Friday, July 3, 2026
The earth is entering its prophetic end-time groaning as revealed by earthquakes and volcanoes now occurring simultaneously. Sin and rebellion against Christ weigh heavily upon that which God has created: celestial glories of the sun, moon and stars, terrestrial glories of earth and man made in God’s image. “For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body” (Rom. 8:22–23). And be encouraged as the Holy Spirit said “everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure” (1 John 3:3). I hope and pray that’s also your personal hope.
There’ve been earthquakes and volcanoes for millennia, but not simultaneously and globally like today. Jesus said “And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows” (Matt. 24:7b–8); and also “there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken” (Luke 21:25–26). Likewise, isolated famines occurred for millennia, but there’s coming a global famine engineered by evil people who have been cloud seeding heavy metals that poison both the earth’s soils and people.
Of course, all mainstream science and every mainstream media and government officials flatly deny any correlation between cloud seeding and violent storms, sudden random floods, severe heat waves, etc. But they lie for profit; e.g. many now realize how we’ve been being lied to for 80 years about America’s unsafe, toxic, GMOed yet USDA approved foods that create obesity, heart decease, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, dementia and other illnesses that enslave people to Big Pharma permanently! These are the people “who destroy the earth” (Rev. 11:18). We also now know how cruelly mainstream science, Dr. Fauci, et al, the mainstream media and government(s) lied to us about COVID-19. It was the beta test for much worse “pestilences” to soon come. Wicked globalists learned how to shut down the world and get what they want on their terms. That was six years ago, but they already know what the next pestilences will be!
To any unbeliever reading this, know that God said by His Spirit “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Cor. 6:3b). There is no time like the present, don’t squander the moment. If you’re an unbeliever or have been spiritually fence-sitting, or are what God calls a back-slider, today is your day to believe and become a member of God’s family by true repentant faith in Jesus who said “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). You can’t save yourself. Your parent’s faith can’t save you. Nobody else’s faith can save you. This is wholly personal between you and God in Christ. Jesus said “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Act upon that now before it’s too late. Here’s how: “if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Rom. 10:9–10). Let no one steal the testimony of Jesus Christ from you!
Weigh that decision very carefully as Jesus taught at Luke 14:28–30, because it’s the narrow gate and difficult path of life. Unbelievers, the rebellious, and especially religious leaders persecuted Jesus for His teachings, and the same will also persecute you for your true faith in Christ. Don’t be surprised by such persecution because Jesus warned: “Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also” (John 15:20). But many church leaders protect themselves from persecution by ignoring hard truths of God’s word. They peddle an easy and happy faith in Jesus that can dismiss hard truths at will. That’s not true faith, but a counterfeit. And beware, many believers compromise their faith to be friends of the world, read James 4:4.
Israel’s ancient majority took up stones to kill Moses and Aaron, and even tried to stone Jesus, John 8:59; 10:31, and in fact ancient Israel killed all her prophets. And the deeper we enter the times of the end, religious leaders will do the same to true believers for believing and teaching Christ’s truths instead of traditions of men that make God’s word of no effect, Mark 7:13; read Eccl. 1:9–10. Beware of Roman Catholicism. It has an insatiable historical quest for mandatory conversions to itself and its idolatrous religious practices. That lust for religious control never left the Vatican, from which I believe will arise the Antichrist, Rev. 13:1. Read of her physical and spiritual condition at Rev. 17, 18. The colors scarlet and purple adorn Catholic Bishops and Cardinals. She is “MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT” (Rev. 17:5) and will at the middle of the 7-year tribulation, fiercely and in great wrath mandate “the mark of the beast” (Rev. 13:16).
The unbelief of religious leaders today is just as serious as when they stoned Stephen the martyr to death. God said “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it [God said to religious ruling Jews] … And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit’” (Acts 7:51–53, 59). And for many centuries Roman Catholic popes with their armies of Jesuit priests killed many Christians, Muslims and Jews for refusing to convert and they yet hold sway over Israel today. Jerusalem is the seat of Antichrist.
End-time groanings and calamities of earthquakes, volcanoes, storms, famines, violence, wars and evil alien entities as it was in the days of Noah, will now multiply due to the increasing sin, unbelief, rebellion, idolatry and spiritual harlotry. In the same way as God, after the fall of man, allowed Satan to increase his rule on earth via fallen angels and their Nephilim offspring, giants born of human women to corrupt the earth with all manner of evil just before God purged earth by the Flood, so too God is allowing Satan to increase his rule at the end of the age before God again pours out His holy, righteous tribulation judgment. “And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another” (Matt. 24:10), because millions of believers were promised that they would be raptured pre-tribulation before the 7-year tribulation even begins! Dispensational theology is spiritually criminal denying Jesus’ end-time testimony as applicable.
Be very well acquainted with the Book of Revelation. Note with sobriety Jesus’ seven letters to the seven churches and the soon-coming Seal, Trumpet and Bowl Judgments. God has graciously foretold these events for the sake of His true believers to prepare to endure to the end, because as Jesus said “he who endures to the end shall be saved” (Matt. 24:13). But Dispensational theology throws that to the wind. Know also that at the middle of the 7-year tribulation, when the mark of the beast is issued, God has a special place of safety and provision for those who actually believe Him and have prepared accordingly. But learning of that safety and provision requires true faith, deep Bible study, and discernment by the Holy Spirit, an investment of time which most church leaders and believers are not willing to make. And today, most pastors and Bible teachers won’t even teach Revelation because Dispensational theology convinced the majority of believers that they’d be raptured before any of the apocalyptic events described in Revelation would come to pass. They are self-deceived and their exchange of truth for a lie will be their spiritual undoing.
Please hear this: the testimony of Jesus Christ is good fruit because He “is the truth” (John 14:6). If you can’t believe His end-time testimony for the resurrection at the last day, and the gathering of His elect immediately after the tribulation He taught, you have no business believing another! In light of these truths, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them” (Matt. 7:15–20). [My emphasis] In addition to earth’s great trouble, false prophets who teach no 7-year tribulation for believers equally contribute to the birth pangs and groanings of these end-times because the pre-tribulation rapture is altogether a false gospel!
This is one reason why God warned of another gospel at Gal. 1:8–9, and Paul concludes, saying “For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ” (Gal. 1:10). [My emphasis] This we know for a certain fact: the Dispensational pre-trib rapture not only pleases but has become a cornerstone of belief for the large majority of men and women in evangelical churches. So, who is the bondservant of Christ? Is it he who departs from the testimony of Jesus for the resurrection and gathering of His elect, or is it truly he who stands faithfully by Christ’s testimony for the resurrection rapture and gathering of His elect? Of course, you know it’s he who stands by the testimony of Jesus Christ!
My second book “ON EAGLES’ WINGS” explains in detail how to know Christ and find God’s Bozrah sheepfold of safety and place of provision for the last 1,260 days of the great tribulation.
Marlin J. Yoder
