When The Wicked Thrive :: By The Gospelist

Those who are bent on evil in this generation seem to have no fear that they will be held accountable for their wickedness.

We see this in our Injustice Department (formerly the DOJ), where the righteous are prosecuted and imprisoned while real criminals roam the streets. It is also obvious that the Department of Investigating the Good Guys (formerly the FBI) shows absolutely no interest in investigating or capturing criminals.

They spend far more time harassing those who stray from the agenda of their masters.

Both organizations defend the wicked who engage in wanton destruction, while patriots and people of faith are harassed and punished. And neither organization seems the least bit concerned that they will be held accountable for their evil.

So, what is the source of their confidence?

We see this same phenomenon up north in Canada, where free speech has almost completely been eliminated by Justin Trudeau. Those who dare to tell the truth are accused of ‘hate speech’ and are in danger of being ruined and losing their freedom. They are censored and threatened if they dare to continue telling the truth.

Justin seems to have no fear of the people that he is oppressing voting for a rival political party and kicking his worthless hide to the curb. This guy must think he is the Prime Minister of France. Or maybe Maduro.

That confidence is awful bold for any politician.

In Great Britain, Herr Starmer of the Nazi Party (formerly the Labor Party) is exercising totalitarian power over the people with no fear of reprisal. He shows absolutely no respect for his people but, instead, seems to dislike them intensely.

Herr Starmer is acting like he will never leave office regardless of how badly he treats those he governs.

When evil leaders are able to censor and punish those who wander from the agenda of our overlords, “justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance. Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty cannot enter. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey” (Isaiah 59:14-15).

And since the evil Globalists have purchased the leaders of most nations, and it is nearly impossible to extract them, there is no one left to intercede.

That brings us to the pope.

We need to ask ourselves why this guy has absolutely no fear of being held accountable for his mischief. He can make the most Godless, heretical statements a religious figure can make, and few even try to correct him.

Those few who do try are excommunicated and hardly heard from again.

The majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics in the world, including the hierarchy at the Vatican, seem to have absolutely no problem whenever he reveals himself to be a false teacher. This is the guy they call ‘Holy Father.’

It is difficult to get more profane than that.

Those who call themselves Catholic have shown themselves to be nothing more than creatures of the world. The few who stand up for the Christian faith are quickly purged or fall silent in fear as this guy spews falsehood everywhere he goes.

There is no question that this man carries with him the spirit of the antichrist. He is from the world, and he speaks from the viewpoint of the world. And the world listens to him.

His ‘church’ ousted the previous pope fairly easily, but he seems to have no concern that he will be subject to the same indignity.

His latest outrage was when he told young people in Singapore that being Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, and Christian are just different paths (as every religion was a path) to God.

Waheguru did not send his only Son to die for our Sins. Neither did Allah or Vishnu.

There is only one God who so loved the world that he sent his only Son to die for our sins. Whoever believes in him shall not perish but shall have everlasting life. Whoever believes in Christ is not condemned, but whoever does not believe in him stands condemned already (See John 3:16-18).

And the pope does not believe in Him.

The pope is ushering these people in through the wide gate that leads to destruction. Jesus told us that many were going to enter through it. They will see God, but the God they see will be a God of wrath and vengeance.

Instead of sharing the Gospel with these people, he decided to engage them in ‘inter-religious’ dialogue. He was ‘struck’ by the people of Singapore’s eager desire to engage in a religious chat.

As long as he does not proclaim the Gospel to these people, they will listen to him drone on all day long.

“Every religion is a way to God,” he moaned, “There are different languages to arrive at God, but God is God for all.”

He studiously avoided that pesky little idea of repentance.

After all, God does not want anyone to perish but all to come to repentance (See 2 Peter 3:9). That includes repenting of being a Muslim, a Sikh, or a Hindu.

Too bad this pathetic Jesuit did not share that with his audience.

He went on to enlighten the heathen with more worldly wisdom. Francis urged that no religion be given priority but that individuals instead focus on parity between beliefs.

The pope stated, “We don’t want to start a fight among ourselves as to which religion is true and which is false.”

Since we all have our own ‘truth’ now, I guess that means the Great Commission is off the table down at the Vatican. Not that it was ever on the table.

There is no question that this creature came out of the earth to lead the unwary into the arms of the antichrist. The next ‘Holy Father’ will be even worse.

The pope’s little homily was well received by all his listeners as they, too, are in complete rebellion against God. He cautioned any true evangelists who may be among these people to not try to ‘bully’ the pagans with the Gospel.

The pope said it takes a lot of courage to engage in inter-religious dialogue. On that count, he is correct. The pope has shown that he is willing to brave the fires of hell for all eternity to deceive these people with feel-good nonsense.

In his warped world, he calls that ‘love.’

“You can build and move forward with inter-religious dialogue when you respect each other, and this is very important.”

The prophet Elijah must have forgotten that little jewel of wisdom when he was ‘dialoguing’ with the priests of Baal.

The pope closed his meeting by urging all present to pray for each other in silence.  He called for God’s blessing upon the people and asked them to pray for him.

I am certain that Allah, Waheguru, and Vishnu will spread their wonderful blessings all over him and the other rebels.

The Roman Catholic ‘Church’ teaches that it is the one true church, and every soul must belong to it to be saved. That is scary when you consider the bulk of Catholics are fiercely loyal to this commune.

There is very little resistance to the evil that he is spewing, so we can assume that the vast majority of Catholics are on board with it. The pope has seen how weak and pathetic the visible church is in this generation and intends to take full advantage of it.

The source of their confidence seems to be a group of very powerful people who control a great deal of wealth and who have the means to ensure that these people prosper.  All the ‘right’ people must be put in place all over the world so that there is no one with political power who can arise and put a stop to their evil.

Is there any question that this church is a prostitute that sits on many waters? Is it really all that hard to imagine that the kings of the earth will commit adultery with her?

In the very near future, the inhabitants of the earth will be intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.

After the rapture, the kings of the earth will get tired of her whoring.  They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked.

However, Christians still need to contend with her as she leads the great falling away from the faith at the end of the church age. This church will be the primary source of last days deception, and she is off to a fast start.

By 2030, she will be going full throttle.

Our work is cut out for us because he is the pope, and we are just a bunch of vagabonds with a message of repentance. The sad truth is that most people are far more impressed with his titles, popularity, and wealth than with our message of salvation.

The pope and those who are loyal to his ‘church’ will be coming for us at the end of the church age. It is going to get really ugly.

And that is not too far in the future.

“Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand” (James 5:7-8).

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The Alpha and the Omega :: By Rick Segoine

Jesus spoke the first Word, and He will have the last Word in regard to the destiny of His creation and all that is in His creation.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:1).

The creation itself, in part or in full, is not greater than nor stronger than He who did the creating.

There is no created being, angelic or human or creature of any kind, that is greater than or stronger than He who created all living beings.

The supernatural power and strength of the Living God are far beyond the comprehension of mortals and angels alike.

He is the Alpha and the Omega (Revelation 1:8).

He declares the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10) and everything between the end and the beginning.

He foresaw it all, even before the foundation of the world was set and spoken by Him into existence.

He even knew all about the life of every person ever born, and He knew before they even became a seed planted in their mother’s womb, and His hand was there to form each of us in the womb (Psalm 139:16).

God knew that Adam and Eve would disobey Him in the Garden of Eden and that it would cause the fall of humankind into sin.

Because of this, the Lamb of God was declared before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:19-20).

God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent (1 John 3:20; Jeremiah 23:24; 1 Kings 8:27; Psalm 90:2; Job 42:2; Luke 1:37). God is the Alpha and the Omega.

“The Word became flesh” (John 1:14).

The Father knew that He would need to send His Son, the second person in the Holy Trinity, on a rescue mission of mercy to be the sacrificial lamb, who, being without sin, could and would take all of the sins of man and womankind upon Himself in order to provide redemption for all who had sinned, which was everyone (Romans 3:9-26).

Everyone, that is, except God’s only begotten Son Jesus. Jesus being the only one who ever lived inside a human body that never sinned. The only one qualified to even be the sacrificial lamb (Hebrews 4:15).

Jesus accomplished this sacrifice on the cross at Calvary.

The main thing required of each fallen sinner was and still is belief.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever “believes” in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16, Emphasis mine).

Belief leads to faith, and faith leads to trust. Complete 100% belief, faith, and trust.

Unwavering and absolute faith that Jesus is who He Himself says He is, as well as who His Father says He is and who the Holy Spirit and all of His Disciples, Apostles, and the Prophets say He is.

And just who is it that He and they say He is?

“I am the way and the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).

“This is beloved my son in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17).

“You are the Christ, the son of the Living God.” (Matthew 16:16)

“There is no other name under heaven by which one can be saved” (Acts 4:12).

“All who call on the name of Jesus shall be saved” (Romans 10:13).

“By His stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5).

To believe in Jesus is to be saved. Salvation freely belongs to all who believe.

Ephesians 2:8-9 reveals that Salvation and Eternal Life are the gift of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. If God says that “belief” is our boarding pass to the heaven-bound train, then it is true because God is Holy, and He cannot and does not lie. Not once, not ever.

The saved thief on the cross next to Jesus, who had no time to do anything other than believe, is an eternal witness to believing being the key to salvation (Luke 23:43).

Belief in Him who declares the end from the beginning.

Belief in Him who is the Alpha and the Omega.

Belief in the great “I Am” who is Eternal God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Exodus 3 1:22; John 8:48-59).

Belief in Him who loves you so much that He was willing to lay down His life for you. Willing to die in place of you.

Belief in Him who rose from death and conquered it so that you may live, and so I may live, and so all who believe on the name of Jesus may not only live but live forever and in resurrected bodies similar to His. Bodies that do not get sick. Bodies that will never grow old and wear out and die. Bodies that will not be tempted by sin, corruption, or wickedness of any kind at all (1Corrinthians 15:57).

He who is the Alpha and the Omega foresaw all that has happened, all that is happening now, and all that has yet to happen. Everything that is happening right now at this very moment in time. Everything happening all over this entire planet as we travel along the prophetic timeline, He foresaw.

He has revealed through Holy scripture His plan for the future for all who believe in and trust in Him.

He has also revealed His plan for those who reject Him and hate Him. The ones that call evil good and good evil (Isaiah 5:20).

He has not kept these things a secret.

Whosoever reads the Word of God (the Holy Bible) from beginning to end will discover how creation began and how the phenomenon of “time” became a temporary yet vital part of God’s plan.

Whosoever reads the Word of God from beginning to end will also discover God’s plan of how creation as we know it will play out and how “time” will eventually merge back into the timeless state that preceded creation as we know it.

To us, history dating back to the Garden seems like a very long time, but to Eternal God, it is only about six days that have passed.

As David in Psalm 90:4, and then many centuries later, Peter, in 2 Peter 3:8, pointed out, with God, a thousand years is as a day. Hence, we can refer to all of the Word of God, alluding to the seven millenniums as “God’s Week of Creation.”

That would include everything that has happened as well as everything that has yet to happen.

From the perspective of Eternal God our Creator, we are at the tail end of the sixth day of creation and right on the edge of entering into the seventh and final day of His creation as we know it. And the convergence of the signs given by Jesus in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21, in conjecture with many other prophecies from both the Old and New Testaments, confirms this.

Woven into the biblical account of history is also His “prophetic timeline.” The prophetic timeline began right from the start of human history in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:15).

Only the catching away of God’s remnant church of true believers in the Rapture, and the Seven-year Tribulation when the wrath of God is poured out on an unrepentant world filled with wickedness, stand between the sixth and the seventh day of “God’s Week of Creation.”

Through His chosen prophets, He who declares the End from the Beginning has actively used the prophetic timeline to forecast events that would occur in the near, the mid-range, and the distant future. This includes things that will occur in the last day of God’s Week of Creation, also known as the “Millennium.”

Things such as 1,000 years with no wars because, as Isaiah 2:4 says regarding the second advent of Jesus, “They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war.”

Things such as Revelation 20:1-3 where John describes “an angel coming down from heaven at the end of the tribulation and at the beginning of the millennium, with a key to the hole without a bottom. He also had a strong chain. He took hold of the dragon, that old snake, who is the devil, or Satan, and chained him for 1,000 years. The angel threw the devil into the hole without a bottom. He shut it and locked the devil in it. Satan could not fool the nations anymore until the 1,000 years were completed. After this, he must be free for a while.”

At the end of the 1,000 years, the last millennium, also known as the last day of God’s Week of Creation, Revelation 20:7-10 explains that Satan will be released for a short time so he can gather together those who still inhabit mortal bodies and are willing to follow him in one last rebellion against the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

This one final rebellion does not work out well for Satan and those foolish enough to follow him at that time. Satan marches his army, which is made up of the last of the last useful idiots, to Jerusalem. The goal of Satan and his foolish army is to take down Jesus, the King of Kings, and His followers who dwell in Jerusalem with Jesus.

Jesus reveals to John in Revelation 20:7-10 that when Satan and his ill-fated followers arrive in the Holy City of Jerusalem with high expectations of defeating the Holy One of Israel once and for all, their delusional efforts come to naught when fire comes down from heaven and devours them all.

And then, “the devil who deceived them was thrown into the fire of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet [at the Second Coming of Jesus] had been thrown to be tormented day and night forever and ever.”

Vengeance belongs to God Almighty, and scripture reveals that being tossed into the lake of fire is the beginning of the punishment that God has selected to fit the crimes of Satan, the Beast, and the False Prophet.

Next, but not quite last, near the very end of the prophetic timeline, is the great “White Throne Judgment.”

Revelation 20:11-14 gives a detailed account of the White Throne Judgment where the unsaved, unrepentant unbelievers are held accountable and sent to their eternal and final destiny. Please read Revelation 20:11-14 for the full, detailed account.

Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.

If anyone’s name was not found written in the Book of Life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.

That would be all who lived prior to Jesus first advent who had embraced and lived a life of evil, and all of those who took the “mark of the beast” during the Seven-Year Tribulation, as well as all of those who chose to reject Jesus and the payment He made for their sins, and instead follow Satan the father of lies, who had cruelly tricked and fooled them into living some kind of life of wickedness. Varying degrees of wickedness perhaps, but wickedness nevertheless.

Jesus gave the Apostle Paul these words of warning in Romans 2:5-6, 8-9, and 16 to those foolish enough to follow Satan.

“But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! He will reward each one according to his works: …Wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

“There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also on the Greek. …on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.” (Please read all of Romans chapter 2 for a very detailed explanation of God judging the secrets of human hearts.)

This warning that Jesus imparted to Paul for him to write down in Romans 2 is still relevant as of today, and the message is precise and very clear.

Repent of all unrighteousness and inequity and turn to Jesus.

Turn to Him, believe in Him, trust in Him, and follow Him. Receive the gift of salvation and eternal life. Allow Him to guide you to an eternal existence of joy and wonder. Allow Him to begin a good work in you and behold how faithful He will be to complete it (Philippians 1:6).

“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived—the things God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:9).

If you have read this article and have not yet committed your life to believing in and following Jesus, please listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying to you right now at this very moment.

Reject Satan once and for all time, along with all of his cruel and evil ways.

Instead, love and embrace God the Father who sent His only begotten Son to take your punishment upon Himself and to die in your place on a cross because that is how much He loves you.

The prophetic timeline lastly reveals what will happen at the conclusion of the “last day of creation.”

In Revelation 21:1, Jesus reveals this amazing event to John. John said,” Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.” This new heaven and earth are described with quite some detail in Revelation 21:1-27.

The new heaven and new earth will be new and different yet similar in perfection to how it was in the Garden of Eden before the fall.

This time, though, there will be no evil fallen angel to ruin everything with lies and temptations. The new heaven and the new earth will be infinitely and eternally separated from the lake of fire. There will be a total and complete separation of good from evil forever.

He is the Alpha and the Omega; He is who declares the End from the Beginning; He is the Great I Am; He is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and He has declared these things to be so and revealed all things as they shall be.

“Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.”

Rick Segoine

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