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A very short summation of what I understand of end-times prophecy as of Sunday 20 March 2022 God, help me to make this useful for someone. - Jeff THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION IN THREE VERSES Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 - 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. THE 'MORAL' OF THE STORY God wins. DISCLAIMER I am a layman trying to make sense of everything.  T

The peace of mind so many in the world enjoyed on 10 March 2020 has not returned, and will not return in that way again.  On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the new COVID-19 a pandemic.  What followed was a global and jarring bureaucratic reaction to the aerosol-transmission aspect of a hitherto unknown virus: stay-at-home orders, mask mandates, lockdowns of entire populations to quell the spread of the virus, whole industries being mothballed, and on-and-on.  In mid-March 2020, we hoped to still do Easter-as-usual, but as the days turned into weeks, it was clear we would lose our 'normal' Easter, and when that day of days came and went with us still at home, I think everyone knew deep-down things were not getting 'back to normal'. It was at this time I realized my lifelong interest in Bible prophecy being reignited in late 2019 was well-timed.  Without the perspective a genuine interest in end-times biblical prophecy has given me, my time since t

  On 15 March 2019, 51 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand while at Friday prayers were gunned down by a white supremacist.  Around the world, vigils were held at innumerable mosques, and I attended one at a mosque in my city. I went there not in a spirit of 'fraternity', but in a spirit of solidarity and being a good neighbor.  God expects us to be good neighbors, and I felt it important to be there.  The Muslims I met that day are not the enemy.  And it will be Muslims like those who will be among the billions who will reject the radical-Muslim Antichrist.  When we talk about Islam, the use of the term 'radical' is critical, and I wish all prophecy teachers would always use that qualifier.  If the Muslim world were Ismaali or Sufi, there would no fear on the part of anyone regarding that faith.  It would still be a false religion, but were the whole of the Muslim world of the peaceful ilk of Ismaalis, Sufis, and those I met that day, the Twin Towers wo

Herein is the first draft of how the Antichrist might get his start.  For a while, it has been my belief his arising will start with something like this: some random nobody. story by Jeff Ragsdale 4 November 2020 + + + He came to...barely...his face in a pile of dog-excrement and other things I will not mention here. Bones broken. Ribs displaced. A hideous compound fracture of his right femur...bleeding... And it was the heat of the day - the sun directly above, baking his skin as he wallowed in mortal thirst. His mind swam...jeers of " Pig! Pig! "...they had beaten him up good this time. Then - nothing. As though he were simultaneously floating inside his body and outside it. Suddenly, his mind was clear. A round tunnel... Light... and peace… And clarity of spirit. Never in his miserable sixteen years had Ahmed felt such lightness of soul... The quiet of being tucked into bed by the mother he never had... The utter assurance of the father he s