As the former president and presidential candidate spoke to a large rally gathering at Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, 6 rifle shots rang out. Donald J. Trump immediately fell to the platform floor and then stood, his fist pumping in the air. He shouted, “Fight, Fight, Fight!” while blood poured from his head. But it was not a JFK-type wound. The former president’s ear had been struck by the high-power bullet meant to kill him.

Even Mr. Trump himself has stated that he knew that God had spared his life that evening. He has stated that he felt as if a gigantic, invisible hand had slapped him to the floor following the rifle shot, while others were wounded and one person was killed.

The incident, no doubt, was part of the catalyst for galvanizing the vote on election day in putting him back in office as President number 47.

In my view, the assassination attempt was the resultant effort at murder of the one person those desirous of protecting their base of control couldn’t allow back into the most powerful political office on the planet. And I believe that a spiritual assessment of matters points out that the effort had demonic influence at the Ephesians 6:12 level. But Heaven’s Protective Secret Service obviously negated the intrigues of that cabal of powers and principalities in high places. 

God raises kings, and he brings them down, the scripture tells us (Daniel 2:21). Donald J. Trump, no matter what you think of his being in office, was God’s choice in the 2024 presidential election in the United States. Not even satanic power could prevent the man’s reassuming that office.

Anyone who is honest in their assessment must see the never-ending assaults from every possible angle of attack. It seems only a matter of time until another deadly assassination attempt is forthcoming.

However, in the meantime, the same wickedness in high places–the powers and principalities—continue to do all they can, using human minions within that dark cabal to oppose God’s choice for the office at this moment. The rage to establish Satan’s man on the throne of world power won’t cease. Such established power will eventually be achieved, and the results will be seven years of hell on earth.

But one can sense in process a different tactic used by the prince of this world to continue the assault on this president. And the attack, in my view, again involves Donald Trump’s ear.

It is a slower process than was the .223 round that cut through his ear in Butler, Pennsylvania that evening of July 13, 2023. But the assault entering his ear at this time can be witnessed slowly doing its damage. The results of the attack might well prove far more deadly in damage in terms of prophetic import. As a matter of fact, the president’s ear might play a significant role in the wrap-up of this end-times era –these last of the last days.

The assault being waged is seen most pointedly in Mr. Trump’s desire and attempt to bring about peace. Jesus Himself has said: “Blessed are the peacemakers.” So the desire to bring peace is a noble gesture. And I have no doubt that this is the president’s motive –to bring about peace to the most dangerous region of the planet in terms of possibly igniting nuclear conflict and even World War III.

But there is a peace which God’s Prophetic Word says will be deadly.

“And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many…” (Daniel 8:25c).

This is the Peace that Antichrist will falsely promise to Israel. It will be the false peace that will bring Satan’s man, the beast, to power during the Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week).

So this deadly peace revolving around God’s chosen nation, Israel, is the major factor I wish us to consider. It involves the assault we can perceive as the ongoing satanic attack on the president’s ear. This time, on Mr. Trump’s ear-gate into his thinking –his thinking particularly on the most relevant element wrapped up in prophecy that Foretells the fate of all nations of the world upon the killing field called Armageddon.

Here is the prophecy about where that future false peace will lead.

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land” (Joel 3:2).

President Trump, those who Watch as Jesus Commanded as given in Mark 13:37 notice has a desire to make peace even at the price of giving up part of Israel’s land. The process has him seemingly listening to voices other than the Voice of the One who returned him to the presidency. A recent example is when the reigning monarch of Saudi Arabia visited the White House.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) was being disingenuous whilst sitting in the White House with President Trump on 18 November.

MBS told the assembled Press Corps:

“We want to be part of the Abraham Accords, but we want also to be sure that we secure a clear path of two-state solution. And today we have a healthy discussion with Mr. President that we’re going to work on that to be sure that we can prepare the right situation as soon as possible to have that.”

President Trump pointedly disagreed with MBS’s summation:

“I think we’re — you know, I don’t want to use the word commitment, but we’ve had a very good talk on the Abraham Accords. We talked about one-state, two-state — you know, we talked about a lot of things; in a short period of time we’ll be discussing it further, too. But I think you have a very good feeling toward the Abraham Accords.”

[Source: Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine: Clearest path to peace since 2022, All Israel News, November 24, 2025]

More and more in his dealings with the peace matter involving Israel, the president leaves open the thought that a 2-state solution might be offered within his Abraham Accords. In this, he is listening to the wrong voices who seem to have his ear –his ear-gate to his thinking. This spiritual projectile of peace proposal suggestion is far more deadly than the literal round that damaged his physical ear that evening as he spoke.

We who understand where a two-state dividing of God’s Land will lead must say to President Trump the following:

Mr. President, we implore that you let those such as Ambassador Mike Huckabee, Dr. Robert Jeffress, and Dr. John Hagee, and others who understand Bible prophecy have your ear. Listen to these voices rather than to the voice of the one who comes only to steal, and to kill, and destroy–the evil one whose man of sin –Antichrist—awaits in the shadows of history yet future.

One prophetic element stands out in considering the seven-year Tribulation era regarding the Antichrist regime. That is the economic platform prophesied to be at the heart of the Beast system.

With so many signals in view that point to the brewing Tribulation tempest, we should expect—if we’re reading the end-times signals correctly—that this heart of the Beast should be well along in its construction. We’ve covered all the indicators found within current issues and events that we believe are signals like those given by Jesus and the prophets. National and world economies have been dealt with in our efforts to make prophetic sense of the dynamic rearrangements taking place in recent times.

America’s staggering weight of debt and threat of economic decline, despite the Trump administration’s determination and successful efforts to begin restoring fiscal responsibility and produce recovery, is front and center in pointing to the fact that this is the generation that stands at the end of one dispensation (the Church Age) and upon the precipice of the next (the Tribulation). Each hour seems to bring additional confirmation that the Tribulation storm is about to break upon an uncomprehending world. We see such confirmation in abundance in the realm of geopolitics and global economics.

Since Bible prophecy clearly says the Antichrist government, thus the economic engine that will power that absolute dictatorship, will emerge from Europe, we need to keep our prophetic antennae pointed in that direction. In other words, we must be especially alert to news involving movement within Europe to cause significant changes to the global economic structure.

The following excerpt from the European Union hierarchy registers an interesting blip on my own end-times radar screen.

“Geopolitical shifts and heightened policy uncertainty remind us that no currency’s global position is guaranteed,” Christine Lagarde told EU policymakers…

The European Union must “do its homework” and seize the unprecedented opportunity to strengthen the global role of the euro at the expense of the US dollar, European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde urged on Monday.

Speaking to the European Parliament’s economy committee, the ECB chief said that current geopolitical instability provides EU policymakers with a “unique opportunity … to strengthen the euro’s role on the global stage”.

“The world is in transition,” Lagarde added. “Geopolitical shifts and heightened policy uncertainty remind us that no currency’s global position is guaranteed. It has to be earned.”

The remarks come as US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and attacks on the US Federal Reserve’s independence have sparked deep investor unease about the future of the US dollar, which has dominated global finance since the end of the Second World War…

Many non-Western countries, including the ‘BRICS’ group of nations – which includes China and Russia – have [like the EU] sought to “de-dollarise” the global payments system in recent years, despite Trump’s threats to impose 100% tariffs on nations seeking to move away from the US dollar.

A more “global” euro would allow businesses, households, and governments in the 20-country single currency area to enjoy lower borrowing costs, Lagarde said – much as global demand for dollar-denominated assets has afforded Washington the “exorbitant privilege” of consistently low interest rates despite years of widening budget deficits.

But for this to be achieved, “Europe must do its homework and strengthen its foundations” by integrating capital markets, safeguarding central bank independence, deepening trade links with third countries, developing a “digital euro” that isn’t dependent on US payment infrastructure, and issuing a “safe and liquid pool of EU public debt,” Lagarde said.

“The euro can be more than the currency of a continent and a symbol of unity; it can become a global anchor of trust,” she said, adding that the bloc’s policymakers should help “transform that vision, that dream into a reality.” (“EU must seize ‘unique opportunity’ to supplant US dollar dominance, says ECB president,” https://www.euractiv.com)

Prophecy scholars and others have long pondered why the US, the most powerful nation in history, isn’t mentioned by name—or even by significant reference—in God’s Word. We continue to flounder in attempts at finding an exact answer for that question. However, with the recent astonishing changes nationally and abroad, the answer seems to be in the process of forming.

Monetary manipulation is at the root of the change taking place. The American dollar must be removed as the currency standard so that a global currency not underwritten by any national monetary unit can be established. This is precisely the Beast economic order I’m convinced Bible prophecy describes as outlined in the following:

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Rev. 13:16-18)

This speaks to me of a computer system—a hybrid Internet whereby all citizens of the global economic order will be absolutely controlled at every level of life. Probably, it will consist at its heart of electronic funds transfer (EFT)–a system of special drawing rights (SDR)—all governed, no doubt, by an ultra-advanced AI technology along with Antichrist’s demonic evil. Anyone refusing to toe the mark of the Antichrist’s regime will face having his or her SDR account blocked or entirely removed from the system. Fear of starvation is a mighty motivator to comply.

Pressures are mounting for a completely changed global economic order. Even the king of the kings of the East, China, is at the center of the dynamics driving the changes.

Most economists who are honest will admit that the current building economic heap of debt cannot continue to accumulate. They are amazed, in fact, that everything hasn’t already collapsed into total, worldwide depression. I again offer my belief that it will be the Rapture that causes the ultimate implosion and collapse.

The great world leader called “the Beast” in Revelation will be there to implement a satanically inspired economic scheme that will at first offer hope; it will, for a time, “cause craft to prosper” (Daniel 8:25). But Antichrist’s plan will achieve what it will be designed to do: enslave most of the world in electronic bondage.

Jesus offers the opposite of what the counterfeit, Antichrist, will produce. Jesus promises: “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). We must at every opportunity lift up the Holy name of Jesus before the eyes of a world headed into the terrors of the Tribulation.

“Peace” is a word whose true definition has eluded this planet since the time recorded in Genesis 3:6–7:

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

The cry for peace is futile, in the human sense, because since the disobedience in the Garden of Eden, humankind has continued to descend more deeply into sin. The heart is deceitful above all things, the Bible says, and desperately wicked. Therefore, there is, rather than tranquility within the lost human soul, warfare that is never ending: “[There is] no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked” (Isaiah 48:22). And, James the apostle says: “From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?” (James 4:1).

The prophet Isaiah spoke to Israel and—through his God-given words—the whole human race:

The way of peace they know not; and [there is] no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. (Isaiah 59:8)

So, in this time of the season when many across the world (although I concede it’s a diminishing number of people) use the phrase, “Peace on earth, good will to men,” let us think a moment on peace.

We recall the grainy, black-and-white newsreel of Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waving a document containing the peace arrangement he had just made with the German Führer, Adolf Hitler. Chamberlain said at that time that the agreement guaranteed that there would be “peace in our time.”

Those who know the history of the time know that almost before the ink on the pact was dry, Hitler ordered the first attack that began bringing the whole world to war.

There came a time when Japan surrendered, and General Douglas MacArthur declared the matters of World War II concluded. But the issue of warfare was and remains far from concluded. Many thousands of Americans, not to mention people from other nations, have since lost their lives in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and numerous other far-flung areas around the world.

Today, the world’s diplomats, news cameras, and microphones are focused on the most problematic spot on earth regarding the threat of the possible ignition of World War III. It is the same area where true PEACE will one day break out. But, for now, it is the lack of the humanistic version of peace in the Holy Land that is the cause of angst for earth’s powers that be. God’s prophet, Ezekiel, spoke to the dearth of peace involving God’s chosen nation:

[To wit], the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and [there is] no peace, saith the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 13:16)

No matter which direction we glance today, evidence of earth-quivering anxiety mounts. This is at present, more than at any time in recent memory, a world without peace. The seas and waves are roaring, the nations are in distress with perplexity, precisely like Jesus said they will be when He breaks in upon a sinful, incorrigibly wicked world of earth-dwellers.

The Middle East is, as it has been perennially, in a failed peace process. Terroristic threats never cease to plague Israel. And terrorism is a spreading infection that has invaded most all of Europe and now threatens America’s major cities.

There is no peace because government leaders concentrate on acquiring and increasing authority to control, financial leaders and the money powers strive to attain more wealth by whatever means necessary, and most of the rest of humanity looks in every direction except toward Heaven for the peace they cannot find.

Religions of earth, too, are in turmoil, proclaiming that they are peaceful while at the same time they are hating each other. The religionists are making efforts to establish their own brand of peace through ecumenism. Certain of some who claim to have Christ at their center have joined the ecumenical movement toward establishment of a religious conglomerate within which all can live in peace.

PEACE–true PEACE—however, is in fact already here upon this troubled sphere. It came in the form of a Baby nearly two thousand years ago. We will celebrate His birthday this December 25. Jesus, the Prince of Peace, in truth IS here in the forever of eternity past and the forever of eternity future. He is the great I AM who is here in the present, and who chose to come in the flesh to suffer and die, then to resurrect so that fallen men, women, and children can be given the PEACE the human soul of each person on the planet must have to be resurrected from the death sin wrought.

Jesus ascended to the throne room of Heaven and is coming again:

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my father is greater than I. (John 14:27–28).

Rejoice! Take heart! Lift up your head and watch. PEACE will yet have the victory upon Planet Earth!

Upon gathering results of the off-year election held Tuesday November 4, the thought came that the spiritual infection Paul wrote about was on display. In consideration of all the top officials who were elected in the blue states—that is, considering what they stand for and propose—no other conclusion can be reached. We are confronted with a large portion of American citizenry that is being turned over to God’s judgment Paul termed “the reprobate mind.” (I refer to the voters who manifest this reprobate mindset.)

The radical element within the political party that dominated with victories in New York City, Minneapolis, and the state of Virginia clearly won the day. These purveyors of anti-God policy proposals and implementation defy all reasonable rationale. They display disdain for most all forms of religious governance—other than championing radical Islam—and defy fundamentalist Americanism as given us by our founding fathers.

They embrace chaos and suppression of law enforcement that is established to protect the law-abiding. The mindset they project in loud, rebellious, riotous behavior goes against the domestic tranquility expressed in the Constitution’s Preamble—the Constitution that guaranteed us the republic Benjamin Franklin once said he and the founders had given us…if we could keep it. 

There is a profound question of whether we can keep this great experiment in liberty called America.

My friend Dr. David Reagan, founder of Lamb & Lion Ministries and Christ in Prophecy TV, in recently addressing the satanic assault on our nation, put it this way in framing Paul’s “reprobate mind” (Romans 1: 28) as a “depraved mind.”

Currently, we are a nation in full-scale revolt against our Creator, who has been the source of all our national blessings. I am reminded of what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said when he was asked what happened to Russia that led to 70 years of Communist dictatorship. His response was short and to the point: “We forgot God.”…

Our nation is facing a cloud of gloom and doom, but there is a silver lining. Jesus said that in the end times, right before His return, the world will become as evil as it was in the days of Noah (Matthew 24:37-39). If you will take a look at the Bible’s description of those days in Genesis 6, you will see that they were characterized by two things: immorality and violence. We have arrived.

The bloody assassination of a devoted follower of Christ, Charlie Kirk, who wanted only a return to godliness for his nation, leaves no doubt that we are indeed in violent times like those foretold by Jesus (Luke 17:26–27).

The just-elected mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, has stated he is in favor of limiting law enforcement through decriminalizing certain acts of criminality, defunding police, and other methodologies. In this he is in perfect alignment with the radical segment of his political party. Additionally, he supports that party’s position in abortion and says he will support legalizing prostitution. It is more than interesting that Mamdani has proclaimed proudly and loudly that he is a Muslim as new mayor of the city where—only a short distant from his making the claim—nineteen radical Islamist terrorists crashed passenger jets into the World Trade Center towers, murdering nearly three thousand people, including thousands of New Yorkers.

He was cheered loudly upon that proclamation and the repeating of a phrase about Marxist socialism by long-ago Marxist-socialist candidate for president of the United States Eugene V. Debs. Debs, a man imprisoned for un-American activities during the Woodrow Wilson administration, ran a number of times while lauding the Marxist line, including running once while imprisoned. When Mamdani brought up his name in his acceptance rant, the crowd exploded in wild cheering, even though probably almost none had even heard Debs’ name before.

The reprobate mindset is in full bloom within the major cities of the United States. To cheer the Marxist ideology, an avowed anti-God man whose evil philosophy and ideology inspired the Russian Revolution and led Lenin (who brought Communism that has murdered many millions of its victims), proves the “depraved” or “reprobate” mind of Romans 1:28 is in full bloom in America today.

The nation is, as Solzhenitsyn said of the Russia from which he escaped, in danger of forgetting God.

In this vein, it is sad but truthful to have to say that the reprobate mindset, the anti-God mindset, is already in place among many of this nation and world. Those left behind following the Rapture will be ripe for Antichrist’s big lie–the great delusion of 2 Thessalonians.

But all of this means, as Dr. Reagan has written, that:

…Jesus is about to break from the heavens. It’s the reason Adrian Rogers used to preach, “The world is growing gloriously dark.” It is also why Jan Markell often says, “The world is not falling to pieces. Rather, the pieces are all falling into place.”

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

I guess I haven’t been paying enough attention, at least not to the extent I thought.

The other night I was listening to talk-show host and attorney Mark Levin—his program that I don’t often catch. He was coming hard against some in this nation who are calling Christians and Jews in support of Israel evil, or at least ignorantly misdirected. Specifically, he was talking angrily against podcast host Tucker Carlson, former star of Fox News.

Levin said Carlson and a guest on his podcast were saying they hated Christian and Jewish Zionists more than any others in the entire Israel-vs-its-enemies matter. Levin then played the audio of Tucker Carlson saying this directly.

There’s no doubt about it. Unless AI was used, Carlson saying exactly that—that he hated these Christian Zionists, etc., more than any of the other actors within that matter.

Levin then expressed his amazement and anger that Carlson apparently hates us more than the anti-Semite Muslim terrorists, Hamas, and all the rest.

This sent my mind in the direction of: Why does Carlson, whom I’ve always considered a sound thinker on issues and events of our time, make such a hateful anti-Semitic rant? Then I researched the most general definition of Zionism. Here is what I found:

Being a Zionist means supporting the movement for Jewish self-determination and the right of the Jewish people to a homeland in their historic homeland, Israel. Zionism, which arose in the late 19th century due to Anti-Semitism, advocates for the development and protection of a Jewish nation. The specific interpretations of this can vary, from supporting the state of Israel’s existence to supporting specific policies or having different views on its borders, but at its core, it is rooted in the belief that Jews should have a state and a place to live free from persecution.

Why would Carlson, a conservative pundit of such renown, say he hates a Christian or a Jewish person who is a Zionist?

I still don’t have an answer to this perplexing query. The thing I can imagine is that Carlson and the guest he was interviewing, according to Mark Levin, were against the one clause within the definition of Zionism I found as follows: “Supporting specific policies or having different views on its borders.”

Carlson is, I surmise, against the Israeli government and all who believe the nation has exclusive right to the land they believe God granted that people and the nation God said would possess and occupy that land in perpetuity once it’s returned according to biblical prophecy.

Carlson has since apologized for his statement. But the damage done by his reckless rant in ramping up anti-Semitism can’t be recalled.

No matter how it is parsed, to deny that God’s Word says the God of Heaven hasn’t guaranteed the Jews—Israel—that land in its total geographic configuration is in egregious error. Much more, this denial is dangerous, even deadly, to those who deny that truth.

To have Levin, a practicing Orthodox Jew, I presume, point this out in such accurate and passionate terms is amazing—and refreshing to hear. Many Christian pastors completely ignore the entire subject, seeking to just stick to biblical fundamentalism in preaching God’s love and precepts of how to conduct life.

As a matter of fact, Levin implored Christian pastors to step up and defend Israel in the hate-filled, anti-Semitic environment of today. He declared that the Bible says God blesses those who bless Israel and curses those who curse it. He had his Bible and his eschatology correct.

I realize that, being a believer in Judaism and not in Christ as Messiah and Savior, he is in fatal error himself. But it is more than fascinating to hear him defend even Christian Zionists and the belief in Christ as Savior and Messiah.

Israel today stands in the bullseye of rage. This is true in the case of being targeted by the Jewish state’s perennial antagonists, the Arab and Persian Islamist enemies. It is true in the case of the entire international community, whose constituent nations see Israel as the congestive blockage to regional and world peace. But it is the growing antagonism by leftist United States congressional and judicial operatives, along with all others who “hate” those who support Israel’s God-given right to the land, that is most disconcerting while this beleaguered planet wobbles toward a time of unprecedented trouble.

The coming time of unparalleled strife that will bring all nations to Armageddon is termed “the time of Jacob’s trouble”:

Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble. (Jeremiah 30:7a)

And it is Jacob’s trouble—the prophesied end-of-days, dastardly treatment of Israel by the nations of earth—that will cause God to bring them to Armageddon. This is what the prophet Joel says:

I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. (Joel 3:2)

Armageddon Beckons

This will be the gathering of the nations of earth predicted in the book of Revelation:

For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty…. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. (Revelation 16:14, 16)

It will be the culmination of humankind dealing treacherously with God’s chosen people. The promise the Lord made to Abraham includes severe repercussions for anyone who would curse the progeny of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob:

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis 12:3)

Tragically, the refusal to educate generations following World War II on the truth about the insane treatment of the house of Israel is leading to a future time of even greater atrocities, thus judgment, according to God’s Word. The Lord will react violently—according to Bible prophecy—moreso, even, than He reacted to the death-dealing of the Nazi demoniacs:

The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it… it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. (Zechariah 12:1–3, 29)

If America joins the rest of earth’s nations in the gathering against Israel, as prophesied in Zechariah12:1–3, its betrayal will mean America’s doom. All nations who come against the Jewish state, God says, will be cut to pieces. Israel, on the other hand, will remain—no matter the betrayal it experiences in the human realm.

God declares this in the strongest possible terminology:

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)

To many who think about Bible prophecy yet future, the thought is that the Tribulation will be an era completely against all restrictions imposed by religious order. It will be a free-wheeling, anything-goes time of hedonism and evil deportment of every description.

To an extent this will be true. But immediately following the removal of the Church, a religious system will develop that harnesses all people left behind with religiosity beyond any that has ever before existed. We understand this by the following words John was given in his Patmos vision:

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 13:8)

This worship will be demanded and directed by the second beast of Revelation chapter 13: the False Prophet.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. (Revelation 13:15)

So those left behind on earth after the removal of the Church in the Rapture will be, rather than free of religious restrictiveness, harnessed with the threat of death if they refuse to obey the most severe religious system ever imposed upon humanity. It will be a worldwide religion with Satan’s Antichrist as the object of worship.

Those who view Bible prophecy especially from the pre-Trib viewpoint have watched for numerous religious belief systems to come together in an “ecumenical” arrangement. That is, many different religions will, we believe, form a religious amalgamation Satan will use, through the False Prophet, to bring about the Revelation 13 system of worship. That system will require that people either worship the Beast (Antichrist) or die.

Additionally, many who investigate this prophecy believe the Catholic system of religious dogma will somehow be at the center of that ecumenical formation the closer the time nears to Christ’s call for the true Church to join Him in the clouds of Glory. This is because of what we believe is Catholicism’s false worship system with, for example, there being a number of mediators between God and man.

The tremendous spread of that system—which places a man (the pope) in place of Christ on earth—also gives reason to believe Catholicism will be at the center of the false worship system of Revelation 13.

I believe it is more than merely an interesting coincidence that in every direction we look at the world’s cultural horizon, we see the stage being set for the fulfillment of prophecies surrounding Christ’s soon return. At the same time, a profound matter of ecumenical movement involving the Catholic Church comes dramatically into the mix.

The Vatican Apostolic Library, one of the world’s most prestigious repositories of religious scholarship, has confirmed it now provides a dedicated prayer space for Muslim academics visiting its collections. This move has ignited passionate debate about the growing ties between the Vatican and Islam.

The revelation emerged from an interview between Italian newspaper La Repubblica and Father Giacomo Cardinali, the 48-year-old Vice Prefect of the Vatican Library. Speaking casually about the institution’s role as a global research hub, Father Cardinali disclosed: “Some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them.”

The comment, embedded in a broader discussion about the library’s digitization efforts and extraordinary collection, has since reverberated through Catholic and interfaith circles worldwide.

The decision represents a historic departure from Vatican tradition. As the center of the Catholic Church, Vatican City State has never before hosted non-Catholic places of worship within its borders. The world’s smallest sovereign nation—with a population of approximately 800 residents—consists entirely of Catholic citizenry and clergy. The establishment of a prayer space for Islamic worship, even in the context of academic hospitality, marks an unprecedented accommodation in the Vatican’s 95-year history as an independent state.

This makes Father Cardinali’s seemingly casual announcement all the more significant, as it introduces for the first time a designated space for non-Catholic religious practice within the walls of Vatican City. (“Vatican Opens Muslim Prayer Room Sparking Fierce Debate,” Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Israel365 News, October 19, 2025)

The great angst this has created is that Islam and the Catholics’ supposed Christian views are incompatible. Allah is the only god in Islam, and the thrust of Allah’s supposed dictate is to rid the world of all infidels and make everyone a Muslim.

Yet here we witness the ecumenical movement defying all odds while these two massive, worldwide religious entities apparently are coming together in what some have termed “Chrislam”—the merging of Christianity with Islam.

So, one more element of the stage being set for the terrifying Tribulation is coming to the forefront for us to plainly see. The previous pontiff, Pope Francis, said on numerous occasions that there are many ways to Heaven other than just through Jesus Christ. He said, too, that even atheists will be in Heaven. The Vatican has not disavowed this satanic lie in any way I have heard. Islam, therefore, I must presume, fits within the Vatican’s view of what constitutes Christianity.

With the preponderance of evidence that God is on the verge of instructing His Son to bring His family to Him from the earth, such developments as this movement into end-times ecumenism is a major signal of where we stand on God’s prophetic timeline.

It was a great reassurance recently to hear Dr. David Jeremiah given time by Fox Network to answer questions by Fox News religious correspondent Lauren Green about true Christianity:

Q: Lauren Green: A lot of people are trying to earn their way into Heaven. Why is that not the right thinking?

A: Dr. David Jeremiah: That is the answer of every religion except Christianity, which isn’t a religion—It is a relationship!

If we try to reach God by way of works, nobody can do it. That’s why He sent His Perfect Son, Jesus Christ, who never sinned and was crucified on the cross for us.

If we put our trust in Him, He has promised to wash away our sins!

Here is how to make certain you have your sins washed away and will go to Heaven.

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) 

Author’s note: This article was first published on Monday, June 12, 2006. Considering we are, I believe, in the time that’s “as it was in the days of Noah” foretold by Jesus (Luke 17:26), I believe it’s good to again think a bit on the obvious invasion from the evil dimension the world faces.

We know of the violence taking place in the world today. It might even be equal to the violence of those antediluvian times. However, the other primary evil of Noah’s day is a bit harder to equate to this day and time.

The other “evil” I refer to is the corruption that had infected the entire world and caused God, following the death of Methuselah, to destroy everyone on earth except Noah and his immediate family.

Most who study the Genesis record–myself included—believe the genetic contamination that had corrupted all flesh came from the fallen angels who had sexual relations with human women, producing the Nephilim. That “corruption” doesn’t seem to be the tack of Satan in this day and age. I, at least, haven’t heard of such corruptive intermingling (except within the fiction coming from the entertainment industry).

But we can be sure Satan’s intention remains the same: He wants to corrupt God’s order of things, especially the order of things related to humanity.

The devil continues to do his worst in this regard. We see this effort at every turn. You don’t have to be either a male or female; you can now be whatever you wish. More than one hundred genders are possible, I’ve heard.

The AI phenomenon is now experimentally employed to meld in some way with human flesh–particularly with the brain—to create super intelligent beings that, some scientist types claim, are beyond human. Hormone infusion and surgical invasions are used to attempt to recreate humans in bizarre ways that confound rationale.

So, the corruption of the order God created is under assault. We know this from Ephesians 6:12 and the struggle against the principalities and powers in high places the Apostle Paul described.

This all tells us God is about to again intervene into the affairs of humankind and all the evil corruption like He did in Noah and Lot’s day. I therefore present this article again, written long ago, but more relevant than ever as we “look up” for our Lord’s call to “come up here!”      

Last-Days Invasion

We just observed D-Day in honor of the Allied forces who invaded parts of Europe, the action that began in earnest the drive toward victory over Hitler’s Nazi military in 1944. Last week, I wrote about how June 6, 2006, was honored by much of media to hype a movie, The Omen, which was released that day.

The “D” seemed to stand for “Devil-Day” in that 6/6/06 instance, rather than for the D-Day celebration in remembrance of sacrifices made by Allied troops invading Normandy and the other beaches June 6, 1944.

I would like to continue dealing with thoughts about the present invasion taking place. This contemporary assault is infinitely more deadly than the dangers faced in that long-ago invasion of France. It is infinitely more dangerous because it is–in truth—supernatural. In other words, it involves eternal matters. It involves the spiritual world rather than the physical. I should say it involves the spiritual world MORE than the physical world, because the two are intricately intertwined.

Again, I see two primary areas of Holy Scripture involved in this warfare. Both emphasize the supernatural dangers and spiritual nature of the warfare:

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. (1 Peter 5: 8)

So, Satan is the general leading this end-time assault. He leads some quite terrifying forces in his stalking back and forth upon the earth:

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)

With but a modicum of effort in searching through the Word of God about end-times things, we can see how the contemporary assault by Satan and his forces of evil links to the devil’s past efforts. And, we can see where it is all leading in this wind-up of human history.

These last-days things are fresh in my mind while I promote my novel, The Rapture Dialogues. The subtitle, Dark Dimension, says it all. The end-time warfare is with extradimensional, not extraterrestrial, beings. We can identify these supposedly unidentified flying objects if we open our minds and hearts through spiritual discernment written about in 1 Corinthians 2:14.

The link between the human, fleshly elements of this conflict and the supernatural or spiritual elements is undeniable if we properly analyze and dissect the matters involved.

Jesus–the Greatest of all Prophets (because He is God) said the following:

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 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 17:26–30)

Jesus said history would repeat itself. Things will happen almost precisely like they did in Noah’s day before the Flood and in the days of Lot and the destruction of Lot’s hometown, Sodom, and nearby Gomorrah. What happened that was so grievous to the Lord that He determined to erase these societies from the earth’s surface?

I believe it was sin, of course, speaking in general terms. Sin always ultimately brings God’s wrath and judgment. The wages of sin is death, Scripture tells us. But I see a much more specific sin that lies at the heart of the civilizations mentioned in those judgments of the antediluvian world and ancient Sodom and Gomorrah.

The link is strong between the fleshly, or physical, realm and the spiritual, or supernatural, realm in these cases. That is made clear in the following:

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. (Jude 1:6–8)

Do you see that linkage? It is the phrase “going after strange flesh” that connects the human to the supernatural, in considering the matter of this end-time invasion Jesus said will be a recurrence of soul/flesh-corrupting things that happened in antediluvian and ancient times.

In the matter of the supernatural realm, we see in Genesis 6:1–3 that the “sons of god” went after “strange flesh.” That is, a number of angels who fell with Lucifer in the great rebellion and were cast out of Heaven saw the “daughters of men” (human women) and came down and cohabitated with them—producing hybrid offspring of the natural and the supernatural. Going after “strange flesh,” then, means doing something that is against the order God established.

These offspring were “men of renown,” the Scriptures tell us. These were doubtless the creatures from which Greek, Norse, and Roman mythologies derive, to some extent.

Genesis 19 tells the full story of the “strange flesh” Jude alludes to in verses 6–8. This is expounded upon by Paul the apostle in Romans 1. The “strange flesh” is men going after men and women after women in the sexual sense–burning in their lusts one toward the other, and receiving in themselves the payment for their sin, which, God’s Word says, is a fitting punishment.

The end-time invasion Jesus prophesied is, I’m convinced, well underway. Key among the elements of Satan’s assault is a return of the dark, spiritual beings in high places–the extradimensional, not extraterrestrial, beings, again trying to corrupt the “seed” of humankind through the sightings, encounters, abductions, ghostly appearances, visitations, stigmata phenomena, and all of the rest of these strange things reported even by documentaries like those on the Discovery and History channels every week. The prime-time invasion will, I’m equally convinced, take place in the Tribulation era (Daniel’s seventieth week), as outlined in the “strong delusion” of 2 Thessalonians 2.

On the human level, the corruption is taking place through “going after strange flesh”—doing a thing totally against God’s established order. Men, again, are lusting after men, and women after women on a scale like in those ancient times, while Hollywood and many in government and media promote this lifestyle that’s deadly to the continuation of the human race.

All of this indicates just how near this generation must be to the time Christ will step out on the clouds of Glory and shout, “Come up here!” The final war called Armageddon that will result from this satanic invasion approaches rapidly. Rapture of those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior cannot be far distant.

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

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

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

Although we of this generation are not in the Tribulation era about which Jesus here prophesied, we have diametrically differing worldviews on the national and international scenes that certainly must be setting the stage for the times Jesus foresaw.

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

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

Jesus also prophesied that humanity would get itself deeper and deeper into trouble, so far as the nation state is concerned, the closer the Second Advent comes:

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

There can be little argument against the obvious. Nations are indeed in great distress today—with much perplexity. We don’t have to look at the many nations of earth to prove this fact. Our own nation is divided right down the middle on almost all issues of politics and morality. People are so distressed—even perplexed—that many promised to leave the country if they didn’t get their way in presidential election results. Others have written fictional books venting their anger in wishful accounts of the assassination of a president they hate. And actual assassinations and attempted assassinations continue to take place.

The problems involved boil down to one issue: worldview.

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

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

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

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

Really?

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

Really?

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

To Bible prophecy observers of the warp speed toward bringing Mideast peace (to use a Donald Trump term, as in the “warp-speed” development of a vaccine for COVID), the many nations sudden jumping upon the peace bandwagon should constitute a clear signal: that prophetic stage-setting has experienced Heaven stepping on the end-times accelerator.

One development in this regard is almost breathtaking in its import. I refer to the US president singlehandedly setting up the Board of Peace.

This move to establish such a board, with practically little-to-no argumentation and debate from the world leaders who usually set their collective jaws against anything and everything, especially that involving Israel, is beyond astonishing. It is a supernatural turn of events, I believe. The following somewhat gives a look into that turn:

TONY Blair and Donald Trump will jointly govern Gaza on a Board of Peace under the President’s plan to end the bloodshed and secure the release of all hostages.

The IDF would withdraw from Gaza and commit not to annex the strip if both Israel and Hamas sign the 20-point plan unveiled today…

Mr. Blair, 72, was the first world leader named on the new transitional body to run Gaza apart, which Trump will chair.

This evening Blair hailed the plan as offering “the best chance of ending two years if war, misery and suffering”.

The former Labour leader and Middle East envoy is expected to take charge of the day-to-day running of the new board which will eventually hand power back to peace-loving Palestinians. (“Tony Blair to Be on Board of Peace to Run Gaza Strip as Trump Announces Plan to End War & See Hostages Released,” The Sun)

The “cry for peace and safety” takes on a whole new end-times direction when considering that such a Board of Peace is established with the enthusiastic agreement of the nations involved.

In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Pakistan said they welcomed Trump’s “leadership and his sincere efforts to end the war in Gaza.”

They said they were ready to engage with the US to finalise and implement the agreement, which they said should lead to a “two state solution, under which Gaza is fully integrated with the West Bank in a Palestinian state.”

European Council President Antonio Costa said he was “encouraged by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s positive response” to the proposal. He added, “all parties must seize this moment to give peace a genuine chance”…

French President Emmanuel Macron said: “France stands ready to contribute” to the efforts to end the war and release hostages.

“These elements must pave the way for in-depth discussions with all relevant partners to build a lasting peace in the region, based on the two-state solution.” (“Leaders in Middle East and Europe Welcome Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan,” BBC)

And it is the conclusion of Macron that should explain the enthusiasm for the Board of Peace and this peace plan.

The two-state solution is what the world of anti-God, Israel-hating UN nations—and especially Mideast states—have longed to implement.

This effort to divide God’s land has been a millennia-long quest, inspired and influenced by the father of lies, Satan, who has attempted at every juncture to cause God’s promise to Israel—that it will be His nation forever—to be broken.

The leadership of these nations believes this peace effort can be the wedge to bring Israel down—thus the enthusiasm to leap aboard this Trump plan. These, I believe, sense a real possibility of at last bringing about a two-state solution to the wars in the region–wars that, in the nuclear age, threaten worldwide catastrophe.

But those who understand the things involving Israel know the gathering of nations at the end of the age will bring a far different result than the elimination of God’s chosen people.

The nations, so hostile to Israel for so long, are gathering–ostensibly for peace-making. But despite our president’s best intention, the gathering is taking place for far different purposes.

Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum wrote about truth and the great end-times pressures Israel will experience, as well as the result of such cursing of Israel the world of nations will in turn suffer at Armageddon:

This passage describing the gathering of the armies of the nations is more or less viewed from man’s perspective. From man’s standpoint, it is merely a military gathering called together by the Antichrist. The first is in Joel 3:9–11:

Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.

God’s viewpoint is one of mockery. The nations are mockingly encouraged to go ahead and turn their farming equipment into weapons of war. As for those who are weak, let them persuade themselves and pretend that they are strong. Because while Satan and the Antichrist have their purpose for gathering the armies, that of destroying the Jews, God has His own very different purpose for permitting this gathering to take place.

This taunting of the gathering of the nations is also portrayed in Psalm 2:1–6:

Why do the nations rage,

And the peoples meditate a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves,

And the rulers take counsel together,

Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, saying,

Let us break their bonds asunder,

And cast away their cords from us,

He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh:

The Lord will have then in derision. Then will he speak unto them in his wrath,

And vex them in his sore displeasure:

Yet I have set my king

Upon my holy hill of Zion.

The gathering of the nations is presented as a gathering against God the Father and His Anointed, that is, the Messiah Jesus. By seeking to destroy the Jews, Satan is also seeking to break the cords of God’s control of the world. How foolish! Then God is portrayed as sitting in the heavens and laughing, because He will soon have these nations in confusion. (“The Campaign of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus the Messiah,”Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, ThM, PhD, Ariel Ministries)

Already we see the nations gathering. Ultimately, they are gathering for war, not peace.

This world is in defiance of God, as seen in every news cycle. The murderous violence must certainly rival the antediluvian days of Noah.

At the same time, it should make perfect sense to believers who trust God to be in absolute control at all times: He has never sent judgment and wrath without pleading, corrective, attention-getting measures and unmistakable warning signals of impending doom to the rebels who shake their fists in His face, then turn their backs to the only One who knows the end from the beginning. America and the world are almost surely at the latter end of the divine yardstick of judgment, which measures the extent of the Lord’s lovingly generous—though not infinite—patience.

Most who study Bible prophecy have, through the years, rolled the thought over and over in their minds: “Why isn’t America mentioned in Bible prophecy?” Many have concluded that the United States must suffer a catastrophic fate—from the outside or the inside. The nation’s destiny is one of either implosion or explosion–detonations that, in either case, will spell the end for the most technologically advanced country in history.

Surely God will not allow the American ship of state to slip beneath the crushing waves of the times without clear signals that we are nearing shoals that cannot be navigated.

Words from Jesus Himself bring to mind current crises gripping the US and, by extension, the entire world. The passage is quite familiar to students of prophecy:

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

Whether considering this combination of end-times signs figuratively or literally, a case can be made that the present national and world circumstances might be the time Jesus was speaking about.

This generation has seen wonders in the sky. Humanity has accomplished space adventures in going to the moon and other planets with machinery. We have witnessed astrophysical phenomena through the Hubble telescope, gigantic sun eruptions, fantastic photos of a comet slamming into Jupiter, and the losses of the Challenger and the Columbia. Then, there are the signs in the sun, moon, and stars.

Recently there are scientists who continue to monitor asteroids and other stellar phenomena that are “fly-bys” potentially threatening the planet. Some scientists who observe the sun, moon, and stars believe the planet will one day, perhaps soon, experience a major impact from one of these visitors from deep space.

My good friend who is now with the Lord, Tom Horn, wrote much about the major asteroid-type space rock called Apophis, scheduled to pass close to the Earth on April 13, 2029. He conjectured it could be the mountain-like object of Revelation that is prophetically scheduled to hit the ocean and cause great destruction during the Tribulation.

The latter part of the Luke 21:25 prophecy also leaps to the forefront of thinking about the present hour. We’ve recently seen the figurative and literal seas roaring. Figuratively, all nations seem to be in great turmoil, with their peoples in societal and cultural tumult. The literally roaring waves have produced the costliest devastation in recorded history to nations around the world within just the past months. However, it is the middle part of the prophecy that most dramatically speaks to this generation.

Jesus said the nations will, near the time of His return, be in “perplexity.” The implication is that the leaders will be floundering for answers to the profound dilemmas confronting them. The perplexity will only cause them to go farther into rebellion, we can gather from the psalmist’s words:

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. (Psalms 2:23).

The United Nations is in overt rebellion against God’s order, as we witness almost all member states coming against Israel, demanding that the Jewish state give up land to the so-called Palestinians in a two-state solution to the perennial Middle East conflict.

The fact is we are in a time of unprecedented “perplexity,” so far as my memory serves. The leaderships of the world’s nations are in turmoil, with the economic stresses and strains threatening worldwide fiscal collapse. We have increasingly been told by top monetary experts that we face economic Armageddon if something isn’t done to straighten out the fiscal problems. In all the scrambling, finger-pointing, and doomsday rhetoric, one fact is powerfully obvious by omission: Not one of them has been heard calling out to God. Not one mention of soliciting help from the God of Heaven has been forthcoming, so far as I’ve heard. Certainly, asking God’s help hasn’t been heard in a public way.

As I write this, America’s unusually gifted president, in terms of his proven business acumen, continues to work on “fixing” the economic disaster the previous administration and the ideology it inflicted on the nation. I believe this is bringing this generation to the “business as usual” days of Lot Jesus said will be prevalent at the time of the Rapture. We will see how it plays out.

I continue to believe that Mr. Trump might be in the most powerful political/governmental office on earth to produce the upbeat economy Jesus said would be in place when He next catastrophically intervenes in the Rapture. I’ve outlined my thoughts many times in this regard when addressing the Luke 17:28–30 prophecy.

In a larger prophetic context, the swift economic movement and turbulence currently taking place is not without its significance, God’s Word assures. There is coming a completely satanized (if that is a word) economic order. We are seeing a major start to that coming global rearrangement. The fiscal problems will get “fixed,” ultimately.

I’m convinced it will happen during the time that follows the Rapture of the Church. But the peoples left on this judgment-bound planet won’t like the change the decisions of the politicians of the world–apart from God Almighty—will produce for them.

The luciferian machinery of enslavement is churning America and the nations it so traumatically affects, in terms of economic equilibrium, toward the Beast system of the Tribulation.

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Revelation 13:16–18)

It will be the worst time of human history, according to Jesus (Matthew 24:25). If you know Him as Savior, you won’t have to go through the Great Tribulation. Here is how to go to Christ when He calls God’s family–all born-again Christians—to Himself in 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)