ON TRIBULATION; SHALL CHRISTIANS ESCAPE?

I an taking a time-out covering the all-important Book of Matthew because of the outrageous degeneration of the world. Just like the Book or Genesis whose later half is about the degeneration of mankind; so it is in the New Testament.

Just look at today’s headlines: 

·         New UN-backed legal recommendations normalize sex with minors, outraged critics say.

·         World reacts to insane Donald Trump, Brittney Griner news.

·         ‘Dr. Fauci paid Chinese virologists to create a bioweapon virus': Said Benny Johnson.

·         Ad nauseum 

Therein is a combination of propaganda (Trump is not insane, but perhaps the writer of the headlines is), sedition against the human race by America’s leading Mengelean doctor Fauci (if that is true), and something very true but disgusting (legalized pedophilia).

Today, the focus is on the first bullet — legalized perverted sex with naïve innocent children that could be sanctioned legal tender by the government thanks to the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

The APA still denies that they support man-child sexual relations but that does not mean that in some cases they do not. Consider the following: 

LOS ANGELES -- Brace yourself for the public promotion of pedophilia.

The Wanderer March 4, 1999 

Despite growing understanding of the deep and permanent psychological scars caused by childhood sexual abuse, the American Psychological Association (APA) is beating the drums for public approval of the benefits of pedophilia, based on a pseudo-professional, pseudo-academic analysis of the benefits of pedophilia for both the child-victim and adult perpetrator.

A team of academics from Temple University has endorsed the view that adult-child sexual relations are beneficial for the child and adult and recommends overhauling and euphemizing the language of sexual abuse to purge society of its innate loathing of what is considered "the last taboo."

The December newsletter of the National association on Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) revealed that the prestigious Psychological Bulletin of the APA has conferred its waning prestige on advocates of adult-child sex.

For thousands of years, cultures formed in the Judeo-Christian tradition have held pedophilia to be legally, socially, and morally wrong. Since the rise of the mental health profession in the last century, that profession has viewed pedophilia as psychologically disordered.

Long considered a taboo subject, the cause for pedophilia entered the mainstream in the 1960's through NAMBLA -- the North American Man-Boy Love Association. In 1990, the highly respected Journal of Homosexuality produced a special double issue devoted to adult-child sex, which was entitled "Male Intergenerational Intimacy."

One article said that many pedophiles believe they are "born that way and cannot change." Another writer said a man who counseled troubled teenage boys could achieve "miracles not by preaching to them, but by sleeping with them." The loving pedophile can offer a "companionship, security, and protection" which neither peers nor parents can provide. (Wanderer 1999)

 That was a quarter-century ago! The “Brave New World” has come along way with babies. Consider today’s progress toward the ultimate deviancy — total depravity: 

A shocking report issued by international legal experts with the backing of the United Nations appears to open the floodgates to normalize sex with minors.

"Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law," the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists wrote in March with an assist from UNAIDS and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The report is titled "The 8 March Principles for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex, Reproduction, Drug Use, HIV, Homelessness and Poverty." (Byrne 2023)

 This is another example of the degeneration of mankind! Nowadays adults can do what is right in their own eyes without judgement from anyone. I can hardly wait to see what “phobia” the APA creates to describe normal people who think this is not okay!

The APA creates phobias. Phobias are fears, but are applied as if they are hated guns ready to fire. Anyone going to the APA for sanity checks are in as much jeopardy as hens guarded by the foxes.

To never question right and wrong is the doctrine of that new age “religion.” By ignoring what is wrong is indeed judgmental but right and wrong has never changed.

However, this is not about the APA but the progression from morality to immorality with the demand that normal people never question abnormal behaviors. [1]

The Bible warns the world of this very time: 

²⁴ For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. ²⁵ But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. ²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. ²⁷ They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. (Luke 17:24-25)

 The day of the Son of Man is taken to be the coming of Christ; whether the second or subsequent coming is not clear. Theologians, especially Baptists, accept the millennial reign of Jesus as the “Second Coming” but it is obvious that the second time Jesus comes is at the rapture: 

¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: ¹⁷ Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thes 4:15-17)

 It is clear and specific therein… it is distinctly referring to the “coming of the Lord” when those in Christ are finally saved. It will be as in the days of Noah when Jesus comes again.

Scripture is not clear how it was in the days of Noah, but mankind had become so depraved that sex was rampant (Gen 6) and women were overpowered by “toxic males” and their demons.

However, Christian canon is not the only place that the days of Noah are mentioned: It was revealed to Methuselah:  

¹⁸ And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days. ¹⁹ And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read (them) in the heavenly tablets. (Enoch 106: 18-19)

 Because of unrighteousness on the Earth, it would be destroyed. Mentioned therein was men doing as they willed with women. This is rampant “fornication” which in the Greek is pornea, having the same root as pornography. In other words, their minds were on sex continually and not having it virtually required consummation. Today, pornography is rampant on the world wide web.

As children in the 1950s and 1960s, our desire was for women in underwear from the pages of the Sears® catalog. Now, our children can have virtual sex with the worst of the worst, merely by clicking on an icon that in days gone by were called “idols.” Indeed, the internet seems to be the modern version of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the idol of the new iconoclastic.

But more is revealed in the Book of Adam and Eve, to wit: 

⁶ Thus did this Genun multiply sin exceedingly; he also acted with pride, and taught the children of Cain to commit all manner of the grossest wickedness, which they knew not; and put them up to manifold doings which they knew not before (Lead them to temptation by removing inhibitions)… ⁸ Then when they were drunk, hatred and murder increased among them; one man used violence against another to teach him evil taking his children and defiling them before him (pedophilia). (1 A & E 20:7-8)

 Children were induced to perform by hard liquor, if not in the children, but certainly in the drunken sex deviates. The children had no choice in the matter. They were “defiled” — their innocence and purity were corrupted. Surely, grown men conditioned their prey with strong drink and perhaps demonstrations to corrupt their minds.

With pedophilia, children are victimized by mostly grown men, and that is disgusting to God, and ought to be disgusting to Christians! Little has changed from then to now accept it has become more prevalent. It is as in the days of Noah right now!

Noah had to watch the deviates for a century while he remained pure from all the debauchery. God was patient while Noah was building the ship but as soon as it was finished the flood waters came, and Noah and family were lifted, or raptured, from this world to another.

With that said, nobody knows for sure when the rapture of Christians shall be. The obvious hope is that God will deliver us all from temptation before the Great Tribulation.

Right now, the world is in tribulation. Jesus said, “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). But then there will be great tribulation: 

²⁰ But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: ²¹ For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. ²² And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. (Mat 24:20-22) 

The “elect” are Christians; during the period of great tribulation; and for them, “those says will be shortened.” It appears that Christians must endure some great tribulation for a period of time, perhaps the first three-and-one-half years wherein things become as in the days of Noah; that we must endure the things endured in the days of Noah — just living life as if there is no tomorrow and without any thoughts of God and punishment, according to what is implied in Luke chapter 17.

Many have asked the question… How did so many fall for Nazism? It was a gradual process wherein progressives introduced debauchery one element at a time. The volks were conditioned to accept change so slickly and gradually that it was ordinary.

You are being conditioned. Fornication is now alright. Porno is legal. Drugs are rampant and this administration has normalized both their use and turned their eyes to aberrant behavior by those who use.

Holy Matrimony is obsolete. Few couples become one with God when they are married. In other words, they couple but without God’s will in mind.

Everybody does anything they desire to do just as the lawless did when there were no laws in Israel. The world is lawless now; and nobody seems to be able to control the rage of the vocal few. Worst of all is the pornography and now the acceptance of pedophilia as the new “normal.”

Nobody but the Father knows the time of the Son of Man. Nobody knows the dates of the great tribulation.

Are we now in the beginning of tribulation and are we so conditioned that it remains undetectable. Has the time already come? Maybe… maybe not, but it is as in the days of Noah and to argue against that contention would be pointless.

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[1] The author writes this with some credentials – graduate work in family counseling.