“Unbelievable…it’s already 2024.” That’s what we hear today or have maybe heard or said ourselves when conversing on this or any previous new year. Indeed, the days, weeks, months, and years seem to roll around faster and faster –at least to those of us who are of somewhat advanced age.

The conversation always seems to include something like: “When I was young, time seemed to just drag on, especially during school days. Now, time just flies by, doesn’t it?”

Nowadays, we still say: “Happy New Year!” to those with whom we come in contact at this time of year. But just like in the case of those younger days in our view of time versus our elder days of thinking on time’s swift movement, whether it’s a Happy New Year or otherwise, is truly a matter of perception.

Since our column here is devoted to dealing in matters involving God’s Word, and in particular, dealing with God’s Prophetic Word, perception is important, even crucial to understanding to what degree this is a Happy New Year –or otherwise. In considering all this, there are massively divergent perspectives at hand –thus, enormously important questions that need to be answered. So let’s dive into this 2024 new beginning in terms of what we face now and just ahead. Let’s look into whether it’s, in fact, to be a Happy New Year!… Or not…

Now, again, I’m going to be more America-centric than global-centric because, for most of Planet Earth, the term Happy New Year isn’t even thought of in such terminology. For most peoples, the majority under dictatorships, there is little thought of this year –or any year—as being Happy.

Our nation is by far the most materially blessed of all human history –at least so far as we know. That is, some believe the antediluvian world possibly had technologies beyond our own advanced technology. I, personally, doubt it, so far as human beings developing technology to the extent we have now. There were, I believe, certain supernatural interventions into the human condition by the demonic world, according to God’s Word. So I proceed from the view that America, and the Western world in general, today, has material blessings beyond any other civilizations of human beings populating the earth.

Material blessings, i.e., cars, refrigerators, homes filled with comforts, and conveniences of every sort, I realize, aren’t necessarily things that produce the emotion we think of as Happy. And this is where the matters of perception and perspective come into relevance for purposes of this commentary’s exploration, I think.

What constitutes, in our America-centric perception and perspective, a New Year –the Year 2024—that will be a truly Happy New Year?

Perception/perspective of most Americans

Americans, for the most part, seem focused only on the moment. This includes secular and religious people alike –including believers in Jesus Christ, and non-believers. Those in this category go about life just, as is said, keeping heads above water economically and in other ways that don’t disrupt routines of life. Barring personal and family catastrophic events or the dire outlook of those in deep poverty, the perception and perspective are of and from the all-is-well viewpoint. The upcoming year, for these, is usually projected verbally as a Happy New Year in that sense.

However, looking from the perception and perspective of things going on, viewed under the Revealing Light of God’s Word, the Bible, it is quite a different and troubling reality.

The greeting or best wishes given with the statement Happy New Year doesn’t guarantee such a future for the coming year. It simply expresses hope that things of life track in a trajectory that doesn’t include any sort of unpleasant issues or events. Since such a trajectory doesn’t exist in an imperfect world full of pitfalls, wishes for a truly Happy New Year can never be fulfilled –at least not a Happy New Year in the truest sense.

So, what is a Happy New Year in the truest sense? The question: is there the possibility of such a Happy New Year involves a matter worthy of exploration during this darkening time of Sodom-like cultural and moral decline.

Perception/perspective of those with prophetic enlightenment

Those who use the Template of God’s Prophetic Word to view the world as it is and as it looks to be projected to be for the year 2024 cannot see a particularly happy outlook. That is, not in the sense others with the view that all is well see things, both at this moment and in the year just ahead.

We look at the absolute adulteration of the culture in this nation as a departure from godliness. The youngest children are subjected to the most wicked forms of perversions, while parents who object are pursued by federal law enforcement as domestic terrorists.

We view the murder of millions of babies in the womb, and even after being out of the womb through the abortion process, as the equivalent of the ancients sacrificing their infants and small ones upon the pagan altar of Moloch.

We look at the great deception going on, with government and corporate entities as well as journalists in media lying to us, as the fulfillment of Jesus’ Words when he told his disciples that deception will be great just before He comes back in power and glory. The American political process is an ongoing validation of the Lord’s foretelling in that regard.

The wars are rampant, just as Jesus said they would be at the end of the age. Rumors of wars are even more prolific in their assaulting our eyes and ears each news cycle. Think Ukraine and Hamas and Israel’s determination to survive wars being perpetrated against the Jewish state.

And Israel at the center of all controversy at this very moment leaves no doubt to those who watch from the Biblically prophetic perspective that the world is on the very precipice of the Tribulation –the last 7 years of human history leading to Christ’s Second Advent.

World War III and thermonuclear annihilation threaten each and every hour today.

So, it isn’t time to forecast a Happy New Year for 2024 – not in the sense that it will be a time of joy in our nation or upon Planet Earth. Quite the opposite is the Truth of the matters involved.

That said, we who look at these things through the prism of God’s prophetic Word from the perspective and with the perception of God’s Promises as absolutely unbreakable have peace about all the ominous societal, cultural, economic, and geopolitical as well as apostate religious darkness that is quickly gathering. We understand, through God’s Promises, through Holy Spirit Discernment, that all the evil we see coming now and in the year 2024 means one thing. The Lord Jesus Christ is about to shout from the Clouds of Glory, “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1).

Paul the Apostle prophesies what happens next, following that shout.

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words” (1 Thes 4:16-18).

With this stupendous prospect in our spiritual perspective and perception, we who accept completely God’s Word as Absolute Truth believe that 2024 just might be the Happiest of Happy New Years!

If you want to be a child of God who can truly say “Happy New Year!” in the way herein presented, this is how.

“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).

 

Author’s note: This is a Christmas gift of forewarning. It is the order of terrible events prophetically scheduled to take place during the Tribulation. The memorandum is given in love and in advance for those who will choose to be left behind after the removal of believers to Heaven rather than accept God’s grace gift of salvation through His Son Jesus Christ, whose birthday we celebrate today.

Please consider the following grace gift from the Lord who created you and who desires that you be part of His family for all eternity. Follow God’s prescription in this promise. Then, the memorandum that follows will not be for you but for others who have rejected the grace gift offer prior to the Rapture of all believers in Christ for salvation.

“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).

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MEMORANDUM

Date: (Unknown)

To: Everyone left on planet Earth

From: Those who have vanished

Re: The truth about what happened

This is to tell you exactly what is involved in the sudden disappearance of people around the world. It’s as simple as this: We who belong to Christ were called into the air above the planet in the Rapture. Yes, that kooky, ridiculous, pie-in-the-sky, fly-away event that Tim LaHaye and other preachers of what you’ve thought of as fantasy have been proclaiming could happen at any moment did, in fact, happen.

You are hearing, or will soon hear, every conceivable explanation of what caused this astonishing disappearance. Here are our guesses as to what some of those explanations will be:

• It was some sort of quantum evolutionary leap, which will ultimately be great for mankind.
• It was a mass abduction by extraterrestrials—an outgrowth of the singular abductions that have been reported over the years.
• It was a natural, scientifically explainable cosmic interaction that some human physiologies could resist and others couldn’t.
• It was a supernatural movement into a higher form for those who disappeared–an ascension to godhood.
• It was punishment from the great cosmogonical mind, removing the evil from the world.

Don’t believe any of these or other explanations. To find out the absolute truth about what the mass vanishing actually involves, read in the Bible 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. Also read John 14:1-3 to find out where we who vanished are presently located.

Now that we are gone, and our leaving has everything to do with your immediate future—the following will happen in order very similar to that listed here.

These and other events will occur over the next seven years:

• Total chaos will rule for a time. (Lk. 21: 25)
• Governments will get control through sometimes harsh methods. (Rev. 17: 12-13)
• One world government will come together. (Ps. 2: 1-3)
• A one-world church will form. (Rev. Ch. 17)
• A world leader from Europe will step to the forefront and take charge of the peace process. (Dan. 9: 26-27)
• Israeli government and Israel’s enemies will sign an agreement of peace that ensures peace and safety. (Dan. 9: 27; Isa. 28: 18; 1 Thes. 5: 3)
• Peace will not last, as a coalition of nations—led by Russia—will invade the Middle East. (Ezek. 38:1-12)
• God, himself, will destroy all but one-sixth of the invader forces. (Ezek. 39: 1-5)
• Much of the world will be hit by the deadly effects of the invasion. This will possibly include chemical, biological, and nuclear aftereffects. (Ezek. 39:6-7; 11-16)
• The world leader will solidify his power following the Russian-led coalition’s destruction. (Dan. 8: 23-25; 11: 36-39)
• Two Old-Testament-type prophets will come on the world scene and preach about Christ while condemning the world’s evil. (Rev. 11: 3-6)
• Meanwhile, God will put His protection upon 144,000 Jews who have converted to Christianity so that they can begin to preach God’s saving message to the people of the Tribulation. (Rev. 7: 3-8)
• At the same time, God will allow strong delusion to come over all who heard the Gospel before the Rapture, but, fully understanding the offer of salvation, refused to accept Christ. These will believe the lies of Antichrist and Satan. (2 Thes. 2: 11-12)
• Antichrist, after months of trying, will finally murder the two Old-Testament-type prophets. But they will come back to life and be taken into Heaven while the world watches. (Rev. 11: 11-12)
• Antichrist will receive a supposedly deadly head wound (Rev. 13: 3).
• Satan and his fallen angels will fight God’s forces, be kicked out of Heaven by Michael and his angels, and will be exiled to planet Earth, where Satan will bring great anger against those who live there (Revelation chapter 12).
• The False Prophet will perform supposed miracles and will call fire down from Heaven –which likely will involve light-like orbs that are those of Satan’s force thrown down to Earth (Revelation chapter 13).
• Antichrist will appear to resurrect from the dead, being then possessed by Satan. (13: 3-4)
• Antichrist will sit in the Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. He will claim to be God and demand worship. (2 Thes. 2: 3-4)
• The False Prophet will direct all worship to Antichrist, and will erect an image of him. (Rev. 13:11-17)
• Antichrist’s regime will institute a computer mark-and-numbers system. It will be both to control the world’s populations and to cause all to worship Antichrist, whose number in all of this is 666. (Rev. 13: 16-18)
• Those who refuse to accept Antichrist’s mark will be murdered. Beheading will apparently be the regime’s chosen method of offing these “traitors.” (Rev. 13: 15; 20: 4)
• Antichrist will begin a systematic genocide against the Jewish race that will make Hitler’s Holocaust look mild by comparison. (Rev. Ch. 12)
• He and the False Prophet will also have all the new believers they can find rounded up, tortured, then murdered. (John. 16: 2; Rev. 13: 8)
• While Antichrist hunts down and murders people by the millions, God’s judgments will begin to fall directly on the rebellious people of the planet. (Rev. 6: 17)
• Millions upon millions will die while God’s wrath pours out in a series of three types of judgments, each consisting of seven specific judgments, for a total of 21 judgments. (Rev. chapters 6 through 18)
• When all is said and done, more than half, possibly as much as two-thirds, of all human life will die of the plagues. (Rev. 6:8; 8:8; 9:18)
• God will prepare, and the Jewish remnant will flee to, a hiding place, probably Petra, the ancient city carved in the rose-red-colored rocks of the Jordanian wilderness. (Rev. 12: 6, 14)
• Antichrist and his forces, led by Satan, will pursue the Jewish people and try to murder them, but the pursuing forces will be swallowed up by the earth. (Rev. 12: 15-16)
• While the Jewish and many of the Gentile people still alive remain safely protected, God’s wrath will fall in greater force. (Rev. 16: 1)
• The sun will go partly dark while at the same time heating up to seven times hotter than normal. (Rev. 16: 8-11)
• A great object will fall into the ocean from space. Its impact will kill life in the sea and most likely will destroy coastal areas with tidal waves. (Rev. 8: 8-9)
• Another asteroid or other mass from space will strike Earth and will poison much of the planet’s fresh water sources. (Rev. 8: 10-11)
• Great, unprecedented earthquakes will happen simultaneously all over the earth. (Matt. 24: 7; Rev. 16: 18)
• People will be so frightened they will have heart attacks just from the things they see are yet to come. (Lk. 21: 26)
• A supernatural plague of huge insect-like creatures will be released from the abyss, and they will sting all who have the mark of the Beast. Men and women will try to commit suicide because of their great pain from the stings and bites of these demonic creatures. (Rev. 9: 3-6)
• God will then move in the minds of all military forces on Earth to gather in the valley of Jezreel, the plains of Esdraelon, near the ancient city of Megiddo. This is Armageddon. (Joel 3: 14; Rev. 16: 16)
• The “Kings of the East,” a huge army out of the Orient numbering more than 200 million troops, will invade to make war with Antichrist’s and the other world’s forces. (Rev. 9: 15-16; 16: 12)
• Jesus said of this time that if He didn’t come back, everyone and everything would die because of the fighting about to take place. (Matt. 24: 22; Mark 13: 20)
• Jesus will return with the armies of Heaven. His armies consist of the mighty angels and Jesus’ Church, which will have been raptured at least seven years earlier. (Rev. 19: 11-14)
• Antichrist’s armies and all others will try to prevent Christ’s return. (Rev. 19: 19)
• Jesus will simply speak, and all armies on Earth will be rendered helpless, most killed. (19: 15-18)

You have only one chance to survive:

Accept Jesus Christ as Savior (read John, chapter 3).
This will involve refusing to take Antichrist’s mark when it is instituted. If you accept the mark, you are eternally doomed.

To those not appointed to God’s wrath (1 Thes. 5:9-11): perhaps you should pass this memorandum to your lost family and friends before you vanish.

Then, post it on your refrigerator.