Donation Drive May to July
Over the past quarter, we have continued to build on the strong foundation that has made Rapture Ready the leading site in Bible prophecy. Once again, it is time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished and ask for your continued support.
Rapture Ready remains the top-ranked site in its field. One factor helping to sustain this position is the steady decline in fellow prophecy websites. As other sites disappear, more people are turning to Rapture Ready as a trusted source for insight and information.
At the same time, we are clearly living in the age of artificial intelligence—a technology that is rapidly reshaping nearly every aspect of life. Entire job categories may vanish, while new ones emerge. With the creation of software that can mimic aspects of human thinking, we are entering a period of profound transformation.
However, this advancement also raises serious concerns. Because AI is developed and directed by humans, it inevitably reflects our sinful nature. For that reason, the long-term outlook may not be as promising as it first appears.
Major technology companies have already invested over $1 trillion in data infrastructure and AI development. Progress is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, with some systems advancing through multiple generations in just months—largely because AI itself is being used to improve the next wave of AI tools.
I recently created accounts with ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini to experiment with their graphic capabilities. Terry recently needed a good photo for a podcast interview, so I used Gemini to enhance an older picture of him. The picture was fine, but I needed to edit out a book he was holding.
That same day, I generated an image of a friend in Iowa who was standing on his front lawn with the King of Rock ’n’ Roll himself, Elvis Presley. My mother never owned a gun in her life, so it was both surprising and humorous to create a picture of her sitting at the kitchen table, proudly holding an AK-47 rifle.
AI is an incredible resource, yet it can produce outputs that are peculiar, unsettling, and often deeply concerning. Unfortunately, those with malicious intent have discovered ways to exploit it for their criminal activities.
Recently, a woman contacted me saying she received a call from a number displaying my name. The caller asked for her personal financial information, which was clearly a scam, as we don’t make such calls. I received a call claiming my electric bill was past due and threatening to shut off my power unless I made an immediate payment. The call mentioned Entergy as the power supplier, but our city of Benton, Arkansas, operates its own utility.
A couple of weeks ago, I asked an AI program what the top names in Bible prophecy are in America. The Search result helped explain why prophecy ministries have suddenly become so unpopular. It gave the names of three ministries that are connected to cults. It also listed Jack Impe and Hal Lindsey. These two men have passed away.
Since Rapture Ready was nowhere on their list. I asked ChatGTP and Gemini where our site is ranked. The response was a revelation in how these sneaky programs have marginalized us. It said, “Rapture Ready is considered a premier online resource for eschatology (the study of the end times) within conservative Christian circles.” It noted that RR often “refers to itself as the most visited prophecy site on the web.”
AI admits that RR is highly influential in the digital sphere for prophecy, but we are pigeon-holed as an independent, web-based ministry. RR is a “Top-tier site,” but only on a historical basis. It’s reminiscent of how Billie Holiday was a great jazz musician — for a woman of color. Similarly, Albert Einstein was pretty smart — for a Jewish guy.
We are either a top-visited site, or we are not. Since Google is the King of traffic ranking and popularity, they should know exactly where we stand. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, stepping onto the surface on July 20, 1969. If Mr. Google suddenly claimed otherwise, it would raise serious questions. Pure logic doesn’t apply to sites like RR because the god of this world has no love for us.
Several years ago, all search engines consistently ranked us at or near the top across many key categories. While our overall traffic hasn’t changed dramatically, the landscape around us has shifted. The agenda of social media platforms and search engines has evolved rapidly, and that shift is becoming impossible to ignore.
There is a very select group of end-time believers who face discrimination. For example, I recently looked up one of the groups connected to Seventh-day Adventists. What stood out was the complete absence of any critical perspective. There was no mention of their repeated predictions about the end of the world, nor any acknowledgment that most Christians dispute their end-time teachings.
This kind of imbalance highlights how information is increasingly filtered or framed in a way that leaves out important context. It’s not always about what is said—but what is no longer being said.
A key reason Rapture Ready greatly needs your financial support is that many services which were once free now come with a price. For example, we now have to pay for an option just to track the site’s traffic—something that used to be included with basic hosting packages. New tools, like our new voice program and other software, also come with ongoing annual costs.
In addition, there are numerous plugins and services required to keep the site running smoothly—some essential, others less clear, but all adding to the overall expense. If web hosting were an airplane, you would have to swipe your credit card just to get the airbag to pop out in case of an emergency.
Although costs continue to escalate, I refuse to let the burden of these expenses or their inherent unfairness weigh me down. We are living in a time of rapid change, and I believe the end of all things is drawing very near. The increasing instability we see in the world only reinforces that belief.
That’s why your support matters now more than ever. If you’ve found value in Rapture Ready, I encourage you to consider making a donation. Your help allows us to continue sharing information during what I believe are the final days of this age.
There are three ways you can contribute to RR: Send a financial gift via our PO box address; make a one-time donation; or make monthly donations. If you’re interested in signing up, find the links on the Donation Depot page. Donations can be sent to our PO Box at:
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–Todd
Debunking Islamophobia
It is one of the key components of attack by the Ephesians 6:12 cabal of minions, both demonic and human, in these last of the last days.
The accusation that reviling the people of the world who are of Islamic faith is an evil practice is particularly leveled at American patriots today. Google, the prime search engine in cyberspace, states the following, in brief, as its first definition of the term “Islamophobia”: “dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force:
The immediate follow-up in the biased Google’s definition is the declaration: “there is no place for Islamophobia in our communities.”
Mainstream media and the so-called progressive political world paint any of us who speak in any way against Islam as being hate-filled against the darker-skinned people of the world. Racial bigotry is thus proclaimed by supporters of anti-Semitism to be a legitimate reason fanatics within Islam have the right to use terrorism and to war against Israel in the fight to be accepted as members of non-Muslim communities in America and other nations. While this might not always be said directly, this tenet within such journalistic shaming is inevitably there.
Those who practice Islam, therefore, we’re supposed to believe, just want to live and let live. It is a religion of peace that will, if left to its practitioners’ way of worship, make any neighborhood, community, state, or nation a more pleasant environment–a better place to live in this world.
Here I will say that Muslims who genuinely keep their (unacceptable to the rest of us) restrictive religious practices to themselves–and there are in this nation and elsewhere who do—should be welcomed and treated with the same dignity and respect as I and my family should be treated.
But this is not the norm today.
A broad swath within Islam who dogmatically hold to their Muslim faith as presented in the Koran believe, and fanatically so, that all peoples of the world must submit to Islam and to Allah or be…well…eliminated.
Here is Google’s meaning of the word “Islam”: “submission to the will of God [by which they mean their god Allah]”; adherents of Islam are called Muslims. The fundamental belief of Islam is “There is only one God, and Muhammad is his prophet.”
Throughout the centuries, those who truly adhere to the Koran’s tenets have taken the religion’s purpose to the limits of murderous intent. These have slaughtered peoples of the world who will not submit to Allah. While many within Islam never engage in such atrocity, those who are at the top of the Islamic parapet believe it is their mission under Mohammed’s instruction to, if necessary, force every last person on the planet to submit or else be eliminated as an opposing resistant entity.
And this is the answer to our friends in mainstream media and the political progressive left who declare Islam is a peaceful religion no different than Christianity. As a matter of fact, these, as often as not, find ways to accuse Christians of being at the center of troublemaking throughout the world because we are, they accuse, most often homophobic, or Islamophobic, and full of other white supremacist-type bigotries. (Ignored is the fact that Islam is homophobic to the extent that true practitioners believe it’s righteous to murder homosexuals.)
But those who truly believe God’s Word, the Bible, have no history of slaughtering those who will not bend the knee.
“But wait!” I hear you. “What about the Crusades? What was that but a horrific campaign to force all to bow to the Christian faith?”
My answer is this was done by those who didn’t truly hold to the truth God put in His love letter to humankind. The Crusaders wanted all to bow to basically the Catholic faith, and to a perverted version even of that religious dogma. It started in 1095 with Pope Urban II declaring a holy war to take back the Holy Land from Muslims. (i.e., although God obviously wanted the land given to Abraham’s seed removed from Islamic rule, this movement with murderous slaughter at its center was not condoned by the God of Heaven. The Crusades were, in many cases, a fanaticism that committed evil atrocities as wicked as has Islam throughout the millennia.
Today, it isn’t Islamophobia when we fearfully and with justifiable concern watch the spread of Islam’s deadly fanaticism throughout our beloved America. And its spread throughout the rest of the world is also a concerning matter.
Rapture Ready News presented stories on one recent news day the threat that confronts us.
EXPOSED: Hamas -Linked CAIR intends to use subversive tactics to transform Oklahoma by deploying a deliberate, multi-pronged campaign: 1.) Expand Muslim Political Influence Through Organizing and Coalitions, 2.) Enforce ‘Social Justice’ Norms via Education and Redefinition of Community, and 3.) Reduce Traditional Conservative Power Through Legal and Political Pressure.
MI Dems Nominate Hezbollah-Praising, Pro-Palestinian Lawyer For Powerful University Post
A Michigan Muslim Democrat who is a civil rights attorney has secured the nomination for a powerful University of Michigan Board of Regents seat over a Jewish incumbent. Antisemitic, pro-Hezbollah Amir Makled is a cohort of Abdul El-Sayed and is part of the red-green alliance in Michigan, which is rising.
America is Being Conquered Without Firing a Shot: Paterson Raises Jordanian Flag While Celebrating Islamic Caliphates & Quran Verses
While the city’s official press release painted the April 16 event as a harmless celebration of “heritage and community contributions,” the reality unfolding at Paterson City Hall was far more revealing. Speakers openly invoked Islamic greetings, Quranic symbolism, Palestinian solidarity, and future expansion plans, all while raising the flag of another Islamic nation over US soil.
War Plan Exposed: Muslim Brotherhood’s Secret Blueprint – ‘The Project’ to Capture America – Operates Untouched Inside Their Virginia Command Center
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Secret Blueprint, “The Project,” (to capture America) lays out a patient, multi-generational roadmap for advancing Islam in America and worldwide. It serves as the operational manual that has guided Muslim Brotherhood networks for over four decades. (Raptureready.com News, April 21, 2026)
Islam has established a solid foothold in America. It is not Islamophobia to recognize and report that we are being assaulted by a crusade to bring sharia law to increasingly expanding areas of our nation. The aim of Islamic law that enslaves women, making them equal or less than livestock in that culture, is to do the same here. The minions–the powers and principalities—of Ephesians 6:12 intend to bring all under sharia, no matter how long it takes.
As I write this, in Iran, eight young women who protested the Iranian regime of terror, some as young as 16, were scheduled to be executed for peacefully protesting that government’s deadly oppression. Reportedly, the women were to be raped before their executions, thus defiled under sharia law, so as to not be allowed into Islamic heaven.
President Trump asked that they be spared, and, thankfully, apparently, the girls and young women have been removed from the execution list as part of the regime’s negotiating tactics.
The thrust of this worldwide movement is to replace the God of Heaven with the God of this world. It is not an irrational fear–that is, it is not Islamophobic–to stand against this attempt while we move toward the end of the age and the most terrible time of all human history, the Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week).
Islam is at the heart of savagery against and hatred for Israel. It is such satanic rage that will be instrumental in bringing the world’s armies to battle against the returning Lord and King Jesus Christ at Armageddon.
But take heart, believers! Like all other assaults against God’s truth, Islam and sharia law will be dealt with ultimately by Heaven’s Supreme Court!
“Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him” (Psalm 2:6-12).
—Terry
From Tears to Eternity
On May 1-2, I attended the Worldview Matters Conference in Green Bay, Wisconsin, hosted by the David Fiorazo Ministries. As I listened to the excellent speakers David assembled for the conference, I marveled at how their varied life experiences led to their current ministries and passions. Among those who shared their past, no two stories were remotely similar.
One of the speakers grew up in a Muslim home in Baghdad, Iraq, and as a result, his past uniquely equipped him to share his faith in Jesus with Muslims and provide the body of Christ with an in-depth understanding of Islam. The spark for Scott Schara’s ministry came via the tragic death of his daughter due to a fatal dose of medicine administered during her hospital stay. Gary Kah’s career as a Europe and Middle East Trade Specialist exposed him to the inner workings of those promoting a one-world government, which now enables him to expose their evil agenda.
By comparison, my early years seem rather bland. I grew up in a Christian home and received solid biblical teaching at both college and seminary. I absolutely loved being a pastor as well as preaching about the Rapture and other topics of Bible prophecy.
However, it took years of calamitous events, some of them caused by my own naivety and pride, for me to fully understand the precious value of my hope in Jesus’ appearing and how that brings abundant comfort amid the sorrows of this life.
Tumultuous Years
In my book, The Triumph of the Redeemed, I briefly summarize the traumatic events that led to years of despair. I also write about how the Lord, over time, delivered me from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). I do not wish to recount any part of my past in what follows, but rather share how it shaped my current ministry.
First, it taught me the importance of clinging tightly to the words of Scripture. During one of the darker times of my life, I lived in Psalm 27. I memorized its words, read it each morning before work, and put verses from it on sticky notes at my cubicle. The words of this Psalm, other Psalms, and other biblical promises became my lifeline as I learned to rely more and more on the Lord Jesus.
How does that relate to Bible prophecy? It impressed upon me the surpassing value of the words of Scripture. The words that sustained me during this time come from the same One who promised to prepare a place for me in Heaven and someday take me there (John 14:2-3). Words matter.
Second, my past led to a greater dependence on the comforting value of our hope for what lies ahead in eternity. When all my dreams and aspirations turned to dust, and my future looked bleak at best, I learned to focus on the Lord’s promises for me in eternity. His imminent appearing became much more than just a matter of sound theology, but rather an ever-present source of encouragement.
Third, my past prepared me for the mocking I have encountered from pastors and fellow believers as a result of my defense of the pre-Tribulation Rapture and Jesus’ thousand-year reign over a kingdom that includes a gloriously restored Israel. One of the songs I listened to soon after my life fell apart was “Faithful Forever” by Michael Omarian. The line that resonated with me at the time was something to the effect that the Lord was “teaching me to stand on my own,” and He was. One of the many benefits of my past was learning to stand firm in my defense of God’s Word.
My writing ministry didn’t just pop up overnight. I began writing adult Sunday school lessons for David C. Cook in the summer of 1984, while I was still a pastor. That not only kept me studying Scripture and writing about it from that summer through the end of 2021, but it also prepared me for the Lord’s leading in 2016 to retire early and trust the Lord to provide through my writing ministry.
My Passion
The years of hardship not only prepared me for today but also fueled my passion to defend what the Bible says about future things.
As I have watched the Satan-inspired antisemitism grow exponentially since October 7, 2023, my passion to defend what the Bible says about Israel’s future also intensified. In my next book (not yet published), Irrevocable, I seek to defend the truths of Scripture regarding Israel’s future place in Jesus’ kingdom. Those who say the church is the new Israel are not only sorely mistaken, but also align themselves with a teaching that has a long history of spawning violent and even deadly antisemitism.
One of the amazing aspects of the body of Christ is how the Lord blends a multitude of diverse backgrounds with various levels of gifting and talents into the promotion of the Gospel and His kingdom. At the conference this past weekend, I found myself wishing I could preach and teach like some of the speakers. But then the Lord quietly reminded me that He has called me to a writing ministry so as to point others to the amazing encouragement that comes from resting in His precious promises of eternity.
-Jonathan