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Once again, 2 Timothy 3:1-5, “But understand this, that in the last days, there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.” (ESV – all emphasis mine)

Going from cover to cover in the Bible, we see many countries mentioned as being in the end-time activities. However, the once most powerful nation on earth, America, is not specifically mentioned. One would think that this country would be listed because of all it has accomplished up to now. The possibility here could be found in Genesis 12:3; “I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you, I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

When Israel once again declared itself as a sovereign nation after almost 2,000 years on May 14, 1948, the United States was the first country to recognize its sovereignty and right to exist. Through the years since then, we have been an ally with them until the past decade or so. Certain administrations came to believe that we somehow have control over how Israel should run its own country. By trying to force Israel to give up land that was promised to them by our Heavenly Father, this somehow seems as dishonoring their right to exist as an independent nation. It would be like Belgium telling the United States that we need to redo all our state lines to meet what they would like.

Through multiple circumstances over the past couple of years, our country has gone from being respected as a powerful nation to being ridiculed by forces that really don’t like us. Any fear of our “power and might” has disappeared. It is becoming obvious that the prophecy of Israel standing alone against all forces that will come against them is about to be fulfilled (Zechariah 12:2-3, 9). The Ezekiel 38 coalition has formed for the first time ever and, in the not-too-distant future, will attack Israel for its plentiful resources.

All the changes taking place, which are labeled as abominations by our Father, are here and out in the open. Going to 2 Timothy 3:12-13, “Indeed, all who desire to live a Godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

One example of the deception is an event that took place in Tyler, Texas, on October 29 in the town square. The satanic temple of Dallas and Ft. Worth held a “pagan-pride” service that advertised it as an “unbaptism” event. Churches of Satan are opening up around the country and are not having any real issues in doing so. However, just about anything relating to Christianity is being challenged. Some are going all the way to the Supreme Court, and the rulings are disturbing and disappointing.

All the alphabet groups and gender-identity folks are basically operating in the open and are unchallenged worldwide. In some places, not referring to a person by their “chosen gender” has been made a crime with the possibility of being incarcerated. There’s even a group that is now saying they’re not really humans but are describing themselves as animals, such as “trans-cats.”

And people are surprised that our nation is steadily sinking; can it really get much more obvious? Many are declaring they do not believe in Jesus or God, and they describe the Bible as a compilation of myths. They don’t accept 2 Timothy 3:16-17 as truth. “All scripture is breathed out by God, and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”

Going from Paul’s word on this to the Apostle Peter, we read in 2 Peter 1:20-21, “knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”

In 1 John 2:15-17, we’re told, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world; the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life; is not from the Father, but from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abide forever.”

Going further into verse 18, we have a picture of today in this world. “Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore, we know that it is the last hour.” False prophets and antichrists have been here for at least 2,000 years, but the increase in their activities has rapidly progressed in just the last few years.

The ultimate evil antichrist has not yet appeared. However, false prophets and antichrists are increasing in number and influence. Our Savior knew that there would be more on the road to destruction than the straight and narrow path to eternal life (Matthew 7:13-14).

We’re told in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 that the lawless one is restrained until the “Restrainer” is taken out of the way. Many that are tied to this world, which means they are tied to Satan, will receive a strong delusion so they will believe what is false (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12).

The Father wants no one to fail and go into eternal punishment; however, He is aware that some have already fully accepted Satan’s world and will allow them to make this foolish choice.

For all who have received and accepted Jesus, the times here are about to get more difficult for us. However, before the evil one and his false prophet appear to produce the worst 7-year period of time this world will ever see, we will be removed to be kept from that tribulation/wrath, as promised in 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10, and Revelation 3:10.

It is our daily prayer that all our loved ones, friends, and even those who don’t really like us will seek out and call on Jesus for their Salvation before it’s too late. For those who already have, we ask the Father to give us the strength and courage to hold on until we hear the Trumpet of God and the call from the archangel. This is when we will rise up to meet our Savior in the air and be with Him forever.

Romans 10:9-13 gives the steps. Titus 1:2 assures us our Heavenly Father cannot lie. The final guarantee is in Joel 2:32, Acts 2:21, and Romans 10:13 that all who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.

No special rituals, no special works, nor any donations are required or are even accepted. Just admit you are a sinner, as we all are (Romans 3:23); have faith and believe that Jesus is a part of the Holy Trinity that came to earth as a human to provide a sacrifice no one here could ever do (John 14:6); and finally, call on Him to forgive you and be your Savior forever. That’s it.

There are only two eternal addresses: Heaven or hell. False prophets will say there are many ways to heaven and that all religions worship the same god. Truthfully, God and His Son are all about establishing a relationship, not any religion.

Today would not be too early to get your reservation for the Rapture, as we are not given the day or hour that our Savior will come for His flock. He will force no one to accept Him but will accept all who truly will.

It is the most important decision you will ever make. Any delay could just put a person into the tribulation. Jesus is waiting for your call.

Ahavah B’Shem Yeshua! (Love in the name of Jesus)

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Rethinking the Lie :: By Terry James

I will ask you to indulge me just a bit while I think on the great lie that is prophesied for the time of Tribulation.

Perhaps it’s again the novelist within me struggling to burst forth, but I rather believe the impression to address the much-gone-over topic goes beyond any mere desire I have to create fiction.

Nonetheless, this is a theory; it’s not based on exactly what’s entailed in that great “lie” scheduled to deceive most of the world’s population.

One thing is sure: Just within the past few years, we’ve endured deception and lies of cataclysmic consequences for the future of our nation and the world. These lies are spawned by the father of lies, Satan, and are setting the stage for prophetic fulfillment that’s on the brink of engulfing all who will be left behind when the next great intervention into human history by God takes place.

To begin considering all of this, here is the prophetic lie that will be the culmination, I believe, of all lies Lucifer has foisted upon humanity.

“And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thessalonians 2:8-12).

We pre-Tribbers believe this is saying Antichrist will be “revealed” after the disappearance of millions of believers. There should be no doubt by anyone—believer or not—that such a massive vanishing of people before the eyes of others would cause unprecedented panic. The world would, at least temporarily, go nearly insane.

I believe when all children go to Christ at the Rapture, the magnitude of that panic will be beyond anything we can fully anticipate. Even children at conception will be missing. The sheer terror almost certainly produced by such an occurrence is almost unfathomable.

So the powers that be—the human minions, backed by the demonic beings of Ephesians 6:12—will have to produce answers to quell the terror that will grow from that event.

Here is a scenario-type supposition I believe might hold at least a degree of possibility. Actually, I base my thinking on two elements that are becoming more prevalent in the news at this very hour.

The first is a proven compliance-assured matter, already validated as a winner for the globalists who want a one-world government. The second involves an answer to what that great lie of 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 might well be, long speculated by some. I’m pondering whether some combination of the two could be at the heart of the lie Satan will put forth to explain what happened to all those who suddenly vanished.

The First Element

I believe that most will agree that things changed perceptibly with the onslaught of the so-called pandemic near the beginning of 2020.

There eventuated, and in short order, an almost complete worldwide lockdown.

There had never been anything like it in history. No government, no dictator, had ever achieved such a global shutdown of human activity and redirection toward—demand for—compliance. We were to take the vaccine against COVID–or else…or else we would lose our right to travel and congregate, lose our jobs, and many other rights. At least, that was the threat.

The Second Element

There is a ramped-up interest in extraterrestrial activity. The UFO controversy isn’t so controversial these days.

Now the governments—the US and others—have acknowledged that extraterrestrial evidence exists, and such information is continually forthcoming as governments release what much of the populace has thought about the probability of the presence of other life on other planets. This opens the door to helping foment the great delusion once the disappearance of millions happens.

We have wondered whether the powers that be will say that those who have disappeared have been taken from the earth by the “space brothers.”

I offer two items of interest in thinking on how the two elements mentioned above might play into Antichrist and his Ephesians 6:12 minions foisting the lie God’s Word predicts.

The First Element

The World Bank has created a global pandemic fund, the largest fund in its history. At the same time, preparations to implement the World Health Organization’s Pandemic Treaty march forward.

We recently published an article about G-20 leaders calling for the establishment of global vaccine passports. In it, we included remarks by Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin on 13 November, from Day 1 of B20 Indonesia 2022. “G20 country has agreed to have this digital certificate using WHO standard,” Sadikin said.

Earlier in his remarks, he mentioned that the global pandemic fund is the largest fund the World Bank has ever created and it will increase in the next 5-10 years. (“Preparations to implement WHO’s Pandemic Treaty march forward as World Bank creates the largest fund ever for global pandemics,” Rhoda Wilson, December 4, 2022, Expose-News.com)

The Second Element

We’re unprepared for when E.T. reaches out to us. A team of experts is determined to change that with the first new alien “contact” protocol in 35 years.

If extraterrestrial life sent us a message tomorrow, how would humanity respond? According to researchers, we don’t know yet — and that’s a problem.

That’s why, for the first time in 35 years, a team of policy experts and scientists have united to establish a set of alien-contact protocols for the entire world to follow in the event of a sudden encounter with E.T. (“Scientists are working on an official ‘alien contact protocol’ for when ET phones Earth,” Isobel Whitcomb, Live Science, November 5, 2022)

Everywhere we look, we see the stage being set for fulfillment of prophecy during the Tribulation. I’m just pondering whether the two items above might be combined to produce one of those stage-setting foreshadowings.

People are already conditioned for being controlled by governmental masters in the matter of a future pandemic that might be promoted as one even deadlier than the one that produced worldwide panic and unprecedented compliance. Many have been preconditioned to believe we will one day be visited by other beings from somewhere out there.

When millions vanish, might global leaders, under Antichrist, say it was a strange virus or microbe that caused the dissolving of flesh and bone? Will they say someone from “out there” is descending to help the people of planet Earth, who now must accept a “666” vaccination/remedy?

Too fantastic, you say? Well, we believe Jesus will call us and we will vanish from Earth in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, don’t we?

Can’t get more fantastic than that! But in the case of Rapture, it’s not a scenario; it’s an absolute promise from God Himself!

Here’s how to make sure you go to Jesus when He calls in that fantastic instant.

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).