In comparing our time on earth today to the “days of Noah,” which the Lord said it will be like at the end of the age when He next catastrophically intervenes into history, I believe we see absolute evidence of the lateness of the prophetic hour.

Violence, of course, marked that antediluvian era, and the world of humanity had been corrupted. We’ve looked in these columns at all the proliferating violence in just about every region of the planet. I can’t think of a time in my life when there have been more wars and rumors of war than today. And, with the nuclear factor possibly at play in many of the conflicts, the very existence of humanity, if not for God’s staying hand, would be questionable in considering the near future.

So, we can say that humankind, at this hour, fits within the “days of Noah” likeness in the matter of violence being in every direction we look.

However, it’s a bit more problematic to think about the second symptom of Noah’s day before the Great Flood. Corruption and violence went hand in hand with the Lord’s decision to destroy all He had created. Here is the account:

“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth” (Genesis 6:12-13).

People had corrupted all of God’s order as He intended for human life on earth.

Mankind, after the Fall in Eden, embarked on a violence-ridden rebellion that included embracing genetic corruption through sexual union with fallen angels. The rebellion of humanity was so great that there was total rejection of Heaven’s order of life. The destruction was inevitable, with God making the exception of Noah and his family, those who had not corrupted their way on the doomed planet.

We can easily extrapolate from this terminal action that rebellion against God’s order reaches a point that He will end it—with great though righteous violence. There will always be, when this point of corruption is reached, reaction by God, who will exert His omniscient, all-powerful control.

Sometimes God’s control is executed instantly, like when Sodom and Gomorrah were decimated following the removal of Lot and his daughters to safety. At other times, such omnipotent controlling reaction is applied in an incremental way, such as when the Lord gave Nineveh forty days to repent. But when God’s order of things reaches an incorrigible level, He exerts His righteous judgment and wrath.

When it reached the time when humankind’s corruptive rebellion had come to the point that God the Father had to exercise His control over man’s incorrigibility—the Adamic, bloodstream sin-contamination that would destroy humankind for eternity—God placed all sin on the back of His Perfect Son, who became the scapegoat sacrifice: the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

God thereby displayed His love for His creation called “man.” He bestowed mercy and grace for all who will accept that great sacrifice.

The Lord Jesus Himself gave a heads-up on what happens when people rebel against God’s order of creation.

As He entered Jerusalem to become the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world, the people began to praise Him, just as God intended, because Jesus was indeed the Messiah and the very Son of God. The Judaizers—who had fought against Jesus at every opportunity and, eventually, would, at least they thought, achieve in getting Him crucified—scolded Jesus, telling Him to make those praising Him to be silent.

Jesus answered these spawns of the devil: “I tell you, if these [people] were to keep silent, the stones would cry out” (Luke 19:40).

The very planet–the geophysical elements—Jesus was saying would, if the people did not praise Him in truth and within God’s order of things at that moment, convulse in an earth-shattering demonstration of rebellion against the Creator’s holy will.

This brings us to the encompassing purpose of the title of this piece: “Defying God’s Order.”

Considering all the evil perpetrated against God’s order of life on the planet He flung into space, should we have to wonder whether the geophysical gyrations we are witnessing are likely the beginning of the Lord’s incremental infliction against rebellious mankind’s incorrigibility?

With homosexuality, transsexual insanity, abortions, and other atrocities against children by the tens of millions, and other things of defiance against God’s order that we could name if space permitted, is it any wonder that the God of Heaven is about to intervene in a catastrophic way?

As a matter of fact, in a single day’s coverage of our Rapture Ready News, in my opinion, is a reflection, possibly, even likely, proof of how the Lord’s geophysical creation is beginning to convulse, as Jesus warned that day He was about to die for our sins. Here are a few brief descriptions of such geophysical likely evidence:

• Isesaki breaks Japan’s all-time heat record with 41.8°C (107.2°F) on August 5

Isesaki in Gunma Prefecture recorded 41.8°C (107.2°F) at 14:26 LT on August 5, 2025, setting Japan’s highest temperature on record and marking the second time in one week that the national record was broken.

• Smoke from Canadian wildfires triggers air quality alerts in 10 U.S. states, 2025 nears second-worst year

Air quality alerts were issued across the U.S. Midwest and Northeast on Monday, August 4, 2025, and remain in effect on August 5, as over 740 wildfires burning across Canada send smoke to the U.S. Currently, 2025 is the third most destructive year for wildfires in Canada and is likely to become the second most destructive year, surpassing 1989 when wildfires burned over 17 million acres of land across the country.

• Hong Kong records highest August daily rainfall since 1884; four black warnings in 8 days

Hong Kong recorded its heaviest August daily rainfall since records began in 1884, with 355-359 mm (14-14.1 inches) measured by mid-afternoon on August 5, 2025, prompting a black rainstorm warning that lasted more than 11 hours, the second‑longest on record.

• Destructive floods hit southern Taiwan after 2,900 mm (114 inches) of rainfall in one week

Extremely heavy rainfall totaling nearly 2,900 mm (114 inches) from July 28 to August 4, 2025, caused severe flooding and landslides across southern Taiwan, killing at least four people, leaving three missing, and forcing nearly 6,000 to evacuate.

• Southern Kamchatka shifted 2 m (6.6 feet) during M8.8 earthquake on July 29, 2025

Preliminary data from KBGSRAS shows that the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula shifted southeastward by nearly 2 m (6.6 feet) after M8.8 earthquake (Rapture Ready News, August 6, 2025)

God’s ultimate order of things for everyone is that you, whoever you are, be saved from the sin that separates you forever from Him unless you repent and ask Jesus Christ for the salvation, the redemption, He offers. Here, again, is how to be saved from the judgment that God must send against those who reject His Son’s sacrifice on the cross.

“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).

Anyone who studies Bible prophecy from the pre-Trib viewpoint and observes the issues and events under that great prophetic microscope must include the Apostle Paul’s “perilous times” forecast to comprehend this end-times panorama.

Here again is that prophecy:

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away” (2 Timothy 3:1-5).

We’ve looked at these end-of-the-age characteristics many times in these articles and other venues. Usually, the topics have concentrated on the words used by Paul, including “men shall be…lovers of themselves, fierce and without natural affection.”

Certainly, this generation displays these characteristics in significant profusion. We’ve pointed out, for example, that posting “selfies” and creative narcissistic narratives on Facebook and other platforms indicates that this generation embraces the description “lovers of their own selves” given in this prophecy.

The characteristic “without natural affection,” we’ve noted, involves mothers aborting more than sixty million babies here in America. Also, it’s been pointed out that homosexuality and the transsexual victimization of children prove that this generation demonstrates that “without natural affection” trait as well.

We only have to look at the “wars and rumors of war” going on in the form of military conflict between warring nations, and at raging in the streets right here in America, to understand that we’re experiencing the characteristic Paul described as “fierce.”

All the “perilous times,” end-times descriptives are in play at this moment as we receive reports hourly of what’s going on in the world. But I’d like to look in particular at a couple of terms in Paul’s prophecy for the balance of the commentary: “trucebreakers,” “false accusers,” “traitors,” and “highminded.”

In my view, those words describe growing evidence encompassing the revealing of the false accusations and evil perpetrated within the so-called deep state over the past number of years. All the wicked subterfuge committed against first a presidential candidate, then the ongoing such activity against that man in his two separate presidencies is on the verge of being proven, I believe. Or perhaps by the time this commentary is posted, the revelations and subsequently the truth will already have come forth.

I’m sure those doing the traitorous activity will no doubt still be claiming, despite the evidence, that it’s all just political rhetoric—or is otherwise framed as not believable.

To me, it reflects on the biblical prognosis, “Be sure, your sins will find you out” (Numbers 32:23).

The perpetrators of this traitorous subterfuge just might have been found out. The following might be the evidence that will prove the traitorous activity that has filled the headlines with lies for so many years.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused former President Barack Obama of orchestrating a “treasonous conspiracy” to undermine Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, making unprecedented allegations from the White House briefing room on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.

Speaking at 11:44 PM EDT, Gabbard alleged that Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment they knew was false regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. The former Democratic congresswoman claimed Obama’s administration manufactured findings to promote the narrative that Russia interfered to help Trump win. (“Obama Accused of Treason in Shocking Development,” Headline Reporter, Sunday, July 27, 2025)

Following shortly thereafter, evidence was discovered that might prove true the charges made by the National Security Director.

FBI Director Kash Patel has uncovered a trove of long-hidden documents tied to the Trump-Russia investigation inside a secret room at FBI headquarters, according to sources familiar with the discovery who spoke with Fox News. The stash—found in so-called “burn bags” typically used to destroy sensitive materials—reportedly includes thousands of pages and computer hard drives, among them the classified annex to former Special Counsel John Durham’s final report.

Speaking in a June interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, Patel described locating the previously undisclosed room inside the bureau’s Hoover Building. “Comedy and others hid [this room] from the world…locked the key and hid access and just said, ‘No one’s ever gonna find this place,’” Patel said. He added the room was filled with documents and storage devices “that no one had ever seen or heard of.” (“Patel Uncovers Hidden FBI Files Tied to Trump-Russia Probe,” by Walt Rasinger, New Conservative Post, July 31, 2025)

To me, this entire political cesspool smells of the Apostle Paul’s “perilous times” descriptions: “trucebreakers,” “false accusers,” “traitors,” and “high-minded.” That shouldn’t be surprising to those who seek truth in their study of Bible prophecy. As we discern prophetic stage-setting signals in every direction on the near horizon, so near the end of this Age of Grace, this great traitorous betrayal predicted by Paul is front and center. When we see “all these things beginning to come to pass,” then we understand it is time to “look up! Our Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, is drawing near”!