Book Review by Terry James

Bill Salus sat to my right first time we met at the dinner table, best I remember. It was during the time of the Christian Book Sellers Association (CBA) Convention held at Orlando, Fla quite a few summers ago.

Bill’s enthusiasm for the Lord’s work and for his first book riveted my attention. Yet, it was with quiet, humble demeanor that he explained his God-directed desire to get into ministry full-time after a dynamic career in business. And, did he ever!

The author of The NOW Prophecies has, since that dinner meeting in the Peabody Hotel restaurant, demonstrated book after book, media interview after interview and convention presentation after presentation that the Lord’s hand is indeed upon him and his ministry efforts.

Once I would have looked with eyebrow raised in skepticism at someone who says the title of his book was inspired by a dream given him by the God of heaven, followed by a strange, early-morning phone call. But, that was before I was awakened by such a dream many years ago with a similar nudge and years later by a heavenly vision when my heart stopped on three separate occasions on Good Friday of April 22, 2011. –A story some who read this review might remember my relating.

That God is getting His end times alert out through Bill Salus’s work, I have no doubt. Bill’s faithfulness to carry out the commission from on high is amazing and intriguing to witness. Even more, it is comforting. The Lord is telling the world to get ready. Now, the time of fulfillment of His prophetic truth is at hand.

The NOW Prophecies is the latest of the author’s piercing examinations of things to come. Like with his other books, the reader is introduced to deeper aspects and meanings of specific prophecies than explored and unveiled by previous work.

Salus views Bible prophecies through a unique perspective, breaking them down into three categories. Those are 1) Now prophecies; 2) Nextprophecies; and 3) Last prophecies.

His new book is so in-depth in examination of what he calls the NOWprophecies that the space given for matters involved in this review inhibits going into what he calls the Next and Last prophecies. These will no doubt be covered to the same, in-depth extent in Bill’s subsequent work. As a matter of fact, his delving into those things yet to come are covered in a number of his excellent volumes already on the market. The latter two categories involve, basically, foretelling’s of things to come following the rapture of the church.

So, what are the NOW prophecies?

The author defines them as being those prophecies that have been manifesting since 1948 and the rebirth of Israel into modernity. They continue to unfold and will do so until the Gog-Magog prophecy of Ezekiel 38, scheduled sometime in the near future. He lists each of these NOW prophecies as follows.

• Disaster in Iran – (Jeremiah 49:34-39)
• Destruction of Damascus – (Isaiah 17, Jer. 49:23-27)
• Toppling of Jordan – (Jer. 49:1-6, Zephaniah 2:8-10, Ezekiel 25:14)
• Terrorization of Egypt – (Isaiah 19:1-18)
• Final Arab-Israeli War- (Psalm 83)
• Decline of America (Ezekiel 38:13), (America is identified as the young lions of Tarshish)
• Expansion of Israel – (Obadiah 1:19-20, Jer. 49:2, Zephaniah 2:9, Isaiah 19:18)
• Vanishing of the Christians – (1 Corinthians 15:51-52, 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18)

Bill Salus has a phenomenal grasp of things scheduled on God’s time line. Although I don’t agree in every minute detail with the author’s view of Bible prophecy—we all have our own nuances of thought in these matters—I must none-the-less say that his “take” on Bible prophecy is, I’m convinced, God-influenced and thoroughly backed with scripture.

I’m a big fan of Bill Salus. This book certainly adds to that admiration of his excellent work. You will want The NOW Prophecies. It will open your understanding to what to expect in the days just ahead, from heaven’s perspective.

Book Review by Terry James

It is unimaginable for us in perhaps the most liberty-blessed nation ever to exist that we might come face to face with a band of marauders who force us to our knees and demand we deny our own beliefs and except theirs. We wonder what we would do if that happened, then quickly turn our thoughts back to our daily lives.

When we think on it more deeply, however, we realize that these decisions have been required to be made in America. Remember the little girl who was asked by the Colorado high school students murderer whether she would reject Christ? Her answer was “no.” The shooter then fired a shot into her face as  she crouched near her desk.

Increasingly, there are reports of such evil in our nation, even to the point of actual beheadings, such as the Islamist fanatic in Texas who decapitated  his fellow worker, a woman who apparently wouldn’t see things his way. The disease called jihad is growing across the planet and has infected even our own neighborhoods. Check into how things are developing in such places as Dearborn, Michigan, as one example of the invasion we face.

If radical Islam isn’t confronted and stopped, it will overrun all of civilization. The stated aim of the hellish leadership of the Islamic State (ISIS) is to establish a caliphate for Allah that is worldwide. They are making substantial inroads toward accomplishing their goals, as our hourly news attests.

This plague of Islamist evil beginning to come part of our minute-by-minute news prompted me to review the book I believe is the most crucial volume to date exposing this deadly scourge. NEVER SUBMIT by Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, an expert in Mideastern affairs and noted contributor to news and analysis from that region for FOX News and other national and international forums, presents an in-depth look at genocide being perpetrated by fanatic Islamists against Christians and other victims of that satanic rage.

This is a must-read for understanding what we face in the coming days and how we must confront and defeat this burgeoning threat.

Maginnis, retired from the U.S. military and long-time head of a consultancy to the Pentagon and other clients, sheds light on the anger and absolute evil taking place in that most volatile region on earth. He does so with a unique understanding of the eschatological (prophetic end times) implications involved. His is a truly knowledgeable understanding of the dynamics driving the rage, because that understanding is steeped in a belief in and study of Bible prophecy as part of his thinking.

The author was kind enough to seek my thoughts on the Bible prophecy portions of NEVER SUBMIT. I can attest that this is a book that speaks with a clarity of vision for the present movement in that most dangerous part of the world and gives an absolutely thorough view of what is scheduled, according to God’s Word.

The author writes:

Christians in the Middle East are fleeing their homes or dying at the hand of Islamists, creating the very real possibility of a successful faith-based holocaust. 

The implications of such an outcome for the region and the world are stark: a very fanatical militarized Islamist region that soon might be armed with nuclear weapons to threaten the world with atomic terrorism—and the same insidious conditions that promote Christian genocide there could spread to America. Reversing this very serious threat must be the top priority for Middle East governments and their populations, the so-called moderate Muslim world, Western governments already frightened by rising Islamist threats, and a genuine global response by Christians to rise up around a doctrine that combines moral, civic, and Christian virtue as the guiding light of future political and Christian social action in the Middle East.

Maginnis, in this superb volume, not only outlines the scope of the malevolence that threatens everyone on the planet, but he offers solutions based upon decades of hands-on experience and tremendous spiritual insight based upon  Bible truth. I hope this book gets into the hands of every U.S.  representative and senator–and even our badly-in-need-of-such-truth president. This is truly a book that we ignore at the risk of our own peril.