Friday, July 12, 2024
Scared into unbelief…by the testimony of false teachers has occurred to many believers as a result of being indoctrinated in the pre-trib rapture falsehood, because, so it’s preached that, if God is love He would never subject His bride to endure the seven-year tribulation. Rather than believe Christ by true faith, many with “itching ears” (2 Tim. 4:3) follow the dream of the man who created Dispensationalism, an intolerably divisive but idyllic way to heaven without being subject to the tribulation and great tribulation for which Christ said “But he who endures to the end shall be saved” (Matt. 24:13). Little do pre-trib rapture believers know that they have been deceived by one of the most callous end-time deceptions prepared by Satan and his evil spirits!
But God wants you, dear believer, to know and understand that the testimony of Jesus Christ for the times of the end and gathering of His elect is for our benefit in preparations. It will be those indoctrinated by fear and falsehood who will be like the 10 of the 12 spies in ancient Israel who caused nearly five-sixth of the entire house of Israel to perish outside of their Promised Land. I encourage you to read and study Num. 13, 14, the true precursor of our coming tribulation and entry to God’s Kingdom. See what happened to those who disbelieved and led most of Israel to also disbelieve God’s word. Those 10 men were marked by rebellion, unbelief, anger and deep offense at the prospect of seeing and dealing with those massive giants that inhabited Canaan.
Likewise, those who teach the pre-trib rapture lie will in similar manner to ancient Israel’s leaders, perish outside their otherwise intended eternal possession unless they repent of their unbelief and rebellion, “For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together” (Matt. 24:28). Scripture makes it clear that God’s “elect” are post-Calvary true believers and it is they whom Christ will gather “Immediately after the tribulation” (Matt. 24:29–31). So I ask you in the love of Christ, “Are you one of God’s elect?” If you are, then Jesus is speaking directly to you and me, telling us not the day or hour, but the season of when He gathers His elect. And for that truth we must urgently prepare. Jesus said “For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice” (John 18:37). True revelation! “Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice”.
But many preachers in the organized church silence the voice of Christ and rebelliously say His end-time testimony is not for the church, and they hide their unbelief by telling their hearers that Jesus was not speaking to the church in Matt. 24. But if they actually believed Jesus they would prepare the people in His testimony for those fateful last seven years of this age. Jesus warned us that “then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened” (Matt. 24:21–22). And that scares false teachers who then authoritatively transfer fear onto millions of non-discerning believers.
Unelected Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and his elitist friends have already laid plans for the forced obedience of people globally. Total collectivism is soon coming. Globalist G40 Cities explained. Klaus Schwab also said “Humanity Must Be ‘Forced Into Collaboration’ With Globalists Elites” (Source) Do you have ears to hear and eyes to see that the fourth beast kingdom of Dan. 7:7 is being assembled and built right under the noses of all people globally? Do you discern the end-time snare being laid without a whimper from the organized church?
The church age continues right up until the last day of this present age because just before Jesus left this world He said “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen” (Matt. 28:18–20). [My emphasis] Yes, Jesus’ promise to be with us “even to the end of the age” reveals the church age will go through the seven-year tribulation right up to the last day of this age. Jesus Christ, by the gift of His Holy Spirit will not leave us to endure the tribulation alone, for we true believers are His “elect”. And Jesus told us that He is the “good shepherd” (John 10:14), and true faith will actually believe the testimony of Jesus and prepare therein, otherwise people scared into unbelief join the offended and rebellious 10 of 12 leaders of ancient Israel, Num. 13, 14, on the cusp of their inheritance.
But pre-trib rapture preachers are not content with Jesus’ words, as wasn’t John Nelson Darby, (1800–1882), the father of the Dispensational pre-trib rapture that has so egregiously swept the Western churches. You and I will either believe Jesus Christ or Darby; we cannot believe both. The former prepares one to “endure to the end” (Matt. 24:13) as taught by Christ, but the latter will blind and deceive one to the truth and reality of what’s coming and only prepares one to be deeply offended just like those rebellious of ancient Israel at the edge of Canaan, Num. 13, 14. This is absolutely why Jesus said of the coming tribulation, “And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another” (Matt. 24:10), a reflection of ancient Israel!
When the majority of ancient Israel realized they had to deal with giants they were scared into unbelief and in deep offense and rebellion sought to return to Egypt, out from which God had delivered them, out of slavery and bondage, synonymous with post-Calvary believers having been delivered out of slavery and bondage to sin and unbelief. God has already shown us what’s about to occur to the end-time lukewarm church because, it too, like ancient Israel disbelieves it will have to deal with Antichrist and his promised war upon the believing saints, Dan. 7:21 and Rev. 13:7. The pre-trib rapture is a lying deception by Satan, a deadly false hope, and ministers preaching and promoting that rebellion will not escape God’s judgment as didn’t ancient Israel.
It was the majority, 10 of 12, of Israel’s leaders who disbelieved and rebelled against God. And those leaders caused most of the house of Israel to disbelieve God, and in fear and offense rebel against God. What did their judgment look like? “Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land, those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD” (Num. 14:36–37). That’s what the Lord God does with rebellion against His word! And lest we forget, God said “I am the LORD, I do not change” (Mal. 3:6). And the Holy Spirit said of God’s Son, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb. 13:8). Amen!
In my new book, “ON EAGLES’ WINGS” with the subtitle “God’s Call, Your Response, Your Life Journey, Through The Tribulation, Until The Rapture”, I disclose in detail the place God has prepared for His people who actually believe the true and unchanging testimony of Jesus Christ. I invite you to discover timely vital biblical truths that you will not hear in an organized church.
Marlin J. Yoder
