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Friday, September 25, 2020

WORLD RESET IN PREPARATION FOR THE RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST: Christian Blogger Lorilyn Roberts





As I wrote in my book, Seventh Dimension – The Howling, “He who controls the past determines the future. We [antiChrist speaking] must control all truth, and then rewrite history to where the earth-dwellers believe my version of what happened.”

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"If scholars rewrite American history and portray Critical Race Theory as the reason for America’s success, American history will be altered in one generation. Racism will be the dominant theme, dividing our country into whites versus blacks. To think that a false narrative would serve as the basis for diminishing the greatness of what God has done for America, through the toil, sweat, and bravery of our men and women for the last 250 years, is an abomination to any thinking, reflective American." ~ Lorilyn Roberts



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Excerpt from Seventh Dimension – The Howling: A Young Adult Fantasy, Book 6 in the Seventh Dimension Series 

“I [Daniel] didn’t say anything but glanced at the ceiling that bore a likeness to the Sistine Chapel. Colorful, hand-painted scenes from the creation story rivaled it in intensity, except this display was disturbing. The garden scene showed Adan reaching out to touch the hand of the serpent—if you could call it a hand.

“The prince’s voice was smooth like silk. ‘It’s a spectacular painting, isn’t it? I brought in the finest artists from Italy. I think scenes from history when correctly interpreted add a lot, don’t you?’”

“I remained equivocal. Who was Prince Adonikam? I wished I could be sure, but as he stood in front of me, I could read his mind. If he were supernatural, I wouldn’t be able to. I always thought the Antichrist would not be human—perhaps a Nephilim, perhaps Satan himself, but it was hard to comprehend the Antichrist would be fully human.

“A golden tree covered the front of his white thobe, matching the gold in his outer robe, and a wide, red-belted sash accented his waistline. I also noticed the gold bracelet on his right wrist. His hair was rather long underneath the keffiyeh. He was clean-shaven with olive tone skin. His most disturbing feature was his eyes—deep, penetrating, and reptilian. Everything about him seemed…perfect, a specimen of enviable looks, intelligence, and persona.

“He moved sleekly across the floor to his throne, made himself comfortable, and took a sip from his glass. After setting down his drink, his eyes drifted. A beautiful sunset hypnotized him. His words broke the silence. ‘I didn’t have to accept this position, but the enlightened one asked me to be the leader of the New World Order.’”

“He lifted his drink and gulped the rest of it down. Crossing his legs, he asked me again, ‘Do you know who I am?’

“Was he testing me? I shook my head. ‘No.’

“His eyes focused on the red waters. ‘I have brought peace to most of the world—Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and many smaller countries. A few have sunk into chaos. They aren’t worth remembering. However, we’re on the precipice of our biggest accomplishment. The time has come to invade Israel.’ His eyes bore into mine. ‘As a Jew, what do you have to say about that?’

“‘God will prevail.’

“His eyes narrowed. ‘The ships of Chittim won’t succeed this time. The United States and its allies are weaker, and my strength is growing.’

“‘What about the United States?’

“‘Since the purge, their place on the world stage has—how should I say it—diminished. After Hillary Clinton won the election…’ he shrugged. ‘The U.S. still hasn’t recovered from the EMP attack.’

“My ears perked up. ‘Trump won the election, not Hillary.’

“He replied flippantly. ‘I changed history. Do your research. Everyone knows Hillary Clinton won, not Trump, just like the United States lost the War of Independence from England.’

“‘You can’t rewrite history.’

‘The lines of his mouth twisted unnaturally. ‘He who controls the past determines the future. We must control all truth, and then rewrite history to where the earth-dwellers believe my version of what happened.’

“I sat numb, not sure how to respond. Then I replied, ‘So the United States was never a free country?’

“Prince Adonikam laughed. ‘England gave the United States their freedom. They didn’t win it. That was simple. No big deal, the Mandela effect on steroids. I control the truth, the World-Wide Web, and update it to where people believe what they’re told.’

“‘Why are you telling me this?’

“His reptilian eyes narrowed even more. ‘Because you have something I want.’”


 

Recently a good friend of mine asked me to do some editing of five pamphlets he wrote on Black Lives Matter and race relations. I spent a couple of hours going through and marking them up—basically “rewriting” them because I disagreed with his premise. If you start with a false assumption, you come to incorrect conclusions.

In my church, I’ve had some different thoughts about race relations. I sent a YouTube video to my pastors and asked them to watch it.  I have embedded it into this blog post and hope you will watch “Critical Race Theory and Its Attack on Christianity (Prophecy Update),” presented by Pastor Brandon Holthaus with Rock Harbor Church in Bakersfield, California,

One of my church pastors replied. He said that while he had no patience for Critical Race Theory, he felt like Pastor Holthaus allowed no room for nuance in his presentation. Therefore, if followed through, he would end up labeling him a “useless idiot.”

The assault on our country from demonic forces is happening on every front: Our history, our culture, our freedom, our political system, our educational system, and our churches. The most disturbing aspect in all of this is that many leaders and people are uninformed or deceived.

Critical Race Theory states that Western civilization is a racist culture where white people have become powerful at the expense of people of color. The 1619 Project has been introduced into schools to indoctrinate our young people into this “invented philosophy” from The 1980s. The postmodern philosophy has Marxism underpinnings with the intent of dividing people into white oppressors and non-white victims.

Several months ago, I approached my pastor about the notion of “victimhood” when he stood up in front of the church and made a proclamation that he was sorry for his white privilege and his history of racial injustice. He encouraged us to join him in prayer over our inherited privilege and whatever social injustices we had committed concerning people of color. 




I felt uncomfortable as I sat in the church pew listening to his prayer. I believed it needlessly drew attention to a supposed systemic division among white people and African-Americans. I don’t think—and I know some will disagree—that systemic racism exists in America in 2020.

Galatians 3:28 (NKJV) says: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

I think it’s unhealthy and dangerous to force people to view everything through the lens of skin color—particularly the church. The idea that Western civilization became powerful at the expense of blacks, and therefore, we live in a racist culture is not valid. Historically, the church did more to help the slaves than any other people group at that time. William Wilberforce from England, for example, spent a significant portion of his life trying to end the slave trade.

I had no concept of Critical Race Theory when I spoke to my pastor about his confession of racism to the church and the corporate prayer that followed. I had never even heard of it, but deep in my heart, the whole exercise bothered me. It seemed contrived. While I agree there is individual racism in this country, to equate that to a systemic issue is very condemning and, in opinion, demonic. 

How do you convince white people in America that they are racist?

First, you reach the youth through indoctrination. You rewrite Western civilization’s history books to reflect a systemic record of whites oppressing non-whites. Labeled the 1619 Project, schools have introduced textbooks that proclaim the first slaves arrived in America in 1619. Therefore, our country began on the backs of African slaves, without which America would not have risen to its dominance as a world power. Second, you infiltrate the churches with a dogma that we need to apologize for our white supremacy over African-Americans dating back to our nation’s beginnings.

More to this ideology exists, but I want to focus on these two components of Critical Race Theory, a 1980s made-up philosophy coming out of liberal universities.

As I wrote in my book, Seventh Dimension – The Howling, “He who controls the past determines the future. We must control all truth, and then rewrite history to where the earth-dwellers believe my version of what happened.”

If scholars rewrite American history and portray Critical Race Theory as the reason for America’s success, American history will be altered in one generation. Racism will be the dominant theme, dividing our country into whites versus blacks. To think that a false narrative would serve as the basis for diminishing the greatness of what God has done for America, through the toil, sweat, and bravery of our men and women for the last 250 years, is an abomination to any thinking, reflective American.

I lamented my concerns in a recent exchange with a friend. Why is it before President Obama’s eight years in office, there were very few issues with social injustice? I grew up in Atlanta during the Civil Rights Movement, and racial relations were a centerpiece of righting injustices spearheaded by gifted leaders who used the Bible as their framework. However, if one goes to the BLM website, you will see that the Black Lives Matter agenda has nothing to do with what Martin Luther King preached or advocated.

Black Lives Matter and Critical Race Theory is part of a Marxist movement to cause division in our country. We know the riots and protests are being paid for and funded by globalist elitists (like George Soros) and linked to Antifa (a terrorist organization). Their goal is to seize America, take away our identity as a sovereign nation, and coerce us into a global mindset. If the globalists have their way, they will destroy our Judeo-Christian foundation, ripping the Bible to shreds.

Why is this of such concern to me? This distorted version of history and focus on the racial divide has gone beyond the educational system to an elevated role in society, sports, entertainment, and even seeped into the churches. My church has bought into the current social justice movement, and unfortunately, my church is not the only one. The pervasiveness of churches across America looking at this as the Gospel Truth is startling.

When put it into the context of an election season where so much is at stake, I also found this comment at the end of a sermon unsettling: “Please go vote but just understand that the Kingdom doesn’t move forward in the ballot box. The Kingdom moves forward when the followers of Jesus follow his example and pick up the basin and the towel…” referencing when Jesus washed the feet of his disciples in the Upper Room the night of his betrayal by Judas.

How could God’s Kingdom on earth not move forward in the ballot box? The ballot box will determine the future course of our country—what happens as far as Supreme Court Justices, our policies concerning Israel, our presence or absence in the Middle East, our freedom to worship regardless of our religious affiliation, the abortion monstrosity (the deaths of 61 million babies), capitalism versus socialism, globalism versus nationalism, and issues of morality that are at the core of our Judeo-Christian heritage. The Bible has already been thrown out of schools and courthouses. These issues and many more are determined by how people vote and who they elect to lead our country.

The liberal-leaning Democrats have already shut down churches in states that they control, like California and Hawaii. They want to suppress our right of free speech and the right to worship. To denigrate voting and say that how we vote does not move the Kingdom forward is troubling. As Christians, we have a voice in a democratic process foundational to our country’s greatness.

The Democrats have made race relations a central issue in this election. The left-wing socialists/communists want to destroy our country’s framework to give them more power. I doubt many Democrats know what is happening behind the scenes.

As long as blacks believe what the Democrats tell them, that they are victims of systemic social injustice, they will never believe in themselves or in God’s provision to help them become great individuals. Nowhere in the world does anyone have as much opportunity as in America to overcome hardship and adversity. It’s called the Protestant Work Ethic, and it’s rooted in the Bible. Also, nowhere else in the world do people of all ethnicities have as much freedom to pursue their dreams as they do in America. That’s why everybody wants to come here—in pursuit of freedom, liberty, and justice.

As I said, I broached the subject of victimhood with my pastors concerning race issues because they have “bought into” systemic racial injustice. I even used as an example my two daughters who are from Third World countries. I raised them in a single-family household without a father. I made it clear to my daughters when they were still young that while they had much to overcome, including not having an earthly father, God had a great future and plan for them. However, if they wanted to succeed, they had to get beyond seeing themselves as victims and trust God. Only through God’s grace would they be able to become the person “in Christ” God created them to be.

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In the same way, if Democrats can keep the blacks falsely believing they are powerless victims, the Democrats can control them, and that’s what the liberal Democrats want—power.

However, it’s even more than that. Driven by a Marxist agenda, the liberals are a small but influential group who want to destroy our Constitution and take away our freedoms. They are so good at what they do that their convincing arguments are hoodwinking even some conservatives.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 states: “The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.”

Revelation 3:20 (NKJV) says:  “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.”

That means someone or something has padlocked the church—either earthly powers or people’s hearts. This verse shows a spectacular, almost incomprehensible removal of true Christianity from the world in the future.

Socialism is a genuine possibility in this election, and the sad thing is socialism does not allow for upward mobility. Most people don’t realize it creates more greed and envy than capitalism. The truth is capitalism, tempered with Christianity is the best form of government until Jesus reigns from Jerusalem. If the left has their way, we may not even have Christian churches to attend. They may be padlocked as highlighted in the Revelation verse above, or be permanently locked down as thousands of churches were during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.

As I said, I didn’t know for a few months that my gut reaction to what is happening in America had a philosophical definition. The Holy Spirit spoke to me, “Don’t believe this lie. It is a deception designed to cause condemnation of Christians and mislead them into believing a false doctrine.”

I encourage readers to watch the video until it’s removed, and I guarantee, YouTube will take it down. I’ve had many videos I’ve posted through the years from YouTube removed because of censorship. Christians and conservatives are being censored all over the web, including me.

Lastly, I want to make one final point. We all have favorite pastors we look up to and admire. One of mine is Max Lucado. I have more books on my bookshelf by this author than any others. I’ve given away most of my hard-back print books and now buy and store my books on Kindle, but I’ve kept his print books on my bookshelf because I love his writings. When I read some recent blog posts by him, I was disappointed.

And this is where I want to end—by focusing on the upcoming election. While President Trump may not meet Max Lucado’s definition of good husband material, i.e., endued with the social etiquette you would want in your daughter’s future husband, I’m glad we don’t have a Mr. Rogers in the Whitehouse. 

While Lucado and other Christian leaders are quick to point out Trump’s failures and shortcomings as Christian apologists, I prefer to look at Trump’s accomplishments in his four years in office. What other human being could have accomplished all that he has done for America, for the unborn child, for religious freedom, for Black colleges, for Israel, and for stopping the erosion of our Biblical principles in public schools, in the workforce, on college campuses, and elsewhere?

I could list dozens of examples. If you want to read them, please go to Amazon by clicking on this link and purchase Trump’s Pro-Christian Accomplishments by Pastor Steve Cioccolanti. I helped with the research, and every claim is footnoted for those who doubt the veracity of Trump’s accomplishments. 

For God to bless America, the truth is, the Kingdom does move forward in the ballot box. How Christians vote in this election will be critical. Will we continue to be a democracy, or are we going to allow the Marxists to have their way and embrace socialism? Are we going to overturn Roe v. Wade by giving Trump four more years to appoint pro-life Supreme Court Justices? We already have an opening as I write this.

The truth is, we need two things: We need to repent as a nation—not for our racism but our hardened hearts, and that is different for each person. While we have systemic sin, we don’t all commit wrongs in the same way. 

I believe the coronavirus pandemic is a setup to see how far the government can go to suppress our rights as Americans and our “soul freedom” found in Jesus Christ. As long as Trump is in the Whitehouse, we will be the freest country on earth. Trump is not a globalist, and he will do everything in his power to protect the American way of life.

Trump stands in the way of those who hate God, who are power-hungry, socialist-driven gluttons, and who want to “use” the uninformed and unaware to fulfill their ultimate goal of a one-world government. That future government, predicted in the Bible, will be led by a man who comes out of nowhere—referred to as the lawless one in the Bible—and he will ultimately become the Antichrist. 

Four more years of Trump will help us reach more people for Jesus Christ because Trump strongly believes in religious freedom and has proven it by what he’s already accomplished.




In my Seventh Dimension Series, I embedded in the background God’s redemptive love from the Cross to the middle of the coming Tribulation. In Trump’s Pro-Christian Accomplishments, Pastor Steve Cioccolanti highlights Trump’s prophetic role as God’s latter-day King Cyrus who helped the Jews to return to Israel and rebuild their temple. Both books are linked here and below. Please check them out.

Secondly, I urge Christians to vote for Trump. Why would any Christian vote for a platform (Democratic) that promotes the killing of the unborn child? There is power in that innocent blood, and the occultists are using that power to embolden the Marxist uprising that seeks to destroy our nation (Constitution), its foundation (statues and buildings), and assembly (Christian worship). Unfortunately, I believe many Democrats would make a pact with the devil if it meant getting Trump out of office.

Click to Tweet:  "We are on the threshold of a complete world reset. God needs Christians to stand in the gap, call evil what it is—evil, and declare war on the demonic forces attacking our nation." 

We need a Christian revival, and I believe the most qualified Americans to lead it are the African Americans and their spirit-filled churches. Please, don’t be deceived. Anyone who wants to divide our great nation through violence and racial tension is promoting an anti-American agenda. Through our Democratic process, God has given voters the power to elect a pro-Christian, pro-American president. Donald Trump is God’s man.

  Purchase Trump's Pro-Christian Accomplishments from Amazon, click here.

 

 








Sunday, September 13, 2020

LORILYN ROBERTS BOOK REVIEW: “President Trump’s Pro-Christian Accomplishments” is a Game-Changer - New Book by Pastor Steve Cioccolanti

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Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2020
President Trump’s Pro-Christian Accomplishments is a game-changer.
I urge everyone to read President Trump’s Pro-Christian Accomplishments from cover to cover. Our country’s future depends on our decisions. No one can make an informed decision without knowing the truth. Unfortunately, a handful of corporations now control most of the U.S. media.
If you love America, read this book.
If you love truth, read this book.
If you want a future for your children and grandchildren, read this book.
If you want liberty, justice, and peace, read this book…before more of your freedoms are restricted, your money stolen, and your dreams vanquished.
If you care for the unborn child, please read President Trump’s Pro-Christian Accomplishments.
What Trump has done so far is nothing short of a miracle. I don’t know of another historical figure, except for Winston Churchill, who could have accomplished what Trump has despite the attacks, lies, ridicule, and mockery from many who hate him.
Read this book…And buy several copies to share with friends, family, and coworkers.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

ARE YOU STAYING HOME DURING THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: Christian Blogger Lorilyn Roberts




Luke 21:11 (KJV):  And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

I provide broadcast captioning for television. On any given day, especially on the weekends, I might caption five or more hours of sports. Baseball, basketball, and hockey are the three main ones, but I also caption football, all kinds—American, Australian, and real football—the kind that consumes the hearts of sports fanatics in Europe.

All of that ended with the shutdown of sports. I used to wonder what would happen if people didn’t have sports to watch. For many, it’s an addiction—to escape from problems, to enjoy a pastime, to be entertained, and on and on. I waited a long time to caption sports until my children were much older. I could never see myself captioning a baseball game into the thirteenth inning and serving dinner two hours late with a two-year-old and nine-year-old waiting to be fed.
But eventually, I did caption sports; first baseball, then basketball, and then all the rest. Last week on ESPN, I captioned a fiery knife thrower, bare-hand fish hunters, and hill rollers—or something like that. 
I never quite got the gist of that last sport that took place in the U.K., but it was obvious the sports producer was digging into the very bottom of the sports barrel hoping live sports would be resurrected soon.
So now, instead of captioning baseball—my favorite sport to caption—I’m captioning Coronavirus press conferences of President Trump, governors around the country, city mayors, local doctors, nurses, and even recovering Coronavirus patients. I had to come up with a good brief for hydroxychloroquine. Who would have thought I would ever need to know what that word meant?
It’s only been three months since Christmas and the entire world is affected. Because I’m such a conspiracy nut, I knew about the virus in Wuhan probably before most people did. It was barely mentioned in the news, and I have to admit, I never expected it to become what it is now.
Even with all the books, I’ve read and YouTube videos I’ve watched dealing with apocalyptic scenarios, partly out of my own interest but also as research for my Seventh Dimension Series, I can’t remember seeing anything that took on the scope of this pandemic, although I have heard scientists predict that we were past due for flu similar to the Spanish flu of 1918.
I also can’t remember anything on a global scale that has affected me personally to this degree since the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was living in Atlanta at the time, and my mother had just remarried. I remember the drills the elementary school conducted, that if something were to happen, to run into the hallway and cover our heads. I remember my mother and new father showing me how to walk home from school if the worst happened. 
We had just moved with their marriage the previous week, and I was living in an unfamiliar part of town. I remember them telling me what would be safe to eat, that anything in a can would be okay, but practically nothing else. And I was acutely aware of death—of my own, theirs, or classmates. I had a scary feeling that my world, as tenuous as it was, might soon come to an end.


That was fifty-seven years ago. I was in first grade. I hardly knew anyone because I had just enrolled in that school, and because we were living in a different apartment, I didn’t know a soul. While John F. Kennedy wasn’t a perfect president, he was certainly the man for the hour. He stood up to Cuba, and a nuclear war was averted.
Whether you love Trump or hate him, I would encourage you as an American to support him. We need everyone to come together and to do their part to help us get through this. The one thing I keep hearing over and over is that people need to stay home. By staying home, we can slow down the exponential increase in cases, hopefully long enough to spread out the need for ventilators over a longer period to save lives.
Many years ago, when my daughter, Joy, was in third grade, I got the shingles. I’d never had shingles and didn’t know what it was, but my eye was a mess and it hurt. I finally made an appointment with an ophthalmologist, in between a hectic captioning schedule to see what was going on. The doctor examined me and said I had an eye infection. As an afterthought, I said, “You know, I also have this rash on my forehead.”
The doctor stopped what he was doing and examined my forehead. Immediately he exclaimed, “You’ve got shingles.”
My mother had had shingles, and she had told me more than once how painful it was. No wonder I was in so much pain. The doctor looked at my eye again and shook his head. “It’s a wonder you didn’t lose your eyesight. If the spread had gone down instead of up, you would have.”
I went home that night thankful that somebody discovered a cure for shingles and that in a few days I’d feel much better. I don’t remember many shows I’ve captioned over ten years ago, but I remember the show I did that night. It was on QVC, and the woman was from Asia and spoke with the heaviest accent you could have and still call it English. I couldn’t open that eye, and so I captioned that hour-long show squinting in pain in a language that sounded nothing like English. I hope they sold some jewelry that night. If they did, I’m sure it wasn’t because of my perfect captions. Lord only knows what I wrote!
But that isn’t the end of the story. I got better within a few days. Life seemed to return to normal, and I went out of town on a trip, only to get a phone call from my dear friend who was taking care of my daughters.
“I think Joy has chickenpox,” Sylvia said.
“What? No, she can’t have chickenpox. She had chickenpox when she was a baby.” Or did she?
Joy had broken out in a rash while on vacation in Destin, Florida, and I had taken her to the emergency clinic. The doctor said he was ninety percent sure it was chickenpox. So I took his word for it and never got her the vaccine. Well, I guess she didn’t have chickenpox after all. I returned home from my out-of-town trip early, took her to the pediatrician, and received the diagnosis: chickenpox.
So Joy stayed home from school and gymnastics practice for the next seven to ten days. Unexpectedly, after she returned to school, she came home with a letter from the school principal that went something like this: It has come to our attention that we have had an outbreak of chickenpox in our school. Several cases have been reported, and if your child breaks out with a rash, has a fever…”
When Joy returned to her gymnastic class, I heard through the gossip mill of mothers that several gymnasts had recently come down with chickenpox.
I didn’t have the guts or heart to tell those parents it was because of me. I got the shingles, Joy caught the chickenpox from me, and then she passed it on to several students and gymnasts, and those kids probably shared it with others I never knew about.
Fortunately, enough kids had been immunized and enough adults had had the chickenpox as children that it didn’t turn into an epidemic. 
I bring that story up here to stress how important it is that we take measures to avoid contact with others during this Coronavirus Crisis. There is no treatment and there is no vaccine. Therefore, some people who get it will not have the resources to fight it and will die. There aren’t enough ventilators for those who might have trouble breathing. For the first time in U.S. history, we may have to triage patient care. That means somebody will have to choose who will live and who will die.
Coronavirus is spreading at an unprecedented rate. To have something this deadly overtake so many countries around the world at once is unimaginable. If someone had predicted this beforehand, they would have been written off as a conspiracy nut. I know. I’ve been called that by one of my kids.
CLICK TO TWEET:  The truth is I believe we are heading into a time period that was predicted in the Bible over two thousand years ago. The word “pestilence” in Luke 20 is associated with a specific period of calamity. 
We’ve seen a dramatic rise in earthquakes over the last few years. Famines around the world have increased, and I would not be surprised to see “wonders” in the sky in the not-too-distant future. Steve Cioccolanti, a pastor in Australia with Discover Ministries, who also teaches Biblical prophecy and its intersection with current events, believes we are at the opening of the third seal, the third horse of the apocalypse.
Revelation 6:5-6 (KJV): And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, “Come and see.” And I beheld, and lo, a black horse, and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, “A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.”
Pastor Cioccolanti believes the opening of the seals happens before the seven-year tribulation. If that is true, we may be closer to the return of Christ than many of us have imagined.



I encourage everyone to stay at home, read books, spend quality time with family, and pray. Pray that God will use the Coronavirus to show people that even though our lives can quickly change, God is unchanging. Jesus Christ is our rock, our hope, and our salvation.
Take time to read the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation. Ask God to help you reprioritize what’s most important. Eat well to build up your immune system. Take vitamin C and vitamin D. Pray for President Trump and all of our leaders, our doctors and nurses, and our pastors. The emotional impact may be exhausting. Pray for one other, that God will meet our needs—financial, spiritual, and physical—to help us through this difficult time.