9-11 – Harbinger of a Dark Future

By: Dr. Jake Baker

As we observe yet another anniversary of 9-11, I will not attempt to soften or bury the lead in this piece.  We will see events in the near future that will make the original 9-11 look like a walk in Central Park.  The United States of America will be hit and hit hard much more quickly than we can imagine. 

Treasonously, the Biden administration has armed the Taliban, who work in concert with Al Qaeda, ISIS, ISIS-K, and who knows how many other militant Islamists in the Middle East, and sadly (and perhaps most frighteningly) with radicalized individuals, cells, and groups here in the United States. 

Now team Biden and his merry band of traitors, all of whom came to destroy not govern, is bringing tens of thousands more unvetted Afghans into our country, which insanely, increases the number of radicalized Muslims here in the U.S.  Our veracity-challenged government tells us that there are about 4 million Islamists in the country.  However, that number is probably far short of reality. 

The same government statisticians also told us there are about 10 million illegals in the U.S.  Contradicting that mythology, a Yale-MIT study revealed that there are between 20 and 30 million illegals roaming around the country unaccounted for.  But even that number may be light. 

Many experts hold, and I believe this to be true, that the real number is about 40 million illegals, which costs the country about $250 billion annually and that number is growing rapidly as more and more free “services” are being provided to these interlopers.  If we apply the same Yale-MIT math to the Muslim population, we can conclude that a number between 9 and 12 million Mohammedans here in the U.S. is probably more accurate. 

Now for some good news.  According to “experts” only about 10% of the Muslim population is radicalized.  Of course, the non-radicalized bow to fear and intimidation from the militant and “devout” Islamists, choosing to go-along-to-get-along.  But a combined majority of militant, devout and everyday Muslims believe that this nation should be governed by Sharia.   According to the Center for Security Policy, more than half of all Muslims in the U.S. believe we should institute Sharia law nationwide and 25% say violence against Americans is acceptable.  So maybe we need to adjust the radicalized figure to at least 25%. 

The bottom line is this, don’t count on the Muslim community to reveal the radicalized element within their population.  While many are not necessarily radicalized, they still have a basic religious affinity with those who are.  Beyond that, fear keeps them silent which means there is a passive endorsement of the radicalized 10%, which is approximately 1 million–or perhaps 1.2 million or more–who want to kill “Christian” America and will pay any price to live out their jihadi madness. 

It is important to understand that for radical militant Islamists–and even the “devout”–there are only two houses that contain the entire population of the world.  The first house is the House of Islam.  If you are in that house and have the “right” beliefs about Islam, you are a member of the militant herd in the House of Islam. 

If you are not living in an Islamist country or an individual in that country who is not “converted”, you go into the second house, which is the House of War.  That’s it.  There are only two houses:  The House of Islam and The House of War. 

Now think about this.  The original 9-11 brought down the Twin Towers and crashed a plane into the Pentagon.  If Flight 93 had not been taken down by passengers (or more likely shot down by the Air Force) in that field in Pennsylvania, that plane would have ended up crashing into the White House. 

All of that destruction was wrought by only 19 people with a paltry budget of about $400 to $500 thousand.  That’s all it took to kill 3,000 Americans, knock down the Twin Tower buildings and forever change our economy.  By the time it was done, that attack ripped about $5 trillion out of the U.S. economy.  That figure does not take into consideration how much was stolen in the secondary profiteering by people like George Soros who shorted the dollar the day before the attack. 

As we look back on 9-11 in the year 2001, we remember our brave emergency responders, many of whom knew the danger and the possibility of their own deaths, yet still rushed gallantly toward the explosions and fires to rescue their fellow Americans. 

But we also remember back to the horrific images of the planes hitting the towers, the fires, the people jumping to their death from the burning buildings, and the ghastly wreckage and dead bodies from the field in Pennsylvania.  We remember with shock and sadness the nearly 3000 dead Americans killed at the hands of militant Islamists. 

And here we are again looking back on 9-11.  Sadly, many of our young people don’t know about 9-11 or what it meant and still means to the American citizenry today. 

Unfortunately, many of these young people and many on the American left don’t understand the consequences of team Biden’s surrender in Afghanistan, or worse are in lockstep with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who have just allowed the Taliban to take possession of more ground in Afghanistan than they controlled on the original 9-11. 

But it gets worse … much worse. For instance, the Taliban are primarily Sunni Muslims–as are 90% of Islamists in the world–which means they have a potentially wide base of support both here in the U.S. and globally.  Biden’s surrender to the Taliban makes these militant Islamists, heroes around the world and pours gasoline on the jihadist fires in the hearts of Muhammadans globally.

But mere surrender and the humiliation of the United States and our military was not enough for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.  They went far beyond mere surrender.  Together, this demonic duo has given the Taliban and their associates, Al Qaeda and ISIS, a complete air force with 45 Black Hawk helicopters, which means they have more Black Hawks than 85% of the nations on earth. 

I could go through the list of $80 billion to $120 billion worth of military equipment left behind, including encrypted satellite and cell phones and computers, but why bother.  We gave them an air force, equipped their military with weapons, missiles, and armored vehicles, as well as hundreds of millions in cash sitting on pallets already wrapped and ready to be spent. 

And, believe it or not, it continues to get worse.  The Taliban has billions sitting in banks around the world and more than $3 trillion in mineral assets, including perhaps the largest supply of lithium (as in lithium batteries) in the world.   

Additionally, they are being bankrolled by the Chinese who are ready, willing, and able to harvest that lithium and other minerals just sitting there in Afghanistan.  One might wonder why we didn’t start harvesting some of those minerals while we were there.  I am sure there are multiple reasons why we didn’t harvest that treasure-trove of minerals in Afghanistan and most of them involve either drugs or the planned–and so far successfully managed–decline of the U.S. economy.  Instead of taking care of veterans and infrastructure, we have dumped trillions of dollars into that hellish moonscape in the Middle East with absolutely nothing but fallen heroes and national humiliation to show for it. 

For more on the managed decline and financial realignment of the global economy, check out The Global Reset!  which is well under way and currently draining trillions of dollars from the world’s economy, including and more specifically the U.S. economy. And of course, wealth never disappears, it simply changes hands.  In this case, it is sliding quickly into the hands of the global cabal which pulls the strings on almost every economy in the world. 

And while wasting trillions of dollars and watching Biden/Harris arm our enemies is horrifying, the scary part is understanding that there are now billions of dollars, in cash, in the hands of the Taliban who would like nothing better than to hurt America. That means that 1.2 million radicalized Islamists here in the United States could be financed with billions of dollars in cash to bring a raging jihad to our shores. 

Here is where the left and their globalist allies will mock me, but I tell you now that this is not a possibility … or even a probability … it is a certainty.  A terrorist attack will happen and it will be massive and not a long way down the road on a far horizon.  It is already in progress and being planned even now.    

Imagine for a moment what more than a million radicalized Islamists can do to this country when armed with billions of dollars.  A day of rage in the U.S. could send our economy into bankruptcy, our country into darkness, and violence and chaos could consume American cityscapes from New York to Los Angeles and Miami to Bellingham, Washington.  Nobody will be immune.  This is a scenario that even a blind analyst can see. 

But there is much more evidence well beyond what I have sited that will reveal the end result of the betrayal of the Biden/Harris administration and decades of presidential traitors before them.  There is so much prophetic writ that the mere reading of it astonishes the senses.  Look at just a few passages from the end-time prophecy found in Isaiah 24.

1. Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

• The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.

• The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

• Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Now, let’s skip down a few verses and look at more on the fate of planet earth.

Verse 21:  The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. 

Verse 22:  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

The Prophet Isaiah foretold the global picture of the end of time.  However, he gives much more detail in chapter 47.  But this time he tells us of the fate of Babylon … but this is not the first Babylon, this is a prophecy for a second Babylon … End-Time Babylon.

Verse 1: Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

Obviously, the prophet is not speaking of ancient Babylon because he refers to this nation as the “virgin” daughter of Babylon.  He is speaking of end-time Babylon.  The Bible points out thirty attributes of end-time Babylon which we shall not endeavor to list here but suffice it to say that there is only one nation on earth that fits all thirty of those categories and sadly, that is the United States of America. 

The prophet tells us that although the U.S. sits as a queen on this planet, that is all about to change.  In verse 2 he begins to share more about the future of this great empire:

Verse 2: Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

Verse 3: Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

These verses describe activities that are the signs of capture and slavery.  It was the slaves who would grind the meal and conquerors would strip their captives naked to humiliate them and break their spirit.  They would drag them from their homes and take them to a foreign land.  The people in these verses are a beaten people. Now look at verse 5.

Verse 5:  Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

The prophet says that this end-time Babylon will no more be called the lady of the kingdoms.  Why the reference to a lady?  Perhaps he is referring to our Lady of Liberty which is a representation of the pagan goddess Ishtar, who is both the goddess of sex and fertility and interestingly the goddess of war.  That statue is one of our national symbols. 

Additionally, this passage makes reference to the “daughter of the Chaldeans.” In Biblical times the Chaldeans were the banking class and this is a reference to the financial powers of the latter Babylon that are about to come to an abrupt and shattering end.    

Verse 8:  Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow neither shall I know the loss of children:

Verse 9:  But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

And despite the arrogance of this Babylon, the prophet says she shall be a widow.  And as for the loss of children, well, in large part, that has already come to pass as a result of a day and an hour in 1973 when the Supreme Court handed down the decision in Roe vs Wade.  We have now killed 60 million unborn children who will never know life and whose blood is crying even now unto heaven. 

But beyond that, we have exported abortion and polluted the earth with the shedding of innocent blood.  Interestingly, murder is defined in scripture not as taking a life, but as shedding innocent blood.  And there is one sin for which Yahweh will not forgive a nation and that is the shedding of innocent blood.  Again, we have shed the innocent blood of 60 million children, can we really expect that there will be no consequences?

One might be surprised by the prophets use of the words “sorcery” and “enchantments”, both of which have dark and occultic connotations.  Sorcery is generally defined by the Strong’s Dictionary as a seductive and corrupting influence such as was practiced by the witch Jezebel.  And enchantments are an association or band of dark influencers operating as, if you will pardon the word, wizards in finance and commerce who are now and have been for more than a century, in the process of stealing trillions of dollars leading a nation astray and into financial ruin. 

Verse 10:  For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

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.

Unfortunately, in our arrogance, we will not see the destruction coming but come it will, and suddenly, and without pity, bringing with it absolute desolation.  

The prophet finished off his dark prognosis for End-Time Babylon in verses 12-15:

¹² Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

¹³ Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

¹⁴ Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

¹⁵ Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

Isaiah says to go ahead, trust your Wall Street bankers and the George Soros’s of this world.  These monied classes have been with you from your youth.  Depend on your prognosticators and all your brilliant minds at the Fed.  Let them save you. 

But they will not save you.  For them it is business as usual and they continue to steal trillions from unsuspecting Americans and the world.  But at some point in time, it all spins wildly out of control.  As it happens, these wizards and enchanters shall watch in horror as the economy collapses and the world enters a new dark age. 

But there is yet one verse we need to look at to see some detail of the coming ruin.  Going back to verse 5 … we see these words:

Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness.

For years we have carelessly and foolishly refused to harden our electric grid and other vital systems.  A simple EMP from Iran, North Korea, Pakistan (which is welcoming the Taliban in Afghanistan back with open arms) or more likely China and/or Russia, and this nation goes from the digital age to the stone age in a day in an hour.  Does that sound familiar.  Here is a prophetic warning from Revelation 18:

17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

¹⁸ And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!

19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

I believe that Barack Obama, who is currently running the Biden/Harris White House, was and is a dedicated militant Islamist who hates America and all it stands for.  During his administration a malevolent spirit of rage and violence was unleashed on the United States and around the world. It was indeed sorcery in the Biblical sense.  We saw that rage playing out in the U.S. last summer, but long before that, we saw it in Hillary Jezebel Clinton’s Arab Spring … which was, in fact, an Islamic nightmare.   

That Arab Spring caused the largest migration of people in human history.  Millions of Islamists moved from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe, changing forever the religious ethos of the continent.  That will play a key role in the unfolding end-time prophecy of Israel and the Middle East.

The migration also caused a tsunami in the world’s economy. Likewise, during this intentionally inept, corrupt, and totalitarian regime of Joe Biden, I believe a spirit of chaos and confusion has been released on this nation which is spreading like a plague covering the entire earth. 

Joe Biden has done something many thought impossible … he has brought even more corruption to an already corruption satiated government.  Further, he has humiliated our nation while arming our declared enemies using the Taliban in Afghanistan as a conduit to treasonously pass on billions in funding and much of our technology to militant Islam and their partners, Russia and China.

We have long ago planted the seeds of our own destruction and now the Biden administration is nurturing those seeds with the water of corruption that will bring forth the crop of our destruction.  Here is what Revelation 18 says about the fate of our end-time Babylon.

² And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

³ For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

⁴ And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

⁵ For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

⁶ Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

⁸ Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

⁹ And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

Once our economy fails and the financial systems of the world begin to collapse, we will see phase two of the destruction of the United States.  The Prophet Jeremiah, writing of the end-time Babylon, wrote the following in Jeremiah 50:9.

For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

What are these arrows?  Remember, we are seeing this prophetic picture through the eyes of a prophet who has no idea what modern technology looks like. So, perhaps these arrows are missiles falling on America.  A simple EMP would take out most of our defenses.  That would leave us vulnerable to a missile attack.

Look at what the Apostle Matthew wrote in Chapter 24.

Verse 29: Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the start shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Imagine a prophet writing with only first century understanding of technology.  He sees what appears to be stars falling to earth and suddenly the sun and moon are darkened.  Is this not exactly what a nuclear attack on the United States would look like to his first century eyes? 

Now add to this Jeremiah 51: 44 wherein we read more details and more clues as to what this end-time scenario would look like and how Yahweh will bring his judgment starting in our financial realm.

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Bel, later called Baal, was the god who opposed Yahweh, the God of the Bible.  He was the sun god and the god of thieves.  He was often pictured as a bull.  And perhaps it is just a curious play on words on my part but I find interesting that we are told the “Wall” of Babylon will fall. 

For me it suggests Wall Street, with their symbol the brass bull, guarding the thoroughfare, whose diviners and sorcerers have looted this country of trillions of dollars and left most of America with a need for both fathers and mothers to work just to keep a roof over their heads and food on their table.  The vast majority of America is never more than a paycheck or two from being homeless.  But scripture tells us that judgment is coming.

Jeremiah tells us that the land of the Chaldeans – the realm of the bankers and financiers – will fall.  There is just so much prophetic evidence throughout scripture that America is in for a rude awakening followed by a merciless destruction.  And how can this happen?  Jeremiah 51 tells us:

²⁹ And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

³⁰ The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.

Scripture warns us that our leaders stir up a vile hatred of America while at the same time making her weak and vulnerable.  And in that moment, a destroying army comes out of the north, and Jeremiah 50 says that Yahweh is going to raise up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. 

This is a particularly interesting passage because the ancient Median Empire stretched from Russia in the north all the way to … Afghanistan.  Remember, we just armed the Afghan military and left hundreds of millions of dollars in cash at Kabul for them.  We also left blank U.S. visa’s, which can be used to send anyone, including terrorists, to America’s shores.

But now, the plot thickens.  First, Dr. Fauci and other globalists create the Corona virus.  They then come up with a solution – the jab.  The Biden administration has vowed to force our entire military to take the Covid “vaccine.”  We are just now beginning to discover the side effects of that witches’ brew they have created, which is a lot of different things, but it is not a vaccine. 

By definition, a vaccine must both prevent the recipient from contracting the disease and it must prevent that recipient from spreading the disease.  The “jab” does neither.  It is, in fact, an experimental gene therapy that produces a spike protein which invades every organ in the body and makes the vaccinated individual a super spreader of the “spike protein’.  We truly have no idea of the long-term effects of this concoction which are at best unknown and at worst dark and potentially debilitating.  And now millions have been injected with the mRNA potion and Biden is about to subject our entire military to the vax. 

Perhaps, that is as verse 30 of chapter 51 says, why our mighty men have forborn to fight and remained in their holds.  They have been rendered helpless by a dark sorcery–a debilitating gene therapy-forced on them by the Biden Administration.

I could say so much more on how Babylon is destroyed because scripture gives us great detail about missiles and darkness and the smoke of the fires of Babylon but that is for another time.  What is important is that we are given a dark scenario, but that dark scenario is not to crush our will or drive us into fear. 

We are told why we are being given an advance warning and what our response to that warning should be.  Please don’t stop reading until you have read the next portion of this writing.

We have already told you of the fate of Babylon.  But this is not a prophecy given to leave us in fear and panic.  In fact quite the opposite.  All these things are going to happen.  But we who study the scriptures have been given this advance warning so that we will not be in fear and dread with the rest of the world.  We will know in complete detail all about this in advance so that fear and despair will not overtake us.  These warnings will instead remind us that our redemption draweth nigh.

Jer 51:46  And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

Mark 13: 7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Therefore, we know that these are just the birth pangs of Messiah’s return.  For my pretribulation friends, I have some discomforting news.  There is no pretribulation rapture.  Revelation 19 and 20 lay out the timeline for the end of the world.  The dead in Christ and we who are alive and remain are not “raptured” until after the tribulation.  Read if for yourselves.  We are here for the duration.  And from Jeremiah in the Old Testament to Revelation in the New Testament, Yahweh’s command is eternally the same. 

“Come out of her my people.”

Jeremiah 50:8  Remove out of the midst of Babylon and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

Jeremiah 51:6  Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

Jeremiah 51:45  My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord.

Rev  18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

So, on this 9-11, as we remember the bravery and honor of so many, we also need to remember the destruction.  We need to remember the horror and that these things are just the beginning of sorrows.  9-11 was just a warning, “harbingers”, from Heaven.  It was and is a call to repentance.  But so few came to repentance.

Yahweh says he would have healed our nation but sadly she refused to be healed.  America’s leaders greeted the warning from Yahweh with arrogance and foolish pride.  The nation refused to repent of our murder of the unborn, sexual perversion, idolatry, pride, and covetousness.  Yahweh tells us through the prophet Jeremiah …

Jeremiah 51:9  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.

These are indeed the times that try men’s souls, but they are just the beginning of sorrows.  We are now seeing the leading edge of the totalitarian nature of the globalist left born on the wings of a pandemic they created.  Soon the Biden regime will be mandating a vaccine program that will attempt to force industry and all of us to put his toxic tonic into our veins and let it do the devil’s work.  For us, this needs to be a time of repentance and a recommitting of our lives to Messiah and His righteousness. 

Make memories with your loved ones.  Prepare ahead of time.  Teach your children the important things in life.  Teach them faith in Yeshua Messiah, teach them to delight in the law of the Lord, teach them family and our Christian heritage … teach them self-reliance.

While there is yet time, prepare for that which must surely come upon us.  As a result of a stolen election and the darkness of this administration, life will soon be changed and the unthinkable will become reality.  But, let not your heart be troubled, for whether we live or die, we do so unto the Lord.  For we, who are His children, will one day rule and reign with Him.

Scripture tells us that we should not fear when they come for us or cast us into prison for the sake of the gospel.

Luke 21 tells us:

12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.

13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:

15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

This is that time … a time for all of us … for you and me to understand that we are  a people of destiny, living in a time of heroes, where all of prophecy, history, and headlines form a confluence flowing through the lives of all humanity.  It is during this time that the faithful will collect more crowns to lay at Messiah’s feet than at any other period in human history. 

Therefore, allow these birth pangs to strengthen your faith, knowing that you have been forewarned in advance so that you will be strong in your faith and not caught off guard. 

Watch and pray – faint not – run the race to the very end and you will indeed receive a crown of life and be called a good and faithful servant who will rule and reign with Yeshua Messiah.