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A Sign of The Times :: By Dale V. Nobbman

Published on: by RR10

The talented English singer Petula Clark had a hit song in 1966 titled ‘A Sign of the Times.’ The song had absolutely nothing to do with the Biblical ‘signs of the end times’ we will focus on in this article, but there was just something about the song title that intrigued me even back then.

Every decade has its own signs of changing times. Back then, the Vietnam War was coming to a boiling point, with many protests in the United States. There were racial and civil rights issues. It was harder to borrow money or get mortgages because of higher interest rates and inflation. Even the U.S. government was feeling a financial squeeze because there just wasn’t enough money to finance both a war in Vietnam and a War on Poverty. The use of illegal drugs was beginning to increase, and even the popular music most teenagers listened to was changing fast.

Fast forward to the 21st century, and the signs of the end times seem to be multiplying faster than rabbits with each passing year. Not really a surprise since the Bible prophesied such a time in human history would occur at an appointed time set by God, resulting in the ‘end of time’ as we have known it over the last couple of millennia. This should intrigue everyone.

Biblical scripture says that the ‘signs of the times’ will continue to increase and get worse in intensity and frequency, just like a mother’s birth pangs. Our national signs in the United States, international signs around the world, and cultural, societal, and moral signs around the globe continue to compound and get worse and worse by the year at an unprecedented rate of speed.

It seems things are getting so bad these days that perhaps we have reached the time in the ‘signs of the times’ where God is giving depraved minds over to their delusions, as the Bible says will happen at some point in God’s timing, before the pre-Tribulation Rapture and Jesus’ return.

“For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.”

“Therefore, God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise.

“For this reason, God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind to do what ought not to be done.

“They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things but also approve of those who practice them” (Romans 1:21-32).

If these Bible verses do not exactly sound like what is happening in the USA and the world today, then I do not know what does. They describe precisely our current sad moral situation, which seems to dominate our daily newscasts and talk shows more and more with each passing day.

I know that I have never witnessed the current level of corruption, deception, insane hatred, maniacal and deranged lunacy, lying, unrestrained hysteria and delirium, mocking, pure Satanic evil influence and possession, and assorted other craziness, all happening at the same time at all levels of government, in schools and a majority of mass media outlets, in the public squares, and even in the world of sports and so-called entertainment. And I have never heard so many adult professionals and governmental leaders spew so much cussing and swearing. It is all at unprecedented levels in my lifetime. If these are not the end times we are living in, then I cannot imagine how bad things will be in the ensuing years going forward. Only God knows!

But the things mentioned above are not the only signs trending us into the end times.

Israel, God’s chosen people, will always be front and center in end times activity. Add in materialism, wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, famines, pestilences, apathy, persecution of Christians, spiritual warfare, heavenly signs, and more—it is then that we will see the rapid end-time signs come into clear focus.

And God makes it perfectly clear in the Biblical book of Isaiah what He will do during the end times to those people who have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.

“I will send them great trouble and choose harsh punishment for them and will bring on them what they fear and dread. For when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, no one listened. They deliberately sinned and did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me” (Isaiah 66:4).

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter” (Isaiah 5:20).

It is becoming clear why the United States of America is not specifically mentioned in Biblical end-times prophecy. Either the USA will continue to decline and fall from God’s grace due to increasing and greater moral decay, or it will be incorporated into the European coalition, or it may be invaded by an enemy, or it will likely become a weak and powerless nation at the time of the Rapture when it will be decimated by the loss of millions of its patriotic Christian citizens.

Christians already know there is a simple remedy God has offered to anyone to help us face the future optimistically as this world continues to become a darker and darker place to live.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son [Jesus Christ], that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).

Yes, it is as simple as that.

I pray YOU will take God up on his offer!

 

God Is Not Willing That Any Should Perish :: By Jim Towers

Published on: by RR10

Let’s assume you are a loving father or mother, and let’s say you have a disobedient child. But try as you might, that child is determined to go his own way, oblivious to your warnings. Would you cast him away like so much garbage?

The news yesterday was that a twenty-year-old “Shooter” killed two students and injured several others with a high-powered rifle on the campus of the University of Florida in Tallahassee. His mother was a cop. Where did he go wrong and why? We’ll know more and why in the coming days.

The Bible tells us that we ALL like sheep have gone astray, and that there is NONE righteous, no, not one, but God has laid on Christ Jesus the iniquity of us all.

My younger brother K.C. and I were on Pensacola Beach fishing one day and decided to get something to eat at a 7-Eleven store nearby. We had decided to get a chilly cheese dog and sit at a picnic table alongside the store. We got our heaping chili hotdogs with cheese and onions, and I couldn’t wait to dig in. As we made our way to the picnic table, there was a young man about K.C.’s age – say 35, 40. He sat alone in one corner of the big, weathered picnic table.

“Mind if we sit with you?” I queried. “Sure, help yourself,” the pitiful man replied.

After giving thanks, I began chomping down on that big juicy baby, but I couldn’t help but notice that the man across from me was eyeing my hot dog with hungry eyes.

“Do you want one, I asked.”

“I don’t have no money,” he replied.”

“My treat.”

So, I got up, took one last bite, and re-entered the store. I got the hot dog and a Coke for the hungry guy. He chomped on it like a hungry lumberjack and scoffed that big bugger down.

“Thanks, man, thanks; I haven’t eaten for two days,” he mumbled as he wiped the juices from his mouth with the back of his hand and took a big swallow of his large Coke.

By this time, K.C. and I had finished too. “Why haven’t you eaten?” I probed.

“Well, my wife threw me out of the house a couple of days ago.”

“But why?”

Tears began forming in his eyes, then he began his tale of woe, “I’m a sorry sumb…h – that’s why!” The man began sobbing, his chest heaving. K.C. was beginning to take note; it sounded all too familiar. “I’m one sorry, drunken bas…d,” the man continued. “Can’t quit the bottle; I’m a complete mess.”

Long story short, I asked if I could pray for him, and he raised his head, which was now hanging in defeat. “Please do!”

KC, being a new Christian, got up and scurried away as if he had seen a ghost, knowing what I was about to do. I watched him leave and then began my prayer while holding the young man’s hand, “Father in heaven, please help this man find his way and to be able to have the peace and strength to overcome his addiction to alcohol, that only Jesus can give, etc.”

I never pray long, pious prayers to make me seem like a paragon of faith. Short and sweet does the trick. The man’s shoulder quit quaking, and his sobbing subsided as if the tremendous guilt had left him. And wiping his eyes with the back of his hands, he thanked me profusely. There was even a glow on his face as we said our goodbyes. He was going home a new man, resolved to be the man he should be.

3/28/2025

This is an update on Tucker Carlson, an honest man who doesn’t take himself too seriously – a guy I respect and like. Tucker says this about Christians in general, while I encapsulate in parentheses (real) in the article about Christians because, as he has yet to find out, there are many fake ones, even some pastors.

By Author: Abby Trivett

Tucker Carlson is taking note of the spiritual realm working in America today. The media commentator and journalist has best been known for his unashamed conservative values. However, ever since leaving Fox News, Carlson’s insight into the supernatural and faith has grown as he speaks out about it even more. On a podcast with the Shawn Ryan Show, Carlson pointed out that the depth and amount of discussion about spiritual forces today is much more than it was just five years ago.

“All of a sudden, in the last few years, just random sort of normal secular American people are like, ‘You know, I was praying about that,’ or ‘I think God’s doing this,’” Carlson says. “There’s something going on, and of course, that’s the way God works…. Clearly, we’re under oppression of evil. Not just the Biden administration, which is just a manifestation of it, but there’s something way bigger trying to hurt people for the sake of hurting people.”

Carlson says that Christians are the ones who are not surprised by the chaos happening in our world today. On the contrary, it is Christians who are less shocked about the direction that America is currently heading toward. “I will say this about the (real) Christians: to their credit, they’re not shocked at all,” Carlson says.

Carlson also believes that our reliance on artificial intelligence for our future is leading to an unsustainable place for both our power grid and for a self-sufficient people. “Personally, I think it’s spiritual,” Carlson says. “The real struggles are unseen. That is absolutely a part of Christian theology,” he continues.

Carlson further says that while many of the rich and famous in America may be opposed to Christianity, he believes it is Christians who truly can decipher what is happening in the world around us. “What I didn’t know was that they’re only wise people. They’re the only ones who know what’s up, and that they’re just like way smarter than everybody,” says Carlson.

Carlson also believes that although we have seen all kinds of church secrets and scandals break out, the truth of Christianity is growing “in power.”

As we celebrate our freedom in America, let’s also cling tight to the truth of the Gospel as our nation continues to battle with spiritual darkness. Pray for revival and for the Holy Spirit to overflow all across the United States. – Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.

So, after reading this, I will write an open letter to Tucker on my own website in the Open Letter section, where I write to other notables on www.propheticsignsandwonders.com with the hope that he somehow reads it and responds, knowing we both had the very same experiences, and the hope that Tucker would have me on his podcast to promote my latest book.

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.