October was a month of anticipation. As the month before the divisive US election, the two US candidates dominated the news. But what else happened? October is the start of the pagan ‘Holiday’ season with Halloween leading the way. There was the much-talked about anticipation for a cease-fire in Gaza which again failed to materialize. In fact, fighting escalated in the region with bombings not just in Gaza, but also Lebanon and Iran. Extreme weather manifested in hurricanes, flash-floods and landslides.
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.
Sexual and Physical Violence
The ongoing violence associated with expanding wars dominated the Middle East as will be covered below. But there was also violence against those not involved with war. A sexual assault victim from Canada was told she should ‘understand the risks of the job’ when she was deployed to Latvia to work with NATO as a canteen worker. The risks of working with NATO, regardless of the job, are sexual assault?!? In addition, the Canadian military told the victim that under NATO rules they did not have ‘jurisdiction to investigate’ the situation. Those who oversee abusers claiming to lack jurisdiction to punish abusers is a common trend. One only needs to look to the Roman Catholic Church for a similar strategy comparable to the fox watching the hen house.
Abuse by Catholic Clergy
The Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors issued its draft report intended to communicate what steps the Church has taken to address abuse and what more can be done to prevent abuse. It has taken ten years for this draft report which ‘does not give any data on how many cases of abuse are being handled’ due to ‘time and capacity constraints’ and ‘lack of reliable data collection’ in some countries. The report concludes there should be ‘better access for victims to information about their cases’ and that ‘compliance to existing church legislation can vary from one nation’s church to another’.
The draft report also determined ‘that various departments of the church’s bureaucracy, the Roman Curia, need more clarity about their responsibilities when it come to abuse.’ These observations of the status quo do nothing to help victims. While the recommendation ‘for a streamlined process for discharge from office’ of abusive priests sounds positive. Unless action is taken this report is worthless. The people need to simply get themselves and their children as far away from this organization as possible. That is why God said to ‘Come OUT of her (The Whore of Babylon) My People…’ – Revelation 18:4.
Abuse By Catholic Priests in Ireland
Last month we covered the inquiry into sexual abuse by the Catholic Church that has been initiated in Ireland. The focus is on sexual abuse, but as shown in a new documentary called ‘Leathered: Violence in Irish Schools‘, physical abuse was also rampant throughout Irish Catholic Institutions. Now, many in Ireland are calling for the investigation to include the corporal punishment that was imposed on children.
Abuse by Catholic Priests in US
The largest settlement in the US for sexual abuse of children was reached in Los Angeles in October. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $880 Million to 1,353 people for abuse committed by catholic clergy over many decades. The Catholic Church in Vermont also filed for bankruptcy in October as it faced additional clergy abuse lawsuits. Declaring bankruptcy has been the go-to strategy for US Archdioceses to protect their assets from abuse survivors. Thirty-two other US dioceses have already declared bankruptcy.
Abuse by religious orders in government-funded boarding schools
In the US, President Biden made an apology to Native Americans for the long history of abuse inflicted at government-funded institutions. Glaringly absent were representatives from the religious orders that actually ran the ‘assimilation’ boarding houses, both Protestant and Catholic orders. Back in 2022, during the Pope’s visit to Canada, he apologized for the same abuses of Indigenous people in Canada.
Biden made his apology on October 25th, meanwhile just a week earlier, at the Al Smith Dinner, a Catholic Church fundraising event and traditional stop for presidential candidates, no reference was made to the Billions of dollars paid out by the church for sexual abuse of children, yet many references were made to the billionaires and high level politicians on both sides of the aisle donating to the Roman Catholic Church.
“In the seventh week there will come priests; idolaters, adulterers, money lovers, arrogant, lawless, voluptuaries, pederasts…”
Testament of Levi 17:11
“And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, ‘Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils/demons, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, ‘Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.”
Revelation 18:1-5
“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said to Noah, ‘The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.’”
Genesis 6
Extreme Weather
Storms & Floods
Extreme weather continued around the world with floods, drought, record temperatures and solar storms. Hurricane Milton intensified to a category 5 storm before weakening to a category 3 and making landfall on the Florida West Coast. Communities were still recovering from Hurricane Helene that hit two weeks before in another round of high winds, tornadoes and flooding that impacted the region.
Rainfall equivalent to a years worth of rain fell in one day causing flooding in the Sahara desert. In the Philippines two months worth of rain fell in one day causing landslides and flooding. At least 100 residents died or remain missing. Meanwhile, in Spain over 150 people lost their lives during a flood event when a years worth of rain fell in just eight hours.
“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
Solar Storms
The strongest solar flare of solar cycle 25 erupted in October. A powerful X9.1 flare was preceded by a X7.1 leading to G3-class geomagnetic storms. The auroras were visible in many parts of the US including North Carolina and California. During the month of October there were eight X-class solar flares!
“… the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
2 Peter 3:10
Wars and Rumors of Wars
Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah-Iran Wars
Israel continues to fight on seven fronts keeping their military churning though equipment and ammunition. Those seven fronts are ‘Iran, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, Shia militants in Iraq, militant groups in Syria and Palestinians in the West Bank’ according to Netanyahu. Countries are starting to say ‘enough!’ France is calling for an arms embargo ‘to stop supplying weapons to lead the fighting in Gaza.’ France banned Israel from attending their Naval Defense Fair where countries showcase their military wares for sale.
Meanwhile, the US State Department has confirmed that US weapons harmed civilians in Gaza at least 500 times. Will that stop them from sending more weapons? So far, no. The US also challenged Israel on the expanding humanitarian crises in Gaza. Israel banned UNRAW, a humanitarian organization from operating in Gaza. So far the US has not withheld support. In one year the US spent $17.9 Billion on military aid to Israel.
Expanding War in Middle East
Israel launched another attack on Iran in October which many world leaders ‘hoped’ would be the last. Iran responded to the most recent attack with a request for a UN security council meeting stating that they are not looking for a war but that they would respond appropriately.
“Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them, and not build them up.”
Psalm 28:3-5
“And it shall come to pass in the last days… many people shall come and say, ‘Come, 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
Ukraine-Russian War
Another country directly enters the Ukraine-Russia war. This time North Korea has sent thousands of solders to fight alongside Russia. Countries continue to make alliances setting the stage for a larger world-wide conflict.
In October the Group of Seven (G7) countries agreed to loan Ukraine $50 Billion ‘backed’ by frozen Russian central bank assets. In this never-before-seen maneuver of financial gymnastics the G7 countries are loaning the money to Ukraine from their own banks, but repayment of the loans will come from the interest on the frozen Russian assets, not Ukraine. If the war ends, the G7 has stated Russia will still be responsible for the loan repayments through the assets interest or reparations for the war. Russia, of course, has not been involved in any of these decisions and Putin called the move ‘theft’ and said it would ‘not go unpunished’. For its portion of the loan, the US committed to give $20 Billion from the U.S. Federal Financing Bank.
“Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, don’t perish by it, turn from it, and pass away. For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.”
Proverbs 4:14-17
Haiti
Unrest continues in Haiti eight months after the prime minister was ousted by an insurrection. A temporary government has been in place since April, but it is not in control of the country. Gangs still control a majority of the capital and appear to be taking steps to control the rest. Over 700,000 residents have fled their homes due to the ongoing violence which has been called a civil war. In October a mass killing in one town left at least 115 dead.
“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
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