WHEN THE RESTRAINER HAS TURNED SATAN LOOSE ON EARTH
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SATAN HAS STRUGGLED AND FOUGHT AGAINST GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT SINCE CREATION. For a brief period the Holy Ghost will turn him loose. Spiritual warfare is the great challenge that a Christian faces, but thank God we have the victory because of the Comforter. Apostle Paul warned us. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Ephesians 6:12) This great test that we face is won only by the power of God given to us by Jesus Christ. This power is His Spirit and every victory is by the Blood and the Word and the Holy Ghost. The text above is continued as follows, “And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints” (Ephesians 6:17-18) We present day Christians have no excuse not to live in victory.
All that is about to change. The Holy Ghost is called The “Restrainer” in the warning given to the Thessalonian Christians. We are told that the Antichrist cannot be revealed in his full powers until the Holy Ghost has been removed as the “Restrainer”. I do not know how to warn you enough of this coming hour. It will be beyond description. We see multitudes of professing Christians that talk about how impossible it is to live a holy life now. They do not understand the great truth of the Restrainer and His powers. They will after the Rapture. Listen as the Apostle warns us of how important it is for us to be gone to the Marriage Supper. “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: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” (II Thessalonians 2:7-10) It will be hell on earth and the believers will die horrible deaths.
My burden is that every reader and listener to this Broadcast will understand this great truth. There is no excuse for us not to live as victorious Christians with all the provisions the Lord has provided for us. The Holy Ghost is our Restrainer for every burden, care or temptation. He is sufficient for your victory. I love what Isaiah said and have stood on this verse innumerable times through the years. “So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.” (Isaiah 59:19)
The world will be hell after we are gone. The Holy Ghost at the command of Christ will turn Satan and the Antichrist completely loose with no restraints. He will have a short time but he will make the most of it. John the Revelator warned us: “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” (Revelation 12:10-12)The powers of Satan combined with the Antichrist and the False spirit will render this world almost unlivable. The “Overcoming Saints” will be gone.
The most powerful subject in Holy Scripture is, “YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN”. Yet it is so reduced in today’s Church that the majority of Church members do not know the transformation that occurs. If a person is “BORN AGAIN” they are “New Creatures In Christ”. Please take time to listen to the Sermons I am preaching on this subject. “For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” (I Corinthians 1:21) God”s plan for saving souls is the preaching of the Gospel and there is no backup plan. We will send a FREE CD Sermon to every person that requests it. Go to the Home page and at the top there is a section called, “SANCTUARY SERMONS”. Call us at 1 704 391 0588 or toll free 1 800 338 7883. Our e-mail is secretary@pawcreek.org .
Marvin Rice
We believe that we, the body of Christ, is the restrainer that is keeping the anit-christ at bay. Once we have been raptured out of this world, the anti christ will be released, and all hell will break loose. It is a scarry time that is coming. God have mercy. Marvin Rice
Sandra
AMEN!
Thank you Pastor Joseph.
See very, very soon
Maranatha
RobiMac
Amen! The people on earth will finally get what they have wanted for a long time, A world without G-d. But……only those fools who take the mark of the beast will enjoy this time. All others will be in total hell, running for their lives. Great sermon, Pastor Joseph.
See y’all in the air potentially very soon.
Keith Black
HOLY SPIRIT: POLICEMAN OF THE WORLD WITHDRAWN
Dear Joe Chambers,
The Holy Spirit is the POLICEMAN OF THE WORLD. When the CHIEF SHERIFF of the universe withdraws form this earth, there will be WIDESPREAD ANARCHY. Much worse than the WILD, WILD WEST WHERE THEY HAD SHOOTOUTS LIKE IN TOMBSTONE ARIZONA WITH NO SHERIFF. There will certainly be LOTS OF SHOOTOUTS! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!. Or it would be like NEW YORK CITY WHERE WHEN THE POWER GOES OFF AS IN 1977, where there is LOTS AND LOTS OF LOOTING! BUILDINGS WERE BURNED BY LOOTERS! That was on the front page of the Time Magazine which is located in NYC. Or it is like GOTHAM CITY (NYC) WITHOUT BATMAN. THERE WILL BE VIOLENT CRIMINAL GANGS ON THE LOOSE. AGITATORS WILL INCITE RACE RIOTS. Human police forces will not be able to stop this. Fire departments in big cities WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT OUT FIRES SET BY LOOTERS IN BIG CITIES. FIRES WILL RAGE OUT OF CONTROL IN BIG CITIES, SPREADING FROM BUILDING TO BUILDING. OLD HIGHRISE APARTMENT BUILDINGS WITH WOOD FLOORS ARE ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE TO FIRES THAT BURN BLOCK TO BLOCK, AND NO FIRE CREWS TO PUT IT OUT. NEW YORK CITY OR CHICAGO ARE ESPECIALLY AT RISK. ROW HOUSES (3-4 floors) THAT HAVE NO YARDS ARE AT RISK TOO.
THE HOSPITALS WILL BE OVERLOADED WITH VICTIMS OF CRASHED CARS, BUSES, TRAINS, AND PLANES (THAT HAVE MISSING DRIVERS AS RESULT OF RAPTURE), THAT THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HELP YOU IF YOU GET SICK. Then CONTAGIOUS DISEASES SUCH AS BIRD FLU, SWINE FLU, EBOLA WILL GET OUT OF CONTROL. Even MALARIA WILL COME BACK AS WILL AS YELLOW FEVER as result of migration of tropical people from Third World Countries bringing these disease right back to America and Europe. THE STOCK MARKET WILL HAVE A GREAT FALLING AWAY (90%?) ALL THE WAY DOW TO THE BOTTOM, PLUNGING THE WORLD SUPER GREAT DEPRESSION. THIS MEANS BANK RUNS ON ALL THE BANKS. SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS AND OTHER CHECKS WILL BE STOPPED. WORKER LAYOFFS RUN INTO HIGH PERCENTAGES AS RESULT OF EMPLOYERS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. UNEMPLOYMENT GOES HIGH. PEOPLES CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES WILL BE GONE IN A FLASH, AS MARTIAL LAW AND DICTATORSHIP GETS IMPOSED. LYNCH MOBS WILL LYNCH TRIBULATION SAINTS.
THE GREATEST DANGER OF ALL IS SATAN AND HIS DEMONIC TERRORISTS START ATTACKING PEOPLE PHYSICALLY. Right now Satan is limited to working behind the scenes and deceiving people, and can more directly attack those deeply in the occult including demonic possessions. But during that TRIBULATION AFTER THE POLICEMAN OF THE WORLD IS PULLED AWAY, SATAN’S FALLEN ANGEL TERRORISTS WILL COME OUT IN THE OPEN AND WILL ATTACK FOLKS DIRECTLY AND PHYSICALLY. They will make themselves visible too. These TERRORISTS WILL ESPECIALLY ATTACK FOLKS AT NIGHT AND EVEN IN THE DAY TIME. IT WILL BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR EVEN THE TRIBULATION SAINTS TO ESCAPE FORM THESE. Maybe the TRIB SAINTS MAY HAVE SOME ANGELS AROUND WITH LIMITED PROTECTION. BUT THE UNSAVED WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ESCAPE THESE TERRORISTS AT ALL. NO MATTER WHERE THEY GO, THEY GET ATTACKED.
THE MOST DANGEROUS AND EVIL DICTATOR (ANTI-CHRIST) EVER WILL RISE TO POWER. THERE SHALL BE A GREAT HOLOCAUST (even worse than Hitler’s NAZI GULAGS) LIKE THERE NEVER HAS BEEN BEFORE. RESULTING IN BILLIONS OF DEATHS. AND EXCEPT THOSE DAYS SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO AND END VERY QUICKLY, THERE SHOULD NO FLESH BE SAVED. But for the sake of the TRIBULATION SAINTS, God will end that quickly.
THE ONLY WAY TO ESCAPE AL THAT IS TO LEAVE THIS PLANET BY GOING BY GOING UP IN THE GREAT EVACUATION WHICH IS THE RAPTURE. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO ESCAPE THE DEMONIC TERRORISTS.
Sincerely,
Keith Black
Ed Wood
Satan’s biggest trick is one of deception. Now anyone can usually recognize an outright lie because the falacy of it is so obvious. An atheist will proclaim there is no God, for example, when all the evidence clearly shows that there is.
What is not so easy to sort out is when the lie is joined with a little bit of the truth or clothed with an appealing wrapping. there are loads of them coming from the modern church:
1) God loves us so he would never send anyone to hell.
2) Jesus is only one of many ways to be saved,
3) Homosexuals in a monogamous relationship is as acceptible as heterosexuals in one.
I could go on, but I’m sure you get the idea. Consider that if falsehoods like these can get so much traction even now with the Holy Spirit present within believers, think what’ll it’ll be like when he (and we) are gone. If you read 2 Thessalonians 2:6-12, you will see that Satan will use his powers of deception to cause most of the world to believe the Antichrist is an agent of God.
We’ve seen it on a small scale before: The rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, Mao Tse Tsung in China, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni in Iran. People in desperate times look for someone to get them out of ther troubles and the devil is only too happy to provide them one.
Even now we see the world inxplicably turning against Israel which has never had intentions of world domnination in favor of its Muslim enemies which by word and deed have shown that world rule is EXACTLY what they have in mind.
If it’s this bad now, can you imagine what’s coming just up ahead?
Do you want to be here when it does?
Joe Guy....
2 Thess 2:1-7
Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming (presence) of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy (departure)comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. 5 Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? 6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. NASU
The restrainer is the failure of the church to abide in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ (Verse 1). The absence of light or the church cannot expose anyone and to whom are “men of sin” revealed if the church is “beamed” up?
While most are preparing to go…our preparation should be to consistenly abide in the presnce of our Lord Jesus Christ being light and salt exposing and destroying sin in the earth.
The Apostasy is simply a departure in a positive sense into the presence of our Glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
I am so happy that God has chosen the body of Christ attached to our head Jesus Christ to bring an end to the age of sin. Thank God that we are not robots “waiting” but we are the bride of Christ who is making herself ready from a departure into our Bride Grooms presence…now and forever
Knowing truth will set you free! Blessings
Toffeeman
Very powerful sermon! I believe we are almost there-entering the last 7 year of human history.Come Lord Jesus!
Steve and Tara
We love you, brother Chambers!
However, it is clear in Daniel, chapter 12, verse 1, that Michael, the Archangel,
is the one who is holding back the power of darkness from taking over Israel at
this time right now. . . . But, in 12:1 -“At that time (read before this to see that it is referring to the time of the antichrist)Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise (leave his jobof protection). There will be a time of distress such as has not
happened from thebeginning of nations until then. But at that time your people —
everyone whosename is found written in the book –will be delivered. Multitudes who
sleep in thedust of the earth will awake; some to everlasting life, others to
shame and everlastingcontempt. Those who are wise will shine like the . . .”
Notice how this matches Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 24: 15-31:Verse 15 begins with the mid-point of the 70th week of Daniel and the setting upof the image of the beast (antichrist). . . verse 21 talks about “then there will be great distress unequaled from the beginning of the world until now– and never to be qualed again.” then the days are cut short for the sake of the elect. then we arewarned not to believe that Jesus would by way of the sky in the clouds! Verse 29 tells us that AFTER that horrible time of distress (of the antichrist persecution) we can look for the heavenly signs in the sun, moon and and are told in verse 30 that THAT TIME, the sign of the Son of Man will appear (the rolling back of the sky like a scroll as inthe 6th seal of Revelation 6:14), and He will come on the clouds, send His angels with a loudtrumpet call, and they will gather His elect . . .”
This ties in, of course, with Revelation 14:14-16 where the resurrection of the righteous is referredto as the harvest of the earth. That would be what pre-tribbers call
“the rapture.” Brother Chambers, the theory you proscribe to began in the 1800’s
with John Darby/Church of the Brethren/Scofield Study Bible, etc. All the Scriptures fit
perfectly with what I am sharing in the above paragraphs. I am just hitting on some of the extremely obvious points.
It is clear that there is an obvious sequence of events that the Holy Spirit has laid out for us.It is like a thread running throughout the Bible. There are signs we must wait for as Peter preached in his first sermon from Joel 2:28-32 about the sun, moon and the
stars. It’s a shame that people are discouraged from looking for these signs when it is taught so clearly.
Love in Jesus Christ,
Steve and Tara
Sandra
I too believe that the holy spirit is the true restrainer, and that is why the Church (Born again Christians) must be removed by rapture when “he” goes. It is not Michael The Archangel as some of the posters here believe. Michael is a great warrior angel for God, there is no doubt in that, however, in order for the restrainer to be everywhere at once, like God is – it would have to be the holy spirit (part of god). I think some here might not make that connection. It also makes me sad that some out there still deny a God, thinking he is a fairy tale made up. It makes me want to cry. If there were no God, and I died and ceased to exist after death, then I have lost nothing. But if I am right about God, and I know I am – all these non-believers have a horrible awakening in the afterlife. God could not have made it simpler for us to believe and follow him to Heaven.
RJ
Well, for those who still are not convinced of a pre-trib rapture, there are many ~ even OLD TESTAMENT Scriptures proving our departure from earth to heaven ~ “our gathering together with Him” IS pre-trib!!
Consider the book of Isaiah was written between (circa) 740-680 B.C., and Is. 26:20 & part of v 21 says: 20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:…
Did you catch that? The Lord is gonna’ punish the INHABITANTS of the earth — that’s all those left behind, the ones who do not make the (VERY SOON!!) rapture ~ yes, “pre trib rapture”!! And since this was written sooo many years ago, we beg to differ that the pre-trib rapture “theory” [as some suggest it being “only a theory”] began in the 1800’s!! Don’t you think the Writer of the Scriptures knows what HE is talking about?
Again, in Luke 21 v 35: For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
So one can either DWELL *here* (on earth) ~OR~ in heaven during the time of the very hellish Tribulation. I choose heaven & pray Luke 21:36!!
We are to pray to be accounted worthy TO ESCAPE (not to “stay here”!!)
Further, those who are not currently following & obeying the Lord at the time of the rapture stay here until they wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: From Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Further proof that only those who are purposely committing sin against the Lord get to stay here: Rev 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Note: they are cast INTO the great tribulation due to their lack of repentance ~ which means “turning away FROM” certain sins ~ in this case, adultery. So it only stands to reason those who DO have their robes washed white {are currently obeying the Lord} DO get to GO in the rapture.
Because it would not say these people are cast INTO the great tribulation – if ALL Christians were automatically “sentenced” to ENDURE the Tribulation.
I full well realize that until Judgment Day, Christians will always debate certain topics: i.e. OSAS vs. OSNAS and the rapture being pre-trib or post-trib, etc. etc. It would not make a lick of sense for Jesus to allow His bride to get all bruised, beat up & battered… and then to take her into His wedding chambers. Not only that, but what would even be the point of a post-trib rapture – going to meet Jesus in the air – only to have to do an IMMEDIATE U-turn in mid-air to turn right back around to come beat up on the antiChrist’s cronies. We would never get to go be where Jesus is at.
Also, there are certain Scriptures that knock it out of the ballpark for those (many, many, many poor, blind & naked Laodecian church members who think they can live any ol’ way they please ~ as long as they simply “believe” in Jesus ~ and think they can go in the rapture!) For instance, from Rev. 21:8 we learn: “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
So not only do they not go up in the pre-trib rapture, they don’t go to heaven AT ALL ~ unless they repent of these things!
Our job right now – on top of continuing to abound in the Lord’s work & following His will (which is found right smack inside the pages of the Bible!) ~ is to also be looking up ~ for our redemption draws nigh!!!!!! Only those truly watching right now are aware of just how close we are. MARANATHA!!!!!!
RJ
Also for the fellow who questions the church being “beamed up” as you put it… it will be a relatively minor amount of people. In Revelation, it is only 1/7th of the 7 churches that gets to go. In Matthew it is only the wise virgins who are prepared and have their wicks trimmed & their lamps full of oil. Notice the foolish virgins HAD their lamps LIT at one time! {Matt 25:8 8And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. That’s the KJV translation ~ note that I checked 5 other translations at BibleGateway.com & they all said “our lamps ARE GOING OUT <– "present tense" ~ indicating they weren't QUITE *TOTALLY* asleep on the job & living like the world, but apparently leaning too much that direction!} So with their lamps going out, it's not like the foolish virgins NEVER truly served the Lord; they just were not ready at the appointed time. We are told over & over to **WATCH** ~ OR ELSE!!
As far as being salt & light — yes, we are to do that in the here & now. But that is what will make the Tribulation a VERY DARK TIME… there will not be born again Christians here to point out the AntiChrist & to tell people to not be deceived. For those who diligently seek the truth though, it can be found — through Jesus alone. It will cost those who become Christian or rededicated Christians their very lives though — when in fact, they could live for Him *now* and not have to pay such a dear price.
Ready for the Rapture
Brother Chambers my jaw almost hit the floor when I heard you say that you will vote for the mormon, Mitt Romney AND you encouraged other Christians to vote for him too. Sir, please do not do such a wicked thing. The same reason you gave for voting for Mitt Romney can be said for Obama. People can say they are not voting for a preacher just like you say.
Not only should Christians NOT vote Romney because he’s a high ranking member of an anti Christian cult. He is also pro-abortion and FOR same-sex marriage. Obama said he is for same-sex marriage. However, Romney has acted on it and enforced same-sex marriages as the Governor of Massachuttes. He ordered Justices of the peace in that state to marry and issue marriage licenses to homosexuals or face prosecution. He had “husband” and “wife” on the licenses to be changed to “party a” and “party b” to accomodate same-sex marriages.
And don’t forget about Romney-care that affords women to get abortions with a $50 co-pay. He is pro-abortion.
It was wrong for black Christians to vote for a muslim, Obama. Now, it is wrong for white Christians to vote for a mormon, Romney.
Question: Do you not think that knowingly voting for the evil Mitt Romney is a sin? Would this keep someone from being ready for the rapture?
Lastly, I haven’t given that much and not on a consistant basis, but I have supported your ministry in the past, but I can not with a clear conscious support your ministry again.
I truly hope you pray about what you’re doing.
Billie
PRETRIB RAPTURE SECRETS
How can the “rapture” be “imminent”? Acts 3:21 says that Jesus “must” stay in heaven (He’s now there with the Father) “until the times of restitution of all things” which includes, says Scofield, “the restoration of the theocracy under David’s Son” which obviously can’t begin before or during Antichrist’s reign. (“The Rapture Question,” by the long time No. 1 pretrib authority John Walvoord, didn’t dare to even list, in its scripture index, the too-hot-to-handle Acts 3:21!) Since Jesus can’t even leave heaven before the tribulation ends (Acts 2:34,35 echo this), the rapture therefore can’t take place before the end of the trib! (The same Acts verses were also too hot for John Darby – the so-called “father of dispensationalism” – to list in the scripture index in his “Letters”!)
Paul explains the “times and the seasons” (I Thess. 5:1) of the catching up (I Thess. 4:17) as the “day of the Lord” (5:2) which FOLLOWS the posttrib sun/moon darkening (Matt. 24:29; Acts 2:20) WHEN “sudden destruction” (5:3) of the wicked occurs! The “rest” for “all them that believe” is tied to such destruction in II Thess. 1:6-10! (If the wicked are destroyed before or during the trib, who’d be left alive to serve the Antichrist?) Paul also ties the change-into-immortality “rapture” (I Cor. 15:52) to the posttrib end of “death” (15:54). (Will death be ended before or during the trib? Of course not! And vs. 54 is also tied to Isa. 25:8 which is Israel’s posttrib resurrection!)
Many are unaware that before 1830 all Christians had always viewed I Thess. 4’s “catching up” as an integral part of the final second coming to earth. In 1830 this “rapture” was stretched forward and turned into a separate coming of Christ. To further strengthen their novel view, which the mass of evangelical scholars rejected throughout the 1800s, pretrib teachers in the early 1900s began to stretch forward the “day of the Lord” (what Darby and Scofield never dared to do) and hook it up with their already-stretched-forward “rapture.” Many leading evangelical scholars still weren’t convinced of pretrib, so pretrib teachers then began teaching that the “falling away” of II Thess. 2:3 is really a pretrib rapture (the same as saying that the “rapture” in 2:3 must happen before the “rapture” [“gathering”] in 2:1 can happen – the height of desperation!).
Other Google articles on the 182-year-old pretrib rapture view include “Pretrib Rapture Politics,” “Pretrib Rapture Scholar Wannabes,” “Famous Rapture Watchers,” “Pretrib Rapture Diehards,” “X-Raying Margaret,” “Edward Irving is Unnerving,” “Thomas Ice (Bloopers),” “Walvoord Melts Ice,” “Wily Jeffrey,” “The Rapture Index (Mad Theology),” “America’s Pretrib Rapture Traffickers,” “Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism,” “Scholars Weigh My Research,” “Pretrib Hypocrisy,” “Appendix F: Thou Shalt Not Steal,” “Thieves’ Marketing,” “Pretrib Rapture Secrecy,” “Deceiving and Being Deceived,” “Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty,” and “Christ’s return is NOT imminent!” – all by the author of the bestselling book “The Rapture Plot” (see Armageddon Books).
[I recently spied the above on the surprising web. Lord bless.]