The Thin-skinned Tyrant Hits Back—Really Hard
The Antichrist is obsessed with persecuting the saints. There is some disagreement over whether or not these saints include believers in Christ that enter into the tribulation period or whether these saints are “new” believers in Christ that come to faith during the tribulation. It all depends on one’s interpretation on the timing of what’s called the rapture; an event where God removes believers from the earth by a super-natural snatching away of the saints. Again, I don’t want to get bogged down into various theological interpretations having to do with the timing of these things because that is beyond the scope of this book.
I have always leaned toward what is called a pre-tribulational rapture; …show more content…
2 prophetically speaks of one of those times when God will remove His restraining influence. It says in verse 7-8 “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming”
The restraining influence of lawlessness will be removed. This coincides with what 2 Timothy 1-5 describes as the general character of that age: “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power…” Did it escape your notice that nearly every one of these descriptions accurately describe Donald Trump’s character? Read it again and stop on every description and ask yourself, “Does this describe Trump?”. His is the kind of personality that will be commonplace soon when God removes His restraining
The Antichrist is obsessed with persecuting the saints. There is some disagreement over whether or not these saints include believers in Christ that enter into the tribulation period or whether these saints are “new” believers in Christ that come to faith during the tribulation. It all depends on one’s interpretation on the timing of what’s called the rapture; an event where God removes believers from the earth by a super-natural snatching away of the saints. Again, I don’t want to get bogged down into various theological interpretations having to do with the timing of these things because that is beyond the scope of this book.
I have always leaned toward what is called a pre-tribulational rapture; …show more content…
2 prophetically speaks of one of those times when God will remove His restraining influence. It says in verse 7-8 “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming”
The restraining influence of lawlessness will be removed. This coincides with what 2 Timothy 1-5 describes as the general character of that age: “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power…” Did it escape your notice that nearly every one of these descriptions accurately describe Donald Trump’s character? Read it again and stop on every description and ask yourself, “Does this describe Trump?”. His is the kind of personality that will be commonplace soon when God removes His restraining