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© November 21, 2022
14 For if
we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with
Him those who [a]sleep in Jesus.
15 For this
we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain
until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are [b]asleep. 16 For the
Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an
archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will
rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in
the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore
comfort one another with these words. -- 1 Thessalonians 4: 14-18 NKJV
I subscribe to Prophecy Update
which probably alienates a number of Believers Saved by the Death, Burial and
Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Rather than engage in heated theological
disagreements over the Word of God, WE the Redeemed should all realize that
none of us will agree on our perceptions of what Redemption entails for the
Redeemed in this AGE before the Return of King Jesus that begins the complete
cleansing of the cursed Earth brought to humanity via Adam’s disobedience.
Until Christ’s Return the Redeemed should at least strive to
find the common ground issues that all agree upon and stop fussing about the
disagreements that only allows elements of the Curse to overshadow the
spiritual reality of the Blessings we have in the Risen Savior Jesus the
Christ.
I suspect for some Believers, that which is disagreed upon
might be too heavy a weight to examine thoughts from those they disagree. I
understand. I’ve been there and frankly sometimes and I get quite cranky with
what I consider erroneous thinking or erroneous backstabbing.
Well … That’s my “Believers, let’s try to get along” by
what we agree upon until Christ Returns to set the entire record straight for
all of us.
So, Back to Prophecy Update.
I read two posts I sense are relevant to the corrupt tyranny
Americans are experiencing under what I consider a godless Dem-Marxist
coup-installed government.
1) “Worthless
Hissy Fits” by Daymond Duck
posted on 11/19. Daymond begins by writing about Benjamin Netanyahu resuming
the Office of Prime Minister for Israel. Then he elaborates on the hissy fits
of Globalists internationally and Dem-Marxists in the USA by highlighting their
anti-God agendas.
2) “Gates
of Hell Prophecy” by Terry James posted
by 11/21. Terry’s theme is there is a Gates of Hell that all Believers in
Christ will overcome. HOWEVER, until the Return of Jesus, there are and will be
times when bad things happen to the Believers in the Risen Savior that will get
worse as the days of the Tribulation approach. In these days of seemingly
increasing tyranny against Liberty and Biblical Values, I found this an
interesting read.
JRH 11/21/22
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Worthless Hissy Fits
By Daymond
Duck
November 19, 2022
Israel’s new government under former Prime Minister
Netanyahu is expected to be very conservative (Netanyahu won 64 seats, and his
new government will include members from the far right that want to change
things on the Temple Mount and the West Bank).
Biblically speaking, the U.S. should eagerly support equal
rights for Jews on the Temple Mount (the right to go there, pray there, etc.),
Israel’s annexation of all the West Bank (at least some of the Jewish
settlements), and more, but White House officials are panicking over changes on
the Temple Mount.
They are already criticizing people that may be in
Netanyahu’s government, and on Nov. 8, 2022, it was reported that America’s
ambassador to Israel said the U.S. will aggressively fight Israel’s annexation
of all or part of the West Bank.
Those in the White House are opposing what the Bible says
about God’s restoration of Israel, but they do not believe the Bible, so they
ignore what it says.
America’s rejection of Jehovah and the Bible, its
celebration of perversion, and its desire to divide Israel are major reasons
why America is in trouble.
The situation on the Temple Mount will change, God’s Word
will be fulfilled, the Jews will rebuild the Temple and resume the animal
sacrifices, and the worthless hissy fits (displeasure, anger, temper tantrums)
of unbelievers in the White House before the Netanyahu government is even
formed will not stop that.
Here are some recent events that recently made the news.
One, concerning world government: on Nov. 10, 2022,
Human Events posted an article by Ethan Peck that says:
·
The leaders of all the G7 nations (7 major
industrialized nations) took up the same slogan: “Build Back Better.”
·
The CEOs of the 3 American pharmaceutical
companies that developed a vaccine for Covid-19 are frequent attendees of World
Economic Forum (WEF) meetings.
·
The founders of Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and
Google have all attended WEF Young Global Leaders (YGL) training events.
·
Several of the most recognizable people in the
media are graduates of the YGL school.
Peck astutely points out that all these people have one
common denominator: the WEF.
(Question: What are the odds that all 7 major industrialized
nations would adopt the same slogan in the same year?)
Two, concerning financing world government and wealth
redistribution: on Nov. 8, 2022, a report was released at the COP27 meeting
that calls for “developed countries” to start giving one trillion dollars a
year before 2030 to “emerging markets and developing countries,” plus it was
suggested that they also cut subsidies on fossil fuels and impose “carbon
taxes” to raise about $1.4 trillion dollars more.
I cannot predict what world leaders will do, but these
fanatics want control of everyone on earth and more than two trillion dollars
of financing pouring in every year before 2030.
(Note: A recent poll found that more than 40% of highly
respected climate scientists do not believe that climate change is settled
science. The high level of skepticism among experts is one reason why many
Bible prophecy teachers believe climate change is a scam to justify the
establishment of a world government.)
Three, concerning a Central Bank Digital Currency
(CBDC) to eventually track all buying and selling: on Nov. 15, 2022, the NY
Federal Reserve Bank announced a pilot program to explore the use of CBDCs for
the next 3 months.
Several large banks and Master Card will participate in this
pilot program.
I cannot predict what they will do, but I expect them to
test the CBDC for the next 3 months and put it into use in at least some places
early next year (unless the House or God stops them).
This will be a major step toward a new global economic
system and the Mark of the Beast.
Four, concerning the decline of America: on Nov. 14,
2022, the Washington Examiner reported that Pres. Biden implied that the
mid-term elections were a repudiation of former Pres. Trump’s “America First”
foreign policy agenda.
In a past speech, Biden said “America First” is dead.
Biden’s goal is “Globalism First” (cause the decline of
America and Build it Back Better with the New World Order), and he wants the
U.S. to lead it.
(My Opinion: On Nov. 15, 2022, former Pres. Trump announced
that he will run for president again in 2024. I believe we can expect Biden and
America’s shadow government to do everything they can to lock the U.S. into a
world government before the election.)
Five, concerning the mid-term elections in
Pennsylvania: State Rep. Tony DeLuca was running for re-election, but he died
on Oct. 9, 2022 (one month before the vote).
It was too late to change the ballots, so DeLuca’s name was
still listed when the election took place.
Pennsylvania will now hold a special election to replace the
deceased man that more than 85% of the people voted for.
(Note: Concerning corruption in the election: a Rasmussen
survey on Nov. 8-9, 2022, found that 30% of likely voters believed that
cheating was “very likely,” and 27% believed it was “likely.”)
(Note: Following the collapse of Crypto Exchange FTX, there
have been reports that the head of the company gave more than $38 million of
stolen money to Democrats to help them win the mid-term elections, and we may
never know the truth, but one report said he was running a gigantic slush fund
that was funneling money that was appropriated for Ukraine to selected
Democrats.)
(My opinion: Those who do not believe there is corruption in
the elections probably believe our border with Mexico is secure, we don’t have
a drug problem, inflation is under control, Hunter’s laptop was disinformation,
men can get pregnant, our border patrol agents beat immigrants with the reins
of their horses, etc. Sadly, it looks like a strong delusion has come upon
America.)
Six, concerning COP27: a reader asked this question,
“I would like to know what that means to you in the prophecy world?”
Here is my slightly altered answer:
·
In essence, globalists are worshipping Mother
Earth, the creation instead of the Creator (they are transforming climate
change into a religion).
· Globalists
are replacing God’s Ten Commandments with ten commandments that have
nothing to do with God. [Bold emphasis Blog Editor’s]
·
They are seeking to make their commandments
global law, and that would empower them to persecute those that do not keep
those global laws.
·
Attacking the Ten Commandments is an attack on
Christians and Jews.
·
Globalists are replacing the Commandments
written by the finger of God on stone tablets with commandments written by
humans or a machine on paper.
·
The world religion is shaping up at the same
time that globalists are working to establish a world government and world
economic system.
·
All of this means the Rapture is close.
Seven, in a Nov. 12, 2022, American Thinker article,
author Eric Utter reported that the UN and World Economic Forum (WEF) are
working together on ways to dramatically reduce the population of the earth as
part of the Great Reset.
Notice that Utter said “reduce” the population of the earth,
not “maintain” the population of the earth.
According to Utter, the goal is to reduce the population of
the earth by 50% or more by 2050.
Utter asks, “Who gets to decide which humans are expendable,
unneeded?”
Eight, concerning a population reduction on earth: on
Nov. 14, 2022, it was reported that the Australian government is now saying the
danger of vaccinated males age 16-40 getting myocarditis (an infection in the
heart that hinders the heart’s ability to pump blood) may be greater than the
danger of getting Covid.
According to the report, citizens were told the Covid shots
are safe, but they are not.
From now on, the Australian government will advise citizens
under thirty not to take the fourth shot.
(More: On Nov. 15, 2022, it was reported that Covid
vaccinations have caused an increase of death in all age groups by almost
300,000 people in the 27-nation EU during the first 44 weeks of 2022. [Bold
Emphasis Blog Editor’s])
Nine, concerning the Battle of Gog and Magog: it is
being reported that Russia has lost more than 100,000 troops and many weapons
in its war against Ukraine.
This is terrible for the Russian troops and their families,
and God can destroy Russia’s military no matter how many troops and weapons
they have, but He may be weakening the Russian military before it attacks
Israel.
Finally, are you Rapture Ready?
If you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must
be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely
admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son
of God who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the
dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be
your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.
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Gates of Hell Prophecy
By Terry James
November 21, 2022
Often we overlook much prophetic truth when we read and
study God’s Word. The Bible is without limits in its rich wisdom available to
be mined. The Creator’s purpose in giving His Word to the human race is to provide
direction for living in the most abundant way possible.
Jesus Christ is that Word. The
last book of the Bible—Revelation—is the unveiling of Jesus in all His
power, glory and majesty.
Prophecy—telling of the future—resides at the heart of that
Word. The promises issued from the holy pages guarantee eternal life for each
person ever to be born who genuinely accepts God’s grace-given redemption from
sin through belief in Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection.
Jesus Christ is the Second Person of the Godhead, whom God
the Father sees as the nucleus around which all things hold together:
“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)
So, with it established that the Lord Jesus is preeminent in
all things, we come back to the opening statement to add that one truth we
often overlook deals most directly with the next prophecy to be fulfilled—the
Rapture of the church.
Jesus spoke about this commentary’s primary topic—the gates
of Hell. Although the disciples He was speaking to really had no concept of
what He was referring to, the prophecy and its details have been coming to pass
ever since—and are now set for fulfillment.
“He saith unto them, But
whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto
him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not
revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I
say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my
church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Matthew 16:15–18)
They didn’t understand the concept of “the church;” at
that point they were totally ignorant of that “structure” Jesus prophesied
to be built. But built it was, and it is still under construction as each
person who comes to salvation is added.
The specific part of this prophecy I want to look at in
perhaps a new way is wrapped within the phrases “my church,” “the gates of
hell,” and “shall not prevail against it.”
My study of how God deals with people–including believers—in
different dispensations leads me to conclude that there are entirely different
fates awaiting believers in Christ. And I’m talking about physical fate, not spiritual/eternal fate.
In terms of eternal fate, the gates
of hell cannot and will not prevail or win against any believer in
Jesus Christ. All believers, of every dispensation, will enjoy the bliss and
exultation of Heaven forever. But in terms of physical fate, believers
are prophetically scheduled to meet differing destinies.
Here is something we’ve looked at before, but still is not
the primary point I wish to address.
Jesus said in Matthew 16, as we’ve read above, that He will
build His church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. That has
turned out to be the dispensation we call the Church Age. This
began at Pentecost, as recorded in Acts chapter 2, when the Holy Spirit came to
indwell believers. (I’m aware there are those who believe the church began
along the shores of Galilee when Jesus began His ministry.)
On the other hand, the same Jesus, in His ascended form,
gave the following prophecy to John to write in the Revelation.
“And it was given unto him to
make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over
all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.” (Revelation 13:7)
So it is plain that in the physical sense,
Satan (his Antichrist) will overcome—prevail against—the saints (believers in
Christ). But the gates of hell, referring to Satan’s evil domain, will not
prevail over the church. The devil will never be able to physically or
spiritually totally overcome or destroy Christ’s Bride, the church.
Now to get to that nuance of examination I hope will help
make clear just how important this promise to the church—all believers of the
Church Age—really is.
My friend Jonathan Cahn, in his most recent book, The
Return of the Gods, points to the spiritually and even physically
observable reality that portals of the demonic sort have been somewhat opened
in these obviously manifest times of insane, anti-god activity. We’ve examined
many of the bizarre manifestations over and over in these columns, but I will
only repeat that it looks like God is in the process of turning rebellious
human beings over to a reprobate mindset—to demented, upside-down thinking, as
Paul prophesied in Romans chapter 1:
I’m in agreement with Jonathan. And I believe these portals
equate to Jesus’ reference to the gates of Hell. Those gates are
opening wider by the day, it seems. The demonic minions from those portals, as
well as the human minions that are anti-God, intend to completely erase all
vestiges of the true Christian church from the planet.
That will never happen. The very God who created all that
exists has said so: “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it”—the
church Jesus Christ is still building.
I’m convinced that the moment the Restrainer (the Holy
Spirit) lifts His hand of restraint against these hellish forces, all believers
will go to the Lord Jesus when He says: “Come up hither!” (Revelation
4:1).
The church cannot and will not be on planet earth when
those gates of Hell are fully opened and allowed to overcome
the saints of the Tribulation era (those saved following the Rapture). We have
Christ’s Word on that wonderful promise.
With all the wickedness deluging this time on earth, the end
is about to come like a flood (Daniel 9:26). The gates of hell will
soon swing fully open, bringing the most horrible, deadliest time of human
history, according to the Lord (Matthew 24:21).
But you and I, if we know Christ for salvation, don’t have
to worry for a second about being here to face that time. Jesus said He will
keep us out of that hour of horror (Revelation 3: 10). To be sure you are a
part of the church that will be taken out before that Tribulation era begins,
follow Paul’s Holy Spirit-given instructions.
That if thou shalt confess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth
unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
(Romans 10:9–10) [Bold Emphasis Blog Editor’s]
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