God’s faithful believers are constantly being asked questions related to the current world events -
Yes, it has been the topic of much discussion, but it seems that all of this is "the beginning of sorrows" as found in Matthew 24, Mark 13, & Luke 21 (the great eschatological discourse), they are testing the waters, and they are so shocked themselves, how easy it has been to get compliance from the sheeple. It appears to be all be leading to the SL, believers have been wondering how the "Bible belt" scenario of Revelation 13, that we, as the faithful, have always believed, will happen, but eventually have found what seems to be sound -
I saw that we must wake up, wake, and cry earnestly for the arm of the Lord to be revealed. It is fatal to sleep now. Time is almost finished…I saw that the two-horned beast had a dragon's mouth, and that his power was in his head, and that the decree would go out of his mouth. Then I saw the Mother of Harlots; that the mother was not the daughters, but separate and distinct from them. She has had her day, and it is past, and her daughters, the Protestant sects, were the next to come on the stage and act out the same mind that the mother had when she persecuted the saints. I saw that as the mother has been declining in power, the daughters had been growing, and soon they will exercise the power once exercised by the mother.
I saw the nominal church and nominal Adventists, like Judas, would betray us to the Catholics to obtain their influence to come against the truth. The saints then will be an obscure people, little known to the Catholics; but the churches and nominal Adventists who know of our faith and customs (for they hated us on account of the Sabbath, for they could not refute it) will betray the saints and report them to the Catholics as those who disregard the institutions of the people; that is, that they keep the Sabbath and disregard Sunday.
Then the Catholics bid the Protestants to go forward, and issue a decree that all who will not observe the first day of the week, instead of the seventh day, shall be slain. And the Catholics, whose numbers are large, will stand by the Protestants. The Catholics will give their power to the image of the beast. And the Protestants will work as their mother worked before them to destroy the saints. But before their decree bring or bear fruit, the saints will be delivered by the Voice of God. SpM 1,2.
Then this well known one -
Yet this very class put forth the claim that the fast-spreading corruption is largely attributable to the desecration of the so-called “Christian sabbath,” and that the enforcement of Sunday observance would greatly improve the morals of society. This claim is especially urged in America, where the doctrine of the true Sabbath has been most widely preached. Here the temperance work, one of the most prominent and important of moral reforms, is often combined with the Sunday movement, and the advocates of the latter represent themselves as laboring to promote the highest interest of society; and those who refuse to unite with them are denounced as the enemies of temperance and reform. But the fact that a movement to establish error is connected with a work which is in itself good, is not an argument in favor of the error. We may disguise poison by mingling it with wholesome food, but we do not change its nature. On the contrary, it is rendered more dangerous, as it is more likely to be taken unawares. It is one of Satan's devices to combine with falsehood just enough truth to give it plausibility. The leaders of the Sunday movement may advocate reforms which the people need, principles which are in harmony with the Bible; yet while there is with these a requirement which is contrary to God's law, His servants cannot unite with them. Nothing can justify them in setting aside the commandments of God for the precepts of men. GC 587
We had to prove or disprove what we had been always brought up to believe, so we at least know that much now.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
It is interesting to observe the way that the LORD opens up, step by step, the topic, in this passage. Take your time and read it through slowly, capturing the build up that Christ is explaining so clearly to us.
In a brief summary, the ones deceived are the church members, who are very comfortable in their condition and think that their appearance at church, zoom, chat, forum, etc., each week is all that is required, when the famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, etc., come and we are blamed for them, they will then be offended, i.e. stoney ground hearers in Matthew 13 -
But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
So, they will betray us at that time, for they have "no root/s", and Ephesians tells us that we are to be "rooted and grounded in love", faith is also mentioned in the passage,
“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love”, a love so powerful that we would be happy to miss out on eternity, so that our bitterest enemies, could be there instead - agape:
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 1 Corinthians 13.
So we can still trust the truth that we were given as children in the church, something must happen in the Christian realm of the USA, to bring about their long awaited - “We've got to get America back to God" agenda, and then it will be "their 1000 yrs of peace”/“peace and safety" time, then, just when they think that they have it all sorted out, they will be hit with natural, unnatural and manmade disasters, we will be blamed for these because we refuse to keep their SL and then we will be in the run up to the death decree. The death decree/COP time will be our safest time as there will be no more martyrs, and they are unable to do anything to those who will be the 144k.
The LORD is appealing to each one of us to not be distracted by any of these things - turn off all of our devices, and quietly think, meditate - just HIM and me. For we are approaching the time when we will be cut off from every earthly connection, so let’s start today and allow Him to speak to us, comfort us and then continue to abide in our heart as we wait on Him to give us our next thought, word, deed and place to go. - living by the “faith of Jesus” - the 3AM.
Many are trying to deal with the same questions that people are asking worldwide at present, and this will continue until the COP, it has unfolded differently to what we always thought just now, but it appears that something is going to have to change the scene and then the above will play out.
