A secular talk show host I enjoy opened his program yesterday saying, “The end-game has begun.” Even the unbelieving world knows things are coming apart. Even non-Christians know that serial lying, scheming, and back door deals are not right. Men and women acting with seared consciences — blatantly mocking truth-telling — is the norm with some today. And it troubles some of us that many Americans hate God, America and Christians in that order. In fact, they are obsessed with blotting out all three. Millions of people of all denominations or no denomination do not want a secular-humanist socialist utopia in America.

Another secular talk show host who is most often an optimist said this week that he fears America will not last until the next election. At least, will not last in the form it has been in for a couple of centuries.

Here’s a quick review that lets you know we’re in an Alice-in-Wonderland world. Sadly, you haven’t fallen down any hole; rather, everyday events are just bizarre thanks to the hastening of an end-time clock.

We have seen political bullying and in-your-face appointments that are going to further tear America down. The recent appointment of Samantha Power as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. is stunning. She once advocated the hostile invasion of Israel by the U.S.! Talk about wicked foreign policy. It’s not popular policy with God either and that is the real tragedy!

The truth about Benghazi may never come out. Was it hostage-taking run amok as some say? Was Chris Stevens going to be traded for the blind sheik? It wasn’t a consulate in Benghazi. It really resembled a weapons-transfer outpost, running guns from Libya, through Turkey, to Syrian terrorists. It’s more than bizarre. And now we learn that Chris Stevens was in love with the mystical side of Islam. Hear my current radio program about this featuring Walid Shoebat here.

A member of the U.S. Army band who said he was reprimanded for having anti-Obama bumper stickers on his personal car, serving Chick-fil-A sandwiches at a party, and reading books written by conservative authors like Sean Hannity or David Limbaugh, is now facing charges. He was cautioned that his “Nobama” bumper sticker was causing “workplace tension.”

As I talked about on this week’s radio program, people who should know better are lauding Islam and demeaning Christianity. You can offend and even persecute Christians but don’t you dare try to do that to a Muslim! Taken internationally, the Muslim Brotherhood is a protected species and Israel is going on the endangered species list. FBI training manuals are now scrubbed of negative Islamic references.

Our elected and appointed leaders are engaging in skullduggery, calling kingpins of evil good such as the Muslim Brotherhood. Even the Syrian “rebels” are those good-old freedom fighters again, rather than brutal terrorists.

The same corruption has been behind the spying on millions of righteous Americans. Educated fools have even tried to monitor the prayers of Christians and keep them from getting tax-exemption status.

In April, soldiers were told they would be court-martialed if they shared their faith. Because of an uproar, the Pentagon backed down, but for how long? A Pentagon consultant calls that establishment the “Pentacostalgon” because it claims too many Christians. I write about this in my current print newsletter available here and free for one year.

A story broke today that Barack Obama will veto a bill about to be passed that will protect the free speec h of members of the military. In other words, Obama says he will veto any bill that forbids his appointees or officers from telling a soldier that he  cannot mention Jesus during prayer or have a Bible on his desk, or that keeps those appointees from telling a chaplain what religious teachings he is allowed to give in worship services, or what spiritual counseling he can give to another soldier.

I hope I am spelling tyranny properly.

While millions of Americans struggled to pay their tax bill last April (if they were lucky enough to have a job), hundreds of IRS agents stayed in rooms costing $3,500 a night so they could party and make humorous DVDs. Life to this bunch is one big frat party. Let the good times roll. Happy days are here again! Except for the families of four dead Americans in Libya and millions of unemployed Americans.

Just as the war on terror was declared to be over, it apparently began on the American people, although our stellar leaders insist the spying is for national security reasons.

Our leaders’ only comment to all of this is to tell us to trust them!  And the classic line, “What difference does it make?”

Indeed, the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked(Jeremiah 17:9). Doesn’t that take on new meaning to Americans? And the fact is that the predicted evil is waxing worse and worse (II Timothy 3). Another day, another offense and outrage.

Becky Gerritson spoke for millions of freedom-loving Americans when she testified on June 4 about IRS intimidation. She is terrified that the America she grew up in is slipping away. Her voice trembled. She struggled to keep her composure. She had no idea how her testimony would impact righteous Americans.

The Bible predicts a globalist system. The Bible does not use the phrase “one-world government” or “one-world currency” in referring to the end-times. It does, however, provide ample evidence to enable us to draw the conclusion that both will exist under the rule of the Antichrist in the last days. It’s just hard for us to grasp the concept that it could be around the corner. That it could happen tomorrow.

It could. It must happen and soon.

The insanity of our times cannot be grasped apart from a last days’ perspective. No matter how desperate the times get, the issues outlined in the Bible for the end-of-time will not be proclaimed from 90% of today’s pulpits.

To the world, Christians are “bloody monsters”, “rabidly intolerant agitators,” and “among those who would usher in a blood-drenched, draconian era of persecutions and a superstitious theocracy.”

They’ve got one thing right: We’re longing for a theocracy — the rule and reign of Christ on earth. No other government run by either the Left or the Right will get it right in the meantime.

Christ’s return will be right on time. The blessed hope (Titus 2:13) will happen at the appointed time.

He is coming soon! That assurance, along with your salvation, may be the only things the powers-that-be can’t take away from you. Look around and be depressed; look up and be encouraged. Ultimately what lies ahead is too glorious for words.

Scoffing has hit a whole new level but be of good cheer, it means the hour is very late.

If you have perused headlines recently, or watched a TV news hour, you are stunned at what’s going on. I am every morning as I post headlines here. I let them sink in and I shake my head. When has the world been in this much chaos? When have people been this unhappy, confused, addicted, pagan, angry and tuned out?

So Hollywood is making the apocalypse a joke in two movies:This is the End and Rapture Palooza. The latter features a scene where Jesus is blown out of the sky as He returns in His Second Coming. It doesn’t get any more outrageous. (What if a movie shot Mohammed or Allah out of the sky?!) And one movie critic states, “Satan, God, and Jesus are ultimately killed, leaving non-believers to live in peace.”

Well, not quite because that’s not the way it will happen. And if “the end” plays out sooner rather than later, the producers of such nonsense will not be laughing for long.

Sadly, it’s not just the pagans doing the mocking and scoffing, however. Many Christians, churches, and even entire denominations have similar attitudes. And while they are hardly as offensive, the end result is similar.

When Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Life came in years ago, I was turned off by his scoffing at the Lord’s return and the topic of prophecy. On pages 285-286, he suggested that Jesus said His return was none of our business.

Excuse me. It’s almost one-third of the Bible! Warren suggests that considering it might get in the way of our purpose.

Two things define eschatology in the church today: Ignorance or apathy. People will tell you it will all play out as it is predicted but in the meantime, enjoy life. Or church leaders will tell you it is divisive and controversial.  This is just another manner of scoffing. It’s nowhere near as offensive as the above-referenced Hollywood movies, but the result is the same. There is a giant turn-off.

We scoff at eschatology (Bible prophecy) by ignoring the warnings that are a part of it. Haven’t you heard: All of the previous warnings have been false alarms so why should we pay attention to any of them now? Jesus will get here when He gets here. Settle down. What’s there to get so excited about? You end-time people are so negative! The sky is always falling for you people. Come on. Beasts coming out of the sea, plagues, famines, hail and an evil man called the Antichrist.  Can we move on to good news? The stock market is doing super well!  Don’t talk to me about bad times and rough sailing ahead!  My 401K has never done better.

We scoff with our apathy. Our unbelief. Our doubt. Our skepticism. Our boredom of the topic. Our disgust.  Our prophecy fatigue.  We’ve heard this story over and over since Hal Lindsey made the complicated plain over 40 years ago. No, we aren’t radicals like the producers of the sickening films mentioned who literally glorify the Antichrist and assassinate Jesus Christ in their productions.

But we are still scoffers. And we are oh so busy. We are running to and fro and we are trying to keep our ducks in a row and some day when they are all lined up perfectly, we’ll sit down and ponder His return. Maybe happy days will be here again this side of Heaven!

We go to marriage seminars, financial seminars, how to manage kids’ seminars but please spare us from an end-time focus. Boring. Depressing. Scary. We want to go to Heaven some day but maybe not right now!

One reviewer says about the This is The End flick, “When the apocalypse literally sets the world on fire, and the good people ascend to heaven while the not-so-good people are destroyed in gruesome fashion, one young star is stunned to learn there really is an afterlife, and a God, and all that.” The movie actually has an “aha moment.” It resonates with some truth although it was likely unintended.

But that comment says it all. Some day wicked mankind will realize that what the Bible predicted actually will happen and there will be consequences. There is a surprise ending for the unsuspecting.

Life on earth during the very end-of-days won’t be a series of silly escapades as portrayed in the Rapture Palooza andThis is The End movies.

In one of them, the Rapture happened and millions are left to cope with plagues of trash-talking locusts, foul-mouthed crows, rains of blood, and fiery rocks from the sky, all preparations for the return of Jesus. The cast can relish in the fact that the world is a lot less crowded but the fact is, when this day actually transpires, no one left behind will even have a smile on their face.

The Bible contains detailed prophecies about the end times we are living in, and there is just no way to fully understand much of what is happening today apart from those prophecies.  From the meltdown in Egypt to the surveillance of Americans who thought they were safe and secure, only an end-of-days scenario can connect the dots and make things make perfect sense.

We can scoff at the scoffers and hold our heads high as we look up. We have the most marvelous news known to man. The King is coming and no cannon will shoot Him out of the sky!

He’ll be here right on time. It will be in God’s timing and not ours.