In September, I had the privilege of traveling to Southern California to minister at the Behold He Comes conference at Pastor Jack Hibbs’ church. I also met weary remnant believers who are looking for the like-minded and often coming up short.

How can we be in these mind-numbing times and not have every single Christian asking what it all means? Maybe because the church is now in Laodicea, and today’s church—with some exceptions—is more interested in conforming than transforming.

Their Church Awakened to Wokeness

I heard many express dismay that during the Covid shutdown of months to a year or more, their church went “woke.” What on earth does that mean?

I learned that many pulpits became more interested in skin color than the gospel of salvation. In just a short time, their church had a complete transformation—and not a good one. The George Floyd incident, which took place less than a half-hour from my office—had changed the culture and all of society. The church did not escape.

Social justice is the new urgency and also saving the planet. Not saving souls. And certainly not looking up and listening for a trumpet blast! Many are told people have been doing that for decades and it’s a waste of time.

I learned that people talking about the excitement of the Lord’s soon return are dealing with people with short fuses, so to speak. This irritates people more than usual. Many only wanted life “to return to normal,” whatever that means.

Watching dysfunctional society seemed to cause people to cling even more to this broken planet. Perhaps this was because life was now filled with inconvenience, the threat of job losses, and alienation from loved ones over vaccine and health-related issues.

When Reality Becomes Too Frightening

People seemed to want “their best life now” rather than long for eternal rewards. The pandemic has caused so much sorrow and change that some are not coping well. Their “best life” is evaporating. You would think that would result in loosening a grip on a broken planet.

Everyone I spoke with at this conference stated they could hardly keep up with the hourly events that are leaping out of the Bible into reality.

They acknowledge that their friends and family members who are indifferent to this truly love the Lord but choose to ignore one-third of the Bible dealing with prophecy. The root is reality has turned too negative for them.

When I returned home, I got this email from a conference attendee:

“Jan, I am viewed as crazy just by mentioning how excited I am for the Lord to return or about the times we are in. It makes me downright nervous to even mention world news and events or end-time prophecies. The reaction from fellow believers is volatile. I am having trouble finding even one person in my life who would be willing to discuss any of today’s issues. What is most disheartening is the indifference of my church of 30 years.”

The Pace Is Quickening!

So everything has accelerated as the Bible said would happen in that last generation, but interest in the phenomenon is at an all-time low. And weary remnant watchmen are left alone and isolated! Those they mingle with are just waiting for normal to return and for life to carry on!

Now let’s throw division into the mix, and it’s so volatile that many people feel even more isolated. Masks, vaccine issues, and other virus-related controversies have separated families, churches, businesses, and more.

All would acknowledge, both on the right and the left, that government is growing out of control. Liberties are being violated on a daily basis as politicians meet in smoke-filled rooms to scheme and deny rights to the people. In America, the Constitution has been tossed in a trash can.

Soon we will be a vaccine passport society, and the unvaccinated will assume “yellow star” status. How did this happen? This is hardly the “normal” people think will return.

Prepping for Mr. Fix-It

Society is being prepped for the Antichrist, and as prophecy-loving believers try to warn, the words are falling on a lot of deaf ears.

The stage is being set for a closing act. The players are getting into their proper positions. Heads of state are meeting to plot and scheme and deny even more rights. In places like Australia, Lithuania, and Austria, good people are enemies of the state even though they are upstanding citizens.

World leaders have no comprehension they are majoring in minors. To them, it makes perfect sense to obsess over carbon emissions. During the Tribulation, this will fade from their memories as they cope with Seals and Trumpets and Bowls. These will spark “climate change” they cannot imagine!

Most receiving this newsletter are “watchmen.” Ezekiel 33 tells us that if you don’t warn, the blood is on your hands, so you cannot be silent.

Brace yourself to be shocked daily by things you read and watch. Satan is getting more active, and wickedness is rising, so God’s people must shine more brightly.

But for the believer, a glorious event will happen soon. It is known as the Rapture of the Church. It is any day. Any hour. Any minute. So don’t grow weary!

And yes, if a believer is a Rapture skeptic, they get the surprise of their life someday soon. Then you’ll have the privilege of saying, “I told you so.”

Won’t that be a glorious day?

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Disturbing Trends Empowering the Globalist Agenda 

A number of prophetic voices have proclaimed truth to our culture, but one is unique. As both a woman and a Christian with a Jewish heritage, Jan Markell represents a modern-day watchman (or watchwoman).

Jan began following Yeshua when she was 11 years old. As a young woman, she traveled to Israel, studied Bible Prophecy, and served with Jews for Jesus. In 1982, Jan launched Olive Tree Ministries “to help people understand the times according to the Bible, contend for the faith in Jesus Christ, and help the Church stand against deception as watchmen on the wall in these last days.” I can’t think of a more significant or timely calling. Over the years she’s written many books, including contributing to Lawless: End Times War Against the Spirit of Antichrist, along with Dr. David Reagan and Nathan Jones.

In this week’s episode of Christ in Prophecy, you can hear from this giant in the Bible prophecy realm whom the Lord has disguised as a wonderfully petite woman. The following is an excerpt.

Jan’s Alarm

Tim Moore: In one of your newsletters from the year 2020, you talked about Globalism’s “perfect storm.” What lessons did 2020 teach us as even today we are continuing to witness a rise in lawlessness?

Jan Markell: My headquarters and home are located in Minneapolis. I’m living at ground zero for the past year. The turmoil that was sparked in 2020 started 20 minutes from my home in Minneapolis when George Floyd was pinned down by a policeman. That sparked epic unrest across the country that I frankly question will ever settle down, and more likely will be ongoing. Racial strife was stirred up.

But I don’t want to go down that path. The path I want to go down concerns the agenda by the global cabal behind the globalist system. They needed a crisis, and so they used 2020 as their crisis, be it the pandemic or be it racial strife. They used the global crisis to further their own nefarious ambitions. Remember, it wasn’t an American crisis, and it wasn’t a North American crisis; rather, it was a global crisis. They used that crisis to help get their global government launched a little farther along.

Obviously, a one-world government is not in play at this time, for the Antichrist has to be here, and the Church has to be gone in the Rapture. This growing centralized government shows that, again, we are living in the last hours, and that’s exciting.

Tim Moore: Those bent on globalism and taking over the world in a dictatorial manner will use every opportunity. I’m reminded of Kristallnacht, the Nazi Germany Night of Broken Glass. German Nazi thugs went around breaking the windows of Jewish shop owners and persecuting Jews. Adolf Hitler responded to the effect, “You see all of this unrest, so if you’d just put me in power, I will tamp down all of the lawlessness that has taken place.” We found out that Hitler was spurring the persecution on behind the scenes to create the crisis. Today, many of those who are claiming to want power are promising to quell the unrest, but they’ve been the ones who have been fomenting it all along.

Jan Markell: That is true. I am concerned about Leftism stoking the flames, but more so the need for the Church to come and put out these fires. Instead, I am seeing the Church sign onto the racial unrest and all in the name of social justice. They’ve been signing onto the agenda of Black Lives Matter. What a terrible mistake they are making, all in the name of social justice! They are signing onto a movement that is very unhealthy in aligning with the whole Black Lives Matter Movement.

Tim Moore: Black Lives Matter wrote in some of their manifestos that as an organization they are not only tremendously Anti-Semitic but that they are pushing a very radical LGBTQ+ agenda. They’ve totally renounced Judeo-Christian values, even the family as a basic foundational unit as God ordained. So, yes, this is very problematic.

Jan, what do you see are some of the other trends from recent years foreshadowing the way the Antichrist will rise to power? Do you see anything specific that we should be alarmed about?

Jan Markell: Yes, I think, firstly, we should be alarmed when we see such unmitigated lawlessness. I don’t think we even know where that is going, but we’ve seen over the past year lawlessness taking over our country. As a matter of fact, it also took over parts of Australia and parts of Europe as well. Anything that is lawless is not of God; rather, it’s the rise of the Antichrist spirit.

What I saw most in the year behind us, the thing I saw make the strongest, most impactful in a negative way, is the spirit of the Antichrist raising its ugly head in the world and trying to influence the Church. I don’t know if it was successful, but it tried.

So, believers, are you pushing back with the truth? That’s all that we Christians can do — give the truth. Give the truth about what’s happening in our world. Give the truth of the Gospel. Get people inside this rescue mission we have; get them into the lifeboat of salvation.

Yes, these are exciting times, but I’m not the least bit discouraged. I am living right at ground zero in Minneapolis. Huge segments were burned down last year and will never come back. In the natural, that can be very discouraging, but still, I’m not discouraged. I see it as a sign of the times. It’s a reminder to the Church that Jesus said, “Look up! I am coming soon.”

Jan’s Warning

Tim Moore: Jan, what do you see is the greatest threat to the Church worldwide? And, what opportunities must we as believers seize right now living in such a time as this?

Jan Markell: The Church needs to be discerning in these end times. We need to understand how late we are in God’s prophetic plan. Is the Church doing these things? I don’t think so.

I think, secondly, a deeper problem concerns the growing apostasy in the Church, apostasy that was predicted in the Bible. There are more Bible references about the Last Day’s apostasy than almost anything else, other than maybe the rebirth of Israel. Read Jesus, Peter and Paul, particularly all of those verses in 1 and 2 Timothy. They’re all giving warning about the wolves that are going to come and devour the flock with false teaching, horrible theology, and the doctrines of demons. That’s just what is happening in our churches today.

That’s why God provides watchman trying to warn the Church to repent and return to the biblical Christ. And yet, in many cases, these watchmen are simply brushed off. Nobody is listening to them. They are trying to tell the church leadership that we are going down the wrong path, whether it is the New Apostolic Reformation or Replacement Theology or other false teachings that we could talk about if we had three hours; we would fill them so quickly.

So many new false teachings have come along in the last hundred years, and even more so really in the last ten years. Christian Palestinianism — whoever would have thought of that? Jesus was a Palestinian?!? That totally unhistorical claim came about in just the last ten years or so.

Tim Moore: Errant ideologies have sprung forth in the last couple of years which are meant to distract us from the truth as revealed in Scripture.

Jan Markell: And, it’s worked. They have distracted the Church from a great calling, and that is to get their folks focused on winning Jews and Gentiles to Jesus and proclaiming our message about the end times concerning the coming of the King of Kings. Israel is the key to understanding the times we are living in.

Tim Moore: When it comes to being a watchman, or watchwomen in your case, I’m reminded of what the Lord said to Ezekiel. He said that the people would not listen to him, but He still would hold watchmen responsible to declare the truth even though the people wouldn’t listen. Jan, you have obviously been a watchman who has been faithful to fulfill your duty to the Lord regardless of the great numbers of folks who are groping in darkness. Whether or not they come to the light that you have been faithfully proclaiming is not your responsibility.

Jan’s Confidence

Tim Moore: In spite of all of the gloom that we are seeing descending upon the world today, ours is a message of joyful hope. So, tell us, Jan, about your unfailing confidence in our Blessed Hope.

Jan Markell: I want to encourage Christians. We are not truly living in dark times. I know the headlines appear that way. But, understand that we are a privileged generation getting to see all of these events coming to pass. Whoever thought we would be part of the generation to see Israel become a nation again? We are seeing so many events that have been transpiring before our very eyes on a daily basis, and that includes the lawlessness, unfortunately. But you’ve got to see the good along with the bad, and then translate the bad into the good news that the King is coming soon. These signs are heralding His coming.

And so, I’m excited! I’m thrilled to be a part of this generation. It’s been a tremendous experience, and I’ve been privileged to partner in this kind of ministry, which is very much needed because shots are coming at us every day.

Tim Moore: As Adrian Rogers would say, “The world is getting gloriously dark.” The King is indeed coming!

(Watch the entire interview on Christ in Prophecy!)