NOBODY KNOWS THE DAY AND THE HOUR? (Part 1 of 2)

It may have been too late to read this, if deferred unduly. Because it is lengthy, and not to bore you, this message has been divided into two parts.  The Antichrist is here. Maranatha.

1.  The Many Witnesses

Regarding the end times, it is no longer prophecies but fulfilments that stare us starkly in the face.  Global politics is screaming out with apocalyptic episodes that make the Bible seem like tomorrow’s headlines.  We shall unpack them gradually.

So much seems to be in a hurry to happen very soon; very, very soon.  The voices are everywhere: in the skies above and among mortals below.  In nature, space is raising alarms to which scientists are starting to draw serious attention.  Even the animal kingdom seems to have sensed something about to happen, and is reacting in strange ways around the world: strange migrations, some sadly tragic.  In geopolitics, the end time players have begun to define their alliances in remarkable ways.  There are now two clear adversarial apocalyptic camps, waiting for the trigger to be pulled.  Recently, their nuclear rhetoric has been unusually and uncomfortably intense.  Even the blind have started to fear what they hear, and the deaf are alarmed at what they see – while a few loud folks who consider themselves wiser than all, continue to argue that the time is far.  Some of those, unfortunately, speak from elevated pulpits.  Sadly, I watched one lately.  However, credible global watchers from a Bible perspective are generally persuaded that the stage could not have been more set for the final scenes of the last act.  On social media and beyond, it is a current and trending theme.  He that has an ear to hear, let him hear.

It is no longer news that the River Euphrates has dried up, waiting for one of those rival armies to march across, from the east, as predicted.  If, according to Revelation 16:12, the river would dry up after the Sixth Angel has poured his vial on it, then that angel has since done so.  The fact that mortals didn’t see the heavenly angel doing it, or that it was not flashed in the sky as a headline, does not mean that it did not happen. Next, if the sign that we can see points to the sixth vial already poured, then we sadly missed all the previous five, and there is no guarantee that we will hear or see any of the other apocalyptic angelic interventions.

Not everyone sees Heaven’s glaring headlines.  When Jesus was born, for instance, it was a few wise men from hundreds of miles away that saw in the sky what everyone else also saw but did not understand, even in Jerusalem. Those wise men became the announcers of the meanings in the sky, even to those over whose heads that Star had been screaming brightly.  The announcers are here again.

2. Signs in the Sky

Not a few prophets gave us signs to watch out for, as markers of the end time – these times.  For example, Joel, the Jewish prophet of Judah, about 2,800 years ago, declared, among other things, that the last days would see unique signs in the sky, which he described as “wonders in the heavens,” wonders such as blood moons and eclipses. According to him, those solar signs would herald or be just “BEFORE the great and the terrible day of the LORD come” (Joel 2:31).  In other words, something is just about to happen suddenly when we see those signs; something “great and terrible”; something involving God in our earthly matters.  We shall shortly highlight some of the signs.

The prophet added that, in those days, God would raise visual and vocal witnesses for Himself so that, in case anyone’s neck was too intellectually or religiously stiff to look up to the signs in the sky or down at those on the earth, they still would hear the voices of the other witnesses among them, who would include daughters and sons prophesying, old men dreaming profound dreams, unlikely young ones seeing strange visions, and even simple servants anointed as proclaimers of divine details that they could not be alleged to have fabricated (Joel 2:28-32).  According to the prophet, that shall be a time to call upon the name of the Lord.  Now appears to be that time.

In Luke 21:28, Jesus said, “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”  There are certain “things” that when they “begin” to happen, according to Jesus, it is TIME to “look up” – and they have begun; but “look up” to what in the sky?  Jesus also defined that time as when the “redemption” of His people is “nigh.”  Redemption from what imminent catastrophe?  Follow me …

Two months ago, a South African brother named Joshua reported how Jesus appeared to him physically in his room in 2018, with the message that there would be no World Cup in 2026 because the world would be unrecognisable from what would happen in 2025.  Jesus added that He was coming to take His people home during the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) on September 23-24 in 2025.  Your alarm bells are probably ringing already – ‘Nobody knows the day or the hour.’  We will get there. Just hold on.  Immediately following the Rapture will be the start of the seven years of the Great Tribulation upon those left behind.  Then, on September 15, 2032, on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), He will return to the earth as King, starting His millennial reign.  Please, stay with me.

As Joshua was not a soccer fan, and didn’t know when and where the last World Cup was, or when and where the next one would be, he had to research.  He discovered that there is a World Cup planned for the United States in 2026, actually three North American countries: Mexico, Canada, and the USA, but most of the games scheduled for the USA.  Brother Joshua’s testimony was first featured on God’s Voice Today, a podcast hosted by Vladimir Prokihnevskiy in the USA.  That episode was entitled “Jesus Told Me No World Cup” (https://youtu.be/W1uk2z7jGdE?si=qvVCPkImNh1RyQeL).  He had a second appearance on CettwinzTV, an online platform hosted by the South African twins, Innocent and Millicent.  That episode was entitled “It’s the End Time”  (https://youtu.be/HgPwLADrios?si=yPnpZ_6BEDb9Wubp).  According to Brother Joshua, the Rapture will be accompanied by such great energy that the Earth will physically shake, with great destruction.  We may find a pattern for that in the devastations that befell Egypt at the ‘rapture’ of the Israelites out of that land.

Since then, many others, across cultures, continents, gender, age, across different social and religious backgrounds, have had similar experiences, confirming the same dates from Bible codes, personal dreams and visions, supernatural encounters, global political events, scientific observations, apocalyptic insights, and so on.  Some have also questioned it.  We will return to them, but mark the dates while we watch the signs in the sky and those on land.

In September 2025, two uncanny celestial signs are forecasted.  A total lunar eclipse, also called a blood moon, will appear over much of the Middle East and other parts of the Earth on the night of Sunday, September 7th.  It will last for 82 minutes and 6 seconds, making it the longest total lunar eclipse since 2022.  A solar eclipse (a darkened sun) will follow two weeks later (7+7 days) on Sunday, September 21st; then a new moon on September 22nd, marking the start of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year and Feast of Trumpets.  The blood moon of September 7, 2025, will be a supermoon – the moon appearing larger and brighter than usual, because it is at its closest to the Earth.  Note that the Jewish calendar has both an ecclesiastical and a civil system, both based on a lunisolar model. The ecclesiastical calendar, known as the Nisan-years, starts with Nisan (around March/April) and the civil calendar, or Tishri-years, begins with Tishri (around September/October).

The forecasted lunar and solar patterns this year are uncommon, compared to many previous and future years.  Remember Joel’s prophecy and mark those dates.  For example, the blood moon on September 7th is on the 14th day of Elul (in the Jewish calendar), marking a midpoint in the 40 days of self-preparations before the Feast of Trumpets. The first 20 days are the “days of repentance,” and the last 20 days “the days of judgment,” at the expiration of which judgment will have been sealed.  Elul means “search,” referring to the repentance, earnest self-reflection, searching of hearts, and drawing closer to God that should be done before judgment falls (https://youtu.be/gwBtJZGVAl0?si=Omb0mV6Kz-0PuD3q).  Mark the dates as we continue.

3.  The Red Heifer has been Sacrificed

Many end-time watchers have closely followed events since five rare red cows (heifers) were imported to Israel from Texas in 2022, for the purification rites of the Third Temple to be built any time soon in Jerusalem.  It is believed that this is the temple the Antichrist will enter and desecrate, breaking his seven-year peace treaty with Israel in the middle of the seven years of the Great Tribulation.  That treaty is expected to be signed in September, during the United Nations General Assembly.  Mark the dates.  I will return to it.

On July 1, that red-heifer sacrifice was carried out, quietly, with one of the heifers.  Some news reports have claimed that it was merely a practice run since it did not take place on the Mount of Olives, but those who performed the sacrifice agree that the ceremony was “perfect,” with a proper priest and a perfect heifer, done “outside the camp” as required by the Torah.  That is the first such sacrifice in over two thousand years.  Also, for the first time in centuries, hundreds of Jewish worshippers gathered at the Temple Mount to pray and dance, without the usual restrictions.  Strangely, the Temple Institute, which oversees all matters of that Temple, has issued a surprising notice that, suddenly, all the heifers have been disqualified.  Someone is certainly not saying everything after one heifer has been burned and the mandatory ritual ashes collected.  Maybe someone is trying to divert unnecessary and negative global attention.   Besides, construction works in relation to that Temple have also been reported.  Connecting these dots is straightforward.  If that stage on which the Antichrist is expected to be a key actor is already so set, then the Antichrist is likely not many years away, possibly just days from becoming more publicly known.  God has already revealed him to some, who have not been allowed to announce him, as John was not permitted to write down the message of the seven thunders that he heard in the heavenly realms (Revelation 10:3-4).

4.  The Sign of a False Peace

It is prophesied in Daniel 9:27 that the Antichrist, when he comes, will sign a seven-year peace treaty with Israel, and break that covenant in the middle of the time, after three and a half years.  Keen global and end-time watchers are persuaded that the covenant would be signed at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025.  Check the following news item:

Amid escalating tensions, Qatari and Egyptian mediators have proposed a bold new ceasefire plan to end the Israel-Gaza conflict, as reported by BBC News. The proposal includes a truce lasting up to 7 years, a prisoner-hostage exchange, a permanent end to hostilities, and a full Israeli withdrawal  (https://newspaperamigo.com/world/20250422-%f0%9f%97%a3%ef%b8%8f-new-israel-gaza-ceasefire-plan-revealed-could-this-bring-peace/).

Did you see that: seven years!  Mere coincidence, of so many things converging on the same dates?  The Bible warns about a “sudden destruction” that will occur when “they” (not we) will be celebrating what then they shall call “peace and safety” at last, after the long wars with Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, Iran, and the many other anti-Jewish, anti-Christian terrorists (1 Thessalonians 5:3).  It will be such sudden and overwhelming destruction that “they shall not escape” – while the redeemed shall have escaped in the Rapture.  Mark the dates that I shall shortly supply.

When the Rapture happens suddenly and pilots disappear from their planes in midair, who knows into what crowded neighbourhoods or marketplaces such planes will crash.  A plane may have been carrying the president of a country or other dignitaries.  When Christian truck and train drivers are caught up in the twinkling of an eye, doctors performing critical surgery disappear, someone at a vital military and financial cyber gate is gone, or a Christian goalkeeper disappears just as a crucial penalty is shot, it will be global catastrophe.

On July 29, the United Nations held a two-day meeting at which the Israel-Palestine issue was addressed.  At that meeting, for the first time, all the Arab nations signed a declaration jointly condemning Hamas’ attack on “civilians” in Israel, and proposing a ‘two-state solution,’ with East Jerusalem as the capital of their anticipated “State of Palestine.”  Is it not surprising that the same Islamic nations that have often secretly or openly supported the jihadist terrorists should now ‘condemn’ them?  That ‘condemnation’ is a tricky carrot they are putting out in exchange for their elusive ‘peace’ deal.  Several countries and coalitions, including France, Australia, Canada, the UK, the Arab League, the European Union, and many Muslim states, have pledged to recognise Palestine as a state at the September General Assembly of the UN.  At the last count, over 180 countries have already supported the move, waiting to announce their position at the September General Assembly.  Israel has maintained that Jerusalem is and will remain their “undivided and indivisible capital.”

Watch the Abrahamic Accord very closely, in line with Daniel 9.  There is more to it than meets the open press.  And keep an eye on the Man of Peace also.  September shall reveal many more, and it shall provide other insights into the next three and a half years.  Everything is now in place for the Antichrist to appear.  He is on the global stage, except that he has not been publicly proclaimed.  We used to think as children that the mark of the Beast would be tattoos branded on foreheads and right hands, which every eye could see.  Today, nations are talking about digital IDs, without which citizens are denied access to certain services.  Bill Gates has announced that soon, smartphones will be obsolete, because everyone will become a digital device themselves.  They are speaking of “digital tattoos” that can be scanned with infrared light.  Know: 666 has since been here, merely waiting for the Day of unveiling, soon.

If the world is as terrible as it is now, with all the terrorists and anti-Christian government laws and demonic activities that confront us, what will it be like when there are no more intercessors to stop them, no more church vigils to attend, no more ‘fanatical’ Christian organisations to challenge wicked government policies?  May you not be left behind. Amen.

When is the epochal 80th General Assembly of the United Nations?  It will start on September 9, two days after the blood moon, and continue until its “Summit of the Future” on September 22 -23, a day after the solar eclipse, coinciding with the Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah.  Mark the dates and the name of that special summit.  It is anticipated that the seven-year peace deal will be signed then.   Keen Bible watchers are persuaded that it would mark the start of the seven-year reign of the Antichrist, the man of false peace.  Some are further persuaded that the Antichrist, who could be a man from the east, would be attending that very strategic UN general session.  The unusual coincidence of this 80th Assembly with the signs in the sky and the Feast of Trumpets and the predicted Rapture this year demands great attention.  But there’s more.

From The Preacher’s diary,

                                          Monday, August 4, 2025