Throughout God's Holy Word (the Bible), He routinely blesses man for his obedience, and curses him for disobedience. "Our God is a consuming fire" Hebrews 12:29, and He will not tolerate disobedience. "It is a fearful and terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God [incurring His judgment and wrath]." Hebrews 10:31

After 40 years being led through the wilderness by the Lord, the Israelites were finally ready to take possession of the land promised by God to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), a land flowing with milk and honey. God promises great blessings if they keep all His commandments, but, also, great punishment for disobedience.

I mean, if we really think about it, no one should wonder why the world is in its current state of affairs. In Genesis 6:5-6, "The Lord saw that the wickedness (depravity) of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination or intent of the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually. The Lord regretted that He had made mankind on the earth, and He was [deeply] grieved in His heart."

God loves us, though. We are His peculiar people, created by Him and for Him, in His likeness and image, and paid for with a hefty ransom, the blood of His only begotten son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

His Peculiar People: 1 Peter 2:9 "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;"

Created By Him and For Him: Colossians 1:16 "For by Him all things were created in heaven and on earth, [things] visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him and for Him."

In His Likeness and Image: Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them."

Paid for With a Hefty Ransom: 1 Corinthians 6:20 "You were bought with a price [you were actually purchased with the precious blood of Jesus and made His own]. So then, honor and glorify God with your body."

He is our heavenly Father, and His blessings for obedience are great, but He will not tolerate disobedience, for which His curses are also abundant.

God's Treasured Possession

Deuteronomy 26

18 "Today the Lord has declared that you are His people, His treasured possession, just as He promised you, and that you are to keep all His commandments;

19 and that He will set you high above all the nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor: and that you shall be a holy people [set apart and consecrated] to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”


God Provides . . .
Blessings for Obedience and
Curses for Disobedience

Deuteronomy 27

11 "Moses also commanded the people that day, saying,

12 These [tribes] shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people when you have crossed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

13 These [tribes] shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce the curse [for disobedience]: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

14 The Levites shall answer with a loud voice to all the men of Israel:

15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved or cast image (idol), a repulsive thing to the Lord, the work of the hands of the artisan, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

16 ‘Cursed is he who dishonors (treats with contempt) his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

17 ‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

18 ‘Cursed is he who misleads a blind person on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

19 ‘Cursed is he who distorts (perverts) the justice due to a stranger, an orphan, and a widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

20 ‘Cursed is he who is intimate with his father’s [former] wife, because he has violated what belongs to his father.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

21 ‘Cursed is he who is intimate with any animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

22 ‘Cursed is he who is intimate with his [half] sister, whether his father’s or his mother’s daughter.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

23 ‘Cursed is he who is intimate with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

24 ‘Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

25 ‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

26 ‘Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them [keeping them, taking them to heart as the rule of his life].’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’"


God Provides . . .
Blessings and Curses

Deuteronomy 28

1 “Now it shall be, if you diligently listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all of His commandments which I am commanding you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

2 All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you pay attention to the voice of the Lord your God.

3 You will be blessed in the city, and you will be blessed in the field.

4 The offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your animals, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be blessed.

5 Your basket and your kneading bowl will be blessed.

6 You will be blessed when you come in and you will be blessed when you go out.

7 The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way, but flee before you seven ways.

8 The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your storehouses and in all that you undertake, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

9 The Lord will establish you as a people holy [and set apart] to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk [that is, live your life each and every day] in His ways.

10 So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of you.

11 The Lord will give you great prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

12 The Lord will open for you His good treasure house, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

13 The Lord will make you the head (leader) and not the tail (follower); and you will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen and pay attention to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today, to observe them carefully.

14 Do not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to follow and serve other gods.

Consequences of Disobedience

15 But it shall come about, if you do not listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

17 Your basket and your kneading bowl will be cursed.

18 The offspring of your body and the produce of your land, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be cursed.

19 You will be cursed when you come in and you will be cursed when you go out.

20 The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed, perishing quickly because of the evil of your deeds, because you have turned away from Me.

21 The Lord will make the pestilence and plague cling to you until He has consumed and eliminated you from the land which you are entering to possess.

22 The Lord will strike you with consumption [causing you to waste away] and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew [on your crops]; and they will pursue you until you perish.

23 The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze [giving no rain and blocking all prayers], and the earth which is under you, iron [hard to plow and yielding no produce].

24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it will come down on you until you are destroyed.

25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out against them one way, but flee before them seven ways, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth [when they see your destruction].

26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

27 The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and the itch that you cannot heal.

28 The Lord will strike you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart and mind;

29 and you will be groping at noon [in broad daylight], just as the blind grope in the darkness, and nothing you do will prosper; but you will only be oppressed and exploited and robbed continually, with no one to save you.

30 You will be pledged to marry a wife, but another man will be intimate with her [before you]; you will build a house, but you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.

31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it; your donkey will be torn away from you, and it will not be returned to you; your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.

32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

33 A people whom you do not know will eat the produce of your land and all the products of your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and exploited and crushed continually.

34 You shall be driven mad by the sight of the things you see.

35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with sore boils that you cannot heal, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36 The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you appoint over you, to a nation which you and your fathers have never known; there you will [be forced to] serve other gods, [lifeless gods of] wood and stone.

37 And you will become a horror, a proverb [a mere object lesson], and a taunt [a derisive joke] among all the people to which the Lord drives you.

38 You will bring out a great quantity of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locusts will consume it.

39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because the worm will eat them.

40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourselves with the oil, because your olives will drop off.

41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours [for long], because they will go into captivity.

42 The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground.

43 The stranger who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.

44 He will lend to you [out of his affluence], but you will not lend to him [because of your poverty]; he will be the head, and you the tail.

45 So all these curses will come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He has commanded you.

46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever." Amen.

And, what is important to know is that our God, our heavenly Father, is just and forgiving, if we repent [turn away from sin].

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9

"I tell you, no; but unless you repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways and live changed lives], you will all likewise perish.” Luke 13:5

"Change your hearts! And show by the way you live that you have changed." [Repent] Matthew 3:8

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14

​There is only one way to God, through His son, the Christ Jesus. 

1 Timothy 2

5 "For there is [only] one God, and [only] one Mediator between God and mankind, the Man Christ Jesus, 

6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the right and proper time."

John 8:24 "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins."

Ephesians 6

10 "In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [draw your strength from Him and be empowered through your union with Him] and in the power of His [boundless] might.

11 Put on the full armor of God [for His precepts (commandments) are like the splendid armor of a heavily-armed soldier], so that you may be able to [successfully] stand up against all the schemes and the strategies and the deceits of the devil.

12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places.

13 Therefore, put on the complete armor of God, so that you will be able to [successfully] resist and stand your ground in the evil day [of danger], and having done everything [that the crisis demands], to stand firm [in your place, fully prepared, immovable, victorious].

14 So stand firm and hold your ground, having tightened the wide band of truth (personal integrity, moral courage) around your waist and having put on the breastplate of righteousness (an upright heart),

15 and having strapped on your feet the gospel of peace in preparation [to face the enemy with firm-footed stability and the readiness produced by the good news].

16 Above all, lift up the [protective] shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God."
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Amen.
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Most people, including me, do not spend a lot of time thinking about the end times. I mean, if you already follow God with all of your heart, mind and soul, then you probably will not do much differently in the end times anyway. If, however, you have been paying attention to the weather around the world for the last month or two, or few years even, oh my: volcanoes, blizzards, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, giant hail, locusts ... it's kind of hard not to think about the end times, at least once in a while.

Ever since reading about locusts in Revelation 9:3 (above), I have wondered what kind of locusts would kill men, but not grass, green things, or trees? This morning, a light bulb went off. I call them epiphanies or revelations from God, but, a light bulb went off, and I wondered if there was a laser technology named locust? Guess what? There is!!! As I have said before, 2020 was the year of "What the Literal Heck," but 2021 is clearly the year of "You Can't Make This Stuff Up."

​Here is a link to an article from PRNewsWire.com about the laser weapon named LOCUST.

I am just going to throw this out here, without giving too many specifics. Please, read my blog titled, "Algorithm is Not Man's Rhythm," here, for information about "little birds" listening. 

But, I am reminded of a certain western state in 2018, which had strange fires that burned only the houses and not the grass or trees around the houses (see image above). I mean, even a layperson like me thought at the time, it seemed like lasers. Those fires killed 85 people, but not the grass, green things or trees! ​
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Are you paying attention yet? Let us see what other indicators there may be for the end times.

“And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.” Matthew 24:22

Did you know that for the first time ever, the earth is spinning faster, and a day is actually shorter than 24 hours?​

Here's a link to the article from IndiaToday.in about the earth spinning faster, and a day being shorter than 24 hours. 

What else could point to this being the end times?

Well ...

Matthew 24:29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:”

Revelation 6:12 "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;"

You may or may not have heard about a proposed theory being discussed to "dim the sun" to reduce or delay the effects of climate change. Who is at the center of this controversial scheme? None other than Mr. Population Control himself, Bill Gates.

From an article in interestingengineering.com (see link below), "Bill Gates is a man who recently suggested the world should eat 100% synthetic beef, has argued that bitcoin is bad for the planet, co-founded Microsoft, and remains one of the richest people in the world. He is also very interested in dimming the light from the sun to reduce or delay the effects of climate change, according to a forthcoming study from the Bill Gates-backed Harvard University Solar Geoengineering Research Program — which aims to evaluate the efficacy of blocking sunlight from reaching our planet's surface."

Here is a link to the article from InterestingEngineering.com about attempting to "dim the sun."

Matthew 24:29 and Revelation 6:12 (above) could be referring to this elaborate plan to dim the sun, or they could be referring to ash and smoke from volcanoes darkening the sun, which is also brewing right now, around the world. Last week, there were over 52 ACTIVE volcanoes around the world. The number is down to the 30s this week, but between earthquakes and volcanoes, meteorologists, geologists and volcanologists are still expecting something big, and 2021 is on track to become a record-breaking year of major earthquakes and volcanoes.

Here is a link to the article from Israel365News.com about 2021 record-breaking earthquakes and volcanoes.

And, finally, I am sure I could go into a lot of detail on this one, and maybe that is for a future blog, but I would be remiss in discussing the end times if I failed to mention the coronavirus.

“And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.” Revelation 6:2

A crown: "The mystery has been solved at last. Corona's origin has been discovered, in an etymological sense at least. It's right there in Exodus 34:29 --  When Moses descended from the mountain, he "did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant -- כי קרן עור פניו..." Moses did not know that his face was CoRaN, radiating light. It spread quickly to verse 30 and 35. Three incidents! This ancient Biblical Hebrew root is undoubtedly the source of the Latin word "corona," which eventually became "crown" in English. QaRaN can also mean horn, and is the likely origin of a host of other English words like cornice, corner, cornucopia, cranium, cornea, and unicorn." 

Here is a link to the article from Israel365News.com quoted above about the word "crown" in the Torah (Jewish Bible).

In addition, it is a fact that, under a microscope, the coronavirus resembles a crown, scarlet or purple and gold ​(see images above). “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:” Revelation 17:4 

"And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven." Luke 21:11

At the risk of going off the proverbial "deep end," the sky has been abundant with UFO sightings, in plain sight, spaceships that look like clouds, stealth in the clouds, or actually, THE clouds. Check out MrMBB333 on youtube for seemingly credible videos of many of these sightings: MrMBB333 on youtube. The Bible clearly says that Jesus will come with the clouds:

“Behold, he comes with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.” Revelation 1:7 

I am not saying that clouds that look like stealth spaceships are Jesus, and God's Word actually tells us not to go chasing sightings of Jesus. When he comes, everyone will know. But, I am presenting events talked about in the Bible, and that are happening in real time, right before our eyes, today, in 2021. Hallelujah! Praise God for choosing us to be here during this Biblical time in His Plan!

Do I believe we are in the end times? It is possible and even likely, but the bigger question is, Will the end be NOW? I do not believe that the end is now, not from what God has put on my heart in the last year, and which I have shared in previous blogs, specifically the story of Josiah in "Algorithm is Not Man's Rhythm," nor from what He has told great prophets in recent months and years.

“But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” Matthew 24:36

God is very specific about how His children can know what to do every day, every step of the way, in their short lives on earth, including the end times. How you ask? The answer is PRAYER!

The Bible says to "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." Philippians 4:6  And, that by so doing: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened." Matthew 7:7-8  And, “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which you know not.” Jeremiah 33:3 

I don't know about you, but I would welcome seeing some "great and mighty things" that I knew not, right about now, or anytime.

In James 4:12-15, we learn the following about how to live our daily lives:

12 "There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judges another?

13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that."

Pray earnestly to God, and ask for direction in your life, not just about the "big" stuff, but about everything, every day. Talk to God. Do you need prosperity and abundance? Turn your life over to Jesus Christ, and pray for what you need. God will not fail us if we are sincere in our repentance, or turning away from sin.

So, while most people, including myself, do not spend a lot of time thinking about the end times, because, I mean, if you already follow God with all of your heart, mind and soul, then you probably will not do things much differently anyway. Also, when you "know God," you know you know God. I pray everyone knows Him to day, "whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow."

​Hallelujah! Praise God! Amen!