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    Plagues and Promise like No Other
    Plagues and Promise like No Other
    Plagues and Promise like No Other
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    Plagues and Promise like No Other

    By Kobina Amissah-Fynn

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    "Plagues and Promise like No Other" is obviously not only about a promise like no other; it is also about plagues like no other, the type of plagues you would probably not immediately associate with the book's main theme.

     

    The plagues in question are not the usual suspects. They are not about infections of the body, not about the outbreaks of contagious diseases and pandemics like Covid-19 or the Spanish flu. SARS, Ebola, these are pestilences and epidemics which ravage societies and cause a lot of physical death and misery; although other plagues manifest themselves in infestations of vermin and pests which can also be sources of contagion or, as in the case of locusts, bring on other scourges like famine.

     

    Yet the plagues of this book are none of these. Rather are they associated with the big, fat elephant in the room of Christianity. Christians have long recognized that we are in the biblical Last Day, living in an era unlike any that has gone before. We are all witnesses to a world which, within a century and a half, has undergone vast, epochal changes as it successively transitioned through the Technological, Nuclear and Space Ages. Today, we find ourselves in the Digital Age and the Age of Globalization. And in these developments can be discerned the spirit of worldwide renewal in all fields of human endeavour.

     

    Moreover, within this same dizzying period and in rapid succession, we have experienced several earth-shattering events, some with calamitous repercussions, like the two devastating world wars (harbingers of what could well be the third and final global Armageddon) or the worldwide pandemics like the Spanish flu and the novel coronavirus. Other unprecedented events include the biblically-allusive and prophecy-fulfilling developments like the reassembling of the Jews in their ancestral, God-given homeland (as per the Old Testament biblical narratives) after almost two millennia in exile.

     

    So where then is the Christ of the Second Coming when Jesus had assured his followers that when they begin to take note of such momentous happenings they should know the Second Advent is "near, even at the doors"? After over a century of such breathtaking developments, where is the promised Messiah, the Christ of the latter days?

     

    This book contends that the reason for the messianic no-show is not necessarily because the promised appearance has not occurred; it is almost certainly because of the infectious biblical plagues of illogical expectations, strange delusions, lingering doubts, erroneous doctrines, profound illusions, irrational dogmas, unfounded fallacies, idle fancies, mere fantasies, vain imaginations, sheer falsehoods, misguided interpretations, ridiculous misconceptions, puerile misunderstandings, mental confusions, inexcusable prejudices, and untenable superstitions—plagues which have been and are still being actively diffused in society through the activities of the Pharisees of our time. These virulent plagues of the mind and spirit, the type that infects the soul and afflicts it for all eternity, are sure to leave flocks of unsuspecting believers in isolation and quarantined away from any emerging Kingdom of the end-time Christ.

     

    Paradoxically, the focus of the book is not directly about these plagues of the spirit. It is more about the big elephant in the room: the non-fulfilment of the promise of the Second Coming of Jesus the Christ, a promise like no other in all of human history. Getting to grips with the true nature of the promise, however, requires containing the plagues and completely eliminating them. This then is what the book attempts to do. 

     

    For these plagues, like the promise, are truly like no other…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHope Books
    Release dateJul 15, 2020
    ISBN9781393838364
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      Plagues and Promise like No Other - Kobina Amissah-Fynn

      Plagues and Promise like No Other

      Kobina Amissah-Fynn

      PLAGUES AND PROMISE LIKE NO OTHER

      Copyright © K. Amissah-Fynn 2020

      All Rights Reserved

      hopebooks64@gmail.com

      Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. (Revelation 18:4; Matthew 24:28)

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Introduction: The Promise and the Threat

      I. The End Time of Christianity

      II. The False Christ

      III. Resurrection Myths

      IV. A Cloudy Forecast

      V. The Messianic Promise

      VI. Messianic Criteria

      VII. Messianic Claimants

      VIII. Final Reflections

      Preface

      It all began with Christian-themed videos that I forwarded by social media to a friend of mine. The recipient, a staunch Christian, was understandably appalled by many of those videos depicting Christianity as a religion in rapid decline, whether in terms of church closures (as in Europe) or its loss of ground as a moral force in society (as seen generally). My friend was even more affected when, in referring to the negative episodes portrayed in one of the videos, I observed in my written message to him that: These things happen when a religious dispensation comes to its God-appointed end. You will be witnessing even worse things in the days to come, because people are worshipping within a religion that has passed its time. It is that simple.

      The words were without doubt provocative, and he reacted by sending me an audio message to explain what he thought was behind the deteriorating situation in his beloved faith. This afforded me an opportunity to respond with a long audio message of my own (reproduced here as the first chapter of this book) to help him understand the subject in a much broader perspective. And so, unknowingly at the time, was completed a draft of one chapter of this book. From this initial exchange, more comments and questions would follow; and it is my responses to these which fill up most of the pages of this publication, ready to be shared with the world. The nature of the questions posed or comments made by my friend (let’s call him Barjona) is self-evident in the narratives and there is hence no need to reproduce them.

      Obviously, the narratives have had to be edited and modified from the original, but only slightly, to make them presentable and readable as a serious publication. What we have then is a series of seemingly separate responses which all come together at the end to form a somewhat coherent whole.

      Kobina Amissah-Fynn

      June 2020

      Introduction: The Promise and the Threat

      We begin with the threat. This book is really about plagues like no other. A plague is generally known to be an epidemic or disease outbreak that quickly spreads to a large number of people resulting in a high number of deaths. It can also be defined as an infestation by an abnormally high number of vermin or pests.

      But the plagues of this book are not the well-known suspects and do not fall under any of the above definitions. Plagues and Promise like No Other is not about infections of the body. It is not about outbreaks of deadly diseases and pestilences and has nothing to do with epidemics or pandemics. It has no say on the coronavirus contagion known as Covid-19 nor of the other health emergencies which preceded it, such as SARS, MERS, the Spanish flu, Asiatic Flu, Zika, Swine flu, Avian Flu, etc. Neither is it about infestations of pests like rats or locusts.

      The plagues of this book are truly different. Far from being medically recognizable or scientifically measureable, the plagues of this book are intangible, more subtle yet more deadly. These are the contagions of the mind and the spirit, the type that infects the soul and debilitates it for all eternity. Like dense smoke, a plethora of such virulent and insidious plagues have pervaded the land, suffocating its inhabitants, ravaging religious communities unchecked, and all are in danger of perishing. Whereas an Ebola epidemic or Bubonic plague will inevitably lead to physical isolation for those infected, what the plagues of this book do to those it afflicts is to keep them forever isolated from the chosen inmates of the Divine Kingdom. Just as the victims of the coronavirus have to be quarantined to keep others safe and healthy, so those afflicted with the mental and spiritual plagues are consigned in perpetual quarantine away from the elect of the end times. Invariably, large numbers of people succumb to pandemics and die. In the plagues of this book, the death is not physical but spiritual in nature and lasts for all eternity.

      If we go back to the time of Jesus, we see that most of the Jews found themselves in spiritual quarantine and were mentally isolated from the inmates of the Divine Kingdom—the inevitable fallout from their denial of their promised Messiah. Such an unenviable outcome Jesus called to their attention in Matthew 8:11-12: And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

      Again in Luke 13:28-30 he forecasted: There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.

      As might have become apparent to the reader by now, the plagues of the spirit are being discussed in this book mostly in the context of the Second Advent (which never seem to be). The truth of the matter is that there is a really big elephant in the room of Christianity. That elephant is none other than the apparent non-fulfilment of the promise of the Second Coming of Jesus the Christ, a promise like no other in all of human history. Well-nigh two millennia have gone by and there is still no news in Christendom of the promised Return, and this in spite of the outward fulfilment of many of the signs Jesus had himself given in Matthew 24:6-7 to serve as a guide to his followers—signs such as the occurrences of major wars and rumours of wars, of famines, pandemics and earthquakes—and not forgetting other predictions such as that relating to the reassembling of the Jews in their biblical homeland from their long exile abroad. 

      So the wars, famines, calamitous events and worldwide scourges we see in our time must certainly be symptomatic of something deeper—symptomatic, without doubt, of the disregarded presence of the promised Christ of the end times. To set matters in greater perspective, Matthew 24:37-39 notes: But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

      In this allegory, righteous Noah represents the Son of man. It is following the appearance of the messianic Noah of the Last Day and the raising of his Ark of Salvation that, according to the allegory, the worldwide deluge of plagues and devastations are let loose. And this, humanity may well be witnessing in the world wars, global pandemics, devastating earthquakes, world-awakening environmental disasters, and even worse nightmarish episodes yet to come.

      Where is the promise of his coming? scoffers, walking after their own lusts, are nevertheless asking in these last days. For since the fathers fell asleep, they say, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. These are the words of II Peter 3:3-4 accurately foreshadowing the condition of life in today’s world.

      Most Christians would appear sceptical of, unconcerned about, or oblivious to, the possibility that the foundations of the Divine Kingdom of the Last Day are already being laid in our time. How can they even be expected to countenance such a possibility in a world saturated with the biblical plagues of incoherent expectations, contradictory beliefs, stupefying delusions, lingering doubts, unsound doctrines, absurd illusions, irrational dogmas, groundless fallacies, idle fancies, futile fantasies, vain imaginations, sheer falsehoods, misleading interpretations, ridiculous misconceptions, puerile misunderstandings, mental confusions, inexcusable prejudices, and untenable superstitions—plagues which have been and are still being actively diffused within the community of believers largely through the sermons, pontifications, publications and teachings of the Pharisees and Sadducees of our time, teachings which can only lead humanity ever deeper into the very heart of darkness?

      Undoubtedly, the one inescapable outcome of such plagues is famine, spiritual famine of the type foreshadowed in Amos 8:11-13: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

      So complete are the debilitating effects of these plagues that even should Jesus himself descend bodily from the sky for all to see, worshippers would still find cause to deny him and pronounce him a false prophet, a false Christ, the antichrist or even Satan incarnate himself. No wonder Jesus was prompted to ask rhetorically in Luke 18:8: Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

      But it has not all been doom and gloom across the globe. The many extraordinary developments that have occurred in the world in the past century and a half are truly exhilarating—developments which have completely transformed our planet and ushered us into an era unlike any other. Humanity has over this short span of time successively traversed the Technological, Atomic, and Space Ages and is now firmly in the Digital Age and the Age of Globalization. The prospect is there of ever new things to come, new

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