Christians often hear people say, “I don’t know when the Rapture is, but I know that it is one day closer today than it was yesterday.”

Christians are strangers and pilgrims on earth (Heb. 11:13). This world is not our home and we are constantly approaching our ultimate destination.

Several events that happened this week seemed to speak loud and clear on this issue.

First, it has been reported that one-third of the Bishops in the Roman Catholic Church are covering up for pedophile priests, and the Vatican has barred the U.S. Conference of Catholics from acting to confront it.

It would be difficult to come up with a greater example of spiritual harlotry in the Roman Catholic Church than Bishops that sexually abuse children and a Pope that won’t let the Church confront it.

Some might say this is anti-Catholic rhetoric, but it has been reported that multitudes of Catholics disagree with what their leaders are doing, and these people are leaving the church in droves.

Second, in his first sermon to the Church, Peter said there will be blood, fire and smoke on earth before the Tribulation Period arrives (Acts 2:19-20); and the smoke from about 250,000 acres and more than 10,000 houses (more than 14,000 structures) burning in California has prompted officials to urge citizens to stay indoors and wear protective face masks.

The deadliest wildfires in California history have reduced Paradise to rubble and caused San Francisco and Oakland to have the worst air quality in the world.

Third, Israel recently asked France to deliver a final warning to Lebanon: Shut down Hezbollah’s missile factories in Lebanon or Israel will attack them.

Fourth, on Nov. 12-13, 2018, Hamas fired about 460 rockets and mortars into Israel that sent more than 100 Israelis to the hospital for minor wounds and shock.

Prime Min. Netanyahu had the power to crush Hamas, but he believed that Hamas was trying to lure him into an all-out war that could turn into the Battle of Gog and Magog.

He believed crushing Hamas would derail Israel’s growing friendship with the Arab nations, derail Israel’s joint ventures with the Arabs against Iran, and doom Pres. Trump’s peace proposal.

That is why he agreed to a ceasefire that almost brought his government down.

Israel’s Defense Minister, Avigdor Liberman, resigned when he learned about the ceasefire; and Israel’s Education Minister, Naftali Bennett, threatened to resign if he wasn’t selected to replace Mr. Liberman as Defense Minister.

Israel’s military opposed Mr. Bennett’s elevation to Defense Minister, and the only way Prime Min. Netanyahu could keep Mr. Bennett from resigning and toppling the Netanyahu government was by agreeing that the Israeli military will act more aggressively against terrorism in the future.

Understand that Mr. Netanyahu has no control over when the Battle of Gog and Magog will start.

God is in control, and it will start when God drags Gog and his armies onto the mountains of Israel, not one day before and not one day after (Ezek. 38:4).

But think about it. If Prime Min. Netanyahu had sent the IDF into Gaza, Gog’s army might be marching toward Israel as you are reading this, and that would be a definite sign that the latter years, latter days and perhaps latter hours have arrived.

Anyway, Mr. Netanyahu now holds two positions in Israel: Prime Minister and Defense Minister, and Mr. Netanyahu has promised to respond more harshly to terrorist attacks in the future.

Incidentally, the highly respected Jewish rabbi, Pinchas Winston, former Chief Rabbi of the IDF, said the conflict with Hamas could trigger the war of Gog and Magog, an end of days conflict that precipitates the messianic redemption (a conflict that leads to the coming of Messiah to redeem Israel).

Fifth, around Nov. 11, 2018, it was reported that a Swedish manufacturer of implantable chips is holding meetings with large British companies that employ hundreds of thousands of people to convince those companies to require their employees to be chipped.

The companies are being told that they can save time and money by eliminating passes, badges, ID cards, door key, time clocks, etc.

Some employees of these companies are upset by the fact that they may be required to be chipped and refusing to do so might get them fired.

During the Tribulation Period people, will have to choose between taking the Mark of the Beast or being killed.

Sixth, on Nov. 11, 2018, Pres. Trump’s Middle East Envoy, Jason Greenblatt, said the U.S. wants Pres. Trump’s peace proposal to be the final solution to the Middle East conflict; and if the Trump proposal fails, the U.S. won’t waste any more time trying to work out an agreement.

Seventh, it was reported that the UN is demanding a crackdown on those that oppose globalism (world government).

This is a major step toward persecuting and killing those that won’t take the Mark of the Beast during the last half of the Tribulation Period.

The world is getting darker, but true Christians are approaching their ultimate destination.

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Daymond & Rachel Duck
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World government has dominated my thinking this week, and it appears that we are witnessing a big deal.

The Bible clearly teaches that the Antichrist is coming and he will rule over a world government (Dan. 7:23, 9:24-27; Matt. 24:15; II Thess. 2:3-4; Rev. 13:7-8).

Two things are required for this to happen: One, there must be a decline in nationalism or patriotism, and Two, there must be a rise in globalism or world government.

Both of these things are happening right now, and it seems significant that they are happening in the generation that has witnessed the return of the Jews to the Promised Land (Matt. 24:32-35).

Consider the following as evidence of a decline in nationalism or patriotism: efforts to ignore or discard the U.S. Constitution; demonstrators burning the U.S. flag; a strong push for open borders; the elimination of voter ID and letting illegal aliens vote (for example the Florida election); people chanting “death to America;” the growing disdain for America’s military; NFL football players taking a knee during the National Anthem; the destruction of National Monuments in the U.S.; the demonizing of “white nationalists,” “white nationalism,” etc.

The above list could be longer, but it is long enough for people to see what is taking place in America, if they want to.

There is little doubt that nationalism or patriotism is declining in America (and the same is true of the EU and other places in the world), but there is absolutely nothing wrong with being white or being a patriot.

Consider the following as evidence of a rise in globalism or world government: efforts to create a New World Order; agreements to merge nations, redistribute wealth and surrender national sovereignty; calls to strengthen the UN; formation of groups of nations such as the EU; calls for a world government by 2030; the rise of multiculturalism; the creation of world courts, a World Health Organization, a World Trade Organization, etc.; the effort to create a global ethic, etc.

The above is another list that could be longer, but it is long enough to discern that globalism or world government is rising.

The decline of nationalism and the rise of globalism are preparing the way for the Tribulation Period and the rise of the Antichrist (events that will happen after the Rapture of the Church).

On Nov. 6, 2018, Pres. Trump travelled to Chattanooga, TN to speak at a rally on behalf of Marsha Blackburn’s campaign for the U.S. Senate.

A musician named Lee Greenwood attended and sang his famous patriotic song called “God Bless The USA.”

About 10,000 people joined in to sing along with Mr. Greenwood; and while they were singing “God Bless The USA,” Pres. Trump walked up on the stage.

There were Democrats in the audience, and they started chanting “Racist country! Racist song!”

Nationalism or patriotism is on the decline in the U.S.

About the same time (I didn’t see a date on the article), it was reported that the globalists at the UN don’t like Pres. Trump’s “America First” policies.

The globalists are offended by his public criticism of their globalist agenda.

Globalism or world government is on the rise, and globalists are offended that a leader of a nation would put the welfare of his nation above their globalist agenda.

They are not alone.

In many nations, citizens are unhappy with their leaders and are demanding change.

God will grant their wishes by giving them a king (the Antichrist) that they will detest even more than the one they have.

On Nov. 3, 2018, it was reported that the UN Refugee Agency commanded Pres. Trump to let the people in the caravan that is approaching the U.S.-Mexico border into the U.S.

The article doesn’t say it, but I don’t think a UN agency can force the U.S. President to comply with their orders.

On Nov. 11, 2018, Pres. Trump was in France to observe the 100^th anniversary of the end of WW I.

French Pres. Macron called Nationalism (putting America First) treason.

He defended the UN and EU and said Patriotism (putting world government first) is the exact opposite of Nationalism.

For whatever it is worth, the patriots in the U.S. fight and die to protect the U.S., not the UN or world government.

Mr. Macron was trying to redefine patriotism, demonize Pres. Trump’s America First policy, and support the UN and the merger of nations.

The decline of nationalism or patriotism and the rise of globalism or world government are a big deal.

Prophecy Plus Ministries, Inc.
Daymond & Rachel Duck
duck_daymond@yahoo.com