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
fallen 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 3.5 Harlot years and the 3.5 years of the Great Tribulation which follows.
Now as this Great Tribulation unfold we see that the wrath upon God's Elect is not from God but from man.
The heavens have not yet opened and the angelic reapers have not begun their epic final tasks.
(See Matthew 13)
This persecution is not God's perfect will for His Church. But it is His permissive will.
The persecution of the saints is man's wrath.
God will have allowed it.
It will happen because of our compromise with the world and with the Antichrist, a man who comes in the spirit of Lucifer,
the god of "self love", self centered thinking, and self will.
In John 5:43 Jesus Himself told us that His people would reject Him, the One who came in the Father's name.
But then they would go on to ultimately accept a ruler who came "in his own name".
So God has to allow us to get what we want. The ensuing terrible story will unfold even as the angels watch.
The God of Israel has allowed this persecution to happen. It is a consequence of our compromise.
Moses spoke of this apostasy 3500 years ago.
And our Apostle Paul in 2Thes. 2:2,3 said specifically that the Day of Christ, (which is one of several names for
the Day of the Lord),
would not come until there was a great falling away and the
Antichrist was revealed for who he really is.
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 principalities and powers, the current angelic rulers, will be in a tizzy.
They will know that their time is short.
They know that Judgment is coming.
And what is their response? They get angry. They proceed to stir up the depraved men that belong to them
agitating them and vexing them and pushing them into the very same agitated state of fear and anger
they themselves are beginning to experience.
In
Psalm 2 we see that depraved men rage against God.
This raging increases to a crescendo as we come to the end of the age.
The dark powers pulling the strings of spiritually blind depraved men are venting their fury at Christian believers.
And why?
Because of their testimony, the witness to the Word of Christ, the 5th seal, is the last item on God's agenda
before He returns at the 6th seal.
The testimony of the saints, and the Word of God concerning Messiah's soon coming is very frightening and terrifying
to the false messiah and the
principalities and powers
currently bearing rule in this fallen world.
This feeling of impending doom comes down
from these dark angels to mortify their human underlings and henchmen.
Again, this tribulation is an execution of man's anger. And while it may be considered as a foreshadowing of God's wrath
the Great Tribulation is not the final execution of the wrath of God upon the wicked.
YHVH-God allows this Great Tribulation. It happens as a consequence to Christian and Messianic compromise.
It happens according to God's permissive will.
And why does God allow this to happen to His ekklesia, His "called out Assembly"?
Because "God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
God loves His covenant people. He wants them to grow up.
He wants the Church to see the importance of holiness, of consecration, of being "set apart" before Him.
Messiah wants His covenant people to come out of their cheap religious contracts
and into an eternal blood covenant commitment to Him, and to Him alone.
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 execution of 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.
There will have been many "signs of the impending wrath of God" during the 70th week.
And God Himself has allowed the wrath of man to persecute His saints.
But the final execution of the wrath of God does not come during those last 7 years of this age.
The execution of the wrath of God comes at the final harvest inside the Day of the Lord.
The Day of the Lord is separate and distinct from the end-time persecution of the saints.
The execution of the wrath of God is not the Great Tribulation.
The Day of the Lord, this blockbuster future wrap-up Day in holy history,
comes with an unzipped cosmos and a suspension of Newtonian space-time.
This is an awesome time of execution of the wicked and Resurrection-Rapture of
the Elect. That Day opens up after the final
Day of Atonement, Day of Covering, Day of Reckoning, Day of Accounting,
Day of Pardoning, Day of Sentencing
at the very end of this age. Not before.
Here is the legal issue, and this is very basic.
There cannot be an execution of the condemned criminal, nor a deliverance of the justified or righteous from
execution until there has been a final Judgment, that is, a sentencing or a pardoning.
All this final Day of Accounting happens on the final Day of Atonement at the end of this age.
God cannot and will not pour out His final wrath nor release the harvesting
angels of His wrath until the last person has repented.
A CURIOUS DISCOVERY RELATING TO THE FALL FEASTS.
THEY PRECISELY STAKE OUT THE FINAL 7 YEARS OF THIS AGE.
When the Tishrei to Tishrei time span over seven years
is 86 moons in the
Metonic Cycle, (and not 87 moons),
we notice something extraordinary.
Here is the YouTube video with the story.
