2 Dec 2024

A PLANET ON THE PRECIPICE…

Apostasy and Doctrines of Demons

Islamic Mob Unleashes Violence Against Hindus in India: Repeated Pattern of Conquest and Erasure. In the Muslim no-go-zone in Uttar Pradesh, a massive Islamic mob violently attacked a court-ordered survey team investigating claims that the Jama Masjid was built over a demolished Hindu temple.

And Hatred of Jews and Christians

After Being Confronted with Facts, PBS Continues to Give Voice to Anti-Israel Propaganda. Earlier this month, a PBS Newshour report inaccurately described international law and then portrayed Israel as breaking the law. Not only did PBS refuse to correct this claim, but it doubled down with more biased reporting.

Cruz ‘deeply disturbed’ by reports of ‘enormous pressure’ from Obama-Biden officials on Israel. “Reminder: There is no peace agreement,” wrote Gerald Steinberg, of NGO Monitor. “The goal of the Tehran regime and its proxy terror armies (in this case, Hezbollah) remains the destruction of Israel.”
The Biden administration “has spent the last four years pathologically obsessed with undermining Israel and boosting Iran,” stated Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after Biden announced a ceasefire deal in Lebanon.

3000% increase in antisemitic incidents across 25 American universities since Oct 7 Hamas massacre,
an unprecedented surge of antisemitism on college campuses.

UNRWA Chief to Hamas: “We are united, and no one can separate us.” Secret meetings between former Commissioner-Gen. of UNRWA and ‘Palestinian’ terrorist leaders in Lebanon in 2017 show institutional-level connections between UNRWA and terrorist organizations.

Israeli Officials, Congressmen, and Christian Leaders Decry Hypocrisy of ICC Arrest Warrants. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for PM Netanyahu and Former Defense Minister Gallant, accusing Israel of committing “crimes against humanity and war crimes” during the battle with Hamas terrorists. This claim is contradicted by numerous reports, expert military analysis, and investigations that show Israel does more to protect civilian lives than any other military in world history.

Canada’s PM Trudeau accused of fiddling as Jew-haters burn Montreal in riot, typifying the chaos that’s engulfing a once-peaceful country after nine years of Trudeau’s radical, divisive agenda. The special envoy for combating antisemitism wrote to Trudeau that “you can’t fuel antisemitism, then condemn it.”

Anti-Christian Hostility and Restrictions on Religious Freedom Sharply Increase Across Europe.

Attack on Christians for Israel Center in the Netherlands highlights rising tensions. The center in Nijkerk was the target of an attack on Nov 25. “We are especially disheartened because this was carried out by other Christians. It’s difficult to comprehend that they don’t see the biblical truth that God is bringing His people back to their land.”

Pervasive Perversion

North Carolina: 23 Men Arrested in Multi-Agency Undercover Sexual Predator Sting Operation, all of whom had traveled to various counties across the state to solicit and facilitate sexual acts with minors.

At a time when the world is teetering on the brink, Capitol Hill is consumed with deciding which bathrooms a new trans-identifying member of Congress will use. Much like the modern-day Pharisees, the media sought to corner Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), hoping he’d come across as either cruel or compromising in his stand. But he did neither. He said, “For anybody who doesn’t know my well-established record on this issue, let me be unequivocally clear: A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman. I also believe that’s what Scripture teaches.”

‘A Giant Sick Joke’: FDNY’s Gender Identity Training Sparks Internal Pushback. In New York City, fire department employees are lectured about “The Genderbread Person”—a cartoon that is part of mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion training meant to explain the “spectrum of countless identities” people can have.

And the Abortion Abomination

Planned Parenthood Caught Selling up to 23-Week-Old Aborted Babies to University for Research. New documents show Planned Parenthood supplying UC San Diego with aborted babies’ parts.

Last Days Traitors

30 Detroit Police Officers Pulled Off Street Due to Inactive Law Enforcement Licenses. This is what ‘defunding the police’ does.

Their Deliberate Border Disorder: A Marxist Takedown Agenda

Gov. Abbott Targets CCP Infiltration in Texas. Abbott issued two more executive orders targeting Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence after Nov 18 initial order aimed at protecting local dissidents from the Chinese regime’s harassment.

Freedom on Trial: Dutch Lawyer Faces Prosecution for Online Criticism of Mass Migration. Politicians, opinion-makers, and critical citizens on the right are being prosecuted by the system,’ declared Raisa Blommestijn, exposing the crackdown on free speech enforced by left-wing activist judges.

Open borders tripled child prostitution. Open borders advocates always claim they’re compassionate ones who truly care, but the human toll of their false compassion is the dead and raped children whom they neglected. “Today, children are being sold for sex. Some children, girls and boys, will get sexually transmitted diseases. Some girls as young as 12, 11, or even 10 will give birth to children of their own.

Plague, Pestilence, and Plandemics

Brits issued travel warning for 17 countries as three potentially deadly viruses spread. Alerts are for parts of Africa and South and Central America for Marburg, mpox Clade I variant, and Oropouche fever.

Weather Events

Major Cold Blast to Hit Helene-Ravaged NC With Families Living in Tents & Cars Amid FEMA Blunder. Nearly 2 months after Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina, controversies surrounding FEMA’s botched response could’ve been avoided if the agency had apolitical managers overseeing operations and hadn’t diverted funds for illegal aliens. With winter looming over the Appalachian region, at least a thousand people, some of them children, still live in temporary housing, such as tents.

Flash floods and landslides claim 16 lives, leave 6 missing in Sumatra, Indonesia. Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains struck Sumatra on Nov 23.

Four dead across U.S. West Coast as atmospheric river brought record rains and 20 landslides in California. The strongest atmospheric river of the season, driven by a bomb cyclone, ravaged the U.S. West Coast Nov 20, bringing unprecedented rainfall, flooding, and wind damage.

UK’s Storm Bert: Through the end of last week and into the weekend, the storm brought torrential rain and winds over 80mph to parts of the UK – a month’s worth of rain in one weekend, with the hills of South Wales the worst hit. At least four deaths reported since Storm Bert began, leaving communities badly flooded and turning roads into rivers.

France: 5,000 vehicles stranded, 36 injured in Storm Caetano Nov 21, bringing unseasonal winter episode; winds reaching 131 km/h (81 mph); snowfall of up to 16 cm (6.3 inches). The storm caused widespread disruptions, including a major accident that injured 36 people.

Economic and Food Insecurity

For Millions of Americans, This Holiday Season Will Be a Season of Very Deep Suffering. Most of the country lives paycheck to paycheck, the number of homeless is higher than ever, demand at food banks is back to pandemic levels, and many victims of Hurricane Helene are still living in thin tents and aren’t getting the help they need from government. Those in the mountains of western North Carolina are shivering in the freezing cold all night long.

Wars and Rumors of Wars

Mysterious Drone Swarms Detected Over UK Airbases Hosting US Stealth Jets. The growing presence of mysterious drone swarms at or near US military bases is a significant cause for concern. Reports suggest these unmanned aerial systems have now been spotted over British military installations.

Money problems force UK military to scrap warships and aircraft. British military will scrap several warships, & dozens of helicopters & drones as it struggles to plug a multi-billion pound hole in its budget.

Locations of US & Russian Warships As World War III Threats Soar. Last week’s “major shift” in policy, in which the Biden-Harris regime green-lighted Ukraine’s attacks deep within Russian territory using US and British-made missiles, forced Russia to lower its threshold for using nuclear weapons against Ukraine while also launching new hypersonic weapons.

‘Putin isn’t bluffing,’ Serbia’s president warns. Serbia’s president says Putin is ‘not bluffing’ about the potential use of nuclear missiles. ‘Don’t think that someone somewhere is bluffing. Unfortunately, nobody is bluffing, and, unfortunately, we are walking into mild disaster.’

Senior NATO Official Says Prepare For ‘Wartime Scenario’ as Britain and France Consider Deploying Troops in Ukraine. Businesses need to adjust their production and distribution lines; it may be the military who wins battles, but it’s the economies that win wars. The risk of all-out war with Russia continues to rise after Biden’s regime approved use of U.S. long-range missiles striking Russia’s mainland.

Germany draws up list of bunkers amid rising Russia tensions, bunkers that could provide emergency shelter for civilians.

Ukraine’s Former Top Military Commander Claims ‘World War 3 Has Officially Begun’ He referenced the greater internationalization of the war with the presence of North Korean troops and Iranian technology on the battlefield, as well as Chinese support to Russia.

NATO’s blind spot: Erdoğan’s Turkey and the Hamas connection. The evidence of Turkey’s growing alignment with the Hamas terrorist organization raises serious questions about the international community’s willingness to confront this shift.

Iran still plans response to Israeli strikes; Khamenei says Netanyahu should receive ‘death sentence.’
Khamenei stated, “They [the ICC] issued an arrest warrant for him; this is not enough; the death sentence for Netanyahu must be issued.”

Israel prevented Iranian plane from landing in Damascus. An Iranian flight which left for Damascus on Thursday had to turn around due to an Israeli warning. The plane was carrying a cargo of ammunition and intended to land in an airport controlled by the Russians, who prevented it from landing, fearing an Israeli strike.

Syria’s ‘large quantities’ of toxic arms serious concern. “The substance of the remaining 19 outstanding issues is of serious concern as it involves large quantities of potentially undeclared or unverified chemical warfare agents and chemical munitions.” Damascus has denied the allegations and insisted it has handed over its stockpiles.

Attempted Coup D’Etat Taking Place in Damascus. The sounds of gunfire were heard in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Saturday night as speculation grew that an attempted coup d’etat was underway. Local sources said Brigadier General Hassam Louka, chief of the regime’s general security directorate, was attempting to oust President Bashar al-Assad, who was out of the country on Saturday. Clashes were reported between the Syrian Republican Guard and the Syrian Arab Army’s 4th Division in the Kfar Sousa district of Damascus, with gunfire directed at various government buildings. Meanwhile, a coalition of rebel Islamist militant groups seized control Friday night over Syria’s northern commercial hub and second-largest city, Aleppo. The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) has also taken control over the Jebrin and Al-Sawaeq sections of the city of Hama, south of Aleppo.

According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, HTS forces were in control of 26 towns and cities in the northern countryside of Hama by Saturday night and advancing on the outskirts of Alawite villages in the area. Separate reports indicated HTS forces were continuing south from Hama and heading for Homs. Unconfirmed reports claimed Assad regime forces were seen destroying their own weapon warehouses in the Homs countryside.

Also see: Islamist rebels in Syria catch Assad, Putin, Iran regimes off guard giving US new mideast headache.

Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire comes into effect, halting nearly 14 months of fighting. Streams of cars were seen heading toward southern Lebanon even as the IDF warned civilians not to return to villages yet. The agreement will reportedly provide for a 60-day transition period, during which the IDF will withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon, while the Lebanese Army will deploy some 5,000 troops south of the Litani river, including at 33 posts along the border with Israel. Hezbollah forces will leave southern Lebanon, and its military infrastructure will be dismantled.

Globalists Go for Broke: Plan to Trigger World War III Moves Forward. There are considerable and insidious forces at play when it comes to the war in Ukraine; a swirling mass of think tanks, globalists, and bureaucrats are doing everything in their power to instigate an international conflict between the US, the EU, and Russia. They’ve specifically been looking for a way to leverage the Western populace into supporting direct and open warfare.

Iniquity Shall Abound

Holding Back Lawlessness: Is God Restraining the World from Sudden Destruction? “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.” (2 Thessalonians 2:7-8). After the Rapture, the beast will be free to ride.

On Nov 17, the Biden regime took the world a giant step closer to nuclear world war by allowing Ukraine to fire U.S. missiles into Russia, which happened 2 days later. U.S. debt total has now passed the 36 trillion-dollar mark, yet the economy hasn’t completely collapsed with worldwide implications aligning with Rev. 6:5-6. How does this delay fit Bible prophecy? When the world falls off the edge into the coming series of catastrophic events, it’ll happen abruptly and unexpectedly: “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape” (1 Thessalonians 5:3).

Conclusion

Hal Lindsey: In Loving Memory: November 23, 1929-November 25, 2024

Time Magazine called Hal, “the Jeremiah of his generation.” Hal Lindsey’s life and work continue to touch the world. Hal was very aware and thankful for those who supported him through the years, making his work possible. His family and ministry team would like to add their thanks to those supporters. Hal’s message of the imminent return of Jesus continues. Hal is survived by his wife and three daughters, as well as his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The Late, Great Hal Lindsey :: From the Rapture Ready Family. “Hal Lindsey authored one of the biggest-selling books of the 20th century, The Late Great Planet Earth. Written in the immediate aftermath of the Six Day War, the book electrified the country and led to many people studying eschatology. It has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 50 languages. No one could have anticipated such a sales tsunami, but the landmark title set the stage for increased evangelism and millions of people eagerly awaiting the Rapture.”

 

2 Dec 2024

Third Temple and Trump

Rather than slowing prophetic progression, the election of Donald Trump to be the 47th president of the United States seemingly continues to speed things up. (That’s although we know God’s timing is perfect and He doesn’t speed up or slow things down. He knows precisely when each prophetic event will take place.)

My thinking involves the fact that movement toward war on a global scale, emerging out of profound rumors of war, seems to be on the fast track now that Trump is president-elect. The Biden administration, under the ominous guiding hand of the deep state (the globalist elite), has slapped Russian President Vladimir Putin with the militaristic glove of insult. The US military complex now will give Ukraine advanced missile weaponry that can reach deep into Russian territory with greater firepower and precision.

This is being done following Putin’s declaration that such direct intervention by the US will likely bring a nuclear retaliation—at a minimum, that of a tactical sort. In fact, the Russians did release, in an unprecedented action, an experimental mid-range missile in a precision strike into Ukraine. The missile, which travels at a rate ten times the speed of sound, had no nuclear warhead. But Putin intimated in a speech following the attack that the next such superweapon launched might be nuclear-tipped.

It is conjectured, and I’m convinced, that this militant move by the military/industrial complex of which Eisenhower warned is intended to somehow hamstring Donald Trump’s presidency–perhaps even prevent him from taking office next January.

Whatsoever the case, Jesus’ words come to the forefront of current events.

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet” (Matthew 24:6).

I point you to the last of Jesus’ words here: “the end is not yet.” Jesus has this totally in control. There will be no all-out nuclear war this side of His taking God’s family of Church Age believers into the clouds of Glory!

So, as referenced above, the Trump election seems to have speeded up prophetic progression. Jesus’ words seem to be today’s prophetic headlines. The prophetic progression continues as part of this spectacular comeback of Donald J. Trump as president. We remember that Trump was in the middle of some prophetically important diplomatic movement when he was shortly thereafter defeated for a second term in what I continue to believe was a stolen election.

His involvement with God’s chosen nation, Israel, was, to those who observe Bible prophecy as absolute truth, action as from the hand of God. (Not meaning that Trump is godly, but that God used him to accomplish His holy will.)

President Trump announced the movement of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a matter that had been declared pending by previous presidents. A 2017 Jerusalem Post report explains.

SEOUL—President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the US recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and would move its embassy there, upending decades of a diplomatic consensus over the status of the city pioneered by his predecessors.

Citing a 1995 law, the Jerusalem Embassy Act, compelling the president to make the move absent national security risks, Trump said the time had come to recognize what everyone already knows to be true. “Jerusalem is the capital the Jewish people established in ancient times,” he said. “Today Jerusalem is the seat of Israel’s government.” (“Trump announces US moving embassy to Jerusalem, US president told regional leaders he intended to declare the city the capital of the Jewish State,” By Michael Wilner, Jerusalem Post, December 6, 2017.)

The United States Embassy was indeed moved to Jerusalem on May 14, 2018, despite major angst of world diplomats and fierce threats from Israel’s blood-vowed enemies.

In keeping with that obvious use of this less-than-godly individual to move prophetic progression along at what looks to be an increasing pace, we now consider the words of one of the new administration’s presidential cabinet picks.

Donald Trump’s choice as the next United States defense secretary has called for the building of a third Jewish temple on the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Speaking at an event in Jerusalem in 2018, he said there was “no reason why the miracle of re-establishing the temple on the Temple Mount isn’t possible,” using the Israeli name for the raised plateau in occupied East Jerusalem where Al-Aqsa Mosque stands. “I don’t know how it would happen, you don’t know how it would happen, but I know that it could happen. (“Next US defense secretary Pete Hegseth called for new Jewish temple at Al-Aqsa,” Middle East Eye, November 16, 2024)

While Mr. Trump, who has appointed a Baptist preacher and former governor, Mike Huckabee, to be US ambassador to Israel, observably supports the Jewish state, background issues in the former president’s dealing with Israel are less than perfect.

Trump, so far as I know, continues to support the idea of a two-state solution to the Mideast trouble. This perhaps is forewarned of in Joel 3:2.

His advocating that Israel have the third temple is also an issue to consider. This will not be a temple approved of by the God of Heaven. God has announced it will be built, but it will be a temple of false worship (Judaism is a false worship system). It will be where the Antichrist will declare himself to be God.

This all means that things are aligning exactly as we have been told in God’s Word. The next great event on God’s prophetic timeline is not Israel’s capital being divided or the Jews having the third temple. The very next great event is the Rapture of the Church–the taking of all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation into Heaven.

God will then again begin dealing with His chosen people and nation as before His crucifixion. This will be the Tribulation, which Jesus said will be the worst time of all human history.

Here again is how to go to Jesus when He calls and not go through that terrible era ruled for a time by Antichrist.

“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


So That You May Believe

The Bible is a book of prophecy. Over one-third of its verses predict the future, with every fulfillment happening with one hundred percent accuracy down to the smallest of details.

The Old Testament contains forty-eight specific prophecies related to Jesus’ first coming, which happened precisely as the prophets of old foretold. The odds that one person could fulfill all of them stagger the imagination, and together, they verify that He was truly the promised Messiah, the Christ.

During His earthly ministry, the Lord prepared His disciples for what was coming by repeatedly telling them about His future death and resurrection. In the Upper Room, the Savior again told them what was to happen so as to calm their troubled hearts concerning the news that He would soon leave them. His words on this occasion provide us with a key for understanding the purpose of Bible prophecy:

“And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe” (John 14:29).

Although His followers already believed that He was indeed the Christ, the Son of God, He warned them about His arrest, death, and soon departure so they wouldn’t give into doubt but would instead remain confident in spite of what they would see in the coming hours and days.

Jesus’ Promises for Us

During that same evening, the Lord also promised His disciples, and us, that He would prepare a place for us in Heaven and take us to His “Father’s house” (John 14:1-3). The apostles later expounded upon this assurance by adding many details about it. They told us He would someday:

  • Resurrect the dead in Christ (1 Corinthians 15:47-55; I Thessalonians 4:16).
  • Transform living saints into the same immortal and resurrection bodies (1 Corinthians 15:51-55; Philippians 3:20-21; Romans 8:23-24; 1 John 3:1-3).
  • Catch living believers up to meet Him in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:17).
  • Take His Church to Heaven, to the place He’s preparing for us (John 14:2-3; Colossians 3:4).

Why did Jesus provide us with so many precious promises of our future? He did so for the purpose of providing a means of mutual encouragement among believers (1 Thessalonians 4:18-5:11). While Paul was in Thessalonica, he emphasized future things, perhaps sensing that the Jews living there would persecute the new believers. Amid severe and painful opposition to their faith, the Thessalonians saints remained faithful as they held on to the hope of Jesus’ imminent appearing.

The World We Live In

Amid growing opposition to and, in many cases, persecution for our faith Bible amid daily warnings of nuclear WWIII, prophecy comforts us today in at least two ways. First, it assures us of a glorious future after the end of this life. The pre-Tribulation Rapture is biblically sound and most definitely a very “blessed hope” (Titus 2:11-14) that fills us with joyous anticipation regardless of what we face in this life.

Second, it calms our hearts by assuring us that our world today precisely resembles what Scripture foretold about the last days. The Lord revealed these things long ago so that we might remain confident in our faith as everything falls apart around us. We recognize the buildup to the blasphemous kingdom of the beast and know that regardless of the wait, Jesus is coming for us in the near future.

For example, if the antichrist is to control all the buying and selling in the world, we would expect to see the development of the means for this well ahead of the time he needs it. And that’s exactly what’s happening. The globalists are feverishly working on a cashless and digital payment system that will enable the coming beast to fulfill the words of Revelation 13:16-18.

The Bible tells us that the Tribulation will be a time of great lawlessness, deception, and wickedness. Although these things have existed to some degree throughout history, they define the day in which we live like no other time. When asked about the end of the age, Jesus’ first words were, “See to it that no one deceives you” (Matthew 24:4, LSB). Each and every day, we witness deceit on a scale that was once far beyond my imagination. I struggle to know what’s real, and as a result, constantly thank the Lord for the words of Scripture that anchor my soul amid the storms of gaslighting.

These things are just a sample of how God’s Word long ago described the day in which we live, the time leading up to the Rapture of the Church, and, after that, the start of the seven-year Tribulation. Do you not now hear the echo of the Lord’s words from the Upper Room, “And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe?”

Jesus knew all about the difficulties we would face in the days before His appearing to take us home. He realized it would be difficult to wait as we watch the Tribulation approach and wonder how much closer we can get to the Tribulation before it happens. Perhaps that’s why, as Jesus spoke of His return to the church at Philadelphia, He emphasized “patient endurance” and holding on to what we have (Revelation 3:10-11). He knew we would need these things in order to keep our focus on His appearing.

Everything remains under His sovereign control and is unfolding precisely as he said it would in the days leading up to the Rapture. As we wait, we remember His last words to His church:

“I am coming quickly” (Revelation 22:20).

He is.

-Jonathan