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There has much buzz among prophecy watchers concerning the upcoming UN SDG Summit this September in New York. According to the UN’s own website, “It will mark the beginning of a new phase of accelerated progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals with high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions leading up to 2030.”

In 2015, most countries’ leaders (including Israel) agreed to 17 SDGs to adopt by 2030 to tackle poverty, violent conflict, human rights abuses, climate change, and environmental degradation. We are at halftime, and the UN General Assembly is not happy with the progress thus far. Perhaps September will be a halftime pep talk to ensure they get the ball over the goal line before the clock runs out. The UN will be asking Heads of State and Government to recommit 7 years now of accelerated action to deliver on their promises of 2015 for 2030.

The mention of 7 years gets my spidey senses tingling when mentioned in the same breath as some global initiative, as it should yours if you are also watching for a 7-year covenant, as presented in Daniel 9:27.

“He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him” (NIV).

I’ve always found it curious that Daniel mentioned a covenant specifically set for 7 years. Many prophecy teachers will just explain that possibly this covenant, which “he” (anti-Christ) will confirm (or strengthen), won’t have a number of years attached to it but will end up being 7 years when Jesus returns after its confirmation. But for this instance of the September Summit, the UN is asking (or really requiring) that the nations commit to 7 years of accelerated action, as mentioned previously. And you know the US is on board.

We don’t know what will come out of this summit, but perhaps a treaty or covenant of some sort will result! Then it would just take the “he” who may be waiting in the shadows to “confirm or strengthen” this so-called covenant. Wow! Could this be the year Christians have been waiting for?! Time will tell. It truly seems that this will be an opportunity for a swing for the fence.

I view the Abraham Accords instigated by #45 in 2020, signed by Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Morocco, and Israel, to also be a swing for the fence. Well, it turned out to be an automatic “swing and a miss” since 4 is not “many,” as required by Daniel’s prophecy of 9:27. The Church is still here, and the seals of Revelation have not been opened, but at least it was a swing! This UN swing definitely has some teeth to it since it involves all nations, basically, and there is a 7-year tag to it.

Now for the crux of this article. I want to suppose that this is the year that the tribulation of Revelation begins. This article is not about the Rapture. Christians may argue about the validity or the timing of it. I know both from what the Bible says and am at peace with it and so looking forward to it. What I want to do here is look at a possible date for the start of the tribulation.

The Bible does not say that people won’t know the day or the hour of Jesus’ 2nd coming. It can be calculated to the exact day from when the covenant is signed. We’ve already reviewed it in Daniel 9:27. It’s 7 years! Prophecy students and teachers understand that 1 year in the Bible is a lunar year, meaning it equals 360 days, not the 365 days of a solar year. The Hebrew calendar is based on lunar years. You can go down the rabbit hole yourself some time to study it if you are not aware. Therefore, the total amount of days between the signing of a future covenant and the return to earth of our Savior is 2,520. This is split into halves in Revelation, listed as 1,260 days or 42 months or time, times and ½ a time in Daniel. I will come back to this.

Something that many Christians may not be aware of the significance of is the 7 ‘designated times of Adonai’ or the Festivals of the Lord. The timing of these is clearly provided in Leviticus 23. We know them as Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Yom-Kippur (or Day of Atonement), and Tabernacles. I encourage you to study the timing of these, described in Leviticus 23 versus the events of Jesus’ last days on earth, including Pentecost. You will discover that the Lord fulfilled the first 4 Festivals on the actual days given to the Israelites in succession – boom, boom, boom, boom!

Please don’t take my word for it – study it for yourselves. Because this is key to how I’ve come to an interesting proposal – for the beginning of the tribulation, not the Rapture. I see the convergence of all the end of days signs provided by the prophets, including Jesus, the greatest prophet. With this in mind and an upcoming swing for the fence by the UN, shouldn’t we be excitedly anticipating the things of the end? Christians should!

“When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near” Luke 21:28 NIV).

I mentioned the Festivals of the Lord as a possible key to the timing of the return of Jesus and the start of the tribulation. I say this because it would seem logical that Jesus will return to Israel, picking up where He left off, meaning He will come back to earth at the Feast of Trumpets (again, not the Rapture). He will deliver the Jews from the oppression of the anti-Christ (and the nations) when He returns, and they will believe he is their Messiah.

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son” (Zechariah 12:10 NIV).

If Jesus returns on the Feast of Trumpets and fulfills the remaining 3 Feasts, it will be boom, boom, bang!

But I can only surmise. It’s what I do. I can’t wait to be with Jesus, so I look for rays of light in the clouds of darkness, lol. Please do not set your hopes on what I’m about to show. I do it in the spirit of standing up and lifting up my head as we are commanded to do. So here goes.

I’ve looked into the schedule of the 2030 Festivals days, and I found that the Feast of Trumpets falls on September 28th, the 1st day of Tishrei, 2030, or Hebrew Year of 5791. The calendar day begins at sundown the day before when 3 stars are visible in the sky. If it’s cloudy and stars aren’t seen, the 1st day of Tishrei falls to the next night. I say this because there is some wiggle room as to when the Feast begins (within a day or 2). When I back-calculate 2,520 days, as mentioned previously, I come to 11/4/23, give a day or 2. Will a UN covenant be confirmed by “he” on this date? At least now you can understand why there is much buzz concerning a UN Summit this September requiring a 7-year effort by the nations to meet the 17 SDGs by 2030 committed to in 2015.

When will another 7-year effort come around with global implications for another swing for the fence? God knows. He could do a reset with the UN (really Satan’s) goal of 2030 Global Governance tomorrow. I’m just looking at what’s before us today.

“But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober” (1 Thes 5:4-6).

Maranatha!

Jeff Hauck

jeffreyjhauck@yahoo.com

The Worst President in American History

It is quickly becoming obvious that Joe Biden is the worst Chief Executive we’ve ever had in the White House. The forces backing him have to be insanely evil and determined because a normal person would have long walked away from this mess.

The Biden family is completely corrupt. Everything Biden touches turns to trash — the economy, the failed banks, inflation, the ruined Mexican border, and the killer drugs. Biden’s thugs in the FBI, D.O.J., and New York have taken to arresting his political opponents. The modern Democrat party is turning America into a Banana Republic police state.

The most scary part is not that Biden has clear signs of dementia. Nobody in authority is willing to step in and resolve this problem. Joe Biden wandered around lost on stage at July 4th celebrations after barely slurring his way through a teleprompter speech.

“I don’t, man! I want to say hi to him!” Biden blathered, adding, “You’re trying to get me off stage! You’re afraid I’m gonna start singing!”

When a bag of cocaine was found at the White House, the story was not covered by the four major nightly news shows. If this discovery had occurred during the Trump administration, they would have broken into regular programming. Biden was asked questions about the cocaine, but he just ignored them because he knows he was not accountable.

Joe Biden’s mantra has always been that ‘the absolute most important thing is your family.’ It is the heart of his political narrative. Biden’s White House has been instructed not to acknowledge Hunter’s illegitimate daughter, which is why Biden has stated several times that he only has six grandchildren.

Milking family tragedies for political gain has long been his stock in trade. The moral tragedy of his son’s doing should be an opportunity to show how he really cares about family. His treatment of his granddaughter Navy just shows his true callous nature.

Up until now, the worst president in history was Jimmy Carter. He had the lowest poll numbers of any president since Harry Truman. Carter is the only Chief Executive to reach an approval rate that was in the 20s. Carter’s ratings wildly moved around. By the start of Carter’s four years, his approval rate had recovered to 57%. He left office with his ratings near his all-time low.

The approval rates for Biden have been in a steady decline the whole time he has been in office. He started out at 55%, and his rating quickly declined in the lower 40% range. The fourth year typically is the worst year for a president, but Biden may soon take out Carter’s record low.

James Howard Kunstler is a type of political writer who does not suffer fools gladly. At times, he is a harsh critic of both Republicans and Democrats. With most of the liberal media unwilling to say anything negative about Biden, it was refreshing for me to run across some of Kunstler’s remarks about the man:

Consider for a moment and be grateful for how perfect “Joe Biden” is as president of this foundering republic. He and his family project the rectified essence of every depravity now driving the life of our nation to some murky bottom, where it may be forced to assess its sorry state, repent, and perhaps recover (or just give up and die). There he stands, without ambiguity or conscience: “Joe Biden,” the personification of a failed state.

What we’re witnessing is an order of magnitude greater than Greek tragedy: the implacable drive to destroy not just the father, who happens (by the sheerest electoral subterfuge) to be president, but to take down the nation with him. And it’s working. The Biden family is crashing into smoldering wreckage, and so is the USA — as acted out in the sad-sack nation of Ukraine, a festering hub of Biden family moneygrubbing going back more than a decade, now being needlessly sacrificed as part of a massive criminal cover-up, with America’s geopolitical prestige on-the-line.

I know, the complexity of this melodrama is overwhelming. How can one bumbling political idiot wreak so much havoc? It’s a wonder, all right. But it’s all playing out before us in real time. “Joe Biden” — who (let’s face it) is only partly there.

If you have ever wondered how the American people could be so foolish to elect a man like Biden, you can credit God for this decision. The Lord gives a nation the leadership it deserves. Having a president that doesn’t know where he is half the time is a clear sign that God is very unhappy with our nation. I hope Jesus comes for the Church before the 2024 election. Since Trump will likely be the Republican Candidate, I greatly regret having to vote for him a third time. Trump is a deeply flawed person, but he is ten times better than someone like Biden.

“If you will fear the LORD and serve Him, and listen to His voice and not rebel against the command of the LORD, then both you and also the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God” (I Samuel 12:14).

–Todd

Restraint, Derision, and Reprobate Minds

In looking at the surface of evil in the world taking place, the conclusion often reached is that this world is out of control. And one can’t be faulted for such a view of world conditions.

When we see such things as young children being considered legal/legitimate fodder for sexual predators (now called Minor Attracted Persons instead of by the pedophile designation), things look out of control – totally out of control.

When you see one of the two major political parties championing those who push agendas such as those like the MAP advocates embrace, what other conclusion can be drawn by those of sound mind other than that this world is going or has already gone insane?

Without meaning to get political, in the sense of promoting one political party over another, we remember a biblically pronounced end to such turning of the back on the God of Heaven.

We can recall during a convention of a decade or so ago when a person asked the Democrat Convention attendees whether God should be mentioned within the proceedings; the loud and definite answer by all in attendance was a resounding NO! There was left no doubt whatsoever that they wanted any mention of God left out of proceedings.

As mentioned numerous times in these commentaries, here again is what God says about those who turn their backs on Him. And the same results/judgment is true whether applied to groups or to individuals.

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient” (Romans 1:28).

Again, not intending to stray far into politics, the facts of what I observe through the prism of God’s Prophetic Word must be interjected here. Anyone truly being honest in reflecting upon what they observe as they watch this presidential administration surely has questions like those in my mind. How is it that we have reached such a place in this once soundly thinking nation that the top three people in the presidential administration are seemingly without the ability to demonstrate cognitive function in a normal fashion?

These — the president, the vice president, and the press spokesperson — have actually become almost a laughing stock to observers not in their political party, within their leftist ideology, or within the mainstream media – which, mentioning in the same breath, is perhaps being redundant. Their mental acuity is, it seems to me, inadequate to the challenge in addressing legitimate issues on the national and international scene.

These are avid adherents of the platform presented by the political party, which verbally shouted God out of their midst.

Of course, kicking God out of anything isn’t possible with the Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent God of Heaven. And to that end, He continues to have that anti-God party in derision, just as indicated He will do to anyone against Him in the following.

“The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, ‘Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.’ He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision” (Psalms 2:2-4).

A careful dissection of things going on over the past recent years shows time after time that the Lord has intervened to slow down the minions, both demonic and human, of Ephesians 6: 12 in their effort to hurry the bringing of Antichrist to the end-times world stage.

One of the signals that the Restrainer was involved in the American political process is illustrated, I believe, by the following observation by one prophetic writer.

Apparently, the evil forces behind these arenas of the falling away believe that as long as America stands, their cause will not climax in victory. Thus, we see a concentrated effort to bring America down to an entity without sovereignty.

One cannot deny the true meaning of that statement muttered by President Obama at the annual DC Correspondents’ Dinner on April 30, 2016: “The end of the Republic has never looked better!” He was so caught up with anticipation that Hillary Clinton would be the winner of the 2016 presidential election that he could not contain himself. Thus, the goal of destroying the United States from her perch at the top of the nations is Satan’s plan in his drive to pose as God in the place of the God of the universe…

Topple the United States, and the whole world will go down. Why? America is the only nation which allows its citizens the freedom of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as individual rights coming from God, not the state. That arrangement just cannot be allowed by those who envision a New World Order and a one-world government where no such freedom is planned-except for the elite. – Source: Is the Real Restrainer Now Restraining? By Gene Lawley, 6/11,2019

The Lord Intervened in that 2016 presidential election in ways that drove those thinking they had things that would “fundamentally transform America” insane and spewing forth every sort of vitriol against the candidate who won that election. And the insanity continues to this moment, as indeed, the anti-America as founded forces seem to be making significant headway in their drive to fundamentally change this nation.

Despite the growing wickedness that certainly must make this like the days of Lot in Sodom in the Holy Eyes of God, His Judgment and Wrath continue to build, reserved for that Promised twinkling of an eye Moment –The Glorious fraction of a second when Christ Calls the Church –all born-again believers—to Himself.

Here is how to be part of that Call so that you can, along with all Saints of this Age of Grace, have Joy in the Heavenly Father’s Presence Forever.

“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

Set the Date :: By Jeff Hauck

17 Jul 2023