Are we about to lose our heads over AI, TikTok, and digital money--literally?
After, a half century of studies in eschatology, (Second coming of Christ) and a vision about the same, I have come to a few immutable conclusions.
The first, is that most of Christianity has come to the belief that we are in the very last days preceding the return of Christ.
The other, is that many are still bickering and contesting a few of the signs and the order in which they occur.
When we search for ‘trusted’ and ‘certified’ ministries we come upon another wall to scale.
The Pharisees in Jesus’ day were the ‘trusted’ interpreters of all scripture. Yet, Christ called them snakes, hypocrites and thieves. They were perfect as it pertains to the letter of the law, but they were dismal failures at interpreting the practical applications, the spiritual and the intuitive side of the law.
Little wonder that Jesus gave us a new way of approaching God called ‘grace.’
Because this is true, we should be forewarned that when it comes to second coming teachings, we must avoid the popular version, and trust only the scriptures and the Holy Spirit.
Like anything in life, some things can be nailed down while others require that we hold the views loosely in our hands so God can yank them out of our hand and make some revisions as time goes along.
The Jews argued the Messianic Prophecies (first coming of Christ) until thousands of the people missed the actual time of their Messiah and wallowed in endless arguments. We need not ask whether that could happen again--it is already here.
Even when we find ministries and preachers that are considered ‘trusted’—there will always be some points we will not agree with.
Some disagreement is harmless, but some could be life endangering. An example of a harmless belief comes from the teachings of the late, Hal Lindsey. I loved his teachings and along with God’s prompting in my life Lindsey’s books were a strong impetus for my initial studies.
But right out of the gate I noticed a blaring mistake.
Lindsey began his “The Late Great Planet Earth’ by describing how a false prophet would have been stoned to death in ancient Israel, if his prophecies turned out to be false.
The truth found in both the scriptures and in the historical record show something quite different. In fact, almost all of the prophets that were killed were true prophets. A rebellious ancient Israel did not take well to the constant call to repentance. They hated the interference.
Stephen, the first martyr of the church said:
“Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers.” (Acts 7:52)
Ancient Israelites had a thing for false gods and religions, and that included hundreds of false prophets. False prophets were always relatively safe because, they gave the rulers what they wanted to hear.
But just as I know to remove the bones from the fish before eating, I knew Hal Lindsey’s work could be trusted by me and others.
Two verses of scripture are a rock-solid guarantee that God will remove all his believers in a millisecond. There will be no fanfare, preliminary warnings or mistaking what is taking place. The believer will know it, and the rest of the world will observe it on a worldwide scale.
The words are straight up and clear as a bell.
“Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left” (Mt 24:40)
“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” (1Cor 15:52)
While the fact of the rapture is clear, the timing is not.
The largest group of Christians believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. That is a belief that before all the troubles begin at the arrival of Christ, He will get his own children out of the way.
The problem with this belief is that the man known as the Antichrist has a whole lot of his own troubles to cast on the entire world, including executions and death.
The second largest group of believers thinks that we will go through a lot of early troubles, but we will be removed midway through the last seven years of time. The midway point is when Antichrist does his final act and presents himself to be God in the newly rebuilt Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. This view is called the mid-tribulation Rapture.
“But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains.” (Mk 13:14)
The Antichrist will be standing in the middle of the Temple proclaiming his divinity and he continues on that path for the next 3 ½ years, that is what results in the judgment of God on the entire globe.
Finally, the smallest group are the post tribulationists. They think all the troubles; the scenarios and the death will have finished before Christ lifts His people out of the earth.
The post tribulation view has no chance of being accurate.
But the timing of the rapture still baffles theologians and preachers because it is hard to say just when the full wrath of God begins. It suffices to say that the worst of God’s judgment (wrath) begins at the blowing of the last trumpet which brings the dreaded seven vials of wrath to all humankind.
All these views are colored by another verse of scripture. In fact, it should always be used in conjunction with any rapture theory. Until we know the exact moment when God’s wrath begins, we cannot safely ascertain when the lifting away will happen.
Our confidence, is that God will not waste a single second of time, when He is about to judge this world--we will be gone, to wit:
“And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.” (1 Th 1:10)
God does not drop death and hell on His own children, would you?
This writer has preached over five thousand sermons and written thousands of articles, mostly about the second coming of Jesus Christ. I noticed early on that people began to puzzle, squirm, and question the powerful planet busting judgments that come to the earth, during Christ’s active intervention with our planet.
Often teachers of eschatology soften the picture to the level of a bad-hair day, or a spooky earth tremor, or a threat of war or skirmish among the nations.
Withholding any part of the severity of the second coming is negligence and serious irresponsibility. The hard truths of scripture are not just a little litmus test to see if people are listening.
Former Major in Israel’s IDF, and founder and president of ‘Behold Israel’ Amir Tsarfati, is among the best eschatological teachers in the world today. Amir tells it all, he describes the seriousness of the events and withholds nothing.
We recently posted one of his short videos on the New American Prophet site, and to our surprise, other prophecy sites visited the video and republished.
After a half century of teaching this prophecy, it is beginning to take effect.
See: Understanding the Severity of the Tribulation--Amir Tsarfati
Amir speaks of the billions who will die, the destruction of cities and the grave circumstances that strike our unrepentant world.
We must as Paul Harvey used to say, ‘tell the rest of the story’ or we are indeed failing our very calling.
The answer is simple, direct, and prophetic. There is a day ahead that promises that people who refuse to obey the Antichrist will be put to death in vast numbers. To wit:
“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” (Rev 13:15)
“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.” (Rev 20:4)
But besides the ocean of sin men live in, we are also living in a sea of droll repetitiveness.
The writer of Ecclesiastes said it this way:
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (Ec 1:9)
Without a clue to where it will lead, today people are starry eyed over the glittering promise of AI. Nations, leaders, scientists and geeks are all onboard.
Let’s cut to the chase, Antichrist could not keep running tabs on every man, woman and child on earth, without the using AI.
More than a clue--it is a wakeup call.
The scientific geniuses of our world are also the prophetic dummies of the planet.
For example, how many people are aware that one of the first and most powerful computers in the world, designed during the second world war, was used to ID, arrest, and slaughter millions of Jewish people.
The last computers will be engaged similarly, to ID, gather and behead the resistors of the Antichrist regardless of nationality or race.
So what have we learned.
Look for yourself.
When we were children, we referenced all the beasts of our world as ‘dumb animals’, now that we are on the cusp of the end of the world as we know it, it is the computers that are dumb. And we tag behind following after our petted digital puppies to our own demise.
But until the last moment, while wisdom is dying, hope is not.
“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.” (Joel 2:32)
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