“Rapture” thinking and political paralysis
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is coming under fire for a speech he gave in 2015 while serving as a Congressman:
Dangerous Christian extremist: Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is caught on video promoting the Rapture.
Social media is on fire after a 2015 video has been rediscovered showing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussing the Rapture. In the video Pompeo expresses his opposition to same-sex marriage while addressing a church congregation. In the video Pompeo declares:
“We will continue to fight these battles, it is a never-ending struggle… until the Rapture.”
This rapture theology does have dire consequences, as we’ll see in a moment, but the outcry here highlights a double problem. First, what really galls these leftist critics is that Pompeo opposes same-sex marriage, abortion, and considers Islam to be a dangerous political movement masquerading as a religion. That’s why his 2015 speech has come to light and is making the rounds on social media and on prominent Leftist websites.
A double standard
Pompeo is correct in his assessment of how “multiculturalism” is used to normalize same-sex sexuality, same-sex marriage, transgenderism, gender fluidity, abortion, and laws denying Christians the right to exercise their faith publicly.
It’s startling that these Leftists will attack Pompeo for his Christian beliefs but say nothing about what Islamists are doing around the world and hope to do in every country where they live and hope to control through immigration.
Those attacking Pompeo would never dare do the same thing to a Muslim running for political office. But we know all of this.
The Left continues to attack Christians for their faith and yet says nothing about Islamists who do not believe in a jurisdictional separation between church and faith (as Christians do). In fact, Democrats continue to vote for Muslims and put them in office. Democrats will give Islamists the rope with which they will hang us.
At the same time, Democrats criticize Christian judges for their religious beliefs on topics like abortion and homosexuality. Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii have questioned a federal judicial nominee over his membership in the Knights of Columbus. “The Knights of Columbus has taken a number of extreme positions,” Hirono said. “For example, it was reportedly one of the top contributors to California’s Proposition 8 campaign to ban same-sex marriage.”
Proposition 8 passed in 2008. Were all who voted to ban same-sex marriage extremists? Were Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton extremists when they opposed same-sex marriage? US District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker overturned the vote. “[S]upporters of Proposition 8 filed a motion in district court to vacate Walker’s decision, citing Walker’s own post-trial statement that he has been in a long-term relationship with another man.” It’s OK for homosexual judges to have biases, but not Christians.
“Rapture” theology and politics
All of this brings me to the point of this article. One of the reasons we are in this mess is that millions of Christians are theologically disengaged from the fight. They speak out against abortion, same-sex marriage, and many other Leftist causes, but are stymied by a theology that tells them that there’s nothing they can do to stop it.
Leftists lament Pompeo’s belief in the “rapture,” but they should be thankful for the spurious doctrine. The “rapture” has kept Christians disengaged for decades.
What is the “rapture”? The doctrine was developed in the early part of the 19th century. It teaches that the church will be “raptured,” snatched directly up to heaven, prior to, during, or after a seven-year period called the Great Tribulation during which all hell will break loose. This event is today usually said to be looming sometime within our lifetime, even any moment now.
This event is said to be inevitable, and the building-up to the Great Tribulation is said to be the inevitable steady decline of this world into an immoral pit from which there is no escape. Consider the following expressions of this cultural surrender (all but the last of these points are from leading proponents of this view):
- John Nelson Darby, a prophetic predecessor to C. I. Scofield (who penned the notes in his dispensationa-oriented Reference Bible), taught that “the imminent return of Christ ‘totally forbids all working for earthly objects distant in time.’” This would have included the study of mathematics, medicine, art, music, and the sciences unless there were “immediate spiritual results.”
- “What a way to live! With optimism, with anticipation, with excitement. We should be living like persons who don’t expect to be around much longer.”
- “I don’t like clichés but I’ve heard it said, ‘God didn’t send me to clean the fishbowl, he sent me to fish.’ In a way, there’s a truth to that.”
- “The church is not in the business of taking anything away from Satan but the souls of men. The world is a sinking Titanic ripe for judgment, not Garden of Eden perfection.”
- “This world is not going to get any easier to live in. Almost unbelievably hard times lie ahead. Indeed, Jesus said that these coming days will be uniquely terrible. Nothing in all the previous history of the world can compare with what lies in store for mankind.”
- “‘Reclaiming’ the culture is a pointless, futile exercise. I am convinced we are living in a post-Christian society — a civilization that exists under God’s judgment.”
- “The [dispensational] premillennial position sees no obligation to make distinctly Christian laws.”
- “The pessimism of pre-millennialism is inherent in, belongs to, and is logically connected to, the whole system. The world, the church, and the people must become worse. Disturbances in the world, wars, and all kinds of disasters must follow one another. A gradual worsening, a decline in every sphere must be observed. If not, then premillennialism as a system fails. Pre-millennialists despair of the moral and spiritual powers and of efforts to bring about any change for the better.”
A hundred years or more of this type of teaching have had a greater impact on our world than the words of the drug-addled Timothy Leary who told the 30,000 gathered for the first Human Be-In in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to “turn on, tune in and drop out.” Millions of Christians continue to sit back and watch the world disintegrate around them as they wait for an escape that is said to be near but never comes. We are now paying the price for our neglect.
For a comprehensive study of the “rapture,” see my book THE TRUTH ABOUT THE RAPTURE: A BIBLICAL STUDY.
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Henceforth my kingdom is not of this earth ! Jesus the Head opened a rapture door of peace(no tribulation no wrath) on Mt.Transfiguration His John 10 rapture faith ascended so will His John 5:21 called Acts 15 Gentile rapture bride WE can use that same door of 1st judgment as celestials (this is how we travel to & from different pastures = made strangers,people of wonder,the hidden other sheep,the hidden ones,NO YOKE, freeborns, born from above,1st judgment raptured head only 1 book opened, For His hidden blood rapture power of His cross rewards only people of Acts 15 /
Next the Terrestrials the sellors, the occupiers,they take heaven with violence THE REBELS = they merchandise in men’s souls Matthew 25 10 repenting sin loving workers of iniquity born again lost sheep the tail 1Cor15:40 There are also celestial bodies,and bodies terrestrial:but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another
Obadiah 21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau;and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
2 Cor5:19-20 (KJV)To wit,that God was in Christ,reconciling the world unto himself,not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ,as though God did beseech you by us:we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
We come back from the rapture with a bunch of titles to war/to save/to war & judge the 10 repenting virgins the world angel-ghost Rephaim-Israel & Judah /
to rebuild the 3rd temple into the 4th temple,while having war & judging for 1,000 years until death defeated & kingdom sent back to heaven unto Father
WE RETURN Rev17:14These shall make war with the Lamb,and the Lamb shall overcome them:for he is Lord of lords,and King of kings: and they that are with him are called,
and chosen, and faithful.
Obadiah 21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau;and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
‘It is finished,’in the original Greek,it’s one word:tetelestai,which means “paid in full.”
Rom3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight:
for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Rom9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth,nor of him that runneth,but of God that sheweth mercy.
Paul said,
“By grace are ye saved through faith;and that not of yourselves;it is the gift of God;not of works,
lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8-9).
Rom5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world:but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Rom6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you:for ye are not under the law,but under grace.
Rom10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Gal3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,being made a curse for us:
for it is written,Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
You can write down the very minute your spirit was raptured into Christ & Father & Son & Temple
Holy Ghost put in you
Col1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,and hath translated us into
the kingdom of his dear Son:
We take our by mercy by faith by faith alone John 10 faith to the grave The waiting for the
dead body & those alive at the last trump is hardest part,that concluded Jesus raptured
1st judgment rapture of Romans 11:29 ALL of creation & us groans until the rapture the
adoption by both Father & Son ends (we judge the martyrs) the earth & heavens burnt up
(everything is re-installed ) then we come back to war & judge & rebuild as saviors Obadiah 21
Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body,that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body,
according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Rom11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
1 Corin 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel:not with wisdom of words,
lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
U cant repent @ get/keep a free rapture gift from Father.He doesn’t repent NOR we.Otherwise we transgress
John 4 my Father of living spirits Rom 11:29^gifts and calling of God are without repentance
Don’t miss end of the dispensation greatest rapture harvest of righteousness in history Rom 11:25
Hid key of knowledge luke 11:52/mystery key of king David’s house of faith Col 1-4
Hid gospel to make peace between you & Father
1 Corin15:1-4 then 5-58 to make you a chaste virgin church of 1st born 1st fruits from the dead
2 cor 4:3 But if our gospel be hid,it is hid to them that are lost:
spirit translated 1st saved from satan,vile body taken lastly concludes 1st judgment Christ
raptured body/His Church of 1st born 1st fruits
1 Cor2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery,
even the hidden wisdom,which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
Eph1:4 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:
Eph3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,which from the beginning
of the world hath been hid in God,
who created all things by Jesus Christ:
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fellowship of the mystery’s of the no tribulation no wrath rapture?
During the dispensation of the Acts 15 Lamb’s 2nd wife Gentile rapture bride His Head the church of 1st born 1st fruits
No man can use Peters short generation priesthood path of the 4 repenting gospels born again Messianic with Gentile proselytes FIG TREE CURSED gospels that put all men under Moses sin law flesh works of bondage=soul death, and plead the blood of Christ using a dead thing= it’s necromancy using dead works spirit’s {familiar spirits}repenting/baptism/renew/rededicate/born again doing
Moses great commission of foreskin cutting & 613 laws
Acts 15 Peter passed the mantel law of the good shepherd to Paul & Jesus hidden wise quickened spirit Spirit led church also Jesus gave Him-Paul the light the light=Father’s love the armor of light only the dispensation of the Gentile rapture bride can use
2 different good news’s here, 4 gospels cursed BUT GOD, allows the unbelievers that want to repent to build the 3rd temple use animal blood/burnt repenting sacrifices = no faith gloomy light that is darkness they are all bloody headed cursed forever
Galatians 2:7-8 King James Version (KJV)
7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
You need the hidden rapture gospel become Lamb’s 2nd wife be introduced to John and watch Lamb open the 7 seals etc…
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fellowship of the mystery’s of the no tribulation no wrath rapture?