by Randy Maugans
“By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

We need to keep being reminded of the staggering implications of the Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ, even as some come to steal it away.Those who continue to uphold two covenants…one for Jews and another for the “gentiles” fail to grasp the immense richness of the covenant which was divinely sealed by Christ Yeshua…a unified code defined by the very act of infinite love demonstrated by the Messiah. Even as he breathed his last breath as man, Yeshua proclaimed the END of dogma; of arcane laws which were perverted by men; and the closing of a breach which existed for millenia between the Father-God and his “other” children.

“Pretribs are hard-pressed to find any passage in the Bible that teaches that the Great Tribulation will be against unbelievers.”-Alan Kurschner, prewrathrapture.com

Prewrath rapture is an attempt to rescue the rapture doctrine from its most glaring flaws and contradictions; …it is an obvious contrivance and more of the wholesale distortions of Bible prophecy proffered by deceived theologians who fail to move entirely into the truth. Yet even those who subscribe to unsound doctrine do occasionally get a point right. The article below is important only because it presents a valid argument to a tenet—which we have presented on the Threshing Floor and Third Day shows for four years—that the tribulation is upon the “church” , i.e.-the believers in Messiah Yeshua.

Modern Day Rejection of Heritage
by Randy Maugans:

They traded Messiah for Barabbas—their birthright for a bowl of cold soup. This is the “Esau Effect” which moved the ministry of the Gospel from a racial/religious construct called Israel into a broader movement that would include all “peoples, nations, tongues, and tribes.”
The rejection of Christ before Pilate completed the course which physical Israel had taken. The blood curse would break the physical covenant and release the Gospel to the Gentiles. Salvation, which was of the Jews (John 4:22) would now pass to a broader spiritual covenant which did NOT “replace” Israel, but transferred the birthright to all who accepted the “terms and conditions” of the new covenant.

A listener wrote, asking about the terms “sons of God” (ben Elohim) in Genesis 6:2 and Romans 8:14 …there is no small amount of confusion regarding the nature and identities of these “sons (daughters)”, especially when the term “nephilim” is brought into view. It is clear that the Father intended for the “other” creature—humans—which descended from Adam to become something more than this present estate…he was a creation with a unique destiny…One can be born again, of either Jesus or Satan. Jesus chooses his own…Satan isn’t fussy, he wants ALL humanity!

A survey of scriptures which clearly identify the identity of the “restrainer”, or the one who “letteth” . This identification is crucial, as rapture doctrine holds that this person is the Holy Spirit, who will be removed from the Earth at the rapture of the church.The evidence presented in this study provides sufficient scriptural references to lay the axe to the root of this aberrant teaching, and demonstrate WHO this restrainer is, as well as lay out the mission of the Holy Spirit to the believer.

The Spirit must come first. Revelation is in the Spirit;;;

NOT THE MIND

We are at the threshold. And at the center of the threshold stands the altar…stands the cross. It is the place where man and God meet. A rich man cannot fit through it….

David Flynn has been a fixture on the stage of crypto-Christian research for over fifteen years, cutting a wide path in exploring mystical and occult themes from the perspective of the Bible, appearing in numerous videos on YouTube and popping up at UFO conventions in support of his 2002 book, “Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars”.

“Temple At The Center Of Time” is slightly more Earth-bound—but not much, and far more grandiose in its reach toward tying together the disparate parts of his reaching studies into the mystic. None of that would be bad IF Flynn were better grounded in doctrine—He is not—and more consistent in both his scientific facts and the prophetic “projections” he attempts to hammer out of a cornucopia of of quasi-scientific data. The book is hopelessly confusing.

Worse: rather than go to scripture for his core validations, Flynn pulls into his sphere of influence the dubious “Book of Enoch”, the Babylonian Talmudic texts, and the Apocryphal Book of Second Maccabees along with assorted pseudipigraphal writings—and, for good measure, a citation from the equidistant letter spacing “Bible Code” software!

P.J. Miller, over at the Sola Dei Gloria blog, picked up on our meme of the Sacred Name Cult and linked to the June 19, 2009 Threshing Floor show on the subject. P. J. and the readers of his blog add some additional background to the SN heresies worth exploring…P.J.’s most notable take, of which I whole-heartedly agree, is: “The Sacred Name Movement (SNM) is a movement in Christianity that seeks to conform Christianity to its roots in Judaism in practice, belief and worship; This movement seeks to destroy and blot out the name of Jesus…”

Understand, this is a public war for hearts and minds! As events heat up and every day brings us all closer to what most Bible based Christians see as the tribulation, these things take on a greater importance…doctrine is what sustains the believer, nourishes faith, and matures the walk. The fact is, that the “rapture doctrine” is not a coherent Biblical doctrine, it is part of the state of Babel which now grips both the established church system and the “alternative” para-church movement on the internet.We need to get away from the glib presentations, the careless commentaries, and the hodge-podge of current events. We need to get a clear view of scripture and an ever-present awe of the author of the Word, and the presence of His Holy Spirit who teaches all things and brings all things into remembrance…

Sharon Gilbert’s article: “Birchat Hachama — May 28, 2009 — This is stunning video of 50,000 Jewish believers as they participate in the Birchat Hachama, the Blessing of the Sun, on April 8, 2009 (14 Nissan — Passover).
So perplexed am I that people professing to be “Biblical Christians” could be sucked into thinking such an abominable event as these Christ-rejecting Talmudic Jews, essentially performing a sun worship ceremony, could inspire not just awe, but seemingly PROPHETIC import…To read the words of someone like Sharon Gilbert, extolling the hideous pagan, non-Biblical “Blessing of the Sun” is a grievance to a Holy God and a stumbling block to both the Jews, who without Christ perish in unbelief—and their gullible readers who think these people are actually born again.