Armageddon :: By The Gospelist

Reduced to its bare essence, the battle of Armageddon is a conflict between the God who created the universe and a planet filled with deluded morons who think they can beat him in a fight.

Given the complete stupidity of this endeavor, why exactly do the heathen rage and the peoples plot in vain?

The answer is that the ten kings who rule their own kingdom for one hour during the tribulation have taken counsel together against God and his holy Son.

The complete arrogance of this effort is stunning.

It seems that they are opposed to the Millennial Reign of Christ because its establishment necessitates the destruction of their kingdom. Due to their faithlessness, Satan has deluded these kings into believing that they can prevent the establishment of Christ’s Millennial Kingdom through force of arms.

The wiles of Satan have no limits.

The ten kings of the earth will take counsel together and form an alliance against the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. These people will have convinced themselves that they have sufficient demonic power and military capability to take down the Lord when he appears in the clouds.

There was even a ridiculous movie made by a bunch of clowns in Hollywood where this idea was actually successful. I am certain that they thought it was awfully funny.

As it turns out, God has a sense of humor too.

The heathen intend to take a stand against God by overturning his moral law. God’s law is a chain and a fetter to the godless that interferes with their licentious designs. It is their full intention to break these chains and change the set times that God has established since he laid the foundation of the world.

God finds that amusing.

As the battle of Armageddon is beginning to heat up and its set time draws near, let’s take a look at some of the bold combatants who believe that God is a paper tiger.

There are too many people and institutions who have lined themselves up against the Lord to count. There is the UN, the WEF, the Blackrock investment group, the Alphabet Brigade, the Democrat Party, the leadership of the vast majority of the nations on the planet, and the list goes on.

These people actually believe that the law of God can be supplanted with their pathetic values.

There are also those who suppress the truth, such as wicked organizations like the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), and Newsgard.

You have to hand it to these people; they are excellent at coming up with high-sounding names to hide their sick ideology.

These people do have an awful lot of money, and they have purchased or intimidated powerful politicians and judges all over the world. Those that they cannot purchase or intimidate, they simply assassinate when they begin to have political success.

Apparently, the only two politicians they have not bought yet are Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s easy to tell who has not been bought because they spend most of their time under indictment.

Or dodging bullets.

The heathen have also invented a social construct that will help them reverse everything that God has established.

They will bring about the days of Noah and Lot, as predicted by Jesus, through the avenue of Social Justice.

There has never been a more pernicious theology that completely undermines the truth and righteousness of God than this new way of inventing evil.

They will also convince enough of the world population to give up their freedom and submit to Satan’s kingdom through the totalitarian ideology of Climate Change. Once they control all aspects of human existence, no one will dare to rebel against them.

God will need a daring battle strategy to challenge these formidable demonic ideologies.

When the Globalists’ leader comes on the scene, he will read God the riot act. He will speak boastfully against the Lord and his anointed. He will even wage war against the post-rapture saints of God and defeat them.

Their success will delude them into believing their kingdom is indestructible.

Their Antichrist will be a master of lies and intrigue, maybe even better than Barack Obama. He will become very strong by the power of Satan and will cause astounding devastation.

Even the Biden administration will come to realize that they are only pikers when it comes to wrecking a nation, compared to the pure destructive power of the Antichrist.

Like a true leftist, he will cause deceit to prosper and consider himself superior to Christ himself. Once he brings about a false ‘peace and safety’ under his kingdom, he will destroy many in his quest for unquestioned power.

Then he will take his futile stand against the prince of princes.

In the meantime, Satan and his minions are hard at work setting up their kingdom. He still has a lot of work to do, and his time grows shorter by the day. The Lord of Darkness himself has busied himself lining up his pawns for this war to end all wars.

The first nation that needs to fall before Satan can set up his kingdom is America. There are still some faithful Christians who have presented themselves as an obstacle. They have ‘little strength,’ but what they have is more than enough to cause the Beelzebub problems.

To combat this thorny issue, he has enlisted the aid of the Godless liberals such as those on our courts, especially our Supreme Court. Although this court has improved somewhat due to Trump’s appointments, we can be very confident that this is not going to last.

If the Democrats win the next election, they will expand all our courts with so many reprobates that any hope for a fair verdict will be lost.

And even if the Democrats do not win, the members of the Supreme Court may not have the moral fortitude to stand against the terrible evil Democrat voters are prepared to perpetrate to get their way.

The liberals who sit on this bench (and the lower benches as well) are of their father, the devil, and will work to change the laws so that good is evil and evil is good. Instead of ensuring that real crimes are punished, they will issue judgments that will further empower the wicked.

In many of our lower courts, State and Federal, rapists and murderers are released without bond in our liberal cities. The faithful and those who care about the truth and what’s right can be held indefinitely without a hearing.

One need only examine the plight of the January 6 political prisoners to see how this is going to work out for the rest of us. This is what happens when our corrupt courts turn the law upside down.

Our illustrious Supreme Court has already laid the groundwork to ensure that anyone who seeks righteousness will become a prey.

In Lawrence vs. Texas (2003), the court ‘discovered’ that State anti-sodomy laws were unconstitutional. Although these laws were upheld in 1986, and since the founding of this country, the court had to invent a new right so that the perversion of homosexuality could infiltrate every part of our culture.

Homosexuality became virtuous, and opposition to it became a vice.

God certainly took it on the chin with that ruling.

The liberals on the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that:

  1. Anti-sodomy laws violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
  2. Such statutes violated the Equal Protection Clause, according to the elitist Sandra Day O’Connor.
  3. The Right to Privacy ‘Clause’ of the U.S. Constitution was being violated even though this right does not exist in the U.S. Constitution.

The relevant portion of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as found in Section 1, states:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws.

These liberal ‘justices’ read the law just like our emergent church ‘pastors’ read the Bible. They just made stuff up and then waited to see how many people were dumb enough to believe them.

They were not disappointed.

The purpose of the fourteenth amendment was to ensure that all people born in the United States had the privileges and immunities of a citizen, especially those who had been slaves. Six members of the Supreme Court decided to pervert this right and twist it into something that was unrecognizable when it was passed in 1866.

The intention of these black-robed fiends was to endow those who engage in Godless sexual behavior with rights that they can assert against those who are actually protected by the U.S. Constitution.

The actual purpose of the fourteenth amendment was to protect innocent persons, not people who engage in sexual behavior that deviates from the will of God.

As for the right to privacy, that was never defined in the U.S. Constitution. The court made up this right so that it could slowly chip away at it in the future.

A totalitarian government understands that if it can make up rights, in an effort to appear magnanimous, it can begin to use the minutia of the law to violate that right later when it suits its purposes.

The fact that our churches were dying at this time made it much easier for the courts to get away with mocking God through this ruling.

With this new right intact, the courts could then begin to render the First Amendment of the Constitution obsolete. This amendment protects Christians from corrupt and perverse Federal, State, and local governments from violating the rights of Christians.

Once they created a new right, the Supreme Court opened the floodgates for the heathen to attack Christians with impunity.

When the court awarded those who engage in homosexual behavior special protection, their rights could slowly take precedence over the legitimate rights of Christians. Christians can now be hauled into court by those who are in rebellion against God in their never-ending effort to malign and bankrupt us.

So much for “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech….” The 2003 ruling laid the groundwork to overthrow freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Ten years later, the liberals on the ‘Supreme Court’ decided to take mocking God to a whole new level. In fact, they decided to profane his law in such a way that there would be no turning back for the country.

In 2013, The majority on the Supreme Court argued in United States vs. Windsor that section III of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional. This lawless ruling unleashed a torrent of perversion that went even beyond ‘gay marriage.’

After this silly judgment, any ridiculous relationship combination could be referred to as ‘marriage.’

Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Boulder, CO, has been repeatedly set upon by the wicked and Godless Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Instead of making cakes, he has repeatedly been forced into court because he did not want to make a cake for a same-sex wedding.

He wants to celebrate real marriages, not Godless ones. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects that right. However, since Godless sexual behavior now has equal protection under the U.S. Constitution, according to six Nimrods, he has to fight for his rights until the end of time.

The U.S. Constitution was designed to protect us from the Colorado Civil Rights Commission as it is currently constituted. The people who run this organization have no interest in the truth or what is right. They want to punish Mr. Phillips because he refuses to participate in the undermining of God’s moral law.

The courts have now successfully overturned God’s law in the minds of a majority of people. This is how the wicked go about setting up Satan’s kingdom. If they can get enough people to believe their idiotic ideology, they can grow their numbers until no one else honors God’s law.

Those few who hold out can easily be eliminated by the majority.

The same mentality that attacks Mr. Phillips is the same mindset that makes these people think that they can go to war with God and survive. They are so deluded that they believe they can eliminate God’s righteous law through the court process.

It is not just our courts who use the ‘law’ to mock God, but our corporations have now decided that they can use their vast wealth to put God in his place.

Especially when it comes to suppressing truth.

According to the heathen at the New York Times, God and his followers are completely out of line when it comes to their rejection of ‘transgenderism.’ The fact that the acceptance of this new ‘social construct’ would have been outrageous for the last 6,000 years until about three years ago is lost on the Times.

Even Sodom and Gomorrah didn’t pull that stunt.

Amanda Holpuch of the New York Times lets us all know that mocking God is a sacred right and that if God does not like it, he is suffering from ‘divine’ privilege.

She writes:

“Some conservative commentators and celebrities began calling for a boycott of Bud Light after the beer featured in a social media promotion by a transgender influencer, Dylan Mulvaney, on April 1.”

It seems that ‘Ms.’ Mulvaney, who is still equipped like a man, is a very popular figure on TikTok. TikTok offers advice and entertainment that is on par with the advice one gleans from watching the movie ‘Jackass.’

In other words, it is mostly a social cesspool.

Bud Light’s sales slumped because, unbeknownst to the marketing executives of this corporation, most drinkers of beer do not identify with Dylan Mulvaney. In fact, most are disgusted by him. And they certainly do not want to be ridiculed by their friends for drinking a beer that identifies them with a guy who dresses like a girl.

Due to this misguided marketing campaign, two of its executives took a leave of absence from Anheuser-Busch.

This did not set well with the God-haters who see this as an obstacle to the building of Satan’s kingdom. Even now, they are plotting their revenge against the men who dared to put testosterone above their sick social agenda.

The heads of the WEF and the investment firm Blackrock have deemed that society had better start conforming to their new sexuality ‘or else.’ They, and their other Globalists allies, have a lot of money and will not tolerate disobedience from the unwashed masses while they are busy reversing God’s law regarding sexuality.

Larry Fink will dictate right and wrong for the rest of us, and he will use his vast wealth to financially ruin, and probably pay some governmental authority to incarcerate those who stand on God’s law.

It takes a lot of dead churches for these people to demand that we submit to their wicked ‘religious’ authority and get away with it.

Dylan apparently has 10.8 million followers on TikTok, and this app has been documenting his descent into cross-dressing for some time online. The question then arises: what would possess someone to want to watch a man defile himself in an act of Godlessness and faithlessness?

That is an awful lot of people who love it when God is mocked.

Dylan, now 26, has been celebrating his “Days of Girlhood” series for a full year now. All the while, he was cheered on by upwards of 10.8 million reprobates, each one doing so with the full knowledge that they are one heartbeat away from an eternity they do not want.

Dylan recently spoke with none other than the most corrupt president in American history, Joe Biden, about the newly created ‘transgender rights.’ They celebrated these new rights and the fact that they will eventually supersede the religious rights of the people of God.

The evil reprobates who promote this wickedness have developed an effective social strategy against those who resist the perversion of the culture. Anyone who dares speak out against this abomination is guilty of ‘violence’ against those who do not think it worthwhile to retain a knowledge of God.

Of course, there is no real ‘violence’ against these people. The violence against them is as imaginary as the existence of a ‘transgender.’ There is, however, plenty of violence from these people. Swimmer Riley Gaines learned about that the hard way.

These people like to accuse decent people of violence when they resist their ideology when they are, in reality, the aggressors.

Sort of like Islamic terrorists who claim you are an aggressor and worthy of death if you resist their faith.

Dylan went on the Rosie O’Donnell Show to lament how poorly he is being treated by conservatives. Rosie, the ‘Queen of Nice,’ was very sympathetic to his plight.

I didn’t even listen to her show, but I could make that call with 100% accuracy.

If he were more experienced as a ‘transwoman,’ he lamented, he would better be able to deal with the criticism from people of faith. He was completely in the dark regarding what the goal is of those who resist his ideology.

“But what is their goal?” he asked.

Well, Dylan, it’s real simple. We do not want your perversion exposed to our children, we do not want your ‘rights’ taking precedence over our rights, and we believe you should keep your rebellion against God in the back alleys where it belongs.

Unfortunately, breaking down the morals of society is the main purpose of your behavior.

It’s OK, Dylan. One day your side is going to completely win the culture war. You can then rejoice in your victory and move on to even greater conquests. It won’t be long before our Supreme Court codifies child molestation and bestiality.

Then you and your followers can really rub in God’s face your filth.

Once this occurs, you can face down God along with your father, the devil. He will convince you that you can take God on because he is kind and merciful, and you, and your over ten million followers, are not.

Since you did not think it was worthwhile to retain a knowledge of God, you can join with those who have been given over to a depraved mind.

We now have an entire month that is dedicated to bringing millions of people together to mock God. Imagine that: thirty days of watching every kind of wickedness, evil, and depravity each night on our televisions and in our towns.

Men and women dressing up in outrageous garb, exhibiting their various fetishes and perversions for all of us and our children to watch. Each one a gossip, slanderer, a God hater, insolent, arrogant, and boastful.

June is Gay Pride Month all over the world as people everywhere celebrate, and take pride in, the breaking of the chains of God’s moral law.

Pride month is held in June to commemorate the Stonewall Riots that the communists used to cause sexual discord in our culture fifty-five years ago. The Stonewall Inn, where the riots began, was named a national monument by Barack Obama.

In 1999, another corrupt Democrat president, Bill Clinton, officially declared June Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. Being a very close friend of Jeffrey Epstein, with numerous junkets with the child trafficker, it should come as no surprise that Bill would make this declaration.

Jeffrey Epstein had a portrait of Bill in his home that was completely indicative of this president’s character.

In order to mock God properly, the ‘Alphabet Brigade’ (let the reader understand) decided to adopt the rainbow as its emblem (I had to come up with my own term since ‘Alphabet Mafia’ has already been taken). The rainbow was a covenant between God and Noah. It was a promise that God would never again destroy the earth by flood.

According to the rainbow flag designer, the rainbow is the “rainbow of humanity” and is designed to represent all genders and races. What it truly symbolizes is all those who have taken a stand against God and his anointed.

Pride month is an exhibition of rebellion and treachery against the Lord. Its participants and supporters have turned their backs on God and have hardened their hearts against his Spirit. Every year for thirty days, they foment oppression and revolt and utter lies their hearts have conceived.

They take great joy in the fact that justice is driven back and righteousness stands at a distance. Many of our law enforcement personnel now eagerly do their bidding. They arrest street preachers calling people to repentance while perverts gyrate in front of innocent children.

And many dead and Laodicean churches have joined in this rebellion to their eternal shame.

They cause truth to stumble in the streets so that honesty cannot enter. Our social media and Hollywood have enthusiastically taken up this cause.

They, and the mainstream media that loves them, see to it that truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes their prey.

They are feeling really confident that God is helpless to stop them. It seems as if all of these globalist organizations have achieved complete success taking down Western Civilization to make way for Satan’s kingdom.

However, God has set a day when he will look upon this wickedness, and his patience will come to an end. These people are ecstatic about his displeasure and will align themselves against him because they view his patience as weakness.

They know that God’s primary goal is to bring sinners to repentance, and they will use every means at their disposal to see that does not happen.

They have convinced themselves that because they have gotten away with evil for so long, God is powerless to stop them. They intend to show their hatred for everything God loves and how much they love the things that God hates.

The battlefield they will choose to meet God in a death match is in the land of Israel. There is no nation on the planet that is hated by the Godless more than this nation.

All of the rebellion of the world culminates in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and they are armed and ready for a fight to the finish.

God beckons to them:

“Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O Lord. Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full” (Joel 3:11-13).

God will put on righteousness as his breastplate and place the helmet of salvation on his head. He will put on his garments of vengeance and will wrap himself in zeal as in a cloak.

According to what they have done, he will repay.

“‘Therefore wait for me,’ declares the Lord, ‘for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed'” (Zephaniah 3:8).

God will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth in the form of blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the Lord.

The good news is that during this time of destruction, those few who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.

There will be deliverance among the survivors of those who did not join in the battle of Armageddon. God will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and humble the pride of the ruthless.

In doing so, he will make man scarcer than the gold of Ophir.

However, we can see the battle lines being drawn even now. Time is growing far too short for people to turn from their wickedness and to the Holy Son of God.

It is time for everyone to consider the challenge that Joshua issued to the people of Israel, “…if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve….’

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Christ has issued his warning to the kings and rulers of the earth. Instead of preparing for a hopeless battle, he commands that they serve the Lord with trembling.

“Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him” (Psalm 2:12).

All of the heathen should think hard about this before they take their children to another gay pride parade or drag queen story hour.

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21 Aug 2023

Good News is Good News; Bad News is Good News; Very Bad News is Great News

I continue to see an amazing performance in the U.S. stock market. I’ve become absolutely convinced that the stock market’s ability to defy long-standing financial rules on the negative side is related to the rapture.

We are living in a strange world where the most dire news possible can be made to be a positive event for the financial markets. If it was announced that a large asteroid was headed for earth, the stock market would rally.

We recently had the credit rating agency Fitch downgrade the U.S. credit rating. Fitch cut the U.S. debt by one notch, from AAA to AA+, partly in response to how the federal government handled the debt crisis two months ago. That move mirrored a similar downgrade by S&P in 2011, also following a debt ceiling standoff in Congress.

I was surprised that Fitch was brave enough to cut the government’s debt rating. When S&P downgraded the U.S., the stock market went into a mini-crash, and gold shot to a new high. S&P found itself under scrutiny from a large portion of the national government. Since the firm had given a AAA rating to corporate bonds that crashed during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, Washington expects S&P to continue the lie with all federal debt.

Fitch likely made the decision to downgrade because it perceived that few people cared and reality would eventually set in. If the federal bond market goes into a meltdown, Fitch can claim the one-point lowering of our nation’s rating was somehow a warning of the coming calamity. A true measure of our debt risk would have bonds rated as junk.

There used to be a class of people who were called debt watchdogs. They would write books that warned how our spending was going to cause the death of the dollar. I have many of them in my book collection.

When the national debt reached $1 trillion on September 2, 1981, the debt Watchdogs started barking like crazy. They would be amazed to learn that the U.S. debt would reach $33 trillion in 2023. Today, our interest payment alone is projected to soon be $1 trillion. The dollar is not only still alive, but it remains the world’s reserve currency.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a report that said the U.S. budget deficit will widen by $5 billion every single day for the next decade. It will soon rise by $7 billion, $10 billion, and $12 billion. The CBO has always been too low in its numbers because it doesn’t understand how debt compounds.

The U.S. Treasury Department recently shamed the CBO by announcing plans to borrow an “eye-popping” $1.85 trillion over the next six months, which is 40 to 50 percent higher than the Treasury’s last spending forecast made just two months ago. Years ago, this would be the type of news that would cost a party control of Congress and the Whitehouse. There are probably more people in America that can sing the Mexican national anthem than quote dollar figures for the current federal debt.

We have a huge banking crisis that has already created a dollar value loss that is greater than the banking crash of the Great Recession. By jacking up rates at the fastest pace in history, government bonds have become dangerous to own. U.S. banks would have a loss of $200 billion if they were forced to sell their U.S. bond holdings.

It is amazing that more banks have not collapsed from simple mismanagement. The bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank shows it was more concerned about diversity and transgender rights than it was about watching the bottom line.

Right now, foreign holdings of U.S. debt were approximately $7.5 trillion, accounting for around 28% of the total U.S. debt. When the monthly trade figures came out, the data used to be something that could move the Dow Jones up or down. The trade deficit has become so meaningless, most financial news outlets don’t even report the numbers.

Reports that show the two largest holders of our debt starting to sell their bonds have had no impact on awareness. The Fed can print up all the money required to patch a hole in a U.S. financial market. It can do nothing for a trade partner that says they don’t want dollars for products we sell you.

There is a growing list of financial milestones that, once reached in the past, have nearly always resulted in a stock market crash. Some strange magic is working to prevent these triggers from being set off. Because Jesus said he would come back at a time of peace and safety seems to be the only explanation for why we have the most resilient economy in our nation’s history.

“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape” (1 Thessalonians 5:3).

–Todd


Rapture Verdict Overturned

A friend with whom I was on the phone said, “There are a lot of people coming against the preTrib Rapture.”

I asked him to name names, and he said, “Guys like Joel Richardson and Walid Shoebat.”

These and many others, my friend said, are saying things like those of us who believe in and teach a preTrib Rapture are heretics. And some are saying worse –like we who teach such things are leading people to hell with our false teaching.

I, of course –as reported in these commentaries—have heard those invectives and worse against those of us who believe in and teach the preTrib Rapture of the Church. However, I’ve met both Joel Richardson and Walid Shoebat. But Mr. Richardson never came across as a man who would make such strong condemnation. And Mr. Shoebat, an admitted former Mideast terrorist, now a Christian, I haven’t heard much about since our meeting at a prophecy conference some years ago. He was passionate, to be sure, and I knew he didn’t believe there will be a preTrib Rapture, but I never heard from him any such diatribe accusing us of being heretics as my friend said he and others were declaring.

So I did some research to see, in particular, what Joel Richardson (not his real name for his own reasons, I’ve heard) was saying.

I could find no written documents of significance by Joel on the subject, so I listened to his in-depth back-and-forth discussion with a woman podcast host as they dealt specifically with Joel’s opposition to the preTrib Rapture of the Church.

I found myself in total disagreement with all of his reasons that the preTrib view is unbiblical. I found them so weak as to wonder why anyone should even worry about his view making inroads against the Truth regarding the timing of the Rapture.

I did agree with him on one thing, though. The preTrib view is diminishing amongst believers –those of the Church who belong to Jesus. But it is not, in my view, Richardson’s and others providing anti-preTrib Rapture teaching that is causing the diminishment, but rather a part of the end times falling away from the faith in general that is caused in part by the lack of Biblical prophetic Truth being preached and taught in churches.

That said, however, I, upon meeting him, found Joel Richardson to be a gentleman and a gentle man, as Paul Harvey used to say about those he found to be so. And upon listening closely to him and the lady who was of the same anti-preTrib Rapture mindset, I heard the same gentleness in his presentation.

As a matter of fact, he lamented that some within the preTrib prophecy preacher camp had called him a heretic and much worse. Someone who hosted, or partly hosted, a 7,000-attendee prophecy conference had said these things about him.

Mr. Richardson said when he confronted the Christian Brother, the conference host admitted he was wrong but just “needed a scapegoat” to make his point while speaking at the gathering.

I don’t know of any prophecy conference of that size, nor what the man meant by “scapegoat” in this case, but I believe Joel Richardson to be a Brother in Christ in every respect and one who tells the Truth as he understands Truth. (It’s just that, after listening to him and the host of the podcast, neither he nor she understands Truth in the matter of when Christ will Call the Church to Himself.)

Another anti-preTrib Rapture Bible prophecy proponent I find to be otherwise quite accurate on the way things are trending toward the 7 years Tribulation is Michael Snyder. He is excellent at gathering information and reporting news of developments in the Ephesians 6:12 minions’ attempts to bring in Antichrist’s regime of control.

He wrote a book with the title The Rapture Verdict, in which he attempted to tear apart evidence from God’s Word for the preTrib Rapture. His verdict, of course, was that he had managed to prove there will be no preTrib Rapture.

Neither Mr. Richardson nor Mr. Snyder denies there will be a Rapture. But they lump Israel and the Church in the same lump, so to speak. Both Israel and believers that comprise the Church will go through the Tribulation, is their verdict. Mr. Richardson, at least –I can’t remember the position of Mr. Snyder– denies that God deals with man in dispensations. They both put forth that the Rapture will take place within the Tribulation, as I understand. Their belief is based upon the “last Trump of Revelation” to a large extent.

Mr. Richardson, as I heard him in the interview with the lady –and she agreed wholeheartedly— said that the best we preTrib Rapturists could come up with was Revelation 3:10. He admitted that it did seem to indicate that the believer will escape God’s Wrath. But he said that the scripture didn’t mean that we will not go through the time of Wrath –the 7 years of Tribulation— but that we will be kept “through” that time that will be, according to the Lord Jesus, the worst of all human history.

To me, Mr. Snyder’s and Mr. Richardson’s Rapture Verdict is overthrown –is overturned—in one simple word in this Promise from our God.

Here is the Promise.

“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Rev 3: 10).

As I understand, Joel Richardson believes that the word “wrath” means in the eternal sense, not in the sense of the physical, i.e., we won’t suffer the eternal Wrath reserved for the lost but must be here for the physical punishment phase.

But even more confusing is that he said, if I heard him correctly, that this scripture says we will be kept “through” this period of horror during which God Judges and makes war on unbelievers and on Satan and his angelic hordes – a thing I find to make little sense, as millions of new believers will die during that era.

But one word totally overturns the Rapture Verdict of the anti-preTrib argument, in my view. That term is the simple little word “from.”

It is the Greek word “ek.” The word means “out of.” – not “through.” We will be kept “out of” that hour that will come upon the whole world of rebels to try them in God’s Judicial Court Room called the Tribulation.

Of course, there is a body of evidence overwhelmingly extensive that could be brought into play that proves the preTrib Rapture is Truth. And that evidence has been presented over and over, beginning with the great Apostle Paul’s words, from which he said for us to take comfort. And there is no comfort that can come from knowing you are going through the worst time of all human history. Here are those words of comfort.

“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, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words” (1 Thes 4: 16-18).

–Terry