On April 14, 2015, Rev. Franklin Graham, clearly one of the most famous and loved Christian leaders in the world, said, “America is in trouble…I’ve lived long enough to learn that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can turn this country around; no political party or politician is the answer. The only hope for this country is Almighty God and His Son Jesus Christ.”

America is no longer the nation it used to be. As a youth, I knew many church members who attended church every time the door was open. They loved Jesus and His Church, prayed beautiful prayers, witnessed to their neighbors, took people to church with them and professed to believe everything the Bible says. They attended Wednesday night Bible Study and all of their revival services and visited during revivals at other churches.

Their homes were havens of safety. Their doors and windows were open day and night because there was no air conditioning. There were no gangs. Their children could play outside at night. No one was ever hurt. Nothing was ever stolen.

Many teachers had a Bible on their desks that they read to their students. Many schools had a chapel service at least once a week and different preachers preached. Divorce was almost unheard of. Abortion and gay marriage were never considered.

Times were harder then. Many had no money. Those who lived out in the country were just getting electricity and telephones. Many didn’t have indoor plumbing. Television was just coming on the market, but many had never seen one. Some wore patched and second hand clothes. Some raised everything they ate.

It was God who brought these people through those hard times. He gave them electricity to make their lives better. It was God who gave them life, health and good jobs. It was God who gave them victory over their enemies; He let them gain wealth, get a better education, etc.; He was answering their prayers and blessing their service and faithfulness.

Henry J. Kaiser said, “When wealth accumulates, men decay.” I will add that when men get educated the wrong way, men decay.

God’s blessings piled-up and some who were blessed started sleeping late on Sunday. Others started spending the day at the golf course. Many took their expensive boats to the lake. And on Sunday night and Wednesday night they were in front of their big screen TV’s. Instead of getting closer to God with each passing day, they got farther and farther away.

It wasn’t long until the educated wanted prayer out of the schools. Then they wanted the Bibles and Ten Commandments to go. Then they wanted to stop all mention of God. And their daughters started getting pregnant before marriage; and it has evolved to their sons marrying other males; and nudity  crept onto their big screen TV’s; and pornography became readily available on their latest smart phones.

Divorce became rampant in their air-conditioned houses. Their grandchildren began smoking legalized marijuana and many don’t even know who their fathers are or where they live. They had driven God away and there was and still is, no shame.

At the most prestigious religious schools there has been a growing trend of professors with multiple degrees who don’t know God and don’t believe the Bible. They compromise the Word of God by teaching tolerance and inclusiveness turning out students (after their own image), instead of the image of Jesus.

Many of those students have gone to stand behind pulpits, expound on the Scriptures, serve the Lord’s Supper and exercise authority in the Church. But they do so without a personal relationship with Jesus. Instead of crying out against sin, some are involved in sin.

Instead of preaching the way of the Lord, some are preaching the way of political correctness. And instead of growing their church spiritually, they have led their flocks away from God and watched their churches decline.

Now America is reaping the results of this sinful demise in moral character, and the anemic commitments made to our Lord and Savior. We have built wealth without building people spiritually. We have put suits and aftershave on students and call them preachers when they don’t  know how to get a sermon from God. They have been taught to preach inclusiveness and tolerance at the high price of abandoning God and His Scriptures.

So America really is in trouble. The Democrats and the Republicans can’t turn America around. Those multi-degreed professors and their clueless students can’t turn this country around.

Almighty God and His Son Jesus didn’t leave America. America left them. Many in the religious community have participated in this. And if we don’t go back to Almighty God and His Son Jesus quickly, America’s future is on a fast track to a greater demise.

Prophecy Plus Ministries
Daymond & Rachel Duck

Some say Satan is an evil force but the Bible teaches that Satan is a real being (Job 1:6). He talked to Eve in the Garden of Eden and Jesus in the wilderness (Gen. 3:1-6; Matt. 4:1-10).

Some think he is a fallen angel (Job 1:12; II Cor. 11:14). Jesus taught that he heads up a kingdom of evil spirits which would make him a ruler of demonic beings (Mark 3:22-27).

His name, Satan, means “adversary, accuser or opponent (I Pet. 5:8). He is an adversary of Jesus and all believers (Gen. 3:15; Rev. 12:10). He holds the highest position in the spirit world and many scholars believe he actually wants to replace God (Isa.14:12-21; Ezek. 28:1-15).

John called him “the ruler of this world” (Jn. 12:31; 14:30). Paul called him “the prince of the power of the air” (Eph. 2:2) and the “god of this world (age; II Cor. 4:4). He is trying to take dominion over this world (the UN, the nations and all those that don’t believe) and were it not for the death of Jesus on the cross of Calvary he would already have all of it.

He plans to devour the whole earth with a world government (Dan. 7:23). He will empower an evil man (Christians call him the Antichrist) and world leaders will give him dominion over “all kindreds, and tongues and nations” (Rev.13:7). Multitudes will worship Satan and his Antichrist (Rev. 13:4).

Satan plans to persecute believers and establish his own religion. John said the Antichrist will open “his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Rev.13:6-8).

Satan couldn’t do anything without God’s permission but God will give him permission. God also gave the world signs so people can know when the day is approaching (Heb.10:25). This article will briefly discuss three of those signs: Wars and rumors of wars, persecution and anti-Semitism.

First, concerning wars and rumors of wars, God has blessed this writer with more than three quarters of a century of life in the greatest nation on earth. During this time God has allowed me to live while many horrific wars were going on. But I can honestly say that I can’t remember anything like the world is experiencing today.

Wars and rumors of wars are engulfing the Middle East and other parts of the world. Citizens are hearing the sound of bombs in Syria,Yemen, Nigeria, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine and more. Chaos, brutality and savagery abounds.

People are being beheaded, buried alive and burned alive. Babies are being cut in two and children are being trained as soldiers. Refugee camps are more than full. It is ethnos against ethnos, tribe against tribe, race against race just like the Bible says it will be as the end of the age approaches (Matt. 24:6).

Second, concerning persecution, in my more than 75 years of life I have read a lot about persecution in many parts of the world, but I can honestly say again that I can’t remember anything like the world is experiencing today.  Christians in the Middle East are facing demonic brutality, crucifixion, slavery and more.

Christians in the U.S. are facing astonishing attempts to silence them and the speed by which it is growing worse, is mind-boggling. The America that most of us grew up in doesn’t exist anymore. It is waxing worse and worse at a dizzying speed. And lest anyone think it is just me, I have received many e-mails from Christians expressing major concerns for the future of Christians in America. Many say they are praying for the Rapture.

Third, concerning anti-Semitism, the holocaust was before my time and worse than anything in my lifetime, but I believe anti-Semitism is worse today than it has been at any time since I was born. Jews are beginning to flee Europe in droves. European governments say they don’t want them to leave, but they do little about the threats and attacks.

In the United States, I never thought I would see the day that an American president would treat an Israeli prime minister with the disrespect that our president has; or that an American president would threaten, discriminate and endanger Israel the way our president has.

Or that an American president would lead the charge to force a peace treaty on Israel, divide the Promised Land, divide Jerusalem and divide or give away the Temple Mount as reports say our president intends to do.

Or that an American president would threaten to let UN sanctions against Israel clear a vote in the UN Security Council as our president has threatened to do; or that so many institutions of so-called higher learning would be so intellectually dishonest and blatant in their discrimination.

Simply put: This world is Satan’s domain and things are waxing worse and worse just like the Bible says. The increase in wars and rumors of wars in the world, and especially the Middle East is bizarre and unprecedented.

The increase in brutality and persecution of Christians is remarkable and stunning. The anti-Semitism in the world and especially the U.S. is abnormal and extraordinary. Uncommon things are going on in Satan’s Domain.

Prophecy Plus Ministries
Daymond & Rachel Duck