WHEN THE COMET COMES!--The Beginning of the End?
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DO 1770
1. OUR FAMILY IS VERY BROAD & VERY VERSATILE! Almost every type of job in the World that's of any kind of importance & usefulness is represented in our Family, & I have often thought that it's so good & wise that our people are learning trades, vocations & skills which will be of great advantage to them when the World regime comes into power, which will force everyone to work & to do some kind of intellectual or manual labour for which they are trained or have the ability or talents or skills. Certainly open & free witnessing will not be permitted & will be difficult or greatly restricted & limited, but of course personal witnessing is always possible. It may be risky, but it's always possible!
2. --SUCH AS WE HAVE FOUND OUT IS GOING ON IN THE GREAT JESUS YOUTH REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA RIGHT NOW! EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT PERMITTED, IT'S HAPPENING! So I expect that that system is very much like the World one that is about to come, when you'll no longer be able to be full-time preachers of the Gospel & no longer be able to spend your full time just witnessing & litnessing openly on the street & in the parks & things like that, not even busking in cafe's & private clubs. You will more likely be compelled to take some type of work or labour for which you're trained, & any smart government is going to use whatever talents & skills you may have for whatever they need.
3. IF THE PAST GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD ARE ANY PROTOTYPES OF WHAT'S COMING--& they have been--such as Rome, then this is what they'll do. Rome conquered most of the known Western World of its day & was considered a World Empire, & it conquered many nations of whom they made some slaves & some citizens. A lot of those that resisted they made slaves, but those who cooperated, they gave them Roman citizenship & a certain amount of freedom as long as they behaved themselves & cooperated & didn't try to obstruct the power that was.--Which is why the Lord, through His Word, advises us to obey whatever power is in power, that they carry not the sword in vain, but they're there as messengers of God to keep the peace. (Rom.13:1-6)
4. THIS WICKED WORLD OF TODAY IS GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A VERY TOUGH GOVERNMENT, if it's going to have a World government, because extremely wicked people & extremely violent people require a very tough government to keep them under control.--And that's what they're going to get! Nobody's going to loaf or laze or play around or I doubt even play that demonic, devilish, fiendish noise they call music today!
5. SO LET ME TELL YOU, GOD IS NO DOUBT GOING TO ALLOW THE ANTICHRIST GOVERNMENT TO TRY TO CONTROL THE HORROR & THE WICKEDNESS, PARTICULARLY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, THE POLLUTERS OF THE EARTH! Both Russia & China are notoriously puritanical in their morals & their behaviour & their laws & regulations compared to the Western World. So no wonder God's going to let Russia, & probably China, rule the Earth to make'm toe the line & knuckle down & behave, to try a last-ditch effort to save the World & humanity!--And part of it is to make everybody go to work & quit foolin' around, playing around & being nothing but leeches & sores & scabs on the face of society!
6. AND IF OUR FAMILY & OUR FOLKS ARE GOING TO SURVIVE TO THE BITTER END, THROUGH THE TRIBULATION & ALL--both the first half of the Antichrist reign & the last horrible half--undoubtedly many of us are going to be forced to go to work & get jobs. Everybody's going to be regimented & enslaved & told what to do. Rome did the same thing with its slaves. Some of the slaves were highly-talented educators, scientists, philosophers & teachers, very desirable, very popular & were treated well! They were given everything their heart could desire, & were treated with respect as long as they did their job & taught their children, taught their science, taught their medicine, taught their philosophy, taught their art, all the skills that the Greeks & others were noted for.
7. SO I'VE OFTEN SAID I'M THANKFUL A LOT OF OUR FAMILY ARE LEARNING ABOUT COMPUTERS & PRINTING & DANCING & FFing! Those skills, particularly the latter two, never go out of style & are always popular in any regime. Dancing & beautiful & sexy girls have never been out of fashion, they're always very popular & in great demand no matter what the regime, if they will cooperate & give at least the minimum of respect & obedience & cooperation. Many have been known to win the hearts of their rulers, even their slave drivers so to speak, & it's been true throughout history. [HomeARC note (9/98): FFing was discontinued in 1987.]
8. THE ONLY RUB CAME WHEN THEY PUSHED THEIR FAITH A LITTLE TOO FAR to where it came into contravention with the faith of their rulers--or they insisted on going ahead with something that their rulers didn't like!--Such as Daniel praying to his God instead of to the Emperor & his image, etc. When they forbid witnessing, well, this is a difficult thing, because we still have to witness, it's a commandment of our Emperor & our Ruler! But we can certainly try to do it in the most inoffensive way that we possibly can, to try not to bring offense to our rulers & the powers that will be, & do so as long as possible.
9. SO WHATEVER YOU'RE LEARNING NOW, AS WE HAVE SAID BEFORE, "HERE & NOW IS FOR THERE & THEN" (No.1092) ALSO, NOT JUST THE MILLENNIUM & THE NEW EARTH, BUT RIGHT ON UP TO THE END OF THIS PARTICULAR ENDTIME ERA! So the better we can educate our children in practical skills & technology & any kind of useful labour, the better off they will be & the better they will be able to survive under those conditions, & the better treated they will be.--If they do not offend by unwise & offensive witnessing, but conduct very skillful, careful, prayerful, person-to-person witnessing to those who can be trusted to hear what they have to say. It may be a little slow that way, but it was mighty powerful in the days of Rome! It even reached into Caesar's household until his whole house was converted by the slaves that he had there as teachers & childcare workers, etc. (Phil.4:22)
10. THIS IS NOT ALL JUST GUESSWORK OR IMAGINATION, IT'S HISTORY, & HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF & it will happen again. But I'm not going to be dogmatic like some of these Bible prophecy interpreters who have gone out on a limb & set specific dates & cut off the limb with it & they fell because it didn't happen!
11. But according to our previous interpretations, I think you recall that we estimated that the Antichrist would have to appear on the scene or at least be in power to begin his reign about 1986. Working backwards, if the Lord was going to come about 1993, at the end of the Tribulation, which is at the end of the seven-year reign of the Antichrist, then the Antichrist would have to start taking over about 1986. Beloved, that is less than a year-&-a-half away!
12. THE ANTICHRIST IS GOING TO COME AS THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD! He's going to appear as the messiah who solves the World's problems & brings peace & prosperity & a solution to all the wars & comes to save the World from destruction, economic crash & all the rest!--And he will, for awhile.
13. SO, WHY 1986? You say, "Well, that's pretty hazy, Dad, & a lot of it is guesstimate & guesswork & a matter of interpretation of various prophecies & indications & revelations. How do we really know? We can't be too sure."
14. BUT I'LL TELL YOU ANOTHER THING, & THIS IS SURE, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RELIABLE, you can count on it, it's exact, & that is that Halley's comet is returning to this earth & will become visible in the sky as early as March of 1986!--God willing! It will return to the Solar System next year in 1985, but it will first pass through the planets & go around the Sun before coming near the Earth where we can see it.
15. IT IS THE GREATEST COMET THAT HAS EVER VISITED THE EARTH AS FAR AS MAN KNOWS, & it has been recorded for thousands of years! They've found pictures & records of it even clear back in Chinese history thousands of years ago! It's been a faithful messenger & warner that has come back regularly now every 76 years. And every single time it has come it has presaged, announced, signalled & warned of some great, World-shaking event! The last time it came was just before the beginning of the World's first great World War!
16. THE COMET COMES FROM AFAR, LIKE FROM THE SPIRITUAL WORLD, & IT HAS SPIRITUAL CAUSES IN A SENSE, LIKE THE EVENTS OF THIS WORLD. At first it is secret, known only to the far-sighted, who understand those things & have the equipment to see them afar, telescopes, etc., like the Prophets of God. But then, by & by when they occur, they're visible to everyone. When the Comet appears it will be visible to all! The time you are able to see it is only about a year-&-a-half away, when it comes close enough to the Earth to be visible.
17. WE KNOW THAT IT COULD NOT MEAN THAT IT'S ANNOUNCING THE COMING OF THE LORD THAT YEAR, because there has to be the seven-year reign of the Antichrist first. We know, therefore, that the Lord certainly couldn't be coming in 1985, because that's only a year-&-a-half away from now, & the Antichrist hasn't appeared yet. So what could Halley's Comet be announcing? What's the greatest event, what will be the greatest revelation of the greatest saviour, the greatest ruler of the Earth before the coming of Christ in all history?--Who? (Fam: The Antichrist!)
18. WHAT MORE EARTH-SHAKING, OVERWHELMING, ALL-POWERFUL PERSONAGE OR EVENT IN ALL HISTORY COULD BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT BETWEEN NOW & THE COMING OF CHRIST? And if Halley's Comet is announcing & heralding some last, great news that is either happening at the time or about to happen before the coming of Christ, what could it possibly be than to be announcing the beginning of the revelation of the Antichrist?
19. I WOULDN'T PUT IT PAST HIM TO TAKE CREDIT FOR HALLEY'S COMET & SAY HE PUT IT UP THERE! After all, he's going to claim he's God! He's going to do signs & wonders in the sky & on Earth & bring fire down from the heavens & do miracles such as man has never seen before, by the power of Satan, so maybe he'll take credit for Halley's Comet! Maybe he'll even come & announce himself: "That's announcing me! I am here, your messiah, saviour of the World! This was sent to announce me!" As you notice in the Scripture, it says that he doesn't reveal himself at once. "Until that man of sin be revealed." (2Thes.2:3) He is alive now! He is now working behind the scenes & no doubt masterminding the anti-Christ forces now at work that are already controlling the World!
20. I THINK THE WORLD HAS TO BE FACED WITH CATASTROPHE, WITH THE THREAT OF UTTER DESTRUCTION, the whole collapse of its system--either impending or already happened--for this man to take such power & for the World to be willing to give him such power in desperation to save them from economic collapse--which they may have already suffered--& the total destruction of the atomic war which he may be able to prevent by them putting into his hands the total government of the World & total control so that they will not fight each other & blow themselves up!
21. WHAT A PSYCHOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT TIME FOR HIM TO DECLARE HIMSELF, when people are maybe already in a state of economic collapse & World War III is imminent & this Earth-shaking revelation of the Comet is in the sky & the World in general is terrorised & fearful! He comes magically, majestically, all-powerfully, with the very miraculous supernatural power of Satan himself to announce that he's got the solution & to make them willing to give their power to the Beast!
22. THE WORLD-ANTICHRIST BANKING SYSTEM HAS MANAGED TO LOAN OUT ENOUGH MONEY TO MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD ITS SLAVES! Now they've gotta pay, & they can't pay, so they'll have to be its slaves & they'll rule over them. "The borrower is servant to the lender!" (Prov.22:7) The World has borrowed so much from them that the nations of the World are their slaves & they now rule the Earth already with their financial system! Having done that, the only thing that is going to save it & save the system in any way is that they're going to have to change the whole economic system, as we have envisioned already, to some type of electronic credit system & One-World Government, a One-World System, One-World currency, an electronic currency at that.--And it is happening already!
23. THEY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED EVERYTHING THEY PROMISED IN THE PROTOCOLS EXCEPT THE ACTUAL REVELATION OF THEIR "SUPREME LORD." (See No.1342.) Well, their Supreme Lord is Satan, & he will be in the body of a man, the Antichrist! They're just waiting for the psychologically most auspicious time to reveal him, when people will be willing to accept him to save themselves & to save their system!
24. SO WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY & CONVINCE YOU OF IS THIS: THAT 1986 IS THE YEAR OF THE ANTICHRIST! I am convinced & it's my personal feeling that the year of Halley's Comet, 1986, is going to be the year of the revelation of the Antichrist, that he or his system are then going to come out in the open & take over & take control! Everything's ready for it, everything's prepared for it, they just have a few more little loose ends to tie up in communications & computerisations, debt control & other preparations.
25. BUT THE TIME IS GETTING SO SHORT, THE FAMILY IS NOT GOING TO HAVE MUCH TIME to use our lit unless they can hide it secretly & keep it, we hope, during the Tribulation & use it then. I don't doubt that that's probably when it's going to be the most useful of all, when I am either gone or silenced or have to go undercover with very little communication with them. They're going to have to depend on the wealth of the Word which God has already given them, & every tool that you can possibly put in their hands to use both now & then, when we can no longer do for them what we're doing now!
26. SO WHAT I'M SAYING TO YOU IS, WHAT YOU DO, DO QUICKLY, & DO IT NOW, OR YOU MAY NOT HAVE TIME TO DO IT IN TIME TO DO ANYBODY ANY GOOD! So let me give you this final word of warning: You had better get done whatever you're going to do to help our Family, to give them the tools that will help them survive & inspire them & feed them during the awful days to come when we can no longer feed them! They had better be stocking it up now, & we'd better be sending it now, so they can have a good stock in store to last them for the horrible Winter to come, & "the night when no man can work"! (Joh.9:4)--Beginning, I believe, somehow, sometime in 1986 when the Comet comes!
27. MAYBE THAT'LL BE A GOOD TITLE FOR THIS: "WHEN THE COMET COMES!"--WHERE'S IT GOING TO FIND US? WHERE'S IT GOING TO CATCH US? We used to sing an old song:
"Here comes that sun,
See how he run,
Don't let him catch you with your work undone!
I ain'ta gonna grieve my Lord no more,
My Lord no more!"
--And you may feel like you've grieved the Lord if you haven't finished what you wanted to do & that giant sun appears in the sky & you see how he run, & he's caught you with your work undone!
28. I'D SAY TO OUR MISSIONARIES TOO, THEY'D BETTER DO THE SAME! If you're going to evangelise the World, if you're going to saturate your countries with the Gospel, if you're going to preach it & get everybody saved you possibly can & every way you can, you had better do it now!--Because it's going to be tighter & harder, more difficult, if not impossible, in those days after 1986! So let's get to work!
29. IF THINGS GET TIGHT, EVERYTHING WILL GET TIGHT!--Travel, escape from the North will become tight or impossible! Finances, printing, visas will get tight. But we know the Lord, & we have His assurances, & "Thou shalt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee!" (Isa.26:3) And because we delight ourselves in the Lord, He will give us the desires of our hearts (Psa.37:4), & I believe He's going to help us finish these major projects for the benefit of the Family, that they will be able to use during those trying days, with or without us!
30. SO THERE YOU ARE! 1986, THE COMET COMES, & WE'D BETTER BE READY FOR IT! SO YOU HAD BETTER GET TO WORK & we had better keep working & work even harder & faster to try to get it done! Cut the corners, cut the frills! Let's not argue over trivialities! Let's not get too involved in details. Now is the hour!--Not when & after the Comet comes, I believe that is probably going to be too late! I think then that either the Crash or the Antichrist or restrictions will have come & maybe financial tightness will have come, so that from then on we will not be able to accomplish as much as we are accomplishing now.
31. I KNOW SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY, "DAD, YOU'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR A LONG TIME! You said it looked like the end years ago, & yet we've had greater years every year!" Well, that's what they told some other people in the Bible, remember? "Oh, all things continue as they were since the fathers. What are you talking about that there will be an end of the World? Ha, ha!" (2Pet. 3:3,4) Well, He said it would come, & that they'd go right on living like they always did until the End, until the flood came & swept them all away! (Mt.24:38,39)
32. WE KNOW IT'S COMING, SO FOR GOD'S SAKE, LET'S BUILD AN ARK & BE READY! Let's not be amongst the scoffers & the unbelievers who figure, "Well, we're bound to have a few more years, you don't know. Dad isn't always right & his computations & his interpretations are not necessarily so. Who knows? Maybe that's just announcing the coming of the Antichrist several years later. After all, wasn't World War 1 some time after that & didn't this & that great event happen after the Comet came, blah blah? All things continue as they were!" Well, you'd better not count on it!
33. I BELIEVE THIS IS GOING TO BE IT! For that Comet to come at this crucial, crisis, critical, zenith hour in the World's history, it is going to signify some major, Earth-shaking, magnificent occurrence such as was never before! I'm convinced personally that it's going to presage the coming of the Antichrist, & possibly even his revelation!
34. GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS HIS WONDERS TO PERFORM, & He works systematically, synchronously, beautifully in decency & in order, just the way He made the Universe! I believe that the events of the World work in harmony & in timeliness & in a certain chronological order that is so predictable that He could also send a Comet every 76 years, every lifetime, to predict or warn or presage a new major Earth-shaking event, & that this one's going to do no less, in fact more!--And I believe 1986 is it, when the Comet Comes!--And it will be the beginning of the End! TYJ!--GBAKY all busy till Jesus comes!--In Jesus' name, amen! PTL!
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