Climate-Change Charlatans
It started out as global warming, eventually with Al Gore’s infamously spawned picture of a polar bear floating atop a small area of ice somewhere near the Arctic, I think it was. The picture and all that flowed from that heart-tugging graphic caused much panic within the progressive enclaves of America and the world. Children in the classrooms were particularly dismayed seeing the photo and receiving the teaching that we were all doomed.
The polar bear’s supposed dilemma was to illustrate the swiftly developing ecological condition that would soon have us all, symbolically at the very least, floating on an ever-decreasing area of existence upon the planet.
We were informed–assured—by supposed top scientists that soon the Atlantic would be up to the first floor of the Empire State Building as the oceanic waters took over America’s geography, as well as the rest of the world’s inhabitable areas.
But as the years and decades came and receded, the opposite was shown to be happening. The Arctic and other icy regions actually grew in their frozen expansion.
The whole lie was concocted to control the populations of America and the world. The same type of control has been attempted, and was even considerably successful, with the COVID hoax that was foisted upon us a couple of years ago.
America and the world were going to have to bow to those who knew the “science,” which the rest of us, according to those authorities, did not understand.
The results of the changes made under the lies of global warming and the COVID hoax were to make billions of dollars for those perpetrating the lies and, more egregiously, to prepare the way for forcing acceptance of demands upon those who will live under the terror regime of Antichrist at some future prophetic point.
“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” (Revelation 13:16-17).
The successful indoctrination in the global warming and COVID matters proved beyond any doubt that people are susceptible to the constant, fear-mongering warnings and threats of those who have the means to control–those with information dominance. Satan, as “prince of the power of the air,” is at the helm of all such lies. His “son of perdition”–Antichrist—will use all available platforms of satanic inculcation to bring about adherence to the devil’s control demands during Daniel’s seventieth week–the Tribulation era.
The minions, both demonic and human, are hard at work at this moment, continuing to try to bring about submission to the control techniques of the one who stalks about seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8).
I think we see the furtherance of this effort with the most recent warnings issued breathlessly by most all mainstream news sources regarding the Hantavirus health scare. It is prudent to ask how long it might be before we are again asked to change everything in our lives because of this most recent or a future threat made up by the minions.
Actual facts about the global warming lie—changed because of its failure to produce the terrors predicted from global warming to climate change—recently made their way to the surface of truth-telling.
The IPCC has published a new generation of climate scenarios—and buried in the fine print is a remarkable concession: the extreme warming pathways that dominated climate research, policy, and media coverage for decades were never actually plausible. It took a while to notice because almost no one in mainstream media bothered to report it.
“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published the next generation of climate scenarios,” Science policy analyst Roger Pielke Jr. wrote, calling it “big news” that “eliminated the most extreme scenarios that have dominated climate research over much of the past several decades.”
The conclusion was unambiguous. “The IPCC and broader research community has now admitted that the scenarios that have dominated climate research, assessment and policy during the past two cycles of the IPCC assessment process are implausible. They describe impossible futures.”
Those “impossible futures” formed the backbone of a decade-plus of apocalyptic climate messaging – melting ice caps, submerged coastlines, mass extinctions, widespread crop failures, and global hunger, always around the corner, always demanding immediate, economy-reshaping action to avert a catastrophe that, it now turns out, the underlying science community had assigned to a category closer to science fiction than projection. (“UN Climate Panel Quietly Admits Its Doomsday Climate Scenarios Were ‘Implausible’,” Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge, Thursday, May 07, 2026)
Despite the divulging of such truth about what the minions are seeking to foist upon us, those minions are not the least bit deterred. Here is what the Apostle Paul warns, particularly for this end-of-the-age generation of believers.
“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them” (2 Timothy 3:13-14).
The second verse here offers us absolute assurance. We are to take that assurance in the things we’ve learned from God’s love letter to all humankind. Here is what that Word promises:
- Psalm 104:5: “The Lord established the earth upon its foundations, so it will never move.”
- Ecclesiastes 1:4: “Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.”
- Isaiah 45:18: “He created the earth to be inhabited; He did not create it to be empty.”
The charlatans of global warming, climate change, and all other attempts to bring us under the satanic spell of fear should have no influence over believers in Jesus Christ—especially those who are foundationally secure in God’s prophetic Word. The Lord has given all we need to know about what lies ahead for those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7).
Here once again is how to know you are in the safe shelter of God’s Son, who went to the cross at Calvary, died, was buried, and rose again to eternally pay for our sin so that anyone who accepts this gift, this sacrifice, is forever secure in God’s family.
“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).
—Terry
What Makes Our Blessed Hope So Blessed?
Since I was ten years old, a very long time ago, I have believed in a pre-Tribulation Rapture. Even though I didn’t grasp its significance and had much to learn about it, I sensed that it aligned with the words of Scripture.
Even after my seminary studies solidified this conviction, it took a long time for me to fully appreciate all that makes our blessed hope so wonderful. I’m still growing in my gratitude for this precious hope revealed on the pages of God’s Word.
Our adversary has a very different attitude toward it. Over the past few decades, he has greatly intensified his attacks on our anticipation of meeting Jesus in the air to the point where the word “rapture” has become taboo in many churches, even those that claim to believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. As a result, much of the mocking of our hope comes from those professing faith in the Lord Jesus.
Rather than dwell any further with the scoffers, I want to emphasize what makes our blessed hope so wonderful and thus a target for our adversary.
A Light Shining in a Dark Place
The world is a very dark place as lawlessness and violence continue to grow mostly unchecked. As I have often stated, I couldn’t cope with the headlines of our day apart from the biblical perspective of prophecy. Peter referred to its illuminating qualities in 2 Peter 1:19,
“And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.”
Scripture illuminates what’s happening in our world as nothing else can. It explains why Satan has ratcheted up his vehement and deadly opposition to the Jewish people. He knows that Israel’s existence signifies his eventual doom and is doing all he can to prevent the fulfillment of what the Bible says will happen when Jesus returns to a repentant Jewish remnant.
What does that have to do with the Rapture? The majority of pastors who say the Rapture is the same event as the Second Coming, or that there’s no such thing, believe that the church is the new Israel and there’s no seven-year Tribulation. They regard the biblical texts that illuminate our way through this dark and murky world as either allegorical of the distant past or descriptive of the last 2,000 years.
In other words, there’s no near-term intervention of the Lord in our world to deal with the wickedness of our day and inaugurate His kingdom. Such teaching reinforces the normalcy bias, the vain hope that things will get better; they always have. Such is the empty expectation of those who don’t recognize that we live in biblical times.
I remember the pastor of an Evangelical Free Church mocking the relevance of Bible prophecy to our day. He accused us of reading the Bible in one hand with a newspaper in the other. It was his way of claiming that we interpreted Scripture based on current events. He didn’t understand what the apostle wrote in 2 Peter 1:19; it’s Bible prophecy that shines the light on the darkness of all that we read about in our violent, corrupt, and lawless world and gives us hope in Jesus’ soon appearing.
An Escape from the Delusions of Life
The second benefit of anticipating Jesus’ soon appearing is that it enables us to escape the delusion that we can find hope in the things of this life. This is something I wish I had learned long ago.
It’s what Paul wrote about in 2 Corinthians 4:17-18:
“For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
It’s not that we forgo our aspirations for this life, but it’s a matter of realizing the relative value of temporal things versus eternal realities. Though others might also possess this same perspective, more often than not, it’s an eager anticipation of Jesus’ appearing that produces this eternal outlook. Over time, it’s our focus on our blessed hope that provides us with greater clarity as to what ultimately matters.
I believe this is also what Paul wrote about in Colossians 3:1-4:
“If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.”
All four verses speak to how the saving message of the cross changes us (see also Romans 6:5-9). Because of the new life we have in Christ, we learn to “seek the things that are above” and set our “minds on things that are above.” Our anticipation of appearing with Jesus in glory when He comes for us is not an afterthought that Paul tacks on to show the Gospel renews our mind; it’s foundational to developing an eternal perspective.
The practice of “waiting for our blessed hope” (Titus 2:13) teaches us how to place a greater importance on eternal realities versus the fleeting aspirations of this life. The silence in so many churches today, regarding the Rapture and eternal life, subtly exalts this life or what lies ahead and focuses the minds of those in the pews on the things of this life.
I have discovered that there’s great freedom in focusing on my hope in Jesus’ soon appearing. That’s why I have learned to cherish the Scriptures that promise a glorious future to all who are in Christ. The long wait for the Rapture has resulted in a greater appreciation for it.
Stay tuned, as next week I will continue sharing what makes our blessed hope so Blessed.
-Jonathan