Recently, I read an article about a well-known gay billionaire who was about to hold a four-part lecture on the antichrist. While this person is not a Christian pastor, the series sold out of tickets almost immediately. One of the main points the article made was that this message should be prime material in organized religion churches, yet they are preaching on anything but the coming end of this age.

As Paul said in 2 Timothy 4:3-4, “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” (ESV – all emphasis is mine.)

After becoming an ordained minister about 20 years ago, I did “pulpit preaching” for several years. I was also listed as a supply pastor for the East Texas area, which is a pastor who will fill in when a regular pastor takes a Sunday off.

Any messages I would give were always scripture-based, and reading straight from God’s word, I would often refer to the coming end of this age. My belief is, if I don’t get this message out, I am not following our Savior’s Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20).

My intent was to never “browbeat” the congregation, but I wanted to be sure they were told they had to receive and accept Jesus as their Savior if they wanted to spend eternity with Him. John 14:6 is my life verse, which summarizes what the Bible is all about. “Jesus said to him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 are also avoided to keep people from getting “anxiety attacks” about all that’s happening in today’s world. The thing is, seeing all the end-time prophecies coming to pass should actually be exciting for anyone who is ready to leave this sin-filled world and be with Jesus forever.

In Luke 21:28, Jesus said, “Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads because your redemption is drawing near.”

When Israel became a nation again on May 14, 1948, after nearly 2,000 years, Jesus was indicating that the end of this era’s clock would begin ticking. We don’t know the day or hour that the Rapture will take place (Matthew 24:36), but ours is the generation that will see it happen.

For anyone to take their last breath prior to the Rapture, but they had received and accepted Jesus as their Savior while alive, they will be raised before those who are still alive at the Rapture, as stated in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-16.

For anyone who believes they will wait until the Rapture starts to call out to be saved, they need to read and understand 1 Corinthians 15:52: “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last Trumpet. For the Trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.”

Experts far more knowledgeable than I have said, “Twinkling of an Eye” is the time it takes light to enter the eye and hit the optic nerve. They have calculated this at less than 1/100^th of a second.

If this is how fast the Rapture will take place – and yes, God is fully capable of doing this – no one will have time to confess their sins, ask forgiveness, and be included in the Rapture. Those who are already true believers will be gone, while all others who waited are left behind.

Please understand that it will still be possible to be saved from the lake of fire, but the cost will most likely be martyrdom. All who refuse the mark of the beast will be subject to being executed on the spot. All who do take the mark will be pledging allegiance to the antichrist and ultimately Satan. Revelation 14:9-11 states this is an unforgivable sin, and all who receive the mark will be cast into the lake of fire forever.

While I have no idea what the billionaire’s message will be, I am aware of God’s word. His message through Paul in Romans 10:9-13 gives the steps to be ready to go Home when called.

First, admit we’re sinners who cannot save ourselves. Second, believe Jesus is a true part of the Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – and only through Him can we be saved. Finally, we need to call out to our Savior to come into our hearts and add us to His precious flock of saved souls.

That’s it. Ephesians 2:8-9 lets us know that our Salvation is a free gift from the Father because of His Son’s sacrifice, and we cannot earn or buy even one second in Heaven on our own.

Considering that we have been told we won’t know the day or hour or even second that the Rapture will take place, it would be best to have already called out beforehand. Now would not be too soon. Tomorrow isn’t promised. Imagine how wonderful it will be for you if the Trumpet of God sounds, and the shout comes from an archangel, and the next second you’re in the presence of our Savior.

One more advantage: our bodies will be converted to immortal and imperishable, and unable to ever have sickness or death again.

So, as in all messages I am privileged to post, I invite you to ask Jesus to be your Savior Today! Right now! It will be the most important decision you will ever make, and the Father will not force anyone to do so. However, He will accept all who truly call out to be saved through the gift our Jesus gave at Calvary.

Hope to see you at Home soon.

Shalom! Peace be with you!

Huebshman46@gmail.com

 

Carlo Acutis was a London-born Italian teenager who lived under spiritual deception throughout his short life.

On Sunday, September 7, 2025, he was declared a saint by Pope Leo XIV.

The only way to become a ‘saint’ in the Roman Catholic religion is to be proclaimed one by the pope. The pope examines a person’s deeds, and, if they match the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), he bestows sainthood upon him.

The only way to become a ‘saint’ in the Scriptures is to be saved by God’s grace through faith in Christ (Ephesians 2:8).

According to the apostle Paul, we receive the gift of faith through no efforts of our own. We receive it through our belief and confession that Christ died for our sins.  The only work of God that is required of us is to believe in the One He has sent because Jesus has already done the work. The confession of the Gospel is of first importance because it is the key to eternal life.

After we receive the gift of faith, we are required to remain in the faith until we pass. It is at this point that we begin to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. We can choose to use our faith, and to treasure it, or abandon it and become one with the world again.

Unfortunately, Roman Catholics skip part one and spend their lives trying to save themselves through their own efforts without having received the gift of faith.

This is where the tragic tale of Carlo Acutis begins.

According to Betsy Reed, Editor, US, Carlo, called ‘God’s influencer,’ died at the age of 15 from leukemia in 2006. He was a computer whiz who built multilingual websites to spread Catholic teaching.

Acutis is noted as having created a website documenting Eucharistic miracles and Marian apparitions. Only faithful Catholics experience these miracles because they are based on false doctrines that apparently result in hallucinations.

There is no such thing as ‘Transubstantiation’ or Marian apparitions.

Tens of thousands filled St. Peter’s Square to witness the canonization of this new Catholic ‘saint.’ The number of people who have been deluded by the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) is legion (pun intended).

According to the article by Ms. Reed, Pope Leo stated, “The greatest risk in life is to waste it outside of God’s plan,” Leo said in his homily, saying Acutis had made a “masterpiece” of his life by dedicating it to God. This new saint represents “an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to squander our lives, but to direct them upwards,” he said.

The tragedy of Carlo Acutis is that he squandered his short life by deceiving and being deceived.

A tapestry depicting an image of ‘Saint Carlo’ was hung on the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica to celebrate his life. There were also all kinds of merchandise, including T-shirts and action figures, for people to purchase.

As if that were not silly enough, the body of ‘Saint Acutis’ was covered in a wax mold of his likeness and dressed in his blue tracksuit top, jeans, and trainers. It is on view behind a glass-paneled case in Santa Maria Maggiore church.

Macabre.

His heart is in a gold casket in the town’s San Rufino Cathedral, while pieces of tissue from his pericardium (membrane enclosing his heart) have toured the world leading up to his canonization.

Gross.

His mother, Antonia Salzano, has traveled the globe to speak to the faithful while bringing strands of her son’s hair as gifts.

How anyone in the world can call any of this idolatry remotely Christian is not saved. This is pure paganism on display.

‘Saint Carlo’ is also credited with two miracles that have been ‘verified’ by the Vatican.

1. There was a medically inexplicable healing of a Brazilian boy, apparently in the name of Acutis, who had a congenital pancreatic malformation in 2013.
2. A Costa Rican student, Valeria Valverde, recovered from a severe head injury in 2022 after her mother prayed to Acutis.

We need to consult our dictionaries for a more depressing word than ‘tragedy.’

His family was not particularly religious, but it was reported that the young Acutis would go to mass and do the rosary each day.

Among his good works was allegedly speaking to the beggars of Milan and bringing them food and blankets.

I think that’s how you get to heaven under RCC theology.

Acutis was a skilled coder and created a website for Catholic organizations, which earned him the name of “Cyber apostle.” Unfortunately, at the age of 15, he was diagnosed with acute Leukemia and died soon thereafter.

In true pagan fashion, a movement built up around him, and seriously ill people began praying to him for cures. These people were taught by the RCC that this form of prayer would be superior to praying to their Father in heaven.

It is stated in the article that “the speed at which Acutis had been canonized shows how keen the church is to attract more young people.”

Is it just me, or does this whole tale just keep getting creepier?

To their credit, some Catholics and others have expressed skepticism that one so young should be canonized. Some have even insinuated that significant financial support, provided by the Acutis family, may have accelerated the youth’s rise to sainthood.

I’m surprised that the Vatican has not canonized Simon the Sorcerer yet.

His best friend stated that he did not remember Acutis as being all that pious, and he didn’t even know that he was religious. His mother, who, according to rumor, may have accelerated the youth’s rise to sainthood through financial support, disputed his best friend.

This whole process reeks of corruption.

The Catholic Church has condemned the unauthorized sale of relics on eBay purportedly belonging to Acutis. Imagine that, a bunch of hucksters taking advantage of the naïve for profit. And the RCC wasn’t getting any of the action.

Monty Python could make a great skit out of this nonsense.

The Vatican may have looked the other way if the grifters sent some of their profits to the Vatican Bank.

The locks of hair of Acutis were being auctioned online for large sums of money, so the Vatican had to call on law enforcement to put a stop to that. There is currently an investigation into the sale of relics by Italian law enforcement.

This entire story is profane.

Here we have an alleged ‘saint’ who probably never believed, confessed, or shared the Gospel and never called sinners to repent. He was simply your average kid who was deceived by the Roman Catholic religion.

At worst, he was a propaganda tool to recruit young people into this thing that is called a church. His sainthood was rumored to have been possibly purchased by his family.

If these people think they can purchase the gifts of the Holy Spirit, they are eternally mistaken.

The only hope this child has is that there is an age of accountability and he is not held responsible by God for being deluded by this church. There is biblical evidence for an age of accountability, but it is impossible to create a doctrine for it out of the Scripture we have been given.

At worst, this child died too soon and is now in hell, awaiting the lake of fire.

However, if this is the case, he will not be alone. Those who precipitated this deception, and those who foolishly participated in it, will join him shortly.

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