Poking the Apple of God’s Eye

American mainstream news and entertainment media have degenerated in public trustworthiness to the lowest point in their history, according to those who assess such matters. Talk show radio hosts such as Dan Bongino call these the most corrupt institutions in the nation.

I don’t know the accuracy of such pronouncements. However, I can observe, as can you, and there’s no doubt in my thinking that these support most every issue and movement that is in obvious opposition to godliness while we survey today’s current political and moral landscape.

And speaking of politics in this volatile political season, these media leviathans are in league with one political party in most every sense. I.e., they seem to take the party’s talking points and march in lockstep while demonizing the candidate that is their opponent for the office of president. As a matter of fact, they have melded with that party in generating an insane hatred for that opposition candidate, which, in my opinion, has engendered two assassination attempts, with a number of other such attempts reportedly in the making.

These –mainstream media and the Democrat Party– purport to champion the well-being and improvement in lifestyle of black families and their children. All the while, they accuse the other party and proponents of conservative American values of being Nazi-like and racist. Yet they, themselves, fanatically push for abortion that murders African-American babies in their mothers’ wombs at the rate of 40% of all babies aborted each year in the nation.

This cabal of media and political wickedness pushes for legalization and federal funding of programs that teach aberrant and perverse transgender ideology and demand physical mutilation as well. They champion Sodom-like activity in society and culture, bringing the nation into a quagmire of anti-God immorality that will bring God’s Judgment.

All this said, it shouldn’t surprise that there is a mainstream media push that confronts the Creator Himself with a challenge that is perhaps the most dangerous yet. And I mean dangerous to the media morons doing the challenging.

This is what is meant by the title of the commentary: Poking the apple of God’s Eye.

CBS, a major news network, has openly defied the Creator by telling us –and Him—that the city of Jerusalem no longer is to belong to Israel. That’s right; Jerusalem is now to be considered not a part of God’s chosen nation. The following enlightens further on this mainstream media giant’s declaration.

CBS News is facing backlash after an internal memo instructed journalists not to refer to Jerusalem as part of Israel, igniting criticism from media figures and raising concerns about journalistic integrity. The memo, sent by CBS News senior director of standards Mark Memmott in late August, emphasized the disputed status of Jerusalem, despite its recognition as Israel’s capital by the US government.

This directive, alongside internal tensions sparked by an interview conducted by CBS Morning’s co-host Tony Dokoupil on anti-Israel perspectives, has fueled controversy both within CBS and across the media landscape.

Memmott’s email advised CBS News staff to avoid saying Jerusalem is in Israel, noting that “the status of Jerusalem goes to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” While the US embassy is in Jerusalem, and the Trump administration formally recognized it as Israel’s capital in 2017, the memo emphasized that its status is disputed. Israel considers Jerusalem its “eternal and undivided” capital, while Palestinians claim East Jerusalem—captured by Israel during the 1967 war—as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

The directive sparked outrage across social media and among journalists. Adam Rubenstein, contributing editor at The Free Press, stated, “Standards desks are now instructing journalists to deny reality.” Fox News contributor Guy Benson responded, “Jerusalem is not only in Israel, it is the capital of Israel. What on earth is happening at CBS?” Washington Examiner senior writer David Harsanyi added, “Then we can stop referring to CBS employees as journalists.”

Source: CBS memo sparks outrage: Journalists instructed not to acknowledge Jerusalem as part of Israel, By JERUSALEM POST STAFF OCTOBER 11, 2024 12:47 Updated: OCTOBER 11, 2024]

It should not be surprising that Satan has influenced the institutions of journalism to poke God in the apple of His Eye at this point in stage-setting for the time of Daniel’s seventieth week and the time of Jacob’s trouble, Jeremiah 30:7. Here is what the Lord has to say about this matter of His most Holy city of Jerusalem that helps explain why the above offends the Creator of all things in ways we can’t fully fathom.

“I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. 

Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD. Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. 

For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me. Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee” (Zechariah 2:1-11).

Jerusalem is the city God has Made His Own. The Temple Mount at its center is the touchstone between God in Heaven and humanity, where the veil was rent from top to bottom on Christ’s death as Sacrifice for mankind’s sin. It is a fearfully dangerous matter to declare you are determined to rip Jerusalem from the Almighty’s Hand.

–Terry

*** Important Notice! ***

God The Holy Spirit is turning on the Light of God’s Truth in Pakistan and other areas of the Spiritually darkened world.

Again, I’m appealing to you, who understand through Holy Spirit Enlightenment just how late is the prophetic hour, to help us print and distribute the little book Prophecy Power: Strength From God To Face Your Future to the people of Pakistan.

Pastor Anil Jasper worked diligently to translate the Sunday school quarterly-sized book into his native language. The results have been powerful in helping turn on that Light of understanding about Jesus and His soul-saving Sacrifice. Anil reports that the book distribution is reaping great rewards in terms of his people accepting Christ –something that might not have happened if not for the presentation in our little book.

Please consider again supporting this effort, as time looks to be short, according to all prophetic stage-setting signals in the world today. We want to one day hear the words from our Lord: “Well done, good, faithful servant.”

Please go to the following to read more and contribute.

https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2024/10/04/please-help-in-our-pakistan-missionary-effort/

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Perilous Times … In the Church

When we think of the prophetic signs of the last days, we typically begin with Israel, examine the closeness of the world to the appearance of the riders of the apocalypse, and perhaps turn our attention to the formation of the beast kingdom that’s now rapidly taking shape. These are excellent places to look, and they lead us to a myriad of related signs that unmistakably point to Jesus’ soon appearing.

I would like to suggest that the condition of today’s church also shouts with the message that we live in the last moments before the Rapture of the church.

In 2 Timothy 3:1-5, Paul depicts that the rebellious nature of people would mark the “perilous times” of the last days. We certainly see these attributes everywhere we look in our world. Sadly, however, they also exist among professing Christians, even among many who are truly born again.

When I look at the apostle’s list, the traits related to pride immediately catch my attention:

1. Lovers of self
2. Proud
3. Arrogant
4. Swollen with conceit

These qualities are far too common within the body of Christ and, more than any other sin, cause division among the saints and harm the cause of Christ in our world. Most, if not all, of the false teaching that exists in churches stems from those who believe their interpretation of a text is far superior to the actual intent of the author who penned the biblical text in question.

As a result of the prideful condescension to other viewpoints, particularly those related to Bible prophecy, believers who believe what the New Testament teaches about Jesus’ imminent appearing often find that they are no longer welcome at the churches they attend. I know this has been the experience of a great many followers of Jesus. It’s been my fate as well.

Pride was the key fault that the Lord found with the church at Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22). He didn’t criticize the church for teaching errant theology or for the acceptance of immorality in its midst. No, the Lord chastised this group of Christians for their pride. Their smugness at what they had accomplished caused the Lord to severely warn them with these words, “I will spit you out of my mouth” (3:16). They had achieved much visible success as a church and credited themselves for their amazing achievements.

Why did Jesus respond in such a harsh way to their arrogance? I believe it was because such spiritual superiority makes it impossible for the atmosphere that Paul described in Colossians 3:12-14 to exist:

“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”

The body life that Paul describes in the above verses absolutely cannot coexist with the pride that the Lord warned would mark humanity during the last days, the time in which we now live.

Arrogance. It’s often displayed via a self-righteous spirit that causes great harm to the body of Christ because it leads to some of the other ways that the apostle describes people, even Christians, during the last days (2 Timothy 3:1-5):

1. Heartless
2. Slanderous
3. Brutal
4. Treacherous

When the above qualities manifest themselves inside the walls of a church, and they do, they create a hostile and unsafe atmosphere. Mercy flies out the window, body life dies, and the words of Colossians 3:12-14 become merely matters of verbal assent but fail to change anyone’s behavior toward his or her fellow saint.

For many, today’s church has become a place of pain rather than a safe haven of acceptance that nurtures spiritual growth.

Many Bible-believing churches today resemble the Laodicean church rather than the church at Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7-13), whose qualities now define but a remnant of New Testament saints.

In his book, New Morning Mercies, Paul David Tripp wrote the following about “mercy forgetfulness.” I have read these words many, many times during the past month as a needed reminder of what’s important as I await Jesus’ soon appearing:

Mercy forgetfulness is dangerous because it shapes the way you think about yourself and others. When you remember mercy, you also remember that you simply did nothing whatsoever to earn that with which mercy has blessed you. When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender. . . When you forget mercy, you take credit for what only mercy could produce. When you remember mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

When you remember mercy and think you are deserving, you find it all too easy not to extend mercy to others. Proudly, you think that you’re getting what you deserve and that they are, too. Your proud heart is not tender, so it is not easily moved by the sorry plight of others. You forget that you are more like than unlike your needy brother, failing to acknowledge that neither of you stands before God as deserving. Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows. Gratitude for mercy given is what motivates mercy extended. Paul says, “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you” (Eph. 4:32).

When we forget God’s merciful dealings with us, we open the door for Paul’s descriptors of perilous times to affect our dealings with others.

There’s no room for an attitude of superiority in the body of Christ. We are all equal in terms of how we initially came to saving faith in Jesus as well as in our need for the mercy and grace that daily sustains us in our walk with the Lord.

Sadly, the traits that Paul lists in 2 Timothy 3:1-5 define life in many churches today. Does this not also tell us that we are nearing the midnight hour when Jesus comes for us? I’m convinced that it does.

Maranatha!

-Jonathan

On Nuking Nuclear Iran

Diplomats of the world consider it the most crucial area on the planet in terms of attempting to force peace. Those who study Bible prophecy from the True perspective presented in God’s Word should not be surprised that this region is front and center in the cry for peace and safety at this late hour on God’s Prophetic Timeline.

The region of which I write is that which was called Persia in ancient times. At the heart of this volatile geographical arena is, of course, the nation of Iran. The Iranian Islamic regime is the most vociferous government on Earth in declaring they want death to the people of another nation.  Its Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, declares at every opportunity that Israel must be expunged from the land –and must be eradicated as a people. Additionally, he and those of his ilk within the regime want America destroyed.

Khamenei leads his people in the chants of death to the Great Satan (America) and death to the Little Satan (Israel) – thus, even though there is tremendous underground resistance by much of the populace within Iran against the fanatical, despotic government that has ruled since the Shaw was deposed.

The reason I say those who study Bible prophecy from the true perspective given in God’s Word shouldn’t be surprised is because Daniel the prophet recorded thousands of years ago that Persia was at the center of Israel’s troubles when he prayed so diligently for his people. Daniel told us, through his prophecy, that his people –hated and harangued by the Prince of Persia– would be on the earthly scene at the time of the end. And, the book of the end, we certainly can believe with developments we’ve witnessed, has been opened (Daniel 12: 4) so that Bible students who truly seek Truth can recognize the lateness of this prophetic hour.

So Persia, at this very moment, is at the heart of Israel’s current problems, while that tiny country is surrounded by all Islamist nations that are used by Iran (Persia) as proxies to bedevil the Jewish state. And the fact that the Iranian leaders are blood-vowed to destroy their hated enemies, Israel and America, and knowing as Bible prophecy students who view eschatology from the True perspective –the PreTrib view– that Persia (Iran) is prophetically scheduled to be part of the Gog-Magog attack (Ezekiel 38-39) means that Iran’s nuclear development program is crucial to consider. 

The world’s diplomats don’t look through the prism of PreTrib Bible prophecy. They haven’t a clue that it is the God of Heaven Who will prevent all-out war. They refuse to believe any higher power than themselves can bring the peace and safety they want to broker between Israel and its neighbor antagonists. Neither do most of the Israeli government or IDF generals believe it is a Supernatural Power that guarantees their safety –although there is a small circle of those within both entities that possess some degree of belief in God’s Protection of Israel.

All parties –the diplomats and Israel’s government and military—do understand nuclear power and the threat to peace and safety that power represents. Thus, there is great controversy at present on what to do about Iran’s nuclear weapons that it is feared the blood-vowed Israel haters might soon have in their possession.

With the recent missile attacks directly from Iran, many are urging Israel to use this as an excuse to obliterate the nuclear development facilities. The following somewhat explains the ongoing angst.

Two years ago, dozens of Israeli fighter jets roared over the Mediterranean Sea, simulating a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, a drill the Israeli defense forces openly advertised as an exercise in “long-range flight, aerial refueling and striking distant targets.”

The point of the exercise was not simply to intimidate the Iranians. It was also designed to send a message to the Biden administration: The Israeli air force was training to conduct the operation alone, even though chances of success would be far higher if the United States — with its arsenal of 30,000-pound “bunker busters” — joined in the attack.

In interviews, former and current senior Israeli officials acknowledged doubts about whether the country has the capability to do significant damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities. Nonetheless, for the past few days, Pentagon officials have been wondering quietly whether the Israelis are preparing to go it alone, after concluding that they may never again have a moment like this one…

“Israel has now its greatest opportunity in 50 years, to change the face of the Middle East,” Naftali Bennett, a hardline nationalist and former prime minister who once described himself as to the right of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recently wrote on social media. “We must act *now* to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, its central energy facilities, and to fatally cripple this terrorist regime.”

He added: “We have the justification. We have the tools. Now that Hezbollah and Hamas are paralyzed, Iran stands exposed.”

[Source: Washington Worries the Israelis Will Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Sites. But Can They? – The New York Times, October 9, 2024]

My commentary’s title, On Nuking Nuclear Iran, isn’t meant to give the impression Israel will use nuclear weaponry to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. While that option is no doubt available to the IDF, they could accomplish it, I believe, through conventional war-making means. Regardless of the means, destroying it certainly is the recommendation of many.

Former President Donald Trump is one such advocate, although it might be seen as merely a political bit of hyperbole. He didn’t make such statements or recommendations that we know of back when he was president. And every time I read a report back then, Iran was within a month or two, or even a week or two, of achieving weapons-grade fissionable materials that could then be used to develop nuclear bombs within a short time.

President Joe Biden has strongly demanded to Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel not take out the nuclear facilities. He has even, it is reported, offered financial rewards to Israel to think in other terms than attacking Iran’s nuclear laboratories and other facilities such as those for oil production. This means, to me at least, that the globalist powers that be fear losing the control they have lied, cheated, and fought so hard to achieve over world war-making on their own terms.

It seems to me there are some possible prophetic stage settings to consider in all of this.

Iran, we know (Persia,) will be at the heart of the Gog-Magog coalition when that horde descends in an all-out attack against an Israel which is at peace, according to Ezekiel 38-39. There seems no nuclear weaponry unleashed on the Jewish state, only primarily a land invasion.

The attackers’ nukes have somehow been taken out of the picture, so far as is known in that attack itself. Neither are Israel’s nukes apparently available to retaliate as given in Ezekiel’s description of the assault. However, God Himself uses, it seems, some sort of Heavenly Nukes!

It is interesting that “fires on the coastlands” is part of the description of that tremendous prophetic scene. Are these nuclear in nature? Could be, but I rather am of the opinion that the fire that’s sent on the coastlands is a Supernatural Judgment sent by the Lord upon those in the region, other than the Gog-Magog attackers—the Anti-Semitic forces– who perpetrate evil against His chosen people. Perhaps it is like the sulfur and brimstone Judgment that fell upon Sodom and Gomorrah.

God has Dealt very recently with Israel’s enemies in observable ways for those who hold to Bible Truth and Watch for prophetic signals of these troubled times. It will be, as Daniel the Prophet foretold, for those of us who name the Name of Jesus Christ to Watch and Discern these times that are almost certainly stage-setting for the coming Tribulation era (Daniel’s seventieth week).

“And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand” (Daniel 12: 8-10). 

Those who obey the Lord Jesus Christ’s Command are the “wise” at this moment about whom Daniel prophesied.

“And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch” (Mark 13:37). 

For those who know Christ for Salvation, there is the Promise of being kept out of that terrible time of Tribulation that will come upon the whole world (Revelation 3: 10).

Jesus said the following about that Promise:

“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).

This Promise by the Lord Himself was for believers of both the Church Age (our current Age of Grace) and for believers who come to Know Christ as Savior during the Tribulation.

For us today, this is the Rapture, of which Jesus Spoke.

He will call all believers to Himself in the Clouds of Glory before the terrible 7 years of Hell on Earth begins.

You want to be part of the Rapture. You can then “Watch” as developments in stage-setting move daily toward the Tribulation. You can do so with the absolute confidence that Christ will call you to Himself before the world reaches that time of God’s Judgment and Wrath.

One of the most observable signals of that movement toward the Tribulation is Israel’s dealing with Iran’s (ancient Persia’s) nuclear weapons facilities. Actually, it is God’s Dealing with Israel’s enemies you can “Watch” with Spiritual Eyes Attuned to Holy Spirit-infused Wisdom, as Daniel was given to tell us about by the Angel (Daniel 12: 8-10).

Here again is how to become a believer in Jesus Christ, thus a Member of God’s Family Forever.

“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

*** Important Notice! ***

God The Holy Spirit is turning on the Light of God’s Truth in Pakistan and other areas of the Spiritually darkened world.

Again, I’m appealing to you, who understand through Holy Spirit Enlightenment just how late is the prophetic hour, to help us print and distribute the little book Prophecy Power: Strength From God To Face Your Future to the people of Pakistan.

Pastor Anil Jasper worked diligently to translate the Sunday school quarterly sized book into his native language. The results have been powerful in helping turn on that Light of understanding about Jesus and His soul-saving Sacrifice. Anil reports that the book distribution is reaping great rewards in terms of his people accepting Christ –something that might not have happened if not for the presentation in our little book.

Please consider again supporting this effort, as time looks to be short, according to all prophetic stage-setting signals in the world today. We want to one day hear the words from our Lord: “Well done, good, faithful servant.”

Please go to the following to read more and contribute.

https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2024/10/04/please-help-in-our-pakistan-missionary-effort/

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Unsustainable

The nearness of another presidential election in America has accentuated the depth of lawlessness that exists in our nation. I have long hoped that the Lord would come before I had to endure another time of voting when deception and open gaslighting runs so deep and those who seek to destroy our nation receive vast amounts of votes and, in many cases, prevail.

I’m weary of waiting for the Lord’s appearing to take me home, but I’m also reminded that God’s judgment is surely coming to the earth. Many centuries before the birth of Christ, the Lord spoke these words to Asaph concerning the very day in which we live:

At the set time that I appoint
I will judge with equity.
When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants,
it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah (Psalm 75:2-3)

These words assure me that God will intervene in our world.

I believe it will be soon because what we now see is not sustainable for any extended length of time. I say this because:

1. America’s economy lies on the brink of utter disaster. The U.S. national debt stands at thirty-five trillion dollars and, according to some reports, is increasing by one trillion dollars every one hundred days. We are rapidly approaching the point when all the income tax monies collected from individuals will go to just pay the interest on our debt. Our economy should’ve completely collapsed long ago.

Don’t be deceived by the record-setting numbers on Wall Street; they are a façade intended to influence the upcoming election. At the time appointed by the Lord, the U.S. economy will collapse and likely play a significant role in the worldwide economic horrors described in Revelation 6:5-6.

2. The violence against children will surely bring destruction to our land. The violence against children in America is beyond horrific. God’s patience will soon run out, and judgment will fall. The murder of the unborn continues despite the overturning of Roe versus Wade. The sex trafficking of children has become a multi-billion-dollar industry in America largely because of its protection by those in power. The Democratic Party openly promotes the mutilation of children via sex change operations.

It’s not possible for such atrocities to continue apart from the Lord saying “enough” and then bringing the full force of His wrath upon our country. It’s closer than most can imagine.

3. The start of World War III is rapidly approaching. With each passing day, the world moves closer to a nuclear war among the superpowers, which will result in an unfathomable number of deaths. Each of these hot spots becomes more volatile by the day and has the potential to lead to a much greater war.
4. NATO continues to zoom past the red lines the Russian president sets for a nuclear response. How much longer will Vladimir Putin warn of a nuclear attack before doing so?
5. China appears to be on the verge of invading Taiwan.
6. The war in the Middle East could rapidly expand to include a conflict between the U.S. and Russia, particularly as the warfare between Israel and Iran heats up in the coming days.
7. North Korea is threatening both South Korea and the U.S. They have destroyed roads connecting the two countries and warned of an upcoming war.

It’s not sustainable for such saber-rattling to continue without the onset of the devastating wars such as we read about in Revelation, which will happen after the Rapture. If it were just one threat, perhaps we could see a cessation of hostilities.

4. The violence that America imports into our cities via illegal immigration will bring catastrophe to our land. During the past four years, the number of immigrants following through our southern border has soared to record numbers. The violence they have already brought to the U.S. will surely explode to greater depths in the future. It’s not possible by any stretch of the imagination to allow so many villains and Chinese men of military age into our land without disastrous results.

The billions spent to support those unlawfully in our land is one of the reasons for the crippling inflation that’s making it nearly impossible for most families to put food on the table. The thousands of dollars that the illegals receive each month increase the demand for the same amount of goods, which will keep prices at the grocery store rising unless there’s a drastic change in policy.

5. The deep political and ethnic divides in America jeopardize our future well-being. The upcoming presidential election increases the danger of violence in America. We have already seen at least two attempts to assassinate former President Trump. Should he win the election, civil unrest will most certainly erupt across our land.

President Biden is on record stating that he doesn’t believe a peaceful transition of power is possible. Is he assuming a Trump victory? Is he not already increasing the likelihood of such violence?

It’s only because of God’s patience and His restraining hand that the world has not yet felt the full force of His wrath.

However, because we don’t know the timing of these things, it’s absolutely essential that we, as believers, vote in the upcoming election. Please don’t stay home on November 5, 2024.

Donald Trump is most definitely not an ideal candidate, but he represents freedom versus the tyranny that will surely come should Harris step into the Oval Office. Her policies will surely advance the Marxist policies of the globalists and hurt a great many people.

Let me be clear: one cannot have a biblical worldview and, at the same time, support the Harris/Walz ticket. Those who vote for them will cast their ballots in favor of all the things that the Lord hates. The platform of the Democratic party is fully anti-God and anti-Scripture. How is it possible for a believer to support such a vile agenda?

Please know that my hope for the future lies solely in Jesus and in His imminent appearing to take us home to Heaven. I believe it’s too late to turn the tide of the threats that lie on the horizon for the U.S. and the world. I say that because most, if not all, of the perils listed above are not only unsustainable for the future, but they are also irreversible.

All these things point to the nearness of the Tribulation period, which, of necessity, tells us that the Rapture is ever so close.

Maranatha!

-Jonathan