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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

Part V

The present study, entitled While You Were Sleeping, seeks to awaken individual Christians to the reality that Spiritual powers, described in the Bible, have managed to achieve widespread distortions in the consensus of Bible Prophecy interpretation. This is quite ironic, for when mainstream evangelical believers are exposed to genuine truth, because False Doctrine has been prevalent for over a century, they have been largely programmed by the consensus of prophetic expositors to view the original (and accurate) prophetic expectations as “another Gospel,” which the Scriptures strenuously caution believers to avoid.

“I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him” (II Corinthians 11:3, 4).

To put it another way, through the Scripturally anticipated period which features “signs and wonders” that tend to validate the False Prophecy they’ve been taught throughout their lifetime, vast numbers of believers are on the wrong track. Worse yet, as the false teachers in the churches frequently warn the flock that a time of great apostasy is coming, the believers fail to realize the apostasy referred to in the Scriptures achieved a toehold in Christianity before they were born, and it is now the majority view.

Thus, literally millions of Bible based believers feel secure in their religious perspective, and do not realize they are in deadly peril. Obviously, a historical perspective is useful concerning what the Christians believed in various eras (in order to place these things in context), but the Scriptures are sufficient to track down the truth.

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (II Timothy 3:16, 17)

Not only does the Bible tell us the Word is valuable for correction when we’ve gone off course, but it mandates that a periodic review of the individuals’  relationship to truth is in order.

“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (II Corinthians 13:5).

This verse is a bit awkward in the old King James English, but since we don’t trust modern translations, it’s worth the effort to decipher what the Apostle Paul is communicating. The verse is telling the believer to review what they’ve come to believe about Christ, to prove that He is living in you, and guiding you. Then that last phrase could be paraphrased as `unless of course, you find that after you’ve examined yourself, you cannot confirm that you  are on the right track.’

Indeed, the word “reprobate” can be defined as no longer able to determine right from wrong, so this admonition points to a very serious matter. 

This periodic re-evaluation is complicated by the “Strong Delusion” which is to come, mentioned in the New Testament. The Bible specifically warns that in the last days, God Himself will send a Strong Delusion. Since context is king (as the saying goes), we should point out that the Apostle Paul was addressing the believers, and the release of Antichrist.

He reminded the Thessalonians they had discussed this subject when he was present in Thessalonica.

“And now ye know what [is restraining the evil] that he might be revealed in his time” (II Thessalonians 2:6).

Many have taken verses like this to deduce that this indicates the eventual arrival of “the” Antichrist, because it says “he [will be] revealed in his time” – however the dragon – who is easily identified as Satan who is a Spirit – is also referred to as a “he.”

“And when the dragon saw that he was cast out into the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child” (Revelation 12:13).

Thus the use of “he” does not mandate the text is referring to a human being. For that matter, even the Holy Spirit is mentioned in a similar text, with the use of “I” and “me.”

“As [the disciples] ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them” (Acts 13:2).

In any event, the letter to the Thessalonians addressing the Christians does go on to say that that it is in the context of the restrainer being removed, and with “that Wicked” being revealed, it is then that God will send a Strong Delusion.

“For this cause God shall send them Strong Delusion, that they should believe a lie…and then shall that wicked be revealed” (II Thessalonians 2:11,8).

This is solid proof that a “Strong Delusion” will be a significant factor in the world, towards the time of the end. In the Greek dictionary – usually called a Concordance -- the underlying Greek word for delusion describes it as “A straying from orthodoxy” – which explains why that same word is rendered “error” in other verses:

“Ye are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error” (I John 4:6).

Thus, the word indicates a deluding error, that strays from orthodoxy, and as we’ve already noted, it occurs in the latter days when Antichrist is released. This is why the False Prophets of the Rapture Cult fight so fiercely denying the fact that the doctrine of the Rapture is a recent development, and has not been here throughout the Christian era. For over eighteen centuries, the consensus of Christian prophecy has been that God has chosen the Christians, to be in the same role that Israel was in the Old Testament, shining His light to the Gentiles.

“And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising” (Isaiah 60:3).

As Israel turned away from the role of the mediators of the LORD’s righteousness to the nations (Gentiles in the text), God chose to Spiritually inhabit the Christian believers through His only begotten Son, just as he had previously shone His light through the house of Israel.

In the process, He also fulfilled many of His eternal promises to redeem Israel. To His Son, God the Father said the following:

“It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth” (Isaiah 49:6).

Since Jesus explicitly told the Christians that we are now the light of the world, the claim that the Jewish flesh and blood people, who largely reject Christ and are supposedly still chosen by God, is blasphemy. To the Christians, Christ said these epic words:

“Ye are the light of the world. Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men (Matthew 5:13).

This continues the unfolding of the Lord’s revelation of Sequential Recapitulation (or “doubling”), in which the patterns of prophecy are repeated in a supernatural way, initially in the Flesh and Blood vessels in the Old Testament, then through the Spiritual version of Israel in the Christian age, and finally through the third and final Era of Antichrist.

For instance, in the book of Hebrews, we learn that when Moses was making the tabernacle where the LORD would manifest Himself to the Israelites, God told Moses to make each aspect of the tabernacle exactly the way Moses had previously seen them, when he was in the holy mountain where he saw heavenly things.

“Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount” (Hebrews 8:5).

The New Testament further asserts that the rituals, and the tabernacle, and even the priest himself, as seen in the Old Testament, are earthly shadows of the Spiritual reality of the kingdom of God.

“[Jesus is] a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man…[which] serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things” (Hebrews 8:2, 5).

In previous revelations through Christian Media, the Lord has revealed that even the “doubled” aspects of the BC era of physical Israel are not only doubled in Spiritual ways in the AD Christian age, they are doubled again – with the roles reversed – in the Age of Antichrist.

Thus, since we are now in the timeline where the Spirit of Antichrist prevails in the physical world, Flesh and Blood Israel is now in the role of Antichrist, and the Spiritually constituted body of Christ is in the role of Israel. But more on the particulars of the three timelines, BC, AD, and the Era of Antichrist will have to wait for the next installment of While You Were Sleeping.

    -- James Lloyd

To Be Continued