Stupid question; if ever I heard one!
Yet there are a great many who profess to be Christians that frown on those who take up the study of prophecy; most especially unfulfilled. There are three millennial positions; a-millennial (no coming millennium-all millennial prophecies have been spiritualized away), post-millennial (Christ comes after His church have gained the victory through preaching the Gospel!), and pre-millennial (Christ comes to destroy the Antichrist and set up His kingdom on earth ruling from Mt Zion (heavenly and earthly). Obviously, only one of these millennial positions must be correct, or no?
God's written word says "The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." Rev.19:10, so should we not study prophecy and learn to understand what the Lord has to say on the coming climax of the age?
There is a spirit of ignorance that powerfully prevails in Christendom on the subject of unfulfilled prophecy, yet God has clearly revealed what will happen! I don't say that He has joined all the dots together in their minutiae, but certainly we know that wickedness will increase exponentially in these last days culminating in the appearing of the coming Antichrist who will rule for some three and a half years (Dan.7:25, Rev.12:6,14, 13:5) before the Lord "shall destroy him with the brightness of His Coming." 2 Thess.2:8.
I have personally listened to Christians fervently praying to God asking Him to stop this or that disaster, to halt a 'gay' pride march, stop the rise of Islam, and many other similar requests. Is it right to pray in such a way? this is the grand question. Turn the clock back to when the children of Judah went into captivity under the hand of Nebuchadnezzar for seventy years. Would God have listened to any prayer asking Him to stop the coming and certain captivity after Jeremiah His own ordained prophet had already prophesied such a judgment must surely come to pass? Lets hear Daniel on this matter; "I Daniel understood by the books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem." Dan.9:2; cf Jer.25:11-12; "And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon..." Likewise with Israel and Egypt in the time of Moses, God had "said unto Abram, know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years..." Gen.15:13. And we know that this came to pass for it is recorded in Acts 7:6; "And God spake on this wise, that His seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years." The first Christian martyr (Stephen) then goes on to describe the great deliverance God wrought through His servant Moses in the Exodus narrative. It is universally agreed upon by all serious students of prophecy that Nebuchadnezzar (Babylon) and Pharaoh (Egypt) are types of Antichrist; that is they fulfilled past roles of the future coming Antichrist, the "man of sin" himself will perform (2 Thess.2:3); yet with infinitely far greater vigour! Of this prophesied time it is written; "Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble.." Jer.30:7. (my emphasis). See also Dan.12:1 which describes the very same future event; "...there shall be be a time of trouble, such as never was..." Matt.24:21 and Mark 13:19 describe this coming hour-please read!
Therefore, written in God's Book are the Babylonian captivity of Judah and the Egyptian bondage of Israel; two major prophecies depicted in their unrealized and realized forms fulfilled-right down to their last jot and tittle!
Now, as regards the yet future and therefore unrealized prophecy in 2 Thess.2:8 regarding the coming Antichrist at the end of our present age, can Christians pray against his coming (and all his evil works that accompany it thereof?) if God has said that Antichrist will surely come? Such a suggestion is seemingly and simply insane-yet that is what many do! In our day there are professing Christians campaigning with great zeal against the building of mosques (take for example, Christian Voice and the proposed mega mosque at West Ham, London); they blindly cannot see that these mosques, have been, and will be built as a testimony against our nation for rejecting God in Christ and His Commandments!
To pray against what God has written and therefore ordained must come to pass must surely be a grievous sin? Especially from those who would have us believe that they are faithful stewards of God's word, such as Christian Voice, and indeed a whole host of ministries that also claim to be doing God's will. To those that pray against what God is bringing to pass in our day, the Lord's words to Peter in Matt.16:23 are surely appropriate here? "Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men."
It is incumbent on all true Christians to pray intelligently to God in Christ! Pray according to His will! "Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven." Matt.6:10. The Bible teaches that increasing wickedness will be the hallmark of the last days and all true Christians can do is pray to God as Christ our Saviour did for us in His great intercessory prayer in John 17:15 (RV); "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one."
God is calling His elect out of this world,and we must "be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear." 1 Pet.3:15. We should witness when the opportunity arises. True believers will suffer just for trying to live righteous and godly lives! "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse." 2 Tim.3:12-13! In the context Paul is talking about what it will be like in "the last days." 2 Tim.3:1 ff. See also Acts 14:22, Titus 2.12-13.
The apostle tells us "the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears." 2 Tim.4:3. We are now in a day when many think the old truth that "He which made them at the beginning made them male and female." (Matt.19:4) no longer applies-for we are now in a non-binary age! rubber stamped by those in power through the social re-engineering of that wicked and unstoppable LGBT* juggernaut! now approved by the police, the state education system, the monarchy, universities et al! When people accept this damnable lie, as many now do; witnessing the truth as it is in Christ seems an almost insurmountable task!
I can almost hear Antichrist's footsteps!
*We really are coming up on the down-train in this evil age. Regarding the recent successful prosecution of the serial paedophile Bob Higgins, Hampshire police said "This case shows just how important it is that complaints are taken seriously and allegations are thoroughly investigated when they are made. Unfortunately, complaints made by some victims in the 1990s weren't treated in the same way as they would be today," added Assistant Chief Constable Ben Snuggs. (BBC News 13/06/2019).
And this is good news! what true Christian wouldn't say a hearty "Amen!" to this?
Yet, for all this, we now find ourselves in a day when men are invited into primary school classrooms dressed in drag promoting the perversions of transsexualism, transvestism, sodomy, alternative lifestyles, self gender identification, and all their wicked associations via the LGBT movement through their "history month" and "pride month", and other initiatives to children as young as nine and less! Of this wicked predatory sexualization of minors; these sexual deviants would lower the age of consent-and where exactly would they stop? What is the ultimate goal of the LGBT movement other than a total degradation of what were normal family values based on biblical principles? It seems anything and everything is on their agenda, provided it is antagonistic to God's word.
You really couldn't make all this up! schools should be a safe haven for impressionable youngsters, yet they are being taught to accept the vilest of perversions as normal. Really, what hope have they? Many schools today have high security fences and even security guards patrolling the outer perimeter yet they invite the Trojan Horse in unaware of the dangerous subterfuge! Back in 2002 after receiving the revelation that Noah's flood was a true and literal event; I took my daughter out of the state primary school and put her into a Christian school that taught creation as fact. But what we are faced with today makes that dilemma almost pale into insignificance!
How bad things must have been in "the days of Noah"?
"As the days of Noah were, so shall also the days of the coming of the Son of man be." Matt.24:37.
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