My Government Calling
(Blog 0015 AndrewHadden.com)
God insists that I tell “the whole story” of my calling to government. I struggled to do so because it was not a calling that I was aware of for many years, though God eventually showed me he had been speaking of it a very long time. However, God had been speaking symbolically much of the time, and part of why I did not understand was that I did not want to be in government or politics. Finally, God said, “Start.” I gave in, trusting for his help as I write.
All my life, God has led me in individual steps of preparation without telling me, for a long time, what I was really preparing for – perhaps because that would have intimidated me too much. I am not someone who has approached things based on great confidence. I have never been someone who felt so popular or famous as to make me want to run for public office. I do, however, stand up for what is right, and I obey God, even when he sends me to say something very difficult and costly to say – like the truth that needs to be heard. But what if the truth that needs to be heard needs to be heard by the whole country, for the good of the whole country? What if God stuns me by saying that the truth I find very difficult and costly to say is to “Save the nation” – and he does not mean spiritually, but their very lives and the existence of the nation? What if I superficially toyed with, “What would happen if I just made a little money and relaxed with my family like everybody else?” and God communicated something like, “The nation will fall, and your family will be refugees.” And please note that my context is God having told me a lot of major things coming on the nation and they have come, for years and years. All these things written above happened. God said them to me – “Save the nation” and about how my family would be refugees if I didn’t – and it was in the context of the story of Esther in the Bible, sent to risk her life to go to the king to save her people from those who plotted to slaughter them, and God making it clear she would die if she refused.
I feel a little like Jonah right now, after writing the above, only with adjusting his story to him knowing in advance, “Go to Nineveh or you will be swallowed by a giant fish and wind up there anyway.” But I’ve never been a Jonah – I go where God sends me, do what he tells me to do, and say what he tells me to say.
God gave me a perspective on how to write this – from the perspective of him, on his throne, up there in heaven. I’m not sure I’ve ever done that before. Usually, I default to telling stories chronologically, but, with my story, that can be as confusing as it was for me to live it. God did not tell me where I was going, just step-by-step directions. Maybe he thought I would slam on the brakes if I knew where I was going and how much it would cost me. Maybe I would have. For a Biblical example, look at the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis. Something tells me that if he had known he was going to be the number two ruler in Egypt, the superpower of his day, he would have blown getting there. And if God had told him he would anger his brothers so that they would sell him into slavery, and then he would work his way up only to be falsely accused by a woman and end up in prison, only to meet the king’s out-of-favor baker and cupbearer, and that would be how he got his big promotion – that probably would not have ended well.
Perhaps I should mention that God once had a very prophetic pastor call out to me in front of everybody, while preaching on Joseph, and say, “Andrew, you’re a Joseph!” and then go right back to his sermon? But I didn’t get the hint. I didn’t get a lot of hints – because I did not want to be in government, and certainly not politics. It is easy to forget, or interpret differently than intended, hints God keeps dropping about doing something or being something that you don’t want to do or be. But God knew I was writing down the hints, and he could eventually get me to pay attention and figure out what he had been saying for a long time. But God waited a long time to explain and get insistent enough for me to get it – decades. Only in mid 2017 did I finally hear specifics that got across to me that God was preparing me to be in government and in politics – in elected office, at a high level, the highest. I was shocked. When I told my wife, she almost cried, not wanting to put our family through that.
But God not revealing this goal of his plan for me left God to have to tell me a bunch of specific things that did not make a lot of sense to me, or perhaps other people as well. God told me a lot of specific steps of preparation, generally things to learn. I obeyed and studied a lot of things. All my adult life, I have studied things at God’s direction – through academic courses and many other ways. I let him teach me his way, to prepare me. At first, God let me start from not thinking I had any call to do any specific thing at all. Then he let me choose what I majored and minored in, in my undergraduate degree.
I loved science. (I also loved history, but I figured all I could do with that was teach in a high school and I did not want to do that.) So, given that I wanted to go to my denomination’s university of the arts and sciences, I chose chemistry. (They did not have engineering and I probably would have loved that too much.) I chose minors in math (including calculus) and physical science. (I would have chosen physics, but they did not offer enough of it.) Many years down the line, God told me he was working his will in my choices anyway, and that he wanted me to have that background and to get those subjects first. I eventually decided I liked people better than test tubes and switched to getting a degree in management. It wasn’t that I did not excel at chemistry; I did, and had what could be considered the department scholarship. So, I ended up with thirty semester hours of chemistry and physics, along with math and physical science minors, and a degree in management. I did well, and finished in three years, graduating magna cum laude. I theorized that I would manage in a technical environment (and I eventually did) but I planned to get a Master of Business Administration degree, an MBA, first.
As I have said elsewhere, my plan for an MBA was interrupted and delayed by life-threatening sickness and God making his call on my life known. But I knew steps of preparation, not what God eventually wanted me to do. God sent me to Bible college first. And, funny thing, God used the Bible college dean to recommend I still get the MBA I originally planned, along with a Master of Arts in Bible, from the denominational seminary. This began what I saw as one plan of preparation involving broad skills and knowledge in both Bible and administration.
But I kind of got a wound in Dayton, Ohio – where that life-threatening illness hit (strep, mononucleosis, and a doctor I could have sued for negligence/malpractice). That wound was difficulty finding a job, at least if I stayed there for the sake of my former wife keeping her good job. I found out later that, because of a national recession, the average time for a college graduate to find their first job in that time was six months. I hit the average, but it allowed me to work on a house much in need of remodeling, and also recover from severe illness that made other work impossible for a while, even per doctor’s orders. And Dayton was a worse city than most to find a job in during that time, because a major employer had shrunk in a major way (I believe it was 55 thousand down to about eight thousand). A lot of people with management experience were under-employed there, putting a new graduate way back in the line for any opening. (I took a six-month temporary job in the engineering lab of a General Motors division, and did very well.) But, during that time, I saw accounting jobs advertised fairly often. So, when I got my MBA, adding on a strong accounting background seemed like not just a proper tool for anyone in management (so they could really understand the financial information used to run anything and make good decisions), but also a safety net in case the economy got cruel again. And with encouragement from my professors to do so, I earned CPA credentials as well. But, later on, it seemed God planned that too. He eventually said few in Washington have those credentials and someone with my background would benefit them. But I tried hard to focus on what they call managerial accounting, which involves the collection and use of financial and statistical data for the purpose of making management decisions. I learned a lot about management decision making and the tools and techniques behind it. I also learned corporate finance and analytical techniques used for decision making in that specialty as well. I also learned about taxes – on individuals and corporations and trusts, etc. That too, gives one background useful in government.
Then, after earning the Master of Business Administration degree, I started to kind of feel like Joseph in prison. I had wanted to finish my ministry preparation, my seminary MA in Bible. My former wife pushed hard not to, to just finish the MBA and work in the business world. I gave in to her steady push and found a job on the corporate comptroller’s staff of a large international oil and gas company. I found out later, that, with my 4.0 in my MBA and all my business classes, if I had waited for on-campus interviews instead of being proactive and sending them a resume in the summer, I would have been on an executive development track. But God later confessed that he had held me back in the business world. Maybe that is a little like prison, but, like Joseph’s story, God meant it for good. More money and more satisfaction (and more pride) might have made it too hard to obey God’s next step of obedience. God called me back to seminary and my wife agreed to it. It probably helped that God had told me to sell the house and have it sold by the end of October, and obeying saved us from a twenty-five percent real estate crash that affected that city for many years.
Then, with seminary almost completed, and doing extremely well academically, my former wife again insisted I go back into the business world instead of ministry. I gave in again, but this time God made it clear, after the fact, that he held me accountable for not pursuing ministry. It felt kind of like being abandoned into prison, like Joseph. I also compared it to a wilderness – which God used to build many prophets, like Moses and Elijah. I got a standing offer from a top consulting firm, but took a lesser one to be around more for my family. I learned the pharmaceutical research and development process, and the FDA approval process for new medicines, by being a consulting systems analyst to a pharmaceutical firm wanting to speed up the FDA approval process by supporting it with better software systems. Then I took a job with a leading international freight company to do financial analysis, and forecasting and planning, along with systems design and development for systems supporting those processes. I also did what is called data mining – digging deep in any available data from any computerized source to help make decisions that could not be reliably made any other way. Basically, that is extremely rapidly building systems to do what they did not have systems to do – and knowing how to use the data to make strategic business decisions. In doing that, I learned to rapidly serve the needs of executives and the board of directors – and I learned and practiced the processes and techniques of making extremely difficult and complex decisions and analyzing things very hard to simplify and summarize, to help others decide to do what was best. I also got experience at predicting the future, within a narrow focus, and planning to do what was best to face it.
In that time, even though the job was fast-paced and stressful, I purposed to learn more. I added to my formal education by going to college more at night, in information technology – more programing, systems analysis and design, networking and systems administration. I also took my last class to complete my MA in Bible – from a Harvard Law graduate who wrote his own text, and who was an expert on law and taxation for churches and clergy – the relationship between the religious world and government.
Then God made an opportunity to put the two tracks of preparation together – without telling me that was what he was doing. I thought I was finally heading toward ministry. I was going to be an associate pastor of a church. However, I was also going to be the administrator of their large (200-child) day care and K-12 Christian school. But they withheld from me the information that they had not paid their mortgage in quite a few months, and other integrity issues came up. But God used the trouble there, and my attempt to discretely get assistance from denominational executives, to bring me to the national headquarters of the denomination and get me offered a top-level administrative post there. But God had me serve in other leadership posts that gave me more opportunity to lead sweeping change, even if it was by influencing other leaders, higher-level leaders who respected me. I served as the designated chief accounting officer for a Bible college, a seminary, and a corporation making loans to churches – all at the same time. Then I became the planning and administration manager in Information Technology and led huge projects improving work methods and work flows and technology – and managed huge change for many people – for years.
Really, religious institutions and the Church are probably just as entrenched against positive change as government, or more. Eventually, God pointed out to me that religion has “politics” too. The top national and district leaders are all elected. They have constituencies to serve. I also was a minister, ordained with them, and risked myself and my career to address things that needed to be addressed for the good of the denomination and everyone they served – their church attendees and the people outside the Church that needed to be helped as well. And my efforts, and really my obedience to God, removed people harming others through prejudice, real prejudice, and one secretly collecting more and more power to himself to the detriment of those they served.
I also exposed dishonest teaching, doctrine, that was harming the people they were supposed to be helping and proposed better teaching, more scriptural teaching, doctrine. The Church is just as prone as politics to have leaders that get entrenched and farther from those they serve and the right principles and goals of the founders. And the leaders can basically become selfish and greedy as well, comfortable in doing what is best for themselves, but working hard to keep others, and perhaps even themselves, from seeing the truth. So, God eventually showed me that I got my practice for politics in the Church. I am destined to be a reformer in both environments, and God even had someone call me “Luther” to make it clear to me that I am a reformer.
While I was at the denominational headquarters, I started a ministry, and ran it evenings and Saturdays, to help churches and not compete with them. It was a place of prayer. For more than two years, I did it on top of my administrative leadership duties at the denominational national headquarters. Then God wanted me to take a step of faith and go full time with my tiny ministry. My former wife agreed to the move and said God had spoken to her and she had peace – and then she left me three weeks later and slandered me all over town. (Eventually, I saw this, too, as good, but tough, preparation for politics.) You see, Satan had been behind it for many years – slander I had been enduring behind the scenes, and now made more public. One could call it mental illness with demonic involvement (she began to believe things she once knew were lies, a break with reality), or they could go deeper and see several satanic cults behind her slander, and more slander that would keep coming against me for years. She had a lot of good in her, but it seemed to just facilitate all the evil being done through her. Eventually, God shocked me by saying the Beast, the Antichrist, will be like that. That too was preparation, seeing how evil works through maintaining a cover of good deeds and an outwardly friendly and genuine-appearing personality.
You see, I was, and am, a serious threat to them, the satanic cults. I had studied spiritual warfare and deliverance (including exorcism) for seven years. I was led by God to study it, and I taught on it for a year at a large church, and was published on it by the denomination. I knew their ways and methods of influencing and controlling people. And God was leading me and others to see that my wife needed exorcism and inner healing. And when that was made known to those that had terribly abused her growing up (as satanic cults typically do), they had to destroy me so no one would ever believe me. And they had to get my wife away from me so I could not bring her to freedom from their control. They could go to jail for the severe abuse, or even face the death penalty for murders they commit in their rituals. If they couldn’t take me out with slander, they would probably try murder. And please understand that the typical member of a serious satanic cult likely will live a double life as an upstanding, church-going Christian, even a minister – so that, if any accusation ever comes, people won’t believe it. Additionally, they will have people who stand behind them if they resort to slander, like they typically do, against anyone bringing one of their victims to freedom, and to where they can accuse them.
What does this have to do with politics? You would be surprised, likely even shocked. The methods used by these cults are used all over the country (and the world) to try to control people. It is not “conspiracy theory.” It is fact attested to by many eyewitnesses – eyewitnesses just like are used to sentence people to death in murder trials. It is fact. In fact, anyone who immediately tries to dismiss it as “conspiracy theory,” and especially someone in the media, is likely involved.
You see, God asked me to expose this, and he put it in terms of, “Save the nation.” You see, I helped someone else escape the abuse of a satanic cult, and I married her (after my former wife left me and divorced me without scriptural grounds and gave me scriptural grounds to remarry). The perpetrator who terribly abused my new wife masquerades as a sweet Baptist pastor’s wife during the day, and murders babies in the woods at night. I reported their crimes, and names, to the state Attorney General, and the U.S. Attorney General, and received no reply. Yes, there is great evil in America.
But does the great evil in America touch national government? You bet it does, and I am an eyewitness to it. That is why God told me “Save the nation” as a reason to start telling people of this great evil. The nation is at stake right now, because of these people that live double lives, trying to look good to the public at any cost, to cover themselves if the great evil they do behind the scenes is ever exposed.
If you want to know the great evil to which I am an eyewitness, go to my blog on AndrewHadden.com entitled, “Corruption in Government.” For background, first look at AndrewHadden.org and my blog entitled, “Ritual Abuse and Mind Control.” If you can’t find it on your search engine, they are probably deliberately suppressing it. I have seen a lot of that, including in email systems run by “big tech” companies where anything exposing it doesn’t get delivered, but no message ever tells you that. Don’t expect mysterious “conspiracy theory” in my blogs, but seriously documented scientific facts, eyewitness testimony, and the long biblical history of those serving Satan/Lucifer and sacrificing babies in pagan religions at night, and coming into God’s House, the Church, during the day, at the same time. It is a very ancient and ongoing problem. God destroyed nations for it before and scripture says he will do it again – just read the book of Revelation, especially chapter nine, verses 20 and 21, where they did not repent of worshiping demons, doing sorcery, sexual immorality, or committing murder – all what these cults do secretly in the night.
Speaking of evidence, I should add that the Spanish explorers dutifully documented finding civilizations in the Americas that practiced human sacrifice, and one did twenty thousand human sacrifices in one day. Modern archeology has been steadily, absolutely validating that eyewitness report from so long ago. And human sacrifice was practiced in various places all over the world. It was not coincidence or tragedy that God wiped them out, but mercy on those they preyed upon. Western civilization should not be apologizing for spreading Christianity to places in the world that were sacrificing their own children to demons before they got there. God, in his mercy, put those people under those who would stop that heinous evil and teach them better ways.
And now we have teachers wanting to teach school children Aztec chants used to summon their blood-thirsty gods and demons, supposedly as a way of honoring other cultures in an “ethnic studies” model curriculum for “diversity.” Or do they have darker purposes? Look for the article, “California proposes curriculum with chanting name of Aztec god who accepts human sacrifice,” on Foxnews.com for more information. The very act they intend to make children do could cause demons to enter or oppress those children for life, and certainly influence them, until somebody with knowledge of what happened, and how to deal with it, can help them. Years ago, they were sneaking in teaching children to use new age methods to contact “spirit guides” which most would recognize as demons. We are in an age-old war. Those who sleep through it, lose.
Maybe we do need a qualified exorcist in politics, just to warn people of what is going on. But I prefer the more modern term, “deliverance minister,” because it helps dispel Hollywood’s extreme and ridiculous portrayals of exorcism. And deliverance is not my main focus, just something I can do, and do well, when necessary. Really, every minister ought to have that knowledge and capability in the times we are in, or his flock will be in spiritual bondage before long. And every pastor also ought to consider how long people will still keep coming to his or her church as they become more and more under the influence of demons out of ignorance (theirs and the minister’s) as time goes along. Ignoring the problem doesn’t make it go away, it makes it worse, far worse.
Establishing Credentials to Speak
Before I go further, I probably ought to tell some things to help you know if you can trust my knowledge of scripture. With religious folks, I have found it hard to be respected if you are not a “pastor.” If you tell them you are a minister, they want to know where you pastor. People often seem to think there is only one kind of minister, and it is a pastor. They don’t know that the people that teach the Bible to most of the pastors in Bible colleges or seminaries generally have academic degrees in biblical studies and theology and biblical languages, but seldom much experience pastoring. Those are the people that most all the pastors rely on to teach them about the Bible. It is about Bible knowledge, not how many years you spent pastoring.
Honestly, I was doing very well in seminary and asked God if I could get a doctorate. He replied, “No, I want you to rely on me.” He saw that as more important for my calling than a doctorate. I also eventually noted that having a doctorate does not make people right. If it did, everyone with a doctorate would agree, and anybody that has studied biblical topics at all knows there is a lot of disagreement about a lot of things between people with doctorates in the field of biblical studies. More doctorates will not solve the problem of disagreement, but scholars that really hear from God about his intended meaning, or help leaders that do, would certainly help.
But academics can be too detached from the voice of God needed to minister to people in the pews, and at the altar, and in pastor’s offices – and they can lack the compassion needed, and people skills. Everybody has their place. It is seldom taught in most churches, but the Apostles in the New Testament recognized five kinds of ministers, and pastors are down the list a ways. Apostles and prophets are listed first, but most want to say they don’t exist any more or are no longer needed – though the scripture does not say that (unless you twist it a good bit by ignoring the obvious context). And a lot of people have not helped the situation by claiming those titles for themselves or their pastor when they really don’t qualify by all scriptural measures (like real signs and wonders – for apostles – and trials and suffering and the obvious endorsement of God that they are sent to represent and speak for him).
But let me get back to some indicator that I have enough Bible knowledge to speak on some critical issues. I don’t have my transcripts in front of me but I know I had a 3.975 on the 4.0 scale graduating from seminary with a Master of Arts in Bible. I also did something that apparently almost nobody actually did – I really read much of those thousands of pages of other reading the professors required in the class requirements for their courses. I found out late in my degree program that they say “read” but they really meant “skim,” but I am a very honest person and also wanted to get all the learning I could during my precious time in seminary. And maybe I should mention that as part of applying for missionary service they give you a standardized test of biblical knowledge and it is compared against Bible college graduates – and I recall being told my score was in the 95th percentile. And suddenly they were more flexible about talking about allowing me more spiritual ministry over time even though they had me slotted for an administrative position.
And forgive me if I, like the apostle Paul in scripture, list a few more credentials. Thirteen years after completing my seminary degree, and many years after my first seminary class, I was told I got the highest score in the district on the ordination exam, in a district with over three hundred churches, as I recall. And most of those taking the test would likely have been pastoring for several years, holding a lesser credential. My point is that what I was taught did not fall out of my head because my service was not pastoring. I did teach and preach however, and write. I was published at the scholarly level shortly after seminary (with a lengthy article summarizing, comparing, and contrasting most of the widely used teaching on the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit in the denomination). I was published at the popular level, in the denomination’s main magazine, on spiritual warfare, while I was at the denominational headquarters. And I have since been writing books.
Finally, being sent by God is the most important credential. I mentioned elsewhere that God used a leader early on to tell me that I had a special calling, but had not yet been told what that calling was. That calling shocked me so much that I screamed when I heard it, after seriously seeking God about my calling for some time near the end of seminary. God told me, “You will be my witness. Go and fight the Beast.” The “Beast” is the symbolic name used in the book of Revelation (the last book in the Bible) for the Antichrist, the evil world ruler that tries to annihilate God’s people in the end times. The two witnesses are those that hold him and his evil sidekick “the false prophet” at bay until God is ready to let them (the two witnesses) die. But then God lets the evil people following the Antichrist and the false prophet celebrate the death of the two witnesses for three and a half days, thinking they have won. But then God resurrects the two witnesses and takes them to heaven in the sight of the world and prepares to unleash all the horrific judgments needed to prove that he is God, and a righteous God, and they are evil imposters. I tell elsewhere my long journey to believe and accept that calling. (See the blog, “The Rest of the Story,” on AndrewHadden.org.)
I know God’s plan to protect his people in the end times – because I am part of that plan. Believe me, if God had called you to that calling, he would talk to you a lot, for a lot of years, to have you ready for the sake of his people. God has told me a lot, for a lot of years, and it has accelerated in recent years to get me ready. But, just like when Christ came the first time, the “experts” are left stunned and perplexed and wrong, while those that spend day and night seeking God in prayer are more in tune. See my sermon on that on my blog on AndrewHadden.org entitled, “The End Times: Expect the Unexpected.”
I don’t say any of this to brag. I say it to save your lives, and your souls, because I care about you, and God cares about you. If you don’t listen to what I am sent to tell you, you will likely die, and the environment you face will likely be so spiritually hostile that you may also lose your soul as well.
Exposing the Antichrist and What He is Doing
As instruction for what I say here, God said to me: “Expose the Antichrist. What is he doing now? Subverting the nation. How? Tell them.”
My head is full of what I could say, but I need to tell you the way God wants it told. You need a view that is not bits and pieces, but an over-arching view of what is going on. Let me try to give you that. God gave me the view from the top, from people near the top of the rising Antichrist’s organization, through various sources. Some people have risked their lives for a long time to try to save America and the world from their plans. Some have applied scriptures to the Antichrist that scripture does not in any way indicate should be applied to the Antichrist. Others have made wrong assumptions as to the conditions that facilitate the Antichrist coming to power, and do not indicate that they are really assumptions. So, let me correct some of that first. Then I will address scriptural authority to speak as to coming events. Then I will share about the methods of the Antichrist.
Wrong Teaching on the End Times and the Antichrist
Before I explain what the Antichrist is doing, I need to correct wrong teaching on the nature of the Antichrist and his plan to rise in power. Many, many, Bible teachers have it wrong, and Christ explained why. He explained to me that, “The end times have been the subject of much empty speculation and proof texting by those that do not know me.” Keep in mind that Christ warned, in scripture, that a lot of ministers, even people who have done great works in his name, will be turned away on judgment day with him saying, “I never knew you; depart from Me” (Matthew 7:23 NKJV). Long ago, I told God, “I want to walk in your courts,” my way of saying I wanted his presence and his voice more than anything else. His response was to tell me the terrible cost I had to agree to. I agreed. The cost has been terrible, just like he said, but I truly do know Christ and his plan to preserve his people in the end times. It aligns with scripture and it does so better than the twisted systems of forced interpretation to match blatant assumptions from outside scripture now imposed on scripture by many – wrong doctrine fueled by wrong assumptions, and wrong interpretation, and deception. I will explain.
First, many are looking for a ten-nation alliance to facilitate the rise of the Antichrist. However, that is an assumption and it may not be a ten-nation alliance that scripture is warning about. They may not be nations, but ten groups of nations the world is now being divided up into, more like empires under the guise of associations of nations – or economic unions. For that, I have to thank a Christian who was miraculously invited into their plans, at a high level, years ago, who tried to expose where they were heading, in a little-known book he probably paid to have printed so he could share it in churches. So many “end times experts” have been looking for a coalition of ten nations, but it is potentially wrong interpretation that misses indicators in scripture that the leaders mentioned are not really kings in the traditional sense, and that what they rule may not be nations. And there is a North American union they plan and work toward – hence they do not want America strong with secure borders.
Second, many are looking for the Antichrist to be a conqueror and to advance himself by conquering nations. The Antichrist does not rise by military conquest. He advances himself by subverting nations from within – and that is what is going on right now, in the United States of America. It is being subverted from within. This wrong teaching comes from teachers who see the first horseman in the book of Revelation (chapter 6), the rider on a white horse, sent forth “conquering and to conquer,” as the Antichrist. Absolutely nothing in this passage or the context says that this rider is the Antichrist, nothing. This is a rider in heaven. The Antichrist is not there and won’t ever be. Other clues in the context are that other riders are “Death” and “Hell.” But many teachers teach that this is the Antichrist like it is an absolutely unarguable statement of scripture – and it is absolutely wrong and leading untold millions astray, such that they are missing watching for the real rise of the Antichrist occurring right now under their noses. Christ explained clearly to me that this rider is symbolically representing conquest by many nations, all over. My account of that is in the blog on “Correcting End Times Scenarios” on AndrewHadden.org. This aligns with Christ having warned of “wars and rumors of wars” in his end times teaching in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21.
Third, many teach that Christ’s words in his end times sermon (recorded in all the synoptic/similar gospels Matthew, Mark, and Luke) is spoken to the unsaved Jews who will be “left behind” when all the Christians leave in the rapture, which many seem to assume will be before anything bad happens. Why would “Christians” throw out all that Christ says in the gospels to tell his followers (including his Apostles/disciples who were in that crowd) what will happen in the end times, before he returns? We who are Christians are supposed to be followers of Christ. Do not throw out all he says in his main discourse meant to warn us of what to expect in the end times before he comes – recorded in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21. Read it over and over again and pray for understanding. Do what Christ said and “Watch and pray.” “Watch” means to watch for the signs he warned us of, in those very passages that these deceived teachers tell us to ignore.
This doctrine arose in only the last few hundred years of Church history, based upon a “revelation,” and appeals to people because it found a way to blissfully ignore all the dire warnings of Christ about what would happen before he returned and around that time. Beware of doctrines that sell a little too well, by making people in the pews more and more comfortable. There will be a rapture, a catching away; it is scriptural. But listen to Christ in scripture when he says nobody will know when his coming will be, its day or hour (Matthew chapters 24-25, Mark 13, Luke 12:46), and, in context, when it will happen relative to all the bad stuff Christ is talking about happening in his warnings to his followers about the end times – like before anything bad happens. And many parables in various places in the gospels warn of an unexpected coming of judgment. Christ meant for us to get knowledgeable, tough, and ready. They have put much of the Church to sleep in order to make the gospel more marketable, and have bigger, more popular churches – whether they are willing to admit it to themselves or not.
The Authority of Those Sent by God
We can all debate the meaning of scripture, the starting place for knowledge about the Antichrist. People have been debating it for nearly two thousand years. In the time of Christ, there were competing schools under different acclaimed teachers with big followings whose students literally sat at their feet as they taught. They were the seminaries of that day. Paul claimed the credential of having sat at the feet of one of those teachers. Christ taught that way in the temple as well, and also on hillsides. Paul also, and more often, claimed the more important credential of being an “apostle” – which means a “sent one,” someone sent by Christ. He had been sent by the risen Christ in a supernatural encounter initiated by Christ. That was his most important credential. The original twelve were sent by Christ in person, having known him. Yet Paul wrote more books of the New Testament than any of the original twelve, and his books were accepted into the Bible. They knew that he knew Christ as well, by supernatural means.
When prophets were recognized by the Jewish people, they expected to hear of similar supernatural experiences calling them to be prophets. Everyone knew about Moses’ experience at the burning bush in the wilderness on the mountain of God. Prophets (and later apostles) carried more authority than teachers, who normally disagreed with one another or spoke with less certainty (per comments recorded in scripture). The real certainty, the greatest authority, came from being supernaturally called and communicated with by God.
But then the Jews expected signs. Christ provided many signs – his miracles when people needed miracles, or for those who already believed in him, or at least were honest seekers. But with his critics and enemies, the Pharisees, he refused to perform at their demand. The role of signs is important today as well.
Prophets Predicted in Scripture to be Sent in the End Times
The environment is tougher today. Many in the Church today have accepted false teaching that there are not any prophets today and that they are not needed any more. However, they ignore the clear teaching of scripture, in the New Testament, where Christ speaks of a future Elijah that must come, and did it after John the Baptist had been killed. And Christ had just spoken about how John the Baptist fulfilled Old Testament prophecies predicting Elijah would be sent before the day of the Lord, a time of judgment in the end times. Christ advocated a double fulfillment – just like he did for the abomination of desolation predicted by the prophet Daniel by speaking of it as future when it had already been fulfilled once, before the time of Christ, and his audience knew it.
There are also two more prophets whose future coming is clearly predicted in the New Testament. Revelation 11 speaks of the two witnesses and calls them prophets. And they perform miraculous signs just like Moses and Elijah did in scripture. They are also defended with the death of their enemies, in judgment by God. That too, is like Moses and Elijah in the Old Testament. When Elijah arranged for God to show who the real God was, with fire falling from heaven on his sacrifice, the people rose up and slew the false prophets of Baal. Those they served had been slaying the prophets of God a long time. And fire from heaven fell on two groups of soldiers that thought to take Elijah captive for a wicked king. Before God, Elijah’s authority as having been sent by God, as a prophet, exceeded that of the king when Elijah was sent by God.
God got even more serious when he sent Moses to lead in bringing his people out of bondage in the superpower of his day. The signs were plagues on Egypt, and then the destruction of the Egyptian army, when the sea that parted before Moses, and allowed the people of God to escape, then engulfed and drowned the Egyptian army that sought to pursue them again. And God continued to endorse that Moses was called and appointed by him to lead his people – and he did it with repeated judgment and death. See the accounts in the biblical book of Numbers, and especially chapter 16 – where even spiritual leaders, who said that God spoke to them too, were slain, and then thousands were slain with plague when they objected to the death of the leaders. God’s judgments seem harsh until you realize that these people were interfering with the creation of a new godly nation that would be used to fulfill the plan of offering salvation to all of mankind, through Christ. And one must consider that God had already demonstrated, with incredibly powerful signs, that he had appointed, sent, Moses to lead them – at his direction.
My Authority to Speak, and Calling
Like the Apostle Paul, and John the Baptist, God requires me to assert my claim to authority to speak as one sent by him. Some of that has to do with what I am called to do, which God wants me to make known. I struggled with this, a lot. Finally, God had to speak plainly and tell me what to do and say. I am being obedient. God brought two events to mind, repeatedly, where God spoke clearly to me, and to me through another. In time sequence, that would be as follows.
In early 2012, God arranged for me to come, with my new godly wife, to the home of an intercessor friend to pray. (An intercessor is someone called and anointed by God to pray on behalf of others.) The intercessor friend had also invited another intercessor, a Jewish Christian woman whom she greatly respected. That woman had never seen me before, but, when she did, God gave her a vision of me in a robe like Moses, and holding a tablet like the tablets of the law of God that Moses brought down from mount Sinai. She did not tell me until after our time of prayer. Then she started by saying, from God, “You’re like Moses.” Then she told of the vision she had before prayer, of me looking like Moses, with a stone tablet in my hand. She had my attention, but God wanted to make a bigger point. She asked to pray for me, and when she did, the power of God hit me so strongly I barely managed to stay standing up. Then she asked to pray for my wife and the same thing happened to her. I never saw that intercessor again but I never forgot that message.
In early 2016, I was going to preach a sermon on the call of God. I was going over my notes in preparation, reading aloud these points to my wife:
God calls people to various things and anoints them for it. Moses was called to:
1. Confront evil government
2. Confront their demonic gods
3. Confront their sorcerers
4. Deliver God’s people
5. Lead refugees to freedom
6. Establish a new nation on godly principles
As I read this to my wife, and got to the last point in the list, God said to me, “Listen.” I realized it made sense of God calling me Moses or comparing me to Moses, on quite a few occasions, and sometimes doing it through others. The tablets/lawgiver references came to mind, especially the one from the Jewish Christian intercessor mentioned above. And I saw it as significant that he said “Listen” as I read “Establish a new nation on godly principles.” I recognized that God had been hinting at that but had not said it outright. God was making the point that all six of these things are things I am called to do. What God calls one to do, he gives one anointing and authority to do. That is spiritual authority, but God normally works out providing any further authority needed for a calling in which we are faithfully walking, depending on the obedience of others involved.
But there is more to this story. In mid 2017, God made it clear that he wanted me in government in the United States, in order to protect and preserve God’s people here in what is coming. I should have figured it out sooner, like in 2012, when a Black prophetic intercessor moved to our area at God’s command, and visited the church we were in one time, and my wife and I felt to connect with her. We were invited to her home. She knew only that God was speaking to me about founding a consulting firm to minister to people in government. She wanted to pray and began to speak out what God was showing her. She said, “I see Daniel [the prophet], and he goes before the government . . .. You are going to penetrate the heart of government.” She spoke of God giving me an apostolic anointing and a “governmental anointing.” Then she excitedly shouted, “I see you at the table with the President! I see you in the White House!” Then my wife said she really felt the Holy Spirit about the president part of the word to me. And I now know God wants me to help the nation to survive what is shortly coming upon it.
God’s people need a protector in what is coming. And there is much coming. We have threats from within and without, and the survival of the nation is at stake. And, if God’s people obey, there will be opportunity to return this nation back to its original foundation of godly government based on sound morality, morality based on the traditional Judeo-Christian morality of most Western civilized nations in the world for over sixteen hundred years. That, and sincere repentance, may turn back some of the judgments coming on the nation because of immorality and the slaying of the most innocent of human beings through some fifty million abortions – endorsed by wayward government. And that is government that secretly seeks to persecute, imprison, and eventually slay true Christians in the years ahead, as they move toward openly handing power to the Antichrist.
As I obeyed God, step-by-step, including him saying to wait for his anointing in writing this, he finally spoke quite clearly:
“You, your purpose, what is it? A deliverer, for all, across the nations. Don’t get too narrow a focus. Look more broadly, the globe, all nations – all Christians, world-wide.” . . . “A home for all Christians – that is my goal. Make it happen, step-by-step. Lay it out, the plan. Prepare to leave, to go to a new home, for all Christians across the world. I will open the door, clear the land, make a way. By my power it will be accomplished. Announce the plan, from here to there, that’s where you’re going. They can come too, should plan to – or they will suffer under the hand of the Antichrist, or hiding from him and living primitively.”
I started to say that I think this will be my blog (in it) and God interrupted right away with, “It will,” so I have obeyed.
How the Antichrist is Ascending in Power Today
At this point, God wants me to elaborate on the Antichrist and his methods of gaining power. I knew I needed to know exactly what God had to say on the matter. I checked what he had said before. I had a portion of my AndrewHadden.org blog, “Correcting End Times Scenarios,” that addressed the Antichrist and I wanted to read it again to refresh my memory. But when I read it again, God said, “That’s it,” what he wants me to share about the Antichrist. This was said in comparison to the scenario in one of the “Left Behind” series of movies. What he said, and I put in that blog was:
The Antichrist versus the Horseman on the White Horse:
Some days later, after we had been led to watch the second movie in the Left Behind trilogy, Tribulation Force, God had more to say:
“It’s not right, no ‘conqueror’ – ‘conquerors’ – it means war and conquest, all over, the symbol of the first horseman, on the white horse.” (The movie said it was the Antichrist).”
“What else? What other symbols? Who is the Antichrist? Who is he? I’ll show you. He is coming, unexpected by man. What is he? A man of sin. A schemer. A usurper. Overthrow from within, that’s how he works. Overthrow from within. He will do it again and again, building his empire – by overthrow from within. He will use agents, assistants, people chosen to serve him and be rewarded – when overthrow comes. They will rule, the assistants. His rule comes later, when they bow the knee to him publicly. He rules in secret – now. That’s how he rules now, in secret, with oaths of allegiance and promised reward – total control, taking what they want – from anyone. Women, daughters seized and used. Lands, companies, properties seized for their own [agents], who they want to promote and reward, building an empire from within. Promotion by assassination and intimidation and seizure. Seizing all they desire, whomever they desire, spreading and spreading. Countries going under, in a wave, from within. Got it? That’s how it will happen, subterfuge, happening even as we speak, building toward a climax – Babylon falling . . . to the Beast, by subterfuge.”