A Form of Godliness But Denying its Power

How many people go to church, sit in the pews, sing some songs, hear some nice words then go home and live their lives however they choose? How many folks believe the Christian faith is all about “being a pretty good person”?  How many believe there are many ways to God instead of just one?  How amazing that this great falling away seems to have exploded in just the last few years...about the same time as Covid locked us all up and the transgenders, gender-fluids and Youth Attracted Persons were hatched in their closets and emerged with many demands on all society. The term “woke” was born and we already know that folks who reject the Bible and have no fear of the Lord are 100 times more likely to be fully woke.  Pray for this nation.  We are on the edge of the abyss and I’m convinced that very few understand.

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In a recent survey of born-again Christians, less than half claimed to believe that Jesus lived a sinless life while on Earth, or that human life is sacred.

The American Worldview Inventory (AWVI) 2023— a national representative survey of 2,000 adults, including 650 born-again Christians, was conducted in January by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University.

The AWVI 2023 found that church attendance has declined by about 6% since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Now, just one out of three adults (33%) currently attend a church service, either in person or online during a typical week—a decline representing the loss of about 15 million churchgoing adults each week, according to researcher George Barna, who directed the study.

 Other declines among born-again Christians in 2023 compared to 2020 are:

• Those who believe that they have a unique, God-given calling or purpose for their life was sliced nearly in half, from 88% to 46%.
• Those claiming that they are deeply committed to practicing their religious faith dropped from a very robust 85% in 2020 to 50%.
• Adults attending an evangelical church is down from 28% pre-pandemic to 21% post-pandemic.
• Those who believe that God is the basis of all truth declined from 69% in 2020 to 63% this year.

Barna said the significant changes found in the study are highly unusual.

“Most religious beliefs change over the course of generations, not a few years,” he said in a press release “However, we know that major life crises have the capacity to introduce substantial change quickly in the foundations of people’s faith.

“The pandemic was certainly a life crisis for our nation, so even though this magnitude of spiritual shift was not expected, it is feasible given the physical and psychological effects of COVID along with the economic, relational and lifestyle effects of the government’s drastic policies.” 

https://harbingersdaily.com/survey-finds-less-than-half-of-born-again-christians-believe-jesus-was-sinless/

Largest Satanic Gathering in America

How apropos that the most blessed nation on earth would turn from the Creator who blessed them and worship the Father of all Lies. It most certainly is one more sign that the hour is late for America and the world.

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The Salem-based Satanic Temple is celebrating its 10th anniversary with SatanCon 2023 this coming weekend, which the organization has billed as “the largest satanic gathering in history.”

The event, which is sold out, will be at the Boston Marriott Copley Place and will include satanic rituals, entertainment, discussion panels, a “satanic marketplace” and a satanic wedding chapel, according to organizers.

 https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/04/satanic-temples-satancon-in-boston-set-to-be-largest-satanic-gathering-in-history.html

Can Israel Survive?

 The nation of Israel is in trouble.  The division there might even be worse than the division in America. This article from the Jerusalem post asks if the Jews are capable of running their own nation for more than 80 years?  He points out Jewish history back to King David and recognizes that the longest they could stay together was 79 years under King Solomon.  So is Israel going to vanish from the earth once again just like it did for 2000 years after the Romans destroyed it?

Ezekiel was told by God that wouldn’t happen.  It appears that God says he will regather the Jews from all the nations they had been scattered and bring them back to the Promised Land in the very last days.  Once there they will never be divided again.  There is great pain coming for the Jewish nation during the Great Tribulation but God will keep a remnant and protect the nation of Israel.

Ezekiel 37

18 “When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you tell us what you mean by this?’ 19 say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lordsays: I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim’s hand—and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah’s stick. I will make them into a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.’ 20 Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on 21 and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. 22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.

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The Zionist project of establishing a sovereign Jewish State in the biblical land of Israel was a success. This movement, established more than 125 years ago in Europe, succeeded in establishing Jewish sovereignty for the third time in history.

I was born and raised in Israel, but have been living in the US for a few decades. I love Israel and consider myself as a Zionist, but questions that I've been asking myself for the past few years have suddenly become more urgent: What is the future Of Zionism? What will happen when the Jewish people aren’t able to thrive in a Jewish sovereign state?

We do not need to compare Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Russia’s autocratic President Vladimir Putin or to the leaders of Hungary and other Eastern European countries. Rather we have our own history to provide relevant comparisons.

Israel’s former Prime Minister Naftali Bennet recently said that “our ancestors blew it.” He explained that “they couldn't keep it together for more than 80 years.” 

Indeed, a review of our own history might suggest that, as Jews, we haven’t been able to run our own country for more than about 80 years. The crowning of King David in 1010 BCE resulted in a Jewish state that continued with the leadership of his son, King Solomon. After his death, there was an insurrection against the House of David around 931 BCE. The Kingdom was then divided into two: The Kingdom of Judah led by Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, with Jerusalem as its capital; and a second kingdom in the northern part of the country with Samaria as its capital. Only 79 years of Jewish sovereignty and a Jewish state therefore existed during the first temple.

Again, during the time of the Second Temple, there was only a short period of between 75 to 80 years where the Maccabees ruled the sovereign Jewish state, until external superpowers took over or ran the country.

Perhaps our destiny, as Jews, is not to maintain sovereignty in Canaan, but rather to wander around the world and promote positivity and Jewish values and strengths. God told Abraham (Genesis 12), “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.” So, perhaps, God was not telling Abraham specifically to go to the land of Canaan (or at least not only), but rather to travel the world, have an impact, gain respect and improve lives through Tikkun Olam (the commandment to repair the world); economic growth and influence; education; and leadership in many sectors. 

Indeed, for thousands of years, countries in which Jews have settled and prospered have also succeeded and flourished, that is, until those countries expelled their Jews. Examples include: Spain, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, even Germany before the Holocaust. 

But just as we were kicked out of these other countries after having helped them prosper, this “expulsion” is threatening to happen again de facto to our own startup nation and our own people. 

Many of Israel’s best and brightest are considering leaving the country with their assets. Already $4 billion dollars left Israel last month. Thousands of Israelis – especially the educated and economic elite – are looking for second passports to Europe, US, and elsewhere. 

Is destiny again repeating itself? As Israel reaches its 75th Independence Day later this month, it is important for us to ask this question aloud and start finding solutions. Can we stay in our own country for more than 80 years or do we need a Plan B?

https://www.allisrael.com/can-israel-survive

UN Report Says Sex With Minors Should be Decriminalized

 We have been warning for a few years that the LGBTQ agenda would be soon adding another letter to it's soup.  That letter will be M, which stands for MINOR ATTRACTED PERSONS.  The word pedophile seems a bit harsh and has lots of negative connotations so they needed a better name and MAPS is what they came up with.  If you can be born with the desire for men having sex with men why can't you be born with the desire to have sex with animals or children?  To the Leftish, godless folks, it all makes perfect sense!

And now we read that the United Nations might want to open the door to allow kids to consent for sexual activity with adults.

The United Nations – which receives around $12 billion dollars a year (a quarter of its total) in funding from American taxpayers – has published a report declaring that children can consent to sex “in fact, if not in law” and that this should be reflected in the enforcement, or rather non-enforcement, of age of consent laws. 

The grotesque report by the International Commission of Jurists — “60 eminent judges and lawyers from all regions of the world” — was launched by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) on International Women’s Day, and centers chiefly on how criminal law should be applied (or not applied) to sexual activities.

The news comes as major corporations and governments around the world seem to support the sexualization of children, and in many cases even threaten to remove them from their parents if their agenda is not allowed to be freely taught in schools.

“Consensual sexual conduct, irrespective of the type of sexual activity, the sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression of the people involved or their marital status, may not be criminalized in any circumstances,” the report insists, adding that “[c]onsensual same-sex, as well as consensual different-sex sexual relations, or consensual sexual relations with or between trans, non-binary and other gender diverse people, or outside marriage – whether pre-marital or extramarital – may, therefore, never be criminalized.”

The language suggests the report’s authors are concerned with the criminalization of activities such as adultery and sodomy, although one or both are in fact prohibited in many UN countries, and this has not stopped some of them — China, Algeria, and Pakistan, among others — from being appointed to the UN Human Rights Council.

But what the authors are truly concerned with is alarmingly revealed in subsequent paragraphs, with readers being eased into their agenda with a vague injunction that the “prescribed minimum age of consent to sex must be applied in a non-discriminatory manner” before it is fully revealed:

Moreover, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law.

Ages of consent exist because minors are rightly considered incapable of giving informed consent. Particularly if they are vulnerable, or have been groomed. Alas, the report doubles down, demanding that “the enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of [minors] to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.”

Here;  UN Report Says Minors Can Consent to Sex with Adults (thenationalpulse.com)

By now we should all understand that there is a war going on for the hearts, minds, souls and bodies of our kids.  The godless Left knows full well that if they can groom our kids for 12+ years in public school to convince them that God is not real, people can be born in the wrong bodies, if it feels good it must be right, love is love, only whites can be racist and that consensual sex is good and should be practiced as soon as possible...if they can convince them of all this then they will be voters in a very short time and will be willing to vote for all of these progressive causes.

Our battle isn't against flesh and blood humans, we are told, so if you haven't been praying daily for our children, our schools and our country, NOW would be a great time to start.

The ONLY way this delusion is going to be turned back is through the prayers of the saints and our willingness to speak up.  If we aren't willing to speak up now we certainly won't be willing to speak up once it is illegal to say "men can't have babies" or "only women have uteruses" or "a 10 yr old girl cannot possibly consent to have sex with a 30 yr old man."

Big Problems Facing America

 As we have said numerous times, it’s painful to watch the decline of America. As difficult as it is to list the problems we can’t put our heads in the sand and pretend we don’t see it as if the problems don’t exist. We are called to be Watchmen on the Wall and sound the alarm about what our enemy is up to. All of this “bad news” isn’t really “bad” for those of us who claim Christ as Savior.  It’s simply confirmation that God is fulfilling his Word.  So don’t call it “bad news” but rather call it “interesting times” and use that as a springboard to warn your friends and family that it’s not too late to repent because this world is passing away.

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By having a president who is mentally challenged, America is no longer the clear leader of the world. Although it did not get much news coverage, China made a move that shows America is being pushed out of its leadership role. It secretly arranged for a peace treaty between Saudi Arabia and Iran. This is an amazing accomplishment on the part of the Chinese when you consider that Saudi Arabia and Iran were, at the time, fighting a proxy war in Yemen.

A key source of American power in the world is that we control the reserve currency that all other nations must use in global trade. During the past quarter, several nations have signed treaties that will exclude the dollar in future trades. For decades, China has built up a large holding in US bonds. It has publicly stated that it has no plans to increase its holdings of our debt.

Crime has gotten so bad in many major cities that big box retailers are closing their outlets. Walmart is closing several stores in New York City because that has made it impossible to turn a profit. In fact, the company said they had stores in some locations for 17 years, and they lost money every year.

In San Francisco, a Whole Foods is closing up because it can’t get workers to show up. Violent crime is so rampant that some workers fear for their personal safety and refuse to come to work. If a mentally ill homeless person steals a grocery cart, you’d be a fool to run the risk of being stabbed over a fight for the cart. While you’re still recovering in the hospital, your attacker would likely be back on the street.

The reason why cities like New York and San Francisco are turning into lawless hellholes is that we have DAs and Judges that refuse to do their duty. They are elected or appointed into their position to go easy on criminals, whom they view as victims of the system. If a guy walks up to a stranger on the street and beats him for no reason, he is not a victim. This thug needs to be put in jail so he can’t hurt anyone else.

The mainstream media has long been evil because they add a liberal bias to the news stories of the day. Lately, things have gone one step further by the press collectively deciding what deserves to be reported and what should be banned from news coverage. The Jan 6th invasion of the Capital is constantly in the news. The boycott of Bud-Light over the firm having transvestite Dylan Mulvaney as the brand’s spokesperson has gotten very little coverage. The few articles that I find in a news search attack the boycotters as transphobic haters.

People who think they are some other sex has been going on for a long time. It seems in the last few weeks, it has reached a boiling point of insanity. Here in Benton, Ak, we have two students at the local High School who claim to be a dog and a cat. One of them requested that a litter box be set up in the bathroom for it to use.

Many corporations have a growing number of people on staff that are social justice advisors. They are there to make sure the firm follows woke guidelines that no one can really define. If they mess up, they can’t be fired because that would be racism and grounds for a lawsuit.

The rapid decline of America must have Christians screaming, “I can’t take this anymore.” I would remind my fellow believers that this is the outcome that the Bible predicted. Our Lord Jesus said that prophetic events would unfold like birth pangs. The pace of the last quarter ensures me that our mission here on earth will shortly come to an end. Please continue to Stand with Rapture Ready until we are called home.

More Cattle Mutilated

The “aliens” are getting more brazen. They show up along a Texas road and kill 6 cows, cut out their tongues with some type of knife that humans don’t have, drain the blood, core out the anus and vagina and leave them. No foot prints, no sign of struggle and the predators won’t scavenge the carcasses.  Impossible for humans to accomplish.  Satan and his demons are up to something nefarious.  We believe they are using this genetic material to make strange flesh...something terrifying that will be used during the Great Tribulation where men will faint with fear by what they see coming.

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“A straight, clean cut, with apparent precision, had been made to remove the hide around the cow’s mouth on one side, leaving the meat under the removed hide untouched,” the release said. “The tongue was also completely removed from the body with no blood spill.”

Officials said the grass around the cow was “undisturbed” and there were no signs of struggle, footprints or tire tracks in the area. Ranchers told law enforcement no predators or birds would scavenge the cow’s remains.

The cows were found mutilated in the same manner with the tongue removed and nothing noticeable in the surrounding grass, but each cow was found in a different location and belonged to a different herd.

Two of the cows also had their genitalia and anuses removed.

No cause of death has been determined in any of the six cases.

Similar incidents have been reported across the nation and deputies are working with other agencies to investigate, the release said.

 https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2023/04/23/cows-found-dead-with-tongues-missing-across-texas-police-investigating-mutilations/

Has the National Divorce Already Started in America?

 We agree with Rep Marjorie Green when she says that the chasm between Left and Right in this country has simply become too wide.  We can’t compromise anymore because the world views are too divergent. Conditions like this could lead to a Civil War if there were a major shock to the system.  But maybe we should all just separate on our own and the delusional Left who hates the God of the Bible can move to one area and the God fearing folks who believe that God made only two genders can move to another?  According to this article maybe it’s already happening?

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Since 2020, some 2.6 million people have moved out of U.S. counties that were won by President Joe Biden and into those that former President Donald Trump prevailed in, the analysis found. It cited recent Census Bureau data.

“More than 61 percent of the counties that voted for Biden in 2020 lost population, while 65 percent of Trump-supporting counties gained population,” the Issues and Insights analysis said. The data showed that some 2,562,937 people moved from Democrat-leaning counties to Republican-leaning counties since Biden was elected in the divisive November 2020 election.

The two counties that lost the most population from net internal migration were Los Angeles County and Cook County, Illinois, which both overwhelmingly voted in favor of Biden. Cook, which includes Chicago, was down about 200,718, while Los Angeles lost about 363,000 people since the election.

California, which has a Democrat governor and legislature, experienced “a massive net outflow” of people—871,127—in the past two years. New Jersey, which has a Democrat-controlled legislature and a Democrat governor, lost 107,000 people in the same time period, although the analysis noted that red counties in the Garden State gained 22,507.

“While many of the blue counties that lost population were urbanized,” it said, “the exodus was widespread and nationwide, including many far more sparsely populated liberal areas.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-national-divorce-appears-already-be-happening

10 Indicators The Hour is Late

 My wife and I say it all the time, how awesome it is that we are the generation to SEE all these things happening for the very first time!  Bible prophecy is being fulfilled right before our very eyes!  And yet how sad it is to see this amazing country start to collapse before those same very eyes.  We don’t know when Jesus is coming back and we can see godlessness, perversion and delusion sweeping over our land and it makes us kind of sad for our kids and grandkids.  I know that feeling will vanish forever when the trumpet blows but it’s still hard not to have it invade your thoughts.  Anyone else feel that way?

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What a privileged generation we are! We are watching the set-up for the end of the Church Age. Things the Bible foretold are unfolding before us as we continue to trend towards the Tribulation. Scripture said many things would happen that would be stage-setting incidents. I never expected to get the panorama I am seeing today.

Consider just these ten indicators…

• The world lacks a leader. A few think they are a global leader, such as China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Putin, America’s feeble Joe Biden, and France’s Emmanuel Macron. None of them even come close! The world is longing for a leader, as these above-named fools embarrass their respective countries.

• The rise to prominence of a globalist outfit—the World Economic Forum (WEF)—that is paving the way for a one-world government. The Antichrist will rule the world, very likely, under the umbrella of this organization, or one just like it. The WEF has had 50 years to become a sophisticated collection of global leaders. It has been primed for a half-century to rule the world.

• The Bible prophesies a coming cashless society. We now learn of the coming Central Bank Digital Currency that will be thrust upon the world in 2023 or 2024. Cash will eventually vanish. Digital currency will be a genuine nightmare, as it will be a tracking device. All privacy will completely vanish.

• The last three years, the frightened masses chose to trust in government due to fear of a health crisis and pandemic. Government promised to take care of them and to keep them well. People blindly and foolishly complied! Too many didn’t ask questions. Even though the lies told are now revealed, many feel it best to trust in authoritarian voices as many people are sheeple.

• We now have artificial intelligence that is as intuitive and as intelligent as humans. The Antichrist will tap into this in order to rule his empire. The recent unveiling of ChatGPT is stunning. It can write a thesis or a sermon in ten seconds and put a spin on it that is distinctly you!

• There is civil unrest and lawlessness in two-dozen nations. It requires too much space to list them all! This is a global rebellion. The spirit of the Antichrist is alive and well—preparing the way for the “man of lawlessness.”

• Wars and rumors of wars are stirring. There are dozens of global conflicts. Nations such as China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, are stirring the war-like pot. The Ukraine catastrophe could spread, thanks to Putin’s madness. Some of these are nuclear powers, and a few are threatening to use nukes. When a bully threatens, believe him! Most military analysts tell us that WWIII is now almost a certainty. We do not know if this is a pre-Tribulation event, but it could be. We do know global war is a part of the Tribulation.

• The days of Noah haunt us! Japan has created mice from two fathers. I’ll spare you the biological details. Other aberrations are celebrated today. Don’t you know that men becoming women is a simple transition?

• There is a stunning rise in darkness as predicted in II Timothy 3:13. Be it at the Grammys, the Commonwealth Games, Hollywood in general, or during the Super Bowl halftime, Satan is celebrated. He is center stage! At the Grammys, participants bowed down and worshipped a Satanic horned creature! 

• There is Temple fever among the religious in Israel. The Temple Institute has everything ready to go. Five red heifers arrived last fall from Texas, and four remain perfect enough for Temple sacrifice, as outlined in the book of Numbers. This is the Temple that the Antichrist will defile when he turns on the Jewish people.

Author J.B. Hixson wrote the following, with which I totally agree:

We are living in unprecedented times, prophetically. The stage is being set like never before as we draw closer and closer to the Rapture.

Prophecies that seemed far-fetched, even impossible, are now easily understood.

How can the Antichrist possibly track every human being on earth? That is where digital ID’s and central bank digital currencies come in.

How can the Antichrist die and come back to life? That is where artificial intelligence and the transhumanist bio-digital convergence explain the mystery.

How can the Antichrist desecrate the temple in Jerusalem, when there was no Israel on the world map for more than 1,800 years? The re-establishment of Israel as a nation in 1948 answers that question.

Our generation is watching the set-up. What a privilege. What a challenge. What did you think the last days would look like? How about just like the spring and summer of 2023? It’s time we be about our Father’s business!

https://harbingersdaily.com/the-set-up-ten-indicators-the-hour-is-late/