It was Adolf Hitler who said that if you tell a lie often enough to enough people they will come to believe it. That lie the masses have been fed will be assimilated into the conversation and the culture of the group. This "groupspeak", George Orwell spoke of, then becomes their "truth". As a collective body the people will believe the lie. They have, in effect, become "brainwashed". Peer pressure is heavily involved here, as is fear of being different. In time of political trial there is also the fear of rebuke, punishment, imprisonment, or death by "higher authorities".

So very often people end up believing what has been laid out for them to believe. Despots soon discover just how easy this is to do in a society that is not respectful of the truth. People will not stand for truth because of fear of the consequences. And so they get the government they deserve. This foisting of lies upon a people is especially easy to pull off in a society that does not cherish the God of Truth.

This coercion of ideas and drowning out of the truth is an awful business. But it gets worse. The technique does not just get used in politics. We see it in science as well. For example, a scientist who doubts the "truth" of Darwin's theory of Evolution soon finds out that he is ostracized academically. His articles do not get published. He may not get the teaching position due him. His wife may not stand with him in his time of financial hardship. She may divorce him. His whole life may become quite difficult.

Does this happen in the realm of religion? Unfortunately the answer is yes. I know and have heard from pastors whose ministry position has been threatened because they have begun to faithfully teach the Biblically correct eschatology of a Post Tribulation Resurrection-Rapture.

In the teaching of Bible prophecy it is well known among Bible reading Christians that there will be a showdown at the end of the age between the forces of Good and those of evil. The final seven years of this age is Daniel's 70th 'week', (or 'seven'). The latter half of it includes the Great Tribulation. The scriptures reveal that during this tribulation man's ultimate champion, the "man of sin", the "Beast" or Antichrist, arises. His agenda is to silence the witness of the saints, the covenant people of God. They are testifying of the true Messiah who will be coming to destroy the false messiah and his false prophet. When Messiah comes both of the culprits will be thrown alive into the Lake of Fire.

Of course such seditious talk against the World Leader, or the earlier Harlot, is not conducive to good governmental control. So during the 70th Week these Christian fundamentalists have to go. Hence the persecutions of the Great Tribulation.

Now as we see, all this Great Tribulation anger is from man. The heavens have not yet opened. Not one bit of this persecution from God's direct hand. The persecution of the saints is not God's wrath, but man's wrath.

All this should be quite simple and straightforward. It just involves a plain reading of scripture and a plain understanding of the English language. During the Great Tribulation the Antichrist and depraved men get angry. They get angry at Christian believers. And why? Because of their witness to the Word of Christ. Their testimony of Messiah's soon coming return is very annoying to the false messiah. Again, this is man's anger. It is not God's anger.

OK, now what are the people in the pews being told about this final seven years?
Well this is where we see our example of people being told a lie repeatedly and believing it.
They are being told that the Great Tribulation is the Day of the Lord.
So they believe that the Great Tribulation is the Wrath of God.

Nowhere in scripture is there one scintilla of evidence to support this.
But it still gets told, Sunday after Sunday, program after program.

Here are the facts from Holy Scripture.
The wrath of God and the Day of the Lord come at the very end of this age. Not before.
God cannot and will not pour out His wrath until the last person has repented.
And as we see in Joel 2 the sun is turning to darkness and the moon to blood.
Nukes have gone off and polluted the atmosphere.
Messiah is about to intervene to save all flesh.

So here we are at the very end of this Great Tribulation.
There is no wrath of God yet.
And what do we hear?
We hear a church sermon of all things! People are coming to Christ!
The Holy Spirit outpouring has finally peaked!
Joel saw it at the cosmic disturbances of the 6th seal. (Joel 2:28-32)

So here we are at the 6th seal.
And we are hearing a salvation message of all things!

"Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Shall be saved."

We hear a last final call for men to repent!
God is still entreating wayward men to come home!
He is calling upon men and women to be saved!

So has the Tribulation seen God's wrath up to this point?
Not at all!
This is truly amazing!
Even at the 6th seal God's wrath has not yet fallen.
Our Savior is still out there bringing in the lost!

So what are we seeing here at this late hour?
What are we seeing on this dark and stormy day?
Surely we see our beloved Good Shepherd! (Ezek.34:12)
And He is still calling for His one lost sheep.
He wants to bring every last one home!

Joel 2:31-32
31. The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
32. And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord Shall be saved.
For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance,
As the Lord has said, Among the remnant whom the Lord calls.

So why is this lie of "The Great Tribulation = the Day of the Lord" being told?
And why is the lie of "The Great Tribulation = the Wrath of God" being told?
Is the Great Tribulation really just a wrath zone, a chamber of horrors?
Just what is behind this doctrinal disinformation?
Obviously Christians are being spooked by all this.
Understandably, given this information, Christians don't want to be there!
So what is the agenda of the religious spirits at work here?
Just what are they up to?

Well we might as well also ask these related questions as well.
Why are Bible teachers telling us gloomy doom filled stories of the end time?
For example, why are we fed lies about our God deserting us in the end time?
Is there really no Holy Spirit in the last 7 years of this age?
If that is the case then who draws the Tribulation saints to salvation?
We hear that the Holy Spirit is "taken away"? (2Thes.2)
Is this scriptural? If not, then why are the saints being demoralized?
Just what is the agenda here?

We also hear that the omnipresent Holy Spirit is 'the restrainer' of the antichrist. (2Thes.2)
Is the Holy Spirit really the jailer of the Abyss?
If not, then who is the true restrainer according to the scriptures?
Who is holding down the beast demon of the Antichrist right now?

The agenda in all this disinformation, and blocked information dear saints, is simply this. The angelic rulers, who prevail over nations, the merchants of mammon, (along with their paid churchmen), don't want Christians to know about the end time. They don't want Christians to even think of being there. Since Christians are "not appointed to wrath" our Nicolaitan Bible teachers then concoct a (spurious) basis upon which to say to carnal Christians, "You won't be here during the last seven years of this age". Their shady line of thinking goes like this,

1. Christians are not appointed to God's wrath.
1. The Great Tribulation = the Day of the Lord = the Wrath of God.
2. Therefore Christians cannot be in the great tribulation.

This is just part of the shaky house of cards upon which is built the doctrine of a Pre-Tribulation Rapture. Sad to say this is an escapist cult of "cut and run".

Ignorance is bliss, or so they say. And for the ruling powers the less the Christian believers in their nation know the Bible the better they like it. Eschatology is an embarrassment to the Gentile (heathen) powers. This is why sermons on eschatology are banned in the Three Self (Chinese Government) Church in China. It also explains why the English Church tried to stop William Tyndale from translating the scriptures into English and had him burned at the stake. To this day there are no scripture readings on the Second Coming in the Church of England/Anglican/Episcopal liturgy. The game is to keep the Christian masses biblically ignorant, - and quiet.

The angelic powers rule over kings, rulers, and merchants. Churchmen who are beholden to these worldly powers are also manipulated. The principalities and powers don't want believers to know these awesome truths. The last days could be upon us quicker than we thought. Christians may then been called upon to go up before kings and rulers for the sake of Christ.

The dark angels don't want Christians to prepare their hearts and lives in God. The last thing they want to see is the saints going up on the stage of holy history. They'd rather keep them asleep. Because the witness of the saints during the final 7 years of this age will be an epic one. The remnant of Israel, the remnant of the Church, will testify at the apex of history. The courts of heaven will be in session. And the Ancient of Days will sit. At that time His covenant people will bring in the "final witness".

So why do these dark principalities and angelic rulers want the Christians kept in the dark?
Because the final 5th seal witness of the saints leads on.
It leads on to the 6th seal!
It leads on to the time when Messiah returns.

And that, dear saints, will seal their doom.