As born-again Christians, we KNOW the Bible is the Word of God. Does the world and any other religion besides Christianity know that? NO WAY! Why not?

Several important reasons:

1. First and foremost, the world has a SIN NATURE that is anti-God and is under the power of the god of this world, Satan, due to this sin nature.
2. The world thinks it is ludicrous that Christianity says there is only ONE way to God – through Christ Jesus – when there are hundreds if not more belief systems.
3. The world does not want to be accountable to a God who judges them and “does” hold them accountable. They see Christianity as a bunch of DON’Ts, which ruins their fun.
4. The world thinks it is ridiculous that Christianity says all you have to do to be saved is believe in Jesus. They see Christianity as giving believers a “license” to SIN.
5. What makes perfect sense from a human perspective is if we want to spend eternity with God, we have to do it ourselves. It is a WORKS program. Simply make sure your good works outweighs your bad works, and off we go to heaven.
6. Most all religions don’t even believe it is “possible” to have a personal, intimate relationship with God.
7. The world does not understand how God can have a personal relationship with people and give people His “power” through the Holy Spirit to change their lives.

Okay, these are a few of the reasons the world either hates or ignores the Bible and Christianity. They are WRONG, and the Bible EASILY proves they are wrong.

Does the world think the Bible is a SUPERNATURAL book? Not hardly. What are they missing or ignoring or refusing to accept? They are missing the number one PROOF that the Bible is the Supernatural Word of God – PROPHECIES!

Hopefully, ALL of us born-again believers KNOW the Bible is filled with prophecies which are simply God telling us the future in advance and NEVER BEING WRONG!

We read them in the Bible. We know when they were written, and we know when they were fulfilled. And since God has never been wrong, we know that all of the prophecies that have not been fulfilled YET “will come true” like all of them that have already come true.

We also should know that approximately 1/3rd of the Bible is prophetic. THAT is a TON of the future written in advance.

In Isaiah 46:10, God says, “Only I can tell you the future before it happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish” (New Living Translation).

The Bible is the only book in history with prophecies that have come true 100% for obvious reasons: ONLY God can do it. God has given the WORLD His Supernatural Word filled with nearly 2,000 prophecies for one main reason — to make it EASY to KNOW that the Bible and the Bible ALONE truly is the WORD OF GOD.

The Bible has a LOT more evidence that proves it is the Word of God, such as changed lives. It is a “living” Word where God makes the same verses in the Bible speak to us in different ways when we read them multiple times, etc.

But today, I am focusing ONLY on the most powerful proof that the Bible is the Supernatural Word of God – prophecy.

The fatal mistake the religions of the world make is they totally IGNORE the Bible and the Supernatural prophecies in it. Even professing Christians make this mistake. You would think that everyone on the planet SHOULD KNOW that ONLY God can tell us the future in advance.

So, how does the world deal with the Supernatural prophecies in the Bible in a way that makes sense to them? They DON’T deal with them. They either ignore them completely or make up lies and say things like the prophecies were written AFTER the fact, etc.

It’s like the world is at WAR with the Bible, and their weapon to win the war is a BB gun while the Bible uses its nuclear bomb. Another example I like to use is there will be a 100-mile race between all religions and the Bible, and there will be only ONE winner who gets to spend eternity with God. The world religions will be riding their bicycles while the Bible will be riding its Corvette. The world religions “ignore” the Corvette, convinced they will win the race with their bicycles.

So, what should the world religions and all people do to discover which SOURCE is the TRUE source of belief in order to spend eternity with God vs spending eternity separated from God?

They should RESEARCH to see which source is the CORRECT source on how to spend eternity with God. The only thing that truly matters for all humans is “ETERNITY” and WHERE you spend it.

Eternity itself is “life” as there is no physical or annihilation-type death in eternity – only a separation from God type of death.

The universe is temporary, and “everything” in it is dying: from all the suns, moons, and stars to certainly ourselves. God ONLY allows a physical annihilation type of death “inside” of the universe which He created vs eternity.

This current universe is also the ONLY PLACE where God “allows” good and evil to dwell “together.” In eternity, everything is good with God, or everything is bad without God. There is NO good and evil “together” in eternity.

Invisible God has made Himself visible through us seeing His Creation and His one-of-a-kind Supernatural Bible, His “instruction manual” on what He wants us spiritually dead humans to know in order to have a personal, intimate relationship with Him now and forever.

Back to knowing the truth: All the fulfilled prophecies in the Bible should be ENOUGH “alone” to convince anyone that only the Bible is the Word of God. Everything in it is TRUE, and the Bible makes it clear that the MESSAGE of the Bible is God’s plan of REDEMPTION to remove our sin in a fallen world.

It is THIS SIMPLE: Eternity means only one thing – SIN or NO SIN, period! No sin, there is heaven with God; and sin, there is hell without God.

The FATAL mistake of the world is this, as Jesus said: They are “wrong about sin… because people do not believe in me…” (John 16:10). Sin keeps us from God forever. This is WHY it is so IMPORTANT for people to KNOW the truth of how to have our sins REMOVED forever, and that’s what the whole Bible is about – Jesus – God in the flesh, who sacrificed His LIFE on a cross to PAY the price for our sins and remove them forever.

Recognizing God’s POWER in 1/3rd of the Bible being prophetic should be one of the first steps in acknowledging that not only is the Bible very different from ALL other sources of belief, but God’s message is a message of His love for us sinners and what He alone had to do and has done to remove our sins so we can now have a personal, intimate relationship with Him through Jesus now and forever.

If there is anyone reading this article who is not a born-again Christian, please, please, please research the Bible for the things I have talked about.

Do you think eternity with God is “worth” researching? I pray that is a rhetorical question. There is NOTHING more INCREDIBLE than a personal relationship with God.

It is actually what the whole world DESIRES without even knowing it. I pray this article has been a blessing to you. I hope to meet as many of you as possible in heaven, and as most of us at RaptureReady.com know, that could be just a matter of days, weeks, or months.

Blessings and Maranatha!

David Cogburn

dcogburn789@gmail.com

 

Aside from the folks who believe the Sethite version of Genesis 6:1-4, most of the rest of us have come to the realization that the sons of God (benai Elohim) passage references really were sons of God. In other words, the supernatural interpretation of this text is the correct one.

Any attempt to demythologize the verses and make the sons of God good and righteous men as descendants of Seth, and the daughters of man only Cain’s offspring – wicked women! – has far too many flaws to be considered proper hermeneutics. As a reminder, here are the verses:

“When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, ‘My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.’ The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.”

Failure to read the Bible literally when it’s meant to be taken as such is a fatal flaw, which results in the loss of true understanding as to the overall big picture of Scripture that God intends.

The sons of God descending to earth and procreating with human women is one outcome of the prophecy of Genesis 3:15:

“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Satan’s offspring, i.e., those descending from the serpent, are not simply spiritual in nature, just as Jesus’ offspring aren’t simply spiritual. There is a literal and a physical manifestation of both.

Those which come from the serpent take many forms and have appeared throughout history. They include the rebellious sons of God, their Nephilim children, those who work for Satan today, and whatever the enemy will look like during the Tribulation.

No doubt Satan had a hand in goading the spiritual beings in heaven to disobey God so that they would leave their proper dwelling and come to earth (Jude 6). It had to be a day of glee for him seeing others follow his lead. Even more so, the consequences they wrought in taking human form and “marrying” the beautiful daughters of man had to be delicious for Satan to taste. Consider the consequence as Genesis 6:11-12 tells us:

“Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.” (emphasis mine)

Everything that came after this decision by God’s rebellious sons brought horrific results to the planet and to generations born to man afterward. Violence erupted and became so bad that the entire earth was consumed by it. Many scholars believe that because of the size of the Nephilim – after all, they were giants perhaps 12-15 feet tall – with their appetites being so great, that after they’d eaten the fruit of the planet, they began consuming mankind – cannibalism – and perhaps even each other.

What does it mean that all flesh was corrupted? They had violated God’s law of each according to its kind detailed in the creation account. The sons of God intermingled with humanity and produced hybrid flesh known as the Nephilim. They were part spiritual entity and part human. They were flesh but of an entirely different kind. But that wasn’t the end. They very likely, in some manner, inseminated animals to produce the creatures of mythology such as Satyrs, Minotaurs, Cyclops, and many more. All flesh on earth was corrupted in some way, shape, or form. DNA had been altered. Blood types had been merged that never should have been. It’s no wonder that we read in Genesis 6:5-7,13:

“The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.’…. And God said to Noah, ‘I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.'”

Yet, God declared one man and his family righteous. What does this mean? His DNA – his bloodline – had not changed with the mixing of different kinds of species.

His body was pure as God intended. In other words, he remained fully human.

Why is this important? Because true humanity had to remain in the world so that when Jesus came as a man, He could redeem mankind. He didn’t come to deliver hybrid beings from sin; He came solely to redeem the creation of what God had pronounced as very good.

This takes us to the present day – how the past relates to the prophecy of Genesis 3:15.

Satan and his minions are busier now than they’ve ever been because they know that time is short. What they did in the antediluvian past, they are ramping up again to unprecedented levels.

Perhaps the creation of the Nephilim offspring of the sons of God came about through a type of fornication; perhaps some of what occurred then resulted from actual DNA experimentation and manipulation. Regardless, what we have now appears to be solely the result of purposeful DNA tampering.

I say appears because sometimes things aren’t what they seem. There may be benai Elohim present on the earth and intermingling with human women. There may be Nephilim here and hidden in remote areas. We simply don’t know.

What we do know is what has come about from COVID. The likelihood is high that this affliction was engineered specifically to require the release of the so-called vaccines. These injections are, without a doubt, DNA-altering drugs. What they produce through the mRNA technology is corruption in every cell in the body at the DNA level.

We don’t know if everyone who’s gotten the jab has their DNA changed like this because the batches of these shots are seemingly all different. Some lots are definitely more deadly than others and/or cause serious adverse effects. We do know that the effort to push these compounds on every living human continues, whether in the guise of future COVID boosters, or more deviously, through concocting all future vaccines with this technology.

The plan is to expand the use of mRNA biotech and to manufacture all vaccines in this manner, as the headline at this link says: Endless mRNA jabs are now planned for multiple vaccine types, including influenza, HIV, RSV, Pneumococcal, Zika and many more. A word of warning: DO NOT take any more vaccines – EVER! The ultimate goal is for all peoples of the earth to be changed into something that isn’t human. In other words, the intent is to corrupt all flesh now, just as before the flood. If Satan can do this, he believes that he will win in his ages-old struggle to supplant God.

The one troubling thought some may have in this regard has to do with who God destroyed in the flood – literally everyone and everything that didn’t continue to have pure blood, i.e., all but Noah and his family.

What does that portend for the coming Rapture and ensuing Tribulation?

We have a type of Rapture in the foreshadowing deliverance of Noah. He was fully human because his blood wasn’t altered. Is that a problem for truly born-again believers today who got the jab? If their DNA is tainted and their humanity in this sense compromised, will they be left behind to perish along with the rest of corrupted flesh in the Tribulation because of how the Old Testament foreshadows the New Testament? I don’t believe so. The difference for us today is Jesus and the indwelling Holy Spirit within believers.

For those who are truly saved, the Holy Spirit is a seal and a promise of God’s grace and mercy. Despite having made a wrong choice to take one of these injections – we absolutely know how harmful they are, and they’ve never had the efficacy the authorities promised – true Christ followers will surely be protected and saved from the wrath to come. Although many Christians are suffering the same ways in which pagans are, the hope of Christ is what sets all of us apart – jabbed and unjabbed.

Another consideration in the analogy I’m presenting is the violence then versus now.

Obviously, God saw that the thoughts and actions of all those who lived at that time were great enough to include as a factor in His bringing the flood to destroy all life. Because we’re on the runway to the takeoff of the Man of Lawlessness, violence is increasing exponentially. We see in 2 Timothy 3:1-5 one of the various prophecies of this:

“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.”

At some point, three key elements will converge, causing the Lord to take the action true believers have yearned for in these latter days:

1. The DNA of enough unbelievers will be compromised such that God can declare that all flesh has been corrupted.
2. Violence will increase to the point that God determines the entire earth is filled with it to overflowing.
3. Very possibly, these two factors together will lead to the final critical tipping point: the fullness of the Gentiles will come in per Romans 11:25:

“Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.”

Note that this last issue is a mystery that is only revealed at the proper time. Is that when items #1 and #2 are fulfilled?

As we survey the world, I think we can legitimately say that we are surely getting close to the first two points; where we are as to the third is anybody’s guess. Also, the question of how much persecution we in the western church might experience could certainly be a factor.

Given the convergence of all the other end-times signs, so that they don’t reach their expiration date (which events in the world have a tendency to do), these other three elements should rapidly come into play.

I hate to say it, given the doctrine of the imminency of the Rapture, but it seems to me we’ve still got a little way to go before the Day in which Christ appears in the clouds for those faithful to Him.

In the meantime, let’s not lose heart and hope. Jesus IS coming, and it will be sooner than we can imagine!

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