Watching Bible Prophecy Unfold

Watching Bible Prophecy Unfold - By Daymond Duck - https://www.raptureready.com/2020/09/06/watching-bible-prophecy-unfold-by-daymond-duck/ The prophet Amos said, "Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets" (Amos 3:7). God reveals what He intends to do before He does it. Some, like myself, believe the Tribulation Period is being set in motion, and few realize how serious this is prophetically. Those that are not Raptured before the Tribulation will probably die during the Tribulation Period. Notice these things: •The Tribulation Period will begin with a covenant with many (Dan. 9:27). Following 72 years of hostility toward Israel, several Arab nations are discussing the normalization of relations withIsrael (much depends on a trip to the Middle East by Jared Kushner and others, but it got off to a good start on August 29, 2020, when the UAE ended its economic boycott with Israel and opened the door for tourism, trade and financial agreements with the Jewishstate). •The Antichrist will rule over all nations during the Tribulation Period (Rev. 13:7), and a never-ending effort is underway to dump Trump and establish a socialist/communist world governmentthat sounds a lot like the government of Antichrist (The UN goal is to have that government up and running by 2030). •The Antichrist will blaspheme God (Rev. 13:5-6). There was no mention of God at the recent Democrat convention that nominated Biden and Harris, which led several pundits to say, "The Democratshave a God problem" (some actually want to replace Christianity with the Global Ethic; World Religion). •The Antichrist will be assisted by a religious leader called the False Prophet (Rev. 13:11-18; 16:13), and a high-ranking Catholic leader recently expressed concern that Pope Francis couldbe the False Prophet (Francis is calling for a world government and a world religion, protecting gay priests, compromising on abortion and other traditional Roman Catholic beliefs, etc. If Pope Francis is the False Prophet, events have to move fast becauseof his age). •During the Tribulation Period, people won't be allowed to buy or sell unless they take the Mark, the name of the Antichrist or the number of his name (Rev. 13:17). A long list of influentialpeople are calling for everyone on earth to be vaccinated and marked in the coming months. •For years, some Bible prophecy teachers have taught that tracking all buying and selling requires a cashless society. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced that it will hold its annualmeeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2021 and its theme will be "The Great Reset," which includes a plan to replace cash with a digital currency (and to redistribute your wealth; the cashless society is already shaping up all over the world at storesthat do not have cashiers. Note: As I was preparing to send this article to the editor, I was told that the WEF has delayed its meeting until this summer, but I have not confirmed it). •Famine is a sign of the Second Coming (Matt. 24:7). It is being reported that the demand for food at food banks is up sharply (On Aug. 24, 2020, Pres. Trump increased the spending on certainfood distribution programs by one billion dollars). •The Second Coming will be like the days of Noah (Matt. 24:37) when the wickedness of man was great (Gen. 6:5). People are rioting, looting, burning and injuring people, etc., in Democrat-runcities, and the Democrats in charge appear to be protecting them. •The Tribulation Period will be marked by hyper-inflation and an economic collapse (Rev. 6:5-6), and because of lockdowns due to the Coronavirus, the U.S. has borrowed trillions of dollars tostimulate the economy. The whole world is going broke, and some are saying if people don't go back to work the global economy will collapse, and more. •Pestilence is a sign of the Second Coming (Matt. 24:7). It will be a worldwide pandemic (Rev. 6:7-8) that will cause multitudes to die, and the Coronavirus has been declared to be a worldwidepandemic that it is killing multitudes and will probably get worse. Jesus was asked about the signs of His coming (Second Coming, not the Rapture) and He said, "Now learn a parable of the fig tree (Israel; Hos. 9:10); When his branch is yet tender, and puttethforth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, this generation (perhaps 70-80 years; Psa. 90:10) shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled"(Matt. 24:32-34). More could be said, but anyone that knows very much about the Bible should be able to see the existence of Israel, the fact that Israel has been a nation 72 years, and the prophetic significanceof the current global situation. My granddad would probably have said, "Anyone with one eye and half sense can understand that the last days are shaping up just like the Bible says." Jesus told Daniel the wise will understand the Tribulation-Period events at the time of the end (Dan. 12:8-10). Some global elites are planning to control people's lives, incomes, religion, healthcare, education of their children, force people to live in smaller houses, force people to drive smallercars, and control the kind and amount of heating and cooling people have, etc. Some of this is part of the Green New Deal that Bernie Sanders and the Democrats are pushing in this current election. I want to lovingly remind pastors and teachers that accepting God's call to be a pastor or a teacher includes an awesome responsibility. Pastors and teachers will be rewarded for faithfully preaching and teaching the whole Word of God, including the Second Coming (II Tim. 4:8; I Pet. 5:2-4), but pastors and teachers will receivea greater judgment if they ignore their responsibility (James 3:1). We should not take these words of Jesus lightly, "O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky, but can ye not discern the signs of the times" (Matt. 16:3). More recent current events are as follows: One, natural disasters will increase in frequency and intensity (like birth pains) before the Second Coming. AfterHurricane Laura tore through Louisiana and Texas with winds up to 150 mph, one survivor said, "It looks like 1,000 tornadoes" came through. Two, on August 24, 2020, the president of the Barna research group said one in five churches could permanentlyclose within the next 18 months because of the Coronavirus crisis. Church attendance and giving are down, and many pastors will lose their pulpits. My sympathy goes out to these churches and pastors. But God's Word cannot be silenced. The good news is that some of those pulpits were silent on prophetic matters, and large numbers of their members are tuning in on TV and the Internet tohear what some of the prophetic preachers of our day are saying. If a pastor does not want to preach the whole Word, God can close the pastor's church and feed the members through another venue. Three, on August 26, 2020, Amir Tsarfati reported a buildup of Russian naval vessels in the Mediterranean Seaoff the coast of Syria. What this is all about remains to be seen. Four, following the announcement that the UAE is ending its economic boycott of Israel, Rabbi Yehudah Glick, ofTemple Mount fame, spoke out. It has been reported that he said, "A wave of peace agreements could be a harbinger of a period of peace more conducive to the construction of the Third Temple than the first several decades of modern Israel, which were characterizedby wars." According to the Book of Daniel, there will be a peace treaty and the Temple will be rebuilt. However, the Antichrist will break that peace treaty at the middle of the Tribulation Period (Dan.9:27). He will confirm that treaty, and people will declare peace and safety, but the Antichrist will go forth conquering and to conquer (Thess. 5:3; Rev. 6:1-2). Rabbi Yehudah Glick made another interesting comment, "One of the most significant achievements in this agreement is that this will bring the Arab Muslim citizens of the UAE to the TempleMount to pray." They will not be allowed inside the Dome of the Rock to pray, but they can visit the Temple Mount and pray outside. Glick sees this as an opportunity for Jews, Muslims and Christians to pray together and, eventually, for the Temple Mount tobecome a place of prayer for all people (see Isa. 56:7). This will happen during the Millennium. For those that are interested, I am not predicting the day or the hour of the Rapture, but a friend recently sent the following Ken Potter information to me: Rosh HaShanah 2020 Key Times: START: Sunset in Jerusalem, 9/18/2020 6:40 PM IDT = 9/18/2020 11:40 AM U.S. Eastern FINISH: Sunset in Jerusalem, 9/20/2020 6:38 PM IDT = 9/20/2020 11:38 AM U.S. Eastern SOLAR MIDNIGHT AFTER in Jerusalem, 9/21/2020 12:32 AM = 9/20/2020 5:32 PM U.S. Eastern The following is a link to a video with loads of information about the Feast of Trumpets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Rqe6iCzNif8 Finally, no one knows the day or the hour of our Lord's return, but a growing number of the best Bible prophecy teachers believe one's salvation is an urgent matter. God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God, who died for the sins of the world and was buriedand raised from the dead. Ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, and come into your heart and be your Saviour. Then tell someone that you have done this. Prophecy Plus Ministries, Inc. Daymond Duck Russia and Turkey Getting Cozy? Why It Could Point to Bible Prophecy of Gog and Magog Being Fulfilled - Steve Warren - https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2020/september/russia-and-turkey-getting-cozy-why-it-could-point-to-bible-prophecy-of-gog-and-magog-being-fulfilled Are Russia and Turkey moving closer to a military alliance that was foretold in biblical prophecy? Turkey has announced that Russia will conduct live-fire military exercises in the easternMediterranean Sea starting next week. The drills come as Greece and Turkey - both NATO members - inch closer to military conflict over territorial oil and gas rights in the Aegean Sea. The Russian military exercises are expected to take place in waters where Turkish research vessels are prospecting. The area in question is claimed by both Greece and Cyprus. NATO officials have tried to arrange negotiations between both sides, but Greece insists it will not sit down for talks until Turkey withdraws its vessels from Greek territorial waters. It's not just the Russian regime that Turkey seems to be shifting toward. It's taken other steps away from the US and toward a more extreme brand of Islam. Messianic Jew and prophetic expert Joel Rosenberg recently told CBN News that Turkey's tyrannical leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is moving his country away from its alliance with western powersand moving it toward radical Islamic countries like Iran. "Erdogan is taking his country out of the western moderate camp, into the Iranian, Islamism more radical camp. And that's a long term very serious problem," he said. Rosenberg also believes the recent Israel/United Arab Emirates "Abraham Accord" has prophetic undertones. "What we watch in the book of Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39, which is known as the 'eschatological' future war of Gog and Magog, is the Arab states being very calm and quiet towards Israel.Israel (is) reconstructed, peaceful, prosperous, calm, secure and then a Russian-Iranian-Turkish alliance forming against Israel." The Bible talks about a confederation of nations it calls Gomer, Put, Cush, Persia, Togarmah, Gog, and Magog one day coming against Israel. "Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops-the many nations with you."- Ezekiel38:5-6. "Now, I'm not saying the war with Gog and Magog is imminent," Rosenberg explained. "I'm saying that the trend lines of peace in the Middle East, with a Russian-Iranian-Turkish axis - thisis exactly where we are heading. This is the trajectory, and this is something that should cause all Christians to watch carefully and continue to pray for the peace of Jerusalem." It's the city of Jerusalem that President Erdogan and the leaders of Iran say that one day they want to conquer. One spiritual sign of that came recently when Erdogan converted an ancient Christian church building - the Hagia Sophia - into a functioning mosque. As CBN News reported in July, Erdogan wrotein a Facebook post that the "revival of the Hagia Sophia is a sign towards the return of freedom to the al-Aqsa mosque" in Jerusalem. VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM