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The Sky is Falling, Chicken Little!
How can we tell that the end is near? Prophets have been saying this for almost 2000 years. For a time the disciples thought it would be in their day. Evolutionists say it will occur in five billion years when the sun becomes a red giant and engulfs the earth. Some say it is already here.
Most of the signs have been around for years, so how do we know when they will be significant?
When the disciples asked Jesus this question, He gave them a list of supernatural signs: (earthquakes, dark day, sky falling and the powers of the heavens shaken). But He gave one specific sign.
This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached to all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end shall come. (Matthew 24: 14)

Signs of the End of the World
I have based my understanding of the significance of the signs on the convergence of the signs. This means that I did not look at any one specific sign. I looked at all the critical signs and powers that are to be in operation just before the end. Then I looked at how global or influential or powerful they were. Finally, I looked at which signs were missing and how easily they could be fulfilled. As a result, my conclusion is that the only missing signs are the preaching of the gospel, the final persecution and the seven last plagues. I have evidence that the Holy Spirit is being poured out to fulfill this last sign, because Joel 2 is now being fulfilled.
So these are the signs and conditions of the world during the end.

Prophecy	The Time of the End
	Dark ages						Time of the end
Time Prophecy	2520 years (Babylon Fallen)										Babylon Returns
	2300 years								Judgment
	1335 years								Church regains power			Church #1		Babylon falls					1000 Years
	1290 years						Church is wounded					Church and state unite					Seven Last Plagues	Second Coming
	-	1260 years Persecution							USA Grows			USA #1	Europe	The Beast
														The Image	Now	The Mark
Church	-	Two witnesses							The Three Angel's Message							Tribulation
Day (Work while it is still day)																	Night (No Work)
Seed	Growing															Harvest	Reaping	Fruit	Weeds
Feasts	Trumpets								Yom Kippur									Tabernacles
8 Heads	Five fallen heads							Sixth head			Seventh head					Eighth Head
Seals		5	Sixth seal															Seventh seal
Churches	3	4					5	6	Seventh Church								Global Israel United
Trumpets	3	4					5	6	Seventh Trumpet									Rescue
Trumpets	Interpretation #2				1	2	3	4	5			Sixth Trumpet					Seventh Trumpet
Horses	Zechariah's Horses											Red		Black			Grey Horse
Thunders	Thunders Sealed								1	2	3			4		5	Sixth	Seventh
Matthew 24	Tribulation							The days of Noah				Deceptive miracles				False Christ		Second Coming
			Signs					Evolution				Global Climate Change
Date	530	538	1755	1780	1789	1798	1833	1843	1844	1929	1981	1991	2000	2001	Now	Sunday laws
Event			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	9	12	14	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Fulfilled Prophecy																Unfulfilled Prophecy
The 2300 days (Daniel 8: 14) began in 457 BC and ended in 1844. The period known as the "time of the end" formally begins in 1798. It starts at the end of many long prophetic time periods and the rise to power of groups and governments that will be significant in the end. It has the following events: November 1, 1755 - The great Lisbon earthquake. May 19, 1780 - The mysterious dark day over Northern America. 1789 - The French Revolution. 1798 (Papacy Falls) - The 1260 and 1290 year prophecies end. The Papacy officially loses power ending 1260 years of religious tyranny. November 13, 1833 - The stars fell in the great Leonid meteor shower that gave life to modern astronomy. The last super power (The Unites States of America) is rising to prominence and is now in ancient Babylon. 1844 (Judgment Sealed) - The 1335 year and 2300 year prophecy ends and judgment for the saints begins. Blue Laws instituted and are not generally enforced. 1929 (Wound Healed) - The Papacy regains some of its power when the Lateran treaty is signed and the church receives possession of land and political autonomy. 1945 - The second world war ends and with it goes the power of monarchies. New forms of government are introduced. 1980's - The Moral Majority comes out in the open, vowing to take over every political office "from dog catcher to school administrator to the presidency of the United States". By 2000, the gay rights supporters have adopted the same strategy to defeat "anti-gay bigots" at the state level by electing pro-gay law makers. Because iniquity [lawlessness] is increased, the love of many will grow cold. (Matthew 24: 12) 1981 (Babylon Revived) - Babylon the Great is now allied with ancient prophecy as a 2520 year prophecy ends. 1981-1982 - The secret alliance between the pope and Ronald Reagan to end communism creates the beast named Babylon the Great. 1989-1991 (The Seventh Head) - The seventh head (USA and the Papacy) defeats the sixth head (communism). The Soviet Union collapses leaving the United States as the only super power for the near future. This occurred because of the union of the USA and the Papacy to defeat communism. 1991-1992 - The United states of America is officially the only remaining super power. The soviet Union has collapsed and In a symbolic transfer of power, the new Babylon defeats the old Babylon in the Persian Gulf War. The Catholic Coalition is intent on becoming a political force in the United States by controlling a voting block that represents 25% of the population of the United States. The European Union uses the same currency. 2001 (The Lamb Becomes a Dragon) - The Homeland Security Office forms with powers that are similar to the beast power during the dark ages. They have psychologically justified torture as a legal tool as we discovered in May 2004 from the disgraceful treatment of the prisoners of Abu Ghraib. A group with this type of power that is controlled by the United States will be used to enforce the mark of the beast. Current time. The image of the beast is being created. We can see external evidence of it by the recent behavior of the United States in their contempt for law, vilification of non-supporters and use of abhorrent tactics. The time of trouble seems to have started. The Mark of the beast. Europe has already taken the legal and social steps to justify this enforcement of Sunday Laws. The Seven Last Plagues. The Second Coming marks the beginning of the millennium. Millennium

Most Important Sign (Gospel Preached). This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached to all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end shall come. (Matthew 24: 14)
This is the only sign which indicates that the end is near. The other signs only indicate that we are approaching the end of time. The bible seems to suggest that there will be one year of preaching the Gospel effectively, followed by one year of plagues. I am confident that the gospel preached by persuasion and not by force can occur in one to four years.
» The Latter Rain. The great outpouring of the Holy Spirit will provide the supernatural gifts that we will need to appeal to the world. Simultaneously, the Holy Spirit will be softening the hearts of the people so that they will be curious and they will obey.

Political Signs (Influential Powers). Only two to four powers are important in the end.

• United States and the Image to the Beast. The lamb with two horns now speaks as a dragon. The power called by God to protect the persecuted people of Europe has now been corrupted by the forces of evil that were operating in Europe. As of September 2001, it might have officially started speaking as a dragon because it has made laws that reflect the persecuting powers of the dark ages. It has formed the image to the beast because of several activities.
  • Cooperation with the Church. Ronald Reagan and the Pope conspiring to end communism. George Bush consistently flirts with the church. He has created two religious laws that are a back door way of supporting the church despite the constitution. And the media is strangely silent on this issue. I wonder why? Could it be that this is a strategic military move in winning a propaganda war. Is the media is now secretly controlled by the church? Has their former rabid scorn of the church has been curbed?
  • USA Patriot Freedom Act 2001. These laws are adequate for persecution.
  • Homeland Security Office. Their power resembles the courts of Inquisition in the medieval times.
  • Religious Support. It has gotten around the law establishing religion. It will be interesting to see how much they will distribute to churches from the billions of dollars that will be used to fund the "Faith Based Initiative" and the "School Voucher Bill".
    Catholic programs receive 55% of their funding from the government through faith based initiative.

    An Impotent Legal Process After seven years, even with a global and national outcry, the opinion of most lawyers and decent human beings, many decisions of the supreme court and lower courts, people are still being held without charges, or after being exonerated, with no basic legal and civil rights, while being tortured and there is no end in sight. When persecution comes, the legal climate is not an indication of rational behavior. We will languish in despair and oppression. We will be tortured and forgotten while the rest of the world is bogged down under cowardice and inaction as decent people whimper a protest and despots roar profane laws.

  • Abandoning the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Except for the second, all other rights have been done away with under the new terrorist bill. For the end time saints, bearing arms is not a right we care to exercise.
    1. Prohibits government established religion.
    2. Right to bear arms
    3. Use of private property in peace time
    4. Unreasonable search
    5. Self incrimination
    6. Fair and speedy trial
    7. Jury Trial
    8. Excessive bail or torture
    9. All other rights belong to the people. The office of Homeland Security has taken more rights.
  • The Lamb that Speaks like a Dragon. This gentle country changes. No one with eyes and ears will disagree that politically, we are now like the dragon. At least the rest of the world thinks so.
    Just like the medieval church, we have persecution laws and torture is now a tool to be used.
• Catholic Church. They will be the major religion and they will enforce their dogmas. In order to make the vision of Fatima (1927) come true, that Russia must be converted and dedicated to Mary, its goal had been to end this power. It even supported Adolph Hitler because it thought Hitler would destroy Russia.
  Now it is proceeding with its mission to control the world. However, despite its goal to topple the United States (as it helped to end communism), it must work with the United States.
• Europe. It is seen in Revelation 17 as giving its power to the church. The prophecy of Daniel 2 claims that attempts at a political reunion like the old Roman empire would fail. However, unity by church control will occur.
• Spiritualism. Demons working miracles will influence these powers and the people of the world. Already the demonic appearances of "Mary" is driving the pope and Catholic eschatology - giving it the confidence to proceed with its mission to rule the world under Catholic law.
  Popular, rich and powerful celebrities are promoting new age philosophy, while disparaging Christianity.
  A December 2009 Pugh report showed that 29% of Americans claimed to talk to the dead, 14% consult phychics, 60% mix religion with astrology, yoga and new age beliefs.
  The new age concepts of reincarnation and becoming gods are being promoted by a variety of very influential people, organizations and public stations like PBS. Disguised as self-help philosophies and sometimes quoting the Bible even appealing to the prosperity ministry and postitve thinking mind set, they are portrayed as a tolerant, loving and god-like path to creating harmony and success. However, they are promoting evolution, Buddhism, Hinduism and Scientology while disparging Christianity.
  As these man-made personal religions infiltrate society, their vocabulary creeps into our conversations and skillfully snake themselves through our religious jargon until we accept the similarities to Christianity at some level with the accompanying baggage that God condemns.
  » Positive Thinking. The concept has become a religion. It has been elevated above a mental truth about the physical effects of depression and hopelessness to this attitude that can physically transform us into gods so that we can get anything we wish for by attracting it to ourselves. Amazingly, the scientific minds have somehow been trapped into a sort of magical thinking that I call "Wishing Well religion" and is possibly a reflection of the punishment of God called "Reprobate Minds". Instead of being wise, we are becoming fools.

Social Signs. God says that the increase in the immoral social climate can be traced to one event.

• The Theory of Evolution ("Planet of the Apes Descended from the Apes"). According to the bible we were created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1: 26-27).
  In the Image of God. God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Genesis 1: 27)
  However, the bible says that there will come a time when people will ignore evidence of His power and worship or give credit to the creature, believing that there were created from lower animals.
  Willingly Suppressing the Truth. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
  He Gives Evidence. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
  Futile Speculations of Foolish Scientists. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
  ... In the Image of Crawling Creatures and Beasts. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
  Immorality is the Result. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (Romans 1: 18-25)

  The Message of the First Angel In 1844, God sent a warning to the world around the same time that the theory of Evolution was gaining ground. Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Revelation 14: 7) God is the Creator

  
  The futile speculations of evolution began in the 1830's through the work of many atheists, Hegel, Lamark and Darwin. It says that we crawled out of the slime as worms, then fish, then cockroaches, then frogs, then lizards, then dinosaurs, then birds, then mice, then apes, then man. Soon we will be gods. God accuses them of suppressing the truth and being willingly stupid. God further claims that He has revealed their error to them.
  The Wild Kingdom. 1800 years before the theory of evolution emerged, the prophet correctly saw the theories of the future. In the same way that the ancients substituted an image of God for idols in the form of many species of animals, modern man has accepted an image of his origins from birds, animals and reptiles.
  The consequences of this belief about our origins are astounding. We have no restraints or reason to consider the claims of God. We feel free to pursue any immoral passion and we begin to act like the wild animals that we hope are our parents. If we are descended from apes then there are no rules to obey but our own. But if we are descended from God, then perhaps there is accountability.
  » Insulting God. When we believe that we have evolved from animals or worship animals we are saying that God is an animal and as his image we can behave like animals. The result will be unnatural emotions, homosexuality, depravity and lawlessness.
  
  Homosexuality. For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
  Depraved Minds. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. (Romans 1: 26-32)
  Some of this brutal behavior can be seen in the theory of "survival of the fittest" and with the belief that this human behavior is just a mindless reaction to brain chemicals that can be fixed with a pill. So humans are also seen as a collection of chemicals and parts that can be swapped and changed at will. Every destructive, immoral choice is now "an uncontrollable disease". Our children join gangs and emulate the vicious, promiscuous and territorial behavior of wild animals, quoting these theories as an explanation of their behavior.
• God Is the Creator (Revelation 14:7). To counteract the theory of Evolution, one message that God predicts in the last days, is that we will look to Him as the creator because He will provide amazing evidence that makes fools of our best scientific minds. While the world is heading towards mental depravity, God is heading towards sanity by giving concrete evidence of His power. Scholars are in awe about the technology of the ancients by looking at the pyramids and the Aztec drawings that can only be seen from space and large gnomons and buildings that chart the movement of the sun and moon. However, through a direct revelation from God beginning in December 2008, we show among other things that the Bible accurately outlined the Periodic Table, has a more superior model of particle physics than the standard model and explains DNA structure and replication!
  
  » God Is the Greatest Scientist. We have amazing evidence that the Bible is a book of science, not a book of fables. God predicted that He would confront this foolishness of our wise men with His own evidence.
  Science Cannot Compete With God. For it is written, "I will destroy the widsom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will set aside. Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of the age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? (1 Corinthians 1: 19)
  Man's Wisdom is Foolishness. Therefore, behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous. And the wisdom of their wise men will perish. And the discernment of their discerning men will be concealed. (Isaiah 29: 14)
  However, some mockers and critics will submit and listen. Specifically, Israel will be willing to learn. They will reject evolution and accept the statements of the Torah and they will accept their Messiah. Then the rest of the world will follow their lead and look at the convincing evidence.
  Critics Learn: Shock and Awe. Therefore thus says the Lord who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face now turn pale; but when he sees his children, the work of my hands in his midst they will sanctify My name; indeed they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel. Those who err in mind will know the truth, and those who criticize will accept instruction." (Isaiah 29: 22-24)
• Turning to Fables. God demonstrates that we are fools. So our reprobate minds will believe in fables.
  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4: 3-4)
  The bible is a clear, logical and consistent treasure trove of prophecy which is repeated. What is not appreciated is that although there are different interpretations by various groups that the differences mostly lie in when or where a predicted event will occur and who will fulfill it.
  • Educational Channels. Despite the fact that the Bible appears to be the one religion that is full of prophecy, educational channels insist on presenting obscure and confusing prophetic view of the future while barely examining the major biblical views.
    • Nostradamus. These prophecies are presented in many different shows, yet they completely ignore the confusing language that could be applied to any time period and any event. They change and combine quatrains and also ignore the fact that a vast majority of them are nonsense, unfulfilled and that Nostradamus was no more accurate than any chance prediction of any television psychic or clandestine tarot reader.
    • Bible Codes. Imagine using an acrostic crossword puzzle as a method of predicting the future. You might as well be reading tea leaves! Yet this nonsense is presented as scientific when it fails every measure of being scientific. Its predictions fail, or are discovered after the events and they can be shown to predict anything. Yet the History Channel will continually present Bible Code nonsense and ignore the accuracy of fulfilled prophecy. For political correctness I can understand them ignoring certain future prophecies, but it is unbelievable to me that no one has taken the Old Testament and gone through it methodically to show how they predict the life and death of Christ in such clear, consistent detail.
  • Fictional Works (The Brownian Effect). Author Dan Brown has pulled off the equivalent of a magician's trick. He authored several books on religious fiction, beginning with the Davinci Codes, and then started to market it as possiilities, then as facts. He is now very invested in finding symbols and marks on old buildings and building a fictional power play around them.
    The stupid public seem to be so intrigued by the game of finding symbols and hidden meanings that they have begun to believe the lie because they have blurred the lines between fact and fiction. Yet, the Bible symbols and their meanings and its intriguing meanings sit unread on a dusty shelf. I was so impressed with the attention to detail, the clear meaning and the art of how God weaved His prophecies together that I cannot read another book. I cannot be stupid!
  • Fictional Lifestyles. The Brownian effect seems to have originated in the minds of the television culture. We are taught to be entertained and to have others tell us what to think because truth is a relative science that can be uncovered by scientific investigation. Truth is agreed upon by group concensus.
    • Vampires. Clubs meet to drink each other's blood. Children tattoo themselves and make cosmetic changes to look like demons and vampires.
    • Harry Potter. This book has made it fashionable to turn to the fables of witchcraft.
    • Humans, Angels and Demons. There are so many television shows and books that seem to be laying a script of the last battle that I cannot ignore the belief that Satan is the source. Humans are lulled into thinking that they can defy God, or God needs their cooperation and that the demons are equal to the angels.
  • Fictional or Wishful Thinking. This is like faith in yourself as God.
    People are flocking to expensive modern day gurus to hear "positive thinking" messages that teach that you can attract miracles in your life and obtain anything you want by thinking about it, even changing our genetic structure, because we are god at our core. While there is some truth to the statement, "you are what you believe" and excessive preoccupation with the most negative thoughts will affect your thinking and behavior so that it will drive away others, there is a limit to wishful thinking. Yet people mock faith as they turn towards any garbage that will satisfy their inner wishes.
• Like the Days of Noah and Lot. At the very end, two civilizations under judgment ignored the last critical signs. They even ignored signs that pointed to supernatural intervention and prophetic fulfillments that seemed ludicrous because they were unwilling to acknowledge God. The attitude of the secular world is business as usual and pleasure on demand. People are marrying, living together, partying and generally preoccupied with pleasure.
  The Days of Lot. It was the same as happened in the days of Lot. They were eating, they were drinking, They were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building. But on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from Heaven and destroyed them all. (Luke 17: 28-29)

  Life as Usual in Excess					Crucial Signs (Exodus of the Righteous)		Destruction (Rain)
  Eating	Drinking	Marrying	Planting	Building	Animals migrate	Noah entered the Ark	Flood
  Eating	Drinking	Marrying			Angels Came	Lot Escaped	Fire and Brimstone
  Eating	Drinking	Marrying	Planting	Building	People leave Babylon Jews accept Christ	Flight from the cities	Second Coming Fire and Brimstone
  Wars and rumors of wars

  The Days of Noah. For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark. and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be. (Matthew 24: 37-39 also Luke 17: 26-27)
• Like the Days of Sodom (The Rise of Homosexual Power). In the days of Lot, before Sodom was destroyed, the homosexual community had a free reign in society, terrorizing the people without any fear of punishment. After the elections in November 2008, the community reacted with violence against churches when the three states that had a marriage ammendment on their ballots decided to define marriage as an institution between one man and one woman. The situation resembles the days of Sodom because the government and media are totally in sympathy with their community and repeated ballots by the majority of the citizens are ignored by the courts and state governments. Despite the claim that there are no laws to force people to go against their conscience, Christian businesses and Christian churches are being sued to provide homosexual services that can be easily achieved elsewhere. When you look at countries like Canada you have to conclude that the agenda will not stop at getting "civil rights", the agenda is to stop Christian churches from preaching even under pentaly of imprisonment.
  • Women Exchanging Their Function. We have crossed a new threshold in the gay movement. Proponents used to say that they had these feelings from chilhood. Recently, a number of movie stars have claimed that they have decided to become lesbians even though it was never a part of their desires before.
  • Men On the "Down Low". Many husbands are secretly engaged in homosexual behavior while saying that they are not gay. Their behavior is just a harmless night out with the boys.
  
  » Sodom, Prostitution and Pedophelia in Islam. Although the prophecy talks about homosexual power lords ruling the world, I assumed that it would be more of a western problem. I am shocked to see that such vices are part of a society that is so rabidly religious and publicly pious.
  • Multiple Wives (Brothel). Men will marry many young women for the sole purpose of forcing them into prostitution. They can afford to buy these young brides from poor families. The sad fact is that these women have no options. They can go to jail for disobeying their husbands.
  • Temporary Marriages (Prostitution). The Shia also have a practice of temporary marriages which is nothing but prostitution trying to pretend that it is obeying religious laws. A man can marry a woman for as long as he wants, one hour or two days. He can divorce her and immediately marry another woman for a few hours. The difference is that the woman cannot marry another man for the next month because she must make sure that she is not pregnant before entering another temporary marriage.
  • Homosexual Pedophelia (Bacha Bazi). Bacha Bazi is an Afghani word that means "boy play". Men who are devout Muslims and powerful businessmen by day, train and keep stables of young boys who are auctioned off at night to wealthy and powerful businessmen, politicians, police officials, officials in charge of the safety of children, war lords, drug lords and military commanders. Handsome street orphans or boys bought from poor families with the promise of a better life are trained for a life of prostitution until they are 18. The boys are dressed as women while they dancing before men and are then sold or auctioned for sex later. In the documentary, the practice seems to be largely in the hands of commanders in the northern alliance, but studies show that it is prevalent in the south among other criminal power lords (Frontline Report. April 2010. PBS). Therefore, when a group of United States contractors in charge of security were caught in a frenzy of homosexual hazing in Afghanistan it is now understandable that the Afghans were probably willing participants in this culture of vice.
  
  » Sodom, Prostitution and Pedophelia in Buddhism. Most other religions have no moral rules about such personal conduct. Thailand generates most of its gross national product from the sex trade industries. Unfortunately, you can buy childen of any age for sex. Sadly, young boys have sex change operations after the age of thirteen because they are too old for the pedophiles. A French politician can boast that he loves young boys and frequently slithers off to Thailand and he is still reelected!
• Neglectful Fathers and Abandoned Children. The message of Elijah says that he will turn the hearts of the fathers and children to each other (Luke 1: 16-17). The prophecy seems to suggest that in the end the world will be full of fathers who neglect their children and children who are missing fathers. The ultimate family reconciliation to which this prophecy refers is the reconciliation of the children of the earth to their heavenly Father. However, there is always a physical sign that mirrors the spiritual. The good news is that in the end, the message of the Gospel will appeal to fathers and heal broken relationships.
• Breaking The Ten Commandments (Lawlessness). People are abandoning the notion of moral absolutes to embrace new cultural standards that demonize God's morality.
  • There is No Sin. The concept of sin and repentence are practically nonexistant. Nobody takes responsibility for their behavior anymore. If a failure is acknowledged it is blamed on genetics, uncontrollable biological responses, and solutions are found in "rehab", with a counselor or psychiatrist.
  • Murder. Scientific advancements have caused us to devalue life. With cloning and embryo farming we can grow racks of human beings to harvest cells and body parts. We kill unborn children when pregnancies are inconvenient. We invade innocent nations or starve them into submission to extract our will.
  • Immorality. We are worse then the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. Immorality has not only affected isolated cities, it is the business of some countries and it is transmitted to our homes every day and it has corrupted major churches. Under such words as "kinder, gentler nation", "tolerance" and "politically correct" - immorality is desirable, while old fashioned morality is being systematically condemned as harsh, retarded, judgmental and stupid. There is no tolerance for the Ten Commandments.
    
    India has seen a sudden change in their popular culture message within the last six years. As movie producers try to access the Asian population in Europe and the United States they have been producing homosexual films, and promoting fornication to target these audiences and the nation of India.
    » Television, Music and Movie Industry. MTV and BET intentionally market sex, violence and profanity in the afternoon to children once every thirty eight seconds. Whereas network television presents these once every five minutes.
    In 2008, one network introduced two new shows. One promotes group sex and the other a serial killer. I wonder when they will introduce an endearing pedophile.
    » Pornography. It is a $98 billion industry, earning $3000 per second on the internet. It is produced, distributed and consumed most in the United States and is spread throughout the world along with our culture. Babylon is corrupting the world.
    » Gaming. Sex and violence are also distributed through the video game and sports industries.
  • Excessive Marriage and Sexual Immorality. We will be marrying and giving in to marriage.
    » Divorce. The divorce rate among people getting married for the first time is 50%, even in the church.
    » Emotional Cheating. Claiming that "it is not about the sex", "emotional dishonesty is the problem", the new morality is now calling infidelity "honest" if the partners inform each other about the cheating. The new message is that "monogamy is boring", "monogamy is a myth" and "no big deal it's just sex".
    
    » Cohabitation (Trial Marriage). Over half the people in Europe are living together, despite the fact that they are supposed to be about 90% Catholic. Premarital sex seems to be the norm among all singles and teenagers. Even in the conservative south, Christian teens engage in certain sexual behavior that gives them the false sense of security that they are still virgins.
    In a recent study 66% of couples live together before marriage. 40% of them produce children and 50% of those with children break up after five years. While only 15% of married couples with children break up after five years. Cohabitation is disastrous for children.
    Overall, the divorce rate is 2.5 to 3 times higher than couples who do not live together before marriage.
    
    » United States Same Sex Marriages and Civil Unions. The recent debate over same sex marriage has resulted in a call for an amendment to the constitution. It will define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Forty four states have already made laws to define marriage according to this definition.
    Same sex civil unions are allowed in Vermont. Colorado (1975), Massachusetts (2003), San Francisco (February 12, 2004), New Mexico (February 20, 2004) until the attorney general stopped them, New York (February 26, 2004), Oregon (March 4, 2004) and Hawaii.
    California and New York issued marriage licenses in defiance of existing laws in 2004. The supreme court of Massachusetts told the state to allow these marriages.
    September 7, 2005, California became the first state to pass a law legalizing same sex marriage.
    
    » Global Same Sex Marriages and Civil Unions. These marriages are allowed in Canadian provinces (2002), the Netherlands (2001) and Belgium. In September 2004, the new government in Spain approved laws to legalize these unions and adoptions. On June 29, 2005 it officially became the law. The Catholic church is upset. The United Kingdom will allow these unions in 2005. Norway passed these laws in 2008. With these laws come rights of access to adoption and artificial insemination.
    Canada has even taken enormous steps to protect homosexuals from any words or attitudes that deny the legitimacy of that kind of relationship, even on biblical grounds. Canada officially made it a national law in 2005. On June 28, the House of Commons voted it in, defining marriage as a union between two persons. The senate is expected to approve in July.
    On December 5, 2005 Britain legalized same sex civil unions. South Africa did it a month before. Mexico in 2009 and Argentina in July 2010 legalized marriages and adoptions.
  This discussion is not meant to take a position on whether such laws are right or wrong. The purpose is to demonstrate that we are in the end time social climate described by the Bible.
• A New Normal. The disdain for the concept of morality and the pursuit of personal gain has created a new normal in which heightened fun, excess wealth and fame are the desires of the hearts of men. This new normal will disregard the vast majority and promote the vile thing of the worst minority. The new normal is all about marketing. They find new markets by removing and ignoring traditional boundaries and herding the planet towards their Satanic Utopia creating a revolving concept of morals, decency and expression of culture to make a dollar.
  • Prison Rape Fashion. The new normal has convinced the youth to permanently disable one hand as it holds the pants down so the the underwear can be exposed. This is from the prison culture where men would signal that they are available for sex by wearing their underwear exposed and their pants down.
  • A Little Fun and Some Gonorrhea. Instead of avoiding sexually transmitted diseases and the plague of unwanted pregnancies, the new normal is to treat STD as a chronic disease and abort the babies.
  • Dress for Sex. In the new normal, young women who want to dress with some modesty cannot find clothes which covers them because the only clothes available are short and revealing. The new normal even markets thongs and high heel shoes for babies.
  • The World is My Market Place. The new normal has concepts such as "planned absolescence" and "creating the market". We will sell purses, earrings, make up and cosmetic surgery to men. We will dress our babies like whores. We will lure you into replacing your electronic devices every three months. We will treat diseases perpetually but there is no continuous profit stream in curing diseases. We will even create fake illnesses from nebulous symptoms to sell drugs.
  • Pills and Surgery. In the new normal, the concept of beauty is as seasonal as the new fashion. You can have cosmetic surgery during lunch break and any deviation from the current norm of beauty must be fixed with a pill and the knife. We will keep redefining what it means to be pretty and attractive for women. In the new normal, women want their private parts changed to look like porn stars. Children are changing their body to conform to the new lips, eyes and nose before their body has finished changing itself.
  • Messages. Violence is the new normal. In this new world, if it is profitable it is moral. So I can sing about raping, abusing, murder, being a gangster, drunkenness, bloody massacres, deliberately crushing humans with my car, stomping and kicking people and terrorizing the innocent. I can even play video games about it. But I cannot preach against it or speak in favor of respect, love and honor because that is "judgmental".
  • Modern Scapegoats. Although the new normal accepts and defends all outcasts, it is acceptable to treat women as sexual objects and fat people as immoral parasities who are the scum of the earth. Christianity is bad, sodomy is moral.
  • Sex Tapes. It is perfectly normal and absolutely essential to make a sex tape or to accept an offer to make a porn movie, even gay porn if you are heterosexual. It is "just a job" and it is "good publicity".
  God condemns the violence of the trade of the powers behind the new normal.
• A Secular Social Climate. Society has responded to the times with laws and new cultural paradigms.
  But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. (2 Timothy 3: 1-4)
  • Fierce and Wild. The world will be full of people who have no respect for God or their parents. Their main concern is greed, selfishness and the constant pursuit of pleasure.
  • Fear. It has driven the United States to cross over the line. Now, because of bad choices, good men will make bad decisions for what appears to be justifiable reasons.
  • Wars. I hesitate to mention this for several reasons.
    • Only Get Worse. Christ said that wars and rumors of war were not the sign of the end - only that they would get worse. It is also possible that this statement refers to the time of the breakup of the Roman empire and the constant attack by the Barbarians which may be a model of our future decline.
    • Surprise Ending. It also appears that when the end comes people will be surprised.
    • Mutiny. The evidence seems to suggest that the world will cooperate to wipe out a peaceful group of people on religious grounds because of some unknown terror. It does not appear that they are at war with each other on the magnitude of a World War III. The nations are cooperating to wipe out the righteous. At the very end they turn against each other, but the former atmosphere is one of cooperation to unite against God. It is the type of effort we see at the building of the tower of Babel. The nations unite against the interests of God, but are thrown into confusion when God shatters them. This causes them to turn on each other. But this is at the very end during the plagues.
  • Mockers. People are mostly unconcerned with religion and they love to mock faith in God. Instead they have designed their own gods. Some churches mock those who "take the bible literally" without discussing the unusual fulfillments that are occurring. Instead they conclude that God is not coming to rescue us, we are responsible for our own fate. The secular media is just eager to promote that view.
  • Business and Money Rules. Revelation condemns corrupt governments and religions, but chapter 18 singles out one other group as being responsible for the conditions on the earth. Businessmen, trading and business practices are singled out for punishment.
  • Hate Speech and Blasphemy Laws. These laws will stop evangelism and prophecy because it criminalizes any speech that offends or criticizes another religion or group.
    » Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art. In August 2009, the paster of a gay church submitted an exhibit that allowed the defacing of the Bible. People who believe they have been excluded from the Bible could write their comments on its pages. The comments cursed God and called Him a fascist.
    I wonder why someone would want to be a member or pastor who worships a God they despise and a book they hate? They have the right to express their offensive beliefs and we cannot say anything that is perceived as negative. What is troubling about the law is that it allows the coming religious power to control the messages as it tries to dominate the world and force the people under its rule. Since the prophecies urge us to warn about this coming persecution and broadcast its identity, such speech cannot be legislated.
    » Religious Hate Speech. British inn keepers Ben and Sharon V. were prosecuted for a hate crime when someone overheard a conversation they had with a Muslim guest. The issues they debated were if Jesus was the Son of God or a minor prophet as Islam claims. The conversation also discussed if Mohammad is a war lord and if the burka is a sign of slavery. They were acquitted December 2009, but their business is ruined.
    » Personal Speech as Verbal Abuse. In January 2010, the French introduced a law to ban abusive speech between couples. They aim to curb the "conjugal abuse of a psychological nature". Again, legislating speech is a slippery slope that is intended to outlaw religious speech. If opponents can claim an immeasurable and subjective "psychological scar", then religious speech is doomed.
  • Christian Education. Europe seems to be headed towards criminalizing home schools and burdening Christian schools. Homeschooling is illegal in Germany and schools are held six days a week, forcing Sabbath keepers to violate the Sabbath. On 14 December 2009, Britain passed a home schooling law requiring parents to register and undergo criminal checks. While this is a good and responsible oversight, you can just see where this is headed. Because Christian schools are funded by the British government, they are now finding that they are under unwelcome controls.
    » Immorality. Britain is giving teenagers birth control pills without parental knowledge. Even in the United States, teenagers can receive abortions without parental consent.
  • Hostile Work Environment. Political correctness and hostility towards religion is creating a hostile environment for people of faith, where even their private beliefs are systematically being punished.
    » Britain's "Equality Law" (2010). Britain is forcing churches to hire homosexuals.
    » Religious Expression. In Britain a nurse was banned from a hospital for wearing a chain with a crucifix. People are being penalized for any Christian expression, even praying in their free time. One person was ordered to see a psychiatrist for refusing to say that homosexuality is normal.
  • No Faith on the Earth (Secularism). Jesus questioned whether or not He would find faith on the earth when He comes. Although the message of the angel "lightens the earth with glory", will the vast majority of the people choose darkness?
    
    Despite the fact that Catholicism is the state religion in Europe or that over 90% of the people in many European nations claim to be Catholic most of Europe is secular and virulently opposed to religion. We appear to be at the stage France was in on the brink of the first French Revolution. They mock Christianity and religious conservatives. Jesus Christ is admired by only one percent.
    The lesson learned is that a state established church is the death of true religion. It only sucks up government funds and discriminates against religious minorities.
    England is so secular that most of their old churches have been remodeled into secular buildings. Binge drinking and alcoholism has gotten so widespread that seventeen year olds are suffering from cirrhosis of the liver.
    As the secular western world neglects God, their spiritual emptiness is manifested in an indulgence into sex, drugs, alcohol and riotous living. To compensate for this emptiness, they are legislating niceness just as the church tried to legislate morality.

Environmental Signs and Natural Disasters. The weather seems to have become psychopathic since 1989. Sooner or later, the signs will shift from those of atmospheric origin to signs of cosmic origins, or threats from objects in space.

• Earthquakes. We had two great earthquakes within four months in the same location. The earthquakes and tsunamis on December 26, 2004 killed about 221,000 people. Three volcanoes became active in that region in April 2005. 74,000 were killed in Pakistan in 2005. 80,000 killed in China in 2008, 200,000+ in Haiti in 2010.
• Cyclones and Roaring Seas. Rogue waves and strange hurricane patterns. Florida was assaulted by five hurricanes in 2004. Japan was hit by over ten in the same year.
  In 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed a major city leaving a million homeless. Weeks later, hurricane Rita was the strongest on record. The entire 2005 season held the record for number of storms, damages and wind strength. Cyclone Nargis killed 134,000 in Myanmar in 2008.
• Volcanoes. In the last days mountains and islands will move and there will be blood, fire and columns of smoke (Joel 2: 30-32). A volcanic eruption has the power to accomplish this while simultaneously displaying symbols of death and mourning for the earth.
• Heat Wave. As of 2007, the years 1997 to 2007 were the hottest on record since these statistics were kept in 1880. Seven of the worlds eight warmest years have occurred since 2001 and ten of the warmest years have occurred since 1997. A heat wave killed over 35,000 in Europe in 2003, 14,802 died in France. 2007 was the hottest year, and for the first time in 128 years, Moscow experienced sustained May temperatures of 86 degrees or higher.
• Red Tide. This started appearing in the oceans on a regular basis since 1986, killing millions of fish.
• Hole in the Ozone Layer. In 1985, scientists discovered a hole over the south pole. It is now over 11 million square miles (28.5 square kilometer) or three times larger than the United States.
• Overpopulation and Global Resources. By 2050 the global population will be over nine billion. European and Chinese leaders are now stating that perhaps the world should adopt a one child policy like China because it is a legitimate and responsible solution because the world cannot sustain such growth.
• Climate Change. The planet is being irreversibly changed by destructive human activity which is intensifying the natural disasters.
• Contaminated Water. Beginning around 2004, scientists are recognizing that organic pollutants in our water have been causing large fish kills and strange biological mutations and changes to the endocrine and reproductive process. There are six legged frogs and intersex male fish with eggs in their testes. The males were becoming effiminate. This is of concern because prophecy seems to suggest that when the people of God are under persecution and oppression, the fertility of the oppressors will be interrupted and there will be sexual confusion. Even the fact that our water system is the delivery system for this plague is prophetic. As we reject the cleansing of the Holy Spirit, Who is symbolized as air and water, we will be given polluted air and polluted water.
• Famine. Many human actions will cause severe global famine. 10,000 people per day die from famine.

Religious Signs. Corrupt religion will eventually dominate, but corrupted hearts will continue in evil.

The Fight For Morality We are not saying that the fight against immorality and secularism is not a legitimate one or that the issues do not concern us. The secular forces do intend to corrupt our children and marginalize our position and make us extinct. However, the religious forces are on the same mission. But in order to achieve it they will also resort to forced compliance through the laws. Find the happy medium where the wheat and tares can grow together.

• Demonic Activity. Psychics, communion with the dead and increased belief in Unidentified Flying Objects and the return of space aliens are now common entertainment.
  For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. (Matthew 24: 24)
  
  The Catholic church is training more priests to be exorcists because of an increase in demonic activity and Satanism in the church. The young people in Italy appear to be attracted to the devil.
  Unclean Spirits. And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs; for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty. (Revelation 16: 13-14)
  A Hierarchy of Demons. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6: 12)
  » Corporate Psychics (Intuitives). These people are being hired by movie studios, Fortune 500 companies, technology companies, lawyers, police, jury selection, Wall street, banks and other financial institutions to forecast the future and give advice. I guess that they are just as good as money managers and stock brokers. These clowns use psychics.
  Here is a prediction. The global financial markets will crash because the United States market crashes. October 2008 was just a dress rehearsal.
  » A Politically Correct New Age Religion. There are many famous and influential people who are promoting a false religion that does not recognize sin. It critizes the Bible as being intolerant because the Bible teaches absolutes of right and wrong. Instead they teach that every path leads to God.
  Seducing Spirits. But the Spirit explicitly says that in the latter times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons. (1 Timothy 4: 1)
• Demonic Mary. Many apparitions of Mary are leading the church into idolatry and to prepare them for a false Second Coming of Christ.
• Attack on God. The messages from Mary consistently attack the first four commandments. Terrible disasters will occur because of sin, the only way to avoid it is to:
  1. Another god. Mary will save us.
  2. Idolatry. Pray the rosary. Pray to Mary and other saints. Fill your churches and living rooms and backyards with icons and statues and images. Bow before these when you pray.
  3. Do not call upon the name of the angry God. Go to mass and confession. Talk to priests, Mary and other saints so that they can talk to God for you. Promote the feeling that God has no mercy. He is only full of wrath and anger and that you need Mary to stop his anger and intercede for you.
  4. Observe the false Sabbath. Close all shops on Sunday, ban sporting events. Have a uniform worship.
• Signs and wonders. There are pitiful fake healings which do not last and other signs which still impress the gullible. Eventually, some will be very convincing.
  And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceives those who live on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast. ... (Revelation 13: 13-14)
• Ecumenism. A philosophy of "Political correctness" and ecumenism on the basis of common points of doctrine has caused many to abandon the word of God and ridicule those who take the bible literally. One tactic that they constantly use is to classify them with the "unscientific".
• Israel Returns. According to Paul in Romans 11 and Zechariah 12, Israel will recognize the Messiah and will return to Christ because of a great outpouring of the Spirit. Those who accept Christ by faith will be grafted back into the great olive tree of God. Then all Israel, the entire church, will be united and waiting for the Second Coming. It all begins when Israel ignites a volatile situation and the nations besiege her.
• American Led Religious Theocracy. Religions will take over free governments. We will begin to impose Christian theocracy.
• Attack on the Sabbath Keeping Churches. Besides the Pope calling for all governments to legally recognize Sunday as a day of rest, the attack on the covenant of God involves attacking major Sabbath churches so that a splintered and fractured church has no collective power. There were two major Sabbath churches. One ceased to exist in 1995.
  
  » Worldwide Church of God. One should take a look at how the Worldwide Church of God was destroyed from within. The former Sabbath keepers who believed in prophecy has splintered because its leadership and pastors have repudiated almost every doctrine that they once taught. It all started when Joseph W. Tkach, Sr, the successor to Herbert W. Armstrong - was in charge as many of the doctrines were changed. Here is an example of what has been happening.
  • Abandon Bible. Belief in progressive revelation that denies previous beliefs.
  • Abandon Prophecy. Joseph Tkach's view that no one can know anything about prophecy and that even if you could it would not matter anyhow.
  • Abandon Sabbath. 7 January 1995, he told his followers that the church would no longer demand a legalistic observance of the Old Testament Sabbath.
  • Embrace Sensuality. Christian rock music.
  • Embrace Mary. Homage to Mary. This is a clue to the source of their infiltration.
  • Prevent Publications. They tried to retain ownership of the writings of the founder to stop all publications of his books.
  • Scattered. The church is now splintered and scattered, effectively ending their ministry.
  How could this have happened? Their ministers seem to have suddenly changed their entire belief system. The members seem to be caught unawares.
  This did not happen overnight. Something about their centralized structure, family succession and member complacency made them easy targets for infiltration and sabotage.
  
  » Seventh Day Adventists. Could this happen to Seventh Day Adventists? Many think that it is already happening and that the process has infected our seminaries. They are not teaching the prophecies and many churches cannot pay their pastors. So pastors have second jobs - even on Sabbath. Our hospitals give free alcohol at fund raisers because "rich people will not come if we do not provide alcohol". I see a problem with both members and leaders. Our members seem to be in pursuit of this world - they call it blessings from God. Some remain silent thinking that God will fix it because "the church will not fall". Everybody waits for "Sunday laws" to decide what to do. Some run to "the country" to wait for God, leaving the work for others to do. The leadership seems to be in pursuit of acceptance by those in power. We do not want to be too odd. Laodicea at its best!
  I have had two prominent pastors who have promoted ridiculous beliefs. One believes that we should get out of the business of teaching prophecy. That sounds like one of the falling pillars of the Worldwide Church of God, doesn't it. The other publicly states that he sees no reason for the death of Jesus. It is irrelevant. Everybody goes to a restaurant on Sabbath. A third pastor that I had, from the same church, wanted to open and sponsor a gay club on one of our campuses. Not for the purpose of leading people towards the values of God. No. But because "they need a place to socialize with their friends".
  I even heard that some of our leaders believe that our views about the end time role of the leaders of the Catholic church have been "assigned to the historical trash heap". This explains their pretending to do things that never get done. Many have turned to evolution and away from the Sabbath. How pervasive is this attitude among our leaders that one could openly teach these things?
  It is the ministry of ordinary members that will complete the work of God. You have the power through the Holy Spirit. Whatever mechanism caused the collapse of the Worldwide church of God will not succeed here because God is calling individuals.
  Wake up! Learn and cherish the former beliefs because God is in the process of validating them.
• The People of God. Conditions will affect those who claim to be representatives of God. As the end approaches, the struggle for righteousness will polarize the world.
  • Hate. A climate of hatred will dominate different factions of the church (back sliders, faithful and lukewarm) and between the sinners and the righteous.
    At that time many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. Because iniquity is increased, the love of many will grow cold. (Matthew 24: 10, 12)
  • Christianity Hated. True Christianity will become a hated religion.
    But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death, and you will be hated by all because of My name. (Luke 21: 16)
  • Religious Persecution. The persecution will be religious, because those who persecute will think that they are doing God's work.
    They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God. (John 16: 2)
• The New State Religion. Conditions are mimicking the efforts of emperor Constantine to merge Paganism into the church and create a fusion of the Christian and Pagan religions as the state church.
  • New Age Fusion and Political Correctness. In a effort to foster respect and tolerance of all religions, no criticism, conversions, evangelism or negative statements are allowed by law and Christ is best marketed as one of many gods.
  • Faith Based Initiatives and School Vouchers. Laws are being made to financially support the institutions of the church.
  • Sunday Laws. Laws will support Sunday as a common or national day of rest. Constantine created a national prayer and a national day of rest in an effort to find neutral expressions of faith.
  • The Tabernacle of Idolatry. The government will build churches just as Constantine built temples for both Pagans and Christians.
  • Babylon the Great. Church and state will totally unite to enforce the dogma of the church.
  • The Abomination of Desolation. This is the pinnacle of the corruption of the church by the state.
• Fundamentalist Movements. In many countries, the dominant religion is beginning to persecute other religions. They all have in common the silent takeover of political positions in government since the 1980's and 90's.
  • United States ("Moral Majority"). Fundamental Christians take over the Republican party and political offices to install conservative laws and values.
    » Homosexual Community. Using the same tactics, this community is financially supporting candidates who will advocate gay-friendly legislation in the state legislatures.
    It is interesing to hear the groups criticize each other and sounding the alarm to their communities for basically employing the same tactics. Instead of pretending that they are "fighting for freedom", both groups need to be honest in saying that they are fighting to promote their lifestyles by force of law. Because, as the gay rights movements assert more power it is evident that their agenda is just as far-reaching and intrusive as the Christian right's agenda. They intend to wipe out all traces of the opposition and impose their point of view on others by soft or hard cohersion.
    » Soft Cohersion. When educational programs and the secular media and commercial enterprises present only one point of view while ridiculing the other it is cohersion by peer persuasion. When the audience is captive like children in schools it is forced cohersion. Schools ridicule the idea of absolute values and teach tolerance of any behavior as a virtue. What they should be teaching is that we all have a right to feel safe and to have our own opinions. Instead, Christianity is now the acceptable brunt of the same brutal attacks that their tolerance programs were supposed to be addressing. When in fact nothing is wrong with Christian values. What was wrong was Christians trying to force the world to accept those values by law or by power over key institutions.
    » Hard Cohersion. Some gay rights activists are taking conservative Christian donor lists and publishing the names and addresses of people who donate to conservative causes. They are picketing private homes and harassing people for supporting what they believe.
  • India ("Hindutva"). This movement is popular among the conservative upper and middle classes, infiltrating all levels of government and the legislature. The BJP political Party runs on the slogan "India for Hindus" and is part of the Hindutva movement whose goal in "One nation, one people, one cast and one religion". This movement even embraces Hitler's philosophy, reading "Mein Kampf".
  • Islam ("Al Qaeda"). Their mission is to drive all religions out of Muslim countries. These countries are already merged with religion. They are also intent on spreading Islam to all nations. Technically, there is nothing wrong with the mission. Christianity would also like to spread itself to all nations. What is wrong is the method. It is by force and cohersion not by persuasion alone in an atmosphere of freedom.
  • China. As unregistered churches grow, China is likely to crack down on Christianity.
  
  » The Contradiction of Culture. Prophecy presents a picture of open and widespread moral corruption, yet it is controlled by an extremely conservative religious government. How can the two exist?

  The Indignity of Stupidity The Submissive Position. How could Satan convince so many people that drunken binges, loss of memory, failing school, lying in your own vomit and filth, rape, lifetime sexually transmitted disease, inflicting pain, submitting to abusive power, using your mouth as a toilet and being handled like a piece of stale meat and then discarded as trash or being used by strangers is fun and freedom! It is slavery! The Dominant Position. Why is being in control of your body and mind, health, freedom from disease and striving for a better future boring? Are you that stupid!

  
  We see images of this in the philosophy of the popular culture which embraces the new tolerance as the Utopia where there are no morals. Love becomes joyful acceptance, encouragement and celebration of anything so that it is never right to question if something is wrong. While we have not yet accepted murder, the older generation tolerated abuse of women, male infidelity, alcoholism and sports violence. Now the youth are plagued with drug abuse, drunken binges, rampant teen sex, pregnancy and abortion, violence in sex (dominatrix and sado-masochism) and group sex clubs. All of these are now seen as rights of passage and there is nothing wrong if people can handle it. Testing the paths to failure is a right we must explore, not a danger we must learn to avoid from the mistakes of our fathers or the warnings of God.
  
  So, the religious and political rulers at the end must be the most corrupt and amoral fiends controlling a willingly naive and inwardly amoral population. The best way to achieve this is by wealth, bribery and a belief that the end justifies the means so that eventually the scum rises to the top like a cesspool of profanity cloaked in piety.
  We see it now. People of wealth, power and influence attach themselves to church leaders. The equally whoring church rulers see this companionship with wealth as an honor and opportunity from God. With the trend towards security and internal spying we have the potential of the security state and the security church bribing the political and religious offices. The natural outcome is that our civil and religious leaders will be the most immoral of men pretending to implement "love and tolerance" while the cesspool drowns humanity.
  We need to drain this cesspool. We need to reclaim men and women and tell them about their great destiny. We need to show them that God can overcome all personal failures and all intense desires that control us, no matter how they originated in us. This is not a harsh, intolerant message. This is a message of salvation.
  If the courageous men and women of God warn about this corruption we will be beheaded like John the Baptist. If not, we and our children will be drowning in filth.
  » The Culture Wars. Despite the fact that "liberals" claim that "conservatives" are trying to push their way of life on others, both the extreme liberals and extreme conservatives are trying to create laws to make us live according their version of a Utopian society. Neither side wants us to have a choice in beliefs because neither respects the right of the others to have their beliefs.
  » The Culture Wars in Healthcare. Yoga is being presented in schools and medical facilities as medical treatment. In Yoga, Buddhism conquers as we mix worship of their gods with medical treatment. Although meditation is a calming exercise, yet yoga incorporates a Buddhist prayer stance and language. How is this not idolatry? How is saying "Om" in the Buddhist prayer position not the same as being forced in a public prayer to say "... in Jesus Christ our Lord"?
  » The Culture Wars in School. In schools, witchcraft books and culture can be presented but not books with Christian themes. We can read Harry Potter but not Pilgrim's Progress. We can celebrate Halloween but not Christmas. We can teach children to use birth control, tell them where to go for abortions without their parent's consent but we cannot teach that abstinence is an alternative. Abstinence is labelled as "unrealistic".
  » The Alameda Unified School District. This California school is educating children from Kindergarten and above on homosexual families. Parents cannot let their children opt out. We can teach five year olds about the fact that "Mary has two mothers" and "Fred had two fathers" but any other support for family is seen as hateful. Why do five year olds have to be introduced to sex? The United Nations has guidelines that recommend introducing masturbation to five year olds and teaching eleven year olds about abortion and their right to have one.

Prophetic Signs. The remaining major prophecies are the persecution based on our refusal to disobey God, the spread of the Gospel and the Second Coming. Right now, the powers that will persecute are consolidating their capabilities. Therefore, the events that we will see on this earth that are related to the prophecies are related to the church controlling Europe and the United States and expanding its worldwide influence.

• The Time Prophecies. The "Time of the End" officially began in 1798.
  All the actual time prophecies to the Jews have ended. The 2300 day prophecy ended in 1844 and the others ended in 1798. The time prophecy to Nebuchadnezzar ended in 1981.
• Seven Churches. We are in the time of the seventh Church - Laodicea. The people who are being judged.
• Seven Seals. We are in the time of the sixth seal and all of the astronomical signs associated with this seal have passed - except the one that says the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
  Now, when something is shaken things begin to fall out. So this might refer to bombardment by asteroids. It might be the hail stones associated with the immediate return of Christ or it might be the an event shortly before the return of Christ that causes "men fainting from fear in expectation of the things coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven will be shaken" Luke 21: 26. Such a planet killing event will cause everyone to turn to religion.
  The Seventh seal is the eight days associated with the Second Coming. So, for all intent and purposes, the sixth seal is the last one that we will experience on earth.
• Seven Trumpets. We are in the time of the seventh trumpet - when the gospel will be finished. The true gospel was restored right after we got out of the dark ages and at the same time Christ began the judgment.
• Seven Thunders. In 2006, the third thunder is ending. This is the fall of Babylon. The fourth thunder is the latter rain.
• The Beasts of Revelation 13. There are two beasts and one image.
  1. Beast with Seven Heads, Ten Horns and the Wound. It gave its power to the leopard beast and transformed this beast. This is the Catholic Church controlling Europe.
  2. Lamb with Two Horns. It causes the world to worship the first beast. This is the United States who works with the first beast.
  3. The Image to the First Beast. It is created by the United States. Somehow Catholicism unites with the United States.
• The Prostitute of Revelation 17. We should now be looking for evidence of the Catholic Church trying to control international, United States and European politics and laws. The activities might be hidden.
• The Eight Heads of Revelation 17. Since 1991, we are in the time of the seventh head. The eight head is Satan who will make a false appearance at the end.
• Destroy the Earth. This generation is capable of destroying the earth mentally, physically and spiritually.
  And the nations were angry, and your wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should give reward to your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear your name, small and great; and should destroy them which destroy the earth. (Revelation 11: 18)
  1. Physical Destruction. Atomic Weapons (1945). On 16 July 1945, "the Gadget", the first nuclear test explosion was performed in the deserts of New Mexico. On 6 August 1945, the B29 bomber named the "Enola Gay" dropped the first atomic bomb, "Little Boy", on Hiroshima killing 140,000. On August 9, the "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 100,000. With the power, of the atom, humans now had the technology to destroy the planet with a few bombs. Since then, intercontinental ballistics missiles and space based missile systems have multiplied the terror. By the 1980s, the United States had 33,000 nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union had 38,000.
  2. Spiritual Destruction. Morals (1960's). Beginning in the 1960's in America, a culture of drugs and sexual immorality and demonic beliefs has succeeded in overtaking our homes, churches and society and is being successfully exported to other nations through our entertainment industries.
     » Mental Destruction. This narcissistic drug culture had taken over the medical and pharmaceutical industries, adding a veneer of rationality to drug dependence by science. We have become a nation that worships the appearance of perfection by whatever pill or surgical technique that the marketing devils can spin in their little web of fantasies and lies.
  3. Environmental Destruction. Global Climate Change (1980's). The devastating effects of our careless technologies finally began to emerge in the death of our climate. The dumping of the exhaust of carbon fuels in our atmosphere has triggered global warming which is seen in more severe weather, melting ice caps, floods, droughts, rising sea levels, escalating extinction of animals and destruction of the ozone layer. Yet many Christians claim this is a hoax because they are taking political sides and climate change is seen is liberal hogwash.
  4. Social Destruction. Economic Bondage (2000's). Techniques forced upon poorer nations are now being served to the middle class as we systematically shift the world economies to one of bondage of one economic class by another. A combination of debt, predatory lending, high prices, low wages and the creation of a disposable work force are creating social dynamics that have been shown to separate and destroy families.

Babylon the Great. The end of times appears to be a copy of the end of the first Babylon. At that time there was a war between Babylon and Persia, religious persecution and an exodus of Israel.

Unfulfilled Prophecy
What is happening now? Almost everything is fulfilled. The public debate will shift to religious issues. The trend will be the control of government by the church. Amazingly, with this veneer of religion, there will be the strong influence of the immoral and the occult. Everyone will be ruled by their own passions, but it will be the Christians who will succeed in influencing the government. Especially as it relates to international concerns.
The United States will increasingly grow into its dragon phase, telling the world what to do under threat of punishment. This type of force will extend into religious affairs.
We should look for the following events.

• Gospel Preached. God will take control of this work if we do not do our part. (Matthew 24: 14)
• Miraculous Signs. Among the believers and also demonic signs.
  The demonic signs would even fool the saints if that was possible. They use these abilities to deceive the world. Matthew 24: 24, Revelation 13: 13-14 and Revelation 16: 13-14.
• Visions and Dreams. Joel predicts that God will send visions and dreams. I know that He is.
  It will come about after this that I will pour out my Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on the male and female servants I will pour out my Spirit in those days. (Joel 2: 28-29)
• Jews convert. Paul predicted that they will be saved (Romans 11: 25-26). God will graft them back in.
• Image to the beast. Watch the growth in power and attempts to install religious rules and support of religion.
  We need to look carefully at the office of Homeland Security. This agency has the potential of being the source through which Revelation 13: 15-17 will be fulfilled. These security systems are being installed around the world.
• Church and State. Watch for any signs of religions trying to control the United States and European government or get the government to finance its programs.
  In December 2003, the French proposed the banning of religious attire in public schools, except for small crosses and star of David. But Muslim women must remove their scarves, Jewish and Sikh men their head gear.
  
  Revelation 13 points to the control of the United States by the church. Revelation 17: 12-13 points to the European nations handing power to this great global church and state union.
  A 120 year old prophecy by Adventists predicted that the Protestant church will be the one to capture the United States government and ultimately join forces with the Catholic church.
• A Fearful Astronomical Sign. This is a guess about what the fearful event might be. But there will be a fearful astronomical event that may not be the actual Second Coming (Luke 21: 26). The Second Coming is a sudden event that is over quickly. It does not allow time for prolonged fear of what is about to happen to the earth as Luke seems to suggest.
  This has the potential of causing several impossible scenarios to occur because, for the first time, human abilities will not be able to solve the impending disaster. The world will look to religious solutions. Wars are not the sign of the end, and they have never made people turn to God permanently. Historically, people have also recovered from natural disasters, plagues, wars and famine without any help from God. They have learned to trust science and technology and human reasoning to find solutions to global crises and they have always emerged better off with the experience.
  
  However, a bombardment of the earth by asteroids that are one to ten miles in radius within a year of discovery would cause us to consider religion.
  • Acceptance of the Gospel. I personally do not believe that God will scare people into listening to Him. This has not been His method. He has used power in the past. But this power was used to cause amazement and awe at His abilities. He does not want obedience through terror.
  • Triggers political takeover by a religious leader. The Catholic church is the only viable religious institution poised to assume this leadership role in this crisis. There are several reasons why this will occur.
    • Vatican Observatory. Some have speculated that the governments of the earth would not publish this information because of the chaos it would cause. However, most people who search for space debris are private individuals and the Vatican. The Catholic church has a modern observatory and it is not in the best interest of the church to keep such an event secret from the world. In fact, the church is waiting for such an event to demand that it should lead the world.
    • Bible Prophecy. The bible predicts that the world will hand over power to the church. It further states that the existing conditions will cause people to allow persecution and the death penalty on the basis of religious beliefs - even in the United States.
      How could such a scenario happen in the United States of all places? This wonderful country!
      Fear.
      September 11, 2001 should teach us how. Within a month of this tragic event almost all Americans willingly gave up their freedoms and were willing to allow medieval inquisitions because of the fear of terrorism.
      Therefore, how will we react to impending global annihilation. The fate of the dinosaurs. The Catholic church will step in with an answer and you will want to listen because you will want to believe. They will show you prophecies from Mary that predict such a disaster and why it will occur and what the remedy is.
      You will obey because you will reason - "what will it hurt to give homage to Mary? The earth will be destroyed in six months anyway". And if the church tells you that everyone must obey, then you will willingly kill the minority who refuse because you are willing to do anything to avoid this global calamity. Your current attitude towards God and religion will dictate your response to this crisis. Then you will resort to your lessons from evolution, "Survival of the Fittest", at all costs.
    • Papal Expectations. The pope expects what he calls a "fissioning event". Bible prophecy calls it the "strong delusion". It is a future global event that will cause a paradigm shift in our beliefs and make him the world leader. If he dies then the next popes will apply this prophecy to themselves. All these expectations are based on several prophecies from demons pretending to be "Mary".
      Malachi Martin, The Keys of this Blood, Page 639.

    John Paul is waiting ... for an event that will fission human history, splitting the immediate past from the oncoming future. It will be an event on public view in the skies, in the oceans, and on the continental land masses, of this planet. It will particularly involve our human sun ... it will be seen as the glory of the Woman whom the apostle describes as "clothed with the sun" and giving birth to "a child who will rule the nations with a scepter of iron."
    ... it will immediately nullify all the grand designs the nations are now forming and will introduce the Grand Design of man's Maker. John Paul's waiting and watching time will be over. His ministry as the servant of the Grand Design will then begin.

• Shock and Awe at the Second Coming Another prophecy states that the wicked will be surprised at the Second Coming. This emotion seems at odds with the unprecedented events we expect to happen. One fact that could account for this is that the demonic forces must have convinced them that it would not happen if they cooperate and most of the evangelicals expect a millennium of peace.

  The Appearance of Satan. He comes as an angel of light. The Bible predicts this as an event to avoid and the Marian prophecies predict a supernatural appearance before the Second Coming as a good thing. According to the prophecies from "Mary", she will appear to the world before the real Second Coming to convince the world to listen to the pope and avoid the wrath of God. If the world does not listen, there will be global disaster. Mary will appear with lots of convincing witnesses such as Jesus, Joseph, disciples, important Bible characters, Catholic saints, possibly a pope. Maybe Elvis too.
  This event also has the potential to cause the global persecution.
• Mark of the beast. Forced Sunday worship and global persecution.
  I hope that at this point, the people of God will refuse to persecute their fellow brothers and sisters and that the church will look at the mistakes of the past and look at current events and examine the beliefs that had only a few months ago. The belief that they would never resort to such medieval behavior. That they never thought that what they are now experiencing would be possible. That any divine tyrant who would demand murder and torture of good people is not worthy of love.
• The Seven Last Plagues. These are God's response to the persecution of the church.
  » Global Financial Collapse. It begins in the United States. This will occur as part of the plagues.

Adventist Prophecies
Seventh Day Adventists have several other details about the fulfillment of prophecies that they have held for about 100 years. The current behavior and laws of the United States and the involvement of Protestant churches in launching this power is a unique Adventist belief that people scoffed at. Now it is a reality since 2001.

Adventist Prophecy	Prophecy	Fulfilled
The United States will be the last world power	Beast from the Earth	1991
The United States will become a persecuting tyrant	Dragon Speaks	2001
The Catholic church will regain international power	Wound Healed	1929, 1991
The Protestant churches will be the first to influence the government	Union of church and state	1980, 2000
There will be a union of church and state. The Catholic church will influence the United States	Cooperation Babylon the Great	Fulfilled in Europe
There will be a national Sunday law that will be enforced	Mark of the Beast	Fulfilled in Europe. Not really enforced in the USA
Spiritualism will be popular	Miracles	1970's
Spiritualism will infiltrate the church	Miracles	1980's
God will use simple methods to complete the work	Zechariah 4: 6	Internet, House to house
The final movements will be rapid	Woman in Childbirth	e.g. The fall of communism.
Judgment passes from the righteous dead to the living	The Sealing	I think it has started
Visions and dreams	Joel 2	Fulfilling
God will take control	Isaiah 59: 1, 16-17; 63: 1-6	Fulfilling
The church is ridiculed and persecuted	Mark of the Beast	Not fulfilled
Satan will impersonate Christ	The Eighth Head	Not fulfilled

Consolidating Forces: The Making of Armageddon
Two religious groups believe that they are fighting Armageddon or some precursor to that war. Both appear to be making moves to create conditions for a self-fulfilling prophecy. Both believe that they will be victorious.

The Muslim prophecies say that major battles will be fought in Afghanistan, Baghdad and Syria. And when Al-Madhi returns every faithful Muslim should join the army led by Al-Madhi who is assisted by someone from Afghanistan who leads a great army. This army goes to fight against Israel and the Christians. The execution of their war has forced America to fight in those places mentioned by their prophecies. In another version of a Middle East prophecy, the final battle will be fought in the holy nation of Iran. Our sword rattling is truly stirring up the pages of their prophecy. And these groups are acting according to their prophetic scripts. But it is unfortunate that the actions of the United States prompted them to also fulfill these prophecies of their own free will.
The religious right believe the opposite. With some tweaking of the prophetic players, they now believe that the Muslims are the forces of Antichrist. They used to believe that Russia and China would start a war in the Middle East and persecute Israel. But the opposite has happened. Now they have recast the role of America so that it is a power that has been called by God to defeat the wicked and bring in the kingdom of God. They are even deliberately trying to turn Russia into an enemy again.
What will actually happen? The nations will march against Israel and surround them. Even though the religious right believe that they must support Israel, somehow, America will stop supporting Israel. I do not know how that will happen. But it will. America will also lose the war. We will never leave the Middle East.

Evangelistic Efforts
If we use money collected or number responding as proofs of success of the evangelistic efforts of God Himself then the great attempts of the prophets of God to articulate the position of God have all been devastating failures. People simply prefer darkness to light. Neither the professed people of God nor the wicked are willing to contemplate the appeals for life from God.

• Noah. He was 480 years old when he began to preach. His first son was born at the age of 500 and the flood came when He was 600 years old. But after 120 years of preaching and building an ark, the entire world rejected the message of Noah. Only eight people were saved. My calculations estimate that the total population of the earth at the flood was 15 to 33 million, based on two children per family.
  and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought about a flood on the world of the ungodly. (2 Peter 2: 5)
• Lot. After spending several decades in Sodom only three people were saved. His wife looked back, longing for Sodom, and she died. His older children refused to leave. Noah was able to save only his family but Lot lost most of his. For the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, they had only one night of warning when the angels came.
• Moses. He was forty when he ran from the comforts of Egypt to herd sheep. He was eighty when he came back to lead the exodus of stubborn goats. But when Moses was 120 years old, after forty years in the desert, of the estimated six million Jews in the exodus only two reached the Promised Land, Joshua and Caleb. If you count the fact that God took Moses to the Promised Land in heaven then only three people were saved. The others died in the wilderness because they longed for Egypt, just as the wife of Lot looked back to Sodom.
• Jesus. After preaching to Israel for 3½ years and living among them for 33½ years, He died as a rejected man. Even the twelve disciples had abandoned Him.
• Second Coming. What will be the situation at the end of time? It appears that the majority will reject God.
  ... However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth? (Luke 18: 8)
  Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. (Matthew 7: 13-14)
  Is there any hope that this final effort of God will have major success. Will billions of the estimated 6.6 billion be saved? We have only one example of a very successful effort by a prophet who actually wanted failure!
  Jonah. For forty days, he preached to the residents of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. All 120,000 people repented and were saved. But Jonah was angry that God did not destroy them.
  ... An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign, and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. (Matthew 12: 39-40)

  Person	Buried Three Days and Nights	Message Duration	Audience	People Saved
  Jonah	In the Belly of the Sea Monster Three Days	Repentance (40 Days)	Assyria	120,000
  Baby Jesus	Three Trimesters in the Womb	40 Weeks	Israel	-
  Adult Jesus	Three Decades on Earth	Gospel (40+ Months)	Israel	12+
  After Jesus	Earth Exists Three Thousand Years	Gospel (40+ Jubilees)	Babylon	Unknown

Efforts to Stop the Preaching of the Message
The gospel message involves several aspects.

• Love. The love of God and love for each other. This message is popular if we are willing to say that all gods are the same. Anything less would be negatively criticizing another religion.
• Sin. This message is not popular and is condemned as preaching from a divisive old book. Anything less would be negatively criticizing another person's natural lifestyle or classified as old and antiquated morals.
• Final Warning. The three angel's message are God's final warning to the world. They convince the world of sin, righteousness and the judgment to come. In particular, the second angel's message admonishes the servants of God to warn the world that Babylon has fallen, they should leave so that they will not be punished.
  This message criticizes a particular government and church. It is not popular.

We cannot separate the message of love from the message of warning. Unfortunately, those in power are not content at having the messages preached and labeling us as crackpots. No. They are making every effort to stop us through legal, social and business methods. They are changing laws, saturating the public with a particular "peace" message, controlling communications businesses and influencing the governments.
While churches can still cite moral objections for accommodating new legal rights, yet commercial interests and church operations who use government funds cannot cite moral objection for declining to provide immoral services.
Discrimination and Prejudice. Eventually people who want to obey moral laws will be driven out of business for not providing immoral services. Their position will be labeled a discrimination, evoking images of the civil rights movement when people denied services to African Americans by either giving them sub-standard services (separate and unequal) or none at all. A part of this was also the treatment and violence aimed at them. No minority group can now claim that they are being treated this way.
Businesses should be allowed to work under moral principles and let the market forces drive out those they find objectionable. If services are provided, then there must not be unequal treatment to different customers.
At some point it will be impossible to say anything other than

"God is love and all paths lead to the same god."

» Same Sex Services. With the legalization of same sex marriages in the United States, Christian facilities are being targeted for legal action. With the vast number of options available, the homosexual community is deliberately targeting churches to perform their weddings so that they can bring law suits and remove the tax exempt status of churches.

The Message of the Three Angels
The judgment has started. Worship the creator			Babylon (USA and Papacy) has fallen. She corrupted the nations. Leave her					Avoid the mark of the beast or receive the plagues
Personal	†	Radio	Television	Satellite	Books	†	WEB Sites	News Letters	Telephone
Religious Speech (Redefined, Regulated, Ridiculed and Censored)
Laws		Vulgar Speech		Hate speech			Anti-Government speech
		Legal Pressures					Social Pressures
Media Censorship		Vulgar speech	Hate Speech	Socially Unacceptable Speech			Negative speech	Divisive speech	Unpatriotic Speech
Business Censorship		Few owners	Few opinions	Stakeholder control	Business rules		Customer Complaints	Advertiser Threats	Cost
		Power Pressures					Cost Pressures
Door to Door		Blocked Message
Personal		Radio	Television	Satellite	Print	Internet		Email	Telephone
The Dying World

With the changing environment and the new socially conscious rhetoric, religious speech walks a fine line between hate speech and unpatriotic speech and will be banned from public dissemination because of the legal and social pressures brought on the companies that carry their message.
How can we preach the full message under these conditions? We cannot.
And when did this censorship take hold of the liberal western cultures? Within the last six years (since 1998).
This means that we must try to be as successful as possible before we are totally shut out. The only option we will have at that point is personal evangelism in private homes and this too is being regulated in places like Canada, China, Middle East and countries of the former Soviet Union. Businesses already ban "soliciting".

Western Democracies. Now that communism is dead, western democracies have immediately begun to censor religion.
Sweden, Norway, England, Canada and France are some of the countries that now prosecute religious speech. In France you can be jailed for printing a book that "incites hatred".
In Canada you can be jailed for printing offensive advertisement or preaching incorrect things in public and on the internet. In Britain you can be arrested for hate speech because it affects "community cohesion". Churches in Britain must perform homosexual marriages. In other western democracies you can be fined for convincing someone to change their religion.

The Succession of Empires

Powers		Detail	Major Activities	Year	Prophecies
1	Babylon	70 years	Fall of Babylon	539 BC	Daniel 2: 38; 7:4
2	Medes and Persians	Cyrus	Babylon is captured under the leadership of Cyrus.	539 BC	Daniel 7: 5; 8: 3,6
3	Greeks	Alexander	The first great leader	336 BC	Daniel 8: 5; 11: 3
		4 Divisions	Seleucus, Cassander, Ptolemy and Lysichamus	306 BC	Daniel 7: 6; 8: 8; 11: 4
		2 Divisions	Northern and southern kingdom (Seleucid and Ptolemy)	281 BC	Daniel 11: 5, 6
4	Romans	Caesar	Augustus Caesar defeats Cleopatra and Mark Anthony in the Battle of Actium	31 BC	Daniel 11: 17-18
		Messiah	Passover Lamb - First Coming. Resurrection proven.	31	Daniel 9: 24-27; 11: 22
		Dragon	Rome persecutes the Messiah and God's people	66	Revelation 2: 10; 12
5	Papacy	Little Horn	Persecutes God's people when the government is controlled by the church	538 - 1798	Daniel 7: 21; Revelation 17: 3, 6
					Revelation 13, 17
6	Europe	Ten Divisions	Tries to unite and will be unsuccessful.	768 - Now	Daniel 2: 41-43; 7: 24; Revelation 12: 3; 13:1
7	United States	Lamb	Rescues God's people	1600+	Revelation 13: 11
			Righteous judged	1844+	Day of Atonement. Daniel 7: 22
		Dragon	Uniting with the church to become Babylon the Great	1981+	Revelation 13
			Speaks like a dragon	2001	Revelation 13
			Persecutes God's people	-	Revelation 13: 15-18
			Seven Last Plagues	1 year	Revelation 16
			Fall of Babylon		Revelation 18
8	Satan	Eighth head	False Second Coming		Revelation 17
9	Kingdom of God	Messiah	King - Second Coming. Righteous resurrected		Tabernacles day 1
		Millennium	Land rests from sin	1000+ Years	Revelation 20: 1-3, 7
		Messiah	Judge - Third Coming. Wicked resurrected		Tabernacles day 7. Revelation 20: 4-5
		Judgment	The wicked are judged		Revelation 20: 11-15
			Armageddon		Revelation 16: 16; 19: 19; 20: 8-9
			Hell		Revelation 20: 14-15
		New Earth	Israel lives with God in peace	Forever	Revelation 21

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Study to show yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2: 15 Copyright     Updated : January 2010 Credits: Author: Laverna Patterson. Editor: Patterson (January 2008) Read "The Great Controversy" by Ellen White.