The destruction of Christianity is a sign God gives to this world.

John 2:18-19

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 “So the Jews answered and said to Him, “What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?” Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” John 2:18-19 

The Jews were looking for external signs of the authority of Jesus Christ being from God, very much different than seeing Jesus Christ through the “scarlet cord” of the Old Testament. The sign they would receive through Jesus was His resurrection after His body was destroyed by the crucifixion. After lying in the grave for three days, God raised Him from the dead.

Today, the sign God gives us of the return of Jesus Christ is the destruction of Christianity, and we will be raised from the dead once the destruction is completed. In this year 2023, we see the destruction of the manmade churches because they have tossed aside the Gospel of Christ. We also see the destruction of the body as the temple of God because the thing which forms what people think, feel, do, and speak sits in the temple of God as if it were God, 2 “…it opposes and exalts itself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that it sits as God in the temple of God, showing itself that it is God.” Thessalonians 2:4

The “he” in the verses below is not identifying a person, it is the beast behind the image and mark of the beast. The thing which forms what people think, feel, do, and speak enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people. As it lives and speaks through people, they are conformed to their place in life by what they say and do. They are conformed to their mark in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast. The whole world lives for it except those whose name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 

It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Revelation 13:5-8

Revelation 4 describes the response from God after the Church and body of Christ has been destroyed. Nothing is left of the churches as a gathering place for the followers of Christ, and only a faithful few are holding to the testimony of Jesus from around the world. The destruction of the churches leads to the opening of the Seven Seals, bringing the judgment of God and the return of Jesus Christ. The first six chapters of Revelation explains all of this.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1