Hello, John and Doves,Eaglet, your letter is what I call, "knowing the enemy."Satan doesn't quite worship God, but he does get around to flattering the Most High.Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.El Elyon [God Most High] likes to hold His cards close.And yet, it is written,Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
Amos 3:7 NIVSatan does his best to guess the LORD's next move, without the benefit of the Holy Spirit.As such, all his efforts at effrontery by way of imitation must go astray at some point.It is written,Christ Crucified Is God’s Power and Wisdom18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” [Isaiah 29:14]
20Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
How poorly does the Adversary apprehend the agenda of ADONAI?It is written,14The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16for,“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?” [Isaiah 40:13]
But we have the mind of Christ.
_________________________________________So, then, at this point, Satan is so very pressed for time [Slewfoot was banking on 7 years, but now he has less than two!], that he has given up on understanding the LORD's plan, and is pushing for his own.What can you say about the Enemy, who is trapped by his own ineptitude into attempting an endgame where he has already lost?Again, it is written,Events prior to the Lord’s Second Coming1Now, dear brothers and sisters, let us clarify some things about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and how we will be gathered to meet him. 2Don’t be so easily shaken or alarmed by those who say that the day of the Lord has already begun. Don’t believe them, even if they claim to have had a spiritual vision, a revelation, or a letter supposedly from us. 3Don’t be fooled by what they say. For that day will not come until there is a great rebellion against God and the man of lawlessness is revealed—the one who brings destruction. 4He will exalt himself and defy everything that people call god and every object of worship. He will even sit in the temple of God, claiming that he himself is God.
5Don’t you remember that I told you about all this when I was with you? 6And you know what is holding him back, for he can be revealed only when his time comes. 7For this lawlessness is already at work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one who is holding it back steps out of the way. 8Then the man of lawlessness will be revealed, but the Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by the splendor of his coming.
9This man will come to do the work of Satan with counterfeit power and signs and miracles. 10He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would save them. 11So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies. 12Then they will be condemned for enjoying evil rather than believing the truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 NIV
_________________________________________________________Please note that "Day of the Lord" in verse two does not equate to Daniel's 70th week, because we are already in the midst of that prophetic week. The Day of the Lord, imho, begins with the breaking of the sixth seal in Revelation 6:12. The language of verse eight is reminiscent of Isaiah 61:1-2, where two occurrences--almost two thousand years apart--are separated by no more than a comma [in some English translations].Since the time for Christ's appearing the Second Time is fast approaching, we can guess that verse 8 of 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 does not embrace a long period of time. It could be a couple of days, weeks, months, etc. These are "interesting" times in which we live.~Blessings,Mike_____________________________________________ http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/sep2013/eaglet923.htm Eaglet (23 Sep 2013)
"Great Deception?"
Hi John and Doves,
This is a wild thought. Could it be possible that the great deception the bible is saying is about having two 7-year tribulation overlapping scenarios?
The first is the false one, the second is the real one. That means to say we also gonna have two Antichrist, a false and and a real one.
I thought of this because of what I've read for the past years from bible prophecy scholars that the real antichrist will mimic the scenario of Jesus Christ's second coming. So in order for this to be truly deceiving, the real antichrist must defeat the counterfeit antichrist for him to claim for himself that he is the real messiah to come. The coming blood moon tetrads in the Year 2014 and 2015 could be the sign that the real antichrist would claim as his, for his claim to be the one messiah coming after this tetrad events transpire, because it is said that the antichrist will do wonderful signs and miracles. and in some scholars they say he will use modern technology for it. But in the case of the moon turning it to blood and the sun into black, it is something that the antichrist cannot fake, so it is highly probable that he will ride on to the tetrad event for him to make it convincing that he is the one that the bible is saying as the coming messiah.
I believe that God has His own supernatural way of making the sun and the moon change in color for His own plan of showing signs for His Son's second coming. I also read about another planet that will enter our solar system that could possibly eclipse the sun and could make an effect to our moon and to other planets, but the timing of this planet's intervention is unknown.
With regards to the rapture event, I don't have the slightest idea where it would fall in this scenario. By the way, i'm a pre-wrath-of-God rapture believer, as some say there is such thing called "wrath of satan", that if I would still adhere to a single Seven Year Tribulation Scenario.
You might want to comment on this if you want to correct and help me change my thoughts on this matter.
YBIC,
Eaglet