A Needed Wake-Up Call

 A Needed Wake-Up Call – Jonathan Brentner - https://www.jonathanbrentner.com/https/jonathan-brentner-g8fgsquarespacecom/config/2023/1/3/a-needed-wake-up-call A Growing Number of People Recognize Something Is Very Wrong With The Global Increase In Sudden Deaths For the past two years, it’s been happening across the world, but now millions have seen it on live TV during a Monday night NFL game. The sight of Damar Hamlin suddenly collapsing on the playing field shocked a great many people, including me. Fortunately, emergency response personnel were able to get hisheart beating again, although he remains in critical condition at the present time. Our prayers go out to him, his family, and his teammates. Dr. Peter A. McCullough, one of the most prominent cardiologists in America, believes that doctors treating Hamlin should seriously consider myocarditis as the cause of Hamlin’ssudden heart attack. Since January of 2021, instances of this heart condition have risen exponentially among teenagers and young adults, which in some cases has led to death. A GLOBAL INCREASE IN DEATHS A growing number of people recognize that something is very wrong with the excessive number of sudden deaths across the world. Although Hamlin is still alive, his cardiacarrest highlights this matter. A Rasmussen poll, released on January 2, 2023, reveals that nearly half of Americans suspect that COVID-19 shots may be to blame for the significant increase in unexplaineddeaths. About one in four believe they know someone who died from them.[i] Hamlin received a booster injection on December 26, six days before collapsing on the field. Almost every day, I read of someone under the age of 45 having a severe stroke or dying from a heart attack. It’s far too often that I see an account of a teenager suddenlydying in this way. THE DEPOPULATION AGENDA OF THE ELITE In several previous posts, I have written about the depopulation plans of the globalists. Yet many believers and pastors believe such a matter is far too extreme to even consideras true. The elite, however, have no problem openly admitting their deadly agenda. Some time ago, I listened to a talk that Bill Gates gave several years ago in which he clearly statedthat a fifteen percent fatality result of a vaccine would be acceptable. If you apply that percentage to the number of people in the U.S. that have taken the now famous injection, you arrive at thirty million deaths. Just yesterday, I watched a lady via social media tell Klaus Schwab, the head of the World Economic Forum, that the world needs to get back to the population of five hundredyears ago because only that low number will be sustainable for the future. Several months ago, I heard another globalist set the goal of America’s population for the year 2025 at one hundred million. That stunned me! Such depopulation talk is all too common among the elite powerbrokers, but very few people are paying attention. A WAKE-UP CALL FOR US AND FOR PASTORS Regardless of what caused Hamlin’s sudden heart attack, it should be a wakeup call for all of us, and especially for those tasked with caring for the body of Christ. Pastorscan no longer deny the reality of the rapidly approaching fulfillment of Revelation 4-18. The words of the Apostle John in these chapters are not symbolic or past history; they represent prophecy regarding the future of the world. We see the precursors ofthese judgments all throughout the world. We may have mere hours left before Jesus’ appearing or it may be days, weeks, months, or even much longer. A myriad of signs points to the fact that normal as we know it israpidly coming to an end. The spirit of the antichrist is already hard at work in advance of his unveiling to the world, which cannot happen until after the Rapture. The words of Romans 13:11-12 apply to us today perhaps better than at any previous day: Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; theday is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. The saints need repeated reminders of their imminent and joyous hope in Jesus’ appearing during this dark age in history. Yet many pastors never mention the “blessed hope” of the Gospel with even more denying its biblical basis. A TIME FOR LOOKING UP With all my heart, I believe the prophetic signs of today point to the nearness of the Rapture; I say this because everything I see shouts to the closeness of the seven-yearTribulation. I also know that the Lord is both sovereign and all-powerful. From our perspective, He may forestall the start of this horrific time on the earth for a longer time than wecan imagine and with it His return to take us home to glory. Regardless, now is the time for looking up and holding the things of this life loosely in our hands. I cannot forget the sight of Hamlin suddenly dropping dead with a rapidemergency response required to bring him back to life; I pray he fully recovers. If this had happened sixty years ago, it still would’ve gotten our attention in a dramatic way. But now, how much more should it alert us to the perilous times in which welive? Although many things in our world often shock us, as believers we have a joyous and glorious hope. We are ever so close to the fulfillment of the prophetic words that Paulwrote in 1 Corinthians 15:50-57 the words below from 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17: For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For theLord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in theclouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. In these passages and in many others, the Bible describes the biblical event we call the “Rapture” and tells of a day in which not all believers will die, but the Lord willtransform their bodies and catch them up to meet Him in the air. My hope is to be alive at the time of the Rapture and I believe it’s a valid expectation given the closeness of the Day of the Lord. Keep looking up, the Lord is coming soon to take us to glory (John 14:1-3; Colossians 3:1-4). Maranatha! My book, The Triumph of the Redeemed-An eternal Perspective that Calms Our Fears in Perilous Times, is available on Amazon. In it, I provide a solid biblical foundation forGod’s restoration of a glorious kingdom for Israel and our hope in Jesus’ imminent appearing. Note: Please consider signing up for my newsletter on the homepage of my website at https://www.jonathanbrentner.com/. It will help me reach more people. Thanks! [i]https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/public_surveys/died_suddenly_more_than_1_in_4_think_someone_they_know_died_from_covid_19_vaccines