Would you pray a prayer like this?

Would you pray a prayer like this? 

"Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication...Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them." (Ps. 55:1, 15)

Or do you think you should do this?

"To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Cor. 5:19-21)

Would you pray this prayer?

"Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me." (Ps. 51:11)

Or do you believe that you are sealed with the Holy Spirit until your body is redeemed at the rapture?

"That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory." (Eph. 1:12-14)

"And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." (Eph. 4:30)

Rightly dividing the word of truth is very important! (2 Tim. 2:15) 

Make sure you are following what God is doing NOW, not what He was doing in "time past" or in "the ages to come". 

--Eli Caldwell

The Trump debate

A critic of presidential candidate Donald Trump wrote the following (in red bold font), my comments have been inserted in brackets. --Eli "Hoss" Caldwell

"Donald Trump won New York tonight by massive, absurd margins. He'll probably win the rest of the North East -- Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island -- next Tuesday. The nomination contest isn't over, of course, but these cannot be considered positive developments for him, to put it mildly.

Two quick observations:

1) Exit polls showed that about 25 percent of Republican voters in New York said the TOP quality they look for in a President -- so this is the number one most important attribute they think a United States President should possess -- is "tellin' it like it is." Now, we've already established that Donald Trump most emphatically does not tell it like it is. He tells it 12 different ways in the space of a day, and then settles on whichever version gets the most applause. Not only is he a BS artist like most politicians, but he's far more pathological and far more blatant, and at the same time is far worse at it. So these 25 percent of voters -- assuming most of them went for Trump -- identified as the most important attribute precisely the attribute that least describes the guy they chose."

[You went on an anti-Trump rant and called him a liar, the least you could do is actually DOCUMENT some of these lies. Simply saying "liar-liar" doesn't cut it. I am interested in substance and facts, not political whining.]

"It's incredible that Donald Trump has this reputation as the "tellin' it like it is" candidate when he is one of the most consistently and brazenly dishonest human beings I've ever had the displeasure of witnessing. Trump lies constantly, about everything, all the time. He lies so much that you get the impression he doesn't even realize he's lying. Yes, all politicians lie, but Trump lies even when there is no reason to lie. He lies even when he knows that everyone will know he's lying. He'll say something on camera and then 15 seconds later claim he didn't just say the thing we all heard him say. He emits lies like carbon dioxide. He is a liar to his core. He's such a liar that he turns the people around him into liars. His surrogates, his employees, even his supporters become liars."

[You went on an anti-Trump rant and called him a liar, the least you could do is actually DOCUMENT some of these lies. Simply saying "liar-liar" doesn't cut it. I am interested in substance and facts, not political whining. You not only call Mr. Trump a liar, you are also calling his supporters a liar. This is a serious charge, so you really should have provided documentation. Besides, nobody is a bigger liar than ol Lyin' Ted!!!] 

"Yet THIS is the "tellin' it like it is" dude? I really cannot handle this stupidity any longer. It's simply too much for my mind to bear."

[Who can you handle? Liberal Mitt Romney? Liberal John McCain? Lyin' Ted? Please tell us.]

"But all that aside, despite how incredibly inaccurate the label is, it must be said that even if it were true it would still be a fantastically moronic reason to vote guy into the Oval Office. "Tellin' it like it is"? A president who just says what's on his mind and delivers piping hot takes on current events? Where the hell is that presidential role enumerated in the Constitution? You think THAT'S the most important thing a president does? Dear Lord."
 
[Of course "tellin' like it is" is the most important quality in a president. What good would it do us if we elected someone who claimed to obey and uphold the constitution if he was lying? And actually, "tellin' it like it is" includes being a constitutionalist, since anything else would be a lie and a fraud for America. Those of us who support Mr. Trump support him because he is honest, unlike Lyin' Ted and the other Republican goons. We get this from Proverbs 17:7 which says "Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince." So according to the Bible, leaders should not be liars. Also Proverbs 12:17-22 "He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace is joy. There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight."

By the way, another reason to support Mr. Trump over Lyin' Ted is that Mr. Trump is strongly against drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. He has never drank alcohol and he tells people never to do it because it will destroy you. Unlike Lyin' Ted Booze, who gets up on national TV and brags about his favorite alcoholic beverages. (he says he is a "scotch man", and Guiness is his favorite). But the Bible says "It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted." (Prov. 31:4-5). According to the Bible, Ted Cruz is not wise. "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."(Prov. 20:1)]

"Let's grow up, people. Let's be adults. We aren't voting for a talk show host. We aren't voting for a stand up comedian. We aren't voting for the next Dr. Phil or Judge Judy. We're voting for a president. And on that note, we're also not electing a friend, a spouse, a daddy, a savior, a celebrity-in-chief, or a CEO of America. We're electing a president. If you don't understand the difference between all of those things and a president, you shouldn't be voting. You're not informed enough, wise enough, or mature enough."

[This sounds like something someone in Nazi Germany or Commy Russia would say! Apparently they think "we the people" are not informed enough, wise enough, or mature enough to vote. Instead "we the people" should let the political goons in the RNC decide who the next president is! The Republican Party establishment is corrupt as hell, they are against the people (just like the Democrats). People who oppose Mr. Trump automatically assume that Trump supporters are stupid little maniacs that shouldn't be allowed to vote. In reality, the Republican establishment is just mad that "we the people" do not want another one of their political imbeciles in the White House. Anti-Trump people are the most arrogant people I have ever met in my life, they think they are smarter than everyone else and that they are the only ones that are capable of voting intelligently. ]

"2) If you vote for Donald Trump, you vote for Hillary Clinton. It's that simple. Donald Trump will not be president. He might be the nominee, God help us, but he will not be president. He doesn't even want to be president, anyway. People that have worked on his campaign have, after quitting, admitted that Trump only ran for office as a publicity stunt. He was never supposed to get this far, but once, to his surprise, people actually started falling for his shtick, the attention got to his head and now he's seeing this all the way through because his ego is totally out of control. But this was never, and still is not, a presidential campaign. It's a publicity tour."

[Actually no, it isn't "that simple". If you vote for Trump, you are voting for Trump. Donald Trump is the best candidate for president and he is drawing record high crowds at his rallies, sometimes over 20,000 people. He fills up arenas. No other candidate has even come close to that. Why won't he be president? By the way, you misspelled your cuss word. By the way, I seriously doubt that a business man would waste millions of dollars on a publicity stunt.] 

"So he won't be president. His 35 or 38 percent of the Republican electorate may be enough to win him the GOP nomination, but it won't win the presidency, and he won't, hasn't, and can't expand beyond it. The man has historically high unfavorable ratings. Do you understand what that means? It means he is, quite literally, one of the most unpopular presidential candidates in the history of American politics. This dude is disliked by almost 70 percent -- SEVENTY PERCENT -- of women. Trump is less popular with women than cigar smoke and wet towels on the bathroom floor. If anyone thinks a person can become president without women, they haven't been paying attention to, like, any election since the suffrage movement."

[35-38 percent? Mr. Trump won 60% in New York, 47% in Arizona, 43% Hawaii, 46% in Nevada, 49% in Massachusetts, 47% in Mississippi, and 45% in Florida. Unpopular? He has RECORD HISTORICALLY HIGH rally attendance and he has gotten RECORD votes in some states. I seriously doubt the authenticity of the 70% of women poll. Look at his rallies, many women attend them. Look at former Governor Sara Palin, who endorsed Mr. Trump! By the way, Hillary Clinton has serious unfavorability ratings with women too. And how about the two women, "Diamond and Silk" that have been campaigning for Mr. Trump?] 

"He's of course hated by minorities as well, but most importantly of all, he doesn't have the support of actual conservatives. So can a Republican win the presidency without women, without minorities, and without the base of his own party? The answer is no. Absolutely not. The only way he wins the presidency is if Hillary gets indicted, but that would require a Democrat-controlled Justice Department to indict its own presidential candidate, which is simply not going to happen. And even if it did, Trump is such a ridiculous, flawed, weak, awful, abysmal, historically hated and despised candidate that Hillary might be able to beat him from prison."

[Hated by minorities? How about Dr. Ben Carson (black), "Diamond and Silk" (black), Herman Cain (black), Pastor Mark Burns (black), etc? 

Here are some black pastors endorsing Mr. Trump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etyJvT6t7So 

And how about this "immigrant for trump"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm6LGITkiz4 

Doesn't have the support of "actual conservatives"? Many conservatives like Trump and will vote for him, like Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc. I voted for Trump, and so did a lot of my family. I know a lot of pastors that support Trump. It is an outrageous lie that conservatives don't support Trump, a lot of them do. In fact, Mr. Trump has brought more people into the conservative movement.

YOU SAY MR. TRUMP IS "ridiculous, flawed, weak, awful, abysmal, historically hated and despised", SO WHY IS HE WINNING AND SOON TO GET THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION? That doesn't make sense.]

"So congrats, Trump voters. The next four years of Hillary are your fault.

Thanks. Nice job. Awesome."

[Voting for Mr. Trump, who opposes everything Hillary Clinton stands for, is going to cause Hillary to win? That is crazy.]

Idiot Scientists - "Professing Themselves to be Wise"

I disagree with Steven Anderson on dispensational issues, but this documentary "Professing Themselves to be Wise" is excellent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw-6ToEcirE

Another shot at the "Post Tribbers"

2 Corinthians 4:14-5:8
[14] Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
[15] For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
[16] For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
[17] For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
[18] While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
[1] For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
[2] For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
[3] If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
[4] For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
[5] Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
[6] Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
[7] (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
[8] We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

I am beginning to think that no Post-Tribber believes 2 Corinthians 4:14-5:8. 

Post-Tribbers do not believe that the Body of Christ experiences "light affliction", they believe we will face "affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be." (Mark 13:19) 

Post-Tribbers do look at the things which are seen and they walk by sight and not by faith because they are looking for the dozen or more signs given by Christ in Matthew 24:3-12. They will not look for Christ until these signs begin to come to pass (Luke 21:28). Meanwhile Paul was looking for Christ to come in Titus 2:13. 

Many people quote 2 Cor. 5:7 as a daily devotional kind of verse, but that statement is actually a doctrinal point contextually referring to the rapture of the Body of Christ. 

There are many verses that prove a "Post Trib" rapture:

• Ezekiel 11:16-20, 20:33-38, 28:25-26, 34:1-31, 36:16-38, 37:1-14, 37:21-28,  39:23-29
• Jeremiah 23:1-8, 30:1-31:9, 31:31-34, 32:36-42, 33:1-18, 50:18-20
• Isaiah 10:20-23, 26:19, 51:11, 54:5-9
• Micah 2:12, Hos. 1:11, etc.

And of course Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21. The issue is none of those scriptures are written about the Church the Body of Christ, they are written about Israel and the Kingdom of Heaven being established on the Earth (Matt. 3:2, 4:17, 10:7, 15:24, 19:28, Mark 1:15, Rom. 15:8). The Dispensation of Grace was not made known until the apostle Paul's conversion (Eph. 3:1-9, 5:32, Col. 1:24-28, 1 Cor. 4:1) which includes the "MYSTERY" GIVEN "BY THE WORD OF THE LORD" that the Body of Christ will be caught to meet the Lord in the air to be taken to Heaven BEFORE God's wrath comes upon the Earth (1 Cor. 15:51, 1 Thes. 1:10, 4:15, 5:9, Rom. 5:9, Phil. 3:20-21, Eph. 1:3, 2:6-7). Those raptured at the end of Daniel's 70th Week don't get taken to Heaven, they get taken to JERUSALEM (Jer. 23:3, 30:10, 31:8-11, 32:37-42, 33:1-18, 36:24, 37:13-14, Amos 9:14-15, Matt. 5:35, etc) 

Of course when you tell the Post-Tribber brethren these things they will start shouting "Hyper dispensationalism!", "you follow Darby who invented the Pre-Trib rapture in the 1830's!", etc. But they will never answer these questions....

1.) How could the Body of Christ go into Daniel's 70th Week when the gospel that is preached during that time is "the gospel of the kingdom" (Matt. 24:13-14) and not the gospel of the grace of God (Acts 20:24, 1 Cor. 15:1-4)??? And please, don't tell me that those gospels are the same thing because we both know that they are not (Matt. 16:21-23, Mark 9:9-10, 9:31-32, Luke 9:44-45, Luke 18:31-34, John 20:6-10). The gospel of the kingdom requires works by the way...

2.) Why do you call Daniel's 70th Week "the tribulation"? Is it ever called that in the Bible? Wouldn't it be just as Biblical to call it "the wrath"? (Compare Luke 21:21-23 with Matt. 24:16-21) 

3.) Why did Paul call the rapture he looked for a "mystery" given to him "by the word of the Lord" (1 Cor. 15:51, 1 Thes. 4:15) if he was preaching the same ol rapture spoken by the prophets since the world began? (in contrast to the mystery of the Body of Christ which was kept secret since the world began)

4.) If it is okay for the the Body of Christ to go into Daniel's 70th Week, why did God stop the clock at the 69th Week before He started the Body of Christ? Why didn't He just let the prophetic clock keep on moving??? 

5.) The overcomers of Daniel's 70th Week sing the song of Moses (Rev. 15:3) which is a song involving the Jews being punished by God's anger and them being scattered among the nations (Deut. 32:21-26). The song goes on to talk about how God will be merciful to the land of Israel (Deut. 32:43-45). The song plainly states that it is about Israel (Deut. 32:45), so why would we believe that Daniel's 70th Week is about the Body of Christ? (the replacement theology crowd can't swallow this, but believe it or not the Body of Christ is not Israel--1 Cor. 10:32, 12:13, Gal. 3:28., Eph. 2:14-16, 3:1-9, etc.)

We must rightly divide the word of truth on this matter (2 Tim. 2:15).  This is not just a simple issue of when the rapture occurs, if that were all it was I would not care as much. But this is a gospel issue, a doctrinal issue, that needs to be understood. A different gospel is preached in the time of Jacob's trouble and if you believe that you will be in that time then you will eventually get messed up on what the gospel is. Notice how Post-Tribbers will say that the gospel of the kingdom is the same as the gospel of the grace of God even though they have read Matt. 16:21-23, Mark 9:9-10, 9:31-32, Luke 9:44-45, Luke 18:31-34, and John 20:6-10 where the word of God plainly says that Christ and His 12 apostles were not preaching the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ as the gospel. The 12 apostles did not understand that and it was hid from them. In the present dispensation if that message is "hid" from you then you are lost! (1 Cor. 1:17-18, 2:2, 15:1-4, 2 Cor. 4:3)

--Eli Caldwell

Kent Hovind explains legal issues

I have heard a lot of people wrongly accuse Dr. Kent Hovind of being a "tax evader". If you are one of those people, you need to watch this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrFl6aAPGFQ