Donation Drive February to April

A couple weeks ago we redirected the RaptureReady.com domain to the site’s new look. After eight long months of transferring thousands of files and creating hundreds of new templates, we reached the point where we were ready to move to a WordPress format. There are still thousands of older files waiting to be added to the site. We want to make sure the server could handle the traffic load before adding any more articles.

The reason for the move was driven by two important factors. The old site  format was not compatible with mobile devices and search engines where penalizing our ranking for this lack   of compatibility. With half the people visiting RR on a smartphone or some type of tablet, it became vital for us to reformat the site to accommodate small-screen technology. The move has dramatically improved our search visibility in sites like Goggle, Yahoo  and Bing. The traffic for the top five key phrases, used by people to find RR in search engines has more than doubled.

Another factor pressing us to move was the growing age of our Windows based HTML files. In 2010, Microsoft stopped updating their “Expressions” Web editor. WordPress is constantly being updated and it runs 40 percent of all websites.

The popularity of this format allows us to take advantage of a huge variety of themes and plugs. One of these applications connects RR to social media sites which allows readers to share articles with their friends and family. I noticed last week one article was posted 700 times on Facebook. At times when prophetic events are very active, these resources can be posted and    reposted numerous times.

The folks at Exodus Design added a very impressive feature to the bottom of the site. The yellow “translate” button will allow visitors to convert the text of the site into 104 languages. With 99 percent of the people visiting RR coming from English based IP addresses, this feature can be a very import tool for introducing a whole new field of people to the end-time gospel message.

We still working on improving the functionality of the site, and your input is very helpful. Within days of going live with the site, several people noticed that the articles didn’t change colors when previously clicked on. If you think of something that can improve the site, please send me your suggestions.

“Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation’” (2 Peter 3:3-4).

The day will eventually come when the Lord return to rapture away his bride. When that event takes place, there is going to be a huge scramble for prophetic information.  Since RR is one of the largest and most search-relevant site related to the rapture on the net, a huge number of people will come here for answers.

The renovation of the site does have a few minor downsides. Regular updates to the software are required in order to keep the WordPress platform up to date with the current browsers and mobile devices and ahead of malware and virus attacks. The Xenon Server that now hosts RR is triple the price of our old server. The added costs are worth gaining the ability to reach a wider audience.

In order to maintain our progress, the site needs your financial support. I call on every Bible-believing Christian to help us maintain this beacon of hope. As the world literally disintegrates around us, I ask, “What other endeavor could possibly be of greater importance?”

We have three ways you can contribute to Rapture Ready and enable our efforts to expand our reach. You can send a financial gift via our postal address, you can make a one-time donation by a Credit card. And you can sign-up to make monthly donations via PayPal. More information can be found on our Donation page.

–Todd

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—Todd

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Doomsdayers’ Diatribe

Six days into the presidency of Donald J. Trump, the humanistic  gurus of the community known as the” Atomic Scientists” raised a ruckus. They lamented that we are within two and a half minutes of nuclear midnight. This is supposed to mean that global catastrophe is closer, perhaps, than it has ever been.

The atomic scientists’ perception as the unthinking–bumbling, or perhaps deliberate evil–of the new president make the doomsday clock time-setters nervous indeed.

Their joint declaration states, “Both his statements and his actions as president-elect have broken with historical precedent in unsettling ways. He has made ill-considered comments about expanding the U.S. nuclear arsenal. He has shown a troubling propensity to discount or outright reject expert advice related to international security, including the conclusions of intelligence experts. And his nominees to head the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency dispute the basics of climate science.”

I have written in these commentaries for many months that the globalists’ key rallying point for trying to bring about the new world order they seek has been global warming. It is now called climate change. The luciferian rant is ratcheting up in every aspect of geopolitical atmospherics. However, we can expect, I have absolutely no doubt, an even more massive uptick in the assault. Climate change will be the spear tip of the campaign against God’s order of things as we move deeper into this administration.

The scientists in question collectively issued the accusation–highly disturbing in their view- that Trump, during the presidential campaign, talked about the need to increase and upgrade nuclear weapons capability. At the same time, they ranted that he spoke against their and the general, scientific community’s overwhelming consensus that climate change poses a threat beyond any other to the well-being of the planet.

All the while they’ve said nothing of former President Obama’s trying to anger Russia’s Vladimir Putin in the last months of the Obama administration–a thing that gave Putin fodder to proclaim the need to further increase the Russian nuclear arsenal.

Like in every other instance of hypocritical treatment by media and by the humanistic, scientific community, Obama gets a pass, while their collective ire descends full force on the one who defeated them in the American electoral process.

They ignored that international relations have deteriorated dangerously during the Obama years, rather noted fawningly that the former president in 2010 called for a nuclear-free world.

At the same time, they pointed out angrily their convoluted and quasi-accurate assessment that Trump suggested South Korea and Japan might consider developing nuclear weapons since North Korea and even China represent growing threats. They berated Trump and his six-day-old administration for having no “firm plans” to extend the controversial “Iran nuclear deal.”

The doomsdayers further castigated Trump and laid out their great fear his winning the American presidency has wrought.

“The political situation in the United States is of particular concern. The Trump transition team has put forward candidates for cabinet-level positions (especially at the Environmental Protection Agency and Energy Department) who foreshadow the possibility that the new administration will be openly hostile to progress toward even the most modest efforts to avert catastrophic climate disruption.”

Please believe me. This is not the last we will hear of the climate change madness.

Those of the “million woman march” and the “if- it-feels-good-do-it” crowd lost their “political fast-track to succeeding” they were previously on. These, as we have witnessed, are furious to the point of displaying mental instability But the globalists elite of this world, working to bring in Antichrist’s regime–even if unknowingly–are exceedingly more angry and determined that this president will be removed by hook or crook.

We already hear the volume increase on talk of impeaching him. There are more than mere hints that a coup d’état are in the wishful thinking of the angriest of the nation’s power brokers.

It does not, nor should it, surprise, that this level of rebellion is raising its ugly, serpent-like head. We only have to go to the great book of Revelation to understand the extremes to which fallen man will go when they don’t get their way.

There will be a rebellion of the most horrific magnitude ever at the end of the Millennium–the thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ. This uprising will occur, we are told through prophecy, after the rule of the only perfect Ruler in all of human history.

And, this gets us back to the Doomsday Clock scientists’ forewarning of Trump causing the destruction of the earth because of his declaring as lunacy their climate change mantra. Well, maybe it’s I–not Trump–who call it lunacy, but he adamantly opposes it–and them nonetheless.

The fact that Revelation 20:7-9 tells us there will be this last, satanically led rebellion in an attempt to dethrone the Creator of all things lets us know that there will still be a planet earth, despite President Donald Trump, and even seven years of Tribulation.

Also, it proves, in my estimation, the lunacy of the doomsdayers’ diatribe.

—Terry

The Establishment Is Out to Get President Trump

Donald Trump has an endless number of enemies. The liberal media hates him. Hollywood hates him. The academia crowd hates him. The Washington, D.C. government bureaucracy hates him. They are all doing their very best to sabotage Trump’s presidency.

This mob of cry babies has tried every imaginable tactic to stop Trump from taking office.  Most of their efforts have had no legal ground on which to stand. When Rosie O’Donnell tweeted  that martial law should be declared to block Trump from becoming president, the press blindly repeated her crazy idea with no comment on the negative consequences of such an insane suggestion.

The Women’s March that took place the day after President Trump’s inauguration is solid proof that the people on the left are being consumed with madness.  I think the organizers as well as the participants need to be checked to see if they have that brain eating amoeba in their skulls.

The gathering was the most bazaar pointless event I’ve ever seen. One speaker after another endlessly compared Trump to the former leader of Nazi Germany. They said he is Hitler because he acts like Hitler, he does Hitler like things, and he has a Hitler agenda.

Singer Ashley Judd gave this rambling bit of wisdom to the crowd, “I am not as nasty as a swastika painted on a pride flag and I did not know devils could be resurrected but I feel Hitler in these streets! Nazi’s electro-conversion therapy! Gas chambers! Turning rainbows into suicide!”

The most ironic thing about this entire display of deranged hysteria was having the hijab-clad Muslim, Linda Sarsour, as a speaker. Everything Ashley Judd mentioned in her rant was actually everything Islam espouses.

What has me most concerned is the possibility that the establishment is moving to pin a stock market collapse on Trump. The economy has been on life support since the 2008 financial crisis. The Fed has kept the financial system stable by pumping in trillions of dollars. To trigger a crash all they need to do is stop printing new money.

Another way financial chaos can be created is to simply start telling the truth about our nation’s economic health. I’ve been tracking the national debt the past several months, and I’ve noticed we kept coming close to the $20 trillion milestone, but we never passed it. It’s miraculous that Obama managed to balance the federal budget for the last four months. Up until then, we had been averaging a shortfall of $100 billion per month.

This smoke and mirrors method of numbers crunching is very clear in the unemployed statistics. The press cheered when “Initial Claims” crashed to a 44 year low. However,  it has now come to light as of last week that the continuing claims data showed over 700,000 more people have been claiming unemployment benefits prior to President Trump’s election.

The unemployment rate is at 4.7% because the Labor Department started counting part-time jobs as full-employment. If you sell more than $100 worth of stuff on Ebay each month, you’re not considering jobless. The poor folks who gave up looking for employment are considered outside the workforce.

There can be no doubt that in the coming months that the national debt is going to edge up, and unemployment numbers are going to better reflect reality. Then, the mainstream media will suddenly discover how bad things are in America. Even though all of this happened under Obama’s watch, the goal is to have people think “Greater Depression,” when they think  “Donald Trump.”

The establishment has openly proclaimed their plan to defeat Trump through impeachment. Media Matters founder, David Brock, claims to have more than 20,000 hours of video, 289 candidate research books, and the largest available archive of Trump research in the Democratic Party. Brock launched a “Trump War Room,” with a team of over 40 workers that will scrutinize everything Trump does for the goal of forcing him out of office.

The guy that should have been examined for impeachable offenses is Barack  Hussein Obama. The former president repeatedly overstepped his authority. The U.S. Constitution clearly states that Congress controls the spending of money. Just hours before Obama left office, he openly defied Congress by quietly releasing $221 million to the Palestinian Authority.

Bookies are giving favorable odds that President Trump will soon find himself in a heap of trouble. The online betting site Paddy Power has placed the odds of Trump failing to complete his first term at 7 to 4. The odds of Trump getting impeached in the first six months stand at 4 to 1. The site doesn’t have a good track record with Trump. Paddy Power prematurely paid out nearly a million dollars to those who betted in favor of a Hillary Clinton victory, a move that resulted in a $5 million loss for the site when she eventually lost.

It has become quite amazing to see the magnitude of the hatred aimed at Trump. There is no other time in American history that can compare to this level of lunacy. People are almost foaming at the mouth over a man who has only been in office for a few days. If he were to suggest we bring back school prayer, this mob would have a collective brain aneurysm.

I think the massive opposition against Trump is a strong indication that he has been set in place by God to fulfill His will for the last days. The devil and his minions may rage but the end result will show that  the Lord is in total control of world events. If Trump is able to beat the odds, I think his triumph could be the peace and safety window that will occur before the Rapture.

“Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape” (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3).

—Todd

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Forewarning to Our New President

A Fox News person–can’t remember who–reported that Paul Anka, writer of the song “My Way” had withdrawn from performing at one or another of the events scheduled during the inaugural festivities.

Anka reportedly said the inauguration gig conflicted with his schedule. He thus joined a long list of celebrities and performers who said they would not be a part of the Trump victory celebration.

CNN, it was reported, gave a news flash that Nancy Sinatra, daughter of the late crooner Frank Sinatra, was furious that Mr. Trump would use the song “My Way” in the presidential celebration. She was, it was reported, incensed because it was the song her father made famous by recording it.

Ms. Sinatra, however, it became clear, was incensed not at Mr. Trump, but at CNN for what has become known as a fake news story. She reportedly was angry because the story was not true and she was said to have responded, “It’s not true. Why should I care? Why would they (CNN) lie about this?”

That’s a question many voters asked themselves before the vote by the electorate was cast in this presidential election. The diatribes by mainstream news hounds, favoring one candidate over the other, included lying the likes of which has rarely if ever reached the level it did in this election cycle.

The song “My Way” and the lies surrounding it serve to open the way for me to issue this warning to our new president, as suggested by the commentary’s title. 

I’ll say this at the outset. I can’t help but like the song. I’ve always–Lord, help me–liked it, particularly the way ol’ Elvis sang it. However, it is one of the most anti-God songs ever created. It is straight from the mind of the old serpent himself, I have no doubt. That’s why it is so appealing to the human mind and why even believers such as myself–weak in many ways because of the fallen nature of man–can’t help but like the song.

“My Way” tells the story of how the person singing it lived totally on his or her own terms. These didn’t listen to or bow the knee to anyone. They did it all–their way.

It’s not just a matter that the song is one of boasting about how great one is; it is a repudiation of God Himself. That might not have been Mr. Anka’s thought in writing it, but if you study the words, it is hubris that reflects Lucifer’s own words in Isaiah 14:14.

Getting back to our new president and his choosing the song for inclusion in his celebratory festivities, such hubris is likely, one hopes, not Mr. Trump’s own attitude. We should prayerfully hope–and believe–that he doesn’t–by making this song a part of his celebration–harbor the thought that he is now president only because of his own greatness and ability.

We have heard him state his thanks to so many–to the whole national voting public that cast their votes for him, in fact. I have heard him say that God is the one who made America “great” in the first place, and will do so again.

Still, I’m concerned when I know he–like myself–can’t help but like this song. It appeals to the pride that can so easily swell within each human being.

The Lord tells us in His Word that he hates “a proud look” (Proverbs 6: 17). He further says “he that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer” (Psalm 101:5). And, again, “An high look and a proud heart…is sin” (Proverbs 21:4).

God tells the end of all such pride in one’s self ability. “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18).

Being blind, I, of course, couldn’t see any of the presidential ball festivities. I did hear them, and the song “My Way” seemed to be the central theme song at each of the three.

Again, I couldn’t see it, but was told that at one point the new president, while dancing with the new first lady, looked into a nearby camera and mouthed the words, ”I did it my way.”

So, it is hearsay, not a firsthand account. Perhaps some of the readers of this commentary witnessed this silent comment by the president.

I was a supporter of Donald Trump and continue to be so as he promises to move America forward and lead us out of the slide into the abyss into which we are headed. Mr. Trump is often audacious and outspoken, and to be frank, it is one of the traits that endeared him to many–myself included–that is, to the extent that I like his pushing back against the pay-no-attention-to-the-American-people arrogance of Washington D.C. insiders and mainstream media types.

That said, I must issue this warning, Mr. President. You, I, and America must do it  “God’s way,” not “My way,” as Mr. Anka, Mr. Sinatra, or even ol’ Elvis would have it. Our very national existence depends upon this truth.

—Terry