The United States and Israel are currently fighting a war against a literal apocalyptic Shia Muslim death cult using space-based satellite-guided lasers and drones.
Artificially intelligent humanoid robots—way better than C3PO are being mass produced.
The American President Donald Trump announced that he is going to soon disclose that aliens are real and we have evidence.
Tucker Carlson is furious at the possibility of a Jewish Temple being rebuilt.
And half the Church thinks it's an appropriate time to mock Dispensationalists for still believing that we might be approaching the biblical last days.
Read the stinkin' room, guys.
Like it or not, we are real-time living in a Tim Lahaye Hal Lindsey novel.
Maybe—just maybe—this isn’t the moment for smug theological snark.
Jesus was very clear that plagues and pestilences will sweep the earth in the last days. The insanity that we collectively lived through with the Coronavirus, therefore, really has only just begun. It’s really not the time to breathe a sigh of relief.
It’s an experience, to put it mildly, to be a conservative who happens to speak Russian and understand Ukrainian, who lived *there* once, to now see conservative “influencers” navigate their followers around a complex Eastern European war they first learned about on Twitter.
Gentle reminder: It is not through the cross that we visualize and manifest our dreams in this age. Rather, it is through the cross that we die to our dreams and desires in this age.
The present emergence of a Weimar Republic / hyper-inflationary scenario (but globally) is the perfect conclusion of this tired, corrupt, and dying world system. Come Lord Jesus, let your unshakeable, unending Kingdom come.
When they demand gun confiscation and travel with private security, it’s natural to be concerned about what they have in mind for you. When you see them extending lockdowns while collecting government paychecks, it’s natural to wonder if they’re just enjoying the vacation.
When you see them starting wars they dodged in their youth, it’s natural to worry about their intentions. When you see them call for open borders from their gated communities and private schools, it’s natural to suspect their goals.
When you see politicians buying waterfront mansions on Martha’s Vineyard, it’s natural to skeptical of their pronouncements on climate change. When you see them partying w/celebrities indoors without masks, it’s natural to doubt their performative hysteria over COVID.
"There will emerge from Khorasan (Afghanistan) black banners which nothing will repel until they are set up in Jerusalem" (Da'if)
— Ahmad in al-Musnad, 14/383
Nightmare scenario 1: Pakistan, with its nuclear arsenal, falls in similar manner to Afghanistan.
Nightmare scenario 2: The current American administration remains in power while nightmare scenario 1 unfolds.