8 Jan 2024

Published on: January 7, 2024January 7, 2024 by RR10

Why Not Nuclear?

Reading Salem Kirban’s novel 666 many decades ago, I was somewhat incredulous that he portrayed the Ezekiel 38-39 Gog-Magog attack on Israel as he did. The author had it that the Russian-led coalition came down into the area foretold by Ezekiel on horseback and with more or less primitive weapons, exactly as the prophet described. There were no modern-day weapons.

The reason only primitive weapons were used, he gave as a new heat ray development of some sort –can’t remember the exact technology. The heat ray technology, a laser of some sort, I suppose, heated up the metal and fuel, making the advanced weapons –the tanks, aircraft, even the handheld weapons, too hot to handle, I guess. So, the force had to invade using mostly wooden or non-heat-affected weaponry. Neither human flesh nor horse flesh could be affected by the new laser-type weapon, as I remember.

This article is intended to look a bit into why the Ezekiel Gog-Magog prophecy does, in fact, seem to say, on the surface at least, that there will be one modern weapon absent from the invading force’s repertoire.

The force doesn’t use nuclear weapons, according to the prophecy. The force seems to be strictly conventional.

Many have conjectured that this is because the Gog leader has in his mind the evil thought to come and take “great spoil” from Israel. Petroleum and natural gas, it is thought –by myself included—might be the chief spoil on which the invaders place their cross-hairs. Thermonuclear weapons would 1) destroy any and all things in their path and/or would contaminate things for centuries with radiological contamination. 2) Nuclear weaponry would ignite all petroleum/gas assets except, perhaps, for those underwater in the Mediterranean.

Israel now has vast such fields as of now, and this is, some believe –again, including me—the reason a Russian leader would want to plunder those assets. Israel is almost certainly to more and more be supplying all of Europe, while Russian oil and gas seem to be a diminishing commodity –especially since the obviously American-inspired and perhaps carried out destruction of the Russian underwater pipeline some years ago.

Another important matter in looking at the question of why no nuclear weapons usage during the Gog-Magog assault is the current situation with regard to Iran’s uranium enrichment program. This is of utmost concern to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has vowed that Iran will not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapons arsenal –or even one bomb.

It’s a matter, literally, of life and death to the Jewish state, according to Netanyahu and most all of the IDF general staff.

We who believe God’s Prophetic Word is absolutely infallible know that Israel will never be destroyed –by any weaponry brought against it –nuclear or otherwise. But, apparently, for all the Israeli Defense Force people we know about, they don’t hold the same view. I’m sure there are some who believe Israel is invincible due to God’s Promises, but for the most part, those in charge of Israel’s defense look through a non-Spiritual prism in their planning and concerns.

To that point, the following item gives some understanding of their concern and planning.

Iran recently tripled its enrichment of uranium to 60%, reversing a slowdown earlier this year, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported on Tuesday.

Tehran has “increased its production of highly enriched uranium, reversing a previous output reduction from mid-2023,” said the U.N. watchdog, summarizing a confidential report sent to member states and obtained by Reuters.

Iran is enriching uranium up to 60% at the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant (PFEP) in Natanz and at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), which is located deep in a mountain, according to the report…

Iran already has enough high-enriched uranium, if enriched further to 90%, to make three nuclear bombs, Reuters reported, citing the International Atomic Energy Agency’s theoretical definition…

Uranium enriched to 60% purity is just a short technical step away from 90%, considered weapons-grade…

Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi warned in September that Jerusalem will have no choice but to act if Iran enriches uranium above 60% purity.

“If Iran moves to enrich uranium above 60% and we identify it—and there is no possibility that we won’t, that the world would not recognize it—the result is that Israel would act out of necessity,” said Hanegbi. “There would be no choice.” Source: IAEA: Iran accelerates production of near-weapons-grade uranium (December 26, 2023 / JNS)

Iran’s nuclear centrifuges are, it is said, deep in the Bushehr Mountains to protect against attacks. Israel has in the past inflicted cyber attacks that disrupted Iran’s progress in doing their nuclear production work.

The Bushehr facilities are also used to hide progress from the AIEA Investigations, as the above report in its full scope indicates.

We have written previously that Bible prophecy foretells this area of Persia (Iran) will be so devastated that people will have to scatter to places far away. Is this nuclear contamination from an attack Israel is almost certainly about to launch?

That would explain why Iran, as part of the Gog-Magog coalition, would be without nuclear weaponry. But Russia would continue to at that time have its arsenal of nukes, it seems. So it remains a mystery why there are apparently no advanced nuclear-type weapons in the coming Ezekiel 38-39 assault on God’s chosen nation.

Maybe Kirban Salem will be proven factual with his fiction. However, my own thought is that as God will intervene to save Israel from the Gog-Magog forces. He will cause any and all such thermonuclear weaponry that might be launched toward Jerusalem to stray from Israel’s direction and instead land on the Magog environs and on the Isles, as those areas are indicated in the prophecy to suffer “fires” of some mysterious sort.

“And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel” (Ezekiel 39:6-7).

Here, I believe the Holy Spirit –God who Indwells all who Believe in Jesus Christ for Salvation, urges that I appeal to you if you are a non-believer. Jesus is the answer to all of your anxieties, to all of your worries. He is willing and ready to forgive all sin that separates you from God the Father and Heaven. Simply do the following. I have put it in today’s English this time rather than the King James Version.

“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart [your mind and spirit] that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart [man or woman] believes and is made righteous by God, and with your mouth confession is made that saves you from sin and its consequences, which separates the soul of the unbeliever from God for Eternity” (My paraphrase of Romans 10:9-10).

–Terry

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Danger Ahead

On January 3, 2024, the national debt of the United States reached thirty-four trillion dollars. Despite Biden’s claim that he has reduced our indebtedness as a nation, during the past couple of years, that number has passed both the thirty-two and thirty-three trillion-dollar mark and is rising faster than at any other time in history.

An economic catastrophe lies in the not-too-distant future for both America and the world. I’m convinced that it’s solely because of the Lord’s restraining hand that this has not yet happened, but once He takes His Church out of this world, financial devastation will quickly follow.

Revelation 6:5-6 tells us that hyperinflation will occur early in the Tribulation and will be far worse than anything the world has experienced in modern history. Although we will be safe with Jesus in paradise by this time, the inflation of the past couple of years is already putting a great strain on most families in the U.S., resulting in record credit card debt and the failure of many to keep up with rent and mortgage payments.

A second sign of impending danger arises from the war in the Middle East. In recent days, prophecy expert and former Captain in the Israeli army Amir Tsarfati has issued several warnings concerning an all-out war with Hezbollah from Lebanon that will be far worse than its current battles in Gaza. Could this push other nations over the edge, sparking another world war?

Other up-to-date news makes the onset of WWIII seem likely:

Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korea, continues to warn of an imminent nuclear attack.
American bases in Syria and Iraq have come under attack over one hundred times since October 7, 2023, with no meaningful response yet from the Biden administration.
The Houthis, a terrorist group located in Yemen, continue to attack ships in Middle East shipping lanes.
Ukraine recently attacked civilians in a Russian city, leading to a fierce response from Putin. If this continues, it will make a Russian attack on NATO forces likely.

We know that the deadliest wars in the history of the world will occur in the early months (or years) after the Rapture (see Revelation 6:7-8). The escalating saber-rattling of war throughout the world tells us that the Day of the Lord’s wrath is near, and since that is the case, we also know that we will soon meet Jesus in the air.

We may witness devastating wars before our departure, but the worst will not happen until after we are safely in paradise with our Savior.

Since the start of 2024, we have already witnessed a powerful earthquake near the shores of Japan, with many strong aftershocks across the nation. In addition, a myriad of earthquakes have occurred in various places in the past few days, even in various places across the continental United States.

There’s also what I consider to be an ominous sign of great danger ahead for the U.S. On April 8, 2024, a solar eclipse will pass through America. According to the Washington Post, over thirty million people will be able to view it outside their homes, and for those who cannot do so, it’s likely to become the biggest travel event of the year.

What makes this more significant than eclipses in the past is its past in relationship to one on August 21, 2017. Together, they will form an X on America, intersecting at a small town in southern Illinois.

Did you know that this happened once before in American history? In a January 2, 2024, blog post, Michael Snyder reported that “the path of a solar eclipse that occurred on June 16th, 1806, combined with the path of a solar eclipse that occurred on September 17th, 1811, to form a giant “X” over the New Madrid fault zone.” This includes an area from Cairo in southern Illinois to nearby New Madrid, MO, and a bit further southwest.

Three months after the solar eclipse intersected with the previous one on the fault line in 1811, a devastating series of earthquakes began. Quoting from the New Madrid website, Snyder continues:

The New Madrid earthquakes were the biggest earthquakes in American history. They occurred in the central Mississippi Valley but were felt as far away as New York City, Boston, Montreal, and Washington D.C. President James Madison and his wife Dolly felt them in the White House. Church bells rang in Boston. From December 16, 1811, through March of 1812, there were over 2,000 earthquakes in the central Midwest and between 6,000 and 10,000 earthquakes in the Bootheel of Missouri, where New Madrid is located near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

In the known history of the world, no other earthquakes have lasted so long or produced so much evidence of damage as the New Madrid earthquakes. Three of the earthquakes are on the list of America’s top earthquakes: the first one on December 16, 1811, a magnitude of 8.1 on the Richter scale; the second on January 23, 1812, at 7.8; and the third on February 7, 1812, at as much as 8.8 magnitude.

Is the upcoming completion of an X across America by the April 8 eclipse another warning of a similar catastrophe in the months afterward? The past history of the intersection of two eclipses in the same area is far too much of a coincidence to ignore. It’s a sign that great danger lies in the offing for America.

The bumpy start to 2024 looks to grow worse in the coming months. Only God knows the timing of our departure from the earth and how much more adversity we will experience before then.

Although the increasing danger around us causes much distress at times, it’s important to remember that it points to the nearness of the midnight hour when the Rapture happens, and the Day of the Lord’s wrath brings sudden destruction to the world.

With all my heart, I believe Jesus is coming soon to take us up to glory. While our wait for His appearing may be longer than we would like, it will surely happen when He deems the time is right.

-Jonathan

1 Jan 2023

Published on: December 31, 2023December 31, 2023 by RR7

The Great Resist

Those of us who believe we are charged by the Lord to be “watchers” on the wall look at the acceleration of stage-setting for prophetic fulfillment as a wondrous thing to behold. There can be no missing the reality that we are fast approaching the dénouement of the Age of Grace.

No recent development has been more significant than the movement toward establishing a New World Order. A specific element that is most troubling within that movement is termed “the great reset.”

This term, defined within the title of a book by the same name, means the globalization of the entire world—those who intend to establish a world under a single governmental rulership must, in their view, not be thwarted. The very existence of the planet depends upon their being able to achieve their goals—goals encapsulated within what they call Agenda 21 and now Agenda 30. This “agenda” means they must accomplish all their shaping of this global order no later than the year 2030.

These would-be globalist masters don’t see the things developing as we do by looking at them through the prism of Bible prophecy. While we see things advancing toward Antichrist’s regime at an amazing and frightening pace, the globalists, such as author of the book, The Great Reset, see things as being slowed and inhibited by forces they must eliminate. That is, they must eliminate those like us, for example. And by “us,” I mean both we who are Christians pointing out their evil, and this nation, the United States of America, whose people have been steeped in basic liberty and God-given rights from a Judeo-Christian foundation for almost three centuries.

America is the single most powerful hold-up to Agenda 30 and the Great Reset. This nation, the most materially blessed in history, will not “go gentle into that good night,” as Dylan Thomas would have it. We won’t easily be made to ride bicycles, stay within fifteen-minute cities, and eat bugs instead of the foods we love, like the Great Resetters and their agenda insist we should do. There will be major pushback for as long as the nation exists as it is presently comprised.

Of course, the American, liberty-loving/enjoying constituency is under constant attack by the powers and principalities of Ephesians 6:12, both demonic and human. And that luciferian cabal is determined to take down America and eliminate all opposition to their agenda. These minions call the opposition they face “the retreat from globalization.” The following excerpt gives more detail of Klaus Schwab and his cohorts’ determination to change things so their neo-tower of Babel can be built, free of opposition.

Klaus Schwab and Theirry Malleret’s book Covid-19: The Great Reset identified “the global governance free fall” as an existential challenge, and if we do not collaborate, “we are doomed.”

“Nation states make global governance possible (one leads the other),” the book states. “The more nationalism and isolationism pervade the global polity, the greater the chance that global governance loses its relevance and becomes ineffective. Sadly, we are now at this critical juncture. Put bluntly, we live in a world in which nobody is really in charge.”…

[Managing director of the International Monetary Fund] Kristalina Georgieva suggested “concentrating on the areas where, without working together, we are doomed.” The examples she gave as “we are doomed” without globalization were “climate change,” the “green transition,” and debt…

The authors don’t explain why there is a need for an “individual reset”; they simply assumed it was a consequence of the Covid “pandemic.” However, as they did throughout the book, they used collectivism as a tool of social control. “If, as human beings, we do not collaborate to confront our existential challenges (the environment and the global governance free fall, among others), we are doomed,” they claimed…. The rise of nationalism makes the retreat of globalization inevitable in most of the world – an impulse particularly notable in the West. The vote for Brexit and the election of President Trump on a protectionist platform are two momentous markers of the Western backlash against globalization,” the two authors wrote. (“Klaus Schwab wants to stop the retreat of globalization and global governance with a new form of globalization and global governance,” Rhoda Wilson, Expose-news.com 12/19/23)

As the writer of the article further writes:

As we have said before, the term “the common good” and its ugly sister, “the greater good,” represent collectivism, which is found in socialist, communist, and fascist movements. These movements use “the common good” as a tool for social control.

This is exactly what we see happening within the American political process today. The incessant drive to bring about a Marxist collective system is at the heart of the attempted Great Reset being foisted by the human minions, assisted by the demonic of Ephesians 6:12, in my studied opinion.

I heard a senator speaking before the Senate chamber the other day. I like what he said, although I’m almost certain he didn’t realize the true import of his statement.

He said something like: “Instead of the un-American Great Reset, we need the Great Resist. We must resist this attempted Marxist-type tyranny.”

The Great Resist is precisely what is given within God’s Word as opposition to Satan and his minions’ attempts to bring to power the man of sin, Antichrist, and his regime of horrors.

“And now ye know what [restrains]that [Antichrist] might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only [the Holy Spirit] who now [Restrains] will [Restrain] until [the Holy Spirit] be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming” (2 Thessalonians 6-8).

We who know the Lord Jesus for salvation are part of the Great Resist. Pastors, listen up! Don’t resist the Great Resist. To resist the Great Resist, you are aiding and assisting those who want to bring about the Great Reset.

Preach Bible prophecy—and from the pre-Trib view. Jesus is about to intervene in the wicked affairs of humankind. The Rapture, according to all the signs and signals of the coming Tribulation raging in every direction, is about to disrupt life on planet Earth!

For those who haven’t done so, here is how to be prepared, thus be assured that you will go to Jesus Christ when He calls all believers to Himself in that stupendous moment of rescue from this judgment-bound earth.

“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).

—Terry

The New Year: Continued March to ‘Great Reset’ :: By Jonathan Brentner

At the start of each calendar year, it’s natural to wonder what lies ahead in the upcoming months. What changes might we expect in our world? Could this be the year that the Rapture occurs?

Although I cannot predict the future, from what I know of biblical prophecy, I believe we can expect the globalists to continue building their Marxist one-world government based on the following trends they have carefully cultivated during the past decade or so:

The growing acceptance of Digital Currencies in many nations
The continued empowering of the World Health Organization to dictate the world’s response to future pandemics.

As for 2024, it’s in these two realms that the enslavement of humanity will continue unabated.

1. Central Bank Digital Currencies Will Continue to Grow in Popularity

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are becoming increasingly accepted as the way of the future by many nations. Governments and banks alike are promoting them on the basis that they will make financial transactions happen instantaneously and provide greater ease in paying bills. Fully implemented, CBDCs will reduce financial fraud, if not eliminate it.

However, there’s a huge downside to what the elite plan for our future in this regard. Peter Koenig, a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), warns us about them in a recent article:

CBDC may be upon us, humanity, rather sooner than later. Programmable CBDC is a weapon of mass destruction. The weapon has been in the planning for decades – and it fits right into the Bigger Picture of the Great Reset / Agenda 2030.

Programmable – means the money can be programmed on how it is to be spent by an individual, or blocked, or made to expire, or made to be used for certain goods or services – or it can be totally withheld, wiped out, depending on how well you behave, according to the standards of the all-commandeering death cult elite.

In the end, CBDCs will give the government total control of one’s finances. They will provide the technical framework for the world for what Revelation 13:16-18 describes as the “mark of the beast.”

Once implemented on a national scale around the world, by the midpoint of the Tribulation, the antichrist will easily transition them to a worldwide CBDC over which he will control and set all the parameters for how humanity buys and sells goods. He will forbid cash transactions.

2. Health Tyranny Via the World Health Organization

The majority of people in the world do not want the tyrannical rule of the elite. I often read about mass demonstrations protesting the ever-increasing government control of our lives.

The globalists, however, will not allow their agenda to be sidetracked by the unpopularity of their agenda. (They thrive on the chaos, but that’s a topic for perhaps another time.) In 2024, they intend to take a giant step forward in eliminating the sovereignty of nations through the World Health Organization (WHO).

An article on the Prophecy News Watch website sounds the alarm about what the WHO plans for our future:

The WHO’s 194 member nations are slated to meet again in May 2024 to adopt some version of the WHO’s pandemic treaty. Meanwhile, the public details of the proposed treaty already indicate that it will, indeed, pose a threat to national sovereignty and decision-making….

Hidden within the Pandemic Agreement is language that makes it clear the agreement is about organizing UN governing bodies that can draft up rules that member governments, or Conference of the Parties, will be required to follow in the event of a declared pandemic or a declared climate emergency, etc.

In the same Peter Koenig article referenced above, he also warns people of the inherent totalitarianism in the plans of the WHO:

If these new IHR / Pandemic Treaty are approved by the World Health Assembly at the end of May 2023, the world (currently 194 WHO members) will be living under a “health tyranny.”

WHO would have overreaching powers over otherwise autonomous countries, being able to overrule national Constitutions and decide whether a disease must be treated as a pandemic, i.e., with massive vaccination.

It does not matter what the people want; the powerbrokers of our world plan to enslave humanity under their dictatorship. If the “pandemic treaty” is adopted by member nations, it will give the WHO sovereignty over nations and leave even local governments subject to their rules and demands.

Sadly, Peter Koenig sounds the alarm as someone outside of Christ and thus without any hope for the future. His hope lies in people rising up against the tyranny, but Scripture tells us the globalists will succeed for a short while.

I might succumb to much fear apart from knowing what the Bible says about our future as New Testament saints. We know Jesus is coming for us before the antichrist usurps control of the nations and begins his reign of terror (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-10). We will reside in paradise before that happens.

We are ever so close to the midnight hour when Jesus will catch us up to meet Him in the air and take us home to glory. It might not happen in 2024, but just the same, I will be surprised if we are still here at the start of 2025. Please, please know I’m not predicting the timing of the Rapture or setting a deadline for it; I’m just saying that the nearness of the seven-year Tribulation makes me believe that Jesus’ appearing is ever so close. We live in the season of His glorious appearing.

What we see alarms us at times, but what Scripture reveals about our future encourages us and fills our hearts with hope and peace amid the turmoil of this world.

-Jonathan