Organized Evil

In preparing to speak at the Prophecy Watchers conference in Norman, Oklahoma, recently, my chosen topic, “As it was in the days of Lot,” led naturally into thoughts concerning the wickedness of the days Jesus intimated.

The Lord gave, as I believe and presented, only the “business as usual” aspect of the days of Lot prophecy as recorded in Luke 17:28–30. But His prophecy that judgment of complete destruction would fall the very day He is next “revealed,” as happened in the day Lot was removed—and knowing the Genesis chapter 19 story—leaves no doubt. Evil just beneath that “business as usual” façade had saturated the culture.

That wickedness had become so egregious, had so singed the nostrils of God, that the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were completely erased with fire and brimstone from Heaven. In thinking on our day in America at this time, we see exact parallels to Sodom and to Gomorrah.

Lot had become mixed with the commerce and everyday activity of Sodom, serving as a city administrator in the gate to Sodom. Yet Peter tells us that Lot was “vexed” from day to day with the ungodliness that surrounded him. He had, in fact, I think the Scripture shows, backslidden to the point that he thought and behaved much like the rest of that society. Yet God considered him righteous in His holy eyes.

The proof that Lot had assimilated into the society is seen in that when the nighttime fell and the true evil of the city surfaced, he was willing to act in an ungodly fashion. He offered the raging homosexual men of Sodom his daughters to sexually do with as they wished to keep from giving the depraved horde the two men from God he had taken into his home.

The proof Lot was nonetheless righteous is given without any shadow of doubt. God removed the only righteous people to the safety outside of Sodom—Lot and his two daughters, who themselves were less than holy in their conduct, as seen later when, away from doomed Sodom, they got their father drunk and had sexual relations with him.

This is proof that the only way to salvation is belief. Like Abraham, Lot’s uncle, Lot and his daughters obviously, despite their ungodly behavior, believed in their hearts the Lord God and thus were removed from Sodom before God’s wrath rained down.

This means that all believers, no matter their state of faithfulness to conduct themselves as the Holy Spirit directs, are saved forever. Because the Rapture is a matter of who is in Christ (saved through belief in Him), all who are born again will go to Christ at the Rapture. We have only to read again Romans 8:38–39 to understand the scope of God’s love for His family. There is no one and nothing that can separate those who are in His family from the Heavenly Father.

This said, I must forewarn that God is the perfect Father, and such ungodliness amongst His family means divine discipline is on the way.

We are now, I am convinced, because of all the things we see developing at that point of Sodom-like configuration Jesus pointed to in Luke 17:28–30. The evil and wickedness have, in the past few years, saturated our culture and society. Yet, on the surface, there is a business-as-usual civility with buying, selling, marrying, building, planting, etc., in this nation. Much more to the point, the evil we are witnessing is far more than just rampant. The wickedness is now at the point of being deliberately and without apology organized so that it has melded with the surface of everyday life.

Satan and his minions, both demonic and human, have implemented the hellish plan. Not only has the devil’s plan to ultimately bring all under his son of perdition’s rule been mainstreamed within the nation’s daily life, but it seems that the majority of Americans, even within many of the born-again, have been sedated to the point that they neither understand nor care how near we are to the time Jesus spoke of:

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, nor shall ever be” (Matthew 24:21).

The evil becoming mainstreamed and highly organized can be understood by reports of the wickedness being ramped up, such as follows.

Los Angeles elementary schools with students as young as five will participate in a weeklong celebration of “National Coming Out Day” starting Monday.

Suggested lesson plans for elementary students around LGBTQ+ topics. The document, which a teacher shared with City Journal, noted teachers can adapt the lesson plans to better suit the needs of their students.

The Los Angeles Unified School District is honoring “National Coming Out Day” with a week of action in its elementary schools…

The toolkit’s lesson plan suggests highlighting biographies of major LGBTQ+ advocates each day of the school week. Among those listed include transgender reality star Jazz Jennings, transgender actor Elliot Page, and Carl Nassib, the first openly gay NFL player. (“LA elementary schools to celebrate National Coming Out Day with a week of LGBTQ lessons,” Teny Sahakian, associate producer/writer for Fox News, October 5, 2023)

It should be crystal clear to those who are watching as the Lord instructed. We are rapidly approaching the time like it was in the days of Lot when God judged Sodom with complete destruction. We are now at the time of satanically organized evil. At the center of our society is a concerted effort to infect, through intensive inculcation, the very youngest among us with the anti-God, Sodomite purulence.

This evil that has invaded and changed America into an almost mirror image of ancient Sodom should alert us that Christ must be about to step onto the clouds of glory. You want to hear Him when He calls and the trumpet sounds. Here is how to go to Jesus when He shouts, “Come up here!”

“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

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Awakening the Beast

The closer we get to the seven-year Tribulation, the better we understand how the globalists are preparing for the time when they can control all buying and selling. (Although, in reality, it will be the antichrist that fully manages all the world’s commerce for the second half of the Tribulation.)

Prior to this century, the lawless one would have needed a massive army of people in every nation in order to fulfill the words of Revelation 13:16-18. Now, with artificial intelligence (AI), advances in technology, and massive databases, it’s possible for one person to have such power.

In order to fully awaken the beast system of Revelation 13:16-18, all financial transactions must occur electronically or digitally. And that’s exactly what we see emerging throughout the world.

The Means of Eliminating Cash

The emergence of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) is playing a key part in preparing the world for the elimination of cash transactions. The US Federal Reserve defines them this way, “A CBDC is a digital form of central bank money that is widely available to the general public.” And they quickly point out that the “Federal Reserve is committed to ensuring the continued safety and availability of cash and is considering a CBDC as a means to expand safe payment options, not to reduce or replace them.”

However, once implemented, those controlling the CBDCs will be able to easily eliminate all cash transactions, and that’s exactly what will happen just prior to the midpoint of the Tribulation period. If people can still use cash or write checks, the antichrist wouldn’t be able to dictate their finances.

The Worldwide Implementation of CBDCs Is Coming

During the September 2023 meeting of the G-20 nations in New Delhi, India, the leaders: “agreed to a plan to eventually impose digital currencies and digital IDs on their respective populations, amid concern that governments might use them to monitor their people’s spending and crush dissent.” This pact includes a pledge “to build the necessary infrastructure to implement digital currencies and IDs.” (Bryan Jung, “G20 Announces Plan to Impose Digital Currencies and IDs Worldwide,” September 12, 2023, articles on The Epoch Times Website)

A whitepaper developed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) further emphasizes how the CBDCs are gathering momentum throughout the earth:

The exploration of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) has gained significant momentum worldwide. With over 100 countries actively engaged in CBDC research and development, there is growing recognition of CBDCs as transformative tools in the future of digital payments. To ensure successful implementation and promote interoperability, global coordination becomes paramount.

The move to digitized currencies is gaining traction throughout the world, with many nations seriously exploring it with others that are well on the way to implementing them.

According to another publication linked on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) website, CBDCs are becoming increasingly popular with banks throughout the world:

The level of global interest in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is unprecedented. According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) survey in 2022, 93 percent of central banks are exploring CBDCs, and 58 percent consider that they are likely to or might possibly issue a retail CBDC in either the short or medium term (Kosse and Mattei 2023).

The Standardization of CBDCs

If the development of separate digital currencies by the nations is ever to be combined into one system that’s accessible throughout the world, uniformity must exist in the development of each. Interestingly enough, that’s exactly what the aforementioned WEF whitepaper on CBDCs says is necessary.

The WEF is instructing the nations to develop their digital currencies with “standardization, openness and inclusivity, scalability, resilience and redundancy, and cross-order integration.” They call for uniformity in matters related to “standardization, openness and inclusivity, scalability, resilience and redundancy, and cross-border integration.”

Do you see how this will lead to the uniformity necessary to combine all the systems into one and thus fulfill Revelation 13:16-17?

“Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.”

Of course, this is necessary for international transactions, so it makes sense to design the systems this way, but it will also make the transition to one worldwide CBDC relatively easy.

Programmable

The elite use the term “programmable” as a benign-sounding word. However, it tells us that central banks will have the ability to not only monitor all spending but also control it.

In the future, digitized money will suddenly become mandatory, and soon after that, social credit scores will determine the amount of money in one’s account. Once fully implemented, the CBDCs will become increasingly intrusive and, in the end, eliminate the monetary freedom of everyone.

Our Hope

The good news is that full implementation of the beast system will not happen until at least three and a half years after we are safely in Heaven with Jesus. The fact that we see it awakening before our eyes tells us that this day is rapidly approaching. For us, it speaks to the nearness of Jesus’ appearing to take us home.

The financial chaos following the Rapture will surely speed up the worldwide implementation of the CBDCs as the globalists will have the crisis that they need to impose their draconian agenda against the will of the people.

-Jonathan

Drugging up for Tribulation

One of the strongest indicators of the approach of the Tribulation can be found in looking at things going on today through the prism of the following Scripture:

“Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts” (Revelation 9:21).

A single element is most often found at the center of these wicked activities today. The ignition point of these things God says people won’t repent of, seems to me, is wrapped up in the word “sorceries.”

The word “sorcery” is translated from the Greek pharmakeia (Strong’s G5331, KJV). The definition includes, as part of its scope of evil, the matter of witchcraft. It is used in God’s prophetic Word as reason for destruction of that city of global influence—the city and the worldwide system called “Babylon the Great”:

“And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived” (Revelation 18:23).

The most profound evil of this great city and its global influence is found in the condemnation: “for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”

Can we agree that deception permeates every aspect of our society and culture today here in America? And can we agree that the fact that we derive the word for “drugs” from pharmakeia lends credence to the charge that this nation is at the center of the stage being set for the Tribulation to come?

Our borders have been leveraged fully open at our southernmost parts. The drugs are pouring through the openings by carriers, many of whom are drug cartel members involved in human trafficking and even trafficking of children for sexual wickedness.

Our nation, through an explosive illegal drug eruption, is deceiving the world with its transport capability to infuse many people with mind-altering drugs. Through America’s “sorceries,” “all nations [are] deceived.”

One writer of interest observed:

We are not now in the 7-year Tribulation Period. But again, many present-day developments are already setting the stage for Daniel’s 70th week. Cartoons, TV shows, movies, and books (ex: Harry Potter) are laying the foundation for a world deceived by the occult. Cannabis, ketamine, speed and other so-called “soft drugs” are becoming mainstream. The world is being conditioned to accept that which the Lord clearly forbids. This includes the widespread use of (experimental) drugs. (“The Rich and their Pharmakeia,” Thomas, R. L., 1995, Revelation 8–22: An Exegetical Commentary, Chicago: Moody Press)

Even more concerning than our nation infecting the entire world with our sorceries and all of the other evils Revelation warns will bring devastating judgment are the effects the drug madness is inflicting here at home:

A Fairfield father says that a federally funded health clinic operating within Lawrence High School provided his minor daughter with a baggy of prescription anti-depressants without his knowledge or consent.

When the girl’s father, Eric Sack, discovered the baggy of pills over the weekend, his daughter told him that it was provided to her by the Bulldog Health Center, a School-Based Health Center (SBHC) at Lawrence High School.

Sack saw the pills as an infringement on his parental rights, but he was also concerned that the school’s clinic sent unlabeled drugs with no child-resistant container into his home, where his two other younger children also live…

Sack pulled his daughter out of the public school this week to make her appointments with a doctor and a therapist.

“I’m looking out for the best interests of my daughter. That’s why I pulled her out of school,” said Sack. “Because I don’t think she really ought to be there if they’re going to start giving her pills, you know? Until I sit down with a doctor that I pick for my daughter, not through the school.”…

On Thursday, an agent from Child Protective Services (CPS) called Sack and informed him that he would be arriving shortly to make a surprise visit to his home to conduct a child welfare investigation…

“They called and said it was an emergency situation at my house, that I was pretty near holding my daughter hostage, is what the gentleman that came yesterday told me,” Sack said.

“He had information that only the school and Bulldog Health Center had,” he said.

For three hours, CPS Agent Dylan Wood grilled Sack and his family individually and as a group, including asking questions about Sack’s firearms and where he keeps them. (“Maine Dad Says High School Clinic Sent 17-Year-Old Daughter Home with Secret Baggy of Zoloft, Sicced Child Protective Services on Him for Complaining,” Steve Robinson, The Maine Wire, RR News, September 28, 2023)

The above deception by secretly sending this girl home with drugs is bad enough, but stories abound of fentanyl being made available in various forms, and that is the even deadlier form of evil being perpetrated by the drug lords. Thousands of young people and children are dying so the wicked merchants of earth can make their millions and even billions of dollars.

All of this is preparing the stage for the coming of Antichrist’s regime and all-out satanic assault upon the people left behind to go through that horrendous era called Daniel’s seventieth week and the Tribulation.

You don’t want to be here during the time Jesus said will be the worst of all human history. Here is how to avoid being trapped on this drug-saturated, judgment-bound planet when the Rapture occurs:

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord Jesus Christ, 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

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We Are Homeward Bound 

The multiple signs that we are nearing midnight-point signify good news for weary saints. They tell us that we will be going home in the near future.

In the Upper Room, Jesus calmed the fears of this disciples with these words:

“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).

Though it may not be as soon as we would like, Jesus is surely coming to take us home to the place that He’s preparing especially for us. Colossians 3:4 affirms this glorious truth, “When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.”

At Jesus’ appearing, we don’t remain on the earth, but we will suddenly find ourselves in “glory” with our Savior. This aligns well with one of Jesus’ prayer requests to the Father, which He made a little while after promising to come get us.

“Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24).

On the very same night that the Lord promises to come for us and take us to His Father’s house, He prays for the opportunity to show all His followers the glory He possessed “before the foundation of the world.” Someday, hopefully soon, Jesus’ prayer request will become a reality as He catches us up to meet Him in the air and takes us home to paradise.

This is amazingly good news for us weary saints, for it tells us that . . .

1. He’s preparing a physical place for us. The Greek word for “place” in John 14:2-3 is topos, which denotes a physical location in almost all of its ninety-plus usages in the New Testament. Jesus is preparing actual rooms in His Father’s house for the multitudes of people who have come to know Him as their Savior since that evening. I believe these will be our forever homes in the glorious New Jerusalem described in Revelation 21.

The word Jesus chose for “prepare,” hetoimazo, depicts a tangible, visible preparation. Paul used this same term when asking Philemon to “prepare a lodging place” for him (Philemon 22). In Hebrews 11:16, the writer uses it in reference to the preparation of “a city” in reference to his promise to Abraham and Sarah of a future home.

Jesus will someday take us home, and it will be the most fulfilling and joyous place imaginable.

2. We will Inhabit our home with immortal bodies. Something that’s sadly overlooked in churches today is the fact that Jesus will give all His saints immortal and imperishable bodies when He appears (1 Corinthians 15:47-55; Philippians 3:21-22). We will have glorious bodies like His resurrected one, and we can be sure that our homes in paradise will be perfect accommodations for us.

The Lord gave us a glimpse of what our new bodies will be like when He appeared to His disciples after He rose from the dead. He emphasized that He was not a “spirit” or “ghost.” He invited them to touch Him and then ate in their presence (Luke 24:36-43).

Our future bodies will be tangible and physical but without any of the problems we have with our current ones. Aging and sickness will no longer exist, and we will experience perfect holiness, never to sin again.

3. Our forever home will never disappoint us. Though you might have surmised this from the previous points, it’s clear that our forever home in Heaven and our new bodies will never disappoint us.

Pay close attention to the words of Psalm 16:11:

“You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”

Is it not a bit difficult to imagine that God intends for our joy to be full and that we will enjoy “pleasures forevermore?” I confess that years ago, I couldn’t fully grasp this thought.

The disdain for physical pleasures among Christians started with Augustine and his fondness for many of the teachings of Plato. This pagan philosopher is famous for teaching that only the spirit realm is good and anything physical is evil. This unbiblical separation of the spirit and physical has had tragic consequences for the church ever since the time of Augustine and remains at the heart of many false teachings concerning the end times.

On page 410 of Randy Alcorn’s book Heaven, the author deals with this error:

Our belief that Heaven will be boring betrays a heresy—that God is boring. There’s no greater nonsense. Our desire for pleasure and the experience of joy come directly from God’s hand. He made our taste buds, adrenaline, sex drives, and the nerve endings that convey pleasure to our brains. Likewise, our imaginations and our capacity for joy and exhilaration were made by the very God we accuse of being boring. Are we so arrogant as to imagine that human beings came up with the idea of having fun?

During our time on earth, we experience trials as well as times of affliction, suffering, and loss. But for those of us who know Jesus, a day full of joy and delight is coming. It will begin as quickly as the “twinkling of an eye,” and we will find ourselves in paradise with beauty beyond our wildest imagination.

The time of our departure from the earth is ever so near; keep looking up.

-Jonathan