If You Think 2020 Has Been Crazy So Far, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

We're living through quite a year, aren't we?  In mid-January I wrote an article entitled 2020 Is off to a Shocking Start, and that was before COVID-19 was even a “thing” outside of China.  I've been diligently studying prophecy and observing the signs of the times since 2010 when we first started Unsealed and I've never, ever seen anything like the confluence of events this year.

As I've come to discover, a number of other watchmen and women had their start in 2010, as well.  Could that have been a move of the Spirit, using trumpeters to wake up the Church and proclaim the final ten years' boarding call to the world?  Perhaps Christ's warning [and promise] to the church at Smyrna was a template for the period of 2010–2020.  The final ten years of the Church Age?

Do not be afraid of the things that you are about to suffer; behold, the Devil is about to cast [some] of you to prison, that you may be tried, and you will have tribulation ten days; become faithful to death, and I will give to you the garland of life. (Rev. 2:10, LSV)

The series of events that initially caught my attention in 2010 culminated with the beginning of the Arab Spring.  As the West has almost universally turned against Christianity, especially since dozens of countries have legalized gay marriage and begun legally and socially persecuting those who oppose, in the East the series of wars and revolutions sparked by Obama's “Cairo Speech” and the subsequent self-immolation of a Tunisian food cart owner, led to severe persecution of Christians in the 10/40 Window.

The rise of ISIS, Boko Haram, and other Islamist groups this past decade led to Christians going virtually extinct from Iraq and tens of thousands slaughtered at the end of the sword.  God's people were faithful unto death.  At the same time, Xi Jinping rose to power in China early on in this ten-year period (2012), reversing decades of pro-democracy moves and ushering in a new period of extreme persecution against Christians.  In 2016 Russia enacted the Yarovaya Law, prohibiting evangelism and causing the greatest persecution against evangelicals since the days of the Soviet Union.  It has been a decade of extreme persecution against the true Church while the Laodiceans have only grown more heretical.

But it has also been a decade witnessing the expansion and strengthening of Israel for the first time since 1967.  Jerusalem was recognized as its capital by several countries, including the United States.  The Golan Heights was also recognized.  In 2018 the Jewish Nation-State Law was passed through the Knesset, restoring Israel's legal-biblical identity.  And now, after several years of delays and obstacles, it looks like the Israeli government is moving full steam ahead with annexing parts of Judea and Samaria next month, while agreeing to the Deal of the Century.

A big reason I think this could very well be the year in which the Tribulation itself commences is that I've witnessed wave after wave of prophetic signs come and go these past ten years—although the waves have grown closer and closer together—but now, in 2020, the wave that formed in January has never dissipated.  It's just growing bigger.  And more things are being piled on.  I've witnessed the significance of a number of “high watch dates” build with legitimate prophetic signs, but the Restrainer would step in, preventing the dominoes from falling.  The Restrainer finally appears to be stepping back, and when He removes His restraining hand, the Church goes with Him.

Despite the unprecedented nature of COVID-19 in causing global lockdown and economic devastation, and then the growing riots in the United States and everywhere else, most people are still desperately clinging to normalcy as if their life depended on it.  They refuse to see what's happening.

There has been obfuscation in regards to Israel's annexation plans next month, but it appears to be a “now or never”-type of moment.  Netanyahu's latest comments echo this—indeed, he looks set to push this through beginning July 1st.

For behold, in those days, and in that time, || When I turn back [to] the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, || Then I have gathered all the nations, || And caused them to go down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, || And I have been in judgment with them there, || Concerning My people and My inheritance—Israel, || Whom they scattered among nations, || And My land they have apportioned. (Jl. 3:1–2, LSV)

The nations, presently spearheaded by the United States, are about to divide the Promised Land.  And even more than that—they're actually stepping back to allow Israel to do it themselves.  While the U.S. plan is the one to be voted on next month, make no mistake about it, all the nations will be guilty before God for violating the everlasting covenant made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  All the nations have agreed to the basic premise of “two states living side by side in peace and security,” aside from those that have an even more radical idea, such as Iran, which wants Israel removed completely.  God will bring all nations into judgment for apportioning His land.

News out of Europe and Israel yesterday and today indicates that this whole division of the land could happen far more quickly than foreseen.  For starters, the Palestinians were trying to politically maneuver the European Union to support sanctions against Israel for moving forward with annexation, but yesterday it was reported that Germany, one of the two leading countries in the E.U., will not push sanctions.  Because of the E.U.'s governing structure of consensus-based decision-making, this means sanctions are dead on arrival.  If Israel moves forward next month, which looks to be the case, Europe's response will just be the proverbial slap on the wrist.  A muted response is as good as a positive response from Israel's perspective.  And the Israeli government feels that with U.S. elections just five months away, they may never again have such a seemingly favorable opportunity.

The Palestinians have thus far been completely opposed to any negotiations resulting from the Deal of the Century, but here's how things just went from 0 to 60 overnight: the Palestinian Authority has suddenly offered a counter-proposal that actually acknowledges some of the West Bank (“Judea and Samaria”) will remain in Israel's hands and that land swaps will be necessary.  Even more, the Palestinian Authority's proposal acknowledges the state will be demilitarized—a major and longstanding demand from Israel.  Recognizing that Israel will not take the bait and will still move forward next month, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh is saying that they will declare independence and establish a permanent government (source).

The Palestinians have declared statehood numerous times, but they've never actually implemented those declarations with a permanent government and the institutions that independent states have (the Palestinian Authority is merely a transitional pseudo-government established by the 1993 Oslo Accords).  If they follow through on the threat in response to next month's annexation vote, and European and other countries opposed to Israel's vote recognize the new Palestinian government, the land would not only be divided, but an independent Palestinian state would exist within the boundaries of the land that Israel is abandoning to the Palestinians.  Israel and the United States are drawing up the final borders as I write this and we're just a few short weeks away from when the vote(s) may start.

If you think the compounding issues of 2020 are historic, including Coronavirus and global riots, wait until the land that God deeded to Abraham is sliced in half.  You ain't seen nothing yet.

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Houston, we are go for launch!

What if I told you that God, in His merciful forbearance, allowed the tragedy of George Floyd's death and the subsequent rioting to warn the entire world that 1. the rapture of Christ's Church is imminent, and 2. the Day of the LORD is at hand?  Well that's exactly what just transpired—today.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. (Rom. 8:28, NIV)

George Floyd's unjust death led to equally unjust retributive violence and politicization, and these events became the focus of media attention all over the world.  Today is George Floyd's funeral, which is being held in Houston.

Around noon Central Time, two pastors came to the microphone to speak, one after the other.  While the live feed was being broadcast on news networks all over the world, the first pastor quoted from the fifth chapter of the book of the prophet Amos, beginning in verse 16:

Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing.

And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.

Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? (Am. 5:16–20, KJV)

Then, even more incredibly, the next speaker quoted this great promise to the Church—the clearest description of the rapture event in the entire Bible:

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thess. 4:13–18, KJV)

As trivial as this may seem to many, understand that God has just clearly warned the world that the Tribulation is at hand and the removal of His children from the earth is even nearer than that.  If the world was in need of one last warning, this very well could have been it.  Remember, networks from all over the United States and all over the world were broadcasting this.

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Further Reading:

Prophecy Basics

How to Be Ready

Signs in the Heavens

The Birthday Break-away

The Deal of the Century

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