Net Neutrality

“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” (Rev. 18:3).

The following excerpt tells of a serious issue today. You can read the whole article at https://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-what-you-need-know-now.

“What would happen if we lost Net Neutrality?

The internet without Net Neutrality isn’t really the internet. Unlike the open internet that has paved the way for so much innovation and given a platform to people who have historically been shut out, it would become a closed-down network where cable and phone companies call the shots and decide which websites, content or applications succeed.

This would have an enormous impact. Companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon would be able to decide who is heard and who isn’t. They’d be able to block websites or content they don’t like or applications that compete with their own offerings.

The consequences would be particularly devastating for marginalized communities media outlets have misrepresented or failed to serve. People of color, the LGBTQ community, indigenous peoples and religious minorities in the United States rely on the open internet to organize, access economic and educational opportunities, and fight back against systemic discrimination.

Without Net Neutrality, how would activists be able to fight oppression? What would happen to social movements like the Movement for Black Lives? How would the next disruptive technology, business or company emerge if internet service providers only let incumbents succeed?”

I am by far not the leader of the pack when it comes to knowing the latest on technology, but when I visited my family yesterday at the Thanksgiving get-together, they were talking about Net Neutrality. I saw family member talk in serious tones who were normally joking around. Actually, I was glad to see the change in mood because we should all be seeing the huge storm coming our way. It’s not that I’m against joy and light-hearted conversation. But, there is time for laughter and a time for mourning, and in this time of the cleansing of the sanctuary and the investigative judgment, we are commanded to be afflicting our souls (Lev. 16:31; 23:27,32). My family members are not Adventists and have seen little reason to be concerned with the future. Eventually that will have to change. Men’s hearts will be fearing for the things coming on the earth.

Ellen White made this statement:

“Today the signs of the times declare that we are standing on the threshold of great and solemn events. Everything in our world is in agitation. Before our eyes is fulfilling the Saviour’s prophecy of the events to precede His coming: ‘Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. . . . Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.’ Matthew 24:6, 7.

     The present is a time of overwhelming interest to all living. Rulers and statesmen, men who occupy positions of trust and authority, thinking men and women of all classes, have their attention fixed upon the events taking place about us. They are watching the relations that exist among the nations. They observe the intensity that is taking possession of every earthly element, and they recognize that something great and decisive is about to take place--that the world is on the verge of a stupendous crisis.

     The Bible, and the Bible only, gives a correct view of these things. Here are revealed the great final scenes in the history of our world, events that already are casting their shadows before, the sound of their approach causing the earth to tremble and men’s hearts to fail them for fear.” PK 536, 537.

   

She made other similar statements.

“The agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones. The condition of things in the world shows that troublous times are right upon us.” (9T 11).

“The events of the future... will... come...with blinding force.... Gigantic monopolies will be formed... A few men will...grasp all the means...in certain lines of business.” (2SM 142).

“A storm is coming, relentless in its fury. Are we prepared to meet it?   

     We need not say: The perils of the last days are soon to come upon us. Already they have come. We need now the sword of the Lord to cut to the very soul and marrow of fleshly lusts, appetites, and passions.” (8T 315)

“The Bible, and the Bible only, gives a correct view of these things.” The vast majority of Protestant Americans today have no idea of their Protestant past. Not only is their history forgotten, but the original faith in the Bible has been taken from them. Over the centuries and generations, all the gifts that Jesus gave this nation have been sold for earthly trinkets during our short stay in this life.

It has been difficult to break through their hearts’ many layers of long-time unbelief toward the Bible and biblical warnings of Jesus’ soon return. Today it is as though America never knew the truth as it is in Jesus. But, the day is coming when they will be forced to open their eyes, as they see the relentless storm coming. They will know the fury of the Vatican to regain all that she lost by heaven’s exaltation of America for the protection of the world against the Vatican’s despotism and tyranny of the Dark Ages. By our Constitutional government, by its holy biblical religion, by prosperity and economic might, heaven’s very blessing to Jacob—“God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee” (Gen. 27:28,29)—, Protestant America has spared the world from the evils of the “Holy” Roman Empire. Catholicism is pagan religion with Christianity spray painted on it for Satan’s greater power to deceive all who join this imposter. A loveless, Christless blight to heart and mind, soul and body, is Catholicism’s curse to humanity.

But, how has Protestant America done since it became a nation? It had a good start, but it has lost all that it gained. Over time our faith in the Bible and our obedience to it has grown increasingly sparing. Until today even the church-going half are preaching “grace and grace only since the Ten Commandments was abolished at the cross”, and “God would never punish us.” Protestantism is in definite apostasy.

So now with our divine protection gone, our old enemy is back. And Protestant Americans may not recognize her as their enemy, but she has always recognized them as such. We are her primary nemesis. The papacy now has control of America and is directing it to rebuild a replica of the despotic Dark Ages. And the faithful protester, Protestantism, has gone mute. It has nothing more to say against the Vatican’s spiritualism, but only praises for its paganism. If Aaron called the worship of the golden calf at Sinai a feast to Jehovah, that didn’t make it so. It was still the worship of Satan; and likewise, Catholicism.

Protestantism being mute is why Revelation calls Protestantism a false prophet, “the false prophet that wrought miracles before [the beast], with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.” (Rev. 19:20, cf 13:11-14).

On Halloween, the Protestant leadership publicly made a covenant with the enemy of the Bible, which martyred millions for their love of the Bible. If that doesn’t have eerie forebodings, I don’t know what does. The Protestant denominations shook hands in covenant with the high priest of spiritualism on the day established to worship the dead!

So what does the loss of Net Neutrality have to do with the Vatican and Inquisitions?

The destruction of Net Neutrality means that a powerful means for marginalized groups to voice their concerns will no longer exist. Do the Jesuits control the world? Yes, they most certainly do. If they can assassinate U.S. Presidents and start wars, including the current war in the Middle East based on 9/11, they are in control. And if they aren’t right now surveiling our streets, its only because they choose to wait; but that day is coming. Do they control our media and telecommunications? The internet address above explains that an industry as well as possible greed is causing the war against a free internet. But, it really describes the Jesuits’ work to a “t”.

“They are a public plague, and the plague of the world . . . From the Jesuit colleges there never is sent a pupil obedient to his father, devoted to his country, loyal to his prince.”

“Every species of vice finds its patronage in them. There is no perjury, nor sacrilege, nor parricide, nor incest, nor rapine, nor fraud, nor treason which cannot be masked as meritorious beneath the mantle of their dispensation.” --Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623, a Venetian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer)

“The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power – power in its most despotic exercise – absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man [i.e., the Black Pope, the Superior General of the Jesuits].
Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms [sic] – and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses…”
--Napoleon I (i.e., Napoleon Bonaparte; 1769-1821; emperor)

Let me at this point mix with truth the rightful mercy toward many Catholic people.

“God has children, many of them, in the Protestant churches, and a large number in the Catholic churches, who are more true to obey the light to the very best of their knowledge than a large number among Sabbathkeeping Adventists who do not walk in the light. The Lord will have the message of truth proclaimed, that Protestants may be warned and awakened to the true state of things” The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials, p. 377.

I’m not speaking about all the people, but to the leadership and toward all who avoid Christ’s example of perfect obedience to His Father’s Law. And to the extent that I or anyone avoid Jesus’ perfect example shown in the Spirit of Prophecy, we are under the same imputation of guilt and blasphemy.

Nevertheless, the Jesuits are the world’s most grievous source of danger. If Protestant Americans were more awake to the present emergency, we would hear more about the Jesuits, in particular. But, Americans have been deceived and can only speak from their secular, atheistic, anti-spiritual worldview. Yet, despite their misconceptions, I can say with the beautiful tolerance of Paul,

“What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in [unbelief]…, [the truth] is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.” (Phil. 1:18).

What I mean by that is that, even with the limited worldview of the secularists, they are still standing as watchmen on the walls of Zion, communicating intelligently and clearly this Net Neutrality danger as they see it. The protest is going forward, not by the churches, but by the secular world. And for that I must rejoice.

But, Net Neutrality should teach the atheistic/agnostic Americans that hoping in humanity is not good, and never was. “Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.” (Jer. 17:5,6).

Humanity and its great inventions and solutions cannot be trusted in. And the corollary for that law is:

“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.” (Jer. 17:7,18).

The Bible is the most relevant book in the world! Its truth wins out in the end! Why do we ever doubt Jesus our Lord?! Ah! We need Him and His word so much to give us victory over the image of the beast, neo-Babylon the Great.

Net Neutrality, or internet equality and internet provider non-interference with the information that is put on the internet, though the principle is reasonable and good and righteous, could not be trusted in. This is simply because man doesn't see that Satan is behind all the evil goings on. Therefore they cannot put their finger on the problem or on the solution. Protestantism and its righteous laws have enemies that are too tenacious, too persistent, too plugged into the devil who drives his hosts of darkness. That mastermind sees his opportunity and surely seizes it, regardless of the law of the land. He scoffs at constitutions and legislation.

We have hoped in freedom of speech on the internet. We’ve been hoping in technology to keep us safe. But, Satan hates freedom of speech. He hates freedom of religion. And we don’t have Jesus to protect Protestant America anymore since, on October 31, we cut the last strand of His protection by joining the high priest of spiritualism on Halloween.

Adventism is a minority denomination and one branded as a cult. That label must have come from the Vatican because we had made that accusation against them. And we did so because it was biblical and because the world needed to hear the warning. But even Adventism has not been faithful to the Spirit of Prophecy. Our love has been set on the world instead of on implicit obedience to Jesus’ testimony through Ellen White. So now we will suffer for the brand of being a cult. With Net Neutrality gone, if we cry out from the internet will we be heard? Will my blogsite show up that sometimes has pointed to the Vatican as Satan’s number one earthly agency? In vain will Adventists cry out because the internet providers are owned by the Jesuits, which must silence Adventism, the remnant of the Reformation’s protest.

The phrase “wall of separation between church and state” came into being, not from the United States Constitution and neither from our Declaration of Independence, but via a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a group of Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut. The setting was January 1, 1802. The Federalists were acting much like the Republican Party in their political ties to the most powerful denominations. The Federalist Party wanted the government to support religion, and Jefferson wouldn’t let it happen.

The Baptists from Danbury feared persecution from the established denominations, and wrote their fears and sent them to the president. He reassured them that the Constitution would never allow government sponsorship of religion and let persecution happen. And he knew that his message to them was also a message to the Federalists. If the larger denominations were to receive funds from the government, their power to persecute would have an unbeatable advantage over the tiny Baptist denomination, which would receive only a pittance from government funding. No, the God-given United States Constitution would protect from all forms of tyranny.

But, times are changing. Today we’ve been seeing the authority of the Constitution eroded time after time. Presidential decrees override due process in Congress. Wars are fought without the consent of the people. War no longer comes with a declaration of war, as in former days; yet wars are being fought anyway, with American soldiers being dismembered and killed, with the decimation of innocent populations in the foreign lands.

School vouchers were unconstitutional because they sent federal money to parochial schools. Yet, the president still made it happen.

The Federal Reserve System is highly unconstitutional because it ignores the U.S. Constitution’s requirement for the government to spend only what it has in its treasury. Instead under the Federal Reserve Act, our federal government borrows from foreign bankers every dollar it spends and pays it back with interest. It acts like a huge credit card. This is exactly how the Jesuits gained control of the nations of Europe during the Dark Ages. And it is also how they paid for their impoverishing wars between European countries.) Slowly the wealth of the nation goes to international banks (“International banks” should be interpreted the Vatican bank.) Yet, as blasphemous as it was, not even President Kennedy could revoke the Federal Reserve Act without being assassinated.

Another infringement on the Constitution is the imprisonment of untried people who are accused of terrorism. Since 9/11 anyone accused of being a terrorist is guilty until proven innocent. Actually, even worse, one accused of terrorism is automatically guilty and has no protection from the Constitution’s Bill of Rights that gives each citizen the right of due process of law. Now, half of the Bill of Rights is gutted, because any American today can be called a terrorist. And if they are called a terrorist they have no legal protection; Habeas Corpus does not apply to them. They are put in indefinite detention without contact from the outside world. Then comes the torture to get a confession from them or to make them recant. Torture is another recent addition to the American code of military justice, and another gift of the Vatican’s Inquisitions. And false accusation is commendable to the Jesuits if it is done for the greater glory of the Church.

Like the Berlin Wall, our Constitution and Bill of Rights are falling before Jesuitry, the army of Loyola. All of these are signs of the coming time of trouble such as never was. Let no American think that this nightmare will only happen to the rest of the world. And let no one from the rest of the world think it will only happen in America. It will happen to the whole world.

“After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns…. Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet…. Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.” (Dan. 7:7,19,23).

It will be a horrific, but necessary, captivity in Babylon for God’s people because they needed its humbling and purification. But, Christlikeness is His goal of His punishing consequences. All who hold fast to Christ in the first troubles will be ready to preach the gospel in the Latter Rain. Shaken but still holding on, they will give a loud voice and their light will lighten the whole earth. Then they will go strongly through the final struggle such as never was.

“When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous.” (Isa. 24:13-16).

Once His commandment keepers are purified, and they preach the gospel for a witness to all nations, then Jesus will come to take for His own.

“I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John 14:3). “And so shall we ever be with the Lord.” (1Thess. 4:17).

“Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before His ancients gloriously.” (Isa. 24:23).

A final word to the descendants of the Reformation

The Reformers never should have involved themselves in the work of bringing out the Bible for the world to hear heavenly truth instead of humanism and spiritualism? Is that right? And no differently, the eleven disciples never should have invested 3½ years with Jesus? The disciples’ ministry with the Lord ended in the same shameful demise and the same apparent failure. “Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee.” (John 21:3). And Peter and his motley crew all went a-fishing. Their earlier work was demolished and their hopes were shattered. They were fulfilling a prophecy, “Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man that is My Fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn Mine hand upon the little ones.” (Zech. 13:7).

But the Lord met them as He did Elijah.

“And he [Elijah] came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?

And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

And He said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:

And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small Voice.

And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a Voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?” (1Ki. 19:9-13).

The final generation of the great Reformation will have Elijah’s experience. Many who have called themselves Protestants have given themselves over to the strong delusion that God sent them. “Them that perish” believe the lie because they “had pleasure in unrighteousness”, and “received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.” (2Thess. 2:10,12). They perish; they are cut off from God.

“And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” (Zech. 13:8,9).

We have our marching orders. “And the LORD said unto him [Elijah], Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus… Yet I have left Me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.” (1Ki. 19:15,18).

It may seem that all the world has wondered after the Beast of Babylon, but the Lord has many thousands who have not bowed the knee to the self-acclaimed vicar of Christ, and kissed him. The Reformation is not finished. We must read and heed the word of the Lord to Elijah, “Go, return.” Return to the work of reformation that we have temporarily abandoned. The devil has made it look like the Reformation was a mistake and an utter failure. But, the devil is not the master of the Elijahs who have sought to protect the great work of reform and of warning the people of the Lord. It is true that the worshipers of Baal and Ashtoreth have “forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword”. But, the Lord has always only had a small number to be His spokespersons. He will rally them again. He will fit them up again. They will hear a word behind them, “Return”. “Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.” (Rev. 10:11).

True, Protestantism has given up the ghost. We are spiritually slain.

“And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.” (Rev. 11:8,19).

Our faith has been desolated because for 150 years and more we have accepted the lies of Satan that the Reformation was a consummate failure. Now we are full of the Great Whore’s gift of self-indulgence, and full of the rebuke of our God. Scripture must interpret scripture. The Revelation 11:8 prophecy can only be understood by the word of the Lord to Isaiah. “These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.” (Isa. 51:19,20).

But, our Lord will turn everything around. He has prophesied a destruction of the Beast and false prophet; and it will happen. “And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.” (Rev. 11:11-13).

After the prophetic time that represents Elijah’s judgment upon the Old Testament Israel (3 1/2 days), the people who know God will awaken out of their spiritual slump. They will respond to the call from heaven and return to their work of calling the world to revival and reformation. They will be overcomers; they will obtain the victory. They will again spiritually sit with their Reformation fathers, together with Jesus on His throne, “giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.” (Col. 1:12,13). They will be able to say, God “hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (Eph. 2:6).

And the Church that has enslaved billions will be shaken to the core and will fall. Out of the rubble will come “whosoever will” “take the water of life freely” (Rev. 22:17). “The little ones” (Zech. 13:7, cf Matt. 18:2,3) will “fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come”, and they will “worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” (Rev. 14:7).

All of the priests of Baal will be routed and discomfited before the Lord at His Latter Rain, as those priests of the Beast see their plans for global human enslavement go up in smoke. They have been spiritually slain, and are ready for the lake of fire that is prepared for the Beast and the false prophet at the Lord’s return. The spirit of Ashtoreth Queen of heaven (i.e. the Holy Spirit of Mary, Queen of heaven) will not exist among the 144,000 or among the great multitude of harvested souls waiting for their Lord to return.

As those Reformers had been filled with the fury of the Lord and His rebuke, now they will be full of the glory of the Lord as the waters that cover the sea. Jesus will then have a people who are refined as gold and can stand in the day when the heavens fall.

“And, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?” (Rev. 6:12-17).

“The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?” (Isa. 33:14).

“For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” (1Thess. 4:16,17). “In My Fathers house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John 14:2,3).

Jesus will come again, as He promised. And every eye will see Him. “Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.” (Rev. 1:7).

There will be no secret rapture. There never was such a thing in the Bible. The Lord will not come like a thief in the night, but “the day of the Lord” (2Pet. 3:10) will. Jesus will return unexpectedly; but He will be seen and felt. “The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for Him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matt. 24:50,51). The Lord Jesus will be seen, heard, and felt by everyone, and feared by all the liars and deceivers. The heat will be as unbearable for the priests of Baal as it was for the Protestant people who those priests trapped alive in the World Trade Center before they demolitioned it. The priests of Baal and their high priest will know what they have done. They will experience every bit of it. Their human sacrifices to Satan will receive an equivalent judgment upon them. Thus saith the Lord. “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.” (Rev. 13:10). “If any man have an ear, let him hear.” (Vs. 9).

“The Lord knoweth them that are His” (Rev. 13:10), and therefore He knows those who aren’t His. They will call to Jesus and declare themselves worthy to enter through the gates of the city. But, He will only answer them, “I tell you, I know not whence ye are; depart from Me, all ye workers of iniquity.” (Luke 13:24). They will dare to retort, “You must be mistaken. Open the door!” (Luke 13:25). But, the Lord will humbly, but firmly confess, “I never knew you. Depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.” (Matt. 7:23). They will insist, “But we have destroyed all the cults, and cast out all the heretics and those Arian devils, for the greater glory of the Church! We killed your enemies for you!” That will be the last straw, and Jesus will give His final word, “Bind [them] hand and foot, and take [them] away, and cast” “the unprofitable servant[s] into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matt. 25:30; 22:13). “Take these priests of Beelzebub, these devouring and tormenting locusts of the fifth and sixth trumpets, and their general, their 950 prophets of the Magisterium, and their high priest of the Beast, and throw them all into the lake of fire” “burning with brimstone.” (Rev. 19:20). They “shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” (Rev. 20:10).


“And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of My mountains: and Mine elect shall inherit it, and My servants shall dwell there. And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for My people that have sought Me. But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget My holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. There fore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before Mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, My servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, My servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto My chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call His servants by another name.” (Isa. 65:9-15).

“I will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before Mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at His word; your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for My name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but He shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to His enemies.” (Isa. 66:4,5). He waited and waited for them to hear His voice, but they never would.

“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” (2Pet. 3:9-13).

My comment on a YouTube sermon

My comment on a YouTube piece that called the beast the United Nations entitled, “WE HAVE BEEN FOOLED - The Antichrist Is Already In Full Control Of Earth”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf6MduIniis

I agree with several of you that the first beast of Revelation 13 is as the Reformers said it, the papacy. The papacy is the anti-christ, which has always been against the Bible, the Christ of the Bible, and everyone who studied the Bible, loved the truth of Christ in the Bible, and lived and died by the Bible. The anti-christ is against Christ and for the great enemy of Christ, the devil. As with Babylon, the papacy is Mystery Babylon, which is why it is so hard to nail down. The devil is a mastermind of complex religious, banking, government, military systems. All who have gone into his mazes never come back out. The “eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great words”, or “great things and blasphemies” (Dan. 7:8; Rev. 13:5) indicate wisdom, the wisdom of the serpent who said, “ye shall be as gods” (Gen. 3:4)--the deepest occult. This is the son of perdition, and when the Vatican arises and “goeth into perdition” it will sweep the whole world into perdition with it. It is even now growing into the power it had during its persecuting supremacy of the Dark Ages, restoring everything it lost. And Protestant America, the false prophet, is aiding the Vatican to rebuild the old despotic power. “When the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, then Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy, and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result.” The Great Controversy, (Ellen G. White, 1888) p. 445. “Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions. While the former lays the foundation of spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome. The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.” The Great Controversy, p. 445. A week and a half ago (Halloween) the leaders of Protestantism reached across the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman Power. Through the Vatican’s Spiritual Formation the Protestant churches are stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism. Surely Satan has already ascended from the bottomless pit (the abyss) to torment and kill every conscience and every heart not perfect toward Jesus. Only the mind that is fortified with truth and grace will stand through the last great delusion.

“A week and a half ago (Halloween) the leaders of Protestantism reached across the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman Power. Through the Vatican’s Spiritual Formation the Protestant churches are stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism.” I should add that the Protestant churches’ abolishing of God’s Law is lawlessness, and the word for “perdition” is “lawlessness”. Satan is the “son of lawlessness” because he hates God’s Law. The Protestant churches’ abolition of the Law of God is what makes them “the false prophet”, as Balaam was. It gives them the same spirit that the anti-christ has, and is why both speak like the dragon. Halloween was actually 2 1/2 weeks ago. It was also the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. It was the signing of a treaty with Rome that said that “we are sorry we every caused the papacy damage by preaching the gospel. We promise to never do it again”. The treaty said that “the Reformation was a big mistake. Please forgive us, the Protestant denominations. We now all agree on the corruptions of Christianity by the great Church of Rome and her deepest occult that is covered with the thinnest veneer of Christianity-and all for peace on earth.” And immediately the Jesuits had another shooting spree against Protestant Americans. A few days ago another shooting spree, all to make it appear that Protestants are the aberration of the world and their Reformation was the cause of it all. We are learning that we should have never called the first beast of Revelation 13 the Roman Catholic Church, “the Mother of abominations in the earth” and “the anti-christ”. And for that we are paying dearly. The shooting sprees will never end until our Protestant Constitution is no more and enough human sacrifices satisfy the devil “‘for without the shedding of blood no man can be saved’”- (The Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction http://www.reformation.org/jesuit-oath.html). I wrote, “Only the mind that is fortified with truth and grace, as it is in Jesus, will stand through the last great delusion” And I must add, “the tribulation that comes with it.” Everyone who continues to call the Vatican the beast, as the Reformers called it, will be called a cult, a heretic, a terrorist, the devil incarnate, etc. But, the Lord preempted all that with His wonderful promise, “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” (Matt. 5:11,12).

(My preceding comment was partially lined out.)

I’m not sure why the line-outs happened, but it didn’t come from me. what I wrote still stands: “...And immediately the Jesuits had another shooting spree against Protestant Americans. Two days ago another shooting spree, all to make it appear that Protestants are the aberration of the world and their Reformation was the cause of it all. We are learning that we should have never called the first beast of Revelation 13 the Roman Catholic Church, “the Mother of abominations in the earth” and “the anti-christ”. And for that we are paying dearly. The shooting sprees will never end until our Protestant Constitution is no more and enough human sacrifices satisfy the devil ‘“‘for without the shedding of blood no man can be saved’”’- (The Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction http://www.reformation.org/jesuit-oath.html).” Let me also say that when the Jesuits orchestrate the secret rapture (disappearance of people and planes falling to earth) and hundreds of millions of Americans believe that they were left behind after all of their church-going, they will be ready to obey everything their religious leaders tell them. They will be beyond reason. And when the last half of the seven year tribulation period sees a president who goes from the nicest contribution to the meanest dictator then everyone who believed in the secret rapture/seven year tribulation scenario, as opposed to the biblical truth of Rome being behind all the delusions, will have only one choice but to exalt the Church of Rome and enforce her decrees.

Bible prophecy nothing to do with politics

Notice the similarities in the fourth of the series of four kingdoms. This indicates that the fourth kingdom would tread down the earth—that is, Imperial Rome and the Holy Roman Empire.

“And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.” (Dan. 2:40,41).

The fourth kingdom would continue so long via the Dark Ages monarchies.

“And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.” (Dan. 2:43-45).

This wicked power would remain in power for 1,260 years.

“After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” (Dan. 7:7,8).

“Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.” (Dan. 7:23-27).

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.

And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.” (Dan. 12:4-7).

“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 [the first three animals of the Daniel 7:2-6 nighttime vision]: 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.

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.” (Rev. 13:1-7).

“He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.” (Rev. 13:10).

“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear.” (Rev. 13:8,9).

“But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” (Rev. 11:2,3).

“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” (Rev. 12:3-6).

“And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.” (Rev. 12:13-15).

A time, and times, and half a time = a time, times, and an half = a time and times and the dividing of time = a thousand two hundred and threescore days = forty and two months. Each of these periods of time are the same in length—a thousand, two hundred, and sixty prophetic days, or literal years. This significant time prophecy must be studied and not thrown out since it points out God’s biggest enemy, the world’s biggest enemy, and God’s people’s Goliath persecutor. And it isn’t only a last day enemy. It began in Paul’s day. It wouldn’t come while the empire of Rome remained in place. Yet in Paul’s day it was already working toward its ultimate appearance.

This destructive papal extension of the fourth kingdom was seeking to overthrow the civil government in Paul’s day….

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

And now ye know what [holds back] that he might be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he [Imperial Rome] who now [holds back the Holy Roman Empire] will [hold back the Roman papacy], until he [Imperial Rome] be taken out of the way.” (2Thess. 2:3-7).

Yet it would also exist all the way to the day of Christ’s return. Only then would it be finally destroyed for its wickedness and deception.

“And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” (2Thess. 2:8-10)

Here is the origin of the word, Vatican.

https://www.meriam-webster.com/dictionary/vatic

“Vatic has Latin Roots

Some people say only thin lines separate poetry, prophecy, and madness. We don’t know if that’s generally true, but it is in the case of vatic. The adjective derives directly form the Latin word vates, meaning ‘seer’ and ‘prophet’. But that Latin root is, in turn, distantly related to the Old English wōth, meaning ‘poetry’, the Old High German wuot, meaning ‘madness’, and the Old Irish fáith, meaning both ‘seer’ and ‘poet’.

Origin and Etymology of vatic

Latin vātes, vātis, ‘prophet, seer’ (akin to Gaulish—Greek spelling—ouā teis ‘those performing sacred rites,’ Old Irish fáith ‘seer, prophet,’ fáth ‘prophecy, prophetic wisdom,’ Welsh gwawd ‘song of praise, satire’; Gothic wods ‘possessed,’ Old English wōd ‘raging, senseless,’ Old Norse óðr ‘frantic, furious,’ all going back to Germanic *wōd-; Old High German wuot ‘rage, frenzy,’ going back to Germanic *wodi-; Old English wōth ‘sound, noise, voice, song,’ Old Norse óðr ‘mind, sense, song, poetry,’ both going back to Germanic *wōpa-)”

With so much said in the Bible concerning this peculiar enemy of God and the many 1,260 year prophecies associated with it, shouldn’t every Bible believer desire to understand this enemy of divine light that slew the saints of God during the Dark Ages and will arise to repeat its past? Yes, all during the earliest Dark Ages because it had begun in Paul’s day and was ready to do its work of leading the world into perdition, possession of the demonic spirits, and eternal damnation. The Dark Ages began with the church receiving false religion and false worship into its makeup. Then its development into a most deceptive, sophisticated, Christianized form of spiritualism expanded with its assumption over the Western Roman Empire. In the year 538 AD Emperor Justinian gave the new pope the throne as prosecutor of all state criminals and persecutor of all church heretics. The final say of all things ethical and spiritual, the pope was incontrovertible, infallible. For didn’t the scriptures say, “He that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man” (1Cor. 2:15)? The Vatican [“wild”, “raging”, “madness” “prophesying”] became the sole judge of all temporal and religious controversies, the highest Chief Justice to determine all matters earthly and heavenly. The pope became the revelator of “the things of God” (1Cor. 2:11), the things that “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man” (1Cor. 2:9). The very seat of Christ in the heart came under the direction of Satan. “The dragon” (Rev. 13:2), “that [ancient] serpent, called the Devil and Satan” gave the papacy “his power, and his seat, and great authority.” (Rev. 13:2). Thus, Daniel’s vision became a reality, “Yea, he magnified himself even to the Prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down.” (Dan. 8:11).

The Vatican doesn’t want the true information to come out so that she can control world sentiment toward her and toward Bible Protestantism.

“She made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” (Rev. 14:8). “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” (Rev. 18:3).

“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.” (Rev. 13:3).

“The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” (Rev. 17:8).

The beast spoken of in Revelation 17 is the same one in Revelation 13. In both prophecies the whole world wonders after him. In both prophecies the beast has seven heads and ten crowns. Both beasts blaspheme God.

The period when the beast “is not” (Rev. 17:8) is when one of his heads receives his deadly wound. Then when he “yet is”, and “shall ascend out of the bottomless pit” (Rev. 17:8) tells the same event when “his deadly wound was healed” (Rev. 13:3). After that when he “shall…go into perdition” (Rev. 17:8) speaks of the time when “all the world wondered after the beast” (Rev. 13:3).

That last manifestation of the beast must also be the eighth king after a series of seven kings that the beast’s seven heads represent. “And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.” (Rev. 17:10). The heads represent leaders of the same organization that razed all fear of the one true God.

Truth is destructive evidence against her delusive wickedness. So she has moved upon the Protestant leaders and pastors to hush up the investigative reporting of her history. No longer must anything be said about what she did during the Medieval persecutions and wars. It must be that none of her despotism gets placed before the people to warn them.

Twice now, when I have tried to awaken people to the dangers lurking in today’s political realm I was pushed back and accused of being political. In each instance the person with whom I was speaking knew I am a Christian and that I love Jesus. I tried to point them to the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation. But they stopped me because they didn’t understand those key books of the Bible. In their minds my presentation of the great enemy of God was only my opinion, not the Lord’s authoritative, biblical warning. Therefore, I was seen as being political. All they want to talk about is “the gospel”. They want to pray and then speak peace; and nothing more. But, there is more to the Bible than the gospel. To evade the Bible prophecies isn’t handling the word of God honestly.

po·lit·i·cal [puh-lit-i-kuhl]

ADJECTIVE

1. of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.

2. of, relating to, or connected with a political party: a political campaign.

3. exercising or seeking power in the governmental or public affairs of a state, municipality, etc.: a political machine; a political boss.

4. of, relating to, or involving the state or its government: a political offense.

5. having a definite policy or system of government: a political community.

According to this definition, being political is speaking for or against a political party or candidate/politician. Protestants, please know that political speaking isn’t the same thing as exposing God’s number one earthly enemy and Satan’s number one earthly servants.

Truly the protest is over if we can’t study with others regarding the past, present, and future of the papacy. Who should we suppose brought in this new treatment of Bible’s prophetic warnings with accusations that the speaker is being a real Christian but only wanting to be political? The doctrine that Bible prophecy isn’t part of the gospel because it doesn’t tell about sweet Jesus, the doctrine that disallows Bible prophecy because it causes conflict and controversy, the doctrine that the Bible is dangerous because of its prophecies against the Church of Rome, must come from the organization that the prophecies are pointing to.

Subtle, oh, so subtle Serpent! Subtle papacy! Subtle army of the papacy, the Jesuits! I believe we have traced back the trail of evidence for this new doctrine within Protestantism. The Reformation may appear to be finished, but obviously the Counter-Reformation is still going in full force and speed. And since the Counter-Reformation is in full force, so must the Protestant Reformation still be in full force, or there would be no reason for the Counter-Reformation attacks on the Protestant religion and the Jesuit mass shootings of Protestant Americans.

The couriers of truth seen in Revelation 11, the two witnesses, are faithful throughout the Dark Ages. They are feared by the world for all the terror and plagues that they bring against the Church for its Christendom-wide apostasy. Yet, when the time of their prophecy is over, after the 1260 year period, they are overcome by the beast that ascends from the bottomless pit. They give in to the wine of fornication with the god of this world and his one world false religion. They are “killed” by his falsehoods and lay under the hot wrath of God. This we see in Revelation 11:7-11.

“And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.” (Rev. 11:7-11).

The faithful lineage of the mighty and holy people of the Book finally lose their hold on the truth. This prophecy is modeled after and taken from the experience of ancient Israel in Jeremiah’s and Isaiah’s day.

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in Mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” (Jer. 17:1-10).

“… O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine … even the dregs of the cup of My fury.” (Isa. 51:17-22).

This is the condition of Protestantism that has bowed to the agenda of the Roman papacy. In the prophecy it looks like the work of God in the earth is forever ended. The servants of God had continually stood before Him in order to do His work of saving those He had reserved.

“Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before Me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as My mouth.” (Jer. 15:19).

At this point in the Revelation 11 prophecy the Protestant witnesses’ future looks hopeless. But, so did Israel’s in Isaiah’s day. Their failure is seen in the whole context of Isaiah’s message; but the Lord’s plan for Israel was not finished. And neither is He finished with Protestantism. This failure and disastrous defeat would only be His work to humble His children and raise them up again as “an exceeding great army.”

They had been dead in sin, asleep to holy things. But the God of mercy saw their ultimate repentance and brought them up again from their spiritual graves.

“The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

And He said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, Thou knowest.

Again He said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

Then said He unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.” (Eze. 37:1-10).

No, Jesus wasn’t finished with His people. He hadn’t given up on them. He still saw something in them that hoped in Him. And He graciously took them back to Himself again to finish the war against His adversary. The Revelation 11 prophecy says that the same will happen to Protestantism.

“And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.” (Rev. 11:11-14).

The Latter Rain will fall upon His Protestant people and their Remnant Adventists. Despite their giving in to the super sweet offer, Satan and all of his earthly hosts cannot prevent the resilience that Jesus had put into the heart of His great Reformation movement when He poured His Spirit upon the Reformers.

Here is the original message from Isaiah.

“Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: He will comfort all her waste places; and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Hearken unto Me, My people; and give ear unto Me, O My nation: for a law shall proceed from Me, and I will make My judgment to rest for a light of the people.

My righteousness is near; My salvation is gone forth, and Mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon Me, and on Mine arm shall they trust.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but My salvation shall be for ever, and My righteousness shall not be abolished.

Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My Law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but My righteousness shall be for ever, and My salvation from generation to generation.

Awake, awake, put on strength, O Arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art Thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

Art Thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

I, even I, am He that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

And forgettest the LORD thy Maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if He were ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is His name.

And I have put My words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of Mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art My people.

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of His people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of My fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that My people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and My name continually every day is blasphemed.

Therefore My people shall know My name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am He that doth speak: behold, it is I.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!” (Isa. 51:1—52:7).

“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.

He has sounded from the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.”

Whether or not everyone today stands faithful to the end, the truth will go to the end. The insurance policy for the Reformation is signed by the power of the Highest. The Advent movement, the remnant of the Reformation, will sail through to the end. The two witnesses prophecy makes that clear. The Lord Jesus isn’t finished with His Protestant peoples.

“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever.

And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great power, and hast reigned.

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.” (Rev. 11:15-19).

So in the end the Lord says that His people will win in the war with Satan and his powers of earth.

Let’s not listen to the voice of the dragon (Satan), the beast (the Vatican), or the false prophet (apostate Protestantism). The Lord promises to fight for His movement of truth and against the threatening movement of falsehood and deception and sin. We are not being political by exposing the great sins of the religious authorities of our day, any more than the prophets, apostles, and reformers have done. The true political people are the ones who have united church with state, the true religion of Christianity with the arm of flesh. Even if they speak sweet nothings into the hearts of the unredeemed, those sweet nothings are deceiving. They are handling the word of God deceitfully. They are lawless in their gospel. Their religion is worldly.

“Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech….

But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.” (2Cor. 3:12,14-4:11).

The Bible’s warning to this last generation on earth must not go unheeded. The warning’s bad news is as much a part of the gospel as is the good news of Christ’s self-sacrificing, self-effacing, self-forgetful love and acceptance toward us. Let the bad news go unheeded and the good news will be lightly regarded. Then all who accept Satan’s deception to disregard the bad and good news of the gospel will “be cut off” (Rom. 11:22). “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil^H7451 [H7451 “adversity”, “affliction”, “bad”, “calamity”]: I the LORD do all these things.” (Isa. 45:7). Let no one stop the Lord’s warning of His coming punishment and rectifying persecution by decrying it hate speech or political speechifying or illegal proselytizing. The truth will march on though the resurrected fourth empire call it uncouth and a falsehood. If it is hidden from people whose own eyes “they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them” (Matt. 13:15), then they will be victims of the final delusion. “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” (Rev. 18:3). We must not give up on them, for their sake.

“Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,

In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;

Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight,

And the choice goes by forever, ‘twixt that darkness and that light.

Then to side with truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust,

Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and ‘tis prosperous to be just;

Then it is the brave man chooses while the coward stands aside,

Till the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.

By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, Thy bleeding feet we track,

Toiling up new Calv’ries ever with the cross that turns not back;

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth,

They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the truth alone is strong;

Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong;

Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown,

Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.” Hymn 606.