(There is a special message at the end of this article for those who do not have Jesus in their life and are looking for peace and a way to better understand the present-day insanity and confusion.)

It seems that in the past several months, I have noticed a rapidly accelerating convergence of divergence.

Let me explain.

As the mid-term elections (assuming they will actually occur) approach, there has been an exponential rise in the frenetic and illogical (from the standpoint of rational human behavior) conduct of those who are, for lack of better terminology, “invested in this world system.”

At the same time, there is a discernible increase of “spiritual” consciousness, or perhaps it is appropriately termed awareness, on the part of many people.

I placed quotation marks around “spiritual” as I believe there are two basic definitions/implications of that word, and they are both currently represented as well.

• One being [Spiritual], as in the influence of the Holy Spirit of God.
• The other being, well, every false and deceiving spirit at work within this “world system.” In other words, everything else.

At the final count, there are really only two.

Let me clarify my meaning of them.

• The Holy Spirit being the sole God of Creation, pure Holiness, Light and Life.
• The other being of pure evil and the purveyor of lies, deceit and death.

Both of these “presences,” if you will, seem to be increasing and converging on the entire world population at this point in history like never before. They are diametrically opposed to each other, and only those reborn of the true Spirit of God can discern the differences between them in a positive light.

For everyone else, there is just an arbitrary reference to “a god,” the force, Gaia, etc. The list is vast. The unsaved sense something they do not quite grasp but are too much a part of this world to even want to understand it.

In the current climate of world chaos, it could be that the “list” could be even more diabolical:

“We do not want another committee; we have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all people, and to lift us out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man, and be he god or devil, we will receive him.” – Paul-Henri Spaak

The saddest part is that it could be the calling of the Holy Spirit on them to repent, but most can’t comprehend it, and they may be too hard of heart to be able to respond to Him.

To be clear, this article is not about the political season, elections, or lack of them. In this writer’s opinion, there is not one scintilla of evidence to support placing any hope or confidence in human government or leadership regardless of who thinks they are “at the helm.”

Perhaps I am being overly sensitive to the signs of the times. Perhaps I am not.

Jesus’ warning to the religious leaders of His day was a warning about their failure to be cognizant of the conditions surrounding His first appearing. “Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?” (Luke 12:56).

We have likewise been made aware by “the signs of the times.”

“Jesus answered, ‘See to it that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains” (Matthew 24:4-8).

“See, I have told you in advance” (Matthew 24:25).

Paul’s warning list of “end of the age” human characteristics is astoundingly accurate, but that is hardly a surprise; after all, he wrote under the influence and with the guidance of the Spirit of God. It only makes sense.

“But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these” (2 Tim 3:1-5).

The fact that these five verses above have been quoted in so many writings and articles of late is proof in itself that they are applicable to the current state of human behavior. These characteristics have become institutionalized.

They have become very apparent to anyone who is paying attention, for whatever their reasons.

Unsaved people see them, feel them, sense them, and are affected by them even if they do not know where to look for answers.

Those who have received Jesus Christ as their Savior are under the effects of these characteristics that are so prevalent in the world as well. Very sadly, many of our beloved brothers and sisters aren’t really sure where to look either.

In far too many cases, churches offer no help as most have taken the “easy way out” and don’t go anywhere near these verses of predictive prophesy even though, right now, they are “in the face” of everyone, saved or unsaved.

In terms of the Churches in the present day, Jesus had John write the seven letters to the seven churches in order to wake them up, but it is clear that most will continue to deteriorate and abdicate their clear responsibilities toward their own flocks.

Now to the crux of this article.

As the Word of God has made clear throughout the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, there is a final confrontation (defined in its simplest form) between Good and evil that is converging on the world.

It is a convergence of two spiritual forces that could not be more diverse.

• On the one hand, El Shaddai; God Almighty.
• On the other, evil, pure undistilled and vicious.

There can only be one outcome as the evil has only been allowed to exist that the salvation of human souls could be accomplished. Human souls who have been granted the right to choose God or reject Him.

“I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19) (Emphasis added by me.)

I have long believed and frequently said that while the Old Testament was written to the Jewish people, it is important to understand that the Lord had the entirety of the scriptures (including the New Testament) written, knowing that all His creation would still be reading it even up to the present time. Therefore, all the scriptures have application and give direction to every individual who would ever live.

“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16). (Emphasis added by me.)

“Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,

And I will do all My pleasure'” (Isaiah 46:9-10).

The end of human history as we know it, I believe, is close on us. It’s time to pick sides.

For anyone who may read this article and has not trusted in Jesus Christ and therefore has no hope or peace in your life:

You can have hope. You can have the peace that Jesus has promised to all who have made Him their Lord and Savior.

It requires that you come before God on His terms.

And, what are His terms according to His Word?

• Genuine repentance (turning to God instead of continuing to reject or ignore Him).
• Confession of sins (that you are a sinner and acknowledge that to God).
• That you understand that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).
• To acknowledge to God that you are unable to pay that debt.
• Belief that Jesus Christ paid your death sentence for you on the cross.
• To believe that Jesus is the Way, the only Way, that God has established by which humans may be saved from the consequences of their sin and rebellion.

God has made it absolutely clear that there is no one who comes before Him, under His terms, that will be refused.

• No one: no race, no color, no country of origin, regardless of any previous belief system: no one.
• No matter what your past sins have been, God can and WILL forgive you because He says He will.
• Salvation is available to everyone without any exceptions.

If you put all your trust for salvation in Jesus and Him only, you can follow that prayer up by simply saying, “Thank you, Father God, for hearing my prayer and saving me,” because we can trust Him to keep His Word. He always has. He always will.

John 5:24: “Truly, Truly, I say to you that he who hears My words and believes the One who sent Me has eternal life and will not be condemned. He has crossed from death to life.”

There are no answers, and there is no hope in the world by governments, organizations, politics or politicians. There are only lies and deception. But you can have the Truth and the peace you seek.

The answers are in the Word of God—the Bible. If you ask God with all your heart, He will hear you.

“And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13).

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In a recent blog post, Now is the Time, I included these words in the introduction:

“Apart from an expectation that’s firmly fixed on Jesus and His imminent appearing, I could not cope with all that I see. My “blessed hope” of seeing “the appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” has never been more precious to me than it is now (Titus 2:13). The expectation of Jesus’ appearing is the anchor of my soul during these chaotic times.”

I see more threats on the horizon of our world than I could possibly explain in one article. However, I have an overwhelming peace in my soul as I witness biblical prophecy coming to life all around me. Knowing that the Lord might come for me at any moment continually calms my heart.

I also sense an urgency to warn the church concerning the dark storm clouds looming on the horizon. My concern is especially for those saints that lack the biblical understanding of our day, which would enable them to understand our world from a prophetic perspective and thereby prepare their hearts for what might lie ahead. So many of them are snoozing at the worst possible time in history to do so.

There’s insanely good news ahead for those of us in Christ because of His imminent appearing to take us home, but so few fix their eyes on this glorious hope.

Let’s look at the bad news first.

We Are Running Out of Time

Daymond Duck, one of my favorite writers on biblical prophecy, wrote an article entitled Running Out of Time, which recently appeared on the Rapture Ready Website. He specifically mentioned the food shortages and quoted these warnings from the CEO of Goya Foods, Bob Unanue:

1. “We are on the precipice of a global food crisis.”
2. “Americans will have to tighten their belts and consume less.”
3. Americans “can afford higher-priced food, but other countries won’t be able to bear it.”

The looming worldwide food crisis and so many other things tell us that the world is quickly running out of time before the four horses and riders of Revelation 6:1-8 begin their deadly trek across the earth. These things also signify the nearness of the time when Jesus catches us up to meet Him in the air since this must happen before the events of Revelation 6.

The diesel fuel shortages looming in the eastern half of America will greatly accelerate the looming food shortages in the U.S.

Last week, I listened as the head of the United Nations announced its partnership with Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum (WEF) in order to speed up the implementation of the UN’s Agenda 2030. The seventeen goals of this plan are readily available on the UN’s website, and they clearly depict a Marxist one-world government.

The Luciferian globalists of our day have openly laid out two paths that will enable them to exert greater control over the nations of the world.

The first is that of ceding America’s national sovereignty, and many other nations as well, to the World Health Organization (WHO). Leo Hohmann, an investigative reported and blogger, described it this way:

The WHO will be hosting its annual meeting, the 75th World Health Assembly, May 22-28 in Geneva, Switzerland, attended by delegates from at least 194 nations. It is during this Assembly that members will be voting on the amendments that will hand over additional sovereignty, control and legal authority to the World Health Organization. The WHO, if these amendments are approved, will obtain the authority to declare an international health emergency, overriding national governments. ^{[ [i]]}

Here is what Michele Bachmann, former Congressman and candidate for President, had to say about the impact of this vote upon the United States:

“This means that the WHO would have decision-making authority to intervene in the United States government policy and any nation of the world without our permission. For instance, the lockdown where you see 26 million people today locked down in Shanghai, China. They can’t leave their apartments or homes. The WHO would have the authority to be able to enforce that here in the United States, on whatever pretext they want. They don’t have to show data. They could do this.” ^{[ [ii]]}

It was President Biden who submitted the draconian amendments to the WHO that will result in the loss of U.S. sovereignty over all health emergencies if the delegates approve them. This is pure evil and, without a doubt, will result in the loss of much life if the WHO approves the Biden amendments.

Second, the plans to move the nations of the world to a digital currency will give the elite powerbrokers of the world the ability to impose their will upon the nations despite any and all resistance to their agenda. This will lead to the mark of the beast described in Revelation 13:15-18.

If these two things happen, it will not matter how the majority votes in elections. It will not matter what they want from their government. The Luciferian elite will have the control they need to impose their New World Order on everyone and enslave the people of the world. And they have already announced their plans to accelerate their formation of the New World Order.

Please know that Satan is behind all these things and his ultimate purposes are to deceive and kill people. Jesus’ apt description of the devil in John 8:44 explains much of what we see in our world.

The Hopeful Lens of Biblical Prophecy

The church must wake up to the urgency of the hour. It may seem for some that things have taken a turn for the better, but please understand that it’s a pseudo calm before the impossible times that lie ahead in the near future.

Believers need to hear and understand biblical prophecy more than ever in the history of the church. They desperately need the calm that comes from looking at the world through the eyes of biblical prophecy and eagerly awaiting Jesus’ appearing. The news events of our day are frightening; however, God’s joyful plans for our future are both comforting and encouraging (1 Thessalonians 4:18). As I said earlier, there’s insanely good news for those in Christ.

The Bible tells us that:

• There will be a terrible worldwide famine with great shortages of food during the early months or years of the Tribulation. What we see today is the lead-up to what will happen after the Rapture.
• Lawlessness and deception will abound in the last days, which is today.
• The Luciferian globalists of our day will succeed in setting up a New World Order over which the antichrist will assume control after we are gone.
• The Lord’s wrath will descend upon the world as never before in history. Those perpetrating violence, the murder of unborn children, the disruption of our food supply, and violence face a horrifying future, one that will lead to their great distress and eventually their death.
• There will be a time of God’s judgment on the earth. The severity of what lies ahead for the wicked of our day fits with their murderous agenda, deception, and unprecedented lawlessness (see Isaiah 13:9-13 and 24:1-6)
• The Lord has planned a way of escape for us. It’s the Rapture. Don’t let anyone deceive you; Jesus is coming for us before the judgments of Revelation 6-18 sweep over the entire planet.

I know it’s difficult to wait for our departure from this world. I wish that I could say that the Lord will come for us before we suffer any more from the hostility of our deadly enemy, the devil. I know that many who read this live in countries where the oppression of the enemy far exceeds what we now face in the U.S.

Unfortunately, a large number of believers today have become desensitized to the imminent appearing of Jesus and have stopped watching for it. They do not know what Scripture says about the day in which we live, and they live without any awareness of Jesus’ imminent appearing. As a result, they easily fall prey to the deceptive lies of the mainstream media, which they hear repeated over and over again.

The result is a snoozing church that remains unaware that time is running out for the world as we know it. Many believers plan for the future as though they have decades of life ahead of them; they do not.

One of two things will interrupt the long-range plans of the sleeping saints in America:

1. The Rapture will occur.
2. The Lord’s judgment on the U.S. will greatly increase and drastically change everything.

I wish I could say that the Rapture will occur in the next few days, weeks, or months so that we might avoid the turmoil ahead for us, but I cannot predict its timing. I pray that the Rapture will happen soon.

I can say with absolute certainty, however, that those who know Jesus as their Savior will miss all of the Day of the Lord described in Isaiah 13 and 24 and all of the judgments of Revelation 6-18.

On the one hand, we live in exciting times. We are witnessing the ancient prophecies of Scripture coming to life before our eyes in ways we could never have imagined just ten years ago. We see the kingdom of the antichrist taking shape and realize that it signifies the nearness of our homegoing.

On the other hand, those who know what the Bible says about our day recognize the extreme danger of living in a world filled with deception, lawlessness, and wickedness.

Pastors: as these things continue to escalate exponentially, people will show up at your church wanting to hear a biblical perspective on the chaos of our day. If you fail to put these threatening world events into the framework of biblical prophecy, they may not hear what you say regardless of how eloquently you preach. At some point, they will need to hear the specifics of the Gospel future, or they will not return.

I do not have all the answers as to how we rouse a snoozing church; I just know that it’s greatly needed in a day when so many Bible-believing churches remain silent on the topic or give people a false hope.

My new book, The Triumph of the Redeemed-An eternal Perspective that Calms Our Fears in Perilous Times, is now available on Amazon. This book lays a firm biblical foundation for the hope that we have in Jesus’ imminent appearing. Order one for your pastor!

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[i] Leo Hohmann, GLOBAL GOV’T ALERT: Threat to national sovereignty set to go down May 22-28 at WHO World Health Assembly, April 25, 2022, @ https://leohohmann.com/2022/04/25/global-govt-alert-threat-to-national-sovereignty-set-to-go-down-may-22-28-at-who-world-health-assembly/#more-9732

[ii] Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, ON MAY 22: Who Will Have Authority to Lock Down All of America, May 11, 2022, @ https://www.israel365news.com/269274/on-may-22-biden-to-hand-over-american-sovereignty-to-who/