Thread: The Tribulation of Matthew 24: 21 and the Indignation of Isaiah 26: 20
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The Tribulation of Matthew 24: 21 and the Indignation of Isaiah 26: 20
Posted : 10 Oct, 2012 07:10 AM
The Tribulation of Matthew 24: 21 and the Indignation of Isaiah 26: 20
There is no one man super anti-Christ. That is a comic book figure of the imagination of Christian Zionists - the dispensationalists. In scripture there is the spirit of anti-Christ, and Obama, like the three horsemen before him (the White Horse Daddy Bush, the Red Horse Slick Willie, and the Black Horse Bush Junior) is of the spirit of anti-Christ. How are the Christian Zionists going to know when their seven year tribulation will begin when all they have is comic book prophecy?
We don't know how long the tribulation of Matthew 24: 21 and the indignation in Isaiah 26: 20 will last. We are now in the period of the strong delusion (II Thessalonians 2: 10-12) and the snare (Luke 21: 35)
There is some important information in Isaiah 26: 20, "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee" in order to hide from or escape the indignation.
To a Christian Zionist - a dispensationalist - Isaiah 26: 20 must be interpreted literally because the theology says all scripture must be literally interpreted. So, to them one should go inside his house, shut the doors, and stay inside to escape the indignation or tribulation.
No, going into one's chambers and shutting the door is metaphoric. We might say going into one's chambers refers to praying. But the Pharisees prayed. In Luke 18: 11 a Pharisees prayed "God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
12.I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess."
The Pharisee prayed out of his flesh, out of his self-esteem, his pride, in thinking he was better than others, because he was more righteous. He was not an adulterer but fasted twice a week. But the publican, who prayed out of humility, "went down to his house justified" in verse 14.
So, going into one's chambers does not mean just praying to God for something, in this case praying to be counted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass (Luke 21: 36) but it involves one's spiritual condition. In going into one's chambers one is obedient to God, but not to the letter of the law (Romans 2: 29, "..he is a Jew which is one inwardly...in the spirit, and not in the letter.") Paul, from his revelation from Jesus Christ in Romans 7: 6 says "But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter."
Then in II Corinthians 3: 6 Paul says "Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
In the New Testament the Greek word aletheia is used a great many times. John 1: 17 says "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."
John 17: 19 says "And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth."
II Corinthians 6: 7 says "By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,"
The Word of God, it is written, is truth.
Paul in II Corinthians 11: 10 says "As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia." The truth of Christ in one is the most valuable spiritual gift a person can have.
Colossians 1: 5 tells us " For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;"
But what is included in the truth of the Gospel? Does not the truth of the Gospel include Paul's revelations from Christ, some of which he expressed in Romans 2:28-29, Romans 9: 6-8, Galatians 3: 16-29, Galatians 4: 24-26 and Ephesians 2: 11-16. Yet Christian Zionism says God now has two different peoples, All Physical Israel and the capital C Church, contradicting Paul's revelations in the texts listed here. If Christian Zionism rejects or side-steps Paul's revelation in these texts, then it is another Gospel as Paul talks about in Galatians 1: 6-9. If Christian Zionists have another Gospel, then they also have another Christ. They may have the Jewish Supremacy Christ, and not the real Christ who said to the Pharisees, "Ye are of your father the devil..." (John 8: 44) and called them serpents (Matthew 23: 33). The real Christ said "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." But the Christian Zionists have prepared the church to become the leaven of the modern day Pharisees.
Then there is that fearful text of Paul's in II Thessalonians 2: 10-13, "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12.That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13.But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:"
Even James, the facilitator and compromiser of Acts 15, says in James 1: 18, "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures."
I Peter 1: 22 says "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:"
I Timothy 4: 4-5 says "For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer." The word is truth, and we become sanctified by the truth, not, as Paul says in II Corinthians 3: 6, by the letter of the law, because it kills, but by the Holy Spirit. Christ teaches in John 14: 16-17 that the Holy Spirit is "... the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." The Holy Spirit inspires one to love and know the truth.
But the truth as absolute truth talked about in the New Testament, is totally foreign to our age, and this opposition to absolute truth coming from Transformational Marxism - from Marx mixed with Freud and with psychology and perfected in the Group Dynamics, Encounter Group and Self Psychology movements - has invaded the Capital C Church, the corporate Christians, of our day. This opposition to the absolute truth of "it is written" is called the dialectic.
The spiritual condition that entering into your chambers and shutting the door represents as a metaphor is the condition of loving the truth - and of knowing it - which can enable one to "...be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." Luke 21: 36
The Tribulation of Matthew 24: 21 and the Indignation of Isaiah 26: 20
Posted : 21 Oct, 2012 04:42 PM
The antichrist is one spirit manifested thru every age and dispensation of those who are governed by the five senses which is the old nature. We are faced at two trees daily just as adam and eve were in the midst of the garden faced with the choice to partake of the tree of knowledge or the tree of life. The tree of knowledge is that mark of the beast where we chose in the heart and the mind to be governed by the senses. Thats the mark in the forehead. The mark on the hand is the working out of what was in the mind worked out by the hands. This is the battle of Armegeddon happening right within our souls, the good angels warring against the evil angels. Who is going to posses our souls, God or Satan? The Revelation of Jesus Christ is happening inwardly not outwardly! Even the tribilation is happening inwardly as well. Remember we must interpret the bible inwardly and not outwardly. Every inward reality will eventually work itself outwardly, but thats not for us to pay attention to the outward. Scripture says "A wicked and adultress nation seeketh after signs." If we are true Christians we will be producing the signs for the the unbeliever to point them to Christ The Messias. Scripture says " These signs will follow them that believe." It shouldnt be the the other way around, us looking for or at signs but producing them. If you look at the whole of matthew the 24th chapter it talks about the coming of the Lord, The Tribulation, End times, and also the rapture as well. But if you look right in the middle of all the end time prophesies in the 34th verse Jesus says "I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until all these things be fulfilled." What things things will be fulfilled? Everything thats spoken about of the end times would be fulfilled in that generation to which Jesus was speaking to in the 24th chapter of Matthew. Another verse in John 4:35 says "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the Harvest? Behold I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are ripe and ready to harvest." When scripture talks about the harvest its talking about the end of the world as Matthew 13:39 says, "The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are the angels." Scriptures says "The kingdom cometh without observation." This means we are not going to see these things take place with our physical eyes but only with the eyes of the spirit. There are many other proofs in scripture to support that we must walk by faith and not by sight! Amen!
