How turning Minneapolis into Mogadishu signals troubling changes ahead.

BLUF [Bottom Line Up Front]: With the impossible third reelection of DJT, the political left knows they are losing “bigly” and are desperate. The changes Team Trump is making are not superficial like with previous Republican administrations; no, these are substantive, foundational, and will permanently remove the funding and power from political leftists of all stripes from now on, forever. But the leftists aren’t going to take this lying down. If they can’t have their own version of America, no one can. They’d rather watch it burn than see MAGA ever succeed.

The tragic irony in all this is that the resistance the left thinks they are driving in places like Minneapolis and Los Angeles is not a disruption to DJT’s plans, but accelerants.

This has Satan’s fingerprints all over it. Let me explain.

• With the rebirth of national Israel (1948)
• The reunification of Jerusalem under Jewish control (1967)
• The moral collapse of Western civilization (1970s—Present)
• Technological advancements are moving at an exponential pace (1990—Present).
• The solidification of the Gog-Magog alliance (2000—Present)
• The current financial systems have begun to crumble (2001—Present).
• And Christendom in its possible greatest moment of weakness in the past two thousand years, (2000—Present)

Satan realizes that his time has all but run out, and he has to make bold moves now in order to get his final kingdom in order if he has any hope to thwart God’s prophetic plans. To do this, he needs the leftists, Islamists, communists, anarchists, secularists, etc., to attack the US on multiple fronts simultaneously to achieve his intended endstate—a militarized world forced into authoritative regional power blocs.

Fourth Turning

Currently, there are 193 United Nations member states—widely regarded as the core group of sovereign nation-states—each pursuing its own policies and interests with varying degrees of autonomy and effectiveness. Of these, roughly 10–12 qualify as truly failed states—entities that function as “nations” in name only, having largely lost the ability to maintain effective governance, territorial control, legitimate monopoly on force, or basic public services.

This fragility often stems from prolonged civil wars, interstate conflicts, or deliberate external destabilization efforts—including color revolutions, coups d’état, gray-zone warfare, proxy interventions, and other hybrid tactics. As a result, chaos is spreading like a geopolitical contagion, eroding state capacity and stability across regions and threatening to draw in neighboring countries or broader international involvement.

Committed globalists have begun importing either the people or the ideologies of these failed states into established nation-states through lax immigration laws or open borders to stress and overwhelm a nation’s support structures (Cloward and Piven Strategy) and sow chaos through non-assimilation (being too culturally divergent to assimilate).

They do this to spread that chaos through as many nations as possible to justify mechanization, digitization, and militarization, and ultimately, global governance. They aren’t doing this because they want to make a better world; they are doing this out of greed, and for the fact that their overlord, Satan, needs a world primed and ready to accept his kingdom of the Beast (Rev 13). This means nations armed, with absolute surveillance and authority in place, to minimize the fallout that will surely follow the chaos the Rapture of the Church will cause at that trumpet blast.

“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief” (1 Thessalonians 5:1-4).

We see in Daniel 2 and Revelation 12-13, 17 that the final state of the global order will be arranged into either two feet with ten toes, or seven heads with ten horns and ten crowns as the final iteration of mankind. It will be a fearsome government unlike any that came before it, so much so, people will wonder and awe and ask, “Who is like the beast? Who can make war with the beast?” (Daniel 7:7, Revelation 13:4)

So how does the world go from 193 nations to ten, you ask?

Well, that is something Satan has to figure out, and very quickly, I might add. I think this is why we are seeing the chaos we are witnessing today. Every last bit of this nonsensical lawlessness is being driven by forces behind the political clowns we see on the news.

But why ten?

Not sure. I’m not sure whether it’s something Satan always intended to do and God foresaw, or something God foreordained and, now, Satan sees as his only viable option. Either way, going from 193 nations to 10 is no small feat. That means undoing the whole premise of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which had ascribed sovereignty and equality amongst all nation-states. That is a lot of quaking, shaking, and baking to make this final iteration come to fruition.

If understanding and recognizing patterns in history is the key to understanding the future, then we can see that crisis always brings about very substantive changes. We can see that very clearly with our own nation:

• American Revolutionary War—from the 13 colonies to the birth of these United States
• 80 years
• American Civil War—from ‘these United States’ to ‘the United States’
• 60 years
• World War 1—the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Germany’s Second Reich, Qing Dynasty (1912), and Czarist Russia (1917). It also gave birth to the League of Nations.
• 20 years
• World War 2—the end of the German Third Reich, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan. It also effectively put the nails in the coffin of the British, Dutch, and French colonial empires. It gave birth to the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), global U.S. hegemony, and the Cold War.
• 80 years
• Today—> We are in the window for another paradigm-shattering event(s) that will fundamentally reorder the current age.

After World War 2, the US, via the Marshall Plan, Bretton Woods Agreement, and the newly born United Nations and NATO would largely govern the post-war world era for the next 70+ years. But technology and world events were advancing at such a pace that the old world order could not keep up, and thus began forcing the world into a “Fourth Turning” point. This is intentional. This coming ‘Fourth Turning’ is designed to reset Western civilization, which had largely been founded upon the Judeo-Christian worldview.

Hegalianomics

Hegelian-nomics interprets economic history and policy as a dialectical cycle of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, in which contradictions within a system drive crises and transform it into new, predetermined socio-economic orders.

(I’m still fine-tuning this definition.)

The Hegelian Dialectic, as it is most commonly referred to, is simply a philosophical treatise put forth in the 19th century by German Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (amongst many other things) that Karl Marx took and appropriated to his own fashion. The premise is that you have a thesis (central idea or stated claim), an antithesis (the problem or friction), and a synthesis (predetermined solution). Now, Marx already knew what he wanted (Communism). Simply put:

• Hegel used the dialectic to explain the development of ideas, consciousness, and history (idealism).
• Marx flipped Hegel “right side up” and made the dialectic material, not philosophical.
• Result: Marx didn’t believe history was driven by ideas, but it was driven by material conditions and class struggle.

Marx wanted a stateless, classless world that all lived under one system—a communist utopia. Of course, we know this has never worked anywhere it’s been tried because it always fails to take into account man’s fallen nature, thus dooming every attempt.

Nevertheless, since 1917, communism, socialism, fascism, etc., have been at play in the world and have served as the primary ‘antagonist’ dividing the nations at the macro level. It’s why we had a nuclear arms race for 40+ years. It’s been the main catalyst for the creation and proliferation of all manner of national intelligence apparatus (CIA, GSG, MI6, Mossad, etc.) since the 1950s.

But Satan also needs militarization at the micro level, which is where the Islamists and their terrorism come into play. It also factors into the radically discontented anarchists, progressive leftists, Satanists, environmentalists, hackers, mafiosos, cartels, and all other sundry “Ne’er-do-wells” who, through their varied criminal activities, have forced nations to militarize their law enforcement agencies (no more Barney Fifes), securitize all manners of travel and public areas, and basically bring the fortress mentality from Wall Street to Main Street through gradualism.

This has really been championed through one of the two main political parties in America’s binary political system, the Democrat Party. Mind you, this is the same party that began the first Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan, Japanese Internments, and Jim Crow Laws, and it has re-established itself along the following structure:

• Antifa/Black Lives Matter/Green Peace/Riot Inc., etc., serve as their foot soldiers.
• Leftist-appointed Judiciary serves as the lawfare branch.
• SPLC/ADL serves as the targeting branch.
• Legacy Media serve as the propaganda branch.
• Soros/NGO network serves as the financial branch.
• Education/Hollywood is the indoctrination branch.
• Weaponized immigration, Islamists, LGBT (et al.) serve as their agitators.

The rampant lawlessness from the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden years has so damaged the US infrastructure that drastic changes have to be made to ‘save the republic.’ This is why there is a renewed focus on the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, and militarizing space, and winning the new arms races of the 21st century—artificial intelligence dominance and quantum supremacy. In fact, the US wants to dominate the full stack: hardware, software, infrastructure, and energy.

And because these leftist and radicalized forces have all joined together, DJT and his administration will be ‘forced’ to weaponize or armor up every branch, every bureau, every federal, state, and local agency within the government to counter these overwhelming threats, which is Satan’s endstate (or synthesis) all along.

Order out of Chaos

Every single bit of chaos is being created on purpose. Every last nonsensical bit of it. The purpose is that when the time comes, you will be begging for order. Their order.

Gordon Burling

How can you negotiate with radicalized agents who would rather see the system burn to the ground rather than work through the system to see it change? They are in the ultimate catch-22 because the changes they want to make are 1) not based in reality, 2) unsustainable, and 3) so morally reprehensible that they violate the US Constitution so egregiously that it cannot be legally justified…hence, why they worked through gradual subversion and corruption until exposed, and now they must resort to violence as a last resort.

Leftism by its very nature is preposterous because it’s rooted in emotion rather than reason or logic. It only knows how to act irrationally, which in times past would have caused weak-spined governments to cave under the pressure. However, with the Trump administration, it’s causing them to respond by ‘armoring up’ against the threat they pose.

Either way, Satan gets what he wants in the end (thesis) by using radical leftists and ideologues to foment chaos (antithesis), which forces the established and duly elected government to respond to said chaos by creating an Orwellian, militarized surveillance state (synthesis).

“But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them” (2 Corinthians 4:3-4).

As for conservatives and patriots, who are trying their level best to save the world from the chaos (Western Civilization at least), they are inadvertently creating the world of Revelation 13 that is written about. However, there is an upside to all this chaos…and that is, there is no winning this present battle with our current weapons. This can only mean one thing—the Rapture of the Church is all the sooner.

“Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth” (Revelation 3:10).

We can be confident of this blessed hope because the Church is not destined for wrath (1 Thess 1:10, 5:9), and we are now facing multiple existential threats (i.e., polycrisis) that no previous generation has ever faced. Moreover, there is no political solution that can resolve what is happening. Wickedness is so entrenched globally that there is no military, economic, or diplomatic solution either.

There is only One who can bring in everlasting peace and order out of this present chaos, and that is Jesus Christ…the King of kings and Lord of lords.

“Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other” (Matthew 24:30-31).

Maranatha!

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(Originally published in September/October 2021 Lamplighter magazine.)

“Remember the former things from long past, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, ‘My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure… Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, surely I will do it” (Isaiah 46:9-11).

What an awesome God we serve!

No other supposed deity has the knowledge to describe the pre-historic past authoritatively, the foresight to predict the future, the audacity to proclaim the future, and the power to ensure that what He declares will come to pass.

The Bible is unique in that it contains detailed descriptions of the beginning and the end of Creation. Skeptics and atheists are left sputtering their contempt in the face of God’s commanding declarations. They argue that the prophets of God recorded their prophecies long after what they foretold came to pass.

But the historical record is clear. The prophets of God lived and prophesied long before their prophecies were fulfilled. That fulfillment validated the prophets’ authenticity—and validates God’s omniscience and omnipotence.

In the Beginning

God’s first statement contains His own eyewitness account of His activity at the very outset of recorded history: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Who can dispute His account from a position of authority? Who else was present to offer a different recollection of that event? Thus, cosmologists and theoretical scientists with their hypotheses cannot even provide a valid contradictory theory because there is no way to substantiate their ideas for how the cosmos came into being.

And the universe that God created was not merely reformulated out of existing stuff. He did not mold and form matter that He found pre-existent and unused. He made everything that exists ex nihilo—out of nothing. Indeed, all that we observe and know sprang from an idea in the unfathomable mind of God.

John tells us that even before He created, God existed in perfect harmony with Himself. Referring to Christ, John records, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being” (John 1:1-3).

Every created thing—be it a galaxy, a world, a mighty beast, a perfect snowflake, or God’s highest creation, Man—exists because God made it so.

A Denial of Reality

Over time, Man’s relationship with God became skewed due to our sinful nature. As it has been said, we are not sinners because we sin; we sin because we are sinners. That propensity to wander away from God—initially spurred by the serpent in the garden of Eden—has been our downfall throughout human history.

Yet, just like Adam, we endeavor to deflect the responsibility for our sin to anybody or anything but ourselves. Or, following the faulty reasoning of fallen Man, humanity rationalizes that there is no God who created us—therefore, we are not beholden or accountable to anyone outside ourselves. David renounced such false thinking and the behavior it inevitably produces: “the fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds” (Psalm 14:1).

Always eager to discredit God and lead men and women into deception and destruction, Satan still whispers, “Did God really say?” and “You surely will not die!” (Genesis 3:1, 4). Today, the false gods of our age beckon us to reject the God who made us and become our own god. Doing so leads to certain destruction. But God had a better plan.

Before the Foundation of the World

John recorded that God has a Book of Life containing the names of everyone—past, present, and future—who trust in the Lamb who was slain before the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8). Peter also testifies that “He (Jesus Christ) was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of [those who have believed]” (1 Peter 1:20).

God’s plan of salvation was not His “Plan B,” concocted to deal with a creation gone awry. He did not wring His hands and exclaim, “Well, this isn’t working out the way I’d hoped. I’d better come up with something to set it right, or at least save some.”

No, the good news of God’s provision for salvation was preordained before He even said, “Let there be light.” He knew that His Son would have to suffer and die for the sins of many before He said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). He knew your name, your heart, and the number of hairs on your head before He set the first star in the sky.

Alpha and Omega

At Lamb & Lion Ministries, our focus is often on “last things.” Our mission is to proclaim the soon return of Jesus Christ. For the Bride of Christ—the Church—our homegoing will occur at the Rapture when our Bridegroom comes to take us back to His Father’s house.

For those who have rejected God’s free gift of salvation, the wrath of God will be poured out in the Tribulation. Following those seven years of unparalleled horror, Jesus Christ will descend from heaven in the same manner that He was caught up in the sight of the Apostles. He will set foot on the Mount of Olives and speak a supernatural word that will destroy the Antichrist and armies gathered near Megiddo. The Kidron Valley will split in two, and Jesus will enter the city of Jerusalem through the Golden (Eastern) gate, ascend to the Temple Mount, and take His seat on the throne of His father, David.

For 1000 years, Jesus will reign over the earth, flooding it with peace, righteousness, and holiness. Then, He will put down a final rebellion instigated by the Devil and cast death and Hades into a lake of fire. At that point, the redeemed will enter the eternal state, where time itself ceases to have meaning.

That plan, too, was foreordained by God, which is why He could reveal it to His servants, the prophets. Though not yet realized, that sequence of events is as certain as any historical fact—because our God has declared the beginning and the end. He is our Alpha and our Omega—our Creator and Sustainer–and the One who will welcome us into His eternal presence—or cast us into everlasting destruction.

Evening and Morning

The opening verses of Genesis describe the earth as formless and void, with darkness abiding over the surface of the deep. The only movement was the Spirit of God Himself (Genesis 1:2).

In the midst of that impenetrable darkness, God said, “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3). He pierced the darkness with the power of His spoken Word and showered the earth with light that He declared to be good. From that point forward, darkness was separated from light. Mankind would experience a daily reminder of the contrast between those two extremes. Every day—beginning with the first seven recorded in the opening pages of Genesis—consists of evening and morning. That is why Jewish days begin at sundown and end when the brightness of day recedes once again.

Throughout the Creation account, each day’s work with its component stages was declared to be good. Only when the whole was completed in perfect harmony did God gaze over all He had created and declare it to be “very good” (Genesis 1:31).

Initially, Man’s interaction with God was also very good. Adam had no stain of sin and no reason to be ashamed or fearful of God. However, the Fall brought Man from that glorious height into the cursed depths. He was even banished from Eden, condemned to hardship and toil. The Creation itself became discordant, with thorns and thistles and poisonous plants and animals emerging. Wandering ever farther from God, men and women “became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Romans 1:21).

The Hebrew word for evening is erev. The word originally conveyed obscurity and chaos, but over time has come to mean darkness or evening. So, evening represents a rise in disorder and understanding. Likewise, in a very real sense, Mankind’s dark age began the moment Adam and Eve first sinned against God.

In Jewish understanding, the fall of night symbolizes Man’s departure from God’s goodness. That motif of darkness and light carried through the Old Testament and into the New. Thanks be to God, His eternal plan was to pierce the darkness. Citing Isaiah 9:2, Matthew recounted how “the people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light, and those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death, upon them a Light dawned” (Matthew 4:16). That Light was Jesus Christ.

John testified about Jesus, “In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:4-5). Later, John reiterated that the message he heard from God and shared with us is that “God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).

Beginning and End

Just as each day has a beginning and an end (whether according to Jewish or Western reckoning), Creation also had a beginning and will come to an end. Likewise, human history also has a beginning and an end.

Those of us who are plodding along the timeline of history are confined to a very two-dimensional awareness. We can reflect on the past—although our own awareness fades the further back we go; even human records only carry us so far back. We are capable of anticipating the future, but left to our own devices, we cannot gaze ahead at all.

Referring to mankind, the writer of Ecclesiastes observed that God “has also put eternity in their hearts, but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Thus, in this life, we are constrained to a linear experience of time and confined to a never-ending “present.”

But God is not confined to time as we know it. Instead, like a pilot flying high above an interstate who can see obstacles and traffic jams many miles ahead, God’s omniscience allows Him to see the beginning and the end with equal clarity. And He has chosen to reveal what we need to know about each—testifying to His creative acts in Genesis and the flow of end-time events in Jesus’ Revelation.

Jesus – the First and the Last

God is the Central Figure both in the beginning and at the end. Jesus Christ is the Creator who fulfilled the will of the Father. He will also come again to fulfill all the Father has revealed and promised.

For the next several months, Lamb & Lion Ministries will go back to the future, beginning with the foundational texts of God’s testimony. As we step through the Old Testament on Christ in Prophecy, we’ll focus on the wonderful examples of Christ in prophecy.

Jesus—the eternal Son of God—was there at the beginning. He is there in every book of the Bible, either in pre-incarnate manifestation, foreshadowed type, or as the gracious and silent Author driving the narrative of history. And history itself is His story.

Bookends

The two books of the Bible most frequently dismissed as fanciful and non-literal are Genesis and Revelation. But they act as bookends to all of God’s revealed Word—describing His acts of Creation, Man’s Fall, God’s foreshadowing of a Messiah to restore relationship, and the final culmination of human history when God closes the loop on righteousness, justice, mercy, and holiness.

Henry Morris

Between those two bookends, the Bible conveys all the revelation God deemed appropriate to share with mankind. Skeptics complain that the span of God’s revelation in Scripture is just too hard to understand. But, as Henry Morris once said regarding Revelation, “It is not hard to understand; if you will believe what the Lord has proclaimed, you will understand.”

With God’s metanarrative available to all who would simply read the Book and believe, why is there such a shortage of understanding today? The reasons are legion—and yes, that is an intentional side-reference to the band of demons that possessed the hapless man that Jesus encountered on the eastern shore of Galilee.

Some are so enamored with their reason and lean so heavily on their own understanding that they reject the revelation of God. Others allow the insidious doubts sown by Satan to sprout into weeds and thorns that choke off the truth. As in the garden, our enemy’s favorite tactic is to ask, “Did God really say…” and then proceed to discount and contradict the Creator outright.

So, what can we do? First and foremost, we must dedicate ourselves to reading, studying, and heeding the whole Word of God. Revelation twice promises a blessing to “all who read and heed” that final book of prophecy. That principle applies to all of God’s Word. The Holy Spirit will increase our knowledge and understanding as we read the entire Bible. Heeding first involves believing God and literally taking Him at His word.

Genesis (and Paul) testified that Abram believed God, and He credited it to him as righteousness. Therefore, if we desire to receive a blessing from God, we must not only believe IN Him, we must also believe Him.

The Image of the Invisible God

Jesus—the Word who was there at the beginning, the One by whom all things were created, the Son whose finished work on the cross justifies us before the Father—has promised to come again (John 1:1-3, Colossians 1:15-17, Romans 5:9, Revelation 22:7, 12, 20). When He does, we will look upon Him face-to-face. We’ll see His glory, and He will dwell among us forever.

In the months to come, I want to challenge you to read the Old Testament as we step through each book on Christ in Prophecy. Pray that the Holy Spirit will open your eyes to see Jesus on every page. Expect that He will reveal the prophecies that point to Himself—causing your heart to burn within you as the disciples on the road to Emmaus testified when Jesus revealed Himself in the scriptures.

The Bible really is all about Jesus. Experience Him anew as you dive between the bookends.

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