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God Reigns and Sets the Times

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GOD REIGNS AND SETS THE TIMES

Kauko Loukas, Finland, 2006
Update August 2011

http://sites.google.com/site/glacierburst/

I published this article first at the Watchman Prophet Assembly in 2006. Now, I have corrected and updated it, helped by a Canadian editor living in the US.

An insight

In Lev. 25: 8-10, we discover that God ordered the time period for the Jubilee year, consisting of 7×7 = 49 y and He added 1 y for Jubilee. A couple of decades ago, I began to wonder if God was using that same time period when He foretold of times for the great events nowadays. Back then, the Soviet Union was still living well, but in an ancient prophecy, I had read that its life should be 73+1/2 years. That prophecy had been given (without mentioning the SU) by Nostradamus, whom I don’t trust in because of his suspicious spirits, but knowing that the invisible enemy can snatch data from the Bible, I snatched it back. I noticed that the time was 1+1/2 times the Jubilee year period (without the Jubilee year), namely (1+1/2) x 49y = 73 + 1/2 y.


An ‘Impossible’ Event of History

The time period of 73+1/2 y mentioned above can be calculated almost exactly, taking in account that Lenin, along with his comrades, got their power eventually after the peace-pact of Brest-Litovsk on the 3rd of March, 1918 and the SU collapsed actually two weeks after the 22nd of August 1991, when Boris Yeltsin declared Russia as independent from SU, after a botched coup-attempt. The time was fulfilled, and perhaps more accurately, if we take into account that Lenin needed about 2 days to get to Moscow from Brest Litovsk to establish his power, and it was reported in the news on the 5th of September 1991 (as I can recall) that the SU was no more in existence. Later on that fall, the lingering parliament of the SU declared the same thing, but the parliament with its declaration was a rubber stamp.


How to Calculate Time Periods According to the Bible?

Calculating time periods according to the Bible is not a difficult task. It is done in the same way as counting traditional intervals of time in connection with accounts. In Rev. 11:2-3, it states (KJV): “But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” A tip is given here on how many days have to be counted per one month, 1260 d/ 42 m = 30 d/m, the number used traditionally when calculating accounts. Of course, a year is a year (365+1/4d), and one year is counted as 12 months. So, if we assume that Lenin got to Moscow on the of 5th March 1918, to take the supreme power in the newly-established SU that collapsed de facto on the 5th of September 1991, we get an arithmetical calculation, as it has been taught in school:

1991 y 09 m 05 d time point to be subtracted
1918 y 03 m 05 d subtracted time point
73 y 6 m 0 d = 73+1/2y = (1+1/2)x49 y exactly.


The Lifespan of the Red Dragon

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels established the Marxist communism in Paris in 1844. That was the birth of the Red Dragon. From that event, 49 years later, Vladimir Lenin alias Ulyanov began his agitation in St. Petersburg in 1893 (I don’t know the exact dates). He was in a prison and was exiled for some years, but the mole-work did not stop from causing the czarist Russia to collapse in November 1917, after the well-known revolution. His power was still not clear until the peace-pact of Brest-Litovsk, which was more than 24 y or about 49/2 y 2 after the beginning of the agitation. The Red Dragon got its greatest victory in Stalingrad in the winter 1942 – 1943 which happened for more than 24 y or about 49/2 y after the peace-pact, or 49 y after Lenin had begun his agitation in Russia, or 2×49 y after the establishment of communism. Then the Red Dragon suffered its most decisive defeat to this day, when the SU collapsed 49 y after Stalingrad, or 147 y = 3×49 y, after the birth of the communism.

The so-called October Revolution (see Julian calendar) took place in Russia on the 7th of November 1917 and Lenin died (according to history books) on the 21st January 1924. The time period between these dates is 6 y 2 m 14 d, whereas 49/8 y = 6 y 1 m 15 d. However, I read somewhere that Lenin’s dead body was kept secretly for some time (perhaps 1 month) frozen, before declaring his death to the people because of the ensuing power struggle, which is very understandable. Stalin wanted the supreme power and needed time to establish it for himself. Freezing a body was not difficult in mid-winter in Russia, despite the lack of freezers in those times. Someone more knowledgeable than me in history could study and find more exact details.

The terror regime of Stalin began in September or harvest time in 1928, when he collectivized the land, confiscated the harvest and banished the farmers into the Archipelago Gulag. It continued until his death on the 5th of March 1953. The time between those events is about 49/2 y = 24 y 6 m. It could be more exact, but I don’t know the date of the collectivization order.

I can suppose you are wondering: ‘What next?’ That is a hard question. I am an inventor, not a prophet and my insights and thoughts tend to needle here and there, not asking permission of the conscious myself. I can only speculate about what could happen to the Red Dragon in the future. At what point of time would its lifespan be complete? I can only hope that it would not last more than 49/2 y = 24 y 6 m, calculated from the collapse of the SU, the same time that Lenin, along with his comrades needed to incubate the SU, the most formidable embodiment of the Red Dragon. That could mean that its life would be finished in March 2016, and no communistic regimes would exist anymore. However, considering that China is a global player, the whole lifespan of its communistic regime, which was founded in 1949, could be as long as that of the SU or 73+1/2 y, which would add 7 more years (observe, a connection to the Bible again) to the end of communism, which would be in 2023.

 

Update: Russia the Follower of the SU

Without Russia, such an enormous socialist empire would not have been possile and Russia can never free herself from the heritage of the SU. Indeed, her behavior and aspirations are largely the same as they have been for a millenium. Only the procedures change.

The SU collapsed de facto on the 5th of September 1991 as stated above. If we add 49 years to it, we end up at the year 2040, which is too far in the future. The presnet world order cannot endure that long. So, we have to halve the time and try 24+1/2 years instead. When we add that time to the collapsing date of the SU, we get the time point of 2016 y 3 m 5 d. Based on the time frame that I am depicting, Russia should be finnished on the 5th of March 2016.

The First World War in the Time-frame

The First World War, which was also a key factor in causing Russia to collapse and the SU to rise, actually began when Germany attacked Belgium on the 4th of August 1914 and ended when the Treaty of Versailles was concluded on the 28th of June 1919. That time period is 4 y 10 m 24 d or 49/10 y, exactly to the day. Now, you have to use your calculator to transform the months and days to decimal fractions of the years in question (30 d/m), then subtract to get the timeperiod, and finally transform the fraction of the result to months and days. The results equal. It goes as follows,

1919 y 06 m 28 d = 1919 + 6/12 + 28/360 y = 1919.578 y

1914 y 08 m 04 d = 1914 + 8/12 + 4/360 y = 1914.678 y

difference 4 y 10 m 20 d = 4 + 10/12 + 20/360 y = 4.900 y = 49/10 y


Adolf Hitler at Large for a Predetermined Time Period

Adolf Hitler was appointed as chancellor of the realm on the 30th of January 1933 and committed suicide on the 30th of April 1945. So, the period of power of “der Fuhrer” lasted 12 y 3 m 0 d = 49/4 y, exactly to the day. Are there any questions?


The Second World War Was Not an Accident Either

The Second World War is said to have begun when Hitler’s troops attacked Poland, but I would say that it began earlier, when he occupied Prague on the 15th of March 1939, subduing Czechoslovakia, because no one could stop him from doing his atrocities after that, until the bitter end when Hitler committed suicide on the 30th of April 1945. That period is 6 y 1 m 15 d = 49/8 y, exactly to the day.


Benito Mussolini, the Composer of the Fascism

When I tried to calculate a sensible time period from the important dates of Mussolini, I was confused about the anomaly I found. His influential time-period as “Il Duce” could be deemed to have begun when he marched to Rome on the 28th of October 1922 and ended when partisans shot him dead on the 28th of April 1945. The time difference between those dates is 22 y 6 m 0 d. The nearest time interval, calculated by dividing the Jubilee time period (minus one year) by an integer is 49/2 y = 24 y 6 m 0 d. It seemed to me as though exactly 2 years to the day had been taken from Mussolini’s life for some reason. Much later on, I realized that a possible reason for this anomaly could be that he had publicly challenged God to destroy him in a short time, looking at at his clock. Of course, God did not answer him then, but obviously He shortened Mussolini’s life by exactly 2 years for that arrogance (update: and gave him a bitter end). A better historian could find out more accurate details.


Was the Emperor Hirohito Guilty of Beginning of the War of the Pacific?

The hostilities that led to the War of the Pacific began when the Japanese made an attack upon Lang Son and Dong Dang, in French Indo-China, on the 22nd of September 1940. The war officially ended when Japan surrendered by signing the peace pact onboard the USS Missouri on the 2nd of September 1945. The time period between those dates is 4 y 11 m 10 d, whereas 49/10 y = 4 y 10 m 24 d.

There is an anomaly of more than two weeks, but Japan announced her surrender on the 14th of August 1945, under the leadership of the Emperor. When that came to the public on the 15th of August, the military leaders who resisted the surrender could not make the military coup that they had planned. If we take this date as the date when the war ended de facto, the time period between the beginning and the end of the war is 4 y 10 m 23 d. Only an anomaly of 1 d is left, and that could be explained by the difference between the time zones of the west and east, plus the close proximity of the international dateline. The date can easily change by one day depending on what part of the world the records were made in.

Was the Emperor guilty? I would say ‘not guilty’ because I have not found any time frame in the important dates of the Emperor Hirohito, as I found in the dates of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler. The Emperor was in a very difficult situation. He could not resign because the resigning had severed the very ancient dynasty and probably plunged the whole country into chaos. He had to endure and wait for a favorable chance to overpower the military leaders who wielded the real power until they lost the war. That is my opinion. Many people may argue.

 

Update: What About the US?

The US is a great enigma to me in the Biblical sense. She is probably the Great Babylon, just as many prophets of today have stated and are proclaiming, but I only try to concentrate on her timeframe, which is the main subject now. Anyway, as the only superpower, she is the most significant entity among mankind, just as she has been from the WW1 on. Could God have given an exact time span for her life and activities, as He did to other great entities with their activities? Maybe He has.

The US took her independence on the 4th of July 1776. If we add five ‘Jubilee year’ periods to it, we end up at the year 2021, two years behind the calculated end of the Red Dragon and the present day Israel. If the time span is exact to the day, the end of the present-day US could be on the 4th of July 2021.

The assassination of President John F Kennedy on the 22nd of November 1963 has been handled in countless studies, books and artikles already, but I dare to touch upon it a bit also. I think that the event was more important than the attack against the twin towers of the Wordl Trade Center. It is because the last real President of the US was murdered by certain super conspirators working behind the scenes. After him, all presidents of the US have been and are implants of the background, dark super elite. Now, they have the ultimate power as far as God allows them to go. Piles of data about them can be found on the net. How long God will withstand them?

I never can be absolutely sure, but I think that the timeframe of 49 years may be valid in this case also. Such a great importance the case of JFK with its ramifications has. We’ll try. Adding 49 years to the assassination date, we end up to the day 22nd of Novemebr 2012. That date should mean the end of the series of implant presidents, the last one being the most questionable one. A huge chorus of prayer is needed to prevent the most terrible events from taking place in the same connection. Can enough prayer be found?


The Jews and Israel Make a Difference

The Jews began to get back their civil rights in 1848, when a civil rights movement started in Europe. The First Zionist Congress and founding of the World Zionist Organization took place in Basle in 1897 or 49 y after the preceding event. The Second Zionist Congress was in 1898. We could look at that as the 1st Jubilee year because the first birth pangs were over then and the “midwife”, Theodore Herzl, could continue his work successfully. Israel received her independence or was born in 1948, which is 49 y + 1 Jubilee year after the first Jubilee year of the freed Jews. Officially, Israel spent its first Jubilee year in 1998 or 49 y + 1 y after her birth, but I would say that it was the second one. We can conclude that God began to rehabilitate Israel in 1848 and up to the year 1998, He has given three Jubilee year periods for that purpose. The fourth one is going on.

Has God planned to give Jews the fourth Jubilee year time period after 1998, before Jesus Christ will come back, or a shorter time? I see 50 y as too long a time, considering how fast the humankind is rushing towards its total destruction in several ways. No other person can save the world from itself except Christ Himself. Someone will try, but will fail and get lost.

Update: I know that the Illuminati, along with their minions, founded the Zionist movement and present-day Israel and they rule both. However, God is above all and often uses the most rebellious human beings to fulfill His ultimate goal, in spite of the fact that they think about following their own agendas. Concerning the rest of the time for present-day Israel, if it is 24 + 1/2 years, the end of present-day Israel will be in the fall 2023, the same yearend as the yearend of the Red Dragon that was calculated above. Maybe that year, Jesus Christ will take the power eventually and bring the Kingdom of God upon the earth. Who knows? Most time calculations have failed until now.

Conclusions

I concluded that to the Jews and Israel God gives time by periods of 50 y = 7×7 y + 1 Jubilee year, but to the Gentiles, He gives 7×7 y without any Jubilee year, or by those periods divided by a small, even integer of 2, 4, 8, or 10. Why not the number 6 and odd numbers? I don’t know. Then I had to pick up my results from among a group of possibilities, but very limited ones.

Some time periods are exact to the day (as I have shown above) and some could be if the exact dates were known and some are given less accurately. Obviously God wants to emphasize the importance of certain time intervals and show to human beings who really reigns on the earth. Perhaps the most important short time period is the 1260 days in Rev. 11 when the “two olive trees” will be prophesying on the earth.

I suppose also, that determining times exactly to the day, following a certain formula, means that we are living in the last days, from the beginning of WW1 and onward. For example, I can tell that from the important dates of Napoleon Bonaparte, I have found no exact time intervals calculated by dividing 49 y by a small integer from 2 to 10, although in his time, Napoleon was as Hitler was later. Sure, there is the so-called Hundred Days = 3+1/3 months of the reign of Napoleon, but not more. Perhaps God wanted to emphasize that Napoleon’s reign was absolutely finished, as well as the Great French Revolution, and that it is He Himself who always lets loose and captures the dictators. Men are only instruments.

One important conclusion is that, if God has given a certain time, it cannot be shortened by earthly means. Only God Himself can shorten it for such reasons as having pity for suffering people, much praying by the followers of Jesus Christ or arrogance of those to whom He has given that certain time. In some scarce cases He can postpone a given doom as He did for Nineveh (later it was destroyed anyway).

Update: I remember that a total of 42 attempts to assassinate Hitler were made against him, but all of them failed. That much can be said about the human possibilities, while trying to change what God has ordered. Eventually, even the ultimate evil works for His ultimate purpose.

Jesus stated in Mt. 24:22 (KJV): “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” What else could the time periods be as mentioned above (results of dividing to the day 49 years by a small integer) except shortened days? Additionally, the “two olive trees” are yet to come. Notice that their “shortened days” will last 1260 days or 42 months that is 3+1/2 y = 7/2 y = 49/(7+7) y when counted 30 d/m and 360 d/y. Any more emphasizing needed?

The closer that we come to the return of Christ the shorter the predetermined time periods seem to become. Eventually, it is a question of the day and an hour when Jesus Christ will come back; however, that time point is impossible to calculate beforehand. Only God the Father knows it.
 



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    • Pix

      Nostradamus c1500ad is not ancient. Egypt c5’000bce is ancient.

      Way to go on promoting more twisted and spun BS, we sure need more of that at the moment. I think you religious people are more like spiders with your spinning and webs full of lies. *rolls eyes*

    • Blackwinter

      Pix, well said, and might I add…

      end times…
      prophecies…
      religious warnings from self-styled prophets… (not this article exactly, but one I read a few minutes ago)

      All say the same hideous thing.
      “Give up your thinking mind, enslave your decision-making to (place name here of god or duly-appointed representative) and question not the unknowable and unprovable lest you be punished for daring the temerity of showing intellectual curiosity innate to intelligent minds.”

      A grab for power and the attempt to establish a tyranny by the name of theocracy still smells of burning flesh belonging to those killed in it’s name.
      Like witch burnings.
      the Inquisition.
      etc..

      Give It Up.
      Never going to happen again.
      The churches and religions HAD their time during the Dark Ages–one of the single most extended and viciously oppressive tyrannies in history.
      We’re watching now, and you might be able to browbeat and kow some people to follow you out of fear of being punished…but not all of us.

    • m

      Knowing that God choose the Feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Pentecost, to demonstrate and typify His Commission, and establish the Church, the Body of Christ:

      We, can readily understand that the next Feast, which is the Feast of Trumpets, would have the same import, and purpose of God.

      We understand that Our Lord did for hundreds and hundreds of years, ready all who would participate, through Israel, His purpose.
      10 That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
      Ephesians 1:10

      Therefore, it is fitting that we should understand that the next Feast of Trumps, is typified and named, as the “Ingathering of the Elect.”

      From this premise, we know that the Age of the Church, in the order of Dispensations, will culminate, and end, with the Rapture.

      25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in .
      Romans 11:25

      14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come .
      Matthew 24:14

      So, we understand that when the Gospel has been universally preached, and the full number of Gentiles is reached, then shall the end of the Age of the Church, in dispensation, here, in the foreword order of dispensations, come to an end.

      …Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance….
      Psalm 2

      32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
      John 12:32

      When the Fullness of the Gentiles will culminate, and happen, we do not know. It is very likely on the Feast of Trumpets, this year, or next, but, eventually, on the Feast of Trumpets. (W)hich, is the next Feast to be TYPIFIED.

      36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
      Matthew 24:36

      Now we know that the Father does know exactly when the time of the Fullness shall be. He must know, as it is His Plan, and Dispensation. And, as much as He knew exactly when our Great God Jesus Christ would die, as He expressed in Daniel.

      24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand , that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again , and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off , but not for himself….
      Daniel 9: 24, 25, 26

      And, He spoke again:

      10 … they shall look upon me whom they have pierced , and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
      Zechariah 12:10

      So, now you can discern Who is speaking. You know that it was to happen exactly when the event was decided to be.

      All events were subordinate, and known before they happened. And, just as the Pharaoh’s heart was hardened.

      3 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine. armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
      Exodus 7:3,4,5

      So, the Pharaoh was damned.

      8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we all are the work of thy hand.
      Isaiah 64:8

      The Lord chooses some to grace, and some to damnation. On their pre known choice to reject salvation.
       
      21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
      Romans 9:21

      Some are called, some are not called:

      11 (For the children being not yet born , neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand , not of works, but of him that calleth ;)
      Romans 9:11

      God loves some before they are born, and hates some before they are born.

      13 As it is written , Jacob have I loved , but Esau have I hated .
      Romans 9:13

      Is God wrong in doing so ?

      14 What shall we say then ? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid . 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy , and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion .
      Romans 9:14

      So, we (Christians) have God’s mercy.

      18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth .
      Romans 9:18

      We have no will, or say, in the matter, at all.

      16 So then it is not of him that willeth , nor of him that runneth , but of God that sheweth mercy .
      God’s purpose is His, and some He raises to His Glory, and for His Namesake.
      Romans 9:16

      17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up , that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
      Romans 9:17

      To be sure, God will predestine some to dishonour and some to honour.

      21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
      Romans 9:21

      So, some are destined to be the vessels of wrath, and are only fit for DESTRUCTION.

      22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known , endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
      Romans 9:22

      God has done this so that (in our case as Christians) God can show how He is bestowing the riches of His glory on us. And, that we were pre destined unto this glory. For us, (in this case for us who are now Christians) the former GENTILES.

      23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called , not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
      Romans 9:23

      We know God has made His plans before Mankind sinned. He has everything exactly planned, especially, who, what, when, where, and how. Because, He is God, and makes no mistakes, And, He has made provision, for our Lord Jesus Christ, to have Brethren. And, made no mistake. For example: We know that Jesus Christ is the Lamb who was slain before the foundation of the world, showing God‘s plans are immutable.

      …the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
      Revelation 13:8

      God has already appointed, and ordained, who will receive eternal life in Jesus Christ, and provided the grace to accept and believe.

      48 And when the Gentiles heard this , they were glad , and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed . Acts 13:48

      This calling comes from God, direct and personally.

      14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened , that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
      Acts 16:14

      The power and ability to believe on Jesus Christ as their personal savior is given by God

      29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ;
      Philippians 1:29

      Christians are called to be of our Lord Jesus Christ, and saints.

      6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ: 7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
      Romans 1:6-7

      Through, and From God’s Grace, and Mercy, the sinner is given by God, His repentance, and then; becomes, aware of His truth, .

      25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
      Timothy 2:25-26

      The truth is: God did know in advance who He would call, to be Brethren of our Great God, Lord Jesus Christ. And, we are justified and glorified.

      29 For whom he did foreknow , he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate , them he also called : and whom he called , them he also justified : and whom he justified , them he also glorified .
      Romans 8:29-30

      God has chosen us before the foundation of the world, according to His Plan, His Grace. Our salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ is a bestowed Gift, and we are called, here on earth.

      4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
      Ephesians 1:4

      15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
      Galatians 1:15-16

      16 So then it is not of him that willeth , nor of him that runneth , but of God that sheweth mercy .
      Romans 9:16

      It was His will, and not ours. Lest anyone boast. It is all of God, and a Gift, through Grace.

      18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
      James 1:18

      We did not desire Him; He desired us. We are an inheritance, and Brethren, of our Great God Lord Jesus Christ.

      44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
      John 6:44

      Our names are written in the Lambs Book of Life, before the foundation of the World. The Uncalled and Unchosen are NOT.

      8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
      Revelation 13:8

      8 …and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder , whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world….
      Revelation 17:8

      Yes, you are the Elect (in Jesus Christ)

      7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for ; but the election hath obtained it , and the rest were blinded
      Romans 11:7

      10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
      2 Timothy 2:10

      2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied .
      Peter 1:2

    • Anonymous

      Reply to m
      Did this guy just print the whole Bible? Come on! Your premise on which the Rapture is coming is flawed. Read what you wrote, only what you wrote. Now tell yourself exactly what it says, no more and no less. Then, tell me honestly, that you can pull out of what you wrote that there is a rapture statement in your writings. Really!

    • Blackwinter

      He printed enough to give me eyestrain.

      …the rapture. uh-huh.

      Some folks spend so damn much time wasted on this nonsense instead of waking up, looking around and asking the simple question;
      ‘How can I make life or the world a little better in a way that matters?’
      And I DON’T mean by mindless prosyletizing, attempted Borg-like assimilation of ‘unbelievers’ and ‘sinners’, or any other religious crap…even the charity works done by most religious organizations are done ONLY with the ulterior and ultimate motive of ‘spreading the word’ and gathering up new wallets…I mean ‘followers’.

      Folks want to practice religion, fine, each to their own.

      …it’s the endless Star Trek Borg-like efforts at assimilating people into their happy little organization that really offend me.

      …and I am using the word ‘assimilation’ correctly.
      Ever meet a Born-Again christian?
      If they could ‘religionify’ a person’s mind by sticking tubes into their neck to infect them with ‘Blessed messengers’ the vast majority of them would.
      Not all, there’s some that are decent folks, but the majority -overwhelmingly- have a bad reputation for a solid reason.

      Basically, I don’t have a problem with god, if it exists. It’s never hurt me that I’m aware of…never done anything positive for me either. So, no problem with god one way or any other.
      And if it comes down to earth in-person and says ‘heya!’ someday, well, I will be calling it out on the carpet to answer some questions.

      My issue is with the way so many people USE religion as an attempt at control and tyrannical domination over oter people’s lives, minds, property, rights, etc..
      THAT I will fight to the bloody, bitter end.
      Enslavement and tyranny through fear, and fear of punishment is ALL THE SAME;

      …Whether it’s an Overseer standing over you while you’re forced to do hard manual labor and waiting to punish your slightest error with the lash.
      …Or it’s some idiot telling you to ‘Do things and live only as I tell you or the sky-man will hurt you/send you to a bad place where you’ll be hurt’.

      Prett books with hard-to-read words printed on onion-skin-like paper don’t hide this essential fact.

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