29 Jul 2024

The Last Trump

I’m doing a bait-and-switch.

Sorry.

This column isn’t really about the Rapture.

Or is it?

I’ve always been very hesitant to get anywhere close to date-setting. I am old enough to remember the wonderful 70s, when the “Hal Lindsey Revolution” swept churches across the country.

I heard often that the Rapture was imminent. Us junior high kids would literally watch the skies and whenever we would watch one of those extraordinary “split sky with light” scenes, we’d think we had only a few minutes left!

But the years passed. So many—let’s call them what they were, predictions—came and went. In the 90s, I got to know some well-known Bible prophecy teachers. I worked in book publishing. Privately (and sometimes publicly) these people would say, for example, that Jesus was coming back in September. Or something along those lines. Twenty-five years later, we’re still here. Some of the “edge” has come off those exciting days watching the skies.

Yet I, like many people, believe we might very well be right at the time of the end.

The current conflicts Israel finds herself in I think confirm that. Yes, 1948 was intense. As was 1967.

  1. Oslo in 1992 and the terrorism that has followed.

Now we find ourselves watching the Hamas War.

But here is what seems to indicate things have accelerated dramatically and not only is there no going back to “normalcy,” there is no engaging the brakes on the runaway train.

Israel finds itself in an historically dangerous era regarding the Jewish state’s relationship with her longtime friend, the U.S. A reprehensible Regime in Washington has been pushing forward Barack Obama’s well-known hatred of Israel. In fact, the former president is probably the one working the levers, as Biden has simply enjoyed the perks of the presidency these last 3.5 years.

America has suffered greatly for that. So has Israel.

The relationship began to fracture during the Obama era. His animus for the Jewish state was so obvious. He imperiled not only Israel, but the world. Obama’s handling (on purpose, I am convinced) of the Middle East was disastrous. He malevolent machinations in Libya, Syria, and Egypt destroyed what had been a long period of relative stability.

He also began to hurt Israel diplomatically.

Enter Donald John Trump.

The real estate mogul came from nowhere to capture the presidency. His stunning gestures toward Israel (moving the embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, and much more) were truly unprecedented. Before him, presidents simply lied during election campaigns, as their promises to Israel always fell by the wayside.

Now we find ourselves in a unique period. I wanted Trump to have two consecutive terms. But look what God has done. If cheating doesn’t deny him a second time, Trump is on track to a landslide win in November—against whoever the Democrats finally settle on as his opponent.

And today, Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife to Mara Lago. This is one of the most important meetings of world leaders in several years, and it is the perfect setting. Away from prying eyes, I have no doubt the two men have had substantive talks. It’s also interesting to note that various world leaders are now reaching out to Trump. They expect him back.

It isn’t that I think a potential Trump and Netanyahu re-engagement will “save the world” or bring us back to the breezy 1950s. But rather I think it provides an environment for the final puzzle pieces of prophecy to be arranged close to each other. The final map is in the offing.

This doesn’t mean Biden won’t continue to be a menace. Kamala Harris is now in the spotlight, and her worldview is nothing short of satanic, from her bizarre and dangerous “reimagining safety” regarding defunding police, but her sinister view of Israel.

The foundation of “the rest of the way” I believe where Israel is concerned centers on the Palestinian question. It has for the secular world for more than 50 years. The world will not leave alone the unjust and unworkable “Land for Peace” agenda that sprang from Oslo 30 years ago. At no point have the Palestinians met any obligation under the deal, but Israel has made concession after concession. When you negotiate with terrorists, they keep demanding more. Arafat and his goons should have been crushed, but instead they were invited to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom.

Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama created and fed the Palestinian monster.

Trump cut their funding off and scoffed at their legitimacy.

Now, if he returns, and Netanyahu remains in power, the duo has a chance to set the final gameboard. Israel will gather herself. America will cease temporarily from being a diplomatic tool of the devil, and the nations will continue to advance their Oslo madness.

That will set the stage for the finale. The Zechariah outline will round into form.

Maybe Trump will have something to do with the Last Trump!

We will soon see.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

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America’s Approaching Apocalypse :: By Terry James

Some will likely say, “There he goes again with his Amero-centricity.” But America has never been more front and center in the roaring of the seas and waves of humanity as it is during this late prophetic moment.

I find that I can do no other than examine end-times matters within the apocalyptic milieu surrounding this profoundly unique experiment in liberty—this nation-state called America, the concept of which was given to the founding fathers by the Creator, according to their own recognition of the fact.

Harvest House Publishers released my book, The American Apocalypse, in 2009. We, that is, the publisher and myself, planned a major book tour and publicity effort at the time. However, as you might recall, that year there was a major financial meltdown in America and around the world, due primarily to a banking crisis. So our book promotion plans were greatly curtailed.

I now see that delayed book publicity effort was providential. Now, in this greatly accelerated wind-up of the age, I believe we are truly looking at the coming Apocalypse in terms of, perhaps, America’s position within that unveiling of things to come.

Here is part of what I wrote in introducing that volume:

No nation in modern times stands more at stage-center than the United States. None in all of recorded history has had more influence–or has more directly affected countries contemporary to its time of nationhood–than America. Its contributions to moving the world from the speed a horse can run to light speed through near-instantaneous communications technologies are staggering.

There is no peer to American creative industrial genius when considered in context of civilization-enhancing contributions by all generations prior to the 20th century. The United States of America, as a result of her genius and industry, stands alone as the most materially endowed nation-state ever.

Sounds like pompous, typically ugly American elitism, you say? Well, to borrow from, quote, and expand a bit upon the words of that renowned philosopher, one-time St. Louis pitcher Dizzy Dean: “It ain’t braggin’ if you can do it.”

Section I of this book, “Prophecy Takes Shape,” provides proof that America’s accomplishments stand far above and beyond achievements of all other nation-players in bringing mankind to the current degree of technological progress. The most gifted history revisionists would be hard-pressed to construct even moderately believable sophistry that would offer contradictory evidence to America’s role in bringing mankind to this amazing technological point in a mere 100 years.

Again, Dizzy would say that it ain’t braggin,’ because this nation has done it. The very fact of America’s spectacular achievement would, one would think, secure its place within the final prophetic disposition of nations. Yet, this nation is referenced by name nowhere in Bible prophecy. Absence of mention of the most powerful and wealthiest nation in recorded history seems a profoundly strange omission.

Recognizing and acknowledging that this super nation-state is not even alluded to by name, there nonetheless remains room to ponder. Therefore, we return to the question, though slightly altered: Is America in Bible prophecy, even if not specifically named?

We must first address another question even more pressing: Does there exist a Supreme Judge of all things, who therefore has the final say on human conduct and on contributions to the furtherance of man? (Terry James, The American Apocalypse: Prophetic Scenarios for the United States and the World  [Harvest House Publishers, 2009])

Much stage-setting for the coming Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week) has taken place since those days when Barack Obama became president—so much change, in fact, that my book, as thoroughly as I feel it was researched, could but serve as cursory prelude to the profound position America now occupies on this world stage of anti-God rebellion.

The all-out effort to bring down America—including the attempt to assassinate a presidential candidate who opposes their plans to rule, which just occurred—is evidence of their satanic evil. Their more than obvious intention to remove America’s sovereignty, to bring it into compliance with the globalists’ Agenda 30 goals, to me, manifests Satan’s orchestration beyond any doubt. America must, as Obama stated, be fundamentally transformed. And, beginning with his administration, that is what has been accomplished.

The open borders, the transsexual madness, the Sodom-like transformation that has swept every area of society and culture into its wickedness gives witness toward the American Apocalypse. 

Yet, as obvious as Satan’s orchestration is to bring America into his future Antichrist orbit of control, God’s great restraining hand is even more obvious.

The Ephesians 6:12 cabal–the powers and principalities against which the Church (all born-again believers) struggles—must have a crisis of world-rending proportion in order to complete the final governmental architecture necessary to support the coming Antichrist regime.

Again, in my opinion, they tried this with the COVID so-called pandemic. It failed, and now much of the world is on to their lying ways.

One writer frames well the dilemma Lucifer’s minions face in their drive to bring America and nations of the world into configuration for fulfilling Satan’s desire to enslave humankind:

The globalist timeline for their “Great Reset” mentions 2030 as the prime year for total centralization. This is the year they plan to put their carbon controls in place, remove most oil and gas energy, bring in their digital currency framework, finalize their 15 Minute City programs, establish the IMF and BIS as the overseers of the global CBDC structure, launch their cashless society and integrate ESG-related goals into every aspect of the economy.

2030 is only six years away, and that’s a lot to accomplish in such a short amount of time. The globalists are going to have to either admit failure and change their timeline or create a substantial crisis in the near term to facilitate the Reset. (Brandon Smith, “The Juggling Act: Is 2024 A Pivotal Year For The Globalists?” 1/3/2024

It becomes more apparent by the day that the Great Resetters can’t do so without America. Thus, so much hangs on the political process leading to this November and the presidential election.

As stated before in these commentaries, Satan knows the Rapture is going to happen—and soon. He has, therefore, stepped up efforts at every juncture to set the stage for the great crisis the Rapture will create. His human minions, at least, don’t know about the Rapture other than believing it is pie-in-the-sky nonsense by some religious fanatics. But Satan knows. So he lets his human minions work as feverishly as possible to create a crisis, knowing they are helping finish constructing the global platform for his Son of Perdition’s all-controlling machine for governing during that coming time of horror.

You don’t want to be here during that time. Here is how to go to Jesus Christ when He calls all believers to Himself in the clouds of Glory.

“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).