Many
are of the
assumption
that the
Antichrist
will be
revealed after
the Rapture.
This is a
major flaw in
understanding
what the Word
says.
The
Word tells us
that the
Antichrist
will be
revealed after
the falling
away occurs.
The
falling away
which has been
going on for
hundreds of
years came to
it's fullness
with the
revealing of
Obama as the
Antichrist.
"And
now you know
what is
restraining,
that he may be
revealed in
his own time."
[2Thess.2:6]
Obama's "own time" arrived when he was
sworn in as
the 44th
President of
the United
States on the
20th
of January
2009.
The
irony is that
it was the
fallen away
Christians of
America that
voted him into
Office.
It
would have
been
impossible for
Obama to have
won the
election
without their
votes.
Obama
is the vessel
the Lord is
going to use
to chastise
the fallen
away
Christians in
America.
The
chastisement
has already
begun!
For
instance,
Evangelical
Christian
Leaders were
denied
invitations to
attend the
9/11 Memorial
Service.
Interestingly,
Nuns,
Buddhists and
Moslem Imams
all received
invites.
The
earthquake
that damaged
the
Washington National Cathedral
and the
subsequent
crane accident
wasn't a sign
of imminent judgement
on Obama, as
some have
suggested!
Far
from it!
It
was a sign of
the chastisement
coming upon
the millions
of fallen away
Christians in
America and
around the
World.
"For
the mystery of
lawlessness is
already at
work; only He
who now
restrains will
do so until He
is taken out
of the way.
And then the
lawless on
will be
revealed..."
[2 Thess.2:7,8]
Here
is that word
again
"lawlessness"
A word
many
Christians are
uncomfortable
with because
it implies we
are
responsible
for our
actions.
Lawlessness
simply means
living day by
day contrary
to the laws of
God as
revealed in
the Word.
Many
Christians are
of the belief
that they can
practise
lawlessness
and still have
a living faith
in Christ.
Obama,
the
very embodiment
of
lawlessness,
believes this.
So do
many Christian
leaders and
their
followers!
So
should
it really
be a surprise
to us that the
Lord has
chosen to
raise up one
of their own
kind to
chastise them,
for
a period of 42
months?
Which
could start as
early as April 2012.
"Many
will say to Me
in that Day
[that is, the
Day of the
Resurrection
and
Translation of
the saints],
Lord, Lord,
have we not
prophesied in
Your name,
cast out
demons in Your
name, and done
many wonders
in Your name?
"And
then I will
declare to
them, I never
knew you;
depart [fall
away] from Me
you who
practise
lawlessness!.'
[Matt.7:22,23]
Lawlessness
is unclean, it
makes a person
filthy
and unfit
to be raised
up into heaven
at the
Rapture.
Millions
of Christians
have refused
to purify
themselves for the rapture, as a result
of false
teachings
regarding the
shed blood
of Jesus
Christ.
"And
everyone who
has has this
hope in Him
[that is, of
being
translated by
Christ]
PURIFIES
HIMSELF, just
as He is
pure." [1John
3:3]
They
believe they
can practise
lawlessness
and
continually plead
the blood,
without
really crucify
the flesh
daily!
The
Lord is going
to use the
Antichrist to
purify the
saints so
as to have a
holy Church on
earth after
the Antichrist
is removed
from power in
the fall of
2015.
"And
some of those
of
understanding
shall fall, to
refine them,
purify them,
and make them
white, until
the end
[2015];"
[Dan.11:35]
"Many
[Christians]
shall be
purified, made
white, and
refined..."
[Dan.12:10]
"I
was watching;
and the same
horn [the
World ruler,
the
Antichrist]
was making war
against the
saints, and
prevailing
against them,
until the
Ancient of
Days came
[2015]..."
[Dan.7:21,22]
"He
[the AntiChrist]...shall
persecute the
saints of the
Most High..."
[Dan.7:25]
"When
the
transgressors
have reached
their fullness
[that is when
lawlessness
has completely
saturated the
Church], A
king [the
Antichrist] shall
arise...His
power shall be
mighty, but
not by his
power...He
shall destroy
the mighty,
and also the
holy people."
[Dan.8:23,24]
These
saints became
holy from
rejecting the
false
teachings that
caused them to
be left behind
in the first
place.
They
have come to
understand,
the hard way,
that love for
the Lord is
expressed by
keeping His
commandments.
"He
who has My
commandments
and keeps
them, it is he
who loves
Me."[John
14:21]
"Here
is the
patience of
the saints;
here are those
who keep the
commandments
of God and the
faith of
Jesus."
[Rev.14:12]
Notice,
in the above
verse, a
living faith
in Jesus is
forever inseparable from keeping the
commandments
of God.
Ola.