After delivering a message on Bible prophecy, I am often asked, “How can I get my loved ones to listen?” Some say, “I try to talk to them, but they roll their eyes, change the subject, leave the room, etc. I love my family. I don’t want to throw in the towel, but they are not saved and they won’t listen. They don’t want to hear it and I think we are running out of time.”

Prophecy has never been a popular subject and getting people to listen has always been difficult. But I believe the Bible teaches that it becomes more difficult as a society strays farther from God and that is happening in the United States today. This is the bad news: as difficult as it is, without the intervention of God through persecution, economic collapse, etc. it will never be easier than it is right now. This is not true in every case, but I think it is generally consistent with the Bible.

Consider the world our loved ones are living in. We have reached the point where some of our leaders are ridiculing and demonizing Christians. Roman Catholic Cardinal Leo Raymond Burke recently called President Obama “a totally secularized man” and accused him of policies that are hostile to Christians. Rev. Franklin Graham accused the Obama Administration of being “anti-Christ in what they say and in what they do.”

The mainstream media ridicules conservative Christians as fundamentalists, right-wing extremists, religious nuts, etc. Many preachers have departed from the faith and are critical of those who believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible. The majority of church members are lukewarm and they would rather have their ears tickled than to be told the truth.

Some school teachers and many TV programs are corrupting the minds of our children and grandchildren. They hear evil called good and good called evil on a daily basis (Isaiah 5:20). We are now living in a world where the wickedness of man is great and it is getting harder every day to bring our loved ones out of it.

Come to think of it, that is the way it was in the days of Noah. It is a little vague, but it appears that Noah preached at least 100 years with no results (some say 120 years). People refused to listen. One would think that someone would get saved. But if just one got saved, there is no record of it. All who were alive when the rain started except for Noah and his family perished. They lived in a wicked society and they didn’t want to hear what Noah had to say.

But notice how God loved them and went out of His way to reach them. He came down and walked with Adam (Gen. 3:8). He gave them a prophet named Enoch who walked with Him and revealed the Second Coming (Gen.5:22; Jude 14).He walked with Enoch and revealed the Rapture (Gen. 5:24; Heb. 11:5). He gave them Methuselah whose name meant “when he is dead it, (the Flood) shall come.”

Methuselah was alive, right up until one week before the Flood. God’s spirit strived with them (Gen. 6:3). He gave them a man of grace named Noah, a just man who was perfect in his generations to preach and prophesy to them (Gen. 6:8-9). But they were surrounded by great sin, the earth was filled with violence, their thoughts continually dwelled on sin, they didn’t think about anything but sin and they would not listen (Gen. 6:5, 11-13).

Jesus said they ate, drank and partied right up to the very end (Matt. 24:37-39). They should have repented, but it was God who repented because He had made them. Doesn’t that sound a lot like TV, the Internet, porn, abortion, homosexuality, prostitution, murder, gambling and partying today? It’s everywhere, people are drowning in sin and the Word of God is being mocked and choked out of their lives.

Following the Flood, many Jews put their fingers in their ears so they could not hear what the prophets had to say. Many pulled away their shoulder, twisted away and absolutely refused to listen (Zech. 7:11). In many cases, they persecuted and killed the prophets (Matt. 23:37-38; Luke 11:47-48). They ultimately came under the judgment of God not because they didn’t have prophets, but because they wouldn’t listen to what the prophets said (Zech. 7:12-13).

Skipping on over to the days of Jesus’ earthly ministry, they said they wouldn’t treat the prophets like their ancestors did (Matt. 23:30). But Jesus said, “I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city” (Matt. 23:34). This happened to Jesus and the early church leaders (Stephen, Paul, the disciples, etc). And it will grow worse in the future.

I can’t imagine what Noah went through preaching for 100 years or more, being mocked and ridiculed over building an ark when it didn’t rain, perhaps not winning even one convert except his family and refusing to give up. But Noah persevered through 100 years or more and his family was saved even if no one else was saved. His story should encourage us to never give-up and leave us with a sense of urgency about getting the Word out before society gets even worse than it is now.

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Daymond & Rachel Duck

In the early 90s, before the U.S. Congress voted on NAFTA, Henry Kissinger wrote, “What Congress will have before it is not a conventional trade agreement but the architecture of a new international system…a first step toward a new world order.” (A first-step toward world government.)

Once it passed, NAFTA was steadily expanded and critics began to warn that it was being used to create a North American Union (NAU). In 2005, NAFTA was strengthened and supporters started calling it the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPPNA). In 2009, the name was changed to the North American Leaders Summit (NALS).

Some of the proposals for this group of nations are: 1) Establish a security perimeter around the U.S., Canada and Mexico; 2) Eliminate the borders between them; 3) Create a Parliament of fifteen members (five from each nation) to rule over them; 4) Make one of the fifteen Parliament members the president of the three nations (perhaps one of the ten kings); 5) Give the Parliament supremacy over all national governing bodies (including the Congress of the United States); 6) Establish a court with supremacy over the U.S. Supreme Court; 7) Allow unrestricted movement of people and goods between nations; 8) Give amnesty to so-called illegal aliens; 9) Give Social Security and health care benefits to so-called illegal aliens; 10) Merge the militaries of the three nations; and 11) Build a superhighway called the I-69 Corridor from Mexico to Canada. Some of these are already being implemented and there are probably others that I don’ know about.

Now, let’s fast-forward to President Obama’s 2013 State of the Union address. At that time, he briefly mentioned that his administration was negotiating a new trade agreement (treaty) with the Pacific-Rim nations called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Many ignored it, but on October 1, 2013, there was a report that President Obama was seeking fast track authority to negotiate andsign the TPP.

Fast track authority will allow him to negotiate and sign the treaty without the Senate even reading it (something every voter should find reprehensible).According to the report I read, he wanted to sign it before the end of 2013. Leaked portions of the TPP said it will be patterned after the EU and allow unelected officials (people who can’t be held accountable) to dictate the laws of the United States.

2013 ended with the U.S. Senate failing to vote on the fast track authority that Pres. Obama wanted. He asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to schedule a Senate vote in January 2014 (and many Republicans were ready to vote for it), but Senator Reid didn’t schedule a vote. He apparently held it up at the request of Union Leaders who believe the TPP will cause the U.S. to lose more jobs to Mexico and other countries. They know what NAFTA did.

I don’t know how many pages are in the TPP, but it has been reported that one purpose of that treaty is to give Pres. Obama the authority to speed up the establishment and strengthening of the NAU. This means speeding up the proposals mentioned above including the surrender of America’s sovereignty and the loss of more American jobs.
Some may question the validity of this, and government officials have often tried to hide what they are doing, but let’s recall that Vice-President Joe Biden spoke at the Export Import Bank conference in Washington, DC on April 5, 2013 (Google it) and said, “The affirmative task we have now is to actually create a new world order” (a world government consisting of regions or groups of nations like the TPP patterned after the EU).

And let’s recall that Sen. Dianne Feinstein displayed a borderless map of the U.S., Canada and Mexico at a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 31, 2013 and called the three nations the “Homeland” (Google it). And let’s recall that Samantha Powers who was confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to the UN on August 1, 2013 once wrote that “giving up a pinch of sovereignty” is good for the United States (Google it). And let’s recall that citizens of the U.S., Canada and Mexico will need a Western Hemisphere compliant travel document by May 2017 to travel in the Western Hemisphere (Google WHTI).

If Pres. Obama gets fast track authority on the TPP, Vice-President Joe Biden’s desire to “actually create a new world order” will hit fast-forward and the United States voter won’t be able to stop it. Who knows, someone who can’t run for President of the U.S. might be promoted to a more powerful position called President of the NAU and the citizens of the U.S. won’t be able to do anything about it.

FYI: God Has Spoken (And We Know It) by Daymond Duck is available, (linked to my publisher @ https://www.raptureready.com/terry/book17.html). Books and a Kindle version are available at amazon.com. A Nook version is available at bn.com. Check out what it says about Syria, Russia, Iran, Egypt, natural disasters, the Two-State Solution, etc.

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Daymond & Rachel Duck