Lucifer, now Satan, the chief prevaricator (liar), while looking into that mirror of iniquity, as reported in Isaiah 14:14, was struck by the sin of pride. There was none other as wonderful as himself, he concluded in that moment of total rebellion against Almighty God. It’s therefore somewhat amazing that he now does all he can to obscure his existence from humankind, whom he deceived into joining his rebellion at the Fall in Eden.

Much of humanity denies there is a God—at least that there is a deity with the right to govern them. People, likewise, for the most part, relegate the devil/Satan to esoteric lore and mythology. They don’t believe in a creature that roams about, perpetrating evil.

Satan relishes this view he’s managed to instill in people’s minds. If there’s no devil to fear, then the whole concept of biblical governance is out the window. Folks therefore don’t need a Savior from any original sin. It’s all myth, and people will face no other authority in some nonexistent, eternal judgment.

Satan’s entire plan of attack against God’s dealings with humans, then, is to get their thoughts off the fact of his influence in their affairs. The only right and wrong there is, the devil incessantly whispers, is whatever someone thinks is right and wrong. All is relative to the individual’s desires and aspirations.

The total non-involvement of any deity in decision-making isn’t even in the realm of day-to-day behavior. However, there are physical consequences that come with this individualism. Therefore, in the cause of the need to not suffer harmful chaos, there must be a collective will. Individuals must submit their wills to the collective to achieve and maintain the best possible quality of life—at least as determined by the majority.

And this brings us to where we are now in the process of life on this planet in 2024. Particularly, it brings us to where we are in the United States of America in the political world as we move toward the November 5 presidential election.

There are basically two sets of collectives as described above—both with fallen mindsets the devil has managed to influence from the time of the Fall in Eden. I’m talking about political collectives—the Democrat and Republican parties.

Both parties have at their base the mindset infused by the original prevaricator—the “father of lies”—the “old serpent,” the devil and Satan. All who are honest will attest that we’ve witnessed lie after lie over the years of observing the political process in America. So both political parties are guilty of the lies at every point along the many political campaigns, and even when there were no campaigns in progress.

But one of these American political entities by far leads in lying. This is my humble opinion, but that view has congealed throughout a long personal history of observation.

The number of lies being told now and over the last two decades or so has grown exponentially. And the latest process of political prevarication reminds me so much of Lucifer’s original lie to himself that I can’t do anything else but pass my observation along to you.

The Republican side of this political divide continues to hold to conservative values of the nation’s founders. The US Constitution continues to be at the center of the platform they adhere to. The Republican Party, for the most part, rejects proposed and forced change in the traditional national way of life Americans have lived throughout its history.

Democrat Party “progressives”—those who comprise the driving force of Democrat ideological change in the “transformation of America” Barack Obama boasted about—champion causes far from the traditional Judeo-Christian principles upon which America was founded. And this is where the luciferian lying becomes manifest, in my opinion.

Like that old serpent, the Democrat Party campaign to win the 2024 presidential election completely lies about themselves, and more so every day that passes.

Their candidate for president, Kamala Harris, whom President Joe Biden appointed “Border Czar” as vice president, and who was lauded by mainstream media at the time, now says she was never “Border Czar” or in charge of the border matters. This, the Democrat Party officials and even mainstream media blatantly lie, because the millions of illegals who have crossed the nation’s borders are now a tremendous political liability. They want no part in being seen as responsible for this dangerous and destructive invasion that has angered so many Americans.

The outright lies are in every direction this political entity speaks while trying to deceive the American voters. And, to get to the point I’ll try to make, their lies are Lucifer-like in this way.

Satan wants to divert people from thinking there is a devil. He doesn’t want to be recognized as that old serpent the Bible says brought humankind to this state from the time in Eden. He uses sleight-of-hand to get people to look in directions other than at the wickedness he is perpetrating. He wants us to think it’s not really happening.

In the same way, the Democrat Party and this presidential team are trying to get us to look in directions other than their record over the past four years.

The Democrat Party’s elite speakers, during their nominating convention, hardly talked at all about anything they’ve done to make us better off than we were when they took over. (And they took over under very suspicious electoral circumstances, might I add.)

Rather than talk about dangerous border security issues, a horrendous economy, the violence and chaos particularly within the “blue” cities and states, or the war-making that has exploded across the world due to weak American leadership, they spoke of love, unity, and good feelings in general terms. In other words, they’re doing everything they can to divert attention from their destructive policies and actions that have brought this nation to one of its lowest points in history.

The Democrat Party candidate, the most radically progressive among them, is now attempting to deceive American voters into believing she is for many traditional American values that her opponent has proven to champion and make secure during his presidency. She and her comrades in the party tried to make their convention entertaining and all smiles, with no talk of things plaguing America and the world. They declared the theme of their meetings to be full of joy. The sycophantic mainstream media ran with that declaration of “joy” for weeks following the Chicago meetings. It was a Lucifer-like ploy, to be sure. It was a deception like that old serpent’s that is meant to have voters think what they’ve endured over the past four years never existed. There is no devil…

But championing the murder of more than sixty million babies in their mother’s wombs is evil. It is real. And this party is champion of that evil. Homosexuality and Sodom-like wickedness are evil. And this political party and its adherents are champions of that wickedness.

There is a drive to bring America into the globalists’ New World Order. I believe this nation is the holdup to their determination to establish a world government Satan intends to use as his son of perdition’s Tribulation regime. I am of the studied opinion that the party of luciferian prevarication—those at the top of its leadership—is working hand in hand with the Ephesians 6:12 minions, both demonic and human, to accomplish this satanic purpose.

All of that said, I equally believe Jesus will, any moment, begin the heavenly process of bringing this wickedness to an end. It will start with the Lord calling all believers to Himself in the clouds of Glory. The Rapture is imminent!

You don’t want to be here when the devil and his Antichrist have their seven years of rule over the earth. Here’s how to instead go to the Lord Jesus, where He has prepared heavenly dwelling places for God’s children:

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

• The plagues of Egypt—Genesis 7:14–12:29–30
• The parting of the Red Sea—Exodus 14:21–31
• The parting of the Jordan River—Joshua 3:14–17
• The falling of the walls of Jericho—Joshua 6:6–20
• The sun and moon standing still—Joshua 10:12–14
• The angel slaying thousands—Judges 13:19–20

The miracles performed on behalf of God’s chosen nation are prolific.

These astonishing movements of God to bring forth, establish, and perpetuate His chosen people as promised are the miracles we know the most about because they’re so profound in their impact. Whereas secular writers and pundits have most often relegated these miracles of God to legend and lore, evidence steadily emerges to validate the historical facts the Bible has chronicled. Archeological evidence of the total destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is recent proof of the truth of God’s Holy Word.

Certainly the monumental ways God has dealt with Israel and its enemies are important to consider when thinking on prophecy yet to unfold. The Lord has mightily intervened with Israel’s path forward in the past, and He is prophetically scheduled to deal just as mightily in the Tribulation era. As a matter of fact, the primary goal of the Tribulation era–Daniel’s seventieth week—is to purge Israel and bring forth a remnant of God’s people who will be part of the Millennial Kingdom of Christ.

But, to the believing observer of these days and all that is transpiring on an hourly basis, it is undeniable that God is dealing at this very moment with His chosen people and their enemies as surely as He has dealt with them in the past and is scheduled to do in the future.

I refer specifically to the if not supernatural way, almost certainly the heavenly influential way Israel has again pulled off an intervention against their enemies’ plans to inflict their satanic evil.

We saw this heavenly influence years ago when the Jewish state, with the malicious computer virus Stuxnet, reportedly ruined almost one-fifth of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges. Targeting industrial control systems, the worm infected over two hundred thousand computers. Iran’s fast-track program to produce a nuclear weapon came to an abrupt end–for the moment, at least.

Now we witness, I absolutely believe, God’s intervention–His influence—that was used to protect against something big in the way of Israel’s enemies’ plans to again attack Israel. The following reports the matter, with which by now most are familiar.

[Around 2,800 Hezbollah operatives were wounded across Lebanon as communication devices exploded.]

[Most of them were] Hezbollah operatives [who] were wounded across Lebanon on Tuesday afternoon when their communication devices mysteriously exploded at around the same time, according to Reuters and local reports.

Several hours after the incident, Hezbollah said in an official statement: “At 15:30, a large number of pagers exploded, many people were injured. A Lebanese girl and two Hezbollah members were killed in the incident, along with a large number of injured.”

“An extensive security investigation is being conducted to find out the reasons for the explosions. We pray for the speedy recovery of the wounded and call to be careful of spreading rumors that help the enemy. The resistance is in the highest readiness to defend Lebanon and its people,” the statement read.

A Hezbollah source told the Qatari Al Araby Al-Jadeed: “Israel remotely hacked into Hezbollah’s unique communication devices and blew them up.”

In the evening, Lebanon’s Health Minister said there were at least eight dead and over 2750 wounded, including around 200 in serious condition.

The son of Ali Ammar, a Lebanese parliament member for Hezbollah, died as a result of a pager explosion, two security sources tell Reuters.

Among those wounded in the explosions is the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, according to Iranian state-owned Mehr News. In addition, the Saudi outlet al-Hadath said senior commanders of Hezbollah were wounded. (“Mysterious Explosions Come as Israeli Leaders Hold ‘Dramatic’ Discussion about Northern Front,” All Israel News Staff, September 17, 2024, Updated: September 18, 2024)

Since the explosions of the pagers, hundreds of other devices used to communicate between terrorists have exploded, killing or wounding many who held them.

Lest one is tempted to think these were innocents, with the exception, sadly, of the young girl being killed by the exploding devices, these terrorists had been told to use the pagers in order to not be tracked through their cell phones by the Israeli IDF. Thus, their nefarious plans to attack the hated Israel were foiled. This warning to the terrorists to use the pagers were given through recorded orders by a high-ranking terrorist leader, so the proof of the pagers’ use to do Israel harm exists in a digital paper trail; Israel’s actions were both brilliant and warranted.

I recently heard one American senator or US representative state he wasn’t the least bit worried about Israel’s destruction by its millions of enemies that surround the Jewish state. He stated that God’s Word assures their perpetual existence.

I say “Amen” to that sentiment. Israel is the miracle nation among all the nations of earth. That truth continues to be played out through hourly news cycles. Undoubtedly we will see much more of that truth on display until the Rapture of the Church–at which time we will “watch from the balconies of Heaven,” as my great late friend Chuck Missler was fond of saying.

The satanically spawned Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, seems to have opened in a major way an end-of-the-age Tribulation stage-setting prophecy.

Jesus Himself gave the prophecy as part of the Olivet Discourse while sitting with His disciples overlooking the Temple Mount:

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. For nation shall rise against nation… (Matthew 24:6–7).

The prophecy we need to look at in this fascinating time in history is Jesus’ statement that “nation will rise against nation” in an unprecedented way just before He returns to set up His Millennial Kingdom on earth. When giving only a cursory glance at these words, we think that, yes, that’s certainly true. Many a nation has risen against another nation just during the past several decades. There have been many wars, and other wars are looming. But, is this the kind of “nation against nation” reference Jesus specifically gave?

To answer this, we must look at the Greek language–the language from which the New Testament was translated into English. Jesus was in actuality saying these uprisings would be unusual in that they would be based in ethnos–the Greek word for “nation.” They would be ethnic in origin. They would pit ethnic, or racial, group against ethnic group.

It is equally true that ethnic factors have been the cause of many wars throughout the centuries. The Arabs and Jews–as a matter of fact, many ethnic peoples against the Jews—marked the conflicts of Old Testament times. Almost without exception, those early wars were “ethnic” in origin.

Things haven’t changed. Arabs and Jews still have the ethnos factor at the heart of their differences. And, never in history has the conflict been more virulent. Israel is hated like no other people—and by almost all of the nations of the world. The Islamic nations—mostly Arab—are blood-vowed to push the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea and wipe the Jewish race from the planet. Some Arab leaders of the past and other leaders–e.g., Iranian leaders—continue to want all Jews expunged from the region, and even off the planet, as we hear incessantly through their protesting US college-campus minions. They have made it their national policy through their oratorical invectives. There have been conflicts in the century just passed involving peoples of the Caucuses, the Balkans, etc., and horrific slaughters in Africa and other places–all based upon ethnic differences.

Now, this hemisphere is experiencing the burgeoning effects of ethnic conflict. The invasion of illegal aliens from points at US borders north as well as south, welcomed by a presidential administration that seems conjoined to the globalist intention to bring America into compliance with their New World Order aspirations, is threatening to erupt into violence within even smaller cities.

This invasion affecting even the smaller towns is easily discernable through reports like the following:

At this moment, there is a tremendous amount of discussion on social media about what is happening in the city of Springfield, Ohio.

The Haitian population of Springfield has become very large, and Newsweek is reporting that it is being alleged that “some of these people have been killing and eating folks’ pets”…

Springfield, which had a population of around 60,000, has recently been at the center of the immigration debate, with its Haitian community growing to between 15,000 and 20,000 over the last four years, according to city officials.

The past few days have seen locals report that some of these people have been killing and eating folks’ pets…

At a recent city commission meeting, one local resident was literally begging for officials to do something.

He claimed that migrants are “grabbing up ducks by their neck” and “eating them”…

“I really challenge you guys to get out here and do something,” he told the meeting.

“These Haitians are running into trash cans, running into buildings…they’re flipping cars in the middle of the streets…”

The man added: “They’re in the park, grabbing up ducks by their neck, and cutting their head off and walking off with them. They’re eating them.” (“Are they really eating our pets?”, Rapture Ready News, September 10, 2024)

Point is, Jesus said that a great, swelling uprising involving ethnic strife would grow to be a major crisis during the Tribulation era–that last seven years just before He returns to put an end to all of the conflicts at Armageddon (Revelation 19:11).

This ethnic eruption we’re witnessing each day in our headlines is something to watch closely, so far as being observant for prophetic end-times signals is concerned. The unrest constitutes yet another indicator of where this generation might stand on God’s prophetic timeline. We can say with a degree of certainty based upon study of God’s Word, and belief in the pre-Trib Rapture of Christ’s Church, that because of the burgeoning ethnic unrest, in conjunction with all of the other indicators we see interjecting themselves with growing intensity and frequency, Jesus’ shout, “Come up here!” can’t be far distant.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus.