PROPHECY UPDATE.........8/10/2022

 

Brilliant Argument for Pre-Trib Rapture - By Gary W. Ritter - https://www.raptureready.com/2022/07/05/brilliant-argument-for-pre-trib-rapture-by-gary-w-ritter/   Sometimes I come across something another person has written and just wish I’d been smart enough to make the point myself. Barring that, the next best thing is to highlight the issue and give credit where it’s due.   There are numerous sound, doctrinal reasons for a Pre-Tribulation Rapture. I’ve previously discussed many of them in my writings and Awaken Bible Prophecy Update videos. I also did an audio series of twelve episodes of Rapture Readings earlier this year. If interested, you can check out the first of these commentaries here. To listen to additional ones, look for the blue background on the title slides on my Rumble channel in this link above.   What I want to relate today is from another blogger’s post written a couple of years ago that I missed or didn’t appreciate when I was reading her series of articles on this subject. The title of blogger Heather’s article is End Times #8: A Pre-Trib Rapture is the Most Merciful Option. Heather is an excellent writer and is best known for her fervent stance against Calvinism. Given her experience with a Calvinist church and her subsequent research, I’d definitely put her in the expert category and would put her up against any committed Calvinist. Because she’s a thinker who also considers approaches to Scripture outside the box, she can be very persuasive.   The case that Heather makes in the linked post deals with those who will be left behind once the Rapture occurs with Jesus coming in the clouds for His true church – His ekklesia of called-out believers.   Here’s the question: What is it after the Rapture that causes untold millions to turn to faith in Jesus? This is one of the most important issues for believers in the various Rapture timing options to consider. Here is Heather:   “If the rapture is mid-trib or post-trib (which is possible if the theologians who believe this are correct), then the believers of the church age will face terrible persecution at the hands of man and Satan. But if this were true, what incentive would there be for unbelievers to turn to God during that time while the Christians are being persecuted? Why would people side with the Christians if there was nothing to prove to them that the Christians are right? They would have no real reason to think that the Bible was true all along or to desire to turn to Christ in the face of such persecution.   But if the rapture is pre-trib and before the mass martyrdom starts, then the world would have the biggest wake-up call ever and the greatest proof that the Bible is true, causing many people to turn to God despite the fact that they know the persecution is coming. The proof of God, the proof that the Bible is true and predicted it all, would be so shockingly clear that they would know that they have no other option than to choose God or choose eternal death. And many people would be willing to choose God then, to face death so long as they know they will have life eternally.”   Process this for a minute. Let’s say the Rapture is mid or post-Trib, or there is no Rapture at all, as some like to hallucinate. EVERYONE enters the Tribulation period (under the assumption that there IS a defined 7-year Tribulation, which some also deny). The UN Agenda 2030, in concert with the World Economic Forum’s Fourth Industrial Revolution, moves forward according to their schedule and desires. Build Back Better charges ahead at full speed.   So, here we are, fully committed Christians, half-hearted ones, and all the heathens of the world experiencing the wrath of God through the plagues that He begins raining down through the opening of the Seal Judgments. Not only that, but we’re at the mercy of the globalists with their devious endeavors to depopulate the world.   Now, some say that because Christians will go into and through the Tribulation, God will supernaturally protect us as He did with Joseph’s family when they went down to Goshen in Egypt, overstayed their welcome, and had to be delivered through the Exodus via the ten plagues of God upon Pharaoh and his people. That’s a rosy prognostication, but there’s absolutely nothing in Scripture which paints this picture – nothing textual that one can cling to so as to substantiate this hypothesis.   That being the case, what differentiates the Christians enduring this terrible time from anyone else? We’re in the same lifeboat that is being swamped by the massive waves of destruction and death pouring over the sides of our craft. Given this scenario, how is it that so many unbelievers become martyrs in the Lord during the Tribulation? If there’s nothing the pagans supernaturally see about the Christians enduring the same fate they are, why should anyone profess faith in Christ and actually die for Him?   But, as Heather brilliantly points out, the pre-Trib Rapture changes EVERYTHING. Surely there will be many misleading explanations for the sudden vanishing of millions of people worldwide, from aliens to Mother Gaia striking back against those who create such disharmony on the earth. However, word will get out. Many of those remaining will have been evangelized. There will also be those fleeing the chaos and scarcity who end up in the homes of Raptured believers. Since many of us are preparing for that day, these Tribulation refugees will find the Bibles, the videos explaining the Great Disappearance, the letters of greeting to “You who have been left behind,” as well as the stores of food, gold, and weapons.   Yes, these latter items will be welcome and necessary, but because of the confusion that will reign, the spiritual sustenance we’ve provided will draw many and provide the needed answers for their lives. Not to mention the evangelism God provides via His two witnesses, the 144,000 Jewish evangelists, and finally, the angel that proclaims the Gospel flying throughout the earth.   The seeking left-behind masses will come to an understanding that it was truly the work of our supernatural and loving God who snatched us from the midst of these horrors. The Holy Spirit will prick their conscience, and they will pursue deeply the things of Christ who sacrificed Himself and gave this astounding gift of sanctuary from the storm in the prelude to eternal life. These seekers will come to know that because of their poor choice of rejecting Jesus, they must partake in this punishment, yet they will also realize that even if they lose their lives for the sake of Christ, they will gain them forever by declaring Him as their Savior and Lord.   BECAUSE we were Raptured prior to all that will come during the Tribulation, many heathens will forsake themselves and choose Jesus Christ. Will it be incredibly difficult and scary? Absolutely. But they will understand that if they continue preferring the ways of the world and submit to Antichrist’s lies, they will be doomed to Death and Sheol. The Rapture will be the initial overwhelming evidence that God is real, the gift of eternal life through Christ Jesus is worthwhile, and they too can cling to that hope in the confidence of faith.   The mercy of the pre-Tribulation Rapture is one more aspect of the grace of God – one more opportunity that He gives to this lost and dying world to profess the Name of Jesus.   —   Gary Ritter website: books & blog   http://garyritter.com/   Kindle Vella story: Tribulation Rising   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099Z462WD

'Operation Breaking Dawn' Proved A Blowout For Israel – Yoav Limor - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5512   A confluence of circumstances led the latest round of fighting to conclude as the most successful operation Israel has ever waged in Gaza. Palestinian Islamic Jihad suffered an unprecedentedly severe blow, while Israel emerged largely unscathed.   To borrow a sports phase, this was a blowout. Islamic Jihad lost two senior field commanders in Gaza--Tayseer Jabari and Khaled Mansour--along with numerous assets related to the manufacturing and storage of weapons, headquarters and outposts.   Meanwhile, the terrorist organization failed to inflict any serious damage at all inside Israel and also failed to drag Hamas, the Arabs of Israel and eastern Jerusalem or Hezbollah in the north into the fray, leaving it alone in the fight.   There are more than a few reasons for this extraordinary accomplishment. The first and main reason is the quality of the intelligence provided by the Shin Bet, which set the table for the two assassinations that decided the fight. It's rare to obtain intelligence information of this sort about terrorist commanders who have lived for years as targets and are aware of the dangers surrounding them. It's even rarer for this to occur when tensions are high and during actual fighting.   Last Thursday, when the head of the Shin Bet informed the political echelon about the opportunity to eliminate Jabari, he changed Israel's footing from a defensive to an offensive posture. The intelligence about Mansour was already the knockout punch, after which it was clear that if nothing irregular was to occur, the fight was won. From that point forward, it was just a matter of time until the Egyptians could draft a ceasefire, which Israel wanted after meeting all of its objectives.   One of these objectives was keeping Hamas out of the fray. It seems the largest armed group in Gaza and the sovereign entity there wasn't eager to pay a price--military, economic or civilian--for Islamic Jihad's lunacy, which all started because of an arrest in Judea and Samaria.   Perhaps Hamas also had an interest in Israel taking care of this constant headache, although this will be further tested down the road by Hamas' response to Islamic Jihad the next time it fires a rocket. In other words, Israel gave Hamas an opportunity to solidify its grip on Gaza and put a muzzle on this smaller, more extremist organization.   Another objective was to separate Judea and Samaria from Gaza. After the pummeling it received in Gaza, Islamic Jihad should think a thousand times before trying to shut down Gaza over every arrest in Judea and Samaria. This is a lesson for Hamas as well, which is also trying to blur the lines between the two sectors.   The fact that the Arabs of Israel remained peaceful and the Temple Mount didn't erupt into riots despite the thousands of Jews who visited the holy site on Tisha B'Av was particularly fortuitous, and should deter Hamas in the future.   The operation's success was also aided by the precision capabilities of the Israeli Air Force and GOC Southern Command. Operations of this nature, which are conducted in a small and crowded area like Gaza, can easily go sideways due to tactical errors.   The fact that every payload was delivered with surgical precision, together with the small number of non-combatant casualties, helped keep Hamas out of the picture and international criticism at bay. The fact that Palestinian civilian casualties were mostly caused by failed rocket launches also helped crystallize the Israeli message that one side is fighting terror and one side is harming civilians in both Israel and Gaza.   Four more points to consider: 1) The political echelon worked in complete synchronicity both internally and externally with the military echelon, sweeping away all the misconceptions about its ability to make security decisions. 2) The responsible behavior of civilians prevented unnecessary casualties on the home front. 3) The public-relations machine was effective and efficient, maximizing the accomplishments and neutralizing the landmines. 4) The Egyptian mediation, which again proved its effectiveness.   As always, the operation s success can only be assessed in the future, in terms of the degree and duration of the deterrence against Islamic Jihad and Hamas; how fast it rehabilitates itself; the internal restraint in Gaza; and the ability to keep the sectors separated.   The bottom line, however, is that nothing fundamentally changed in Gaza these past few days and anyone who believes so is in for a rude awakening. Even if a period of quiet does ensure, whether prolonged or extremely temporary, without deep-rooted solutions the shooting will eventually resume.  Are We Witnessing the Collapse Of America’s System Of Government? - by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/are-we-witnessing-the-collapse-of-americas-system-of-government/   The corruption is right out in the open now. The whole world was stunned by the vicious raid on Mar-a-Lago, and it is quite obvious why it was ordered. Even though close to half of the country wants Donald Trump to run for president again, the Washington establishment is going to do whatever it takes to keep that from happening. If the Washington establishment is successful, will our system of government be able to survive? I think that is a legitimate question at this point. In order for any system of government to function, a certain percentage of the population must have faith in it. Even before the raid on Mar-a-Lago, poll after poll showed that confidence in our system of government was hovering near all-time lows. If the elite get what they want and Trump is banned from ever running for president from this point forward, it is going to fundamentally shake this nation to the core.   For the first time in U.S. history, the home of a former president has been raided.   Meanwhile, the FBI has evidence of major crime after major crime on Hunter Biden’s laptop and has done nothing.   At this point, I think that the Biden crime family could literally sacrifice children to pagan deities on the White House lawn and get away with it.   And of course the Clintons have been committing major crimes for decades without suffering any serious consequences.   In fact, Hillary Clinton used the raid on Mar-a-Lago as an opportunity to sell hats mocking her email scandal…   Hillary used the opportunity to cash in on sales of the hats which bear the slogan ‘But Her Emails’.   By mid-morning, the $32-a-pop accessories were sold out online.   Everyone knows that the Clintons were very close to Jeffrey Epstein, but none of the names in Epstein’s infamous “black book” have ever been charged.   Epstein visited the White House at least 17 times, and Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s private jet at least 26 times, and our corrupt law enforcement officials know all about this and have done nothing.   So perhaps it is appropriate that the judge that approved the raid on Mar-a-Lago literally represented some of Jeffrey Epstein’s former workers in court…   The Florida judge who signed off the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s mansion represented Jeffrey Epstein’s workers, it has been revealed.   Bruce Reinhart acted for several employees of the billionaire pedophile before he sanctioned the ‘unannounced’ search on Mar-a-Lago yesterday.   He left the local US Attorney’s office over a decade ago to set up a private practice and help staff members including his Lolita Express pilots and his scheduler.   The more you dig, the more connections you find.   It is one big giant club, and you aren’t part of it.   And anyone that threatens that club becomes a target. As Ted Cruz has correctly observed, the FBI and the Department of Justice are now being used as weapons against the enemies of the D.C. establishment…   The FBI raiding Donald Trump is unprecedented.   It is corrupt & an abuse of power.   What Nixon tried to do, Biden has now implemented: The Biden Admin has fully weaponized DOJ & FBI to target their political enemies.   And with 87K new IRS agents, they’re coming for YOU too.   If we actually had a just society, the Bidens and the Clintons would already be in prison.   But that will never happen.   The entire world can see the hypocrisy, and Ron DeSantis hit the nail on the head when he said that we have now become a banana republic…   The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.   What we are witnessing is a classic case of selective enforcement.   The other side can literally get away with murder, and meanwhile federal law enforcement officials are desperate to dig up any shred of evidence against Trump that they possibly can.   Could this potentially backfire on the D.C. establishment in a major way? Matt Taibbi is warning that what is playing out right in front of our eyes could be “the dumbest and most inadvertently destructive political gambit in the recent history of this country”…   As of now, it’s impossible to say if Trump’s alleged offense was great, small, or in between. But this for sure is a huge story, and its hugeness extends in multiple directions, including the extraordinary political risk inherent in the decision to execute the raid. If it backfires, if underlying this action there isn’t a very substantial there there, the Biden administration just took the world’s most reputable police force and turned it into the American version of the Tonton Macoute on national television. We may be looking at simultaneously the dumbest and most inadvertently destructive political gambit in the recent history of this country.   The top story today in the New York Times, bylined by its top White House reporter, speculates this is about “delayed returning” of “15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives.” If that’s true, and it’s not tied to January 6th or some other far more serious offense, then the Justice Department just committed institutional suicide and moved the country many steps closer to once far-out eventualities like national revolt or martial law. This is true no matter what you think of Trump.   I couldn’t have said it better myself.   The stakes are incredibly high. The D.C. establishment has gone all-in on destroying Trump and preventing him from ever running for the presidency ever again.   If they win, they win big.   If they lose, they lose big.   And either way, what they are doing is incredibly destructive to our system of government.   Once people lose faith in our system, it will be nearly impossible to restore it.   For the very first time since the founding of our nation, the very legitimacy of our system of government is being called into question.   Everyone can see that our federal government has become deeply, deeply corrupt, and at some point all of that corruption could cause it to completely collapse.  ‘Lawless’ FBI Raid Of Mar-a-Lago Demonstrates That America Is ‘Corrupt At a Level Not Seen Before’ – By Breanna Claussen - https://harbingersdaily.com/lawless-fbi-raid-of-mar-a-lago-demonstrates-that-america-is-corrupt-at-a-level-not-seen-before/   In a show of blatant political corruption, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday conducted a raid at Mar-a-Lago, the home of former President Donald Trump.   The pre-dawn raid was described by the 45th president in a statement, who said that the actions of the FBI demonstrated that America has become “corrupt at a level not seen before.”   “These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” he described in the statement. “Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.”   “After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Trump asserted. “It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections.”   “Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those countries, corrupt at a level not seen before,” he lamented.   “I stood up to America’s bureaucratic corruption, I restored power to the people, and truly delivered for our Country, like we have never seen before. The establishment hated it,” Trump continued. “The lawlessness, political persecution, and Witch Hunt must be exposed and stopped. I will continue to fight for the Great American people!”   The FBI justified its actions by claiming that the former president had taken classified documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago home at the end of his term.   Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi responded to the lawless raid by celebrating in an interview with MSNBC, stating that “no one is above the law, not even a president or a former president of the United States.”   Pelosi’s comments, however, ignore the numerous people within the Democrat Party who have operated outside of what the law allows without being held accountable. As many have pointed out following the raid, Hillary Clinton is a primary example.   Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State during the Trump administration, noted this contrast in treatment, calling the FBI’s actions dangerous and shameful.   “Executing a warrant against ex-POTUS is dangerous,” Pompeo, who served as CIA Director from 2017–2018, stressed. “The apparent political weaponization of DOJ/FBI is shameful. AG must explain why 250 yrs of practice was upended [with] this raid. I served on Benghazi Com where we proved Hilliary possessed classified info. We didn’t raid her home.”   Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee decried the FBI, but cautioned Trump supporters not to “take the bait.”   “Yesterday’s abuse of power by the FBI was so egregious that it seems likely to be a calculated provocation, to goad us into reacting in a way that gives them an excuse to crack down even more on conservatives as domestic terrorists,” he warned. “They would LOVE for you to do that. So, whatever you do, DON’T TAKE THE BAIT.”   “It seemed in 2016 to be just a handful of rogue FBI and DOJ officials,” Huckabee continued. “But we now know beyond doubt, with the shameful pre-dawn raid by 30+ FBI agents on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home to confiscate 15 boxes of materials, that it’s a systemic, methodical, highly orchestrated attempt to shut half the country completely out.”   “Only if evidence might be destroyed is a raid justified. Also, they would’ve needed a special warrant to enter Trump’s safe, but they did it, anyway. They wanted to create the illusion that there’s something criminal about Trump. The criminality is with the Department of ‘Justice,’” he insisted. “Yes, criminality.”   “The chilling event that occurred yesterday –- the most flagrant abuse of power I’ve seen in America in my lifetime –- comes after months and months –- years, actually –- of revelations about how dirty the FBI has been, playing with political enemies while letting political buddies off the hook for almost unbelievable corruption: Hillary’s blatant obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence,” Huckabee wrote. “Her role in starting the whole Trump-Russia hoax. Obvious influence peddling by the Biden family. Their own participation in election interference in 2016, 2020, and now the upcoming elections.”   “You don’t have to be a part of Trump’s so-called base to know: The abuse of power taking place now absolutely cannot stand. If this doesn’t show us how seriously twisted the justice system is in 2022 America, nothing ever will,” he concluded.   God’s Outpouring of Righteous Accountability   Jesus stated in Matthew 24:12 that in the time prior to His return lawlessness/iniquity would “abound” in the world. The word “iniquity” in this verse comes from the Greek word “anomia,” which carries an intriguing meaning in light of the lawlessness we are witnessing today. “Anomia” means to be without law. More specifically, to be in a state in which laws exist but are flagrantly violated.   Additionally, the apostle Paul warned that in the last days “men of corrupt minds” would seek to restrain and hinder the truth (2 Timothy 3:8-9).   From a Christian Perspective, many might ask why God appears to allow the corrupt and lawless to prosper in their wicked actions.   King David in the Bible expressed this same frustration, asking the Lord why the ungodly are met with success.   Psalm 73 states, “Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning… When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.” (12-14, 16-18)   Similarly, in our generation, God has also provided us assurance that He, Himself, will respond and put an end to the corruption in our world through the pouring of his wrath on mankind during the seven-year tribulation (from which the Church is absent), culminating in the second coming of Christ.   2 Timothy 3:8-9 states that these corrupt minds “shall proceed no further” and “their folly shall be manifest unto all men.”   The lawlessness prevalent today indicates that God’s outpouring of righteous accountability is close on the horizon. His cup of wrath is filling up.   Franklin Graham, discussing the lawlessness of our society, underscored that “God’s justice and holiness demand that evil be punished, not just here and now but in the eternal state as well.”   “Upon His glorious return, our Lord Jesus Christ will mete out judgment for those who have refused His gracious offer of salvation and instead lived as rebels on earth,” he explained.   “In God’s mercy for sin-stained humanity, His justice was executed upon His one and only Son at the cross,” Graham noted. “The punishment for our sins was completed, so that we who believe on His Name might no longer be condemned. ‘For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God’ (1 Peter 3:18).” Daily Jot: Stupidocrisy: Ignoring the message - Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com   One of the most egregious abuses of government power in American history has occurred and those in charge claim they knew nothing about it. This doesn’t pass the straight-face test. If the FBI or IRS or Homeland Security or any of the other strongarms of the federal government can invade a person’s house, a person who is cooperating with investigations and is not a lethal threat to society, someone like former president Donald Trump, they can do it to you. And to show the complicity of political opponents, all you have to do is listen to their responses—they claim they don’t know anything. When a target like the former president is publicly raided, you can bet your jackboots they all know what’s going on.   Let’s start with the White House. As reported by several media outlets because the White House Daily Briefing was not posted on whitehouse.gov at the time of this writing, Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “No, the president was not briefed, was not aware of it. No one at the White House was given a heads up. No, that did not happen…The president learned about this just like you all did — through the public reports and we learned about this just like the American people did. We did not know about this and we had not been briefed. We learned about this as you all were reporting it.” When asked if the raid was politically motivated, Jean-Pierre said that she would not “speak to that from here.”   Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) didn’t know anything either. She told MSNBC’s Morning Joe, “All I know about that is what is in the public domain. I was surprised that it flashed on my phone last evening, so I don’t really have too much to say except that to have a visit like that, you need a warrant. To have a warrant, you need justification. And that says that no one is above the law, not even a president or a former president of the United States.” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) told the Rachel Maddow Show, “Well, I know nothing about it other than what I’ve read like everybody else, so I think it’s wise for me to withhold comments until we learn more.” Can anyone say “Talking Points”? Attorney General Merrick Garland isn’t saying anything either. Nobody knows nothing about no raid.   We do know that the judge who approved the warrant for the raid, Bruce Reinhart, resigned from the South Florida US Attorney’s Office in 2008 then the next day went to work for convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s employees. He then donated thousands of dollars to former president Obama’s campaign. Later he was appointed judge. There’s always a connection. Politicians who always know everything and now say they don’t know anything speaks volumes. As in 2 Timothy 3:1, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.” One thing for certain, the Democrats are sending a perilous message to those who dare oppose them. Ignoring it would be, say it with me…Stupidocrisy. Daily Devotion: Don’t Underestimate the Enemy - by Greg Laurie – www.harvest.org   But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere. —John 10:10   https://harvest.org/resources/devotion/dont-underestimate-the-enemy-2/ - Listen   A story is told of a boxer who was being badly beaten in a match. He leaned over to his trainer and yelled, “Throw in the towel! This guy is killing me!”   His trainer yelled back, “He is not! He’s not even hitting you! He hasn’t even laid a glove on you!”   The dazed boxer said, “Then I wish you would watch that referee, because someone sure is hitting me!”   In the same way, our culture is getting hit. Our kids are being hit. And they don’t even know who is hitting them.   One of the most brilliant strategies Satan has managed to pull off is convincing people he doesn’t exist while he manipulates their lives. He is active. And really, this is the only plausible explanation for the horrible, depraved wickedness that mankind is capable of.   If you believe the premise that people are basically good, then you have more faith than I do—or maybe you’re a bigger fool. People are basically bad. And the devil works through the fallen nature of people, getting them to do evil.   God gives everyone a choice in life called free will, the ability to say yes or no. Romans 6:16 says, “Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.”   Jesus summed it up succinctly when He said, “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life” (John 10:10). There is your choice in life: God or the devil.   Don’t underestimate the devil. He’s a sly and skillful foe. And he has had many years of experience in honing his craft.

PROPHECY UPDATE...............8/9/2022

 

Evil Men and Wicked Seducers – Terry James - https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2022/08/08/evil-men-and-wicked-seducers/   There is no dearth of information-evidence to address the prophecy by the Apostle Paul for the time so near the end of the Age of Grace.   But evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Timothy 3:13)   We now have in our once biblically-influenced nation an entire public education system steeped in every sort of evil. And the evil begins at the most basic level.   Kindergarteners are now exposed to the likes of drag queens and their perversions. Grades above that level are routinely taught the anti-God lessons of transgender and CRT (Critical Race Theory) and are inculcated on a regular basis that America as founded and over the years has been a tyrannical, colonial master of peoples around the world.   History is revised–in many cases completely rewritten—to make textbooks present fabrications and outright lies. Marxist socialism and even worse are foisted upon the students of secondary education, and, particularly, those matriculating within colleges and universities.   Human life is counted by these anti-God educators as a problem. Mother Earth suffers because human beings are destroying her, thus abortion is preferred to bringing, in particular, the dark races to birth. (More than 40 percent of the millions of babies murdered in their mothers’ wombs by the likes of Planned Parenthood are African American.)   Abortion is closely allied to LBTQ etc…etc… Abortionists and LBTQ etc…etc…evil seducers help achieve the depopulation of “eaters” who are accused of destroying the planet.   Several generations within the nation have been seduced to believe that heterosexuality and homosexuality are equally acceptable within cultural and societal norms. As a matter of fact, anyone who adheres to those previous traditional views of the matters involved are now deemed to be at best homophobic bigots worthy of being publically ostracized at every turn, and at worst deemed to have mental illness. Homosexuality itself, of course, was a thing psychologists and psychiatrists, in more rational, past times, pointed to as aberrant behavior, or as mental instability in clinical terms.    Now evil men who propose creating transhumanism (superhuman/technology hybrids produced by science) have emerged and are in process of seducing all of humanity in anti-God ways that are even more egregious than those inflicted by anti-God, anti-American educators since the 1960s. These exhibit the earmarks of influence of the demonic realm. Ephesians 6:12 is in view as never before. Examples of this end times manifestation of evil men and seducers is illustrated through the following information.   One of the most enigmatic, sensational, and misguided thinkers of the last 10 years is Israeli historian and pop philosopher Yuval Noah Harari. His book Sapiens, published in English in 2015, sold over a million copies as it told the story of mankind’s evolution. His 2017 book Homo Deus predicts a transhumanist future, a world where technology fundamentally reshapes what kind of entity human beings are.   “We humans should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls. We are now hackable animals,” he told attendees at the 2020 World Economic Forum annual meeting. “By hacking organisms, elites may gain the power to reengineer the power of life itself,” he said two years earlier. “This will be not just the greatest revolution in the history of humanity. This will be the greatest revolution in biology since the very beginning of life 4 billion years ago.”   Harari’s prophecy doesn’t end there: “Science is replacing evolution by natural selection by evolution via intelligent design,” he continued in 2018. “Not the intelligent design of some God above the clouds, but our intelligent design, and the intelligent design of our clouds: the IBM cloud, the Microsoft cloud … these are the new, driving forces of evolution.” (John Stonestreet and Kasey Leander, “Can We Hack Humans? Should We?” Christian World View, July 12, 2022)   Yubal Noah Harari often blasphemes in his pronouncements that man with his AI ventures is replacing man’s concept of the God of Heaven. Some even believe him to be Antichrist in the making. I don’t believe that is the case. But he exhibits the Antichrist spirit, to be sure.   His work with the likes of Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, and others within the World Economic Forum does look to be a major platform that might produce the satanic regime headed by the man of sin, the son of perdition.   Paul’s prophecy is front and center as the world grows ever darker and evil men and seducers grow worse and worse. But this all means that we are to serve as God’s light for those who do not accept Heaven’s grace gift and who are doomed to suffer through man’s worst time of history.   If you haven’t accepted that gift, here is how to do so before it is too late.   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)

Russia-China Alliance Prepares to Take on America – Emily Thompson - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5515   China and Russia have deepened their cooperation in recent years in large part thanks to the US decoupling itself from many regions as it focuses on domestic issues. China's engagement with Russian biotech has increased and in general the Sino-Russian relationship has improved.   Moscow and Beijing have grown increasingly closer, starting with the 2001 Treaty of Friendship up to the most recent agreement between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the opening day of the Winter Olympics in February. The agreement states that the friendship between the two states "has no limits."   Americans are not pleased with this growing partnership between China and Russia. According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, around nine out of ten US adults say they believe it is at least somewhat of a serious problem for the US. A 62% majority say it is a very serious problem. Among other problems, Americans are concerned over China's involvement in US politics, human rights issues in China, and tensions between China and Taiwan.   Michael Hirsh, a senior correspondent at Foreign Policy, writes that with NATO expanding its focus to China, new battle lines are being drawn. Hirsh also believes that today, we are experiencing a new cold war which has already begun and is about to go global. The NATO summit in Madrid is a sign that the global order is indeed changing swiftly.   The Foreign Policy Research Institute published a paper by Carla Jones in which she highlights China's increased investment in Africa, pointing to widespread concern that China may use its strengthening economic power "to extract concessions from that may be economically and politically detrimental to Africa." She also quotes former US Secretary of State John Bolton who derided China's hegemonic ambitions in Africa as predatory and "the strategic use of debt to hold states in Africa captive to Beijing's wishes and demands."   Closer to home, China's naval ambitions are clear. Recently, it launched its third and most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian. China is spending heavily on its military and, together with the Fujian, has 17 Type 39A/B submarines, ten Type 055 destroyers, and numerous merchant ferries. This is a worrying development as China's increasing aggression against Japan over territorial disputes in the East China Sea, as well as disputes with a number of Southeast Asian countries in the South China Sea and with Taiwan.    The Center for a New American Security conducted a war game simulation to determine America's response in the event China invades Taiwan. Experts determined that "with Chinese assertiveness rising, U.S. and Taiwanese policymakers need to think through the challenges of responding to a crisis strongly enough to defend their security interests without turning crisis into conflict. By gaming out these challenges, the US and Taiwan can fully grasp the urgency of building an effective deterrence strategy now to help prevent a future Chinese fait accompli."   NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, in a speech in November at the NATO-Industry Forum in Rome, Italy, said China already has the second-largest defense budget and will soon have the biggest economy in the world.    "We need to address the rise of China which really is something that is changing the security environment we all are faced with," he said.    Stoltenberg added that China "has the ambition to become the world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030 and to have the most technologically advanced armed forces in the world by 2050... This ambition is not rhetorical - it is very real."   China's failed attempt to rally support behind the Common Development Vision, an agreement which would have linked the Pacific island nations closer to China, proves that not everything is going according to plan. China aims to change the geopolitical status quo in the Pacific and the region's reluctance to align with China is a glaring red flag for the communist country's leadership.   For now, China will focus its ambitions on other areas such as Africa where it hopes to gain leverage and power through its Belt & Road Initiative. In addition, melting sea ice in the Arctic means China may be able to take advantage of the shorter route while avoiding the Russia-controlled Northern Sea Route. This would have a tremendous impact on China's ability to deliver goods more quickly and cheaply so there is a lot of interest in this region of the world as well.   And of course, there is space. China is building its own space station to rival the International Space Station, has built the world's largest radio telescope, and is expected to launch a powerful space telescope next year. Chinese ambitions extend to space and it is a clear signal to the US and other countries that it wants to be viewed as a superpower and taken seriously.   The same Pew poll found that 66% of US adults say China's influence on the world stage has grown stronger in recent years. They also see China's growing power as a threat to the US. Today, 82% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of China.    In addition, a majority of Americans view the China-Russia relationship as a very serious problem. This, coupled with Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, has resulted in millions of Americans and Europeans viewing Russia and China as problematic and even dangerous.    But as the US reduces its footprint around the world and leaves governance and military support to others, only China and Russia have the capacity to fill the void; and for this reason, America needs to fight for uni-polarity. A multi-polar world, with China and Russia growing increasingly stronger, is dangerous for all democracies and freedom-loving nations around the world. Nearing Midnight: Redefining the Meaning of Recession to Avoid Reality – Todd Strandberg - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/   The Biden administration has done a terrible job of handling the economy. Not only has it been blind to the dangers that are headed our way, but it also took steps that made them worse. President Biden ignored inflation warning cries over the trillions we were spending on covid stimulus packages. The Treasury increased the money supply by 40% in less than two years. The Fed bought $5 trillion in mortgage-backed securities.   When all this debt creation caused inflation to rise higher, Biden said it was only a temporary problem. When inflation kept on rising, the American people started noticing the financial pain. Figures that the Fed follows closely show that we now have the highest levels of inflation since January 1982. The president’s nose-diving poll numbers finally forced some action. Interest rates have increased by 1.75% over the past two months. Washington is so far behind on inflation, that rates would need to go up by another 7% to generate real yields on bond investments.   The U.S. economy is facing another financial problem – recession. Last week it was learned that the gross domestic product (GDP) had declined for the past two quarters. The U.S. economy shrank at an annual pace of 1.6% in the first quarter and declined by 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2022.   Shortly before the new GDP numbers came out, a post was made to government financial sites that stated two back-to-back declines in GDP do not mean we are in a recession. When asked if the Biden administration was trying to change the definition, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the strength of the labor market and other indicators are “not what we generally see as we talk about recession or even pre-recession.”   Biden addressed the debate, predicting the U.S. will dodge a downturn and similarly highlighting the labor market’s rebound as a sign of good economic health.   “We’re not going to be in a recession, in my view. The [un]employment rate is still one of the   lowest we’ve had in history,” he said. “My hope is we go from this rapid growth to steady    growth.”   Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said an organization called the National Bureau of Economic Research that looks at a broad range of data is what decides whether or not there is a recession. And most of the data that they look at right now continues to be strong.   The truth-seeking Snopes.com was once a helpful site. Because it is run by leftists, it agreed with Biden’s adjusted meaning of recession. Snopes tried to have things both ways in saying it didn’t want to “give readers the misleading impression that the Biden administration literally tried to revise the criteria economists use to determine when a recession has occurred. But that was not the case.”   Wikipedia has been criticized after the website changed the definition of the term recession and locked the page to prevent editing by the public. Wikipedia said it locked the page to require proper citation and avoid political bias. When you’re editing your content based on the word of the 21st century’s great economist, Joes Biden, no other source is needed.   It is very dangerous to change something that has been the standard way of measuring the economy for over 50 years. Because the NBER doesn’t declare that a recession has occurred until it’s in the past, we will never live through another one.   A bear market is when a market experiences prolonged price declines. It typically describes a condition in which securities prices fall 20% or more from a recent high. An official depression occurs when GDP declines by more than 10% and an unemployment rate that at one point reached 25%.   If we run into a bear market, the Biden administration may declare it to be a bargain market, where investors can buy stocks at a good discount. If we run into a depression, Washington would likely talk it up as just a correction. Biden would say stocks came down so they can go much higher.   The greatest danger we face here is mankind’s arrogance in thinking we have full control of the economy. If something goes wrong, we’ll just rename it. If inflation spikes higher, we’ll raise interest rates. If the economy starts to stall, we’ll print more money.   There have been several times in American history when a financial calamity occurred and people were powerless to fix the situation. The Great Depression and the inflation of the 1970s are two examples. Our political leader tried several plans to restore our nation to a sound economy but failed.   The stock market has remained steady not because our nation is run by geniuses. These people have no idea what they are doing. The financial stability is likely the result of God getting the world ready for judgment. What seems like a blessing is just the calm before the storm.   “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance” (Psalm 33:120). ‘Evil Is Good And Hate Is Love’: Media And Politicians Refuse To Tell The Truth About Monkeypox – Samuel Sey - https://harbingersdaily.com/evil-is-good-and-hate-is-love-media-and-politicians-refuse-to-tell-the-truth-about-monkeypox/   Many of the people who say they love LGBTQ people hate them. The biggest enemies of LGBTQ people are actually their “allies”. The most homophobic people in the world are people who are afraid of telling LGBTQ people the truth.   Monkeypox is evidence of this. The “allies” of LGBTQ people in politics and media are refusing to tell gay men the truth about monkeypox.   According to the World Health Organization, 95% of people infected with monkeypox are gay men.   However, though this current outbreak has been mostly transmitted through sexual acts between gay men, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say monkeypox isn’t a sexually transmitted disease.   Nevertheless, though Joe Biden declared monkeypox as a public health emergency on Thursday—like the media and other Democratic politicians, he refused to tell gay men the truth about monkeypox.   In fact, in response to the World Health Organization urging gay men to stop participating in orgies, Scott Wiener—A California state senator who represents San Francisco—said, “If people want to have sex, they are going to have sex…People will make their own decisions about their own risk levels.”   Naturally, Wiener’s words received significant attention on social media, especially over his contradictory reactions to COVID. However, the most important thing about Wiener’s words isn’t what it implies about his views on COVID—it’s what it implies about his views on gay people.   In reaction to politicians refusing to tell the truth about monkeypox, one prominent gay activist said, “It was devaluing gay men’s lives and health not to warn gay men…Now, here we are, really on the verge of monkeypox being endemic in gay communities all over the world, and how is that for stigma.”   In other words, it’s not homophobic to warn gay men about monkeypox—It’s homophobic to not warn gay men about monkeypox. People who refuse to warn gay men about monkeypox are not their “allies”, they are their enemies. People who refuse to protect gay people do not love them, they hate them.   But this is what happens when society redefines the meaning of love. When Wiener said, “If people want to have sex, they are going to have sex”, he was essentially saying “love is love.”   However, that description of love is a circular argument that gives people an opportunity to label evil as good or hate as love.   But as the Bible says in Isaiah 5:20-21: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!”   Many of us are familiar with the first part of verse 20. Most of us, however, rarely quote verse 21. But verse 21 explains verse 20. Meaning, the reason why some people label evil as good or hate as love is because they are wise in their own eyes. In other words, the reason why some people label hate as love is because in their arrogance, they refuse to believe and submit to what God has said about love.   As I said in an article last year, God loves LGBTQ people more than we do. God is love. Therefore if we hate what God says in the Bible about identity and sexuality, we do not love LGBTQ people. Love is an attribute of God and it’s an attribute from God. We cannot separate love from God. Therefore if we do not love God, it distorts what it means to love our LGBTQ neighbours as ourselves. (Mark 12: 28-31)   Therefore, when God says love “does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth” (1 Corinthians 13:6), it means it’s hateful, not loving to withhold the truth from LGBTQ people. It means it’s loving to tell LGBTQ people the truth—the truth about monkeypox, the truth about sin, the truth about the wrath of God in hell, and the truth about the grace of God in Jesus Christ.   So, do you love LGBTQ people?   Do you love LGBTQ people enough to tell them the truth? Do you love LGBTQ people enough to tell them the truth about the consequences of their sins in this life and the next? Do you love LGBTQ people enough to tell them the truth about the horrors of hell and justification by faith in Jesus?   If you are a Christian and you tell LGBTQ people the truth, some people will say you are homophobic and transphobic. But that’s because they say evil is good, and hate is love. If you love LGBTQ people, tell them the truth. Daily Jot: The slippery slope to tyranny - Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com   The FBI raid of Donald Trump’s home should be a wake up call to all Americans that the Democratic Party leadership is intentional about reimagining the homeland into a statist nation. It is a slippery slope to tyranny. From David Koresh and Elian Gonzalez during the Clinton years to IRS treatment of conservative and Christian organizations to the Russian influence scam to spying on Trump’s campaign and the news media under Obama, Democrat regimes increasingly have abused government power. This week, people should at least consider that the FBI raid on Trump’s home and the passage of the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are harbingers to the tyrannical agenda of the extreme left.   The Obama Administration used the IRS to harass many groups critical of Obama. In May 2013, Red State reported, “Among the ministries targeted are the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Samaritan’s Purse and the Biblical Recorder–the newspaper of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention. The revelations seem to indicate the IRS was targeting more than just Tea Party groups and conservative political organizations.” In June 2021, Biden’s IRS denied the 501(c)(3) application for Christians Engaged because the IRS considered bible teachings to be affiliated with the Republican Party. This recent incident with Christians Engaged demonstrates how an unconstitutional agency like the IRS can sway back and forth on its interpretation of administrative law based on what party holds office.   In June of 2018, the Inspector General issued a report on the FBI abuse of power during the Obama Administration. The FBI and the Obama White House used the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to spy on Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. On December 17, 2019, the FISC issued an order saying that it was duped by Obama’s FBI into issuing a warrant to spy on President Trump’s campaign, stating: “This order responds to reports that personnel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provided false information to the National Security Division (NSD) of the Department of Justice… When FBI personnel mislead NSD in the ways described above, they equally mislead the FISC.” Obama was responsible for approving the spy request to the FISC at the urging of his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.   Fast forward to this week where the FBI conducted an unprecedented show-raid on Trump’s home and the Democrats rammed through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Trump rightly claims the FBI raid is a weaponization of the Justice System. The Inflation Reduction Act raises taxes, arming the IRS with an additional $80 billion to hire 87,000 more agents. The FBI actions with the FISA Court and Trump combined with the use of the IRS to silence political dissent should send shivers down the collective spine of all Americans. These people must be voted out of office and their agenda reversed if American liberty is to survive. As in 2 Peter 2:2, “And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.” We need to repent and turn toward the God of truth as the tide of tyranny rises before us. Daily Devotion: When Failure Is Good - by Greg Laurie – www.harvest.org   But as I looked at everything, I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere. —Ecclesiastes 2:11   https://harvest.org/resources/devotion/when-failure-is-good-2/ - Listen   Is success the most important thing in life? It depends on how we define success. Many people achieve their goals, but what cost did they pay to achieve them? Was it through deception and betrayal? Was it by abandoning their principles and sacrificing their integrity? Was it by neglecting their family and friends and even forgetting about and, in some cases, outright abandoning God? They may be successful. But ultimately, they are failures. Success can be a form of failure.   King Solomon, who went on a sinful binge, of sorts, said, “Anything I wanted, I would take. I denied myself no pleasure. I even found great pleasure in hard work, a reward for all my labors. But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere” (Ecclesiastes 2:10–11). He had seen it all and done it all, and it didn’t satisfy him.   We can do worse than fail. We can succeed and be personally proud of our successes. We can succeed and worship the accomplishment rather than the One who helped us reach it.   Sometimes failure can be good because we can learn from our mistakes. And failure can be good even when we do something that is wrong—if we learn from it and if we learn to fail forward.   That means after we have done something wrong and have tasted the bitter results of it, we say, “I really don’t want to do that again.” So we put safeguards around our lives, taking precautionary steps to never fall into the same trap. If that is the case, then we have learned something from our failures.