July 6, 2002 journal, questions on End of World, the rapture, anti Christ, and tribulation.

Time magazine in June "The Bible and the Apocalypse, why more American are reading and talking about the End of the World". The four things listed in this title that people seem to be most interested in and yet the so-called Christian novel by Tim Lahay with 35 million books sold is based on false doctrine. The church is a market place from away back to the Catholics selling indulgences, ‘written forgiveness in advance of the sin’, even Christ threw the money changers out of the temple. Tim should be intelligent enough to trace the futurist doctrine of the rapture and the belief that Revelation prophecy will all be fulfilled out there in the future in space somewhere. The Word of God does not teach the rapture or even the seven year period of tribulation. The Bible does teach about Antichrist and that prophecy is clearly being fulfilled in the Dynasty of Popes. Martin Luther boldly described the Pope as the Antichrist and that is why the Catholic Church tried to kill him.

The world will not end, it will be renewed and Christ will rule for a thousand years at least here on earth and this will be heaven for the believers. The unbelievers in Christ and all evil will be destroyed at His coming. It will be like Noah and the Ark. Be ready to meet the Lord when he appears coming down from God in heaven with his host of holy saints.

It is good to know what the secular world is saying even in Time Magazine which is no friend of the gospel of Christ the Lord. This article is said to be promoting Lahay's books.

“What do you watch for when you watch the news? Signs saying interest rates might be climbing, maybe it's time to refinance, signs of global warming, maybe forget that new SUV. Signs of new terrorist activity, maybe think twice about that flight to Chicago. Or signs that the world may be coming to an end, and the last battle between good and evil is about to unfold? For evangelical Christians with an interest in prophecy, the headlines always come with asterisks pointing to spiritual footnotes. That is how Todd Sternberg reads his paper. By day, he is fixing planes at Offutt air force base in Bellevue, Nebraska. But in his off hours, he's the web master at raptureready.com and the inventor of the Rapture Index, which he calls a "Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity". Instead of stocks, it tracts prophecies: earthquakes, floods, plagues, crime, false prophets and economic measurements like unemployment that add to instability and civil unrest, 0thereby easing the way for the Antichrist. In other words, how close are we to the end of the world? The index hit an all-time high of 182 on September 24, as the bandwidth nearly melted under the weight of 8 million visitors: any reading over 145 Strandberg says means fasten your seat belt". That is all I will quote from Time. Give us wisdom Lord and grace.

Matthew 13-40, Christ said "As therefore the tears are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41-The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42-And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: There shall be weaving and gnashing of teeth. 43-Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father. Who has ears to hear, let him hear". There is no doubt about the future when one reads this scripture.

"36% of Americans believe that the Bible is the Word of God and is to be taken literally. 59% believe the prophecies in the Book of Revelation will come true”. Footnotes Time- The “Count down? The apparent fulfillment of Biblical apocalyptic prophecy like Israel's creation has led believers to work hard to fit more recent events like the September but into the spiritual grid. 1945-Dropping the atom bomb, 1948 the creation of Israel, 1967 Israel 6-Day War, 1991-The Gulf War, 2000-the millennium, September 11, 2001 attack”.