Anti-Christ: Not Who! Why? (Poem, Part 4)

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For Christ’s born-again saints, who the anti-Christ might be,

Should be a subject about which we are worry-free!

Likewise, any concerns at all about his ‘mark of the beast’,

Should never be given a foothold to steal our peace!

The only reason saints might be concerned with such, I suspect,

Is not knowing, understanding or believing The Lord’s text,

Or being uninformed about The Lord’s Goshen Effects,

His ‘Egypt-previewed’ plans, His preferred peoples to protect. ¹

Some of us apparently may be somewhat confused,

About the word, saints, in Revelation that is used.

Failing to discern the ‘seven ages of humanity’, 

They may believe saints in Revelation, are us, presently. ²

Lack of study, improper teachings, and hearsay,

Are always guaranteed, The Lord’s Truth to betray.

So for now, let’s put these aside, and focus on His ‘why?’

‘Why the anti-Christ’, since his time seems to be very nigh.

Let’s put on our strategic-thinking caps, and The Mind of Christ,

To perceive His multi-millennial strategic plan, sliced.

Along the way, some other issues may become clear,

As into the distant past and near future, we peer.

The Lord designed His creation, physical,

Based on His ‘seed, time and harvest’ principle. 

Within this context, everything, bar nothing,

Begins as a seed, His ‘instructions coding’.

But don’t think of seeds as only those that are physical!

Seeds may also be spiritual or conceptual,

Including words, thoughts, ideas and deeds,

They all produce assigned fruits to meet some needs.

Within this construct, The Lord introduced resistance,

Some kind of pressure seeds need, to meet their assignments,

Producing their intended fruits or results.

Overcoming resistance is difficult. ³

As the final and highest part of His creation,

Mankind is The Lord’s highest, strategic seed, bar none,

The intended ‘fruits’ of which are praise and glory, mutual,

From humans who’ll become immortal, whom He calls ‘like angels’. ⁴

In Heaven…

Lucifer and his angel cohorts attempted a coup,

And from Heaven they were excommunicated. Adieu!!!

On Earth…

They landed here as a devilish crew,

Where everything right(eous) they overthrew! ⁵

Thus, as resistance in The Lord’s strategic plan,

They serve His ‘seed, time and harvest’ design’s demand!

Next, let’s apply this to the anti-Christ,

To understand this strategic plan slice…

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¹ See: Anti-Christ: Not Who! When? (Poem, Part 1) and also The Goshen Effect (Series)

² The Bible reveals seven ‘ages’ of and for humanity: (1) pre-flood, (2) post-flood/pre-cross, (3) post-cross (Church Age), (4) tribulation period, (5) Millennial Reign, (6) post-Millennial Reign, and (7) eternity. With such a GRAND, multi-millennial strategic plan, The Lord harvests ‘saints fruits’ from five of the first six ages for our seventh age. Ponder that… See Part 5. I do not perceive there might be salvations in The Millennial Reign age, as we currently know salvation. For an in-depth explanation, please see: Salvation in the Millennium (Series).

³ See: You Almighty (Poem)

⁴ This does not mean we will become angels! See: Lost Angels Not for Like-Angels. Contrary to popular beliefs, seeded by some errant Bible translations, mankind was not created a little below the angels, but a little below The Godhead (The Holy Trinity). Why only a few Bible translations got this critical point correct is a mystery, but it reportedly relates to King Janes’ translators being too shy to include this unbelievable point in their reports to the king! Incredible, if true! Angels were created to serve The Godhead and mankind, as we join them in serving Jesus, The Lord God. Period. See also: Ye Are gods (Series)

⁵ See: Which Bible Books to Read First (Q&A)

Global Earthquake Confirmed (Poem)

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Students of The Holy Bible, The Mind of Christ,

Learn the gravity of prophecies written thrice.

Understanding key aspects of what’s on His Mind,

Is intended to help us, with Him to align. ¹

And when more than three times some key points are affirmed,

Perceive by exclamation points, they are CONFIRMED!!!

That is when, to the world, He is is signaling,

Precepts about which folks …should be trembling!!!

A  massive, global earthquake is on Earth’s horizon,

As affirmed and confirmed in 13 prophetic mentions,

Across both the Old and New Testaments,

Impacting all islands and continents. ²

Planned to occur near the end of the great tribulation,

It'll signal the end of the first promise land invasion,

And the beginning of The Lord’s Millennial reign.

That’s when survivors are forced into His ‘righteousness lane’.

Earth quaking…

In Israel, anti-Christ armies will meltdown,

And every mountain, hill and wall will then fall down,

Filling in valleys until all the land is a plain.

But Jerusalem will be a highly raised terrain. ³

Earth shaking…

And with the whole world rocking and reeling,

No wall anywhere will be left standing.

Across the Earth, all steep places shall fall,

As she hears and obeys The Lord’s ‘shake’ call!

Search for commentaries on the significance of this,

There is one, key perspective you might very likely miss.

There’s confusion about which of these points prophetical,

Are spiritual, metaphorical or physical!

Many Bible prophecies tie folks up in knots,

When, between key points, they fail to connect the dots.

As between all The Lord’s ’shake the Earth’ prophecies,

We connect strategic dots, I’ll share what I ‘see’. 

Isaiah ‘saw’ global leveling of valleys, mountains and hills.

There’re many views, but only one correlates to, and would fulfill,

What Ezekiel ‘saw’ at the end of the first invasion:

At The Lord’s fury, all mountains and steep places cast down!

Except…

Jerusalem is raised up in Israel, then a plain!

These views suggest all but one place on Earth will be a plain!

Could this hint at a lesson that Nimrod once learned,

The same by which, today, Afghanistan is ‘burned’?  ⁴

Lesson: Governance is enhanced, in a plain’s broad expanse! 

The Lord says, ‘once again’ He’ll shake Earth to move out of her place.

If He’s did this before, in the flood were continents then placed??!

Could this be The Lord’s complex strategy,

To reshape Earth’s total topography?? ⁵

Continents united…?

One language selected…?

Folks in a plain, the world over…!

And for a while, a lot fewer…! ⁶

Earth, shaken out of her ‘now’ place…?

Returning to her ‘prior’ base…?

Tribulation is over and folks are glad…!

One king, as Adam and Nimrod’s subjects had…! ⁷

This won't be the worst earthquake EVER!

Other GREAT quakes are in Earth's future!

The final one will end our Earth forever,

Replaced with a version that'll last FOREVER! ⁸

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¹ In reiterating key prophecies, The Lord apparently practices His key principle iterated in these verses: Deuteronomy 17:6, 19:15, Matthew 18:16, 2 Corinthians 13:1 and Hebrews 10:28.

² See: Isaiah 2:19;21, 13:13, 24:19-20; Ezekiel 38:19-20; Haggai 2:6-7& 22; Matthew 24:7-8, 29-30; Mark 13:8-9, 24-25; Luke 21:10-11, 25-28; Hebrews 12:25-26; and Revelation 16:17-18. Ponder this: the number, 13, never refers to anything considered good. 

A key point in understanding Bible prophecies is to study them in context of how they reinforce each other to discern which points are metaphorical versus physical. So much of  The Bible is metaphorical in The Lord’s endeavor to explain spiritual things to us who are corporeal. Thus, we may easily miss His points when He’s really speaking of physical things.  The fact that, in the same verse, Ezekiel 38:20 mentions mountains, steep places and walls being thrown down, seems to eliminate the interpretation that the words, mountains and hills, refer to human governance institutions, as they do in many other Bible verses. I believe this verse is not metaphorical, but refers to the physical reshaping of the topography of Israel, and Earth, writ large. Yet many, if not most, Bible commentators omit to make this link. Consider the many references in The Bible to hills and mountains ‘melting’ in the presence of The Lord, obviously referring to the Earth quaking, not a spiritual or metaphorical phenomenon.

³ See: Zechariah 14:10-12

⁴ See: Genesis 10:8-12 and 11:2. Nimrod was king over several cities. Afghanistan’s difficult mountainous topography, ethnic complexity, and tribal and local loyalties produce enduring political fragmentation.

⁵ Some scientists and Bible scholars understand Earth was one land mass. Some Bible scholars understand the worst ever earthquake, promised in Isaiah 13:13 and Haggai 2:6, might rejoin all continents and eliminate all mountains and valleys, physically. This plausible notion indicates the purpose of mountains might be to make room for flood waters, especially since there is no mention of oceans in the first 6 chapters (pre-flood) of Genesis.  I find it insightful that there are 7 continents separating the floodwaters. Biblically, the number, 7, is significant from several perspectives.

⁶ See: Zephaniah 3:9 (re. one language) and Isaiah 13:12 (very sparse human population). The Book of Revelation is also very clear on the devastating impacts tribulation plagues will have on the populations of human, animal and sea creatures. Read it often and be blessed per Revelation 22:7.

⁷ Before Adam and Eve sinned, The Lord was effectively Adam’s ‘king’. Prior base refers to pre-flood and pre-Tower of Babel.

⁸ B  A trio of Scripture passages (2 Peter 3:10-13, Revelation 20:11 and 21:1) bespeak the pending, total destruction of this current universe, including Earth.

Anti-Christ: Not Who! How? (Poem, Part 3)

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  One who’ll arise on the world’s stage will be ‘the son of satan’,

An attractive, wise man, before, by plagues, the world is smitten. ¹

Called ‘anti-Christ’ in The Bible, he’ll quickly rise to power,

And over most things in life on Earth, he will then soon tower.

While many folks long wondered who this man might be in their days,

Reportedly, some Christians were even caught up in this maze.

This suggests, of what The Bible says about his arrival,

They weren’t aware, so they ‘cast shadows’ on foes, political.

The Bible is clear: He won’t be revealed until we’re gone,

And that we’ll encounter him when, with Christ, we return home. ²

Rather than focusing on ‘who’ he’ll be, it's more instructive,

To learn how, to folks, he’ll be so …deceptively impressive!

As noted, he’ll be as wise as he’ll be attractive,

Qualities that, across our world, are soooo lucrative!

Possibly in response to demands from folks all over,

He’ll apply these qualities to mounting plagues disasters!

Recall how ancient Egyptian magicians responded,

To pre-exodus plagues when their nation was desponded?

At first, when they had some responsive successes,

‘Till The Lord ‘turned up the heat’ on their circuses!! ³

Now recall how, during His three-year ministry circuits,

Jesus attracted LARGE crowds for His ‘miracle credits’.

Since devils are not creative beings, they only mimic,

Whatever they experienced in, and saw from Heaven’s tactics. ⁴

But Jesus only moved within a small radius.

And His meetings were in no way …‘techno-copious’!

Imagine the kinds of incredibly good things he did,

Being flipped for wicked use across the world's entire grid!!

Add to your imagination easy access,

To every modern technological progress,

In a world being slammed with The Lord’s worst ever punishments!!

Voila! That’s the broad outline of the anti-Christ’s government!

There’s one thing Jesus sparked that folks in His day did not know,

Something the anti-Christ will try in his scenario:

Across the world, Jesus caused ALL of the calendars to change!

An angel told Dan, ‘The law and times he’ll try to rearrange.’ ⁵

Many nations changed their calendars when they realized,

The significance of Christ’s life, after He was crucified.

With BC and AD notations, His cross now's the fulcrum,

Of how the world divides ‘core time’ since creation of Adam. ⁶

Incredibly jealous of this significance and glory,

The anti-Christ will try his best to enhance his own story.

But he will fail, and will do so very miserably,

When, in BLAZING GLORY, Christ starts His …global Monarchy! ⁷

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¹ See: Daniel 7:20, Zephaniah 3, Haggai 2, Zechariah 14, Matthew 24, and Revelation 7

² See: 2 Thessalonians 2. Apostle Paul attests 3rd age believers, both dead and alive, will be resurrected and raptured, prior to the revealing of the anti-Christ. Many Bible teachers erroneously teach that Bible references to ‘saints’ during the 4th age of history, the tribulation age, refer to is 3rd age Christians! Matthew 27:51-53 reveal ALL 1st and 2nd ages believers, were resurrected with Jesus. A few were seen in and around Jerusalem. Worldwide, there were raptured, very likely onto thr long-promised, new, eternal Earth. See: Earth’s Next Versions (Series). Thus, we will only encounter him, his prophet/prime minister, and his 7-10 national allies, when we return, With The Lord, to end the Two Future Attacks in Israel, and begin His Millennial Reign. 

³ See: Exodus 7-12

⁴ Recall, devils are fallen angels who were once holy in Heaven, so they had a good understanding of ‘how Heaven works’. They also know The Holy Scriptures very well, including their final, hellish judgment foretold therein. Finally, they studied Jesus very meticulously! I have wondered if they, or perhaps only Lucifer, may have also had access to, and detailed, predictive insights from The Scripture of Truth. 

⁵ See: Daniel 7:25

⁶ Our times are divided into seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, centuries, and millennia. The core, most relevant parts are …the middle three, tracked by our various calendar systems. See: What is the meaning of BC and AD?

⁷ See: Imminent Eminence (Poem) and Government-in-Waiting

Anti-Christ: Not Who! What? (Poem, Part 2)

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Since BC times, Christians reportedly speculated,

About who was the anti-Christ man in their days,

And on political opponents, many cast this title.

But today, if Christians believe what is written in The Bible,

And understand The Lord’s ‘Goshen Effect’ displays,

Then from such temptations, they should be well-insulated. ¹

But apparently some don’t, and therefore, they’re not.

Besmirching political opponents as ‘the’ anti-Christ,

Continues even in our days.

This is the message Paul relays:

The Holy Spirit now restrains this man from coming to light.

When The Holy Spirit leaves, this man will be …hot! ²

Since The Holy Spirit gave birth to The Church,

It’s safe to believe He’ll leave when she’s raptured.

Therefore, by this man, The Church will not be confronted.

Until…

With Christ, we’ll face him on …Armageddon’s battlefront!!!

But what will happen when this man is captured,

When by Christ, he is knocked off his global perch?!

Paul says he will be consumed by The Lord’s breath and brightness.

Zachariah says, right where they stand on Israel’s mountains,

His armies, not him, will completely dissolve! ³

Isaiah say more than this man is involved!!!

To comprehend this, let’s sip from several …‘Bible fountains’.

Hold on tight, because this may challenge your …‘Bible nimbleness’.

Remember…

Biblical wisdom is hidden for, not from us,

Us who are diligent, born-again Truth seekers.

Thus, the world in all of its machinations,

Works to captivate our imaginations,

To the point where we become its own soothsayers,

 Crowding out any and everything from Jesus.

The Bible paints this aggregate, using typologies.

The anti-Christ’s government shall comprise four parts:

At its core will be satan, formerly Lucifer.

From him will arise ten strongmen, national leaders.

Next is his son, a man, who will capture folks’ hearts.

Lastly, a prophet will promote the son’s mythologies.

Into his son and his son’s prophet, satan will pour,

The fullness of his dark, Christ-, Jews- and saints-hating spirit.

With the objective the whole world to dominate,

And all folks who convert to Christ to decapitate,

He’ll ensure everyone else joins him in hell’s fiery pit.

His final destination The Lord God has in store. ⁴

With a large, hot war strewn across Israel’s mountains,

She’ll be desperate for relief from the Gog/Magog attack!

Thus, The Lord will fulfill Zechariah’s prophecy, so stark. ⁵

But wait…

These armies are just an instrument of the global monarch!

I suspect the main ‘playahs’ will be somewhere else, laying back!

So what will The Lord have in store for these barbarians?!

Revelation answers from the spiritual side:

All devils will be locked away, their judgment pending.

Will they join all those devils who ‘left their proper domain’,

Causing The Lord to send the flood, and these devils detain??

To hell with them?! Nope! Just a temporary benching! ⁶

For now, let’s move on over to the physical side.

To both sides, Isaiah shares with us all that he knew:

The Lord will punish the host of exalted ones on high,

And on Earth, the kings will be imprisoned, and later punished.

Revelation 19 says the the two key men will be banished,

Cast into the lake of fire burning with brimstone, alive!

This suggests they will then be immortal, through and through!!! 7

By then, we immortal saints may know the full details,

Of the temporary benching of these dreadful foes.

For now, we know at the end of The Millennial Reign,

From his prison, satan will be released, on Earth ‘to raise Cain!’

And in another war, Israel will meet its foes,

Whom The Lord will destroy, and His ‘new’ saints will prevail. ⁸

Conclusion

Like a predator in a tank of fish shipped shore-to-shore, ⁹

The kingdom of satan is serving The Lord’s strategy:

To reveal and challenge His saints to be strong overcomers,

And allow devils to become other folks’ manipulators.

Both The Kingdom of God and of satan are seemingly,

Achieving their objectives through …things we love and abhor.

Caveat!!!

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¹ See: Goshen Effect (Series)

² Poetically summarized. See: 2 Thessalonians 2. The ‘falling away’ from the faith that Paul mentions is evident across the world today, right on schedule. By ‘hot’, I mean attractively revealed. Daniel 7:20 reveals the anti-Christ man will be very attractive, and we (and devils) know very well what that infers in our ‘looks-oriented’ world!

³ See: Zechariah 14:12

⁴ See: Revelation 7:9-17 and 13:7. See also: The Goshen Effect, Grand Finale (Poem, Part 5)

and Earth’s Next Versions (Series).

⁵ See: Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel. Three future attacks in Israel are predicted: two before The Millennial Reign (the 1st War of Gog and Maagog, and the Armageddon War), and one afterwards (the 2nd War of Gog and Magog). See: Ezekiel 38 and Zechariah 14:12; Revelation 19:17-21; and Revelation 20:7-10.

⁶ Revelation 20:1-3 says, for a thousand years, satan's kingdom will be confined to the bottomless pit, which is not the eternal lake of fire. See: Humans’ DNA Hacked (Poem)

⁷ Isaiah 24:21-23, poetically summarized. This entire chapter might be interpreted to be a succinct summary of the run-up to the great tribulation and The Millennial Reign. I know of no other Bible chapter that is so comprehensive, summarizing hints found across the Bible! That’s incredible. As The Bible’s first and longest prophetic book, it’s definitely worth repeated in-depth study and strategic analysis. See: Revelation 19:20. Scouring the Scriptures, it appears these two men, the anti-Christ and his prophet, may become the FIRST residents of the eternal lake of fire, which Isaiah 66:22-24 reveals will be ...somewhere ON THE NEW EARTH!

⁸ Raising Cain is a euphemism for raising all hell. Revelation 20 briefly summarizes life after the Millennial Reign. The operative question is how long will this ‘little while’ last? For more on this point, search this blog for that expression. Be sure to see Part 5 (Summary) of this series!

⁹ See: You Almighty (Poem)

Audacious Christians (Poem, Part 2)

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Friends,

Here’s a question I perceive The Lord God, through me, is asking,

To all ‘Christians’, whether openly, or as such are masking:

‘If you know about the rapture, and if it happened today,

Would you be included when, from Earth,

My Church is swept away?’ ¹

Sometime after that event, The Lord will move to uncloak,

Thousands of His anointed, commissioned Jewish kinfolk,

To end the job The Church started on The Day of Pentecost,

But, because of encroaching lukewarmness, she did not cap-off. ²

This fresh team, lean and agile, will be so highly successful,

In preaching The Gospel of Salvation in Christ, skeletal,

That many souls will be saved, even at the peril of death!

Shunning the mark of the beast, they’ll profess Christ

…‘til their last breath. ³

Its success might rival those of the first century Church,

When by Jews in Judah, Christians were seriously besmirched.

Similarly, at that time, Christians witnessed audaciously,

And with their lives, they paid the heavy price, agonizingly!

While today’s Church will have worked at its job, 

for thousands of years,

The folks on this team will have very short …witnessing careers!!

In a few months, most of them and their converts will be dead,

Because the anti-Christ’s government will chop-off their heads!! ⁴

Ponder this with me: In a few very tense months,

And for Christians, the government is on the hunt,

How could this small team be so incredibly successful,

In global conditions that will then be …so distressful?!

My first thoughts were about how The Lord’s twelve apostles,

Where turbo-charged by The Holy Spirit’s arrival.

But something Apostle Paul predicted fully changed my mind:

The anti-Christ’s rise and The Spirit’s leaving will be aligned! ⁵

So with no Bible indication,

Of The Spirit’s re-visitation,

How will this team be so successful???

It’ll be helped greatly …by two angels!! ⁶

And just like way back during the first century years,

Judeans knew The Lord promised blessings would appear.

If, when Jesus was alive, by them He was shunned,

By the time of Pentecost, some were …‘well-seasoned’! ⁷

Thus, I believe another factor aiding this team’s success,

Might be those folks who, to my first question, did not answer, ‘YES!’

Though knowing a bit about the rapture, they will have MISSED IT.

They’ll repent when they see the anti-Christ is …a counterfeit!!! ⁸

Yep, these folks will have a second chance to join The Lord’s ranks,

If to the mark of the beast body-brand they say, NO THANKS!!!

But because, before the rapture, to Christ they were lukewarm,

They will lose their heads for resisting the anti-Christ’s norms.

The Lord said, against His Church the gates of hell will not prevail!

Yet ‘falling away’ from the faith Paul foresaw, is now FULL-SCALE!!

So could ‘heat’ from the anti-Christ, be the ‘tool’ The Lord will use,

To ‘re-recruit’ folks who’ll miss the rapture,

so hell’s gates …will lose?? ⁹

Friends,

By this rhyme, I hope you can see, clearly,

Being lukewarm for Christ now, is risky!

For Him, now’s the time to be …somewhat audacious,

Even if it means being …a bit loquacious.

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¹ See: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and Christians in the Great Tribulation. 

² See: Revelation 3:14-22, and 7. See also: Laodicean Lackadaisicalness (Series) and Fresh Troops, Incoming (Poem).

³ In Revelation, the beast refers to the anti-Christ man, a strongman who will quickly rise, first to global influence, then control, in the next age of our history. He will be endowed with satanic, miracle-working powers. At some point, he will insist that everyone receive his mark (a brand) to be able to engage in commercial activities. Eventually, at the end of the Armageddon (so-called) War, he and his prophet (prime minister??) will be transferred as immortal beings, likely to the new, eternal Earth (promised in Isaiah 65 and 66), and cast into The Lord’s eternal lake of fire. Thus, they will very likely be the first residents in that place, arriving over a thousand years BEFORE all devils and all humans who will have rejected The Lord’s Grace. (Revelation 20)

⁴ See: Revelation 7:9-17 and 13:7. The great tribulation plagues will occur during a 42 month (3.5 year) period. See: Anti-Christ (Series).

⁵ See: 2 Thessalonians 2.

⁶ See: Revelation 14.

⁷ Even Moses had long ago predicted God’s blessings would be visited upon Israel and the world, through a Prophet (Jesus). See: Deuteronomy 18, Acts 3 and also 7. So when folks saw the miracles wrought by The Apostles on the Day of Pentecost, many were likely ripe to convert to Christianity, though a few weeks earlier, some might even have called for Jesus to be crucified.

⁸ PLEASE consider plausible links between 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Revelation 3:16, 13:7 and 20:3. I surmise there might be potential overlaps between these groups of people! If so, this should be a BIG WAKE-UP call to lukewarm Christian across the world! Many folks, especially Jews, will know for sure the anti-Christ is a counterfeit when he, standing in the 3^rd Jewish temple, will claim to be God, and demand to be worshiped. Spiritually, this will simply be satan doing the same thing he tried to do in Heaven, i.e., replace Jesus as The Lord God. (For more, search this blog for ‘coup’.) Evil never learns critical lessons it needs to learn!

⁹ Could this scenario help to explain why so many folks, including some Bible teachers, erroneously think the entire Church will not escape the great tribulation?? They fail to correctly perceive The Lord’s strategic plan, including His demonstrated and iteratively promised Goshen Effect in 1 Thessalonians 5:9, 3:13, Isaiah 26:20-21 and elsewhere. Plus, they may discount Zechariah 14:5. They also seem think ANY mention of ‘saints’ in Revelation, automatically means saints from this Church Age, the third age of history! If so, they fail to discern the SEVEN ages of humanity ‘revealed’ in The Bible (though not in any specific chapter and verse), and what The Lord is doing/will do iteratively in each stage. If interested, see: Historical Countdown - 7 Ages of Human History (w/Video). Also see: Anti-Christ: Summary Review (Part 5).