The Rapture Ready Children of Doctor Darby are preprared to bring our Government to a halt, take away food stamps from the hungry, and Social Security from the elderly. Chris Matthews recently called them Political Terrorists. I have been saying this since 9-11-o1.
It is being claimed Evangelicals took over the Tea Party that was targeted by the Internal Revenue Service in regards to getting tax exempt status.
Here is a good site that says what I have been saying for a quarter of a century, being, Evangelicals are caught up in the Rapture Ready Heresy that is bid to take over our government that HAS TO take a back seat to their false prophecy, or, it will not come true. Bringing our Democracy to a halt is seen as a victory for evangelicals who pray the world will come to an end. They also want Big Government to come and rule the world so Jesus will come and kill millions of people who want Big Government – too! This is insanity!
Jon Presco
http://www.bible.ca/rapture-origin-john-nelson-darby-1830ad.htm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/11/irs-tea-party_n_3260286.html
“In February 2012, TheBlaze first reported what the IRS now admits to – that they unfairly targeted conservative groups including the 9/12 project,” Beck said, citing his website and TV network. “It is nice to see everyone else playing catch-up and finally asking the same questions that TheBlaze started raising over a year ago.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/08/18/is-the-tea-party-a-spiritual-movement/
“(The Tea Party) is as much a spiritual awakening as a political awakening. The concern about our country…has awakened the faith of many people.”
In “The Great American Awakening,” DeMint goes as far as to tie concern over the government’s size and scope to religion. He writes:
“Big government is a religious issue. History shows in nations where there is a big government, there is a little God. When people are dependent on government, they are less dependent on God, and their spiritual fervor fades. Socialism and secularism go hand in hand, as do faith and freedom.”
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In 2010 a citizenry appalled at the policy decisions of a party controlling the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives stripped away Democratic control of the House. Many so called Tea Partiers were indeed Evangelicals. Many others were fiscal conservatives, moderates, and even Democrats. The label “Tea Party” member has largely been co-opted by the religious right… but the utter dismay regarding the direction that Obama, Reid, and Pelosi is shared by a much more diverse population.
I consider myself a constitutional conservative, a fiscal conservative, and a social conservative, but no one should ever confuse me with the Evangelical wing of the Republican Party, whether or not they succeed at hijacking the claim to be Tea Party members. I don’t believe I am alone in this regard. My point is this… the respect for the Tea Party has diminished and fewer and fewer people want to be associated with the label, but the broad population of folks who want President Obama and his cronies defeated continues to be huge. The uprising we saw in 2010 will continue to surge in 2012, and I believe that Mitt Romney may be able to unite Republicans during his first term, if elected. If he is not elected, I am not confident that the Republican Party will be able to survive the self-righteous hypocrisy of the Evangelical wing. Heaven help us if this transpires.
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/rapture-ready-vs-pan-european-union/
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/order-of-the-confederate-rose/
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/un-earthing-our-lost-democracy/
Introduction:
See our main Rapture page here.
1. Rapture doctrine is one of the most recent “new doctrines” in the history of the Church. The only doctrine more recent is the invention of the sinner’s prayer for salvation by Billy Sunday in 1930, which was made popular by Billy Graham in 1935.
2. The fact that John Nelson Darby invented the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine around 1830 AD is unquestionably true. All attempts to find evidence of this wild doctrine before 1830 have failed, with a single exception: Morgan Edwards wrote a short essay as a college paper for Bristol Baptist College in Bristol England in 1744 where he confused the second coming with the first resurrection of Revelation 20 and described a “pre-tribulation” rapture. However Edwards ideas, which he admitted were brand new and never before taught, had no influence in the modern population of the false doctrine. That prize to goes to Darby.
3. Prior to 1830, no church taught it in their creed, catechism or statement of faith.
4. Darby has had a profound impact on religion today, since Darby’s “secret rapture” false doctrine has infected most conservative, evangelical churches. While the official creeds and statements of faith of many churches either reject or are silent about Rapture, neither do they openly condemn this doctrine of a demon from the pulpit.
5. While not all dispensationalists believe in the Rapture. All those who teach the Rapture also believe in premillennialism. Both groups use Israel’s modern statehood status of 1948 to be a beginning of a countdown to the end.
6. All premillennialists, rapturists and dispensationalists alive today believe the Bible reveals the general era of when Christ will return. The date setters of the 1800′s (Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesses) based their predictions upon speculative arrangements of numbers and chronologies in the Bible. Today’s date setters without exception wrongly believe that Israel gaining state hood in 1948 fulfilled Bible prophecy and that Christ would return within one generation.
With the Tea Party credited for Republican energy in the 2010 elections, evangelicals, typically a key Republican constituency, have been overshadowed. Purportedly, evangelical zeal for Republicans declined with the close of the Bush Administration, and young evangelicals were trending more liberal, based on their reputed environmentalism, wariness of war, and distaste for dicey social issues. Evangelical Left activist and theorist Jim Wallis, a prominent Obama supporter, is ostensibly the voice of a new breed of more progressive evangelicals.
White Protestant Evangelicals make up about a quarter of the electorate. Exit polls showed 75 percent of them voted for Republican congressional candidates in 2004 and 73 percent in 2006. In 2008, 73 or 74 percent voted for McCain, a small dip from 78 percent who supported Bush in 2004. But liberal evangelicals like Wallis made much of this dip, pointing especially to young evangelicals, who remained strongly Republican in 2008, but less so than their seniors.
Though polling is a little scarce, evangelicals almost certainly compose a disproportionate share of the Tea Party. A recent Public Religion Research Institute polls showed 36 percent of Tea Partiers are evangelicals. Although the Tea Party does not emphasize social issues, the poll showed strong Tea Party majorities are conservative on abortion and same-sex marriage.
Evangelical Left elites unsurprisingly are alarmed by the Tea Party’s resonance among evangelicals and insist the appeal is mostly to oldsters. Or they deride the Tea Party as primarily libertarian, i.e., materialistic and out of sync with religion. “The younger Evangelicals who I interact with are largely turned off by the Tea Party movement — by the incivility, the name-calling, the pathos of politics,” commented former evangelical lobbyist Richard Cizik earlier this year. Calling the Tea Party “irreligious,” he expressed chagrin that some evangelicals are attracted to it. Cizik, who lost his long time job with the National Association of Evangelicals for publicly supporting same-sex civil unions, has since worked for George Soros’s Open Society Institute. He now works with the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good.
Commanding a larger following than Cizik, Jim Wallis blasted the Tea Party in a recent news release and devotes the November issue of his Sojourners magazine to a Tea Party critique. Like Cizik, Wallis has also received Soros funding for his efforts to pull evangelicals leftward. The Tea Party’s rise, and its appeal to evangelicals, potentially disrupts the Evangelical Left narrative that evangelicals are reorienting towards a progressive social justice narrative.
Wallis’ Sojourners critique is headlined “The Theology of the Tea Party: Can Libertarianism Be Reconciled with Christian Faith?” Lest readers miss the point, the article is accompanied by a critique of the late Ayn Rand, with the headline: “Jesus Shrugged? To Follow Ayn Rand and Her Vision, One Must Give up Christ and His Cross.” It accurately describes Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged, as a “staunch atheist.” But the Wallis/Sojourners attempt to portray Tea Partiers as anti-religious Objectivists is absurd. The recent Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) poll found that 80 percent of Tea Partiers self-identified as Christian.
In his recent news release, Wallis asked: “Is the Tea Party Christian?” His answer naturally is “no.” But he lamented that 25 percent of Evangelicals identify with the Tea Party, obviously referring to the PRRI poll. “The libertarian beatitude, ‘Blessed are those who are just left alone’ has still not joined those in the Sermon on the Mount,” Wallis opined. In his Sojourners piece, Wallis warns that the Tea Party’s “political commitments are rooted in the libertarian philosophy” and is a “secular movement, not a Christian one.” Wallis’s best-selling 2005 book, and his Sojourners’ blog, are called God’s Politics. The implication is that non-liberal political stances are inherently NOT God’s politics.
Wallis darkly observes that “some people who regard themselves as Christians” support the Tea Party, but he emphasizes “that doesn’t make it ‘Christian.’” Still, he insists the Tea Party can fairly be judged based on “Christian principles,” which he proceeds to do, but while wholly conflating libertarianism with the Tea Party. He highlights Kentucky Republican Senatorial candidate Rand Paul’s critique of the 1964 Civil Rights Act earlier this year as one example of how libertarianism “falls short” of “biblical ethics.”
Not entirely unfairly, Wallis contrasts libertarianism’s individualism with Christianity’s concern for the “common good.” He criticizes its emphasis on private charity as falling short of the “biblical calling” for government to protect the poor. He asks if an “anti-government ideology” can be biblical, accurately noting that Christianity understands the state to exercise a providential role. He chastises libertarianism’s ostensible “supreme trust” in a “sinless market” and for heeding the Chamber of Commerce over God. Wallis chides the libertarian “preference for the strong over the weak,” which contrasts with Christian concerns for the most vulnerable.
Most egregiously, Wallis ominously wonders if “white resentment” guides the Tea Party, noting that 89 percent of Tea Partiers are white, according to one survey. “I wonder if there would even be a Tea Party if the president of the United States weren’t the first black man to occupy that office,” Wallis asks. Does he think the Tea Party would not exist if a President John Kerry or Hillary Clinton had pursued Obama’s same policies? If not, it’s not clear why. Wallis also asks if libertarianism is the “furthest political philosophy from Christian faith.” Further than Communism, Nazism, Fascism, or theocratic Islam? It’s a silly question, given the other possibilities.
Wallis’s desire to identify the whole Tea Party with an extreme, soulless, Ayn Rand-style libertarianism that exalts the strong and disregards the weak is a stretch. Not all Tea Partiers are libertarians, much less clones of Ayn Rand. And many Christians believe in limited government for moral reasons — because human fallibility makes centralized political power dangerous, and because big government can displace religion, family and other human institutions with divine purpose. Wallis’s essay warns against the free market because of human sinfulness. But he does not acknowledge that human sinfulness may also argue against his brand of big government, which, unlike the market, has the power to tax, regulate, incarcerate, and even kill.
The current economy and political climate, of which the Tea Party is a symptom, may have neutralized whatever gains Wallis’s brand of statism had achieved among younger evangelicals. Evangelical Left elites want to emphasize Global Warming regulation and government health care, while most evangelicals almost certainly share Tea Party distress about too much government. Wallis’s alarms over the Tea Party, and evangelical support for it, may reveal his own political intuition that the Evangelical Left’s moment has receded.
7. There are two kinds of premillennialists: Those “Date setters” and “Date Teasers”. “Date setters”, set specific dates which are in fact a countdown clock to the extinction of their own ministries. (William Miller, Charles Russell, Ronald Weinland, Harold Camping, etc.) “Date teasers”, share the same rhetoric of urgency that the “end is very soon”, but refuse to lock into a specific date. (Jack Van Impe, Hal Lindsay, Tim LaHaye, Pentecostals, Baptists, Grant Jefferies, Christadelphians.)
8. Most of the TV preachers who promote rapture and/or “date set” all wrongly believe they are a prophet of God with special illumination. Pentecostals believe they are inspired directly from the Holy Spirit as modern day prophets. Baptists believe they are illuminated with guidance from the Holy Spirit through the Calvinist doctrine of Irresistible grace.
9. Christians reject all these false notions of God illuminating man and rely upon the pages of the Bible alone as a sole source of conduct and doctrine. . Find a church that exposes the Rapture as a heresy in your own home town.
Further study:
1. Does Revelation prophecy today’s current events?
2. Did the last days begin this century? Are we living in the last days yet?
3. Who is the ANTICHRIST?
4. 50 ways Rapture and pre-millennialism contradicts the Bible
A. False assumptions of Rapture and premillennialism.
1. False: The kingdom is something distinct from the church. Truth: The kingdom is the church which was established on the day of Pentecost in 30 AD. We are in the kingdom now: Col 1:13; Rev 1:6,9.
2. False: Reviving the Roman empire to keep time prophecies of Dan 2,7,8,9 from failing. Truth: The final kingdom Daniel saw was Rome. God set up his kingdom during the Roman empire which began in 30 BC and was destroyed in 397 AD. The kingdom is the church which was started on Pentecost.
3. False: Daniel saw 13 kingdoms: Truth: Daniel saw 4 kingdoms: Babylon, Medo-persia, Greece and Rome. The last kingdom had ten toes, representing 10 Caesars/rulers/kings not 10 additional kingdoms for a total of 13 kingdoms.
4. False: Christ will return in one generation from the time Israel became a nation in 1948. Truth: Mt 23:34; 24:34 speak about how the Herodian temple in Jerusalem will be destroyed within one generation. This indeed came to pass with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD by Titus. Notice the parallel: “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near. ” (Luke 21:20)
5. False: Israel never possessed all the land promised to Abraham and must return to fulfill this promise. Truth: God made three promises to Abraham and all three were fulfilled at the time of Joshua – Solomon. “And the LORD gave them rest on every side, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers, and no one of all their enemies stood before them; the LORD gave all their enemies into their hand. Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass. ” (Joshua 21:44-45) Here is a detailed outline showing that Israel possessed all the land promised Abraham.
6. False: The Mosaic Old Testament temple will be rebuilt on the temple mount in Jerusalem complete with animal sacrifices and Aaronic priests. Truth: The Old Testament was nailed to the cross and abolished: Heb 8:13. To go back to animal sacrifices is to deny Christ: “And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law. You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. ” (Galatians 5:3-4) Restoring animal sacrifices nullifies the sacrifice of the blood of Christ on the cross which was the last blood sacrifice for all future eternity: “Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, ” (Hebrews 10:11-12)
7. False: Entering the 7th millennium in 2000 AD Truth: The bible indicates that the world is about 6119 years old in 2011. See this creation time chart and chronology.
8. False: Y2K bug of 1999 AD Truth: Wild speculation that TV preachers and Rapturists used to whip up end time predictions. It was a non-event… again.
9. False: The prophetic clock stopped in the 69th week of Daniel’s prophecy when the Jews rejected Christ as their earthly king because God wasn’t expecting the Jews to reject Jesus. Each of the first 69 weeks was a period of seven years, but he last week has already been almost 2000 years. The prophetic clock starts ticking again at the “Rapture” which is the beginning of the 70th week of Daniel. There will be 3 ½ years of peace followed by 3 ½ years of tribulation. Truth: God foresaw everything just as it happened in the gospels. A prophecy clock cannot stop or slow down or change rate of time passing. The 70th week continued and came to and end before 40 AD. Rapturists believe that the entire New Testament period is something that God had to think up on the fly when the Jews rejected Jesus as their king. So God had to think up the church age as a stop gap measure until God could try a second time to get the Jews to accept Jesus as king during the millennium. Notice that the “prophetic clock stops” when the Jews crucified Jesus and it starts at the Rapture. The reason the clock had to stop, is because of all the time prophecies were supposed to be fulfilled at the first advent of Christ, but the Jews thwarted God’s plan. Notice the clock stops at the 69th week of Daniel 9 which was happily ticking at a constant pace since it began with the decree of Cyrus which was 483 years (69 x 7 years). Then 2000 years pass and the clock suddenly starts ticking down the final 7 years. This is nothing short of incredible, but in fact, this entire concept of God failing to foresee the Jews rejecting Jesus as King is the cornerstone of Rapture and Premillennial theology.
10. False: The church is a temporary after thought while the prophetic clock is stopped. The church is not prophesied in the Old Testament and will be abolished at the second coming. The prophetic clock starts ticking again at the “Rapture” which is the beginning of the 70th week of Daniel. There will be 3 ½ years of peace followed by 3 ½ years of tribulation. Truth: The church is part of God’s eternal purpose and will endure forever into the future: “so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, ” (Ephesians 3:10-11) God will be glorified in the church for all future eternity: “to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. ” (Ephesians 3:21) Those who believe the church is a temporary stop gap measure, fail to comprehend that the church is the bride of Christ and that the wedding day is the second coming. “that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. ” (Ephesians 5:27) Rapturists teach that the church ends at the second coming, when in fact the church continues forever as the bride of Christ. Those who believe the church was thought up at the last minute when the Jews rejected Jesus as their king fail to realize that our salvation is inside the church, which is the body of Christ and will continue forever. If the church ends at the second coming, then so does the body of Christ. So Rapture and premillennialism is rank heresy invented by John Darby in 1830 AD.
11. False: The Bible tells us when the Rapture/second coming of Christ will occur. Truth: “The Bible Guarantees it” as a sure thing makes a mockery of Christ and causes people to lose faith in the Bible.
12. False: There is a secret number code in the bible that can be used to predict the second coming by using combinations of 3 ½, 6, 7, 10, 30, 40, 66, 70, 230, 280, 666, 980, 1000, 1200, 1260, 1290, 1335, 2520, 2300, 6000, 7000 etc. These numbers are randomly assigned various time units including minutes, hours, days, weeks, years, millenniums. Truth: Endless numerology has been used randomly to make endless date predictions which have all failed but sold a lot of books and made a lot of con artists rich.
13. False: Special illumination from God others do not possess Truth: If any man claims special revelation from God who directly communicates with him, let him show this by performing miracles. Bible prophets always proved it by their power, not their words. “But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the words of those who are arrogant but their power. For the kingdom of God does not consist in words but in power. ” (1 Corinthians 4:19-20) Until men like Camping perform a miracle, he is a candidate for stoning according the Old Testament law he believes will be restored.
14. False: New Doctrines are being revealed today that were not understood even 20 years ago. Truth: Continuous revelation: “Early and latter rains”, “new light”. For example, Harold Camping said, “The Biblical evidence is too overwhelming and specific to be wrong. The scriptural evidence needed to know the exact day could not be known before 1988, the year the ‘Church age’ ended. The Bible indicates prior to this year that date could not be known.” The Jehovah’s Witnesses are trained to ignore past false predictions by claiming new light that “gets brighter and brighter”. Rather it is “black light” or flickering/contradictory light. Camping uses this “new light” “latter rain” theology to justify his previous prediction of 1994 failing. Incredibly Camping says: “In the nineteen years since “1994?” was written, the biblical evidence for 2011 has greatly solidified. Today there is no longer any question, May 21, 2011 is the day in which Jesus Christ will return.
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