Author’s note: Again, this series was first posted in 2007. The dated news, however, reminds that things of prophetic import are becoming ever more swiftly into view in 2026.

The rebelliousness of the creature called man is, in my view, manifest blatantly for the student of God’s truth to discern in a particular news story that occurred this past week. The media and politically correct crowd’s uproar over the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff making the comment—when asked his personal opinion—that he thought members of the same sex in the military who engage in sex with each other are committing immoral acts was quite telling. The voracious feeding frenzy to start the drumbeat for having Gen. Peter Pace removed from his position in the Pentagon has fueled new vitriolic invective against those who hold to such “unenlightened” prejudices.

God, incidentally, is obviously included in our ranks. His Word, the Bible—the instruction manual for the creature, mankind, whom he made from the dirt upon which we stand—says about homosexuality:

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was [fitting]. (Romans 1:26–27).

The Creator’s Word against homosexuality is even more powerful in an Old Testament prescription for those who engage in that activity. (If it makes you angry, get mad at God, not me. I don’t make the rules. He does.)

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them. (Leviticus 20:13).

I know what will be one of the objections: This was for the Israelites, not today’s people. Really? Well, in giving the prescription for living, God hasn’t changed for any people at any time. Jesus, we have established, is Creator of all things, and by His power holds all things together. This, God’s Word says about the Lord of all creation:

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. (Hebrews 13:8).

The problem is, as we’ve seen this week with this one issue, fallen mankind will not have the God of Heaven rule on Planet Earth. Since the Fall, man has determined to do what is right in his own eyes. This is an attitude for catastrophe. Human government is fatally flawed. These have tried to create a utopian earth for millennia. All efforts to do it their way—apart from God—have met with abject failure.

The earliest attempt of human government, which followed the Flood of Noah’s antediluvian era, was Nimrod’s attempt to build the tower to Heaven (read Genesis chapter 11). The Lord knew this would end in disaster for mankind, so He came down and separated the one-world builders by giving multiple languages, thus driving them to diverse places around the globe. But man has spent the millennia since that time circumventing God’s intervention. The one-world drive is again being pursued in a concerted effort by the powers elite. When things reach a certain point of depravity, God always has intervened. A prime example was when He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. (Read Genesis, chapter 19, to learn about both the depravity and the Lord’s intervention.) Which gets us to the thing about end-of-days scenarios I would like to explore.

Jesus Himself set the prophetic stage for a future time when He will again intervene—catastrophically—into depraved man’s playhouse of lasciviousness. He said:

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. (Luke 17:28–29)

This is a description of a society, a culture, a generation going forward with business as usual. Jesus prophesied that it would be just like this, when judgment from Heaven would fall, at the time of His end-of-days intervention. It is not, however, a description of the Tribulation era when Jesus comes physically to earth, as foretold in Revelation 19:11. At that time, as many as two-thirds of the earth’s population will have died in the apocalyptic judgments. It will not be business as usual, like the Lord describes here. The things that transpire here, though not as disastrous as things will get later in man’s last grasp to rule himself, will still be calamitous. And the possible scenarios presented are mesmerizing. Let us look at my postulations, based upon the pre-Trib view of the Rapture, which, of course, we at Rapture Ready are convinced is the correct view, from God’s perspective.

Jesus’ description of Lot’s being removed from that condemned city is almost certainly a picture of the Rapture of the only good God sees on this earth—born-again Christians—the Church Jesus began building, and which was born at Pentecost (in Acts, Ccapter 2). Lot, Abraham’s nephew, although not a perfect example of living a godly life, was nonetheless considered a “just” man in God’s eyes. That is, the Lord saw Lot as righteous, a believer–one who accepted God’s governance over his life, accepted God’s salvation plan. Lot and his family lived in a society that was, well, much like ours. It was wicked to its black core. Incidentally, homosexuality had, in that society, become accepted as—even expected to be—part of life in Sodom.

God removed Lot and His wrath began to fall upon that wicked, ungovernable people. Jesus indicated that this is exactly what will happen near the time of His coming again. It will happen at the Rapture—at least seven years before He comes back and touches down on the Mount of Olives. The first part of God’s wrath, I’m convinced, will be His removal from the consciences of earth-dwellers. The people left behind will have rejected God’s governance.

Now, raptured saints will perhaps, from the balcony of Heaven, be given a God’s-eye view of whether the rebels’ claim that they don’t need God to govern them is true.

Millions will vanish in a millisecond—an atomos of time—the prophecy tells us. This nation, the United States of America, which had at the same time more gospel light than any other nation of history and access to more filth and depravity than even ancient Rome at its decadent, orgiastic worst, will experience an implosion that, upon its contemplation, staggers the imagination.

We will look at my scenarios, in this regard, next week.

Again, I state that the end-of-days scenarios I lay out in this essay are speculation based upon my years of prayer, study, observations, and thought. I’m sure there are many who view things to come in a much different way, even among those of us who hold to the premillennial, pre-Tribulation view. So, I present this for your consideration as a likely possibility, not as set in biblical stone.

First, let’s look at the way the world is configured.

The United States of America is the world’s lone superpower. Whether looking at military, economic, societal, technological, or whatever category we want to look at, America stands alone at the top of the nation-heap. I use the word “heap” because this world is built upon garbage—filth from the heart and mind of its father, the devil. Boy! I know how cynical that seems. But God says no one is good but One: “And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou e good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God” (Mark 10:18). 

Since sin entered the world, humanity has been fallen. Humankind must have redemption found only in God, the Son. People must be born again or they cannot even see the kingdom of God: “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).

Jesus’ words here have dual meaning to me: 1) those who refuse Christ by rejecting their need for a new, spiritual birth will not go to Heaven upon death; and 2) they cannot even understand Heaven and things of God without the new birth into God’s family. I base the latter assessment upon the following words of the Apostle Paul: “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14).

This is going to sound even more off-putting, but it is true, nonetheless. Christians are the only “good” in this downward-spiraling world. Now, am I saying that I, in my fleshly efforts, am better than the one who does not claim Christ as Savior and Lord? No, absolutely not! I must say that, in one regard, I am like Paul—not his lovely Christian side, rather the other. Paul said: “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh), dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not” (Romans 7:18).

Only through Christ is anyone viewed as “good” in God’s sight. Only through Jesus does a person become fit to inherit an eternal home in Heaven.

All humanly born and humanly devised matters are due for God’s judgment and for eternity apart from God, because He cannot abide sin. Sin must be dealt with, and Jesus is the way sin is forever eradicated.

When it comes to the future, all hinges upon the person and presence of Jesus Christ as Redeemer.

So, why all that to get to the speculation of what will happen from here to eternity? Because Christians are the key in my stream-of-consciousness, unfolding scenarios for the end of days. God’s final wrath and judgment will not begin falling until the only good there is in this world is removed. This truth is found in the words of the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians: “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).

When Christians are removed in the Rapture (read 1 Corinthians 15:51–55 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18), the things on earth will change dramatically. We get a prophetic glimpse of the removal of Christians from the planet in Paul’s additional words to the Thessalonians: “And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way” (2 Thessalonians 2:6–7).

The word “he” in verse 7 refers to God the Holy Spirit removing from His office as He interacted with humankind during the Age of Grace (Church Age–which is this present dispensation). The Holy Spirit, resident in the Church during this dispensation, will, in the moment of Rapture, no longer work in the same way as now. He will interact with humans much as He did during the time before the Church was born at Pentecost (Acts, chapter 2). (I know some believe the Church was born on the shores of Galilee earlier, when Christ called forth the first disciples. I disagree.)

The Holy Spirit living within Christians is the only “good” to be found in people. The Rapture will take that “good” to be with Jesus Christ for eternity.

All who are “born again” (see John 3:3) will go to their heavenly homes (dwelling places) Jesus has been preparing for them since He ascended to the right hand of God the Father (read John 14:1–3). These will include everyone–dead and living—who has accepted Christ for salvation of their souls. No good people will be left on the planet–that is, none that are “good” in God’s holy view.

With the Holy Spirit no longer acting to influence the consciences of humans in ways as powerful as He does at present, human actions and reactions will be exponentially accelerated for the worse. We will begin to explore likely scenarios for the period immediately following the Rapture in next week’s commentary.

Author’s note: I’m beginning today, with the following http://www.terryjamesprophecyline.com article, a series written and published in 2007. The series, posted first on our http://www.raptureready.com website (the prophecy blog didn’t exist back then) consists of twelve articles, and, of course, is somewhat dated regarding issues and events. For example, it was written before the big housing bubble burst and economic downturn of 2008. But I believe it is what the Lord wants presented again at this time.

End-of-Days Scenarios

The time has arrived, I believe, to put together a postulation introspective on biblical things to come, in scenario fashion—i.e., to offer, in a stream-of-consciousness way, based upon trends in today’s news, a possible course the world might take while we trudge through the end of days toward Armageddon and Christ’s Second Advent.

As always, when entertaining such thoughts in a public forum, I must state up front that these are nothing more or less than speculations on my part. However, they are undertaken with considerable years of study, writing, and, most of all, praying about matters foretold by Jesus and the Old and New Testament prophets. Although I have not received a “word of knowledge” or been given a vision or dream in the Old or New Testament sense, I do believe my thoughts are given here with Holy Spirit-directed thought and insight.

So, where do we begin? Well, maybe at the beginning, the moment when linear time seems to have been introduced for this marvelous story of God and man to begin its run through history. I say it is good to begin at that point, because we have come to the point that the very One who created time for humankind is now under satanic attack as a liar and/or a lunatic. Jesus, you see, is the Creator of this thing called “time,” of the beings called “human,” and of all that is. The Scriptures say:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)

Clear enough, right? God, not evolution or any other method born of human sophistry, brought this world into existence.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1–4)

About Jesus, the Apostle Paul wrote:

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Colossians 1:16–17)

Jesus Himself said:

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)

The Bible says Jesus Christ is God, Himself. He said He and His Father are one—that is, they’re the same. When the pious Jewish religious leaders asked Him if He was God, Jesus said:

Before Abraham was, I am. (John 8:58)

This refers to His being the God of His people of His promises—the Israelites, as seen in Exodus 3:6.

The world of entertainment, e.g., The DaVinci Code fiction, has been saying Jesus was a mere man who faked His crucifixion, living on to father a child with Mary Magdalene. Entertainment, under pseudo-archaeological auspices, is now telling us they have found the ossuaries and even the DNA of Jesus’ relatives, and possibly of Jesus Himself in a tomb near Jerusalem. Jesus addressed this matter in part when He said during His Olivet Discourse:

Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Matthew 24:25–27)

That passage is, I realize, Jesus’ warning about false Christ’s and false prophets who will deceive all but God’s elect during the Tribulation era. Just like in all the other end-times signals of significance in view today, however, the lying—saying Jesus is not the soon-returning God of Heaven—is already underway for setting up prophetic fulfillment.

The prominently observable fact that the deity of Jesus is under attack is, in other words, a profound signal that we are bumping up against the very end of this Age of Grace. The attack is scheduled to become even more hateful as we degenerate toward the end of days.

Having laid the groundwork for showing that Jesus Christ’s deity and God’s veracity are under attack from our great enemy, the devil, and his supernatural and human minions, we’ll next examine the many developments and what they mean for the future. Next week, we will begin looking at end-of-days matters that are in our daily, even hourly, news—overlaid by God’s always 100 percent-accurate Word, the Bible.

This planet is experiencing invasion which, according to God’s prophetic Word, will be a repeat of a past invasion (Luke 17:26–30).

The world changed drastically in the twentieth century. The most powerful time of change came in mid-century, with World War II and the Jewish Holocaust, accompanied by the explosion of the first atomic bomb, and that horrific weapon’s first use on Hiroshima, then Nagasaki, Japan. There swiftly followed the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls at Qumran and the birth of modern Israel, coinciding with the formation of the United Nations.

Technology, developments that had moved at a snail’s pace throughout history until the late nineteenth century, seemed to ignite in rocket-like fashion.

Inventions burst forth from the time of the steam engine to the telegraph, electric power, then to powered flight…and, well, you know the rest.

President John F. Kennedy, in his January 20, 1961, inaugural address, summarized the position that generation held on history’s timeline: “Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”

The very year the president was assassinated, America’s leaders chose to gravitate toward the latter option verbalized by Kennedy two years earlier—to begin to “abolish human life.” That year–1963—the Supreme Court elected, without inviting America’s electorate to participate in the decision, to kick God out of public schools. This downward spiral of moving away from the Life-Giver—God—and toward death, eventuated ten years later with Roe v. Wade and the murder of almost 70 million babies in their mothers’ wombs since.

Something profound had happened to this human sphere. When one dissects the strange dichotomy–the fantastic progress in man’s knowledge and technological achievement, and at the same time the geometric progression of violence and degeneration of morality in this nation and the world—a truly empirical conclusion must acknowledge that something eerie is going on. Planet Earth is experiencing dynamic rearrangement that even the most fervent apostle of the faith system called evolution must be hard-pressed to explain.

Jesus and the Old and New Testament prophets, however, are not hard-pressed to explain. This world is becoming as it was in the days of Noah and Lot (read Luke 17:26–30). Planet Earth is experiencing an invasion—not from Mars, the Pleiades, or some other far-distant star system, but from right here, where Earth’s trouble has stemmed since the leader of the invasion first entered man’s sphere of existence. The invasion is interdimensional, not extraterrestrial.

Lucifer, in his first assault on God’s creation called man, first deceived Eve, then convinced Adam to disobey God, with whom Adam and his wife had walked perfectly. From that point, Satan attacked humanity with a vengeance, his minions even intermingling their seed with humankind.

The chief Scripture that both tells of the serpent’s (Satan’s) war against humankind and the fact that God promised that woman’s (Eve’s) seed would ultimately crush the devil’s head, is found here: “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Genesis 3:15).

What I want to look at in this Scripture is the fact that the invaders (Lucifer’s minions, the third of the angels who rebelled in Heaven and were expelled) possess “seed.” They would go on to intermingle their “seed,” with the “seed” of the woman, Scripture tells us:

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. (Genesis 6:4)

We again are given the abominable mingling of the fallen angels’ seed with the seed of human women:

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (Jude 1:6–7)

Just as the Sodomites–the homosexuals of the doomed city of Sodom—committed fornication with “strange flesh” (those of the same sex), the fallen angels, Jude is saying, went after “strange flesh” (those of a different creation–human women).

Jesus said it would be the same as in that antediluvian time when He returns in the Second Coming. The minions of Satan will again be in process of contaminating or corrupting human genetics.

God had to judge that world, killing all except Noah and his seven family members, and animals selected from the earth’s animal populations.

The latter-day invasion is manifested–I’m convinced—through the strange, unexplained UFOs, apparitions, stigmata, and other things reported by even quite credible people. Just watch or read of this in the many media outlets available to understand just how much of these things are going on today.

Additionally, we’ve all heard about the recent group of former military people, pilots, scientists and government officials–now retired–who have come forward to try to get out the message that, indeed, these things are being witnessed. Recent reports of UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) from credible sources make clear that there is an invasion of some dimension likely going on. Mainstream news media and government by and large are still stonewalling efforts to get to the truth about these anomalous matters.

The main point is that this invasion is but one more signal of where we stand on God’s prophetic timeline.

Are there Nephilim–giants, as in the days of the Genesis 6 report–again coming into view? Is there presently luciferian intervention into the very genetic make-up of humankind? I’m of the opinion that the answer is “yes,” at least in that the rulers of the darkness of this world (Ephesians 6:12) are influencing human scientists and others through genetic tampering and other covert projects.

I will speculate a bit here by way of a question or two.

Why is the “son of perdition” declared by Jesus Himself to be lost from the beginning (John 17:12)? Isn’t everyone to have a chance to repent and be saved—to be given their day in court–whether at the bema (judgment seat of Christ) or at the great white throne?

Yet this man of sin–the son of perdition, the Antichrist “Beast” and his sidekick, the False Prophet, are apparently not given their day in court. Both are simply thrown into the lake of fire. They are the first two to be thrown in that eternally burning place of punishment. There will be none other in that place prepared for the devil and his angels until Satan is thrown in that fiery lake at the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ. Then, they will be joined by the billions upon billions of lost souls who are cast in the lake of fire following the great white throne judgment of Revelation 20:11–15.

Here is my speculation, but one based upon a good scriptural foundation, I think.

The beasts described in Revelation chapter 13–both the world leader, who will demand worship, and the False Prophet, who will force people to worship him—might well be without souls, in the sense that human beings have souls. Human souls can be redeemed. Angels cannot be redeemed, once lost–as in the angels who rebelled with Lucifer.

It is prudent to ask if the Antichrist and the False Prophet are the offspring of the angels–are Nephilim, the result of the intermingling of the serpent seed with the seed of human women. Certainly, they will perform great feats as Genesis chapter 6 reports of the angelic/human offspring of the pre-Flood times.

Are Antichrist and the False Prophet to be nephilim?

If I might again interject a brief commercial for Gary Ritter’s and my novel series, The Rapture Dialogues; The Nephilim Imperative; and The Minion Protocols: This area of end-time invasion is what is covered in I believe an informative as well as entertaining way.

I believe you will find the series “fascinating,” as Mr. Spock of Star Trek would say. Although fiction, the series is wrapped in truth from God’s Word—and in Bible prophecy, in particular. These novels may be purchased on Amazon.

However, there is nothing fictional about this invasion of Planet Earth I believe we are experiencing and are about to experience in more dramatic and traumatic ways in this New Year of 2026.

The one invasion, of course, that we who know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord are longing for is the moment He calls from the clouds of Glory. Our “blessed hope” is that our ultimate redemption will happen at any twinkling-of-an-eye moment–the instant of Rapture!

Here is how to instruct everyone we come in contact with to look forward to that blessed invasion from Heaven, rather than the end-times invasion by Satan and his hordes warned about in Revelation chapter 12.

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)  

Pakistan Ministry Mission Appeal from Terry James

To my Rapture Ready and Prophecyline family: I again solicit your support in spreading God’s Word in Pakistan.

Your generosity in past missionary efforts has just been wonderful beyond measure. I again prayerfully ask that you open your spiritual heart in helping fund the distribution of the books I have given to our pastor in Pakistan to use while he preaches and teaches about our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pastor Anil Jasper translated my little book, Prophecy Power: Strength from God to Face Your Future. He has now also translated into the Urdu language my small book, HeavenVision: Glimpses into Glory.

This is the book in which I describe my widow-maker heart attack on Good Friday of April 22, 2011. In this book, I tell of being somewhere in the heavenly sphere each time my heart stopped. The voluminous documentation of that medical emergency shows why my survival was so unusual that the cardiological association gave me the “Cardiological Patient of the Year” award and asked me to speak at their convention.

Of course, at the heart of my testimony is the salvation message that Jesus alone can save the soul from an eternity apart from God the Father.

The first book Pastor Anil translated, then distributed and continues to distribute to the people of his country, Prophecy Power remains a great witness of Christ’s saving power. HeavenVision will now add a second tool that will help Pastor Anil win souls for God’s eternal family.

I have special permission from my publishers to donate these books to this ministry. I receive no compensation whatsoever from their distribution in Pakistan.

Your donations are essential to carry out this all-important mission. I believe your contributions will result in great heavenly rewards some eternal day when we all come before our Lord at the judgment seat of Christ.

We need funding to print and distribute these books beginning this month.

May the Lord bless you mightily for helping in this mission to the people of Pakistan.

Again, I don’t have a way to accept credit cards or Pay Pal-type contributions. I ask that you send a check to the address below.

Please put in the line at the bottom of your check: “For our Pakistani mission.”

Also, please include your email address so I can thank you individually. Being blind now since I was fifty-one, sending out letters is beyond my ability. But sending emails is easily within my capability, and I certainly want to thank each of you.

Please make the check out to my name–Terry James—and send to:

Terry James Prophecyline

P.O. Box 38

Benton, AR 72018           

Thanks, and God’s Blessings.

Terry 

PS—I am thankful and so pleased to announce that we have received a donation offer that will greatly help in this effort to fund printing and distribution of my books in Pakistan.

A most generous brother in Christ has offered up to $7,500 in matching funds for donations we receive.

In other words, for each donation you send, he will match with an equal amount up to $7,500.

This will greatly bless our effort to provide for the printing and distribution of these two books, each  of which has been translated by Pastor Anil Jasper into his Urdu language.

Thanks to each of you who help reach our goal, which we believe will be sufficient to accomplish this missionary effort in our Lord’s service.

All funds received will be used toward reaching the people of Pakistan with truth from God’s Word.

Please pray for the salvation of souls in this effort.

With most all other prophetic signals in view for the coming Tribulation (Daniel’ seventieth week), it’s more than intriguing that one stage-setting ingredient at the center of that horrendous era seems to be out of sync with developments. Or perhaps the incongruity represents the final element about to be entered into the construction of Antichrist’s power base.

The European Union is in what looks to be a weakening—not an increasingly dominant—state of affairs. The following think piece offers some information about the troubles within this developing power base for the Antichrist regime during the Tribulation:

The European Union (“EU”) is facing criticism and calls for reform or abolition, with Elon Musk recently calling for its abolition and the Trump administration’s national security strategy labeling it a failed project.

There are three distinct camps of commentators on the EU’s future: Europhiles who support the EU, Eurosceptics/Reformists who want to reform it, and EU abolitionists who want to dissolve it.

The reformist camp is strikingly large and contains most of the officially tolerated nationalist movements in the EU.  In the following, J.K. argues for reform. But this reform would be so significant that it would create something new: it would involve a wholesale replacement of the EU and its sister institutions.…

Western political discourse is entering a time of re-evaluation of the core concepts and institutions that have ruled us since the 1950s. The European Union is not above this kind of re-evaluation and the ideological battles over its nature and future are not going to abate any time soon. (“EU Needs Massive Reform: There needs to be a wholesale replacement of the EU and its organisations,” by Rhoda Wilson, The Expose, December 23, 2025)

The troubles range from internal power scuffles to cultural and ideological differences that are so profound as to make future cohesion very unlikely at best, and to cause dissolution of the EU as presently constituted at worst.

At the center of the tumult within the EU seems to be the US and the most, shall I say, interesting president of history. Pressures from the Trump administration seem to be at the heart of movement that is about to force reforms. We will simply have to continue to watch and see with regard to prophetic outcome.

History has proved to the satisfaction of most Bible prophecy scholars that the first four world kingdoms described in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream have come and gone. The Babylonian kingdom was the first. The Medes and Persians comprised the second world empire. The Greek Empire under Alexander the Great was the third. The Roman Empire, which split in two, with capitals in Rome and Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), was the fourth great world kingdom.

One is left to come upon the scene—the final world governmental system represented in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream as the feet and toes made of iron mixed with clay. This kingdom, we believe, is far along in the process of coming together today in the form of the European Union. The fifth world empire symbolized in the statue is prophesied to be an extension of the fourth kingdom. That is exactly what the EU is—an extension of the ancient Roman Empire. It is, we are convinced, the feet and toes of the man-image, the reviving of the unity that was once Europe in all its power and glory. Yet, despite the tremendous power the final form of the Roman Empire will have, the clay mixed with iron seems to indicate it will have significant weaknesses.

The European Union is, like America, presently at the forefront of calling for Israel and the Palestinians to come to the peace table. It will be just such a peace negotiation, according to Daniel 9:26–27, out of which will come the “covenant made with death and hell” (Isaiah 28:15, 18). Antichrist, “the prince that shall come,” will personally guarantee that covenant. But the prophetic Word says that “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” (1 Thessalonians 5:3).

The Islamic world’s hatred for the Jews and Israel is satanic at its core. No amount of negotiating for peace ever will change that. Israel’s neighbors want the Jewish state forever done away with—expunged from what they consider their land. The Arab leaders, all dictators to one degree or another, must keep the region in foment against Israel to assure that their dictatorships stay in power. The “covenant made with death and hell,” according to Isaiah the prophet, must somehow deal with this great hatred to achieve the false peace of that satanically produced covenant.

The European Union, Antichrist’s future base of authority, is rapidly growing toward its full power that will produce a leader of unprecedented dominance who will bring about that false peace.

The Bible states that seven out of ten “kings” will back a world leader who will forcibly rip power from the other three and give it to himself. With all other prophetic indicators seemingly in full view upon the immediate geopolitical horizon, the EU in turmoil seems to be another profound ingredient that’s been added to the fascinating mix.

Certainly, the current flux affecting the EU represents weakness that looks difficult to overcome.

However, the man of sin will have satanically imbued powers. This will likely include the ability to overcome problems such as those currently observed within his future power base. Meantime, the devil will be in the details of preparing his son of perdition’s platform of tyranny.

So, during the New Year, unless the Rapture preempts our ability to watch from this earthly platform of observation, we will likely see fascinating changes. That is, there will almost certainly be dramatic changes in the European Union model in setting the stage for construction of the world power structure represented in Daniel’s interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (read Daniel chapter 2).

Absolute evil continues to be perpetrated against God’s chosen people. The genocide is so great now on a global scale that it hourly fills headlines of news organizations around the world.

Yet the bloody, murderous actions against the Jewish people are so ubiquitous that sensationalism formerly igniting rage against such evil no longer draws the same level of attention as before. Even the Church seems to relegate the burgeoning anti-Semitism to ho-hum status.

Prophetically, what we’re witnessing is, I’m convinced, the number-one signal of where this generation stands upon God’s last-days timeline. All the anti-Semitism/genocide against Jews points directly at how near we are to the moment when Heaven again begins dealing with Israel by removing the Church from this rebellious planet. God has promised to keep the Church from the time of Jacob’s trouble.

God dealing again with His chosen people is underway at a pace that’s hard to keep up with—even for prophecy watchers. And the one area of that interaction was most recently on display through the satanically incited, murderous, anti-Semitic rampage against the Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah in Australia given in the following report:

The shooting was a “targeted attack” on the Jewish community, with one of the gunmen dead and a second in critical condition in the hospital, according to New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon.

Financial Review reports that Israel has accused the Australian government of having blood on its hands for the Bondi Beach terror attack, as world leaders condemned the deadliest day of violence targeting Jews since the October 7 terror attack in southern Israel two years ago.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had warned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in August that his decision to recognise Palestinian statehood poured “fuel on the anti-Semitic fire”, as he labelled the killing of 11 victims celebrating the start of Hanukkah as “cold-blooded murder”…

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry went as far as to claim the “blood of the victims is on the hands of the Australian government” because it had not stood with Israel against jihadist terrorism, instead choosing a “policy of weakness, restraint, and appeasement”.

“This reckless policy has direct consequences at home within Australia itself,” the ministry said in a statement.

“The Australian government is doing everything in its power to ensure that Australian Jews cannot live safely, peacefully, and securely as Jews in their own country.” (“Targeted, Anti-Semitism”: 16 Dead, 38 Injured After Father & Son Terrorists Attack Sydney Jewish Celebration,” by Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge, December 15, 2025)

This last statement released by Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry is what I’d like to concentrate on, because it gets right to the heart of what is going on prophetically: “The Australian government is doing everything in its power to ensure that Australian Jews cannot live safely, peacefully, and securely as Jews in their own country.”

This is a profound statement; it says with precision what is going on throughout the entire world at this moment.

Whether talking about hate-filled nations of the Middle East that surround Israel, the metropolitan areas of Europe and Asia, or even in the United States of America, like in the case of Australia, governments are ignoring the anti-Semitism that’s growing at an astonishing rate. The terrorists perpetrating these deadly assaults are almost, it seems, being given governmental permission to do their dastardly evil. There is, to those of us who observe from the biblical perspective, the undeniable fact that Jews are being shown the door to exit these hostile cities and countries.

The Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry assessment is absolutely on the mark. The Jewish people are being shown they cannot live safely and securely like Jews can live in Israel. They are thereby, it is obvious, being pushed out of foreign places of their Diaspora.

Now to the crux of what I intend by the harsh title of this article.

Like in the case of the intentions of the brothers of Joseph who set out to sell their brother into Egyptian slavery, this hellish genocide being carried out by Satan’s minions is intended for deadly evil. But, like in the case of Joseph, the God of Heaven intends the evil acts of terror for good.

The situation–forcing all Jewish people to look toward Jerusalem—is a glorious act by God Almighty, because it will lead to God’s chosen people (a remnant thereof) receiving all the blessings promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

The Lord Jesus will one day sit upon the throne of David atop Mount Zion and reign over and rule the Eden-like refurbished earth!

Here is a relevant Scripture that proves things going on at this very moment:

And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. (Ezekiel 37:21–23)

Looking at the world around us from so many different viewpoints separates and divides the human community, engendering hatreds, wars, and death. Jesus, speaking on the Mount of Olives one day, prophesied the degree to which the differences would explode in the time just before His return:

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. (Matthew 24:7)

We’ve pointed out often that the word “nation” here is from the Greek word ethnos, translated “ethnic” in English. Jesus was warning that the Tribulation era will produce great hatreds that will be centered on racial and cultural differences of worldview. These unprecedented uprisings of this sort will eventuate in famines and pestilence—the inevitable result of all-out war.

Although this generation is not in the Tribulation era about which Jesus prophesied here, we have diametrically differing worldviews on the national and international scenes that are without question setting the stage for the times Jesus foresaw.

The US is mired in many ethnic problems and cultural differences within the various races themselves. Insistence on embracing multiculturalism by the PC crowd, motivated to their hyper level of championing the melting-pot worldview by mainstream media, throws fuel on the fires of racial divides. The multicultural Nazis want Americans to stay separate, because most of these PC types are socialist-leaning globalists who want us to be citizens of the world rather than citizens of a sovereign nation. Hyphenating, or mixing ethnic with national identities, into unique nomenclature seems designed to make America eventually forfeit national autonomy.

Worldview is being shaped in this nation to reflect the one-world builders’ blueprint for the global village, as one well-known failed presidential candidate put it. The worldview in question has never gone away. It is the perennial worldview that has been with humankind since Nimrod attempted to build the tower to Heaven not long after the Flood of Noah’s day (read Genesis chapter 11). We see that blueprint manifested in the current attempts to bring everyone together in the Middle East–at Israel’s expense, of course.

Jesus also prophesied that humans would get themselves deeper and deeper into trouble, so far as the nation state is concerned, the closer the Second Advent comes.

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring. (Luke 21:25)

There can be little argument against the obvious. Nations are indeed in great distress today, with much perplexity. We don’t have to look at the many nations of earth to prove this. Our own nation is divided right down the middle on most issues of politics and morality. People are so distressed—even perplexed—that many promised to leave the country if they didn’t get their way in presidential election results. Others have written fictional books venting their anger in wishful accounts of the assassination of a president they hate—leading to actual assassination attempts by more than one would-be assassin hate-filled with what has become known as the “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

The problems involved all boil down to one issue—worldview.

Any view of life on this planet other than God’s view is—to put it bluntly, but truthfully—wrong, and destined to produce disaster. This is true no matter the area of life. Worldview is all-important in avoidance of trouble and achievement of success. There isn’t space here to go into the many areas in life today to which this truth applies. So, let’s briefly look at one key issue in considering worldview that gets to the crux of the most important prophetic indicator of this late hour. The issue is modern Israel.

The geopoliticians are in perplexity about Israel and its hate-filled enemies. The diplomats have no idea where the anger truly comes from, therefore they can’t begin to understand how to solve the violence and hatred. The world’s diplomats have a worldview—or combination of worldviews—that completely leaves God out of the equation for peace-making. The result has been more than five thousand years of war throughout recorded history. God says, “Be governed by my rules, because I created all that is, and know what is best.” The earthly rulers say, “We can handle it. If there is a God, that God is existential at best. We don’t need or want Him to rule over us.” This doesn’t apply, of course, to Islamic fanatics who slavishly accept the bloody demands of their god to make war.

God says everything is His, including the land of the Middle East He chose to give to the Jews: Israel. The geopoliticians say they will decide who owns the land and who doesn’t. The result: a world that’s quickly moving toward all-out war: Armageddon.

The same error in worldview is within the Church today—i.e., those who have trusted Christ for salvation. The worldview of most mainline denominations today say God is through with Israel. The Church—that worldview proposes—is now the inheritor of all promises that the Lord covenanted with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God is through with Israel, and all about Israel that is in the Bible must be spiritualized, allegorized, or treated as history already accomplished.

Really?

They proclaim–through their worldview—that the Church is going to make the world better and better, until they’ve made it good enough through the political and diplomatic process—in conjunction with religious, do-good projects—for Jesus to come back and take over.

Really?

They aren’t reading the same headlines I am. If the Lord has given up on Israel, then it sure is some coincidence going on. We are expected to believe that Israel just happens to be on the front page headlines every day, in the center of a desperate cry for peace, just like God’s prophetic Word forecast. Worldview is all-important in God’s economy. God’s worldview is–as legendary football coach Vince Lombardi once put it in talking about winning—not everything. It is the ONLY thing!

People throughout the world have been reporting the strange lights from the heavens for millennia. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and most every other civilization and culture have recorded sightings that are unusual.

However, today, an increasing number of anomalous sightings is reported nearly every hour of every day. Many are recorded with and through the ever-improving technologies for catching the UFOs, now called “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs).

The 1947 reports of a crashed extraterrestrial flying disc at Roswell, New Mexico, opened the modern world to setting the stage for what has come since. The movie industry has greatly expanded public awareness of and fascination with the things from “out there” somewhere.

From the 1952 film The Day the Earth Stood Still to the Star Trek TV series and movies and the Star Wars franchise of films, ET, and others to all the recent US governmental probing into all things extraterrestrial, the strange things taking place in the heavens are front and center in the headlines today. Gary Ritter’s and my series of novels beginning with The Rapture Dialogues (hope you will consider getting them on Amazon) is meant to lay out developments in past and coming stellar prophecy unfolding.

One such front-and-center report of things appearing in the skies is presented in the following:

The Mysterious Interstellar Object Appears to Be Pulsing in a “Heartbeat Pattern”

The pattern is repeating every 16 hours.

The mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is just weeks away from reaching its closest point to Earth: it’s expected to pass within just 170 million miles of our home planet on December 19, giving astronomers an unprecedented opportunity to take a closer look as it whizzes past.

As Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb points out in a new blog post, they’ll be building on intriguing existing observations from ground telescopes — including a paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics in October by a team of researchers in Europe and Africa that found signs that it’s radiating a “heartbeat” pulse of light that repeats every 16.16 hours.

While that may sound like an intriguing new fold in Loeb’s longstanding efforts to support the theory that the object could be an extraterrestrial spacecraft visiting the solar system, there’s likely a much more mundane explanation: that it’s spinning, pulsing us with light like an interstellar lighthouse.…

Though most scientists hold that the object is probably a natural comet, Loeb is still holding out hope that 3I/ATLAS’ jets could be technological in nature.

“For a technological object, the direction of the pulsing jet could be arbitrary and not necessarily pointing towards the Sun,” he wrote.

Regardless, getting a better sense of how these pulses change over time could shed more light on the matter. For one, its spin may have changed since it reached its perihelion, or closest point to the Sun, in late October.…

in the published literature,” Loeb wrote. “A movie showing the periodic brightening of the jets around 3I/ATLAS over several days can reveal whether the jets are natural or technological based on the orientation of the heartbeat pattern relative to the Sun.” (“The Mysterious Interstellar Object Appears to Be Pulsing in a “Heartbeat Pattern,” Victor Tangermann, senior editor at Futurism, Rapture Ready News, December 2, 2025)

We recently looked at the following prophecy given by Jesus:

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring. (Luke 21:25–28)

We previously dealt with the latter part of the prophecy–“nations in distress, with perplexity” and “the sea and the waves roaring.” We looked at all the rioting among the peoples of the US and other tumultuous cities of the planet, and at how the people seem to have been given over to the “reprobate mind” of Romans 1:28.

Now we examine the first part of Christ’s prophecy—”And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars” (Luke 21:25a).

Jesus said that as the time of His return to establish His millennial kingdom on earth nears, there would be unusual signs in the heavens.

With reports such as the one above and many others, even if just considering that we now have the technological capability to record them, the words of the Lord certainly ring true. There are indeed “signs in the sun, moon, and stars.”

Undoubtedly, we’ve only begun to see this particular signal of the coming Tribulation and the return of the King of Kings. Such signs will almost certainly increase in the days and nights just ahead.

As I’ve said on many occasions, I believe the reports of the strange sights in the skies are prophetic. They are the warnings Jesus gave. I believe they’re setting the stage for when the False Prophet (Revelation chapter 13) calls down fire from Heaven in the sight of the image of the Beast.

And the signals are for His Second Advent, which, of course, will follow the seven terrible years of Tribulation.

This all means the Rapture of believers from this fallen planet must be so near that we can almost reach out and touch it!

Jesus, again, said: “When you see all these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your head, for your redemption draws near” (Luke 21:28).

While one is inundated hour after hour, day after day, with the profusion of news from around the world, there is one profoundly important element missing in the reportage.

The troubles, the problems, the carnage, come at us in an avalanche of bad news. At the same time, proposals by governments and by top-flight individuals within the atmospherics of politics and governmental authority promise to solve the deluge of pending catastrophes –promises that never come to fruition.

The element that is left out of the reportage, of the promises, is deafening in its silence. As a matter of fact, this element is the very cause of the pending calamity that hangs above every nation on earth like that Damocles’ Sword of mythology. Except there is nothing mythological about the threat of cataclysm the world –that every nation of Planet Earth—resides under at this present moment.

The threat isn’t from the human dimension or even from the demonic. Here is the threat in a Heavenly Nutshell, without meaning to trivialize its Origin.

“He that rejected me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day” (John 12:48).

These are the Words of the One who is destined to Judge all the world. To ignore His Words is to invite Calamity beyond all imagination. His name, of course, is Jesus Christ, the Lord of all lords and the King of all kings.

Jesus is The Word (John 1:1).

Every Word Given in God’s Love Letter to mankind –the Holy Bible – was first Uttered in the Heaven of Eternity Past. Every Word in this Holy Volume is Truth that is in the far distant Reaches of Eternity Future.

The Author of this Word –of these Words—is the Creator of all that is. It is this Author who literally Holds the very matter that constitutes what He Created in place. Without Him, nothing could exist that exists.

Nothing, that is, except the evil that came with man’s rejection of God’s Order at the time of Eden.

This evil is the Cause for the catastrophe that hangs above Planet Earth. And we who Watch Prophetic stage-setting for Christ’s Judgment must forewarn all who participate in the rebellion first infused into mankind by the great deceiver –the father of lies—Lucifer the fallen –Satan.

Mankind’s ignoring Heaven’s Influence and Governance by not considering God’s Word –the Words of His Son Jesus –is in danger of Eternal Damnation.

That God’s Holy Word is ignored to this extent around the Globe today is in full display, as the following news item reports.

Nearly Half the World Restricts or Bans the Bible, Report Warns

An analysis by the organization Open Doors revealed that the Bible is banned or restricted in 88 of the world’s 195 countries, meaning that nearly half of all nations limit access to the Holy Scriptures. Among the most serious cases is China, where—despite its image of economic openness—state control, direct government intervention, and social surveillance mechanisms continue to persist.

Additionally, Cardinal Joseph Zen has called on the faithful to “return to the catacombs,” warning that in China, religious worship is not only strictly regulated but that there is also a state-authorized form of worship. The prelate discourages attending these official churches and urges believers to practice their faith freely, remaining “faithful to the truth that makes us free.”

[Source: Almost half of the countries in the world ban or restrict the Holy Bible – Gateway Hispanic, Rapture Ready News, November 29, 2025]

While there are some in Congress who occasionally mention God’s Name or who read a snippet from the Bible, it is rare indeed to find any mention of God’s Word in proposals to fix what ails humanity within the U.S. or around the world.

It is particularly disconcerting to note the absence of mention of the Prince of Peace in all the talk of peace going on at present.

My hope is that this president of the United States lends his ear to those, such as Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (who understands Bible prophecy and Foretelling involving Israel) when it comes to trying to come up with a peace plan to resolve the millennia-long conflict between God’s chosen people and the surrounding enemy peoples. But if such an ear is given in the Abraham Accords or other peace talks, we aren’t privy to such inside information.

And it is only a peace plan that does not include Israel giving into a 2-state solution that has a chance of success. It is dividing God’s land (the land given Abraham and his progeny through his son Isaac) that will bring all of the nations of earth to mankind’s final war, God’s Holy Word Foretells (Joel 3:2).

Thinking on the ignoring of God’s Word, there is a serious dearth of putting forth that Word within much of the Christian churches at present. Rarely in the pulpits of America is there a ringing declaration of Truth from Scripture laying out the wickedness of societies and cultures.

There is, however, an overabundance in too many cases of messaging about how to get along with environments surrounding everyday life. i.e., teaching how to not rock the proverbial boat, so as to not disrupt personal and/or church tranquility. –Teaching that ignores the primary Purpose of the church –of Christianity—that without adhering to God’s Word and Acceptance of Jesus Christ in all His Truth, the individual and the world are destined to Eternal destruction.

Jesus Christ will one Eternal Day be the Judge of all who reject His Word. We who name His Holy Name must proclaim Him now, while He Offers Salvation from the sin that Forever separates fallen mankind from the Heavenly Father.

Jesus said: “…I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me…” (John 14:6).

This is the one Statement by the Lord Jesus that must not be ignored. For to do such will bring the ultimate calamity down in the form of God’s Judgment and Wrath –either upon the individual or the nation that does the ignoring.

Here again is how to obey rather than ignore God’s Call, through His Son’s Sacrifice on the cross at Calvary for Redemption.

“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).