Heaven’s Rescue Plan During the Mark of the Beast Crisis (Part-1)

The world has lived through the horrors of the man-made Pandemic, and now we are in the throes of another man-made pandemic—the Pandemic

of Climate Change.  These crises will start coalescing around a certain objective, and humanity will be at the mercies of elected and non-elected world leaders.  The elected officials are heads of states, and the non-elected ones, such as the elites making up the World Economic Forum, are among the non-elected officials.  They meet in secluded places and lay plans for each and every human being alive on this earth, and their highest

duty is to honor the policies of the Church of Rome.  Indeed, we are living in a time of multiple pandemics.  Look around us and you’ll see the pandemic of Crime and violence, pandemic of political intrigue, pandemic of fires and Global Boiling, pandemic of viruses and vaccines, pandemic of disinformation from big government, big pharma, big education, and big media.

These are among the worst of times and the best of times, and in it all the God of Creation has forewarned of these troublous times, and encouraged us to not give up or give in, but run with patience the race that is set before us, ever being mindful that, “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, Then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan?” Jer. 12: 5, NKJV.

Truly, our God, YHWH, promises to go beside us and lighten our burdens and help us with the heavy load, for the gates of Hell will contend against His Church—body of true worshippers, but they shall not prevail, for again, we are assured of this promise, “’No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from Me,’ Says the LORD.” Isa. 54: 17.

Never has the safety of the living Church of God been more precarious than now, for we are in the digital age when everything is known about everyone and everything.  We are living amidst the 4^th industrial revolution, the era of the internet of things.  In this context, everything is digitally connected, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the lifeblood that flows between them.  This can be good and also very bad!  If humans could be trusted with an unlimited amount of information about us, that’d be good, but time and again, history has reminded us that the heart of mankind is desperately wicked, who can know it!  And as we approach the year 2030, every specie of evil that humans have conjured up in their minds to rid the earth of large quantities of humans has been developed, awaiting the kill command!  Governments will deceive us that the poisine (vaccine) is good for us and our neighbors, when the very opposite is the truth!  The untold number of young healthy athletes who are dying suddenly daily is frightening to us, yet this matter is of little to no concern to Governments, Fake Media, big Medicine, and big Pharma!  There is constant blame of the deceased for some unknown underlying condition!  The time is now that we must all use our higher intelligences to process what is happening around us and be watchful unto prayer.

“11And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a [the] dragon. 12And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth [mandates] the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” Rev. 13: 11, 12

Take peculiar notice that there are two systems being mandated to “worship,” (1) The Earth (planet), and (2) its inhabitants (people).  Thus, in a fulsome way, the Bible is here telling us that Climate Change will be used as the means to launch a false worship upon the whole of humanity, and that this Climate Change worship would be spearheaded by the “healed” beast of Rev. 13: 1-10.  The mortal “wound” being inflicted by both the Protestant Reformation of the 16^th century and the French General, Berthier, arresting Pope Pius vi, in 18^th Century, makes clear that the healing of that wounded head would be in two segments, both a religious and a political healing.  The political healing occurred in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty, and the religious healing occurred in 2017, on the 500^th anniversary of Protest, when the Evangelical Churches joined with the Roman Catholic Papacy to declare that “the Protest is over!” In commemoration of that historical moment, the pen of history bears this faithful report:

“The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, presented a text by the Anglican communion affirming a joint declaration by the Roman Catholic church and global Protestant bodies, described as “a sign of healing after 500 years of division”.[1]

Language could not be plainer to demonstrate the healing of the wound than is here presented, and this statement from the “Evangelicals” demonstrates the completeness in the fulfillment of these prophetic words, “And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.” Rev. 13: 3.

Observe that “all the world wondered (followed) after the beast after the wound had been “healed.”  Hence, we should see a global push by the great nations of earth to venerate the institutions of the Roman Catholic Papacy.  And now where is this more clearly seen and demonstrated that in the global push of the Parish Climate Accords, for the backbone on which this treaty has been built is the Popes 2015 Religio-Scientific encyclical, Laudato Si’ (Praise you).  This encyclical has also spawned another political motif— “the Green New Deal” (GND).  In the launch of this idea to the USA, the mark of Rome could not be more distinctly noted in this up-and-coming legislation, that would finally be signed into law by Joe Biden, on August 18, 2022.  “The GND’s overarching mission is rooted in the humanistic theology that Pope Francis drew upon in his milestone 2015 Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality, a precursor to the GND manifesto in linking global warming with poverty.”[2]

This demonstrates the resurgence of the Papal international moral authority that that institution once wielded, and before which Kings, Presidents, Governors, and Scientists all prostrated themselves.  It should not be surprising to learn that the principles of the International Criminal Court are based on The Rome Statute, and that the Paris Climate Accords, an Internationally binding legal contract, is also based on Rome’s theology of social justice.

Then on August 18, 2022, the Roman Catholic’s climate justice magazine, EarthBeat, sponsored by the National Catholic Reporter, published the following article in response to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, “Historic climate law, signed by Biden, has Catholic fingerprints all over it.”

“Susan Gunn, director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, said in a statement, … “The cry of the earth, which Pope Francis calls us to heed in his Laudato Si’ encyclical, finally was heard in the halls of Congress. This legislation is a strong start for the United States to do its fair share to care for our common home,” she said.

“Catholic fingerprints were all over the Inflation Reduction Act and its massive climate investments…. It was Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, who signed it into law. After doing so, he gifted the pen to Catholic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.”[3]

With the whole world thus fully surrounded with Catholic doctrines that are being pushed into international agreements, it simply means that Roman Catholic dogma is being taught and enforced by Civil Laws.  The pope has already determined that the earth needs a day of rest, a Sabbath, to help her heal from the brutality of anthropogenic climate change, and no day better suits the occasion that does Sunday!  While this may appear charitable on behalf of the earth, it will be seen, far too late, that it was a gigantic web being spread upon the minds of mankind, with a blinding wool to deceive the very elect, if it were possible!  And since these religious laws, now cloaked as Civil Laws must be enforced, this will create an untold amount of religious persecution against non-conformists to Catholic doctrines.  And as the vaccine mandates were handed down globally, so too, shall the climate mandates be handed down wit even greater fury and penalty!  Indeed, the Bible states that nonconformists will be given the ultimate punishment—death!  In preparation for this outcome, the Pope of Rome has solicited the ICC to add a 5^th crime, ecocide, to the existing four that it currently manages.

What is ecocide?  “An amendment to a treaty known as the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court, could criminalise acts that amount to ecocide, he said, arguing ‘this radical idea merits serious discussion’…  Ecocide – which literally means “killing the environment” – is an idea that seems both a highly radical and, campaigners claim, a reasonable one. The theory is that no one should go unpunished for destroying the natural world. Campaigners believe the crime should come under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, which can currently prosecute just four crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression.”[4]

This law will internationalize the persecution of those who do not bow to Rome’s Statutes, and this was already written on the headlines of prophecy for nearly 2,000 years now.  Let’s take a read: “15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship [refuse to worship] the image of the beast should be killed.” Rev. 13: 15.

Clearly, there is no way out for Bible-based Commandment keeping Christians except through the vicious path of “death”!  Since the MOB (Mark of the Beast) will occur well ahead of the Second Coming of Christ to this earth, in power and great glory, how will God’s righteous remnant survive these bewildering days of oppression?  Can we run to the mountains?  Will we find refuge in rural communities?  Will we find our escape routes in the fortresses of caves, freed from the pursuit, and notice of the oppressive governments under which we live, entities that are all intoxicated on Babylon’s chalice?  We can already sense the bewilderment that Satan has prepared for the Righteous, yet our God says, “be not afraid!”

YHWH has Ever Had a Place of Safety for His Children, and He Has One for Them Today!

From the earliest times, our God has demonstrated that He has a safe place for His Church during a time of peril and national or international crisis:  To our first parents, there was Eden, to Noah, there was the Ark, to Abraham was the land of Canaan, to Lot there was Zoar, to the Twelve Tribes of Israel during the global famine, there was Goshen (in Egypt), to the people of Jericho, was Rahab’s house, To Elijah was the Widow of Zarephath, to the Christians in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. there was Pella, to the church throughout the Dark Ages, there was “a place prepared of God,” where she was “nourished”, and for the end-time remnant, our God does have a place of safety and defense for His tried, tested, and true worshippers today who will live in an ungodly world when the laws of the land oppose their way of life; “those who perfected Christian characters in the midst of falsehood and infidelity, those who honored the law of God when the Christian world declared it void.”[5] No, that place is not heaven but the pre-Advent Kingdom of glory.  This is a little-known but refreshing truth to comfort the people of God amidst the ravages of Cancel Culture today.

We have been duly advised to practice Country Living, in the context of raising our families, but for many the solution to our end-time persecution is “Country Living,” without giving thought to the fact that governments are aware of this strategy and are actively burning down the rural communities, destroying farms, and aggregating people away from the rural communities into 15-minute “smart cities.”  At the same time, many multi-billionaires are purchasing up large swathes of the countryside and preserving those lands for “environmental protection.”  Thus, the time is almost here that those who desire a piece of the rustic countryside cannot afford it, as they will be outbid by people having much deeper pockets and dedicated to the sinister plot of global population control.  Further too, those who are currently in the rural communities will face new and enhanced Zoning Laws relative to their home-grown gardens or Farming, that must conform to the standards of the Pope’s Paris Climate Change Accords. 

What we are confronting is not a system that we can outrun, out gun, out smart, outthink, or even outgrow.  No place is too remote too prevent the long reach of the laws of the land, for they will demand that “all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Rev. 13: 16, 17. 

Furthermore, to those who believe that the genius of “Preppers” will carry them through, the Bible flatly asks the searching rhetorical question, “Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” Rev. 13: 4.  The obvious answer is NONE!  This beast power will have all the official mandatory enforcement authority granted it through the adoption “Church Doctrines” into Federal and State and laws for the purpose of Land and People management and control in every aspect of our lives.  Pope Francis’ universal environmental code book, his encyclical, Laudato Si’, has been the guide of every world leader, and has been adopted by all countries that make up the United Nations.  This document comprehends a seven-points platform, which touches every aspect of policy, economics, and culture in the world.  Specifically, “The Laudato si’ Action Platform will focus on seven sectors: families, parishes, schools, hospitals, businesses, organizations, and religious orders. The pope explained that the action plan also has seven goals: the response to the cry of the earth, the response to the cry of the poor, ecological economics, adoption of simple lifestyles, ecological education, ecological spirituality, and community involvement.”[6]

Clearly, this seven-part strategy overlooks no one and leaves no loopholes for exemption, and has already considered nonconformists as criminals, committing ecocide, an international crime punishable by the ICC!  Hence, any religious exemption will not be an option in this arrangement, and as most Churches, including the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination, have already signed on to the SDG’s (Sustainable Development Goals) and the MDG’s (Millennial Development Goals), there is no room left for nonconformance!  And to strengthen such a plot, they engage the “community” to not only cooperate with the program, but more importantly to “spy” on each other in the name of supporting “the common good”!  But our God has promised, with surety, that “the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.” Ps. 76: 10.  Meaning, the wrath of man against His Church will only be to the exhibition of His great love and care for His own.  In the days of the first exodus, YHWH charged the atheistic Pharaoh that, “in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.” Ex. 19: 16. 

Similarly, during the days of the Second Exodus, he has challenged the whole world, that He will “break them with a rod of iron” and shall “dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” Ps. 2: 9.  These promises will come to pass when the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ (Y’shuah) will stand on Mount Zion with the 144,000 during probationary time (Rev. 14: 1).  Thus, the Psalmist declares, “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.” Ps. 2: 6.  We should take care to note that this Zion is not in heaven, and that this prophetic Psalm will be fulfilled in the day when, “2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed [Christ in the person of His saints], saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” Ps. 2: 2, 3.

The Pre-Advent Kingdom of Glory

That Christ will reign in his Church on earth before the millennium is a truth that is little appreciated among Christian theologians, and especially so, among Seventh-day Adventists, yet it is a truth that is amongst the most comprehensive in all Holy Scripture, one that is declared by all the prophets, from Moses thru Malachi, and Matthew thru Revelation!  We will not be able to cover all these passages in this one article but will do so in successive presentations.  Let’s take for example the end-time prophet, Daniel:

“1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.  2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.  3And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” Dan. 12: 1-3.

Clearly, this character, Michael[7], is none other than Jesus Christ our Saviour. But it will be quickly seen that it is impossible for this standing up, to occur at the Second Advent, for then there will only be the righteous saints who are resurrected at that time (Rev. 20: 6), whereas Daniel 2 calls for a resurrection of both saints and sinners! Further too, verse 3 shows that this resurrection will occur during probationary time—a time when sinners can be saved, for the wise among the living righteous, including the resurrected saints, shall “turn many” sinners “to righteousness”, an event which can only be executed while the High Priestly work of Christ in the Heavenly Sanctuary is still efficacious to sinners. Even Ellen White says this development of truth during the Loud Cry of the Third Angel, for she states, “Your work, my work, will not cease with this life. For a little while we may rest in the grave, but, when the call comes, we shall, in the kingdom of God, take up our work once more.”[8]

Since there is no probation granted to sinners from the commencement of the seven last plagues and beyond, it would be without meaning for her to say, “we shall, in the kingdom of God, take up our work once more,” when that work would have long been completed prior to the millennium, were she speaking of our thousand- year vacation in Heaven, or of a time during the New Earth! Both options being impossible, the truth stands forth as the noontide sun that there is a special work of Divine grace that shall be executed on earth through God’s end-time remnant, the 144,000 Evangelists.  We will have much more to say about this subject in a follow-up article, so before we conclude this one, try to appreciate the clear teaching of the Scripture passage below, concerning the great Image of Nebuchadnezzar’s forgotten dream:

“34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 35  Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth… 44  And in [during] the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. 45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.” Dan. 2: 34, 25; 44, 45.

Try to appreciate this fact: “44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall… break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.”

The Bible clearly states that during the reign of the toe kings (our present world governments before the consummation of the age), YHWH will set up a Kingdom.  This not a kingdom of man, or a kingdom where man rules in the place of God—that’s the Papacy, but this Kingdom is the Kingdom of God in which He alone rules as King!   Observe also, that this Kingdom and the stone are synonymous for they both “break in pieces” the image!  Contrary to popular theology that this “stone” is Jesus Christ at His Second Coming, we are now seeing that it is the establishment of His Pre-Advent Kingdom of glory!

There is more internal evidence pointing to this truth:

1. “The stone was cut out of the mountain without hands.”
   1. The act of being “cut out” demonstrates a work of separation.  This illustrates that the stone is an integral part or component of the mountain.  Hence, a correct understanding of the stone requires a comprehensive knowledge of the mountain from which it was cut, for, to repeat, it was part and parcel of that parent block.
   1. Mountain in prophecy: Mountains in the Bible are used to represent kingdoms, both political (Jer. 51: 24, 25), and religious (Isa. 2: 2, 3).  Since this stone is also called the Kingdom of God, clearly, the latter application of mountain being a religious entity, governs the testimony of this “more sure” word of prophecy.  For example, the Bible declares of “the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him… 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer… for mine house [mountain] shall be called an house of prayer for all people.” Isa. 56: 6, 7.
   1. Concretely then, the stone is a representation of God’s people who are lively stones that are used to build up His “house,” and the stone’s being “cut out,” envisages a work of separation, a work of cleansing that secures the righteous remnant, who will be used to finish the work of salvation on earth!  Thus, the Loud Cry will harvest souls from “every nation, kindred, tongue, and people”—the “great multitude” of Rev. 7: 9.
2. “The stone … became [grew into] a great mountain.”
   1. The growth of the stone denies everything the Bible teaches about the Second Coming of Christ, and reinforces the truth that Christ’s Second Advent was not the focus of this prophecy, but the establishment of the Kingdom of God, in contradistinction to all the kingdoms of man that have ruled this world, since man sinned!  It is, to repeat, the comparison of the Kingdom of God relationship to the kingdoms of men.  The whole image was a discussion about “kingdoms,” and concludes with the supreme and eternal kingdom that will not be occupied by “other people”—the unrighteous, but a Holy, and Righteous body of faithful followers of Messiah.
3. “The stone … filled the whole earth.”
   1. The expanding of the stone to “fill” the whole earth, is not a suggestion that this is the New Earth, for the prophecy concerns itself with events that will culminate “in the latter days” (Dan. 2: 28) of this earth’s history!  The lesson of the growing or expanding stone, is to illustrate that “this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” Matt. 24: 14.
4. The “stone … smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.”
   1. Since the image stands upon its feet, this illustrates the last world governments that will be upon the earth, and demonstrates that the Pre-Advent Kingdom of God is not to realized at any other time than in “the latter days,” as the Prophet notably said before the Babylonian king (Dan. 2: 28).  Hence, the smiting of the image on its feet, is indicative of a time function, to notify the whole of humanity that God’s Kingdom will supersede all these earthly kingdoms and bring them to nought after the righteous are called out of their domains.
5. The Stone remained on the earth and grew into a great mountain.
   1. It is an undisputed fact that Chris, at His Second Coming, will not touch His feet on this earth. But the act of the stone’s not only smiting the image but also occupying the earth to grow and fill its expanse testifies to a different reality than that spoken in 1 Thess. 4: 14-16. 
   1. This paradox is easily broken when we account for Michael’s standing up during the “time of trouble”—the Mark of the Beast, to liberate His Church and placing them in this antitypical Ark of safety, from whence they operate as invincible evangelists, to finish the gospel work in all the earth.
   1. Additionally, even Job was aware of this end-time kingdom wherein Micheal will stand and rule, “25  For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26  And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh [resurrect] shall I see God: 27  Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.” Job 1: 25-27.
   1. Job knew that that there was a “latter day” resurrection of the righteous dead in which they shall see Christ (as Michael or God) standing on the earth in His Kingdom.
   1. Although there is an end-time deception of false Christs proclaimed by false prophets, that Christ is here, there, and anywhere (Matt. 24: 23), this is NOT the work of the true prophets, the 144,000, for they know that only the righteous can see God.  And since no unrighteous being will enter the precincts of that kingdom— “It will not be left to other people,” they would be trafficking false hope to the unsaved world, rather than the everlasting gospel.  The only Christians of whom the Bible states, “in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God” (Rev. 14: 5), would never so tarnish their faultless and guileless reputation.
6. The stone and “break in pieces.”
   1. The act of the stone’s destructive work of “breaking in pieces” all these kingdoms demonstrate how our might God will use His end-time church to call a people out of antitypical Babylon, and in this way defeat the goals of these kingdoms, by relieving them of their citizens, to a large measure, by the preaching of the gospel and their resulting conversion.  This indomitable weapon of war is more forcefully demonstrated through the weeping prophet’s report: “19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name. 20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms.” Jer. 51: 19, 20.
   1. Anciently, the Church of God in the wilderness was God’s battle axe and weapons of war, for with them He defeated many nations.  That was only a type of the greater work that will be accomplished to its finality in the antitype, the purified remnant church of God today.
7. “The stone” = “the Kingdom of God” and not Jesus Christ the King, as His Second Coming!

Upon drinking more deeply from the wells of salvation, we shall with joy and deeper understanding repeat the Disciples’ Prayer (AKA the Lord’s Prayer), with greater appreciation, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Matt. 6: 10.

As the times of trial and crises loom before us, may we not flinch and become despondent, but let us fix our minds on that other time, that other place of next-level holiness, and put on the whole armor of light and righteousness, as we press toward the mark of our High Calling of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Written by Garrick Augustus, August 29, 2023

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[1] Catholic and Protestant leaders unite to mark start of Reformation | Christianity | The Guardian; Published, Tuesday, October 31, 2017.

[2] Green New Deal movement is a counter-reaction to decades of middle-class decline (thestar.com)

[3] Historic climate law, signed by Biden, has Catholic fingerprints all over it | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org)

[4] Ecocide: Should killing nature be a crime? – BBC Future; 5th November 2020

[5] The Great Controversy (1888 ed.) — Ellen G. White Writings (egwwritings.org), p. 665.1

[6] Pope Francis launches 7-year Laudato si’ action plan | Catholic News Agency, May 25, 2021

[7] For an in-depth Bible study on the true identity of Michael as Jesus Christ (Y’shuah the Messiah), read this article of ours: Who is Michael Your Prince? – The Adventist’s Understanding of Prophecy (sdaprophecies.com)

[8] E.G. White, 1902, Testimonies for the Church, Vol 7 (7T), p. 17.4