(i think i'm going to write out all of the pre-trib Bible verses for encouragement this week!) :flyup: If you type them, you can post them for us! I was thinking of exactly the same thing about the need for rescue being just like the Jews inbetween the Red sea and Pharoahs army..... our Rapture is our Blessed Hope, but also has a feeling as if our Lord is delayed....but because our Lord is long suffering, He wishes that none should perish. He knows that many will get saved after the Rapture but He delivers us before destruction....likely literally RIGHT before destruction....so as we see the mounting evil rapidly descending upon the world, we need to look up....our redemption draws near!! :flyup: Distress of Nations :: By Daymond Duck On Apr. 23, 2021, on his Middle East Update, Amir Tsarfati said, “I want you to know one thing; in my entire lifetime, I have never seen such chaos militarily, politically, spiritually – and I’m talking about all across the world – outside of the Church, inside of the Church, in Europe, in America, in the Middle East, in the area of China, in the Philippines, all of that area.” Here are some recent events. One, concerning the Battle of Gog and Magog: Pres. Biden has now offended the three main players in this great latter years and latter days war. Biden offended Vladimir Putin of Russia by calling him a killer. Biden offended Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey by canceling the sale of 100 F-35 jets to Turkey and formally recognizing the Ottoman Empire’s 1915-1923 atrocities against Armenia as genocide. Biden offended the radical Muslims (Iran, PA, etc.) by announcing his full support for the Abraham Accords and the normalization of ties between Arabs and Israel. Russia has now put the U.S. on its list of unfriendly nations. (I’m just adding ... Biden also just ticked off North Korea) we are now surrounded by enemies. B-) This great end-of-the-age war is coming, and Biden seems to be stumbling right into it. Two, concerning world government and the Great Reset: on Apr. 20, 2021, conservative writer Dave Hodges wrote in part: The U.S. military feels betrayed by Biden, and “World leaders are moving against Biden as well, as they know that the Great Reset means the destruction of their nations. Some fear a purge of world leaders is desired and needed to implement the new order coming from the World Economic Forum.” “One thing can be said for certain; the United States will not look the same come September, or sooner.” Concerning the purge of world leaders: (my comment) is that the Bible says the Antichrist will go forth conquering, and to conquer (Rev. 6:1-2), and there will be wars and rumors of wars. Three, on Apr. 19, 2021, U.S. Sec. of State Antony Blinken noted that Pres. Biden has directed his department to put “the climate crisis at the center of our foreign policy and national security.” Climate Change is a hoax that globalists use as a scare tactic to get people to accept world government. The climate is changing, but deception, famines, earthquakes, etc., are signs that the Tribulation Period is approaching (Matt. 24:4-8). God uses the weather to fulfill His Word, and globalists cannot change that (Psa. 148:8). If globalists want to change the weather, they need to urge those that are called by God’s name to humble themselves, pray, seek God and repent of their sins (II Chron. 7:13-14). But that is probably not going to happen because most globalists want to ignore God, and many people that are called by God’s name (for example, Pope Francis) do not seem to know or care what the Bible says. Put another way, the U.S. can put the climate crisis at the center of its foreign policy and national security if it wants, but the natural disasters are still going to happen because God’s Word is going to be fulfilled. Four, concerning permission to buy and sell: on Apr. 22, 2021, it was reported that an Alaskan village of almost 500 people requires their citizens to be fully vaccinated, be on a list of vaccinated citizens, wear masks, and abide by social distancing guidelines to enter the community’s two stores. Citizens that cannot meet these requirements cannot enter the stores, but they can call in an order that will be delivered to their home. The grocery store limits the number of customers to four at one time. Five, concerning whether people might be forced to take the Mark or not: on Apr. 19, 2021, it was reported that the government of Saskatchewan has approved a training course for social workers on vaccinating mentally challenged people for Covid. If everything else fails, mentally challenged people that do not want to be vaccinated can be sedated and vaccinated against their wishes. Six, on Apr. 22, 2021, it was reported that a judge in Florida blocked access of a mom to her son until she gets vaccinated and starts wearing a mask, and another judge in New York reversed a mother’s custody of her daughter because she was not wearing a mask in the presence of her child (the mom is allowed to have supervised visits with her child in her home if the mom is wearing a mask). Seven, last week, my article mentioned an Op-Ed that said the Covid Crisis and The Great Reset are beginning to sputter, and globalists may come up with an alternative crisis to give their desired world government a boost. This week, it was reported that only 28% of those in the U.S. have been vaccinated, and requests for vaccinations are slowing. 😉 One TV commentator suggested that the government may have to give more privileges to the vaccinated than to the unvaccinated to motivate more people to be vaccinated. Incidentally, if vaccinations keep people from getting Covid, why is Pres. Biden still wearing a mask? Also, on Apr. 23, 2021, Professor of Epidemiology at Yale University, Dr. Harvey Risch, told Steve Bannon’s War Room that about 60% of people that are being infected with Covid today are people that have already been vaccinated. 😉 Eight, on Apr. 20, 2021, the Connecticut House of Representatives passed a bill to eliminate religious exemptions from vaccination for students as of the 2022-23 school term. It still needs to be voted on by the Senate but is expected to pass. Nine, this writer watched Pastor Tom Hughes’ Apr. 22, 2021 interview of Dennis Swick, founder of His Channel TV, on “World News Briefing.” Hughes read a quote from a 2015 article (I missed the name of the writer) that said, “We already have the technology necessary to enforce the Mark of the Beast, but we don’t have the will to enforce the Mark of the Beast.” 😉 It now seems that history has reached the point, even in the U.S., where many would support enforcement of the Mark of the Beast. Ten, concerning global famine, hyperinflation, and an economic collapse during the Tribulation Period (Rev. 6:5-8): on Apr. 24, 2021, Bloomberg reported that global food prices have reached their highest level since 2014, they are surging and beginning to threaten the global economy. Finally, if you want to 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. - Fair Use - Another BIG sign the rapture is soon. :popcorn :popcorn :popcorn Dopey Joe keeps poking the bear :yes: Putin preparing to launch nuke carrying submarine capable of wiping out US cities in chilling warning to Biden End Times Headlines by Ricky Scaparo May 3, 2021 Russia is preparing to launch a new submarine equipped with nukes that is capable of wiping out US cities in a chilling warning to US President Joe Biden. The report details that the launch of the Kazan sub is part of a long-running campaign by Vladimir Putin to modernize Russia’s armed forces and comes during high tension between Russia and the West. This state-of-the-art Kazan submarine is the second Yasen-M vessel and is equipped with nuclear-capable Kalibr and Oniks cruise missiles. The sub’s unveiling on may 7th will come ahead of huge military parades that will commemorate the mark the end of the Second World War in Europe. The Kazan’s development has been shrouded in secrecy and its delivery repeatedly postponed due to unspecified problems. US intelligence chief Scott Berrier recently stated that the Kazan is a worldwide threat to America when talking to the Senate armed services committee. Putin also hailed the Mach 8th Zircon as “truly unparalleled”, and has been described as his missile of choice to target American cities in the event of a nuclear conflict. This new report comes as after Russia sent another chilling message to Biden when on Friday it launched a supersonic cruise missile in the Black Sea, where US ships had previously entered. Meanwhile, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has also recently warned Biden and the US will face “a very grave situation” following Biden’s recent words against North Korea in his first address to Congress, where he reportedly called North Korea and Iran’s nuclear programs “serious threats” to American and world security and went further to say that he’ll work with allies to address those problems through diplomacy and stern deterrence. - Fair Use - Russian Nuclear War Threat? By Terry James @ Rapture Ready Russia’s bellicose actions lately have some predicting nuclear war and what would amount to World War III. One blogger who is a long-time commentator on geopolitics as they might relate to Bible prophecy believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin plans an assault on Alaska. His thinking is that Russians have long sought to recover Alaska from the time they owned and sold the now American state to the US. Josef Stalin was, he says, set to invade Alaska, but the action was preempted by the Soviet dictator’s death in 1953. The blog pundit throws in the fact that China also has its sights on taking over America, and that Putin needs to prevent that from taking place, because Russia is planning the same thing. The blogger’s conspiratorial analysis goes much deeper, but that’s the overall gist of his suspicion—America is on the brink of being taken over by Russia, China, or both. The inept, even seditious, traitorous Biden administration, as he characterizes it, and its deep-state provocateurs are fomenting this attempted takeover by pushing hard at Russian involvement in the threat to Ukraine. He believes the new administration is doing this in order to provoke nuclear conflict. This, somehow, is so that the new, global order they wish to construct can, with the help of China as a sort of partner in the whole agglomerate matter, leap to world domination. No, I haven’t a clue how China would ever agree to be part of such an amalgamation. Its goal is clearly total world dominion, not partnership in such. And China, like the US Senate’s Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, plays the “long game.” That is, they are extremely patient and will go through the geopolitical gyrations for as long as necessary to—in China’s case—achieve global domination. Only if they see there is no longer a pathway to such domination will they then resort to all-out nuclear war. They are threatening militarily around the world—like, for example, their constantly running their air force and navy up to the boundaries surrounding Taiwan. And like their nonstop intimidation of US and other naval forces in the China Sea and around the globe. But they know which side their bread is buttered on. They couldn’t win a nuclear conflict with America. They’ll never try—this side of the Tribulation era. Same with Russia. They wouldn’t have a chance of winning nuclear all-out conflict with the US. Most all experts who study war agree. All would suffer unacceptable devastation in such a conflict. The threat of nuclear exchanges has existed since the Soviets stole American technology and built their nuclear arsenal. The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the closest the world has come to such an exchange. Like in every case, avoidance of such world-changing or even world-ending conflict has been held back by the very hand of God. There is no doubt about this to anyone who is a believer and is spiritually attuned to the supernaturally foreknown movement of human history. As a matter of fact, God’s Word outlines precisely the final disposition of both of the nuclear powers which the blogger confidently predicts will soon take over the US in a probable nuclear conflict. Ezekiel the prophet gives us God’s view and His way of dealing with Russia in chapters 38 and 39. The Russian leader, Gog, leads his forces against God’s chosen nation and they are obliterated except for one-sixth of that force. China is held behind the oriental barrier to the occidental world so far as domination is concerned until they are freed to come across the dried-up Euphrates, as prophesied in Revelation chapters 9 and 16. This force will be annihilated at Armageddon. God’s restraining hand is in evidence even on the level of this nuclear confrontation matter. Observers were looking to the potential conflict presented by Putin sending troops to the Ukrainian border en masse. They looked poised to invade. President Joe Biden’s poking at the Russian bear, sending airplanes full of tactical nuclear weapons into Ukraine, supposedly, was meant to provoke that nuclear conflict, whereby all the New World Order stuff outlined above would begin to roll out. Of course, I see all of that as not possible—not if Bible prophecy is true. And it is. Even if such were the plans of the globalists and the Chinese leadership, God’s restraining hand would never allow it—again, according to Bible prophecy. We again see a stepping down from the nuclear brink in the following excerpt. After weeks of tension over a build-up of Russian troops close to Ukraine’s border, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shogun has ordered a number of units in the area back to their bases… Russia said all along that these were nothing more than military exercises. But Moscow knew very well that its troop movements close to Ukraine and in annexed Crimea were making a lot of people very nervous: in Ukraine, Europe and in America. And that was the point. Moscow may well have been using the build-up of troops to send a signal to Kyiv, Brussels and, especially, to Washington that Russia is a force to be reckoned with. (“Russia to Pull Troops Back from Near Ukraine,” BBC News, April 23, 2021) Nuclear war involving these end-times nation-state actors will take place. The kings of the east will almost certainly use nuclear weaponry to kill one-third of the world’s population. Nuclear exchanges are inevitable during the Tribulation. No weapon ever invented by the fallen minds of mankind has ever been withheld in the murderous wars of history. The Christian of this Church Age (Age of Grace) needs not fear suffering through that time of such horrors. Believe in Jesus today and be kept from that terrible hour of evil. Jesus promises the following to those who belong to Him. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation [Tribulation,] which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (Revelation 3:10) –Terry ——————- Anthony Blinken: ‘Our Purpose Is Not to Contain China’ Breitbart Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told Norah O’Donnell of CBS News’ 60 Minutes on Sunday evening that the goal of the Biden administration was not to “contain” China, but to protect a “rules-based order” in international relations. Blinken: It is the one country in the world that has the military economic diplomatic capacity to undermine or challenge the rules based order that we, we care so much about and are determined to defend. But I want to be very clear about something, and this is important. Our purpose is not to contain China, to hold it back, to keep it down. It is to uphold this rules-based order that China is posing a challenge to. Anyone who poses a challenge to that order, we’re going to stand up and defend it. O’Donnell: I know you say the goal is not to contain China, but have you ever seen China be so assertive or aggressive militarily? Blinken: No, we haven’t. I think what we’ve witnessed over the last several years is China acting more repressively at home and more aggressively abroad. That is a fact. O’Donnell: What’s China’s goal? Blinken: I think that over time, China believes that it can be and should be and will be the dominant country in the world. Notably, Blinken did not rule out the possibility that China would overtake the United States as the world’s dominant power. Instead, the Biden administration appears willing to accept global Chinese dominance, provided the “rules” are maintained. Blinken’s approach implies that unlike its predecessor, the Biden administration appears to see America’s role as shaping China into a more responsible superpower, once it overtakes the U.S., rather than challenging China’s rise or restraining its ambitions. In March, China rebuked Blinken to his face at the first meeting between the U.S. and China since President Joe Biden took office. When Blinken brought up Chinese human rights abuses, China cited Black Lives Matter on America’s supposed flaws. Conservative radio host Mark Levin, who drew attention to the interview on his program Monday, said that the video was a provocation, highlighting U.S. weakness. “This interview, I believe, will be what sparks an attack on Taiwan,” he warned. - Fair Use - More threats and rumors of war ... RUMORS OF WAR: Top Australian general warns of ‘high likelihood’ of war with China, Iran makes new threat against America End Times Headlines.org By Ricky Scaparo May 4, 2021 (ETH) – A top Australian general has just warned that there is a ‘high likelihood of war with China, during a leaked briefing to troops. According to the report, Major-General Adam Findlay, who according to The Sun, has since stepped down from his post but still advises the Australian Defence Force, gave this recent confidential briefing to Australia’s special forces soldiers last year. The Sydney Morning Herald, provided more details that General Findlay said China has already engaged in “grey zone” warfare and that Australia must prepare for the “high likelihood” that it could spill over into actual conflict, he said. “Who do you reckon the main (regional) threat is?” General Findlay reportedly asked his troops and officers before answering: “China.” OK, so if China is a threat, how many special forces brigades in China? You should know there is 26,000 Chinese SOF (Special Operations Forces) personnel,” he continued. This also comes on the heels of a leaked briefing from Australia’s former chief of operations in Iraq that said war with China was a genuine threat. Senator Jim Molan delivered a grim evaluation of Australia’s preparedness for a war he says is “likely”. He went further to state that Australia is not ready for what’s coming. Meanwhile, China’s Global Times newspaper also issued a fresh attack on Australia – with the publication of a propaganda poster taking aim at Australian troops. The Sun stated: “A poster, published under the headline ‘Troops are leaving, will justice arrive soon?’ was published in the newspaper, which is widely seen as a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party. The poster, which detailed alleged war crimes carried out in Afghanistan, comes as Australia prepares to pull out of the country as its allies including the United States do the same”. All the while, Chinese President and Communist Party General-Secretary Xi Jinping has reached a new status, reportedly adopting the title “helmsman,” which is a descriptor not used since Mao Zedong and denoting ultimate authority, according to U.S. intelligence officials. Meanwhile, Iran has just released a new video over the weekend that depicts its military forces blowing up the US Capitol building, fueling a new threat that comes as the Biden administration inches closer to providing Tehran with billions of dollars in economic sanctions relief. The video reportedly debuted this past Sunday on Iranian state-controlled television right before Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei delivered his remarks, in which he praised the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp. In the video clip, armed IRGC forces are seen marching before the U.S. Capitol’s famous dome explodes. It also shows Iranian forces marching on Jerusalem. - Fair Use - And we have NASA worried about asteroid(s) coming ... NASA Impact Simulation Shows Dangers Of Bible's Wormwood Prophecy ProphecyNewsWatch.com A week-long exercise held by Nasa this week has concluded that a catastrophic event with an asteroid would be unavoidable, even given six months to prepare. The hypothetical impact scenario, which took place during a planetary defense conference hosted by the United Nations, confirmed that there is no current technology on earth that could stop an Asteroid if we knew in advance it was projected to hit the earth. "If confronted with the scenario in real life, we would not be able to launch any spacecraft on such short notice with current capabilities," the participants said. The only response to such an event would be to evacuate the area before the asteroid hit, however the impact zone of many typical asteroids would be so large that would be almost impossible. From The End Of The American Dream... We live at a time when giant space rocks are whizzing past our planet with alarming regularity. Sometimes we know in advance that they are coming, and sometimes we don't. Some of these asteroids have even come within a range that rivals oribts from some of our satellites. In 1998, a big Hollywood movie entitled "Deep Impact" imagined what would happen if a very large asteroid hit the Atlantic Ocean. It is hard to believe that it has been more than 20 years since it first came out, because I can still remember it very vividly. In one of the most memorable scenes in the film, a massive tsunami that is hundreds of feet tall slams into the east coast of the United States causing immense death and destruction. But that is just a movie. Could something similar actually happen in real life? A computer simulation of an asteroid impact tsunami developed by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (USCS), showed waves as high as 400 feet sweeping onto the Atlantic Coast of the US. Steven Ward, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCSC, and Erik Asphaug, an associate professor of Earth sciences, reported their findings in the Geophysical Journal International. Of course an asteroid could potentially hit anywhere on the planet, but in their research Ward and Asphaug specifically focused on the Atlantic Ocean, and what their computer simulation came up with was extremely disconcerting... For the simulation, the researchers chose an impact site consistent with the orientation of the Earth at the time of the predicted encounter - in the Atlantic Ocean about 360 miles from the US coast. Dr Ward explained that the 60,000-megaton blast of the impact could vaporise the asteroid and blow a cavity in the ocean 11 miles across and all the way down to the seafloor, which is about three miles deep at that point. Such an impact would send a series of giant waves in all directions, including toward the east coast of the United States. Today, almost 40 percent of the U.S. population lives in a county that directly borders a shoreline, and the population density right along the east coast is particularly dense. Florida would probably be the first state to get hit by the waves, and it would be particularly vulnerable because most of the state is just barely above sea level... South Florida has two big problems. The first is its remarkably flat topography. Half the area that surrounds Miami is less than five feet above sea level. Its highest natural elevation, a limestone ridge that runs from Palm Beach to just south of the city, averages a scant 12 feet. With just three feet of sea-level rise, more than a third of southern Florida will vanish; at six feet, more than half will be gone; if the seas rise 12 feet, South Florida will be little more than an isolated archipelago surrounded by abandoned buildings and crumbling overpasses. And the waters won't just come in from the east - because the region is so flat, rising seas will come in nearly as fast from the west too, through the Everglades. In other words, there would be absolutely nothing to keep the tsunami waves from racing across the entire state Much of the rest of the east coast would be extremely vulnerable as well. For example, New York City is less than 50 feet above sea level... Despite having some of the tallest buildings in the world and being well-known for its towers and skyscrapers, New York City has a very low elevation of just 33 feet (10 m) above sea level. New York's elevation is so low due to its location right on the coast of the United States. Boston, New Haven, Jersey City, Newark, Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Virginia Beach, Wilmington, Myrtle Beach, Charleston, Savannah and countless other east coast cities are all also less than 50 feet above sea level. So we are talking about the potential for death and destruction on a scale that is unimaginable. The Book of Revelation describes a future event that seems to be describing something from space hitting the earth described as like a star, most likely an asteroid, that results in a third of earth's waters becoming poisoned. For that reason this space object is called "Wormwood" which is associated with bitterness, poison and death. Nasa is currently tracking roughly 25,000 Near Earth Objects and new discoveries are being added at a rate of around 30 each week, however there is one asteroid in particular that Bible Prophecy expert Tom Horn believes we should be watching - that asteroid has an appointment with our solar system in the near future and it is called Apophis, named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos. - Fair Use - Jared Kushner launches peace institute to advance Abraham Accords The Times of Israel JTA — Jared Kushner has launched an institute to promote his major accomplishment when he advised his father-in-law, former US President Donald Trump: the normalization agreements between Israel and a number of Sunni Arab countries. Kushner founded the Abraham Accords Institute for Peace with Avi Berkowitz, a friend who Kushner brought in to be the chief Middle East peace negotiator in the latter part of his father-in-law’s single presidential term, Axios reported on Wednesday. Berkowitz helped broker the accords last year that brought normalization agreements between Israel and Sudan, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The institute will promote trade, tourism and people-to-people exchanges between Israel and the Arab countries. The other founders include Haim Saban, an Israeli American entertainment mogul who also is a major donor to the Democratic Party. Axios said that Kushner wants to bring more Democrats on board. The Abraham Accords is one of the few diplomatic initiatives launched by Trump that President Joe Biden has fully embraced. Kushner has laid low since his father-in-law left office and has not pronounced on the false claims Trump peddles that Joe Biden’s election was fraudulent. Kushner, who led Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns, is reportedly no longer among his father-in-law’s political advisers. The other founders of the institute include Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and the ambassadors of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to Washington. Rob Greenway, the senior Middle East official on Trump’s National Security Council, will be the executive director. - Fair Use - thanks for all this info in these articles, geri! i really appreciate it! i like Terry's the best because it reminds us of the Rapture and i'm hoping too that it won't get too terribly unbearable prior to our departure...but, then again, i know so many already live in unbearable circumstances, but those who put their faith in Christ Jesus find their Heavenly Father's grace to be sufficient so that it is not unbearable with the Holy Spirit's presence, power, and peace- praise God that we are His!!!
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By Joel Pollak May 3, 2021
New initiative will promote trade, tourism, and people-to-people exchanges between Israel and Arab countries; Israeli American entertainment mogul Haim Saban among founders
Ron Kampeas 5/5/21
