Climate-Change Charlatans

It started out as global warming, eventually with Al Gore’s infamously spawned picture of a polar bear floating atop a small area of ice somewhere near the Arctic, I think it was. The picture and all that flowed from that heart-tugging graphic caused much panic within the progressive enclaves of America and the world. Children in the classrooms were particularly dismayed seeing the photo and receiving the teaching that we were all doomed.

The polar bear’s supposed dilemma was to illustrate the swiftly developing ecological condition that would soon have us all, symbolically at the very least, floating on an ever-decreasing area of existence upon the planet.

We were informed–assured—by supposed top scientists that soon the Atlantic would be up to the first floor of the Empire State Building as the oceanic waters took over America’s geography, as well as the rest of the world’s inhabitable areas.

But as the years and decades came and receded, the opposite was shown to be happening. The Arctic and other icy regions actually grew in their frozen expansion.

The whole lie was concocted to control the populations of America and the world. The same type of control has been attempted, and was even considerably successful, with the COVID hoax that was foisted upon us a couple of years ago.

America and the world were going to have to bow to those who knew the “science,” which the rest of us, according to those authorities, did not understand.

The results of the changes made under the lies of global warming and the COVID hoax were to make billions of dollars for those perpetrating the lies and, more egregiously, to prepare the way for forcing acceptance of demands upon those who will live under the terror regime of Antichrist at some future prophetic point.

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:16-17). 

The successful indoctrination in the global warming and COVID matters proved beyond any doubt that people are susceptible to the constant, fear-mongering warnings and threats of those who have the means to control–those with information dominance. Satan, as “prince of the power of the air,” is at the helm of all such lies. His “son of perdition”–Antichrist—will use all available platforms of satanic inculcation to bring about adherence to the devil’s control demands during Daniel’s seventieth week–the Tribulation era.

The minions, both demonic and human, are hard at work at this moment, continuing to try to bring about submission to the control techniques of the one who stalks about seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8).

I think we see the furtherance of this effort with the most recent warnings issued breathlessly by most all mainstream news sources regarding the Hantavirus health scare. It is prudent to ask how long it might be before we are again asked to change everything in our lives because of this most recent or a future threat made up by the minions.

Actual facts about the global warming lie—changed because of its failure to produce the terrors predicted from global warming to climate change—recently made their way to the surface of truth-telling.  

The IPCC has published a new generation of climate scenarios—and buried in the fine print is a remarkable concession: the extreme warming pathways that dominated climate research, policy, and media coverage for decades were never actually plausible. It took a while to notice because almost no one in mainstream media bothered to report it.

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published the next generation of climate scenarios,” Science policy analyst Roger Pielke Jr. wrote, calling it “big news” that “eliminated the most extreme scenarios that have dominated climate research over much of the past several decades.” 

The conclusion was unambiguous. “The IPCC and broader research community has now admitted that the scenarios that have dominated climate research, assessment and policy during the past two cycles of the IPCC assessment process are implausible. They describe impossible futures.”

Those “impossible futures” formed the backbone of a decade-plus of apocalyptic climate messaging – melting ice caps, submerged coastlines, mass extinctions, widespread crop failures, and global hunger, always around the corner, always demanding immediate, economy-reshaping action to avert a catastrophe that, it now turns out, the underlying science community had assigned to a category closer to science fiction than projection. (“UN Climate Panel Quietly Admits Its Doomsday Climate Scenarios Were ‘Implausible’,” Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge, Thursday, May 07, 2026)

Despite the divulging of such truth about what the minions are seeking to foist upon us, those minions are not the least bit deterred. Here is what the Apostle Paul warns, particularly for this end-of-the-age generation of believers.

“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them” (2 Timothy 3:13-14).

The second verse here offers us absolute assurance. We are to take that assurance in the things we’ve learned from God’s love letter to all humankind. Here is what that Word promises:

• Psalm 104:5: “The Lord established the earth upon its foundations, so it will never move.”
• Ecclesiastes 1:4: “Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.”
• Isaiah 45:18: “He created the earth to be inhabited; He did not create it to be empty.”

The charlatans of global warming, climate change, and all other attempts to bring us under the satanic spell of fear should have no influence over believers in Jesus Christ—especially those who are foundationally secure in God’s prophetic Word. The Lord has given all we need to know about what lies ahead for those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7).

Here once again is how to know you are in the safe shelter of God’s Son, who went to the cross at Calvary, died, was buried, and rose again to eternally pay for our sin so that anyone who accepts this gift, this sacrifice, is forever secure in God’s family.

“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).

—Terry

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What Makes Our Blessed Hope So Blessed?

Since I was ten years old, a very long time ago, I have believed in a pre-Tribulation Rapture. Even though I didn’t grasp its significance and had much to learn about it, I sensed that it aligned with the words of Scripture.

Even after my seminary studies solidified this conviction, it took a long time for me to fully appreciate all that makes our blessed hope so wonderful. I’m still growing in my gratitude for this precious hope revealed on the pages of God’s Word.

Our adversary has a very different attitude toward it. Over the past few decades, he has greatly intensified his attacks on our anticipation of meeting Jesus in the air to the point where the word “rapture” has become taboo in many churches, even those that claim to believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. As a result, much of the mocking of our hope comes from those professing faith in the Lord Jesus.

Rather than dwell any further with the scoffers, I want to emphasize what makes our blessed hope so wonderful and thus a target for our adversary.

A Light Shining in a Dark Place

The world is a very dark place as lawlessness and violence continue to grow mostly unchecked. As I have often stated, I couldn’t cope with the headlines of our day apart from the biblical perspective of prophecy. Peter referred to its illuminating qualities in 2 Peter 1:19,

“And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.”

Scripture illuminates what’s happening in our world as nothing else can. It explains why Satan has ratcheted up his vehement and deadly opposition to the Jewish people. He knows that Israel’s existence signifies his eventual doom and is doing all he can to prevent the fulfillment of what the Bible says will happen when Jesus returns to a repentant Jewish remnant.

What does that have to do with the Rapture? The majority of pastors who say the Rapture is the same event as the Second Coming, or that there’s no such thing, believe that the church is the new Israel and there’s no seven-year Tribulation. They regard the biblical texts that illuminate our way through this dark and murky world as either allegorical of the distant past or descriptive of the last 2,000 years.

In other words, there’s no near-term intervention of the Lord in our world to deal with the wickedness of our day and inaugurate His kingdom. Such teaching reinforces the normalcy bias, the vain hope that things will get better; they always have. Such is the empty expectation of those who don’t recognize that we live in biblical times.

I remember the pastor of an Evangelical Free Church mocking the relevance of Bible prophecy to our day. He accused us of reading the Bible in one hand with a newspaper in the other. It was his way of claiming that we interpreted Scripture based on current events. He didn’t understand what the apostle wrote in 2 Peter 1:19; it’s Bible prophecy that shines the light on the darkness of all that we read about in our violent, corrupt, and lawless world and gives us hope in Jesus’ soon appearing.

An Escape from the Delusions of Life

The second benefit of anticipating Jesus’ soon appearing is that it enables us to escape the delusion that we can find hope in the things of this life. This is something I wish I had learned long ago.

It’s what Paul wrote about in 2 Corinthians 4:17-18:

“For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”

It’s not that we forgo our aspirations for this life, but it’s a matter of realizing the relative value of temporal things versus eternal realities. Though others might also possess this same perspective, more often than not, it’s an eager anticipation of Jesus’ appearing that produces this eternal outlook. Over time, it’s our focus on our blessed hope that provides us with greater clarity as to what ultimately matters.

I believe this is also what Paul wrote about in Colossians 3:1-4:

“If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.”

All four verses speak to how the saving message of the cross changes us (see also Romans 6:5-9). Because of the new life we have in Christ, we learn to “seek the things that are above” and set our “minds on things that are above.” Our anticipation of appearing with Jesus in glory when He comes for us is not an afterthought that Paul tacks on to show the Gospel renews our mind; it’s foundational to developing an eternal perspective.

The practice of “waiting for our blessed hope” (Titus 2:13) teaches us how to place a greater importance on eternal realities versus the fleeting aspirations of this life. The silence in so many churches today, regarding the Rapture and eternal life, subtly exalts this life or what lies ahead and focuses the minds of those in the pews on the things of this life.

I have discovered that there’s great freedom in focusing on my hope in Jesus’ soon appearing. That’s why I have learned to cherish the Scriptures that promise a glorious future to all who are in Christ. The long wait for the Rapture has resulted in a greater appreciation for it.

Stay tuned, as next week I will continue sharing what makes our blessed hope so Blessed.

-Jonathan

Delaying “No Nuclear Iran”

We’ve heard for years from President Trump and other presidents’ declarations that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. This objective is the primary reason given for the war waged against the terroristic Iranian regime–in the first attack on Iran’s nuclear centrifuges called Operation Midnight Hammer.

The radical Islamists in control of Iran since the revolution that overthrew the shah in 1979 have proven to never let up on their declaration to destroy all who oppose their version of Islam. The leaders and the people who follow them have screamed their chants for years: “Death to the big Satan—America,” and “Death to the little Satan, Israel.”

These have waged war, usually terroristic, with small groups of militants, or with individuals with bombs strapped to their bodies or the bodies of their children. They strike in the screaming rant that “Allah is great!”

The theological premise used to foment such deadly fanaticism is based upon the Koran and passages declaring that all who are not willing to bow the knee to their version of Islam are infidels, thus are worthy of death.

This fanatical Islamist history of murderous intentions leaves the rational among us realizing that if the Iranian regime ever achieved nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, they would act on their desire to eliminate the United States and especially Israel. These Islamists hold to the Koranic dogma that by bringing on the final world war, they’re doing the will of Allah, thus they must do whatever possible to bring on that war.

It is a satanic rage from which they suffer, spawned by the hater-in-chief against all humanity, and against God’s chosen people and nation in particular. That hellish rage was made manifest for the world to see on October 7, 2023, when the most wicked atrocities imaginable were carried out with the massacre of men, women, children, and even infants. Hostages were taken, and the current ongoing action grew from that attack.

So, is there any wonder that this president and Israeli’s leadership have declared that this evil regime must not be allowed to achieve deliverable nuclear warheads? 

President Trump has consistently said the nuclear material, now apparently enriched to 60 percent, must be given over, or Iran will face an unthinkable consequence. This continues to be both Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s threat.

Why has this removal not yet been accomplished? Trump has proven time and time again to mean what he says. Yet he keeps moving the dates, etc., choosing to seemingly hope for talks with the Iran fanatics who’ve now become the leadership to be diplomatically successful.

All the while, prices rise worldwide because of the regime’s threatened action against shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and other reprisals for American and Israeli military action.

The regime’s leadership, it is conjectured–and I think Trump and Netanyahu believe—will never surrender their nuclear material. Nuclear threat is the only ingredient within their deadly plans that gives them credence on the world stage of geopolitics. If they surrender the nuclear material, they will no longer hold the world in fear of their madness.

At the same time, Mr. Trump and his team of military know the option they have is to destroy the enriched uranium believed to be beneath the Bushehr mountains. As a matter of fact, with today’s sophisticated surveillance capabilities, there is no doubt where that material is located.

America has proven this area could be struck at any time, thus eliminating the threat.

Why has this decision not yet been made?

I believe it’s all part of God’s restraining hand as placed upon prophecy yet future. I’m almost certain that the president, of course, has no understanding of this prophecy. But Mr. Trump does know about the kind of havoc an all-out attack on this nuclear material would cause.

Therefore, this is where I believe Bible prophecy might enter the matters involved.

My friend Bill Salus has written extensively on this prophecy. His book, Nuclear Showdown in Iran: Revealing the Ancient Prophecy of Elam, involves the very region where resides the nuclear material that is at the heart of conflict in Iran.

That Jeremiah 49 prophecy is as follows:

“That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying: Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Behold, I am going to break the bow of Elam, the finest of their might. I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four ends of heaven, and will scatter them to all these winds; and there will be no nation to which the outcasts of Elam will not go.

“So I will shatter Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their lives; and I will bring calamity upon them, even My fierce anger,’ declares the LORD, ‘And I will send out the sword after them until I have consumed them. Then I will set My throne in Elam and destroy out of it kings and princes,’ declares the LORD. ‘But it will come about in the last days that I will restore the fortunes of Elam,’ declares the LORD” (Jeremiah 49:34-39).

It is true that such destruction might come from a catastrophe such as a massive earthquake rather than as an attack upon Iran’s nuclear material hiding place. This prophecy, however, seems to be in view to those who “watch” as commanded by our Lord. If President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu determine that this regime of Islamist fanatics will in no case surrender this enriched nuclear stockpile, an attack to obliterate that stockpile might likely be launched.

This could result in just the kind of chaos and scattering the prophet Jeremiah warned about.

This potential nuclear disaster for the Iranian people is why, I believe, every effort at diplomacy is being employed at present. These administrations–American and Israeli—want to make it clear that this was the only option in the final analysis, if indeed the attack is launched.

This is a time for all Christians who believe Bible prophecy is truth from God’s Word to be watchful.

We at RaptureReady.com certainly intend to continue to view all that is happening under the light of God’s prophetic Word.

All of God’s Word, of course, speaks to the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ. The first phase of that return will be the Rapture of the Church–the taking of all believers into the clouds of Glory and safety from all that will then transpire on this judgment-bound planet.

Here is how to make sure you are called by Christ to that safety at the Rapture:

“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).

—Terry

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A Prelude to Revelation Days

How much closer can we get? I’ve been asking myself that question for the past several years. It seems as though the seal judgments of Revelation 6 should’ve kickstarted long ago. Everywhere we look, we see the stage setting for much of what the apocalypse reveals will happen after our departure.

The continuing release of the UFO files by the U.S. government is yet another indication that we live in the last days of human history as we know it. I suspect the disclosures will convince many that the sightings confirm the existence of alien life. The revelations are already deceiving some, as Congressman Eric Burlison recently stated that the disclosures have “challenged his faith in God.”

Really? I see the alien files as yet another validation of prophetic messages contained in the book of Revelation, a prelude to the time of judgment described on its pages.

Deception

The intensifying interest in UFOs and alien life is symptomatic of Satan’s efforts to deceive people during these last days. With the advent of AI, the potential for deception has greatly increased. With these tools, people can create or alter videos and voice recordings so as to make what’s completely false appear genuine. The amount of fake information on social media is staggering. Although I have learned to be exceedingly cautious, I have still fallen for more bogus posts than I care to admit.

The bad news for the world is that the deception of our day will get even worse once the Tribulation starts. When we turn to Revelation 13, we see that the devil dramatically ups his game at deceiving people. When I read this chapter in light of AI’s abilities to deceive people and how demons are already leading people astray with UFO sightings, I’m amazed that new ways still remain for antichrist to deceive and subjugate humanity. What we see today will surely get significantly worse after the Rapture.

Those who deny the prophetic message of the apocalypse claim that Revelation 13 represents Satan’s attempts to deceive “God’s people” throughout human history. Although highly popular in churches, the denial of a future “beast,” or antichrist, leads believers away from the truth of what God’s Word says about today versus the upcoming Tribulation. It not only deceives believers into thinking that this is a time just like any other in history, but it also closes their eyes to the multitude of other signs signifying that we are ever so close to meeting Jesus in the air.

Two Paths

The media hype regarding the release of previously classified information concerning the UFOs confirms another theme that we see in the book of Revelation. It highlights the differing paths of belief and unbelief that will become even more pronounced during the days of the judgments recorded in the book of Revelation.

After the Rapture, most people will believe the lies told to them regarding our disappearance. It seems likely that the ruse of alien abduction will be a highly popular explanation put forward by world leaders. In the aftermath of the most stunning event in human history resulting in multitudes of missing people, most people will eagerly believe the false explanation for it. Paul wrote about the deception that will lead many astray after our departure in 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12:

“Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

When we turn to Revelation, we see the sad results of those who reject the truth and, as a result, fall for increasing levels of deception. After the trumpet judgments, the text says this about the dire state of those who continue to reject the truth and remain deceived:

“The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts” (Revelation 9:20-21).

Although given the chance to turn to the Lord amid the Tribulation horrors, people will cling to their evil behavior rather than turn to the Savior. They will be the ones who willingly worship the beast and take his mark so as to preserve their ability to buy and sell.

We also see another path in the book of Revelation, one that a great many people will choose after Jesus takes us home to Heaven to be with Him. John wrote the following about this group that he saw in heaven:

“After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’” (Revelation 7:9-10).

I believe the UFO craze of our day is preparing vast numbers of people to accept alien abduction as a plausible explanation for our disappearance. Based on the verses above, however, we know that a “great multitude” of those left behind will reject the world’s explanations for the Rapture and turn to Jesus in saving faith. Rather than believe the prevailing lie of their day, they will see it as an unmistakable confirmation of the truth of God’s Word.

We live in a day when a great many people have already rejected the Gospel and traveled down the Romans 1 road to a “reprobate” or “debased mind.” They are the ones who will eagerly embrace the lies of the devil regarding the reason(s) for our disappearance. This may very well begin with their acceptance of the current revelations regarding alien life.

-Jonathan