Last Daze

An argument could be made that the church age began when God called out Abram. The bride of Christ is made up of both old covenant an new covenant believers. Dispensationalism has really skewed people's theology. The new covenant may have begun in the first century but the "church age" is much older than that. You think that was worse than the flood before or the two world wars after? The great tribulation that Jesus and Daniel refer to is still future. Daniel gives us a duration of 3.5 years and ties it to the abomination of desolation in Daniel 12.

Those who are Christs are made immortal when He returns. This includes both those saints who have died along with those who are still alive at that time. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming, then the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. 1 Corinthians 15:22-24 There's nothing to indicate how much time lapses between the dead being raised immortal and the alive being changed, just that the one precedes the other. We do know that after both groups are made immortal, they are gathered to Him. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 Both groups are caught up together.

No, the sequencing is what we see in Acts 1:9-11 only in reverse. And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.” Acts 1:9-11

The Lord descends to the clouds. We are made immortal and gathered to Him. He returns to Earth with us. Nothing says we have to be with Him when He leaves heaven and descends to the clouds.

Agree. Day or hour is a pretty tight window. One thing to consider is that we measure time by the luminaries. Given how many prophecies affect the sun and moon, what's that going to do to our ability to measure time? So, while time durations may be calculated on paper, they might be accurately realized when the luminaries go wacky. The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night. Revelation 8:12 How long does that trumpet last? We don't know. What effect will that have on how we measure time?

I agree that there comes a time during the course of the plagues when people refuse to repent, but that is late in the sequence.

Also seems that Paul's understanding of: And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Matthew 24:14 was different than what Jesus meant.

Agree. And if you look at those 3.5 years closely, there is tribulation for both awake believers (the mark and image) and those who fell asleep (the seven plagues). The seven plagues will serve to wake up those who were deceived into taking the mark and worshiping the image so that they might repent.

Bias toward a preference.

An excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9000 "The ISO 9000 family of quality management systems (QMS) is a set of standards that helps organizations ensure they meet customers and other stakeholder needs within statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product or service." It's a global certification. I used to work for a manufacturing plant that was certified.

When you have a man-made virus that you can deploy wherever, whenever then you can make it appear as if certain activities stop the spread, whether they do or not. Wearing a mask is no more effective in stopping the spread of COVID than wearing a toilet plunger on your head. It's all about authority and submission and conditioning people to want a vaccine.

When you combine that with this article, it all starts to come together. An excerpt from https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-08-26/why-ruling-classs-pursuit-great-reset-bad-news-humanity For example, Bill Gates’s desire to vaccinate every single human being on planet Earth with his covid19 endeavor may be an extremely dangerous one given that the development of this vaccine has not only been rushed and may lack the proper timeline of clinical trials to ensure its safety, but also may never even result in the development of an effective vaccine. In any event the WEF has laid out its guidelines, with the Bill Gates funded Gavi Alliance, for the covid1984 vaccine as if it is a given that one will be mandated for the world’s population: Distributing the COVID-19 vaccine will require one of the largest supply chain capacities for fighting pandemics ever built. Eradicating COVID-19 around the world could require distributing between seven to nineteen billion vaccine doses – and blockchain is integral to making it equitable. Blockchain will be essential to equitable, efficient distribution and be leveraged at a scale never seen before. So it appears that the ruling class desires to use the very technology that was supposed to liberate us, the blockchain, to physically enslave anyone that refuses the vaccination they develop as well as to financially enslave us by forcing the glob al population onto a 100% digital monetary platform. Members of the WEF that are advocating moving as much of the global economic and business platform into a digital platform in which all behaviors and money flow can be monitored with zero privacy include members of the PBOC (People’s Bank of China), Microsoft, Mastercard, and British Petroleum. Blockchain is also the technology that crypto-currencies utilize.

I saw a commercial recently from Amazon how they are striving to achieve "carbon neutrality". I'm sure many will see it as the religion of Mother Earth, others will see it as the responsible thing to do. Regardless of how it's viewed, the certificate will give a preferential advantage to those willing to comply with its terms, similar to the ISO 9000 certification, the difference is that being carbon neutrality will be seen as the righteous thing to do and those who patronize such companies will share in that righteousness. So, yes, a religion of sorts. A humanistic one.

I think it merits watching for sure.

This looks to be an incremental step on the path from vaccine to mark of the beat: https://news.rice.edu/2019/12/18/quantum-dot-tattoos-hold-vaccination-record/

Here's an article that shows an incremental step along the path from vaccine to mark. https://news.rice.edu/2019/12/18/quantum-dot-tattoos-hold-vaccination-record/

Here is another interesting article that shows an incremental step in the path from vaccine to mark: https://news.rice.edu/2019/12/18/quantum-dot-tattoos-hold-vaccination-record/

I agree that the goal is a mandatory vaccine, mandatory in the sense that otherwise you will be ostracized. If their goal was to kill us all they could have already done that. Satan wants submission and worship. Regardless of what the wealthy elites have planned, this is all working toward the rise of the man of sin to a place of global dominion through the mark and the image.

And it overtook the wicked suddenly, by surprise and they did not escape. "Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake." Mark 13:35-37 Excellent.

Churches have adopted a "go along to get along" mentality and are reluctant to call out sin in order to keep what they see as peace and unity within the body. Such virtue signaling does away with the first and greatest commandment replacing it with the second.

I thought it was likely a mistype. I agree.

Not sure where you're headed if its not pre, mid, or post.

What I found interesting was her claim that quantum dots are already being injected along with vaccines for infants in Bangladesh. She makes that statement late in the video, at about the 53:38 mark so you may not have seen it.

As far as pandemics go, I agree that it's weak. I suspect that this initial release was more of a "discovery phase" to see who complies and who doesn't, among other things. True, our politicians are not letting this crisis go to waste but remember that it's a global crisis. It's important to remember where things are headed in order to make sense of what we see today. Here's my take. Expect the next release of COVID to be worse. Such a release would counter the nay-sayers and appear to validate the health officials, and it will increase the demand for a vaccine. The goal of the wealthy elites is to use COVID to bring about a mandatory vaccine. The vaccine will eventually lead to the mark.

I thought this chart was telling: