Nearing Midnight

1 Jan 2023

Published on: by RR7

The Great Resist

Those of us who believe we are charged by the Lord to be “watchers” on the wall look at the acceleration of stage-setting for prophetic fulfillment as a wondrous thing to behold. There can be no missing the reality that we are fast approaching the dénouement of the Age of Grace.

No recent development has been more significant than the movement toward establishing a New World Order. A specific element that is most troubling within that movement is termed “the great reset.”

This term, defined within the title of a book by the same name, means the globalization of the entire world—those who intend to establish a world under a single governmental rulership must, in their view, not be thwarted. The very existence of the planet depends upon their being able to achieve their goals—goals encapsulated within what they call Agenda 21 and now Agenda 30. This “agenda” means they must accomplish all their shaping of this global order no later than the year 2030.

These would-be globalist masters don’t see the things developing as we do by looking at them through the prism of Bible prophecy. While we see things advancing toward Antichrist’s regime at an amazing and frightening pace, the globalists, such as author of the book, The Great Reset, see things as being slowed and inhibited by forces they must eliminate. That is, they must eliminate those like us, for example. And by “us,” I mean both we who are Christians pointing out their evil, and this nation, the United States of America, whose people have been steeped in basic liberty and God-given rights from a Judeo-Christian foundation for almost three centuries.

America is the single most powerful hold-up to Agenda 30 and the Great Reset. This nation, the most materially blessed in history, will not “go gentle into that good night,” as Dylan Thomas would have it. We won’t easily be made to ride bicycles, stay within fifteen-minute cities, and eat bugs instead of the foods we love, like the Great Resetters and their agenda insist we should do. There will be major pushback for as long as the nation exists as it is presently comprised.

Of course, the American, liberty-loving/enjoying constituency is under constant attack by the powers and principalities of Ephesians 6:12, both demonic and human. And that luciferian cabal is determined to take down America and eliminate all opposition to their agenda. These minions call the opposition they face “the retreat from globalization.” The following excerpt gives more detail of Klaus Schwab and his cohorts’ determination to change things so their neo-tower of Babel can be built, free of opposition.

Klaus Schwab and Theirry Malleret’s book Covid-19: The Great Reset identified “the global governance free fall” as an existential challenge, and if we do not collaborate, “we are doomed.”

“Nation states make global governance possible (one leads the other),” the book states. “The more nationalism and isolationism pervade the global polity, the greater the chance that global governance loses its relevance and becomes ineffective. Sadly, we are now at this critical juncture. Put bluntly, we live in a world in which nobody is really in charge.”…

[Managing director of the International Monetary Fund] Kristalina Georgieva suggested “concentrating on the areas where, without working together, we are doomed.” The examples she gave as “we are doomed” without globalization were “climate change,” the “green transition,” and debt…

The authors don’t explain why there is a need for an “individual reset”; they simply assumed it was a consequence of the Covid “pandemic.” However, as they did throughout the book, they used collectivism as a tool of social control. “If, as human beings, we do not collaborate to confront our existential challenges (the environment and the global governance free fall, among others), we are doomed,” they claimed…. The rise of nationalism makes the retreat of globalization inevitable in most of the world – an impulse particularly notable in the West. The vote for Brexit and the election of President Trump on a protectionist platform are two momentous markers of the Western backlash against globalization,” the two authors wrote. (“Klaus Schwab wants to stop the retreat of globalization and global governance with a new form of globalization and global governance,” Rhoda Wilson, Expose-news.com 12/19/23)

As the writer of the article further writes:

As we have said before, the term “the common good” and its ugly sister, “the greater good,” represent collectivism, which is found in socialist, communist, and fascist movements. These movements use “the common good” as a tool for social control.

This is exactly what we see happening within the American political process today. The incessant drive to bring about a Marxist collective system is at the heart of the attempted Great Reset being foisted by the human minions, assisted by the demonic of Ephesians 6:12, in my studied opinion.

I heard a senator speaking before the Senate chamber the other day. I like what he said, although I’m almost certain he didn’t realize the true import of his statement.

He said something like: “Instead of the un-American Great Reset, we need the Great Resist. We must resist this attempted Marxist-type tyranny.”

The Great Resist is precisely what is given within God’s Word as opposition to Satan and his minions’ attempts to bring to power the man of sin, Antichrist, and his regime of horrors.

“And now ye know what [restrains]that [Antichrist] might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only [the Holy Spirit] who now [Restrains] will [Restrain] until [the Holy Spirit] be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming” (2 Thessalonians 6-8).

We who know the Lord Jesus for salvation are part of the Great Resist. Pastors, listen up! Don’t resist the Great Resist. To resist the Great Resist, you are aiding and assisting those who want to bring about the Great Reset.

Preach Bible prophecy—and from the pre-Trib view. Jesus is about to intervene in the wicked affairs of humankind. The Rapture, according to all the signs and signals of the coming Tribulation raging in every direction, is about to disrupt life on planet Earth!

For those who haven’t done so, here is how to be prepared, thus be assured that you will go to Jesus Christ when He calls all believers to Himself in that stupendous moment of rescue from this judgment-bound earth.

“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).

—Terry

The New Year: Continued March to ‘Great Reset’ :: By Jonathan Brentner

At the start of each calendar year, it’s natural to wonder what lies ahead in the upcoming months. What changes might we expect in our world? Could this be the year that the Rapture occurs?

Although I cannot predict the future, from what I know of biblical prophecy, I believe we can expect the globalists to continue building their Marxist one-world government based on the following trends they have carefully cultivated during the past decade or so:

  1. The growing acceptance of Digital Currencies in many nations
  2. The continued empowering of the World Health Organization to dictate the world’s response to future pandemics.

As for 2024, it’s in these two realms that the enslavement of humanity will continue unabated.

1.  Central Bank Digital Currencies Will Continue to Grow in Popularity

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are becoming increasingly accepted as the way of the future by many nations. Governments and banks alike are promoting them on the basis that they will make financial transactions happen instantaneously and provide greater ease in paying bills. Fully implemented, CBDCs will reduce financial fraud, if not eliminate it.

However, there’s a huge downside to what the elite plan for our future in this regard. Peter Koenig, a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), warns us about them in a recent article:

CBDC may be upon us, humanity, rather sooner than later. Programmable CBDC is a weapon of mass destruction. The weapon has been in the planning for decades – and it fits right into the Bigger Picture of the Great Reset / Agenda 2030.

Programmable – means the money can be programmed on how it is to be spent by an individual, or blocked, or made to expire, or made to be used for certain goods or services – or it can be totally withheld, wiped out, depending on how well you behave, according to the standards of the all-commandeering death cult elite.

In the end, CBDCs will give the government total control of one’s finances. They will provide the technical framework for the world for what Revelation 13:16-18 describes as the “mark of the beast.”

Once implemented on a national scale around the world, by the midpoint of the Tribulation, the antichrist will easily transition them to a worldwide CBDC over which he will control and set all the parameters for how humanity buys and sells goods. He will forbid cash transactions.

2. Health Tyranny Via the World Health Organization

The majority of people in the world do not want the tyrannical rule of the elite. I often read about mass demonstrations protesting the ever-increasing government control of our lives.

The globalists, however, will not allow their agenda to be sidetracked by the unpopularity of their agenda. (They thrive on the chaos, but that’s a topic for perhaps another time.) In 2024, they intend to take a giant step forward in eliminating the sovereignty of nations through the World Health Organization (WHO).

An article on the Prophecy News Watch website sounds the alarm about what the WHO plans for our future:

The WHO’s 194 member nations are slated to meet again in May 2024 to adopt some version of the WHO’s pandemic treaty. Meanwhile, the public details of the proposed treaty already indicate that it will, indeed, pose a threat to national sovereignty and decision-making….

Hidden within the Pandemic Agreement is language that makes it clear the agreement is about organizing UN governing bodies that can draft up rules that member governments, or Conference of the Parties, will be required to follow in the event of a declared pandemic or a declared climate emergency, etc.

In the same Peter Koenig article referenced above, he also warns people of the inherent totalitarianism in the plans of the WHO:

If these new IHR / Pandemic Treaty are approved by the World Health Assembly at the end of May 2023, the world (currently 194 WHO members) will be living under a “health tyranny.”

WHO would have overreaching powers over otherwise autonomous countries, being able to overrule national Constitutions and decide whether a disease must be treated as a pandemic, i.e., with massive vaccination.

It does not matter what the people want; the powerbrokers of our world plan to enslave humanity under their dictatorship. If the “pandemic treaty” is adopted by member nations, it will give the WHO sovereignty over nations and leave even local governments subject to their rules and demands.

Sadly, Peter Koenig sounds the alarm as someone outside of Christ and thus without any hope for the future. His hope lies in people rising up against the tyranny, but Scripture tells us the globalists will succeed for a short while.

I might succumb to much fear apart from knowing what the Bible says about our future as New Testament saints. We know Jesus is coming for us before the antichrist usurps control of the nations and begins his reign of terror (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-10). We will reside in paradise before that happens.

We are ever so close to the midnight hour when Jesus will catch us up to meet Him in the air and take us home to glory. It might not happen in 2024, but just the same, I will be surprised if we are still here at the start of 2025. Please, please know I’m not predicting the timing of the Rapture or setting a deadline for it; I’m just saying that the nearness of the seven-year Tribulation makes me believe that Jesus’ appearing is ever so close. We live in the season of His glorious appearing.

What we see alarms us at times, but what Scripture reveals about our future encourages us and fills our hearts with hope and peace amid the turmoil of this world.

-Jonathan

25 Dec 2023

Published on: by RR10

On Leaving the World Behind

Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama have become producers of movies, it seems. Former Secret Service agent and now national talk show host Dan Bongino tells that he believes the two are the actual producers of the dystopian film Leave the World Behind. –This, although the Netflix director of the production, Sam Esmail, claims the former president is only an advisor on the film.

Fact is, Leave the World Behind is the product of the Obamas’ Higher Grounds Productions company. The movie is an adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s 2020 novel of the same name, which Obama had included on his 2021 summer reading list.

The film, according to Bongino, portrays disasters of the direst sort. And director Sam Esmail says the movie is based largely on many personal notes from Barack Obama and his intimate knowledge of threats to America and the world.

Esmail said: “I am writing what I think is fiction, for the most part. I’m trying to keep it as true to life as possible, but I’m exaggerating and dramatizing. And to hear an ex-president say you’re off by a few details… I thought I was off by a lot! The fact that he said that scared the [expletive deleted] out of me.”

Bongino said that revelation by the director scared him, too. The movie itself wasn’t a great film, according to the former Secret Service agent who served in protection efforts for three presidents, including Obama. But that Obama told the director that the dire threats given in the fiction weren’t as bad as the ones that actually exist worries Bongino, a former agent who has a considerable degree of intimate knowledge of such presidential intelligence-gathering capability.

I haven’t watched the movie–that is, I haven’t listened to it (being blind). But I trust Bongino’s analysis and agree the threats to the peoples of the world at this time must be dire indeed.

Of course, all we have to do is to look around at all that’s going on, as those who “watch” like our Lord commands us to do, to know that the very existence of humankind would be very tenuous if not for the controlling and restraining hand of God.

The very title of the movie speaks of the lateness of the prophetic hour. The spirit of Antichrist, which has a profoundly growing presence in the world, seems to be foreshadowing the Beast’s coming regime. Leave the World Behind is quite a title, don’t you agree? That is, it is quite a title considering the nomenclature of our website, Rapture Ready, and the title of this weekly column, “Nearing Midnight.”

The title of Obama’s film almost seems meant to mock the spectacularly successful Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. It’s like the producers are saying to those of us who don’t like the way developments are going to “get out of Dodge.”

Speaking of that well-worn phrase, a writer of note who regularly gives information about the grim developments that are engulfing the nation and world has weighed in on that very subject. That is, he delves into the wisdom of “getting out of Dodge” at this darkening time of human existence on planet Earth.

The writer presents information from a biblically prophetic perspective. I have no doubt he is a born-again believer in Jesus Christ and the Word of God. However, his interpretation is, I believe, far from accurate in the matter of eschatology so far as he seems to understand things, as we find in looking at his use of the phrase “get out of Dodge.” Here is a portion of that article.

So where will you be when things finally hit the fan?

During the past several years, we have seen a mass exodus of conservatives from blue states. For example, Fox News is reporting that 65 percent of those that have recently moved to the state of Idaho are Republicans, and only 12 percent are Democrats…

“Time is not on your side; flee the city NOW before the coming collapse!”…

Ultimately, if you were planning to relocate, you should have already done it by now.

But the good news is that conditions are still at least somewhat relatively stable as we approach the end of 2023.

So if you want to get out of Dodge, you can still do it.

In fact, for many of you, this may be your last chance.

But don’t wait too long because the clock is ticking.

At this point, most Americans can feel that something has gone horribly wrong. The warning signs are all around us, and conditions are getting worse with each passing day. (“Are You Prepared for the Coming Economic Collapse and the Next Great Depression? 12/11/23)

The writer warns that it is time to, in effect, do the same thing Obama’s movie title is suggesting. We should leave the world behind.

Of course, that title means, in total context, I presume, that people should work toward leaving the world as it is presently configured by making it better. Perhaps what is needed is a “Great Reset.” In fact, that is exactly what is meant by the film’s title and tenet.

The writer who uses the title “Get Out of Dodge” in his article, on the other hand, I believe, means that in order to try to avoid being caught up in the dangers and evil of the coming Antichrist regime, we should find, as we say in the South, fraidy holes in which to hide. That’s a bit simplistic, and perhaps even unfair or disrespectful, to refer to the writer’s efforts in such a way. Certainly, he is an excellent writer and even a good reporter of world events as they might pertain to God’s Word with regard to the way things are shaping for the Tribulation.

But he is against any thought of a pre-Tribulation Rapture of believers. As a matter of fact, he has written an entire book against that view—and is totally misguided as to how we as believers should be preparing at this critical hour as we are nearing midnight of the Tribulation era. We should not be looking at “getting out of Dodge” in terms of trying to move somewhere in order to not get caught, punished, and/or killed by the Antichrist and his forces of evil when his regime comes to power.

We are told by our Lord what we are to do. He said:

“And when you see all these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your head, for your redemption is drawing near” (Luke 21:28).

Further, Jesus Christ told John to write the following:

“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Revelation 3:10).

We who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ—in His death, burial, and resurrection and on His being our Savior from sin’s dread sway—are to be following the Apostle Paul’s Holy Spirit-given directive:

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13).

Believers are not to fearfully look for Antichrist and his satanic regime of terror. We are to “occupy”–work to spread God’s Word of salvation while we anticipate the Lord Jesus Christ’s call to us from the clouds of Glory. We are not to strive to get out but rather to look for and trust our Blessed Hope–the Lord Jesus—to rescue us from the time of God’s wrath and judgment that is about to come against the anti-God rebels who will be, sadly, because of their own choice, left behind to face that man of sin.

Here again is how to make the right decision –the decision God wants everyone to make in order to bring them into His eternal heavenly family.

“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).

—Terry

The Lord’s Reward for Watchers

Those of us eagerly anticipating Jesus’ appearing have much in common with Simeon and Anna. Luke 2:22-38 records their remarkable faith as they greeted Joseph and Mary when the couple presented Jesus at the temple shortly after His birth. Anna and Simeon recognized the baby as the promised Messiah, the One spoken of in the prophetic texts of Scripture.

They were well-advanced in years. With Simeon, it’s implied by his words about not seeing death before he would see the “Lord Christ.” The text tells us that Anna was eighty-four. However, these seasoned saints knew Scripture and, with the help of the Holy Spirit, recognized Jesus as the fulfillment of many scriptural prophecies.

Their examples provide much encouragement for us today as we await meeting Jesus in the air.

  1. The Lord rewarded their belief in prophecy. Both Simeon and Anna believed the prophetic message of Isaiah 9:6 with its familiar words, “For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given.” While most of their contemporaries looked for a conquering King as the Messiah, they understood that He would first come as a baby.

Simeon displayed remarkable insight when he spoke these words to Mary, “and a sword will pierce through your own soul also” (Luke 1:35). With the help of the Holy Spirit, he saw the Messiah in the words of Zechariah 12:10. Even the disciples had difficulty believing that the Messiah would suffer and die, but Simeon saw it in the words of Scripture.

The Lord rewarded their faith by recording it forever on the pages of Scripture. Today, two thousand years later, we still read about their God-given faith and insight.

Someday, the Lord will reward our belief in the prophecies that apply to the expectation of our Savior’s appearing. We will meet Jesus in the air, and He will take us to where He now dwells in Heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; John 14:2-3; Colossians 3:4). And there will be a crown especially for those of us who love “his appearing” (2 Timothy 4:8).

  1. They allowed the Holy Spirit to speak to them through the words of Scripture. Even though the Holy Spirit would not come to indwell believers until Pentecost, He was clearly active in these dear saints. He told Simeon that he would see the Christ before he died (2:26).

Under the Spirit’s guidance, they allowed the words of Scripture to speak for themselves rather than change the meaning to fit their beliefs. They expected the Messiah to arrive as a baby, and Simeon spoke of His suffering.

Like Simeon and Anna, we base our joyous expectation of Jesus’ imminent appearing on the words of the New Testament. The Holy Spirit within us aids our understanding of what we read on the pages of our Bibles. We accept what we read and do not spiritualize the words to mean something other than the authors intended.

  1. They didn’t adhere to the popular beliefs of their day. Simeon and Anna didn’t look for the Messiah to come and immediately rescue Israel from Roman bondage as many of their contemporaries did. They looked for a baby, and Simeon warned Mary concerning the sword that would someday pierce her Son (Zechariah 12:10), saying that it would also do the same to her soul (Luke 2:35).

Although they didn’t follow the popular views of their day regarding Jesus’ first appearance as a King, they nonetheless believed the prophecies concerning a future restoration for the nation of Israel. Simeon, who saw Jesus’ suffering in Scripture, also mentioned a future “glory” for God’s chosen “people Israel” (Luke 2:32). Anna proclaimed the Messiah’s birth to “all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem” (Luke 2:38).

As watchers, we live during a time when the most popular views of end- time events exclude Jesus’ appearing to take us home to glory as well as His thousand-year reign over the nations. The most popular view of our day teaches that the church will triumph over the evil and lawlessness of our day and bring in the Millennium with Jesus returning after the reign of the church.

Another false view that’s prominent today states that Jesus’ Second Coming occurred in AD 70, at which time He fulfilled most biblical prophecy relating to the future.

It’s my observation that many of the saints who reject these errant views and expectantly look for Jesus’ appearing are mature in years (AKA old), just as were Anna and Simeon. A substantial number of us grew up in churches where the pastors preached about Bible prophecy and laid a solid biblical foundation for our understanding of its prophecies. Just like the pair from long ago, the Holy Spirit has used our comprehension of biblical prophecy to infuse joyous hope into our souls in spite of the perilous times in which we live.

Although we do not have a certain promise that we will not die before the Rapture, similar to that of Simeon, we possess a reasonable expectation of being alive when Jesus appears. As the shadow of the Tribulation grows darker by the day, we recognize that He may come for us at any moment.

Maranatha!

-Jonathan