A Return To Slavery

The Lord has been coming at me with this issue from a variety of angles the past few days. This world will be completely enslaved by Satan due to its rejection of Jesus Christ, the only true God.

We know that no person will be able to buy or sell without the mark of the beast. Everyone will be marked. During WW2 all the Jews under Hitler's (a type of anti-christ) control were marked. Next time it wont be only the Jews, it will be everyone. The tribulation/time of Jacob's trouble will be a worldwide enslavement.

As we see the progressive rejection of the God of the bible, we see a direct, corresponding enslavement of the world. People look around America today and see what they consider to be an encroachment on their liberty and freedom and they blame the government for it! Instead of blaming the government for their lack of freedom, they should look in the mirror and see the real cause for their loss of freedom: the rejection of the true God that can be found in the bible.

A rejection of the true God leads to erosion of wealth, loss of freedom, plagues, famines, disasters of every kind imaginable, lack of education, lack of health care, and the lack of everything else that until recently has been taken for granted in the United States. The United States has been blessed in the past, there is no doubt about it. This country at least mouthed praise and worship of the true God, even if their hearts were turned away from Him. This country has had enough salt and light (true believers) to keep the darkness (and slavery that ensues from it) at arms length. These days are different though....

Who in America today is equating the loss of everything Americans hold dear with a rejection of the true God? The same is true for all the other nations of the world. Show me a country that lacks food, water, medical care, education, transportation, freedom, liberty, etc and I'll show you a country where the true God of the bible has been rejected.

This world is being enslaved, and it is not happening all at once. Its a gradual process. At some point in the future, a kind of destruction is going to fall on mankind that will get their attention. Isn't it unfortunate that things have to get that bad to get people's attention? Isn't it unfortunate that the devil himself has to walk this earth with his filthy demons and unclean spirits to wake some people up? Most people will never wake up, no matter what happens. Few will be saved, not most, and that is tragic isn't it?

Matt 7:13Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

WHY will so few be saved and WHY do so few people care about it? Todays nicolaitan preachers and teachers tell you that all you have to do is accept an easy grace "Jesus" and keep "going to church" and paying an unbiblical tithe and you'll be saved forever regardless of anything else you do, say or think. The bible doesn't read that way. John 15 tells us in no uncertain terms that some people who are "in the vine" that is "in Christ" can and will be "cutoff" from the vine which is Jesus Christ. Does that sound like an easy grace, do what thou wilt gospel to you? I think not.

Few will be saved and why is that? Don't you think that question needs to be answered? Broad is the road that leads to destruction we are told. That means there are many reasons why few will be saved. Those many reasons, this writer believes, can be traced back to a rejection of the true God, His Son/His Word.

In America, the enslavement of blacks in the past is now looked at as a crime against humanity, an atrocity, an abhorrent event in the history of the world, and I would agree with that. Yet the same people who condemn slavery in America don't seem to care much about a world enslavement that is occurring every day around them. If they do care, they display their ignorance by blaming the government for their problems. "Get involved" they tell us, "get out and vote!" they tell us, so we can "make a difference" they tell us. How utterly blind are these people? How completely without discernment are these people?

This world has a sin problem. This world has a rejection of the true God problem. This world has a refusal to obey the most powerful being in eternity problem. The people of this world have the leaders and the government they deserve in direct proportion with their acceptance of the true God and His Word.

I'm giving you a guarantee right here, right now: you can vote until you drop dead and you'll make zero progress toward what you want. You can "get involved" in your community, you can get out and vote, you can plan and organize and work till your hands fall off and you will make ZERO progress at taking back the things you hold dear. The people of this world need to get the priority straight: Matthew 6:33 ... But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,and all these things will be added to you.

You want your freedom? seek first the kingdom of God
You want food on your table? seek first the kingdom of God
You want peace? seek first the kingdom of God
You want a roof over your head? seek first the kingdom of God
You want clothes on your back? seek first the kingdom of God
You want the corruption in this world to end? seek first the kingdom of God
You fill in the rest of the list using the pattern established above....

Unfortunately, we know what's going to happen in the future. A flood is coming, and people will continue in their wickedness by rejecting their only hope and they will be destroyed for it. If you are reading these words, know that it does not have to be you that is destroyed. As it was in the days of Noah and Lot, in the days before (pre) the flood (tribulation), an ark of safety has been prepared (Noah), a departure under armed escort out of the destruction zone (Lot removed from Sodom) has been prepared. There is coming an exact repeat of the days of Noah and Lot. I didn't guarantee that, Jesus did. If Noah and his family went into an ark of safety that provided him with physical separation from destruction, then we can expect the same. If Lot and his family were escorted out of Sodom to be spared from ALL of the destruction that was rained down upon it, then we can expect the same. There IS and escape from ALL coming. I cannot promise something like that, only God Almighty can, and He has:

Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

The Lord used the words "escape all." What does "all mean? Apparently many, many people these days cannot grasp what that word means, but they will learn...in time. This world has rejected and continues to reject the only true God and His Son Jesus Christ, and they will be enslaved for it. You do not have to be one of them. We who belong to the Lord God Almighty are not of this world, and we never were. Our kingdom is not of this world, and it never was. We are looking, watching every day for a promise to be fulfilled. Where our Lord has gone, we will go also because we were promised to go there:

John 14:1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God a; trust also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going.”

I am absolutely certain of this, what we should be doing today is WATCHING, through prayer, for our Lord's return. Today as I was praying and reading the Word, this was absolutely confirmed within me. We must be those servants whose master has gone on a long journey, who watch and wait for His return so when He knocks on the door we can immediately open it for Him. We must keep oil in our lamps, so we are ready for the return of the bridegroom. We must be spotless bride without spot or blemish; a fitting bride for the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

There are no 'curve balls' in our Lords words to us on the points made above. There is no tricky language to confuse us or trip us up. If the Lord told us to watch, then we must watch..NOW. If the Lord told us to pray that we would be counted worthy of escape from all, then we must pray (NOW) that we will be counted worthy of this escape from all. There are satanic agents who will steal your hope, your escape, your life and your soul if you let them. Don't let them. Hold on to what you have until our Lord returns....

Luke 12:36 like men waiting for their master to return from a ...
like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

Revelation 3:20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If ...
... "Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door,I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.

Revelation 3:8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an ...
I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut.

Mark 13:35 "Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the ...
... Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whetherat even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning;

Matthew 25:13 "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the ...
... Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Luke 21:36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able ...
... Watch therefore, praying at every season, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are about to come to pass, and to stand before the

Revelation 3:3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and ...
... repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief,and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee

1 Peter 4:7 The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear ...
... But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

Ephesians 5:27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church ...
... so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

1 Peter 1:19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without ...
but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. ... but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

Colossians 1:22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical ...
But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation--

Revelation 2:25 Only hold on to what you have until I come.
... Only hold fast what you have until I come.

Revelation 3:11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so ...
... Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.

grace and peace

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repealed

Recently a long standing policy in the American armed forces banning homosexuals from "coming out" was repealed. This "historic vote" as it was called in many media outlets was universally praised as "progress" for America. America and americans better think again. America has a sin problem. Each and every day in America, sin and wickedness takes a step forward and godliness and righteousness is pushed backwards. Does America expect to escape the wrath and judgement that is coming while she stands with a brazen face shaking her fist at the Lord? This country is marked for destruction...

Does America think that somehow the laws of gravity and physics no longer apply to her? Does America think that somehow because she has lived in prosperity for so long that the warnings spelled out in the Word of God no longer apply to her? Read the Word of the Lord:

Jeremiah 18 :5Then the word of the Lord came to me: 6“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. 7If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, 8and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. 9And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, 10and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.
11“Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’ 12But they will reply, ‘It’s no use. We will continue with our own plans; each of us will follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

The warnings issued to our older brother Israel are just as applicable to us now as they were to Israel then. America heaps sin upon sin and where is the outcry? Where are all of today's "godly men" (so called pastors=nicolaitans) while darkness steadily makes progress across America today and light cannot find a place in the land? All of America's politicians are rotten to the core. Democrat and Republican are two sides of the same evil coin, they are all rotten and the stench of them rises up to the heavens. Before the people of America get to smug and say to themselves "but I didn't vote for this or that politician" just be aware that all of the rotten greedy filthy politicians in the land are a direct result of the rottenness, greeed and filth of the people.... America has the politicians it deserves because it is rotten from the ground up.

Is our situation in America hopeless? Outward appearance would suggest that the answer is yes, but the Word of God tells us that even when disaster has been decreed for a nation, if that nation will turn and repent of its sins, then the Lord will relent. The key word here is IF that nation will repent. Will America repent of her many sins? That might be a problem when Americans don't think they have a sin problem. So many think they are "good people," therefore they have no need to repent. When Jesus himself asked why someone called him "good" Americans should rethink their position...

Mark 10:17As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18“Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.

Where are the men who are calling for repenatance today? Where are the men who are confessing their sins, the sins of their families and communities before the Lord and asking for forgiveness for this nation of ours whose sins fill heaven with the stench of death? Why would Americans repent when they do not believe they have done anything wrong? America sits like a queen believing herself to be a spotless bride when in truth she has become the queen of prostitutes. Don't take my word for it, open your eyes!

When wickedness walks openly among a people, isn't that their shame and not their credit? Isn't repealing the "don't ask don't tell" policy allowing wickedness to walk openly among us? When a nation calls what is good evil, and what is evil good they have a problem. America has a problem, it's a sin problem. There are "churches" on every street corner yet darkness makes steady progress across the land, how can that be unless the so called "light" within those churches is really darkness? Light drives out darkness every time, no exceptions....so if a church claims that it is a light to the world, yet it does not drive out darkness, then that church is a fraud.

This writing today does not purpose to target any one sin particularly (in this case homosexuality). The target for todays writing is sin in general in America. Go read the entire book of Isaiah, read the book of Jeremiah and see the many chastisements of the nation of Israel. As I read through those books, the Spirit of the Lord within me makes comment after comment relating the sins of Israel with the sins of America. If the Lord condemned the sin then, He condemns the same sin now. Before anyone says "come on man, Isaiah and Jeremiah? That's old news!" I would point you toward the Lord's message to the churches in Revelation 2-3. To each of the churches (5 out of 7 of them), the message was the same....REPENT. That was the message to Israel then, and that is the message to the churches today.

On a broader note, this is another example of how Ameirca is modern day Babylon. America is the queen of the nations of the world. When America speaks, the rest of the world ripples with her words. Was the Lord ignorant of this end time nation that shakes the world (America) when He inspired the words in the Bible? Or did He write to us specifically about this nation? The Lord foresaw America in the course of history and He has written to us about this nation and He calls her Babylon. There are judgements coming on Babylon but neither she nor her people see them coming.

This writer believes that it is the small amount of light and salt that remains in Babylon that prevents her total destruction. Salt preserves, but remove the salt and the rot destroys everything. There is coming a day when the salt and light will be removed. Babylon is fallen, fallen. The nature of Babylon is fallen, she has fallen from grace.

Jer 16:8“And do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink. 9For this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Before your eyes and in your days I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in this place.
10“When you tell these people all this and they ask you, ‘Why has the Lord decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the Lord our God?’ 11then say to them, ‘It is because your fathers forsook me,’ declares the Lord, ‘and followed other gods and served and worshiped them. They forsook me and did not keep my law. 12But you have behaved more wickedly than your fathers. See how each of you is following the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying me. 13So I will throw you out of this land into a land neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

There is a generation of people that has arisen in America that behaves more wickedly than their fathers. Each of them follows the stubbornness of his evil heart istead of obeying the Lord. The leaders in America reflect the wickedness of the people of America. Each year now, people openly talk about having to select the lesser of the evils when they cast their vote, but they never stop to look at themselves and ask why this is? Could I have anything to do with the wickedness that walks openly among us?

These things are written to you today as a call to repentance. We are told to have nothing to do with wicked people, we are to be "set apart." In fact, thats what "church" means. Ek-klesia in the greek means "set apart from the people." What do I hear the Lord saying today? Repent. Each of us should confess our sins, the sins of our families and our nation before the Lord and we are to ask for forgiveness. This writer is thankfull for all the grace, peace and abundance we have enjoyed here in America up through this very day, but I see these days coming to an end due to our severe wickedness and apostasy in turning away from the living God. We must obey, we must submit, or we will be broken and cast away into the refuse heap of history.

The wise among us will heed the lessons of the past. We will internalize the lessons taught to us in the Word of God and use all of our strength to do things that please our Lord. Come out from among them says the Lord...

2 Corinthians 6:17 "Therefore come out from them and be separate ...
... Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

Numbers 16:21 "Separate yourselves from this assembly so I can put ...
... Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.

As it was in the days of Noah and Lot, so shall it be when the Son of Man comes. When the righteous come out from among them, then sudden destruction will fall and none of them will see it coming. Noah went into the ark and the rain began to fall, Lot and his family left Sodom and fire and brimstone torched the cities. A day like this is coming again, so let us be found worthy of the escape that is laid before us (Luke 21:36). Let us choose things that please the Lord. grace and peace

The Coming "Flood"

The following is a rough brain dump of what the Lord deposited in my mind over a 2 hour period yesterday morning:

Relative vs Exact Timing

The Lord explains to us 16:2He replied,a “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ 3and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. 4A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Jesus then left them and went away.

The top layer meaning of this ^^ is obvious. A deeper layer of meaning is His return....the timing of His return, when we see storm clouds we know its about to rain but we do not know exactly when the first drop will fall, see the difference? Its the difference of exact vs relative timing. You know its going to rain sometime soon, but you don't know when the first raindrop will fall, you also don't know whether the storm you see on the horizon is going to end up depositing light raindrops or Hurricaine Katrina...

As in the days of Noah, people eating drinking, planting building marrying until the day Noah entered the ark. today we have food costing more and some parts of the world are already in famine, but the 3rd seal in Rev 6 will be the difference between a drop of rain and a flood. The 3rd seal and all the other seals will be many exponential levels higher than famines we have seen in this world to date, same with all the other seals. It's important to note that the Lord himself has used "floods" to destroy the people of the ancient world and to teach us about the coming destruction of the people of the present world. The Lord promised that He would never again destroy the world in the same way He did in Noah's day. However, He did say that the coming destruction would be "like a flood." Daniel 9:26 The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.

Floods "suddenly destroy" people. The sudden aspect of their demise is what hinders them from finding safety while it can still be found. By the time they realize they are in real trouble, well, they are in real trouble. What does the Lord tell us, His children about "sudden destruction" such as what is coming to destroy the world's people?

Prov 3:25Have no fear of sudden disaster

or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked,

26for the Lord will be your confidence

and will keep your foot from being snared.

Pay close attention to verse 26 there. Not only are we protected from "sudden destruction" as we see in verse 25 that includes the coming "like a flood" event, but we are also protected from our "foot being snared?" That "snare" mentioned in verse 26 bring anything to mind? How about this?

Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

It's hand in glove folks. No "creative" bible interpretation needed...Form your conclusions as the Spirit leads from this..

Daniels 70th week, (obviously) occurs in 70th week, it is 7 prophetic "days" (7 years) long and starts with the Lord sealing 144,000 (7*70,000) and we find it in Revelation 7. Enough "7"s in there for you to think the Lord is giving us a clue? I see a needle and thread made up of 7s sewing this all neatly together for us to form a picture. The Lord's dealing with the nation of Israel officially starts again in Rev 7 with the sealing of the 144,000. All of Rev 6 is a warm up act that appears to come on the world "like a flood" and it starts in one day. Remember Luke 17 and Matt 24, the very day that Lot left Sodom and Noah went into the Ark, judgement fell...that very day. Also remember that the angels could not let destruction fall on Sodom until Lot had been physically removed from the city. The coming of the Son of Man will be a direct, exact replica of what happened in the days of Noah and Lot. It is guaranteed because the Lord said it would happen in this way.

Rev 6 there is no way to time the beginning of it or duration of it but it appears that all 7 seals open daniels 70th week with a "bang" of sudden destruction, just as it happened in the days of Noah, they didn't see it until they were in it.

Those in Seal 5, Rev 6 under the alter are all those who have died for Christ from the beginning of the church right up to till the Lord comes in the air to receive us. They died for their testimony. Nowhere in Rev 5 does it say they died because the anti-christ persecuted them while he was on earth. These are souls from throughout the church age who have given themselves for Christ.

All of us "in Christ" do not have the same destiny, all of us are not destined to die by beheading/being shot/fed to lions etc for Christ. Some very godly men have died "in Christ" without being martyred. To paint the destinies all of those of us in Christ with one broad brushstroke (ie we will all be martyred by the anti-christ in the tribulation) would be a huge mistake that inevitably leads to errors in understanding the Word of God and therefore errors in understanding what is going to happen in the days ahead.

Nowhere in the Lord's description of the days leading up to Noah entering the ark... do we see even a hint of any of the 7 seals, we see eating and drinking instead of famine as one example of this. Only someone high on crack cocaine would equate "eating and drinking" (Luke 17, Matt 24-the coming of the Son of Man) with Seal 3 of Rev 6 (the seal judgements)And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. The only explanation for this is the plain reading of the Word as it was written, the seals are not opened until the day We enter our "ark" then sudden destruction falls "like a flood" famine war disease and pestilence overtake this world and humanity in a way that causes hearts to melt with fear. The "flood" of events will be the difference of one drop of rain falling out of the sky and floodwaters covering the earth. Its a difference of intensity and duration such that it will overwhelm makind's ability to cope.

I have asked the Lord many times if I should stock up on guns and ammo and food for the coming "flood" of events that will overtake this world. The answer has been a stony silence in my spirit that tells me that we absolutely do not need, and will not need the things that people are stocking up on today. With this said, I do have some extra supplies in the house for events that could take place before "the flood" and our escape. Signs in the sun, moon, and stars point to changes coming to this earth. The changes coming will be catastrophic, read Rev 6 for the details. This inner witness that tells me there is no need to get ready for the end of the world as we know it, also fits hand in glove with the plain reading of scripture. We are watching and waiting for the return of Jesus Christ our Lord, we are not waiting and watching for the anti-christ.

There is an alternate interpretation for the inner witness I have that there is no need to stock up supplies for the time of Jacob's trouble: that is, believers will need and receive divine assistance to make it through the days ahead. Any supplies stocked up will only last for so long, and the destruction and devastation coming will be beyond anything any one of us can even imagine right now.


Isaiah 13:12
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir.

Mark 13:20 If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.

Read that carefully ^^^. What is coming will wipe out most of mankind. Most of the population of the earth today will either escape out or die out. Some people will be preserved only because the days will be shortened. The Lords own words tell us that had He not shortened the days all mankind would be wiped out.

The Word of the Lord is true. His promises can be trusted. There is an escape coming. There is a day when those who are found worthy will get into a modern day "ark" just as Noah did. There is a day coming when those who are found worthy will be physically removed from the worldwide Sodom just as Lot was. Physical removal of the righteous is what happened in the days of Noah and Lot, that's a fact. Look for it again someday in our future.

It has been on my mind frequently of late that America is indeed Babylon the great we read about in scripture. Only one country in the history of the world fits ALL of the requirements listed to identify this endtime nation, and America is it. What once was a nation that at least in part sought the Lord and His righteousness has become a den of demons, a house of robbers, a refuge for every unclean spirit and everything that is dirty and filthy in this world. America is an occult nation, don't take my word for it, look at the signs and symbols she proudly displays in her capitol, on her money, in her great cities (NYC). Think deeply about the meaning of the following scripture:

Rev 18:1And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

It says Babylon is fallen. Don't think here of national destruction, although that is certainly coming, think in terms of "fallen" angels, a fallen nature. America, which is Babylon the great has fallen from grace. Again, don't take my word for it, the Lord Himself follows up with what "fallen" means here, He says and Babylon "is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird."

The title of this blog is Christian Apostasy. The chief trait of apostasy is denial. Today's babylonian form of churchianity is in denial. They cannot and will not believe that they participate in a babylonian form of apostate christianity. The cannot and will not believe that their pastoral system is idolatrous from the ground up. They will not acknowledge that they are fallen, as America is fallen. If all the churches on all the street corners of America today were indeed full of light, then America would not be a den of demons and a habitation of devils that it is today. The fact is, that what calls itself light, is not light, because it has not driven out darkness, therefore it is a lie and a fraud..by definition.

Another thought the Lord gave me. The fact that some true believers can live in Babylon the great today, which has become a den of demons and the home of every unclean thing, and still cling to the Lord in truth and purity, is a demonstration of the Lord's power. It is a miracle that anyone holds onto the truth in this great harlot nation. Darkness is everywhere, and yet a remnant remains as it always has, and always will. The Lord's Word is true, every last letter of it.

One last thought about the time of Jacob's trouble/tribulation/Daniel's 70th week. Many contend today that we will go through the seal judgements in Rev 6 because they are not God's wrath. Although they are positively wrong, the seals are the Lord's wrath (famine and war have been used as God's wrath in the past..look it up), another fact destroys their argument as well. The opening of the seals are judgement on this Christ rejecting world. All of what is coming "like a flood" is judgement on the inhabitants of this world. So let me ask, are we who are in Christ, children of God going to be subject to God's judgement on this wicked world. The answer is obvious and it is NO. We are not destined for God's wrath NOR His judgements on this wicked world. We are destined for the judgement seat of Christ which is a judgement for REWARD, not punishment. No wrath, no judgement reserved for the wicked, means no Rev 6 seal judgments for the children of God:

Jer 25:31 Wasting hath come unto the end of the earth, For a controversy hath Jehovah with nations, He hath executed judgment for all flesh, The wicked! He hath given them to the sword, An affirmation of Jehovah.

2 Thessalonians 2:12
... in order that all may come under judgement who have refused to believe the truth and have taken pleasure in unrighteousness

2 Peter 2:9
... the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from temptation, and on the other hand how to keep the unrighteous under punishment in readiness for the Day of Judgement

Rev 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Those who refuse to believe the truth are those who are coming under judgement...not us. The Word is very clear, we will be kept from the hour of temptation. The Lord knows how to rescue godly men. Remember Noah? Remember Lot? Remember their physical removal from the judgements inflicted on the wicked? Repeat performance coming to the earth some day..

Keep the faith, be patient, we may have quite some time to wait, or the Lord could knock on that "door" (rev 4, Matt 25) and those of us who hear it must immediately open it for Him. grace and peace