What Does it all Mean? Discerning the Signs of the Times - Part 2

Blessings to Israel presents Discerning the Times, a program committed to encouraging you to view current events through the lens of the Bible.

Now, in honor of the one and only true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Please join us for today's program. President Trump's decision to withhold WHO funding has upset one of the organization's most prominent supporters, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, tweeting in part, halting funding for the WHO during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds. The world needs them now more than ever.

Well the truth is the group actually needs gates. more than ever. With the US taking a pause, he'll now be their largest active donor. That's right, one out of every 10 bucks that the WHO gets is from the world's second wealthiest man.

So should we be concerned about how much one man Has maybe an outsized influence with an obviously corruptible entity such as the WHO. Welcome to Discerning the Times. My name is Brian Thomas. It is a blessing to be with you once again this week, alongside co-host Dr. Bruce Logan, who we will bring in shortly.

And this week, we are continuing our look at what does it all mean, the things that are going on in the world, what does it all mean in light of the Bible? And that is why we are here to discern the times.

So we will pick up where we left off last week. But before we do, I need to remind you that your eternal state is far more important than your current state. If you've never received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, I encourage you to do so today. Otherwise, if you lead this out of life without having received him, you will spend eternity in the lake of fire, separated from God.

So will you please give your heart to Jesus Christ today? All right, so we're going to bring in co-host Dr. Bruce Logan. And Doc, you heard that opening clip, which we started talking about at the end of last week's program, but that was Laura Ingram speaking on the WHO. And just again, as we are opening up this topic of what does it all mean?

How does that and the other things that we discussed last week? How does it all tie into the Bible and as we are approaching the return of Jesus Christ?

Well, thank you again for this podcast. And I've been looking forward to continuing our discussion that we began last week. And essentially, just to kind of bring the audience up to date, we highlighted five items that point to the fact that we are literally living in the time of birth pains, which means that the return of our Lord is imminent based on what's happening in the world and the signs of the culture. And just to run through it real quick, we talked about the rush toward globalism as this, one of the, you know, we kind of highlight it as a single, one of the single important signs of the times that we're living in the last days. And so just to kind of put a little bit of explanation on when we talk about the term globalism, we're talking about the Antichrist one world system.

And there's no way that we can maybe sugarcoat it or kind of speak in different terms because that's exactly what it is. And one of the things that for those of you who study Bible prophecy, you will know this. But those of you who are listening who may be new to the topic of Bible prophecy. Let me just say this, that when the Antichrist comes on the scene. uh which the bible speaks of it you know the bible calls him many names the man of sin the son of perdition uh amongst other names that when he comes on the scene, he's not going to be able to, because he's only gonna be have a seven year run.

So he's not going to be able to just initiate all of his end time one world government initiatives. The infrastructure will already be in place for him to seamlessly adapt and walk into. And that's one of the things that's important that we need to understand as believers, especially, is that when we talk about the infrastructure, we mean that the system, the technologies will already be in place when the Antichrist comes on the scene. And I said all that to say that there's some trigger words that as believers, we need to be able to discern and pay attention to. And one of those key trigger words that I like to use, and when you hear the words world and global, anytime a sentence or organization.

begins with the word, with the words either world or global. That should be a trigger because what it is is that whatever that organization is up to, their part, whether they're aware of it or not, they're helping to implement the one world government system that the Antichrist is going to lay out. and put into place Um, when he comes in the tribulation period, so that's what we're talking about.

So, in the clip mentioned, for example, one of those organizations, which is the World Health Organization. And I want you to just kind of like put that into perspective: the World Health Organization. Another organization that we'll talk about, you know, later in this episode is the World Economic Forum. Notice that both of those terms or both of those organizations begin with the words the world or world, meaning it's global. It's meaning that the leaders of these organizations and the financial subers of these organizations, their goal is to have a one-world system, whether it's nationalism, whether it's economics, whatever the case may be.

And that is a part of the Antichrist preparation, laying the groundwork for when he comes on the scene, he'll be able to seamlessly. began to operate and to s establish his one world government. Yeah, and that's coming right out of Revelation chapter 13, verses 16 through 17, that I'll share. It says, and he causes all both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads, and that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name.

So we are accelerating fast to that time, and we've already seen precursors of that kind of thing happening already that lets us see what that system could be like. Yeah, and again, like I said before, that's exactly right.

So again, that's an economic system. When I said no man shall buy or sell save he have the mark. And obviously he's talking about just it should be a clear giveaway that when you use the term buy or sell, you're talking about economics. You're talking about world economics in this particular context. And when he comes on the scene, he's not going to just, he's not going to have the time to, you know, get with different scientists and how can we make this happen.

No, the infrastructure is already going to be in place. And that infrastructure is all is in place and being put into place right now as we speak. I remember when I first started studying Bible prophecy back in the early 80s. And, you know, I listened to a lot of the big time, you know, Bible prophecy teachers, Hal Lindsay and so forth. And one of the things that they debated over as to what was at the time, how.

How is this one world economic system going to be implemented? You know, all these different theories, is it going to be the barcode when that finally came online? Is it going to be this or that? You know, they were trying to decide how it was going to be, you know, implemented. But now, fast forwarding to the day, rarely do you hear any Bible prophecy teachers debate as to how this is going to be implemented because the infrastructure is already in place.

They're talking about right now, I just heard a podcast I was listening to a few weeks ago where, as it turns out, Microsoft has developed a chip that will be implanted inside your skull. And from what I understand, it's going to be. Outpatient, just you go in, zip, zip, they implant this chip, and it'll be able to track you anywhere in the world. And that'll be compounded with the fact that, in addition to that, that apparently. There is a new satellite system, what's called Skynet, I believe.

I'm not sure if that's the name of it or not, but Skynet, or I can't remember. But anyway, nevertheless, this is a low orbit. satellite system that will be like placed all around the world where people in the most remote locations will have instantaneous access to the internet. And that's how it's being built. And so in combination of these different technologies to be able to track individuals through these various chips and through these various cards and through these various barcodes and all the various different ways in which we do commerce, when you combine all of that with the fact that the technology to be able to track individuals all around the world instantaneously, that is telling you that when the Antichrist comes online, he's going to have his infrastructure already in place in order to be able to implement his one world economic system.

Yeah. And and global elites of the world today, I mean, they they're the ones that are already setting this up, right? As you say, whether knowingly or unknowingly.

So talk talk, if you will, about some of the global elites that are playing a role in this system coming into place. There are a number of global elites, including... big financial backers, including one of the biggest ones is Bill Gates, of course, as we heard in that clip. But then there are others, in fact, you and I did a couple episodes on this individual. I don't know, maybe it was a couple years ago on Uval Harari, I think his name is, if memory serves me correctly.

And he's a big backer, the leader of the World Economic Forum, Charles Swab. And I think he retired, but he turned it over to his son. And from what I understand, his son is more of a globalist than his dad. And so, you know, have those individuals. And then also you have George Sorrells, who's another major, probably the next biggest Donor next to Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation.

So you have individuals like this who are big parts and big advocates for this one-world economic system. And as a matter of fact, Bill Gates, he has his, and George Searles, not only is he a big backer for the World Health Organization, but he's also a big backer and supporter of the World Economic Forum.

So those two individuals in particular have their hands in both pies. Yeah, and I think this is a good point to sort of. Do a contrast or comparison between you talk about globalism and when you hear things about the world scene versus nationalism. And we even hear people will speak negatively about nationalism. As we know, Donald Trump has been known as a nationalist.

He's not trying to get us into the whole world system.

So let's listen to a clip that's actually going to speak to that very thing of globalism versus nationalism. The Globalists are in a meltdown mode. Is there one world idea imploding? We need to also factor in not only who's won, which is Trump, but who's lost, which is to say us. And I guess I would add, throw into that that the epitome of the us who is losing here is Europe.

that the European Union and by and large its member states have misread the direction where events were going. All right, so as you can tell, that was from Jan Markell's understanding of the Times, her opening of her program recently. And they're saying the globalists, they're out there having meltdowns. Talk about that a little bit. Yeah, yes, that was very powerful.

I don't know if the listeners were able to really grasp the full magnitude of what we just heard, but that was a very powerful clip that was played there by Jan Markel and her podcast. And that clip was actually an aftermath of when Trump made his appearance in the 2025 World Economic Forum, which he did on a huge screen via Zoom. And after he was done, they had this stage discussion panel. And the individual that we heard in the clip was one of the speakers in that stage discussion panel. And what they were discussing was they were talking about the aftermath of Trump's speech.

And when they used the term, we are all losers. And he specified we meaning the European Union.

Okay, now when I first heard that, that kind of like sent shivers, right? Because I understood exactly what that meant. And it also explains exactly what the atomis is regarding Trump. and reg in why he's Hitler and so on and so forth and why there's so much angst and hatred about him is because the angst is coming from people who have a globalist worldview, a one world government worldview. And because Trump is emphasizing or advocating for a nationalist ideology, meaning America first.

That's all America first really means. It means that we're going to maintain our national identity and our national sovereignty as opposed to becoming part of a one world government or globalist government. Because first of all, I mean, we could talk about. About this, we could spend an hour just talking about this one point because the idea of a globalist mindset in and of itself is unbiblical and ungodly. And we know, why do we know that?

We know that because of what happened at the Tower of Babel. The Tower of Babel, they wanted to set up in essence a one-world system or global system where everybody spoke the same language and we're going to unite and build this tower here in the land of Shinar. And God looked upon that and said that, oh no, that's the opposite of what I intended. I wanted nations to grow. And so I wanted the descendants of Jonah, I'm sorry, of Noah to grow.

go out and replenish the whole earth. And so God scattered the languages. He scattered every individual.

So people who only people who could understand each other was able to, you know, go and establish their separate communities.

So again, we can see that this whole idea is of globalism is anti-God. But of course, that's the reason why the anti-Christ is going to come in. And that's why he wants to establish a globalist system because that is system that is against God. And so he wants to do the counterfeit of whatever is pleasing in the sight of God. And that's the whole idea and the concept behind this globalist movement.

And that's the reason why, you know, Trump is received so much hatred is because he has a nationalist worldview versus the globalist worldview. And at the end of the day, listeners really need to really wrap their minds around this because in spite of of all of the angst that we hear from the media the main goal the main Uh, hatred that they have for Trump is because he's he has a nationalist perspective. I mean, I'm talking a genuine nationalist and America-first perspective. And Trump was one of the, maybe one of the few presidents that I can ever think of, maybe Reagan. Who spoke a nationalist language and actually went forth to implement a nationalist-related.

Uh, governmental policies to demonstrate that he generally is not just using words, but he generally believes in America first or America sovereignty. And that's the thing we need to always keep in mind of what that America first means. That just simply means, as I stated before, just to reiterate, that it means that we want to have maintain our American sovereignty and our American national identity. And that's all it means, as opposed to being a part of this globalist system. Yeah, yeah, that's very well said.

Trump is in the way of that antichrist spirit that's trying to bring in this one-world system.

So that was point one as we were looking at the question of what does it all mean, this rush toward globalism. Number two, we want to look at is the disintegration of morality in the West. And I just think about in my lifetime, just the few decades that I've lived. How much we have seen morality go downhill. 2 Timothy 3, verses 1 through 5 says, This know also that in the last days, perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure, more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof from such turn away.

And Doc, without a doubt, we see that all over our society here today. Without question, without question. But I want to address that. But before I do, there's one other point I want to make regarding what I said about Trump in the globalist versus nationalist question. And I just wanted to make this one quick point before I forget.

And that is that when I said, talked about the difference between a globalist worldview and a nationalist worldview, the globalist worldview, and this is the most important thing that we'll talk about on that subject, is that those who embrace a globalist world worldview. they also include with that a sectoralist worldview or a communist and socialist worldview.

So they believe in socialism versus free market and individual liberty. And that's one of the things that characterizes the globalists and another reason why as an American, you should not want to have anything to do with a globalist mindset because it's all predicated upon the idea of secularism or socialism and communism.

So that's an important point that I wanted to emphasize. But to this next question that we're discussing, the disintegration of morality in the West. You know, it's really unbelievable to me some of the things that we're seeing that's becoming normalized in the Culture compared to how we were raised. I mean, it's normal to, you know, gender identity and this type of things have become normal. Not only has it become normalized in the culture, but it's being promoted from the governments and from the school system.

And I'm reminded of a passage of scripture in the book of Judges. The book of Judges, in Judges chapter one, when it talks about the generation after the death of Joshua and his generation, and it says, and I'm paraphrasing, that there arose another generation who knew not the Lord. Nor the things that the Lord had done for them in Israel.

So the next generation that came along after Joshua, the Bible says, and they began to do all the things that God said not to do. The scripture said that they began to do evil in the sight of the Lord because that generation came along and had not been taught, you know, the things of God the way that God intended. And that reminds me of something that I heard as I was reading, I was preparing for the book that I'm actually trying to write, dealing with the mind, the battle for the mind. And one of the things that I researched, and it was something I thought was really interesting, that Stalin, when he was first beginning to his rise, he made this comment. He said, Give me the children.

And in a generation, I'll change the world. And you're clearly seeing that happen. This move toward the disintegration of morality and the culture. And by the way, I need to point out that it's no coincidence that this disintegration of morality in the culture is happening at the same time with this move toward globalism. The two are the same, two sides of the same coin.

And it's no coincidence that these two things are happening at the same time, which is a major indication that we're living in the age of birth pains that Jesus spoke about. And so that's something that's very important.

Now, I noticed here that I made a note to myself that I just wanted to point out that this shift toward glow or disintegration in the culture is being fueled by three factors. Factors, well, more than three, but three primary factors. And the one I have here is the first and foremost is the declining. influence of the church.

Okay, that is the most important one. And that's, and I just want to park there just for a minute. There was a time, especially in the United States, where the church and biblical morality was the driving influence in the culture. Not that's not to say that everybody in the culture was Christian, but but biblical morality was the driving influence of the culture. Um, even people who are not Christians wouldn't be caught dead, you know, trying to uh say that you can actually change your gender or that a child can know that they were born in the wrong body.

You know, a five-year-old. I mean, even somebody who's not saved would just, you know, not have been. Uh, down with that at all on any level, and so that, but now, because of the declining influence of Christianity, Christianity no longer has the impact. And influence in the culture that it once had. And that's a major problem.

So, in other words, the institutions that, what I call the institutions of influence in the culture, and that includes pop culture, television, the media, the public education system, academia, all of these various institutes that have influence over the culture have more influence and more power and more dynamism. In the culture, than the church has. And that's a major problem and a major reason why we see this decline in the culture. And another thing that's a big contributor to this decline in the culture is the decline of the influence of the church and the rise of what's called moral relativism. And just to kind of just give a brief, because we could talk all day about moral relativism, but basically, moral relativism just simply or the moral relativists simply argue that moral values are not universal or objective as the Bible tells us, but are determined by the individual or the cultural context.

It implies that, you know, what is considered right or wrong, good or bad, beautiful or ugly, can vary significantly from one person or one culture to the next. And so basically, that's an highlight that what it means by moral relativism. In other words, they argue that there are no single isolated moral objective truths. as the Bible tells us, for an example, which the Bible says, for example, there's only one man and one woman, period, point blank. That's a universally objective truth.

Right. And moral relativists said, no, there's no such thing as that.

So, therefore, those two things primarily are. are our major contributors, contributors to this. Disintegration of morality in the culture. And in order to combat that, I believe that the church needs to get back to being the church and remembering the great commission. Yeah, unfortunately, most church congregations, the organized church is nothing but social clubs now.

No standing up for the truth. I was just reading earlier today a man who was stating that when the attack happened by Hamas against Israel back in October 7th, a couple years ago, how he approached the pastor to say something about it and supporting Israel. And the pastor said, no, we can't do that.

So the church is definitely weakened. And that's a sign the Bible talks about, it talks about a great falling away that's going to come in the last days. And that's going to climax during the seven-year tribulation, but we're already seeing foreshadows. And then that lovers of self-you know, we look around our society and I've never seen a time when people are so much in love with themselves. The level of selfishness today is just off the charts.

But we're going to pause. Right there for this week, and we're going to come back and pick it up because we still have more to share concerning what it all means.

So, we hope you will come back and join us next time as we continue to discern the times by viewing life through the lens of the Bible. Until then, remember to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Bless God's great nation of Israel to the only wise God. Be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.

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