The Hidden Keys in the Bible 2

By Vernon Atkins

Why is it so hard to find God, Or should I say, Why is it so hard for God to find you? There are. Those who say, "I Read the Bible often, But Can't Understand it, So I Quickly Lose Interest in it, Then I find myself Seeking a Church, and a Man of God to help me get closer to God, This after a while did not do it for me, So I left the Church, feelings even more depressed than before; Is it really that hard to make a Connection with our God? I been told by others that he said, "that he love all, and wishing that none should perish; Well why is it so hard to find him if he love us? Is our God speaking out of both sides of his mouth? I mean he did say it is impossible for him to lie, He also said what comes out of my mouth can't return void; it that is the case then, you need took at your self, and at your attempts to see what you are doing wrong; less Review, You first Started Reading the Bible, How much time did you spend reading the Bible, once a week, every other month, are just doing hollow days, did I give up my friends who were still involved in daily activities that goes against the Laws, and Commandments of God, Did you give up going to places that God would disapproval, like bars, nightclubs, where you find half nacked woman's, sliding down a pole, How about going out gambling, looking at trying to get rich, and then becoming hooked, spending money you don't have, money that could have been spent on other things, your kids, bills; Now can you see why it was so hard to understand the Bible? Could it be that you are not given your all?

Less now put you on the right track, God says seek him first, and all things will be added,, all you need to do is to knock, Asked, and Seek, in the door will be opened; Next you say that you went as far as attending a church, and a minister to bring you closer to God, Let me say this all ministers are not call by God, In other words it is just as bad to hear the words of God from one who is not call to lead you even further from the truth, It's like the blind leading the blind and they both fall into a ditch; One sure way to know that you have made a Connections with God, Is when you seek him daily, Reading his words for yourself, and keeping all of his Laws, and Commandments, by you doing this you show Him that you are truly sincere about knowing him, This is when God releases His Spirit of understanding to your mind, but in small portions, and the more you read his words, the more knowledge is revealed,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 12, 2024
• ISBN: 9798891302907

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1

Who Was That Pagan God Called by the Name of Mithras?

Who was that pagan god called by the name Mithras who posed as the Christ three thousand years before Christ was born?

Before Romans, when Christ’s myth was new, Mithras and Mithraism were already ancient. Worshiped for centuries as God’s messenger of truth, Mithras was long revered by Persians (Zoroastrianism) and the Indians.

Dating Mithras in Rome: Plutarch (Pompey, 24/7) and Servilius (Georgics, 4,127) say Pompey imported Mithraism into Rome after defeating the Cilician pirates around 70 BCEE. Mithras appears epigraphically in the circles of the Roman emperor in the first century CE—around the time the Canonical Christian Gospels were written (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 6,732), and statues of the gods were present by 101 CE (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 6,718) as with Attis, Christian apologist Justin (1Apologia,66,4) denounces the devil for having sent a God so similar to Jesus—yet preceding him.

Surely there’s a lot we don’t know about this faith that comforted millions of souls. Early Christians established the dominance of their religion by exterminating Mithras’s faithful, razing his temple, burning his sacred texts. However, we do know this: With twelve disciples, he traveled far and wide as a teacher and illuminator of men.

He was buried in a tomb from which he rose again from the dead—an event celebrated yearly with much rejoicing.

Every year in Rome, in the middle of winter, the Son of God was born one more, putting an end to darkness.

Ever year at the first minute of December 25, the Temple of Mithras was lit with candles, priests in white garments celebrated the birth of the Son of God, and boys burned incense.

Mithras was born in a cave, on December 25, of a virgin mother. He came from heaven to be born as a man and to redeem man from their sin.

He was known as Savior, Son of God, Redeemer, and Lamb of God.

His followers kept the Sabbath holy, eating sacramental meats in remembrance of him. The sacred meal of bread and water or bread and wine was symbolic of the body and blood of the sacred bull.

Baptism in the blood of bull (Taurobolum)—early baptism, washed in the Blood of the Lamb; late baptism by water (recorded by the Christian author Tertullian). Mithraic rituals brought about the transformation and salvation of his adherents—an ascent of soul of the adherent into the realm of the divine from the wall of a Mithraic temple in Rome: and thou hast saved us by shedding the eternal blood.

The great Mithraic festivals celebrated his birth (at the winter solstice) and his death and resurrection (at the spring solstice).

Was Jesus new? Was Jesus unique? Let us talk about the pagan godman. Mithras was originally Persian, before Rome. When the Christ’s myth was new, Mithras and Mithraism were already ancient. Worshipper for centuries as God’s messenger of truth, Mithras was long revered by the Persians (Zoroastrianism) and the Indians (see the Vedic literature). Sadly there’s a lot we don’t know about this faith that comforted millions of souls. Early Christians establish the dominance of their religion by exterminating Mithras’s faithful, razing his temple, burning his sacred texts.

We do know he was buried in a tomb from which he rose again from the dead—an event celebrated yearly with much rejoicing.

Every year in Rome, in the middle of winter, the Son of God was born once more, putting an end to darkness every year. At the first minute of December 25, the temple of Mithras was lit with candles. Priests in white garments celebrated the birth of the Son of God, and boys burned incense. Mithras was born in a cave, on December 25, of a virgin mother.

He came from heaven to be born as a man to redeem man from their sin. He was known as Savior, Son of God, Redeemer, and Lamb of God.

His followers kept the Sabbath holy, eating sacramental meats in remembrance of him. The sacred meal of bread and water or bread and wine was symbolic of the body and blood of the sacred bull.

Baptism in the blood of the bull (Taurobolum)—early baptism washed in the blood of the Lamb; late baptism by water (recorded by the Christian author Tertullian).

Mithraic rituals brought about the transformation and salvation of his adherents—an ascent of the soul of the adherent into the realm of the divine from the wall of Mithraic temple in Rome: And thou hast saved us by shedding the eternal blood. The great Mithraic festival celebrated his birth (at the winter solstice) and his death and resurrection (at the spring solstice).

In Persia, Mithras, fades into Prehisory—3000 BC.

Rome, Plutarch (Pompey, 24/7) and Servilius (Georgics, 4,127) say Pompey imported Mithraism into Rome after defeating the Cielician pirates around 70 BC.

Mithras appears epigraphically in the circles of the Roman emperor in the first century AD—around the time the canonical Christian Gospels were written (Corpus Inscription Latinarum, 6,732).

Statues of the gods were present by AD 101 (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 6,718)

As with Attis, Christian apologist Justin Martyr (1Apologia, 66,4) denounces the devil for having sent a God so similar to Jesus—yet preceding him.

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Mithra the Pagan Christ

The following article is adapted from a chapter in Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ unveiled as well as excerpts from other articles such as the Origins of Christianity and the Zeitgeist Sourcebook.

Both Mithras and Christ were described variously as the Way, the Truth, the Light, the Life, the Word, the Son of God, the Good Shepherd. The Christian Litany to Jesus could easily be an allegorical Litany to the sun-god. Mithras is often represented as carrying a Lamb on his shoulders, just as Jesus is. Midnight services were found in both religions. The virgin mother…was easily merged with the virgin Mother Mary. Petra, the sacred rock of Mithraism, became Peter, the foundation of the Christian Church.

Gerald Berry, Religions of the World

Mithra or Mitra is…worshipped as Ita(Mitra-Mitu-Itu) in every house of the Hindus in India.

Itu (derivative of Mitu or Mitra) is considered as the vegetation-deity. This Mithra or Mitra (Sun-God) is believed to be a Mediator between God and Man, between the sky and the Earth. it is said that Mithra or (the) Sun took birth in the cave on December 25th. it is also the belief of the Christian World that Mithra or the Sun-God was born of a Virgin. He traveled far and wide. He has twelve satellites, which are taken as the Suns Disciples…[The Sun’s] great festivals are observed in the winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox-Christmas and Easter. His symbol is the Lamb.

Swami Prajnanananda, Christ the Savior and Christ the Myth

Because of its evident relationship to Christianity, special attention needs to be paid to the Persian/Roman religion Mithraism. The worship of the Indo-Persian god Mithra dates ac centuries to Millennia preceding the common era. The god is found as Mitra in the Indian Vedic Religion, which is over 3,500 years old, by conservative estimates. When the Iranians separated from their Indian brethren, Mitra became known as Mithra or Mihr, as he is also called in Persian.

By around 1500 BCE, Mitra Worship had made it to the near East, in the Indian Kingdom of the Mitanni, who at that time occupied Assyria. Mitra worship, however, was known also by that time as for west as the Hittite Kingdom, only a few hundred miles east of the Mediterranean, as is evidenced by the Hittite-Mitanni tablets found in BogazKoy in what is now Turkey the gods of the Mitanni included Mitra, and Indra all found in the Vedic texts.

Mithra As Sun God

The Indian Mitra was essentially a solar deity, representing the friendly aspect of the Sun. So to was the Persian derivative Mithra, who was a Benevolent god" and the bestower of health, wealth and food. Mithra also seems to have been looking upon as a sort of Prometheus for the gift of fire (Schironi,104) his worship purified and freed the devotee from sin and disease. Eventually, Mithra became more militant, and he is best known as a warrior.

Like so many gods, Mithra was the light and power behind the Sun. In Babylon, Mithra was identified with Shamash, the Sun god, and he is also Bel, the Mesopotamian and Canaanite/Phoenician solar deity, who is likewise Marduk, the Babylonian god who represented both the planet Jupiter and the sun according to Pseudo-Clement of Rome’s debate with Appion (Homily V1, Ch. X) Mithra is also Apollo.

In Time, the Persian Mithraism became infused with the more detailed astrotheology of the Babylonians and Chaldeans, and was notable for its astrology and magic; indeed, it priest or magi lent their very name to the word Magic. Included in this astrotheological development was the re-emphasis on Mithra’s early Indian role as a sun god. As Francis Legge says in Forerunners and Rivals in Christianity:

The Vedic Mitra was originally the material sun itself, and the many hundreds of votive inscriptions left by the worshippers of Mithras to the unconquered Sun-Mithras, to the unconquered solor divinity (numen) Mithras, to the unconquered Sun-God(deus) Mithra, and allusions in them to priests(sacerdotes), worshippers (cultores), and temples (templum) of the same deity leave no doubt open that he was in Roman times a sun-god, (Legge, 11, 240) By the Roman Legionnaires, Mithra—or Mithras, as he began to be known in the Greco-Roman World—was called the Devine Sun the unconquered Sun he was said to be Mighty in Strength, mighty ruler, greatest king of gods! O Sun, Lord of Heaven and earth, God of Gods! Mithra was also deemed the mediator between Heaven and earth, a role often ascribed to the god of the sun. An insertion by a T. Flavius Higinus dating to around 80 to 100 AD/CE in Rome dedicates an Altar to Sol Invictus Mithras—The Unconquered Sun Mithra" revealing the hybridization reflected in other artifacts and myths. regarding this title, Dr. Richard L Gordon, honorary professor of Religion der Antike at the university of Erfurt, Thuringen, remarks: It is true that one cult title…of Mithra was, or came to be, Deus Sol Invictus Mithras…(but he could also be called…Deus Invictus Sol Mithras, Sol Invictus Mithras.

Mithra is who the monuments proclaim him—the Unconquered Sun.

Mithras was and is a god that was worshipped three thousand years ago, long before Christ was born; If you Notice this god has the same Birthday as our Lord, and Savior, Jesus Christ, Which is Dec 25, is this just a Coincidence, that a pagan god would have the same birthday as our Lord and Savior? You would think that the Father would not have let this Happen to his Son, for fear that peoples would confused the two, and believe it or not that is just what has happen So how can we explain this wrongness, This pagan god who was born in a cave on December 25?

Well, let us get the understanding, and truth from the word of God the Father which is his Bible; first of all there is no mention of Christ being born on Dec 25, No where in the Scriptures; Many have speculated that Christ was born in the fall, and that is about all that they know concerning His birth; So how did we attach the pagan birthday to our Lord, and Savior, Birthday of Dec 25? This day is a day that for the last three thousand years were worship by millions of pagan Worshippers, (the word pagan, means the worshipping of any, and all gods other than the one and true God, and Father, and his Son Jesus the Christ); There are Nations to this very day still worshipping this pagan god call Mithras or Bail, the Sun god Well I can only give you what the Holy Spirt has given me; At the beginning, our Nation four hundred years ago, was flooded by thousands of Eastern Europeans, who for thousands of years were worshipping Pagan gods, and Mithras was one of those gods that follow these peoples into the New World, bring in there tradition, and Customs; At that same time, Many Christian New Christian was also Migrating to this new Nation; But now four hundred years ago at the beginning of our New Nation, When the New Christian came to settle in the New World, Christianity was only about fourteen hundred years old, whereas Mithras had been around for three thousand years before Christianity; Now is it Possible that the overbearing Religion Call Mithras took control over the New World, Making it the Number one Religion; at the same time combining Mithralism with Christianity; Pleading their cause, telling the peoples, the New Christian, Since you’ll worship the Son of God, and we worship the Sun-god, Why done we combine the two into one God that we can all Worship, and since you all don’t have a day set aside as a day of your worship to your God yearly, Why not Worship on our God’s day Dec 25? this will make all happy; All except the Lord, and God, and His Father; For you cannot attach anything pagan to that which is God, Those who have ears will hear."

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Will There Be a Third World War between the Nations?

Not according to the Word of God.

Why millions today still believe that there will be a third world war between the power nations of today—Russia, the United States, China, North Korea? The fear of an all-out nuke war has put fear in the hearts of millions for the last fifty years or so. This has been on the minds of all of mankind since the Second World War where nukes were used by the US; and from that time several nations have been able to manufacture their own nuke arsenal, at least seven or eight smaller nations have become a threat to world peace.

But what does the Word of God says about the chance of a third world war between the nations? Let us turn to Revelation to get the answer, starting with Revelation 6:12–17; 14:8–20; 15:6–8; 16:1–21; 17:8–18; 19:10–21, and Jude 1:14–15. Let us also look at 2 Thessalonians 1:7–8, Revelation 3:20–22, and 2 Peter 3:10–13; also Luke 21:35–36, 1 Thessalonians 5:1–3, Deuteronomy 29:23, Amos 4:11, Genesis 19:24, Luke 17:26–28: All these verses will tell the reader the truth about whether man will destroy himself by a third world war using nukes, or what will befall man in the last days at Christ’s return to earth?

Revelation 6:12–17:

12. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth Seal, and Lo, there was a great Earthquake; and the Sun became black as Sackcloth of Hair, and the moon became as blood;

13. And the Stars (Angels) of Heaven fell unto the Earth; Even as a fig tree Casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

14. And the Heaven departed as a when it is Rolled together; and every Mountain and Island were moved out of their places,

15. And the Kings of the Earth, and the great men, and the Rich men, and the Chief Captains, and the Mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, Hid themselves in the dens and in the Rocks of the Mountains;

16. And said to the Mountains and Rocks, fall on us, and hide us from the face of him (Christ) that sitteth on the throne, and from the Wrath of the Lamb (Christ).

17. For the great day of his (Christ) Wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand.

Why are the peoples of earth bidding from Jesus, and why are they afraid of his wrath when his stars (angels) fall to the earth? Notice there is no mention of the nations of the earth fighting each other but instead, an alien race has landed on Earth and punishing the men of Earth, and they call it the wrath of God, and many men—rich and poor, slaves and masters—hide in the cliff of mountains. Nowhere is there mentioned of nukes being fired from one nation to another nation.

Now let us look at Revelations 14:8–20:

8. And there followed another Angel, Saying Babylon is fallen is fallen, that great city, because she made all Nations drink of the Wrath of her Fornication (Reject the True Words of God, to worship Pagan traditions, and Customs, and has the Mark of Satan in their hands, or in their foreheads).

9. And the third Angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any Man worship the Beast and his image, and receive his Mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

10. The same shall drink of the wine of the Wrath of God, which is poured out without Mixture into the Cup of his Indignation; and he shall be tormented with Brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

11. And the smoke of their Torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day or night, who worship the Beast and his Image, and whosoever Receiveth the mark of his name,

12. Here is the Patience of the Saints: Here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

13. And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, Wright, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from Henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their Labours; and their works follow them.

14. And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of Man, Having on his Head a golden Crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

15. And another Angel came out of the Temple, Crying with a Loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the Harvest of the Earth is ripe.

16. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the Earth; and the Earth was reaped.

17. And another Angel came out of the Temple which is in Heaven, he also having a sharp sickle,

18. And another Angel came out from the Alter, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the Earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

19. And the Angel Thrust in his sickle into the Earth, and gathered the Vines of the Earth (Those Who Refused to Obey the Laws and Commandments of God); and cast it into the great winepress of the Wrath of God.

20. And the Winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand sand and six hundred furlongs.

Let us now look at Revelation 15:6–8:

6. And the seven Angels came out of the Temple, having the seven plaques, Clothed in pure and white Linen, and Golden Girdles.

7. And one of the four beast gave unto seven Angel seven golden Vials full of the wrath of God, Who lived for ever and ever.

8. And the Temple was filled with the smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no Man was able to enter into the Temple, till the seven plaques of the seven Angels were fulfilled.

Revelation 17:8–18:

8. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall Ascend out of the Bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the Earth shall wonder, Whose Name were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the World, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

9. And here is the mind which hath Wisdom. The seven heads are seven Mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

10. And there are seven Kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must Continue a short space.

11. And the Beast that was, and is not, even he is the eight, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

12. And the Ten horns which thou sawest are ten Kings, which have received no Kingdom as yet: but receive power as Kings one hour with the beast.

13. these have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

14. these shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of Lords, and King of Kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

15. And he saith unto me, the waters which thou sawest, where the whore Sitteth, are peoples, and Multitudes, and Nations, and tongues,

16. And the Ten horns which thou sewest upon the beast, these shall hate the Whore (A false Religion that has deceived the whole World), and shall make her desolate (Pull off her Covers to show her real self) and Naked, and shall Eat her flesh, and burn her with fire (totally did away with her).

17. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their Kingdom unto the Beast-until the Words of God shall be fulfilled.

18. And the Woman which thou sawest is that great City, which Reigneth over the Kings of the Earth (Which is the Number one Religion that covers three forth of the World, which has made the whole drunk with her lies).

Revelation 19:10–20:

10. And I fell at his feet to worship him, and he said unto me, see thou do it not: I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the Testimony of Jesus: Worship God: for the Testimony of Jesus is the spirit, of Prophecy.

11. And I saw Heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was Called faithful and true, and in Righteousness he doth Judge and make war.

12. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; (Christ) and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

13. And he was clothed with a Vesture dipped in blood: and his Name is called the Word of God.

14. And the Armies which were in Heaven followed him upon white Horses, (Ezekiel’s Wheel in the midst of a wheel, What we call today UFOs), clothed in fine Linen, white and clean.

15. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the Nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of Iron: and he treadeth the Winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

16. And he had on his Vesture and on his thigh a Name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.

17. And I saw Angels standing in the sun; and he cried with a Loud Voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of Heaven, come and gather yourselves together unto the great supper of the great God;

18. that ye may eat, the flesh of Kings, and the flesh of Captains, and the flesh of Mighty Men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sat on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

19. And I saw the beast, and the Kings of the Earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the Horse, (Jesus on His Wheel in the midst of a wheel, or what we called UFOs) and against his Army (200+ thousand of his Angels in their UFOs).

20. And the beast was taken, and with him the false Prophet (that wrought Miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the Mark() of the Beast, and them that worshipped his image, these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

I don’t know about you, but these verses seems to say that man will make war against Christ and his armies at his return to earth. It says all nations—even the great nation, the United States of America—and we will lose to the point where our dead bodies will be supper of the birds of the air, all men—kings, rich, poor, horses—nothing will be spared except those who were called and chosen; they will accept the wrath of God.

Now I am not saying that there will not be a major conflict between the superpowers, but it will not lead to a nuke war; and if it does, it will not lead to the total destruction of man that is mentioned in the Bible at Jesus’s return to earth; but the war with Jesus and all nations could indeed be that war called the Third World War. What it should read is the third worlds war. Did not Jesus tell Pilate that he was not of this world? Would that not make him an alien? Those who have ears will hear, and those who have eyes will see.

Second Thessalonians 1:7–8:

7. And to you who are trouble rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be Revealed from Heaven with his Mighty Angels,

8. In flaming fire taking Vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Revelation 3:20–22:

20. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me, to have a deep desire to know God, and his Son,

21. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and am sit down with my Father in his Throne.

22. He that hath an ear, Let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Snare, Luke 21:35–36:

35. For as a Snare shall it comes on all that dwell on the face of the whole Earth.

36. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.

When They Shall Say Peace, 1 Thessalonians 5:1–3:

1. But of the times and the season brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you,

2. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

3. For when they shall say, peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

The Day of the Lord, 2 Peter 3:10–13:

10. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat, the Earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye be in all Holy Conversation and godliness,

12. Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the Heaven being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new Heavens and a New Earth, wherein dwelleth Righteousness.

The Lord Cometh with His Angels to Judge the Earth, Jude 1:14–15:

14. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, Prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord -Cometh with ten Thousand of his Saints(Angels).

15. To execute Judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly Committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

I Will Plead with All Flesh, Isaiah 66:14–24:

14. And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

15. For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

16. For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

17. They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

18. For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all Nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

19. And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tu"-bal, and Ja-van, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

20. And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all Nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.

21. And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.

22. For as the New Heavens and the New Earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

23. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.

24. And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

Luke 17:26–30:

An as it was in the days of No’e, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man. (Jesus the Christ)

26. And as it was in the days of No’-e, so shall it be also in the days of the Son (Jesus) of man.

27. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that No’-e entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

28. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

29. But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from Heaven, and destroyed them all.

30. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son (Jesus) of man is revealed.

Many have said that a third world war has to be active, with nukes having been used, before Christ’s return to halt the total destruction of all life on earth—but not according to these last four scriptures of Luke. These verses clearly state that Christ will come in like manner as it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, when Christ walked the earth with two of his angels; this was when the angels took Lot and his family out of Sodom and Gomorrah before the angels destroyed the two cities for their evil acts in the sight of God. They were eating, drinking, and marrying; they sold and bought; they planted and they built; but the same day that Lot and his family went out of the cities, it rained fire and brimstone, and all died that day.

Likewise in the days of Noah (No’-e), they were eating and drinking, marrying, planting; they sold, they planted, and they built; they bought; they did all the evil acts that the people of Lot did. Now Remember, Jesus said that his return to earth would be in like manner—as the people of Noah’s and the people of Lot’s time. If that is the case, Jesus is coming this time with more than two of his angels; he is coming with two hundred thousand of his chosen saints (angels) to punish all of mankind—just as he did with the people in Sodom and Gomorrah and with the people of the days of Noah. In each of the times, the people were evil in the sight of God and his Son; they were happy in their doing, not caring that they were profaning all of God’s laws and commandments, doing what they called righteous in their sight. Notice evidently there is no war going on when Christ returned to earth, for this is easy living.

Notice again 1 Thessalonians 5:1–3:

1. But of the times and the season brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you,

2. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

3. For when they shall say, peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and