I
could not have imagined on January 6, 2021, that we would be living as we are
fourteen months later. That this country would suppress the results of the
election seemed unfathomable. Didn’t people want to know who had won? What
about the censorship of other facts—not only connected with the election but
also with the vaccine? How can we know the truth about anything if we can’t
have open discourse?
I
could never have imagined what our government would do to our children—the indoctrination
of Critical Race Theory, the focus on sexual dysphoria, and the insistence on vaccination for a virus that rarely injured them.
I
couldn’t have imagined the censorship of people like me, ordinary, hard-working
middle-class Americans who love this country. I could never have envisioned our
freedoms being trampled upon—like the freedom to make decisions for ourselves.
Who
gave Washington the authority to vilify me and others because we don’t want a
vaccine that is ineffective and dangerous? Of course, because of censorship,
most people don’t know that. Most people aren’t aware of the thousands who have
been injured by the Covid-19 vaccine. Or the thousands who were denied
treatment with safe drugs like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine and given Remdesivir.
In prior studies, it was shown to damage the kidneys. Many hospitalized patients
were killed by Remdesivir, the treatment that was supposed to help them.
As
if that wasn’t enough, the continued false narrative of climate change borders
on religious fanaticism.
One
of my favorite Bible passages is when Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?”
(John 18:38 NIV).
Whether
Pilate’s question was in jest or genuine, the question is important because
Jesus said deception would mark the latter days. The governor’s only comment
after questioning Jesus is when he spoke to the raucous crowd (incited by the Jewish
leaders): “I find no basis for a charge against him [Jesus]” (John 18:38).
When
Jesus’ disciples asked him in private about the end of days, “Tell us, when
will this happen and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the
age (Matt 24:3 NIV)?” Jesus replied, “Take heed that no one deceives you” (Matt
24:4 NKJV).
I
believe Jesus spoke of the time in which we now live. We see the very things
Jesus described to His disciples. Many things must take place before Jesus’
return, and yet, of all the things He could have said, His first warning was, “Take
heed that no one deceives you.”
If
the Christian church today (referred to in Revelation as the Laodicean Church)
is as deceived as it seems to be in 2022, what can we expect when the many
signs that Jesus listed happen in the next few years? For example, what about
when Christians in the West face persecution? We’ve never had Christian or
Jewish persecution in the United States.
When
I was in Washington on January 6, I watched as Trump supporters physically manhandled
men dressed in black, pulling them down to the ground after they attempted to
break the U.S. Capitol windows. What followed that day was not an affirmation
of those brave souls who saved that side of the Capitol building from being
destroyed. Instead, an attack was launched on the people who were there, many
of whom, like me, were Christians. The media called the event an insurrection.
There
was no insurrection. A few people entered the Capitol building and caused a
disturbance, but they were unarmed, and, in my opinion, those who were
disorderly might have been planted there by operatives on the inside.
The
distortion of what really happened on January 6 is an example of what
Christians can expect in the future. I anticipate Christians will be targeted,
maligned, tracked down, and imprisoned by government officials. For what?
Whatever fits the narrative at that time. Truth is now relative in the eyes of
those in power. We will become targeted like the Jews were in Germany. How do I
know this? Because Jesus said this would happen.
He
told His disciples in Matthew 25:9-10 (NKJV), “Then they will deliver you up to
tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s
sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate
one another.”
In
the Bible, the first example of a Jew disobeying the government is when Moses’
mother hid her baby in the reeds of the Nile River. Even back at that time, rulers
were “hell-bent” on killing babies, the most vulnerable members of any society.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NKJV): “What has been will be again, what has been done will
be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
Did
Jesus advocate socialism in His teachings? If you read the parables, you will
see Jesus often referred to work. After God created Adam, one of God’s first
commands after putting him in the garden was to work it and keep it (Genesis
2:15).
Jesus
also modeled a work ethic that would put most of us to shame. Even when He was
only twelve, He said to his parents when they found Him in the Temple, “Why did
you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business? (Luke
2:45)”
2
Thess 3:10 (NKJV): “For even when we
were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither
should he eat.”
Jesus
said to his disciples in John 9:4 (Tree of Live Version), “We must do the work
of the One who sent Me, so long as it is day! Night is coming when no one can
work.”
How
many people during Covid weren’t able to work? I have no doubt that a deep
night of darkness is coming when it will be impossible to work. Specifically,
in the words of Jesus, Christians will not be able to witness, speak about God,
quote Scripture, or worship.
More
broadly, Proverbs 16:27 states: “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips
are his mouthpiece.” If you force people to be unproductive and feed them a
carrot with government handouts, you create an environment that is rife with
discontent, complacency, and laziness.
Socialism
goes a long way toward giving people a sense of entitlement. Hard work is what
we are commanded to embrace, and through our diligence, we can tithe for the
Kingdom and even have some left over to share with those who are truly in need.
That is not socialism; that’s Biblical truth.
“What
is truth?” Pontius Pilate asked. Is there not a small voice inside of you that
tells you what truth is? Or is your conscience so seared with lies that you can
no longer hear the truth? Or is your comfort more important than knowing the
truth?
Romans
1:18 (NKJV) states: “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all
the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their
wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has
made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible
qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
As
the confirmation hearings wrap up for the next Supreme Court Justice, where does
Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first black woman nominee to the highest court,
stand on gender issues? Was she able to define what a woman is?
What
Ms. Jackson said is on record in Washington, but what you say about this topic is
recorded in heaven’s book of remembrance. When Jesus returns, those books will
be opened. Every act and thought, to the minutest detail, is recorded in those
books, and they are far more accurate than I could write as a court reporter,
even with my top credentials.
It
might be tempting to think that today’s problems aren’t mentioned in the Bible.
For example, does the Bible talk about Israel in the last days? Is the root
word for Covid, crown, mentioned anywhere in the end-time Scriptures?
Check
out the book of Revelation for answers. Revelation is the only book in the
Bible that if you read it, you are promised a blessing: “Blessed is the one who
reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and
take it to heart what is written in it, because the time is near” (Revelation
1:3 NKJV).
The
Bible is more relevant than people think. Acts 17:28 (NKJV): “…for in Him [Jesus Christ] we live and move
and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also
His offspring.’”
And
Colossians 1:17 (ESV): “And he [Jesus Christ] is before all things, and in him
[Jesus Christ] all things hold together.”
If
you haven’t thought about these questions, now is the time. Each of us should
be a Berean and search the Scriptures. That is the only way to know what is
true and what is false. God has given us a template to live by, and His Truth
is as pertinent today as when written thousands of years ago.
If
the Bible isn’t relevant, why did countries throughout history seek to ban it?
Do you know why the Dark Ages are called the Dark Ages? From 500 AD to 1500 AD,
people were forbidden to own a Bible, and the Apostate Church burned Bibles.[1]
History
repeats itself. The New World Order will implement a reset, and the Globalists
will seek to destroy true Christianity. In the name of a fake religion (climate
change), they will martyr Christians to reduce the population. Spurned by
Satan, they will seek to end the lives of whom the Word of Life indwells.
Why
does the New World Order want to reduce the population? I hope it is evident to
those who love the Lord that God, in the beginning, provided adequate land and resources
to support all the human beings for which He would give His life. It is a lie
to say the earth can’t sustain the people that God created.
The
truth is, Satan hates human beings. Depopulation in the form of abortion,
plagues, war, and starvation—among others, serves the evil one’s agenda.
Anyone
he can deceive is a likely target. If Satan had his way, no human would
survive. Jesus stated in Matthew 24:22 (NKJV): “And unless those days were
shortened no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be
shortened.”
Another
critical point is this: The Word of Life (the Holy Spirit) cannot indwell a
person who is not fully human. Suppose the devil’s goal is to corrupt the human
genetic genome? As stated above, in Ecclesiastes 1:9, “What has been will be
again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the
sun.”
At
the time of Noah, the bloodline of humanity was corrupted by the fallen angels:
“That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they
took them wives of all which they chose (Genesis 6:2 NKJV).
While
the mRNA vaccine is NOT the mark of the beast, there is no doubt in my mind
that it is a precursor to what is coming. The Bible clearly states that those
who receive the mark cannot be saved.
“Then
a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, ‘If anyone worships the
beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he
himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out
full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire
and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the
Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no
rest day or night who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the
mark of his name’” (Rev 14:9 NKJV).
Revelation
16:9-11 (NKJV) also states: “They were seared by the intense heat and they
cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to
repent and glorify him…and cursed the God heaven because of their pains and
their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.”
Is
the Holy Spirit unable to “woo” some earth-dwellers to repentance? Perhaps it’s
not possible. Jesus died for humankind, not Chimera, not Nephilim, not
transhumans, not robots, or any combination of the above.
As
the elitists become more emboldened, deception will reach a tipping point. Some
Christians (and non-Christian conservatives) who have been “sleeping” will wake
up and realize they have been duped. They will recognize the evil lies and start
to push back.
I
see signs of that happening now. Truth always wins in the end because God
always wins. I believe this is when Christians will become the targets of not
just censorship but horrible persecution.
When
the globalists realize they can no longer operate with the power they gifted
themselves during Covid-19, they will have to develop other ways to take away
our freedoms. The Constitution is blocking the globalists’ agenda. America is
the only country that has a Bill of Rights.
The
Internet most likely will be sabotaged and rebuilt with Christian
websites/links removed. The only information available on the worldwide web will
be what the Globalists want people to know. The church will go underground,
like in China. An excellent book to read on this topic of Christian persecution
is Live
Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents,
by Rod
Dreher, Adam Verner, et al.
What
happens at that time will be evident to those who have swallowed the red pill (The
Matrix), but those who take the blue will live in the matrix of deception. The
truth is, the Great Tribulation is coming, and it will last seven long,
horrific years. On a broad scale, everyone in the world will be affected, but
in a biblical sense, the Day of Jacob’s Trouble is to bring the Jewish people
back to Israel and God. When it’s over, Jesus will take His rightful place on
the throne in Jerusalem.
How
soon until our Lord’s return? No one knows, but God has given us His Word that provides
a startling account of these last days. Almost one-third of the Bible is
devoted to prophecy. God has not left us without the ability to know the
future.
The
number one sign of Jesus’ imminent return is the reconstitution of the Jewish
state in Israel. While Israel was born in a day—
Isaiah
66:8
Who
has heard such a thing?
Who
has seen such things?
Shall
the earth be made to give birth in one day?
Or
shall a nation be born at once?
For
as soon as Zion was in labor
She
gave birth to her children.
—the
birth pangs are increasing, heralding the return of Jesus as King. The ultimate
rebirth of Israel will be when Jesus reigns from Jerusalem.
However,
before Jesus’ return, those here, referred to as earth-dwellers in the book of
Revelation, will endure seven years of unimaginable suffering. Some will repent
and accept Jesus as the Messiah. They will occupy this evil world for the glory
of God, standing in the gap between the falling away and Jesus’ return. Millions
will be martyred.
The
truth is, however, many will fall away. According to I Timothy 4:1 (ESV): “Now
the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith
by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons.”
Amos
8:12 states: “They shall wander from sea to sea, And from the north to the
east, they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, and shall not
find it.”
That
tells me Bibles, Christian books, writings, magazines, blog posts, articles,
signs, pamphlets, and anything Christian worldwide will be almost impossible to
find. Because the Word indwells us in the form of the Holy Spirit, I wonder if
that means Christians will also be rare.
In
my opinion, that points to the rapture taking place before the Great Tribulation
begins. However, that doesn’t mean that Christians will not endure tribulation.
Suffering refines faith, separating the wheat from the chaff, revealing true
faith from comfortable Christianity. But Christians will be spared God’s wrath.
Next
time you listen to a news broadcast or someone pontificating about something
important, ask yourself, is that person speaking the truth? Question everything
you hear so as not to be deceived.
If
you have not accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, don’t wait. Do it
now. Don’t let the hour pass without committing your life to Him and making Him
Lord of your life. God loves you and sent His Son to die on the cross so you
could have eternal life.
While
the world will get darker and darker, as prophesized in the Bible, allow God’s
light to shine through you and be a witness to the truth of God’s sacrificial
love. In the upcoming days, God will help you to survive and even thrive. He is
coming again to claim His own. If you aren’t ready, now is the time to receive
Him into your heart. Don’t be deceived. Jesus Christ is Who He said He was. Read
the Bible so you will be able to see the truth despite the rampant deception.
Satan’s
number one goal is to separate you from God. If you don’t receive Jesus Christ
as Lord of your life, you will be deceived. Separated from God, you will succumb
to lies, deception, and powers that will terrify you. Fear will be your
constant companion.
Governments
come and go. Hollywood stars rise and fall. Countries conquer and others disappear
from maps. Money is skin deep and gone tomorrow.
Again,
I plead with you, if you have not accepted Jesus Christ into your heart, do so
now. Repent of your sins, and start living for Christ as if you have no tomorrow.
I Peter 1:25: “But the word of the Lord
remains forever.” And that word is the Good News that was preached to you.”
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