I want to be transparent; I do not like reading in the gospels when Jesus and his disciples went to Gethsemane and he was arrested after Judas betrayed him. It disturbs me every time I read how after Jesus was arrested and taken to Caiaphas he was slapped and punched around and then spit on. Neither do I like thinking about what Pilate’s soldiers did to him. To be frank, it crushes me.
As I struggled my way through the Gethsemane account in Matthew’s record recently, my attention was drawn to an important but often overlooked question Jesus asked Simon Peter (John revealed who he was) after he had cut off Malchus’ ear—Malchus was a servant of Caiaphas. Jesus rebuked Simon Peter (he was always being reprimanded) and commanded he put his dagger back in its sheath. First, Jesus asked his disciple a rhetorical question on whether or not he could call on his Father and at once twelve legions[1] of angels would come and deliver him from those that came to arrest him (Matt. 26:53). And then he asks another rhetorical question concerning the suffering he was about to go through that Peter was attempting to spare him of. His question was one that he wanted Peter and the other disciples to think about rather than give an answer to. If Jesus was to call on his Father to deliver him with the help of tens of thousands of angels, then how would the writings of Israel’s prophets happen as they said they would: “How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way” (Matt. 26:54, CSB)? David prophesied that Jesus would ask why his Father had forsaken him (Ps. 22:1|Mk. 15:32). He also prophesied that the people who saw Jesus on the cross would mock and insult him (Ps. 22:7-8|Matt. 27:39-40). It is written that people (Pharisees and Sadducees) would stand and stare at Jesus as he hung on the cross and brag that they defeated him (Ps. 22:17b|Mk. 15:31-32), and the Roman soldiers would throw dice for his clothes (Ps. 22:18|Matt. 27:35). His crucifixion and burial were prophesied precisely as well (Isa. 53:4-12).
Jesus’ point to Simon Peter was that if the angels came and delivered him from those who came to arrest him then what had been written in the Scriptures to happen would then not happen. The prophets would be in error. That would make God a liar. The prophets spoke what Yahweh told them to speak. They prophesied events years before they would come to pass. And when the events came to pass that the prophets prophesied, they transpired exactly as they said they would. This does not happen when false prophets’ prophesy. Their prophesies are never completely accurate. There are always mistakes in what they prophesy. Even pagans prophesy, but they are like the false prophets in the church, their prophesies are never completely accurate either. Jesus knew that what was prophesied about him, and then written for the record, would happen as they had been foretold. That is why Jesus told his Father that his will be done after he asked “If it be possible, let this cup pass from me” (Matt. 26:39b, ESV). If the Father were to cancel Christ’s atoning sacrifice after it had already been prophesied and written for the record, he would lose all credibility. Even the angels in the kingdom of heaven would not be able to trust God anymore. But because God is able to “declare the end from the beginning” (Isa. 46:10a, CSB), meaning, he can say from the beginning what will happen in the future, he knew that Jesus would complete his will and sacrifice himself for the world. The apostle Matthew kept good records because he made sure that in his record, he added that what happened in the Garden of Gethsemane – and afterward – was so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled (Matt. 26:56a).
In this generation, the world is witnessing the prophesied global government already in operation (Dan. 2:40-43; 7:7, 19-24a; Rev. 17:1-18; 18:1-24). This global government will be ruled by the Antichrist sometime after the church is raptured (2 Thess. 2:3-10; Rev. 13:1-8; 17:13). The global government has been constructed by certain individuals who rule the United Nations (UN), and the World Economic Forum (WEF)[2]. The World Health Organization (WHO)[3] is also an agency of the global government. Many people are trying to stop the global government agenda that is using their wealth and political power to enslave the Western world. Well-known podcasters and website personalities are trying to save America and the world from the globalists by using their podcasts and websites to preach anti-globalism messages and to encourage people to resist the global agenda thinking this will defeat its agenda. Society cannot depend on the legacy media to inform them of the global government’s ultimate intentions because they are also an agency of the globalist agenda. Most informed people know what the globalist agenda is. The global elites, members of the UN, the WEF, and the WHO plan on having the Western world completely under their power by the year 2030 or sooner. The 2030 Agenda[4] is misleading as the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (Sustainable Development Program)[5] tells the world that its goal is to create prosperity for the world and planet Earth. They say this will make universal peace possible. But their end goal is to enslave humanity. They say out loud, that nobody will own anything because the global government will control all wealth and the movement of society. I take my hat off to the many podcasters and website personalities who are fighting both tooth and nail to stop the global government’s agenda. Also, to the farmers in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria, Hungary, France, and Romania who have used their farm machinery to protest the globalist's attacks on their livelihood. I give the people credit that were involved in the truckers’ protest for freedom in Canada in 2022 also. But I have to say: all the protests against the globalists will not bring about the destruction of the globalist agenda. It may seem that there are small victories here and there, it may seem that in time the global agenda will be defeated, but I say that all the hope and enthusiasm, and confidence the anti-globalist has, will be soon filled with overwhelming disappointment as the door to the Tribulation Period opens wide. I can say these things because if the globalist agenda of a new world order and all that is involved in its fulfillment does not come to pass soon, in this day and age, then how will the Scriptures come to pass that prophecy the one-world government be in power for at least seven years before Jesus comes and establishes his kingdom on earth for 1,000 years? Even former President Donald Trump’s determination to be the 47th President of the United States of America, so that he can bring a sense of sanity and responsible government back to both America and the world will fail. The powers that possess the globalists will not let that happen. The world is too close to the beginning of the seventieth week of Israel. Their seventieth week was promised to them by Yahweh in the writings of the prophets (Daniel) and Jesus prophesied that it would happen in the generation that followed the rebirth of the nation of Israel—he prophesied that there will be people who will witness both events. The Antichrist will be the global government ruler during Israel’s seventieth week. If Trump becomes the 47th President and can stop the globalist agenda, then how will the writings of the prophets come to pass? If they do not come to pass then God is a liar.
No doubt you have watched and listened to many Christian preaching and music videos, and read many newsletters and books that are associated with the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)[6] movement. In this movement, the leadership hierarchy is the people they deem as apostles and prophets. The NAR hierarchy believes they are higher in rank than evangelists, pastors, and teachers. They believe that is the way God governs his church in this day and age so that its commission in this world will be successful. Have you noticed that over the last decade, many in ministry have the title of either apostle or prophet, sometimes even both? When you hear these NAR prophets and apostles preach, they all have the same ear-tickling messages, that the world is not going to get worse but better. Their message is that God is going to remove the evil politicians and corporate leaders and replace them with Christians. They believe as church participants in spiritual warfare that their prayers will break demonic strongholds over cities and nations and the devils will flee. The Scriptures declare that peace and righteousness will come to this world but it will not happen until the millennial reign of the Lord Jesus Christ and not before (Rev. 20:1-6). The world has to go into the Tribulation Period first, which will last seven years, where Jesus (not the church) will defeat the kings of the earth, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet (Rev. 19:11-21). That victory will complete the seven-year Tribulation with the redemption of the nation of Israel as his crowning victory.
In many churches, the pastors are teaching from the pulpit that things are going to get better in this world just as the NAR prophets and apostles are preaching. They talk like the church is going to be extended for many generations to come here on this earth. They talk and believe this way for two reasons: their ministry dreams are their main goal because spiritual notability is important to them, and they reject any truth that reveals this is the final generation of the church age—that the rapture may happen today. These wayward ministers reject that the Scriptures reveal this is the final generation of the church age which began with Israel’s renewed statehood in 1948 (Matt. 24:32-34; Mk. 13:28-30; Lk. 21:29-32), and instead, they say they mean something different. From the day Israel’s statehood was renewed, some who witnessed that prophesied event will also witness the rapture of the church, the seven-year Tribulation/Israel’s seventieth week, and the 2nd coming of Jesus. After these events come to pass then the millennial reign of Israel’s Messiah will begin. This revelation seems to be hidden from the ministers who strive to have their dreams come to pass rather than God’s will come to pass. They cannot seem to comprehend that these events along with their appointed times are God’s will for the nation of Israel and the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. These disobedient ministers think their ministry dreams are the will of God, but if their ministry dreams do not line up with endtimes prophecy then their ministry dreams are not from God but another source—they are deceived by both their flesh and seducing spirits. Some pastors, who are in the lower echelon of leadership in the five-fold ministry according to the NAR movement, are also telling their congregations that revival will happen if the church unifies with the messages they preach from the pulpit. It is like they think that if their congregation is on the same page as their preaching and they are both like-minded then their positive prayers will cause God to release his miraculous power to make what they confess happen. This is new-age thinking. God will release his power into the church if their requests do not contradict what is written in the Scriptures but if they do then he will not. These same pastors tell the church that the world is not in the endtimes and that the rapture, if any, will not happen for a long time to come. If they do speak about the rapture, it is always in the negative. Their theology contradicts endtimes Bible prophecy.
Just as Jesus informed Simon Peter that his arrest and subsequent death must happen so that the Scriptures would be fulfilled, what we are witnessing with the global government agenda must also happen so that the writings of the prophets come to pass. We are living in the day and age that these endtimes prophecies are appointed to happen—the rebirth of Israel set them all in motion. Again, the following Scripture references that prophesy the global government, led by ten kings and the Antichrist, are prophecies that will come to pass in this period no matter how much they are prayed against or ignored (Dan. 2:40-43; 7:7, 19-24a; 2 Thess. 2:3-10; Rev. 13:1-18; 17:1-18; 18:1-24). The current members of the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, along with the members of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome, and the Trilateral Commission, are the people managing the operations of the global government in these prophecies. They will help the ten kings and the Antichrist rule the world during the seventieth week of Israel, just as they are ruling Western society right now in the shadows. The Lord allows these people to do what they do so that Scripture will be fulfilled. So, no matter how many false prophecies are prophesied and no matter how many false teachings are preached from behind Christian pulpits saying that things are going to get better, the church is not going to take dominion over the kingdoms of this world because the globalists will continue their agenda and not be stopped until the 2nd coming of Christ. What the world is witnessing, with the loss of freedom and property as the prophesied global government gains full control over the Western world, must happen so that what is recorded by the prophets and apostles be fulfilled. The right thing for the prophets, apostles, and pastors to do is to preach Bible prophecy and not whatever kind of good sensation they sense tingling up their spine. They need to warn the world that while things are going from bad to worse it is because the endtimes prophecy is being fulfilled, but Jesus has made a way of escape (1 Thes. 1:9b-10; 5:9). The leaders of the church must warn the church to stop loving the world and lusting the things in the world (1 Jn. 2:15). The Christian who is friendly with the world is an adulterer, he is in opposition to God, he is Gods enemy (Jms. 4:4). Prophets, apostles, and pastors must stop telling the church that everything is going to get better in this world. Because it is not. They are lying. The world is headed for the worst time in the history of mankind (Dan. 21:1; Joel 2:1-2; Mal. 4:1; Matt. 24:21; Mk. 13:19; Lk. 21:20-24).
Paul’s letters were written to guide the church in how to live for Christ Jesus. They are meant to get the church ready for the glorious appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ (Titus 2:11-15). Ever since Israel’s statehood was renewed the Scriptures reveal that it is the pastor and teacher’s responsibility to get the church ready for the rapture (Matt. 24:45-51; Lk. 12:42-46). This does not mean that the apostle, prophet, and evangelist can just sit on his hands and preach whatever he wants because he must also feed the church the right information so that they can learn to walk in purity, righteousness, and holiness. To prove my statement, below I have recorded for you Matthew 24:45 from the Greek language, along with its interpretation in the English language—Luke 12:42 interprets similarly.
The Scripture records that those whom the Lord has appointed to be: ὁ πιστὸς δοῦλος καὶ φρόνιμος (o pistós doúlos kaí frónimos) “the faithful and prudent servant” (meaning the spiritual leaders: pastors and teachers), ὃν κατέστησεν ὁ κύριος ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκετείας (ón katéstisen o kýrios epí tís oiketeías) “whom the lord made over the courtship” (the KJV says: “whom his lord hath made ruler over his household” – this is referring to the church body), δοῦναι αὐτοῖς τὴν τροφὴν ἐν καιρῷ (doúnai aftoís tín trofín en kairó) “he gives them their food in time” (this means he gives them the right information – food for their spiritual growth – at the right time; meaning in the season it is appropriate. The KJV says: “to give them meat in due season”)—" the faithful and prudent servant, whom the lord made over the courtship, he gives them their food in time.”
This food, or the right information for their spiritual growth, is referring to the information Jesus taught his disciples in Matthew 24:3-44; Mark 13:3-37; Luke 17:22-24, 26-35; 21:7-36. To break it down: the ensuing passages refer to the final decades of the church age leading up to the seventieth week of Israel/the seven-year Tribulation Period (Matt. 24:4-8; Mk. 13:5-8; Lk. 21:8-11)—the final decades of the church age began when Israel’s prophesied statehood was renewed on May 14, 1948. Next, he taught a smidgen of information about what would happen during Israel’s seventieth week as prophesied in Daniel 9:24,27 (Matt. 24:9-31; Mk. 13:9-27; Lk. 17:22-24, 31-33; 21:12-28). Then Jesus gave another hint about what the world would also be like after Israel’s renewed statehood, comparing it to the days of Noah and Lot, that will be in the final years leading up to the end of the church age, with the added warning to the church (which was not even born yet) to be ready for the rapture of the body of Christ (Matt. 24:36-44; Mk. 13:32-37; Lk. 17:26-30, 34-35; 21:34-36). Next, this is where the church, especially the faithful and prudent servants (pastors/teachers) whom the lord has made overseers of the household of God, need to pay attention: Between His teaching about the seventieth week of Israel which culminates with Israel’s Messiah’s second coming to redeem the nation of Israel (Matt. 24:27-31; Mk. 13:24-27; Lk. 21:25-28), and his warning to the church to make sure they are ready for the end of their salvation (the rapture of the church), Jesus prophesied using parabolic or symbolic language the generation that all these things will happen (Matt. 24:32-35; Mk. 13:28-31; Lk. 21:29-33).
I need to use the next few paragraphs to warn some in the church: Some pastors follow the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) ideology I mentioned above, even if they do not know it. I am not talking about whether miracles and healings are for today or not, because they are. But one of the many errors within this movement is that they believe the church has been empowered to retake dominion over the earth and all aspects of it, like government, education, and the business world. They believe that through revelation given to their apostles and prophets (the NAR believes that God has appointed them to lead the church into victory, like I mentioned above), and by their constant prayers and fasting the church can overpower this world by theocratic rule. This theology does not acknowledge the pretribulation rapture of the church or even the seven-year Tribulation Period. It seems this movement does not distinguish the rapture from the 2nd coming of Christ either. This thought does not take into consideration that the seventieth week of Israel has been appointed by Yahweh to bring salvation to the nation of Israel (Dan. 9:24) and the release of the wrath of God to judge the fallen angels and their human agents (Isa. 13:9-13; Zeph. 1:18; 3:8; Joel 3:2; Rms. 2:5, 8; Eph. 5:6; Rev. 16:14). Basically, they do not acknowledge the writings of the prophets and the book of Revelation. They seem to take many of the prophecies made about the nation of Israel in the Old Testament and attach them to the church—at least prophesies that refer to abundance, prosperity, and dominion. I am not sure if what I am about to write is a NAR ideology or just the thoughts and theology of certain men who speak from the pulpit, but some pastors teach that the Matthew 24:32-34, Mark 13:28-30, and Luke 21:29-30 passages all mean that there is going to be coming soon another outpouring of the Holy Spirit, similar to the one in the early 20th century at Azusa Street, Los Angeles. The Azusa Street revival and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit back then spread across the world with the manifestation of being baptized in the Holy Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in other languages known as tongues, like in Acts 2:1-47. The pastors that teach this theory cannot – or most likely refuse not – understand that these passages are a prophecy referring to Israel’s renewed statehood and what will happen after that event, and are not a prophecy about a second outpouring of the Holy Spirit like Azusa Street revival (I remember when I was about 2 ½ years born-again – early 1988 – and at that time I had learned that these passages were prophecies concerning Israel’s renewed statehood, and that some in that generation who witnessed that event would live to also witness the final day of the seven-year Tribulation Period; the 2nd coming of Christ—and of course they would witness the rapture of the church. A man that I knew who was going to Bible college at the time and eventually became a pastor, did not agree that these passages were a prophecy about Israel’s renewed statehood and that the rapture, the Tribulation, and the 2nd coming of Christ would soon follow. His blindness revealed to me that even those who go to school to study the Bible and then preach behind the pulpit can be deceived too).
The pastors that disagree that the Matthew, Mark, and Luke passages are references to Israel’s renewed statehood, but rather are references to a second outpouring of the Holy Spirit, believe that these passages relate to Joel 1:12, where he prophesied that the vine is dried up (which they say refers to the church), and the fig tree is withered (which they say is Israel). They also say that “all the trees” has something to do with the church growing or experiencing a revival, or something like that—as a matter of reference, tree or trees when used symbolically usually means a nation or nations, but in verse #12 it is used in the literal sense of the meaning. This false teaching attempts to spiritualize something that was meant to be literal, the vegetation harvest being destroyed (Joel 1:10-11) because of an invasion, with some kind of revival in the church in a latter-day rain—Joel did not prophesy about the church but only the nation of Israel. Much of Joel’s prophecies refer to Israel’s seventieth week period (Joel 2:1-11), the battle of Armageddon (Joel 3:1-16), and the redemption of Israel at the end of these seven horrible years (Joel 2:12-32; 3:17-21). Joel 2:28-32, mentions Israel living securely in their land with the blessings of the Lord after Israel’s seventieth week period is completed, at Christ’s 2nd coming, which Peter mentions in Acts 2:16-21 after the Holy Spirit baptized him and the church. But Peter’s speech was only a proclamation that what he and the church just experienced (the baptism of the Holy Spirit) was the beginning of what would eventually fully come to pass for the nation of Israel at the end of their seventieth-week period at their Messiah’s second coming. When Peter spoke these words, the church was Jewish. The Gentiles had not even started to receive Jesus as Lord yet—the first Gentiles who were saved and filled with the Holy Spirit (recorded in Scripture) were at Cornelius’ house when Peter went there as an act of obedience in Acts 10:24-48. So, his thoughts about Joel 2:28-32 were most likely intended for the nation of Israel believing in Jesus as their Messiah. Do you notice that in Acts 2:22-36, Peter began to proclaim to the Israelites that Jesus is their Messiah? The Israelites that heard Peter’s speech that day believed and got saved (Acts 2:37-47), but Joel 2:28-32 is primarily a prophecy about the nation of Israel receiving Jesus as their Messiah at his 2nd coming (Joel 2:30-32). At that time God will pour out his Holy Spirit upon them and they will be given spiritual gifts. They will call upon the name of Yeshua when they see him come at the end of the seven-year Tribulation Period (Joel 2:30-31; Zech. 13:9; Matt. 24:29; Rev. 1:7; 19:11-21).
Again, Matthew 24:32-34, Mark 13:28-30, and Luke 21:29-30 are not passages about a latter-day rain outpouring of the Holy Spirit but are a prophecy revealing Israel’s renewed statehood which will lead to the rapture of the church, the seven-year Tribulation Period, and the 2nd coming of Israel’s Messiah to redeem the remnant Jews. The pastors and teachers in this day and age, are supposed to be feeding or teaching this information to the οἰκέτης (oikétis) household servant (meaning the church body). It is written in the apostle John’s writings that the believer’s hope in the rapture helps to purify them: “Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when he appears, we will be like him because we will see him as he is. And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure” (1 Jn. 3:2-3, CSB). The pastors, apostles, and prophets who are resisting the rapture of the church, by not teaching it, but are teaching false information to the church, are like Simon Peter who cut off Malchus’ ear. Out of a lack of understanding of the endtimes prophecies they are trying to change the endtimes narrative that has already been written to happen. Everything we are witnessing concerning the global government and its 2030 agenda, their global reset so they can impose their one-world government, is so that the writings of the prophets will be fulfilled. It is so the prophecies in the book of Revelation will come to pass. When church leadership preaches their dominion theology (Kingdom Now theology) and teaches that a latter-rain is about to fall, or that there is another Azusa Street outpouring ready to happen, they are only doing the work of the fallen angels and their seducing spirits.
A word of warning to every pastor who is considered not a faithful and prudent servant: You are not faithful or wise if you do not get the church ready for the rapture by teaching them the right information at the appointed time. Therefore, you will be assigned a place with the ὑποκριτής (hypokritēs) hypocrites when the Lord comes and raptures the church, because you have not done as you have been commanded (Matt. 24:50-51)—Luke states that the servant in charge who has not done as the Lord has commanded will be assigned a place with the ἀπίστων (apíston) unbeliever (Lk. 12:46). You have been commanded to teach endtimes prophecy to the church to spur them on to holy and righteous living (Matt. 24:45; Lk. 12:42). If you do you will be given a great reward when the rapture occurs (Matt. 24:45-47; Lk. 12:43-44). But if you do not it is like you are afflicting the household of God with abuse, you are no different than the alcoholic and drug user who spends their time partying it up with other alcoholics and drug abusers (Matt. 24:49; Lk. 12:45b). You are wicked in the Lord’s eyes because you do not see that the rapture of the church is near in the day and age it will happen, because you choose it never comes even though you know it is supposed to happen at some point (Matt. 24:48; Lk. 12:45a). The place where the hypocrites and unbelievers will go is into the Tribulation Period. That is where the place of weeping and gnashing of teeth is.
The apostle Paul has written, that the believer who purposely lives to please his flesh will not go in the rapture—do not test that out. Those who are sexually immoral, living an impure life, those who have idols in their life no matter what that idol is, those who are controlling, those who hate a brother or sister, those who are selfish, unforgiving, and cause divisions, will not inherit the kingdom of God (Gal. 5:19-21). In other words, their salvation will not be completed at the appointed time but rather they will be cast into the Tribulation to have one last opportunity to repent. Who do you think many of the people in the Tribulation are that repent and wash their robes making them white in the blood of the Lamb (Rev. 7:13-17; 6:9-11)? The believer is commanded not to cheat or do evil to another believer, or anyone else for that matter (1 Cor. 6:4-8). This type of selfish conduct is not the righteous behavior we have been given in the new birth. The believer who lives to please the sinful nature rather than to please the Spirit will not inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor. 6:9-10). You may have lived to please your flesh before Christ saved you, but because he has given you salvation you must now walk in the Spirit and not the flesh (1 Cor. 6:11; Gal. 5:16, 24-24; 6:8).
The best thing for the anti-globalist podcasters and website personalities who are fighting the globalist agenda in human strength is just to stop. You are wasting your time. The globalist agenda will be fully implemented so that the Scriptures be fulfilled. Instead, use your internet platforms to promote Christ as Lord. If you are not saved then you need to put your faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, so that you will have the opportunity to escape this world and its coming full-blown tyranny. Live for Jesus so that he will rapture you before the Antichrist receives power from Satan to rule the Western world during the Tribulation Period.
So, what should a Christian believe? Should they believe someone who is not seeking that the Scriptures be fulfilled? Or should they seek the knowledge of endtimes prophecy and live that way? Because the writings of the prophets will to come to pass whether the Christian wants them to or not.
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