There Has Always Been Falling Away From Faith, How Can We Distinguish And Find The End Time Apostasy?

How Do We Come To Know And Identify The Final Antichrist From All The Other Antichrists That Are All Around Us In Our Generation?

Question: Have we not seen a falling away? We have seen the falling away since the Apostle Paul's days. Yes it has increased dramatically. Also Scriptures says in the end of days men will not endure sound doctrine, like the pre trib. How do we know that the man of perdition hasn't been revealed? So many Anti-Christs are already out there.


Answer: Greetings in the wonderful and mighty name of Jesus!

Even though there has always been so many Antichrists for the past two thousand years time, which has been increasing like poisonous mushroom coming out of earth after the rain (Matt 24:11, 23-25; 1 John 4:1, 3), there will be a single Antichrist political ruler who will come out specifically in the end of end times to take over the world and become its sole ruler for three and half years time as God has appointed it for His Glory (Rev 13:5; Psa 76:10). This man would be directly empowered by Satan's power and authority to act as though he is his son (Rev 13:4).

Jesus spoke about two big deceptions and the prominent religion out of which this leader is going to emerge during the end of end times as a sign to identify the season of Antichrist, for example when the deceivers will say, "Look, He is in the desert!" it points to the expected Muslim-mahdi who will rise up from the desert and be their end time messiah, but according to the Bible the anti-messiah of the end of end times (John 5:43). This man will move on to the third temple before the end and people will say before the coming of the real Messiah Jesus Christ at his Rapture, "Look, He is in the inner rooms!" (Matt 24:26) as God in the flesh (2 Thess 2:3-4). Clearly those who "watch and pray" heeding Jesus' command to overcome deception will not believe the above discussed information, and therefore will be raptured by Jesus at his coming for the Church (Matt 24:43-44; 25:13). Those who are not careful to watch and pray will be left behind and will be in to the Great Tribulation to face the worst atrocities and savagery of Antichrist.

As Christians what we believe as a believer is very very important during the end of end times, if we believe the lies of Antichrist, believers will be left behind. So watching and praying is mandatory to escape the Tribulation that is coming upon the whole earth through artificial intelligence controlled and inter-networked global governance of the Antichrist (Luke 21:34-36; Rev 3:10). The falling away will start to happen from the time "[Antichrist] shall confirm a covenant with many for one week..." (Dan 9:27) to the time of the Rapture of the Church which will happen soon after the abomination of desolation, in which Antichrist will seat himself as God in the third temple which is soon going to be built (2 Thess 2:3-4).

This is the true Pre-Tribulation that Jesus has taught to us to look forward to in these end of end times. The other pre-tribulation before Daniel 70th week which is thought to take place and is espoused by many is actually a narrative with no scriptural support, where Tribulation is thought and assumed to take place for the entire 7 years of the 70th week of Daniel and even some divide the first 3.5 years as Tribulation time and the next 3.5 years as Great Tribulation time. First of all according to Jesus, the Tribulation of the Antichrist that will start from Judea of Jerusalem, will spread so rapidly in all the world in an unprecedented and catastrophic way so that if the time of the Tribulation is not reduced by God supernaturally, no humans would survive, but for the elect's sake they will be reduced further to acceptable level (Matt 24:21-22). In other words, for every action of Antichrist there will be a reaction from God through the two anointed prophets, which will cause a great natural, economical, environmental and political destruction all over the world (Rev 11:1-13). Thus when the true pre-tribulation that Jesus identified in the Scripture is taught, many do not want to really believe the literal interpretation of the context, instead they wrongly believe things taught by theologians and their narrative which are without scriptural support, and thus choose wrongly not to listen to our dear Lord Jesus our Christ. This is to depart by not enduring the sound doctrine of Christ and therefore should be avoided by true Christians at all cost in these end of end times (2 Tim 2:3).

The first sign post that God has set for us to understand that Antichrist hasn't yet been revealed to the world in need of the Messiah, is first known by us when the covenant is made by Antichrist regarding the nation of Israel with title "Peace and Security" for all nations (Dan 9:27; 1 Thess 5:3). But when the abomination of desolation will happen at mid-point, Antichrist will surely be revealed to all believers who know the Bible which will be the second sign, and therefore will not believe the deceivers who point to Antichrist as the messiah at that time (2 Thess 2:3-4)!

At the time of abomination of desolation, there will be a internal revelation within the heart of believers who will "watch and pray" to know and understand spiritually that this man of sin is the Antichrist, all others who will not be ready with salvation and obedience that follows it will be left behind to face the rough ice cold winter of the Great Tribulation that will come upon the whole world to test those on earth to be checked by God to know on whose side they will be when threatened with life or death, heaven or hell, God or Mammon... (Rev 3:10; Matt 24:22-24, 25).

So what we Christians are waiting for, when already Jesus has clearly laid out and have given the blueprint of the entire end of end times narrative to guide us in to the truth that He has already revealed through the Word of God the Bible!!! RAPTURE ahead, but AFTER THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION is the TRUTH OF JESUS! If we really understand this, we will obey Jesus who has really reinforced this truth from the Old Testament prophet Daniel, who is actually the God appointed hero of the end of end times, along with John the revelatory apostle of the New Testament! Hallelujah! GLORY TO GOD!


Much Blessings...

Does 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Complement Dan 9:27, Or Contradict Each Other?

Does Deception Of The End Time Start With The Confirmation Of The Covenant of Peace With All Nations By Antichrist?

Question: 2 THESSALONIONS 2:3, "Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and THE MAN OF SIN is revealed, the SON OF PERDITION,..." Daniel 9:27 "Then HE shall confirm a covenant with many for one week..." WHAT DO YOU REALLY THINK SEEING BOTH THESE SCRIPTURE TOGETHER? IS THE WORLD WIDE PEACE CONNECTED SOMEWAY TO THE FALLING AWAY? Please do respond and answer back for more clarity!! God bless you!


Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

There are two revelation of Antichrist, one to the Church believers which will happen before the Rapture (1 Thes 2:3) and then the next revelation of the Antichrist happen to the worldly left behind people after the Rapture (1 Thes 2:8), whom the LORD will defeat at his coming if they all continue with Antichrist without repentance (Rev 16:10-11; 19:20-21).

What event starts off the 70 weeks? What event starts the 7 years?

70 weeks started from the rebuilding of the second temple to the Messiah the Prince on a donkey coming in peace and entering the temple.... there shall be 7 and 62 weeks... together they are 69 weeks. 1 week is left for the end times to start and the Messiah to come to rule the nation of Israel for a thousand years time. In other words (7*7=49 years), forty nine years it will take for the second temple to be reopened from the decree of the King, and further from the opening of the Second temple of Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the wall thereafter that continues and the rebuilding of Jerusalem city to the time Messiah who will enter Jerusalem as Prince of peace on a donkey in to it...it will be (62*7=434 years) four hundred and thirty four years (Dan 9:24-25, 26). Altogether they total up to seventy (70) weeks, that is four hundred and ninety (490) years. The last week that is seven (7) years start with a peace covenant made with all nations regarding the status of Israel and Jerusalem. 

The first three and half years will be a time of false peace covenant as the deal is made by Antichrist and broken by the same man after three and half years time (Dan 9:27). There will be a holy pause that happened at the death of Jesus Christ, because in it the Church came in to existence and have continued till today. Then the last week which is seven years time will start with a covenant made by all nations regarding Israel as we have discussed already (Dan 9:27), a peace covenant which will be broken by the one who did it just at the start of the last three and half years, which is called by God as the abomination of desolation, after which Jesus Christ will come and pour out his wrath on the desolate who will then bring a world army to fight him, but will be defeated by Christ and the Church (Rev 16:1-21; 19:11-21). Hallelujah!

Does the church has nothing to do with the Antichrist? Can the Antichrist not be of a concern to us? Can our concern be on the Rapture without knowing the Antichrist? In other words, can we as the Church focus on the Rapture without the Antichrist?

Jesus and Paul the apostle have spoken more about Antichrist and have given him as the deceptive sign with which the world will be deceived in the end of end times. In fact, Jesus tells to the nation of Israel, you will receive the Antichrist who will come in his own name (John 5:43). THE CHURCH SHOULD NOT BE BLIND ENOUGH TO BE DECEIVED BY ANTICHRIST (Matt 24:15; 1 Thess 5:1-11; 2 Thess 2:1-12)!

How does the Rapture happening after the abomination of desolation will affect the imminence doctrine of the Church?

Imminence of the Rapture is never affected to any true believer who has ever lived obeying the commandments of Jesus to watch and pray, and it is not only confined to the end of end time generation but has equally been emphasized by Jesus to all generations and the reward for it will be the same in heaven to those who have obeyed him at all times (Rev 3:11; 2:16; 22:20; 16:15; 1 Thess 5:2, 6; Matt 24:43).

The belief that Rapture is imminent equally applies to all generation and to this end time generation too. But Tribulation will start and end with in a specified period of time anytime after the abomination of desolation just as Jesus foretold his Church to watch.

We are to watch and pray even after the abomination of desolation, till we are raptured up in the air to be with Jesus forever and ever. Those who have expected Jesus coming, but have not obeyed him through salvation will be left behind (2 Cor 6:2; 2 Cor 13:5-6).

The Tribulation is something that will be engineered by Antichrist through AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology and therefore is the sealing of the unbelievers through the 666 name of the beast upon them (Rev 13:5, 10, 8, 16-18).

The Tribulation will start once Antichrist begins to seal 666 to all people to control the whole world (Matt 24:16-28, 29-30).

From that time of Tribulation to the time of wrath of God upon the Antichrist...there will be great suffering.... upon the earth as the two prophets will not allow him to enter the holy of holies which is the holiest place of God until their death, after which he will enter in to seat himself as god. But by that time the wrath of God will be poured upon his throne to infuriate him to collect a world wide army to fight against Christ. This is the abomination which leads to desolation.

I also want you to consider what Paul says to Church believers that Rapture will not come until falling away from faith comes first (2 Thess 2:3-5). That means from the time of peace treaty Antichrist makes with many nations which will center around the war of Israel, three and a half years of peace and safety will be a test to all believers (1 Thess 5:2-4). Until this happens how can the Rapture which is the day of the Lord which comes as thief in the night take place?

Antichrist will first be revealed to the Church that watches and prays because it will be a reward for obedience (Luke 21:34, 35, 36). Then after the rapture he will be revealed to the left behind who believe the truth of the Bible (2 Thess 2:8; Rev 13:8, 10; 20:4-6). The Tribulation saints will be rewarded with the first resurrection if they by faith are martyred for Jesus Christ sake. Glory to God!

Surely  2 Thessalonians 2:3 Complement Dan 9:27, and also we know that the deception of the end time start with Dan 9:27. The Third Temple is almost up and ready to be running as the operation Alaqsa has been initiated by Hamas, which the nation of Israel will end it by making a mega deal of the New Millennial age with all nations come to pass through building of the 3rd Temple. We can almost hear the Trumpet sound of the Messiah for the Rapture to take place! Maranatha...Come Lord Jesus soon! .  


Much Blessings....

Did Jesus Really Tell The Rich Young Ruler To Follow The Law To Get Saved?

Did The OT Saints Look Forward To The Cross, And We The NT Saints Look Backward To The Cross By Faith?

Question: No body looked forward to the cross of Christ for salvation. Not even the 12 Apostles of Christ. They didn't understand it (Mark 9:31-32). Even though Jesus our Lord came to fulfill the Old Testament Scriptures, Salvation through the cross of Christ to all people wasn't the topic in the Old Testament. If the law of Moses cannot bring salvation, can you explain the below Scriptures?

Matthew 19:17-19 KJVS, "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. [18] He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, [19] Honor thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."


Answer: Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful name!

Jesus himself confirmed that he was not doing anything new, but rather was only fulfilling Scriptures .... which Scripture? All that was believed and written by the prophets of OT regarding the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (Luke 24:25-27). So it was all veiled in Moses (2 Cor 3:14-16). But Jesus has revealed Himself through the OT Scripture for 2000 years as our Creator God as He is our Messiah (Matt 16:16; Heb 1:1-3; Luke 1:77). Praise the LORD!

The law of Moses was only a shadow of the good things of the grace of the Lord Jesus to come, and it is not the very image of the things to keep it to inherit salvation (Heb 10:1). The law of Moses cannot bring salvation but can only make our sin dreadful, but the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ brings salvation to our souls (Rom 7:13).

When one rich young man asked Jesus by calling him 'Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?' (Luke 18:18-30). In other words Jesus replied back so accurately saying, "I am not just a Good Teacher, but beyond that you either call and know me as God to be saved by grace or keep the commandments truly to understand that you cannot save yourself through just keeping it." (Matt 19:17-19 Paraphrased; John 6:28-29; 8:24; Rom 7:13; Gal 3:21, 23-24). If this rich young man had really kept the commandments from his heart and not just religiously, he would have come to Jesus seeking his mercy and grace to fall at His feet having understood that He was God in the flesh who had come to save sinners like him. At that moment of time, he would have received his salvation which is eternal life as a gift of God in a moment of time (Rom 6:23; 2 Cor 6:1-2). The very fact, that he turned away from Jesus very sorrowfully was because he was a religious man full of covetousness for inheriting more money and wealth that had been his true god. In other words, he did not want to let go off his covetousness and religious pride, so that his false god of mammon may be thrown away from his heart for the Lord Jesus to come in to him in order to become his Lord and Savior (Matt 6:24; 7:21-23).This man thought Jesus would give some religious advice to tell him to invest more and more in to tithes and offerings like the modern preacher who say, 'Invest in to my ministry and you get in to heaven', so that being a rich man he could make a big show off before people as usual, but Jesus gave him the real answer because He is the real God who had created him for His Own Glory! Hallelujah!

The whole Bible speaks about the Jesus as God in the flesh who had come to save sinners like us without doubt. Believing Jesus any other way, has no effect upon our soul to save us from sin and give us heaven hereafter. If we have eyes to see, then we must understand Jesus as God who has become human, the one and only God's begotten Son who had come to save us from all our sins or else we will perish in sin without true faith in Christ Jesus that can only save our souls (Rev 22:10-11; 3:22; 1 Cor 15:1-4, 11, 14, 17-18). Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!

Much Blessings....

Did William M.Branham Fulfill The Scriptural Prophecies?

What Is Your Position On The 7th Angel Of Rev 10, And The Coming Of The Prophet Elijah As Promised By The Prophet Malachi?

Question: What is your position on the 7th Angel of Rev 10, and the coming of the prophet Elijah as promised by the prophet Malachi. I believe they were both fulfilled in the person of Rev. William M. Branham....The Angel of the Laodicean Church Age, sent to dress the Bride of Christ to meet him.

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

First of all, regarding William M.Branham, he was a very humble man of God and a prophet of God in His initial days. God has called him as one among the healing revivalist to be a light to the generation that was to be prepared for the Lord's Second Coming, I mean, the generation in which the nation of Israel was born as a prophetic sign of the coming of the Lord (Matt 24:32-35).

During this time, many prophets and apostles were raised by the Lord in a similar way from many different background to become pioneers of healing evangelism and proclamation of the Gospel to the world with signs, wonders and miracles to the world in need of it. Another notable name before Brother Branham was Brother John Alexander Dowie. All these people were mightily anointed and worked for the Lord with great Zeal, but as time went on, they were not able to stand in that limelight of the anointing without deception of self and flesh.

As they began to prosper greatly ministerially, financially and socially, the deception of themselves as Elijah to come had come to these men because of pride and prosperity mainly. How these thoughts came to them is through their followers and supporters who misled them by telling them something that they are not. If they had continued in the calling God had given them initially which prospered them and took them to heights spiritually they never ever imagined, they would have been kept safe from deception. But then the thought of exclusivity over all other saints of God gained control of their thought life against the will of God (Php 2:5-8; John 13:14-17; 1 Pet 5;3; Lev 25:39-40), which later destroyed their lives totally at the end of their lives.

Was John the Baptist the promised Elijah? Yes spiritually (Luke 1:15-17), but such a great man identified Himself as a "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight." (Mark 1:3), in fact, if there is someone who could boast about being the Elijah of his generation, it was surely John the Baptist without doubt which even Scripture prophesied. But this great man was so humble that when people asked if he is not the prophet Elijah or any other prophet or Christ, who was he? He confessed and pointed to Christ whose sandals he was not worthy to remove (John 1:25-28). So these healing evangelist, were tripped by pride of self, that which caused Satan's downfall (1 Tim 3:6). No human can boast of pride free life as long as they are alive in the flesh body of sin, pride comes out of us as a peel of rotten onion, you take one layer, another layer and then another layer and so on and so forth until the full is no more of use of any good to God who hates it and stands against it (1 Pet 5:5; Gal 6:3; Prov 16:5). Above all, religious pride is the biggest deception to any human, be it a man of God or a simple recently converted saint, because it justifies self subtly and removes the glory which Christ should only receive, and instead take it for itself excluding Him out (Luke 18:9-14).

So does this mean, the Malachi prophesy of the Old Testament, Elijah I will send you before the dreadful day of the Lord is already over (Mal 4:5), but rather as Jesus Himself said, "Elijah is coming first" (Matt 17:11; Mark 9:12), that means literally and physically he is coming to the nation of Israel to turn them towards the Lord their God, before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to rule it for a Millennium (Rev 11:3). Hallelujah!

So no one should confuse the spiritual aspect and physical aspect of Elijah, to take for themselves the title of Elijah because of self-deception. Having said enough, God has allowed Brother Branham to die by an accident because he had been warned of the untimely exit through another man of God as he was self-deceived in pride of himself as Elijah. But instead, Branham did not repent of that sin of pride and wrong doctrines which caused his followers to follow his wrong doctrines, which completely threw them in to chaos and spiritual ship wreck of their faith in Jesus Christ (1 Tim 2:19-20). According to me and the word of God, every man's end should be great in God's sight and not vice-versa, in this the great man of God Branham failed (Eccl 7:8). To us all this is a type-lesson, that no matter how greatly God uses us, if we go out of our calling in to another's by pride, we will fail miserably. Instead of being a prophetic evangelist, he stepped in to teaching doctrines which became prominent after his time of limelight. Brother Branham doesn't want to lose that spot of limelight, that he stepped away from his call as prophet-evangelist in to a Bible Teacher.

If Branham had stayed humble, he would have never taken the limelight of God's glory for himself, instead would have given it all to Christ to walk as unprofitable servant, the attitude of which would have preserved his spiritual life until the end of his life (Luke 17:10; Php 2:6-8). So we must all stay true and faithful to the call God has given to us personally, whether it is the contemporary one or the old style one like John the Baptist. All that matters to God is, whether we will be "good and faithful" servant at the end of our lives which only carries great reward from God and glorifies Him for eternity ahead (Matt 25:21, 23).


What is my position on the 7th Angel of Rev 10?

First of all, Elijah and Enoch who both did not die but were taken to heaven directly in to the Presence of God to be prepared for a end time wild card entry in to the second half of the Daniel's 70th week (Dan 9:27), to turn the nation of Israel towards their Father's Messiah and the heart of the Father's of faith like all the Old Testament prophets and saints alike who are in heaven towards the Millennial nation of Israel (Mal 4:5-6), this will happen. Both the prophets will be a sign of repentance towards God for the nation of Israel first, and then as a witness to the nations of the earth. Therefore at the time of 7th angel who will blow the trumpet before the end of the second three and half years through the prophets (Rev 11:1-19), the prophets of God will be killed by the Antichrist and his followers. The whole world will rejoice at that sight which will be streamed live for three days. But at the end of three days, both of them will rise up and be caught up to heaven in a cloud, and all their enemies of God will see it. The mystery that will be over by that time is people seeing all the natural calamities and plagues and famines and destruction without seeing who is the One who is behind all these things will no more continue like that (Isa 45:15). But when the wrath of God comes against Antichrist directly through the bowls of wrath which will take place from heaven in a shortest period of time after which Jesus Christ and the Church will arrive on earth to rule for a Millennium, this mystery of who the Lord God is will all be over by the time Jesus and the Church arrives on earth (Rev 10:7; Acts 3:21). Under Jesus restoration of all the earth for God's glory will happen for a thousand years on this present sin tainted earth through the sons of God who are in the Church (Rom 8:19-21)!

I want you to believe the Word of God and not the words of humans who will be alive today but gone tomorrow (Matt 24:35). When you believe the words of Jesus, then you will experience salvation of your soul for eternity ahead! Praise the Lord.

GLORY TO GOD!!

MUch Blessings...

When Will Our Eternal Life Start?

Eternal Life Will Start When We Die, Or At Our Resurrection And Thereafter Standing At Jesus' Bema Seat Of Judgment?

Question: When will our eternal life start? The moment we die? Or At our resurrection and thereafter when we stand at Jesus Bema Seat of Judgement? Luke 17:20 : “One day the Pharisees asked Jesus “When will the Kingdom of God begin?” Jesus replied , “ The Kingdom of God isn’t ushered in with visible signs“.

Answer: Praise the Lord! Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful name.

So what is eternal life in reality! Is it the life that starts the moment we die physically? Is it the life in our resurrection body, or is it the rewards that Jesus gives us all, at the time of the Bema Seat Judgment for believers that make us realize the reality of our eternal life? A very thoughtful question indeed.

Yes when the Pharisees asked Jesus, "When will the Kingdom of God begin?” Jesus replied , “ The Kingdom of God isn’t ushered in with visible signs (Luke 17:20), but He did not stop there, but went on further to teach humans about the reality of eternal life by saying further, "21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” In short, people were expecting visible signs and physical manifestation of the Kingdom of God which they could feel with their five senses.

But Jesus lifted their eyes to the reality of heaven that can be present within their spirit when they believe Him and become "born again" (John 3:3), so that the realization of God's Kingdom could be tangibly felt by them within spiritually when they really hear the voice of Jesus through their spirit (Rev 19:10), the voice of the King of the Kingdom of God which carries power to experience it and follow him the rest of their lives (Eccl 8:4)! Hallelujah!

Also if we could dig a little deeper in to the Greek word, 'eternal life', we could exactly understand this subject deeply. Eternal life is not just that - eternal, which means "forever" and in a literal sense it means when life ends here, it continues in heaven with God. But rather the word 'Zoe' specifically is used in the Bible. It means eternal life or “The God-kind of life.” The. rich abundant divine nature of God; His fullness of love, joy, power and ability.

While modern translations define Zoe as "life," "vitality," or even "soul," Biblical explanations of the word Zoe are more complex. Experts on Biblical scripture define "zoe" as eternal life or life that is possessed by a divine being, such as the one and only God who is the Creator of all things. Zoe is a gender-neutral name of Greek origins, meaning “life.” In the third century, Alexandrian Jews translated the Hebrew name Eve to its Greek equivalent, Zoe.

Actually Jesus describes this in explaining eternal life, that is to know the Father who is the one and only true creator God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent to reveal that 'zoe' life within their spirit so that they "may be perfect in one" (John 17:23). What is this one? One is the "one spirit with Him" (1 Cor 6:17). The Bible uses the phrase eternal life in a positive sense, that is, we become one interpenetratively with God, who shares this eternal "Zoe" quality of life that He enjoys always, in His pleasure He chooses to share with us now more and more, as we seek to please Him now and live the rest of our eternity with Him in heaven in His glory, that glory which we will actually receive at the time of our resurrection and further at the Bema seat of judgment (2 Cor 5:8; Rom 8:18). Eternal Life is a God-quality of life that begins on earth in a progressive way and continues in heaven, but most importantly it is a calling given by God to all the believers as long as they are alive physically, so that by choice they should learn to walk in the newness of 'Zoe' life, to live it loud as a testimony and witness before the world to bring glory to God, who has chosen them before the foundation of the world (Romans 6:4; Eph 1:4). Thus we can choose to reject self and embrace that 'zoe' life 24/7/365 by choosing to rejoice in the Lord always, no matter what happens outside of us physically or soulishly or socially (Php 4:4). People like apostle Paul and his apostolic company who practiced 'Zoe', were seen by the world as mad (Acts 26:26-27), because they were really mad to fulfill the will of God and to please Him all the time so that even when they were put in prison for telling people everywhere about Him and this eternal life, they still sang and rejoiced in the Lord (Acts 16:25-34)!

The realms of Zoe is mentioned in the Bible in the book of Colossians chapter 1, verse 10. It is a ever increasing life of God within us as we learn to walk with Him day by day until we see Him one day face to face in heaven, and live in His eternal glory which He shares with His sons who will inherit His Kingdom (Matt 25:34). Truly, heaven is a prepared place for prepared people. Hallelujah!

This is true eternal life! GLORY.....!

Much Blessings....

Does The Rapture And The Second Coming Of Jesus Will Work The Same Or Differently?

Will The Dead In Christ Rise Up First And Those Who Are Alive Will Get Caught Up Along With Them In The Air, Both At The Time Of The Rapture And The Second Coming?

Question: Does the Rapture and the Second Coming of Jesus will work the same or differently? Will the dead in Christ rise up first and those who are alive will get caught up along with them in the air, both at the time of the Rapture and the Second Coming? Do you think that apostle Paul speaks about two different events, one in 1 Thess 4:13-18 and the other in 1 Cor 15:51-58? Or Paul speaks about the same event in both the places. What is your take on it?

Answer: Greetings in the holy and mighty name of our Lord Jesus Christ!

In both the verses of 1 Thess 4:13-18 and the other in 1 Cor 15:51-58, Paul speaks about a standard operating procedure that will take place in the Rapture and about both in the next place of 1 Cor 15:52, that is, "16...the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord." (1 Thess 4:16-17) and "51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." (1 Cor 15:51-52).

Both of the above verses speak about the same as well as two different things, 1 Thess 4:13-18 speaks about the Rapture of the Church, this we all know as this is the first time and place God had revealed about the Rapture of the Church through Paul the apostle. But the passages in 1 Cor 15:51-58 speaks about the Rapture in the verse 1 Cor 15:51 and then continues to speak about the next event in succession which is the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in 1 Cor 15:52. You may ask the question, how do you know for sure that Paul is shifting gears to suddenly speak about the next event in God's calendar which is the Second Coming of Christ immediately after speaking about the event of Rapture taking place in 1 Cor 15:51?

Here is the proof, "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed" (1 Cor 15:51), the preceding verse explains that not all will die, but instead we all, which includes the dead and the living at the time of the Rapture shall all be changed.

The same verse continues in the next...revealing that "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (1 Cor 15:52). Here is the catch, those who are left behind were included in the final lukewarm Church of Laodiceans where Jesus is standing outside the Church because it is already raptured, and thus He knocks at the door of the heart of the left behind believers because they disobeyed his command to, 'watch and pray!'. These were promised that if they overcome the lure of the one world government by recognizing the love, rebuke and chastening of the Lord Jesus to even die as a martyr, they were promised a wild card resurrection for living as priest in His earthly temple, through which they will enter the earthly throne of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Church. If they [(i.e.) the tribulation saints] overcome just as Jesus overcame the world through His death and sat down in the heavenly throne of the Father in heaven nearly 2000 years ago itself, they too will reign over the whole world just as Jesus our Christ spiritually rules the world until now (Rev 2:14-22; Isa 9:6; Dan 2:44; Zec 14:9; Rom 8:34; Rev 20:4-6).

As we know that the last trumpet will be the seventh trumpet, that will continue to sound till the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Church to the earth to establish His throne on the earth (Rev 11:15-19). This is why, the Bible calls and describes this final trumpet as "in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel" (Rev 10:7) which means, the sound of the 7th trumpet blown by two prophets will continue to sound for many days even after they die and rise up in a special resurrection to be taken up to heaven before the whole world, who will see it and then fear God for what has taken place before them, that is, the 7th trumpet will sound until the times of restoration of all things takes place by Jesus and His Church on earth (Rev 10:7; Acts 3:21). Hallelujah!

The final resurrection will be the first resurrection for all the martyrs who will all be changed right in to the millennial rule of Jesus Christ and the Church (Rev 20:6), as apostle Paul describes saying, "52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." (1 Cor 15:52).

In this resurrection, all the martyrs for Jesus and the Word of God from Abel to the last one will rise up and live for a thousand years time in their resurrected supernatural bodies to be priests of God in the earthly temple to rule the earth through their intercession for a thousand years time (Psa 72:15; Matt 23:35, 38-39; Rev 6:9-11; 20:4-6; 11:17-18, 15-16).

Yes in the Rapture of the Church, those who are dead in Christ and sleep in Him, will rise up first. Then those  who are alive will be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air, but during the Second Coming of Jesus Christ...all the dead martyrs who have died for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus will only be raised up (Rev 13:8-10, 15; 6:9-11), all others will be gathered by the Lord around the world and the sheep of believers who live will be separated from the goat of the unbelievers, and then only the believers will be sent in to inherit the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus and the Church. But all the unbelievers will be destroyed physically to be sent in to everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels, by the Lord Jesus Christ and His army of Church saints working along with him through the power of His word (Mat 25:31-46).     

To look to find more information regarding how 1 Cor 15:51-58 speaks about the secret coming of Jesus as well as His Second Coming mainly, read the following post titled, "5 Reasons Why First Corinthians Fifteenth Chapter Speaks About Second Coming".

Much Blessings.....

Difference Between A Son Of God And The Only Begotten Son Of God?

Is Jesus God’s Son? Can God Have A Son?

Question: Is Jesus God’s Son? How could Allah, being one, have a Son? Some of the Christians raise the same question in the following way, 'Why can't God have a Son?' I want to know exactly, 'Can God Have A Son?' If He does, what does Son of God means in context described in the Bible? I want to also understand the difference between a Son of God and the only begotten Son of God in the Bible? Thanks in advance.


Answer: Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful and mighty name!

First of all, the Muslims objection to why Jesus cannot be the Son of God, is because of the following verse written in their Surah Al-An'am - 101 of Quaran which says, '[He is] Originator of the heavens and the earth. How could He have a son when He does not have a companion [i.e., wife] and He created all things? And He is, of all things, Knowing.' — Saheeh International

The assumption that is floated here in the above verse of Quaran is, 'How could God have a son when He does not have a companion?' is spoken only in a physical sense, but the Bible speaks about Jesus being the Son of God, which means 'Messiah' primarily in a spiritual sense for the world of humans, and also in a physical sense to the Jewish nation of Israel even before two thousand years. The simple logical question which easily buries the limited perspective of Quaran is, if God is all powerful, all knowing as the Quaranic verse describes above, and present everywhere, Why can't God have a Son? And that too in the way Bible describes Jesus as being born through a virgin, meaning, God's Spirit moving upon her and bringing the eternal Son from heaven and putting him in to a body of a baby to be born as a natural physical human, as Emmanuel, God with us (Isa 9:6). Remember dear people, the Son was not born but was rather given from heaven, but the child was only born on earth.

The question that we need to ask ourselves is, could the Lord of all the heavens and the earth, not have spiritual power enough to become a physical being which was created by Him? By no means we can ever limit the power of God by our unbelief, as all things are possible with Him, and the things which we see physically have been created by the spiritual word of His power, therefore it is God's pleasure to send His eternal Son to this earth to save humans from sin and hell fire (Luke 1:31-35, 37-37; Heb 11:3).

Do you know that God the Son was eternally alive, in the past, present and also will be in the future (Heb 13:8)? That means God the Son was self-existent, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient even before he ever took the title of the Son of God to show the love of God to humanity, through the grand round table discussion in heaven that had happened between the three person of the Trinity before the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4-5; 1 Pet:18-20; Rom 8:29; Job 38:4-6). The very word 'Son of God' was something assigned by Himself for his own mission, and for the vision of the Trinity to be fulfilled in His time (John 5:43; Heb 1:1-4; Gal 4:4). Therefore it is used in an anthropomorphic language to relate to human, so that they might be able to share the love of God and believe the true God who has created them in His own image (John 10:18; Gen 1:26-27; John 17:23).

In fact, the very first logical question Mary asked angel Gabriel was, how can I bear a son without knowing a physical man as I am not yet married but only engaged? This is the greatest of all miracle in the entire universe ever, because God himself chose to become a baby and be born as a human being in Jesus through the womb of Mary. God never ceased to exist, when he became a human in Jesus and that is why the word 'Immanuel', God with us was prophesied in the Old Testament, and came in to existence through the New Testament times when he became a human being (Isa 7:14; Matt 1:23)! The messiah of Israel is a sign to the world, that the Savior of the world from all sins have arrived to redeem them all, and give freedom to live with God in His Presence of eternal life forever and ever (Matt 1:21; Isa 54:5; 45:22; John 3:16). Hallelujah!

Quran 3:47 also supports and ascribes the virginity of Mary, revealing that "no man has touched [her]". 66:12 states that Jesus was born when the spirit of God breathed upon Mary, whose body was chaste. This is why I say, Quran has no coherence and contradicts the very words it has spoken previously in other places. In others words, it supports and speaks what it wants and where it wants, without any thought of contradictions that people will find in it to get confused by its lies.

The physical sense of the word 'son' should be taken in context and never be limited, but should be extended in to figurative, metamorphical and spiritual sense in context as the Bible does. If I say, I am a son of my country, does it mean my country had sex and gave birth to me? If we know English properly, we will say and understand this above sentence in context. But why is that when it comes to religious text, people are so adamant to say and understand it out of context? If we say, Gandhi was the father of India, does it mean Gandhi had to have sex with someone to produce India? By no means, but in context Gandhi was a freedom fighter who promoted non-violence struggle against the British to receive freedom for Indian people from them, so he was called as a father of the nation of India in context. In Ephesians, there is the phrase “sons of disobedience” referring to those who are allied with Satan. ‘Sons of disobedience’ simply means they are of the nature of disobedience spiritually. Could we take the meaning of this Ephesian Scripture to extreme to say that, Satan had sex physically with people to produce children on earth? That is the kind of foolishness that religious people who take the Scripture out of context promote.



GOD IS LOVE BECAUSE HE IS THREE IN PERSON BUT ONE IN ESSENCE OF HIS NATURE

"God is love" (1 John 4:8), which means God is already more than one person, but one in the nature of his character and essence. Jesus revealed that God is One, but three in person, meaning, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are all one God without any difference or change in opinion (Matt 28:18-20). God cannot be love residing in a single person, if He could not share it with others, how could He have the reason for his existence in Himself? Hence without out love he will be in need of it, which will disqualify him out of being a God.

Love creates a need to share it with atleast one other person. There is not a iota of need or care ever in the eternal existence of God. In other words, God is never in need of anything, in fact, if he has a need, he cannot continue to be a self-existent God whose very reason for existence is in himself (Num 23:19; Titus 1:2; Heb 6:18). Eternal life in itself is to know God through His love for us and coming in to a eternal relationship with Him just as He had been in Himself (John 17:3, 23).  .

God is one in nature or essence of His Character! What does it really mean? It means even though there are three person revealed in the Bible, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit (Matt 28:19), yet they are all of the same essence of their Character. The Godness of the Godhead, remain intact within the three of them in the same way, but they are all one God (Php 2:6).

In other words, because we humans even though are the same as a human being 99.99 percentage all the time, yet that .01 percentage of difference makes a lot of unique identity to remain very much visible intact and stable enough to differentiate and be divided among humans physically. The same humans, when their Character is measured, each one is so different we cannot think how even two person can be one. But when it comes to God, His character is so much the same, that even though they are three in person, but they remain the exact replica of the other in Character. God's language is spoken in character, but our thinking of how God might be is based on physical appearance. Once we are on the journey to find God through the love of His character, only then we look beyond physical appearance in to the oneness of the character of God (John 17:23). Thus one God in whom love is shared is the real one, and all other are our own wild imaginations, fables and dim view of our self, and that God who created us can only be found through believing His love revealed in Christ Jesus as He always remains in perfection! Hallelujah! GLORY TO GOD!

This is the reason, the Bible reveals that we did not love God first, but He loved us and therefore He gave His only begotten Son to save us from sin (1 John 4:19). Sin has dimmed our view of God to our own wild imaginations (Isa 59:2), that is the reason, God has revealed Himself to all humans through His word which is the person of Jesus Christ His Son (John 1:14). Either we believe His Son to have life eternal, or have nothing at all to live without God in hell fire after we die physically by staying in unbelief of our own heart (Heb 3:12-14; 1 John 5:10-13).



HERE ARE THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SON OF GOD AND THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON


1) The Son of God Raises Many Sons of God In Resurrection: When we say, son of God in the Bible, it speaks about all who believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior and Creator were given the rights to be the sons of God spiritually now and physically after our resurrection forever (John 1:12). Even Adam was a son of God before the fall in to sin through disobedience (Luke 3:38). But then after the fall, we only have sons of Adam and not sons of God (Gen 5:3).

God revealed His only begotten Son (i.e regarded after His resurrection in a new metaphysical body (Acts 13:32-34)), because God the Father in heaven raised up Jesus, so that we who are begotten by the Father's word may come to believe that God is pleased with our lives too, and that we too will rise up very soon in our metaphysical body just like Jesus did (1 Pet 1:23; 1 John 3:1-3).


2) Only The Son of God Was Raised From The Dead For The First Time To Live Forever, And All Others Follow Him: There are many sons that God calls to glory (Heb 2:10). In other words, all who have believed God in Christ Jesus to die and also live (John 11:25-26), will be raised from the dead to live on with God forever when He comes to take away the Church for Himself from the earth!

But there is only one and only begotten Son, who is the first one to be raised from the dead to live on forever (Rev 1:5). All the others will only follow him at the time of the Rapture (1 Thess 4:14-18).


3) The Son of God Was Brought From Heaven, We The Sons of God Are Born From Above: Jesus Christ being the Creator of all universe, was God's one and only unique begotten, brought in to the world by the Holy Spirit as God's Son from heaven by the birth of His inheritance (John 8:23; Luke 1:35; Col 1:13-18; Heb 1:5).

Jesus Christ as the first cause of all things and being the owner of this earth, have come to us His creations on earth (1 John 4:9), so that believing Him we might also likewise become begotten by our belief to share God's inheritance in and through Him (1 John 5:1, 18; Col 1:12; Eph 1:11, 18; Rom 8:17).


4) The Son of God Is The Creator, We The Sons of God Are Created: Jesus Christ died and suffered for us as God's only begotten son (John 3:16) and there can be none qualified in heaven, on earth and under the earth to take the spot of him, because He was God the Son before the foundation of the world in the plans of God (Rev 5:1-5, 6-7, 8-14). Only Jesus Christ is worthy of all the worship of both angels and humans alike because He was and is and is to come the God of all His creation. Hallelujah!

Now as sons of God being guided by the Holy Spirit (Rom 8:14), if we suffer in the flesh like Jesus in our earthly lives, we will be rewarded in glory as God's Son in our heavenly life afterwards (Rev 21:7). Remember, God has "begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead" (1 Pet 1:3-5) and not apart from him, that is why He is the only begotten Son and we through Him are His sons, and not his only begotten sons, nor can ever be as we are His creation and He is the Creator! Jesus Christ is our Creator, and we are not our own creation, and cannot be one because we have only limited power that He has given us and not infinite power, wisdom and glory like the one and only God. The bottom line is, if we choose to share in Christ's suffering now, we will reign with Him then in our after life as the sons of God (2 Tim 2:12).


5) God The Son Became The Son of God, So That We The Sons Of Adam Could Become The Sons Of God: Just as announced by Angel Gabriel, Jesus is the one and only person who was born through Mary without any human intervention, who was "the holy thing which is begotten" and therefore He is the one and only who "shall be called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35). The word comes from the Greek Christos, a translation of the Hebrew Messiah (John 1:41). Son of God will be the Anointed Son of God, that is why, John the Baptist confirmed to the whole nation of Israel, that He saw the anointing coming upon Jesus from heaven alighting as of a dove when he baptized him in the water (Matt 3:13-17; Luke 3:21-22; Mark 1:9-11; John 1:29-33, 34). Both terms come from verbs, which mean, “to anoint with sacred oil”; hence, as titles, they mean “the Anointed One.” These names for Jesus express the idea that God anointed Him to save His people from their sins and make them instead His sons (Matt 1:21; Rom 9:26).

The term "son of God" is used in the Hebrew Bible as another way to refer to humans who have a special relationship with God. In Exodus, the nation of Israel is called God's firstborn son. Solomon is also called "son of God". Angels, just and pious men, and the kings of Israel are all called "sons of God." But there can be the one and only anointed "Son of God" who will be the Messiah of Israel and also the Savior of the whole world (Luke 19:10). This is the confirmed God the Son in the Scripture of the Old Testament who became the Son of God in in the New Testament, thus fully revealed in Christ Jesus! Hallelujah!!! GLORY BE TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST!


6) MONOGENES : The Only One Of Its Kind In The Covenant With God And In Sharing The Same Divine Nature As God - The phrase “only begotten Son” occurs in John 3:16, which reads in the King James Version as, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The phrase "only begotten" translates the Greek word monogenes. This word is variously translated into English as "only," "one and only," and "only begotten." So what does monogenes mean? According to the Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (BDAG, 3rd Edition), monogenes has two primary definitions. The first definition is "pertaining to being the only one of its kind within a specific relationship." For example, Isaac was the one and only Son of the covenant for Abraham (Heb 11:17). The second definition is "pertaining to being the only one of its kind or class, unique in kind." This is the meaning that is implied in John 3:16 (see also John 1:14, 18; 3:18; 1 John 4:9). John was primarily concerned with demonstrating that Jesus is the Son of God (John 20:31), and he uses monogenes to highlight Jesus as uniquely God’s Son—sharing the same divine nature as God—as opposed to believers who are God’s sons and daughters by adoption (Ephesians 1:5). Jesus is God’s “one and only” Son.

False teachers have latched onto this phrase to try to prove their false teaching that Jesus Christ isn’t God; i.e., that Jesus isn’t equal in essence to God as the Second Person of the Trinity. They see the word "begotten" and say that Jesus is a created being because only someone who had a beginning in time can be "begotten." What this fails to note is that "begotten" is an English translation of a Greek word. As such, we have to look at the original meaning of the Greek word, not transfer English meanings into the text. "Father" and "Son," descriptive of God and Jesus, are human terms that help us understand the relationship between the different Persons of the Trinity. If you can understand the relationship between a human father and a human son, then you can understand, in part, the relationship between the First and Second Persons of the Trinity. The analogy breaks down if you try to take it too far and teach, as some pseudo-Christian cults (such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses), that Jesus was literally "begotten" as in “produced” or “created” by God the Father [Certain points are repeated from : https://www.gotquestions.org/only-begotten-son.html].


7) The Sinless Son Of God Was Declared To Israel, But The Only Begotten Son Was The First To Be Raised From The Dead Declared To The Whole World : While the only begotten Son of God, is proved beyond doubt in the Bible as Jesus Christ, there needs to be a healthy discussion of it in the Church to keep the flock of God from being deceived (Matt 16:16; 24:4-5).

As the God the Son who lived in eternity past have come in to the time bound present as the Son of God, without a trace of doubt it is God who have testified from heaven during the baptism of Jesus that He as His beloved Son has lived sinlessly (Matt 3:17), that Jesus as the unique Messiah who has lived sinlessly, have pleased Him with his earthly life in perfect obedience through suffering (Heb 5:8), so that He could anoint him to be the one and only begotten Son of the Father during His resurrection after his death (Acts 13:33-35).


GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST AND PEACE TOWARDS HUMANS! Praise the Lord!

Much Blessings....