John 16: 2 teaches that "They shall put you out of the
synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth
you will think that he doeth God service,"
Aposunagogous here is from Strong's number 656, meaning,
"excommunicated, put out of the synagogue"
The so called protestant churches will kick Christians out of
their churches because these Christians no
longer conform to the theologies of the churches. The last
part of John 16:2 is significant, "...yea,
the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that
he doeth God service."

 

The teaching that a large group of Christians will be martyred during the

Tribulation is not now taught in the churches or in the seminaries. This

is largely because dispensationalism rejects the idea that God would judge

the Christian Church - and amillennialism within Reformed camps discourages

detailed study of end time Bible prophecy.

 

Paul in I Corinthians 14: 29-32  says that "Let the prophets speak two or three, and

let the other judge.  If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace,.

For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and may be comforted.  And the spirits

of the prophets are subject to the prophets."

 

The teaching about Christians being martyred in the end times is in Scripture. But bringing

that teaching out now when dispensationalism and other man-made theologies are the authority

for almost all Christians makes it something new and not traditional. 

 

If one were to pick a church in his area to go to in order to submit this  prophecy about martyrdom of the Multitude to the preacher,  if the preacher is a dispensationalist he is going to judge it on the basis of dispensationalist theology, not upon Scripture alone.  And some Reformed pastors are also dispensationalists - or if amillennial may also deny that this is a valid teaching from the Bible.

 

 Deuteronomy 32: 36 might be presented to the preacher as  a proof text about the martyrdom of Christians in the end times, "For the Lord shall judge his people his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and that there is none shut up, or left."

 

The dominant theology in the churches now is dispensationalism.

 

The classical dispensationalists - John Darby, C.I. Scofield,
Lewis S. Chafer and Charles C. Ryrie - said that God has two
distinct peoples. One is physical Israel, the
Old Testament Hebrews physically descended from Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, and the other is
the Christian Church. The dispensationalist celebrity populizers
like Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye followed
these early theologians and brought dispensationalism to many
other Christians. Dispensationalism,
as well as prosperity doctrines, has been spread to foreign
nations by American evangelists.

Christian Zionism comes out of classical dispensationalism which
developed along with this man made theology. At this point in time
John Hagee is the chief promoter of
Christian Zionism with his organization Christians United For Israel
(CUFI).

On the web site

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?
month=02&year=2008&base_name=mccains_apocalyptic_support

they say that:

"While McCain might be able to laugh this off as a little quip about
the foibles of Washington, to followers of Hagee and Parsley,
"spiritual warfare" is a very real part of everyday life, in which
they, as godly people, do battle with Satanic forces. When talking
about CUFI, though, talking about battles is really no joking matter,
since Hagee has been beating the drum for war with Iran -- which
he believes will result in the
world-ending battle at Armageddon -- for over two years."

John Hagee has endorsed John McCain. Parsley, mentioned above,
is Rod Parsley, Regional Director in the CUFI organization and mentor
of John McCain.

"As godly people" Hagee and CUFI "do battle with Satanic forces."
In the near future when the Multitude who are now followers of
dispensationalism in the churches - and to some extent also accept
Christian Zionism - start to denounce the
dispensationalist claim that physical and unsaved Israel is God's
chosen people, Hagee and company might
decide these people are also their enemies?

If the Multitude start to say that we, the Christians, are spiritual
Israel and are God's chosen people according to I Peter 2: 9, and
the Jews are not, Christian Zionism might be used as the
justification for charging them under the Noahide Laws.

If fully enacted in the U.S., United Nations and World
Criminal Court, the Noahide Laws would move the Jews
substantially toward rule over the Gentiles. The
Noahide Laws are to apply to Gentiles, not to Jews. A
non-Jew child of Noah is said to be a "Noahide," who
must obey the Jewish law.

The Talmudic and Kabbalist rabbis claim that Noah gave
his descendants seven laws that we are to obey. They
say that Moses re-affirmed the Noahide Laws in the
oral Torah he gave along with the written law on
Sinai. This is from www.noahide.com/7laws.htm.

The seven Noahide Laws are as follows, though there
are many more detailed laws within each of the seven
categories:

l. Prohibition against idolatry

2. Prohibition against blasphemy

3. Prohibition against murder

4. Prohibition against theft

5. Prohibition against illicit sex

6. Prohibition against eating of live meat

7. Prohibition against the failure to establish
courts of justice.

The Encyclopedia Americana says on p. 737 that the
Noahide Laws "Are a Jewish Talmudic designation..."

The Jewish Lubavitch movement has promoted the
Noahide Laws. It is a Kabbalist movement that has
entered the apostate Christian church, in part
desguised as the Hebrew Roots Movement, the main
source of ideas for the Sacred Name cult.

It is called the Chabad Lubavitch movement, and
chabad is a term from Jewish Kabbalism meaning
intelligence, knowledge and wisdom.

The Encyclopedia of Religion states that the Lubavitch
Hasidic movement follows the Lurian system of
Kabbalism. The Lurian system of the Kaballah comes
from Rabbi Isaac Luria from the fifteen hundreds.
Rabbi Luria wrote in his book, Etz Chaim, about the
"Olam Ha-Tohu," the realm of confusion of the
sub-human Gentiles and the realm of "Olam Ha-Tikkun,"
which is the Restoration, the Zionist rule of the
Jews.

The Jewish Talmud and the Kaballah are involved in the
Noahide Laws. While
rabbis may claim the Talmud interprets the Old
Testament, in fact it negates it in many ways.

Talmudic rabbis over the centuries have used the
Talmud in creating a religion which is different and
often opposed to the Old Testament. The Talmud
teaches that the meaning in the Old Testament is not
in the texts themselves.

Jesus Christ totally rejected the Jewish tradition,
which was an early form of Talmudism, and Christ said
in John 8:44 to the Pharisees that "Ye are of your
father the devil..."

On March 20, 1991 President George Herbert Walker Bush
(Daddy Bush), in cooperation with the Jewish Kabbalist
Lubavitch movement got Congress to pass "Education
Day," which is Public Law 102-14. The law honors the
Lubavitch movement for promoting the Noahide Laws.
it was one of the first steps toward making the
Noahide Laws a part of U.S., United Nations and World
Criminal Court law.

The Encyclopedia of Judaism says the Babylonian Talmud
teaches that violation of any one of the Noahide Laws
"...subjects the Noahide to capital punishment by
decapitation (Sanh 57a)." "The Noahide" is any
Gentile.

The Pharisees did not believe that Jesus Christ was
God. To them there was only one God, Yehweh, although
they did not follow him. In addition, the Talmudic
and Kaballist rabbis of today - and most Jews - do not
accept Christ as being God. Since Christ in several
New Testament texts said he was God the Son doing the
will of his Father God, the Pharisees therefore
accused him of blasphemy, of claiming to be God when
he was, they thought, only a man.

Because the high priests, and the Pharisees, charged
Christ with blasphemy, his punishment was to be death.
A true Christian knows that Jesus Christ is fully
God, and so we too would be guilty of blasphemy under
the Noahide Laws.

Does not Revelation 20: 4 predict that
Christians will be beheaded, just as the Bablonian
Talmud teaches, that violation of the Noahide Laws is
punishable by beheading? This verse talks about the
souls of those who are beheaded.
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and
judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of
them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and
for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the
beast, neither his image, neither had received his
mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they
lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."

Christians of the
Multitude might be identified as "terrorists" and categorized with
Islamics as enemies of Zionism-Christian Zionism-dispensationalism
and the Neocons. The build up of prejudice for Islamics which has
been going on for several years by the government and controlled
media - and by Christian Zionists - could be extended to Christians
who have come out of the false theology of dispensationalism and are
critical of it. To the Christian Zionists the members of the Multitude
who denounce the dispensationalist claim that unsaved Jews are God's
chosen people are enemies of Israel just like the Islamics. Those who
use this scenario in having the members of the Christian Multitude
killed
will think they are doing God a
service. This may be just one scenario that leads to martyrdom of the
Multitude throughout the world.

In language that is somewhat veiled, Revelation Chapter Nine on the
Trumpet Judgments during the Tribulation describes the killing of one
third of a people.

Revelation 9: 18 says "By these three was the third part of men
killed,
by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out
of their mouths." A literal understanding of this verse would say
that
the one third is a third of all people living on the earth at this
time,
and that they are probably killed by some kind of physical
destruction
happening on the planet. To be consistent with Zechariah 13: 8-9,
Luke 21: 16 and Luke 12: 11 this one third of people is one third of
those professing to be God's people.

The visions and metaphors of Revelation Chapter Nine are specific and
not subject to the broad, timeless and sweeping interpretations of
the
Amillennialists. A part of the interpretation of Revelation 9: 18
lies
in Revelation 9: 14-15, "Saying to the sixth angel which had the
trumpet,
Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river
Euphrates.
And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and
a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men."

Only fallen angels would be bound. So the four angels who were bound
but loosed at the Sixth Trumpet are fallen angels or demons who
possess the group of people called the serpents in Revelation 9: 19.
Also in Revelation 9: 2-3 it says "And he opened the bottomless pit;
and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great
furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke
of the pit.
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them
was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power." The
scorpions
are also demon possessed.

The other group who persecute a group of Christians during the Sixth
Trumpet Judgment, metaphorically called the locusts and the
scorpions,
are demon possessed by fallen angels or demons out of the bottomless
pit.
Its not just the demons themselves who persecute the Christians, but
humans
who are inspired and possessed by the demons.

The group in Revelation 9: 1-11 is called the scorpions in verse 3.

Lets see if the Bible makes use in other texts on serpents (or vipers)
and scorpions as metaphors for people.

In Matthew 23: 33 Christ says to the Pharisees "Ye serpents, ye
generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
The serpents of Revelation 9: 19 are the Pharisees of the church
during the time of the Trumpet Judgments. Jeremiah 8: 17 confirms
that serpents are sent as judgment.
"For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will
not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord."
I Corinthians 10: 9 says "Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of
them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents."

Scorpions are used metaphorically in Ezekiel 2: 3-6 to describe
people who rebel against God. "And he said unto me, Son of man,
I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that
hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed
against me, even unto this very day. For they are impudent children
and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. And they, whether they will hear, or
whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet
shall
know that there hath been a prophet among them. And thou, son of
man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words,
though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among
scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their
looks, though they be a rebellious house."

Did you ever see a brier, thorn or scorpion talk? No, Ezekiel is
using plants and insects metaphorically to characterize the
apostate children of Israel. Scorpions are used metaphorically
in Revelation Nine to refer to a group who have some of the
characteristics of scorpions as insects.

The scorpions of Revelation Nine are like Judas Iscariot who betrayed
Christ for thirty pieces of silver. At the time he betrayed Christ,
Judas is said to have been possessed by Satan (John 13: 27).
The scorpions torment the Christians in Revelation 9: 5, but are not
allowed to cause them to be killed. It was the Pharisees, the
serpents,
who had Christ killed by the Roman authority, though
Judas betrayed Christ to the Pharisees.

Luke 10: 19 also talks about serpents and scorpions, who happen to
be the players in Revelation Chapter Nine. "Behold, I give unto you
power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of
the enemy: and nothing by any means shall hurt you."

Luke 10: 19 may fit with Luke 21: 36, "Watch ye, therefore,
and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all
these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of
man."

In Luke 10: 19 and Luke 21: 36 Christ is speaking to some who will
not be martyred during the Tribulation. Bernard