When I was in high school, I sat in the back corner of one of my classes with a couple of Christian girls. They regaled me with End Times stories which I now believe were cobbled up from John Darby and the Plymouth Brethren, further promoted via the Scofield Bible, which gave rise to Dispensationalism and Christian Zionism.
I wasn't a Christian myself, just an ignorant, clueless churchgoer, but I listened avidly to their tales. They said that one day soon, there was going to be a one world government, a one world religion and a one world currency. I had no idea about any of this, but lo and behold, we are actually now at the precipice of such a possibility. Not that I believe this will happen. It is being threatened after a fashion by WEF.
They said that one day, Jesus would come and rapture all of the Christians out of the world before the horrors were unleashed, and they considered they would be receiving this wonderful ride.
However, all of the non-Christians "left behind" were going to be in very serious trouble. The Anti-Christ would arise and rule the world and would begin persecuting any new Christians that would convert after the rapture. These people would have a kind of "second chance" with Jesus, but it would really cost them, because the Anti-Christ would chop off their heads if they didn't take the "mark of the beast," without which no man could "buy or sell."
I was so freaked out by these talks, that I got out a Bible and read all of Revelation, without any understanding of the text, of course. Since I didn't know how to "believe in Jesus," I thought I was going to end up being one of those people who got their heads chopped off, because taking the mark would result in a ride to hell, which, of course, I didn't want.
This was about 15 years prior to my conversion. And I finally learned that much of Revelation is written in a very symbolic way.
After conversion, someone gave me a copy of the Scofield Bible. It is very influential in the American churches. I noticed that there are copious margin notes, and the notes overwhelmingly promote the earthly nation of Israel. So this led many American churches to put earthly Israel above Christ's Kingdom.
If you notice the kinds of things that WEF and others of that ilk are saying, doing, and threatening to do, they seem to be promoting some kind of End Times madness. It is interesting that in the early days of the Christian church, people were saying that the disciples were "turning the world upside down." It is equally interesting that today, the world has once more become something that has "turned upside down," but not in the Gospel sense, rather in a crazy, never-seen-before kind of way. Good has become bad, ugly has become beautiful, upside down is now considered to be right side up.
If the WEF orcs get their way, there will be all kinds of suffering and death, and they have been holding this over our heads since early 2020. Not that they didn't talk about it before. It's just that not many were listening. Well, a lot of us are listening now, because the orcs got louder.
Since 2020, I have had some days with crying and even screaming at the walls. "Isn't anyone going to put a stop to this?" The world has truly gone mad. I thought maybe Hazmat suits were going to come to my door, throw me down, and forcibly inject me with poison. Hasn't happened so far. I thought the BLM riots might come to my neighborhood, robbing, raping, killing and setting fire. Hasn't happened yet. Last fall, Biden promised a dark winter. Didn't happen. They are threatening us now with no money, no food, no heat for our homes, no fuel for our cars, and even a potential nuclear exchange. Is any of that going to happen? Or is it mostly just fear mongering for the purpose of controlling the masses?
Orcs such as Klaus Schwab talk as if they are on the verge of victory. I think they are wrong. They haven't read the back of the book. I don't think we will have to line up at guillotines, emaciated, freezing, and beaten nearly to death. These things have indeed happened to some people throughout history. But I believe in the happy ending that God has promised. Satan's army is busy threatening ALL of us. That has never happened before, to my knowledge. Satan can't win, however. God wins. It is that simple.
It's relevant to this post and discussion. It will reach eyes here that would never see it in that Sub.
I don't talk about God and His kingdom only at church, I do it everywhere from the grocery store to the DMV and apply it to every part of my life.
Also I don't need God's word evaluated by man. God is the judge and His word is the standard.
If OP shares this post over there and tags me I will happily add my comment to add to the convo however.
So far I believe u have only used Gods word once. The rest has been mans evaluation of Gods word. It's all good u told me everything I needed to know in your response. Have a good night
Did you ask for scripture even once that supports my position? Did you look at the playlist where scripture and historic events were covered extensively?
Tells me all I need to know about how much you wanted to really examine my position before dismissing me.
U dont know what I did or didnt do my fren. More guessing. I simply asked u to share somewhere else so it could get different eyes on it. U seem scared to. U then went off on a tangent about abortion and how u doing something makes u right about something else. Do u believe it works that way.
Ah I'm scared now too!
Thanks for telling me how I feel. (even though I freely offered to participate so you're being dishonest)
Any more ad hominem fallacies you would care to use?
I'd encourage you to not make false assertions and assumptions about people that don't obey or agree with you.
Did you look at the playlist? If so why are you asking things that were addressed therein? That's a solid indicator you didn't. So I don't "know" but I can certainly ascertain either that or you have a poor recollection. Super simple stuff.
Why cant u do both?
I didn't say I can't did I?
Why are you saying I should?
My tiny church in AZ, using this eschatological position, started EndAbortionNow.com and set out to end abortion in the US and throughout the world 10 years ago.
With a FRACTION of the budget and funding of the pro-life establishment we have equipped churches all over the world to fight abortion in a Biblical way and saved thousands of children from being murdered. We produced 2 documentaries about abortion and the failings of the unbiblical approach of the pro-life establishment
We started pushing abolition and equal protection legislation nationwide and getting others to join us in doing so and contacting lawmakers.
We wrote part of the Amicus Brief that just overturned Roe v Wade. Now we have multiple states introducing abolition legislation that will end abortion locally.
I don't need the evaluation of anons online. God's blessing on our work is quite clear.
Just because u do work in one area doesnt mean u are right in every area. Your responses are getting more and more egotistical. Why? It was a simple request.
So my standard is God's Word, not being judged my people in a sub is bad and providing an example of how God has blessed that worldview while giving HIM credit and that's ego? Okay bud.
Have a good one!