>>11910689

In my studies of scripture, I have seen very little in the way of support for a 'rapture.' It is a cop out, as far as I can tell. An explanation for how, if the Church rules the world, the beast who will come to rule it will do so. All the good people poof away to paradise and the rest are left.

Yet, the beast rules for at least a thousand years. Per the scripture. Which leaves one to wonder, thus, why the dogmatic representation of the apocalypse portrays an epic rise and fall of the beast in a single episode.

For one who has wisdom, this is simple. The church -is- the beast. There is no rapture described in scripture. There are, however, the throngs of the beast who sing its praises and worship its many heads.

"Do not believe that I have come to bring peace, for I have come with a sword."

Who calls him the 'prince of peace' and other such things?

>>11910770

It couldn't be that people reading the prophecies then work to make them come to pass….

Or the dogmatic understanding of said scripture….

I mean, if you want to see the work of God, that is fine. However, the reformation of Israel was not a prophecy fulfilled because of sight of the future geopolitics, but an understanding of how the people pulling the strings think.

Israel was at the time, and would be remade to be in the future, a sacrificial political and religious distraction for the masses. As it was then, as it is now.