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What will the demeanor and demeanor of the unsaved be as they stand before God in judgment-- Will they hate God-- Will they resist Him still or will the truth create abject humility before Him or will they grudgingly acknowledge Him as Lord of All-- --How will understanding this situation cause Christians to be better witnesses of His love to the lost in order that their eyes might open in this life and embrace the only salvation that is available--

Verse 11 reveals what will occur in Daniel's near future and it almost seems like a soap opera as we read it.--Historically, in this verse, the King of the South -Egypt- was Ptolemy IV Philopator -222-203 B.C.- who attacked Antiochus III -King of the North, Syria-, on the southern borders of Israel, specifically at Raphia in 217 B.C. Initially Ptolemy was successful, but as Jerome tells us, Antiochus nearly lost his entire army and was almost captured as he fled.

Consider this please. God made all of Creation including all human beings to reflect His intended purposes. He made all things for-His glory, which means in part that our lives should always glorify Him in thought, word and deed. This is how we were made and this is how Adam and Eve lived until their fall. In fact, it's how Lucifer-Satan lived until his fall as well.--Sin blinded us to the main purpose of our life here. Instead of living lives that bring glory to God continually -as authentic Christians will do in eternity with Him-, sin makes us believe lies, causing us to think that God is there for us, to make our lives happy and complete. The problem is that He most certainly wants us to be fulfilled according to His will, but that only comes when we do things His way starting with receiving His salvation. Since He created us to glorify Him and we often don't, we are ruined. We don't glorify Him because we are blinded to the fact that this was our supreme purpose in being created in the first place.

But in reality, Babylon in some form will rise physically in the soon coming years and will serve as the-center of the coming ESG, DEI and social credit scoring system for the entire world's population. How else would it be possible for Antichrist with False Prophet to force everyone to take the mark -Revelation 13-16-17-, if this was not the case-- Because of this coming system in Babylon, they will be able to enforce-their will digitally so that anyone who does not have the mark won't eat, buy or sell. It's all coming together. I don't know exactly-when-this will all occur and cannot give a date. It is certainly being built now, thanks to the way the world caved with C0V hit.

However, if we go through life completely unaware of what God has personally revealed in His Word -or allegorize His text-, and is designed to occur as well as what He is allowing-to occur, we will simply not be prepared for those events when they start to take place. We will not have done any preparation for anything and will be forced to deal with events as they happen instead of using foresight to prepare for their arrival. It is clearly not the way Jesus expected His disciples -and us-, to handle the future that He took the time to tell them -and us- about. How many times did Jesus say, -Do not be alarmed--- -Matthew 24-6-.

King Jehoshaphat learned he had erred by siding with King Ahab, who resolutely stood against the Lord. Because of that misstep by King Jehoshaphat, Jehu announced that -the wrath of the Lord is upon you.- This wrath would come later in the form of invasion and commercial reversals for Jehoshaphat. But notice that never did God leave or forsake Jehoshaphat. Never.

Lift up your eyes. While I believe it is good to know what satanic globalists are attempting to accomplish throughout this world, our focus should be on God and what He is doing. This goes a long way in relieving the pressure and frustration from the type of things happening in the world that can potentially negatively impact us. Focusing on those things can also cause us to become worried and even take our eyes off the Great Commission of Matthew 18.--We are here for a purpose and it is to bring glory to God. By shifting our gaze to Him and His purposes, the things that Satan is doing will be noted but will not overcome us.

Let's stop here and remind ourselves that all of this was completely new to the prophet Daniel because all of it was in Daniel's near future, compared to the latter half of Daniel 11, which speaks of events that will occur at the end of this age. All of this proves that God and only God knows the future because He-determines-it. He doesn't have to go against people's free will to get His will done. All He needs to do is find someone who is predisposed to go in a certain direction and use that person to accomplish what He will accomplish.

I believe we are now living in the days Daniel and other prophets saw occurring far down the road from their perspective. Because of what is occurring today as God's prophetic calendar unfolds, as noted it can be a bit unnerving as we try to remain strongly anchored to God in spite of everything that is now happening. The difficulty for the Christian during these times, is to continue persevering in God's will in spite of the -tornadic- spiritual activity all around us. Because all of it has been previously revealed in His Word, we have no excuse to not understand it. It should prompt us to fall on His mercy and understand that His purposes will be accomplished. During the process, He will not ignore His own who humble themselves before Him and continue to seek His will daily.--God has done us a tremendous supernatural favor by taking the time to stoop and reveal His future will to us. He has done this over the centuries through numerous prophets, including Daniel. To ignore the writings of these godly men is to suffer for it. Forewarned is forearmed.

If you find yourself acting like a deer in the headlights of an approaching vehicle, don't beat yourself up about that. Simply recognize that this is the first step in helping you to understand that you - by yourself - cannot do this alone. We-need-God every day and throughout each day. He is attentive to our needs and wants. He cares deeply about our frailties and our concerns. He wants what is best for us. You cannot fear situations and God at the same time. You'll fear one or the other. Which do you choose--

Verse 12 confirms that we should not give up in prayer because we do not know what may delay a response to our prayers. The angel tells Daniel he was dispatched the first day Daniel began to pray. The term -withstood- can mean - -be in the way- or -prevent by force.- In essence, the angel was telling Daniel that there was some sort of battle being waged in the heavenly realm between the angel and likely a fallen angel or demon who was fighting against Cyrus to keep God's will from unfolding with respect to Jeremiah's prophecy concerning the end of the 70 year captivity.

So, while Israel is starting to show signs that it is learning to rely on itself -and will eventually and ultimately come to rely on God alone-, more headway needs to be made clearly. In essence, it seems clear that God's plan is to put Israel on one side of the aisle completely alone and ultimately vulnerable, while all other nations actively stand against Israel -or don't care and won't help Israel-. Why-- Because it will force Israel to come to her knees before God, to learn to depend solely and only on God Almighty, the very Creator of Israel.

So why is society so unable to think clearly, to see reality-- Even though more people appear to be waking up to some truth, by and large, society as a whole continues to walk the path of deliberate obfuscation. Moreover, they are content with it. Why-- Well, it seems to me that at least five things are happening throughout the world now that are creating this global problem of complete blindness to truth and reality. Those five things are highlighted in Scripture.

To sum up, a total of 490 years are set aside to deal with Israel's sin and rebellion. After the second set of weeks-sevens -the 62-, there is a break or gap in which several things occur that lead up to the actual beginning of the Tribulation period when the Antichrist brokers or confirms a peace deal with Israel and Arab nations. Once the Antichrist confirms this peace treaty, it will be then that the final week-seven begins, which is called most commonly, the Tribulation period. This period of time is still in front of us.

My point is really simple. God wants us to understand that regardless of what we may think of individual Jewish people and whether or not we support Israel's ability to defend itself, the nation of Israel is the nation that God created and raised up in order that He would bring the Messiah-Savior into this world. If not for Israel, would Jesus have even been born as a man-- God's plan was to create a nation that would literally be a light to the world- a nation where God could work to reach all of humanity. Is Israel perfect-- Absolutely not and in fact, most of Israel -including her leaders-, are completely blind still to the truth of what God has done and continues to do. This blindness, as Paul says, is temporary in order to bring in the full number of Gentiles, but God has not completely forsaken Israel.

The Seventy -weeks- of Daniel 9, what do they stand for-- How can we learn from there where we are on God's prophetic timetable-- Do those weeks apply to us today or in the future or have they all been fulfilled--

In Matthew 24, the Olivet Discourse, Jesus issues several warnings for His disciples and ultimately for believers today. What are some of those warnings and how are we meant to react to them----We look closely at Matthew 24-4-13 to learn what Jesus is telling us and why He is doing so.

Daniel had obtained and been reading a copy of Jeremiah's prediction concerning the length of the captivity of Israel-Judah once captured by Babylon's Nebuchadnezzar. Because of his study, Daniel understood the 70 years to be a literal 70-year period. Since the end of that 70 years was approaching, Daniel began to pray.

Interestingly, Bossche also notes that he -...learned that the virus had to slow down its spread and is now awaiting rising temperatures to be able to select a highly virulent lineage-- Originally, he thought that later in the fall new variants with severe virulence would visit society but now he believes it'll happen much sooner, as temperatures begin to rise due to the coming months of summer.

Most conservative Bible scholars believe verses 20-22 have been completely fulfilled in history. The sticking points of disagreement occur with verse 23 and following. In my opinion, verses 23-25 could represent a near-far view. The near fulfillment sees Antiochus IV as the historical persecutor as in vv 9-14 -MacArthur-. Antiochus as king in 164 BC was -in the latter period of their rule.- Rome conquered Greece in 146 BC and Antiochus died -broken without human agency- from insanity and disease of the bowels.

In order to create a compliant society, one fit for the governance of the coming self-worshiping Antichrist, the world must be prepared in their minds and outlook. Their thinking must be adulterated and changed so that they will comply to messaging presented fearfully. Revelation 13 tells us that one day, a true son of Satan will step up to rule over the entire world in the final human-led global kingdom. During that time, he will cause everyone to take a mark on their hand or forehead that promises allegiance to him and allows them to buy and sell. In other words, by their visible outward sign of allegiance, people will be able to participate in society. Those who do not take the mark will become marked in another way by becoming the hunted. Those who do take the mark -just like those who took the jab-, will call for the government to come down on those who do not participate in taking that mark.

Antiochus IV was the 8th king of the Seleucid dynasty and he ruled as king from 175 to 164 BC -1 Macc 1-10- 6- 16-. He conducted military campaigns in all those directions. Here in Daniel 8, the vision begins to focus on future Israel and the Jews. In fact, much of this vision is future to Daniel, but the second half of the chapter is still yet future from our perspective. Antiochus was especially vengeful against the Jews whom he persecuted brutally -Constable- and Whitcomb notes he was one of Israel's worst persecutors ever.

It is obvious to me that the presence of the Church in this world -the invisible true Church-, acts as a dam against things becoming exceedingly bad in this world all over as they will during the Tribulation. It also seems to be clear that until the Holy Spirit is out of the way -meaning no longer operating through the present Church-, the Antichrist cannot be revealed. The Church effectively blocks the Antichrist from being revealed. That's how I understand it and I realize there are many who disagree with me on that.

All the earth shall become the 11th horn-fourth beast for a time, times, and half a times - three and a half years total from midpoint of Tribulation -2 Thessalonians 2-- the second half of Tribulation. Jesus refers to this as the Great Tribulation in Matthew 24. This is a truly global government at this point and the question to ask is how does the world get to that point--

It is impossible to avoid all the signs occurring throughout society. These signs, precipitating changes for the worse globally, are at our doorsteps. If I didn't think they were not actually affecting change, I wouldn't bother to highlight them. Unfortunately, it is the exact opposite. These changes are-occurring, creating a more favorable situation globally for the technocrats to continue their push.

In his recently published book, The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism, Patrick M. Wood outlines the process that has been used by technocrats throughout the years to create a new economic system based solely on scientism -not actual science-. Wood includes plenty of factual details related to exactly how technocrat globalists have taken control over and manipulated the existing economic system for themselves and where they are going with it.

It is completely understandable why Daniel and other prophets -including the apostle John-, were often somewhat confused by the visions and dreams they received related to the end times. Consider the amount of technology we have today compared to what Daniel and John had during their day. They had no electricity, no cell phones, no computers, no cars, planes or things like that. What they actually saw in their visions might have easily included aspects of future technology. I can see why that may have been confusing to them and kept them from seeing things as we can see them during our day.

You'd all agree with me that God is good. He is so very good and we will not begin to fully understand that until we are in His Presence. However, we can gain strong personal glimpses of His goodness now and those glimpses are designed to increase our faith in Him. Why-- So that we can move with passion toward Him more each day. It is in and through this process that God grants us the thing we need most, aside from salvation. That is wisdom. Without wisdom we cannot make a simple decision. We cannot know the way to go. We cannot please Him. He wants us to have all that we need for life and godliness and the first order of business after we receive salvation is gaining more and more wisdom.

If all of the above becomes true this year or next, it tells me we are the last generation of Christians living before our Lord returns. It also tells me that globalists have been given the go-ahead to destroy the financial system that has always been based on some form of capitalism, replacing it with -stakeholder capitalism.- This stakeholder capitalism only sounds good. In reality, it simply means that the only ones who will continue to enjoy capitalism without any limitations are globalists who have been busy manipulating the world's societies and financial systems for their own benefit since the very early 1900s, at least in modern times. It's been going on for quite some time actually. This is often referred to as the -Great Taking- by many people because globalists seriously intend to take everything from us. Don't worry though, they tell us even though we'll own nothing, we'll be happy...

Regarding this fourth beast, note that there are the original ten horns. However, among them comes an eleventh horn. This eleventh horn -uproots- -kills--- three of the original ten horns and becomes the 8th. This simply means the ten horns will gain power as kings first and then Antichrist will rise up as 11th, deal with three and becomes the 8th. So it appears that the world will be divided into ten sections as one new world order still yet future.

It seems clear to me that God has abandoned America because we have abandoned God. We left Him first and that can be clearly seen by just how bad society has become. This is so much like what we read throughout the book of Deuteronomy, when Moses recounted Israeli's history and prophesied about how Israel would in the future turn from God to idols. Even though America is not Israel, there are parallels highlighted showing what happens when a nation or a person deliberately turns from God -Romans 1-.

New research shows that those who received the COVID shots emit a fluorescent orange glow in their faces that is visible under a UV light of 365 nano-meters. And those who have been exposed to shedding emit this glow around their nose. -The Reese Report-

Let's also remind ourselves that it is abundantly clear from Scripture that prior to the Antichrist taking his position as final human world ruler over humanity, the world must become unified as one global government ruled by ten kings. Once the ten kings take their positions of rule each over a tenth part of the earth, then the Antichrist make his move to gain supremacy over the ten kings. This will put him in conflict with three where he will uproot them, leaving seven. Antichrist will become the eighth though in reality he will exercise supremacy over the seven. This is still future.

Is there anything else that helps provide clarity for this particular subject of giants-- Yes, there is always circumstantial evidence found within the realm of archaeology. Joel Kramer has a wonderful YouTube channel called Expedition Bible.-2- He is an actual archaeologist and has lived in the Middle East -mainly Israel-, for the past few decades. There, he does most of his expeditions and his discoveries are fascinating.

For instance, it was common knowledge apparently to these men that Paul was the human author of Hebrews. Yet, today, Christians debate and discuss it and come to their own conclusions and stand by those conclusions, but here we find that the early church fathers understood that Paul wrote it. Why didn't he include his name as the author as he did so often-- No idea, but the absence of his name did not mean to the first and second century church fathers that Paul didn't write it. He did write it, but simply withheld his name and it's likely due to the content of the information, which ultimately is about Jesus.

Sin corrupts and the more sin is obeyed, the greater loss of freedom and ability to seek God until a point of no return is reached. Because of the efforts of the fallen angels, the human genome was fully corrupted and irredeemable. We are quickly moving to a point in the future where the exact same situation will occur. Is there any reason to think that God would not send His wrath in the form of judgment because of it, as He did thousands of years ago during Noah's day--

Daniel 6 highlights Daniel's integrity and leadership. He is noticed by Darius as Darius wants to make Daniel head over all governors and satraps. This creates animosity toward Daniel from the satraps and governors, who find a way to eliminate Daniel using the laws of his own God. While it appears they are initially successful, God has other plans.

I believe we are coming to a day - and probably very soon - when all of the evil and corruption that undergirds global society now, will rise to the top with the revelation of alien beings, who will tell us what they can do for us if we will simply follow their dictates. They will promise to eliminate the problems that exist throughout the earth. They will usher in some form of temporary peace. They will share technology designed to ensnare us to willingly submit to their leadership.

I started thinking of that situation and realized what it was - it was actually a form of isolation that is creeping into society in general, keeping people from other people. We are being trained to do without interaction with real people. This is what AI is creating and it's also why far fewer people are needed in this world. Going into any other store, there would be workers - clerks, managers, stockers, etc. You'd interact with them at some point and continue doing and being a human being among other human beings.

Nebuchadnezzar's grandson, Belshazzar is judged and found wanting by God. The Babylonian Kingdom is taken from him and given to the Medes-Persians. The big lesson is that we should do everything we can to grow in humility. Nebuchadnezzar did this. Belshazzar did not and it not only cost him his kingdom but his life.--God chooses to whom He grants permission to reign over all or part of the earth. It is His to determine.

What is happening throughout the world is par for the course. It is due to the constant removal of God from His rightful place. As Paul notes, too many people today are -always learning- but never truly gaining the truth -v 7-. Instead, they chase after error believing it to be truth. Then they dig their heels in when it's shown from God's Word they are wrong. They become condemnatory toward those who question their credibility. It is the quickest way for the Christian to become embroiled in sin and out of fellowship with God.

The humbling of proud rulers is a recurrent theme throughout Scriptures. Interestingly, Nebuchadnezzar was not killed by his enemies as has happened many times throughout Scripture and history. God protected Nebuchadnezzar for His purposes and glory. God literally stepped in and kept the empire's affairs under control.-This allowed Nebuchadnezzar to pick up at that point when he came to himself. One can only wonder if Daniel himself helped protect the king and encouraged others in government to prepare for the king's return--

As far as I'm concerned, the actual Daniel existed and lived during the time of Israel's captivity in Babylon. During that time, both he and King Nebuchadnezzar received dreams and visions that were explained by Daniel prior to their happening. In fact, numerous chapters in Daniel have yet to be fulfilled. They remain in front of us.

But Satan has a huge problem. Before this can occur, something needs to happen. That problem is the fact that God's Church, Christ's Bride is in the way. Now, as I've also stated often, no one knows the exact day or time that the coming Tribulation will officially start. Stay away from those think they know. We only know the event that will kick that period of time off. We do not know on what particular calendar day it will occur until it does.

Gnosticism has its roots all the way back to the Tower of Babel and the mystery religions propagated by Nimrod and his wife. The one major benefit they had going for them is that everyone on the earth spoke only one language -and I'm guessing it was Hebrew, but have no proof of that-. The other asset was that everyone on the earth then lived on the plain of Shinar, which is where Nimrod began to build his -stairway to heaven,- Babel.

I cannot imagine that 2024 will be easy. This November we've got a presidential election and it seems clear enough that the powers that be cannot allow Trump to be part of that process. Whether or not their efforts backfire remains to be seen, but they're certainly trying every fascist move they can try.

Like all cults that eventually get so weird only the most diehard brainwashed members continue to stay with them in spite of their crazed beliefs, Montanus also got to a point where he made some seriously audacious claims. Fortunately, many Christians then fully rejected him then because of it. But his error came back almost 2,000 years later with the Azusa Street Revival, which began the modern Charismatic Movement in America in 1906. It morphed into several things over the decades with the latest version today being the New Apostolic Reformation.

By and large, the early church fathers were confident that the Rapture would occur and then, the Tribulation would begin. As Gnosticism and other errors began to creep into the visible Church, the Council of Constantinople -AD 381-, allegedly condemned and abandoned Pre-Millennialism and began moving toward Amillennialism, even though church fathers had taken the time to warn their flocks against this error. It is fascinating that regardless of how well the ancient church fathers fought against error, many errors eventually became part and parcel of the official doctrine of the church by the third and fourth centuries. It makes sense that Satan would do whatever he could to create this problem.

It is safe to say that if the ancient church fathers gained their knowledge regarding the Scriptures from the apostles, by and large, the same ancient church fathers would then simply pass along what they had personally learned from those apostles. Interestingly enough, we see this very clearly as we study the church fathers' writings.

Satan has deceived his human Luciferian servants into thinking that he is the god, that he has humanity's best interests at heart and he teaches human beings how to become god themselves. In a nutshell, this coming hierarchy will be the absolute inversion of Christianity, which we know to be the truth God has revealed to us through God the Son. The coming hierarchy is nothing but lies masquerading as truth and its deception is gaining serious momentum in global society.

The author's point in all this is to say that after we have lived this life in full, with all its pitfalls, foibles, problems, sin and darkness, we will come out at the other end of it in glory, with the full realization that we will never ever want to stray from Him again...ever.