Rapture Anxiety (Video) — Shane Idleman

The Difficulty of Interpreting End-Times Prophecy

Very biblical, and we're going to look at that here, and I had to take out some pages because it's like, how big do you, I mean, there's pre-trib, there's post-trib, there's mid-trib, I mean, you're out of here before the tribulation, the middle of the tribulation, after the tribulation, then there's the preterist view, there's the partial preterist view, there's the all-millennial view.

It's like, and I've been studying this, like many of you, for 23 years now. I've read books on it, up to here, and the issue is, the best illustration I can give, my daughter, my daughter, Gracie, loves to do puzzles, and she does them quickly, and she'll pour out, you know, let's say a thousand piece puzzle, and, you know, a couple days, she's, you know, she's, it's kind of coming together, but without the view of that photo, or the puzzle on the box, we're all guessing.

I think it's mountains with, I don't know, and then so, no, I think that's maybe the beach, and the sun, and, and so that's kind of why this is a difficult topic, because we know there's a catching away.

We know Jesus is coming again, but how people use different pieces of the puzzle, you know, from Daniel 9, for example, or in Matthew, the sign of the times, and some of the things already did happen in 70 AD, and some of them are coming, and, but this is how I view it, and then we read Revelation through the lens of maybe Old Testament imagery, and maybe too much with that lens, but then some people don't read it at all, and it becomes an actual literal, the devil is literally bound by a chain, or a literal thousand years, and so that's why there's a lot of nuances, and a lot of puzzle pieces, and I do believe, though, as we progress, more puzzle pieces are added to the picture, because we definitely have a much bigger view, or I should say, a much clearer view than Christians did a hundred years ago.

I mean, to me, the biggie, when, when Israel became a nation again, wow, and a hundred years ago, they're like, how's the whole world gonna see this, or how's the whole world, that's impossible. Well, now we see it's not impossible, and I just came across a picture from a revival book I was reading.

I want to, I want to put that up there. 120 years ago, Jesus is coming soon, and we're still saying Jesus is coming soon, and they talked about the rapture 120 years ago. Some of these people actually sold everything, and downscaled, and lived in, in little huts, and in communities on the mountains waiting for the rapture, and here we are 120 years later, and so not poking fun, I'm just saying there's always been that, that sense of immediacy, you know, even in Paul's day, and here we are 2 ,000 years later, so any, and you've heard me say this, anytime great men of God are divided on a, on a non-essential, I kind of hold my opinions loosely, because they all have great points.

Some have better points than the others. Some are, are a far stretch for me. Preterism or, or post, or not, pre, I'm sorry, I just said both of them. Preterism and amillennialism, and, and again, I don't know, I, I, part of me, you know, I can go through all these, we can take hours, but then I've got this person on the front row, their marriage falling apart.

We've got this person committing suicide. We've got this person, and if there's not practical application to what we're going through today, and a lot of it, quite frankly, is over the heads of many people.

It's like, oh, that sounds impressive. What does it mean? Well, I don't really know what it means for us today. I, I just know what they believed at this time, so I'm trying to bring in a lot of practical, practical application, but give you, you know, kind of the, the, the biblical sense, and I get a little frustrated, even on our own radio network, when they say, you know, this is exactly how it's going to happen.

I don't know about that, because we don't know for certain. That's why there are different views, and how you read the scripture. If you're, if you're a Greek scholar, and you can actually read the Greek language, you're going to understand things a little bit better, or Hebrew, and you understand the Hebrew, and the Daniel nines, and the, and the nuances, Ezekiel, and the Magogs, and the Gogs, and see where Russia and China, you know, is, and there's a, there's a lot of, of things there that you can kind of speculate.

People speculate who the Antichrist is, and that word Antichrist actually isn't in the book of Revelation, and I don't even know if it's used for a one person. It's a, the mini Antichrist, the Antichrist spirit, and then you get into Revelation, the beast, and the man of, of sin, and perdition, and, and all these different terms for possibly the same person, but let me just clarify a few things for you.

Pre-Tribulation, Mid-Tribulation, and Post-Tribulation Views

Pre-tribulation means after, after Christians are raptured with the Lord in the air, we will go to heaven for seven years. After seven years, Christ will come down to earth to defeat the Antichrist. That's what most people are, pre-tribulation, and it started, you know, and as best as I can, I've tried to look at both sides.

I don't have any axe to grind either way, honestly, but it did start, a lot of it started with the Schofield Reference Bible talking about the rapture. There are, there is an earlier church father who mentioned, you know, this view, but for the most part, up until the 1800s, people would hold to, in the church, a post-tribulation view that Jesus is coming back after the tribulation.

Now, there's problems with that. There, again, that's why we have different views, and then, of course, you have the mid-tribulation. I didn't put that in there, but it's where we will be taken out about halfway through this seven-year period.

What's a seven-year period? Well, welcome to my world of trying to figure out what we're going to talk about this morning, because we can go to Daniel 9 and hang out there for an hour and a half, or we can, you know, so, and as we go through, I'm going to try to bring in things that are applicable as we're going through the book of Revelation, because Revelation isn't necessarily in chronological order perfectly.

It talks about different things in different seasons. And then post-tribulation, the rapture, meaning when the church is taken up, occurs at the end of the tribulation, when the church meets Christ in the air, and here's the hard part about post-trib, is we meet Christ in the air, and then we come right back down to usher in his kingdom.

That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. However, I think I shared on Facebook, Luke did a video on it before, I've heard it before, where being caught up in the clouds is not necessarily physical clouds, it's imagery.

In other words, we're going to be caught up with Jesus somehow, and we're going to conquer with him and stay here. We're not going up at the tribulation. And I can show you lots of verses on either side, and people, what they do is they weigh all the different verses, and they come up with their conclusion, and what they think is going to happen, and I'm all for that.

I just can't for certain say exactly here's how it's going to happen. Personally, I'm again just talking about personally, anytime I read the Bible, and I just, you know, the verses in context, I see it, again personally, as this cataclysmic event, rapture, Jesus coming, it's one event.

It's hard for me to see he's coming, we go up for seven years, and then he comes back again. However, if you understand that God has to deal with the nation of Israel, depending on if you're a dispensationalist or not, replacement theology, and the churches replace Israel, God doesn't have a plan for Israel anymore, there's another view.

I mean, how many skins of the onion here are we going to unravel? Because I found that the majority of us, 90 of you, just need some practical application. I need some help paying the bills. I need my marriage to come back together.

I need to be filled with God's Spirit. I need to know him better. And so that's why it was hard to choose what to talk about, and I don't want to promote one view over the other. I want to share all of what the Scripture teaches, and that's kind of where I, just when I read the Bible, I see this, we're waiting for this one cataclysmic event.

However, there are problems with that view as well. And so I'm just here, like many of you, are you ready is the question. I mean, that is the big question. Are you ready? And while you're waiting, are you humble and teachable and broken and contrite and being used of God?

I kid you not, I've been in two, three hour meetings, I won't call meetings, arguments on this topic. Anybody else? Come on, I know you're not being honest. And I leave this person's house, I'm like, I am so frustrated.

Why did I even waste three hours? Now you might say, well, it's not wasting. True, if there's healthy dialogue, iron sharpens iron, and you're truly, but at some point it gets exhausting, because they have their view.

I don't quite agree with it, or you, and then at what point do you say, you know what, let's see how it all pans out. Pan-tribulationist. Let's see how it all pans out. And one thing I've heard over the years is for the rapture view before the tribulation, and that might happen.

I'm praying for that, amen? Amen. And the reason is because when God pours out the bold judgments, the seals are broken, the trumpet, and all these things happen, we're like, there's no way we're here.

Which if God doesn't preserve us, of course we're not. Because we're not, and people said we're not appointed unto wrath. But I think that scripture is out of context, because appointed unto wrath, if you read it in the verse, has to deal with the judgment of God at the end.

But we're not going to be reaping God's judgment either. God can preserve us. Nevertheless, Jeremiah suffered through God's judgment of the nation. Daniel suffered through God's judgment of the nation.

Ezekiel suffered through God's judgment of the nation. But he will preserve his people. And my view has always been, and I did change it up, I told you guys last week, you know, I don't want to tell my kids that, and I used to say, you know, I don't want to tell my kids you'll be out of here before it gets bad.

And because many of you who believe in the rapture, you are also teaching your kids to get through trials, and get through difficulties. You might even lose your life for your faith. So what I meant to say, and what I'm saying now is, I don't want to tell people, this church, or my kids, you will not see the antichrist.

You will not see this one world system. You will not experience these bold judgments or the trial. You will not, because I can't say that with all certainty. Now I know God will preserve you. I know that God's got your back.

I know that all these incredible things throughout Revelation, if you read it, are for unbelievers. They will cry out. They will try to hide even in the clefts of the rock. Oh Babylon, that great, would you come out of her my people?

Well what does that have to do with us, if we're not here? Maybe it has to do with Israel. So there's so many nuances. But people used to say, you know, Shane, the church has to be removed. Then the world will finally be ready for a one world leader.

And I said, no. I just went through COVID with many of you, and the world is ready now for a one world leader. We don't have to wait. Give me a break. Give me a break. The world is ready now. You have one more pandemic, and people are going to be ready for one world leader.

Did you guys catch that word? Okay. So it's just going to take one more, whether it's radiation, whether it's some other virus. And now they're screaming for a one world leader. So I don't think the church has to be out of here at all.

Now they may, but you can see now where there's challenges in all of these things. And I think God allows us some variances, but allows us, like Paul said, we see through things dimly now. You know, we don't quite understand everything fully.

But we do see things going to that one world system, and that mark of the beast that I'll be going through as we continue through Revelation. And I think I tried to explain it well. What's happening with Target, Budweiser.

I mean, how many other places? Who else? Kohl's. And there's something, the ESG number is what I was missing last time. It's your score on the environment, how a corporation treats the environment, how a corporation treats the social issues of the day, LGBTQ.

And then the last one is governmental compliance. And so you've got these big, huge, trillion dollar companies that were really overseeing, hey, Target, we're not going to invest in you. Hey, Budweiser, we're not going to invest in you because your score is really low here.

You're not doing what we want you to do, Dodgers. And so that's where you hear, I think it's Blackstone or Vanguard, these huge funds, they're actually in control. And so Target says, hey, we'll take a hit, or Budweiser will take a hit if after the course of a year or so, we're higher up on the credit score.

Yes, we might have lost money, but now we've got these multi-trillion dollar companies investing into us. And that's how it's working. That's what's going on. And also the World Economic Forum, and what's his name, Klaus Schwab, and dangerous things these people are saying.

George Soros, just saying these words might ban this YouTube video. I don't know. So that's why we're on Rumble now, by the way. Hello? Rumble, for now anyway, right? And the Great Reset, Charlie Kirk has talked about this.

Jack Hibbs has talked about this. One of the things, I'll be at Turning Point USA in September in San Diego, and they'll be talking about this. And it's all legitimate. It's not conspiracy theories. Isn't it funny, everything I was labeled for as a conspiracy theory three years ago is now true?

I mean, think about it. All of us, everything, Russia, and Trump, and Biden's laptop, and the vaccine, it's all conspiracy. Well, I don't think so, because that's how they have to silence the truth. You cannot have opposing views.

They won't allow you to have opposing views. Silencing. So you can definitely see, and it's going quickly, where we can easily see where we'll be under a one-world type of, that's what it's moving towards.

Have you seen in China the social credit score? You have your little phone, and if you comply with the government, you have a high score, and if you don't, you get a low score. And even in America now, I think they're wanting to charge you more for your energy if you have a better credit score.

What? It's just everything is being just totally conformed to this antichrist one-world system. And so we need to be prepared and not like an ostrich. What does an ostrich do? Sticks its head in the sand.

And I've literally, I would love to show the email sometimes, but I don't want to give these people any props. But you know, brother, man, you need to stop wasting your time talking about this. Revelation, we're almost out of here.

We just need to prepare. Any day now, Jesus is going to suck us up in the air. They were saying that 120 years ago in the books I read. It's amazing. Any day now. Even Chuck Smith, I think he changed his view, and I love these people, but they said he will come by 1982, because the rebuilding of Israel, becoming a nation again, one generation, 40 years.

And that didn't happen. But then you read people like D .A. Carson, incredible theologian. And when Jesus is talking about this generation, this generation, He said, if it applies to us, then it's the only place in all of the New Testament where it's an audience shift.

Jesus is talking to that generation, not to us 2 ,000 years later. And so, man, I've thrown books. I'll confess. I'm reading. I'm like, just what? This guy says this. This guy says this. But when I read it, I can see how Jesus said, this generation shall see these signs.

Not one stone will be left upon another. And that's clearly Titus conquering Jerusalem in 70 AD. Nobody will dispute that. But then you read a different gospel account, and it looks like he's asking Jesus three different questions.

And when will be the sign of your coming? Oh, that could be 2 ,000 years later. Okay, but if you read in Luke, it sounds like it's one question. But Matthew makes it sound so, hmm, that's interesting.

So I got to a point where, you know what? Are you ready? I'm preparing the church for battle, spiritual battle. Whether you're out of here or you're not, are you ready? Because that's what matters. As things get more difficult, answering, because maybe in the church I was raised in, it was very pre-trib, dispensational.

I can cover those terms later. And it was always, it was kind of like, don't worry about tomorrow. We're out of here pretty soon. So no need to get politically active. No need to run for school boards.

No need to, you know, let's just, any day now, any day now, any day now. And that will make you a little lazy. Can we just be frank? And I don't want to have that type of atmosphere, or I don't think it's healthy.

I don't think it's biblical. We're supposed to continually be vigilant. And there are people here with different views. Even our eldership team would disagree with my view. But we have cordial conversations, and they've got great points, and they understand that we just don't know for certain.

And maybe they take a stronger stance on their view. And again, I'm just like you. I'm ready for whatever God wants to do. I see the pitfalls in some of these views, and I see the strength in some of the other views.

So we can't say with certainty. So hopefully that makes it clear. But let's talk about the rapture, the comfort of Christ's coming, 1 Thessalonians 4, 13 through 18. So Paul is saying, I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, which tells me they were having a dialogue about this topic in the church.

And I think it's three or four other places Paul says, I don't want you to be ignorant. Definitely about spiritual gifts, for sure. And then also on this point, now, don't worry about those who have fallen asleep, which means they have passed away.

Lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. So oh, so they're actually waiting for Christ's return. People have died, and they're like, did they miss it? And they're really getting worked up over this.

So Paul says, no, don't fret like others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. So whether we're alive or whether they are dead, it doesn't matter to God.

They will be taken up. The Bible never says the death of the unbeliever is sleep. Think about this. You hear soul sleep. I'm just going to go to sleep. All these actors. Oh, just when I go to sleep forever.

Anytime the Bible talks about this kind of sleep is for a peace. There's comfort there. But when it comes to an unbeliever, you'll never find where it talks about them sleeping. They actually will. There's judgment, or there's the abyss, or hell, Gehenna, Sheol, and all these terms that maybe at some point we'll get to.

But there's a place where the unbelieving go to wait their judgment. For the believer, though, it is rest and peace and comfort. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord. Now, this is interesting.

He's not saying, you know, Paul says this, and he's saying, we say this to you by the word of the Lord, which makes us think that Jesus might have actually said these words. That he who, that he who are, oh, I'm sorry, that we who are alive and we remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.

Now, Paul said this 2 ,000 years ago. He said, we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout.

And this is another, this is the reason why I have a problem with the secret rapture idea. This is not very secret. This is like Paul on the road to Damascus. All of them heard the voice, maybe not specifically.

Paul heard the specific, but it was this wake-up call. And he will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And with a trumpet, in this sense, the enemy panics, but we rejoice.

Big difference. That's why the world does not, that's why the world has rapture anxiety. That's why they fear, and they have this pending doom on their lives. And that last trumpet, they panic, but we rejoice.

All three, the shout, the voice, the trumpet, it may refer to the same sound. Other people say it refers to different things. I don't know. I just have to read what's in front of me. But it sounds like it will be pretty obvious that he is returning.

But then some people say not only the believers hear the shout and the trumpet. I don't know how you would come up with that one. Contextually, it says that this, it appears to be this incredible cataclysmic event where Jesus is coming, the trumpet, descending from heaven with a shout that the whole world can hear.

And the dead in Christ will rise first. That's interesting. Then we who are alive, remember 2 ,000 years ago this was written, we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them. And I think a lot of us, the reason I like this view, and still do, I love the view, I hope it's true.

Man, if I could just be caught up, no pain and death, no cancer, no going through hospice for a year, I'm just like, hey, here we are. Wow, that's a way to go. I like this. And I'm out of here before the bowl judgment, and the seals are broken, and the trumpet judgment.

Oh, man, I love this. So some of it does kind of, you know, we kind of tend to believe the things we like. Now, again, it could happen that way, and that would be great, but we do know that those who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

So again, some say clouds are not literal clouds. And if you could talk about a procession of the military, how they would wait outside of a city, and they would come and bring the military in after the people were prepared.

And okay, maybe. And it could be literal clouds. Reading the context, it seems like the word caught up means a catching up, a strong action. So again, contextually, it looks like there's a catching up.

And so he said, we will be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words. Comfort one another with these words. And so some would say, we are waiting for the return of Jesus. We're not waiting for a great tribulation.

And that's a good point for the, forget all these views, for the pre-tribulation view that you're out of here before the tribulation. That's a good point because as Christians, we are believing, we're waiting for his return.

We're not waiting for some tribulation for a while and then his return. So hey, more points to you on that side. I like that side too, by the way. I just have nightmares of people go, you told me we wouldn't see the Antichrist.

And clearly, this guy's ruling over the world. Well, that's not the time to change your theology, folks. Could that be part of the great falling away? That all these people are trusting in this opinion and not the absolute truth?

Maybe. Could it be that God gave them up to a strong delusion? The Bible also talks about that. That's clearly happening now. I mean, delusional, DMV, you can't list all these genders. And I love it. I love that on Amazon, you'll have the shirt, you know, there's 21 genders, right?

You can pick, pick male, you know, large, extra large, small, and that says male or female. You want the male version or the female version of the shirt that says there's tons of genders? Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Why not all the different? Because see, they would sell no shirts. It's just, it's ludicrous. We're deluded. The Dodgers have lost their mind. I shared a video on Facebook inside of our state capitol in Sacramento last week, the same man dressed up as a woman, nun, whatever, and everybody of the senators is, oh, look at this wonderful, oh, this is so glorious.

No, that's perverted. It's filthy. It's ungodly. You have, you have been taken away by a strong delusion. Oh my goodness. And I know Scott Wilk, I'm going to email him the sermon. You say, I'm going to tell him, you send this to all those, those blue Democrats up there that are saying this kind of filthy stuff.

Brother, that's not tolerance, right? We're not supposed to tolerate evil. Wake up, read the word of God. But then outside the capitol, praise God, there are Christians singing worship songs. What a contrast.

What a contrast. And during word commentary said this, some believe that they now have temporary bodies and await this resurrection. Oh, I should put this in context. So people are wondering, you know, if they died, if they died already, what happened to their body?

That's a good question, right? Well, some believe there's temporary bodies and they await the resurrection. Others believe that they are now disembodied spirits who wait for the resurrection. Not sure about that one.

Just disembodied spirit sounds weird. Still others think the dead in Christ experienced the resurrected bodies immediately. And I've had hour long discussions on this topic too. I say, I don't know. The Bible says when we're gone, we're in the presence of Christ.

I don't know what we look like. Don't worry about it. Sometimes you ever think we just worry too much about it. We have to know exactly how it's all going to pan out, pan tribulation. We got to know how the body, and then I get the question, what about if we're cremated?

Wow, that's a, yeah, I don't think God could work around that one. That's a good point. Boy, that, yep. I would not worry about it. Burial, cremation, and, but it's a legitimate question, right? We have to, we have to face that question.

I think God can bring back all the particles and the atoms and reconstruct. Plus, is it, you know, the body's one thing, but it's actual spirit that lives forever. It's the, it's not the bodies as important.

It's the spiritual, the spirit man. Then that doesn't die. That doesn't go away. That can't be evaporated in a big 1500 Fahrenheit stove. That stays. And there are, of course, I don't want to get into the, you know, the pros and cons of the different ways, burial or cremation.

But to me, it seems, biblically speaking, people were buried. But then now with all the chemicals they use and the things getting crowded and the urn is easier and you deal with that, you take it to the Lord.

I don't, I haven't even thought about it yet. I don't really don't want to, but there will come a day when in God's eternal plan, again, reading from Enduring Word Commentary. I don't even know if I have this up there because I just added this yesterday morning.

There will come a day when in God's eternal plan, the dead in Christ will receive their resurrected bodies. Yet until that day, we are confident that the dead in Christ are not in some kind of soul sleep or suspended animation.

Paul made it clear that to be absent from the body means to be present with the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5 .8. So, that's pretty clear. As soon as we're absent from the body, in some way or fashion, we are present with the Lord.

There's no like medium spot where you're just, you know, floating over Jupiter for a while or waiting. There's a, there's that immediate, thank God for that. The verb translated caught up means to seize or to carry off by force.

There's this notion of a a sudden taking away, usually by force again. This passage is the basis for the New Testament doctrine of the rapture, the catching away of believers to be with Jesus. The word rapture is not in the ancient Greek like I told you before.

It comes from the Latin vulgate which translates into the phrase caught up with rapturus. So, that's where we get our word rapture from. And you will run into those people. You know, rapture is not even in the Bible.

And you can tell them neither is the word Bible in the Bible. Neither is the word Trinity in the Bible. There's a lot of words we use to understand theology that aren't necessarily in the Bible itself, that exact word.

Four Principles for Readiness and Faithfulness

But here's just four fundamental keys to remember about the rapture. This will help you. Number one, say it together. There is no fear on the winning side. You don't have to have rapture anxiety unless you're on the wrong side.

How do I know? Do you have a lot of anxiety about it? Do you not know where you might be going? Do you not know if you really have a genuine relationship with Jesus? And we see this a lot. See, in the American church is different than the underground church in China or in the Middle East or, you know, and I follow certain people and groups.

And you see in the American church, a lot of people are in the church, a lot of them are kind of worried. They don't really know where they're going. In the underground church, you've already made that decision.

You're going to die, costly die for your faith. Nine times out of 10, that's a solid, genuine, legitimate believer. I mean, they're still playing games with that. But the American church, we can kind of ride in on the coattails of others.

We can come in and hear music, sing music, hear a message and leave thinking we have that relationship with God. But all we have is head knowledge. All we have is religion. We have no relationship with Him.

And so that's why people are fearful. Now, be encouraged. Sometimes fear will grip the best of us. It's part of our fallen nature. You know, I can be going great for a month or two and I'm like, oh man, oh, that fear hits and doubt kind of hits.

And you just take those thoughts captive. It's a fiery dart to the enemy. And as soon as you take those thoughts captive and start to regain that spiritual strength, it all makes sense because we're not believing just hocus pocus, made up stuff.

Like I watched a documentary recently on Scientology. I'm like, how in the world? This book by L. Ron Hubbard. And it's like, now that, yeah, let me just not go there. Or even if you read the Book of Mormon and you see that it's either Joseph Smith or Jesus Christ.

They both can't be right. And so you read, it's like, how do you believe these things? Where with the Bible historically, archaeologically, prophetically, scientifically, there's so much truth in it because it's God's truth.

And it's a clear line of demarcation in the sand of what is true and what is not. So no fear on the winning side. Determine this morning that you are on the winning side. The Bible never gives us any type of leeway for waiting, procrastination.

Show me a verse that encourages procrastination. That has to do with following God. There are some about, you know, not awakening love too soon before it's time and things like that. But trusting in God, there's no verses supporting procrastination.

Number two, trust God regardless of the outcome. Trust God regardless of the outcome. Boy, I didn't know it was going to work out like this. I remember in the 1980s, I think 90s, and when I came back to the Lord late, 1999, you know, the big thing was, you don't hear too much about it.

It could be true, the revived Roman Empire. And they think the one world religion could be Roman Catholicism. But then that was challenged by, it could be, you know, jihad, Muslim because beheading. And so there's things that we just like, look, that isn't quite working out like I thought, or this has changed since then.

But the key is trust God regardless of the outcome, knowing that we don't see things clearly. We don't know how it's all going to work out at all. And there's another position out there where they actually believe that things are getting better.

And we will usher in the millennial reign of Christ as things get better. And that we're actually in the millennial now, all millennialism. It doesn't mean there's no millennium. It means we're in it now.

Sam Storm broke that down, Sam Storm's on the podcast I did with him a couple months ago. I have some questions about it and don't quite agree with a lot of things. But boy, these guys are smart and they think it through.

It's not some pie in the sky thing. So listen to that podcast if you want to get more information on that. And that would be nice, wouldn't it? Christianizing the world, it's getting better. But now you see, and that's why they call it dominionism.

Because then there's those who believe that we have to be more involved in politics. We have to do all these things. We have to get so involved in the seven mountains of influence because that will usher in God's kingdom.

So they're very active on getting God's word out there. And then you have those who are very passive and they don't want to, they just want to wait and don't want to do anything. And I'm hoping there's a happy medium, you know, of doing business till he returns, exposing the unfruitful works of darkness, getting on the school boards and telling these clowns that this is a joke, this is perversion, how dare you allow this in our schools.

Would somebody please run for the Senate in California and try to make a difference? We need a lot more people up there wanting, that can actually make a difference. Oh, but Shane, we can't really do anything.

Well, you plus God is the majority. I don't want to listen to Debbie Doubters. I want to listen to those who believe God and his word. And yes, it might get more challenging. It might get more just chaotic.

We don't know, but that's why number two, trust God regardless of the outcome. And isn't that true? Once we have, you know, I think it's going to happen exactly like this. And then when my bubble is burst, we tend to get discouraged and defeated.