Awaken Bible Prophecy Update: The Tribulation Must Happen Soon 6-21-23

If all the signs of the very end of this Church Age have converged and are in full swing right now at this very moment, how long can these indicators continue to remain teetering on the edge of complete fulfillment?  In other words, do these Biblical prophetic indicators have a finite shelf life as Pastor JD Farag has said many times?  Or, can they simply continue indefinitely in their current state and not advance beyond what the Bible says they must be for the end to come?  Does technology progress? Or does it remain stagnant?  If you’ve followed civilizational progress to any extent, you know that the world has been spinning forward at a crazy pace.  It could even be said that it’s falling in line exactly as stated in Daniel 12:4:

“But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

Are we not in a time where people come and go, one place to another, from local to global, seemingly in the blink of an eye?  Even more pertinent, aren’t many chasing their tails in fruitless pursuits of social media fame, social justice, or trying to change their gender because it’s the popular thing to do?  Isn’t technology on the brink of advances so profound and unheard of even ten years ago with the advent and promotion of General Artificial Intelligence that humanity itself teeters on the edge of extinction?  Can we not agree that we who study Bible Prophecy have seen all these events come together in rapid order – particularly related to Israel – such that God has surely unsealed His end-times book?

The Prophecy Update today considers several of the factors happening in such a way that there can be no doubt that the end is very near.  In fact, were as much as five years to go by from now, we would greatly exceed what God has said in His Word that would occur in the last days.  That, obviously, cannot happen or God would have stated the condition of the world based on those future technologies.

As you’ll see, given the state of affairs, the Tribulation is very near indeed.

Transcript:

If all the signs of the very end of this Church Age have converged and are in full swing right now at this very moment, how long can these indicators continue to remain teetering on the edge of complete fulfillment?  In other words, do these Biblical prophetic indicators have a finite shelf life as Pastor JD Farag has said many times?  Or, can they simply continue indefinitely in their current state and not advance beyond what the Bible says they must be for the end to come?  Does technology progress? Or does it remain stagnant?  If you’ve followed civilizational progress to any extent, you know that the world has been spinning forward at a crazy pace.  It could even be said that it’s falling in line exactly as stated in Daniel 12:4:

“But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

Are we not in a time where people come and go, one place to another, from local to global, seemingly in the blink of an eye?  Even more pertinent, aren’t many chasing their tails in fruitless pursuits of social media fame, social justice, or trying to change their gender because it’s the popular thing to do?  Isn’t technology on the brink of advances so profound and unheard of even ten years ago with the advent and promotion of General Artificial Intelligence that humanity itself teeters on the edge of extinction?  Can we not agree that we who study Bible Prophecy have seen all these events come together in rapid order – particularly related to Israel – such that God has surely unsealed His end-times book?

The Prophecy Update today considers several of the factors happening in such a way that there can be no doubt that the end is very near.  In fact, were as much as five years to go by from now, we would greatly exceed what God has said in His Word that would occur in the last days.  That, obviously, cannot happen or God would have stated the condition of the world based on those future technologies.

As you’ll see, given the state of affairs, the Tribulation is very near indeed.

We’ll examine why momentarily; first let’s pray and read from God’s Word.

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Scripture:

Ezekiel 12:21-28

And the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have about the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days grow long, and every vision comes to nothing’? Tell them therefore, ‘Thus says the Lord God: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.’ But say to them, The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision. For there shall be no more any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel. For I am the Lord; I will speak the word that I will speak, and it will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it, declares the Lord God.”

And the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off.’ Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be performed, declares the Lord God.”

The Tribulation Must Happen Soon

• Regarding this idea of prophecies having a shelf life . . .
• You know that the foods you buy have a use-by date stamped on them
• Wait too long and the food spoils
• Sometimes it goes bad before the date; in other instances, it seems to last much longer
• The point is that somewhere around that predicted time frame, you can’t eat the food any more
• God has given us His prophetic Word because he wants us to know that which will come
• Why?
• He doesn’t want His children to be unprepared
• The foolish idea that Bible prophecy is too obscure and therefore isn’t worth studying is completely anti-Biblical
• God would not have filled the Bible with some 30% of prophetic warnings if they weren’t important and God didn’t want us to understand them
• I’ll go so far as to say that those who disdain Bible prophecy are listening to the wrong spirit – a demonic spirit
• What does Revelation 19:10 tell us?

Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

• If this is true – which it is – then Christians who neglect Bible prophecy are also neglecting a very important aspect of their Lord and Savior
• We learn from Jesus in Matthew 24 many of the signs of the end of the age
• Jesus speaks both of events that will occur before the Tribulation of those days and those which happen during and at its completion
• The Apostles Paul and John also provide us with much detail of things to come, even as the Old Testament prophets in their writings do as well
• Taken together, as we study the texts like the Bereans we should emulate, it’s clear that those signs that must occur before all hell breaks loose upon this unbelieving world have appeared, and because of this, the tension around us has increased greatly
• Besides the shelf-life analogy, I also use that of a rubber band
• We can stretch it so far with the tension increasing more and more, but something must happen
• There is a point at which it cannot be stretched any longer as it will break
• How close to breaking is this world?
• Let’s touch on various aspects of this

• Sometimes it makes sense to lump like items together to simplify the discussion
• In our case, let’s say that there are three big issues (among many others) that are driving the prophetic conclusion forward
• They are:

1. Eugenics/depopulation
2. Biotechnology
3. Demonic resolve

1. Eugenics/depopulation
   • The idea that man is overpopulating the world and that this will result in catastrophic consequences is an old one
   • The most famous of those advocating for a decrease in how many people should live so as to maintain sustainability was a man in the 18^th century known as Thomas Malthus
   • His flawed conception was that as populations increased exponentially by doubling each counting period, food could only be produced in a linear amount
   • For example, the population would increase such as: 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256 – each period doubling over the other
   • However, Malthus thought that food availability would be much less, e.g. it would only increase linearly as in: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
   • In his hypothesis that with such a rapid population increase and a much lesser food production, it’s easy to see how Malthus believed that over time the world could not sustain all the people
   • What he failed to take into account were the technological improvements that have caused food supplies to far outstrip the need for sustenance
   • As an aside, this has proven very true except when famines have been engineered by totalitarian powers in their quest for control in societies
   • Were that not the case, this world would likely have seen far fewer desperate situations with famine-ravaged nations
   • Regardless, this Malthusian idea that the world is overpopulated has stuck and grown more popular over the years, morphing into the religion of climate change, a.k.a. the climate crisis as it’s now being labeled, because we have too many people and they’re ruining the planet
   • Because of this we’ve been heckled by Saint Greta Thunberg that we’re all going to die because of climate change: “How dare you . . .” question the science and especially what she says – we must save the planet by controlling the climate
   • Then of course, there’s the pompous John Kerry:
   • Kerry’s rhetoric has become so inflamed and irrational that he recently said that farmers need to stop growing so much food in order to save the planet to ensure that millions of people don’t starve to death
   • I’ll let you process that statement for a moment . . .
   • This is nothing but manufactured outrage, as most of you know
   • These people don’t care about climate change and they especially don’t care about people
   • They say that this climate crisis will kill millions – perhaps – billions of people while at the same time advocating for the genocide of abortion, and to significantly reduce food supplies in the world so their ideal of billions fewer people can be realized
   • Don’t worry about the millions of poor people in 3^rd world nations that have been subjected to communist ideology and made to starve to death by the brilliant plans of their elites for a better, more just society
   • Certainly don’t bring up how millions of Chinese peasants died in Mao’s Great Leap Forward when farming was directed by the communist leaders and food supplies evaporated
   • Not to mention the last three years of the COVID scamdemic and the deadly clot shot masquerading as a vaccine that has eradicated hundreds of millions of people worldwide
   • No, these words that flow endlessly from the lips of those in charge which sound so caring are nothing but echoes from hell’s deepest recesses
   • This crowd has for years wanted nothing more than to kill off great swaths of humanity
   • Why?
   • Because too many people are a problem of control
   • The fewer the people, the easier it is to manipulate them toward the desired end
   • More deeply, the killing of humans is high on the satanic agenda since we’re made in God’s image
   • Can’t have too many of us like that running around
   • By eliminating us or harming us in some way, Satan and his minions grieve God excessively, while simultaneously giving them much pleasure at the hurt they cause Him
   • The question is then: Are these efforts to kill us off bearing fruit, and where does this lead?
   • Recently in my Prophecy Update titled Depopulation I quoted speculatively – but probably not-all-that-far-off from reality – numbers from both Deagel and The Covid Blog
   • In an astounding prediction made in 2014, Deagel, a CIA think tank and military contractor, stated that the US population would reduce to 99 million people by the end of 2024 – a 60% reduction by a year and a half from now
   • This is breathtaking in its scope
   • Is that even possible?
   • How or why would they make this claim in such an influential report?
   • What did they know back then?
   • Are circumstances in the world trending toward the fulfillment of these numbers?
   • Why, funny you should ask
   • The Covid Blog, which has been watching the circumstances surrounding COVID quite closely has now said the following:
   • Their estimates, based on whatever official sources they could glean, plus many other sources they’ve researched, have determined that – rather than the widely publicized 8 billion people our world is now supposed to have bursting at its seams – we’re more likely down into the 7 billion range
   • Worse, they project that at current trends – which are not unreasonable given the massive kill-off taking place because of the mRNA vaxx – the world population by the end of 2025 may decrease to around 5 billion people
   • Remember also that these numbers comport with the globalist agenda for a massively reduced world population as set forth in the Georgia Guidestones that were conveniently destroyed about a year ago in 2022
   • The first of these commandments stated that the global population should be no more than 500 million people
   • The wheels are definitely in motion to achieve that goal
   • The implications of these numbers change our perception drastically about life today, and looking forward . . . how the world population might be impacted by the many judgment plagues in the Tribulation
   • More importantly, they show us that we’ve never been in a declining population spiral like we are today
   • It’s totally unique and sets the stage for the prophesied utter devastation of the earth and the people on it when wars, famines, and plagues are unleashed when Jesus opens the Seal Judgments
   • Our current depopulation scenario falls right in line with the progression of events that must lead to this more horrific of all times on this earth
   • In fact, because of this downward trend, Jesus stated in Matthew 24:22:

And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

• Because the Greek word for saved – sózó – means (1) to have one’s soul delivered, (2) to be physically healed from illness, and (3) to be rescued from physical death, one way to understand this verse is that those who come to Christ during the Tribulation, i.e. the elect: Jews or Gentiles, might all perish unless the Tribulation ended after only seven years because mankind would completely die off
• That would be a problem because there would then be no one left alive to populate the earth as mortals during the Millennium
• As an intellectual exercise, let’s do one more little set of calculations with the numbers
• For the sake of argument, let’s say that both Deagel and The COVID Blog (two witnesses by the way) are correct in their assessments
• Given the downward trajectory of the world population, if it’s about 5 billion by the end of 2025 and the eradication efforts continue through more manufactured plagues and more lethal mRNA so-called vaccines to combat them, is it possible that by 2030 – when I personally believe the Tribulation will begin – the population could have decreased to 4 billion people (or fewer)?
• When we consider the death toll discussed in Revelation, prophecy teachers have said that as much as ¾ of the earth’s population could be wiped out by the time the Tribulation ends
• If that’s the case – beginning with 4 billion people – the end number could be something like 1 billion people remaining on the earth by the time all plagues and the 2^nd coming of Jesus are completed
• Yet, not all of them will be saved despite having survived the devastation of those seven years
• If Zechariah 13 is any kind of any indicator for overall survivability, then just as 1/3 of the people in Israel will be saved and ultimately survive, then 1/3 of the remaining Gentiles worldwide might also be saved and live – the others will be harvested as tares among the wheat, be judged and and die
• Thus, of the 1 billion people, perhaps as few as 300,000 might end up entering the Millennial period
• It’s pretty crazy to think of it this way, isn’t it?
• Yet the way to eternal life is narrow, while the road to destruction is broad and many will perish
• The bottom line on all this is that the effort to eradicate the population of the world – and the extent to which it is rapidly being accomplished – means that the Tribulation must occur very soon
• Otherwise, too many people would be eliminated even before we get to the seven years of horror

2. Biotechnology

• From a human perspective, this issue is incredibly instrumental in its implications of placing us at the cusp of the Tribulation
• There are at least three major factors contributing to this
• They are:
  • General artificial intelligence (AI like ChatGPT that has become an instant sensation)
  • Transhumanism
  • Nanotechnology
• Each of these has a biological component as well as its technical aspect
• The driving force underlining them is that human perfection can be achieved without God
• In fact, through man’s efforts, those who pursue this ideal seek immortality and can attain it
• The concept of the singularity is integral to this
• As Dennis Behreandt writes in his book End Game:

“The technological singularity . . . references the point at which technology not only surpasses human biological existence, but absorbs or consumes it.  The idea of a singularity supposes and predicts a post-human future.”

• This ideal is rapidly approaching
• A number of technologists have pointed out that the rate of technological advancement is accelerating and will lead to “fundamentally transformative outcomes”
• Superhumanly intelligent computers will cause even more rapid progress
• One scientist has stated:

“We are entering a regime as radically different from our human past as we humans are from the lower animals”

• I’ve read the following excerpt from a science fiction novel in a prior Prophecy Update, but it captures exactly the point I’m making:

You swallow a pill and a few days later you have an implant. Easy on the outside, anything but on the inside. The pill contains the implant core, nanobots, and nanocapsules with electrode substrate. All of these components are spirited across the intestinal barrier through a nanorobotic mechanism that creates and then cauterizes a miniscule opening in the gastric mucosa. The components travel into the bloodstream, migrate to the brain, and then, aided by another nanorobotic process, cross the blood- brain barrier. The core is implanted at the base of the skull, and a permanent, flexible electrode network grows and intertwines with the nervous system.

[Still quoting . . .]

BTW . . . if implant by pill doesn’t blow your mind (not literally of course), maybe this will. Within the next five years, approval is likely for a fetal delivery system. Mother swallows a pill anytime in her third trimester, and three days later her unborn baby will have an implant.

• Here’s where AI, the idea of transhumanism, and nanotechnology all converge
• One becomes more than human via an internal network in your brain that grows and intertwines with the nervous system from the ingestion of a simple nanotechnology-enabled pill that changes you into someone more than human who can interact intimately with the artificial-intelligence-empowered internet cloud and all its resources
• A well-known and highly respected futurist, Ray Kurzweil, who is Director of Engineering for Google and is described as a Singularitarian and Immortalist, has stated concerning these types of advancements:

“We’re going to literally expand our brains.  Right now we only have 300 million pattern recognizers, organized in a grand hierarchy that we create ourselves in our neo-cortex, but we could make that 300 billion, 300 trillion, we can expand it . . . We’ll be thinking grander, deeper, and more hierarchical thoughts than ever before, creating whole new genres of art and science, or even whole institutions like art and science that we could not articulate . . . We’re headed for radical life extension.”

• The Global Future 2045 International Congress was founded by a wealthy global tycoon to promote and pursue a technological path to immortality
• This organization sponsors the website 2045.com which lays out the path by which their objectives will be realized
• Here’s a brief description:

The goal “is to develop an ‘avatar’ to replace the biological human body.  ‘The whole Avatar project, the whole 2045 paradigm, is to develop the new body, the new carrier for the consciousness; and to understand what the consciousness is; and to develop the potential of the consciousness in the future.’ ”

• Oddly enough, although this project surely continues unabated and is making incredible progress, the 2045.com website has not been updated with additional information since about 2016
• Perhaps they’ve succeeded so well with this initiative that this information has become obsolete, and they don’t want to tip their hand telling us how far along in this project they really are
• The point is here that under this broad category of biotechnology the entire definition of what it means to be human is about to dramatically change
• There are all sorts of rumors and speculations about extensive underground facilities that have been conducting genetic engineering experiments for years
• If this is true, what has been the result?
• Are there already cyborg armies hidden away training for a momentous day?
• Are there horrific crossbreed monstrosities encompassing both human and animal Nephilim developed in cages ready to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world?
• If these things are being developed, do they simply come from the mind of man?
• Or, just as in the Days of Noah, have fallen angels, a.k.a. the sons of God, a.k.a. Watchers, collaborated with evil men by providing tools and technology to upset the order of this world?
• We’ll come back to this point momentarily
• The primary issue is that Jesus came to save lost humanity
• When He returns, He must find those who are wholly human in order to save them
• Given the extreme effort to depopulate the earth while at the same time enhancing those who remain, who will be left to save if actual humans have been eradicated?
• The 2030 date for achievement of The Great Reset is very purposeful
• The global elites are running hard toward that goal
• It’s clearly evident that their efforts have been ramped up in every sphere of society
• The Lord has surely rendered His judgment upon this unbelieving world that is growing more anti-God every day
• There will be no reprieve
• Bible prophecy assures us of that we will experience the ever-increasing frequency and intensity of the birth pains Jesus spoke of that lead to the coming 7-years of horror on the earth
• Biotechnology and the ends man intends to achieve through it will certainly take us well beyond the state of the world described in Scripture if the Tribulation doesn’t occur very, very soon

3. Demonic Resolve

• Satan and his demonic host know their time is at hand
• If we who believe in a pre-Trib Rapture . . . who see the incredible convergence of all prophetic signs . . . who sense that Christ’s appearing in the clouds for us is almost at hand . . . who feel the alienness of this world and our increased estrangement from it such that we’re crying out and yearning daily for the Lord, is it not obvious that Satan knows better than we that this is the final hoo-rah?
• I continue to stress that if there were that many demons in Jesus’ day possessing and afflicting people, then in these the final days, the numbers of those under the sway of Satan and his minions is incalculable
• And I believe the evidence for this is confronting us every day
• If there are two kinds of people in the world: saved and unsaved; and the path to eternal life is narrow and available only by passing through the straight gate by faith in Jesus Christ, then the broad road of destruction encompasses a WHOLE lot of people!
• Q – What is the gateway for demonic activity in one’s life?
• A – Practicing sin
• Billions upon billions of people – whatever the current population numbers are – either are operating under Satan’s direction one way or another, or they are ripe for it
• The obvious examples are many of the following:
• The videos we see of enraged, crazed leftists of one stripe or another, wailing or ranting – acting out their literal inner demons
• The lawlessness that’s been unleashed in our cities with gangs of youth looting and pillaging, destroying everything in their path is clearly from the devil’s influence
• Men and women exulting in the joy of killing babies in the womb – what person with any relationship to God would do such a thing?
• Extreme drug usage such that people can’t help themselves and lust to shoot up a substance which literally rots the body from the inside out – how could anyone rational desire to do this?
• To that end, the bureaucrats who provide crack pipes and free drugs (in free vending machine no less!) as evidence of their concern for those in need
• The homeless epidemic – how this “lifestyle” is preferred by many – then the politicians who bring solutions that bolster it – such as making laws outlawing mental institutions and supplying tents for these people rather than finding a means to restore their dignity
• Officials – elected and otherwise – local and national – who pass laws that directly contradict our Constitution and do so because they gain power and money
• The horrific pleasure that many receive from the mutilation of children – young boys and girls who have no moral compass because of the brainwashing their elders – parents and teachers – have subjected them to
• Schools, school boards, and teachers making LGBT indoctrination compulsory and going so far as to say that children no longer belong to their parents
• How about virtually every large corporation – plus many smaller ones – advocating for transgenderism and punishing employees (and even customers!) who don’t submit?
• The Deep State of regulators who direct the course of this nation without regard for the impact on the common man, the constituents of this nation
• Governments run by those who pledge allegiance to the gods whose only aim is to harm and eradicate humanity
• The pedophilia and horrific sex trafficking rings run by our government and practiced by our elected officials
• Those who love war and will do anything to encourage it
• On and on – all these and so much more, such as that behind CBDCs and digital passports – the satanic spirit – this present darkness – is running rampant in America and throughout the world
• Never before has there been such a concentrated push toward all kinds of evil – and hostile pushback against righteousness – since the Days of Noah and Lot
• All encouraged and accomplished through the realm of darkness in its surge toward total domination of this world
• And this is just the beginning
• What we’ve seen in the last three years with this incredible rise in wickedness by means of demon possession will only grow
• If Christian faith is falling away into apostasy – which it is – what can be the result other than even more signs of a world gone mad because the devil is raging in his final death throes?
• There is only so much evil this planet can absorb
• It pleads for mercy just like there was the outcry from the innocent affected by Sodom and Gomorrah that God had to respond to
• There’s too much shed blood, too much innocence that’s been corrupted, too much hatred and disdain for God
• He cannot let it go any longer – otherwise what kind of God of justice would He be?
• If that rubber band of evil is already stretched this far, is it truly possible it can be extended much more without snapping?

Conclusion

• I’ve said and continue to believe that the Tribulation will happen right around 2030 because it will correlate with the globalist Great Reset
• The timing is too propitious for God not to give these wicked people behind it exactly what they want
• It may be too delicious for God to miss this opportunity while giving Satan and his human minions even more rope to hang themselves
• See Psalm 2 for how God laughs at the futile efforts of these evildoers
• Given some of what we’ve discussed these last several minutes, let’s see what the Lord says about all this
• Many of you probably realize that I often draw analogies between the corruption and abominations in Israel long ago with America today given the fact that God doesn’t change
• He hates sin and its wicked cousin depravity – it doesn’t matter if those outrages were committed in ancient Israel or in our modern times – God reacts the same
• Take, for instance, Ezekiel 7:1-13, but in this passage substitute America for Israel:

¹ The word of the Lord came to me: ² “And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel [America]: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. ³ Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. ⁴ And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

⁵ “Thus says the Lord God: Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes. ⁶ An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. ⁷ Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains. ⁸ Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. ⁹ And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.

¹⁰ “Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded. ¹¹ Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them. ¹² The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude. ¹³ For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.

• In the same vein, let’s look at Ezekiel 22:1-16 and substitute America for both Israel, and the word nation for the city of Jerusalem:

¹ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² “And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city [nation]? Then declare to her all her abominations. ³ You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city [nation] that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! ⁴ You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. ⁵ Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; your name is defiled; you are full of tumult.

⁶ “Behold, the princes of Israel [America] in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. ⁷ Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you. ⁸ You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths. ⁹ There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst. ¹⁰ In you men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. ¹¹ One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter. ¹² In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

¹³ “Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst. ¹⁴ Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it. ¹⁵ I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you. ¹⁶ And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

• Finally, here is the Word of the Lord that will not be compromised as stated in Ezekiel 24:14:

“I am the Lord. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord God.”

• Oh, you who think that God will continue holding back His wrath for years and many generations to come, the time is here and now!
• But then the question for true believers becomes: If the actual Tribulation may not begin until 2030 – in another 7 years, how do we hold on?
• We can’t hardly breathe now given the overwhelming darkness encompassing the land on every side
• What are we to do?
• Fear not
• Obviously, I have no special inside track to God with His plans and purposes
• What I do know is that Israel is His timeclock, and it is ticking down to midnight
• I believe that because of certain timing aspects related to Israel that I’ve spoken of elsewhere, the Rapture of the true church must take place well before 2030, in fact, probably before the end of 2025 and perhaps sooner
• Could I be wrong?
• Sure, but so has been everyone else of good faith who thought the Rapture would have already happened this year to date
• I believe that we as true believers still must see worse and more horrific things simply to cause our yearning for our eternal home with the Father to increase dramatically
• Likely, persecution will come our way as well to one degree or another
• Since everything is moving at warp speed, all this can certainly be accomplished without too much more time passing
• The Tribulation is well within sight on the horizon
• This means that our deliverance is even closer
• As is said: When you see Christmas decorations, you know that Thanksgiving is right around the corner
• The decorations for Christmas in this case are all the signs of the Tribulation
• Thanksgiving, which comes first, is the Rapture
• Hold fast to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the promises of God
• As the song says: His promises are our confidence
• Now is not the time to fall away in any manner
• Our walk of obedience to the commands of God is more important than ever
• Let’s cling to the Lord knowing that as we do, we can almost see our future crowns and hear our Lord’s voice of commendation: “Well done, good and faithful servant.”