Showing posts with label Delusion. Show all posts
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Monday, July 22, 2024

WATCHMAN WARNING: STAY ALERT

 

 
Not an easy time or pleasant time to be alive.  Not at all.
 
For just a few paragraphs to set the stage, let’s look at this world around us.  I focus here on the US although much similarly could be said of course about other nations.  In the US so many in the national government as well as in other positions of leadership seem to be acting in such ungodly ways.  Lies pervade their daily public remarks as well as so often the remarks of many of the media that are supposed to inform the public and remain impartial.
 
This is a day of evil like none we living now have ever seen.  I know there have been pockets of untold evil in the past, and moments of evil horror such as under the Nazis in WWII and elsewhere.  But this is a general evil that permeates the lifestyles and behaviors of so many people.  Large numbers obviously do not know they are themselves not telling the truth, or they just don’t care. 
 
Lost, confused people listen to the media and the government, and being ungodly themselves they are led astray.  So we get all the wild, virulent people saying things you know are not true.  But they obviously think they are.
 
This recent assassination attempt on former President Trump has shocked many even in the mainstream community.  Let’s be honest.  Most people living have not lived as adults when there has been such a thing happen in America. 
 
People like me who have lived quite a long time remember the ultimate horror of such a happening when the leader of the country was indeed killed.  The murder of President Kennedy was a horror that still has impact.  And all those living then gradually realized – or at least most did – that we were actually not being told the truth about what had happened.  Turned out more than just the shooter were involved.  The full disclosure of the investigation has not even now been released to the public, 61 years after the fact.  And thus began in full view the time of the national government deciding what is best for the people to know and what is not.  And thus also the beginning of many not trusting the government, a lack of trust that has grown up to today when people do not trust the federal security agencies, do not believe we will be told the truth in situations, do not believe many of the leaders.
 
I write all this as background leading up to a big statement.  And this is it.
 
People, dear people, please pay attention.  The times will only get worse on earth.  We are in the very last days of this human period.  The Lord will come any moment, and I surely hope it is indeed any moment, like today for example.  The Father obviously is still drawing others to Jesus.   We know from scripture how hard it all gets as the days go by, but we believers do know that at some moment we will be taken from this confused, dark world society as the final period of true horror on earth ensues.
 
The antichrist has not yet been revealed, although surely he is waiting in the wings.  When the true believers in Jesus are taken away, he no longer has serious human opposition to his efforts to build the one-world government and the Tribulation will go forward.  Already the UN and the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization are working towards that.
 
Remember always where the truth lies.  It lies in God, in Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, in the Bible.  Pray.  Seek to hear more always.  Live and operate in the guidance of the Holy Spirit.  Use the gifts of the Spirit, especially the gift of discernment, to survive on earth.  The Holy Spirit guides us in all truth.  He tells us of things to come.  He reminds us of things Jesus has said to us.  Remember?
 
There are large numbers of deceived, even deluded people out there, godless people whom the devil readily leads astray.  Living in the midst of all this requires wisdom on our parts and absolute attention to God’s guidance.  His words and his truths are absolute.  They are real and they work.  Remember again Jesus said his believers can do the same things he did, even greater.  Well, are you doing them?  Are you trying to do them?  Are you using God’s tools of protection?  Healing the sick?  Casting out demons?
 
I admit this is an unpleasant time.  I admit I have great difficulty looking ever at reports of what is happening on earth.  But we do need to know what is happening around us surely, so we should try to stay up to date – but just for short periods.  Don’t sit still and blindly listen and watch news programs for hours.  If you do be sure to in Jesus’ name order away from you all evil spirits.
 
You see so many of these people on television in press conferences uttering gobbledygook, lies, falsehoods, nonsense, vitriol, and you see at times they actually believe what they say.  Your heart hurts for them.  They are lost.  They don’t know the truth.  They have no foundation in truth.
 
Jesus has told me so many things about his coming, and I have shared many of them with you.  “Don’t let them go into the night” is one of his statements to me. “When I come things will be different,” is another.  Thank God for that, I say.  And here are just a few more:
 
“Tell them I am coming soon.  My people have their eyes on me.  My people tell the truth.”
 
“It will be like a beacon, like a dagger, a moment, suddenly, no light surprise.”
 
“Tell them I love them.
 
  Tell them to stay focused.
 
  Tell them I am coming soon.
 
  Tell them not to be misled.”
 
Live and operate in the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Pray often and in the Spirit.  Develop your spiritual senses that you will be more discerning in all situations.  And WATCH! as the Lord says.  Be ready for his return.  Stay in the right relationship with him.  Don’t get lost in this lost world in which we all are living now.
 
Remember, our physical bodies may be living in this lost world but we believers – our very selves, our spirits – have somehow been lifted up and even now are sitting with Jesus in Heaven.  Paul wrote about that in Ephesians.  Believers know Jesus.  Believers have Jesus as their Lord.  They are citizens of the Kingdom of God.  They will soon be getting a new glorious body and will be spending eternity in that Kingdom.
 
Hang in there.  He is coming soon.
 
 
July  2024
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

* SIGN OF THE TIMES: MANY CANNOT SEE THE TRUTH

 

All of us are witness to one of the most troubling and frightening aspects of our time – the fact that many people just cannot see the truth at all.  Not only can they not see the truth, but their ideas and views are terribly irrational  and do not tie in with the history of the country or the Christian faith. It is nearly impossible to have any sort of discussion of issues with such people.
 
All this is not really surprising to any who have studied the end times, just depressing and disturbing. In 2 Thessalonians 2: 10-11, Paul says such people
 
perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
 
Who can deny that many out there just cannot seem to understand truth in any situation.  They are readily willing to believe the lie and to act on the lie. We could go further with this by citing the passage in Isaiah 5:20 that refers to calling evil good and good evil. I think we readily see that happening today as well.
 
We all pray and hope for a great last days’ awakening, for as many as possible to hear the truths of God and respond. But apparently many won't. Look at the words of the angel to Daniel in Daniel 12: 10 about our day:
 
Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.              
 
It is pretty obvious there are people who just are not going to hear the truth, will remain lost, will remain in the wicked camp. These will not be in the Kingdom of God but rather will end up in the lake of fire for eternity.
 
This makes our lives and our responsibilities difficult and challenging. We who are believers certainly want to help others become born again and become citizens of the Kingdom. And so we pray for the Father to lead specific people to Jesus. We ask the Holy Spirit for guidance in our speaking to specific people about Jesus. We ask for the Spirit to arrange encounters, to set up divine appointments.  And well we should. The Lord certainly gave us all the challenge of getting the Gospel out there.
 
But still the fact remains that there are those who will not and cannot hear. Once again we must remember the Lord's words in Matthew 7: 14:
 
…small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
 
 
 
May 2023
 
 
 
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Thursday, July 7, 2022

* WATCHMAN WARNING! - HATERS IN THE WORLD

 

But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them. – 1 John 2:11
 
These are those today who rage, rage against anything and anyone.  They are those in the violent riots and the violent attacks randomly on others.  They are those who scream inane nonsense in the halls of Congress and in the media, in the universities and other forums.  They are so lost and so very destructive of others and of lives.  They are children of the devil.  We are seeing too much of them today.

They live in ignorance.  They know not what they do nor where they are going.  They do not understand their rage or why they are so angry.

But we do.

The god of this age [the devil] has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel … – 2 Corinthians 2:4
 
These hating people are the devil’s pawns, Satan’s human legions he has enlisted.  They are a terrifying and frightening bunch that cannot be reached by rational discourse or anything approaching common sense. 

They do not know what they do not know.  They do not understand what they do not understand.  And it appears they can’t be taught or reached.

Jesus warned of deception in these times in which we live.  And Paul noted that God eventually sends a powerful delusion to those who refuse to love the truth.

Pray for others.  Protect yourselves with all that God has provided.  And above all keep your eyes on Jesus and focus on all the truths of the Scripture.

These are the last of the last days.  Satan is running amuck with all his minions and with all these lost followers he has. 

And Jesus, thank God, is coming soon.                                                           


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Friday, February 25, 2022

*SIGN OF THE TIMES: SOMETIMES LIFE DOESN'T TURN OUT THE WAY WE THOUGHT IT WOULD

 

Recently, to my surprise, I discovered that in just a few hours 8 people had gone to an article I wrote way back in 2015 that is stored in our blog.  I was shocked!  I don’t have links anywhere to lead anyone to that specific article.  How did they ever find it?  How much time did they search in that blog before getting there? 
 
What was the articles title?  The very words I put as the title above.
 
Evil is soaring in these days, together with its friends deception and delusion.  And we believers in the Lord Jesus are living in increasingly morally bankrupt nations with atrocious governments and lost godless leaders, people who just don’t know what to do.
 
I have been thinking about the latest bad news, the attack of Russia on Ukraine, a type of action we might have expected Russia to take way back in the 40’s or 30’s under Stalin but certainly not today.  It’s the same old terrible principle that “might makes right,” a principle King George VI of the United Kingdom declared could not be allowed to stand in his speech to inspire his subjects at the beginning of WW II.  But to the dismay and I expect shock of most people on earth now it is standing today in the Ukraine where a big bully is stomping on a bold and courageous smaller nation.  This all reminds me of the playground bully who beats up on a smaller kid while all the other kids stand watching.  The US government and much of NATO today stand and watch. 
 
Right now we are living in the most difficult times most of us have ever seen, an atrocious world system that seems to be moving ever more into the pit of disarray and evil.  Most people I am sure never saw this coming.  We are right now in the last remaining short time before the Lord returns.  We see evil being called good and good being called evil every day.  We see apparently godless people in leadership positions in government and other fields.  We see truly inane comments and actions by leaders, such as the remark of a formal presidential candidate that he hopes the Russia invasion of the Ukraine does not slow down the climate control movement (as if that should even be considered in comparison to the horror in the Ukraine.).  It all is terrifying for many. 
 
Go back and read my article from 2015.  Here is the direct link you can click on:
 
 
Do read it!  It is real and considering the mayhem in which we live now I think it puts much of life in perspective.  I don’t publish anything the Holy Spirit has not guided me to write and to publish.  And I think I was led to this article again just as the eight who suddenly found it recently.
 
You must keep your eyes on Jesus now in these days.  You must stay focused.  There is so much deception and lying going on all around.  You must use the gift of discernment to tell truth from falsehood.  Be guided by the Holy Spirit.  Remember, Jesus said the Holy Spirit would lead us into all truth.  He even will show us what is to come.
 
 
 
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

WATCHMAN WARNING! GROSS INSANITY: THE ACTIONS AND BEHAVIOR OF THE US GOVERNMENT IN THE LAST DAYS

  

Surely you all can recognize and see what is happening.  The decisions and actions of the government have gone way over the edge.  Things are truly falling apart.  The nation is being led by delusional persons who deal in deception, whether they even understand the deception or not.
 
The Bible’s famous phrase about calling evil good and good evil has come to full reality in our day.
 
Over and over again I have written of all that is happening and how it is all in line with fulfillment of the Biblical prophecies of the last days.  Each day and week that passes brings another action or absurdity that fits right in. 
 
Today I just read how the government is requiring each of the border patrol officers to have the covid vaccine.  All at the same time that thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants openly enter the country, camp out, and move on to various parts of America with no vaccines.  It is impossible to overstate how insane this is.
 
Yesterday we witnessed top military leaders testify before the senate how they recommended a few thousand of our military be left in Afghanistan after our withdrawal, and even how if that were not done the Afghan military would be overcome.  The point was made that the president surely had these recommendations.  Yet he did not follow them and the withdrawal was a disaster in full view of the entire world.
 
Right now as we speak Americans and Afghan allies are in Afghanistan, hiding out, trying to survive and figure a way out.  The horrible Taliban is in charge.  We all know – at least all adults who can think and read know – how horrible and medieval that group is.  Already they have started schools again, but this time with no girls attending.  Recently a woman policeman was killed in front of her family.  And a folk musician was killed because the Taliban does not like music (a representative said music is forbidden in Islam)..  A couple days ago I saw they were putting up a dead body for public view in Kabul and had three more to put up elsewhere.
 
These are godless, lost people under the direction of the evil one, terrible people.  If this were the time of Moses and Joshua leading the Israelites from Egypt and through the wilderness to the Promised Land, I would expect the Taliban to be a tribe God would have instructed them to completely destroy.  Like the battle of Jericho where the Israelites destroyed everything – not only the people but the animals even.  He did not want the evil spirits there coming back to the Israelites.  This is fundamental evil playing out through human beings.
 
Our leaders in the US are lost people.  And they are making horribly harmful decisions.  I know these are the last days and we all expect the Lord to come very soon, but surely we did not want the place we live to fall completely into mad, lawless, insane society.  But of course we were warned of the conditions of our time.  Jesus told us how bad they would be.  Paul told us of these times. 
 
Each of us as possible must represent the Lord with others in all our encounters.  Ask the Holy Spirit to set up whatever divine encounters he will and to guide you in those.
 
I do see that a few in the country are working to put together organizations to elect new leaders in future elections in the country.  Andrew Womack, certainly a godly minister who has influenced many including Cathy and me, has with others formed a Truth and Liberty organization to try to get better people elected.  But it is more than a year before any new people could take office in congress and more than three years before a new president and administration could take office.  Will the country be surviving in any tolerable condition by then?  Look at all the terrible decisions and actions that have occurred in just the short period since January 20.
 
I have written before of how America went off the spiritual cliff back in 2015 when the Supreme Court ruled to approve homosexual marriage.  Just in the last week I read another Christian writer who said that on January 20 of this year the shining light that was America went out.  Those are dramatic ways to make a point, but it is surely true that no longer can our allies trust America and that people throughout the world must look with amazement and wonder on all that is happening here. (Perhaps we now have an illustration of how the system in the United Kingdom and other parliamentary governments possibly may be preferable to the American one – with a vote of no confidence in parliament, a new election leading to a new prime minister can be held quickly at any time.).
 
KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS IN ALL THINGS!  Stay focused.  Seek to hear and receive all the Holy Spirit has for you.  If you do not know the Holy Spirit, seek to be filled and baptized with him.  His guidance in all truth, his telling of what is to come, his great gift of discernment which you can use to determine the truth in all situations are invaluable today.
 
May God bless you and lead you all your days.
 
 
 
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Saturday, August 29, 2020

* RECOGNIZING WHAT IS HAPPENING AND THE TIMES WE ARE LIVING IN


I hope you will read this through to the end.  We are at that time I have spoken so much about over the years.  It was thirty years ago that God came into my car and called me away from the life I had been pursuing.  No longer would I be an international business executive but rather someone following the Lord and doing whatever he said and going wherever he led.

Over the years we have seen all sorts of signs and wonders, such as the healing miracles with which many of you are familiar.  I would have been happy just to continue to hold healing services. Many of you have seen or experienced the joy of God’s divine healing.  And then there were other miracles I have shared with you, how he orchestrated my meeting all sorts of his generals or going forward in various ministry ways.

Then came that moment in 2005 while I was preaching to a group in Wilmington NC.  Right in my ear the Lord said “John, tell them who I am and that I am coming soon.”  Well, we had been telling people about Jesus but now I began more and more focusing on the return as well.  And the Lord over time has revealed more and more about that return – in late conversations in the middle of the night, in dreams and visions, and through other people like the Nigerian pastor who received a long word from the Lord about me and thankfully shared it.

So over the years I have spoken and written more and more about Jesus’ imminent return.  Years ago he had asked me to write WAKE UP AMERICA, and I had tried.  Finally after years of revelations and experiences, that book was written and came out a couple years ago.  I wish all of you had a copy.  I wish everyone had a copy.  People need to know the truths of where we are in God’s time and how the prophecies of things to happen before his return have happened.  But, alas, so many just are not interested or have a deaf ear.

In recent months events have escalated leading up to his return.  A few months ago the Lord guided me through a dream to the fact that we only have hours.  In other words, while for a long time we had talked in terms of the last “days,” now we should talk in terms of the last “hours.”  How many we have left before he comes to collect his believers I do not know, but I do know it is very very soon. 

Any of you who have not gotten a copy of our book WAKE UP AMERICA! I encourage to get one, because I cannot reproduce here all the prophecies fulfilled and all the description of what is about to happen and what you need to know.  You can get that book from our ministry or from Amazon.

Perhaps the greatest thing and most obvious thing to happen since the book came out is the great explosion in deception and delusion in our society.  Huge numbers now go about acting and believing and doing things that believers know are wrong, are not true, are not only against God’s law but also against the Constitution and the foundations of the United States.  Yet – and this is most shocking – many senior leaders of the nation have not only not recognized this but have taken steps to aid and support frightening anarchic groups bent on destroying the nation.  How do I know that is their goal?  Because they say it is.

Back before WWII Hitler told of his plans, but the world did not listen.  Well, now, these violent truly criminal groups are destroying buildings, monuments, memorials, businesses, and even people, so all that is obvious evidence of what they are doing, yet so many leaders have not taken the steps of their absolute responsibility to protect the people. 

The fundamental reason for the existence of a government is the protection of the people.  That is first and foremost.  Many governors and mayors in recent weeks and months have failed this test.  So too a great number of Congressmen and Senators.  It has been shocking to those who know the history of America and know the role the country has played in such gigantic world events as WWI and WWII and the moon landing and countless other efforts to help other people and countries to realize there are large groups of people who understand nothing of that and in fact see America as a great evil.  It has been a slow realization on the part of many to understand that many of our young people have been in universities and colleges where they were literally brainwashed in this regard.

For some time now many have been concerned about the so-called “woke” society and the “cancel culture,” that view from the left  to do away with basic views and words and other things of society they do not agree with and to not listen or discuss opposing viewpoints.  But most did not know this had gotten to the point of wanting to tear down society and to not even be able to recognize the greatness of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Columbus, and so on. 

Early this summer the horrible murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis instantly brought about protests and demonstrations rightfully against police brutality in that situation.  And most right thinking people saw that death as horrible and realized there should be some changes.  But while people were thinking about this, suddenly the protests turned horribly violent, so violent that people of all races were shocked.  No right thinking people in America want to destroy the country!  This is still the greatest nation on earth in terms of individual freedoms and opportunity.   Hundreds of thousands come into the country every year, some legally, some illegally.  Why do they come?  Because they recognize how wonderful America is in comparison to other nations.  You don’t see hundreds of thousands trying to get into Russia or China or Cuba or one of the Middle Eastern countries do you?  Of course not.

Now that this violence has been permitted to continue for so long, we also see other expanded individual and group violence in cities throughout the country.  Murders are way up in NY City for example.  Chicago continues with horrible murders and shootings every weekend. 

NOW THE POINT:
What we are witnessing right now is the spread of a massive delusion over large numbers of people, that following great deception in the educational system and elsewhere for so many years.  We now have a large number of persons bent on destruction.  They don’t in some cases know what they are destroying.  As someone said, they just hate and are angry.

In some cities and states where the violent groups amidst the protestors destroyed businesses and took over police facilities and harmed and even killed several, liberal governors and mayors responded by not protecting the great majority of the citizens of all races but rather allowed the destruction to continue and even announced support for the violent groups, inaccurately calling it peaceful protests.

It is now sadly apparent that many from the “woke” world or “cancel culture” world have been elected to high positions of government.  Either that is true or these governors and mayors are incredibly spineless individuals.  They are not going to protect the citizens nor the Constitution nor society.

This has been shocking to most Americans.  Equally shocking has been the deafening silence of the Democrats and of many Republicans in Congress.  Where are they?  Are they too in this deluded group?

We have seen some actions by the presidency and the administration to provide support for law and order, but only in limited ways in a couple cities.  I would remind everyone that back in 1957 when there was serious unrest in Arkansas, President Eisenhower sent in the 101st airborne division of the military!

I expect a lot more from our elected leaders than we have seen.  It is obvious that many of the governors and mayors were not fit nor qualified to hold their positions.  Of course, the absolute responsibility for this comes down to the population who voted them in.  Americans for the most part have never like politics and pay little attention to matters of government.  Well now this attitude has come home to roost.  The foxes have taken over the henhouse.

In a spiritual sense, we have these points to make:
1)      Jesus’ first and primary warning about the time in which we live is that we should watch not to be deceived (Luke 21:8 and elsewhere).  Deception is rampant in our nation.  These violent groups are obviously deceived, as are so many in the state governments and in the national media who support this wild behavior.  Many church leaders are deceived as well.  I hear many talking about dealing with civil rights concerns, racial issues, but the fact dear friends is that these rioting anarchists are not interested in civil rights.  They are not interested really in changing the laws or modifying the police.  They are first and foremost interested in tearing down society.  That is a communist, socialist approach to life.  The goal is destruction, not modification.

2)      Scripture tells us in II Thessalonians 2:10-12 that as we get deeper and deeper into the last days God will send a spirit of delusion to people who just have refused to accept the truth (i.e., Jesus, the gospel, salvation).  So the point is that at some point God’s patience does run out.  I had first thought this would happen early in the Tribulation period after the Antichrist had become active, but it is obvious now there is a great spirit of delusion active in this world.  These “woke, cancel culture,” violent anarchic groups wreaking havoc on our cities right now while pretending to be part of a legitimate protesting group are full of deluded people.  They cannot see the truth.  They cannot hear it.  It is obviously impossible to have a rational discussion with them.

3)      Beyond the above two points, 2 Timothy 3:1-5 stresses the rise in lawlessness in this time and II Thessalonians 2:3 the falling away from God which is so evident.
SO WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN? 
Obviously Satan must be enjoying all this.  He and his minions are working extremely hard in these last days to destroy as many lives as possible, to keep as many as possible out of the Kingdom of God.

Here is what will be happening in the coming period leading up to the return of the Lord and why it is happening:

As some of you know, in the Tribulation period there is a leader of evil called the Antichrist.  Somehow he is so appealing initially that he is able to take over many nations.  He seeks to take over the world and run a one-world government.  At the midpoint of the Tribulation he takes up residence in the temple in Jerusalem.  He has an assistant called the false prophet who works to put together a one world church.

Now there are many in the world and in the United States who think that government always knows best.  They would like to take away individual freedoms and turn most things over to the government.  That point of view is opposite to the fundamentals of America.  If there is to be a one world government, America must be changed.  It must be weakened.  Its people must change.  A weakened America might eventually be willing to submit to a one world government, something the historical USA would have never done.

That is the objective of the devil in all this mess today – the continued building of the one-world government.  Not only are the violent demonstrators deluded and deceived, so too are many incredibly wealthy people and many academics and bureaucrats, all who apparently would be willing to move in that direction.  And apparently quite a few officials in high positions.

I think this is all going to happen so very fast.  Look at how the population of the USA was cowed and readily submitted into staying at home and staying away from social gatherings where we might have all discussed what was happening and come to a better understanding!  Look at how we are all cowed even further by now wearing masks wherever we go, so we cannot see people’s expressions and sometimes have difficulty understanding them, so we look almost like aliens to each other.  This coronavirus disease has had a great effect in setting the country and the world up for a one-world government.  Now this violence and anarchy in the USA adds another great blow.

All the while this is happening the true believers in Christ are even further isolated, in their homes, apart from others.  Some churches are back meeting but many are not willing to go right now.  Attacks on churches have increased greatly and statues of Jesus and Mary have been damaged in several places.

These attacks happen elsewhere in the world too, as well as the tearing down of statues and the sheltering of people in their homes.  In England, for example, a statue of Winston Churchill of all people was torn down.  No one did more to save England in WWII than Winston Churchill!  When asked why he was doing this, a person tearing down the statue said he did not know why.  That is likely the answer of all the people doing the tearing down.  They just hate.  They are angry.  They are deceived and confused.

Along with the Antichrist this false prophet mentioned above has a major role.  He does perform signs and wonders in support of the Antichrist.  This government of the Antichrist requires people to have a mark on their forehead or hand so they can participate in commerce – so they can even buy food for example.  Notice all the efforts today of high tech firms and wealthy individuals and others to come up with ways to track people, to mark people.

Notice also how far down the road the move to a one-world religion has gone.  Just recently the Pope called for every Muslim, every Buddhist, every Christian, every person in every other religion, to pray to his or her own god for an end to the coronavirus.  That is about as lost as one can be.  There is only one God.  These other religions are as false as they can be.  And any gods there would be demonic.

SO THE TIMELINE
Again I encourage you to get the book and read more of all that is going to happen and the specific steps.  There is even an appendix with six or more pages of characteristics of the Antichrist and the false prophet listed.

Basically, the situation will continue to deteriorate.  I know believers and those with great love for America and the Constitution will strive to stand up.  I do hope that we believers and all who love America will be successful in keeping the country from completely falling apart so that it and we will still be standing and fighting for the side of the Lord when he comes to get us.

Paul says the Day of the Lord will not come until there is a falling away from God and the man of lawlessness – the Antichrist – is identified.  The falling away from God has been going on for some time now and is escalating.  At the same time, hopefully, people will continue to come to Christ.

At some point before long an agreement will be signed with the nation of Israel, with the Jews, that they will believe brings them true peace.  The USA and others have been pressing a new agreement in the Middle East for some time; I don’t think we are yet at the point of having an agreement the Jews will believe brings them true peace, but that should and could be very soon.
Whenever that agreement is signed, the Tribulation will begin (Daniel 9:27).  One other nugget of information here:  the person leading the signing of that agreement will be the Antichrist.  So when you see this happening, if you are still on earth, you will know who the Antichrist is.

I have long expected to see the Lord come to collect his believers right before or after that signing.  And I still expect that.  There are many scriptures (Revelation 3:10. Romans 5:9, 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, Luke 21:36) that make the point that believers were not appointed to suffer wrath.  And God’s wrath is what is poured out on the earth in the Tribulation period.  The last half of that period is referred to by some as the Great Tribulation.

If this taking away of believers by the Lord (called the rapture by many) does not happen right around the signing of the agreement or before, I expect it will surely happen during the early part of the Tribulation period.

There is much more about how Jesus collects his saints, such as that he sends out his angels to gather them, and you can read that in the book too.

Aside from all the horrible events of the Tribulation regarding the pouring out of God’s wrath, his judgment on the world described in Revelation from chapter 6-19, there still also remains the Gog-Magog war.  This is the attack on Israel from a group consisting of Russia, Iran, and Turkey, and more.  God defeats this attack instantly.  He just stops it and destroys the great bulk of the attacking forces.  This must be a great shock to those left on earth but you would hope it might wake a few up to become believers.  I expect this to happen very soon, before or after the signing of the agreement.

WE ARE THERE
We are right at the end of the age. It is time to be ready to go.  If you can and as the Holy Spirit leads, do all you can to tell others about the gospel message and salvation…about Jesus!  So many of our churches still are not teaching about the return.  Maybe the pastors that are not are lost, do not have the revelation of the return, or prefer the approval of man over God and therefore do not want to upset people with the return information.  Sadly, the Bible points out teachers are held to a higher standard, so they will have to answer for their not teaching about the return and warning the people of this great event in human history.

But you know the truth.  You can tell others.  You can go forward.  Right now.
·       -  Please make sure you and yours are in a right relationship with God. 
·       - Read the sections of the Bible so important to the return – Luke 21, Mark 13, Matthew 24, Daniel 9, Daniel 12, Revelation, Luke 17, Zechariah 14, and much more.  Ask God to guide your understanding of all this.
·        - Get our book WAKE UP AMERICA! and read it!!!  Read the scripture references!
·      - Go to our website and go to the Return of Jesus Resources page listed in the Menu column on the home page
·       - Go to our blog and search on all the return subjects.  There are many there
·         - If anyone is interested, we will add them to our distribution list – no charge.
·       - Operate always in the gifts of the Spirit, especially the gift of discernment which is so important today.
·        - And stand up for Jesus whenever you can.!!!!!

Remember the great scripture:

If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. – Isaiah 7:9

Putting this in modern English and applying it to our time right now, I would say this:
·            -  If you will not stand up for your culture, you will lose your culture.
·            -  If you will not stand up for your country, you will lose your country.
·        -  If you do not stand up for your life, you may indeed lose your life (your physical life – your spiritual life can never be lost if you are a true believer in Jesus, for Jesus has said he will never lose you).

Nobody ever said the last days would be easy.  Already they aren’t.  Already 2020 is the worst year I have seen for humanity in my life.  I do wonder just what the remaining months have in store.
And keep in mind the greatest stand up statement from the Bible:

 “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
-          Jesus in Matthew 10:32-33
Why do you think God called you to be in the Kingdom led by his son?  Was it to sit and cower and be silent?  Hardly.  You are an adopted son of God, a member of the Kingdom of God.  Most people are not.  If you do not stand up for truth and do not speak out in this wicked world, who will? 






LOOKING AT THE TIMELINE FROM TODAY (some of these may happen simultaneously):
·         Increasing lawlessness and falling away from God.
·        
        Jesus comes in the air to collect his believers.  A shofar is blown.  A shout is given.  Angels are sent out to gather the believers

·         An agreement is signed with the Jews, with Israel, one the Jews believe brings them peace.

·         The seven year Tribulation begins.
·         The Antichrist makes his appearance along with the false prophet.

·         Sometime early in the Tribulation the attack on Israel by Russia, Iran, and Turkey is turned aside by God.

·         The one world government comes more and more into being.

·         By the midpoint of the Tribulation the antichrist has taken up residence in the third temple in Jerusalem.  That temple is built during the first half of the Tribulation.

·         All the horrors described in Revelation 6 – 19 are poured out on the world during the Tribulation period.  All those humans still on the earth suffer from all this as well as the rule of the Antichrist and the false prophet.

·         Huge numbers of people are killed.

·         At the end of the Tribulation the armies of the world amass at Armageddon to face the Lord and his holy ones – his believers and his angels.

·         At Armageddon the armies of the world are totally destroyed by the sword in the mouth of the Lord – the word of God.  All the members of those armies are killed.  All.  No one is left.

·         At Armageddon the Antichrist and the false prophet are seized and thrown into the Lake of Fire.  Satan is seized and thrown into a pit for a thousand years.

·         The earth now continues, with the Lord’s rule from Jerusalem.  Details of this are not known although we know he is assisted in this by his believers. 

·         The population of the earth at the beginning of this thousand years is greatly reduced.  It is a mere fraction of what it was before the Tribulation.

·         How the members of God’s Kingdom will be utilized, what we will all be doing, is not specified, although the Lord has given us great guidance in his letters to the churches in Revelation.  For example, we know that Jesus gives his true believers who persevere until the end:
o   Hidden manna
o   White stone with new name on it known only to him who receives it
o   Authority over the nations
o   Acknowledgement of their name before God and angels
o   Never having their name blotted out of book of life
o   White clothes
o   The right to be a pillar in the temple of God
o   Name of God written on them
o   Right to sit with Jesus on his throne

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