A published possible introduction to the Seven Year Pre-trib Secret Rapture hoax

A while back I posted a scenario that seemed very probable, that of a secret rapture fraud. I never receive comments, but I can see how many people around the world read my blog. (I never look at readers’ URLs or other private internet addresses, because Blogger warned that if I did, then the readers would be able to know that I did, and then ban me from their blog reading. I don’t want that, and besides, I don’t need to know who is reading my posts. I do occasionally look at the numbers, and that is all.)

So, this blog, Prophecy and Politics, while not as popular as my main blog, TruthInvestigate, did have a steady readership. That is, until I wrote of a secret rapture fraud. Then most readers never came back. And that probably was because I added a table with the scenario that I conjectured might play out. And that scenario, which was a prediction, had future dates.

I knew that using dates for predicting the future was a big no-no, because Jesus said that no man knows the day or hour of His coming, or really anything related to His coming. But I used dates anyway. I also felt that leaving out dates made the whole scenario look fictitious and fairytale-like. So I chose to put in dates in the hopes that, even if the secret rapture hoax concept were rejected because I broke the rule of “no dates for prophetic interpretations”, at least the scenario would leave a strong impression of a reality in the minds of the readers.

After that post my readership plummeted. I was sad for that. But I realize that most importantly, the readers who ingested my concept of a secret rapture, even though it is not biblical, could very easily be faked in accordance with the “Left Behind” doctrine, which is very widely believed among our Evangelical brothers and sisters. I still believe in a future Secret Rapture hoax. If anyone copied that previous post with its table explaining my expectation of a faked Secret Rapture, then I leave a simple warning: The dates cannot be relied upon in any way. But, the way I laid it out could very possibly happen.

I only wanted to plant a seed of what to watch out for. Even if a faked Secret Rapture doesn’t happen, the post wasn’t a waste of my time or the Adventist readers’. But, if it does happen, then Adventist readers won’t be completely thrown for a loop and get swept up in the spiritually lethal, popular current of the Bible reality of Christ’s return (although it is a complete mistake about the true, biblical description of His return), because the Adventists always tossed out the Secret Rapture as an impossibility simply because it isn’t biblical. Many, many things that are not true and biblical will comprise the final deceptions and delusions. I quote several verses that tell it all:

“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.” (Matt. 24:4).

“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.” (Matt. 24:24).

“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains….” (Matt. 24:15,16).

“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” (2Tim. 3:13).

“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. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie…” (2Thess. 2:8-11).

“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.” (Rev. 13:11-14).

This last text from Revelation shows that the final deception to reinstate the Papacy of the Dark Ages will involve great deceptions, even including fire the sky (or from above the outer regions of our atmosphere). This event—if literal—would be what causes the United States to accept the work of the second beast for the purpose of leading the Protestant Americans to make the replica of the old papacy, and then breath life into it, per verse 15.

I can’t think of a faster way to drive the Christian world to strong-arm the United States legislature to pass a Sunday law than for everyone to have “witnessed” the lightning quick (i.e. invisible) Secret Rapture. Such a lightning quick hoax could also easily use lightning. Recently, weather modification has had placed within its reach the possibility of creating lightning—and gargantuan lightning 100 times greater than natural lightning. (See my July 12, 2019 post, “Fire from the sky”.) And such man-made lightning, by harnessing the ionosphere through the Tesla principle, could imitate the sudden event that has been popularized since the 1970s, the “blink of an eye” rapid appearing of Christ and the taking away of millions of people.

But the Pre-Trib Secret Rapture is connected with another unbiblical falsehood—the Seven Year Tribulation period that follows the invisible rapture hoax. And at the center of that unbiblical period is the turntable event when a beloved Mr. Perfect world leader rips the mask off his face, and there, to the chagrin and horror of Christendom, they see the devil incarnate. That is where I believe the following article below may well give some input.

I don’t accept any of the following article’s use of polarizing speech that is taking place in the religio-political world of Evangelical America today. In my mind, everyone and anyone who involves himself in politics and, especially, religio-politics, is falling into the deepest chasm of Jesuit deception. I warn everyone I see of this, whether they are on the religious side of the questions or the irreligious side. And religion-irreligion is the line that both sides are lining up behind. It is simple the Hegelian principle being used on Protestant America to divide and ultimately to conquer our holy Protestantism inheritance. This conquest of our holy religion sticks a knife in my heart as I watch the destruction of our religion’s strongest protection against our enemy from the Dark Ages. We are literally watching that ancient power direct this Protestant nation set up its own people, from both sides of the religious divide, to lose their soul when they join or fight against the Religious Right. In the end, Protestantism completely disappears, and the Vatican and its Jesuit deceivers from the bottomless pit win the long war against the Bible, and faith in the only true God and His only begotten Son. And the Papacy also wins over our Protestant U.S. Constitution.

So, without further adieu the article below that might be the introductory thrust to prepare the religious American mind with the idea that, one day soon, an “Antichrist” will rip the Mr. Perfect mask off his face:

A Christian theology professor has warned conservative evangelicals who believe President Donald Trump is like the biblical Cyrus that he’ll “turn on them in a moment.”

Roger E. Olson, professor of Christian Theology of Ethics at George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, wrote Monday on his blog that some Trump-backing evangelicals see him as “something of a messianic figure.”

He clarified that he’s not talking about everyone who voted for Trump, but specifically evangelicals who “lionize Trump as a kind of new national messiah” and see him as “our Cyrus,” referring to the biblical king.

“Cyrus was, of course, the emperor of Persia who died in 530 BC. During his approximately thirty year reign he released the Hebrew people in exile to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple that was destroyed earlier by the Babylonians,” the theologian described.

“He is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible several times and always favorably. There is one obscure passage in Isaiah that even attributes messianic qualities to him.”

Olson pointed out that the Hebrew people did not consider Cyrus one of them, but saw him as a powerful ally that was raised up by God to deliver them from bondage. He noted that some evangelicals, in much the same way, believe that God is using Trump to deliver them from persecution.

“These people see themselves as a remnant of the conservative Christianity that once made America truly great,” he argued.

“Their view of American history is a downward slide toward not true pluralism but suppression of traditional Christian values,” he continued.

“They truly believe that Trump, even if he is immoral and criminal (the latter has not been proven, of course), was raised up by God to reverse the trend in American culture toward total decadence and hedonism. But even more, they believe God raised up Trump not because he is one of them but because he hears them and will put a stop to efforts by government bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. (e.g., in the Department of Education) to persecute Christians.”

Olson argued that it must be examined whether U.S. internal public policy truly is anti-Christian, however, and whether Trump really had good intentions toward evangelicals.

He said that when it comes to the second question, he “very much doubts” it has a positive answer.

“Personally, speaking only for myself, I believe President Trump only cares about power. I have not seen any real principles — other than ‘Make American great again’ (with an implied ‘and me, too’). I strongly suspect that he is manipulating his conservative Christian ‘base’ and would turn on them in a moment if it suited his agenda to be powerful,” he said.

There have been a variety of Christian and non-Christian personalities that have alluded to Trump being a Cyrus-like figure.

Those include author, speaker, and political strategist Lance Wallnau; Fox News host and former judge Jeanine Pirro; and even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has hailed Trump for his support for Israel.

Evangelical leaders, such as Anne Graham Lotz, the daughter of famous evangelist Billy Graham, have likened Trump to another biblical king, Nebuchadnezzar, who at first oppressed believers, but then turned to faith in God.

Others, such as Michael Brown, president of FIRE School of Ministry, have argued that only God can say whether Trump can be compared to Cyrus or Nebuchadnezzar, if either.

“As the saying goes, let God be God, meaning, it’s up to Him to do what He wants to do. Only He can answer this question for sure,” Brown wrote in an March 2016 op-ed in The Christian Post.

True gospel based on the Law

“    I saw that the Spirit of the Lord has been dying away from the church. The servants of the Lord have trusted too much to the strength of argument, and have not had that firm reliance upon God which they should have. I saw that the mere argument of the truth will not move souls to take a stand with the remnant; for the truth is unpopular. The servants of God must have the truth in the soul. Said the angel: ‘They must get it warm from glory, carry it in their bosoms, and pour it out in the warmth and earnestness of the soul to those that hear.’ A few that are conscientious are ready to decide from the weight of evidence; but it is impossible to move many with a mere theory of the truth. There must be a power to attend the truth, a living testimony to move them.  {1T 113.2} 

     I saw that the enemy is busy to destroy souls. Exaltation has come into the ranks; there must be more humility. There is too much of an independence of spirit indulged in among the messengers. This must be laid aside, and there must be a drawing together of the servants of God. There has been too much of a spirit to ask, ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ Said the angel: ‘Yea, thou art thy brother’s keeper. Thou shouldest have a watchful care for thy brother, be interested for his welfare, and cherish a kind, loving spirit toward him. Press together, press together.’ God designed that man should be openhearted and honest, without affectation, meek, humble, with simplicity. This is the principle of heaven; God ordered it so. But poor, frail man has sought out something different--to follow his own way, and carefully attend to his own self-interest.  {1T 113.3} 

     I asked the angel why simplicity had been shut out from the church, and pride and exaltation had come in. I saw that this is the reason why we have almost been delivered into the hand of the enemy. Said the angel: ‘Look ye, and ye shall see that this feeling prevails: Am I my brother’s keeper?’ Again said the angel: ‘Thou art thy brother’s keeper. Thy profession, thy faith, requires thee to deny thyself and sacrifice to God, or thou wilt be unworthy of eternal life; for it was purchased for thee dearly, even by the agony, the sufferings, and blood of the beloved Son of God.’” Testimonies for the church, vol. 1, p. 113,114.

This very first testimony is a powerful warning to us, the last generation. It must take first priority in all of our teaching and warning the world of approaching chaos and darkness.

The next two statements keep coming back to my conscience to show me my lack. “By contemplating and worshiping their own conceptions, the heathen had lost a knowledge of God, and had become more and more corrupt.”  {DA 35.2}. “Before faith came, we were kept under the law….” (Gal. 3:23).

In order to protect His children from the encroaching heathen darkness, Jesus kept them under His Law, so that they would get caught up in their own conceptions. Only the high and holy Law of God is inspired by Him who is the truth. Only His pure words devoid of sin and self-pleasing, but reproving and rebuking in love, can keep the Advent movement from straying off into the astral planes of corrupted human conceptions.

And then, “when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law” (Gal 4:4). “A body hast Thou prepared Me.” (Heb. 10:5). Jesus brought again His justifying grace to those whose pride was grounded down by the Law. And to ensure that consciences were still open to the Law when the Messiah would appear, God sent his forerunner John the Baptist to restore the forceful language of the Law in condemning sin. Without this the Messiah couldn’t come with His Father’s embassage of peace. “The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.” (Luke 16:16). “Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.” (Gal. 3:23).

In the end Christ’s apostles could safely bring the gospel’s science of salvation to the world without any fear of fanaticism, without “exaltation coming into the ranks”, “an independence of spirit indulged in”, or “a spirit to ask, ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’”, “that we should remember the poor” (Gal. 2:10). “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.” (Gal. 3:24).

And therefore the testimonies were our schoolmaster to bring the Adventists unto Christ that we might be kept safe from fanaticism, and in the end be convicted, humbled, repentant, justified, sanctified, and sealed by the Spirit. They would “get it [the truth and grace gospel] warm from glory, carry it in their bosoms, and pour it out in the warmth and earnestness of the soul to those that hear.” And, as little children, we could “Press together”, “Press together”.

So much propaganda

I've never seen such exquisitely produced propaganda in order to deceive the whole world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2UZdby_emU

But, if you read 2Peter 3:10-12, you know that there is only one second Advent of Christ, not two theologically situated at either end of a seven year tribulation period. So, whether or not the first coming is secret and invisible, or visible, as in this video, the true, sole, biblical return of Christ will leave the world in a total shambles.

"Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of His fierce anger." (Isa. 13:9-13).

"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?" (2Pet. 3:1-12).

The spreading abomination of desolation

Maybe soon I will be considered a terrorist because I have warned of the approaching Jesuit papacy, Jesuit New World Order, and Jesuit New Age/world religion/ethnic pagan culture world. I have used this blog to help people see the signs of the new Jesuit controlled world.

We need to watch for more than the weather and nature to fully obey Jesus’ command,

“Take heed that no man deceive you.” (Matt. 24:4).

And,

“For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left His house, and gave authority to His servants, and to every man His work, and commanded the porter to watch.

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the Master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

Lest coming suddenly He find you sleeping.

And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.” (Mark 13:34-37).

We need to study Bible prophecy and see the prophecies being fulfilled in our day, right before our eyes.

The Jesuit papacy is the Revelation 17 eighth head of the Beast power that ascends from the bottomless pit of Hades and goes into perdition. It is the grand finale of Satan’s attempt to restore the great apostasy that occurred in the years following Noah’s deliverance from the worldwide flood. Ham, Cush, and Nimrod created a 180° reversal of the righteous government that Noah established in the new world.

Noah labored to form a world that would never again be destroyed by God. But, not everyone was surrendered to God and His Law. A reaction took place. Out of that reaction were born the basest iniquity and debauchery, prostitution and slavery, dictatorial empires and crimes of the state, necromancy and spiritualism, idolatrous nature worship. Ham, Cush, Nimrod, and his wife Semiramis resurrected all that caused the earth’s destruction, which was everything we read in Romans 1:21-32, 2Tim. 3:1-5, Galatians 5:19-21.

Those last three lengthy texts can be condensed into one,

“Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.” (Eph. 4:18,19).

Read these texts and you will know what is coming to this world—legalized or legislated lawlessness, lawlessness on steroids. Are you interested? It will be the strong delusion that will make part of the 8 billion people decide to go with the Lord all the way, or throw themselves into the circus atmosphere. It is no wonder Isaiah prophesied, “For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people.” (Isa. 60:2). The Bible says that most of the 8 billion will go head or heels, or will go along without a fight. Which way will we go?

This is the perdition that the eighth head of the Beast power brings up from the bottomless pit. This eighth head is the original head of the Beast—the empire of Nimrod. In the long ago, it received a wound by a sword, that is, the sword of Shem. And like the sword of the Bible and of Napoleon, which wounded the second edition of Nimrod’s departure from truth, that is, that wounded the Roman papacy, the sword that wounded the first departure was more than Shem’s physical, state sword. That sword also carried the authority of the Lord God who put Noah on the throne of the world. Noah was heaven’s authorized viceroy of Christ, not Ham, Cush, or Nimrod. 

Both spiritual and carnal swords were the instruments of Providence to crush the serpent’s head. but, it came back to life. The first edition of the Beast returned to power in Imperial Rome because Israel failed to spread the righteousness of Jehovah around the world. Instead they got caught up in worshiping the first edition of the Beast along with the heathen nations. Maybe you know where I am going with this thread. 

Yes, the second edition has returned to life and power again. It was loosed from its imprisonment in the bottomless pit in 1849 during the fifth trumpet of the seventh seal. And, once again the people of God, the Protestant churches—Protestant America has failed to stop its resurgence from its prison. The churches, Protestant and Adventist movements, like the ancient people of God, Israel and Judah, have been unable to stop the Beast’s second and final resurgence. Why the failure?

Because you can’t kill something you worship. Both groups have gotten caught up in worshiping the Beast’s pagan celebration, its praise music, its cheap grace doctrine, and its Spiritual Formation piety. Isn’t that what the people of God are doing today in the Protestant and Adventist churches? Maybe the eighth head is already here? Are we going to go along with the eighth Beast head with the rest of the 8 billion people? Or resist? Are we sure we’ll resist it, if we we'll been worshiping the Beast for so long? We need the grace of God to start resisting now. We need much ingestion of the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy. We need to know Jesus.

The seven heads of the Beast are extra heads that have the Beast’s religion and dictatorial state, and thus the Beast’s spirit. These are the empires around the Mediterranean (Middle of the earth) Sea, and have been used by Satan to keep his place in the fundamental thinking of humanity. The seven heads are ancillary heads to the Beast. The eighth head is the original head described as, “the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” (Rev. 17:8).

That eighth head is the Beast power that joins all the kings of the earth together at the very end.

“And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for He is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with Him are called, and chosen, and faithful.” (Rev. 17:12-14).

So here is an article from SDA pastor, Hal Mayer. It is why I’m wondering how much longer I’ll have this blog.

https://ktfnews.com/fbi-wants-tech-track-social-media-criminals-terrorists/

“FBI Wants Tech to Track Social Media for Criminals and Terrorists

Tuesday August 20th, 2019

Raw Conservative Opinions, by Brandi Vincent: The Federal Bureau of Investigations aims to acquire access to a ‘social media early alerting tool’ that will help insiders proactively and reactively monitor how terrorist groups, foreign intelligence services, criminal organizations and other domestic threats use networking platforms to further their illegal efforts, according to a request for a proposal amended this week.

‘With increased use of social media platforms by subjects of current FBI investigations and individuals that pose a threat to the United States, it is critical to obtain a service which will allow the FBI to identify relevant information from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms in a timely fashion,’ the agency said in the RFP.

‘Consequently, the FBI needs near real-time access to a full range of social media exchanges in order to obtain the most current information available in furtherance of its law enforcement and intelligence missions.’

Though the request was initially released on July 8, the FBI amended it this week to extend the relevant dates: The agency’s answers to vendors moved from July 25 to Aug. 7, and the proposal due date shifted from Aug. 8 to Aug. 27. Though the original proposal listed the anticipated award date as Aug. 30, it could be pushed back due to these changes.

Still, the proposal comes at a time when society is growing accustomed to the painful reality of the weaponization of social media outlets to cause harm. Earlier this year, a mass shooter in New Zealand opened fire at two mosques killing 50 people and injuring many more – he posted a 74-page manifesto and images of his weapons online ahead of the attack and livestreamed the shooting directly on Facebook Live. And the shooter who killed three people at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California Sunday also previously posted online about an 1890 racist manifesto, which has been deemed a ‘staple among neo-Nazis and white supremacists on extremist sites.’

‘It is an acknowledged fact that virtually every incident and subject of FBI investigative interest has a presence online,’ the bureau said in the project’s statement of objectives.

‘The mission critical exploitation of social media enables the Bureau to proactively detect, disrupt, and investigate an ever growing diverse range of threats.’

The FBI ultimately wants an interactive tool that can be accessed by all headquarters

division and field office personnel via web browsers and through multiple devices. Interested vendors should have the capabilities to offer the agency the ability to set filters around the specific content they see, send immediate and custom alerts and notifications around ‘mission-relevant’ incidents, have broad international reach and a strong language translation capability and allow for real-time geolocation-based monitoring that can be refined as events develop.

And when it comes to specific persons-of-interest and suspects already involved in open investigations, the bureau wants the ability to obtain their full-scope social media profiles from across the various platforms and insights into their affiliations with various groups across the world wide web.

‘Items of interest in this context are social networks, user IDs, emails, IP addresses and

telephone numbers, along with likely additional accounts with similar IDs or aliases,’ the agency said. . . .

Our Comment:

Surveillance was a feature of Jezebel’s war on the sons of the prophets. In fact, every government that persecutes a sector of society has used surveillance to detect individuals from that particular sector. This FBI proposal is preparing the way for persecution against God’s people.

Prophetic Link:

‘For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.’ 1 Kings 18:4.”

Dear faithful blog readers, time is short.

We need much prayer for conviction of sin, and we need repentance. We need to know Jesus and His love and patience with weak and sinful people. We need to know the Jesus who is touched with the feelings of our infirmities. We need to take our corrected conception of His love and mercy, and help others in their misconceptions of Jesus and the Father. And we need to give up on Nimrod’s evil partnership with the Trinity god. We need to have fellowship with the Father and His only begotten Son Godhead. (See my blog, Semi-Arian Sabbatarian, and go to SDA pastor Nader Mansour, www.revelation1412.org.)

Protestant America soon to suffer at the hands of the Jesuit king of Babylon

“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.… And the beast that was, and is not, even he… goeth into perdition.” (Rev. 17:8,11).

In three different visions Revelation explains parts of the bottomless pit event: Revelation 9, 11:7, and 17:8,11. Revelation 9 says that locusts would ascend, but Revelation 11:7 and Revelation 17:8,11 both call it “the beast” that ascends from the bottomless pit. Therefore we know that the Revelation 13 beast is referred to by the locusts that would devour everyone not having the seal of God in their forehead. Revelation 9 gives the added evidence that these enemies of beast are all who are green—that is, everyone having the living God in their heart, everyone who is surrendered to Jesus through the Law of God, per Galatians 3:24. And today the Law of God that is quick and sharper than a two-edged sword is the Spirit of Prophecy unvarnished declarations of what sin is.

Locusts are the most feared plague in the Middle East, well-known for the rapidity with which they strip each tree, and their voracious appetite like their bellies never get full. They fly furiously from tree to tree until the whole land is laid bare.

Such an object lesson most accurately reveals the driving force in the beast power as it has been ascending from its prison house made by the Protestant Reformation. When did this bottomless pit come open? When we look closely at the language of the fifth and sixth trumpets we hear the elements that make up the third angel’s message—unappeased torment [no rest day or night], fire, smoke, and brimstone. When did the third angel’s message begin? I’m calling it 1849 because of the major social and spiritual earthquake that shook Protestant America when gold got discovered in California. Most assuredly, the seven trumpets began in 1844. The introduction of the sealing took place before the seventh seal came off the book in the Lamb's hands. The typical feast of trumpets that warned the people of God that Judgment Day would arrive in 10 days. The seven trumpets mirror the type by announcing the coming time of test for the seal or the mark—the pretest for the mighty day that Jesus returns in the power of His Father.

In 1849 Protestant Americans suddenly had a good reason to cross the mighty Mississippi and risk their lives in Indian Territory. (And every American was a Protestant, even the Catholics, because they all loved their government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The Catholic religion was very destructive to the gospel, but they all loved separation of church and state. They loved their peace in the land and a federal budget based on the taxes collected. That made them part of Protestant America.)

Protestant America’s rejection of William Miller in the first trumpet, then the Sabbath and the Law of God in the second trumpet, paved the way for their hearts to be poisoned by Satan in the third trumpet, and their light to go out in the fourth trumpet. All of that took place quickly in preparation for the next major step downward—falling to the first of three woes during Revelation chapters 9 through 11. Therefore we hear a most solemn, august warning to Protestant Americans:

“And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!” (Rev. 8:13).

“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.” (Rev. 11:7).

But we know from Revelation 9 that the beast’s war and ultimate victory over Protestants is a spiritual warfare—because the war rages over the sealing, or the marking. The mark of the beast from the third angel’s warning results from the fire, smoke, brimstone, torment, language that was first delineated in the fifth and sixth trumpets. Therefore, the message of the third angel is taken from the fifth and sixth trumpets. And so we can tie the warfare of the locusts against the people of God together with the efforts regarding the mark and the seal in the forehead of Protestants.

The fifth and sixth trumpets:

“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.” (Rev. 9:1-4).

The third angel’s message:

“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.” (Rev. 14:9-11).

The big picture of the work of sealing has everything to do with surrender. Yes, surrender! The third angel’s message is a gospel-Law issue! There is much gospel in Revelation. The first angel’s message began with an announcement of the gospel.

“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” (Rev. 14:6).

But, if plan A doesn’t work and we won’t be transformed by the renewing of our mind through the gospel, then God has a plan B. But plan B isn’t so nice as standing before the Spirit of Prophecy and having our souls stripped by the mighty cleaver of truth and baring our filthiness before the angelic courts. “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” (Heb. 4:13).

Plan B works with consequences to not going to the Plan A’s Schoolmaster perfect Law of liberty. But, Plan B means Babylonian slavery, and Egyptian affliction, our “slaves [‘bodies’] and souls” (Rev. 18:13) sold to the highest bidding covert taskmasters, that soon will be enabled to remove their masks and then have full liberty to overtly afflict and enslave. They will have taken back all that they lost in the Dark Ages. It will mean work camps and concentration camps and starvation. That is what Revelation 17:8, 11 forewarns of. (However, in the end Revelation 11:11-17 shows that God wins, and so does everyone who learned surrender and accepted the humiliation of their due punishment from heaven.)

“The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done. Catholicism is gaining ground upon every side.” Great Controversy, p. 565.   

“Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree [a rod for whipping].

Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten My word to perform it.

And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.

Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

And I will utter My judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.” (Jer. 1:11-16).

Sadly, Plan B is for us—all of us. Even the Daniels and Meshachs went into captivity. No one gets secret raptured out of here. And no one will be able to fend off the Babylonian juggernaut that is forming as it rises higher and higher around us. Everyone must be punished because it’s too late to expect anyone to come around to Plan A. That is, not without a severe affliction helping them, motivating them along to return to Plan A. we are just as dug into rebellion as was the Jews in Jeremiah’s day. And millions of Protestants (not to mention as many Adventists) have a lot of changing of mindsets and deeply seated, wrong paradigms in order to accept the high standards of the Testimony of Jesus. Much of Protestantism has been convinced these last days to brand the Lord’s special messenger a false prophet, and call it a cult the final movement that she suffered 70 years to establish through the grace of Jesus.

We need to surrender to authority—godly and righteous authority. True, the power that is coming is neither godly nor righteous. However, with God overseeing the restoration of the wicked son of perdition, we can learn surrender to authority if we can see God’s hand behind the punishments that happen during the first time of trouble. Will we grumble and complain? Or, will we fall on our faces before the God of truth and grace, and accept the redemption that He wanted to give us, but which we had no time for while the good times rolled? If we will bow to the merciful hand of the God of heaven, then we will be enabled to accept the punishment. And thus, our surrender under the harshest conditions of Plan B will be accounted for standing before the harsh rebukes of Plan A. But, if we can’t see God’s hand in our punishment and we resist the loss of our every right and privilege and personal property, then that will cause a deepening root of bitterness and a strengthening of rebellion against God. It will mean the mark of the beast. And that is Satan’s purpose behind his beast power.

There must be no resistance, no fighting back the mighty power of evil that takes the good life away from us and strips us of our idols. “They shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised My judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.” (Lev. 26:43).

 “Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.

And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

For I have set My face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.” (Jer. 21:4-9).

“But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by Myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto Me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.” (Jer. 22:25-27).

“And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto Me.

And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.” (Jer. 27:4-8).

“Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in My name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?” (Jer. 27:9-17).

“And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against Me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

Then will I remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised My judgments, and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break My covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.” (Lev. 26:31-45).

Fire from the sky

“And he [the false prophet, second beast of Revelation 13:11-17] doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.” (Rev. 13:13).

For years I’ve wondered what this verse referred to. The fire miracle by the lamb-like horned, apostate beast is so non-descript that a wide array of events could suffice to fulfill it. Decades ago a man my dad’s age told me it was the nuclear bomb. I held that fire falling like Elijah’s stand-off on Mount Carmel was symbolic of the counterfeit Latter Rain revival that Satan would bring in order to keep people from receiving the true Latter Rain. And while I know that that counterfeit is already picking up speed, I’m wondering if that is all that there is to the fulfillment of Revelation 13:13.

I’ve been looking into the wildfires in northern California where the houses and cars are obliterated such as natural forest fires cannot do, but the trees and shrubs right next to the homes, as well as the plastic backyard playgrounds and the plastic garbage cans and mailboxes, are unaffected by heat.

From that subject I went on to the HAARP facility in Gakona, Alaska. Here’s what one knowledgeable state department retiree has put together https://www.wanttoknow.info/war/haarp_weather_modification_electromagnetic_warfare_weapons 

“‘It isn’t just conspiracy theorists who are concerned about HAARP. The European Union called the project a global concern and passed a resolution calling for more information on its health and environmental risks. Despite those concerns, officials at HAARP insist the project is nothing more sinister than a radio science research facility.’ 

  -- From documentary on HAARP weather control capabilities by Canada’s CBC

HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) was a little-known, yet critically important U.S. military defense project which generated quite a bit of controversy over its alleged weather control capabilities and much more.

The project was shuttered by the military in 2013 after attracting large amounts of negative publicity, though HAARP-like research undoubtedly continues in other secret projects. This essay reveals major deception promulgated by those involved to lead the public to believe HAARP was simply a research facility with little practical military value.

Though denied by HAARP project officials, some respected researchers allege that the electromagnetic warfare capabilities of the project were designed to forward the US military’s stated goal of achieving ‘Full-spectrum Dominance’ by the year 2020 and of ‘Owning the Weather in 2025’ (see USAF document summary here). Others go so far as to claim that HAARP technologies have been and continue to be used for weather control, to cause earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, to disrupt global communications systems, and more….[my blog’s emphasis]

Dr. Bernard Eastlund is the scientist whose name is most associated with the creation and development of the HAARP project. His revealing website provides reliable information on his involvement with the project. A 1987 patent issued to Dr. Eastlund is titled ‘Method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth’s atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere.’”

In this patent, which sets the stage for HAARP, Dr. Eastlund makes a number of fascinating statements which clearly contradict the claim that it is only being used for research and not for military purposes or such purposes as weather control [my blog’s emphasis]. Here are a few of key statements taken verbatim from the patent:

[The] temperature of the ionosphere has been raised by hundreds of degrees in these experiments.

A means and method is provided to cause interference with or even total disruption of communications over a very large portion of the earth. [my blog’s emphasis] This invention could be employed to disrupt not only land based communications, both civilian and military, but also airborne communications and sea communications. This would have significant military implications.

It is possible ... to take advantage of one or more such beams to carry out a communications network even though the rest of the world’s communications are disrupted.

[It] can be used to an advantage for positive communication and eavesdropping purposes.

Exceedingly large amounts of power can be very efficiently produced and transmitted.

This invention has a phenomenal variety of ... potential future developments. Large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly high altitude so that missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with resultant destruction or deflection. Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns or altering solar absorption patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device [my blog’s emphasis]. Ozone, nitrogen, etc. concentrations in the atmosphere could be artificially increased.

Electromagnetic pulse defenses are also possible. The earth’s magnetic field could be decreased or disrupted at appropriate altitudes to modify or eliminate the magnetic field.”

The author of this website has had firsthand knowledge of these secret technologies. He wrote:

“Having interpreted for top generals in my work as a language interpreter with the US Department of State, I learned that military planners are always interested in developing the most devastating weapons possible. Yet these weapons are kept secret as long as possible, allegedly for reasons of national security. The many layers of intense secrecy both in the military and government result in very few people being aware of the gruesome capabilities for death and destruction.”

So, this array of 180 microwave antennae, converges all of its computer-controlled guns exactly at a desired altitude in the ionosphere and then uses them to create one Giga-watt of power combined with the latent power in the ionosphere, to make plasma in that spot of Earth’s atmosphere. That is one billion watts for creating plasma, the fourth state of matter. The state of plasma is found naturally only in lightning and on stars, such as our Sun. Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t belong to these globalist power-mongers. It doesn’t belong to anyone one Earth. It belongs to God, the Creator of the worlds. But, it’s Satan who was let out of the bottomless pit at the fifth trumpet in the 1840s to target this new technology against the descendants of the Reformation people of God—the apostatizing Protestants.

But what really caught my attention was a short video explaining the array’s potential ability to cause a massive, massive,  MASSIVE, lightning strike. Consider the following expert professionals/scientists, (minute 34:00 to 36:19):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xyvFWD1AGE

“Here’s a paper that was recently unearthed that talks about creating what’s called a ‘highly ionized column’ up through the atmosphere.”

“It might trigger lightning if lightning was ready to occur. And [if] suddenly this conductor [the ‘highly ionized column’ up through the atmosphere] was thrust in the middle of this situation, then yes it could [trigger lightning]. And if you aim the beam down and it happens to be in a region where there is a lot of charge, you can initiate a discharge in that area [my blog’s emphasis].”

“If you beam this radio wave into the ionosphere [the ‘highly ionized column’ up through the atmosphere], and you continually charge it up [my blog’s emphasis], not only are you sending energy into the ionosphere but you’re providing a path for energy to come back down out of the ionosphere.”

“Once a solar tap [the ‘“highly ionized column” up through the atmosphere’ so that you have ‘a path for energy to come back down out of the ionosphere’, and ‘you aim the beam down and it happens to be in a region where there is a lot of charge’ so that ‘you can initiate a discharge in that area’] is formed and the ionosphere actually discharges, the electrons and energy will come from all over the ionosphere to that one point. And it will strike the ground in a bolt that is 100 times greater than any lightning bolt imaginable. And it will not just strike one time. It will strike 30 to 40 times a second until there are no any longer electrons or energy to flow from the ionosphere through that tap to ground. But when it strikes the ground, it will vaporize the ground, the water, or whatever it happens to hit, kind of like 3 or 4 Mount St. Hellens volcanoes going off each second that that bolt discharges. Now, admittedly that’s kind of far-fetched, but whenever you’re doing experimentation and you are taking risks with large amounts of energy, you must responsibly look at the worst case scenario. And that could be the worst case scenario.”

“In other words, they can create a massive discharge of lightning bigger than anything we’ve ever seen on this planet.”

Earlier in the video the narrator described our atmosphere, that is, our ionosphere, as an electrically charged screen, protecting the Earth from deadly solar radiation. At another point in the video a man put a tube of the ionospheric substance in a kitchen microwave oven. With enough microwave action it began to glow brightly. This demonstrated how the Aurora, or northern lights, effect happens. But, it also reminded me of a video I watched months ago about certain tsunamis that were preceded by a visible, green aurora-like cloud high in the sky. That demonstration, which I saw with my own eyes, explained to me that the ionospheric heaters/HAARP facility facilitated the tsunamis.

My question: By using the “solar tap” described above, is the HAARP facility’s plan an unleashing of a 100X magnitude lightning and ear-splitting thunder? Maybe unleashing of a 100X magnitude lightning bolt at several places on Earth’s surface? And what for? How useful could a Jupiter-size firestorm, of 15 minutes (maybe 30 or 60 minutes—the ionosphere is an inconceivable expanse energized by solar winds and Earth’s magnetosphere) of roaring, deafening, incinerating power be? And, no matter where the discharge takes place, would the high volume roar be heard all over the world, as it reverberates around the ionosphere and roars down on the globe, although muffled increasingly at places more distant from the discharge point?

What if such a powerful display could fulfill the falling fire of Revelation 13:13? But why? This is a thought that came to me:

A while ago I blogged that since the secret rapture formula had been around for 450 years, and since it has been developing into the elaborate scenario that it is today and is believed so widely by apostate Protestantism, then why wouldn’t the power players for world dominance today fabricate a secret rapture? Why wouldn’t the Jesuits, who originated the rapture falsehood, and, with added details, who have developed the unbiblical event, use the secret rapture and its seven year tribulation for their final undoing of God’s people, the Protestants, and their reasonably peaceful world of religion and state separated? Why would not the secret rapture and seven year tribulation be used for their final destruction of the obstacle to world domination for Satan—the Protestant U.S. Constitution and its Protestant nation?

Of course, using a secret rapture fraud is all speculation and conjecture. But such a fraud seems very possible, and in light of today’s many abnormal events around the world, this fraud seems more and more probable. If a secret rapture is faked (like the 1937 Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcasted Martian invasion), with the churched half of America expecting a secret rapture, how might that impinge on their longed-for Sunday legislation? How could the TV gawking, movie-going, crash-bang-explosion-devoted, entertainment-loving Protestants not remain plastered to their TVs while the news outlets played and replayed, again and again in hypnotizing fashion, the fateful day that mock airliners and helicopters fell out of the sky, remotely controlled trains collided, robotic cars crashed—and worst of all—the secret society-owned media reported millions of anonymous people have disappeared. There would be a wild riot by all the Protestants because they instantly would conclude that they were left behind, rejected by their God. Satan and his demonic and human armies would have their long sought laugh, and victory over God and His people.

Overnight, we would have a national Sunday Law and soon after that an international Sunday law.

So, having read the HAARP exposé it seems to fit in with just such a tremendous electrical discharge that would be sufficient proof for representing a secret rapture hoax upon the unbelieving, visual-prone minds of atheistic Protestantism. And then at the end of the seven year tribulation period, the appearance of Satan imitating the visible return of “Christ” might be heralded by an even grander lightning show of enormous, gigantic proportions.

Remember this statement, “Satan works through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows.” Great Controversy, p. 589.

 

This quote comes from the larger context that all seems to fit into a secret rapture, technologically advanced, lightning storm by harnessing and discharge the hardly conceivable energy potential in Earth’s vast ionosphere.

“  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.

     As spiritualism more closely imitates the nominal Christianity of the day, it has greater power to deceive and ensnare. Satan himself is converted, after the modern order of things. He will appear in the character of an angel of light. Through the agency of spiritualism, miracles will be wrought, the sick will be healed, and many undeniable wonders will be performed. And as the spirits will profess faith in the Bible, and manifest respect for the institutions of the church, their work will be accepted as a manifestation of divine power. 

     The line of distinction between professed Christians and the ungodly is now hardly distinguishable. Church members love what the world loves and are ready to join with them, and Satan determines to unite them in one body and thus strengthen his cause by sweeping all into the ranks of spiritualism. Papists, who boast of miracles as a certain sign of the true church, will be readily deceived by this wonder-working power; and Protestants, having cast away the shield of truth, will also be deluded. Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world and the ushering in of the long-expected millennium. 

     Through spiritualism, Satan appears as a benefactor of the race, healing the diseases of the people, and professing to present a new and more exalted system of religious faith; but at the same time he works as a destroyer. His temptations are leading multitudes to ruin. Intemperance dethrones reason; sensual indulgence, strife, and bloodshed follow. Satan delights in war, for it excites the worst passions of the soul and then sweeps into eternity its victims steeped in vice and blood. It is his object to incite the nations to war against one another, for he can thus divert the minds of the people from the work of preparation to stand in the day of God. 

     Satan works through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows. When he was suffered to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses, children, were swept away, one trouble succeeding another as in a moment. It is God that shields His creatures and hedges them in from the power of the destroyer. But the Christian world have shown contempt for the law of Jehovah; and the Lord will do just what He has declared that He would—He will withdraw His blessings from the earth and remove His protecting care from those who are rebelling against His law and teaching and forcing others to do the same. Satan has control of all whom God does not especially guard. He will favor and prosper some in order to further his own designs, and he will bring trouble upon others and lead men to believe that it is God who is afflicting them. 

     While appearing to the children of men as a great physician who can heal all their maladies, he will bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are reduced to ruin and desolation. Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast. ‘The earth mourneth and fadeth away,’ ‘the haughty people . . . do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.Isaiah 24:4, 5.’” Great Controversy, p. 588, 589.

 

Here lies the cause of today’s rising rash of calamities. ‘They have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant’. Balaam, in his covetous rush for mammon and fashion, and in his maddening humiliation by his failure to curse Israel, sought out Israel’s adversary and helped that adversary to corrupt Israel by worship in honor of Satan, knowing that breaking covenant with their Deliverer from Egyptian bondage was the surest way to destroy Israel. As it was at Baalpeor, today at the end of spiritual Israel’s delay before entering Canaan, all the denominations of Protestantism have stumbled over the delusions that God has let Satan lay before them. Protestantism’s old enemy from the Dark Ages has been loosed from its bottomless pit. Protestants and their nation are rapidly moving toward the final visitation of their God’s fierce judgments because they have cut Him off from their hearts. They have broken the Reformation covenant, to love with all their heart the Provider of every good thing in their beautiful land of refuge, and to serve with all their will their Deliverer from papal darkness and enslavement.

“Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto My words, nor to My Law, but rejected it.” (Jer. 6:19).

“For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

His ways are always grievous; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: He hideth His face; He will never see it.” (Ps. 10:3-10).

“Every day they wrest My words: all their thoughts are against Me for evil.” (Ps. 56:5).

Why the wildfires that incinerate the houses, but don’t touch the greenery?

“Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no judgment.

And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore His arm brought salvation unto Him; and His righteousness, it sustained Him.

For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon His head; and He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, fury to His adversaries, recompence to His enemies; to the islands He will repay recompence.” (Isa. 59:1-18).

“I also 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.…

For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see My glory.” (Isa. 66:4-6,18).

We have had it too good for too long, after saying “Good-bye” to the God of love and blessing. We have taken full advantage of all of His blessings without a thought upon the One who dispensed such a magnificence cornucopia of pure goodness. Now it is time to sweep it all away and to lay the rebels low.

Nevertheless…! In His grandiose mercy, in His magnanimous grace, He sees a humbled very small remnant who will yet respond from their hearts to do His bidding, and speak what they know of His goodness, and who have been sighing and crying for all the brazen abominations and distressing desolations taking place.

Amazingly, God still has a good word to His guilty, but humbled, people, His beleaguered church.

“Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.” (Isa. 40:1,2).

“When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

As for Me, this is My covenant with them, saith the LORD; My Spirit that is upon thee, and My words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.” (Isa. 59:19-21).

“So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun.” (Isa. 59:19).

“To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at My word.” (Isa. 66:2).

“Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her.” (Isa. 66:7-10).

But, before the crown is the cross. Before the return of the Lord is the appearance of Satan, and fire from the sky.

Will we remain away from the God of such hopeful promises? Will we remain called, chosen, and faithful in the midst of the strong delusion that is manipulated and orchestrated by the Jesuit papacy, “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. 2:9,10)?