Exchanging The Truth For A Lie — Who Needs God In An Age Of Artificial Intelligence? :: By Jan Markell

When I first began hearing about artificial intelligence (AI) years ago, I don’t think anyone could perceive its dangers. Clearly, it had end-time significance. Surely this would assist the Antichrist in his “buying and selling” scheme.

But God gives intelligence. How does mankind create it? And the honest question is, would it be a blessing or a Frankenstein? How about both?

There Have Been Ominous Warnings

A decade ago, I read the title to some articles that were stunning. One was, “Ex-Google Executive Anthony Levandowski is Founding a Church Where People Worship an Artificial Intelligence God.” Another story was headlined, “Why Humans Will Happily Follow an A.I. Robot Messiah.”

Microsoft founder Bill Gates says, “AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. It could accelerate medical discoveries, help doctors diagnose, provide farmers in poorer countries with better agricultural advice, make government services easier to navigate, and give teachers tools to personalize education.”

Then he backtracks and says he doesn’t think the world is ready for it.

AI experts have made further warnings. I began assembling comments a decade ago. Here are just a few:

  • The human era could be ending and machines will take over.
  • He who develops AI rules the world. We won’t be able to control it.
  • We are summoning up demons. Be very careful.
  • We are playing with fire.
  • AI could become smarter than humans and could become a god.
  • AI could be the worst event in the history of civilization as machines could win.

The Warning That Went Around the World

In September of this year, a former employee of Open AI and Anthropic stated, “I resigned from Anthropic today. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are gambling with our lives. Don’t underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field, and acquire real power.”

He concludes, “The people building AI believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. No other human activity poses this level of danger.”

Justifying a Global Government

Here is how one man could control all buying and selling. Could it play a role in the “image of the beast”? Why not? And as critics are warning now, AI could simultaneously create the crisis used to justify global government—and provide the technological machinery necessary to operate it.

Global crises are just that—they are global. The threat is global, therefore the solution must also be global. The end-time scenario requires a one-world leader. The technology is here. Maybe this new religion isn’t the promise of paradise after all. Some promoting AI are evangelists and some of them offer a new Promised Land it would seem. But some of the very movers and shakers of the artificial intelligence industry are sounding serious warnings. If we’re summoning up demons as one suggests, this is a type of Frankenstein in the wrong hands.

Who Needs God in an Age of Artificial Intelligence?

Young people are particularly drawn to artificial intelligence. Some will tell you that they can get an answer more quickly from Google or Alexa than they can from God. Who needs God in an age of artificial intelligence? Who needs an invisible God? And Google or Alexa may tell you what you want to hear in Technicolor, 3-D, and instantaneously!

But, as I have pondered here the last few years, I agree with those who are saying this is the second super sign of Christ’s return. The first was the dry bones coming back to life (Ezekiel 37); the second is this 21st century technology that will be the key to the Antichrist kingdom.

AI Is Fearfully Fraudulent

AI cannot speak anything into existence or give anyone eternal life. It cannot give anyone comfort, guidance, or offer anyone peace or hope. It cannot still the wind or calm the sea. It is trying to be like God but will fall far short! We are fearfully and wonderfully made. AI is fearfully fraudulent. I know President Trump has renamed this “Super Intelligence” or SI, but I believe only God possesses that, and He distributes it in small portions to mankind.

God Cannot be Superseded by Computer Chips

Events of the Tribulation are casting a shadow today. He is coming soon! God sits in the Heavens and laughs at these people (Psalm 2). He will allow them a short season of notoriety and then will crush the evil doers at His Second Coming. The biblical vision of the future does not conclude with humanity being exterminated by its machines. In fact, it culminates in Jesus ruling and reigning. God created mankind in His image, not to be superseded by computer chips.


Jan Markell launched Olive Tree Ministries in the 1980s.  In 2000, she began her syndicated radio program, “Understanding the Times”, heard on 1,000 stations. She stepped down from that in 2025.  She currently hosts the video podcast “Falling Into Place” with Michele Bachmann as co-host. Jan has authored ten books and until 2019 hosted the world’s largest prophecy conference in suburban Minneapolis.

Iran’s Prophetic Destiny

There is constant speculation, even chatter these days that President Trump will soon order another strike on Iran’s nuclear weapons production areas. Some reports say this will take place before the midterm elections (and at the time his article is being posted, it hasn’t happened; that tells us it won’t happen before the midterms). And some say it will take place following the midterms.

President Trump himself has said in impromptu news gatherings that he will likely strike again following the midterm elections.

There has been much speculation by news pundits and politicos about the whys and whens of such a strike. My own speculation is that such a strike is destined to take place, and it will have severe ramifications to the regions struck, as outlined by the prophet Jeremiah, which we have covered a number of times in these articles.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently spoke to his view of the necessity to deal finally with the Iranian regime. An excerpt of his thoughts is covered in the following news item.

Israel has achieved stunning military accomplishments against Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, militias in Syria, and, most notably, against the head of the terror proxy snake: Iran.

These pivotal elections, like the five consecutive elections between April 2019 and November 2022, are again a referendum on the continued governance of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu is presenting Israelis with a stark electoral choice: Renew his mandate to capitalize on Trump’s bold endorsement this past week or risk surrendering the strategic gains of a multi-pronged war.

Netanyahu argues that the campaign remains unfinished. Even after the blows that Israel and the United States have delivered together and apart, Tehran, he warns, could restart its nuclear program. He therefore frames Trump’s endorsement as a promise to finish what was started, contingent on his remaining in the top job.

In a wide-ranging pre-election interview with JNS, Netanyahu casts his partnership with Trump as the foundation for an ambitious agenda: to bring down Iran’s regime, further weakening its regional proxies; expand the Abraham Accords normalization agreements with Muslim-majority countries in the region; and prevent the creation of a Palestinian state anywhere within Israel’s current borders. (“Netanyahu to JNS: ‘The only way to guarantee the future of Israel is to remove the Iranian regime’,” Alex Traiman, JNS, RR News, October 22, 2026)

I believe there can be little doubt that this prime minister and this US president fully intend to deliver a blow to this hellish regime. I am convinced they will attempt to do so. And the blow will be catastrophic, especially to the people of the region affected.

To do otherwise would be to make the previous destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities nonsensical and merely an exercise in futility.

Much speculation about the MOAB (“mother of all bombs”) being used comes from some top Trump administration officials. This, of course, is the most powerful weapon in the American military inventory that is non-nuclear in nature.

But decimation to Iran’s nuclear facility is not the same as removal of the regime that has vowed to destroy both the “little Satan” (Israel) and the “big Satan” (the United States of America).

Most observers of geopolitics apparently believe and forecast that it would take a massive invasion of troops on the ground to finally and forever remove Iran’s regime structure. Neither Netanyahu nor Trump is willing to commit to such an all-out ground invasion.

However, more to the point, there is going to be in place during the future invasion of Israel an Iranian regime at least as wicked and hate filled as the present Iranian regime.

Ezekiel the prophet was given through Holy Spirit inspiration the armies of people to Israel’s north that will come to “take spoil” and annihilate God’s chosen people. This will never be allowed to happen, of course, as God Himself will intervene and destroy all but one-sixth of the invading force.

One of the chief members of that force will be the armies of Persia. This, of course, is the ancient name for the region of present-day Iran. So, a regime at least as evil as that in today’s Iran will exist at the time of the Gog-Magog attack outlined by Ezekiel.

Therefore, because of the lateness of the prophetic hour—based upon all of the signals that we are near the end of the Age of Grace—the present Iranian regime seems destined to be part of the Gog-Magog attacking force.

My own view is that the assault will take place very soon after the Rapture of the Church. I believe the man of sin who will become earth’s last and most terrible tyrant will watch, knowing this force will be defeated by God, then will move into Jerusalem to become that son of perdition.

So, my own take is to watch for a devastating strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, but not for Iranian regime change. Iran’s destiny—that is, Persia’s evil regime’s prophetic destiny—is in God’s crosshairs for destruction!

Europe—Antichrist’s Incubator

Satan’s assault on the Western world is ramping up exponentially while the end of the Church Age (Age of Grace) draws near. Western Europe is in ferment, with the streets in the major cities exploding in violence that reminds us how times are like they were in the days of Noah, as Jesus said about the end of the age.

Daniel the prophet said that out of the heart of Europe would come a “false peacemaker” who will at some point declare himself to be God.

And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (Daniel 9: 26-27)

The “prince that shall come” is, of course, Antichrist, who will, for a short time, rule over almost all of the world from within a tyrannical regime the likes of which has never been seen. We can know the virulence of this future era by considering the prophecy from the lips of our Lord.

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. (Matthew 24: 21)

Jesus said it would be the most violent, most terrible time in all of human history. But He, in His resurrected and ascended position, gave the Apostle John the prophecy about the coming purveyor of false peace who will deceive most of the world at first.

The prophetic Scripture that speaks most specifically to this coming prince is one most students of Bible prophecy are thoroughly familiar with:

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. (Revelation 6: 1-2)

We are given the picture of the first of the four horses of the Apocalypse as they carry their riders across the last seven years of human history just before Christ’s Second Coming back to earth. This is the Tribulation.

The first rider on that spectacular white steed is none other than Antichrist. As the prophecy says, he will come forth conquering everything and everyone in his path.

Most scholars and students from the fundamentalist camp who are of the premillennial, pre-Trib view of Bible prophecy believe the bow in this vision-depiction indicates this “prince” will come in on a peace platform. He has a bow but displays no arrows.

This is exactly the image Daniel was given to prophesy:

And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many. (Dan 8: 25 a, b)

I believe the world is now witnessing the beginning of conditions developing that will bring forth that son of perdition, that prince that shall come who will deceive and enslave all who accept his mark-and-numbering system of Revelation chapter 13.

Europe, the very part of the world out of which Daniel said that prince will come, is experiencing an ever-increasing upheaval that looks to be uncontrollable. And, despite the destructive, dangerous buildup toward total chaos, a surreal sense of detachment from the reality of the dangers involved pervades.

France’s streets burned, shops were looted and stripped bare and a historic town hall collapsed under arson. Yet the most striking images from Saturday night were not the fires. They were the people who carried on as if nothing was happening. One woman jogged straight through thick black smoke past a burning barricade, treating the chaos like an outdoor treadmill session. Groups of French boomers kept dancing while buildings were torched around them, and a tour guide was filmed continuing her routine for visitors, smiling and pointing out landmarks while flames literally engulfed the city right in front of tourists. … meanwhile! French President Macron joins a Celine Dion concert. (“This Is Perhaps the Most Dystopian Thing Ever,” Steve Martin, via Modernity News S, ZeroHedge, October 20, 2026)

And France is but one European nation that’s experiencing the build toward uncontrollable destruction and violence. Indeed, it is as if modern Europe is acting as incubator for the man of sin (Antichrist).

My great friend Jan Markell, with her podcast partner Michell Bachman, presented an in-depth program on Europe’s preparation for the coming Antichrist recently. Here is a link to that discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQ77YUjnSU&t=362s

There will at some point come a mighty cry for peace and safety—a call for a man to come forth and save Europe and the world from utter destruction.

He will look like a great peacemaker and one who can reestablish order, which will no doubt have been all but destroyed. He will even promise prosperity, as Daniel’s prophecy indicates. He will “cause craft to prosper.”

However, he “will destroy many” through his conquests, his “peace-making,” and his “causing craft to prosper.”

This man on the white horse will be wearing a mask for sure, and his motives and intentions will be nothing like those of my childhood hero, the Lone Ranger on his white horse who wore a mask for noble reasons.

Antichrist’s mask will camouflage for a time the greatest deception ever perpetrated on humanity.

World conditions will make most everyone take the bait hook, line, and sinker.

We see the beginnings of such preparation for Antichrist’s coming on the scene here in America. The midterm elections will perhaps foreshadow just how much evil, progressive invasiveness Satan has perpetrated within our own country.

This all means, of course, that Christ’s call to believers in the Rapture must be near indeed.

While we are reminded to keep looking up for our redemption that is drawing near as recorded in Luke 21:28, let us remember to go forth with the gospel, informing all people everywhere of how to accept God’s saving grace.

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)

 The End-Time Reprobate Mind

Should the great Apostle Paul be allowed to return from Heaven to get a glimpse of things going on here at the moment –a thing he would likely decline if offered—I believe upon his taking one glance at today’s so-called leftists’ thinking, he would say this was exactly the point he was making as recorded in Romans 1:28.

Here are those things wrapped in the apostle’s words, under Holy Spirit Inspiration:

“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

“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; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them (Romans 1: 24-32).

Now these accusations can be leveled all across the human dimension, for all have sinned and come short of God’s Glory, as the Scripture informs. However, as an ideology that has manifested these ungodly characteristics to the slightest detail, the leftist-progressive mindset personifies Paul’s description of the reprobate mind (v. 28).

The following journalistic piece, to my way of observation, frames precisely this mindset against all that is godly that we have been subjected to for more than a few decades –particularly, for the past decade:

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.  Such is often the case with far-left political candidates and their thinly veiled rhetoric.  Not long ago, these officials used to hide their more radical beliefs behind a facade of “centrism,” but then something magical happened: The year 2020.

This was the year the mask was ripped off completely, and progressives showed their true degenerate colors to the world.  The combination of pandemic hysteria, the BLM riots, the NGO-funded transgender movement (targeting children), the contested presidential election, and the rise of the Biden regime gave the political left more jumped-up arrogance than they had ever shown before.

They had gone insane with dreams of perpetual power. 

In the wake of the leftist frenzy, many Democrat politicians felt emboldened to come out of the closet as the Cultural Marxists they truly are.  However, with the fall of Biden and the collapse of DEI, these same officials are now attempting to distance themselves from what they call “Woke 1.0,” and they are putting the trusty masks back on.  One such person is James Talarico.  In fact, Talarico represents the quintessential militant leftist in centrist clothing.

The Texas State Representative has been in the news recently for his bizarre two-week disappearance at the peak of campaign season, which he claims was due to the flu.  Conservative influencers Nick Sortor and Rhein Amacher posted on X asserting that a hospital employee at the Lindner Center of Hope (a mental health facility in Mason, Ohio, near Cincinnati) had confirmed that James Talarico had been a patient there and was recently discharged.

Source: The Madness Of James Talarico,  ZeroHedge, Rapture Ready News, October 14, 2026

With the nation being split pretty much down the middle regarding morality and social issues, as the younger generations are fed lies about America’s founding and about God’s Governance through a godless education system, and pumped full of half-truths and outright lies by social and mainstream news and entertainment media, Paul’s words are fully in view as Prophetic Truth. Much of the nation has, it seems, been or is in process of being turned over to that reprobate mind (Romans 1:28).

While we watch things unfold as the Mid-term elections approach, it is not out of order to wonder whether America is past redemption in the sense of maintaining national sanity or maybe being returned to national sanity.

Certainly, this is no time to give up on this once great nation, as it was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. The Second Chronicles 2:14 promise is still there in God’s Holy Word. And it applies to America and her people who belong to God’s Family as much as to all of God’s people of all the ages.

The end-time reprobate mind is a national, even worldwide, sin-infection, but God’s Remedy is available as the Rx for this Satan-spawned Dementia.

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).

 

 

Rumors of Peace

Peace is perhaps the most prevalent issue on the minds of humankind in these volatile times. The rumors of war that look to be much like those prophesied by Jesus in His Olivet Discourse (Matthew chapter 24) are on the increase when thinking upon things brewing in the Middle East. This region threatens to break out in a much wider violence between Israel and its enemy neighbors at any moment, an action that could swiftly progress to a much larger conflict involving atomic weaponry. This must be avoided at all costs, therefore every effort at peace is explored by the internationalist powers that be.

Some efforts at squashing war before it can get started are genuine. Others look suspiciously to be simply repositioning in ways that will help those involved secure advantage for themselves in one way or the other. That’s how I view most peace initiatives taking place in the region in and around the so-called holy land.

And, in addition to all of possibilities of war breaking out into nuclear conflict in the Middle East, the potential for war is even more likely to burst forth from things going on now between Russia and NATO, with the Russian/Ukrainian matter at the heart of the conflict.

NATO has issued a blunt warning to Russia’s Vladimir Putin as follows:

‘We’ve got this’: NATO commander unveils theory of victory against Russia
NATO’s top military commander delivered a blunt warning to Moscow on Monday, setting out how allied forces would repel a Russian attack and insisting the alliance knows “how to win a war on its territory”. The speech was an unusually public account of how NATO intends to fight. It was also a deterrent message in its own right, warning any potential adversary of what it would face in the event of an attack. (Rapture Ready News, October 13, 2026)

The endeavor to quell the likelihood of conflagration in the Mideast is often found in disseminating rumors of peace. These strange, diametrically opposite war and peace matters—and their genuine/self-serving repositioning stratagem—used to be wrapped up at one and the same time in what was termed the “Roadmap to Peace.” Now it is presented within President Trump’s “Board of Peace” stratagem.

Time and time again we hear the various tactics about to be employed in order to bring the antagonists to the table of peace. These “rumors of peace” are, indeed, for preventing war in the region. But the reasons for wanting that peace are not merely so people of the region will get along, thus enjoy a life free of fear of any moment attack. The reasons are more steeped in 1) making sure World War III doesn’t spring from such conflict; 2) the fact that the parties involved in the peace-making continue to have maximum access to the massive petroleum reserves; 3) the fact that a presence is maintained by the American/European/Russian referees that keep Israel and her enemies separated.

We who observe conditions in that region from the perspective of Bible prophecy note that the peace plan never seems to get installed. Peace never eventuates from the actions of the diplomatic community.

Every president since George W. Bush has promised a peace agreement, some involving establishment of a Palestinian state, before they leave office. We could be surprised, but other than the rumors, there seems nothing substantial in that peace coming to fruition. And the days of the current presidential administration are dwindling. We are dealing with rumors of peace at the same time we are dealing with rumors of war. Peace is defined as:

1. The normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.

2. (Often initial capital letter) An agreement or treaty between warring or antagonistic nations, groups, etc., to end hostilities and abstain from further fighting or antagonism: the Peace of Ryswick.

3. A state of mutual harmony between people or groups, esp. in personal relations: Try to live in peace with your neighbors.

4. The normal freedom from civil commotion and violence of a community; public order and security: He was arrested for being drunk and disturbing the peace.

5. Cessation of or freedom from any strife or dissension.

6. Freedom of the mind from annoyance, distraction, anxiety, an obsession, etc.; tranquility; serenity.

7. A state of tranquility or serenity: May he rest in peace.

8. A state or condition conducive to, proceeding from, or characterized by tranquility: the peace of a mountain resort.

9. Silence; stillness: The cawing of a crow broke the afternoon’s peace. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2006).

Those definitions pretty much cover the meanings of the word “peace” in human terms. But fulfillment of the definitions to any great extent is far, far from this generation–like it has been from every generation of the past.

True peace in this fallen realm, you see, is not possible in the physical or even psychological sense. We are at every point dealing with mere “rumors” of peace. Here is why:

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. (James 4:1–2)

We only have to consider the headlines of a week or so ago to understand what the Apostle James was, under divine inspiration, telling us. War is a constant and planning for it is an undeniable part of the fallen human condition.

US warns of limited defence industrial capacity for European orders

US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker on Monday urged Europe to increase its defence production, warning that US defence industrial capacity is limited. Speaking at the annual Warsaw Security Forum, Whitaker said that the US could spend between $1 and $1.5 trillion on defence in 2026 alone, meaning that US defence firms will be busy fulfilling orders for the Pentagon rather than foreign purchasers. (Rapture Ready News, October 13, 2026)

[“There is] no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked” (Isa. 48:22). All of fallen humankind is wicked. There is none good, no, not one, the Scripture tells us. The only “good” is in Jesus Christ, who came to take away the sin of the world. When individuals turn over their soul to Christ for salvation, they then can bring true peace into their lives that is absolutely elusive under any other prescription for conducting life on this decaying planet. Even those who are Christ’s (have become born again into the family of God) must submit moment by moment to Christ to receive God’s peace within their innermost being.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Phil. 4:7)

All efforts at achieving peace are just rumors of peace unless those efforts have Jesus at their center. Whether thinking on the individual life, from which all war-making begins according to James 4:1-2, about society, geoeconomics and geopolitics, or any other frame of reference concerning the human condition, if Christ is left out of the equation for achieving peace, there will be no peace.

Considering modern Israel and the rumors of peace in particular, here’s what God’s Word says about His daughter, Israel, and the world’s dealing in the process of peace involving that nation:

For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace. (Jer. 8:11)

Thankfully, Christ will one day–perhaps very soon—return to bring true peace, rather than the rumors of peace in our daily headlines today.

Antichrist’s Killing Fields :: By Gary Ritter

Book review by Terry James 

It is a genuine gratifying matter to offer this review of this book by my close personal friend, Gary Ritter.

Gary W. Ritter, with whom I’ve worked within  Bible prophecy book publication,   is a retired lay pastor, Bible teacher, and prolific author.  His fiction work explores dystopian end-times events in light of the supernatural aspects of Scripture.  Gary writes weekly Commentaries that look at the world through the prophetic lens of the Bible.  His insights about these latter days bring the truth of Christ’s kingdom to those seeking answers.  You can see, hear, and read his latest teachings on his website blog at GaryRitter.com.

And with this volume, Gary gets right to the heart of these end times machinations we are witnessing.

Antichrist’s Killing Fields is a dystopian, supernatural thriller based on the truth of Bible prophecy revealed in the Book of Revelation.  It focuses on the Jewish response in Israel to worldwide antisemitism and the deceit that will cause many in that nation to lose their lives during the most horrible seven years the world has ever known.

Will Israel survive the Great Tribulation?  Has God forsaken His Chosen People?  Zivia must navigate a world of danger and persecution as she grapples with her identity as a religious Jew in contrast to the New Testament Gospel’s proclamation of Yeshua as Messiah.  But as the Antichrist rises to power and the Day of the Lord’s Wrath progresses, Zivia’s faith will be put to the ultimate test.  Can she participate in Yahweh’s plan to bring light to a world gone mad?  Or will she succumb to the forces of evil and lose everything she holds dear?

In a future where the Jewish state has expanded into “Greater Israel” and faces intense worldwide hatred and oppression, Zivia takes on the dangerous task of facilitating Aliyah, the return of Jews from the diaspora to their God-given homeland.  But when she travels to America and Switzerland with her best friend, Rivka, a follower of Yeshua, their mission becomes even more perilous.  In the Time of Jacob’s Trouble (Jeremiah 30: 7,) as Jews are rounded up and persecuted, Zivia must confront difficult questions about her faith and her people’s rejection of the Gospel of Christ.

Antichrist’s Killing Fields provides an intriguing look at the dystopia of the Tribulation from an Israeli perspective. If you truly want to know what’s going on in headlines we face today from and about Israel, this book portrays very likely scenarios as to where it is all leading humanity as Christ’s Return approaches.

If you have read Gary’s previous novels like Tribulation Rising and the subsequent novels of the apocalypse in that series, you know that you will absolutely love this related story!

I have read few works by writers of Bible prophecy, either fiction or non-fiction, that rise to the heights of excellence as do the works of my great friend Gary W. Ritter! I can’t recommend in glowing enough terms this story by whom I consider one of the best novelists of our times.

You can order the book at AMAZON

Again you can see his blog at GaryRitter.com.  

Antichrist’s Killing Fields

Author: Gary W. Ritter

Publisher: Independent via Amazon

ISBN: 979-8194248070

Europe: Ready for the Antichrist :: By Jan Markell

franceThe title I am using for this article is not mine. It was the title Amir Tsarfati used at my prophecy conference in suburban Minneapolis in the Fall of 2016. It was one of the most captivating and timely messages ever presented at that event that spanned almost 20 years. Dare I say, some 5,000 people sat captivated—even riveted.

Amir described his experience in Europe that year. It left him terrified. You can hear the message here. Remember, this is a decade ago. He knew he was somewhere near the headquarters of a future Antichrist empire. He felt unnerved and even ran back to his hotel room, sensing evil or danger. Shortly after that, he called me, and we did a radio interview.

The Globalists Pave the Way

We’re seeing Europe’s globalists paving the way for the Antichrist. They are throwing out the welcome mat.

No, the title of Antichrist doesn’t belong to bumbling Emmanuel Macron, but in 2016, even The Economist magazine was calling him Europe’s savior. How God humbles the proud. As the head of France, no European leader today should be as ashamed as Emmanuel Macron, who casually enjoyed a Celine Dion concert while policemen were on fire in Paris and elsewhere.

Now the world knows he’s no savior. But there is one standing by somewhere. He will rise from obscurity.

There have been riots and demonstrations in Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, and beyond, but began in mid-September in France.

Be He God or Devil, We Will Receive Him! Seriously?

Europe has cried for a savior in days gone by. Paul Henri Spaak—a Belgian politician called “Mr. Europe”, was Secretary General of NATO in 1957. At that time, he made a statement that lingers and should haunt Europeans today:

“What we need is a man of sufficient stature to hold the

allegiance of all people, and to lift us out of the

economic morass into which we are sinking.

Send us such a man, and be he god or devil, we

will receive him.”

Daniel 9 suggests the Antichrist will come from the region that destroyed the Temple in 70 AD. And while the Roman Empire was huge, most scholars suggest this “little horn” will arise from what is today, the European Union.

Welcoming the Stranger??

Europe has reeked with the familiar mantras of “free Palestine” and “from the river to the sea” since October 7, 2023. Could that be a judgment? Decades ago, Europe killed most of its Jews and then began welcoming Islamic immigrants to the point of collapse today.

Now, they need a savior, and according to Spaak and almost all of today’s globalists, be he god or devil, they will receive him.

As Michele Bachmann and I asked in our recent online conversation, is America paying attention? Globalists in every country, including America, want to destroy sovereignty, welcome unlimited immigrants as cheap laborers, and brag about being multi-cultural—even though many of these immigrants will never assimilate.

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

As a life-long resident of Minnesota, I know. We are now called Mogadishu on the Mississippi. Our Scandinavian culture has been trampled, and mosques are replacing churches. As a thank you, the invaders extorted billions of dollars in Somali fraud from this once-pristine state. We no longer boast of ten thousand lakes; rather, ten thousand terrorists.

The European chaos is spreading rapidly. The fires of rebellion are casting an eerie glow. Evildoers are waiting in the wings to take advantage: globalists, communists, socialists, and an assortment of thugs. A deadly “red-green alliance” of communism and Islam.

“From the river to the sea”, they shout. This is where it leads. Hate the Jews and pay the price. Emmanuel Macron no longer walks on water. Soon, every European leader will be riddled with fear. They will all be longing for a “man-with-a-plan.”  Mr. Fix-It.

The Trade-Off: Kill the Jews, Welcome the Muslims?

Eighty and ninety years ago, Europe tracked down, registered, marked, and tried to murder every Jew in the world. Righteous Europeans tried to intervene in vain. A group of people who were a blessing to the world were targeted for extermination as an ethnic group. They have borne the brunt of enmity because they dared to be different and dared to insist on their difference.

God intervened, for it is Israel and the Jews who are His last days’ markers and clock signaling the end-of-days. And if God is for you, it doesn’t matter how many are against you. Their existence is the greatest testimony of a loving God who keeps His covenants to Jews and Christians. He spared a remnant who began the new State of Israel.

Europe was sick and twisted in the 1930s and is even more depraved today, except for a remnant of the righteous.

Awaiting Jesus Christ, Not Antichrist!

The true believer can be assured that we only await Jesus Christ. We will never encounter this Antichrist. He will arrive not to curse believers, but to haunt and torment an unbelieving, left-behind world.


Rapture Ready Bible Prophecy Teaching in your Church!

We are very pleased to announce that our great friend and Bible prophecy teacher, Pastor James Pannafino has joined Raptureready.com in our desire to reach out in answer to the many questions we get.

The Question? So many say: We can’t find a church that teaches Bible prophecy. Do you know a church in my area you can recommend?

That, of course, is a very difficult question, because it would take some major time to look into answering individually. We have done that on occasion, but only in a few cases.

Now we are excited to let you know that Pastor Pannafino can bring Bible Prophecy teaching directly to your church, or to groups within your area.

His teaching is top notch and highly organized in a way that is exciting and easy to understand. It is interactive, in that you get to input questions and get answers you have long harbored within your spirit. And the teaching is, of course, from the preTrib Rapture perspective! 

Again, we are highly pleased and Thankful to our Lord for bringing Pastor James and Raptureready.com together in this special outreach to churches, pastors, and you in the pews. Pastor Pannafino will come personally to conduct these important Bible Prophecy studies.

Below is what he has to say in this regard.

—Todd Strandberg and Terry James

Rapture Ready Bible Prophecy Conference/Seminars!

We can bring to your church or para-church ministry a comprehensive teaching covering the pertinent topics of Biblical prophecy that are unfolding before our eyes today.

Pastor/teacher, James Pannafino, has partnered with Rapture Ready to bring this ministry to where you are in your prophecy study group or church. Here’s his brief intro…

“As a pastor/teacher, it is my personal calling to equip my fellow believers, the saints, for the work of their own ministry (see Ephesians 4:11-16). Through my book, Perspective In Prophecy: A Pastoral Expose Of The Biblical End Times, I provide the means for both learning Biblical prophecy and creating the platform to share with others our “blessed hope” (Titus 2:13).”

“I believe that absolute truth is only found in the revelation of the Bible, and this is more than sufficient to encourage the true believer in their faith as we are living through the events long foretold that would precede the culmination of this age, leading to the Second Coming of Christ.”

You can order “Perspective In Prophecy: A Pastoral Expose Of The Biblical End Times” through Amazon/Kindle here Perspective In Prophecy

Here are the contacts to get in touch with Pastor James Pannafino.

Email: jamespannafino@gmail.com

Phone/Text at 315-395-6102

Website: www.PerspectiveInProphecy.com

 

 

 

Anomalous End-times Signs Above 

My novel, The Rapture Dialogues, was accepted and published under the imprint called Anomalous. It was a story about UFOs and the crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. At least the story started there with the strange goings on that still have even the UFO experts of today wondering about exactly what took place at that time.

The government’s dealing with that long-past occurrence and the very latest incidents involving strange goings on in the dark heavens above have emerged to dominate headlines today. And they are no longer called UFOs (unidentified flying objects) but are now termed UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena).

My novel came out many years ago before the renaming from UFOs to UAPs. So, does that make me a prophet? Or my publisher an oracle?

Well, no, but my publisher and myself did agree that UFOs were anomalous matters, in that their true nature, although unknown by even the scientists of the world, was, we believe, made known by God’s Word. And Jesus Christ, who is the Word (John 1: 1), gave what I believe is the foretelling of just such anomalous phenomena for the wrap up of the Age of Grace.

The Lord prophesied the following in answering His disciples’ question: “What will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars…(Luke 21:25a)

Jesus was saying there would be unmistakable signals to look for when the time for the wind-up of the Church Age arrived. Those watching as instructed in Mark 13: 37 and Luke 21:28 will know that these signs in the heavens will alert that Jesus is about to return as He promised (John 14:2–3).

Evidence mounts that we have reached the time Jesus spoke about. And it is this particular signal we will examine in this commentary.

Could unidentified anomalous phenomena — a new catch-all term for unidentified objects in the sky, oceans or space — be pushing the United States towards another “Sputnik Moment”?

That’s the belief of NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who compared the uptick in reported unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) sightings in recent years to the Cold War paranoia stirred up when the former Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to circle Earth in 1957.

Isaacman made the comments in a recent interview with Blake Burman, host of NewsNation’s “The Hill” broadcast on Sept. 25 that touched upon a range of space-related issues. And one of those was probing the space agency chief about he thinks UAP might be.

Burman made note of pilot reports and videos released of objects with flight characteristics unlike anything previously seen.

“When you watch these videos,” Burman asked Isaacman, “do you believe that anything that we’ve seen in any of this is potentially extraterrestrial. Is it military? What is it?”

Isaacman said that NASA has had “a seat at the table” since U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this year called for releasing Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) and UAP files. That call is now officially known as the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).

“My position going into every one of these: one, be open-minded. I mean, it is kind of our job to go out and try to answer the question ‘are we alone?’” (“NASA chief Jared Isaacman wants to stay ‘open-minded’ about UFOs: ‘If it’s aliens, I think NASA should have a seat at the table’,” by Leonard David, SPACE, RR News October 6, 2026)

In answer to the “experts” here: We are not alone. Again, here is what God’s Word says through the Apostle Paul:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)

The dark forces of the evil one are indeed in the high places, and I believe they are manifesting against the black backdrop of deep space.

Every Christian should be alert to all the signals the Lord and other prophets gave for the very end of the age.

It is sad that very few pastors in the pulpits, thus very few Christians in their pews, are alert to these clearly manifesting signs that Jesus is about to step onto the clouds of Glory and make that shout, “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1).

There is no reason that term “anomalous” (“unknown”) should be applied to the believers –Christians—when considering these strange times.

Revelation 12 tells plainly that there is currently a tremendous battle raging, not only on earth, but in the heavens. God’s Word tells us those who are battling. Bible prophecy tells us the outcome of that battle in heaven:

Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. (Revelation 12:7–10)

So, the battle we face today on earth as given in Ephesians 6:12 by the Apostle Paul will rage at the very end of this age until Satan and his angels are defeated by Michael and his angelic force.

I believe we will likely witness more of this so-called anomalous activity as time draws near to Christ making THAT SHOUT! (This is another title of a book I’ve just completed and delivered to my publisher: CHRIST’S SHOUT: The Rapture, When Millions Vanish and Hell on Earth Begins).

To hear that shout, here is what you must do. Or, if you have already done so, tell others who haven’t done this so they, too, can go to be with the Lord when He calls.

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)

“Mostly Peaceful” Seas and Waves Roaring

A significant prophetic indicator is in full view that warrants notice at this late hour of this dispensation. Jesus Himself gave it as part of His Olivet Discourse:

Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring. (Luke 21:24–25)

Memory doesn’t have to go far back into recent history to remember how hatred for President Donald J. Trump caused great rioting in the streets of America.

We remember how reporters for mainstream news stood in front of all the rioting. In the background, buildings, cop cars, and even the so-called Church of Presidents in Washington, D.C., were burning.

President Trump and his family and staff had to evacuate the upper floors of the White House and go underground to avoid danger of being assaulted by the raging rioters just outside White House grounds.

The reporters told us that the protests were “mostly peaceful,” even though there were serious injuries and total destruction in some instances.

There was true insurrection from anti-American evil organizations like Black Lives Matter and Antifa. These were given by mainstream news media the façade of legitimacy—of being ”peaceful organizations” conducting “legitimate protests”—while, in actuality, the rioters tried to tear the nation apart and create chaos.

Yet, in the case when President Trump, who had lost the 2020 presidential election, urged people to peacefully protest at the Capitol and the people were for the most part genuinely peaceful in doing so, mainstream news organizations dutifully reported for anti-Trump political entities that that protest was a full-blown insurrection. One young woman, a member of the American military, was shot by a security person for Capitol grounds even though she was doing nothing of a confrontational or violent nature.

There is an exponentially growing spirit of insurrection manifesting today. This is seen not only in this country with the Trump Derangement Syndrome that media have ginned up, but it has gone viral worldwide.

The latest spirit of insurrection that is truly from demonic portals with religious fanaticism at its core is seen in this report from Europe.

The Red/Green Alliance is in the streets of France setting her on fire. Muslims and leftists, along with a lot of students, are setting fire to hundreds of schools, churches, and vehicles. They are also setting fire to principles, firefighters, and bystanders. It’s an evil apocalypse come home to roost.

France is experiencing the Red/Green Alliance’s loving touch in its streets. Violent Muslims and leftists wreaked havoc across France on Friday, setting fire to everything they could, including people. Many of the protesters were African and Arab students. Riot police clashed with teenagers in several French cities as roughly 400 high schools were closed. At last count, almost 2,000 people had been arrested as the government blamed leftists for the upheaval…

After setting their schools and even their teachers on fire, Muslim students rioting in France are now torching firefighters as they try to put out the fires… [It is] a war zone. (“France Is Literally on Fire as Muslims and Leftists Violently Protest in the Streets, Declare War Against the French State,” Terresa Monroe-Hamilton, RAIR, October 2, 2026)

Just like in the case of mainstream news reporting in the US, reporters in France and other foreign places are calling these protests “mostly peaceful.” Of course, we remember that God’s Word tells us Satan is the prince of the power of the air, so it shouldn’t surprise that such lies are going viral and are global.

In the Luke 21:24–25 prophecy by the Lord Jesus, we are warned that there will be “upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring.”

This is reference to a worldwide upheaval among the people of the earth. Certainly, we are witnessing a spreading of this hell-spawned “perplexity” among nations. The seas of humanity—instigated, I believe, by radical Islam, in conjunction with the leftist, luciferian ideology—are roaring as these foment anti-God, anti-Christ evil.

Jesus’ prophecy, like all other Bible prophecy, is clearly manifesting in these closing hours of this Age of Grace. The evil we see spreading at an alarming rate, as Islam attempts to upset the Judeo-Christian foundation of the United States and to infect the entire world with anti-God wickedness must be opposed at every level by the Church of Jesus Christ. This means we must, as individual Royal Ambassadors for our King, be ever watchful and fervent in our opposition to that wickedness.

Sadly, most churches today are slumbering and not recognizing these prophecies as being on the front pages and hourly news cycles. Heavenly alerts signaling the lateness of the prophetic hour are pulsing brightly. The Tribulation hour is on the immediate prophetic horizon.

We must put out the warning and offer the only rescue from that coming hour of satanic darkness. Here, again, is that offer from the God who loves the world of humanity so much that He provided forgiveness and redemption for all who accept His grace gift offer.

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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