Know God and Make Him Known In the Coming Tribulation
He is not coming with another rescue mission. He did that 2,000 years ago. He is coming today to rule and reign. God is asking us to be in battle formation.[1]
Dr. Mila Lily Mercader,[2] presentation at the Promise Governance Institute Conference, September 15, 2023
Introduction
Current events quickly drop into place as described in the Bible to confirm that the end of most things as we have known them is now at hand.
The world is careening toward global, catastrophic destruction called the great tribulation[3] that will usher in a new beginning when Jesus returns.
Christians will be saved, and saints who endure to the end of the great tribulation will survive to see the return of Jesus.
We are the Body of Christ, Doing His Ministry Until He Returns
Our Father showed His overwhelming love for us in that while we were yet sinners, He gave His one unique Son (fn) to die for our sins.[4] That whosoever believes in Him, and believes that He died for our sins,[5] would have eternal life.[6]
Until Jesus came, no one had ever seen the face of God,[7] no not one,[8] but then Jesus declared to Philip, if you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen the Father.[9]
During His earthly ministry, our Lord changed the whole world,[10] [11] as people came to know the one true God.[12] Husbands, wives, and children became better people, communities grew in goodness, even nations conducted themselves in accordance with the will of the Father as Jesus had taught.[13] Even today, many countries, such as the Philippines,[14] continue to declare their national allegiance as Christian nations.
Luke tells us in Acts that that all Jesus said and did, was only the beginning.[15]
God’s heart desire is that none should perish, but that all come to repentance and obtain eternal life.[16] So the Lord Jesus commissioned His followers,[17] to seek and save unbelievers[18] and build His church until He returns.
The body of Christ on earth’s mission is to continue His work building the kingdom, up to and through the great tribulation – and here is what we shall do. Continue to know God and make Him known.
What is the Great Tribulation?
We trust the Bible when the Lord Jesus says that Jesus’ return will be immediately preceded by the eruption of so much evil, hate, destruction, and death[19] – that most people will no longer want to live,[20] and most the earth’s population will be killed in only few years.[21]
The prophet Daniel conveyed a vision from God that the great time of distress at the end of the age would last seven years.[22]
Jesus said, there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now.[23] And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved.[24]
How Can We be Sure We are at the End of this Age?
Jesus taught that no one, not even the angels knew the day and the hour of His return.[25]
But our Lord also criticized teachers for being able to recognize trends in the weather and yet they could not see God’s plan unfolding right in front of them.[26] He said to be watchful and know. (fn Lk 21:22, Lk 21:31, and Lk 21:34. Read together confirm Jesus warned us to be alert, watch for the signs of the end, and know when it is at hand.)
When the apostles asked Jesus, what will be the warning signs of His return,[27] the Lord answered them:[28]
Nations will rise up in arms against nations. There will be great earthquakes, and famines and plagues, and terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.[29] Nations will be in distress, anxious over the roaring of the sea and the surging waves.[30]
What is happening now, on a global scale, disproportionately worse than anything seen before, to show us that today truly is the beginning of the end of the age?
There are three Biblical prophesies that are core components of the great tribulation that were impossible just a few years ago, and now they are materializing:
1. Ezekiel said that a country from the far north[31] will join with nations that surround Israel, including Iran and Ethiopia,[32] and will attack Israel.[33]
2. A preeminent world leader called the Anti-Christ[34] and the Beast[35] will bring a covenant of peace to Israel and the Middle East for a few years.[36] The Anti-Christ will control virtually all the governments of the world,[37] and his organization called the Beast will control all the money in the world,[38] determining who can buy and sell anything of value.[39]
3. During that time, catastrophic events will batter the earth with fury never seen in the history of humankind.[40] Terrifying objects will fall from the heavens[41] that cause great destruction to the oceans and rivers,[42] and the sky will become dark.[43]
Each of those three terrifying predictions are now transforming into reality:
1. Russia is building the most powerful army in the world, annihilating Ukraine in Russia’s proxy war with the West, and allying itself with Israel’s enemies.
2. One financial beast, BlackRock dominates use of most the money in the world.
3. A planet killing asteroid Apophis is on a collision course with earth.
Russia is Building the Most Powerful Army in the World and Allied with Israel’s Enemies
Renowned military expert Douglas Macgregor[44] joins a chorus of many military and intelligence analysts,[45] assessing that Russia is winning an overwhelming victory in its war in Ukraine against the West, while the U.S. and NATO watch impotently.[46] Macgregor, a West Point graduate, and retired Army colonel, earned a PhD in international relations from the University of Virginia, and was a senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense.[47]
Macgregor has warned that the Ukrainian war has made Russia far more powerful.[48] He reports, Their missiles, their rockets, their artillery ammunitions stocks are enormous. Their factories are running seven days a week, 24 hours a day, churning out whatever is required. Macgregor likened the Russian Army to a Tyrannosaurus Rex and said, If you try to confront this monster, it eats you alive.[49]
Add to that that Russia has recently allied itself with Israel’s arch-enemy Iran,[50] and that Iran is supplying Russia with killer drone missiles for its war in Ukraine.[51] Moreover Russia, in August 2023, accepted Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates as new members in its anti-American, global economic bloc called BRICS.[52]
So Russia’s military is morphing into a monster army that the U.S. and its allies are powerless to stop, and Russia, has allied with Israel’s enemies Iran and Ethiopia, and other foes of Israel as described in the Bible.
One Financial Beast BlackRock Dominates the Use of Most the Money in the World
Many news reports, outside of the censored legacy news media, expose that a cabal of a small number of money manager corporations, control most of the money in the world.[53]
BlackRock, Inc. one company, manages about $10 trillion in assets which account for 25 percent of the entire world economy.[54] But its reach goes far, far beyond.
Innovation & Tech Digital Magazine did a deep dive and wrote that, it seems that all roads lead to BlackRock.[55] BlackRock along with two other financial giants, Vanguard and State Street dominate the financial investment industry,[56] but actually BlackRock owns substantial shares of the other two.[57] In other words, BlackRock, Inc. appears to own or control it all.
BlackRock wields a secret weapon called ALADDIN, an advanced stock and asset trading algorithm which has been influencing financial markets for decades,[58] and by some estimates, allows BlackRock to operate over $21 trillion in assets, or more than half the world economy.[59]
As a law professor, I taught my law students that any time an entity, be it a person, a government, or a corporation, exercises a right to more than 50 percent of something, they own it.
Do you ever wonder why virtually all the legacy news media stories (that is from CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, and even Fox) pretty much sound the same?
Consider this. BlackRock owns 18 percent of Fox, 16 percent of CBS, 13 percent of NBC and MSNBC, 12 percent of CNN, and 12 percent of Disney – which according to Innovation & Tech allows BlackRock to, direct narratives globally and influence geopolitics at the grandest of scales.[60]
In plain language, BlackRock powerfully influences world news media and politics.
All this exposure has prompted the growth of a tsunami wave of digital, business and world news, internet reporting, that claims that BlackRock owns the world.[61]
Today, in the summer of 2023, no one can say for sure that BlackRock is or will be the Beast of the Anti-Christ prophesied in the Bible.[62] But what is certain now, is that when the Anti-Christ and the Beast do reveal themselves relatively soon, the Beast will necessarily have to operate with control of all the world financial markets, exactly as BlackRock has pioneered the model. BlackRock has built the machine.
A Planet Killing Asteroid Apophis is on a Collision Course with Earth
Scientists discovered Asteroid 99942 Apophis in 2004 when it made a near earth pass.[63] They warned then that Apophis would veer dangerously close to earth on Friday, April 13, 2029, and again on Monday, April 13, 2036.[64]
Later, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory sought to assuage fears by claiming that new calculations show Apophis has no chance of hitting earth in the next hundred years.[65]
However, Dr. Thomas R. Horn[66] in his book the Wormwood Prophesy,[67] convincingly argues that independent scientific research by recognized physicist Nathan Myhrvold led Myhrvold to accuse NASA of deliberately misreporting the number of threats by passing, near-earth objects.[68]
Dr. Horn points to Harry Lear, a retired entrepreneur, with a mathematics and engineering background, who researched back and forth the mathematical projections of the trajectory of Apophis and found the NASA calculations to be based on false assumptions. He sent two open letters to then President Donald Trump warning him of the danger of Apophis crashing into earth on April 13, 2029.[69]
Apophis is larger than 300 meters across.[70] If an asteroid that size, or large chunks of it, were to plunge into the earth’s atmosphere, the event could be catastrophic.[71] Best seller author, and freelance journalist, Greg Bear wrote for CNN in an article, Don’t Count the ‘Doomsday Asteroid’ Out Yet, that Apophis may cause the death of billions.[72]
What is the Lot of Christians?
The Bible describes two groups of survivors going into the great tribulation:
There will be Christians who are saved spiritually because of their faith in Jesus, but who will be killed.[73] Jesus said of them, everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.[74]
John wrote in Revelation that he witnessed in the throne room of God a vast multitude of something like millions of saints martyred from every nation and every language group on earth during the great tribulation.[75] The martyred saints were told that the killing of believers in the tribulation would continue until God’s appointed number had been reached.[76]
And the Bible describes Christians who physically survive the tribulation. Jesus promised that the one who endures to the end of the tribulation will be saved.[77]
John had seen in his visions that the enemy, the Beast,[78] was given power to make war on the saints of every nation and every language group, and authority to conquer believers.[79] John wrote, those who were destined to be killed by weapons would be, and those destined to go into captivity would go – and so this was a call for the endurance of the saints.[80]
But John saw that ultimately, they overcame Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by the word or their testimony. This speaks of victories by the Christian saints surviving in the tribulation.[81]
And then, exactly as the Bible teaches in First Thessalonians, Chapter 4, the Lord Himself will come down from heaven with a shout of a command, and with the trumpet of God. The dead will rise first. And we who are alive and are left will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.[82]
That verb, meet, is from the Greek word α΄πα΄ντησις (apantesis) which is used three times in the New Testament.[83] It means to act as a greeting party, welcoming an arrival, and it implies staying, not departing.[84]
You Were Born for This Moment in Time
It is not random chance that you were born now for engagement with this age and the evil coming upon us. Apostle Paul wrote in his letter to the Ephesians that, We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.[85] So God says that long ago, that He decided to create each of us with specific work to do now.
How Should the Church Prepare?
Continue to build the kingdom of God by knowing God,[86] and making Him known.[87]
Know God
Apostle John tells us in the Gospel of John, Chapter 17, that Jesus prayed to His Father, This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.[88] And Jesus added, I declare O righteous Father that Your love for Me be also in them whom You gave to Me.[89] Then John concluded in his letter First John, that, We love God because He first loved us.[90]
Our attitude, going into the tribulation is to continue to know God and make Him known, but we are likely doomed to fall away if we try to stay on course without deeply loving God. Paul said to the Corinthians that above all, if we have not love, we have nothing.[91] It is what makes us followers of Christ. It is our identity.[92]
So by loving God – loving the Father, loving Jesus, loving the Holy Spirit - the more we lean into the presence of God – the more we are empowered. That urges us to know God by studying His word, meditating on it, and absorbing it into our spirits and our souls.
It leads us to discipleship under pastors and teachers who guide and help correct us. And molds us toward purity which is our insulation in the coming tribulation.
And knowing God enables us to hear His voice.
Jesus declared, My sheep hear My voice.[93] And at the last supper, the Lord promised that after He had ascended into heaven that He would send the Holy Spirit.[94] And that the Holy Spirit would guide us into all truth and speak of things to come.[95]
And as we grow in love with God, and knowledge of God, we gain in confidence by hearing His voice guide us step by step.
Make God Known
Pastor Jonathan Stockstill writes that Jesus commissioned us with His mission, His authority, and His Spirit to continue to build the kingdom of God on earth until His return.[96]
After discipling the apostles, the Lord made clear at the last supper that just as He and the Father were one,[97] and Jesus had witnessed to His followers what He had seen His Father do;[98] that in the same way, Jesus was confident that He and His followers were also one, and that Jesus expected that they, too, should witness to all the world.[99] Then He prayed intimately to His Father, aloud, that His prayer was not just for the His followers there, but also for all those who would later believe.[100]
The Gospel of Matthew records that the final words of Jesus before He ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father,[101] were, Go and make disciples of all nations, and surely, I am with you always, even to the very end of the age.[102]
That means that Jesus’ intention was that there would be an unbroken line of witness-workers until His return. And so, it must be understood that the impartation of Christ’s mission, His authority, and His Spirit must continue from generation to generation, building the kingdom of God – even into the last, lost regions and language groups,[103] and then comes the Lord’s return at the end of the age.[104]
Paul wrote to the church at Thessalonica how proud he was of them because after he and his ministry team had testified about the gospel to them, accompanied with the power of the Holy Spirt,[105] that they the Thessalonians imitated Paul and his team, by going forth to testify with power in Macedonia and Achaia.[106]
That is the model for the churches today – to continue to build the body of Christ, the kingdom of God, with the power of the Holy Spirit operating with us.
Use the Gifts Given to you by God to Evangelize and Build the Body of Christ
Peter wrote that the goal of the believer in the end time is that in everything God may be glorified through Christ Jesus by using individual gifts given by God to each believer to speak the word of God or serve others.[107]
Apostle Paul said the same thing, that Christ had given gifts to every believer to equip the saints and build up the body of Christ.[108] And Jude also wrote, Build up the body of Christ, snatch the lost from the flames, and minister to the church.[109]
The gifts include teaching,[110] administration,[111] prophesy,[112] words of knowledge[113] and wisdom,[114] miracles,[115] healings,[116] helps,[117] tongues,[118] and even craftmanship.[119] Unique gifts for every believer.
In the great tribulation, Jesus warned us, they will hate you.[120] Many things may be taken from you.[121]
But one of the things that God will not allow anyone to take from you are the working gifts that are given to you by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus assured us that the Holy Spirit would remain with us forever,[122] and Apostle Paul told the Corinthians that the gifts of the Holy Spirit such as prophesy, tongues, and gifts of knowledge stop when the perfect returns[123] - that is, when Jesus returns.
Paul said to the Romans that the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.[124] So God expects you to work until the end, wielding His mighty power with your own special gifts.
My Concluding Words to You are These:
Be bold for Christ. Remember that, The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe.[125]
Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both the soul and the body in hell.[126]
Yes, the tribulation will be terrifying. But focus, not on what the enemy is doing, but rather what God is doing. Know this:
Where sin abounds, grace abounds much more.[127]
If God is for us, who can be against us?[128]
You were born for such a time as this.[129]
He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.[130]
He who has begun a good work in you will see it through to the day of Christ Jesus.[131]
And, despite that the Beast will be given authority to conquer us,[132] know that, in all things we are more than conquerors,[133] in the name of Christ Jesus, even in the coming tribulation.
ROBERT GRANT
February 3, 2024
[1] Dr. Mercader’s presentation at the Promise Governance Institute annual conference held in Baldwin Park, California on September 15, 2023, www.facebook.com/Mike Adelle McKinney Group, retrieved 9/28/2023. Dr. Mercader’s message began discussing the shaking, persecution, and tribulations to come and concluded with He is not coming with another rescue mission. He did that 2,000 years ago. He is coming today to rule and to reign. God is asking us to be in battle formation. We need to pursue the enemy in battle formation.
[2] Mila Lily Mercader is the cofounder of Mighty Dove Foundation, an international speaker, who has been engaged in ministry for more than 30 years. She is the CEO of Mighty Dove Financial Group with offices in California and the Philippines. She holds an honorary doctorate from Promise Christian University, and she is the author of several books including Kingdom Operations, Books 1,2 and 3. Retrieved from www.mdfg.us/ceo.html, 9/28/2023.
[3] Mt 24:21 (ESV, NKJV, NASB)
[4] Ro 5:8 and John 3:16
[5] 1 Cor 15:3
[6] John 3:15-17
[7] John 1:18
[8] 1 John 4:12
[9] John 14:8-9
[10] Paul wrote to the Romans, less than one generation after the death of Jesus, that Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did: Their voice has gone out into all the earth. Ro 10:17-18 (NIV) with Paul’s allusion to Psalm 19:4. Obviously, the gospel had not yet gone out to remote regions such as Australia or the Amazon basin, yet to Paul’s mind, as he understood the known world, he believed that the news of Jesus had gone to all the earth in one generation. Today Christianity is the largest religion in the world. See Wikipedia. Christianity is the world’s largest religion with more than 2.3 billion adherents, at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations, retrieved 9/28/2023.
[11] For a deeper scholarly discussion of Paul’s understanding Psalm 19:4 in light of Ro 10:17-18, see Dr. Michael S. Heiser, Reversing Hermon, Defender Publishing (Crane, MO 2017), at pp. 56-58.
[12] 1 John 5:20 and John 17:3
[13] Pew Research reports that Most Christians see religion as a force for good in American Life. Two-thirds of Christians say that churches and other religious organizations strengthen morality in society. http://pewresearch.org/religion2019/11/15/many-in-us-see-religious-organizations-as-forces-for-good-but-prefer-them-to-stay-out-of-politics, retrieved 9/28/2023.
[14] See http://asiasociiety.org/education/religion-Philippines, retrieved 9/28/2023.
[15] Acts 1:1 In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt the all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when He was taken up. (ESV)
[16] 2 Pet 3:9
[17] John 17:9,15,20
[18] Mt 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16; Jude 20-23 (ESV, NET, NASB)
[19] In addition to Jesus’ descriptions in Matthew Chapters 10 and 24, and Luke Chapter 21; there are the visions of John in the Book of Revelation, ie., Rev 6:3, Rev 6:8, Rev 9:20-21, and Rev 13:7-10.
[20] Rev 9:6 (ESV). In those days people will seek death and not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
[21] Rev 6:7 And behold Hades and Death, the rider of the pale horse was given authority to kill one-fourth of the with sword and hunger; Rev 9:15 Four angels released power to kill a third of mankind; and Rev 9:18 By plagues one-third of humankind would be killed, all totaling more than half the population of the world.
[22] Dan 9:26-27
[23] Mt 24:21 (ESV)
[24] Mt 24:22 (ESV)
[25] Mt 24:36, Mt 25:13.
[26] Mt 16:2-3 Jesus said to the Pharisees and Sadducees, In the evening you see the red sky and say the weather will be fair tomorrow. You hypocrites. You discern the face of the sky but cannot discern the signs of the times.
[27] Mt 24:3
[28] Mt 24:4-21
[29] Lk 21:10-11 (ESV)
[30] Lk 21:25-26 (ESV)
[31] Ezek 38:6 and 39:2. (ESV)
[32] Ezek 38:5-6
[33] Zech 12:1-3, Ezek 38
[34] The great tribulation evil leader is variously referred to as the beast, Rev 13:2-8; the lawless one, and man of lawlessness and son of destruction, 2 Thess 2:3-4 (ESV), also translated as the man of sin and son of perdition (NKJV); the Prince who is to come that brings desolation, Dan 9:26; and the Anti-Christ, 1 John 2:18.
[35] Rev 13:1-4
[36] Dan 9:27
[37] Rev 13:7 And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation. (ESV)
[38] Rev 13:16-17
[39] Dan 8:25 By his treachery he will succeed through deceit. (NET); and Rev 13:7.
[40] Mt 24:21
[41] Rev 8:5 Fire fell on the earth; Rev 6:13 The stars of heaven fell; Rev 8:8 Something like a great mountain burning in fire was thrown into the sea, Rev 8:10 A great star fell from heaven burning like a torch. (NKJV)
[42] Rev 8:8-10, A third of sea life destroyed and rivers and lakes poisoned.
[43] Rev 6:12, The sun became black; and Rev 8:12 A third of the sun, the moon and the stars were not visible.
[44] See Douglas Macgregor’s curriculum vitae at http://www.douglasmacgregor.com, retrieved 8/27/2023.
[45] Other military and intelligence experts who break through news censorship to report Russia is slaughtering the Ukrainian military include: former Defense Intelligence Officer and Former Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer; Former UN Commission Weapons Inspector and Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Major Scott Ritter, Jr.; Former 27-year career, high ranking CIA Analyst Ray McGovern who chaired the National Intelligence Estimate and prepared the President’s Daily Brief; and former State Department Office of Counterterrorism and CIA Intelligence Analyst Larry C. Johnson.
[46] See YouTube Podcast Stephen Gardner, interview of Douglas Macgregor, entitled Col. Macgregor ‘Ukraine is being Annihilated’, streamed September1, 2023. Macgregor said, Clearly the war is over. 400,000 dead Ukrainians. The Ukrainians themselves have accidentally admitted to that. This war is over. It’s been lost. Also see YouTube Podcast Judge Andrew Napolitano Judging Freedom, interview of Douglas Macgregor, entitled Ukraine Shifting the World Stage, streamed September 5, 2023. Macgregor said, I don’t see any evidence whatsoever for any success anywhere. There is no chance of any frontal assault succeeding (for Ukraine).
[47]Ibid, note 44, above.
[48] See YouTube interview with L. Todd Wood, July 29, 2023, entitled, The Russian Forces Have Broken Through in Great Strength, retrieved 8/27/2023. Colonel Macgregor said, In purely military terms there are 750,000 troops now in western Russia in and around Ukraine, about 300,000 plus are simply sitting in reserve waiting to be told what to do. Their missiles, their rockets, their artillery ammunitions stocks are enormous. Their factories are running seven days a week, 24 hours a day, churning out whatever is required. So Russia is now this looming military power . . . Putin went in with a small force. But now you’ve got an army certainly large enough to do whatever is asked of it. Macgregor likened the Russian Army to a Tyrannosaurus Rex and said, Well, the Tyrannosaurus has grown up in Russia and it’s getting bigger. He added, If you try to confront this monster, it eats you alive.
[49] Ibid
[50] David B. Green, Haaretz, From Friends to Foes: How Israel and Iran Turned into Arch-Enemies, May 8, 2018, Haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/2018-05-08/ty-article-magazine/how-israel-and-iran-went-from-allies-to-enemies/retrieved 8/27/2023.
[51]The United States Institute of Peace, The Iran Primer blog, Timeline: Iran Russia Collaboration on Drones, August 10, 2023, https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2023/mar/01/timeline-iran-russia-collaboration-drones, retrieved 8/27/2023.
[52] Gracelin Baskaran and Ben Cahill, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Six New BRICS: Implications for Energy Trade, August 25, 2023, https://csis.org/analysis/six-new-brics-implication-energy-trade, retrieved 8/27/2023.
[53] See Startup Talky, BlackRock Owns the World / Case Study of the Largest Asset Management Company, July 30, 2022, https://startuptalky.com/blackrock-success-story/, retrieved 9/9/2023; Investguiding, What does BlackRock Own?, 2023, https://investguiding.com.ngonth2.com/articles/what-does-blackrock-own, retrieved 9/9/2023.
[54] Aron Vaughn, Innovation & Tech Today, BlackRock is the Biggest Company You’ve Never Heard of, 2023, http://innotechtoday.com/blackrock-is-the-biggest-company-you’ve-never-hear-of, retrieved 8/28/2023.
[55] Ibid
[56] Ibid
[57] Ibid
[58] Ibid
[59] Ibid
[60] Ibid
[61] Jade Bell, (fact checked by Darci Heikkinen), Listverse, 10 Shadowy Facts About the Secret Company that Runs the World, April 20, 2022, https://listverse.com/2022/04/20/10-facts-about-the-secret-company-that -runs-the -world, retrieved 9/9/2023; and Isaiah McCall, Medium published in Yard Couch, BlackRock: The Secret Company that Owns the World, October 25, 2021, https://medium.com/yardcouch-com/blackrock-the-secret-company-that-runs-the-world-b9, retrieved 9/9/2023.
[62] Dan 8:25 By his treachery he will succeed through deceit. (NET); Dan 9:26-27; and Rev 13:1-4, 7, and 16-18.
[63] Wikipedia, 99942 Apophis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_apophis, retrieved 8/28/2023.
[64] Ibid
[65] Ibid
[66] Dr. Thomas R. Horn is the CEO of SkyWatchTV, publisher of Defender Films and Publications, and has researched and written several books.
[67] Thomas Horn, Wormwood Prophecy, Charisma Media/Charisma Book Group (Lake Mary 2019).
[68] Ibid, at p. 22.
[69] Ibid, at p. 24
[70] Wikipedia, 99942 Apophis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_apophis, retrieved 8/28/2023.
[71] Thomas Horn, Wormwood Prophesy, at p. 28. Dr. Horn cites science writer Greg Bear of CNN who said, If it hits the earth, the impact would unleash a blast the equivalent of over a billion tons of TNT [easily causing] billions of deaths and months, if not years, of climate disruption.
[72] Greg Bear, CNN.com, Don’t count ‘doomsday asteroid’ out yet, January 24, 2013, https://cnn.com/2013/01/23/opinion/bear-apophis-asteroid, retrieved 9/28/2023.
[73] See generally Rev 6:9, the fifth seal; and Rev 13:7, the seventh trumpet.
[74] John 6:40 (ESV)
[75] Rev 6:9-11, the fifth seal; and Rev 7:9, 13, the sixth seal.
[76] Ibid
[77] Mt 24:13 That Jesus is expressly describing the survival of tribulation believers is derived from the context of Matthew Chapter 24. Jesus describes in detail to His followers, His believers, the end time tribulation and concludes with the ones who endure to the end will be saved.
[78] Rev 13:1-4, 7.
[79] Rev 13:7
[80] Rev 13:10 (ESV and NET).
[81] Rev 12:10-11 (NET)
[82] 1 Thess 4:16-17 (NET)
[83] Apantesis (α΄πα΄ντησις), to meet and greet, is used by Luke in Acts 28:15 in describing the saints in Rome’s church coming out to meet and greet Paul when he arrived in Rome. It is also used in Matthew 25:6 in the parable of the bridegroom and foolish virgins, with the wise brides coming out to meet and greet the bridegroom.
[84] Some have speculated that in Matthew 25:6, in the parable of the foolish virgins, that the bridegroom immediately took the bride away in accordance, allegedly, with some first century Jewish wedding practice. And therefore, they argue, Apantesis (α΄πα΄ντησις) can mean meet, greet and depart. There is no Biblical or other evidentiary support for that claim. On the contrary, the Book of Tobit, a second century BC extra-Biblical work found in the Roman Catholic Bible, but not in the Protestant canon, reveals the wedding of Tobiah at Chapter 7, verses 14-17. There, following the execution of the formal wedding contract in the custom of Moses, the bride and groom then remained at the home of the bride and consummated the marriage in her own home and bedroom. They returned to the home, and did not immediately depart.
[85] Eph 2:10 (ESV)
[86] John 17:3
[87] Acts 20:24
[88] John 17:3 (NKJV)
[89] John 17:25-26
[90] 1 John 4:19
[91] 1 Cor 13:2
[92] See 1 John 4
[93] John 10:17 (NKJV)
[94] John 16:7 (ESV)
[95] John 16:13 (ESV)
[96] Jonathan Stockstill, author of The Real Jesus, Charisma House (Lake Mary 2021), at page 150, who wrote that Jesus commissioned us with His mission, His authority, and His Spirit. Stockstill is the Senior Pastor at Bethany Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has birthed 5 church campuses in the past 12 years, and he recently partnered with the Surge Project to plant 3,400 churches worldwide.
[97] John 10:30
[98] John 5:19
[99] John 15:16 and John 17:17-18
[100] John 17:20
[101] Ps 110:1, Mt 22:44, Mark 16:19, Luke 22:69, Acts 2:33, Ro 8:34, 1 Pet 3:22
[102] Mt 28:19-20 (NIV)
[103] Rev 9:7-13
[104] Luke 21:27, 1 Thess 4:16-17, and Rev 19.
[105] 1 Thess 1:4-5
[106] 1 Thess 1:6-8
[107] 1 Peter 4:10-11
[108] Eph 4:7-12
[109] Jude 23
[110] 1 Cor 12:28
[111] 1Cor 12:28
[112] 1 Cor 12:28
[113] 1 Cor 12:8
[114] 1 Cor 12:8
[115] 1Cor 12:10, 28
[116] 1 Cor 12:9, 28
[117] 1 Cor 12:28
[118] 1 Cor 12:10, 28
[119] Exod 35:30-35
[120] Mt 10:22 and Mt 24:9.
[121] See generally Mt 24:9-10, Luke 21:12 and Rev 13:7-10.
[122] John 14:16
[123] 1 Cor 13:10
[124] Ro 11:29 (NKJV)
[125] Prov 29:25 (NKJV)
[126] Mt 10:28 (NKJV)
[127] Ro 5:20 (NKJV)
[128] Ro 8:31 (NKJV)
[129] Esth 4:14
[130] 1 John 4:4 (NKJV)
[131] Phil 1:6 (NKJV)
[132] Rev 13:7
[133] Ro 8:37 (NKJV)
