Well, it was during this same week in 2019 on Jan Markells program, Understanding the Times, that Terry James, was on with Jan.  Near the end of the broadcast, she asked what he thought was, “the primary thing to look for as the hours, days, months, and years move swiftly toward that divine intervention.”

To quote Terry:

“I answered during the broadcast, and my answer hasn’t changed. It can’t change, because it is indeed the number-one signal of where we are on God’s prophetic timeline.”

Terry then preceded to tell us just how world events surrounding Israel, including the hatred of her people, were fulfilling prophetic signs regarding our days. 

There are two points of concern that I want to raise that are most interesting concerning his answer at that time.  

The first you might not recognize if you are not a student of the pre-Trib movement occuring now for basically the last 180 years.  It is that imminence is a foundational argument within the Dispensational proof.  They accuse any mid or post-Trib believer of looking for the Antichrist rather than looking for Christ to come. They have argued strongly over the last century that nothing else must happen before the Rapture occurs, and that every generation of Christians is instructed to watch only for Jesus’ return. That fulfills the imminent meaning that they associate with Jesus coming. So it would be wrong considering  their understanding to look for anything in the way of signs.  So I must ask:

Why then can Israel be a sign today in their teaching of where we are and the Antichrist appearance which is a very scriptural teaching not be?  His appearance requires a rebuilt third Temple, which seems to be coming.  Although these things are being talked about; they are not be a signs of our gathering to be with Jesus?  Actually they do acknowledge the prophetic happenings, but always for them the Rapture must come first, because it’s imminent?

Well they must know, that all of those generations before Israel’s established nation came about, while they were teaching Jesus coming could be today; that their posture just did not reveal a true understand then of the fact that Israel is this key sign in prophecy.  Everything, in fact concerning the Second Coming prophecies can be in some way be associated with Israel.  The peace agreement; the wars; their being the center of instability; and the key to biblical prophecy in my mind, is the fact taught in Romans 11, where Paul makes clear that the very last Gentile must be saved before God will save Israel, adding her back into the very vehicle that represents all the people of God, who have lived throughout the age of humanity. 

So what if the Antichrist is also a key sign in prophecy concerning the Second Coming and Rapture, even as Paul says it is in Second Thessalonians 2.

My second point is the “ongoing hatred for the Jew and for Israel” spoken of by Terry. Although this is very true and it continues to develop, there is also another developing hatred that is completely overlooked by most Christians who are expecting immediate Rapture.  It is the current and growing hatred of Christianity, which is manifesting itself every bit as much as the hatred for Israel as the killings of believers are either ignored or just accepted as being ok by the world. 

If you have read the book by David Horowitz, Dark  Agenda, then you know that the first right guaranteed us in the Bill of Rights, is today no longer under attack, because that battle has been all but lost by us. In fact, the war on The faith of Jews and Christians, has been raging and is in a serious battle, from those who are of “this world” and who are most insecure in their own beliefs.  They will not believe in Jesus, so they must take down those who do in order to feel secure in their unbelief. 

“Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof”

Now I want you to think long and hard on my next statement. If the sovereign God was at the heart of the establishment of this country; then civil debate is an important reason for its founding, and therefore must be, (In addition to the spread of the gospel), foremost in the heart and mind of God.  Why do I say this?  Because only through education or discovering what others believe and why they do can one choose what he himself truly believes. This requires free thinkers. 

Freedom of thinking was at the heart of our Founders goal for this country. 

Yet, today man tears down or destroys the freedom of others to learn or to express freely what is believed by them to be “truth”.  To God everything is about or founded upon “Truth”, which is why Jesus calls Himself “The Truth”.  Man thus Thwarts God’s seeming purpose for America and ultimately man destroys his own freedom to find God. If the truth matters at all; then it matters to God. 

Men who are offended by another man’s right of free expression of what he believes are the most insecure in their own beliefs.  And they therefor are the very ones God seeks to challenge.  Because what we believe is the largest contributor to our own actions. 

What is so interesting is the fact as pointed out by Horowitz that even though all evidence has been erased from American text books as to our Christian founding, that there is “no separation of Mosque and state”.  Satan’s battle is strictly against Christians and Jews.  And men once again are being deceived by the master deceiver. 

The question that is not adequately addressed by Horowitz is why?  If the faith of the Christian or the Jew is so offensive, why is not the faith of the Muslim (Islam)?   The answer seems obvious. There must be a sinister force behind these actions, who or which is anti (both the God of Scripture and His Christ).  But this force is not anti Allah. Interesting because Allah’s god would destroy all of mankind in hell.

This should instill fright into any thoughtful person who does not believe the God of Scripture, but yet knows what the Scriptures conclude as man’s final end.  And the underlining cause of his hatred is based on his attempts to destroy anything that would remind him of this knowledge. These actions by those who make themselves our enemies, go far in the proving of the Scripture’s end of days scenarios.  And what is coming just ain’t good. In fact, it is downright evil.  And these enemies of God make what God  has had written about them even more true every day.  They are helping to fulfill the very thing that they hate. 

Those who promote censorship of the Christian faith and the constitutions freedom of speech in order to destroy christianity are actually proving the Bible to be correct in the prophetic sense. 

Trump is hated today because he is catering to and has the backing of Bible thumping Christians, and we the people of Scripture, whom God is calling out as His own, are the only ones perhaps more hated today than Trump in this world. Certainly both are hated as much as Israel. 

What Pre-Trib dispensationalists such as Terry James don’t want to see is that all of this hatred is setting up for a future time period when believers whether Christian or Jew by name will be hated by an antichrist system that is already beyond the development stage. 

 What I agree with Terry about is that tribulation is drawing close.  What I disagree with him about is of course the timing of the Second Coming and Rapture. One cannot make the Rapture more important than the resurrection that it will follow. 

But today just as unbelievers are cutting off debate with Christians as to what constitutes right and wrong; Dispensationalists have cut off debate with other believers concerning the end time prophecy differences that are taught today.  And even though I would welcome Terry James and Jan Markell to this sight to comment, I am not welcome at theirs to promote biblical discussion of the issues. 

So to those who want to come and tell me where scripturally I am wrong, then don’t just read this article. See all that I see the Scriptures to teach by going to my blog:  raptureonline.blog 

1 John 5:9  We accept human testimony. God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony that he has given about his Son. (GOD’S WORD)

If you can’t go to God’s word to find clear proof for the events surrounding Jesus Coming; then you just need to start believing God’s word not man’s. 

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