With a look around the corner for the year to come, I heard a reprise of a word given me earlier:
“WAR IN 24”
Understanding the present as perspective opens on the year to come must be the base for understanding the future. 1 Chronicles 12:32 King James Version (KJV) "And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment". For as the word for 2024 is given, one must recognize what is already going on in the world. Without this review one might miss the turns to come.
WAR IN 24
There are many fronts where this is already true.
- The decade long war with no hope of stopping in the Ukraine where Russia is attacking will continue.
- The Middle East War between so far Israel and the Iranian puppet states of Hamas and Hezbollah. Don’t expect this to end soon. Israel is a country, no different from Japan or India and if it is attacked, the responsibility of the leaders is to defend itself.
- China is rattling swords and Japan is responding. The Philippines are under this shadow as well. There is Taiwan which the Chinese communists are swearing to take back. This three front war that is already in motion is enough. But that is not all in 2024.
- Recognize the global threat of Iran. The support of terror around the world under the guise of a religion, Islam, is akin to the religion of Nazism in Germany. The murders that set off the Israeli incursion into Palestine are exactly like what the Nazis did. Hitler would be proud of October 7.
- North Korea is launching missiles. They are becoming increasingly emboldened by our current governance. We seem weak and distracted; Perfect time to attack. We are vulnerable to an EMP by a rouge nation like North Korea.
WAR IN AMERICA
In North America, the war is between factions of the population. One is far left with Antifa, BLM and Pro Hamas terrorists. The other is far right. The far right radicals are not as open, but still there. The two are in constant tension. Prophetically the tension is driven by the willingness of the left to push the envelope. At some point it is too far. The radicals on both sides have caused pushback. There is a white revolution against the DIE and CRT programs. Even among white liberals, the recognition that I can’t get into the college of my choice because my place was given another because of their race is beginning to cause real outrage. Expect this to intensify in 2024.
POLITICAL WARS
Then there is a political war. The leftists and the right are trying to bring each other down. The left is using Lawfare (warfare using the law as a weapon). When we see what they are doing in attempts to stop Trump, you see the level of warfare that exists in the world.
There is a change in world leadership that because of unrest in the global community is swinging right and more populist. There are several elections other than the USA coming in 2024. They will be like a war. Already the new President of Argentina is seeing the streets filled with warfare because of his election. He is a pattern. Watch this unfold, the western world is being overrun by illegal immigration. This is a reaction to that reality and the resultant unstable economic conditions. Trump’s first term was a guidepost to many in the world. They are following suit.
WAR IN THE CHURCH
There is war in the church of Jesus. The Catholic Church is in civil war. The same is true of some denominational churches. I have not seen this level of schisms in my lifetime. Yes there have been scuffles, but not like today. Whole denominations are succumbing to the idea that we have to be culturally sensitive to the LBGTQ 2% to serve God. There a few that are not, but fewer all the time. The trend will continue. In the mean time the enemy is working overtime to challenge faith in God. Expect things to arise that will cause even the elect to fall back. Those who are already deceived by false teaching will find themselves staggered by these new claims. Some will revolve around Aliens. UFOs. The Promise of Digital Eternal Life (yes this is a thing).
Those who have been able to walk by faith and not by sight or false teachings will see what it happening with clear eyes. There are warfare spirits out to destroy people’s faith that are rampaging in the world. If a person is just a church goer without a solid foundation in faith, they are most vulnerable. In the days to come a person will need to have their own genuine solid faith in the real God, in Jesus the Christ. This can't be borrowed. It must be personal.
With all this, depending on the idea that Jesus is going to come and bail everybody out is a defeating belief. War is always the end of something and the beginning of something else. It is the end result of circumstances that led to this. No one is coming to bail us out, HE already did. At the Cross. You are free of the consequence of sin and death. You have eternal life. As people with that kind of faith we will not fear what might come. We must do all we can to find hope, but real hope is only found in Jesus. You are a part of the answer to every prayer you pray. We are here to do battle, to fight the good fight of faith, to recognize that our warfare is not against flesh and blood but against principalities. There are indeed principalities in high places that are driving this. We even know their names. But there is one name MUCH higher than any other name. As these things happen, some will look up to recognize, we are already seated in heavenly places in Christ. Find the rest that only HE can bring in these times to come.
WAR FROM FEAR
There is real fear in the Body of Christ. That fear causes many to fall back and try to hide from what they should be facing head on. Not being informed is not warfare. We are not supposed to be ignorant of the devil’s schemes. He never changes, but we can end up like the frog in the boiling pot as the enemy advances and we accept a little bit, then he advances again. Look at how gay marriage became almost a sacrament where 50 years ago it was unthinkable. The insidious drip drip drip of evil happens until even good bible believing Christians accept the situation as “normal”.
There are things that cause many Christians to fear. Some is worth fearing, most is not. Among them are: Artificial intelligence. Robots. Digital Currency and the End of Green Money. Prophetically I can tell you that you are already using all three and doing so willingly. The drip drip drip has already taken place.
AI
Google is a slow form of AI. Alexa ditto. They are tools. They help you find out things you need to know. Of course there are abuses. People manipulate the way truth is distributed. Big tech censorship is almost legendary. Yet we use it and understand its limitations while at the same time we can recognize the force multiplication we receive by using it. It’s a tool. Remember, spell check took the place of the big fat Websters you used to have. Does anyone use paper maps to navigate any more?
ROBOTS
Robots are in use every day and you probably used one in the last few days. Yes it will cause disruption in the job market. Who today wants to go to school to become a checkout clerk in a grocery store. That robot, the self checkout, is displacing the clerk. That person hoping to get a job taking orders at McDonalds at the drive thru is out of luck. In a few years we will only talk to a robot to place our order. Of course, asking for no ketchup on your hamburger won’t be possible. Robots are tools. They make life easier yet different. It does mean that many jobs will disappear. But someone will need to keep all those self checkouts operating properly. New jobs will arise. How can it be that with all the AI and Robots that the unemployment rate is so low. The most menial tasks will be taken over by robots. Roomba has a competitor, it is a robot that will clean your toilet. This is already being used in some hotels. The most distasteful and boring jobs are ideal robot tasks. At one time on the Auto Assembly line the job of putting nut A on bolt B over and over again as the cars went by was an actual job. Now it is gone.
DIGITAL CURRENCY AND THE CASHLESS SOCIETY
Many Christians (including me) have distaste for the coming Digital Currency and Cashless Society. There is too much potential for corruption and control. The prophetic issue is, it’s already here. If you have purchased anything with a credit card in the last week, you are already using digital currency. Sure it’s backed by “real” money, whatever that is. The world seems to be running headlong into this. I don’t fear it but I don’t feed it. I always carry a lot of real cash in my pocket, like my dad did. Yet I am an anomaly. My neighbor never carries cash. Most people under 30 seldom pay with cash. They pay with their phone or credit card. I know many people go immediately to “no man shall buy or sell except he has the mark of the beast”. Remember I said that the devil has schemes, he uses this one over and over again. As nations rise and fall you will see the initiation of new currencies. Oil is now being traded in other than US Dollars. That is not a danger to you and me, that is a danger to those nations. It’s like selling Manhattan for a pocket of beads. With all the wars going on as victors emerge new currencies will too. Some will be digital, some not. The attempts by corrupt governments to control commerce by currency has been tried since the times of Jesus and failed. When it becomes necessary people will devise a method of barter or trade off. During the great depression, no one had money, but they traded. Here’s the real question, do you believe that a hundred years from now your great grandchildren will buy and sell and will be paid in little green pieces of paper in their pocket? Already many fewer people receive and actual paychecks. The money shows up in your account, and then without your intervention you are auto paying your mortgage, car payment and who knows what. DIGITALLY. You could be dead and still paying your bills digitally.
THINGS TO COME
I have a sense that the month of May in 2024 is a pivotal month. It is the month when Kings go off to war. Invasions happen often at the end of May. Coups. Collapses. Here are some thing that I sense will happen in or around the month of May.
President Biden will be forced to a decision by situation, health or death. It won’t happen until May. There will be much scrambling for position which will lead to an open convention in Chicago. AUGUST 19-22, 2024. This is almost prophetic in positioning. A city in collapse in the worst possible time trying to pick a potential leader is emblematic of the chaos to come. None of the usual suspects will arise. I see a dark horse coming to the fore and becoming the candidate. One who can get popular support but still toes the party line. I don’t have a name right now, but the Lord knows who that person is. We will soon enough.
Vladimir Putin is in trouble. Those directly under him recognize it. Because of that I see him leaving office, dead or alive. There is a Presidential Election in March 15-17 in Russia for President in 2024. Putin has much opposition, but the Russian Elections are about as fair and free as those in the USA. What makes this dynamic even more important is the reality that the Russian people hate this war. They vocally say they support it, to do so otherwise is a problem for a Russian. If you lost sons and husbands for this foolish venture you hate the war and hate the man who started it, even if you can’t say so. The vote will be close but Putin will win, and then, the Month of May is not his friend. I see him gone.
Short Takes:
Climate Change Fearmongering has proven to be an overreach and will fade away in the year to come.
The unmasking of the evil of racists, particularly those who are full on haters and antisemites will cause a backlash from right thinking people. This will shape the year to come as they are exposed.
The US economy will do fine until June, when because of some errors, it will suffer until just before the election. 2025 is going to be more difficult than people "In the know" are forecasting.
I wish I were wrong, but I can’t see Trump becoming President in the fall of 2024. I also think any hope of a “Red Wave” is full on silly. It will be a real battle. The forces of the left are powerful and the fear of the right by them is real. And we have a left wing news arm that supports this. I don't know how this will turn out, but I suspect a twist or turn is yet to happen. As I considered the future, I didn't see Donald Trump.
The good news is 2024 will see advances in areas we didn’t know were coming. Cancer cures. New treatments for things that were terminal and better weight loss diabetic control drugs will be revealed. New forms of energy will emerge. Clean water will become more available to more people. Murder rates will fall nationally. Yes there will be area hotspots, but attention to this will restore some order. The truth about climate change and CO2 will come to the spotlight and much of the push toward un-renewable renewables will be slowed including electric cars. An increasingly unwillingness of people to tolerate corruption in government will lead to needed change.
While the Kingdom of God is ever expanding in the world, it is not so much in the western world, yet. If we were to experience a resurgence of faith, we need to understand why the conflicts from Iran, the war in Israel, Ukraine and Russia, The China Threat and a potential EMP from North Korea, is a powder keg on which we are living that might go off any time. THEN the western world will say, WHERE’S GOD? Real revival comes from desperation. When we say, "bring revival Father", we better mean what we say. I’m not convinced the western church or most of western Christianity could survive a real revival. What happened after 9-11 still haunts the vision.
Here’s the net of all this for the believer. Fear is not helping anyone. There is much turmoil and change in the world. Things are clearer when we take the blinders off and walk by faith. We can give thanks to God for the things that are getting better every single day. There are challenges. There are setbacks. What is certain is the tide is turning. The enemy is giving it his best shot. It won’t be enough. We are victorious in THIS LIFE. People often say, “I have read the end of the book and WE WIN!” That sentiment is not theologically correct. More accurately one should say I have read the whole book (including the end) and HE WON. He won at the cross and the victory banners are flying. The Kingdom of God is expanding. We are the victors in Christ. The enemy knows it which is why he is trying so hard to stop us.
Stop praying for intervention and start giving thanks for every victory in your life. As we live our lives we are living epistles read of all men. Let them read yours and say to themselves, I want to be like HIM, or HER. Even among lost souls deceived by the enemy and carrying out his plan, keep remembering this flesh and blood perceived enemy is not our real enemy, they are just a manifestation of the evil one. When such a one is won to faith in the one true God, they become zealots like Paul the Apostle.
The word of the Lord is, War in 2024. Be an instrument of peace for the Sauls of the world such that they become Pauls and expand the kingdom even more. “Behold I do a NEW THING, have you not seen it?”
Be Brave and Courageous, Now go forth as light into the world. It is your assignment in the Body of Christ.
