But, that aside, I do feel this is the run up to a one-world currency, the Mark by those 'not-so-nice' people you reference.
I believe civil unrest will develope rapidly once the downward spiral of deflation begins to accelerate. It will become dangerous then. We must all guard against normalcy bias. I look forward to watching for your comments on FR. Thank you.
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>> “I have spent 35 years studying dispensational truth and I do not believe the Bride of Christ is appointed to the wrath of God.” <<
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Let me say that I do not consider that to be ‘truth,’ but confusion.
Satan’s tribulation of the saints is not called “the wrath of God” anywhere in God’s word.
The wrath of God is the bowl judgements that come immediately after Yeshua ends our tribulation by resurrecting us to the wedding feast.
Yeshua promised us that we would indeed be tribulated, and even killed, and said plainly that we were not to be “taken out,” but taken through the events he described.
Reading the letters to the churches one clearly sees a division between the obedient, watching, believers, and the luke-warm non-watchers, the former being protected in the place prepared in the desert, and the latter going through the trib, being tortured and killed for not taking the mark, and some of them experiencing his coming “as a thief.”
“If you will not watch” was his dividing judgement (Rev 3:3)
“Watching” is the study and observance of his appointed times, as exemplified by Yeshua, his apostles, and the first century “church,” described in the Acts, and the epistles.
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I think there is a rapture that occurs somewhere during the “falling away of all” moral standards both in many of the churches and the world at large and the revelation of the “beast system” thru to the time of the killing and resurrection of the 2 witnesses. Since Christ said no one knows when his coming would be and that the rest of scripture only points to the general conditions at the time of his coming I didn’t speak of his coming when I made my posting.
The one world currency system and a one world governing body may well be in operation for some time, even a decade or two before the rest of the excrement hits the fan (with increasing pressures on resistant populations to “conform” to it). Meanwhile, increasing moral darkness, wars, earthquakes,disasters will all press in on us with increasing frequency until the Beast, false prophet and Beast Image arise and the final gantlets are thrown down! At some point in all that...the rapture!
I have often wondered that when the witnesses are killed then resurrected, the rest of the dead in Christ will then be raised, then those of the saints yet alive on the Earth...but that is my own speculation.