The Prophecy Update Newsletter - 3/27/25 - Why the Use of Sorcery Will Be So Prevalent During the Tribulation Period

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Mar 27, 2025

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In Today’s Newsletter…

*Why The Use of Sorcery Will Be So Prevalent During the Tribulation Period

*If Everything Is Going to Be Okay, Why Are the U.S. And The EU Feverishly Preparing for World War III?

*Prophecy Update Videos

*Recommended Reading & Links

*Rapture Revilers

*Broken Beyond Repair

*Daily Jot: Church responsibility in the DOGE era

*Daily Devotion: The Power to Heal

*Prophecy Update News Headlines

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Why The Use of Sorcery Will Be So Prevalent During the Tribulation Period

By Dean Dwyer - https://harbingersdaily.com/why-the-use-of-sorcery-will-so-prevalent-during-the-tribulation-period/

As is the case in this age of grace, the Tribulation Period will reveal two distinct classes of people—those who will turn to Jesus Christ in faith and those who will turn away from Him, seeking another method of salvation. Take Revelation 9:21, for instance. Even though God still reaches out to people by His mercy and grace during the Tribulation Period, many will reject Him. That verse reads: “And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.”

The word “sorcery” is, in the Greek, a term well known by prophecy scholars: pharmakeia. It refers to the employment of drugs for any purpose: sorcery, magic, enchantment and even goes so far as to refer to poisons, amulets, charms, magic spells, witchcraft, or any other object or practice that makes someone susceptible to sin. Drugs are used in association with sorcery because they place the practitioner into an altered state of consciousness whereby he or she becomes more open to contact with the spiritual realm. But why would the use of sorcery be so prevalent during the Tribulation Period? Drugs in the ancient world were used to dull the senses and induce a state suitable for religious experiences such as séances, witchcraft, incantations, and cavorting with mediums. It is on this point we now turn to history to give a possible explanation as to why sorcery will be so widespread in the future.

The consequences of the First World War are well documented. Although estimates vary, my own Australian War Memorial states: “It is generally accepted that the First World War killed some 16 million people worldwide, of which military deaths constituted about 9.5 million. It is also estimated that around 20 million were wounded, including 8 million left permanently disabled in some way. This was indeed a shocking toll for just four years. As if this were not enough, disease would then step in to claim an even greater toll in the form of the 1918–20 influenza pandemic, the Spanish flu.”

Confronted with the enormity of the death toll and the sudden loss of loved ones, the living sought hope among the dead. Enter: Spiritualism. Spiritualism, in hindsight, had a rather bizarre introduction to the world. It was sparked by the Fox sisters—Margaretta “Maggie” Fox (14) and Kate Fox (11) in the bedroom of their home in Hydesville, New York. Intercepting a neighbour on a late March day in 1848, the sisters claimed that every night around bedtime, they heard a series of raps on the walls and furniture—raps that seemed to manifest with a peculiar, otherworldly intelligence. Upon relocating to Rochester to live with their sister Leah, the sisters eventually embarked on a professional tour to spread word of their contact with the spirits. An editorial in the Scientific American scoffed at their newfound fame, calling the girls the “Spiritual Knockers from Rochester.”

Kate pursued Spiritualism with an intensity that her sisters did not share. Her business boomed during and after the American Civil War, as increasing numbers of the bereaved found solace in Spiritualism. Prominent Spiritualist Emma Hardinge wrote that the war added two million new believers to the movement, and by the 1880s there were an estimated eight million Spiritualists in the United States and Europe. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Spiritualism had become not only a source of solace, but also of entertainment. Large gatherings in theaters soon featured séances where mediums claimed to connect with the dead. These mediums, often women thought to possess innate abilities, used various methods to facilitate contact with spirits using, for example, possession, letter arrangement, and Ouija boards. In fact, this practice had become so widespread, the front page of The San Francisco Examiner on May 26, 1918 ran the headline, “Can the Dead Talk to Us?”

Returning to World War I, the global conflict had a profound impact on the popularity of Spiritualism. The war’s unprecedented loss of life left many soldiers and their families seeking solace and answers. On the battlefield, in addition to relying on morphine and cocaine to dull physical and emotional pain, soldiers turned to Spiritualism for comfort and hope. Some soldiers even reported feeling the presence of fallen comrades or visions of the dead, which bolstered their belief in an afterlife. Families of fallen soldiers went through a similar process. To them, Spiritualism had a dual purpose: to seek evidence through the spirits that their loved ones were in a better place and to reassure themselves that their own afterlife was secure. Of course, the rise of Spiritualism allowed unscrupulous mediums to prey upon desperate people. For families desperate for news of their loved ones, living daily with the risk of death and losing faith in their leaders, the prospect of some supernatural power or otherworldly influence, was somewhat reassuring. In the chaos of war and amid the frailty of humanity, to feel that the outcome was no longer in mortal hands brought them a sense of peace. But it was a false peace.

In hindsight, the boom in Spiritualism and the occult during and after World War I was a multifaceted phenomenon fueled by unparalleled violence, social upheaval, the influence of celebrities and the declining influence of Christianity. As people turned away from God, they still wanted to be given hope for an afterlife, which Spiritualism and the occult sought to fulfill. Looking ahead to the Tribulation Period, it is not hard to foresee that people will once again search for answers apart from God, particularly as they will be under the influence of widespread drug use and the forces of darkness in the demonic realm.

After the rapture of the church, the world’s descent into spiritual darkness will be hastened. Once again, forces of darkness will rush to fill the void, finding sympathetic hearts because wicked mankind loves darkness (John 3:19). It may appear too disparaging to the supposedly enlightened people of this age to entertain the possibility of a return to sorcery, but even in Western cultures the enemy is preparing the minds of mankind for a worldwide return to these abominable practices. Evidence of this may be found in the plethora of music, movies, television shows and books with demonic and occultic themes, particularly coupling drug use and contact with the unseen realm. Sadly, as we witnessed in the World War I era, often times worldwide disaster causes mankind to seek refuge in darkness rather than light. But there is hope: it is found in Jesus Christ. He said of Himself in John 8:12: “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

If Everything Is Going to Be Okay, Why Are the U.S. And The EU Feverishly Preparing for World War III?

by Michael Snyder - https://endoftheamericandream.com/if-everything-is-going-to-be-okay-why-are-the-u-s-and-the-eu-feverishly-preparing-for-world-war-iii/

If there is going to be peace in the Middle East, why has the Pentagon sent 25 percent of our entire fleet of B-2 stealth bombers to the region? And if there is going to be peace in Europe, why is the European Union telling all of their citizens to store up food and water for a war with Russia? We keep being told that everything is going to be okay, but meanwhile western officials continue to make moves that indicate that more war is coming.

According to Newsweek, the United States has “significantly increased its military presence” in the Middle East during the past couple of weeks…

The U.S. has significantly increased its military presence in both the Gulf and Indian Ocean, deploying B-2 stealth bombers, cargo planes, and aerial refueling tankers, alongside key assets like the USS Carl Vinson and USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carriers.

I am particularly concerned about the deployment of highly advanced B-2 stealth bombers to the region.

It is being reported that “at least five” B-2 stealth bombers have been deployed to the island of Diego Garcia…

The US military has sent at least five B-2 Spirit stealth bombers to highly strategic island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

These heavy bombers can obliterate targets with their huge 25 tonne bomb payload per jet.

This means the US’s deadly fleet of five could carry an astounding 125 tonnes of bombs.

For those that do not know, Afghanistan was relentlessly bombed by U.S. air assets based in Diego Garcia during the invasion of that nation in 2001, and Iraq was relentlessly bombed by U.S. air assets based in Diego Garcia during the invasion of that nation in 2003.

Currently, the U.S. only possesses 20 B-2 stealth bombers, and so that means that 25 percent of them are now in Diego Garcia.

It is being speculated that these B-2 bombers could be involved in the ongoing campaign to bomb the Houthis in Yemen, but it is important to note that these B-2 bombers would also be ideal for carrying out the sort of “bunker buster” strikes that would be necessary to take out Iran’s nuclear program…

The bombers present a unique mix of capabilities, particularly their ability to penetrate past dense enemy air defenses to carry out ‘bunker buster’ strikes employing 30,000-pound class GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs. MOP, which only the B-2 is currently certified to employ operationally, itself offers a unique conventional option for striking deeply buried and fortified targets, of which there are many in Iran.

We do know that President Trump recently delivered a letter to the Iranians that gives them a choice with a very clear deadline.

Either the Iranians must make an agreement to end their nuclear program within two months or they will be attacked…

Recently, President Trump revealed that he had sent a letter to Tehran, demanding a new nuclear agreement within two months or face significant military consequences. With negotiations stalled and the deadline looming, the diplomatic window for de-escalation is quickly closing, leaving military action as an increasingly likely outcome.

The Iranians have already told us that they have no plans to negotiate.

So it appears that it is just a matter of time before the second option is implemented.

In a recent interview with “Face the Nation”, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz made it clear that there will be no compromises…

“Iran has to give up its program in a way that the entire world can see,” Mike Waltz, Trump’s National Security Advisor, said during a separate interview on CBS News‘ “Face the Nation” this weekend. “It is time for Iran to walk away completely from its desire to have a nuclear weapon, and they will not and cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapons program. That is its weaponization and its strategic missiles program.”

If B-2 stealth bombers start hitting Iran’s nuclear facilities, we will officially be at war with Iran.

I hope that everyone understands the implications of that.

Meanwhile, the European Union is “pushing for every household in the 27-nation bloc” to prepare an emergency kit in case a direct war with Russia breaks out…

European Union bureaucrats are pushing for every household in the 27-nation bloc to prepare the kit for war and natural disasters.

It is expected that will be part of a union’s broader “preparedness strategy” amid the threat from Russia.

Key items they will ask the bloc’s 450 million citizens to gather includes water, energy bars and a flashlight.

Why does every home in the EU need to prepare for war with Russia if there is going to be peace?

Do EU bureaucrats know something that the rest of us do not?

Sadly, it appears that even the very limited agreements that Russia and Ukraine just agreed to are not going to hold. The Ukrainians just launched more strikes against Russian energy infrastructure, and the Russians just keep sending waves of drone attacks at Ukrainian cities…

Overnight, Russia said it had taken down nine drones, including two over the Black Sea. It also said Ukraine tried to attack a gas storage facility in Russian-occupied Crimea and energy infrastructure in Russia’s Kursk and Bryansk regions. Ukraine said it conducted no such strikes.

Ukraine’s military reported 117 Russian drone attacks overnight. Local officials said the city of Kryvyi Rih had been hit by the biggest drone attack it has faced yet.

Hopefully both sides will come to their senses, because this is our one shot at peace.

If negotiations ultimately fail, it is inevitable that both sides will escalate matters, and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is warning that an attack on Poland or any other NATO member “will be met with the full force of this fierce alliance”…

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte issued a stern warning to Vladimir Putin, stating that any attack on Poland or another NATO member would be met with a “devastating” response.

“If anyone were to miscalculate and think they can get away with an attack on Poland or on any other ally, they will be met with the full force of this fierce alliance. Our reaction will be devastating” he declared in Warsaw. “This has to be very clear to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and anyone else who wants to attack us.”

Those are unusually strong words.

Is he expecting something to happen?

Ominously, we are being told that four U.S. soldiers were just found dead near Lithuania’s border with Belarus…

Four US soldiers have reportedly been found dead in Lithuania after going missing during a training mission. A major search operation was launched after the tracked vehicle they were travelling in disappeared at around 4.45pm yesterday.

The Embassy in Vilnius has yet to confirm the deaths after releasing a statement to confirm only that four soldiers were missing. But speaking to reporters while visiting Warsaw, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said: “Whilst I was speaking the news came out about four American soldiers who were killed in an incident in Lithuania,” as he confirmed he had no further details. The search, involving Lithuanian and US assets, has identified a “possible location” of where they are believed to have disappeared.

This is a very alarming incident.

Hopefully we will learn more details shortly.

There is one last thing that I wanted to mention today. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just told European journalists that Russian President Vladimir Putin “will die soon”…

Volodymyr Zelensky has predicted that Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘will die soon’ in a candid assessment as he discussed the war on Ukraine. Speaking during a round table with journalists including the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen, the Ukrainian leader said: “He will die soon, and that’s a fact, and it will come to an end.”

What an irresponsible thing to say.

Yes, Putin has been experiencing health problems for a long time.

But if Putin does die soon, the Russians will remember what Zelenskyy just said. At that point it would be exceedingly difficult to convince the Russians that nothing nefarious was going on, and getting both sides to agree to any sort of a peace deal would almost certainly become impossible.

We are at such a delicate moment.

The decisions that global leaders make over the next several months could dramatically alter the course of human history, and right now I am not particularly optimistic about where things are heading.

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Rapture Revilers

Terry James - https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2025/03/24/rapture-revilers/

Author’s note: This week’s blog post was first published on September 15, 2008. Today the problem of those who “revile” the Rapture hasn’t abated. As a matter of fact, according to the weekly comments I get, almost exclusively from those who are presumably born again, the invective against the Rapture is on the increase, not on the decline.

So addressing again, at this particular time, this denial of Christ’s promise to rescue His Church, as He did in giving John His guarantee as recorded in Revelation 3:10, is altogether appropriate.

An emailer this past week addressed an ongoing matter that is perplexing, in that Christians read the same Word from God—the Bible—yet the message the children of God take from the same passages they read can be so different as to be troubling. Nowhere in the Holy Scriptures is this divergence of inferred meanings more pronounced than those pertaining to prophecy yet future—narrowing the problem, thinking about the Rapture of the Church.

Here are the emailer’s words, with a few redactions for the sake of not wanting to violate privacy, or to cast aspersions on specific people.

Hello Terry, I just wanted to ask you a question, and possibly have you post this on your “Interesting Email” for other visitors who have possibly had a similar experience. I listen to [a well-known Bible teacher and radio program host] every morning on my way to work. I consider him to be a “true born-again Christian,” and really enjoy hearing his teachings. He seems very knowledgeable of God’s Word. I have never heard anything from him that contradicts the word of God. However, on a recent radio program, he was teaching on the millennium… [He] was expounding on “premillennium,” “amillennium,” and “post-millennium.”

I know that he has a theological education of these issues [that] exceeds most layman’s understanding, but there was something that he said upset me during this broadcast. He happened to bring up the pretribulation rapture, and to me, he sounded as if he had contempt for the theory of a pretrib rapture.

Now, here is where my question comes in. Why do most theologians today seem to have this contempt, if I may call it that, for any teaching on a pretrib rapture? To paraphrase [the radio host’s words] on this, he said that he has never been able to find even one shred of evidence of a pretribulation rapture in the bible, and from the sound of his voice when he said it, I guess I formed my own opinion that he had contempt for this theory. Anyway, the point I am try to make here is that I realize Christians do not have to agree on this idea to receive salvation and enter the kingdom of heaven as long as they are grounded in sound doctrine concerning the true meaning of salvation: that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior, and no man can come to the Father except through Him and His blood sacrifice on the cross. I just don’t understand why a pretribulation rapture theory seems to provoke people to the point of becoming hostile of this theory, and sometimes, even toward the Christians [who] believe it. Personally, I believe that the pretrib rapture can be found in Scripture if a person will just read God’s Word with an open heart and mind, along with prayer for the Holy Spirit to guide them.

This question by our Rapture Ready friend involves things that have always puzzled me, too, and I’ve written about matters attendant to the subject on a number of occasions. Why the vitriol, the seeming hatred for the pre-Trib view, even for those of us who teach the Bible from a pre-Trib Rapture view?

I believe it flows from satanic rage that affects even the born again.

To know who is right—these like the radio host to whom the emailer refers (who believe the pre-Trib Rapture is a lie from the pit of hell, as they sometimes put it) or we who teach the pre-Trib Rapture—it is best to just examine what’s going on all around us these days.

A large segment of the Rapture revilers say all prophecy was fulfilled with the AD 70 destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem by Titus and the Roman legions. Some believe the world has, since that date, been in the Tribulation. They spiritualize and allegorize all prophecy we see as yet future.

They believe modern Israel isn’t God’s chosen, that God is finished with the Jews, and that the Church now has been given the promises God made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Is God indeed finished with Israel?

God’s Word says Israel will be a nation just before His Son returns. His chosen people will be hated. It will be at the center of all the world’s national chaos and controversy. Is this happening, or not?

There will be a false peace made between Israel and its enemies that will affect the whole world, God’s Word says. Do we see any peace process in progress that involves Israel, its enemies, and, in effect, the entire world?

There will be a great power due north of Jerusalem and Israel whose leader will “think an evil thought.” Do we see any sign of such a power due north of Israel?

Take a string on a globe and put it on Jerusalem. Run that string straight up from Jerusalem. Does that string bisect any major city? Moscow!

Persia, the prophetic Word of God says, will be a key partner with that leader and his nation, Rosh, the ancient name for the area that now is covered by Russia. These and a coalition called “Magog” will invade toward Israel, according to Ezekiel 38 and 39. Do we see any collusion between Persia (Iran today) and Rosh (Russia today)?

There will be a coming back together, the Bible says, of the ancient Roman Empire (the last empire of Nebuchadnezzar’s metallic man-image as seen in the Babylonian king’s night-vision). Do we see that development taking place in our news today? Yes. The European Union.

Many like the radio host/teacher the emailer mentions believe this world will be made better and better until Christ comes back to assume the earthly throne. Do we see the world getting better and better? Or is the world getting worse, according to the daily and hourly news headlines, just like prophetic Scripture predicts?

There are another dozen or more signals I could mention to draw the comparison between the beliefs the preterists and other anti-Rapture teachers hold and the pre-Trib/dispensational view we hold. Space does not allow.

The preponderance of evidence, both biblical and literal (things in the news), comes down thunderously on the side of the pretribulational, premillennial view of eschatology.

Why do they hate the pre-Trib view and the Rapture teaching in considering things to come? I’m convinced it is because Satan hates Israel and the Lord’s plan to save remnants out of Israel and out of humankind in general.

These who hurl invectives are deluded, in denial. I don’t doubt their salvation. But I do doubt their faithful adherence to God’s prophetic Word. They prefer man-made eschatology, and that is given not by the Holy Spirit, but by Lucifer, the fallen one. One prophecy in particular speaks to the Rapture revilers’ attitude toward Christ’s coming in a sudden, unexpected intrusion upon a world that will be conducting its nefarious business as usual:

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. (2 Peter 3:3–4).

Broken Beyond Repair

By Rick Segoine - https://www.raptureready.com/2025/03/25/broken-beyond-repair-by-rick-segoine/

Elon Musk, appointed by Donald J. Trump, is using the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to expose the staggering amounts of United States government waste, along with the massive amounts of taxpayer money being used to fund that waste. Not just waste but also the corruption that allows the waste.

You would think all Americans would be on board with what Elon Musk, at the behest of Trump, is doing. However, the far left, with brain cells exploding and hair on fire, is having a meltdown over this and demanding that Musk stop immediately. They are even developing a new derangement syndrome called MDS. Musk Derangement Syndrome, which includes violently attacking Tesla dealerships and setting Teslas on fire.

A sane person might ask this question: Why would an American citizen be against exposing and rooting out government waste and corruption?

The answer seems simple enough.

Those who appear to be pro waste and corruption are either part of the corruption and are benefiting financially from it, or they could be brainwashed leftists without a shred of common sense. Or, they might be given over by God to reprobate minds that are broken beyond repair. The very people that Isaiah, a prophet of God, described in chapter 5 and verse 20 of the Book of Isaiah, where he speaks very telling, revealing, and chilling words: “Woe unto those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” Those who “lean on their own understanding.”

It can be very difficult for a person with common sense and a logical mind to comprehend such a thing, and yet here we are. Right here on planet Earth in the year 2025, we are confronted with this very thing described by Isaiah. Actual human beings who not only see evil as good and good as evil but are 100% convinced that it is they who see things the proper way and that everyone else is an idiot, a racist, a fascist, and/or a Nazi.

How in the world did these human people who exemplify Isaiah 5:20 actually sink to such a level of dysfunctional thinking? How they got this way is a fair question to ask.

Romans 1:18-32 provides some strong clues as to how a person can sink so low as to become a poster child for Isaiah 5:20, and it starts with rejecting God, the one who created them. From that point, it spirals downward to the point of God declaring an individual to be fully reprobate and giving them over to that broken mindset.

God’s wrath against sinful humanity:

“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

“For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal human beings and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

“They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty of their error.

“Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.

“They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them” (Romans 1:18-32).

The above revelations that Jesus gave to Paul and that Paul shared with the world suggest two things. One is that throughout history, there have been human beings who have rejected God our Creator to the point of being given over to a depraved or reprobate mind as a result. The second thing is that those words Paul gave to the world in Romans 1:18-32 also describe perfectly the state of the world in the year 2025.

The people, for example, in revolt against common sense that are exploding in anger over DOGE exposing the government waste along with the fraud and corruption are not behaving any differently than the people Paul describes. They exemplify what Isaiah warned against when he said, “Woe unto those who call evil good and call good evil,” and they got to that point by rejecting God and all that is Holy, and being given over to a depraved or reprobate mind.

Some Bible versions use the word depraved, and others use the word reprobate. Both words mean basically the same thing. One of the definitions of reprobate is depraved.

(Reprobate) Noun: a person without moral scruples.

Adjective: deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good.

Synonyms: depraved, perverse, perverted, corrupt, lacking in integrity.

Reprobate also: rejected as invalid, selfish, disreputable, not known for inner goodness, deviant, evildoer, a scoundrel, one morally abandoned and lost.

Getting back to the year 2025, people with common sense, especially those with common sense and who love God our Creator as well, see what DOGE is doing as a good thing and people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk as two of the good guys who are seeking to make right some things that are very wrong.

On the other hand, those with reprobate minds actually see Trump and Musk as evil, heartless tyrants who are even more wicked than Hitler or even Satan himself. And they view the exposing of corruption and holding criminals accountable as an act of pure evil. Thus, the death threats against both Trump and Musk are justified to them in their twisted way of thinking.

If some deranged Leftist were to succeed in carrying out one of these threats against either Trump or Musk, there would be much celebrating inside the collective, dysfunctional, broken-beyond-repair mind of the godless reprobate left.

Some on the conservative side refer to all of this collective, dismal behavior as the “Woke Mind Virus” similar to the Borg of Star Trek infamy; and although similar, from a biblical perspective it is fully reprobate. The agenda, however, and the misplaced delusional hopes of the “Woke Left” and the “Borg” are the same. The Woke and the Borg share the mistaken belief that “You will be assimilated, and resistance is futile.”

So, when you who have common sense behold this type of tweaked, upside-down thinking and behavior, don’t be the least bit surprised because they cannot help it. They do not know that they are broken. In fact, their inside-out thought patterns actually make them truly believe that anyone who disagrees with them is the one that is broken.

How does a sane person deal with such a thing? The division is set at 180 degrees. Exact opposites. Does this mean that followers of God should just give up on all of the reprobates who appear to be broken beyond repair?

The Word of God tells us that many shall reject the narrow gate and instead choose the wide road to destruction (Matthew 7:13-14). Even so, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, being amazingly merciful, would prefer that none should perish (2 Peter 3:9).

God the Father, who declares the end from the beginning and knows all about everyone ever born in intimate detail, as revealed in Psalm 139, knows if someone is borderline reprobate and might yet respond to a last-minute miracle. He knows also who would not respond and, in fact, refuse to repent up to the bitter end.

And so, since God knows and we do not, we need to continue praying for that miracle, even for those who appear to be fully committed to drowning in the reprobate swamp. Or, reprobate sewer if you prefer. God was, is, and will always be the merciful yet perfectly just judge as we stand in the gap for those who are lost and even reprobate seemingly beyond repair.

Miracles, because of God’s great mercy, can and do still happen.

Meanwhile, the difference is being dramatically revealed here in the year 2025 on planet Earth between human beings who love God and who still possess common sense and those who have rejected God and entered into that broken reprobate mindset.

A recent example of this here in America occurred at the State of the Union Address to Congress made just recently by Donald Trump. The right side of the room consisted of all the pro-common-sense people, and on the left side sat the vehemently anti-common-sense leftist crowd, collectively infused with the “Woke Mind Virus.”

The behavioral contrast between the two sides of the room was eye-opening, to say the least.

On the left side, however, behavior was being exhibited that was much more revealing than simply a disdain for common sense. These lost souls displayed a spirit of heartlessness and a hatred for anything and everything that Trump and the common-sense folks support and believe in.

As they either sat on their hands or held up little signs of protest, it was not difficult to observe how miserable they all were with scowling faces and their rude, disrupting remarks. They seemed more like pouting spoiled children, and it appeared that they had no soul.

They were unwilling and lacked the decency to even acknowledge children and families that were being recognized for overcoming tragedies, and in a completely bi-partisan way. Fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome, they all sat there stewing, united in the morbid collective group-think mindset of reprobate thinking. They sat there with hearts of stone.

In Matthew 24:12, Jesus made this prophecy concerning the last days: “Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” The truth of that statement was tragically on full display for all eyes to see.

Trump, at one point, made the comment that there was nothing at all that he could do to make them happy. Sadly, he was so right about that. This is what can happen to people who fall into the satanic delusion of seeing evil as good and good as evil. Their hearts become as cold as ice and as hard as stone. It is a painfully sad and pathetic thing to observe.

Reprobate people with broken minds should never be in charge of anything, let alone a nation. The previous four years provided numerous glaring examples as to why not. Still, and as the spirit of prophecy reveals, these and others like them are determined to rule the entire world. According to Bible prophecy, they will for a short time (Revelation 13:5-8).

As the time of the “Tribulation” and thus the “Rapture” approaches, the battle of good and evil is truly raging.

Only because the Restrainer (the Holy Spirit) still restrains has the reprobate mindset not mandated itself fully and brutally over the entire world and every soul walking upon it. When the Restrainer is removed by the Father at the time of the Rapture, literally all hell will break loose upon the earth.

If you haven’t already, there is still time to choose to repent and trust in Jesus. Still time to apply common sense and choose good over evil. Still time to become a part of this promise made by Jesus.

“Since you have kept my commandment to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth” (Revelation 3:10).

May the Will of God be done at all times and in all things.

Daily Jot: Church responsibility in the DOGE era

Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com

The leftist dogma against government accountability has morphed into a plea for compassion on behalf of the innocent who are impacted by the layoffs and spending cuts. This is a symptom of the many decades of government dependency, a result of the government stepping far outside of its Constitutional duties. The Preamble of the Constitution reasons that the government was established to “form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty.” It doesn’t say provide jobs or financial security. The nation experiences shock when this mission drift is corrected. The “Church” has played a role in this problem.

The government is the number one employer and the number one provider of social services to what has become a dependent nation. It started in the 1930’s under Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. For example, when federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children began in 1936 there were about 500,000 children and parents in the program. By 1969, it had grown to 7 million. The 1960’s Great Society programs of Lyndon Johnson expanded government dependency through Medicaid, Supplemental Social Security Income, welfare and more. The mainline churches supported and lobbied for all this. Today, government money goes to sex changes, birth control and “reproductive services” (translated abortion), psychological evaluation—you name it and the government has a program for it.

The government, according to the Constitution, should not be involved in the “compassion” business. That’s where the “Church” should be. Unfortunately, the church was all too happy to abdicate its role in the care and nurturing of society. Offloading the “burden” to the government afforded the church the opportunity to expand into emotional, extra-biblical and self-indulgent areas. Where the church efficiently and with great blessing once met the needs of the less fortunate, unemployed, needy, now the government levies a heavy burden of taxes. With a great and expensive bureaucracy, the government plays God by doling out a little for every self-interest group and exercises great control through dependency. And, as we are seeing daily, money, resources and people are applied to advance political agendas, graft and corruption.

Yes, there will be good people losing their government jobs. But if they are qualified, they will find jobs in the private sector. Your church should identify them and step up. But those people being fired who were on the government dole to advance the Marxist Democratic Party agenda, which is antithetical to America and God, they get what they get. It never should have been a government so big and so dedicated to special interest groups, that our rights as individuals, including fiduciary accountability, are intentionally violated every day. 1 John 3:17 says, “If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?” It’s not government’s responsibility. It is ours as the Church and followers of Christ. Don’t fall into the Marxist trap of compassion, but exercise it in your action.

Daily Devotion: The Power to Heal

by Greg Laurie – www.harvest.org

And when he comes, he will open the eyes of the blind and unplug the ears of the deaf. The lame will leap like a deer, and those who cannot speak will sing for joy! —Isaiah 35:5–6

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In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve disobeyed the Lord, ate the forbidden fruit, and brought sin into God’s perfect creation. But sin wasn’t all they brought into the world. Suddenly, sickness and death became part of human existence.

When the Messiah came, then, what better way to reveal Himself than by showing His power over these misery-makers? And by giving a preview of His coming kingdom, where “He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever” (Revelation 21:4 NLT).

Jesus showed His power over death when He rose from the grave on the third day after He was crucified. Before that, though, He showed His power over sickness and pain time and time again. Two thousand years later, it’s hard to understand how everyone who witnessed even one of Jesus’ miraculous healings wasn’t immediately and forever convinced that He is the Messiah.

As word spread of His healing power, people flocked to Him, pleading for relief from pain, sickness, and other afflictions. Only Jesus’ deft handling of crowds—and expectations—kept His healing ministry from overshadowing His message.

Jesus healed from a distance. He restored full movement to the paralyzed servant of a Roman centurion without going anywhere near the centurion’s home (see Matthew 8:5–13).

Jesus healed with a word. He relieved the suffering of a Canaanite woman’s daughter simply by telling the woman that her daughter was healed (see Matthew 15:22–28).

Jesus healed with a touch. He spit in the dirt and rubbed the resulting mud on the eyes of a blind man. When the blind man rinsed off the mud, he could see (see John 9:6–7). Jesus placed His hands on a leper to cure the man of his disease (see Mark 1:40–45).

Jesus healed the casualties of spiritual warfare. Several times in the Gospels, He drove demons from the bodies of people who were possessed.

Jesus healed when religious authorities didn’t approve. He miraculously took away the afflictions of a woman who had suffered a crippling condition for eighteen years (see Luke 13:10–17), a man who had been born blind (see John 9:1–41), Simon Peter’s ailing mother-in-law (see Mark 1:29–31), a man with a withered hand (see Mark 3:1–6), and others. But He did so on the Jewish day of rest. So rather than praise God for allowing them to witness such miracles, the religious leaders of the day criticized Jesus for doing too much work on the Sabbath.

Jesus heals today. And it’s okay to pray for that healing. Maybe you’re going through a time of suffering right now, and you’re saying, “Lord, it’s enough. Could you just make this stop? Could you get me through this? Could you bring an end to this?” It’s okay to pray that. And sometimes, the Lord will heal. But other times He will not do that. And it is in those times that He will walk with us through the suffering, and we will see Him on the other side.

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