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What I am about to share is from a Truth Provided Audio Clip that I made back in May of 2003. I want to share it today because what I shared in this audio clip 20 years ago can be seen as the norm for today when it comes to how all the false prophets out there are doing all they can to cultivate billions of scoffers when it comes to end time prophecy so as to “make merchandise” of them exactly as prophesied in 2Peter 2:1-3 so as to gain their donations. 

I pray this decades old broadcast is a blessing unto you and yours.

This Truth Provided Audio Clip was originally shared May 07, 2003. (If you would like to listen to the audio from back then, I just this morning placed it on my new “Tough Bible Questions Answered PodCast” that I am thinking about starting so as to combat the issues I am experiencing due to YouTube shadow banning me as well as outright removal of my videos. (Also see this) If you think starting a podcast is a good idea, please let me know.

Do you remember these HEADLINES?

• 1978 A MIRACLE DRUG DOUBLES HUMAN LIFE
• 1980 THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE IS OUTLAWED IN ALL US MAJOR CITIES
• 1981 MONTANA BECOMES A PENAL STATEWIDE PRISON
• 1983 ALL THE WOMEN IN ST. LOUIS LOSE THEIR HAIR

Do you remember these events? Needless to say, I don’t either. Yet, these were some of the predictions of “psychics” in recent years!

• 2 Peter 3:3,4 says, “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

For a few weeks now I have had an ever-present topic running through my mind. So intense in fact that I decided to write a sermon on it. Today’s Truth Provided Audio Clip will be a condensed version of that sermon.

Since I was a child, I have seen all sorts of false prophets stepping forward to proclaim the world was going to end on a certain date. This of course is all besides the fact that Matthew 24:36 states, “that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” Still we see many stepping forward to proclaim a date.

The prophecy proclaims that scoffers will be apparent in our day. And why not I ask, after researching a bit of history, one can see why they would scoff. Untold numbers of false prophets have been acting as if they understand Bible prophecy by predicting the end of the World with fantastic theories that appeal to those that don’t read Scriptures. And when their seemingly accurate predictions fail, scoffers are cultivated!

I decided to do some homework on this to see if in fact this is the case. I decided to look around to see if I can find some further evidence of scoffer cultivation. Are there numerous predictions out there? And are they getting worse in our day? Well, as I figured, I ran across quite a huge list of failed predictions. In fact, the list was so large that I am unable to share them here, or even in my sermon this coming Sabbath. So instead, I will share but a few of them.

• 365 AD: A man by the name of Hilary of Poitiers, announced that the end would happen that year. It didn’t.
• 375 to 400 AD : Saint Martin of Tours, a student of Hilary, was convinced that the end would happen sometime before 400 AD. We’re still here.
• JAN 1 of 1000ad: Many Christians in Europe had predicted the end of the world on this date.

As the date approached, Christian armies waged war against some of the Pagan countries in Northern Europe. The motivation was to convert them all to Christianity, by force if necessary because they believed Christ would return in the year 1000. Meanwhile, some Christians had given their possessions to the Church in anticipation of the end. Fortunately, the level of education was so low at the time that many citizens were unaware of the year. They did not know enough to be afraid. Otherwise, the panic might have been far worse than it was. Unfortunately, when Jesus did not appear, the church did not return the gifts. Serious criticism of the Church followed. So the Roman Catholic Church reacted by exterminating quite a few heretics to shut them up.

Notice if you will that when these false predictions are made, many people are affected! It’s not just some guy on the street corner with a sign on his chest that says THE END IS FRIDAY! It’s a multitude of people shouting the same message. This lends “credence” to the message when the masses see many proclaiming it. So they jump on the band wagon. And then when it doesn’t happen… SATAN’S PLAN WORKS! More scoffers are then cultivated!

• 1284: Pope Innocent III computed this date for the end by adding 666 years onto the date the Islam was founded.

This here is open and obvious proof Rome uses “private” interpretations. Nowhere in Scripture does it say to use the number 666 in calculating a date. It is to be used to calculate the NAME of the beast in Revelation 13 however. The Bible plainly says in 2 Peter 1:20 that, “…that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.” How can a Pope declare such a thing if he ever read his Bible? Think about that! The LEADER of the largest “so called” Christian church is NOT studying His Bible! If he was, he would know what Peter said, plus he would know that there are 404 verses in Revelation. And out of those 404 verses, 278 of them carry the main message of the book. And ALL 278 of them are found almost word for word in all the other books of the Bible! That means the BIBLE defines the prophetic symbols perfectly! We don’t need to give our own interpretation. It’s already interpreted. Had that pope known that he would never have stated what he did. Still, many look to the Pope as infallible to this day!

• 1346 and later: The black plague spread across Europe, killing one third of the population. This was seen as the prelude to an immediate end of the world.

Unfortunately, the Christians had previously killed many of the cats, fearing that they might be familiars of Witches. The fewer the cats, the more the rats. It was the rat fleas that spread the black plague. Compound that with their Biblical ignorance of such as dangers as Improper hygiene and garbage disposal you have a disaster in the making. And why did they not understand Biblical truths regarding such things? The Roman Catholic church in the council of Valencia saw to it that ALL Bibles were burned in the year 1229AD and on.

By this time… no one was alive that ever SAW a Bible that wasn’t in LATIN, a language no one knew… except of course the lying priests of Rome. You had to ask them what the Sculptures said, and of course they would lie. That is the MAIN reason these ages were called “dark.”

The plague came mainly because the People never had a Bible they could read to learn how not to generate a plague like environment.

• 1689: Benjamin Keach, a 17th century Baptist, predicted the end of the world for this year.
  1792: was the date for the end of the world as it was calculated by some believers in the Shaker movement.
  1794: Charles Wesley, one of the founders of Methodist church, thought Doomsday would be in this year.
  1832: Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon movement, heard a voice and interpreted it as implying that if he lived to the age of 85, Jesus would return. Calculating forward, that would be the year 1890. Unfortunately, by that year, Smith had been dead for almost a half century.
• This brings us to, OCT-22 1844-: William Miller predicted this date as an end. This was later tagged “The Great Disappointment,” by the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

Many Christians sold their property and possessions, quit their jobs and prepared themselves for the second coming. Nothing happened of course when that the day came and went without incident. And by the way… this is the one and ONLY failed prediction prophecy states the true church of Jesus Christ would actually predict. If you absolutely and truly understand Bible prophetic symbolism you will plainly understand Revelation 10:9,10. The message that was being proclaimed in 1844 was indeed “SWEET AS HONEY” in the mouth as the prophecy predicted, and when it failed, it definitely “MADE THE BELLY BITTER.”

Fact is folks, William Miller got the date correct. He just got the event wrong. The 2300 year prophecy of Daniel 8 & 9 did indeed end on October 22, 1844. In fact that’s an easy prophecy to proclaim. The angel actually gave Daniel the starting and ending date for it!

• In 1914, The Jehovah Witnesses predicted the return of Christ. In fact, in the years.. 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1957, 1975 and 1994, they also predicted He would return.
• 1936: Herbert W Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, predicted that the Day of the Lord would happen sometime in 1936. When the prediction failed, he made a new estimate: 1975
• 1959: The Branch Davidians of Waco TX believed that they would be killed, resurrected, and transferred to heaven by APR-22 of that year.
• 1982: Pat Robertson of the 700 club, and founder of the now extremely powerful “Christian Coalition” predicted a few years previously that the world would end in the fall of 1982.

Still, millions flock to this man when he speaks regardless of the fact that the Word of God declares plainly that if they are wrong, they are false prophets!

• 1988: Hal Lindsey had predicted in his book “The Late, Great Planet Earth” that the Rapture was coming in that year –

This failed prophecy did not appear to damage his reputation in the slightest. He continues to write books of prophecy which sell very well indeed. In fact, to this day I find myself running into people that claim this man is a prophet. You can show them his books, and they will completely ignore the errors he put in print.

• 1988-OCT-11: Edgar Whisenaut, a NASA scientist, had published the book “88 Reasons why the Rapture will Occur in 1988.”

It sold over 4 million copies. 4 MILLION COPIES! And when it failed, you now see a grand cultivation of possibly 4 million more scoffers.

And the last one I will comment on for now occurred back in May of 1988 There was a movie titled “The man who saw tomorrow” where in it they described some of Nostradamus’ predictions. This false prophet seems to be a favorite source of cultivating the scoffer. The false teachers like to alter his words to make him look authentic. In fact, they just got caught recently online doctoring his words to make it appear he predicted the 911 tragedies. Here’s just one of many false quotes I found that was doctored…

• “In the year of the new century and nine months, From the sky
  will come a great King of Terror…
  The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
  Fire approaches the great new city…”

This is not quite a true quote from any of Nostradamus’ predictions. Besides the fact that it’s predicting Sept of the year, 2000 and not 2001, this is actually a combination of two predictions merged together to fit the 911 event. It is a combination of quatrains VI 97 and X 72. Plus, he didn’t say “new century”, he said “1999” –in the original quatrain and of course, as we all know, nothing happened then either!

That movie in the 80’s was designed by Satan to get people interested in Nostradamus so that when his predictions failed, more scoffers would be cultivated. Funny thing tho, I saw that movie and I don’t recall them mentioning the HUGE numbers of prophetic events Nostradamus predicted that never came to be. In fact, I did some research years back on this “Catholic” prophet. He not only used witchcraft to conjure up his visions. But he wrote enough predictions to fill a two car garage. The bulk of which never came true. Yet, all we see published is a small paperback booklet!?

Is it not written that a prophet of God is always 100% correct? If everyone that predicts the end of the world would read their Bible first, we would have a lot fewer predictions and a lot less scoffers. Some of the more obvious modern day scoffer cultivators have to be the…

• Y2k non-event.
• Jim Jones predictions
• Heaven’s Gate
• Nasa and their meteor predictions
• Now everyone is shouting the IRAQI is the final war, and now the end will come!

Many people are being affected by these false prophets. Most of them are of course being cultivated to become scoffers, and the rest are simply going insane with fear. (as prophesied)

For example, I just received this article the other day…

Ivan Henk Admits To Killing Brendan Gonzalez
(Brendan Disappeared Jan. 6)
PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. — A Plattsmouth man admitted in Cass County District Court Tuesday to killing his 4-year-old son Brendan Gonzalez. …”The reason I killed Brendan is that he was the anti-Christ. He had 666 across his forehead.” – KETV NewsWatch Channel 7

If the people that are hearing these false messages believe them without doing as the Bereans do in Acts 17, then they will be cultivated as scoffers, and possibly worse as we just learned. So… What do they have for this month that is designed to cultivate more scoffers? 

• PLANET X

That’s right! They are now preaching a massive planet hundreds of times larger than ours is about to cross our orbit. They say it will trigger massive earthquakes. It will rip open volcanoes, and unleash massive tsunamis. They say it can kick the Earth’s axis over, pushing Africa to the pole and Antarctica to the equator. It may even stop our planet from rotating they say! Or worse: peel the Earth’s crust off, tear our planet to bits. Or perhaps it will simply sweep our world aside, pushing it into the Sun. That’s the way it goes when suddenly, a HUGE planet zooms by. They say. Planet X is the supposedly eleventh planet of our solar system. It should be as big as many Earths. Dwarfing it perhaps even hundreds of times. Some people think X isn’t even a real planet, but a `brown dwarf’: a massive ball of dust and gas that almost succeeded in becoming a star. Planet X has something no other planet has: a huge orbit. Its orbit around the Sun lasts 3,600 years they say. Most of the time, it is far off, invisible to the eye. But every 3,600 years, the lost planet returns. Once here, it accelerates, and swings close past the Sun, disrupting everything it encounters they even have “very convincing” so called “proofs” that state the planet was here during previous disasters.

BTW… they are saying PLANET X will hit on May 18, 2003. Think about this simple fact for a moment… They say the planet is hundreds of times larger than earth, right? You would think we would SEE it by now? Doesn’t it reflect the suns light? Or is this a STEALTH planet created by Darth Vadar that can absorb our sun’s rays of light so as to appear invisible to us? The prophets are playing the little Shepard boy who cried wolf right before our eyes. And let me tell you, it IS effective!

Back in 1967 I saw first-hand how effective it is to cry DANGER DANGER, for days on end with nothing ever happening! People did in fact start to ignore the warnings!

There were tornado warnings every single day it seemed for at least a week that Spring. A couple of years before that I had a strange desire to read every bit of data I could get on meteorology. Particularly concerning storms, and especially tornados. I used to read encyclopedias as a child. So, I was a bit more prepared for this than most, praise the Lord.

Well… after about 4 or 5 days straight of yelling TORNADO WARNINGS over the TV’s and radios, the people in my area were becoming scoffers of the warnings because nothing ever happened! However, being only 12 at the time, and in the process of learning about tornadoes, I was not about to scoff because I knew predictions at that time weren’t an exact science, and I also knew how destructive tornadoes could be. Fear kept me looking up! And so, every time a warning came.. I was outside checking it out! I knew the signs to look for because I was reading up on them. Unlike the scoffers today that refuse to read up on prophecies, I had foreknowledge of what to look for from what I saw in the encyclopedias.

Some days look worse than others or of course, still the tornado never came, but knowing what I knew, and studying what I was studying, I knew there was a possibility of a tornado anyway. So I kept watch.

Then Friday, April 21, 1967 came. The warnings came. However, this time, I saw the anvil cloud. I saw the hail, the dead air calmness, the drastic temperature change, I even saw the green ring on the horizon when the tornado is supposed to be very close. I then saw the spinning base of the cloud that was to become a funnel and then the F5 twister that devastated my neighborhood. 

During all this, I was outside warning everyone I could. My siblings and the neighborhood kids. I warned them of things that would happen minutes before they did because of what I studied, but still they ignored me. They were conditioned as hardened scoffers. And then it hit! A tornado so wide I thought it was a black hurricane on land. When I looked on that thing I was never so scared as I was then. Even to this day I have never seen anything to frightening! I knew I was looking at death! Many people did in fact lose their lives that day because they ignored the warnings that were FALSE! (This is why I titled my first book “The Second Window“) 

Study your Bibles! And keep looking up no matter how many false prophets come forward! The prophecy is in fact true. The scoffers are here for a reason. Jesus said they would be cultivated, and now we can see how.

Refs for predictions
1. S.J. Gould, “Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist’s Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown.”, Harmony Books, (1997) You can read a review and safely buy this book from Amazon.com online
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2. Chris Nelson, “A brief history of the apocalypse,” at: http://www.chrisnelson.net This web site contains over 200 references to end-of-the-world predictions which have not come true.
3. William Martin, “Waiting for the End: The growing interest in apocalyptic prophesy,” The Atlantic Monthly, 1982-JUN. Online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/82jun/
4. Charles Taze Russell, “The Time is at Hand,” Page 99. Cited in Ref 5.
5. “Jehovah’s Witnesses and the History of 1914,” Watchman Fellowship, Inc., at: http://www.watchman.org/jw
6. Watchtower magazine, 1924-JUL-15, Page 211).
7. Richard Kyle, “The last days are here again: A history of the end times,” Baker Books, (1998), Page 111. You can read a review and safely buy this book from Amazon.com online bookstore