Like her or not, Ellen White, correctly described the dire conditions of society just prior to the Lord’s Return on the Last Day, as follows…
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“There are not many, even among educators and statesmen,
who comprehend the causes that underlie the present state of society.
Those who hold the reins of government are not able to solve the problem of moral corruption, poverty, pauperism, and increasing crime.
They are struggling in vain to place business operations on a more secure basis.
If men would give more heed to the teaching of God’s Word,
they would find a solution of the problems that perplex them.”
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Here is seen that the root cause of the world’s hopeless condition is due to mankind’s rebellion and refusal to return to Heaven’s Way.
Ellen G. White – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God”
Psalms 9:17
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Oh yes, God has greatly helped, even blessed this nation in the past, in many ways.
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But there comes a time when iniquity surpasses God’s merciful forbearance.
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And morality has devolved so greatly that even little children are increasingly being targeted by parents and teachers and even some doctors, to be sexually groomed…
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…the very persons who should be safe-guarding children from all such monstrous attacks!
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Oh yes, we are ripe for judgment! And Judgment Day has now arrived!
US flag burning – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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“His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber”
Isaiah 56:10
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But the problem goes even deeper than secular societal depravity!
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The problem even goes right down to the church-world!
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Yes, the Christian community has fallen into “a dead sleep” (See Psalm 76:6)…
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…thus, giving sway to church-entertainment, worldly aspirations, earthy chatter, selfish pleasure-seeking, and such-like abominations!
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After all, society has become a cornucopia of decadent pleasures, world-seeking treasures.
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And tragically, the church has joined in with the world, allowing Satan to steal a march on us at every turn!
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And so, we have allowed Lucifer and his visible and invisible armies to bring us to the great hour of Judgment which we are now entering into.
Brooklyn Museum – The Wise Virgins – James Tissot – Wikimedia – public domain
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“GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY!”
Proverbs 25:25
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But in spite of this awful and terrifying report, there still exists some very Good News!
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Listen to the prophecy of Joel…
…”Awake, ye drunkards, and weep;
and howl, all ye drinkers of wine,
because of the new wine;
for it is cut off from your mouth…
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests:
howl, ye ministers of the altar…
cry unto the LORD, Alas for the day!
for the day of the LORD is at hand,
and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come”
Joel 1:5, 6, 13-15 (condensed for brevity)
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Yes, God is calling us sleepy-eyed saints to wake up from our death-like slumber and begin to weep and howl for the destruction coming upon the land!
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We must cry out for deliverance and watchfulness! We must plead and beg for mercy and repentance!
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And even though we may not be able to turn back the overflowing tsunami of evil coming upon the land, we might find refuge and safety for ourselves and our family!
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“HIDE…FOR A LITTLE MOMENT”
Isaiah 26:20, 21
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As a matter of fact, the Bible counsels us to…
…”Come, My people,
enter thou into thy chambers,
and shut thy doors about thee:
hide thyself as it were for a little moment,
until the indignation be overpast.
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of His place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity…”
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Here is revealed a hiding place from the approaching storm.
“Dear Lord, Help me to be wise as a serpent regarding this very deceptive world. Let me not be ignorant of Satan’s devices, nor of his power over this world…
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“…they that are unlearned and unstable wrest (wrestle), as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction”
2nd Peter 3:16
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Today’s Bible teachers and theologians try their best to deny and cover up the fact that historical records give Cyrus I. Scofield credit for popularizing this false doctrine of the “Pre-Tribulation Rapture”…
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…a false doctrine first invented by another 19th-century false Bible teacher, one John Darby of The Plymouth Brethren denomination.
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Today’s Bible teachers/theologians would love you to believe that the name, “The Rapture”,is the proper biblical name for Christ’s Return.
But the fact is, in the New Testament, centuries prior to these two men, the God-given, biblical name, “The Coming of the Lord” was correctly used by all Christians. (See 1st Thessalonians, 4:15
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In other words, the so-called “Rapture” is a “Johnny-come-lately” name, relatively speaking.
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Prior to Darby in the early 1800’s, it was unheard of! Darby coined that name!
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Triumph of Christianity by G. Dore www.christimages.org Limited use license – see their website for restrictions
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“…they that are unlearned and unstable wrest (wrestle with Paul’s epistles), as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction”
2nd Peter 3:16 (condensed for brevity)
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What Scofield and Darby did, was to presumptuously take the two words from 1st Thessalonian 4:17, the words, “caught up”, and their Greek counterpart, “harpazo”…
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…and changed “harpazo” into its Latin counterpart, “ripere”, taken from an obscure Catholic Latin Bible).
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But ripere is the Latin root for another English word, “rapture”, which, originally, was most commonly defined as being “in a state of euphoria”.
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Then, they morphed “caught up”, a verb into a proper noun, creating a new, exotic-sounding title, “The Rapture”.
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Thus, by such a phenomenal and heretical wrestling-match with Scripture, Darby/Scofield were finally able to squeeze out two returns of Christ, instead of the one biblical Return on the “Last Day” (see John, Chapter 6)!
“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation”
Hebrews 9:28
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And so, by such twisting of Scripture, Scofield/Darby now invented TWO second “Coming(s) of the Lord”, instead of the Biblical pronouncement of only one!
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And thus was coined the name, “The Pretribulation Rapture”, adding it to the only true biblical Return of Christ!
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This biblical “Last Day” event is correctly named by God, “The Coming of the Lord” on “the last day” (John, Chapter 6).
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Consequently, the Christian world was now being taught that there were, not one, but TWO separate returns of Christ!
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And if you missed out on the Christ’s first return, “Voila!!” You now would have a second chance!
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Very clever…and yet, very devilish!
John Nelson Darby – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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“If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a Thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.”
Revelation 3:3
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What rapturists fail to tell their followers is that this above verse (Revelation 3:3) was proclaimed to a church which existed around the 1st Century, A.D..
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In other words, Jesus was warning His professed people that if they were not faithful, He might come as a thief, and take away their Heaven-given blessings.
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Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame”
Revelation 16:15
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Yes, these above two verses (Revelation 3:3 & 16:15), concerning Jesus’ coming as a thief, not only apply to us today, but has likewise applied to churchgoers throughout the past 2,000 years!
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If a churchgoer is unfaithful in that which the Lord has entrusted him or her with, there is a danger of God’s Judgment upon that unfaithful individual.
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And such a judgment can happen at any time in history!
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We’ve all seen some seemingly faithful churchgoer suddenly lose his or her faith and belief in Christ.
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Such an apostasy will take on various forms:
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1: a falling back into former ungodly lusts and worldly pursuits:
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2: Getting offended out of church-attendance for some reason:
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3: Deciding to switch over to some obviously false gospel:
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WRESTLING WITH SCRIPTURE
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Well, all this confusion begins to make sense when we read 1st Peter 3:16…
…”they that are unlearned and unstable wrest(le),
as they do also the other scriptures,
unto their own destruction.”
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Yes, when those in the apostate church-world begin to teach some false doctrine…
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…then begins the wrestling match, as they feverishly try to twist other scriptures in hopes of attaining some level of agreement between related scriptures.
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And this is what Darby & Scofield did to invent this totally unbiblical doctrine with the man-contrived name, “The Rapture”.
ABOVE PICTURE: Adding to or taking from God’s Word, the Bible
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The true, God-given name is found in 1st Thessalonians 4:15-17…
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“For this we say unto you
by the word of the Lord,
that we which are alive and remain
unto ‘THE COMING OF THE LORD’
shall not prevent them which are asleep…
For the Lord Himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God:
and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds,
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One of the most amazing creatures ever created is the Cuttlefish!
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The reason why this creature is so incredible, is that it can just glance at its environment and instantly change its body to imitate that environment!
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As a matter of fact, whatever the Cuttlefish passes over, it instantly begins to change into a similar color and shape of that undersea object!
Truly it can be said, we live in a “Cuttlefish World”.
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Yes, like that incredible impostor, this world was changed into a seemingly benign and beneficent society, to a great degree.
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Oh yes, there has always been many underlying dangers and evils lurking out there!
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But Satan is now coming as “The False Prophet”, spoken of in Revelation 13, 16, 19, and 20.
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And as with most false prophets, Satan is deceiving the world’s inhabitants, which explains why he has given this, his antichrist world-system a make-over into a seemingly “nice place”, offering many “good things” to enjoy and pursue.
“And he (The False Prophet) had power to…cause that as many as would not worship the image of the (antichrist) beast should be killed”
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And then there was television, which more or less seemed to likewise be on our side, having a form of godliness and morality, even though it had a lot of shows we wouldn’t dare expose ourselves nor our children to.
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But we tried to view only the “good shows”.
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KIDDIE-LAND TRANSITIONS INTO GROOMER-WORLD!
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And then each year, society went on vacation, maybe taking the family to some theme-park, which we believed to be “family-friendly”.
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But little did we know that the great and artful Deceiver, that ultimate cuttlefish imposter, Lucifer…
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…now given the office and title of “Satan” and “The Devil”, is actually “the god of this world”. (2nd Corinthians 4:4)
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And little did we realize that we were merely being deceived into believing the world was on our side and had our best interests at heart!
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We simply didn’t remember God’s warning…“The kisses of an enemy are deceitful!”
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Carnival Del Mundo – ferris-wheel-of-life
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“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world….”
1st John 2:15
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Yes, Christians are appalled at the deviancy now being pushed on our young people!
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But truth-be-told, our child-focused institutions have always been a tool and weapon in Satan’s deadly arsenal!
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Yes, from its very inception, “Kiddie-Land”, like so many other creations of mankind, has always promoted love for this self-seeking world!
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It has always groomed young children into becoming world-loving, God-hating antichrists, by glorifying Satan’s kingdom of sin and selfishness.
And the prophet, Habakkuk, prophesied of this very day…
“…for the wicked doth compass about the righteous;
therefore wrong judgment proceedeth…
…Write the vision,
and make it plain upon tables,
that he may run that readeth it.”
Habakkuk 1:4 & 2:2
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The book of Habakkuk presents the problem: the all-consuming indoctrination of society (especially of young people).
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Habakkuk by James Tissot – Wikimedia Commons – US Public Domain
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RUN, CHRISTIAN RUN!
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And so, in these last days prior to Christ’s Return, the call goes out for Christians to “run”.
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Listen again to Habakkuk…
…”The LORD God is my strength,
and He will make my feet like hinds’ feet,
and He will make me to walk upon mine high places.”
Habakkuk 3:19
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Yes, this above verse says, in rather allegorical language, that we must fill our mind (our “high places”) with the “exceeding great and precious promises” found in God’s Word! 2nd Peter 1:4
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And to make the Lord our all-in-all, hiding ourselves in Christ’s everlasting “rest unto your souls”! (2nd Peter 1:4 & Matthew 11:28-30)
The galaxy which appears to be climbing the Mountain of Blessing is the Andromeda Galaxy.
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The above Wikipedia star-chart shows this amazing constellation group as it appears from June to fall, just prior to the winter constellation group.
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Actually, these Valley of Decision Constellations appear in early summer in the pre-dawn hours. (Editor of this website has sketched in this constellation group onto this above Wikipedia star-chart.)
Signs of the Second Coming</strong></span></h1> </div> <h1 class=”style-scope ytd-watch-metadata”><span style=”color: #9ea3d9;”><strong><a href=”https://theheavensdeclare.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/9_7_111-e1433384332922.jpg”><img class=” wp-image-17159 alignright” src=”https://theheavensdeclare.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/9_7_111-e1433384332922.jpg” alt=”https://theheavensdeclare.net/castor-pollux/” width=”202″ height=”296″ /></a></strong></span></h1> <h3><strong><span style=”color: #000000;”>.</span></strong></h3> <h3><span style=”color: #9ea3d9;”><em><strong><a style=”color: #9ea3d9;” href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9gAxkcpVK4″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS 4-MINUTE DISCOURSE – – Signs of the second coming (youtube.com)</a></strong></em></span></h3>
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The Man of Lawlessness
2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
As we survey the societal landscape there are many signs which reveal that the Holy Spirit is being “taken out of the way”.
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“There’s no place like home! There’s no place like home!”
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Remember those words?
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Well, perhaps the Reader of this article is too young to know about the movie which popularized those words, “There’s no place like home!”
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Wizard of Oz Judy Garland – 1939 – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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THE WIZARD OF OZ
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And for those who are too young to know, that movie, The Wizard of Oz, was a blockbuster mega-movie starring that fresh-faced young lady named Judy Garland, who played Dorothy of storm-strewn Kansas…
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…swept up into a colorful wonderland in which she and three fellow seekers begin an arduous journey to find The Wizard of Oz…
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…in hopes of finding the Wizard of that magical Land to help her find way back home… back to Kansas…
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…and the Wizard of Oz counsels Dorothy to keep repeating the words, “There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home…”
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And lo and behold, when she opens her eyes, she finds herself back home in Kansas, now appreciating her home and humble circumstances like she never had done so before!
The big difference between those two tales, is that in Bunyan’s book, the focus was on the Pilgrim’s sojourn to the Celestial City (Heaven).
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On the other hand, The Wizard of Oz movie only proved that this present world is the best place to be…a mirror-opposite of Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress”.
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SANTA CLAUSE & THE WIZARD BOTH INSPIRE UNBELIEF
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And just like that old mythical character, “Santa Clause”, that great fraudster, “The Wizard of Oz” likewise had a very suspicious resemblance to God, The Father.
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Yes, when Dorothy’s dog pulled back the Wizard’s curtain, it was discovered that the wizard was just a mere mortal man, deceitfully posing as a Wizard.
And as charming as that movie was, it nevertheless was a very subtle assault by that unseen Master Deceiver Antichrist spirit, to further cause moviegoers to disbelieve in the existence of God!
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It exposed the great Wizard of Oz as a complete fraud!
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Yes, Satan has used the modern media to convince much of this world that God is nothing more than a mythical character…
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…thus, deceiving a great portion of the earth’s inhabitants into thinking that there is no way of escape out of this sad and hopeless world of death!
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Atheist sign Wisconsin State wikipedia share-alike license (2)
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THE PROMISED LAND AWAITS!
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But the very Good News is, that there is indeed a way of escape from all this pandemic madness!
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Yes, “Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high”, there actually exists a “Promised Land”…
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…a beautiful land which is infinitely more wonderful than any fictional tale which any storyteller or movie producer could ever possibly imagine!
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And that Promised Land is waiting for the arrival of all Pilgrims who are weary of this sorrowful world of sickness, death, and hopelessness!
and there was seen in His Temple the Ark of His Testament…”
Revelation 11:19
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The below sketch is of the southernmost constellations:
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The Ark of the Covenant,
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the Flower of the Field,
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and the Cross/Scepter Constellations…
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…and as you can see in the sketch, the two stars in this Ark of the Covenant Constellation, (on either side of the Ark) do not look like these two angels.
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This sketch is just an overly generous rendering of this constellation.
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This sketch does however, present a view of the Ark, as it might have appeared (somewhat) in Solomon’s temple.
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This constellation is commonly known as “Sagittarius”.
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Why the ancients saw this as a centaur (man/horse figure) is a mystery.
Posing with the gay drag queens – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known
in what watch the thief would come,
he would have watched,
and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Therefore be ye also ready:
for in such an hour as ye think not
the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 24:37-44
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“…they that are unlearned and unstable wrest (wrestle), as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction”
2nd Peter 3:16
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Today’s Bible teachers and theologians try their best to deny and cover up the fact historical records give Cyrus I. Scofield credit for popularizing this false doctrine of the “Pre-Tribulation Rapture”, first invented by another 19th-century false Bible teacher, one John Darby of The Plymouth Brethren denomination.
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Today’s Bible teachers/theologians would love you to believe that the name “The Rapture”is the proper biblical name for Christ’s Return. But the fact is, in the New Testament centuries prior to these two men, the God-given, biblical name, “The Coming of the Lord” was correctly used. (See 1st Thessalonians, 4:15)
“As also in all his epistles, (Paul) speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction”
2nd Peter 3:16
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What Scofield and Darby did, was to presumptuously take the two words from 1st Thessalonian 4:17, the words, “caught up”, and their Greek counterpart, “harpazo”, and changed “harpazo” into its Latin counterpart, “ripere”, (taken from an obscure Catholic Latin Bible), which is the Latin root for another English word, “rapture”, which, originally, was most commonly defined as being “in a state of euphoria”. Then, they morphed “caught up”, a verb into a proper noun, creating a new, exotic-sounding title, “The Rapture”.
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Thus, by such heretical wrestling with Scripture, Scofield/Darby then began to promote the idea that Christ would “rapture” His Church out of the world, just prior to the prophecies of Revelation being fulfilled.
“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation”
Hebrews 9:28
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And so, by such twisting of Scripture, Scofield/Darby now invented TWO second “Coming(s) of the Lord”, instead of the Biblical pronouncement of only one! And thus was coined the name, “The Pretribulation Rapture”, and the second return, using the God-given name for the event, “The Coming of the Lord” on “the last day”.
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Consequently, the Christian world was now being taught that there were, not one, but TWO separate returns of Christ! And if you missed out on the Christ’s first return, you now would have a second chance!
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Very clever…and yet, very devilish!
John Nelson Darby – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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So, let’s just “cut-to-the-chase”, as the saying goes, and somewhat dissect our signature verse…
“But as the days of Noe (Noah) were,
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood
they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage,
until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came,
and took them all away;
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Then shall two be in the field;
the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Two women shall be grinding at the mill;
the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Watch therefore:
for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known
in what watch the thief would come,
he would have watched,
and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Therefore be ye also ready:
for in such an hour as ye think not
the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 24:37-44
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So here it says that the Coming of the Son of Man will be like the days of Noah: it was “business as usual” in the world: eating drinking, marrying, etc….
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And then, the flood came and took them (the rejecters of God’s plea to get into the Ark) all away in that watery deluge.
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But Jesus now compares this to the Coming of the Son of Man: “…so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.”
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Okay, so who was taken away in Noah’s flood? “they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away;”
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So, it was those who continued enjoying the things of the world, being too busy to be bothered with getting aboard the Ark of safety. These worldly-minded ones were taken away!
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And so, who will be taken when Jesus comes as a “thief in the night?”Listen to Luke’s Gospel, as God makes a similar statement…
Luk 17:35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luk 17:36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luk 17:37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
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So in this passage, Jesus’ disciples actually ask “Where, Lord?” They obviously were asking where were the ones being taken.To this, Jesus replied…”Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.” In other words, the ones being taken were taken to be destroyed, consumed by eagles! And the ones being left were left in the field, or left grinding at the mill!
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Like her or not, Ellen White, correctly described the dire conditions of society just prior to the Lord’s Return on the Last Day, as follows…
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Listen to the prophecy of Joel…
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TO READ PART 37, CLICK HERE…
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“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; 
