The Word Will Prepare the Way for His Return

Jesus Christ will prepare the way for His return to the earth. How ? He will do it in His own way, and will choose the human instruments He wants to work through to prepare the way. 

God's annual Holy Days point to Jesus Christ and show us the schedule God is following here on earth. We are currently living in the Pentecostal period of God's schedule where God is just working with the church, and building up the true church. The Day of Pentecost points to this. We are living in the last days, and the next great event on God's schedule here on earth is the return of Jesus Christ to rule the world - the Feast of Trumpets points to this. You are welcome to read my article The Signs of Christ's Return, which shows us the prophecies that need to be fulfilled prior to the coming of the Messiah. This writer has done much research on the matter and has made an educated guess that the timing of Christ's return is somewhere between 2040 and 2070 - perhaps a little sooner, but not likely any later. None of us knows the exact time. 

Christ is now beginning the process of preparing for His return. There is a lot of junk to clean up first - in Satan's corrupt world. Satan's Kingdom will very soon come to the end, and Satan and his fallen angel followers will be locked up in the bottomless pit for a thousand years - amen brother. That will be a happy day when the devil and his demonic followers will be out of the picture and locked up so they can't cause trouble - a very, very happy day. 

So what kind of junk does Jesus Christ have to clean up first ? 

Like I said the devil and his demons are judged already, and their fate is sealed. 

When Jesus returns He will abolish all the idols, and He will do away with the collective idolatry of the nations, and He will overthrow the governments of this world and rule the world as King. Christ will make war against His rebellious enemies and set up the Kingdom of God here on earth.

So what Jesus will do is to now begin the process of His return, and prepare the way. He will do this by working through His human instruments. God will begin to expose the lies, myths and false doctrines of the false churches and false religions. 

God will expose the corrupt governments of this world and begin the process of taking over control from these corrupt governments. The Kingdom of God cannot be set up by human beings - Jesus must return to personally do this. However, the way must be prepared for this coming ruling Kingdom of God. 

Here is a short list of something's that must come to pass before Christ returns:

1. God's true church must be rebuilt.
2. A place of safety must be prepared for the true church in the wilderness, so they can survive the 3 ½ year world rule by the Holy Roman Empire. 
3. The Two Witnesses must come and preach the Gospel to the whole world as a witness. 
4. There must arise the prophesied King of the South.
5. A Prince must rule in Palestine - in the Jewish state in the Holy land called Israel. 
6. Various other prophecies must come to pass - you can read about these by going to my web site on the Signs of Christ's Return - for the details. 

When Christ returns there will be deep and profound changes - revolutionary changes as to way the world is governed and the laws, policies, customs, religion and culture followed. Very, very major changes. The way needs to be prepared for these huge changes. 

Jesus will not tolerate a rebellious world when He returns that refuses to follow His ways, and which even refuses to recognize His existence in many cases. A world that for the most part is hostile to, and in rebellion against God. A world that is for the most part the enemy of God. Jesus will not tolerate this. 

Jesus will purge out the rebels. How will He do this ?  One powerful way He will do it is by allowing Satan to set up his cherished world government. This will be done by Satan through the prophesied Beast, which is a revived Holy Roman Empire in central Europe. God will allow Satan to do this for a purpose. It will be a time of testing. God wants to see who is worthy to live on into the new age. God will test the people to see if they would rather worship a mere man - than worship God. The top ruler of this Holy Roman Empire will be possessed by Satan, and will claim to be God, and will sit in the rebuilt temple claming He is God. God and Jesus Christ will use this to see which people would rather believe a lie than the truth. 

God will work through the Two Witnesses to warn the world of the stark consequences of taking the Mark of the Beast, and of worshipping this man. The consequences will be eternal destruction. Those who worship the image of this man, and who worship this Beast, and who take the Mark of the Beast will be destroyed by Jesus when he returns. Christ will have warned them through the Two Witnesses and so they will be without excuse - their blood will be upon their own heads. Therefore Christ will use this situation to test mankind, and to purge out massive numbers of rebels, who refuse to follow His ways, and who refuse to respect Him. 

Jesus will also allow Satan to gather the nations and their armies against Him at Armageddon. Then Jesus will kill the entire 200 million man army forces assembled against Him. Another way He will prepare the way, and purge out the rebels. 

Jesus will remove the rebels. Those left alive will be humble and teachable. The meek shall inherit the world. 

Jesus Christ will protect a remnant of His people, who will not be rebels. These people will live on into the new age - the new world. God will us these humble and obedient people to repopulate the world. 

Christ's Kingdom will be established. There will be universal peace, joy and prosperity. Amen folks - what a joyous day. What a happy future there is for God's true servants. 

Jesus Christ is Now Beginning the Process of Cleaning Up the Junk

Jesus will prepare the way for His return, and He has the will and power to do so. He has to start the work by beginning to clean up some real serious trash. That serious trash is Satan's world. 

Satan the devil is mentally deranged - he is crazy. Satan wants to exalt himself over everyone, but Satan's world is just a dump - it is just garbage. The devil's world is insane. 

Satan's world is full of cheap thrills, and those who follow the devil's ways are mostly also just interested in cheap thrills. 

The  devil is incorrigible and doesn't want Jesus Christ to come and scrap Satan's corrupt world - he the devil plays games and threatens people.  The devil works through his willing human instruments - the children of disobedience to threaten and bully and play games. There is nothing that can be done with the devil - he is crazy. 

Before Jesus Christ returns He has to first clean up a lot of real smelly serious junk. 

What Kind of Junk Needs Cleaning Up ? 

1. Well Jesus Christ has already done a lot of preliminary work in this regard. Christ has already won the victory over sin and death and Satan when Jesus died on the cross, was dead for three days and three nights, and was resurrected to life. So the devil and his fallen angel cohorts are already judged. The fate of Satan and his demon followers is sealed. They will be locked up in the bottomless pit when Jesus returns, and eventually Satan and his fallen angel followers will be tossed into hell where they will be tormented forever and ever. 

But the devil is still here among us, and won't be locked up until Jesus returns personally to set up His Kingdom here on earth. So us true Christians can expect to be persecuted by the devil and the children of disobedience Satan works through - up until the day when Jesus returns and locks the devil up. However, Satan's fate is sealed already. His eternal fate is hell, and he and his fallen angel followers are horrified at this prospect (Revelation 20:10). And the devil is very angry in these last days, because he knows full well his time is short (Revelation 12:9-12). 

2. The next thing Jesus will begin to do is start cleaning  up the mountain of lies, myths, false doctrines, idols and idolatry perpetuated by all the various false religions and false Christian churches in Satan's corrupt world.  Mystery Babylon and her harlot daughters need to be exposed and their lies and false teachings revealed - go to Mystery Babylon. 

3. Jesus Christ will also now begin the process of cleaning up the corrupt governments, and their corrupt policies. This cannot be done in one day. And the Kingdom of God cannot be set up by mankind - Jesus has to return personally to do this. Nevertheless Jesus Christ was born to be a King, and He will now begin the process of cleaning up the immense government corruption in Satan's world - and prepare for His rule as King of Kings. 

How will Jesus do this ?  In His own way, and in His own time, and working through the human instruments of His choice. There is no point in even trying to limit God, and tell Him how to work. He will do it His own way - not our way.

He will chose the human instruments He wants to do this through, but the Kingdom of God cannot be set up by mankind. So we are not talking about any kind of theocratic government, or any combination of church and state. 

Jesus is a great revolutionary leader. He is a great visionary. But mankind cannot, and does not have any authority from Jesus to even try setting up the Kingdom of God here on earth, or to even try to take over the governments of this world. No, us Christians have no right and no authority to work to set up some sort of combination church and state, and we don't have any authority from Jesus to try and force our religion on others through political or military means. 

However, Jesus Christ will overthrow the governments of this world at His return. Jesus  will prepare the way for His return in regards to His plan and intent to rule this world. 

Jesus Christ hates sin, and He hates sinful corrupt government policies. Jesus Christ hates injustice, and hates the murder of the poor innocents. Jesus believes in fairness, justice, truth and honesty. Jesus does not approve of governments that cheat and bully and dominate their people. In Satan's world - the world we live in today - the governments follow corrupt and sinful policies, and the governments are estranged and alienated from God through idolatry.  

And please, please, please you smug and hypocritical Canadians - don't tell me the lie that your nation is a Christian nation, and that your presently politically structured nation is as it says so in your constitution:  "  Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law: " 

These fancy words are just nice empty window dressings within the Canadian Constitution, which basically mean nothing, and which can be interpreted to mean just about anything the present corrupt governments of Canada decide it to mean. 

Satan's world is alienated and estranged from God and Jesus Christ through idolatry. Satan hates God's ways, and Satan deceives the world through idolatry. Our God is a jealous God who will not play second fiddle to anything, or anyone. 

The governments and nations of Satan's world are estranged and alienated from God through the various idols and false gods their nations or societies are built around.  Jesus will tear down and abolish all such collective idolatry when He returns. So it seems quite logical that He will begin this process now - to prepare the way for His eventual return, and the abolition of all the idols of the nations. 

4. Culture is a huge issue. Jesus Christ is intently interested in culture, and He will insure the world follows godly and natural cultural practices when He sets up His Kingdom.

Satan is the god of this present corrupt world that is estranged and alienated from God and Jesus Christ through individual and collective idolatry (2 Corinthians 4:4)  (Ephesians 6:11-12) (Ephesians 2:2-3).

Satan the Prince of the power of the air uses culture extensively to manipulate and control people. 

Ephesians 2:2-3  " Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: " 

Ephesians 6:11-12  " Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. "

Much of Satan's corrupt cultures of this corrupt world, are built and based on idolatry, and build and based on idols. Mystery Babylon and her Harlot Daughters are a good example of this as in the great false religion of Islam. They follow basic cultural practices and policies that are basically a reflection of the collective idolatry of their particular societies. Like various non-biblical, state sanctioned customs and cultural practices and holidays - that are backed up by the power of the state. 

This doesn't mean there are not any positive, and good aspects of some of a good number of cultural practices of the various nations. For example - the main idols of Canada are money and socialism. Yet there are other cultural practices in Canada that are from the earth, and just part of nature, and without any trace of idolatry associated with them - like playing hockey, reading, being very polite, living close to nature and so on. It is the same with the other nations too - there are good number of aspects of their cultures, that have as their origins nature - the natural order of things - and the true God is the God of nature. 

For those of us who are real Christians - we have to realize which cultural practices of the particular greater society we live in are based on idols, and which therefore need to be avoided - and which cultural practices are just part of the natural world we live in, and which have nothing to do with idolatry, but have everything to do with the true God - who is the God of the natural order of things. But we must avoid nature worship - as this is idolatry. 

And remember also that Satan is the great counterfeiter. He has His counterfeit churches, and his counterfeit religions that he palms off as the real thing. This is just designed to deceive people, and estrange and alienate them from the real God through idols, and idolatry. And Satan is able to utilize the power of the state to enforce his corrupt cultural policies upon the people. He does this by inspiring and working through the children of disobedience, who prefer to follow the Devil's ways.

5. Jesus has a plan in how He will deal with the rebellious people, who have no interest in Him, and who will not have Him telling them how to live their individual and collective lives. There is going to come a time of great testing. God will deliberately allow this to come to pass, so He can purge out the rebels. 

Jesus has all power in heaven and on earth. Jesus will allow Satan to set up the final resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire in Central Europe. This is the prophesied Beast in scripture, which Christ will overthrow at His return. This beast will be controlled by the none other than Mystery Babylon. 

God will allow Satan to possess this man who will claim to be God. This ruler, or Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire will be possessed by Satan, and will be supported by a great religious leader - this will be almost certainly be the religious leader of Mystery Babylon. They will claim this man is god, and will set up an image of this man in the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem. The image will speak and require everyone in the world to worship the image, or face death. This will be the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet and by Jesus Christ. 

Daniel 12:10-11   "  Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.  And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. "

Matthew 24:15   " When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, whoso readeth, let him understand: "

Matthew 24:21-22   "  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.  " 

God wants to see who is willing to worship a mere man, rather than worshipping alone the great living God. It is a time of testing. All those who take the Mark of the Beast, and who worship this man, and his image will be destroyed by Jesus at His return. In this way Jesus will purge out massive numbers of rebels, who have no intent of letting Him rule their individual and collective lives, and who would far prefer to worship idols than worship God the Father, and God the Son. This is just another way Jesus will prepare for His return. Jesus will prepare a people for His return, who will be willing to follow His ways in the Millennium - in the new age. Jesus will save a remnant of His people, through which He will work to repopulate the world at His return. 

2 Thessalonians 2: 3-4  " Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. " 

2 Thessalonians 2: 8-12 " And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:  Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.  " 

Revelation 13: 15-17  "  And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.  " 

Revelation 14: 9-11  "  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,  The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.  " 

6. There are many prophesies that need to be fulfilled before Jesus returns. Christ's return  definitely is not imminent as so many false teachers will try to deceive you into believing. 

Please go to my web site The Signs of Christ's Return, which will give you a fairly good idea of the events that must precede the return of Jesus Christ. 

I will just give you a short list of some of the things that need to pass before Jesus returns. These are placed more of less in the best chronological order I can think of.

A)  God's true church needs to be rebuilt, since it has been really decimated in the past few years, and it is in a very weak and vulnerable position. God and Christ will do this rebuilding in their own way - not necessarily in the way people think. 

B)  Preparations must be made for eventually the Two Witnesses to preach the Gospel to the whole world during the time of the world government by the Holy Roman Empire. There most likely has to a support system, and organization set up so these two Witnesses will have the resources to get out the Gospel to the whole world.

Matthew 24:14   "  And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. "

Revelation 11:3-11  " And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.  These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.  And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.  And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.  And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.  And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.  And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.  " 

Zechariah 4:1-5  "  And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,  And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:  And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.  So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?  Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.  "

Zechariah 4:11-14  "   Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof ?   And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?  And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.  Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.  " 

C)    A place of safety must be prepared for the Philadelphia era of God's true church in the wilderness, where they will be able to survive for 3 ½ years protected from the world government and from Satan. This is a literal place here on earth in the wilderness. 

Revelation 3:7-10   "  And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;  I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.  " 

Revelation 12:13-16  " And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.  And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.  And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.  And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.  " 

D)  There will arise the last era of God's true church - the Laodicean era, which will be a contemporary of the Philadelphia era of God's true Church. This phase of God's true church will not be accounted worthy to be taken to the place of safety, like the Philadelphia phase. This is an era of God's true church in the last days that is in extremely poor spiritual health. Christ will spit them out of His mouth - they will be forced to live through the Great Tribulation, and many of them likely will suffer martyrdom. 

Revelation 3:14-19  "   And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;  I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.  " 

This is a reflection of the amazing materialism we are living in the last days particularly in countries like Canada and the United States.  We are living in probably the most materialistic time in human history here in 2007 in nations like Canada and the USA, and this blatant materialism and consumerism is growing more and more, and spreading all around the world - it has grown to astonishing levels. We are witnesses to the triumph of capitalism. Why even much of communist China has embraced capitalism, and blatant consumerism. 

This era of God's true church will be using material progress and wealth as a measuring stick of their spiritual progress. Their focus on material matters has served to blind them spiritually. 

E)  The Beast or Holy Roman Empire will emerge in Central Europe in these last days. 

We can see the seeds being sown for the eventual emergence of the Beast -the resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire in Central Europe. The forerunner of this union is the present day European Common Market.  Already they have a common currency - the Euro. Already they have a European Parliament which has been elected since 1979, and whose official headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium. 

The European Union has a number of things in common - they has a single integrated common market, a common trade policy, passport and custom controls among member states have been abolished, and so on. 

F) There are a great many more things to list, but this is a huge, massive subject, and my time is limited. Hopefully more will be added alter on. 

7)  So Christ will begin the process of preparing for His return. This is a massive project  - one which is totally beyond the scope of a single individual, or single group to ever, ever accomplish. No human being or human organization is capable, and has the strength and resources to do this. But God is no weakling , like us small, frail human beings are. Jesus Christ has all power in heaven and earth. He has the power and resources to prepare the way for His return. He will work through the human instruments, of His choice to accomplish the job. God will do the work through His chosen instruments, but the work won't be accomplished through our own human powers, but through the power of God - through the power of the Holy Spirit. 

 Zechariah 4:6.." Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts. " 

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