End-of-Days Scenarios: Part 7

People have vanished all over the world in less time than it takes for light to enter the eye and strike the retina. The chaos is worldwide, but nowhere so profound as within the United States of America. Just a matter of time, however, will prove that the ramifications are geopolitically staggering—for one nation in particular, in addition to America.

The American government, at every level, soon analyzes that every child below the teen years is gone. Every pregnant woman who was with child and who remains has suffered the loss of the baby in her womb. But some other things are discovered that are even more troubling to the officials, the politicos of the nation at every level.

Government is totally disrupted, and the powers-that-be quickly recognize that not even martial law is going to be able to reestablish the revenue basis for carrying on government as usual. A huge part of the tax base–a fatally proportionate one—is no longer here to provide the funds to carry on government as usual! Much of the workforce, particularly the most vital, skilled force that was the heart and soul of American industry and fidelity to the good work ethic, has disappeared in that stupefying moment.

Carnage alone, caused by the many accidents and other disappearance-engendered problems, will require massive manpower and, in many cases, extraordinary skills to begin restoring order. These people are gone in great numbers.

Europe, on the other hand—while dumbfounded, even extremely worried, over the vanishings—seems to have suffered little infrastructure damage. The economy, well-structured by the European Union Parliament, has only minimum glitches in keeping things running. Now, it is bidden by the upper echelon of the American government that is left to advise and assist in helping with things—especially with reestablishing America’s economic base on sound footing.

America’s particularly bad circumstances don’t go without notice by others within the nation-states of the world. Russia and China take special notice. They assess how America’s military complex has been affected.

Islamics who want their religion to rule the world are delighted. The great Satan has gotten its deserved punishment from Allah. Although Islamic children, too, have disappeared, the adults who remain in great numbers are still available to make war—and love, in order to replenish the children. The terrorist Islamic organizations are delighted and immediately see jihad against their enemies—particularly against the Jews of the world–and Israel.

Israel’s governmental leaders come to two stunning realizations:

1) Their only ally, with the greatest thermonuclear deterrent in the world, is in chaos. The US government officials who remain are doing all within their power just to make deals with the EU to–somehow—regain their own power. There is no time, or even facility, to see to Israel’s protection.

2) The greatest supporters of Israel and the Jews, in terms of people who supported Israel’s right to exist –their best friends on the planet—are no longer on the planet!

While America’s top leaders who are still around are coming to understand there must be a complete rearrangement of economy and monetary matters, Israel is getting reports of plans for attack by the Arabs, Persians, and other Islamics, who understand what has happened as an opportunity provided them by Allah—an opportunity to once and for all eradicate the hated Jew and the impostor state of Israel.

The Jewish leadership is intact, and the Jews—even those of the Labor Party and the most liberal—know the tiny nation stands alone. Even Mideast oil exigencies are for the moment off the table for the powers of the West, the industrial nations that must reorganize, not send their troops on ventures into the sands of the Middle East.

What Israel determines to do, it must do quickly. Very quickly. The Israeli leadership realizes one thing beyond all others. They know their blood-vowed enemies will do everything within their power to wipe them–including the Labor Party and other liberal Jews—off planet Earth. But there is the Samson Option, even the liberal Jews agree. The tiny state that is now in the crosshairs of practically every Arab state still has perhaps the third or fourth most lethal nuclear weapons force in the world. The Islamic fanatics–the entire world—must be shown that their vow “Never again!” is as strongly in the collective determination of the Jew as in the years immediately following Hitler’s Holocaust.

Next week, God willing, we will unfold the scenario further, with the thought toward setting geopolitical things up for the rise of earth’s last and most terrible tyrant.

End-of-Days Scenarios: Part 6

Author’s note: We continue with the series first posted in 2007.

Believers are translated, changed in an atomos of time–in a fraction of an element of time that cannot be divided. They now look into the holy, omniscient eyes of their Lord that are fathomless in the depths of God’s love. He leads them through the portals of glory, to the city called Heaven.

On earth, millions have vanished into nothingness before the stupefied eyes of billions of others. All earthly things that belonged to the departed ones remain behind, including clothing, jewelry, and prosthetics of every description.

I once heard a nationally known reverend–so-called—(I don’t like the word “reverend” in reference to anyone on this fallen planet, because there is only one Reverend, and He has just whisked all who are His into Heaven for their eternal rewards) say something like this: “A rapture—if it were to be something that really happens—would mean that there would be unbelievable carnage upon the earth. God won’t let that happen.”

Hello, reverend, but what about the judgments for the end of days given by the Old and New Testaments? What about the Book of Revelation? The seals, trumpets, and vials don’t exactly give us the warm, fuzzy feeling that the era of apocalypse will be a tiptoe through the tulips.

The Kingdom-Now folks, with their replacement theology, however, see these things written in the areas of biblical judgments and God’s wrath as allegory or symbolism. They spiritualize these prophecies or treat them as already fulfilled. They preach and teach that the Church (Christians) will make this earth a better and better place until Christ can safely return to occupy His earthly throne. My dear Rapture Ready visitors and family—they are simply not looking at the same headlines as yours truly. And the headlines I’m hearing every day coincide precisely with what God’s holy, inerrant Word has to say about the end of days–again—as the secular media like to call the end time.

“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13).

Jesus Himself prophesied for the very end of the Tribulation: “And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days” (Mark 13:20).

This world is in for a very rough ride, and the reverend was and is wrong in pronouncing that God would not allow carnage, thus a Rapture is not in the future of humankind. Nothing could be more ludicrous.

The “thief in the night” prophecy is aimed particularly at the people who will be left behind after the Rapture. That great event will certainly take most willfully ignorant Christians by total surprise, but it will not be like a “thief in the night” experience to them. We can know this from Paul the apostle’s words, when he writes to the Thessalonians–to all Christians of the Church Age (Age of Grace): “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness” (1 Thessalonians 5:2–5).

Note Paul’s use of the pronouns “they” and “them” versus “you,” “ye,” and “we.” He is differentiating between unbelievers and believers during this Church Age. The Rapture, for all Christians who are alive at the time, will be an entirely different experience than the “thief in the night” experience of those left behind. We see this in John 14:1–3, and in Paul’s following comforting prophecy: “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13).

So, getting back to our earth-bound scenarios that we speculate will immediately follow the Rapture, let us look at some dark probabilities.

The most immediate things that assault the senses, while people look around them, are the clothing and other things that fall to the ground, the pavement, the floors. The only evidence that those who suddenly vanished were ever on earth are the clothing and other personal items they no longer need. The prosthetic devices, too, of every sort, give the news pundits something to talk about on the programs that are dominated by one subject: the disappearance of millions.

But, in my speculative view, the most frightening, then, as the knowledge sets in, the most agonizing thing that will grip the world will be the fact that every single child who hasn’t reached the age of accountability for his or her soul will be gone from the planet in that millisecond of time. Every womb of every left-behind woman who was with child at the time of the disappearances will be instantaneously empty. God, in that astonishing moment, will make a monumental and unmistakable statement about His opinion of when life begins in the conception process!

Can we even begin to imagine the excruciating emotional explosion that will take place all over the world?

With the intimately personal cataclysms still raging, other just as staggering considerations flood the fear-filled thoughts of men and women left behind.

Again, in America, martial law is immediately invoked. But, before the much-denuded military and law enforcement personnel can regroup to enforce martial law, looters of every sort move freely throughout decimated society, pillaging, destroying, and raping whatever and whomever they find in their rampaging paths.

The consciences of man are no longer under the governance of the Holy Spirit, as in time just before the disappearances occurred. Homes, empty of their vanished occupants, are open game, and the looters don’t stop to give a second thought to the horrendous future mankind now faces. They think, as I heard Dr. Charles Stanley say, they have died and gone to their warped picture of Heaven.

Well, we are again at the limits of our space allotment for the Nearing Midnight section. And, we’ve only begun to explore, through our Bible prophecy postulations, what the left-behind world will be like, and the likely dynamics that will rearrange planet earth for Antichrist’s appearance.

Author’s note: We continue with the series first posted in 2007.

We’ve seen that Jesus warned that the time of His coming again to planet earth will be “as it was in the days of Noah.” That is, the characteristics of the end-time generation will be like they were in the days presented in Genesis chapter 6. When we look at that chapter, we conclude that it was surely a terrifying time. This must have been true especially for Noah and his seven family members while the time just before the Flood surrounded them. But the whole generation of earth-dwellers lived under threat of violence; violence filled the whole earth, God’s Word reports (Genesis 6: 11, 13). Even though business was moving along at a good, even accelerated pace, violence–terroristic activity—filled the earth.

Does this sound familiar? What did the president call the war declared upon an almost unidentifiable enemy following the 9/11 attacks? That’s correct, he called it “the war on terrorism.” And now the whole international community is uptight about the possibility of ramifications of the terror–the violence—that threatens to ignite war in the Middle East.

Every time such sparks begin to fly, members of the media begin to contact Todd and me, as well as others who have studied and expounded upon Armageddon and the “end of days,” as media like to frame the end time. Violence of the deadliest sort fills the world with terror, and the cry for peace and safety from media and government diplomatic types proves it.

Jesus also said in His Luke 17 prophecies that things of society and economy would be pretty much business as usual at the time of His return at the end of days. People will be eating and drinking. Men and women will be marrying and divorcing, just like nothing fearful was going on in their world. Daniel the prophet said that great progress would be made in technology, travel, and communications at the time of the end (Daniel 12).

Again, does any of this sound familiar? As we can see from the strength of the American economy, things are booming, despite that we are now a debtor nation at an unprecedented level. The United States is inarguably the most materially blessed nation-state in the history of the world. The greatest king of Bible times lived nowhere near the level of luxury and comfort even lower middle-class Americans do today.

So, in that sense, business is going along, in this country at least, better than merely business as usual. It is just at such time as described that Jesus will step out on the clouds of glory and shout “Come up hither!”

Bible prophecy tells us that the day of the Lord will come (will begin) as a thief in the night. A thief suddenly breaks in. He doesn’t say, “Hey! I’m coming to break in!” That’s how we can know that the thief-in-the-night analogy is for another coming, not for the Second Advent–the time when Jesus’ foot will touch down on the Mount of Olives, which will then cleave in half and create a rift all the way to the Mediterranean. Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population will have perished in God’s full-blown wrath by the time of that Revelation 19:11 return to earth. Everyone on the planet still alive will see Christ coming.

The coming as a thief reference is to the Rapture. It will be sudden, it will be stunning, and it will be catastrophic.

Let’s look at the potential calamitous things that will likely immediately follow the twinkling-of-an-eye intervention into this humanistic, last-days world of earth-dwellers.

In the United States, a young mother pregnant with her second child and with a small daughter riding in the basket, will be walking down an aisle in a supermarket.

A truck driver will be steering a semi-tractor/trailer rig onto a superhighway to merge with the heavy traffic flow.

A 757 captain will push the throttles to full power, headed down a runway at JFK in New York.

A surgeon at a major hospital in Minnesota will begin to make the initial scalpel cut that will open a heart patient’s chest for a bypass procedure.

A funeral director will straighten the collar of a starched white shirt worn by a corpse, whose funeral is next on the services schedule.

In less than the time it takes for a neuroelectric synapse firing in the brain to take place, the young mother’s womb is empty. She sees her little girl vanish as she, herself, starts her fall to the floor from the shock of the physiological changes taking place in her body.

The 18-wheeler is careening into the traffic, driverless, out of control, crushing and demolishing vehicles and their passengers while raging ahead in its ungoverned course.

The 757 on the JFK runway is at full take-off speed, but the pilot and copilot are not at the controls, while the right wingtip dips toward the runway and catastrophe.

The surgeon in Minnesota finds the scalpel cutting air, rather than flesh, because the patient is gone.

The funeral director staggers backwards, astonished because the burial apparel he has been making just right for presentation has collapsed, and the corpse is no longer in the casket.

We will have to leave, until next time, those scenario snippets as still-frame snapshots of the paradigm-changing dynamics of the Rapture. Those will geometrically burgeon from the instant this stunning event takes place. It will be the most powerful occurrence of human history since Christ’s First Advent intervened into the affairs of humankind.

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Once again, this series was initially posted in 2007. I believe developments since show that it is still relevant today. 

We will have a look at how the end-time stage is set for the scenarios we will explore.

America is at the top of the food chain, so far as nations of the earth are concerned. It is the richest, most materially blessed nation-state ever to exist. Its achievements in almost every facet of human endeavor are without peer in the annals of the ages.

The European Union is developing rapidly into a colossus that will challenge the US for the title of world champ, so far as superpowers are concerned. But Europe lacks one ingredient in order to achieve America’s superpower status, no matter how economically strong the EU becomes. That one missing element is the military might—particularly the high-tech military complex—firmly entrenched and fortified by (likely) the most horrific thermonuclear capability and the most sophisticated means to deliver total devastation to any other nation foolish enough to initiate such conflagration.

Russia is again beginning to show signs of beefing up for superpower military status. It, too, however, lags far behind in high-tech matters—things that prevent it from achieving the degree of hegemony over parts of the world formerly under the dictatorial eyes of the USSR. The Russian economy continues to be in shambles, and achieving the high-tech needed is thus impeded.

China is biding its time, building a strong economic base for one purpose: to attain a level of fiscal power that can buy and/or develop the high-tech sophistication essential to superpower status. The Chinese raw manpower capabilities unquestionably present potentially the greatest threat, in terms of sheer numbers, of any military force in human history.

All other nations are bit players in the scenarios we will examine. But, combined, they present massive—even insurmountable—problems for the prophesied frightening world of the perhaps not-too-distant future.

Israel is smack in the center of all this global chemistry. That nation will be–according to the very Word of the Creator of all things—the catalyst that will galvanize earth-dwellers into rebellion against Him, thus, will bring all armies of the world to Armageddon. Here is what the One who knows the end from the beginning has to say about Israel and all other nations at the time of the end of days:

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. (Zechariah 12: 3).

So, with the world stage set as far as geopolitical matters are concerned, let’s begin to try to look into the future, again with the crucial caveat that this is all speculation, though well-studied and prayed over by yours truly. Daniel the prophet gave the end-time wrap up in one concise prophetic passage:

And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (Daniel

9:27)

Will the consummation as described in that passage begin to rumble upon this judgment-bound earth something like this? Business will be going along at a dynamic clip, despite occasional blips, flare-ups, and glitches. Jesus tells us that in Luke 17:26–29. The rich will be getting richer, and the poor will be going further into poverty–despite the socialists-elite’s promises to the contrary. Terrorism will be pervasive, and increasingly so, just as Paul the apostle stated when he said men and seducers would grow worse and worse, and just as Jesus prophesied when He said things would be just they were like in Noah’s day, a time when violence filled the whole world (Genesis 6:11, 13).

The Arab Islamic states, wanting—as they have for millennia—to erase the Jews from the earth, will be looking for ways to penetrate Israel’s protective shell, fearful of direct assault because of Israel’s lethal nuclear arsenal. The world of diplomats—the so-called international community—will, led by the American State Department, be looking for a way to placate the hostile Islamics. Israel’s territory, as always, will be the offering on the altar of Mideast peacemaking. This, while giving Israel little or no say in the offering.

Every major Mideast terrorist organization, with headquarters in Damascus, Syria, will beat the drums of hatred against Israel as never before. Concern that Israel will take preemptive action will trouble the Jim Bakers of the times in this scenario. Even some who call themselves evangelical Christians will join with other religious entities to point a finger at Israel as the obstinate party in the growing threat to regional, maybe even world, peace.

Well, better stop there for now. If the Rapture doesn’t occur between now and next week, I can promise it will occur then–in this scenario, at least.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. (Luke 17:28–29)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

End-of-Days Scenarios

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

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

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

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

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

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

About Jesus, the Apostle Paul wrote:

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

Jesus Himself said:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are Antichrist and the False Prophet to be nephilim?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pakistan Ministry Mission Appeal from Terry James

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Terry James Prophecyline

P.O. Box 38

Benton, AR 72018           

Thanks, and God’s Blessings.

Terry 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please pray for the salvation of souls in this effort.