Friday, August 8, 2025
Many distractions in life can blur a believer’s attention to the signs of the end-times, and those distractions are the work of Satan who doesn’t want believers to discern his end game chaos. The world is changing very rapidly now, things are not as they once were. For example, I was born in the Baby Boomer Generation. Finding a post-education job for Boomers wasn’t hard and that job sustained forging our way in life. We were busy raising our families, working hard and going to church. We ignorantly believed most authority figures over us, e.g., teachers, professors, doctors, police, lawyers, judges, pastors and theologians and dared not question those authorities. We also bought homes, built businesses and went on vacations. We lived the American dream, ignorant of the fact that on many fronts we were being lied to by many whom we perceived as trusted authority figures. Our generation wasn’t allowed to question authority figures. That’s over!
By the year 2000 some of us began realizing that we’ve been lied to by many trusted figures. We learned the harsh reality that we cannot take their word cart-blanch for what they said and told us to believe. This truth became crystal clear in the organized church where we watched leadership accommodate the world in unprecedented wicked ways. Many preachers exchanged convicting sermons for cultural accommodation and watered-down the gospel to make one feel good about him or herself regardless of rebellion and unbelief of God’s word. Today, many denominations are literally split over the abominations of homosexual and LGBTQ+ lifestyles. Many ordain LGBTQ+ clergy in organized churches, an abomination and utter rejection of biblical truths.
By 2012 many of us awakened to the fact that our processed foods are literally killing us and that although the US spends more money on health care than any other developed nation, America is the unhealthiest nation. “Over the last 60 years obesity rates in the US have tripled.” (Source) And that obesity has fueled much illness. Today, TV is filled with myriad advertisements by Big Pharma for prescription medications. Wicked people have learned how to keep Americans fully dependent on doctors and their prescription medications, which, mostly don’t heal an illness but only masks symptoms. The US health care industry has tens of millions of people addicted to an endless treadmill of funding the wicked love-of-money empire of Big Pharma. The FDA has for decades approved dangerous toxins and chemicals in foods known to be extremely harmful for humans. But for the love of money, one entity fuels the other in this never ending illness cycle.
By 2016 we learned of the vile viciousness attending many politicians who forge lies in an effort to gain their desired outcome and that most alphabet agencies are corrupt beyond restoration. We learned that elite world leaders set themselves against humanity. And for those of us who discern the signs of the times, we became keenly aware that this wicked world is spiraling physically and spiritually out of control and that the 7-year Tribulation is very near. But for many culture-loving pastors, the end-times is nowhere on their spiritual radar though Scripture is rife with decrees and warnings that believers be prepared to endure to the end just as Christ taught at Matt. 24:13. But many pastors are tepid cowards, fearing people more than God and His Christ. There’s nothing new under the sun, Eccl. 1:9, it was the same in ancient Israel, then God divorced her, Jer. 3:8.
And today for many Gen Z’ers (born 1997–2009), they’re on the disastrous receiving end of this downward spiral of newly discovered physical and spiritual lies. College degrees mean little to nothing in today’s job markets. Insane home prices are out of reach for most. Homelessness is unprecedented in America. Violence on city streets across the US is out of control. Lies reward. The people mourn. The earth groans. Nations are in perplexity. Most churches refuse to preach the end-times due to fear of people. The majority of people are deceived, especially in organized churches. Spiritually and physically, the majority of people in and out of the churches are totally unprepared, because “The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved” (2 Thess. 2:9–10). In this, have you received the love of the truth? Do you love, believe and prepare in the word of the Lord Jesus? Now is the time to be discerning, alert and knowledgeable of end-time truths. If you think the world has been cruel and wicked in the past, you’ve seen nothing yet. Worse is coming!
There are two biblically prophetic realities developing rapidly that will decimate humanity. First, the imminent impending reality of a global war; and secondly, the rapidly developing technology of AI. Both are set to dramatically scale back the human population of Earth, because Satan hates every human person because we are all created in the image of God. And Satan wants to destroy each and every image of God. Therefore, every human, but especially we who are the born again believers of Christ, are targets to be destroyed by the forces of darkness. Are you and your loved ones prepared to face Satan’s end-time onslaught? Oh, or maybe you’re still disillusioned by the false hope of a pre-trib rapture. But be wisely advised, the pre-trib rapture is a lie to deceive you into believing you won’t be on Earth for the seven-year Tribulation. Be further advised, there is not a single verse or passage of Scripture that speaks of a pre-trib rapture, but many Scriptures, including the teachings of the Son of God plainly tell us that Christ gathers together “His elect”, “Immediately after the tribulation” (Matt. 24:29–31). A question: “Are you one of His elect?”
Be discerningly alert – global war is very near and it will likely go nuclear. “America’s nuclear missile silos, hidden across Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota, hold over 400 Minuteman III missiles as part of the country’s nuclear defense.” (Source) Tensions and distrust of nuclear nations escalate daily and on any given day nuclear war could become reality. “Imagine a world plunged into radioactive darkness.” (Source) This is not meant to frighten you but to urge you to prepare, first, spiritually, then physically, to the best of your ability. At the fourth Seal Judgment “a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth” (Rev. 6:8). Imagine, twenty-five percent of the world population will be killed, not to mention those who remain alive but must then live in the horrible aftermath of that global war. Nothing is too evil for Satan and his evil spirits of anti-Christ, and in the near future God will allow the Antichrist a temporal 7-year rule of this world with iron-fisted cruelty.
This past Wednesday, August 6, 2025, at 8:15 AM, Japan marked its 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima. “Eighty years ago today, the violent explosion of a single atomic bomb deprived people said to number well more than 100,000 of their precious lives. Even those who escaped death suffered hardships beyond description.” (Source) Imagine, the inhumane and brutal cruelty of the United States murdering tens of thousands of INNOCENT people NOT participant in WWII of that time! War is to be fought military against military NOT military against INNOCENT civilians! This, in part, reveals the depravity of humanity without a born again heart and love for God and His Christ. It appears nuclear nations have learned little to nothing, because today there are enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world many times over!
Be discerningly alert – AI technology seeks to take over humanity. “The Godfather of AI just issued his most chilling warning yet.” (Source) He said “AI is developing faster than what we can control it.” This next article says “Truly super-intelligent bots could wipe us off the face of the Earth, says a Nobel prizewinner and others — who predict machines will match humans in as little as a year.” (Source) Know this: AI tech will create “the image of the beast” (Rev. 13:15). In this, be discerningly alert to the level of AI tech, bio tech and robotics which you allow yourself. AI, bio tech and robotic technology will soon take control of the economic systems of the world. Cash in all its forms will be retired and even become illegal, and will be replaced with CBDC’s (Central Bank Digital Currencies). Millions of jobs will soon be lost to anti-human technologies.
Dear reader, I do not know your spiritual condition, but God said today is the day of salvation, and that “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). This is what it means to be born again. Christ said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). The Holy Spirit confirmed these things saying “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38). Have you confessed and repented of your sin and unbelief? Do you confess Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord? Have you received the Holy Spirit? I am praying for you to accept God’s offer of salvation unto eternal life by grace through faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). It’s not yet too late.
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Marlin J. Yoder
