“In the beginning, God….” (Hold that thought.)

Today’s message is based mainly upon Daniel 8:23-24.

As I have written in other messages, we are already living in The Tribulation. This is a “hard pill to swallow” for many people — especially if they have been raised on the pablum of the “Pre-Trib Rapture” scenario. Bear with me for a little, and I will prove it — again.

Angel Gabriel spent a notable amount of his time with Prophet Daniel revealing events that were far in the future at that time. Some people cling to the concept that “you cannot know” when these things will happen. (That is an “over-interpretation” of one Scripture. What Jesus actually said in Matthew 24 was that we cannot know “the hour nor the day“. [emphasis added] Read that again. Jesus meant exactly what He said.) Jesus also said that “you will know the times and the seasons”. [emphasis added] The word translated “seasons” can also mean “months”. So, Jesus expected us to be able to interpret Scripture to the point of being able to “decode” prophecy and expect His return to within a month or so.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I am not attempting to “set dates” here. But, I am trying to overcome the false teaching that we cannot know anything at all about the prophetic timetable.

With the above foundation, we are now ready to consider what Angel Gabriel meant in the message text. He was telling Daniel a piece of the “bigger picture”. Imagine the relative size between six thousand years of human history and the final segment of three-and-a-half years. (In other words, the second half of the Tribulation is less than two-hundredths of one percent of history.) During this small portion of history, Satan is working to rewrite God’s plan by writing backwards. (If you are not familiar with the term “backward masking”, then you should click here. It will help you understand the concept of this message.)

Obviously, Satan has been trying to undo God’s plan from the beginning. But, because “he knows that his time is short”, he has been “working overtime” in recent decades. In 1966, a former carnival barker that took on the name Anton Szandor Levay founded (in San Francisco, of course) an organization named The Church of Satan. A lot of bad things have happened since then, and the pace of those things is increasing rapidly as the return of Jesus draws near. I will try to condense.

In several places, the writings of the Apostles refers to even their own times as “these last days” (or some variation of those words). Scoffers point to that fact and mock, “Well, people have been calling it ‘the last days’ for two thousand years!” It would be a lengthy sidetrack of this message to explain the ancient Orthodox Christian concept of “The Eight-Day Week”, but a knowledge of that concept would help to disprove the scoffers. The short version is that, in terms of that concept, Jesus came along on Thursday evening of the “week” of all of human history. (Therefore, the Apostles were living in “the last days” by comparison.)

So, if we consider 1966 as a reference point, we can see that Satan began working backwards by starting at the Church Age. Using the “dumbing-down of education”, he separated people from intimate knowledge of God. (In backward timing, this would parallel the “Inter-Testamental Period” of Biblical history — lasting approximately 450 years before the birth of Jesus.) It was a time when Israel became dominated by various foreign empires — including “the fourth beast” (Rome) of Daniel’s vision. By constant assaults (aided by the power of “imperial” governments), the authority of Scripture and the universal Church have been diminished. (And yet, “the gates of Hell shall not prevail”.)

De-education and the diminishing of Church authority paved the way for the “Information Age” — when electronic news media became dominant. As a result, not only could public opinion be re-engineered on a scale never before seen, but also at a speed never before seen. Paradoxically, although people had access to more information than ever before (because the Internet enabled access to all sources worldwide, instantly), people became “stupider” than ever before (because they had lost a grip on the “wisdom” that must guide the use of “knowledge”). This works us backwards through the “Wisdom Age” and the life of King Solomon.

The life of Solomon’s father, King David, was a period of “just wars” that were ordered by Yehowah God in order to decimate and punish the nations around Israel, and to expand the borders of Israel. This was also true, to a lesser degree, regarding the life of David’s predecessor, King Saul. (But, Saul failed to wipe out the Edomites, because his greed motivated him to keep the best of their livestock. As a result, centuries later, the descendants of the Edomites produced a man named Mohammed — the founder of the evil religion of Islam.) Working backwards, the modern “age of terrorism” parallels this age of just wars. (Sadly, an increasing number of people today are turning toward the false god Allah. He is not the same as Yehowah God. As a result of that turning, God has sent the punishment of a Muslim mayor of our largest city.)

Unfortunately, along with the age of terrorism, there also have been some unjust wars. A key point here is the oddly-named Operation Just Cause — in which President George H. W. Bush (“Bush-1”) ordered the invasion of Panama and the capture of its leader, President Manuel Noriega. (On the one hand, Noriega was widely believed to be using drug cartels and their money to run his country. On the other hand, Noriega was also believed to have proof that Bush was not “out of the loop” regarding the CIA smuggling drugs into the USA via the return legs of the Contra resupply missions over Nicaragua.) For those that prefer the “short version” of that sordid chapter in American history, there is the somewhat farcical (but largely factual) movie “American Made” — starring Tom Cruise as mercenary CIA pilot Barry Seal. For those that prefer the “full-color version”, there is the book “Compromised” — written by another CIA mercenary pilot, Terry Reed, who survived a plot to have him killed before he revealed what he knew.

Before the anointing of Israel’s first king, Saul, the country was governed by a series of judges. Yehowah God was their actual king, and the Ten Commandments were the bedrock of national law. Working backwards, Satan has used modern “judicial tyranny” (in which judges make decisions that are contrary to actual law in many cases) to bring about disruption and chaos — not only in America, but also worldwide. Several examples exist of using the concept of “eminent domain” (the government’s confiscation of private land and buildings for a larger societal purpose, such as building a highway) to instead line the pockets of politically-connected land developers, etc. Judicial tyranny has now become so commonplace that it defies any sense of logic or fairness. Examples include barring our Border Patrol from patrolling our borders, banning various state departments of safety from keeping motorists safe (regarding driver’s licenses for illegal aliens that cannot read the signs on our highways), and forcing students to use the “preferred pronouns” of freaks and queers. That, in turn, has led to….

Assaults against Creation itself

Yehowah God created mankind in only two sexes (not “genders”): male and female. But, as a result of judicial tyranny, our society is being forced to deal with mental illnesses such as “non-binary”, “gender fluidity”, and “furries” as if they were normal. Satan tries to get such aberrant ideas in front of children at the earliest age possible, in order to shock them into acceptance and submission. Thus, judicial tyranny has also brought us “drag queens in schools”. This is a direct assault upon God’s design of the creation of the human body, with is supposed to be “the temple of the Holy Spirit”, on the sixth day of Creation.

The assault goes even farther, with the fringe elements of science attempting to go “mainstream” by the development of chimeras (part-human, part-animal, super-soldiers) to disrupt not only God’s design of people on the sixth day, but also of the animals that were also created on the sixth day. I believe that chimeras are the “wild beasts” that the Book of Revelation warns will kill much of mankind (the sixth trumpet, in chapter 9) To see how all of this might play out in the real world, see the recently-released novella “The Monday Bomb“. (At the end of the book, there is mention of an upcoming sequel.)

And, as if the above were not bad enough, there is more. Working even farther backwards, Satan is not content to disrupt only God’s design for people. He is also working back through the fifth day (fish in the waters) by polluting the waters with “forever chemicals”, and the fourth day (when God placed the sun, moon, and stars in their places) by wasteful programs to put colonies on the Moon and on Mars, and the third day (dry land, plants for food) by large-scale programs to genetically modify agriculture.

The ultimate goal, of course, is to go back to even before the six days of Creation. Remember that I said to “hold that thought”? In the 14th chapter of the Book of Isaiah is a passage that is known as “the rant of Satan”. In it, he declares, “I will be like the Most High God.” That is the goal. In this concentrated period known as the End Times, when the pace of the fulfilment of Bible prophecy is increasing, Satan’s goal is to destroy God’s plan for a beautiful creation and replace it with himself. That is a dark future. But, for a surprisingly large number of people, that has become their goal also. That is why they are doing Satan’s work: trashing the saving work of Jesus, trashing the human mind by devolving education and mocking wisdom, trashing the restraining work of government in enforcing justice, trashing the very design of the human body and God’s design for marriage and sex, trashing the water we drink, trashing the food we eat, trashing the “second heaven” (the realm of the sun, moon, and stars) — all in a vain attempt to replace the God that created all of that.

We are almost there!

The most visible and “in your face” aspect of all that rebellion is the “pride parade” of freaks and queers beneath a flag that mocks the rainbow that God put in the sky. Many verses in the New Testament warn that “the days will grow more evil” (or some variation of this concept). Jesus specified that, “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man.” How was it in the days of Noah? “The whole earth was filled with violence.” But also, in the days of Noah, was the placing of the rainbow in the sky. God’s promise that He would never again destroy the whole earth with water is the first covenant in the Holy Bible — even before the covenant with Abraham. Thus, in terms of Satan working backwards, we are at the end of the line. All the pieces are in place, and “…the transgressors have reached their fullness.” There is nothing left for them to trash. (Those preaching that “we will be Raptured outta here before things get worse” were wrong. Things are already worse.)

Crossing the final “red line” of history

There is only one line left to step over, and Satan is already in the process of stepping over it. Keep in mind that I wrote above that Satan was trying to write backwards to the point before the first day of Creation. “In the beginning, God….” Satan wants to be like the Most High God. Before there was anything else — even the separation of light and darkness — there was God. He is the ultimate intelligence that created everything. So, if someone wanted to “be like” that ultimate intelligence, then they would be an “artificial intelligence”. Boom! There you have it. Society’s hard push to have artificial intelligence injected into everything possible is no “mere coincidence”. But wait, there’s more!

A dear departed friend revealed his insight to me several years ago. He pointed out to me in a phone call that, in Revelation 13, the False Prophet gives power to the image of the Beast. (Sadly, a lot of modern pastors have overlooked that key word. They teach that the False Prophet gives power to the Beast. But, that is not what the Scripture says.) At first glance, this might seem like “hair-splitting”. It is not. The Holy Bible is written with a lot of “coded language”. Details are important. Revelation warns us that an image is coming that will be able to speak — to all mankind simultaneously. We have had television for decades, but this is a bodily image — a moving statue, which people will bow before and worship. Did you know that, several years ago, a company in Ireland released its plans to build a series of 100-foot-tall statues in various cities around the world? And, did you know that these statues will be able to speak to people? At the same time, governments worldwide began requiring “5G technology” for nearly everything. Mere coincidence?? No!

The above is a poster for a 1968 movie that forewarned us about the Internet and the development of artificial intelligence. It was a box-office “sleeper”, but it was a high-concept message. But, the movie was missing one big piece of the technological puzzle — nanobots, which were not invented until 1997. (At that time, I was still living in Upstate NY. I was working as a one-year temp at IBM when they put out a news release about their invention.) Nanobots are capable of receiving 5G signals and putting “voices” directly into one’s brain! And, how would the nanobots get there? They were in the “vaccine” that governments required people to get. (Remember when one could not go into certain grocery stores without a “vaccine passport”? Compare that to Revelation’s warning that “no man can buy or sell” without the Mark of the Beast.) As I have written before, the vax is the Mark of the Beast. The nanobots travel through the body (the Temple of the Holy Spirit) and then “sit” on the throne (the brain) of that Temple. Revelation is fulfilled, but not in the way that others have been falsely teaching. The transgressors have reached their fullness. The War of Gog and Magog is already in progress. (It began when Russia invaded Ukraine.) The stage is set for Armageddon. The only thing left is for “the man of perdition” to be revealed.

Jesus is coming back very soon. Are you ready? If not, reach out for pastoral guidance.