Prophecy Update #806 – Blow, Blow, Blow Your Shofar

We set aside a few minutes most Sunday mornings to identify connections between unfulfilled Bible prophecies and current news & events.

Turmoil in the Middle East on account of the nation of Israel is the most obvious sign that we are in the Last Days. Israel’s existence again as a nation is both a miracle and a fulfillment of many OT prophecies.

Other biblical signs include the push towards both global government & global commerce; the technology to utilize biometrics to buy & sell all goods & services; instantaneous global communication; an effort to alter our genetics in order to reproduce a hybrid, nonhuman race; a great falling away from faith in Jesus Christ; and the exponential growth in knowledge.

Daniel & Ezekiel explain that there will be a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the future 7yr Great Tribulation. Ritual animal sacrifices will be conducted there.

Something happened during Passover that has not been seen on the Temple Mount for 2000 years!

Israel365 News posted a story titled, Full-Dress Kohen Sighted on Temple Mount. 

(A Kohen is a male descendant of Aaron, the brother of Moses, who served as the first high priest of Israel. In Jewish tradition, Kohanim hold a special priestly status, stemming from the tribe of Levi, and were responsible for conducting services in the Temple in Jerusalem).

Excerpts:

The Temple Institute announced a remarkable development that brought Israel one step closer to the Third Temple. A kohen ascended to the Temple Mount wearing the Biblically mandated Kohanic garments. While on the mount, the Kohen joined in a prayer quorum and gave the priestly blessing to those gathered (Numbers 6:22-26).

The Temple Institute prepared the garments in preparation for the return of the Temple service.

On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, a group of Jews smuggled a shofarot (ritual rams’ horns) onto the Temple Mount and, despite police efforts to stop them, blew all of the requisite shofar blasts for the holiday.^[1]

The Temple Institute is dedicated to making the Holy Temple a reality in our day, and toward this end, the Temple Institute has, for 36 years, been building and planning and researching and teaching and sharing reconstructed sacred vessels and priestly garments.

The Temple Institute is ready with everything necessary to equip the Third Temple.

It is exactly what you’d expect from reading the prophecies in the Bible.

Jesus promised to resurrect & rapture His Church prior to His Second Coming, and before the time of Great Tribulation would come upon the whole Earth.^[2]

The resurrection and rapture of the church is presented as an imminent event. It could happen anytime. Right now, for example.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up

Ready or not Jesus is coming! 

Prophecy Update #805 – The Pearly (Bill) Gates

We set aside a few minutes most Sunday mornings to identify connections between unfulfilled Bible prophecies and current news & events.

Turmoil in the Middle East on account of the nation of Israel is the most obvious sign that we are in the Last Days. Israel’s existence again as a nation is both a miracle and a fulfillment of many OT prophecies.

Other biblical signs include the push towards both global government & global commerce; the technology to utilize biometrics to buy & sell all goods & services; instantaneous global communication; an effort to alter our genetics in order to reproduce a hybrid, nonhuman race; a great falling away from faith in Jesus Christ; and the exponential growth in knowledge.

The seventeenth chapter of the Revelation presents an End Times, One-World religion. The false religion will dominate all the “peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues” of the earth (17:15), meaning that it will have universal authority, no doubt given by the Antichrist, who rules the world at that time.

The Roman Catholic Church has long been believed to be the fulfillment of the one-world religion. The description of the system does seem to have elements of Catholicism. More recently, Islam has been the favorite of prophecy teachers. Popular books seek to ‘prove’ that the Antichrist will be a Muslim.

Something is emerging that makes more sense. You should read the article titled, Bill Gates Declares Need For New World Religion Created from AI.

Excerpts:

Gates has announced on Reid Hoffman’s podcast that a new religion should be created, centered around Artificial Intelligence. Gates told Hoffman on his Possible podcast, “The potential positive path (of AI) is so good that it will force us to rethink how should we use our time. You can almost call it a new religion a new philosophy of how do we stay connected with each other, and not be addicted to these things that will make video games look like nothing in terms of the attractiveness of spending time on them.”    

Gates, who claims to be a Roman Catholic, seemed to claim that humankind’s technological advances will create a God-like problem solving ability. He told Hoffman, “It’s fascinating that issues of disease, and enough food, and of climate – if things go well – those will largely become solved problems.”

It appears that Gates believes Artificial Intelligence can create a better god – and solve more problems -than the one currently worshipped by Christians.^[1]

As always, we are not insisting that the one-world religion will be some form of AI. We are simply pointing-out how easy it would be for AI to be the fulfillment. It makes total sense.

Jesus promised to resurrect & rapture His Church prior to His Second Coming, and before the time of Great Tribulation would come upon the whole Earth.

The resurrection and rapture of the church is presented as an imminent event. It could happen anytime. Right now, for example.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up

Ready or not Jesus is coming! 

Prophecy Update #804 – Ark My Words

We set aside a few minutes most Sunday mornings to identify connections between unfulfilled Bible prophecies and current news & events.

Turmoil in the Middle East on account of the nation of Israel is the most obvious sign that we are in the Last Days. Israel’s existence again as a nation is both a miracle and a fulfillment of many OT prophecies.

Other biblical signs include the push towards both global government & global commerce; the technology to utilize biometrics to buy & sell all goods & services; instantaneous global communication; an effort to alter our genetics in order to reproduce a hybrid, nonhuman race; a great falling away from faith in Jesus Christ; and the exponential growth in knowledge.

Daniel, Ezekiel and other OT prophets predicted that there will be a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the future 7yr Great Tribulation. Animal sacrifice will be reinstated.

Jesus confirmed that this was true in His prophecy talk with His disciples in Matthew 24.

Jews have been planning for their next Temple for decades. This week I read an article titled, Historic Ark Replica Makes Its Jerusalem Debut During Sukkot Festival.

Excerpts:

In a remarkable fusion of ancient tradition and modern craftsmanship, a meticulously constructed replica of the biblical Ark of the Covenant was showcased in Jerusalem during the Sukkot holiday. The display featured the golden vessel housing a Holocaust-surviving Torah scroll from Thessaloniki, Greece.

The ambitious project, spanning three and a half years, involved 17 volunteers across multiple countries who adhered strictly to Torah specifications. The replica’s construction required approximately three tons of Egyptian Acacia wood and was adorned with high-purity gold measuring 23.75 carats – the same grade used in ancient Egyptian royal artifacts.

The replica has already traveled to several significant locations, including Shiloh, the ancient site of the Tabernacle, and has even made an appearance at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.^[1]

The Bible predicts a Tribulation Temple. The Temple Institute and others are preparing for it – just as we expect.

Jesus promised to resurrect & rapture His Church prior to His Second Coming, and before the time of Great Tribulation would come upon the whole Earth.

The resurrection and rapture of the church is presented as an imminent event. It could happen anytime. Right now, for example.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up

Ready or not Jesus is coming! 

Prophecy Update #803 – Is There An Avatar In Your Future?

We set aside a few minutes most Sunday mornings to identify connections between unfulfilled Bible prophecies and current news & events.

Turmoil in the Middle East on account of the nation of Israel is the most obvious sign that we live in the Last Days. Israel’s existence again as a nation is both a miracle and a fulfillment of many OT prophecies.

Other biblical signs include the push towards both global government & global commerce; the technology to utilize biometrics to buy & sell all goods & services; instantaneous global communication; a great falling away from faith in Jesus Christ; and the exponential growth in knowledge.

One of the most universally well known prophecy is the Mark of the Beast. Every one in the Great Tribulation will “receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

In the middle of that prophecy we are introduced to “an image to the beast [antichrist]. He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.”

A sentient statue?

It sounds like some type of interactive Artificial Intelligence. Which leads us to something FaceBook is going to roll-out called PhotoReal Avatars. As I understand it, you take pics of yourself and AI animates it. It looks & sounds like you.^[1]

Here’s the kicker: People interact with your avatar.

I’m not saying that the image is the antichrist’s avatar… But it sure sounds like it could be.

Jesus promised to resurrect & rapture His Church prior to His Second Coming, and before the time of Great Tribulation would come upon the whole Earth.^[2]

The resurrection and rapture of the church is presented as an imminent event. It could happen anytime. Right now, for example.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up

Ready or not Jesus is coming! 

Prophecy Update #802 – Dehumanized

We set aside a few minutes most Sunday mornings to identify connections between unfulfilled Bible prophecies and current news & events.

Turmoil in the Middle East on account of the nation of Israel is the most obvious sign that we live in the Last Days. Israel’s existence again as a nation is both a miracle and a fulfillment of many OT prophecies.

Other biblical signs include the push towards both global government & global commerce; the technology to utilize biometrics to buy & sell all goods & services; instantaneous global communication; a great falling away from faith in Jesus Christ; and the exponential growth in knowledge, e.g., with AI.

The Lord gave a prophecy update to us in Matthew 24&25. One thing He said that would characterize the Last Days is often overlooked or misunderstood. He said, “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark.”^[1]

Jesus was referring us to the strange sixth chapter of Genesis. When we go there, we see that Jesus wasn’t talking about weddings taking place just as they always have. No, He was talking about a certain kind of ‘marriage.’

We read, “The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”^[2]

These “sons of God” were fallen angels; the “daughters of men” were human females. Their mating produced the giants, called Nephilim.

If you doubt that interpretation, you should know it is corroborated by writings found in the Dead Sea Scrolls that testify to these facts. The writings also speak of a type of genetic engineering. You can find it in First Enoch and the Book of the Giants.

We are not saying that there must be a return of the Nephilim, or that angels will once again mate with human females. The gist of what was happening was an attempt by the devil to corrupt the human race.

What we expect to be happening in the last days is an attempt to corrupt human genetics.

Is that happening? Yes, it is. For example you may have seen an article titled, They Were Made Without Eggs or Sperm. Are They Human?

“They” are called Embryo Models. These are lab generated structures that mimic certain features of early human embryos but are created without using sperm or egg cells. Instead scientists use stem cells.

Technologies like AI and brain-machine interfaces bring questions about what it means to be human. Some fear that significant enhancements to cognitive abilities or transferring consciousness to machines could lead to a loss of personal identity or blur the line between humans and machines. There is also concern about whether a person whose consciousness is uploaded into a machine can still be considered human, or even a person at all, which introduces philosophical and moral dilemmas.

There is no way of predicting the path of transhumanism. Our point is simple: Centuries ago sinister malevolent forces tried to erase what it means to be human by genetic manipulation. Jesus said it would happen again, as a sign of the Last Days.

Jesus promised to resurrect & rapture His Church prior to His Second Coming, and before the time of Great Tribulation would come upon the whole Earth.^[3]

The resurrection and rapture of the church is presented as an imminent event. It could happen anytime. Right now, for example.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up

Ready or not Jesus is coming! 

Prophecy Update #801 – Get America Godly Again

We set aside a few minutes most Sunday mornings to identify connections between unfulfilled Bible prophecies and current news & events.

Today I want to suggest a way of answering the question, “Where is America in Bible prophecy?”

The OT book Jeremiah presents a universal principle regarding how God deals with all nations. “The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.”^[1]

Is our great nation doing “evil?” If so, is it enough to bring “disaster” upon us?

There is a scale for gauging a nation’s evil. It is found in the first chapter of the NT letter to the Romans. God explains that there are three milestones a nation will pass on its descent into evil. Three times we read, “Therefore God also gave them up…”^[2]

God gradually abandons a nation who willfully rejects Him because that is what they choose.

The first milestone is rejecting biblical morality. “Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves…” Historians cite the 1940s and 50s as the beginning of the trend toward immorality in America. It began the drift to “the sexual liberation of the 1960s and 70s, which included increased acceptance of sex outside of traditional heterosexual, monogamous relationships. Attitudes towards contraception relaxed. Around 1960 the birth control pill played a significant role in normalizing sex outside of marriage.

Milestone #2 – “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.”^[3]

Homosexuality, especially its acceptance, has been spreading for several decades. It may not be PC or WOKE to say this, but when God says homosexuals receive in themselves the penalty, the AIDS epidemic immediately comes to mind. The first recorded cases in the US were on June 5^th, 1981.

We are decades past the second milestone.

The next milestone, the final, is a potent, pervasive immorality that is “approved” by the majority of people. Sexual deviancy is taken to whole new levels. Examples to support it in our culture would be the sick revelations coming from Epstein Island & Sean Combs’ so-called Freak-offs.

At milestone three the majority of unbelievers are characterized by “a debased mind.” It means that they have no conscience, and that they are increasingly unable to apply reason.

The “debased mind” reveals itself when otherwise intelligent people pursue

outrageous beliefs & behaviors.

When you cannot define what a woman is… Or you encourage men who say they are women to compete against women in sporting events… Or you want to mutilate children without parental consent… Milestone #3 is fast-fading in your rear-view mirror.

John Adams’ comment upon the Constitution of our United States is appropriate here. He said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

It’s not hopeless! If we “turn from evil,” God will “relent” from our being torn down. And while it is true that God must bring disaster on a wayward nation, we know that He desires all to be saved.

Judgment always begins in the house of the Lord.^[4] We ought therefore to be pursuing holiness. The Church on Earth, indwelt by God the Holy Spirit, restrains evil. We will be better at it if we pursue holiness.

Jesus promised to resurrect & rapture His Church prior to His Second Coming, and before the time of Great Tribulation would come upon the whole Earth.^[5]

The resurrection and rapture of the church is presented as an imminent event. It could happen anytime. Right now, for example.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up.

Ready or not Jesus is coming! 

Prophecy Update #800 – Our Common Future

We reserve a few minutes Sunday morning to update you on what is happening in the world with regard to unfulfilled Bible prophecy.

There is a lot of stage-setting going on as the world is plummeting towards the 7yr Great Tribulation. Things like global government, global commerce, a personal ‘mark,’ social credit, apostasy in the church, the exponential growth of human knowledge, and the elimination of cash, are all predicted as facets of the End Times.

Most significantly, the Bible predicted that the nation of Israel would be born in a day, that Jews would return there from their dispersion all over the Earth, and that Jerusalem would be at the very heart of global tension until every nation stands against her & God intervenes to save her.

Global government is a good topic today because the UN just began its 2024 Summit of the Future. One thing that the UN wants to implement isa new ‘apex body’ in charge of the world’s entire financial system that will “enhance its coherence and align its priorities with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”

A vital part of the agenda is also “digital connectivity and the establishment of a Global Digital Compact. This can be described as a cybernetic organ, consisting of a digitally connected network of people, entities, devices, and things.” That’s tech-speak for some type of biometric ID system that will be mandatory for everyone on the planet.

One critic wrote, “[Digital ID] can be used to undermine human rights – for example, by enabling civil society to be targeted, or selected groups to be excluded from social benefits. To receive your daily bread you have to obey and accept the instructions from the Masters that run the show. If the UN declares a ‘Planetary Emergency’ this will have severe consequences for our freedoms (as we experienced during the pandemic).”^[1]