Looking at the surface of evil in the world taking place, it appears that this world is out of control. No one can be faulted for having such a view of world conditions.
When we see things like young children being considered legal/legitimate fodder for sexual predators (now called “minor-attracted persons” instead of “pedophiles”), things really do look out of control.
When we see one of the two major political parties championing those who push agendas the MAP advocates embrace, what other conclusion can be drawn other than that this world has gone insane?
Without meaning to get political, in the sense of promoting one party over another, we remember a biblically pronounced end to this kind of turning one’s back on the God of Heaven.
During a convention a decade or so ago, when someone asked the Democrat Convention attendees whether God should be mentioned within the proceedings, the loud and definite answer by all in attendance was a resounding “No!” There was no doubt whatsoever that they wanted any mention of God left out of proceedings.
As I’ve mentioned numerous times, here is what God says about those who turn their backs on Him:
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)
Again, not intending to stray far into politics, what I see through the prism of God’s prophetic Word must be interjected here. Anyone being honest as they watch this presidential administration surely has questions like the following: How have we reached such a place in this nation that the top three people in the presidential administration are seemingly unable to demonstrate normal mental function?
These—the president, the vice president, and the press spokesperson—have actually become almost laughingstocks to observers outside their political party, their leftist ideology, and the mainstream media (which, mentioning in the same breath is perhaps redundant). Their mental acuity is, it seems to me, inadequate to the challenge in addressing legitimate issues on the national and international scene.
These are avid adherents of the platform presented by the political party that verbally shouted God out of their midst.
Of course, kicking God out of anything isn’t possible with the omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent God of Heaven. To that end, He continues to have that anti-God party in “derision,” just as He indicated He will do to anyone against Him:
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, “Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.” (Psalms 2:2–4)
A careful dissection of things going on over recent years shows time after time that the Lord has intervened to slow down the Ephesians 6:12 minions, both demonic and human, in their effort to hurry the process of bringing Antichrist to the end-times world stage.
One of the signals the Restrainer was involved in during the American political process is illustrated, I believe, by the following observation from one prophecy writer:
Apparently, the evil forces behind these arenas of the falling away believe that as long as America stands, their cause will not climax in victory. Thus, we see a concentrated effort to bring America down to an entity without sovereignty.
One cannot deny the true meaning of that statement muttered by President Obama at the annual DC Correspondents’ Dinner on April 30, 2016: “The end of the Republic has never looked better!” He was so caught up with anticipation that Hillary Clinton would be the winner of the 2016 presidential election that he could not contain himself. Thus, the goal of destroying the United States from her perch at the top of the nations is Satan’s plan in his drive to pose as God in the place of the God of the universe…
Topple the United States and the whole world will go down. Why? America is the only nation which allows its citizens the freedom of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as individual rights coming from God, not the state. That arrangement just cannot be allowed by those who envision a New World Order and a one-world government where no such freedom is planned—except for the elite. (“Is the Real Restrainer Now Restraining?” Gene Lawley, https://www.raptureready.com/2019/06/11/real-restrainer-now-restraining-gene-lawley)
The Lord intervened in that 2016 presidential election in ways that drove those thinking they had things that would “fundamentally transform America” insane and spewing every sort of vitriol against the candidate who won that election. And the insanity continues to this moment, as indeed, the anti-America-as-founded forces seem to be making significant headway in their drive to fundamentally change this nation.
Despite the growing wickedness that certainly must make this like the days of Lot in Sodom in the holy eyes of God, His judgment and wrath continue to build, reserved for that promised “twinkling of an eye” moment—the glorious fraction of a second when Christ calls the Church—all born-again believers—to Himself.
Here is how to be part of that call so that you can, along with all saints of this Age of Grace, have joy in the Heavenly Father’s presence forever:
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)
Terry James Prophecy Line 
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I watched that convention and saw the moment when the Democrats loudly rejected God. I wasn’t even saved yet but knew it didn’t bode well for our nation. How much I underestimated the calamities that would soon follow. This is no longer a Left or Right issue, as I once believed: it is clear that both political parties have rejected and usurped the Lord.
From the beginning I knew that Obama was not what he seemed and tried to warn others not to vote for him in 2008. By my own “Christian” family members I was called a bigot and a racist. Nevertheless, I begged anyone who would listen that he was a grave danger to our nation, to almost no effect. Watching his election (and then re-election…I believe the second by fraud) deeply grieved me as I saw the rapid destruction of our republic.
Therefore, how I missed his comments you’ve cited here from the 2016 Correspondents Dinner I don’t know, but that sounds exactly like him. It just further reveals what I have always believed; he is a Captain in Satan’s Army. Obama surely is, even now, the one systematically destroying our nation behind the scenes.
As we continue to spiral downward, I must remind myself daily that this is ALL in God’s sovereign control and He has designed vessels for honorable and dishonorable use to bring about His incredible plan of redemption, and for His ultimate and eternal glory.
Yesterday I was speaking with a sister in Christ and we agree that God is the One who is holding everything together during this trying period, for His divine timing. There is NO other explanation for why the convergence of all the pending calamities haven’t spiraled into chaos, both in the USA and around the world. It is truly a marvel to witness, albeit somewhat unnerving. I personally bounce between excitement and grief every day…what a roller coaster. All I can do is stay in my Bible daily, remain close to other Believers, PRAY, and witness to others when the opportunity presents itself.
Romans 8:18 is a marvelous and comforting passage to focus on as we wait for the sound of the trumpet, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”
Thank you for your encouragement Terry, your articles are balm to the soul in these last days.
Maranatha!
Thank you for the comforting words. Likely there were many Christians who got a sick feeling in their soul the first time they heard Obama speak. I know I did, and could not listen to him again because I felt in my soul that I was hearing a demon speak. I was certain he would be elected, and that he really would “change” America and the whole world.
I’m reminded of reading in some prophecy articles (sorry, don’t remember where) of a huge convocation that would gather at a “portal” someplace in South America, of satanists from all over the world to invoke satan to “come now and claim your Earth!” The convocation was held on, I think, Dec. 1st or 12th, 2012, with many thousands in attendance. My memory is not as sharp as it was more than three quarters of a century ago, so if anyone else remembers reading about that and knows I’m remembering wrong, please correct me.
We wait in eager anticipation to hear the trumpet and those words “Come up hither”.
Maranatha!
vr96, I have a vague recollection of predictions of destruction on 12/12/12 but can’t recall the specifics. It sounds similar to the wicked opening ceremonies of CERN, which were really over-the-top obvious in their Satanic worship and rituals.
Obama’s elections were obvious demonstrations of the lack of discernment and understanding that most earth-dwellers suffer from now. Most of mankind wants nothing to do with Jesus, just as He told us it would be, so they can’t see the truth. Nevertheless, it is very disheartening to know their eternal destination…we believe the Lord when He told us repeatedly that Hell is real; we don’t wish anyone to go there.
Hi Robin, I agree with you about the world’s descent into more and more decadence. God has His restrainer (us, rather, the Holy Spirit inside us) holding back the full onslaught until it’s time for us to leave. It’s despairing to watch so much pain, especially to the children caught up against their will in such evil. Like so many others, I watch and wait, and pray daily, “Now Lord, please call us Home now.”
The evil spreading in the world is worse every day. Openly! The ones participating in those abominations don’t even bother to hide it anymore! Like you, I remember the horrifying spectacle of the opening of the new tunnel in the mountains of Switzerland, I believe. I watched it on Olive Tree Ministries. An open display of satan-worship, with many of the world’s most influential and important leaders in attendance, smiling and applauding. Didn’t William and Catherine of the UK attend that? People looked up to and admired from all over the world, and thought of as good and admirable, openly smiling at and enjoying a truly disgusting display of pure evil worship.
When the last person has accepted Christ as their savior, we will leave here.
Maranatha
Hi Bonnie, yes, I am confident that William and Kate are in on it, so to speak. To participate in any way is to fully support what is underway. Just as when Jesus walked the earth, there are people who not only refuse to accept Jesus as Lord, they actively support the enemy of our souls. Such deception to believe Satan is the ‘good guy’, what foolishness. They are as drawn to the darkness as we are drawn to the Light. Praise Jesus that He alone gives us the ability to know and love the TRUTH.
The members of the Biden administration act like drug or alcohol addicts, totally incapable of rational thought. They are living examples of the kind of people clearly described in Romans, chapter 1.
Trouble is, they have plenty of company in America who think they are doing a great job and would have no problem giving them another four years to finish this country off. I doubt they’ll even need to rig the election this time toward that end.
Worst of all, the reason these mentally-impaired individuals got those positions of power is that too many “good people” sat back for too many years and let it happen.
I actually blame them most of all because they had less commitment to what is right than those who are have been pushing what is wrong for decades.
Good point, Ed.
To that, I would simply add that most of the responsibility for America’s decline (quite tragically) rests with the pulpit. The moment our shepherds stopped being true to the Word, and refused to preach the full council of God, the sheep went astray. And the nation inevitably followed.
Nevertheless, I admit I bear at least some of the responsibility, inasmuch as I probably haven’t done all that I could for Christ. But I’m working on it.
You are right, Charles.
I watched my former denomination (Episcopal) roll over for the deviants back in 2003 when its triennial convention gave the nod to ordaining Gene Robinson, an active homosexual, as bishop of New Hampshire.
I stayed for a couple more years in my parish until I saw it was a big waste of time, as most people either thought this was okay or plainly, just didn’t have the guts to fight back. The rector gave up, too, and retired. Can’t say I blamed him.
Instead of holding up a set a standards that society should emulate, the modern “church” has done the opposite, embracing society’s worst attributes. Of course, this “Neo-Laodicen” church was predicted, adopting the “doctrines of devils,” but it sure is tough to watch!
But we won’t have to much longer!
Amen!
God is separating the wheat from the chaff right in front of our eyes. And only the true Church is able to see it. Satan may or may not be aware that we can see his work, but he is obviously working harder all the time to lead as many souls astray as he can. Time is indeed short. We’ll be leaving here soon.
I agree with your observations, totally, vr96. God provide believers a clarity of mind that those who have rejected lack.
In my own case, when I was an active alcoholic, I never could see what a mess I was – not until I asked Jesus to set me free of this addiction almost 45 years ago!
For this I am forever grateful!
Thank you so much Ed, for your comment. You made me remember a few years back, when I was so lost from God, I cried out to Him to please show me the truth and the way. I was crying and sobbing so hard in fear and pain I could barely get out the words to Him. But He heard my pleas and answered me in a most incredible way. He moved me from so. Tx. to Co., where my family was, and He showed me what I needed to see in order to leave my old sinful life behind and get back on the right path. It didn’t happen overnight; I had spent the better part of my life wandering around like a blind person, and satan kept throwing wrong turns at me. But God kept me on the right path through a lot of trials, and I feel His loving presence with me all the time, so I know I’m on the right path now. All Glory to God.
The astonishing thing is that He promises to even give us the faith to believe, if we just ask. How sad that we can’t reach the majority of the lost world with His words.
I so enjoy your and Terry’s words of faith and love that come to us straight from God. May He keep using both of you until we meet in Heaven.
Hello again vr.
This passage bears out exactly what you said:
Mark {9:23} Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things [are] possible to him that believeth. {9:24} And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with
tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. [The child was possessed.]
Your account is amazingly uplifting – thank you for sharing it. I, too, have the sense that I am not alone though there have been times when I didn’t feel God’s Presence, but they have thankfully been few. Thing is, he was always there, but I couldn’t “pick up” on it, any more than a radio won’t pick up a certain station if it is tuned somewhere else – or turned off!
Though I am not proud to admit it, there have also been times I’ve been angry with God when facing extremely tough circumsatnces. Yet, through it all, God has remained faithful to me, even when my own faith was lacking – and that continues to amaze and humble me!
God bless!
Amen Ed.
I had to add this. Praise God for saving you from alcoholism. Thank you so much for sharing. What a testament to God’s loving grace. He still loves us no matter how far we wander. And He still had important work for you to do.
Your words, your story, had a profound effect on me, and struck me in my heart, and I had to have a discussion with God and give Him praise and thanks for saving my son, also, by taking him to be with Him, on Christmas day, 3 1/2 years ago. And even though I knew my son had gone Home to God, I couldn’t accept my own loss. He had been saved for many years, and talked often with me about how ashamed he would be to go to God when he was drunk. He didn’t, he was in the hospital at the time, sober and at peace. I know he’s at rest now and with God, but for those 3 1/2 yrs. I’ve struggled with grief and guilt and been unable to let go.
It wasn’t that I didn’t pray enough, or that my son didn’t plead enough for release. Both of us had our prayers answered. Thank you, for your words that made me go to God in prayer and have Him reveal to me that God cured my son, also, in the best way.
God bless and keep you in His Hands.
I was very profoundly moved by what you posted here, vr. I’m a single guy, and never really regretted it, so I can’t even imagine what losing a child must be like. May God bless and sustain you.
I was very close to my mother who died last year at the age of 92. Her life was never easy, She had married two losers who never treated her right so she raised me by herself after getting free of them. I had only added to her burden during my active alcoholic years, much to my shame even now. Her death was a slow and protracted one, so even her last days weren’t easy. Just struck me as totally unfair. I have come to terms with it, though it took time.
As for myself, I survived cardiac arrest less than two months ago. I was dead for ten minutes and it took 8 hits with the paddles to get my heart restarted. Unlike Terry, I have no recollection of heaven or for several days afterward. Reading up on this, I discovered that only 12% of those who have this survive, and a great number of them are permanently impaired, mentally and physically. That I lived and am not impaired in any way, especially since I was dead for so long, just adds to this miracle and my medical people are astonished and at a loss to explain it via science.
But, wait, there is more!
The Afib I had before the CA has not come back and my ejection fraction (the ratio of how much blood the heart pushes out compared to what it takes in) is better now than it was before the incident! Seven years ago it was only 10% when I had stage 4 heart failure. I took me six years to get it to 52% – which in itself is a remarkable recovery. In the hospital after I “dropped,” it was down to 29%. According to an echo cardiogram that I had this week it is now . . . 58%! (Normal is between 50-70%).
There is no question in my mind that God’s hand has been strongly involved all the way!
Best of all, the greatest miracles are yet to come when we all meet Jesus in the clouds – which I believe will be any day now.
Peter, James and John recognized Moses and Elijah at the Transfiguration, though they had never met either of them (Mark 9:2-7).
So, after you meet Jesus face to face and see your son again, look me up!
God bless you – always!
Thank you, Ed, for your kind words.
God has kept you in His hands for HIs purpose, and has miraculously saved you because your work here is not yet done. And to that I shout Hallelujah!
What an amazing God we have. You were brought through some of the worst physical traumas that can beset these earthly bodies, in a doubly miraculous show of love, and without any lasting harm. Praise our God for caring for us.
When I was 6, I died from diphtheria. I have no idea how long my experience lasted- it could have been a few seconds and it may have been longer. I had been struggling and fighting in my hospital bed for I don’t know how long. I felt as though I wasn’t breathing, even as I gulped in huge mouthfuls of air, and I didn’t realize that my lungs were not getting oxygen. My mother would tell me to lie down and be still and I’d be fine, but when I would lie down I stopped breathing and everything would go black and I would somehow be aware that I was about to go away. I would get scared of that and suddenly sit up in bed and try some more to “breathe” as I was gasping and gulping in huge breaths. I was getting so tired it became a struggle I could no longer do, so I lay down. In an instant I was outside my body and I flew to the corner of the room where the walls and ceiling come together with my back in the corner and looking down at the bed that held my body in it and my mother sitting beside my bed, head down and hands folded in her lap. Strangely, I had no feeling of connection to my body or my mother at all.
I wanted so desperately to go; there was a place, a center of all love beyond any love on earth that was pulling me to it but push as I might, I could not force my way out of that room even tho I knew I should be able to go as easily as we here walk through air. I didn’t feel the solid walls, or the ceiling, as we feel a solid wall here. It was as tho a “force” was keeping me there and not allowing me to leave. And I was aware of more: the sweetest smell, as tho I was smelling all the flowers on earth at the same time, and such heavenly music! It was all so close, but I couldn’t go to it! And I became aware of a being, entity, (I know now, 3/4 of a century later, that it was an angel) next to me in that space by the ceiling, looking at me, watching me. And just as instantly as I had left it, I was back in my body. I remember needing to vomit, and mother held me over a sink in the room where I vomited up a lot of phlegm, and then I laid back down in bed and fell sound asleep. From then on, I was able to breathe more or less normally, and that was the beginning of my recovery.
So I’ve known since early childhood that there is a God, and that His words are truer than any truth on earth, and that there is a Heaven, and we can all go there if we choose. Even tho I was prevented from going there, I felt a pull, a longing to go there that was stronger than anything I’ve ever felt since. I struggled so hard to get out of that hospital room and go to the place that I knew was just beyond those walls and I somehow knew that I was able to go there, and I could not understand why I couldn’t.
I’ve wandered away so many times, and for years at a time. But God has always been there with me, helping me when I cried out to Him and pulling me back. A few years ago He gave me some words that I wrote down and tacked up on my wall, and always remember; “You are never so lost that you can’t be found”.
I so look forward to meeting you, (yes, any day, any minute!) and Terry, and so many others who have had such blessed words that touch my soul deeply.
God bless and keep you in His hands til we meet in Heaven. Bonnie
Hi, vr (aka Bonnie!).
I thoroughly enjoyed your amazing testimony. I wish I could remember what happened to me in those ten minutes I was dead. Must be a reason I don’t, but I don’t let it bother me. I’ll find out about this for sure once I’m off-Earth.
We have both shared the rare experience of death and a return to this life, yours at an early age, mine much later. My recovery has been nothing short of miraculous, especially since the early indications are that my heart is in better shape now than before the cardiac arrest. As time goes by, I’m sure the medical people will provide more details.
I, like you, had my encounter with the reality of God at the age of six, but it was not brought on by the kind of traumatic event you had. It was a beautiful spring morning and I was in Sunday school. We were singing “All Things Bright and Beautiful.” I looked out the window into a deep, blue sky filled with large soft cumulus clouds drifting slowly by and I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that everything in that song was absolutely true! I, too, have messed up a lot in the intervening years, yet God was always faithful even when I often was not faithful to him. Thankfully, I remember this experience as if it occurred yesterday that it remained, despite that 3-day memory loss after my collapse.
Apparently, we were both supposed to be here into this time and I think the odds are good we will experience the Rapture – at which point will will meet in person. I am very much looking forward to this and I do think it will be soon!
God bless!
Ed
Amen. There have been times since I was 6 that God has literally stepped in and pulled me back from death. He has proven to me on more than one occasion that He was watching over me, keeping me safe. I am so unworthy, to merit such love and devotion, I’ve wondered why many times. Older and (hopefully) wiser now, I think He’s kept me here to see and experience this time, His words coming true, and maybe even get to leave here in the Rapture. I so hope that will be, and if I do get to experience the Rapture, I will go with a shout of elation and be looking forward to meeting all my soul friends.
God bless you and keep you safe until we meet in Heaven!
Thanks, Bonnie.
Looking forward to meeting you – topside!
God bless!
The Holy Spirit warned me in 2008 that Obama was evil. I changed party. Sadly it seems that our politicians are all a Godless power hungry corrupt bunch. Hopefully very soon Christ will be reigning on earth.
I agree, it is especially frustrating to hear so many Christians decry the Left when over the past 10 years or so, the Right has been revealed to be almost as corrupt. It seems to me that God has allowed us to see how sick our nation has become in order to wean us off the world. There is only one hope, and it is our salvation in Jesus Christ.
Pablum preaching, no nerve to call sin, sin and the worldly distractions (can you say “football”, etc?). Christians, or so-called, were found lazy and apathetic for years – myself included – when life was good and comfortable. No needs went unmet; G-d provided wonderfully, and we took advantage of Him. How His heart must have broken over the actions – or lack thereof – of His people, His own! Now I am 86 years old and have time to reflect on the missed opportunities to minister, teach, pray for this lost and dying world…to “watch and pray” as we are admonished to do. I am grieved in my heart to have been such a disappointment to my Father. I, We, could have done so much more. But I am still here, so as I am able, and I AM able by His Grace, I will do as I hear our L-rd instruct, go where He leads, and proclaim the goodness of G-d, for He is my strength, defender, protector, my ABBA.