My Calvinistic friends have a great saying “but God”.  Says it all!

As far as I can tell, God has “chosen” (my Calvinistic friends love that word) not to supernaturally intervene in mass like He did in the movie by Cecil B. DeMille.  My wife tells me of areas of the world where God sends dreams to people of Muslim or Hindu religions where they report that they see Jesus.  Other reports are of those same types of people groups hearing God speak to them.  He is drawing them closer on His own … without help from humans.  I have long suspected that He does it better than we do.

In the West, we don’t see that, except for the modern day money changers on TV who fake it for the notoriety … which leads to the money.  In the West, we share what God is to us with our friends in hopes that they will investigate His truths via His word.  Most wont.  They don’t need to in the West.  We are doing just fine … thank you.  Materialism has been a brilliant strategy of our adversary.  It works so ridiculously well.

The closest we in the West get to something supernatural is when young kids decide to make headlines and have a “prayer meeting” that goes on for days.  A true “unplanned” movement of the Holy Spirit.

In the West, we just live our boring daily lives and assume that some day we will die and “go to Heaven”.  That is the goal, “going to Heaven” … or at least avoiding Hell!  We really don’t have any sense of God working in our lives.  Nor do we desire any significant relationship with a “higher power”.  God is merely a concept.  As our Christmas song says, “be good for goodness sake”.  My Baptist friends love that line!

Some of us, especially those in the south, are looking for a miraculous event we call the rapture.  It’s an escape hatch that gets us out of the mess our culture has launched into.  A mess that the so-called church can’t navigate out of, nor modify.  She is powerless.  We have a picture given to us of angelic souls wafting up into the sky towards Heaven.  We suspect that the forces that be are staging an explanation for this possible event by claiming it’s UFO abductions.

Some of us are trying to match unfulfilled biblical prophecy to our current geopolitical situations like the one seen in the Middle east right now.  Is this the lining up of counties for the Ezekiel 38 war?  Perhaps.  It seems that our government and her Military is either ignorant of that possibility, or doesn’t care.  I get the sense that for the “West” it’s business as usual.  The USA and the EU are loping along.  The government of the USA is in a competition with China to dominate the economic world.  Venezuela and Iran are the first two plays for South America and the Middle East.  Cuba is in the que.  All is going according to plan.

But God.

I suspect that God is about to show up in a supernatural way for the entire world to see, and if He does, it will throw a giant monkey wrench into the plans of the West.  While many in the USA are anticipating the rapture, the scale of it may be so different than anticipated that our government and our left behind churched will be stunned like a deer in headlights not knowing what to do next.  At that moment, the Middle east may take advantage of that disabled “deer” and make its move on Israel.

It may not be the rapture that does it?  It may be volcanic action and or earthquakes of significant intensity that neuter the USA in its capacity to protect Israel from an attack from Turkey and her cohort … portions of Libya, Sudan, eastern Iraq, and the remaining IRGC from Iran.  Perhaps a ground invasion far more massive than the October 7 attack?  Biblically, we know the outcome of that attack.

We shall soon see if we are at that time on the prophetic clock?

So, if you happen to live in North Bergen, or in New Jersy, or in the USA, or in China, Japan, the EU, Africa, or South America, I hope this info is helpful.  Our God is absolutely magnificent … and I suspect that He will show His glory soon.

His love for us as expressed at the cross is staggering.  He is worthy of our serving Him, and Him alone.

But God!