May 29, 2014 by laurelanthenat

The Hoax of a One World Government or New World Order

One World Government? – New World Order?

The Books of Daniel and The Revelation are about the history of the imperial powers that have ruled the nations. These prophecies have nearly run their course, and we now live at the time of the last of them, i.e., the ten nations, which are represented by toes in Dan 2 and horns in Dan 7 and Rev 12,13, &17. You might have been taught, that these ten nations are in our immediate future. However, there are no gaps in the metal man of Dan 2; these ten nations have been around since Rome fell in 476 A.D. There have been wars; they have merged. They have had wars, revolts, and invasions, from time to time, there have been slightly more or less than ten, but when the dust settles, they are always TEN.

The only empire in the prophecies that is still future is the one represented by the rock not cut with hands, Dan. 2. Nearly everyone thinks this is the Millennial reign of Messiah. There is no future human government like the New World Order or One World Government. No matter how much men may try, it is just not there. In fact, the book of Daniel expressly says that it cannot happen. When speaking of the toes, it says—

As you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay. Dan. 2:43.

Which pretty much sums up European history. They have mixed, but no matter how hard they try, they have not been able to hold together. Not since the Fall of Rome have these nations been able to hold themselves together. [Gen 11] Charlemagne, Charles V, Louis XIV, Napoleon, and finally Hitler have all failed at this monumental task. The only way to accomplish this task is to concede it to the One with a Rod of Iron. [Rev. 19:15] So we must wait till Shiloh come.

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. 49:10

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD;

and all the families of the nations shall worship before him.

For dominion belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.

Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down;

before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,

and he who cannot keep himself alive.

Posterity shall serve him;

men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,

and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,

that he has wrought it. Psa. 22:27 -31

May 20, 2014 by laurelanthenat

I am Coming Soon

One of the greatest harms of Dispensationalism is an insistence on interpreting the Bible literally. They are actually ignoring the plain reading of a text, forcing symbolism, metaphors, and similes to read as truth. If they were truly interpreting the Bible literally, they would all be missing an eye or a hand, avoiding the whole body going to hell.

29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell. Matt 5:29-30

According to these modern commentators (a.k.a. those Mischievous Futurists) nothing or very little of the prophecies in the Book of the Revelation has been fulfilled. These Futurists claim it will all happen in our “soon” future. They call this “soon coming” period the Tribulation. All of this comes from their belief that the Revelation was written to us and intended for our time. However, The Revelation, was written between 96-98 AD. to seven specific churches that existed in Asia Minor, or what is now modern Turkey. The historical grammatical context of any passage in the Bible is paramount to our understanding. Therefore, we must search out the culture of the people of these seven churches, what they believed, thought, and experienced in their lifetime. Why these seven and not some other churches? What made them the receivers of this Letter?

Soon

However, the testimony of the book itself is completely contrary to a distant fulfillment.

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants what must soon take place; and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, Rev. 1:1

Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written therein; for the time is near. Rev. 1:3

And behold, I am coming soon.” Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book. Rev. 22:7

And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. Rev. 22:10

“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one for what he has done. Rev. 22:12

He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! Rev. 22:20

It said these are the things “soon” to take place. How can “soon” be interpreted as “literally” later? What crazy hermeneutic could allow such repudiation of the plain reading of the text? Any young child could tell you what these verses should mean.

The Greek word tachei means soon, quick, or quickly. [Luke 14:21; Luke 16:6; John 11:31; John 13:27; John 20:4; Acts 17:15; 1 Cor 4:19; Gal 1:6; Phili 2:19; Phili 2:24; 2 Thess 2:2; Heb 13:19; Heb 13:23] It is never used to mean two thousand years later. The Dispensational Futurists, suggest that it means that the events will happen quickly once they start. However, soon is never used in this way anywhere else in Scripture. There is no use that even suggests a two thousand year gap. It must mean that what the text is talking about, at the very least, begins quickly from the point of 96-98 AD. If the Revelation was meant for the distant future, one would expect that the word or phrase would not be “soon” but rather, “after many days,” or “in the latter days.” [1Kings 18:1; Is. 24:22; Jer. 13:6; Acts 18:18]

Coming

The problem is the word “coming”. The casual reader may think “coming” means the “Second Coming.” This is the effect of lazy preaching and not doing your own homework. We were told to wait for the Lord’s “Return” not His “coming”.

In Matthew 24, the disciples asked, when are you coming? They cannot be asking about what we call the second coming or return. They had no expectation that He was going to leave. So, clearly our understanding of the word “coming” and the disciples’ first century use of the phrase, or just the word “come,” does not mean “return,” “coming again” nor “second coming” of the Lord.

They had to be asking, “when are you coming to judge Jerusalem”? How did some conclude this? Because whenever God had informed someone He was “coming,” it meant He was coming to judge.

When God came to look at the Tower of Babel, it meant that they were about to be judged. [Gen 11:5-8]
When God came to look at Sodom and Gomorrah, it meant that God was about to judge the two cities [Gen 18:21]
Other examples where “coming” is used: [Ex 3:8; Psalm. 50:3; Isa 64:1-3; Isa 66:15; Mic 1:3-4]

All those “soon’s” in The Revelation are about the “coming” judgments that each particular passage is about. They are clearly not “the Return of the Lord”.

Angels who Left Their First Abode

The Greek word aggelos can mean “messenger” or “angel.” There is no definitive way to determine whether this word should be translated as “spiritual beings” or “messengers,” except in context. Which brings us to two controversial passages where the translators have chosen angels, but the context is speaking of men, and should therefore have been messengers.[2 Pet. 2:4-10; Jude 1:5-7]

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of nether gloom to be kept until the judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven other persons, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction and made them an example to those who were to be ungodly; 7 and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the licentiousness of the wicked 8 (for by what that righteous man saw and heard as he lived among them, he was vexed in his righteous soul day after day with their lawless deeds), 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, 10 and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. 2 Pet. 2:4-10

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May 6, 2014 by laurelanthenat

Signs and Wonders

The post-modern sensational teaching of the inherited churches has taken these words to their sensational limits. They ignore the obvious hyperbole and go for the hyper literal. It makes for far more exciting sermons, which leads to more money in the plate, but less understanding in the pews.

The ancient prophets not only delivered soliloquies of the Word of God, but in seeing, hearing, and acting, they presented a type of what was to come. Isaiah walked naked for three years. [Is. 20] Jeremiah is wearing an ox’s yoke. [Jer. 27] Ezekiel drew a map of Jerusalem on a brick or tile. [Ezek. 4] Ezekiel, Zechariah, and John measured the temple.[Ezek. 41-42, Zech. 2:1-13, Rev. 11:1-2]

The two Hebrew words involved in this are signs, i.e., ‘ot, and wonders, i.e., mofetim.

‘ot is Translated as Signs

Then the LORD said to him, “Not so! If any one slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest any who came upon him should kill him. Gen. 4:15

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: Gen. 9:12

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanu-el. Is. 7:14