Someday in the not too distant future there will be no one
here to update these messages.
Where will we be? We will let God answer that question as we
quote from His Word as was
delivered by the Apostle Paul in I Thess. 4:15-17, "For
this we say to you by the word of the
Lord; that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the
Lord will by no means precede
those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from
heaven with a shout, with the
voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead
in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds to meet
the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord."
When one investigates the Bible Book of Revelation a fascinating
disclosure is found woven
into its prophetic narrative. Starting in Ch. 1 and continuing
on through Ch. 3 one will find
the Church is spoken of no less than 19 times.
The next event brought dramatically to our attention with
the introduction of Ch. 4 is that
the Apostle John is transported to heaven after being called
up by a voice like a trumpet.
Chapter 5 resumes our view of this scene in heaven and in
verses 9-10 we find that the
redeemed of the earth who have been called up from every nation,
tribe and tongue are there
worshiping God at this celestial gathering. The passage reveals
that not just some of this
redeemed company of the earth are seen in heaven, but that all
of them are there. This great
assembly can only be the Church.
In Ch. 6 the Tribulation Period begins with Christ opening
the scroll which categorically
unleashes ever greater judgments upon the earth. The fascinating
revelation of these Scriptures
is uncovered when one realizes that the Church is never mentioned
again throughout the Book of
Revelation as being on the earth during the entire 7 year Tribulation
Period and is only seen
again when the saints return with Jesus Christ from heaven at
the close of the Great
Tribulation in Revelation 19:11-14.
"Then I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse.
And He who sat on him was called
Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.
His eyes were like a flame of
fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written
that no one knew except Himself.
He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called
The Word of God. And the
armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed
Him on white horses."
After the glorious event known as the "Rapture,"
when the Church of Jesus Christ is removed
from the earth, Bible passages such as II Thessalonians 2:7-8
& Revelation 6:2 tell us that the
next thing to happen will be the appearance of the end time world
dictator, commonly referred
to as the Anti-Christ.
His tasks will seem insurmountable as he endeavors to put
forth explanations and solutions
for the world's problems. Foremost on his agenda will be his
devotion to the strengthening of a
covenant with Israel which will be intended to last for 7 years.
It won't (see Dan. 9:27). He
will then have to deal with compounding world wars, pestilence,
a global financial crisis and
mass starvation in every quarter of the earth see Rev. 6:3-8).
The mind can only speculate as to how this man, who is called
the "son of perdition" in the
Scriptures, will explain away the sudden disappearance of the
true believing Church from the
earth.
The groundwork is already in place for the lies which he may
offer up as new age fodder.
New Age devotees have long maintained that those who fail to
meet the necessary criteria for
acceptance in a quantum leap in evolution are going to be removed
to another plane of existence
where these inferior individuals can evolve in spiritual awareness
at a slower rate.
Christianity in particular is cited as a cancerous growth which
will be removed during an
abrupt event dubbed "the cleansing."
Another deception being prepared for the world is coming from
those who claim to be in
touch with alien beings from other galaxies. For years various
groups have been announcing that
a day is soon coming when extraterrestrials will evacuate a select
group of the earth's
population from off of the earth.
From the array of proposals which may be presented to explain
away the Christian's sudden
disappearance, the extraterrestrial equation presents the most
intriguing possibility for
fulfilling what the Scripture in II Thessalonians 2:11 simply
calls "the lie."
For many years science fiction writers have toyed with the
idea of teleportation. The
Star Trek series popularized the idea with the phrase, "Beam
me up Scotty." A whimsical bumper
sticker once seen on some Christian vehicles read, "Beam
me up Jesus."
Prophecy students have pondered the possibility that this
science fiction dalliance might
someday actually be used to provide an explanation for the Rapture
to the earth's masses. In
the past it was recognized that there would be serious reservations
by the scientific community
as to the plausibility of such a fanciful idea. That was until
"quantum teleportation" was
proven to be feasible.
When the notion of "quantum teleportation" was presented
to Albert Einstein he rejected it
and referred to the concept as "spooky." Science has
now proved Albert Einstein's rejection was
premature and the spooky is taking place.
Back in Dec. 1, 1997 a Colorado Springs Gazette article which
headlined, "Boldly going
where no photon has..." reported, âIn
an Austrian laboratory, scientists destroyed bits of
light in one place and made perfect replicas appear about three
feet away. They did that by
transferring information about a crucial physical characteristic
of the original light bits,
called photons. The information was picked up by other photons,
which took on that
characteristic and so became replicas of the originals...In addition
to raising the rather
fantastic notion of a new means of transportation, the trick
could lead to ultra-fast
computers. The experiment [was] reported in...the journal Nature
by Anton Zelinger and
colleagues at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Another
research team, based in Rome
[had] done similar work and submitted its report to another journal.
The work [was] the first to demonstrate "quantum teleportation,"
a bizarre shifting of physical
characteristics between nature's tiniest particles, no matter
how far apart they are.
Scientists might be able to achieve teleportation between atoms
within a few years and
molecules within a decade or so, Zelinger said. The underlying
principle is fundamentally
different from the "Star Trek" process of beaming people
around, but could teleportation be
used on people? Could scientists extract information from every
tiny particle in a person,
transfer it to a bunch of particles elsewhere, and assemble those
particles into an exact
replica of the person? There's no theoretical problem with that,
several experts said. But get
real...approximating teleportation of complex living beings,
even bacteria, is so far away
technologically that its not really worth thinking about it,"
said IBM physicist Charles
Bennett. He and other physicists proposed quantum teleportation
in 1993."
In Genesis 11:6 the Lord expressed His dismay to the fact
that when determined men are
united in purpose and mind, their abilities,, if left unrestrained,
are boundless. How far will
mankind be allowed to develop the poor of teleportation God only
knows.
It is intriguing to contemplate on the assertion that top
secret developments are 50 years
in advance of what is generally known to the public when pondering
this "spooky" area of
science.
When considering what lies in store for the future in light
of Bible prophecy we realize
that further advancement in this area is not really necessary
in order for Satan to make use of
it in his end time plans. The certainty that such a discovery
can be advanced already makes it
a powerful tool for deception.
Four and a half years later at the start of the new millennium
we found that this
astounding scientific leap was not being left to languish hidden
away from the public eye as
the advancement continued.
A June 11, "02 Colorado Springs Gazette article which
headlined, 'Researchers 'teleport'
laser beam...Technique may be used someday to move matter,"
reported that, "Australian
scientists said Monday they successfully 'teleported' a laser
beam encoded with data, breaking
it up and reconstructing an exact replica a yard away. Their
work replicates an experiment at
the California Institute of Technology in 1998, but the Australian
team thinks its technique is
more reliable and consistent...At this state, the process perfected
by Australian physicist
Ping Koy Lam and his 12-member team only can teleport light by
destroying the light beam and
creating a copy at the receiving end from light particles known
as photons. "We have taken a
beam of laser light...and completely destroyed it and then made
measurements of the destroyed
laser beam and then took the measured results to the other side
of the lab and reconstructed an
exact replica of what we have destroyed,"
Lam said. Teleporting a laser beam involved destroying and
replicating billions of photons. Lam
said he thinks the process, called "quantum teleportation,"
which takes a nanosecond - one
billionth of one second - soon will be used for teleporting matter.
Teleporting a living person
likely would be virtually impossible, scientists said "In
theory, there is nothing stopping us,
but the complexity of the problem is so huge no one is thinking
seriously about it at the
moment," Lam said.
At the dawn of the 21st century scientists had proven to their
satisfaction that in theory
there is nothing which would stop the teleportation of human
beings, or supposed aliens for
that matter. The only problem cited in the past was that it would
take greatly advanced
technology to achieve it.
In 2004 they are proving that advancement is inevitable. In
our Dec. 11, 1997 Colorado
Springs Gazette article titled, "Boldly going where no photon
has" it was stated that,
"Scientists might be able to achieve teleportation between
atoms within a few years."
Approximately 6 ½ years from the time that this projection
was made we now have this
dramatic June 17, 04 article from the Denver Post which headlined,
"Teleportation" between
atoms a quantum leap."
We quote, "In a step toward making ultra-powerful computers,
scientists have transferred
physical characteristics between atoms by using a phenomenon
so bizarre that even Albert
Einstein called it spooky. Such "quantum teleportation"
of characteristics had been
demonstrated before between beams of light.
The work with atoms is "a landmark advance." H.J.
Kimble of the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena, Calif., and S.J. van Enk of Bell Labs
in Murray Hill, N.J., declare in
today's issue of the journal Nature. Two teams of scientists
report similar results in that
issue. One was led by David J. Wineland of the National Institute
of Standards and Technology
in Boulder, the other by Rainer Blatt of the University of Innsbruck
in Austria.
The scientists' work involved pairs of atoms. Each atom's
"quantum state," a complex
combination of traits , was transmitted to its counterpart. Key
to the process was a
phenomenon called entanglement, which Einstein derided as "spooky
action at a distance" before
experiments showed that it was real.
Basically, lab techniques can create a weird relationship
between pairs of tiny particles.
After that, the fate of one particle instantly affects the other;
if one particle is made to
take on a certain set of properties, the other immediately takes
on identical or opposite
properties, no matter how far away it is and without any apparent
physical connection to the
first particle."
Our June 11, '02 Colorado Springs Gazette article then quoted
physicist Ping Boy Lam as
stating, "...quantum teleportation..soon will be used for
teleporting matter."
Who would now doubt that such a statement is true when "physical
characteristics between
atoms " are now being teleported in 2004? To a world soon
to be overwhelmed with satanic
deception, the idea that a greatly advanced alien race of beings
used its vast knowledge to
make people disappear in a nano second may well be "the
lie" they cling to for explaining the
Rapture.
The removal of the Church to heaven is going to really happen
just as God has promised. The
believable lie that technologically advanced aliens are able
to perpetrate the instant removal
of individuals by quantum teleportation is now soundly placed
within the realm of accepted and
empirically proven science.
It is recorded for us in Revelation 19 that when Jesus Christ
returns from heaven with the
Church and His mighty angels the armies of the world will gather
together to make war against
this immortal celestial armada. The important question before
us is, "Who is it that the
world's armies believe they are preparing to go to war with?
Could it be that they recognize
that they are going into battle against the invincible armies
of God, or is it more likely that
they have been deceived into believing they are being challenged
by vulnerable
extraterrestrials? What a deluded and frightening future awaits
the unforgiven."
Quoting once more from Rev. 19:11 & 14 along with verse
19 we read, "Then I saw heaven
opened, and behold a white horse. And He who sat on him was called
Faithful and True, and in
righteousness He judges and makes war...And the armies in heaven,
clothed in fine linen, white
and clean, followed Him on white horses...And I saw the beast,
the kings of the earth, and
their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat
on the horse and against His
army."
Verse 15 prophesies of Jesus that, "...out of His
mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it
He should strike the nations."
The question remains, are you ready to meet the Lord in the
air at His coming or will you
be left behind? If you should die this day would you be welcomed
into His kingdom or rejected
as one who rejected Him? Jesus shed His blood on the cross and
rose from the grave so that
whosoever believes in Him receives eternal life.
If you want to be sure of your place at the great wedding
feast of God described in Rev.
19:7-9 then you need only to believe in Jesus Christ for the
forgiveness of your sins this
moment. The Lord gave no other condition for salvation.
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