Lee W. Brainard @soothkeep

@beready4rapture Great question!

The Bible and “Eastern Thought” A growing claim today is that the Bible must be interpreted through an Eastern mindset—one that emphasizes mysticism, intuition, and cyclical views of reality rather than logic, history, and clear distinctions. But the Bible presents reality as linear, historical, and rational. History moves through unique, unrepeatable events—from Creation to the Final Judgment. Human life follows the same pattern: birth, death, judgment, and eternal destiny. There is no reincarnation, no endless cycle, and no second chance after death. Likewise, Scripture presents a logical universe created by a logical God. Reality is filled with meaningful distinctions: truth and error, light and darkness, saved and lost. The West did not invent this worldview; it received it from Scripture. The real conflict is not East versus West, but biblical realism versus pagan mysticism. May we all resist the efforts of the Enemy to introduce murkiness and mysticism into the Christian faith.

@EschatologyFB "Paul said that we will see two things before we’re gathered together unto the Lord: 1)The son of perdition will be revealed. 2)The falling away (the “apostasia”)." This is your first error. This is NOT what Paul said. youtu.be/82NUUDDcfg4?is… - Kristen

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 does not teach a post-Tribulation Rapture. Paul contrasts "our gathering together unto Him" with the Day of the Lord. His point is that believers should not fear that the Day of the Lord is already present. The apostasy and revelation of the man of sin are signs identifying the Day of the Lord, not conditions delaying the Rapture. In short, Paul distinguishes the Rapture from the Day of the Lord and presents Antichrist as a marker of that day, not of the Church's gathering to Christ.

@dboyz1954 I will get this added to the questions for the next livestream. Note that it will probably not be Tuesday though. Hopefully next Friday. - Kristen

𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 A look at self will drag me down And cause my hopes to sink. Beneath the waves of doubt I’ll drown When on my faults I think. 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜: soothkeep.info/christian-fail… Or: substack.com/@nitalinb?utm_…

Resharing since quite a few folks have not seen this.

Lee W. Brainard @soothkeep

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KRISTEN'S STATUS Due to mean comments on some social media venues—some about Kristen in particular, some about women in general who are engaged in doing any kind of ministry—I have found it necessary to clarify Kristen's relationship with Soothkeep Ministries Inc. First of

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@EschatologyFB I did read your initial comments and I disagree with them. I made that clear in my statement. I also addressed your Pseudo-Ephraim claim in my statement. I am Lee's Social Media Manager, you can go back in his posts to see more. - Kristen

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@EschatologyFB I did in my response. You just don't accept it for what it is. Feel free to watch the video. Lee has hundreds of videos that address each and every one of your erroneous claims. - Kristen

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Simply calling something "Pseudo-Ephraim" doesn't prove it's a forgery or that its contents are worthless. In academic literature, "pseudo" often means the authorship is uncertain, not that the document is fake. Many scholars use the term because they believe some writings traditionally attributed to Ephraim may have been written by disciples, associates, or later compilers preserving his teachings and sermons. More importantly, even if some of the Ephraim material was written by later followers, that doesn't eliminate its historical value. In fact, it can strengthen the argument. If multiple writers in the centuries following Ephraim were expressing the same pretribulational ideas, that demonstrates those ideas were circulating in the church long before Darby. The real question isn't whether every line was personally penned by Ephraim. The real question is whether the document accurately reflects beliefs that existed in the early church. Historians routinely use writings with disputed authorship to understand what people believed in a given era. And there's another problem with the objection. If the majority of Ephraim's genuine works supposedly disappeared and were replaced by hundreds of successful forgeries within a few centuries, where is the evidence that the churches preserving his writings recognized this massive substitution? That's a pretty extraordinary claim. At the end of the day, dismissing a text because it's labeled "Pseudo-Ephraim" doesn't actually address the content. The question remains: does the document contain a pretribulational expectation that predates Darby? Calling it "Pseudo-Ephraim" doesn't answer that question one way or the other. Straight from Recent Pre-Trib Findings in the Early Church Fathers. - Kristen

I don't think the evidence supports the conclusion that only angels return with Christ. The passages you cited certainly prove that angels accompany Christ at His return. No one disputes that. But they do not say angels are the only ones accompanying Him. That's an argument from silence. The bigger question is whether Scripture ever places believers with Christ at His appearing. I believe it does. Paul writes in Colossians 3:4, "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." Paul doesn't say believers appear after Him or arrive later. He says they appear with Him. Likewise, 1 Thessalonians 4:14 says, "them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." Again, believers are being brought with Christ. Revelation 19 is also difficult to reconcile with the claim that the church does not return with Christ. In verses 7-8, the Bride is clothed in fine linen, which is specifically identified as "the righteousness of saints." Then in verse 14, the armies of heaven follow Christ wearing fine linen, white and clean. The description is identical. The text never identifies those armies as exclusively angels, nor does it say the Bride remains behind in heaven while Christ returns. As for Jude 14, even if we grant that "holy ones" refers to angels, that still doesn't prove redeemed saints are absent. It simply identifies one group accompanying the Lord. The conclusion that believers cannot also be present does not follow from the text. I would also point out that Scripture repeatedly teaches that believers will reign with Christ (2 Tim. 2:12), appear with Christ in glory (Col. 3:4), and even participate in judgment (1 Cor. 6:2). The picture throughout the New Testament is not of the church remaining behind while Christ returns, but of the church being united with Him in His manifestation of glory. So yes, Christ returns with His holy angels. The Bible clearly says that. But I don't see any passage that says He returns with angels alone, while several passages state that glorified believers accompany Him as well. - Kristen

@ociana60 I'll pass this on to Lee. - Kristen

TESTING THE SPIRITS One of the clearest signs of growing apostasy is the push to seek the Holy Spirit apart from Scripture. But God never calls us to follow spiritual impressions without testing them. The Bible gives us a simple safeguard: • The Spirit teaches truth (John 16:13) • God's Word is truth (John 17:17) • We are commanded to test the spirits (1 John 4:1) The Holy Spirit never leads contrary to the Word He inspired. Every teaching, teacher, experience, and "word from God" must be tested by Scripture. The Bereans were called noble because they searched the Scriptures daily to verify what they heard (Acts 17:11). In the last days, deception will increase (1 Tim. 4:1; 2 Tim. 3:13). Our protection is not blind trust in spiritual experiences, but faithful submission to God's Word. If we are not testing the spirits by Scripture, we are leaving ourselves open to deception.

@EschatologyFB Wrong about what? - Kristen

Darby Invented the Rapture! Or Did He? x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Back in 1981, while riding the rails home from Washington to North Dakota, I found myself traveling with a group of seasoned hobos. At one stop, we recovered a bounty of discarded groceries-bacon, eggs, sausage, donuts, and more and enjoyed a feast. Many people would be too embarrassed to eat food that came from a dumpster. But when you're truly hungry, pride quickly loses its grip. The same thing happens spiritually. Every truth taught in Scripture is rejected by someone. Some biblical doctrines are treated as though they came from a dumpster-mocked, dismissed, and ridiculed by respected voices. Yet Bereans are not concerned with popularity. They search the Scriptures and follow the evidence wherever it leads. The original Bereans didn't even give the apostle Paul a free pass. They examined the Scriptures daily to see whether what he taught was true (Acts 17:11). Be a Berean. Never let the approval or disapproval of men keep you from feasting on the whole counsel of God. Eyes wide open, brain engaged, heart on fire.