NOTES ON YAH’S SHOUT TO THE SHEPHERDS: “LIFT UP YOUR VOICE NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE!” – (WITH VIDEO)

THEOLOGY

SCRIPTURE. “Cry aloud, spare not. Lift up your voice like a trumpet and declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins!” – ISAIAH 58:1, AMPC

KEY TERM: “CRY ALOUD!” ‘Qara’ [קָרָא]: “From a primitive root associated with the idea of, literally, ‘Accosting a person by name, calling him out [publicly]!’ also, to preach or proclaim; to summon, to invite; to read aloud from a scroll or a book [for all to hear]; to utter a loud sound [i.e., ‘shout or scream!’] in order to make someone known, famous [or infamous]; done to bring a person to respond or bring them near [as with publicly calling someone to account].”

QUOTATION. “There is no greater Tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the Law and in the name of Justice.” ― CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT, BARON DE LA BRÈDE ET DE MONTESQUIEU, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748; edited (Read on my Sabbatical Year, Regent University, 1988).

COMMENTARY. “Cry aloud!’ — Be faithful, plain, and earnest in thy addresses, remonstrances, reproofs, and exhortations to and among My people. ‘And spare not!’ — Forbear not to speak whatsoever I command thee for their conviction and reformation. ‘Lift up thy voice like a trumpet!’ — Be not afraid to exert thy voice and spend thy strength in this work. Give an alarm which all may hear. ‘Show My people their transgressions!’ — Set their sins, all their sins, before them, in a true point of view, and with all their aggravations, especially the iniquities of their holy things, and the hypocrisy of their religious services (Isaiah 58:2,) that they may be brought to true Repentance for them.” – JOSEPH BENSON, Notes on the Holy Bible, 5 vols., 1811-1818; edited

II. TEACHING

First: This Commentary was penned in the early days of November 2024 just prior to America’s 60^th Quadrennial Presidential Election. Therefore, I did not know the Outcome of the Election at this writing, but one thing I can safely say: We are entered upon a Critical Season clearly marked for Unprecedented Tumult in our Nation.

Second: Since it has always been the case that a State is no better than her Church, I once again aim this most severe Rebuke straight at the Evangelical Community and its Pastors, who have, in military terms, very largely Abandoned Their Posts for nearly ten years now.

Third: As what I consider to be the very ‘End of History As We Know It’ approaches in these Last of the Last Days, I am duty-bound to ring God’s Alarm Bells as never before. By His Command, beloved, and not my own I tell you! The Times of Grace are so very thinly peeled back now, that this message must be carried to every single Christian Pulpit possible in this Season of APOSTASY AND ANTICHRIST in America.

CONTEXT. “Now in regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and ourgathering together to meet Him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to be quickly unsettled or alarmed either by a [so-called prophetic revelation of a] spirit or a message or a letter [alleged to be] from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has [already] come.

Let no one in any way deceive or entrap you, for that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first [that is, the great rebellion, the abandonment of the faith by professed Christians], and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction [the Antichrist, the one who is destined to be destroyed], who opposes and exalts himself [so proudly and so insolently] above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he [actually enters and] takes his seat in the temple of God, publicly proclaiming that he himself is God.” – 2 THESSALONIANS 2:1-4, AMP

PAUL’S FOUR ALERTS. In a somewhat unusual turn for me, I shall draw from this now Urgent and Imminent Passage, Four Sharp Warnings that the Apostle fairly shouted from his parchments over 2,000 years ago to those of us living out The Time of the End here in the United States of America.

That same America I now fully regard as increasingly fulfilling the Prophecy of Babylon the Great (cf. Revelation 17-18). That being clearly stated, I now consider each of those Divine Signals to a stiff-necked people, the American, primarily White Christians, to see what God would say to us.

THE GATHERING. ‘Episunagógé’ [ἐπισυναγωγῆς]: “From a primitive root meaning, ‘To collect upon [or in] the same place;’ refers specifically to a Christian meeting for worship, as with an assembling together [with the Lord].” WEBSTER (1828): “To bring together; to collect a number of separate things into one place or into one aggregate body. Also: To get in harvest; to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores” (‘The Rapture;’ cf. Matt. 24:31; 1 Thess. 4:17).
THE UNSETTLEDNESS. ‘Saleuó’ [σαλευθῆναι]: “‘To waver, agitate, rock or topple;’ to destroy, disturb or incite [toward instability]; to move or be moved, shaken or stirred up; to cast down (from one’s secure and happy state or condition).” WEBSTER (1828): “To stir violently; to move back and forth with a quick motion; to shake or move briskly. To disturb, or excite into tumult; as, to agitate the mind or passions.”
THE APOSTASY. ‘Apostasia’ [ἀποστασία]: “To forsake, depart from or stand away from;literally, ‘A defection or revolt [from the Truth of God];’ strongly implies a desertion [from one’s former beliefs or commitments]; a leaving from a previous standing.” WEBSTER (1828): An abandonment of what one has professed; ‘a Departure from one’s Faith or Religion.’”
THE SON OF PERDITION. ‘Apóleia’ [ἀπωλείας]: “From a root meaning, ‘To loose or lose;’refers to the state after death wherein exclusion from salvation as a realized fact wherein man is lost and utterly ruined; destruction, either temporal or eternal [or both]; to be completely severed or cut off from God.” WEBSTER (1828): The utter loss of the soul or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death. ‘If we reject the Truth, we seal our own Perdition.’”

APPLICATION. We now turn to the all-important Interpretation of what these Doctrines actually mean to those of us living in these Last Days in anticipation of what comes next.

III. THINGS TO COME: 2025-2030

Since I am not a Prophet (nor have there been any since the Messanic Era), I have for the last nearly ten years now argued increasingly forcefully for TWO PROBABLE REALITIES: (1) That Donald John Trump is the Biblical Antichrist; and (2) The United States of America is becoming Babylon the Great, Antichrist’s home base of political, economic and military operation for the first three and a half years of the Great Tribulation of Daniel 9:27.

Based on those exhaustively researched Propositions, and after surveying some of the most lucid minds on these grave matters, I settled on several that I believe is the most likely and accurate assessment of what we can expect:

If Donald Trump loses the Election to Kamala Harris.
If Donald Trump wins the Election against Kamala Harris.

REALITY – I (HARRIS WINS). This superb but chilling Forecast was brought together by the combined efforts of Four Politico Journalists: Keil Cheney, Heidi Przybyla, John Sakellariadis & Lisa Kashinskyin their piece titled, “The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway” (October 20, 2024; edited).

OPEN. “Four years ago, a sitting president — rejected by American voters — attempted to seize a second term anyway, plunging the nation into confusion, conflict and, in its last gasp, violence. Now, Donald Trump’s political comeback has revived a sense of dread among the officials and institutions who stood in his way last time: Could it happen again?”

PREMISE. “2024 is not 2020. Trump’s path to pulling it off this time is even narrower and more extreme. For one thing, Trump lacks some of the tools he threatened to wield four years ago to upend the transfer of power; today, the military and Justice Department answer to Joe Biden. Trump also needs allies to win elections that would put them in a position to reverse a defeat: Overturning a Kamala Harris victory would require an enormous amount of help from Republican power brokers in statehouses and Congress, some of whom spurned him four years ago.”

EXPECTATION 1. “He will deepen distrust in the election results by making unsupported or hyperbolic claims of widespread voter fraud and mounting longshot lawsuits challenging enough ballots to flip the outcome in key states.”

EXPECTATION 2. “He will lean on friendly county and state officials to resist certifying election results — a futile errand that would nevertheless fuel a campaign to put pressure on elected Republican legislators in statehouses and Congress.”

EXPECTATION 3. “He will call on allies in GOP-controlled swing-state legislatures to appoint “alternate” presidential electors.”

EXPECTATION 4. “He will rely on congressional Republicans to endorse these alternate electors — or at least reject Democratic electors — when they convene to certify the outcome.”

EXPECTATON 5. “He will try to ensure Harris is denied 270 votes in the Electoral College, sending the election to the House, where Republicans are likely to have the numbers to choose Trump as the next president.”

STRATEGY. “Trump allies say the former president is singularly focused on winning the election outright and has not personally engaged in the war-gaming scenarios he might look to if Harris wins. The Trump campaign declined repeated requests for comment about Trump’s plans for the post-election period and whether he has deputized allies to consider all contingencies. Meanwhile, Trump refused again this week [late October 2024] to publicly say he would back a peaceful transfer of power.”

BREEDING DISTRUST. “What Trump will do first is what he’s already doing: Stoking deep, unfounded doubts about the integrity of the election. Trump has spent weeks promoting unsupported claims of mass voter fraud by Democrats, suggesting they’re illegally registering thousands of non-citizens to vote and soliciting unlawful votes from foreigners. He’s also raised doubts about the Postal Service’s ability to process mail ballots, even as he’s worked to reverse Democrats’ edge in the format.”

PRESSURING BOARDS. “If Trump-friendly local officials are stymied in their efforts to impede unfavorable election results, it would become an immediate rallying cry to the same ‘Stop the Steal’ forces who mobilized for Trump in 2020. That, in turn, would drive up pressure and fear among the Republican state and federal lawmakers who govern the next phases of the process. ‘Those seeking to wreak havoc with respect to the 2024 election are way ahead of where they were in 2020 in terms of laying the groundwork for and widespread dissemination of the theories and talking points and lies they will use to challenge the results of the election,’ said Marc Harris, former senior investigative counsel to the Jan. 6 committee.”

LAWSUITS. “Ahead of the election, both Parties have been jockeying in dozens of lawsuits across the country seeking every possible advantage in the intricate processes of casting and counting votes. These more-traditional battles over the contours of the voting process could determine whether entire categories of votes will be counted in states that could be decided by just a few thousand. Both parties have marshaled their fiercest litigators.”

SPEAKER MANEUVERS. “Now imagine the House remains in Republican hands. Trump has spent November and December pressuring state legislatures in Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina to send alternate slates of electors to Congress. They acquiesce. Those slates are delivered to Harris, but this time they have the backing of a government authority … If Republicans, through the speaker’s maneuvering, prevent either candidate from garnering an Electoral College majority, it would trigger what’s known as a contingent election in the House, with each state delegation getting a single vote. Republicans control 26 state delegations to Democrats’ 22, with two others evenly split. The GOP is favored to maintain that advantage, and Republicans would almost certainly choose to elect Trump president.”

CONCLUSION. “And it would be a brazen display of power that would outstrip the multifaceted gambit of 2020. ‘Then you’re really getting into the Realm of Lawlessness,’ said Rick Hasen, an election law expert at UCLA. ‘If people are going to be willing to just ignore the law and declare someone the winner, ‘then you’re talking about a real coup.’”

REALITY – II (TRUMP WINS). On Wednesday November 6, 2024, at 3:00 am (Mtn. Time), or what the Western Church traditionally regards as “The Devil’s Hour,” the State of Wisconsin’s 10 Electoral College votes were called for DONALD JOHN TRUMP, putting him at 277 votes, formally electing him as our 47^th President of the United States of America.

Since it is undeniable that White American Christians have been instrumental in the Reelection of Donald Trump, the Scriptures firmly prophesy that National and World History shall be changed for Perpetuity in ways that are very nearly unimaginable. Nonetheless, I shall briefly try to define some of those ways best I can on somewhat short notice.

10 MAJOR CHANGES. This BRIEF INTEGRATION of several sources includes the following: Jill Colvin, “Trump’s Plans if He Returns to the White House” (AP News, Nov. 12, 2023); Editors, “Republicans Win Senate Majority, House Control Still Up for Grabs” (AP News, Nov. 6, 2024); Jared Mondschein, “Dictator on Day One” (The Conversation, Nov. 6, 2024); Rob Garver, “Trump’s Vows of ‘Revenge’” (VOA News, June 10, 2024). – All slightly edited for readability.

DEEP STATE. “Trump [will] try to strip tens of thousands of career employees of their Civil Service protections. That way, they could be fired as he seeks to ‘totally obliterate the Deep State.’”
THE BORDER. “Trump has pledged to ‘immediately stop the invasion of our southern border’ and end illegal immigration. As part of that plan, he says he would immediately direct U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to undertake the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
TRADE. “Trump says he will institute a System of Tariffs of perhaps 10% on most foreign goods. Penalties would increase if trade partners manipulate their currencies or engage in other unfair trading practices.”
FOREIGN POLICY. “Trump claims that even before he is inaugurated, he will have settled the war between Russia and Ukraine. That includes, he says, ending the ‘endless flow of American treasure to Ukraine’ and asking European allies to reimburse the U.S. for the cost of rebuilding stockpiles.”
TRANSGENDER RIGHTS. “Trump says he will ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that “only two genders,” as determined at birth, are recognized by the United States.”
ENERGY. “Trump’s goal, he says, is for the U.S. to have the lowest-cost energy and electricity of any nation in the world, including China. Under the mantra ‘DRILL, BABY, DRILL,’ he says he would ramp up oil drilling on public lands and offer tax breaks to oil, gas, and coal producers. He would roll back Biden administration efforts to encourage the adoption of electric cars and reverse proposed new pollution limits that would require at least 54% of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2030.”
EDUCATION. “Trump has pledged to terminate the Department of Education, but he also wants to exert enormous influence over local school districts and colleges. He would push the federal government to give funding preference to states and school districts that abolish teacher tenure, adopt merit pay to reward good teachers and allow the direct election of school principals by parents.”
HOMELESSNESS. “Trump wants to force the homeless off city streets by building tent cities on large open parcels of inexpensive land. At the same time, he says he will work with states to ban urban camping, giving violators the choice between being arrested or receiving treatment.”
PUBLIC SAFETY. “Trump would again push to send the National Guard to cities such as Chicago that are struggling with violence. He would use the federal government’s funding and prosecution authorities to strong-arm local governments.”
TRUMP’S RETRIBUTION. “Former President Donald Trump has been increasingly clear about his intention to use the power of the presidency to seek revenge on those he considers his political enemies if his bid to retake the White House is successful in the November elections.”

IN SUM. As I have been warning for several years now, what is just a few weeks away is an America nothing less than THE FOURTH REICH of a Fascist Regime fashioned directly from the Playbooks of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels. – See Project 2025 and Agenda 47 for the details.

That Fourth Reich is actually foretold by the Prophet Daniel:

“And the FOURTH KINGDOM shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others.” – DANIEL 2:40, NKJV

No more debate about it with those who remain committed to Antichrist and Rebellion. As Christ clearly instructed, I will only engage with those who are willing to listen, and leave the rest to Almighty God for His strenuous reproofs. Perhaps He can awaken a few before His Wrath fully explodes in the coming days (cf. Matt. 10:14; Rev. 6:17).

IV. LAST THOUGHTS: POSTMORTEM

The Presidential Election for me was the FINAL LITMUS TEST as to who this Man is, who the Church is, and who the American Nation is. So, let’s tighten our theological hatches in Sober Preparation for what lies ahead.

TRUMP: ANTICHRIST. After years of documenting this claim into the doctrinal dust, I simply tell you on the Authority of God’s Word that Donald Trump is the Biblical Antichrist, having fulfilled all 10 Theological Markers of such Identity (Dr. Cliff Kelly, The Sixth Seal II, pp. 141-145).

CHURCH: THE WHORE OF BABYLON. “And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.” – REVELATION 17:3-4, NKJV

AMERICA: BABYLON THE GREAT. “And [the angel] cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, ‘Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.’ And I heard another voice from heaven saying, ‘COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.’” – REVELATION 18:2-5, NKJV

BAGGIN’S LAMENT. Several of you reminded me of the bitter-sweet exchange between Frodo Baggins and Gandalf the Wizard from J.R.R. TOLKIEN’S magnificent Fellowship of the Rings (1954) about here:

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’”

I prefer to close then with the nearly immortal words of our Founders in the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. But not a dedication to a nearly fallen, deeply corrupted nation, but now, properly, to a vastly more Superior Kingdom and True Sovereign, even to JESUS THE CHRIST, our only True King.

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

CODA. Unto life or unto death, beloved, as The Lord of the Universe would have it.

Selah.

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