A Thought On Urgency

I want to share some thoughts with you on urgency because I've been a bit distracted and jaded this past week and I believe God is stirring my heart back toward watchfulness.  With all that we've seen these past two years, is life really just business as usual?  Have God's plans been put on hold?  Is now the time for complacency?

But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites.  In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

- Matthew 24:48–51

No doubt many in the Church are asleep and have lost sight of the prophetic milestones that have been transpiring at breakneck speed.  As long as things seem relatively normal in our neck of the woods—the daily grind of a desk job, family and friends getting married, and another season of our favorite show on Netflix—it can seem impossible to feel any real sense of urgency.  Yet is this feeling of normalcy that many Christians have a right emotion?

I would argue that it's not.  And in fact, normalcy is the antithesis of what God wants for us.  Even 2,000 years ago when the Church was first sent forth into the world, there was an incredible sense of urgency.  You can read it on virtually every page of Acts.  You see it in the desperate pleas of Paul, Peter, James, and John in their epistles.  And you can witness it in Christ's letters to the seven churches of Asia.

We're now 2,000 years closer to Jesus' feet touching down on the Mount of Olives and it would seem many in the Church are more focused on building their kingdom here, growing their 401(k), and watching Game of Thrones.  Consider the fact that while these past two millennia have been filled with wars and revolutions and all manner of historic events, it was only in the past century or so—perfectly coinciding with the rise of Zionism and the establishment of a Jewish nation-state—that life as it has been for most of human history suddenly changed.  The world has been completely revolutionized by technology, travel, and information, and, fittingly, the globalist political movement.

From a biblical perspective, all of these profound changes in our world have been perfectly timed to coincide with a successive slew of major prophetic milestones that only the most imperceptive could miss: The nation of Israel is back in the land again after a 2,700 year hiatus; the gospel has gone forth to every single nation on earth; there is now worldwide hatred of committed Christians from the top-down; virtually everything necessary for the construction of a third temple in Jerusalem is ready (including the identification and training of actual, Aaronic priests); mark of the beast technology has already been developed and is finding widespread social acceptance in Europe and the United States; and signs in the stars have appeared that match biblical descriptions word-for-word.

Dear friends, this is the time.  We've never known with certainty the precise day or hour of our departure, but we've seen numerous significant dates come and go, and rarely without significant prophetic fulfillment.  That's what many mockers simply fail to understand as they twist, distort, and put words into our mouths.  Not every prophetic fulfillment is the rapture or second coming itself.  As long as the Church remains on earth, the scoffers will disregard each and every fulfilled prophecy as these prophecies quickly whiz by.

But the door to the Ark is closing.  The door is Christ (Jn. 10:9) and the rapture is the escape (1 Thess. 4:13–5:11; Rev. 3:10).  At this point it's becoming increasingly difficult for me to identify anything further that might happen before the blessed hope because so much has already transpired.  We're just that close.

Presently, I want to turn your attention to the upcoming unveil of "The Deal of the Century" that is now set to be revealed in two stages beginning the last week of June in Bahrain.  Will there be any other peace plan revealed post-Revelation 12 Sign, besides this one, that either is the covenant of Daniel 9:27 or is what directly morphs into it once the man of sin gets involved?

I seriously doubt it.

I think the stars are aligned and this upcoming plan is what gets confirmed by the antichrist or is what precipitates the antichrist stepping in with his own plan.

With that being said, many of us have learned first-hand these past few years that God is sovereign to an extent most Christians don't understand.  He chose that in these last of the last days there would be an astronomical sign precisely fitting the words of the first two verses of Revelation 12.  He isn't deceiving us.

Furthermore, He chose a president named Trump and a vice president named Pence.  While most roll their eyes, I say, "Perfect timing!"  Unbeknownst to them, He uses their mouths to prophesy.  From their own mouths they've called this upcoming deal both "The Ultimate Deal" and "The Deal of the Century."  What epithet can outdo that?

And from what leaks and rumors we've seen, this deal is nothing like all the failed attempts in the past where both sides were wined and dined at Camp David and told to negotiate in good faith.  This deal is forced.  This deal involves unilateral action—like Israel annexing one-third of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) as is rumored to happen as early as this summer.

It was this very deal that started being prepared one month before the Revelation 12 Sign, during the Great American Eclipse, when Kushner jetted off to the Middle East to meet with key leaders.

If we truly believe God rescues His people before wrath (which He does), thus the Church escapes before the 21 divinely appointed judgments described in Revelation, and that the rapture occurs at a time of seeming normalcy ("...as in the days of Noah ...as in the days of Lot"), then I can only conclude we leave before this deal is fully revealed if it is the deal.  Or, perhaps, we leave shortly after the deal is revealed, but before it takes effect.

The world is a house of cards teetering on the brink of calamity.  Societally, militarily, economically, and religiously, the world is ready to pop.  All that's holding this sinking ship together is the restraining force of the Holy Spirit in and through the Church as described in 2 Thessalonians 2:1–7.  When we go, disaster strikes suddenly and with unrelenting force.  All the pieces are in place for sudden destruction.

And the timing of it all makes perfect sense.  Israel is supremely confident in her might right now and believes its chances for peace have never been better or more advantageous than they are right now with Trump in the White House.  Her leaders believe this peace plan is finally going to give them rest and world acceptance.  There may never again be a perfect convergence like this, with such a seemingly pro-Israel U.S. president with the willingness and ability to give Israel basically whatever her leaders want.

But at their time of greatest pride, the Church is removed.  And suddenly they'll be attacked on every front.

Returning to "Trump/Pence," the name couldn't possibly be more fitting than at this specific time in history.  But there is something else: God raised Trump up at this very time to be a lightning rod in the U.S. and world.  Because of Trump and the nationalist domino effect around the world, virtually everyone on the fence is now off—either on one side or the other.

Unbelievers are showing where their heart really was all along regardless of past attempts to mask it. There is no more parsing words or tiptoeing.

It used to be that both sides generally agreed on the rule of law, legal immigration, confronting foreign enemies, and civil discourse.  Democrats in the U.S. even used to say that while they wanted legal abortion, they wanted it to be rare—and appeared to respect the convictions of those on the opposite end of the spectrum.  But now, because of peoples' reckless hatred of their political foes they are:

• Marching in the streets with pictures of their own aborted babies
  
• Smashing babies' graves
  
• Openly attacking Christians
  
• Defending actual lawlessness in just about every form
  
• And quite literally going mad (e.g., the other night an actress on the Late Show said she wakes up screaming because of Trump and has nightmares about him).

Meanwhile, the world's most popular music competition was just held in Tel Aviv, Israel, featuring the Rev-12-woman-esque Kate Miller-Heidke floating above the earth with a crown of stars on her head (also note the red nebula with multiple "heads" reaching out toward her womb):

Eurovision 2019 also featured the demonic-looking band Hatari:

They left no question about their political motivations:

To top it off, Madonna's Eurovision performance was laden with devil worship, religious mockery, and apocalyptic imagery.  As if right on cue, the song shows a person representing Israel and another representing a Palestinian state arm-in-arm, moving up the steps toward a skull.  It's the covenant with death that's coming.

At the end of it all, the winner of the world's biggest performance, seen by at least double the number of those who tune in for the Super Bowl, was a bisexual named Duncan Laurence.  This was all broadcasted right from God's covenant land to the whole world.  God will not be mocked.  And just a few short weeks later, starting on Pentecost, one of the world's largest gay pride parades will be held in that same city.

Romans 1 and the strong delusion are here my friends.  The lawless didn't want the gospel, so God removed what little humanity they had left.  Now they're literally crazed and many want blood.  When the Church is gone... oh my.

Remember the townsfolk banging on Lot's door?  It's like that now, but on a worldwide scale all at once.

The days of Noah and the days of Lot are here, once again, and all because they refused to believe the good news of God's measureless love revealed in Christ.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever!  Amen.

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions.  For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

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 1:24–31

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

- 2 Thessalonians 2:9–10

The time is at hand.  The hour is urgent.  Today is the day of salvation.  Don't be among those who refuse to believe the wondrous and exceedingly good news of the gospel.

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