When we're in a hurry - but God isn't!
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." (II Peter 3:8)
The End Time Scenario
Living in this world of practically instant communication with anyone, anywhere in the world, it's easy to forget that it's not always been this way. Take the Battle of Trafalgar for example: On Monday 21st October 1805 the first official dispatches of Britain's victory over the combined fleets of France and Spain and the death of Lord Nelson took over two weeks to arrive at the Admiralty in London. After sailing from the SW coast of Spain to Cornwall, on November 4th Lieutenant Lapenotiere then had to make the 271 mile journey to London by "express post-chase", which took over a day and a half and required changing horses 21 times!
Over in the USA, things had slightly improved in the following 50 years. In 1860 with the arrival of the pony express, you could then send a letter from the East coast to the West coast in just 10 days – if the weather and Indian raiding parties were favourable – for which you would pay five dollars per half ounce/14 g (about $130/£90 by today's standards – for a single letter). Letters from England to India required similar amounts of time for the sea and land passage of 25 days. And an equal amount of time for a reply.
But these days we take for granted affordable and instantaneous communication. We think nothing of communicating halfway around the world by email – and if an immediate response is necessary, we pick up the phone! Well does the book of Daniel describe this end-time age as one that will be dominated by rapid communications and science when it says: "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." (Daniel 12:4)
An Impatient Age
With the internet as it is today, we thinking nothing of placing an on-line order for an item, and almost immediately we begin checking our package's delivery progress – expecting the company to pull out all stops to have our goods instantly dispatched to be delivered the following day. So acute has this impatience become, that some companies are experimenting with shortening the desire to fulfilment period even more by using an automated delivery service via flying drone!
In many ways modern technology has given us great benefits, but it has also come with serious drawbacks. Certainly time is money – and much of the so-called "progress" is being driven by industry competing with one another in the marketplace. But there would be no such competition if the consumers themselves were not also impatient. And yet why so frenetic? What is the great rush? Once again, the heart of the problem is spiritual in nature. Modern man is trying to fill what is in truth a spiritual vacuum within his life – a life based on the evolutionary theory, that would end with total nothingness, no future, no reason for living now. Hence this frantic desire for more and more physical material goods before his life runs out – to try to fill that hole, to "eat, drink and be merry" before the grim reaper catches up with him. But it places him in a state of constant dissatisfaction.
Christ commented precisely on such unrealistic striving being an exercise in futility:
- And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
- And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
- And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
- And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
- But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
- So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. (Luke 12:16-21)
Mr. Armstrong commented on the need for patience as a vital fruit of the Spirit in his article Real Abundant Living, when he said:
And the next is 'longsuffering', which in more modern English is 'PATIENCE'. Impatience makes more people unhappy than almost anything else! If you can really learn the lesson of patience, you're learning one of the things that will make you happy, and make life worth living. (The Good News – May 1986)
The fact is, unlike the materialistic mantra we have been indoctrinated with within the Western world – that at the end of our lives, the person with the biggest pile, wins – our lives have been created deliberately finite for a truly transcendental reason. That reason is not simply to GET progressively more and more goods as quick as humanly possible, but to develop a Godly, outgoing, GIVING character of a quality that will last for eternity. To develop the same mindset – for the same lifestyle – that God and Christ possessed from eternity. And producing such quality character invariably takes TIME, and a degree of faith and patience rarely found today.
Earthen Vessels
The problem is, we who have been called by God during this age must develop this Godly character within a climate that is largely the antithesis. We are called to build the key quality of patience within an exceedingly impatient and restless world. It is not just goods and services that we want NOW, if not sooner, but this impatient frame of mind also extends to many other aspects of our lives ... the desire to be married, to have children, to get a better paying job, a home of our own, family problems resolved, local church fellowship, and also for many of us, miraculous healing.
This aspect of the need for patience within trials, big and small, is not unique to us at the end time. God's people throughout the ages have had to face all kinds of hardships, and – being human – no doubt also struggled at times with frustration and impatience.
- For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
- But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
- We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
- Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
- Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. (II Corinthians 4:6-10)
Notice how many of the qualities Paul highlights in the above passage involve the need for patience – "... troubled, perplexed, persecuted, cast down, ..." Do any of these problems sound familiar? But Paul, through experience found out how to cope... he allowed God to fight his battles, helping him to build faith in the process: And a major key being the need to keep our focus in the right place – as the conclusion of the chapter brings out:
- For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
- For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
- While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal [transient]; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (II Corinthians 4:16-18)
How Long O Lord?
So often the time frame God uses in our trials appears to be so radically different from our own! In such cases we often end up praying, as did David, "how long O Lord?". In the entire 13th Psalm he wrestles with this problem:
- O LORD, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way?
- How long must I struggle with anguish in my soul, with sorrow in my heart every day? How long will my enemy have the upper hand?
- Turn and answer me, O LORD my God! Restore the light to my eyes, or I will die.
- Don’t let my enemies gloat, saying, “We have defeated him!” Don’t let them rejoice at my downfall.
- But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you have rescued me. I will sing to the LORD because he is good to me. (Psalm 13, NLT)
And David is not alone. Mr Armstrong too wrestled with this dilemma:
Now some people have faith for, maybe, five or ten seconds. Some people will have faith for, perhaps, an hour. Some people may have faith for one or two days. But if God doesn't get busy and jump at the crack of your whip, and do just what you've asked God to do as if you're giving the orders to God, and if He doesn't do it right away you say; "Well God just didn't hear me and answer me."
Oh, how many times He's delayed the answer for me. I had an answer so quick, quicker than you can snap a finger. Where I had to have it, and where it was necessary, and God knew it was, He gave me the answer immediately.
Why I remember one thing that was one of the greatest trials and problems I ever had in my life. Well I took it to God; I always do. And I had His promise. I could find many promises in the Bible that I'd get the answer. But I wasn't getting it, and a month went by, and six months went by, and a year went by. And I didn't have the answer. And then two years went by. And He hadn't done a thing about it yet.
And you know I used to turn back here to the Psalms where I found many promises for the same kind of a trial that I was going through. David had had the same troubles I had. And I certainly could understand why David had prayed, " How long, O Lord; how long before you're going to answer?" (Psalm 13:1) Why it just seemed to David that God was never going to listen and answer. So I began to pray like that. I said, "How long O God, are you going to keep me waiting?" Well I read that this test of faith was going to work patience, and I certainly had to learn to have a lot of patience.
Well, I don't know, it was three or four years, or maybe five – finally God answered in such a dynamic manner that really astounded me. It wasn't the manner in which I thought He would at all. It wasn't the way that I expected or had asked at all. You know you can't tell God how to do it. If He's promised to do something, you rely on Him to do it, and He'll do it. But He'll do it His way; He'll do it in His time, not when you want. (World Tomorrow – What Is Jesus Doing Today?)
An Eternal Being
When we find ourselves in a hurry – but very clearly God isn't – it is then time for us to take a step back and to re-examine our perspective. What is needed is a more correct perspective of both ourselves and God Himself. James addresses the need for a more realistic view of ourselves when he points out:
- Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit."
- Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
- Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that".
- But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. (James 4:13-16 NKJV)
Now contrast our fragile, vapour-like human life with God: This earth on which we all live is rotating at around 900 miles an hour at the equator, with each rotation forming one day; every 28 days or so the moon circles the earth giving a lunar month; and approximately every 365 days the earth circles the sun, giving one terrestrial year. But these numbers hardly register on the "heavenly time frame": This solar system itself is rotating within the Milky Way galaxy – set spinning originally by God – with each rotation taking over 200 million terrestrial years; and each of the galaxies are themselves hurtling away from one another – believed to have begun 13,800 million years ago, when time itself may have come into existence. And through it all God and Christ not only existed but commanded, oversaw and continue to uphold the entire process. Is it any wonder then, that often, when we find ourselves in a hurry – God isn't?
Painstaking Quality
We live in a truly astounding world – a creation that has been deliberately designed to fill our minds with awe and wonder in virtually whatever direction we look – whether it is out to the endless universe - with suns a thousand times bigger than ours, or into the cell and the work of molecular machines we now can witness. The physical creation displays the productivity of a Mind that possesses unmatched skill and attention to painstaking quality – a true master craftsman who will invariably take whatever time necessary to produce the highest quality product!
- Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
- Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
- With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
- Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
- And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
- All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
- To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? (Isaiah 40:12-18)
And unlike the conveyor-belted, mass-produced goods available today – often with built-in obsolescence – time is needed to perfect this on-going creation – US, as His children! He knows our frame, He remembers we are dust, but promises that the good work He started in us, He will perform it, and as it says in Isaiah "And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you." (Isaiah 46:4)
Having Its Perfect Work
It has been over 40 years now since Mr Armstrong died. And I doubt if any of us remotely imagined that this satanic age would still be rumbling along and that we would still be battling on in 2026! Of all the trials we face, this appears to be the most protracted and the one which we all within God's church very much pray, "how long O Lord how long before you're going to answer?" (Psalm 13:1) – sighing and crying for the abominations we are witnessing in the world today (Ezekiel 9:4), and longing for the coming of the Kingdom of God to end all the suffering and heartache. And to see God's Church back together again.
Yet as much as we may like it to be otherwise, the development of patience within this area also appears to be a crucial part of the character God is seeking within us prior to our birth into His Family. As in all such trials, God allows them specifically for the character they generate – as it says in the book of James:
- My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers [varied and different types of] temptations;
- Knowing this, that the trying of your faith [in all these different areas] works patience.
- But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. (James 1:2-4)
Remembering The Womb
God's view of the situation is invariably very different from our own. The nearest picture we have of this clash of perspectives has to be that of our birth physically. From our limited vantage point within the womb all those years ago, could we see why lungs were needed? Arms and legs? Fingers and thumbs, eyes, ears, nose and mouth? We were fed by our mother through the umbilical chord, using the oxygen in the blood for our existence, possibly sucking our thumbs, but not much else! No, we couldn't understand from our pre-birth perspective why such things needed to grow and be perfected – and how a full nine months – 40 long weeks! – had to pass in order to do so. But our parents could, because they understood the need and potential of such things physically, just as does our heavenly Father and faithful Creator spiritually today. And so the same book of James encourages us:
- Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
- Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh...
- ... Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
- Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. (James 5:7-8,10-11)
It is so that we may be "perfect and entire, wanting nothing" that our faith must be tested in a variety of trials – allowing time to pass, in patience, while the appropriate facet and vital fruit of the Holy Spirit is laid down. We don't always see the need for these spiritual strengths now, but no doubt, in hindsight we most certainly will, as so often happens with our day-to-day trials and tribulations. No, none of us considered the possibility of 40 years in the "wilderness" since the death of the end-time apostle, but in retrospect, we can see that we were not ready, and we have sadly needed this time of the shattering to sort out our priorities.
And Jesus Christ encourages us during this time of waiting that our lights should be burning, growth should be taking place, and fruit maturing:
- Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
- And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
- Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
- And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. (Luke 12:35-38)
God's Spiritual Creation
God's basic character does not change. The Father and Christ remain "the same yesterday, and today, and forever" (Hebrews 13:8). So if He took the time and painstaking attention to detail He did with the physical creation, rest assured He will do the same when creating His perfect character within each one of us, His ultimate creation! Fortunately for us He sees the end from the beginning and therefore knows our individual potential in a way only He can. Having faith in this key fact is the thing we always need to remember, should we ever find ourselves in a hurry – but God isn't!
- Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
- Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
- You turn men back to dust, saying, "Return to dust, O sons of men."
- For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
- You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning -
- though in the morning it springs up new, by evening it is dry and withered.
- We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation.
- You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
- All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.
- The length of our days is seventy years -- or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- Who knows the power of your anger? For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.
- Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
- Relent, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.
- Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
- Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.
- May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendour to their children.
- May the favour of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us -- yes, establish the work of our hands. (Psalm 90 NIV)
When Prophecy And Reality Unite!
Forty years ago, on January 16th, 1986, God's end time Apostle died. Over the following 40 years, God's Church has been tried and tested… and has ended up totally shattered and scattered.
When we look back at this time we will see that 2026 was the year the world changed!
Just this week, in just one day, the whole American political system changed! In the mid term elections, President Trump lost control of both the House and the Senate! The US now has a “lame duck” President. This is a massive political upheaval!
We must keep in mind that most end time events happen suddenly…
“Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.” (Isaiah 30:12-13)
“Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.” (Isaiah 9:14-16)
Note that one of the first curses mentioned in Leviticus 26 is that “I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror…” (Leviticus 26:16)
Just in the last few weeks, attitudes around the world have changed - “there is growing anticipation that something really big is about to happen.”
Our “Window To Prepare” Is Closing
“There is growing anticipation that something really big is about to happen. Social media is buzzing about the fact that so many governments around the world are urging their citizens to stockpile food, water and other essential supplies right now. Why have all of those governments suddenly developed such a sense of urgency? I wish that I knew, but without a doubt global events have begun to spiral out of control.
Our world is facing crisis after crisis, and most of them have erupted in the last 12 months. The US and Israel are preparing to bomb the living daylights out of Iran after the midterm elections, and the Iranians are making all sorts of apocalyptic threats in response. The Russians and the Ukrainians are absolutely pummeling one another with missiles and drones, and European leaders are being encouraged to consider sending troops into Ukraine.
Cyberattacks have become much more sophisticated and much more frequent, and AI agents are infiltrating financial systems worldwide. Meanwhile, we are facing a global energy crisis, a global fertilizer crisis and a global food crisis simultaneously. On top of everything else, the most powerful Super El Niño ever recorded is causing monster storms, epic droughts and horrific wildfires all over the planet. Unfortunately, many are warning that things could soon get far worse.” (themostimportantnews.com)
Prepare For An Emergency
“What in the world is going on? Why are governments all over the planet suddenly encouraging their citizens to become preppers? Do they know something that they aren’t telling us? If it was just one nation that was suddenly instructing people to stockpile food, water and other essential supplies, that wouldn’t be a big deal. But it isn’t just one nation. Quite a long list of countries have simultaneously decided that now is the time for everyone to get prepared. So what has prompted this sudden sense of urgency?” (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
FORTRESS America
“The Pentagon is planning for its major military installations across the United States to be able to operate off-grid for at least 90 days without relying on civilian power grids, external fuel, or water supplies, its chief spokesman confirmed on October 25. Parnell said he created FORTRESS America ‘because we can no longer rely on two oceans to protect us. That outdated assumption no longer reflects the threats we face,’ he said. ‘We don’t want to rely on standard civilian municipal infrastructure to run our national defense. We just simply can’t. It’s an intolerable risk,’ Parnell told Fox News. ‘Power is combat now. Without electricity, you lose communications, water, logistics, assembly lines and just basic military command structures.’” (theepochtimes.com)
What Would Happen In An Apocalyptic Blackout?
“As hospital patients in Venezuela found out earlier this year during a five-day nationwide blackout, power cuts can do more than just turn out the lights. The hospital staff watched helplessly as their patient died in front of them. Everything the doctors needed to save one woman – including a mechanical ventilator – was tantalisingly close, in the intensive care unit several floors below. But with no power in the nine-floor hospital in Maracay, northern Venezuela, they had no way to reach it. Without electricity the lifts did not work.
By the end of the five days an estimated 26 people had died in the country’s hospitals as a result of the power outage. ‘When the ventilators failed, the nurses and doctors had to do it manually by squeezing a rubber lung,’ he says. ‘They were taking it in turns to keep these patients alive.’
The problems extended beyond the hospitals. Elderly people in high-rise flats had to be carried down stairs. People cooked food with fire and ate by candlelight. Without power, food spoiled in warming refrigerators, traffic lights failed and transport systems ground to a halt. The pumps that drove running water to people’s homes stopped, sending residents on a desperate search for water in nearby rivers, streams and even sewers. The blackouts in Venezuela hit people's homes, causing pumps powering running water to stop and food to spoil in fridges.
In our modern world, almost everything, from our financial systems to our communication networks, are utterly reliant upon electricity. Other critical infrastructure like water supplies and our sewer systems rely upon electric powered pumps to keep them running. With no power, fuel pumps at petrol stations stop working, road signs, traffic lights and train systems go dead. Transport networks grind to a halt.
Our complex food supply chains quickly fall apart without computers to coordinate where produce needs to be, or the fuel to transport it or refrigeration to preserve it. Air conditioning, gas boilers and heating systems also rely upon electricity to work.
‘We want people to be thinking about these things long before there is a problem,’ says John Heltzel, director of resilience planning at the EIS. ‘It’s important because when the electricity grid fails, there is this risk of cascading impacts that can occur from what might at first seem to be a relatively minor event.’
This cascade effect is where the real damage can be done. As the people of Venezuela have discovered, even basic services like water can stop when the power goes out. ‘IT’S EFFECTIVELY [LIKE GOING] BACK TO THE DARK AGES,’ says Heltzel.” (bbc.co.uk)
How Long Would Society Last During A Total Grid Collapse?
“Flash forward to a week after the start of the blackout. You still keep your cell phone battery charged from your car, but you rarely get a signal and phone calls almost never connect. Plus, your car’s almost out of gasoline and the fuel at filling stations has long been sent to backup generators at critical facilities. You are almost certainly running low on food and water after a week,
Power plants are having trouble purchasing fuel because, without electricity to power data centers and good telecommunications, banks and energy markets are shut down. Natural gas compressors don’t have power, so they can’t send fuel to the plants. Railway signals and dispatch centers are down, so the coal trains are stopped. Public roadways are snarled because none of the traffic signals work, creating accidents and reducing the capacity at intersections.
Even if workers at critical jobs like power plants, pipelines, and substations still have gas in their vehicles, they are having a really hard time actually getting to work. And even if they can get there, they might not know what to do. Most of our complicated infrastructure systems like oil and gas pipelines, public water systems, and the electrical grid are operated using SCADA - networked computers, sensors, and electronic devices that perform a lot of tasks automatically… if they have power.
Even if you can get people to the valves, switches, pump stations, and tanks to help with manual operations, they might not know under which parameters to operate the system. The longer the outage lasts, the more reserves of water, fuel, foods, medicine, and goods deplete, and the more systems break down. Each of these complicated systems are often extremely difficult to bring back online alone, and nearly impossible without the support of adjacent infrastructure.
Electricity is not just a luxury. It is a necessity of modern life. Even ignoring our own direct use of it, almost everything we depend on in our daily lives, and indeed the orderly conduct of a civil society, is undergirded by a functioning electrical grid.
Of course, the other kind of preparedness is our ability to restore service to a collapsed power grid and get everyone back online as quickly as possible. That’s called a black start, and it sounds simple enough, but there are some enormous engineering challenges associated with bringing a grid up from nothing.” (practical.engineering)
When Prophecy And Reality Unite:
PROPHECY - AMERICA THE CONDEMNED
“Ezekiel’s prophecy continues, ‘Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity. A THIRD PART OF THEE SHALL DIE WITH THE PESTILENCE and with famine will they be consumed in the midst of thee: AND A THIRD PART SHALL FALL BY THE SWORD [that's over 200 million people]… and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my FURY to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I THE LORD HAVE SPOKEN IT IN MY ZEAL, WHEN I HAVE ACCOMPLISHED MY FURY IN THEM’ (Ezekiel 5:11-13, emphasis mine).” (The Plain Truth – June/July 1980)
REALITY - TOTAL DEVASTATION
We’re Not Talking About Just A Regular Catastrophe
“Senator Ron Johnson (Republican for Wisconsin), chairman of the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, posed questions to witnesses testifying on Capitol Hill before his committee. He asked R James Woolsey, chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, what would happen to society if the electrical grid were to be down for an extended period of time, such as a year or two, following an EMP event?
Woolsey responded, ‘It’s briefly dealt with in the commission report of [2008]. There are essentially two estimates on how many people would die from hunger, from starvation, from lack of water, and from social disruption. One estimate is that within a year or so, TWO-THIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES POPULATION WOULD DIE [that's over 200 million people].
The other estimate is that within a year or so, 90% of the US population would die. We’re talking about total devastation. We’re not talking about just a regular catastrophe.” (powermag.com)
The Missing Link -
The True Gospel Preached By Jesus Christ…
“Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel [good news] of the kingdom of God …repent ye, and believe the gospel.” (Mark 1:14-15)
Christ preached about it - few believe it today. But that does not alter the fact that we are very close to the fulfilment of that Gospel - that good news - the return of Jesus Christ to take control of all nations. But the world has been blinded… deceived by Satan the Devil… they have little or no understanding of upcoming events.
The Time We Are In, Now
Pastor General’s Report - 1979
“We have come to that time – the TIME OF THE END! Rapid travel, to and fro, at high speed! We are definitely in the END TIME! Knowledge has been increased on earth amazingly. We have been going with increasing momentum through the age of invention, the age of science and technology, the air age, the space age, and now the NUCLEAR age. Now, for the first time in human history, the weapons of mass destruction have been produced that can erase all humanity from the earth!” (Pastor General’s Report – November 20, 1979)
Next: The Great Tribulation
Plain Truth - 1986 - MYSTERY OF THE AGES
“Daniel described the same most severe trouble of all history. Speaking of a time now in our immediate future, Daniel foretold: ‘And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince [archangel] which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of TROUBLE, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time’ (Daniel 12:1).” (The Plain Truth – April 1986)
The Spiritual Dimension
There is a God in heaven who has a great plan for all of mankind, and He is working out that plan right now!
God promised blessings for obedience: Leviticus 26:1-13
But He also promised punishment for disobedience: Leviticus 26:14-46
Punishment For Disobedience
“But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror…
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
And I will bring a sword upon you,
And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.” (Leviticus 26:14-16,19,25,32)
A modern translation adds clarity: “Yes, I myself will devastate your land, and your enemies who come to occupy it will be appalled at what they see.” (Leviticus 26:32, NLT)
Total devastation! The greatest nation on earth totally destroyed. And the survivors? “…You will offer to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will buy you.” (Deuteronomy 28:68)
Finally…
“And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.” (Leviticus 26:33)
But There Is Good News:
Once The Survivors Have A Change Of Attitude…
“And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.” (Leviticus 26:44-45)
This is what the true gospel is all about!
One God
One world ruling government, headed by Jesus Christ
One law - going out from Zion
One pure language
Real peace amongst all nations
God Says The Wastes Will Be Rebuilt
“For behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you and ye shall be tilled and sown: and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded: And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates…” (Ezekiel 36:9-11)
Read the whole chapter of Ezekiel 36. God says,
“…I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded… This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.” (Ezekiel 36:33,35)
And What About All Other Nations?
“Notice: ‘In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt [Egypt still exists as a nation] to Assyria [many of whose people migrated centuries ago to Europe – modern Germany], and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: whom the [Eternal] of hosts shall bless, saying,
Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.’ (Isaiah 19:23-25)
WHAT A UTOPIAN PREDICTION THAT IS!”
(Tomorrow… What It Will Be Like - Chapter 6)
“YOU DON’T HAVE TO BELIEVE IT!
It will happen, regardless. It is sure – the world’s only sure hope.
This advance good news of tomorrow is as certain as the rising of tomorrow’s sun.”
(Tomorrow… What It Will Be Like - Chapter 1)
Latest Audio - 2026-11-07
“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”
The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!
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