Friday, September 12, 2025
America, because of racial hatred and rhetoric stirred up by the radical Left aimed primarily at Christians, conservatives, patriots and Republicans, is suffering a scourge of violence. Here are two examples. This past Wednesday, Charlie Kirk, a devout Christian believer and founder of Turning Point USA was murdered in cold blood while speaking on a college campus in Utah. Charlie was just 31 years old and leaves behind a wife and two small children. In August, 2025, a 23 year-old Ukrainian woman, Iryna Zarutska, was savagely stabbed to death in a cold blooded killing on the light rail train in Charlotte, NC. Her murderer was a career criminal released from jail 14 times for previous crimes over the past decade! After Charlie Kirk’s murder many on the radical Left celebrate. MSNBC has already fired analyst Matthew Dowd for statements already reasoning how this was Charlie’s own fault because of his “hate speech” on college campuses. It’s unconscionable that these two innocent people were murdered in cold blood. Maranatha!
Our world has gone absolutely mad. And yes, it’s undeniably true that it’s much worse today than it was 40 years ago. Anyone who doesn’t recognize that truth lives in denial. But not many discern why that’s true. It’s true because God increasingly withdraws His hand of restraint from demonic powers to bring to fruition prophetic fulfillment of Scripture for these end-times. And if you know and believe God’s word in the Bible, you know this situation of violence and evil will only get much worse. That’s not at all negative, but instead truthful and honest in agreement with God’s word. The problem is that, few people today, even many people in organized churches, do not actually believe God in Christ and so remain ignorant of the end-times befalling the world.
America and the world have reached a tipping point of no return. As the increasing number of murders and violence reveals, tolerance and freedom of mutual opinion exchange is a thing of the past. If one disapproves of the radical Left’s celebration of LGBTQ+ agendas, freedom for criminals while guilting victims, and allowing illegal criminal immigrants to roam our streets, they want you dead! And believe me when I say that in this world, radical, intolerant and hate filled people outnumber us born again believers who love God and His Christ and who make a conscious effort to live controlled by the Holy Spirit to the glory and honor of God. We are the overwhelming minority. And believers, be reminded that, in our efforts of evangelism, too often we disobey the words of Christ when He commanded: “And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them. Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!” (Mark 6:11). [My emphasis] That’s important!
Though most of society, religion and culture has been dumbed-down to non-discerningly and blindly accept the increasingly wicked state of the world, it’s all become quite normalized. And that’s exactly what Satan has done by his deceptions. Crimes of murder, rape, abductions, sex trafficking, illegal drugs, thefts, arson, gang violence, identity theft, scam callers, white collar crimes and more, are now so frequent that they’ve become normal where most simply shrug it off. And in most organized churches placebo preaching and teaching diminishes the Bible, sin, repentance, holiness, prayer, heaven and hell, keeping people stone cold ignorant to the raging signs of the end-times of our present day as pastors keep their flocks happy with make-me-feel-good-about-myself preaching. That spirit of “I want to feel good about myself” must get out of the Church, and preaching the whole uncompromised truth of the Gospel will actually do it!
And let’s not forget to add to this list the blitzkrieg of AI, robotics, biometric human integration, UAP sightings, and the literal enslavement of humans to their technological devices. All of these exist for the specific purpose of enslaving humanity to the false sense of knowledge. And nearly every corner of society, religion and culture has fallen prey to electronic devices, especially those little portable world class computers called Smart Phones. If you go into any public places and pay attention, it’s stunning the number of somber bowed heads, not bowed in prayer but bowed in virtual worship to the device in their hands checking the most recent message, news, or who’s most popular on social media. It’s a sickness that’s overtaken our societies, religions and culture. Placebo preachers and Bible teachers even stoop so spiritually low as to use ChatGPT to prepare their sermons and teaching materials. They example the blind leading the blind of Matt. 15:14. In a toxic sense, many even now worship “the image of the beast” before it’s been fully developed!
If you are familiar with Christ’s end-time teachings you know that He warned us that end-time signs would appear normal. And as Satan has played his long game very well, he achieved what he set out to do: deceive the masses that the biblical end-time signs would appear totally normal! Nothing to see here! Nothing of special interest there! We’re now in that day, but few discern it! Jesus reminds us that the end of this present age will be just as it was in the days of Noah and of Lot. Though utterly insane corruption and violence had filled the earth, it all appeared as normal. “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. [Pay close attention to this next verse] In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back” (Luke 17:26–32). [My emphasis] Though wickedness and violence filled the earth, Gen. 6:11, it all appeared as normal.
Luke 17:31 refers to the time when the two witnesses, Rev. 11:8, lay dead in Jerusalem for three and a half days. This is the mid-point of the 7-year tribulation and it will be the small window of opportunity for those who have believed and prepared in the testimony of Jesus Christ to flee to the safety and provision of God for 1,260 days. “Then the woman [this being the true prepared Church] fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they [the angels] should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days” (Rev. 12:6). And again “But the woman [the true prepared Church] was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent” (Rev. 12:14). This is why we must believe and prepare in the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ and not the dispensational delusions set forth by the traditions of men.
So the question comes: “What becomes of believers who did not believe nor prepare in Christ’s testimony and as a consequence did not find God’s safety and provision for the 1,260 days of the great tribulation?” They were certainly not raptured pre-tribulation! God shows us what happens to those who did not believe Jesus Christ’s post-tribulation rapture. “And the dragon [Satan] was enraged with the woman, [the prepared Church which escaped to God’s safety and provision for 1,260 days] and he [Satan] went to make war with the rest of her offspring, [believers who had not escaped to God’s safety and provision, Luke 21:36] who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Rev. 12:17). At this point of mid-tribulation there will be many more falling away from the Christian faith, 2 Thess. 2:3, because “then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another” (Matt. 24:10). Suddenly, what had appeared normal, will no longer look or be normal when many realize they’ve been deceived by pastors and Bible teachers who told them what to believe instead of what Jesus Christ taught!
I’ve tried for many years to impress upon the hearts and minds of believers the importance of actually believing the Christ in whom they say they have faith. Few take that to heart, but many more believe what their denominational pastor tells them to believe while they themselves don’t even know what God’s word says about this or that subject. They believe their pastors who are seen rather than Christ who is unseen. That truth reveals that their faith is not in Christ but in men! That’s because many denominational pastors themselves do not believe the testimony of God in Christ, nor do they have a biblical worldview. Three years ago “New research shows a stunning lack of basic biblical beliefs among Christian pastors across all U.S. denominations, according to veteran researcher George Barna…” (Source) This article answers why so few in denominational churches hold to biblical truths. It also reveals: “Non-Denominational Pastors Far More Likely to Hold Biblical Views than All Other Denomination’s Pastors”. I thank God that I’m a credentialed non-denominational pastor without the traditions of men that make God’s word of no effect, Mark 7:13. For me there’s no threat of credential loss for not upholding any one of many traditions of men made mandatory by denominational accrediting seminaries.
For just one example of many false pastors who preach select placebos, is Joel Osteen. In this article “Former Lonestar bassist Rich has slammed Osteen for allegedly avoiding talking about the 24th chapter of the Book of Matthew in the New Testament, which outlines the ‘end times’, because it would make congregants feel ‘uncomfortable’.” (Source) The calculated avoidance of Matt. 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21 together with voluminous other end-time Scriptures is a travesty by which denominational pastors and their traditions make millions unprepared to endure to the end which is the exact opposite of what Jesus taught at Matt. 24:13. Suddenly, in the near future everything that appeared as normal will become quite abnormal when the world welcomes “the man of sin … the son of perdition” (2 Thess. 2:3). Unprecedented demonic beings will arrive.
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
