After reading the following, I realized that most will not make it through. I also realize that it will generate great controversy and much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Therefore, I suggest no one reads it.
However, because I feel a responsibility to God to make SURE that SOMEONE says these things before the rapture occurs and the AntiChrist can take over, I've decided to leave it, so that those in the Tribulation will know that a few of us prior to the rapture were TRYING to warn the rest of the church.
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The Great Falling Away is NOT a metaphor for the rapture. Didn't mean to give that impression.
With regard to music, Webdog asked -
What does the music style you listen to have anything to do with the rapture?
Well, it actually has a LOT to do with it.
As the Church Age rapidly winds down, it is becoming more worldly and less Christ-like. This is one of the evidences that we live in the Laodicean era of church history-the lukewarm Church is nauseating to God and all who love His Word, and one of the visible proofs of that is the use of worldly methods in attempts to bootleg the Gospel, which is not God's will for his people. Most of the music being foisted upon unsuspecting church goers today is part of that process, which is one of Satan's preparatory steps to get the world ready for his universal religion.
The throngs that follow the Joel Osteen's of the world are being
inoculated against
real Christianity, so that the REAL THING, when encountered, is and will be rejected (
"...that they should believe a lie" - II Thess. 2:11).
Truth, mixed with error, is Satan's
biggest area of operation-and it is
THE MOST DANGEROUS! There is NOTHING more dangerous than a teaching that contains SOME truth! Satan's been providing just that since the beginning of time:
"...Yea, hath God said?..." (Genesis 3:1).
In order for the AntiChrist to be effective, he must be
acceptable in the eyes of the world. It must be obvious that the elections of Bill Clinton and Barak Hussein Obama are part of his plan to get the masses to accept ANYTHING that LOOKS good on the surface.
This is how the AC will come to power-through lies, deception, signs & wonders (ie, "change"). But he has to be acceptable to the masses-& the only way he can be is for them to have no reference by which to measure him, Who is Jesus Christ!
Since Satan cannot get "at" Jesus Christ, he’s doing the next best thing: going after His church, which is here to present Christ to the world-the people cannot see HIM, but they're supposed to see Him through US.
If Satan can neuter the church-destroy our effectiveness in this world-
then he can present the AC and no one will be able to stop him-he'll be accepted without question.
So - HOW can Satan neutralize the effectiveness of the church?
SIMPLE - All he has to do is to get the people of God to take their spiritual eyes off of Jesus Christ and get them onto THEMSELVES!
Now, HOW does he do THAT? By getting us to focus on earthly things, rather than things above-by getting us to accept as "normal" things that are abnormal, in our spiritual lives, and, thus, causing us to deteriorate, spiritually. When he succeeds in THAT, he's won!
There are many examples of this. Some that come immediately to mind are:
The acceptance on the part of modern Christianity -
* of the idea that Christians aren't really different from everyone else, just forgiven.
* that living The Separated Life is a bunch of nonsense dreamed up by overzealous, pious prudes who just don't want anyone to have any fun in this life.
* of situational ethics and humanism - that there are no absolutes: right & wrong is all dependent on ones'
perspective/interpretation.
* that sensuality in the life of the believer isn't really bad - it's good, and those who say otherwise have issues, and, therefore, are trying to repress others.
* that in order to reach the lost world with the Gospel, it is essential that the church use methods that appeal to them - in other words, that we must use tactics, tools, and gimmicks that speak to the depraved nature of the lost man in order to catch his attention and draw him away from the evil world system which has him in it's grasp. After we've done that, THEN we can give him the "life-changing Gospel" we SAY we have.
These are but a few of Satan's ways of getting God's children to accept LESS than God's BEST for their lives, and paves the way for the spiritual apathy and atrophy that is paralyzing the work of our Lord in this earth at this time.
What's this got to do with music? Everything!
Music is THE NUMBER ONE TOOL Satan uses to cause the minds of men to throw off their inhibitions and "go with the flow". And, if he can get the Christians to believe the LIE that music, in and of itself, is amoral, then he can trick them into listening to music that, though it may have good WORDS, is SENSUAL by it's very nature, which results in CARNALITY on the part of the listener,
EVEN IF HE DOESN’T REALIZE IT!
Without the undergirding of fleshly music, Satan's attacks on the veracity of the Word of God in the hearts and minds of men are severely hampered! THAT is why he used MUSIC to entice Eve in the Garden of Eden:
"Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; ...the workmanship of thy tabrets [percussion instruments]
and of thy pipes [wind instruments]
was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created" (Ez. 28:13).
How do you think Eve found that tree, anyway? Satan LURED her there using MUSIC!
How will the AC be accepted? Because the church of the Lord will have been neutered-rendered ineffective-in the years just prior to the Tribulation because, by then, for the most part, it will have become
JUST LIKE THE WORLD!
No, friends, the Great Falling Away is NOT empty church buildings - it is and will be buildings filled with EMPTY PEOPLE! They will be empty, spiritually, because Satan has and will convince them that the FEELING they get from their so-called worship services is actually the FILLING of the Holy Spirit! They will be EMPTY because Satan will have convinced them that
THE FEELING THEY GET FROM THESE THINGS IS THE FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN IT ISN’T REALLY THAT AT ALL!
Satan can mimic EVERY aspect of the effects of the true filling of the Holy Spirit EXCEPT the filling itself! He can make you THINK you are sensing the Holy Spirit when it is actually him sending that feeling up your spine! For every person, the physical sensation of the filling of the Spirit is different - it’s different for each person. It is an experience that is uniquely ours with God - one that is not shared exactly with anyone else.
But our feelings can be tricked. This is why we must NEVER allow ourselves to be under the control of our emotions-they are part of our fallen nature and can be manipulated! We must ALWAYS bring them in line with the Word of God! The BIBLE is the measure by which we examine them, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND! If your experience doesn't line up with the Bible, it is spurious and you are being tricked by Satan into believe HIS lie: that how you FEEL is the measure by which everything else is tested, even whether or not you are Spirit-filled!
Now, after having REALLY been filled with the Spirit, we know what it's like. But when the day comes-and it always does-when we sin in thought, word, or deed, that filling is no longer there. In order to return to it, we must confess, repent, then asked to be filled again. Thankfully, the Lord never tires of granting us mercy in this area.
But what if Satan can trick us into believing we're filled with the Spirit? Wouldn't THAT be one of his greatest deceptions ever? Wouldn't doing so make it possible to render a believer ineffective for Christ, all the while he's
thinking he's right with God?
From Satan's viewpoint, the prospect of a Christian who THINKS he's right with God but really ISN'T is one that he just can't resist: churches FILLED with people like that would be a BOON to his efforts here on earth!
So Satan has to find ways to prevent us from being filled with the Holy Spirit, all the while thinking we ARE.
And music can do just that!
Music can cause your body to produce chemicals (drugs) & introduce them into your system until you become no different than a heroine user: totally under the influence of the
feeling you get from the drugs in you, except you've not used a syringe!
Once he's duplicated the FEELING that you had when you really WERE filled with the Spirit, THEN he's GOT YOU, & he can keep giving you that until you die, Jesus returns, or you repent. Sadly, in most cases, the typical church member will never know the difference!
How does this fit in with our topic dealing with the pre-tribulation rapture? Again - everything!
The acceptance of the one-world ruler, religion, etc., hinges on that very thing: his acceptance.
By inoculating Christians prior to the rapture against the true filling of the Holy Spirit, he paves the way for carnal, flesh-centered Christianity. Christianity that is not Spirit-controlled is flesh controlled, and, therefore, no longer subject to the infallible, inerrant, inspired Word of God, but to the flesh-controlled minds of men that have been lulled into carnality by drugs of their own emotional creation.
And, by filling buildings with empty PEOPLE - people who have abandoned the Bible as the authority and standard by which all men shall live and be judged, Satan will have primed the world for HIS religion, which will take control once the REAL church is gone.
