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It is significant, I think, that there is suddenly increased talk among the Jewish religious hierarchy about building a temple in Jerusalem.

We learn of this in the following:

Sanhedrin rules it will formally petition Heaven to reveal Mashiach and rebuild the Temple

The nascent Sanhedrin issued a formal ruling this week, asking the Holy One, Blessed be He, to remove hostile forces from the Jewish people and the Land of Israel, reveal the Mashiach (Messiah), rebuild the Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple), and restore prophecy to Israel. The written ruling, dated 6 Menachem Av, 5786, follows a session the court’s members described as several hours long, during which two of the judges argued against moving forward before ultimately joining the majority. (“Sanhedrin rules it will formally petition Heaven to reveal Mashiach and rebuild the Temple,” Israel365 News, July 30, 2026)

The observation of this development by those who are truly watchers on the wall is far different from most who view this.

The Jewish people who observe Judaism generally believe this is an answer to the long-echoed call, “Next year in Jerusalem!” By this, it’s meant that there is great hope that the construction of a third temple will begin as soon as possible. This is the genuine longing by all who believe their Messiah must soon come to enter that future temple and bring peace and prosperity to all of Israel.

Of course, secular Jews have several thoughts about this. The primary thinking is that it really makes no difference one way or the other. A second thought is that a temple would be nice as a tourist attraction. A third thought is wrapped in tremendous fear that building such an edifice would bring an even greater hatred, and possibly war, from all of Israel’s surrounding enemies–and increased hatred by the rest of the world.

Many Jewish people fear that the title “God’s chosen people” is a primary reason for the world’s long history of anti-Semitism. And they’re probably right.

Satan has no doubt used this to induce hatred in the minds of those who harbor some sort of inferiority complex. From these types come much of the Islamist terrorism, I believe.

There is another thought by we who are watchers on the wall.

The third temple will undoubtedly be built—no question about it. But it will not be cherished by Jewish people in Israel or around the world.

It won’t benefit any people anywhere in the world because it will not be the Jewish Messiah who enters and occupies this Temple on Moriah. Instead, it will be the one God’s Word calls “the man of sin” and “the son of perdition.”

This, of course, will be Antichrist, a false messiah who will promise a false peace. He will instead bring the most terrible time of all history to the world (Matthew 24: 21).

A third temple will be built at a future time, Bible prophecy says. Solomon built the first one, which Nebuchadnezzar destroyed in 587 BC.

The second temple was built following Israel’s Babylonian captivity. It lasted from 516 BC to AD 70. It became known as Herod’s Temple when the king commissioned it to be greatly expanded and beautified to the extent that it was considered magnificent by those who looked upon it.

This temple was destroyed by the Roman military in AD 70, when Roman Emperor Vespasian sent his son, General Titus, to put down insurrection in Jerusalem. This was a fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy in Daniel 9:26–27 and of Jesus’ words in Matthew 24:1-2.

The third temple is said to be in place during the last seven years of human history prior to Christ’s return. Daniel prophesied about Antichrist: “In the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease” (Daniel 9:27b). This last, most vicious tyrant will enter the third temple and desecrate it.

Paul the apostle says of that future temple and Antichrist:

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thessalonians 2:4)

So, all the information coming from the Jewish hierarchy is Tribulation temple talk; there’s no other way to describe this news from the Israeli Sanhedrin.

All this means that Israel’s real Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, is poised to call God’s family—all born-again believers—into the clouds of Glory.

Following the Rapture of the Church, the Tribulation will begin with Israel signing the covenant of false peace offered by the one who will become Antichrist (Daniel 9:27).

Seven years later, Israel’s True Messiah, Jesus Himself, will enter a supernaturally created Temple atop Mount Zion in Jerusalem, from which He will rule and reign for one thousand years. This will be the Millennium, during which supernatural saints—those who return with Jesus—will be given assignments within the governance of King Jesus!

Believe in Christ today—for today, at this moment, is the only time promised. Tomorrow it might be too late.

For the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:11–13)

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We think of the heathen of the world in terms of their knowing little to nothing about God’s truth regarding the only way to salvation. This brings to the lips of some the accusatory rant that God is unfair. They say He sends people who have never heard the gospel to eternal punishment.

But God’s Word says the following about those in even the darkest regions throughout human history:

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. (Romans 1:18–23) 

In other words, people have no excuse, because God reveals to all, even if they live in uncivilized regions of the world and/or have a lack of information. God will never be unfair. All have enough inward information to know they need Him. When people instead carve out idols for themselves, they’re deliberately rejecting the God who plants in the people’s hearts the innate ability to know Him for their personal redemption.

The same is true of “civilized” heathen. I think of the Hollywood cabal who push God aside. They know Him, yet don’t know Him—that is, they don’t know Him as their Heavenly Father. They deliberately ignore and even, in some cases, cast Him and those who are Christians in derogatory roles.

Proof that they are made aware, however, comes through in the films they produce. We remember the Cecil B. DeMille movie, The Ten Commandments. It was quite accurate in its depiction of the Exodus account.

In Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War, the scriptwriters had American naval officer Victor “Pug” Henry say something like, “Mankind is destined to kill each other in war until the Second Coming of Christ.”

The Hollywood people are aware that this fictional statement has played out in fact since World War II, as murderous conflicts continue to this day. Killing in war is prophetically scheduled to become even more prolific as time moves forward toward Christ’s Second Advent. All of humanity’s interaction points starkly at Heaven’s foretold intervention into the affairs of humankind.

Hollywood was and is thoroughly aware of Jesus Christ and His coming again. They are without excuse.

No people on earth are more under God’s assessment of being “without excuse” than the people of the United States.

There are churches on many corners of most cities. There are means of communications that pour out the gospel message every hour of every day. There are so many Bibles that it is the most published and sold volume ever in America and the world. Yet, it is probably one of the fewest read and studied.

But it isn’t only America that comes under God’s condemnation of being “without excuse.” Europe long ago shut down most of its churches. Many are merely now museums for tourists to photograph.

The results of this dismissal of Heaven’s authority are blatant in all the world, not just in our country. As pointed out in recent commentaries, Paul’s words tell of the foolhardiness and its results regarding people who turn their backs on the God who created them:

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. (Romans 1:28)  

Can there be any argument of substance against the proof that the Creator has turned this generation of God-deniers over to a “reprobate mind”?

The things we have witnessed in recent years offer evidence that would convict in any sane court of justice.

Government and the ideological left claim everything we do must be to protect the most innocent—the children. Regulations of every sort—in food production, medicine, and other such things—are in large part for children. Proposed gun control is so that the children can live happily and, above all, live safe lives.

Yet that same government and leftist, hypocritical ideology declares it’s their right to slaughter babies by the millions while still in their mothers’ wombs.

This, folks, is what qualifies as a prime example of what the God of Heaven calls the “reprobate mind.”

And we could go on and on telling things like teaching kindergartners about adult sexual activity, about letting porn-star transvestites who commit the most disgusting acts in film come before children as young as five to teach them about their abominable lifestyles.

So, humankind is without excuse. And all who do not know the Lord Jesus as Savior will suffer eternal condemnation because of their unbelief. Thus, “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither was thankful.”

You, I—we all are without excuse. We all must come to Christ, for He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No person comes to the Heavenly Father but by Him (John 14:6).

Here is how you can make sure you are not under the condemnation “without excuse”:

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9–10)

This commentary will be a bit personal, so I must warn that included is information I believe the Lord wants presented, but that the writing of it might be taken as self-attention gathering allurement. Please know that’s not what I intend.

While working in advertising many years ago, I served as creative director in a couple of ad agencies. We, of course, worked to put our clients’ businesses in the best possible light, and create allurements aimed at potential customers of our clients’ products and services through regional and national print and broadcast venues.

We constantly searched the recesses of our brains for the cleverest, yet on-the-mark lines of copy (word pictures) to attract customers for our clients and to demonstrate to our competitor ad agencies just how good we were at the business of advertising.

Annual awards were presented for such narcissistic endeavors. I loved the business of advertising, but, being younger than the agency heads, I never got caught up in the higher level of the business where the  top guys would gather to accept the awards.

The one time I wish to relate here, in which the part I loved–the creative process—was involved is captured in the title of this commentary. I’m sure the phrase has been used many times since that moment long ago. But it was the first time it was used, and we all sat around the ad agency’s creative environs wishing we could have thought of it.

It was emblazoned across a billboard. I can’t remember the ad agency who came up with it, or which funeral home it was created for, but it was, at the time, absolutely the perfect slogan for a funeral home: “And in conclusion…”.

I guess that thoughts of funeral-type things are always close to the surface of our thinking, particularly the older we get.

My eighty-fourth birthday is the day after we post this article, and I’ve been listening to the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham, who died considerably younger than I am at present, as I write it on Tuesday July 28. So the slogan from long ago came to mind in a most poignant way.

Here I sit, thinking on, praying on, and writing about the biblical conclusion of things–Bible prophecy.

It comes to mind of the many great friends that have gone to their heavenly rewards, some considerably younger than I am now. Like Dr. Dave Breese, truly one of my most beloved friends, who helped me get started with my first book—Storming Toward Armageddon.

Dave, one of the most eloquent and brilliant spokesman for God’s Word, was just seventy-three when he was called into Heaven.

I think of my wonderful friend Dr. Tim LaHaye, who was sixteen years older than me. I remember this because the first time Tim and I met, he figured the age difference with a smile. Tim is certainly now enjoying the tremendous rewards of heavenly life–eternal life!

Then I think on the great preacher and teacher Dr. J. Vernon McGee, who inspired so many of us with his down-home, but tremendously powerful, teachings. He was…well…he was eighty-four when he passed into that heavenly dimension! Eighty-four!… Well…I’m now 84!

Time to think of what the slogan I remember so vividly from those many years ago really encompasses! ”And in conclusion…”.

This is not meant to be read like my own impending epitaph. I trust the Lord has me here yet for His own purposes. I won’t go into the widow-maker heart attack and heart stoppages way back on Good Friday, April 22, 2011, and the miraculous trip to Heaven and back three times. (Well, I guess I just did go into it again, but just can’t help myself.) It’s a witness, and I will always interject it when opportunity permits.

And the witness–the main reason I believe I’m still topside of the soil, as I like to say—is to tell that God is warning the world that the end of this age (Age of Grace or Church Age) is about to come to an end. This means that the worst time in all of human history, as Jesus Himself stated (Matthew 24: 21), is about to come upon rebellious humankind.

The Tribulation will be the last seven years that will put an end to humankind’s rebellion against God. It will be Daniel’s seventieth week.

The telling of this terrible era of Heaven’s punishment against earth’s rebels, found mainly in the book of Revelation, detailing twenty-one judgments in a series of three specific acts of God’s wrath: seven scrolls; seven trumpets; and seven bowls, will be God saying, in effect, what that billboard advertisement presented all those years ago.

And in conclusion…

The Lord is indeed slow concerning His judgment. He is not willing for anyone to perish in their sin. He pleads for all to come to repentance. But His patience is not without limits, and it is obvious to any true student of Bible prophecy that this generation is bumping up against the very end of this age of God’s patience.

The Rapture of all believers, lifting them (harpazo) into the presence of Jesus Christ, who will receive (paralambano) them unto Himself, where they will be with Him forever.

Now this is the way those of us who study and put forth God’s Word –particularly His prophetic Word—want ultimately for all who will heed Heaven’s call. This is the end of all things as God wants them to be, because that end is really the Beginning.

Accept Christ and the redemption God offers through His Son’s death, burial, and resurrection. The words of that slogan I remember will then have a wonderful, not a fearful, meaning.

And in conclusion…

I’m again climbing upon my soapbox.

It has always puzzled me why many seminaries, even those I consider quite on the mark as far as being faithful to God’s Word, come down contrary to a particular truth I find in the Bible. I refer to the matter encompassed within the question: Will children below the age of accountability go to Jesus when He calls the Church into the clouds of Glory at the Rapture?

Admittedly, I have believed the answer to this is “yes” ever since I was a child during Sunday school classes and sermons at Seventh Street Tabernacle in Pekin, Illinois. But I must say that the Holy Spirit has reinforced this truth within my own spirit since that time when, as a six-year-old, I came to know the Lord for salvation.

Objections to this belief are based on the charge that it was steeped within denominational indoctrination, not upon Holy Spirit direction, while I was a mere child. But, now that I’m almost eighty-four years old, the belief is more deeply set within my spirit than ever. And the many years—particularly the last few—have been used by the Holy Spirit to make understandable why children below the age of accountability will indeed be swept up in that astonishing moment when Christ shouts for all believers of the Church Age, living and deceased, to join Him in the clouds of Glory.

Anyone who has watched the news videos and listened to the stories, if honest, will understand the abysmal treatment in these times of little ones—the suffering inflicted upon children. Children in the wombs of their mothers serve as a primary example of such treatment. In the US alone, more than one million babies are aborted each year. As a matter of fact, there has been an increase, not a decrease, in the number of abortions since Roe v. Wade was reversed a few years ago. More than half of the nation’s population apparently demand the “right to choose,” as the deceptive phrase would have it.

The spirits of each of these babies murdered in their mothers’ wombs have gone directly to God in Heaven. There, they will on one eternal day bear witness to God’s motivation for dealing with earth’s inhabitants so direly in the Tribulation (Matthew 24:21).

The evil that’s been perpetrated against the most helpless among us, the children, will be one of the major reasons sinful humankind will suffer God’s righteous wrath in those twenty-one judgments we learn about in the book of Revelation.

Children will be born to those left behind after the Rapture, but every one of them, if they die during that awful period, will go directly to be with God and eternal bliss. This is because each one will be below the age of accountability for deciding whether to accept or reject Jesus for salvation.

The number of children who will enter the Millennium following Christ’s return in the Second Coming is a matter only the Lord can answer. But I believe there will be little ones, and even babies in their mothers’ wombs, who will not die during that horrendous time, and who will go into that Kingdom. If those children do enter the thousand-year reign of Christ upon the earth, they will be subject to the Lord’s righteousness and will be taught absolute truth—all without the presence of Satan and his minions, who will be sealed up in the bottomless pit.

But I must get back to the perpetration of wickedness and evil against children. In America and the world currently, children are targeted for the most heinous acts against God’s natural order of creation. And those who claim Christianity as the reason for their anti-God activity are front and center in the reprobate evil. Here is proof of some of that anti-God perpetration, and it’s just a mild part of the wickedness assaulting the very young.

In yet another significant move to the theological left, America’s largest Presbyterian denomination voted decisively to endorse sex-change operations for minors. Critics called the move just the latest evidence the Presbyterian Church (USA) has truly “lost its compass.” In a 441-30 vote, PCUSA delegates passed GEN-02, … “Gender-affirming care,” the rationale reads, “is age-appropriate care that is medically necessary and evidence based for the well-being of many transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people who experience symptoms of gender dysphoria or distress that result from having one’s gender identity not match their sex assigned at birth.” It further argues that transgender-related procedures are “critical health services.” (“Blessing What God Calls Sin: American Denomination Endorses Sex-Change Procedures for Minors,”  Harbinger’s Daily, Rapture Ready News, July 9, 2026)

Satan’s ongoing attack on humanity can’t be missed by folks who are truly attuned to God’s Word about why Heaven’s judgment and wrath are in fallen humankind’s future. I believe judgment and wrath might just be in the immediate future, my thinking based in part on the evil aimed at the youngest and most vulnerable among us.

God says one thing he hates among six others is hands that shed innocent blood (Proverbs 6:16–19). None are more innocent than the very young, who don’t yet understand that they need to come to God through His Son Jesus Christ. Their blood is being shed even as I write this. This, alone, is motivation enough for God to remove all below the age of accountability when Christ calls all believers home to Heaven.

When millions, even billions, disappear in the twinkling of an eye—including every child below the age of accountability and including babies just conceived and in the womb—God will make a mighty statement about when life begins. He will, in that monumental second, let the astonished world of unbelievers know His opinion of evil inflicted against the most innocent.

Imagine the terror-stricken people who witness this instantaneous removal! Most who are on earth now, of course, don’t think such a prophecy will ever happen. But God’s Holy Word says that it will—perhaps very soon, based on the many signals of the coming Tribulation era that are prevalent at this moment. Here again is Paul’s prophecy about the Rapture:

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:13–18)

And here is how to be part of that removal—the Rapture of believers, when Christ shouts, “Come up here!”

That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9–10)

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This is one of those instances when I must question a decision by a president I very much like and trust for his sane stances in these insane times.

And the disagreement stems from the fact that this president obviously has no spiritual understanding of the deleterious biblically prophetic actions involved within embracing the leader and the nation, as reported Tuesday, July 7.

President Trump appears to have just made a seriously flawed decision in cozying up to one of the central nation-entities whose evil will bring God’s wrath from Heaven in a burst of godly anger. I refer to the nation Turkey, the nation that will join in the Gog-Magog attack assault on God’s chosen nation Israel.

That attacking entity is, of course, referred to as Togarmah in Ezekiel’s prophecy found in chapters 38 and 39 of the book by the prophet’s name.

Togarmah is the ancient name of that region of the Middle East where modern-day Turkey is located. Turkey’s resentment against Israel is demonstrably growing in these days so near the end of this dispensation, the Age of Grace (Church Age).

Most prophecy watchers who observe these times from the pre-Trib, premillennial perspective believe the Gog-Magog attack that will involve Turkey as a central participant will begin just after the Rapture occurs, or a little later. All indicators that this is the wind-up of this age now seem in view. It is the time, we believe, very near the moment that will instantly begin moving the world into the Tribulation era (Daniel’s seventieth week).

This being the case, with Israel at the center of growing animosity by much of the international community, this action by Mr. Trump is one to watch carefully.

I believe this unusual man was placed in the world’s most powerful geopolitical position by our Lord. God has preserved Mr. Trump, as we have seen in the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, and by weathering every media assault that the prince of the power of the air could throw at him. So we can be assured that Trump reaching out to warmly embrace Turkey’s dictator, a man vociferously against Israel, hasn’t taken our God by surprise.

However, the fact that the president has done so is troubling. It is troubling because of our ignorance—we who watch—of how God will use the situation to bring about the plans for humanity He knew as far back into eternity past as is imaginable.

So the troubled cogitation is tempered by the knowledge that all will go very well for those who are in God’s family through the Lord Jesus Christ. However, for those outside God’s family, Bible prophecy paints a dire future indeed. God’s wrath will destroy all but one-sixth of those nations and peoples who come south toward Israel in the Gog-Magog attack.

A report of Trump’s strange action follows.

ANKARA, July 7 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday he would lift U.S. sanctions imposed on Turkey over its purchase of Russian defense missiles, and signaled a willingness to sell the NATO ally F-35 fighter jets, a move likely to face strong resistance in Congress.

In the first visit ‌to Turkey by a U.S. president in 11 years, Trump was welcomed by President Tayyip Erdogan at the airport with a lavish state ceremony during which Turkish soldiers riding horses ‌escorted Trump’s motorcade to the presidential palace.

Both leaders sang each other’s praises in their public remarks. Under Trump, Turkey’s deteriorating human rights track record has never been a topic of much concern for Washington.

Speaking to reporters at the Turkish presidential palace, Trump ​repeatedly praised Erdogan, saying he had “chemistry” with him and that the relationship with Ankara had never been better…

Trump also indicated his possible support for letting Turkey buy F-35 stealth fighter jets even as he did not say how exactly such a transaction would take place given objections from the U.S. Congress. “Trump says US will lift sanctions on Turkey, heaps praise on Erdogan,” By Humeyra Pamuk, Gram Slattery and Huseyin Hayatsever, Yahoo News, July 7, 2026)

The Ezekiel states (see Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39) that Togarmah (Turkey), along with Rosh (Russia) and Persia (Iran) and many other peoples with them, will be led by Gog (apparently the leader of Rosh-Russia) to come “like a cloud to cover the land”:

Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. (Ezekiel 38:9)

One can’t help but wonder if that “cloud” will be full of American F-35 Stealth fighter jets, loaded with destructive power intended for the inhabitants of Israel.

That assault, thankfully, will be preempted by God Himself, and the attackers will be met with supernatural obliteration.

Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 39:1–5) 

The three primary peoples mentioned in Ezekiel’s Gog-Magog prophecy have in very recent years become a coalition-like group of nations. These are just north of God’s chosen nation. Russia, Iran, and Turkey comprise that forming coalition.

Now our president is, as I termed it, cozying up to Turkey. It’s a puzzle, but not to our Lord, who knows all there is to know from eternity past to eternity future.

Make sure you are on God’s side, Mr. President. And that goes for me and the rest of us, too!

Here is how to assure that you’re on God’s side:

“Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.” (Acts 16:3)