There is constant speculation, even chatter these days that President Trump will soon order another strike on Iran’s nuclear weapons production areas. Some reports say this will take place before the midterm elections (and at the time his article is being posted, it hasn’t happened; that tells us it won’t happen before the midterms). And some say it will take place following the midterms.

President Trump himself has said in impromptu news gatherings that he will likely strike again following the midterm elections.

There has been much speculation by news pundits and politicos about the whys and whens of such a strike. My own speculation is that such a strike is destined to take place, and it will have severe ramifications to the regions struck, as outlined by the prophet Jeremiah, which we have covered a number of times in these articles.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently spoke to his view of the necessity to deal finally with the Iranian regime. An excerpt of his thoughts is covered in the following news item.

Israel has achieved stunning military accomplishments against Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, militias in Syria, and, most notably, against the head of the terror proxy snake: Iran.

These pivotal elections, like the five consecutive elections between April 2019 and November 2022, are again a referendum on the continued governance of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu is presenting Israelis with a stark electoral choice: Renew his mandate to capitalize on Trump’s bold endorsement this past week or risk surrendering the strategic gains of a multi-pronged war.

Netanyahu argues that the campaign remains unfinished. Even after the blows that Israel and the United States have delivered together and apart, Tehran, he warns, could restart its nuclear program. He therefore frames Trump’s endorsement as a promise to finish what was started, contingent on his remaining in the top job.

In a wide-ranging pre-election interview with JNS, Netanyahu casts his partnership with Trump as the foundation for an ambitious agenda: to bring down Iran’s regime, further weakening its regional proxies; expand the Abraham Accords normalization agreements with Muslim-majority countries in the region; and prevent the creation of a Palestinian state anywhere within Israel’s current borders. (“Netanyahu to JNS: ‘The only way to guarantee the future of Israel is to remove the Iranian regime’,” Alex Traiman, JNS, RR News, October 22, 2026)

I believe there can be little doubt that this prime minister and this US president fully intend to deliver a blow to this hellish regime. I am convinced they will attempt to do so. And the blow will be catastrophic, especially to the people of the region affected.

To do otherwise would be to make the previous destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities nonsensical and merely an exercise in futility.

Much speculation about the MOAB (“mother of all bombs”) being used comes from some top Trump administration officials. This, of course, is the most powerful weapon in the American military inventory that is non-nuclear in nature.

But decimation to Iran’s nuclear facility is not the same as removal of the regime that has vowed to destroy both the “little Satan” (Israel) and the “big Satan” (the United States of America).

Most observers of geopolitics apparently believe and forecast that it would take a massive invasion of troops on the ground to finally and forever remove Iran’s regime structure. Neither Netanyahu nor Trump is willing to commit to such an all-out ground invasion.

However, more to the point, there is going to be in place during the future invasion of Israel an Iranian regime at least as wicked and hate filled as the present Iranian regime.

Ezekiel the prophet was given through Holy Spirit inspiration the armies of people to Israel’s north that will come to “take spoil” and annihilate God’s chosen people. This will never be allowed to happen, of course, as God Himself will intervene and destroy all but one-sixth of the invading force.

One of the chief members of that force will be the armies of Persia. This, of course, is the ancient name for the region of present-day Iran. So, a regime at least as evil as that in today’s Iran will exist at the time of the Gog-Magog attack outlined by Ezekiel.

Therefore, because of the lateness of the prophetic hour—based upon all of the signals that we are near the end of the Age of Grace—the present Iranian regime seems destined to be part of the Gog-Magog attacking force.

My own view is that the assault will take place very soon after the Rapture of the Church. I believe the man of sin who will become earth’s last and most terrible tyrant will watch, knowing this force will be defeated by God, then will move into Jerusalem to become that son of perdition.

So, my own take is to watch for a devastating strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, but not for Iranian regime change. Iran’s destiny—that is, Persia’s evil regime’s prophetic destiny—is in God’s crosshairs for destruction!

Should the great Apostle Paul be allowed to return from Heaven to get a glimpse of things going on here at the moment –a thing he would likely decline if offered—I believe upon his taking one glance at today’s so-called leftists’ thinking, he would say this was exactly the point he was making as recorded in Romans 1:28.

Here are those things wrapped in the apostle’s words, under Holy Spirit Inspiration:

“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 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 meet.

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them (Romans 1: 24-32).

Now these accusations can be leveled all across the human dimension, for all have sinned and come short of God’s Glory, as the Scripture informs. However, as an ideology that has manifested these ungodly characteristics to the slightest detail, the leftist-progressive mindset personifies Paul’s description of the reprobate mind (v. 28).

The following journalistic piece, to my way of observation, frames precisely this mindset against all that is godly that we have been subjected to for more than a few decades –particularly, for the past decade:

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.  Such is often the case with far-left political candidates and their thinly veiled rhetoric.  Not long ago, these officials used to hide their more radical beliefs behind a facade of “centrism,” but then something magical happened: The year 2020.

This was the year the mask was ripped off completely, and progressives showed their true degenerate colors to the world.  The combination of pandemic hysteria, the BLM riots, the NGO-funded transgender movement (targeting children), the contested presidential election, and the rise of the Biden regime gave the political left more jumped-up arrogance than they had ever shown before.

They had gone insane with dreams of perpetual power. 

In the wake of the leftist frenzy, many Democrat politicians felt emboldened to come out of the closet as the Cultural Marxists they truly are.  However, with the fall of Biden and the collapse of DEI, these same officials are now attempting to distance themselves from what they call “Woke 1.0,” and they are putting the trusty masks back on.  One such person is James Talarico.  In fact, Talarico represents the quintessential militant leftist in centrist clothing.

The Texas State Representative has been in the news recently for his bizarre two-week disappearance at the peak of campaign season, which he claims was due to the flu.  Conservative influencers Nick Sortor and Rhein Amacher posted on X asserting that a hospital employee at the Lindner Center of Hope (a mental health facility in Mason, Ohio, near Cincinnati) had confirmed that James Talarico had been a patient there and was recently discharged.

Source: The Madness Of James Talarico,  ZeroHedge, Rapture Ready News, October 14, 2026

With the nation being split pretty much down the middle regarding morality and social issues, as the younger generations are fed lies about America’s founding and about God’s Governance through a godless education system, and pumped full of half-truths and outright lies by social and mainstream news and entertainment media, Paul’s words are fully in view as Prophetic Truth. Much of the nation has, it seems, been or is in process of being turned over to that reprobate mind (Romans 1:28).

While we watch things unfold as the Mid-term elections approach, it is not out of order to wonder whether America is past redemption in the sense of maintaining national sanity or maybe being returned to national sanity.

Certainly, this is no time to give up on this once great nation, as it was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. The Second Chronicles 2:14 promise is still there in God’s Holy Word. And it applies to America and her people who belong to God’s Family as much as to all of God’s people of all the ages.

The end-time reprobate mind is a national, even worldwide, sin-infection, but God’s Remedy is available as the Rx for this Satan-spawned Dementia.

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).

My novel, The Rapture Dialogues, was accepted and published under the imprint called Anomalous. It was a story about UFOs and the crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. At least the story started there with the strange goings on that still have even the UFO experts of today wondering about exactly what took place at that time.

The government’s dealing with that long-past occurrence and the very latest incidents involving strange goings on in the dark heavens above have emerged to dominate headlines today. And they are no longer called UFOs (unidentified flying objects) but are now termed UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena).

My novel came out many years ago before the renaming from UFOs to UAPs. So, does that make me a prophet? Or my publisher an oracle?

Well, no, but my publisher and myself did agree that UFOs were anomalous matters, in that their true nature, although unknown by even the scientists of the world, was, we believe, made known by God’s Word. And Jesus Christ, who is the Word (John 1: 1), gave what I believe is the foretelling of just such anomalous phenomena for the wrap up of the Age of Grace.

The Lord prophesied the following in answering His disciples’ question: “What will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars…(Luke 21:25a)

Jesus was saying there would be unmistakable signals to look for when the time for the wind-up of the Church Age arrived. Those watching as instructed in Mark 13: 37 and Luke 21:28 will know that these signs in the heavens will alert that Jesus is about to return as He promised (John 14:2–3).

Evidence mounts that we have reached the time Jesus spoke about. And it is this particular signal we will examine in this commentary.

Could unidentified anomalous phenomena — a new catch-all term for unidentified objects in the sky, oceans or space — be pushing the United States towards another “Sputnik Moment”?

That’s the belief of NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who compared the uptick in reported unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) sightings in recent years to the Cold War paranoia stirred up when the former Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to circle Earth in 1957.

Isaacman made the comments in a recent interview with Blake Burman, host of NewsNation’s “The Hill” broadcast on Sept. 25 that touched upon a range of space-related issues. And one of those was probing the space agency chief about he thinks UAP might be.

Burman made note of pilot reports and videos released of objects with flight characteristics unlike anything previously seen.

“When you watch these videos,” Burman asked Isaacman, “do you believe that anything that we’ve seen in any of this is potentially extraterrestrial. Is it military? What is it?”

Isaacman said that NASA has had “a seat at the table” since U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this year called for releasing Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) and UAP files. That call is now officially known as the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).

“My position going into every one of these: one, be open-minded. I mean, it is kind of our job to go out and try to answer the question ‘are we alone?’” (“NASA chief Jared Isaacman wants to stay ‘open-minded’ about UFOs: ‘If it’s aliens, I think NASA should have a seat at the table’,” by Leonard David, SPACE, RR News October 6, 2026)

In answer to the “experts” here: We are not alone. Again, here is what God’s Word says through the Apostle Paul:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)

The dark forces of the evil one are indeed in the high places, and I believe they are manifesting against the black backdrop of deep space.

Every Christian should be alert to all the signals the Lord and other prophets gave for the very end of the age.

It is sad that very few pastors in the pulpits, thus very few Christians in their pews, are alert to these clearly manifesting signs that Jesus is about to step onto the clouds of Glory and make that shout, “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1).

There is no reason that term “anomalous” (“unknown”) should be applied to the believers –Christians—when considering these strange times.

Revelation 12 tells plainly that there is currently a tremendous battle raging, not only on earth, but in the heavens. God’s Word tells us those who are battling. Bible prophecy tells us the outcome of that battle in heaven:

Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. (Revelation 12:7–10)

So, the battle we face today on earth as given in Ephesians 6:12 by the Apostle Paul will rage at the very end of this age until Satan and his angels are defeated by Michael and his angelic force.

I believe we will likely witness more of this so-called anomalous activity as time draws near to Christ making THAT SHOUT! (This is another title of a book I’ve just completed and delivered to my publisher: CHRIST’S SHOUT: The Rapture, When Millions Vanish and Hell on Earth Begins).

To hear that shout, here is what you must do. Or, if you have already done so, tell others who haven’t done this so they, too, can go to be with the Lord when He calls.

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)

A significant prophetic indicator is in full view that warrants notice at this late hour of this dispensation. Jesus Himself gave it as part of His Olivet Discourse:

Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. 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 21:24–25)

Memory doesn’t have to go far back into recent history to remember how hatred for President Donald J. Trump caused great rioting in the streets of America.

We remember how reporters for mainstream news stood in front of all the rioting. In the background, buildings, cop cars, and even the so-called Church of Presidents in Washington, D.C., were burning.

President Trump and his family and staff had to evacuate the upper floors of the White House and go underground to avoid danger of being assaulted by the raging rioters just outside White House grounds.

The reporters told us that the protests were “mostly peaceful,” even though there were serious injuries and total destruction in some instances.

There was true insurrection from anti-American evil organizations like Black Lives Matter and Antifa. These were given by mainstream news media the façade of legitimacy—of being ”peaceful organizations” conducting “legitimate protests”—while, in actuality, the rioters tried to tear the nation apart and create chaos.

Yet, in the case when President Trump, who had lost the 2020 presidential election, urged people to peacefully protest at the Capitol and the people were for the most part genuinely peaceful in doing so, mainstream news organizations dutifully reported for anti-Trump political entities that that protest was a full-blown insurrection. One young woman, a member of the American military, was shot by a security person for Capitol grounds even though she was doing nothing of a confrontational or violent nature.

There is an exponentially growing spirit of insurrection manifesting today. This is seen not only in this country with the Trump Derangement Syndrome that media have ginned up, but it has gone viral worldwide.

The latest spirit of insurrection that is truly from demonic portals with religious fanaticism at its core is seen in this report from Europe.

The Red/Green Alliance is in the streets of France setting her on fire. Muslims and leftists, along with a lot of students, are setting fire to hundreds of schools, churches, and vehicles. They are also setting fire to principles, firefighters, and bystanders. It’s an evil apocalypse come home to roost.

France is experiencing the Red/Green Alliance’s loving touch in its streets. Violent Muslims and leftists wreaked havoc across France on Friday, setting fire to everything they could, including people. Many of the protesters were African and Arab students. Riot police clashed with teenagers in several French cities as roughly 400 high schools were closed. At last count, almost 2,000 people had been arrested as the government blamed leftists for the upheaval…

After setting their schools and even their teachers on fire, Muslim students rioting in France are now torching firefighters as they try to put out the fires… [It is] a war zone. (“France Is Literally on Fire as Muslims and Leftists Violently Protest in the Streets, Declare War Against the French State,” Terresa Monroe-Hamilton, RAIR, October 2, 2026)

Just like in the case of mainstream news reporting in the US, reporters in France and other foreign places are calling these protests “mostly peaceful.” Of course, we remember that God’s Word tells us Satan is the prince of the power of the air, so it shouldn’t surprise that such lies are going viral and are global.

In the Luke 21:24–25 prophecy by the Lord Jesus, we are warned that there will be “upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring.”

This is reference to a worldwide upheaval among the people of the earth. Certainly, we are witnessing a spreading of this hell-spawned “perplexity” among nations. The seas of humanity—instigated, I believe, by radical Islam, in conjunction with the leftist, luciferian ideology—are roaring as these foment anti-God, anti-Christ evil.

Jesus’ prophecy, like all other Bible prophecy, is clearly manifesting in these closing hours of this Age of Grace. The evil we see spreading at an alarming rate, as Islam attempts to upset the Judeo-Christian foundation of the United States and to infect the entire world with anti-God wickedness must be opposed at every level by the Church of Jesus Christ. This means we must, as individual Royal Ambassadors for our King, be ever watchful and fervent in our opposition to that wickedness.

Sadly, most churches today are slumbering and not recognizing these prophecies as being on the front pages and hourly news cycles. Heavenly alerts signaling the lateness of the prophetic hour are pulsing brightly. The Tribulation hour is on the immediate prophetic horizon.

We must put out the warning and offer the only rescue from that coming hour of satanic darkness. Here, again, is that offer from the God who loves the world of humanity so much that He provided forgiveness and redemption for all who accept His grace gift offer.

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)

Authors note: This is from my file archives. And I want to share again that powerful moment when Jesus—and we who are in His army—comes back to vanquish evil and restore righteousness to earth.    

Leaders of the forces met at Armageddon to battle each other, will turn to see the brightness that has broken through the darkness that has overcast earth’s skies because of the judgments of God. Antichrist, supreme leader of much of the forces west of the Euphrates River, will recognize the invading force from Heaven. Perhaps the leaders from the 200-million-man army from the Orient that has crossed the dried-up Euphrates from the east will also know what the brilliantly shining heavenly intrusion is all about. All earthly forces will then turn to concentrate their fire at the descending heavenly army, led by Jesus Christ.

While the sea of humanity on the planet’s surface viciously roars in an attempt to prevent the heavenly intervention, those warring forces will turn from battling with each other to curse God and all His righteousness. Then Jesus Christ, mounted upon a stunningly white steed, will speak words sharper than a two-edged sword.

Master to Calm Storm

I am convinced they will be the same words Jesus of Nazareth spoke to that raging sea of Galilee nearly two millennia ago. (Read Mark 4: 36-41.) They are the same words He speaks today to everyone who turns to Him, acknowledging that there is nothing and no one but Christ who can save them. He speaks those words to all who accept Him and trust Him to save them from their sins and to make them born-again children of God.

Just as His words instantaneously calmed that violent sea, thus saving the men in the little boat, Jesus’ words will instantly end the warfare and rebellion at Armageddon. Christ’s words to the individual’s troubled heart likewise bring tranquility and joy to the soul. A person is never the same when Jesus speaks those life-changing words. “Peace, be still” (Mark 4:39).

Bloody Peace

When Jesus speaks the words “Peace be still” at Armageddon, His command will be against all the vileness that has been building in humanistic rebellion over the thousands of years since God last judged in such a mighty way. All people died in the Flood except Noah and seven others. Christ’s words at Armageddon will apparently cause most, if not all, of the soldiers of the armies of the world gathered there to literally burst open, so powerful will be His command!

The plains of Armageddon will flow with a flood of blood! The Scripture says of this event:

And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. (Revelation 14: 20)

The point is, when Jesus speaks, His words are sharper and more powerful than a two-edged sword. When Christ speaks, all opposition by earth’s armies will instantly cease and desist. All will lie horribly bloody—but peaceful—upon the vast killing field called Armageddon.

Jesus on the Throne!

Jesus, following His stunning victory over the enemies of God, will proceed to get the people of Israel who have, during the Tribulation, come to believe in Him. He will rescue them from the place God has hidden them. This hiding of believing Israel (all Jewish people whom have accepted that Jesus was and is their Messiah) is revealed in the following verses:

And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time,

and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Revelation 12: 13-17)

The Hiding Place

Satan’s Antichrist forces will try to completely wipe the Jewish race from the face of the earth. They will try to fully implement Satan’s Final Solution. But God will intervene with great supernatural catastrophe and prevent the Antichrist from finding the Jews. God will have hidden them somewhere. As we’ve looked at before, many prophetic scholars believe the hiding place will be in the Jordanian desert, in the “rose-red city” called Petra.

Jesus will retrieve these believing Jews from their hiding place, and will use this remnant of the Jewish Race to be His nation of Israel during His 1000 year rule on earth called “the Millennium.”

Israel Saved!

The Bible says one-third of Jews alive during the Tribulation will recognize their Messiah, Jesus Christ, at the moment He returns in the Second Coming. It will be a real eye-opener for them.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for [his] only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn. (Zechariah 12:10)

Jesus will then move, with His saints of the Church Age and with his chosen people (all of saved Israel) to Jerusalem. He will set up His throne upon a topographically changed Mt. Moriah in the Millennial Temple He will build.

More Judgments

Antichrist and False Prophet Judgment

The Lord Jesus will judge Antichrist and the False Prophet, who have persecuted Tribulation saints, and, particularly, the Jewish race (Israel). We learn of these two beasts as follows:

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. (Revelation 19: 20)

These two will be the first to be cast into Hell. They will have it to themselves until a thousand years later, after the White Throne Judgment.

Satan’s Confinement

The devil will next be grabbed and confined for a thousand years.

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. (Revelation 20: 1-3)

The bottomless pit is the same place from where the rich man, in torment, looked into paradise to see Lazarus in Abraham’s Bosom, according to Jesus’s teaching. (Read Luke 16: 19-31.)

Sheep and Goat Judgements   

• Christ will judge the nations. Their fate will hang upon how they treated His chosen people, the Jews. The “goat” nations will stand on Christ’s left while He judges, while the “sheep” nations will stand on His right.
• All in the goat nations will be cast into everlasting darkness. They are lost for eternity. These nations consist of individually lost souls, each of whom will, apparently, be placed in nations that have persecuted Jews, and, most likely, Tribulation saints as well.  The nations so judged will no longer be part of the nations of earth. (Read Matthew 25: 32-46 to learn exactly what the prophetic Word of God has to say about that great future judgment.)
• It is logical to presume that the saved people who have lived in the goat or lost nations will be put into the sheep nations, which will be allowed into the Millennial Kingdom. Likewise, the unsaved people who have lived in the sheep nations will go into the goat nations to meet their eternal fate in outer darkness.
• Saints of the Tribulation who make it through the seven years alive, will, individually, go into the nations that have treated Israel kindly.
• However, it must be recognized that the children who will be born during the Millenium will have to make the same decision their parents made to accept or reject Christ for salvation. Millions will not do so and will be as rebellious as the rebels before this time of Christ’s glorious reign on earth for a thousand years. These unsaved will join Satan in the final rebellion when he is released from the bottomless pit for a brief time. All will be destroyed and will spend eternity in Hell apart from God.
• Millions of others who are the children of the saints that go into the Millennium will accept Christ, and will, ultimately, live eternally with God. These offspring of the Tribulation saints who go into the Millennium will be the peoples who will continue to repopulate the earth for a thousand years. All these individuals  will be saved for eternity. 

Fantastic changes!

Jesus will assume the throne that belongs to Him alone. It is called the “Throne of David.” David, apparently, because of God’s own choosing, will, in his supernatural state, also rule over the nation Israel during the millennial era.

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. (Matthew 25: 30)

The terrain of Jerusalem and the whole world will supernaturally change in accordance with a masterful sweep of King Jesus’ majestic hand.

We are given a glimpse of those astonishing topographical and environmental changes prophesied to take place in that day. (Read Zechariah 14: 4-9.)

Like in Eden

Jesus will make the earth like it was in the time of the Garden of Eden. It will be a crime-free world for the most part. Anyone who commits a crime will be dealt with immediately, and from a righteous justice system that has perfect knowledge of all things involved in the crime.

Many prophecy students believe Church Age saints will be officers of the Supreme’s Court of Justice in the administration of King Jesus. As supernatural officers of the Court, they will certainly be equipped to handle such a duty.

But, crime will be almost nonexistent, compared to our present hour. Christ’s saints, both flesh and blood saints, and supernatural saints, will doubtless have wonderfully creative things to do for those thousand years. Anticipating that time of glorious service should empower us for our Royal Ambassador service here on earth!

There is really no way to truly fathom what that moment of Rapture will be like. Our finite minds, no matter how close our Holy Spirit-centered hearts are to God, just don’t have the capability of fully understanding things of that eternal leap into Glory.

Paul comes close to explaining what that instant transposition from earth to Heaven will be like. His explanation isn’t as thorough as we would wish, perhaps, but he does give it an excellent try under Holy Spirit inspiration:

But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” (1 Corinthians 2:9)

That is both a thrilling promise and a frustrating one, if taken as it stands alone. Believers in God’s Word trust that a time is coming when things will be so wonderful we can’t even comprehend the marvels.

The frustration is taken out of the promise, to some extent, by Paul’s next pronouncement:

But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. (1Corinthians 2:10)

Indeed, this deeply etched certainty that a moment of change from the earthly into the heavenly is coming particularly comforts Christians who believe in the pre-Tribulation Rapture. They are so certain this instantaneous change is imminent (can happen at any tick of the clock) that they have trouble thinking about future earthly schedules.

Believe me, some of these believers are my very close brothers and sisters in Christ. No matter how those around them believe regarding the Rapture—that it might be years in the future, et cetera—they plan as if they will hear that shout, “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1) before the week or even the day has passed.

While it is prudent—and, I believe, expected—for believers to move ahead with life in an orderly and scheduled manner, planning for tomorrow to some extent, I have to think our Lord smiles any time those Rapture-ready Christians of the fanatical sort, as some believe them to be, display their beliefs without ceasing.

This anticipation of the soon-to-happen event can be likened to a bride and groom awaiting the moment they are forever together in holy matrimony. As a matter of fact, that’s exactly how God’s Word defines the relationship of the believer in Christ to His Son Jesus Christ. The Rapture of the Church that began building as given in Matthew 16:18 is likened to a marriage of most majestic order. It will be a marriage that cannot be broken, and it will forever grow in glory throughout all of eternity.

Dr. John Walvoord explained this heavenly marriage as follows:

Taking this figure as a spiritual picture of the relationship of Christ to His church, it is evident that for individual Christians, the marriage as far as its legal character is concerned is consummated at the moment an individual puts his trust in Jesus Christ as Savior. In the case of the Christian, the dowry has already been paid in the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, and the bride has been purchased and claimed in a legal way by the Bridegroom. The church is, therefore, already married to Christ as far as the technical relationship is concerned. The day will come, however, when the Bridegroom will come for His bride and this is fulfilled in the rapture of the church. At that time the Bridegroom will claim His bride and take her to His Father’s house. This is the background of the statements in John 14:2, 3 where Christ said: “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also.” This passage contemplates that Christ in the present age is preparing a place for His bride. When this is complete and the bride is ready, He will come to take the bride to her heavenly home which will be accomplished by the rapture and translation of the church. (John W. Walvoord, The Nations, Israel, and The Church in Prophecy, Zondervan, 1967).

Jesus indicated when construction of this home will be complete. He gave a series of “birth pangs”—things that will be happening in frequency and intensity as the time of His coming for the Church will be near. He then told believers the following:

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

We look around today and see the building storm of the end times. I constantly hear from fellow believers that they are ready to leave—to hear that shout: “Come up here!”

When it is made—in less time than it takes for light to enter the eye and strike the retina, in an atomos of time—we will find ourselves looking into the eyes of our Lord.

These are the eyes of the one who ransomed us from sin on that cross at Calvary, who loved us so much that He agreed with God the Father to become the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8).

The shoutings of heavenly ecstasy made by we who have just been instantaneously transformed from mortals to immortals will fill the clouds of Glory. We will then, with minds like the mind of Jesus Himself—our Savior, our Bridegroom—understand the mysteries of all the ages and why our Heavenly Father and His Son have moved Heaven and Hell to bring us to this moment of everlasting life.

Paul’s prophetic words will at this moment of Rapture be fulfilled!

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (1 Corinthians 15:50–55)

There has long been controversy about the following words the Apostle Paul was given concerning the falling away that will happen as an introduction to Antichrist coming on the world scene:

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. (2 Thessalonians 2:1–3)

Paul had, during a previous visit to the Thessalonian Christians (1 Thessalonians 4) prophesied that the Rapture would occur and that the Day of Christ would usher in God’s vengeance on those who opposed His righteousness. Some naysayers had come to those believers since that previous visit and planted the seed of disbelief that the prophecy had been fulfilled already and that the believers’ loved ones who had died since had missed the Rapture, et cetera.

Paul straightened out the believers’ falsely received information by saying the Rapture and all of God’s promises to deal with the evil oppressors had not yet taken place, and that the loved ones who had gone on to Heaven had not missed anything.

He told them that the great Day of Christ—thus, the issuing in of the Tribulation and the coming of Antichrist—wouldn’t come before the falling away took place.

The controversy among eschatological viewpoints is: What is meant by the “falling away”?

The “falling away” comes from the Greek word apostasía. It means “to stand away from” or “a departure.”

Some who study the matters involved believe the “falling away” of 2 Thessalonians means a departure from or a falling away from belief in Jesus Christ—from the gospel.

Others believe the phrase here means “a spatial or physical departure”—as when one leaves one place to go to another.

My own belief is that the term in this prophecy has the characteristics of both the spiritual meaning of departure from faith in Christ alone for salvation and departure in the spatial sense—the Rapture, when all believers will leave earth to be with Christ when He shouts, “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1).   

I want to address where I believe we are on God’s prophetic timeline with regard to the departure from the faith—from the gospel of Jesus Christ. Particularly, I want to present how that falling away or departure is on full display at this moment, showing just how near must be the spatial departure—the Rapture, followed by the arrival of Antichrist on the world stage.

I believe the following information provides that evidence.

Walk into certain churches today and you may encounter something that would be almost unrecognizable to Christians who worshiped in the same denominations only a generation ago.

Rainbow flags surround the sanctuary. Pastors preach in Pride-colored vestments. Worship services feature queer hymns and transgender themes. Glitter replaces traditional ashes. Rainbow bread appears at Communion. Special ceremonies celebrate transgender name changes, while Pride Month brings its own sermons, liturgies and church celebrations.

These aren’t simply changes in decoration or attempts to make visitors feel welcome. Taken together, they reveal how deeply LGBTQ+ ideology has worked its way into the worship and theology of parts of the modern church.

Christianity already has its own worship, hymns, sacraments, symbols, sacred language and understanding of identity. Increasingly, each is being reworked through the lens of sexuality and gender. (“10 Ways LGBTQ+ Ideology Is Reshaping the Church,” by PNW staff, Prophecy News Watch, RR News, September 16, 2026)

The Prophecy News Watch story goes on to give ten specific and clearest examples of how LGBTQ+ forces are fulfilling the 2 Thessalonians 2 prophecy by apostatizing within churches formerly of true faith, as I understand the report. I will let the reader find the item and read the details of ten specific ways this is happening. Here they are in brief.

10. Transgender Worship Leaders and Bands

The worship platform has become one of the most visible places for churches to demonstrate LGBTQ+ affirmation. Transgender and nonbinary worship leaders are sometimes deliberately celebrated as representatives of a congregation’s commitment to queer inclusion.

9. Queer Hymns and Trans-Inclusive Worship Songs

Even the songs are being rewritten.

8. Glitter Blessings

Few examples capture the transformation as vividly as “Glitter Ash Wednesday.”

7. Rainbow Communion

Even the Lord’s Supper has received a Pride makeover.

Communion was given to point Christians toward the broken body and shed blood of Jesus Christ. When Pride symbolism surrounds—or becomes part of—the sacrament itself, the symbolism competing for the congregation’s attention is impossible to ignore.

6. Transgender Renaming Ceremonies

Some churches now conduct special ceremonies recognizing the new names and gender identities of transgender members.

5. Pride and Trans-Themed Sermons

The transformation inevitably reaches the pulpit.

At that point, the debate has moved far beyond hospitality. It has become a debate over who gets to define Christian truth.

4. Rainbow Symbols Throughout the Sanctuary

Sometimes you don’t need to hear the sermon to understand what a church is proclaiming.

Rainbow flags hang from sanctuary walls. Pride banners appear around altars. Churches illuminate their buildings in rainbow colors. LGBTQ+ symbols appear on church signs, windows and Communion tables—sometimes within sight of the cross itself.

3. Rainbow Clergy Vestments

Pastors themselves have become part of the visual transformation.

2. Queering the Bible

This transformation reaches much deeper than flags and clothing.

Queer theology can reinterpret Scripture through LGBTQ+ categories, challenge historic Christian understandings of sexuality and gender, reconsider biblical relationships through a queer lens and alter traditional language concerning God.

1. Pride Has Become a Church Season

Christmas. Easter. Pentecost.

Now some churches effectively add Pride Month to the calendar.

It is most interesting to see this end-times falling away spiritually. Much more than merely interesting, however, it is most telling of exactly how near we must be to the moment of Rapture—that Departure we as Christians are looking for—and the appearance of Antichrist—a matter we are thankful not to experience.

Here again is how to make sure you go to Christ in that departure and are not left behind to suffer that coming seven years of Antichrist-spawned Tribulation.

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)

Here again, I’m on my soapbox. My contention continues to be that Jesus’ prophecy about the days of Lot is coming into view in these times when Sodom-like wickedness is burgeoning.

Again, I believe as strongly as ever that Jesus said the following about the moment of Rapture:

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) 

There should not be a question among true believers that we are in Sodom-like days. News reports each hour bring information that burns our eyes and ears with tales of evil. That these days can be likened to Jesus’ prophecy is almost a given.

But there have been reports that the world is about to collapse into a financial heap of disaster and calamity. This goes counter to the Lord’s statement that people will be buying, selling, and building—doing all the things that indicate good economic times like in Lot’s day. It will be just like those days, Jesus said, when He next breaks into this world to bring about God’s ownership again of planet earth. This will begin with the Rapture of all believers—the Church, as Jesus described His building project. Speaking to Peter and the disciples, Jesus said:

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (Matthew 16:18)   

The news of pending economic catastrophe continues to come, with some writers in the Christian community believing that Christians will soon go into the time of Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week—seven years of hell on earth.) There will be no Rapture to rescue believers in Jesus Christ of this Church Age, in this view of biblical eschatology—even though Jesus Himself gave John the beloved disciple the following in the book of Revelation:

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (Revelation 3:10) 

The predictions of the world getting worse in terms of economic conditions until the Tribulation starts continue to mount. These predictions erroneously compete with the Lord’s prophecy about the days of Lot, if I might put kindly how I see the views of those counter to the Lord’s foretelling. Here is one such counter opinion to what is happening as the time of Christ’s intervention nears. While the writer is reporting facts, the one-sided view fails to take into account the other, which I next give as example.

The global energy supply crunch is only going to get worse as long as the conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe are raging. A lot less oil is getting through the Strait of Hormuz than normal, and diesel production in Russia has been significantly diminished by relentless Ukrainian drone strikes…

If things are this bad now, what will they look like a few months from now if World War 3 continues to intensify? …

The clouds on the horizon are getting really dark, and at this point everyone can see that a major storm is rapidly approaching. (“Goldman Sachs Warns Oil Could Soon Rise Above $120 A Barrel, And the Price of Diesel Just Set Another Record as World War 3 Continues to Escalate,” The Economic Collapse, RR News, September 9, 2026)

The economic picture, worldwide, isn’t as bleak as presented above. As a matter of fact, the following news item seems to indicate quite the contrary in validating the buying, selling, and all other things economic in similarity to the days of Lot as foretold by the Lord.

Last year, lefty corporate media outlets pushed the narrative that President Trump’s trade war with the world could trigger a 1929-style economic collapse. However, a new UBS report presents a markedly different picture: global trade growth is running at historically high levels, supported by AI-related demand and rising export prices. 

Let’s take a trip in the “wayback machine” and look at Bloomberg’s headlines when Trump was ratcheting up the trade war with China in early 2025. The outlet pumped out an ungodly number of headlines about “recession” and impending economic doom.

Roughly 1.5 years later, UBS’s latest data show continued growth in global trade, despite the recession risks economists highlighted when the tariff war broke out in the first half of 2025.

UBS chief economist Arend Kapteyn wrote Tuesday morning that global export values are rising about 19% from a year earlier, placing growth in the 84th percentile of the past 25 years. Higher volumes account for roughly 8.8 percentage points of that increase, while rising prices contribute another 10.3 percentage points…

The report suggests that global trade remains resilient, but its core strength is concentrated in technology and Asia. That leaves the expansion heavily sensitive to the AI and power grid investment boom. It seems that all the doom-maxxing forecasts lefty corporate media outlets made last summer have fallen flat on their faces. (“Where’s the 1929-Style Collapse MSM Predicted? UBS Finds Global Exports Surging to ‘Historically High Levels,’” ZeroHedge, September 9, 2026)

Now let me say that despite these optimistic economic figures worldwide, this report doesn’t bode well for this fallen world that’s rebellious to God’s governance. It just means that Jesus’ prophecy about the days of Lot are now fully in view in these last of the last days before He calls all believers to Himself. The world’s economy will then indeed crash into chaos, and the times will become worse than any economic depression in world history.

There is indeed a storm of unfathomable destruction on the horizon, including a hurricane-like devastation of the world’s economy. But Christians will be sheltered within the clouds of Glory when that storm hits.

The Rapture will vacate all Christians, and the Tribulation will begin with the making of the covenant with Antichrist, as outlined in Daniel 9: 27.

You don’t want to be here during that horrendous era. Here again is how to go to Christ and eternal safety when He shouts for believers to come to Him.

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) 

Of all of the Apostle Paul’s perilous times warnings for the very end of the Church Age, none, to my way of thinking, is more starkly represented in headlines today than the term “without natural affection.”

As most who read these commentaries know, I believe the atrocities inflicted upon the most innocent among us—the babies and small children—is most indicative of just where we must stand on God’s prophetic timeline. When I say “innocent,” I mean they haven’t yet reached the cognitive ability to recognize that they need Jesus Christ as their Savior. I believe their names are still written in the Book of Life until they reach that realization and choose to accept or reject Christ.

So, they are innocent in the holy eyes of God until that point. If they choose to reject when fully able to realize they are lost and need Christ to save them from their sinful status, their names are blotted out of the Book of Life. Their names are written back in, I’m convicted, once they then choose to accept God’s grace gift offer through the shed blood of His Son Jesus—the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world.

Paul tells directly that the last days will be marked as being “without natural affection.” We have looked at how men having sexual relationships with other men and women having such relations with other women is one major signal indicating “without natural affection.”

God’s Word tells us that such is unseemly and against nature, as any sane person should be able to recognize.

However, today, even a supposedly brilliant Supreme Court justice doesn’t know what a woman is, although she is one, and one political party champions that there are many genders and questions anyone who challenges that reprobate notion.

But an equally powerful proof that this is a generation that is “without natural affection” is found at the top of headlines in every news cycle. The evil coming against the most innocent of humankind—the babies and small children—is there for anyone to understand. There is an insanity—a satanic, reprobate insanity that seems to have blocked understanding of a growing number of people on this fallen planet.

Considering our Rapture Ready news on Raptureready.com, we see this proof. A few examples in our news links show the proof that these are indeed “perilous times,” as Paul puts it.

From August 30 RR News

Satanic Temple Video Shows Woman Doing Abortion Ritual in Hobby Lobby Bathroom

The video shows a simulated satanic ritual inside the Christian-owned store. After taking abortifacient drugs, the woman sits on the toilet and flushes her baby. She then turns to the mirror and says, “By my body, my blood, by my will, it is done.”

From August 31 RR news

Mom who shot infant son in face said it was ‘worth it’ to deprive father custody

A woman was convicted in a New Mexico courtroom this week for kidnapping and killing her infant son in order to deprive his father of custody. The case adds to the growing number of highly disturbing stories of moms killing their children. In recent weeks, LifeSiteNews has reported on Lindsay Clancy and Kailey Erhart, both of whom brutally killed their young children, including infants.

From August 31 RR News

Federal Court Rules Sexual AI Images Of Children Are Legal To Possess

A federal appeals court says a Supreme Court precedent set in 2002 forces it to protect the in-home possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material. The court warned that rapidly advancing technology has complicated legal lines drawn nearly 25 years ago. The Seventh Circuit said it was bound by the Supreme Court decision that rejected restrictions on sexually explicit depictions of fictional children when no actual child was involved in their creation.

From September 1 RR News

Canadian doctors’ group suggests euthanasia for disabled infants

Doctors in Canada have said euthanasia for newborns born with disabilities “may be an appropriate treatment,” as concerns mount over the expansion of the country’s euthanasia and assisted suicide program.

From September 6 RR News

“Experiencing A Psychotic Episode…”: First ‘Clancy Copycat?’ Mom Hangs 2-Year-Old Son

A horrific copycat Lindsay Clancy murder of a child has been committed by a woman in Frankfort, Illinois. Prosecutors say Corie Walsh hanged her 2-year-old son, Barrett, from a basement rafter on Tuesday, then tried to kill herself with a knife. She told police she did it because the boy was the “devil” and the “anti-Christ.” Witnesses said she had become “very invested” in the Lindsay Clancy trial and was still texting friends about it hours before her son was found.

These types of stories appear weekly, sometimes dominating the news on RR and other venues. Satan’s assault on the most VULNERABLE of humanity is proliferating.

Our own state has experienced such unspeakable activity—so much so that there have been reporters who shed tears while trying to describe circumstances.

I was very touched that one of the state’s top radio program hosts prayed a beautiful prayer for a child on air after reporting the story of a little girl assaulted in a heinous way. He ended the prayer in the name of Jesus, and that was doubly touching to me. That’s a rarity in today’s media.

(Sadly, I hear now that the little one has died in the hospital.)

We must wonder—we who name that most holy of all names, the Lord Jesus Christ—just how long God will allow this evil against the little ones to go on throughout the earth.

The answer, of course, is found in the prophetic words issued by the Apostle Peter:

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. (2 Peter 8–10)

Peter is saying that God’s timing is not like our faulty schedules and that He will not be tardy in accomplishing His perfect will. The Rapture will occur like a thief in the night, then all will play out exactly as He has directed from eternity past to eternity future, when all the things of earth will be burned up and the heavens and the earth remade into His perfection.

All babies who have been aborted, all little ones who have suffered premature death, will live forever in that perfection.

The unnatural affection, spawned and fomented by the one called Satan, will never again be experienced by those who are in God’s family.

If you don’t know the one who makes that blessed future a certainty for all believers, here is how to come to Him for God-guaranteed life for all of eternity in that heavenly perfection:

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

As those know who read this column, I believe a primary prophecy that describes the very moment the Lord Jesus Christ will call all believers into the clouds of Glory is wrapped in the following Scripture passage given by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself:

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)

Jesus was so intimately involved with the fate of the city of Sodom that He made this a cornerstone foretelling about His next “revealing” of Himself. He said the people and circumstances, the social and cultural environs of that moment when He next intervenes catastrophically into the affairs of humankind, will be just like Lot’s circumstances and times when God removed Lot and his family, then totally destroyed Sodom.

We’ve looked many times at just how wicked our current times are, with anti-God activity the norm rather than aberrant, in many cases. We have looked specifically at the characteristic of the days we’re now living in as being very similar to the days in which Lot lived in Sodom.

There is no doubt that the characteristic that had grown to the most pronounced extent—the most egregious to God—was homosexuality.

Remember that the angels, in the form of men, were threatened by the raging homosexual men who surrounded Lot’s home. God removed Lot and those of his household just as the providentially blinded homosexual men were about to invade the house.

Jesus tells us through the Luke 17:28–30 account that things will be like this when the world will see Him “reveal” Himself. It will be with the rescue we’ve come to know as the Rapture of the Church—all born-again believers in Jesus Christ for salvation.

Evidence is mounting, without question, that the homosexual invasion continues.

It seems to me that, like other proliferating anti-God things taking place in the US these days, the homosexual assault is manifesting in Minnesota, specifically in Minneapolis.

Here is a news story that presents growing evidence of these Sodom-like days.

According to the Minnesota State Fair’s schedule, POWER: Drag Revue will perform multiple times on Aug. 27 and 28 on state fair grounds.

The fair schedule says, “POWER: Drag Revue is a high-energy drag performance showcase celebrating the artistry, creativity and diversity of Minnesota’s drag community.”

Drag shows, which feature men dressed as women, have been continuously mainstreamed in recent years. Earlier this year, a drag performance was held inside Minneapolis City Hall which was reportedly the first time such an event had been held there.

According to Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, POWER: Drag Revue is a “BIPOC-focused musical sketch” formed after George Floyd’s death that has a “goal of expanding opportunities in the Twin Cities for historically underrepresented queer performers and artists.”

POWER: Drag Revue depicts its performers in exaggerated, garish representations of women. Several images on that page show apparent drag performers in revealing, sexualized outfits…

Since news of the drag shows broke earlier this week, the planned performances have faced backlash. Republican state Rep. Mary Franson reacted to a news story about the drag shows, saying, “Gross.”

Former state Rep. Jeremy Munson, a current candidate for Minnesota Senate, mentioned the drag shows in a list of fair events and said, “The State Fair is no longer a place we look forward to attending and it continues in the direction of not being welcoming to families.” (“Planned drag show performances at Minnesota State Fair face backlash,” by Rachel Rossum, Alpha News MN, August 21, 2026)

Promoters of the show claim it’s all in good fun, and children, especially, should be brought to see the “delightful” performances, as men, prancing about in revealing, highly sexualized feminine attire entertain the crowds.

My imagination goes to those days in Sodom—and likely in Gomorrah, too—when such “delightful” performances surely must have entertained the crowds. We certainly have no trouble understanding what the God of Heaven thinks about such activity.

They are just now beginning, through digs at the south end of the Dead Sea, to find vestiges of what’s left of those twin cities. And it comes to mind, coincidently, that the cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul are known in their duality, are they not? The twin cities are more and more at the center of homosexual and other wickedness that has been lately reported.

Now this is not meant to in any way besmirch the people of Minneapolis/St. Paul. There are many who protest against what is happening there in terms of anti-God activity.

But we must be alert to what’s going on as a spreading, cancerous sin that threatens to infect American culture and societies in ways that bring God’s judgment upon any people who embrace ways of life symbolized by these effeminate displays by the homosexual influencers.

Here is what God’s Word has to say about such matters of ungodly activity.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9–10)

While not meaning to cast aspersions on the people of those twin cities, I must say that this area of our nation seems increasingly to embody the modern incarnation of the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. –As America, to me, seems more and more to take on the characteristics of the Babylon of Revelation chapter 18.

The answer to stopping this downward movement through anti-God comportment, of course, is prayer and repentance. —Prayer by each of us, individually, who are Christians—for the people of America to repent and turn back to God and godliness.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7: 14)