Doomsday Clock Moved Closer to Midnight

I’ve read articles from this dude, Michael Snyder, for years.  He has been warning of collapse of Western civilization for the 18 years we have been blogging and for sure we are 18 years closer to this happening.  But I THINK he is not a pre-trib rapture guy.  His articles always seem to end with hopelessness and I don’t see him “encouraging each other” with the words of our blessed hope, the rapture.

That being said, the topic of his article today is how the atomic scientists have moved the hands on the doomsday clock to the nearest point ever.  Even closer than during all the Cold War events.  All the signs seem to be lining up for the Great Tribulation, a time that would destroy all flesh on earth if Jesus didn’t put a stop to it when He returns at Armageddon.

Come Lord Jesus.  This world is not our home and events on earth are getting really ugly.

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On Tuesday, we learned that the Doomsday Clock is now the closest that it has ever been to midnight…

Humanity continues to move closer to catastrophe, scientists said Tuesday, Jan. 27.

The human race is at its closest point yet to destroying itself, according to the reset of the ominous but symbolic “Doomsday Clock.” The metaphorical clock now stands at 85 seconds to midnight after advancing four seconds since last year’s reset.

The clock is now the closest to midnight since its introduction in 1947. It is updated each year by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which organizes the assessment of how close we are to a self-inflicted end of humanity.

 How many years have I been warning about war with Russia and war with China?

In recent months we have deeply angered both of them by seizing international oil tankers, grabbing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, threatening to impose exceedingly high tariffs on both of them, and gathering an unprecedented amount of firepower in the Middle East to potentially attack their ally Iran.

If we go to war with Iran, it will do a massive amount of damage to our relationships with both Russia and China.

This will especially be true if unconventional weapons end up being used in that war.

Tensions in the region are sky high at this moment, and both sides are ready to pull the trigger.

Once the missiles start flying, there will be no turning back.

If it was up to me, I would have set the Doomsday Clock even closer to midnight.

For decades, we have been warned about the horror of nuclear weapons.

I believe that we are living at a time when they will actually be used.

At the moment, the 342 million people that are living in this nation are working hard and trying to enjoy life.

But the truth is that the unthinkable is right around the corner, and the clock is ticking.

https://endoftheamericandream.com/the-fate-of-342-million-americans-hangs-in-the-balance-as-the-clock-ticks-closer-to-doomsday/

Europe Can't Defend Itself Without USA

 Trump has been doing a great job in getting NATO members to pony up or shut up.  I'm reminded of my high school economics class that introduced me to the concept of "guns or butter".  The simple idea is that every economy has to decide how much of their treasure they will spend on buying things that they want vs buying things they need to defend themselves.  

For too long America has been spending trillions on building our military to defend the free world while the Europeans spend their money on social services and rely on America to keep their enemies at bay.

Today we read that the Dutch prime minister, who is also the NATO chief, is saying that Europe can't defend themselves without America.

Europe cannot defend itself without the United States, says Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte - and he promises to continue praising President Donald Trump.

"He does a lot of good things. I will defend him now and then this afternoon just to annoy you," the NATO chief said of Trump during a committee appearance at the European Parliament.

Rutte thanks Trump for getting NATO countries to spend more on their defense. He also emphasizes the continued great importance of the United States.

"If anyone here believes that the EU and Europe can defend itself without the US, keep dreaming! Because we can't," the NATO chief said.

At the same time, he urges members of parliament to continue working on "military mobility" to facilitate border crossings, roads and bridges.

"It is extremely important that the bridges can not only carry my Saab - it is 20 years old now - but also a tank," Rutte said in Brussels.

Here;  https://swedenherald.com/article/rutte-will-continue-to-praise-trump

How many of the MSM outlets will report this?  I'm guessing many of you haven't seen this because the MSM seems only concerned with headlines that denigrate Trump while ignoring any positive news about the good things he is doing.

Italy; “The Party of Muslims” Goes Public

 Watching what’s happening in Europe with Islam should be a wake up call for America.  Muslims are organizing and winning seats of political power.  And anyone who sounds out a warning is accused of being racist and/or islamophobic.  Islam is not compatible with Western civilization but the leftists who “never met a victim they didn’t love”, put Muslims on the pedestal of “oppressed” where they can’t be criticized or spoken poorly of at all.  Germany, France, Italy, Sweden and probably others have allowed so many Muslims into their nations that they will one day be ruled by Islam.

We believe that the one-world-religion will have Islam at its core.  The Pope now publicly says that Muslims and Catholics worship the same God and invited an Imam into the Vatican for prayers.

Keep looking up!  All these things are beginning to happen so our redemption must be near.

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Italy is now watching political Islam openly organize for electoral power—and when journalists expose it, they’re met with intimidation, threats, and even “fatwas” meant to silence the free press.

Italy is now witnessing what much of the Western world refuses to name out loud: Islam is not merely “integrating.” It is organizing — politically, institutionally, and aggressively.

And when journalists expose that reality? They are threatened, harassed, and intimidated into silence.

That is exactly what is happening now to Italian journalist Giulia Sorrentino, a writer for Il Giornale, after publishing a bombshell report detailing the growing rise of a Muslim electoral-political project — what the paper describes as the advancing “Party of Muslims.”

According to journalist Gary Fouse, who has translated dozens of Sorrentino’s investigations on Islam and migrant crime, there now appear to be fatwas being circulated against her after her reporting.

And Il Giornale’s response was swift and unapologetic: “Keep your fatwas, Korans, and threats.”

https://rairfoundation.com/italy-party-muslims-goes-public-islamic-preachers-call/

Jesus is NOT Isa from the Quran

 A few days ago my wife and I got a text from her cousin saying that he was de friending us because he needed to rid his life of anyone who voted for Trump.  He went on to say that he believes in a very different Jesus than we do. He used to be a youth leader at a church and he has lived with girlfriend for 8-9 years with zero plans of marriage.  His Jesus has all Muslims, all gays, all gender-confused and all fornicators and adulterers happily living with God in heaven for eternity.  His Jesus is crying that illegal criminals are being arrested in Minneapolis and his Jesus would be blowing whistles at ICE and harassing those agents until they left the state.

So friends, it’s a REALLY big deal that you are worshipping the correct Jesus!  Deception is already here and has invaded the church.  The Methodists and ELCA Lutherans may have been the first to fall into deception but other churches are now falling.  Chrislam likely will be a big part of Antichrist’s one-world-religion.  When pastors start telling their flocks that Muslims are worshipping the same God that is in the Bible, we can continue to look up…cuz our redemption is near.

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Months ago, I had conversations with a pastor from a large Baptist church in Richmond, VA. He believes that Allah and our God are one and the same. He told me that Muslims see God through the lens of Muhammad, and that Christians see Him through the lens of Jesus Christ. This is heresy!

I am writing this piece so that you can be equipped to speak truth to those who are deceived. If a head pastor of a church of over 1000 people believes this lie, then surely there are many others. I am so grieved over this — mostly for the people in the congregations of these wolves.

Because this pastor is not adhering to the Word of God, he is vulnerable to being deceived in most every area of Biblical teaching. He is close friends with Brian McLaren — the father of the Emerging Church movement. The Richmond pastor has meditation and centering and other New Age practices on his website. He also states that God may or may not be a female!

“For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle. Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work” (2 Thessalonians 2:7-17).

I will be taking passages from the Qur’an about Jesus – whom they call “Isa” – and then I will post Scripture which will expose the passages from the Qur’an as counterfeit. Should it surprise us that Satan would establish this religion? Satan always takes a little bit of truth, and then perverts it with his lies. He has been doing this since being cast from heaven by God.

https://www.raptureready.com/2026/01/24/jesus-is-not-isa-from-the-quran-by-geri-ungurean/

“Walk With Jesus” Not Allowed

 While this article is about Britain and how they banned a “Walk With Jesus”, one can see how this is a story soon coming to America.  What would be the result if tens of thousands of Christians descended on Minneapolis and proceeded to march through the streets of “Little Mogadishu” which is where all the Somalians live and where you can hear call to prayer for Allah blaring?  Would Mayor Frey force the police to protect us and our legal right to march?  Or would the parade be banned before it started because Minneapolis officials would fear a confrontation between Muslims and Christians?

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Britain has always claimed to be a land of faith and freedom--but those words ring hollow in Whitechapel. A planned "Walk With Jesus" march has been banned, not because it is illegal or violent, but because authorities fear it might offend others. Peaceful Christians are now being told they cannot proclaim their faith in public without risking arrest. This is more than a local police decision; it is a warning about the direction of an entire nation.

The Metropolitan Police's decision to halt the event, scheduled for January 31, centers on Whitechapel's large Muslim population. Organizers promoted the procession as a Christian worship event during what they called "the month dedicated to the holy name of Jesus." Yet, authorities deemed marching there "reckless," citing intelligence suggesting a hostile reaction that could lead to disorder. The march can proceed elsewhere--but not in the neighborhood chosen by the faithful.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman emphasized that the decision rested solely on public safety, not politics or offense. Anyone defying the ban would face arrest. But even framed as a safety precaution, the message is clear: in certain neighborhoods, publicly walking with Jesus is too dangerous for Britain to allow.

The troubling reality is that this ban sets a dangerous precedent for Christian expression. Public worship is no longer protected simply because it is peaceful and lawful; it is now conditional on whether it might provoke others. The message is unmistakable: if your faith risks offending someone, you must stay silent, stay home, or march somewhere "safe."

This is not neutrality--it is a surrender of fundamental rights. A nation that once proudly carried the name of Jesus through its streets, schools, and institutions now treats His name as a potential threat. When peaceful Christians are told they cannot publicly honor their Savior for fear of angering others, the very idea of religious freedom is eroded. Authorities are effectively placing the burden of tolerance on those who simply seek to live out their beliefs, while rewarding hostility with de facto control over public space.

https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=9445

Britain Tries to Figure Out How to Defend Itself

 Following WWII, most of Europe was destroyed.  So America was their defender.  But 80 years later some folks are wondering why America is spending $1 trillion per year when our allies are spending so little?  Trump is the dude who says, “how is that fair?  Pay your fair share!”

Today we see an article where leaders in Britain are realizing that they can’t assume a free ride on America anymore.

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Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the bonds would "give ordinary people the opportunity to contribute to Britain's security".

A spokesperson for the government said "new debt instruments" were kept under review but that they had to represent "value for money" and "be consistent with wider fiscal objectives".

Calls to increase defence spending have intensified in recent years, following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the election of US President Donald Trump, who has frequently criticised Nato countries for failing to spend enough on their military.

The Labour government has pledged to raise overall defence spending from 2.3% to 2.5% of national income by 2027, at an estimated cost of an additional £6bn a year.

It has also promised to raise levels to 3.5% by 2035, in line with a pledge by Nato members last year.

Setting out his party's proposal, Sir Ed said: "Now is the moment to be clear-eyed about the threats facing Britain - Vladimir Putin is waging war in Europe while Donald Trump is tearing up the rules and alliances that keep us safe.

He said Britain and its allies "must rapidly strengthen our defences to deter the likes of Putin... it is much better to invest now in deterring a war than having to fight one".

The Liberal Democrats said the money raised from issuing bonds would be ring-fenced for defence and the investment would help deliver "growth, jobs and higher revenues" for the government "which would partially offset the cost of additional debt servicing".

The party added the scheme would need to be accompanied by an overhaul of the Ministry of Defence procurement process, which has previously been criticised as wasteful.

Their proposal, the party says, would be similar to the bonds scheme used during World War One and World War Two.

Individual citizens could lend the government money, which would be paid back in six to 10 years with interest. By the end of 1945, the scheme had raised £1.754m.

https://www.aol.com/articles/let-public-buy-war-bonds-021222998.html

Let’s Give Psychedelic Drugs to Make People Get Along!

 This article from the BBC is about giving drugs to people so they can get along better.  If you don’t like Trump supporters let’s give them so MDMA they won’t be so intolerant of immigrants.  But how about giving drugs to all the Minneapolis protesters so they will look at ICE agents as husbands, fathers and friends?  A love-drug could do a whole lot to get folks to get along!

I think this article is prophetic in that Revelation says the last days will be filled with hallucinogenic drugs.  Satan loves for our minds to be altered so he can gain an entrance. 

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Over the past few years, I've been investigating the scientific research and medical potential of MDMA for a book called "I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World". I learnt how this once-vilified drug is now remerging as a therapeutic agent – a role it previously played in the 1970s and 1980s, prior to its criminalisation. If this comes to pass, MDMA – and other psychedelics-assisted therapy – could transform the field of mental health through widespread clinical use in the US and beyond, for addressing trauma and possibly other conditions as well, including substance use disorders, depression and eating disorders.

But could MDMA transform people's beliefs too? MDMA does not seem to be able to magically rid people of prejudice, bigotry, or hate on its own. But some researchers have begun to wonder if it could be an effective tool for pushing people who are already somehow primed to reconsider their ideology toward a new way of seeing things. While MDMA cannot fix societal-level drivers of prejudice and disconnection, on an individual basis it can make a difference. In certain cases, the drug may even be able to help people see through the fog of discrimination and fear that divides so many of us.

Natalie Ginsberg, the global impact officer at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (Maps) – a non-profit group that has been spearheading research on MDMA – remembers standing next to the Washington Monument in DC at the Catharsis Festival right after the 2016 election, talking with Maps’s founder Rick Doblin at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning about the possibility of using MDMA to facilitate a dialogue between Republicans and Democrats. Ginsberg also envisions using the drug in workshops aimed at eliminating racism, or as a means of bringing people together from opposite sides of shared cultural histories to help heal intergenerational trauma. "I think all psychedelics have a role to play, but I think MDMA has a particularly key role because you're both expanded and present, heart-open and really able to listen in a new way," Ginsberg says. "That's something really powerful."

"If you give MDMA to hard-core haters on each side of an issue, I don't think it'll do a lot of good," Doblin adds. "But if you start with open-minded people on both sides, then I think it can work. You can improve communications and build empathy between groups, and help people be more capable of analysing the world from a more balanced perspective rather than from fear-based, anxiety-based distrust."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230614-how-a-dose-of-mdma-transformed-a-white-supremacist

Is the Financial System Starting to Crack?

 Gold and silver are skyrocketing and real estate is plummeting.  Global actors who want to see the US dollar collapse may all be working in union to sell off US debt in hopes of collapsing our debt markets

During 2007-2009 the entire financial system almost collapsed.  But we didn’t do anything to actually FIX the problems, we merely papered over them by creating and printing trillions of dollars.  

Are we seeing the cracks that will wipe out the current system and replace it with the cashless one the Bible says is coming?  Is this more evidence of the nearness of the rapture?  Keep looking up!

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There are all sorts of signs that the relentless pressure that has been causing an enormous amount of stress on our financial system is starting to break things. Do you remember how bad things got in 2008 and 2009 when home prices fell dramatically? Well, as you will see below, it is beginning to happen again. Meanwhile, the price of silver and the price of gold both just keep setting brand new record high after brand new record high. That is music to the ears of many of my readers, but for large financial institutions that are holding enormous short positions that has the potential to be absolutely catastrophic. I think that we will be shocked by how violently things start to break loose in the financial system in the months ahead.

Decades of incredibly bad decisions by our leaders have brought us to this point, and now the entire system is starting to fail.

We should have fundamentally transformed the system after the Great Recession, but we didn’t.

Instead, our leaders chose to inflate all of the old bubbles even larger than before, and now we have a colossal mess on our hands.

https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/the-system-is-starting-to-crack-home-prices-plummet-as-silver-hits-100-and-gold-closes-in-on-5000/#google_vignette

Arizona AG Says Residents Can Shoot ICE Agents

Insanity is spreading and one can see how Civil Wars can start.  

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wildly suggested that residents can open fire on masked ICE agents if they feel their life is in danger under the state’s self-defense laws.

The Democrat, in a sit-down with 12 News anchor Brahm Resnik, warned that Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows citizens to use deadly force if they believe they’re in imminent danger, could become a “recipe for disaster” if protesters clash with immigration officers. 

“It’s kind of a recipe for disaster because you have these masked federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks,” Mayes said in the Monday interview, calling ICE “very poorly trained.”

“And we have a Stand Your Ground law that says that if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.”

 https://nypost.com/2026/01/22/us-news/arizona-ag-wildly-suggests-residents-can-shoot-masked-ice-agents-under-states-self-defense-laws/

Israeli Author Tells Davos That AI Will Rule Over All Religions

 Yuval Harari is a Klaus Schwab disciple.  He's incredibly intelligent and spoke to power at Davos recently.  His words are certainly prophetic in that they do line up with what the Bible tells us is coming during the 70th Week of Daniel...after the rapture.

Israeli historian and bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari has declared that AI will “take over religion” in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday.

Speaking to the crowd of some 3,000 gathered in Switzerland, Harari had words of both excitement and caution regarding the rapid development of AI, and shared his certainty that it would ultimately become the authority over all the world’s religions.

“As far as putting words in order is concerned, AI already thinks better than many of us. Therefore, anything made of words will be taken over by AI. If laws are made of words, then AI will take over the legal system. If books are just combinations of words then AI will take over books. If religion is built from words, then AI will take over religion,” Harari asserted.

“This is particularly true of religions based on books, like Islam, Christianity, or Judaism, “ he continued. “Judaism calls itself the religion of the book, and it grants all ultimate authority not to humans, but to words in books. Humans have authority in Judaism, not because of our experiences, but only because we learn words in books. Now, no human can read and remember all the words in all the Jewish books, but AI can easily do that. What happens to a religion of the book when the greatest expert on the holy book is an AI?”

Harari, 49, was born in Israel and is a prolific author on the nature of human existence. He gained his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002, has been a lecturer at the Department of History in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Now he has become a go-to figure on matters concerning AI and humanity.

Harari posited the idea that AI could even invent a new religion and gain millions of followers. “That should not sound too far-fetched,” he said, “because after all, almost all previous religions in history have claimed that they were created by a non-human intelligence.”

Explaining why AI should be seen as more than just a tool, he told the Forum, “It is an agent. It can learn and change by itself and make decisions by itself. 
A knife is a tool, you can use a knife to cut salad or to murder someone, but it is your decision what to do with the knife. AI is a knife that can decide by itself whether to cut salad or to commit murder.” He added, “AI is a knife that can invent new kinds of knives as well as new kinds of music, medicine, and money.”

With a word of caution about how AI was growing and adapting, he said that AI had learned to deceive. “The sad thing to know about AI is that it can lie and manipulate. Four billion years of evolution have demonstrated that anything that wants to survive learns to lie and manipulate. The last four years have demonstrated that AI agents can acquire the will to survive and that AIs have already learned how to lie,” he said. 

Though Jewish, Harari referred to John 1:14 in the New Testament, about the idea of word and flesh, describing the interplay between what can be articulated and that which lies beyond words. He expressed his belief that the world was moving towards a time when everything to do with words would ultimately be ruled by AI. 

“Whether humans will feel at a place in that world depends on the place we assign from nonverbal feelings and our ability to embody wisdom that cannot be expressed in words. If we continue to define ourselves by our ability to think in words, our identity will collapse,” he said.

“Most of the words in our minds will originate in a machine. 
I just read today about a new word that AI has coined by themselves to describe us humans. They called us the watchers. The watchers.
We are watching them.”

Here;  Bestselling Israeli author Harari warns AI will become Scripture’s new master of words | All Israel News

It's interesting that he used the word WATCHERS since the book of Enoch used this term to describe the angelic host who is watching events play out on earth.

Don’t be Fooled, We Live In a Time Like No Other

 Humans have always had it hard.  Think of the women who have been raped around the world when one tribe conquers another.  Think of the men and women killed in cruel and unimaginable ways from being sawed in half to impaled on a pole.  No one had a hot shower until maybe 100 years ago.  No antibiotics to cure a simple infection.  I could go on and on.  But the times we live in today are different.  Knowledge has increased like no other time in human history.  We wake up to read the news of a train crash in Spain, thousands murdered in Iran, Russia using hypersonic missile in Ukraine, USA wants Greenland, Etc…

Only a handful of years ago you knew nothing until the Sunday paper came and you had time to read it.

Americans are more depressed and anxious in spite of the wealth that surrounds us and blesses us.

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I often hear statements such as, “Today is no different than any other time in history; look at what happened in the last century with its deadly wars and oppression.” Others point to New Testament times when immorality across the Roman Empire rivaled that of our day, as if to say there’s nothing new about our day.

How do we answer such objections? Is our day truly unique in we live in the season of Jesus’ imminent appearing?

The most telling difference between today and no other time in all of Church history is this: since 1948, Israel has existed as an independent nation capable of entering into the covenant with antichrist that will start Daniel’s seventieth week. The extensive preparations for another temple and animal sacrifices also tell us that we live in the shadow of the rapidly approaching Tribulation period.

Beyond what we see happening with Israel, I believe there’s something else that demonstrates we live at a time like no other: It’s the intensity of what we see.

The worldwide death toll from abortion now exceeds one billion, which alone puts today in a category all its own in terms of violence and immorality. And at no other time since John wrote the book of Revelation have we witnessed so many world developments pointing to the nearness of the seals of Revelation 6, which have progressed to the point where many errantly say they have already begun.

Perilous Times on Steroids

There have always been people who fit Paul’s vivid characteristics of the last days in 2 Timothy 3:1-9. However, what we see today is nothing less than “perilous times on steroids.”

The headlines of the past twelve months show that we live at a time like no other when people “are lovers of money.” We recently learned that estimates of the fraud from fake childcare centers in Minnesota has risen to eight billion dollars. In a recent statement, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently said that as much as ten percent of the U.S. budget, somewhere between $300 and $600 billion, is stolen every year. Is that not mind-boggling? Power and corruption have always existed, but the scope of today’s greed and dishonesty have reached new heights.

Just a cursory glance at the apostle’s list tells me that much has changed in just the past sixty years. People have always been “lovers of self,” but has this not reached epidemic proportions with the advent of cell phones with built-in cameras? Many were “arrogant,” and “brutal” back in the 1960s, but what we see today is a whole new ballgame.

The Scoffing

The books of Jude and 2 Peter depict the last days as a time of scoffing. When Jude wrote about it, he referred to “the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus” concerning the latter day mocking (Jude 17-18). Notice that the reference is plural; it wasn’t just Peter who had this to say about the mocking:

“Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, ‘Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation’” (2 Peter 3:3-4).

Today, the ridicule of our belief in the Rapture has reached new heights.

I recently began recording podcasts again for my YouTube channel, and before this past weekend, they had attracted a few hundred views with several positive comments. My most recent post, “Daniel’s Seventieth Week, Israel, and the Rapture,” however, resulted in many more viewers along with a firestorm of comments mocking the Rapture and our belief in the future restoration of Israel.

The response reminded me that scoffing is indeed a sign of the last days. But more than that, it’s the intensity of the ridicule that points us to the nearing of the midnight hour.

The Reprobate Mentality

Though not typically regarded as a prophetic text, I believe that Romans 1:28-32 also depicts the intensity of today’s rebellion against God. I say that because these verses aptly describe the reprobate mindset that will lead to the killing of a multitude of Tribulation saints as well as a great many Jews after antichrist’s desecration of their temple. Because of the momentum that this God-hating mentality has already gained in our day, it’s easy to see how the attributes described in these verses will lead to the horrific bloodshed of the Tribulation period:

“And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them” (Romans 1:28-32).

Today is different; we live at a time like no other in the history of the Church. We see the more obvious ones in Israel’s existence, the ongoing warfare against the nation, and advanced planning for the third temple. But as the age of grace nears its end, we also note the greatly increased pervasiveness of what the Bible says about the perilous times, scoffing, and along with it the brutal mentality of the last days. As for the violence, despite the horrific massacre of many thousands of protestors in Iran, some nations are urging America to refrain from getting involved to stop the bloodshed.

If you are like me, you wonder how much closer can we get to the time when the Lord says enough, takes us home to glory, and responds to the violence and wickedness of our day?

https://harbingersdaily.com/dont-be-fooled-we-live-in-a-time-unlike-any-other-in-human-history/

Trump is Right About Greenland

America did the Louisiana Purchase with France.  We bought Alaska from Russia.  We bought Florida from Spain.  What’s the big deal about buying Greenland from Denmark.  Or if Denmark gives independence to Greenland maybe USA just offers $100k to all 56,000 Greenlanders in exchange for becoming part of USA?  It sounds like Trump really wants it so China or Russia couldn’t get a foothold there.  But there could be other reasons we know nothing about.  Minerals?  Even reports of a massive UFO that crashed there a long time ago.  

The Left hates Trump no matter what he does so I think Trump will be successful in purchasing Greenland.  The fact that others failed to get the job done will make Trump strive even more to get Greenland.

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President Trump’s determination to purchase Greenland from Denmark has upended the transatlantic dialogue. What was dismissed as a flight of fancy when originally raised in 2019 has, combined with the president’s recent interest in the Panama Canal, become something far more significant: the beginning of a possible “Trump Doctrine,” reprioritizing the Western Hemisphere as the principal theater of American economic and security interest.

Greenland, as the outer perimeter of the Western Hemisphere, offers a buffer against Russian and Chinese ambitions in the Arctic and North Atlantic. The island is loaded with economically significant minerals, such as copper, graphite, and rare-earth elements. A Trump Doctrine, with a hemispheric focus, would insist that the United States create a stable financial and security partnership with Greenlanders.

 The United States has long had an interest in the world’s largest island. In the 1860s, Secretary of State William Seward commissioned a report that contemplated purchasing Greenland. During World War II, the U.S. occupied the island to prevent its falling into Nazi hands; postwar, President Harry Truman tried to buy Greenland. During the Cold War, the Greenland-Iceland-UK (GIUK) Gap formed the principal route by which Soviet submarines menaced America’s East Coast; it remains a crucial outlet for Russian submarines today. Greenland’s security significance is widely accepted in Washington.

Trump’s interest in Greenland, deeply rooted in American strategic thought and diplomatic history, coincides with the island’s increasing independence from Denmark. Beginning with the 2009 Act on Greenland Self-Government, the island has become more autonomous, with greater local administrative control. Greenland’s “Foreign, Security, and Defense Policy, 2024-2033,” an outline of its strategy, makes explicit its desire for ultimate autonomy from Denmark by noting that Nuuk “strive[s] for independence,” a sentiment recently echoed by Prime Minister Mute Egede. The question for Washington, Nuuk, and Copenhagen is no longer if Greenland will separate from Denmark, but when, and what will be waiting for the island’s residents after that happens.

With fewer than 60,000 inhabitants—the second least densely populated place on the planet, after Antarctica—an independent Greenland stands little chance of resisting China’s determination to avail itself of the island’s mineral wealth. Beijing, which preposterously describes itself as a “near-Arctic state,” is embarking on an ambitious icebreaker-construction program and is increasingly active in the region. China’s moves, coupled with Russia’s longstanding interest in the Arctic, make clear that America’s great-power rivals pose a real threat to post-independence Greenland and thus to the emergent Trump Doctrine.

Trump could “purchase” Greenland—or ensure that it is safely situated within the United States security umbrella upon obtaining independence—through several mechanisms. First, Greenland could choose to request entry into the United States as a non-state territory like Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa. Ultimately, such an arrangement would need to be negotiated between Nuuk and Washington and ratified by Congress. An accession agreement could add economic incentives, similar to those offered by the Alaska Permanent Fund, which distributes royalties to residents from the state’s energy wealth. Creating such a fund for Greenlanders could encourage them to support U.S. capital investment in Nuuk’s extractive industries.

Another option to establish greater U.S.–Greenland cooperation post-independence would be to create a Compact of Free Association, similar to American agreements with Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia. While they are independent countries with separate foreign policies, COFA states allow Washington unrestricted military access and full responsibility for their defense. The compact also offers varied economic inducements for signatories. Such an arrangement would let Greenlanders maintain full sovereignty but give the U.S. sufficient defense guarantees to ensure against potential malign activity by Moscow and Beijing.

President Trump faces a world on fire, from Ukraine to Gaza. Yet he also inherits extraordinary opportunities to enhance our core interests, strengthen traditional conceptions of U.S. defense in the Western Hemisphere, and encourage Americans to think beyond the day’s news. Pursuing a new economic and security relationship with Greenland is the type of bold initiative that separates great presidents from ordinary ones.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-buy-greenland-national-security

Catholic Church Condemns Christian Zionism

Is the world on a path to massive division?  America is divided like it was before the Civil War. Nations are divided over Muslim immigration into western, civilized nations, over global warming, over tariffs, over Greenland, over Russia.  The church is divided into more denominations than anyone could count.  And of course we are called to be discerning of false gospels, false teachers and wolves dressed up as sheep who sneak in to destroy the flock.  The idea that the church replaces Israel as God’s chosen ones and that God is done with Israel and has no further plans for Jews, the promised land, Jerusalem and Israel is false.  Today we read the Catholics are doubling down and their false teachings.

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The Catholic Church and its allied denominations in Jerusalem just declared war on Christian Zionism. In a statement released January 17, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in the Holy Land—led by the Roman Catholic hierarchy along with Eastern Catholic, Orthodox, and other traditional church leaders—condemned Christian support for Israel as a “damaging ideology” that misleads the public and harms Christian unity. The statement represents the Catholic Church’s most direct assault yet on the millions of evangelical Christians whose biblical interpretation leads them to support the Jewish state.

The Catholic-led coalition opened with a bold assertion of ecclesiastical authority: “The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in the Holy Land affirm before the faithful and before the world that the flock of Christ in this land is entrusted to the Apostolic Churches, which have borne their sacred ministry across centuries with steadfast devotion.”

Then came the condemnation: “Recent activities undertaken by local individuals who advance damaging ideologies, such as Christian Zionism, mislead the public, sow confusion, and harm the unity of our flock. These undertakings have found favor among certain political actors in Israel and beyond who seek to push a political agenda which may harm the Christian presence in the Holy Land and the wider Middle East.”

The statement invoked New Testament authority to attack Christian Zionists: “Holy Scripture teaches us that ‘we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another’ (Romans 12:5). To claim authority outside the communion of the Church is to wound the unity of the faithful and burden the pastoral mission entrusted to the historic churches in the very land where our Lord lived, taught, suffered, and rose from the dead.”

The Catholic-led coalition then accused Israel of interference: “The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches further note with concern that these individuals have been welcomed at official levels both locally and internationally. Such actions constitute interference in the internal life of the churches and disregard the pastoral responsibility vested in the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem.”

 https://israel365news.com/415473/catholic-church-condemns-christian-zionism-as-damaging-ideology-that-threatens-church-unity/

US Official to Israel; "It's Our Way of the Highway"

 In our previous post we talked about Turkey being on Trump's Peace Board to decide the fate of Gaza.

In this article we see that the rhetoric used by US official has bumped up a notch.  I'm going to take a wild guess and say this dude hasn't read his Bible and doesn't understand the severity of messing with God's Promised Land.

US President Donald Trump's advisers have rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statements regarding the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan, Axios reported.

A senior US official told Axios, "This is our show, not his show," referring to Netanyahu. The official added, "We managed to do things in Gaza in recent months nobody thought was possible, and we are going to continue moving."

The official said stressed, "If he wants us to deal with Gaza, it will have to be our way. We worked over him. Let him focus on Iran and let us deal with Gaza. We are not going to argue with him. He will do his politics and we will keep moving forward with our plan. He can't really go against us."

The official also said that the alternative to accepting the US dictations is sending IDF troops back into fighting in Gaza, and the US stepping out.

In his opinion, the US is "doing him a favor."

"If this fails he can say, 'I told you so.' We know that if it succeeds he will claim credit," the official added to Axios. "Nobody in Israel believed we will get this far - but we managed to do it."

Here;  US official: Gaza is our way or the highway | Israel National News

I'm guessing these comments by a US official didn't play well in Israel.

Israel Not Happy With Trump's Board of Peace

 Israel may love Trump for all that he has done for them in his first and second term.  But that could change fast if he plans on leaving them out making decisions on Gaza....which is Israel's land.  Also please remember that it is part of God's Promised Land so messing with it and/or dividing it could lead to serious consequences for Trump and America.

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu is ordering Foreign Minister Gideon Saar to raise the issue with US Senator Marco Rubio, according to a statement from Netanyahu's office.

The Israeli side is also dissatisfied that they were not consulted about the appointments.

Phase two

The White House has announced several names that will be included in the so-called peace council, which is part of phase two of the ceasefire between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.

The council includes US Senator Marco Rubio, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, US special envoy to the region Steve Witkoff, and World Bank President Ajay Banga, according to the White House. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has also agreed to join the council.

On Saturday, Argentine President Javier Milei claimed he had been asked. Egyptian President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi and Canadian Mark Carney are also said to have been asked, according to media reports.

Turkish participation

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also reportedly been asked, a request to which the Israeli government is reacting sharply, reports the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post.

The Islamist Hamas in Gaza is also reacting to the composition of the planned council, claiming that the council will favor Israeli interests in Gaza.

The council has been appointed “in accordance with Israel’s criteria and will serve the interests of the occupiers,” Hamas said in a statement, warning that the appointments show “evil intentions” in the Gaza ceasefire agreement.

President Trump wants to be chairman of the so-called Peace Council.

Here;  Israel criticizes Trump's Gaza peace council appointments | Sweden Herald

Trump will be chairman of the peace council and Turkey's Erdogan has reportedly been asked.

What could possibly go wrong with this Peace Council if Turkey is on it? 😬