Author’s note: The following article was originally written and posted in 2010. The information regarding the status of Christians who consider Bible prophecy important remains relatively unchanged at this late hour of this Age of Grace. I believe Jesus’ command was never more crucial for Christians as at this moment.

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)

Jesus’ Critical Question for End-Times Believers

A recent news item about certain polling data grasped my attention. I’m sure many who look at www.raptureready.com‘s news section had their curiosity piqued and read it as well.

After looking into the matters reported, I found the poll wasn’t as thorough as I would have liked—but it was fascinating nonetheless. Also, it was too one-sided in ethnic make-up. However, I give it enough credence to examine it here because I believe it revolves around a concern the Lord Jesus Christ expressed while teaching about conditions that will prevail at the end of the age.

A new survey finds that Americans are divided over whether they believe Jesus Christ will return by the year 2050.

Among respondents to the survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and Smithsonian Magazine, 41 percent said they expect Jesus’ Second Coming in the next forty years, while 46 percent said it probably or definitely won’t happen.

The poll suggests that 58 percent of white evangelicals believe Jesus will return by 2050, compared to only 32 percent of Catholics, and respondents with no college education were three times as likely as those with college degrees to expect Christ’s Second Coming in the next forty years. (“Many Americans Expect Jesus’ Return by 2050,” Associated Press/Israel News, 6/23/10).

To be honest, I was quite surprised that 58 percent of white evangelicals believe Christ will return by 2050. This disconnect in my mind comes from the fact that in looking for interest in Bible prophecy within the church today (by this I mean, of course, born-again believers; see John 3:3), my colleagues and I find no evidence to support that percentage.

Perhaps I should speak just for myself, but if my colleagues are honest, based upon conversations we’ve had, they will confess that the interest just isn’t there in those kinds of numbers.

So, a few cynical (I suppose) thoughts regarding the poll come to mind:

• The poll is a complete “guesstimate”—even a prefabrication.
• The poll is skewed because it was taken from among a limited group of believers thoroughly educated in Bible prophecy.
• The poll reflects a flippancy that will agree that Christ could return within the next forty years because the possibility is far enough in the future that the respondents need not worry about changing their personal conduct.
• My colleagues and I are wrong, and the church—”white evangelicals,” in this case—is expecting the Lord’s return in majority numbers.

If the last point is true, then the fact that so many are looking for Christ is well hidden. I’m a blind guy, as many know, so I can’t see things all that well. But interest in Christ’s return—and in Bible prophecy in general, according to everything I hear—is confined to an extremely small number of folks in relationship to the tremendous number of people who claim the name of Christ.

Clicking through Christian TV networks (yes, we blind guys “watch” TV), I rarely come across a prophetic message. Most of the viewing fare consists of the prosperity gospel or entertainment that is for the most part a rather poor knockoff of secular entertainment. The preachers who do present a sound gospel message and sound doctrine seldom to rarely speak on Bible prophecy. And they certainly don’t touch upon the pre-Trib return of Christ in the Rapture.

When I’ve personally asked some of the preachers and teachers why they avoid presenting prophecy, they have said things like: “The people just don’t understand Revelation”; “The subject is just too scary to most people”; or ” We just concentrate on getting people the gospel so they will be saved.”

The honest preachers and teachers say: “I just don’t know anything about prophecy. I’ve not studied it enough to preach on it.”

What a tragedy, a travesty, this is! There is a singular hope (Titus 2:13) that God’s people have in this swiftly degenerating age. Yet, their shepherds—the preachers and teachers, their suppliers of spiritual food—use every conceivable excuse for not telling Christians about their returning Lord.

Some accuse those of us whose mission is to concentrate on Bible prophecy of doing so to the point that we ignore Christ’s love and the Bible’s life lessons for His people.

We in no way believe prophecy should be taught exclusively. However, prophecy constitutes almost 30 percent of the whole Word of God, so the Heavenly Father obviously means for it to be a generous part of the mix for His children’s spiritual sustenance. This is especially true in these days when the signals of Christ’s coming again are every direction in which one looks.

Bible prophecy is being marginalized by those who are supposed to shepherd their flocks, but who don’t want to study it and/or don’t want to risk scaring people out of the pews. This is because it is the feel-good and do-good, entertainment-oriented sermonettes that tickle itching ears and build many of the elaborate end-times edifices.

Understand that I recognize there are huge churches that hold to doctrinal truth and include God’s prophetic Word as part of feeding their attending flocks. This is not to castigate these wonderful pastors, teachers, and staffs. God bless them! But these are in the minority. The dearth of interest in Christ’s coming back in the Rapture, then in the Second Advent, demonstrates the lack of faith resident within Christ’s Body at this crucial hour.

Jesus asked the following profoundly troubling question in that prophetic context: “Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8b). The Lord had a somber message for God’s people who will be alive at His sudden, unannounced coming. I wrote the following as part of a chapter for an upcoming book that I believe gets across the gist of this:

The indifference so prevalent within the church is, itself, an end-times signal, it seems. The Lord obviously spoke to the fact that God’s own children will in large part be indifferent to the prophetic signals. They will not be living as they should at the time of His coming for them, as He promised in John 14:1–3. As a matter of fact, He forewarned: “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” (Luke 21:34–36; from a chapter by Terry James in a book to be released in 2010)

I pray more born-again pastors, Bible teachers, and God’s children of this nation and the world will awaken en masse to the staggering implications of Christ’s Second Coming.

 

 A re-post of most importance!

 Author’s note: Our president has once again made the statement, apparently to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that if it were not for himself, Donald John Trump, Israel would cease to exist.

I cringed in every point of my being when I heard him make that anti-God statement recently, just as I did when he made  a similar statement back in 2024.

I again post the article I wrote and had published on Raptureready.com on Monday October 7, 2024.

Mr. President,  I continue to applaud and support your tremendous efforts and achievements on behalf of our beloved nation, but this anti-Biblical statement cannot stand. Please listen up. Such pride and arrogance achieves no good result under the Watchful Eyes of He Who Rules over all Creation.

Please reconsider and repent so that Judgment from on High might Relent.

God’s Word Trumps Trump.

It appears we are, in a sense, at the end of the cosmic end game. If compared to cards, the winning hand is about to be revealed. And the outcome is not a gamble in any sense.

The One who holds that winning hand cannot lose. He knows every card held by every opponent, and they are all losers. This is because they choose to not accept the hand originally given them, but rather continue determined to play by rules contrary to the One who deals only in truth.

Truth is all that matters in this game, and when deliberately denying the truth, either on purpose or in ignorance, the player suffers loss to one degree or another.

And now I get to the point of this metaphor. I will aim it at the presidential candidate I support in the upcoming presidential election. It is not a gentle comparison I make, because I want Mr. Trump to realize that when it comes to God’s Word, we are not in the hallway of our junior high years. It is a deadly serious matter to deny the truth—and God’s Word is the only truth there is.

In this eternal high-stakes end game, your word, Mr. President, is trumped by the inerrant Word of the one who holds the hand that cannot be overridden.

Your declaration recently is a most egregious misunderstanding of earthly geopolitics from God’s inerrant view.

In his characteristically outspoken manner, Trump has been critical of Jews who support his opponent. At a speech addressing antisemitism Thursday night in Washington D.C., he warned that if Harris enters the White House as president, Israel would be “eradicated.”

“If I don’t win this election, Israel in my opinion will cease to exist within two years, and I believe I’m 100% right,” Trump said. “If I do win, Israel will be safe and secured.”…

Dr. Miriam Adelson, the widow of late casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, [Who leads the way in a large Jews-for-Trump group] spoke in favor of the candidate, saying that Jews have a “sacred duty” to vote for Trump, “in gratitude for everything he has done and trust in everything he will yet do.”…

She has written that Trump “should enjoy sweeping support” among U.S. Jews and Israelis and that Trump deserves a “Book of Trump” in the Bible due to his support for Israel…

She did, however, chide Trump after the event. While noting that his claims had some merit, she added, “Our people have one more secret.”

Adelson quoted from the Passover Haggadah to explain what that secret is, “And this [promise] is what has stood by our ancestors and us; for it was not only one man who rose up to destroy us: in every single generation people rise up to destroy us—but the Holy One, Blessed Be He, saves us from their hands.” (“Trump warns President Harris would “eradicate” Israel but Megadonor corrects him: ‘Jews have a secret’”—Israel365 News)

Donald Trump as president did much to support Israel. He has taken strong and definitive stands against anti-Semitism. For this he no doubt was at least in part brought to that high office by the Lord. But it is obvious from his rhetoric that he is woefully ignorant of the truth in this cosmic end game we’re in the midst of.

This Jewish influencer/supporter has corrected him, although I’ve not seen or heard any evidence of Mr. Trump acknowledging that he was wrong by saying that if he doesn’t win this November, Israel will cease to exist within two years.

Mr. President, I hope someone will pass this along to you. You can’t play junior-high word games when it comes to God’s chosen nation. And I say that as one who is praying that if we reach Election Day, you will be the victor. I pray for your safety, and for ours as a nation.

That God will assure our continued traversing upon this planet is something we can’t know for certain. But the continued existence of the nation Israel is a God-guaranteed matter.

God’s Holy Word trumps your words, Mr. President. Here is that Word, issued from the Holy Spirit-inspired prophet Jeremiah thousands of years ago:

This is what the Lord says, “He who appoints the sun to shine by day, Who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord Almighty is His Name; Only if these ordinances vanish from My sight,” declares the Lord, “will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before Me.” (Jeremiah 31:35–36)

The date of posting this article is most poignant as we remember October 7, 2023. Israel’s blood-vowed enemies inflicted the most heinous atrocities against the Jewish people since the time of Hitler’s Holocaust.

This is but one more reminder of just how near the world is to entering the time known as Jacob’s trouble (Jeremiah 30: 7). But even during the time Jesus, Himself, said would be the worst in all of human history, Israel and the Jewish people will, as a chosen remnant, be preserved to go into the millennial reign of the Messiah they rejected two millennia ago.

It will not be Donald J. Trump, or anyone or anything other that will bring them to that glorious head of all nations of history. It will be done by the very Word of the Living God!

If his sons forsake My law, and do not walk in My judgments, if they violate My statues, and do not keep My commandments, then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. But I will not break off My loving kindness from him, nor deal falsely in My faithfulness. My covenant I will not violate, nor will I alter the utterance of My lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. His descendants shall endure forever like the moon, and the witness in the sky is faithful. (Psalm 89:30–37)

Yet another pointer to where this generation stands upon God’s prophetic timeline is the emerging of globalism’s powers as they construct the final world kingdom. We have God’s Word on what I believe we see beginning to form as Daniel the prophet foretold through interpretation of Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar’s strange dream:

And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. (Daniel 2:40-43)

This is the description of the ten-kingdom power base that will form Antichrist’s regime for controlling all peoples of the world. This power platform, too, is described in a brief mention by John, another of God’s great prophets:

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:7-8)

Fifth and Final World Power

Daniel prophesied that the fifth world power will come out of the fourth. We know the order of world empires from history. The first Daniel interpreted was Babylon. The second would be the Medo-Persian. The third would be the Greek Empire, and the fourth would be the Roman Empire, represented in Nebuchadnezzar’s night-vision by the legs of iron. The fifth empire–the final empire, and the only one that is yet to come into being as fulfilled prophecy–is represented by the feet and toes of that metallic monstrosity.

To my understanding, the five world empires given to Daniel in metallic representations–i.e., gold for the head, silver for the breast and arms, brass or bronze for the belly and thighs, and iron for the legs, feet and toes–is indicative of money and the power to rule over the inhabitants of planet earth. Metals have most always been at the center of any economy throughout history. And when the metals represented the power to mold and construct weaponry–e.g., spears, bullets, bombs, warcraft-like tanks, planes, and ships, et cetera–the power of the metal and the economies of the world powers become understandable. Money is power, and power is control. These are inextricably linked.

The fifth world power will come from the Roman Empire, which disintegrated but is reforming, we who observe prophecy from the pre-Trib view believe. We believe the European Union is almost certainly the nucleus out of which this last Gentile power is emerging. This is the area of central Europe in particular. Rome is the very heart of that nucleus.

Antichrist Comes Forth

Daniel also prophesied about the last world empire’s leader who would leap to center stage at just the right moment in Satan’s plans to bring him to power:

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)

Antichrist, “the beast,” as this vicious future tyrant is termed, will come to power and rule ruthlessly. His power will emanate from economics–the ability to call all to worship him through a mark-and-numbering system that will control buying and selling. (Read Revelation 13:16-18 to understand this 666 system of absolute control.)

Economics Set the End-times Stage

We are witnessing economic rearrangements at present like no other generation has seen. Even the United States–as anyone with any sense of what’s been going on in the news will attest–is being forced into a mold of one-world economic order. It is all leading toward the mark-and-numbering system that will give Antichrist his power. (Read Revelation 17:12-13 to learn of the ten economic power blocs that will develop, then give power and authority to the Beast–Antichrist, the ruler of the fifth and final world empire.)

Again, the European powers are apparently to  be the nucleus of this satanic kingdom of ten kingdoms. However, the whole world will be absorbed into this agglomerate power base.  The following reports the continuing emergence of other areas of the world that will ultimately join so Antichrist can control most of the world once he leaps upon the stage of post-Rapture history.

The agglomerate bloc known as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) represents growing economic and demographic heft: the eleven BRICS countries now comprise more than a quarter of the global economy and almost half of the world’s population:

“Whether it’s called a BRICS or ‘Western’ order, it is all the WEF-UN global order.

“BRICS-based multipolarity will save us from ‘The Technocratic Dark State’ by making the rollout of an oppressive global surveillance state much better. This will be the result of ‘improving global governance.’ At least, that is according to the BRICS Outcome Document published by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs after the latest riveting meeting of BRICS foreign ministers.

“The global dictatorship will be a happier, fluffier kind of new world order tyranny under the BRICS’ multipolar model because it will be ‘more just, equitable, agile, effective, efficient, responsive, representative, legitimate, democratic and accountable.’ Fantastic news, doubtless welcomed by those Hrvoje Morić refers to as the ‘Multipolaristas.’

“Though the BRICS’ document reads like the worst kind of globalese dross imaginable, it is important to remember that the BRICS are offering us the promise of a ‘beautiful multi-polar world order defined by win-win cooperation.’ Presumably, this is because humanity must have some sort of centralised, oligarch-led global dictatorship enslaving it for any of us to have a chance to ‘win.’ “(“BRICS proposes a multipolar world order; it is the same as the WEF-UN led world order under a different name,” By Rhoda Wilson, Expose, May 18, 2026)

Paul the apostle wrote of the economic reality that drives the world toward God’s judgment and wrath:

“But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil” (1 Timothy 6:9-10a).

Rushing toward the End

Certainly, the truth of God’s Word frames what’s happening at this time in history, and where it all is heading as the rulers of this fallen sphere grasp for the wealth of this world and strive to cast off the bonds of governance God wisely placed upon the would-be masters of planet earth.

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. (James 5:1-6)

We are in the end-of-the-age era of the toes of Nebuchadnezzar’s night vision.

Only the Rapture of believers stand between the people of planet earth who will be left behind and this, what Jesus called the worst time of human history (Matthew 24:21).

You don’t want to be part of that left-behind world. Here  once again is how to escape that time and go to Christ and safety when He calls believers:

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)

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The greatly memorialized human figures of earth’s history speak to whom man believes is in charge of life upon the planet. Nimrod is the first individual to be thus lifted to “deity” status by the people of the post-antediluvian era.

Those who created the stories of humankind’s rise from that Tower of Babel time seem to have used Nimrod to create the legend of Gilgamesh in Mesopotamian legend. Their historical proximity seems logical to their linkage, but there is no known historical evidence that Nimrod and Gilgamesh were one and the same.

We can be certain that one was a living being. Nimrod is chronicled in God’s Word, while Gilgamesh is a demigod of legend.

From that post-Flood beginning and forward into the progression of history, the earth has been a record of greatly exalted individuals–mostly men—as history has unfolded over the millennia.

Kings, potentates, monumental military leaders, and masters of the world’s governments continue to rule, with many such holding near absolute power over horrendous dictatorships.

The American experiment in liberty cannot be considered anything other than unique in the annals of humankind and the restrictions imposed upon the masses of our planet.

Plato’s Republic was an early, but merely a literary, effort to frame a just and thriving governance under which humanity could live. But it was the framers of the United States Constitution who have come the closest to implementing such a magnificently proposed government.

To this point in this commentary, only human governance has been dissected. All of history’s preeminent, exalted individuals can be looked at as positioned upon a gigantic chessboard of sorts–a bit more stylized than the literal, but nonetheless a board upon which dynamic movement continues to shape the destiny of the human race.

The board is full of kings, queens, knights, bishops, and rooks that dominate that shaping. But these are not figures under the movement of a human hand as in that literal game of strategizing for conquest.  

But supernatural hands do provide the movement, and that movement can be studied throughout history. It has been intricately chronicled and meticulously recorded—sometimes accurately, sometime not so much, but rather rewritten to serve the chess master of nefarious scheming on one side of the board.

This is where the pawns come into our view of this strangely arranged chessboard.

Each king, queen, knight, bishop, and rook throughout history who have been given accolades for the movement of human progress are themselves pawns, without cognizance of their true powerlessness. They are but pawns of their allotted increment of time on this chessboard we can liken to earth’s surface.

On the one side of this planetary chessboard sits the “player” who insinuated himself upon chessboard earth as recorded in Genesis.

Lucifer the fallen one has manipulated with his wicked fingers control over the likes of Nimrod, Pharaoh, the Caesars of Rome, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and myriad other diabolists upon chessboard earth’s history. He continues to exert control over the evil kings, queens, knights, bishops, rooks, and all other such pawns as this age winds up for the spectacular return of the True King–the Lord Jesus Christ!

On the other side is the true Chess Master, the God of Heaven. The True King, God’s Only Begotten Son, is the objective of the iniquitous Lucifer’s all-out attempt to conquer and to replace the King of all kings.

The sinful pawns of all the ages were defeated at the cross of Calvary and on Resurrection morning!

This eternal game of chess was already over before it even began. Prophecy from God’s Holy Word tells all creation of the Supreme chess master’s victory!

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.  (Psalms 2: 1-12)

In a final heavenly Word from Bible prophecy by God the Chess Master: Checkmate! 

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At this moment when signals in every direction indicate that this world is building toward some climactic, world-changing disruption, the powers that be have determined to push our button of fascination with talk of visitors from space.

The president of the United States started the build-up toward releasing long-held secrets about UFO sightings and information in answering a reporter’s question in a recent Oval Office press briefing. About the upcoming release of the information, the president said, “I think some of it’s going to be very interesting to people.”

In that comment, Mr. Trump went just about as far as any president has gone toward truly letting us in on what the government knows about this question that has held Americans, and for that matter, the world, in a state of fascination for decades. But now we are on the cusp of learning, apparently, just how much is documented about visitors from out there somewhere.

As a matter of fact, the government seems to be trying to create increased interest in these unidentified phenomena.

I offer the following news item with this caveat: While Perry Stone has the gospel of Jesus Christ at the heart of his ministry, his extrabiblical extrapolations can, to some, be off-putting speculation. However, I don’t think he would be deliberately deceptive. I believe the meeting described below actually took place.

Perry Stone, a well-known evangelist, author and Bible teacher from Tennessee, warned that fellow pastors were recently invited to a secret meeting with US intelligence officials to prepare for the release of secret files on extraterrestrials. According to Stone, the officials warned a small group of pastors with a large reach in the Christian community that the government was about to release reports and possibly videos of aliens and spacecraft which were not from this planet.

In the April 27 video posted to his YouTube channel, the evangelist claimed that pastors were told about the existence of ‘reptilian’ creatures, UFOs and materials from a non-human origin and ‘other things that almost sound like something out of a sci-fi movie.’

On February 19, President Trump ordered the Pentagon and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to release all information the government possesses regarding UFOs and alien life.

Last week, Trump said that the first files would be released ‘very, very soon’ and would contain some ‘very interesting’ things for the public.

However, officials in this secret meeting allegedly said the information on its way may cause some Christians to question how the universe was created and even lose faith in religion.

Stone said: ‘You’re going to have people who are going to say if there are galaxies and there are allegedly other creations in the galaxies, then the whole creation story is a myth, and you’re going to have people that’s going to apostatize and turn from the Christian faith because they have no answer for what they’re about to hear. (“Religious leaders told ‘prepare now’ for UFO disclosure to unleash Bible-changing revelations,”by Chris Melore, deputy science editor for dailymail.com)

Such a meeting, if indeed conducted by the US government, raises the major question: Why? Why is a religious group as described by Mr. Stone selected to divulge such information? And, why the expressed fear by government that such information, when given to the public, might result in a turn from traditional Bible belief regarding the earth’s creation and all the rest?

Another elected governmental official interjects an interesting question into this matter.

According to a US News story, “There’s Things Out There,” US Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has insights into things pertaining to UFO/UAP matters that perhaps involve ancient biblical presentation.

In a wide-ranging and eyebrow-raising conversation with Joe Rogan, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) made bold claims about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), including references to interdimensional beings and unexplained movement “outside of time and space.”

Luna, who chairs the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, told Rogan she has seen classified photos of unidentified objects that, in her words, were “not created by mankind.” While she stopped short of sharing those images, Luna said she viewed them inside a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) and believes they represent technology or entities beyond current human understanding. (https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/theres-things-out-there-anna-paulina-luna-claims-classified-images-confirm-ufo-claims-on-joe-rogans-podcast-article-152460932, by Naman Trivedi)

Representative Luna went on to imply that to get insight into the nature of what’s going on in the UAP matter, she believes one should read the book of Jude. These, she offered, could be not extraterrestrial intrusions, but interdimensional in origin.

This supposition/postulation, of course, is backed by truth from God’s Word. These are, I believe, interdimensional entities–like those who left their first estate and came to earth to cohabit with human women.

I have offered before that these will be part of the explanation of what has just happened when the Rapture occurs and millions, including all children below the age of accountability, vanish from the surface of planet earth.

The “space brothershave come to intervene into the dangerous affairs of humankind”–or something to that effect—will likely be the official explanation.

I believe these might well be Satan and his hordes who are kicked out of Heaven for the final time, as described in Revelation chapter 12. These might appear to be orbs of fire descending while the False Prophet of Revelation chapter 13 calls fire down from the heavens in the sight of the image of the Beast.

It will be interesting to see exactly what is divulged when the files promised by the president are finally released.

A preliminary dump of information within government files has now been released. But there doesn’t seem much in it to cause excitement.

However, one government official announced that some truly astounding information is coming soon.

Regardless of what those files will show, the Bible clearly says there will be a massive invasion of earth by the hordes from the heavens. Satan and his fallen angels will come to the planet with great wrath and vengeance in mind for earth’s inhabitants.

Here is how to avoid facing those fallen angels who are coming to earth to make life hell on this judgment-bound planet: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31b).

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We’ve heard for years from President Trump and other presidents’ declarations that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. This objective is the primary reason given for the war waged against the terroristic Iranian regime–in the first attack on Iran’s nuclear centrifuges called Operation Midnight Hammer.

The radical Islamists in control of Iran since the revolution that overthrew the shah in 1979 have proven to never let up on their declaration to destroy all who oppose their version of Islam. The leaders and the people who follow them have screamed their chants for years: “Death to the big Satan—America,” and “Death to the little Satan, Israel.”

These have waged war, usually terroristic, with small groups of militants, or with individuals with bombs strapped to their bodies or the bodies of their children. They strike in the screaming rant that “Allah is great!”

The theological premise used to foment such deadly fanaticism is based upon the Koran and passages declaring that all who are not willing to bow the knee to their version of Islam are infidels, thus are worthy of death.

This fanatical Islamist history of murderous intentions leaves the rational among us realizing that if the Iranian regime ever achieved nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, they would act on their desire to eliminate the United States and especially Israel. These Islamists hold to the Koranic dogma that by bringing on the final world war, they’re doing the will of Allah, thus they must do whatever possible to bring on that war.

It is a satanic rage from which they suffer, spawned by the hater-in-chief against all humanity, and against God’s chosen people and nation in particular. That hellish rage was made manifest for the world to see on October 7, 2023, when the most wicked atrocities imaginable were carried out with the massacre of men, women, children, and even infants. Hostages were taken and the current ongoing action grew from that attack.

So, is there any wonder that this president and Israeli’s leadership have declared that this evil regime must not be allowed to achieve deliverable nuclear warheads? 

President Trump has consistently said the nuclear material, now apparently enriched to 60 percent, must be given over or Iran will face an unthinkable consequence. This continues to be both Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s threat.

Why has this removal not yet been accomplished? Trump has proven time and time again to mean what he says. Yet he keeps moving the dates, etc., choosing to seemingly hope for talks with the Iran fanatics who’ve now become the leadership to be diplomatically successful.

All the while, prices rise worldwide because of the regime’s threatened action against shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and other reprisals for American and Israeli military action.

The regime’s leadership, it is conjectured–and I think Trump and Netanyahu believe—will never surrender their nuclear material. Nuclear threat is the only ingredient within their deadly plans that gives them credence on the world stage of geopolitics. If they surrender the nuclear material, they will no longer hold the world in fear of their madness.

At the same time, Mr. Trump and his team of military know the option they have is to destroy the enriched uranium believed to be beneath the Bushehr mountains. As a matter of fact, with today’s sophisticated surveillance capabilities, there is no doubt where that material is located.

America has proven this area could be struck at any time, thus eliminating the threat.

Why has this decision not yet been made?

I believe it’s all part of God’s restraining hand as placed upon prophecy yet future. I’m almost certain that the president, of course, has no understanding of this prophecy. But Mr. Trump does know about the kind of havoc an all-out attack on this nuclear material would cause.

Therefore, this is where I believe Bible prophecy might enter the matters involved.

My friend Bill Salus has written extensively on this prophecy. His book, Nuclear Showdown in Iran: Revealing the Ancient Prophecy of Elam, involves the very region where resides the nuclear material that is at the heart of conflict in Iran.

That Jeremiah 49 prophecy is as follows:

It is true that such destruction might come from catastrophe such as a massive earthquake rather than as an attack upon Iran’s nuclear material hiding place. This prophecy, however, seems to be in view to those who “watch” as commanded by our Lord. If President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu determine that this regime of Islamist fanatics will in no case surrender this enriched nuclear stockpile, an attack to obliterate that stockpile might likely be launched.

This could result in just the kind of chaos and scattering the prophet Jeremiah warned about.

This potential nuclear disaster for the Iranian people is why, I believe, every effort at diplomacy is being employed at present. These administrations–American and Israeli—want to make it clear that this was the only option in the final analysis, if indeed the attack is launched.

This is a time for all Christians who believe Bible prophecy is truth from God’s Word to be watchful.

We at RaptureReady.com certainly intend to continue to view all that is happening under the light of God’s prophetic Word.

All of God’s Word, of course, speaks to the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ. The first phase of that return will be the Rapture of the Church–the taking of all believers into the clouds of Glory and safety from all that will then transpire on this judgment-bound planet.

Here is how to make sure you are called by Christ to that safety at the Rapture:

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

Israel, at this late moment upon history’s timeline, has, in all truthfulness, only one other nation as a close, dependable friend. Notably, from the pre-Trib Bible prophecy perspective, that nation-state friend is the most powerful ever to grace the planet’s surface.

Israel’s nuclear capability and America’s stupendous military and technological might are strong defensive ingredients for modern Israel’s protection. But, while surrounded by forces of overwhelming numbers whose satanic rage cannot be stemmed, it is, in truth, an unconventional army that is Israel’s greatest ally.

This ally contingent holds the joint Israeli-American defensive coalition in place, and in God’s prophetic plan. It is a spiritual force that is Israel’s closest friend. Christians, particularly in America, make up the spiritual army that supports Israel’s right to exist as does no other group on earth.

I must qualify that statement because today there are so many divergent claims to the name of Christ–differing views about what it means to be a “Christian.” The definition I use here is one who has been “born again” (John 3:3). This means that a person has been born into the family of God for all eternity.

The only way for this to happen is for an individual to accept Christ’s sacrifice on the cross at Calvary–His shed blood—to pay for that person’s sin, which separates the individual from God. Those who are “born again” make up this army of defenders of Israel’s right to exist in its ancient homeland.

This army doesn’t bear physical arms or fight literally on the bloody fields surrounding Israel. This army fights with prayer for the peace of Jerusalem and does spiritual battle for Israel while that Jewish state moves in blind unrepentance toward its ultimate great destiny–to be the head of all nations during the millennium, Christ’s thousand-year reign on earth.

America Plunges While the Church Arises

America, the golden cup in the Lord’s hand for more than two centuries–having disseminated the gospel to the world and having been the midwife of Israel’s birth into modern times, then its protector—is not mentioned in Bible prophecy by name. However, supposedly lesser nations of history are mentioned, such as Persia (present-day Iran, a name we’re certainly familiar with), Syria, and others. Russia fits into the region known in ancient times as “Rosh.” But this once-shining city on the hill called America is nowhere to be found as the very end of days unfold.

So, what happens to the United States of America?

We’ve looked at my view–which I believe is the biblical view—that God’s people, the Christians of these end times, are Israel’s most fervent friends. But again I must write a word of qualification. Not all the born again believe Israel is God’s chosen nation as given in the Old Testament. Most Christians today don’t even think in terms of Israel and its prophetic destiny one way or the other. This is because, in many cases, they aren’t taught the truth by their pastors and teachers. Also, they may not do enough study on their own to open their spiritual minds on these things so the Holy Spirit can instruct them regarding Israel and prophecy yet future.

So, it is a relatively small group that observes prophetic matters as outlined in God’s Word.  The others are ignorant of these things. Many are willfully ignorant.

No matter the tragic state of the spiritually weakened Church in these last days, God hasn’t let slip from His mighty grasp the Israel/America miracle He began to form in history now long past. Be assured, those among the heaven-bound, end-times Christians who do understand Israel’s place in God’s holy eyes are key to America’s ultimate destiny. 

This factor is at the heart of my hope–and belief—that when the sheep-goats nations judgment takes place (Matthew chapter 25), America will stand among the sheep  nations.

But today, a large portion of this nation has fallen for the satanic lie that Israel is, rather than God’s chosen people, the dastardly perpetrator of evil. Some of the American people, particularly many among college students for example, have fallen prey to the lie that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians. Mainstream news and entertainment media are responsible for much of this satanic inculcation.

The resultant eventuation is a wedge being driven between friends, Israel and America, which have been close since the Jewish state’s birth into modernity.

And it has become observable to those spiritually attuned to geopolitics in these turbulent times that the satanic inculcation has led to Christianity being blamed by some with in Israel for Israel’s increasing troubles. A news excerpt reports the following.

Earlier this week, the Israeli Defense Forces stated that one of its soldiers who took a sledgehammer to a statue of Jesus in southern Lebanon, and another who photographed him doing it, would be removed from combat operations and imprisoned for 30 days.

In addition to that incident earlier this week, Israeli police initially blocked Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the top Roman Catholic official in the Holy Land, and other senior clergy from conducting a Palm Sunday service at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre due to wartime restrictions, The Times of Israel reported.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intervened, granting the clergy “full and immediate access” to the site.

The Times of Israel further reported that “a 2024 Annual Report by the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue documented 111 reported cases of attacks against Christians, including 46 physical attacks, 35 attacks against church properties, and 13 cases of harassment.”

Most perpetrators appeared to belong to the ultra-Orthodox and national-religious communities, and they directed their attacks primarily at Christian clergy members or people wearing visible Christian symbols.

Netanyahu posted Monday on social media in response to the Jesus statue incident, “Yesterday, like the overwhelming majority of Israelis, I was stunned and saddened to learn that an IDF soldier damaged a Catholic religious icon in southern Lebanon. I condemn the act in the strongest terms.” (“Israel Appoints Its First Ever ‘Special Envoy to Christian World’ After Controversial Incidents,” The Gateway Pundit,  by Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal, April 25, 2026)

When the true Christians vanish instantaneously in the Rapture, Israel’s earthly best friends will be gone. Then the most horrific of times for the nation and the Jewish people will take place. 

However, the nation that is the progeny of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, will not be destroyed as its chief nemesis, Satan, desires. As a matter of fact, Israel’s greatest friend and defender will assure the nation’s safe passage through its most troubling time of history.

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Time is fleeting, swiftly moving away from us as we live these increments of life on this judgment-bound planet. Time cannot be recalled; it cannot be re-lived. What’s done is done. What time remains is all we have left to do what we will with our lives on earth.

Time, as my great friend Chuck Missler often said, is linear—it is from one point that begins its movement to the concluding other point, the end.

God, Missler offered, created time for humankind. The Almighty is outside the confines of this linear sphere of existence for the creation. What God has assigned–and each life He gives has a purpose He intends for us—it’s up to each of us to accomplish.

This, of course, can be done only by obeying God’s directives. Here’s how God’s Word puts it:

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (Proverbs 3:5–6)

For believers who have an intense interest in Bible prophecy, I believe they’ve been given the assignment of watching, as the Lord Jesus commanded.

Jesus, in a sweeping description of the wrap-up of humanity’s timeline, mentioned the many signs that would be increasingly evident as the finale leading to the Tribulation nears. He then gave clear instructions to believers who would be alive at that time. Despite that many, particularly those of the seminary sort, will argue otherwise, I believe the Lord was alerting us to the future time Paul would later describe in prophesying the Rapture of the Church:

Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. (Mark 13:28–37) 

One such believer who takes her Lord’s command seriously is Jan Markell, founder and host of Understanding the Times radio program and Olive Tree Ministries. Her most recent article personifies, I think, obedience to Christ’s command and the scriptural exhortation given in Proverbs 3:5–6.

We should follow her lead in taking advantage of the time that’s left to us on earth. Here is a bit of Jan’s “watching” as Jesus commanded.

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I love short lists that folks can peruse and then dig deeper on their own. Today I came up with ten issues that tell me the hour is later than we thought. So, here’s my latest summary. Don’t be discouraged. Look up!

1. Europe is looking for an Antichrist figure.Prophecy News Watch reports a disturbing willingness among citizens to embrace strong, decisive leadership that could bypass democratic processes if it promises stability and results. One in five Europeans say they would prefer a dictatorship in certain circumstances, and a quarter admit they would not mind if a capable leader limited democratic rights and acted without accountability—provided he was effective…
2. Intensifying Lawlessness is everywhere. In Minnesota, not one elected official who participated in the Somali fraud of billions of dollars has been removed from office or arrested. The Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, in part responsible for the mayhem, just made Time Magazine’s top 100 influential people. Thanks for rewarding incompetence!
3. ICE has been demonized repeatedly, particularly in my hometown of Minneapolis. They have been arresting illegal aliens convicted of murder, domestic abuse, sexual assault, and more. In Minnesota alone, nearly 500 illegal aliens have been released back into the communitybecause state and local officials refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
4. Canada is poised to criminalize Christianity with a ban on citing biblical truths, reportsThe Federalist. Let that sink in. Crazed zealots in the leftist elite have turned Canadian Christians into scapegoats. They are considered deplorables…

Added to this outrage, Canada is offering to euthanize seniors. Canada’s free healthcare offers the  director of Dying to Meet You to the elderly who may be struggling. Surely love has grown cold (Matt. 24:12)…

5. The ultimate in calling evil good just transpired when the United Nations handed Iran a seat at the Women’s Rights Table. Iran—the regime whose morality police beat a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini to death for a loose headscarf—has just been elevated to a role within a key United Nations body shaping global policy on women’s rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention. This is last days’ lunacy and strong delusion (II Thess. 2:11), and it abounds everywhere. (“Ten Reasons to Look Up,” Jan Markell, https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Ten-Reasons-to-Look-Up-.html?soid=1101818841456&aid=VhSKtaNBdew)

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Jan’s article went on to document five more end-times indicators that, indeed, should alert fellow watchmen to be looking up!

Heaven’s purpose for Jesus’ command to watch is to alert us to the shortness of time left to do our assignments. The souls of men, women, and children hang heavily in the balance. Their only hope–like our only hope—is the Lord Jesus Christ and God’s grace gift of salvation He accomplished on that cross at Calvary.

Christ’s purpose in telling us to watch is also to encourage those of us in God’s family, as we must live as did Lot in that ancient time in Sodom.

The wickedness and evil will end. Jesus will return and put it to an end.

Ours is a future wherein time will no longer be a factor. We will be in that eternal region where there is no evil or wickedness to incessantly come against all that is godly.

Our days are numbered, the Psalmist tells us:

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. (Psalm 90:10–12)

My favorite song, as I sense my own days flying away, has become “Teach Us to Number Our Days” by Marty Goetz. I hope it blesses you as it does me.

Let us watch to work during these precious days we’ve been granted to bring as many souls as possible to Christ so they, too, will move from this time of trouble into that glorious timelessness of God’s eternal realm.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus! 

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For years I’ve had Jesus’ prophecy of Luke 17:28–30 at the center of the message I believe our Lord wants delivered at this late hour of the Church Age:

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17:28–30)

Well, that message hasn’t changed. It still resonates as the one prophecy I believe is most directly meant for this sin-darkening planet that’s on the cusp of receiving God’s wrath because of humankind’s rebellion against Him.

Jesus said when He next intervenes into the evil affairs of earth’s inhabitants, the “righteous” will be removed. In the “days of Lot” in Jesus’ prophecy, it was Lot and his family who were removed because Lot was considered the only one in Sodom who was righteous. In the case of Christ’s next intervention, He indicated that another righteous entity will be removed to safety. This, of course, will be all who believe in Jesus for salvation–collectively called the Church.

I always preface what I say about that moment of Rapture with Jesus’ statement that, at the time, people of earth will, as in Sodom of Lot’s day, be buying, selling, planting, building, and marrying—in other words, going about business as usual.

Even with all the evil going on now–and it’s probably worse than it was in ancient Sodom and Gomorrah—it is still business as usual, as I view it. Despite the evil–the wars and rumors of war, the deception, the ethnic upheaval all over the planet—there isn’t yet catastrophic disruption of life on earth.

So, in this sense, our time is exactly like Jesus predicted in Luke 17:28–30.

The one thing that has puzzled me to an extent is what Jesus said about the sudden destruction that will, like in Lot’s day, happen immediately upon the removal of the righteous.

As we know, the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. And the destruction apparently came immediately following Lot’s removal. The cities were decimated; for millennia, scientists and archaeologists thought the Bible’s account of the destruction to be myth. But in most previous decades, there is evidence that indeed these cities were destroyed, and even sulfur residue of the region at the south end of the Dead Sea proves that something devastatingly powerful blasted the area. Pottery shards and other evidence that humans once inhabited the region are still being extracted from beneath the earth’s surface there.

Jesus, again, said: “But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.”

My dilemma in this prophecy is wondering how the Rapture of the Church will be followed by the destruction of all inhabitants, because we know the world will be filled with unbelievers during the seven-year Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week). So, this must mean the destruction that will take place will have to be different than that which instantly and completely obliterated those ancient cities.

I’ve sort of resisted the idea that there will be nuclear war, or at least an all-out nuclear World War III, prior to the Rapture of the Church; otherwise, it could not be business as usual leading up to that call of Christ to all believers, living and dead.

Many observers, even some I hold as good teachers in the pre-Trib view, have been saying we are already in the early stages of World War III. That is, the world is now in the throes of everything it takes to begin a worldwide conflict, as in the times preceding World Wars I and II. Dr. Robert Jeffress of First Baptist of Dallas was one I heard say this just the other day.

He said, if I heard him correctly, he believes the Rapture will occur at the time of some other world-shaking event. He believes, he said, it might be a nuclear exchange that introduces World War III, or some such conflagration. This might cause many of the left-behind to miss the full prophetic implications of the disappearance of millions.

In thinking on this, and based upon the build-up toward conflict involving such nuclear powers as Russia, China, North Korea, and, of course the United States, I believe this might be the case. The Church might be snatched (harpazoed) into the clouds of Glory just as nuclear missiles begin raining down around parts of the globe.

This would certainly be ”sudden destruction,” but would not constitute total devastation as in Sodom and Gomorrah.

The devastation would quickly expand across the world, causing unbelievable chaos–eventuating in total destruction by the end of Armageddon when Christ returns. However, I don’t see in any way how this expanding destructiveness could negate attention paid to the disappearance of millions of earth’s inhabitants.

As you know, I believe all children below the age of accountability, even those just conceived, will be instantly absent from earth when Jesus calls the Church. This alone will cause panic and chaos unlike any situation one can truly imagine. Undoubtedly, the news pundits of the planet will somehow attribute this to being a phenomenon, either of unprecedented, unfathomable nuclear exposure, or to, as we’ve talked about before, some action by so-called extraterrestrial space brothers who have been observing human tendencies toward nuclear war since the advent of the atomic bomb.

Paul, following his words about the Rapture in 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18, prophesied the following that seems to lend credence to such a sudden-destruction scenario.

But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. (1 Thessalonians 5:1–3)  

Jesus, Himself, told of this coming moment when sudden destruction would forever change things on the earth:

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. (Luke 21:34–39)

 

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Might as well get directly to the matter that is sticking in my craw, as we sometimes say down south.

It isn’t something I particularly want to address, because it involves an objection I have to someone I greatly admire in that he has brought changes from the previous presidential administration’s governance that are most welcome. These changes have been in ways so much more in line with what the founders, I believe, intended for this nation. It is therefore going against my grain somewhat to have to admonish President Trump.

The reason for the admonishment is especially appropriate, however, because the grievance involves the time of the most holy of observances of the Christian tradition.

The president, in announcing US threats to deal with the terrorist Iranian regime’s evil, conveyed the threat in a vulgar expletive.

Trump kicked off Easter Sunday with a foul-mouthed tirade against Iran and praising Allah—warning the regime to “open the (expletive deleted) ” Strait of Hormuz or else he will ensure the Islamic Republic’s leaders end up in hell.…

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “There will be nothing like it!!! Open the (expletive deleted) Strait, you crazy (expletive deleted), or you’ll be living in Hell.”…

“JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah,” he added in a signed post.

(Trump tells Iran “open the [expletive deleted] Strait, you [expletive deleted]”—as he warns of new strikes and says “praise be to Allah,” By Ryan King, New York Post, April 5, 2026)

This language, of course, cut straight to the spiritual heart of apropos Christian expression. And it was a mixed message, like few, if any, from a president of the United States I’ve heard in my eight decades of life.

Within only a matter of hours, the above threat was either followed by or preceded by (I can’t remember which was issued first) a message the president issued that perhaps was the most Christ-centered Easter message I’ve ever heard a president speak:

This Easter Sunday, the First Lady and I join with Christians all across our Nation and around the world in rejoicing in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, whose triumph over sin and victory over death secured the promise of redemption and the hope of eternal life for all who believe in Him as Lord and Savior.

Sunday, we proclaim with joy that Christ has risen, a new creation has been ushered in, and evil and death have been conquered forever through the unmatched power of God’s sacrificial love. (Presidential Message on Easter – The White House, April 5, 2026)

What a true and powerful message from the president of the United States! Mr. Trump is as bold in proclaiming the message of Christ as he is in using salacious wording in making threats the vulgar nature of which I might have heard back in the ninth grade.

Wrapped in this president’s verbiage when confronting friends and foes alike is often the element of being human that is most worrisome to me. That is, His communications are often laced with what could be and most often is construed as pride, even arrogance.

Many among the punditry sources from the conservative political side dismiss this as Mr. Trump’s being from New York City, perhaps America’s most profane city in terms of language usage.

Trump’s prideful, tongue-in-cheek expressions are, of course, legendary. And I admit I often find some of them quite amusing. I cannot, however, dismiss with this personality excuse Trump’s use of ungodly language. This, whether the language comes from the president of the United States, some other celebrity, or from myself or my family or friends in a moment of anger or just in general conversation is ungodly and must be condemned.

Here is what God’s Word says about the Lord’s opinion of pride and a foul mouth.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. (Proverbs 8:13)

Here is what God further tells us through the Apostle James about the language we use.

Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. (James 3: 3-12)

President Donald J. Trump often uses prideful and coarse language in speaking about America’s great military power. I’ve heard some talk show hosts who are conservative and supporters of the Trump administration excuse this prideful extolling of the US greatness as just Trump being Trump. That is, they say Mr. Trump is just using such language in speaking to the tyrants of the world–such as the terrorist regimes of the Middle East. It is the only language a bully understands, they say. And, they say, America’s power is to be used to control the bullies of the geopolitical world.

Let me say at this point that I totally support our president in most everything he has done to try to do away with the so-called “woke” evil that previous administrations imposed on our nation. I agree with him in dealing as he continues to deal with the likes of the Iranian regime–an evil, fanatic horde that would use nuclear weapons on both America and Israel if they ever possess such horrific weaponry.

But, I can’t believe for a moment that the God of Heaven, who has so blessed America, and who I believe has saved Mr. Trump’s life to see to it that he is presently in the most powerful office on the planet, would ever be tolerant of the pride-filled, profanity-laced language this president, or any of the rest of us might use.

Another president comes to mind, from a history class in college somewhere in my past. George Washington, when general of the Revolutionary Army, was recorded as being upset at the cursing going on in the ranks of his army during the Revolutionary War for Independence.

Washington was said to ask in issuing an order to stop such vulgar talk: how could his forces ever expect the blessings of God by granting victory, considering the use of foul language being used in the ranks that included taking the Almighty’s name in vain.

God changes not. I wish that neither would our presidents’ view of morality expressed by that great leader who issued his order to desist use of such language.

There is coming another leader who will have comportment the opposite of that of Washington. Here is God’s Word on that soon-to-come dictator of much of the world.

And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. (Daniel 11: 36)

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. (Revelation 13: 5-6)

You and I want to be among those in Heaven whom Antichrist will curse as given in this prophecy. We want to be part of the Rapture of the Church who will be with Jesus at the time this greatest of all tyrants has the reins of power on this judgment-bound world.

Here yet again is how to accept Christ and be part of that stupendous event that will take all believers into the clouds of Glory.

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)

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!