The abomination of desolation is near at hand

I fear Dave Weigley, President of Columbia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

I had recently come to Northern Virginia when he ended his tour as President of the Potomac Conference. I attended the campmeeting the summer that he left Potomac Conference for his promotion to the larger Columbia Conference. At that campmeeting he had invited Sean Boonstra to attract the constituents of his conference to celebrate his departure and to be introduced to the next Potomac Conference president, William Miller.

It was at that campmeeting that I experienced a couple of stomach turning disappointments, of which I have written in a past post. Upon the high stage was a blue board with words in white, “It’s All About Jesus.” I got excited because it had been years, even decades since I had heard a sermon on Jesus, and I expected to have a whole day with new views of Jesus! Wow! Sean Boonstra was going to give us all a real treat! It would be something well worth driving 100 miles for!

But…sad to say on that Sabbath day, Jesus was not preached. The Sabbath School was on whatever the Adult Quarterly covered, which was normal and expected. The Sabbath morning sermon was on decision making. The visiting pastor who preached looked very sad and even depressed. Sometimes I wonder if Dave Weigley told him to give such a non-gospel oriented sermon. Anyway, Jesus was not preached, His name never even mentioned from the podium.

Then we went to eat and have a long siesta, and after that from 2 pm to 4 pm a famous Adventist singer sung to us. Interspersing his baritone vocals were stories of his singing travels where on a flight he met this celebrity and on another flight that celebrity. And he told these accounts with subtlely, so as to promote swoons and applause from the sin loving multitudes who knew and worshiped those celebrities. Is that reaching people with the gospel? It was worldly and far from all about Jesus, and certainly not commandment-keeping. It was so disappointing and heart-sickening that I walked across the campus and wait until I knew the concert was finished.

At 4 pm I went back to the big tent and met with friends. While having a Sabbath related conversation, a pastor got up onto the platform and, looking down at us with a condescending scowl, he declared through the mike, “See this sign behind me?” (That was the blue sign that read, “It’s All About Jesus”.) Then the pastor gave his commentary on the sign. He said, “It’s not about you.” Then, satisfied with his rebuke, he walked away. And my only thought was, “That ‘It’s not about you’ is not the gospel.” It definitely wasn’t about Jesus. Apparently the pastor didn’t have anything to say about Jesus. Maybe the seminary doesn’t teach it. Maybe he had never really sung the words,

Tell me the story of Jesus

Write on my heart every word.

Tell me the story most precious,

Sweetest that ever was heard....

Tell of the years of His labor,

Tell of the sorrows He bore,

He was despised and afflicted,

Homeless, rejected, and poor.

So, until that point the much anticipated sermon on Jesus had eluded me, but there was still hope because Sean Boonstra was slated to preach at 7 pm. Finally I would hear a message worthy of campmeeting.

Finally, 7 pm came and Sean Boonstra came forward to speak. What did he preach about? Jesus?? No. He preached on how he learned to preach! An hour or so of sermonizing on Sean Boonstra, instead of on Jesus Christ! And when he finished preaching about himself, he led his thousand people audience to re-dedicate their lives to Jesus Christ! Finally, after every other more important business is taken care of and we only had a few more minutes, its all about Jesus!

I don’t necessarily fault Pastor Boonstra on his topic for his sermon. I can’t imagine why he would choose that topic for his talk. I believe Dave Weigley chose that topic.

So, all day long and not a sermon on Jesus—not even a single mention of Jesus or Christ or the Son of God, or even God! It would seem eerie if it weren’t so utterly disgraceful. Instead the real highlight was after the low-grade Sabbath morning sermon on decision-making, Elder Weigley and his wife received their going away presents—nice bouquets and an escort around the large white tent amidst applause and praise.

So, Elder Weigley moved on and he left William Miller to take up where he left off in the Potomac Conference. What did William Miller do? He began to push Spiritual Formation (SF) upon the pastors, elders, conference workers, conference teachers, etc. He has held SF retreats at Camp Blue Ridge where he has introduced and trained conference thought leaders and pastors how to do SF and how to be spiritual guides in it at their home churches. A few years ago I thought I would spend a week at the camp. I called the camp director who told me about the conference president’s scheduled group that week and of certain restrictions that would result. The director informed me that breakfast would require me to not speak with the SF retreat people because they would not answer me. Each morning they would have a vow of silence, where no one speaks until lunch time. This is how a Christian gets peace and spirituality? How is this any different from a Catholic monastery, or a Buddhist or Hindu monastery? There is no Jesus there. There is no Galatians 3:23,24.There can be no real spirituality received from above.

On another Sabbath, William Miller came to our Sabbath evangelistic effort. He got very upset with me for approaching him with regard to his spreading SF in Potomac Conference. I just wanted a few words to explain the spiritualism involved in SF. I wasn’t publicly rebuking him, though he may have perceived it as such. My only guess is that I hadn’t been the only Adventist to bring up a warning against SF. To this day, William Miller, the successor to Dave Weigley, continues to work against the requirements of General Conference President Ted N. C. Wilson against Spiritual Formation.

The problem with SF is that it is far eastern spiritualism. It is lawless because it requires no wrestling with the authority of God’s Law to condemn sin and sinner. The Law drives the sinner away from communion with the Infinite One until the sinner has recognized his pride and exceeding sinfulness, and has cried out to God for a Saviour from His wrath. But He doesn’t bring him to Christ to be justified until the sinner cries with all his heart in faith. Then the sinner comes to Jesus just as he is and sees Christ’s infinite selflessness in comparison to his infinitely wretched self-centeredness. And Jesus says, “All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6:37). No one comes to Christ until the Father brings them. And He brings no one to Christ for justification until the self-will is humbled and surrendered to the demands of His broken Law. Then the penitent one bows low in shame and thankfulness for Christ’s mercy. He is born again, justified, and converted.

Surrendered to and keeping close with Jesus, now he can enter into God’s presence. Now the Father can hear them. “Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him.” (Heb. 7:25). But, otherwise no one can come into God’s presence. No one can approach God without Jesus in full faith, Jesus being the great go-between.

But, SF abides by no Law. It rejects Galatians 3:23, 24. Therefore, Christ’s requirement: “No man cometh unto the Father, but by Me”, SF doesn’t abide by. With SF impenitent sinners need not wrestle with the will of God against their bent to sin, but only wait in the silence and dark until God speaks with them. No wrestling with the authority of God to rebuke sin and to correct sinners. No long waiting in the night with tears until joy comes in the morning. The modus operandi of SF is the epitome of rebellion. It’s sealing souls in rebellion by the “presence” that comes to them. Yet its profession as spiritual is so subtle that millions subscribe to SF because of its promises to form spirituality in us by bringing us to God. Who wouldn’t want that? But, SF is diametrically opposed to the prophets of the Bible and especially to the counsels of the last day prophet that are found in the books of the Spirit of Prophecy.

Teaching rebellion is what William Miller is doing for Adventism in the Potomac Conference, the conference that encompasses the nation’s capital. It is his contribution to the ecumenizing of Adventism. His name so highly regarded by our denominational history is actually a mockery to our future. And he was the handpicked anointed one to carry on after Dave Weigley’s departure. Is this nothing more than continuing an agenda to first corrupt the Adventism around the capital and head quarters for the beast with the lamb-like horns?

My prediction is that when Dave Weigley is chosen to be president of the North American Division, then every conference office will be filled with men (and women) like William Miller. Spiritual Formation will be pervasive, and the unhumbled, sin-loving multitudes of Catholic, ecumenized Adventism will love to have it so. The dragon “beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.” (Job 41:34).

“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:

Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” (Matt. 24:15-21).

Is almost time for the abomination of desolation?

“With awed yet exultant spirit he [John the Baptist] searched in the prophetic scrolls the revelations of the Messiah’s coming,―the promised seed that should bruise the serpent’s head; Shiloh, ‘the peace giver,’ who was to appear before a king should cease to reign on David’s throne. Now the time had come. A Roman ruler sat in the palace upon Mount Zion. By the sure word of the Lord, already the Christ was born.” Desire of Ages, p. 103.

   

A Roman will rule in the North American Division and soon thereafter in the General Conference. Within Adventism and against the pure new birth into justification standing with God there seems to be forming a human ladder of like-minded enemies whereby many Jesuits will ultimately control the whole framework of the official Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America and around the world.

By the sure word of the Lord, Christ must already be born in the hearts of many who will soon give the Latter Rain of His holy Spirit.

The flat Earth discussion

Lately we have been seeing the multiplying of conspiracy-related issues on the internet. Some are science/nature related, some are government/international banking related, some religious/theological related, etc. The one I have been curious about for a year now is the flat Earth conspiracy.

Is this flat Earth cross-section of society genuine? Did someone think he could invent a way to get millions to follow the most inane falsehood? These are my questions. Some of its data looks correct. But much is still doubtful to me. I guess I bring in a bias against a flat Earth. I see a pre-creation, rogue, Neptune-like Earth to which Jesus came to begin its “creation”. It was a ball of water vapor, similar to Neptune’s giant gaseous, almost completely water atmosphere that surrounds a hard core the size of Earth. For the introduction of light on the first day of creation Jesus brought to it Himself and His shining entourage of angelic hosts.

Genesis chapter 1 begins with the famous intro to Bible 101, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” (Gen. 1:1,2). What does it mean, “the heaven and the earth”? That is defined in the same context a few verses later. “And God called the firmament Heaven.” (Gen. 1:8). “And God called the dry land Earth.” (Gen. 1:10). The Heaven was simply the result of dividing the giant gaseous sphere that the Spirit of God moved upon, to create a firmament, and atmosphere in which we could breathe; and the Earth was the lifting up of the tectonic plates so that the dry land could appear. Letting scripture be its own interpreter, what “the heaven and the earth” were not, as many wrongly believe, was a brand new orb in space and a brand new galaxy or universe. All that Jesus did on our planet He could do on Neptune and create Neptune’s “Heaven” and its “Earth”.

Therefore, I can’t see a flat Earth. Yes, the Bible seems to describe our world as flat. And it was flat in the eyes of the Bible writers. If the Lord had described to His prophets for the multitudes a spherical Earth that revolves around the Sun, the prophets of the Lord would have been rejected before the words of judgment and mercy—the real message—left their mouths. Even Jesus who taught the Old Testament prophets to say that there is no immediate ascension to heaven upon death, yet He seemed to teach something different during His earthly ministry.

“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.” (Ecc. 9:5,6).

“As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

O that Thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that Thou wouldest keep me secret, until Thy wrath be past, that Thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: Thou wilt have a desire to the work of Thine hands.” (Job 14:11-15).

“For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.” (Job 19:25-27).

Yet, for a parable He said that, immediately upon death, Lazarus went to the bosom of Abraham. That was a parable of a wholly different issue; still many have used it to contradict what He taught the prophets to teach the Old Testament world. So, we need to read the whole Bible to know what is truth about death and about other biblical issues, including inspiration’s way of describing the shape of the Earth. We need to understand how inspiration works, how it uses the mind of the prophet, with his or her world-view. The Creator is omniscient, the prophet is not. The Spirit of Christ that inspires the prophet is the same Spirit throughout the scriptures, but the 40 men were not of the same personality, character, mental capacity, and education. Their books indicate a wide variety of thinking, clarity, and communicating. Paul, a natural powerhouse of intellect, wrote deep theological doctrine and spiritual applications of Old Testament historical events and elements of the Mosaic law. It was almost impossible for Peter to follow what Paul was saying, what about us? Peter’s letters were much simpler and straight forward.

Paul wrote,

“For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are” (1Cor. 1:26-28).

“Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. (1Cor. 14:20).

All that this is saying is that the Bible needs thorough study and divinely gifted thought to correctly discern its truths, its symbology, its spiritual metaphors, and that many misconceptions of the Book abound. We have lost much of what the early church had in its knowledge of God—its theology, its understanding of the Bible. I’m encouraged by the presence of people who are studying the Bible and of YouTube testimonies of people who have come to Christ, and have a clearer heart and mind to comprehend the light shining from the scriptures. Yet, even these soundly converted newborns in Christ are being swayed by many pervasive misconceptions that are sweeping churches of late. These misconceptions are making the Bible look more foolish to the skeptical world, which is becoming very aggressive against God and His word. We are seeing a resurgence of the sin-infected world of 2,000 years ago.

“Sin had become a science, and vice was consecrated as a part of religion. Rebellion had struck its roots deep into the heart, and the hostility of man was most violent against heaven.” The Desire of Ages, p. 37.

This is what we increasingly hear from voices coming out against Protestantism, the God of Protestantism, and the Protestant Bible. This is what came out yesterday on the internet when the flat Earth controversy took front stage. The following are people who commented on a Yahoo article of someone in a flat Earth discussion blog who was removed from its round-table. But first I want to highlight two individuals who took the comment feed into the true foundation of the flat Earth discussion: Joe Anthony DePino, who brought in the Bible as the cause of the flat earth discussion; and Kath Donoghue, who jumped to defend the Bible once the Bible became an issue. But her defense was almost rude. It was far from Christ-like.

So, without further adieu, the following comment feed, which sadly is heavy in modern sarcasm, cynicism, arrogance, rudeness, cold-hearted anger, and demeaning inferences that attack the flat Earth believers’ intelligence and freedom of thought:

“Ronald Augustine Hamilton Jr.

The Earth can’t be flat, otherwise we wouldn’t have seasons.

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Allison McKinney

Shhhh that’s logic, you can’t use that, it scares them

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Shubham Deo Pujan

Wut?? Everyone knows that seasons are created because of the sun’s revolutions around the earth.

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Christian Rapsch

empty claim without any proof to back it up

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Mark Streeter

So if the Earth is flat like a dinner plate, where do these people believe the edges are?

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Zak Mazeika

One theory they they(sic) promote is that the edge is ice walls, that nobody has ever seen or photographed because all the governments are keeping them secret and hiding them. (To be honest I have an easier time believing that the world is flat, than believing that all the governments in the world could get on well enough to keep anything secret).

I watched a flat earth youtube video once and then to even more insult my own mind, read the comments below. It hurt my brian (sic) to read the nonsence (sic) arguments and rebutals (sic) from the flatearthers....

Seriously, just avoid them, you’ll only feel dumber if you engage with them.

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Jessica Bricker

They think the Earth is a disc where the Arctic Circle is the middle, and Antarctica is the edge of the disc--which is an ice wall. NASA patrols the wall to make sure nobody sees it, or climbs the wall and falls off. GPS is rigged to make aircraft pilots and boat captains believe they going straight when they are actually traveling in a circle. They think the sun and moon move in circles above the disc and that eclipses are caused by anti-moons. They think the government (all the governments I guess?) is covering up the truth because...I don’t think they’ve fully worked that part out yet. 

It’s actually remarkable that these people are able to walk around without hurting themselves.

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Joe Anthony DePino

Jessica Bricker On that last part, there seems to be a religious agenda...a lot of them are convinced everything is the work of Satan, and that only they can see the truth. All the governments of the world are in league with Satan to conceal the Earth’s true flatness, I guess

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Kayla Dixon

All 14.9k followers of the Flat Earth Society twitter account, should have any and all degrees revoked.

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Megan Oliver

All members, except for two, are following ironically.

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Joe O’Dell

I believe that every single conspiracy theory known to man was cooked up by a shadow government to keep the truly curious and intelligent people busy on wild goose chases while they secretly take over the world. Narf! Pinky, you are going off script! I know Brain, but these big words make my head hurt. Pinky, cut transmiss....

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Kath Donoghue

The Bible is the Infallible, Inerrant, Eternal, Everlasting, Historically accurate,

Incorruptible, word of the living God. 

NASA, Evolution, Fake spinning ball earth,

Gravity, Planets, Aliens, Global warming, ALL HOAXEs. Wake

up sheeple! God created the Geocentric, Immovable, Stationary, Fixed,

Flat Earth 6000 years ago as the Bible clearly teaches in 145+ scriptures.

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Cameron Buxton

This ****** hurts. Could you send me the verses where God says that Earth is flat? I mean Jesus didn’t even care to mention even disease (a pretty big deal) on his short visit and God hasn’t really said much of anything since was said to have Jesus died. I mean if there’s 145+ scriptures, I’m hoping you could point at least a few out.

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Kath Donoghue

Cameron Buxton Go pick up a bible and start from the beginning, You clearly need re educating.

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Jonny Ross Dade

Most peole (sic) after an education study many books and sources, not just one, which is very much out of date... smh, and you call us brainwashed...

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Matthew Gregory Spence

Cats just want you to think the Earth is round

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Elizabeth Harvey

Ronald Pseudonymous Moraine loves you for this comment and your profile pic.

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Julia Stewart

I guess they thought his joke fell... flat

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From the thoughts of Joe Anthony DePino and Kath Donoghue I am beginning to rethink my understanding of why the flat Earth idea is being resurrected from the Dark Ages. It is possible that this issue is another manifestation of distrust of the establishment, the government. Accurately said, working to restore the desolated King James Bible is also part of the foundation of the flat Earth discussion, albeit the supposition and suspicions that come with the presentation by the flat Earth proponents are misguided. Still, I tend to believe the proponents of the flat Earth are genuine in their hearts.

But, I am also beginning to see this as the possibility for the Jesuits to create more chaos than already exists around Protestant America. They are looking for every opportunity to amplify already existing points of contention between Protestants and to encourage already existing violence against faith in God’s word. They want to work up more and more hostility against the Bible, against Protestantism and Protestant Americans’ divinely ordained Reformation, and against faith in their Creator and Redeemer. Therefore, all aspects of creation and redemption must be uprooted and blotted from the earth. The scientific community must be only atheistic and evolutionist. No intelligent scientist or professor can imbibe, much less voice sentiments of the power of God unto salvation, or he/she will be drummed out of publication and their seat. Only the indispensable, highest intellects in the scientific community, or the strongest believers, and no one else, can get away with espousing the gospel and conversion. No one else is allowed to unveil all the evidences of the biblical account of creation and of the Bible’s world-wide flood that would expose the falsehoods of evolution theory and the treacherous dishonesty of the people at the head of science to refuse catastrophism into scientific research, and the recognition of intelligent design seen throughout nature.

The silencing of faith in scientists is essentially working against the first amendment of the Bill of Rights, even without openly attacking the first amendment freedom of speech and publication. Scientists and teachers are afraid to lose their jobs and homes/cars, etc. So, the attack against Protestantism is very real, although done in subterfuge.

This flat Earth issue could actually be yet another subtle Jesuit intrigue against the Bible. The issue promulgates an out-dated, archaic conspiracy, possibly in order to gain discontent toward all conspiracy theories and to discount other more moderate and valid exposés of actual conspiracies that are taking place today. It’s “agenda” is acting as a shield to other subtle Jesuit agendas that are playing out to destroy America and the world that America has stood to protect from what its forefathers saw as a real threat against freedom and happiness through the American Constitution and Republic, and against Protestantism’s place as channel for continued blessings from heaven upon America. And the Jesuits have just about won the war against Protestantism.

“By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near.   

     As the approach of the Roman armies was a sign to the disciples of the impending destruction of Jerusalem, so may this apostasy be a sign to us that the limit of God’s forbearance is reached, that the measure of our nation’s iniquity is full, and that the angel of mercy is about to take her flight, never to return. The people of God will then be plunged into those scenes of affliction and distress which prophets have described as the time of Jacob’s trouble. The cries of the faithful, persecuted ones ascend to heaven. And as the blood of Abel cried from the ground, there are voices also crying to God from martyrs’ graves, from the sepulchers of the sea, from mountain caverns, from convent vaults: ‘How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?’  

     The Lord is doing His work. All heaven is astir. The Judge of all the earth is soon to arise and vindicate His insulted authority. The mark of deliverance will be set upon the men who keep God’s commandments, who revere His law, and who refuse the mark of the beast or of his image.  

     God has revealed what is to take place in the last days, that His people may be prepared to stand against the tempest of opposition and wrath. Those who have been warned of the events before them are not to sit in calm expectation of the coming storm, comforting themselves that the Lord will shelter His faithful ones in the day of trouble. We are to be as men waiting for their Lord, not in idle expectancy, but in earnest work, with unwavering faith. It is no time now to allow our minds to be engrossed with things of minor importance. While men are sleeping, Satan is actively arranging matters so that the Lord’s people may not have mercy or justice. The Sunday movement is now making its way in darkness. The leaders are concealing the true issue, and many who unite in the movement do not themselves see whither the undercurrent is tending. Its professions are mild and apparently Christian, but when it shall speak it will reveal the spirit of the dragon. It is our duty to do all in our power to avert the threatened danger. We should endeavor to disarm prejudice by placing ourselves in a proper light before the people. We should bring before them the real question at issue, thus interposing the most effectual protest against measures to restrict liberty of conscience. We should search the Scriptures and be able to give the reason for our faith. Says the prophet: ‘The wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.’

     Those who have access to God through Christ have important work before them. Now is the time to lay hold of the arm of our strength. The prayer of David should be the prayer of pastors and laymen: “It is time for Thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void Thy law.” Let the servants of the Lord weep between the porch and the altar, crying: ‘Spare Thy people, O Lord, and give not Thine heritage to reproach.’ God has always wrought for His people in their greatest extremity, when there seemed the least hope that ruin could be averted. The designs of wicked men, the enemies of the church, are subject to His power and overruling providence. He can move upon the hearts of statesmen; the wrath of the turbulent and disaffected, the haters of God, His truth, and His people can be turned aside, even as the rivers of water are turned, if He orders it thus. Prayer moves the arm of Omnipotence. He who marshals the stars in order in the heavens, whose word controls the waves of the great deep, the same infinite Creator will work in behalf of His people if they call upon Him in faith. He will restrain the forces of darkness until the warning is given to the world and all who will heed it are prepared for the conflict.” Testimonies for the church, vol. 5, p. 451,452.

This may be where the flat Earth discussion is leading.

An overview of my book

I have written a book. The title is, The Seven Trumpets and The Investigative Judgment. In several ways it takes a different approach to The Revelation, compared to that of traditional Adventism. In particular it looks at the deep spiritual issues contained in the seven trumpets, and especially in the 5th and 6th trumpets.

My book is now in print and e-book form. So I want to give a brief overview in case anyone out there might want to read the book.

Introduction

Revelation chapters 4 through 11 form the core storyline of the book of Revelation. The chapters that follow chapter 11 are brought in to expand and to add more details. The seals and trumpets drama are not optional to understand Revelation, they form the vital center of the last book of the Bible.

Chapter 1: Revelation chapter 4

This scene shows the throne of God before sin began. Heaven was a happy place, a peaceful place, a holy place. The praises to God concern creation only, His pleasure, His power, His honor, in creating. And no praise mentions a Redeemer, because in those eons before the great controversy, there was no need of redemption.

Chapter 2: Revelation chapter 5

Sudden change comes over the angelic atmosphere of heaven. It’s the same picture with God upon His throne, except that God has a mysterious book (a scroll) sealed up so tightly that only the crucifixion of the Son of God could authorize its opening. This book is the great controversy, the accusations against God and the issues over God’s Law. God is on trial. Has He been the proper leader? Has His government offered the best for the greatest happiness of the kingdom? Has He overreached His own Law and become a dictator? These were accusations that Lucifer brought against the Creator of heaven and earth. Christ crucified is the only one able to clear God of His charges. Afterwards, the whole family of heaven and earth sing praises to Him who sat on the throne and to the Lamb. Those praises are now about redemption only.

Chapter 3: Revelation chapter 6

The Lamb takes the seals off of the book (the scroll), one at a time. The first seal represents the church during its apostolic period, ending at 100 AD when John dies. The second seal (100-321 AD) represents a church period of intense pagan persecution until Constantine stopped the persecution and allowed the church to become the official religion of the Roman Empire. The third seal (321-538) represents the dying church period when it, in order to please its government employer, conformed its standards to paganism in order to let the pagans join the state religion, Christianity. The fourth seal (538-1517) represents the dead papal church period as it continued its trajectory to kingly greatness and exalted itself higher than the kings of Europe. Satan possessed the Church that silenced anyone who cried out against the Church’s corruptions and wickedness and inbred spiritualism. Then Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation. The fifth seal (1517-1755) represented the aftermath of the Reformation. During the Counter-Reformation 900,000 Protestants were martyred. They are shown in the Revelation as sacrificial lambs laid on the altar. This period ends at the close of the sixth seal (1755-1844) represented the short period that begins in an end-times conscious Protestant America and the Second Advent message by William Miller. Just prior to the seventh seal is removed we see a scene of Christ’s second coming. This was not the actual return of Christ—it was the global Advent movement of the 1830s and early ‘40s. But, the people were not ready for His coming. Before He can return, His people must be sealed. The sealing will be the necessary preparation for the actual day that He visits His judgments on the Protestant nation and the world that it has protected from the papacy.

Chapter 4: Revelation chapter 7

This chapter introduces the sealing. That is such a major issue that it pauses unsealing the sealed book pageant to explain who will stand when the Lamb comes and who will run in abject fear. The answer is: Whoever gets the seal in the conscience will go with Jesus and leave this doomed world. And this chapter gives the first picture of how happily the great controversy will end.

Chapter 5: Revelation chapter 8

After the chapter 7 intermission, we need to come back to where we left off when the 6th seal closed. So, the Lamb removes the seventh seal. The sanctuary scene that follows is connected with the seventh seal. Since the 6th seal ended and the seal of God is shown ascending from the east in 1844, then, chapter 8 picks up after the foretaste of all the happy celebration throughout eternity. Silence divides the chapter 7 intermission from the chapter 8  sanctuary scene; it separates the previous rejoicing at the end of the controversy from the solemn events to follow in order to set up a new mindset in the reader. It is a reminder that our celebration is promised, but not yet ours to have. We are the church militant that must first endure the rigors of the trumpet dangers yet to come. Through a special dispensation of faith by an abundant gift of His Spirit, Jesus gives us a way of escape in the Latter Rain, so that we are able to endure the great time of trouble.

The Angel High Priest is in the Holy Place, ready to enter the Most Holy. But, first He casts His censer to the earth and the 1st trumpet blows. We can say that the 1st trumpet is connected with the previous sanctuary scene because the contents of the censer and His blood are what fall from the sky onto the earth during the 1st trumpet. The contents damage “the third part” of the trees and all the fields of grain. This signified God’s overthrowing the denominations and the worst of the Protestants who rejected the plain truth of the blessed hope of Jesus’ return. The Bible often compares people to trees and grain.

The 2nd trumpet blew and Mt. Sinai is quenched showing the churches abrogating the Law of God. Now most of the Protestants had no protection from Satan’s spells.

So, the 3rd trumpet blew and Satan is seen poisoning their hearts and minds, their whole way of viewing this world and the providences of God. Faith, true, genuine faith is gone from every American who remained in the new lawless Protestantism. Now that God is fictionalized by the new Protestants’ rejection of His Law, this world is all that most of them can live for.

The 4th trumpet blew and the Sunday churches went totally dark spiritually, as institutions. But, the door of heaven was still open to them individually. Scripture shows that the darkened heavenly lights symbolize that the Bible is no longer understood by Protestantism, and the Bible’s central importance is lost. Now that Protestant America has lost its only resource for a spiritual compass in God’s word, an angel flies over the earth, alarming the world of the three woes that come with the last three trumpets.

Chapter 6: Revelation chapter 9

The 5th trumpet blew. God looses Satan to ransack Protestantism and bring it, and the world it that has blessed, into subjection to the powers of hell. Every Protestant not being sealed, especially in Protestant America, is tormented with the same vexation of spirit that Solomon and King Saul experienced when they apostatized from the Lord. Moses forewarned of this for the whole nation in his curses of Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, 29. Specifically, Deuteronomy 29:18-22 speaks to this 5th trumpet, as does Revelation 14:9-11. In fact, the 3rd angel’s message is all about the 5th and 6th trumpet plagues; the components of those two trumpets make up the message of the 3rd angel of Revelation 14—the torment and desolation of soul that comes from not fearing God as Judge and not getting to know Jesus, preparing for His judgment and His final return.

The ancient false religion that caused such havoc to Israel was Baal worship. But, Baal was simply one face of thousands of false religions around the ancient world as well as our modern world, all spawned from Babylon. It is a religion that dares to approach God with the worshipers’ own contrived repentance and holiness. The modern counterpart of Baal and Ashtoreth worship is Spiritual Formation.  Set aside by Spiritual Formation are the Law’s reproofs, which bring us to need a Savior from sin. Before Christ can be a Savior, He must be a Prince who wields His glittering sword. God will have it no other way. But, Satan, stepping in between God and His people, offers a more comfortable redemption, without the messy humbling which God requires. By peace and flattery he has destroyed many from the days of Cain; and now he is doing the same in the Protestant churches and in the Advent movement. We are repeating the history of Israel at Baal-peor, and many Adventists are falling for it, including many of our leaders. This is the message of the 3rd angel and it speaks of the 5th and 6th trumpet plagues.

The language of the 3rd angel’s message comes from the 5th and 6th trumpets—another reason to believe that the trumpets happen during the heaven-ordained Advent movement and investigative judgment that precede the antitypical Day of Atonement.

It only makes sense that all the seven trumpets should blow during the Advent movement that awaited the heavenly sanctuary cleansing, since the typical feast of trumpets was connected with the cleansing of the earthly sanctuary. There is a time period with the 5th trumpet—5 prophetic months, 150 years. I realize Ellen White seemed to say that there would be no more time prophecies after 1844. But, that is not what her statements say. She left no commentary on the seven trumpets. I believe she only communicated what Jesus wanted her to give us at the time. If we had known we would be here for 150 years we would have apostatized into pagan celebration a long time ago.

One thing is very clear, Revelation 9:4 (the 5th trumpet) and 7:3 (1844) are unarguably speaking of the same thing—the seal of God in the forehead. So, my conclusion is that Revelation 7:3 introduces the sealing, and 9:4 explains how it is received (and how the mark of the beast is avoided). Sr. White wrote volumes on every other subject, while she wrote essentially nothing about the seven trumpets, evidently because Jesus gave her no light on the trumpets. The time must wait until the prophecy was completed before its meaning would come to light. That time has arrived. I believe that the 5th trumpet time prophecy began as we were hammering out our fundamental beliefs in the Sabbath conferences. In 1849, the start of the 5th trumpet prophecy, the California Gold Rush altered the face of Protestant America. In 1999, 150 years later, another gold rush closed the 5th trumpet—the stock market gold rush of the late 1990s. These two gold rushes are the bookends for the 5th trumpet.

In between those years technology exponentially developed and drew the world-loving Protestant multitudes permanently away from God and His Law. And that separation from the Protestants’ God has tormented them like Jesus was tormented on the cross because His Father had left Him. During those 5 prophetic months, the Spirit of God had been leaving Protestant America and Satan had been moving in to fill the void. Largely through the earthly agencies of Rome and her Jesuit masters of deception temptations have stolen all the freedom and happiness that the original Protestant Reformers passed down to Protestants in America. The Jesuits and the Vatican are the locusts from the bottomless pit of the 5th trumpet (they are called “the beast” in Revelation 11). Satan, driving them across the earth, is the black smoke.

The 6th trumpet blew. Now that Protestant Americans have departed from God and lived on His promised land of refuge with total forgetfulness of the God of Protestantism, He allows for their complete possession by the god they love so much, the god of this world. As the 10 tribes of Israel lived for Baal for 200 years until the Lord vomited them out of His land, so is He doing to Protestant Americans today. Soon, and very soon, Protestantism’s old enemy of the Dark Ages will have conquered their empire by locusts filling the leading offices of their CIA, FBI, NSA, FDA, FEMA, AMA, the media, the Federal Reserve banking system, and the three branches of the U.S. Government. I won’t be surprised if the Vatican initiates the official desolation of free America when Protestantism is ended. By an official declaration and documentation, the union of church and state began at the healing of the Lutheran church and the Church of Rome on Protestantism’s 500th anniversary—Halloween 2017.

In the 6th trumpet, the locusts can do what they were forbidden to do during the 5th trumpet, that is, “kill” the soul. All of their torment until 1999 came from the work of separating the people from the one true God of their Reformation fathers. Now that the denominations are fully separated from the God of the Bible, they commit the unpardonable sin by returning to the spiritualistic, pagan Vatican; and they become a persecuting nation. This explains the unjust destruction of Muslims based on the false premise that Islamists caused 9/11. All the evidence of 9/11 points to specially placed and protected individuals within American government agencies—Jesuits—who choreographed the 9/11 black flag operation under the purview of Rome. (Dan. 8:12).

9/11 has set the stage for the coming tribulation of all nations. We are in the very end of time. God has just about finished His scattering of the power of the holy people (Dan. 12:7).

When the seventh trumpet will blow, the 3rd woe will mean total world domination by Satan and his filling every heart with his mean anger. Then, the few who in reverence took God, His Law, and His redemption seriously will stand out from the demon-controlled crowds. Everyone who played off the Spirit of Prophecy counsels as unneeded during the 5th and 6th trumpets God will require it of them in the seventh trumpet. This we see at the end of Revelation 11.

Chapter 7: Revelation chapter 10

This chapter begins to show glory at the end of a long, dark, distressing tunnel of woe. It opens during the unconscionable desolations by the conscienceless world of the Revelation chapter 9 6th trumpet. Christ is seen clothed with a cloud of incense and glory. The little sealed book (scroll) which He took from His Father in Revelation chapter 5 is now opened after the trumpets have done their work of scattering the power of faith in His Protestant people (which includes the SDAs, as will be seen in Revelation 11). Christ roars like a lion because His forbearing work as Lamb is finished and it is time to judge the world, and to end Satan’s controversy against God. With infinite thunder, God agrees with His Son.

So, Jesus swears by His Father that the delay of the 6th seal is all but complete—the sealing is almost finished—when He can finally come in power and glory. But, first He will give humanity one last opportunity to be saved, as He gave it the antediluvian world. He commands John to eat the book (the scroll) of the great controversy and to “prophesy again.” But, if we use scripture to interpret scripture, then this is not speaking of the Millerite Great Disappointment of 1844; it is speaking of an event within the final chapter of the seal/trumpet chronology.

When do we see any prophesying taking place since Revelation chapter 4? We don’t see any prophesying up to Revelation chapter 10. But, we do see it in the next chapter, almost immediately following the command of chapter 10 to prophesy again. We see it in Revelation chapter 11.

Chapter 8: Revelation chapter 11

This chapter concludes the seal/trumpet story that is the core of Revelation. The chapter introduces its intent to judge the church by John being given a measuring rod. The church is found guilty of apostasy, except for a very small remnant that defends the truth “in the days of their prophecy” (Rev. 11:6). The prophesy of that very small remnant sweeps through 2,000 years to include the apostolic church, the church in the wilderness, and the Reformation. The fire of truth shoots out of the mouths of God’s champions and devours the enemies of His gospel, like their Master (Isa. 11:4; 2 Thess. 2:8). This campaign against Satan continues successfully until 1849 when the hosts of darkness fly out of an opened bottomless pit (Rev. 11:7). Then, the Lord’s witnesses are warred against, later overcome, and eventually cease their prophesying. In the lengthy Revelation 11 prophecy, this victory over the prophesying witnesses by the beast from the bottomless pit is where the Revelation 10 scene occurs. It is giving the greater historical context of Revelation 9 when the locusts have desolated the mighty and holy people, and led them to repentance and the sealing. Thus, it is time for them to prophesy again.

Satan cannot immediately kill the Advent movement while Ellen White lives. But, he first makes war (also seen in Rev. 12:17), then he overcomes, and finally he kills the Advent movement. We lay dead in the aisles of the church for a period of time that figuratively expresses judgment on God’s people (Luke 4:25; Jas. 5:17). Then, when God has accomplished our total humbling and all of our self-sufficiency is gone, then He resurrects His two witnesses (a leaner Advent movement), gives them the Latter Rain, and the earth is reaped. This ends the 2nd woe, and the seventh trumpet blows. Total chaos rules the world and the last we see is an empty Most Holy Place in heaven because Christ has left there to come and get His people. The mystery of God’s character of love and fairness, as written in the little book (scroll), is finished. His judgment is finished, and He is exonerated by His character perfectly reflected in His sealed children.

This ends the core of Revelation. I hope it wasn’t too hard to follow. The rest of the book of Revelation expands upon the main storyline of chapters 4 through 11.

I’ve heard much about chiasms in Revelation, which describe it as a tiered literary structure, the first vision being similar to the last vision, the second vision similar the second-to-last vision, etc., a ABCD…DCBA pattern. Centuries ago, the subject of chiastic structures in the book of Revelation began small and gradually grew in acceptance. I’ve looked at charts that show the chiasms of Revelation, and it all seems good. But, I see that the primary view of Revelation must be a concise storyline for the first half of Revelation, and detailed visions given afterwards to be fitted into the basic story. I see Revelation chapters 4 to 22 simply as basically two halves of one book. In the first half, we have the core first 8 chapters that give a bird’s eye view of the book, such as this overview does for my book. Then, the next 11 chapters give details that must be brought in at the correct places of the core storyline of Revelation, chapters 4 through 11.

The Spirit’s organization of the Revelation visions in a simple story format seems very wise. A simple storyline I can handle. But, chiasms are a little too complicated for me (which is not to say that they don’t exist in the Revelation).

Even children can understand the simple core storyline of Revelation. Of course, the symbology is a deeper subject, and that makes the Bible a challenge for adults. But, I’m thankful that Revelation is much more understandable than most people think because of the way it was laid out as a simple story by the Spirit of God.

A broader view of eschatology

Again, I want to reiterate that the dates I have used in this post are inconsequential. Nothing in the way of dates is written in stone. I just needed a structure in which to place the seven year Pre-Trib Secret Rapture scenario. And I feel increasingly sure that that falsehood will be pulled off as a fraud like other recent deceptions such as 9/11 and the $800 Billion Great American Heist of 2008.

For the two 3 ½ year segments of the seven year unbiblical scenario I have used the equinox days of Easter and Halloween because the New World Order and the United Nations are highly pagan and worldly cultural. For the god of this world and his perpetuation of the Nimrod-Semiramis apostasy, fertility rites connected to the four cardinal solstice and equinox dates of the annual clock became the foundation to the ancient rebellion against Noah’s righteous government. It was to separate from the continual extension of Nimrod’s complex pantheon and his convoluted system of spiritualism that Abram followed the call of the Creator and Redeemer. Today, I believe those cardinal equinoxes will form the integral points in the seven year Rapture, and then they will hail the pagan, four solstice-equinox of the New Age of Aquarius.

All…shall worship him January 20, 2017 until October 31, 2017	Protestants “careless, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing” (Judg.18:7). “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy” (Eze.16:49). 144K asleep (Deut.4:25-31) “Blessed be ye that hunger now…that weep now…” “I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto Me?” (Jer.2:21).
Halloween 2017 until the Halloween 20__ secret rapture fraud by the Jesuits	Vatican collapses stock market. Protestant America & its world besieged. Wars and rumors of wars. Protestants’ judgment a dismal punishment, their power fully scattered. 2nd Great Depression. President sympathizes/helps International health care tax, income and property taxes skyrocket. Global hyper-inflation. World enslaved. Multitudes flock to military, welfare, convents, cloisters. Militias on the move, many lives lost in the world-wide resistance. Agenda 21 in force. USA in lock-down. “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.” (Selected Message, bk. 2, p. 142). The 144K repenting, sighing, and crying in importunate prayer. Eze.9:4 “The commencement of the time of trouble.” Early Writings, p. 33.
Halloween 20__ 1st 3 ½ years of pre-trib rapture fraud (Everyone misses the rapture and is left behind) until Easter 20__	Pope retires. Secret rapture/alien abduction frauds. Millions in shock and terror that God rejected them after all their worshiping and good living. They cry, “He never knew me!” World begs pope to return. Sunday law passes, prohibition amendment against all vices and violence; pope recalled, prays for mercy. Drug addicts sudden withdrawals. Pope calls for religious “cleanse”. UN mandates removal of Law-keeping “cults” from Earth’s global, pagan culture-religion. As spirits control more Evangelicals & SDAs by Spiritual Formation, they can’t afflict their souls; and God increasingly cuts them off from His Spirit. Vatican eases market sanctions upon countries as they submit to the UN and its agenda of cross-cultural spirituality, transgenderism, celebration of life/ Mother nature religion. Nazi Neo-Roman world empire. Remnant shaken/learn surrender. “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet Him!” The 144K awaken, trim their lamps, “Our faith isn’t empty!” God blots out their sins. They stand on Mt. Zion with the Lamb. “Thou must prophesy again.” Rev.10:11. World sunken in spiritualism. Nations angrier, held in check.
Easter 20__	Anti-Christ
Easter 20__ 2nd 3 ½ years of pre-trib rapture fraud  until Halloween 20__. During Israeli evangelism, appearance of Protestant Adventist preachers filled with the Latter Rain	2nd woe is past; 3rd woe comes quickly. 2nd term President pretends to be Antichrist The 144K wise virgins with perfect humility give Loud Cry of 4th angel. By His Spirit Jesus is close & comforting. Anointed and sealed, the 144K preach to heathen nations and to Protestantism’s agnostics, LGBTQ, atheists, and drug addicted. The everlasting gospel has effect. Final work of Latter Rain and the clergy’s almost superhuman effort to silence it. Pope brands 144K as Arian heretics. Great multitudes in Babylon come out with a high hand; 144K spoil Babylon. “A large number take their stand upon the Lord’s side” (Great Controversy, p. 612). Kingdoms of Earth become God’s again. 3rd woe begins. WWIII. Billions annihilated. “I saw the sword, famine, pestilence, and great confusion in the land” (Early Writings, p. 33, Matt.24:21). WWIII turns against Antichrist-branded 144K and their flocks among the nations. Christian America fights against 144K (remnant Protestants/SDAs) under guise of war against growing terrorist cells. Satan causes meteors and fire to fall. Great Time of Trouble. Many remnant martyred, imprisoned, enslaved (2Cor.4:9) Foolish virgins despairing; they wouldn’t submit to SoP rebukes against sin. Probation closes individually as the Jesuits lead each person to take part in persecuting God’s anointed ones (Great Controversy, p. 627).
Halloween 20__ (end of 7 years since secret rapture fraud) Satan impersonates Jesus (aliens, 12th Imam, Messiah, et al)	A presidential contender has been swept into Oval Office. Probation is closed; Jesus leaves His throne. 3rd woe Nations are enflamed in Spiritual Formation and their manhunt increases. Therefore, by the first plague God vexes them in His indignation; but no more martyrs. Then all the plagues fall. Fearful, supernatural sights in the heavens. Satan and his angels descend with glory to pope and new president who announce a millennium of peace as soon as the Arians are rounded up. Satan applies the prophecy to himself, “The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power.” (2Thess.1:8,9).
(Indeterminate time) Jesus on the way	Satan blesses planet & people. WWIII cease-fire by Jesuits who manipulated their war and now end it. Continued manhunt for cells of sealed Protestant/ Adventist 144K as Satan seeks revenge on God’s children who fought his approaching kingdom. Jacob’s troubles, “but he shall be saved out of it.” (Jer.30:7, cf 1Tim.2:15 1Cor. 10:13; 1Pet.1:7; Heb.10:32-39). 144K and innumerable multitude purified and translateable. Satan’s great, final trouble; WWIII restarts; all elements of human strife let loose. “A tall, commanding angel suffered them not. ‘…They must drink of the cup….’” (Early Writings, p. 272
Jesus arrives	“The voice of God is heard from heaven, declaring the day and hour of Jesus’ coming, and delivering the everlasting covenant to His people. Like peals of loudest thunder His words roll through the earth. The Israel of God stand listening, with their eyes fixed upward. Their countenances are lighted up with His glory, and shine as did the face of Moses when he came down from Sinai. The wicked cannot look upon them. And when the blessing is pronounced on those who have honored God by keeping His Sabbath holy, there is a mighty shout of victory.” (Great Controversy, p. 640). The daytime sky reveals a new object, dark and growing in size. As it slows to sub-light speed the darkness sheds itself, suddenly revealing the brilliance of the true Jesus and His heavenly entourage. “The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night” (2 Pet. 3:10). “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven.

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Pre-Tribulation Secret Rapture scenario

As I have propositioned in my March 12 post, the use of the Pre-trib Secret Rapture falsehood is very likely to be pulled off by the group who first invented it in 1590, the Jesuits. To learn more about its origin watch, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JZHX5NZSjQ

Wikipedia shows that in 1590 Jesuit Francisco Ribera taught futurism, which was the interpretation of Bible prophecy that turned the Protestant Reformers’ accusation of the papal dynasty as the biblical Daniel 8:10-25/Daniel 11:21-45 man of sin into an individual who would appear and seek to overthrow the truth in the earth. He taught that Jesus would return 45 days before the end of a 3 1/2 year tribulation.

Wikipedia article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ribera

In order to remove the papacy of the Catholic Church from consideration as the Antichrist (as an act of countering the Protestant Reformation)^{[citation needed]}, Ribera began writing a lengthy (500 page) commentary in 1585 on the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse) titled In Sacrum Beati Ioannis Apostoli, & Evangelistiae Apocalypsin Commentarij, proposing that the first few chapters of the Apocalypse apply to ancient pagan Rome, and the rest he limited to a yet future period of 3½ literal years, immediately prior to the second coming. During that time, the Roman Catholic Church would have fallen away from the pope into apostasy because of the Reformation cry stating that "the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist." (Martin Luther, Aug. 18, 1520). Then, he proposed, the Antichrist, a single individual, would:

• Persecute and blaspheme the saints of God
• Rebuild the temple in Jerusalem
• Abolish the Christian religion
• Deny Jesus Christ
• Destroy Rome
• Be received by the Jews
• Pretend to be God
• Kill the two witnesses of God
• Conquer the world.

To accomplish this, Ribera proposed that the 1260 days and 42 months and 3½ times of prophecy were not 1260 years as based on the year-day principle (Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6), but a literal 3½ years, hence preventing the arrival of the deduction of (i) the 1260 years.

Jesuit priest Ribera’s interpretation used biblical time prophecy literally rather than symbolically, which is the way the rest of Daniel and Revelation present the repeated 1,260 day, 42 month, and the time (year), times (2 years), and half a time prophecy (6 month). By interpreting literally, Francisco Ribera destroyed the correct understanding of the prophecy’s many centuries long time-frame, and pointed the Lord’s warning away from the Roman Papacy, the real enemy of God, to a fictitious person who would appear far in the Church’s distant future.

Nevertheless, it is my opinion--my opinion--that because Jesuit Ribera's Pre-trib Secret Rapture scenario has survived almost 430 years, and that throughout the centuries the Jesuits have developed this falsehood further than its original form, that there is no reason to assume that they will not use it. Keep in mind that Noah Webster’s 1828 dictionary defined the work of Jesuits thus:
JESUITISM, n. The arts, principles and practices of the Jesuits.
1. Cunning, deceit; hypocrisy; prevarication; deceptive practices to effect a purpose.

And that purpose is the reason that the Jesuit order exists: the return of Protestant Americans to Mother Church, and the utter extermination of Protestant America and Protestantism, its biblical doctrines and its United States Constitution.

This Pre-Trib Secret Rapture can as easily be accomplished, as was Orson Welles’ 1938 Radio Broadcast, which created a panic from many of the estimated 32 million radio listeners. Today, 4 billion of the 7.6 billion people on earth use the internet, which is owned by the same power that controls the rest of the media--the Jesuit order. Millions of Christians around the globe are already taken by the Pre-Trib Secret Rapture deception. A hoax and panic on an unprecedented scale could very easily be accomplished with so many waiting on bated breath for the Rapture, the scenario of which includes no signs leading up to it. All the signs that Jesus left us to know of His Advent the Jesuits have stolen from the people of the Book, and have redirected to occur after the Secret Rapture that is an invisible event. With no signs of an expected invisible event, it won’t take much to grab the fear of expectant multitudes of the Evangelical masses.

But, even though my scenario is only conjectural, please remember that today’s delusions are real and that the unbiblical Pre-Trib Secret Rapture hoax will happen with some power and glory, though not to the infinite magnitude of our Creator’s return. His biblical return will come as "sudden destruction" (1Thess. 5:3, cf Isa. 13:5-13; Rev. 19:11-17; Rev. 16:12) to a deluded Evangelical church, the day of which will "overtake you as a thief" (1Thess. 5:4). Satan has designed the Pre-Trib Secret Rapture eschatology to lead billions to be taken by his impersonation of Christ when, with his shining angels 7 years after the invisible Secret Rapture fraud, he descends and announces his long advertised millennium of peace on Earth.

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: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness (2 Thess. 2:9-12).

President seen as great world leader. Later,  he is seen as a cause of world market plunge, and as the Antichrist. Protestant Americans are aghast, especially Republican Evangelicals because they were expecting a Russian or U.N. Antichrist. President plays part of a self-promoting Protestant dictator. President remains in office for indefinite presidency. Amongst the political and social upheaval, the Latter Rain comes to those who have been sighing and repenting, who are sanctified by the Early Rain’s gospel of justification by faith and sanctification by faith and who were working in cooperation with Jesus for the salvation of others. This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come--the abomination of desolation. Republican dictator turns war effort against the Latter Rain gospel workers. Faction of Catholic presidential contender clashes with the Protestant Antichrist. She defeats him and wins favor as New World/ American savior. Catholic Democrat President swept into Oval Office to destroy wayward Protestant Republicanism. She exalts the Vatican, which gave her the victory over the Protestant Antichrist. By legislation, Pope and new Catholic President require the abomination of desolation Spiritual Formation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, to be practiced weekly. 8th Beast goes into perdition/ total delusion. Papal popularity reaches cosmic heights (Dan. 8:10; Rev. 13:12). America and world populations follow after the Vatican Beast and are cut off from the great Judge of all the earth and His Intercessor. God’s Protestant and Adventist peoples, and a great multitude sprinkled around the world, are sealed and ready for Jesus’ return. Their sins are blotted out and they are prepared for the final troubles. Heavenly temple cleansed. Great tribulation such as never was. Jacob’s troubles. World delights in Satan as their messiah. All the world worships their messiah, the Vatican Beast, and Democratic Christian America.

Secret rapture dismal disappointment for Evangelical Christians. First 3 ½ years for left behind people (which is everyone). Antichrist unmasked. Second 3 ½ years of tribulation for deceived and desperate left behind people. This is a ploy by the Jesuits to later swing America into a Democratic form of a totalitarian government to destroy Protestant Republicanism by a new president. She will be praised for her work in women’s liberation. Her publicity from previous political endeavors will give her instant backing in 20__. Satan impersonates Christ’s 2nd coming. Jesus is on the way