Man of La Mancha :: By Jim Towers

Hear me now – oh thou bleak and unbearable world – thou are based and debauched as can be – and a knight with his banners completely unfurled now throws down his gauntlet to thee! – I am I Don Quijote – the man of La Mancha, my destiny calls, and I go – lo the wild winds of fortune may carry me onward to whether so ever the blow – onward to glory I go!

Remember that song? Richard Kiley played the Spanish character on Broadway. As a matter of fact, I had a room offered to me in the Kiley Mansion in Detroit, Michigan, while working on several film projects there. “American Cops,” Chameleon Street,” “Collision Course,” and three television commercials. The reason I bring up this fictional character created by the Spanish writer Cervantes is because, now more than ever, we need heroic men like that. Men who will stand on their belief system and even be willing to die for it, like the apostle Peter as well.

I began writing this article on Friday 4/11/2925.

Then, on Saturday, 4/12/2025, After running errands and arriving home at about 1 PM, I decided to take a short nap; as I was beginning to doze off, there was a knock on my door: “Jill has free tickets to “Man of La Mancha” and asked if you wanted to go.”

“WHAT?”

Except for writing this article, I hadn’t given a thought to going to a theatrical production and hadn’t even been to one in ages. The last musical I performed in was “Oliver” portraying the character “Fagin,” for which I received a three-minute standing ovation. But I had always really wanted to portray Don Quijote – a character I could truly identify with. Naturally, I said yes to the offer and was tempted to pinch myself out of this dream – which brings me to yet another song in that production, “To Dream the Impossible Dream.” The words of that wonderful song echoed in my mind. I had to get up and write about this extraordinary happening, even as it played out in real-time by a very real God who neither sleeps nor slumbers.

Being jarred out of my nap – sleep was the last thing I wanted or needed – I sat down to write about this ethereal experience.  Naturally, I have to thank God for this very special gift and possible affirmation that I’m on the right track and have been throughout my 45-year ministry. If this is the case, then there is no room for doubt any longer. Satan has to take a back seat to my efforts to reach the unsaved.

Incidentally, I was going to apply for a role in Mel Gibson’s next movie TODAY TOO – which is “The Risen Christ” or “The Passion of the Christ 2.” Although Francesco DeVito portrayed Peter in the first movie, I was angling for that role in the upcoming movie, as I can identify with that character too. (A sinner saved by grace who became one of the pillars of the church.) What an honor that would be. I am updating my passport to travel to Rome, Italy (just in case I can audition for the role, or any role, for that matter.) These are exciting times for me, and I just had to share it with YOU, my favorite friends. I hope the Lord sees fit to let me leave this life on a high note.

A friend wrote the following:

QR codes, like bar codes, are not secure technology. They can be easily tampered with. The Mark of the Beast is supposed to be embedded in the wrist or forehand, right? And as such, some kind of RFID chip is much more likely to be used as a method. Once implanted under the skin and secured with some high-level encryption, such as quantum encryption, which is currently being developed, it would meet the needs of a dictator in every way.

In terms of computer chips – don’t forget all the good that such modern technology has done. Our communication by email, while separated by a vast ocean, is another. As for the numbers, there are around 500 fabrication plants globally, and between them, several billion chips are produced daily, which amounts to around 1 trillion chips annually. These are of varying types, and not all are advanced types. Of course, technology can and most likely will be used by the Antichrist for control purposes, and I think the recent developments in AI are bringing that situation much closer.

The Beast, as described in the Bible, is Satan but is also used to describe the Antichrist and the False Prophet (see Revelation 12-13). The Beast System is the system of control the Antichrist will use to rule. Whether that’s as a result of a cashless society, the Internet, AI, implanted RFID chips or a combination of these, or something else yet to be invented, we’ll have to see! We could speculate it’s based on existing technology, yes, and if that’s true, then yes, the system is already largely functional. But that’s speculation.

(NOW, here’s the kicker!)

Personally, I’m working on the basis that the generation that saw the return of Israel to its land will not have fully passed away before the End Times conclude (Matthew 24:34). And we’ve got 3 years left of the 80 years since 1948. 3 years isn’t really enough time to develop and implement new technology, so, yes, presumably, the systems in place now are those that the Antichrist will use. But there is so much potential for misunderstanding, I really don’t know anything for sure. The only thing we do know is that no one knows the day or hour, but looking at the events of the ‘season’ we’re in, it seems as if we’re so close.

I couldn’t agree more. So, fellow travelers, look up – for your redemption draweth nigh.

YBIC

Jim Towers

You can write me at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com or visit me at www.dropzonedelta.com. You can also find me on my newly restructured website , www.propheticsignsandwonders.com , which now features videos of worldwide events taking place in the present time, as well as proof of God’s existence and the reality of Biblical places and Moses himself.

 

 

Escape from Planet Earth :: By Jocelyn Andersen

In Matthew 24:10, Jesus warned of a time when many will “be entrapped” and shall betray one another and shall hate one another.” In that same verse, Jesus said the entrapment would follow what he called the Beginning of Sorrows.

Virtually all Bible translations of Matthew 24:10 say that many will be offended, stumble, or fall away, but a literal reading of the verse indicates that many will be ensnared [see Matthew 24:10 in the Online Greek Interlinear Bible].[i]

The word ensnared means “trapped.” Ensnared and trapped are not synonymous with stumbling, falling away, or being offended.

Two questions arise: Where will people be caught, and why?

Jesus [and others] warned of a time when people will be trapped on planet Earth. He also said this entrapment can be avoided and that escape before the Beginning of Sorrows (beginning of the birth pangs[ii]) is possible.

In Matthew 24:9, Jesus said after the birth pangs begin, everyone on earth will be ensnared, and a national betrayal of Israel will soon follow. He said the treasonous act will be followed by mass individual treacheries.

Jesus was speaking to his Jewish followers when he said this. First, he said “you” will be sold out, meaning the Jewish people as a nation would be given up. This was not a reference to the sacking of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.[iii] What Jesus foretold in Matthew 24:9 is a still-future political/national betrayal. According to the prophet Daniel, it will be done from high within the Israeli government (Daniel 11:30-33).

The betrayal is revealed in Daniel 11:30, where details of the Man of Sin are intermingled with a description of Antiochus. This is a common occurrence in scripture, e.g., Isaiah 14:9-17, where descriptions of Lucifer and the Man of Sin are amalgamated into a prophecy about the King of Babylon.

It is the glory of ELOHIYM to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter…”

In Matthew 24:10, Jesus said this national treachery will lead to a colossal number of personal disloyalties between individuals. The masses stuck on planet Earth will begin betraying one another on a scale never seen before. Spouses, children, parents, friends, neighbors—no one can be trusted. No one will be safe.

More than once, Jesus warned that after the birth pangs begin, something terrifying enough to cause mass betrayal will happen (Matthew 24:8-9, Luke 21:25-36).

This writer believes the terror will be caused by the beginning of the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, also known as the Great Tribulation, and people will be trapped on Earth because they failed to heed Jesus’ warning in Luke 21:25-36, where he said, “And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, the hearts of many failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.” In the same discourse, Jesus warned his followers that, “as a snare,” all these things would come unawares upon all that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

He didn’t stop there. He also warned everyone to watch and pray that they would be accounted worthy to escape all those things and to stand before him at the judgment. He clearly said no one needs to be trapped here after the birth pangs begin.

The messenger in Revelation 3:10 said there would be those who would be kept from the terrors coming on the earth. The prophet Joel spoke of a time of such horror that he warned people to be very afraid of that time. Joel’s warning was in direct opposition to all the rest of scripture that tells God’s people to “Fear not.” Joel’s warning dovetails perfectly with Jesus’ admonition for people to pray that they be accounted worthy to escape entrapment on planet Earth during that time.

Escape? How?

What will precipitate this time of terror, the time of the birth pangs Jesus spoke of? What will make it possible to escape being stuck on planet Earth during this time of unprecedented fear and destruction? [iv]

This writer believes it to be the events described in the Bible, known as the resurrection and the rapture (harpazo in the Greek).[v]

The Apostle Paul describes both in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18: “For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice [of the] archangel, and with the trump of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we, the living, who remain together with them, shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus always with the Lord we shall be. So, encourage one another with these words.”

[i] www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Greek_Index.htm

[ii] www.hhbc.substack.com/p/the-beginning-of-sorrows

[iii] www.hhbc.substack.com/p/matthew-249-is-not-about-titus-in

[iv] www.jocelynandersen.blogspot.com/p/how-can-i-be-saved.html

[v] www.jocelynandersen.blogspot.com/2022/12/matthew-251-13-midnight-cry-evidence-of.html