Jan 26
The American Apocalypse Coming Soon
My partner Terry has a book coming out next week--The American Apocalypse. The book deals with the burning question, "What role will the U.S. play in end-times prophecy?" Since most of those who are reading this article live in America , it's a very important subject to cover.
Terry believes that the U.S. will not play a prominent role in the end times. Of course, this is a stunning change for a nation that has been a major actor on the world stage for the past 100 years. He gives several reasons that Uncle Sam is mostly absent from Bible prophecy.
One factor, I think, really stands out from the growing list of perils facing our nation. The greatest threat to the well-being of America is not our dependence on foreign oil, terrorism, the national debt, nuclear war, or moral decay. What will likely doom the United States is the rapture of the Church.
I'm always getting emails from people who say they can't wait until we Christians are taken in the rapture. They certainly have no real comprehension of what they are wishing for. The Bible says that we are the salt of the earth; this is a key reason America has become so great a nation.
In the past few weeks, I have noticed that several end-time writers have focused on a problem that should have been obvious years ago, but that only now has come to light. When the rapture takes place, the disappearance of 30 to 80 million born-again believers will be cataclysmic for the United States.
Our nation is already in a moral and financial pickle. The sudden loss of 10 to 20 percent of the population would doom the U.S. to third-world status. As Terry writes in his new book, "Government is totally disrupted, and the powers-that-be quickly recognize that not even martial law is going to be able to reestablish the revenue basis for carrying on government as usual. Much of the workforce, particularly the most vital, skilled force that is the heart and soul of American industry and fidelity to the good work ethic, has disappeared in that stupefying moment."
The rapture may cripple America, but the rest of the world will escape with little impact. The obvious reason this will largely be an American problem is that all other industrialized nations have a population base with far fewer Christians. It is no secret that the number of European Christians has sharply declined over time. About every poll I've seen shows the number of true believers in Europe at around 2 percent. In the Middle East, the number of people claiming Christ as Savior is less than one percent.
What makes Terry's book so timely is how God generally operates. Right before the Lord pours out His judgment, He always sends a warning. Even during the tribulation--a time of judgment--God sends out His messengers to warn people to repent. When they fail to turn from their wickedness, the Lord gives the order to move forward with greater wrath on a sinful world. "And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk" (Rev. 9:20).
Terry's book is being published by Harvest House, who plans to heavily promote The American Apocalypse to get it into as many outlets as possible. We were told this is something they only do with a hand full of books each year. Terry will also be doing dozens of radio interviews to get the end-time message out to people. I ask everyone at Rapture Ready to pray that God will bless the book.
The best place to purchase a copy of The American Apocalypse: Is the United States in Bible Prophecy? is at your local bookstore or at an on-line retailer. Here is a link to the book's listing at Amazon.com: The American Apocalypse.
-- Todd
EFT To Save the World?
The Obama installation brought such sycophantic inspiration to one network broadcaster that when he saw video rolling of a large flock of pigeons flying above the throngs milling about Washington D.C. on inauguration day, he made a statement that would have the journalism professors of Edward R. Murrow’s day cringing with editorial rage. This is second-hand from a "Fox and Friends" host I heard Thursday morning, January 22, laughingly ridicule the statement. The "Fox and Friends" host said the reporter commented something like: “I’ve never seen anything like this. Even the birds are expressing joy and hope over the events of today.” The quotation isn’t exact, but was even more giddy, as I recall the incredulous Fox pundit recounting the statement.
This won’t be a “hit piece” on our new president. He has just begun to govern. Despite the campaign rhetoric and all of the deals that were ostensibly made with many supporter organizations whose philosophies we consider counter to being in America’s best interest , and even though his expressions of intention in the several days since he took the oath seem ominous, he deserves the courtesy of our reserving judgment until we actually see what he will do in these opening days of his presidency. There is, too, the biblical commandment that we pray for those in authority so that our days will be peaceful.
We at RaptureReady do pray for the 44th president. Our prayers consist of petitions that he is successful on America’s behalf IF he governs within God’s holy will. We do not pray that he is successful in ramming through Congress, or by presidential order, any policy or law that is in any way against God’s prescription for governing.
One thing we know for certain: this president will not bring about a miraculous cure for what ails this nation and the world. The hype and fawning might for a time, I believe, propagandize us with the allusion that a miracle cure is in the offing. All of the celebratory media glorification that has gone on since Mr. Obama’s being elected, however, won’t alter the truth from God’s prophetic Word. The world is headed toward the abyss –the tribulation hour of Daniel 9:27, and Jesus’ forewarning as recorded from His Olivet Discourse: “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matt. 24:21).
Yet, there will be an attempt to save mankind–by humanistic, global governance. We see the beginnings of the crisis–and it is economic, because the root of all evil is the love of money—that is driving the nations toward a monumental crisis that will eventuate in the rule of the one termed “the beast” in Revelation, Chapter 13.
One conservative, though totally secular (non-biblical) economic expert weighed in on what faces the new president, the American people, and the world:
“Yesterday was coronation day for our new president and we wish him well for the sake of our nation and others throughout the world. We do not want to be cynical but must be realistic. We think this year will be the worst one of this longer recession-depression cycle and our new leader, we suspect is going to take a merciless pounding from a heap of troubles domestically first and foreign later.
Thankfully, the spending of TARP #2 and whatever billions-trillions are added for emphasis, should give us the Obama Market Bounce lasting perhaps 90 days or so. While this economics plan has no chance in our view, the herd psychology of markets should give us a nice relief rally almost across the board…
While we remain in a primary deflation mode world-wide, we think inflation followed by hyperinflation is very real and possible in later 2009. The Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury are just about at the end of their rope. They are out of rate cut running-room and those moves are mostly ineffectual now anyway.
All they have left is a phony game of printing dollars and bonds while moving them around in a circle within our country. Foreign USA paper buyers take less and less at new auctions. We know they are dumping dollars and other papers assets at a furious pace paying bills and investing in honest-to-goodness hard goods with real value. Watch out for big time inflation in the second half of 2009” (Roger Wiegand, "Trader Tracks Predictions For 2009," 1/21/09,www.webeatthestreet.com).
The writer writes of Exchange Traded Funds (ETF). I am told by an investment advisor that this is a HUGE new thing in the markets over the past couple of years. Some ETF mimic the movements of the DOW, or the NASDAQ, or can mimic the movements of almost any sector...ie, drugs, oil, gold, etc.
It is of great interest to me that, after all of the crunching of the critical numbers that portend almost certain global depression of unprecedented depth, the writer says: “Timing is difficult but more than one analyst suggests using the ETF's for trading this longer term event.”
I’ve long believed that Revelation 13 foretells a time when electronic commerce will be used to bring world economy under the one-world control of Antichrist. Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT,) as a matter-of-fact, is an ideal electronic vehicle that could fulfill the beast system.
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six” (Rev. 13:16-18).
America must be brought down to the same level as other economies of the world’s nations. Currencies must be melded into a single monetary system of some sort in order to get a handle on the swiftly developing crisis.
EFT is simply computer numbers assigned to units of electronic currency, which can then be moved around through the computer, satellite linkages, etc. They are electronic funds–injected into and removed from accounts of governments, institutions, and individuals, with manipulation of computer keys and other instrumentalities.
The system is exactly the sort of dealing with ability to buy and sell instantaneously that will be required for Antichrist to have power over all commerce. Some such hybrid of today’s Internet, in conjunction with EFT, will, I’m convinced, be the first system to appear that will be instituted to try to save the world out of the greatest global depression in history. It’s final form, however, will instead enslave all who take the beast’s number and mark.
We see developing in all of this gushing toward global economic restructuring a most profound signal of how near the rapture of the Church might be on God’s prophetic timeline. The rapture will be the catalyst, I believe, that instantly will cause all leaders of the world–especially in the western world, to accept any system such as described that will offer to bring stability to a world gone mad with fear
--Terry
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