Those in God’s family of the pre-Trib Rapture belief, including me, look at this just-concluded midterm election in the same way my great friend Jan Markell frames the times in which we find ourselves: “Things aren’t falling apart. They are falling into place.”

Every signal the prophets gave in God’s Holy Word are now not just in place. They are flashing bright red in the spiritual eyes of those who are truly “watching” (Mark 13: 37 and Luke 21:28). Our nation’s leaning into the religion of Islam and away from the Judeo-Christian principles instituted by the founding fathers personify the march into the Tribulation predicted by Jesus:

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

Peoples of the world who embrace Islam at its harshest levels of compliance not only accept what was perpetrated against the Jewish festival on October 7, 2023, but applaud the blood-drenched evil of that day.

They were—like on September 11, 2001, when thousands died by Islamic attack in New York and the Pentagon—celebrating in the streets around the world when they learned of the atrocities. The blood lust continues and is aimed at all who will not bow the knee to Allah and to sharia law. Yet the global mainstream news media continues to all but ignore the terroristic evil involved in this “mostly peaceful” religion, as President George W. Bush mistakenly once called it.

The following news item gives but an inkling of what the world can expect while things line up for the fulfillment of what God’s Word has prophesied for the consummation of human history.

Daily slaughter. Unimaginable bloodshed. Massacres. No protests, No street marches. No university rallies. No emergency UN security meetings. Nothing. No one says or does anything because the murderers are Muslim. When the media does reluctantly cover it, they blame the victims and “islamophobia.” How did we get here? (“Muslim Terrorists Slaughter 60+ Christians in Ethiopia, Children among the Massacred,” Geller Report, RR News, November 1, 2026)

The Islamization of Europe is in full-blown progress. The progressives in America want, in part at least, to Islamize this nation. They are enjoying success in their endeavor as witnessed by the just concluded November 3 midterm elections.

In my thinking, half of the voting citizenry of this once great republic now have the reprobate mindset to which God has given them over: “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind” (Romans 1:28).

Despite the display across the world of the terrors of sharia under the Koran—with women treated in ways totally contrary to their treatment in Western cultures and societies, the young, and particularly young women, have, it is shown by this election, totally fallen for the lies perpetrated by Satan.

The following further elucidates the matter of Islamization:

Decades of sanitized, apologetic “education” about Islam have indoctrinated a generation of young Americans into viewing Sharia—a totalitarian political system of open-ended jihad, suppression of conscience and speech, discrimination against non-Muslims and women, and barbaric punishments—as positive, beneficial, and even fit for majority-vote imposition in U.S. towns and states, directly subverting the Bill of Rights…

The long-term corrosive effect of relentless Islamic indoctrination on American youth under the guise of education was apparent in ominous recent polling data on the favorability, “benefits,” and even potential applicability of Sharia in the U.S.

A nationally representative survey of 1026 U.S. Likely Voters conducted on 9/20/26 asked the following about Sharia:

“Sharia is a system of Islamic religious principles and law. Do you have a positive or negative opinion about Sharia?”

“Would you support a law that requires public schools to teach kids about the benefits of Sharia law?”

“If a majority of people in an American town, city, or state were to want Sharia law, would you support a proposal that would allow Sharia to become the legal code for all citizens in that town, city, or state?”

Disturbing percentages of 18- to 24-year-olds (43%) and 25- to 29-year-olds (39%) had combined “mostly” or “somewhat” favorable views of Sharia. Moreover, 24% of 18- to 24-year-olds and 31% of 25- to 29-year-olds supported a legal requirement that children be taught the alleged “benefits” of Sharia law. Most alarmingly, 27% of both the 18- to 24-year-olds and 25- to 29-year-olds favored allowing U.S. towns, cities, or entire states to apply Sharia for all citizens by plebiscite.  (“Sanitizing Sharia Will Destroy Freedom,” RAIR Foundation, October 31, 2026)

All the young voters—and not-so-young voters—who believe they are with their November 3 election victory about to “fundamentally transform America,” as Barak Obama said upon becoming president-elect, are in for a shocking future. That is, they are if they don’t come to know the only Way, Truth, and Life —Jesus Christ—who is the only pathway out of the most horrendous future of all human history.

The amount of savagery produced by radical Islam in the October 7, 2023, assault on the Jews and all other atrocities committed will pale in comparison to the era when Antichrist fully takes over this fallen sphere for a time.

It is incumbent upon we who are Heaven’s royal ambassadors during this pre-Antichrist rule to preempt that future savagery with truth from God’s Word so there will be information available to those caught in that most evil time of all history.

I’ve been made aware of the best package of such information I’ve ever encountered for those left behind when Christ calls the Church to Himself.

My great friend J. B. Hixson’s ministry has produced a left-behind package I wish you to check out. Please go to the following, and let’s get these Rapture Kits into the hands of as many people and venues as possible.

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Author’s note: This commentary was first presented more than a decade and a half ago. Today we have witnessed the fruition of the wickedness radical Islam has perpetrated. America now suffers from increasing invasiveness of this satanic horde.

The Rapture of the Church will Instantaneously bring all of evil’s terror to those left behind when all believers in Jesus Christ leave planet Earth. We must, therefore, witness to the saving message of Christ as never before while we now sense that moment of Rapture approaching.

The Rapture Paradox

A woman from the Netherlands who is a frequent visitor to www.raptureready.com proposed we address a troubling thought she lives with as a Christian. It is a paradox I believe many Christians who look for Christ to come for believers in the Rapture have considered, at least to some extent.

The writer sent an article about the growing Islamic population in Europe and the threat Islam represents not only to Israel, but to the rest of the world that is not Islamic. She recognizes that Israel being at the center of world controversy indicates the lateness of the hour, prophetically speaking. She puts it this way in her email:

Every time I see these articles, I am on one hand horrified at the treatment of the Jewish people but on the other hand full of anticipation as I know that with each event that pushes the Jewish people back to their homeland of Israel, the closer the rapture is for Christians. I do feel badly that I am excited for the rapture though as I know what that means for those that will be left behind… Should we be as excited as I am to know that we can (I believe “will”) be raptured any second? I know this gives me an urgency to share the gospel with friends and neighbors, but I still always feel guilty for the anticipation and excitement I get when I see the current events played out daily.

This dichotomy within the believer’s thinking is, I believe, not unusual for those who truly look for Christ’s any-moment call as prophesied by Paul the apostle:

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17)

Christians who believe the pre-Tribulation Rapture is truth from God’s Word, yearn—without need to apologize—for the blessed hope that is found in Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13). At the same time, they know that when that call from their Lord comes, those left behind will soon endure a time of horror, which the Lord Himself foretold:

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

Those left behind will, the Christian knows, include perhaps close friends and beloved family members. So, the paradox of wanting the Rapture to take place, and at the same time dreading it for those who will stay on this planet that will endure God’s judgment and wrath is, to some, troubling.

The article this writer sent with her email encapsulates just a small part of the building evil that the Lord of heaven will judge with His righteous wrath. The article points to the satanic rage represented within Islam, the number-one Israel-hating entity on the planet. Hatred for Israel and the desire of the international community to force the Jewish state to divide the tiny portion of its God-given land in order to come up with a formula for peace with its Islamic neighbors will lead to Armageddon, God’s Word says:

For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. (Joel 3:2)

The article the emailer sent contained a speech by Geert Wilders, a Dutch member of Parliament for the Netherlands. He synopsized with stunning description how Israel’s Islamic enemy is systematically infecting Europe, thus threatening world stability—or what little of it that remains.

Wilders, who is chairman of the Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, spoke at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem. He announced that Europe is in dire straits as it undergoes Islamization. America and the world, he warned, face the same fate as Europe if the threat isn’t confronted and defeated everywhere it exists.

Wilders said that entire city sections throughout Europe are taken over by Islamics one street at a time. Local governments and police forces are often so intimidated that they dare not go into those areas to govern. Women, treated no better than slaves, according to the speaker, are covered from head to toe in tent-like attire, sharia law takes precedence, and women in sections of the cities not part of the Islamic communities more and more hear hate-filled shouts of “Whore!” from those of the Islamic populations.

Wilders said in his speech:

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run from the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II…. Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything. (http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wilders.asp)

Israel and its being targeted for extinction is the sure sign that the Tribulation is in view. The Rapture of the Church therefore, must be very near to occurring indeed. That being the obvious case, what should the Christian’s foremost priority be? The answer is that it should not be considered a paradox for the believer, but an exhortation, a call to duty.

There is nothing anyone can do to hurry or delay the coming of Christ for His saints in the Rapture. The timing of that great event is out of our hands. Therefore, longing for the blessed hope (Titus 2:13) to rescue us from the terrible time to come (Revelation 3:10) doesn’t conflict with our concern and compassion for those who will be left behind if they don’t come to Christ for salvation. It is time for those who follow Christ to recognize the lateness of the prophetic hour; witness to those around us of the truth that Jesus Christ is the one and only Way to salvation; and live in such a way that we can earn our Lord’s commendation, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is exactly the image Daniel was given to prophesy:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

US warns of limited defence industrial capacity for European orders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Although another coach is thought to have said it first, Vince Lombardi, the famous coach of the Green Bay Packers team that was considered one of the greatest of NFL history was credited with saying the following: “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.”

He pushed his players beyond the breaking point in practice, so they could barely walk to the locker room when finished. When game day came each player was so full of strength from all that punishing training that they were as strong at the end of each game as when the game had begun. The Packers won game after game to become National Football League champions.

In this game we call life, there is one thing that matters ultimately. A person’s only way to winning the victory that ultimately matters involves one thing.

The ultimate victory–the one that lasts for all of eternity—is wrapped up in salvation of the soul of each individual. Jesus said “Ye must be born again” in John 3:7, emphasizing the necessity of spiritual rebirth for entering the kingdom of God.

This “winning” isn’t everything. It is the only thing when it comes to victory over sin and the guarantee of having life eternal in the Kingdom of God where only the “saved” will live forever.

To lose in this battle is to suffer the torments of the lake of fire forever. There are no other alternatives upon this fallen planet. The person either remains lost in sin because of their decision to reject God’s only way, or they accept God’s way and instantaneously become a victor forever and ever!

Allurements of this world constantly pull at us. Even those who have accepted God’s way of being born again into His kingdom suffer from these tugs from the fallen nature we were born into in this physical life with. But the other nature –the born-again nature—keeps centered within God’s eternal family all who have accepted God’s grace gift offer. We can never be removed from the Lamb’s Book of Life–from God’s eternal family.

Here is what the great Apostle Paul tells us:

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8: 38–9)

Jesus said the following:

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. (John 10:27–29)

When one accepts God’s way to winning eternal life, we are kept from losing our souls within the flames of the lake of fire. That horrendous place burns forever with lost souls who rejected God’s only way to salvation.

This brings us to that way God offers all of lost humanity. That way is a person. In Him is the grace gift–the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world who takes away all sin from the individual who accepts Him.

That Lamb Himself said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the father but by me.” (John 14: 6)

All of humanity (each individual ever born) must believe this or be forever lost –separated from God’s eternal family. The word “man” means humankind. It speaks of both men and women –all of humanity. No one comes to the Heavenly Father except those who believe and accept this gospel truth.

We who have believed also have a tremendous responsibility. That is, we are to be Coach Vince Lombardi-like in saying to the lost that salvation isn’t everything (in life’s journey). It is the only thing when it comes to winning victory for the soul and a place in God’s family forever.

The following truth from God’s Holy Word says it all about the individual who is lost and needs a Savior. It tells us as believers what we must do to “coach” the lost toward the Savior.

Unlike in having to work to achieve victory like in Lombardi’s football strategy, we can’t work (do good works in this life) to achieve salvation victory. It is a free gift of grace achieved only by our acceptance of it.

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! (Romans 10: 13-14)

Each of those who are already in God’s Kingdom, saved forever through the shed blood of the Lamb, are preachers of the Gospel. This is the Great Commission given by Jesus Himself.

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28: 18-20)

We are to tell all the world of the lost that it is Jesus Christ who died on the cross at calvary 2,000 years ago. Tell them that He arose on the third day and lives forever to keep all who believe from that horrendous lake of fire where lost souls have died and are burning alive forever.

The magnificent name that is above every name, by which we must be saved, is Jesus Christ.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. (Acts 16: 31)

Every indicator on the prophetic spectrum is at this moment pulsing within the spiritual watchers’ “end-times alert system.” That system is centered in the following words of Christ:

And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. (Mark 13:37)

And Jesus told us what to “watch” for in the following:

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. (Luke 21:28)

Since the signals the Lord gave (see Matthew 24 and other places) are growing stronger with each news cycle—with the nations in the Middle East, particularly Israel, and those involving Russia and Ukraine portending global war—the instant of Rapture might happen literally at any moment.

I say this because Jesus, as we’ve looked at many times, said things will be going along relatively as usual when He breaks again into human affairs (is “revealed,” as the Scripture puts it in Luke 17:28–30). In other words, there will be no world war or other earth-shattering condition at the time of the Rapture the Apostle Paul prophesied in 2 Thessalonians 4:16–18.

Because all signals that point to this late hour of the Age of Grace are registering with those who truly “watch,” as Jesus commanded, we should warn others about things that might happen once all believers leave the planet. At that time, the Holy Spirit will also leave the earth in His position as the restrainer of evil (2 Thessalonians 2:6–7).

So, this commentary is to give some thought to how things are now that show the lateness of the age, and what is likely to come next.

I must thank here Keith, a frequent emailer who sent his well-studied thoughts about what is now taking place and will likely transpire from the Rapture of the Church forward. Although I would somewhat more temper my own thinking regarding what that future holds, Keith is pretty well on the mark. Here is his scenario as he wrote it, with some slight editing.

Israel and America are the MOST HATED NATIONS at the UN. The UN voted heavily against America and Israel. They hate Israel because the Jews are God’s chosen people that are the proof of His existence. The world hates God. They also hate America because they think it is a CHRISTIAN NATION even though America is no longer Christian. America still has a Christian culture but most are not saved. The world community hates Christ. It is because they hate both branches (Jews and Christians) of God’s chosen people that they hate both Israel and America.

Most of the world’s nations are ruled by leftists and socialists. Only a few countries have conservative leaders. Those are Israel, America, Argentina, and a few other Latin American countries, and a few Eastern European countries (once under Russian dominion in the Cold War; they know the dangers of socialism). But almost all Western European countries, including Britain, are ruled by socialists. They really hate Trump and Netanyahu for resisting their globalist agenda. The main reason America resists the globalists is because of the large Christian population that keeps the pressure on Trump to resist the globalists.

Once God takes America’s Christian population out at the Rapture, the political balance will immediately be flipped. America will suffer the biggest population bite, and will probably lose anywhere from 10% to 25% of its population to the Rapture. Some members of Congress, including House Speaker Mike and other Republicans that are saved will evacuate in the Rapture. Ted Cruz will also evacuate. Both the House and the Senate will lose enough members to flip both the House and the Senate to Democrat. I think Trump (most likely unsaved) will probably be left behind. Since all Democrats in Congress are leftists, they will most all be left behind. That leaves them in control. Donald Trump probably will face immediate impeachment unless he caves to the left after the Rapture. There will be immediate martial law after Rapture. At that time, America’s national debt of $40 trillion will suddenly explode violently. America can’t pay the debt. So the nations of the world will likely INVADE America to SEIZE THE ASSETS from the American people to COLLECT THE DEBT which we cannot pay.

I think the SUDDEN DESTRUCTION that happens will probably be NUCLEAR WAR immediately following the Rapture—where Russia nukes our big liberal cities, which happen to contain the highest concentration of sin (homosexuals, crime, vices, corruption). The world can finally get it revenge on America after Rapture. (Keith, a frequent emailer, who is a dedicated student of Bible prophecy)

As I say, this is my emailer friend’s scenario, based upon his consistent and ongoing observation of news, and with a good knowledge of eschatology from a biblical perspective. I can’t say I agree totally—not that I disagree with things he believes that might happen, but somewhat with specific order of things that will occur, et cetera. For example, his is based upon the Rapture occurring before the Trump administration is completed. (I won’t say the Rapture will happen within the next two years, although I certainly anticipate it could occur before that time.)     

When Christ calls all believers from this planet, there is no way any of us can fully imagine the ramifications. Jesus Himself said it will bleed into the worst time of all human history.

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

The Rapture of all believers from the earth will not be a mere historical incident—if it indeed is scheduled prophetically, as many Christians question or doubt, even those in pastorates around the nation. Be assured by God’s Holy Word: It will happen, and it will be devastating to all left behind, beyond the horrors described above, or even by scenarios presented in my friends Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins’ Left Behind novels about that coming time of judgment and wrath from Heaven.

As mentioned constantly in my articles and books, every child below the age of accountability will instantaneously be in Christ’s holy presence when He makes that shout: “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1). Just try to imagine the panic and agony that will cause.

If you are among those left behind on earth, you will wish with all that’s within your terrified mind—when the great disappearance takes place—that you had done the following, which God’s Word implores you to do before that event:

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)

We just observed the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11/01, one of America’s darkest days. We who were alive then watched that Tuesday morning while Islamist terrorists flew commercial jetliners into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City and into the Pentagon in Washington, DC.

Well, I didn’t actually “see” this happen because retinitis pigmentosa had already taken my eyesight by as early as 1994. But I could “see” it unfold within my inner sight, because by age fifty-one my cerebral facilities had stored all the sights involved in that horrific attack. I could visualize all that happened in rapid succession: the huge planes as they, loaded with passengers, flew into those 110-story-tall Twin Towers.

I then “saw,” in my mind’s eye, along with you, those burning edifices. I envisioned each building’s fall, with a tremendous rumble, into a fiery crash that climaxed with the unbelievable debris cloud that exploded as the buildings’ collapsing floors hit the bottom of their foundations.

I can think of no event more filled with hatred than that murderous attack in the name of Allah by the terrorists that day. Yet we were told Islam is a religion of love. Even the president of the United States in office on that day told us we must remember that Islam is a “religion of peace.”

My great friend Dave Hunt once wrote a book on Calvinism called What Kind of Love Is This? I think the same can be asked about Islam: What kind of love is this?

The one who seeks only to steal, kill, and destroy is certainly doing the hellish job he assigned himself when iniquity entered him and he first determined to usurp the throne of God with his “I wills” of Isaiah 14:14. At this late hour of the Church Age (Age of Grace), we see Lucifer’s campaign of filling the minds of the fallen (those who refuse to accept Christ as Savior and Lord) with the absence of love. Instead, we witness in every direction the dark, destructive throes of hatred. And that hatred doesn’t always come in the form of the murders of thousands in attacks such as those on 9/11. As a matter of fact, the attacks are much subtler from the satanic mindset spawned by Lucifer. The attacks involve the murder of not mere thousands, but into the millions.

These subtler but much more effective murderous activities engendered by Satan and eagerly embraced by those of equally fallen mindset are scarcely noticed by much of the world, or by US and world mainstream news media. There is no date of remembrance to honor the victims of these murderous assaults on humanity—the humanity Satan stalks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8).

It is as if the luciferian forces have been able to turn off the most basic light within the part of humanity’s conceptual level of functioning—the part that has love at its center. Certainly, the eros love light has not been extinguished. Satan has used this to make that intellectual level of functioning much greater in intensity. From that soul-blinding light has come every sort of wicked sexual and lustful thought and action.

But within the most God-centered light of love placed into humanity’s spiritual level of functioning, agape love, the rheostat is being turned down.

There is a date of remembrance honored by those who have had this spiritual light turned down to near extinguishment, in my view. It is the date of one of Satan’s greatest attacks, one that has killed millions upon millions, and continues to do so.

Roe v. Wade was first settled on January 22, 1973, when the US Supreme Court issued its landmark decision legalizing abortion nationwide.

The recent death of a woman who was recognized perhaps as the most prominent intellectual champion for abortion—the face of the feminist movement—is in the news.

Gloria Steinem, a prominent feminist and massive abortion advocate, recently died at the age of 92. As one pro-life news organization reporting on her death put it, “Steinem was predeceased by the more than 60 million unborn children whose sacrifice she believed to be essential for a free and feminist society.” What a tragic, but accurate, eulogy for a woman who chose wickedness and to use her life to promote violence against the most vulnerable group of human beings: the unborn. I would not want to be her standing before our Creator God giving account of her life!

The legacy of death that Steinem helped to create will, sadly, continue even though she is gone. One example of this culture of death occurred recently at the Kentucky State Fair, which took place in Louisville, Kentucky—about an hour and a half from us at AiG. During the fair, an abortion nonprofit called Mayday Health rented a plane to fly a banner overhead that said, “Abortion Pills by Mail,” and included a URL for more information…

It should be no surprise that people who believe it is a woman’s right to murder her own child don’t actually care about the health and safety of women either. Though they call it “health care,” their goal is death: the death of a baby, as convenient as possible. The risk to the mother simply gets in the way, so they downplay that real, demonstrable risk, calling it “a flood of misinformation.” They are putting women in harm’s way and ending the lives of babies made in the image of God. It’s evil. (Culture of Death: Organization Flies Banner Above the Kentucky State Fair Advertising the Mailing of Illegal Abortion Drugs, Ken Ham, RR News September 15, 2026)

That the light of true love placed within humanity is gleaming less effulgently in these end times should not surprise. Jesus Himself had something to say about these very days, I believe God’s Word informs.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. (Matthew 24:12)

Our Lord’s words, of course, never fail, because He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. His prophecy telling of the diminishing of love within fallen humanity as the end of the age approaches frames all the evil and wickedness we have been witnessing for decades. And now we stand on the edge of the Tribulation era—prophecy about which Jesus gave the prophet John in the Revelation.

The Lord didn’t stop there, thankfully. He said further:

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. (Matthew 24:13–14)

Seminaries teach in many of those institutions that the words of this prophecy are exclusively for Tribulation saints—or, even more specifically, only for Jews of the Tribulation era.

However, I believe these words at the same time speak to us today. We who will “endure unto the end” of this age will be saved, both in the sense of our eternal souls and in terms of being saved from (kept out of) the wrath to come in the Tribulation (Revelation 3:10).

And, with His words—“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come,” the Lord is exhorting believers to carry out His Great Commission (Matthew 28:18–20).

That Great Commission we are to preach to the whole world contains the truth of our Savior, who is the Light of the World. Jesus said the following:

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. (John 8:12)

And God’s love for humanity that can never be extinguished is wrapped up in the greatest of all gospel truth told by the Lord Jesus:

That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:15–16)

Earthly love is being diminished by the day, as witnessed by hourly news feeds. But the love of God is unextinguishable.

This global sphere called planet earth has always had evil and wickedness running wild upon its surface—even beneath its surface. All we have to do is glance at the record of war and the many millions of deaths from those wars to see that the biblical record of satanic influence has run through the human bloodstream since the time of humanity’s rebellion in Eden.

But there seems now, to the spiritually sensitive, a portal that’s been opened in some way through which evil is pouring in increasing volume.

As I’ve pointed out on numerous occasions, this attack seems directed particularly toward the most helpless—the children in the wombs of their mothers. Abortion is the attack’s true name under the false excuse of “the right of choice.”

And the attack continues through ascending ages of the young. These are fed the most anti-God notions through the demonically brilliant scheme of Satan himself. I refer to the devices that carry the lies directly from that infernal realm that seeks to change the order of God’s creation in every way possible.

Homosexuality is normalized; trans lies of every sort infuse young minds—and even minds of the not so young with the insane thought that there are many genders and that the individual, not the God of Heaven, has the right to determine whatever biological sex one wishes to be. One Supreme Court justice nominee, now a justice on that high court, publicly stated she couldn’t define what is a woman.

Now the evil flowing through that portal is transitioning into a more overt assault against all things godly. But the assault is even more precisely focused on the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

To begin, we consider the church burnings that are proliferating across America. One such report follows of direct assault on Christ:

Another week, another historic church reduced to smoke, rubble. The former Saint Agnes Church on Martha Avenue in Toledo, Ohio went up early Saturday morning. The 116-year-old landmark’s steeple came down. The roof burned out. Nearby homes were evacuated. Once again the cause is listed as currently unknown…

In America churches are burned, while mosques are not…

Investigators in Toledo have not named a suspect, a motive, or even a cause. Vacant churches do burn by accident. They also burn because someone wants them gone. The public is asked, week after week, to accept “unknown” as the last word while the buildings keep falling.

In the U.S. hostility against churches has jumped to hundreds of incidents a year – vandalism, arson or fires of uncertain origin, gun incidents, bomb threats. (“Oh Look, Yet Another Church Up In Flames,” ZeroHedge, September 8, 2026)

And the attack on Christ directly isn’t limited to the US. The following further makes clear the portal’s opening to issue in satanic assault.

A British lawmaker is sounding the alarm over what he calls “two-tier justice” against Christians in the United Kingdom, telling Fox News Digital it is now “open season” to discriminate against believers while accusing authorities of allowing extremist Islamist preachers to operate as Christian pastors face harassment and arrest.

Lord Jackson of Peterborough, vice chair of a parliamentary group focused on religious freedom, made the charge while discussing Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen, a Christian politician whose statements about marriage and sexuality have put her at the center of a years-long European battle over religious expression and free speech.

“It does say a lot about the concerns that many of us have about attacks on Christians, and two-tier justice as between Christians and other faiths, and the fact that Christians, are, it’s open season to discriminate against Christians in the United Kingdom now, and that’s a very regrettable position,” Jackson told Fox News Digital in an interview. (“UK Lawmaker Claims ‘Open season’ to Discriminate against Christians,” Fox News, September 7, 2026)

And the most pronounced proof that a demonic portal is opened comes from experience reported by my longtime friend whose name you will recognize.

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, who burst onto the Christian publishing scene with his book, The Harbinger, many years ago, reported an up-close-and-personal attack that made the worldwide news recently. The news world, for some reason, was quite tardy in finally giving a full report. Media had only said there was an incident where an unruly, even crazed, passenger had to be subdued by being duck taped to his seat in the plane during an American Airlines flight from Dallas to New Jersey.

Jonathan has issued a video in which he says the passenger who attacked him was the man sitting next to him in that flight, which was diverted to an airport en route to New Jersey. He gives in vivid detail the demonic nature of the assault and the crazed man who was removed when the plane was diverted to a closer airport.

Jonathan has just authored yet another book that is receiving major notice. This one is about The Altar of Pergamon, known as the throne of Satan.

The man in the seat next to Rabbi Cahn, who is a Messianic Jew, was friendly, but morphed into one apparently demonically possessed when he saw the book cover on Jonathan’s laptop. The man attacked Jonathan, screamed anti-Semitic pejoratives, and cursed the name of Jesus in a rage of blasphemy. Here is the link to that YouTube video Jonathan released very recently: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJW526c-wE&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1VUw%3D%3D

Mainstream media delayed giving the full story to make sure of details and their accuracy, I presume. And they would never bring in the demonic aspects of the matter, we can be assured. At any rate, it is a most telling story of where we are on God’s prophetic timeline, and where things are quickly moving toward Daniel’s seventieth week (the Tribulation). The portal from the abyss into this fallen world is opening!

This means Jesus is about to step onto the clouds of Glory and make that shout: “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1)

Russian writer Leo Tolstoy wrote the massive fiction titled War and Peace, considered one of the greatest of all love stories. It portrays how protagonists Natasha, Prince Andrei, and others suffered through the great Napoleonic Wars as the famed emperor attacked the Russian motherland. In a sense, Tolstoy seemed to explain in microcosm life on a planet that is in a constant state of war, but always seeking peace.

The Word of God tells us that this is the condition of fallen humanity since Eden. We cry “peace, peace, when there is no peace” (Jeremiah 6:14 and Jeremiah 8:11, with a similar thought also found in Ezekiel 13:16 and Micah 3:5).

That we are still in the throes of war that destroys earthly peace is proven hourly in our news feeds. Ironically, one appropriate example involves the writer of War and Peace in an indirect way.

Pyotr Tolstoy, deputy chairman of the State Duma and great-great-grandson of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, has called for massed bombing of Ukrainian cities to break the resistance of the people living in them and force a surrender, the news outlet 24 Kanal reported.

Russia denies striking civilians and claims after each attack that it hit military targets, even as its missiles land on homes, hospitals, power plants, and food depots. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said Tolstoy’s words should be grounds for an International Criminal Court arrest warrant, calling them a Russian official’s demand for war crimes.

What Tolstoy has urged in public, Russian forces have done for more than 12 years while denying it.

The presenter proposed emptying the cities.

On the state talk show Vremya Pokazhet, which Tolstoy hosts, he was reminded that more than 20 million people live in Ukraine and asked what would become of them if the country were turned to scorched earth. He proposed warning residents a day before strikes so they could flee their homes.

“You think we are calling for cruelty? We are calling for demoralizing the population so thoroughly that it comes out to meet our troops with its little paws up,” Tolstoy said.

Then he named the reason.

In the end, Tolstoy described what Ukraine means for Russia’s plans.

“[Ukraine] is the kind of territory that will allow us to export our energy resources to Europe by the short route,” he said. (“A senior Russian official said out loud what Russia’s missiles do every night,” 24 Kanal,  RR News August 29, 2026)

It becomes more obvious with each passing day that Russia is building toward war. Whether such war can be contained to Putin’s need to conquer Ukraine is questionable. Because he is losing the ability to act as the strong-man leader in not having yet defeated the smaller foe, the question is: Might the thought to instigate a wider war in order to prove himself be the “evil thought” Ezekiel the prophet referred to in the Gog-Magog prophecy?

War is inevitable, and peace is not possible in this post-Eden fallen world. James the apostle says the following about this matter.

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

The fallen nature of humans precludes asking the God of Heaven for anything because they want what is in their own will, not what is in God’s will. And when they do ask, they show that they aren’t serious, or that they don’t believe in the God of Heaven—because they omit the Holy Name of the only Person to whom God the Father will respond in answering prayer.

An example of this, I believe, is a long, eloquent, prayer read by President Franklin Roosevelt as D Day approached. Like I say, his prayer was long, eloquent, and given with great oratorical skill. Its egregious flaw was that he ended with only the word “Amen.”—no mention of Jesus Christ whatsoever. To any Christian who truly knows about prayer, this was a serious omission on Roosevelt’s part. Thankfully, God did see to it that the assaulting forces prevailed on that day, but not, I’m convinced, because of Roosevelt’s prayer on that occasion.

Jesus instructed the following:

And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. (John 14:13)

When we hear public officials pray, even if they indicate that it’s a Christian prayer, they seldom end with the name of Jesus, as Jesus instructs. They therefore show that they refuse to choose to serve and obey Jesus or God the Father. They, again, want to do what is right in their own eyes, or their own will. And it is a collective will that serves Satan, not God, in this fallen, worldly system of governance.

It is an all-important matter to consider, as Joshua commanded when issuing Heaven’s instructions to God’s chosen people of Israel:

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. (Joshua 24:15)

Within such obedience as Joshua upheld is the only peace to be found. For it is the peace found only belief in the Lord Jesus Christ, who promised the following to those who serve Him:

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14: 27)

So we must choose this day whom we will serve.

Again, if you don’t know how to begin serving, here is how:

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)

As I began writing this, Dolly Parton had just died. According to one of her nephews who headed her security for years, Dolly was a believer in Jesus Christ. She was at the moment of her death “resting in the arms of Jesus,” the nephew said. We can certainly hope that is true, of course. But that’s between her and God, as believers know.

Neither fame, celebrity, riches, nor anything else of this world can assure salvation. There is but one way to salvation and eternity with God. Jesus explained that He is that Way, as recorded in John 14:6):

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 

The famed singer/songwriter/actress apparently died after a short struggle with cancer of some sort, according to news reports. This sparked another report that interested me. It was a list they gave from the Center for Disease Control.

The list gave the numbers of the leading causes of death causes for the year 2025, I think. They were the following (cdc.gov, Faststats Leading Causes of Death-Centers.)

Top 10 Leading Causes of Death

1. Heart disease
2. Cancer (malignant neoplasms)
3. Accidents (unintentional injuries, including drug overdoses and motor vehicle crashes)
4. Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases)
5. Chronic lower respiratory diseases
6. Alzheimer’s disease
7. Diabetes
8. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis (kidney disease)
9. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
10. Suicide.

The top three numbers of deaths in the US were:

• Heart disease: 683,491
• Cancer: 619,876
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 197,449

These are the statistics given by our government about the causes of death for one year. The Center for Disease Control keeps as careful records as possible. They (government officials) desire to do so in order to prevent future deaths from these dreaded causes as much as possible.

They cannot prevent these deaths. Death is inevitable. Each and every one of us alive at this moment will die—except, of course, if and when the Rapture occurs in our lifetimes.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment… (Hebrews 9:27)  

So there is great concern by American government officials and politicians for these statistics. Any significant increase somehow, they believe, will reflect badly on their ability to reduce or maintain the status quo about these numbers and the causes of the numbers. To fail in at least maintaining the status quo might mean loss of power and control in the political/governmental world.

But God’s heavenly accounting system is far different, we must consider. And the one way it is Infinitely different is that there is a statistic left out of the US and other governmental accountings.

All the statistics listed for last year are skewed by the deaths of 1.1 million not accounted for by the CDC. That is the number of babies aborted last year, if I am hearing the correct statistic. Some 1.1 million human beings are murdered in the wombs of their mothers –mostly for the cause of choice, as reported.

Staggeringly, seventy-three million children were killed in such a way worldwide in the year just past.

Heaven’s accounting system of such yearly deaths must surely ring loudly in the throne room while those deaths register.

What a disheartening matter it is to hear and consider such statistics. Defenseless little ones, innocent of any sin overtly committed, executed, in almost every case, for the sake of convenience.

However, there is tremendous truth that can salve the understanding of those who abhor this murderous tendency of humankind to destroy their own children for convenience of choice.

Each and every one of these little ones so killed in the abortion evil are instantaneously in the presence of God and will enjoy the blessings of eternal life.

We understand this because of God’ very character, which we have looked at a number of times in considering children and the Rapture.

The most dramatic case to prove that babies go to be with the Lord upon death is, of course, the child produced from David’s illicit affair with Bathsheba. David said that the baby couldn’t come to him, but that he, David, would go to the baby one day upon death.

Every baby that dies, even those that are but fetuses, even those just conceived, will go to be with the Lord if they die in the womb or before the age of accountability –the age or cognitive level achieved to be able to decide to accept or reject God’s offer of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Now that is a reason to praise such an accounting system, as opposed to our governmental accounting systems that completely ignore the deaths of these innocent little ones.

And, again, I can’t mention the matter of abortion without offering this comfort for those who have aborted a child. There is no sin that is unforgivable but that of unbelief. That is refusing to accept Christ for forgiveness.

God offers His grace—His forgiveness—even for the terrible sin of abortion.

Again, I want to emphasize that this is a most significant matter in our consideration of what we are charged with by Heaven to accomplish through our website Raptureready.com.

Although even some among conservative seminaries who teach the pre-Trib Rapture say I’m wrong, I believe that every baby, every child below that age of accountability, will go to Christ when He calls the Church to Himself. I believe with all that is within my spiritual understanding that God is going to make a statement that no one can miss when that shout, “Come up here!” (Revelation 4: 1), is made by Jesus. The world will suddenly be absent of all babies and small children—and all others who never came to the cognitive ability to make a decision for Christ. The God of Heaven will at that moment let this rebellious world know exactly what He thinks of the sin of abortion, and exactly when life begins.

He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. (Revelation 22: 20)