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Governments All Over The World Are Asking Their Citizens To Become Preppers
6 November, 2026: Recently, many European countries released statements asking their citizens to prepare for at least three days without normal services that society normally provides. Among those requests were water, food that doesn’t require cooking, necessary medications, and a cash reserve kept in the home.
Even the United States has issued these alerts. Glenn Beck, an American conservative political commentator, radio host, author, entrepreneur and television producer. He has released a commentary video on the fact that these alerts have been issued on a global scale. His video has had 6.4 million views. While I’m not here to talk about Beck’s remarks, this does show the concern worldwide for some undisclosed event about to happen.
So, the question is, should we prepare or not? That depends on your level of faith. If the thought of something coming upon you frightens you, by all means, take the steps you feel might be necessary. But do it in faith! Do it with the confidence that God has promised to meet your every need according to His riches in glory! Not the world’s riches, because the Great Depression taught our grandfathers just how quickly earthly wealth can disappear.
But you have the promise from God to take care of you. And don’t let anyone else make you feel like there is something wrong with you for wanting to prepare for an upcoming emergency. Your level of faith is enough to get you into Heaven, and that’s enough faith. I have a story I like to tell:
A man stands on his roof during a flood, the water is up to his ankles. A boat comes by; “Hop in, we’ll take you to safety,” they say. “No thank you,” the man replies, “I’m depending on God to save me.”
An hour goes by, and the water is now up to his waist. Another boat comes by; “Hop in, we’ll take you to safety,” they say. “No thank you,” the man again replies, “I’m depending on God to save me.”
Another hour passes, and the water is now up to his neck. This time a helicopter passes by overhead. They throw down a rope ladder; “Grab on, we’ll take you to safety!” They shout. “No thank you,” the man shouts back, “I’m depending on God to save me!”
A final hour goes by and the water is over the man’s head, and he drowns. In Heaven, he stands before God. “What happened,” the man complains, “I was counting on you to save me.” God looks at him and replies, “I sent you two boats and a helicopter, what were you waiting for?”
That’s what you need to keep in mind. This may be the exact way God is preparing to be ready for the events about to come upon us.
GOOD NEWS: For Christians Only
The absolute wonderful news is that there is nothing, and I mean nothing on this earth can hurt you. You have wonderful, amazing, astonishing promises in the Bible to call on and depend on to keep you safe no matter what comes upon the earth. First of all, you have the real possibility of being raptured before anything takes place. There is a catch 22 built right into the Bible, and Satan hates it. But there is nothing he can do about it.
Satan has a person just waiting for the right time. Waiting for the perfect opportunity to reveal him to the world. This man is the Antichrist. But the Bible tells us this man cannot be revealed until the Spirit holding him back is removed. Many scholars believe that this is a direct reference to the rapture of the church and the Holy Spirit. Right now, the Holy Spirit in on this earth, because he dwells in the Christians of this world. Should the Christians be taken away, the Holy Spirit goes with them.
“And now you know what is restraining him, that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains it will do so until he is taken out of the way.” – 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 ESV
So there is a very real possibility that before the Antichrist is revealed that the church will be raptured away. In that event you have helped your fellow man who may come along after you’re gone and find your stockpile of food and water.
But even if that doesn’t happen, cling onto God’s word! Some of the most quoted Scriptures I rely on is in the 91st Psalm:
5 You will not fear the terror of the night, the arrow that flies by day, 6 the plague that stalks in darkness, or the pestilence that ravages at noon. 7 Though a thousand fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, the pestilence will not reach you.
8 You will only see it with your eyes and witness the punishment of the wicked. 9 Because you have made the LORD — my refuge, the Most High — your dwelling place, 10 no harm will come to you; no plague will come near your tent. 11 For he will give his angels orders concerning you, to protect you in all your ways. 12 They will support you with their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. – Psalms 91:5-12 CSB
How can you read this and not get excited! You will not fear the terror that comes at night, nor the weapons that are shot toward you in the day. No plague, no sickness will come near you. If a thousand people die on your left side and ten-thousand die on your right side, it won’t hurt you in the least. But you will be able to witness what happens to the evil people who tried to cause you grief. No harm will come to you. Neither will sickness visit your home.
God will provide angels to protect you in every possible way. They will pick you up off the ground if they see you’re about to stub your toe on a rock!
You have all those promises for yourself, not because of anything you did, but because you have accepted God’s gift of salvation. Therefore, these Old Testament Scriptures that are actually promised to Jesus, become ours because the Bible says we are joint heirs with him!
So this world wants us to wring our hands in worry. I say, “No thanks! I know Jesus!” Yes, the world would love to see us every bit as anxious and upset as they are. They can’t get over how calm we are in what they consider to be very troubled times. But they don’t understand that as Christians, we fear no man, no group of men, no country of men for that matter. Because we are untouchable!
The worst thing any government can do to us is take our physical lives. In that event we are immediately ushered into the very presence of God himself. And we will remain there forever. That’s more of a reward than a punishment!
Persecute Me!
The world is so confused, so ignorant, so simple minded they don’t even know the status of the genuine Christian. They act so smart and like they’re above us. Little do they know the Bible calls them fools.
18For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the intelligence of the intelligent. – 1 Corinthians 1:18-19 CSB
In the book of Acts, Christians who were persecuted considered it a privilege and an honor to be persecuted.
41 Then they went out from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be treated shamefully on behalf of the Name. – Acts 5:41 CSB
So who cares what they say about us behind our backs? Who cares what they say to our faces? We can actually pity those fools who do these things to us, because we know they will be held accountable for every single spoken word that came out of their mouths. We can endure such punishment because we know what Jesus endured for us, and we know that we are 100% committed of having the privilege to suffer for being a follower of Jesus.
In Conclusion
So, my precious brother or sister in Jesus, what does it matter what this world is worried about? We are more than ready to face anything, and I mean anything this wicked, evil world has to bring upon us. Because not only are we conquerors, but we are More Than Conquerors!
Think of this: In March of 1775, Patrick Henry gave his own preparedness speech. And that speech is still remembered to this very day. But Henry knew more than the worriers who couldn’t find their faith or courage when it mattered. Those words ring just as true today then they did over 200 years ago:
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?Forbid it, Almighty God!I know not what course others may take; but as for me,give me liberty or give me death!” – Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.
I’m ready to fight for what I believe in, I’m ready to resist evil anywhere, any place, any time. I’m not only willing to fight for what I believe in, but I’m ready to die for it as well. And that separates us from cowards. That is the definition of a coward: Someone unwilling to die for what they believe in.
For Those Who Love Discovery, The Bible Is the Journey of a Lifetime
Marvelous: adj. causing wonder or admiration; wonderful, excellent, or amazing; impressive or outstanding in skill or quality.
You may not think of the Bible as any of those things: But what if I were to tell you that the Bible has enormous depth: It can answer some of the deepest questions, take you on a journey of a lifetime. The Bible can journey beyond time; it can weave a tapestry of past, present and future, and do it so seamlessly, that it opens your eyes to the world. Not this temporarily fleeting world, but the real world behind the things you see.
People were absolutely mesmerized at the movie, “The Matrix,” because it gave us this unique idea that the things we think of as real aren’t actually so. What if I were to tell you the reason you liked the matrix so much is because you’ve had the same idea a time or two yourself. There’s been times when you thought there was more to this reality than meets the eye. That’s because you have a spirit; and your spirit was trying to tell you something.
But not the Bible, right? You’ve known about the Bible all your life. Its just some boring history, a bunch of genealogies, and some fantastical tales about this mean God who punishes people for having a good time. But here’s what you don’t understand. To you, those of you who haven’t yet opened your eyes to the truth. The Bible says so:
“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the intelligence of the intelligent.” – 1 Corinthians 1:18-19 CSB
Real Versus Simulated
Now there are many, many people who are trying to teach people this false Gospel, this idea that one religion is just as good as another. They may praise human teachers, who try to teach that people can elevate themselves, and make the most absurd claims. But real Spirituality comes from one place; the Bible. You can be in a genuine relationship with the real God, the creator of the universe.
Folks, we’re living in the very end of the last days. And just as the Bible predicted, there are false teachers everywhere. Remember these people come to you like ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing. Their writings, videos, or whatever media they use may sound like a person who is genuinely full of love and peace, but in reality, they’re willing to send your soul to hell. It’s an ironic situation: Sometimes, these people were actually Christians, but for whatever reason, they decided to walk away from fundamental Christianity and embrace the most foolish of notions.
And sooner or later, the deceived becomes the deceiver.
How can you know the difference? There are actually two ways: First of all is the Bible. Does this person spend their time quoting human writings? That is a very negative sign. This is someone who has taken their faith away from the Bible and placed it on the teachings of men. Let me give you an example:
Rabbi David Wolpe, one of the most prominent and influential rabbis in the United States, and a frequent guest on media programs, delivered a series of high-profile sermons stating that the Exodus as described in the Bible did not happen the way the text records it, and may not have happened historically at all.
This is a case where a person started listening to human archeologists and taking their word for things over the word of God. How sad that a man who spent his life studying the Torah, and the Tanakh (the Torah is generally considered the first 5 books of Moses, Genesis through Deuteronomy; the Tanakh is the entire Old Testament) only to let a bunch of atheists dissuade him from the truth.
Remember humans have opinions, and they often let their personal opinion leak into their professional lives. Why, tell me one reason why, you would listen to an atheist to teach you anything about the Bible?
Rabbi Wolpe let flawed human thinking stand in his way of believing in God and God’s inerrant message to the entire world. And the very same thing starts happening to Christians who don’t have a very strong footing for their faith. Remember the teaching of Jesus:
“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed—and its collapse was great.” – Matthew 7:24-27 CSB
The second way is equally simple. This is what happens when you listen to man instead of the Bible. Your faith is quickly eroded by the words of people who, quite honestly, want to drag you away from Christianity and into their world of New Age teachings, or whatever they happen to call it. At one time, there were regular visitors to our homes of very nice, well dressed people who were nothing more than ravenous wolves trying to destroy the true faith of Christianity, into this terrible, controlling cult called Jehovah’s Witnesses.
But this is easily avoided when you simply make up your mind to believe the Bible over and above anything you see with your eyes and hear with your ears.
A Supernatural Book
In the book of Matthew, the first eleven verses may seem boring to the average reader. After all, one of the many things that turn people off about the Bible are the seemingly endless genealogies and listings. The first eleven verses deal with the genealogy of Jesus. But perhaps *Chuck Missler had a point after all:
Matthew 1:1–11 contains 49 Greek words (7×7)
The total letters: 266 (7×38)
Nouns: 42 (7×6), Proper names: 35 (7×5)
Only one city mentioned: Babylon—7 letters in Greek
Words beginning with vowels: 28 (7×4)
Words beginning with consonants: 21 (7×3)
Male names: 28 (7×4)
This is just a small sample of the irrefutable design God has built into his Word of God, the Bible! There are hundreds if not thousands of these tiny curiosities. Modern scientists actually lied when the Bible codes came out. Of course, Satan has to do whatever he can to cloud the truth about the Bible. But these claims that the Bible codes could be found in other books, such as War And Peace, or Moby Dick is simply untrue.
*Chuck Missler was a Bible teacher who deeply explored the numerology of the Bible. His teachings can be found at https://khouse.org
The science cannot lie, even though people can. The original author of the Bible Code phenomenon, Rabbi Eliyahu Rips, calculated that the probability of such compact letter arrangements happening by random chance was less than 1 in 50th power, or roughly 1 in 10 followed by 50 zeros. There is a threshold that has been derived for a possibility to be considered absurd. In other words, how big can the odds get before the possibility of something happening is so large that it becomes essentially impossible?
There are actually two calculations. The original calculation was done by Charles Émile Borel (sometimes referred to in literature as “Borel’s Law” or his law of probability). Borel suggested a practical limit for the physical universe, proposing that events with a probability of occurrence less than 1 in 1050 can be considered as zero probability (meaning they will never happen by chance).
The second calculation; This larger threshold is tied directly to physical cosmology—specifically, estimates of the total number of fundamental particles (protons, neutrons, and electrons) in the observable universe. Modern scientific estimates place that total particle count roughly between 1078 and 1080.
Briefly, the chances of the Bible containing these codes written into the Bible by pure chance is impossible by one standard, and nearly impossible with the other.
Proof of the Bible: Prophecies
But that’s not the only thing in the Bible worth mentioning. The Scriptures themselves contain three different types of prophecies: Prophecies to the world, Prophecies to the Believer, and Shrouded Prophecies.
Prophecies to the world: These are prophecies that anyone at all can easily understand. They are so obvious, so plainly written that if someone tells you something differently from what the Bible plainly says, then that person is definitely attempting to deceive you. For example: “Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call him Immanuel.” You don’t need anyone to tell you what this prophecy means. It is obvious: And anyone who tries to tell you something differently is practicing deception.
Prophecies to the Believer: These are prophecies that the world by and large do not and cannot understand. But to those of us who are saved, they are plainly written prophecies. For example: “On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who try to lift it will injure themselves severely.” This prophecy is found in the book of Zechariah 12:3. To this day, the world has no idea what this means. But to us who are saved, it is plain as the nose on our faces. In fact, it came true September 2025.
Shrouded Prophecies: These are prophecies that are shrouded from knowledge until the event actually takes place. Once it happens then the world can recognize it easily. For example: “And he stayed there until Herod’s death, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled: Out of Egypt I called my son.” Matthew 2:15. This is a fulfillment of Hosea 11:1. However this was largely thought to be a recollection of the Exodus, until Jesus was brought back from Egypt.
The Bible is full of these prophecies! In fact, the time you are living in right at this moment was written about more than any other time, including the birth, life and death of Jesus! And you’re living in the perfect time to explore all these prophecies. The Bible has an unlimited amount of wisdom in its pages, and it’s all there for you to find. The Bible even challenges you to find them:
“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to investigate a matter.” – Proverbs 25:2 CSB
And just in case you don’t believe that this applies to you.
6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Revelation 1:6 KJV
God is challenging us to explore his word. He wants us to dive in deeply to the Bible, because in the Bible is where we find God. If you ever wanted proof positive that God exists, there is a dusty book on your bookshelf, or night stand, or even on your coffee table, the Bible. You are literally that far away from finding God.
But the truth is that some people are dead set at making sure you never find such things. And they have the nicest smile, the perfect disposition and sometimes even beautiful. But if you were to see what they’re like on the inside, you’d see a monster. They try to distract you with foolish claims, like how you can become like God. Or you can find God through meditation, and New Age philosophy. That one religion is just as good as another.
They’ll tell you the Bible means something other than what is actually says, or that the Bible has become corrupted over the years until it can’t be trusted. They’ll tell you such foolish notions like three people actually wrote the book of Isaiah, or four people wrote Ezekiel. Because if they can shoehorn in even a little, bitty seed of doubt, then they can feed that doubt until you eventually don’t know what to believe. And then they will call that ‘enlightenment’.
If you don’t believe in God, you have just wasted your time. Because you are one of those who are perishing. God is real or he isn’t: There aren’t any gray areas, it’s either white or black. If God is real, then he has the power to get his message to us, and keep it from becoming corrupted. As I have said many times, if the religion you believe in tells you that the Bible has become corrupted and it was necessary to send people to correct the Bible, then perhaps your god isn’t really God after all.
“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the intelligence of the intelligent.” – 1 Corinthians 1:18-19 CSB
But if you’re on your way to hell, then all of this is pure foolishness.
Your Invitation
This is your invitation to the journey of a lifetime. You can explore some of the deepest wells of wisdom, you can investigate mysteries, you can even discover the future. You have all of this at your fingertips. Imagine exploring the subject of why Jesus had to die on the cross: Or was there another form of life on this very same planet? Would you believe there was a time when Lucifer was given control over the entire earth? *
These are but a few of the mysteries lying within the pages of the Bible. I can tell you from personal experience, that I’ve discovered things myself that I’ve never heard another person talk about. And believe me, there are no shortage of mysteries for you to solve. You can and will find this God you seek, and you will find him more than willing to give you wisdom in His word. Ignore this world. How can a bunch of people, grown adults who can’t even explain the difference between a man and a woman possibly teach you anything?
But the Bible can. The Bible can explain exactly what happens to people like that who refuse to even acknowledge God. And you’ll know why the world is like it is, and it will make perfect sense. Would you like to have all the knowledge you need to have no more questions? I don’t wonder about hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes. I don’t question why God allowed this bad thing to happen: He didn’t.
That’s me. Right now as I sit here and write this, I literally have no questions for God. Because I stopped doubting God and started doubting this world. So I have plenty of questions for the world, but they can’t answer a single one of them. That is, without acknowledging the Bible is true. And I’m not even boasting. There is nothing special about me. I simply made the decision to turn the weapon the world tried to use on me, back on them.
I made a decision that I was going to believe the Bible and what it said, and if there was going to be any doubting, I would doubt what the world told me. “I believe the Word of God over and above anything I can see with my eyes, or hear with my ears.” And all the questions went away. All the doubts went away. Things that I had wondered about for years fell away like scales over my eyes. Because I began to see God in the Bible.
Are you ready to explore eternity? What are you waiting for?
It’s currently just after 1 am; I’m sitting up late doing laundry. As my family does much too often, they wait until 9 or 10 at night to announce they need clean clothes for tomorrow. So at least twice a month, I’m up to all hours of the night cleaning clothes so they can go to work tomorrow. Since I’m retired, I have no place to go, or no set time to get up. By default, I have become the late night laundryman.
On my TV screen is a screensaver, of some of my favorite photos. The photo above was on my screen moments ago, and that got me thinking back to the year 2020. You see on Christmas eve, there was fresh snow falling. And since the vast majority of 2020 was an absolute nightmare, when I looked out my window and saw snow on the ground on Christmas Eve, I wanted a good memory to keep. So I walked out to the end of my driveway, and took this photo.
That got my mind to thinking about all the changes that has happened over the last 6 years. The tree that was in the yard died, when I tried to cut it back a few years later. It had grown to the point where some branches were sticking out on the road, and I guess that was the wrong time of the year to cut that particular tree. Within a year, it died. But there has been much, much more changes than a dying tree.
2020: A Year That Changed The World
Its so hard to think of a single year bringing about so many changes on earth, and so few of them good. A new President changed the meaning of good and evil forever.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. – Isaiah 5:20-21 NIV
Men began demanding they be referred to as women, and women demanded to be men, and some demanded to be none of the above. Now don’t misunderstand, what you want to be, call yourself, or pretend to be is your business, not mine. It’s only when you start to demand I participate in your fantasy that I have a problem.
When you tell me that I have to use ‘proper pronouns’, or call you ‘she’ when I know you’re a he, that’s when I have to object. But as long as you leave me alone, I’ll leave you alone.
Then came 2024: The Summer Olympics in Paris where the depraved and the wicked were put in charge of the opening ceremony. Suddenly people demanded that we accept the evil in this world. It’s when people who have “Be Kind” stickers on the backs of their electric cars became some of the angriest, hateful, violent and obnoxious people in the world. It’s where Christianity became hated among all the world, fulfilling the prophecy of Jesus to the very letter:
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you.” – John 15:18-20 NKJV
The Bible Verses the Qur’an
Now the Qur’an is good for getting a good argument started with your favorite Ai. Qur’an 5:51 says, “O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people.”
However these words have been sanitized in the name of political correctness. Where it now says “as allies”, it once said, “as friends.” The modern Muslims of the USA are constantly trying to sanitize many passages of the Qur’an that are offensive to people. But in the Middle East, they still hold to the traditional teachings of the Qur’an.
The Qur’an calls Christians “People of the Book”. But what they say as an insult, we take as a compliment. Because we believe in the Bible, and just as the Bible predicted all those years ago, these things are coming true right in front of our eyes. In effect, we have no need to defend the Bible, because as the days tick on by us, the Bible proves itself true, to the exclusion of any other book on earth, including the Qur’an. Only the Bible has predicted the last days right down to the very word.
I’m not an expert in the Qur’an and I have no intention of trying to convince anyone I am. I did read the Qur’an years ago, because I thought it would be good to have a solid foundation for what I believe as a Christian. I can’t hardly denounce Islam unless I know something about it.
But the Qur’an has no predictions that have come true with such accuracy as the Bible. The Bible predicted the history of the Jewish people in advance: from the time they were exiled from Judea in 135 A.D., to the present time we live in. The Bible predicts a time when Jerusalem will be under siege from all nations and every nation will turn against her.
2 “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah. 3 On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it. – Zechariah 12:2-3 ESV
This verse literally came to pass in September of 2025. The United Nations gathered together to take up this issue of Palestine. Out of 193 current member states of the United Nations, 157 of them decided to side against Israel and declare statehood for Palestine. It was at that time Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, from the nation’s capital in Jerusalem, refused the world and became the immovable stone.
I find this very interesting, but I don’t exactly know what to make of it: Netanyahu is Hebrew for “Gift of Jehovah”.
Britain and France, longtime allies of Israel, both made a foolish decision to betray their allegiance to Israel and both declared their support for Palestine. Within days, both nations were in turmoil. In Britain, former Prime Minister Keir Starmer suffered a severe political crisis when rumors began circulating of his disdain for King Charles and the Monarchy. There were riots in the streets as Illegal Muslim Immigrants clashed with citizens of Britain.
This continued into this year. Suddenly, the Labour Party’s ‘Golden Boy’ who was said to have the Midas touch politically, became the man who could do no right. Earlier this year, Keir Starmer resigned as Prime Minister of Britain.
President Emmanuel Macron of France has suffered political turmoil as well. Shortly after his decision to betray Israel, he was caught in the most embarrassing of predicaments: As a plane door was opening, and press cameras were all rolling, some of them live, the President’s wife gave him a slap on the face. Some claimed this was more a push than a slap, but whatever it was, signaled a time of constant trouble that is still plaguing France to this very day. It is unknown about Macron’s political future at this time, but what is well known is the constant criticism he receives from all sides.
Quite literally as the Bible predicted, Israel is right now in the midst of a political siege. Pressured from all nations to give up land to the Palestinians and give them the right to form their own nation. They are under various embargoes from most of Europe. Despite that, they are prospering like never before. They have more water than they can drink, more food than they can eat, and more money than they can spend.
Meanwhile their enemies are suffering droughts, food shortages, and lack of funding. Even with their hoards of oil, thanks to Iran, that oil is tied up in the Persian Gulf. Every single part of the Bible is coming true in just that exact fashion.
That Brings Us To Today
And this what my late-night reminiscing has made me realize. Jesus himself told us we will not know the hour nor the day of his return. But you know something? We don’t need to know, because Jesus gave us something just as good:
“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.” – Matthew 24:32-33 NIV
See what Jesus says? We will know when it is near, even at the door. No, we may not have a date to set on the calendar, but we will know when the time is here. And we will know that by what is going on in the world around us. So, let’s take a straight-forward look at four of the most popular signs known about the Bible. The Four Horsemen of the book of Revelation.
I really don’t feel there is a need to quote actual scripture, I think the four horsemen are so well known, that it doesn’t need reiterating. The first 2 horses, one a white horse and a red horse. Those are easy enough: They represent a false peace and war. Just like what is going on right now in the Middle East. They are constantly talking about peace, while at the same time preparing for war. President Trump is constantly pushing for peace over there, but just like every President before him, he has failed.
But the world is waiting: Who can bring peace in the middle east? Whoever can come along and get everyone to agree on peace will become the most popular man in history. This person will immediately be hailed as someone who literally did the impossible. When that rider on the White Horse comes along, he will be the most popular man in the world.
But this will be a false peace. 1 Thessalonians warns us:
3While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. – 1 Thessalonians 5:3 NIV
Then the third horse, A rider on a black horse. A horse that we can already see preparing to ride. That horse has been called famine for centuries. But as we get closer to the end times, we see a different meaning to the third horseman. Runaway inflation.
That’s right: Inflation. Because in truth, there is no famine. Food is plentiful; merchants are shouting in the marketplace, “A measure of wheat for a penny, three measures of barley for a penny.” But the problem isn’t the food, the problem is money. The word Penny actually stands for a Denarius, an ancient coin that represented a day’s pay. This is already happening in Iran. In Iran the money has become so worthless, that a single day’s pay is needed for a single meal.
The horsemen is saying this: A measure of wheat was enough to prepare one loaf of bread. Not the huge loaves we get at the store; a loaf of bread was considered enough bread to feed one person, for one meal. Now if you had a family to feed, you would buy barley. Barley is an inferior grain: even today we use wheat to make bread, and barley for flavoring. But you can make bread from barley. So you could buy barley for a Denarius and feed yourself, your spouse and have food for your children as well.
The rider also shouts, “see you don’t hurt the oil or the wine.” He might as well have said, “I know you can’t afford it, so don’t spill the oil or wine.”
Now the fourth horse is entirely different. The wars, the violence, the crime. The plagues, the starvation, all these things lead to one thing: Death. That’s the rider on the fourth horse and that is what he brings to this earth.
We have these things all coming our way, right now. The world is waiting for someone who can do what no one else has been able to do since the days of President Jimmy Carter in the 1970’s; bring peace to the Middle East. While at the very same time the world talks about war, the world prepares for war. Spending for ‘defense’ has increased in most every country in the world. While we hope for peace, we all have a very different attitude. We feel the need to prepare to defend ourselves.
Oil prices have hit America hard, and neither the Republicans nor the Democrats want to bring attention to it. But diesel fuel prices are over $6 a gallon. And that is the very fuel that runs America. Trucks and trains all run on diesel fuel, bringing food to every corner of this country. And as transportation costs rise, those costs are passed along to the consumer.
And what happens when these things actually come to pass? The result will be death on a large scale. The Bible says that in those opening events of the Tribulation alone, a quarter of the earth’s population will die. The fifth seal will bring about mass persecution and martyrdom of the Christians. something that also is already beginning to happen worldwide. Then the sixth seal, often referred to as “The Wrath of the Lamb.” Once these 6 seals have been broken, 25% of the earth’s population will be dead.
Earlier in this article I gave the scripture in 1 Thessalonians 5:3. When people are saying ‘peace and safety’ then sudden destruction comes and they shall not escape. But let’s read the next passage right after that:
4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. 5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. – 1 Thessalonians 5:4-5 NIV
That is exactly right. We are not in darkness like those who belong to this world. For all their arrogance, their pretentiousness, they are actually the ones who know the least. The Bible tells us the true state of mind of those people who look down on Christians as being simple minded and dumb:
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” – 1 Corinthians 1:18-19 NIV
Is that not exactly what we see in today’s world? Doctors who believe themselves to be so intelligent, refuse to state that a man can’t get pregnant. Or politicians who destroy the meaning of Title IX by letting biological males participate in women’s sports. What kind of fool believes that a biological male doesn’t have a physical advantage over a real woman?
Title IX was created to protect the rights of women: Many schools all over the country had to begin women’s sports programs in order to give girls the same opportunity to participate in sports as boys. Since males are biologically stronger and have more stamina than girls, it was necessary to create programs to give women their own category.
Then, this foolishness called Transgender came along, and the very people who once fought to protect Title IX did their level best to destroy it. And they call us the foolish ones. God has done exactly what the Bible predicted. He has confounded their intelligence, exposing their foolishness. Remember the story “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?
That’s what we have today in real life. A group of people who support the most foolish of notions, pretending to be enlightened. But in truth, it is us, the Christians who hold the truth. The wisdom of the so-called wise has been destroyed.
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools – Romans 1:22 NIV
Every single aspect of Bible prophecy is coming true, just like it was predicted nearly 2,000 years ago. And the truth of the matter is this: In two separate places, the Bible has told us that we will not be in darkness like the world. We are the ones who will see things clearly, while the world remains in darkness. And we will know when the return of Christ is near, even at the doors.
Folks, we are at the doors. There are things happening in the world that have an expiration date. We can’t continue in this conflict with Iran for another year. While politicians like to pretend everything is sunshine are roses, all it takes is a trip to the grocery store to see that is not the case. The President of Turkey, Tayyip Erdoğan has said he wants to take over Jerusalem. Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu said in reply:
“This is our city, Mr. Erdoğan. It’s not your city. It will always be our city.”
– Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel
These things cannot go on indefinitely. Just as Ezekiel 38 predicts, there is a time soon coming when a coalition of countries, including Turkey and Iran, will attempt an invasion of Israel. Both countries have been threatening the very thing Ezekiel predicted.
I could write a book on everything that is going on in the world according to Bible prophecy. I won’t, because I don’t think there is enough time left to write a book. If you’re already a Christian, your focus should be more than ever trying to get members of your family and friends to Christ.
If you’re not a Christian and you’ve read this far, I’m impressed. Truly. This shows you’re looking for truth, not just some sort of confirmation for whatever you currently believe. I think there can be no doubt as to the truth of Jesus Christ, and the truth of the Bible. This no longer is a matter of faith, this is a matter of logic. There is simply no other explanation for the fact that the Bible has accurately predicted the future so exactly true.
Only a Being outside of the dimension of time could write a book like the Bible. Someone who is able to view the past, present and future at the same time. That is the only reasonable explanation for the Bible. And make no mistake about it, you are running out of time. I have no faith in tomorrow. If you are ready to believe in Jesus, now is the time to get ready for his return.
Getting saved is the easiest thing to do. All it takes is a willingness to make a quality decision, something you refuse to go back on. Add some faith, which the Bible says you were given on the day you were created, and make a confession. All that faith is, is a willingness to take God’s word for something you cannot see. If you can do that, you can be saved. If you’re ready, say this out loud:
Heavenly Father, I believe Jesus is Lord. I believe that you raised him from the dead on the third day, according to scripture. Come into my heart. In Jesus’ name I pray.
That is all you need to do in order to be saved. You don’t need a church, an altar, or even a long winded, “repeat after me” prayer. I’m going to give you a scripture in a moment. Do whatever you need to do in order to remember it and be able to read it. This is your proof of purchase, your receipt that Jesus has paid the price for your sins.
9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. – Romans 10:9-10 NIV
The next time this thought comes to your mind that you are not saved, or that you have pretended to believe, read this scripture. Remind yourself that you don’t have to ‘do’ anything to be saved other than believe and confess.
Hopefully, now you have reasons to be congratulated. And more importantly, now you are prepared for the soon return of Jesus.
As This Transgender Movement Lines Up Victims All the Way Around, Now Predators Find A Loophole
29 October 2026: Despite the overwhelming majority of the public who don’t agree with males going into female bathrooms, two Virginia school districts are fighting hard to push through a bill that would require girls to put up with boys in their bathrooms. These schools are doing the same thing Biden tried to do by gutting Title IX, a law originally designed to make sure women have the same rights as men.
Now, a 5-year-old case has surfaced that sheds light on the true dangers of such a proposal. On May 8, 2021 a 15-year-old boy put on a skirt and wore it to school, in order to use the loophole on leftist transgender policies to access the girls’ bathroom. This occurred in Loudon County, Virginia at Stone Bridge High School. There he sexually assaulted a girl in the bathroom. The school board decided not to pursue charges in this case, and quietly covered the matter up.
Months later, the very same boy dragged a girl into an empty classroom and sexually assaulted her as well, nearly suffocating her in the process. This occurred at Broad Run High School. The boy was not allowed to attend Stone Bridge High after the first incident occurred.
The father of the first victim, Scott Smith, gained national attention when he was arrested during a contentious June 2021 Loudoun County School Board meeting after expressing outrage over how the district handled the assault and initially tried to downplay or avoid publicizing it. His subsequent arrest became a symbol for parent-rights movements across the country.
A special Virginia grand jury was later empaneled to investigate the school board’s handling of the events. The resulting report criticized Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) leadership for institutional failures, “intentional institutional amnesia” regarding administrative response calls, and a lack of transparency with the public regarding safety.
The independent grand jury and investigative reports later severely criticized LCPS administration for this handling, noting that the district transferred him without effectively communicating the safety risks or adequately tracking the disciplinary history, which allowed the student the opportunity to commit the second assault at Broad Run months later.
Outrageous Depravity
The depravity of these members of the school boards who actually want this type of interaction to occur is nothing short of demonic. After we’ve had not one, but two incidents involving the very same child, because the school’s decision to cover up the incident over political motivation. To think that right here in America, leftist liberals are willing to overlook the sexually assault of a girl while in the bathroom at school, just to support this type of deviant behavior shows us the direction the country is headed.
The idea that kids are actually ‘born this way’ is totally incorrect. I’ve made this point before, but let me make it again. If kids were actually born this way, then in the case of twins, we’d see the same identical behavior out of each child. These twins are identical in every way; even their DNA matches. But do twins personalities match? Very seldom do you find two twins whose personalities match.
But this is exactly what is to be expected in this particular day and time. The so-called logic of the modern college graduate liberal really makes us question whether our money sending kids to college is well spent. But just as the Bible predicted almost 2,000 years ago is coming exactly, to the letter, true.
22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,- Romans 1:22 KJV
This verse is right in the very passage that angers so many liberals. It is talking about the group of people we find in this generation that has completely turned their backs on God. He actually tells us how those people will act, and gets it 100% right. Those who go around praising others who commit the very same vile acts that they themselves engage in.
Although they know God’s just sentence — that those who practice such things deserve to die — they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them. – Romans 1:32 CSB
But the chilling thing is what is happening to the people themselves. Just like in the Days of Noah, where their actions became so reprehensible that God was sorry he ever made mankind in the first place, Jesus told us the end times would mirror those days. And here we are.
“As the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.38 For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark. 39 They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. This is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be. 40 Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. 41 Two women will be grinding grain with a hand mill; one will be taken and one left. 42 Therefore be alert, since you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.” – Matthew 24:37-42 CSB
This is just about as stark a warning as you will ever get. When the modern times in which we live become like the days of Noah, then the rapture occurs. Right now, we are living in a time that exactly mirrors Noah’s time. There were 5 things that distinguishes the days of Noah as unique to no other time on earth, except these times we’re living in right now.
Five things unique to Noah’s Time
Violence* – The first thing that grieved God’s heart during the time of Noah was the unprecedented violence. In the book of Genesis, violence was so terrible is actually made God sorry that he ever made man.
Corruption* – This is not just a corruption in the governmental sense. This is a personal corruption of values, and morals. To the point where people actually take pride in the debauchery
Lawlessness – People’s total disregard for the law of the day of Noah, matching almost to the letter of the rejection of the rule of law today. People argue and fight with police over simple things as traffic tickets. People go into court rooms and argue these “sovereign citizen” nonsense, literally arguing the law doesn’t apply to them.
Wickedness* – People did what was pleasurable in the their own eyes, refusing to acknowledge what they’re doing is wrong, much less taking responsibility.
Apathy – As Jesus told us, in the last days, people will be so in love with themselves, they won’t even care what is going on in the world around them.
* 5 When the LORD saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time, 6 the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and he was deeply grieved.
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth. 13 Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.” – Genesis 6:5-6, 11-13 SCB
Of course, the same world that loves the wickedness thinks we’re the idiots and they are the ones who are so enlightened. But once again, that has been predicted in the Bible as well. So we don’t expect anyone who isn’t saved to even see the things we Christians see, much less understand them. To the true Christian, we see the world as it really is, steeped in corruption, and wallowing in the filth of their evil deeds. To the sinner, their eyes are blinded to the true world. We know what we see is only a temporary shell of the real life.
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the intelligence of the intelligent. – 1 Corinthians 1:18-19 CSB
It doesn’t bother me when scoffers try to mock and criticize my writing, my beliefs and my way of life. Because I know that as Christians, we walk in the true light of God’s wisdom. We can see the world the way it really is, full of foolishness, full of wickedness and perversion. Can we win over these people? Not very likely at all. But that is not our job. Our job as Christians is to proclaim the Good News of the Gospel, and to live our lives as a witness to the world.
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” – Matthew 7:13-14 NKJV
26 October 2026: If it wasn’t for the moon, there would be no life on earth. A recent article posted on MSN from Insane Curiosity had some pretty fascinating things to say. Earth can feel immovable and inevitable, but its habitability may rest on a set of astonishingly delicate circumstances.
One of the most important may be the Moon. According to the story, if Earth had never acquired its large natural satellite, the planet might spin much faster—perhaps completing a rotation in only a few hours. That change would not merely shorten our days. It would reshape the atmosphere, oceans, weather patterns, and perhaps the very possibility of complex life.
The Moon looks, from this perspective, less like a decorative companion in the night sky and more like one of the many cosmic conditions that made advanced life possible. Its gravitational influence stabilizes Earth’s tilt, moderates its rotation, and helps produce the rhythms that life has grown around.
A faster-spinning Earth would likely be a harsher world. Stronger winds, more extreme day-night contrasts, and altered climate systems could make life far more difficult. The Moon’s presence may have helped create a planet not merely capable of supporting life in some abstract sense, but one stable enough for life to be complex, resilient, and conscious. In that way, the Moon becomes part of a larger pattern: the uncanny suitability of our environment for beings like us.
The Bigger Picture
But this is by far not the only strange fact involved with making earth inhabitable for mankind. There are a whole host of things that had to be exactly in tune for life to be possible on earth.
The “Goldilocks Zone” – The orbit around the sun is just right. If it were 10% closer to the sun, 84 million miles instead of 93 million miles: This would cause a runaway greenhouse effect, similar to what happened on Venus. Likewise moving the earth 10% further away to about 102 million miles would move the earth outside of the habitable zone. Most of the earth’s water would permanently freeze, potentially causing a “Snowball Earth”.
The Size of the Earth – Earth’s size is another “Goldilocks” parameter. If the earth were the size of Mars, for example, the earth would lose its atmosphere. It would gradually leak away, and without the pressures of the atmosphere, the water would also leak away. There would be no protection from solar radiation either. Likewise if the earth larger, this would create too much gravity. It would hold on to a massive, crushing gravity. Gasses like hydrogen and helium would no longer lift away in to the upper atmosphere, likely turning the earth into a gas giant.
Carbon-based chemistry – Life depends on carbon because it forms stable, complex molecules. The fact that the laws of physics allow carbon chemistry is often seen as necessary for mankind to exist at all.
The Sun – The sun is a main-sequence G-type star, meaning it spends most of its life steadily fusing hydrogen into helium. That matters because life needs a long, steady period of relatively consistent energy input. If a star varies too much, planets can get too cold, or two hot, or exposed to damaging flares and radiation.
This is only a few of the many, many instances of what is known as the Anthropic Principle. This is something that scientists have studied for years, pondering the many different aspects of the earth, gravity, physics. These many different things had to all come together in order for life to exist.
My first exposure to the Anthropic Principle was long ago, from Bible teacher Dr. Chuck Missler. Dr. Missler used the anthropic principle to forward his assertions that the Bible was supernatural in its origins, often comparing observations about the universe to Bible passages talking about the creation.
In the book of Romans, God directly challenges us to take a look, a careful study into the complexities of the world. In fact, God makes a very confrontational claim. That there are no such thing as atheists:
since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what he has made. As a result, people are without excuse. – Romans 1:19-20 CSB
According to the Bible, we can see evidence of God through creation. I have spent a long time studying evolution, and the more someone knows about evolution, the more ridiculous it becomes. God says “people are without excuse.” God is saying that an honest look at the world around you is all you need to see when it comes to proof of God’s existence.
At one time, I often said, “It’s called faith for a reason,” when it comes to believing in God. However, as the time of the ends comes closer, we see incontrovertible evidence of God. As the universe’s mysteries continue to unravel, the evidence of God becomes plain to see.
The Bible’s Own Revelations
The Bible itself has taken on a unique principle of its own. No other book on earth, no other book in the history of the world has accomplished what the Bible has done. Number one, it has outlasted its critics. Even though skeptics still try to throw up a smoke screen of doubt, no serious study of the Bible can come away with any other conclusion than the Bible was written by people under the influence of some sort of supernatural entity.
That’s because the Bible does what no other book has done: Foretell the future with 100% accuracy. And this is not some Nostradamus type writings. These are plainly written prophetic glimpses into the future in such a way that even Bible scholars themselves had no idea how the Bible could so accurately predict the future. Before 1948, even the most ardent Bible prophecy enthusiasts struggled to believe the prophecy of Israel returning to their ancient homeland.
Especially after World War II, the European population of Jews were severely cut. No one except for a precious few still believed that the Jews would ever reclaim their homeland. But in 1948, that is exactly what happened. It not only happened, but happened in word-for-word accuracy:
8 Who has ever seen anything as strange as this? Who ever heard of such a thing? Has a nation ever been born in a single day? Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment? But by the time Jerusalem’s birth pains begin, her children will be born. – Isaiah 66:8 NLT
On May 14, 1948 Israel declared its independence. The United States was the first to recognize Israel as a sovereign nation, on the very same day. The Soviet Union also recognized Israel a few days later. On May 15, 1948 Israel applied for membership to the United Nations. So the Bible came literally true on May 14th 1948. Estimates are that the book of Isaiah was written somewhere between 740 – 700 BC. Roughly 2,600 years after the book of Isaiah was written, it literally came to pass, right down to the very word!
Yes, there are people who try to complete dismiss this, throwing up smoke screens to try to discourage people from believing what their own eyes are telling them. But those people expose their own selves in the process. I’ve often said to avoid anyone who tries to tell you “this is what the Bible really means.” The Bible simply means what it says. It wasn’t mean to be hidden away in secret libraries, waiting for priests and scholars to read it and tell you what it means.
The Bible was written for you to read and understand for yourself. If someone tries to tell you it doesn’t actually mean what it says, those are the people the Bible calls deceivers. In fact, your job is to put me and people like me out of business. Reading the Bible for itself, and taking what it says at face value, would mean that no Bible teachers were needed. We only step in when people don’t read it for themselves. I will strongly encourage you to check out anything I’ve ever written with the writings of the Bible.
You can depend on what the Bible says! You can take that step of faith, to rely on what the Bible says. In fact, I strongly encourage you to do just that. Stop doubting what the Bible tells you and do something constructive instead: Start doubting what the world tells you! Instead of automatically doubting the Bible when some human tells you this or that, and doubt the speaker. After all, my friend, suspend your skepticism for just a minute and let me ask you one thing: Which one is more likely to tell you the truth? God, or Man?
Well the Bible says that God is not a man that he should lie. In fact there is something that few people realize, God is incapable of telling a lie. If he tried to tell a lie, the moment he spoke it, it would become the truth.
Man on the other hand, has a long history of lies. What’s more, man is capable of simply being wrong. At one time, people genuinely believed the earth was flat. It wasn’t that they thought they were lying, but they were simply wrong. Mankind has gotten a lot of things wrong and continue to do so. God, on the other hand, doesn’t lie and doesn’t get things wrong. So you can take a stand of faith on the Word of God, the Bible and put all your confidence in that word, and not be put to shame because of it.
Your Own Personal Evolution
While the creation of the world is not a product of evolution, you can have your own personal evolution. Right now, you are spiritually dead. Unless you have been reconciled to God through the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ, your spirit is suffering from eternal separation from God. That means spiritually you are dead. And there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. No amount of ‘good deeds’, if there really is such a thing, no amount of penance, remorse or works will ever be good enough to save yourself. That’s what makes all these false religions and false prophets are so dangerous. Because if you look closely enough, they all depend on your own efforts to save yourself. And I’m telling you right now, that is quite impossible. The good news is that God realized you were incapable of saving yourself, and sent his only begotten son, Jesus, to take your place.
Jesus came as a son of a virgin, born without the sin nature passed down from Adam. And then, he lived on this earth for over 30 years, and obeyed the law of Moses right down to the very letter. Because of that, he was unlike any other man on earth. He was sinless. But he gave up his life in order that the death of someone who didn’t deserve death was an acceptable sacrifice to God for those of us who have sinned.
And it’s quite simple you see, you can accept Jesus’ gift of salvation. You don’t have to work for it, because you can’t earn it. It is a free gift. If it was something you earned, then you could boast of your efforts. But because it is a gift, and not of works, that means that Jesus deserves the glory for your salvation. What could be easier? Just give up trying to work for and earn your own salvation, and take the gift Jesus offers.
Heaven belongs to God, it’s his habitation, and if you’re going to get there, you have to do it His way. So, why not stop fighting the inevitable, and stop trying to earn it. Instead humble yourself and just receive this free gift. All it takes is a little faith, and quality decision and a confession. Believe in Jesus as the Messiah, the Savior of the world, You don’t need a church, a preacher, or an altar. You don’t even need a long-winded, “repeat-after-me” prayer. Just pray this out loud, and make a decision to believe it:
Heavenly Father, I confess that Jesus is Lord. I believe you raised him from the dead on the third day, according to scripture. Please come into my life. In Jesus’ name I pray.
If you prayed that and sincerely meant it in your heart, you are saved. You now have nothing whatsoever to worry about, either in this world or the world to come. Jesus won’t forget you when he comes to rapture the Church. And be sure to mark the verse below in your Bible and refer to it as often as you need in order to assure yourself of your salvation. This is your receipt, your proof of purchase, that Jesus has paid the price for your sins:
“If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” – Romans 10:9-11 ESV
What Was Once Considered a Famine Has A Much More Relevant Meaning
Today we will take a closer look at the 3rd of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Rider on a Black Horse. This is, without a doubt, something that has really come to light in the last days. For years and years, the rider on the black horse has been assumed to be a symbol of famine. But if it is, it is a very strange famine.
I guess it would depend on your definition of the word ‘famine’. If your definition is that very few people have food to eat, then yes, the black horse describes a famine. But if your definition of famine is a lack of food, then no, this is not a famine. In the black horse scenario, there is food for the taking. Food exists, however, it is so expensive that only the rich can buy it. For the rest of the people, it is just too expensive. What the black horse is describing is runaway inflation, not famine.
Let’s examine the rider:
5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!” – Revelation 6:5-6 ESV
We see that the rider has a pair of scales. In the day this was written most everyone had a pair of scales in their homes. However, there were very few that carried their scales out in public. One of those people who did was a merchant. So we can safely say that this rider is a merchant. And if the scales weren’t enough to convince you, the next words out of his mouth removes all doubt.
“A quart of wheat for a denarius; three quarts of barley for a denarius. And do not harm the oil and the wine!”
A quart of wheat was considered enough wheat to make a loaf of bread with. Not the huge loafs like we buy in the grocery store, this was a small loaf that might feed two people tops. Usually, as we see in the old testament, one measure of wheat was made into bread and served to one person.
2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth 3 and said, “O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant…
Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes.” Genesis 18:2-3,6 ESV
Here we see an example: Abraham sees three men approaching his tent, and asks them to rest a while. When they agree, Abraham tells Sarah to make cakes with three seahs, or three measures of flour.
The Apostle John also mentions something called a Denarius. In John’s time wages were generally paid at the end of the day. A Denarius was considered a day’s wage. This is also proven out by the Bible:
9 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. 10 Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. – Matthew 20:9-10 ESV
This is part of a parable Jesus was teaching, but we see that the standard wage for a day’s work is a Denarius.
John is telling us then that the day will come when one entire day’s pay will be enough to buy one meal for one person. Now, let’s say someone had a family to feed. If that were the case, they could buy barley instead. Barley is an inferior grain to wheat. Even today, we generally use barley to flavor things, not make bread.
But bread can be made from barley. And if you had a family to feed, you might buy barley, which could feed more than one person. But the same rule applies. It is going to take an entire day’s wage to buy enough food for your family. Not that food is hard to find: Here the merchant is crying out in the streets, “a measure of wheat for a denarius, three measures of barley for a denarius.”
The merchant has plenty, otherwise he wouldn’t be advertising his products to the public. But what he has is expensive. Now the other thing that the merchant says is just as telling. “And do not harm the oil and the wine.” Contrary to popular teaching, in normal times, oil was a common part of the pantry in the average home.
In fact, some people used oil to make cakes rather than water. However, this time, the merchant is saying, “I have oil, but obviously you can’t afford it, so watch out not to spill it.” The same goes for wine. Even the poorest of households would have money for wine, in order to celebrate certain occasions and for special Holy Days.
But in the time John is predicting, even the smallest of luxuries are unaffordable.
This fits like a glove into today’s modern society. The public seems to be unaware of the connection between fuel prices and food costs, because if they knew, they would be demanding something be done in order to lower fuel costs. The country literally runs on diesel fuel. Most every semi truck, and train runs on diesel fuel. These are the vehicles that carry food and supplies all over the nation. And when these fuel prices skyrocket, the cost of the fuel is ultimately passed right on to the consumer.
Right now, most Americans live unaware of the potential for starvation in front of us. With diesel fuel prices currently averaging over $6 a gallon, all of those costs are being passed directly to the consumer. This is somehow connected to the Iran war. But the disconnect is while government throws our focus on something else entirely.
The rider on the black horse is giving us a glimpse into a world that is literally right on our doorstep. At this very moment in Iran, people are paying a day’s wages for enough food for one meal. And that is going to be spreading throughout the entire world. The currency will drop to nearly worthless, and price stability will be a thing of the past. And for those left behind after the rapture, they will experience a time when the cost of food will be enormous. Even today we can see the shadow of what is to come upon us.
The world is slowly preparing itself for the 7-year tribulation, sometimes called Daniel’s 70th week. And the sad truth is between the apathy and the outright deception most people are seeing in the world, most people are completely unaware of the days that are coming upon them.
As Lawlessness Continues To Wreak Havoc Nationwide, Light Sentences Put Criminals Back On the Streets
22 October 2026: Right here in South Williamson, Kentucky. At a mini park where I used to go walk, in 2019 Adrian Smith was visiting the Mini Park, which is actually a small space right beside the community’s flood wall. Many people take advantage of the walking path along the flood wall to enjoy a walk by the river. Adrian Smith was savagely shot in the back as he visited the park, allegedly to engage in a fight.
Shockingly, the alleged shooter, Charles Blevins, entered into a plea agreement with Pike County prosecutor Bill Sloan’s office to serve a 5-year sentence on charges of second-degree manslaughter and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon. The handgun charge is to be served concurrently with the manslaughter charge, meaning Blevins will only have to serve a total of 5 years.
And if the failings of the justice system wasn’t enough in this case, Blevins was convicted in 2009 of first-degree murder in the 2007 shooting of Travis Huff in Cabell County, WV. However, Blevins appealed his conviction under ineffective assistance of counsel, and his charge was reduced to second-degree murder. He had only been released for a few months when he committed yet another murder.
But even more curious is the charge of Blevins’ brother Demetra Smith. The Mingo Messenger Newspaper states that Blevins and Smith are brothers, even though they do not share the same last name. D. Smith was given 360 days in county jail, along with 3 years probation on a charge of reckless homicide. Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Melissa Goodman made the argument that the 360 days in jail had already been met, and so Demetra Smith was released back into the public to begin 3 years probation.
God’s Word Tells Us Why
Some may wonder how a cold-blooded murder could be carried out in such a callous way be swept under the rug. These two men who’s actions have rocked our small community and left us wondering for 6 years if there was ever going to be justice, have just been told, no.
I believe there are several factors at work here. First of all, Blevins has showed beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt his willingness to kill people without a second’s hesitation. I also believe that the justice system has massively let us down in their duty to protect the public in this case. We have a man who has now killed two people (that we know of), will be back on the streets in a mere 5 years from now.
The Apostle Paul tells us that these days are coming, and I think I’ve earned the right to say, they are here:
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. – Romans 1:28-32 NASB
And justice is also a casualty:
Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands far away; For truth has stumbled in the street, And uprightness cannot enter. – Isaiah 59:14 NASB
These are symptoms of a corruption, not of greed, but a corruption of moral values. This is the time in which we live, where prosecutors do not see a human being who was taken away from his family, by a cold-hearted ruthless individual who didn’t even have the guts to look his victim in the eye. To the prosecutor this was a number: A number on a case file, a stack of paperwork that needed clearing from a desk, nothing more. Woe to you! Those who turn their backs on justice! Your peace is taken away from you, by the very decisions you make.
There is only one way out of this predicament we find ourselves in. That is we pray; we pray for justice in our home towns, and more importantly we pray for God’s justice. That Jesus would return to this earth today, and set up a Monarchy: Where Jesus is King and justice is measured not by the number of cases cleared, but by the punishment needed to fit the crime.
By a long shot, Nefarious is without a doubt the most underrated horror movie ever made. There are no special effects, no CGI. Just a conversation between two people. The really haunting thing is, the movie describes a very plausible scenario of how a demon possessed man writes Satan’s Gospel. I’ve watched this movie at least a dozen times. It never ceases to give me chills.
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