The Antichrist Will Appear AFTER The Rapture

2nd Thessalonians 2:1-10, “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”

Taken by itself the preceding passage of Scripture seems to teach that the Man of Sin must appear before the Rapture of the Church. However, if we rightly divide the Scripture and consider the whole counsel of God, we can only conclude a pre-Trib Rapture. I am fully confident dear reader that if you diligently study God's Word, you will come to the same conclusion that without the pre-Trib Rapture doctrine, Bible prophecy has no context. No other position fits the puzzle of Bible prophecy, which is history (His-Story) written in reverse.

My ministry friend B.J. Houser wrote these prolific words (I didn't edit anything)...

I believe that the Bible clearly teaches a pre-trib Rapture, not because it holds out the promise of a 'great escape', or because somebody convinced me in a high-pressure sales job, or because it is my opinion and I am sticking to it.

I believe the Bible teaches a pre-trib Rapture because a pre-Trib Rapture puts the last days and the Tribulation into a context consistent with the overall flow of Bible prophecy. 

That is the only reason that I teach a pre-trib Rapture. It makes no difference to me if other, sincere born-again believers embrace a different view; the timing of the Rapture plays no role in our salvation.

Saving faith is faith in Who is coming, that He is coming again, as promised, and that He will keep all His other promises, including standing as our Advocate before the Righteous Judge. 

Our faith is that "God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life."

But the timing of the Rapture is CENTRAL to the understanding of the overall Big Picture in the last days.

The 'last days' is a different era than the Tribulation Period. The 'last days' is used throughout Scripture in the context of the Church Age.

At Pentecost, the Apostles, newly-indwelt by the Holy Spirit, rushed from the Upper Room to the street, giddy from the experience. So giddy, in fact, that some bystanders thought they were drunk.

"Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But THIS IS THAT WHICH was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass IN THE LAST DAYS saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:" (Acts 2:13-17).

The 'last days' is the Church Age, whereas the Tribulation is the 'Time of Jacob's Trouble'. They are two different Dispensations of God. That is central to understanding the times in which we now live.

We are currently in the "dispensation of the grace of God" (Ephesians 3:2). Paul calls the conclusion of this present dispensation the 'dispensation of the fullness of times.' (Ephesians 1:10)

During this dispensation, believers are indwelt by the Holy Spirit.

"And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world."

But John reminds us:
"Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world." (1John 4:3-4)

Note the context. John is speaking of the 'spirit of antichrist' which he says is 'already in the world.' He says that the spirit of antichrist cannot overcome the Church saints; because He Who indwells us (the Holy Spirit) is greater than the spirit of antichrist.

But this SAME PROPHET, writing of the SAME antichrist, (once antichrist comes in the flesh), says; "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to OVERCOME them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations." (Revelation 13:7)

Since John penned both passages, and they cannot both be simultaneously true, the flow of Bible prophecy is interrupted, if the Church Age runs concurrent with the Tribulation.

During the Tribulation, the antichrist is 'given' power to overcome the saints. Is he 'given' power over the Holy Spirit? Jesus said, in the context of devils driving out devils, 'a house divided cannot stand'. (Matthew 12:25)

Clearly, God isn't giving power over Himself to the antichrist. That leaves two possibilities, apart from a pre-trib Rapture.

The first is that the Holy Spirit indwells the Church until the onset of the Tribulation, at which point He is withdrawn from the vessels he indwells, leaving believers on their own. 

The Apostle Paul says He is 'withdrawn' BEFORE 'that Wicked' is revealed. (2nd Thessalonians 2:7-8)

For a pre-Trib Rapture to be a false doctrine means our generation was chosen out of all others in Church history to face the greatest spiritual trial the world has ever known — without the Comforter that Jesus promised would indwell us until He comes.

The second possibility is that John was either lying or mistaken when he said the spirit of antichrist cannot overcome indwelt believers.

In either case, the promises of Scripture are broken.

Assessment:
Over the last thirty years, I've listened to explanation after explanation of why the pre-trib Rapture is a 'false doctrine'. It usually revolves around the concept of a 'great escape' or some other misunderstanding of the flow of Bible prophecy.

Its opponents will spare no effort to 'prove' that it is a false doctrine, as if the timing of the Rapture were somehow of eternal significance. It is not.

The eternal significance of the Rapture is this:
"The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout . . . and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together WITH them in the clouds, to meet the Lord IN THE AIR. . ." (1st Thessalonians 4:16-17)

Now let's try and pull it all together.
"And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, His disciples came unto Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?"

Note the first thing Jesus says in reply to that question.
"And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in My Name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." (Matthew 24:3-4)

Jesus said the one who comes in His Name would deceive 'many' - not all. Initially, most of Israel will be fooled.

"I am come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive." (John 5:43)

Paul identifies the one who Israel eventually (and temporarily) receives as their messiah as the antichrist.

And so, if the one claiming to be Jesus is standing on the ground, instead of meeting me in the air, then I will know that he is an imposter, no matter what tricks he is able to perform.

The doctrine of a pre-Trib Rapture isn't a 'great escape' for the Church; it is a necessary evacuation of the Holy Spirit's restraining influence as part of the overall Big Picture for the last days.

Remove it, and the chronology of Bible prophecy is thrown into chaos.

The pre-trib Rapture doctrine has no saving value. It is of no eternal consequence to anyone that they believe in a pre-Trib Rapture. I feel no particular need to convert someone to my understanding of the last days.

One is saved by God's grace through faith in the finished Work of His Son on the Cross as payment in full as our pardon for sin.

But without the pre-Trib Rapture doctrine, Bible prophecy has no context. That is why I teach it as doctrine. It is my obligation as a minister of Christ.

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." (2nd Timothy 2:15)

And our insurance against end-times deception.

Bravo my Brother in Christ. That being said, I humbly disagree with B.J. Houser on two minor issues: 

1. Dispensationalism - I have never liked dispensational doctrine, simply because the Bible doesn't teach it. You have to really imaginatively stretch the four mentions of the word “dispensation” (which means to administer) in the New Testament to fabricate a whole system of dispensationalism. It is bad scholarship in my opinion.
2. Manmade Israel - Kindly said, B.J. Houser believes present-day Israel is the fulfillment of Bible prophecy to rebirth Israel, but I don't. Present-day manmade Israel was created in May of 1948 by the ungodly United Nations, who drove out the Arabs by using deadly military aggression against them. Hosea 3:4-5 prophecies that God won't restore the true nation of Israel until the Jews repent toward God. That still hasn't happened as of 2026. Of the seven million Jews inhabiting Israel today, only about 2% profess faith in Jesus Christ (and that includes all the pseudo-Christian cults like Roman Catholicism, Church of Christ, Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons). Jeremiah 23:7-8 teaches that when Jesus returns at His Second Coming, the LORD will return born again Jews to their own Promised Land. No unsaved Jew will ever enter into the Promised Land or Heaven.

Brother Houser continues exegeting the Word of God...

The Rapture of the church is the future, imminent event in which Jesus Christ descends from heaven to gather all believers of the present church age to Himself, transforming the living and resurrecting the dead in Christ, and removing the church from the earth prior to divine judgment. Scripture presents this as a blessed hope grounded in Christ’s promise and accomplished by His power.

Jesus first promised this event to His disciples. He said, “Do not let your heart be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you. For I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:1–3). Christ comes for His own and takes them to the place He has prepared, not to the earth but to the Father’s house.

Paul provides the most detailed description, saying, “For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words” (1 Th. 4:15–18). The verb “caught up” translates harpazō (ἁρπάζω), meaning to seize or snatch suddenly. The meeting place is “in the air,” not on the earth. This is presented as comfort, not warning.

Paul explains the transformation that accompanies this event, saying, “Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality” (1 Cor. 15:51–53). A mystery is truth previously unrevealed. This instantaneous change applies to both resurrected and living believers.

Other passages reinforce this expectation. Paul wrote, “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself” (Phil. 3:20–21). As Christians, we are “Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus” (Tit. 2:13). The posture of the church is expectancy, not timetable calculation.

Scripture also distinguishes the rapture from the later return of Christ to the earth in judgment. At the rapture, Christ comes for His saints and meets them in the air. At His return, He comes with His saints to the earth in visible judgment and rule. The church is promised deliverance from the coming outpouring of divine wrath. Paul states, “For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Th. 5:9; cf. Rev. 3:10).

A Christian is a person who has received God’s free gift of eternal life by believing in Jesus Christ as Savior. At the moment of faith, the believer is placed into the church, the body of Christ, and therefore shares in its future destiny to be caught up to be with the Lord forever. Scripture states, “for whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16b). The gospel of grace proclaims that salvation is entirely the work of God, accomplished through the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross and offered freely to sinners.

Scripture states, “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast” (Eph. 2:8–9). Faith alone in Christ alone is the sole condition, because eternal life is received by believing, not by reforming, committing, or persevering. As Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life” (John 6:47). Salvation rests on Christ’s sufficiency, not human performance, and the one who believes in Him “has passed out of death into life” (John 5:24).

Brother Houser further writes...

The Antichrist will appear after the Rapture of the Church. At present, Satan operates an antichrist system that has functioned since the fall of man and permeates the world. John writes, “every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world” (1 John 4:3). According to Ronald Sauer, “the spirit of the antichrist is in the world now, to be followed by the physical presence of the antichrist later.” (Ronald Sauer, “1 John,” in The Moody Bible Commentary, p. 1981).

This system is active, hostile to God, and oriented toward rebellion, preparing the world for Satan’s future ruler. Paul states, “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” (2 Th. 2:7). Lawlessness is present now in principle, not yet in person. The system exists; the man does not. Its full manifestation awaits the removal of restraint and the unveiling of the Antichrist.

Ed Hindson states, “The spirit of Antichrist is alive and well—it is the Satan-inspired expression of lawlessness and rebellion against God, the things of God, and the people of God. It has been alive since Satan slithered his way around the Garden of Eden. It has been the driving force behind the whole terrible history of the human race—wars, murders, thefts, rapes, and the like. It is the ugly expression of the destructive nature of the great deceiver himself.” (Ed Hindson, “Antichrist,” in The Harvest Handbook of Bible Prophecy, p. 34).

After the Rapture of the Church, when revealed, the Antichrist will rule a unified global government. Daniel foresaw a final kingdom that “will devour the whole earth and tread it down and crush it” (Dan. 7:23). John describes a beast to whom authority is given “over every tribe and people and tongue and nation” (Rev. 13:7). This is worldwide political dominance. National sovereignty collapses under centralized authority. Law and power are concentrated in one man energized by Satan himself. John states, “The dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority” (Rev. 13:2).

This political dominance is reinforced by global economic control. No buying. No selling. No exceptions. “He causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark… and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark” (Rev. 13:16–17). Economic participation becomes a tool of worship and allegiance. Commerce is weaponized. Survival is tied to submission to the Antichrist. Scripture is explicit that economic pressure enforces loyalty to the system.

The system is also religious. The Antichrist does not begin as an openly atheistic tyrant but as a deceiver. Paul calls him “the man of lawlessness” who “takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God” (2 Th. 2:3–4). Revelation describes a false prophet who enforces worship of the beast and performs signs to deceive the world (Rev. 13:11–15). This is religious devotion. Satan’s long ambition to be worshiped finally finds its human instrument (Isa. 14:12–14; Matt. 4:8–9).

Behind this future system stands Satan’s longstanding counterfeit kingdom. Scripture states that “the whole world lies in the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19). Satan is called “the god of this world” who blinds unbelievers (2 Cor. 4:4). He has always sought centralized control, uniform thinking, and coerced unity apart from God. Babel was the prototype: “Come, let us build for ourselves a city… and let us make for ourselves a name” (Gen. 11:4). God descended upon their rebellion and wrecked that early system. In the future, He permits a final version to run its course under judgment.

The timing of these events is important. The Antichrist cannot be revealed until the restraining force is removed. Paul states, “You know what restrains him now… only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. Then that lawless one will be revealed” (2 Th. 2:6–8). The Church, indwelt by the Spirit, functions as that restraint. Once removed, restraint ends. Lawlessness accelerates. Deception spreads like wildfire. Authority rapidly becomes centralized. The world does not suddenly become evil. It simply loses restraint.

Scripture also predicts a growing global appetite for deception and control. Scripture states, “Evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived” (2 Tim. 3:13). “They did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. For this reason, God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false” (2 Th. 2:10–11). Humanity does not stumble into this system unwillingly. They willingly welcome it. They exchange truth for security, freedom for safety, and worship for convenience.

What we see today is preparation for the full expression of Satan’s coming kingdom. Global institutions that bypass national accountability. Cultural hostility to biblical truth. Technology that enables surveillance. Economic systems capable of total centralization. Moral relativism. Rejection of absolute authority except when it promises protection. Scripture identifies this as “the mystery of lawlessness” already at work (2 Th. 2:7). Satan’s structure exists. The final ruler does not.

It follows logically that those who promote globalism and a centralized world economy are, whether knowingly or unknowingly, aligned with Satan’s antichrist system in its present, preparatory form. Scripture presents Satan’s system as one that seeks centralized authority, economic control, uniform allegiance, and unity apart from God. When individuals or institutions advocate structures that dissolve national sovereignty, concentrate power, and subordinate truth to collective security, they advance the same patterns Scripture identifies with the mystery of lawlessness already at work (2 Th. 2:7). This alignment is ideological and functional and it contributes to the stage setting for the future reign of the Antichrist.

For the believer, this truth produces confidence rather than fear. Christ promised deliverance before divine wrath, for “God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Th. 5:9; cf. Rev. 3:10). The next event on the prophetic calendar is not the Antichrist, but the gathering of the Church to Christ. “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord” (1 Th. 4:16–17). The Rapture occurs first. This is followed by the seven-year Tribulation, the final week decreed for Israel and the nations (Dan. 9:27; Matt. 24; Rev. 6–18). After that comes the Second Coming of Christ in power and glory to judge and to reign (Matt. 24:29–30; Rev. 19:11–21). The sequence culminates in Christ’s kingdom on earth, where He rules for a thousand years in fulfillment of God’s promises (Rev. 20:1–6).

In summary, Scripture clearly teaches a coming satanic global system under the Antichrist. It also teaches a present preparatory phase already at work. What we observe today aligns precisely with biblical stage setting. The Church waits, watches, and works, confident that God’s plan is on schedule and that Christ will remove His people before judgment falls. “Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Rev. 22:20).

I enjoyed reading his commentary. I told Houser that I think he's a prolific writer. He has a good understanding of the Scripture, which is rare in this generation. Any time that I read something that helps broaden my understanding of the Holy Bible, I like to share it with others for your edification too. To God alone be the glory.

Do you believe the Gospel friend? Have you been born again? We here unsaved people make all kinds of excuses for being atheists and rejecting Jesus Christ, but the Holy Bible says the simple truth why they won't believe is a rejection of God's Word. John 5:38, “And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.” 

Without Pre-Trib Rapture, Bible Prophecy Has No Context

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[Pastor Harry Ironside (1876-1951), a godly Fundamentalist author and teacher for many years, served as pastor of Chicago's Moody Memorial Church from 1930-1948]

The above chart begins with the precious word “Calvary” (by the way, the corrupt modern Bible versions ALL completely remove this word). That's why I only trust and use the King James Bible! Then we see the Gentile Age (the history of the Church). The First resurrection is the pre-Tribulation Rapture when Christ returns FOR His saints (1st Thessalonians 4:17). Then we see that while the raptured saints will go through the Judgment Seat of Christ and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; while back here on earth the Antichrist will rule the New World Order and God will pour out His wrath upon the world for their wickedness. After the 7-year Tribulation period there will be the Second Coming of Christ (the Lord's descent to the earth).

Christ here returns WITH His saints and the Battle of Armageddon is fought. Armageddon is a literal valley called “Megiddo” in Israel. The Beast (Antichrist) and the False Prophet will be defeated and the Lord will begin His earthly 1000-year reign from Jerusalem over the whole earth. Satan will be bound in chains and imprisoned for 1000-years.

At the end of the 1000-years, there will be a short rebellion after Satan is released from the Bottomless Pit. There will be humans during the Millennium who are the descendants of those saved during the Tribulation period. Some of these people will join Satan in his rebellion against God. Satan and his rebellion will be defeated and then the Great White Throne of Judgment will follow, during which all unsaved people throughout history will be convicted and cast into the eternal Lake of Fire. Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet will also be cast into the lake of Fire to be punished day-and-night forever and ever. This will be the final judgment of all the doomed.

The earth will be burned over, purged with fire and God will make all things new (2nd Peter 3:7,12; Revelation 21:4). The saved throughout history will dwell upon the earth with God forever and ever in genuine love, lasting peace, true happiness, perfect harmony and bountiful plenty. 1st Corinthians 15:28, “And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.” Amen and amen!

The Bible Teaches A Pre-Trib Rapture

Without the pre-Trib Rapture doctrine, Bible prophecy has no context.

We are told in Titus 2:13 to LOOK “for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ...” Now, if the Anti-Christ must come first as mid and post tribbers tell us, then this passage makes no sense. Why would we look for Christ if the Man of Sin must precede Him? Those who deny a pre-Trib Rapture remove the element of surprise from Christ's return, which imminent return is plainly taught in the New Testament (Mark 13:32-37; 1st Corinthians 15:51-58; Philippians 3:20; 1st Thessalonians 4:13-18).

I agree with Pastor Harry Ironside's (1876-1951) prophecy chart (shown above) which shows true Israel being restored only when Christ returns at His Second Coming to earth, after the Tribulation period (Jeremiah 23:7-8). This does not affect saving faith.

Pastor Ironside graduated to Heaven in 1951, just 3 years after manmade Israel was created in 1948. His prophecy books had already been long ago published. In Pastor Ironside's thinking Israel would be restored at Jesus' Second Coming, with which position I agree. Hosea 3:4-5 teaches that God will restore Israel when the Jews repent toward God, which they haven't done yet. Present-day Israel is no different than any other heathen nation (Luke 21:24).

Are “the Day of the Lord” And “the Day of Christ” The Same Thing?

2nd Thessalonians 2:1-2, “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.”

Most Bible commentaries and websites today will erroneously tell you that the 54 King James Bible translators messed up; that “the Day of Christ” is a faulty translation in 2nd Thessalonians 2:2. However, this is simply not the case at all, as the following well-written helpful article delineates...

In 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 Paul mentions two events that precede the period of the Great Tribulation. The KJV and NKJV state that the “day of Christ” shall not come except “there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed”. Other versions read, “the day of the Lord.” If it is “the day of Christ,” isn’t that the Rapture as in Philippians 1:10 and Philippians 2:16? If the correct reading is “the day of Christ,” how can the “falling away” be the departure of the Church if the “day of Christ” comes first?

The reading in some versions, “the day of the Lord,” originates from the corrupt 1881 Westcott and Hort Greek text which underlies most modern versions and should be rejected.

There are a number of “days” referred to in Scripture. There is “the day of Christ,” “the day of the Lord,” “the day of the Lord Jesus,” “the day of God,” and “the day of God Almighty.” To which period they refer, can only be determined by the context. There is no consistent meaning to any one day. 

For example:

The expression, “the day of Christ”, occurs only twice elsewhere, in Philippians 1:10 and 2:16, where it undoubtedly applies to the Rapture. The Philippians were to be “without offence till the day of Christ”, and Paul would “rejoice in the day of Christ.” That cannot refer to the Tribulation.

The expression, “the day of the Lord”, occurs five times. (Acts 2:20; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Peter 3:10; 1 Corinthians 5:5 and 2 Corinthians 1:14). Acts 2:20 quotes Joel 2:31, and its context is the appearing of Christ to judge the nations at the second coming. However, “the day of the Lord” in 1 Thessalonians 5:2 is the Great Tribulation from which the Church is preserved. In 2 Peter 3:10 “the day of the Lord” is the destruction of the earth at the end of the Millennium, when the earth will be burned with fire.

In the Old Testament “the day of the LORD (Jehovah)” occurs 26 times and generally applies to the coming Tribulation (Joel 3:14;Zephaniah 1:14), but it also applies to the destruction of Babylon (Isaiah 13:6,9) which now is fulfilled prophecy. It is the “day of God’s vengeance” (Isaiah 34:8; Jeremiah 46:10) whenever He acts to requite the ungodly. At all times it is a time of terror and fear for men.

The expression “the day of God” occurs twice in Scripture, in 2 Peter 3:12 and Rev.16:14. In 2 Peter 3:12 it is the conflagration at the end of the Millennium. “The day of God Almighty” (Revelation 16:14) refers to the battle of Armageddon at the second coming of Christ.

“The day of the Lord Jesus” in 1 Corinthians 5:5 and 2 Corinthians 1:14 is clearly the Rapture.

The proposition that the term, “the day of Christ”, can only refer to the Rapture, must be checked against the context of Scripture. In the context of 2 Thessalonians 2:2, “the day of Christ” is the Great Tribulation.

It is obvious from all of these references that there is no consistent pattern of meaning attached to each term apart from the context, which emphasizes the absolute necessity to get the context right. A Greek or Hebrew translator MUST understand the passage in order to get the context right, which determines the meanings of words in each application. Vincent, the Greek scholar, did not attempt to comment on the Greek of 2 Thessalonians 2 which, he said in 1886, “I do not understand” (page 67,vol.IV). So what is the context of 2 Thessalonians 2? 

1. The Thessalonian believers feared that “the day of Christ” was “at hand”, or “now present.” Paul saw it as a time of fear that would shake the mind and trouble the believers. The Greek word “shaken” is like “the tossing or swelling of the sea”, and the word “troubled” means to be “unsettled or thrown into confusion”. The Rapture is the opposite, and is our blessed hope. Paul says he would rejoice “in the day of Christ”, but these believers saw the “day of Christ” as a time of terror. 
2. The believers equated the “day of Christ” to a PERIOD of time, and not an event. The Rapture is a split-second event too fast for the world to see. This is the only place where the Greek word “enistaymee” is translated “at hand.” Five times it is translated “present,” as in Romans 8:38; 1 Corinthians 3:22 and 7:26; Galatians 1:4; Hebrews 9:9. The Thessalonians were concerned that the Tribulation (“day of Christ”) was “NOW PRESENT” (2 Thessalonians 1:4). If “the day of Christ” was the Rapture, their fear would have been that it was a past event.

So if the believers thought that the Tribulation, “the day of the Lord” to which Paul had referred in his first epistle (1 Thessalonians 5:2), had already come, how should we understand “the falling away” (2 Thessalonians 2:3)? The Greek word apostasia is transliterated (not translated) into English as apostasy but that is only one application of the Greek word and it is utterly wrong to translate apostasia as apostasy in every case. The word means “departure.”

The verbal form is applied to a departure from truth in only 3 instances (Luke 8:13; 1Timothy 4:1; Hebrews 3:12). It is a departure from iniquity (opposite to apostasy) in 2Timothy 2:19 from men, in 1 Timothy 6:5, from the Temple Luke 3:37, and from the human body in 2 Corinthians 12:8 An angel departed from Peter – Acts 4:13, the Devil from Christ – Luke 4:13, and the Jews from the Apostles-Acts 5:38.

All English translations before the KJV, translated the Greek word apostasia in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 as departure or departing. They include Wycliffe (1384), Tyndale (1526), Coverdale (1535), Cranmer (1539), Breeches Bible (1576), Beza Bible (1583) and the Geneva Bible (1608).

The definite article “the” is missing from the KJV, whereas it is in the Greek Received Text. Apostasia is a noun, and the article indicates that it was a specific departure known by the reader and previously mentioned by the writer.

In the Epistles to the Thessalonians there is no prior mention of an apostasy or departure of the Church from the truth. Two verses before, however, there is mention of the physical departure of the Church – “our gathering together unto him” (2 Thessalonians 2:1). In the first epistle we have the physical departure of the Church described at length in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. It is mentioned in 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; 2:19; 3:13; 5:9. The thought of the Rapture is still on Paul’s mind in 2 Thessalonians 3:5. If the believers were to be comforted in trial, then their departure would be the greatest comfort, not the prospect of apostasy.

To what departure was Paul referring? If it was the apostasy of the man of sin, then the order is wrong for the “falling away” comes “FIRST.” The man of sin is revealed after the departure. Antichrist’s apostasy, when he sets up his image in the Temple, actually occurs halfway through the 7 years, 42 months later. However, “the departure” is an event, not a period of apostasy.

Why then is “the day of the LORD (Jehovah)” called the “day of Christ?” Because Christ is Jehovah. If “the day of the Lord Jesus” in 1 Corinthians 5:5 and 2 Corinthians 1:14 can be the Rapture, it is not inconsistent for the “day of Christ” be called the day of Jehovah or the Tribulation.

It becomes apparent that there is no exclusive meaning attached to any day of the Lord, Christ, God or the Lord Jesus, apart from the one demanded by each context, and the context in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 is all about two events which must occur before the period of God’s wrath falls on the world.

Furthermore, there is a doublet in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 which demands that apostasia be the departure of the Church. Two things must occur BEFORE the day of the Lord comes. Verse 3 mentions “the departure” and “that man of sin be revealed”. In verses 7 & 8 the same two events are given. The restrainer is “taken out of the way” and “THEN shall that Wicked be revealed”. The second confirms the first.

Other Scriptures speak of apostasy in the last days (1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Timothy 3:1-7; 2 Peter 3:3-4; and the prophetic significance of the Laodicean Church), however, this passage is clearly showing that the day of Tribulation shall NOT come unless the Church departs FIRST. The Thessalonian believers would thus be reassured and comforted.

There is no greater comfort to the believer in these last days than to know that at any moment we could be caught up with the loved ones who have gone before, to be “for ever with the Lord.” SOURCE

I fully agree. It is clear from studying God's inspired Word that there is no real consistency in the use of these different phrases, which discredits the false claims of many well-meaning religious scholars and clergy that they do have specific meanings. Since Jesus is the Christ, the Lord and Almighty God, these phrases can be (and are) used interchangeable.

Thus, the only way to rightly divide the Word of Truth is to interpret each individual Scripture passage based on its surrounding context. Most heresies are the consequence of lifting a particular text out of context to create a new pretext. So, please don't do that. Always study the surrounding verses in a specific passage to find the proper context.

There Shall Be False Prophets Among You

Acts 20:29-31, “For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.”

2nd Peter 2:1, “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”

The inspired Holy Scripture prophecies that FALSE PROPHETS would arise and deceive many. I love that word “privily” in 2nd Peter 2:1, which means “surreptitiously” (taking painstaking efforts to avoid detection). False prophets are very subtle, like the Devil. They have an agenda! We must continually be on guard against heresy creeping into a church.

The Apostle Paul had spent three years warning God's flock about false prophets lurking from without and within the churches. There's nothing new under the sun. In 2026, we find the same dire situation today of false prophets (grievous wolves) lurking in local churches. I spend a great deal of time extricating people's minds from the toxic theology of neo-evangelicals. The average pastor today is an incompetent theological fool, preaching Satan's fraud of “repent of your sins” to be saved, and other deadly forms of Lordship Salvation. Listen to me friend, there is no YOU in God's plan of salvation, there is only CHRIST. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.

Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.

Salvation is not achieving, it is receiving.

The Scripture prophecies that FALSE PROPHETS would arise and deceive many. ...

Matthew 7:15, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

Matthew 24:11, “And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.”

Case in point is heretic Ray Comfort...

Evangelist Ray Comfort Corrupts Matthew 7:22-23

“Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” —Matthew 7:22-23

On page 1197 of 'THE EVIDENCE BIBLE,' Ray Comfort comments on Matthew 7:22-23...

"These are perhaps the most frightening verses in the Bible. Vast multitudes of professing Christians fit into the category spoken of here. They call Jesus 'Lord,' but they practice lawlessness. They profess faith in Jesus, but have no regard for the divine law. They tell 'fibs' or 'white' lies, take things that belong to others, have a roaming eye for the opposite sex, etc. They are liars, thieves, and adulterers at heart, who will be cast from the gates of heaven into the jaws of hell."

SOURCE: THE EVIDENCE BIBLE, by Ray Comfort, pg. 1197; 2003, Bridge-Logos Publishers, Orlando, Florida

Ladies and gentleman, Ray Comfort is teaching a works-based salvation! According to what we just read by Ray, every believer who is still living in deliberate sin won't be allowed into Heaven. The inspired Word of God does NOT agree with Ray. Romans 6:1, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” I love this precious truth! The more we sin as believers, the deeper God's grace reaches, so that we can never lose God's free gift of salvation; which is obtained simply through trust in Jesus Christ (John 20:31).

The correct interpretation of Matthew 7:22-23 must include verse 21...

“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”

What is "the will of the Father"? The answer is found in John 6:40...

“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

The group in Matthew 7:21-23 were unsaved because they refused to do God's will concerning salvation. It wasn't because they still had personal sins in their life. Every believer still has sin in their life! We all sin every day. That's not to say that we have God's approval to sin, God forbid (Romans 3:31). It just means that even the best of Christian is still a dirty sinner. Ray Comfort wrests the Scripture to his own destruction (2nd Peter 3:16-17).

Such apostates are willing to follow a false gospel or a Caspar Milquetoast preacher like Joel Osteen. However, it is not someone's unwillingness to forsake personal sins that prevents that individual from being saved; but rather, it is one's love for sin. John 3:20, “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.” Carefully notice verse 21, “But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” The Bible doesn't say “he that turns from his sins,” no, it reads: “But he that doeth truth cometh to the light...”

Bible repentance unto life is a matter of changing your mind from unbelief to belief; it is acknowledging THE TRUTH that you are a guilty SINNER and Jesus is the only SAVIOR. Getting saved DOESN'T require sorrow over sins, a desire to do better in the future, to forsake the world, become a Christ follower nor reform one's life of past sinful ways. You may do all these things and yet never be born again and still go to Hell, as did Judas Iscariot who repented of his sins (Matthew 27:3). 'YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN' (John 3:1-7).

In John 5:40 Jesus said, “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” Jesus didn't say, "Ye cannot come." He said, “Ye WILL NOT come.” The Lord will save any needy sinner immediately, irrevocably and eternally who RESTS in the Gospel (Hebrews 4:10-11).

Ray Comfort woefully perverts Matthew 7:22-23, by errantly claiming that “false prophets” are those who claim to be saved, but have not forsaken their petty sins yet. Clearly, Mr. Comfort is teaching a works-based plan of salvation (damnation). The truth is that every child of God still sins continually one way or another. We are sinning even when we fail to pray for others (1st Samuel 12:23). We are all still wretched sinners as God's redeemed saints (Romans 7:24).

Satan is a master liar and deceiver and his unrighteous (unsaved) ministers are turned into ministers of righteousness to deceive the simple (2nd Corinthians 11:13-14). There are many groups who falsely profess to be “Christian” nowadays. They are not born again Christians. It's not because they still have sin in their lives, it is because they're trusting their own self-righteousness to merit them eternal life. What groups am I writing about? Namely: Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventists, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christian Scientists, Scientologists, Reformed (Calvinist) Baptists, Lutherans, Lordship Salvationists and innumerable others.

Every proponent of Lordship Salvation claims that eternal is a free gift, provided by God's free grace, and that works are not essential to salvation; yet, they 100% contradict themselves when they mandate a changed life as part of saving faith. Forsaking one's sins is the FRUIT of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:25), and is not a prerequisite to be saved. Behavior modification has absolutely NOTHING to do with receiving God's free gift. So many people get confused and stray away from the truth of the Gospel of free grace, simply because they allow their sinful nature to corrupt the free grace of God, as did Cain in the Old Testament.

Jesus clearly taught that the reason why the group in Matthew 7:21-23 wasn't saved is because they had failed to do GOD'S WILL. John 6:40 tells us that God's will is for us to BELIEVE ON JESUS CHRIST. Ray Comfort would have us to believe that forsaking one's sins is God's will for salvation, but that is NOT what the Bible says at all. 

Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it!

Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb!

Redeemed through His infinite mercy,

His child & forever I am! 

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BEWARE of false prophets! Get grounded into the truth of the inspired King James Bible and you won't be led astray by the Devil, as have billions of victims today. John 8:32, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Why Things Are So Bad These Days

2nd Timothy 3:1-7, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

The following edifying words are from Pastor Jack Hyles' MP3 sermon titled: “When Satan Is At His Worse.” Ecclesiastes 12:9-10, “And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs. The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.” Without further ado, here is Dr. Jack Hyles...

Why Things Are So Bad These Days
“Ladies and gentleman, do you want to know why the television programs have gotten as rotten as the Devil in recent years? Do you want to know why the narcotic problem is a menace to almost every high school in this nation? Do you know why that the plays and movies have become full of nude scenes? Do you want to know why that cursing is allowed on television, and things that used to be censored are now accepted? Do you want to know why that mini-skirts are running rampant, and you want to know why that Communism, and Rock music, and all the dirty things that Satan has caused in our generation; do you want to know why they're here?

I'll tell you why, Jesus is coming soon! The Devil is going to get put down soon, and he knows he has but a short time. So he comes in the last days of this age and says, “I'm going to have great wrath, great fury, I'll launch every weapon I have, I'll launch every gun I have, I'll take every bit of the arsenal out of Hell and point it at the people on earth.”

Now here's one of the tragic things about this entire Scripture (i.e., Revelation 12:12), and that is the Devil is wiser than we are. We also know we have but a short time. He knows he has a short time, he gets busy; we know we have a short time, we stay home and watch television... We've got to stay busy for God!”

SOURCE: Pastor Jack Hyles, 'WHEN SATAN IS AT HIS WORST'

The Utter Hypocrisy Of President Trump And Fox News

Matthew 7:12, “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”

I am so sick of the hypocrisy. Here's a disgusting Fox News video from January 14, 2026...

Iranian regime hunting down Starlink users as death toll SOARS

So, where was President Trump's concern over innocent people being murdered when Israel slaughtered 71,647 Palestinians in Gaza?

Why is Iranian life any more precious than Palestinian life?

I'll tell you why, because President Trump's true agenda is to annihilate another one of Israel's enemies. They want to take out Iran! The handwriting was already on the wall for many years after the overthrow of Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003. ...

Iran Was Always Going To Be Next On The New World Order's Hit List

For those of my ministry blog readers who've followed me for the past few years, then you remember that I predicted if Donald Trump were re-elected, two things would happen:

1. President Trump would take our nation to war with foreign nations.
2. President Trump would raise up a domestic police state.

So far I've been correct two for two. My gut tells me that when this fiasco with deporting illegal aliens is over, the new federal enforcement team won't be going away any time soon.

With the cost of food and necessary things insanely skyrocketing, amidst a stagnate job market, economic implosion will be ultimately inevitable. The Federal Reserve banking system is nothing more than systematic financial fraud, since 1913. It's a massive classic Ponzi Scheme sanctioned by Congress. They should all be fired, arrested, indicted, tried in a legitimate court of law, convicted for treason and then sentenced! Away with the traitors!

It bothered me today as I listened to the media whores at Fox News spew nothing but sympathy and outrage for what Iran's authoritarian leaders are doing to murder it's citizens, while neer a word was heard from Fox News during the massacre of 71,647 innocent people in Gaza (most of whom were defenseless women and children). Sadly, the manmade whore of Israel controls our U.S. news media, so that we simply cannot believe anything the press tells us anymore.

Present-day Israel is of the Devil. It is a manmade farce since 1948 that is NOT the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Dr. John R. Rice (1895-1980) and Pastor J. Vernon McGee (1904-1988) both rejected the idea of present-day Israel being the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Beware of the pro-Israel media whores in the United States! I am not anti-Semite, God forbid; I am anti-corruption and anti-evil. True Israel has not existed since 586 BC when Babylon conquered Jerusalem, and will not exist again until the great Second Coming of the majestic Lord Jesus Christ (Hosea 3:4-5). Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

I think it is a great thing that President Trump wants to liberate the Iranian people who are victims of their greedy insane leaders...

Iranian Officials Seize Billions to Flee Iran

That being said, the fact that President Trump and the U.S. mainstream news media unanimously seem to care about liberating Iran, expressing outrage over the thousands of alleged killings in Iranian streets, while not caring one iota when 71,647 Palestinians were being murdered in Gaza, compels me to conclude that there is a sinister hidden agenda.

I am not against nor for Israel today. The nation of Israel in these modern times is no different than any other heathen nation. Israel today has no special divine promise of protection from God; quite the contrary (Luke 21:24). I can tell you biblically that Christ-rejecting Jews are NOT God's chosen people today, and unsaved Jews never were (Romans 2:28-29). ONLY born again Christians (Jews and Gentiles alike) are THE CHOSEN; or THE CHURCH if you prefer.

From the very beginning of the Abrahamic covenant, God's promises were conditional to the Jews (Exodus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 28). The Jews rebelled so that God gave Israel into the hands of their enemies for judgment time and time again. The inspired Holy Bible is abundantly clear that God made His promises to Abraham concerning Jesus Christ, and not to Abraham's biological descendants (the Jews). Galatians 3:16, “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.” Thus, all of the promises which God made to Abraham only apply to those who have faith in Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:28-29).

Christ-rejecting arrogant Jews today have no stake in anything except their well-deserved plot in the tormentuous everlasting fires of Hell (John 3:36; Revelation 20:15). God's inspired Word will not be mocked (Galatians 6:7).

Dear reader, if you want to understand the daily news, then always remember that Satan is the god of this world (2nd Corinthians 4:4), and that the New World Order (NWO) is now being formed before our very eyes (Revelation 17:10). We are now living in the end times of the feet of iron (tyranny) mixed with clay (freedom) in Nebuchadnezzar's golden image from Daniel chapter two.

Signs of Satan and his coming Antichrist (or, “in place of Christ”) are everywhere...

Occult Hand Signs Showing Allegiance Coming Antichrist

Our nation is divided against itself on everything...

Two Different Legs Both Walking In The Same Direction Of A New World Order

We see horrible tyranny in harsh places like North Korea and Russia today, versus the freedoms that we enjoy in America and Europe. Whereas in the past the entire world was ruled by the kingdoms of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Medo-Persia and Rome (world powers). No one nation has ruled the whole world since Rome. Next is the New World Order, which will be the Beast system of the coming Antichrist (aka, the Man of Sin). So, we have nine super powers today (India, United States, United Kingdom, France, Israel, North Korea, Russia, Pakistan, China), but no world powers anymore. All of the aforementioned countries posses nuclear weapons.

I wrote this blog to point out the bothersome hypocrisy that I see in the Zionist-controlled White House and American media. Although Hamas has an approximate membership of 20,000 Arabs, the vast majority of the murdered 71,647 victims in Palestine between 2022 and 2026 never hurt anybody. They were just parents trying to raise their children in a peaceful society. With Israel continually hating, murdering and oppressing the Palestinians, I cannot blame the refugees for being angry at Israel.

Jesus reiterated The Golden Rule in Matthew 7:12, “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” The Apostle Paul even went as far as to conclude that loving others as yourself fulfills all of God's law. Galatians 5:14, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” That is so precious and beautiful.

If for some reason we were to be abandoned and isolated with a group of people on an island, and there were no Bibles for anyone to read, by just loving each other we wouldn't need a Bible (as far as knowing how to live right). I didn't say that, God did in His inspired Word. Galatians 5:14, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

James 2:8-9, “If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.”

It is a wicked shame that our nation's top leaders play favorites, liberating one group of people from tyrants while condemning another group to be obliterated with guns and bombs by the tyrants in Israel. I lost confidence in the White House and mainstream media a long time ago.

The Day Of Reckoning Will Come For Corrupt Pastors

Galatians 6:3-7, “For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

Jeremiah 5:31, “The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?”

One of the heaviest burdens that I carry as a fundamentalist Baptist Bible preacher is over America's corrupt Baptist pastors. I've never seen so many bad pastors who don't care about right doctrine, the purity of God's Word, the accuracy of the Gospel or how they treat people.

Case in point are the horrible pastors at Pensacola Christian College's Campus Church, who are wrong on repentance; and therefore, God's simple plan of salvation. I have found at least FOUR different plans of salvation at PCC. I speak this to their utter shame and incompetence!

1st Peter 4:1-5, “Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.”

What Good Is Preservation Without Inspiration?

Job 32:8, “But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.”

John 6:63, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

2nd Timothy 3:16-17, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”

Let me give you a personal illustration of the importance of inspiration in Bible preservation. 

Back in the 1990's I had a Food Manager's License in Chicago. I served the Lord on Chicago's Westside as the assistant pastor at a Rescue Mission for 8 years, feeding the poor and needy in Jesus; name. I preached on Sunday's. I attended a class for 3-days to get my food license. In class, I learned about food safety. For example: Chicken must be heated to an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit to be safe. Beef to 155 and fish to 145. Before handling food, hands should always be washed with soap and warm water for at least 15 seconds. Seafood should never be served in free food shelters, to avoid possible sickness or even death from allergic reactions. These are safety guidelines.

Now, what good would my Food Manager's License have been, if I had allowed rats to infest the kitchen? How about permitting thousands of disgusting cockroaches? What if I had never washed my hands and prepared the food with dirty contaminated hands? That would have been very bad, nasty and against the law. Thankfully, I was always careful with food, and still today I am very meticulous about food safety.

But let's say for the sake of my illustration that I had allowed filthy rats, disgusting cockroaches, a dirty flee-infested dog to roam in the kitchen, a cat to lay on the food serving cart, and I never washed my hands. And then when I failed the city's Food Safety Inspection, I became defensive about it. What if I tried to convince the safety inspector that everything was okay because no food is perfect. I mean, did you know that the U.S. government actually allows a certain amount of rodent poop, insect parts, mold, cigarette butts and maggots in our food? YUK! But what if I used this disgusting fact to justify having a kitchen infested with cockroaches and rats while preparing someone's food? Let me ask you the $64,000 question dear reader—what good would it have been for me to have a Food Manager's License, if I failed to use my safety knowledge to carefully prepare food for others? My license would have been totally worthless!

Now let's apply this illustration to the Bible publishing industry today. By the way, did you know that according to the American Bible Society that there are now approximately 900 English Bible versions in part or whole? It is sadly true! What good would it have been for God to give His perfectly inspired, innerant, infallible, flawless Words to mankind if those words later became inferior, flawed, imperfect, questionable and unreliable? The need for God to inspire the original Words would have been worthless!!! Please think about this dear reader. Without absolute perfect preservation of the Lord's VERY PURE Word, there would have been no logic or need for inspiration. Psalms 119:140, “Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.”

Yet, today's nasty cooks in the Bible publishing kitchen are telling us that rodent poop, maggots, mold and insect heads are normal in the spiritual food of God's Word. The New International Version (NIV) is full of the Devil's rodent poop! The English Standard Version (ESV) that Bob Jones University uses, sells and promotes is infested with insect heads, rat droppings, cigarette butts and mold! BEWARE of all modern English Bible revisions!!!

The King James Bible Is Inspired

There is a raging debate in churches and Bible colleges today over the topic of Bible inspiration. Tragically, 99% of those corrupt groups and institutions teach that we DO NOT have an inspired Holy Bible today. They all errantly teach that only the original autographs of the Bible were inspired by God. They teach that inspiration only applies to the initial giving of God's Words to mortal man thousands of years ago, and that all subsequent copies and translations since cannot possibly be inspired also. They vehemently deny that the King James Bible is inspired and they insist that it is full of errors. I humbly disagree with all my heart, mind and soul. I firmly believe that the King James Bible is inspired and without error!!!

Carefully notice that Jesus said the actual 'WORDS' are spirit and life (inspired), and not just the original process of God speaking His Words through holy men of old (i.e., sinful men made holy by Jehovah God). John 6:63, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” It is God's Words that are inspired. Those Words do not cease to be inspired just because they are copied or translated into a different language, just so long as the new translation is correct.

Unfortunately, all of today's modern English Bible revisions were translated from the corrupt 1881 Greek text of Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort (part 4B of a Bible study series by Pastor Max D. Younce. Dr. Younce exposes these imposters). The King James Bible was translated from an entirely different text; namely, the Textus Receptus. You cannot trust any of the modern Bible revisions. Even the versions whose publishers claim that they came from the Textus Receptus (like the shameful English Standard Version) still contain all of the SAME perversions as all other extent Westcott and Hort revisions. In short, they are LIARS!

The foolish pastor of a very large church in 2008 distributed a booklet to thousands of people at an annual preachers conference, calling those who believe in the inspiration of the King James Bible “rats in the woodpile,” “hillbillies,” “ignorant clergy” and “barbarians.” The bad pastor said those who say the King James is inspired have “shot themselves in the foot,” and are “espousing Catholic or Charismatic theology.” I guess I'm a big rat then, because I DO believe that the King James Bible is 100% inspired, inerrant, infallible and preserved by God. I must be an ignorant barbaric hillbilly.

King James Bible Inspiration

(a great MP3 defense of the Christian faith by my friend Pastor David Baker)

Dear reader, there would have been absolutely no reason for God to give His perfect inspired Words to humanity, if those Words have been corrupted over the millenniums. And as I mentioned earlier, it would have been totally worthless for me to obtain a Food Manager's License if I was subsequently careless while preparing food to serve the public.

The purpose of securing a food license was so that I would make sure to provide healthy, safe and properly handled food to the public. Likewise, the purpose of God preserving His Words is to maintain their purity over endless time. Without absolute accurate preservation, inspiration would have been utterly meaningless. God promised in Bible prophecy to preserve His very pure Words forever. Matthew 24:35, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” If all modern Bible revisions are corrupt and non-inspired, then we do not have God's Words and they have expired. I humbly believe that God has kept His solemn promise to preserve His inspired Words, in the much beloved King James Bible.

Thank you for reading my ministry blogs. To God alone be the praise and glory.

The Holy Bible Has Been Wickedly Perverted To Obtain A Legal Copyright
(It matters which Bible we use)

Destroying Western Civilization

Daniel 7:25, “And he [Antichrist] shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”

Our text passage of Scripture refers to the future 7-year Tribulation (i.e., the 70th week of Daniel's prophecy). Revelation 12:9, “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” The Devil is a manipulative liar, thief and murderer (John 8:44). Satan comes only to kill, steal and destroy (John 10:10). As the god of this wicked world (2nd Corinthians 4:4), the Devil is the leader of the evil New World Order.

The following words of wisdom were spoken by the honorable Senator Ralph Babet from the United Australia Party on March 15th, 2025...

The Western world is being destroyed by an absence of masculinity.

Let me explain.

We find ourselves in a situation where powerful people with globalist designs want to destroy the world as we know it.

Supra-nationalists are concerned with creating systems to centralise power across borders.

Their goal is a worldwide government, a worldwide currency, a worldwide health program, worldwide environmental controls … and on and on it goes.

They want to centralise power because centralised power is total power. It’s not called totalitarianism for nothing!

But standing between these totalitarians and their ambitions are nation states.

To have a worldwide government you must destroy these individual nation states, and we are seeing that process take place.

Politicians and bureaucrats have pushed mass migration onto Europe (and other Western nations) to further this cause.

Is a version of Europe where Europeans are a minority still Europe? Of course not. It is something else altogether.

Mass migration, throughout the whole of the Western world including here in Australia dilutes national culture. Instead of unique nations with their own languages, cultures, customs, and architecture passed down through generations, these nations are trending toward global homogeneity.

The reason is as obvious as communist structures are grey.

Why would anyone protect Melbourne when it looks no different to Berlin?

Why would an Italian fight for Italy when he regards himself as a global citizen rather than as an Italian?

To accomplish centralised power, a population is required that neither knows, nor cares, for their own history.

A population that has – bit by bit – been stripped bare of all allegiance to country, or culture, or even family.

The only allegiance that will be left will be the dream of global citizenship with a central authority.

We have seen this before through communism and they are doing it again, right in front of our noses.

So who can stop them?

Men!

The key to stopping this evil dismantling of nation states is men.

Men fight against tyranny. Men defend their tribe.

Men are the key to stopping globalism.

It makes me ask, why have Western governments worked so hard to deride masculinity as toxic?

We have seen masculinity dismantled and men feminised away from their traditional roles.
Think about it.

Throughout history the role of men has been to fight and even die for their tribe.

In order for nation states – which are the equivalent of modern-day tribes – to be eliminated, men are being emasculated.

And it is happening everywhere.

In every sitcom, men are portrayed as bumbling fools. From The Simpsons to Modern Family, men are portrayed as unreliable and stupid and not to be respected.

And we could talk all week about chemicals in our products – even in our water – that have been linked to a decrease in testosterone. From bisphenol A found in plastics, to atrazine in the water.

Men are hard wired to defend their tribe. From time immemorial, men have been known for their strength and for their willingness to die to protect their women, their children and their lands.

Nowadays surveys show a worryingly low percentage of men who would fight for their country. 

God bless women. We love them. And we need them. Where would we be without their love and kindness and gentleness and nurture?

But women’s God-given nurturing nature has been weaponised against them so that their natural empathy is manipulated to accept what ought not be accepted in the culture.

The good and proper female inclination to provide care and nurture has been manipulated to garner support for things, such as:

• mass immigration
• the sterilisation of children
• radical feminism & the breakdown of the family unit
• trans ideology and the erasure of womanhood
• defunding the police
• normalisation of single motherhood and government dependency
• so called global warning policies which undermine national sovereignty
• open borders and refugee resettlement

anti nuclear and pacifist movements that weaken national defence:

• support for globalist institutions like the WEF, UN, WHO
• digital censorship and hate speech laws
• foreign aid and global wealth distribution
• public health mandates
• the push for welfare expansion
• DEI policies
• education reforms that seek to dismantle patriotic sentiments
• and countless other policies and ideas that will destroy all our individual nation states and our futures. I will note that there are men who would support these policies (feminised men) however in much of the literature it is well documented that women - particularly young women - generally lean left.

Women are inclined to think with their emotions and to reason with their feelings. This is not a weakness. It is an important counterbalance to the natural pragmatism of men.

The problem is that Western culture has deliberately been swung to the other extreme where there is now no counterbalance to the emotional impulses of women.

Men – whose purpose is to fight and protect – are being slowly put to sleep.

A matriarchy will allow politicians and bureaucrats to centralise power, all in the name of tolerance and empathy and diversity and a desire to go along in order to get along.

Only men can stop the globalist state from taking over the world.

Men have traditionally fought tyranny to defend their nations and their families.

Today the tyrants are wearing suits and sitting in lofty towers plotting to homogenise the entire world.

Men must become men again. They must recognise the value of their tribe and defend it.

Only then will the globalist plans be defeated.

by The honorable Senator Ralph Babet, United Australia Party

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