The months leading up to the recent 2020 Presidential election were punctuated by prayers, rallies, and a tangible sense of urgency among many evangelicals that Donald Trump must be re-elected or all hope is lost. There was a perception among many believers that it was God’s will for Trump to serve as President again because of his Christian world-view and support for Israel. There was a consensus among some evangelicals that Trump had to be re-elected in order for God’s plans for the U.S. and the world to come to fruition.

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020, was a day marked by confusion and conflicting reports regarding the outcome of the Presidential election. As Joe Biden became the projected winner, the weeks that followed were marked by a confidence that the election results could be overturned through the courts at a state level, and there was hope that the Supreme Court would act. As these efforts to recount votes failed one by one, optimism faded into the realization that, barring some miracle, Trump would have to leave the White House. On January 20th, 2021, at 12:00 pm, Joe Biden was inaugurated, and he became the 46th President of the United States, much to the dismay of many Christians.

Many well-meaning Christians placed their desperate hope in a man and this world, not in Jesus and His kingdom to come. Regardless of how you feel about the validity of the election results, many believers gave too much credit to the voters and Dominion machines instead of to the One who raises up and deposes kings (Daniel 2:21).

Over the course of the past year, we witnessed a lot of confusion among Christians. Some couldn’t stand the thought of voting for Trump, while it appears that others couldn’t imagine God’s plan going forward without him. Both groups overlooked a basic biblical principle that should bring peace and clarity to believers regardless of the current political climate, and it is this: God will ultimately decide who is in power.

We see this exact scenario play out multiple times in scripture. One example is during King Zedekiah’s reign over Israel. Approximately ten years before Jerusalem fell to Babylon, God tells Jeremiah to warn Israel and the small kingdoms surrounding it that they must serve the King of Babylon. In fact, God calls Nebuchadnezzar His servant! (Jeremiah 27:6). He then goes on to warn those nations, if they don’t serve the King of Babylon, they will be punished with the sword, pestilence, and famine in Jeremiah 27:8.

In our finite thinking, we might ask, How can God do such a thing? His word provides the answer in Jeremiah 27:5. God’s wisdom is infinite, and He will do what is right to Him, which includes giving temporary authority over lands, people, and animals into the hands of both good and evil leaders to accomplish His purposes.

Please understand my point: I’m not equivocating the reign of Zedekiah and Nebuchadnezzar to former President Trump or President Biden. My point is that we cannot be so shortsighted and faithless to think that God has somehow been caught by surprise and is nervously pacing the floor in heaven because of an election outcome. The biblical reality is that God orchestrated and allowed the election results. It’s not my intent to go into the debate of “Stopping the Steal” vs. “No Election Fraud” because God saw fit in His wisdom to place Joe Biden in office.

Daniel 2:21 gives us full assurance that God is the One who has the final say in every King’s coronation, Presidential election, and even a despot’s temporary regime. To think anything else is to give ourselves undue credit. Some people have wandered into the false teaching of dominion theology by thinking that if we can just elect the right man, hold a majority, and clean up the country, then the stage will be set for Jesus to return. They neglect the fact that God is truly in control and is bringing His plans to fruition. The Bible tells us that God used good and evil leaders to bring about His will. He raised up Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, and even Rome to accomplish His purposes.

As Christians, we can rest in the knowledge that God is in control and the events that are happening all around us are sanctioned by Him. Followers of God from ancient times to right now have placed their trust in His providential care. Job, Esther, Jeremiah, Daniel, the early church, Reformation saints, Bonhoeffer, Ten Boom, and scores of others saw past the harsh reality of this world and put their faith in their God who has the final authority on what is allowed to happen (Job 42:1-6).

This brings us to the current days we live in. If we apply God’s unchanging word to our time, as believers, we are compelled to understand that He is bringing leaders, nations, geopolitical crises, and society toward the event that will be the culmination of human history, the return of Jesus. We are living in times of increasing economic, social, and global upheaval. The tepid leadership in America and Western Europe is placating to China, Iran, Russia, and other enemies of freedom.

Closer to home and just as dangerous are the self-righteous cancel-culture crusaders, who continue to stoke hatred and jealousy through Marxist, woke, and anti-Judeo-Christian ideology. The threat to personal and religious freedom cannot be overstated. Given the current leadership and hostile social climate of our day, I believe widespread retaliation and even persecution of people of faith will likely begin in short order. The ostracizing and bullying is already beginning to be encouraged, if not sanctioned by big-tech, big-media, and even some in leadership. Remember that taking a stand for the Lord will cost you something (Hebrews 10:32-33).

As Christians, it should come as no surprise that the world will hate you. Culture, society, and individuals will continue to hate us for our faith. It’s wrong to teach that society will get better when the Bible teaches no such thing. Remember that leaders, nations, and events are all moving toward a crescendo, and as believers, we can have full assurance that our lives are in God’s hands (Hebrews 11:32-39). Jesus Himself warned us that the world would hate us, and Peter encourages us to be ready to suffer for righteousness’s sake (1 Peter 3:13-16). I want to remind you to pray for those in authority and obey them, as long as it doesn’t conflict with our obedience to Christ (Romans 13:1, 1 Peter 2:13 and Acts 5:29).

Dear friends, let me encourage you in the Lord. You can have true contentment, peace, and even joy, regardless of the chaotic conditions around you. Jesus told us to stay awake, be alert, and be about His business. I want to exhort you to be more concerned about eternity than November 2022 & 2024. Certainly, vote pro-life and Christian values, but make it your utmost priority to be a bold, loving, witness for Jesus. I want to tell you that prophecy is being fulfilled, Jesus is coming soon, and to relax, God’s got this. Remember the promise of our Lord in Matthew 28:20 to be with us always.

All for Him,

Howard

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It’s much more than a war on our children, although it’s all that. It’s more than an assault against women, but it’s surely that as well. And it’s more than the destroying of God’s design for marriage, although that’s definitely included.

What we see today is an all-out attack on life itself. We see this in the vile abortion mills where tens of millions of innocent children die a cruel, painful, and horrible death. The multi-billion-dollar sex trafficking industry also testifies to the devil’s vicious assault on our children.

A contributing factor to this war on life is the proposed Equality Act moving through Congress. Biden, a fervent supporter of this legislation, promised he would get it passed in the first one-hundred days of his administration. This bill elevates the rights of transgenders far above women and wipes out religious freedom for Bible-believing churches and organizations. It’s a boon for sexual predators as it gives them unrestricted access to girl’s locker rooms and women’s bathrooms.

At its heart, the Equality Act represents a satanic attack aimed at reducing the population by destroying marriage, the family, and all distinctions between the two sexes.

This war on life, now coming to fruition, has been in the works for a very long time.

The Plan to Reduce the Population

Bill Gates, in a video that dates from May of 2010, stated that the following steps would reduce the population of the world by ten to fifteen percent and thereby help save the planet from the consequences of climate change:

• New Vaccines
• Health Care
• Reproductive Health Services

So exactly how will these positive-sounding items reduce the world’s population by up to one billion people? Shouldn’t these things increase the number of people alive in the future?

Health care and reproductive health services, aka abortion, are just the beginning of what the left has in mind to reduce the population of the world. The fact that Bill Gates listed vaccines as a way to reduce the population of the world should set off alarms and flashing red lights inside us regarding the experimental COVID-19 medical treatments masquerading as vaccines.

Peter Koenig, former Senior Economist for the World Health Organization (WHO), wrote this about the goal of the elite to reduce the world’s population:

“The Big Picture of the plan is clear. It plays out in front of our eyes. And we do not want to see it. Or we are blinded by the relentless lie-and deceit-propaganda stream flooding us with false news and outright lies about covid – and what’s to come.

When we understand that since more than 70 years, the overall concept of the Rockefeller cum Gates plan – and certainly others, like Soros – and the rest of the Bilderberger and the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) members, and yet others – whose affiliates overlap different semi-obscure organizations – is to drastically reduce the world population – and that this moment has come now – then we understand much better what is happening today; then we get a better overview of the Big Picture….

When we understand this, it should come like an awakening [of] what is currently happening with the different purposefully uncoordinated lockdowns around the globe. Especially since covid – the falsely declared pandemic, actually a Plandemic – has engulfed all 193 UN member countries at once. It is physically and scientifically impossible that a virus hits the entire world at the same time. Unless it has been artificially (human-made) spread to every corner of the world at the same time.” ^[i]

The above is just a sampling of what I have read and heard from a variety of both secular and Christian sources regarding the ultimate goal of the globalists to reduce the earth’s population.

God’s Plan to Punish Humanity for Its Great Wickedness

“How does this war on life relate to biblical prophecy?” you ask. The Bible tells of a drastic loss of life during the end times that will come as a result of God’s outpouring of wrath during the tribulation that will begin with the antichrist’s covenant with Israel and other nations (Dan. 9:27).

The Lord long ago warned about a day of the Lord. In Isaiah 13:9-12, we read these words about God’s wrath that will come up the world during this time:

“Behold, the day of the Lord comes, / cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, / to make the land a desolation / and to destroy its sinners from it. / For the stars of the heavens and their constellations / will not give their light; / the sun will be dark at its rising, / and the moon will not shed its light. / I will punish the world for its evil, / and the wicked for their iniquity; / I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, / and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless. / I will make people more rare than fine gold, / and mankind than the gold of Ophir.”

Lest you conclude that this refers to a time in the distant past, the book of Revelation reveals a series of end-timed judgments that will result in a great loss of life (Rev. 6:7-8, 9:13-19). What we see in the apocalypse tracks with what we read throughout the Old Testament prophecies about the day of the Lord. In Isaiah 24:6, the Lord again warns of this future time when at the end, “few men are left.”

The Lord Jesus echoed the words of Isaiah 24:6 when He said this about the coming time of terror on the earth that will occur after the antichrist defiles the temple in Jerusalem: “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short” (Matt. 24:21-22).

I see a couple of take-aways from the above warnings about the tribulation that now appears on the world’s horizon:

First, God is ultimately in control of all things. The current activities of Satan to reduce the population of the world all fall under the Lord’s sovereign plan for the last days when He will pour out His wrath on the Christ-rejecting world. Many students of biblical prophecy, myself included, believe that the “harmful and painful sores” of Revelation 16:2 will come as the result of a future vaccine administered as part of the mark of the beast.

During the tribulation, the world will correctly recognize God’s wrath as the cause behind the extreme loss of life (Rev. 6:15-17; Rev. 16:9-11). Even so, the majority of people alive during the tribulation will refuse to repent of their wickedness (Rev. 9:20-21).

Second, I believe Satan’s overall objective is to eliminate the human race. I see this in Jesus’ words concerning the “great tribulation” where He tells us that only His second coming will prevent the complete loss of life for all human beings. It’s the Lord’s return that prevents the elimination of all mankind.

Perhaps we see the beginning of God’s judgment in His allowing the deadly plots of the globalists to continue. Rest assured, however, it will not turn out well for those now waging the war against life.

Captured by Their Own Net

I believe Satan has a big surprise in store for the elite globalists who believe that they will someday reign over a one-world government controlling the lives of everyone on the planet. Scripture tells us that only one person will rule the nations of the earth during the tribulation: the antichrist. This coming “man of lawlessness” will not share his power and authority with anyone, including the wealthy and powerful globalists that are now paving the way for his rise to power.

I believe that once the antichrist secures power as the supreme leader, those responsible for making the coming world government a reality will meet an unpleasant fate; he will kill them.

Does not the ancient admonition found in Proverbs 1:11-19 also apply to the powerbrokers of our day? This passage warns of a tragic end for all those who set out to increase their wealth through greed and murder, which perfectly describes the Marxist globalists of our day.

In verses 17-19, we read, “For in vain is a net spread / in the sight of any bird, / but these men lie in wait for their own blood; / they set an ambush for their own lives. / Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; / it takes away the life of its possessors.” The elite are preparing the means of their future demise.

We see a similar warning in Psalm 34:12-15 that I believe applies to the diabolical plan of the elite who seek to wield power over all the earth. “The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows / to bring down the poor and needy, / to slay those whose way is upright; / their sword shall enter their own heart, / and their bows shall be broken.” The very means by which the globalists seek to ravage the poor and wage war on God’s people will someday result in their demise.

“O LORD, How Long?”

If you are like me, you find yourself becoming increasingly impatient, even angry at times, with the success of those carrying out their evil schemes. I often find myself echoing the words of the Psalmist in 94:3, “O LORD, how long shall the wicked, / how long shall the wicked exult?”

I am reading a novel that depicts incredible corruption at the highest levels of the U.S. government that results in a murderous rage against all who oppose these senators. Though it was written in 2002, I sometimes lose my perspective between fiction and reality. The evil of our day is far beyond what I thought I would see before the Rapture.

However, there is much good news in what we see today.

The convergence of signs throughout the world tells us that we are ever so close to the start of the seven-year tribulation, which comes well after the Rapture. While we cannot set an end date on the Lord’s patience with mankind, I believe we can look with great expectation for Jesus’ soon appearing to take us home to the place He’s preparing for us (John 14:2-3).

In 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Paul wrote, “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.” What was the source of such great reassurance? It was the apostle’s promise in verses 9-10 that we would miss the wrath of the coming day of the Lord with its extreme loss of life on the earth and vast destruction everywhere on the planet.

We may experience severe persecution and suffering before the Rapture, but we have the Lord’s promise through the apostle Paul that we will miss the terrible future judgments described in the Old Testament as the day of the Lord and in the book of Revelation because Jesus is coming for us before this time of God’s wrath begins.

Jonathan Brentner

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[i] Peter Koenig, “COVID-19 The Great Reset” – “Delete” Humanity, an article published on the Global Research Website