Friday, September 19, 2025
Preempting the main focus of today’s Letter, and subsequent to Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I want to address the vitriol that’s being unleashed by many on the Left against true Christians. Hatred of true Christians is absolutely rising to new highs just as Christ promised would attend the end-times. I won’t speculate who or what country was behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk although we know that nations use conveniently triggered individuals on whom to cast the blame. It’s occurred before and it will again until Christ returns. In these end-times God wants you to know that what occurred to Charlie Kirk may come to you or a member of your family. But are you and your family spiritually prepared to endure that coming onslaught? We can’t be shocked by the murder of a fellow believer at the hands of the ungodly and unrepentant. Christ warned us of these things. And there will be no pre-trib rapture to snatch you away to heaven.
On a broad scale Western Dispensationalism, authored by John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), has poisoned the wells of Western Christianity and politics to believe that unbelieving Jews of Israel are still God’s chosen people. And on that basis the United States is obligated to allow Israel to do whatever it wants whether right or wrong. And so, as a nation the U.S. does that. Consider all the wars fomented in the Middle East by the U.S. against non-nuclear nations and the lengths to which the U.S. goes to prohibit Middle East nations from having nuclear weapons. But Israel, ah, because they’re allegedly God’s chosen people, well, we supply Israel with nuclear weapons! We play favoritism, we play partiality, though God shows no “favoritism”, Luke 20:21 and Gal. 2:6, and God “shows no partiality” (Deut. 10:17, Job 37:24 and Acts 10:34). Here’s what God said of ancient Israel: “Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also” (Jer. 3:8) [My emphasis] God divorced ancient Israel and never remarried her! God’s true Israel is continued through believers!
Before God divorced Israel there was a time when God said of her “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” (Exo. 19:5–6). But after her repeated and unrepentant rebellions God gave Israel “a certificate of divorce”. But in the New Covenant we see that God’s “chosen people” are not unbelieving Israel when He says of true believers, “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy” (1 Peter 2:9–10). [My emphasis] Yet, America shows favoritism and partiality to unbelieving Israel, a religious Orthodox people who literally curse the name of Jesus Christ! Religious unbelieving Jews of Israel are just as wickedly unbelieving and destined for eternal judgment as are the Muslim nations who reject Jesus Christ the Messiah who came to this earth 2,000 years ago.
If you think living a real and committed Christian life here in America is safe and easy you are absolutely wrong. Oh, I know there are thousands of peachy wannabe pastors and teachers who tell you otherwise, but the honest truth is that the unbelieving world wants true Christians dead! That’s not hyperbole, but factual truth. The division and gulf between believers and unbelievers is increasingly clear. It’s been there all along, but in these revealing end-times God loosening the restraint upon demonic spirits is revealing the stark contrast between believer and unbeliever. In this truth discerning believers have prepared in the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. The evils and death threats do not take us by surprise because Jesus promised the same for His followers. “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master … Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matt. 10:24, 27–28). That’s part of our commission, Matt. 28:18–20.
The preaching of the Cross of Jesus Christ is still an offense to the unregenerate heart. Charlie Kirk was martyred for being a true Christian and defending the truth “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). Satan wages war in the hearts of all unbelievers against that confession. Christ spoke the truth and they crucified Him. First Century apostles spoke the truth of the Gospel and they were all murdered in most heinous of ways. They couldn’t kill the Apostle John when they put him in a vat of boiling oil, so they exiled him to the Isle of Patmos where he wrote “The Revelation of Jesus Christ”! And let me be very clear, preaching the Cross of Christ includes the need for repentance, the need for confession, warning and teaching signs of the end-times and the resurrection rapture in accordance with Jesus Christ “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Rev. 19:10). Amen!
Signs of the end-times are exploding all around us, and Charlie Kirk’s murder is just a visible fruit and reminder of that reality. We should never be surprised by callous brutalities anywhere because unregenerate hearts are capable of horrible atrocities against one’s fellowman. Charlie Kirk’s assassination reminds us of the brevity of life and the importance of being spiritually ready to meet the Lord at any moment. For some of us, physical death will come before Christ returns at the resurrection rapture. Others will be killed by Antichrist and his followers. Some of us will find God’s safety and provision at the time of mid-trib and be kept safe from Antichrist to endure the last half of the great tribulation to its end because Jesus said “He who endures to the end shall be saved” (Matt. 24:13). Others, because they didn’t love the truth are offended, Matt. 24:10, and will be swept to perdition when they find out they were lied to by pastors and Bible teachers who promised them the happy pre-trib rapture lie. It’s pride that permits the human heart to trust in the traditions of men instead of the testimony of Jesus Christ for the end-times.
The floodgates of hell will soon begin cascading upon humanity in unprecedented measure. Are you and your loved ones prepared for that? Now is the time to find out, not when the storm rises. Are you trusting in a pre-trib rapture to spare you from the coming calamities? Do you actually believe in the absurdity of a secret rapture? You will not find such an unholy notion in God’s word. A secret rapture defies the very character of God. Since Christ suffered for our salvation, what, except pride, makes anyone think we will not suffer for the benefits of redemption? It’s God’s prophetic truth that in the tribulation “they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake” (Matt. 24:9). The first 3 1/2 years of the tribulation Antichrist will be coercing peoples and religions of the world through lying signs and wonders to follow his plan for humanity and most of the world will do just that! Why? Because they believe what they see with their eyes. Faith will have eluded them as they will believe with their eyes the signs and lying wonders of the “man of sin … the son of perdition” (2 Thess. 2:3).
Redemption’s promises are fashioned after the sufferings of Christ who said “If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also” (John 15:20). Charlie Kirk understood that. He knew he had a target on his back, but that didn’t stop him from proclaiming the truth. But fear stops many professing believers from sharing the truths of Christ. Charlie Kirk wasn’t afraid of death and neither should any of us believers be afraid of suffering persecution or death for the Lord’s sake. It’s something for which I have told my family to be prepared for at any moment. Be reminded that it was Roman Catholicism that murdered millions of innocent Christians just because they wouldn’t bow to the pope’s demands. And it will be no different in the not-so-distant future when people, even some in Christian churches, will see the end-time truth revealed that “Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death” (Matt. 10:21)
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Christian Republican serving in the U.S. Congress, and she’s disgusted with the condition of America. She’s “revived her calls for a ‘national divorce’ on Monday, ominously warning the American Right and the Left have ‘nothing left to talk about.’” (Source) But let me be clear, even if there is a “national divorce” as she suggests, it would not heal and restore this country. Our nations’ needs is not a permanent divide between Right and Left, but a radical spiritual transformation of heart, mind, spirit and soul of both the Right and the Left by true new birth faith in the confession as stated in the fifth paragraph above! Apart from a true regenerate heart of faith in Christ it’s just rote mechanics of self-righteous people pretending to get along with and tolerate one another. Being a true Christian means to love one another; pray for one another; do good in the face of evil; carry each other’s burdens; pray for those who would persecute us; it means to love our enemies; it means to bless and not curse.
In other end-time related events “Visa and TECH5 Form Seven-Year Digital ID Partnership”. The article states: “Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), a global leader in digital payments, and TECH5, an international provider of biometric and digital identity management technologies, have entered into a long-term strategic collaboration to accelerate the development and deployment of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) solutions worldwide. The agreement, formalized in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, spans an initial term of seven years.” (Source) This Digital ID is being created to trace and track every human being, because it’s part of Antichrist’s fourth beast kingdom. Note the seven-year term of the agreement, the same number of years of Antichrist reign.
My prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, I pray for those in the world who don’t know You and for those in churches who don’t believe You. Lord God draw them by Your Holy Spirit to know You and to believe You because evil spirits have sown seeds of doubt and unbelief in many hearts and minds. Lord God may true redemption faith arise that people prepare to endure to the end of the age because You have promised to be with us until the end of the age. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
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
