bombs begin to drop on Poland.

 

Trumpets 1-4:  The events of WWII before Pearl Harbor.

 

Fifth Trumpet: the introduction of Atomic Warfare falling from the sky, the commencement of 5 months (60 years) prohibition of atomic warfare.

 

Sixth Trumpet: Four angelic messages to the new modern and secular nation of Israel, where the Sovran God protects Israel in each.  First: the 1948-49 Arab Israel war which broke out the moment Israel became a nation again.  Second: the 1967 6-day war.  Third: the 1972 Yom Kippur war.  Each of these God survived Israel overcoming overwhelming odds.

 

Things that are (today):

We stand at the brink of the final sixth trumpet angelic message to unfold. 

 

The next event to unfold:

It is among other things, the war of Magog, where Magog will die on the mountains of Israel and Israel will once again be saved, so that God teaches them His Sovran nature.  It is also the war that kills a third of mankind by the fire, the smoke and brimstone; instigated by those Islamic militant forces once bound at the great river Euphrates (the Mohammedan’s).  At this time, either before, during, or immediately thereafter, we shall see the rapture of the true Church, being caught up in the Air with Him.  This is not His Second Coming, only a gathering in the Air with him; to take us from the terrible things to happen.  This is true because the very next verses in the Revelation (9:20-21) describe those who survive the great conflagration that kills a third of mankind.  Those described cannot describe any true believer or one who is “in Christ Jesus (Y’shua Ha Messiah).  These left behind are unbelieving Jews and Gentiles.  Many are from the whole house of Israel who God still desires to chasten.  So the next earthly event to unfold will bring His two witnesses to minister to a world left without a ministering Church.

 

Things that will be (near future), in chronological order of John Vision at Patmos:

 

The Great Apostasy

 

The Great Tribulation (Satan’s, not God’s, wrath on mankind)

 

The Day of the Lord

 

The final Battle for Jerusalem; that is after the gathering (not war) at Har Megiddo.

 

The pouring out of God wrath (bowl judgments)

 

The Marriage of the Lamb

 

The Millennial Kingdom

 

The Eternal Order.

 

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