The Day That Changed The World :: By Jan Markell

The World has been in an Uncontrollable Rage since October 7, 2023

We are witnessing global Israel Derangement Syndrome and renewed anti-Semitism more brutal than the 1930s. And toward whom is the rage directed? Toward those who were invaded, slaughtered, and kept as hostages.

Imagine worldwide hatred against innocent victims and global sympathy for barbarians because Israel supposedly stole land. So, now it is occupied land—the provocation for the deadly pogrom.

God’s land is not occupied territory. Jesus did not live in occupied territory. God owns it (Leviticus 25). He permanently gifted it to the Jews (Genesis 15).

The World Calls Evil Good!

Following the attack, the logic said that sympathy would eventually shift toward those who suffered the unspeakable blow since many victims were women, children, and the elderly. Apparently not. The world stage featured, over several weeks, millions of people in global demonstrations on behalf of the terrorists—Hamas! Talk about a classic case of calling evil good (Is. 5:20).

For months, the world was given a sickening overdose of, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Participants in global demonstrations appeared to be many mind-numbed young robots, most not knowing any facts on the ground. Facts didn’t matter.

This was a conflict of the oppressed versus the oppressor. The so-called Palestinian was the classic representative of the world’s oppressed. Israel was the Goliath who needed to be punished and exterminated, as all oppressors must be.

Brainwashed Agitators from the TikTok Generation

The demonstrators, in two dozen nations, are ignorant concerning the history, as well as the geographical and political implications of the Mideast. What the Bible says is irrelevant. The rabble-rousers know nothing of Israel’s endless concessions over the decades to her Islamic neighbors, all in the name of peace.

They know nothing of the 2,000 years of wandering, persecution, and endless attempts by kings, generals, Fuhrers, potentates, and presidents to fulfill Psalm 83 and wipe out the very memory of Israel’s existence. The brainwashed agitators are feeding off of social media propaganda, swallowing the lies like they were candy, and impressing their friends with how tolerant and justice-minded they are.

They are also victims of Marxist indoctrination in the Western world’s education systems. They are persuaded to see red— and now they also see Hamas green.

They are naïve and cannot comprehend that those they are championing, celebrating, and defending would obliterate them in a heartbeat, in just as brutal a manner, as they incinerated Israelis on October 7, 2023. And again, for no reason other than to exercise their barbarism against the enemies of Islam.

Befriending Monsters

Those Israelis in southern Israel were championing the people of Gaza! The Israelis were there to benefit the Gazans—to employ them, take them to appointments, and more. They lived and believed the liberal lie: That we can befriend monsters and make them like us. That Islam is not so bad, in fact. We can all get along.

Rushing Toward the Time of Jacob’s Trouble

So, let’s look at this from a spiritual perspective. We are in a run-up to the Tribulation—the Time of Jacob’s Trouble. The Jews are the primary player in that horrific drama. Believers are enjoying heaven. The Jews are Jacob; believers are the bride.

Satan longs to defeat God’s end-time plan, which seriously trounces him. Whether it’s Sennacherib, the King of Assyria, or Haman, from Persia, they plot and scheme. Whether it is Hitler or the Iranian mullahs, they never cease their plot to eliminate all Jews. The persecutors will come and go, but the persecution will remain until Jesus returns in the Second Coming!

As the people of Israel get more and more war-weary, as they tire of relying on fences that fail and agreements that are broken, they will accept the cunning lies of a man who comes on the scene right before the start of Daniel’s 70th Week. He will overwhelm them with promises of “peace and security” (I Thess 5:3).

They can tear down their walls, thanks to his friendship! What a smooth talker. What a man who speaks healing words. What a peacemaker! What a devil.

They sign a fateful agreement as outlined in Daniel 9:27, not realizing that Mr. Fix-It will eventually turn on them in an attempt to fulfill Satan’s plan of the ages: the extermination of every Jew, to foil God’s end-time plan. Others had only partially succeeded. This man will be convinced he can finish the job.

The Genie is Out of the Bottle!

What happened on October 7, 2023, is not just “one more Mideast conflict.” It was inspired by demons, and it unleashed demons on the world. The perpetrators were demon-possessed. The facts on the ground are clear evidence of that. In the natural, mankind cannot dream up such brutality. Satan can.

A genie was let out of the proverbial bottle. Something ominous spread all over the world in October of last year. It has apocalyptic overtones. You can’t put it back in the bottle! Our world was forever changed.

And all of this hatred against a people who have been a blessing to the earth! A people who gave us the Prophets, the Apostles, the Messiah; in fact, salvation itself is of the Jews (John 4:22).

Spitting in the Apple of God’s Eye

In spite of such blessings, there are entire denominations that are standing with those who perpetrated the worst massacre of the innocent in recent history. They worship social justice. They teach that the church is the new Israel (Replacement Theology). They major in minors and lead the flock astray. They fly rainbow flags in front of their church. They spit in the “apple of God’s eye” (Zech. 2:8).

I close this article with something I inserted in my book about Holocaust survivor Anita Dittman—Trapped in Hitler’s Hell. It is a quote from Dr. Natan Kellerman:

“There is something unprecedented about the European Holocaust. For the first time in the bloodstained history of the human race, a decision was birthed in a modern state, in the midst of a civilized continent, to track down, register, mark, isolate, dispossess, humiliate, concentrate, transport, and murder, every single person of an ethnic group as defined by the perpetrators.

“This was targeted at an ethnic group who so generously contributed to the culture of the world; to a people who have borne the brunt of enmity toward them because they dared to be different and dared to insist on their difference.”

Is it 1938 again?

 

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Celebrate God’s Abundance in 2024 :: By Lynda Janzen

David’s Prayer

“David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, saying,

‘Praise be to you, Lord,
the God of our father *Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power
and the glory and the majesty and the splendor,
for everything in heaven and earth is yours.
Yours, Lord, is the kingdom;
you are exalted as head over all.
Wealth and honor come from you;
you are the ruler of all things.
In your hands are strength and power
to exalt and give strength to all.
Now, our God, we give you thanks,
and praise your glorious name'” (1 Chronicles 29:10-13).

*Jacob

As we open yet another (perhaps the last) great book of human history, *366 blank pages await the pen of God. Some of what will be written by this time next year, we can know through what has been foretold to us through Bible prophecy. Some of what we now anticipate will end up being simply speculation and will not appear. Most of what will happen in 2024, though, is unknowable to us. The exact future is known only by our Triune God.

*2024 is a leap year

This year, one thing that I do know will appear every day in my own journal is a prayer of thanksgiving.

I intend to give thanks not only for the good things God will bring my way but also for things that could be considered not-so-good or undesirable. Why? It is easy for us to praise the LORD Almighty when our lives are going well. However, it is a test of faith to continue to praise and love the One Who created all things, including us, when our lives become messy, when illness happens, when loss of job and income happen, when sorrow visits.

Prolific Christian writer and broadcaster Joni Eareckson once said, “Better to receive something from God’s left hand than nothing at all from God.” Eareckson has been bound to a wheelchair, paralyzed from a diving accident that happened when she was a teen. She says everything is a blessing, some of it disguised, to be sure, as a curse, but always working out for the glory of God when we do His Will.

The apostle Paul wrote, “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s Will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thess. 5:18). Paul writes further in Colossians 1:12: “… and giving joyful thanks to the Father, Who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of His holy people in the kingdom of light.”

One day last week, during morning prayers, and while I was giving thanks for His abundance to us, the LORD opened space-time for a split second. It seemed as though the Father Himself was giving me either a Communion wafer or a piece of manna – it doesn’t matter what it was – and for that split second, my heart nearly burst from joy, love, and thankfulness. It was completely overwhelming and wonderful.

Some of you will have studied the Names of God and know that Jehovah-Jireh is the name of God the Provider.

In that split second, He made it known what exactly that means for us, His creatures.

Some, perhaps most of you, know this already, so it’s not a revelation by any means, but in case you are one who doesn’t know – every atom of all that exists comes from God — Father, Son, Holy Spirit. The smallest ort of food is to be given thanks for, for it is being provided by the One Who loves you forever, both when you are still a sinner and after you have repented. Each and every breath is worthy of praise. Every drop of water, also. The fact is, though, that in our time and place, God’s abundance is astounding. How can you not give thanks when food is so abundant in our land that people have to go on diets? At the same time, so many in other parts of the world are starving. Even so, when people’s hearts are right with God, He will provide even in the midst of famine and drought.

The news these days is full of hints that a great economic crash is imminent. We would do well this coming year to cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude and to determine to do the Will of *Jehovah-Jireh in all things.

*Jehovah-Jirah means God will see and will provide.

You might determine to pray David’s prayer from 1 Chronicles 29 each night before going to sleep.

Contemplate the words King David uses, which are all small and easy to understand. We do not need to have a PhD in Theology to know what to say to the LORD God. He knows our hearts and, we are told, rejoices when we want a relationship with Him.

The following comes from the Billy Graham Answers website:

Jesus said, “I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents” (Luke 15:10).

Why do they rejoice? Not because they’re surprised but because a great victory has been won! Someone has been snatched from the jaws of Satan and death and hell, so why wouldn’t all heaven rejoice? Jesus’ words remind us of just how valuable we are to God and how much He yearns for us to be with Him in heaven forever.

Can we ever thank our God enough for what He has done for us? No. But we can thank Him constantly and with great gratitude.

The LORD provides all we need to live for Him and in Him. In the LORD’s prayer, which is a great daily prayer for all ages and those in all stages of their walk with Jesus, we say, “Give us this day our daily bread.” Expanding on this thought, we can add, “And thank you, LORD, for it. Thank You also for the bread which feeds our minds and our souls — daily readings of Your Holy Word.”

Are you one who has not yet given your life to Jesus Messiah? Have you come to Rapture Ready out of curiosity, perhaps trying make sense of what is happening in the world? Well, brother or sister, the LORD God has brought you to the right place.

The coming year may well be the year the world is thrown into total turmoil because of the disappearance of millions of people. The Rapture is the next event in the timeline of God’s plan for humankind. According to *Scripture, believers all over the world will be snatched up to meet Jesus in the air, leaving behind a world in chaos.

After that, the foretold Great Tribulation will begin, and believe me, you will not want to be here for that, for the wrath of God will be poured out on those who remain in the worst time ever in human history. Jesus said that unless the days of tribulation are shortened, not one person will survive. It will be a worldwide event, so there is no escaping it should you be left behind.

*Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11

The one escape route is to believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the One Who redeemed us from our sins by shedding His precious blood on the cross of Calvary, Who died and was buried, and Who rose again on the third day and ascended back into heaven. Jesus is the Son of God Who awaits the command from God the Father to return for those who believe in Him and who have repented of their sin.

If you decide today to change your life for the best it can be and to be ready in a split second for Jesus to take you out of harm’s way, to be with Him forever, please tell someone of that decision – a pastor or a Christian friend, and be willing to be guided to the safest place on earth – the arms of your Saviour, Jesus the Messiah.

God bless and Happy 2024, everyone. Looking forward to meeting you all at Jesus’ feet one day very soon.

Lynda Janzen

If anyone reading this article has not yet received Jesus as their Saviour, but God has touched your heart by His Holy Word, please email me (amadea0204@gmail.com) or find a Bible-believing local church and ask the Pastor what you must do to be saved in Grace.

In the meantime, please consider the ABCs of Salvation, and may GOD bless you.

A – Admit

Admit what you have done wrong and ask forgiveness.

Romans 3:23 “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

Romans 6:23 “The wages of sin is death.”

I John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”

B – Believe

Believe that Jesus died on the cross and rose again as a payment for your sins.

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.”

Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

C – Confess and Choose

Confess and choose to allow God to be in charge of your life.

Matthew 16:24 “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.”

Romans 10:9 “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Romans 10:13 “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”