Scanning a Fearful Future XII

I believe the Holy Spirit speaks to those who are attuned to God’s prophetic Word and who are doing as Jesus commanded: “What I say unto one, I say unto all. Watch” (Mark 13:37).

The Lord is speaking dramatically at the moment: “Watch! Watch the issues and events that are exploding all around you at the moment!” This is the message we’re receiving each minute of the day.

Therefore, it’s time for a “Scanning a Fearful Future” update.

Jesus said when we see all these “things” begin to come to pass, we’re to look up in anticipation of Him coming to take us home (Luke 21:28 and John 14:1-3).

These “things” we’ve been seeing come to pass for some time are now flowing in like the end-times flood Daniel described (Daniel 9:27). Great deception is in every direction, with deceivers at the highest levels of governments and religious circles prevaricating with power straight from the father of lies. The latest deception being foisted by Lucifer’s propaganda arm – the news media that assists him in his “prince of the power of the air” position while he spreads lies that mesmerize – involves the president of the United States.

Whether the shooter who almost took the life of the Republican candidate was a hireling of a globalist, deep-state cabal, or was simply a young man turned into a crazed fanatic by the months and years of the media’s brain-washing hatred, the source of the evil is the same. Satan continues to do all within his power to remove the obstacles blocking him from fulfilling his plan to set himself up, through the coming Antichrist, as destroyer of God’s order of things.

While these constant attempts to bring in the Antichrist regime accelerate at every level, those with Holy Spirit discernment can also see the truth of the mighty restraining hand of God at work through all that’s taking place.

God has promised that He will restrain evil right up until the moment believers are taken out of the way. With the Holy Spirit, who lives in every believer, ceasing the restraint of evil, the spiritual wickedness in high places of Ephesians 6:12 will have the run of the planet for a limited time.

The current battle–Lucifer’s forces versus God’s forces—is destined to become more intense by the minute. The future indeed would look fearful if not for that Great Restrainer controlling all that happens. God continues to have the evil forces in derision, as promised in Psalm 2. The Lord is almost assuredly laughing at the wicked forces of corruption that see practically every one of their plans disrupted. The following describes some of the restraining we are witnessing.

It’s important to understand that The Powers That Be (TPTB) themselves have never been so disunited and confused, incohesive and disordered.

In point of fact, all of the major implementation plans on their New World Order agenda have gone awry. Every nefarious scheme to foist a One World Government on the world community of nations has been thrown into disarray. Just look at their crazy Covid [expletive deleted] to understand their current stewpot.

Nevertheless, the power elite will continue to carry out their Great Reset since so much of their world takeover project greatly depends upon it. Toward that end, CYBER POLYGON plays an integral role in that global controlled demolition of cyberspace as a necessary precursor to their long planned CBDC roll-out…

CYBER POLYGON: WEF Commences with a Global Simulation to Collapse the Internet

It ought to be obvious that such a massive and far-reaching international outage just doesn’t happen by accident; rather, this was a classic MIHOP event.

MIHOP = Made It Happen On Purpose

But just how do we know that?

Because CrowdStrike is involved—THAT’S WHY!

[CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader with an advanced cloud-native platform for protecting endpoints, cloud workloads, identities and data.]

For the dark side to successfully execute their plans for a total planetary lockdown, they must exert complete command and control over all of cyberspace.

That’s where the WEF’s CYBER POLYGON comes in.

Welcome to the second July Surprise! The utterly staged false flag Trump assassination hoax being the first one. (Cyber Polygon 2024: “Great Reset begins with engineered Internet breakdown followed by CBDC roll-out,” posted on July 19, 2024 by State of the Nation)

While I don’t believe, as the article concludes, that the assassination attempt on former President Trump was a hoax, there is no doubt the wicked forces in high places, both demonic and human, continue to do all within their dark-dimensional power to bring America down in order to remove the holdup to their Great Reset. The recent (I believe) deliberately contrived massive breakdown of vast cyberspace technology controlling, for example, airline scheduling and safety, is proof.

If you don’t know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, when scanning the future for the terrifying things that are coming, you indeed face the prospect of a fearful exercise. You don’t have to remain outside of Christ’s protection against the uncontrolled satanic wickedness about to burst upon the world. Here again is how to be assured of safety–being kept from the time that is coming upon the world of unbelievers (Revelation 3:10).

“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).

–Terry

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Paris Provocations

At the opening ceremony for the Olympics in Paris, the world witnessed a sampling of what’s ahead for it after our departure. On social media, I viewed videos of what were meant to represent two of the horses of the apocalypse. In one, I saw a veiled rider on a white horse ride through the streets of Paris with the Olympic flag behind him. The correlation between this and the antichrist riding throughout the world in Revelation 6:1-2 was clearly evident.

In another, I witnessed something eerily similar to the “pale horse” whose “rider’s name was death” (Revelation 6:7).

In a clear attempt to provoke the Lord’s fury, the ceremony also pictured drag queens seated at a table resembling the way Leonardo da Vinci painted Jesus and His disciples at the Last Supper. In Romans 1:28-30, Paul describes those with “debased minds” as “inventors of evil.” This exemplified his words.

The open display of Satan’s wiles on the world stage alerts us to how Jesus once described our adversary. He depicted him as a “murderer from the beginning” and the “father of lies” in John 8:44. A bit later, the Lord identified him as a “thief” who “comes only to steal and kill and destroy” (John 10:10).

These attributes were front and center in Paris, leaving us to ask a few questions.

Why Is Satan Openly Provoking the Lord?

As I pondered the images that came from the ceremony, it occurred to me that Satan might be purposely provoking the Lord to bring His judgments upon the world.

Such over-the-top mocking of Jesus and His Word went beyond anything I could’ve ever imagined. Was the devil using the world stage to incite the beginning of wrath that will fall upon the world after the Rapture? (1 Thessalonians 5:1-10). Does he not realize that the book of Revelation spells his eternal doom?

Or has he deceived himself into thinking he can wipe out Israel and the human race before Jesus’ return to the earth? He seems to be picking a fight with the Lord on many fronts, which makes us wonder if he thinks he can prevail against God’s sovereign purposes. Perhaps his intent is to do as much damage as possible, knowing that his end is near.

Why Depict Two of the Four Riders from Revelation 6?

The devil recognizes the signs of the last days and, unlike most in our day, understands that the judgments of Revelation 6 will happen someday exactly as John described them. So why, then, provide the world with a preview of them with two of the seal judgments? Was this not his way of mocking the people who have become disciples of those pushing the Great Reset?

The four riders of the apocalypse will initiate a time of killing upon the earth that will surpass anything in history. By the end of the fourth seal, the judgments will have erased one-fourth of the world’s population. Jesus warned that if He doesn’t “cut short” the days of the coming Tribulation, all of humanity would perish (Matthew 24:22). Jesus’ words sum up the demonically inspired plans of the globalists who seek to enslave the people of the world under a totalitarian and Marxist regime.

His murderous agenda for humanity is nothing new. From 1980 to 2022, the Georgia Guidestones projected five hundred million as the ideal world population. In the past several years, prominent politicians and other world leaders have openly promoted population reduction as key to saving planet Earth from the supposed climate emergency.

According to one report, just this week, the World Economic Forum spoke of the need to reduce the white population of the world by one billion.

Although the devil is in our face telling of his murderous plans for us, which fulfill prophecy by the way, so few people seem to notice or care. The predominant theme from most pulpits is that Jesus will use the church to subdue all things and that it rather than Jesus will rise victorious over the evils of our day.

Why Now?

Why is our adversary openly displaying his wickedness and murderous intentions at this time? Is it not because he also understands Bible prophecy and knows that his time is exceedingly short? Is it possible he believes he can escape his fate that’s laid out on the pages of the book of Revelation?

The Paris affront to the Lord comes at a time when the devil is fiercely attacking the Jewish people throughout the world. As I write, it appears that many nations will soon launch a fierce attack against Israel, perhaps greater in intensity than anything we have seen in many decades.

It’s not a coincidence that attacks against the biblically-sound doctrine of the pre-Tribulation Rapture have also reached epidemic proportions at such a time as this. This mocking comes at a time when the saints, perhaps more than ever, need the comfort and encouragement that Jesus’ imminent appearing affords them.

I can understand why the world so vehemently opposes our “blessed hope,” but the most vocal scoffers are often fellow believers and pastors of the churches we attend. These things ought not to be.

During this time when Satan is so front and center with his wicked and murderous agenda, there’s no better place to flee than to the words of Philippians 3:20-21:

“But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.”

There’s no other safe refuge today except that of our Savior and His comforting promises to us recorded on the pages of our Bibles.

-Jonathan

 

 

Divine Demonstration and Trump Derangement Drama

Just when it seemed that much new couldn’t be added to the stage being set for producing the Antichrist regime, yet another component has literally exploded into the picture, sending the world of conspiracy theorists—both the Bible prophecy and the secular sorts—into quantum speculation.

I write, of course, about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday, July 13. And certainly, the assassination attempt must be considered one of the most dramatic occurrences in the history of the nation–maybe in the history of the world.

Exactly what the dastardly attack means in thinking on setting up things for the fulfillment of Bible prophecy, I don’t pretend to know. But I consider it a duty–an assignment—as a fellow watchman to look into the matters involved.

First to consider is the fact that the initial thought of most, in seeing how near Mr. Trump came to instant death, is that the bullet hit only his ear and missed entering his head. Immediately, it was almost like groupthink. Many observers expressed that it was divine intervention. The thought was suggested even by many within the Democratic Party. The fact that Trump was spared turned attention to God and His ability to perform miracles at any time.

Then the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” kicked in, and insanity entered the mix as folks pondered what the world had just witnessed. I heard interviews conducted on the streets of New York City, Los Angeles, and other places. The question: “How do you view this seeming miracle, with Trump’s near miss with instant death?”

The question was put to those who were chosen because of their fanatic dislike of the former president. Without exception, as I heard the interviews, the people, sounding to be in their twenties and up to their forties, concluded the whole thing was staged to make Trump’s election more certain.

Each said in one way or another that the former president’s ear wasn’t actually hit but that it was all a visual deception of some sort when the ear seemed to erupt and the blood flew.

When asked about the fact that one man died and two others were critically injured from the bullets that missed Trump, almost all of those I heard said that it “wasn’t surprising.” “Trump will do anything to win.” “The life of others means nothing to him or the Republican Party,” was the seemingly synchronized mantra.

None of the interviewees could explain how this ruse took place–how the deception was arranged. But none had a moment’s hesitation in saying basically the identical thing: It wasn’t a miracle but a dastardly, Nazi-type lie to elect the Hitler-like destroyer of democracy – an invective drilled into the heads of the Trump Derangement Syndrome fanatics for months, even years.

Out of all this has gushed many sorts of theories and declarations. This ranges from prophetic ponderings to secular philosophizing and punditry. Some doing the speculation paint Donald Trump as almost deity, having the finger of the God of Heaven designating him as the sure victor in the 2024 presidential election. An almost worshipful attitude seems to inhabit this thinking.

Others, even within the prophetic community, suggest Trump might be the foretold Antichrist–thus because of the head wound he survived.

My own thinking, I must admit, started the fiction writer within me seeing the whole thing as the Deep State’s clever plot to get rid of the person, if elected, who would hold up the globalists’ plans. The automatic fire that immediately followed the would-be assassin’s first eight shots, taking him out within two seconds of his firing, my novelist mind informed, was planned with knowledge of the shooter. Except the shooter wouldn’t know about his being immediately eliminated so he couldn’t be interrogated about the plot in which he was promised to be whisked off to a safe spot where he couldn’t be punished for the crime.

All nonsense—the speculation above as well as my own thoughts of what a great plot for a spy thriller all this would make.

Although…I since have learned that the twenty-year-old shooter had three encrypted platform accounts overseas and a second cellphone on which was found a number of strange contacts. And it is reported widely that strong evidence has come to light of an Iranian plot to assassinate the former president because Trump was responsible for taking out one of Iran’s chief terrorist assassins while he was in office.

All this taken into account, I’ve nonetheless come to embrace the view that the foiled assassination of the former president was, at least in part, Heaven’s demonstration of power to a world of inhabitants who are increasingly tracking in a direction diametrically away from God. Anti-God forces have, through this obviously divine act of protection of the man at the center not only of national political controversy but of world political controversy, been given proof that the Deity’s Psalm 2 warning continues to be in effect. The Lord continues to restrain evil and wickedness, and that is why the anti-God forces continue to see their grandiose plans to establish a New World Order meet with derision at every juncture.

Donald Trump might have been spared as the Lord’s gracious act of calling him to personal repentance. That is something we know our Lord does to every person ever born. There are reports that Trump seems to be a very changed man and recognizes the saving of his life as providential. I pray that is a sign he has said “yes” to the Lord’s call. However, I don’t believe for a moment that the former president was spared because Mr. Trump is destined to “Make America Great Again.” I believe that at this late date on God’s prophetic timeline, America and the world have gone too far down that track leading from the Lord’s corrective action. Now, it seems from observation and, I believe, spiritual insight, that the time for Sodom-like judgment is very, very near.

More to the point, perhaps, I believe it is our Lord alerting believers that He is indeed in complete control of every situation. It should be seen, I think, as divine encouragement. We should take comfort from this demonstration of power, as we should from the magnificent promise given us through the Apostle Paul:

“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 Thessalonians 4:16-18).

—Terry

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We Are Blessed Beyond Measure

Living in the last days has its challenges, to be sure. We see wickedness, lawlessness, and deception increasing at an exponential clip. As violence erupts all around us, I pray daily for the safety of our children and their spouses, as well as for all our grandchildren.

On the other hand, we live at a time like no other. I recently read Matthew chapters 12 and 13, and as I did, a couple of verses reminded me of the wonder of being alive at such a time as this.

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it” (Matthew 13:16-17).

The above verses, addressed to His disciples, were part of Jesus’ explanation for starting to teach with parables. His words came after the Pharisees blasphemed the Holy Spirit by attributing the power behind His miracles to the devil. They, unlike those close to Him, failed to experience the blessing of recognizing the significance of the day in which they lived. Many in previous generations had longed to be alive at the time their Messiah walked among them.

The Savior’s words apply to us today. Just as those in first century AD Israel witnessed the fulfillment of many prophecies relating to Jesus’ first appearing, today we watch the unfolding of a great many prophetic events signaling Jesus’ imminent return for His church, the start of the Tribulation, and the Second Coming.

Our Expectation

As believers, we have a valid expectation of being alive at the time of the Rapture. As events point to the rapid approach of the Tribulation, we know that the time of meeting Jesus in the air is ever so close. When Paul penned the letters to Thessalonians, he expressed the hope, the possibility, that he might take part in this momentous event before his death. Notice his words in 1 Thessalonians in 4:17:

“Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.” (emphasis added)

At the end of his ministry, the apostle recognized that he would die before the Rapture. Regardless, he wrote of the reward that Jesus would give to him because of his love for Jesus’ appearing (2 Timothy 4:8).

Jesus’ words in Matthew 13:16-17 reminded me of Bible scholars in the past who revitalized beliefs in the pre-Tribulation Rapture and Jesus’ reign over the nations from a restored Israel.

In the early 1900s, C.I. Scofield wrote about the time when an alliance led by Russia would invade Israel. People scoffed at such an idea because, at the time, Israel didn’t exist and Russia was a Christian nation. Today’s headlines verify his insights into Bible prophecy. We live at a time when the Gog/Magog War of Ezekiel 38 seems likely to happen in the near future. Russia is firmly aligned with all the players that will someday invade Israel.

We Also Live in Biblical Times

It’s often said that we live in biblical times, and I heartedly agree. We have the great privilege of watching the unfolding of biblical prophecy that would have amazed Bible students a hundred years ago. I’m amazed by what I see today compared with just ten years ago.

Through the astounding advances in technology, we not only understand how the antichrist will be able to control all the buying and selling worldwide, but we also watch as all the pieces come together to make this a future reality. Everywhere we look, we see precursors to what the Bible tells us will happen during the Tribulation.

I believe the Lord is allowing us as believers to see a miniaturized version of the judgments chronicled in Revelation chapter 6 so we might know we live in the last days and watch. For others, it’s a warning of what’s to come.

Just like the Pharisees who failed to recognize the presence of the Messiah, many church leaders today fail to link the perils of our day to the fulfillment of Bible prophecy (see Matthew 16:1-4). They read the same passages that we do but remain blind to the evidences of Jesus’ soon return. They miss the blessing of watching Bible prophecy come to fruition.

In Philippians 3:14, Paul wrote these words concerning what I’m convinced was his expectation of the Lord’s imminent appearing:

“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

Just as Jesus said, those who witnessed his earthly ministry were “blessed.” At the same time, I can’t help but think that it’s also wonderful to watch Bible prophecy unfold before our eyes.

Although we don’t know what the future holds, let alone the next day (James 4:13-17), the fact that we are ever so close to the start of the seven-year Tribulation tells us that the moment of the Rapture is as close as we dare imagine. We have a reasonable expectation of being alive at Jesus’ appearing to take us home to glory.

Similar to those who rejoiced at the fulfillment of Scripture when Jesus first appeared, we also have the wonder of witnessing as the pieces fall into place for God’s sovereign plan of the ages to overthrow Satan’s rule and replace it with the righteous reign of His Son over the nations!

-Jonathan