NTEB BIBLE RADIO: Rightly Dividing

The good fight begins with the courage to obey God when obedience costs you something. Joshua needed that courage to lead Israel forward, and Paul called Timothy to exercise it in the spiritual warfare of the Christian life. There will be opposition to the truth, temptation to compromise, and days when the weariness of serving makes quitting seem attractive. Those are the very circumstances in which faithfulness matters. The Lord has given us His word, entrusted us with the gospel, and commanded us to stand. Every believer needs to take that charge personally.

“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.” 1 Timothy 6:12 (KJB)

Fighting that good fight requires both sound doctrine and a good conscience. The truth we preach must govern the life we live. Paul warns about making shipwreck, commands us to put on the whole armour of God, and identifies the word of God as the sword of the Spirit. We need that Book open, our hearts responsive to its correction, and our prayer lives active. False teaching must be answered, temptation must be resisted, and thoughts that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God must be brought into obedience to Christ. This warfare reaches into our homes, our churches, our preaching, and the private decisions nobody else sees. God supplies the power to stand. Near the end of his life, Paul could look back and testify that he had fought a good fight, finished his course, and kept the faith. Then he looked ahead to the righteous Judge who would reward his service. That ought to put fresh determination into every weary Christian who still has work to do. The Lord knows what faithfulness has cost you. He sees the quiet obedience, the continued labour, and the decision to keep going when you feel spent. Keep serving with His appearing in view. Paul’s expectation reaches beyond his own testimony to every believer who loves the Lord’s appearing.

There is something almost surreal taking place in the world this morning. After months of relentless warfare in the Middle East, economic upheaval, political chaos and increasingly frightening international headlines, we appear to have entered what can best be described as the eye of the hurricane. The end times hurricane. We have reached that strange, deceptive moment when the winds temporarily subside, the skies seem to clear, and everything becomes eerily quiet. But anyone who has ever lived through a major hurricane, and here in Florida we’ve lived through a bunch of them, knows that the eye is not the end of the storm. It is the brief interval between the devastation you have already experienced and the devastation that’s still coming. The most dangerous thing you can do while standing in the eye of a hurricane is convince yourself that the storm is over. I’m here to tell you it’s not, not by a long shot.

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.” Jeremiah 25:32 (KJB)

Meanwhile, the political storm gathering over Washington is becoming impossible to ignore. This morning, the Drudge Report is leading with an extraordinary headline, “SOS MAGA — FINAL DAYS OF TRUMP PARTY,” accompanied by a photograph of a slumbering President Donald Trump sitting with his eyes closed while Vice President JD Vance stands askance behind him. The headline perfectly captures the political anxiety surrounding the November 3 midterm elections. Recent national polling shows Trump’s approval ratings dropping like a rock, with the cost of living, inflation and the economy remaining major concerns for American voters. At the same time, the war with Iran has become inseparable from the political calendar. American and Israeli military planners have reportedly developed options for renewed strikes after the elections, while the White House insists there will be no American attacks before voters go to the polls. What an extraordinary situation! The timing of a potential new military offensive is being discussed in the same breath as an American election, while the American people struggle with the economic consequences of a war that remains dangerously unresolved.

And while the politicians count votes, the world continues counting the cost. Oil prices are climbing toward their Iran-war highs, shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains dangerous, and Tehran is openly threatening retaliation against Gulf energy facilities, airports, undersea communications cables and artificial intelligence infrastructure if another American-Israeli attack takes place. Israel is preparing expanded military operations in the West Bank, even as its own election approaches. Wall Street is wrestling with market volatility and growing concerns over the enormous amounts of money pouring into artificial intelligence. Cybersecurity researchers are warning about serious vulnerabilities threatening websites and computer systems around the world. These are not isolated headlines. They are interconnected fault lines running through a global system that has become increasingly dependent on uninterrupted energy supplies, digital infrastructure, international commerce and political stability. One major disruption in the wrong place could send shock waves across several of these systems at once.

But here is what I find most fascinating about this particular moment in time: everything seems to be waiting for something else. Washington is waiting for November 3. Israel is preparing for their October 27th elections and whatever comes next with Iran. Tehran is calculating how much economic pressure it can exert before the American elections. Financial markets are watching energy prices, interest rates and the rapidly expanding artificial intelligence industry. And millions of ordinary people like me and you are simply trying to make ends meet while wondering what fresh crisis tomorrow’s headlines will bring. There is a peculiar unnerving tension in watching so many unresolved problems accumulate without knowing which one will become the next great international emergency.

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, we are watching a world attempting to manage tremendous instability while still assuring itself that tomorrow will look something like yesterday. We don’t know what will happen after November 3, whether the Iran war will explode into another round of fighting, or what new economic or geopolitical crisis may be waiting around the corner. But the first half of the storm has already shown us how quickly the world can change. The question now is what waits us on the other side of it.

Something very strange is happening on the campaign trail as President Donald Trump crisscrosses America desperately trying to rescue Republican control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. With his approval ratings collapsing, the Iran war dragging on, and the American people increasingly frustrated by an economy that looks nothing like the promised Golden Age, the president has suddenly become fascinated with describing other men’s bodies, particularly Senator Jon Husted’s muscular backside, shoulders, legs and feet. Then there’s his continuing celebration of the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.,” which he calls the “gay national anthem,” while telling audiences how much Melania hates watching him dance to it. But what if these increasingly bizarre performances are not simply Trump losing control of the narrative? What if they are helping him deliberately change it? Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon famously described a political technique called “flood the zone,” overwhelming the news media with a nonstop barrage of distractions and controversies until the important stories get buried beneath the spectacle. Pay no attention to that man behind the golden curtain.

“Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:” Isaiah 30:10 (KJB)

While Americans are watching viral videos of Trump talking about men’s bodies and dancing to disco music, the war with Iran continues to produce consequences that no amount of political theater can make disappear. Iranian forces have intensified their attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices remain painfully elevated, and Tehran is reportedly attempting to use the approaching midterm elections to increase economic pressure on Washington. Remember, this is the same president who celebrated the obliteration of Iran’s nuclear facilities and promised the American people an end to endless wars. Yet months later, American military forces remain deeply engaged in the Middle East, the Iranian nuclear question remains unresolved, and American families are paying the price at the gas pump. Meanwhile, inflation remains stubbornly elevated, and a recent Reuters/Ipsos survey puts Trump’s approval rating at an astonishing 31%. Those are the headlines that should be dominating the national conversation, not the president’s running commentary about another man’s anatomy. Whether by deliberate calculation or political instinct, every fresh controversy gives the media another shiny object to chase while the consequences of his administration’s policies continue mounting.

THE END TIMES COUNTDOWN:

Today is day 1,700 of the Russia-Ukraine War
Today is day 2,407 of 15 Days To Flatten The Curve
Today is day 235 of World War Trump in Iran
Today is day 28,649 of The Regathering Of Israel

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, with the Midterm elections a mere 12 days away, it would seem to be about the right time for an “October Surprise” from either the Republicans, Democrats or both. Today we dig through the noise to bring you the truth about what Trump is really doing, and how this might relate to the judgment by God on America. Never a dull day on the front lines of the end times…TO THE FIGHT!!!

The world is becoming accustomed to things that should be shaking it wide awake. Israel has raised its military readiness as violence continues in Gaza and the West Bank, while the confrontation with Hezbollah remains unresolved beneath Lebanon’s fragile ceasefire. Saudi Arabia is struggling to defend its airports and infrastructure against Houthi missiles and drones. Today, a Houthi missile attack reportedly killed at least 20 government troops in Yemen. Meanwhile, the confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz continues threatening the movement of oil through one of the world’s most important shipping routes. These conflicts reach far beyond the people directly under fire: disrupted supplies and higher prices carry their consequences into households thousands of miles away.

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Matthew 24:6-8 (KJB)

The pressure extends across Europe, Asia and Africa. Russia continues striking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, while attacks on commercial ships in the Black Sea raise dangerous questions about how close this war can come to NATO territory before provoking a wider response. China’s recent live-fire exercises and maritime confrontations keep Taiwan and the Philippines watching closely; North Korea is threatening additional weapons deployments along its border with the South. Sudan and Myanmar remain engulfed in devastating wars that receive a fraction of the attention given to the major powers. And in France, the government explicitly connects its fuel-price crisis to overseas fighting and disrupted energy supplies. That economic strain adds pressure to a country already struggling with domestic grievances and violent unrest. The distance between a foreign battlefield and your own neighborhood is much shorter than people imagine. People exhausted by war, struggling to afford necessities and afraid to walk their own streets can become extraordinarily receptive to some charismatic political figure promising order. The danger is that desperation makes sweeping demands for obedience begin to sound reasonable. It it at this point in the road that we leave the headlines of politics to land squarely within the pages of Bible prophecy and the prophets.

THE END TIMES COUNTDOWN:

Today is day 1,698 of the Russia-Ukraine War
Today is day 2,405 of 15 Days To Flatten The Curve
Today is day 233 of World War Trump in Iran
Today is day 28,647 of The Regathering Of Israel

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, there are “wars and rumours of war” everywhere you look, and as more time passes, the dots are all starting to connect with each other. Both WWI and WWII had this exact same type of beginning. I believe that WWIII will be separate from the Battle of Armageddon, and will likely start before the Rapture of the Church takes place. Today we will show you every hotspot around the globe where war is active, putting all the end times chips into a single pile, and let you decide for yourself where we are on the end times timeline.

This is the opening remarks and introduction to the 8th NTEB Camp Meeting given by Pastor Geoffrey Grider. This was recorded live in East Palatka, Florida