Heretic

It is not usual for me to literately attack someone who, for the most part, seems to be an industrious and loyal saint of the Bible, the Law, and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Sometimes it is not possible, as was the case with my now-deceased dad, who died a very-fruitful ministerial life at the ripe old age of 95+ and who did not get there by fooling around during his life, but achieved such because of his admirable dependence upon his Lord Jesus Christ.

And, the apparent saint I am assiduously hesitant to label as a "heretic" and "false prophet" has that same wrong idea that my dad and mom had, and although I warned dad (and mom) about that, he - many times - emphatically and angrily told me to "drop it" being that he "did not want to talk about it anymore." At least he did not kick me out of his house - probably because I always countered him with Scripture verses and thereby trapped him into a very uncomfortable corner which he, in eventual frustration, could not escape from.

Being an obedient son, and under his house authority, I had no reasonable choice but to comply in suppressing my comments at least about that subject when he was around. He knew full well, however, that I had not given up my disdain against his particular heretical quirk, and that disdain was (and yet is) made quite evident and fleshed out by my copious webpage dissertations on the internet.

I get the feeling that, afterwards and over time, dad thought about his heretical presumptions in reaction and response to my incessant insistence, and his ongoing prophecy newsletters, particularly toward the end of his life, revealed a welcomed mellowing pertaining to the quirk I considered so repulsive.

But it took the Lord Himself to stifle and finally silence dad's heretical presumption -- punishing both him and mom (being that my mother also maintained the same heresy that dad did) by allowing them to be involuntarily consigned (by afflictions of old age) to the great tribulation of pathetic drawn-out deterioration in hospice culminating in their thankful relief by death.

The false-prophet culprit and target who I have in mind is none other than replacement-theology-pastor Joseph Chambers of Paw Creek Ministries (and there are several others like him, such as Jack van Impe, Tim LaHaye, Thomas Ice, David Larson, John Valvoord, Matt Morrell, etc.) who adamantly, persistently, and stubbornly continue to misrepresent eschatalogical doctrine plainly contained in Holy Scripture - as my own dad and mom previously did.

Now, before the infuriated (perhaps even you the reader) go off in a know-it-all self-righteous rage, and impulsively do the equivalent of relegating this essay to the virtual-cyberspace spam or trash bin, by hatefully-impetuous non-thinking delusion and deletion, it behooves the reader to understand that (like Satan who only spoke half-lies (not "half-truths) to Eve in the primal Garden), so willfully-ignorant-and-misleading Joseph Chambers (and his similarly-misminded comrades) are similarly causing divisive confusion and dangerous complacency by:

(1) Him misrepresenting various aspects of logical Scriptural-chronologyl timing of The One-and-Only Ultimate Rapture Event,
(2) His denial of (both Jew-and-Gentile) tribulation saints escaping yet suffering during God's bowls of wrath poured out during The Great Tribulation,
(3) His wrong presumption that all saints will be bodily raptured or resurrected at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ at Armageddon (which Second Coming is alluded to in Revelation 19:11-21) . . . in clear disregard and contradiction against the obvious fact that only Antichrists-and-666-rejecting beheaded saints will at that time be pre-Millennially resurrected (concordant with Revelation 20:4-5),
(4) His willful omission of mentioning what will happen to the heavens and Earth (including old Jerusalem on Earth) being that Chambers errantly presumes that both the Old and New Jerusalem will exist simultaneously and visibly -- contrary to predicted universal annihilation of the Old stated in Second Peter 3:10-13) at the time of the Final Rapture before the first appearance of The New Jerusalem above, and
(5) His deliberate disregard against mentioning Final Judgment of proverbial righteous sheep and proverbial wicked goats who will both (in view of Matthew 25:31-46) will be present together on The Last Day in the presence of the Trinitarian King on His great white throne (per Revelation 20:11-15).

If he doubles down on above-listed aberrations, it is both hoped and expected that his ministry, outreach, and monetary resources will dwindle down to nothing, and it is hoped that Arno Froese of Midnight Call also gets the message, along with a wayward cadre of other off-in-lalaland pre-Tribbers.

Why I am making such a big deal about this is not only because of my personal jealousy for the Lord's purity of doctrine relating to vital-knowledge prophecy, but - as previously mentioned - the apostate misbelief that God's precious Bride will completely escape Holocaust suffering which is not only hideously dangerous but potentially lethal immentality duping weak saints who, in love with their refusing-to-dispose-of idols, actually become and are enemies against the cross of Christ who, in cowardly fearful fright, convince themselves of the lie that they will be whisked away out of any trouble before big trouble comes with the appearance of the Beast and False Prophet mentioned in Revelation chapter 13.

Such fairy-tale mythical illusion is, again, potentially disastrous with the prospect of making shipwreck of their faith when it dawns on them that they have entered into, and are stuck with, the 42-month Great Tribulation Period, in that such would-have-been-saved persons could have been prepared for upcoming intense persecution such as that which could not be any clearer mentioned in:

Revelation 13:7 Also he (not she?) was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given him over every tribe and people and language and nation,
13:8 and all who reside on Earth will worship him, every one whose name has not been written before The Establishment of the World in The Book of Life of the Lamb who was slain.
13:9 If any one has an ear, let him hear:
13:10 If any one is to be taken captive, to captivity he/she goes; if any one slays with the sword, with the sword must he/she be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

and:

Revelation 14:9 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If any one worships The Beast and his Image, and receives a (666-tattoo) Mark on his (or her) forehead or on his/her hand,
14:10 he/she also shall drink the wine of God's wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of His (not "her") anger, and he/she shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
14:11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever; and they have no rest, continually, those worshipers of The Beast and his [super-robotic/soul-less] Image, and whoever receives the (666-tattoo) Mark of his name."
14:12 Here is a call for the endurance of the [Gentile-and-Jewish-Church] saints, those who (a) keep/view/retain/obey the commandments of God [so the moral Law is not abolished . . . even though "we're saved by grace alone, not Christ alone, through our faltering faith alone though not of ourselves doing good or evil works?"] and (b) the faith of Jesus [His own, and not ours?].
14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." [which does not sound like pre-Trib-rapture escapism to me!] "Blessed indeed," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!" [Oh Oh. There's that mention of (good?) works again, in view of everyone [good and evil!] in Revelation chapter 20 to be judged not merely by their [and not Christ's] own non-reliable "faith" but by "what they had done" pertaining to Christ's remark of: "Why do you call me 'Lord Lord' and do not do what I tell you?"]

and:

Revelation 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They [and only they] came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
20:5 The remaining dead [including the whole both-Jew-and-Gentile "Church?"] did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is The First Resurrection [not "rapture"].
20:6 Blessed and holy is he (or she) who shares in The First Resurrection! Over such The Second Death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with Him a thousand years.

Keep in mind that there is absolutely no mention whatsoever that all (or even any) of the wicked dead are to be resurrected when Christ Jesus returns at Armageddon at the end of the pre-Millennial 42-month Great Tribulation period.

Ergo: If the wicked-dead "goats" are not resurrected at that time, the only logical time left for their resurrection is after the Millennium, which logically, of necessity, ties right in with the Matthew 25:13-46 sheep-with-goats Final Judgment to happen.

Like Satan in the Garden, Joseph Chambers (who, as a mere Gentile, has a better-than-Israel higher regard of himself than he should and misspells the word Tribulation as: "Tribulaiton" in his March 2015 newsletter, showing he cannot be completely trusted, even though he brags that "You cannot doubt one word of his book") deceitfully concludes that those who do not espouse a Pre-Trib rapture do not believe in any rapture whatsoever. . . . contrary to the fact that there will certainly be a rapture occurring at some time in the future in this prophecy:

Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the [42-month] tribulation of those [pre-Millenial?] days shall the Sun be darkened [though not completely annihilated as described in Second Peter 3:10-12] and the Moon shall not give its light [though not completely annihilated as described in Second Peter 3:10-12] and the stars shall fall from heaven [though not completely annihilated as described in Second Peter 3:10-12] and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken,
24:30 and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man [the glorified Jesus] in Heaven. And then shall all the tribes of Earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and with great glory.
24:31 And He shall send His angels with a great sound of merely a [not The Last] trumpet [or shofar], and they shall gather together His elect [by taxi, bus, train, aircraft, yacht, ocean freighter, blimp, whatever it takes mortal bodies to travel by] from the four winds [south, west, north, east], from one end of heaven to the other.
24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree: When his branch is yet tender and puts out leaves, y'all know that summer is near.
24:33 So likewise y'all, when y'all shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. [be they pine or mahogany, birch or cedar, and whether Christ's edible body and drinkable blood are instead merely wafers and wine]
24:34 Truthfully I say to you, this [with-the-Lord-one-day-is-not-1000-years-but-instead-is-as-1000 years] generation shall not pass until all these things be fulfilled.
24:35 Heaven and Earth will pass away [that Second Peter 3:10-12 Event will only happen at least 1000 years from now into the future], but My Words shall not pass away.
24:36 But of that Day and Hour [and perhaps minute and second and micro-second], no person knows, no, not the angels of Heaven, but My Father only.
24:37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
24:38 For as in the days that were before The Flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, [fornicating and sodomizing, breathing and sleeping, yawning and burping, urinating and defecating, etc.] until the day that Noah entered into The Ark.
24:39 and knew not until The Flood came and took them all away, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
24:40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken [where?] and the other left [where?].
24:41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken [where?] and the other left [where?].
24:42 Watch therefore, for y'all know not what hour [nor minute, nor second] your Lord will come.

Are there two separate times when that "gather His elect from the four winds" will occur, in which "one will be taken and the other left?"
Must that be only at His pre-Millennial Second Coming at Armageddon after the 42-month Great Tribulation, or can it also be at his post-Millennial Coming as Trinitarian King on His great white throne after the instant heavens and Earth disintegrate in fervent heat?

If it is only the latter, will those "left, who are not taken" be left eternally suspended within tormenting invisible flames in the outer-darkness Lake of Fire and Brimstone before they are brought to the great white throne of the Trinitarian King to be judged and condemned as wicked "goats" after the righteous are judged and acquitted as righteous "sheep?"

Mark 13:32 But of that day or that hour [or minute, or second] no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

The precise countdown both regarding Christ's pre-Millennial Second Coming [to slay the two Antichrists, which, by that time, there will be a couple of Antichrists around to slay], and His post-Millennial Third Coming as Trinitarian King on His great white throne, is vague - as pointed out in such passages as:

Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away [what "daily sacrifice?"], and the abomination that makes desolate set up [to what?], there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Daniel 12:12 Blessed is he/she who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. [Waits for what from what?]

As there will be worldwide apostasy before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ at Armageddon after the 42-month Great Tribulation involving The Beast and The False Prophet, so there will be worldwide apostasy after Satan is loosed after his 1000-year captivity in The Abyss:

Revelation 20:7 And when the thousand years have ended, Satan will be loosed from his prison
20:8 and will come out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of Earth, that is, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.
20:9 And they marched up over broad Earth and surrounded The Camp of the saints [including those resurrected-after-beheading-1000-years-previous living saints ready for Rapture] and The Beloved City; but Fire came down from heaven and consumed them,
20:10 and The Devil who had deceived them was thrown into The Lake of Fire and Brimstone where The Beast and The False Prophet were, and they will ceaselessly be tormented to the ages of the ages.
20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it; from His presence Earth and sky (or "firmament" as stated in Genesis chapter one) fled away, and no place was found for them.

Joseph Chambers, Jan Markell, and others of their ilk: how many early-Church/Bride-of-Christ righteous saints were mauled by lions in the arenas of Rome? Would that not be a great tribulation for you also to be so mauled? Why did the Lord's "holiness" and His "nature" do the "unthinkable" and "unprincipled" by not protecting His beloved Bride of church members back then from the vicious monster pussycats, and not protecting part of His Church-Bride Stephen who was stoned to death {does great tribulation get any worse than that?] and James slain by the sword of Herod [ditto]? Why did the Lord's "holiness" and His "nature" do the "unthinkable" and "unprincipled" by not protecting His post-medieval renaissance Church-Bride martyrs like Tyndale and Huss who were burned at the stake? [Is there any greater tribulation that being burned alive, other than waterboarding?] Why did the Lord's "holiness" and His "nature" do the "unthinkable" and "unprincipled" by not protecting His Church-Bride of Christian Allied soldiers who died with arms and legs blown off and burned by flamethrowers at the onslaught of Japs and Germans during World War II? [Was that not great tribulation for them, and wouldn't it also be for you]? Why did not the Lord protect His beloved Israel from the great tribulation of being shamefully denuded, shot, gassed, and cremated in Nazi concentration camp ovens?

Moreover, was it not possible for Hebrews, living right next to Egyptians, to escape discreetly-apportioned-and-exclusively-targeted bowls-of-God's-wrath-similar plagues inflicted against the latter:

Exodus 8:21 I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.
Exodus 8:22 But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people reside, so that no swarms of flies shall be there; that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of Earth.
Exodus 8:24 And the LORD did so; there came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined because of the flies.

What about demons-possessed killer bees instead? I still remember the Alfred Hitchcock horror movie: The Birds.

Exodus 9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, there was no hail.

Revelation 16:2 So the first angel went and poured his [not "her"] bowl on Earth, and foul and evil sores came upon [who?]: the men/women who bore The (666-tattoo) Mark of The Beast and worshiped his Image. [but such sores did not come on any of the 144,000 Israeli Jews]

Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past.

Better to stay indoors, rather than arrogantly sunbathe as smark-ahss exhibitionists, indecently exposed and then consequentially experience:

Revelation 16:8 The fourth angel poured his bowl on the Sun, and it was allowed to scorch [non-144,000-Jewish] men (and women) with [extreme-ultraviolet-radiation-plus] fire;
16:9 godless-666-marked men (and women) were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God [and blamed the weatherman?] who had power over these plagues, and they did not repent and give Him glory.
16:10 The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the [666-numbered] Beast, and his [666-marked] kingdom was in darkness; [only-666-tattooed] men/women gnawed their tongues in anguish
16:11 and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores [again complaining about the weather?], and did not repent of their deeds. [does not sound like something the beloved-Bride-of-Christ 144,000 Jews will do]!

True, many American GIs were not Raptured up to Heaven to escape the suicidal kamikazes of Japan, but instead were rescued through life-saving diversion by a couple of dropped-and-detonated nuclear bombs developed not by the snappy-uniformed antisemitic racist pigdogs of Hitler's Gestapo, but instead with the intellectual ingenuity of Jewish scientists Albert Einstein and Lisa Meitner who humbly took refuge in quasi-Christian America.

Neither atheists nor allah-and-Mohammed-worshipping islamic are going to survive with impunity in the near future, being that:

Second Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way; for that [pre-Millennial] Day [of Christ -- not The Ultimate post-Millennial Final Day of the Trinitarian YHWH] will not come, unless the rebellion comes first and The Man of [non-Congressionally-approved-Obama-Executive-Orders-reminiscent) Lawlessness is revealed, The Son of Perdition,
Second Thessalonians 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship [including both allah and Mohammed], so that he takes his seat in the temple of God [leadership of The Church?], proclaiming himself to be God.

and:

Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the [nazi-fledgling-brown-shirts-similar homo-activist and anti-burka/hijab immodesty/porno-commercial-advertising] harlot; they will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire [Hitler imprisoned and executed homos required to wear pink triangles in concentration camps],
Revelation 17:17 for God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by being of one mind and giving over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

No doubt female-human-mopheadedness-tolerating Chambers would retort against post-Millennial-Rapture me that I am "not among reasonable scholars that do not have strange theology to defend."

Like in the case of my Pre-Trib-Rapture-presuming dad and mom, who understandably suffered (but I believe kept their obedient faith in the Lord up to and through the finally-welcomed portal of their deaths) because of their adherence to the falsehood of make-believe never-never-land Pre-Trib rapture superstition, it will probably take a Saul-on-the-road-to-Damascus bolt of blinding light or something like that to convince pre-Trib-rapture-fantasy Joseph Chambers that He is "kicking against the goads" -- persecuting noble, scholastically-adequate, refreshingly-honest post-Millennialists who have a true and accurate understanding of Biblical prophecy . . . and therefore persecuting Christ Himself . . . by despicably and deplorably failing to properly prepare Church saints for various intensive trials they will likely have to go through without previously being snatched with pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by escapism, an apostate hallucination of contrived imagination realistically but with phenomenally-blatant noticeability having no succinct and direct Scripturally-based-and-not-weaselword-concocted-and-misconstrued specific proof . . . even to the point of some being beheaded instead of merely confined to mental-treatment incarceration facilities run by merciless and ruthless Obamanite-prepared ACLU/PAW/AUSCS/SPLC/FFRF/ISIS tyrants.

Ecstatic eternity in Heaven (not bitterly suspended and pathetically immobilized within the tormenting invisible flames of outer-darkness Hell) is necessary - to see, hear, feel, read, travel, explore, discover, and fully appreciate, all that God and His Divinely-inspired authors and inventors have created, retained, or will create of indestructible value.