The branches of Jesus Christ have been stripped bare by the “man of sin”. 

Joel 1:7

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“He has laid waste My vine, and ruined My fig tree; He has stripped it bare and thrown it away; Its branches are made white.” Joel 1:7

The “he” in the verse above refers to the “man of sin” click here for a post on the “man of sin”. He lives within the human body (the temple of God) of the masses of the global culture by giving them what to feel, think, do, and say, as quoted, “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4

The thing forming what people feel and think lays to waste God’s Vine who is Jesus Christ, ruins His Fig Tree which should be blossoming with the fruit of the Holy Spirit, and strips bare the branches of Christianity. As our Lord Jesus Christ has said, “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.” John 15:5-6

The global government of the beast and its global culture has laid waste and stripped bare the branches of the Gospel of Christ. That is done as the “man of sin” hijacks the temple of God, our body, as its possession. Instead of seeing the human body as the temple of the Holy Spirit, people are seen as the temple of the thing which lives in the thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors of people in every city around the world.

While our body is created to be the temple of the Holy Spirit, the thing giving people what to feel and think wants to dominate and lay to waste the temple of the Holy Spirit. However, there is no fellowship of the temple of the Holy Spirit with idols, as quoted, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 “And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God.” 2 Corinthians 6:16

Instead of the fruit of the Holy Spirit blossoming on the branches of the tree, the fruit of the global culture of the beast is blossoming in its place which signifies that the summer of the end times is near, “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.” Matthew 16:31-35

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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