2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 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; 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 2:8 And then shall that man of lawlessness be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
How sober this is. How bleak, and yet encouraging at the same time. Paul told us in verse 2 that we don’t need to be all shook up over the inevitable. The Lord Jesus “IS” coming back. That’s going to happen. He went on to say in verse 3, that we don’t need to let someone fool us into thinking it’s all going to be rosey before Jesus comes again. The church “IS” going to fall away big time. Not only that, but some time at that time, antichrist is going to be revealed for exactly who he is.
Tim: I have been watching a television program called “End of the Age,” where a man, named Irvin Baxter has been teaching about some of the things Christians have never been able to understand. In reality, after the prophet Daniel prophesied about the EndTime, he said he didn’t understand what he’d just written, adding that someone would come, in the EndTime, who would be able to understand it.
One thing that had perplexed me, for years, was the statue in King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. I first became aware of this, at a Seventh Day Adventist seminar, back in 1977. At that time, or, more specifically, the evening the speaker was discussing this dream, on interpreter was present, so a Deaf man, who was a teacher at the Georgia School for the Deaf – almost everyone, who discussed this man, agreed that he knew just about everything, when it came to knowledge of the Word of God.
That night, however, he slipped up!
You see, in King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is about a statue, with each part highlighting a government that had ruled the entire world. The feet, which are iron, mired (mixed) with clay, are the place, where the world is.
Soon, the rock, which is Jesus Christ, will destroy the entire world governmental system and that is when He will begin His 1000 year reign.
I have been tuning into a televised minister, who is the man, anointed to understand the endtime. Daniel, after he wrote his prophecy, said he didn’t understand what he’d written, adding it would be closed until the end of time, which is now.
One of the things I’ve recently learned is that the coming World War III will occur in the area of the Great River Euphrates, in the Middle East, and it is in that area, that 1/3 of mankind is already living. Those people will be slaughtered in that war.
In future writings, I’d like to share with y’all about Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the soon-to-be occurrence of a prophecy that will have a date on it.
No comment has been entered, so I’ll explain what Irvin Baxter said, when it comes to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:
The first horse is red and some have associated this, wrongly, saying it means the blood of Jesus. In reality, this is communism. You see, many communist countries, at one time or another, have labeled themselves RED.
The second horse is black and is carrying a pair of scales. This horse represents capitalism and the main capitalistic nation, right now, is the United States of America.
Third, we come to the white horse, which is Catholicism. Baxter shows pictures to explain this, when he shows that everything, related to the Roman Catholic Pope is white….His vestment, his (so–called) Pope mobile, the Vatican, itself and even the bible, he carries.
The fourth is a little harder to understand, but the pale horse is Muslimism.
Baxter shows a filmstrip of a Muslim parade and you can make out a pale-green horse and rider,
which is a spirit, coming out of the parade and vanishing. He shows it more than once and it’s
obvious this isn’t photoshopped.
The overriding thing is this: Word War III, will occur around the Great River Euphrates and 1/3 of all mankind will die. Baxter shows the population of all the countries, therein, and explains what percentage of those countries are Muslim. He, also, shows that those countries contain 1/3 of the people, live in the world, today!
I have taped 69 episodes of Irvin Baxter’s End of the Age programs, so, from time to time, I’ll share some of those lessons, here.