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But One Mark of The Beast - By Joe Southerland -
https://www.raptureready.com/2020/04/16/but-one-mark-of-the-beast-by-joe-southerland/ "...and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands..." (Revelation 20:4). There exists a great deal of speculation churning amidst the watchers concerning the technology that is now mature enough to rapidly implement the mark of the Beast. We must remember, however, there is but one mark of the Beast. As a watcher and pre-tribulation rapture Believer, I am watching for the signs of Christ's return as we draw ever closer to the blessed event of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture.* While I do watch the signs of the times intently, one thing I am not personally concerned about is the mark of the Beast arising before the pre-tribulation rapture. Why? Because the scriptures clearly show that: Taking the mark of the Beast will be a spiritually "black and white" decision. No one will accidentally take the Beast mark. No one will be tricked into taking the Beast's mark. As always, God will not deny Mankind free will to choose, for as Abraham rhetorically asked in Genesis 18:25, "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" And He will. For if Jesus shall not judge justly, Mankind has no hope. The mark of the Beast is specifically relegated to a known period of time within the Seven-Year Tribulation. There is no time outside this period in which the scriptures indicate this Beast mark Could there be trial runs and foreshadowing? Of course. However, these do not THE mark of the Beast make. Stick to the Scriptures As the Church Age draws to its dramatic close and the mysterious mark of the Beast looms closer on the horizon, we must educate ourselves in knowing what the scriptures specifically say concerning the mark of the Beast. We need to take our role as modern Bereans to heart, educate ourselves concerning the scriptures, and then stick to the scriptures. A caution: it is far too easy to take a little of God's scriptures and pepper them with current events and then create extra-biblical speculation laced with the Word of God. So, let's turn to the scriptures and see what they say concerning the Beast's mark. Enter the Beast If you are new to the Bible End-Times study, the Beast is but one of many names given to a Satanically-empowered global dictator. He shall rise from the darkness and come to power during a tumultuous seven-year period of time which comes to an end as Jesus Christ returns to take full dominion over the earth. The Beast is also known as the Antichrist, the Son of Perdition, the Little Horn, the Wicked, and many other names. Isaiah 14:13; Ezekiel 28:2,6,9; Daniel 7:25, 11:36; 1st Corinthians 8:5; Revelation 13:6; 2nd Thessalonians 2:3, 2:8. When does the Beast come to full power? Like his father, Satan, who attempted to usurp the throne of heaven in Isaiah 14:13, the Beast will proclaim himself God in the yet-to-be-built Third Temple in Jerusalem. "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God" (2nd Thessalonians 2:4, KJV). From Daniel 9:27, which Jesus references in Matthew 24:15, we know that this occurs in the midst of the Seven-Year Tribulation. Where We Find the Beast's Mark in the Scriptures The Beast's mark is only found in the Bible's Book of Revelation. It is found seven times, in five locations, and we will examine all these instances. It is first mentioned in Revelation Chapter 13, once the Beast has taken both supreme rulership and godship over the world's government, economic and religious systems. Revelation 13:15-17 is referencing the False Prophet (the Beast's evil religious leader) "...and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Notice here the Beast mark is tied directly to the choice of worshipping the Beast or not worshipping the Beast; a very personal, and eternal spiritual decision. The next location we find the Beast mark is from an angel sent by God to warn Mankind about taking the Beast mark. Revelation14:9-10a "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God." Notice God provides no doubt that the Beast mark is tied to Beast worship. Next, we find that not taking the Beast mark brings honor, praise and reward from God. Revelation 15:2 "And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God." The "them" here are those in Revelation 13:15 who DID NOT worship the Beast nor take his mark. They are now in heaven for they have won a spiritual victory over the Beast, though it cost them their physical life on earth to do so. Up next we find, yet again, the Beast mark is related to judgment. Revelation 16:2 "And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image." Notice again, the mark is tied to worshipping the beast. Finally, we find the Beast mark related to honor, praise and reward. Revelation 20:4 "...and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;..." These souls, like those in Revelation 13:15, HAD NOT worshipped the Beast nor taken his mark. They too had won a spiritual victory over the Beast, though it cost them their physical life on earth to do so. Thus, concludes the Holy Spirit-provided scriptural references concerning the Beast's mark. That is it. There is no more scripture. What We Can Conclude from the Scripture The Mark of the Beast will only be valid in the time of the Beast's reign of power and carnage; during a very specific period within the Seven-Year Tribulation. There is absolutely no time recorded in the scripture, external to this period, that the Beast mark will be used by God to judge people's salvation. The Beast will demand a quid pro quo for his mark: his worship. As we saw in every instance, the Beast's mark is directly related to worship. God even goes to the point of specifically sending Mankind an angel from heaven to warn them of the eternal spiritual consequence of taking the Beast's mark. According to the scriptures, it is clear that the Beast Mark is an outward physical indicator of a person's internal spiritual state. Each person alive during this time will be forced to make a free-will decision to either be in league with the Beast or with God. They must choose to WORSHIP THE BEAST in order to take the MARK OF THE BEAST. If they take the Beast mark, it will be a deliberate and conscious, eternally impactful, and an irrevocable decision. In this day, Satan may indeed be softening up Mankind to the idea of taking chips and marks into their bodies in preparation for the Beast's mark. However, there is only one timeframe in which Beast worship and receiving the Beast mark is a quid pro quo demand. There is but one mark of the Beast. While we can watch for the technological advances, which allow the implementation of the Beast mark, we must remember and be responsible with God's scripture. Then we can inform others that the Beast mark is only valid for judgment within the Beast's final reign of terror during the Seven-Year Tribulation. That said, I personally will never tattoo my body, nor take a chip into my body...though it is not a salvation issue. Why? Jesus to the Church of Philadelphia, Revelation 3:12: "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name." I want to make sure whatever space Jesus wants to write on is not already taken by another mark. Time is short! The harvest fields are ripe! Shine forth with the light of Christ. Come, Lord Jesus, come! YBIC Joe J&J Ranch Ministries "But as for me and my <ranch>, we will serve the LORD" (Joshua 24:15) Pre -Tribulation Rapture Drill Down Part 1 - Hell on Earth * https://youtu.be/7rFmUqrny54 Pre -Tribulation Rapture Drill Down Part 2 - Pre-Trib Proofs & the 24 Elders * https://youtu.be/oQBbUk199-g All references KJB Authors YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGWbMhR5tdQkhPuV3JRky6Q/
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New World Order Coming - By Daymond Duck -
https://www.raptureready.com/2020/04/26/new-world-order-coming-by-daymond-duck/ The most important advice that anyone can give a person is to tell them to focus on their relationship with God by putting their faith in Jesus, repenting of their sins and drawing near to Him. The prophet Amos said, "Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets" (Amos 3:7). Some prophecy teachers believe that God has allowed the current Coronavirus Crisis to reveal that the Tribulation Period and New World Order (World Government, World Religion, Mark of the Beast, Rev. 13:7-8, etc.) are close (and by implication the Rapture is closer) and the need to draw near to God is urgent. Notice how the following current events fit God's end-of-the-age revelations. One, according to the prophet John, the top religious leader in the Tribulation Period (the False Prophet) will merge religion with politics (He will pretend to be a holy man but support the antichristian government of the Antichrist; Rev. 13:11-12). On Apr. 12, 2020 (Easter Sunday), a day to focus on the resurrection of Jesus, Pope Francis released a letter supporting Universal Basic Income (UBI). UBI is the globalist (world government) idea that everyone on earth should receive a basic income package (free money; free checks; wealth re-distribution). UBI has been supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Elon Musk (head of SpaceX and Tesla), Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook), Democrat Presidential candidates Andrew Yang, Bernie Sanders, and others of note. This is the problem: If everyone receives a check from their government (and they want to keep getting it), what will happen if their government decides to require them to take the Mark, or the name, or the number of the Antichrist? Will people take the Mark of the Beast to keep receiving a government check and have the right to buy and sell or will they refuse the check and perish? This is not far-fetched because people will be denied the right to buy and sell (Rev. 13:16-17), and multitudes will be put to death during the Tribulation Period for refusing to take the Mark (Rev. 20:4). Anyway, what possessed Pope Francis to talk about UBI on Resurrection Day instead of the resurrection of Jesus? Two, in Sept. 2015, the UN adopted a document called "Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development." The Preamble of the document called it a "New Universal Agenda." The document calls for the establishment of a one-world government, a one-world religion and a one-world economic system by 2030. On Feb. 4, 2019, Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, perhaps the most important Imam in Sunni Islam, met in Abu Dhabi to sign an Interfaith Document in the presence of leaders from all of the religions of the world. The document encourages peace between all religions and says all religions are the will of God and all religions are acceptable to God. On Feb. 6, 2019, Pope Francis was back at the Vatican where he said the Islamic world and the Christian world will work together to promote common values. He said, "We commit ourselves to spreading authentic values and peace throughout the world." If Jesus is the only way to be saved (and He said He is; John 14:6), how can Pope Francis believe that all religions are acceptable to God when they don't believe Jesus died for the sins of the world? If the Bible is the Word of God (and it is), how can Pope Francis say that Christians and Muslims should work together to promote common values? Christian values come from the Bible, and they cannot be compromised with the teachings of Islam. A one-world government and a one-world religion will exist at the same time during the Tribulation Period. If (I say "If" because God is in control and He can speed it up, slow it down or whatever) world leaders succeed with the establishment of a world government by 2030, there will be a world religion by 2030 (and a Rapture before 2030). If there is a gap of a few years between the Rapture and the beginning of world government (and I believe there will be one), time is short indeed. It is important to understand that the "New Universal Agenda" (global ethic, common values, world religion) really means forcing everyone on earth to believe what the UN wants them to believe, that internationalism, globalism, abortion, gay marriage, Chrislam, open borders, etc., are good, but nationalism, patriotism, the teaching that there is only one way to be saved, closed borders, etc., are bad - and that the global ethic must be strengthened and Christianity must be weakened. If globalists think they need to shut the doors of the Church, and ignore the resurrection of Jesus to achieve this, they will (Pope Francis did both). Three, new believers will be persecuted during the Tribulation Period (Rev. 13:7). On Apr. 11. 2020, the Chinese government stopped all online services of churches that do not have a government-approved license. Activities banned by China include worship, prayer, baptisms and Scripture reading. Several Chinese Christians were arrested for participating in worship services from their homes over the Internet using the Zoom App. But China is not alone. In the U.S., the Coronavirus lockdown has caused many churches to close their doors and turn to Facebook and the Internet to get the Word out. Some U.S. Churches have been censored and blocked. Some pastors have been told that worship services are illegal (a few have been arrested). Four, there will be a way to track everyone on earth during the Tribulation Period (Rev. 13:16-17). Much has been written about Bill Gates' desire to force everyone on earth to be vaccinated and tattooed with a global ID immunization tracking system. On Apr. 13, 2020, Roger Stone, former advisor to Pres. Trump, suggested that Gates may have had a part in the creation of the Coronavirus to create a need for a global tracking system. Now, it is being reported that the FBI, Apple, Google and others are involved in the creation of tracking systems. Something to remember about taking tattoos is that those that take them find that they are next to impossible to get rid of. Five, there will be a global economic collapse during the Tribulation Period (Rev. 6:5-6). On Apr. 15, 2020, the International Monetary Fund reported that all the signs are pointing to a global economic crisis unlike anything that has been seen in decades. Others are saying that the world is going into a deep recession, and some oil traders are willing to pay people to take their excess oil off their hands. Six, the Tribulation Period and one-world government will begin when the Antichrist confirms a covenant with many for peace in the Middle East (Dan. 9:27). Concerning Pres. Trump's Middle East peace proposal, Prime Min. Netanyahu wants Israel to act very soon because there is no guarantee that Mr. Trump will be re-elected. On Apr. 20, 2020, Israel's two main political parties agreed to create a national unity government and start implementing part of Pres. Trump's peace proposal as soon as July 1, 2020. This could speed up some of the prophesied wars and rumors of wars. Seven, the one-world government will be a satanic Antichrist-led government (Rev. 13:5). On Apr. 14, 2020, Pres. Trump announced the suspension of U.S. contributions to the WHO for 60-90 days for failing to do its job. The UN (United Nothing as some see it) global organizations are often staffed with political appointees that have impure motives. They definitely are not the kind of people that leaders should choose to rule the world. Eight, concerning the Battle of Gog and Magog: the war in Syria, U.S. sanctions, low oil prices and a spreading Coronavirus Crisis in Russia is straining Russia's economy. Russia's economic future is looking bleak, and some are predicting that Russia has one year at the most to act before her economy collapses. The collapse of oil prices could speed this up. Nine, Israel and Syria will get into a war, and Damascus, Syria, will be destroyed in one night (Isa. 17). Concerning the destruction of Damascus in one night, Syria is allowing the terrorist group Hezbollah to establish bases on the Golan Heights, and an Israeli official said, "Israel will not allow this." Ten, God said, "I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come" (Before the Tribulation Period comes; Joel 2:30-31). The Apostle Peter referred to this in his famous sermon on the first Pentecost (fire and pillars of smoke before the Tribulation Period; Acts. 2:19-20). In addition to all the other signs that are shaping up, volcanic eruptions appear to be increasing around the world, and God is the only One that could know that would happen more than 2,000 years before it started happening. Eleven, Jesus warned everyone about deception at least three times in the Olivet Discourse (Matt. chapter 24-25), so notice the reality of what is taking place and how every jot and tittle of Bible prophecy is literally being fulfilled. Do not be deceived by the false teachings of Preterists that say all prophecy was fulfilled by 70 A.D. (it wasn't) and the Replacement Theologians that say Israel has been replaced by the Church (it hasn't). The New World Order is coming, ready or not. Prophecy Plus Ministries, Inc. Daymond & Rachel Duck [email protected] How the Coronavirus Sets the Stage for the End Times - By Britt Gillette -
https://www.raptureready.com/2020/04/23/how-the-coronavirus-sets-the-stage-for-the-end-times-by-britt-gillette/ The current coronavirus outbreak is not an event prophesied in the Bible for the seven-year Tribulation. The world simply hasn't entered that time period yet. However, it is significant to Bible prophecy, because it sets the stage for the near-term fulfillment of many end-times Bible prophecies. This isn't surprising. Politicians take advantage of times of turmoil, disaster, and fear to implement changes people otherwise wouldn't accept. Here are just a few things to expect in the days ahead: 1) Calls for a Strong European Union Leader As of this writing, the coronavirus has hit the United States harder than any other nation. However, if you count the European Union as a single nation and add up the case total and fatalities of all its member nations, the coronavirus has hit the European Union harder than anyone else. Early on, EU leaders and many individual nations pushed back on the idea of closing borders. This allowed early infections in Italy to spread all over continental Europe. Many believe this could have been avoided with a strong executive. With centralized authority, a single European leader could have closed borders and instituted a shutdown much earlier. Instead, each individual nation enacted its own policies. When the coronavirus pandemic ends, many will point to the EU's leadership failure and use it as an excuse to push for the creation of a strong executive office to head the EU. This is the position many prophecy experts believe the Antichrist will hold. If it is, he will likely take charge of a more unified and powerful EU. Why? Because the coronavirus will likely lead to further unification of the EU. 2) Calls for Further European Union Integration The coronavirus has devastated Italy. The fourth largest economy in the European Union, and the eighth largest in the world, the Italian economy has effectively been closed since March 9th. Unlike the United States, which can print money for business bailouts and stimulus checks, Italy doesn't control its own currency. Like other EU countries, Italy uses the euro, and that means their national debt is denominated in euros. The only way Italy can pay its debts is to collect taxes. If the economy tanks, so does tax collection. This means Italy will soon be at the epicenter of a massive debt crisis. Remember the Greek debt crisis? In 2010, Greece needed a €110 billion bailout. They couldn't make their debt payments, and they couldn't print euros. The prospect of default almost caused a second financial crisis, coming on the heels of the 2008-2009 recession. Yet Greek debt remains at unsustainable levels. As of the third quarter of 2019, Greek debt was 178% of its gross domestic product (GDP) - the worst debt-to-GDP ratio in the EU. The second worst? Italy at 137%. But Italy's economy is ten times as big as Greece's economy. If Italy defaults on its government debt, some of the largest banks in Italy and Europe will become insolvent. The event will send widespread financial contagion throughout the global financial system. The subsequent collapse of global markets will trigger one of the greatest economic depressions in history. One way to avoid this catastrophe? Do something many EU nations vowed never to do - share debt. In other words, further integration and the creation of a United States of Europe. I believe this is inevitable, and I believe it will create the final world empire Daniel envisioned (Daniel 2, Daniel 7). 3) Calls for Increased Tracking of People With shutdowns all over the world bringing the global economy to a standstill, calls are getting louder to re-open the economy and get people back to work. But how do you get people "back to work" without causing a spike in new coronavirus cases? Some people are pushing a solution that involves increased tracking of people. They believe the government should track everyone's mobile phone. When someone gets the coronavirus, the government can easily retrace their steps and find everyone who came within a few feet of the infected person. Then, they'll place those people in a mandatory quarantine. Some nations, such as South Korea, already do this. Other people favor giving "papers" to those who have recovered from the coronavirus. These official papers will allow you to travel in public or go back to work. Some warn this is the road to authoritarianism, but it isn't. Once we do this, we'll already be there. This level of government control over the individual is no different than what we read about in Revelation 13. 4) Calls to Replace Paper Currency with a World Cryptocurrency The use of paper currency has declined dramatically in this new era of online ordering and social distancing. Paper currency is a haven for bacteria and viruses, and it could accelerate the spread of coronavirus. Because of this, look for politicians to call for an end to using paper currency. Meanwhile, governments have struggled to quickly deliver stimulus payments to the unemployed. This provides the perfect cover to implement a government-sponsored virtual wallet and cryptocurrency. Getting people to sign-up will be easy. They'll offer a few thousand dollars to everyone who signs up to the government's virtual wallet program. Once everyone signs up, the government will eliminate use of all currency except its own cryptocurrency. This will give the government detailed knowledge of every sale and purchase you're involved in. It will also give them the ability to control the terms and conditions of all those transactions. And if they don't like something you're doing? They can cut off access to your virtual wallet, locking you out of all commerce. The technology to implement this system already exists, and the Bible tells us it's coming. It says the Antichrist will implement this system: "He required everyone - small and great, rich and poor, free and slave - to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark..." (Revelation 13:16-17). 5) Decreased Demand for Oil The coronavirus has shut down factories, grounded airplanes, and caused a drop in the number of cars on the road. Global oil demand has fallen by 29 million barrels per day to a level last seen in 1995. The price of oil has fallen from around $60 per barrel at the beginning of the year to around $20 per barrel today. Needless to say, this has had an unprecedented impact on the global oil industry. In March, OPEC attempted to coordinate a production cut with Russia. When Russia said no, Saudi Arabia responded with increased production. Some think their aim was to take market share, drive down prices, and force Russia back to the negotiating table. Others think their aim was to harm U.S. shale producers, many of whom can't survive at $20 per barrel oil. Regardless of their true intent, Saudi Arabia's actions had a profound and negative impact on Russia. Earlier this month, they agreed to production cuts, but you can be sure Vladimir Putin is not happy. Losing a high profile oil price war and billions of dollars per day in oil profits won't be something he'll easily forget. While Saudi Arabia has an advantage in oil reserves, Russia holds a greater advantage in the military realm. What will happen if Russia invades Saudi Arabia? The Middle East is home to approximately 40% of the world's proven oil reserves. If Russia controlled the Middle East, they could control the world's oil. Only two nations stand in Putin's way - the United States and Israel. If a global depression, the rapture, or another major event changes U.S. policy in the Middle East, only Israel will stand between Russia and complete dominance of the global oil market. The high stakes incentivize Russia to team up with Iran and take out Israel. This will secure their collective grip on the region. The Bible says this will happen. More than 2,600 years ago, Ezekiel revealed an alliance composed of Russia, Iran, Turkey, and other regional nations will launch a surprise attack on Israel from the north (Ezekiel 38-39). Since the launch of the Syrian civil war in 2011, we've seen each of the major players mentioned move their forces into Syria. Russia and its allies currently sit on Israel's northern border, which is the direction from which Ezekiel said they'll attack (Ezekiel 38:15; Ezekiel 39:2). We've been watching God set the stage for this conflict for several years. The coronavirus-induced oil price war provides yet another reason to expect we're getting closer to seeing fulfillment of Ezekiel 38-39. The End Times Approach The word "coronavirus" doesn't appear in the Bible, and what we see now is not one of the events of the Tribulation. However, the coronavirus is one of the general signs Jesus said to look for, and it sets the stage for the rapture of the church and the arrival of the Tribulation. When asked to describe the signs of His coming, Jesus cited pandemics just like the one we're experiencing now as a major sign (Luke 21:11). But this wasn't the only sign He said to look for. He said to look for the Jewish people back in the land of Israel (Jeremiah 23:7-8)... He said to look for the Jewish people once again in possession of Jerusalem (Luke 21:24-28)... And He said to look for the Gospel being preached to the ends of the earth (Matthew 24:14). The prophets also said to look for signs. They said to look for: A time when travel and knowledge will increase (Daniel 12:4)... A time when Israel has "an exceedingly great army" (Ezekiel 37:10)... The rise of the Gog of Magog Alliance (Ezekiel 38-39)... The rise of a revived Roman Empire (Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Revelation 17)... The rise of global government (Revelation 13:7)... And the rise of a single global currency system (Revelation 13:16-17)... We see all of these signs today, and Jesus commanded us to watch for them. He warned us not to be found sleeping when the Master arrives without warning (Mark 13:36). The coronavirus is God's wake-up call to those who have been sleeping. It sets the stage for the rapture of the church, the arrival of the Antichrist, and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Make sure you're not asleep! What is Coming Upon the Earth? - By Pastor Mike Taylor -
https://pastormiketaylor.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-is-coming-upon-earth.html "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. 2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. 3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. 4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword" (Revelation 6:1-4) Prophecy writers have been preaching the soon return of Jesus Christ and we wonder how soon? The indicators of the soon return of our Lord are all around us, but it has been fuzzy, but grows much clearer as time passes. Much like a picture developed in a dark room, as we see the image slowly coming into view. News reports have been coming fast and furious in the last few weeks, and from this perspective, I see the puzzle of end time events growing much more into focus with each passing day. WORLD WAR LOOMS Let's examine a few of these indicators that the time is short for the return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Start with the economic troubles of most of Europe that has even affected our economy, as the world economy has become closely tied to one another. Especially, as we have had the Coronavirus spreading world-wide and even our own economy has taken a drastic hit. People wonder if this nation will ever recover to what is was before this so called "pandemic" spread its evil tentacles to all nations. I've heard sermons that believe this will be the run-up to the coming of our Lord Jesus in the rapture. Is it? First, let us look at a news flash that it's been reported that the Vatican has taken a stance of encouraging a One World Authority for peace and posterity as an answer to the economic turmoil gripping the globe. It was reported on the website Catholic News Service the following: "A Vatican document called for the gradual creation of a "world political authority" with broad powers to regulate financial markets and rein in the "inequalities and distortions of capitalist development. The document said the current global financial crisis has revealed "selfishness, collective greed and the hoarding of goods on a great scale." A supranational authority, it said, is needed to place the common good at the center of international economic activity." The logical start offered up by the Catholic Church is the United Nations with one central authority to regulate the world economy. Then recently, their beloved Pope Francis has come against traditional views over homosexuality and abortion and that there are many ways to God, just by being good. Say what? Isn't Jesus the ONLY WAY? Yes, He is. Second news flash is there has been a push by the Roman Catholic Church to unite all religions into a One World Religious authority and I submit will be headed by the Catholic Church and it's pope. This is reported that this coming May on the anniversary of the formation of Israel as a nation, this same "pope" will call for that creation of a one world religion. Rome has brought , in the past, all the world religions including pagan religions to the Italian town of Assisi in front of the St. Francis Basilica to set the groundwork of a one world religious movement. Many writers are starting to write about this push that began with the groundwork being laid by Pope John Paul II and continued by Pope Benedict XVI, and now Pope Francis. This is a part of the prophetic puzzle that is growing clearer with each passing day. These two pieces of the end time puzzle are growing more into reality. Then let's take a look at the growing unrest in the Middle East. Iran, Russia and Turkey are attempting to surround Israel on all sides, even with their Muslim proxies preparing for the coming prophesied invasion in Ezekiel 38-39. Another piece of this end time puzzle is being played out on our news cast nightly. Instability in the region has been gaining steam, since the so called Arab spring. I submit that it had nothing in common with spring, as spring brings new life, but more like winter, as winter brings death and destruction. The nations that surround Israel have been in revolution overthrowing their leaders. Starting in Tunisia, it spread to the other neighboring Arab countries, such as Egypt, then Libya, and unrest growing in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. Syria has been in an almost never ending war in the region that has claimed millions of lives. What this has accomplished is the solidarity of these Muslim nations being changed from dictatorships, and transforming them into religious theocracies ruled by Sharia Law and the Koran have been fueled by known terrorist groups with world conquest on their minds. These new governments will pattern themselves along the lines of the greatest threat in the Middle East, Iran. As we know, Iran has been working feverishly to develop nuclear capabilities and the Western world has been impotent to stop them. Threatened sanctions and diplomatic maneuvers have not slowed the government of Iran from building what the free world fears, a nuclear bomb. It is reported that they are within reach from having enough enriched uranium to develop their first bomb. Couple that with Iran's ranting of wanting to destroy Israel and wipe them off the face of the map from their leaders, and "Death to America" only intensifies the fears the world feels and Israel's rightly perceived threat to their sense of security and peace. WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR What could tip the fragile economic condition of the world we live in? What one word would send our world into a tail spin? What's that word? It is WAR! It is especially true when you use it in context with the Middle East. If you have been following the developments in the area it is reported that Iran, if they made an all out push for a nuclear weapon could achieve it in 1 month. For several years, I have been wondering not if, but when, Israel would either with help from the USA, or unilaterally on its own, attempt to destroy the nuclear installations of Iran. It appears that new saber rattling is being reported coming from Israel. In the Asia Times written by Victor Kotsev, he reports the following news flash: "Through a number of leaks and well-publicized war exercises, the Israeli government has dramatically increased its threats against Iran in the past days. Since the Israeli military likes to act by surprise, it seems this specific escalation is a bluff designed to help pass tougher diplomatic measures against the Islamic Republic at the United Nations Security Council, specifically following the anticipated publication of an important report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) next week." "However, given the exceptionally high and rising regional tensions (not all of which involve Israel directly), a larger war in the Middle East is a distinct possibility. Thus, the Israeli rhetoric can be interpreted in two additional ways (all three are not mutually exclusive): as an attempt to deter a possible first or second strike by Iran and its allies, and as a campaign to prepare public opinion, both at home and abroad, for hostilities. " Psalm 83, the next war? When Israel does attack, not if, but when, Iran will pull out all stops to attempt to make Israel pay and facilitate their belief that their mission is to bring about an Islamic Caliphate. Of course, we know that Iran will rely on it's proxies to do it's dirty work, as they may be crippled militarily and have been preparing for just such a scenario via Hezbollah, Hamas, and now with the uprising and the fall of dictatorships all over the Middle East, using these nations for a coordinated attack. I see a possible fulfilling of Psalms 83, the next war on the horizon. 83:1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.:2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and theHagarenes;7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;8 Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah.9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: (Psalm 83:1-9) Who are these people that make these plans that are noted in the above verses? These are the ancient names of the people of the Muslim nations that surround Israel this day. THE CLOCK IS TICKING I'm not saying this attack by Israel will happen anytime soon, but it could happen this summer, as Israel when they attacked the atomic reactors in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, or Syria a few years ago, or the convoy attacks of missile shipments to Hezbollah, it was in total surprise. You didn't know about it, till it was over. Only thing I see different right now, is the flight path of direct line attack over Iraq being opened up, as the USA has withdrawn all our troops. It will be a direct flight path to their intended targets. Let's also couple that with new stealth capabilities that Israel has developed to make their attack virtually unseen on radar until it's too late. This will be a massive campaign and Israel has been preparing for this event for years. Iran has no air defense except from the ground, as their air force is from the time the Shah was in power and is inferior to Israel's modern force. Ground to air missiles will be shooting in the dark with Israel's stealth capabilities and evasive maneuvers to become invisible targets. President Perez made it known that Israel has weapons never before revealed and can defend itself in any scenario. We know that the intelligence of the Israeli government is much more sophisticated than any news report, and they know when the window of opportunity will close for a successful strike. When Iran is suddenly struck with Israeli lightening speed, their only reprisal, I envision, will be through their proxies surrounding Israel. God has promised Israel that He would give them the land from the great river of Egypt to the River Euphrates, north to and including Syria, and south to the Arabian Peninsula. What will be the outcome of this battle? I suggest that the God given promise of the land promised to Abraham will be redeemed by the help of Almighty God fighting on the side of Israel, much like the 1948, 1967, and the 1973 wars that they should have lost, but God was with them. WAR OF EZEKIEL 38-39 Why do I think this? If you look at the Battle of Ezekiel, which I believe follows on the heels of the afore-mentioned Islamic defeat, you find in chapter 38, we read the following:2 Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, of Meshech, and of Tubal, and prophesy against him,3 And say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince (ruler) of Rosh, of Meshech, and of Tubal.4 And I will turn you back and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords--5 Persia, Cush, and Put {or} Libya with them, all of them with shield and helmet,6 Gomer and all his hordes, the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north and all his hordes--many people are with you." Ezekiel 38:2-6) Notice that you find none of the names of the peoples mentioned in Psalm 83 in the neighboring nations as they have been destroyed and also, note that the verses speak of a city without walls, a city living in peace as noted in this passage of Ezekiel:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,"(Ezekiel 38:10-11) When has Israel in all of its modern history since 1948 been as Ezekiel describes them in the verse 11? Never you say? You would be right, never. God will be their champion in both fights. It is more evident in Ezekiel than in Psalms 83, as it is revealed that God is doing the fighting and destroys Israel's enemies on the mountains of Israel by using signs that are rendered only Divine in nature. Read the full chapter and digest the quick end to the enemies of Israel that dare come down upon God's people or His Land. God will destroy 5/6 of their army only leaving a sixth of their defeated soldiers to return to the their homeland, only to bring the plague to their own country to continue the slaughter. On the heels of this huge defeat by the Gog-Magog coalition, a man of great public stature will bring about a treaty for 7 years of peace. I believe that country, headed by this man is what we call the Anti-Christ! HOW LONG??? How many years will be between Psalm 83 and the war in Ezekiel? We don't know, but the focus of this message is that the next war that leads to the unveiling of the Anti-Christ could be close at hand. Israel will own all of the vast oil and gas fields of most of the entire Middle East after this next war and what better prize than for the armies of Gog-Magog to come down and take the riches of the Middle East from this upstart called Israel and their God. Now here is the exciting part for you and me. When this Ezekiel war is quickly fought and lost by this Gog-Magog coalition secured by the power of Almighty God, I believe it will bring to the forefront a man with the number of his name adding up to the number 666. My bible says that he will be revealed according to God's Word, II Thessalonians chapter 2:2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."(2nd Thessalonians 2:6-12) If you have been following my messages for any length of time, you know the answer to who and what is being talked about here. Verse 9 speaks of one who has the power of Satan with signs and lying wonders. Who is that man? Correct, the Anti-Christ is who Paul is speaking of. But there is one thing that must happen before he can be revealed. What is that? Verse 7: " For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way."(2nd Thessalonians 2:7) Who is being taken out of the way? There is something holding back this unspeakable evil, a force that keeps the full power of Satan at bay, and prevents Satan from doing as he would like to do, that is destroy mankind. What is that Force? It clearly is the Holy Spirit. God will remove all hindrance for Satan doing unimaginable evil. Since the time of Job in your Bible, the power that hindered Satan to do anything to mankind, was God Almighty. Satan can't do anything, save deceive, unless he is given authority from God to do what he wills. That deterrence will be removed when Gods Holy Spirit is drawn back to allow evil to have full sway on this earth. " And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."(Revelation 12:9) And skipping down to verse 13:12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. (Israel) Let's make a clear statement here. If the Holy Spirit is being removed and Satan is being cast down to the earth, never to be allowed back into the heavens, then if our Comforter, our Spiritual Counselor, and our deposit of God's Holy Spirit within our spirit is being removed from this earth, then we who have that promise of redemption will be removed at the exact same time. Understand one thing, my reader. The tribulation is designed for one thing, the complete removal of sins of evil men from this earth and for refining Israel as gold is refined in the furnace. When Israel understands that the Messiah that came to them over 2000 years ago, they will cry out, as Jesus said in Luke chapter 13: 35 "Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord."(Luke 13:35) Then Israel will realize what they have done to the Lord of Glory, their prophesied Messiah who they killed in anger, but happened to fulfill God's plan: "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." (Zechariah 12:10) CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY Now let's take a quick summary of where this puzzle is showing what may be on the horizon in the near future. The economies of this world are collapsing, number one as "world powers" have plotted for the last 100+ years how to bring about a One World government and a New World Order.. The beginning for the push for a One world Religion and Government are being designed right before our eyes. Number two. Unrest in the Middle East will eventually explode into possibly WWIII at the greatest, or a Mid-East war in the least because of an attack by the Israelis on Iran's nuclear installations or an attack on and total destruction of Damascus as spoken of in Isaiah that could be happening at any moment in the future. Puzzle piece number three. Follow this on it's heals of the conquering of the Middle East oil producing economies by Israel in Psalm 83 war, a battle for control of this vast wealth by the Gog-Magog invasion and the revealing of the Anti-Christ to the world. But before the final puzzle piece is revealed, scripture says that the Church is removed along with the Holy Spirit. How much time in this scenario do you think it would take for all these events to being fulfilled? My friend, it could take several years, it could take even more than several years, but the point is, signs are saying that man's history of self rule is drawing fast to a close. The revealing of the Anti-Christ will start the beginning of the Tribulation where peace will be illusive as smoke is in the wind. When this 7 year treaty has been signed, and if you witness it, then you will have most likely missed the calling of the church to the Bema Judgment Seat of Christ, which is a reward banquet for those things built upon the only foundation that will stand, Jesus Christ and the Bride of Christ being joined as a family to our King of Kings and Lord of lords, the Messiah. The next 3.5 years from that time will be bad, economically, socially, spiritually and probably physically. But that is just the start of all things evil and destructive. It will get exponentially worse in the Great Tribulation, when God's wrath falls on this planet in undiluted anger and righteous wrath. When this man who speaks (the Anti-Christ) of peace and looks like a saint trying to bring peace to the world, then without warning this man will approach the Temple in Jerusalem that he has allowed to be built as a part of this 7 year treaty and will stand in the Holy of Holys in Jerusalem and proclaim himself, to be God. Then all of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and all of the land held by Israel will realize that they have made a treaty with the devil as they see the abomination that causeth desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet and the Great Tribulation will have begun where if God allowed it, no man would be spared because of war, famine, and the wrath of Almighty God being poured out on an unrepentant mankind. My reader, I assure you that you do not want to be witness to the beginning of a 7 year treaty, much less a man standing in the Temple of God, proclaiming that he is God. It will be hell, quite literally, on earth. Let me make one thing abundantly clear, if you think that a Christian must endure the Tribulation and that Jesus Christ sacrifice didn't finish the job, and we , the church saints, must be purified right along with Israel who is in spiritual rebellion and darkness, then my friend, you have more of a problem than the timing of the rapture of the church, as in your mind, Jesus and His blood sacrifice was insufficient to purchase your redemption. The Tribulation is designed to purify Israel and to remove sin from the earth in preparation for the return of Jesus Christ to rule with a rod of Iron for a thousand years, called the Millennium. It would be the same as the Catholic doctrine of purgatory, that Jesus just didn't get the job done IF the Bride of Christ, the True Church of the Living God is not removed beforehand. I don't advocate or believe in purgatory, neither do I affirm believers in Jesus going through the 7 year Tribulation, as it flies in the face of the Saving Grace of our Lord and Savior. My friend, do not be counted with the spiritual rebellion of Israel not accepting their Messiah. The nation of Israel are God's people and He will save them out of this awful time and save them all, not losing one spiritually, but what about you? If you're not Jewish, you have no idea that you will even have the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. If war breaks out in the Middle East in the near future, your chance for making eternity with God may be very short. Make that decision today, as the Holy Spirit wishes to bring you home with our Lord and Savior. Want to know how to make that decision, which is the most important decision that you will ever make? Read the Gospel of John slowly and let God's Holy Spirit reveal who this Man, Jesus was and is today. He is wishing to come into your life. Won't you answer the call? 16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."(John 3:16-18) 8 "But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."(Romans 10:8-13) This is Pastor Mike Taylor, wishing God's salvation for your life. If there is anything I can help you with, pray with you about, or show you the way to salvation, give me an email to pastormiketaylor@yahoocom . God bless you, till we hopefully meet at Jesus feet. Can You Imagine? - By Randy Nettles -
https://www.raptureready.com/2020/04/21/can-you-imagine-by-randy-nettles/ Have you ever wondered or dreamed about what it will be like when we see our Savior, Jesus Christ, at the Rapture? Or, for some people, it could even be at the end of the Great Tribulation, when Jesus returns to the earth at Armageddon in all of His glory as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Jesus is the 2nd Person of the Triune Godhead. His name of old was Jehovah. He is our Lord and Savior and has a glorious countenance, for He is Almighty God. I can imagine His appearance will overwhelm our senses with His beauty, power, and Godliness. Here is a great song by MercyMe, singing about what it will be like when we see Him for the first time and how we will react to His glory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lrrq_opng. You might want to listen to it while you read this article. The lyrics are at the bottom of the page. My thanks to Cynthia Nuara for pioneering this technique of incorporating relevant songs, lyrics, or classic literature within the article itself. This Biblically-based article consists of six Jewish prophets of God who saw the Lord God (in one form or another) in His magnificence and glory. Some of them saw him more than once. There were ten sightings which were in the form of visions, theophanies, or where the Lord's appearance was hidden by dark clouds, smoke, and fire. The first reaction most of them had was one of fright. The next reaction was one of awe and wonder. The third reaction would be one of overwhelming love. Of course, we can only imagine... 1) Moses and the children of Israel see the glory of the Lord on Mount Sinai "Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. Then the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up" (Exodus 19:16-20). "Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. Then they said to Moses, 'You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.' And Moses said to the people, 'Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.' So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was" (Exodus 20:18-21). "Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel; and they saw the God of Israel and there was under His feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in His clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand, also they saw God, and did eat and drink. And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give you tables of stone (10 Commandments), and a law, and commandments which I have written; that you may teach them" (Exodus 24:9-12). This was a theophany of the Lord whereas He took the form of a mighty angel. "And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. And the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it 6 days. And the 7th day He called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and got him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount 40 days and 40 nights" (Exodus 24:15-18). "So the Lord said to Moses, 'I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.' And Moses said, 'Please, show me Your glory.' Then He said, 'I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.' But He said, 'You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.' And the Lord said, 'Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen'" (Exodus 33:17-23). After Moses saw God's back and received the second 10 Commandments from the Lord, his face shone from the encounter. Aaron and the children of Israel were afraid to come near him. Moses called them together and gave them all the commandments that the Lord had given him. And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. "But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded" (Exodus 34:33-34). No one can see the face of the Lord, in His Shekinah glory, and live. The only way you can see His face is through a vision, theophany, or in some environment where His features are obscured. However, when we are raptured and receive our new spiritual bodies, that are made for eternity, we will be able to gaze upon the face of God forevermore. 2) David sees a glorious theophany of the Lord in the form of a mighty angel "Then David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, having in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. So David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces" (1 Chronicles 21:16). "For the tabernacle of the Lord and the altar of the burnt offering, which Moses had made in the wilderness, were at that time at the high place in Gibeon. But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord" (1 Chronicles 21:29-30). While David did not see the Lord in all His glory, it was a sight that was so frightening and powerful that I had to mention it. 3) Isaiah has a vision of the Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said: 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!' And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. So I said: 'Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of hosts'" (Isaiah 6:1-5). 4) Isaiah has a vision of the Lord Jesus Christ when he returns to the Earth at Armageddon "Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, this One who is glorious in His apparel, traveling in the greatness of His strength? -'I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.' Why is Your apparel red, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? 'I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, and trampled them in My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, and I have stained all My robes. For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. I looked, but there was no one to help, and I wondered That there was no one to uphold; Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me; and My own fury, it sustained Me. I have trodden down the peoples in My anger, made them drunk in My fury, and brought down their strength to the earth'" (Isaiah 63:1-6). 5) Isaiah describes the Lord at Mount Sinai and hints at the Rapture "Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence- As fire burns brushwood, As fire causes water to boil-To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence! When You did awesome things for which we did not look, You came down, The mountains shook at Your presence. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen, Oh God, beside You [Jesus], what He has prepared for them that love Him. You [Jesus] meet him [at the Rapture] who rejoices and does righteousness, those that remember You in Your ways" (Isaiah 64:1-5). 6) Ezekiel sees a vision of God, the Son, in His glory "And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it. Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around. Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one who spoke" (Ezekiel 1:26-28). This description of the Lord is similar to the one Moses gave in Exodus 24:9. 7) Daniel sees God, the Father, in a dream/vision. Glory! "I watched till thrones were put in place, and the Ancient of Days [the Father] was seated; His garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, and its wheels a burning fire; A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him. A thousand thousands ministered to Him; and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The court was seated, and the books were opened" (Daniel 7:9-10). "I was watching in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of Man [Jesus], coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days [the Father], and they brought him near before Him. And there was given to him dominion and glory and a kingdom; that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed" (Daniel 7:13-14). 8) Daniel sees God, the Son (Jesus/Jehovah), in a vision "I was watching; and the same horn [Antichrist] was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them, until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom" (Daniel 7:21-22). Three times in Daniel 7, God is called the Ancient of Days. 3 is the number for divine perfection, and 7 is the number for spiritual perfection. Chapter 7 of Daniel certainly verifies this idea. The first two descriptions are talking about God, the Father, while the last one is in regard to God, the Son (Jesus), who will destroy the Antichrist at Armageddon. However, all three are described as the Ancient of Days. In the New Testament, Jesus said, "I and My Father are one" (John 10:30). "Jesus said to him, 'Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?" (John 14:9). 9) John has a vision of Jesus Christ in His glory and a theophany of the Holy Spirit "Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands (the seven lampstands represent the seven-fold spirit of God, who is the third Person of the Triune God), One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength" (Revelation 1:12-16). This description of Christ in His glory sounds exactly like the one given by Daniel regarding the Ancient of Days. 10) John has a vision of the Lord Jesus when He returns to the Earth at Armageddon. Glory! Glory! "Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS" (Revelation 19:11-16). As Paul said (quoting Isaiah) in 1 Corinthians 2:9, "But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man [imagination], the things which God has prepared for them that love Him." However, the next verse supersedes Paul's previous statement. "But God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God" (1 Corinthians 2:10). Amen, Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Randy Nettles [email protected] Lyrics to the song "I can only imagine" by MercyMe: I can only imagine what it will be like When I walk by your side I can only imagine what my eyes will see When your face is before me I can only imagine Surrounded by Your glory What will my heart feel? Will I dance for you Jesus Or in awe of You be still? Will I stand in your presence Or to my knees will I fall? Will I sing hallelujah? Will I be able to speak at all? I can only imagine I can only imagine I can only imagine when that day comes And I find myself standing in the Son I can only imagine when all I would do Is forever-forever worship You I can only imagine I can only imagine Surrounded by Your glory What will my heart feel? Will I dance for you Jesus Or in awe of You be still? Will I stand in your presence Or to my knees will I fall? Will I sing hallelujah? Will I be able to speak at all? I can only imagine... COVID-19: But the Calm Before the Storm - By Joe Southerland -
https://www.raptureready.com/2020/04/19/covid-19-but-the-calm-before-the-storm-by-joe-southerland/ "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see" (Revelation 6:1). "And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices" (Revelation 10:3). "And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps" (Revelation 14:2). "And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great" (Revelation 16:18). A Time Like No Other Throughout the world, Mankind's overly busy, hectic lives have come to a screeching halt. In a time like no other in history, nearly half of the world's population of now over seven billion is in a forced lock-down imposed by their governments. Vast swaths of humanity are now in a mandatory, isolated pause relegating us to small groups and social distancing. They are also being told the best thing they can do is stay isolated. It is a time like no other, when we are almost all individually forced to stop and reflect. People are reassessing their lives amidst the backdrop of an ever-lurking invisible killer which is bringing forth random death and chaos about us. COVID-19 is a global event which is occurring to nearly all Mankind simultaneously, and its lingering impact is yet to be determined. This pandemic is unlike any other before. Due to the interconnected global community sharing entertainment, commerce, and transportation, the virus has rapidly spread more quickly than any previous pestilence in history. Pestilence Allowed to Unfold If you believe that GOD is sovereign LORD over His creation and is actively involved in shaping the course of history, it is evident that GOD is allowing COVID-19 to occur for His greater purposes. Furthermore, He has loosened his mighty, controlling hand but a fraction and allowed a single, deadly, natural force bounded upon earth to run its course. We are now experiencing the largest rippling birth pain in generations. Jesus warned us this would come before His return. "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows" (Matthew 24:3-8). Is the Bubble about to Burst? Within God's timeline we reside in the Church Age or Age of Grace, which is a period where God has endured longsuffering as He has patiently prepared His Bride, the Church. For eternal salvation He only requires of Mankind that we make a free-will decision of faith in His Son, who died for our sins and rose from death to life after three days. He wants none to perish but all to obtain salvation (2nd Peter 3:9).* Beyond the ultimate gift of His Son, God further graced Mankind with two other mighty gifts: The Holy Spirit to dwell in us and guide us in all things, and the mind of God, His Word. We are in an age truly blessed because we need but to believe in order to become Children of God. However, according to the scriptures, this magnificent Age of Grace shall end. That is not an IF, but a WHEN. Beyond any doubt, COVID-19 is awakening many in Mankind from their deadly spiritual slumber. This is in preparation for what shall come upon the face of the earth before He Returns in Triumph. Accordingly, COVID-19 is but the calm before the storm. As a Believer and teacher of God's Word, I can neither dismiss nor ignore what Jesus has told us shall come to pass before He will return. According to the scriptures, far more calamitous and miraculous events shall unfold, for the heavens shall peal back and the full glory, power and majesty of the Son of God, the Lamb of God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ shall arise from His heavenly throne. Then His mighty thunders shall roll forth as the time of the great unleashing of the supernatural begins upon Mankind. It will be a time like never before in all God's creation. During the Church Age, the Lord God has been consciously restraining the fullness of His almighty supernatural power and miraculous works. In terms of the supernatural, the Age of Grace can be categorized by "blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." However, God soon shall unveil His supernatural, almighty powers, which have been sealed in a Seven-Sealed Scroll from creation, for a time of great unleashed judgments upon Mankind! Church Harvest Nearly Complete As the last soul is sealed into the Church (Romans 11:25), the Lord God will reintroduce the world to His supernatural omnipotence by removing all born-again Believers at the Rapture. Thus, the Lord God will begin reclaiming and cleansing the world of Satan's lies, shaking Mankind's perception of their universe; a universe in which man falsely claims he is the measure of all. In the split second after the Rapture occurs, all Mankind shall fall into complete spiritual darkness for the first time in history (I shudder at the thought). The Lamb will leave Mankind utterly naked in their corruptions and abominations; there will be absolutely none left who do good. All those who are left are those who say in their hearts, "There is no God." This unparalleled supernatural event will throw the world's people into chaos as they experience a phenomenon that shatters their man-made perception of reality. This unleashing of the supernatural begins as God lifts His mighty, restraining hand and Satan's dark forces are unleashed upon the earth. The Lamb of God Unleashes... Surrounded by His Church, the Lamb who was slain shall step forth as the only one found Worthy to open the Lord God's great Seven-Sealed Scroll. As he opens the first seal, thus begins the Seven-Year Tribulation period, Daniel's Seventieth Week. In ripples like the birth pains which preceded this time, the Lamb shall unleash a series of supernatural seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments upon those who dwell on the earth. The judgments are sequential and shall come with power and flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder, all proclaiming to the earth that God alone is to be feared, glorified and acknowledged as their Creator.** Unleashing the Seal Judgments In Revelation chapter six, God begins by unleashing five of the seven seals judgments. In the first four, God loosens the restraints on Satan. His son, the False Christ/the Antichrist/the Beast shall ride forth bringing the promise of peace by war. On his heals shall follow starvation, plague and death over one fourth of the earth. At first Man will say: it is just another war, it is just another famine, it is just another plague. However, it shall bring the bloodiest death toll the world has ever seen. As the grim bloodbath's toll mounts, many people will start to question if it is something more. Is the new world leader's promised utopia to come true? Or is the hand of God in this? In the sixth seal, the Lord God answers those who will listen, as he shakes the earth in his mighty hand. Mankind will then experience an earthquake like no other, accompanied by the sun shrouded in thick darkness, the moon turned blood red, and meteor showers filling the skies and falling to earth. At that point Mankind will say, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!" But many will refuse to repent and glorify him. Unleashing the Trumpet Judgments In Revelation chapters eight and nine, prior to God allowing six of the seven trumpet angels to announce their judgment, there is reverent silence in Heaven. God and all heavens sorrow over the righteous wrath about to be unleashed against rebellious man. On earth there will also be a gap of time following the great earthquake as Mankind recovers. People will ask, "Was it a divine act of God or was it Mother Nature responding to Man's continued misuse?" God will answer by unleashing four successive unparalleled judgment blows against earth and those remaining in it. Hail and fire mixed with blood will fall upon the earth. A blazing huge mountain will plummet from the sky. A great star blazing like a torch will then be thrown into the sea. Finally, the skies shall be darkened over the earth. The remaining people on earth will reel, regroup, and try to recover as one third of all the life-sustaining plants, animals and water are destroyed. On whom shall they turn for their life-giving water and daily bread? God or government? The Antichrist will answer he is one and the same. Many will follow Satan's son. God's answer comes by opening the shaft of the Abyss, where Satan's long-imprisoned minions are unleashed upon the earth for five months. They will then mentally and physically torment those who will choose to worship the Beast and take his Mark, yet will not torture those who do not bow to the Beast.*** With these five supernatural judgments complete and man still in rebellion, God's angel will blast the sixth trumpet, and the largest army man has ever seen executes His judgment upon man. A third of mankind's eternal fates will be sealed in death by this evil army. The second death will await those who refused to repent and glorify God. Unleashing of the Two Witnesses In Revelation chapter eleven, God sends two great messengers of His Word, empowered with supernatural abilities for nearly three and half years. Fire will come from their mouths and devour their enemies. They will be empowered to cease the rain, turn the waters into blood, and unleash upon the earth every kind of plague as often as they want. Some shall call these witnesses tools of evil. Others shall correctly attest that they are part of God's attempt to awaken remaining Mankind on earth, to topple his arrogance and stubbornness. Unleashing the Bowl Judgments In Revelation chapter sixteen, God will complete the period of wrath by unleashing five bowls of judgment upon the remaining God-haters and inhabitants the earth. Angels will pour bowls causing supernatural judgments: ugly and painful sores break out upon those with the mark of the Beast and Beast worshipers. The seas, rivers and springs will turn to blood; the sun will painfully burn and scorch people. The world will plunge into utter darkness. Despite men gnawing their tongues in agony, they will curse God because of their pains and refuse to repent, fear and glorify God and acknowledge Him as their Creator.** The Lamb of God, The Lion of Judah The sixth angel will pour out his bowl, which prompts Satan's minions and hordes to gather in a place called Armageddon. Now is the time for one of the most magnificent passages of Scripture in the Bible: "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS" (Revelation 19:11-16). It Is Done! And the seventh angel will pour out his bowl into the air; and there will come a great voice out of God's Heavenly throne, saying, "It is done!" The intense time of great unleashing of God's long-awaited supernatural power onto a God-denying world will be completed. They demanded proof. They demanded a sign. The Lord God gave them sign, after sign, after sign; yet countless multitudes did not repent, and therefore shall spend their eternity in the lake of fire. But also from this time, a great multitude, whom no man can number, out of every nation and tribe and people and tongue, shall stand before the throne and the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands; and they will cry out with a loud voice, saying "Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb!" Thanks be to you our Lord God Almighty! The One who is, who was and who is to come! Come for us, our Lord Jesus, come. Come and reign over us in victory, and in power, and in glory! We, your Bride, await you! Alleluia! For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth! J&J Ranch Ministries "But as for me and my <ranch>, we will serve the LORD" (Joshua 24:15) * "Becoming Born Again - Born of The Spirit" - V9 in the "Taking 10 Minutes" Series https://youtu.be/52z3AGMoL98 ** "God's Final Message to Mankind Before Returning to Earth" https://youtu.be/aJApTQdllHY *** "There is But One Mark of the Beast" https://youtu.be/u8_h2NJYkho COVID-19(84) - By Pete Garcia -
https://www.rev310.com/2020/04/covid-1984 Author's note: This is an extremely long brief. It has many hyper-links that will go into much greater depth on particular topics than is possible here. I pray you take as much time as necessary to not only go through the brief, but also check out the links. * When I was in the military, both as a commander and as an instructor, I would routinely tell my students and subordinates that we lived in a 9/10 world. Most were not old enough to remember 9/11 clearly, but I would explain to them that on September the 10th, 2001, the world was one way. People had plans, dreams, ambitions, goals, and a thousand other things going on that had become part of their "normal" life. The very next day that all changed. The world changed. Forever. Nevertheless, we endured. Here we are some 19 years later; enjoying what was the greatest economic recovery a nation had ever enjoyed. We had (and still have) an overwhelmingly popular president, who was unashamedly pro-life, pro-Christian, and pro-Israel. We had three years of failed investigations and impeachment attempts overturned and rejected by both the people and the Congress. We had finally become energy independent. We finally had a president who recognized America's economic-core was crumbling from within through decades of terrible trade deals. It seemed America's biggest export wasn't food or cars, but our jobs. In turn, he began enforcing our immigration laws and border security. He began aggressively renegotiating the economic bloodletting previous presidents had ignored for decades. We finally had a president who recognized the reality that Jerusalem was and always will be the eternal capital of Israel. We finally had a president who acted upon the decades-old legislation to move our US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. We finally had a president who was willing to untangle ourselves from the increasingly complicated and bureaucratic web of international treaties that sound good in theory, but have significant economic and political ramifications to the cost of our national sovereignty. In fact, almost every Trump initiative was threatening to undo decades of globalist-based, political and economic machinations going back to George H.W. Bush. Then, unexpectedly, a Chinese epidemic coincidentally exploded out of a Chinese wet-market, which just so happened to be co-located in the exact same town China's first biosafety level-4 laboratory. The Chinese government then allowed this outbreak to spread from a local epidemic, to a global pandemic within a matter of weeks. Protecting their own image, they ignored the early warning signs, arrested anyone who spoke publicly about it, and then allowed travel to continue unabated for weeks. Again, the Chinese officials allowed this from the same town where a notoriously insane wet market existed, as well as their level-4 biosafety laboratory. While it might sound conspiratorial to say the Chinese government was behind the intentional release of a deadly pathogen just to upset the global applecart, the timing of this is at the very least, curiously opportunistic. Is it coincidental that this all happens after both the Mueller Investigation and the Impeachment efforts fall flat? Furthermore, it is curious that while President Trump has been busy trying to patch the holes in a sinking USS America, many former Obama administration officials have been actively busy conducting shadow diplomacy around the world with America's enemies. I am not here to say that 9/11 was an inside job, or even a foreign attack knowingly allowed for by the US government. Nor, am I saying that this new viral outbreak is one either. Whether this pandemic had governmental machinations behind it or not, is at this point, irrelevant. We are in it. We are living through the global response to it right now. What I am saying, is that regardless of its origination, we know one thing with absolute certainty; wicked and ruthless people will always take advantage of a crisis. It may be years from now, or perhaps even decades (should the Lord tarry) that people will ask us what it was like in the US before the "great virus" changed everything. People will have no concept of a "free" America, or world that wasn't so authoritatively dystopian as to believe it, that we couldn't even recognize it were we not living in it. First, let me add, NOTHING happens by chance in this world. God's sovereign plan for mankind works ALL things toward His glory (Romans 8:28). Secondarily, God's adversary, and ours, Satan, also has an agenda. Although his agenda does not supersede God's, it is a factor in this great drama we call life. It was because of Satan that sin and death entered into creation. Like every good mystery that must be solved, we must start with the right questions. So let me ask a series of questions. You can substitute the italicized verbiage for some other major crisis, but I think these get to the heart of what is going on.
11.Who has long championed global depopulation? These questions, like countless more, cause me to question the globally accepted narrative about what is really going on. Again, not downplaying the seriousness of what is going on, but perhaps the problem with this global problem, is its lack of lethality. For instance, we do not have to sugarcoat Ebola or Marburg outbreaks. They are terrible and they are self-evidently, terrible. Doctors and news pundits do not report deaths due to Ebola as, 'Ebola-related deaths.' We do not have to lump in complications with it because its lethality is significant enough to trump anything else they had going on medically. So if this is less lethal than Ebola, and even less lethal to many degrees, as the normal flu season, why are we intentionally suiciding the global economy? Granted, some form of influenza(s) or viral outbreak is causing many people to die prematurely. Nor am I arguing we should not be promoting precautions and good public health. I am not even arguing how it began. I am simply asking, in a moment of crisis, who benefits most and why? What are their goals and what will a post-COVID19 world look like. Assessment If crisis is a means by which Democrats achieve their political ends - and it is; just think of their famous "never let a crisis go to waste" playbook - then imagine what coronavirus means to the globalists. What a dizzying opportunity for them to achieve massive goals. This is new world order time - one world order time, in the teachings of the Bible believers. By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Saturday, March 28, 202 When we look at the unrelenting effort to promote globalism over the decades, we must understand that those who hold to this are not simply old maniacal men smoking pipes and twisting their moustaches in darkened rooms. Some might be perhaps, but many, are true believers that a singular, global government is the only way to solve all the world's problems. Some of these are well known; The Roman Catholic Church, the United Nations, George Soros, David Rockefeller, Gordon Brown, Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and so forth. Some have even been US Presidents' such as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Barak H. Obama. Still many others, while, not out and out globalists, are at least; sympathetic to its ideals (Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton) have been some of our more notable promoters of internationalism. However, true dyed in the wool globalists are men and women of power, wealth, and most importantly, anonymity. In fact, their anonymity is their greatest weapon. Anonymous like the goings-on of Bohemian Grove. We know the place exists. We know the elite go there. However, we know very little of what actually goes on there other than it seems extremely suspect. A disheartening practical exercise in this would be looking up your favorite products (clothes, appliances, accessories, etc.) and finding out whom they support financially (i.e., political leanings) only to discover, you are funding your own country's demise. The New, New Deal: Echoes of Roosevelt It was only a few decades ago that globalisation was held by many, even by some critics, to be an inevitable, unstoppable force. "Rejecting globalisation," the American journalist George Packer has written, "was like rejecting the sunrise." Before and during World War I, the average American had little to no appetite for US entanglement in foreign affairs. Isolationism as an ideological belief ran strong throughout the country. In fact, President Woodrow Wilson successfully campaigned for a second term in 1916 on the premise of keeping our boys out of the Great War, which had begun in 1914. However, President Wilson was an internationalist at heart who longed for the creation of an international governing body. He realized the only way he would ever get the global support he needed to do so was if America joined the war and got her hands bloody. The war by this point had ground to a halt in the trenches strewn across the Maginot Line. Therefore, we did, and tens of thousands of young American men died on the altar of a new world order. After the war ended, Wilson began championing his 'Fourteen Points of Light', which would become the founding stone for both the doomed Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations. The League of Nations turned out to be weak and largely ineffectual due to its lack of US political support after Wilson's health failed. After WWI, most American's were content to leave well enough alone, and focus on a 'return back to normalcy.' However, the League would come to serve as a prototype for the United Nations some twenty-years later. Although the 1920s are commonly referred to as 'the roaring twenties' (due to the widespread economic prosperity that was surging throughout the nation), it was not without its problems. Many of the southern and mid-west states would come to experience record droughts and floods throughout the 1920s and thus, got a head start into the great depression. The 'roaring twenties' enjoyed the post-war boom in able-bodies men reentering the workforce, the boom in the construction market, an emerging automobile industry, the electrification of America's power grid, and the inescapable thrust of the US as the world's number one superpower. Republican candidate Herbert Hoover ran his unofficial 1928 campaign slogan promising "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage," presumably projecting, a continued sense of optimism with economic prosperity going forward in perpetuity. However, a year later, the country was in tatters. With a decade's worth of wild stock speculation under its belt, Wall Street's wild ride came to its unavoidable end. The "official" Great Depression commenced in earnest after the market peaked on September 3, 1929, after which, the market began free falling. The stock market would finally hit rock bottom on 29 October, infamously enshrining that day into history as Black Tuesday. The reality was that although the 1920's were booming due to the aforementioned reasons, the Stock Market had been on shaky legs for some time. Several minor recessions (tremors) had already rocked Wall Street in previous years (1920-21, 1923). Quite a few other cues had been silently signaling the inevitable end of the 'roaring twenties,' which had largely gone unnoticed. First, there was the previously mentioned droughts and floods that had turned America's breadbasket into America's dust bowl. Secondly, there was the shakiness of the financial markets itself due to the unregulated speculation by traders and investors. Lastly, there had been a growing withdrawal of foreign investors from the US markets over the summer of 1929. Their quiet departure was perhaps due in part to the rising instability in Europe (i.e., weak League of Nations, Versailles Treaty). Europe's economic instability matched with rising aggressive rhetoric by Germany and Italy was definitely cause for concern. These trends began making foreign investors nervous. The savvy international investors may not have known what was coming per se; however, they sensed another perfect storm brewing on the horizon. After three years of severe economic turmoil, the Hoover Administration 1932 reelection campaign was all but doomed. He lost that election in a landslide to the incoming Democratic contender, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), who had campaigned on his New Deal initiatives. That same year, a relatively unknown man by the name of Adolph Hitler, was in the process of taking control of the chancellorship in Germany. It is to this point; I wish to draw a parallel to today's world. The world in 1933 was so distracted by their own economic turmoil to notice that evil men, ALWAYS take advantage of moments of crisis. Furthermore, they would have gone anywhere, turned to anything, and believed anyone, who could promise them some relief. Enter Adolph Hitler. World War II. The Holocaust. And while Satan may have intended it for bad, God resurrected the Jewish nation because of it. If anyone had said publicly in 2019 that unemployment rates would hit upwards of 40% in the second quarter of 2020, the "experts" in the media and academia would have laughed them off the stage. Even at the height of the Great Depression (1933), unemployment rates never topped 25% (source). In fact, unemployment rates never moved beyond 11% in the subsequent decades since the Great Depression. However, I note the term publicly with a profound sense of curiosity, seeing as nearly 2,000 chief executive officers (CEOs) from numerous major global corporate organizations have stepped down since 2019. It has been (at least since 2001) the greatest exodus of CEOs in the shortest amount of time, on record. Perhaps they knew something was afoot, or perhaps they decided to bail while the getting was good. Again, one of the greatest lessons the 20th-century leaders learned beginning with World War I, followed closely by the Great Depression, is that crisis points, offer the greatest opportunities for advancing agendas. There has been since 1913, a relentless push towards globalism. However, without major crisis's (either real or supposed), the march toward globalism had been relatively slow and cumbersome (like the New Deal's recovery efforts). People and nations are reluctant to hand over their own sovereignty, especially when there is no good reason to do so. However, when you add a crisis (again, either real or supposed) into the equation that crawl towards globalism, turns into a sprint. Let us summarize the major historical events and the subsequent efforts to advance globalism (italicized). I apologize for the length of this, but I am attempting summarize the entirety (as best as possible) the push toward globalism. 1913: The Federal Reserve Act is passed on December 24 (Christmas Eve), with a barely a quorum, effectively creating an American 'central bank' 1914-18: World War 1 embroils the world in conflict 1920: President Woodrow Wilson founds the League of Nations 1929: US Stock market crashes on October 29, 'Black Tuesday' 1929-39: US "Great Depression" results in the federalization of numerous industries, and FDR being elected for an unprecedented four, four-year terms of office (1933-1945) 1939-45: World War II embroils the world again in global conflict 1944: Bretton-Woods Agreement establishes the US Dollar as the global reserve currency 1945: The United Nations is founded 1946: Winston Churchill proposes the idea of a united Europe 1949: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is created, permanently entrenching the US to European affairs for the next 70 years 1951: Treaty of Paris officially begins the European Coal and Steel Community (six nations) which becomes the genesis of the European Union 1967: Israel major victory in Six Day War; Israelis' recapture and reunites Jerusalem 1971: US President Nixon delinks the US economy from the gold-standard (ending Bretton-Woods Agreement) 1973: US Pres. Nixon supports Israel in Yom Kippur War; OPEC oil embargo begins 1979: US renegotiates trade agreement with OPEC (Saudi Arabia) effectively reinstituting the US Dollar as the world's reserve currency through 'petrodollars' 1989: 'Iron Curtain' comes down in Europe 1991: Collapse of the Soviet Union 1993: Clinton signs NAFTA into law 1993: Treaty of Maastricht formalizes the unification of the European Union (EU) 1993: UN Agenda 21 (non-formal agreement) on sustainable development 1995: Creation of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) by French President Sarkozy 1999: EU officially adopts the 'euro' currency 2001: 9/11 Islamic attack on the United States; 'war on terror' begins 2001: US retaliates and invades Afghanistan with NATO coalition 2003: SARS coronavirus outbreak occurs in southern China 2003: US invades Iraq with a NATO coalition, dethrones Saddam Hussein, and effectively destabilizes the Muslim Middle East 2005: Indonesian Earthquake and Tsunami results in a global recovery effort 2008: Fannie May/ Freddie Mac mortgage crisis embroils and drags down the global economy 2008-09: Mortgage crisis results in three massive financial bailouts 2009: H1N1 (Swine Flu) becomes a global pandemic 2010: Haitian earthquakes results in a global recovery effort 2010: US Congress passes the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), effectively attempting to nationalizing 1/6th of the US economy 2011: 9.0 earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a massive tsunami, and causing a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear reactor facility. This resulted again in a global recovery effort 2011: US military exit from Iraq, leaving vacuum later filled by ISIS 2010-Present: Arab Spring in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Syria 2014-15: Global Ebola Crisis 2015: UN Agenda 2030 initiated to end global poverty 2016: Unexpected election of Donald J. Trump to US President 2016: Obama agrees to the Paris Climate Agreement (executive agreement), presumably binding the US to a four-year international treaty 2017: Official US declaration of Jerusalem as capital of Israel 2018: US continued economic prosperity 2018: US Embassy move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem 2019: US gains energy independence from OPEC November 2019: US notifies its intent to begin its year-long withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement to occur no earlier than 04NOV2020 (right after the next elections) October 2019: The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. December 2019: First news of epidemic breaking at Wuhan, China January-February 2020: US Democrats continue impeachment process January 2020: The Trump Administrations COVID-19 response timeline March 2020: Quarantine/shelter in place government orders in effect globally April-May 2020: US / global economy grinds to halt, expectations of 40-50% unemployment worldwide If we were to compare this march toward globalization with earlier attempts (prior to 1900), there is simply nothing comparable to it except during the military conquests of Genghis Khan, the Roman Empire, and Alexander the Great. The relentless push toward globalism over the past 120 years has been like a powerful, unrelenting undercurrent sucking everything out to sea. Things may seem fine on the surface, but the undertow moves quietly and perilously under the surface. But what is the globalist agenda? What else but a new world order. Unbelievably, this is a relatively simple process. The long game is subtle, and uses gradualism and incrementalism as its main tools to force change over a period of time. The short game is to advance the long game in quick increments, usually during moments of crisis. The key here is to have your plans in place long before said crisis ever occurs. This is where both the short and long game work in unison to achieve the same end state. The Long Game 1. The dumbing-down of a population (requires a takeover of education, entertainment and media) 2. Creating an impossibly complicated web of legislation and bureaucracy to hide agendas 3. Consolidating as much wealth and power into as few hands as possible 4. Controlling the narrative (this requires controlling both the mouthpieces and the platforms to censor opposing opinions) 5. Depopulating the earth from our present 7.5B people, down to around 500M. This is done through war, epidemics, pandemics, famine, genocide, and abortion 6. Open borders and reduction/diminishment of national sovereignty. 7. Political change via gradualism or incrementalism (see Fabian Society) The Short Game 1. Dumbing down a population requires a relaxation of moral norms, a removal of God from academia, and the promotion of hedonism 2. Create a government/organization so shrouded with rules, departments, legislation, official channels, and systems of systems, that the average person would never be able to untangle their agenda. When a government becomes so large, we often see the rise of a shadow government, or deep state underneath it that moves unseen [About the best I have seen done, was by Glenn Beck years ago when tracking all the ties and linkages George Soros had to leftist organizations. It is truly a modern day Hydra.] 3. Elite-bankers/technocrats consolidate their power over autonomous countries through economic crisis. The creation of transnational and international organizations, whether governmental (IMF, World Bank, etc.) or corporate (Google, IBM, Microsoft, etc.) almost always become incestuous in moving forward their agenda 4. The use of Hollywood, secular academia, and the Media as leftist propaganda mouthpieces to push certain narratives (global cooling, global warming, climate change, etc.) 5. The Georgia Guide stones are the "ten commandments" of the new world order 6. Aside from socialist and leftist political attempts (i.e., EU open borders), global emergencies like unchecked immigration, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, etc., present perfect opportunities to get footholds in every country on the planet. 7. Use delaying tactics when opportunity arrives to achieve a goal most aligned to yours Conclusion Many of you are probably wondering, what a post-COVID-19 world looks like. Well, as the title alluded to, definitely more Orwellian than before the Chinese-originated viral outbreak began. Given the long history lesson I just presented you, we know that when a crisis occurs, conspirators will take advantage of the situation to advance their agenda. Ultimately, the globalists hate what Donald Trump represents. He represents a return to national sovereignty and a return to the American greatness that marked much of the 20th-century. So what they could not achieve at the micro-level (i.e., three-year investigation and failed impeachment attempt) to take out Donald Trump, they would be forced to attain at the macro-level and drag down the global economy. Trust me; had Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election, we would not be undergoing this current crisis (think back to 2009 H1N1) because she is a globalist and would already be working to advance their agenda. Prophetic Alignments Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. Revelation 13:1 If anything, this current crisis is primarily designed as a 'stage-setting' event for the final reordering of the present world governments. We know that in the last days, there will be a ten-nation / seven-region confederacy, led by ten leaders, who rise up out of the sea of humanity. There will be an eleventh leader, who subdues three, and then ends up taking over the entire organization. This organization is known as The Beast. Their leader is the personification of The Beast, and his name is the Lawless One or the Antichrist. He has a right-hand person, known as the False Prophet, who orchestrates an apostate, ecumenical religious world system and eventually direct all worship toward this the Antichrist. So how do we get from where we are today, to the one the Bible says is coming? If recent headlines are any indication, they reveal that world leaders are actively working to promote the spirit of antichrist with increased vigor either knowingly, or unknowingly. Check out these recent headlines that point toward a world more Orwellian than anything even George Orwell could have imagined:
In decades past, globalist lacked the political and technological abilities to bring about a new world order. Even at the height of World War II, the Nazi's were unable to control all buying and selling even in the areas they controlled. Both the League of Nations, and later the United Nations, lacked the military and legal authority to impose their politically driven agendas. While it appears that the present coronavirus (COVID-19) is wreaking havoc to the globalist agenda (i.e., open borders and lax immigration laws) what it is really doing, is reshuffling the geopolitical nations and the authorities they once held. It will become a complete dismantlement of nationalism and national sovereignty altogether. Why is that? Because the threat is no longer contained to a single nation. Much like the much-hyped and ever-evolving climate change threat, pandemics are global in nature (hence the name 'pan'). Nations, who refuse to get on board with the global agenda, face North Korea-styled isolation and embargo. The consensus from the "experts" is that the COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to unravel the long fought for liberalism and unification of a European Union (EU). The experts fear that Europe might return to the pre-1950s 'nationalism' and 'isolationism,' mindsets in the hoarding of resources and closing of borders. However, the reality is the global nature of this threat will reinforce their need to be represented by single, supranational voice that will lead all of Europe (much like the United States). This virus is not unraveling seventy-years' worth of consolidation; rather, it is restructuring the authorities to become the final structure the Bible has foretold it would become. This is the first pandemic event since the Spanish Flu that has affected the whole world at the same time. The obvious difference being that the world in 1918-20 lacked the technology to impose global surveillance and enforce currency controls. We do not have that problem anymore. Watch for these agendas to be hammered through in the coming weeks to months. Push for digital ID
Push for 5G networks
Push for digital currency
Increased Surveillance State
After reading all this, you are probably depressed, upset, distraught, or even belligerent in that the globalist machinations who appear to be winning the day. Far from it. They are fulfilling exactly what God has already told us would happen. And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings Acts 17:26 Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,' Isaiah 46:9-10 The good news is if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you will not live through the worst period in human history. Things might get rough beforehand, but Christ promised His bride, the Church, deliverance from the very time of this global testing (Revelation 3:10). So be of good cheer. Share the good news of Jesus Christ with friends, family, neighbors, and even your enemies. Time is running out on this sin-stained world. The enemies of God will not win and their schemes will not come to fruition. Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, "Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us." He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure: "Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion." Psalm 2:1-6 The Son of Perdition Revealed - by Pastor Mike Taylor -
https://pastormiketaylor.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-son-of-perdition-revealed.html "I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come!" 2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest. ." (Revelation 6:1-2) Many people are fixed on the end time's prophecies that we are observing right now in our time. With that focus many are looking for someone to rise up and fulfill the prophecy of the end time ruler, called the Anti-christ. We see the so-called "pandemic" of the Coronovirus and mandated "Stay at Home" orders, many arrested for not doing so, those who gather at church and given tickets even if they drive up on the parking lot and listen to the service on their radios. It seems that of our Constitutional rights are being thrown into the trash. When I pondered this question, I remembered many emails coming from a fellow across the big pond who thoroughly disbelieves that there will be an actual Anti-christ, This European fellow believes that this is all fictional nonsense, (as he calls it) and there will be no one who will head the end time government that is prophesied to be in place just before the return of Jesus Christ to set up His kingdom. But is he right, or is he just a scoffer? Let's see what the bible says and who is called the "Anti-christ". The term "antichrist" is found only in I and II John. Notice 1st John: 18 "Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. 20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. 21 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist-denying the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also." (1st John 2:18-23) In John's day, there were many people who could be classified as Anti-Christ. They were those that denied that Jesus Christ had come in the flesh and was from God, and was God. Notice above in v. 22 "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son." So even in John's day there were many people who had the spirit of anti-christ, but is that where it ends? PROTO-TYPE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST Daniel speaks of the king that would come, in Daniel chapter 11, Let's look at verse 15 and start reading. " Then the king of the North will come and build up siege ramps and will capture a fortified city. The forces of the South will be powerless to resist; even their best troops will not have the strength to stand. 16 The invader will do as he pleases; no one will be able to stand against him. He will establish himself in the Beautiful Land and will have the power to destroy it. ." (Daniel 11:15-17) Reading on down we see this verse depicting a ruler to come of when Daniel wrote it. In verse 28 "Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land." (Daniel 11:28) If you read this chapter, you will learn from historical documents and your own history books, of a ruler from Syria called Antiochus Epiphanes. History shows us that he lost a battle to the king of the south, Egypt and as he was making his way back home he came against Jerusalem and defiled the temple in his wrath and hatred of the Jews. From a book of history we read, "Daniel's prophecy describes the reign of one of the later Syrian kings, Antiochus IV, surnamed Epiphanies ("the manifest" or "the illustrious"). With tragic wit, the Jews named him Epimanes, or "the madman," when it became apparent that his policies were violently anti-Jewish. Determined to "civilize" (i.e., Hellenize) the Jews, this Syrian king systematically forbade, under penalty of death, circumcision, Sabbath and holy day observance, and the reading or possession of the scrolls of the Torah. He executed some for refusing to eat swine's flesh and butchered others who would not bow to a pagan image. Additionally, he had a statue of Zeus erected in the Temple. Swine were sacrificed on God's altar, and pagan rites, orgies, and festivals were performed in the Temple grounds. In his pride, he decreed that he should be worshiped as Zeus; his coins were struck with the inscription theos epiphanes ("God manifest"), a horrible counterfeit of the true "God with us." This man lived many years before the ministry of Jesus Christ and was known to all who were Jewish by birth at the time of Jesus being on earth. His defiling of the temple led to the Maccabean War that defeated Antiochus and restored the Temple after being cleansed and they are observed in the Days of Hanukkah. JESUS PROPHECIES ANOTHER ANTI-CHRIST TO COME When Jesus was approached by His disciples on the Mount of Olives, after His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said this in Matthew chapter 24: 15 "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: 21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."(Matthew 24:15-22) Obviously, Jesus was speaking to Jewish people who will see this come about and are told beforehand to "get out of dodge" so to speak. This does not speak of the church, as some postulate, but directed at the nation of Israel in the latter days of the revealing of the Anti-Christ upon the earth. I believe those who are saved alive will run to the Jordanian fortress of Petra, even as their ancestors did when Rome destroyed Jerusalem, where God will supernaturally protect them. MODERN DAY ANTI-CHRIST REVEALED Bible prophecy has been shown to have duality of fulfillment. Just as Daniel spoke of the "abomination that causeth desolation" and was fulfilled years later by Antiochus Epiphanes, so too, will it be fulfilled again in the last days. Years after Jesus spoke of this prophecy, the temple was destroyed by Roman legions and the prophecy was put on hold, as Jesus spoke of the end of days. Since the temple has been destroyed and has never been rebuilt, YET, (as all parts of the construction of the 3rd Temple are ready to be placed on the Temple Mount) then it would be safe to say that the prophecy is yet to be fulfilled. Many men who fit the concept of the "Anti-christ" have come and gone. Some of them we know from our history books, from ancient times to our modern era. Some of the names you will recognize such as Nebuchadnezzar from the book of Daniel, Haman from book of Esther, the Pharaohs of Egypt, Judas Iscariot the disciple of Jesus, Emperor Nero, and even into modern days, such as Hitler, Pol Pot, and Jim Jones. But none of them have stood in the Temple in Jerusalem and claimed to be a "god" and defile the temple. That is a future event. This man is called further "the man of sin." Many people write me and wonder if this new ID2020 is the coming Mark of the Beast, and is Bill Gates the "Anti-Christ"...Is he? We won't know for sure, but the idea of putting a mark, or a tattoo on a person's right arm, gives a person pause that we are seeing the run-up to the coming Tribulation. People are writing about this right now. People are scared and many see this as a sign of the end of days. Many people are protesting the "stay at home" orders and have hard questions about this new "vaccine" Bill Gates is pushing...As a clip from the internet of people who are concerned: "The Internet has exploded with accusations that Bill gates is preparing to administer the Mark of the Beast through his Coronavirus vaccine. Is this true?" (End of the Age, Endtime.com) "Bill Gates is the Antichrist Ever since Microsoft was founded, Bill Gates has gained power over the people of the world by winning a monopoly in the computer-software industry. From the assistance Microsoft gave in the development of the personal computer, to the virtual monopoly that Windows now has on most computers all over the world; Microsoft has controlled a major portion of the computer industry. In his repeated conquests over his competitors, Gates has left an increasingly obvious amount of evidence that proves that he is the fourth and final antichrist."(Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ Essay research. Works.doklad.ru) "Why is Bill Gates involved in hyping the global Coronavirus fear? Answer: ID2020 The pandemic will be used to further the goals of the Devil and build up the antichrist Beast tracking and buying/selling system. "The ID2020 Alliance, as it's being called, is a digital identity program that aims to "leverage immunization" as a means of inserting tiny microchips into people's bodies." Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.( 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4)" (blogtalkradio.com) I'm not saying that Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ, as we will never know for sure this side of the rapture, but with this Coronavirus and his so-called "vaccine", it is making a lot of people suspicious of his intentions. It very well could be the beginning of watching every person on the planet that the Anti-Christ will use. Research shows us that Bill Gates has sold "Micro-soft" and is investing millions of dollars in factories to produce this so called 'vaccine" that will monitor every person on the planet with their personal information and that no one can buy or sell unless he has proof that he has been vaccinated. I read where if the law stops you, say the police, or highway patrol and you haven't papers, or a tattoo on your arm, they can arrest you and take you to a quarantine without charges or a court appearance. I have also read that this untested vaccine has killed more people than any virus, as it comes from Bangladesh and could be being used as a de-population tool to rid the planet of undesirables...Reports are that it has killed many in Africa during testing of this "vaccine"..much like when Hitler tried the same plot in WW2...here, it might be conceivable that another attempt is in the making. As there are plans to reduce the population of the earth to a "manageable" level of 500 million people in the name of "Climate Change" and to save the "mother earth". See the agenda of Sustainable Development and Agenda 2030 associated with this concept of marking people and depopulation to a "sustainable" level by going here: https://globalpossibilities.org/112091-2/ Agenda 21? The Plan To Depopulate 95% Of The World By 2030 This to inform you of what may be coming not to scare but make you aware that the end of this age is close, and Jesus could come back at any moment. Mr. Gates, I would liken him more than Anti-christ, but "Anti-God" as he has called for the closure of every church and business in the USA and the world. That would violate our religious freedom in the name of security and safety, where those who accept this, deserve neither. We may have suspicions of who the "man' is, but we will NOT see him revealed until after the True Church of the Living God is removed from this planet, as Paul writes of him in II Thessalonians starting in chapter 2: verse 6: 6 " And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And THEN (my emphasis) shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,"(2nd Thessalonians 2:6-9) The above verses proclaim that the "HE" being the Holy Spirit will be taken out of the way, to allow evil and wickedness brought on by the Prince and power of the air, and his demon hordes through the Anti-Christ, will be unleashed. They will attempt to destroy all mankind, but receive worship during the time of the Tribulation.. If the Holy Spirit is removed, then every born again believer will be removed as well, as Jesus told us that He would never leave us alone. To be without God's Spirit to guide and direct us would make Jesus a liar, and we know God does not lie. 5 "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me."(Hebrews 13:5-6) 18 "And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen." (Matthew 28:18-20) To leave a born again, Spirit filled Christian alone during this coming time of horror when we desperately need Him, would go against what Jesus told us, and what Paul repeated in Hebrews. THE MAN OF SIN REVEALED So how will we know when the "man of sin", the "lawless one", the Anti-Christ has taken center stage? The prophet Daniel tells us: "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."(Daniel 9:27) This is the very first sign and indication that the ruler who makes a peace treaty with Israel for a seven years of "peace", then this is the man we have been speculating about. Daniel says that this man will allow sacrifices to resume, which will require a temple...either of stone, or a pitched tent, as was in Shiloh. During this time, he will be looked at as a peace keeper, a man of peace. What's going on right now in Israel? Leaders are trying to make a peace treaty between the Palestinians and Israel without much success. President Trump proposed the "Deal of the Century" to bring peace to Israel and the Palestinians, but without success as the PA rejected it before they even saw what it said. But this coming "lawless man, the Son of Perdition will accomplish what has only been attempts that failed. This man will succeed when he confirms a covenant that was proposed but not confirmed and established. Why? Jesus said and prophesied: "I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive." (John 5:45) Some have postulated that this man will come in his own name, and the Jewish people will accept him as their "messiah", a peace keeper, a restorer of Israel's right to exist and a political "friend" of Israel. I have to agree with this premise. Then only too late, Israel will realize their mistake that he is an imposter, when he defiles the temple and proclaims himself to be god, and does the same idolatry as "Antiochus Ephiphanes' did thousands of years ago. Because of their rejection of him, he will turn on the Jewish people with untold wrath and a vengeance that will surpass Antiochus. We shift to the prophecy in Revelation chapter 13. Whole books have been written about this prophecy, but we'll try and summarize the gist of the argument I am supporting.13:1 "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear."(Revelation 13:1-9) Notice the change in focus in this passage? It speaks of "the beast" as an organization, or a political power machine. Then makes a decidedly shift to speak of "him, his" which are personal pronouns denoting an individual. He will be Antiochus Epiphanes arisen in spirit, empowered by Satan himself. Also notice that this system arises out of the sea, which in bible speak is a sign of the nations, or Gentiles. Then notice the next passages: 13:11 "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." (666).(Revelation 13:11-18) This speaks of the "false prophet" who supports the beast and rises out of the "earth", which is bible speak for a member of the nation of Israel. Will this false prophet be Jewish? Appears that it could be, but only time will tell. Many people believe that the Catholic Pope will be that false prophet, as he is promoting a one world religion right now, and calling for a one world government and socialism. To the present day Christian, those called by the Holy Spirit to repentance and acceptance of our Lord Jesus Christ, as their personal savior, this should bring no fear to you, or to me. Why? If you look up in the middle of the message is a verse that gives me great comfort. II Thessalonians chapter 2: 6"And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:"(2nd Thessalonians 2:6-8) Strongs Concordance reveals the meaning of the word "Wicked" in the previous verse as: #459 anomos, lawless, not subject to the Jewish law, (by implication, a Gentile) without law, lawless, transgressor, unlawful, wicked" Let me repeat the obvious. There is only one thing that is holding back the revealing of the Anti-Christ , this lawless one in our present time. Who is "he who now letteth"...I believe along with many others, that the Holy Spirit is holding back all the evil power and Satanic forces that wish to destroy human kind. This passage says that "he" will be taken out of the way. I firmly believe this is the Holy Spirit who called each of us to repentance and provided the Salvation of God to each of us upon our acceptance of the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, will be withdrawn at this time to allow evil to flourish and cause the wrath of God to fall upon a rebellious mankind. We may see the run up to this Anti-christ being revealed. There will be hints and we might even have a pretty good idea of who that person will be, because of his position and the politics of its formation, but I believe we will not see its fulfillment, as we are not present on earth. God has removed His church out of the way, as He has done many times before when God's people are in direct line of the horrors of an evil world and His coming wrath written in detail in the book of the apocalypse, Revelation. And horrors they will be. All who do not take the mark of the beast, or his name will be marked for martyrdom. And all who take the mark will be doomed for all of eternity. Remember Revelation chapter 13? 15"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."(Revelation 13:15-17) During Roman times, each citizen had to take an oath of allegiance to the emperor and burn incense before his statue and profess these words "Caesar is god". Then they were free to be a part of this economic system for another year. I say this because all who knowingly take this mark of the beast will know exactly what they are doing. It will be a conscious decision to follow the way of this world, to partake of the forced economic system imposed by the beast power, and its leader, the Anti-Christ, the Prince to come. It will not be a decision of confusion over it's meaning. And what will be the punishment from God for all who take allegiance to the "god of this world"? God warned all who take the mark of the beast of this result. 14:9 "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name."(Revelation 14:9-11) I have a brother in South America who has theorized with all the modern technology with the internet and communications, that a system of big brother watching you will be loaded into all TV's to witness whether you worship the "Anti-Christ" and his image or not. With many ways to monitor the world, even today, it will only get more complex and the ability to know what people are doing during this time will only get broader and privacy will be abolished in the name of a New World Order of government and religion. WHAT WILL YOU DO? There you have it, my reader. You have two choices at that time. You can either fight and resist the beast power and it's leader and be a martyr, as many will....OR, you can take the mark of the beast and live another day and be doomed for all eternity per God's warning noted above. But wait, you have another choice today, right now. 8 "But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."(Romans 10:8-13) Then you can look forward to Paul when he writes: 4:15 "For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words."(1st Thessalonians 4:15-18) Taking into consideration all the scripture that points to a coming Tribulation and a Prince to come spoken by Daniel and more so, in Revelation, and the surrounding historical context of his reappearing is a most dangerous position to not believe in. The idea of there not being a literal man of sin, the son of perdition, "the ANTICHRIST" is to deny the Words of the book, your bible. Scoff if you will, but the word of God makes a most concrete argument to that error. Don't waste another day as the Lord could come back any time in the future. There is nothing in prophecy that must be fulfilled before He breaks through the clouds with a loud trumpet sound and call His saints "COME UP HITHER" and calls us home. Do it today, while there is still time. And what of my friend across the Atlantic? Even though he is a scoffer at the idea of an Anti-Christ or even Jesus coming for His church, will he be taken as well? Yes, if he be found in Jesus Christ, then he will, along with the rest of us, rise to meet the Lord in the air. I can only imagine the grin on his face and the look of complete joy at being.......wrong!! 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." (John 3:16-18) This is pastor Mike Taylor, wishing salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord, comes into your life. should you need prayer, counseling or just a listening ear, email me at [email protected] , God bless you all, till we meet at Jesus' feet. Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen? - By Jan Markell - www.olivetreeviews.org
According to Lifeway Research, many pastors are apparently having an "aha" moment due to the tide of our times. It's about time. I am now hope-filled. They are seeing current events today as things the Bible forecast for the end-of-days. But I maintain their pulpits could still be silent. Let's be optimistic. When real church resumes, the pulpits will boldly announce that we are in the last days and Jesus is coming soon. Get your houses in order! Darrell Bock, New Testament professor at Dallas Seminary, noted that the Bible has several lists of potential signs of Jesus' return, such as the Olivet Discourse passages, and some include concepts of global sickness. These are Tribulation references. "Numerous biblical texts speak of disturbances in the creation that disorient and trouble people," said Bock. "These disturbances have quite a range with earthquakes and wars being the most common. Jesus mentions plagues or pestilence explicitly in Luke 21." Three out of four pastors in the survey have noted that world and church events have meaning today. They include the rise in apostasy, the love of believers growing cold, the decline in traditional morals, national conflicts, natural disasters, famines, and even the rise in anti-Semitism. Even if they are Tribulation events, they are casting a shadow on the Church Age. So is a new day in the church approaching thanks to some kind of a wake-up call? Almost 25 years ago, the church-growth movement said teaching any kind of eschatology would not grow the church. Pastors were encouraged to keep quiet about the soon return of the Lord. Pastor Rick Warren even said in his Purpose Driven Life book that teaching Bible prophecy would distract you from your purpose and make you unfit for the Kingdom of God. Pastors listened to him! In the information produced by Lifeway Research, Joel Rosenberg states, "For too long, many pastors have shied away from teaching on birth pangs and events leading up to the Second Coming of the Lord, but the current pandemic demonstrates the need for solid, non-sensational preaching done in a biblical manner." The Lifeway report reveals that more than half the pastors expect Jesus to return in their lifetime. So why on earth are their pulpits not proclaiming this? But there is more to the survey! Almost 70% of those surveyed believe the modern re-birth of Israel and the re-gathering of millions of Jewish people were fulfillments of prophecies in the Bible. That's great news but that was 72 years ago. Why haven't you been preaching that, pastors? More than that, 40% of the pastors surveyed believe that the establishment of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem two years ago was a sign of the last days! This is great sermon material! It could get a church fired up! But most pulpits I hear about are silent on the topic. The most frequent e-mail Olive Tree Ministries receives has to do with this topic: Where can I find a prophecy-preaching, relevant issues-focused church? Where can I find a church that is warning of things to come instead of emphasizing your best life now? Brent Miller, Jr. of Ingenuity Films made the new Rapture-themed film production, Before the Wrath, because his research, which also tapped into Lifeway, revealed that 98% of the church will not teach on anything end-time related. Both eschatology and Israel are marginalized. You read that right: 98%. Let's add one more equation into our discussion and that is what should be obvious to every observer. The book of Revelation tells us there is coming a one-world system run by the Antichrist. That new world order requires a crisis-a global crisis, not a local crisis. We have it-a global pandemic. Isn't this more fuel for a discussion? The world is in meltdown mode right now and people are asking a lot of questions. We don't even know if life as we once knew it will ever happen again. It may not! Pastors, are you talking about this? The Church is to be removed before the revealing of the lawless one, the Antichrist. I maintain he is just over the horizon, raring to go. And the four horsemen of the apocalypse may be training on some race track somewhere! You can almost hear their hoofbeats. Pastors, don't be silent! Maybe this is truly a new day for you. Seize the opportunity. Please see that all things are falling into place. Be excited. Be truthful. Don't marginalize such important news. Connect the dots for your people. Jesus is returning any moment. Please stop the silence of the pulpits. What in the World is Happening? - By Rob Pue -
https://www.raptureready.com/2020/04/12/what-in-the-world-is-happening-by-rob-pue/ It's been said that "a lie can travel halfway around the world while the TRUTH is still putting on its shoes." We live in a time of great deception, like no other. Some are now coming to understand that, but others are still blind. Even though WE KNOW the government and our politicians lie to us about just about everything. And we know the mainstream media is nothing more than the indoctrination and propaganda arm of a giant octopus of globalists and New World Order elitists. Yet so many still believe that SOMEHOW, THIS TIME, the government, politicians and media are really telling us the truth and only have our best interests in mind regarding this coronavirus "pandemic." I don't claim to know exactly what's happening now. There are many theories. But clearly something's not right here. You don't shut down the engine and economy of the entire GLOBE, locking down the majority of citizens of Planet Earth because of a virus that has proven to be largely harmless to most of the people. Things are not as they'd have us believe. HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW: On October 18, 2019, The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum hosted "a high-level pandemic exercise" in New York City called "Event 201." This event included CEOs of major corporations, media and communications professionals, business, finance and economic leaders, health officials, UN officials and government leaders. Key players included New World Order Globalists and those pushing for global "population control." This was a SIMULATION of a world-wide pandemic, to study how such a catastrophe would impact the world economically and socially. It was sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the Center for Disease Control, the United Nations Foundation, NBC broadcasting, the Bloomberg Foundation, and the Central Intelligence Agency - yes, the CIA. And the TYPE of pandemic that was studied was a CORONAVIRUS. On the same day that Event 201 began, the World Military Games began in Wuhan, China. This was an "Olympic-type" sporting event for service members from around the world to compete in sporting events. And the United Nations had a very large presence at the World Military Games. Incidentally, the United States came in 35th place in awards out of 56 countries at the games. China came in first, and Russia second. Also, for some reason, there was a mass exodus of CEOs resigning from their companies in 2019. In all, 1,480 CEOs resigned last year, and nearly 300 more quit between January and March of this year. It seems they knew something we didn't know. We also know that China has been busy building economic, diplomatic and military alliances with countries around the world, including Mexico and many Central and South American nations. There are Chinese army troops currently on the ground in many of these countries right now, training and financing their armed forces. And did you know that 200 Italian businesses are now controlled by Chinese owners... and Chinese investors and firms now own a majority of 2,400 US companies? Additionally, China owns 150,000 acres of prime farmland in the United States. We hear the word "pandemic" a lot now. But just what, exactly, IS a "pandemic?" A 'Pandemic' is declared when the death-to-infection rate of a disease reaches more than 12%. Here are the current statistics on the Coronavirus: In Europe, the death rate is 0.4%, except for Italy, which peaked at 6% and is now declining. According to the official reports, 99% of those who died in Italy - with their deaths attributed to the virus - were 80 years old or older and had other underlying illnesses already. China's death rate from the virus peaked at 3% but is now reported to be less than 0.7%. On March 26th, Dr. Anthony Fauci HIMSELF wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that the effects of the Coronavirus would be substantially less than that of the normal flu virus, with a mortality rate of less than 0.1%. So why, now, all the hysteria and over-reaction? I've been researching all of this extensively, and I HAVE the numbers; but for the sake of space, I'll leave it to you to do the research and math. But suffice to say that as of April 4th, worldwide deaths from the coronavirus have been less than 0.5% of those infected. What's more, studies show that only 2% of people age 19 and younger contract COVID-19; 12% of middle-aged people get it; and just 24% of people 80 years old or older catch it, MOST who are already sick with other illnesses. SO, WHAT HAS BEEN OUR RESPONSE TO THIS? Millions of people worldwide have essentially been locked down. All businesses considered to be "non-essential" have been forced to close. Here in America, draconian measures have been taken to assure "social distancing," meaning that in most places now, it's forbidden for ten or more people to gather, even outdoors. In some states, groups of two or more people are forbidden. Hotlines and websites have been set up for people to essentially "turn their neighbors in" to law enforcement if they feel they're not following the rules. In addition to professional sports, movie theaters, theme parks and concert arenas have been forced to close for the foreseeable future; 93% of churches in the United States are now closed. Bill DeBlasio, Mayor of New York, has stated that churches that disregard his order to close may be forced to close permanently. In China, they're demolishing church buildings. And here in our country, those who are considered to be "essential workers" are "allowed" to leave home, but they've been issued "travel papers" by their employers to prove to law enforcement they have a legitimate reason to be out on the streets if they're stopped and questioned. On March 27th, Trump signed an Executive Order allowing him to activate up to 1 million Individual Ready Reserves. These are retired military personnel, not regular "Reserve" troops. Currently, there are 12,500 National Guard members that have been mobilized, and countless numbers of heavy military vehicles have been seen being transported throughout the country. On April 1st, Mike Pompeo ordered all American citizens who are currently in other countries to return home immediately. And here's something you won't see on the evening news: The Pentagon and NORAD are now sending high-level staffers - and some of the most critical US senior military commanders and nuclear and special operations forces to the Cheyenne Mountain bunker facility in Colorado - 2,000 feet underground - to ensure that in the event of a sudden security crisis, including any potential nuclear mission, there will be enough healthy troops and leaders to carry out orders. Social distancing rules are becoming more and more strict in public, even now at Walmart stores, where only a certain number of people are being allowed in the building at a time, and aisles have been cordoned off so customers must move single file, all in one direction while inside the stores. Several states have ordered that IF people must leave their homes to obtain essential supplies, only one family member is allowed to make the trip. Even outdoor facilities like playgrounds and parks have closed down. Still, as we see every day when President Trump and his White House Coronavirus Task Force hold press conferences, THEY are NOT 'social distancing' but, rather, standing shoulder-to-shoulder. Likewise, the MEDIA at these press conferences are sitting right next to one another in the audience. Curious. The media has been reporting that hospitals across the country are being 'overwhelmed' with patients coming to be tested and hospitalized with the virus. Hospitals across the country have set up tents outside to accommodate overflow patients and for virus testing. Refrigerated semi-trucks have been brought in to serve as overflow "morgue" space for deceased patients. HOWEVER, citizen reporters have checked on this: in city after city, ordinary citizens have visited their local hospitals - including hospitals in New York City - and posted videos online showing hospitals that are completely empty, totally void of people. Empty emergency rooms, empty tents, no people anywhere. Videos are circulating all over the internet showing the same thing: in MOST cities across the country, there ARE NO COVID-19 patients, no overwhelmed hospitals or hospital workers. In New York harbor, the 1,000-bed hospital ship "Comfort" has a total of three patients. In Los Angeles, the hospital ship "Mercy" has 15. SO, WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON HERE? I don't believe the entire world has been shut down because of a virus that has been PROVEN to be much less serious and much less devastating than the annual flu bug. There IS a Coronavirus, and it DOES make people sick, but it's not an airborne virus - you can only catch it through direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected person. And, as studies have repeatedly shown, even among the most vulnerable people in the population - those over 80 years old - only 24% contract the virus. What's more, unless one is very elderly and suffering from other ailments already, most people recover at home within a few days or a couple of weeks. Many people - even Christians - believe in the mysterious figure on the internet known as "Q-Anon." "Q" has been predicting a lot of things for a lot of years, but I have yet to see even one of those predictions come to pass. The current theory from "Q" is that while everyone around the world is "locked down," the "good guys" will be arresting the "bad guys," including members of the "deep state," "shadow government," pedophile celebrities and traitors. That would be great if it were true, but I don't believe it is. A theory that I find much more plausible is a coming global financial reset - as the world economy is destroyed under the guise of a deadly "pandemic." This seems like an opportune time for the implementation of a new, one-world currency. Debt would be erased, the slate wiped clean and the world would start over with this new currency, which would, of course, be a DIGITAL currency. In fact, during the stimulus package negotiations in Congress, Nancy Pelosi even floated the idea of a "digital wallet" which would be mandatory for all. This lines up with the UN agenda for what they call "ID 2020." (It IS the year 2020, after all, so this is right on schedule). "ID 2020" is a UN plan that uses a VACCINATION as a platform for a digital form of identification. Your digital ID would include everything about you, including health and vaccine records, assets, credit and debt, and could also TRACK everyone in the world digitally - for our own "safety" and "protection," of course. Imagine: no more missing children, no more identity theft or stolen credit cards. And now that the media has pretty much the whole world frightened out of their wits over this coronavirus "pandemic," it seems millions would eagerly line up now to get the vaccine, which would, at the same time, wipe out their debts as we start over, and even include "free money" in the "digital accounts" - something millions will actually need, having lost everything after months of no income. And what could be easier than an implanted microchip in one's hand or forehead that's simply scanned wherever you go, for whatever you may need? Incidentally, Bill Gates and other world "elites" and globalists have been big supporters of "ID 2020" as they seek to bring about a one-world government, a New World Order and a One-World Economic System. We've already been told we're on the "fast track" now for a coronavirus vaccine, and what would normally take a year or more to develop could come in just a few months. There's yet one more theory as to why the world has suddenly become a prison planet, which I believe is very plausible as well, but space does not allow me to elaborate here. Maybe next time I will speak on that. In the meantime, let us pray together that the plans of the evil ones are thwarted. We also need to prepare, as true Christ-followers for the persecution that God's Word TELLS US is coming. And it IS coming, and it's out of our control. But friends, remember, it is NOT out of GOD'S control. We may not escape persecution or perilous times, but as we read in Revelation, we WILL overcome the enemy "by the blood of the Lamb, the word of our testimony, and loving not our own lives, even unto death." Let us be faithful to our Lord and Savior and stand strong 'til the end - no matter what comes - and regarding the work He has called us all to, no matter what comes upon us, may we all finish well, KNOWING that He will work all things together for good for those that love Him and are called according to His purpose. |
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