Age-ending Stock-taking (3rd Age)

See the introduction and series here

3rd Age Genesis 6 Equivalent

The Bible, history, human nature, and current events, together,
give us more than adequate information to guesstimate
the age-ending conditions in the 3rd-through-6th ages.
Come along as I imagine their ‘Genesis 6 equivalents’.

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¹ And it came to pass in the latter days of the 3rd age, that multitudes filled the Earth with the fruits of their evil desires.

² Many approved Salvation Interns in The Lord’s Kingdom looked upon the ways of the world, and found them pleasing. They mingled their loyalties, and compromised their Internship covenant with those not of His Kingdom.

³ The Lord determined He would vomit them out of His mouth, as He had threatened to do to many in the 1st century Church at Laodicea.

⁴ There are giants on the Earth in every sector of life: giant corporations and executives; giant political personalities; giant entertainment/social media stars; giant criminal enterprises; and much more. These are the mighty upon the who corrupt all the Earth.  

⁵ Thus, distinctions between The Lord’s righteous Interns, and the profane peoples of the world, began to blur in the eyes of all peoples. The thoughts of their hearts are only of evil, continually.

⁶ It grieves The Lord how love for Him and His covenant ways had grown cold in the hearts and lives of all peoples, including many in His Church. Their worship is loud and vigorous, with hands lifted high, but their hearts and lifestyles are far from Him, and they refuse to labor in His vineyard.

⁷ Because they ignored His many, passionate warnings, He turned them over to the spirit of delusion, that they might believe errant teachings and obvious lies they call ‘alternative facts’.

⁸ Yet there are a few—hidden and despised—who remain faithful to their Salvation Internship covenant.

⁹ Many were the children of parents who had earlier planted righteous seeds in their young ones, with full faith in Proverbs 22:6. Though they strayed, these children of His faithful saints, eventually learned to walk with The Lord.

¹⁰ And some of these children have begun to train their children in the ways of The Lord. 

¹¹ But because cups of iniquity across the world are close to full, He knew His Spirit would not strive much longer with people in the 3rd age. The time of His 3rd harvest of the righteous is drawing near.

¹² Yet He delayed His judgments, for He had sworn by Himself to give them all more time and Grace for genuine repentance.

¹³ But silent and boisterous scoffers arose asking, ‘Where is the promise of His coming?!’ They cause many souls to doubt, and many of The Lord’s Interns to die in doubt, rather than in faith, thus forfeiting their salvation.

¹⁴ But to His faithful Interns, His watchers, The Lord gave dreams and visions; fresh insights into His repeating, strategic patterns; and passions to spread them across the world, as He had promised. 

¹⁵ Insights He poured out were like rain upon dry, hard ground, leaving deep puddles for perceptive hearts and minds to soak-up, preparing them for The Lord’s ‘Goshen-effect’ protection in His pending, 3rd age harvest of the righteous dead and alive.

¹⁶ Concurrently, The Lord ramped-up His 4 judgment henchmen of famines, wars, wild beasts attacks and pestilences, causing many to think and cry out, ‘apocalyptic!’ Seeing these patterns, some of His righteous Interns redoubled their efforts to warn all people, especially The Lord’s faithful Intern saints, and those who had departed the faith—apostates.

¹⁷ Aided by technologies, The Ark of The Gospel of Christ spread to all nations as a final witness, as The Lord had promised. It is attracting some new Salvation Interns. Many of those who are attracted in the 4th age, and who remain faithful, will be ‘Goshen-effect’ sheltered during the global persecution of saints in that age.

¹⁸ With those who will be ‘sustainably faithful’, The Lord is establishing His covenant, and is motivating them to testify of Him through their transformed lifestyles and righteous deeds.

¹⁹ These late-age. 3rd age fruits are a prelude to 144,000 anointed/sealed Jewish witnesses whom The Lord will raise up in the 4th age, to catalyze a highly successful, worldwide revival. 

²⁰ His harvest sickle is in hand, and His threshing floor is being made ready. Those who ‘sleep in Christ’ will soon be awakened to full immortality, to be joined with His saints who remain alive.

²¹ Together they will be raised-up high, as raptured immortals, to be with The Lord as His forever saints. Then shall the 3rd age close—not with noise, but with frightful cries across the Earth over the after-effects of that global event.

²² The stage will then be set for revealing [uncloaking] the man of satan—the final anti-Christ, to rise quickly to global influence and power. Selah.