Author’s note: I’m beginning today with the following www.terryjamesprophecyline.com article, a series written and published in 2007. The series, posted first on our www.raptureready.com website (the prophecy blog didn’t exist back then), consists of twelve articles, and, of course, is somewhat dated regarding issues and events. For example, it was written before the big housing bubble burst and economic downturn of 2008. But I believe it is what the Lord wants presented again at this time.

End-of-Days Scenarios

The time has arrived, I believe, to put together a postulation introspective on biblical things to come, in scenario fashion—i.e., to offer, in a stream-of-consciousness way, based upon trends in today’s news, a possible course the world might take while we trudge through the end of days toward Armageddon and Christ’s Second Advent.

As always, when entertaining such thoughts in a public forum, I must state up front that these are nothing more or less than speculations on my part. However, they are undertaken with considerable years of study, writing, and, most of all, praying about matters foretold by Jesus and the Old and New Testament prophets. Although I have not received a “word of knowledge” or been given a vision or dream in the Old or New Testament sense, I do believe my thoughts are given here with Holy Spirit-directed thought and insight.

So, where do we begin? Well, maybe at the beginning, the moment when linear time seems to have been introduced for this marvelous story of God and man to begin its run through history. I say it is good to begin at that point because we have come to the point that the very One who created time for humankind is now under satanic attack as a liar and/or a lunatic. Jesus, you see, is the Creator of this thing called “time,” of the beings called “human,” and of all that is. The Scriptures say:

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).

Clear enough, right? God, not evolution or any other method born of human sophistry, brought this world into existence.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men” (John 1:1-4).

About Jesus, the Apostle Paul wrote:

“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist” (Colossians 1:16-17).

Jesus Himself said:

“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).

The Bible says Jesus Christ is God Himself. He said He and His Father are one—that is, they’re the same. When the pious Jewish religious leaders asked Him if He was God, Jesus said:

“Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58).

This refers to His being the God of His people of His promises—the Israelites, as seen in Exodus 3:6.

The world of entertainment, e.g., The DaVinci Code fiction, has been saying Jesus was a mere man who faked His crucifixion, living on to father a child with Mary Magdalene. Entertainment, under pseudo-archaeological auspices, is now telling us they have found the ossuaries and even the DNA of Jesus’ relatives, and possibly of Jesus Himself in a tomb near Jerusalem. Jesus addressed this matter in part when He said during His Olivet Discourse:

“Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matthew 24:25-27).

That passage is, I realize, Jesus’ warning about false christs and false prophets who will deceive all but God’s elect during the Tribulation era. Just like in all the other end-times signals of significance in view today, however, the lying—saying Jesus is not the soon-returning God of Heaven—is already underway for setting up prophetic fulfillment.

The prominently observable fact that the deity of Jesus is under attack is, in other words, a profound signal that we are bumping up against the very end of this Age of Grace. The attack is scheduled to become even more hateful as we degenerate toward the end of days.

Having laid the groundwork for showing that Jesus Christ’s deity and God’s veracity are under attack from our great enemy, the devil, and his supernatural and human minions, we’ll next examine the many developments and what they mean for the future. Next week, we will begin looking at end-of-days matters that are in our daily, even hourly, news—overlaid by God’s always 100 percent-accurate Word, the Bible.

With most all other prophetic signals in view for the coming Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week), it’s more than intriguing that one stage-setting ingredient at the center of that horrendous era seems to be out of sync with developments. Or perhaps the incongruity represents the final element about to be entered into the construction of Antichrist’s power base.

The European Union is in what looks to be a weakening—not an increasingly dominant—state of affairs. The following think piece offers some information about the troubles within this developing power base for the Antichrist regime during the Tribulation:

The European Union (“EU”) is facing criticism and calls for reform or abolition, with Elon Musk recently calling for its abolition and the Trump administration’s national security strategy labeling it a failed project.

There are three distinct camps of commentators on the EU’s future: Europhiles who support the EU, Eurosceptics/Reformists who want to reform it, and EU abolitionists who want to dissolve it.

The reformist camp is strikingly large and contains most of the officially tolerated nationalist movements in the EU.  In the following, J.K. argues for reform. But this reform would be so significant that it would create something new: it would involve a wholesale replacement of the EU and its sister institutions.…

Western political discourse is entering a time of re-evaluation of the core concepts and institutions that have ruled us since the 1950s. The European Union is not above this kind of re-evaluation and the ideological battles over its nature and future are not going to abate any time soon. (“EU Needs Massive Reform: There needs to be a wholesale replacement of the EU and its organisations,” by Rhoda Wilson, The Expose, December 23, 2025)

The troubles range from internal power scuffles to cultural and ideological differences that are so profound as to make future cohesion very unlikely at best, and to cause dissolution of the EU as presently constituted at worst.

At the center of the tumult within the EU seems to be the US and the most, shall I say, interesting president of history. Pressures from the Trump administration seem to be at the heart of the movement that is about to force reforms. We will simply have to continue to watch and see with regard to prophetic outcome.

History has proved to the satisfaction of most Bible prophecy scholars that the first four world kingdoms described in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream have come and gone. The Babylonian kingdom was the first. The Medes and Persians comprised the second world empire. The Greek Empire under Alexander the Great was the third. The Roman Empire, which split in two, with capitals in Rome and Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), was the fourth great world kingdom.

One is left to come upon the scene—the final world governmental system represented in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream as the feet and toes made of iron mixed with clay. This kingdom, we believe, is far along in the process of coming together today in the form of the European Union. The fifth world empire symbolized in the statue is prophesied to be an extension of the fourth kingdom. That is exactly what the EU is—an extension of the ancient Roman Empire. It is, we are convinced, the feet and toes of the man-image, the reviving of the unity that was once Europe in all its power and glory. Yet, despite the tremendous power the final form of the Roman Empire will have, the clay mixed with iron seems to indicate it will have significant weaknesses.

The European Union is, like America, presently at the forefront of calling for Israel and the Palestinians to come to the peace table. It will be just such a peace negotiation, according to Daniel 9:26–27, out of which will come the “covenant made with death and hell” (Isaiah 28:15, 18). Antichrist, “the prince that shall come,” will personally guarantee that covenant. But the prophetic Word says that “when they shall say peace and safety, then, sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape” (1 Thessalonians 5:3).

The Islamic world’s hatred for the Jews and Israel is satanic at its core. No amount of negotiating for peace ever will change that. Israel’s neighbors want the Jewish state forever done away with—expunged from what they consider their land. The Arab leaders, all dictators to one degree or another, must keep the region in foment against Israel to assure that their dictatorships stay in power. The “covenant made with death and hell,” according to Isaiah the prophet, must somehow deal with this great hatred to achieve the false peace of that satanically produced covenant.

The European Union, Antichrist’s future base of authority, is rapidly growing toward its full power that will produce a leader of unprecedented dominance who will bring about that false peace.

The Bible states that seven out of ten “kings” will back a world leader who will forcibly rip power from the other three and give it to himself. With all other prophetic indicators seemingly in full view upon the immediate geopolitical horizon, the EU in turmoil seems to be another profound ingredient that’s been added to the fascinating mix.

Certainly, the current flux affecting the EU represents weakness that looks difficult to overcome.

However, the man of sin will have satanically imbued powers. This will likely include the ability to overcome problems such as those currently observed within his future power base. Meantime, the devil will be in the details of preparing his son of perdition’s platform of tyranny.

So, during the New Year, unless the Rapture preempts our ability to watch from this earthly platform of observation, we will likely see fascinating changes. That is, there will almost certainly be dramatic changes in the European Union model in setting the stage for construction of the world power structure represented in Daniel’s interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (read Daniel chapter 2).

***Pakistan Ministry Mission Appeal from Terry James***

To my Rapture Ready and Prophecyline family: I again solicit your support in spreading God’s Word in Pakistan.

Your generosity in past missionary efforts has just been wonderful beyond measure. I again prayerfully ask that you open your spiritual heart in helping fund the distribution of the books I’ve given to our pastor in Pakistan to use while he preaches and teaches about our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pastor Anil Jasper translated my little book, Prophecy Power: Strength from God to Face Your Future. He has now also translated into the Urdu language my small book, HeavenVision: Glimpses into Glory.

This is the book in which I tell about the widow-maker heart attack I had on Good Friday of April 22, 2011. I describe my experience of being somewhere in the heavenly sphere each time my heart stopped. The voluminous medical documentation of that medical emergency shows why my survival was so unusual that the cardiological association gave me their “Patient of the Year” award and asked me to speak to their convention.

Of course, at the heart of my testimony is the salvation message that Jesus alone can save the soul from an eternity apart from God the Father.

The first book Pastor Anil translated and continues to distribute to the people of his country, Prophecy Power, remains a great witness of Christ’s saving power. HeavenVision now adds a second witnessing tool that will help the pastor win souls for God’s eternal family.

I have special permission from my publishers to donate these books in this ministry. I receive no compensation whatsoever from their distribution in Pakistan.

Your donations are essential to carry out this all-important mission. I believe your contributions will result in great heavenly rewards some eternal day when we all come before our Lord at the judgment seat of Christ.

We need funding to print and distribute these books beginning this month.

May the Lord bless you mightily for helping in this mission to the people of Pakistan.

Again, I don’t have a way to accept credit cards or PayPal-type contributions. I ask that you send checks to the address below.

Please put in the line at the bottom of your check: For our Pakistani Mission.

Also, please include your email address so I can properly thank you. Being blind now since I was fifty-one, postage and preparing envelopes, etc., is beyond my ability. But emails are easily within my capability, and I certainly want to thank each of you.

Please make the check out to me—Terry James—and send to:

Terry James Prophecy Line
P.O. Box 38
Benton, AR 72018

Thanks, and God’s Blessings.

***P.S. I am thankful and so pleased to announce that we have received a donation offer that will greatly help in this effort to fund printing and distribution of my books in Pakistan.

A most generous brother in Christ has offered up to $7,500 in matching funds for donations we receive.

In other words, for each donation you send, he will match with an equal amount up to $7,500.