Christians must soberly realize that the End Time will be a culmination of all previous ages finally under the rulership of Antichrist. Equally, we must realize that there must be a generation to precede this manifestation of Antichrist. Do we need to candidly ask have we come to that generation, that prelude generation of Antichrist? Are we in the generation where God is giving the world over to radical and aggressive changes in order to accelerate the coming of the Antichrist? Has the apostasy now reached global proportion in every human compartment including Christianity? If this is true, it is evident that the powers of restraint are diminishing in the earth; biblical salt is losing its savor, and the light of truth is becoming dim.
One must honestly acknowledge that “The Faith” is being laid aside, even by Fundamentalism, for a more accommodating message for the world. The moral collapse of America is merely evidence that present day Christianity has lost its power and victory over evil; its gospel message is impotent to restrain the flood of sin. Yes, God is capable of turning the tide of history literally overnight. He has the power to produce delays in circumstances and situations that seem inevitable in history. But, will He do this? Is it now His will and plan to give this present world over to the coming of the foolish shepherd and to begin to resolve the “times of the Gentiles”?
Changes That Are Coming
From a simple view of Scripture’s prophecies, the true child of God must be ready for the coming oppressive powers necessary for the prelude generation that will usher in the personal Antichrist. Though we believe the Rapture will bring an end to the Church in its history on earth, much is to take place before that “shout” is given by our Commander in Chief to lead us through that door of escape. The world and its governmental order will need to be in place, orchestrated by the minds of leaders and powers before the Antichrist comes. All he will need to do is to step into the seat of authority and use what is already present to control his world kingdom. The Rapture may take place at the culmination of this “prelude” generation.
What is needed to bring about a one-world government and one-world religion? We believe situations are now taking place to set forth this satanic hope. How long will the preliminaries take for such plans to be realized? Only God knows; His hand is on the throttle of all these preparations. The burden of this article is to suggest a number of changes we believe must transpire to prepare our country for this prelude generation.
(1) It is evident in Scripture that the economy of the world must come under one governing power in one centralized capital. Revelation 18, Zechariah 5:5–11, as well as passages in Daniel and Ezekiel reveal this with clarity. This will not happen overnight; it will take a number of sequential circumstances over a period of time to prepare such a massive control over global wealth. What reasoning will be used to convince the world of a centrally-controlled economy? Will it be the cry for the redistribution of wealth in order to assure global equality and shared resources? The “have’s” to help the “have not’s”? Is America, behind closed doors, appointed to become a template for other countries to imitate? We are now witnessing the greatest dismantling of a country that the world has ever seen in history. The radical changes are so overwhelming; these changes must destroy us leaving us ripe for a new world order. We have embraced the insane economic philosophy that says “the deeper in debt we become, the more we must spend.” Our financial distress is beyond human comprehension; our motto is “spend and borrow in order to prosper.” Ultimately, this goal is really to economically destroy us so that we will never be able to rise again.
Our debt in the next four years will be beyond $20 trillion. Because many wealthy Americans are moving their money out of the country, the common man will be taxed until he has no option but to permit his life to exist under governmental control. A poverty and unemployment rate over fifty percent will ensure mass dependence upon government assistance. Small businesses will have to be manipulatively closed down; farms will be forced into government control and ownership; every aspect of the economy, both public and private, will need to be absolutely controlled to control the populace. The concept of the dollar must come to an end; all “paper” money must be taken out of circulation; and a system must be enacted to track everyone’s financial business of buying and selling. As to the timing, procedures, and implementation, only God knows. These changes will be needed for a man to control the entire world.
(2) Financial crises must be orchestrated to force the people into believing there is imperative need of economic change. We are now being told that capitalism no longer works, that big government is our only hope of survival. All monies (in the initial view of taxes) must return to the government, which in turn becomes a humanistic “providence” to meet our needs. Though we may not see every nation simultaneously adopt this, eventually all nations will yield. Has God appointed America to forward a global bankruptcy? From these ashes will a new one-world government arise in the cry of “global stabilization”? Much of this may happen before the Rapture. It may be God’s plan for us to experience the prelude preparation for the coming of Antichrist. This is one reason we must get out of debt, carefully avoiding the credit card system and those areas that pull us into the controlling powers of “the system.”
(3) We have witnessed in recent years in America the shocking reality of one man controlling the laws and lifestyle of this country. The “balance of powers” is no longer a part of our “republic” or our “democracy”—whatever term one wants to use. A republic will defend the rights of the individuals; a democracy only defends the rights of the majority. The Supreme Court in 1983 declared that “public policy” was to control the laws of the land and their interpretation; however, who is the authority to declare what the “public policy” is? It is the courts of the land, not the people. Thus, public policy is dictated by just a few. Shockingly, we have witnessed no uprisings to stop these unconstitutional decisions.
The God of heaven has permitted our country’s paralysis. We witness our Constitution trampled underfoot; we witness our Declaration of Independence transformed into a Declaration of Inter-dependence upon the rest of the world; we witness the balance of powers being absolved; and we witness our country becoming a dictatorial government. How will all of this finally be brought upon us? Through a crisis demanding martial law? Or will the people desperately long for such a government? We saw similar radical changes happen in Egypt months ago. When their dictator was questioned by the media about his personal control of the country, he declared, “It is being done in America, and yet no one will say anything against it there.” Only God knows how providence will permit the changes and stripping away of our liberties. These changes must come to pass for the final days of prophecy. We as the Lord’s people must get ready for the inevitable.
(4) Another transition that must come is global control through the arm of healthcare. A world population of seven billion is too large to easily control; therefore, world population must diminish. How will it be done? By control of the food supply? By birth control? By “mercy-killings” for individuals no longer productive to the State? The world is being beguiled into acceptance of government-financed abortion and euthanasia whereby a “system” declares who lives and who dies, or who is to be conceived and who is to be aborted. To control population and ethnic balance, governments will eventually wield absolute control over hospitals, doctors, medical staff, and medical governing bodies. A socialistic view of medicine may look good in the light of spiraling expenses; however, when a nation permits itself to be given to the “system” of control, it is no longer autonomous in its living. The health and permissibility of life itself is brought under the absolute control and whim of the national system which can easily be transferred to a global system. This is inevitable; we must prepare ourselves for this.
For the true Christian, soon there will be no country to which he may flee. We will simply have to be wise. The day will come, as history nears the coming of the global system of Antichrist, that individuals will lose personal control concerning their healthcare. The Christian, knowing this is coming, must commit his life to the God of heaven while providence permits such days to come.
We fear for the children that are yet to be born into Christian homes; nevertheless, we seek for principles and patterns to guide us through such days. In the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in similar times when Egypt endeavored to control the lives, the population, and gender of the Israelites. With such an example, will true Christians be forced to abort their babies simply because they are Christians? Though Moses was hidden, there were thousands of other Israelite males killed. Governmental control over birth rates is already evident in a number of countries in the Orient. For the Antichrist system to come to universal control of humanity, these changes will have to come.
Global sympathy has already escalated concerning euthanasia and suicide. The next step will simply be the extermination of the elderly and those who are non-productive due to lack of monies, medical attendance, and to ease the stress and pressure upon the family. Already many in the medical field believe this is permissible and proper. It is one thing to let providence control the home-going of a person and another thing to induce death. The controversy concerning bio-ethics is now raging; with it is always some pragmatic reason for the permissibility of such deaths.
With government controlling most of the money going to the medical profession, pressures are forcing absolute conformity to the demands of the government. Yes, the government must authoritatively take control over the sick and infirm. We will see more and more crises orchestrated in order to convince the populace of the need of such governmental control. This will also include the laws controlling vaccinations to a greater proportion for our newborns and our children. We continually acknowledge that this must all come to pass. It seems that we are in the generation when the implementation of such demands is now being accepted.
(5) The timely escalation of violence throughout our country has inspired the present administration to take swift action to disarm Americans. Within hours after the President was re-elected, he was in confirmation of a new arms limitation agreement through the United Nations; this would call for not only a unilateral disarmament but also a mandatory confiscation of private guns. We must realize that America is one of the remaining countries where laws have not been passed to ban guns from its citizens. For the coming world order, such laws must be passed. Though reasons will be given for minimizing violence, yet the underlying reason is to extricate from the population any hope of retaliation to the government and its sweeping control in the coming future. The Second Amendment must go in order for America to fall in line with the other countries as we see a police state arising globally.
(6) Another area of radical change that must come is the forfeiture of the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights. What we viewed in former days as civil liberties will have to be dismantled. God’s people must get ready for this, as many true Christians around the world are already in the yoke of governmental powers without personal rights. Even State’s rights within a country will become a thing of the past.
(7) Since the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by Muslim terrorists in 2001, many conspiratorial theories have emerged suggesting governmental collusion with the terrorists on that day. Whatever the truth is about this great tragedy, it definitely hit the heart of our nation, and we have never been the same since. This event certainly brought to the forefront the Muslim religion, even falling out to their global advantage. It is interesting to note that the Koran became the number-one best seller in New York City for the next six months after this tragedy. Much was said through the media to protect the Muslim religion in the matter. Yet more tragedies are happening around the world to bring America to its knees. It seems the White House not only had prior knowledge to the attack on the embassy in Benghazi but also observed the atrocities by satellite. It causes one to wonder to what degree the increase of governmental orchestration will be involved in order to force upon our country the breakdown of America’s acceptance around the world.
The concern of “security” is escalating in America through all of these horrific events; what will be the final outcome in the loss of our freedoms? The child of God must realize that all of this is preparation for the coming of Antichrist. Greater control must come upon Americans to pave the way for all countries to come under such controls. It was the World Trade Center crisis that brought into existence the Transportation Security Administration, the TSA, which has mushroomed across our country. It first made its appearances in our airports, but under the present administration it is rising in number on the roadways, at sports events, at malls, and at places we never thought their presence would appear. The TSA may become the subtle police force in our country to bring the populace into compliance with the whims of the government. We will also see the use of the drones, unmanned spy planes, in our nation’s skies patrolling and monitoring the populace. Such planes are capable of spying through the very roofs of homes. The “Big Brother” feared to have come in 1984 is now a far deeper threat with greater capabilities today. This must be so.
(8) In the most recent years we have seen the rise of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a federal law yearly outlining the budget and expenses of the Department of Defense. The present administration has had greater input and control with its voice. Secret arrests and possible imprisonment of American citizens without a right to trial may now be permissible. Such authority could also lead to secret kill lists in attempts to quell objections to the encroachment of the government upon the people. Suppression of any threat to government control will become the norm. The terms threat and treason will be re-defined as any word or action against the present government. More mysterious deaths will occur feeding greater fear among the populace. All of this must come to pass to bring the nation to its knees in fear, and to compel surrender to the coming new world order.
(9) With the increase of famine in the world as part of God’s judgment upon the sins of mankind, we will view more and more the governments of the world taking control of the food supply. We will see the rise of the genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) in the foods distributed through government oversight. How often when tragedies hit a nation (i.e., Hurricane Sandy, 2012), the powers that be take well advantage of the tragedy.
While some tragedies may be orchestrated for hidden agendas, at other times God sends a tragic judgment upon a nation. Nevertheless, political powers use such tragedies to manipulate the populace to its own end. The Book of Revelation proves that the Antichrist will take full advantage of the natural catastrophes of judgment from God. As a result, mankind will flee to government for help. This is what happened in the days of Joseph in Egypt: such days then were in the time of a good pharaoh and a good prime minister. But when God sent a famine, the people of Egypt and surrounding lands came to pharaoh for help; Joseph opened the governmental grain bins for purchase. When the people spent all of their money, then their land was taken as payment. Finally, Joseph recommended that the people become the servants to pharaoh in order to pay for life-sustaining services. By the time of Moses, everything of Egypt, including its people, was owned by pharaoh.
It was a natural judgment that brought about the crisis in Joseph’s Egypt. With a good man as Joseph, such an honorable system could work out in times of catastrophes upon a country. However, when an evil man is in power, one who does not know God and who could not care less about the needs of the people, such a man will take advantage of such events for himself. We may wonder why Joseph did what he did: his wisdom was his refusal to turn Egypt into a welfare state whereby the people would believe that government is to provide freely for them without any individual accountability.
When we consider the judgments upon food sources during the Tribulation Period, genetically modified organisms will be a vital resource for governments. Eventually, Antichrist will be the one to whom the world will turn for an answer to the crisis of God’s judgment. The government will be the supplier of seeds for planting. The future may also witness the withdrawal of USDA certifications and nutrition labels, in order to keep the populace ignorant of the contents. The government already oversees the amount of crops raised, as well as production of milk. In time, it is simply a matter of the government controlling all of the land, all of the farms, and all of the food supply. The only thing that the true child of God can do is to get in harmony with this providential appointment by God for the End Time. We must trust God for our needs to be met even in the times when the kings of the earth take counsel against the Lord and His anointed, His people.
(10) More and more, we are witnessing an increase of leadership in the armed forces against its Commander in Chief. Though oaths are taken to uphold the Constitution against enemies both foreign and domestic, there are a growing number who see the leaders of our country as a threat against the Constitution. Policies are being passed today by presidential mandates that are carefully and intentionally dismantling the protection and security of our nation. Are such intentions to create anger among the soldiers and military leaders to force them to resign? The administration’s logic now is “We’re paying you; we didn’t draft you; you don’t have to fight; you don’t have to give your life for this country. You are doing this on your own.”
Shame has now become part of the legacy that veterans must endure. Will this be part of the ploy to rid the country of its own armed forces and force us to take a United Nations security force? The open permission of sodomy as well as bestiality within the armed forces will naturally destroy the morale and allegiance within. Though a so-called traditional family man leads our country, he intensely desires to pervade our armed forces with powers that history has proved will destroy an army and ultimately a nation.
(11) The Scriptures make it clear that sodomy will vastly increase in the world and its prime leadership. There seems to be the possibility, according to Daniel 11:37, that the Antichrist will be a sodomite. They and their lifestyle have been pressed upon us from the public education system to the White House. The phrase “as in the days of Lot” indicates sodomy will get as close as to the pounding on the doors forcing their “strange flesh” (Jude 7) within our very homes. But again, God declared it would happen, and we must prepare ourselves for it with wisdom from above. It is part of God’s judgment upon the earth.
(12) Recent laws have arisen in several countries declaring that the government will have the right to take a child, any child, from his home. There is already a mindset in America that our children are dependents of the state, and parents are simply custodians of these dependents. The family will not be recognized much longer as an independent unit of society; it will simply be an accommodating agent for the benefit of the State. We will need to take advantage of every day we have with our children and grandchildren to prepare them for what is inevitably ahead.
(13) The formers days of precious, natural living will change; the enjoyments, just the natural privileges of life, must be done away with.
(14) A final observation concerning the child of God in this prelude generation to the Antichrist concerns the matter of privacy. With the explosion of information through internet sources, no one really has a private life anymore. Google is ever absorbing information from around the world on every individual; all of this information becomes more freely accessible to anyone (including the government) each day. We are going to have to be more discreet, as far as we can, in our living. This includes in the areas of the vast increase of solicitations coming to us via phone, mail, email, and house to house. How often, to gain free coupons, or to receive discount cards from grocery stores or restaurants, or even for “free” gift certificates, we are asked to fill out a “survey.” With all of these incentives, we are requested to fill out questionnaires that ask intrusive questions about our private lives and our families. Certainly some are more extensive than others, but we are getting accustomed to these surveys. Here at the Foundations Ministries such surveys are requested of us weekly and at our homes asking everything from what brand of soap we use to how much money we make; from when we get up in the morning to when we go to bed; from what appliances we have in the home to how much furniture we own; from how large our home is to whether we rent or own it; from our marital status to our age; etc.
One day all of these surveys and questionnaires may be used against us. All the information stored in various files around the country will be brought together; enough questions were asked in every compartment of our human existence that they will know everything about us, including the most private knowledge of our living. Beware of giving any information about yourself, your family, your home, and your business. Let the coupons go if they require information about you. Dear Christian, we will see greater intrusion in the days ahead with surveys and censuses by the government wanting to know everything about us. Always ask if by law you have to answer. Always ask what the penalty is if you do not respond to the questionnaire, or how much of it you are required to answer, if any part at all. More laws may soon be passed to find out everything about us; until we are absolutely forced, let us refrain from giving any information about our lives no matter what the incentives are.
Conclusion
Dear Reader, we have only touched the tip of the iceberg of what is ahead for the world. This is why it is imperative that God must come for his saints and then pour out a Tribulation such as the world has never known. Although there was calculated evil during the times of Noah, our contemporary is the product of many more evil ages collectively bringing forth the embodiment of sin, the personification of sin and perdition, the Antichrist. The world is longing for a utopia, a world without God where man rules himself. But to bring it about, there will be a forced control empowered by the Dragon, Satan himself.
Matthew 24 declares that I must be ready for what is ahead. We truly believe the Rapture will take the prelude generation saints out of this world before the coming of Antichrist. But we must be prepared to face the beginning of the end, “the beginning of sorrows” (Matt. 24:8). We are trusting in God’s Word and the promise of the “Blessed Hope” that when this Church age ends, such a rapturous event will take place that will be a transition from one epoch to the great epoch of the Tribulation Period. Do we find ourselves in history at the beginning of the end? Or are we in Matthew 24:14, “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all of the [inhabited] world for a witness unto all the nations; and then shall the end come”? We truly believe this is where we are in history.