All This, and Yet You Will Not Repent :: By Donald Whitchard

Published on: by RR10 Category:General Articles

Luke 13:3, 15:7; Revelation 6:12-17, 9:1-21, 16:8-9

Some time ago, I had the opportunity to participate in an online study of the book of Revelation with a fellow pastor and dear friend in the LORD. He had been describing to the viewers of his program some of the possible scenarios that will appear on the earth during the time of what Scripture refers to as “the Great Tribulation” (Daniel 9:27; Matthew 24:21), a period of time where God judges the world for its rebellion, wickedness, and hatred of all things holy as pertaining to the Gospel and its message of redemption through the work of Jesus Christ (John 14:6; Acts 4:12, 16:31; Romans 5:6-11, 10:9-10; 1 Timothy 1:7-12; Revelation 1:8).

It is during this time that God will allow evil to run its full course in the person of the Antichrist (1 John 2:18, 22, 4:3; 2 John 7; Revelation 13:1-10). Before this judgment is poured upon the earth, all those who have genuinely placed their faith in Jesus Christ for salvation will have been raptured to meet the LORD in the air to be with Him always (John 14:1-3; 1 Corinthians 15:51-58; 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10, 4:13-18).

The book of Revelation has a logical flow of historical and supernatural events occurring on Earth and within the portals of heaven. When we arrive in heaven, we will behold, as did the apostles John and Paul (2 Corinthians 12:1-10; Revelation, Chapters 4, 5), the glory, wonder, holiness, and majesty of God Almighty with the heavenly realm offering Him praise and worship. We will see His plans put into action to be fulfilled for His glory.

He will not tolerate sin any longer. His justice will fall on both deviant humanity and the hellish creatures who have maligned, blasphemed, denied, and hated Him since the Fall in Eden (Genesis 3). His promise to make all things new will come to pass (Revelation 21:1), evil will be judged and punished (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:11-15), and Paradise (Genesis 1, 2) will be recreated again, lasting for eternity.

In Revelation Chapters 6 and 8, God pours out a series of judgments upon the world that grow in intensity. For seven years, the unredeemed will witness and suffer plagues upon the wildlife, plants, waters, and overall living conditions. These approaching judgments and their consequences ought to terrify and awaken every person in this world. Everyone should tremble over their sins, repent now, and surrender their lives to the saving grace, mercy, and peace offered by God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and listen to the guiding voice of the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 6:2).

There will be multitudes during the time of the Great Tribulation who come to Christ (Revelation 7:9-17). These people were unbelievers who were left behind at the Rapture, yet by the mercy of God, the Holy Spirit, had their eyes opened to what has occurred. These are the “Tribulation Saints,” and many of them will be killed for their faith (Revelation 20:4). These dear brethren in the LORD are part of the redeemed, but at a tremendous cost.

What amazes me is even with all of the literal hell on earth that God promises is coming, people will still harden their hearts and turn against Him. They will deliberately and defiantly reject the Lord Jesus Christ, the only hope of rescue that God Almighty, in His mercy, provides during that terrifying time.

The ninth chapter of Revelation describes an angel coming to Earth to open what is referred to as a “bottomless pit” (9:2), words that describe the horror and viciousness of hell. The pit is opened, allowing fierce and savage demons to bring torment upon anybody who has rejected the saving offer of God. These creatures are ordered not to touch the foliage of the world (what’s left of it by this time) but to inflict the unredeemed with pain equal to the sting of a scorpion. This pain will be so unbearable that people will beg to die in order to have relief. For five months, these beings from hell will continually torment anyone who has chosen to reject God and His offer of salvation.

This is bad enough, but upon reading further, four malevolent angels who had rebelled against God and then were bound at the river Euphrates are released to slaughter one-third of humanity. On top of this, an army of 200,000,000 marches upon the world, along with an outbreak of varied plagues. Whether this is an actual human or demonic army is a point of discussion. The consequence of this slaughter is that out of a population estimated as of 2024 to be 8,000,000,000, the body count at this point in Revelation is 2,000,000,000, with the full force of judgment yet to come.

You would think that common sense and the collapse of everything would bring people to their knees in repentance, begging God for forgiveness of their sins and embracing Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I am afraid not, and the trouble is that some who may be reading this message are going to find themselves in the situation as described in Scripture:

“And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, DID NOT REPENT of the works of their hands, so as to not worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor their immorality nor of their thefts” (Revelation 9:20-21, NASB).

Let me put it to you as plain as day. If you have spent your life denying God’s existence or used His Holy name to curse someone, or as a weapon to protect your political ideology or lifestyle, and have turned against Him in order to serve Satan and his so-called “offers of power and control,” or do anything else to denigrate, revile, blaspheme, slander, and mock Him (Romans 1:18-22), deliberately deciding to turn from His free offer of salvation and grace (Matthew 11:28-30; John 10:28-30, 11:25, 14:6; Acts 4:12; Hebrews 4:14-16, 7:25), then you WILL witness this taste of hell on Earth. And what is so tragic is that it won’t affect your conscience or soul one bit (Proverbs 29:1).

God Almighty, through His Holy Word (John 17:17; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21), gives you a warning of what awaits you as you suffer the horrors of the Great Tribulation. The release of these wretched beings from the pit and the death and misery they will inflict upon you will be just a preview of the torment you will endure and the company you will keep in hell when all is done, judged, and made final at the end of days according to Scripture (Revelation 20:11-15). This one chapter describes just a few of the horrors to descend on this world. The time is fast approaching for everything to fall into place. Do not deny it, and do not doubt me.

Right now, some of you may think that you will get away with all of the malevolent deeds and thoughts you have committed in your life, and you will rewarded by the devil for your faithful service. My friend, you are the victim of the biggest lie, con job, and assault on your eternal soul by the devil, a created, limited, vile creature (Isaiah 14:12-17; Ezekiel 28:11-19) who has nothing to gain from his wickedness except to somehow believe that He can “spite” God by taking you to the same hell he and his demons are heading to at the end of time (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10).

God takes no pleasure in the death nor judgment of a wicked person (Ezekiel 18:23), but on the day when you and everyone else who rejected Jesus Christ stand before Him at the Great White Throne for the final judgment, He will put you in the place of your own choosing. The reason you end up in hell is because you choose to rebel against God, follow the devil, engage in your own wickedness, and end up paddling your own canoe down to perdition forever.

Jesus Christ gave His life on the cross to prevent you from hell and eternal judgment. He willingly took your sins and mine upon Himself, rescuing us from the sin debt we cannot pay (Ephesians 2:8-9). He offers you forgiveness of sins that will no longer be remembered or held against you (Psalm 103:12). He offers you freedom from the bonds of sin, a new life, a new purpose, and a new world to come. Why would you want to throw that away? Why remain in your present state of rebellion and witness the approaching hell on Earth that is the sum and substance of God’s wrath, of which we are seeing a foretaste now?

I implore you as a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and maybe the one person willing to be truthful and honest with you, PLEASE repent of your sins and surrender your life to Jesus Christ now! If what we read in Revelation is true (and it is), why would you want to delay or deny what is obviously upon us? All this, and yet you will not repent? Do not make such a foolish and eternally deadly decision.

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Perilous Times and Cults :: By Terry James

Published on: by RR10 Category:General Articles, Terry James

The first time I really was made to understand the insidious nature of heavily-populated religious cults in America was in 1999. Even upon learning about one cult in particular, I had trouble believing what I was hearing.

We were in Indianapolis, Indiana, to speak at a prophecy conference –invited there by Dan, a person who would become a close friend over the ensuing years.

He and his wife were at the head of an anti-cult ministry and were devoted intensively to bringing the Truth to people of the Mormon cult and to all who would heed what they had to say. And they did indeed have much to say about the truth behind the falsely gentle façade of Mormonism.

There were great speakers at the conference like Dave Hunt, John Ankerberg and others, and I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from those speakers. But what I remember most was private conversations between Dan and myself. His revelations were stunningly eye-opening. Yet, like I mentioned, I had a hard time getting my non-cultic mind around the insidiousness of the cultic dogmas and practices.

The reason for Dan’s and his wife’s intensity in carrying out the assignment the Lord gave them was that they had several years previously to this 1999 conference come out of Mormonism. They had been at the intermediate level, as I understood Dan to say. That is, somewhere in the mid-level of the Mormon Church structure. And their status was about to change. Dan was being looked at for much higher doings in that structure.

I never will forget our sitting in a small anteroom off the big sanctuary of the church rented for the conference. It was just Dan and myself there, having a quick lunch. Dan opened up in telling about his and his wife’s leaving the Mormon Church.

The following news item, when I came across it on Rapture Ready News, instantly pierced my memory of that conversation those years ago with Dan.

A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse, was arrested by police in Virginia this week after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter while accompanying her on a school trip when she was a child, according to court filings.

Police and federal authorities had been searching for John Goodrich after a grand jury in Williamsburg on Jan. 17 found probable cause that he committed four felonies, including rape by force, threat or intimidation, forcible sodomy, and two counts of felony aggravated sexual battery by a parent of a child.

Those charges were filed weeks after the AP investigation revealed how a representative of the church, widely known as the Mormon church, employed a risk management playbook that has helped it keep child sexual abuse cases secret after allegations surfaced that Goodrich abused his daughter Chelsea, now in her 30s, at their home in Idaho as well as on a school field trip to the Washington, D.C., area 20 years ago.

“I hope this case will finally bring justice for my childhood sexual abuse,” Chelsea Goodrich said in a statement to the AP. “I’m grateful it appears that the Commonwealth of Virginia is taking one event of child sexual assault more seriously than years of repeated assaults were treated in Idaho.”

Source: Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges – WJET/WFXP/YourErie, by JASON DEAREN, Rapture Ready News, March 14, 2024

As I said, the news story grabbed my attention and transported me back to that afternoon in Indianapolis, sitting there with Dan. He told me why he and his wife, Augusta, born in Iceland and a naturalized American citizen, were so dedicated to their anti-cult ministry and why they believed in Bible prophecy.

They and their children, then grown to adulthood, had been devoted to the Mormon agenda in every way. They saw the Mormon thrust as seeking only to do good and making sure they brought others into that “church” so others, too, would go to Heaven.

Then, Dan said somberly, he came fully to know what the Mormon religion entailed at the elevated level that he was selected to join.

The bishop, or whatever the superior minister was called –can’t remember—took Dan aside, Dan told me. The church official charged with informing Dan of his being chosen, etc., then hit him with the stunning information and subsequent directive.

The church official told Dan that to be in this exalted position to which they were elevating him, he needed to have sex with his daughters.

I don’t remember the whys of this commandment by the Mormon structure, but I do remember vividly the instruction Dan told me he was given. It had something to do with solidifying Dan’s family in Heaven’s eternal positioning. I guess the information so stunned me that I missed the details of why such a heinous thing could be demanded by the cult leadership.

One thing sure, when Augusta heard the demand, she threw what we call here in the south –a FIT! They broke all connection with the cult that very day, Dan confided. They soon came to know the Lord and were, from that point forward, devoted to Christ and to exposing Mormonism and all cults.

Dan and Augusta, both of whom were considerably older than I at the time, are gone to be with the Lord. I look forward to being with those great champions for the Lord again one Eternal Day.

The Apostle Paul, I believe, wrapped within his powerful perilous times prophecy the very things today’s cults are foisting. The news story above, and my hearing Dan’s story and what brought them out of Mormonism, points specifically to some of Paul’s forewarning of things to come as the end of the age approaches. I dissect those prophesied bits here.

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be… unholy… Without natural affection, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was” (2 Tim 3: 1 through 9 dissected).

To my spirit, Paul’s perilous times prophecy here –the specific things I left in— speaks to the Mormon cult and all other pseudo-Christian cults found in America and around the world today.

Now, let me say that there are folks within these cults who are good people, as we define good in our human social relationships. However, they are lost and need to come to know the Lord Jesus for Salvation of their souls –as did Dan and Augusta and as did Terry James.

For there is but one who is good. That is, as Jesus Himself said, God. And Jesus is God, and the way, the truth, and the life. No person comes to God the Father but through Jesus.

Here is the way to come to Jesus for Salvation and to be ready to go to Heaven either through the Rapture of all believers or through the portal of death.

“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).