Post-6th Seal - Initial Reactions? (Pic updated)

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As I studied the global event depicted in Revelation 6:12-17, I pondered how people might react:

  A. In the immediate aftermath of the global destruction, and

  B. After the relief, recovery and rehabilitation phases will have been completed, likely under the anti-Christ’s global regime.

 

In the immediate aftermath, I imagine:

  •  People across the world will emerge from their predicted hiding places and may be totally shocked at the extent of the damages, and may wonder how in the world will they recover. 

  •  If that event will have been ‘cover’ for the predicted resurrection/rapture of all bona fide 3rd age saints, people will gradually realize many people are missing, and possibly, many graves have been burst open! 

  •  Fake, secret agent, Christianesque, and apostate Christians might be freaking out that they were ‘left behind!’ Having some clues of what that signifies, many of them will likely return to exceptionally strong Christian faith, even preparing themselves to ‘go through’ the pending great tribulation—the apocalypse and/or be beheaded for their faith. (See: Revelation 7:9-17)

  •  Not long after that, I imagine everybody will begin to cry out for somebody—ANYBODY to take charge and lead the relief, recovery and rehabilitation work that most certainly will be desperately needed!

Post-6th Seal - Later Reactions?

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We have generally become so predictable in how we explain away natural and cosmic events, and repetitive patterns across history as anything but God-caused. That’s just one way we have increasingly diminished, and later, effectively deleted Him from having any agency in our lives, national/global affairs, and His own creation! Yet The Bible predicts we will have the opposite reaction to His next, scheduled global, cosmic disruption to our lives—the impacts of His opening the 6th seal on a scroll. (See: Revelation 6:12-17) It predicts people across the world will SEE Him on His Throne, and therefore will know He is the source of the global mayhem! In Apocalypse Preview, I review this strange flip, and conclude our general unfamiliarity with The Book of Revelation, might automatically lead people to think, erroneously, His 6th seal event will be the apocalypse and His so-called 'second return or coming'. It will be neither. They and most Christians don't realize The Bible confirms His 2nd return already happened over 2,000 years ago! 

 

Ignorance-based deception

best explains that likely reaction.

Apocalypse Missed Insights! (Poem)

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BAM!!!

The FIRST blow of major renovations,

That’ve been ordered on your place!

But for you, there’s no planned relocation!

And it’s one that will be …slow-paced!!

 

The advanced notice, you left un-opened.

In shock, there’s no one to blame.

With such matters, you would not be burdened!

Others also share your shame. ¹ 

Bifurcated 'Ranks-Thinning'

Ranks-thinning or thinning out the ranks is a formal or informal process in which large organizations reduce specific people or numbers of people or things engaging in an organized activity. It is typically a practice of any significantly large enterprise—an army, large corporation, governmental agency, etc. Reductions-in-Force (RIFs) are more formal, less personal ways such organizations reduce and restructure themselves by focusing more on positions than specific people or things. Other such terms include right-sizing or down-sizing, organizational trimming, trimming the fat, etc. 

 

But what might ‘bifurcated ranks-thinning’ signify?? Moreover, what place might it have in a blog that accentuates and promotes patterned analysis of Biblical strategies?! It is my label for what I perceive The Lord may have done during the winding-down of the pre-flood age—the 1st Biblical age of human history, and possibly during the winding down of the pre-cross age—the 2nd Biblical age. Let’s try to define ‘bifurcated ranks-thinning’, then consider whether this scenario might be yet another repetitive pattern revealed and/or hinted across the pages of The Bible.

Progressive Performance Probation Plan? (Part 1)

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In Salvation, an Internship (Poem), I posit that Christianity is effectively Heaven’s internship for The Lord’s would-be eternal saints. Revelation 3:14-22 give us the clearest evidence of this concept that is also evident across The Bible. While The Lord’s Grace is extended to all who will believe and receive Him as Lord, the persistent storyline, from Genesis-to-Revelation, is that His eternal Grace is only guaranteed to those of us who pass His tests until death in this earthly life. So the ‘touchstone’ notion of Christianity (i.e., confess Christ, get baptized, go to church, get on with life) is a false version of Christianity that satan and his crew would ABSOLUTELY LOVE for more of us to embrace, rather than a ‘good works, performance-based’ version of the Christian life. Apostle Paul iteratively attests we are created in Christ FOR GOOD WORKS that, in various ways, promote His kingdom on this version of Earth. Revelation 19:6-8 give us the clearest explanation of the eternal objective of our good works—to adorn The Lord’s Bride which is apparently NOT the 3rd age church, as most of us have likely been taught. (See: The Bride of Christ (Series))

Progressive Performance Probation Plan? (Part 2)

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The Lord is THE most STRATEGIC being in existence! The breadth and depths of His various strategies are unknowable to us. BUT, The Bible gives us more than adequate repetitive patterns and insights into His thoughts, ways and preferences for us. He must intend us to study them diligently, and to perceive well beyond the written texts with the aid of His Holy Spirit. Apostle Paul’s writings collectively signal to all bona fide saints that the mysteries of God are hidden FROM sinners, but FOR us believers. But their availability does not mean they are automatically known by all of us. That requires diligent, Holy Spirit-guided study and meditation, followed by diligent Spirit-led efforts to share with interested others what we have perceived, just as Jesus, the prophets and the apostles did. 

Progressive Performance Probation Plan? (Part 3)

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Who Will Judge Whom?

 

While The Bible iteratively affirms Father God has delegated ALL judgments to Jesus, The Lord God, Paul indicates Jesus will delegate judgment of angels to His tested/proven saints. Are you ready for that?! Paul does not reveal which angels we will judge, or when that judgment will occur. This is what I intuit: 

 

The Bible attests that human saints will stand before The Lord’s judgment seat for our performance/good works to be scrutinized. This might either occur sequentially when the various ‘first resurrection’ groups will enter into Heaven, or possibly when all of His saints will be together in Heaven. (See: Biblical Raptures – Types and Timings (Series)) Paul signals that we immortal saints ‘will judge angels’. It is unclear which group of angels we will judge. Here’s what I intuit:

This Scene Will Never Happen! (Poem)

The Bible says the 'FIRST’ resurrection/rapture,

Is for God’s saints who, in life, will have sacrificed,

By transforming our lifestyles, His heart to capture,

Since for us, He sacrificed, and paid our sin price. ¹

The Lord and AI (Part 1)

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Jesus, The Lord God, is The Quintessential lesson planner! He patiently prepared a wide range of lessons to capture our attention in order to warn and teach us about His ways and expectations of us in order to attract His boundless blessings. Reflecting on this pattern across The Bible, I pondered why has AI manifested on the scene, especially in such a speedy manner, during what may be the late stage of the 3rd Biblical age of our history? While pondering, I quickly perceived The Lord and AI have several things in common, but in uniquely different ways. So let’s explore whether AI might in some way be or become His latest lesson for us, and if so, what might that lesson be.

The Lord and AI (Part 2)

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AI, Heaven’s Possible Lesson Plan?

 

Part 1 posits whether the development of agentic AI might possibly be or become an instrument The Lord has allowed to develop at this stage in the 3rd Biblical age, to teach us some pivotal lesson(s). If/IF this is possible, the natural question is:

 

What lesson(s) might The Lord intend for us to learn from agentic AI,

lessons we very likely will deny, ignore and refuse to learn,

then pay high costs because we didn’t,

like we did with all of His prior lessons?

 

Of course, no one knows, but here are a few good, Bible-based clues: