After what has long been, and that which currently is --
(Wars, famines, pestilences and beast attacks), 1
Will be the time of the man, who will be satan’s wiz.
With him in charge, righteousness will then be sacked! 2
Imagine …the sum of man’s intelligence in his hands,
And satan at the controls of his pride-filled heart and soul,
Preparing the entire world for his ‘mark of the beast’ brand.
Next will be The Lord’s judgments sent via trumpets and bowls. 3
Who among us can honestly deny or doubt,
That The Lord God has LONG opened the first four seals
on His scroll?!?
When the fifth seal is opened, the anti-Christ’s clout,
Will have nations across the world …under his ruthless control!
No one knows the time between opening the fourth and fifth seals,
But ‘signs of the time’ suggest the clock on history’s third age, 4
Has little time left before this man brings the whole world …‘to heel’.
We in Christ won’t be ‘left behind’, since we’re both
righteous and sage. 5
Get ready, get ready, stay r-e-a-d-y!
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1 See: Ezekiel 14:12-23
2 The anti-Christ will be fully possessed by satan, himself! See: Anti-Christ (Series)
3 See: Revelation – Unsealing the Scroll (Series), Revelation – Seven Trumpets Sounds (Series) and Revelation – Seven Bowls Poured (Series)
4 The Bible reveals to us The Lord’s multi-millennial strategy for humanity, comprising seven ages: (1) pre-flood, (2) post-flood/pre-cross, (3) post-cross (Church Age), (4) tribulation/great tribulation, (5) Millennial Reign, (6) post-Millennial Reign, and (7) eternity. We are now nearing the end of the third age, and predictions regarding its end have been lining up at an alarming rate. Transitions between each age are triggered by some form of global judgment event. See: Ages Transitions Global Judgments (Poem)
5 Based on The Lord’s long-practiced and promised ‘Goshen Effect’, I believe the rapture of 3rd age saints will occur before the anti-Christ man is revealed. In fact, this is exactly what Apostle Paul was inspired to write in 2 Thessalonians 2. Folks who disbelieve this prediction do all sorts of ‘Bible gymnastics’ to get around it. Most importantly, they fail to perceive The Lord’s strategy ‘to harvest’ a small remnant of saints from five of the six pre-eternity ages of history. Thus, they assume references to ‘saints’ during the Revelation plagues refer to 3rd age believers. Rather, these references are to ‘tribulation age saints’, as explained in Audacious Christians (Poem, Part 2).
God’s word is true. We can’t stop the end-of time prophecy and we cannot slow it down. We can prepare based on the fact that Jesus was resurrected from the grave. He is still providing instructions, and we only need to follow them. Trust, believe, pray, learn
ReplyDeleteHello, and thanks for your comment and for reading this poem.
ReplyDeleteConsider this: Matthew 24:14 and 2 Peter 3:10-13 may be conceptually and strategically linked. Remember, Peter was likely there when The Lord spoke Matthew 24: 13, so he would have known the ‘key criterion’ governing The Lord’s return. Moreover, The Lord must have had a strategic reason for inspiring Peter to use the phrase, ‘…hastening the coming of the day of God…’. If so, then we bona fide saints of Christ can indeed ‘collectively influence’ when He returns ‘for us’ in the rapture, and later ‘with us’ for His Millennial Reign. Ever thought of that?
In our day, we are literally witnessing what Paul predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, the great ‘falling away’ from the faith, PLUS what Jesus predicted in Revelation 3:16. The COMBINED impact of these two events, happening concurrently, could be having a serious, negative influences on accomplishing what Jesus mentioned in Matthew 24:14 and Mark 16:15.
This is a clear indication that ALL remaining faithful, bona fide Christ followers must help to ‘take up the collective slack’ in spreading The Gospel. But what’s the likelihood of that happening if we are taught and believe we have absolutely no influence on when He will return? We can blame such attitudes on improper teachings, and lackadaisical attitudes toward deep study of The Word across the world. In some respects, we are now like the Church in Loadicea in Revelation 3.
For more, please see:
What Is The Gospel? (Poem)
https://jwootenjr.blogspot.com/2023/01/what-is-gospel-poem.html
Laodicean Lackadaisicalness (Series)
https://jwootenjr.blogspot.com/p/laodicean-lackadaisicalness-series.html