Obama: The Facilitators of Islamic Terror

I’ve had an incredibly difficult time getting my mind around the Orlando gay nightclub shooting. The murder of 49 people by Omar Mateen is a historic event—surpassing the 35 people killed in 2007 in the Virginia Tech shooting. With mass murders by Muslims becoming so common, I feel like I’m describing why the sun came up again for the millionth time whenever I write about these tragic events.

It was just a few days prior to the Orlando massacre that yet another Islamic terrorist gunned down four people in Tel Aviv, Israel. Last Tuesday morning I was posting news stories, and I found three articles that detailed the evil deeds of the followers of Mohammedanism.

On Wikipedia there is a detailed list of Islamist terrorist attacks. Since 1980 there have been over a thousand attacks. In the beginning, most years had no more than three terrorist events, and there were several years where no attacks received significant press coverage. The list grows exponentially over time; 2010 had 15 entries, 2014 had 36 entries and 2015 had 118 entries. Because the attacks have become so frequent, many events now fail to receive any major press coverage.

Islam seems all the more disturbing when you look at the list for Christian and Jewish religious terrorists. Since 1980, there have been eight attacks by people claiming to be Christians, and five attacks by Jewish terrorists. On the Christian list, three attacks were carried out by one man, Eric Robert Rudolph, who was convicted of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in 1996—for attacks on an abortion clinic and a lesbian nightclub.

Despite the fact that 99.8 percent of attacks are committed by Muslims, President Obama says, “we” need to examine ourselves in regard to the actions of Omar Mateen. His absolute refusal to put any blame on Islam has him saying stupid things like this:

“We’ve reached no definitive judgment on the precise motivations of the killer … And I’ve directed that we must spare no effort to determine what—if any—inspiration or association this killer may have had with terrorist groups.”

Many of Obama’s critics are starting to openly wonder if he is a Muslim at heart because of his failure to use the words “radical Islam” whenever there is an attack. Donald Trump blasted Obama for this oversight, calling on the president to resign for not using the two words.

I have a greater complaint with Obama, and that is over his use of the word ISIL. Most people use ISIS which means the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. The geographical term, Levant, refers to a multi-national region that includes Israel. This would be like Hitler deciding in 1943 to change the name of Deutschland (Germany) to something like, Europeland, to account for his newly acquired territory. Obama and his ISIS buddies can keep dreaming.

I wish it were true that Obama is really a secret Muslim mole. In that case, there would be some type of logic to his actions. Somebody could get a photo of him in the Oval Office praying to Mecca, and we could hold the fastest ever impeachment of an elected head of state.

Obama’s ideology is not found in the Koran. It comes directly from the pit of hell. He and the liberal media facilitate Islamic terror by maintaining the lie that Islam is a peaceful religion and all these attacks are from people who only have hate as their motivation unrelated to Islamic ideology.

We’ve clearly passed the point of hopeless delusion when a terrorist in the midst of slaughtering his victims calls 911 to pledge his allegiance to Islamic terror, while committing murderous acts, and government officials respond by stating they’re uncertain about the motivation for the attack. When they do acknowledge that faith was the main factor in Omar Mateen’s actions, they say he was a “self-radicalized lone wolf.” Nonsense!

With Islam as the Teflon religion, the gay community may be facing doom. This past week, I couldn’t believe all the news article that worried about Islamophobia. If Muslims are going to be free to shoot up all the gay bars in the world, the dance floors in these places are not going to be very crowded.

The fanatical drive to protect the Muslim faith from all criticism leaves little doubt that Islamic terrorism will only get worse. With these types of attacks already occurring on a daily basis, there has to be a limit to the carnage. Before we reach the point where Islamic terror strikes hour by hour, God will most likely say “enough is enough.”

–Todd

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Glorious Change Coming

Something sinister lurks just ahead within this world of darkening uncertainty. The forewarning thought simmers beneath daily life that change is coming—transformational change that will make these present hours seem like the good old days for the inhabitants of future earth. Princes and presidents, potentates and populations at large sense gnawing dread spawned by the seemingly unstoppable spread of murderous, racial/religious hatreds. Proliferation of nuclear weaponry among the most violence-prone among us appears on the brink of unleashing man’s final war.

The term “Armageddon” is regularly used to describe man’s greatest fear during hourly newscasts. To quote Shakespeare, it is becoming clear that “something wicked this way comes.”

For the believer in Jesus Christ, however, the near horizon that is a harbinger of the worst of times in man’s history presents just beyond that apocalyptic storm front a magnificent future beyond imagination.

Indeed, glorious change is coming. It will happen in a stunning moment of absolutely dazzling transformation and transport for the born-again believer. It will be a catastrophic intervention by the one and only Creator-God of heaven—so long seemingly silent to rebellious mankind.

This author’s commission is to proclaim to this generation—at this moment—that the very end of the age is at hand. Heaven is trumpeting the final siren of appeal for all to come within the shelter offered by the Savior who died and resurrected so that all who trust Him for salvation will be spared the horrors about to occur.

“Don’t spend eternity apart from the Heavenly Father” is the profoundly important message that must be disseminated and accepted. He desires above all else that everyone comes into the safe harbor of His family through His Only Begotten Son—the Lord Jesus Christ.

Whether one is Rapture Ready . . . Or Not, the disappearance of all true believers is about to occur. The thrilling time of that long-ago prophesied call of Christians to join with Christ will happen at any moment!

That, of course, is the tenet of my new book Rapture Ready…Or Not. I believe with all that is within me that I was prompted to relay the urgent message that the door to the Age of Grace (the Church Age) is on the very brink of closing to a Christ-rejecting generation.

This presents no pleasure to the author. Neither, of course, does it give pleasure to the God of Heaven who must, following the closing of that door, unleash His wrath and judgment upon planet earth. Jesus shed His last drop of blood on the cross at Calvary so that no person need spend one moment in that hellish time on earth we call the Tribulation or spend eternity in the place prepared for the devil and his fallen angelic horde. Being Rapture ready is 1) knowing Christ for Salvation through following this admonition:

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9-10)

Once a person complies with this way (the only way) to salvation, that person becomes 2) Rapture Ready through living life according to direction given in God’s Word, the Bible.

I think one of the best verses to summarize this Rapture Readiness is found in the following.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (Proverbs 3:5-6)

In this way we will hear our Lord say, “Well done, good, faithful Servant,” when we see Him face to face at the moment of Rapture. To avoid any questions about whether I am saying one has to live above sin in order to go in the Rapture, I will be absolutely clear.

Every person who truly accepts Christ is going to leave the planet at the time Jesus calls the Church (Revelation 4:1). Not a single believer, whether walking “worthily” or not, will be left behind at Rapture. But, to be truly Rapture Ready in the sense of being “worthy” (in order to receive each and every reward the Lord wants to give us at the bema–the Judgment Seat of Christ), each Christian must be walking according to God’s precepts as taught in His Holy Word.

In that glorious, twinkling-of-an-eye moment of translation–from mortal to immortal, from corruption to incorruption–we will each realize the magnificence that is our Lord and Savior: Bridegroom. We will know Him in the same way He knows each of us. We will, in that eternal moment, want to have lived righteously for Him.

The change that is coming is spectacular beyond all that our imaginations can conjure, the apostle Paul has informed us:

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. (1 Corinthians 2:9)

Let us do all we can in Christ’s service while opportunity is ours. Let us do all within our power to be truly Rapture Ready!

–Terry

The Great Whore Devours the New Atheism Movement

About seven years ago, it was proclaimed by the mainstream media that we were living in the age of a “New Atheism.” The New York Times bestseller lists had about a dozen books on the subject. Atheist meetings were popping up all over the country, and major celebrities were coming out of the closet—to proudly declare their lack of faith in a deity.

The movement had strong leadership: Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett. They became known as the “Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse,” an obvious mocking reference to the biblical Four Horsemen from the book of Revelation. Dawkins was the science guy, Hitchens was the debater, Harris was the politician, and Dennett was the philosopher.

The New Atheism movement reached its pinnacle on March of 2012 with a Reason Rally in Washington D.C. On that cold rainy day, around 25,000 people were in attendance. The purpose of the rally was not really clear. It was mostly driven by the idea of having the “largest secular event in world history.” Who am I to spoil this alleged milestone; but a million people watching the ball drop on New Year’s Eve seems like more of a secular event to me.

Over the past four years, I’ve been greatly amused by watching this fledgling empire of Christian disbelief collapse under its own weight. The first sign of trouble was the lack of follow-up to their core anti-God message. Books likeThe God Delusion, God Is Not Great, and The End of Faith sold well by laying out all the old standard arguments that God is a meanie.

When these same authors published follow-up books that talked about the wonders of the universe and science, the public showed very little interest.

The greatest problem with the New Atheism movement is this: When you take God out of the picture, mankind will seek to deify himself. The new atheists fail to notice that our species is doomed to be under some form of “religion.”

The first group to invade the New Atheism movement were radical feminists. They demanded that sexism awareness should become a key part of the movement. They caused numerous splits by introducing the idea that a person can only be a feminist or a chauvinist. Someone defined radical feminism this way: “It’s no longer about the legitimacy of women’s original complaints, but the inherent injustice of their proposed solutions.”

The equality flood gates were turned wide open when the LGBTQ folks added their grievances to the roster of every New Atheism meeting. As the New Atheism ideals became overrun with people who had their own special agendas, the result was a movement that had very little to do with secular humanistic values. The best example of this mess is the Code of Conduct for the 2016 Reason Rally attendees:

The Reason Rally Coalition does not tolerate harassment of or by participants in any form. Prohibited conduct may include—but is not limited to—harassment related to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion, sexual images in public spaces (not related to convention sessions or materials), deliberate intimidation, stalking, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.

The 2016 Reason Rally took place June 4th on the Washington D.C. mall, and it only had around 2,000 people. Since 20,000 people visit the area each day, there is no telling how many tourists unrelated to the rally were counted as attendees. The cost of the event was $1 million; which comes to $500 per person.

The organizers of that Reason Rally would have suffered an even deeper embarrassment if the D.C. police hadn’t blocked efforts by Christian groups to proselytize to the atheists at the rally.

Author, Ray Comfort, had registered about 1,000 fellow Christians to join him at the Reason Rally to hand out copies of Comfort’s new book, and $25,000-worth of Subway sandwich gift cards to non-believers “as a gesture of Christian love.” Since the Rally turned out to be a huge bust, Comfort’s army of Christians would be hard pressed to give away all the gift cards.

I think there is a prophetic reason why atheism has fizzled out. Bible prophecy warns that the Tribulation hour will see the rise of the “great whore” religion that will join together all faiths. Since atheism doesn’t fit in with the diversity wave that has every “ism” group singing in one giant choir, it’s being devoured by the coming harlot church. The rapid evaporation of the New Atheism movement is a strong indication that the scarlet woman is putting on her make-up and about to make her debut.

“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH” (Revelation 17:1-5).

–Todd

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Rapture “Mystery” Revealed

With so much controversy involving the topic of the Rapture boiling today, I thought it good to look a little closer at that event internally. That is, it might prove interesting to examine the Rapture within the Pre-Trib view to look at a divide that exists.

Mostly, preachers don’t want to address prophecy or, in particular, the doctrine of the Rapture at all. Since the call of Christ to His Church is next on God’s calendar of events, in the view of Pre-Trib proponents, ignoring this great promise of rescue from human history’s most terrible time is something that both baffles and disturbs.

We who are familiar with that great future event know, at least cursorily, the differences within the various views of when the Rapture will occur. Whether it will happen Post-Trib, Mid-Trib, Pre-Trib, etc. is sometimes hotly expressed by the various proponents. However, the vast numbers of preachers in America’s pulpits today would tell you that the Rapture is a mystery to them, as is most of Bible prophecy.

Indeed it is a “mystery” to them, because they never have opened their Bibles with the thought toward looking into the Rapture–the very thing Paul said is a ” mystery” he was showing us–that is, showing believers. They like to use the joke: “I’m a Pan-Millennialist. I believe it will all just pan out in the end.”

Again, it isn’t the hot debate between the Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib, and Post-Trib views of the Rapture I wish to address. To me, the debate is over. The Pre-Tribulation view is the only one in total context of what the Bible says about that great promise that rings true–that makes sense. Paul’s “mystery” unveiled, from the Pre-Trib perspective, is what I hope to dissect a bit.

The Scripture, of course, that sets up this great event is as follows:

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:51-52)

Paul says he is presenting a “mystery.” That is, he is dealing with an heretofore unknown matter–unknown to (not understood by) believers in Christ. And this “showing” of this “mystery” is the nuance of truth I wish to examine within the Pre-Trib view of the Rapture–the view I’m convinced is the one the Bible presents through Paul’s unveiling of this most important doctrine.

The seminaries within fundamentalist-evangelical Christianity hold mostly that the Rapture was never dealt with in anyway whatsoever until Paul “revealed” it. The most academically inclined among these will tell you that this “mystery” was never alluded to in the Old Testament. They go on to say it was never mentioned in any way by Jesus and the prophets. It is, they say, only in the Pauline epistles that the Rapture is unveiled.

I believe this is untenable, except by those who refuse to consider that Paul was “showing” the mystery–the mystery of the Rapture that had already been made manifest. He was explaining it, not just pulling it out of the hat for the first time. Paul was unveiling the Truth about what Jesus, Himself, indeed had alluded to as given in the Gospel accounts.

The first mention of this “mystery”–the Rapture–by the Lord we look at was recorded by John:

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:1-3)

Jesus said that He will “receive” us to Himself, exactly like Paul reveals in 1 Corinthians 15:51 when he says we will be changed–transformed–for flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 15: 50). That translation into Christ’s presence Paul further unveils in the following prophecy:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thessalonians 4:7)

The next words of our Lord about this “mystery” Paul is “showing” us is found in the Gospel of Matthew–in what is known as the Olivet Discourse:

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. (Matthew 24:36-41)

Jesus further gave prophecy regarding that future, catastrophic break-in on human history as recorded in Luke 17:26-30. I think it is unfortunate that the most purely academic among fundamentalist theologians within the ranks of Pre-Trib Rapture proponents can’t see Jesus’ “mysterion” mention of the Rapture in the Gospels–the “mystery” Paul is plainly unlocking for understanding for all believers.

I believe that we are very near the moment of being the generation of believers who will be beneficiaries of that twinkling-of-an-eye moment when the Lord shouts, “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1).

–Terry