If I Only Knew Then, What I Think I Know Now
- John Bellam
- Jun 9
- 48 min read
“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” -Dan 12:4
He was the Godfather of modern prophecy experts! His work was heralded by the adoring community of “last days” eschatology students who believed his landmark book “Late Great Planet Earth” had ushered us into the final stages of human history with greater knowledge of where we are in time and an edge of our seat expectation that the return of Jesus Christ was right at the doorstep. With each new discovery, each geopolitical move, each downgrade of the societal moral code, we appeared to see the final picture Hal Lindsay forecast coming into greater focus and we just knew the appearance of our Lord Jesus had to be imminent . Those were the 80s and 90s and we thought we had most of the prophetic puzzle figured out ! But Oh would we have been stunned if someone from 2025 could have traveled back in time and looked us straight in the eye exclaiming: “hold on to your hat...cause you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”
February 1994…. LATE EVENING!
I had just arrived at my mother’s home to pick up my three young daughters after a last minute getaway date with my wife when I saw the new book on her kitchen table. “Planet earth 2000 A.D.” was Hal Lindsey’s new book and my mom was in the midst of reading it anxiously . She had always loved reading Hal’s books and this new one was an updated overview of all the events and signs Hal had covered in “Late Great Planet Earth!”
I too had read “Late Great” and was curious as to what might be happening that was an evolution from what Hal had thought 20 years earlier . A few days later , after mom had finished reading it … I took the book home and couldn’t set it down until I had finished it cover to cover! It woke me up to the world my children would soon be growing up in and it forever fixed my eyes on God’s prophetic time table and the daily news cycles that were steamrolling us closer and closer to our date with the Rapture. But how did the signs of Christ’s return look then compared to what has transpired since ? In some ways …. As different as they were from John’s recording of the Revelation to what we thought we saw unfolding in the 90s . The transformation has been that radical !
GEOPOLITICAL
JUNE 12, 1987 ……BRANDENBURG GATE…BERLIN GERMANY
American President Ronald Reagan has just delivered perhaps his greatest speech…demanding that Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev “Tear Down This Wall”… dividing East and West Germany as well as splitting the Communist East from the Democratic West-of Europe. The President had thrown down a gauntlet challenging Gorbachev to radically transform the geopolitical landscape of the world and open up Russia to a world of free enterprise and capitalistic economic gain. It would take several more years before the dissolution of the Soviet Empire would be complete but this moment marks the beginning of a rapid decline that would see the Russian Bear struggle for the dominance and much feared power they had held over their region and the whole world since World War Two. It was a huge development in Bible Prophecy as well because all the nations that were part of the Soviet Union are not going to take part in the specific end times coalition of Gog and Magog when they come against Israel. Russia also needed to feel economic desperation to propitiate the end times attack. In essence, Russia needed to be isolated...and Reagan’s speech helped initiate that Isolation.
OTHER GEOPOLITICAL HAPPENINGS THEN…
Two other huge geopolitical shakeups of that era were the Oslo Accords and operation Desert Storm.
-Oslo Accords:
This agreement (or supposed one) set the stage for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be on the negotiation table constantly from that point forward with the world continually seeking to divide God’s nation and force a bad deal on the Jews. It also legitimized the PLO taking them from a terrorist organization to a negotiation partner . Hailing the phrase “cycle of violence” in order to equate Israel’s retaliations to terror to the PLO initiation of terror causes the world to level the playing field and give moral equivalence to the PLO plight to make war and Israel’s sovereign right to defend itself.
-Operation Desert Storm:
ODS brought the western coalition of nations into war against Iraq and set a precedent for how the Middle East would henceforth be a continual stumbling block the world would be fixated on controlling and conquering . It will come to its ultimate end at the battle of Armageddon as humanity and Satan seek to defy God and his edicts for the region and eradicate Israel’s ordained dominance .
Things seemed to be aligning in the 90s but Iran and Russia were not yet joined at the hip and Israel was far too powerful to fear Iran as a viable threat . The Palestinian attacks were still more like pin pricks than all out warfare. But the hatred was there and simmering to a slow boil so we all knew the day would come when Iran would lure a powerful force from the North to help them seek their ultimate goal…Israel’s destruction . Things have multiplied on thousand fold since then.
GEOPOLITICAL HAPPENINGS NOW…
The explosion of Geopolitical signs in recent years dwarf anything we imagined in the 80s and 90s. Back then America seemed too important and powerful to face a rapid decline. The only way America could fall seemed to be from a surprise nuclear attack that would leave a “Mad-Max” type of world behind but we never could have imagined the internal decline and complete about-face of the Democratic Party that would be a Trojan horse destroying our culture, economy, and patriotism from within. Sadly, the latter is exactly what happened.
More geopolitical shifts include:
-Rise of Europe :
The EU and NATO’s growing separation from dependence on America as Donald Trump seeks to further separate from the western world’s non-stop expectations of receiving charity and protection from the United States is leading to a leader like the Biblically described Antichrist arising from the area of old Rome.
-Coming together of the Gog-Magog coalition :
For the first time in history , Russia, Iran and Turkey are coming together with other Muslim nations to form alliances that will soon lead to the devastating effort to attack, destroy and plunder Israel while the rest of the world is in chaos. For decades, Iran has made mini war with Israel through its proxies (Hamas and Hezbollah) but soon they will turn to the alliance with a nuclear superpower to help bring the final attack together. Recent developments seem to bolster this effort:
“Concerning the long-awaited battle of Gog and Magog, on May 21, 2025, Iran’s parliament ratified a new agreement with Russia. It reportedly stops short of a mutual defense clause, but it commits both nations to respond to common military threats, advance military-technical collaboration, and engage in joint military exercises.” -Damon Duck (5-25-2025)
All the geopolitical shifting the last 30 years has paved the way for this exact dynamic to materialize right on time with all the other sign of Christ’s return.
-Rise of 10 kings :
While we can’t be sure if BRICS will be the final ten kings mentioned in Scripture or if those kings will be 10 regions of economic division the globalists have drawn up for their final global vision of economic/political regional governance , we see the attempt to pave the way for 10 kings happening right now. It was too dim and blurry to see anything of the sort back in the 90s with only the original ten nations of the Western European Union seeming a likely candidate for those ten positions. While the WEU may still be where the final 10 kings emerge from, it seems more likely that we are going to see the plan come to the forefront to divide the world into ten trading blocks during Trump’s final term as the world’s globalists rebel against his leadership and his efforts and desire to keep America at the top!
-Iran nuclear Deal :
Jan 16, 2016 the International Atomic Energy Agency verified Iran has completed the steps necessary to make sure Iran’s Nuclear program would remain exclusively peaceful. Barack Obama sent billions of dollars to Iran to secure the deal in a last ditch effort to embellish his Middle East policy legacy before leaving office. The act was a betrayal of Israel, the American tax payers and the safety of the world by putting vast amounts of cash into the Mullah’s pockets ensuring that the exact thing the deal claimed to be preventing would indeed ultimately happen. Iran had been provided enough funding through the deal to secretly create the devastating nuclear weapons that would not only endanger Israel and America but eventually would threaten the whole world itself.
The Iran deal pushed the doomsday clock forward weather the sleeping western world realized and admitted it or not . And it emboldened and enriched Iran monetarily to be able to further scheme and fund terror attacks like the major attack on Israel on Oct 7, 2023 through their Proxies.
-October 7, 2023:
One of the most devastating single days in Jewish history as Hamas attacked, killed, kidnapped, burned, and tortured thousands of Israelis in a surprise attack. The brutal ambush of the Jewish nation pushed the world closer yet to the "final solution" that governments ultimately will come to about Israel’s future. The world quickly turned the tables blaming Israel as an occupier of Palestinian land and the future division of the Jewish nation that this invasion helped necessitate, will no doubt be the final catalyst for the Lord’s gathering of the world to the Valley of decision just before Christ returns.
RELIGION
NOVEMBER 27, 1995 …MID AFTERNOON .. LAKE FORREST, CALIFORNIA
Rick Warren is pleased. His Church transforming Seeker Sensitive book, “Purpose Driven Church” has just been released, and his vision of the future of Church Growth will soon be in the hands of pastors everywhere across America. Some will call the massive “Saddleback” movement “Church-In-A-Box” because Warren’s desire is to have every Church in the land assimilate with his Church building formula to reach the unchurched and make Sunday mornings more inviting to those who just want to sample the Christian faith and see if it works for them.
Others have tried a similar “Seeker Sensitive” approach before Warren. Those include Robert Schuler’s Crystal Cathedral Church and Bill Hybel’s Willow Creek. But no one will make the impact on the nation from a Christian leadership position like Warren soon will . He will rise to the position and title of “ America’s Pastor” (replacing Billy Graham) and his books and Church growth materials will be everywhere including Walmart. He will even host a Presidential debate in 2008 between Barack Obama and John McCain and will do a controversial invocation at Obama’s inauguration invoking the Muslim name for their prophet jesus (Isa) in the place of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! But sadly, his methods will do more to weaken the church and minimize the learning of God’s word helping create a far more shallow believer and a nation of youth that will eventually turn away from the faith in droves because they lack the substance and depth of Biblical understanding to withstand the Worlds attacks.
Back then, many saw Warren’s movement as a call to harvest because the fields were ripe and many believed there would be a great revival before the end of the age. This revival meant Jesus was coming soon in the eyes of many. But…this thinking falls more in line with Kingdom Now theology than it does an accurate understanding of Biblical eschatology. Warren’s movement had more to do with the great "falling away" of the Church than it did a a true revival.
What it did more than anything else was label Fundamental Bible believers as outdated Fuddy-Duddies. One quote from 'Purpose-Driven' says it all when it states “ The last thing most Christian’s need is another Bible Study.” This line of thinking pushes further as Warren claims the movement is about “Deeds not Creeds.” But he fails to understand that without fundamental understanding of the requirements of the faith, we become middle of the road and that’s exactly what the world wants from Christianity. A faith that sets up charities and ice cream socials but doesn’t push its exclusive beliefs in Jesus as the only hope for a lost world.
The world wants a benign Christianity that doesn’t offend. But Jesus Himself didn’t leave that option:
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.” -Matthew 10:34-36
OTHER RELIGIOUS HAPPENINGS THEN
Entering the 1990s, very few westerners truly understood the nature of Islam. That quickly changed with 9-11. But the unfathomable part was how the religion was painted as peaceful after the attacks and that the terrorists were mere radicals acting against the nature of their religion. The truth is that a global movement to end extremism in religion and absolute beliefs was being initiated as far back as Peter Drucker who wanted the religions of the world to merge together and keep society from plunging back into World War Two type divisions.
He felt business and religion could change the world but that would require extremists in all faiths to be weeded out. Thus… the desire by men like Warren to get rid of the fundamentalists in the pews and the political leaders painting Islam as a peaceful religion that was hijacked by extremists who just needed to be weeded out. If the world could isolate the true adherents to the different religions and label them as outliers to discredit them, it could then blend all the lukewarm practitioners of each faith into an all inclusive global religion that claimed no absolute truths. The deception had begun.
-Emergent Church:
This movement further downgraded Christianity as it left all absolutes of the faith behind and embraced anything that pretended to be a deeper philosophy of Christ’s real intent. The desire to deconstruct everything the Church has traditionally believed in order to embrace mystery left those who already were teetering on abandoning the faith with no anchor and no way of righting their drifting ship. Their contemplative prayer practices opened them up to eastern mysticism and demon deception and the entire movement further pushed American religion in a direction toward paganism and outright apostasy.
-Rome goes Green:
Catholicism expanded from a Christian hierarchy of religious piety and works based salvation to include saving the earth thru environmental efforts as an equal and perhaps even higher calling for the Church. The combination of the Protestants dumbing down their ranks with the promotion of Seeker Sensitive and Emergent models and the Catholics becoming pseudo earth worshippers seemed to prepare us for the great “apostasy” the Bible said would happen just before the return of Jesus Christ.
OTHER RELIGIOUS HAPPENINGS NOW
-Merger of Religions:
As churches have embraced ecumenism and even reaching across religious lines into other faiths to cooperate on common goals (As Rick Warren promoted with his PEACE program agenda)… a new religious merger known as Chrislam was birthed . The vision of globalists who wanted all religion to merge into one new global ethic has been in progress for a while now and is paving the way for a great deception by the Antichrist and False Prophet to worship their new system .
“And I saw one of its heads as it were wounded to death; and its deadly wound was healed; and all the earth marveled, and followed the beast." -Revelation 13:3
-Woke Church:
The Communist propaganda machine was so successful in invading the public schools and universities of America with its “Critical Race Theory” curriculum, it decided to infiltrate the churches with a similar agenda to sway right leaning Christian voters to turn left in future elections. Their efforts to “wake up” the church to their new “Woke” ideology not only managed to promote liberalism in what was traditionally the conservative sector of America, but also continued to skew the line of the what the real purpose of the Church was meant to be.
Did Christ found the Church on the premise of seeking social reform? Of course not. Nor did he seek to gain equality for the downtrodden. Christ came to save humanity from sin and reveal to all people they are lost hopeless sinners in need of Him. Not to swing the social classes on their heads and elevate certain groups by blaming others. Equality will only truly come when we are all equally kneeling before our Master Jesus and all completely indebted to Him for our eternal righteousness.
-Woke pope:
The green movement was in full Catholic advancement mode even before Pope Francis ascended (or descended) to the Pontiff position . But he took Wokeness to a whole new level during his reign.
Biblical focus and Christ centeredness took a back seat to social justice during Francis’ Papacy. He led his worldwide following into an era of globalist thinking and an earth centered focus rather than allegiance to Jesus Christ .
Francis even paid homage to other religions and seemed to lead with a Mother Earth, pagan religious tone rather than from a Christian perspective. His guidance blended well with the eastern religions and the pagans and earth worshippers far more than the strictness of past popes. And his far left leaning political views pushed communist ideals and woke social justice equity desires far above his desire to offer salvation to a lost world. His reign further moved the prophecy needle closer to the end as the largest Christian group in the world (Catholics) followed his lead toward the last days apostasy!
-Decline interest in Bible prophecy:
One big line of difference between the 80s and 90s and our current Prophecy watch situation is simply that back then, the Church had a great interest in the Lord’s return and there were Bible studies on the Book Of Revelation everywhere. But sadly, with the advent of the Seeker Sensitive Church and the dumbing down of the masses, serious Christian study of deeper Bible truths in favor of a social gospel and a country club style Mega Church atmosphere have made prophecy study too confusing and scarey. Additionally the seminaries stopped equipping training pastors with eschatology training so most have no idea what accurate eschatology actually looks like.
The Modern Church methods have produced a generation of shallow believers (or attendees) who don’t like to think about the coming tribulation and are too caught up in the world’s happenings to consider the interruption of their lives when Jesus breaks back into time and takes His Bride. The modern pastors are too concerned about attendance and steering clear of controversy to actually delve deep into the signs all around us! Thus… as the Lord prepares to return , the majority of the church .. now sleeps!
-Kingdom Now:
There are numerous groups of Christians who believe in replacement theology. That is the teaching that the Church inherited all the blessings of Israel and we are now the replacement for the Jewish state. They believe the current Israel is a product of the world’s powers and not a restoration of the nation by God Almighty. That is why many Christians and Churches (especially the WOKE ones) support the Palestinian cause over the Jewish sovereignty in the land God gave them.
Not only do these Churches believe the bride has replaced the Jews, they also believe that we must fix this current world before Christ returns. Because of that flawed thinking, the majority of the Church does not believe the return of Jesus is imminent. They believe it will happen far into the future after either WOKE policies have righted the injustices of the world, or else after the Church reclaims all of the institutions of the world that have become corrupt and after it wins the world back to Christ through a new return to morality in every walk of life.
Both of those views are flawed and take the Church’s eyes off of the near return of our Lord. In this way, it appears the current Church is even less prepared for Jesus to come back than were the believers in 1990s. And this also lines up with Scripture as the apostasy and “falling away” takes place and the Church increasingly and subtly, goes from hot to luke-warm.
-AI god:
Both globalists and scientists currently believe AI is on the verge of gaining a form of consciousness that will allow it to self express and gain a life of its own. When that happens, all the brilliance and knowledge of combined humanity will be alive in one all controlling super computer. And men like Yuval Noah Harari believe science is on the verge of creating its own god and that the new gods and religion of humanity will be these AI beings. It is pure blasphemy and nothing we could really see coming in the 80s and 90s but it certainly plays into the Image of the Beast role of Revelation 13.
Back in the 90s, the closest thing to an “Image of the Beast” we could fathom was a giant TV screen in the rebuilt temple or maybe a Hologram projecting the Antichrist but with AI here now…the “Image “ could very well be something possessed by a demon and far more deadly than any Ouija bpard Parker Brothers ever made!
ECONOMIC
5pm ..August 5, 2011….Washington DC..
The newscasts are filled with concern over the announcement that earlier today, for the first time in history, the American credit rating was being dropped from AAA (Outstanding) to AA+ (Excellent). Standard and Poor (S and P) had decided that the government’s most recent raise of the debt ceiling spelled enough trouble to warrant the downgrade. A stunning development considering America holds the world’s reserve currency and with all the upheaval in Greece and the rest of Europe’s teetering (joined yet diverse) financial systems, America’s solid economic standard was the pillar the world could still look to and lean on. Now it appears even America is exhibiting tremors of instability as well. And the world is taking notice.
At some point, it comes time to pay the piper. All of America’s benevolence both home and abroad with their tax payer’s money has grown to the point of a staggering $36 Trillion dollar national deficit and we are long past the point of ever being able to pay that debt back. But…there was still hope 30’years ago...at least we thought there was…
ECONOMIC HAPPENINGS BACK THEN....
In the late 80s and early 90s we were experiencing a strong economy based on Ronald Reagan’s economic policy of Trickle Down economics which preached shrinking big government and loosening restrictions on the private sector so entrepreneurs and capitalistic investment could thrive. Tax cuts also meant that Americans had more of their own money to spend which they in turn put back into the economy to promote buying and selling and keep the wheels running smoothly.
While the Reagan and Bush years benefited from the policies, the real beneficiary would be the Clinton White House that witnessed the boom of the internet age on his watch. The internet changed the way marketing and commerce would work in the coming days and the Stock Market exploded with upstart technology companies galore.
As a student of Bible prophecy, I thought perhaps we were seeing the economic explosion Jesus referred to in the days of Lot just before Christ’s return :
“Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all." -Luke 17:28
Were we experiencing the buying and selling uptick because Jesus was on the way back? We weren’t sure but it certainly made sense. America was soaring so an outside attack that would weaken the dollar and American dominance had to happen to change things …Or so we thought. But there was still cause for concern by true watchers of Biblical signs:
-UPC Symbols:
Back in 1974, UPC symbols started being used in some areas to track products. Many prophecy students took notice in the 80s as grocery stores and department stores replaced traditional price labels with bar codes and supposedly all the codes started with bars representing the number 6, featured two bars in the middle of the code representing 6 …and ended with bars representing the number 6! As the internet age dawned in the 90s we grew curious if somehow, in the future, these bars would be required to be placed on humans and would be the Mark of the Beast (666). As the internet age grew and talk of a future “Internet of Things” concept where every item on earth would be marked and tracked … this possibility seemed more plausible. Even today it seems like a reasonable theory though technology is advancing so fast it likely has surpassed this decades old possibility .
-Increased debt dependence of Americans :
The days when Americans cherished their privacy and cash purchases are almost a thing of the past now. The 90s stock market boom and increased cost of living, not to mention the huge increase in tuitions for college that left millions of young people drowning in student loans, led to an explosion of credit card usage and a massive debt load for millions of Americans. Add to that the marketing efforts of credit card companies to portray cash users as Neanderthals holding up lines in stores while the world of card users were cool people operating smoothly and quickly in a fast paced world, and it all produced a nation of youth that became totally dependent on cashless transactions. A complete turn about from the thinking their grandparents had as young people.
ECONOMIC HAPPENINGS NOW…
-Dollar decline :
The national deficit is now somewhere in the $36 trillion dollar range and growing. Inflation has the price of all products including groceries at an almost unaffordable level for millions of families. The world is turning away from American currency and the value of the dollar is declining daily. All the signs of a whole new digital currency that will replace the fiat currencies of the world are here. We just need a catastrophic economic collapse to get the ball rolling. Perhaps backlash for Trump’s tariffs will be the match that lights the fuse.
-Mark of The Beast Technology:
As previously mentioned, UPC symbols were the best bet for Mark of the Beast tech in the 90s but now, with Quantum Dot Tatooing, scannable implantable devices the size of a grain of rice that can store all our medical records, thumb and Iris scanning as a payment method option, digital IDs and Digital Currencies, and the explosion of AI generated interactions, there’s no telling exactly which one will push to the forefront and be the Antichrist’s chosen method of control. But one thing is for certain. The ability to track everyone on earth and control all buying and selling is now here and available. It will just have to be activated.
-Bankrupt Economic systems of world:
As America’s dollar tumbles in value, the other economies of the world are collapsing with it. There will be no way for America to have a financial collapse without the whole world being pulled right down with it. And with Japan and China and so many of the European nations currently sliding into the financial abyss as well, it’s just a matter of time before the necessity for a whole new economic system will be brought forth. Currently every nation of the world it seems, is working on the rollout of a digital currency. The Mark of the Beast will be at the door as soon as cash is toppled by this new tyrannical system of finance.
-Cashless consumers grow:
The 90s saw an explosion of credit card usage and debt that changed the way Americans viewed the importance of privacy by abandoning cash transactions and casting fiscal responsibility to the wind. The 2020s is taking things to a new level as new payment methods are allowing transactions with just a palm or eye scan and the availability of financing groceries and even Macdonald’s through Door Dash is now further opening the door to instant gratification for buy-now-pay-later Americans. Soon …. Many people will have every penny of their future income spoken for and no way to meet immediate financial needs .
-Digital Currency:
The rise of Cryptocurrencies the last 15 years has paved the way for investors and average citizens to accept digital currencies . Soon the governments will impose their own version and when they do, cash will be on life support. At first they will likely allow both . But as soon as enough people have entered the system, cash will be taken out of circulation and eventually, the ultimatum to convert to digital or lose all your cash’s value will be the threat. And at some point, cash will no longer be accepted anywhere. When that happens, all freedom will be gone and like the Canadian truckers who saw their bank accounts seized during Covid, we will all be at the mercy of the government to let us buy and sell what we need.
-BRICS:
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates and the ten nations that make up BRICS. They have two possible roles in the world today. One is that they are rolling out their own currency and abandoning the American dollar which could result in a western financial collapse of epic proportions. Ever Since Bretton Woods after WW2, American currency has been the reserve currency of the world and everyone trades in dollars. BRICS is trying to change that and it will Come at a high cost to Americans. This may be what pushes the collapse that leads to the necessity of switching to a digital currency system and that will open the door to the Mark of The Beast.
The other role BRICS could possible play is that of the Ten Kings prophecy watchers expect to see as mentioned in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 and 17.
-Tariffs:
The problem with the rest of the world getting off the American welfare program is that we are the reserve currency and if we separate, along with it goes our dominance from their dependence on us. If we aren’t taking care of the Check , they want to stop America’s preferred status as the reserve currency of the world . A new global economy will be needed .
DECLINE OF SOCIETAL MORALITY
LATE EVENING … AUGUST 17, 1998… WHITE HOUSE .. WASHINGTON DC
William Jefferson Clinton is nervous! He is about to go on air and address America as to why he was vague in the Kenneth Starr investigation about his alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky. He will confess to the affair to everyone watching while holding to his legal ethical high ground with investigators. According to him .. he didn’t technically lie.. he just didn’t offer up any extra information in order to protect his family from unnecessary pain by giving sordid details.
The liberal media will soon rally to support the President and the phrase, “Everybody lies about sex” Will soon be used in every quadrant of Society from Las Vegas commercials to Saturday Night Live Skits. Regaining the trust of the nation by painting himself as just another weak man lured into a bad decision seems to resonate with the populace and soon Clinton will basically be excused for his indiscretion in the Oval Office. But his acceptance by the people tells more about the moral decline of the nation than it does about his fitness to lead the Country as a moral standard bearer.
The sexual exploitation and moral decline of America didn’t start with Bill Clinton. Heavens No! The country had been on a steady downhill decline since Hugh Heffner’s playboy magazine debuted in the 1950s and glamorized female sexuality far beyond anything earlier Americans could have ever imagined. Then came the 1960s and sexual liberation, the Pill, Roe vs Wade, and the Summer of Love. Yes America’s moral compass had been drifting wildly off course for decades but never from such a high position in full public view as Bill Clinton’s sordid affair with Monica. And with the nation’s acceptance of his indiscretions, the nation was primed and ready to accept what was coming next. The debauchery of the pornographic internet age .
MORAL DECLINE THEN…
-Porn:
First it was cable and satellite TV that decided it was profitable to start carrying Adult X rated channels for subscribers to sign up for if they so chose . Weather it was moral or not didn’t matter . Only the fact that money was coming in the door made a difference to the providers. That was a huge step from adult material being mostly magazines just a couple decades earlier. Now it was big business .
Next came the creation of the VCRs and home entertainment and all of a sudden, the adult entertainment industry was producing XXX movies faster than Hollywood was putting out regular shows. The Video store boom in the 80s and 90s opened the door for porn rentals to skyrocket and viewership increased exponentially.
But the debased moral decline and sexualization of society was only just beginning .
-Don’t ask don’t tell:
Not only did the Clinton affair reset the standard of moral acceptability in our country as it pertains to lying about sexual exploits, but his “Don’t ask don’t tell” policy for the military took a taboo subject and shined a bright light on it. While there were always some homosexuals in the military in the past, it was generally frowned upon and thus kept private by those who adhered to that lifestyle. But during the Clinton years, the left hoped homosexuality in the military would be normalized as they were also pushing for gay rights and even gay marriage in civilian life. Clinton’s stand that the powers-that-be should not ask about an enlisted man’s sexuality and he would not be obligated to tell fell somewhat in line with Clinton’s own practice of not telling the whole truth when being investigated about his own sexual trysts. The whole issue helped push acceptance of all homosexual practices into the mainstream news.
-AIDS:
During the changing sexual tide of the 80s and 90s, the AIDS epidemic took off full force and became a rallying cry for celebrities and politicians as they sought to help raise awareness and dollars to find a cure. While teaching abstinence and Biblical definitions of acceptable sexuality were scoffed at, a new sympathy for the gay lifestyle and overwhelming support from those with a platform tried to normalize homosexuality and the debate over weather it was a choice or if God had made them that way moved into the public sector. On top of this, Planned Parenthood and other organizations started giving out free condoms to high school age kids and helped girls get on the Pill behind their parent’s backs using “safe sex” and protection from AIDS as their justification.
It was another step downward in moving society away from God’s plan for family and Biblical values and a step closer to an Antichrist world view.
-Push For Gay Equality :
With all the previously mentioned sexuality issues of the era , a new push for gay rights and the rights of their significant other was pushed to the top of the daily headlines. Politicians sought to ensure that insurance companies had to cover a gay partner as if that person was a marital spouse and survivorship in case of death caused many companies to have to give the deceased’s benefits to their partner though not married .
Again all these issues just pushed the Biblical world view further out to the fringe of society as acceptance of whatever lifestyle people wanted to choose became a choice no one else should look down on. At the time it seemed like Society had hit such a low that it surely meant Christ was right at the door. But where the LGBTQ would take their movement in the next 30 years would make the 90s seem like “Leave it to Beaver.”
MORAL DECLINE NOW…
-Pornography in our day:
The explosion of the porn industry with the advent of the internet has been mind boggling. There are more pornographic web sites and more money flowing through the industry than in for any other type of business known to man. No longer were the images relegated to behind the counter adults-only-sections of book stores and sleazy back alley shops in questionable parts of town. Now the most vile and degrading acts can be seen in an instant on your phone and the shame appears to have left the public conscience as the privacy to view such material has been hidden in the palm of your hand. Live cam girls and Virtual reality experiences are at the fingertips of any paying consumer. It seems nothing is too perverse to be put in front of the American public and the rest of the world in this day and age. We are now much like Sodom just before the Fire and Brimstone rained down!
The sexuality unleashed with the advent of playboy changed the 1960s. The uninhibited sexuality unleashed with the porn industry on the internet has been unfathomable. The modesty of women that the Bible speaks of likely had a far greater purpose than just addressing the culture of the day. It was a warning to stay humble and proper and modest saving our sexual expression for the marital bedroom as Song Of Solomon addresses. The loss of conscience and the disappearance of shame in our current world has led us to the brink of the pre-flood mindset where every imagination of the people’s minds was only evil continually.
-LGBTQ Movement:
From the somewhat sympathetic "gay rights" movement of the 90s came the militant LGBTQ agenda of 2020s that has strived to take over every institution and workplace since the election of Barack Obama. Everything from Pride month to sex changes for minors to “Trans Story Time” for kids at local libraries has been initiated by the movement and it seems no level of debauchery can sink too low for its followers.
One could expect this behavior from the lost world as seen by the actions in Sodom and Gomorrah thousands of years ago but sadly, the acceptance of the LGBTQ agenda has been openly received in a large percentage of the churches now as Pastors and elders redefine what God calls sin and push the agenda along as normal to their congregations. The woke agenda is becoming more important in those churches than the Word of God they are trying to re-write.
-Wokeness:
The combination of numerous factors have spawned the WOKE movement in America over the last 10 years :
-The communist infiltration into our schools in the 60s and the CRT (Critical Race Theory) embedded in the public school curriculum since the Obama years…
-The left’s desire to keep the minorities in their camp by constantly painting them as perpetual victims.
-The transfer of refugees from one nation to another in a mass migration and repopulation effort especially since the fall of Syria and the Arab Spring.
-The Green movement
-The woman’s movement of the 70s (ERA)
-The LGBTQ Movement of our day
- The rejection of Christianity and the acceptance of all religions that aren’t Bible believing
Wokeness has been burned into our brains from every corner of society... from Disney to mega churches. We have been told that a persons sex is just something assigned at birth and can be changed if the individual is not happy with their sexual label. We have been told it’s ok for men who identify as women to use public women’s restrooms. We have been told men who believe they are trapped in the wrong body should be able to participate in women’s sports. We have been told there are dozens of genders and it’s discrimination to call someone by the wrong one. We have been told whiteness is a sinful and evil condition and that white males should be making reparations to all the groups they have discriminated against throughout the centuries. We have been told our founding fathers were racist bigots who should be forgotten so why should we cling to their founding documents. And we have been told Christianity is the white man’s religion and that it tramples upon the rights of others.
All the Wokeness thought has helped destroy Patriotism, brotherhood and the family unit in America. The real goal is to end the Christian influence in the west and severing the world’s ties with the Bible, Jesus Christ and the Jewish race one heart at a time. Destroying America is like taking out the biggest guy in a gang fight. Once the toughest opponent is out of the way, the rest will fall easily. America has been the strongest Christian nation in history. The most committed to freedom; and the big brother to re-born Israel. If America can be destroyed from within by the Woke poison, then the world believes it can relegate Christianity and Israel to the dustbins of history and move forward with their all inclusive, globalist plans...But God has a different plan in store…
-Falling away from truth and embracing spirituality :
Because of the combination of the Wokeness movements and the dumbing down of Christian understanding in the churches , people have been leaving the Christian faith in droves over the last 20 years . They haven’t completely abandoned spirituality however . Instead they have become more like the Eastern religious people . They are becoming pagan . Believing in a form of god (universal oneness, karma etc..) but denying the true God of creation . They are turning to witchcraft and science and meditation to find their truth and peace . But they will never find it . Only in Christ can peace be found . But they are grooming themselves for the spiritual deception of the Antichrist .
TECHNOLOGY
7PM ET.. August 8.. 1986… THE OPENING OF THE FIRST “TRANSFORMERS” MOVIE…
There are 990 screens across the United States with viewers munching popcorn and eagerly waiting to witness the technological marvel of machines that can transform themselves from one form and body style to another…it seems like fun futuristic fantasy…But...it is in fact a dangerous prelude to what science will seek to do less than forty years later with people and machines…in a dark sense, it harkens back to the prediluvian world that saw Fallen Angels merging with human beings. What we have seen since that movie’s release is more ghastly than anything we have seen in any Frankenstein movie since the onset of motion pictures .
Transgenderism isn’t the endgame folks. We have been getting programmed for the crossover for decades. First it was horror movies that saw flies and humans merged…dead human parts constructed into a living being…and radioactive experimentation that could turn a normal man into a giant green war machine.
The theme progressed into cartoons like “Transformers”and kids toys like “Beast Machines.” Soon after … the Pride Movement expanded to include not only gay men and lesbian women but those who considered themselves non-binary. They may be men or women…and sex changes became more acceptable as transition surgeries became available to kids as young as 5 years of age. Olympic hero Bruce Jenner championed the cause transitioning himself from a muscular male to the feminine Kaitlyn. But even these evils are not the end game. It gets worse …much worse…
TECHNOLOGY THEN ..
Technology always seemed to be the development of useful tools for the betterment and benefit of humanity throughout history. State of the art ships, machines and vehicles, heating systems, and electric lights were all developed to move people forward towards a more pleasurable and comfortable world. And even though weapons development was often hailed by the opposition to be the dangerous creations of madmen, still weaponry (even nuclear weapons) had their place when used as a deterrent against evil ideologies .
-UPC Symbols:
As mentioned UPC scanning technology seemed the be a huge development toward an eventual “Mark of the Beast” fulfillment back in the 80s and as production expanded and businesses converted their checkout areas from old cash registers to scanning stations, we felt we were entering that final technological age. But it was just the beginning .
-PCs… Microwaves and Bag Phones:
The 1980s and 90s saw an explosion of personal computers and computer games and portable phones . Microwave ovens and VCRs allowed families to connect more easily , entertain themselves at home more conveniently and process work more efficiently than at any other time in history . And then came … the World Wide Web!
When the internet craze hit the scene, most of us were totally unaware of the potential or the possibilities it brought with it.
We were still thinking old school in the 90s. Pcs were becoming popular and car and bag phones were as well. But we viewed phones as just the old version simply without phone lines. We envisioned PCs as something that gave us the ability to mass produce more mailings with a database of people we could contact more easily thru old methods. Not as a gateway to the internet which would lead to social media and instant communication with people.
Then came Email...and business websites. Commerce suddenly went from brick and mortar stores and newspaper advertising to online promotion of products and shopping at home where the consumer could find the products and prices desired before ever stepping foot out of their house.
It all made sense to a prophecy student. If all buying and selling would one day be controlled and tracked, then the place of doing business had to change from a cash-in-store transaction to a monitored accounting system somewhere in a cyber market. How it would happen we could not tell. We knew UPC symbols had been placed on all marketed products years before and that grocery stores and department stores were no longer pricing items with pricing gun stickers showing the cost. They were now scanning the items by their UPC codes and we felt somehow...those codes would eventually be given to humanity and would be the Mark of The Beast perhaps. But how far things would go in a short time...now one could imagine.
TECHNOLOGY NOW…
-Smart Phones:
In 2000, Apple CEO Steve Jobs envisioned an Apple touchscreen phone that the user could interact with directly with their fingers rather than using a stylus. Seven years later, June 29, 2007, the first apple IPhone hit market.
The world changed forever!
No longer did people walk down the street facing straight ahead and looking into the eyes of the oncoming pedestrians. From that moment forward everyone has looked down into the palm of their hands as they walk and talk and even drive. The phone went from being an ear and mouthpiece we talk into to being our source of all information and entertainment at arm’s length and it has become our constant distraction taking away our attention from all those around us.
The world changed completely with that one invention and no one in the 90s would have been able to believe what life would look like a mere ten years later.
-Social Media:
Perhaps the biggest social experiment in history, the creation of social media platforms like Myspace, Facebook and Instagram have initiated the biggest migration toward self centeredness of any movement in history. Not only did the public let their guard down and start sharing every aspect and detail of their lives with their friends and followers, but many of the world’s youth became so affixed with seeking likes and followers they actually started regarding their own self worth based on how many people view and like their posts.
While many people used the platforms to make contact with old friends and far off family members, the details they shared online have now been preserved for whatever future system evolves to track every nuance of their lives. Again it all falls in line with what the Antichrist system will do…control and track everyone and everything. In the hands of an AI system. Jesus words may reveal a whole new meaning:
“For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.” -Luke 8:17
-AI (image of the Beast):
It’s everywhere now! It has an answer for every online question. It is spearheading lead generation in businesses. It is even writing and preaching sermons at some churches. It is called Artificial Intelligence and it may be the scariest monster mankind has ever unlocked. Unlike the atomic bomb whose ability to destroy kept it locked up after World War Two and mostly used as a deterrent, the unleashing of AI won’t allow it to be put back in the box. Nations are now racing to seize control of its potential because whoever does it first will “Rule the World” according to Vladimir Putin!
The possibilities are endless with AI. But one particular possibility makes its potential not only unlimited, but frighteningly dangerous. Scientists fear it will reach Singularity and become self-aware. In other words “alive.” And it will be able to create and develop so rapidly as to dwarf humanity and overtake the planet. There is however one fear even greater than this to a Bible believing end-time watcher. If Demons can enter swine and can enter Ouija Boards and deceive and destroy from those platforms, what could one particularly powerful demon do when it enters an AI system? Could it fool humanity into believing AI has come to life? Could it call itself “God” and demand worship? Could it set itself up in a newly re-built temple in Jerusalem and become the final Image of the Beast spoken of in Revelation 13? Reason tells me this is not only very possible but also …very likely.
I think AI will grow so exponentially in the next few years that humanity will truly think it has achieved godhood and can control everything...even to the point of seeking to usurp God as what Psalm 2 says and will be filled with the arrogance that they can defeat Christ at his return. AI will give them that confidence. But it will be badly misguided confidence.
-Digital ID:
In order for Digital Currency to be considered completely safe, it will have to go hand in hand with a new Digital ID that will recognize the actual online user and prevent fraud. The new Digital ID will likely be used for every online authentication for every site visited and will replace the many log in names and passwords we now have to use for different accounts. Initially it may be an add-on to our current account passwords but once everyone has a digital ID it will be how we are recognized from that point forward like our Social Security Numbers have been since the 1930s. And once the Antichrist comes to power, everyone will be in the system to change those digital ID settings to
“Mark Of The Beast” requirements.
-Implantable Devices (Obamacare):
One seemingly hidden section of the Obamacare Bill was that it made mention of “Implantable Devices” being covered by the plan. What kind of devices was it speaking of? Common medical implants like pacemakers? Or something else entirely; trackable devices like tiny rice grains that can be scanned and identified when the Mark Of The Beast is implemented? If it’s the latter it makes the destructive nature of Obamacare even more devastating than just the disastrous effects it’s had on healthcare and the cost of insurance.
-Merger of man and machine:
As mentioned with the “Transformers” movie and all the transition surgeries trying to change people from one sex to another, defying God’s creation and refusing to submit to how he made man is ultimately a big part of humanity and Satan’s rebellion. We want to play God. Satan wants worshipped as God. We want to be the masters of our own destiny and we believe science will help us get there. Just like the fallen Angels who crossed the line and intermarried with woman before the flood, humanity is trying to create hybrids of human beings mixed with AI and machinery to let us live indefinitely and have replaceable parts. Organ harvesting centers and DNA changing vaccines are all part of the experimentation. And mankind, somehow, is hoping that he can find a way to live forever without having to believe in Jesus Christ for that eternal life. But even if it could be possible, it would not address the sin issue and humanity would be an insane creature forever with no peace, joy or love in their eternal fallen state.
-QR code :
Whereas Bar Codes of the 90s were one dimensional scannable numbers to track products, QR codes are multi-dimensional scannable images that are scanned by a device (phone camera or QR Reader) and sent to a landing site where there is full information on the item scanned. For example, a restaurant may have a large three square QR Code on the table when you arrive and you scan it with your phone taking you to the full menu.
It’s the modern version of the bar code with full color details of the product rather than just a trackable number and it may be a relative of the eventual Mark Of The Beast!
-Alexa :
There was a time when freedom loving Americans would have been appalled at a surveillance system that monitored them and tracked their whereabouts. The infringement on their freedom and independence would have been immediately rejected. Even just thirty years ago we wondered how a monitor could be put inside everyone’s home to demand worship of the Beast and demand their obedience. Now people willingly and eagerly buy devices like Alexa and stick them in their home knowing their every move is being recorded and sent to an Amazon data base. Why do they do it? Simply for the comfort of being able to turn the tv on or listen to music without having to exert any effort. Convenience has replaced freedom as our top objective.
-GPS:
When Mapquest users in the 90s were asked to enter their location and destination to get the best route, many were leery because the internet was new and they weren’t sure they wanted the privacy of their whereabouts to be out there in cyberspace. Oh how the times have changed. Nearly every app now asks for your location to track you and most people click “OK” without giving it a second thought. Google earth seemingly has the whole world mapped out and satellites can now zoom in on any location on earth in a second. It’s much easier now to see how the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11 will be seen lying in the streets by everyone on earth. Not just the developed countries but by EVERYONE..just as the Bible says!
GLOBALISM
MAY 27, 1971… TITTENHURST PARK.. ENGLAND
The most enigmatic of the four members of the iconic Rock Band…The Beatles…is about to record a new song in his recently built home studio. The song is called "Imagine" and it tells of a world where all barriers that separate the peoples of the planet will one day be eliminated. That world will have no nations, no religion, no wars, and no fighting. It even imagines there is no Heaven so the utopia of that globalist fantasy will be a united earthly kingdom itself. The song will go on to be John Lennon’s greatest masterpiece and an anthem for a globalist movement that in some ways is in its infancy…yet in others…has been the goal of man since the fall of Babel! .. And the goal of the architect of humanities desire for Oneness. Satan!
GLOBALISM THEN….
Since long ago, even back to Babel, mankind has sought to unite under an all powerful One World Government. But Gods displeasure with the desire caused Him to separate the world into regions and continents and nations! His language was also confounded. It took several millenniums, but in the 1800s, technology seemed to allow for comfortable enough travel, while communications had increased through telephone and radio waves to the point of imagining a united world once again.
-Elite groups:
Groups were formed like the Bilderbergs, the Trilateral Commission and the Council of Foreign Relations to help eventually establish the Global government. Secret coups were orchestrated like the Jekyll Island overthrow of the American monetary system which formed the Federal Reserve. Behind the scenes there was always a growing sense of global unification that was secretly trying to usurp the power of the citizens in independent nations. Then in 1971, the World Economic Forum was established and along with the UN, it helped promote globalism at warp speed through its governmental adherents and leadership education (indoctrination) in the individual nations. Everything was moving along as planned but there were still big hurdles to cross before globalism could be seen as inevitable.
-Coalitions:
Global and regional coalitions of organizations and countries (like NATO and the UN ) had been working together since World War Two to promote globalism and togetherness, but the organizations seemed to lack real teeth well into the 90s. The Gulf War coalition seemed to be the closest thing to a real globalist success story the 1990s produced although the internet opened the door to a new avenue for global commerce. Still, the impetus to suddenly give up national sovereignty to a greater world government seemed light years away. We thought back then that only the rapture could produce such a crisis. But the big push to cause panic over global Climate control and the global response to terrorism (after the 9-11 attacks) were just around the corner.
GLOBALISM TODAY…
-New global currency:
The economies of the world have been borrowing from Peter to pay Paul for decades. Debt-based economies work that way. But eventually, there is a comeuppance and the balloon pops. That is about to happen in Japan, the US and throughout the globe and will trigger the biggest financial panic we have ever seen. And when it happens, the globalist leaders will have the solution to the crisis already prepared and waiting…A new global digital currency!
It was hard to see how it would happen thirty years ago. The best bet was that crime (mainly money laundering, theft and counterfeiting) would force a new method of tracking that would lead to the Mark of the Beast but details were vague. Now we have all the technology in place to have a whole new system of accounting and tracking for buying and selling and a surveillance world that wants complete god-like government control over every aspect of life on earth so the change to digital currency is inevitable. And it has been inevitable ever since John wrote down his Revelation that told of this system in chapter 13. The time of its fulfillment is upon us.
-World government:
Globalism was moving forward in the 70s,80s, and 90s but always seemed to be behind the scenes hiding in the dark corners and directing certain men and organizations from the shadows. But, as the Internet age dawned and helped shrink the world and then social media brought everyone up close and personal into each others living rooms, the desire for cross border relations and a one world economy seemed to be next logical step.
The plan had been in place for decades. The internal weakening of the nation states and the push for answers to global problems (like climate change, pandemics, terrorism, etc) made it appear essential that a new global government would be born. And as long as the world’s countries kept electing leaders with a globalist mindset (like the Bushes, Clintons and Obamas in America, Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada etc.). It was assured their actions would always line up with the greater globalist agenda even to the detriment of their own individual countries. The election of Donald Trump on 2016 changed that trajectory however. As a nationalist outsider entered the fray and threw a monkey wrench into the globalist freight train that was speeding us back to Babel.
-Interconnectedness through the internet:
No invention ever shrunk the planet and brought the far corners of the world into our living rooms like the creation of the internet did. The closest things before it were the telephone and the airplane. There was a time when even moving across the country could separate families forever. With the creation of the internet, a friend in Australia could communicate with a buddy in Boston in seconds. And a store in Luxembourg, could market products to consumers in Palo Alto and increase their sales opportunities infinitely. The planet was going to come together quickly. And the internet was just the tool to bring it together!
-Babel and Google Translation programs:
If commerce and communication was going to go global it would require a means of translation to multiple languages. Enter the Babel Apps and Google translation platforms. These programs made it easy to communicate in your native language and have it translated immediately to the language of the reader or listener. The language barrier that has separated humanity since the Tower of Babel is about to become a thing of the past and the unification of man can finally become complete.
-Great Reset:
The so called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” or “Great Reset” was part of the globalist agenda to establish and implement a true global government by the year 2030. The agenda was set forth with a UN initiative to have all nations hit certain goals (17 sustainable Development Goals =SDGs) in order to redistribute wealth and move the masses out of rural areas into the big cities. Ending property ownership and transforming energy usage from fossil fuels to wind powered electricity were also vital parts of the plan. The Obama administration agreed to get America on board and the world appeared set to tackle the challenge of converting the world to one submissive lower class of people adhering to a tyrannical elite global council. They just needed a catastrophic event to get the citizens of the world on board with it!
-Pandemic:
The 2016 election of Donald Trump threw a monkey wrench into the globalist 2030 plans . Trump was a nationalist wanting to Make America Great Again and the globalists were trying to weaken America and the other nations to support the need for an all powerful global hierarchy by 2030. Trump’s policies seemed to be working to derail the globalist plan and he seemed destined for re-election in 2020 so something major needed to happen to get the 2030 plans back on track.
After a symposium in the Fall of 2019 preparing ways to respond to a massive pandemic, Covid 19 hit the world before Christmas. First it appeared in China and then spread west. Within months the whole world was on lockdown and supply lines were slowed to a crawl. Businesses were closed as well as churches. Everyone was wearing masks and a huge segment of the work force started working from home. While it’s true there were a lot of sicknesses and deaths, the fact is it was not much more lethal than a normal flu season. But nevertheless half the planet’s citizens were clamoring to get untested vaccines and entrust d their DNA future to people who had planned the crisis to start with.
The economy of Trump took a devastating blow and the left blamed him for the deaths of many due to the uncertain government response. The voting rules were changed all over the country to push mail in ballets and keep people locked up. By the time all the suspicious mail in votes were counted, a man who had been unable to win a single primary and was showing signs of mental decline, had secured more votes than anyone in American history and Joe Biden was made president. And by hook or by crook…“The Great Reset” was back on course! Hmmm imagine that!
ISRAEL
CIRCA 580 BC… LAND OF ISRAEL
The Prophet Ezekiel is getting worn out .. Years of prophesying to his rebellious nation about the destruction due them for their unfaithfulness has fallen on deaf ears. Now they have been taken captive by the Babylonians and all seems lost. But God lightens the heart of his crestfallen servant with words of comfort that one day He will revive Israel and make them the head of all nations…
“’For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.” -Ezekiel 36:24
This final restoration ironically would not come at the end of the current chastening of His people but thousands of years in the future when the Fullfillment of time would be almost complete . And the Messiah would be ready to take David’s throne in Jerusalem.
May 14, 1948…. IT HAPPENED!
What we have seen since would have been unfathomable for our forefather’s generations to grasp .
PERCEPTION OF ISRAEL THEN…
-Church Opinion:
It seemed for the most part the 80s and 90s churches were still filled with enough members who were learned in Bible Prophecy that they appreciated the presence of Israel in their land and all its prophetic implications. The Miracle God had wrought less than a half century earlier was still an amazement to a huge portion of the Church Body and while there were always skeptics and liberal denominations who believed strictly in Replacement Theology, the appreciation for the Jews still seemed to be given great acknowledgment in pretty much all corners of the visible Ecclesia.
-World Opinion:
The liberals always had some hostility toward the Jews from a Religious perspective. While they pretended to support the nation on the surface, they tended to blame Israel with each skirmish they had with the surrounding Arabs and always complained of Israel’s usurping the land in 1948. The United Nations was always hostile toward Israel as well but in that era it seemed the western world still appreciated the Democratic presence in that region of the world and most Americans supported the Jewish state. Even the liberal universities guarded their tongues somewhat with the Holocaust still so fresh on the minds of the Post WW2 generation as most who experienced that historic time were still alive.
-Neighbors Opinion:
The Muslim neighbors were enemies of the reborn Jewish state from the start so it’s no surprise they all sided against Israel at every turn even 30 plus years ago. But their means of war against God’s nation was more limited even when they formed a coalition to attack. They decided at some point to divide from within and Arafat’s PLO went from being a rogue attacking Terrorist Organization to being a negotiation partner in trying to divide up Israel’s land. It’s a tactic still on the table today .
PERCEPTION OF ISRAEL NOW…
-Most hated nation:
The radicalization of America through far left leadership, Social Justice indoctrination and the strong anti-American and anti-west agendas of higher education helped create a generation of Americans opposed to Israel and all things Biblical. The Woke agenda of accepting all religious ideas as equal with no absolute truths and the promotion of Islam as a “religion of peace” also trivialized Israel and their heritage of bringing salvation to the world through Christ. At some point, supporting a Palestinian state in place of Israel (not alongside) became Cool and the youth marched in the streets of America shouting down Israel as if we were Nazi Germany.
The rest of the world was also polluted after the Arab Spring with migrating Muslims who hated Israel and infiltrated all the nations of Europe with their ideology. A borderless world meant more than just opening the doors to the downtrodden refugees of war torn countries. It also meant the influx of radicals with a terrorist mindset and an Anti Christian world view spreading their hate throughout the western world . Israel is now unquestionably the most hated nation on earth and one the globalists are trying frantically to eliminate under the guise of “Land for Peace!”
-UN Resolutions:
Over the last 40 years, the UN has passed more resolutions condemning Israel than against all other nations of the world collectively. This shows the innate bias the world has against Israel and the only rational reason is because they are God’s chosen people and the world hates Israel’s God!
-Increasingly lethal neighbors:
As the hatred of Israel has heated to a rapid boil worldwide, technology has made more deadly weaponry readily available to their enemies. AI and drone warfare will make Israel far more susceptible to deadly destruction in coming years if the narrative doesn’t change. And we know it won’t change because God has told us in advance that all this will happen.
-Abraham accords:
The olive branch of the world to Israel seemingly has been the Abrahamic Accords initiated by the Trump administration during his first term and now being carried further in his final term. While more Middle Eastern nations seem to be getting on board with normalization with the Jews, the most likely outcome will be these individual accords will morph into a final all inclusive accord with the “Many” and will result in the “Covenant With Death” in Isaiah 28:18. This will be confirmed by the Antichrist and will initiate the Tribulation Period.
2025 Push To Divide Israel’s Nation:
Even now as I write many of the European nations are stepping up with a plan to recognize a Palestinian State and Divide Israel. The hour is getting very late and the Lord’s patience is being tested by the foolish world leadership seeking to divide the land God Himself gave to Abraham’s descendants through Jacob.
TRUMP FACTOR
AFTER MIDNIGHT… NOVEMBER 6, 2024…MAR A LAGO .. WEST PALM BEACH FLORIDA
For the second time in 8 years, the legacy news media is losing their mind. They had convinced themselves that Kamala Harris, the last minute Democratic candidate, was going to rout Donald Trump in the U.S. Presidential election and be the first female President. But now …Trump is back in his Florida residence hosting a victory party and he is about to address the nation and proclaim victory. The left can’t believe what is happening.
There is a lot of work to be done in order to get the USA back on track and Make America Great Again after the four devastating years of the Biden administration derailed most of Trump’s progress in his first run as Commande-in-Chief. But Trump assures the nation he is up for the job and his destiny is to get USS US-Ship righted and sail us into a new golden age of American exceptionalism…For those of us watching the prophetic signs unfold through a Biblical lens, we aren’t so sure the Last Trump term will unfold the way MAGA proponents envision it will….
Final factor: Trump effect …
Back in the day…80s all the way to 2016…we conservatives thought we could trust the right and had to be suspicious of the left. Yet for some reason, even when the Republicans controlled the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, and had a majority of conservatives on the Supreme Court, still nothing ever shifted the country back to a more moral and God fearing world view. Society just kept getting worse. Well...come to find out…the Trump election in 2016 exposed the Swamp and the RINOs for their true colors. Globalists just pretending to be conservative to give Americans the appearance of having a choice. Was McCain really that much more conservative than Obama? Probably somewhat, but both still answered to the same globalist hierarchy. And it took an outsider to buck the trend and expose the Swamp for its true nature showing the lateness of the hour and the Beast system being built in the dark corners.
Trump’s election did all that and resulted in four years of the left doing all they could to destroy his credibility and unseat him from his elected position. They then spent four more years trying to disqualify him from ever running again. Still..he is back and his last term is truly a “Last Trump” tenure as president.
-Something had to bring all the signs to their final state:
Did God give us the BIG clue in Scripture when He said the rapture would come at the “Last Trump”? Was he giving us a hint that the one to come and bring all the signs together at one time could be recognized by the word and name “Trump”?
-Trump Derangement:
The reaction to Donald Trump (both first and second elections ) has been labeled Trump Derangement syndrome because it was as if the left became completely unhinged and lost their collective minds unlike any other time in our national history when one side had to concede. Why was that the case? The best guess of Bible believing Christians who study eschatology is that the demonic realm realizes their time is running short and Trump was allowed to ascend to the Presidency to bring the hidden globalist cabal out of the shadows and expose them for their work building the Beast system of Antichrist. Just as it was at Jesus incarnation when demon activity ramped up to a fever pitch, the same is happening as Jesus is about to return again. And the lost who fall under the devil’s deception have reacted accordingly to the exposure of their evil masters. They have lost their proverbial minds at the Trump exposure of their agenda.
Trump has had to endure an attempt to delegitimize his first election with the Russian Collusion investigation, two impeachment attempts, the Covid Pandemic, the stolen election of 2020, Jan 6 tribunal, two campaign trail assassination attempts and plots, and non-stop negative news coverage and slanderous accusations by the opposing parties only to name a few of his hurdles. Yet somehow, he is back in the White House in what is likely to be a “Last Trump” term just as the global government’s designs are ready to go into effect and all the signs of Christ’s return are surfacing at the same moment in history. Is it irony? I don’t think so! Is it God’s incredible timing, sovereignty and a divine play on words? I would have to think YES!
Every factor polarizing into its assigned position:
Now everything is falling into place. It was moving in this general direction 30-40 years ago, but nothing compared to what we see today:
-Weather disasters increasing in strength and frequency
-biblically predicted prophetic geopolitical alignments
-AI ready to unveil the Image of The Beast
-Digital ID and Digital Currency ready to take center stage and fulfill the Mark Of The Beast prophecies
-Hatred of Israel exploding and calls for a peace deal covenant on the lips of all the world’s leaders
-Morality falling as society decays to the levels of the Pre-flood and Sodom and Gomorrah
-Science striving to create eternal life and UFO activity accelerating
-A goal of global government by 2030 reuniting the planet to a return to ancient Babel
-The Church mostly asleep and apathetic as a final form of Laodicea
-And all of it happening during a “Last Trump” Presidency
We couldn’t have written a more accurate and profound lineup of end time events back in 1995 as God has orchestrated in our day right now. All by His Divine Hand. If someone had written this scenario in a movie script with it all happening at the “Last Trump” term we would have thought it was too far fetched. But amazingly…it’s all happening!
Conclusion
Could things take a dramatic turn again and look vastly different down the road if the Lord tarries? Yes they certainly could but it’s hard to imagine the signs ever aligning better than they are at this particular moment in history. When compared to signs and assumptions just a generation ago, it’s incredible how rapidly God has moved things into place. And remember just 80 years ago there was no nation of Israel at all and no end times signs present to speak of. Now it’s all here in living color.
Everything appears to be in precise place for God to finish HIStory exactly as He revealed thousands of years ago. Yes, He may continue to tweak it and bring it even more into focus but we are nearing the 2000 year anniversary of the Lord’s Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension. There is also the upcoming completion of the first six thousand years of human history; thus, knowing God’s preciseness to detail and his model for all of human history would all be based on His SEVEN-DAY-WEEK model, it seems any delays are likely not forthcoming. God has told His people what would happen as He said He would. Now it’s up to us to believe, watch, proclaim, and get ourselves ready!
Jesus is Returning! Tell all your friends!
Why do the nations rage,And the people plot a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,And the rulers take counsel together, Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break Their bonds in piecesAnd cast away Their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;The Lord shall hold them in derision.
5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,And distress them in His deep displeasure:
6 “Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.”
7 “I will declare the decree:The Lord has said to Me,‘You are My Son,Today I have begotten You.
8 Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron;You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’ ”
10 Now therefore, be wise, O kings; Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear,And rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry,And you perish in the way,When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him. Psalm 2
Another great article, John! A great history of all the signs leading up to the end of the ages. I love the title.
"For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known."
Keep up the good word!
Having been watching for roughly 30 years, you've highlighted so much of what we have witnessed. I love the irony part. Yes, at the last Trump...May the trumpet sound!
I think that Randy's analysis melds well with this.
Thank you John for your due diligence.
YBIC
Joe
Excellent summary! Two things come to mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnPE8u5ONls
and
“If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to go back and apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah!” exclaimed Ruth Graham, as she placed the manuscript on the desk of her husband, evangelist Billy Graham.
"Come quickly, Lord Jesus"
Maranatha!
Great assessment, John. Oh, and the "Gates" of hell will not prevail against Christ's church. God bless.