The following article was originally published in May of 2024.  The speculations that were offered were not based on extra-biblical sources; they were based on two principles (New updates will be separated by a line across the page) :

Prognostications for the Last Days of the Church Age :: By The Gospelist – Rapture Ready

1. An accurate understanding of eschatology,
2. A theoretical timeframe of when the prophetic events of the Bible should occur. This timeline is based on the following:

3960 BC: Creation

33 AD: Church Age begins

2033 AD: Church Age concludes

2040 AD: Christ’s Second Advent

The above math was not difficult to calculate.  All you need is a general idea of when the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples (33 AD), assume a 2,000-year church age, account for a seven-year tribulation, then subtract 6,000 years to arrive at the date of the creation.

Once you have the timeline, all that is necessary is to insert all future prophecies into it in chronological order.

Paul informed us that we would not be in darkness when the Day of the Lord was upon us (I Thessalonians 5:1-6).  I have been on this earth for well over sixty years, and none of what we are seeing is remotely normal.  When people can no longer figure out that there are only two sexes, that is a clear sign that we are already deep into God’s judgment against the world.

It is hard to deny that this Day is close.

One of the commands of the Lord is for God’s people to “keep watch.”  If we see something suspicious, we should alert the church to our suspicions.  If it is a false alarm, we are still following Christ’s mandate to stay alert for his return.

The fact that all the signs of Christ’s imminent return are coming together as we approach the two-thousandth year of the church age is suspicious.

If this theory is correct, then we should be seeing the signs and prophecies of Christ’s soon return coming together over the next several years.

For those who may not understand how theories work, a theory is published and is reviewed by the public.  Some may build on the theory while others will attempt to debunk it.

In the end, reality will determine if this theory is correct or not.

Finally, the purpose of these prognostications is to provide an outline of the things that should occur if we are close to the rapture of the church.  It is designed to keep us Scripture-focused and comforted as things become increasingly horrifying.  These prognostications should also motivate us to share the Gospel with greater vigor.

To summarize some of the prognostications that I believed must happen in order for everything to progress as theorized (that I laid out in my article in May of 2024) were:

(1) The various attempts to destroy President Trump will fail.

(2) Trump will be elected President.

(3) Trump will be elected overwhelmingly, which will render Democrats incapable of cheating.

(4) Trump will take office with little resistance from the corrupt Democrats.

(5) Trump’s election will result in greater freedom for what is left of the church to spread the Gospel.

(6) The evil Globalists will work to upend Trump’s agenda every step of the way (they have used many of our corrupt judges who have determined that any policy that benefits the people of this country is unconstitutional).

(7) The left will experience temporary widespread unpopularity.

(8) Censorship will be temporarily reduced (ex. Facebook appointed free speech advocates to serve on their board; YouTube is allowing more material through).

(9) Trump will resist the UN and its attempts at creating a corrupt, worldwide government, which will likely cause it to relocate due to lack of support.

(10) The Obama-appointed swamp rats in the federal government will go into hiding and operate behind the scenes.

(11) President Trump will set back the plans of the evil Globalists for a short time by ending the corruption of the Godless Democrats who are their lackeys.

(12) The Democrats will want revenge for losing power and will persecute viciously those who denied that to them if/when they return to power in 2029.

Donald Trump had to win the presidency because, had Kamala won, we would have been plunged into hyperinflation before the appointed time (which is estimated around 2033-2034).  Things are going on normally just prior to the rapture, so someone had to right the U.S. ship economically.

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The next projections, in my opinion, for 2026 and beyond are:

(1) The number of churches that preach the Gospel will continue to dwindle, which will lead to the takeover of a totalitarian form of government. Our last great preacher of God’s word, John MacArthur, has passed, and the number of pastors who preach the Gospel is shrinking. The State of Colorado is now led by Marxist totalitarian perverts, and our largest city, New York, has been taken over by a Marxist Muslim.

Many of our largest states, such as California, Minnesota, and New Jersey, have been taken as well.  The evil of Marxist Islamism, which has taken Europe, is slowly overtaking the USA as the Holy Spirit continues to withdraw his hand of protection. (Note: the people of Europe are starting to push back, but they are going to find out that communists do not give up power willingly.)

(2) The Holy Spirit is slowly removing His restraining influence over the world, and even with great leadership in government, we are descending into violence and sexual perversion. This is occurring in conjunction with the ever-decreasing number of churches that preach the Gospel.  When the Holy Spirit withdraws, the number of reprobates (who vote) increases.  The government will not be able to stop this decline.

(3) Once President Trump steps down in 2029 and a Democrat takes over, our reprieve from evil and persecution will be over.

(4) Although the Republicans will likely win the mid-term elections significantly and keep the House and the Senate, which will allow Trump to create great prosperity, this affluence will lead to complacency for the next election and allow the Democrats to retake power. Faithlessness always follows great prosperity. The evil Globalists and their Democrats will quickly move to create policies to steal the wealth that was created under Trump and use it to empower themselves while subjugating the people.

(5) When the murderous Democrats win the 2028 presidential election, the U.S. Constitution will be useless when they take power. As Dan Bongino likes to say, “People are Policy.” The Democrats had a series of “No Kings” protests, which signaled their intention once they return to power.  They intend to install the next Democrat president as king.

(6) The 2028 presidential election will be the last free election in this country. By 2032, the winner of the 2028 election, who will likely be Gavin Newsom, will wield dictatorial power like a king. Newsome is the likely nominee of the Democrat Party because he has no conscience, lies pathologically, and has demonstrated outrageous destructive power.

(7) The Marxists and the Muslims will have unrestrained power by 2030 after a Democrat is elected in 2029. The severe persecution of Christians in this country will move into high gear once their people are in place. The evil that will result in this chaos is building now.

(8) Lawlessness will increase in 2029 as law enforcement worldwide will no longer punish real crimes. The Democrats will turn law enforcement on its head and punish those who violate the tenets of social justice (which is happening in Europe now). They will not punish crimes that violate God’s law, like murder, rape, and theft; they will punish those whom they call ‘racists,’ ‘Zionists,’ ‘homophobes,’ ‘Islamophobes,’ and ‘climate deniers.’

(9) The Marxist Muslim Mamdani, the incompetent puppet mayor of NY, will cause the evacuation of NY by productive citizens. The UN, which is becoming increasingly irrelevant, will follow by the end of 2026 or take another form and reemerge in Babylon (this prediction is looking a little iffy for 2026).

(10) Babylon, Iraq, is still moving forward with its desire to control the hub of world trade. The Iran war should accelerate this. It should become a major player on the world stage by 2033.  If the Democrats lose the midterm elections and are unable to stop President Trump, the evil Globalists will begin to look for a competitor to the U.S.  China is too unreliable, so Satan will begin preparing Babylon for world domination in 2027.

(11) Evil and injustice will proliferate throughout the nation beginning in 2029. Christians will be censored, and the Vatican, which controls the Roman Catholic Church, has already conformed to the agenda of the evil Globalists and will become the dominant ‘church.’ Most Protestant churches (Laodicean) will fall in line with the RCC and will be populated with false teachers who preach social justice instead of the Gospel.

(12) Pope Leo XIV has demonstrated that he is on board with the agenda of the evil Globalists. It is possible he will be the false prophet of Revelation, but he has not shown that level of competence yet. Unless he is inhabited by a demon soon, or gets better at deception, he will be removed, and the real False Prophet will be installed.  Currently, Pope Leo’s main role seems to be to assist America in conforming to the Globalists’ agenda.

(13) The Roman Catholic Church will be the dominant church in the West by 2030. Those Catholics who resist their destructive doctrines will be excommunicated from this abomination and become targets of the government. The RCC will be in bed with the Islamists and the evil Globalists.

(14) The Globalists who have purchased a legion of Marxist and Muslim lackeys will wield unchecked power over the world. They will begin setting up their system to control global commerce so no one can buy or sell without their permission. This system will be fully operational by 2037.

(15) ‘Woke’ returns on steroids in 2029, as the Days of Noah (extreme violence) and Lot (extreme Sexual perversion) grow increasingly worse. America will be overrun by third-world savages, and the nation will never be restored to its former glory.

(16) The great falling away from the faith begins in earnest by 2030.

(17) The mocking of Christians, especially dispensationalists, will grow even worse as true Christians will be ridiculed around the world.

(18) Censorship, especially of the Gospel, will be in full force by 2030.

(19) The nation of Israel begins reinstituting the Mosaic law by 2030 amidst the social confusion. Israel’s construction of the third temple should begin around this time.

(20) America begins losing most of its influence and economic prosperity to Babylon by 2032. The nations of the earth are already turning away from the U.S. and have shown a preference for the wicked government of China (the Globalists’ template). All remnants of the West, otherwise known as Christendom, will soon be swept away.

(21) The ten kings, who will rise out of political chaos, will be identifiable by 2032,

(22) The rapture occurs before summer 2033, when the full number of Gentiles will have come in.

We should begin to see most of the prophecies coming together between 2030 to 2033 to the point that, for those who are watching, it is undeniable.

The evil Globalists will be able to control all information by this time, and those who are of the world will accept any narrative they put out.  It will be very easy to deceive a nation and a world that is weak in faith.

If this theory is correct, the church has very little time to share the Gospel and call sinners to repent.

If this theory is incorrect, the worst thing that happened should be that we shared the Gospel with greater vigor.

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Greetings everyone.

This morning I saw the title of a video on YouTube that caught my attention.  It was called, “Ancient Hebrew Sources Reveal the Rapture | Ken Johnson | Rapture in the Rockies Preview.”

Well, of course, that did rouse my curiosity, so I watched most of it.  The general gist was that the presenter – Ken Johnson – was saying that the Hebrew sources of these Thessalonians verses under here should be rendered a bit differently from what we know because of the discovery of a Hebrew New Testament quite recently.  He was saying that the text was sound, just the translation was a bit different.

Here are the verses that are considered –

2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 “You know what restrains him now, so that in his time he may be revealed, for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work.  Only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way” (NASB).

Ken Johnson is talking about who or what the restrainer is.  He was giving a preview on that YouTube video for this big Conference called “Rapture in the Rockies,” which will be held in Colorado Springs sometime in the future.  It will consider the Rapture from Hebrew sources.  It is being run by “Prophecy Watchers.”

This speaker talks about a Hebrew New Testament that has recently been discovered.  That Hebrew New Testament talks about the Church being the restrainer.  He claims that “In the Hebrew, it comes out clearly in translation, and the pronoun can be only he, she, it.  The Hebrew comes out clearer.  We, the restrainer, will continue to restrain until we are taken out of the midst.  So that’s like a pre-trib rapture.”

That was a very brief coverage of what he was saying.  Firstly, I have heard nothing of a recently discovered Hebrew New Testament.  Secondly, there seems to be a multitude of YouTube channels and Internet sites springing up every week, nearly all of them American.  I am not able to keep up with them.  They are talking about prophecy, and many are flashy in appearance.  I would be cautious about a lot of them.

Thirdly, I have never heard of “Prophecy Watchers” or Ken Johnson until this channel appeared on YouTube today.  Prophecy Watchers has a lot of videos.  I do not know if it is a cult or a legitimate site.  I am not aware of so many of these organizations in the United States; that is not my home, as you would know if you are a regular reader.

I do want to know about these things, and if you are familiar with Prophecy Watchers, could you kindly let me know?  I wish to be informed if I am asked questions, which does happen.

[Editor’s Note: Prophecy Watchers is a well-known and respected Christian website.]

Also, have any of you students heard about this Hebrew New Testament?

His suggestion was that the translation is, “Only we who now restrain will do so until we are taken out of the way,” that coming from the Hebrew New Testament he mentioned.  He seems to be a supporter of a pre-Tribulation Rapture, and that is one of the proofs he uses.

This was presented as proof of the Rapture, the “we” being the Church.

[Editor’s Note: It’s a Greek manuscript. This just appeared in the news within the past few weeks. These Glasgow researchers claim to have figured out how to see what was originally on the pages that had been reused. Considering how many times words on these pages had been written and then somehow erased, I don’t know how the researchers could know for sure that the word he should be we in a scripture passage.]

NOW I WANT TO SHARE MY THOUGHTS

It would be wrong to claim the Church is the restrainer in this world.  The church has become impotent, full of error and deceit.  It is the mutant mustard tree harbouring all sorts of evils in its branches.  It is the leaven of wickedness that has corrupted itself.

Of course, contained in that profession is the true Church.  The true Church has the Holy Spirit, and it is He who is the Restrainer – 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 “the mystery of lawlessness is already at work.  ONLY HE WHO NOW RESTRAINS WILL DO SO UNTIL HE IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY, and then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming.”

No individual or organization (The Church included) is capable of holding back evil or Satan’s full revelation, which will happen in the man of lawlessness, EXCEPT the Holy Spirit.  We will not be here when this man of lawlessness is revealed, but the full-blown wickedness is straining at the doors of this world today.  You and I, as part of the Church, cannot hold back the onslaught of wickedness.  The Holy Spirit in the Church can and does, but we, the people, can’t do that.

“It is self-evident that that which restraineth must be a power superior to man and Satan and of a nature totally different from the man of sin.  The restraining one is a power and a person.  It is the Holy Spirit of God.” – Arno C Gaebelein

Therefore, I believe that the Restrainer can only be the Holy Spirit and nothing/nobody else.

Barnes mentions that the belief among the primitive Christians was that what hindered the rise of the man of sin was the Roman empire, and therefore “they prayed for its peace and welfare, as knowing that when the Roman empire should be dissolved and broken in pieces, the empire of the man of sin would be raised on its ruins.”

Heinsius finds the thought expressed: “what was only begun in the time of Nero, Antichrist will at a later period bring to a conclusion.”

When we try to examine something prophetic, we can only make assumptions based on our own slot in world history.  We do that now and relate technology to the possible activity of Antichrist, plus the extraordinary happenings in Israel.  We interpret (surmise) according to our own historic period.  The same rang true for great men of the past, and I want to quote Matthew Henry, that well-known commentator:

October 18, 1662, to June 22, 1714.  He lived in the time of the great upheavals in Christianity and was familiar with the terrors and persecution by the Roman Catholic Church.  He also lived in the time of the Counter-Reformation – generally dated from the Council of Trent, which began in 1545, to around 1700 – which was Rome’s cruel response to the Reformation.  This is what he wrote on 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8:

“This passage exactly agrees with the system of popery, as it prevails in the Romish church, and under the Romish popes.  But though the son of perdition has been revealed, though he has opposed and exalted himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; and has spoken and acted as if he were a god upon earth, and has proclaimed his insolent pride, and supported his delusions, by lying miracles and all kinds of frauds; still the Lord has not yet fully destroyed him with the brightness of his coming; that and other prophecies remain to be fulfilled before the end shall come.” — Matthew Henry

These men understood that many antichrists had come and that wickedness opposes the truth, but they understood that THE Antichrist was to come in the future.

Antichrist most certainly will come, a satanically empowered man, probably (I feel) from the political structure of Europe, or the UN, or the WHO, or the WEF.

Vincent’s Word Studies – “The mystery of lawlessness is the mass of lawlessness yet hidden, but which is to reveal itself in the person and power of Antichrist.  The position of the word is emphatic, emphasizing the concealed character of the evil power.” [end of quote]

Yes, his identification is concealed, and will not be known until after the Rapture, but along with so many writers and readers of Rapture Ready, I believe this one must be alive today.

The events of the Middle East, and the continual war that Israel is engaged in, cannot be solved by anyone in power today, but will be by a brilliant mastermind who draws up the 7-year covenant of peace with Israel.  Everything is ready, and that is why I believe the Rapture is close.

From Dean Alford – (Verse 7). Lün. only until he that now hinders (ὁ κατέχων is placed before ἕως for emphasis, as in ref. Gal., μόνον τῶν πτωχῶν ἵνα μνημονεύωμεν) be removed (the phrase is used of any person or thing which is taken out of the way, whether by death or other removal.

(Verse 8).  and then (when he that hinders shall have been removed: the emphasis is on τότε) shall be revealed the lawless one (the same as the αὐτόν of ver. 6: viz. the ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἁμαρτίας), whom (by this relative clause is introduced his ultimate fate at the coming of the Lord.  To this the Apostle is carried on by the fervency of his spirit, and has to return again below to describe the working of Antichrist previously) the Lord Jesus will destroy by the breath of His mouth. – Dean Alford

The bold type above is my emphasis.  The hindrance (The Church) will be removed, AND ONLY THEN shall be revealed the lawless one.  I just cannot understand why the Christian world cannot see that, nor does it show any interest in knowing about it.  Sometimes I get mail from readers of Rapture Ready trying to argue with me for a post-Tribulation view.  How can people get it so wrong?

I will let my favorite commentator finish this discussion.  When in my teens and since then, the writings of Arno C Gaebelein have instructed me more than any other (except the Lord, of course).

ACG – When the apostle was with them he had spoken to them about those things.  “The mystery of lawlessness (not iniquity) already worketh,” he informed the Thessalonians.  Sin is lawlessness, and that has been at work from the beginning, man having forsaken God and exalted himself in self-will.  This works on until it works out into open lawlessness in an out-and-out opposition to God and His Son, culminating in the man of sin, the false Christ, “to give the world its long-sought liberty from divine restraint and bring its vaunted progress to perfection, which under Christianity, it has found impossible to attain.”  The mystery of lawlessness will cease to be a mystery when the lawless one, the man of sin, is manifested.  But what keeps back the manifestation of this lawless one?  Who or what is it that restrains it?  Who is to be taken out of the way before the lawless one can be revealed?  Many answers have been given to this question which we do not need to investigate.

“The Holy Ghost was here below; the Church, be its condition what it might, was still on earth, and God maintained the barrier.  And as the porter had opened the door to Jesus in spite of all obstacles, so He sustains everything, however great the energy and progress of evil.  The evil is bridled: God is the source of authority on earth. 

There is one who hinders until he be taken out of the way.  Now, when the Church (the Church, that is, as composed of the true members of Christ) is gone, and consequently the Holy Ghost as the Comforter is no longer dwelling here below, then the apostasy takes place, the time to remove the hindrance is come, the evil is unbridled, and at length (without saying how much time it will take) the evil assumes a definite shape in him who is its head.  The beast comes up from the abyss. Satan – not God – gives him his authority; and in the second beast all the energy of Satan is present.  The man of sin is there” (Synopsis of the Bible).

When the Church leaves the earth then this restraining power and person, who dwells in the Church and therefore is here on earth, will be taken out of the way.  As the result, in due time, the lawless one will be revealed.  The Holy Spirit, who came down from heaven on the day of Pentecost to form the Church, the body of Christ, will be withdrawn when that body is complete and taken to glory to be joined to the Head, the Lord Jesus Christ.  The light being gone, gross darkness will settle upon the nations, the apostasy will be here, the enemy comes in like a flood and the lawless one appears. 

Here we have the best evidence that the true Church cannot be on the earth during the final years with which this age closes.  No true believer will be in the final apostasy under the lawless one, nor will the Church pass through the great Tribulation.  How this should fill our hearts with holy joy and our lips with praises!

Before he speaks of the lawless one with his lying wonders, he tells us at once of his fate. The Lord Jesus, in His visible manifestation, will consume him with the breath of his mouth and annul him with the brightness of His coming (Isaiah 11:1-5 and Revelation 19:11-21).

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