The Tribulation Period is called a day of darkness (Zeph. 1:15).

The Church won’t be in darkness because the Church won’t be here, but multitudes will be in darkness because they are not watching and are unprepared (I Thess. 5:1-5).

Here are some examples of the growing spiritual darkness:

First, in 1980, Robert Schuller built an expensive church building called the Crystal Cathedral.

Mr. Schuller died in 2015, and the Roman Catholic Church bought the property and building for 57 million dollars.

They spent 77 million dollars on renovations for a total of 134 million dollars.

California has a lot of homeless people living on the streets, and the Roman Catholic Church spent 134 million dollars on a property and building.

Jesus said the Laodicean Church thought it was rich, and increased with goods, and in need of nothing, but it was wretched, miserable, poor, and blind, and naked (Rev. 3:17).

Among other things, I believe the seven letters to the seven churches are prophecy (Rev. 1:3; 22:7); and the letter to the Laodicean Church shows that the Church will wind up in spiritual darkness, thinking it is rich when it is poor.

Second, the U.S. House of Representatives has a chaplain, a Roman Catholic priest named Patrick Conroy.

It is Rev. Conroy’s job to start each day off with a prayer in the House, and he has been doing that since 2011.

On July 18, 2019, Rev. Conroy stood before the U.S. House of Representatives, raised both of his hands and started casting out demons (all spirits of darkness, spirits not from God, discouragement, petty divisiveness, and sadness).

I like what Rev. Conroy did and pray for a greater awareness that the underlying cause of many of America’s problems is spiritual darkness and demonic activity that needs to be acknowledged publicly and with prayer.

Demonic activity and Satan worship are signs of the Tribulation Period (Rev. 9:21; 13:4).

Third, there is misunderstanding on the issue, but many Christians believe prayer was taken out of the schools in 1962, and they wonder why the Church sat still and let it happen.

Now, a dangerous bill called the Equality Act has passed in the U.S. House of Representatives that will strip Christians of their freedom of speech, their freedom of religion, their freedom to teach their children Bible truth, etc.

If this demonic act of spiritual darkness gets passed, persecution will come to America unlike anything this nation has ever experienced.

The Church should not sit still and let it happen.

Fourth, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse may soon be released, but the Four Horsewomen (the squad) of the Apocalypse have already arrived.

Pres. Trump is calling them out for their lack of patriotism and constant criticism of the U.S., but they are trying to deflect this with the false accusation of Racism.

False accusations are a sign of the last days (II Tim. 3:1-3).

Fifth, on July 15, 2015, U.S. Att. Gen. William Barr said “identity politics” (calling those that criticize someone Racists, Homophobes, Islamophobes, Anti-Semites, etc.) is spreading hatred, dividing the U.S., and hindering our success, and it must be rejected.

Sixth, Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, is talking about creating a company to put computer chips in the human brain.

He believes chips can be implanted in humans to connect them to computers and improve their memory.

Concerning the implantation of computer chips in the human brain, remember that the Mark of the Beast will be in a person’s forehead or in their right hand.

Know that if the Rapture happened today, there may still be a few years before the Mark of the Beast is enforced.

Seventh, on July 14, 2019, two new U.S. F-35 stealth fighter jets landed in Israel, bringing the total number now delivered to Israel up to 16 (Israel has ordered 50).

Turkey wants to buy 100 of these “game-changers,” but Pres. Trump said he won’t let Turkey buy them because they bought some S-400 missile systems from Russia.

The way I see it, God (not Pres. Trump) blocked the sale of these powerful jets to Turkey because He knew they would be used against Israel.

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Daymond & Rachel Duck
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First, as I write this article, Hurricane Barry is bearing down on Louisiana, and I suspect that some people are wondering why is this happening?

Among other things, I believe natural disasters are part of the curse that God placed upon the earth because of sin.

There will be natural disasters until the curse is removed (Rom. 8:22).

I also believe that God sent the Ten Plagues upon Egypt to let Pharaoh know that Israel’s God is God, and there are some things that humans can’t control (Exodus 7:14-12:30).

I also believe that natural disasters come from the heart of a loving God that wants sinful people to repent of their sins and return to Him (II Chron. 12:12-14).

We live in a godless world with many Church members (Christians in name only) twisting Scripture to justify their re-definition of sin.

Someone said beware of half-truths because the half you believe may be wrong.

God may be telling us that repentance in the Church is badly needed.

A recent Pew Research poll found that the number of people in the U.S. that call themselves Christian was 86% in the early 90’s, 78.4% in 2007 and 70.6% in 2014.

God loves people, but He hates sin, and He will judge sin.

Second, true Christians are close to losing their freedom of speech and religion.

In Jan. 2019, UN Sec. General Antonio Guterres directed one of his advisors to develop a plan to combat hate speech and hate crimes.

The plan was presented to the UN in June 2019, and it wants to globally outlaw all speech, writing and behavior that is divisive or intolerant (all speech, writing and behavior that criticizes Muslims, gays, etc.).

Third, concerning Pres. Trump’s Deal of the Century, his Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt said, “We are aiming for a home run.”

Pres. Trump believes the peace negotiations have gone on long enough and it is time for a comprehensive, final peace treaty in the Middle East.

God is the only One that knows what is going to happen, but it should be noted that the rebellious Palestinian leadership is not so rebellious after all.

Three things have spurred them to try to re-establish their relationship with Pres. Trump: 1) Pres. Trump cut off U.S. financial aid, and the PA is hurting financially; 2) The PA has decided that Pres. Trump will get re-elected, and they want to smooth things over with him; and 3) PA efforts to get all of the Arab nations to boycott Jared Kushner’s Bahrain conference was ignored by some Arab leaders.

Fourth, last week, there was an article about Mark Zuckerberg’s desire to create a one-world currency in early 2020.

This week, Pres. Trump and Jerome Powell, head of the Federal Reserve, chimed in on the subject.

Mr. Trump tweeted, “If Facebook and other companies want to become a bank, they must seek a new Banking Charter and become subject to all Banking Regulations, just like other Banks, both National [and international].”

Mr. Powell said America’s central bank has “serious concerns” about Mr. Zuckerberg’s one-world currency.

Notice that discussion of a one-world currency has now moved from the pages of books on Bible prophecy to tweets at the White House and Federal Reserve testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives.

Fifth, some people want to deny the existence of King David because they don’t want to believe the Bible is the Word of God.

If scholars can prove that King David existed, it would make it harder to deny what the Bible says.

Several years ago, archaeologists started excavating a site in Israel that appeared to be an ancient town.

They have found and carbon-dated many items.

On July 8, 2010, they announced that the town they have found is the ancient town of Ziklag.

According to the Bible, King David hid at Ziklag when he was fleeing from King Saul.

It seems that archaeology keeps proving the Bible right, and it never proves the Bible wrong.

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Daymond & Rachel Duck
duck_daymond@yahoo.com