The month of June brought extreme weather, war escalation and spiritual wickedness in high places. More records were broken with high temperatures, excessive rainfall and early wildfires. Meanwhile hypocrisy was laid bare when world leaders gathered at the G-7 summit which included a visit from their ‘moral’ leader the Pope. They concluded to continue funding wars as opposed to establishing peace.
The following map is a summary of current events related to prophecy. Below the map you will find the event details and relevant Scriptural references. Many people have been taught God’s Word in the past tense. This is incorrect. The teachings and scenarios in the Bible and God’s Word are all prophetic, pointing to a future time, and that time is now.
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Extreme Weather
Wildfires, Volcanoes, Heatwaves & Drought
Summer is heating up in the Northern Hemisphere with record-setting temperatures across the globe. The impacts are heat-related deaths and illness as well as intense storms. In Pakistan, over 500 people perished during an intense heat-wave and a regional power outage in the Balkans were attributed to the 104F temperatures, a significant anomaly for this region.
During the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, over 1300 people died, many while walking in the extreme heat. Two Americans were among the deceased. Meanwhile, in Brazil, a record number of wildfires are the result of a severe drought. Typically, their ‘fire season’ doesn’t start until July, but this year 2500 blazes have already started in the dried out regions.
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Deaths mount as Pakistan swelters in heatwave
A major power outage hits Balkan region as countries swelter
Heat and snowfall, rain and wildfires. It’s a week of extreme weather in the U.S
Record-breaking US heat wave scorches the Midwest and Northeast
More than 1,300 people died during Hajj, many of them after walking in the scorching heat
American woman’s heartbreak as parents die on Hajj
Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands fire season hasn’t officially started but it’s already breaking records
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
2 Peter 3:10
Storms, Landslides, Mudslides, Floods
Meanwhile, torrential flooding hit the Midwest causing damage to buildings and crops. Florida received ‘once-in-a-millennium’ record rainfall. In South America, at least 30 were killed due to heavy flooding.
What’s causing the devastating flooding in the Midwest?
Swollen river claims house next to Minnesota dam as flooding and extreme weather grip the Midwest
At least 30 dead after days of heavy rains in the Northern Triangle
Southern Florida sees record-breaking storms with up to 8in of rainfall
“For now disasters have come upon the whole world, and you will stay among them, for God will not deliver you because you have sinned against Him.”
2 Esdras 15:27
“And he answered and said to me: ‘You also will be preserved until that time, namely until that sign which the Most High will bring about before the inhabitants of the earth at the end of days. When horror seizes the inhabitants of earth, and they fall into many tribulations and further, they fall into great torments. And it will happen that they will say in their thoughts because of their great tribulations, ‘The Mighty One does not anymore remember the earth’; It will happen when they lose hope, that the time will awake.”
2 Baruch 25:1-4
Wars and Rumors of Wars
Israel-Hamas War
The Israel-Hamas war continues with fighting in the South expanding once again back into the North. Civilians continue to be the victims of a majority of causalities. In the West bank at least 11 more homes were destroyed by Israeli forces leaving 50 people homeless. Israel also continued airstrikes against Lebanon and Syria, killing several people near Aleppo.
Ultra-Orthodox seminary students are now required by the Israeli Supreme Court to enter the military. After protests against the removal of their conscription exemption failed, an estimated 63,000 men are now subject to the military draft.
At least 39 people killed in Israeli strikes across northern Gaza
Israel destroys 11 homes in West Bank village amid spiralling violence
Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel
Israeli airstrikes near Syria’s Aleppo kill several, including an Iranian adviser
Hezbollah says Israeli strikes kill 3 fighters
Ultra-Orthodox students must be drafted, Israel court rules
“Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear/listen, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man is not the righteousness of God.”
The Middle East
Houthis from Yemen successfully sank a second ship in the Red Sea. The US military has been battling the Houthis in what is now the US’s ‘most-intense maritime fighting’ since World War II.
Ship attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in fatal assault sinks
“And it shall come to pass in the last days… many people shall come and say, ‘Come ye, and let us go up to the Mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, … and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
Isaiah 2:2-4
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear/reverence of God before their eyes.”
Romans 3:10-18
Ukraine-Russian War
Ukraine and Russia continue to lob bombs at each other while looking for new recruits to fill their military ranks. Both Ukraine and Russia are now releasing prisoners with the caveat that they enter the military and fight. In June 100 world leaders met in Switzerland to develop a Ukraine peace deal, but significantly Russia was not invited. Needless to say, it was reported that the gathering was ‘not seen as advancing peace in itself, it is designed to reduce the space for any unhelpful initiatives.’ Now that doesn’t seem very helpful to the Ukrainian and Russian solders perishing in the war. Another meeting of world leaders, the G-7, met in Italy in June and promised billions of dollars to Ukraine for aid.
The US flew drones over the Black Sea, triggering Russia to warn that it can take ‘measures’ in response, without specifying what that response would be. In a show of force, Russia conducted war games in the Atlantic and Caribbean even anchoring four naval vessels in Cuba, just 90 miles off the shores of Florida. Little media attention was given to this military display by Russia, yet the US used sea drones, three destroyers and a sub-hunting aircraft to monitor the situation. This is another example of an increase in military posturing between these two super-powers.
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World leaders to gather in Swiss resort in attempt to forge Ukraine peace plan
Russia warns it can take unspecified measures in response to US drone flights over Black Sea
Russian warships in Cuba are no threat, US says
Navy dispatches ships and planes as Russian ships arrive in Cuba
“Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.”
Isaiah 59:7-8
‘Asian NATO’?
Russia and North Korea met and agreed on supplying ‘military and other assistance’ if either country is pushed to a state of war. In response, South Korea said it would consider sending weapons to Ukraine. At the same time, a US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea for war games to practice against ‘Threats from North Korea’. Countries are aligning in anticipation of increased military confrontations around the globe. North Korea responded to the drills by saying an ‘Asian NATO‘ has developed.
On a somewhat comical note, North Korea has resumed sending balloons full of trash over the border and into South Korea. At one point, the Seoul airport was closed due to the airborne garbage. The balloon launches were in response to activists from the South sending balloons into North Korea filled with ‘anti-Kim Jong-un’ propaganda. South Korea is responding to the latest balloon launches from the North with massive loudspeakers broadcasting ‘world news and information about democratic and capitalist society with a mix of popular K-pop music.’ The speakers broadcast the sound 12 miles into North Korea! We’ll have to wait and see if North Korea responds in a similar way with a message of their own.
South Korea will consider supplying arms to Ukraine after Russia and North Korea sign strategic pact
US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea as a show of force against nuclear-armed North Korea
North Korea says drills by South Korea, US and Japan show nations have developed ‘Asian Nato’
Rubbish-filled North Korea balloons prompt closure of Seoul airport
South Korea to resume propaganda broadcasts after North sends hundreds more rubbish balloons
Wars and Rumors of War
A record number of people around the globe have had to flee their homes due to war and violence. A staggering 120 million people have been displaced from regions including Sudan, Gaza and Syria. In Sudan, over 100 were killed in one village after it was attacked by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the group fighting against the Sudanese army over the past year. Sudan’s civil war has pushed the country into a famine with 750,000 ‘on the brink of starvation.’
In Haiti, a US-backed security mission brought 400 police from Kenya to Haiti to assist with bringing ‘much-needed relief to Haitians.’ Haiti has been in a state of chaos with an uprising of violence, displacing 500,000 Haitians from their homes out of fear. To date, more than 2500 people have been killed from the violence. The prime minister resigned and gangs have reportedly been running the cities.
Number of people fleeing violence hits new peak
At least 100 killed after RSF paramilitary group attacks village in Sudan
At Least 750,000 on Brink of Starvation and Death in Sudan
Haitians wary as Kenyan police arrive on latest US-backed mission
“You shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you are not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.”
Matthew 24:5
Hypocrisy
Head of international pedophile ring calls for protection of human dignity
The G-7 was held in Italy this past June. It was the 50th anniversary of the gathering of world leaders. For the first time the Pope also attended. The AP reported that Pope Francis ‘brought his moral authority to bear.’ That statement alone should raise a few eyebrows. This organization has long lost any self-proclaimed moral authority when a thousand years ago they kicked off the murderous crusades and inquisitions. Their more recent scandals include the doctrine of discovery that led to the kidnapping and murder of indigenous populations around the world and of course the ongoing sexual abuse scandal. Consider what prophecy they are fulfilling with their influence over the world leaders of the G-7 summit.
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“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come here; I will show to you the judgment of the great whore that sits upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
Revelation 17:1-5
Spiritual Wickedness
Eucharist Pilgrimage or Cannibal Caravan?
The US Roman Catholic Church has organized a two-month-long pilgrimage to bring attention to the Eucharist. They recognized that many of their ‘faithful’ do not actually believe their doctrine that the wafer and wine turns into the physical body and blood of Jesus after they say ‘Hocus-Pocus‘ over it. The Catholic Church would have you believe in the unbelievable which should make you question the rest of their teachings.
The Eucharist is based on ancient pagan traditions where believers would eat a part of their ‘god’ so they could be like the thing they ate. For an in-depth look at this practice, see podcasts 14 & 17. There are also several articles linked below on this subject.
On heartland roads, and a riverboat, devout Catholics press on with two-month nationwide pilgrimage
Flesh & Blood, or Cracker & Grape Juice?
Off to See the Wizard
Christmas – The Christ Mass
“You shall not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;”
Exodus 20:4-5
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Ephesians 6:12
Preachers and Prison
A preacher from Brooklyn was sentenced to nine years in jail for ‘fleecing one parishioner out of $90,000 in retirement savings, among other scams.’ He would have supposedly taught the ten commandments, yet obviously thought he has above the law. Meanwhile, a megachurch pastor admitted to sexually abusing a 12 year old girl for a four-year period in the 1980’s. His punishment, like many of the Roman Catholic priests guilty of similar actions, was counseling.
Brooklyn preacher who boasted of ties to NYC mayor gets 9 years in prison for multiyear fraud
Megachurch pastor and ex-Trump adviser admits child sexual abuse
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”
Matthew 7:15
Protests
Protestors in Kenya rose up and burned part of the parliament building. They are opposing a proposed increase in taxes and the current president. The bill was withdrawn after protests left 23 people dead. Meanwhile, in England, doctors went on strike to protest pay and working conditions. They held a five-day strike.
In India, Delhi’s water minister went on a five-day hunger strike to protest a neighboring state’s restrictions on the water supply. In response, Delhi was accused of mismanagement of the water supply. Water for regions with millions of people is becoming a point of political infighting as heat waves put additional strains on the limited resource.
India isn’t the only country dealing with a water crisis. In Algeria, protests erupted over water rationing in Tiaret. Many people struggle to find drinking water and the government has over-promised on how quickly they can find a solution such as adding desalination stations.
In Germany protests between political parties erupted in the streets of Essen.
Here’s what led Kenyans to burn part of parliament and call for the president’s resignation
Kenyan president withdraws finance bill after violent protests leave 23 dead
Thousands of doctors go on strike in England
Delhi’s hunger-striking water minister taken to hospital
‘Whack-a-mole situation’: Algerian officials wrestle with water shortage anger
Two police officers hospitalized after attack by protesters at far-right AfD congress in Germany
“And there shall be… upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring (protests).”
Luke 21:25
Caught in Unawares
“And take heed to yourself, lest at any time your hearts are overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness1“The serpents are the leaders of the peoples and their wine is their ways.” DD 3:19, and cares of this life, and so that day comes upon you in unawareness. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. You watch therefore, and pray always, that you may be able to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Adam.”
Luke 21:34-36