Dissolving The End-Times Myth

By Don Nordstrom

Waiting for the Antichrist and the False Prophet?

Are you prepared for the Seven-Year Tribulation?

Anticipating the Rapture soon?

These events have already happened. They won't happen, again.

 

The erroneous end-time beliefs, which blossomed in about 1970, have since gained popularity to mislead the religious world.

They are so well-liked by writers and religions because creating end-times myths is very lucrative for authors, churches, and publishing organizations.

Instead of the Bible, they have followed the money.

 

This book reveals the origins of these ideologies, the people who promoted them, and how they twisted the Book of Revelation to spread their false doctrines.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Don Nordstrom
• Release date: Apr 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215705131

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Dissolving The End-Times Myth

From History and the Bible

Don Nordstrom

Copyright © 2023 by Don Nordstrom

All rights reserved worldwide.

No part or in whole may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transcribed or transferred by any mechanical or media means, except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior written permission of Don Nordstrom.

All Scriptures are from the King James Bible, Public Version. Word definitions are from Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, Public Version.

The alleged historical contents in this book include over eighteen years of comprehensive study. To enhance reader understanding, the author encourages everyone to research the findings presented.

Please refer to the original King James Bible (KJV). This version maintained certain words from the Jewish and Greek texts that bring out the original intent. If not available, many free KJV Bible resources are online.

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Contents

Introduction      7

Promoting The End-Times Myth      9

Preparing to Understand Revelation      15

Symbolism      19

Revelation      28

Revelation 2      36

Revelation 3      43

Revelation 4      50

Revelation 5      54

Revelation 6      58

Revelation 7      67

Revelation 8      71

Revelation 9      82

Revelation 10      91

Revelation 11      96

Revelation 12      106

Revelation 13      115

Revelation 14      125

Revelation 15      133

Revelation 16      135

Revelation 17      142

Revelation 18      148

Revelation 19      150

Revelation 20      154

Revelation 21–22      159

So Now What?      163

Acknowledgments      166

Introduction

Disclosure: [If a person is a born-again believer, baptized in the Holy Spirit from God, I don’t think it matters if we believe the end-times false doctrine or what follows in this book. The only issue is if a non-saved person reads or hears the end-times false doctrine, they may think they can sin and party to their heart’s delight. Then, if the rapture comes, and they are still stuck here on this earth, they can then accept Jesus’ salvation. Unfortunately, this will never happen and it will be too late.

This book is a partial rewrite of a previous book titled, The Revelation Happened. This revised new book has more detailed information to help us focus on why we shouldn’t believe the end- times doctrine.]

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I have to admit, I used to teach the end-times myth. However, after I grew in the Spirit and did an immense amount of research, I slowly began realizing that it was a jumbled account of twisted scripture. I then had to find out how this myth started, and if it was a myth, then why would otherwise good Bible teachers teach this doctrine?

Of course, I turned to the Holy Spirit to answer my questions, but as one who does this knows, the answers aren’t always immediate. Sometimes a person has to sit outside and stare at the sky for days until God determines to give the answers.

It took almost 20 years to answer the first question. I realized the reason for the delay was, I had to get rid of so much religious baggage, otherwise the answers would have never sunk in! So, if you aren’t getting an answer from God, maybe this is the issue.

Promoting The End-Times Myth

People will sometimes live with a lie or not know they are living within it. When they discover the truth, sometimes it seems better or more enticing to disregard the truth and stay, living within the lie. After all, it may be a tradition that has been passed down to us for centuries, and we are perhaps not comfortable with it but we tell ourselves, That’s the way it is.

Unfortunately, once we realize the truth and yet still disregard it, we are then slaves to the lie. It will haunt us for the rest of our lives. This is why the Bible verse says:

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 8:32

We know that a lie is a sin, and that is also what this verse is telling us: that we can be set free from the sin.

There is another Bible verse that says:

For the love of money is the root of all evil:

1 Timothy 6:10

Money, in itself, is not evil. It is that we become consumed with making money, even if we lie to do it.

Around 1970, a book came out that shook the world. Another similar book soon followed. From these two books, new publishing companies started, and a multi-million dollar publishing industry formed. I call what these publishers and authors created, The End-Times Myth.

After that first book came out, dozens of similar books and movies followed from various writers and teachers who would tweak an end-times crystal ball supposedly from Bible scriptures. It was indeed very profitable for anyone to write about the end-times myth. Many evangelical organizations or religious purveyors still teach this false doctrine. They follow the money, not the Bible.

They would claim their Bible prophecy proved that soon a rapture would occur, THE antichrist would come, THE GREAT tribulation would happen, and then Jesus would come back and rule the earth for a thousand years. Of course, there were different variations in how or when these events would occur. Soon, new terms popped up, such as pre-trib, mid-trib, and post-trib, along with many arguments as to who was more correct. None were correct.

We should know, the Bible speaks of antichrists and tribulations. The apostle John taught us about antichrists, but the Bible doesn’t mention THE antichrist. He said they were already in existence. (1 John 2:18)

To create the end-time myth, researchers had to take the warnings from the Book of Daniel, Jesus’ sayings, the New Testament (NT) writers, and the Book of Revelation, and twist all of their current warnings into events that would occur 2000-plus years later during our lifetime.

They had to somehow smuggle the U.S., Russia, China, the E.U., and even perhaps Germany into the Bible. (Some are now teaching Adolf Hitler will somehow be resurrected into THE antichrist.)

Revisionists had to tie a specific end-time antichrist person or a great tribulation to the book of Daniel and Revelation.

What they refuse to understand is that all the warnings were to the Jewish people concerning what was going to happen from Daniel’s time to the end of their temple worship system in AD 70. The Bible is about the Jewish people and their relationship with God and surrounding nations.

There is no doubt this end-time false doctrine is often taught by people with various religious pedigrees. Some are supposed great theologians or scholars. Yet, apparently, they never studied Jewish history between the time of Daniel and AD 70. Because, mostly, as we will see, everything they teach about the events from this end-time false doctrine occurred during this period! But you can’t make thousands or millions of dollars teaching actual biblical history. Can I testify?!

This doesn’t mean the Bible doesn’t give us at least a glimpse about our end time, or the season when it will happen. When we see these things occur, we should know that the end is near (and it is), and we will learn what the Bible actually says about our universe and planet’s demise.

So, how did this false doctrine get started? As with many myths, they usually start as something to steer people away from a different belief. I think we will see that myths are started by the devil, primarily to keep people ingrained in religions or different pagan belief systems, instead of knowing the reality of God’s plan of eternal salvation.

Namely, Jesus’ shed blood at Calvary became our ability to receive Jesus as our savior from eternal damnation. He then baptizes us into His Holy Spirit to seal us forever into His kingdom. This has been going on since Pentecost; when Jesus first baptized His personal brethren or disciples.

There would be no need for an end-times rapture, as a Christian’s spirit is immediately raptured when they are born again with their Spirit-baptism from God.

The basis for the end-time false doctrine started in the dark ages, in the sixteenth century. For approximately a thousand years before the fourteenth century, people in the Roman empire did not have a Bible to read. They could only listen to what the Roman Catholic priests told them. The popes and priesthoods ruled the people and whatever this religion came up with in false doctrines, the people believed and obeyed.

In the 14th century, an Oxford professor, John Wycliffe, translated the New Testament into Middle English. At last, the people who could understand English had a NT to read; about how Jesus saved us from our sins, and not through the punishment of a made-up story about purgatory from the Roman religion.

This event slowly started a revolt against the Roman Catholic religion, as many people learned that what the Roman religion taught about their false doctrines wasn’t in the Bible. There wasn’t a purgatory, where people suffered for ages until their punishment became enough to compensate for their sins. There weren’t indulgences in paying the priests from their hard-earned money to lessen their suffering in Purgatory.

The readers of the NT learned Jesus had already paid for their sins for eternity through His shed blood. There weren’t rites or rituals such as worshiping Mary or idols or that a priest could forgive sins, as only Jesus could. And of course, the Pope wasn’t the mediator between God and man, as Jesus was the only mediator.

Other translators then translated more Bibles into different languages and the reformation grew against the Roman religion. As certain reformers became scholars of the Bible, they wrongly determined the Roman Catholic religion with the popes and priesthood was the whore on the beast from the Book of Revelation.

People were leaving the Roman religion by the droves, and the pope had to do something to stop it. The religion started a militant group called, Jesuit Priests.

Along came a Jesuit priest by the name of Francisco Ribera. He determined he could make Revelation verses from the Bible seem to talk