Terry James

Prophesied Politics of Peace :: By Terry James

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A strange silence of sorts set in immediately following the election of Donald J. Trump as 47th president of the United States. To me, it was an eerie sense of stillness, kind of like the atmosphere felt just before a tornado-carrying storm I once experienced in Mississippi.

Within forty-eight hours of the election, two leaders of America’s most dangerous, nuclear-weapons-laden, antagonist nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping, reached out to congratulate Mr. Trump for his victory in quite conciliatory language.

At the same time, Basem Naim, a member of the Hamas Political Bureau and spokesperson for the terrorist organization, issued a call for peace. He emphasized “immediate cessation of the aggression, particularly in Gaza.”

Suddenly an atmosphere of peaceful calm seems to pervade the world that just days ago looked to be about to explode into nuclear war. What’s going on?!

Even the completely insane-acting leftists have dialed back hate-filled rhetoric.

President Joe Biden, who just before November 5 was calling all of us who supported Trump “garbage” and saying he wanted to slap our (derrieres), was kind-sounding and generous in his public congratulations to his successor. His press secretary was almost overly accommodating in promising the smoothest transition of presidential power in the history of the republic.

The Trump-haters who were screaming “Nazi!” and “fascist!” in Trump and his supporters’ direction suddenly are no longer to be found–at least not on the surface. What, indeed, is going on?!

Part of the answer, at least to the question of the Biden and Harris forces being so subdued, and even the so-called deep state (the intelligence services that want to keep Trump out of the White House at any cost) seeming to say nothing, is because of the unanticipated election numbers. Donald Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular votes. This produced what is perceived as a mandate for Trump to implement the policies he proposes. The nation has spoken with no uncertainty.

This completely threw Trump’s haters into disarray. They simply, at least for the moment, are stumped as to how to again begin dismantling the nation’s movement back toward its founding principles.

Had Trump won only the Electoral College voting, the mobs of rampaging rioters would have likely been turned loose in order to deceptively protest the injustice they want perceived as being inflicted on those in the majority constituting the popular vote.

Now those who, like Barack Obama, want to “fundamentally transform America” by opening borders to all comers and doing all the other Sodom-like things they foisted on us are temporarily stunned. They must find another tact than burning down their own cities, etc.

All of this peacefulness simply means that Donald J. Trump has been again put in the most powerful office on the planet for the Lord’s very special purposes. No person, political party, or any other force put him there. We even witnessed God’s hand in the assassination attempt. Trump himself said he felt an invisible hand slap him to the floor at the moment when the bullet missed his head by no more than an inch.

I don’t claim to know exactly what the Lord is up to with the sudden developments we see coming one after another. But I do know He is fully aware of each movement in this fascinating end-times act we’re a part of.

The calm we’re in the midst of at present is leading to a sort of peace that will result in the act intolerable to the Almighty. It will be the satanically inspired act against Israel by the world’s nations that will bring God’s destruction upon all anti-God forces of the earth.

Although I’ve continued to support Donald Trump for president, I nonetheless wonder whether he will be instrumental in the prophesied act that will cause God to judge in such world-rending wrath.

Already, it is conjectured that Mr. Trump will revise the efforts for peace in the Middle East–the effort he was involved with when forced from power by the loss in the 2020 presidential election.

The Israeli-Palestinian peace plan advanced by President-elect Donald Trump during his first term will likely be back on the table when he returns to office, according to a former senior aide who reportedly has been tapped to help lead the transition team.

The Trump peace plan envisioned Israel being able to annex all of its settlements in the West Bank while granting the Palestinians a pathway to a semi-contiguous state on the remaining territory. The plan was swiftly rejected by the Palestinian Authority, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the plan with reservations. His settler allies, who are now part of his coalition, rejected the proposal due to its inclusion of a potential Palestinian state.

In an interview with CNN, Brian Hook, who served as Trump’s special envoy for Iran, is asked to respond to an assertion by Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister that normalization with Israel is off the table without the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Highlighting the 2020 peace plan, Hook tells CNN, “Much of that work is still relevant today,” adding that the proposal contains all of the conditions Riyadh is seeking in order to normalize with Israel.

However, Hook acknowledges that no one is “in much of a mood” to discuss a two-state solution following Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.

“There are many Israelis right now who are focused on other things, specifically keeping them safe from this kind of evil terrorism that they endured on October 7,” he says.

Citing three sources familiar with the matter, CNN reported yesterday that Hook will lead Trump’s transition team at the State Department. (“Trump official suggests 2020 Israeli-Palestinian peace plan will be back in play,” Jacob Magid, The Times of Israel, November 7, 2024)

It is the peacefulness of all these doings that makes one uncomfortable. It will be a covenant of false peace that divides God’s chosen nation Israel that will bring His wrath and judgment, according to Daniel 9:27.

It will be the dividing of God’s land, Israel, that will bring the world to Armageddon, according to the prophet Joel (Joel 3:2).

We are told that when there is a cry for peace and safety, sudden destruction comes (1 Thessalonians 5:3).

Antichrist will come in as a peacemaker, but by that peace, he will destroy many, the prophecy says (Daniel 8:25).

Now, I in no way am saying Donald J. Trump is to be Antichrist. And, there is no doubt in my thinking that he genuinely wants to bring all these wars, including that of Russia vs. Ukraine and Israel vs. the entire Israel-hating nations of the Middle East, to an end.

However, like past presidents and other leaders placed in power by Heaven’s edict to rid the world of war, to get to the peace, Mr. Trump seems perhaps poised as the world’s most powerful leader of these times to put into motion prophecy that will bring real peace—the only peace that will truly put an end to war on this fallen planet.

That will only happen when Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, breaks through the black clouds of war at Armageddon.

He is the only Hope–the Blessed Hope—for peace on earth and for peace in the human heart through salvation of the soul.

Here is how to receive that peace:

“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).

Final Donation Drive of 2024: Think-Not Time to Be Rapture Ready!

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Think-Not Time to Be Rapture Ready!

Let me say up front that this article is dedicated to appealing to our Rapture Ready family, asking that you help fund our efforts now, so late into the Church Age.

That funding is very much needed at this time. This is in large part because of pressures exerted by Internet-control authorities who, within their ability, make it as financially difficult as possible for us to go forward in presenting God’s message for this late hour. Obtaining the revenue to adequately meet our needs has become increasingly problematic.

This is something we must inform you of because the downturn in revenue comes at the time of an upturn in costs. We’re at a time when the prophetic picture is powerfully shaping up in pointing toward the great event we look for with great anticipation.

It is time to be Rapture Ready! We must present the message of salvation and of Christ’s any-moment intervention into this world so opposed to God’s righteousness.

So many within the Christian community across America now see this time of the election of Mr. Trump as a return to sanity and to movement toward America as founded. Todd and I agree that this is a positive development. Our God has so obviously intervened—from the moment when the former and future president missed being assassinated by mere inches—to Heaven’s influence having the anti-God forces in Psalm 2 derision as the political season unfolded.

We also see this as a dangerous time of possible miscalculation. By this, I mean many I’ve heard from think this election and a turn toward a less ungodly America, with the coming to power of this new administration, indicate that the Rapture must now be farther off than we had expected. Now we are going to see a time of peace and prosperity–a return to cultural and societal norms and moral sanity. The Rapture has been put on hold, is the sense I get from some of the Christian world.

While we welcome the turn of events in this election and the thought that voters have seen the light to some extent with regard to wanting a course correction, we must warn that this growing belief that now things will move back toward “Making America Great Again” creates a time our Lord warned about.

Those of you who are in our Rapture Ready family–as others who hold to the pre-Trib Rapture view within God’s family—have looked at all the portentous issues and events of these times as foreshadowing the Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week). And this is the correct observation. The Tribulation is almost upon this generation.

Just considering the matters involving God’s chosen nation and people–Israel—is, within itself, enough to prove where we stand on God’s prophetic timeline. Hatred for Israel and the desire of the world of diplomats to divide that land–and even eliminate Israel as a nation—prove we’re bumping right up against the end of this quickly fleeting age. So it is wise to see all the stage-setting we’ve observed coming with such frequency and intensity as showing how near the Rapture must be.

But, again, there is now a growing sense expressed by many that maybe the Rapture will not occur for quite some time, based on the political turn of events.

This is foolish, and we implore those who think this way to reconsider. The Rapture is right at the door. And the very attitude we’re getting from those who miscalculate where we are in God’s timing for prophetic fulfillment is itself prophetic fulfillment. It is fulfillment given in the tremendous forewarning by our Lord, Himself. Don’t miss it. It is profound at this late moment of this closing Age of Grace:

“Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh (Matthew 24:44).

This is a think-not time unlike any we’ve seen in the past. It’s as if all things have been brought to a providential pause. All the massive developments toward the Tribulation seem to some to be on hold. But we must not be apathetic or unaware. Jesus declared it’s at a time such as this when He will intervene through human history’s most dramatic event at this point–the Rapture of the Church.

So we ask that you help with donations at this end-of-the-age hour when Satan is coming with increasing vehemence against God’s ministries such as Rapture Ready. Thank you, as always, for being part of our Rapture Ready family. Your support, we believe, will be credited to your heavenly bank account. Like you, we want to hear our Lord’s words: “Well done, good, faithful servant” (Matthew 25:23).

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—Terry