Catacomb Resident has a new substack and his first serious post “Let’s Review” (PDF) has some interesting points that I would like to comment upon.

Point #1: Activism is Dead

There is nothing to gain by attempting to shape human behavior through seeking to influence fallen human governments. You are foolish to try, playing into Satan’s hands. Even if they were to obey laws we design for them, there is no blessing for them or us, until it is all placed under the Covenant. Activism is a dead end, a lie from Satan.

I, as an Anabaptist who believes that Christians should have no direct role in government, most surely believe that activism serves no positive purpose. It is why I wrote the pragmatic “Why I Don’t Vote.” It is why I discussed the opposite of Activism, Passivism in “Anabaptism and Passivism.” There is no hope to be found in activism. It is a lie.

Point #2: The Old Covenant

His people had abandoned the Covenant and bore a false understanding of God. Those who insisted on staying with that false religion were excluded. The Old Covenant died on the Cross and He instituted a New Covenant in His blood.

The Old Covenant did die, but it did not die immediately upon the institution of the New Covenant. From our perspective it matters little, as the Old Covenant did die in AD70, rather than AD33, which is long past. Regardless, it is important to be accurate if one desires to understand the Bible’s prophecies. While I plan to write a detailed explanation about this in a future post, for now see “Reviewing Wright’s Universal Apologia, Part 13” where I discuss the Olivet Discourse.

In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus cites Isaiah 13:10:

But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken, and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the one end of heaven to the other end of it. Now learn this parable from the fig tree: as soon as its branch becomes tender and sprouts its leaves, you know that summer is near. Likewise, you also, when you see all these things, know that he is near, right at the door. Truly I say to you, this generation will absolutely not pass away until all these things have happened.
— Matthew 24:29-34

Jesus said that he would go away to prepare a kingdom that was not of this world, a kingdom of heaven. He said that the time was near, but not yet here, and that he would come again within one generation. When Christ returned, he would complete the prophesied work, in fulfillment of Daniel, Jeremiah, and Isaiah:

“Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name: “If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the Lord, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever.”
— Jeremiah 31:35-36

…and…

“Thus says the LORD, ‘If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the fixed patterns of heaven and earth I have not established, 26 then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, not taking from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
— Jeremiah 33:25-26

The events described in the Olivet Discourse did not occur on the day Christ died, nor the day he resurrected, nor even by the time he ascended into heaven. But, by 70AD, the temple of Jerusalem was destroyed and nearly everything was fulfilled. At that time Jesus returned to take the kingdom away from the Jews, to end their role as God’s chosen nation, precisely as he said he would.

I encourage everyone to read the Olivet Discourse in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, to see that, yes, Jesus predicted the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem there and that he could not have ended the Old Covenant until all the signs had taken place. The reason for this is plain: Jesus gave the Jews the opportunity to follow him following his resurrection without ever being under no covenant at all, an opportunity that some of them accepted. This was a transition period between covenants.

Point #3: End Times

The world is in turmoil as sin crescendos yet again. For now, nothing we see quite matches up to what God said would come with the End of Time. Instead, we are not approaching The End, but another Noah Event. The Father is currently stirring up our sun and the entire solar system is slowly plodding toward a vast solar catastrophe, a micro-nova. Most of the human population on this planet will die; that’s how our God handles things when sin rises to such a level as it does now. That awful day appears to be coming within roughly 20 years (not much later than the mid-2040s), but maybe sooner.

A solar outburst of the magnitude required has a probability of happening.  This probability peaks during the middle of each 11 year solar cycle, although this can vary. The peaks of each period may be 2025, 2036, 2047, and 2058, with alternate cycles being predictably greater (those in bold). The probability of the event happening by in the 2036 cycle is, perhaps, 10%-25%. By 2058, the probability of it happening by then will be greater. We simply cannot know the precise date.

The solar outburst appears to be predicted in the book of Revelation: the seventh bowl judgment, the final judgment before the seventh trumpet in Revelation 11. Here is the seventh bowl:

And the seventh poured out his bowl on the air, and a great voice came out of the sanctuary from the throne, saying, “It is done,” and there was lightning, and voices, and thunders, and there was a great earthquake, such as there had never been since humankind was on the earth, so great an earthquake, and so mighty. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And great hailstones, every stone about the weight of a talent, came down out of heaven upon people, and people defamed God because of the plague of the hail, because that plague was exceedingly great.
— Revelation 16:17-21

When the sun goes nova and earth’s poles move, it is expected to cause a huge seismic instability and massive waves. All the islands will be covered, and the waves destroy many coastal cities, perhaps even those at higher elevations. A short-term massive cooling will cause snow, ice, and hail for a few days to a few weeks, before the dust settles and the sun begins to shine at its full force and much of it melts. If indeed this is the seventh bowl, it is during this period that Rome—the city of Roman Catholicism—will be largely destroyed.

But there is one problem. The sixth bowl appears not to have yet taken place:

And the sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings that come from the east. And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs, for they are spirits, (that is, demons), working signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole inhabited world, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God, the Almighty. “(Look! I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays alert and thus keeps his clothes, lest he walks naked and they see his shame.)”And they gathered them together into the place that is called in Hebrew, Armageddon.
— Revelation 16:12-16

While the Euphrates has been in the process of drying up (e.g. due to heat, water use, dams), these events have not yet been identified. They must be completed before the seventh bowl can take place. While there may not be much time between the six and seventh bowls (and perhaps no time at all), if we look for the signs of the sixth bowl, we can know more accurately when the seventh will take place.

The sixth bowl is preparation for the “Great Day of God, the Almighty”. By all appearances, the armies that gather at the fulfillment of the sixth bowl will be there for the seventh trumpet, the final judgment. This strongly implies that the seventh bowl—the solar micro nova—will happen at the conclusion of the sixth bowl, just before the seventh trumpet blows. If indeed the seventh bowl quickly follows the sixth, it will have rapidly completed the preparation for the sounding of the seventh trumpet, the final call announcing the (perhaps imminent?) return of Christ (after the war?). There will be no judgments left to fulfil.^[1] Here is the final trumpet, the last judgment of Revelation before Christ returns:

And the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were great voices in heaven saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.”And the 24 elders, who sit before God on their thrones, fell facedown and worshiped God, saying, “We give you thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who is and who was, because you have taken your great power, and reigned; and the nations were enraged, but your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time to give the rewards to your servants the prophets and to the holy ones and to those who fear your name (both the small and the great), and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” And the sanctuary of God that is in heaven was opened, and in his sanctuary the ark of his covenant was seen, and there was lightning, and voices, and thunder, and an earthquake, and great hail.
— Revelation 11:15-19

It is at this trumpet that the kingdom of Satan on earth (the little horn of Daniel; the Beast of Revelation) will be replaced by the kingdom of God in heaven (which had been prophesied by Daniel and established in AD70 with Christ’s return at the destruction of Jerusalem), now come as the kingdom of God on earth (as prophesied by Daniel as the stone that filled the whole earth), and it will last forever. The dead will be judged on this day of Final Judgment.

Many who are watching for the signs are concerned. We seem to be rapidly approaching judgment…

God has put America under judgment, something from which it is not going to emerge unscathed. Indeed, God will very likely annihilate this wicked, apostate, unrepentant nation. The only possible hope we have is that some remnant of the original nation’s founding principles emerges from the ruins. My advice to my fellow legacy Americans is to get right with God, right now, and pray for His strength and protection in the heinous times soon to come.
— feeriker, “If That’s True, Then America Is Already Screwed“

… not just for America, but the world. If the sixth and seventh bowl judgments are indeed imminent and the seventh trumpet just a step behind, then it is even more critical to get right with God. If not, then the coming Carrington Event and/or solar micronova will still likely kill a majority of the world’s population. Repent now, without delay. Lord, come quickly.

Footnotes

^[1] A Solar micronova—or even a Carrington Event that knocks out world power—may well be punishment enough for many generations.