The newspaper has been filled with news about the Sibuea sect these last few days. While I cannot say that the teachings of the Rapture in the Bible is wrong, but I can see clearly that what Sibuea is teaching is wrong. The activities of this sect has made it hard for us who wants to do evangelism as now people have put a bad stamp on Christians, especially those who believe and base their teachings and evangelism on the rapture and end of days (like me, actually I like to stress the importance of coming to Christ to those I wanted to share my faith by telling them about the rapture and how little time they have). Let's take a look at the teaching and what's wrong....

He said that Jesus would come and lift one by one believers that He wants to take. This contradicts the idea in the Bible that the rapture happens in an instant, that means *blip* and they're all gone, like what you see in the Left Behind. Moreover he said that the only people that He will take are only the Sibuean followers and He will come only to the church in Bandung where all the Sibuean followers are gathering. Clearly this is wrong, as the Bible said that He will lift ALL of His chosen people from ALL over the world. The idea that only the Sibuean followers that were gathering on the church would be lifted in the Rapture is simply unacceptable and bizarre.

The second one is that the world will be reigned by the Antichrist from 10 November 2003 to 11 May 2007, a period of 3.5 years and then the world will be destructed and the Earth will be no more. Clearly this man hasn't read much from the Bible. The Tribulation will consist of SEVEN years, starting from the signing of the peace treaty with Israel (and where's the treaty now then?). The first half will be the period of the Early Tribulation where the Antichrist claims his throne over the world, and then by the beginning of the second half, the Great Tribulation, four murders will commence, that is the murder of the Antichrist, the two witnesses (assumed Elijah and Moses) and the leader of the one world faith. The Antichrist will then rise again, this time indwelt by the Devil himself, and then the period of the Beast Mark begins. After 3.5 years then Christ will come in the Glorious Appearing over the Meggido in the last battle of Armageddon. It's all there in the Bible, just read it.

So if the rapture happened at the presumed date of 10 November 2003, the Glorious Appearing would be at 11 November 2010. And the world will NOT be destructed at that time, because starting from the Glorious Appearing, Christ will establish His 1000-years Millenial Reign on the Earth. After that, then will the devil be released from his prison and he will go to deceive the world once more and prepares the final war against the Kingdom of Christ in Jerusalem. And after the devil is defeated, he will be cast to hell, and then the world will be no more, and there will be the Final Judgement, and then we will all go with Christ to Heaven while the Earth, sky and everything will not be found in their places. Presuming the dates above, the millenial reign will be from 2010 to 3010 AD. Now you can see that the Sibuea teachings are really wrong and defies the Revelations.

I hope this can help you to explain to others about the mistakes of this Sibuea Sect, and I hope this matter won't hinder all of you from sharing your faith to others and harvesting souls for the Lord. God bless you all...


••• Thursday, November 13, 2003 •••