Friday, October 25, 2024
If you are a true Christian, it’s imperative that you keep your eyes and heart on the goal of end-time events that herald the arrival of Antichrist and then seven years later the return of Christ to gather His elect “Immediately after the tribulation” (Matt. 24:29–31) just as He promised. Many things will distract from that prophetic reality, but those distractions are deceptions to keep you looking anywhere except the fulfillment of God’s end-time word. But to discern end-time signs requires that one must first know God’s end-time word, and in this many believers are ignorant because they’ve been told to believe the corrupt and false hope of a pre-trib rapture which they think absolves them of God’s promised seven-year tribulation. I implore you, know and discern God’s end-time word because your organized church won’t. Let nothing take you by surprise so that you and your loved ones are prepared to endure the tribulation to the end of this present age.
In America we’re eleven days away from a general election. If that election actually occurs or not remains to be seen. Don’t be surprised if radical Democrats who have divided this nation like never before create a false flag event sufficient to cancel the election or its results, as it’s evident that the majority of US citizens are ready for a ground swell reversal of the evils inflicted by the Biden/Harris regime against the people. The radical Left knows this and they are in panic mode.
In global affairs “wars and rumors of wars” (Matt. 24:6) are numerous. Nations are now against one another like never before. Russia wars against Ukraine. Russia, China and North Korea war against Ukraine. And by default, Russia, China and North Korea threaten war against the United States. China threatens war against Taiwan. The US will war and defend Taiwan in that event. In the Middle East numerous Islamic nations are warring against Israel, which will ultimately draw all nations against Israel, Zech. 14:2. And yes, if the US still exists at that time, it will also wage war against Israel, but in that Day God will destroy His enemies at the return of Jesus Christ.
In the meantime Jerusalem, Israel is the epicenter of the Tribulation. And as most US pastors speak little to nothing about Israel and end-time developments there, this too is a distraction by Satan to keep people’s knowledge in the dark. Even Orthodox Jews, who are totally anti-Christ, are excited at the nearness of their messiah. The spirits in them reveal this truth. But little do they know the messiah for whom they wait is “the man of sin … the son of perdition” (2 Thess. 2:3), Antichrist! “The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thess. 2:9–12).
Consider that urgent warning that “God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie…” Of whom is God speaking? And on whom will He send this “strong delusion that they should believe the lie”? Who are “they all” in this prophetic decree that will be “condemned who did not believe the truth”? I will tell you who “they” are. In Christian churches it will be all those who believed false teachers instead of Christ and couldn’t discern who Antichrist is because they believed the lie of a pre-trib rapture; they believed the lie that they would never see Antichrist, and that if they did then they had missed the rapture and were left behind! A most horrible lie and deception! And in the unbelieving world, it will be those who are looking for someone to bring peace. That peace will be a temporal seven-year “covenant with many” (Dan. 9:27), being what Antichrist delivers to unbelievers, and by default to unsuspecting, unequipped, unprepared, unbelieving professing Christians! They will believe the lie! These will be unable to discern that Antichrist is who he is because “they did not receive the love of the truth”. In the traditions-laden church truth was allowed to fall to the ground as the promise of a pre-trib rapture tickled the ears and deceived the end-time majority. And that lie and deception will fuel the sudden falling away.
From israel365news.com “Water Libation Reenactment Takes Place in Preparation for the Third Temple”, note the celebratory acts of Orthodox Jews. How much more should we who know and believe the truth of Christ rejoice in celebratory hope that the return of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ is so near! Therefore the Spirit says, “To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation” (Heb. 9:28). Christ will not appear multiple times for multiple raptures as alleged by the false pre-trib rapture, but “He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation”! Period! Christ only returns once more. He appeared the first time two thousand years ago. But now the end of the age has come and “He will appear a second time”!
The “covenant with many” (Dan. 9:27) will enable Israel to rebuild its third Temple in which Orthodox Jews will again sacrifice animals for the forgiveness of sin as was done under the OT Mosaic Law. This will be an abomination before God who sent His Son Jesus Christ, “For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all” (Rom. 6:10). Antichrist’s “covenant with many” will last exactly 3 1/2 years, or 42 months, or 1,260 days. Antichrist breaks that covenant at the middle of the tribulation and “opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, [the rebuilt Temple] showing himself that he is God” (2 Thess. 2:4). For this reason Jesus said “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ [Antichrist] spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand)” (Matt. 24:15). Antichrist, exalting himself as God, will then mandate his “mark of the beast” (Rev. 13:16–17). Then will be the time for which the Spirit said, “Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke 21:36). Yes, to be “counted worthy”!
Don’t allow wars and rumors of wars, political agendas, elections, governments, or evils that present themselves daily cloud our love and discernment for God’s end-time words and truths that guide us safely through these increasingly wicked times. Like Jesus said “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth” (Luke 21:34–35). No one is exempt. Not believers. Not unbelievers. And any pastor or Bible teacher that says you will be raptured pre-trib lies and speaks deception and unbelief into your heart and spirit. Do not fall for ear-tickling church traditions “making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down” (Mark 7:13). It’s a scourge that millions of believers have been deceived by pastors trained by lying traditions.
My new book “ON EAGLES’ WINGS” was written with much Bible study and prayer and reveals many truths in preparing unbelievers and believers alike for the 7-year tribulation and finding God’s safety and provision for the last 1,260 days of “great tribulation” (Matt. 24:21).
Marlin J. Yoder
