Posted on 04/02/2025 4:15:32 AM PDT by Rev M. Bresciani
If you listen to conservative media—which I do, by the way, and appreciate much of it—we are entering a “golden age.” Those who understand the concept of the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ realize that it is the true golden age. But, that is not what the news analysts are referring to!
Their perspective is that the dumpster fire of the previous administration, who thought about evil continually, is in the rearview mirror. Righteous people didn’t think they could be shocked and re-shocked with the debauchery of the left, but each day’s rundown of offenses were worse than the previous. When you have a Romans 1 mentality, you just think evil continually.
(Excerpt) Read more at new.americanprophet.org ...
God is boxing in man’s efforts as it fails until there can be only one conclusion.
Yeah, we know.
Not if you keep excerpting your own block, it won’t.
Yes, because God asked your opinion and you told God that DC is a wicked city - is that about right?
Go away.
I think it is really Rev. Guido Sarducci.
Oh, so you are suggesting that DC is a righteous city... how blind and stupid did you wake up this morning?.... ymmv
"Preach the GOOD news." ~ Jesus of Nazareth
It's a simple good news challenge, lost on many, like those who can't go a day without railing about the 666. 666 this, 666 that. Living and breathing 666. As if a day without 666 is like a day without sunshine. Don't leave home without it!
Always with the negative waves, because that's how they roll. Anyone having any trouble seeing all the evil out there? It's on every street corner. Pointing it out is like shooting fish in a barrel.
No skills or effort required. Like how those trannies dress up as girls so they can win first prize every time and be so proud of their abilities and courage. No shortage of enablers to keep 'em motivated.
It's all fun and games until they find themselves competing with men.
Wouldn't that be funny? A tranny goes out to beat up the real women, only to discover too late that those women are men playing a little game of dress up.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
"Coming Soon. Your Surprise is Waiting."
DCLXVI — Roman numeral of The Beast
DCLXVI — Roman numeral of The Beast<<<
No kiddin, huh. Beware of those alphabet people!
(When you have a Romans won mentality, you just think evil continually.)
Yet they failed to collect ‘em all (good enough for government work), so “M” trumps them all.
Bet they never considered that one letter could gain victory over the 6.
Well, what can you say.
That’s a shame.
I doubt any strong Christian thought that conservative talk of a golden age in America was the same as a golden age brought to the earth by God. Btw, is the term "golden age" used anywhere in the Bible?
The pre-tribulation rapture viewpoint predisposes the author to miss something important.
Peace and prosperity will characterize the start of Daniel’s 70th week rather than the “sudden destruction” that follows the rapture when the Day of the Lord begins.
This is just one of many distinctions between these timeframes.
As such, many will be lulled to sleep as the time of the Great Tribulation rapidly approaches.
I’m not saying we are in Daniel’s 70th week, just that it will cause many to be taken by surprise because they do not know the signs, making them incapable of watching for them (as Christ commanded).
Mark 13:35-37 NKJV
Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning— lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping. And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!
We can only watch for Christ’s return if we know the signs. The last days will be first signified by peace and prosperity rather than war and death. But it will be a false peace during a time of great deception.
Sometimes people need to hear the bad news before they are ready for the good news.
But, having said that, if the good news is never told, then what is the point of spreading the bad?
But the good news is not that we do not have to face the Devil or Antichrist. It is that that those who trust and follow Jesus win in the end:
Revelation 12:11 NKJV
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
Revelation 12:11 NKJV
And they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
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IMHO that passage refers to Tribulation Saints whom I hope to leave a trail of bread crumbs for
But the major credit WILL obviously go to the 3 Angels 👼👼👼 of Revelation chapter 14 AND the Lamb 🐑 that sends them of course
God bless 🙏🛐🙏✝️
General observations over time, not directed at you personally:
>>>Sometimes people need to hear the bad news before they are ready for the good news.<<<
That’s the “reasonable” justification that Team Demoralization uses to keep up the beatings until morale improves.
The victims don’t escape the reign of terror because they’ve been taught that they deserve it.
>>>But, having said that, if the good news is never told, then what is the point of spreading the bad?<<<
It’s like a battered woman receiving token positive feedback from her abuser, then being told how she can improve next time, and then she is so grateful for the advice, for the hand to help her up.
Of course soon enough, she’ll fail again by doing something completely insensitive like forgeting to tell the eagle-eyed thug that she left to go have lunch with a friend and...
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The status quo is what it is. People will defend it til Kingdom Come.
Establishment Jesus is the Jesus that Jesus warned everyone about.
The Establishment has no use for Jesus, as the Gospels (good news books) attest. That’s because it would have to radically change its ways for good.
The Established order is too big to fail, until it does just that on some minor point, because that’s how it had cruelly judged and locked up its victims (and threw away the key) for any insignificant and innocent thing, in order to stay Established.
The Good News in all of this is that the world can turn on a dime!
USAID got cancelled. It’s a living parable.
Johnny Cash - Keep On the Sunny Side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOeGE5RJ-X0
“IMHO that passage refers to Tribulation Saints”
Yes, but who are the “tribulation saints”? They are the final generation of church-age believers.
Whole books could be written to address this issue, and it is not possible to even outline all of the evidence for this in an FR thread. But I’ll give a few simple examples.
The signs of Christ’s coming and the End given in the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24-25, Mark 13, and Luke 21) align with the Seal Judgments of Revelation 5-8. The first is a false peace accompanied by great deception (strong delusion, perhaps?). We know there is peace at first because the 2nd horseman (same as the second seal) is given the power to “take peace from the earth”. But if Daniel’s 70th week begins with peace, what does the “sudden destruction” refer to?
1 Thessalonians 5:1-4 NKJV
But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.
Christ’s second coming (same as the “Day of the Lord”) will be “like a thief”.
Revelation 16:15 NKJV
Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.
Matthew 24:42-44 NKJV
Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
The three points I will briefly underscore are these: 1) Daniel’s 70th week begins with peace, while the Day of the Lord begins with sudden destruction. 2) Peace is not God’s wrath, and neither is the persecution of believers. These both are part of the signs of Christ’s return that occur during Daniel’s 70th week. 3) The Great Tribulation begins at the abomination of desolation (where the Antichrist is revealed) and ends with a sudden cataclysmic event that involves a simultaneous solar and lunar eclipse. This same great sign is what marks the imminency of the Day of the Lord. It MUST come BEFORE the Day of the Lord but is AFTER the Great Tribulation.
Sudden destruction, as described above, clearly accompanies the rapture:
2 Thessalonians 1:6-10 NKJV
It is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.
Notice that this MUST be the rapture because it is when the Thessalonians can expect deliverance and rest from the tribulation (not wrath of God) they were already experiencing. But the same event is accompanied by fiery destruction poured out by angels on the earth.
Here are 4 passages describing the spectacular sign in the Heavens that signifies the Day of the Lord / Second Coming is about to happen:
Isaiah 13:6–13
Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand!
It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Therefore all hands will be limp,
Every man’s heart will melt,
And they will be afraid.
Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them;
They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
They will be amazed at one another;
Their faces will be like flames.
Behold, the day of the Lord comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate;
And He will destroy its sinners from it.
For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not give their light;
The sun will be darkened in its going forth,
And the moon will not cause its light to shine.
I will punish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity;
I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,
A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Therefore I will shake the heavens,
And the earth will move out of her place,
In the wrath of the Lord of hosts
And in the day of His fierce anger.
Joel 2:1, 31 NKJV
Blow the trumpet in Zion,
And sound an alarm in My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble;
For the day of the Lord is coming,
For it is at hand…
The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.
Matthew 24:29-30 NKJV
Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Revelation 6:12-17 NKJV
I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
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