Four Blood Moons (13 page)

In spite of our medical sophistication, there will be global pestilence.

God uses earthquakes to get the attention of those who are spiritually hard of hearing. God is saying, if you can't see the signs in the heavens, if you refuse to recognize the obvious signs of prophecy fulfilled, let me shake the ground under your feet; let cities be swallowed, mountains leveled, and islands of the sea disappear.

God used an earthquake in the original “Jailhouse Rock.” The apostle Paul and Silas were thrown into prison for preaching the gospel. Rather than pout and whine over their persecution, they decided to sing praises to God in the midnight hour.

God shook the foundations of the earth with a “violent earthquake” to bring down prison walls and allow Paul and Silas to make a convert out of their jailer (Acts 16:25–28).

God used an earthquake on resurrection morning as the angel of God “rolled back the stone from the door [of the tomb], and sat on it” (Matthew 28:2). The stone was not removed to let Christ out but to let us in; the greatest news the world has ever heard came out of the graveyard—He lives!

God promises that all nations who battle against Jerusalem
“will be punished by the L
ORD
of hosts with thunder and earthquake and great noise” (Isaiah 29:6).

God forewarns planet earth that the greatest earthquake in human history is coming! John the Revelator describes it with these words:

There was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth. . . . And the cities of the nations fell. . . . Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

(R
EVELATION
16:18–20)

Can you imagine an earthquake so globally severe that the Rocky Mountains, Mount Everest, and Kilimanjaro are shaken until they become pebbles leveled to the ground? Can you visualize planet earth's geography being transformed by an earthquake so great that major islands of the sea like Hawaii, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Great Britain will fall below sea level?

Most Americans are aware of the San Andreas Fault on the West Coast; one strong earthquake near this crevice and millions will experience massive and instant destruction. Can you visualize San Francisco falling into the Pacific Ocean with cities from San Diego to Sacramento ablaze from ruptured gas lines . . . destroyed freeways making the assistance of first responders impossible . . . countless thousands trapped in the
rubble of collapsed high-rise apartments and office buildings? That's only a glimpse of the immense destruction of a major earthquake that America's finest geologists confirm as “the Big One is coming.”

Few are aware that the Army Corps of Engineers has identified a major fault running the full length of the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Canada. Experts are stating that one major earthquake could split America in half.
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The United States Geological Survey reports that global occurrences of earthquakes from 2008 through 2010 totaled 107,135 with 25,449 happening in America alone.

How great is our God? Far greater than the mind of man can imagine, and far greater than anything we've seen in the history of the world! He is crying out to us—the
Big One is coming
!

Jesus told His disciples that before He returns, lawlessness will abound (Matthew 24:12). We hear the words of the Jewish Rabbi speaking to His generation—words that could dominate the headlines of every media outlet in America tomorrow: “Anarchy in America.” Jesus painted the portrait of our nation in three words: “Lawlessness will abound” (Matthew 24:12).

The Bible identifies the Antichrist as “the lawless one,” and his claim to power and to deity is proved by signs produced through satanic power. He is received as a god on earth and as a ruler because of the blindness of the people who will follow him.

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie.

(2 T
HESSALONIANS
2:8–11)

The Bible says the “spirit of the Antichrist” (1 John 4:3) is alive in the world today. Certainly we see the spirit of rebellion exploding in America.
Anarchy
is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority.”

The last verse in the book of Judges records, “In those days there was no king in Israel [no national leadership]; everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (21:25).

When authority goes out, anarchy comes in.

America has a lack of leadership within our government, and we are seeing anarchy on a national level never seen in our history.

Not long ago, protesters rioted in the streets of Wisconsin as unions fought for control of the government.
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The Occupy
Wall Street mobs of Union Square in New York were the clear portrait of lawlessness in America. For example, “according to a memo written by the FBI's New York field office in August 2011, bureau personnel met with officials from the New York Stock Exchange to discuss ‘the planned Anarchist protest titled “Occupy Wall Street,” ' scheduled for September 17, 2011.”
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The protest appeared on anarchist websites and social network pages on the Internet, the memo said. “Numerous incidents have occurred in the past which show attempts by Anarchist groups to disrupt, influence, and/or shut down normal business operations of financial districts.”
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The world is upside down! Right and wrong are no longer absolute but relative to man's personal opinion. Every man is doing that which is right in his own eyes. “If I think it's right, that makes it right.” America has contextual morality and situational ethics. “If you don't like the law, break it; if it makes you feel good . . . do it!” As a result, we have civil chaos.

Daily newscasts show angry mobs holding protest signs and screaming obscenities, demanding special entitlements. America has become a nation of polarizing groups, each with their own agenda and having no regard for the well-being of our country as a whole.

University students protest so violently that speakers with different opinions are driven from the podium and denied their basic right to freedom of speech while administrators stand by and surrender to the mob. When television cameras
arrive, the mob grows bigger and more violent. The police are called in to do what the parents of these students refused to do ten years earlier.

There is little discipline in government, in school, in the home, or in most individuals. The rebellion against authority is also alive in the apostate church that has thrown discipline overboard and no longer mentions the necessity of submitting to spiritual and civil leadership.

The alternative to discipline is mayhem where the nation has become an asylum, and the inmates are in charge.

America has become so feeble, fearful, permissive, and promiscuous. The forces of evil are taking advantage of our spiritual decline and moral weakness by spreading havoc across our nation.

Thanks to a skewed court system, the offender gets more sympathy than the victim of his crime. Police officers are put on trial for doing their duty against a criminal with a rap sheet that reaches to the floor. Who's the one who broke the law—the criminal or the policeman? Police officers are investigated while criminals write books that make them rich, famous, and features them on television talk shows.

The vicious crime wave in America today is not only wicked but demonic. When young men charge into schools and theaters with assault rifles and thousands of rounds of
ammunition to slaughter innocent men, women, and children at will, it's evil and it's demonic! These are no longer crimes, these are the hideous acts of heartless executioners.

There is no king in Israel (America or the world), and every man is doing that which is right in his own eyes. However men may justify it . . . and by whatever name they call it . . . it's anarchy!

Recently, a student attending Florida Atlantic University was told by his instructor, Deandre Poole, to write the name of Jesus on a piece of paper, drop it on the ground, and stomp on it. When the student refused, academic charges were brought against him. A hold was placed on his academic records until a final decision was reached. His faith was under fire! Fox News exposed the story and they obtained a synopsis of the lesson taught by the instructor. When the story became public, Florida Atlantic University issued an apology.
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I wonder if the instructor would dare order one of his students to write the name of Muhammad on a piece of paper and stomp on it. Never! The outrage would get him fired, as a mob of irate campus protestors would demand an immediate resignation and complete apology. But in America, attacking Christians has become an art form. The spirit of anarchy rules our nation.

In our spiritual and moral collapse we have forgotten that the definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. We have forgotten that life begins at conception and to destroy life in the womb of a mother is murder in the courts of heaven.
We will face God in the judgment for the death of the unborn in our nation.

We have forgotten that there is a difference between a boy and a girl. “From the city of Fountain, Colorado, comes news of liberal parents who believe their little boy is actually a little girl on the ‘inside.' ” The parents are insisting that their six-year-old son be allowed to attend classes dressed as a girl and that he be allowed to use the girl's bathroom.
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When the school told the parents they would not permit their son to use the girl's bathroom, the parents, with the help of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, filed a discrimination complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division.
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America is going in the wrong direction! Wake up, America! Remember what the Word of God says!

Blessed is the nation whose God is the L
ORD
. (P
SALM
33:12)

The wicked shall be turned into hell,

And all the nations that forget God.  (P
SALM
9:17)

Righteousness exalts a nation,

But sin is a reproach to any people.  (P
ROVERBS
14:34)

After describing the lawlessness of the land, Jesus continued His Prophecy Conference with the Twelve by presenting the concept of the
gospel of the kingdom
.

—M
ATTHEW
24:14

Following the rapture of the church, the Antichrist will be in total control of the earth. He will become the persecutor of those who refuse to receive his mark (Revelation 13:7). Many will die a martyr's death. For this reason Jesus said, “He who endures to the end shall be saved” (Matthew 24:13).

The
gospel of the kingdom
was preached by John the Baptist: “In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the
wilderness of Judea and saying, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand' ” (Matthew 3:1–2).

Jesus preached the message of repentance in Matthew 4:17: “From that time on Jesus began to preach, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.' ” Jesus also sent His disciples out with the same message (Matthew 10).

During the reign of the Antichrist, the
gospel of the kingdom
will be preached all over the world. It will be preached by the one hundred forty-four thousand from the twelve tribes of Israel who will be sealed on their foreheads to protect them from the power of the Antichrist who desires to destroy them (Revelation 7:3–4).

God will also send His angels to preach the
gospel of the kingdom
to the nations of the world (Revelation 14:6–7). In addition, God will send Elijah to the Jewish people to tell them, “Messiah is coming!” The last message given to the Jewish people in the Old Testament was to look for the Prophet Elijah:

Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet

Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the L
ORD
.

(M
ALACHI
4:5)

For centuries, at every Passover celebration, at a specific point in the meal, Jewish people open the door of their homes for Elijah to enter and be seated at a place at the table reserved exclusively for him.

During the tribulation, Israel will sign a seven-year peace treaty with the Antichrist, which will guarantee their national security from all the hostile nations that now surround them. In my opinion, based on the historical precedent established by Hadrian in AD 135, the Jewish people will also be granted permission by the Antichrist to rebuild the Third Temple on the Temple Mount. Later, the Antichrist will break that treaty and Elijah and Enoch will appear to the Jewish people. These two witnesses will preach the
gospel of the kingdom
with shocking supernatural power. The Bible says:

If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. . . . These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls . . . and they have power over waters to turn them to blood.