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To Oppose Israel’s Existence Is to Oppose The Will And Plan Of God – Jim Showers - https://harbingersdaily.com/to-oppose-israels-existence-is-to-oppose-will-and-plan-of-god/
Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel last October and the subsequent war exposed the current global rise of antisemitism. Protesters justified Hamas’s massacre and declared support for the terrorist organization with the rallying cry “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” But many who chant this phrase don’t understand its implications. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is a cry for the elimination of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. It demands the removal (or murder) of all Jewish people from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Calling for Israel’s demise is not only antisemitic; it’s genocidal. Many within the church sadly fail to understand modern Israel’s existence as an act of God’s will. Some of these skeptics believe the State of Israel’s establishment was an overreaction to the Holocaust of World War II, and they hold the nation responsible for all violence in the Middle East. Such thinking indicts God for permitting Israel’s rebirth and allowing the Jewish people’s return to their ancient homeland—a development that began in the late 19th century, prior to the Holocaust. Yet, God did exactly what He said He would do through the prophets (Isa. 11:11; 66:8; Jer. 16:14–15; Ezek. 20:33–34; Hos. 3:4–5). He declared the Jewish people will be replanted in their land, never to be uprooted again (Amos 9:15). Thus, to oppose Israel’s existence is to oppose God’s will and plan. This defiance also impugns God’s sovereignty, implying that He was uninvolved in bringing about Israel’s return or failed to foresee the trouble it would cause. Claiming Israel’s regeneration was an accident accuses God of mistakenly permitting it to happen and denies that He purposefully acted to return the Jewish people home from the places to which they were scattered. But through a biblical lens, modern Israel fits neatly into God’s redemptive plan. Just as God prophesied and fulfilled the scattering of the Jewish people, He also promised to return and restore them from the four corners of the earth. The process of Israel’s regathering that began more than a century ago continues today. Modern Israel is a miracle. There is no other way to explain how the Jewish people were exiled from their Promised Land for 1,900 years and then returned. Yet, everything aligns with God’s promise to bring them back. The fact of Israel’s return and restoration is a unique historical phenomenon. Usually, an exiled nation is absorbed into the people groups it joins. It is unnatural for a nation to live in exile for centuries and keep its identity and dream to return home. No other exiled people have ever returned to their homeland to become a nation again. This is why the State of Israel is a miracle unfolding before our eyes. Israel still faces hatred and violence because the Jewish people are God’s uniquely Chosen People and the vehicle through whom He will redeem the world. But continued attempts to wipe Israel from the map, like Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, will result in utter failure. Israel will never be destroyed. One day, God will complete His plan (Rev. 21:6). He loves the Jewish people “with an everlasting love” (Jer. 31:3) and has promised they will endure forever (vv. 35–36). Seeking Israel’s destruction is a fool’s errand spearheaded by Satan, God’s enemy. The modern Jewish State of Israel is proof that God continues to fulfill His prophetic Word and that we are quickly approaching the end of this age. God’s Word Trumps Trump – Terry James - https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2024/10/06/gods-word-trumps-trump/ It appears we are, in a sense, at the end of the cosmic end game. If compared to cards, the winning hand is about to be revealed. And the outcome is not a gamble in any sense. The One who holds that winning hand cannot lose. He knows every card held by every opponent, and they are all losers. This is because they choose to not accept the hand originally given them, but rather continue determined to play by rules contrary to the One who deals only in truth. Truth is all that matters in this game, and when deliberately denying the truth, either on purpose or in ignorance, the player suffers loss to one degree or another. And now I get to the point of this metaphor. I will aim it at the presidential candidate I support in the upcoming presidential election. It is not a gentle comparison I make, because I want Mr. Trump to realize that when it comes to God’s Word, we are not in the hallway of our junior high years. It is a deadly serious matter to deny the truth—and God’s Word is the only truth there is. In this eternal high-stakes end game, your word, Mr. President, is trumped by the inerrant Word of the one who holds the hand that cannot be overridden. Your declaration recently is a most egregious misunderstanding of earthly geopolitics from God’s inerrant view. In his characteristically outspoken manner, Trump has been critical of Jews who support his opponent. At a speech addressing antisemitism Thursday night in Washington D.C., he warned that if Harris enters the White House as president, Israel would be “eradicated.” “If I don’t win this election, Israel in my opinion will cease to exist within two years, and I believe I’m 100% right,” Trump said. “If I do win, Israel will be safe and secured.”… Dr. Miriam Adelson, the widow of late casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, [Who leads the way in a large Jews-for-Trump group] spoke in favor of the candidate, saying that Jews have a “sacred duty” to vote for Trump, “in gratitude for everything he has done and trust in everything he will yet do.”… She has written that Trump “should enjoy sweeping support” among U.S. Jews and Israelis and that Trump deserves a “Book of Trump” in the Bible due to his support for Israel… She did, however, chide Trump after the event. While noting that his claims had some merit, she added, “Our people have one more secret.” Adelson quoted from the Passover Haggadah to explain what that secret is, “And this [promise] is what has stood by our ancestors and us; for it was not only one man who rose up to destroy us: in every single generation people rise up to destroy us—but the Holy One, Blessed Be He, saves us from their hands.” (“Trump warns President Harris would “eradicate” Israel but Megadonor corrects him: ‘Jews have a secret’”—Israel365 News) Donald Trump as president did much to support Israel. He has taken strong and definitive stands against anti-Semitism. For this he no doubt was at least in part brought to that high office by the Lord. But it is obvious from his rhetoric that he is woefully ignorant of the truth in this cosmic end game we’re in the midst of. This Jewish influencer/supporter has corrected him, although I’ve not seen or heard any evidence of Mr. Trump acknowledging that he was wrong by saying that if he doesn’t win this November, Israel will cease to exist within two years. Mr. President, I hope someone will pass this along to you. You can’t play junior-high word games when it comes to God’s chosen nation. And I say that as one who is praying that if we reach Election Day, you will be the victor. I pray for your safety, and for ours as a nation. That God will assure our continued traversing upon this planet is something we can’t know for certain. But the continued existence of the nation Israel is a God-guaranteed matter. God’s Holy Word trumps your words, Mr. President. Here is that Word, issued from the Holy Spirit-inspired prophet Jeremiah thousands of years ago: This is what the Lord says, “He who appoints the sun to shine by day, Who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord Almighty is His Name; Only if these ordinances vanish from My sight,” declares the Lord, “will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before Me.” (Jeremiah 31:35–36) The date of posting this article is most poignant as we remember October 7, 2023. Israel’s blood-vowed enemies inflicted the most heinous atrocities against the Jewish people since the time of Hitler’s Holocaust. This is but one more reminder of just how near the world is to entering the time known as Jacob’s trouble (Jeremiah 30: 7). But even during the time Jesus, Himself, said would be the worst in all of human history, Israel and the Jewish people will, as a chosen remnant, be preserved to go into the millennial reign of the Messiah they rejected two millennia ago. It will not be Donald J. Trump, or anyone or anything other that will bring them to that glorious head of all nations of history. It will be done by the very Word of the Living God! If his sons forsake My law, and do not walk in My judgments, if they violate My statues, and do not keep My commandments, then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. But I will not break off My loving kindness from him, nor deal falsely in My faithfulness. My covenant I will not violate, nor will I alter the utterance of My lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. His descendants shall endure forever like the moon, and the witness in the sky is faithful. 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The Danger of the Collective - By Sean Gooding - https://www.raptureready.com/2024/10/09/the-danger-of-the-collective-by-sean-gooding/ Genesis 11:1-6 “Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.’ They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4 And they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.’ 5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the Lord said, ‘Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.'” As we get closer and closer to the US elections, there is a lot of talk from the left about the collective; they have an agenda that destroys families, that will eradicate ownership, individualism, and even true Christianity, and make way only for the collective agreed-upon thinking. There is a saying that it ‘takes a village’ to raise a child, but the left has now taken that even further; now the child belongs to the village, and the parents have no power or authority over their kids. When we read the passage in the text, it does not seem that there is evil in the actions of the people. They have not too long ago come through the flood, and it would seem prudent to stay close together and work together. But this was in direct defiance of God’s command. In Genesis 9:1, God commands the sons of Noah to ‘be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.’ These folks in Genesis 11 did the fruitful and multiply part, but they did not fill the whole earth. In defiance of God, they stayed close together and agreed to build the tower at Babel. One of the hardest things to learn and to teach is that partial obedience is still rebellion. These folks understood the wrath of God. They knew God. It is possible that they were still able to see and visit the remains of the Ark. They understood that God was not a god who tolerated rebellion for long, and yet they did just that: rebelled. We know what God did here; He confused their languages and forced them to split all around the world. But for the past 4,500 years, the spiritual powers behind these types of rebellions have been working to bring the world back together. We are almost there. The EU parliament is built to picture an unfinished building like the Tower of Babel. Since we do not have actual pictures of the Tower, we do not know what it looked like. The unfinished look of the building is being observed here. In the foyer, there used to be a painting by Pieter Brueghel that depicted the Tower of Babel, and the motto is Europe: “Many tongues one voice,” is in defiance of the Lord’s confusion of the languages. Due to many protests, the painting has been removed. These folks know what they are doing; there is no ignorance here. The same spirits are working in the US and, yes, here in Canada, too. The blatant defiance of God is no longer hidden under wraps. Sadly, there is such an ignorance of the Bible and such a coordinated attack on the veracity of the Scriptures that many do not know the story of the Tower of Babel, and those that do dismiss it as mere myth. Those of us who take the Bible as the Word of God understand that there is a rebellion amongst us that is active and powerful. The people in leadership positions are not ignorant of who God is. They are just as sold out to evil as we who trust in Jesus should be sold out for good. In Genesis 6:5, God says this: “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” These modern-day folks pushing the collective all suffer from the same thinking problems; all of their thoughts are evil. From the attacks on the family unit that weaken the place of fathers, to the attacks on our education system to remove all positive mention of God or His word, to the promotion of sexuality in and amongst the youth making our girls and boys have to face the demands of sex way too early, and the attacks on the women, trying to convince them that they are just like men and vice-versa, thus smudging the very clear differences that God created and all for the purpose of creating the mindset for a collective that will defy God and all that is good. They have succeeded in creating an army of uneducated, rebellious, and carnal people who have no room for God and truthfully don’t want anything to do with God, even if they did know Him. In the meantime, the people promoting the people pushing the narrative actually believe in God. The Pharisees knew who Jesus was; they simply did not want to submit to Him. They killed the Messiah, and they knew exactly what they were doing. The leaders of today are no different; they defy God out of knowledge of who He is, and there is no claim of ignorance on their part. How many politicians who support abortion rights also claim some kind of religious affiliation? How many professing ‘Christians’ also vote for leaders that promote abortion, promote the demise of the family, promote the transgender agenda, and openly hate Israel? Why would someone who did not know who God was hate Israel? The only reason they hate Israel is because God loves her. This collective mindset is worldwide; look at what happened in COVID; people from all over the world, of all creeds and all languages, and from various backgrounds were manipulated and led to believe that all not following the collective were evil and deserved punishments. We are told that in the last days, a man’s enemies will be the people in his own home (Matthew 10:36). I stress again, back to our text, while we do not know how long after the flood this was, it is certain that many of these folk knew the flood story; maybe the elders had seen the ark, and maybe some of them knew Noah. There was no ignorance here of what God wanted them to do. God wanted the people to have kids and spread throughout the earth. God knew what was coming if they stayed in one place, and He commanded them to spread out. This is the same kind of defiance that we are witnessing here. The people who built the EU Parliament knew and believed the story of Babel; there is no other explanation for their actions. There are no coincidences in these things. At the end of the Millennial Kingdom, after the successful, peaceful, and very productive earthly reign of Jesus, Satan will still be able to raise an army to attack Jerusalem (Genesis 20:1-10). There is no claim of ignorance here, just abject rebellion. None of us know the time of the end, but we are told to observe the signs of the times. Surely, the end of the age is near. God’s dealing with Noah’s time, His destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and His punishment of Israel under the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and Rome for their open rebellion against Him, His laws, and his loving offer of redemption reminds us that God’s patience, though long, sadly, does have an end. Lord, please help us! Forgive us for being quiet for so long, for looking the other way and being indifferent for so long that evil has taken root, and no one can come and deal with it but YOU. The collective is about to run headlong into the power of the Living God, and they have been convinced by the evil one that they can win. The people of Babel thought they could defy God and win; they are wrong, and so are these deceived persons today. May the Lord have mercy on their souls, and by His grace, some will see the light, repent, and miss God’s judgment. God bless you, Dr. Sean Gooding Pastor of Mississauga Missionary Baptist Church Pastor of Bethany Baptist Church How to Connect with Us Online: https://mmbchurch.ca/ Email: [email protected] This Is Why the Death Toll from Hurricane Milton Could Be Absolutely Catastrophic - by Michael Snyder - https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/this-is-why-the-death-toll-from-hurricane-milton-could-be-absolutely-catastrophic/ A 15-foot-tall wall of water is about to slam directly into a major American city. More than 3 million people live in the Tampa Bay metropolitan area, and hundreds of thousands of them are very tightly concentrated along the coast. Most of them are attempting to evacuate, but there are apparently large numbers of local residents that are choosing not to do so. This is very foolish, because their homes are about to be underwater. Sadly, many of those that are trying to evacuate are stuck in extremely long traffic jams. Those that run low on gasoline as they sit in those traffic jams are discovering that a lot of gas stations are already totally out of fuel. In fact, as you will see below, CNN is reporting that 1,300 Florida gas stations have now run out of gasoline, and more gas stations are going dry with each passing hour. Whether willingly or unwillingly, vast numbers of people are going to end up stuck in this storm, and the death toll is likely to be extremely high. According to the National Weather Service, it appears that this will be “the worst storm to impact the Tampa area in over 100 years”… “If the storm stays on the current track, it will be the worst storm to impact the Tampa area in over 100 years,” the National Weather Service in Tampa warned, adding, “Milton continues to pose a potentially catastrophic threat to parts of the west Florida coast.” 100 years ago, not that many people lived in that part of Florida. Today, more than 3 million people live in the Tampa Bay metropolitan area. Early on Tuesday, Milton had been downgraded to a Category 4 storm, but then it strengthened again and sustained winds were back up to 155 mph… Milton had undergone stunningly rapid intensification Monday, its sustained winds reaching 180 mph. By Tuesday the wind speed dropped dramatically although still a fierce Category 4 storm. It climbed back to 155 Tuesday afternoon, just below Category 5 status. Fluctuations were expected as the storm closes in on Florida, said John Cangialosi, a specialist with the National Hurricane Center. As I write this article, sustained winds are back up to 165 miles per hour, and that officially makes Milton a Category 5 storm once again. This is a very, very unusual storm. According to one meteorologist, Milton actually produced “more than 58,000 lightning events in just 14 hours”… The amount of lightning in Hurricane Milton is “unlike any event” meteorologist Chris Vagasky has ever seen in the Atlantic Basin. Hurricane Milton’s eyewall, where the storm’s strongest winds are, exhibited more than 58,000 lightning events in just 14 hours, according to Vagasky, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That’s more than one lightning event every second, which he described as “astounding.” We have never seen anything quite like this before. Of course the most dangerous aspect of this storm for those living directly along the coast will be the storm surge. It is being projected that a 15 foot wall of water will hit Tampa like a sledgehammer, and the mayor of Tampa is warning that those that choose to stay “are going to die”… The mayor of Tampa, a city that’s in the crosshairs of Hurricane Milton, issued a grave warning to Florida residents who don’t heed calls to evacuate ahead of the monster storm. “If you choose to stay … you are going to die,” Mayor Jane Castor bluntly said on CNN while talking about the dangers of Milton, a “literally catastrophic” Category 5 hurricane that’s barreling toward the Sunshine State. A Weather Channel host named Jen Carfagno used CGI to try to show her viewers what a 15 foot storm surge will look like… Carfagno then let the simulation rise above nine feet – well above her head. The raging torrent had hit the second floor of nearby homes. She said: ‘There are few places that are safe when the water rises this high.’ Current forecasts suggest Hurricane Milton could actually trigger storm surges of 15 feet, far higher than the frightening nine feet shown by the Weather Channel. Most of the Tampa Bay area is just barely above sea level. So there will be very little resistance as a 15 foot tall wall of water starts smashing everything in sight. Thankfully, large numbers of people have decided to evacuate, but this is also creating traffic jams of epic proportions… Highways have been jammed over the past 48 hours as over a million people evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton, and time is running out before it’s too late to escape to safety. “Over a million” people are under evacuation orders, Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management told AccuWeather on Tuesday morning. Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in parts of more than a dozen Florida counties. “We have more than enough shelters ready,” Guthrie said, adding that people can visit FloridaDisaster.org to find out where shelters are open in their neighborhood. Those that didn’t fill up their vehicles ahead of time could be in very deep trouble, because 1,300 Florida gas stations are already completely out of fuel… Gas stations in many areas of Florida are running out of gasoline, as residents prepare for Hurricane Milton. Demand for gas has surged as some residents in Milton’s path are trying to fuel up before they evacuate. Others who plan to stay put are trying to fill gas tanks so they’ll be able to power their generators should they lose electricity for an extended period. Gas price tracking service GasBuddy reported that as of 2 pm Tuesday afternoon, 17.4% of gas stations statewide were without fuel, a dramatic spike from just 3% on Monday. With about 7,500 stations in the state, that estimate means there are about 1,300 currently without gasoline. There will be many that won’t be able to make it out in time due to this gasoline shortage. Meanwhile, those that do make it out are discovering that many hotels in northern Florida and Georgia are charging ridiculously high rates… A Marriott hotel was offering a room for two nights this week for $548 per night – or $707 for guests wanting to park their cars. Comparatively, the same room is available in November for $94 per night. ‘Sad and inhumane,’ one person wrote. The woman who spotted the huge price difference, Suzannah Collins, said she’d filed a complaint with the Florida Attorney General’s office. It is morally wrong for hotels to be gouging customers like this during a major life-threatening crisis. Those that have decided to jack up their rates should be ashamed of themselves. Unfortunately, there are also large numbers of people in central Florida that have decided not to evacuate at all… In Riverview, several drivers waiting in a long line for gas Tuesday morning said they have no plans to evacuate. “I think we’ll just hang, you know – tough it out,” said Martin Oakes, of Apollo Beach. “We got shutters up; the house is all ready. So this is sort of the last piece of the puzzle.” Ralph Douglas, of Ruskin, said he, too, will stay put, in part because he worries he would run out of gas trying to return after the storm or get blocked by debris. Some of those that have chosen to stay will find a way to survive. Others will not. In the end, this is likely to be one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history. According to CNBC, it is being projected that approximately 175 billion dollars of damage will be caused in a “worst-case scenario”… Hurricane Milton’s once-in-a-century potential could cause damage of more than $50 billion, with the potential to leave behind devastation approaching $175 billion or more in a worst-case scenario, according to leading Wall Street analysts. That would be on top of the carnage already left behind by Hurricane Helene, posing a potential record-breaking path of wreckage. As I keep reminding my readers, we set an all-time record for “billion dollar disasters” last year. This year, I think that we will set another new all-time record. We live at a time when historic disasters just keep happening one after another, and what is ahead is going to be even worse. This is our “new normal”, and it isn’t going to be pleasant at all. Daily Jot: Stupidocrisy: The Dems bromance with Iran - Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com Many people are shocked at the support the Biden-Harris Administration has given to Iran’s terrorist regime. This, however, is no new thing. Democratic presidents and administrations have in the shadows supported the terror-sponsoring state since as early as Jimmy Carter and that support has transcended Democrat presidents to this day. It was Jimmy Carter who wanted the Shah of Iran, an American ally, out of his office due to what Carter perceived as humanitarian issues. The radical Ayatollahs came to power and rewarded Carter’s by-standing with the taking of American hostages at the US Embassy in Teran. President Reagan ended the siege and got the hostages released. Even though Iran was exporting terror during the Clinton Administration, Clinton deferred military action and took the appeasement route, saying in January 1998 that the US “regrets the estrangement of our two nations … and I hope that the day will soon come when we can enjoy once again good relations with Iran.” Clinton sought to negotiate with the terrorist state. His Secretary of State apologized to Iran for CIA involvement in an attempted coup in 1953, lifted sanctions, and offered to release frozen Iranian assets in US bank accounts. Sound familiar? The Obama Administration further appeased Iran by signing a nuclear deal with the terrorist state, and giving it some $150 billion in cash. Terrorism against Israel accelerated. President Trump stopped the money flow to Iran and its Palestinian allies. Terrorism abated or lessened. The Biden Harris Administration has continued these disastrous policies toward Iran at the expense of Israel. Biden relaxed and/or removed the Trump sanctions on Iran, allowing the country some $120 Billion in foreign exchange reserves and extra $35 billion in oil exports. He paid Iran $6 billion for five hostages. Iran infused Hamas with over $350 million and some $700 million to Hezbollah per year over the last three years. Here we are a year after the October 7 Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israeli citizens, and Israel embroiled in a war for its survival against Iranian-back Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis. There is little doubt that this was funded by Biden-Harris Administration actions. I say Biden-Harris because Kamala Harris has said that she supports the Biden Administration policy in the Middle East. At the same time these Democrats have supported Iran and its terrorist infrastructure, Biden-Harris is the poster administration for undermining Israel. Iran launched a missile attack on Israel, which failed. But Biden called on Israel not to retaliate and telegraphed Israel’s military plans to Iran. It’s plain to Israeli leaders know the score. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon on Fox News October 2 called for reinstating sanctions on Iran, “because today they have so much money to spend on their proxies, and we feel the results. We are being attacked from all fronts, from…Lebanon, from Gaza, from Yemen, from Iran.” Like Psalm 83:3, “They have taken crafty counsel against your people.” This is a direct result of the Dems longstanding bromance with Iran. It will not end well. Say it with me…Stupidocrisy. Daily Devotion: Discerning False End-Times Teaching - by Greg Laurie – www.harvest.org Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true faith; they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons. These people are hypocrites and liars, and their consciences are dead. —1 Timothy 4:1–2 https://harvest.org/resources/devotion/discerning-false-end-times-teaching/ - Listen False teachers have been a problem for Christians since the earliest days of Christianity. In fact, false teachers appeared on the scene almost at the same time as the first Christian evangelists. The false teachers took advantage of the early believers’ limited understanding of God’s Word. Paul was often left to clean up the mess left by false teachers. In his first letter to Timothy, Paul identifies some of the teachings that were leading people astray. Apparently, some false teachers were telling people that it was wrong to get married or to eat certain types of foods. False teachers continue to cause problems for believers and seekers today. And they’ll keep going until Jesus returns. The Bible says so. You may be tempted to duck the problem by saying, “I don’t pay attention to theology. I just love Jesus.” Be careful. You may end up loving the wrong Jesus. Jesus warned that “false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God’s chosen ones” (Matthew 24:24 NLT). The people who are most vulnerable to deception are those who don’t know what the Bible actually says about the end times. Christian history is littered with stories of people who gave up everything to follow some persuasive leader to some specially chosen location to await Jesus’ return. Unfortunately, the stories end with the people awkwardly returning to society, embarrassed, humiliated, and discouraged. The book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988 was very popular—until 1989. The most obvious way to discern between truth and fiction is to study the only trustworthy source of information. You can’t swing a stick in Scripture without hitting a passage that refers to Jesus’ return. You’ll find prophecies written thousands of years before Jesus was born. You’ll find descriptions of signs and events that will precede Jesus’ return. You’ll find words of comfort and encouragement. And you’ll find warnings like this one: “However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows” (Matthew 24:36 NLT). Study these truths. Understand the big picture of what will happen and when. Help others understand it as well. Talk to your pastor about things that aren’t clear to you. Get comfortable with the truth of the end times so that you can spot counterfeit teaching. And when you do spot counterfeit teaching, call it out. Counter it the way Jesus countered the devil’s temptations in the wilderness: by using the Word of God. 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