If the messiah is almost here then the Messianic age is about to begin …
The Bible reveals the "
sign" associated with the Lord's Return
Jesus cannot return (because Scripture cannot be broken) until this "
sign" is fulfilled in history.
2Th 2:1-8
Now we beseech you, brethren,
by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
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. 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; 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. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 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:
This passage teaches that before the Lord Returns - there is a great "
falling away" within the "
Body of Christ".
At that time, he who now restrains (the Holy Spirit) will be "
taken out of the way". That is at the end of the
Great Commission... at the "
End of the Age" [Mat 28:18-20]. After the Last Saint is "
sealed" [Rev 7:1-3]
The Bible is crystal clear about this: The Great Tribulation/Revelation Beast
CAN NOT BEGIN
until the Last Saint has been "
sealed" (saved).
Mat 28:18-20
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always,
even unto the End of the Age. Amen.
However, after the "
End of the Age" (after the Great Commission) when the Last Saint has been "
sealed" [Rev 7:1-3]
THEN Satan is loosened from his Bottomless Pit to
RULE during his "
Little Season" which is also shown as (1) the Revelation Beast
and (2) the Great Tribulation "
Kingdom of Heaven" [Mat 25:1] and (3) Daniel's Fourth Kingdom and (4) the RULE of the man
called the "
Little Horn" [Dan 7] and the "
False Prophet" [Rev 19:20] and the "
Man of Sin" [2 Thess 2:3]... the man commonly
known as
THE Anti-Christ
So... if someone is predicting the Lord's imminent Return... they must
FIRST show
WHERE the great "
falling away" occurred
and
WHEN the Last Saint is "
sealed" and the Holy Spirit is "
taken out of the way" and
WHO is this "
Man of Sin" that is "
revealed"
during the great "
falling away".
Can anyone show these things?
Then they should not be talking about an imminent Return.
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