JIMMY EVANS CONTINUES TO SPEW FALSE TEACHING!

 Prepare for Famine Before the Rapture - Pastor Jimmy Evans

Jimmy Evans of Daystar infamy continues to spew false teaching despite being exposed and humiliated as a spiritual abuser.1 Evans should have repented and stepped down after this disgraceful debacle, but false teachers do not give up easily. His false teaching on remarriage has probably led many into adulterous marriages, not to mention his blasphemous attempt to sanctify the adulterous marriage of Joni Lamb! Evans is now channeling the entirety of his dubious skills into the pretrib rapture and newspaper eisegesis.

The Restrainer

And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. (2 Thessalonians 2:6-7).

Evans: "He who now restrains, capital H as in God.. Now the 'he' is the Holy Spirit and the church.."  The Bible does not identify "the Holy Spirit and the church" as 'he who now restrains'. (2 Thessalonians 2:7). The identity of "the restrainer" i.e. one who holds back the full manifestation of lawlessness, has been widely debated with interpretations ranging from the Holy Spirit, the church, Satan, human government etc. The prewrath view that Michael the Archangel is the restrainer is compelling. Alan Kurschner: " In the April 2000 volume of The Journal of Theological Studies, Colin R. Nicholl published a seminal article, 'Michael, The Restrainer Removed (2 Thess. 2:6-7),' demonstrating that Michael is the Restrainer, which would prove to put an end to the 'Who is the Restrainer' debate given the cogent and convincing argumentation."2

1. Contemporary Jewish literature viewed the characteristics of Michael having eschatological pre-eminence as the chief opponent of Satan and Restrainer of God’s people.
2. Michael is viewed as a celestial restrainer of God’s people in Daniel 10–12, the passage serving as
the source for Paul’s exposition in 2 Thessalonians 2:3–8.
3. Daniel’s use of the Hebrew term ʿmd comports with the activity of the restrainer in 2 Thessalonians 2:6–7.
4. The Greek term parerchomai in Daniel 12:1 of the Septuagint (LXX) means, “to pass by,” which corresponds with the ceasing of restraint in 2 Thessalonians 2:6–7.
5. Early Rabbinic interpretation of Daniel 12:1 perceived Michael as “passing aside” or “withdrawing” just after Antichrist’s establishment near or at the temple mount (Dan 11:45), just before the eschatological unequaled tribulation against God’s people (Dan 12:1).
6. Revelation 12:7–17 supports viewing Michael as the Restrainer because it links the cessation of Michael’s war against the dragon with the unprecedented persecution of God’s people, which is consistent with 2 Thessalonians 2:6–7 and Daniel 11:45–12:1.3

The Assyrian 

Evans' idea that the Antichrist will be "the Assyrian" and that he may be Islamic is based on the poor exegesis of Joel Richardson which has been thoroughly debunked by Chris White.* The Assyrian is mentioned in Isaiah 7:17-20,8:3-7,10:5-19, and Micah 5:5. The prophecy in Isaiah was fulfilled with the defeat of the Assyrians when God protected Jerusalem by sending an angel to destroy 185,000 Assyrian soldiers surrounding the city. The person referred to as "the Assyrian" was the Assyrian king Sennacherib who was killed by his own sons. (Isaiah 37:36-38 cf. 2 Kings 19:35; Ezekiel 31: 3–17). There is no indication in the scriptures that this prophecy has a double fulfilment. Micah 5:5 is a hyperthetical clause within a millennial passage and refers to the Assyrians rather than to an individual. This passage cannot possibly refer to the Antichrist since he will be in the lake of fire during the millennium. (Revelation 19:20,20:10). The Hebrew conjunction "ki" is a versatile particle used to express causation, condition, time, and emphasis and can be translated in a number of different ways i.e. for, because, when, if, surely, indeed, that. The Net Bible says: Should (ki) the Assyrians try to invade our land and attempt to set foot in our fortresses.. (Micah 5:5). Any assumptions built on Richardson's faulty assertions about the Antichrist are undone by close scrutiny and will result in an erroneous picture of eschatology. (1 John 4:1).

The pretrib camp teaches the doctrine of "imminence," i.e. no prophesied event can happen before the rapture. As such, in their view, the rapture must happen before the 70th week of Daniel, i.e. before the first seal of Revelation is broken. It appears that Evans has forgotten the core pretrib doctrine of imminence because in this video he asserts that famine will precede the rapture. In the Book of Revelation, shortages occur during the third seal and famine occurs during the fourth seal.  

And when the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales. And I heard what sounded like a voice from among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine.”And when the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth. (Revelation 6:5-8).

I was unable to verify the precise meaning of Evans' statement "Prepare for famine before the rapture" because the video was cut short. If viewers want to hear the rest of Evans' substandard teaching on this subject, they will have to join his subscribers for "exclusive content". The unethical practice of giving paying viewers"special privileges" for "exclusive content" is extremely problematic. (Matthew 10:8; James 2:2-4). The class system created by teachers offering access to extra information for money is another one of Evans' noxious practices. Not only does Evans teach false doctrines, he expects people to pay for them! 

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. (2 Peter 2:3).

* The Islamic Antichrist Debunked - The Assyrian in Isaiah and Micah  

1. Full Audio of Daystar Meeting | The Roys Report

2. Archangel Michael, The Restrainer Removed, 2 Thess. 2:6-7 – PreWrathRapture.Com
3. Archangel Michael, the Restrainer Removed, 2 Thessalonians 2:6–7 (Part 2 of 2) – Ep. 35