Friday, January 2, 2026
Welcome to 2026! Every day that God the Father waits to send His Son Jesus Christ to gather His elect “Immediately after the tribulation” (Matt. 24:29–31), reveals the patient love, mercy and grace of God in extending yet more time to people to accept by grace through faith the gift of eternal life by believing His Son Jesus Christ. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life … and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him” (John 3:16 and 3:36b). That’s the gospel message, and we who minister must preach it all.
If you haven’t yet put your faith in Jesus Christ, I encourage you because God said “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Cor. 6:2); 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). The way to God is exclusive, by grace through faith in God’s Son 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). And Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
Jesus Christ loves us, came to earth, lived a perfect holy life, died on the cross for us, and rose from the dead that we could by grace through faith be saved: “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus” (Rom. 3:23–26). You have free will. You decide.
The end of this present age is rushing upon humanity, but few are aware of it because many “whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them” (2 Cor. 4:4). It comes back to the exclusivity of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Make the decision even now before it’s eternally too late. You will never regret giving your life in faith to the Lord Jesus Christ. It will be the start of your walk of salvation faith filled with the glorious promise of eternal life with God in Christ.
In 2026, persecution of Christians will grow. “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 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. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me” (John 15:18–21).
Christianity itself is increasingly under attack by atheists, unbelievers, Judaism, Islam and even Christian Zionists and Christian Judaizers. Atheists, unbelievers, Judaism and Islam rage against Christianity in their hostile rejection of Christ, but Christian Zionists and Judaizers’ more subtle anti-faith thrives on an Israel-first agenda as they celebrate unbelieving Israel and her O.T. laws, observances of festivals, feasts and other customs. But importantly, God gave O.T. unbelieving Jews “a certificate of divorce” (Jer. 3:8) and never took them back, yet Zionists and Judaizers teach that unbelieving Jews are still God’s chosen people which is false; read 1 Peter 2:9–10.
By prompting of the Holy Spirit, I again warn about Zionist preachers, teachers and Judaizers who say that unbelieving Jews of Israel are still God’s “chosen people”. They lie. They argue against God and His Christ who said of unbelieving Jews, “I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan” (Rev. 2:9) and “Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you” (Rev. 3:9). A true Jew is defined as God’s Spirit revealed at Rom. 2:28–29; we who are born again are true Jews. From Abram’s call to present “the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (Rom. 11:29).
“MAGA Divided: Zionist influence sparks GOP backlash over Israel-First politics”. (Source) Don’t be taken captive by Zionist and Judaizers deceptions. “For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all” (James 2:10). Thus, “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us … [and] as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them’” (Gal. 3:13, 10), because “what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit” (Rom. 8:3–4). Beware of those telling you to “perform” O.T. laws!
Global conditions will be worse in 2026. Physically destructive earthquakes, volcanoes, mega-storms and weather-weaponization will increase in number and magnitude. It’s another mark of the end-times. And that pattern will persist in 2026. Spiritually, the downward spiral to perdition is also set to greatly increase in 2026. As mentioned above, if you know current events you know persecution of Christians in Africa, China, Ukraine and other places is escalating. It’s yet another end-time sign. “More than 380m Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith.” (Source) Now is the time to strengthen our faith for the coming persecutions.
Additionally, AI and all its associated technologies will make breathtaking advances in 2026. Many of those advances will be so profound that increasing numbers of people will declare that AI is god. One leader of the World Economic Forum, Yuval Noah Harari, who world leaders call the prophet said the God of the Bible is dead and needs to be buried. (Source) Yuval Noah Harari is one of the world’s most wicked and blasphemous men as he mocks God. He is anti-Christ and promotes the integration of man with AI/robotics/machines to become god. It’s an abomination! This will grow worse in 2026 and believers better be spiritually prepared to discern and avoid it.
This evil world loves progressivism, and government or state assisted suicide is a participant. Other nations do it and the U.S. is now offering assisted suicide. Sounds impossible doesn’t it, especially from an alleged Christian nation! Currently, 12 U.S. states approve assisted suicide, see the map here. Recently, liberal progressive Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed Illinois’s state assisted suicide into law! (Source) They like to call it “death with dignity” but it’s assisted self-murder! And liberal Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York is also signing state assisted self-murder into law! Government leaders largely make themselves god, deciding when life and death begins and ends.
The definitions of “progressivism” is “the principles and practices of progressives” and “the doctrines and beliefs of the Progressive party.” (Source) But from the Christian perspective, as history clearly reveals, progressivism is the progress toward increasingly rejecting God and His Christ, embracing sin that kills and destroys people made in God’s image, from abortions to assisted suicides to the ungodly LGBTQ+ and transgender agendas. They reject God and think themselves god in determining the beginning and end of human life or that being born male or female is one’s choice. The progressive evil of the god of self, will grow much worse in 2026.
Let’s begin 2026 by praying for people to cast off evil progressivism. Pray for unbelievers that they come to true faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Pray for people in the church to throw off those traditions of men that make “the word of God of no effect” (Mark 7:13). Pray for church leaders to actually believe the end-time testimony of Jesus and prepare people to endure the tribulation to the end just as Jesus taught at Matt. 24:13. Pray that minds, hearts and ears are mindful of the false pre-trib rapture because it’s utterly hopeless. Pray for true enduring salvation faith to arise.
And finally, let this be of great encouragement: “Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Heb. 4:14–16). Be strong in 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
