Author: jdwvaw2

I’m devoting the next several posts to scriptures that point to the specific time of Jesus’ return. Taken together, I think they’ll alert you to the nearness of the approaching end-times. I’ll number each of the posts so you can easily refer to them. Keep in mind, when discussing these end-time issues, they are not talking about the end of the world, but the end of human government, and the beginning of the 1000 year Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ when He will rule the world. As a reminder, if you click on “comment” near any post, you can sign up to receive notifications of new posts. Also, you can post a link to various social media platforms. This can help to spread these timely messages. I’ll be posting number one shortly.

Amillennialism represents the theology that there is no 1000 year reign of Christ in the flesh here on the earth as indicated in Revelation chapter 20. The prefix “A”(pronounced ah) means “no” and millennium means 1000. Hence, no millennium. Amillennialism theology believes that the Kingdom of God is a present day reality with Christ ruling from heaven. This view is wide spread throughout Christianity including Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and many Protestant denominations. It has its roots in the teachings of men like Augustine, Calvin, Luther, and others. But, is it Scriptural ? It is a much disputed theology amongst Christians, many who believe in a literal reign of Christ here on earth, from a restored world capital of Jerusalem for 1000 years based on a literal understanding of Rev.20. Here’s what Rev. says about the period immediately following the great tribulation and Jesus’ second coming:

“He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the devil and satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years are finished……Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus…….they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison.….” (Revelation 20:2-7)

A simple basic hermeneutic (principal of scripture interpretation) states the following: If there is no inherent symbolism or reason to interpret metaphorically, the passage is to be interpreted as literal. Amillennialists interpret these passages as symbolic, without a clear textual basis. I personally follow a simple rule of scripture interpretation; The default hermeneutic is literal. This is the only objective approach. The subjective approach as demonstrated by amillennialism can be applied at whim. In the above scripture, a thousand means a thousand, with no supplied reason for any symbolism.

Make no mistake, Jesus will be returning shortly as a glorified man and will set up His Kingdom based out of Zion (Jerusalem) from where He will rule the world for a 1000 (millennial) year period assisted by His people (believers) who will rule and reign with Him. After the 1000 years comes satan’s release and final defeat and the “great white throne judgment” when all the rest of mankind will be judged. Concluding; “Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.” (1 Corinthians 15:28)

There is much discussion these days of just when is the “rapture” (resurrection of the righteous) in relation to other eschatological events. Evangelicals in particular, argue whether it will occur prior to Daniel’s 70th week (pre-trib), three and one half years into the week (mid-trib), somewhere during the final half of the week (pre-wrath), after the seven years are completed (post-trib), or some other nuanced timing. I think the bible is quite clear that Jesus will resurrect His church immediately following the 70th week – a post-trib event. Fortunately for us, the bible has several clear “when” verses so there need not be any doubt. Following is a list of these verses:

1. John 6:39-44, 11:24 Jesus will raise believers on the “last” day of this age. Last means last. The Greek word is eschatos which translated is farthest, final, or uttermost. The “When” here is clear.
2. 1st Cor. 15:52 When ? At the Last trumpet. Again, last here is eschatos. I believe this to be the trumpet of the 120th jubilee year from the fall. (Lev. 25:9)
3. 2nd Thess. 1:3-10 Saints are not given “rest” until (when) Jesus comes in judgment on the day of the Lord. See also Hebrews 4:1-8
4. 2nd Thess. 2: 1-4 Our gathering together unto Him cannot occur until great apostacy happens and the antichrist is revealed declaring himself to be god on the temple mount. The “when” here is the day of the Lord when we are gathered to Him.
5. 1st Cor. 15:23 The resurrection of Christians is when? At His coming (gr. parousia). Christs parousia is His glorious visible coming.
6. Mat. 24:29-31 Jesus had just spoken of “great tribulation”- the final three and one half years of Daniels seventieth week. He then stated when His coming would be when He would gather all His elect; “immediately after the tribulation of those days“. It doesn’t get any more precise then that!
7. Mat. 24:13 After Jesus tells His apostles all the signs of His second coming, He tells them that those who endure to the “end” will be saved. Here, end means- uttermost, final. The when is also quite clear in this passage – after all these things take place.
8. Rev. 20:4-6 The martyrs of the tribulation are raised in the first resurrection. When is the first resurrection? At the beginning on Christs millennial reign.

There are a few prophetic things that must happen before the commencement of Daniel’s seventieth week. Among them are the ram – goat war of Daniel chapter 8 and the formation of the 10 nation confederacy that will support the coming antichrist. This 10 nation alliance will, I believe, be all Islamic. This is ably presented in the books “Islamic Antichrist” and “Mideast Beast”. These are must reads for students of biblical prophecy and are available for free here:Islamic-Antichrist.pdf (joelstrumpet.com) and here:Master File Joel Richardson (joelstrumpet.com).

The ram – goat war of Daniel 8, I believe, will be between Yavan (modern-day Turkey) and Iran (biblical Persia). For a detailed exegesis of this chapter go to Los Amigos Bible Studies link on the lower right and locate chapter 8 of the study on the book of Daniel.

While our nation has been focused on politics lately, there has been news of some subtle moves in the middle east that indicate the ram – goat war may be coming soon. Following are links to two articles that describe what I’m referring to. Erdogan reaches out to Israel – but new allies will influence Jerusalem’s response – Israel News – Haaretz.com also, Iran Press: Erdoğan Undermining Iran’s Territorial Integrity | MEMRI. What’s significant about these articles is Erdogan’s sudden interest in improving ties with both Israel and the Sunni Arab nations that have one after another been signing peace deals with Israel. Turkey, under Erdogan, is also Sunni. He seems to be moving against alienating himself from these Arab nations. These moves, of course, are directly in opposition to the motives of the Shia Islamic regime in Iran who Erdogan has been cozy with recently. The common enemy of most middle east Arab Sunni countries and Israel is Iran. So, Erdogan seems to be incurring the wrath of Iran by these overtures. All it will take is some political or religious catalyst to set off a Sunni – Shia war between Turkey and Iran. Antagonistic political and religious issues are certainly already present between the two. Consider, for a moment, what the world’s reaction would be to such a war. Would there be any intervention from any ME country, Israel, the US, Europe ? I doubt it, especially if Turkey was winning as the bible predicts. The world would probably welcome the demise of the rogue Iranian regime. The US and NATO would possibly even assist Turkey – a NATO alliance member. Remember, from Daniel 8, after Persia is vanquished by Yavan, The “little horn” (antichrist) emerges from the political turmoil after Yavan’s leadership breaks up. Also, it’s not too hard to see a ten nation confederacy of Islamic nations emerge in the aftermath of this war with a revived Ottoman empire based in Turkey at the helm.

You might ask, Jim, are you certain this is coming ? My answer is no; after all this is prophecy. But I present this to you as a reasonable scenario. Keep watching and studying your bible. We live in fascinating times.

Back in roughly 27AD, the known world was dominated politically, economically, militarily, and religiously, by primarily vast, far-reaching empires. The euro-middle east-Asia minor part of the world, of course, was controlled by the Roman oligarchy. Enter into that picture, a young Jewish Messiah figure named Jesus whose teaching and mere presence upset the “deep state” agenda that sought ever more broad control of the masses. The spiritual component behind this deep state was the real force driving them. The bible calls this force Satan or the God of this age. “…..whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” (2 Cor. 4:4). This god of the worlds systems, recognizing the threat to his agenda, fought tooth and nail to limit the influence of this Jesus. He succeeded in a short 3 year period by convincing the deep state to eliminate Him by crucifixion on a cross. We now know how unsuccessful he actually was because the real God of this universe was using him to execute his hidden plan.

Fast forward to today. The god of this age (2021AD) is one and the same. His goal is the same- to motivate world wide deep state operatives to establish centralized world-wide control of the masses, politically, economically, militarily, and spiritually. (Think great reset). In this way, he can insure his god-like control of human kind in opposition to the real God and Father of our Lord Jesus. He will battle furiously with any entity or individual that gets in the way of his goals. A prime example demonstrating this was the 4 year term of US President Donald Trump. He stood virtually alone among world leaders in promoting biblical Israel, religious freedom, right to life for the unborn, individual authority of nation states, fair trade, all the while exposing the evils of rogue regimes threatening humankind. If you’re following the news lately, it seems Satan was successful in turning the entire world and the US deep state in a concerted attack on Trump’s presidency. But, take heart and keep watching, as just like in AD30, he will ultimately fail as God is again using him to carry out his end- time plan. That plan is clearly laid out in our bibles. Keep reading and studying so that you can recognize when world events begin to line up with God’s eschatology. We are coming up quickly to the end of the sixth millennium since creation. the seventh millennium will be the 1000 year reign of Christ’s kingdom. I can’t wait for the government of this world to be in His hands, and the god of this age to be thrown into the lake of fire.

Following is a list of Scriptures concerning how we should be preparing for the prophesied time of trouble soon coming on the whole earth. Take the time to review them and also – take them to heart.

Physical Preparation: Mt 6:25-34, 6:19-21, Phil. 4:19

Deception: Mt 24:4, 2Pet. 3:17, 2Thess. 2:9-12, Rev.13:3

Persecution: Mt 24:9, 5:11, 10:22, 1Pet. 2:19-21

Mental/Spiritual: 2Pet. 3:18, 1:5-6, Rom. 12:2

Warfare: Eph. 6:10-17

Service: Mt 24:45

Comfort Scriptures: Psalm 23, 27:1-6, John 14:25-27, Mt 28:19-20

Seems as though Pope Francis is fully on board with the “great reset”. We now seem to be hurdling at a rapid pace toward a form of globalism that will be a boon to the coming antichrist kingdom.

Pope Francis plans to ‘fix’ global capitalism with the Rothschilds, Rockefellers & Mastercard | Covert Geopolitics

John Kerry: ‘Great Reset’ Will Happen (redstate.com)

If you’ve been reading secular news lately, it’s difficult not to come across articles describing the coming “Great Reset”. In case you are not familiar with it, I’ll link to sites that will describe it in detail. In short, it consists of mainly the UN’s Agenda 2030 listing it’s “sustainable development goals“. On the surface, these goals seem admirable. After all, who would be against elimination of wars, hunger, discrimination of women, housing for all, free health care, basic income for all, etc, etc ? UN officials are pushing for an intense effort over the next decade to accomplish these utopian goals by 2030. The upcoming January meeting of the World Economic Forum is to focus on how to achieve these goals.

The main problem is that to usher in this utopia, world-wide socialism must be adopted under a central world governing authority, with the subsequent loss of individual freedoms such as property ownership. Funding would come from large-scale wealth distribution driven by priorities such as climate change “science”. This ,of course, is anathema to the concept of independent nation-states, such as the US. Apparently, however, the vast majority of Governments around the world are on board and are enthusiastically supportive of agenda 2030. The main resistance to this agenda among world leaders has come from the US under President Trump. The prospect of a Biden presidency, however, has the proponents of the great reset giddy with excitement as he has indicated his full support.

We who are biblically literate know that in the near future Jesus will return to set up His Kingdom on earth. What a world that will be when the government is on His shoulders! This “great reset” is but a feeble attempt to usurp what God already has planned for us. Surely, the “god of this world”(2Cor. 4:4) is the main designer of this human proposed utopia. His name is Satan. The last time he got mankind together in unity against God’s plan is described in Genesis where they built a tower of aggrandizement against God in Babel. It didn’t work out well for them then, and it won’t this time either. History shows that Marxist-socialist forms of government lend themselves to dictatorial takeovers. I think most of us are aware of a certain prophesied world dictator who would love to be presented with the opportunities a one-world socialist government would offer. It would be a breeze for him to get the masses to accept his economic system once they are dependent on government to provide all basic services. What Satan is boldly proposing is nothing short of an anti-kingdom. Yes, a counterfeit anti-kingdom from the antichrist. Jesus warned us about deception in the last days. Don’t be deceived, this 2030 agenda is pure satanic subterfuge. Familiarize yourselves with these sustainable development goals and how they are proposed to be attained so that you are not deceived with their subtlety.

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/21252030%20Agenda%20for%20Sustainable%20Development%20web.pdf

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/18/the-great-reset-is-trending-heres-why/

The Muslim Brotherhood organization represents the ideology driving Turkey’s Erdogan. His goal mirrors the brotherhood’s reason for existence which is territorial expansion to the former Ottoman Empire’s boundaries. The following article describes the MB’s elation over the prospect of a Biden US presidency. The “king of the north” rising ?https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16753/muslim-brotherhood-came-out