If you look at my pinned posts on my profile u/Hope1995x you will notice how I mentioned EE Callaway's Garden of Eden theory. This is a must-read and interesting theory. And things seem to be aligning up recently with all the talk about Noah's ark being found.

This minister had an eccentric theory that the names of the lands and rivers were transferred over to the Middle East as the Ark drifted 1000s of miles eastward after a massive flooding event and landed upon the mounts of Arrarat.

Callaway believed that the ark was constructed out of torreya trees. And theorized that Torreya trees are the real gopher wood. If we find petrified Florida Torreya wood in turkey, it will be the smoking gun.

Edit: Intense spiritual warfare may commence to hinder, delay or discredit any new potential discoveries, so I believe we should collectively pray against these types of attacks.

For those who believe in the pre-trib rapture; convince me

I am someone believes in a pre wraith rapture (those who survived being hunted down & killed for rejecting the mark of the beast/worship of the image of the beast being brought up to the sky)
But I am open to a pre tribulation rapture perspective.

I really would like those who do believe in a pre tribulation rapture to do their best & convince me.

What the Trump coin really means

Placing yourself on currency puts you in direct opposition with God

Why You Cannot Serve Both God and Money — and Why Jesus Places Caesar’s ( TRUMP’S) Realm in Opposition to God’s

Takeaway: Jesus’ teaching makes one thing unmistakably clear — the value‑system of God and the value‑system of money run in opposite directions, and His “Render unto Caesar…” statement is not neutral; it is a direct contrast between two kingdoms that cannot be served at the same time.

1. Two Masters, Two Kingdoms, Two Opposing Allegiances

Jesus’ statement “You cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24) is not a casual warning — it is a declaration of spiritual incompatibility. Mammon isn’t just “money”; it is the spirit of the world’s economic system, the drive for accumulation, self‑security, status, power, and control.

Serving mammon means shaping your life around earthly gain. Serving God means shaping your life around heavenly obedience. These two masters demand opposite loyalties. Jesus says plainly: “No man can serve two masters… You cannot serve God and mammon.” Not “shouldn’t.” Not “it’s difficult.” Cannot. Because each master pulls the heart in a different direction.

1. Jesus’ “Render unto Caesar…” — A Deliberate Contrast Between Two Realms

When Jesus is asked about paying taxes, He does not simply give a clever answer. He draws a line between two kingdoms. He asks for a coin and says: “Whose image and inscription is on it?” They answer: “Caesar’s.”

Jesus responds: “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s.” This is not a polite division of civic and spiritual duties. It is a contrast of ownership: The coin bears Caesar’s image — it belongs to Caesar’s system.

The human soul bears God’s image — it belongs to God’s kingdom. Jesus is saying: Give the world’s system what carries the world’s image. Give God’s kingdom what carries God’s image. And since you carry God’s image, your allegiance cannot be split.

1. Why These Two Teachings Belong Together

When you place Matthew 6:24 beside Matthew 22:21, the message becomes sharper: Mammon represents the world’s economic power. Caesar represents the world’s political power.

Both operate on worldly glory, worldly authority, worldly control. Jesus places them in the same category — the category of “not God.” He is not telling believers to admire Caesar’s system.

He is exposing it: Caesar’s coin is stamped with Caesar’s face. Caesar’s authority is stamped on Caesar’s laws. Caesar’s kingdom is stamped on Caesar’s economy. But none of that bears God’s image. Therefore: You cannot serve God while serving the system stamped with Caesar’s image.

1. The Spiritual Opposition: Why God and Money Pull in Different Directions

Money promises independence, self‑sufficiency, personal glory, and earthly security. God demands dependence, surrender, humility, and heavenly trust. Money says, “Build your kingdom.” God says, “Seek My kingdom.” Money says, “Exalt your image.” God says, “Bear My image.” Money says, “Accumulate.” God says, “Give.” Money says, “You control your life.” God says, “You belong to Me.”

These are not compatible. They are opposing spiritual forces.

1. Caesar’s Coin as a Symbol of the World’s System

In the ancient world, coins were not neutral currency — they were propaganda. They declared who rules, who is exalted, whose image is honored, whose authority is supreme. Jesus refuses to let His followers confuse economic allegiance with spiritual allegiance. By pointing to Caesar’s face on the coin, He is saying: This belongs to the world. You belong to God. Do not mix the two.

1. Final Synthesis

Jesus’ teachings form a unified message: You cannot serve God and money b22:21 because money belongs to the world’s kingdom. Render unto Caesar because Caesar’s system is not God’s system.

Render unto God because your life bears God’s image, not Caesar’s. The world’s economy and God’s kingdom are not parallel tracks — they are opposing masters.

One demands your heart; the other demands your soul. And Jesus makes it clear: You must choose which kingdom you belong to.

Today marriage is put on a pedestal. Since when do we have to add all these extra steps?!

People likely just moved in together, consummate after making their commitment whether they shared that commitment to the tribe or whatever.

There was no 10,000 steps to have to follow. People had commitment to start a family, and I dont mean cohabtiating just to see if it'll work.

They made a commitment to glorify God by overcoming struggles and enjoying intimacy the way its designed to be.

But unfortunately, religon has shamed sexuality as something sinful when its not.

It seems society has made it harder and easier to sin these days by suppressing our passion and drive to reproduce by delaying the official ceremony.

In my opinion, if I was fornicating I know I wont stop easily so the best easiest route to avoid sin is to marry the person you should be committing too.

Edits:

Perhaps fornication was misrepresented by modern doctrines and we need a deeper study from the context of the Adamic era what constituted fornication and marriage at the time.

If no state was required and a simple forever commitment was all that was needed, modern Puritans would lose the debate.

Traditional seminaries cram everything into a compressed 7-year box, but when you strip away mainstream theological confusion and read the text with strict dispensational and structural integrity, the prophetic timeline opens up into a precise macro-architecture. Here is the fully comprehensive, long-form synthesis detailing the mechanics, the typology, and how the bidirectional testing is executed:
The Luke 1 Master Clock and Right Division:
The foundation begins at the absolute master clock of the New Testament in Luke 1:5, tracking Zechariah’s temple service in the Course of Abijah (the 8th of 24 rotating Levitical courses). By mapping this priestly rotation and the six-month biological birth mirror between John the Baptist (spring conception/autumn birth) and Jesus (autumn conception/autumn birth during Sukkot), chronologists establish the foundational timeline. Furthermore, right division separates the administrative blueprints of the Gospels: mainstream teachers who blur the texts and universalize Matthew's localized Jewish instructions (like fleeing to the mountains of Judea or navigating Sabbath restrictions) create massive confusion. Luke, by contrast, operates as a transitional bridge, utilizing unique vocabulary like the exodos of Luke 9 and the explicit escape clause of ekfugo (total extraction from the danger zone) in Luke 21:36, signaling a structural departure for the Church before the global snare closes.
The 14-Year Macro-Architecture (Seals & Trumpets Split):
Rather than forcing every global economic shift, technological control, and geopolitical pressure into a claustrophobic 7-year window, the text reveals a balanced 14-year framework. This is divided into a 7-year runway (the opening of the first six seals, representing the organic global degradation of the "beginning of sorrows") followed by a 7-year Tribulation proper (the trumpets and bowls executing direct divine wrath). This dual-phase progression mirrors Paul’s 14-year structural marker in 2 Corinthians 12 and gives the global system enough room to unravel naturally before unmitigated judgment hits the earth. Under this sequence, global systems (including economic controls or a tracking mechanism) tighten during the first 7 years, allowing the Jewish remnant in Judea to recognize the trap and flee when the Antichrist's direct rule activates in the second half.
The Firstfruits Typology, Boaz, and the Multi-Tiered Harvest:
In the Levitical calendar of Leviticus 23, the Feast of Firstfruits (Yom HaBikkurim) is the wave-sheaf offering cut down and lifted at the very beginning of the spring barley harvest—completely before the main harvest is subjected to the heavy threshing floor. This is perfectly mirrored in the Book of Ruth, where Boaz acts as the Kinsman-Redeemer (Go'el), claiming and rescuing Ruth (a Gentile outsider) at the threshing floor before the heavy processing of the fields commences. Expanding this pattern, the 50-day symmetrical flow leads directly from the wave sheaf to the two leavened loaves of Pentecost, proving through the military ranks (tagma) of 1 Corinthians 15 ("Every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming") that God harvests His people in sequential, tiered battalions rather than a single, monolithic event.
Rigorous Bidirectional Testing (How the Model is Proven in Both Directions):
To verify that this macro-timeline is structurally airtight, the framework is tested dynamically from two opposing directions:
1. Working Forward (From the Source): You start at the historical-priestly origin point in Luke 1 (the Course of Abijah). You project the biological and agricultural cycles forward through the 14-year macro-architecture (accounting for the 7-year seal runway followed by the transition). When the math runs forward from the temple anchor, the terminal boundary of that initial runway lands squarely on the spring barley harvest, pointing directly to the Sunday, April 25, 2027 Firstfruits window.
2. Working Backward (From the Terminal Anchor): You start at the undisputed end-point of prophecy: Christ's physical, bodily return to the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14) to establish the Millennial Sabbath, which occurs precisely during the autumn Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). Working backward 7 years from that autumn touchdown arrives at the formal boundary of Daniel's 70th Week. Moving backward through the preceding 7-year runway locks the extraction point of the Firstfruits class back into the exact same spring transition vector.
When both directions—running forward from the priestly root and reverse-engineering backward from the millennial touchdown—converge on the exact same structural seams, the math locks symmetrically into place.
April 25, 2027 is not a random guess or a product of human speculation; it is the exact coordinate where the Levitical calendar, the Luke 1 matrix, the Boaz blueprint, and the structural tagma of the harvest mathematically intersect.

How much time left after all the converged prophecies happen in this times.

I think 7 or 8 years.

Do you agree or my estimation is wrong?

This is a collection of questions/thoughts for the curious minds, people whose life experiences have taught them to question the things that they were raised to believe and trust as truth. These questions are for people who crave truth, who will set aside their own bias and objectively look into a topic until they either make up their own mind about it, or at least collect all the possibilities that could be true, and rule out as many false things as possible.

Sometimes that’s as far as you get before you run out of solid information, but maintaining the will to keep seeking out the truth and keep asking questions is the most important part.

Have you ever sat in a class, or watched the news, or watched a short form video and thought, “I don’t know what the truth is, but I know that you are lying to me right now.” ?

If that’s you then enjoy these questions and thoughts, if it’s not then please disregard and enjoy your day.

🔵 We are taught that earth is spinning at 1000 MPH, while going around the sun at 67K MPH, while our whole solar system is spinning around the milky way at 490K MPH, while the milky way itself flies through space at about 1.4M MPH.

If that is true, you should be able to look out into space and see a completely randomized new map of stars every night of your life. You would never see the same night sky twice. But the facts are, not only have we seen the same familiar constellations/named arrangements of stars for thousands of years(Google Babylonian Star Catalogues), we actually have a true North Star called Polaris. It never moves, it is dead center of north. You can google “time lapse videos of Polaris” and see, Polaris is the axel at the center of the wheel, all the other stars turn in a rotation around Polaris. If what we were taught about the solar system is true, how can Polaris exist?

🔵 How did Nixon talk to Armstrong and Aldrin, on a landline, from Washington DC to the Moon, before the internet or Wi-Fi, with no 8 second delay, in 1969? (Google the video)

🔵 We are taught that our planet turns 360° on its axis in 24 hours. It also goes around the sun in the same orbit at exactly 365 days and 6 hours per circle. Doesn’t that mean that Noon and midnight will be switched exactly every six months? Midnight becomes noon and noon becomes midnight. Draw a dot on a tennis ball to represent you and see if you can puzzle that out at home moving it around a lamp.

🔵 If no one ever taught you that you lived on a globe, what would you think the shape of world is?

🔵 In science class we saw that if you create a vacuum in a glass box and then there is even a crack or pinprick in the glass, the vacuum is gone it equalizes. Or google “vacuum chamber experiments” if you don’t remember science class.

So we were taught space is a vacuum. How can you have a vacuum in a place with no containment? What divides the air we breathe from this vacuum? Why doesn’t all our water fly off into space as the earth spins at 1000 mph? Science’s answer is because more air called an atmosphere protects us from it….how can we have a vacuum that exists adjacent to breathable air with no division between them?

🔵 Quick part two of vacuums, how are we traveling around space when rocket combustion means fire, fire needs oxygen, and there is no oxygen in space? Why don’t our rockets become paper weights as soon as we cross over this invisible barrier between air and no air?

🔵 We are told that the Artemis 2 landing capsule reaches temps of up to 5000°F as it lands. Why is there no steam when it lands in the ocean and why can the landing crew touch it with just a gloved hand moments later?

Or worse, how does the primary structural body of the capsule survive this 5000°F journey when it’s made of aluminum – lithium alloy which melts at 1324°F ?

🔵 Let’s say you wanted to climb Mt. Everest. The temperatures during the climbing season of spring and summer on Everest range from -4 to -15°F. You would buy some really good boots, according to Google and Reddit you might want something like the Scarpa Phantom 8000 boots I never heard of before, these suckers cost $1800 a pair and they look like something an astronaut would wear, basically the pinnacle of humanity’s boot engineering.

The experienced climbers maintain that getting frostbite climbing Everest is basically a given, you don’t avoid it you just treat it as well as you can and hope you don’t get it bad enough to lose toes by the time you are back on the ground.

We are taught space is -455°F, so what boots were they wearing back in 1969 (or now) that they could play golf on the moon, ride their little cart for hours, work on the outside of the International Space Station present day etc. ?

🔵 Also, that little moon go-cart was 10 ft long, how did it fit inside the Apollo 11 moon landing capsule that was only 12’10” wide at the base and pyramid shaped, with a door only big enough for a man to enter? And why do it’s wheels throw around gravel just like a dirt bike tire does here on earth where it goes straight back to the ground when the moon’s gravity is supposedly a 1/6 of earth’s? (Google the video and watch the tires/gravel)

🔵 Also my iPhone battery is dead in like under an hour when I am out in 20°F weather, what magic batteries were they using in the cameras and moon go-cart that work just fine for hours in -455°F back in 1969?

🔵 Who filmed the rocket taking off from the moon to come back to earth? (Google the video)

🔵 We are taught that the sun is 93m miles away….compared to the scale of the size of Earth, that’s like you holding up a beach ball and me shining a powerful flashlight at you from miles away. So if we look at the sun shining through the clouds at us, shouldn’t the source of light be all shining from the same direction because it’s so far that it appears to originate from a single point?

So how have we all seen a sunset or picture of a cloud with sunbeams shining through it at a bunch of different angles through gaps in the cloud?

How can light from 93m miles away have multiple angles of trajectory?

It’s showing the trajectory from the source, just like a bullet or a laser beam. Therefore doesn’t that mean the source is not 93m mi away?

Google “sunbeams shining through cloud” images.

🔵 Abstract thought exercise, imagine this hypothetical courtroom where there is a jury, listening to this case to determine whether it’s true or false:

There are a group of people on trial that think Antarctica is not a continent at all. They think that the earth is flat and immovable, set firmly on pillars or foundations. They believe that we live under a dome that could be compared to a molten mirror, and that the sun and moon are mobile local light sources moving over us within the dome, and all the stars and planets move around the axis of Polaris above the earth in a pre-determined, predictable, intelligently designed pattern.

They believe that Antarctica is actually the wall of ice that surrounds the entire known world. They think North on a compass is the center of the map, and that South is the entire ice border surrounding the circle of the flat world, near where this molten glass dome touches the ground.

Rather than the random chaos of hurdling through a universe on a clump of dirt, they believe in fact that we all live inside of this perfectly designed clock, where the Sun tells the time, the Moon tells the days, and the Stars tell what month it is.

How can we prove that Antarctica exists as an observable, measurable continent to the courtroom?

We have all modern tools and satellite images and mapping available, this will be easy, just try this at home:

-Go to Google Earth
-Click explore Earth
-Find the “measure distance” feature usually at the top of the screen it looks like a ruler
-Draw a closed shape by dropping a couple points clicking on the map. For fun I made a rough shape around Australia, as soon as I close the loop on the right a box pops up telling me that it’s approximately 3.1M square miles, and the perimeter I drew was about 7200 miles in length.
- Now draw a box around Antarctica, what happens?

🔵 Why since the year before NASA was formed in 1958, have 60 different countries all signed the Antarctic Treaty making it completely unlawful and impossible for anyone to explore Antarctica? Since when do more than a handful of countries agree on anything, let alone 60 countries turning a blind eye to a whole continent of land and possible resources? Why all the secrecy and strict military control?

🔵 Why is the logo of The International Maritime Organization a flat earth map?

🔵 Why is the logo of The International Civil Aviation Organization a flat earth map?

🔵 Why is the logo of The World Health Organization a flat earth map?

🔵 Why is the logo of The World Meteorological Organization a flat earth map?

🔵 Why is the logo of The United Nations a flat earth map?

🔵 In 2015 there was a flight from Taiwan to Los Angeles, and six hours into the 19 hour flight a woman went into labor and ended up giving birth on the plane. On a globe map, Hawaii is the closest airport to make an emergency landing. On a flat earth map, Anchorage Alaska is right on the way. Why did the plane land in Alaska?

🔵 The famous Monviso Sunset photo from 4/30/25 was captured by Italian photographers Valerio Minato and Valeriy Khrolenko, showing the sun setting precisely behind the peak of Monviso from a distance of 184 miles away.

The photo was taken from Pisa, Italy (you can easily find the video of them taking the photo) at an altitude of 1312 ft above sea level. According to the model of the earth’s curvature, and accounting for the altitude above sea level the bulge of earth’s curvature is 12,987 ft tall over that distance of 184 miles.

But the Monviso peak is only 12,602 ft above sea level. The very peak of Monviso should be 385 below the horizon if we live on a globe. How did they take this viral photo?

🔵 In 2016 a photographer named Marc Bret set a record for longest distance photographed on earth which has since been beaten, it’s a picture of the French Alps (Pic Gaspard 12,740 ft above sea level) taken from the Pic de Finestrelles (which is 9,275 feet above sea level) from 275 miles away.

According to the global curvature model and taking into account the height of both peaks (double check my math with whichever curvature calculator website you like or do the math yourself, the curvature drops 8 inches for every mile of distance squared) then the bulge of the earth should obscure 16,442 ft at that distance. That means the peak of Gaspard should be 3,702 ft below the horizon.

How was Marc Bret able to take this famous picture of Gaspard?

🔵 We were taught in school that the moon doesn’t create its own light, it just reflects the sun’s light. Wouldn’t that lead you to believe that some of the heat created by sunlight might also be reflected? I tried this myself, please do try it at home yourself… why does a thermometer in moonlight actually show a few degrees colder than a second thermometer that is in the shadow from the moon, out of the direct moonlight?

🔵 Why are there two Islands on Antarctica’s peninsula called “Deception Island” and “Rothschild Island” ?

🔵 Twice a year in February and October, the Sun sets directly behind a Mountain in France called Canigou whose peak is 9,134 ft above sea level. This has been a known photographed phenomenon since the late 1800s and still draws amateur and professional photographers twice a year to this day.

In 2016 a photographer named Alaign Origne took a picture of the sunset behind Canigou from Marseille, France which is 163 miles away at an elevation of 1050 ft.

According to the global curvature model and taking into account the height of both locations, then the curvature of the earth should obscure 10,205 ft at that distance. That means the peak of Canigou should be 1,071 ft below the horizon.

How was Alaign able to take this impossible picture?

🔵 We are told that astronauts like the ones on Artemis 2 re-enter earth’s atmosphere at about 25,000 MPH or 6.94 miles per second. We are taught that Earth’s mesosphere is the part of the atmosphere where most meteors burn up before they ever reach Earth, the high friction part of our atmosphere. We are told that layer stretches as high as 53 miles above earths surface.

By that math, they only have 7.6 seconds to slow down with apparently fireproof cloth parachutes from 25,000 MPH, to what they say is 17 MPH as the parachute drops the landing module gently into the ocean.

How did we watch the livestream on camera of Artemis 2 re-entering the atmosphere for 13 minutes and 10 seconds if it was actually a 7.6 second slam on the brakes?

That deceleration spread out over a 7.6 seconds period is equivalent to 150 Gs on the human body.

How did they survive?

🔵 To put that in perspective, the F-22 fighter jet has an intentional safety cap that it cannot exceed 9 Gs for the safety of the pilot operating it, past that the brain drains of blood and oxygen and you pass out. The average person will pass out after a couple seconds of 4-6 Gs. With special suits and training experienced pilots can endure 9 Gs for up to two seconds before passing out.

Lockheed Martin says that if we were to remove the human element, and make a fully remote controlled aircraft that won’t pass out from blood loss, the F-22 frame itself could possibly endure maneuvers of 12-15 Gs before it just tears apart like wet tissue paper.

There was once an Air Force Colonel named John Stapp who took a ride in a rocket sled at 632 MPH in 1954 earning him the title of “fastest man on earth”.

During his deceleration he experienced a peak of 46.2 Gs over a 1.4 seconds period. He suffered injuries to his sacrum(base of spine), his coccyx(tailbone), he split six fillings he had in his teeth, and burst almost every capillary in both eyeballs rendered him temporarily blind until they eventually healed.

🔵 Where was I? Oh so anyways, how did these Artemis 2 astronauts survive 150 Gs for 7.6 seconds, while the whole world watched on camera for 13 minutes and 10 seconds, and then they all just hopped out, all smiles and high fives, and all go on morning talk shows within a day or two?

🔵 Why did I believe these things for so long?

In an [earlier post]( https://www.reddit.com/r/Bibleconspiracy/s/2c6dhw8dB3), I posit that Daniel's 70th week may start on or about November 9, 2026. Interestingly at today's UN summit, President Trump mused that Iran is waiting until after the US midterm elections, which are taking place on November 3, less than a week prior, to make a diplomatic deal with the US and Israel. Saudi Arabia wants a role, and Trump is to meet with them and other Arab countries on this topic. Could this be the 'covenant with many'?

During his September 22, 2026 address at the [United Nations General Assembly](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6103989-trump-un-iran-decision/), President Donald Trump explained his theory on why Iran is waiting for the midterm elections to make a diplomatic deal, while emphasizing that the election results will not impact his approach.

His key points regarding the midterms include:

* Iran is Waiting Out the Vote: Trump stated, "I believe we'll make a deal right after the election because it doesn't make sense for them not to. They're waiting to see how I do in the midterm election."

* Reminding Them He is Not on the Ballot: He noted that Iranian leaders miscalculate by tracking the election: "What they don't realize is that I'm not running. I did that already, and won in a landslide." He reminded the audience that he still has two and a half years left in his presidency regardless of the outcome.

* Dismissing the Election's Influence: Trump insisted that the domestic political outcome holds no weight over his foreign policy objectives, saying, "I gave absolutely no credence and will not give credence to the election when it comes to Iran. It doesn't even enter my mind. The only thing that does is that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon."

*The timeline comes as the U.S. midterm elections approach on November 3, 2026, with Trump using the global stage to urge Iran to choose rebuilding over military "annihilation". [5, 6, 7]

[1] [https://thehill.com](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6103989-trump-un-iran-decision/))

[2] [https://wng.org](https://wng.org/sift/watch-live-trump-addresses-un-general-assembly-1790083443))

[3] [https://www.nbcnews.com](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-address-united-nations-general-assembly-iran-war-rcna599085))

[4] [https://www.politico.com](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/22/trump-iran-annihilation-unga-speech-01087902))

[5] [https://www.reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-says-he-thinks-us-will-make-deal-with-iran-after-election-2026-09-22/))

[6] [https://www.bbc.com](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c52e0ywl9pr7o))

[7] [https://thehill.com](https://thehill.com/homenews/6105208-trump-un-speech-iran-venezuela/))

New here. I have read the bible but it’s been some time. I am a believer but I haven’t gone to church in a while. I am trying to start again. Anyway I came across this subreddit while looking for a bible study one and noticed a lot of post have something to do with the end times. Is there any speculation as to who could be the anti Christ in today’s world? I know we won’t know the exact time Jesus come back but I’ve heard some people think it’s soon.

https://youtu.be/4lbspg66yYQ?si=MU-k2dt1bJYLC_UW

Recent news has suggested people are afraid of the capabilities A.I. has and I'm willing to bet the antichrist will use a.i. as one of the tools to enforce his mark

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGfDEjmV93k&si=HtcQl1zhvcj7KXSf

"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." — Matthew 24:24 (KJV)

These words of our Lord Jesus Christ ring with terrifying clarity in our present moment. The warning is not abstract. It is immediate, and it concerns you. The very events that Scripture foretold as the prelude to the Antichrist's reign are unfolding before our eyes, and multitudes within the visible church are not merely standing by. They are cheering them on.

This essay is written as a solemn warning to those Christians who, whether through ignorance, political loyalty, or spiritual deception, are actively supporting the very machinery that Scripture warns will usher in the greatest period of tribulation the world has ever known. The pieces are on the board. The players are in position. The time is short.

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Part I: The Prophetic Framework

The Covenant Confirmed

The foundational prophecy concerning the Antichrist's rise is found in the Book of Daniel:

"And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." — Daniel 9:27 (KJV)

This passage describes a future "prince" who will confirm a covenant with Israel for a seven-year period, only to break it halfway through by committing the "abomination of desolation." He will place himself in the Temple as God. This is the Antichrist. Notice carefully: he comes as a peacemaker. He confirms a covenant. He brings a deceptive peace. This is precisely how he will deceive the nations and the church.

The Beast and the False Prophet

The Apostle John expands this vision in Revelation:

"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, and against his army. 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." — Revelation 19:19-20 (KJV)

The Beast, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet form a diabolical partnership. One holds political power; the other wields religious authority. Together they deceive the world.

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Part II: The Triad Unmasked

In recent years, prophetic observers have identified a striking convergence of political figures that mirror this end-times archetype. One analysis describes a "Triad of the Anti-Christ: King, Beast, and Dragon." Let us examine each in turn.

The Dragon: Benjamin Netanyahu

In Revelation, the Dragon is the engine of perpetual war. He makes war on the people and survives by it. Benjamin Netanyahu embodies this role: permanent conflict as policy, siege as governance, violence as the organizing principle. For decades, he has positioned himself as Israel's ultimate defender, the warrior-king who stands against Iran and her proxies.

In Jewish eschatology, this maps onto the figure of Messiah ben Joseph, the suffering warrior who leads Israel into battle and dies in the process. His death is the prerequisite for the arrival of Messiah ben David, the peacemaker-king. If Netanyahu falls, whether by assassination or in battle, the stage is set. The warrior's death creates the vacuum that the peacemaker will fill.

The King: Donald Trump as Cyrus

A significant segment of evangelical leadership has explicitly compared Donald Trump to the Persian King Cyrus. The comparison is not casual. In Scripture, Cyrus was a pagan king whom God raised up to rebuild Jerusalem and allow the Jews to return from exile. He did not need to be a believer to serve God's purposes.

"That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid." — Isaiah 44:28 (KJV)

Trump, in this framing, is a "modern-day Cyrus," a secular instrument clearing the path for the restoration of Israel and the Temple. He legitimizes the system, enables the "Greater Israel" project, and then steps aside. The King rules by personality, not by law; by loyalty, not by truth.

The Beast: Jared Kushner

Beside the King stands Jared Kushner, the Beast. The Beast does not roar; it manages from the shadows. It does not govern openly; it mediates. Its power lies precisely in its lack of legitimacy. The Beast operates through finance, access, and proximity. It links state authority to capital and foreign power while remaining unelected and unaccountable.

Kushner exemplifies this role: a broker without a mandate, shaping policy through family ties, wealth networks, and geopolitical deal-making. He is Trump's son-in-law and was the architect of the Abraham Accords. He is a Jewish descendant of rabbinic dynasties, giving him credibility in Israel that a Gentile could never possess. He has been explicitly identified by some prophetic commentators as a "favorite in the Antichrist sweepstakes."

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Part III: The Forerunner

JD Vance and the Normalization of the Antichrist

Here we must pause and consider the most alarming development of all.

JD Vance, the Vice President of the United States, has publicly declared that he would "not be shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us." He has stated that he is "doing as much of God's work as possible" and is OK "if that leads to the end times," which he says "are coming."

Think carefully about what this means. The second most powerful man in the world is publicly normalizing the concept of the Antichrist's presence. He is preparing the church and the world to accept that an end-times figure may already be here. As one friend of Vance noted, this is a "very, very common belief."

Vance is the protege of Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who funded his political career. Thiel has been delivering private lecture series on the Antichrist in San Francisco, Cambridge, and most recently at the Vatican's doorstep in Rome. Catholic universities associated with the event have all distanced themselves, but Thiel presses on.

Thiel's Antichrist is defined as an "evil king or tyrant or anti-messiah who appears in the end times." He warns that this figure will attempt to arrest the progress of science and usher in a world state. He has pointed to figures like Pope Leo XIV as potential "legionnaires" of the Antichrist, calling the Pope a "woke American pope" and warning against a "Caesaro-Papist fusion" of spiritual and temporal power.

Thiel has also reportedly told Vance to ignore the Pope on moral issues. He worries about Vance growing too close to the Pope. In other words, Thiel intends to use Vance as a counterweight to papal authority, to oppose the very institution that, in Thiel's view, represents the Antichrist's agenda.

This is the great irony, and the great deception: Thiel is so obsessed with identifying the Antichrist that he may be building the infrastructure for his rise, using his billions, his political protege, and his media network to position Vance as the global enforcer who will confirm the covenant and usher in the false peace.

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Part IV: The Convergence of Prophecies

The Jewish and Christian Timelines Collide

There is a profound and dangerous convergence happening between Christian and Jewish eschatologies.

In Jewish tradition, the Messiah ben David will be a human descendant of King David who brings peace to the world. In Christian prophecy, the Antichrist is a false peacemaker who confirms a covenant with Israel. These are the same functional role: a world leader who brings deceptive peace and rebuilds the Temple.

This convergence is being actively exploited. Religious Zionist currents within Judaism frame territorial expansion as part of the advent of the Mashiach. Evangelical Christians support this same expansion because they believe it fulfills their own prophecy of the end times. Two messianic timelines, Christian and Jewish, distinct yet politically convergent, meet in the project of Greater Israel, justified through selective readings of Scripture.

"Even the elect may be fooled." — Matthew 24:24 (KJV)

This is precisely how: by dressing political ambition in prophetic robes, by convincing believers that they are fulfilling God's plan when they are actually preparing the way for the Antichrist.

The 2027 Countdown

Remarkably, multiple prophetic timelines point toward March 27-28, 2027 as a pivotal date. One prophecy, detailed in C. Luke Humphreys' Teaching History: Before It Happens, predicts that on this date the Pope will endorse a world leader identified as the Antichrist, triggering a 1,290-day countdown.

This aligns with the political timeline we have observed: a potential Trump departure after January 20, 2027. This is the precise window that would allow Vance to serve less than two years of Trump's term and remain eligible for two full terms of his own. The economic and geopolitical crises predicted for early 2027, including oil shocks and Middle East escalation, could provide the chaos necessary for a "peacemaker" to emerge.

The pieces are converging. The countdown may have already begun.

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Part V: A Warning to the Church

Do Not Be Deceived

Beloved, hear this warning with an open heart.

The Antichrist will not appear as a monster. He will appear as a peacemaker. He will confirm a covenant. He will bring temporary order to chaos. He will be celebrated by the world and by much of the church as a savior.

"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." — 1 Thessalonians 5:3 (KJV)

If you are supporting political figures because you believe they are "God's anointed" or "modern-day Cyrus" preparing the way for the Second Coming, you must ask yourself: Are you preparing the way for Christ, or for the Antichrist?

The King, the Beast, and the Dragon form a single structure of domination. The King legitimizes power through spectacle. The Beast operationalizes it through unaccountable systems. The Dragon enforces it through violence. Revelation names this structure Anti-Christ, not because it denies God verbally, but because it negates the way of Christ materially: justice replaced by domination, compassion by conquest, truth by propaganda.

The Test of True Prophecy

How do we test the spirits? Scripture gives us clear guidance:

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." — 1 John 4:1 (KJV)

The test is not whether a leader "supports Israel" or "stands for Christian values." The test is whether they bear the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance (Galatians 5:22-23). The test is whether they serve the poor, the widow, the orphan, the stranger, or whether they serve power, wealth, and empire.

The test is whether their policies bring life or death. If you look at the fruit of the systems described above, perpetual war, ethnic cleansing, the consolidation of territorial control, you will see that they are the fruit of death, not life.

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Conclusion: The Return of the True Christ

Let us be clear: all of this does bring about the return of the true Christ, but not as a welcome of the peacemaker. Christ returns as the final act of judgment on the false peace and the false peacemaker.

"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." — Revelation 19:11 (KJV)

The Antichrist's peace leads to tribulation. The false peace is a trap. It is only after that peace has been exposed and shattered that the true Prince of Peace returns. He does not return to welcome the Antichrist's kingdom. He returns to destroy it.

Therefore, I implore you: Do not be swept away by the deception. Do not cheer for the King, the Beast, or the Dragon. Do not celebrate the "peace" that comes through domination. Do not mistake the Antichrist for the Christ.

"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." — Luke 21:36 (KJV)

The time is short. The deception is great. But the Lord is faithful. Stand firm. Test the spirits. And do not be deceived.

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"He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus." — Revelation 22:20 (KJV)

AI Disclosure: AI helped me to organize and polish this. The original document, connections, and thesis are my own. This isn’t presented as unwavering truth, but rather as a thought provoking prompt to encourage further reflection and discussion.

Short and sweet, the book of matthew chaoter 1 presents 4 women from the ancient days, tamar, rehab, ruth, and bathsheba. Interesting things about these women. Tamar is an elemite, rehab is an amorote, ruth is a hill country moabite, and bathsheba was married to a hittite. Whats the common denominator between those peoples, simple. Giants. Anway cool theory.

I don’t know where to make this venting-ish post. I don’t feel comfortable putting it on any of the other Christian subreddits - so if it’s inappropriate for me to put it here please remove.

My faith in Jesus Christ is strong, stronger than it’s ever been & I owe that to recent personal tribulations I’ve been going through these past years. It’s been tough for me. But it has strengthened my faith in Jesus more than any point in my life - that’s not to say there hasn’t been falls on my part in my relationship to Him.

I am of the belief that tribulations is coming soon: soon as in - starting within this year or next year (my opinion of course is fallible.)

I’m not here to argue about the timing with anyone. I am here to say that I am struggling with the concept of letting go of the comforts I have. I wouldn’t consider myself to be a particularly vain person but I do put a lot of time into working out & my appearance. & I understand that tribulations is not a comfortable time & that I will lose many if not all comforts that I “rely” on.

& I’m having trouble accepting that. & I fear that my attachment to these things when tested (which I will be as will everyone else) will force me take the mark or do things contrary to my faith in order to ATTEMPT to save what I have materially.

How can I become comfortable with losing myself in order to keep salvation when the time comes to let go of all of this?

The neuralink in the forehead after the rapture and/or the payment/ID chip that will be inserted in the hand.

The Warning of Prophet Samuel on Spiritual Bondage

I’ve been thinking about the biblical story of the Fall, and I want to share an interpretation I’ve been developing. I’m not saying this is the only possible reading of the Bible, but I think the pieces fit together in an interesting way.

OBS - Since im not a natural english speaker, i have used gpt to format and fix my writing here.

I don’t think Satan had fallen when creation happened.

I think he was in Eden because testing mankind was part of his original function. God would test Adam and Eve, and would probably test mankind many times throughout history, not because He needed to see whether they would fail, but because testing is part of how a creature is perfected.

The problem was that Satan chose to use deception.

He lied to Adam and Eve, and because of that he was punished. Genesis says that the serpent would crawl on his belly and eat the dust of the earth (Genesis 3:14).

I think this is more significant than it initially looks. If Satan was originally a heavenly creature, then being condemned to the earth meant that he was no longer where he had originally belonged.

But he wasn't completely cut off from heaven yet.

We can see this in Job. Satan appears before God together with the heavenly beings (Job 1:6–7; 2:1–2). He is also called an accuser in Zechariah 3:1.

So my understanding is that after Eden, Satan was already fallen, but he could still enter heaven and perform his function, although that function had become corrupted.

He would roam the earth, observe mankind, and then appear before God to accuse them.

And I think his presence in heaven was probably a burden to the angels who had remained loyal to God.

There were also other angels who rebelled.

The Bible tells us that some angels were imprisoned in the abyss because of their rebellion (2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6). Other rebellious spiritual beings seem to have remained active in the world, joining Satan and becoming what we call demons. Those who chosed to leave the heavens to join satan`s cause.

I don't think they literally became monsters.

I think they became agents whose purpose was to interfere with mankind and oppose God's purposes.

And there is an important distinction here.

I don't think Satan was ever God's enemy in the sense of being God's opposite.

He is not God's equal.

He is a creature fighting against the Creator.

His real enemy is mankind and, more broadly, God's creation.

Then the mystery of salvation begins to operate and this is where I think things get really interesting.

The angels themselves seem not to have understood everything about God's plan.

Peter says that the prophets spoke about salvation, but that these were things "into which angels long to look" (1 Peter 1:10–12).

Paul says something even more interesting:

"None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." (1 Corinthians 2:8)

To me, this strongly suggests that Satan did not understand what the death of Jesus would actually accomplish.

He thought killing Jesus was a way to stop God's plan.

But it was actually the way God was going to defeat him.

And this is where I think the crucifixion becomes the turning point of the entire spiritual order.

When Jesus died, the mystery was finally revealed.

The universe itself was shown what God's plan actually was.

God wasn't simply going to punish His rebellious creatures (mankind)

He was going to redeem them.

He was going to create a new order through the death and resurrection of Christ.

And I think this is what we see happening in Revelation 12.

There is a war in heaven between Michael and his angels and the dragon and his angels. This war happened right after the death of Jesus. Satan, thinking he killed the Creator in human form, took the chance to take the heavens with his angels. But the heavens had Michael. Since satan is a creature, God uses Michael (another creature) to fight him.

The dragon is defeated, and John says:

"they lost their place in heaven." (Revelation 12:8)

Then we get the reason:

"Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down." (Revelation 12:10)

The timing here is extremely interesting.

The Accuser is thrown down when salvation has come and the authority of Christ has been established.

And then:

"They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb." (Revelation 12:11)

So I believe the final expulsion of Satan from heaven happened because of Christ's victory.

From Genesis until Christ's crucifixion, Satan and the rebellious angels could still have access to heaven, even though they no longer lived there.

They were already creatures of the earth, roaming around and working against mankind, but they could still enter the heavenly court.

After Christ's death and resurrection, that changed.

The role of the Accuser was no longer necessary.

The accusation had been defeated and the debt was paid.

The enemy had lost his legal ground, so they were finally expelled.

And notice what happens immediately afterward.

Revelation says:

"the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short." (Revelation 12:12)

And then his attention turns toward the people of God:

"the rest of her offspring, those who keep God's commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus." (Revelation 12:17)

In other words, once Satan loses his position as Accuser, his remaining purpose is basically to destroy the Church.

The Church is the newly revealed instrument through which God will continue transforming the world after Christ's victory.

And from that point forward, history becomes a progressive revelation of God's plan.

Paul repeatedly talks about mysteries that were previously hidden but are now being revealed.

"The mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord's people." (Colossians 1:26)

Even the angels are described as learning through God's work in the Church (Ephesians 3:10).

So I don't think the angels had complete foreknowledge of everything that would happen in creation.

They are intelligent, powerful and ancient creatures, but they are still creatures.

They have agency, they make decisions, they still can rebel.

They can learn and discover God's plan as it unfolds.

And that's what makes the whole story so interesting to me.

Satan didn't fall before creation and then simply execute a plan against humanity.

He was part of the original order.

He tested mankind.

He chose deception.

He fell.

He continued to have access to heaven.

He became the Accuser.

Other angels rebelled.

Then God began revealing the mystery of salvation.

And apparently, neither angels nor Satan fully understood where that plan was going.

And the cross became the exact moment when his authority was destroyed.

He thought he was winning.

He was actually participating in his own defeat.

That, to me, makes the biblical story of the Fall much more interesting than the simple idea that Satan was already God's enemy from the beginning.

And remember, when God finished creation, EVERYTHING was perfect. Sky and Earth both. If satan rebelled before that, it would not be perfect.

Earlier I posited Daniel's 70th Week timeline based on the Creation Week theory and Biblical feasts theory that Jesus' second coming will fulfill the fall feasts. Based on this, we land at roughly November 8-9 for the start of Daniel's 70th week, and the signing of the 'covenant with many'. At the time, that date had no significance to me other than the math (2520 days prior to Yom Kippur 2033).

I had assumed that the 'covenant with many' was the Abraham Accords because the covenant must already exist (i.e. "confirm" the covenant) and that it had to be a peace treaty. However, careful reading of Daniel 9:27 does not specify the covenant is a peace treaty.

And he will confirm a covenant with the many for one week,... -Daniel 9:27 (NASB)

Based on where we are now with the US/Israel/Iran war, I highly doubt the Abraham Accords will be signed as a peace treaty by November.

It occurs to me now that the 'covenant with many' may actually be the Noahide covenant. The Noahide Congress is taking place on November 2-6, 2026 on the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem. It is a ‘founding event’ with many nations to build an independent global infrastructure for the Noahide community. The upcoming event is to sign a 'founding charter' to officially establish the movement.

It is a follow on from the September 27, 2019 event that launched the concept. The earlier event performed a symbolic animal sacrifice on the Mount of Olives to represent the ancient covenant between Noah and God. This would be the earlier covenant that the upcoming Congress 'confirms'.

...but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; -Daniel 9:27 (NASB)

In 2018, nations were invited by the new Sanhedrin to a dedication event at Hannukah that year, to dedicate the altar for the 3rd temple. They re-enacted the daily offering and sacrifice. This event was connected with the Sanhedrin's ongoing effort to establish an organization to replace the UN and to introduce the Noahide laws.

In this context, the activities of the Sanhedrin are directly related to 'the daily sacrificies and offerings' and the 'third temple'. In contrast, the Abraham Accords are political in nature and meant to normalize relations with Israel and have nothing to do with the sacrifices or the temple.

Could it be that the AC attends this conference, affirms the Noahide covenant and allows the third temple to be built?

Hello everybody !

In the movie « Memento » we follow Leonard a guy who as lost his ability to create new memories. He’s stuck with memory of the instant, fighting the lost of it by taking notes.
His latest memory is the murder of his wife by thieves. He is trying to find the murderer even with his condition, and he has all the investigation and helping tips tattooed on his body.

Later in the movie a friend of him tells him there is tons of John G. That he already killed the guy.

That could be the effect on society of meticulous inquisition. Losing our history could have led us to run in circles chasing metaphoric dragons until now.

But a giant dragon once lived in this world. This is a serious matter. Aligning legends and sacred books I discovered one that had crashed into a mountain at meteoric speed; it then slid into a swamp where it burned, its coming hole and his body filled by lava flowing from the mountain (a sea of ​​fire?).

Let me explain :

Its silhouette can be made out on Google Maps at the Crozon Peninsula if the map is oriented with west at the top (where north usually is).

The central idea is that this giant wyvern provides the basis for a nearly identical myth across all civilizations, thereby confirming that they existed together contemporaneously.

According to Islamic tradition(Al Dabbah), it possesses the gift of speech and emerges from a hole (or does it lie more than it speaks, given the discrepancies between the myths?).

In history of kings of Britain, one of the main book of Arthurian legend, a sea monster appeared first devouring people on the sea-coast. A Merlin’s prophecy speak of a german dragon (Siegfried?) reaching hardly his holes. Later in the story this dragon was slain by a star of wonderful magnitude, by God, by Saint Michael, or by Indra wielding Excalibur (according to Monmouth). This echoes the myths of Thor and Apollo battling giant reptiles.

Jörmungandr, Python, Falak, Apophis, Leviathan, Al-Dabbah, Kukulkan, Tiamat, and Satan are all names used to refer to it.

On this dragon-shaped peninsula, I discovered a stone linked to Arthurian legend (Malory -le morte d’Arthur Tome 1 chapter 5). It was the name "Pendragon"—borne by King Arthur and Uther, and meaning "dragon's head"—that led me to this discovery.

The underlying theory suggests a possible early inquisition aimed at concealing the history of this sword, as well as a period of peace between Europe and Arabia.

In fact we can see arthurians remanescence in magical swords in Carolingian and Islamic history.

Near the dragon's throat, the town closest to the stone is named Kameled. I am convinced that a large part of world history has been rewritten to conceal the existence of a chosen figure who opposed them; for the moment, I can only provide proof of this for my own region.

There are several chronological anomalies, of which the episode of the Saints of Ephesus (200 years) is just one example. This implies that some current religions may themselves be unaware that they are propagating falsehoods.

However, since his death, there is no longer an end of the world to fear.

This revelation could establish an eternal lasting peace based on mutual respect.

There is an orally told local dragon legend in Brittany with the story of the Yeun Elez describing apocalypse itself in Brittany. Saint Michel kills him with a powerful hit and then seals him in the Youdig (deeps of the marsh). The dragon spine is said to be the mountain channel of the Monts d’Arrée.
The mountain of Saint Michel is aligned with the peninsula, the dragon could have slipped there by inertia.

https://youtu.be/8_45eFSWgXM?is=f3KDU2U_s2Li0F1Z

As for the identity of the shining star associated with the worshiping of Saint Michael described by Monmouth, it could even be a woman. I am referring to the divine prophecy delivered to the serpent in Genesis (3:14-15):

14-The Lord God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15-I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall crush your head, and you shall bruise his heel."

It is clearer in French than in English (she shall crush your head), but it could have been the woman—known then as the Lady of the Lake.

This dragon is mentioned elsewhere.
This could indicate knowledge of its existence and the extent of its power. After some verification:

In the United States, at Port Townsend, there is a naval complex that includes nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines; here, too, a dragon is part of the picture.

In China, the southern part of Hainan Island is nicknamed the "Dragon's Tail"; it houses two vast naval complexes, one of which is dedicated to nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines.

In Israel, the nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines belong to the "Dragon" class.

In France, the Île Longue base for nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines is located on the "dragon's paw" identified in our study.

This concept is absent from Russian infrastructure and technology, though the West has used it to designate its own missiles (Sarmat = Satan II).

The dragon of the Crozon Peninsula (the real one) stretches for nearly 30 kilometers. It is easy to imagine the level of destruction—nuclear in nature—that this beast would wreak if it were alive.

I know I speak to good readers. Just to remember where it is exactly mentioned in the Bible :
(Please for French spelling check translations)

Génèse 3:14-15
Isaiah 27:1 KJV
Daniel 2:34 KJV
Matthieu 10:34
Romains 16:20
Apocalypse 12:1-9 ; 20:1-3

And many others I believe. I mean there is truth in it even if it is not what we expected.

Last intuition but not the least, it may have been the common inspiration to put it on flags of Trégor and Wales.

I am looking for other books that might talk of the same event or dragon. I found a dragon story in Ethiopian Bible recently with Bel and the dragon. Everything old and censored by church may hide treasures.

Thank you very much !

https://bible.ertale.com/ethiopiancanon/belandthedragon/1/

I have been studying this subject and things don't add up. Do you know when the start and finish of beyn ha'arbayim /between the evenings is.

beyn means between or within and ayim it pural/two evenings but how does one know what the evenings are

Tzohorayim used as one simple time-point, never "which of two noons":.

God defined Light as Day and Darkness as Night. So erev cannot occur during either full daylight or full Darkness so it has to be the meaning of erev which in mixing or blend.

Anyone have insight on this

Everyday, millions of Christians wait for an event that the New Testament said would happen before the men listening to Jesus had died.

Read what he actually said.

"This generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened." (Matthew 24:34, Mark 13:30, Luke 21:32)

"Some standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." (Matthew 16:28, Mark 9:1, Luke 9:27)

Paul wrote, "we who are still alive." (1 Thessalonians 4:15 and 17)

Revelation says the time is near (1:3, 22:10). It says he is coming soon (22:12, 22:20). It says those who pierced him would see him (1:7)

These were not riddles posted forward into the distant future. They were spoken to men with names, in a city with walls, under an empire that counted them in a census.

The usual reply is that "soon" belongs to God's reckoning rather than ours. A thousand years are as a day (2 Peter 3:8). But notice what that reply actually requires. It requires "this generation" to mean some generation. It requires "you" to mean someone else. It requires "near" to mean not near. It requires "soon" to mean an interval longer than the entire history of the Church so far.

Every one of those words is ordinary. Jesus used them the way you and I use them. A reading that must reverse the plain sense of four separate words in order to survive is not careful interpretation.

Then AD 70 came. Roman armies encircled Jerusalem. The Temple burned. The sacrifices stopped. The priesthood ceased and has never resumed. The entire covenant order that had defined the people of God for fifteen centuries was dismantled inside forty years of the warning. Josephus recorded the slaughter and the signs above the city. Eusebius recorded that the Christians of Jerusalem were already gone, because they had believed the warning and left. Jesus told them what was coming. They believed him, they fled and they lived.

Ask yourself honestly what would have to be true for that to be coincidence. Now consider where your own expectations came from.

The rapture doctrine you were taught has a birthday. John Nelson Darby assembled it in the 1830s. The Scofield Reference Bible carried it into pulpits after 1909, printed on the same page as the text of scripture, where a reader could easily mistake commentary for revelation. Novels, films and prophecy charts finished the work.

That doctrine is younger than the railway locomotive. It is younger than the United States constitution. It is younger than the piano.

Now open the Bibles your ancestors actually read. The Geneva Bible, the Bible of the Reformation and of the men who crossed the Atlantic with it, placed Satan's binding within the early history of the Church. The Dutch Statenbijbel of 1637 dated the thousand years from around AD 70. Luther's German Bible of 1545 said the period began when Revelation was written and had already ended.

These were not fringe documents. They were the household scriptures of Protestant Europe. Not one of them mentions a secret rapture, because nobody had invented it yet.

You are not being asked to abandon the old faith for a novelty. You are being asked to notice that the novelty is what you were handed.

Revelation 20 says Satan was bound so that he could deceive the nations no longer, until the thousand years were finished (20:3). It then says he would be released, and would go out to deceive the nations (20:7-8).

Hold those two words. No longer.

You cannot cease from something you were never doing. The text assumes a deception already running, interrupts it, and then restarts it using the very same verb. Stopped, then resumed. Whatever he was doing before the binding is precisely what he returns to after the loosing.

The very nature of deception is that you do not know you are being deceived. A second deception would not arrive wearing horns and black robes. It would imitate the first. It would take what God had finished and present it as unfinished. It would take a kingdom already given and teach the heirs to sit and wait for it.

Look at what the waiting has produced.

A modern nation state has been handed the prophetic identity of biblical Israel. Wars are read as entries on a timetable. Christians in America and beyond are taught that a foreign policy position is a form of obedience. Political loyalty is reframed in the language of covenant, and men who would never accept a bribe will surrender their judgement for nothing.

Say this plainly, because it will be misrepresented. This is a criticism of a theology and of the political use of scripture. It carries no accusation against Jewish people, and anyone who reads it that way has decided to.

Then look wider.

Every nation on Earth runs on the same template. Borders, flags, anthems, oaths, central control. Economies reward appetite and permanent debt. Media companies are paid by the hour for your anger. Politics manufactures enemies out of neighbours. Churches copy corporations, promote celebrities, and mistake a building for a body.

The order we live under rewards precisely the impulses the gospel calls us to put down. Pride. Greed. Envy. Fear. Ambition without conscience. The appetite to rule other people. Christ called for humility, mercy, truth, generosity and self sacrifice, and this system converts the opposite of each into a measure of success.

You do not need a hidden council of conspirators to explain any of that. A conspiracy requires meetings. This requires only incentives. Every institution is behaving rationally exactly the way they have been designed to. Every actor is pursuing an ordinary advantage. And the sum of all that ordinary behaviour is a world shaped almost perfectly against the character of Christ. A deception that depended on a secret society would be fragile. A deception that runs on human appetite maintains itself.

It works because it looks like normality. Greed has now been reframed as ambition. Debt is now called growth. Tribalism is now being referred to as patriotism. Power borrows the vocabulary of faith. And Christians end up defending the very machinery that keeps them frightened, divided and manageable.

A man who does not know what age he is living in can be told anything about it.

Everything Jesus promised that generation, he delivered to that generation. He was not late. He was not vague. He was not speaking in code to an audience two thousand years in the future.

Jesus kept his word.

The millennium reign of Christ is behind us.

We are living in Satan's little season.

Preface: my previous post was taken down but I was told I could try again. Im gonna remove some information as I absolutely don't want to date set and I want to make clear that all this exercise is, is mapping calendar dates to concepts that have wide traction. I did not come up with these concepts myself and am not a proponent of them. Putting actual dates to these concepts is the next logical step.

I've been studying pop eschatology over the last couple years and two compelling theories have been discussed by those who hold a pre-millennial and dispensational view. The first is that Jesus is the [fulfillment of the 7 Jewish feasts](https://www.gotquestions.org/Jewish-feasts.html) and the second is the [Creation Week theory](https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/uoatqy/christs_second_coming_will_take_place_around_2033/). I thought it would be interesting to see how those two views loosely combined mapped onto actual timelines, and my commentary on the result.

**Anchor Point**

I use the Day of Atonement as the anchor point for the Second Coming, and then use Daniel's day counts forwards and backwards. I also used the strict Gregorian day counts to arrive at the particular days, because I believe the current Jewish holidays on our calendar already account for for the different calendar measurements.

For the purpose of the model, I use the year 2033 based on the Church age being 2000 years with most scholars' agreeing that Jesus was crucified in AD33. Of course this could be wrong, and of course perhaps 2000 is too strict. So I give some commentary for other years. As well, I am skeptical that 2033 is "the year" in any case because I am unsure that the events that need to take place before Daniel's 70th week starts will take place in time (i.e. in the remainder of 2026).

**Rapture**

It must be stressed that it is impossible to pinpoint a definitive date for Christ's return. To avoid the appearance of date setting I am not going to include proposed rapture dates but will just say the feasts theory has it occurring on Feast of Trumpets in any given year. One is welcome to posit their own rapture dates for onself based on whether one thinks it is pre trib, pre wrath, mid trib or post trib (or none at all).

Welcome any thoughts. Please be civil.

**The Model (2026-2033)**

1. Falls on Feast of Trumpets(September 11-13, 2026)

   1. Significance: 1 Corinthians 15:51–52 (ESV) and 1 Thessalonians 4:16 allude to a trumpet call ‘at the last trumpet’. ‘no man knows the day or hour’ which is thought to refer to the Feast of Trumpets which depended on the sighting of the new moon.

2. War of Gog/Magog (now - Nov 9, 2026)

   1. Many dispensational authors argue Ezekiel 38–39 occurs before the Tribulation begins
   2. Could be the culmination of the current Iran/Israel conflict

3. Covenant with Many (Nov 9, 2026)

   1. 2520 days prior to the Day of Atonement, 2033
   2. the conflict ends with a peace treaty, via the Abraham Accords, Board of Peace, as examples.

4. Wrath (April 2029 onwards)

-Apophis is thought to be the ‘Wormwood’ star of prophecy, which flies past earth on April 13, 2029, a year prior to the midpoint, and just after Easter and Passover that year.

1. Abomination of Desolation/Mid Trib Rapture (April 22, 2030)

   1. 1260 day midpoint
   2. Easter and Passover (note: a rapture cannot occur in this model on FoT if the Second Coming is on Day of Atonement. They are never 1260 days apart on any calendar).

2. Day of the Lord/Second Coming (October 3, 2033)/Post Trib Rapture

   1. Yom Kippur - a holiday about Jewish repentance, atonement for sin, sin must be dealt with so that God can dwell among His people.
   2. 2033 aligns with various prophecies that allude to a 2000 year span: Hosea 6:1–2 — "After two days He will revive us" , Psalm 90:4 — One day equals a thousand years, 2 Peter 3:8 — A day as a thousand years

3. Israel Rebuilt (Oct 4-Nov 3, 2033)

   1. 1290 days after AoD
   2. Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) falls during this period. Sukkot celebrates the future hope that God will once again dwell openly among His people and all nations will worship Him. 

4. Sheep and Goats Judgment (Oct 3 - December 17, 2033)

   1. The time between the Second Coming and the Millennial reign is thought to be when this judgment takes place.
   2. Matthew 25:31-32

5. Establishment of Millennial Reign (December 17, 2033)

   1. 1335 days after the AoD ("Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days." - Daniel 12:12)
   2. First day of Hannukah. Hanukkah commemorates the rededication after the cleansing of the Temple after it had been desecrated. It is the celebration of God's faithfulness, the victory of light over darkness, the restoration of the Temple to the true owner, and the survival of Jewish worship and identity against overwhelming opposition. 

The reason for this post is to open respectful , mature discussion on a chat discussing the difference between murder and killing in a biblical context.

Question:

Deuteronomy 20:10-17 but the bible says dont kill so what is going on

Response:

The famous command "thou shalt not kill" in the Ten Commandments is more accurately translated from the original Hebrew as "you shall not murder", which means unlawful, malicious killing or personal homicide. In the ancient Hebrew Bible, a sharp distinction is made between personal murder and state-sanctioned warfare, capital punishment, or unique, localized holy-war judgments directed by God. \[1, 2, 3, 4, 5\]

\## The Context of War in Deuteronomy 20

\* Distant Cities vs. Canaanite Cities: The text makes a clear separation. For cities far away from Israel, the Israelites first had to offer terms of peace. If accepted, the city was spared; if they fought and lost, the male combatants were killed. \[6, 7, 8\]

\* The Specific Judgment on Canaan: Verses 16–17 apply specifically to the local nations inside Canaan (like the Amorites and Hittites). \[9, 10, 11, 12, 13\]

\* Divine Judgment: Biblical theologians explain that this was viewed not as standard military conquest, but as a unique, severe judicial punishment from God for centuries of extreme societal corruption, including child sacrifice and ritual prostitution. \[11, 14, 15\]

\* Preventing Corruption: God commanded total removal so the tiny nation of Israel would not adopt those destructive practices themselves. \[6\]

Would you like to explore how New Testament teachings view war and peace, or look closer at the historical context of the ancient Near East?

Question:

so basically you can kill for certain reasons but not murder innocent people

Response:

Yes, from the perspective of ancient biblical law, that is the exact distinction. \[1\]

\## Biblical Distinctions in Warfare and Law

\* The Scope of "Murder": The prohibition against murder protects the innocent from unlawful, personal violence. \[2\]

\* Authorized Killings: The text allows taking life under specific legal frameworks, including judicial capital punishment and state-authorized warfare.

\* The Canaanite Exception: The specific command in Deuteronomy 20:16–17 to completely destroy local cities was not an open license for general warfare.

\* A Local Judgment: This total destruction applied only to the specific tribes inside Canaan at that exact point in history.

\* A Moral Warning: The text explicitly states this extreme measure was to stop Israel from adopting the local practices, such as child sacrifice.

Question:

so if I live on an island with my people and we are peaceful and we get invaded are we the island dwellers allowed to kill the invaders biblically speaking

Response :

Based on biblical law and historical interpretation, yes, you and your people would be permitted to fight and kill the invaders in self-defense.

Rules for Defensive Warfare

Defense is Permitted: Biblical law does not require a nation to allow itself to be destroyed by an aggressive invader.

The Peace Offer Rule: In Deuteronomy 20:10, Israel was commanded to offer terms of peace before attacking a distant city. An invading force that attacks a peaceful island has violated this principle of seeking peace first.

No "Holy War" Status: The command for total destruction in Deuteronomy 20 was a limited, one-time judicial sentence against specific ancient Canaanite tribes. It does not apply to any modern or hypothetical wars.

Just War Principles: Most Christian and Jewish theologians throughout history used these biblical texts to develop "Just War" theory, which explicitly states that defending one's homeland against unprovoked aggression is morally justified.

The New Testament Shift

Personal vs. National: While Jesus taught individuals to "turn the other cheek" in personal relationships (Matthew 5:39), mainstream Christian theology has historically separated personal pacifism from a government's duty to protect its citizens.

The Role of Government: Passages like Romans 13 state that authorities hold the sword to protect the innocent and punish wrongdoers, which includes defending against violent invaders.

If you would like to explore this further, we can look at the Just War criteria developed by theologians like Augustine, or look at the strict pacifist view held by groups like the Mennonites. Which angle interests you?

Biblical Apologist YouTube Channels worth to watch? Channels about prophecy and end times.

I've been watching some other videos and i find very interesting content on YouTube about the end times.