The Antichrist Kingdom And Satan’s Final Fling
The fury of Satan and his false trinity is soon to be unleashed on this world. Already a multitude have taken to themselves the nature of the Antichrist. It is possible to take the nature of the Antichrist before the person himself is revealed. You cannot take his “Mark” until after the Rapture when he will be manifest in person. The Bible states it like this, “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming” (II Thessalonians 2:7-8). That word “letteth” means “Restrainer” or “someone that holds back another.” The Restrainer is the Holy Ghost in His saints holding back the Antichrist until we are removed out of his way.
VERY IMPORTANT: There are a variety of ways the nature of the Antichrist is being embraced by large numbers of people. One of the primary ways is religion. The world — led by this Antichrist spirit — are falling headlong into the inclusive attitude about Jesus Christ. They say that “christ” is revealed in all religions and that anyone that embraces him in any of these religions is equally saved. This is unquestionably a lie of the Antichrist. This is the nature of the false christ that Satan is imposing on the unsuspecting multitudes. You can always discern this false spirit by knowing the truth of the Bible. Every nature of the false will use a little of truth and mix a portion of the lie. When someone mixes “Bones and Meat,” do not hang around to try to pick out the meat. I hear that fallacy so often. I will not listen to anything but the pure Words of God. This earth is on the verge of the most unreal invasion of human history.
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Jim D.
Dear Pastor Chambers,
What you say is so important and many Christians need to heed this warning. It seems that some want people to be saved that they inadvertently compromise the truth of salvation through Christ alone and not by a mixture of false doctrine and truth.
Thanks for your diligence in sending these well needed comentaries.
Jim D.
Robert McDevitt
Yo Joe,
That “restrainer”, which again you do not understand, is the Church. That is the Catholic Church.
All you protestants are morally ambigious. You embrace divorce, birth control and even abortion. These are moral evils.
The Church is defined in the book of Acts. It is lead by Bishops and Deacons. Who is your Bishop, Joe.
Oh my. No Bishop???? I guess you don’t meet the literal meaning of a “Church”.
We, the eternal faithful refer to you as our “seperated bretheren”. Because that’s as nice as we can say it.
How about a public debate, Joe??? In front of your present congregation we will discuss: sola scriptura, and sola fide.
These are not supported by Holy Scripture; I can prove it.
After that, this rapture thing. It is Theologily absurd.
Always remember, I love you Joe.
However, when I read your posts on the rapture ready website I am quite offended that you refer to me as “a child of the whore of Babylon”.
For some reason, I’m not feeling the new commandment Our Lord gave us to: Love one another.
Pax Christi,
Robert McDevitt
Rober McDevitt
Great Joe,
Can’t wait to read how full of hatred you are for these Islamic people.
(Love one another………. ring any bells?????
Pastor Bob Gardner
Dear Pastor Chambers,
I am in the middle of a series of sermons in Matthew 24. Your article is
what all born again Christians need. We are living in the most iportant
time since the resurrection of Jesus. I believe this generation of people
will experence the rapture and those that remain will see the
release of the anti-christ and will experence the full wrath of God and
the take over of the anti-christ. But as your article states there are
many antchrist already working. If ever a time for revival it is now,
and it must not be a three day revival, but it must run until the Lord
takes us home. God Bless. Pastor Bob Gardner
home.
lynn
to Robert in Matthew it says to call no one father but your father in heaven
and then it says do not pray in repetion as the heathen do.
denomination is not the answer Jesus is
charles
gal 1-8 but though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel
unto you than that we have preaches unto you, let him be accursed. the roman
catholic church is accursed with its false pagan gospel so are the jews who
are trying to get to heaven by the law , also seventh day adventists, liberal
protestants, mormons, jehovah witness, hindus, scientology, new agers, buddhists,
prosperity gospel orthodox faith, muslims and many others will have there part
in the lake of fire.
Chris
Let me suggest how Jesus is the only way and also accepting of all who respond to His light even if culture and circumstance have prevented them from fully knowing and professing His name.
After His crucifixion, Jesus went to the spirits in prison who had died in the flood. Many of these spirits would have had some understanding of the promise of the Messiah. Others not at all. I do not see how they could have been considered saved during their earthly life, yet God in His amazing grace provides an opportunity to them after death to learn of Jesus and His Gospel. I suspect that the likelihood of these spirits being saved from this prison depends on what light and grace they accepted in this life.
So we can be inclusive in the sense that God will provide a way to overcome the limitations and imperfections of this life. If a culture teaches that the word “God” is for the ultimate power of love an truth, but would not take on the flesh; then a person in that culture has a stumbling block of language to call Jesus God. And yet that person may accept Jesus as a perfect messenger of God who will return to destroy Satan and evil. I suggest that this person, if humble and loving, will eventually accept Christ as God in the flesh whether in this life or the next.
ARTHUR
HELLO ROBERT DEVITT, FOR CERTAIN YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE VARIOUS ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPTS OF THE HOLY WORD. HENCE WE CONSIDER THE CRUCIFIXION AND WHEN HE GAVE UP THE GHOST (HE DID NOT DIE) HE LITERALLY HAD THE POWER TO GIVE UP HIS LIFE AND TO TAKE IT UP AGAIN. WHEN HE SAID IT IS FINISHED, THE LIFE AND PLAN OF GOD WAS COMPLETED, THE DEATH KNELL OF SATAN WAS RUNG OUT, THE PRIESTHOOD OF AARON WAS FINISHED, MOST FIGURATIVELY THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM WAS SPLIT FROM TOP TO BOTTOM (NOT BOTTOM UP) BUT TOP DOWN, WE CAN SEE INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES BOLDLY THRU CHRIST. HENCE WE ARE INTRODUCED TO TH HOLY OF HOLIES BY JESUS THE ADVOCATE OF THE FATHER, WE ARE PRIESTS UNTO HIM CHRIST. PRAYING FOR ONE Another is great, but we have an advocate with the father (the Lord God) his name is Jesus Christ, we need no priest here on earth to speak for us, we are our own priesthood holy unto Christ, we speak openly privately to God in the name of Jesus, WHO IS NOT JUST A SON OF GOD BUT THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD, NO OTHER…. Look it over in the Greek and Hebrew Robert. See what you can live with. Married to a catholic woman, we see no differences in our belief of Jesus Christ…me. protestant.
kim segar
Shalom,,First, G-d did not say there would be a revival in the last days, He said,there would be a falling away, APOSTASY in the Church body. We see that as many want to come together without the truth to worship G-d, therefore showing us who know the word that there will be ONE world Chruch and one world gov under antichrist. So many throw out the true gospel and embrace paganism and traditions of men that G-d said HE hated. Jesus, Yeshua is the ONLY way to heaven and it is NOT a building. We are saved by believing Christ paid it all, not some of the sin, There is NO SUCH THING as purgatory, HE PAID IT ALL, once and for all. Of course we love Muslims and Hindu an all people, but we are not to embrace them. we are to tell them the gospel truth 3 times, and if they don’t except it , we are to turn away. men never saved anyone, only CHRIST can do that. We also are NOT to call anyone Father but HIM. not men. Truth is NOT what men say it is, G-d is the ONLY way the truth and the life. It is Relationship, not religion.We love every sould in the world, and do our best to reach them with truth. G-d bless
Michael D
Robert McDevitt,
Here is how that debate would go. Michael: how do you know you are the one true Church (capital “C” denoting proper respect to your claim)? Robert: the Bible says so. Michael: how do you know that you are interpreting it correctly? Robert: because the Bible said we are the only ones authorized to interpret it. I call that logic, your premise is your proof. We can debate for a year but in the end we will always come back to that.
If the Church has just interpretation error then logically the true Church interpretation could be in error. One error is Replacement Theology that started with the Church Fathers. One example, John Chrysostom, Adversus Judaeos, Homily I, “the synagogue is not only a brothel and a theater; it is also a den of robbers and a lodging for wild beasts. No Jew adores God… Jews are inveterate murderers, possessed by the devil, their debauchery and drunkenness gives them the manners of the pig.” In his 4th Discourse, “I have said enough against those who say they are on our side, but are eager to follow the Jewish rites… it is against the Jews that I wish to draw up my battle… Jews are abandoned by God and for the crime of deicide, there is no expiation possible.”
Yet the Bible contradicts Replacement Theology.
Gen. 12:3, “I will bless those that bless thee and curse him that curses thee.” He will curse those who curse his chosen Jews.
Psa 89:33-37 Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His descendants shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
New Testament speaks of the Church’s relationship to Israel and her covenants as being “grafted in” (Rom. 11:17), “brought near” (Eph. 2:13), “Abraham’s offspring (by faith)” (Rom. 4:16), and “partakers” (Rom. 15:27), NOT as usurpers of the covenant and a replacer of physical Israel. We Gentile Christians joined into what God had been doing in Israel, and God did not break His covenant promises with Israel (Rom. 11:29).
In Matthew 5:17-18, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.”
(Rom 9:4-5) “Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.”
Regarding the Pope claim, church Father, Bishop of Ephesus, Polycrates, writing a response to rebuke the Roman bishop Victor of supreme authority claims: “I, therefore, brethren, who have lived sixty-five years in the Lord, and have met with the brethren throughout the world, and have gone through every Holy Scripture, am not affrighted by terrifying words (threats from Rome). For those greater than I have said “we ought to obey God rather than man.” [acts 5:29] (cited in Eusebius’ Church History, 5:24). My brackets. Polycrates having polled Bishop’s oral tradition of some 50 years and examining scripture doesn’t seem to have viewed other bishops as being in submission to the bishop of Rome.
Regarding Sola Scripture, Acts 17:11 “Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.”
Paul wrote the most books of the NT of any Apostle and clearly was the most brilliant mind of the Scriptures of any living man. Never the less he did not say that he, Peter, or the Church are the final source of truth but only the original source for truth, the Bible. Obviously their only difference to the other church being they didn’t accept as final truth anything Pope Peter, Pope Paul or the Church said. If Paul can not be assumed or accepted as the final truth than how on earth can some guy running a Church claim he now has he final truth on interpretation when the Church fathers can’t get Replacement Theology correct. Obviously the Church claim that it is the sole temple of truth has permitted far too much mischief.
Here is a better example, the Church claimed for 300 years that the Bible proved the sun revolves around the earth. The church excommunicated one of their priests that was a Church teacher in France. Even after vetting his book several times at the Vatican, the Pope felt he hadn’t made it clear enough that the sun revolves around the earth. The Church proved this with verses suggesting man is the center of the universe.
Regarding the whore of Babylon, there is only one city in the world that meets the criteria given. The data is the data.
melvin meyers
This prove the rapture take place at the end of the Great Tribulation. Because the wicked one is removed at His Return. The the Lord consume with the Spirit of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming. That letteth is the same as hinders. For Yahweh longsuffer for His people that He restrains or hinders judgement. As in Rev.18:2-6 Verse 4 Come out of her My People; that My People is the church that dose not what to keep the Torah. They keep man made holy days of good friday, easter, christmas. Rejecting Yahushua Feast Days of Passover, First Fruits, ect. Most people teach Passover it completed. The first Exodus of Egypt was an example of the future Exodus into Yahushua Kingdom taking His people by His Glory overcoming the Great Tribulation At lionlamb.net on their Sample Teaching listen to the Greater Exodus. Yahushua longsuffer love for us ends judgements are coming and you better be keeping His rightouseness.
Joni Wagner
There is only one rapture not two. Not one before the tribulation and another one at the coming of the Lord. The tribulation is caused by satan (the antichrist)many saints will be killed during satan’s wrath. The Lord comes back to earth and gathers his elect from the four corners and then the Lord poors his wrath out on the wicked. There is no early rapture to found in the bible.
Ed Wood
Hello Pastor Joseph.
In 1 John 2:18-25 we have presented to us that there have been (and will be) many “antichrists.” Some are obvious such as Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, all of whom denied Jesus evidenced by the very evil things that they did.
But in my opinion the “spirit of the Antichrist” is also present in much more subtle forms such as in churches which read the Bible selectively to justify their own erroneous doctrines (and in so doing negate its true meaning) or which elevate themselves as being the “only true interpreters of Scripture” or “only means of salvation” rather than Jesus Christ himself (John 14:6, Acts 4:10-12).
Scripture reveals this very thing (apostasy, i.e. “falling away”) will occur before the advent of the last and worst Antichrist who himself cannot appear while the Holy Ghost-indwelt believers which comprise the true Church (not limited to any specific denomination, nor need they be members of any “official church, for that matter) are still on Earth (2 Thessalonians 2:3-12).
Though the Christian church as an institution has always battled heresies even from its beginning (as we see in the book of Acts and in many of the Epistles) it seems to me that it has never been plagued with as much and widespread false doctrine as we see present today.
It is just another sign of just how close the end of this age must truly be.
Bill Andrews
Those that say there is no earthly rapture found in the Bible are terribly, i’ll say it again, terribly biblically illiterate. Go study.
Great article Pastor Chambers !
P.S. Catholics please read “A Woman Rides the Beast” by Dave Hunt.
Sandra
The only rapture is before the tribulation, as stated by Pastor Joseph’s wording in the scripture lesson today. Paul taught that we would be gathered to meet the Lord in the air, and forever be with the Lord. First the dead in Christ rising, then those left alive, in a twinkling of an eye – receiving an immortal perfect body. The gather of the elect from the four winds at the COMING of CHRIST for Armegaddon, is all living beings on earth – trib saints, those with the mark, everyone – those are gathered for the goat and sheep parting. The evil from the new righteous saints who made it thru the trib, and the jewish nation who accepted Christ during the trib. IT is not a gathering of the Church. THE CHURCH IS GONE!!! Christ takes his bride home before the trib. We, the army of christ, come back with him for Armegeddon. It’s pretty simple, but some want to add extra stuff in, or push the wrath onto the church. Look at Noah and his family, Lot and his family. The were the chosen righteous that escaped the wrath poored out on that time because they were right with the LORD. The small mentallity I see hear of those who THINK the Church must go thru the Trib is very childish in your learnings. It’s a false teaching of Satan. I hope this helps some to understand that the church is redeemed and as the Bride of Christ made special and holy to be with him before the unleashing of terror. Plus with the Jewish law back in effect, (their holy days, sacrifices, etc.) it wouldn’t make sense for us to be here. Our church work is done! The Lord is going to take over handling all his evil ones with judgements.
Frances Vincent
The rapture is after the five seals of revelation. It is the sixth seal. The seals are the tribulation period. When the seals are over with the tribulation is over and the wrath of God begins. If you read the sixth seal it tells and matches up with Mathew 24. You read the verse where the kings of the earth hide themselves in caves and call for the rocks to fall on them notice what else it says “Hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne. (They see the rapture happening and they must be able to see into heaven and that’s because the sky was rolled away like a scroll.) And from the wrath of the lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come and who is able to stand?
Next the 144,000. tribes of israel are sealed; Then Revelation 7:13 &14 the raptured saints are in heaven. The church is going through the tribulation period because notice what the elder says to John. “These are those who came out of the great tribulation adn they have washed their robes in and made them white in the blood of the lamb.”
Lea
Dear Brother Chambers,
Keep telling it like it is. People need to read and to hear even more of the messages as you give. Many are too soft, can’t handle the truth, even if they recognized it, and must know the Word of God.
Jean Hynes
Just as in Daniel Chapter 6, may God shut the lion’s mouth once again.