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LAST year was an amazing year! If you follow any of the Bible prophecy sites, blogs, and media programmes, you know they have been over-whelmed with stories that are foreshadowing the time the Bible calls "The Time of Jacob's Trouble" also known as "The Tribulation". I know there are those who believe there are no signs for today. I was called on the carpet by a seminary professor for heralding signs. He said there are no signs until the Tribulation. Nothing that is happening today is relevant. How tragic! What a disservice he is doing to his seminary students who will be ill-equipped to deal with very dark headlines. So, after sifting through hun-dreds, in fact, thousands of headlines in the last year, I have come up with 18 stories that I feel most represent the herald of Jesus' coming: 1. Israel's worsening isolation
The Left in America under Barack Obama abandoned Israel some years ago. With the defeat of Canada's Stephen Harper, Israel was left with the support of only Evangelical Christians spread around the world. She has no superpower backing anymore.(Zechariah 12:3). 2. The "Days of Noah" are back
Everyone is doing what is right in their own eyes (Judges 17:6). Lawlessness is the order of the day. Evil is glorified. The White House was adorned with the colours of the homosexual rainbow and Hillary Clinton has a campaign ad with homosexuals engaged in debauchery as she celebrates their actions.(Matthew 24:37). 3. The disillusionment with today's politicians.
This disillusionment is setting the stage for a "man with a plan" who will not be a politician but who will have the answer to all the world's problems. We don't know his name. We know his title is Antichrist. He may be the only one who can stabilise the ISIS crisis being planned for a naive Western world.4. The rise of strong delusion
Simply put, God sends a strong delusion to those who choose not to believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Those who take delight in mocking and rejecting Him, He will condemn, confuse their thinking, and cause them to believe fables. And they do! All religions are actually the same; guns are evil; climate change is more dangerous than jihadists; Israel is the bad guy and the Palestinians are the new heroes in the Church today; ISIS isn't Islam; Muslim refugees are peaceful and will help the Western world. This is an "Alice-in-Wonderland" world. Christians don't fit. The Mad Hatter rules!(2 Thessalonians 2:10-12). 5. The further decline of America
America is not referred to in the Bible in the end-times. Russia and Iran are the primary players in the Middle East now. America's influence for truth and good is vanishing under Barack Obama. America will blend into a global government.6. The world is being given over to paganism
A few months ago the Hindu goddess Kali appeared on the Empire State Building in New York City. Twenty years ago this was unthinkable. Now it is cool.7. Israel is being prepared for the time of the Antichrist
She is surrounded by enemies: Hezbollah, ISIS, Russia and Syria to the North and East and Hamas to the South in Gaza. Iran boasts daily that they will dump nukes on Israel. At some point Israel will cave in to these threats and call on the Antichrist to make a peace treaty - particularly in light of the loss of American support.8. 'Gog' is now on the move
Vladimir Putin has rebuilt Russia from the days when Ronald Reagan reined her in. Russia is advancing in many places. All the Gog-Magog nations are aligning and are in the news: Iran, Russia, Turkey, Libya, and more. Promi-nent Bible-players are moving around as though they were on a chessboard (See Ezekiel 38-39).9. Israel has been bombing the suburbs of Damascus
They are targeting concealed weapons. The Bible foretells a time when Damascus will become a ruinous heap (Isaiah 35:1).10. Christians are mocked as never before and Jews are fleeing to Israel at a pace not seen since World War II
In the Iran/Syria region, a Chris-tian is slaughtered every five minutes, yet few show any con-cern. Christianity is being erased from the region of its birth. All of this intensified in 2015.(Matthew 10:22). 11. The technology giants want to suppress the truth and marginalize Christians
From YouTube, to Google, to Facebook, to Twitter, and more, the Gospel message is censored and evil is glorified. They are preparing the way for the "Mark of the Beast" technology. This was on overdrive in 2015. Our own Ministry came under the gun and was censored more than once. Stories reveal that Windows 10 actually spies on e-mails, credit cards, and more.12. There was a cry for a global religion
This came from Pope Francis to the Parliament of World Religions in Utah during 2015. If the world is ever to be one, religions must also be united. Pope Francis revealed himself to be an apocalyptic figure in 2015. We cannot "pin the tail of the False Prophet" on him quite yet, but even conservative Catholics are troubled by this Jesuit Pope. In fact, this Pope represents Marxism, environmentalism, the New World Order, global govern-ment, sustainable development, the Jesuit agenda, unity of faiths, a global constitution, a global court, and a departure from Catholic traditions. He is surely a harbinger of a global religion.13. Globalism went on overdrive
This is thanks to Barack Obama, the United Nations, Pope Francis, and a consortium of worldwide Leftists. John Lennon, who "imagined" all of this decades ago, would be proud!14. The push to make cash illegal intensified in 2015
The move to a cashless society won't happen overnight. Instead, it is being implemented very slowly and systematically in a series of incremental steps. All over the planet, governments are starting to place restrictions on the use of cash for security reasons.15. Israel's Temple Mount was a focal point for turmoil over the past year
With stage-setting for fulfilment of Bible prophecy during this Church Age winding up, it should be of no surprise that there has been tension on Mount Moriah. That must be the most contested 35 acres on the planet!16. It was the year Bible prophecy was mocked and attacked more than ever!
Believers in our blessed hope were called "End-time Eddies and Esthers." While this has always existed, now more and more prominent teachers are telling us not to waste our time on doom and gloom.17. Liberal, Godless Europe imploded
Leaders like Germany's Angela Merkel lost their minds, put their people at huge risk as terrorists took advantage of the "refugee" situation, and have made Europe a time bomb. The Antichrist will take advantage of this as well.18. It was the year Evangelicals began accepting the gay agenda and some asserted
The voices from the religious Left encouraged this. The great end-time falling away has much of the Church going over a cliff with results that cannot be rectified. Finding a solid church became a believer's biggest challenge in 2015. Things are not falling apart - they are actually falling into place! Can you hear the hoof beats of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in the distance? I won't be silent about the signs of the times. If Jesus chastised the Pharisees for not knowing the signs of His first coming, why would we not be expected to be aware of today's apocalyptic signs? Wake up, look up, and rise up! - Jan Markell, Prepare the Way, Issue No. 94.that Allah and Jehovah are the same |
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