"All this I have told you so that you will not fall away."
I wrote this in response to today's post in an excellent series by @narrowminded on 50 Days to Understanding the End Times. Then I realized this particular response probably merited a stand-alone post, for the block chain record and for wider distribution.
We should work hard to make sure all Christians thoroughly get the fact that things are going to get worse and worse for them. Most have lived their lives in the comfortable majority. This is not going to continue. I suspect that the great Falling Away that Paul talks about is from unprepared Christians who "can't stand the heat" in the last days.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
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.
Revelation 13:7
Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.
Revelation 14:12
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
Daniel 7:24-25
And he 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.
Revelation 13:7, 9-10
It was granted to him to
make war with the saints
and to overcome them…
He who has an ear, let him hear.
If anyone is to go into captivity,
into captivity he will go.
If anyone is to be killed with the sword,
with the sword he will be killed.
This calls for patient endurance
and faithfulness on the part of the saints.
Revelation 6:9-11
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.
Matthew 24:9-13
Then you will be handed over
to be persecuted and put to death,
and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
Because of the increase of wickedness,
the love of most will grow cold,
but the one who stands firm to the end
will be saved.
John 16:1-4
All this I have told you
so that you will not fall away.
They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact,
the time is coming when anyone who kills you
will think they are offering a service to God.
They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.
I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them.
It's not going to be pretty, but we will be much stronger if we are realistic about what to expect.
One more nugget I just found from @narrowminded:
He discusses it here.
Revelation 20:4
Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image, and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
Philippians 4:4
@Stan with the spam, i love you brother.
What about the fact that Islam is trying to wipe you off the face of the planet?
The only thing Bible prophesy says is that we will be nearly wiped out by a final world empire based on a false prophet's bloodthirsty anti-Christian religion consisting of all the countries surrounding Israel. It could be anybody.
At least some one is willing to speak the truth about that death cult!
everything you say about islam is true but think about the intelligence of any muslim you've ever met. not very bright huh? they shit on the floor, wash their ass in the sink, and beat their wives. that is how they got to be a muslim. go do a search for nobel prizes awarded to muslim scientists, hahaha. look at the disorganized crapfest that is every muslim country. something about that religion either acts like a magnet to all the stupid people or takes mildly intelligent people and puts a governor on their brain. yes most of them are a pack of shit fire rape monkeys, but that is the point they've been doing the same full fail ahead behavior for 1400 years they are not getting any smarter because they kill all the smart people because smart people won't have anything to do with islam. it appears that someone, some organization that does contain smart people is using them as a feces smeared weapon to divide and conquer the rest of us. it looks like it is working. i think it is what are commonly known as "the globalists" the centralized tyranny that is growing up, ever more quickly, all around every aspect of our lives, like an interwoven circular dutch rudder of power mad whales at the top, taking almost everything and leaving only crumbs for us to fight over. it is a repeating dynamic in human societies. it is happening on steemit too but nobody here is getting their head chopped off, yet. sibel edmonds gave me large pieces of the puzzle that i was missing and james corbett too. i recently discovered gearoid colmain, an irish journalist, who i think has some integral pieces. you are an intelligent person. i would be very interested in what you have to say about what i have come to see as part of a larger picture. one that explains more of the nasty crap that is going on in the world today. i think, when this is all done, if the muslims don't win and make us live in a septic tank of ignorance for all eternity, that islam will have so discredited itself, that it will not be welcome on earth anymore. please, let me know what you think. this has been a pet project of mine for a long time. i could use some more points of view.
Bro this comment needs to be a post.
it is true and a couple of the lines made me laugh.
This should seriously be a post. it would get a lot of hate but flaggots gona flagg and idiots are going to act a fool.
Im Resteeming this so hopefully it gets more attention and upvotes! xD
weird it has the little resteem tab but when I push it nothing happens. :/
Still a great comment.
I cracked up when you mentioned "nobel prizes awarded to muslim scientists" LMFAO! they preach the world is flat and kill people that disagree because Allah (aids be upon him) said it so it is true. LOL
i thought about making it a post and probably will do so when i get a little more REP. i don't mind the flagging, but having my REP crushed by some SJW whale might disillusion me to the point of giving up. thanks for the support.
Yeah that doesn't sound anything like Islam. lol
Islam isn't what you need to be worried about (that's the deception) - the media and Gov't wants you to believe that it is but it's a lie. Dig deeper, nothing is as it seems.
yeah nothing to do with the religion of peace its all western civiliations fault. -smh-
I think what's going on here is some people are so invested in conspiracy theory that when something happens in the open, they assume there must be something even MORE sinister behind it. The whole conspiracy theory industry seems to me a way to distract people from the very great evil that is happening in plain view.
I do not understand how you have not made the connection to Islam with all is information you have presented.
The fact that you still use the name "ISIS" Kind of shows me how little you actual know on the subject.
but I get it, has nothing to do with the religion of peace. daily terror attacks around the world in the name of Allah (aids be upon him) but naw, its not islam. people yelling out allah akabar while killing people , naw nothing to do with religion. -smh-
im not saying the government isn't crooked but the American crooked goverments is just a small factor on the world wide jihad that has been going on for centuries.
It is a death cult. also everything you presented had nothing to do with the post or the priest getting his head chopped off by a muslim.
i like all the vids though and do not disagree with them. isis is the boogy man created by the us, if you look at this it actually shows the picts of them fighting both sides and even meeting with high ups in the government.
https://steemit.com/politics/@skeptic/everyone-needs-to-see-this
What you are bringing into the conversation is a completely different subject. unless your trying to say USA started islam, and that's an insane statement. xD
thanks for the awesome vids.
check out the post (its just a vid of daboo777) it shows all the main isis people working both sides. it blew my mind because someone actualy did research on each person in every picture and made some amazing connections. it will prolly blow your mind like it did mine. xD
Great Word Bro, but no weapon formed against me shall prosper.
... Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
SPOILER ALERT: I left out the part where Jesus returns, resurrects all of us who were killed, wipes out those who sided with our enemies, and sets up a permanent new government which He rules with our subordinate help.
I didn't want to do anything that would discourage our enemies from giving it their best shot. :o)
Wow good to see your sense of humor
interesting read
Wow, @stan! What an honor. Thank you so very much for your encouragement and now also for your mentioning me. I must have missed this, but a brother mentioned it to me. Thanks, Brother!
islam is the weapon. who is controlling the weapon? and don't say the devil or i'm outta here. the more you know, the less danger there is.