Prophetic Rumblings 2018

Prophetic Rumblings 2018 - Terry James - http://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/

 

The Devil at 4 O'clock is a 1961 movie starring Frank Sinatra and Spencer Tracy. It involves three prisoners who are brought to an island in the South Pacific. The prisoners are to help evacuate a colony of children with leprosy from the island, which is on the verge of exploding because it is one enormous volcano.

 

The ground quakes constantly. Ominous rumbling in the background makes clear the urgency to evacuate. All on the island are doomed who are not removed in time.

 

This is one of my favorite movies. I have thought about it over the years, have even included it in writing these commentaries and in books. The analogy can't be missed. Planet earth is a volcanic island in the vast sea of the cosmos. Rumblings that are increasing and the quaking that is being felt makes the diligent student of Bible prophecy from the Pre-Trib perspective know that things are winding up for human history's final cataclysm.

 

While we enter the year 2018, prophetic rumblings are consistent. The ground, symbolically speaking, is quaking. Despite the time when all seems calm and the rumblings seem to have subsided, a true, eschatological seismologist knows what is happening.

 

The biblically prophetic sensors cannot lie. The planet is doomed. There is  need of an evacuation plan. There is one available, and we will look at that momentarily.

 

Getting back to the Pre-Trib prophetic sensors the student of eschatology possesses-the spiritual seismometer-I will look with you at three indicators I think it is good to watch as 2018 counts down.

 

First: Israel will come under greatly increased hatred.

 

Second: The threat of war will ratchet up dramatically.

 

Third: National and Western world economies will appear to be booming.

 

There are, of course, many more foreshocks to be examined, but these are the ones I think are most obviously in view.

 

Like in The Devil at 4 O'Clock, this is an island in the sea of the cosmos that is about to be devastated. We must help as many to evacuate as possible before history's most horrific time of cataclysm erupts.

 

1) Israel will come under greatly increased hatred.

 

Jesus, in the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21, tells His disciples to expect greatly increased hatred while the time of His Second Advent nears. He indicates in these prophetic words that He, Jesus, is the reason they will be hated.

 

This has certainly been the case in modern history. The Nazis, for example, stirred hatred for the Jews by claiming them to be "Christ killers." Jews in many parts of the world are still accused in this way.

 

Mostly, though, they are hated because they are accused of being "occupiers" of land that doesn't belong to them. They are considered intruders in the land that belongs to the so-called Palestinians.

 

Anti-Semitism, of course, is Satan's tool to bring the entire world's ire against the nation that is God's chosen people. The devil is more than just a word used in the title of the movie I mention. He, Lucifer, now Satan, is working diligently to bring about the destruction of the Jewish people-the nation Israel. And, it is the "Jewish problem," as Adolf Hitler and his beastly cohorts put it, that must be dealt with in the eyes of much of the diplomatic world today.

 

We saw this as the year 2017 came to a close. The matter of the U.S. president calling for the move of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem brought squeals of outrage. These squeals came not only from the Arab Islamists, but from some of our supposed closest allies.

 

Although some nations now seem to be trying to climb back on the Trump bandwagon of support for Israel, the vast majority still is screaming hate-filled protests against the Jewish state and all it represents.

 

I believe this president has been brought forth at this point in history for the specific purpose of supplying American support to God's chosen people. Far from this being a measure intended to bring peace, however, I think it is becoming obvious that the Lord is using American support to further enrage Israel's blood-vowed  enemies. Additionally, it is making manifest the anti-God, Antichrist global cabal that wants no deity to rule over them (Psalm 2).

 

The Lord of Heaven might just be stirring the end-times volcano, bringing it to an explosive head. All this might accomplish not only bringing into focus the Zechariah 12:1-3 prophecy, but the prophetic matter I wish to address next.

 

2) The threat of war will ratchet up dramatically.

 

We are, I believe, on the precipice of entering the time of the "cry for peace and safety" as given in the prophecy of Paul the apostle: "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape" (1 Thessalonians 5:3).

 

This forewarning was issued for those indicated by the pronoun "they." Paul was speaking of those who are not under the salvation protection of Heaven.

 

Paul says right after the "peace and safety" foretelling: "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." (1 Thes 5: 4-5)

 

The people of earth-particularly the diplomatic world-will be crying "peace and safety." But, those who are in God's family-the "we" Paul mentions, indicating the pronoun for believers, should know the cry for peace and safety doesn't apply to them.

 

The believer in Jesus Christ for salvation is under God's protection. The rebellious earth and all of its dangers are not for them.

 

As stated above, I believe we are on the precipice of great, collective fear of war-nuclear conflict-exploding across the globe. This comes partly from the North Korean threat, with it becoming more apparent that China is backing North Korea, rather than trying to damper the North Korean dictator's reckless behavior.

 

The sense of looming world war could also come from threats from a growingly hostile and Israel-hating Iran. That whole cauldron of boiling rage might be about to overflow.

 

Again, this president might be a catalyst to galvanize the developing situations. He is not one to take the path of least resistance as has been the tact of his most recent predecessors.

 

And, yet again, it is this president who is at the center of the last thing I will mention as possibly bringing the year 2018 to a prophetic tipping point.

 

3) National and Western world economies will appear to be booming.

 

I wrote last week, and a number of times before in this column, that I'm convinced Christ's "days of Noah, days of Lot" prophecy is the most relevant for our time. I believe we are entering the time Jesus spoke of as I pointed out last week.

 

That prophecy is found in the Matthew 24:36-42 and Luke 17:26-30 accounts of the Olivet Discourse. (At least many, including myself, believe the Luke portion was issued during the Olivet Discourse.)

 

Jesus said business will be going along at a brisk pace when He is next "revealed"-when He next catastrophically intervenes into the corrupt, wicked affairs of mankind.

 

I believe we have about reached that point.

 

The economy is, I'm convinced, about to take off in a big way. Like him or not, this president-as mentioned in points 1 and 2 above-is at the heart of that economic boom I believe is coming. I more and more suspect the coming boom Jesus indicated would be in progress when He next intervenes catastrophically might be the one we see developing at this time.

 

The "boom," as I've written previously, will be, in many ways, based upon smoke and mirrors because of computer manipulations. However, it is manifesting as a genuine uptick for America and much of the world. This is because of the world's nations being intricately linked to the U.S. economic engine.

 

How does this all come together into prophetic synchronization? My own thought is that Israel must again become the focus of God's course of prophetic fulfillment. He will again begin dealing with His chosen people and nation. To me, it is observably manifest that He is beginning to more directly influence matters in that regard.

 

Secondly, the "cry for peace and safety" is beginning in earnest. The U.N. and the Western diplomatic world in particular are calling for a damping-down of the possibility of nuclear conflict.

 

Israel, of course, is seen by these as the reason that such conflict might begin in the Middle East. Israel must give in to its enemies so peace can prevail. (And this is what will cause the Lord to bring all anti-God perpetrators to Armageddon-Joel 3:2.)

 

Again, Donald J. Trump doesn't see things that way. He is fouling globalist plans to bring in the new world order they seek to construct.

 

Third, Jesus said it would be at "a time ye think not" when He next makes His presence known to the world. This is not the time of the Second Advent (Revelation 19:11), but the time when everything, economically speaking, seems to be humming along nicely.

We are hearing that hum even now as 2018 gets underway!

 

It is at such a time of business as usual-or even better than usual-when He will call those of us who Paul said are not "children of the night, but of the day" to be with Him in the clouds of glory. Let us work to see that as many as possible are evacuated from this satanically volcanic planet when the Rapture occurs. 

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