You thought it was bad with Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Just wait! Wars, rumors of wars, threats of Wars, terrorism, earthquakes in many places, the winds and the waves raging and men’s heart’s failing them for fear. But, Jesus, a.k.a. Yeshua said the end is not yet. At least not for the most part. These days, the whole Christian world be like, “oh there's more earthquakes happening, it must be that Jesus is going to return any minute now. It won’t be long before we’re all out of here” Wait a minute, hold on, Yeshua said the end is not yet! You haven't seen anything. You have no idea. If you think this is bad, rumors of wars and Nation rising up against Nation, that's nothing.
Now, I'm gonna tell you what's really going to happen when (hat tip to Michael Rood) “The Brimstone hit the fan” because they're going to deliver you up to be afflicted. You're going to be hated of all Nations. You are going to be killed. There is going to be mass slaughter. They are going to, as it says in the Book of Revelation, “kill with death!” That word for death in Greek “Thanatos,” comes from Greek Mythology. In this context, it means mass exterminations. If you thought it was bad with Hitler, Mao and Stalin, and it was, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!
It also says that many are going to be offended and shall hate and betray each other. Given the way people are so easily offended, by anything and everything these days, that might be a clue. And that’s NOT just the unsaved who are going to rat everyone out. A lot of professing Christians are going to turn out to be rats too. Also, what is “the snare,” the skandalizo, that has been set by false prophets that Yeshua warned us about? Well, I'm going to tell you what our church leaders are saying about that, then I’ll let Yeshua tell you and then I'm going to tell you what he told you.
A lot of Bible teachers are saying that Jesus is going to return any minute now and then, after that, that’s when the Mass exterminations will begin. This is when Satan is thrown out of Heaven and he comes down to earth and he has great fury because he knows that he has but a little time. And when that happens, he goes to make war against those who had the testimony of Yeshua and keep the Commandments. Wait! What? That’s what Yeshua said. He told us to keep the Commandments! That is the gospel of the Kingdom, but many believers think that they won’t have to worry about any of that. They think we’ll all be in heaven watching the $#!† show going on down here from the safety of the Mezzanine section of the here after.
But is that really true?
That’s what I was taught.
That’s what I used to believe!
But what I’ve come to understand is this. Come Judgment Day, if you've kept the Commandments, it's not you just said Lord once or twice. No! It's because you have believed to the point that you’ve acted upon by obeying and doing the things he told us to do. That’s what makes the difference. It’s because you acted upon your belief and did what you were asked to do. That’s the reason why they are going to hate you. And Satan is going to come after those who keep the Commandments and those who have the testimony of Yeshua. So I know you all wanted just a comfortable message. But, Yeshua didn’t really give us one. What I read in the scriptures and realize is this, Christendom, and with it, Western Civilization as we know it is going to go down.
Now the snare here, the “skandalizo” is this, a lot of folks think they're getting out of here. They think that when they marched down the sawdust trail and said that little prayer and asked for forgiveness that that was it. They thought that gave them a “Get out of the Great Tribulation Free card.” And when that doesn't happen like they’ve been told it would, they're gonna know they've been lied to. They’ll know that the whole religious system has lied to them their whole life. People will be like “They told me that that he's going to come back at any time, all we have to do is see more earthquakes and a little bit more terrorism stuff like that and some floods and maybe some pestilence and, uh, you know, influenza is pretty bad this year and then he would come take us away. Surely he's going to return anytime now.” No, he's already told us about this. This is the snare that has been set.
Sadly, everyone is going through life just living the life of Riley. What if we're NOT going to be taken away to escape? The result is that many are going to hate and betray each other to death. That's a snare and this is what Yeshua actually said. He said “and many false prophets shall arise and deceive many.” Many prophesying falsely? He is saying that false prophets are going to set the snare and deceive many. Yup! That's why He also said “let no man deceive you.” He was saying “Listen to me don't listen to these morons who played around with My Bible!” Speaking of the Bible, I believe it says what it says and it doesn't say that grace is a license to do whatever you want to do. No, God’s grace is a divine empowering by the Holy Spirit to live a holy, righteous and a Godly life in the midst of a sick twisted perverse world.
That sick twisted and perverse world that teaches otherwise is a world of religion. Religion is a very broad path that leads to destruction. Think of it this way, coming to Jesus is the gate, but narrow is the way and few there be that find it! Getting to the gate is important. That’s the starting point, not the end. You still gotta run the race to win Paul said. On the other hand, the broad way, the easy way, that way leads to death. That broad way is religion.
Everybody is religious and I mean Everybody! The atheists, god what a religious group of people. The Muslims, very religious. Everybody's religious out there. Everyone's made up their own rules and regulations. A lot of folks are like; “Hey, if I just do more good than bad, God will look out for me in the end.” Or, if you’re a muslim and you kill enough infidels, guess what, you get 70 perpetually virgin prostitutes in heaven! For the poker player, it's the great poker table in the sky where you're the only one that ever wins. False prophets shall arise and deceive many. This is what has invaded the Christian church.
But then, like a dummy, instead of just listening to what the hirelings told me, I kept reading and saw that it said; “because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold!” Because of iniquity? What’s iniquity? The simple explanation is that iniquity is a world without Torah. That’s what iniquity is. Because Torahlessness shall abound, or living without the constraint of God's Torah, God’s Instructions, that’s what Torah means, false prophets will come and they are going to break the Commandments of God and worse yet, they’ll teach others to do so.
These false prophets are setting the Trap and deceiving everyone. And because their anti-torah teachings, Torahlessness shall abound. Arguably, it already has permeated modern Churchianity. Torahlessness will permeate those who say they are followers and this is especially true of those who will say to Him in that day: “Lord, Lord, didn't we do miracles and didn’t we cast out demons in your name, didn't we we fly in our private jets to the uttermost part of the earth and preach the name of Jesus and raise lots of money coming to me?”
Teaching other people that they're free to violate the Commandments of God is going to abound among the followers of Yeshua in the last days. Adding insult to injury, it says “the love of many shall wax cold.” Love is going to go cold. They're going to hate and betray each other to death because they thought they were getting out of here and didn’t. They thought that the Torah been done away with and they could do whatever they wanted to. They didn't realize saying a prayer and maybe feeling a little sorry about their sin wasn’t the complete thing. They didn’t realize that we're all simply disciples in training for the millennial reign of the Messiah. If only they didn’t just sit on a pew in a church and vegetate.
In that day, Jesus is gonna be like “Why did they call me Lord Lord and didn’t do what I told them to do? If only they had taken that talent that I gave them and invested it and/or then did what I asked them to do? Then I was going to give them rulership and authority. Then they would reign as priests and Kings with me for a thousand years. Then I would give them rule over a city, over five cities, over ten cities according to what they had done in obedience to me.” Nope! A lot of professing Christians are in for a big surprise. Maybe a lot of us would be better off if instead of looking at the splinter in the other guy’s eye, we first took the beam out of our own and then truly examined ourselves to see if we are really in the faith?
Just saying. . .