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TRACKING Toward TRIBULATION | Terry James
What major end times signs are tracking the world toward the Tribulation? Find out with guest Terry James and hosts Tim Moore and Nathan Jones of the Lamb & Lion Ministries evangelism team as they provide their Prophetic Perspectives.
Messiah Mania
Up front, I must confess I really don’t know exactly what this might mean, prophetically speaking, with regard to Jesus’ answer to His disciples’ question: “What shall be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world?” But developments are rapidly taking place surrounding Pope Francis’ death concerning the sudden emergence of a Messianic figure from within the Muslim world. I strongly suspect those developments have prophetic significance.
The following news story piqued my attention regarding a matter that’s long been swirling within the Islamic religion, as considered by students within Bible prophecy:
A powerful figure has emerged in the Muslim world, and his newly founded religion is gaining followers worldwide. Shockingly, on Easter Sunday, his followers declared him to be the new pope, and the next day, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had passed away…
Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq, commonly known as Abdullah Hashem, was born in 1983 in Indiana to an Egyptian father and an American mother. He is an Egyptian-American and the founder of the Hamada Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL), not to be confused with the Ahmadiyya community discriminated against in Pakistan. He claims to be the Qa’im Al Muhammad, the reincarnation or second coming of Muhammad and the Mahdi (Messiah). Adherents of the religion believe him to be the second of twelve Mahdis appointed in the will of the Prophet Mohammed.
[The AROPL] group’s central mission is to build the Divine Just State, which a divinely appointed king will rule. This will be a theocratic state with the king appointed by, and a representative of, God rather than through a democratic election process. The AROPL is opposed to the idea of democracy.
He claims to be the “living successor of both Prophet Muhammad and Jesus Christ,” and his sermons bring “a divine message to the global Christian community.” He also claims to be “the successor to Simon Peter, the successor to Jesus Christ, the true and legitimate Pope.” (“The Muslim Messiah Is Here and He Is Coming to Replace the Pope,” Israel 365 News, May 1, 2025)
I believe we are witnessing with the story above one of the first signals of the end of the age Jesus gave in answer to that question by His disciples.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. (Matthew 24:4–5)
A few years ago, I wrote about a report of a young Jewish man who displayed supernatural powers, according to some of the Jewish religious hierarchy. At the time, many were touting him as possibly being Israel’s long-awaited Messiah.
I tried to find that article, but I have so many files that I haven’t been able to locate that commentary yet.
Obviously that Jewish phenom-man’s seeming supernatural displays faded into the burgeoning milieu engulfing the Jewish people and state.
“Messiah mania” among the Muslim world joins now in pointing to the lateness of the prophetic hour. The news item above tells of the Muslim candidate for Messiah (Mahdi) claiming to be the “living successor” to both Mohammed and Jesus Christ.
This assertion is almost certainly yet another of the end-of-the-age, false-Christ proclamations the Lord warned about.
Hoopla concerning the emergence of an Islamic messiah generates no angst for the world’s mainstream press. Any talk, however, of the Jewish Messiah coming to make Israel the head of all nations, of course, doesn’t sit well with the majority of earth’s powers that be. All but a very few countries object vehemently to Israel’s right to nationhood. Most, by far, believe Israel is an intruder in the Middle East, an imposter that has usurped the Palestinians’ rightful claims to the land. All nations—sadly, including America—still seek to divide the land granted to Israel by the God who created all that exists.
The “Messiah mania” we’re beginning to witness today is yet another end-times indicator for prophecy watchers to take into account.
Israel’s cry for their Messiah will—again, sadly—result in their accepting a false savior, one who will impose upon the Jewish people a holocaust more horrendous than the one with a capital “H” that was accomplished by the Nazi regime.
Antichrist will inflict upon that people a “final solution” that will try yet again to achieve Satan’s ages-long rage to rid the world of the Jew.
Thankfully, that attempt will result in Lucifer and his followers being destroyed in judgment from on high.
Israel will be a nation forever. We have God’s very word on it.
And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. And I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. (Genesis 17:7–8)
Quantum Quandaries :: By Gary Ritter
If you thought these end times couldn’t get any stranger, then I’ve got news for you: we just entered another dimension – literally. You may have seen reports of the jaw-dropping statement made by Michael Kratsios, who is the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, otherwise known as the White House Tech Chief. On April 14 as part of a larger speech, Kratsios made this statement:
“Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space.”
His next sentence was equally perplexing:
They [our technologies] leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.
Wait! He said what? What do these things mean?
Well, leave it to me to give you my layman’s best guess from a Christian, Bible prophecy perspective.
As often happens to me, I’ve been reading a fascinating science fiction series that – with exquisite timing – intersects with this public pronouncement of America’s technical capabilities. It also confirms my suspicions that what we the public are granted in the wisdom of our political savants is well behind the reality of where these developments actually are. In other words, technological advancement is much further along than what we in the general public are told at any given time. This pronouncement by the chief technical advisor to the White House would seem to be proof of this. We also have to ask why this is even being said right now? What’s the impetus for letting this proverbial cat out of the bag telling us that our scientific advancement is well beyond what we’ve thought?
Let’s dive into this briefly.
One novel I’ve been reading is titled Quantum Space, the first in the five-book Quantum Series by Douglas Phillips. These books would probably be considered “hard” science fiction similar to the book and movie, The Martian by Andy Weir.
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that when it comes to hard science, I’m at my worst. Biology, chemistry, and physics in school were usually well above my capacity to grasp their concepts. When I come across books like Quantum Space you have to understand that I’m approaching them in my general ignorance of science. To that end, where actual scientific discoveries leave off and fictional speculation begins is pretty hard – for me, anyway – to discern. That said, based on the Afterward written by the author, at least the basics of what are conveyed in the novel are fact.
Quantum physics is, as the Brave browser AI summary states:
. . . the branch of physics that explains how everything works by describing the behavior of particles that make up matter and the forces with which they interact.
There are concepts within this that are complex and far-reaching, including String Theory, Entanglement, and the idea of there being ten dimensions, i.e. seven more than what we can typically perceive in our 3-D space. It has been said fairly reliably that the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland regularly pierces the dimensional barriers. However, there is another, somewhat smaller collider – or particle accelerator – located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, i.e. Fermilab, in Batavia, Illinois. It is also involved in extremely cutting-edge research and discoveries. Whether this is for better or worse is another issue altogether, and we’ll get to that momentarily.
In the book, as the plot progresses, what the scientists are able to do at Fermilab is at the heart of this Commentary. They have discovered a way to send into, and bring back, objects from a 4th dimension of space. In so doing they also project a video camera into this dimension providing the ability to see in that context. It’s quite strange and a way to comprehend it just a little is with the example given in the story.
A little book titled Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions was originally written and published in 1884. It’s available on Amazon, and apparently a movie has been made about it. The essence is that rather than the 3-D space we inhabit, Flatland involves a world which is only 2-D, i.e. it is a 2-dimensional world which has no height perspective. It is as though a world exits on an absolutely flat piece of paper. Anything outside of the length and width dimensions cannot be perceived by the inhabitants of that world. This is the analogy for us to consider 4-D space. We simply cannot apprehend it with any of our senses that are geared toward our 3-dimensional world.
What the quantum technology described in the Quantum Space book suggests is that the key to – not only seeing – but doing something with 4-D space, can be achieved via a complex mathematical formula that is put into practice at Fermilab. Since the book was written in 2017, what was true then may be far exceeded today. However, the author’s Afterward suggests that this aspect I’m about to describe was a speculative extension of the actual current technology. Regardless, it does make a kind of sense to me. In the book, he mentions a breakthrough formula which deals with the key to accessing 4-D space through a quantum process that involves the critical capabilities of compression and expansion; compression being the fundamental aspect. What is true or not true today may vary, but at the time of the book’s writing, this was not a real and/or provable concept. Yet, given the exponential increase in scientific understanding, now eight years later, this certainly could be on the way to being science fact and not fiction.
From Flatland, picture an accordion-like structure intersecting the 2-D space and extending into a third dimension. Flatland people cannot see it or do anything with it as it is outside their sensory range. This accordion can compress and expand just as the actual instrument does. If an object is at the far end of the accordion, which is extending out into the third dimension, when the accordion is completely collapsed/compressed that object would be seen and available in Flatland’s 2-dimensional space.
Now, consider a similar capability into 4-D space. When the further end of the accordion is compressed all the way, an object at that far distance in the 4th dimension is now accessible in our 3-D space. Thus, a planet that is light-years away through this compression is now only moments in distance from us. The book’s author expresses this as an ability to compress distance by a factor of one million times or more.
Think about the Star Trek Transporter that can be used on a small or much grander scale. If this quantum technology actually works – or could work as pictured in this novel – space research and even exploratory travel becomes as simple as placing a video camera in a box and taking close-up pictures of Saturn, or of stepping into a device and being transported instantly to the target object at the end of the accordion that is thousands of lightyears away. Who needs spaceships? Fermilab becomes the new NASA.
You can see how intriguing this is for the scientific community. Perhaps you can also begin to picture what the White House Tech Chief might possibly have been alluding to. Remember what he said:
“Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space.”
What I’ve just described concerning quantum technology certainly begins to ring some alarm bells, doesn’t it? Just to add to the intrigue, recall that he also said:
They [our technologies] leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.
Factor this into the description I’ve given and see where that takes you.
Another aspect of all this science and potential is the saga of UFOs and aliens that over the years have intersected with earth in various ways. Not only have Hollywood and various sci-fi authors dealt with this issue, but so has the Pentagon more and more in recent years. This short, linked video from the Reese Report discusses a little of how our government has played with this over the years.
Basically, besides reporting UFO sightings, there is the cryptic and intriguing suggestion that we have been in contact with aliens, and they have provided us with various technologies. This is where we get into the Biblical realm.
Given the dramatic actions that UFOs seem able to take based on video evidence – i.e. achieving incredible speeds, making 90-degree turns on a dime, and popping into and out of sight – perhaps some of the quantum discoveries help us to understand this.
First of all, I don’t for a quantum second believe that there are actual aliens from other worlds. I absolutely believe that all of this interaction is a result of demonic activity that originates from a divine dimension that we are not normally privy to.
For our UFOs it seems to me that their dramatic capabilities are because they can go into and out of this other dimension. We could even call it the 4th dimension we’ve been discussing. It is apparently this dimension that CERN is able to pierce with its frightening apparitions of demonic beings that we’ve been told about. Of course, the question is: What haven’t they told us?
When Fermilab invades this 4th dimension with its quantum technology, will they actually reach into farthest space, or into the demonic realm? Are our scientists being deceived that we can achieve Star Trek capabilities to manipulate time and space, and to leave distance annihilated? If we open these dimensional doors further, à la CERN or Fermilab, what might actually happen when certain prophetic timings are right?
Likewise, this whole business of collaborating with aliens and their technology is a major set-up, in my estimation, for the coming 7-year Tribulation. I’ve postulated previously that many of the incredible high-tech scientific discoveries come from a demonic source because of the access the rebellious Sons of God have had to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil since time immemorial. How difficult is it for a powerful demonic being to deceive willing, God-hating, mankind? I’ve discussed the powerful ability of angels to cast extremely life-like visions in various Prophecy Updates, including Alien Invasion and 6thBowl Frogs are Aliens.
All this makes me wonder what the “aliens” have told and shown our global rulers, plus military and political folks, who want so much to believe that they know better and are actually in control? I can only say that they are in for a massive and memorable surprise in the not-too-distant future. We may see some aspects of this Alien Revelation before the Lord come to Rapture us out of here. However, once the Tribulation begins, all bets are off and the full force of Satan’s wrath, along with that of his willing rebellious accomplices in the demonic realm, will be off the charts.
Each day we’re treated – if I can use that word – to ever greater deceptions among the vast majority of mankind. Jesus said that even the elect would be deceived without Holy Spirit discernment, and those who come to Christ during this terrible time ahead would perish, if He didn’t halt the carnage to come as the Lord of Hosts at the appropriate moment.
Our job as always, is to keep our eyes open and to view the world through a Biblical, prophetic lens. By staying alert in this manner, we’ll be prepared for what comes next and never be taken by surprise.
These Wars and Rumors of War
A note from a frequent emailer friend in India brought to my spiritual understanding that indeed all we see happening on the peace-effort front might have prophetic significance beyond what I’ve fully covered.
I’ll just mention his name as “KS.” He proffered his thought that we could be right at the point near what’s described in 1 Thessalonians 5:3:
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
KS then indicated that his thoughts included a nuclear deal with Iran and talks for a two-state solution that might be key to bringing about the Rapture and the “sudden destruction” Jesus spoke of in His “days of Lot” prophecy (Luke 17:2 8–30). The destruction might then eventuate to be the foretold permanent removal of Damascus as a city (Isaiah 17:1) and possibly the Psalm 83 war many believe to be in the near future (I still don’t agree with that).
It’s not that I haven’t considered the many issues involving possible war and peace under the light of Bible prophecy for the end times. It is just that there are so many major war dynamics erupting so often, I must now explore them more closely than ever. We have examined these things many times, based upon the words of the greatest of all prophets:
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. (Matthew 24:6)
Jesus made it clear that as the end of this age (the Age of Grace) approaches, there will be a ramping-up of wars across the world. Yet He we shouldn’t be troubled; these terrible wars and dire warnings of war to come will not mean it is the end.
How in the world could the Lord say we shouldn’t be troubled–that this didn’t mean it is the end?! If there are to be more of these wars–many with the possibility of nuclear exchanges—shouldn’t that be reason for being more troubled, not less?
When thinking on Jesus’ prophecy here, the words of World War II Prime Minister Winston Churchill come to mind. As Hitler’s Blitzkrieg and the bombings came to an end against London early in the war, Churchill tried to fortify the British people for the hellish war against the Nazis he knew Britain and the world still faced.
He said in a broadcast to his people and the rest of the world: “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
I wonder if Sir Winston, in his famous speech, framed his thoughts after studying Jesus’ words found in the Matthew 24:6 warning of things to come. Probably not. But Churchill’s own words might be expressed in terms of what we as a nation and world face at this moment.
Our own time at present in facing war is certainly not at an end. Ukraine versus Russia is at a critical phase, with obstacles against which even our own president, a master negotiator, can’t seem to make headway. Israel versus Iranian terrorist proxies rage and build daily toward becoming a truly troubling conflict. And my friend who lives in India faces rumors of nuclear war with Pakistan, where another of my friends makes his home and conducts Christian ministry. Both India and Pakistan now have heating-up hatreds long simmering, each possessing nuclear weaponry.
And, at the same time, a profoundly perilous “rumor of war” threatens regional and world peace.
Iran, with fanatic Islamic leadership that daily threatens to destroy the much-hated Israel, and that sponsors terrorism globally, is perhaps days from developing nuclear weapons it will use to accomplish its blood-vowed intention.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised Iran will never be allowed to develop such weaponry. He is backed by a president of the United States who has proven he will follow through with what he promises. He has promised that if negotiations don’t work and the Iranian regime gets close to having an atomic weapon, the US military will lead the way in taking out Iran’s underground facilities.
Russia has signed pacts with the Iranians, and such lethal actions as will be necessary to destroy the underground weapons labs would make Russia put up or shut up in its friendship of protection with Iran.
This is indeed a “rumor of war” to consider!
The following news item tells of dangers involved in terms of the tenuousness of peace for Israel and the Middle East:
[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in JNS interview]
“I’m saying this for the ambassadors who are here—all of you know this,” he said. “We just tried a Palestinian state in Gaza,” he continued. “You saw what that brought, right?”
The Jewish state had been “attacked savagely, horribly” on Oct. 7, 2023, said Netanyahu. When German Chancellor Olaf Schultz, who visited Israel early in the war, “saw the film of the horrors and visited the sites, he said there: they’re exactly like the Nazis,” the Israeli premier recalled.
“And I said, well, they’re different. Not in intent, not in savagery—but the Nazis tried to hide their crimes. And these people carry GoPro cameras, live, you know, they’re ecstatic about the blood they shed, the people they butcher, the women they rape, the men they beheaded, the babies they burned,” he continued.
“You cannot build peace and security on lies. If you do so, sooner or later, these lies will crash on the realities of the Middle East,” he said…
“So what’s left? Well, quite a few things and many opportunities, but obviously they’ll all go down the tube if Iran gets nuclear weapons,” he added, vowing to work with Washington to ensure that Tehran will not be able to enrich uranium under a possible deal. (“ ‘Folly’ to Think Palestinian State Will Produce Peace, Netanyahu Tells JNS,” JNS staff, JNS.org)
My friend KS from India is looking for the Rapture like so many who can discern these end times of “wars and rumors of war.” Jesus has promised that there will be no such all-out, world-shattering war before He calls the Church (all born-again believers) to Himself in the Rapture. (Read again the “days of Lot” prophecy in Luke 17:28–30.)
In this sense, we can apply Mr. Churchill’s war-time statement to this time when the stage is being set for the quickly approaching Tribulation. What we see in these times of war and rumors of even greater wars of the nuclear sort, when viewed through the prism of Bible prophecy, is that this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps very soon, the end of the beginning.
This satanic assault on humanity, and particularly upon Israel, is about to end for those who believe in Jesus Christ for salvation. The Tribulation–the great end-times war—will then have its beginning in all its full-blown virulence and violence.
Now we can more clearly understand with spiritual assurance why the Lord Jesus said: “Let not your heart be troubled.” Believers will not be here on earth to participate in the coming wars and humanity’s final war, Armageddon.
If you want to go to Christ and to the safety of the clouds of Glory when He calls believers to Himself, follow God’s holy instructions:
That if you will confess 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)
On Pope Francis and Prophecy
At the outset, I must be honest and say those of us who hold the Lord Jesus Christ as the One and Only Way to Heaven and God the Father came down hard on Pope Francis, who passed into Eternity on what is termed Easter Monday, April 21.
The reasons for our being against this pope go far beyond our belief that the Catholic Church puts forth false teaching that varies in demonically inspired ways. This particular pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who chose the name Francis upon being elected as Pontiff following the resignation of Pope Benedict in 2013, consistently stated views he held that directly indicated he didn’t understand Jesus Christ to be the One and Only Way to Salvation.
My long-time friend and great Bible Prophecy teacher and broadcaster Dr. David Reagan listed for us this pope’s missing the mark about the Lord Jesus Christ and the Salvation issue.
In May of 2013, Pope Francis said that atheists could go to Heaven “if they lead good and honorable lives.”
In July of 2013, when asked if homosexuals could serve as priests, he replied: “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”
In November of 2015, he proclaimed that “Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters.” In June 2016, Pope Francis issued his first video. In it, he expressed his belief that all the major religions are different paths to the same God. Following this shocking revelation, the video featured persons from different world religions expressing confidence in their various gods. The video then closed with the pope expressing his belief that regardless of religious profession, “we are all children of God.”
In May of 2023, he emphasized “doing good” as the principle that unites all humanity. He added, “The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ — not just Catholics. Everyone! Even the atheists. Everyone! … We must meet one another doing good.”
In December 2023, he authorized priests to bless same-sex couples.
The apostasy of Pope Francis was reinforced recently when he boldly proclaimed that there are many different roads to God. He made this declaration while speaking in Singapore in September of 2024. Specifically, he said, “There’s only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Some are Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths [to God].” Actually, this was nothing new for him. It was simply a more precise definition of what he had proclaimed in his infamous video of June 2016.
The Climax of Catholic Apostasy
These outreaches to world religions, regardless of the gods they worship, have now come to a climax with Pope Francis’ proclamation that all religions are roads to the same God.
This proclamation makes a mockery of the sacrifice of Jesus. It also makes Jesus a liar when He proclaimed, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6). Further, it is directly contrary to the Apostle Peter’s declaration that “There is salvation in no one else [except Jesus]; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Source: ‘Doctrines of Demons’: Pope Francis Dies As The Most Influential And Dangerous False Teacher, Berean Review, article by Dr. David Reagan, founder of Lamb, Lion Ministry and Christ In Prophecy]
There is undeniable proof from this pope’s own words throughout his papacy, which tells us that he would greatly diminish, or even eliminate, the death, burial, and Resurrection of our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
Any other gospel…
Perhaps no other classification of prophetic indicators exhibits more ubiquitous/prolific such end-time signs in this generation than the category “other gospels.” The Scriptures are found back-to-back and are repeated by the Apostle Paul for emphasis.
“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any [man] preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed” (Gal. 1:8-9).
This specific prophetic warning for the last generation just before Christ’s return is again given by the great apostle and prophet, Paul:
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables” (2 Tim. 4:3-4).
Satan comes at this generation with a full, frontal assault that no Christian should fail to recognize. Tragically, most do miss the attacks, so wrapped in the entertainment hyperbole of the day are they, their eyes on the glitter and glitz of the Hollywood hucksters of lasciviousness.
Endtime Doctrines and Seducing Spirits
Again, God’s warning through Paul the apostle is clear about the matter. The endtime generation will experience a great increase in false doctrines that seduce the people of that era.
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth” (1 Tim. 4:1-3).
Sadly, much of the replacement theology of our time –including that of the Catholic Church– is based in this satanic tripe because of the ignorance of those who hold to the belief that Israel no longer is heir to God’s promises to them. The blasphemy of claiming God would ever renege on an unconditional promise is held as doctrinal truth by major denominations within Christianity today. I believe it is one of the key elements of doctrinal integrity that will one day separate the Philadelphian Church from the Laodicean (read Rev. 3:7-19).
It is incredible that we could come to this point in the perversion of God’s truth. But, here we are, right on schedule in relationship to all other prophetic signs of the times, so far as God’s prophetic Word is concerned.
As disturbing as these blasphemies are, there are others far more troubling, in my view. They are far more troubling because they come, supposedly, from within Christianity. The most egregious examples are the new Bible versions based upon texts other than the authorized.
There isn’t space to go into detail here, but the new “Bibles” that tone down the blood atonement of Christ, His death, burial, and resurrection, or that relegate God to gender-neutral status rather than acknowledging Him in the masculine –that try to present a message that we shouldn’t concern ourselves with things like judgment, punishment, or Hell –that we shouldn’t concern ourselves with Christ’s coming again and the prophetic Word, are not Heaven-sent but hell-spawned.
Let us not be deceived by those who seek to diminish Jesus Christ in any form. Let’s not fall for any other gospel, but be fortified and edified by that once given –the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (Rev. 19:10). That is essential to understand in this last time.
Jesus’ “Millstone” Reference and Relevance
A favorite lyric line of mine in a country song by The Oak Ridge Boys called Thank God for Kids is: “The nearest thing to Heaven is a child…”
Now I know that new parents, when up at 3 a.m., walking a baby that won’t stop crying, or having to feed the child at that hour, might not always find that line by the Oak Ridge Boys so heart-warming. But as one now far into the distant grandfatherly sphere, I can and do see the Truth and heart-warming efficacy in the song’s sense of God’s love for children.
God’s Word makes it quite clear about Heaven’s View of children and their innocence and helplessness. We are shown that anyone dealing treacherously with those who haven’t reached an age of full understanding and comportment is dealing with the very center of God’s own Heart. His anger over such egregious treatment of little ones is implicit in His Son’s words while teaching during his earthly incarnation.
“At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drown in the depth of the sea” (Matthew 18:1-6).
It is my contention, based upon conviction from the Holy Spirit, that the millstone reference has a most profound relevance for this generation – especially for America. The satanically inspired treatment of children, much of it codified by the woke movement over the past recent years, shows, I believe, just how near the end of Heaven’s patience is with the Sodom-level wickedness here in this nation and world.
That evil influence from the dark dimension continues to assault all that is decent, and much of it is aimed directly at the youngest, most vulnerable among us. A news item highlights where the nation stands on this war on godliness.
In preparing for a Supreme Court argument on Tuesday over the role of religion in public schools, the justices and their law clerks have considered the usual pile of briefs, pleadings, declarations, and exhibits.
But this time, the key documents in the court record are seven colorful books for young children, with sparse text and cheerful illustrations. They include Pride Puppy, an alphabet primer about a family whose puppy gets lost at a Pride parade; Love, Violet, about a girl who develops a crush on her female classmate; Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, about a same-sex union; and Born Ready, about a transgender boy…
Source: Supreme Court to Weigh Use of L.G.B.T.Q. Children’s Books in Schools – The New York Times By Adam Liptak, April 23, 2025]
While this report is out of the wokeness-prone New York Times —thus we can’t get the full maliciousness wrapped up in what’s going on in the Maryland public schools with regard to the evil attempted against children and their parents—other reports tell the truly troubling story.
An example: Chris Plante on his morning, nationwide radio program, Wednesday, April 23, described the books the Maryland school board insisted even kindergarten children be shown. The pictures were line drawings rather than photographs. If they had been photographs, the producers would have been charged with criminal pedophilia, Plante said. Because they were artist renderings, the pictures were not felonious in the eyes of Maryland law.
Not meaning to offend with being overly graphic, these drawings, Chris Plante said, showed small boys and grown men in sexual ways of the most explicit sort. He described other, even more horrendous drawings in the books being forced upon the parents, who apparently have no recourse to having their children exposed to this wickedness unless the Supreme Court ultimately overrules these ungodly school board members.
Jesus’ Words again reverberate throughout our land as the highest court considers whether to allow or remove such hellish so-called textbooks. I would remind both those school board members and all who perpetrate such evil – and remind the Supreme Court justices as well of God’s verdict on such perversion.
“Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
And more to the Relevance in all of this building end times anti-God activity, I once again must express a Truth I have known since my own earliest childhood, when saved at age 6 in the Seventh Street Bible Tabernacle in Pekin, Illinois.
All children below the age of Accountability will go to Jesus when He calls all believers to Himself in the Rapture. There will not be one such little one–even those just conceived—who will be left behind to face God’s Wrath and Judgment.
Jesus’ own Words, again, I believe, assure this absolute Truth in regard to Children and the Rapture.
“Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
Jesus is saying here, I am convinced, that, before reaching the age of accountability, little children are guaranteed to be in His Kingdom.
The God of all Creation will declare through that action exactly when life begins for the pro-abortion and woke activists. He will demonstrate in no uncertain terms His opinion of abortion. He will indeed prove in that electrifying instant of Rapture that the nearest thing to Heaven is a child.
You want to be in God’s Holy Eyes as one of these little children about whom Jesus spoke. That is you want to be a part of those who will go instantaneously to Jesus when He summons the Church (all born-again believers). Simply follow God’s Instructions in order to be forever redeemed out of sin and separation from God.
“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).
UNTAKEN THREE: 12 WEEKS FOLLOWING THE RAPTURE
By Constance O. Wyler
Book review by Terry James
Having read the prior two fictional books in C. O. Wyler’s end-times series, I recently finished reading the third: UNTAKEN THREE: 12 Weeks Following the Rapture, which continues to explore the devastating aftermath on earth after our Lord calls us believers up in the Rapture. I must say that I believe readers will be emotionally drawn into and swept along by this swiftly developing story.
In Wyler’s first book covering the twelve hours following the Rapture, the dark, personal grief of protagonist Sarah Colton deals with her loved ones who are missing, including her unborn child she wanted to abort. In the second book, the increasing control of an artificial-intelligence implant is experienced and challenged throughout the next twelve days. In the just-released third book that covers twelve weeks, AI surveillance becomes more important than ever after the incredible event.
While I like that each book in the series discusses and applies events of the Rapture from different angles, I’m impressed that the third one also includes advancing technologies and their application in an early-Tribulation environment. And I’m doubly impressed with its nonfiction explanation and concerned matters appended at the end. I very much like how the topics prophesied in God’s Word are placed in the proper junctures of the story. These follow the way things will unfold to a satisfactory extent—and I’ve been studying and working in Bible prophecy for many years.
This third book is so detailed that it really promotes character development beyond what’s done in most such novels I’ve read. It drew me in and even elicited some emotional tugs that I didn’t expect. Believe me, that’s not something usual for this seasoned veteran of prophetic fiction!
I believe these novels can be used as intended—to reach people with the salvation message and inform them that these end-times matters are close at hand.
All three books in the series are now available, and information is provided below. Do note that Book 1 is always FREE as an ebook, while Books 2 and 3 are currently on sale as ebooks.
Book 1 ~ UNTAKEN: 12 Hours Following the Rapture is always FREE as an ebook, and all print/ebook online links are at https://books2read.com/untaken.
Book 2 ~ UNTAKEN, TOO: 12 Days Following the Rapture is on SALE as an ebook for only $0.99 until May 11, and all print/ebook online links are at https://books2read.com/untakentoo.
Book 3 ~ UNTAKEN THREE: 12 Weeks Following the Rapture is on SALE as an ebook for only $1.99 until May 11, and all print/ebook online links are at https://books2read.com/untakenthree.
Book 4 ~ UNTAKEN, FOR NOW: 12 Months Following the Rapture, the final book in the series, will be forthcoming, Lord willing.
UN, US, and Israel
We’ve looked many times at Israel’s destiny and what things will look like for that prophetic nation as the time of Christ’s return nears. One primary prophecy in this regard is from Zechariah, as again, we have looked at many times.
The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. (Zechariah 12: 1-3)
My purpose here, as usual, is to focus on how near we must be to that promise found in the great unveiling of the glory of the King of all kings when He breaks through the dark, tumultuous clouds of Tribulation at the time of Armageddon (read Revelation 19:11).
God has promised His chosen people of His chosen nation Israel, that, even prior to Armageddon, He will intervene at the time all the world tries to force Israel from the midst of nations. He tells through the prophet Zechariah that all nations will eventually come against Israel.
All the nations of the world are represented to one extent or the other by the United Nations (UN). Can we see any anti-Israel bias in this organization at present?
We consider the following news item excerpt to find an answer.
18 September 2024 Peace and Security
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution that demands that Israel “brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence” in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
With a recorded vote of 124 nations in favour, 14 against, and 43 abstentions, the resolution calls for Israel to comply with international law and withdraw its military forces, immediately cease all new settlement activity, evacuate all settlers from occupied land, and dismantle parts of the separation wall it constructed inside the occupied West Bank.
The General Assembly further demanded that Israel return land and other “immovable property”, as well as all assets seized since the occupation began in 1967, and all cultural property and assets taken from Palestinians and Palestinian institutions.
The resolution also demands Israel allow all Palestinians displaced during the occupation to return to their place of origin and make reparation for the damage caused by its occupation. (“UN General Assembly demands Israel end ‘unlawful presence’ in Occupied Palestinian Territory,” By Vibhu Mishra, UN News)
All of this is in answer to one of the most heinous attacks in history–that perpetrated by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023.
Satan has seemingly entered the mind of much of the world—at least those represented in the UN who have joined in voting to come against the Jewish state. But the Lord, who watches over Israel and who neither slumbers nor sleeps, has guaranteed severe countermeasures against the satanically inspired anti-Semitic forces of history.
All who curse Israel will be cursed, and all who bless Israel will be blessed, as it is written (Genesis 12: 3). We can examine the nations and peoples of history that have cursed God’s chosen and find them in the dustbins of history, or not at all.
Germany’s downfall and history of domination by a satanically inspired Soviet regime is a modern proof of God’s promise to curse those who curse Israel. The Soviet Union itself dealt harshly with the Jews, and it, too, was cursed, and continues to be so to this day as once-again called Russia.
The United States has been mightily blessed, on the other hand, having been an instrumentally used by Israel’s God in bringing the Jews again into the land God promised them.
Satan is obviously working with all his being to bring anti-Semitism to America–particularly infecting a significant number of youthful minds within the Ivy League schools.
At the same time, the Lord has, I’m convinced, raised a champion for Israel in the US at this juncture so near the end of this Age of Grace.
Like his manners or not, President Donald J. Trump continues to prove his friendship with and his determination to protect Israel in its modern reincarnation. –This while the geopolitical and national political left joins those UN forces arrayed against Israel, blaming the Jews even for what happened that evil day of October 7, 2023.
It is flabbergasting that even Jews within American government and within the institutions of higher learning such as in Harvard, Columbia, and others join the mantra to remove all Jews from the river to the sea, as is the luciferic chant promoted by mainstream news media each and every day.
However, it is heartening that God obviously is meeting this Zechariah 12-level hatred with strength to safeguard Israel emanating for the most powerful nation-state on the planet. I strongly suspect that we are about to witness that power on display against Israel’s chief nation-state enemy and its attempt to produce nuclear weaponry which Iran would certainly use to, as vowed, destroy Israel. –This action against Iran being probable despite critics who lately declare that Trump seems to be noncommittal or even have a change of mind on destroying Iran’s nuclear weapons laboratories.
For this reason–the protective nation-partnership with Israel—and the fact that God’s family, the born-again, remain in this country, there is hope that the United States will survive this end-of-the-age, satanically spawned evil at least until Jesus steps out on the clouds of Glory and shouts “Come up here!”
Here is how to be part of that family of God that will hear Jesus when He calls in the Rapture.
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)
HeavenVision
Authors note: We have just passed through the 2025 celebration of our Lord’s death, burial and resurrection. I am, I believe, prompted by Heaven’s nudge to follow up by again testifying to my cardiac arrest and going to somewhere on the periphery of Heaven three times on Good Friday of 2011.
I remember sitting with my great friend Dr. Tim LaHaye at a breakfast table while in Dallas many years ago. It was just Tim and myself, and perhaps Mike Hile, my friend who drives us or flies with me to conferences and who is as close as a family member in my life.
Tim said that he had asked—as did Dr. Jerry Falwell asked regarding his own life—that God give him fifteen more years of living.
As I recall, that was the approximate number of years Tim lived following that breakfast conversation. Dr. Falwell went to be with the Lord after only a few years following his own request.
In my case, I haven’t asked the Lord for a particular number of years. But He has brought me to the fourteenth anniversary of that Good Friday of 2011 trip into somewhere in Glory.
I realize the stigma of disbelief and even scorn sometimes attached to relating such a thing as I experienced. I, too, have always cast a wary eye when hearing such experiences. But, the Lord took me there for His own good reasons, and He brought me back to testify of that heavenly trip. So I can do no other than continue to relate it to whatever audience opportunity permits and the Lord directs.
On remembrance of our Blessed Lord’s resurrection and what it means to each and every one of us, I believe it is altogether fitting to do so again now.
An intensively documented hospital record of those heartbeat stoppages proves the reality of the clinical situation that Good Friday.
The following, considerably longer-than-usual commentaries, is a chapter from the book, HeavenVision: Glimpses into Glory, which Angie Peters, my daughter-close editor of many years, and I wrote following that tremendous event in my life.
HeavenVision Unveiled
There are no coincidences in God’s dealings with His children. And, the only children He has, in terms of human family, are those who are born again, as Jesus explained. Jesus said: “Ye must be born again.” (Read John 3:1–21 for the full explanation of what it means to be born into God’s family.)
As mentioned previously in this book, God’s Word says further in regard to God’s dealing with His Family: “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God” (1 Corinthians 2:9–10).
So it was that God, my Heavenly Father, has dealt with me through the clinical death I experienced Good Friday, April 22, 2011. I went through that ordeal, and I am here, now, writing about it for purposes He has determined. It is not a coincidence that brings me to this point of writing what I am about to write and your being here at this point reading what I have written. God has shown me, without the slightest doubt in my spirit and mind about these matters, exactly what the near-death experiences when my heart stopped three times mean. Therefore, without any reservation whatsoever, I am putting down for the record the message I know my Father in Heaven wants me to deliver at this time–in this book.
I write these things with a profound sense of humility, however. I am nobody special, other than a child of God through the shed blood of my Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ.
On second thought, I guess that does make me someone special in God’s holy eyes, but only because of what Christ did for me on that old rugged cross. Like the Apostle Paul framed his own relationship with God, the same applies to my case. Terry James would be the chief among sinners, if not for the righteousness God the Father sees when looking at His Son, Jesus the Christ, in evaluating my life now that I am His child.
Believe It or Not
There is a Scripture that many who major in teaching and preaching miracles and wonders today use to launch into stories of great ecstatic pronouncements:
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. (Joel 2:28)
The time spoken of by Joel the prophet, as recorded in this passage, has not yet been reached. The word for when this era will be reached is in the Hebrew achar, “afterward” in English. This prophecy of miraculous visitations, when old men will dream dreams and young men and women will see visions is scheduled for after Israel, God’s chosen nation, will as a people recognize that God is their strength and their provider. The people of Israel today do not look to the God of Heaven. They haven’t received reconciliation through repentance yet. This prophesy is for when King Jesus rules and reigns upon the throne of David atop Mount Zion during the Millennium. (The Millennium—the thousand-year reign of Christ—is in view in Revelation 20:1–5.)
The world certainly hasn’t reached the time of the Millennium. Jesus is still at the Father’s right hand upon the throne. So, I did not have a dream or vision because we have reached that spectacular future time prophesied for the millennial reign of Christ. However, the Lord can and does reach into any and all time-frames (dispensations) He desires to reach into, and God, the Holy Spirit, did so on April 22, 2011.
I could, in order to sound self-deprecating, tell you that the Lord just on the spot decided to use my widow-maker heart attack, when it happened, to say through my experience what He wants to say. But, I can’t tell you that was what really happened. It was much more specific and preordained than that. God reached down and took my spirit into…where, I’m not certain, but for sure from this earthly dimension, and stood me in front of those young, beautiful, wildly cheering, jubilant young beings. It was no coincidence of timing. It was done for an absolute divine purpose. God chose the likes of me–a blind, aging, sinner saved by His grace—to go through this extremely brief but spectacular visit to the fringes of Heaven.
Some of what this all means came to me almost immediately upon being hooked to wires leading to monitors and tubes while in the cardiac intensive care unit. Other aspects of what the heart stopping those three times and being instantly in the presence of those heavenly beings is all about were, in some cases, revealed much later, while thinking in directions totally unrelated to the experience. It has been confirmed in my spiritual heart that it was the voice of the Holy Spirit I heard, almost audibly, on each and every occasion.
Believe me, I am among the most reluctant of people to embrace in any sense metaphysical, experiential expressions of the Christian faith. By that, I mean stories of supernatural intervention by God into the lives of believers today through such things as dreams, visions, and miraculous healings—like missing limbs being replaced, or…well… people brought back to life after being dead and embalmed.
Do I believe God performs miracles today? Absolutely. He performs them every hour of every day. But, they are very rare in the truly spectacular sense of performing miracles. For example, I have never read or heard of a single case in modern history—a documented case—where someone whose arm was totally withered, atrophied to the point that it was a useless blob of flesh, was restored to full size and use like the person’s other arm, simply by a faith-healer or other person touching it and praying over it. I’ve never seen documentation verifying that one born without a leg, foot, or eyes suddenly have those miraculously added to that person’s body through a faith healer’s touch.
I’ve heard a lot of stories about this happening, told by those who teach and preach miracles as the centerpiece theology of their belief systems. But, not one case has been recorded by medical documentation or through scientific empiricism. I’m a believer, and trust my Lord implicitly. But, I’m also a rational being who finds it prudent to, when it comes to dealing with human beings, do what President Ronald Reagan said about dealing with the Soviets. “Trust, but verify.”
So, with spectacular miracles from on high being rare to the point of being almost undocumentable in these days, why should you–or anyone—believe me and my recounting the wondrous visit to that heavenly dimension on Good Friday of 2011? All I can say is that I know it happened, because I was there among that throng of heavenly beings each time I heard the computer-like blip and my heart stopped. The Lord has told me in the deepest reaches of my spirit to report to you that visit. He has also given me what it means–and in remarkable detail, considering the brevity of the trip to and from that realm.
Believe it or not. Do with it what you will. The following is my faithful execution of the commission I’ve been given–that of reporting what my HeavenVision means to this generation.
HeavenVision–The Interpretation
Near the end of the year 2010, two projects came into my thought processes. The first was for our raptureready.com website—a series of articles I soon gave the title “Scanning a Fearful Future.” The second project that came into my mind was, as stated earlier in this book, a book on Heaven my mother and her sister wanted me to write.
I began writing the series for our Nearing Midnight column—ten articles in all—the last one which I completed and we posted January 24, 2011. Sometime in late December of 2010 or early January 2011, I decided to soon start the book project. My subsequent notes indicate I actually named the book HeavenVision: Glimpses into Glory. The date in my notes for beginning the book project was February 4, 2011.
I also made the note to consider building the HeavenVision book around near-death or clinical-death experiences of individuals–if we could find some that rang true, according to what the Bible has to say about life, death, and Heaven.
One of the primary reasons I wanted to write the “Scanning a Fearful Future” series was to try to help provide answers from the prophetic Word because so many who visit our raptureready.com website were concerned about where the national and worldwide economic upheaval was leading. Also, we were getting an increasing number of emails accusing us of being heretics who were leading people to Hell with our pre-Trib teaching. Christians should be prepared to face the coming Tribulation and Antichrist, we were told in the scathing diatribes. By not preparing Christians to face the beast of Revelation 13, they would not know to reject Antichrist’s mark and number. We were leading people to Hell with our false teaching of the pre-Trib Rapture.
As a matter of fact, we were already in the Tribulation, many of the quite excoriating emails were telling us.
Along with the two projects going through my mind were the thoughts, which became persistent prayers: Lord, I know what your Word says. The pre-Tribulation view of the Rapture is the correct one, I believe. But, nonetheless, please give me absolute confirmation of this truth. We don’t want to lead people astray.
The second thought was: I have written the “Scanning a Fearful Future” series. I would also like to have affirmation in my spirit that what I believe you gave me to write, I have faithfully written.
These were matters I took before the throne constantly. One other was in my thoughts, if not my prayers. I’ve mentioned it before in this book. It went something like: Wouldn’t it be interesting to have a near-death or clinical-death experience, myself? Just die briefly, then be brought back to tell the story of a spectacular experience the Lord allowed. That would really give the book credibility!
The Lord has a sense of humor–I now have no doubt. The old adage, “Be careful what you wish for” definitely applies.
The fact that I clinically died not once, but three times—on Good Friday, no less—was in that other place with the cheering young people, then was “resurrected,” in a manner of speaking, was the Lord making a statement, I’ve been shown.
The first thought to penetrate my realization while lying in the hospital bed was that the throng of beautiful, joyful cheering young people that greeted me each time my heart stopped was–and is—the “cloud of witnesses” of Hebrews 12:1–3.
The second thing that pierced my spiritual understanding, several days later, was that the cheering that greeted me in that heavenly setting was approval of my writing and teaching Bible prophecy in these end of days. But, it was burned deeply into my understanding that all of this cheering was affirmation from the Heavenly Father not just for me, but for all of His children who believe and disseminate Bible prophecy in these last of the last days before His Son calls His Church to Himself (Revelation 4:1, as He promised [John 14:1–3]).
My commission, it was seared into my realization, is to pass along that God, through the cloud of witnesses I saw, was giving His nod of approval to His people for getting out His prophetic truth whenever and in whatever way opportunity is presented.
Later, over the weeks and months of recuperation, I’ve been given deeper understanding of those Good Friday glimpses of Glory.
My series of articles “Scanning a Fearful Future,” which concluded with the January 24, 2011 article, is key to the HeavenVision, the Lord continues to impress upon my spiritual understanding. The articles were begun to, I prayerfully hoped, help allay the fears that were coming to my email inbox fast and furiously around the time when national and global economic collapse looked to be imminent.
The question in every email on the topic of the “coming economic collapse” was based upon a well-known TV pundit’s declaration that Americans could awaken on any morning and find that the world had changed completely. The US dollar would be no longer of any value. Worldwide depression would quickly bring changes that would in its course bring martial law and imprisonment for all who didn’t toe the mark of what Big Brother demanded.
I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to write the series, examining carefully what the Bible prophesies for the end of the age.
Most all emails at the time expressed fear that Christians in America would be put in FEMA internment camps—which were said to be proliferating around the country, according to many blogs and conspiracy-laden websites.
Would Christians in America face martyrdom–maybe even have to face the Antichrist regime? Maybe the pre-Trib Rapture view wasn’t prophetic truth after all. Maybe we were already in the Tribulation!
The series covered ten weeks, so there isn’t room in this section of the book to put all that was presented over the course of those articles. However, the bottom line in answer to the fear-filled emails was and is the following—the conclusion to which the series came.
Jesus Provides Answer
The series of articles, “Scanning a Fearful Future,” in examining truth about where the apparent building economic cataclysm will lead, and what will cause the world-shattering bubble to burst, brought me, in the final analysis, to the words of the greatest of all prophets–the Lord Jesus Christ.
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17:26-30)
Another Gospel account expounds further upon Jesus’ prophecy about conditions that will be prevalent at the moment He next intervenes in human history.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. (Matthew 24:36–42)
The conclusion reached in the series–based upon the above prophecy by Jesus—was that there will be no catastrophic man-made or natural event that will throw the nation and world suddenly into the time of apocalyptic chaos. It will be Christ’s sudden call to His Church–His Bride—that will bring on God’s judgment.
It will be business as usual, according to Jesus’ words in this prophecy, with people buying, selling, building, marrying, etc., right up until the moment when born-again believers instantaneously go to be with their Lord, when He calls them in the Rapture.
Jesus could not have been prophesying about the time of His Second Advent (Revelation 19:11). At the time He returns, as Armageddon is raging in the valley of Megiddo, it will not be business as usual, as is indicated by Jesus’ words in Luke 17:26–30 and Matthew 24:36–42. At the time of Armageddon, as many as two-thirds of humanity will have been killed by the events of the Tribulation era (the last seven years of human history before Christ’s Second Coming).
I have had confirmed in my spirit through the cheering of the cloud of witnesses that what I wrote in “Scanning a Fearful Future” is the way things will unfold. The Lord of Heaven, Himself, is preventing the total collapse of the world economic system, as He is keeping all-out war from breaking out in the Middle East.
When Christ steps out on the clouds of Glory and shouts: “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1), judgment will begin to fall upon America and the world that very day.
HeavenVision Afterthoughts…
Not long after Angie and I began writing this book, I was totally engrossed in listening to a television program. I don’t remember what the program was about; it was probably a ballgame of some sort. Out of seemingly nowhere, the inner voice spoke almost audibly.
“Terry, you remember praying all of those months, before the Good Friday experience, asking to have confirmed in your spirit that the pre-Trib view of the Rapture is the absolute truth from my Word? Well…what do you think that cheering group of youngsters was all about?”
It was all I could do to keep myself from leaping through the ceiling from my sitting position, even without any assistance from the Rapture experience! The epiphany was stunning! I could almost hear the smile of holy amusement in that revelation.
The next moment brought the humbling realization that the Lord of all creation would be so loving as to spend such an intimate moment with someone like me.
I was being cheered for teaching, specifically, the pre-Trib Rapture view. The pre-Tribulation Rapture, I was thus assured, is the true meaning of the Apostle Paul’s prophetic writing to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 15:51–55 and to the Thessalonians in 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18.
Again came the prompting in my spirit that the cheering wasn’t for me alone, but for all who hold to and teach and preach the pre-Trib Rapture in these final hours of the age.
Some time before that, another Holy Spirit epiphany had illuminated my spiritual understanding of my Good Friday visit to what I believe must have been somewhere near the portals of Heaven.
While standing before that throng of vibrant, cheering, young people each time my heart stopped beating, one face stood out from among them. Her smile was wide, her face beaming with joy, while she was thrusting her arms upward as if celebrating victory at a sports event. On the third and last visit to that otherworldly place of stunning beauty and absolute peace, the young woman looked over at me while we were all running as if in a race, her hands raised in victory. She was laughing, her beautiful facial expression bursting with unbridled exultation.
That face was constantly with me for more than a month following the trip to that realm. The image never left my conscious thoughts. The identity of the young woman emerged suddenly into my mind at a rare moment I wasn’t thinking about my near-death event.
While the last vestiges of my eyesight were in process of fading to darkness, I had begun my first book of Bible prophecy. I called it Storming toward Armageddon. During that time, I became friends with an elderly woman who could no longer attend our church because she had reached the advanced stages of osteoporosis.
She was a great Christian lady who loved Bible prophecy, and she also was a very good poet. Many of her poems involved prophecy from God’s Word, as a matter of fact.
Additionally, she taught several classes of young women each week in her home. They would sit on the floor surrounding her while she taught the Bible studies.
We talked on a regular basis by phone, and I visited her at her home from time to time. She was excited about the fact that I was about to become an author of a prophecy book. I asked her if we could use one of her brief poems in that book. She readily agreed, and we put the poem at the beginning of Storming toward Armageddon. We also put her poems in my next two books, and she lived to see them in print.
My friend began to lose her ability to see, so we could commiserate over our mutual eye problems. Her health declined quickly, and she died before she lost her eyesight totally.
The Lord has confirmed in the deepest reaches of my spirit that the dynamic, joyfully cheering young woman of my visit to the outskirts of Glory, whose beautiful face continues to be etched in my mind’s eye, is Arbra Carman–my wonderful friend and Christian sister.
You May Never Be the Same :: By Jan Markell
Holocaust Memorial Day this year in Israel spans April 23-24. I met a Holocaust survivor a few decades ago, and I may never be the same. When I connected with Anita Dittman, I had her recount her harrowing story. She captivated me. Had you met her, you might never be the same either.
Anita and I spent weeks together as she relayed a story of deprivation, marginalization, starvation, separation, loneliness, isolation, fear, and faith. How could this woman, then in her 50s, even stand up straight? She had lifted 100-pound items as a teenager as the Nazis perpetrated forced labor on her and her mother. They had been abandoned by her Aryan father.
She had made two failed escapes from concentration camps. She didn’t have sufficient food for 12 years. At one point, she sent all of her meager rations to her mother, who entered a camp before Anita was taken.
Once in a camp herself months later, Anita chopped down trees in a forest in the bitter winter with barely enough clothing on. At the end of the war, she walked across part of Europe on a wounded and infected leg to see if her mother had survived Camp Theresienstadt.
God’s Breathtaking Intervention
Was I just looking at a living miracle? I think so—and this survival story would go on to leave a lasting mark on millions of people. A fertile imagination could not make up the scenes and scenarios that were a part of her life from ages 5 to 17. God’s constant intervention was nothing less than breathtaking.
Tyndale House published Angels in the Camp in 1980 – just one version of a book that would have almost a 40-year lifespan, assorted publishers, and more than one title. Books have short shelf lives. Only a few classic stories survive the test of time, as has Anita Dittman’s story.
The Messiah’s Faithfulness
Anita’s book, now titled Trapped in Hitler’s Hell: A Young Jewish Girl Discovers the Messiah’s Faithfulness in the Midst of the Holocaust, has affected people around the world, of all ages. Grade school children sat motionless as she related her ordeal in person until age 88. They have no concept of war, concentration camps, deprivation, and starvation. They don’t know the meaning of the word separation other than waving goodbye as they head to summer camp.
Teenagers who lead a carefree life were stunned at her testimony and wrote her from many countries. Their world knows nothing of the dreaded knock on the door when family members are hauled off by the jack-booted, heartless Gestapo.
Demonstrating God’s Forgiveness
Every fall Anita Dittman stood behind a book table at my annual prophecy conference and signed hundreds of her books, now published by Lighthouse Trails. A German lady came up to her one year and wept. She apologized for the insanity of the Third Reich. What were they thinking? Anita always forgave these folks.
When Government Becomes God
The decades have raced by, but during that time, millions more have learned that letting government become god as the Germans did is not a good idea. Today in 2025, she would be 96 if she were still alive. Her life verse was Romans 8:28 – that all things do work together for good for those who love God. Anita reminded every audience of that. That we really are under the shadow of His protective wings (Psalm 91:4).
Never Again Is Now
Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, is just a few days away this year, and Jews of the world will collectively say, “Never again!” In Israel, cars will stop when a siren wails, and many will stand at attention wherever they are. Israeli children will climb off their toys and stand motionless for two minutes.
Yet a world without God will continue to oppress and persecute. The targets will be heavily Jews and Christians. Please don’t forget those who languish under deplorable conditions, and never forget that one single tyrant can unleash a nightmare on millions of innocent people.
Hating Jews is the oldest pastime. It’s the oldest hatred. It not only never dies, it gets worse every year. That is evident from the carnage on October 7, 2023, near Gaza. Not everyone will even finish reading this article. It is just of little interest to many. Or, they have sympathy for Hamas.
The Holocaust is ancient history—and yet it keeps resurfacing in different times and places. But in 2025, it is accentuated as the world cheers for Hamas and denounces the Jews.
I never thought I would see the day. Nor did you if you are honest. “Never again” is now, as we race towards the Tribulation, when the Jews will be the focus of the Antichrist and his short-term kingdom. Today is just a warm-up act.
Terry James Prophecy Line 