The World And All The Works Therein Will Be Burned Up

2nd Peter 3:10, “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”

The “DAY OF THE LORD” refers to the time period between the Abomination of Desolation (Matthew 24:15) until the end of the 1,000 year Millennium (2nd Peter 3:10). There are many Old Testament references to the “day of the Lord,” as a time of God's anger and wrath being poured out upon the earth. Zephaniah 2:3, “Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.” So the “day of the Lord” encompasses 1,003.5 years (1,000 year Millennium + last 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation period, called “The Great Tribulation”). I wouldn't argue the point, but this is the only logical conclusion if you compare Scripture with Scripture. I'll discuss this doctrine more in a moment, but first, the main point of my article.

Only What We Do for Christ Will Endure in Eternity

All of the music recorded in the world, secular and Christian alike, will be BURNED UP someday. All of the beautiful music, art, sculptures, architectural wonders, exquisite furniture, and masterpieces of mankind, will all be destroyed by God one day. IT WILL ALL BURN!!! So what does that mean to us? The Bible tells us:

2nd Peter 3:10-13, “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”

God has already given us the answer. Knowing that everything in this world will one day be BURNED UP, we ought to live like it! Such a sobering thought ought to compel us as born-again believers, to maintain a holy manner of life, looking for and desiring the speedy return of our Lord. There is nothing wrong with wanting Christ to return sooner than later. We know from 2nd Peter 3:9 that the only reason God is delaying His return is so that more men will repent toward God and believe the Gospel.

NOTE: By the way, repentance is always “toward God,” never from sin, to be saved. That is exactly what Acts 20:21 teaches. Acts 20:21, “Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” Anyone who teaches that you must repent by turning away from your sins to be saved is a false prophet. You get saved by turning toward Jesus Christ in faith to be saved. Obviously you need to turn “FROM” something in order to turn “TO” the Gospel. But that something you turn FROM is not what saves you, nor is it a requirement to be saved, as many false prophets claim these days. If you place your faith in Christ's sacrifice on the cross, as payment for your sins, believing that Jesus was buried and bodily raised up three days later, you are immediately, permanently and forever saved!!! The man who believes has also repented! This is why we find the words “believe” and “believed” mentioned 85 times in the Gospel of John (which was written to convince men to be saved - Acts 20:31), but the word “repent” is never mentioned even once! John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.”

Biblically, as we just learned from 2nd Peter 3:11, we should be “LOOKING FOR” and “HASTING UNTO” the coming of the day of God. The word “hasting” means “speed, i.e., to urge on (diligently or earnestly); by implication to await eagerly.” Remember, this passage does not concern the Rapture or the Second Coming. This passage in 2nd Peter 3:9-13 speaks of the event, at the end of the Millennium, when the earth is renovated over with fire. The oceans will be burned up. Everything on this earth will dissolve in the intense heat. This is a remarkable passage of Scripture. It will be a whole new world and heavens, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Amen for that! We are supposed to look forward with eagerness to this time of cleansing and newness, wherein dwelleth righteousness. I can't wait! It sounds beautiful to me, and that is what God wants us to think.

As God's child, I am so sick and tired of this sin-cursed world full of wickedness. I am sick and tired of Satan being in charge of this evil world. I'm sick of seeing Illuminati symbols everywhere I turn; namely, the All Seeing Eye (which is seen extensively in Hollywood and the music industry), The Great Pyramid (look on the reverse of any U.S. one-dollar bill) and the Obelisk (e.g., The Washington Monument, which was also Nebuchadnezzar's golden 90' x 9' image). I hate all the corruption, filth and evil that permeates every nook and cranny of American society today. The world has become such a horrible place because of Satan and mankind's sin-nature. And it's not just America, the Bible says in 1st John 5:19b that “the whole world lieth in wickedness.” What a glorious day it will be when the whole world is “BURNED UP” and “THE WORKS THAT ARE THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED UP” (2nd Peter 3:10). God is going to purge the planet of man's filth, starting all over in RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! Amen, hallelujah, what a awesome time that will be!!!

The Holy Scriptures teach that as believers we ought to LOOK forward to this time, and even eagerly await for it with great HASTE.

Lot Hated the Wickedness He Beheld in Sodom

Abraham's nephew, Lot, in the Old Testament pitched (pointed) the door (opening) of his tent toward Sodom. Genesis 13:12, “Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.” Just one chapter later, in Genesis 14:12 we read “And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.” There is an important truth to be learned here, which is, long before we move into sin in our lives, our heart gets there first! Lot pitched the opening of his tent toward Sodom, because that's where his heart yearned to be. The next thing you know, Lot lived in Sodom, a city full of wickedness and perverted filth, and it destroyed his entire family.

NOTE: And also, as a side note, I'd like to go back and make a comment about living in big cities. Check and you will see, that the bigger the city, the more you'll find crime, evil, homelessness, gangs, drugs, indifference and all manner of wickedness. As a general rule, I think it is far better for parents to raise their children in a smaller city or town, or out in the country. I guarantee you that you'll find far more atheists and liberals in big cities, than you will living out in farmlands and rural areas. There's just something about the big city that elevates the spirit of man, and not God. Granted, there are many benefits to living in a bigger city (e.g., convenience, more restaurants, public services, businesses, entertainment, et cetera), which is why Lot moved there no doubt.

So often the decisions that we make adversely affect the lives of everyone around us, especially our own family and loved ones. Life in it's simplest form is nothing more than a series of decisions! That's why we need to saturate our daily life with the King James Bible and lots of Bible-preaching, to help us make the RIGHT decisions. That is exactly what Proverbs 3:5-7 teach us:

Proverbs 3:5-7, “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.”

Just as Lot hated what he saw around him in Sodom, we feel the same today in the United States. Filth, homosexuality, perversion, dishonestly greed, substance abuse and immorality are everywhere!

2nd Peter 2:6-8, “And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.”

That's exactly how we should ALL feel as Christians about wickedness!!! And to make matters much worse, false prophets exist everywhere, peddling corrupt Bible versions, teaching things they ought not for filthy lucre's sake, who have crept false doctrines into the churches, and religious people love to have it so! More than half of the 6,000 independent Baptist churches in America now embrace the satanic lie that a person must “turn away from sins” to be saved. They've got it backwards! You don't turn away from anything to be saved, you place your faith in the Good News (Gospel) of Christ crucified, buried and risen to be saved (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Obviously, in order to turn “TO” Jesus, you must also turn “FROM” something. But turning from something is not a requirement to be saved, it is an integral part of TRUSTING the Savior. Ephesians 1:12-13, “That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.” There you have it, we are saved simply by TRUSTING upon the Lord (the Gospel), which is what is means to BELIEVE.

Everything in This Life Will be Burned Up Someday

The Holy Bible teaches that at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, He will establish His millennial kingdom. We learn about this in Daniel chapter 2, in Nebuchadnezzar's dream of an image. Christ's return and Millennial kingdom is represented in the image by a stone cut out of a mountain without hands, which smashes all the kingdoms of mankind:

Daniel 2:44-45, “And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.”

After the 1,000 year Millennial reign of Christ, the Word of God teaches that the earth and all contained therein will be BURNED. I agree with Dr. Oliver B. Greene (1915-1976), who taught that BURNED doesn't mean the earth will disintegrate; but rather, it will be renovated with fire:

The last part of verse 1 tells us, “ . . . the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.”

This statement refers to Revelation 20:11: “ . . . from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away.” This dissolution (not complete annihilation) will take place through the melting process of fire (II Peter 3:10). The world and the works will be burned up, the elements will be on fire, the air will explode. When the new Heaven and earth come into being there will be no more sea, no more great oceans - restless, destructive, never calm or still. The great separating medium of the continents is essential to both animal and vegetable life now; but the sea will not be needed in God’s great new economy.

During the Millennium the sea will still be here . . . we read of nations, rivers, seas; but in the eternal ages there will be no need for a sea. The removal of the sea will give immense land surface exceeding greatly the surface of earth’s land today. There will be countless hosts of Gentiles and the entire nation of Israel who will dwell on the new earth.

Verse 2: “And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” Again John says, “I saw,” assuring us that he was there and he knows for sure what he is writing about.

The new Heaven and the new earth that John saw are not described; however, the Pearly White City is described in minute detail.

There is no doubt in my mind that the earth will be a magnificent place - one giant garden of flowers, shrubs and everything that an eternal God can and will provide to make life complete and abundant. The new earth will be one giant paradise (the word means “Garden of Pleasures”). God has no joy in the death of the wicked; it is not His will that men suffer. He has great joy in blessing His people, and no good thing will He withhold from them who love Him, serve Him and walk with Him.

SOURCE: Dr. Oliver B. Greene, The Revelation Of Jesus Christ, 1963

With this great truth in mind, knowing that the world and all that exists therein will be BURNED UP someday, we ought to spend the bulk of our time, resources and efforts laying up treasures in eternity:

Matthew 6:19-20, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

This life will be over before we know it. How sad and tragic that the average pastor today is more concerned about his next paycheck than he is about loving people and contending for the faith. The average pastor doesn't care about THE TRUTH, for if he did he would never allow two or more Bible versions to exists in his church congregation. You show me a man who uses both the Textus Receptus (King James Bible) and the Alexandrian manuscripts (all modern Bible versions) and I'll show you a man who is sinfully compromised, unreliable in his teachings and ought not be allowed behind any pulpit. God wrote one Bible, not two! The Alexandrian texts are corrupt as can be! Only the Textus Receptus (or majority Text) is trustworthy, upon which our beloved King James Bible is based.

Beware of Phony Pastors Lurking in Many Baptist Churches Today

The average pastor today is a sinful respecter of persons, shunning away those who make him feel uncomfortable. Romans 14:10, “But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.” I know a group of local Baptist pastors on Guam who won't even let me visit their church, because they are compromised, cowards and Christless. Christ didn't turn people away, he received everybody who asked for help. The Lord esteemed others BETTER than Himself, considering OTHERS before Himself, and He commanded us to do LIKEWISE (Philippians 2:3-5).

No genuine man of God would ever turn anyone away who asked for help. We are living in ungodly “perilous times” of fake pastors “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away” (2nd Timothy 3:5). We are living in woeful times of apostasy, when pastors are no longer shepherds, but wolves in sheep's clothing (Matthew 7:15), fleecing the flock with counterfeit Bible versions (which ALL promote another gospel, another spirit and another Jesus). That “power” spoken of in 2nd Timothy 3:5 is the Gospel, which is NOT taught in the Alexandrian Bible version (all modern Bibles). Instead, Lordship Salvation is taught, and manmade repentance.

“The mark of the child of God is that he loves everybody!”

(a quote from Pastor Jack Hyles' classic MP3 sermon, “FORGIVENESS”)

Will There Be A Different Gospel During The Tribulation?

Acts 10:43, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.”

Will there be a different Gospel during the Tribulation period? No, I don't believe so! We plainly read in our text Scripture passage that if ANYONE preaches another Gospel than that taught in 1st Corinthians 15:1-4, let him be accursed!!! I find nothing in the Holy Bible which teaches Christians about a coming new Gospel, that will apply only for Tribulation saints. That is a strange doctrine that mostly Pastor Peter Ruckman (1921-2016) and some of his followers teach. There has always been just one Gospel. Old Testament saints were saved by looking forward to the cross of Calvary; whereas New Testament saints are saved by looking back to the cross of Calvary. Either way, we are all saved by grace through faith in the GOOD NEWS of the Lord Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen.

Galatians 1:8-9, “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”

Those who receive the Mark of the Beast will be damned to Hell (Revelation 14:11). Those who wrangle and pervert the incorruptible words of God into corruptible words, will burn in Hell (Revelation 22:19). Whether you corrupt the Holy Scripture or receive the Mark of the Beast, it is effectively equivalent to rejecting Jesus Christ, who is The Word Of God (John 1:1-3, 14; Revelation 19:13).

I do not find any Scripture passage teaching that works will be required for salvation. To the contrary, the Bible teaches that ALL THE PROPHETS testified of the Gospel. Act 10:43, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.” It is heresy for Dr. Peter Ruckman to say that Old Testament saints were saved by faith and works. In fact, Dr. Peter Ruckman is so doctrinally flawed that he teaches no less than SIX DIFFERENT PLANS OF SALVATION!!!!!! That goes against the plainest teachings of Scriptures! In Genesis 15:6 we read that Abram (Abraham) BELIEVED THE LORD and it was counted (imputed) to him for righteousness (Romans 4:3-6). Abraham was saved WITHOUT WORKS. Abraham was saved ONLY by faith!!! There has always been only one plan of salvation.

Every Old Testament saint was saved by trusting in the blood of the Lamb of God, which is what the day of “PASSOVER” was all about! The Lord said in Exodus 12:13, “And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.” If the Lord saw the blood applied to the doorposts of the home, then the firstborn's life was spared. WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD!!! Hallelujah!!! No blood APPLIED meant no salvation!!! Likewise, there couldn't be salvation for anyone if it weren't for Jesus' literal, liquid, precious blood, sprinkled upon the heavenly Mercy Seat, in the Holy Place, in the presence of the Father (Hebrews 9:12, 22-24; 12:24).

I disagree with some errant, but sincere, Bible students who say that James 2:24 (“Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only”) refers to the Tribulation period, alleging that works will be required to be saved during the Tribulation. That is utter heresy! NO WORKS WILL EVER BE REQUIRED TO RECEIVE THE GIFT OF GOD!!! If there were a new Gospel during the Tribulation, which requires works, then what happens to the gift of God? What happens to the imputed righteousness of Christ? What happens to the Apostle Paul's stern warning against being deceived by “ANOTHER GOSPEL” (which is not another). What happens to God's curse upon anyone, even an angel, who teaches “ANOTHER GOSPEL”? Dr. Ruckman is full of bologna!!! There will NEVER be another Gospel. What's wrong with the Gospel that we have? Nothing at all!!! Dr. Ruckman is teaching strange doctrines not taught in the Bible, but he has a very strong following of churches and pastors.

It is heresy to teach that abstaining from receiving the Mark of the Beast to be saved is a “work,” and that this work changes the Gospel. We are warned now, presently, about avoiding the “unpardonable sin” (i.e., not getting saved), and not to remove words from the Bible lest God remove our name from the Book of Life (Revelation 22:19). So there is no difference between now and the future concerning how to be saved. Men have always been sinners, and sinners need a Savior! The law is our schoolmaster, showing us our hopeless condition because of sin, and then points us to Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:24-26), Who is the END OF THE LAW to them that believe (Romans 10:3-4).

In other words, If you BELIEVE THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, then God's law has accomplished its purpose of showing you that you cannot save yourself by keeping the law (i.e., by good works)!!! It is insane to even suggest that there will be saints in Heaven, who were saved by some alternate method. What in the world is Dr. Peter Ruckman thinking? Everything in the Old Testament is leading up to the cross. Yet, Dr. Ruckman says they were saved by WORKS + FAITH. That is satanic heresy!!! I'm really surprised that many preachers support Dr. Ruckman, when he is 100% corrupt on the plan of salvation.

Also, consider this. If there were to be another Gospel during the Tribulation, then the Bible would be obsolete and a lie, because Galatians 1:6-9 would still pronounce a curse upon anyone who perverts the Gospel. Unless God's Word will be changed to remove the curse on teaching ANOTHER GOSPEL, then we must reject the absurd idea from some Baptists that there will be another Gospel of WORKS + FAITH to be saved during the Tribulation. And certainly this nonsense never existed in the Old Testament.

The truth is that there has always been only one way to be saved, and that is through faith in the Messiah. Revelation 7:14, “And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Saints during the Tribulation will be saved by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, the same blood that saves us today, the same blood that has saved every Old Testament saint. 1st Peter 1:18-19, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”

There has always been only one plan of salvation. There is no such thing as a “dispensation of grace.” We've always been saved by God's grace! Ephesians 2:8-9, “For 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.” If even one work of human effort will be added to the Gospel during the Tribulation period, then eternal life will no longer be a “GIFT.” I am amazed how any Bible student could make such a gross theological blunder, as to conclude that people can get saved by believing the Gospel only during the Church Age. We are all saved by “THE SIMPLICITY THAT IS IN CHRIST,” which is “the Gospel” (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4; Romans 1:16; 1st Corinthians 15:1-4). If you BELIEVE THE GOSPEL, you are saved!!! “The Gospel” is that Jesus DIED on the cross for our sins. He was BURIED, and He bodily RESURRECTED three days later for our justification. Believe it, Oh sinner, and you are a permanently born-again child of God!!! Amen!

There is debate over when the Church Age started. Dr. Oliver B. Greene and other theologians believe that the Church started on the Day of Pentecost. However, we read about “THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS” in Acts 7:38, “This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us.” I agree with Dr. Jack Hyles that the Church began with the first family, with Adam and Eve. A local church is a surrogate family, since we move away from our biological family as we grow up to adulthood and get married. The local New Testament church is the believer's family in the Lord. Sadly, many local churches shun away sinners, cater to the wealthy, ignore the poor, are doctrinally corrupt, use corruptible seed, are lukewarm, teach another Gospel of “Lordship Salvation,” and are spiritual hellholes. Heresy is creeping into our fundamental churches by the hour!

Please listen to the needful, awesome, MP3 sermon, “FUNDAMENTAL HERESY” by Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001).

Please note that there will NOT be a split-Rapture of the saints. There will be one Pre-Tribulation Rapture (before) the 7-year Tribulation period. After the Tribulation, the moon and sun will be darkened, and men's hearts shall fail them for fear from the horrifying things they experience, as foretold in the prophetic book of Revelation. This wicked world is going to find out just how much God hates sin and evil during the Great Tribulation (the last 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation). Some theologians conclude that the saints saved during the Tribulation period will require another Rapture, but they won't. Those people who are saved during the Tribulation will enter into the 1,000 year Millennium in their physical bodies. They will bear children. Longevity of life will once again return.

However, since many saints will be killed during the Tribulation, there will need to be another resurrection. In fact, the 'First Resurrection' Of Revelation 20:6 Consists Of 5 Separate Resurrections (by Dr. Max D. Younce). So there will only be one Rapture. Albeit, at the end of the Tribulation, the angels will gather the tares (unsaved) to cast into Hell. Two men shall be in the field, the one taken and the other left. The wheat (believers) will be left behind. This is similar to a Rapture, but it is not. It's the opposite!!! This will simply be a time of separating the tares from the wheat. There is no split-Rapture. There are numerous resurrections.

One of my favorite Scriptures is Ephesians 3:15, “Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.” Praise God, we have a “FAMILY” in Heaven!!! I am looking forward to meeting my heavenly family. Every person who is led to the Lord through my labors for Christ, joins my family in Heaven! Boy, that's exciting!!! If you are a born-again Christian, you have a family in Heaven waiting for you. If you go to burn in Hell, you'll never see your family again. The Lake of Fire is a horrifying literal place of darkness, weeping, brimstone, excruciating pain, torment, ascending smoke, no rest day nor night, regret, wailing, a furnace, gnashing of teeth, where the fire is not quenched and the worm dieth not. The choice is yours alone to make. 2nd Timothy 2:13, “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”

No Double Inspiration of the Word of God

I disagree with Dr. Peter Ruckman that the King James Bible was “given” by inspiration. 2nd Timothy 3:16, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” This refers to the originals, not a translation. In other words, I don't believe God gave His words directly to the King James Bible translators as He did to the holy prophets of old. If God had given those 47 men original content, then there wouldn't have been any need for a translation. (There were 54 translators at the beginning, but 47 ended up actually completing the work.) The 47 translators of the King James Bible had inspired texts (incorruptible texts) to work with, to produce a magnificent English translation of the holy Scriptures. It took them eight years, which they finished in 1611.

The Greek meaning of the word “inspired” is God-breathed. Some Bible scholars interpret this to mean that since only the original autographs of the Scriptures were breathed out from God; therefore, only the originals are inspired. I disagree with that entirely. I don't believe that the King James Bible was newly “given” words from God to mankind. I certainly believe that the King James Bible is inspired, because the originals are inspired and God has preserved His “pure words” (Psalms 12:6) unto every generation as He so promised in Psalms 12:6-7. I think it simply means what Matthew 4:4 tells us, “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Inspiration means that the Scriptures came forth from God's own mouth, every word. Thus, they are all God's Words! All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. That is, all Scripture is from God's own mouth. Those words are not men's words. Man did not author the Holy Bible, God did. Albeit, God used approximately 40 men to write the Bible, as His pen.

If only the original autographs were inspired, then it presents some serious problems:

First, there are no original texts available today. So if only the originals were inspired, we do not have God's inspired words today. Obviously, a copy can be inspired, otherwise we couldn't have God's Word.

Second, if only the original manuscripts were inspired, then we do not have a perfect copy of God's Words, and we cannot live by “EVERY WORD” that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. God humbled the Hebrews in the Wilderness, by allowing them to go hungry, to teach them that they needed to live by God's Words, and not just food (Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4). If I am to obey God, by living by “EVERY WORD” out of His mouth, then I need an “EVERY-WORD-BIBLE”!!! Amen! Thank God, I believe we have that preserved, holy, reliable, tested, inerrant, infallible, perfect, blood-sprinkled, inspired BOOK... the beloved KING JAMES BIBLE!!!

Respectfully, I disagree with Dr. Gail Riplinger and Dr. Peter Ruckman that the King James Bible is superior even to the Hebrew and Greek from which it was translated. In computer programming terms, the Hebrew and Greek are like binary computer language (all 1's and 0's). The King James Bible is like C++, a mid-level computer programming language. There's nothing inferior about C++, it's just not as detailed and precise as binary. For example: There is only one English word for “hell,” but in the Greek there are three different terms: Hades, Gehenna and Tartarus. All of these three Greek terms are translated as “hell” in the New Testament.

God gave us His words in the Koine Greek, which was a military language developed by general Alexander the Great for its precision in battle. There has never been a more precise language on earth. That's why God commands us to “study” the Word of God (2nd Timothy 2:15). We have tons of study resources available to us these days. I disagree with preachers who scold believers for consulting the Greek for a better understanding of the Scriptures. That's what God wants us to do! You'd just better make sure that you're not wholly relying upon corrupted study aids, like W.E. Vine's concordances.

I recently sadly discovered that Dr. Merrill F. Unger denied that Jesus' blood is sprinkled on the Mercy Seat in Heaven, sharing the same heretical view of the blood as John MacArthur, Robert B. Thieme Jr. and William E. Vine. Mr. Vine, like Dr. John MacArthur, denies that Jesus' literal blood ever made it to the Mercy Seat in Heaven. Like MacArthur, Vine teaches that Jesus' blood soaked into the ground and dried up at Calvary's cross. That is deadly doctrine! They foolishly claim that Christ's “blood” merely refers to His death.

To say that the King James Bible was not given by inspiration in no way detracts from the King James Bible being inspired by God. It's just important to realize that the Hebrew and Greek are more precise. The English word for “repent” is nowhere near as precise in meaning as the Greek word “metanoia” (a noun). The verb form is metanoeo. Metanoia is a grand word, wonderful, which means “to think differently” (or, “to change one's mind”). The English King James Bible is not inferior, it is just not as precise. There are 7,000 languages in the world. Every two weeks another language vanishes from the earth, due to the forming New World Order. English is the predominant language in the world today. God knew what He was doing when He gave us the blessed King James Bible. The King James is not a “version,” it is the Holy Bible. I stand firm and true alongside the King James Bible. You can trust it! I believe the 1611 King James Bible (and its typo-edited editions, not revisions) is inerrant, perfect, infallible, inspired, preserved, holy and incorruptible—they are God's Words!!!

The Textus Receptus (or Majority Text; also, Received Text) is the Antiochan (i.e., from Antioch, Syria) manuscripts from which are beloved King James Bible is translated. The Textus Receptus is not better or more powerful than the King James Bible, it is simply more precise. No matter what language the Word of God is translated into, there will never be a language more precise than the Koine Greek. Certainly, you don't have to be a Greek scholar to understand the Bible, but there are some truths which would be impossible to grasp without the Greek (such as the difference between Hades, Gehenna and Tartarus). For an excellent exegesis of these terms, please read the free online .pdf book by Dr. Max D. Younce titled, “A BIBLICAL EXAMINATION OF HELL.”

Only the originals were given by inspiration (i.e., God breathed), and that inspiration has continued. It is utter heresy to say that the King James Bible is not inspired. God promised in Psalms 12:6-7 to preserve His refined “pure words” unto every generation. The King James Bible does not correct the Greek and Hebrew. God words have always been inspired, not just the originals. Only the originals were given by inspiration, but those breathed out words will ALWAYS be inspired. They were inspired before they were ever breathed out to man. The originals are in Heaven (Psalms 119:89). It is God's “Words” that are inspired, not the translations. A translation is preserved inspiration if it has been translated correctly. God's words are inspired. If those words are faithfully interpreted into another language, properly conveying the “Words” which God has spoken, then they are still inspired, and have been divinely preserved as God promised in Psalms 12:6-7. (Note: All Alexandrian based modern Bible revisions corrupt this passage of Scripture, errantly saying that God preserves His saints, not God's pure words.) Our beloved 1611 King James Bible is 100% inspired!!!

Also, I do not believe that God only promised to preserve His words in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. There are no original manuscripts in existence today. They have all faded away, been stolen, deteriorated or lost. All we have are copies of copies of copies of the originals. Those copies are still inspired, because God's words are inspired. The New Testament writers didn't have any original manuscripts to work from. Yet, they often quoted the Old Testament, and these quotes are still inspired by God. Thus, a copy can indeed be inspired!

The honest Bible student needs to distinguish between the giving of the Words of God while “holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2nd Peter 1:21); verses God's solemn promise to “preserve them from this generation for ever” (Psalms 12:7). It is heresy to say that only the originals given by God are inspired. It is also heresy to say that God has given new words by revelation in the King James Bible. The 47 King James Bible translators did not receive any words from God. They were simply highly skilled men in the ancient languages, and labored diligently with God's blessing and help to produce the best translation possible. I believe that the King James Bible is superb, accurate, perfect, inspired, preserved and God's Word for the End Times. There will never be another translation of the Word of God; Our English language is too inferior today. You need those “thee's” and “thou's” to properly convey God's Words.

So, no, there will NOT be a different Gospel during the Tribulation period. Nor was there a different Gospel in the Old Testament. Please read Romans 4:4, “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.” If eternal life has ever been obtained BY WORKS, then God owed that individual salvation! Dear reader, God is not indebted to you or me. We all justly deserve to spend eternity burning in the fires of Hell. If you disagree with that, it is only because you are not as holy as God, so you cannot grasp how righteous God is, and how wicked we are as humans. I admit that I cannot grasp it myself, but I chose long ago to just believe the Word of God. The Bible teaches in Revelation 21:8 that “all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” Telling even one lie makes a person “a liar.” That is why you and I need a Savior, because we cannot save ourselves. God does not owe anyone eternal life!

There is only one Gospel, which is the GOOD NEWS of Jesus, the Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who died on the cross for our sins, He was buried, and three days later He bodily resurrected from the dead (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Whosoever comes to God as an admitted guilty sinner (Romans 3:19-20) and BELIEVES the Good News is instantly and forever saved. Thank you for reading my blogs. You are my ministry!!! 2nd Corinthians 3:2, “Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:”

Jesus Could Return At Any Time!

Abuse At Pensacola Christian College

2nd Timothy 4:1-4, “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”

Our text passage of Scripture sure does apply to this untoward (crooked) generation that we live in today. Everywhere we turn we see the government, schools and now even churches, promoting the satanic gender-bending perversion of the LGBTQ movement in America. God created dam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. God doesn't make mistakes! God created males and females, nothing in between. You were either born as a male or a female, period.

Our text passage of Scripture from 2nd Timothy 4:1-4 warns that in the last days wicked people will no longer endure (put up with) sound doctrine. Sadly, this is the situation in 99% of our churches and Bible colleges today. Pensacola Christian College (PCC) comes to mind right away, who have turned neo-evangelical. Pastor Jack Hyles rightly taught that a Christian fundamentalist is not somebody who believes the fundamental doctrines of the Holy Bible; but rather, it is someone who SEPARATES from those who no longer adhere to the fundamentals of the Bible. PCC is in bed spiritually with the rotten Bob Jones University (BJU) camp.

We are living in woeful times of apostasy in the churches. I was talking to a Christian man yesterday about the pathetic condition of churches today, and the subject of Pensacola Christian College (PCC) came up. He quickly informed me that PCC goes through all the motions of playing church, but there is no genuine love for INDIVIDUAL people. That man is so right, and I told him that he is right!!! PCC is a bad place to be because they look down on certain people. PCC are wicked respecters of persons (James 2:1).

Sadly, they couldn't care less. All that matters to PCC's leadership is that the money keeps coming in, and they will expel any student in a nanosecond, if they think something that particular student has said or done anything that might affect the cult's income. STUDENTS DON'T MEAN CRAP TO PCC!!! The cult system is what matters most, people are expendable. In 2022, PCC and Campus Church are a neo-evangelical cult! They refuse to stand against anything, merely playing church and rearranging deck chairs while the Titanic is sinking. Ichabod has been written by God over the doors of the PCC camp, because they abuse and mistreated the needy 1% instead of loving them as Jesus does!!! PEOPLE JUST WANT TO BE LOVED, a concept that PCC still hasn't matured in Christ to learn (because they don't want to). When you are as good a Christian as you want to be, you're as good a Christian as you're going to become!!!

At PCC the cult system always comes first, but individual people don't matter. A simple internet search confirms what I say. Sadly, they crap on people at Pensacola Christian College and Campus Church, unless you five undying loyalty to their cult leadership. It is tragic! When you are as good a Christian as you want to be, you're as good a Christian as you're going to become!!!

The leadership at PCC have grown very cold in their hearts over the decades, due to past criticisms, so that now they are thick-skinned and nothing affects them. They relish the praise offered from their cult supporters, so they couldn't care less about the 1% whom they have hurt, mistreated and abused (like me, and also PCC student Samantha Field who was assaulted on PCC's campus by a male student, and then afterwards told by a delusional female staff member to repent herself). PCC has made plenty of enemies because of their self-righteous attitudes, carnal behavior and immature childlike responses to anybody who dares to question or criticize them. There is no godly leadership at PCC, only money-hungry opportunists.

In 2021, I attended Campus Church for a few months. Pastor Jeff Redlin was abusive toward me as a newcomer and divorced person. In my first correspondence with Redlin, I kindly informed him of my ongoing battle with stenosis and radiculitis in my neck and spinal cord. I also shared with him my broken life and painful divorce in 2006, 15 years earlier when my wife divorced me. I told him that I was new to Pensacola and living out of a suitcase in a cheap hotel. I couldn't have been nicer. I had also made a brief mention that I hoped to find a wife at Campus Church, since it was such a big place.

To my dismay and broken heart, Pastor Redlin cruelly ignored everything that I had shared with him about my grief, pain and suffering. All he focused on was my single comment about hoping to find a wife, to scold me for it. Redlin said I shouldn't be coming to church to find a wife. But I never said that was my reason for coming to church, he said that, putting words in my mouth that I never said. What Pastor Redlin did was very wicked and immature, condemning me for being lonely for the past 15 years. The email that I sent him was so lengthy that I even apologized because it was so long.

Any genuine man of God would have discerned spiritually that I was a broken and hurting man, who desperately needed God's love, some compassion and understanding. But all that ungodly self-righteous hypocrite wanted to see was my single comment, out of hundreds of comments, that I hoped to find a wife at Campus Church. Jeff Redlin is a wicked man, with no love or compassion, a phony who puts on a phony masquerade of caring about people, that he doesn't give a damn about. A lot of people are men-praisers in the churches, kissing up to their pastors. Since pastors know this, they behave carefully to get more praise. They carnally go through the motions of doing all the right things to please their followers, saying the right words, and deceiving everyone; but none of what they do is done in God's grace, for if it were, then a genuine love for EVERYONE, and not just the 99% who suck up to them, would matter.

Pastor Redlin had only known me for 2 weeks in July of 2021, but took the shameful liberty to tell me in front of his wife (the guy has no class whatsoever), that he wouldn't perform a wedding if I found a woman to marry. What a jerk! But I never asked him that question. I simply had asked him 10 days earlier if I am welcome at Campus Church as a divorced man who intends ion getting remarried. I wanted to know if I was loved and welcomed at Campus Church. Pastor Redlin totally ignored me for 10 days. I had to personally approach him after church on Sunday morning to ask him when he was going to respond to my email. Jeff Redlin likes to hide because he is a coward, avoiding people that he doesn't like, instead of treating other people the way he wants to be treated. You know, THE GOLDEN RULE (Matthew 7:12). Pastor Redlin abused me emotionally, when he fully knew that my life is broken, my marriage is gone, I was living out of a suitcase in a cheap hotel at the time and I have permanent spinal cord damage that afflicts me 24/7. Redlin couldn't have cared less!!! That is so wrong and rotten of him. This is the shameful senior pastor at Campus Church on the grounds of PCC.

I understand that we are all human and have immaturities, which is exactly why I am still willing to reconcile with the CC camp. Anytime they want to make peace, I promise to remove all my criticisms from social media (the best that I can, because I have made thousands of negative comments against PCC, which they asked for, and I will continue to make thousands more until they choose to do the right thing). I am not trying to return evil for evil, God knows that I am simply doing the only thing that I have left to do, to get their attention at PCC, which is to EXPOSE THEM!!! That is why Samantha Field posted her complaint articles on social media, because PCC the her under the bus. I'll say it again and again until the day that I go to Heaven to be with my blessed Savior... PEOPLE JUST WANT TO BE LOVED!!! Why won't Campus Church just allow me to come back to Campus Church? Why is PCC leadership silent in this matter? Why doesn't anybody care at the PCC camp?

You had better believe that I am going to make a big fuss, because they are supposed to be a New Testament church! A church is supposed to be a hospital for sinners, not a museum for showoffs with 50-year-marriages and Goody-Two-Shoes like at PCC's Campus Church. They are behaving as a damn cult at PCC, "Us Four And No More," which is why I am exposing them as a cult. People matter! ALL PEOPLE MATTER!!!

On Judgment Day in eternity, no one at PCC or Campus Church will be able to point a finger at me, with their lame excuses why they refused to allow me to attend their church, because God will remind them that I humbly offered 3 times (and still humbly offer) to reconcile and make peace with them, doing whatever they require of me to make the peace. I have already sincerely apologized for criticizing them on social media, but I was waiting to hear back from them before I go through all the work of removing my criticisms.

Why should I go through all that work, just to have them still refuse to let me come back to Campus Church. They refused to meet me half way. They want me to crawl like a dog, without them even being willing to talk with me, and me not know if they'll allow me to return to church. I am NOT sorry for the things I have said, I am sorry that I said them, because I burned my bridge to attend Campus Church. But if this is how they want it, with us being enemies, then I will take every opportunity to expose them for the cult they have become.

Sadly, they are cocky, arrogant and have the typical spoiled rotten American attitude today that is destroying this once great country. There is no humility in Christians anymore, they just don't give a damn about hurting people. PCC is so selfish,, naked, blind and wretched, as a lukewarm church, and they don't even see it (but I do, and God does). Tyranny is rarely recognized expect by those oppressed by it. Jeff Redlin is living large, hording his 6-digit paycheck, which is why he detests me and my website ministry, because I make him look bad. While I am faithfully contending for the faith, the pastors of Campus Church are doing absolutely NOTHING to fight the good fight of faith. They have dropped the ball for Jesus! They are merely playing church. Kindly said, Jeff Redlin's sermons are utterly boring. When I attended Campus Church in 2021, I watched dozens of young people playing with their mobile devices instead of listening to Redlin bloviate about Man's Work Ethic in Relation To God. I think I'd find more interest in reading Chilton car repair manuals. PCC is lifeless! They sing a bunch of religious music at Campus Church and call it "heaven on earth" (literally that is what Assistant Pastor Timothy Zacharias called Campus Church in August of 2021), but it is nothing more than a self-deluded religious cult of pompous, snobs who look down on lesser sinners.

Pastor Jeff Redlin couldn't care less about me as a human being, because he is carnally-minded. Redlin has the people at PCC and Campus Church fooled, because he plays his cards just right, playing church real good; but the power of the Holy Spirit is not there. God will not bless a pastor, church or college that throws hurting people under the bus. And to PROVE my sincerity in the matter, if PCC were to contact me today, to offer to reconcile, I would gladly remove all my criticism from social media against them. That is what I wanted to do in June, July and August of 2022. I humbly wrote three separate letters, and mailed them to Campus Church and PCC separately, so PCC's leaders couldn't claim ignorance at some later date. PCC's leaders are complicity to Pastor Jeff Redlin's ungodly attitude and behavior.

I am not preaching against the PCC camp because I hate them. God knows that I love them, immensely. I love everybody with God's unconditional love. It is the principle of the matter. Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) taught me properly to always root for the underdog. Pensacola Christian College (PCC) is just like Walmart, Google, Amazon, Facebook and other very large mega companies. Those companies have so many loyal customers that they literally ignore the 1% of their customers who have been mistreated and want something done about it.

The days of small Ma and Pa family stores, where the customer was always right, are forever GONE! PCC is too big for their britches, and only God can knock them on their rear. PCC needs to be humbled. When individual people are expendable in a so-called church and Bible college, and pastors ban hurting people who are begging to come back to church, something is VERY WRONG!!! I offered (and am still offering) to do whatever PCC and Campus Church require to make peace with them, but they sadly don't care because they are laughing at my tiny website and words on social media, compared to their Goliath of an institution.

But thankfully, God is not a respecter of persons, and the Lord sees my heart and utter sincerity. God also sees that Jeff Redlin is a little man, with a small heart, who is tragically the pastor of a very large church. The problem is not that Campus s Church is to BIG, it is that Pastor Jeff Redlin's heart is too SMALL. Again, I am still willing to make pace with the PCC camp, whenever they humble themselves to get right with God. The longer they wait, the more I am going to preach from my broken and hurting heart against them. All of my articles and preaching against PCC and Campus Church is 100% their doing alone, because they refuse to reconcile with their Christian brother who is pleading for their love.

Clearly, they don't have any love, just like they threw Samantha File under the bus and drove over her. It is bad enough that she was assaulted sexually at PCC campus, but then PCC leadership blames her and tells her that she first needs to repent (and let the matte go). I am just A VOICE! But I am A VOICE. I am just another one of HUNDREDS of hurting victim's voices crying out to God, just as God heard the voices crying out of that wicked city of Sodom, for the Lord to punish PCC for their arrogance, woeful lack of compassion for individuals people, and their ongoing carnal refusal to reconcile with me as their Christian brother. SHAME on Pensacola Christian College! SHAME on the pastors of Campus Church! SHAME on all of you!!!

I am willing to reconcile when PCC is. Until then, we will remain enemies by their choosing alone. I am trying to make peace with them, but they are too proud to forgive me. God sees my heart. My promise to remove all my criticisms is conditional upon Campus Church allowing me to return to Campus Church. I am not trying to threaten them, God knows my heart, I just need to know that they care about me as a human being. I dare them to prove my accusations wrong, by forgiving me and letting me come back to their church. But if not, no one can honestly blame me for calling PCC "a cult."

PEOPLE JUST WANT TO BE LOVED!!! That is all I have ever wanted from the pastors at Campus Church, to know that they care about me as a divorced man. I never expected Jeff Redlin to agree with my theology, of course not. But I did hope that he would look beyond my ministry an faults, and see a hurting broken man who just needs to be loved by some pastors. I even told pastor Redlin these things in July of 2021, to help him along, so that he knew exactly what I needed from him as a pastor; but he sadly threw me under the bus instead, treating me like garbage as a divorced person, just like the wicked "Lordship Salvation" cult did at the wicked Harvest Baptist Church on Guam between 2014 and 2011 (when I moved away from Guam to Pensacola).

The Bible foretold in 2nd Timothy 4:1-4 in Bible prophecy that apostate times would come, and they sure have! The churches are pathetic today. I recently heard a local Baptist pastor in Pensacola tell his church congregation, that it is NOT the church's responsibility to go soulwinning. Unbelievable! That pastor teaches his congregation that The Great Commission is only for individual believers, and not the church. I'm not kidding! Kindly said, that pastor refuses to organize any type of church soulwinning. His poor attitude is that if the church doesn't grow, it is the individual church members faults for not going soulwinning (on their own during the week). Meanwhile, the church has no scheduled time to go knocking on doors in the community to preach the Gospel. That is so wrong and tragic. No wonder that Baptist church hasn't grown in 10 years!!! And it never will grow until the pastor starts teaching and organizing his people to go soulwinning as a group. It is true that individual Christians need to share the Gospel with others in our personal life, but one of the main duties of every New Testament church is to go soulwinning (Acts 20:20).

God sees all this mess, and I know that I am in the right, because I TOLD THE TRUTH. Romans 3:4, "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." PCC can say whatever they want about me, but God KNOWS that I am still trying to make peace with them, and am willing to do whatever they require to do so. I don't think I could be any more reasonable. Am I casting my pearl before swine? It does seem to be so, but PCC's behavior will make that determination. PEOPLE JUST WANT TO BE LOVED. I love you all in Jesus Christ our blessed Lord and dear Savior.

Why The Pretribulation Rapture Is So Important

1st John 3:2, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”

 

The remedy to getting Christians to live consecrated holy lives is not to corrupt the plan of salvation to bend their arm to do so; but rather, for preachers to lovingly preach hard against sin in the churches, and to (by example) teach believers to walk with Jesus, and to teach others the doctrine of the Lord's glorious appearing at the pretribulation Rapture!

The average church these days doesn't have preaching!!! I mean Biblical, hard, Spirit-filled, preaching!!! Can you imagine attending an Independent Baptist Church, where the pastor spends eight months in Genesis (using expository preaching) and not once mentions Christ's imminent return? Oh, how preachers need to preach on the glorious appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ!!!

Our text verse says in 1st John 3:2, “...when he [Jesus] shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.” This can only refer to the pretribulation return of Christ, that is, the Lord is going to return to remove the saints from the world BEFORE the 7-year Tribulation period. This is what the Bible teaches. Some people read the Holy Bible as if it were a newspaper. Since they don't recognize the doctrine of the pretribulation Rapture, they deny it. However, God commands us as believers to “study” the Word, RIGHTLY DIVIDING (dissecting) the Scriptures. 2nd Timothy 2:15, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

The truth of the pretribulation Rapture is obtained by Deductive Reasoning, that is, by comparing truth-with-truth, and forming our conclusion based upon established facts. Dr. Harry Ironside uses this method of Bible study and concludes a pretribulation Rapture, as you can read in his book titled, “The Lamp Of Prophecy,” chapter 8. Here is much more information on The Pretribulation Rapture.

One of the main reasons why I preach so much about the pretribulation Rapture is because the Bible teaches that this doctrine compels men to purify themselves, even as Christ is pure. Jesus may come right now!!! 1st John 3:2, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.” The average church hardly ever preaches about Christ's return. Every pastor ought to preach on a regular basis about the pretribulation, imminent, sudden, unpredictable, glorious return of the precious Lord Jesus Christ. If we as Christians believe that Christ may return at any time, then we are going to stay on our toes.

Jesus taught this truth in Mark 13:32-37. If you want to influence other Christians to live holy, then teach them about Biblical prophecy, knowing that the Lord's return is imminent! As I behold the forming New World Order, and see the whole world embracing the symbols and person of the Antichrist, I'm challenged to live for God more and more each day. Proverbs 4:18, “But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.”

The great motivation that we have as Christians to serve God diligently is the truth that our beloved Savior may appear at any time. Titus 2:11-13, “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” Amen! People who are not serving the Lord are not really looking for the Lord to come back. I heard an awesome Bible study today by Pastor Max. D. Younce titled, “Rewards—The Five Crowns” (MP3).

If we take the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ at face value, we can only conclude a pretribulation Rapture:

Mark 13:32-37, “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.”

Now if the Lord isn't returning until AFTER the Abomination of Desolation (the event during the Tribulation when the Antichrist stands in the temple in Jerusalem and declares himself as God - Daniel 9:27; Matthew 24:15; 2nd Thessalonians 2:4), then we would KNOW exactly when the Lord is returning, and there would be no motivation to WATCH for His return. This is simple logic. Anything other than a pretribulation Rapture of the Church contradicts Mark 13:32-37.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

Time is running out!

Luke 17:26-27, “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.”