Lift Up Your Heads :: by Daymond Duck

Do angels exist? Absolutely!

According to the Bible, the angel Gabriel flew in and touched Daniel while he was praying. This heavenly visitor showed up with a message of skill and understanding: There will be a commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem; Messiah the Prince will appear 173,880 days after that; He will be killed; Jerusalem will be destroyed and the Temple will be destroyed (Dan. 9:21-26).

Notice that Daniel didn’t say that these things originated with him. He said the angel Gabriel, flew in, touched him, talked with him and told him that these things were going to happen.

History records that all of these things literally happened many years later in the exact order that the angel Gabriel said they would happen. This is evidence that the message came from a real angel because no mortal human could know these things on his own.

Does heaven exist? Absolutely!

According to the Bible, John saw a door that opened into heaven and he heard a voice that invited him to come up and see what would happen in the future (Rev. 4:1). Among other things, he saw Two Witnesses that will be killed and raised from the dead with the whole world looking on (Rev. 11:7-12); and two beasts (the Antichrist and the False Prophet) that will track all buying and selling (Rev. 13:17).

Notice that John saw these things in heaven not on earth. And these are things that were impossible when he wrote about them more than 1900 years ago.

Many would say that it is impossible for someone to go to heaven and see things that would happen on earth almost 2,000 years later. But society has almost reached the point on earth with electricity, rockets, satellites, TV cameras, TV sets, etc. where the whole earth will be able to see the Two Witnesses killed and raised from the dead.

And society has almost reached the point with bar codes, bar code scanners, face scans, computers, the Internet, etc. where the Antichrist and False Prophet will be able to track all buying and selling.

The pending literal fulfillment of these once impossible things is proof positive that John really did see them almost 2,000 years ago in place called heaven.

While he was in heaven John was transported into a wilderness where he saw something called MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH (Rev. 17:5).

There are differences of opinion about the meaning of this symbol, but the church is a mystery and this symbol is a mystery; the church is a woman (bride of Christ) and this symbol is a woman (Mother of harlots); the church has sins like crimson and scarlet (Isa. 1:18), and this woman is arrayed in purple and scarlet; the church is not of this world.

But this woman will commit fornication with the kings of the earth (Rev. 17:2) and instead of winning believers in Jesus, this woman will kill believers in Jesus (Rev. 17:6). Therefore, many believe that John saw a future global religious system that will exist during the Tribulation Period.

Between May 30 and June 1, 2016 the UN held a conference called“Education for Global Citizenship: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Together.” The UN held this meeting because it plans to create a list of “Global Values” that are sometimes called “basic values for humanity.”

These “Global Values” include things like gender equality, LGBT rights, global warming, immigration, abortion, gun control, etc. And they will supersede everyone’s national, state, local and religious values.

The accuracy of what John saw almost 2,000 years before it started to come on the scene in this present generation is evidence that his trips to heaven and the wilderness really happened.

“When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).

 

Prophecy Plus Ministries
Daymond & Rachel Duck

Is President Obama Insane? :: by Daymond Duck

While I was considering the appropriateness of writing an article titled, “Is President Obama Insane,” Pres. Obama called Donald Trump’s tax proposals “crazy.” And about that time Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump’s ideas “dangerously incoherent.” And, I remembered that in Nov. 2015 a spokesman for the UN named, Rupert Colville, called a crackdown on immigration “very, very stupid.”

So I thought if the president of the U.S. can infer that Donald Trump is “crazy,” and Hillary Clinton can say he is “dangerously incoherent,” and a spokesman for the UN can infer that he is “stupid,” it should be okay for a prophecy writer to ask “Is Pres. Obama Insane?”

The question came about because a panel of experts held a discussion about Pres. Obama’s pronouncement that schools should base their bathroom policies on gender identity instead of biological sex.

One panel member, a Sunni Muslim scholar named Sheikh Hamza Yusuf said Sunni Muslims that live outside the U.S. (almost 1.5 billion Muslims) think Americans have gone insane.

Many will argue that the Sheikh was just using an expression, but the bathroom problem is coming from Pres. Obama, not most Americans. It is Pres. Obama’s pronouncement on the use of bathrooms that is not normal. Many Americans are like the Sunni Muslims who believe it is strange at best.

The word “obsession” refers to a persistent preoccupation with something that is not normal and that certainly fits Pres. Obama.

He urged Illinois legislators to legalize gay marriage. He pushed for the repeal of “Don’t ask Don’t tell” in the military. He pushed the gay agenda all over the world. He lit up the White House in rainbow colors when same-sex marriage was legalized. He posed for the cover of an LGBT magazine.

He called criticism of same-sex marriage hate speech (that would mean we have almost 1.5 billion Sunni Muslim haters outside of America). He said he wants his legacy to be his record on gay issues, and more. So it is not right to say that he has an abnormal preoccupation with gay issues?

About seven weeks before Pres. Obama made this pronouncement, which almost 1.5 billion Muslims concur is insane, The American College of Pediatricians released a report saying that indoctrinating children with the idea that they can pick their gender amounts to child abuse. They added that, “A person thinking he or she is something they are not, at best, is a sign of confusion.”

If Pres. Obama is not insane, then why did he issue a pronouncement that amounts to child abuse? If he is not irrational, why would he require schools to let “confused” boys go into the bathroom with girls and let “confused” girls go into the bathroom with boys? Could it be that his mental condition is the same as those The American College of Pediatricians calls “confused?”

But I want to move on to something else that is utter madness.

Pres. Obama clearly does not believe in the Bible. Otherwise, the chasm between what the Scriptures say about gay issues and what Mr. Obama does would not exist.

Anyway, on June 3, 2016, he sent John Kerry to Paris to join France and 26 other nations and organizations (a group of many) in an effort to force an agreement on Israel that will lead to a peace treaty in the Middle East.

Serious students of Bible prophecy know that a treaty (with a group of many) for seven years of peace in the Middle East will mark the rise of the Antichrist and the beginning of the Tribulation period. That will lead to the death of billions of people, the battle of Armageddon and more.

One would have to not believe the Bible, be insane or worse—to trigger this great disaster when all that is needed is to leave Israel alone.

Serious students of Bible prophecy also know that if a nation wants to be great—that nation will bless Israel. But if a nation decides to come against Israel something bad will happen to that nation (Gen. 12:3; Obad. 1:15).

So did anything bad happen in France or the U.S. lately? Come to think of it, yes!

On the exact same day that France held the meeting in Paris, the Seine River broke its banks and caused some of the worst flooding that Paris and some of the surrounding towns have experienced in decades, and the rain was still coming down and not subsiding.

And on that exact same day in the U.S., Houston, TX and 31 counties were in the midst of a week-long flood that was expected to grow worse from more weekend rain. At least 16 people were killed.

I don’t know if Pres. Obama is insane, confused, demon possessed, has brain damage from drug use or what. I just know that the Bible says God gives people who reject Him over to a reprobate mind (Rom. 1:28). And Pres. Obama’s thinking on gay issues, the education of children and the peace process is bizarre and outside of the will of God.

I also know that these things are not good for the U.S. and there will ultimately be a price to pay.

Prophecy Plus Ministries
Daymond & Rachel Duck