Evil is winning. Sometimes it overwhelms me, in fact I don't know how I manage any hope for the world at all, must be delusional if I do. Did you know that Antifa trains in Syria with Islamic terrorists? Chris Pinto is the source of that kind of information. No wonder I stopped listening to him for so long, I always cry my eyes out after hearing one of his radio shows. How can it be that the people of God who have a direct conduit to the omnipotent Power, are so helpless these days? How did we get into this situation where so many churches aren't preaching the true gospel and we can't even get prayer for revival organized to any effect?
Pinto's show today is titled "For Such a Time as This," which evokes the theme of the Book of Esther. The problem is it suggests that we HAVE some kind of provision today for such as this time we are living through and we don't. He makes a good point that Esthe, who is often understood to represent the Church, was not called to preach the gospel as so many think should be the exclusive engagement of the churches, she was called to save her people from an evil murdering man. She was able to prevail upon the king and the evil was put down. What resources do we have for dealing with today's evil when the Church has been so weakened and fragmented?\
I also listened to his show of a couple months ago, "The Curse of Liberalism." That one makes me sad for the many nice liberals out there who have no clue what they are actually serving. The powers of evil have certainly done their job at depriving us of the necessary knowledge to counter such an influence, knowledge of history, knowledge of the forces arrayed against us. Pinto is very good at penetrating even beyond the level of Marxism and Communism to the influence of the Vatican and the Jesuits, an influence so effectively camouflaged nobody would suspect it these days, though even just a hundred years ago there were many who kept the knowledge alive and sounded the alarm from time to time. What would anyone care who was not a Protestant though? The few Protestants who are at all aware of it, and that is certainly very few. The knowledge of the Protestant foundations of America is thoroughly discredited by these very influences that need to be exposed.
Nice liberals have no clue. They actually think their nice compassionate motives are the only good and the other side is Hitler, or that there is a Right and a Left and a pendulum that swings between them, when the reality is in our time that there is only good versus evil and the good is not liberalism and the good is hamstrung.
Well, it does no good to sit here and cry about it. I can pray but we need an army praying. I can write too, but to what purpose?
Both Chris Pinto and Richard Bennett object to the Pre-Tribulation Rapture scenario. Pinto mentioned that he objects to the timing of the Rapture but I couldn't find a discussion of his reasoning about it. I suppose it's that he thinks the Rapture doesn't occur until Christ returns but I'm not sure. John MacArthur did a fine job of arguing that one down.
It took me a long time to come around to the Pre-Trib point of view and I still find it persuasive, although at least its understanding of the Antichrist is historically ignorant. Much of the portrait in the Book of Revelation surely refers to thei historical Roman Church as THE Antichrist force in the world since Christ came. That can't refer only to a seven-year period of revived Inquisition. And that raises a question about the martyrs under the altar whose voices are heard when the fifth seal is opened in Revelation 6. If the Church is in heaven then all martyrs before the Day of the LORD would have been Raptured as part of the Church, tens of millions of them. Why would there be a separate class of martyrs at the hand of the same evil entity that are murdered only during the Tribulation period? Could the martyrs already in Heaven still be crying out for God's justice. I guess that's a possibility but it's not terribly convincing.
Although I still find the general outline of the Pre-Trib position to be persuasive, such questions do suggest another take on it. What's most compelling is the fact that the Day of the LORD prophesied in scripture is apparently still unfulfilled, the Time of Jacob's Trouble, if not the Holocaust, is still unfulfilled, and the Seventieth Week of Daniel is still unfulfilled, as is the Great Tribulation Jesus spoke of unfulfilled. All these prophecies appear to be different terms for one yet-future outpouring of God's wrath. The timing in the Book of Daniel is too precise to be relegated to rough generalizations, and a tTribulation that God would have to shorten in His mercy simply has not yet happened.
So there are still unanswered questions.
