21 Jun 2021

HEED THE WARNINGS!

Warning: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Gal 6:7).

LATTER DAYS APOSTASY AND DOCTRINES OF DEMONS (1 TIMOTHY 4:1)

American Worldview Inventory 2021 study: 43% of millennial respondents ‘don’t know, don’t care, don’t believe’ God exists. Figures weren’t good for older groups either regarding the Bible.

Gallup poll on same-sex ‘marriage’ a wake-up call to the Church. Of 1,016 responders 18 and older, 70% favor same-sex marriage – quite a rise from the first poll in 1996, which showed 27% in favor. Dr. Robert Jeffress said, “It proves the world has done a much better job of shaping the views of the Church than the Church has done in shaping the views of the world.”

LAST DAYS RETURN TO THE WICKED DAYS OF NOAH AND LOT (Luke 17:26-30)

New internet filtering service to help parents protect children from pro-abortion propaganda, porn, etc. Children are exposed to a pervasive sexual agenda online, in the media and public schools.

Over half of online recruitment in active sex trafficking cases last year occurred on Facebook, according to the Human Trafficking Institute’s 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report.

Yet more indoctrination of the children. Nickelodeon Taps Drag Queen to Teach Kids About Pride Flag. This video follows the Blues Clues gay, trans, pansexual etc., pride parade video. Nickelodeon caters to babies and preschoolers. In this latest video, the Drag Queen explains pride flag colors including additions of pink, white, light blue, black, and brown stripes. The LGBTQ and all the other letters movement is not about tolerance; it’s about forcing its agenda on everyone else and indoctrinating children, even from birth. Take a look for yourself at baby books.

Warning: “But whoso shall offend [cause to fall into sin] one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matthew 18:6).

Disney+ Hosting LGBTQ Pride Concert Aimed at Children, Starring Drag Queen Nina West. Disney+’s This Is Me: Pride Celebration Spectacular is set to stream on YouTube and Facebook on June 27, with performances of popular Disney songs that will be re-imagined with LGBTQ themes.

Warning: “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man…. Until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot…. But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” [when He returns].

Washington DC Interior Dept Celebrates Flag Day by Raising’ Progress Pride’ Flag. Interior Sec. Deb Haaland said, “Today we celebrate love. For the first time ever, the Progress Pride Flag is raised over the Interior. Happy Pride!” This is a revised version of the gay pride flag, including black and brown stripes to represent gay, lesbian, transgender, intersex people of color, and the pink and baby blue transgender flag. Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said he’s proud to have flown a version of the progress pride flag from City Hall for the last two years.

Warning: “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18).

Republican senator questioned Health and Human Services Secretary over Biden administration’s decision to use “birthing person” instead of “mother” in their $6 trillion budget.

Warning: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves [in their bodies] that recompence of their error which was meet [due]” (Romans 1:26-27).

Abortion Advocate Beats 85-Year-Old Man after stealing his pro-life sign.

Warning: “Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths…. According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies” (Isaiah 59:7, 18).

IN THE LAST DAYS: INIQUITY (LAWLESSNESS; WICKEDNESS) SHALL ABOUND

*MATTHEW 24:12 prophesies this for the tribulation, but we’re definitely seeing a foretaste (see explanation of Matthew 24 events broken down at the end of this article).

Reporter Who Broke Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Story & Received ‘Significant’ Death Threats Found Dead. This makes the mysterious Clinton-related body count anywhere from 50 to 72+.

32 People Shot, 3 Fatally in Chicago Last Weekend, 9 Shot in Just One Incident: Where’s Mayor Lori’ Crow’ Lightfoot? Just a typical weekend in Chicago.

EXPOSING LAST DAYS TRAITORS (2 TIMOTHY 3)

‘Touch The Ballots, Go to Jail’: Arizona Lawmaker Warns Biden’s Attorney General as Audit Showdown Brews. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland wants to interfere with the 2020 post-election audit; is Garland worried the truth will come out? State Rep. Rogers warned Garland, “You will not touch Arizona ballots or machines unless you want to spend time in an Arizona prison.”

After-Inflation Earnings of Americans Have Declined in Every Month of Biden Presidency. Real earnings fell for 5th consecutive month in May as inflation erased all the month’s wage gains and more.

Silence On Hunter Biden’s Racial Slurs Speaks Volumes on Media Hypocrisy. Hunter used the n-word on multiple occasions in text messages. Mainstream media is silent, as they are on Biden’s other corrupt dealings. But they post a 2,500-word article rebuking a high schooler’s use of the word.

Greed and Stupidity: Outsourcing Everything [to China mainly] Has Come Back to Bite the U.S. We now have a shortage of computer chips needed for vehicles, for trucks that transport goods, for farm equipment that produces food, for sophisticated equipment in hospitals, and for electronic devices that connect to the Internet. 60% of our apple juice comes from China. Salmon caught in the U.S. is shipped to China for processing, then shipped back to the U.S. for consumption. How ridiculous! Outsourcing has caused extreme imbalances that threaten to cause immense damage in the months ahead, and they won’t be solved any time soon.

Influential “Atlantic Council” Partnered with Flagged Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Group. The Atlantic Council is an American Atlanticist think tank in the field of international affairs.

U.S. State Dept tweet compliments Shi’ite Muslim [supposed] charity. Cozying up to Iran? Al-Khoei Foundation [linked to Iran] describes itself as an international, religious, charitable institution. Such organizations have been accused of “forming a potential terrorist platform on European Soil.”

Democrat Party Enhances Nazi Propaganda Techniques. After Hillary’s defeat, the Democrat Party aimed to destroy the Trump Presidency. The Party now spreads a political ideology that represents a clear-and-present danger to the USA. The article shows a list of Democrat propaganda campaigns.

FLASHBACK: Pennsylvania Results Show Statistically Impossible Pattern Behind Biden’s Steal . As we know, Trump was way ahead until the Democrats resorted to their underhanded tactics.

Tucker Carlson dropped several bombshells on his show, chief among them was from a Revolver News report that the FBI was likely involved in organizing the Jan. 6 Capitol’ insurrection’ and were similarly involved in the kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Impending Death of a Once Great Nation: The United States of America

Globalist Goblins’ Agenda News: France’s Emmanuel Macron agreed with Biden at G7 Summit that “America is back” as a cooperating partner on the global stage. Macron cozied up to Biden, walking arm in arm with him, even whispering in his ear. Macron knows a gullible target when he sees one.

Mao’s Cultural Revolution Has Arrived in America. The Woke Revolution is predicated on Marxist ideology. The current “revolution” in the U.S. is being waged by the youth—at the behest of radical leftists. It’s hellbent on destroying any and all vestiges of traditional society, especially those that celebrate freedom, individualism, and American exceptionalism, in general. Customs such as standing for the National Anthem and vigorously defending one’s right to freedom of speech are long gone. And the Protestant work ethic and rugged individualism have been seriously undermined. The Woke Revolution desires to turn our society on its head.

Crisis After Crisis. The U.S. is never going to be like it once was. Too much has changed, and our culture has been radically transformed. We’re a deeply sick society, getting worse with each passing day.

They Deliberately Put a Man with Dementia in the White House

Biden’s notorious memory problems predictably emerged during G7 summit meetings in England. During one meeting, U.K. Prime Minister Johnson was forced to correct Biden as the room burst into laughter. The spectacle was just one of several Biden bungles during the summit.

Former White House physician for Obama and Trump sent a letter to Biden, demanding he submit to a cognitive test because his “mental decline and forgetfulness have become more apparent over the past eighteen months.” The letter, which was signed by over a dozen other lawmakers, including another physician and a dentist — told Biden that he should “follow the precedent set by former President Trump to document and demonstrate sound mental abilities.”

Deliberate Border Disorder

Texas has begun building wall along border. The temporary barriers will later be replaced by taller, stronger barriers. The 450 miles of border wall installed under the Trump administration was slatted steel planks 18 to 30 feet high. In May, over 180,000 attempted to cross the border illegally or were denied entry at land ports of entry, the highest number in at least 21 years.

In the Last Days: Nation [Ethnic] Shall Rise Against Nation [Ethnic] (*Matthew 24, Luke 21)

(The Marxist Divide and Conquer Agenda)

Judge halts Biden administration’s no-whites-allowed farmer debt relief program. The Biden administration is “radically undermining bedrock principles of equality under the law.”

Black woman tells State Board of Education, Critical Race Theory (CRT) “does not teach the truth.” “Our ancestors – White, Black, and others – hung, bled, and died right alongside each other to push America towards that more perfect union. If this continues, we will look back and be responsible for the dismantling of the greatest country in the world,” she said.

Black Ivy League Professor says ‘Truly Anti-Racist’ Parents Must Pull Kids from School That Teaches Leftist (aka Marxist) CRT.

A black father sounded off at a school board meeting about dangers of Critical Race Theory, saying the far-left ideology “deliberately” teaches kids “to hate each other.” He said, “How do I have two medical degrees if I’m sitting here oppressed? No mom, no dad in the house. Worked my way through college, sat there and hustled my butt off to get through college,” he continued…. Not one white person ever came to me and said, ‘Well son, you’re never gonna be able to get nowhere….”

Orwellian Society

Orwell’s ‘1984’ may ‘come to pass in 2024’ without protections against Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). Orwell’s famous novel is credited with coining the terms “Orwellian” and “Big Brother” to describe totalitarian surveillance methods and those who use them.

Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman: Artificial Intelligence Will Crush Humans; “It’s Not Even Close.”

PLAGUE, PESTILENCE (*Matthew 24, Luke 21)

A Group of Parents Sent Their Kids’ Face Masks to A Lab for Analysis. Real-world data shows masking to be entirely ineffective. Forced masking, especially long-term, has negative societal and health ramifications the powers-that-be ignore in subservience to their newfound face mask god. Six face masks were submitted for analysis. The report found five contaminated with bacteria, parasites, and fungi, including three with dangerous pathogenic and pneumonia-causing bacteria. The masks studied were new or freshly laundered before wearing for 5 to 8 hours, most during in-person schooling by children aged 6-11. One was worn by an adult. A t-shirt worn by one of the children at school and unworn masks were tested as controls. No pathogens were found on the controls.

YouTube Suspends Sen. Ron Johnson From Uploading Videos Over COVID, Hydroxychloroquine Claims.

California’s Governor Newsome said a vaccination verification system is coming ‘very shortly,’ allowing businesses to confirm that customers have the vaccine.

Police in Rural India Force Unvaccinated to Wear Skull and Crossbones Signs.

U.S. assessing reported leak at Chinese nuclear power plant after warnings of an “imminent radiological threat” by a French company that helps operate it.

EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS

Record-breaking, long-lasting heatwave grips much of western U.S. A long-lasting heatwave continues (since June 13), exacerbating the current drought situation. Over 40 million residents are under a heat advisory or excessive heat warning. At least 11 states have reported temps above 37.7 °C (100 °F).

Tropical Storm Claudette batters northern Gulf with flooding rain. It’s expected to quickly weaken this weekend, turning northeast, then east northeast over the next couple of days as it heads towards the Carolinas. There’s a chance the storm could re-intensify early next week.

Severe floods and landslides wreak havoc across Nepal’s Gandaki Province. Seven dead; 19 missing.

Significant heatwave developing throughout Europe after unusually cold spring. The heat is forecast to persist through the end of June, reaching 35 °C (95 °F) and more in some places.

Severe storms and widespread flooding in northern Spain over the past 10 days, including intense hail.

Major summer storm hits Greece with a month’s worth of rain in just 40 minutes on June 11. Affected particularly was Attica with extremely heavy rain, lightning, and hail. An intense hailstorm hit Psychiko, Agia Paraskevi, and many areas in the northern suburbs.

Unseasonal snowstorm and cold hit Iceland, prompt rescue operations.

‘Manmade’ Global Warming Hoax: Ruse for Global Governance

EPA Conveniently Makes Inconvenient Climate Data Facts Disappear, Including 1930s U.S. Dust Bowl Hottest Summers. The EPA cherry picks data that only agrees with their premise.

Warning: “Out of the south cometh the whirlwind, and cold out of the north. By the breath of God frost is given, and the breadth of the waters is straitened. Also by watering He wearieth the thick cloud; He scattereth His bright cloud, and it is turned round about by His counsels, that they may do whatsoever He commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. He causeth it to come—whether for correction, or for His land, or for mercy. ‘Hearken unto this….'”

EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES

Earthquake Series in Caribbean; New Volcanic Eruption Possible. 17 quakes struck June 12, most around western and southern Puerto Rico. The strongest was a 4.1. A 5.0 struck Venezuela the same day. Scientists are concerned that another volcanic eruption is possible on the island of Martinique.

HATRED OF JEWS AND ISRAEL

Biden’s nomination for Israel ambassador backed Muslim Brotherhood, cursed at Israeli officials. The White House announced the nomination of Thomas Nides as U.S. ambassador to Israel. When he was deputy secretary under Obama, he cursed at Israeli officials, and he supports the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a terrorist organization.

Netanyahu had harsh words for Biden in final speech as prime minister, especially regarding the Biden administration’s new overtures to Iran in an attempt to revive the Obama-era deal. Netanyahu compared the U.S. return to this bogus deal to Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt’s declining to bomb the train tracks to Auschwitz when he had the opportunity and refusing to bomb the gas chambers, which could have saved millions of Jews.

In New York City: Pro-Palestinian Protesters Chant’ Allahu Akbar,’ Torch Israeli Flag.

In Germany: Swastika discovered on ark at Frankfurt airport synagogue.

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

YOU WILL HEAR OF WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS (*Matthew 24, Luke 21)

Top U.S. General, Mark Milley, Warns China Increasing Military at ‘Serious and Sustained Rate.’ He warned it could pose a threat to worldwide stability and peace.

Former U.S. Ambassador to UN Nikki Haley spoke against Biden’s recent call for restraint between Israel and Hamas. “If you had 4,500 rockets that went into D.C., if any of our allies said they think we need to see restraint on both sides, I don’t think we would be very appreciative,” she said.

A missile attack on a Syrian hospital killed at least 13 people and injured many others. The attacks were carried out from locations where Syria’s government troops and Kurdish fighters are stationed.

Hamas appoints new prime minister in Gaza Strip. Issam al-Da’alis replaces Mohammed Awad. A statement from the Gaza terrorist group said he won approval from the ‘Palestinian’ Legislative Council, the unicameral legislature of the ‘Palestinian’ Authority. Also, Hamas spoke about Israel’s change of government. A spokesman said, “Regardless of the shape of the government in Israel, it will not alter the way we look at the Zionist entity… which we should resist by force.”

Israel-Gaza Cross-Border Violence Ramps Up Again. Israel signaled to Hamas that it was prepared to reignite last month’s conflict if it had to after Gaza militants kept up their violence and incendiary attacks for the third day straight. Eight fires broke out Thursday in Israel near the Gaza border. These attacks on Israeli soil followed four more fires that erupted the previous day.

Iranian Confirms 6.5 kg Stockpile of 60% Enriched Uranium, just a short step from 90% purity required to fuel nuclear weapons. Iranian citizens went to the polls Friday to select a new president – one already approved by Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iran-backed Iraqi militia says they’re awaiting Syrian orders to invade Israel. The pro-Iranian Shi’ite Iraqi movement said its Golan Liberation Brigade is ready to embark on a campaign to “liberate the Golan” when the Syrian government gives the command.

New Governments, None of Which Are Likely to Bode Well for The Future

We had the Biden bunch taking over the US in January; new controversial mishmash of parties in Israel resulting in the election of new prime ministers; a new president in Israel; now a new president in Iran. And Angela Merkel will step down in September as Germany’s Chancellor.

Already, Israel’s new government is speaking out against the annual celebration of Jerusalem Day. Elements in the new government don’t want the Israel-honoring flag parade to take place, even calling it “provocation” from the right, saying they’re “trying to start the Gog-Magog war.”

Warning: Oh, it’s coming (fulfillment of both Isaiah 17 and Ezekiel 38-39), but it won’t be because of the right causing it. It will be because of the hatred for Israel and the desire for power from her enemies. God will personally intervene in a spectacular way and use it to draw Israel back to Him. This is why it will likely occur after the rapture when God again turns His focus on Israel, as prophesied for the last seven years before Christ returns. It’s referred to as “the time of Jacob’s trouble” and Daniel’s 70th week, and what we call the tribulation.

CONCLUSION

Warning: The birth pains have already begun and are increasing in intensity and frequency. The signs have all converged as never before. But this is nothing compared to the tribulation. Don’t be left behind!

“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled” (Luke 21:28-32).

*Birth Pangs and the Rapture by Jack Kelley

Keep in mind that the context of Matt. 24-25 shows Jesus, a Jewish prophet, standing in Israel, answering questions from Jewish men about the end of the Jewish age. In Matt. 24:3, “When will these things happen?” is a question about the Temple’s destruction. “What will be the sign of your coming?” refers to the 2nd Coming, “and of the End of the Age” is about the final seven years remaining from the 490-year age the Angel Gabriel spoke of with Daniel, now known as Daniels 70th week. (Daniel 9:24-27)

In Matt. 24:4-8 Jesus describes events that would be common to the period between his resurrection and the beginning of the 70th week, what we call the Church Age, and in that sense are applicable to the Church. Wars, rumors of war, famines and earthquakes are given as examples. Luke added pestilence in his account. These things have been happening periodically throughout the Church Age.

Christian commentators have taken the phrase birth pangs to mean that like a woman’s labor, they would begin as mild and infrequent indicators of the impending event, but as the time draws close, they will become progressively more frequent and more intense. So as wars, famines and earthquakes have become more frequent and more intense, they say this means that the end is drawing nearer. And since the Rapture precedes the end, that means it’s getting closer too.

But from Matt. 24:9 onward, the focus is on Israel and the 70th week, with Matt. 24:15 giving the first clear sign, the arrival of the anti-Christ in the Temple marking the beginning of the Great Tribulation. From Matt. 24:15 to Matt. 24:29 the Great Tribulation is in view. Then beginning in Matt. 24:30 and continuing through Matt. 25:46 the focus is on the Second Coming and the judgments that will take place just afterward.

 

 

 

 

Jun 21, 2021

The Great “Mega-Drought” of 2021

Many Western states are in the grips of a drought that is starting to have a major impact on the local economy. The dry period has lasted so long, it has been given the rank of “Mega-Drought.” A return to normal moisture levels would require months of heavy rainfall.

According to The Weather Channel, 89% of the Western U.S. is experiencing drought conditions. More than half — about 55% — of the West is experiencing the highest levels of “extreme” and exceptional” drought.

The state of North Dakota is in the second-worst level of drought, and ranchers are auctioning off their cattle by the thousands.

“Normally this time of the year, we’re probably looking at 400-600 head, and a lot of times would be every other week,” said former auctioneer Ron Torgerson.

Recently, more than 4,200 head of cattle were sold at Rugby Livestock and Auction during a two-day sale. Needless to say, ranchers in North Dakota don’t want to get rid of their cattle, but the drought has pushed prices for hay and corn so high that many of them simply have no choice.

Feeder Cattle prices have declined as herds are being sent to the slaughterhouse. As cattle herds shrink all over the western half of the country, beef prices will move significantly higher a few months down the road.

Record heat during the past few weeks has yielded no shortage of horror stories. Almond growers have lost whole orchards, and 17 million endangered salmon are being shipped to the sea because rivers are too hot to navigate.

Meanwhile, the drought continues to push the water level in Lake Mead into the danger zone. According to CBS News, Lake Mead has hit the “lowest level ever recorded.” Since most Western states get nearly zero amounts of rain during the summer, Lake Mead will continue to dry up for several months.

Formed in 1937 by the construction of the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the U.S. The reservoir supplies water to 25 million people in Los Angeles, San Diego, Tucson and Las Vegas, per Reuters. Lake Mead has not been full since 2000, with water levels falling 140 vertical feet since then, and it is currently at just 36 percent of capacity.

The ability to produce electrical power at Hoover Dam has become a concern. Lake Mead has dropped so much that it has cut the dam’s hydropower output by nearly 25%. At some point, the dam could stop producing electricity altogether.

For the first time ever, the federal government is expected to declare a water shortage on the lower Colorado River later this summer. That will force automatic cuts to the water supply for Nevada and Arizona starting in 2022. Homeowners have higher priority and, at first, won’t feel the pain as badly as farmers will.

Dan Thelander is a second-generation family farmer in Arizona’s Pinal County. The water to grow his corn and alfalfa fields comes from Lake Mead. “If we don’t have irrigation water, we can’t farm,” he said. “So, next year, we are going to get about 25% less water; [this] means we’re going to have to fallow or not plant 25% of our land.”

Unless something changes, Thelander and other farmers in the region could potentially have all water cut off in 2023. That is just two years away.

Farmers in California are in far worse shape. Some have already been informed that they will not be getting any water allocated to them at all here in 2021. It is being projected that farmers in the state will not grow anything on 500,000 acres this year; that is really bad news because California grows more than a third of our vegetables and two-thirds of our fruits and nuts.

California’s groundwater situation is another factor that is putting pressure on food production. For decades, groundwater was pumped with no statewide limits. As the water level dropped, farmers have been drilling deeper wells to suck out more water to plant. We are now at a point where the groundwater levels are so low, many fields cannot be planted without access to surface water.

As I look back over the past decade, there has not been a single year that did not have a major disaster. Judging from 2020 and 2021, it now appears we are going to have multi disasters for any given future year. Since the tribulation hour will likely have monthly disasters, the rapture must be very near.

“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).

–Todd


The Grasping Evil

I preface this commentary by giving credit to my good friend and colleague, Bill Salus, for his recent email newsletter with the subject Top 20 Pre-Tribulation Prophecies.

As usual, I found his analysis to be on the biblical mark—even considering my disagreement with his belief that Psalm 83 is a war involving Israel that precedes the Gog-Magog attack. As I’ve stated in that regard, he could well be right and I wrong on the matter.

Bill gave some good news about the assurance Bible prophecy from the Pre-Trib perspective offers, followed by some bad news for nonbelievers.

About the good news, he offers the following:

The Church is:

  • Saved from the wrath through Jesus Christ (Romans 5:8–9).
  • Delivered from the wrath to come (1 Thessalonians 1:10).
  • Not appointed to the wrath (1 Thessalonians 5:7-10).
  • Kept from the “hour of trial” of the Tribulation (Revelation 3:10–11)
  • We are to comfort one another about the blessed hope of the Rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:18).

About the troubling side, he says:

The bad news is that believers have loved ones who are presently unsaved and at risk of being left behind to experience the most perilous seven years in all of post-Flood history.

Bill then speaks to the attitude that some Christians have developed. The particular attitude he mentions is what I wish to address in this commentary.

He states the following, paraphrasing the words of certain believers, then issuing precaution:

“I DON’T CARE: ‘I’ll be Raptured, so why should I worry about such things that don’t concern me?’”

I would encourage someone who has adopted this position to first realize that you may be here to endure some of the Pre-Tribulation prophecies. If you face off with one or more of these powerful predictions, you will undoubtedly be forced to care! Therefore, be cautious not to get caught up in the trap of thinking that the rest of your days will be persecution free.

Bill Salus’ words are well placed while we observe these darkening times. His admonition hearkens me back to a series of services we called “revival meetings.” I’ve mentioned this a number of times before.

I vividly remember sitting at our First Baptist Church in the mid-1970s. A short-in-stature evangelist was the speaker for those five days of meetings. Each night, he wore a different colored leisure suit—lime green, day-glow orange, bright red, etc. Some of the readers here will remember those flamboyant garments. We joked about his flashy dress, but we didn’t joke about his messages. They were straight from the heart of God, it was progressively obvious as the week proceeded.

The last night of the revival meeting, the evangelist made a prediction that sticks to the memory like rubber cement to two pieces of paper.

He said, “I believe that before Christ calls the Church in the Rapture, this government in America will be reaching with powerfully evil fingers for the throats of Christians. Just as those fingers are about to close on the necks of believers, Christ will blow the trumpet.”

He believed 100 percent in the imminence of Christ’s call to the Church, but he nonetheless issued that prediction. I’ve never forgotten it.

There was no such virulent threat during that mid-’70s time. Such a thing was unthinkable. But here we are in 2021 and developments trending dramatically in the direction he predicted are clearly in view.

Our neighbors to the north in Canada are already starting to feel that icy grip, and that chilling grasp can be sensed even in our nation.

As Bill Salus has admonished, we must not remain indifferent just because we know we will be kept from the most horrendous time to come.

We must do all we can to fight those grasping, evil governmental fingers with prayer and with civil action as provided by the means our Founding Fathers provided under God’s great guidance.

Most of all, we must carry forth with the Great Commission the Lord Jesus commanded just before lifting into the heavens.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28:19–20)

–Terry