While scanning Rapture Ready News, I was stopped by the first headline:

While The World Burns, The Stock Market Is Soaring to New Heights Never Seen Before

The story was written by a person who almost always presents news that shows just how near we are to entering the Tribulation. In some cases, he seems to be saying we are already in the beginning of that terrible time, which is also known as “Daniel’s seventieth week.”

At any rate, the writer is an avid anti-pre-Trib Rapture advocate—not believing Christ will rescue Christians from the Tribulation.

I, of course, do believe conditions of the world today are troublesome in many ways. It does seem sometimes that we’re having unusual signals from Heaven of the coming Tribulation plight that the anti-God rebels of Earth deserve. Things such as the following make the point: the murder of millions of babies in their mothers’ wombs and the constant “pride” events in Sodom-like displays of homosexuals flaunting their wickedness in God’s holy face.

The first half of the headline could be considered a manifestation of Heaven’s displeasure for such anti-God comportment: “While the World Burns…”

These words alone are enough to convince the watchers on the wall that the Rapture of the Church is on the cusp of taking place. But it is the second half of the headline that proves just how near Christ is to stepping onto the clouds of Glory and shouting, “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1): “The Stock Market Is Soaring to New Heights Never Seen Before.”

The writer, as is his usual way of expressing his belief that we’re about to enter the Tribulation, spends almost the entire article giving conditions that are Tribulation-like. Then he mocks those who look at the good economic news as, well, being not so good, but destined to fail to reach the level of prosperity the Wall Street types expect.

But for the moment, happy days are here again for just about everyone on Wall Street.

On Tuesday, the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both smashed their old record highs…

Stocks had a banner day Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average scaling to fresh record highs, thanks to strong earnings and another decline in oil prices driven by hope that the Strait of Hormuz could be reopened.

The broad market index gained 1.8% and hit a fresh high for the first time since June, while the Nasdaq Composite popped 2.6%, as Palantir Technologies rallied 29%. The Dow surged 907 points, or 1.7%, led by a 6% rise in Caterpillar, surpassing its intraday record from last month.

The general consensus on Wall Street is that all of the troubles that we are facing now are just temporary.

Of course, I disagree.

I believe that all of the troubles that we are facing now are just a preview of much bigger troubles that are ahead.

But investors don’t want to hear that.

What they want to hear is that stock prices will just keep going higher and higher.

So, for now, the buying frenzy continues, but it will not last forever. (While The World Burns, The Stock Market Is Soaring To New Heights Never Seen Before,” by Michael Snyder, End of the American Dream)

Again, I want to emphasize that the writer is an excellent wordsmith. However, he is against the idea of a pre-Trib Rapture, which I believe the Bible plainly teaches.

I agree that the human economy is destined to fail. The Tribulation laid out in Revelation is on the way.

But the news he is mocking about the tremendous economic upturn just released is proof of just how near the Tribulation era is. The economic conditions are bound to look very good when Jesus next intervenes into the Sodom-like wickedness of humankind. It will be just like it was in Lot’s day in Sodom, which was probably the most prosperous region in the Middle East at the time.

Sodom also held, perhaps, the most wicked population in post-Flood history—that is, until today…

Jesus said it will be just like it was in Lot’s day when He will, like He did with Lot and his family, take all believers out of that place that is due God’s justice and judgment:

“Also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (Luke 17:28-30).

The tremendous upturn in economic conditions might not last. There might be another downturn of some sort. But it will be in a time of uptick when Jesus calls God’s family into the clouds of Glory.

Rapture conditions are in that state at this moment!

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It is significant, I think, that there is suddenly increased talk among the Jewish religious hierarchy about building a temple in Jerusalem.

We learn of this in the following:

Sanhedrin rules it will formally petition Heaven to reveal Mashiach and rebuild the Temple

The nascent Sanhedrin issued a formal ruling this week, asking the Holy One, Blessed be He, to remove hostile forces from the Jewish people and the Land of Israel, reveal the Mashiach (Messiah), rebuild the Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple), and restore prophecy to Israel. The written ruling, dated 6 Menachem Av, 5786, follows a session the court’s members described as several hours long, during which two of the judges argued against moving forward before ultimately joining the majority. (“Sanhedrin rules it will formally petition Heaven to reveal Mashiach and rebuild the Temple,” Israel365 News, July 30, 2026)

The observation of this development by those who are truly watchers on the wall is far different from most who view this.

The Jewish people who observe Judaism generally believe this is an answer to the long-echoed call, “Next year in Jerusalem!” By this, it’s meant that there is great hope that the construction of a third temple will begin as soon as possible. This is the genuine longing by all who believe their Messiah must soon come to enter that future temple and bring peace and prosperity to all of Israel.

Of course, secular Jews have several thoughts about this. The primary thinking is that it really makes no difference one way or the other. A second thought is that a temple would be nice as a tourist attraction. A third thought is wrapped in tremendous fear that building such an edifice would bring an even greater hatred, and possibly war, from all of Israel’s surrounding enemies–and increased hatred by the rest of the world.

Many Jewish people fear that the title “God’s chosen people” is a primary reason for the world’s long history of anti-Semitism. And they’re probably right.

Satan has no doubt used this to induce hatred in the minds of those who harbor some sort of inferiority complex. From these types come much of the Islamist terrorism, I believe.

There is another thought by we who are watchers on the wall.

The third temple will undoubtedly be built—no question about it. But it will not be cherished by Jewish people in Israel or around the world.

It won’t benefit any people anywhere in the world because it will not be the Jewish Messiah who enters and occupies this Temple on Moriah. Instead, it will be the one God’s Word calls “the man of sin” and “the son of perdition.”

This, of course, will be Antichrist, a false messiah who will promise a false peace. He will instead bring the most terrible time of all history to the world (Matthew 24:21).

A third temple will be built at a future time, Bible prophecy says. Solomon built the first one, which Nebuchadnezzar destroyed in 587 BC.

The second temple was built following Israel’s Babylonian captivity. It lasted from 516 BC to AD 70. It became known as Herod’s Temple when the king commissioned it to be greatly expanded and beautified to the extent that it was considered magnificent by those who looked upon it.

This temple was destroyed by the Roman military in AD 70, when Roman Emperor Vespasian sent his son, General Titus, to put down insurrection in Jerusalem. This was a fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy in Daniel 9:26–27 and of Jesus’ words in Matthew 24:1-2.

The third temple is said to be in place during the last seven years of human history prior to Christ’s return. Daniel prophesied about Antichrist: “In the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease” (Daniel 9:27b). This last, most vicious tyrant will enter the third temple and desecrate it.

Paul the apostle says of that future temple and Antichrist:

“Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4).

So, all the information coming from the Jewish hierarchy is Tribulation temple talk; there’s no other way to describe this news from the Israeli Sanhedrin.

All this means that Israel’s real Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, is poised to call God’s family—all born-again believers—into the clouds of Glory.

Following the Rapture of the Church, the Tribulation will begin with Israel signing the covenant of false peace offered by the one who will become Antichrist (Daniel 9:27).

Seven years later, Israel’s True Messiah, Jesus Himself, will enter a supernaturally created Temple atop Mount Zion in Jerusalem, from which He will rule and reign for one thousand years. This will be the Millennium, during which supernatural saints—those who return with Jesus—will be given assignments within the governance of King Jesus!

Believe in Christ today—for today, at this moment, is the only time promised. Tomorrow it might be too late.

“For the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:11–13).

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