Ominous Sails On The Horizon For 2023

By Dr. Jake Baker
January 2, 2023

Let me begin by wishing you all a blessed New Year. This may not be a happy time, but that does not mean our joy cannot be full. Happiness, of course, is a soulish emotion while joy is of the Spirit. So while happiness may not be in plentiful supply, joy in the Lord certainly can and should be.

In the days of old, watchmen would scan the ocean’s far vista to spot sails on the horizon and give an early warning to those whose lives would be affected by an armada of enemy ships. It was an ill wind that drove the enemy’s ship toward their coast. Often, when such a fleet was spotted, it led to emergency action as hearts raced in near panic to prepare for what would surely be a violent and bloody onslaught. Those sails couldn’t be ignored or explained away. They were coming and knowledge of their position and plan were essential.

I believe, in our hearts, we all know that the enemy’s sails are on the horizon. Ignoring them or pretending the ominous sight of sails rising in the distance aren’t there, is a fool’s errand. This is the time, as 2 Samuel tells us, when “kings go to war.” In other words, it is time to prepare for what is coming.

In early January every year I try to write down my thoughts, some potentials that I see coming at us in the approaching weeks and months as the sails on the horizon grow ever closer. These are not prophecies–or thus sayeth the Lord–statements. Nor am I a modern-day Nostradamus. What I am about to share with you are merely observation based on a prophetic understanding of my world view, what history records, the nature of man, what I observed last year, and in the few years that proceeded it, and what I perceive might unfold as the logical outcome of events already set in motion.

I see sails on the horizon and, knowing that the enemy of our freedom and our faith seeks to extinguish both, I am making certain “educated” assumptions about the progression of events. I offer these as my short-term insight. Do with them what you will.

Moving On:

I believe that much of the destruction we are facing is intentional and is the sole purpose of the Biden Administration. I do not believe Biden and his associates came to govern. I am convinced they came to destroy. I believe, and his actions have reinforced that belief, that Biden has betrayed this country to our enemies, the global financiers, and to immorality on a scale which, if left unchecked, will rival the prediluvian world of Noah

America, our government, educational institutions, and social structures, have forsaken Yahweh on a national scale and history tells us that we will surely reap the benefits of that doleful decision. As we have forsaken the God of the Bible, the “old gods” have returned and recaptured the hearts, minds, and imaginings of many, if not most, in America.

The birth of the Messiah and the sending forth of the gospel was the greatest exorcism in human history. It led to the advancement of western culture. When our forefathers came to this land they dedicated themselves and this country to Yahweh. As our love grew cold and faith grew dim, we threw Yahweh out and now the old gods who possessed mankind have returned and have unleashed a ferocious spirit of evil, destruction and blood lust on America. NOTE: See my blog: Christmas: America and the World have Gone From: “Oh Holy Night” To “Everybody Knows?” Embracing The Return of the Old Gods)

Luke 11 tells us what happens when a spirit is cast out of a house and returns and finds it clean and adorned, but empty. He moves back in and brings other spirits with him that are far worse than himself.

This is not only going to continue to affect every aspect of our society, but it will have a devastating impact on the economy. Poverty is almost always the first judgment Yahweh sends. But we will be judged militarily, socially, and our society will be shaken as never before. In fact, I believe that we will see things history has never recorded and this will only be the beginning.

I pray for grace for all of us, but beyond that, I pray that your faith endures. It is only those who finish the course that will see the joys of heaven.

“Be thou faithful even unto death and I will give thee a crown of life.”

Revelation 2:10

In other words, don’t concentrate solely on the sails that cover the horizon, but look to Him who also controls the wind and the waves. In the end, that is your victory.

The Economy:

I believe that we, as a nation, have set the stage for a failing economy. We have taken actions that both historically and biblically always lead to the same place … lack and want.

First, we have cranked up the printing presses. We have added trillions of dollars in debt to the tally sheet of an already bankrupt nation. How long until the world sees through the Ponzi scheme and calls our bluff? It is already starting to happen, as many nations have replaced the U.S. dollar historically the petro-dollar with the basket of currencies in the fungible oil markets.

Our economy is already convulsing with runaway inflation, stagflation, and debt. Estimates are that the United States now owes $125 trillion in unfunded debt. Our GDP hovers somewhere around $20 trillion. Millions of employees have been laid off, companies are closing or downsizing, and the dollar is weakening or at least in flux.

Considering these factors, 2023 will see the following unfold:

The start of a deep recession which, I believe, will eventually lead to a second Great Depression later in 2024.
The housing bubble will burst. Pending home sales are already down 40% and luxury home sales are down 38%. When even the rich are shying away from new home purchases, we should take notice.
The stock market slide will persist with continued and growing losses. CNBC tells us that the stock market lost $9 trillion in wealth last year. The simple truth is, wealth never disappears … it just changes hands and, in this case, companies like Blackrock with $143 trillion in assets and their co-conspirators such as Vanguard, State Street, and Fidelity – The Four Companies of the Apocalypse – continued to rob us blind, while setting in motion the great reset – which is now unstoppable. Overall, experts believe that as much as $150 trillion has been stolen from the American people in the stock market.
The tech bubble will burst. Tech startups have been flying high but all of that will end in 2023 and even legacy tech companies have taken a beating to the tune of about $7.4 trillion in “losses.” That pattern will continue through 2023, with little or no growth, and a real possibility of negative growth.
China will release a new biological attack on the world, which will have a devastating effect on both the U.S. and world economy. China’s economy is failing. In an effort to keep their head above water, they have decided that the best course of action is to destroy the rest of the world’s economies. It is possible that Covid is only stage one of the plan. Needless to say, all of this is well planned and from the beginning of the pandemic until now, the destruction of the global economy has gone according to a script prepared by international criminals like Larry Fink of Black Rock and Michael Bloomberg. There is, in my estimation, no good outcome for our economy. Paper wealth will disappear like a vapor in the wind.
The dollar’s strength will continue to rise and fall like a drunk dancing, until the economy turns dramatically downward. As the year progresses, especially as our economy slides into a recession–and perhaps all the way to depression–the dollar will begin to fold. Such an eventuality would cause panic in the market and at the banks. This will be the well-planned catalyst for digital currency, which we will discuss later.
Bidens treasonous open borders will fuel social and economic upheaval for cities and states. Allowing millions of illegals in this country will stress an already straining medical system, crowd our schools, dramatically increase the crime rate, and cost us more than $1 trillion. Biden’s open borders are also allowing access to our country by spies and terrorists, as well as drug cartels. Look for fentanyl deaths to explode and rise to well over 150 per day. We may see 150,000 fentanyl deaths this year.
Most importantly, Biden will keep the U.S. borders open while keeping the war in Ukraine fully funded for the protection of their borders and sovereignty while ignoring both for the United States. Both actions are being used to funnel money back to the leftist Democrats and the Establishment wing of the GOP. That behavior will continue unabated in 2023. Open borders will also facilitate voter replacement, giving the Democrats advantages that will last for decades to come. Evil is very clever and has the dark luxury of having no moral constraints.
Out of control spending will wreak havoc on the nation and each dollar printed will serve as another nail in the coffin for the U.S. and eventually the world economy.
All of this will be the prelude to Banks beginning to make plans to “head off” any future bank runs, which of course they will cause. They will lobby for legislation which will not just allow, but demand they have a plan in place to restrict cash withdrawals from banks in the event of an economic panic deemed an “emergency” situation. Such legislation will be carefully hidden in bills that disguise their shadowy plan to steal the wealth of the nation.
In an effort to kill cash and crypto currencies, a digital currency will begin serious trials in 2023. It will be hailed as counterfeit proof and will be the ultimate convenience. But as we all know, hacking any digital system is only a matter of time but those behind the cashless society will make it appear very profitable and secure in a rigged market. By the time America figures out what really happened, it will be too late and we will be trapped in a cashless society where government controls spending and the words of the prophet ring in our ears. “… that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

Energy:

Adding to our woes, we have foolishly shut down many of our own natural resources and Russia is punishing Europe by withholding liquid natural gas (LNG) supplies from them. This will facilitate an LNG shortage that will affect Europe on a massive scale this winter and next winter especially. However, there is also a good possibility of rolling blackouts in New England and California, and there will be blackouts in the EU, and especially in Germany

For U.S. consumers, energy prices will continue to skyrocket as Biden puts a dagger in the back of the coal industry and begins to slowly strangle the petroleum industry. Many are already seeing 30% to 50% increases in their heating oil and electric costs. Don’t look for any relief from the Biden Administration. They want energy to be painful in a Quixotic quest for “renewable” green energy.

Even as we have curbed production, we have sold off half of our strategic oil reserve. Couple that with the loss of independent oil producers during the pandemic, and those still operating cautiously, concerned about the short-term future, and it is inevitable there will be an oil shortfall, which both the Russians and OPEC will take advantage of. Oil probably won’t skyrocket but will slowly rise. However, if Biden gets into a war in Europe all bets are off. Sadly, even war is not off the table with the Biden administration.

China:

China will make provocative moves against Taiwan building global tensions. Biden will have a “Chamberlain moment” and the results will be similar. Biden’s affinity toward China will be on full display in 2023 when he does nothing about provocative actions against Taiwan and a second biological attack on the world.

Biden is beholden to China for two reasons.

China has made his family rich through illegal payments, influence peddling, bribes, and payoffs.
Because China made his family rich through illegal payments, influence peddling, bribes, and payoffs, they “have the goods” on Joe and ostensibly he will do what he is told by the Chinese handlers. Controlling the White House is part and parcel of a larger Global Reset Scheme which is being manipulated by Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street Capital, Fidelity, and the banks and financial oligarchs they own and control.

Death and Rage:

Look for rising death tolls, sterility, a dramatic rise of still births and the onslaught of disabling side effects and chronic illnesses for millions around the world from taking the Covid jab. Covid was designed with death in mind. The disease itself was designed to kill the elderly who are no longer productive. Interestingly, it is killing the generation that passively allowed abortion to sweep this country. That was followed up by the cure, which was designed to sterilize the young, to keep the world population down, and destroy the wellness of even the young and healthy. It is even now leading to a death spiral.

Insurance companies are reporting a stunning rise in deaths which are up 40%. These deaths are primarily non-COVID deaths among workers aged 18 through 64. Sadly, we are finding out, belatedly, that the cure is more dangerous than the disease.

According to Dr. Peter McCullough, the average cardiac arrest rate among European athletes is about twenty-nine per year. According to his study, that number has exploded to 1,500 cardiac arrests annually since the vaccine. That is a 5,000% increase.

Deaths will begin to mount up and people will begin to take notice. Currently, according to Rasmussen Reports, one in four people know someone who has died from the Covid Vaccine. Already 15% of those who have taken the Jab now regret having done so and are experiencing medical problems as a result. That represents 31 million Americans. As the death toll mounts, there will be fear, then outrage, which will lead to turbulent times and obviate even sharper the divide between blue and red states.

The Media:

Don’t look for any changes in the media. As an industry, the media are stridently anti-American, anti-Christian, and despise traditional American values. Even the so-called conservative media is moving left.

FOX has devolved into RINO tv. And former superstars like Sean Hannity’s numbers on FOX will slip dramatically this year. Hannity has proven evolution because the FOX has evolved–or more accurately devolved–into a RINO. Hannity, having now slipped into the RINO camp and staked out a position as a strident stolen election denier in both 2020 and 2022, will see his audience beginning to wane. He recently railed against “conservatives” who eschewed the leadership of Kevin McCarthy, an establishment RINO who is neither conservative nor liberal but essentially a political, moral, and spiritual agnostic. He believes in anything that inures to his benefit.

Where Sin Abounds:

As the “old gods” strengthen their grip on America, our political, economic, and social systems will turn vehemently anti-Christian and there will be an onslaught of discrimination, and later outright persecution and oppression of Christians as the federal government exercises the power that they have illegally appropriated. They will use that power to snuff out Christianity in favor of empty religion. Empty talk about “god” is permissible, but faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is radicalism. Even now, more than 100 churches and prolife centers have been attacked and firebombed and to date the FBI has arrested no one.

Pagan Green Movement:

The pagan environmental movement will gain strength through ESG investing and trumped-up crises around the world. This modern expression of Druidism is every bit as demonic as the original Druidic culture, which required, among other abominations, human sacrifice at which we have been incredibly good. To date we have sacrificed sixty-five million children on the altar to Moloch, the god of pleasure. There is one sin for which Yahweh will not forgive a nation … that is the shedding of innocent blood. Those chickens will come home to roost and both Covid and the “cure” will be a part of that judgment.

Members of the United Nations-backed Race to Zero Campaign will demand an end to the development, financing, and facilitation of new fossil fuel assets, including banning future coal projects altogether. Biden will not only play along, but he will also cheerlead and fund the green suicide movement. Oil production has already decreased by about three million barrels per day since the Trump administration. We are no longer energy independent. We are once again slaves to oil dependency. That has a price tag of about $100 billion per year and makes us dependent on many nations that despise everything America stands for.

The “Old gods” love destruction and have instilled in Europe a death wish, as paganism, under the guise of the “green movement” restores its grip over the continent. Europe will begin blindly deindustrializing. The world economy will begin sliding toward the abyss. There is a point at which economic gravity takes over and the slide will be unstoppable. This cataclysm will begin in 2023 and will pick up steam in 2024.

Food Shortages:

There will be food shortages around the world as fertilizer production is cut by 40%. With less crops, smaller herds of cattle, and smaller flocks of sheep, meat will skyrocket in price and will be followed by hyperinflation in food, perhaps 20% or more.

Many developing nations will feel the brunt of the food shortages and starvation will spread, particularly in sub-Sahara Africa. Above everything else, the green movement is racist and classist to its core and singles out African and poor third-world nations for destruction. This socialist movement sweeping the planet will be that which triggers the fall of nations.

Socialism:

Socialism is defined by Ayn Rand as follows:

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

The socialist Biden government will continue printing money with outlandish budgets and ‘stimulus’ packages in a failing attempt to keep the economy afloat or giving the appearance of the economy staying afloat with an eye toward 2024 elections.

Elections:

Future elections will be stolen, as have the last several. 2023 will see little movement in the GOP to get court orders in advance with armed law enforcement to enforce federal and state election laws. The establishment GOP is in on the plan. The cheating will continue unabated and the left will assume more purloined power as we move from 2023 to 2024.

Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi will hold off-year gubernatorial elections later this year. They will serve as a barometer for 2024, which I am convinced will be a selection, not an election.

We will see deepening roots of a populist uprisings and pushback against rigged elections, big tech censorship, and rigged money continuing its evolution. This, however, will not happen in a single year, but it is all a part of a strategy to split the country and end the U.S., which is the last impediment of a One World Government.

Separation of States:

None of this is happening in isolation. The corruption of government, the FBI, and the security apparatus of the country, rigged elections, the Covid Biological Attack, the poison Covid Vaxx, supply chain issues, rising oil prices because of Biden green energy nonsense, hyper gay and trans movements, and the assault on Judeo Christian, or traditional American values, is being exposed specifically for the purpose of dividing the nation. The populist movement will have no choice but to move in the direction of separation. This is a no-win situation and it will begin in earnest in late 2023.

International Scene:

Russia is a menace and Putin is a bully, but China is a threat globally. Russia has and will continue to fight against the New World Order and Global Governance. Therefore, they will be painted in an ever-increasing bad light as the enemy of civilization. Russia and Putin will be demonized in every conceivable way.

Putin may well be on his way out. He is rumored to have Parkinson’s disease, he is being embarrassed by his military’s inability to conquer Ukraine, and he is now 70 years old. He has taken drastic measures to silence, jail, or kill his critics, but nature tells us that in the end the young lions eventually win.

One need be no expert or prophet to say that illegal immigration will hit new highs – The damage to the economy during a recession/depression will be astounding. In the end, we will have forty million illegals roaming our streets and cities costing taxpayers about $1 trillion annually. But that is not the real damage. The real damage will be the irreversible destruction of our culture.

We are now seeing the flow of foreign nations illegally crossing our border. We are witnessing the chronically impoverished come with a culture-crushing poverty mentality wanting nothing but a government dole to make their lives easier. Along with the poor are the criminally deranged class looking to profit on the hellish drug and human trafficking trade. As we have seen in our major cities, they bring with them crime, bloodshed, violence, and human misery.

There is a reason third-world nations are third-world. Is it because they lack intelligence or talent? No. It is because they lack the one thing needful … exceptionalism.

Exceptionalism is based on the understanding that it is divine law that rules the nations, whether they acknowledge it or not. Without an understanding of eternal law, exceptional nations are just nations about to fail.

We have clearly abandoned divine law when we created no fault divorce, took the Bible out of the schools, embraced the sexual revolution, normalized homosexuality, and transgender perversion. When we threw Yahweh out of our schools and politics, we made “science” pleasure, wealth, and power our new deities. These are the domain of the “old gods.”

Social Trends:

SCOTUS will end affirmative action as we now know it by overturning Grutter v Bollinger – probably just in time to fuel rage for the 2024 elections. However, government and colleges will find new ways to discriminate in the treatment of ordinary Americans. The court’s decision will be just another can of gas thrown on the already raging fire of hatred the anarchistic and violent American left feels for America.

Our federal judges, including the Supreme Court, are all controlled by the same powers that control the money, media, medical, military cabal, and banking industries of the world. No decision will be reached that does not suit their purposes and further their aims.

To cause further division in the U.S., a crooked Justice Department or state jurisdiction will indict Donald Trump on specious charges. This will lead to civil unrest, violence, and a schism that cannot be healed.

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

Jeremiah 51:9

The tech startup bubble will burst starting in 2023 and with the recession and possible depression which will follow later, millions will lose their jobs, homes, possessions, and America will face again life in the 1930’s, but this time without God.

Social Credit:

The social credit system is already well under way in the U.S. It is tied to:

Wokeism – the embrace of everything evil under the sun and what is evil they will call good and what is good they will call evil. Refuse to embrace evil and you will be an outcast.
Digital Currency – which will control who buys and who sells (credit card companies are already doing this to gun manufacturers, tracking gun purchases, and closing bank and credit processing accounts for those they consider “socially” unacceptable. It will also lead to the greatest taxation in history with 87,000 new IRS Agents to make it happen. This follows the pattern of the big tech oligarchs and their petulant censors.
All of this will be deemed a necessity when among other things it is tied to “money laundering” and the war on terror. This despite the proven fact that J. P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and the rest of the mega-banks are all involved in laundering money for drug cartels, terrorists, and illegal government operations on a massive scale every day.

Nature Is Warning Us:

This year will be marked by heavy volcanic activity and earthquakes. The skies will be filled with storms and disaster. Record snowfalls and every weather condition under the sun will manifest. The earth, like the social and economic systems of the planet, is in convulsions. We are moving into the time that scripture says will be “as it was in the days of Noah.”

Dangerous and powerful men have been, and will continue, to pull the gears and levers of history and finance. Men like George Soros, a mere errand boy for the globalists and those much more powerful and dangerous than him, like Larry Fink, whose companies possess $143 trillion in assets, and financial publishing giants, like Michael Bloomberg, who controls what the world believes about global finances, are about to pull the string on the Global Reset. What will this mean for planet earth?

Let’s look at Isaiah 47 for answers.

Verses one through five tell us the story of end time Babylon, which is utterly destroyed in the end but there is a time for repentance before destruction. We are in that time of repentance … but sadly, there is little repentance.

Verses six through eight expose the arrogance of this nation which is the “Queen” of the nations. We are the merchants to the world, and their fortunes rise and fall at the whim of the financial oligarchs that rule this nation. Additionally, we are told because of our treatment of Yahweh’s people, and because we have lived in arrogance and rebellion, we will be brought low.

Because we have been arrogant, we have told the world there is nobody like us, we sit as a queen, and we are so powerful we will not know loss or grief … but it will come in great measure in a day and an hour.

Verses nine through thirteen tell us that this end-time nation will be wearied by a multitude of counselors, financial prognosticators, and economic geniuses, but in reality, they know nothing. We trusted in our wickedness, sin and subterfuge and now comes the judgment.

Look at the words in verse 11.

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

And, in the end, none of these supposed experts and wizards will do us any good. Big government and big business have taken paganistic socialism to the extreme and formed an anti-Christian fascist alliance and we will begin in this year to see the fruits of their labors.

But Yahweh says, while they will try to steal the cream off the top of America, it all backfires, and in the end, they collapse the entire system. While this will not come to full bloom in 2023, it will begin during this year. Scripture says they (the experts) all wander stunned and staggered back to their “own quarter” and … none shall save thee.

But as America goes … so goes the world. This is the year real darkness begins but later years will be much worse.

My advice remains unchanged in this season of coming violence and social upheaval. Rest in the Lord. Attend to His word and His ways. Scripture in Jeremiah 51 and Revelation 18 command believers, “Come out of her, my people.”

This year is going to be a challenge. We will meet obstacles we have never encountered. We will be tested and tried. But those who are faithful to the end will rule and reign with Messiah.

In the meanwhile, look to your finances. Get out of debt. Move money to safe places out of the control of the crooks who run our stock market, banks, and financial institutions. We are just one presidential decree away from the 1930’s. Stock up, stay vigilant, and remember this age is evil.

Form the alliances you will need to protect your family and loved ones in 2023. It will not be long until we will all need each other. And remember, Yahweh is still on the throne, nothing surprises him. Satan has no sneak attacks on heaven.

While happiness may be fleeting, joy in the Lord, despite our circumstances is plentiful.

Look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.