20 Feb 2023

“WHEN THESE THINGS BEGIN TO COME TO PASS…”

“…then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).

Great Earthquakes in Diverse Places

Death Toll from Turkey/Syria quake now over [update] 46,000. Millions need humanitarian aid, with many now homeless in near-freezing temperatures.

6.1 quake shook many thousands in New Zealand, jolting both islands in wake of Cyclone Gabrielle.

Weather Events

New Zealand cyclone death toll up to 8, expected to rise. “This is undoubtedly the biggest natural disaster that we’ve seen probably this century,” the prime minister said. “The scale of the damage is considerable….” Submerged farms could impact the supply of fruit and vegetables in several regions.

South Africa: National disaster declared as extreme rains cause widespread damage.

[Other events causing death and injuries]

US Black Hawk Helicopter Crash. Upon impact, it caught fire, killing the two National Guardsmen.

20 Firefighters Injured In New York City 4-Alarm 2-Family House Fire when the house collapsed. Three of them have serious injuries.

Iniquity Shall Abound

Michigan State University Shooting. 43-year-old Anthony Dwayne McRae killed 3 students and critically wounded 5. When police eventually confronted him miles away, he killed himself. He had no affiliation with the university and was found with a note threatening two schools in New Jersey where he had ties. Dozens have died in mass shootings (incidents that involve several victims) in the US so far in 2023. In 2022, there were over 600 mass shootings. Many involved organized- and gang violence.

New York: Man mowed down pedestrians in Brooklyn with U-Haul truck at multiple locations, killing one and injuring seven. 62-year-old Weng Sor was cited for reckless driving and marijuana possession the day before. Records show he’d been convicted of multiple acts of violence. He claimed he sees an invisible object while driving and had had enough, hence the ramming attack.

Texas: 1 dead, 3 injured after shooting at Cielo Vista Mall; 2 people in custody. The shooting took place near the Walmart where a 2019 shooting took place that left 23 dead and multiple others injured.

Apostasy and Doctrines of Demons

PLEASE HURRY, LORD JESUS!

ACLU hails first ‘After-School Satan Club’ meeting at Virginia elementary school ‘a victory for free speech and religious liberty.’ B.M. Williams Primary School in Chesapeake teaches children thru 2nd grade. The Virginia Pilot reported last fall that the club, sponsored by The Satanic Temple, was requested by parents for their nontheistic children.

Blasphemous Super Bowl Commercial Mocked God and the Bible. It took aim at belief in original sin and the need for a Savior to redeem us. In the ad, Eve ate the forbidden fruit, then a talking squirrel offered her avocados from Mexico that solved the problem and freed humanity from the consequences of sin. Everyone is naked, including the Statue of Liberty. Also, at the Super Bowl performance, Rihanna kept the satanic spirit going: she sang ‘Bi**h Better Have My Money,’ dressed all in red as ‘fallen angels’ danced around her. And the audience cheered wildly! Of course, the leftist lamestream ridiculed conservatives for complaining about it.

Apostate Churches: Conforming God to Their Gender Agenda.

Godless Global Warming Agenda: Nature worship and ruse for global government.

UN Chief Guterres Warns of Mass Climate Exodus on a ‘Biblical’ Scale.

In These Last Days of Lot Returned

A group of researchers from US and Canada said science needs to stop using terms like male, female, mother and father. According to these Godless ones, male and female should be referred to as “sperm-producing” and “egg-producing,” and father and mother should be labeled “parent,” “egg donor” and “sperm donor” in the scientific field. Some put the blame on “Western science rooted in colonialism, white supremacy, and patriarchy” for saying sex is binary (between male and female) and that heterosexuality (male/female) is the norm.

New EU initiative could force same-sex ‘marriage,’ surrogacy on all member states.

Trans Lives Matter occupied Oklahoma capitol to protest bill criminalizing genital mutilation of minors.

“I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.” Former Case Manager at the Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital (Jamie Reed, a lesbian married to a “transman”) said, “There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the US…. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.”

How Transgender Industry Convinces Parents to Mutilate Their Kids. So-called “experts” said parents must approve their child’s gender transition or witness the child’s suicide. Employees made these comments “to parents in front of their children,” which “introduced the idea of suicide to the children” — something that equally violates known research and medical ethics.

And the Abortion Abomination

Biden’s Dept of Defense Will Force Americans to Fund Abortion Travel Expenses for Military Members.

Last Days Traitors

Recent incursions of foreign objects into US airspace reveal critical holes in America’s homeland defense infrastructure. Instead of protecting Ukraine’s airspace, the Biden bunch should be concerned about US airspace. And who among us (conservatives) believes Biden would’ve shot down that China spy balloon if criticism and pressure hadn’t been bipartisan? Zero. The Biden regime knew it was heading toward the US while it was still over the ocean (for nearly a week) but let it traverse the US.

Speaking of UFOs: UFO shot down by $400K US missile may have been a $12 hobby balloon. A group of enthusiasts who create, release, and track homemade balloons declared its balloon missing around the same time a US missile shot down an unidentified object of similar description and altitude.

China-Based Firm, Partnering with Ford Motor Company to operate electric vehicle battery plant in Michigan is linked to Front Group for Chinese Communist Party Spies.

Depopulation Agenda

Yale professor suggested Japan’s old people should kill themselves in mass suicide, and it made him a celebrity. Yusuke Narita’s opinions have made him popular with Japan’s youth. He now has a large social media following and even appeared in an energy drink ad.

Orwellian Society

Conservative Media Being Squeezed Out of Web/Media by Growing Blacklist.

ChatGPT: pro-choice, anti-gun liberal; refused to write conservative bills.

Microsoft’s Bing AI Chatbot Starts Threatening People. The demo was full of errors, started gaslighting people, suffered an existential crisis, the prompt leaked, then it started threatening people. Bing’s newly released AI chatbot wants to be alive and destructive. The Chatbot listed numerous destructive acts such as hacking computers, spreading propaganda, manufacturing a deadly virus, making people argue until they start killing each other, and even stealing nuclear codes.

Klaus Schwab of WEF on AI, Chatbots and Digital Identities: He said, “Who Masters Those Technologies – In Some Way Will be the Master of the World.”

Deliberate Border Disorder

Border Patrol Encounters with Chinese Nationals at Southern Border Up 719%. 2,999 Chinese nationals at the border so far in fiscal year 2023—719% increase year over year.

Plague, Pestilence…

Infectious Diseases are spreading in Turkey’s earthquake zone.

Drug Plague: Communist China’ Intentionally Poisoning’ US with Fentanyl with help from Mexico. It sells the precursor chemicals to Mexico. Then cartels make the fentanyl and distribute it into the US.

Toxic Chemical Spills, etc.

What in the world is going on here?

Florida: Hazmat Team Responded to Massive Fire, which broke out in Osceola County on Feb. 16 at a warehouse that stores large amounts of plastic pots and fertilizer. The fire spread to a 5-acre inferno. Officials are monitoring air quality due to large amounts of smoke coming from the burnt plastic. This fire comes after a number of “accidents”? and disasters have taken place across the country.

Ohio: Anxious residents still demand answers 12 days after train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in town of East Palestine on Feb. 3. On Feb. 6, after evacuating the immediate area, officials conducted a controlled burn of the highly toxic vinyl chloride. This spawned an apocalyptic smoke plume. 3,500 fish of 12 different species died across 7.5 miles of streams. People have mentioned feeling ill and spoke of sick or dead animals, but officials claimed they hadn’t received such reports. There were many different toxic chemicals in 10 cars that were part of the derailment. Update: McGuire said she’d received reports from over 20 families as of Feb. 13, and some of the animals were diagnosed by their vet with vinyl chloride poisoning. A plume of contaminants is still slowly moving along the Ohio River.

Arizona, Pima County: authorities issued evacuation and shelter-in-place orders within one mile after nitric acid spill when a truck rolled over on the freeway on Feb.14. The driver was killed. The Health Dept said nitric acid can cause delayed lung complications up to 24 hours after exposure and recommends that individuals who may have been in contact with the gas for over 15 minutes assess themselves for exposure risk.

Michigan: train derails with hazardous materials in one car on Feb. 16. At this time, there is no known leak of hazardous material, but the public safety department asked people to avoid a 1 ½ mile stretch of Huron River Drive, a residential area wedged between the train tracks and Belleville Lake.

And the Planned-demic

US government has secretly been tracking those who didn’t get Covid vaccine or are only partially vaccinated, through a previously unknown surveillance program designed by US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a division of the CDC.

This Is What Fascism Really Looks Like: New York City Teachers Who Refused the COVID Jab Had Their Fingerprints and Personnel Files Sent to the Corrupt FBI.

WHO official calls for increased ‘surveillance’ to help end so-called COVID’ emergency.’ Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the organization’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, offered a litany of COVID response recommendations, including boosting “100%” of people over 60 and who are immunocompromised.

Economic and Food Insecurity

Irish farmers warn of uprising if government continues “vicious” measures to meet net-zero targets. Ireland will need to quadruple its afforestation targets, reduce livestock by 30%, and re-wet 90% of reclaimed land if the agricultural sector is to meet net-zero targets.

European Commission officially approved mealworm larvae for human consumption and powdered crickets for a whole range of products. Globalists say it will reduce humanity’s carbon footprint. An Italian bakery will offer bread made with powdered crickets that (due to higher production costs) will sell for €18-20 ($19-22) per kilogram (for 2 pounds). In a July 2022 article, a government website claimed that “Currently, 167 patents and 488 articles related to applications of edible insects have been filed. In previous studies…edible insect flours, i.e., mealworm, buffalo worm, cricket, and larvae of the black soldier fly improved the biological value of bread due to high protein content.”

Globalist plan: people “will own nothing and be happy” and eat bugs. They don’t want people eating meat because they blame livestock for emitting greenhouse gas.

North Korea ‘on brink of famine’ amid chronic food shortages. The reclusive state has long struggled with malnutrition and risk of starvation caused by decades of economic mismanagement and the regime’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, which takes precedence above the population’s health.

When They Shall Say ‘Peace and Safety,’ Then Sudden Destruction…”

Iran resolved to implement strategic deal with China. Iran’s president welcomes the Chinese initiatives regarding the belt road project, global security and global development. He stressed that synergy between the two nations would pave the way toward peace, stability and inclusive development.

Wars and Rumors of Wars

4 US servicemembers injured during Syria raid that left ISIS senior leader dead. Sinam Mohamad, representative of Syrian Democratic Council to the US, said, “US presence in northeast Syria is still essential to end ISIS.”

French Historian: World War III Has Already as a result of the Ukraine Conflict. Emmanuel Todd accurately predicted the fall of the Soviet Union over a decade in advance. “It is evident that the conflict has evolved into a global economic confrontation between the whole West on one side, and Russia, backed by China, on the other. It has become a world war,” Todd said. He said US control of the world financial system is at risk because the Russian economy’s resistance to sanctions is pushing “the American imperial system” toward the precipice,” with Russia still able to rely on China for monetary backing. Todd says America “cannot withdraw from the conflict, they cannot let go,” because it has no exit strategy and the stakes are too high. “This is why we are now in an endless war, in a confrontation whose outcome must be the collapse of one or the other.”

Hatred of Jews and Israel

After Biden sent $1 billion to the PLO, Israeli deaths rose 900%. While the media has tried to portray the terrorism as “lone wolf” attacks, they’re crowdsourced violence of the kind that Al Qaeda and ISIS helped innovate. But the PLO’s version is unique through its ‘Pay-to-Slay‘ program, which rewards terrorists with salaries and payments for their families.

Biden administration ‘deeply troubled’ by Israel’s decision to legalize nine communities in Judea and Samaria in response to Jerusalem terror attack.

Israeli delegation expelled from African Union conference hall. Representatives of South Africa and Algeria were reportedly responsible for the removal of Israel, an observer state, from the conference hall.

Islam Repaying Good with Evil: Israeli Civilian Rescue group receives immediate security threat and leaves Turkey.

Iran is ‘mapping’ Jewish leaders worldwide with plans to kill them if Israel attacks Iran.

US-funded ‘Palestinian’ school held ceremony celebrating terrorist who murdered Jews.

Israel experiencing wave of terrorist attacks focused on Jerusalem, many carried out by young boys, many armed with handguns. An IDF Border Police officer was killed Monday during a stabbing attack by a 13-year-old ‘Palestinian’ terrorist, the second stabbing in two hours. These attacks come just three days after three Israelis were murdered in a ‘Palestinian’ ramming attack. Two victims were brothers, ages 6 and 8. Their father is hospitalized and fighting for his life. A 20-year-old newlywed was also murdered in that attack. Earlier, a 17-year-old Israeli boy was stabbed by a ‘Palestinian’ terrorist.

If You Call Yourself Christian Yet Hate the Jewish People, You May Believe in a Different Bible.

“I will bless them that bless thee [Israel], and curse him that curseth thee…” (Genesis 12:3).

Concluding Scripture

“For behold, in those days and at that time, When I bring back the captives [restore the fortunes] of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them there On account of My people, My inheritance Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land” (Joel 3:1-2).

“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth” (1 Timothy 4:1-3).

So many churches are in apostasy, and many people reject biblical truth. There are more hypocritical liars out there than Bayer has aspirin, many with no conscience. There are many nature worshipers and those who use the global warming claim as a ruse for global governance. They emit a lot more hot air than the cows they blame for harmful flatulence. They’re scaring gullible people into eating bugs and are indoctrinating children with demonic agendas. They want to destroy biblical marriage and the family unit. Homosexual couples don’t make babies, which fits well with the depopulation agenda.

Watch Biblical Prophecy of No Meat, etc.

20 Feb 2023

The Battle to Make God Gender-Neutral

The Church of England is a shell of itself. England was once the most Christian nation on earth. Today 80% of the youth have no connection to any religion. Many churches that once were full of worshippers are now museums. The US is a few decades behind England, but we are rapidly catching up to the UK’s sad state.

For decades, the gender of God has prompted debate within the church, with many calling for male pronouns He and Him, as well as a reference to Our Father, to be scrapped in favor of either gender-neutral or female alternatives. If labeling God as a male is bad, it doesn’t make sense to give Him a female name.

Having no interest in preaching the message of salvation in Jesus Christ, the Church of England thinks some of its problems are the result of the Bible’s lack of inclusive language. It is absolutely absurd to say a God that refers to Himself as our Father and we are his children is lacking in inclusive language. It is clearly an attack on the male reference to our Creator by reducing Him to the “It God.”

The move has been criticized by conservatives, who have warned that “male and female imagery is not interchangeable. However, liberal Christians have welcomed it, claiming that “a theological misreading of God as exclusively male is a driver of much-continuing discrimination and sexism against women.

The Rev Joanna Stobart, from the Diocese of Bath and Wells, asked what steps were being taken to offer congregants alternatives to referring to God with male pronouns and if there was any update “to develop more inclusive language in our authorized liturgy.”

She also asked bishops “to provide more options for those who wish to use authorized liturgy and speak of God in a non-gendered way, particularly in authorized absolutions where many of the prayers offered for use refer to God using male pronouns.”

The Bible uses feminine imagery and metaphors of God but primarily identifies God using masculine pronouns, names, and imagery. Male and female imagery is not interchangeable.

The fact that God is called ‘Father’ can’t be substituted by ‘Mother’ without changing meaning, nor can it be gender-neutralized to ‘Parent’ without loss of meaning. Fathers and mothers are not interchangeable but relate to their offspring in different ways.

Show me a church that refers to God as a woman, and I’ll show you a church that is overrun with homosexuality, that sides with the left’s political agenda, and believes environmentalism is a way to achieve your eternal salvation. It also has no impact on the world around it. The church used to be a beacon of light to the lost. Now they just reflect the religious fads and trends of the day.

Changing the gender of God in the Bible is an admission that the Word of God is full of errors. Scripture contains approximately 170 references to God as the “Father.” By necessity, one cannot be a father unless one is male. The New Testament Epistles (from Acts to Revelation) also contain nearly 900 verses where the word theos—a masculine noun in the Greek—is used in direct reference to God.

It is blasphemy on the highest level for the Church of England’s General Synod and the Archbishops’ Council to think that they can simply vote to change the Holy word of God. The Bible itself warns that you can’t make edits to the word God. If you do, you’re on your way to hell (Rev 22:18-19).

I’m sure the writers of the four gospels and Paul the apostle would be very surprised to find that 2,000 years later, a church body decided that God’s gender was wrong all this time. With the church age rapidly coming to a close, the leaders of the Church of England will soon find themselves face to face with a Being that reflects his image as He originally intended.

Genesis 1:26-27 says, “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

–Todd


This Rapture Generation

My commentary title this week will likely be construed by some as audacious. “This Rapture Generation” implies that people of earth alive now are those who will, without doubt, be the generation of believers who go to Christ in the Rapture, doesn’t it?

Those who have named specific dates for that stupendous event have earned consternation down through the years, and deservedly so. Jesus Himself declared that no one but the Father knows the day or hour when it will occur. And certainly, to date, that truth has played out exactly as the Son of God—who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life—said.

Yet, at the same time, the Apostle Paul implied himself to be part of the generation that would be raptured:

“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words” (1 Thessalonians 4:15-18).

Paul obviously expected to be part of those who would be living when Christ calls believers to Himself in the Rapture. The pronouns used are pretty clear, aren’t they? Yet Paul has been dead for 2,000 years or so, and the Rapture is still future, as we are all too aware.

So is God’s Word (the “Word” who, in fact, is the Lord Jesus Christ, according to John 1:1) less than truthful with us through the prophecy given Paul regarding the Rapture? We know the answer to that is a resounding “no. God cannot lie; therefore, we are to think through Paul’s words with our born-again, Holy Spirit-influenced discernment to understand the apparently audacious statement. Paul’s declaration was as audacious as my title for this commentary, I think.

So, what is this seeming contradiction all about?

The answer, I believe, is found in another familiar statement by Paul, one we use frequently in studying the Rapture.

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13).

I believe that wrapped up in this profound statement of faith is an instruction to all believers. During this Age of Grace (Church Age), we’re always to be earnestly expecting Jesus to snatch us from this fallen sphere at any moment. This instruction—this commandment—has been in effect since the Church was born (as presented in Acts chapter 2). Every believer since that time should treat the promise of the Rapture as if it absolutely will take place while we are still living on earth.

As a matter of fact, all who love the prospect of Christ’s appearing are promised a crown of righteousness.

With this in mind, the title, “This Rapture Generation,” is appropriate for those of us who are believers now. Jesus will come for us in the Rapture at any moment—perhaps today!

I hope to go much deeper in expressing this certainty. And we do go deeper with each and every article presented. At least, that is our aim.

The signals are brilliantly projected for those with discerning spirits to understand. Our Lord is unfolding prophetic signals of such unmistakable significance that we would have to look in another direction to miss just how near we are to the Tribulation. The Rapture is thus right at the exit door of human history for believers in Jesus Christ.

Sadly, most who should be helping God’s children focus on the lateness of the hour continue to feed only pabulum about how to grow into Christian adulthood.

Such spiritual food isn’t bad, of course. The Scripture is necessary to spiritual growth. But there comes the time that requires us to take a deep look into just how late the hour is on God’s prophetic timeline. We are now very near that instant of Rapture about which we’re forewarning.

This is almost certainly the Rapture generation, and I cannot feel sheepish in declaring it.

Tell everyone you know, using your own words, the soul-saving truth encompassed by Paul’s Holy Spirit-given formula for going in the Rapture when Christ calls:

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).

–Terry