HEADLINES: Forty Thousand Velvet Crabs Washed up on the Coast of Great Britain. Penguins Dying and Littering the Beaches of New Zealand. Crows Falling Out of the Sky in Sweden. Eight Thousand Turtle Doves Falling Dead to the Ground in Italy. Two Million Dead Fish Washed up along the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay. That is just a few places from a much larger number of headlines.

It appears to have started on New Year’s Eve and has been escalating daily for over two weeks. Brazil is dealing with hundreds of tons of dead fish. In state after state all across America, thousands of birds and millions of fish are mysteriously dying. There are numbers of reasons being given, but the answers sound emptier than not giving any answer. Is all of it more evidence that we are quickly approaching the Great Tribulation?

I believe 2011 will be a year of signs from heaven above and earth beneath. There is a Jewish proverb that states, “Accidents are not kosher.” The earth is the Lord’s and nature is God’s system — full of warnings and signs of the time. Absolutely nothing of human life is without cause or purpose. Nature does not exist out of God’s control but is a system of balance and design. Whatever is in our Creator’s plan is played out on a daily schedule. Jesus Christ warns us of man’s failure to discern the signs of the time. He stated, “And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” (Matthew 16:3).

Earthquakes have always been viewed by Godly people as a warning from the Creator. The Son of God stated, “And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven” (Luke 21:11). The growing frequency of earthquakes is ominous. We are witnessing an increase of earthquakes that is above normal and that perfectly fulfills the End Time prophetic events. A scale of earthquakes over a span of the last ten years is scary. There were twenty-one earthquakes that were over a magnitude of 6.0 in the year of 2002, but there were 168 earthquakes over a magnitude of 6.0 last year in 2010.

Before the OBD radio broadcast this past Saturday, I went online at USGS to research the frequency of earthquakes. From midnight on Friday until 11:30 AM on Saturday (11.5 hours), there were twenty earthquakes over 2.5 magnitudes, nine of them were over 4.5 magnitudes. I just read a headline from Arkansas, where many of the birds and fish are dying. The state had thirty-eight earthquakes in 2009 and over 600 in 2010. Nearly 500 of them were during the months of September – December. Today, earthquakes are as clearly the voice of the Lord as the one that shook Jerusalem and Calvary when the Son of God said, “It is finished.”

Peter declared the voice of God, “And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath” (Acts 2:19a). The media is awash with terrifying reports out of the heavens. One headline stated, “Terrifying Scientific Discovery: Strange Emissions by Sun Suddenly Mutates Matter . . .” (Project World Awareness). Another headline said, “Earth’s Magnetic Pole Shift Unleashing Poisonous Space Clouds, Linked to Mysterious Bird Deaths”(naturalview.com). This report warned that a cloud of this nature covering a major city would cause a multitude to die instantly. When you know that the infallible Scripture has warned us that this kind of End Time phenomena is going to occur, why do we fail to discern that the end is near? My friends, you must get ready to meet God!

The death of such an unprecedented number of birds and fish all over the world denies a simple problem. A just released news report gave details of the death of two hundred cows in a single pasture in Wisconsin. These all died over a span of a few days. It is impossible to call all of this anything but alarming. The Bible must always be the factor in understanding what we are facing in our world. By the Holy Ghost, an Old Testament prophet spoke and said, “I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven and the fishes of the sea” (Zephaniah 1:3a).

The kind of judgments that are right before us are clear prophecies, given by the Holy Ghost and they cannot be erased. Our world is in such a slumber that the only way a Holy Ghost revival can occur is for all of us to be awakened. There is a great majority that will only hate God more as His wrath is revealed. But, a remnant will wake up and repent. That’s all we can hope for in these last hours before the Rapture.
Joseph R. Chambers
jrc@pawcreek.org

The unclean life of homosexuality and lesbianism has never been as vile or as threatening as it is at this present time. The Bible speaks with clear warnings about this effeminate spirit that will possess the last generation before the Rapture and the judgment of this earth. The accepted lifestyle during the seven years of the Great Tribulation will be homosexuality, lesbianism, sadomasochism, transvestitism, and many other actions that are even viler. Also, the Bible is extremely clear that the nature of the Antichrist and his false prophet (false anointing) will be a sodomy spirit. It would be wrong to prophesy this if it was not evident in the Holy Scripture.

The prophet Daniel was the first to note this characteristic in the future Beast, whom we call the Antichrist. Daniel stated it like this. “And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things” (Daniel 11:36-38). This is a powerful picture of the Antichrist that shows his complete disregard for the normal desire of the opposite sex. Daniel used language that speaks with a clear understanding, “nor the desire of women.” The Antichrist and his false prophet will be sodomites of the worst order.

I am never satisfied in Bible study until a truth is confirmed in more than one Scripture. This morning after sitting in a County Commissioner’s meeting last evening, where numbers of effeminate individuals spoke, the Holy Spirit gave me that confirmation. John was shown by an angel these facts describing the spirit of the second beast in Revelation chapter thirteen. Here is the Lord’s picture to John, “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon” (Revelation13:11).

This second beast is of the same nature as the first beast (Antichrist) and exercises the same blasphemies and destructive powers. He was seen by John and described as having, “Two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.”That is pictorial language of the highest order. It shows his very strong effeminate and soft nature that is angry, bitter, and loud. A sodomite creature could not be described more adequately. A lamb does not have horns; so, the description is meant to reveal the nature of this beast, not his appearance.

Nothing describes our present world or church more perfectly than an effeminate nature that is literally possessing the multitudes. Women are unhappy when their appearance is patterned like a lady. They have given almost total vent to masculine attire. At the same time that our cultures are changing — women’s attire turning masculine — the opposite is occurring with men. Men with earrings and long feminine hair have become the norm. In fact, to think about what I am saying is so out of character with this world that I appear to be stuck in the mud of the past. I admit I am in the past of the Holy Bible. Apostle Paul said by the Holy God, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind” (I Corinthians 6:9).

Presently, my city has several pastors that are openly homosexuals or lesbians. Singing groups will usually have at least one (or more) men with long shaggy hair. Do not suggest that this is not a Biblical issue. The great masterpiece of revelation is the Book of Revelation. The Lord showed John a picture of the invasion of unclean spirits on the earth and these dark spirits had hair like women. “And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions” (Revelation 9:8). If this was not an important picture of the End Times, our God would not have said it. This is much bigger than the long hair on these masculine creatures. It is the spirit behind it. The Bible was exposing the effeminate nature of the end.

Bible believers must be careful facing this challenging time. The word teaches us, “Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb” (Psalm 37:1-2). Again the Spirit said, “Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth” (Psalm 37:7-9).

You will never face a more vile spirit than is manifest in the nature of sodomy. It is invading our world and it is the manifestation of spirits from Satan. These broken lives have been seduced into this state of living by “unclean spirits.” There are many persons among them caught up in this confusion that are no different than fornicators or adulterers in the heterosexual sense. These souls are reachable and Christ is perfectly ready to redeem and cleanse them from their sins. It is the radical sodomy community that reveals the final picture of what this uncleanness does to human lives.

As saints of God, we must be open to reach those that are reachable and kind and patient to stand like a rock against this invasion of indecency. It is the nature of Antichrist and will grow like leprosy until the seven years of the Great Tribulation is finished. Be strong and live under the anointing of the Lord’s Holy Spirit.
Joseph R. Chambers
jrc@pawcreek.org