Prophecy & Signs of the Times; Plus an eclipse?

Prophecy & Signs of the Times                                                                  Kelly Durant 4-7-24

 

Matthew 24: 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

 

2. Have you heard the wild news about the eclipse? It’s tomorrow! Some say it is for 3 to12 minutes, others say it is for 3 days! If it is for 3 days, that really would be quite a game changer! We shall see, but I am not one to spread rumors from people who may or may not be Christian. But we do follow the Words of Jesus and He said in Luke 21:25

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring”. News outlets are making lots of noise!

 

Well, every one of us has seen, and will see, some of Jesus’ signs in our lifetime and we know Jesus’ return is closer than it was before in the year 2,000. In the meantime, it is no fake news matter how we as true sensitive compassionate Christians with alert minds, worn out bodies, and perturbed spirts ache due to all the pain we see the world in! So much deception, poverty, war and murder! The suffering is as Jesus described it, as ‘birth pangs’, that get more and more frequent!

  

You know enough Bible by now, due to the great Bible teachers we have around here, to know that no one, not me or anyone, is qualified to add anything to what we already know from Jesus’ predictions and revelations! If you or I put an exact timeframe on predictions then we become as a false prophet because… Matt 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But many have tried, and nothing has happened yet!

 

3. In the Salvation Army colleges no one is taught to adhere to any certain interpretation of the signs of the end-time. Take into account most denominations are not totally clear on “how to” interpret certain events so I think it is wise to read several of the current accepted interpretations in the Christian community so come what may, one is at least informed as much as possible. We need to know as much as possible so you and I can preach this gospel prophesy from Jesus to warn others so their souls can be saved. The end of the world is not good, but Jesus has a place He is preparing for you and me in heaven! As the prophecies happen, God will reveal more truth.

 

In William Booth’s Day, many thought that the 1900’s, with the sudden futuristic leap in progress of the industrial age, with all the new technology of railroads and factories, meant that man had reached a new progressive plateau. People over one hundred years ago thought that for sure Jesus Kingdom was going to be established on earth then and today we refer to those of this belief as Postmillennialists. I will share with you a definition from Wikipedia on its deeper meaning.

 

“Postmillennialism was a dominant theological belief among American Protestants who promoted reform movements in the 19th and 20th century such as abolitionism[2] and the Social Gospel.[3] Postmillennialism has become one of the key tenets of a movement known as Christian Reconstructionism. It has been criticized by 20th century religious conservatives as an attempt to Immanentize the eschaton”.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmillennialism   Our TSA does not embrace postmellialism as did some in the past, because we know Jesus’ return will be a major all-encompassing event and Jesus has not returned secretly as JWs & others believe.

 

4. We don’t accept the idea that Jesus came already as certain religious devious denominations teach that Christ already returned to earth in the early 1900’s, and you and I are labeled as ignorant people not seeing this because it was a spiritual, not physical event. They argue that we should just adhere to what some people have accepted for two millennium; that His return came already! But this is a wrong idea with no proof as His return will change everything locking in the destiny of souls with the great final judgement. 

1 Thessalonians 4:16 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: 17 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.

How and when Jesus’ return will occur in the future has been the debate for centuries. I look at His return as a merging of our physical world with the spirit world, a combining of our universe with the God’s Kingdom universe in our multiverse universe. Scientists, with their mathematical multiverse theories, prove what we already knew, that several worlds (some say 11, others an infinity) currently coexisting at the same time. This collision of universes will bring about an eternal kingdom, which is a variable not well understood in our current temporary existence, but with God, all things are possible! Our earth will be destroyed with earthquakes and with all the events describes in the book of Revelation. 

5.  The end is near but not for any man (woman) to know the day and hour or the exact year for that matter. How many times has the exact year of the predictions of Jesus returning failed already? Probably thousands! Trying to be wise, arrogant people become fools! 

Despite this clear message by Jesus Christ, many Christians ambitious for undeserved attention, predict times and places of destruction. When they predict, we must reject. I have watched several YOUTUBE videos lately that are very convincing that the soon to come nuclear war will hasten the return of Jesus and these wars may even start now in April of this year! Just thank God today no nuclear war has begun, and we must choose to live day to day praying for peace! But Satan is working, he wants God’s children destroyed!

Apart from timeframes, many evangelical groups, and secular ones like the History Channel predict the places of destruction in the United States. The assumption is we are long overdue a major hit of destruction, so possibly it could even happen this year. Despite blanket forecasts, it is a reality that a volcano such as Krakatoa, a mega 10 earthquake, a comet crash on earth, an economic meltdown, or a possible nuclear war could cause all the world’s systems to collapse and bring about mega destructions as described in Revelation.  Here is verse that confirms the effects of nuclear war. Zechariah 14:12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. This is exactly what happens to people who are near a nuclear explosion!

6. Why do we hear about impending doom so much? Because the majority of people in the world who do not know Jesus have an appetite for destruction, they even long even for their own destruction! Evil people want the glory of bringing down the system as well! Kind of like how Nero celebrated while Rome burned down, the world leaders today are just as despotic as him and currently practically all governing systems are being hurled into chaos! This recurring theme of destruction affects you and me in one way or another; to either want to be on a more heightened alert and prepared, or to just live in a denial sleep ignoring the spiritual warnings. Don’t be deadened and asleep with prophecy fatigue! 

Concerning what could happen this year, or this month, people are either more fearful, concerned, and stressed, or more distracted, asleep, or indifferent! We as Christians are to remain prayerful, patient, and encouraging despite the pain and fear we experience empathizing and supporting those nearby who suffer!

Those who want to see mega-destruction and death, who have a Satanic hateful nature, who want to help usher in the apocalypse, having a secret death wish to die and be killed are of this nature because their sins and guilty conscience haunts them!  Like the serial murderer who the police can’t catch because he hides the evidence too cleverly until finally one day he wants them to stop him from his own evil so he leaves evidence behind to get caught. Millions of demon-possessed psychos want to help usher in the apocalypse hoping this will bring about a higher new world order of peace reducing the population by 90%. The problem here is their spirit will remain forever incarcerated in their disturbed hellish destructive state once they die and Jesus returns having no repentance! A spirit that rejects God’s love and ways is destined to be sent to the jail of hell to contain that evil.

Rev.22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

7. There is heavy persuasion in the Holy Scriptures of the Bible that there will be a nuclear war or a mega destruction of some kind in the Bible. Act 2:19 And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; 2 days Act 2:20 the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. Act 2:21 And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Nuclear power is in the hands of dictators in unstable nations such as North Korea, Iran, Russian and Pakistan.

It is tragic how there is evidence of a “falling away” from the faith of our Christian fathers. Many people today are a living abomination to God as they are carnal, sick-minded, destructive, prideful irrational sin-justifiers, being worthless consumers, unrepentant, not honoring God and hateful persecuting God’s saints, the Christian people of the world. Why will God judge with wrath? Because men have insulted Him and disrespected the beautiful life he created on earth! War is man’s invention due to his sins of greed, hate, prejudice, and lack of obedience to God’s commands through His Holy Word!  

8. The reality is this, there is evidence of an ever-increasing universal world-wide apostasy.  Godless materialism, prideful humanism, and murderous religious cults seem to be the god of choice as people in many nations mock and murder those of the Christian faith deeming them as unscientific fools. Yet they are the real fools accusing us as fools…I Cor. 1:14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The good thing is most of you here in this Corps are wise in the things of God and have the Holy Spirit and you have already studied Revelation several times and are aware of the 4 horsemen and of the 3 major events involving the 7 seals, 7 trumpets, and 7 vials. 

It is conclusive that these coming destructions will occur sometime in the future, and they will actually involve 1/3 or the entire world with devastations that have the characteristics of some type of mega nuclear destruction.  

9. So do not get disturbed by predictions over eclipses or signs in the sky! All things are on God’s clockwork, so all we can do is warn others hoping they obtain the understanding that God wants to be worshipped, loved, obeyed, and served as the time is short.  It is not our fault Satan wants to destroy it all, the victory is God will save our souls!

So, I recommend that you do not trust in books on numerology, individual predictions, alarming scientific climate statistics, politically motivated charlatans, and even preachers who exclude certain parts of the Bible to make fit prophecies to their likings when they are just carnal men and not worthy of interpreting prophecy! We are going to live with peace in our souls, no matter what may come!

There are appearing more and more false Christs Jesus like warned us about! And all the new radical religious people in the world that demand that you worship their prophet (who is not Jesus!) are false prophets from Satan himself! Any teaching that distorts, adds to, or takes away from the entire teachings and prophecies of Jesus Christ who sits on the right hand of God, who reigns forever and ever, who will have every knew bow to Him, are heresy and blasphemy! The offense of rejecting God’s son carries hell as a consequence!  

10. The time to study more about the end-times is now! The time to wake people up is now! The time to feel time is short is now! More and more prophecies are coming together to be fulfilled and more and more nations are preparing for war. We know that there will be Satanic despots starting more wars as time advances.  

Joel 2:30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. (This is another verse revealing nuclear war weapons)

Let’s pray and get serious with God! Don’t think we have 7 more years or 1260 days before Jesus comes knowing those years are markers concerning the anti-Christ’s reign, but consider this: When you die, that is when Jesus returns for you! The end of man’s kingdoms will come to an end, but our end may be sooner than the final end. If your or my end comes soon, we will be blessed because we will escape the heavy tribulations to come! No one is guaranteed tomorrow, and men’s hearts will fail them for fear! As we continue on in this year, pray for strength from the Holy Spirit, warn others to repent, and live in holiness! Just live ready to go, or ready to stay and ready to serve! Earth is becoming hell, but Jesus is bringing us heaven, amen!

Facing 2023: Be prepared!

Facing 2023: Be prepared!

Proverbs 22:3

A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple pass on and are punished.

 

2. From conversations, I often see people do read or listen to the news and know what is happening with the weather, and that is important! But what about the rest of the news? As Christians we cannot be simple-minded anymore, we must search the scriptures, we must search the news that is suppressed, and we must discern what is happening!

 

In the past few years look at the disasters unforeseen by the masses in Venezuela, Central & South America and in China lockdowns and pandemics still happening?! Since 2020 it’s been disastrous and in 2022 the war in Ukraine began. Some informed people knew for a few years that something was brewing, something drastic was on the way, and some got out, while others ignored it, or they had faith in the corrupt system to save them, but now they live miserably with no way to travel out, often with the electricity often cut, and with little to no food!

 

Jesus said this in Matthew 16:3 …and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. We need to be ready because the stage is set, and by all evidence, the end-times is here. Be ready to go, ready to stay, ready to be with our Lord too!

 

3. We saw in the past 2 years, the government, the media, the professionals, and even some churches, all tried to scheme on how to get people to live in fear for their lives, so they would run and get the remedies they concocted as the only solution. Now the reports show these remedies, which made mega billions for certain companies and political parties, have not been so effective after all and last year we started having the “died suddenly” syndrome affecting even young hearts! The presupposition here is we must all be ready to die suddenly!

 

What did Jesus say about this fear and heart failure?   Luke 21:26 Men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. The real concern here is how to save the souls of the people who trust totally in the systems of man and do not have faith in God to save them from evil. Jeremiah 17:5 Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the Lord.”

 

We all must live and learn. We must learn that science is no longer respectable science, it is the combination of misconstrued data with the schemes of demons in “high places” who seek new ways to enslave and exploit the populous. God revealed truth in His Word, in the sacred scriptures, and Satan’s people at the top seek all means possible to make scripture look like a lie when they are the liars! By their fruits you know them! (Matt. 7:20) 1 Timothy 6: 20 O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge (science)— 21 by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith. 

4. Christians are witnessing the “falling away” that we were told about 2 Thessalonians 2:3. Many recent articles have come out to show that after covid, those who thought they would die suddenly, did not even have a change of heart and repentance to start going to a church to get right with God! Imagine, almost dying and not even caring where your soul will spend eternity! 2 Thess. 3 “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,”

 

It is sad, but lying propaganda works on those who do not pray and ask God’s Holy Spirit for guidance. Look how in Nazi Germany they got most all the people to target certain individuals to be hated, then killed, and tortured women and children! Hitler was a precursor type of the final “anti-Christ” to come; Hitler worshipped Satan and consulted spiritists summoning demons, the Vril, and these demonic channels for demons helped him develop weapons of war and horrific fear-provoking methods to control the people. Satan will use his same tricks again. 

 

Seeing how millions have lost their worship spirit, we should be shocked and on extra alert for our own souls! Philippians 2:12, (b) continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,

 

5. Fear is our adversary’s repetitive tactic! It is proven already that through our phones, internet use, and conversations that our phones record, the techys and the 3 lettered agencies know all about you, your faith, or lack of it, your habits, your politics, your bank account, and everything! When the “mark of the beast” comes out, which will be a complete control over all people with a new digital currency, the resistors & protesters, the Christians and the freedom fighters, all will become “targeted individuals”. We must be ready to die for our faith if need be! Or ready to disappear and live like the Amish in a small communal farm in the hills. With every year that passes, we know the end is getting closer.

 

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Speak this verse out loud when you feel afraid of the current events and the future! Most Biblical scholars interpret that some Christians will go through the “great tribulation”, but it seems many will hang on hidden in the mountains or somewhere to the end without submitting to the New World Order of Satan’s kingdom that the globalist powers are currently setting up. 

 

Christians need to stop being silent and going with the flow of our sick evil culture! Some Christians are so weak they fear rejection from the people in schools, in their jobs, or families; how absurd as the perverse, shameless, deceived people do not have anyone’s back in a time of need! These are ones on the highway to hell, and they want to drag you to die the second death with them! Never conform! Matthew 10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (God! Fear or respect Him)

 

6. We must fear God and obey His word even if it means total rejection or death if you want to inherit heaven. James 1:12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

Revelation 2:10 (b) Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

 

So, the way to prepare for any New Year is with spiritual preparation! Make a plan to pray your 10-15 minutes after you wake up, then in the day, a 20-30 minutes of reading God’s Word, so you learn and gain strength and assurance, then you will be assured you are connected to God in the time of trouble, and He will guide you when a major event happens.

 

Pray to have discernment! It is a gift of the Spirit, and we all need it in these days when people are so confused about everything! The enemy always uses the divide and conquer method, the hate one another propaganda. Remember to read through the lines of today’s information to discover that things are most usually the opposite of what these news outlets are saying!

 

Luke 16:15 And He said to them, (b) For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God. Forsake all desire to support all the evil corporations who promote “woke” ideologies which are nothing but lies and divisive attacks on people with moral convictions.

 

7. The greatest threat to the human existence, this year, is not what the world tells you they are such as climate change, lab created viruses, war, discrimination, or an economic collapse, (all of which are man generated for obtaining more power!). The greatest threat we face is the persistent deception by Satan, who entices undiscerning people to buy into his misinformation while he unashamedly accuses truthful ones and God of misinformation! Unprayerful weak Christians are falling away swallowing up the flood of lies! Warn them!  Revelation 12:15,16.

 

People that believe lies and then go berserk when you disagree with their dystopian evil stances, people who propagate perversions and corruptions for their own personal gain, and people that disrespect God and His people as dumb and gullible for being righteous, holy, and spiritual, these mouthpieces, being demonically powerful ones, are the real threats to humanity’s existence! Expose their hypocrisy and warn others to shun them! World leaders are now more than ever guided by demons from hell, and they are hellbent on killing as many people as possible by all means possible because they hate God, life-creations, Jesus, and you and me!  (And they are, as revealed with the 4 horsemen in Revelation, destroying us by means of injustices, starvation, wars, and pandemic sicknesses).

 

We currently still have freedom to worship God in churches on Sundays, we still have money to buy food with (even though it is almost twice as expensive as a year ago!) so, we must be thankful for that, but the day may come when we may not have that freedom! Every year we pray for God to take care of us, and He does!  Philippians 4:19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

 

8. Jesus described the times we would be living in. Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences (pandemics), and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.

 

We do not have a very bright future in this world, but we have a very bright one in heaven! Revelation 21:4

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”

 

What we want for 2023 is a closer relationship with God! Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

 

9. Without a vision the people perish, so we must have a vision, one of surviving and diverting anything the enemy throws at us! Make goals to get closer to God in prayer, in His Word, and to stay busy for Him while it is still the daytime, because the night will come one of these years when no man can work.

 

C-19 is over for 3 years now so invite people back to church! Church is where “the called-out ones” fellowship together, and as one candle gives light, many together can shine very bright in this dark evil world! Pray for discernment! So many Christians are getting deceived and falling away like the seeds without roots! Pray against laziness, lustfulness, gossip, divisive people, envy, temptations, and against trusting in the news of evil men who believe we are all just dumb lambs destined for slaughter and that we should be existing just to produce tax money for their lustful consumptions. The truth of Jesus will make us free, but without it people are destined to become slaves to evil men! 

 

Do not accept the salvation schemes of men. Remember in Job, Satan said Job 2:4

So, Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.” Do not accept remedies from corporations or governments run by evil men that claim you can be saved from mass sicknesses that later will prove to be destroying your humanity, your mind, and corrupting your soul.

 

Jesus called us out for a better purpose than to just go through the motions year after year, and a never-ending mission that is to win souls to Jesus’ righteousness! Pray to be a God-fearing, loving, holy person in Christ! Pray to keep resisting all the lies that all the systems hammer you with daily! Pray to daily prepare well, one day at a time with Jesus as your guide.