I have not seen a plane looking like it got decapitated. Praying for the victims' families, I'm sure this is not the way the pilots saw themselves leaving this world.
The truth about a false Israel is still so highly sensitive for many evangelical believers today, but viewed through the right lens, it's clear that Jesus' words in Revelation about the "synagogue of Satan" isn't just true about the ones persecuting the faithful church of Smyrna (Rev. 2:8-11), but also about the ones who stand vehemently against Christians, against faithful Jews (the real Israel!), and against the Lord Jesus Christ to this very day.
Frens, if you have people in your life who struggle with this truth (among the many dark ones discussed on this site), please know that I am praying for God to work in their hearts today.
This is why I love this site. I have a look at this comment section, and it's giving me a severe case of the KEK's.
I unfortunately did Nazi this coming.
I must admit, I've been rather complacent when it comes to praying for our President's wellbeing as he takes this fight to the darkness to the highest stakes we've seen yet. Tonight is a sobering reminder that our lives and the soul of this nation are in God's hands... I'm convicted of my personal need to spend more time in prayer.
See, here's the funny thing.
I always thought the Harlot of Revelation 17 was merely a false church or a false religious system.
But then I realized something.
This image is not just of a lewd woman drinking the blood of saints.
It's an image of MOCKERY!
But mocking who?
See Revelation 12. The chapter opens with a woman - Israel - who gives birth to a Child Who will reign all the nations. The Child is caught up to heaven, in spite of the Dragon's (Satan's) attempts to destroy him by proxy (Herod), by personal temptation (Matthew 4's encounter between Jesus and the Devil), and ultimately by power (the Sanhedrin and the Romans). But while he bruises the heel of Masiach Nagid - the prophet Daniel's title for the Messiah, Jesus Christ - his head is bruised because Jesus rises again from the dead and ascends into heaven.
But back to my point. Who is the harlot of Revelation 17 mocking?
It's not a false church, like Rome. It's not some arcane, yet-to-be-born religious order.
It's mocking ISRAEL! And as the religious leaders of Israel killed Jesus, their descendants - whom John calls in his first epistle those of the "spirit of Antichrist" - this false religion is going to gleefully persecute and kill Christians.
[They] have done it many times before and will gladly do it all over again.
All I've said does not speak of the true Jews. These are the synagogue of Satan that Jesus speaks of. We should be loving and praying for the salvation of the true Jews, that as we Gentiles have already had, that they would bow to their Messiah and repent.
Zechariah 12:10-12 talks about their hour when the sons of Israel finally see Jesus:
10 "I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn. 11 In that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land will mourn, every family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves; (Zechariah 12:10-12, NASB).
We speak about Israel here, but please, PLEASE remember to keep a good distinction between which Israel we ask God to bless: the good and faithful remnant whose families will eventually be saved at the final coming of Jesus, or the globalist, evil, scheming stakeholders of world power, ever attempting to thwart the spread of the Gospel and the Kingdom of God.
Sorry for the rant, thanks for reading.
These are EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT points!
I've referenced these same Bible verses as have already been discussed in detail in these comments, and I 100% agree: the evangelical church today is in for a huge shocker regarding the identity of Israel of today as we are told. And I think this will lead to many within the church being deceived and falling away. I don't know how, but we need to inform our pastors and elders at our local churches about this... sooner or later, this will become a very serious issue, if not one that will cause sharp division and fracturing among local churches.
To all Bible-believing Christians who have placed your trust in Christ Jesus alone for salvation:
THIS is where the spiritual battle is going to erupt in our local churches. Please prepare to warn those you know to examine the Scriptures carefully regarding Israel, and please PRAY for the Lord to move people's hearts and prepare them to understand that God is not yet finished with Israel - the REAL Israel, that is. And He's yet to judge the synagogue of Satan once and for all - until that time, we have to be discerning and not just letting our friends and family say they stand with Israel or they call for peace in Israel - the Israel of today is FALSE and of the DEVIL, because God will call 144,000 from the twelve tribes of TRUE ISRAEL to preach the gospel to the nations in the End Times!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WuOtvdV5W0
The article in this post links to this interview Charlie did on Megyn Kelly's show. Was he identifying the small group who would become his killers???
Start just before the 1 hour mark... this is really eye-opening in light of this week's events.
For all the unfamiliarity I still have with it... this seems to be validating the Q clock which had some slightly heated discussions earlier...
I say we give it 72 hours and not let emotions cloud our judgement.
That's exactly right.
I think that it's important that we draw a line in terms of standing with Israel, given the disparity between their identity as God's people and the Mossad psy-ops we are seeing from the present-day nation of Israel.
Jesus warns about those who claim to be Jews but are not, being instead of the synagogue of Satan (Revelation 2:9). While the context of this passage talks about the ancient church of Smyrna and its coming persecution at the time of its writing, I've also taken this passage to have a double meaning; as we've oft discussed on this site, the Khazarian movement.
We need to be careful to distinguish which Israel we support. To just say "I stand with Israel" in an uninformed setting is to say you stand for the globalist, perverted worldview of brainwashing infamy. The Israel we must stand for are the faithful and for the untainted Jews who have not given themselves over to Satan and to the myriad gods associated with him (Molech, Baal, Allah, all who are not the God and Jesus Christ of the Bible!).
Israel is saved for last because ultimately, they will be the most important nation in the world in a future that, while we know it's coming, we still don't know WHEN it will come. And for that, we should be praying for the Jews to repent and to turn to their Messiah Whom they've pierced.
Only then will they be saved.
Anything for the truth of God's word!
Oh dear, this is opening a can of worms I really didn't want to open here 😂
But looking at what the Bible simply says, the first and most overt Scripture on this topic is the entirety of Romans 9-11... a thoroughly contextual verse-by-verse study of that entire passage makes it clear that those who are truly in Christ cannot make the first step to salvation in him. This is supported by Ephesians 2, which says that we were dead in our sins.
And then come two of the most beautiful words in the Bible: "But God."
These two words alone tell us that outside from God, we can't make ourselves alive. We are dead and will remain dead outside of divine intervention. Any choice that we can make whether to be saved or not will result in us rejecting God's call, every time.
Until, God makes us alive in Christ (Eph. 2:4); this is wonderful because He does this while we were yet sinners (Rom. 5:8)!
What I've just explained is, yes, what is labeled as Calvinism. If the Scriptures are very straightforward and in agreement with itself, why is this stance considered dangerous by many?
Because some, taking advantage in their hearts of the principle that is "one saved, always saved" would take their liberties too far, taking pride in knowing the doctrine and using it to live a life that's not so far set apart from the world.
Also to consider is the notion that when people walk away from the faith, a hesitation to judge others may lead people to hope that such an apostate is still a Christian, when John the Beloved in his first epistle says, "They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us. (1 John 2:19, NASB)"
He speaks here of the ultimate rejection of this apostate who was formerly in the church because, in reality, they were still enslaved to sin. If we take free will into account, they chose God and Christ at first and later chose to walk away.
The burning question that enters my mind in this train of thought, then, is this: when a believer is saved, who is supposed to get the glory - God, or the believer?
Ultimately, one who is genuinely saved will want to pursue holiness in their walk. The believer will stumble and will fail at times, but he cannot lose his salvation, otherwise a salvation that can be lost boils down to a God and a sacrifice of Christ that is impotent and only potentially able to save all people but does not actually save them because this salvation would be reliant on the believer's choice.
I stand on the other side of the argument, where God alone is responsible for saving me from my sins. I am unable to boast in myself of my salvation (Eph. 2:8-9) and, having been made a new creation in Christ (2 Cor. 5:16), live a life in thanks to God for His salvation that I am fully unable of myself to achieve, attain, or earn.
The test of whether my salvation is genuine is twofold: whether the Holy Spirit's indwelling is seen in my life, and serving the brethren in the church and making disciples of Christ. This is why Peter says in his second epistle to make our calling and election in Christ sure (2 Peter 1:10). Good works will not and do not save us, but, given the changed heart of the believer, they are a sign of God's salvation working in them.
EDIT: just reading what I've written... wow, I really am a MacArthur guy through and through, frens KEK
As I'm sure many also did! If you haven't already had a chance to watch it, the documentary The Essential Church details the entire saga in incredible detail. God is good!
He was a beacon of light to the whole world, dating all the way back to when his Grace to You ministry started as cassette tape distributions that spread and rapidly grew worldwide. If God can use a single person so mightily for His Kingdom, how much more if we follow MacArthur's example even as he followed Christ!
Precious to the Lord are the deaths of His saints. We will see him again so long as we are in Christ!
Praise the Lord!
Every time I read stories like yours, I'm overjoyed at how God can use a single person to draw so many others closer to Him. I on my part will also continue listening to his sermons and reading his books.
Thanks for sharing, fren!
And that's what's so beautiful, isn't it? In spite of the profound grief we feel at Pastor John's passing, our hearts are also so full of joy because he's home with the Lord. In his final sermon (preached on November 24, 2024), he talks about the unfailing promises of God... no doubt he is now experiencing the fulness of those promises! After seeing how much his illness had weakened him, he is finally free of that pain forever.
Oh this is amazing, so glad you got to see him at that time! What can we say, even as pastors were being arrested and persecution against Christians was starting to make itself evident - God WILL build His Church, and the gates of Hades cannot overcome it. Praise the Lord!
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This so much fren.
On a personal note, John MacArthur played a pivotal role in the lives so many Christians, including my own. I owe him so much for helping me understand the Bible and for helping me grow in my love for God.
I will miss Pastor John so much. I'm very grateful to be alive to witness the last quarter-century of his ministry!
Beautifully said! God has not forgotten the people of Israel, but until they acknowledge their Messiah, Jesus Christ... they will be subject to the wrath of God by way of their rejection of the truth. This judgement, as described in the Bible, will culminate in the 7 years of the Tribulation — the period we Christians refer to as the End Times!
Some say Edge or Bill Goldberg had the best spear. I think this hero takes the cake... and that "bump" was "sold" textbook perfectly! This gets a top kek from me! 😂
I sure pray not! I've personally had more than enough of this nonsense, too.