It'll be great if Trump can reverse a lot of the globalist's efforts worldwide and not just in the USA.
Of course, I don't believe that even wild success will alter the timeline one second for the trajectory the world is on to the end of this era.
Amen brother. If by this you mean our being steeped into the tribulation age, amen. I believe the quagmire like popouri cluster of events and themes laid before us is likely too towering and intimidating and beyond our pay grades to make the most clarity from. But regardless we know things will ultimately go in the direction of the tribulation. Amen.
Aside from my known generic convictions, our tendency to see things going somewhat in directions that don't exactly align with what looks to be concurrent with what the word tells us it will travel trajectorially like (lol...like is that even a word?) may offer I believe a tendency to perhaps double or triple down on what is called, I believe, confirmation bias (where there exists a need to see whatever is in front of us as that which travels according to a familiar blueprint we may have inside and view things as). In other words, since we know how it ends up, it may encourage something in our hearts to perhaps look even more so to the things we have known to be biblically true about the future to still yet form in contrast to what our days counterintuitively bring forth.
Things like this article obviously will likely continue and increase along the way. And the sense that it would not make a lot of sense for globalism to collapse biblically. And perhaps holding to the sound notions of those concerns within ourselves (commendable) may result in perhaps looking even more so for an alternative view contrary to what seems to be a somewhat forming narrative. We know Paula White does not come to save the Chrstian day. We know God does not use America to pat the church on the back and say, "Well done, now go and become an even better MAGA republican). We know the world does not walk off into a golden age sunset holding hands singing Kumbaya. We know that mankind does not evolve in some new age notion of age of Aquarius.
In a world where the arguments are leaning toward MAGA, Christian Natioanlism, golden age, and NAR ECT...it is reasonable that anything that looks like that must belong to deception. For we know what is on the other side of that wall is the 70th week. Not the golden age continuing (even if we started to see one). In some ways TT it almost seems to be that each denomination sees what it does about end times. And each denomination is affirmed in what they see to be true about their beliefs. Which is amazing to see as a phenomon. So since, to a degree, this is something noticeable about the age we are in, I think it certainly provides some discernment muscles of ours quite the work out...lol...I know it has for me.
You seem more like a brother that is very comfortable in his own skin, views, and Lord. And that even though things may look for a time one way, you soul is certain how God laid things out will not be altered. Amen. Im kind of the same way even though some of my observation and statements might tend to reflect a bit different of a path forward. But my view would meet the age old Christain addage that what comes soon after the close of the age of grace is not a golden age, but the tribulation. For on this we whole heartedly agree. The conventional notion has been that as we get get close to the tribulation we would seem to notice formations along the way that would imply greatly how close we are precisely because of how things are looking this side of the tribulation. And although that approach makes perfect sense. And in some ways even with my differing views would have to admit some of those things would have to be traveling along like old addage would see it. Amen.
I believe what might be a forming tendency (something I also see with Tom Hughes and other prominent watcher voices) is that as we get a bit stumped or surprised by how things seem to be turning an unfamiliar eschatological corner, we may look even stronger for how it is that old addage might still apply. I'm not saying that is necessarily your tendency. I am just saying it is one I have noticed is kind of somewhat common in watcherdom. But to the degree this is so, it would seem that, to me, there is enough of a mutually exclusive appreciation of order of events that don't necessarily have to be in conflict. For example, I would not see limiitation on how far a Trump like golden age can go because of my belief in how it must turn back around to the tribulation anyway. Because I guess its due to my seeing the age of grace and the tribulation age as extremely far more distinct than we might be familiar to do.
Primarily I would say the differential is Ez 38. In general I believe that whatever the golden age is or might be it would seem to be that thing attached to Ez 38. So for me, its not even like "how do we get from a golden age to a tribulation?" For me its more like, to the degree we have a golden age makes Ez 38 far more likely. Most watchers believe America has to tank somehow because in Ez 38 America did not stop it, plus it would not make sense for nations to war against Israel in a time where America had superior military power and sides with Israel. But on the human side I guess we could say that it is not necessarily true that out of despiration many nations aligning together might not think its a bad idea to conspire against Israel (believing their joint forces pose a bit more of a threat and consensus against outright American blowback--which I believe, from a human standpoint--could be one way to look at a strong America even in the midst of a forming Ez 38 event). But even further more, from a biblical standpoint, Gog gets a hook in his jaw. Whatever that is is the reason Ez 38 looks like a good idea. And if God is supernaturally hooking Gog's jaw, it does not have to make sense to us the way in which Gog might see things like having said hooked jaw. So I guess instead of reasoning from a human standpoint that America has to tank in order for Ez 38 to occur, from a somewhat biblical premise it might be arguable that without a strong America Israel would never get to peace and safety in the middle east to begin with.
But in all of this I have not seen the watcher world consider much outside its old addage theological box as to how God might provide a context where America protects Israel for the conditions of Ez 38 to exist. I don't recall hearing much about that at all actually. Some, yes. But it is still very rare. So instead of considerations in a strong America we I suppose could believe that America still has to collapse somehow because NAR can't be right kind of thing. But, for me, I don't see Ez 38 potential as needing to prove NAR wrong. I just believe that NAR is kind of irrelevant as to what things that might seem to align with their views, mean. That even though there might be a number of events where NAR sees their views confirmed, that is not the same as if those events occur in tandem with NAR ideology. For they see what they want in it. But if MAGA serves to down globlism and strengthen Israel for the purpose of Ez 38, when we get there, will NAR still see a golden age? lol. I suppose even there they might. But at that point I don't think it would matter like it seems to perhaps get in the way of best clarity in how biblical themes might actually be forming underneath our feet these days.
So its seems that for me that what feels to need to occur in watcherdom (not that this is you dear brother...just a general theme that seems to come to notice from what I have seen), that we form our theological rubber meets the road attunement with "NAR and MAGA can't be correct" approach...and even by that it would seem an entire enterprise system of doctrines even form. And a MAGA counterculture emerge extraordinaire because we know NAR can't be right. But as for me, I don't struggle with NAR. Because I don't believe they matter all that much in the overall picture. What pulls me in the direction of a said golden age is not new age. Its Ez 38. On some levels it would make sense that if our notions of eschatology are formed more from Daniel and Revelation, our placement of Ez 38 would tend to be an after thought prophetically. Whereas, I would see it kind of the other way around. That what level of blueprint we give Daniel and Revaltion for our age of grace now is perhaps a Daniel & Revelation cart before an Ezekiel 38 hourse. Because if Ez 38 is the primary and Daniel and Revelation are the following clean-up crew, it would be rather difficult to make heads or tells of what events unfolding might mean as it relates to Ez 38. And even in this where I might be somewhat mistaken, one thing we can say though I think is this: Is it not true that we tend to see things far more through Daniel and Revelation than purely through Ez 38? I think we can say "yes' to that. For our age would seem to be stumped should Ez 38 actually have more clout with defining events thant Daniel or Revelation. Not that Daniel and Revelation are wrong. They most certainly are not. But I would wager their timing to follow Ez 38 and not necessarily the other way around.
When viewed in such a way as (like America first) putting Ez 38 first, actually takes the pressure off our need to perhaps shoehorn in Daniel and Revelation at a time where the prophecy of focus (maybe from God's perspective) in the closing of the age of grace = Ez 38. And not so much Daniel/Revelation. I just think we have become accustomed to what prophecy looks like through Daniel and Revelation. And for some reason (likely because we honestly and with care of heart don't tend to overly stronghold where we feel we have to place Ez 38 along the way...amen) we kind of down play perhaps in ways just how much the blanks of Ez 38 are being filled in as we wait. But if we permit Ez 38 the lead and that which overshadows Daniel and Revelation in our age of grace day, then events can take on almost entirely different meaning.
For example, the collapse of globalism, the rise of MAGA, the coming together of a more Abraham Accords (possibly Saudi/Israeli normalization) all make sense in how Israel gets to an actually landmark historic moment of peace and safety. By which Ez 38 could form. And fits perfectly with Him coming at a time we don't expect. When everything would seem to be in golden age mode full swing. And that is where NAR would get sideswiped and caught off guard. But as children of the day, the church does not have to be caught off guard. Nor perhaps in some ways force Daniel or Revelation too much into event discernment--if the head and lead prophesy of providential import is Ez 38, and not necessarily yet Daniel or Revelation. Making Ez 38 the primary prophecy in contrast to church robust familiarity with Daniel / Revelation entrance into tribulaiton age would also defer possibly to God's providential use currently in contrast to whatever else the church believes it sees. Well that is my overall sense of perhaps how far things might go.
So in light of that, I would just say perhaps something ironic in contrast: To the degree things look to not go in the Daniel/Revelation familiar eschatological territory trejectory we as the church are most familiar with, would also be to the extent things go according to its nearness. Or to the degree it looks like it is not the time of Christ's return, is to the degree it likely guarentees it is. Under this view, to me, this would mean an unstoppable wave toward a golden age the church may unfortunately have to sit through. And rapture at its hightened venture. The downside there is it would seem to be a bit confusing as to what happened to all the ways things were to lean into the tribulation? The end time story was not suppose to be a time of global flourishing...and then the rapture and then sudden destruction upon Israel. That was not the recipe we were accustomed to. Yet in all of that, this "Don't focus on America or golden age or Trump" business certainly has a place of concern. But ironically in as much as it might, it would seem potentially fitting that it is also that which would not need a church endorsement to not actually be about Trump, MAGA, America etc. But rather, Israel. And how Trump, MAGA, and America transcends possibly eschatoligical blueprints that did not see it coming. Because perhaps like NAR, evangelicialism might have its own version of that. Anti-NAR. Neither of which might have legitimately been tracking with eschatology proper, if you will? If that makes sense?
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