Debunking the
“Repent or Else”
Message
December 2015
“The Lord
warned Israel and Judah through
all his prophets and seers”
‘Turn from your evil ways.
Observe my commands and decrees,
in accordance with the entire law
that I have commanded your
fathers to obey and that I have
delivered to you through my
servants the prophets.’ But
they would not listen….
Therefore, the Lord rejected all
the people of Israel; He
afflicted them and gave them into
the hands of plunderers, until
the trust them from His
presence.” (2 Kings 17: 13,
14, 20)
Thoughtful
Christians are worried. They keep
asking themselves how much longer
God’s patience will last.
Surely, the alarm on God’s
“evil detector” is
emitting a scary noise in
Heaven’s courtroom.
Christians know that God’s
patience with evil has a limit.
God destroyed the whole world in
Noah’s day. God destroyed
the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
God destroyed the ten northern
tribes of Israel in the seventh
century B.C. God destroyed the
remaining tribes in the fifth
century B.C. Finally, God
destroyed Jerusalem in the first
century A.D. God destroyed
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Grecia, and
Rome! God is changeless and so
are His policies. His patience
with degenerate and decadent
behavior has a limit and when
that limit is reached,
destruction always follows.
Today, many pastors and TV
evangelists are warning the
United States that God’s
judgments are coming unless
its citizens repent of their
ways. These clergies support
their “repent of else”
message by citing God’s
consistency in the past. They use
examples like same sex marriage,
dishonesty, corruption,
rebellion, greed, predatory
behavior, violence, and flagrant
sexual immorality to make the
point that the U.S. is going in
the wrong direction.
A democracy can
only flourish when people uphold
the highest standards of personal
responsibility and moral conduct.
The United States is failing in
both standards and is becoming a
restless nation unfit and
unprepared for self-rule. The
seeds of hatred and revolution
are popping up like dandelions.
In the pursuit of riches,
pleasure, and prosperity, the
U.S. has forgotten its Creator
and His rules. Spiritually
thinking, the U.S. has been in
moral decline for decades, and
spiritual poverty is now mirrored
by national poverty. More people
are living in poverty than ever
before!
The devil controls
the owners of the media, and he
sees to it that violence, sexual
immorality, and idolatry are big
moneymakers. A culture of sin
glamorized and glorified because
the perpetrators believe their
edgy programming rakes in
“big bucks.” For
decades, the media has fed a
growing appetite for disgusting
music, movies, TV programs, and
magazine articles that delight in
overstepping the boundaries of
decency. Fewer people than ever
attend church. The idea of doing
right to please God has either
been eclipsed by the goddesses of
pleasure or the gods of idolatry
and arrogance. A huge demonic
force is causing a wave of
opposition toward God’s laws
throughout the United States.
Open your eyes; this wave is more
powerful and sophisticated than
human prowess. The United
States has become alive to sin
and dead to righteousness. This
is ‘the state of the
union.”
The Problem
with “Repent or Else”
You may not
realize it, but there is a
significant problem wrapped up in
the “repent or else”
message, and we cannot do
anything about this problem right
now. Nevertheless, you need to
know about it, because a little
foreknowledge will be helpful in
days to come. Consider this:
Corporate repentance within the
United States is not going to
happen. The “repent or
else” message that we are
hearing has accomplished nothing,
because too many people are
spiritually dead and they insist
on remaining this way.
Corporately speaking, there is no
remedy for America’s decline
or that matter, the world’s
decline. Looking at the distant
future, the Lord said to Isaiah, “The
Earth is defiled by its people;
they have disobeyed the laws,
violated the statutes and broken
the everlasting covenant.
Therefore, a curse consumes the
Earth; its people must bear their
guilt. Therefore Earth’s
inhabitants are burned up, and
very few are left.” (Isaiah
24: 5, 6)
The Bible gives
one example when corporate
repentance took place and
God’s wrath was avoided. The
prophet Jonah warned Nineveh of
God’s coming wrath and the
city repented, but repentance did
not last long. Later, God sent
king Nebuchadnezzar to destroy
the city because God’s
policies do not change. God
consistently destroys cities and
nations (and if necessary, the
whole world) for one reason. When
a group of people reach a point
where extended mercy has no
redeeming effect, God’s
wrath is aroused and His
judgments follow.
This brings me to
another point. Even if the United
States wakes up spiritually, it
is too late to stop God’s
oncoming wrath. The U.S.
represents 5% of the world’s
population, and the sins of the
whole world are so great that
mankind cannot atone for them. Of
course, it is not too late for
any individual to repent, forsake
his sins, and receive the gift of
salvation, but corporately
speaking, it is too late for this
nation or any other nation to
repent. The world is polluted
with bloodshed. Its religions are
polluted with blasphemy and
man-made traditions. Schools are
polluted with a view of science
that denies the existence of our
Creator and Redeemer. The media
and airwaves are polluted with
every imaginable display of sin.
There is not
enough time left to turn the
world around. Long ago, the
Father set a date for the end of
the world. He foreknew that
corporate repentance would not
happen, and I believe His
patience with Earth expired in
1994 (when the Jubilee Calendar
ended). Even though
God’s patience has ended, He
is not willing that any should
perish. Revelation 7
indicates that since 1994, four
angels have been waiting for
God’s servants to be sealed
before they hurt the Earth. This
date set by the Father must
arrive before corporate
destruction occurs. Christians
have been preaching the gospel of
Jesus for two thousand years, and
this only proves that no amount
of preaching or evangelizing can
change the world corporately.
It’s over. Earth is doomed.
I think the “repent or
else” message is a
well-intentioned effort that will
soon produce unexpected
consequences.
God’s
Coming Judgments
The books of
Daniel and Revelation contain a
road map revealing God’s
plans. They describe a series of
judgments that will soon fall on
notably wicked places. When
God releases His wrath, there
will be death, sorrow, suffering,
and destruction on an
unimaginable scale. The survivors
will quickly conclude that God
has spoken, because everyone will
see that God’s wrath fell on
notably wicked places. The
first judgment will be a meteoric
firestorm that burns up a third
of the Earth. (Revelation 8:7) A
few days later, thousands of
wicked cities will be washed off
the map by an asteroid impacting
an ocean. The resulting tsunami
(several hundred feet high) will
cause a ring of destruction
around that ocean that is
unimaginable. Then, the third
judgment will be a second
asteroid impacting a continent
well known for its wickedness.
This impact will fracture the
geologic strata. Underground
rivers and aquifers will be
contaminated with buried sewage
and toxic waste. Even though the
impact will kill everyone at
ground zero, millions of people
who live hundreds of miles from
the impact zone will also die
after drinking the contaminated
water. (Revelation 8: 10, 11)
Finally, a series of volcanic
eruptions will occur. This
judgment will bury hundreds of
cities with ash and ejecta.
Moreover, billions of tons of ash
and soot will enter the jet
stream, and the result will be
darkness over the middle third of
the planet, where most people
live. The survivors will
hurdle in darkness as nuclear
winter begins. There will
be an extended period of
darkness. No sunlight means no
crops, and no crops mean global
famine.
According to
Revelation 6:8, these four
judgments will destroy about two
billion people. When these
terrors occur, clergy of all
faiths, who have been reluctant
to call sin by its right name,
will manage to wake up, and with
a great show of solemn authority
they will tell the survivors the
obvious, “God is angry with
all mankind.” In this
setting, everyone will be ready
to listen to the “repent or
else” pastors and TV
evangelists. These pastors and TV
evangelists will point to their
record and say with the utmost
confidence, “I told you
so.” With these
leaders’ advanced insight
into the Bible, many people will
suddenly find them credible,
because the people did not know
(a) corporate repentance was not
possible (b) time had run out,
and (c) God’s judgments were
coming anyway. This level of
credibility is exactly what
Lucifer wants for these clergy!
The first four
judgments described in Revelation
8 will occur quickly (according
to my calculation, within a span
of about two months). During the
darkness of the fourth judgment,
the religious and political
leaders of the world will manage
to assemble. The political
leaders of the world will hear
the clergy explain the following:
God is obviously angry with all
nations because notably wicked
places within all nations have
been destroyed; and man’s
only hope for survival is simple:
Appease God or die. There must be
swift repentance and reformation
otherwise, He will kill us all.
The terrified
survivors respond to the idea of
repentance and reformation by
trembling with fear of more
judgments to come. Many will say,
“Whatever God wants, we will
gladly do.” Given this
voluntary acquiescence and
fearing more wrath to come, the
religious and political leaders
of the world will proceed to
fulfill a terrible prophecy.
Revelation 13: 1-8 describes
man’s response to the first
four trumpets. The leaders of the
world will create “a beast
of a government.” This
crisis government will be given
authority over every nation. The
name for this government will be
called “Babylon”
(“confusion”) in the
book of Revelation because its
laws and directives will be
maddening.
Babylon will be
given authority to do whatever is
necessary to appease the
Almighty, but a religious diverse
world cannot appease one God.
What is proper for Catholics is
not proper for Muslims, Hindus,
Jews, Atheists, or Protestants.
Therefore, Babylon will create
laws for appeasing God that are
in direct opposition with its own
laws! Depending on the majority
religion of each nation, Babylon
will create a series of
“sin-less laws.” The
idea is that each nation needs to
sin less, therefore each nation
will be given laws that are in
harmony with the prevailing
religion of that nation. These
laws will be enacted and enforced
within each nation by its own
military and police.
You may be
wondering about two things.
First, how can one angry God be
appeased when Babylon commands
Catholics, Jews, Muslims,
Protestants, Hindus, and Atheists
to do different things to appease
the same God? No global solution,
not even Babylon, can overcome
man’s religious diversity,
but this fact will not concern
the leadership of Babylon. This
is why the laws created by
Babylon will be so maddening. You
may also wonder; how will Babylon
be able to impose its will on all
nations? When God’s
judgments begin, all nations will
be forced into crisis mode. All
constitutional rights and
freedoms will be suspended. Martial
law will be put into effect. This
sudden change in the governance
of all nations will enable the
leaders of Babylon to impose its
laws on the political leaders of
the nations, and none will
disobey Babylon. Babylon will
dictate behavior and impose
worship. Babylon’s laws will
have very powerful teeth, and the
penalty for disobedience will be
severe. The irony of this story
is that God’s judgments will
appear to suddenly stop! (Note:
This apparent cessation of
God’s judgments will have
nothing to do with Babylon’s
efforts. The next judgment (the
fifth trumpet) does not occur
until 2 ½ years later.)
The leaders of
Babylon will rejoice and think
their dramatic efforts to appease
God has caused His judgments to
cease. The people of Earth will
hear the religious and political
leadings of Babylon boasting.
“Behold! The laws of Babylon
are a good thing. God is pleased,
there have been no more
judgments. We are doing the right
things!” During this time,
Babylon will blaspheme God,
slander God, and make war against
His saints. Babylon will conquer
the saints and force everyone on
Earth to bend to its demonic
will. See Revelation 13: 1-8.
I know that it
sounds crazy that anyone should
want to debunk the “repent
or else” message that is
being espoused today, but Bible
prophecy does not support this
message. It is too late and
repentance at this late date is
not going to happen anyway. I
have written this report because
I think this “fine-sounding
message” will have a
terrible outcome. In a similar
vein, when the leaders of Babylon
boast that their extreme efforts
to end sinful behavior brought a
sudden end to God’s
judgments, it will be perfectly
clear that those speaking for God
have no understanding of
God’s Word or His will. And
in case you are wondering, the
Bible has a message for right
now: “Put to death,
therefore, whatever belongs to
your earthly nature: sexual
immorality, impurity, list, evil
desires and greed, which is
idolatry. Because of these, the
wrath of God is coming.” (Colossians
3: 5, 6)
Larry Wilson
