I believe that the end times is like a big puzzle. There are many pieces of the end times puzzle: the rapture, salvation, the antichrist, the beast, the false prophet, the vile person, the little horn, gog, Rosh, Dan 9:27, Mystery Babylon the Great, the seven mountains, the seven kings, the seven heads of the beast, the abomination of desolation, Matt 24, the "third temple", the apostasy, the restrainer, 666, and Jerusalem. It is very easy for anyone to write about any one of those topics and even give Scriptures which seem to fit. It would seem that it would be much harder to write about ALL those topics, give Scriptures which fit, AND which do not contradict the clear meaning of other Scriptures. I'm sure that it will surprise you for me to say that it isn't! What is *very hard*, is to read the Bible and simply accept what it says, *without* trying to make it fit what you have been taught. Even if you've made no effort to study the end times in the Bible yourself, you can probably list the order of end times events as they are commonly taught. So what's wrong with the commonly taught version of the end times? The main thing is that it isn't true. God is not a man that He should lie and the prophecies given us in the Scriptures are the truth and do not lie. If any man says one thing and the clear meaning of the Scriptures say something different, then what the man is saying is wrong. This applies to any man. It applies to me, and it also applies to the preachers that have a big church and wear fancy clothes and big rings on their TV shows. Don't trust any man. Don't trust me. Read the Scriptures for yourself. Read them in context. There isn't room in this book for me to quote entire chapters or books from the Bible, but you should read entire chapters as you have time. Double-check everything for yourself. There really isn't anything in this book that you couldn't have done yourself, assuming that you are of above average intelligence, and devote a lot of time over a period of years studying the Bible while asking the Holy Spirit for help in understanding it. Maybe you wouldn't even need to be of above average intelligence, and maybe you could do it a lot quicker than I did, I don't know. What I do know is that I wasted a lot of time reading books about the end times that were not based on the Bible. And it took a long time to unlearn what I read in those books. I believe that the key to understanding the end times is found in the book of Daniel. The Bible says that the book of Daniel was sealed until the time of the end. That means that authors who wrote while the book was sealed were guessing without the tremendous benefit of the book of Daniel. When do I say that the book of Daniel became unsealed? When events started taking place as they were predicted in the book of Daniel! But the problem is that by the time that it happened everyone was already brainwashed into believing the commonly taught version of the end times so they couldn't see it! I knew from the beginning that there was no "pre-tribulation rapture". Wow! I bet I just lost a lot of potential readers right there! I know that THAT is one thing that everyone wants to believe. When you read that chapter I should be able to prove that to you, assuming that you really want to know the truth. Does the truth really matter? Read 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 (KJV). Anyway, I knew that they were wrong about the pre-trib rapture, but I assumed that they were right about everything else. Then as I studied the Bible more, it finally dawned on me that I should not assume that they were right and that I should check everything against what the Bible says. And that is what everyone should do. Don't believe that the Bible is all jumbled up or that it's true only if it's taken a certain way. That is the result of people trying to make square pegs fit into round holes. Believe God, and believe the Bible.
