There’s bad news everywhere — you can’t deny it. Nevertheless, it makes you stop and wonder, “What in the world is going on?!” Additionally, it seems that no one, no political leader, no religious leader has any clear answers. However, there’s one source and one source only that can help you make sense of everything that’s going on — the Bible.
Amazingly, we are seeing the CONVERGENCE of numerous events, prophesied in the Bible happening all at once! Besides the Old Testament Prophets, John the Revelator, and the Apostle Paul, Jesus clearly spoke about the last days in His Olivet Discourse found in Matthew 24, Luke 21, and Mark 13. Let’s dig in to a recap of this week’s last days events…
Wars and Threats of Wars
Russia / Ukraine War
- Ukraine ‘launches kamikaze drone wave’ blasting oil depot & airfield as train derails
- Medvedev warns we’re closer than ever to WW3, Risk of nuclear oblivion growing, Calls for ‘elimination’ of Zelensky after drone attack.
- Russia threatens nuclear retaliation after accusing Ukraine of trying to assassinate Putin with drone strikes.
- Poland ran out of ammunition, can no longer send supplies to Ukraine
- The Russian attack Sunday in Ukraine was the closest thing to using nuclear weapon.
- The speaker of the Russian parliament demands the destruction of the “Kiev regime” after the drone attack on the Kremlin
- The Ukrainian government requires residents to enter shelters in Ukraine.
- A Ukrainian patrol and sabotage squad detonated an explosive device on the railway tracks in the Bryansk region, causing a Russian freight train to overturn.
- The Ukrainian military announced that two Russian submarines armed with cruise missiles were in the Black Sea.
- The US Embassy in Kiev sent a security warning: “The State Department is warning American citizens of the growing threat of missile attacks, including in Kiev.”
- The US has officially announced an additional $300 million military aid package to Ukraine.
The Pacific: China & North Korea
- US Issues Guidelines to Defending Philippines against China
- The U.S. military tracked another mysterious balloon over Hawaii.
Middle East
- Arab States Urge Foreign Troops to Pull Out of Syria
- Iran seizes second oil tanker in a week in Gulf of Oman
- A squadron of A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jets are heading to the Middle East with a New Mission, and a New Weapon
- At least 5 targets in both Homs and Aleppo were destroyed! All of that 24 hours before the Iranian president arrived for the first state visit in Syria since 2011.
- Iran announced that they have opened an embassy in Saudi Arabia
Latest Threat Assessments of Iran
Yesterday while in Greece, Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant stated that Iran has produced enough uranium to contribute toward the creation of five nuclear bombs.
The uranium is not yet enriched enough, but is available, should Iran decide to further enrich and weaponize it. What’s unknown is Iran’s capabilities for reaching the enrichment level necessary for the activation of a nuclear weapon. Experts say that could be anywhere between two weeks to six months.
Gallant said, “If Iran enriches to the 90% weaponized level, it would be a great error and the price would be heavy, and there would be consequences which could inflame the Middle East.”
Also yesterday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a US delegation of members of Congress that “Iran is 50 North Koreas.” Foreshadows
Sudan
More than 100,000 people have fled Sudan to neighboring countries since the fighting broke out.
America: On the Home Front
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) orders employees to drop regular duties, shift to coming border surge
May 2, 2023 – DHS orders employees to drop regular duties, shift to coming border surge: Employees being pulled from anti-terrorism task force, family reunification to interview illegal immigrants.
The Department of Homeland Security’s legal immigration agency is ordering hundreds of employees to drop their regular duties and shift to border detail, where they will assist in the catch-and-release of the wave of illegal immigrants expected to come into the U.S. this month.
People performing anti-terrorism work or helping reunite separated families have been conscripted, as have officers who process regular applications from legal immigrants. They were ordered to begin a seven-day training course this week and be ready for a 60-day deployment to help with the migrant surge.
Employees were angry and unleashed their fury on U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials Friday in a briefing that The Washington Times monitored.
Roughly 6,000 unauthorized migrants poured across the southern border each day in March — the latest month for which Homeland Security has released data. Officials think that number could double in two weeks when the Title 42 power expires. Rather than derail the flow, the Biden administration has put its effort into trying to manage it. Source
All Eyes on Israel in the Last Days
Find God’s promises to Israel in Genesis 12, 2 Samuel 7, Ezekiel 35-36, 37, 38 and 39.
- The US says Israel has the freedom to act against Iran nuclear threat.
- Israel Seizes Nearly Two Hundred Crypto Accounts Linked to ISIS and Hamas Terror Groups
- It started early Tuesday morning. Red alert in southern Israel near Gaza. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) attacked in response to the rocket launch.
- United Nations (UN) Body Will Host ‘Nakba’ Event Mourning Creation Of Israel
- US Ammunition Stockpiles Running Out in Israel
- Back in January 2023, the Times of Israel reported that the current US administration was “quietly shipping hundreds of thousands of artillery shells from a massive stockpile in Israel.” The US is sending the ammunition to Ukraine.
- The US ammo in Israel is intended for use in Middle East conflicts, and can be used by Israel to protect itself in emergency attacks.
- But the US is now depleting the ammo, and has given no indication it plans to replenish the stockpile. Given the US administration’s recent hostile responses to political developments taking place in Israel, it wouldn’t be surprising if the US is intentionally depleting the stockpile to “punish” Israel and leave it with fewer resources to protect itself.
Earthquakes & “Seismic”
Weather Events
The Greek word for “earthquake” is “seismos”, which refers to seismic weather like tornadoes, hurricanes and violent storms as well as earthquakes and volcanoes.
New World Order, Great Reset,
Economic Chaos, Big Brother, &
Government Overreach in the Last Days
- World Economic forum (WEF) members summoned to accelerate and advance the ‘Great Reset’
- Tuesday – Dow plummeted 400 points as banking concerns linger and Fed decision looms.
- Vendors for a company can get discounts on loans if they hit environmental and social targets. In other words, if you’re not in with the Green New Deal, you have to pay more. It will get to the point where if you don’t meet certain “sustainability” goals, you don’t get funding period.
- FedEx Freight to close 29 locations, enact more furloughs
- De-dollarization is underway and a “Digital Dollar” must be introduced from the White House!
- Yellen Warns Treasury To Run Out Of Cash As Soon As June 1 without a Debt Ceiling Deal
- IRS hiring armed agents willing to use ‘deadly force,’ ‘surveillance’ in all 50 states; 350 jobs available
- Jamie Diamond, the CEO of JP Morgan, who just rescued First Republic Bank said that the bank crisis was over. How wrong he was…
- Just hours after First Republic was dissected, two more major banks are in very serious trouble. Are the dominoes going to start to fall more quickly than we were anticipating?
- Stocks in First Horizon and TD Bank are now tumbling as merger attempt collapses.
- More banks are under pressure as banking crisis continues to spread.
- The White House warns that debt default could wipe out 8 million jobs and sink the stock market.
- India has become Europe’s largest oil supplier. At the same time, by surprising coincidence, the export of Russian oil to India increased greatly.
- Apple, Google teaming up to better track your movements under the claim of providing you more ‘security’
- Governor Newsom Announces the Launch of CA vs Hate, a New Statewide Hotline to Report Hate Acts in California
- Bernie Sanders: Government Should Confiscate All Wealth Over $999 Million
- Top 5 Ethical Concerns with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Pestilence, Plagues and Famine
- Animals all over Are Dying in Droves. What Are They Telling Us?
There is a riverbank littered with lifeless mussel shells, the plains where 200,000 antelope dropped dead, corals stripped of sea urchins, a continent across which bush fires killed or displaced three billion animals. - Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is investigating rare brain infections and abscesses that have tripled in children in Nevada.
- Malawi is facing a worsening cholera outbreak. Over 1,000 people have died since the outbreak started in March 2022.
Increased Evil , Satanic Lawlessness, Terrorism, Sexual Immorality, Apostasy, False Teachings, Corruption, and Deception in the Last Days
Peter wrote…
3 Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires. 4 They will say, “What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created.”
5 They deliberately forget that God made the heavens long ago by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water. 6 Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood. 7 And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire. They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.
8 But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. 9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.
11 Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live, 12 looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames. 13 But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.
14 And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight.
15 And remember, our Lord’s patience gives people time to be saved.
2 Peter 3:3-15 NLT
Jesus said regarding the Last Days…
“But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come.”
“Then you will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be hated all over the world because you are my followers.”
Matthew 24:8-9 NLT
Increased Christian Persecution
- California: Christian teacher fired for her beliefs tells her story…
- Nigeria: Mary* was sadly abducted from her church by Fulani militants and held captive for ransom. She faced repeated sexual violence and was severely traumatized. Thank God she received trauma care and found hope. Pray that women like Mary will know God’s healing love and restoration.
- Sri Lanka: Please pray for the persecuted believers and pastors that are living in various parts of Sri Lanka. Many have been isolated by their communities, and schoolchildren face persecution in their schools.
- Sri Lanka: Family Land Confiscated for Buddhist Temple
- Mexico: Front-line Workers Warned to Stop Evangelizing
- Tennessee: Neighbors of Global Vision Bible Church, are suing Greg Locke saying ‘We hear the noise in our homes, it feels hostile’.
- Afghanistan: Taliban leaders have presented many organisations and agencies with a real problem as a result of their ban on women going to university or holding certain jobs. Please pray for several “creative” Christian ministries within Afghanistan who can no longer have women involved in their staff teams.
- Uganda: Christian College Student in Uganda Slain for Sharing Christ
*Name changed for security reasons
More on Christian Persecution
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus
Pray that God will change the hearts of Islamists, converting them like the Apostle Paul.
There is Good News in the Last Days!
The Gospel Around the World!
Jesus said , “For the Good News must first be preached to all nations (peoples).” (Mark 13:10)
Yes, there is bad news all over the world. Nevertheless, there is also great news — signs of hope — that Christians are doing what Jesus told us to do in the Great Commission and before He left us.
- Iran: Although the Iranian church is reported to be fastest growing church in the world, there are still over 88 million Iranians who need who hear about Jesus. Pray for radio and online ministries that are making evangelistic and discipleship material available to the Iranian people.
- Pakistan: The Khosa are an unreached people group in Pakistan and very closed to outside influence. AsiaLink partners recently had some contact and one man has become a follower of Jesus. Please pray that others will be saved and a church will be planted among the Khosa people.
- China: Praise God for the courage and leadership shown by many Christian children who are taking responsibility for organising and leading bible clubs, discipleship groups and prayer meetings. Pray that teaching and discipleship resources will continue to reach them via secure online platforms.
- Afghanistan: Ministry Continues Amid Taliban Restrictions
*Name changed for security reasons
Help Spread the Good News of Jesus Christ all over the World!
“We pray that in the midst of persecution, the church will grow.”
North African Christian
Jesus said…
“These were his instructions to them: “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields.”
Luke 10:2 NLT
Words of Encouragement for These Last Days
Notice that the final word of the Old Testament is “curse” (Malachi 4:6). Shortly after Genesis opens up, we find a garden in which the curse is introduced, and according to Malachi, the curse was still in operation. But the New Testament ends with a blessing, with John recording a future in which “there shall be no more curse” (Revelation 22:3). And the last line of Revelation says, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen” (v. 21). The difference between curse and grace is Jesus Christ.
Skip Heitzig, The Bible from 30,000 Feet
Lord, please come soon to fulfill your salvation, and grant me patience as I wait to see it. Amen.
Dig Deeper into Last Days Prophecies…
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- Listen to the Watchmen on the Wall
- The Wonderful Promises in the Book of Revelation
Are YOU Ready to Meet Jesus?
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