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).
