“…God took him.”

 

Reader,
Humanly speaking, the above mentioned preachers and faithful servants of God dies.  However, speaking from the spiritual, “God took [them].”  This seems to be a pattern with God.  Before judgment and wrath falls upon a nation, God removes some of His servants, saving them from what is to come.  This is what happened to St. Augustine when the vandals were at the gates of his beloved city.  God saving his faithful servant from the sight and the knowledge and the suffering that was sure, allowed Augustine to lie down and die.  Paul as well was taken before he was to see all of that was to befall his beloved church. Noah and Lot and their own, minus Lot’s wife, was kept from witnessing the carnage that fell upon the carnal.

In the New Testament, Christ tells us lest the days be shortened no flesh would be saved but for the elect’s sake the days would be shortened. To be honest I’m not certain of His meaning here.  Could He mean that some or many of the saved would fall into apostacy, lest He takes them out of the world before such a terrible thing occurs?  If so, the future holds frightening realities, Reader.

Let me be clear on a certain doctrine.  The doctrine of the rapture and the doctrine on the Second Coming.  This writer does not….let me repeat….This writer does not hold to a rapture of the saint that will take him to Heaven during a seven (7) year tribulation period back on earth. There are too many passages and examples that disagree with this view on the rapture.
Examaples:  Neither Noah or Lot was taken to Heaven.  They were left in the world but protected nonetheless.  When Ahab and Jezebel were persecuting Elijah, was he taken out of the world?  No.  To be true, Elijah, like Enoch from our Scripture text above, was translated out of this earth without seeing death.  These two (2) most certainly were raptured however, though Enoch was raptured prior to the flood, Elijah was not raptured do to persecution.  God killed Elijah’s persecutors.  As I said Enoch was translated before the flood, but let me remind you, Noah was not.

The above provides you with examples.  In the paragraph below, (DV), we will provide you with Scripture texts.
* “Immediately after the tribulations of those days shall the sun be darkened…And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven…then shall [every eye] see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And [H]e shall [THEN] send [H]is angels [to] gather together [H]is elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to another…”  (Matthew 24)
In light of the above passage, when does Christ descend and send forth His angels to gather up His elect?  The answer is found in the first (1st) four (4) words.
*Peter tells us that “judgment must first begin in the house of God.”  What can we make of this except the church is present during the tribulation.
*Paul teaches us that we will see the anti-Christ, when does the anti-Christ appear?  During the tribulation and after the falling away of the church into apostacy.
*Another tricky passage is 1 Thessalonian 5:9,  “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ…”  Many take this to mean the church is not appointed to the tribulation.  Reader, this can be cleared up by some simple questions.  1. Our Salvation is it a temporal salvation or an eternal salvation?  2.  The tribulation, is it an eternal judgment or a temporal judgment?  The answer tp the former is eternal and the answer to the latter is temporal.  Therefore do you, Reader think God is comparing a temporal judgment with our eternal salvation?  Nea, beloved, The point of the text is eternal wrath and not a seven (7) years period of tribulation.
*I’m not dogmatic on this next point, but could many believers fall away from the faith and apostacize when they realize they are in the tribulation period (whenever it comes) and they have not been raptured?  Reader, we are in the beginning stages of a falling away, methinks, there can be no doubt….I can be wrong but methinks not.  Could the final apostacy be capped with the expected rapture not culminating in the final stage of the believer’s salvation?  When Anti-Christ is realized and Christ-ians are still earth bound, shall their-faith, and not the gift of faith from God,  falter, and fall, and ultimately fail them?  Could all of this happen, humanly speaking, because of unsound teaching in the church, generation after generation?  Could this be because Christ-ians are illiterate, Biblically speaking?  Could this be because Christ-ians accepted the traditions and tall-tales of teachers in the stead of the Sound and Proven, and Tried Doctrines of God?  Could all this be because the church did not put out the heretics?
Reader, I mentioned this in another article, I heard a radio preacher say that another preacher thought the radio preacher was joking when he mentioned Second (2) Thessalonians!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kind of like when a preacher will tease his people with 2nd Hezekiah.  There be no such book.  But Reader, this radio preacher was not jesting when he said the other preacher thought Second (2nd) Thessalonians a trick.

“O’ God, my God, O’ God, Save Thy people from the church of men lest we fall into pervasive, pernicious and persevering posits and the problematic propounding of perdicious Polemics.”

[Sidenote:  Reader, We use not words that begin with the same letter to be cute or funny.  We use this form of writing, at times, because it is helpful to the memory].

Billy Graham may very well be our generation’s Methusaleh. Methusaleh lives nine-hundred and sixty-nine years (969) and when this man was taken to God through death, the time of judgment had come.  Billy Graham entered his one-hundredth (100th) year when he turned ninety-nine recently.  Is this a heads-up?   R.C. Sproul another faith-filled and faithful servant of God was taken to God, through death last December.  Is this a heads up?  Since these kinds of deaths come in threes (3’s) we might expect another righteous man or woman of God to be taken to God through death.  I say, “taken to God through death” because this is how God brings us to Himself, spirit and soul, while the body awaits it’s promised glorification.  However, the rebellious and unrighteous are not brought to God. Death takes the unrighteous, the rebellious, the riotous, the revelling, the ruthless, and the disrespecter and hater of all things God, and drops them into Hell.

Those that are dropped into Hell await their summons to the Great White Throne Judgment, they will appear before God, not in glorified bodies but in corrupt and cankered bodies.  Corrupt and cankered bodies that finally manifest all that was and still is inside of them, their thoughts, feelings, and will.  Think Walking Dead but with alertness and understanding. Those that are dropped or will be dropped into Hell are many of those that berate, backbite, be-little and hate the Graham family in comment sections of articles regarding the Graham family members. Reader, What persons say about Billy Graham and his children are as reprehensible as you might imagine.  The wicked charge the family with all manner of slander. Yet none can ever back up their vile and vitriolic Vomit.

These wicked persons put Graham in with some of the televangelists that are unholy and ungodly.  I trust in our Lord’s Words, men will give an acount for all that they idley speak.  The wicked wish Graham would “burn in hell.”  Of course they do. The wicked wish everything was turned around.  God and God’s people would be in Hell and (s)atan and his minions, the wicked article-commentators included, would be in Heaven. BUUUTTTTTT ….TOO BAD & SO SAD…that is not how things are or ever will be.  God’s people either are or will be in Heaven and (s)atan and his minions, article commentators included, will be dropped into Hell and await their summons to Judgment and the Lake of Fire.

Let us be thankful and let us acknowledge our thanks to God for His Holy Ghost inhabited servants that have shown us and others the way to Christ.  Let us that have breathe ever be about praising and giving worship to our God.

Godspeed.