Concerning life during evil times, Paul said, “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil” (Eph. 5:16-17).

Do not let the corruption of this world distract you, be thoughtful, walk wisely, walk in the will of God, and use the time you have left to serve Him.

Here are some reasons to believe the days are evil.

One, concerning Israel’s recent war with Hamas and the Palestine Islamic Jihad, here are a few things that caught my attention:

• On May 17, 2021, Turkey’s Pres. Erdogan called upon the UN, the UN Security Council, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and other international groups to wrestle Jerusalem away from Israel and to establish a commission of Muslims, Christians and Jews to administer the city.
• On May 18, 2021, Israel’s Prime Min. Netanyahu said Israel’s 9 days of strikes on Gaza have “set Hamas back by years,” and “We will continue [to strike] as long as needed in order to restore the quiet to all citizens of Israel.”
• On May 18, 2021, Israel shot down and recovered pieces of an armed Iranian drone that was launched from Syria or Iraq and entered Israeli air space from Jordan.
• On May 18, 2021, Kohanim (Jewish priests) wearing priestly garments reenacted the Shavuot (Feast of Weeks; Pentecost) Temple service. The service could not be held on the Temple Mount because the Palestinians were rioting, but it was held near the Temple Mount despite the rioting.
• On May 19, 2021, four rockets were fired at Israel from southern Lebanon, but Hezbollah denied responsibility (Israel responded with artillery fire).
• On May 19, 2021, it was reported that Israel has been striking Hamas’ navy. The head of Hamas’ submarine development program has been killed, the head of Hamas’ naval commando force has probably been killed, 8 warehouses that store naval weapons, 10 naval posts and 22 ships have been destroyed, and more.
• On May 19, 2021, Pres. Biden pushed Prime Min. Netanyahu to move toward a ceasefire with Hamas. Netanyahu said he is determined to continue until he has achieved quiet and security (peace and safety) for the citizens of Israel. Netanyahu said, “The possible responses to Hamas are to either conquer Gaza or deter them.”
• On May 20, 2021, there was an 8-hour lull in Israel’s attacks on her enemies, but 341 rockets were fired at Israel. Despite that (and the fact that 4,400 rockets had been fired at Israel since May 10), Prime Min. Netanyahu declared a unilateral ceasefire.
• On May 20, 2021, it was reported that a long list of Arab writers (Arab writers, not Jewish writers) are saying this conflict was really a conflict with Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood because they were financing and arming Hamas. According to these Arab writers, those that truly care about the Palestinians would want Hamas defeated and driven out of Gaza because they are oppressing the Palestinian people.

For your information, here is this writer’s understanding of the ceasefire:

• On May 20, 2021, following an Egyptian proposal, Prime Min. Netanyahu declared a unilateral ceasefire.
• Hamas wanted a negotiated ceasefire, not a unilateral ceasefire.
• Hamas was attacking Israel to force Israel to agree to keep Jews off the Temple Mount, keep Jews out of Muslim neighborhoods near Jerusalem, cause Israel to abandon the holy sites, etc.
• Israel’s unilateral ceasefire means that Israel did not make any concessions to Hamas or agree to any of the things Hamas wanted.
• It also means that Israel can resume the attacks anytime Israel thinks it is necessary.
• Israel did not give up the right to visit the Temple Mount, enter Muslim neighborhoods, abandon any of the holy sites, etc.
• When Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire, world leaders stopped pressuring Israel to stop attacking the Palestinians.
• But some started pressuring the Muslims to stop attacking Israel.
• On May 23, 2021, Israel allowed a small group of Jewish visitors to visit the Temple Mount.
• Hamas lost a lot of people, weapons, tunnels, buildings, money, etc., but not even one of their demands was met.
• On May 25, 2021, there were no rockets being fired on Israel, but rioting and violence were still taking place.

Two, Since the rocket bombardments stopped, Biden said he will give Gaza $338 million, Pres. el-Sisi of Egypt said he will give $500 million to rebuild Gaza, and Qatar pledged $360 million (almost $1.2 billion so far).

Why shouldn’t Hamas go to war if world leaders reward them like that?

Of course, some always say the money helps the Palestinian people.

In my neck of the woods, people call that “Hog Wash” (blarney, a lie, nonsense, stupidity, etc.).

Past history shows that most of the money given to help the Palestinians always seems to wind up in the hands of terrorists, and most of it is used not to help the Palestinians but to finance future terrorist attacks on Israel.

Three, concerning the Great Reset, on May 19, 2021, LifeSiteNews posted an Apr. 9, 2021, interview with retired Roman Catholic Archbishop Carlo Vigano.

In my words, Vigano said:

• The Great Reset is an elitist effort to impose a series of changes on the masses because it would be difficult to get the changes approved if the masses are given a choice.
• The changes are intended to prepare for the reign of the Antichrist.
• The elite are hiding their true intent (deceiving the masses) under the guise of creating a better world, protecting the environment, freedom, equality, etc.
• The principles they espouse reveals a hatred for religion, especially Christianity and Jesus.
• Their idea of freedom is rebellion against God and the Word of God.
• Their idea of equality is to place everyone on the same level, and that is the lowest level of society today.
• Man is made in the image of God with the freedom to choose to obey or not obey God, but the globalists intend to remake man in an image they prefer and force man to obey them.
• Good and evil will not be defined by the Bible; it will be defined by them.
• The Great Reset is not just setting the stage for the rise of Antichrist; it is also setting the stage for their godless world religion.
• Covid is a tool the globalists have been using to justify restrictions on the natural freedoms and rights of the masses.

Four, concerning the tracking of all buying and selling, on May 24, 2021, it was reported that the Federal Reserve expects a money system similar to a digital dollar to be ready for use by the general public in two years.

Five, concerning a falling away from the faith in the U.S., on May 20, 2021, it was reported that an Arizona Univ. Cultural Research Center found that 43% of Millennials (18-36) and 31% of Gen Xers (37-54) do not know or care whether God exists.

Only 40% of those that are 55 or older are believed to be born again.

Concerning this, Dr. George Barna said, “The influence of the Christian church has diminished while the influence of arts, entertainment, and news media has exploded.”

In conclusion, walk wisely, the days are evil, and you should not want to be embarrassed when Jesus returns.

Six, concerning election fraud, on May 25, 2021, it was reported that radio host John Fredericks said Judge Amero could decertify the Georgia election if it is found that votes were counted twice.

If Fredericks is right, the struggle to get this fraud to the U.S. Supreme Court could tear this nation apart.

Finally, if you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.

duck_daymond@yahoo.com

Our government is in a spiritual war.

Globalists are determined to transform America.

America once knew God, but our leaders now ignore and exclude Him.

Godless people are running our nation.

Christian ministries are being banned by social media.

God answers prayer, but less than half of U.S. citizens are Christian, and many are not praying.

Our leaders openly champion the anti-Biblical agenda of abortionists and gays.

Our freedom of speech and religion are at stake.

Our economy is being destroyed.

Our border with Mexico is wide open.

Deceit is rampant.

The Great Reset wants to seize our property and make our children wards of the state.

Globalists, including Pres. Biden, Pope Francis and others are pushing for a world government, forced vaccinations, and more.

America is threatened as never before in our history.

Israel is threatened and maligned.

God’s prophets warned us that many of these things would happen, and serious students of Bible prophecy are not surprised.

Here are more events that are moving us down the prophetic road:

One, on May 11, 2021, the Biden administration repeated its support for the two-state solution, and White House Press Sec. Jen Psaki said, “That is the only way to ensure the just and lasting peace.”

That belief comes from the pits of Hell because the Bible says God will drag the nations into the Battle of Armageddon for doing that (Joel 3:2).

That is one war that is not going to turn out the way world leaders think.

Two, on May 12, 2021, Hamas issued an ultimatum to Israel: Withdraw from the Al-Aqsa Mosque (they falsely claim that this includes the entire Temple Mount) and Sheikh Jarrah (a community near East Jerusalem) by 6 pm or hundreds of more rockets will be fired into Israel.

Israel did not respond.

• On May 14, 2021, it was reported that Hamas was trying to convince Palestinians (and Muslims in other places) that they are the “Defender of Jerusalem” (The teaching that Jerusalem belongs to Muslims is a lie).
• On May 15, 2021, it was reported that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are calling this conflict “The Al-Quds Swords War (Al-Quds is the Muslim name for Jerusalem).

The struggle for Jerusalem will continue until Jesus returns to defeat Israel’s enemies at the Battle of Armageddon.

Three, on May 12, 2021, the UN’s Middle East Peace Envoy warned that the uprising in Israel could escalate into a full-scale war, and the UN Security Council held its second emergency meeting in three days to deal with the situation.

Wars and rumors of wars are a sign of the end of the age.

Violence has now broken out between Arab and Jewish citizens in dozens of communities.

Four, on May 13, 2021, Hamas started firing more powerful rockets with a longer range into Israel, and it was reported that they have been trying (without success) to hit the offshore rig in Israel’s Tamar gas field.

Five, on May 13, 2021, Israel’s military announced that its ground troops were invading Gaza.

An hour or so later, Israel’s military announced that they had not started an invasion but were putting troops and weapons in place in case they wanted to start one.

These announcements were contradictory and confusing, but reporters hopped on the story and sent out word that the invasion was underway.

Shortly after that (early Friday morning), 160 Israeli planes dropped 450 bombs containing more than 80 tons of explosives on several kilometers of known terrorist tunnels in Gaza (One tunnel ran under a major street in Gaza City).

Israel’s military said the first announcement that the invasion had started was a ploy because they knew all the terrorists would rush into the tunnels, and they wanted to give them time to gather underground to hide.

Then Israel dropped all those bombs to bury alive as many as possible.

No one knows how many were buried, but Israel believes it was a large number.

• On May 14, 2021, it was reported that Hamas leaders are deeply shocked at how many Hamas leaders have been killed, and they suspect that Israel may have hacked into their secret communication system (It has also been reported that the Senior Commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group was killed).
• On May 15, 2021, the IDF said, “No Hamas officer may feel safe, over or underground.”
• On May 16, 2021, the IDF dropped 110 bombs that were designed to destroy tunnels on the network of terrorist tunnels.
• On May 16, 2021, Israel destroyed the homes of 9 terrorist commanders (weapons were stored in some of those homes).
• On May 18, 2021, the IDF estimated that it has destroyed 130 km (about 80 miles) of terrorist tunnels in Gaza.

Six, on May 13, 2021, terrorists in Lebanon fired 3 rockets toward Israel that landed in the Mediterranean Sea and did not hit anything.

• Demonstrators in Lebanon started marching toward Israel while waving Palestinian flags.
• When some of them crossed the border, Israeli tanks fired warning shots, and the demonstrators went back into Lebanon.
• On May 17, 2021, terrorists in Lebanon fired 6 more rockets toward Israel, but they fell short.

Hezbollah has more than 200,000 rockets ready to fire at Israel.

• Israel has warned Lebanon and Hezbollah that Israel will destroy Lebanon if Hezbollah attacks Israel.

On May 17, 2021, Jordan recalled its ambassador to Israel and expelled Israel’s ambassador to Jordan.

• Jordan sent a message to UN Sec. Gen. Guterres saying Israel provoked her enemies into starting this war.

For whatever it is worth, some (not all) prophecy teachers believe there will be an end-of-the-age war called the “Psalm 83 War.”

• Psalm 83 is an imprecatory prayer by a prophet and priest named Asaph (II Chron. 29:30), asking God to deal with Israel’s enemies at a time of great danger to Israel.
• Those that believe a Psa. 83 war contend that several Psalms are prophetic (Psa. 2, 16, 21, and many more), prayers can be prophetic, and God will answer Asaph’s prophetic prayer.
• The list of Israel’s enemies in Psa. 83 includes the Philistines (Palestinians in Gaza and Jordan), Moab (an area in Jordan), Ammon (a city in Jordan), with the inhabitants of Tyre (a city in Lebanon that is under the control of Hezbollah; Psa. 83:7).
• 83:1 says, “Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.”
• 83:2 says, “For, lo, thine enemies (God’s enemies) make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.”
• 83:3 says, “They (God’s enemies) have taken crafty counsel against thy
• people (Israel), and consulted against thy hidden ones.”
• 83:4 says, God’s enemies will say, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation (let us destroy Israel); that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.”
• 83:5 says, “For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee” (the Muslims have gotten together and conspired against Jehovah).
• 83:11-12 says, “Make their nobles (leaders) like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession” (Let us, Israel, kill the leaders of God’s enemies because those leaders are saying, “Let us seize the holy places of Israel).
• 83:18 calls for the destruction of Israel’s enemies “That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth” (Destroy Israel’s enemies so people will know that God’s name is Jehovah and He rules over the whole earth).

Most Bible prophecy teachers that believe Psa. 83 is about an end-of-the-age war believe it will take place just prior to the Battle of Gog and Magog (Ezek. 38-39).

They believe this could also lead to the destruction of Damascus in one night (Isa. 17), and on May 14, 2021, at least 3 rockets were launched into Israel from Syria.

On May 18, 2021, a drone was sent from Syria into Israel, but Israel shot it down.

Seven, concerning world government: on May 13, 2021, it was reported that a Suffolk County, NY College Professor warned in an interview with Tucker Carlson of Fox News that schools are teaching Anti-American globalist theory instead of the U.S. Constitution.

Instead of educating our students, they are brainwashing them with the idea that Americans must do what is best for the world, not what is best for America.

Eight, on May 17, 2021, it was reported that Directors of Microsoft wanted Bill Gates removed as a Director for an inappropriate relationship with a female Microsoft employee.

It has also been reported that Gates had a relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

This immoral globalist wants to tell everyone on earth how they should live, force everyone to be vaccinated, reduce the population of the earth, etc.

With globalists like Gates influencing the whole world, how can anyone doubt that a godless man called the Antichrist will be empowered to rule over it?

Nine, on May 12, 2012, it was reported that some people that have taken a Covid vaccination are saying a magnet will stick to their injection wound, and videos have appeared on social media allegedly showing it happening.

Magnets will stick to metal, but not flesh.

This is causing people to suspect that at least some so-called vaccines contain a nanochip for tracking purposes.

Some scientists dismiss this as a conspiracy theory, but many who say that work for, or are employed by, companies with ties to the government.

A nanochip in the jab could be dangerous because of the globalist desire to force people to be vaccinated.

• On May 16, 2021, it was reported that FDA inspectors ordered 15 million doses of Johnson and Johnson’s Covid vaccine to be trashed because of contaminants.

Ten, more on Covid:

• On May 15, 2021, it was reported that 40-50 percent of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Center for Disease Control (CDC) employees have not taken the vaccine.
• Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said it is about the same in that organization.

Eleven, more on Covid:

• On May 17, 2021, Pres. Biden said, “those who are not vaccinated will end up paying the price,” whatever that means.
• The Democrats and some Republicans say a woman has a Constitutional right to choose what to do with her own body.
• It looks like they say she has a Constitutional right to choose, if she wants to abort (kill) her baby, but she does not have a Constitutional right to choose if she wants to refuse to be vaccinated.
• Perhaps they should be sued for denying women their Constitutional right to choose what to do with their own body.
• For your information, as of May 17, 2021, almost one million people have signed a LifeSiteNews petition rejecting mandatory Covid vaccinations (the number of people that will “end up paying the price” may not be small).

Twelve, concerning hyper-inflation and an economic collapse: on May 12, 2021, it was reported that federal taxes, federal spending, and the federal debt have set records in the first seven months (Oct. through Apr.) of the 2021 fiscal year.

Thirteen, concerning persecution: on May 18, 2021, it was reported that Canada has now arrested 3 pastors for holding church services that violate orders (not wearing a mask, not social distancing, not locking down, or whatever).

Finally, if you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.

duck_daymond@yahoo.com