“The Lord Jesus Christ will come back on the clouds (secretly as a thief to rapture His Church in the first phase). A third world war will be fought against the Jews in the vicinity of today’s Israel. The Prophetic clock that stopped at the time of Jesus, will tick again. Antichrist will sign a peace treaty with the Jews to bring the war to an end. Jews would have built their temple in Jerusalem. By the middle of the seven years, i.e., after exactly three and a half years, Antichrist will turn around to show himself as god and sit in the temple of God in Jerusalem. Jews will realize that they have been fooled and look for their Messiah to deliver them from the Antichrist. Exactly after the seven years reign of the Antichrist, Jesus will come again gloriously as the reigning Messiah in the next phase. All Jews will be saved. He will set up His earthly Kingdom to rule from Jerusalem as the King of the Jews and the whole world. The Church will reign with Him for exactly one thousand years. Satan will be bound during this period; he will be loosed for a short while. He will gather a global army numerous as the sand of the sea to fight against the Lord (at Armageddon? popularly known as the fourth world war) who would ultimately be devoured by fire from heaven”.

Most of the content above was proposed by a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest Francisco Ribera (AD 1645) to safeguard the position of the Pope and to counter the Reformation movement by Martin Luther. He threw back prophecy to a faraway time in the future. This line of interpretation was carried over by Cardinal Robert Bellarmine and Manuel de Lacunza (AD 1812), also Jesuit Priests. They were members of the Society of Jesus (SJ) but actually was a Society of Satan. They infiltrate the Church to destroy it. Does any evangelist with the title SJ come to your mind?

Pastor Edward Irving (1929), the acknowledged forerunner of both the Pentecostal and charismatic movements, adopted the Lacunza line and created the ‘Secret Rapture” and the two-phase return concept. John Henry Newman propagated the Jesuit concepts in England.

To cut a long story short, this was accepted as the correct interpretation by John Nelson Darby of the Plymouth Brothers of England. The Antichrists (Jews, of course) of that time funded his frequent travel to the US and other places from England. He got a confirmation of this after a girl of fifteen years Ms Margaret McDonald is alleged to have received visions confirming this line of interpretation. Some of his own ‘Brothers’ disowned this interpretation of Daniel Nine and Revelation and left his fellowship. The Darby Bible entered into the Dallas Theological Seminary. C I Scofield, who graduated from here, propagated this ‘futurism’ through his study Bible. So do many of its graduates. Hal Lindsay adopted this line in his book ‘The Late Great Planet Earth’ (1970s). Tim Lahaye (1990s) and Jerry B Jenkins continued this in their books ‘The Left Behind’ series. They advocate a ‘parenthesis’ between the sixty-ninth and seventieth weeks of Daniel Nine. They say that the Prophetical clock stopped when the Jews rejected the Messiah when He came to His own and that it will resume ticking when the Antichrist, a man, arrives on the scene soon.

John McArthur of Grace Theological Seminary, Chuck Smith, Jack Van Impe, John Hagee, Trinity Broadcasting Network, and Tyndale House Publishing take this heretical line of interpretation of Prophecy.

Albert Barnes, John Calvin, Adam Clarke, John Gill, Matthew Henry, Phillip Mauro, Matthew Poole, Charles H. Spurgeon, William Tyndale, John Wesley, John Wycliffe – none of these accepted this Jesuit doctrine.

This is the greatest deception that Satan has stitched together that even a great many of the Chosen have fallen to. The Elect have been blindsided by this deception of the Devil that they fail to see the obvious that is happening in front of their very eyes even now. Believers don’t read the Bible to understand prophecy; they listen to messages. Many of today’s pastors toe this line of interpretation because they are depending more on the ‘authorities on prophecy’ and their books than the Holy Spirit. They are leading their congregation astray by adopting this line. If you have been attending a fellowship that has such leadership, beware!

The Scriptures mention a “time of the end’ (Dan 12:4, 9; 8:17; 11:35, 40) which should naturally follow another time, “the times of the Gentiles” (Luk 21:24; Rev 11:2). “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased”. Bible “scholars” ran to and fro trying to venture into what was sealed by the Lord Himself (like how it happened at the Garden of Eden) even before ‘the time of gentiles” came to an end – until 1967 when the Islamists trod/trampled the “holy city”, the control of which transferred to the unbelieving Jews post the Six-day-war. The “time of the end” was ushered in on 10th June 1969 when Jerusalem was declared as Israel’s “undivided’ capital. Only after this His-storic event would Prophecy (Daniel’s as well as John’s) make sense and be opened for the discerning. The seven seals that kept the “scroll” unreadable was opened by the “Lamb that was slain” so that the events that have been predetermined could be unleashed. Any interpretation of Prophecy of the end-times prior to this threshold date would be only presumptions, assumptions, and pre-emptions. What is prevalent today among the end-time preachers (Eschatologists), is what was spread as “the special revelation” by those who were used by the Old Serpent to sow deception that Satan’s doom is well beyond at least seven and thousand years from the date of the “secret rapture” of the believers.