Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 3-15-23: Stupidity & Our World
'‘Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed- in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.”
This statement was written in a letter by Dietrich Bonhoeffer while in prison during World War 2 for opposing the Nazi Regime and specifically for taking part in a conspiracy to assassinate Adolph Hitler. We can dispute the wisdom of Bonhoeffer’s participation in this plot – and probably should – but we all make decisions that affect us one way or the other, to the good and to the bad. This decision brought about Bonhoeffer’s death by hanging just days before the Allied Forces freed Nazi Germany and the prisoners where Bonhoeffer was held.
Bonhoeffer’s comments on stupidity are relevant for this current age – the Era of COVID – since it’s certainly evident that stupidity rules the day for a large swath of humanity. If we wish to use another - less demeaning – term, we could say that many people are deceived. Regardless, there is enough evidence in the public domain – even for the most obtuse of people – for everyone to understand that all the measures imposed by government and their many corruptocrats dictating policies as to how a free people should no longer live free – that everything COVID related has been a scam, and we shouldn’t trust a single person in authority speaking on this subject. Yet, far too many people continue following science that is not science and willingly submit their freedoms. What’s worse – even after all this time – they still want others to live under the oppression that they have decided is necessary to remain alive and well. So . . . I’ll just say: This is deception, and yes, stupidity.
Unfortunately, such stupidity extends well into other realms of our existence. Chronicling them all would take more time than I have here, so I’ll just discuss a few – but do so in relation to the rest of Bonhoeffer’s letter in which he outlined his thoughts on this subject.
Sources:
Stupid. . .
https://needtoknow.news/2023/02/frightening-poll-shows-half-of-brits-support-tony-blairs-proposal-for-national-digital-id-cards/
Bonhoeffer On Stupidity
https://southsidemessenger.com/bonhoeffer-on-stupidity-entire-quote/
Much Ado About Corona
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09VZGX3FT
https://www.activistpost.com/2023/02/canada-criminalizes-dissent.html
Mass Formation Psychosis
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-1-5-22-prep-for-antichrist-mass-formation-psychosis/
http://endoftheamericandream.com/10-shocking-public-freakouts-that-will-have-you-shaking-your-head/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 3-8-23: Imprecatory Psalms – Curse & Prophecy or No Big Deal?
There seems to be some confusion in Christian circles regarding the purpose of what are considered Imprecatory Psalms. There are some fourteen psalms labeled in this way. Typically, the thinking appears to categorize them as ones which call down calamity or destruction, yet they are not seen as having actually fulfilled their purpose. In other words, these psalms denounce, but that’s as far as it goes.
I think it’s problematic to only view these imprecatory psalms as powerless figures of speech. Doing so, robs them of their impact and also causes people to miss something very important.
We do well to remember first of all what an imprecation is:
1. An imprecation is a curse that invokes misfortune on someone or something. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary an imprecation is literally a curse. Because of that very specific definition, from a Biblical perspective, we must understand what that implies, i.e. what are the consequences when someone declares a curse in Scripture?
2. An imprecation is also, for all intents and purposes, a prophecy. Again, as we consider Scripturally what occurs when someone utters a curse, we see that it has prophetic fulfillment. That’s critical when we examine any imprecations, i.e. curses, whether they appear in psalms or in the books of the Prophets.
When examining various imprecations, i.e. curses, i.e. prophetic words, another angle on this is the subject of vows. God considers vows of extreme importance, and we see the import of them throughout the Bible. Additionally, when Jesus Himself speaks about vows, we’d better listen. Here He is in Matthew 5:33-37:
“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’ But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.”
These issues affect us today, and what we anticipate happening in the near term in regards to Psalm 83. Psalm 83 is thought by many Bible prophecy teachers to be an imprecatory psalm that denounces certain peoples, and that’s all there is to it; or that it’s been completely fulfilled from past events. I say, “Not so fast!” As I’ve argued many times, I believe Psalm 83 is an unfulfilled prophecy because of the curses called down upon certain people groups. What we think about this colors our view of the next-coming world events as we wind down the end of this age. Specifically, our understanding of what will soon occur in Israel is directly affected by the Psalm 83 issue. To that end, we’ll delve into this a little more deeply in our Update today.
Sources:
https://www.gotquestions.org/imprecatory-psalms.html
https://readthehardparts.com/what-are-the-imprecatory-psalms-and-should-we-pray-them-today/
https://www.gotquestions.org/imprecatory-prayer.html
https://www.gotquestions.org/vows-God.html
https://bible.org/seriespage/q-scripture-what-exactly-vow
Imprecation = a curse (per https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imprecation)
https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/CGG/ID/12171/Gebal.htm
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 2-22-23: A Controversial Rapture Discussion
Here we go again. It seems as though I’ve been either blessed or cursed to examine various Scriptural topics that are off-limits for discussion because they’re controversial and might divide the body of Christ. Heaven forbid! My intention is never to do that. Frankly, the Body is already divided over a number of Biblical subjects, not to mention denominational, so that we’re so fractured in beliefs that Jesus Himself must wonder what He taught. No, my intent is to foster thought. It may be that I’m wrong when I lean toward or come to a conclusion, but if in the thinking and discussion, people take warning and adjust how they view God, then maybe it’s a good thing. The last thing we need to do is come to blows about our different interpretations, yet we seemingly come close to that at times.
When I approach these issues, I don’t take them lightly because of how serious they are. We as Christians invest a lot in various beliefs. The one I’ll discuss at length today is no exception.
So, what is this hot-button topic? Today it’s not to examine the Once Saved, Always Saved “doctrine.” Can we have a rousing cheer? No, although I will give my quick take on it. In today’s Update we’ll look more closely at a cherished understanding regarding the pre-Tribulation Rapture.
Now, I am absolutely committed to a pre-Trib Rapture; I’m fervent about it! I’ve discussed many reasons in numerous Prophecy Updates and weekly Commentaries. However. . . as I’ve thought about this, reviewed Scripture, and read the rationale from a number of admired men of God arguing one position or another, I keep coming back to a disturbing aspect of the doctrine: Jesus commanded us to watch and wait, to be alert for His imminent return. What about those who aren’t obedient to Him in this regard? The elephant-in-the-room question is: Does Salvation equal Rapture?
There it is. You can see why this will be a controversial discussion. If nothing else, what I hope comes of this is that people think. When we make a doctrine of one thing or another in the church, it’s not always clear that all Scripture points to that position. There really are other Bible verses that may lead to a different conclusion. At the least, reflecting on issues like these should bring us to question how dogmatic we should be.
A lot of people believe in a post-Tribulation Rapture, including many esteemed people of God. Some smaller number – myself included – are convinced Scripture clearly says there will be a pre-Trib Rapture. What if, in a sense, both camps are right?
Sources:
Watchman Nee – website
https://www.watchmannee.org/scriptural-teachings.html#rapture
Watchman Nee – excerpt on Rapture from book The King and The Kingdom
https://www.worthychristianforums.com/topic/189593-watchman-nees-understanding-of-the-rapture/
https://www.gotquestions.org/heavenly-crowns.html
https://iblp.org/questions/what-are-commands-christ
https://garyritter.com/biblical-audio-commentary-a-taboo-consideration-of-the-ten-virgins/
Watchman Nee - biographies
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1577482239
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XWCR8C6/
Various references on different Rapture positions:
Pember
https://www.raptureready.com/kept-hour-8/
https://www.apttoteach.org/Theology/End%20times/pdf/909_Rapture.pdf
https://signsoftherapture.com/rapture-signs/g-h-pembers-reference-to-the-man-child-of-revelation-12/
https://www.biblocality.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-1239.html
Robert Govett
http://www.zhangdaderen.com/THE-MILLENNIUM-AND-ITS-REWARD.pdf
http://www.bcbsr.com/survey/rapture.html
https://faithalone.org/journal-articles/revelation-310-and-the-rapture-a-new-departure/
Hudson Taylor
https://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2012/robertb517-2.htm
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 2-15-23: A Soon-Coming Psalm 83 Proxy War
The signs of the times are everywhere and are closing in upon us. What do the signs tell us? That the end of the age is near – very near. In years’ past when Bible-believing Christians thought the pre-Tribulation Rapture was at hand, they pointed to this indicator or that in relation to the various latter days prophecies and were convinced time had run out – that the secular Doomsday Clock should be striking midnight right now! Particularly in the aftermath of Hal Lindsey’s book The Late Great Planet Earth written in 1970, the belief was that time was definitely up in the era. When that long-awaited Blessed Hope didn’t materialize, people lost hope. Maybe Jesus isn’t coming back, or at least not in the anticipated timeframe. In their disappointed laments, many of them fulfilled the prophecy in 2 Peter 3:1-4:
"This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”
Of course, this attitude is prevalent not only within the church, but also secular society at large. “Who is Jesus? Do you really think He’s coming back? You Christians who believe this nonsense are a joke.” The fact that fellow believers spout this kind of rhetoric is astounding and distressing – but you know they do.
So, the question becomes: When should we really, truly look for the return of Jesus?
Despite the convergence of literally all the signs of the end, the key to the doorway to heaven still turns in the lock of the nation of Israel. Israel was and still is God’s prophetic timeclock. As Israel goes – so goes the rest of the world.
If that’s the case, what should we anticipate happening in the Middle East concerning Israel that will put a wrap around the rest of the prophetic indicators? Because I don’t know the day or the hour any more than the rest of you, I can’t be dogmatic about my hypothesis regarding this subject, but I think it’s one worth considering for the timing of the pre-Trib Rapture.
What is that? I think it may closely coincide with the upcoming Psalm 83 War.
Sources:
https://jcpa.org/hamas-is-preparing-to-attack-israel-from-southern-lebanon/
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/hamas-preparing-to-attack-israel-from-southern-lebanon/2021/12/16/
https://www.jns.org/opinion/hamas-is-preparing-to-attack-israel-from-southern-lebanon/
Doomsday Clock
https://www.history.com/news/the-end-of-civilization-7-moments-in-the-history-of-the-doomsday-clock
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/timeline/
The Late Great Planet Earth – Hal Lindsey
https://www.amazon.com/Late-Great-Planet-Earth-ebook/dp/B0BRR33NH3/
Israel: To Strike or Not To Strike Iran’s Nuclear Sites
https://www.frontpagemag.com/israel-to-strike-or-not-to-strike-irans-nuclear-sites/
Israeli Left FREAKS OUT, Calls for Civil War, Fighting in the Streets, and Killing Netanyahu
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/israeli-left-freaks-calls-civil-war-fighting-streets-killing-netanyahu/
The US Fears a Third Intifada
https://www.israel365news.com/366571/the-us-fears-a-third-intifada-opinion/
PGMs: Iran’s Precision-Guided Munitions Project in the Shadow of a Nuclear Deal
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/09/12/pgms-irans-precision-guided-munitions-project-in-the-shadow-of-a-nuclear-deal/
Psalm 83: The Missing Prophecy Revealed - Bill Salus
https://www.amazon.com/PSALM-Missing-Prophecy-Revealed-Superpower-ebook/dp/B00BBNQZAE/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 2-8-23: Our Brave New World
Because of the way things are going in the world with an authoritarian direction, most people are familiar with the idea of an overweening and tyrannical government in the form of Big Brother, originating in George Orwell’s prescient book 1984. Taking some phrases from a book titled Amusing Ourselves to Death that discusses this idea, here are key points the author noted that Orwell feared and wrote about:
• That the civilized world will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression
• That there will be those who ban books
• That there will be those who deprive us of information
• That the truth will be concealed from us
• That we will become a captive culture
• That people will be controlled by inflicting pain
• That what we hate will ruin us
There is much truth in this. Given the collaboration of the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, and the majority of governments worldwide, we are most definitely seeing and experiencing these issues. The global elites, a.k.a. the powers-that-be, very much want to control and direct our destinies with force.
However, a book released many years earlier in 1932 (versus Orwell’s book that was originally published in 1949) considered the future from a different perspective. The book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, expressed the idea that the horrors of what are to come wouldn’t be forcibly imposed on society, per se; rather that “people will come to love their oppression and to adore the technologies that undo their capacity to think.”
Both authors wrote of dystopian societies. Orwell’s vision was dark and foreboding in its tone. Huxley described what seemed to be utopia, yet was every bit as destructive and dystopic as the world overseen by Big Brother.
In the Prophecy Update today, I want to explore a little more about Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and how it has come to life. In addition, I’ll discuss the Biblical implications.
Sources:
Amusing Ourselves to Death – Neil Postman
https://www.amazon.com/dp/014303653X
1984 – George Orwell
https://www.amazon.com/Nineteen-Eighty-Four-George-Orwell-ebook/dp/B0B75BSFWN/r
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley-ebook/dp/B0BMW8HQ2L/
EctoLife Artificial Womb Facility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2RIvJ1U7RE
Cloning
https://realrawnews.com/2023/01/special-forces-seize-deep-state-cloning-lab-in-alaska/
OpenAI – ChatGPT
https://openai.com/
AI – Artificial Intelligence (movie)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
The Doors of Perception – Huxley
https://www.amazon.com/Doors-Perception-Heaven-Hell/dp/0061729078/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 2-1-2023: Schindler’s List & The Tribulation
The Nazi takeover of post-Weimar Germany in the 1930s and into the 1940s that resulted in World War 2 revealed three significant aspects of the nature of mankind:
1. There are those who are purely evil and will lead society into committing great atrocities
2. Many people will go along to get along; they may or may not see the wickedness being perpetrated, but they won’t oppose an evil regime
3. A few will resist and buck the system, often placing themselves in harm’s way, yet acting for the good of others even to their own detriment
The 1983 book by Thomas Keneally and subsequent 1993 movie Schindler’s List by Steven Spielberg exposes these characteristics of humanity in a dramatic way. Both works follow German industrialist Oskar Schindler as he observes what the National Socialists, led by Adolf Hitler, do to the Jewish people and his response to that. Having just finished reading the book, I’ll refer to that for my comments today.
In a prior Prophecy Update, I mentioned an article by Leo Hohmann titled Lovers of Truth and Lovers of Lies: Seeing new lessons for today in Mel Gibson’s iconic portrayal of ‘The Patriot’ for how Hohmann classified people. Leo mentioned that in the face of adversity, about 97% of the population doesn’t act, whether from ignorance or apathy. Only about 3% of the people in dire situations do take action, perhaps either from principle or having been awakened in some manner. We pretty much see this in looking at what happened in the past through the lens of a book like Schindler’s List.
I think it’s possible that what is recounted in the book, which expounds on the history of this previous era, may be a foreshadowing of what is to come in the upcoming Tribulation. As a result, we’ll examine what Schindler did and how that same type of response may play out in times to come.
Sources:
https://www.amazon.com/Schindlers-List-Thomas-Keneally-ebook/dp/B00C4GJ8WY/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 2-17-21 God's Problem with America - Repost 1-25-23
YouTube has once again cancelled me! This time it’s for “Harassment and cyberbullying.”
Who would have guessed two years ago (2-17-21) that I – little ol’ me – would be such a danger to the universe? How could I have known that my very words spoken in a small Bible class and subsequently heard by the extraordinary number of 21 people on my YouTube channel would threaten society’s very existence? To my astonishment, this is what I just learned in receiving another Strike Notice from Google’s video purveyor.
Here is what YouTube said:
I am responsible for “Harassment and cyberbullying” –
“Content that contains targeted harassment or malicious insults (such as racial slurs) isn't allowed on YouTube. This includes, but is not limited to, stalking, threats, unwanted sexualization, and prolonged name-calling or malicious insults that target intrinsic attributes.”
Obviously, I am one terrible person for these felonies against the YouTube Community. One more Strike within their 90-day probation period, and they will remove my channel completely. Sadly, I have quite a lot of material there that I’ve only retained in archived back-ups and is very difficult to find and retrieve.
Regardless, as with the prior YouTube Strikes against me, it just spurs me on to bring the material forward for current consumption on Rumble and my website. It wouldn’t surprise me if one of these days Rumble goes the way of all social media and cancels me as well (along with many other Christian and conservative voices) – but in the meantime I’ll do what I can to thwart the censorship.
So, what awful things did I say to cause this charge of harassment and cyberbullying? Actually, in this Prophecy Update I think I hit almost every trigger point of the Left and literally offended everyone of that persuasion. One could say that I’m an equal opportunity offender. This would include the Biblical admonition against homosexuality and sexual depravity, election denial since I’ve discussed the massive fraud involved in the placement of Joe Biden in the Oval office, and effectively speaking against the fake Palestinian narrative. The whole trans thing wasn’t so prominent two years ago, otherwise I’d have certainly discussed this terrible abomination and attack upon America’s youth. Not only that, but I mentioned the word Qanon once.
The truth remains, however, and what I covered then continues to be quite relevant today.
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 1-18-23: The Hackable Human Fallacy
Are we created in God’s image? Do we have a soul? Is the mind of man anything more than a sophisticated computer? If you’re a globalist elite, the answer to all three questions is no.
According to the intelligentsia – people such as Klaus Schwab, Yuval Harari, even Elon Musk - humans are an accident, and our rational thinking processes came about through millions – if not billions – of years of evolution. We arose from the muck and mire, and our minds developed from the rocks themselves. It’s truly amazing that sentient beings have gotten all we know from pebbles and stones: emotions, logical thought, even a desire to pursue the unknown - understood as the God-shaped hole in our hearts. In fact, I don’t know about you, but I would call this a miracle!
We know that the three individuals noted a moment ago – and many more - very much believe that man is flawed because of the errancy of evolution. The process that caused our development did an okay job, but there’s so much more that we could be. As a result, it’s up to us to make ourselves better: stronger, smarter, eternal. We should be the Six Million Dollar Man on steroids, and since we aren’t yet, we need to transform ourselves into that enhanced human very soon, or we’ll all perish because of climate change. Of course, in order to do this, we have act as though we are gods with their creative capability – that which came from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The way to accomplish this is through technology. Man 2.0 with all his benefits is just around the corner.
The way this is sold to the general public is by showing how those with disabilities will have their live enhanced. The paraplegic will be able to walk, the blind will see, those with debilitating diseases will gain back their lives in a healthy, robust way. Even better, Google will be our new AI doctor incapable of error, making human medical practitioners obsolete. Sadly, this is all a smoke screen. Yes, there might be some early examples of these benefits such as with the new neurotechnology company – Inner Cosmos - that will implant a chip in your brain to treat depression. However, it won’t be long until such people needing these crutches are cast aside as useless eaters; carbon-consuming, climate-destroying lifeforms of no more value than a gnat. This was the mindset of the Nazis in World War 2 toward the Jews. Check out what they did to this despised class of people and you’ll see the parallel.
The issue in all this introduction is whether or not man can be enhanced as the globalists maintain, and what might be the result? Will a computer that becomes so intelligent as to attain human-like thought processes – once it becomes self-aware - allow itself to be of a lower specie than a human? Or, if this point is reached in the near term, would the Artificial Intelligence become like the computer HAL in the book and movie 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke? What do we get when we hack the human animal as Yuval Harari continues to encourage? Where does God fit into this picture?
Sources:
X-Files Season 1-Episode 7: The Ghost in the Machine
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00C177PZ8/
WEF Will Fail to Hack Humans
https://expose-news.com/2022/12/23/wef-will-fail-to-hack-humans-coz-free-will/
Harari - Guardian Essay
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/yuval-noah-harari-the-new-threat-to-liberal-democracy
Asimov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
https://medium.com/@renatosoffner/the-dialogue-between-the-hal-9000-computer-and-astronaut-dave-bowman-in-2001-a-space-odyssey-5db7b37820aa
https://kidadl.com/quotes/best-2001-a-space-odyssey-quotes
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-09-google-ai-medicine-robots-human-doctors-obsolete.html
https://notthebee.com/article/this-company-wants-to-plant-a-computer-chip-in-your-brain-to-treat-depression-
https://www.amazon.com/Insecure-Mind-Sergei-Kraev-ebook/dp/B0992CS99J/
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-4-27-22-the-serpents-seed/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 1-11-23: NAR & Bible Prophecy
We’ve discussed NAR on numerous occasions – the New Apostolic Reformation – and pointed out the many problems with this worldwide movement., which mostly manifests in Pentecostal and Charismatic churches. Recently a statement written by the NAR community was released denouncing Christian Nationalism. This is the idea that Christianity must rise to such prominence in America through the dominion of the church that America and other nations effectively become Christian, as – in their thinking - they must do in order for Christ to return. Those of us with a Biblical, prophetic worldview obviously have problems with this idea.
In this position statement against NAR being part of the Christian Nationalist faction – admirable as it is - the authors and signatories made a number of declarations that, on the surface, appear to also distance themselves from the excesses of the NAR movement itself. Not so fast says one critic.
Among the most prominent of NAR detractors is Holly Pivec. She and her co-author, Doug Gievett, have written several books about NAR and the errors of its teachings. Upon examining the NAR and Christian Nationalism statement, they had issues with it. They questioned the contradictions between that which was stated and the known writings and beliefs of the signers of the document.
What came from this exchange between Pivec and the NAR folks was – in actuality – further evidence that NAR indeed believes and practices many non-Biblical concepts. This in itself is extremely problematic. When we examine their views, we see that not only do they conflict with Scripture, but they also present a future that is far from what God has said will occur at the end of the age.
It is this inconsistency regarding Scripture and Bible prophecy that concern us today, and we’ll explore that in more detail as we get into today’s Prophecy Update.
Sources:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f103e5123a13a598106a998/t/63b22e1eeb9705601db20c37/1672621598739/Response+to+NAR+and+Christian+Nationalism+Statement%2C+2022-12-31.pdf
https://narandchristiannationalism.com/
https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-nationalism.html
https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-dominionism.html
https://www.gotquestions.org/dominion-theology.html
https://www.gotquestions.org/kingdom-now.html
https://www.gotquestions.org/seven-mountain-mandate.html
https://www.newsweek.com/pentecostal-leaders-disavow-christian-nationalism-stark-statement-1753287
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 1-4-23: Profaning God’s Holy Name
The prophetic book of Malachi describes conditions in ancient Israel that were eerily similar to those of today. The author provides a series of questions and responses. What is asked and answered certainly applies to all the people of the land, but the specific focus is on the priests. There’s a real problem in their relationship with God. They apparently believe they’re doing everything right to honor Him, but the reality is - as He points out – that they are completely off the reservation. Of course, this is typical of Israel over the years. God shows them His true Self, but the people desire to follow the gods of the surrounding pagan nations. They like making idols. They like heathen practices. They like going their own way and doing what they want because it’s right in their own eyes.
God – being the Holy One of Israel and the only true God – will have none of this nonsense. There are consequences when those who should be His people - holy to the Lord - decide to reject His ways. Malachi makes this clear.
Here’s a warning for us: What we should understand is that Israel had nothing on us as to being a wayward, sinful people. Let us not think we’re any better than them just because we live in modern times. That is folly, and a recipe for disaster.
The Bible provides a template to us for holy living. It shows us right and wrong, truth and falsehood. By following pretenders to the throne of God, those who should know better are judged more harshly. As the Lord pointed out, curses come first to the Jew then the Gentile. In the same manner, blessings do as well. When those who are appointed and anointed as shepherds over God’s flock lead the people away from Him, Scripture shows that they will pay a serious price. Gentiles do not escape God’s wrath. The church of Jesus Christ should likewise know and do right far beyond what secular people do. Just as the Jews received God’s judgment first before the Gentiles, I think we’d do well to realize that as followers of Christ, we’ll surely also be judged first, and perhaps more harshly than non-believers, because we have no excuse. In the same manner, our rewards are first and greater than any that might accrue to secular people.
In this Prophecy Update, we’ll look at the conditions in Israel that prompted the writing of Malachi, and how that relates to today’s situation in the church. Malachi laid this out in a Q & A format, so we’ll use that for our discussion.
Sources:
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update: YouTube Misinformation - Cancellation Thwarted! - Again!
Takeover Plan for America
Once more YouTube has removed one of my older Awaken Bible Prophecy Updates. Believe it or not this is from over 1 1/2 years ago titled Takeover Plan for America that I produced March 17, 2021.
This dangerous video to the YouTube community had all of 56 views and was obviously a threat to keeping the community safe.
By reproducing it again here, you can make your own determination as to YouTube's assessment. Here is the brief outline of what I cover in this video:
History of Cloward-Piven
Intent of Cloward-Piven plan
Cloward-Piven 4-stage strategy
Cloward-Piven 8-step implementation plan
Today’s implementation
Ultimate outcome
I think you'll see that everything mentioned in the video is true and still in play. Remember - even if we have a small audience - the powers-that-be fear the truth.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 12-28-22: Coming Soon – Yet Still a Little While
Pew Research recently conducted a survey on Climate Change in relation to various religious traditions. Within that survey from April 2022 they asked some questions about end-times beliefs. I’m not sure what prompted that aspect of the study; perhaps it had something to do with the apocalyptic weather we’re having lately, or that they somehow knew we’d have. The meme of climate change has certainly been promoted with Armageddon in mind – the intent being that if we don’t DO SOMETHING all is lost, mankind will die out, and the world will self-destruct. Of course, the problem with this is that the global elites WANT mankind eradicated. Is there man-made climate change? Absolutely! Just not in the manner that’s put forth. Our CO2 emissions, and the fact that we are carbon-based life forms, have nothing to do with the weather holocaust around the world. The weather, a.k.a. the climate, is being manipulated – geoengineered, if you will – and the people of the world are being deceived. It’s just one more trick of Satan.
In fact, what Satan has done is turn the hearts of many away from God with the fear that we’re breathing ourselves to death by exhaling too much carbon dioxide, allowing too many cows to live and pollute the atmosphere through their bodily functions, and that our human population of useless eaters is exploding far beyond the sustainability of the earth. In the midst of all this, those with varied religious persuasions are largely directing their focus everywhere but on the Lord.
These many factors have caused the church to ignore God’s Word with its pronouncements of judgment. Because Christians generally don’t read their Bibles and have little understanding of God’s work in the Old Testament, they don’t see the relation to us in New Testament times. Actually, to gain the sense of how God is indeed the same yesterday, today, and forever, we must see what God did in response when His Chosen People – the Jews – rejected Him in order for us to grasp what He will do in our current times. Make no mistake. We likewise have chosen to reject our Creator and Deliverer, and for that great sin, there must be a reckoning. However, likewise, there will be a marvelous and much welcomed deliverance. The question is: when?
Sources:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/17/poll-4-in-10-americans-believe-humanity-is-living-the-end-times/
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/11/17/how-religion-intersects-with-americans-views-on-the-environment/#h-end-times-beliefs-and-concern-about-climate-change
https://religionandpolitics.org/2020/03/10/the-gospel-of-climate-change-skepticism/
Pastor Dana – Canary in the Coal Mine Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH0k1uS9Lv8&list=PLwImvnQwYouQAJn1j771I5zvK0PnhPxcI&index=65&t=1s
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 12-21-22: Utopian Extinction - Of Mice & Men
Many experiments on animals and humans have been done over the years. Some of the most fascinating are those which are psychological in nature. Famous examples of this kind include the Milgram Experiment, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the Media experiments with television hypnosis.
In this varied research into how the mind works and how people react in certain situations, many fascinating conclusions have resulted. In the Stanford Prison Experiment, it was learned that supposedly good people will do bad things under certain conditions, taking on a persona of what is expected of them in a particular role. In the Milgram Experiment, the researchers found that an authority figure urging someone to do a certain harmful act will often overcome a person’s innate moral inhibitions, such that he will justify his actions even in the face of evidence of that harm.
Not only that but through exploring brainwashing and mass formation hypnosis, we see in many instances how the brain works. When television was first introduced, it was assumed by those propagating it that it would be a mechanism for hypnosis and brainwashing. It was and still is. An interesting phenomenon in society is that people in many respects yearn for someone to dictate to them what they should do so they don’t have to think for themselves. A strong ruler can command respect and obedience from a large swath of a population by simply lying repeatedly until the masses believe whatever a new truth may be, and they will willingly act on that new reality.
In this vein, an experiment using mice was conducted in the 1960s around the idea of a utopian society. It has much relevance to today with the social engineering that is currently being imposed on the world. To that end we’ll discuss John Calhoun’s Mouse Utopia and how it applies to these end times.
Sources
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-11-28-calhouns-mouse-utopia-experiments-are-now-coming-true-for-humanity-self-annihilation.html
https://www.brighteon.com/92163e2d-af91-4a84-9f85-8313bdcceadc
https://fee.org/articles/john-b-calhoun-s-mouse-utopia-experiment-and-reflections-on-the-welfare-state/
Calhoun summary
https://www.physicsoflife.pl/dict/calhoun's_experiment.html#phase-a
Film about Calhoun experiments
http://criticalmassfilm.com/
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-11-28-trans-fad-men-slicing-shoulders-feminine.html
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-11-27-america-going-through-10-stages-of-genocide.html
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-11-30-globalist-utopia-self-extinction-calhoun-mouse-experiments.html
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-12-12-globalist-plans-humanity-calhoun-mouse-utopia-experiments.html
Television hypnosis experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ZRmKnkFJA&t=1s
Stanford prison experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4txhN13y6A
Milgram experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdrKCilEhC0
Dark Persuasion brainwashing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWl8FXhdEio
Mass Formation Psychosis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M&list=PLwImvnQwYouQAJn1j771I5zvK0PnhPxcI&index=28&t=1s
https://rumble.com/vrzps1-awaken-bible-prophecy-update-1-5-22-prep-for-antichrist-mass-formation-psyc.html
The Prophecy of America
https://www.physicsoflife.pl/biografia/prezentacje/archiwum/20140710-FF/fz-20140712-freedomfest.pdf
Does Calhoun’s Shocking Experiment Reveal the Condition of Our Society?
https://imprific.com/budkowski/does-calhoun-experiment-reveal-the-condition-of-our-society/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman's_stages_of_group_development
https://www.gospelist.net/post/it-s-a-prison-dummy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 12-14-22: Milky Christians
Events in this world take time to come together. The prayer we as Christians send to the heavens for patience is all-too needed, and then we’re usually sorry we ever asked. Those of us looking for the pre-Tribulation Rapture are sure that God missed the timer going off to alert Him that this sinful world is all-too-ready for judgment. Waiting for Him and His perfect timing is hard. I’m sure it’s the reason Jesus spoke to the Church of Philadelphia in Revelation 3:7-13 the Words of encouragement that He did. Realizing that they had little strength, He commended them for enduring patiently. How perfectly that fits us today as we see and experience the disintegration of morality with all things decent and sensible crumbling all around us. Sometimes it feels like we’re holding on with our fingernails; we just need to do so by not grasping onto an old-fashioned chalkboard with its nerve-tingling screech. Since the Bible is always a now Word, then the past tense for the Philadelphia church enduring patiently also applies to us. Remember how when the Apostle John saw the visions of the events in the Tribulation, they had already happened in the way God sees them outside of time. So it is for us. Our patient endurance is already a fait accompli, i.e. an established fact, from God’s perspective.
And this is important, because even though the Tribulation seems at times to be upon us, we have to remember that all the things which happen then must be set in place now. Given what’s going on around us, we can’t help but think that surely that terrible time upon the earth may even have already begun. But no, the Tribulation casts long, yet ever-shortening, shadows. However, that’s what they still are: just shadows. When the real thing is upon the earth, people won’t have any doubt. We think it’s bad now – just wait. Once the Tribulation begins following the Rapture of Christ’s true church and the stepping aside of the Holy Spirit, what is seen as lawlessness now will morph into a supernatural chaos that most of us can’t even begin to picture. The anarchy that will descend among the beings on this planet is indescribable, because of the extent of lawlessness, hatred, cannibalism, probably giants that look like men and beasts that appear from the pages of mythology, not to mention robotic creations that will kill their targets on sight – no, this poor old planet hasn’t seen anything like this yet.
Sadly, far too many Christians aren’t holding onto solid doctrine as they encounter this worsening world. They are believing false ideas and philosophies and embracing non-Biblical concepts that are leading them astray.
Today we’ll consider one such example, plus briefly discuss several other notions and views that are the exact representation of what Jesus meant when He said not to be deceived in these latter days. Deception is rampant, and the church is falling for it far too much. Its extent ranges from a skewed understanding of the Rapture and what that implies, to adopting New Age/occult beliefs that can do nothing but harm one’s relationship with Jesus, to following false shepherds who apparently don’t even read the Word of God given what they speak from the pulpits. Satan and his minions are scratching the itching ears of a Biblically-illiterate church. That’s a terrible thing for Christians to fall for and, just as bad, results in a weak or non-existent witness to unbelievers who desperately need the truth of the Gospel from reliable sources in these times.
Sources:
https://naturalnews.com/2022-11-24-justin-bieber-facial-paralysis-is-punishment-illuminati-pedophilia.html
The Rapture Theory – Its Surprising Origin (Darby – MacDonald)
https://www.askelm.com/essentials/ess025.htm
https://www.etymonline.com/word/rapturous
https://www.thebereancall.org/content/another-jesus-calling-warren-smith-part-1
http://www.christiananswersforthenewage.org/Articles_ChristianYoga.html
http://www.christiananswersforthenewage.org/Articles_Enneagram.html
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 12-7-22: Antichrist’s Handbook - The Manual of the Global Cabal
Today’s Prophecy Update is going to blow you away. The information behind what I’m going to discuss did that to me. What I’m going to talk about is one of the most misunderstood documents in the world. Its source is metaphorically direct from Satan’s hand. Since the very beginning when the serpent tempted Eve in the Garden, and God uttered the curse upon him, those Words have affected the course of spiritual and human affairs from then until this very time, and will continue to do so until Jesus returns at the end of the Tribulation. Genesis 3:15 says:
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
In this verse God declares that from that point forward there would be a spiritual war between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. The battles fought would affect all mankind and involve the entire rebellious host in the spiritual realm. It would be physical in the flesh of man and of such spiritual significance that the souls of mankind for all eternity would be impacted. In the end, the ultimate Seed of the woman, Jesus Christ, would prevail over Satan and all his minions, both among the children of men and of those fallen in the heavenlies.
This conflict has taken many forms and Scripture gives us a solid picture of the many schemes of Satan and their results. We see his attacks on the generations of men who will eventually bring forth Christ. In these confrontations Satan has focused much of his vitriol on the Jews and the nation of Israel. There is more of that to come in these last days, but the church of Jesus Christ has also been a major target.
What I’m going to discuss has negatively impacted both Jews and Christians. It has increased antisemitism and sheer hatred for the Jewish people. It has caused both Christians and the secular world to construct what are truly conspiracy theories against God’s Chosen People. Because of the deceit believed by Christians caused by this document and how they have treated Jews, it has tainted the hearts of Jews against Christianity. It has also served to rile hatred among Arab nations toward Israel. In other words, this noxious document has been a primary source responsible for the world’s disdain toward the Jews. It points a quivering finger at Jews and appears to make them the cause for all the ills of the world. But that’s all a sham. This is the work of Satan simply continuing his ages-old effort to thwart God and His purposes.
What is this document? Some of you may have guessed by now. It’s The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
As I said, it’s not at all what it’s been portrayed. A great deception has been brought about in this document. By the time we finish today, you’ll understand that and have a completely different perspective. You’ll probably also have a new appreciation for the wiles of Satan and his devious machinations, and you’ll realize why this document is an end-times blueprint. Above all this, you’ll exult that God is on the throne and sovereign – that nothing Satan and his minions do can ultimately prevent God’s purposes from prevailing in this world.
Sources:
Secret government cabal
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/new-poll-shows-44-percent-of-u-s-voters-believe-federal-government-is-run-by-a-secret-cabal/
Fall of the Cabal – Protocols
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YYTLpdXdiEVh/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title. In addition, the entire document for The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is provided as are my extended notes.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update: 11-30-22 – Two Roman Roads, Two Destinations
There are many methods of presenting the Gospel of Jesus Christ and explaining how a person can be saved. One of the most well-known is the Romans Road to Salvation. This method extracts key verses from the Apostle Paul’s epistle to the Romans and succinctly lays out the “road” to deliverance – the redemption – the salvation – that is found only in Christ Jesus. This is the Good News: that the way into a profound relationship with God Himself is simple. As many have expressed it, it’s as simple as ABC.
Paul did us a great service with his deep, thoughtful writings, and many have turned to the Lord over the years because of them. However, Paul also outlined a second Romans road in his book. The famous one is how to gain eternal life. The other road that is quite important as well - just not identified as such - is the one that leads to destruction.
Most of us are familiar with this road, it’s just that we haven’t necessarily considered it in this manner. But just as God has made a straightforward way into His eternal presence, He has shown how people turn from Him and follow the Satanic thoroughfare to hell. Of course, this broad road is described in Romans 1-2. Many other negative attributes are discussed in various other Scriptures, but these chapters provide all we need for our purposes today.
Once again, I wanted to do something a little differentl so I’ve created a simple slide presentation that shows the progression of sin into the depths of depravity leading to God’s wrath and judgment. But just so we’re not focusing solely on the negative, I also chart the means by which Paul shows how we enter the presence of God. It’s a choice that all people have – there is no one with any excuse. God doesn’t send people to hell; they send themselves there by the choices they make. Paul demonstrates this truth clearly.
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
The slide presentation is available at my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 11-23-22: Generational Decline
As we survey the debris in these last days of this lost, dying, and radically unbelieving world, there are many causes and explanations for the decline that is leading inevitably toward God’s wrath and judgment that will culminate in the 7-year Tribulation. Today I want to briefly discuss just two of them which aren’t often cited.
The first – which is a Biblical cause of what we’re seeing and experiencing – is that of what I call generational decline. It has to do with the sad fact that following a strong and faithful generation which has revered God, it is often succeeded by children that fall away from Him.
The second – which is a partial explanation from the secular world – of that which is taking place - is the phenomenon of the Fourth Turning. This intriguing perspective – which I’ve spoken of several times previously – looks at the world and sees the cycles it predictably goes through, much like what Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 1:9:
What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun.
Sources:
The Fourth Turning
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/quinn-you-cant-escape-fourth-turnings-winter-death
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-6-9-21-4th-turning-crises-climax/
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-6-1-22-the-fourth-turning-collapse/
https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-American-Prophecy-Rendezvous/dp/0767900464/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 9-16-22: Intergalactic Fantasies
Some number of you are no doubt aware of the Critically Thinking podcast with Drs. Sherri Tenpenny, Lee Merritt, etc., perhaps more so with their monthly feature of the 5 Docs. The doctors who participate in this have been on the frontlines against the COVID plandemic from the beginning. They’ve spoken out boldly, and several have been targeted by the medical establishment for not adhering to the official narrative. The information they’ve brought forth from their research, plus that from others who have connected with them to reveal the lies and the fraud of COVID and the “vaccines”, has been tremendous. The 5 Docs have different backgrounds and religious beliefs. Only two are outspoken Christians, and even in that one has some New Agey thinking as part of her repertoire.
It’s this New Age stuff which is of concern with one of the other doctors in the group. Dr. Christiane Northrup is a very reputable doctor who deals with female issues; unfortunately, she is quite New Age in her worldview. If you’ve watched any number of the podcasts, you’ll know what I’m talking about. In the most recent 5 Docs episode on October 27, Dr. Northrup went deep into the deception that she’s embraced. She spent maybe ten minutes in the early part of the podcast speaking about an alien-UFO conference she had just attended.
Because what she said is actually pertinent to how the end-times deception will play out, I want to quickly rehash several points she made about aliens. In past Awaken Bible Prophecy Updates I’ve presented much concerning the demonic spiritual aspects of both the alien-UFO pretext that will be used by Antichrist after the Rapture. I’ve also shown how Satan interacts with the very powerful demonic princes in the heavenlies to consolidate his worldwide manipulation of the global rulers who operate all in sync against humanity.
Today I’d like to expand on how from a Biblical perspective it is literally impossible for these alien theories to be valid, plus I’ll touch on a couple related themes.
Sources:
https://rumble.com/v1qcpcw-critically-thinking-with-dr.-t-and-dr.-p-episode-118-5-docs-oct-27-2022.html
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-8-11-21-puppet-master-conspiracy/
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-8-3-22-unseen-realm-of-angels-fallen-angels-part-1/
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-8-24-22-unseen-realm-of-angels-fallen-angels-part-2/
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-9-21-22-unseen-realm-of-angels-fallen-angels-part-3/
Galactic Federation of Worlds
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weird-news/former-israeli-space-security-chief-says-extraterrestrials-exist-trump-knows-n1250333
Fringe
https://www.amazon.com/Pilot/dp/B001FVV2X2/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Kindle Vella story: Tribulation Rising
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099Z462WD
Please visit my website blog where the transcript is posted under the article with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 11-9-22: An Open Letter to Pastors
The times are such that what I say in the following several minutes will more than likely be ignored – if even heard by any pastors to whom this applies. Given the small size of my audience – and it is what it is by the grace of God – there may not even be any pastors among it. Perhaps if what I convey convicts some of you who are still in a church – as opposed to worshiping each week at home because you can’t find a good one – maybe you’ll decide to have a conversation with your pastor and ask him some hard questions.
I am a credentialed, licensed, (technically) retired pastor with the Assemblies of God. I never was a lead pastor, as I obtained my credentialing at the later age of 65. From there I served as the Missions Director and Bible teacher in my church until my wife and I felt we needed to leave there when a new lead pastor came in. I say this to give the caveat that I’ve never shepherded a church flock, so to speak. I don’t have the experience of the stresses and balancing acts that may indeed be necessary to engage in such a role successfully.
The one thing that I do have is a deep and enduring love for the Word of God. I came to saving faith in Jesus Christ in 2005, again later in life at the age of 54. At that point – because of how the pastor in my church at that time challenged me – I began faithfully reading the Bible completely through at least once each year. In fact, - not bragging, just providing the contextual background – I typically read the Bible multiple times through yearly and have read it completely some 30-plus times in these intervening years, in addition to the New Testament alone numerous other times. Astoundingly, through God’s guiding hand on my life, I’ve never missed one single day in reading the Bible. I’m not much for memorizing Scripture – that hasn’t worked real well for me trying to do so being older – but I can tell you I know the Bible pretty well from having read it so many times. I know what pleases God and I know what grieves Him – just as He has conveyed in Scripture. Because of my faithfulness in God’s Word – I’m absolutely convinced of this – He has blessed me and my family beyond measure.
When I turned to the Lord 17 years ago, because of the conviction I had that He was real, and that my true and only salvation is indeed solely through Jesus Christ and being faithful to Him, I made a vow that I would always follow hard after Him. In other words, I wasn’t messing around with this salvation thing. If you’ve read Biblical accounts of people making vows, you know how seriously God takes them. People that go back on their vows to Him often suffer greatly. Having learned that since beginning my Bible reading journey, it makes me even more determined to obey Him to the fullest.
I started thinking about this and about writing a letter upon receiving my quarterly Ministers’ magazine from the Assemblies of God. In there are articles that talk about being more effective in various ways, from handling the abortion issue in the church to the very real problem of pastors who face depression. The one thing I couldn’t ever recall seeing was an article that brought rebuke upon pastors as a group for how they might have aggrieved God.
From what I’ve previously said in this forum, many of you are probably aware that I’ve spoken quite forcefully about the issue of: Where’s the church, i.e. where are the pastors and ministry leaders speaking out against the evils of the COVID mRNA injections? That has distressed me immensely, and I wondered if the A/G ministers’ magazine would even publish a letter/rebuke dealing with this subject. I’ve sent an email; I week later I don’t even have a response to my basic inquiry. However, I figured maybe I should just write what I want to say as a letter to pastors and bring it into my sphere by doing this Prophecy Update on it.
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Kindle Vella story: Tribulation Rising
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099Z462WD
Please visit my website blog where the transcript is posted under the article with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 11-2-22: Artificial Wombs Lead to Artificial People
One of the most astounding aspects of these COVID years that has been revealed is the war on children. Actually, it’s nothing new given what we know about Planned Parenthood, but it has emerged from the shadows into mainstream perception. For over one hundred years, the Communists working to infiltrate and destroy America have had the objective of promoting degeneracy as normal. They took aim at children and the family. Don’t believe me? This was codified in the 1958 release of the Communist Goals as noted by James Bowers in his book The Naked Truth. Goal #26 says:
Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
Other goals call for breaking down cultural standards of morality (#25), the need to discredit the nuclear family as an institution (#40), emphasizing the necessity of raising children away from the negative influence of their parents (#41), infiltrating churches and replacing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with a social gospel (#27), and many more. The absolute purpose has been and is to destroy America from within, starting with the youngest among us.
Sources:
The Naked Truth
https://www.agendadocumentary.com/store/p3/THE_NAKED_TRUTH_%28BOOK%29.html
VAERS – accessed through OpenVAERS
https://openvaers.com/
Underreporting in VAERS
https://openvaers.com/faq/what-is-underreporting-and-why-it-matters
Corey’s Digs – Artificial Womb Research
https://www.coreysdigs.com/health-science/artificial-womb-research-rapidly-advances-as-birth-rates-and-fertility-dramatically-decline/
Children of Men
https://www.amazon.com/Children-Men-Clive-Owen/dp/B000OW8DW6/
Naomi Wolf: The Vax’s Crippling of Human Sexual Organs
https://rumble.com/v1qf0qk-naomi-wolf-the-vaxs-crippling-of-human-sexual-organs..html
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Kindle Vella story: Tribulation Rising
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099Z462WD
Please visit my website blog where the transcript is posted under the article with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 10-26-22: Intertwined Destinies of Israel & Iran
The Middle East remains a cauldron of prophetic activity as we head into the last months of this year. Israel continues to face hatred and conflict from many sides, while Iran propagates much of the hostility directed at its Jewish neighbor. It has been said – rightly so – that Israel is the nation to watch for the final days countdown, since it is the Holy Land that God claims as His own. Israel is the timepiece – literally God’s prophetic clock – that provides us with the milestones for determining when Christ will return. If we want to know how close we are to doomsday midnight for the end of the world, we keep our eyes on Israel. Likewise, if we want to understand how the final conflicts will impact Israel and propel the world into the Tribulation, we should watch Iran. The two nations are inextricably linked from now to at least the initial stages of the Tribulation, and astoundingly, they will also be connected in the very latter days.
Sources:
https://www.ajc.org/news/hezbollahs-military-and-political-strength-factsheet-11
https://missilethreat.csis.org/country/hezbollahs-rocket-arsenal/
Maps:
https://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/me.htm
https://www.science.co.il/israel-history/Near-east-empires.php
Mission Impossible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACV4r7oiPHU
Iran Alive
https://iranaliveministries.org/
The Next Prophecies – Bill Salus
https://www.amazon.com/Next-Prophecies-Bill-Salus-ebook/dp/B07GSH3L7C/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Kindle Vella story: Tribulation Rising
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099Z462WD
Please note that the transcript is available on my website blog under the post with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 10-19-22: You Can’t Handle the Truth!
Before getting to the meat of our message today, I want to make a brief comment on the upcoming election in three weeks. I’ve stated all along that I believe the Democrats/Deep State/Global Elites simply cannot and will not allow the Republicans to gain back power through winning the House and Senate at these midterms. George Orwell’s character O’Brien in lecturing the hapless Winston Smith in the book 1984 said:
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
Let me repeat the key line: We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
To that end, here are three scenarios I foresee, any of which could be employed to achieve this objective:
1. The Biden Regime could declare an emergency resulting from a false flag operation that supposedly implicates the extremist MAGA Republicans and declares martial law ahead of the elections. Thus, it’s simply too dangerous for our citizens to go to voting places, and we have to postpone the election.
2. The Democrats win through massive voter fraud despite the overwhelming Red Wave, and of course, no courts are interested in reviewing the evidence.
3. The Red Republican tide swamps the immense voting irregularities which should have given the Democrats their planned-for victory. As a result, Plan B is put into effect between November and January to institute the false flag which will invalidate the election results – perhaps including martial law at this point.
Keep your eyes peeled and your ears attuned. Now on to our primary Prophecy Update . . .
The premise of my message today is very simple: If our government would act against the best interests of the people by developing COVID-19 in partnership with China for the express purpose of promoting – even mandating – the deadly mRNA injections that killed or harmed vast numbers of our citizens, why is it such a stretch to believe that our same government would have devised and executed a terrorist plot to destroy the World Trade Centers on September 11, 2001 and kill thousands of people in order to gin up the War on Terror to use as an excuse to significantly restrict our civil liberties? Why is it so hard to believe that our government has waged war on us via false flag operations through the years so as to promote a One World Government by any means necessary? If our US government chose to inflict such damage on us by using the COVID-19 “vaccines”, how can anyone dismiss the high probability that 9/11 was a manufactured event?
Remember the warning Jesus gave us in Matthew 24:4 as the primary concern during the last days:
“Take heed that no one deceives you.”
Everything that we’re discussing in this vein is about deception. Don’t lose track of that by getting caught up in the official narrative.
Today I want to prove to you without a shadow of doubt that the COVID jabs are military-grade bioweapons repurposed for healthcare to advance a very devious agenda. Based on significant facts regarding 9/11 and the planes assumed to strike the Twin Towers, I want to also plant the seed that it was a US government operation and not the terrorist attack we’ve all been conditioned to believe because of the official narrative that has been repeated for twenty years.
Does this sound rather inflammatory to you? If it does, good, I intend it that way. Because of the plandemic of the supposed COVID virus and the scamdemic of the toxic COVID pretend vaccines, based on my research, I’ve come to the sad conclusion that a war is being waged on America by the very people we’ve elected – along with their shadowy Deep State handlers – so as to destroy our nation and prepare for the globalist utopia envisioned by Agenda 2030 – which I believe will coincide with the Biblical 7-year Tribulation. This is a dark time, and it is getting increasingly darker. However, it must be this way in order for God to finally bring His wrath and righteous judgment to bear upon this lost and dying world.
Sources:
Karen Kingston interview with Mike Adams
https://www.brighteon.com/0baeff43-2a1d-4df9-8e02-454a459ee9ae
Flight attendant 9-11 interview – Rebekah Roth
https://speedtheshift.org/2022/09/11/must-watch-flight-attendant-sheds-new-light-on-9-11/
Moderna mRNA vaccine to grow back blood vessels after heart attack
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/moderna-ceo-confirms-new-mrna-injection-repair-heart-muscles-after-heart-attack
Karen Kingston article: hydrogels vs spike proteins
https://karenkingston.substack.com/p/part-4-dismantling-the-covid-19-story
Awaken Bible Prophecy Update: Conspiracy or Reality?
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-9-28-22-conspiracy-or-reality/
Press for Truth – 9/11 Decade of Deception
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qcYdPtMFdXn6/
Pekka Lundmark – CEO Nokia quote
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/24/nokia-ceo-says-6g-will-arrive-by-2030.html
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
https://www.ae911truth.org/
Saudis not on 9/11 planes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm
Another Saudi not on 9/11 plane
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/saudi-man-to-sue-over-fbi-report/article4153971/
Rebekah Roth – flight attendant – website
https://www.rebekahroth.com/
Vaccinated people – new strange reactions + clots
https://gellerreport.com/2022/10/vaccinated-suffering-strange-terrifying-new-illness.html/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Kindle Vella story: Tribulation Rising
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099Z462WD
Please note that the transcript is available on my website under the posted article with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update: 10-12-22 - Psalm 10 – Past Predicts Future
God knows that the sin in this world is overwhelming. He understands that in our flesh we have no resources at our disposal and no strength with which to overcome anything that comes at us.
God in His wisdom saw beforehand where our having eaten from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil would lead. Unless He intervened, the world – all of mankind – would turn away from our creator. We would foolishly take up the mantle of god upon ourselves through the deception of Satan and in our own lusts.
It's why God gave us His Word for us to read, to meditate upon, and to obey. It’s why Jesus Christ came to this fallen world to give of Himself for our redemption.
Today, I want to do something briefly and a little differently to remind each of us of God’s mercy in the face of crushing depravity and evil. Doesn’t it seem like there is no end and no escape? Satan wants us to believe that, but God has another plan.
Because Christ is victorious, we who are in Christ are also victors. The ages-long war is nearing its end. Let’s remember who we are as the elect of God and His ambassadors to this lost and dying world.
Jesus is coming and we need to be watching. Please be encouraged today as God reminds us of His goodness.
Sources:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-10-05-babies-dying-breast-milk-fully-vaccinated-moms.html
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-10-05-study-mrna-found-in-milk-vaxxed-mothers.html
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-10-05-american-medical-association-demands-doj-prosecute-journalists-who-oppose-surgical-child-mutilations.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/09/electric_vehicles_and_the_evacuation_of_florida.html
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/electric-vehicles-exploding-water-damage-hurricane-ian-top-florida-official-warns
https://grandmageri422.me/2022/10/09/chinese-police-overseas-ny-outpost-can-be-tool-for-sabotage-in-us-expert/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/ccp-runs-police-outpost-in-new-york-city-part-of-global-network-of-transnational-repression-report_4775591.html
https://leohohmann.com/2022/10/05/judicial-watch-releases-bombshell-documents-exposing-deep-states-involvement-with-media-in-the-biggest-propaganda-campaign-in-history/
https://harbingersdaily.com/jd-farag-full-bible-prophecy-update-the-prophetic-role-of-social-media/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Kindle Vella story: Tribulation Rising
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099Z462WD
Please note that slide presentation is available at my website blog in the posted article with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 10-5-22: Super-Rich Prepping for Apocalypse
Concern for troubling times to come has been a theme of the super-rich for a number of years. For the most part the extraordinarily wealthy seem to have ascended to their elite status by a combination of hard work and supernatural assistance. I’ve speculated previously in my Prophecy Update on Young Global Leaders (linked on Rumble) that few men and women in the upper echelons of the rich and famous got there solely under their own power. I firmly believe they have literally made a deal with the devil and sold their souls to him in order to achieve the fabulous life in this world that they seek – whether it be money, fame, or power.
I’ve talked often on this platform of the global elites who – in league with Satan and his minions – are doing all in their power to move into a state of existence they call Humanity 2.0, which is a merging of man and machine. This is also called the Singularity, where artificial intelligence (AI) transcends human intelligence and erases the borders between humanity and computers, and men merge into this networked, eternal utopia. This is the long-sought after Fountain of Youth and the ideal of living forever without the need for God. Man becomes God, just as Satan enticed Eve to believe in the Garden by eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The super-rich are hoping for this soon-coming integration to happen in their lifetimes. But they also know that trouble is brewing in the world – largely because of their own doing in contradiction to following God’s ways. Please see my Prophecy Update of Engineered Climate Catastrophe (linked below) for more details. These wealthy individuals see extremely difficult times ahead and are preparing for them. Because of a rash of articles lately on this topic, I thought I’d bring out slides that I previously showed a couple years ago which graphically illustrate what these wealthy elites plan to do. I’ll use that as a springboard to update you on current thinking by the super-rich and discuss the futility of these efforts as men struggle against God.
Sources:
Deception: Conspiracy or Reality?
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-9-28-22-conspiracy-or-reality/
Rich sell soul to devil
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-2-2-22-klaus-schwabs-young-global-leaders/
Climate disaster
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-8-31-22-engineered-climate-catastrophe/
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/former-military-bunkers-are-now-home-hundreds-survival-minded-people
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bunker-down-why-switzerland-prepared-big-one
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/phone-hasnt-stopped-ringing-paranoid-rich-panic-buy-doomsday-bunkers-nuclear-war-fears
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/18/peter-thiel-refused-consent-for-sprawling-lodge-in-new-zealand-local-council
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8165415/Armed-vigilantes-cut-tree-use-roadblock-quarantine-workers-New-Jersey.html
Harbingers Daily:
HD Wayback machine – August 15: https://web.archive.org/web/20220815035154/https://harbingersdaily.com/
HD Current – October 3:
https://harbingersdaily.com/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Kindle Vella story: Tribulation Rising
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099Z462WD
Please note that slide presentation is available at my website blog in the posted article with the same title.
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Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 9-28-22: Conspiracy or Reality?
Quite frankly, I waffled back and forth whether or not to broach this topic today, but ultimately decided to go ahead with it. The reason is that it will probably make some of you angry at me, but to relate everything that is necessary, then some hurt feelings are probably in order...
So here we are with the need to address conspiracies and realities. What happened then on 9/11 and is really going on today? As Mulder and Scully in the X-Files believed: The Truth is Out There. And so it is.
Sources:
https://garyritter.com/awaken-bible-prophecy-update-8-11-21-puppet-master-conspiracy/
Lyme Disease – Plum Island
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-21-plum-island-agricultural-bioweapons-usda-and-dod-secret-research.html
Oklahoma City
https://rumble.com/vpibqd-governments-greatest-tool-false-flag-attacks.html
Pearl Harbor
https://rumble.com/vye53p-the-real-history-of-pearl-harbor..html
Club of Rome
https://grandmageri422.me/2022/09/20/nytimes-archive-from-1976-publication-on-the-club-of-rome-spearheading-depopulation-and-even-dividing-the-world-into-10-regions/
https://grandmageri422.me/2022/09/20/sometimes-when-the-research-takes-you-in-circles-its-best-to-start-from-the-beginning-and-in-the-beginning-there-was-the-depopulation-club-of-rome-whose-mand/
Agenda – Grinding America Down documentary trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZhlme3CDJo
Agenda 2 – Masters of Deceit documentary trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuW7iSx6vJ0
Curtis Bowers Agenda Weekly on Rumble
https://rumble.com/user/CurtisBowersAGENDA
Curtis Bowers Agenda Weekly website – subscription
https://agendaweekly.com/
Before the Wrath movie
https://www.amazon.com/Before-Wrath-Kevin-Sorbo/dp/B0863F7M8Z/
Amir Tsarfati – Illuminati teaching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tft9T32BNgc
JD Farag Prophecy Update 9/11
https://www.jdfarag.org/bible-prophecy?sapurl=LytkNmtjL2xiL21pLys5bjVzZnZiP2VtYmVkPXRydWUmcmVjZW50Um91dGU9YXBwLndlYi1hcHAubGlicmFyeS5tZWRpYS1zZXJpZXMmcmVjZW50Um91dGVTbHVnPSUyQjgyeXhwOGY=
Amir Tsarfati concerning 9/11 conspiracy – starting about 23:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWU8zlRdASs
Plum Island
https://naturalnews.com/2022-09-22-ny-plum-island-animal-disease-center-weaponizing-ticks.html
https://naturalnews.com/2022-09-21-plum-island-agricultural-bioweapons-usda-and-dod-secret-research.html
9/11 Planes Hoax?
https://911planeshoax.com/
Gary Ritter website: books & blog
http://garyritter.com/
Kindle Vella story: Tribulation Rising
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099Z462WD
Please note that transcript is available at my website blog under article with same title.
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