Mar 8, 2021

March to May Donation Drive

The past couple of months have been stressful for those who love their country and hate to see the enemy winning at every level. I’ve had to deal with an issue that most people have no clue of what is taking place. The Big Tech companies are fixated on setting up a Chinese-style censorship of the internet.

Members of Congress are now pushing for public and private censorship on the web and in other forums. They are being joined by an unprecedented alliance of academics, writers and activists calling for everything from censorship to incarceration to blacklists.

This call for censorship even extends to the television market. Democrats have pressed a mix of cable, satellite and streaming providers about their decisions to carry Fox News, One America News Network and Newsmax, accusing the right-leaning outlets of serving as “misinformation rumor mills and conspiracy theory hotbeds that produce content that leads to real harm.”

Over the past month, I received emails from four firms that say they are updating their guidelines for using their service. I now get a message about every other day that warns me of problems with Rapture Ready’s content on some pages, but they don’t say what the problem is.

I’m currently involved in an Identity verification battle with one of these demonic firms. They are wondering who are the people who run RR, and they’ve asked me to send a host of documents. I sent them a photo of my driver’s license, tax ID records, state articles of incorporation, and even a copy of my water bill. All these documents show Todd Strandberg as the guy running RR. But No, they still need more proof.

The next question will probably be for me to take a picture of me posing at the grave of my mother and father. If I did that, the next request will be the broomstick of the wicked witch of the west. I’ve locked up my account with them and moved to another firm that provides the same ad service.

I was watching a video on the persecution of Hungarian Jews in the 1930s, and I recognized the game that is currently playing out. The Nazis asked the Jews to show proof that they are real Hungarian citizens. Many Jews went through the vast Nazi bureaucracy to get the right papers to show they were a true citizen of Hungary. One woman recalled her father happily waving the document in the air. The Nazis kept changing the rules, and this woman’s whole family became non-citizens and were sent to a death camp. The woman’s father and mother were both killed.

The fixation on declaring everything racist is just plain scary. There should have been a massive blowback when the Muppets were deemed racist, Dr. Seuss Books were ‘canceled’ over ‘racist imagery,’ and math as we know it is now racist. At some point, these liberal nut jobs are going to look at the Bible. I’m sure they will find it’s loaded with Racism and Homophobia – and get out the smelling salts if they find out that Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).

I doubt there will ever be a ban placed on the Bible. There will be a ban on people’s interpretation of the Holy Word. They will maintain that God loves all people the same, you can be a gay Christian, and Jesus is just a way to God; never mind that John 14:6 typo.

Years ago, my main thought about the rapture is that I wished it would come so I could escape the dying process. My current view is that the rapture will be needed to rescue us from those who wish to aid the dying process. We are so close to what the Bible described as being the last days, the horrors of the tribulation must be in earth’s near future.

There are probably a dozen ways for the enemy to completely block RR from being seen on the internet. Because God has held things together for so long, I don’t think the left is going to turn American into a clone of China. Since we are only a few steps away from total tyranny, the rapture must be very close.

We still need your financial help to pay for our soaring expenses in telling the world that time is running out. What we really need is prayer. Rather than prayer about our enemies and the many problems in our nation, people praying “Please come, Lord Jesus “will resolve every one.

There are three ways you can contribute to Rapture Ready: You can send a financial gift via our P.O. Box address, you can make a one-time donation, or there is a frequent option that allows you to make monthly donations. If you’re interested in signing up, find the input links on the Donation page. Donations can be sent to our P.O. Box at:

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.– Todd


Minion Invasion: Fact or Fiction?

This week’s column admittedly is, in part, to promote my third book of The Second Coming Chronicles series. Gary Ritter, an award-winning novelist, and I have joined to produce the third of the series. Its title is The Minion Protocols and it follows The Rapture Dialogues and The Nephilim Imperatives.

The first of the novels was the fictional—although based in solid Bible prophecy—presentation of part of Jesus’ foretelling of these very days in which I believe we are living.

Our Lord prophesied that when He is next revealed in a spectacular way, a catastrophic way, society and culture will be like they were during the days of Noah.

Here is what Jesus Christ said:

But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. (Matthew 24:37–44)

Despite the insistence of many seminaries and their graduates that this is not a Rapture prophecy, I believe it’s obvious that it is. There are Greek terms involved that also indicate it’s a Rapture prophecy.

That argument aside, the important thing to consider here is that the Creator of all matter that exists says that when He next catastrophically intervenes into human history, things will be—in society and culture—like they were in the days of Noah before the Flood that destroyed most all flesh on earth. We look back to the book of Genesis to see what things were like back in that antediluvian world.

This is the record of that epoch of earth I want us to consider for the moment.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:1–5)

Again, a look at the Greek in regard to the term “sons of God” here can prove to those willing to lay aside prejudices against angelic sexual intervention in the human procreation process that these “sons of God” indeed sired nonhuman offspring—Nephilim, as my second novel of the series terms them. From the Nephilim, I believe, came the legends, gods, and demigods of Greek and other literature. These creatures were also, I believe, the possessors of the archeologically unearthed, gigantic, human-like skeletons and bones that science today, and even clergy, want to deny and/or keep under wraps from the curiosity of humanity.

These folks, for reasons known only to themselves, have managed to convince much of the world’s populations that such artifacts of paleontology don’t exist, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I, personally, suspect that it is to prevent truth of the biblical account of Creation and human origin from coming to light.

Jesus said in His Olivet Discourse of Matthew 24 that deception will be a primary sign of his Second Coming. As a matter of fact, it was the first sign He gave when His disciples asked Him what would signal His return and the end of the age.

The fact that dark forces of science and government have managed to prevent light from being shed in that regard smacks, I believe, of supernatural obfuscation from the dark dimension this novel series is meant to expose.

Certainly we have gone over and over the deception that has been foisted by the dark human geopolitical forces of the past number of years. And the efforts to lie and promote that deceit have been so creatively accomplished that we can only conclude that the master planner is “the father of lies,” Lucifer.

Our novel, The Minion Protocols: Dark Powers, goes behind the scenes of all that has gone on in the American political and governmental machinations of late. Although the story fictional, we hope it gives a glimpse of how the dark powers that invaded the earth and were denounced by God as evil in their activities and intentions are almost certainly now setting the stage for the Tribulation era and the emergence of the Antichrist regime, precisely as God’s prophetic Word predicted millennia ago. All this evil and dark deception is fact, not fiction.

We believe that one quick glance around your personal world at any given moment gives you the strange but certain sensation that there is a growing, collective madness that Paul described as a “reprobate mind” (Romans 1: 28).

To that extent, we say without reservation that the Minion invasion is reality at this very moment.

But we who know the Lord for salvation can take great comfort from our Lord’s own words about all that is darkening our presence circumstance.

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)

The links to order the third book of the series and the entire series are below.

Here is the link for The Minion Protocols:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08X7KNPKR/

And here is the link for the complete box set (all three novels) of The Second Coming Chronicles:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08X9QCGPF/

–Terry

Waiting for The Rapture :: By Nathele Graham

If you’re like me, you yearn for the rapture. All the signs point to the fact that it won’t be long until all Christians are called Home and we’ll see Jesus face to face. That thought gives me a thrill. Even though my mind is always on my Heavenly Home, it’s important that I don’t forget to do all I can for Jesus while I’m waiting for the rapture. Every Christian needs to be about our Father’s business while we can. We need to witness to the lost and plant the seeds of redemption.

Unfortunately, many things hinder our service to the King of kings. Christians are to be a light that shines in the darkness, but too many who call themselves Christians embrace the darkness. There are many temptations to sin, and many things get in the way of living a life that reflects Christ. Instead of a closer walk with Jesus, it’s easy to find ourselves walking in the world. Even the strongest Christian has trouble walking in our Savior’s footsteps.

“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works” (Titus 2:11-14).

Jesus Christ gave His life for you, and the “peculiar people” are those who have accepted Him. We aren’t like the world. We follow Christ, and our lives need to reflect that fact. Our gratitude for what He did should spill over into every area of our life and include a deep study of Scripture. If you follow prophecy, you’ll understand just how close we are to the rapture. While we wait for that blessed event, we have work to do. People around us need to hear the Gospel message before it’s too late.

Right now, we live in a lost and dying world. Sin is all around us, and we’re used to being in the midst of it. Non-believers are more open about their rejection of Jesus, and it can be intimidating to share our faith. Even many Christians are more interested in worldly pursuits rather than being set apart for Christ… a “peculiar people.” They listen to secular music that promotes every sin imaginable and rap music that’s filled with hatred and vulgarity; movies that are violent and casual sexual encounters are the norm; video games that are filled with violence; football on Sunday is more important than fellowship with fellow Christians, and on it goes.

If these things fill your time, then you need to take a look at your faith. Every Christian needs to take up the cross and follow Jesus… crucify self and become a living sacrifice for Christ.

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (Romans 12:1-2).

The rapture is near, and while we wait for it, why not get to know Jesus better. Turn off the TV and study Scripture. Compare your choices in life to the example seen in Jesus. Make changes where you need to in order to be more like Him. Look at the Apostles. Peter was quite a character who made some rash statements and had some major failures. When he totally gave his life to Christ, he was drastically changed. We all need to be like Peter and let the Holy Spirit draw us nearer to God.

While waiting for the rapture, we need to be about our Father’s business. You don’t have to stand on a street corner yelling, “Repent, for the end is near!” Instead, you might start by honoring God in all you do. Study His word and apply it to your life.

“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:14-16).

King James English is a bit different than modern English, and the word “conversation” means much more than how you talk. It’s translated from the Greek word anastrophe which means your “manner of life, conduct, behavior, deportment.” Conform your life to Christ, not to the world. For instance, when you’re at work and the gossip starts, don’t join in. If some off-color jokes are told around the water cooler, walk away. People will notice, and you just might have the chance to share your testimony. The rapture is near, and if you have a chance to witness to friends and family, now is the time to do it. You might ask a co-worker to join you in a Bible study or go with you to a worship service. There are many people who need to hear the Gospel before it’s too late.

The pre-tribulation rapture isn’t a new idea. Some would have us believe that this teaching only came about in the 1800s, but the first example of the pre-tribulation rapture is found in the Book of Genesis. “And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him” (Genesis 5:24). Enoch was “taken” prior to the judgment of the flood. This is also spoken of in the Book of Hebrews. “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had his testimony, that he pleased God” (Hebrews 11:5). Enoch’s faith and way of living kept him from facing God’s judgment. Christians will be taken prior to God’s judgment when His wrath is poured out upon all who are left on earth after the rapture.

Lot is another example. He had to be taken out of the way before God’s judgment was poured out upon Sodom and Gomorrah.

There are other hints to a pre-tribulation rapture in Zephaniah “Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger come upon you. Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger” (Zephaniah 2:1-3).

The “day of the LORD’S anger” is the Tribulation. Isaiah also spoke of the pre-tribulation rapture. “Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain” (Isaiah 26:19-21).

The seven years of the Tribulation is for the purpose of Israel finally recognizing Jesus Christ as their Messiah. If you’ve accepted Christ for salvation, you won’t be on earth for that final seven-year period. We don’t know the date of the rapture, but we can see the signs. While waiting for the rapture, study Scripture. There’s a lot of fear in the world today, and if you study prophecy, you can have answers to the questions that people have about what’s happening. You just might win a soul for Christ.

The Apostle Paul taught about the pre-tribulation rapture in his letters written to believers in Thessalonica and Corinth. He makes it clear that Christians won’t be here for God’s wrath. “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him” (1 Thessalonians 5:9-10).

Jesus took our punishment upon Himself. He died for us, and even though we face many trials and tribulations in life, we won’t face God’s final wrath. “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52).

Sleep, of course, refers to death. We won’t all face death. Those Christians who have died before the rapture will be raised first, and those who are still alive when that call comes for us to go Home will be instantly changed from this mortal body to our immortal life with Christ. Like everyone who yearns for the rapture, I’m getting excited by the events of the times in which we live. Like birth pains that come closer together and become more intense, the signs are coming faster and stronger. It won’t be much longer.

If you’re waiting for the Rapture and wonder why it hasn’t happened yet, maybe you can help it along. You can do your part by honoring Jesus’ command to spread the Gospel. “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).

That wasn’t a suggestion but a command. Jesus spoke these words just moments before He was received into Heaven. There’s still time for people to make the decision to put their faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin. He is the only way to eternal life.

Scripture teaches that there will be one last Gentile to be saved before the rapture. After that, God will turn His attention back to the salvation of Israel. “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in” (Romans 11:25).

God has never forgotten His chosen people of Israel, but when they rejected their Messiah and crucified Him, there was blindness that came upon them as a nation. There have been many Jewish people who have come to faith in Jesus, but not a national faith. Since Christ’s crucifixion, many Gentiles have come to faith, and there will be one last Gentile to give their life to Jesus, and then the ekklesia (Christians) will be called Home. That’s why we need to share the Gospel with everyone. While we’re waiting for the rapture, study Scripture. Have an answer to questions people have.

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear” (1 Peter 3:15).

Only Christians have hope in these trying times. Study God’s word to fully understand that hope.

I’m ready to see that door open and be called Home. “After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter” (Revelation 4:1).

While I’m waiting for the rapture, though, I’m living for Christ. I’m trying to encourage Christians and to lead people to salvation. What are you doing?

God bless you all,

Nathele Graham

twotug@embarqmail.com

ron@straitandnarrowministry.com

All original scripture is “theopneustos,” God-breathed.

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