Jesus’ words to the church of Ephesus are appropriate to America today, “Remember from where you have fallen, and repent” (Revelation 2:5). We all know America is headed in the wrong direction and on so many levels. Our nation certainly needs to heed Jesus’ words to the church at Sardis and “Wake up!” before it is too late (Revelation 3:2).

Knowing the perilous times in which we are living, how then can we have hope when the world’s going all wrong?

In 1996, former Pastor Mike Huckabee ascended to become governor of Arkansas. When the man whom he had immediately succeeded, Bill Clinton, was caught up in a storm of scandal surrounding the infamous Clinton Whitewater affair, Mike Huckabee exhibited calm demeanor and unwavering leadership. First elected to statewide office as Lieutenant Governor in 1993, Huckabee arrived at the capitol to discover that the door to his office had been nailed shut by Clinton operatives. His ability to overcome hostility with grace and good humor endeared him to the people of Arkansas then and all Americans today.

When the world appears to be going all wrong, Mike Huckabee shares a poignant message about how we can still have hope (watch on Christ in Prophecy).

An Abrupt Change of Plans

There are many times in our lives when we find ourselves heading in a particular direction. We think we know where we’re going, and we think we know why, but then everything goes haywire. It’s not just that in our country we are seeing some things going the wrong way; we also see it in our individual lives.

My guess is that there’s not a person alive who has not experienced disappointments, hurts, and even betrayals by people we thought were our friends. Sometimes the hurt comes from a close friend or a family member that you never thought would intentionally hurt you. I’m not talking about the hurts that are unintentional, that are accidental, that just happen and no one knows why they delivered a sharp blow. I’m talking about when people know they’re going after us and they do so intentionally.

Sometimes those wounds can cut so deep and be so harsh. It’s hard to get past them. We all have experienced those moments when we felt things had gone the wrong way in your life. Maybe, deep down, you thought that what happened to you was even intentional. It could be financial, emotional, spiritual—lots of different ways in which you can feel hurt. Sometimes, what we think is going on isn’t really what’s going on at all.

In March of 2002, I was just about to enter my second full term as governor, and I was conducting a trade mission to India. We had some businesses in Arkansas that we were trying to connect with businesses in India. I had a meeting with what was the equivalent of the Speaker of the House in the Indian Parliament. His name was G.M.C. Balayogi. He would be the equivalent of Mike Johnson in our Congress today.

We were to meet in this little village called Bhimavaram in India. We were going to see some work that was being done by some of the people in that village. We were to have dinner and then get on helicopters and fly to another community where we were going to hopefully consummate a business arrangement that would be very good for the people of Arkansas and India as well.

Before we could even start the dinner, Speaker Balayogi got word that an urgent issue had come up in the capitol and that he would be required to leave immediately. I’ve got to tell you, I was just so frustrated, on the brink of anger. Here we’d traveled halfway around the world, and this was supposed to be the centerpiece of the entire trip having this meeting to finalize everything. By him having to abruptly leave, take one of the helicopters, go back to the capitol, and leave me and my team to finish dinner without him, we had to figure out what we do now. Basically, the trip was ruined.

I’ll be honest; it’s frustrating at a time like that. All that preparation gone! In my frustration, disgust, and disappointment, I’m sure I expressed to God how utterly discombobulated I was that this business arrangement wouldn’t happen. I asked Him, “Why, Lord, would this meeting not take place like this?”

Well, we finished our dinner alone, got on a helicopter, and we flew to the next village. Upon landing, we were told some news that turned out to be rather distressing. Speaker Balayogi hod gotten on his helicopter with his team. It was supposed to be the helicopter that he and I were together supposed to fly on to go to the next village after the dinner. Instead of me being on that helicopter with him, I took the second one. We found out that the one that he had taken that I was supposed to be in suffered a mechanical problem and crashed. Everyone on that helicopter, including the Speaker, were all killed. I should have been on that helicopter. You can imagine that, suddenly, the broken-down trade deal became a whole lot less important to me because I got to go home, and I wouldn’t have if I’d traveled with the Speaker.

What Man Means for Evil…

In all of our lives, there are those moments when things go the opposite way. That’s not just true for us in modern times but a history of what God has done in the lives of His chosen.

Genesis 50 is one of my favorite passages of Scripture because it’s about the story of Joseph. Remember how Joseph, as a kid, was a proud little guy and pretty arrogant. He was his father’s favorite. He received a coat of many colors. His brothers resented everything that Jacob did for Joseph because it was so much over the top in terms of favoritism. In every family, there’s always some child, true or not, that the siblings believe, “He or she is the favorite, the pet.” In every family, there’s this feeling that one child is the parents’ favorite. Well, in this case, it was true; Joseph really was the favorite.

Joseph’s brothers resented him so badly that they found an opportunity to sell him off into slavery. They thought he was dead. And, frankly, they didn’t care. They went back and told Jacob, “Your son, he’s dead.” Jacob was so heartbroken that it just about killed him.

Joseph ended up in slavery, and he was a slave for quite some time. Then he got falsely accused of an assault and so ended up in prison. Joseph would have rotted there forever, but he interpreted a dream, and even in prison, the Lord found favor with him. Joseph ended up, through a series of nothing short of miracles, becoming second-in-command to the pharaoh of Egypt.

In the meantime, there’s a famine in the land of Israel. Joseph’s brothers are sent to Egypt to see if they could buy some grain because that was the only way they might be able to survive. So, they go to Egypt to buy grain, and as it turns out, they end up having an audience with a brother they thought was dead, and frankly always hoped that he would be. Now they’re confronted with a brother who not only is alive, but he has the power not just to give them grain, but he has the power to take their lives. And Joseph had every right to do so. It would’ve been a just act. Certainly, in that era, they lived by “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”

But, in a remarkable twist, while his brothers were begging for their lives, Joseph said something to them that is so powerful. Verse 18 of Genesis 50 tells the story of how:

“His brothers then came and they threw themselves down before him. ‘We are your slaves,’ they said. But Joseph said to them, ‘Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. So then don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children,’ and he reassured them and he spoke kindly to them.”

What they did to him, they intended for harm. But, Joseph, after years of being mellowed out by the tough experiences from being sold into slavery, being falsely imprisoned, and eventually rising up to become the second-in-command of Egypt, he looked upon his brothers differently than he would’ve many years before. So, he said to them, “What you intended for harm, God has used for good, and for the saving of many lives.”

A Detour to Destiny

Sometimes we have to take detours in life, detours that we didn’t plan or expect. But have you ever realized that sometimes our detours are actually our destinations? God can take what we thought were the worst things that ever happened to us, and He uses them for good.

Jeremiah had to take a detour. He prophesied to the people of Israel, but they refused to repent. In Jeremiah 7, God tells them, “Don’t even pray for these people. They’re not worth praying for, and I’m not listening anyway. You can pray, but there’s no point because I’ve already made my decision.” Judah’s cooked, it’s baked, it’s done. God even told Jeremiah in chapter 16, “Don’t marry. There’s no future.” That’s a pretty tough message!

Jonah also had to take a detour. He was told to go to Nineveh. Jonah wasn’t afraid of failure; he was afraid of success!

God told Jonah, “Go to Nineveh and preach repentance to these people.” We all know that Jonah didn’t want to go to Nineveh and preach repentance, so he boarded a boat and went to Tarsus—the other way—360 degrees in the opposite direction. He didn’t go to Nineveh, not because he was afraid he would fail; rather, he didn’t go to Nineveh because he was afraid he would succeed.

God had said to Jonah, “Go preach repentance.” And he said, “I don’t want to preach repentance. These people might repent. Then I’ll have to love them. I hate these people! I don’t want to go down there, so I ain’t going.” Jonah turns, and he goes the opposite way. But, God gave Jonah a detour—in the belly of a big fish. Now, that’s a detour! He thought he was going one way, but God sent him another.

A detour will help you see things that you never would’ve seen. It’ll take you to places that you never would’ve gone. It will make you go slower than you ever would’ve traveled. “Praise God, a detour,” says no one because none of us are happy about making a change to our plans.

None of us are thrilled when we have to take a detour. But, in our spiritual lives, the detours are often our true destinations because God knows that we would never go willingly and in a straight line. So, He takes us the way to where we don’t have a choice, but in the process, we get to our real destination.

We Know Who Wins

I don’t know what the future holds for America. I just don’t. I can’t tell you. I’d love to tell you that it’s all going to be fine. I am an eternal optimist. I tend to believe that there will be a remnant and a revival. I want to believe that with my whole heart, and I’ll do everything I can to pray for and to seek God’s face so that He would shine again on this great country of ours and bring us back to Him and revive us. That’s my prayer. I want that to happen. But I cannot guarantee that it will.

We could fall as a nation due to our disobedience and our willful rebellion against the holiness of God. He has been so good to us that we should at least serve Him with some level of humility and gratitude. I don’t see it a lot, though.

If you’re a believer in Jesus Christ, I do have good news for you. No matter what happens to the culture or to the country, I know what’s going to happen because I did something that if you haven’t done it, you ought to. I actually read the end of the Bible. And, do you know what? We win!

That Christians will win doesn’t mean that America will win because America’s not mentioned in the Bible. I can’t promise you that America will win.

But I can promise you that Israel will win. I would say to the nations that are attacking Israel, “Get out of the way and don’t stand near a window, folks! God will do what He will with His people and His land, and He has made a promise and a commitment to Israel.” I wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of that fight, that’s for sure.

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About Dr. Nathan E. Jones:

As the Internet Evangelist at Lamb & Lion Ministries, Nathan reaches out to the over 4.5 billion people accessible over the Internet with the Good News of Jesus Christ. He also co-hosts the ministry’s television program Christ in Prophecy and podcast The Truth Will Set You Free.

 

 

It seems that the evil Globalists are inviting us to a ‘Planetary Emergency,’ and attendance is mandatory.

Just in time for the election.

I recommend we send our regrets and refuse to attend.

Either these people have no self-awareness, or they just do not care what anyone else on the planet thinks of their idiocy.

They are going to impose a ‘planetary emergency’ on us whether we like it or not.

They have already established numerous Bio-labs around the world that can be used in the event that too many people refuse to acquiesce to their demands.

And, if they do not feel comfortable releasing a dangerous pathogen because it might get to them, they can just make one up and claim that it is ravaging some distant part of the world.

That strategy really helps cut down on any resistance to their totalitarian ambitions.

I realize this is deadly serious, but I am having a hard time taking this level of absurdity seriously. It’s like a Monty Python skit in which the characters who promote this foolishness are so zany that they are cartoonish.

According to Derrick Broze of the “Last American Vagabond,” our overlords are planning the 79th General Assembly of the United Nations where they will sign their “Pact of the Future.”

The current corrupt administration in the White House will quickly sign on to this pact, by ‘Executive Agreement,’ and attempt to bind the U.S. to this new manifesto.

On the 22nd and 23rd of September in the Democrat hellhole of New York City, they are going to confirm their “Pact for the Future.” This agreement is for their future where they will create a system that will allow them to accumulate ungodly amounts of wealth and power.

The future they have planned for us is much bleaker.

They are going to shift “financial resources,” aka their ill-gotten gain and pilfered taxpayer money, to complete their Agenda 2030 goals. The vast majority of the world has absolutely no idea who came up with this plan or what its consequences might be.

In September of 2021, the Secretary-General released his report, “Our Common Agenda,” which included the participation of not one person who will be adversely affected by this idiocy.

It is a ‘Common Agenda’ among the evil Globalists, and we are expected to blindly go along with it.

According to Broze, “This summit was called to “forge (force) a new global consensus (that we will accept ‘or else’) for a future that is rife with risks (terrible events caused by the evil Globalists) but also opportunities (for more ill-gotten wealth and power for our evil overlords) (my commentary in parentheses).”

That means we get starvation, slavery and oppression while the evil Globalists feast sumptuously on our labor.

According to their ‘Summit of the Future’ website, the ‘Pact for the Future’ will be “a world—and an international system—that is better prepared to manage the challenges we face now.”

One of the biggest challenges they will face is the wars and rebellions that Jesus spoke of in the Book of Mathew against their ‘vision for the future.’ God will also be sending famines and earthquakes as the mindless, faithless population of the world slowly submits to this agenda.

When they are done, we will have ten world dictators who will govern in accordance with their god Satan.

Prior to this, our overlords will vote to radically alter the UN to turn it into an even greater abomination than it already is. Only with a lot more power.

They have also announced their plan to sign a “Global Digital Compact” that those who might object have never read or even heard of. We will all become ‘stakeholders (a euphemism for servant or victim)’ as they set up their ‘mark of the beast system.’

They can’t have a bunch of people running around buying or selling without permission, doncha know? That’s not ‘sustainable.’

There’s too much consumin’ goin’ on out dere (quote from (Ret) Senator Foghorn Leghorn Fritz Hollings (D) from the great State of South Carolina many years ago).

Fortunately, our media is on it and keeping us informed of the nefarious plans of these wicked and deceptive people. By ‘on it,’ I mean they are in bed with them.

The completely moronic chuckleheads who propagandize our youth in academia are also on board. They like to refer to this agenda with such terms as ‘multilateralism’ to intimidate the rest of us with over-intellectualized nonsense.

One of their acolytes, Jeffrey Sachs, has declared that “The world’s geopolitical system is not delivering what we [the evil Globalists] want or need [unchecked power and wealth]. Sustainable development [determined by us, not you] is our [not your] declared goal, which means economic prosperity [poverty], social justice [injustice], environmental sustainability [you locked in your hovels], and peace [imprisonment or death if you get out of line]” for humanity.

Has anyone ever asked themselves who makes the determination as to what is ‘sustainable’? Since we are the ones who will make all the sacrifices without the ability to provide any input, it may be a good idea to find out who is at the top of this pyramid scheme.

Sachs points out that we need a world government to tackle the unprecedented challenges that can only be solved through global cooperation. Since the evil Globalists will be causing these ‘unprecedented challenges,’ we apparently need them to solve the problems that they create.

In order for our Globalist masters to accumulate unprecedented power, they will need lots of money. They will “transform the world” with a new system of taxes on CO2 emissions, shipping, aviation, and financial transactions.

In that way, we can pay for our enslavement because subjugating a world is very expensive.

We will have a ‘transformed international financial structure’ that will be set up to fight (impose) poverty and the imaginary dragon of ‘climate change.’

The evil Globalists are now working on an “Emergency Platform” that can be activated when they detect an emergency. An emergency is defined as an uprising against the totalitarians due to the suffering they have inflicted on the ‘stakeholders.’

The possible election of Donald Trump is definitely a planetary emergency.

When such an emergency occurs, the UN will need a “coherent, coordinated and multidimensional response.” A trial run of this response was completed when they implemented the recent flu bug hysteria, which helped them steal the last presidential election.

We are assured that this “Emergency Platform” will not be implemented by a standing institution or body. Any decision to convene an “Emergency Platform” will fully respect the sovereign, territorial integrity, and political independence of States.

In other words, our political leaders, the majority of whom have been purchased and placed in power by the evil Globalists at the State and Federal level, will be independently making decisions on how much to curb our freedoms.

They are close to having their “Emergency Planetary Plan” operational. A big part of this plan is based on the imaginary ‘urgent need’ to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Although this agenda will be destructive to world economies, that is a sacrifice that our masters are willing to make. There is no amount of suffering that these people will not impose upon us to attain more wealth and power.

Besides, poor people are easier to subjugate than prosperous people.

The call for this “Emergency Planetary Plan” is actually based on eugenics rather than attempting to solve the imaginary climate crisis. According to the theology of the Club of Rome, which much of this climate nonsense is built upon, the real enemy of the utopia they plan to create is humanity itself.

Looks like a lot of ‘stakeholders’ are going to meet an untimely death.

The “Summit of the Future,” which is coming up in just a few weeks, is just one step to the evil Globalists’ eugenics program. Once they get this plan in place, they will begin working on a “Second World Summit for Social Development.”

This is set up for 2025. Next year, we can look forward to even more attempts to mutilate our children sexually while enduring false accusations of ‘racism’ or ‘homophobia’ should we choose to resist their dictates.

The worst part of this travesty is that the evil Globalists are nothing more than tools of God’s judgment against faithless humanity. They will achieve many of their goals because God is going to use them to pass judgment on the enemies of the Gospel.

This is the price the world must pay for its rejection of Christ and his sacrifice on the cross for our sins. God did not crush his only Son at the cross so we could say “thanks, but no thanks.”

Those who worship Allah, call the pope ‘Holy Father,’ preach and feed on false gospels, deny the existence of God, and worship created things rather than the creator are in for a rude awakening. That describes the vast majority of the current world population in this extremely wicked generation.

Those of us who make up the remnant of the church have our work cut out for us.

Noah preached righteousness for one hundred and twenty years, and his harvest was fairly small. Our time is much shorter.

However, we have our marching orders, and we need to carry them out.

We must continue to work to make disciples of all nations by following our prime directive:

“Then he said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem'” (Luke 24:44-47).

If the majority of churches do not intend to carry out their mandate, it is up to the laymen to do it.

If we hold our peace, the stones will cry out and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our place.

I would be awfully embarrassed if I were charged as a servant of Christ but stood idly by while the stones did my work.

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