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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

Part VI

In Part V of While You Were Sleeping, we again attempted to juxtapose the prevailing concept of prophetic interpretive thought – personified by the Rapture Cult – versus the truth that the LORD has revealed through the Scriptures.

The core of the Remnant system that Christian Media is trumpeting pivots on the identity of Israel. The Cult That Kidnapped Christianity in the nineteenth century in England, also allows for a presence of Israel, but it removes the crucial component of the absolute fact that God always keeps His promises. It does this by positioning the promised salvation of Israel as following an event that will never occur – the Rapture. 

The Rapture Cult has been rehabilitated from their dubious British origins in Christianity through its articulation in the Christian-Occult group led by young Margaret MacDonald in England (her eccentric circle was engaged in multiple dubious doctrines, in addition to what is now known as “partial” or “progressive” Rapturism) – but it’s also been forensically implicated in literary chicanery by the biographer of John Nelson Darby, the respected pastor who “legitimized” the doctrine to the UK and US Christians.

“Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth corrupt fruit” (Matthew 7:17).

When Darby saw the powerful evangelistic effect the Rapture theory had on church audiences as it emphasized the any moment imminency of Christs’ alleged secret coming to evacuate His saints, his Christian associates sought to distance the doctrine from two dubious figures that had already theorized elementary versions of the new system. In addition to the trance-like utterance of teenage Margaret Macdonald, an erratic pastoral figure named Edward Irving was believed to be working on a variation of the novel prophetic system at the time.

Contemporary research – based on the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic documents unearthed in Egypt in the 1940’s – indicates the idea of the Savior rescuing his followers amidst escalating cataclysmic conditions (read the “tribulation”) is documented in Occult codices written before the birth of Christ. In what is called “Sethian” literature (the Savior is supposedly associated with Seth, the third son of Adam), a rudimentary form of the “Rapture” has been found in very old Egyptian documents.

Furthermore, it has been established that early Church fathers quoted from some of this material. This history is covered in the Christian Media published book The Culting of Christianity by yours truly.

Although the entire book was freely serialized on the Internet, predictably, the Christian Media Network has met with a wall of silence from those in the mainstream Christian media. Indeed, much of the emerging Remnant of Israel theology posited by this ministry is based on controversial information of this sort, but God has seen fit to continue disseminating His prophetic truth without the broad acceptance of the contemporary Christian church.

Before the specific citations detailing the Sethian Rapture were exposed in The Culting of Christianity, we had already surmised the pivotal period of Post World War II – now routinely referred to as the Nuclear Age (or the “Baby Boom”) – was somehow related to the removal of the “restrainer,” that has held the Spirit of Antichrist at bay throughout the Christian era.

The New Testament tells us the Spirit of Antichrist was already in the world in the generation of the Apostles, as testified to by two witnesses, John and Paul. Paul specified it first, as the Thessalonian letters were earlier than John’s letters.

“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now [restrains it] will [restrain it], until he be taken out of the way” (II Thessalonians 2:7).

John was even clearer, as he specifically identified Paul’s mysterious entity, who he said was associated with lawlessness (the word “iniquity” equivocates with lawlessness) is the Spirit of Antichrist.

“Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus [is the Christ]…is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now is it already in the world” (I John 4:3).

The pivotal demarcation point is the removal of the restrainer, which the Scripture tells us will enable the wicked spirit to go on to control all those that dwell upon the earth. The text tells us the evil ascends from “the bottomless pit” – which is not a literal place, but recognizes the fact that evil has no limit, concerning how far it will progressively leaven vessels it inhabits. This is, until it destroys its host.

“The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition” (Revelation 17:8).

In our earlier writings, the LORD had revealed the twin tiers of earthly kingdoms, largely found in the book of Daniel. It is now overwhelmingly obvious that Daniel saw two cyclical sequences of kingdoms, which are separated by the central event of all history – the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The imagery described in Daniel established the patterns of prophecy, seen in the amazing dream of Nebuchadnezzer. Believers know the king dreamed of a great composite statue, with a head of gold, arms of silver, a brass belly and thighs, and legs of iron. The Scripture itself records Daniel’s God given interpretation of the four kingdoms of Babylon, the Persian Union of the Medes and the Persians (imaged as the silver arms), the Grecian Empire of Alexander the Great, whereas the fourth kingdom of Rome, was only vaguely predicted.

After that last kingdom, the Scripture tells of the epic introduction of the incarnation of Christ.

“In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed…and it shall stand for ever” (Daniel 2:44).

About 30 years ago, God revealed the second set of four kingdoms in Daniel 7, mirrored the prophet’s first four, but they occurred after the kingdom of God arrived, in the second of three eras of man.

These four kingdoms, likened as kingdoms resembling a lion, bear, leopard, and Diverse beast, are England, Russia, Germany, and America, and they “double” the pattern seen in Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. Although we have extensively published and broadcast this prophetic revelation for decades, just as the Christian church has rejected the truth about the Rapture Cult, this knowledge has been suppressed, and even censored.

It is now abundantly evident that part of the LORD’s plan is to carefully draw those believers He has chosen to receive this revelation, to guide them through the perilous times in which we find ourselves, in accord with the prophesied end of the age, when He releases the Devils to take the balance of this lost generation into perdition.

This pattern, which is yet another example of Sequential Recapitulation, is a “doubling” of the account of the Gadarene (also called the Gergesenes) madmen. This dreadful sequence is a supernatural “doubling” of that seen when the Devils were cast out of the vessels the LORD has chosen, but the rest of humanity is the Spiritually unclean, who are destined for destruction.

Even the LORD’s journey from heaven to earth is seen in this magnificent account. For instance, He came over to the “other side” of the Spiritual sea.

“And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes...[and] there met him two possessed with devils coming out of the tombs” (Mark 5:1, Matthew 8:28).

Obviously, this is the well known account of the collective cluster of Demons identified as Legion, and it speaks of the Collective that is scheduled to capture the entire world (see the Christian Media book The Collective for more on this). Clearly, it is an important tale as it anticipates a much larger scope when the event is Sequentially Recapitulated.

“And Jesus asked him, saying, what is thy name? And he said Legion: because many devils were entered into him” (Luke 8:30). 

Note that the devils had to ask Jesus to remove the restraint, which apparently kept them from entering “the whole herd,” an act that was evidently forbidden to them.

“So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the [Spiritually unclean] herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go, and when they were come out, they went down into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently a steep place, into the sea, and perished in the waters” (Matthew 8:31,32). 

The Prophetic Parallel of this is destined to occur to all mankind that has not been chosen by the LORD to receive the kingdom prepared by the Father before the foundation of the world. Now that the “restrainer” has been “taken out of the way” (II Thessalonians 2:7), and the Era of Antichrist is well underway, the full manifestation of this terrible tragedy is coming to pass. 

To put it another way, the entire world of lost humanity is prefigured in the herd of “swine.” The Gadarene madmen who dwelled “in the tombs” but were delivered by JESUS, anticipate the chosen of the LORD, who are redeemed and out of the reach of the devils.

We even see the Christian age in this narrative, when Christ goes back to heaven, and instructs those He has saved to bear witness to the wonderful redemptive work of the Savior.

“And when he was come [back] into the ship [the Christians] that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that [they] might be with him” (Mark 5:18).

But JESUS told the redeemed they were to return to their own “house,” and testify concerning the light of God to all who would listen.

“Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath compassion on thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him” (Mark 5:19, Luke 8:39)

    -- James Lloyd

To Be Continued