The Rapture Hoax That Got Christians Out of the Liberty Fight

For over 1,800 years, the Church never taught a secret Rapture. So where did it really come from? Why was it pushed so aggressively? And how has it reshaped American Christianity and foreign policy? If you’ve ever wondered why so many Christians feel obligated to support Israel no matter what — this video uncovers the shocking history and theology behind it. The tree of Liberty Society and its members are dedicated to building understanding and implementation of the principles that have built free nations, exposing the satanic conspiracy we face and building an effective opposition to it.

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And then those of you joining us as members in the member, I'm asking you to please keep it muted during the training this week because we're on YouTube. And then if you have a question or anything, put it into the chat. So yeah, either one sounds good. So yes, we have some folks here on the live as for members and then we have folks on the live for training. So I mean, on YouTube. So our member training this week is the Rapture Cult Lie.

It is a diabolical deception to get Christians out of the battle for liberty. And we're going to go over the history of that and show you how this has happened, what different individuals have influenced it, and what tools they've used to be able to do so. And what it is that traditional Christianity up until the invention of the Rapture Cult in the 1800s, what did traditional Christianity believe up to that point? And so we do this, of course. We want individuals through our trainings as well as on their own to make sure that they are not perishing because of lack of knowledge. So we want to build understanding of key principles.

But beyond that, the purpose of the Tree of Liberty Society is to build an understanding of and adherence to the principles that have built free nations. We seek to expose the satanic conspiracy and then build an effective resistance to that conspiracy. That's why we do what it is that we do. And so let's get into this. The beginning part, if you've seen any of our boot camps or you've been in some of our trainings, some of the things we're going to be doing is going to be a refresh of or just kind of just reminder of some of those ideas and some of those principles. So that, but for everyone else, this is going to be new and lay the foundation of what it is that I'm talking about. So there was, especially during the 90s, the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a, not really a televangelist, not like what the, you know, your Benny Hens with the big crowds, but kind of like a local access type of a style of a televangelist.

I'm not sure what the word, the television preacher, where that he was talking about how the rapture was going to be happening. And he gave a specific date and leading up to that date, he did several television interviews. And these are some clips from some of those to help give you an idea of how, of what he was talking about, what that meant and what he was doing. I started in Oakland, California, at the headquarters of a fundamentalist Christian broadcaster, Harold Camping. He thinks the end is pretty near. You're predicting the end of the world for... September. Right. So do you want to take us through...

In Matthew 24, verse 21, it says, And then there will be great tribulation such as this world has never known nor ever shall know. In other words, it's the end. The evidence in the Bible points to the fact that September 6th of 1994 will be the last day... Let's circle around that. ...of the final tribulation period. First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth. Okay. Fifteenth day. No, I'm not completely clear on what's happened on September 6th.

Lots is going to happen. When I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal and, lo, there was a great earthquake. That's this day right here. Excuse me. What is the authority that makes you think that you know we can't know that time? I come with all kinds of information and proofs and the signs that indicate we're there. Remember, the Bible, the numbers are words. Numbers are words. Well, now, the number 17 is a word. Does it have spiritual meaning?

Yes, indeed. It does have spiritual meaning. Five times ten times seventeen times five times ten times seventeen. And those are dramatically significant numbers. And one more time. Five times ten times seventeen times five times ten times seventeen equals... Seven hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred, which are the number of days inclusively from April 1, 33 AD, and May 21, 2011, when the rapture occurs. So... So he uses some kind of a numerology where he tries to decode when the so-called rapture is.

And he, of course, his first prediction was in the 1990s. And when that didn't come true, he did some more math and, you know, realized he forgot to carry the one. And he realized, oh, no, it shows that it's in May of 2011. And when they were leading up to this May 21, 2011 date, they put up billboards all over the country. People quit their jobs, sold their homes, cashed out their, you know, 401ks, and spent all of their money buying advertisements to warn people about the rapture coming May 21, 2011. And so... And then, of course, it didn't happen, right? But they were so convinced that it would happen, right? When they put up these billboards, what did they say?

You know, they said, the Bible guarantees it. I don't know, you know, this is a pretty bad guarantee. I don't know if this is a money back guarantee or what that means or what they're trying to say there. But it's very clear that, you know, this guarantee that they supposedly said came from the Bible wasn't true. That the rapture wasn't there. So we look at throughout time, there are, you know, more modern times. Some predictions that said that, you know, after that Donald Trump wouldn't finish his first, you know, wouldn't finish out his term. But then after him would be Mike Pence. And, you know, and then that when that didn't happen, they had to change that. And these things have happened over and over again of either timing of the second coming or timing of the rapture.

And, you know, time and time again, these dates didn't come up. Now, of course, I'm not, you know, as a firm believer in the second coming of Jesus Christ, I'm not saying that it's not going to happen. But when we look at the methodology that is being used to get Christians out of the battle, it has a very specific origin and mindset. And its originators share a very unbiblical worldview. And it's a new modern invention. It's not something that's been around forever. Because the founding fathers, can you imagine if they believed that, you know, the rapture was going to happen? And so they said, oh, look how evil King George is being.

That means that the Lord is coming even quicker now. And so we just have to hope that the king is going to get more and more evil, because that means that the Lord's coming is coming even closer. Or that they said, hey, it doesn't matter because there's nothing we can do about it. And so if we try to fight it, then we're actually fighting against God. And so we just need to allow the evil to continue. But they understood that it was their duty. It was their Christian duty was to stand up for liberty. And that's why 27 of the founding fathers were members of the clergy. And that the English themselves called the move towards independence a Presbyterian rebellion.

Because the rapture idea, that concept of the rapture hadn't arrived yet. That is a new modern invention post-war for independence. And it has, again, like I said, a very specific agenda behind it. That would have prevented the founding fathers from doing what they did if it had existed during their time frame. So, again, the founding fathers knew that it was their duty. John Adams said that the general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. So it was Christianity. It was their Christian faith. It was their faith in Christ and his ultimate return that led them to fight for independence, that led them to fight for liberty. Again, we have his cousin Samuel Adams saying that we have this day restored the sovereign to whom alone men ought to be obedient.

He reigns in heaven and with a proprietor's eye beholds his subjects, assuming that freedom of thought and dignity and self-direction which he bestowed upon them. So, again, when their fight for independence wasn't trying to push off the inevitable, it was to restore God as sovereign over America. And, again, it was their firm belief in the Bible that their rebellion to tyrants was, in fact, obedience to God. And so, but then we see after the war for independence, about a generation later in the 1830s, a shift begins. And, of course, it doesn't begin in America because this would have never caught hold in America in the very, very early stages of this push towards this new ideology called the rapture. And so, that shift begins with two individuals, Margaret MacDonald from Scotland, as well as John Nelson Darby. This is in the late 1820s and early 1830s when this new concept begins to be taught. So, we're talking, so we're over 1800 years of traditional Christianity and then a new doctrine starts to be introduced into Christianity for a specific purpose. So, who is Margaret MacDonald? Margaret MacDonald are a family.

They were healers. They believed in speaking in tongues, interpret tongues. They were kind of like your holy rollers, but over in Scotland was the attitude. And Margaret MacDonald, in the spring of 1830, had expressed her belief, which resulted from her study of the scriptures, that Christians would be raptured or translated from the earth prior to the tribulation. So, they didn't have any responsibility to make the world a better place because before things got really bad, they were going to be taken up anyways. And so, in a so-called revelation that she received, she said, It was first the awful state of the land that was pressed upon me. I saw the blindness and infatuation of the people to be very great. I felt the cry of liberty just to be the hiss of the serpent, to drown them in perdition.

It was just no God. So, she's saying that liberty itself, the cry of liberty, was the hiss of the serpent. It was the doctrine of the devil. And that there was no God in it. So, it was anti-God. And so, she starts to promote this idea, along with her rapture ideology, that to be involved in public affairs, to be involved in liberty, to be involved in government and preventing evil from oppressing the masses through government, she taught this idea that liberty itself and involvement in it was anti-Christ, was anti-God. That was what she was teaching.

And so, now we have kind of a protege or somebody that learned from her, a guy by the name of John Nelson Darby. And Darby was educated as a lawyer, but became an Anglican priest in 1826, then let the Anglican Church to form his Brethren movement in 1830. And Darby visited the MacDonald home in about the middle of 1830, and first presented the new pre-tribulation rapture doctrine to the Brethren in late 1830 or early 1831. The exact timing of all that isn't exactly clear, but it was something that we know about that time, was when he started to bring the teachings of Margaret MacDonald into his little group called the Brethren. And the new doctrine did not by any means receive a unanimous acceptance. In fact, when he started to present it to his group, this was seen by those in his organization, by not all of them, but by a good portion of them, to be a new doctrine.

That was strange to Christianity. And so they actually had a split from this Brethren movement when he really started to push this concept of the rapture onto his congregation. And so he starts spreading, and Darby introduced the ideas of the secret rapture of the church and of the parenthesis of prophetic fulfillment between the 69th and 67th weeks of Daniel. So going back to one of the visions of Daniel and regarding the last days and talking and shoehorning this concept of this secret rapture where there was no warning and that only those that were believers and had accepted Christ would be raptured and everyone else was basically out of luck.

So it's kind of interesting where you have this idea of a secret rapture where there's no warning, and then you have the Herald Camping Group where they're like spending all their money to warn everyone of this coming rapture. But the concept still is the same in the time period of when they said it was going to happen. These two concepts constituted the basic tenets of the system of theology since referred to as dispensationalism. So that's when this concept and this doctrine started to arise within Christianity. And his gospel spread to America and became part of the Schofield Reference Bible. And the propagation of the Schofield Reference Bible is what led to really McDonald's and Darby's doctrine, this new doctrine becoming mainlined and mainstream amongst Christianity. And so the rapture, just kind of to encapsulate what it is that it means. It's the idea that believers will be taken up to heaven while the wicked burn leading up to the return of the Savior.

And that any effort to oppose evil, therefore, is working against the events of the second coming. Okay, so no involvement in liberty because you are working against the events of the second coming if you're involved in liberty, according to this new doctrine amongst those Christians. So again, the rapture was popularized in recent years by the Left Behind series, which a series of books that which became movies. The first set of movies starred Kirk Cameron, who has now denounced this doctrine. And then they had a more recent series with Nick Cage. And then, of course, historically, since the early 1800s, through the Schofield Reference Bible. So who was Cyrus Schofield, the author of this Reference Bible? He studied law in the 1860s. He became law partners with a politician of John J. Ingalls.

And then he was elected to the Kansas legislature. And then he was forced to resign in 1873 for corruption. In 1879, age 36, he claims to become a Christian. His wife, who was Catholic, filed for divorce. And then he began studying under a Dr. James H. Brooks, who was a promoter of the new rapture doctrine. And then in the Topeka Daily Capital in August of 1881, they reported, quote, So, Cyrus Schofield, right? So, Cyrus Schofield, right? What was the corruption that he was involved with? It was fraud.

He was involved in con games and forgeries and just ditched his family without any way to take care of themselves. And then fled to Canada. And then nothing heard of him until within the past two years when he turned up in St. Louis, where he had a wealthy widowed sister living who had generally come to the front and squared up Cyrus's little follies and foibles by paying good rounds, round sums of money. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I'm just looking at the comments on the, in the, in the YouTube chat and Camping didn't, Harold Camping did not return the money to his followers. That's for sure. So, now we go to the Schofield Bible and its inclusion of these rapture, this rapture doctrine, this new doctrine that was not seen in Christianity until the 1830s. So, Schofield began work on his reference Bible in 1903 after he and his friend Gableen had secured financial backing to enable Schofield to drop most of his pastoral duties and spend almost full time on the project.

So, he was able to raise a bunch of money from different individuals in the establishment to work on his study Bible. So, the Schofield Bible itself, and I think I'm going to mention it in a second, didn't change any of the actual words in the Bible itself. It was much more nefarious in that. It was a reference Bible, meaning it had references on the bottom or, you know, somewhere on the page, depending on the edition that you have, either in the, in the column or the, or on the, on the footnote of the page, that told you what the scripture meant. So, that way, when you read the scriptures and you, you know, either didn't have confidence in your ability to read, or you wanted somebody else to tell you what it meant, then you had it interpreted for you, instead of you just reading the plain language of the text. And that's, and so, it wasn't nefarious in the, you know, openly nefarious in changing the wording of the Bible, as some modern translations have.

What it does is it tells the reader how to interpret what they just read. And so, some of the financial backers for this Bible were Lyman Stewart, the president of Union Oil, Francis Fitch, a member of Plymouth Brethren and the head of a printing company, and Alwyn Ball, a real estate broker and member of the large New York real estate firm, John Buss, a St. Louis businessman, John T. Pyre, the owner and New York representative of Carson, Priory, and Scott, large Chicago department store. So, we have really just establishment guys that wanted to ensure that the establishment line was included in this new reference Bible, so that their agenda could be how Christians would interpret the Bible.

Because you're not, you know, they recognize that they can't get Christians to just deny Christ, right? You're not going to, people have died, you know, for the last 2,000 years, being forced to die to deny their testimony. Or, you know, or if they wanted to live, right? That they had to deny it. And so, they knew that that wasn't how you get Christians to deny Christ. And so, what they do is they invent a new doctrine and say that that is the doctrine, that that is what the Bible says. And so, that way, if you're, you know, you're a Bible believer, you believe that you're believing the Scriptures, that you're not denying Christ, you're just believing what this guy told you the Scriptures mean.

And so, you get to turn the Bible and what Christ really taught on its head and throw it at the garbage. So, that you're denying Christ by denying His Word, by accepting somebody else's Word of what the Scriptures say. So, continuing on, So, their whole point at Oxford University Press was to promote things that were teaching Fabian Socialism, or things that would get people to reject traditional Christianity. And so, that's why they took that on and were the first publishers of the Schofield Reference Bible. The Bible itself promotes in every passage relevant to the question, the pre-tribulation rapture and related doctrines that were first espoused by Irving and Darby around the year 1830. And MacDonald.

So, and then with this distribution, it was able to get into churches quickly and easily, providing interpretations new to Christianity, rejected by Christianity for the previous 1900 years. So, because, you know, Oxford University Press being this huge distribution of books and very prestigious, and so it was very easy to get churches all over the world, especially in the United States at this point, to accept these Bibles. Like, oh, wasn't this great? You know, it's a Bible. They didn't change any of the words of the Scriptures.

Fantastic. And then the pastors would start to use the references as in their talks on how to interpret certain scriptures in the Bible.

So many churches considering adherence to, now, now we have is churches all across the world considering adherence to the Schofield interpretation as a test of orthodoxy, that you're not a real Christian if you don't accept Schofield's interpretation of scriptures.

So, in fact, we also see it not only introducing and popularizing the concept of the rapture, but it also got into what we see now with the promotion of Zionism and the state of Israel, where the Schofield Bible starts to interpret the Bible as saying that Jews are still God's chosen people, and that the Jews are to, that we're to support the state of Israel and whatever it does. And we see that in published, you know, in talks that are put out there by Christians and pastors all over the world. And one of, we start to see this in publications also, in this publication called Faith Aflame, where Zion is promoted as an essential part of a rapture theology, Okay. It says, The Jewish nation is by far the greatest evidence of the imminent return of the Lord.

And so what the Schofield Bible does and those churches that adopted it as their teachings was that what is going on in Israel today is a part of the rapture cult doctrine, where every little move and every little thing is either designed to promote the rapture or designed to get people to think that it's happening any moment now. Because if people are watching the events that are happening and saying that this is all a part of prophecy and that it should not be opposed, it should not be challenged, that it has to happen, then everything that Israel does is now to be supported, or you are an anti-Semite, you are anti-Christ, and that everything that's being done there is being done in compliance with Scripture and compliance with God's will to usher in the return of the Savior.

And that everything going on there is a prime example of that.

And then the Schofield Bible itself says that, wonderfully fulfilled in the history of the dispersion, it has invariably fared ill with the people who have persecuted the Jew, well with those who have protected him. The future will still more remarkably prove this principle. So this is where, I don't know if you've seen recently the interview with Ted Cruz and Carson, what's his name, Carson? I'm having a blank on his full name, but Ted Cruz and Carson. Oh, what's that? Tucker Carlson, thank you.

Tucker Carlson, yes. And how you have Ted Cruz repeating this line that those that bless Israel will be blessed and those that curse Israel will be cursed. So he's not getting that from the Scriptures, he's getting that from, that interpretation of it, from the Schofield Reference Bible. Further on, the Bible says, his references say, the gift of the land is modified by prophecies of three dispossessions and restorations.

Two dispositions and restorations have been accomplished. Israel is now in the third dispersion, from which she will be restored at the return of the Lord as king under the Davidic covenant. And so Christians are being taught this. You see government officials, you see pastors, and you see advocates of this calling themselves Christians, saying that this is the only way, the Christian way to interpret the Scriptures. But prior to the Schofield Bible coming out, this interpretation of Israel, of Zion, and Zionism, was foreign to Christians.

It was actually seen as anti-Christ to promote this idea.

And that might surprise you, because most people today don't even know what the pre-Scofield Bible version of Israel and Zionism was. And so I want to go through some of those Scriptures, right? Well, what is Israel as taught by Christianity from the resurrection of Christ until the rapture ideology's introduction with Darby and the Schofield Bible.

So, we go through, this is in Revelation chapters 2 and 3, in both chapters, verse 9. We read, Okay? So, this Scripture, a lot of people will dismiss it as, oh, that's anti-Semitic.

Well, it's in the Bible. It's not anti-Semitic. That's just, you know, just plain as day. Anybody that wants to argue with that is just not worth arguing with because it's ridiculous. So, we have to ask ourselves the question, because, right, what's the synagogue?

It's a church. So, I will make of them the church of Satan, right? Because, say they are Jews and are not. Who are those that are Jews according to traditional Christianity?

So, asking yourself, what did Paul consider himself? Did Paul call himself a Christian? Right? Did Peter call himself a Christian? No. That was, that is, that was, that was an invention of the persecutors of those that followed Christ.

They all considered themselves Jews because they were of the tribe of Judah until, of course, the baptisms and conversion of Gentiles, of non-Israelites. and that point because the other tribes of Israel were scattered, those living in Jerusalem were of Judah.

And so, they call themselves Jews. And so, when they say they are Jews and are not, but do lie, so, he, so, we see here the Lord saying that the individuals that are, you have real Jews and you have those that claim to be Jews and are not, and the ones that claim to be Jews and are not are of the church of Satan.

So, a real Jew, right, let's, let's see, what is a quote-unquote real Jew? According to the scriptures, in Galatians, chapter 3, verses 7 and 29, we read, know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham and if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise.

so, you are of Israel, you are a real Jew, basically, according to, you know, first century Christianity's use of the word. You are of Israel if you are Christ's. For not all who are, in this, we go to Romans, chapter 9, for not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel.

So, just because you, you know, you claim that as your ancestry, doesn't mean you are Israel. It is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise who are counted as offspring.

What is the promise? Christ. Christ is the promise. So, those that are following Christ are the real Jews according to Revelation. and the ones that reject Christ are the ones that say they are Jews but are not.

And so, when we actually look at the wording being used, then we see that the whole interpretation that we find in the Schofield Bible is a rejection of the previous 1800 years of Christianity.

if that makes sense. So, I hope that makes sense. So, we continue on, right? As we see this, we need to understand that this is designed to get us to support a group of people that the scriptures say, say they are Jews but are not because they do not accept Christ and that they are of the synagogue of Satan.

so now you have the globalists, those that want you out of the freedom battle promoting the idea that anybody that rejects that those that reject Christ are rejecting Christ.

It's this Orwellian doublespeak where you have to support those that rejected Christ and that we do not call them, we call them Jews and that those that follow Christ are not a part of the covenant whereas we see in the actual Bible that it is not, that your ancestry, your genealogy isn't what makes you a Jew or Israel or God's covenant people.

it is those that are children of the promise which means you are Christ's that count you as offspring of Israel in that sense, right?

So what is the fruit of the rapture? What is the result of those people saying that the Lord is returning any minute now and so we must not support the cause of liberty because that will that is an effort to thwart Christ.

They say that you know, don't worry, the Lord will protect you and the world is so corrupt and heading towards destruction at such a pace that you can't stop it so why try?

And we see this actually implemented writing in the Moody Bible Institute, who, of course, was an early adopter of the Schofield Bible. In their publication of December of 1933, wrote, it may be however that our Lord shall come before such problems of communism enter upon their serious solution and thus many if not all of the readers will be spared the trouble of grappling with them.

So what we see here is they're saying because the, the second, the rapture is going to happen any minute now that communism you know, it was just a few years before we go to the 1917, right, the revolution. And so it's only roughly been just, you know, what is it? 10, 13, 15 years roughly since the beginning of the major global push towards communism. And so it's in early stages and they're thinking, hey, we don't need to worry about it. It's not spreading to America and the rapture is going to happen soon anyway, so it's not something we're going to have to deal with.

And then in that same year, we have 430 ministers in New York signed a petition for the United States to recognize the Soviet Union. So in the petition, it doesn't get into the idea, we've got to hurry up, we've got to promote evil so that can usher in the return of the Lord. But what we see is these ministers are, so-called Christians, are supporting communism because they don't have to deal with it. And so they want to make peace, you know, or they think they're going to usher in the Second Coming.

And so the fruit of the rapture doctrine is to do nothing against evil and to allow evil to flourish. And so we have 200 million communist Chinese killed because of the regime. We have 100 million Soviets that were killed during Stalin's reign. And of course before and after those things. And so we have literally hundreds of millions of people massacred and tortured because Christians refused to do their duty because they did not want to stop the rapture from happening. And they thought that it was not going to be an issue or that it would be thwarting the rapture. So that is the fruit of this.

And so this was during the early stages of the rapture movement. Christians were calling it out for what it was, though, even though we've forgotten this, because now you've got to be an Orthodox Christian. You have to believe in this. But we have Shirley Jackson Case, who wrote an article called The Premillennial Menace, where he says that the present moment premillennial... premillennialism is a serious menace to our democracy, I would say, because that's when that word was starting to become in vogue, but our country, and is all the more dangerous because it masquerades under the cloak of piety. Thus, the premillennialist throws up the sponge. He raises the white flag of surrender, confessing himself hopelessly incapable of successfully combating the forces of evil in the world. Premillennialism is described as a dangerous spiritual virus that infects and weakens Christianity. And the most helpless of all Gospels.

So they were calling it out for what it was. But of course, it started to creep in. But there are still today some pastors that are willing to call it out for what it is. Out of Montana, Pastor Chuck Baldwin, who actually ran for president on the Constitution Party, has given several talks. I want to play a clip of... he is saying that the actual duty of a Christian is, as we prepare for the Second Coming, that rejecting this concept of feudalism, or I'm sorry, of fatalism, that there's nothing you can do about it, that has entered into Christianity, what is the true biblical stance of a Christian preparing for the return of the Lord?

A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. And he called his 10 servants and delivered them 10 pounds and said unto them, Occupy till I come. And I really, I really like this statement that Jesus uses in this parable. Because again, the premise is the establishing of God's kingdom on earth. In Acts chapter 1, he told them whenever they ask him after his resurrection, as we just read, it's not for you to know. It's not for you to know. Tell that to these prophecy preachers on television. Write them a little note and say, it's not for you to know. And you don't know. And you are deceiving people by telling them that you do know. It is not for you to know. You're pretending that you know. You don't know. But here, Jesus again, right before Passion Week, right before the resurrection, he's telling them, Occupy till I come. Till I come. When are you coming? It doesn't matter. Occupy till I come.

The word occupy... In the Greek means to take care of business. To take care of business. That's what the word means. And it fits the parable because Jesus is describing men that are given an economic assignment or a financial assignment. Here I've given you a pound, the nobleman says in the parable, and I want you, my servants, to invest this pound and I want you to make good use of this pound and I want you to show a return for the investment that I've given you. I've invested a pound in you and I want you to show me that I've invested it wisely and that you're going to show a return for this investment. So that's why the word occupy is used in this parable.

But for us, the word is so fitting because it tells us that whenever Jesus chooses to return, and no one knows when that is or will be, we have a job to do, and that job is to take care of business. So whatever the business is that God has given us to do, we are to do it faithfully. until he comes.

Okay, so we see here, right? We have a stewardship, as the scriptures say in Luke 19, where he grabbed that from, that Jesus talks about a nobleman who leaves to receive a kingdom. And before he goes, he gives his servants money and tells them to occupy until I come. So don't sit around waiting, right? Go to work, do business, produce something, be engaged, make the garden look beautiful, make it better when I come back than it was when I left. So when he returns, he calls his servants to account. The ones who actually use what they were given and then increased it, right, made things better, are rewarded with even greater responsibility and authority.

But the servant who did nothing, who just hid what he was given out of fear is rebuked. What little he had is taken away and given to someone who was productive. So the message is clear. Christ didn't call his followers to passively wait for his return. He told them to occupy, to work, to build, to be productive with what they've been given until he comes back. Those who faithfully do something with what they've been entrusted with are given more, but those who refuse to act can lose even what they had.

So, right, our role is to occupy until the Lord comes again, to take care of business. Not to kind of navel gaze about when the rapture is going to be, right? Not to have all of these different speculations, or understanding what it is that this doctrine, that this idea of Israel, modern day Israel and Zionism and the rapture came from, that it was a program of the conspiracy that seeks to destroy the liberty of mankind created this thing to get you out of the battle as a Christian. That the scriptures themselves, as you read them, say to make things better until he comes. Not to sit back and watch things happen and get worse. Not to watch the world fall into disaster. Not to support things that are supported and sustained and organized by and started by a satanic conspiracy.

And that's what too many Christians have fallen for because they don't know the origins of the doctrine and they don't know that it's a new doctrine, that it didn't start until the 1800s. And they don't know what the Christian doctrine was from the first century for basically 1800 years. They don't know what the doctrine was for 1800 years. And so they were easily fooled into buying this new doctrine that allows them to sit back and just, hey, you know, this is great. Things are getting horrible. That means Jesus is coming back soon. I don't have to worry about anything. Isn't this great? And then generations go on because, right, from that Moody magazine, they said that they didn't have to worry about communism because the Lord was going to return before we had to deal with it or the rapture was going to happen before we had to deal with it.

And then you have all the other examples that I showed earlier with Harold Camping and with the Daybells and with all the different people coming up with dates saying, this is going to happen here. Look at this. You don't have to worry about anything because we don't. The world's going to end anyways, or you're going to be raptured up anyways tomorrow or next week or next year. And so you don't have to worry about making the world a better place. You don't have to worry about defending righteousness and fighting against evil because you're not even going to be here anyways.

And so they get you to basically allow the conspiracy's agenda to continue unopposed because you think you're following scripture because you're reading or listening to someone that has interpreted it according to this conspiracy-funded, conspiracy-distributed reference Bible or commentary on the Bible, as opposed to reading what the Bible or the scriptures themselves say and what our duty actually is.

So with that, as we conclude tonight's live on YouTube, thank you for joining us. Again, for those of you who have just joined us, every single Monday night at 7.30 Mountain Time, members of the Tree of Liberty Society do a live training like this. Members from all over the world come together to learn a principle of liberty or learn a principle of the conspiracy and what they can do about it. And so if you want to be a part of those live trainings every single week, go to treeoflibertysociety.com, become a member today. Or if you join the YouTube channel, you can get a recording of the live training within a week of the training in the member section of our YouTube channel.

So thank you for joining us. And now we're going to, our members, we're all going to go over and have our open forum where we'll have question and answers and discuss this topic more as well as have other topics. It's open forum. People can talk about whatever they want. And it's a good way to rub shoulders for folks that don't get to see or talk to Liberty people on a regular basis.

So I hope you'll become a member and join with us. But we'll have a closing prayer and then we'll end this live stream. To better understand the name and what we're about, it's important to go back to the founding generation and the symbol of the Liberty Tree. The Liberty Tree was far more than a patriotic symbol. It functioned as a physical rallying point for popular resistance, a kind of grassroots command center for what contemporaries openly called rebellion. Seen through today's standards, many of the ideas and actions associated with the Liberty Tree would be labeled extreme, radical, or even insurrectionary.

The Liberty Tree was most famously an elm tree in Boston beginning in 1765 during the resistance to the stamp act it became the meeting place for the Sons of Liberty and a symbol of direct popular sovereignty, the idea that the people themselves not institutions were the ultimate authority.

Similar liberty trees appeared throughout the colonies each serving as a local note of resistance. The liberty tree represented a shift from petitioning authority to defying it. Before 1765, Colonists protested largely through legal petitions, pamphlets, and appeals to Parliament. After the Liberty Tree, protest became public, coercive, and sometimes violent. The people, not corrupted courts or legislatures, became the primary enforcer of political norms. The Liberty Tree symbolized the belief that laws violating natural rights were not binding. that obedience to unjust laws was morally wrong.

This included refusal to comply with taxes, obstruction of courts, intimidation of judges and customs officials. Colonists used the Liberty Tree for public pledges to resist Parliament, for burning of British symbols, and ceremonial declarations of loyalty to liberty over law.

The colonists were acting under natural law, the ancient English right of resistance, and the belief that government existed only to secure life, liberty, and property. And that once government violated those ends, it was considered not merely corrupt, but actually illegitimate.

Now today, the Tree of Liberty Society believes that American support of the founder's cause shouldn't be merely in terms of the results, but in the principles that brought those results about, and seek to read what the founders read, and do what the founders did, so that we can bring about what the founders did. We reject libertinism, though, or the false freedom of do as thou wilt, but embrace the principles of liberty in the fashion of the founders, in the spirit of liberty under God and His laws. As we build strength with your help, we will be in the same position of the founders to throw off the chains of tyranny and again have a biblically moral and free society. Now, how do we do this?

We do it through the printing and publishing and distribution of books, production of videos, pamphlets, exclusive member trainings, interviews, public outreach, public gatherings and presentations, and just so much more. So I want to ask you, will you show the courage of the founding fathers and join with us today? Go to treeoflibertysociety.com and click on the join tab and become a member today. Or if you're not ready for that, just make sure you sign up for email or text alerts, which you can also do at treeoflibertysociety.com.

I hope you're one of those that are the moral few, the brave, those that are like the founders. that are willing to stand up and become a member of the Tree of Liberty Society and join us in restoring lost liberty.