Okay, so for the last part, I want to get it done since I have a lot to say, and I need to finish articulating the image I have about future events. Nevertheless, links are down below for my triad. It’s still theories and speculations, so I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t have fun in it and a deep and earnest admiration for God’s plans.

Returning to the main topics of the Apostasy and the Rapture, they are two synonymous events that need to transpire closely to one another and then swiftly follow the rise in power of the Antichrist. The Rapture and the Apostasy are not arbitrary events that occur at a divine whim; they have their dates set, specifications, and purposes. It might seem like many people have already rejected God, but that is not Apostasy due to the simple fact that nothing is happening yet, and a person struggling in their faith is not either. And the Rapture is not an event that will occur randomly in the future as it has to coincide with the Apostasy and I believe it is a pivotal point in time where the world transitions from the church age of grace into the great tribulation, and this is what God defined the end in which we were to endure unto before he came back and fulfilled his promise. Realistically I estimate the falling away will also be about 3.3 months or 1/4th of a year and it’ll give people plenty of time to accept the new knowledge, by then you will almost certainly know it is the Apostasy once people start rejecting the former and accepting the new and inevitably you will also be met with that decision of accepting the new knowledge and in turn rejecting the Messiah. Unless you live in a cabin in the mountains or forest, the new knowledge will be everywhere, but as I’ve said, there will be a time when you won’t be able to distinguish what is disinformation and truth anymore unless you knew the correct knowledge before this enlightenment period came, and you’re armed with the impregnable truth of the bible. Though I say sincerely, no matter how intelligent one is, you should still not try to understand the new knowledge and doctrines of the world, as no one is immune to deception or persuasion. The new knowledge will indeed contain many convincing truths, but they are still truths that have no use for believers in Christ. As early as Revelation 2 (CSB) does God warn us in advance of these things and of his arrival, so when you can accurately sense a great falling away in values, morals, common sense, virtues and current world knowledge...you know the Messiah is close by...waiting… 13 "I know where you live—where Satan’s throne is. Yet you are holding on to my name and did not deny your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness who was put to death among you, where Satan lives." 24-26 "I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known “the so-called secrets of Satan” —as they say—I am not putting any other burden on you. Only hold on to what you have until I come. The one who conquers and who keeps my works to the end: I will give him authority over the nations.”

So amid the falling away or the Apostasy, the world is plunged into a mess of chaos and confusion, yet right before a mysterious man is able to make his presence known to the world...Christians and believers disappear from the face of the earth as told in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8 (CSB) “Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God. Don’t you remember that when I was still with you I used to tell you about this? And you know what currently restrains him, so that he will be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one now restraining will do so until he is out of the way, and then the lawless one will be revealed…”. In that glorious bout, many believers will be fighting courageously to preserve the truth against the new knowledge, which many good people will deem as foul rather than truth; however, this fight does not belong to us, as we’re not supposed to play this part in God’s glorious plan. The element restraining the Antichrist is God himself, who is inside of us, but he already promised the world to Satan for a brief time, and so it shall be done. Though it should come as no surprise, seeing as this was the time when Jesus would return for his eventual bride at the end of the church age. He told us to endure unto the end of this age then the end would come, not the great tribulation big difference, because there was never a point in time where his believers would be subjugated to wrath and judgment but also for many followers to have reached the end times which is why he opted to lastly to tell of his promise of a salvation and a redemption. Many good men and women can resist the ideas, concepts, and promises of the new knowledge and prevent them from obtaining a place in society, thwarting Satan’s promised rise, so without us in the picture, this will be possible for him to do.

As the dust settles from the initial panic of the Christian populace vanishing, the Antichrist immediately takes the center stage to control the narrative and is coincidentally when true peace in the middle east has been achieved following a 7 year peace treaty formed by him, but primarily why he will gain traction and a following is because of his new efforts in helping the world and making everything “better” and “easier” while also getting countries to bend the knee and become a part of his greater empire. The new knowledge of the library is further expanded, possessing more knowledge than ever, but the Antichrist does not take credit for the new knowledge and, in fact, he even distances himself from it as he does not want to be held responsible for what people do and dirty his image; it’ll instead be another religious group of people that does this. What he does instead is investigate this new knowledge and even decides to one day perhaps unite all people under a new religion that revolves around this new knowledge. This would be when the religions of the world still exist, and actually, everyone will be more divided than ever. Many people learn, misuse, and develop with this new knowledge, and what was once inside, the element of God, is replaced with the element of darkness. And without good people, believers, and Christians around to help...destruction and collapse ensues. Many of the left behind will come to the faith later, but the spiritual bout was already concluded long ago, and now more people without the love of the Father possess power in society and of dark knowledge.

The image of society collapsing, hiding in your bunker, or sheltering in place with your supplies is hardly the image I would imagine anymore. In fact, if you’re a believer, you have no need for those things because we won’t be here. The lights, internet, and streets will still be maintained after the initial panic, of which many people will come to realize it was the work of God through the rapture, perhaps higher beings, or choose to stay ignorant of the facts. With the new ID system that the world is currently developing, it’ll be a requirement to access the new knowledge, and it will be required among other things, subtly foreshadowing what is to come. The new knowledge won’t require any verification at first, and this is allowed at its first unveiling to reach as many people as possible, including children, because the new knowledge will be incomplete and missing essential components required to learn most of its subjects, and it is just enough to reject God’s fingerprint. Soon after, you will require the new ID if you wish to have access to the new knowledge as well as its newly expanded base and secretly take an oath to revel in it. For the most part, I am inclined to believe magic, entities, and olden creatures will be brought back from the 1500s, the 500s, and including the times before Jesus’s birth, just as Revelation 9:20-21 predicts, and how it’ll be like Noah’s Days. Funny enough, we already see it happening in the fiction of fantasy, in many works, the magic does not always flow as a result of innate or natural ability, but of reverence to an idol. The new knowledge, which is really olden knowledge of the old world, will teach people how to achieve their desires or fantasies via forbidden ways.

This phase of the great tribulation ends when the Antichrist, who has been peaceful this entire time, is undeniably slain in front of millions of people and brings himself back to life and somewhere along the lines claims to be a greater being than the ones people have been worshiping, soon demanding full reverence. At this point in time, all of the major countries that we’ve come to know have fallen and collapsed and with no kings or queens around anymore to bare the title in its full glory he decides to crown himself because of his great political strides so many will have no choice but to kowtow before him, as well as acknowledging to be the savior and peacemaker of the world.

Revelation 11:1-6 Then I was given a measuring reed like a rod, with these words: “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count those who worship there. But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies; if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way. They have the authority to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy. They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every plague whenever they want.

↑ Fire from the mouth, a precursor of what is to come, and it’s important to note the power of the fire coming out of their mouths because if the two witnesses have to resort to such means, it’s a telling sign of what people or beings will be capable of in those days, not just through mere technology. It is likewise a direct counterfeit of what God is already able to accomplish within them, Enoch and Elijah.

P.S. So I lied about the 1k words, and with this set of words, I’m sure it amounts to a total of 5k words (including the word count from the titles).

1. The Last Spiritual Bout: Why the Rapture has to happen the way it does —
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/12/669472753009789948/

2. The Last Ounce of Grace: A Gratuitous Final Meal for the Runner-up —
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/12/592911760735991169/