At the time of this writing, and within the past month, yours truly attended two prophecy conferences in the Twin Cities.

The first took place at North Heights Lutheran Church in Arden Hills MN, with one main speakers being an occultism-fixation pre-Trib-Rapture superstitionist, and another being a Jew named Joel Richardson who elaborated on Scriptural before-and-after context proof (in the Old-Testament book of Ezekiel) why the much-discussed Battle of Gog of Magog is one and the same as the upcoming PRE-Millennial Battle of Armageddon which is scheduled to occur at the END of The 42-month (not "seven-year") Great Tribulation [spoken of in Daniel 7:25, 12:7, Revelation 11:2, 13:5].

The second all-day prophecy conference took place on Saturday, 05 October 2013 at Grace Church in Eden Prairie Minnesota, sponsored by Jewess Jan Markell featuring three prophecy lecturers, one of whom was the founder of World Net Daily internet news site and the other two being proponents of a presumed whisked-up-and-away-before-Great-Tribulation-Holocaust-occurs pre-Trib Rapture.

At least 80% of what the pre-Trib preachers declared had factual and appropriate Scriptural basis rather than speculative conjecture (although the predicted disappearance of coins and paper-bill currency and replacement with credit and debit cards of one of them was questionable), but that 20% of apostate-heresy misinformation is what is going to be exposed and countered with the following critical analysis.

Two of the cultic deviations from the aforementioned religious lecturers needing correction are incorrect suppositions that:

(1) the Bema Judgment-Seat-of-Christ Judgment is ONLY for Christians, who (like the Matthew-chapter-25-described righteous [euphemistically-alluded-to] "sheep" in contrast to wicked [euphemistically-alluded-to "goats"), are "already saved and so do not need to have embarrassing sinful and frequently-secret shenanigans of their chaff-ridden-but-saved-anyway temporal lives exposed to shame them publicly," and

(2) ONLY the wicked ["goats"] are going to be judged after they (like the righteous) are resurrected on The Last Day, when books (including The Book of Life) will be opened for ALL to be judged according to "all the evil they had done" (whatever that includes, such as faithlessness plus evil instead of good works) -- which, of course, is not what it specifically states in Revelation 20:12-13.

The two previously-mentioned erroneous assertions are easily negated with the following Biblical passages:

Matthew 25:31 When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory.
32 And before Him shall be gathered all nations [e.g. Russia, China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Cambodia, India, Tibet, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iran and Iran and Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Australia, African nations, Ethiopia and Sudan and Libya, the United States and Canada and Mexico, South American countries, Portugal and the Netherlands and Holland and Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria and Hungary, Spain and France, Sweden and Norway and Finland and Denmark, Iceland and England and Scotland and Ireland and Wales, Austria and Italy and Greece, etc.] and He shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.
33 And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say to those on His right hand, "Come, all you blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
35 For I hungered, and you all gave Me meat; I was thirsty, and you all gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and you all took Me in;
36 naked, and you all clothed Me; I was sick, and you all visited Me; I was in prison, and you all came to Me."
37 Then shall the righteous answer Him, saying, "Lord, when saw we You hungering and fed You, or thirsty and gave You drink?
38 When saw we You a stranger and took You in, or naked and clothed You?
39 Or when saw we You sick or in prison and came to You?"
40 And the King shall answer and say to them, "Truthfully I say to you, inasmuch as you all have done it to one of the least of these My brethren, you all have done it to Me."
41 Then shall He say also to those on the left hand, "Depart from Me, all you cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
42 For I hungered, and you all gave Me no meat; I was thirsty, and you all gave Me no drink;
43 I was a stranger, and you all took Me not in; naked, and you all clothed Me not; sick and in prison, and you all visited Me not."
44 Then shall they also answer Him, saying, "Lord, [They will also call Him "Lord" - as "every knee shall bow?"] when saw we You hungering or athirst or a stranger, or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?"
45 Then shall He answer them, saying, "Truthfully I say to you, inasmuch as you all did it not to one of the least of these, you all did it not to Me."
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.

Notice the literal words used in Matthew 25:31 above: "the Son of Man." That obviously refers to Christ, and so - that particular Judgment can and should - logically and applicably - be called: "The Judgment Seat of Christ."

It is not out of the question to assume that degrees of reward (for the righteous "sheep"), and degrees or types of punishment (against the wicked "goats"), will be apportioned at that both-good-and-evil-persons-present time.

First Corinthians 15:51 Hey, I show you a mystery: We shall not all "sleep;" but we shall ALL [i.e. the righteous "sheep" and the wicked "goats"] be changed
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the LAST [not some pre-Millennial Battle-of-Armageddon] trumpet. For THE Trumpet shall sound, and the dead [i.e. the righteous "sheep" and the wicked "goats"] shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Who will be included in THAT Big Change? It states that ALL (i.e. every human being) will be changed: both the righteous "sheep" AND the wicked "goats" -- changed to perpetually experience not-of-this-world eternal bliss in Heaven OR instead eternal torture in Hell [i.e. the Outer-Darkness Lake of Fire].

Immediately before that Matthew-chapter-25 "sheep-and-goats" Last Judgment event occurs [transpiring only after the Millennial Rule of Christ on Earth], the following phenomenon will occur (in the "twinkling of an eye"):

First Thessalonians 4:15 For this we say to you by the Word of the Lord: that we who are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who are "asleep."
16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;
17 then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds [of Heaven] to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord.

rather quickly followed by:

Second Peter 3:10 But the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall dissolve with fervent heat. The Earth also and the works that are therein shall be incinerated.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy manner of living and godliness,
12 looking for and speeding up the coming of THE Day of God, wherein the heavens - being on fire - shall be dissolved and the elements shall disintegrate with fervent heat?

Another grievous heresy that also needs serious rectification is the superstition of an alleged "pre-Tribulation Rapture" of "the Church" (whatever "church" means, whether the IRS-501(c)(3) feminists-and-homosexuals ELCA, the feminists-and-homosexuals United Methodists, the feminists-and-homosexuals United Presbyterians, Satanic Wiccan, and/or others) occurring before a presumed "seven"-year-duration "tribulation period" happens.

The alleged pre-Trib Rapture that some so-called "prophecy experts" purport -- that The Beast and The False Prophet cannot be revealed before the "seven-year" Tribulation Period occurs because of the restrictive presence of "the church" (whatever THAT means - whether they are the feminists-and-homosexuals ELCA, the feminists-and-homosexuals United Methodists, the feminists-and-homosexuals United Presbyterians, Satanic Wiccan, and/or others) which is presumed to be "The Restrainer" who must first be "removed."

"The [Holy Spirit] Restrainer already has been removed by the deaths of anti-feminists/anti-homosexuals authentic-apostles Paul and Peter and John, church-fathers Cyprian and Jerome, reformers Tyndale and Erasmus and Luther, mass-and-requiem-composers Bach and Beethoven and Verdi, revivalists Dwight Moody and Jerry Falwell and D. James Kennedy. Those now-deceased saints had significant property and financial resources and media influence at least as great as or greater than now-weak-and-nearly-dead-old-man Billy Graham . . . and in their place are financially-impoverished-and-unemployed young-Christian-convert enthusiasts, suppressed and stymied and and thwarted by Senate demoncrats, Obominites, the American Criminal Liberties Union, Antagonists United For Separation of Church/Synagogue/Mosque and State, People Against the American Way, Southern Pernicious Law Center, American Atheists, Homosexual-Human Rites Alliance, Freedom From Religion deviates, antisemitic islamists in America, etc.

Added to that, the restraining Holy Spirit has been grieved, squelched, and removed along with prayer and Bible reading in public schools and courts and off the streets. It has not and will not take a never-never-land fictitious pre-Trib Rapture to remove His influence in modern-day society! It has already happened, continues to happen, and will get much worse.

Some pertinent prophecy verses of Scripture contradict and obliterate the heretical pre-Trib presumption, clearly informing and enlightening us that Our Gathering Together to Him (i.e. meet Christ at Armageddon, or meet Christ the King when He judges and separates euphemistic sheep from euphemistic goat at THE Last Day) will NOT occur BEFORE the Beast and False Prophet are revealed, but rather AFTER the Beast and False Prophet are revealed:

Second Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beg you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together to Him,
2 that you all be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as if from us that the Day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no human deceive you by any means, for that Day shall not come, unless there come a falling away first, and that Man of Sin be revealed, the Son of Perdition,
4 who opposes God and exalts himself above all who is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, displaying himself to be God.
5 You all remember not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you all know what holds him back, that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only He who now holds back will hold him back, until He is taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming"
9 even him, whose coming is according to the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 and with all the deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie,
12 that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in non-righteousness.

Notice that the PRE-condition for Our Gather Together to Him [Christ] is not merely that "falling away" but also is: "the man of sin being revealed."

"The Church" (whatever THAT means, whether the feminists-and-homosexuals ELCA, the feminists-and-homosexuals United Methodists, the feminists-and-homosexuals United Presbyterians, Satanic Wiccan, and/or others) will definitely go through and be persecuted during the forty-two-month (not "seven-year") Great Tribulation . . . as jews during World War II did not escape Hitlerian Nazi holocaust either:

Revelation 13:7 And it was given to [the beast] to make war against the saints and to overcome them; and power was given him over all relatives, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all who reside upon the Earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear:
10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity. He that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Revelation 14:1 And I looked and wow, a Lamb stood on Mount Zion, and with Him a hundred forty and four thousand [of the Twelve Tribes of Israel - see Revelation 7:1-8], having His Father's name written on their foreheads.
2 And I heard a voice from Heaven as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder, and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps.
3 And they sang, as it were, a new song in front of The Throne, and in front of The Four Living Beings and The Elders; and no human could learn that song, except the hundred and forty and four thousand who were redeemed from the earth.
4 These are they who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These are redeemed from among humans, being the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
5 And in their mouth was found no deceit, for they are without fault before the throne of God.

9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If any human worships The Beast and his Image, and receives his Mark on their forehead or on their hand,
10 the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out unmixed into the cup of His indignation; and they shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
11 And the smoke of their torment ascends up to the ages of the ages; and they have no rest day or night, who worship The Beast and his Image, and whoever receives the Mark of his name."
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith in Jesus.

Revelation 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from Heaven, having the key to The Abyss and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on The Dragon, that old Serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
3 And he threw him into The Abyss, and shut him up and set a seal upon him, that he could deceive the nations no more until the thousand years were fulfilled; and after that he must be loosed a little while.
4 And I saw thrones and those who sat upon them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped The Beast, nor his Image, nor had received his Mark on their foreheads or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 But the other dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in The First Resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8 and shall go out to deceive the nations to the four quarters of the earth -- Gog and Magog -- to gather them together for battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9 And they went out over the breadth of the Earth, and surrounded The Camp of the saints about, and the Beloved City. And fire came down from God out of Heaven, and devoured them.
10 And the Devil who had deceived them was thrown into The Lake of Fire and Brimstone, where The Beast and The False Prophet are; and they shall be tormented day and night to the ages of the ages.
11 And I saw a Great White Throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the Earth and the heavens fled away, and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and Death and Hades delivered up the dead which were in them; and every human was judged according to their works.
14 And Death and Hades were thrown into The Lake of Fire. This is The Second Death.
15 And whoever was not found written in The Book of Life was thrown into The Lake of Fire.

It seems that Gog and Magog is going to be the Battle of Armageddon at THE Second Coming of Christ (which can and should be considered a PRE-Millennial Judgment, of course) --- but also be present at the Revelation-chapter-20-cited POST-Millennial Final Coming of Christ the King to separate righteous "sheep" away from wicked "goats" at The Final Judgment on The Last Day.

The Old-Testament prophet Daniel rightly predicted that a vast number of NON-beheaded saints living and dying throughout the PRE-Tribulation decades and centuries and millennia who had not lived during a time when they were murdered [because of lethally refusing to be voluntarily marked on their foreheads or right hands with the Beast's/False-Prophet's 666 commercial-transactions-regulating implant(?) tattoo while encountering or confronting The Beast and False Prophet spoken of in Revelation chapter 13], would "awake from their sleep" on The Last Day (when Heaven and Earth pass away with fervent heat shortly before the Matthew-chapter-25 Sheep-and-Goats Final Judgment):

Daniel 12:1 At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a Time of Trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time; but at that time your people shall be delivered, every one whose name shall be found written in The Book.
2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the Earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt [at the Resurrection-and-Rapture Matthew-chapter-25-Sheep-from-Goats Final-Judgment].
3 And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever.
4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase."
5 Then I Daniel looked, and hey, two others stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream.
6 And I said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, "How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?"
7 The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven; and I heard him swear by him who lives for ever that it would be for a time, two times, and half a time (42 months, or 3-1/2 years, or 1 + 2 + 1/2 years); and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be accomplished.
8 I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, "Oh my lord, what shall be the preview indicators of these things?"
9 He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of The End.
10 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.

Persons in the past have speculated on who they thought might become or be THE Antichrist of their time (either The Beast and The False Prophet).

It is said that some in past centuries thought that is was an antisemitic Roman emperor such as Hadrian, from whom came the Philistine-based word "palestinian." Later on, some guessed that it was a corrupt, works-righteousness, indulgences-demanding, pseudo-canonical-apocrypha-insistent, maryolatrous and purgatorial Pope.

After that, some speculated that the Antichrist was Adolf Hitler or Bill Clinton.

Currently, being considered chief candidate for Beast or False Prophet is one multi-languages-fluent apostate-catholic-plus-cultic-islamic [two-horned] U.N./E.U.-combo personage with the name of the contemptible-and-not-constitutionally-qualified-to-be-President Kenyan-born liar-in-chief Barack Hussein Obama (the sum of whose 6+7+5 first and middle and last alphabet-lettered names when calculated adds up to the same total as 6+6+6).

Fascinating how even patsy ignorant or fearful members of the "christian?" and certainly political community repeatedly mis-credential masterfully-bloviating rhetoricist Obama or Barack Obama or Barack/Barry/Barack Hussein Obama/Soetoro/Obama with the non-deserved title: "The President."

And even government figures such as former House-Speaker Tom Daschle and former-Senator John Edwards and Barack Obama have (like Satan himself blurbilizing and blattering truncated Bible verses in the desert when he tempted Jesus) have defiantly quoted such Scripture in their arrogance as:

Isaiah 9:10 "The [9112001] bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place."

. . . instead of:

Second Chronicles 7:14 if my people who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

It is, on one hand, understandable that pre-Trib rapturists want to avoid being persecuted during a Great Tribulation worse than the Nazi holocaust of the 30s and 40s by being snatched up in a wishful extra fly-by pre-Second-Coming-of-Christ event supposedly fulfilling "the imminent return of Christ" mandate to "be ready for Christ's coming at any moment."

But Christ could come to meet us (as we go to Him) in a non-expected moment by us suddenly having our brains blown out by a hidden sniper or dispersed to bloody smithereens by a terrorist bomb blast, or promptly dropping dead with a massive heart attack or stroke. Imminency does not require the bodily return of Jesus, nor should our continual readiness be dependent on some supposed pre-Trib snatch-away Rapture.

The proper understanding and interpretation of:

Luke 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the Day when the Son of Man is revealed.
31 In that Day, whoever shall be upon the housetop and his goods in the house, let them not come down to take them away. And whoever who is in the field, let them likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whoever shall seek to save their life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose their life shall preserve it.
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left."
37 And they answered and said to Him, "Where, Lord?" And He said to them, "Wherever the body is, there will the vultures will be gathered together."

. . . is correctly NOT applied to some fairy-tale, cowardly-escapist, take-up-your-cross-and-follow-me/lose-your-life-for-My-sake-despising pre-Trib-Rapture whisking up into the skies before The Trouble begins, but does apply to AFTER the Millennium right before when Heaven and Earth are dissolved in fervent heat immediately after which The King separates the euphemistic righteous "sheep" from the euphemistic wicked "goats."