How Can We Know with Confidence that we are Facing the Last Days of the End Times?
For those of you who love the truth and hate lies and that which is evil, as I do, the days we are now living through are clearly as the days of Noah were, right before YHWH (God) opened the fountains of the earth, opened the windows of heaven and brought the rain that flooded the earth some 4,600 years ago, drowning all living humans, animals and birds who were not on Noah's ark with him. Yahushua told His disciples in Matthew 24 that the days right before His second coming would be as the days of Noah that we are witnessing today:
"But as the days of Noe (Noah) were, so also shall the coming of the Son of man be (a reference to Himself). For as the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away (they all drowned); so also shall the coming of the Son of man be." Matthew 24:37-39
So there was no obvious warning before the flood began for the vast majority of humanity who perished in it. Genesis 6-8 tells the story of the flood and what led up to it: the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually. The earth was corrupt before YHWH (God), and filled with violence. But Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations, and walked with God. And so God saved Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives, to start the world over after the flood.
This time, there will be no starting over. We are now facing the end of the world that has existed for the last roughly 6,300 years, as measured by the stories of the KJV Bible. We are now standing on the precipice of eternity and over 99% of humanity alive today is totally clueless about that which is soon coming and what it means for them personally. That is the purpose of this article: to explain what's coming and why and how we can know this with almost perfect certainty, and what, if anything, any of us can do about it.
Every time in world history, right before God has brought calamity or a momentous act upon the earth, He has sent His messengers ahead of time to warn the people of what's coming and why and to urge those who can hear their messages to repent and confess of their many sins before it's too late. The Bible refers to these messengers as prophets. These days are no different. Today, YHWH sends me as one of His end times prophets, to warn you of what's coming very soon and why. This message has little to do with me; it has everything to do with Him: with YHWH and Yahushua and with the truth and mercy that they bring us. I am just their faithful and empty vessel and mouthpiece. That is all.
If you go back and examine the lives of the Old Testament prophets and of the Apostles, as I have, you will find that they were opposed, afflicted and reviled by many; in fact by most. God used their lives as visible illustrations of the depravity and sinfulness of the Old Testament nation of Israel under King David and Solomon, and of the northern kingdom of divided Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah, following the reign of Solomon. Many of these prophets were thrown into prison and treated as refuse by the cultures in which they found themselves, through no fault of their own. Without belaboring it, my story over the last 21 years has mirrored theirs in many ways. But through it all, I have remained faithful to honoring YHWH and Yahushua and keeping their commandments, through the power of God's Holy Spirit working in and through me. Everything I have and everything I am is a gift from YHWH who chose me as one of His elect since before the world began. I know this because of the many afflictions He has allowed in my life and how He has shielded and protected me from harm from all of them in many miraculous ways.
Simply put, the KJV Bible is 100% trustworthy, true and reliable. It has proven itself to me to be everything it claims to be and I do not lie. The devil and his many followers have done everything imaginable to try to discredit and impugn the Bible with their endless lies and deliberate distortions. They have all failed. Over time, as a godly man gains wisdom, knowledge and understanding, he discovers that he can fully trust God in all things and that almost all men are wicked fools and liars who cannot and should never be trusted. 22 years ago, learning that I was a fool through an experience I had at the time, I vowed to myself to become truly wise and to do whatever it took to get there. I was truly humbled and ashamed of myself for my folly, and I vowed to myself to correct that any way I could. Today, 22 years later, I can safely say that I have acquired true godly wisdom and can see and understand things today I could never have dreamed was even possible in late 2000. I give all the credit and glory to God for this.
His word, the Bible, was instrumental in teaching me many valuable things that are worth more than gold, silver and precious jewels to me, as the Book of Proverbs teaches. Since that time in late 2000, I have read the Bible from cover to cover nine times and am now embarking on my 10th full read of it. Furthermore, for the last 14 years I have read a chapter from the Book of Proverbs, the book of wisdom, almost every night and for the last seven years, I have been reading the first or the last 75 psalms from the Book of Psalms every sabbath day (Saturday). Why? Because I seek to know God as He is and His ways and to draw closer to Him every day. Today, my life is devoted to bringing God delight in all that I do to please Him out of my gratitude and devotion to serving Him any way that I can. My life is no longer my own. I belong to Him totally and without qualification. None of this would have been possible had He not first broken and humbled me through a number of painful and humiliating life circumstances which caused me to surrender and submit my life and my will fully to the will of YHWH and Yahushua in all things.
Yahushua tells us:
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Matthew 10:34-39
Yahushua was not engaging in hyperbole here: He meant every word of this teaching. I have lost my father, mother, brother, two wives, three children and my home of 34 years for the sake of following Him. Anyone who claims to be a follower of Yahushua the Messiah, who has not paid a similar price, is a self-deceived or knowing liar and fraud. Very few of us who are the real deal exist, but I am one of those few. I have no regrets. I have my character and my integrity fully intact, and that means everything to me.
Over the course of the last eleven years, YHWH has led me to the work of many others, mainly in book form, which have revealed to me that virtually everything I was ever told or taught up until that point (age 57) was a bald-faced lie and I discovered the unpleasant truth in each instance. Over the past eight or nine years, I have authored and published six books sharing what I have discovered with those rare few who care to know the truth. I have discovered that this group is a very small fraction of humanity alive today. Very few people truly have any interest in the truth. That makes those that have no love for the truth to be willfully ignorant wicked fools and liars themselves. And none of this is any accident. The Bible tells us that this would be the case right at the end of God's prophetic biblical end times timeline, as follows:
"Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ (the Messiah), and shall deceive many (think in terms of all forms of false, organized religion, all of which are, and always have been, demonic). And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye not be troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in diverse places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then many shall be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another (I have experienced this many times often, very painfully). And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end shall be saved." Matthew 24:4-13 (Parenthetical added for clarity; boldface added for emphasis)
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." 2 Timothy 3:1-7
I have personally witnessed every one of these behaviors over the last 22 years in my own life. Furthermore, these times are unlike any other in all of world history before now. I assert this because, as I have explained in several of my books, eleven end times Bible prophecies have been perfectly fulfilled in the last seven to eight years. I don't have the time, space or inclination to describe all those events in detail here yet again, but here is the list of them, which I personally have witnessed being fulfilled:
Matthew 24:15-16 and 21
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Matthew 10:26-28
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
2 Timothy 3:1-7 (quoted above)
2 Timothy 4:3-4
2 Peter 3:3-7
Daniel 12:10
Daniel 12:6-7 and 12:11
Daniel 12:12 and Revelation 19:9
Matthew 24:29 and Revelation 6:12-14
The last one of these is vitally important for me to explain and for you to understand however. Let me first quote these verses and then break them down for you:
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." Matthew 24:29 (Boldface added for emphasis)
"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake (a symbol for a great social upheaval); and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. and the the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places." Revelation 6:12-14 (Parenthetical added for clarity; boldface added for emphasis)
Both of these passages are using slightly different wording to describe the same singular event that has now already happened. What is striking is that almost no one has picked up on this, because these passages are using figurative language and metaphors to describe what would occur right here at the end of time. Yahushua the Messiah used parables when He taught His lessons to the people and He explained to His disciples that He did this so that many who saw with their eyes would see but not perceive and would hear with their ears and not understand His messages, lest they would be converted and be saved. He only wished for the elect to fully grasp and understand the intent of His teachings, and so He used parables to conceal His deep spiritual messages. Likewise, virtually the entire Book of Revelation is expressly signified, Revelation 1:1 tells us. By this, the Apostle John meant that it almost entirely uses figurative language, metaphors and symbols to conceal its true intent from the profane: those who are not intended by God to understand such things, namely the non-elect. Fortunately, scripture interprets scripture for us, so we don't have to guess; we just have to know where to look, either by skillfully using a Concordance, or by knowing where the other passages in the Bible exist which interpret each of these prophetic signs for us.
In the case of the sun and moon growing dark and the stars falling (another way of describing them growing dark or not functioning as God intended them to function), we can go to Genesis 37:9-10 to guide as to what they signify. Here's that passage:
"And he (Joseph, son of Jacob) dreamed yet another dream, and he told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance (bowed) to me. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?" Genesis 37:9-10 (Parenthetical added for clarity)
So in this instance, Jacob, Joseph's father, instantly recognized what his son's dream signified: the sun represented the father Jacob, the moon signified his wife and Joseph's mother and the eleven stars alluded to Joseph's eleven brothers. So in this instance, the sun, moon, and stars represented different levels of parental or family authority. In other contexts, such as in the two passages we are examining here, these celestial bodies can signify various levels of governmental authority as well (such as national, state and local government authorities). When they grow dark or fall, this is figurative language that suggests that they grow oppressive and tyrannical. These are the very conditions that mark the last 2 1/2 years worldwide in response to the Covid pandemic scam and fraud in which the New World Order global elites have come out into the open, bared their fangs and terrorized the world's populaces with misplaced fear mongering. At no time in all of world history have we ever before witnessed such universal and global terror campaigns being waged against most of the peoples of the world. But now we have.
So if I am right in my analysis here, and I am highly confident that I am for a number of other reasons, knowing that these two prophecies have now been fulfilled allows us to pinpoint with amazing accuracy just where are in God's prophetic biblical timeline. If I am right on this, it means that the great tribulation is now already over. It came and went and almost no one noticed it. It also means that the passages that immediately follow these two passages we have been examining together reveal what must happen quite shortly hereafter. So let's read those passages which follow to see what they are telling us:
"And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man (a euphemism for Yahushua the Messiah) in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet (this corresponds with the seventh trumpet judgment of Revelation 8 sounding, but may not be one and the same thing; the Bible is silent on this), and they shall gather together the elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." Matthew 24:30-31 (Parentheticals added for clarity)
"And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne (namely YHWH, or God), and from the wrath of the Lamb (of YHWH or God, namely, Yahushua the Messiah): For the great day of his wrath is come; and who is able to stand?" Revelation 6:15-17
So these two following passages are both describing the second coming of the Messiah or Christ from the different perspectives of God's elect on the one hand, and the non-elect, the wicked and the foolish, on the other. This prophesied event marks the end of the world and of time and marks the beginning of eternity.
This really doesn't require rocket science to figure out. It just requires diligence and careful thinking on the part of someone who has God's Holy Spirit of truth in him to guide him into all truth. The fact that no one else is teaching and revealing this vitally important message reveals just how few of YHWH's true elect exist today. Put simply, the number of truly honest men of integrity in our world today is very few. This should be profoundly sobering to everyone reading these words. But it's not, because the vast majority of mankind is too reprobate and too far gone to give a damn about the truth and doing that which is right, and this is because God has orchestrated it this way, right here at the end of time and the end of the world.
How can I possibly say such a thing? Because I have read the Bible intently for over the last two decades and I have YHWH's Holy Spirit in me guiding me into all truth. Here is the evidence from scripture that God is much more active in our lives and in world history than almost anyone acknowledges:
"The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (YHWH). Proverbs 16:1
The LORD (YHWH) hath made all things for himself; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4
"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD (YHWH) directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9
"Man's goings are of the LORD (YHWH); how can a man then understand his own way?" Proverbs 20:24
"A king's heart is in the hand of the LORD (YHWH), as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will." Proverbs 21:1
"There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD (YHWH)." Proverbs 21:30
"The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD (YHWH)." Proverbs 21:31
Furthermore, the stories of the Bible, especially in the Old Testament, tell us that God hardened the heart of Pharaoh and other rulers in order to demonstrate God's awesome power and might. Moreover, scripture that was inspired by God tells us that He is is the author of both all that is good, and all that is evil:
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD (YHWH) do all these things." Isaiah 45:7
As I have reflected on all of these things, and reflected on events that have happened in my own life, I have come to realize that every thought, person and circumstance that comes into each of our lives from birth to death finds its origin and first cause in God, and that the same is true of all events in all of world history: God is orchestrating everything for His divine purpose, even though we usually have no clue that He is an active participant, orchestrator and initiator in everything that occurs to each of us throughout our lives.
Natural or carnal man does not want to accept this premise for a variety of reasons. Such people want to be their own little gods and they really have no use for a sovereign creator and God who, in truth, controls everything behind the scenes. They like to think of themselves as captains of their ships and masters of their destinies. But in truth, nothing could be further from the truth. Their pride, arrogance and lack of humility gets in the way of their understanding how life and the world really work. In truth, nothing is really about us; it is ALL about Him!
I know this having lived on both sides of this divide over my adult life. In my own case, and I believe for everyone who now sees the world as I do, I had to be broken and brought to the end of myself, desperate and out of answers to the foot of the cross where I fully submitted, surrendered and gave up trying to live my life on my own in a world I clearly did not fully understand. So for me, it was easy: I was humiliated and humbled by a God, YHWH, who was clearly more powerful than I could have ever imagined. Over time, I learned of his benevolence, mercy, grace and infinite brilliance as well. But first came fear and terror over what eternal torment in a burning lake of fire and brimstone really looked like. God gave me a premonition of that that brought me to my knees and changed me forever. I will never forget it. It has driven everything I have done ever since that event in my life 21 years ago.
Carnal or natural man falsely assumes that if God is orchestrating everything, that this reduces him to being a mere robot or a puppet on a string with no ability to choose how he lives his life. Nothing could be further from the truth. The notion that man has a "free will" that is more powerful and can thwart the sovereign will of almighty God is absurd on its face and contradicts many verses in scripture, meaning that man is lying (to himself) or God is lying, when He never does. If God's will is not sovereign and does not trump everything else, then God is powerless and impotent and is no God, and all of faith (trust) in God is a fraud and a sham. I can assure you that God does not lie. So mankind is the one who is in gross error here. But I will never convince a wicked fool of anything, and so I won't even try. You will either accept this premise as truth, or you won't. It's just that simple. But if you cling to your vain and foolish notion that you are more powerful than God, you will live to regret it for all eternity; that I guarantee.
If I am right here that everything is scripted, orchestrated and predestinated by God, and I am right, then the mess that our world is in today is no accident, nor its it being steered by the global elites who worship the devil, they are not even being controlled by the devil himself: they are being orchestrated by God for His sovereign purposes through these other entities that He chooses to use for these purposes. He has been setting up world conditions for thousands of years to bring us to the precipice on which we now find ourselves standing, where it appears that the world is about to collapse into pure evil. It appears that way to all of us because God is guiding each one of our thoughts and perceptions along these lines for a deliberate purpose that only He fully knows. At many levels, I think I understand what He is trying to accomplish. Part of this is to demonstrate His unfathomable power, brilliance and might to all of humanity alive today. Another part of it is to bring a few of us, the remnant of His elect, to give up and to trust Him fully that He, and He alone knows what He is doing and fully controls, for His divine purposes. This is what true, ultimate faith and trust in Him looks like. You either have it, as a gift from God, or you don't. It's just that simple. If you don't have it, you will never figure out how this story will end and it will quite literally confound you and drive you insane, by His intentional design.
Well over 99% of those who profess themselves to be Christians are self-deceived or knowing frauds. They are vain liars who are willfully ignorant, biblically illiterate and mistakenly think that they are clever enough that they can con God. They don't realize that God deliberately created them that way to fulfill His divine purposes. Even I can readily see right through most of these wicked fools and con artists. I have just about seen it all. I generally don't reveal what I can see, because it would serve no useful purpose. I learn more about them when they think they have conned me. So I just stay quiet and observe their actions and their words. A wise, upright and godly man reveals very little of what he sees and knows to wicked fools. They'll just heap abuse upon him if he does. I've endured enough abuse at the hands of wicked fools to last me ten lifetimes. I've had enough of that. But make no mistake about it: I see it all and I understand it all. I just keep it largely to myself.
Carnal man sees the events of the last 2 1/2 years as God has created him to view them. Usually, now that the global elite beast system has come out of hiding and is now brazenly out in the open, he blames the global politicians and their elite Illuminati puppet masters hiding behind the scenes as the ultimate perpetrators of mankind's predicament today. This is because carnal man is incapable of seeing his own depravity and role in bringing about a world that is pure evil, wicked, cruel, foolish and selfish. We all have had a role to play in bringing about the calamity that now looms just up ahead that is both inevitable and unstoppable, and which seems to be coming at us in slow motion. A few of us have confessed and repented for our prior misdeeds and have asked for and received God's mercy, grace and forgiveness for our past sins. But most of mankind is incapable of admitting to and accepting any responsibility for their role in creating this mess we all now are facing. So most of humanity lies to themselves and lies endlessly to others so as to avoid confronting their own total depravity and sinfulness. God hates and abhors all lies and liars and he protects and loves those who are His, who are of the truth and who treat others they way they wish to be treated.
The simple truth is that we all are eternal beings. We will live forever. Given this ultimate reality, how we live our lives on this earth tests and proves our characters for our eternities: either in a new heaven and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, or in eternal torment in a burning lake of fire and brimstone that lasts forever. In the end, we all will get what we deserve; and deep down, we all know it.
We are all born deceitful, selfish, sinful, wicked and foolish and separated from a right relationship with God and heading to eternal torment in the burning lake of fire and brimstone when we die. We are all born to lose. So we all start on a level playing field and most of end up fulfilling this description of man to the bitter end and regretting it forever. This has been God's intentional plan all along. But for a very few of us, a remnant, God intervenes powerfully in our lives and opens our hearts and minds to the unpleasant truth of our own total depravity and wickedness. The circumstances are almost always different. But the effect is always the same. It breaks us and brings us to the utter end of ourselves: broken, desperate and out of answers. God shows us why we ought to fear Him and we do. And then He offers the few of us a second chance: a pardon for our past sins, if we will submit and surrender our lives and our wills to His and His son, Yahushua the Messiah, and do life His way from that point forward for ever. God must orchestrate everything, since we are spiritually dead and spiritually dead people can do nothing to save themselves, so God must do it all. And He does, as an act of His infinite grace and mercy that none of us deserves. He offers us forgiveness, a pardon, if we will fear Him and keep His commandments, by submitting to the guidance of His Holy Spirit which He puts inside of us. This is what Yahushua refers to as being born again in the Spirit to Nicodemus in John 3:3:
"Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
Over time thereafter, we grow increasingly to think and to act as He thinks and acts, as revealed to us through scripture and we manifest His character of humility, nobility and grace in a world that has none of those things. We're vastly outnumbered by those who are wicked and foolish, and seemingly out-gunned. But we have God shielding and protecting us from harm, even though He allows many painful afflictions to come into our lives to refine and chasten our characters over time. With all-knowing, all-powerful God on our side, no one can prevail against us. Our task is to learn how to trust Him completely. This is the ultimate purpose for the collection of forces that now appear to be converging on a calamity of truly biblical proportions. God is seeking to test and strengthen our faith in Him.
This does not imply that God wishes for us to remain passive in the meantime. In fact, quite the opposite is the case. God expects us to discover our calling from Him and to live it out faithfully to serve as a witness to the world of what true honesty, compassion and righteousness looks like, who God is, how He operates and to lead others by our own good examples in a world desperately lacking in true heroes. The calling He has created me to fulfill is the same one which He called upon the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel to fulfill, as laid out in Ezekiel 3:17-21 and 33:1-11. He has called me to blow the trumpet and sound the alarm of the coming calamity upon all of humanity, to teach and explain what's coming and why, and to urge the few who are able, namely His elect, to confess and repent of their many sins and to submit and surrender their lives fully to His son, Yahushua the Messiah, while there is still time remaining to do so. Today, that time is nearly up. His elect will understand and grasp my messages and teachings and heed them. His non-elect will not. But I have faithfully done my part and I am at peace, knowing who I belong to without hesitation or qualification. Now it's entirely up to you.