World's Greatest Threat

World's Greatest Threat - Terry James - http://raptureready.com/rap16.html

 

Global order plans are up in the air while the would-be one-world architects contemplate the installation of America's 45th president. The soon-to-be new leader of the free world has made it clear he intends to keep America--at least--free of their insidious grab for America's wealth through their climate change and other such liberty-diminishing machinations.

 

The new-world-order builders fearmonger that America's refusal to submit to their plans is a formula for guaranteeing the demise of the planet.

 

Israel is, as usual, at the center of concern in the minds of the world's diplomats. The newly elected president will, he has vowed, move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. This will, if it eventuates, put the U.S. stamp of validation upon Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the Jewish state.

 

This rates as a threat to world peace in the minds of most all U.N. leaders. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has declared there will absolutely be no chance of peace between the Palestinians and Israel if this happens.

 

Russia has popped up as a perceived threat so great that some think Vladimir Putin could start World War III before the Trump inauguration.

 

Even Christian writers within pre-trib prophecy who are touted to be highly regarded journalists--observers of tensions that might lead to war--fear that Putin is on the verge of starting a conflict that might go nuclear at some point. To me, this flies in the face of things as they are foretold to be at the time of His next intervention into the affairs of mankind (the Rapture). The Lord said it will be a time of life going on possibly more robust than usual at the time He breaks in on the world like a thief in the night (Matthew 24:36-42, Luke 17:26-30).

 

This prophecy by Christ Himself precludes nuclear war occurring before the Rapture, from my perspective. However, the fear is expressed by some such as Joel Rosenberg that we are likely to, in the immediate future, face war that will take the world out of that think-not time Jesus talked about in the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24:44).

 

The new president-to-be, himself, is so feared as a threat that nearly half the nation seems to be having a collective nervous breakdown in anticipation of his assuming office.

 

A man was arrested in Ithaca, New York, a couple of weeks ago, for shooting to death a UPS delivery man, then running over the body. He did so, he told those who interrogated him, because he thought the man was Donald Trump, the president-elect.

 

There are hundreds of reports of people who have become mentally unhinged over this election result. We remember, for example, the man and his "husband" who verbally assaulted the president's daughter on a commercial flight, shouting that her father was going to destroy the nation. Those who see the Trump victory as the worst possible thing for life on planet earth, like the globalists and those who have near phobic fears of Russia, see 2017 as a year of unprecedented threat.

 

Wall Street and the economic gurus, on the other hand, seem to be seeing an opposite effect regarding Mr. Trump's rise to power. The year 2017 looks pretty good to these supposed wizards of the financial world, apparently, and we know this because we can see their vote through the stock market and other forums of fiscal prognostication.

 

Additionally--and this is the most telling, prophetically speaking, I think--the great, collective sigh of relief by other members of American society is overtly obvious. The sigh of the evangelical Christian segment of this half of the American populace leaps out--or should do so--at those who are students of Bible prophecy from the pre-trib view.

 

We are excited to get a "reprieve," as it has been termed. It appears, at least, that Christians who stand upon biblical principles and openly display their faith will experience a more tolerant acceptance from the incoming administration and the federal courts that should develop as a result. However, it must be noted that along with the sigh of relief there is developing a settling-back into comfortable complacency.

 

Based upon the level of observation I've done and the kinds of email and news stories I receive, it seems to me that the fervency of the prayers of God's people and concerns for aggressively pursuing a biblically moral agenda is just about nonexistent.

 

This, to my way of thinking, based upon prophetic Scripture, presents the greatest threat of all as we proceed into 2017.

 

Again, Jesus forewarned of just such a time, I believe.

 

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. (Matthew 24: 42-44)

 

For this reason, the threat to the world, populated mostly by those who don't know Christ for salvation, is at great risk. A complacent church is a threat greater in this way, perhaps, than the threats we most often consider.

 

Let us vow to make 2017 a year dedicated to actively carrying out the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20).