Take a good look around you. This world is quickly unraveling.

The birth pains of terminal times are upon us (Matt. 24:6-8; Luke 21:9-11), and you’re blind if you don’t see it. Adverse weather patterns, earthquakes, and environmental calamities of escalating frequency and consequence are resulting in greater loss of life, economy, and property than ever before.

The 2021 Global Report on Food Crises shows that 155 million people in 55 countries faced acute hunger in 2020, up 20 million from the year before. Famines and malnutrition are mounting as droughts impact the fragility of the global food system, and as poverty skyrockets.

The problems of racial division have sharply surged in conformity to Jesus’ warning that “nation will rise against nation.” The Greek word for ‘nation’ is ‘ethnos.’ We get our word “ethnicity” from it – and in our times, nearly everything is branded ‘racist’ even if racism has got nothing to do with it.

There is no shortage of countries (‘kingdoms’) threatening war with other countries. It’s true in every part of the world. Every day, there’s a palpable expectation that a major conflict will erupt in the Middle East and redefine that region.

Then there is the viral pandemic. The truth about it is actively suppressed. Coercion to take a highly suspect and problematic ‘vaccine,’ and the threat of a loss of liberties for anyone who elects not to take it, shows the leading edge of a deceptive agenda that will ultimately express itself in the future Mark of the Beast (Rev. 13:15-17; 14:9).

Other serious problems are mounting too. There is escalating animosity in many places towards the Jews and Israel. The Jewish nation is routinely blamed for problems they are not responsible for. Anti-Semitism is on the rise in colleges where you’d expect it to be, and in churches where you’d not expect it to be.

Global economics have never been more fragile. The number of companies that have gone belly up is only exceeded in number by those who are about to.

In America, our illegitimate and corrupt leadership has pushed policies that have resulted in record inflation. They’ve made us dependent on nations that don’t like us for basic goods and energy resources. Supply chains are so mismanaged that our ports look like naval mosh pits.

Christians are also being attacked as never before. According to a Forbes Magazine article from January 2021, one in eight Christians live in countries where “….they might suffer very high or extreme levels of persecution,” and this situation is worsening daily.

Truth is being ‘thrown to the ground’ even at the same time as ‘deception is prospering.’ A few decades ago, our politicians were in hot water if they told a lie. Now they are in hot water if they tell the truth. Stating the facts on most social media platforms will get you flagged, censored, and shut down. Hordes of senseless lemmings today no longer want the truth about voters, viruses, and values.

I could say so much more, but my original point is clear. This world is a complete mess.

As a believer in Jesus Christ, I have a couple of thoughts that are top of mind. The first is, “Hang in there. Everything we see here is just the start. If we are still on this planet in a few years, 2021 will look like “the good ol’ days.”

It takes conscious effort to look back at the start of 2020 and realize how wonderful things were then. A switch was flipped in early February that year – my spirit sensed the change as though someone spoke. Others I visited with felt the same thing. The snowball of bad news has since gathered speed and force as it’s rolled downhill. Depravity is in overdrive.

Jesus said in Matthew 24:8 that these socio-political upheavals, natural disasters, persecutions, deceptions, lawlessness, and catastrophes would be “the beginning of sorrows.” In context, “the beginning of sorrows” is likely a commentary on the initial phases of The Tribulation. This is a well-defined period of seven years, also called the “time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jer. 30:7) or ‘Daniel’s 70th Week’ (Dan. 9:24-27). It’s a future time when God’s primary focus is redeeming a remnant of the Jewish people.

These implications don’t exclude the rest of us from contemplating present events as “birth pains” in their own right – and I said as much at the start of this article. But – it’s important to understand that things happening right now are the earliest dynamics of what will eventually become “the beginning of sorrows.”

My second thought may jolt some of you, but it needs to be plainly stated: “Shame on the church!”

The church, for the most part, is out of touch. It’s not doing its job. Most people IN the church – and BECAUSE of the church – have very little idea what is really going on in the world right now. They’re asking tons of questions, but they’re receiving precious little in the way of substantive answers.

Paul responded forthrightly to the Thessalonians about their fears that they were living in the day of the Lord (2 Thess. 2:1-2). Folks today have the same concerns. Paul counseled and edified his congregants with wisdom. He provided detailed teaching on the Rapture, the Tribulation, the antichrist, and the resurrection of the dead – and in the process, he underscored that a strong foundation in Biblical prophecy is integral to every healthy church.

Most pastors and teachers today could not do any of what Paul did. Many instead mock the themes, the doctrines, and the importance of the prophetic Scriptures (2 Peter 3:1). They defend their own milky messages – tactics that only reinforce the things they most want to believe about themselves.

Every Sunday, thousands of pastors preach “sermonettes,” which do little more than produce “Christianettes.” Numerous studies show that the spiritual vital signs of congregants everywhere are suffering as they are routinely scratched where they itch (2 Tim. 4:3).

Most churches today have made the good the enemy of the best. Too many of them emphasize worship, encouragement, neighborly love, growing in community, and the various themes of a social gospel. Because churches want everybody to feel good and get along, they steer clear of ‘sensitive’ topics and confrontational truth. The Bible is frequently treated as little more than a footnote to a sermon.

The events of the last year or so have shown us that most church leaders are shallow. They feel self-righteous for marching to the beat of woke ambitions and for pushing the points of a deceptive globalist agenda. They rally their congregants with strident appeals for “unity” when “conformity” is what they are pushing for instead.

The sheep are suffering as their ‘shepherds’ fail to see the dilemma they are personally cultivating. Churches everywhere have lost grasp of what it means to properly look in a mirror (Rev. 3:15-18). They cannot see their own condition, and they assert instead that they’re doing fine.

We’re in a tight spot. Our national leaders are high-fiving themselves for every step they take away from virtue, and our church leaders are patting themselves on the back for every step they take towards apostasy. The first group cares little for the truth about responsibility, and the second group cares little about responsibly telling the truth.

I cannot rest silently when I see so many within the church spouting off their errant views of Scripture, interpreting world events by the world’s talking points, pursuing goals to grow budgets and pack pews, and justifying a seeker-friendly agenda the Bible never prescribed for them in the first place. I realize I am not alone in trying to call attention to some of these improper things, and I KNOW I am not alone in receiving the vitriol I do when I do so.

When Jude wrote his little book, he confessed he wanted to write “about the salvation we share” (Jude 3). Basically, he wanted to write about the Gospel. That’s an all-important matter. But – he was divinely inspired to go a different direction, and so he called attention to the urgent problem of false teachers instead.

The rest of Jude puts the spotlight on these leaders who are unworthy of the posts they hold. They are charlatans who “have secretly slipped in” (vs. 4), who “slander whatever they do not understand” (vs. 10), who have “rushed for profit” (vs. 11), who are “shepherds who feed only themselves” (vs. 12), who “boast about themselves” (vs. 16), who “scoff” at the truth (vs. 18), who “divide” their congregations (vs. 19), and who follow worldly and “natural instincts” (vs. 19).

Jude’s words read like a commentary on the modern church – maybe even the one you’re part of right now. Many pastors and teachers would do well to prayerfully and humbly study what Jude wrote and why he did.

Meantime, and as long as it continues to be a passive ally to the world’s agenda – – shame on the church!

 

It’s not REALLY a pandemic.

Well – not in the archetypal sense anyways. Said another way, this virus is not an etiology that deserves our full-fledged dread. It’s not a classic scourge that demands we all fearfully line dance the same way. You know – like we did with smallpox and polio….

If it were a real pandemic of these conventional parameters, the United States Postal Service would not be exempt from receiving the vaccine. Nor would our politicians. Illegal aliens wouldn’t be exempt from receiving the vaccine, even as American citizens are constantly being forced to accept new restrictions.

If it were a real pandemic, the border wall would go up, and those that come into our nation unlawfully wouldn’t be covertly flown to new communities under cover of darkness. If it were a genuine pandemic like cholera or the bubonic plague, we wouldn’t have liberal counties clamping down on citizens’ rights while conservative counties in the same state permit ‘business as usual.’

If it were a real pandemic, pot stores, liquor stores, and casinos would have been forced to close their businesses too. If it were a real pandemic, Pride parades and BLM riots would earn the same media outrage as do motorcycle rallies and outdoor worship events.

If it were a real pandemic, Pelosi couldn’t get her hair done at a salon, Governor Newsom couldn’t host an elaborate public dinner, and President Obama couldn’t enjoy his star-studded birthday party. If it were a real pandemic, the left wouldn’t make “rules for thee but not for me.”

It’s not REALLY a strategy to defeat the virus either.

Sure, it’s a virus. And like other viruses, it does result in some deaths. Take the flu, for example. Tens of thousands of people have died from it each year for decades now. But by far, most recipients of the flu lived.

COVID’s no different. So, yes, this is a virus – I’m not denying that. Yet, for most age demographics, COVID still has greater than a 98% recovery rate.

But, as I said, we’re not seeing a cogent plan to defeat it either. If we were, we’d be urging people to take proven antivirals like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine that have been around for years.

India had over 270 million cases of COVID by January of this year – more than any other country, according to The Washington Post. The government there started handing out cheap Ivermectin to its citizens, and now the situation has totally changed. India has fewer cases of COVID now than most blue states in America.

At least three-fifths of Africa is virtually untouched by COVID. For years, the citizens of central Africa have taken Hydroxychloroquine for malaria. As a result, these parts of Africa are recording only scant numbers of COVID.

Monoclonal antibodies, too, are effective against COVID. I know people who were at death’s door with COVID. They were fortunate to receive monoclonal antibodies just in time, and they recovered. Some of them are still recovering, but they turned a corner because they got proper treatment.

Believe me, if our leaders truly wanted to defeat this virus, they absolutely could in very short order. Let the implications of that land with a thud.

All this raises two more disturbing truths: it’s not REALLY science, and it’s not REALLY a vaccine.

The real science tells us masks don’t work. Dr. Fauci said the same thing, as does the fine print on many boxes of masks themselves. Social distancing is a joke. We make people stand six feet apart at the airport ticket counter and then cram them three inches apart on the plane.

In scientific publications like Principia Scientific International and The Lancet Infectious Diseases Medical Journal, responsible research-based documentation shows that vaccinated people contract and spread the virus the same way unvaccinated people do. Journals like these show the vaccine lowers the immunity of those who have received it, making them far more vulnerable to new variants than those who have acquired natural immunity.

That explains why the Delta strain erupted quickest in the most vaccinated countries like Israel and Belgium. It’s why the Omicron variant first emerged among those who were already vaccinated.

Multiple international scientific studies have documented that the vaccinated population suffers from increased risk of mortality when compared to the nonvaccinated. That’s the whole idea. But you don’t need the lofty rhetoric of medical studies to figure this out. You only need to see the hundred-plus professional athletes in all sports the world over who have clutched their chests and died during play in the last few months. They were all vaccinated.

The inefficacy of the vaccine is documented by the CDC, by the WHO, and even by the vaccine producers themselves. The aforementioned morally-challenged Dr. Fauci admitted in a recent podcast for The New York Times that the vaccines did not work as advertised and that Americans who received them are in danger due to their waning immunity.

Again, let me be clear. It doesn’t matter that this post will probably be flagged with blurbs to the contrary or with hints that I’ve said some things I shouldn’t have – it’s not a vaccine! You didn’t have to get several boosters for smallpox because the first dose didn’t do the job. Ditto with polio. Nobody cajoled folks with free tuition, iPads, lottery tickets, balloons, coupons, and meals if they got their MMR shot. Just because it’s called a vaccine doesn’t make it one.

I could go on and on here. I could say much more like the things I’ve already said. Given my medical background, I’ve been diligently researching this whole COVID thing since its earliest rumors, and if you go back far enough in my Facebook posts, you’ll see that for yourself.

As a result, I feel I can tell you what is REALLY happening here. I could list multiple sources behind every statement I make. I could do all of that – but I’ve learned it makes no difference to those who want to refuse the truth.

That leads me to my last point. We’re not REALLY going to see any improvement here.

Let me put that another way: we’re not going back to the ‘normal’ we knew before. It’s not going to happen.

Am I a sourpuss – – a ‘Debbie downer’ – – a wet blanket? No, I’m only being matter-of-fact about the situation. I’m just stating the plain truth plainly.

The bottom line is we are entering the final stages of the evolution of war. That war is focused on us. Yes – YOU are the target! The crosshairs are on YOUR back. It’s YOUR government and the globalist elites in this world that see YOU as the enemy. They don’t want you here, and that is particularly the case if you dare – God forbid! – to speak the truth.

There is far less of a pandemic going on than there is a dark political agenda. That depraved plan is one that seeks to exercise societal control, to silence dissenters, to squash the truth, and to elevate all forms of deception. The ultimate goal here is a one-world governing system that puts a few in power over many. It’s been the goal of the elitists for many decades, but things have really ramped up for them lately.

Because multitudes of folks out there no longer dig for the facts, they don’t REALLY see the picture here as they ought to. Because they refuse to research, because they prefer to take their talking points from journalists who spew propaganda, and – quite frankly, because they no longer care about the truth, such folks are going to toss out the window most of what I’ve stated here.

So let me wrap up.

Biblically speaking, we know that pestilences are part of life on earth. That’s another word for ‘pandemic.’ The Bible also teaches that these pandemics will increase in frequency and impact as the end of times approaches. Matthew 24:7 makes this clear, and these prophetic insights are not new to many of us.

However, what we are seeing now is that some pestilences don’t deserve all the fear that accompanies them. The present COVID issue is best regarded through the lens of Jesus’ warning three verses earlier in Matthew 24:4, “Take heed that no man deceive you.”

The truth is Satan is the inspiration behind leftist Rahm Emanuel’s rule, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” A pestilence doesn’t have to be REAL by classic definitions to be effective. It doesn’t have to submit to common sense and established science. It just needs to be perceived as a serious crisis and responded to a certain way.

Satan will always use who and what he can. He is working through corrupt leadership all over the world to fuel the current COVID situation with scare tactics, deflection strategies, and all forms of truth suppression. These efforts to double down on the deceptive virus agenda are all about imposing societal control and conditioning the masses for future global authoritarianism.

That’s what’s REALLY going on here.