Earth’s Fatal Santayana Moment :: Terry James

Published on: by RR10 Category:General Articles, Terry James

Sometimes, when someone has been wronged by another, the one doing the wrong eventually suffers a devastating wrong himself or herself. It is often said in these twists of reversed circumstances, “What goes around comes around.” I.e., an intentionally bad thing induced by the wrongdoer circles around throughout the ether of human interaction and finally comes back to inflict like tribulation on the one who initiated the trouble.

Rightfully or wrongfully, we more often than not experience Schadenfreude moments upon observing the turn of such events. I must confess that, for example, a broad smile of pleasure is one of my failings when it comes to observing the turning of the political tables on those who strive to fundamentally change America and have their efforts fail and even redound dramatically to their detriment.

Demonically inspired Eastern religionists and occultists call this situational turn of events “karma.” God’s Word Truthfully frames this turn of events in terms of results of wrong-doing “…Be sure, your sins will find you out.” (Numbers 32: 23). In this sense, we might say the Bible is forewarning, “What goes around comes around.”

God’s book on wisdom encompasses, that is, addresses, in part, the following in this matter of all things, including trouble, repeating, and causing undesired repercussions on wrong-doing humanity.

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after” (Ecclesiastes 1:9-11).

The Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana is given credit for phrasing the warning wrapped up in both the Scriptural and the philosophical alerts —“What goes around comes around.”

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

This is an explanation I found in researching Santayana.

Santayana is said to have first used the phrase in his book The Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense, Volume 1 as a warning against repeating past mistakes. The quote is one of academia’s most cited and paraphrased lines and explains why it’s important to study history. The quote means that if you don’t learn from other people’s mistakes, you are likely to make those same mistakes yourself. For example, in politics, lawmakers’ mistakes can result in detrimental effects on tens of thousands of lives, or more.

During this time that is observably the wrap-up of the Age of Grace (Church Age,) we are witness to the coming to fruition of George Santayana’s more eloquently phrased alert about what goes around comes around. We are on the cusp of the entire world of God-deniers and anti-God forces coming to suffer the consequences of sin encapsulated within God’s assured results of man doing evil. “…Be sure, your sin will find you out.”

The world of people who reject Jesus Christ for Salvation is about to, as the title of this commentary has it, experience Earth’s fatal Santayana moment. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

The first earth-dwellers to experience cataclysm because of rejection of God’s Salvation Message were, of course, the antediluvians. These felt God’s Holy, Righteous Judgment and Wrath begin with the first drops of rain that became a deluge from above and from the water erupting from the earth below.

The next such catastrophism fell upon the people of the time of the Tower of Babel when God destroyed their attempted effort to establish a world totally apart from Heaven’s Governance.

The next and final such worldwide calamity because of the rejection of God and His Son, Jesus Christ, will begin its final phase with the event that will be for believers in Christ the most Glorious Adventure imaginable.

The Rapture will at the same time snatch millions of Christians into the clouds of Glory while leaving billions of unbelievers behind on a planet about to suffer the worst time of human history. The Rapture will for these left behind be Earth’s fatal Santayana moment.

You don’t have to be one of the billions who will endure this most catastrophic period of all human history. Here is how to instead go to be with Christ and the Safety of Heaven with God the Father for all eternity.

“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).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prognostications For the Last Days of The Church Age :: By The Gospelist

Published on: by RR10 Category:General Articles

I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet. However, things are becoming clearer regarding how events are going to unfold leading up to the rapture. Events that occur on earth after the rapture are pretty easy to discern, so I won’t delve into that. Besides, we Christians are not going to be here anyway.

It is always dangerous to predict future events because we are forced into a static analysis based on our present perspective. The future is fluid and dynamic, which makes it nearly impossible to predict impending events.

Just ask an economist what the economy is going to look like next year, or even in the next few months, to get a feel for the herculean nature of this task. However, we have Bible prophecy to guide us, so predicting future events becomes a little less difficult.

I believe it is important to have a ‘framework of understanding’ of what is about to occur so that we are not thrown into confusion at every seeming sign of the end that is randomly promoted.

Those of us who diligently study Bible prophecy possess a ‘framework of understanding’ of last day events.  However, I suspect that these ‘frameworks’ will begin to merge the closer we get to the rapture.

I may be all wet, but this is my current static analysis of many of the macro-events that we can expect over the next several years.

First, under the leadership of the Godless Democrats, we can expect the continuation of economic hardship and cultural rot. They and their many bought-off Republican lapdogs will continue to wastefully spend money like drunken sailors while the economy and the culture will be in turmoil leading up to the election.

Despite the evil Globalists’ and their minions’ attempts to destroy Donald Trump, he seems to be prevailing over all their scams. The numerous corrupt judges and prosecutors in Democrat states are failing in their attempt to prevent him from becoming president.

No human being has the character to withstand this kind of onslaught based on false accusations and corrupt judicial rulings in spiritually dead cities like Washington, D.C., and N.Y. City. Especially when this is occurring in conjunction with the fraudulent mainstream press carrying their water for them.

That tells me that there is something else at work here.  When powerful evil keeps slamming its head into a brick wall, and the wall only gets stronger, there is a spiritual component that cannot be denied.

This is not to say that Trump is ‘God’s man’ or that he is favored by God. He does claim to be a Christian, while the Godless Democrats have removed God completely from their political platform. Democrats clearly do not like God, and they certainly have no interest in paying homage to him. But these rebellious, deluded morons are still of use to God until he disposes of them.

What is certain is that there is no authority except that which God has established. And it looks like Trump is going to be established. (That having been said, this is just a theory, so please get out and vote.)

That is good news for the economy but bad news for our churches.  I believe Trump’s presidency will put the entire church into stage three non-rem sleep since many Christians will come to believe that sanity has been restored. And most churches will become even more dedicated to preaching feel-good nonsense instead of the Gospel.

The same principle of God’s establishment of power held true when the Godless Democrats stole the last presidential election. They were successful with every form of cheating that they could devise. And this happened because God let it happen.

The reason no one was able to hold them accountable was because God did not want them held accountable. God clearly wanted that result because it served his purposes. He will hold them accountable in his own time.

If we are honest with ourselves, it is clear that the spiritual condition of many of our churches required God judging us with four years of Biden.

It is not because God likes Donald Trump and he is hated by the Godless Democrats, but God’s ways are not our ways. History will unfold in accordance with the will of God.

So, things are going to get even rougher for a lot of people, especially the poor and middle class, leading up to the election and for a while thereafter.  I am not a prepper myself, but I certainly understand the impulse to stock up on goods. I have done a little of that myself.

Due to the suffering of the American people, it is my opinion that Donald Trump will be elected so overwhelmingly that no amount of cheating will be successful. The electorate will be so outraged at the unnecessary torment that they will be subjected to that the Godless Democrats will not be able to manufacture enough votes to overcome their outrage.

But that does not mean our problems are over.  The evil Globalists are not going to take that defeat lying down.  They will be working persistently to undermine Trump’s presidency by creating turmoil every step of the way.

I expect some riots from various anarchist groups (BLM, Antifa, Anti-Semites) and maybe a false flag event or two, but the election will occur, and the rats will temporarily go into hiding due to their widespread unpopularity. But they will be plotting behind the scenes for the next four years to exact revenge on the country that rejected them.

Once Trump is elected president, he will proceed with his agenda to ‘drain the swamp.’ That sounds great. However, we need to remember that the evil Globalists, who have accumulated mounds of ill-gotten wealth, can purchase a new ‘swamp’ in no time.

His election will likely facilitate one final opening to share the Gospel with the world due to greater freedom. Big tech will be less likely to censor us while Trump is president. It will be short-lived, so evangelists of the world will not have a great deal of time to proclaim the Gospel, especially on social media, before the world begins to close in on us.

Trump’s election will be based on improving things economically. He will not be able to correct the moral depravity that has currently engulfed the country and the world. That is the church’s job.

Once he has stabilized the economy, the majority of the American people will return to voting for reprobates.

Much of the swamp will fall in line with his agenda, but after Trump becomes a lame duck or is out of office, they will submit to the whims of the highest bidder. That means the evil Globalists will be back in business by 2029. And this time, they will be merciless to conservatives and people of faith.

Since Donald Trump will see how wicked and useless the UN is, the United States will not go along with any of its idiotic attempts to create a worldwide totalitarian government. It will come under great criticism and will likely finally make its move out of New York City. The Godless Democrats are turning New York City into a hellscape, and it will be practically unlivable in the next few years. The UN may leave for that reason also.

The evil Globalists are dead set on having their totalitarian government fully functioning by 2030. Trump will likely set this agenda back about three years.

I believe the UN will be headed for Babylon, probably around 2026. If this does not happen in the next few years, the theory that Babylon, Iraq, plays a significant role in end-time events may be debunked.

If this theory is correct, wickedness will be carried to Babylon, where a house will be built for it in the land of Shinar. This will be the beginning of economic Babylon. Wherever the UN relocates will likely be the location of the revived Babylon spoken of in the Bible (of course, the UN could be disbanded and a new, even worse, abomination set up to replace it).

To those who object to the logistics of creating a great city in about seven years in the wilderness of Iraq, we need to consider what can happen when the wealth of the world descends on a single region. And we also should not forget the demonic power that will be behind the rebuilding of Babylon.

They will then begin rolling out their digital IDs, vaccine passports, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) in their quest to control the world economy. It will inaugurate a global stock market (Revelation 18:11-13) that will make the New York Stock Exchange archaic.

Most of the world will want to participate in this demonic economic system because it will look like the wave of the future.

Once Babylon has become the dominant economic force in the world, participation in their system will become mandatory if you want to buy and sell, which, of course, is necessary for survival. This will occur after the rapture.

Religious Babylon will still be coming to fruition as Catholics who take the Bible seriously will be pushed out of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). Over the next nine years, the RCC will have more in common with The Satanic Temple (TST) than anything resembling a church.

The ‘purification’ of the RCC should begin in earnest by 2029. Pope Francis will be passing away around this time, and his replacement will likely be the false prophet of Revelation (if the next pope takes the Bible seriously, he won’t last long). And he will bring the way of truth into disrepute.

The RCC will be ruled by homosexuals and pedophiles, which does not bode well for the members of this church who take the Bible seriously.

The Roman Catholic Church will be fornicating with the evil Globalists in their effort to add religious fervor to their agenda. The two will be working in concert to promote the cultural rot that Christ described as “the times of Lot.”

The pope has already informed us that the LGBT, gay marriage, and transgenderism are fully approved by God. It will not be long before pedophilia and bestiality are added to the list.

The Vatican will work to ensure that God is neither glorified nor thanked. The RCC will promote the service of created things, such as the earth. rather than the creator. Read the pope’s pagan document ‘Laudato Si’ if you think that this assertion sounds extreme.

This will lead to outrageous depravity, spurred on by the evil Globalists and the Vatican, that will result in the period Jesus referred to as the “days of Noah.” The days of Noah were filled with violence. And the thoughts of the heart of man were only evil continually.

The evil Globalists have already ensured that millions of illegal immigrants have been able to enter Western countries to weaken them. The world dominance of the West is coming to an end.

It is my opinion that Matthew 24:1-35 is post-rapture. The Gospel of the church age is that “Christ died for our sins.” Belief in this Gospel is how we receive the gift of faith, are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and are born again.

The Gospel that is preached in Matthew 24:1-35 is the Gospel of the (Millennial) Kingdom. It is the same Gospel that Jesus preached before he inaugurated the church age (Matthew 3:2; 4:17).

That means that the Gospel of the church age will revert, after the rapture, back into the Gospel of the Kingdom. This Gospel proclaims that Christ, who will return as King of Kings, will soon set up his Millennial Kingdom and rule the earth with a rod of iron for one thousand years.

This Gospel is further clarified in Revelation 14:6 when the first of the three angels proclaims “an eternal Gospel,” which is “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the springs of water” (Revelation 14:7).

The church will not be present when this ‘former’ Gospel (which remains Christ-centered) is preached.  The indwelling of the Holy Spirit among believers will no longer be an option for those who hear and believe this Gospel. They will receive the gift of faith but will not be born again.

When Satan is thrown to earth and goes off to make war against the offspring of Israel (not the church), he will be going after those who obey God’s commandments and hold to the ‘testimony of Jesus’ (Revelation 12:17).

An angel explained to the Apostle John that the ‘testimony of Jesus’ is the spirit of prophecy (Revelation 19:10). It is my opinion that the ‘spirit of prophecy’ is summarized in Daniel 9:24 regarding Jerusalem and the people of Israel:

To finish transgression
To put an end to sin
To atone for wickedness
To bring in everlasting righteousness
To seal up vision and prophecy
To anoint the most holy

I would say that this prophecy sums up all of Revelation after chapter three.

As for the church, it is my opinion that we will have one last small window of opportunity to share the Gospel with the world.  After that, an even greater falling away from the faith than has already occurred will commence around 2030.

Christians will have been condemning Babylon once it began to rise. Satan will counteract our condemnation by using technology to imitate the works of Christ. The blind will receive their sight, the lame will walk, diseases will be healed, and social justice will be proclaimed to all the world.

And the new pope will find great success causing deceit to prosper. The RCC will be the dominant religious force in the West by 2030.

Christians will be made to look like backward fools who are standing in the way of the evolution of humanity.  We will have a popularity rating lower than Jeffrey Dahmer.

Many of the Catholics that we respect today, like Dan Bongino and Matt Walsh, will have their faith severely tested by this time.

If they start referring to Christians as ‘anti-Catholic bigots’ or other leftist euphemisms, we will know that they failed the test.

Our resistance to Babylon, as well as our support for the nation of Israel, will cause Christians to be hated around the world. Please keep in mind that many in Israel will hate us as well due to our call for repentance of all who reject Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for our sins.

The evil Globalists will have little interest in actually helping anyone with the advanced technology that they control. Their primary interest is deception. And their efforts will be wildly successful.

As the evil Globalists and the Vatican tighten their grip on the world, in conjunction with modern technology, the ability to share the Gospel will be severely hampered.  They will have great success suppressing the truth in their wickedness.

Regarding persecution of the church, it seems to revolve more around demoralization than being put to death (at least in the West). We will probably be ridiculed and ostracized, and our civil rights will be severely violated.

The majority of people on the earth who are dying in their sins will conclude that the Vatican and the evil Globalists are the good guys and people of faith are the bad guys. Sort of like when Eve believed Satan was a truth teller and God was a liar.

Satan will be setting up the political environment to justify wiping the remaining Christians out of existence, but we will be raptured prior to this massacre.

The rapture will be a massive witnessing event that will terrify the world and bring many to repentance. Satan and his minions will put a quick end to that.

The Vatican, which will be wielding great political power in the West by 2030 (and will dominate the world after the Ezekiel invasion), will have set up an inquisition for the new faithful who reject the ‘gospel’ of social justice.  It will probably be run through the International Court of (in)Justice (ICJ), which does the bidding of the evil Globalists.

The gates of hell will not prevail against the church because we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, but the gates of hell will prevail against the tribulation saints (Revelation 13:7).

Satan will have set up his system where the faithful will be persecuted and handed over to a world authority for disposal. He will just miss the church due to the restrainer keeping him on his leash.  However, those who receive the gift of faith after the rapture will find themselves quickly murdered. In my opinion, this will occur in late 2033 or early 2034.

These martyrs will be among those who are under the temple crying out for justice after the opening of the fifth seal (Revelation 6:9).

When the great falling away from the faith leading up to the rapture occurs (which begins in earnest around 2030), men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, most will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

They will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.

There will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.  They will taunt Christians and ask, “Where is this coming he promised?

Many preachers who are wolves in sheep’s clothing will begin to beat their fellow servants and eat and drink with drunkards. In all likelihood, these abusive preachers will be of the RCC and the Laodicean Church, which will be in cahoots during the last days of the church age.

The Laodicean Church will condemn the true Gospel of Christ and continue to transition it into the false gospel of ‘social justice.’ Instead of calling sinners to repent of real sins, they will be defending the rights of perverts, calling people racists, and pushing the ideology of climate change.

And law enforcement worldwide will no longer punish real crimes. They will have turned law enforcement on its head and punish those who violate the tenets of social justice.

They will not punish crimes that violate God’s law like murder, rape, and theft; they will punish those who they call ‘racists,’ ‘Zionists,’ ‘homophobes,’ and ‘climate deniers.’

Many Christians will be so demoralized that their hearts will be weighed down with overindulgence, drunkenness, and the anxieties of life. Jesus warned us to be careful of this lack of faith and that we must always remain watchful.

The true church of Christ will have placed before it an open door that no one can shut. It will have little strength, but it will hold to the word of Christ and not deny his name. This church will be kept from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those left after the rapture.

The number of watchmen is lower than it has ever been.  And it is going to get a lot lower.

The political and economic decline of America will begin in earnest around 2030 as the wealth and political power of the world begins to accumulate in Babylon, Iraq.

Since the third temple in Israel must be built by mid-tribulation, which I have estimated its completion by 2037, construction on it will have begun by 2030. The rebuilding will occur after a few more battles with the Muslim nations who will be soundly defeated.

Israel will be returning to the old sacrificial system around this time. Also, God will have solidified his ‘One State Solution’ by eliminating all terrorists within the border of Israel.

The Ten Kings will be identifiable by 2033. They will need to be available to crown the Antichrist when the first seal is opened early in the Tribulation.  And the world will have been divided into ten regions. That means America will have its first king by this time. So, 2028 will be our last free and open election.

The Godless Democrats will run the sleaziest candidate they can find in 2028.  My money is on Gavin Newsom. He checks all the right boxes for the perfect Democrat.

Pathological liar. Check. No conscience. Check. Narcissist. Check.

He will likely win the election and be crowned King Gavin Newsom prior to the 2032 election.

The Democrats have already shown that they have no respect for the electoral process, so this theory is not beyond consideration.

If this prediction sounds outlandish, please remember that our medical professionals are sexually mutilating children in the name of ‘transgenderism.’

‘Outlandish’ left the building when ‘gay marriage’ made the scene around 2013.

There will be no need for a civil war in this country or a World War III prior to the rapture since the vast majority of the people will simply bow to deception.

The Antichrist will be a cunning diplomat who will be far more conniving than Nicollo Machiavelli or Saul Alinsky. However, he will not be given his crown by the ten kings until the opening of the first seal after the church is removed.

Prior to his confirming a covenant of peace with many nations for seven years, the Holy Spirit withdraws, and Jesus calls the church home. It is obvious that it will not be present when God puts the rest of the world on trial.

The reason I believe the rapture is very close is because of the incredible correlation between the following variables.

The Independent Variable: The two thousandth year of the ministry of the Holy Spirit is almost upon us.  This is occurring in conjunction with several dependent variables.

The latest date that the rapture could occur, based on this theory, is Pentecost 2033.

If the rapture does not occur by this date, the theory that the ministry of the Holy Spirit will only last two thousand years will be debunked. If we are still here seven years after that, the theory that the world is only six thousand years old will be debunked as well.

The theory that the ministry of the Holy Spirit lasts only two thousand years is based on the following correlations with several (non-exhaustive list of) Dependent Variables.

Dependent Variable One: A worldwide global economy and global government are being set up, and the technology is now available to make the events of Revelation 13 possible.

Dependent Variable Two: The times of Noah and Lot are upon us due to rampant lawlessness and perversion being promoted by the evil Globalists and the Vatican.

Dependent Variable Three: There is a great falling away from the faith which is undeniable. And it will get even worse. The one we are currently experiencing is just a mild birth pang.

Dependent Variable Four: The nation of Israel is almost in full bloom, which is necessary before the events of Revelation can be realized.

In my opinion, the correlations are too great to ignore.

Some will claim that people have been setting dates for the Lord’s return for almost two thousand years.  And they have all been wrong. That is true.

The purpose of Bible prophecy is to refer to it in our effort to share the Gospel with those who are perishing and inform them of the lateness of the hour.

We are also called to be watchmen on the wall.  If a watchman sees an invading army approaching the city, it is his responsibility to alert the people so they can be prepared.

If he is too frightened to do so because the invading army might disperse or shrink back, or that he might be ridiculed as an alarmist, then he is disobeying an important directive of the Lord.

“Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman, and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life.

“But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand” (Ezekiel 33:2-6).

Jesus counseled:

“Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (Matthew 24:42-44).

Jesus continued:

“But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke 21:36).

Finally, no one should be in the dark about the lateness of the hour:

“Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night [unexpectedly]. While people [unbelievers] are saying, ‘There is peace and security,’ then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman (Matthew 24:8), and they will not escape.

“But you [the faithful] are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief [you will know when the Day of the Lord is near]. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep [like the foolish virgins], as others do, but let us keep awake [alert] and be sober [clear-headed] … for God has not destined us for wrath” (I Thessalonians 5:1-10).

(Note: The Day of the Lord begins with the rapture of the church and ends on the actual Day of the Lord, which is Armageddon.)

There are way too many Christians who are calling dispensational Christians ‘alarmists (or worse)’ for pointing out the lateness of the hour. They claim that everything that is happening has happened before and that everything is going on as it has since the beginning.

They are starting to sound a lot like the scoffers following their own evil desires that we were warned about. At best, it appears that half of these people did not bring enough oil for their lamps. They have become drowsy and fallen asleep. When the midnight cry rings out, they might find themselves left behind.

Time to wake up and trim your lamps.

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