(Written by Carl Worline)
Are we really on
the very cusp of
an imminent
rapture that
will end the Age
of Grace and
herald a period
of tribulation
that will wipe
out most of
humanity, or
have we twisted
and tortured the
signs
before us
to tell us what
we want them to
say?
Perhaps
we need to take
a step back and
re-evaluate
these signs.
At such
times as these I
find that a mug
of strong coffee
and a huge
cinnamon roll
are most helpful
to clean the
mind of worldly
distractions.
Just like the
proverbial tree
hidden in a
forest, there
are so many
warning signs of
the end of the
age around us
that it is
increasingly
difficult to
actually see the
road, itself.
Are we
really at the
end of the Age
of Grace?
What does
the Bible say?
The truth of the
matter is that
the Bible
doesn’t actually
define in so
many words when
the “end times”
or “last days”
actually begin.
However,
every reference
in both the old
and new
testaments that
refer to the
last days is
predicated on
the assumption
that Israel goes
from being a
people scattered
across the
entire planet to
a mighty nation
(See Ezekiel
37:21-22).
In fact,
God said that He
would make
Israel
a nation in a
single day, and
He fulfilled
this promise on May 14, 1948 at 4 PM in the afternoon when David Ben Gurion, the
first Prime
Minister of
Israel, stood up
in Independence
Hall in Tel Aviv
and formally
announced the
formation of the
Nation of
Israel.
We also
know from
Matthew 24 that
the events of
these last days,
from the
re-birth of Israel as a nation until the Battle
of Armageddon
and the start of
the Millennial
Reign of Christ,
will occur
within a single
generation.
Although we have
been told by our
Lord that no man
knows the day or
the hour, we
have also been
told repeatedly
that we can not
only know the
season, but we
are commanded to
know the season
and to
diligently watch
for His return
because our Lord
is returning as
unexpectedly as
a thief in the
night (I really
hate using that
analogy to
describe our
Lord and
Savior).
Jesus
bitterly scolded
the Pharisees
for being able
to predict the
weather based on
the clouds in
the evening sky
while being
totally
incompetent with
prophecy that
predicted the
season they were
in.
Our Lord
made it quite
clear that we
are expected to
know and
interpret
prophecy and to
be watching for
His return.
I believe that
we are not only
in the season of
the Lord’s
return, but that
we are at the
very end of that
season.
The Bible tells
us that in the
last days there
will be signs in
the sun, moon,
and stars.
We are
certainly
witnessing a
myriad of both
rare and
spectacular
signs in the
heaven.
The real
beauty of these
signs is that
they are
available to
mankind all over
the world
regardless of
the language
each person may
speak.
Even more
unique is how
these signs
speaks volumes
to the person
who looks up in
belief, while
they are little
more than pretty
lights in the
sky to the
spiritually
ignorant and
those
unbelievers who
lay claim to the
mental
superiority of
the scientific
mind while
closing those
same minds to
the facts which
surround them
that do not
support their
feeble
hypothesis.
To those who
refuse to
believe, no
amount of proof
is sufficient.
To those
who believe, no
proof is
necessary.
The signs of
nature that tell
us we are in the
last days are
even more
plentiful than
the signs in the
heavens.
Floods
and droughts of
Biblical
proportion have
certainly
increased in
both frequency
and intensity.
From
watching the
evening news and
the local
newspaper it
would seem that
anyone not
floating away in
one of these
extremes must
certainly be
perishing in the
other extreme.
Natural
disaster damages
for 2011 were
five times
higher than the
average for the
past ten years
and were double
2010’s total of
$130 billion.
Earthquake
activity has
increased
dramatically in
both frequency
and intensity
while dormant
volcanoes all
over our planet
are coming back
to life.
The
“vapors and
columns of
smoke” which the
Bible predicts
will occur in
the end times
are closing
large chunks of
airspace to
commercial
aircraft while
raining ashes on
surrounding
towns and
villages.
The
Japanese
earthquake in
2011 was the
costliest
natural disaster
in all of
recorded
history.
Japan hit the apocalyptic trifecta
with an 8.9
magnitude
earthquake that
moved the entire
planet several
inches off its
rotational axis,
a tsunami where
a 30 foot high
wall of water
traveled as much
as 3 miles
inland, and a
triple nuclear
meltdown with
still untold and
horribly
foreboding
consequences.
Major wildfires
are becoming far
more common in
the
United States, Australia, and the former Soviet Union as well as many other nations in our world.
Hurricanes have
not only
increased in
frequency and
intensity but
are also
occurring in
places never
seen before in
our world.
The
number of record
low temperatures
set in the United States last year is only
rivaled by the
number of record
high
temperatures.
My mocking
friends are
constantly
accusing me of
falling over the
apocalyptic edge
every time a
natural disaster
occurs.
They are
also wrong.
I realize
that nature has
been full of
tragedies ever
since the
beginning and
that there will
be tragedies
right up until
the end.
It is not
the fact that
these tragedies
occur that is so
unique, it is
the frequency
and intensity at
which they are
occurring now
that is
prophetically
significant.
We have
become so numb
from witnessing
natural
disasters that
we scarcely
noticed the
greatest loss of
life from nature
when, starting
in June 2011, 13
million people
were affected in
the worst
drought in
decades to
strike eastern
Africa.
The death
toll from this
horrible famine
ran into the
tens of
thousands and
included 30,000
children.
In addition to
the routine
natural
disasters that
are taking
place, strange
sounds are being
heard in many
places all
around the
world.
These
sounds first
gained attention
on August 11, 2011, in Kiev, Ukraine.
They are
often described
as a humming,
rumbling,
scraping, or
pulsating that
almost sounds
like a
low-pitched
trumpet at
times, and are
also described
as eerie and
haunting.
Other
descriptions
range from
bizarre, to
creepy, to
industrial, to
mechanical.
From
listening to the
various
recordings, I am
reminded of a
huge piece of
metal scraping
along as it is
being moved,
like an enormous
steel door with
rusty hinges
opening or
closing.
In every
reported case it
is impossible to
tell what
direction the
sound is coming
from.
They are
omni-directional
with no single
traced source of
origin, while
leaving the
impression of
coming from
directly
overhead or from
directly under
the earth.
Lately
these sounds
have changed to
very loud
explosions and
crashes that
occur in a
region for a few
days and then
fall silent.
For we know that
the whole
creation moans
and suffers the
pains of
childbirth
together until
now. (Romans 8:22 NASB)
A noise shall
come even to the
ends of the
earth; for the
Lord hath a
controversy with
the nations, he
will plead with
all flesh; he
will give them
that are wicked
to the sword,
saith the LORD
(Jeremiah 25:31
KJV)
From God’s
perspective
Israel
is the center of
the world.
To be
even more
precise,
Jerusalem
is the
place which God
considers as the
center around
which mankind
revolves
(Ezekiel 5:5).
If we
want to know how
close the world
is to blowing up
we need only
look at how
short the fuse
has become that
is burning in
the
Middle East.
The dogs
of war are
definitely
growling and are
ready to pounce.
All 22
Islamic
dominated
nations
comprising 99.4
percent of the
land area in
this region are
armed to the
teeth and ready
to go to war at
a moments
notice.
Tiny
little Israel,
with only 0.6
percent of the
land in the
Middle East and
only 2 percent
of its
population,
along with God,
are determined
to defend the
right of the
Jewish people to
exist.
All of the
traditional
signs of the
last days have
not only been in
place for many
months now, but
they also
continue to
intensify with
each passing
day.
One would
expect the
rapture of the
Church at any
moment based
upon these signs
alone and yet
there is
something more –
much more – that
has the world on
edge.
It is a
pervasive
feeling that
something really
big is about to
happen.
This
feeling is
exceptionally
difficult to
define.
Christians
hopefully look
for the return
of the Messiah.
Many in
the New Age
Movement look
for the Age of
Pisces to end on
the winter
solstice on December 21, 2012, and for
the Age of
Aquarius to
begin as the
earth’s
equatorial plane
aligns exactly
with the center
of our galaxy.
Buddhists
look for the
return of
Maitreya
sometime in the
very near
future.
Mayans
predict and end
of an epoch on December 21, 2012, and a
new epoch to
begin.
The Aztec
look for the
return of the
flying serpent,
Quetzalcoatl,
sometime around
the end of 2012.
Aztecs
also predict the
possible end of
time, as we know
it, and possibly
the end of the
world.
The
I-Ching
independently
predicts the end
to occur on the
winter solstice
this year.
Meanwhile, the
Zohar, which is
a collection of
books in the
mystical Jewish
Kabbalah from 13th
century Spain,
talks about the
appearance of
the Messiah at
about this same
general time.
According
to these texts,
all of the kings
of the world
will come
together in Rome, which will then be
destroyed by
God.
This
closely
parallels the
prophecy of
Saint Malachi,
the Bishop of
Armagh, who was
summoned to Rome in 1139 AD by Pope
Innocent II and
while there had
a vision in
which God
revealed the 112
future popes,
including the
last pope, who
will come to
power and
witness the
destruction of
Rome.
Muslims
look for the
return of the
Mahdi, or
Twelfth Imam at
about this time,
while teenagers
around the world
look for the
return of the
twelfth season
of American
Idol.
The entire world
is on edge
because its
inhabitants from
every nation and
culture feel
something.
Something
that is almost
impossible to
identify or
define.
The Book
of Revelation
tells us that in
the last days
Satan will be
thrown to the
earth and will
be frantic
because he will
know that his
time is very
short.
I am not
certain that
this has
occurred yet,
but I do sense
very strongly
that evil in the
world has
intensified with
a supernatural
hatred that is
shocking.
In the
past week I have
read several
accounts of
cannibalism,
including an
article about a
naked man who
was shot and
killed by police
when he refused
to stop eating
the face of
another man.
During
this same week I
read articles
about a mother
who gouged the
eyes out of her
young son in a
satanic ritual,
and reported
accounts of
doctors in
India
feeding aborted
human fetuses to
dogs.
These are
but a few
examples of the
incomprehensible
hatred by a
supernatural
evil that is
only now
beginning to
manifest itself
in our modern
world.
The love
of many in this
world has
certainly grown
cold.
Another aspect
that has
increased to a
fever pitch is
the
supernaturally
rabid fanaticism
by those
determined to
annihilate all
traces of
Christianity.
Not only
do we see these
forces at work
in the
Middle East,
but in many
African nations
as well, where
Christians are
literally being
hunted down and
killed.
These
same forces are
at work right
here in the
United States
using and
twisting our own
laws to forcibly
rip every
reference to the
Christian God,
no matter how
small or
insignificant,
from the fabric
of our nation.
The entire world
is also on edge
because of an
incredible
worldwide
political power
vacuum.
The Arab
Spring revolt
has created
deadly riots in
dozens of
nations and yet
there is neither
a leader nor a
clearly defined
goal.
The same
is true for the
Occupy Wall
Street movement
that has taken
place across our
nation and has
spilled beyond
our borders into
Europe.
An
incredible
vacuum exists
for a worldwide
leader and yet
no leader has
come forth.
We also
know that nature
abhors a vacuum.
Paul
Henri Spaak, the
post WWII
premier of Belgium and
Secretary
General of the
United Nations
from 1957 – 1961
said on January
1, 1993:
We do not want
another
committee.
We have
too many
already.
What we
want is a man of
sufficient
stature to hold
the allegiance
of all people,
and to lift us
out of the
economic morass
in which we are
sinking.
Send us
such a man, be
he God or the
devil, and we
will receive
him.
Every nation is
teetering on the
edge of
bankruptcy, with America on the brink of economic
implosion,
having borrowed
one-fourth of
all of the money
in the world and
unable to pay it
back.
All over
the globe
central banks
are feverishly
printing money
in an attempt to
“paper over”
this crisis, but
this is not
going to work.
The
entire world
economic system
is a house of
cards in which
each bankrupt
nation props up
the economy of
other bankrupt
nations using
imaginary
electronic money
that does not
actually exist.
Charles
Ponzi would be
proud if he were
alive today.
But a
house of cards
cannot stand
forever, and
when it falls
(and it will
collapse) the
economic
foundation of
the entire world
will fall with
it.
What I am
sensing about
all of this is
that the world
economic
situation should
never have
become as
critical as it
is now, and it
should never
have been able
to sustain
itself for this
long.
We are
well past the
logical time
when it should
have collapsed.
What kind
of supernatural
forces have
brought us this
far and what
kind of
supernatural
forces will
provide us with
a leader who
will have all of
the answers to
get us out of
this morass?
We have been
consuming far
more than we
replenish or
recycle.
Fresh
water is
becoming
increasingly
scarce as water
tables drop,
rivers dry up,
and pollution
contaminates
much of what
remains.
China has put a stranglehold on the
rare-earth
elements so
necessary for
the electronic
technology we
have become so
dependent upon.
The
nations of the
world that seem
to hate
Christianity and
the western
concept of
freedom the most
are the same
ones that
control the oil.
And
finally, the
world’s food
supply is
rapidly
shrinking as it
comes under
attack from
every imaginable
source and
direction.
One does
not have to be a
prophet to see
that something
really, really
big is going to
happen in the
world really,
really soon.
I am convinced
that the entire
world is on edge
because we have
really disobeyed
and offended God
and, no matter
how much we try
to justify our
actions or how
much we deny the
very existence
of a God, we are
way overdue to
be punished.
In
Genesis, Chapter
6, we are told
that genetic
makeup of
humanity was
corrupted when
“the sons of
God” interbred
with the
daughters of
men, creating
giants.
God was
so angry that He
destroyed all of
mankind, except
for the eight
occupants of
Noah’s ark.
Today we
are using our
technology to
combine human,
animal, and
plant DNA in
ways that have
the potential to
produce
creatures even
more hideous and
grotesque than
in Noah’s time.
Could God
be any less
angry with
humanity today
as He was in the
days of Noah?
Regardless of
what may, or may
not, be
politically
correct we know
that God
despises
homosexuality
and He destroyed
both
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
because of this
particular sin.
In the
past few months
I have witnessed
a new fanatical
determination by
the homosexual
community to
force their
agenda on the
rest of our
society and to
recognized as a
special,
privileged
class.
I have
also noted an
increased use of
the term
“homophobia” to
imply that it is
the normal
person who is
the one who has
the mental
disease or
defect.
Lastly, I
have noticed how
the homosexual
agenda has
become
increasingly
anti-Christian,
as if to beg (or
even dare) God
to strike them.
God is
not mocked, and
it is incredibly
dangerous to do
so
Beginning around
the middle of
December 2010
there has been a
very sharp spike
in animal deaths
in the
United States
and around the
world.
The
mainstream media
rarely reports
these events but
they are covered
by the
independent
prophetic news
sites, and the
number of
individual
events since the
middle of
December
2010 is, quite
literally, in
the hundreds.
Science
has not been
able to provide
definitive
answers while
the proposed
causes they have
suggested range
from the absurd
to laughingly
ridiculous.
The only
thing our
scientists are
certain of is
that the cause
cannot possibly
be supernatural.
Listen to the
word of the
LORD, O sons of
Israel,
for the LORD has
a case against
the land,
because there is
no faithfulness
or kindness or
knowledge of God
in the land.
There is
swearing,
deception,
murder, stealing
and adultery.
They
employ violence
so that
bloodshed
follows
bloodshed.
Therefore
the land mourns,
and everyone who
lives in it
languishes along
with the beasts
of the fields
and the birds of
the sky.
And also
the fish of the
sea disappear.
(Hosea 4:1-4)
I will
completely
remove all
things from the
face of the
earth declares
the LORD.
I will
remove man and
beast; I will
remove the birds
of the sky and
the fish of the
sea. (Zephaniah
1:2-36)
People are on
edge today
because they
know that a lot
of bad things
are happening
that have
consequences
which reach
every corner of
our world, and
the officials
that we trust to
keep us informed
cannot be
trusted.
For
example, every
bluefin tuna
tested along the
California cost
in May, 2012,
had levels of
radioactivity
from the cesium
134 and cesium
137 that was
released from
the crippled
nuclear reactors
in Fukushima,
Japan, 5,500
miles away
across the
Pacific that
were 10 times
the level before
the accident.
Scientists
stress that the
levels of
radioactivity
are “perfectly
safe to eat,”
according to
their report,
yet the truth of
the matter is
that
radioactivity
ingested in food
is cumulative
over time.
There is
no safe level of
radiation in
food.
Period.
Unidentified
flying objects
have been around
since the most
ancient of
times, yet they
did not figure
prominently in
government
conspiracies
until the middle
of 1947, when a
UFO crashed in
Roswell, New Mexico.
This was
less than a year
before Israel became a nation and initiated
the time we now
refer to as the
end times, or
last days.
I am
absolutely
convinced that
UFO’s will play
a major role
during the 7
year long period
of worldwide
tribulation that
is about to
begin, and I can
only speculate
as to what that
major role will
be.
UFO
activity has
definitely
increased in
recent days and
weeks, which has
increased my
feeling that
something big is
about to happen.
There is one
last sign that
has put me on
edge and is
building my
expectations
that something
really big and
really prophetic
is about to take
place.
There are
many prophets in
the world today.
Some are
true prophets of
the Lord while
others are
prophetic
wanna-be’s.
Trying to
determine which
is which can
sometimes be
obvious and
sometimes quite
tricky.
However,
one thing that I
have noticed is
that all of
today’s prophets
routinely use
the words
imminent, soon,
very soon, very
very very soon,
and at the door
in all of their
messages lately.
In fact,
there is an ever
increasing tone
of urgency which
I did not notice
before, but has
become blaringly
obvious now.
Something really
big really is
about to happen,
and happen very
soon.
The
really, really
big thing that
is about to
happen is the
rapture of the
Church followed
by a period of
tribulation that
will be so
incredibly
horrible that
the world has
never seen
anything like it
in the past.
The Age
of Grace is
about to
abruptly end and
the free gift of
eternal
salvation that
so many have
taken for
granted for so
long will end
just as
abruptly.
Most of
the earth’s
population will
die.
I feel
privileged to be
alive at this
moment in time
so that I can
witness such an
historic moment.
Everything is in
place.
All that
remains now is
for the Lord to
set it all in
motion.
Are you
ready for what
is about to
happen?
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