THE WATCHMEN’S REPORT
NEWS STORIES THAT CONNECT WITH BIBLICAL PROPHECY
BY Wayne J. Edwards, October 21, 2026
EUROPE IS READY FOR THE ANTICHRIST
JAN MARKELL, OCTOBER 20, 2026
The title I am using for this article is not mine. It was the title Amir Tsarfati used at my prophecy conference in suburban Minneapolis in the Fall of 2016. It was one of the most captivating and timely messages ever presented at that event that spanned almost 20 years. Dare I say, some 5,000 people sat captivated—even riveted. Amir described his experience in Europe TEN YEARS AGO. It left him terrified. He knew he was somewhere near the headquarters of a future Antichrist empire. He felt unnerved and even ran back to his hotel room, sensing evil or danger.
The Globalists Pave the Way
We’re seeing Europe’s globalists paving the way for the Antichrist. They are throwing out the welcome mat.
No, the title of Antichrist doesn’t belong to bumbling Emmanuel Macron, but in 2016, even The Economist magazine was calling him Europe’s savior. How God humbles the proud. As the head of France, no European leader today should be as ashamed as Emmanuel Macron, who casually enjoyed a Celine Dion concert while policemen were on fire in Paris and elsewhere. Now the world knows he’s no savior. But there is one standing by somewhere. He will rise from obscurity. There have been riots and demonstrations in Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, and beyond, but began in mid-September in France.
Be He God or Devil, We Will Receive Him! Seriously?
Europe has cried for a savior in days gone by. Paul Henri Spaak—a Belgian politician called “Mr. Europe”, was Secretary General of NATO in 1957. At that time, he made a statement that lingers and should haunt Europeans today: “What we need is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all people, and to lift us out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man, and be he god or devil, we will receive him.” Daniel 9 suggests the Antichrist will come from the region that destroyed the Temple in 70 AD. And while the Roman Empire was huge, most scholars suggest this “little horn” will arise from what is today, the European Union.
Welcoming the Stranger??
Europe has reeked with the familiar mantras of “free Palestine” and “from the river to the sea” since October 7, 2023. Could that be a judgment? Decades ago, Europe killed most of its Jews and then began welcoming Islamic immigrants to the point of collapse today. Now, they need a savior, and according to Spaak and almost all of today’s globalists, be he god or devil, they will receive him.
IS AMERICA PAYING ATTENTION?
Globalists in every country, including America, want to destroy sovereignty,
welcome unlimited immigrants as cheap laborers,
and brag about being multi-cultural—
even though many of these immigrants will never assimilate.
What’s Wrong with This Picture?
As a life-long resident of Minnesota, I know. We are now called Mogadishu on the Mississippi. Our Scandinavian culture has been trampled, and mosques are replacing churches. As a thank you, the invaders extorted billions of dollars in Somali fraud from this once-pristine state. We no longer boast of ten thousand lakes; rather, ten thousand terrorists.
The European chaos is spreading rapidly. The fires of rebellion are casting an eerie glow. Evildoers are waiting in the wings to take advantage: globalists, communists, socialists, and an assortment of thugs. A deadly “red-green alliance” of communism and Islam. “From the river to the sea”, they shout. This is where it leads. Hate the Jews and pay the price. Emmanuel Macron no longer walks on water. Soon, every European leader will be riddled with fear. They will all be longing for a “man-with-a-plan.” Mr. Fix-It.
The Trade-Off: Kill the Jews, Welcome the Muslims?
Eighty and ninety years ago, Europe tracked down, registered, marked, and tried to murder every Jew in the world. Righteous Europeans tried to intervene in vain.
A group of people who were a blessing to the world were targeted for extermination as an ethnic group. They have borne the brunt of enmity because they dared to be different and dared to insist on their difference.
God intervened, for it is Israel and the Jews who are His last days’ markers and clock signaling the end-of-days. And if God is for you, it doesn’t matter how many are against you. Their existence is the greatest testimony of a loving God who keeps His covenants to Jews and Christians. He spared a remnant who began the new State of Israel.
Europe was sick and twisted in the 1930s and is even more depraved today, except for a remnant of the righteous.
Awaiting Jesus Christ, Not Antichrist! The true believer can be assured that we only await Jesus Christ. We will never encounter this Antichrist. He will arrive not to curse believers, but to haunt and torment an unbelieving, left-behind world.
“Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way,
for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed,
the man doomed to destruction.”
2 Thessalonians 2:3
PRESIDENT TRUMP WARNS
FRANCE IS BURNING
AS IT FALLS INTO RIOT-DRIVEN LAWLESSNESS
SIMON KENT, OCTOBER 18, 2026
President Donald Trump blamed unrestricted entry of illegal migrants through porous borders for the riots in France and urged the country to tighten its migration rules.
“France is burning! The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country,” Trump said in a post Sunday on his Truth Social platform.
“Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!”
As Breitbart News reported, the past 48-hours has seen mass riots in cities across France, with some 800,000 left-wing protesters violently taking their grievances to the streets and attacking anything and everything in their path. The movement claims to be driven by the cost of living and public spending although on the evidence it appears to be driven by left-wing protesters doing all they can to disrupt civil society.
Trump is not alone in seeing open borders and the mass entry of illegal migrants as driving the rioters. Vice President JD Vance remarked: “Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn’t listen.
“I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people,
will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.
And I hope Americans are paying attention.
This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.”
Vice – President, J.D. Vance
In Paris over the weekend, police fired tear gas and water cannons to push back rioters wearing hoods and masks and throwing fireworks, paving stones and other objects at officers in the Place de la République, northeast of the Paris city center.
PRESIDENT TRUMP
“PARIS IS GOING TO BE A MUSLIM CITY VERY SOON”
“CLOSE UP YOUR BORDERS”
JOSHUA KLEIN, OCTOBER 19, 2026
President Donald Trump warned Monday that Paris is on course to become a “Muslim city very soon,” blaming France’s escalating unrest on mass immigration and saying he had repeatedly urged French President Emmanuel Macron to close the country’s borders. “Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon, and that wasn’t the deal,” Trump told reporters at the White House as France grappled with days of violent riots, looting, and arson.
Trump said he had warned Macron about the consequences of his immigration policies years before the latest unrest.
“Emmanuel, he’s a friend of mine. I told him a long time ago, ‘You’re making a big mistake in France. You’re letting everybody from the world come in,’” Trump said. The president recalled urging Macron to close France’s borders when they first met nearly a decade ago, contrasting the French leader’s approach with his own. “We closed our borders. He didn’t. And you know what? His borders are a problem,” Trump said. “Emmanuel should have closed his borders a long time ago. I told him to do it.”
Trump also rejected the suggestion that the unrest stemmed primarily from education or economic grievances, insisting that immigration was responsible. “What’s happening in France has to do with immigration, not schools, not anything,” Trump said. “It’s immigration.” He went further, warning that the consequences could extend across Europe if governments failed to tighten immigration controls. “If Europe doesn’t close its borders and bring the criminals out, like the people that are protesting, Europe is finished,” he said.
Earlier Monday, Trump issued a similar warning on Truth Social, declaring, “The migrants have taken over France. They must close the borders, fast.” His remarks followed a weekend of widespread violence across France, where demonstrations that began last month over education funding and living costs escalated into riots that left buildings burned, businesses looted, and hundreds of police officers injured.
More than 2,330 people were taken into police custody over the weekend, according to French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin, while the Interior Ministry reported nearly 1,000 injured security personnel. Among the buildings targeted was the historic town hall in Limoges, which suffered extensive damage in an arson attack. Macron condemned the violence in a Sunday address, blaming “insurrectionist elements from radical far-left groups, joined by numerous criminals,” while distinguishing the rioters from demonstrators with legitimate grievances. On Monday, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu instructed regional authorities to impose localized curfews to curb further violence and looting. Trump’s latest remarks followed his Sunday warning that “France is burning,” in which he accused mass migration of devastating the country and urged French authorities to regain control before it was too late.
The world is starting to wake up! Philosopher and author Maarten Boudry posted a powerful monologue on X about the riots in Europe: “Before long, we will all know what it feels like to be Jewish. Soon, we will all know what it feels like to be Jewish. In France, they already know. This will be the punishment we deserve for abandoning the Jews, ignoring their warnings, turning against them, and even marching alongside their oppressors.”
“For three years, you useful idiots have marched with Palestinian flags, worn keffiyehs, screamed ‘From the river to the sea,’ and recognized a fictitious Palestinian state as a reward for Hamas’s October 7 massacre (yes, I’m looking at you, Emmanuel Macron). You boycotted the world’s only Jewish state, demonized the Jewish people’s right to self-determination (known as ‘Zionism’), and spread the blood libel of ‘genocide in Gaza.’”
“Did you think that if you fed the crocodile enough Jewish flesh, it would eventually be satisfied? All you did was strengthen the monster and whet its appetite even more.”
“So, you were worried about ‘colonialism’? Look around. The only things suffering from colonialism here are our Western cities. The Palestinian flag has become a flag of victory, proudly flown among the ruins of historic buildings that have been looted and vandalized, a symbol of hatred toward our culture and everything it represents. It never ends with the Jews…”
WHY ARE EUROPEAN ELITES DESTROYING THE WEST
BRANDON HOLTHAUS, OCTOBER 17, 2026
I recently returned from England, where my time in Oxford and conversations with remnant believers sharpened concerns that have grown during other visits to Ireland, Scotland, Amsterdam, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and France. These encounters have left me deeply troubled about Europe’s spiritual direction. A continent shaped by Christianity increasingly seems embarrassed by the faith that helped form it, while Christians who still believe the Bible find themselves defending truths their culture once took seriously. My conclusion is that influential political and cultural leaders are actively advancing a post-Christian Europe for Globalism. I believe the weakening of biblical authority and national identity serves a globalist vision of power increasingly removed from ordinary citizens.
Bruce Bawer’s recent Front-Page Magazine article, “Europe’s Suicide Pact,” offers a related warning: governments are transforming societies while dismissing the people who must live with the consequences. His criticism of multicultural ideology, contempt for their own countries’ citizens, failed integration of Islamic immigrants, and political cowardice are causing Europe to commit civilization suicide.
What I Saw in Oxford
Walking through Oxford, I was struck by its embrace of the fifteen-minute-city agenda—another scheme imposed by globalist elites using the climate change hoax to justify greater control over people’s lives, moving toward a prison without walls. I also noticed visible expressions of Islam, including buildings named after Islamic donors and women wearing hijabs, in a city with deep Christian associations through figures such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. That contrast left me asking serious questions about Europe’s future and what is becoming of its Christian inheritance.
The desire for a post-Christian future is being discussed openly.
In July 2018, Viktor Orbán accused European elites of moving the continent into a “post-Christian era” in which nations would disappear. His warning identified a fundamental dispute over whether Europe should preserve its Christian inheritance and national distinctions or regard them as obstacles to progress. In March 2025, Bishop Athanasius Schneider made a more direct accusation in an interview reported by Andreas Wailzer for LifeSiteNews. Schneider argued that powerful elites were using mass migration to change Europe’s identity and diminish Christian influence. I share his concern about policies that weaken a country’s inherited moral framework.
Melania Phillips has noted in her book, The Builder’s Stone, that Western elites are taking a wrecking ball to their own institutions and values because they believe that Western civilization is fundamentally corrupted by colonialism and racism. Consequently, they do not believe its inheritance deserves to be passed on to the next generation. Their project goes beyond correcting historical injustices: it involves dismantling Western culture and institutions. Western civilization rests substantially on Christianity; Christianity rests on Judaism; therefore, attacks on the West’s foundational principles ultimately attack its Christian and Jewish moral inheritance.
What European’s Are Saying
In my other discussions and interviews with individuals from Europe, such as Pastor Gary McKibbon of Victory Church Belfast in Ireland and Ken Luff of Hephzibah Oxford in England, elites are making a concerted effort to destroy Europe’s Christian heritage. McKibbon notes, “When K. Schwab coined the phrase “Build Back Better,” a race was on. Not to build, but to deconstruct! The forerunners in this race…Europe! A collective that decided, in the 2002 resolution, that fundamentalism was at odds with EU goals. Evidently, they did not mean Islamic fundamentalism or the communist, socialist, and leftist fundamentalism that has permeated Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Rather, they meant Christian fundamentalism, specifically the Judeo-Christian bedrock of Western civilization. Luff notes,
“Whether knowingly or not, the elites, aka the globalists, are essentially Satan’s agents in today’s world. Typically, they are members of groups such as the WEF, the Freemasons, the Fabian Society, Skull and Bones, and so on, seeking power and the riches of this world. Any investigation of the philosophy of these groups shows them to be against our Christian faith and the freedoms that emanate from true Christianity.
The freedoms of liberal Western countries like the UK and the USA were largely established by the impact of the Protestant Reformation. Thus, Satan’s strategy has been to use these anti-Christian groups to infiltrate key sectors (e.g., government, education, the media, etc.) of these nations over the past 200 years or so in order to undermine and ultimately destroy the very fabric of such societies by attacking the culture upon which their freedoms have been established.
The Fear That Manipulates
Through conversations with Europeans, I have come to recognize a lingering World War II hangover: a deep fear of nationalism rooted in what happened in Nazi Germany. Europe was devastated by that war, and its memory continues to shape how many European elites view national identity. The problem is that they confuse the extremes of Nazi ideology with basic loyalty, pride, and love for one’s country—what we call patriotism. Their fear of repeating the past leads them to treat national affection as though it were the beginning of another totalitarian movement.
That helps explain why some immediately associate Donald Trump’s “America First” message with Nazism. Trump’s call for patriotism- expecting people who come to America to respect the country and confronting the universities, political activists, the media, and the entertainment industry to stop promoting hatred for America and the West is his goal. Loving your country does not mean embracing racial supremacy or seeking to conquer your neighbors.
But when European leaders interpret patriotism primarily through the lens of World War II, they mistake it for the radical nationalism of Nazi Germany. Their proposed safeguard is internationalism and, ultimately, globalism. They believe that weakening national sovereignty and transferring authority to international institutions like the UN will prevent another nationalist catastrophe.
The danger is that fear drives them toward the opposite extreme. Without a biblical worldview, they lack the foundation needed to evaluate that fear in light of God’s truth. Scripture exposes both the idolatry of exalting a nation above God and the arrogance of concentrating human power in global institutions like the UN in defiance of Him.
From that biblical perspective, I can clearly see Satan exploiting their fear of the past to draw them toward globalism. In their determination to prevent one form of tyranny, they are surrendering their national sovereignty to another. They believe globalism will protect them from national tyranny, yet that very belief draws them into a trap they will not escape.
Moral Relativism and the Romans 1 Judgment of Being Given Over
The intentional dismantling of Christianity does not require every politician to attend a secret meeting. It advances spiritually through a shared rejection of absolute truth in favor of moral relativism and individual feelings. After decades of suppressing the truth and worshiping the creation rather than the Creator, European elites illustrate the judgment described in Romans 1:18-32, where God gives people over to the desires they insist on pursuing. Professing to be wise, they have become fools. I see this reflected in their embrace of socialism, the welfare state, LGBT activism, open-borders policy, gender ideology, and their sacrificial devotion to the climate-change hoax. Their thinking becomes futile, and their hearts become darkened. Their willingness to pursue Islamic immigration policies that undermine assimilation and expose their own citizenry to Islamic behaviors that are destroying their European culture further illustrates this rejection of wisdom.
Romans 1 describes people being given over to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts after exchanging the truth of God for a lie. That exchange distorts how they view Christianity and Christians, Israel and the Jewish people, national sovereignty, and progress itself. Having rejected the truth, they celebrate the very things that contribute to their destruction as progress.
Some are simply useful idiots who follow whatever ideology is fashionable. Others believe that removing Christianity from public life will liberate society from patriarchy, sexual restraint, and what they label intolerance. They promise diversity, equity, and unrestricted personal freedom. Ultimately, however, they want freedom from God’s authority—the very attitude described in Psalm 2:1–3. Their policies consequently push Europe in the same post-Christian direction toward globalism. What they fail to recognize is the trap Satan has set for them. Like their pagan ancestors at Babel, they look to human unity and centralized power for security. Genesis 11:4 captures their ambition: “Let us make a name for ourselves.” Rather than honor God, they seek greatness and security on their own terms. The global order they envision echoes that ancient rebellion associated with Nimrod: humanity united in defiance of its Creator. Behind the promise of liberation lies spiritual deception.
The attraction of worship that accommodates
human desires rather than submitting to the one true God, whose moral authority cannot be rewritten to suit our preferences.
They run from the knowledge that God established governments to exercise authority under Him. Government is therefore accountable to a moral authority beyond itself. That conviction directly challenges any global ideology that demands ultimate allegiance to the state or a supranational institution.
Immigration and the Politics of Power
Immigration becomes politically dangerous in Europe and throughout the West when governments treat immigrants, legal or illegal, particularly young Muslim men arriving without wives or children, as instruments of power. My concern is that globalist elites are using immigration from Islamic societies as a battering ram or hammer against the West, disregarding assimilation, a country’s capacity to absorb newcomers, learning the national language, embracing Western civic values, and the responsibilities of citizenship.
These policies have already deepened segregation and created isolated enclaves, no-go zones, and parallel societies. When authorities fail to confront Islamic rape gangs, sexual exploitation, and Islamist intimidation, they abandon the people they are responsible for protecting. That failure betrays public trust, and it’s intentional. Europe is projected to have a substantially larger Muslim population by midcentury, driven by immigration, a younger population, and higher birth rates. Pew Research Center’s 2017 study projected that the Muslim share of the 30 European countries studied could rise from 4.9% in 2016 to 7.4% by 2050 with no further migration, 11.2% with continued regular migration, or 14% if the exceptional refugee flows of 2014–2016 continued alongside regular immigration.
Changes would vary considerably: under the high-migration scenario, Sweden could reach approximately 31% Muslim and Germany approximately 20%. These figures point toward a significant demographic and religious shift, with alarming implications for integration, public policy, and national identity. These trends raise a serious concern: if European leaders continue failing to address existing problems with Islamic immigration and integration, those problems could deepen as migration continues, while political elites make further concessions to Islamist demands.
Islamification and institutional surrender and the Red-Green Alliance
When I speak of Islamification, my concern is the expansion of Islamist political demands into European institutions that should protect everyone’s freedom. Pressure to suppress criticism of Islam, excuse antisemitism, or subordinate equal civil rights to religious authority deserves resistance. Europe should protect freedom of conscience and refuse demands for religious coercion; instead, they demonize the citizens as being Islamophobic, racist, or xenophobic who criticize the teachings and behaviors of Islam.
European Globalists and Islamists make strange bedfellows, but they share common enemies: the West, Christianity, and Israel. Both realize they cannot destroy the West from the outside, so they have worked to destroy it from within, institutionally, culturally, and politically. They cooperate against those enemies while pursuing different goals; one seeks a globalist order, the other a global caliphate. A secular politician may foolishly imagine that Islamist movements can be managed after they dismantle all vestiges of Christianity and Israel from their society, but he does not understand the history of Islam. Islam cannot be managed due to its supremacist and conquering nature. Islamists, meanwhile, regard their secular allies as temporary partners as a means to an end. They exploit Western freedoms to advance their agenda while presenting themselves within the woke framework as an oppressed group deserving protection. This gives them political cover to pursue goals fundamentally opposed to the freedoms that make their agenda possible.
The Price of Refusing Uncomfortable Facts
One example of many in the UK is Oxford’s child sexual exploitation scandal of Pakistani Muslim men who targeted underage white girls, which exposes the devastating consequences of this red-green alliance failure. The agencies of the state, including the police, social services and the care system, seemed eager to ignore the sickening exploitation that was happening before their eyes simply because they didn’t want to appear racist. In 2015, the county council acknowledged repeated missed opportunities to protect abused girls who were being groomed by Pakistani Muslims. Journalist Allison Pearson noted, “what remains is a political class still far too timid to challenge growing and alarming separatism in Muslim education and law.”
Romans 13:3–4 gives government a responsibility to restrain wrongdoing. Officials who fail to protect vulnerable children deserve rigorous accountability and jail time. A society that cannot fulfill that elementary duty has a moral crisis far deeper than its public-relations language can conceal. Protecting villains instead of victims is the worst crime someone can commit. It’s demonic, but it fits their agenda.
Teaching A Civilization to Despise Itself
I am also concerned about an approach to history that treats the West primarily as a record of white oppression, colonialism, slavery, and patriarchy. Every nation has both failures and achievements. An honest historical evaluation considers the whole picture. But when every achievement is recast as domination, the agenda becomes clear: historical education becomes an exercise in cultivating shame. People taught that their inheritance is irredeemably evil will struggle to explain why it deserves to survive.
I see an affinity here with Marxist approaches that interpret society through conflict between oppressors and the oppressed. The problem is selective moral judgment. The failures of the West and Christianity are repeatedly rehearsed, while their contributions to charity, education, human dignity, and moral accountability are dismissed. A culture must acknowledge wrongdoing, repent, and preserve what is true and good. Yet within this Marxist ideological framework, no meaningful path to forgiveness or restoration exists. The civilization itself stands permanently condemned. Its failures become justification for tearing it all down.
Global Government and the Responsibility of the Remnant
By a global New World Order, I mean an envisioned concentration of authority above nations, with no restraints from voters, inherited institutions, and biblical moral commitments. The danger comes when international cooperation becomes a justification for weakening the consent of the governed and treating dissent as an obstacle to be managed. Daniel 2 and 7, together with Revelation 13, describe the coming fourth Kingdom that will exert world dominion and will ultimately unite political authority, false worship, coercion, and economic exclusion under the Antichrist.
I can tell you this: don’t expect most Christians to understand what is unfolding.
Distorted eschatology, replacement theology, seeker-friendly approaches, purpose-driven programs, and church-growth models have left many churches spiritually disengaged. They are focused on building their ministry kingdoms while failing to recognize the direction of the world around them.
I see in these churches the condition Christ rebuked in Laodicea:
complacency, spiritual blindness, and confidence in their own prosperity.
Do not assume they are coming to your rescue or that they will suddenly join the effort to oppose globalism. Many do not even recognize what is happening.
They remind me of the religious leaders Jesus confronted in Matthew 16:3: “Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.” Why could they not discern the times? They failed to accept what Scripture revealed about the Messiah. Daniel 9:24–26 provided the prophetic timetable for His coming, and His miracles confirmed His identity. Yet they refused to recognize Him. Here we are, roughly two thousand years later, watching another failure of discernment. Many churches cannot recognize the convergence of developments preparing the world for the conditions Scripture describes during the Tribulation. Their theological systems have trained them to dismiss the very passages that would help them understand what they are seeing.
The imagery of Laodicea is especially sobering. The hot springs of nearby Hierapolis were valued for bathing and therapeutic use, while Colossae was associated with cold, refreshing water. Both hot and cold water served a useful purpose. Christ’s image of lukewarm water, unpleasant enough to spit out, exposes a church whose complacency had rendered its witness ineffective. The congregation considered itself wealthy and self-sufficient, yet Christ described it as spiritually impoverished, blind, and naked.
That is why we cannot build our response around the expectation that complacent churches and their pastors will lead the way. The responsibility falls to those willing to hear and obey Christ—the faithful remnant reflected in His words to Philadelphia. We must get the warning out. And so be it. We are called to stand as watchmen on the wall, faithfully declaring what God has revealed. At the judgment seat of Christ, faithful service will be rewarded, while worthless works will bring loss of reward. Our responsibility is to warn while there is still time.
The Christian foundations of Europe, America, and the wider West are worth defending. The Philadelphia remnant must stand confidently on Scripture, teach the whole counsel of God, and refuse to yield to intimidation. Political leaders may pursue a post-Christian future. Our responsibility is to remain faithful to Christ, make His truth known, and persevere in the work He has entrusted to us.
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SPIRITUAL DECEPTION OF THE NEW AGE
ROB PUE, OCTOBER 19, 2026
We are seeing the words of Scripture play out in living color before our very eyes every single day now, though the unsaved world cannot comprehend it. With all we have to contend with, it’s easy for us to get distracted, focusing on the things we see in this physical world every day, and forgetting about the invisible, spiritual world all around us. But this is where the REAL war is actually being waged.
The abominations we SEE on this earth are actually just the manifestations of intense warfare being played out in the spiritual realm. Ephesians 6 tells us, “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but…against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” There is a whole SPIRITUAL WORLD “out there” that we do not see while we live in these earthly bodies, yet it is as just as real as the ground we walk on. And these “spiritual forces of evil” are working overtime against all of us. Peter warns us to be aware of this. “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.” Scripture tells us that these last days will be times of great deception and delusion.
People will have seared consciences and reprobate minds — they will be unable to think or discern truth any longer, because they have chosen — get this: they have CHOSEN to deny God!
The great spiritual battle rages on: it is God, our Creator versus Satan, the deceiver.
Where did it all start?
Satan rebelled against God by refusing to worship Him, and by demanding to be worshiped himself. God cast him out and so now he seeks revenge. His greatest revenge is achieved by destroying the lives and souls of God’s precious children — you and me. He preys on the ignorant, the weak and vulnerable. He lies, he tempts and he leads his victims to eternal damnation. The worst thing anyone could ever do to me would be to hurt one of my kids. Surely any loving parent would feel the same. How much more must our Heavenly Father be crushed when His own dear children are led astray and slaughtered.
Now, if you don’t know God and understand Scripture, I’m sure this sounds as ridiculous, as primitive and superstitious as tales of Greek mythology. But I assure you, the story is true. And frighteningly real. In our human arrogance, we think we have “evolved,” that our intellect has expanded and our knowledge increased. We think we understand things now, because we’ve opened our minds to an amazing “universal consciousness,” through the teachings of the New Age.
Satan is still promising to give knowledge and wisdom. He is still promising you can do as you please, that all paths lead to the same promise of God, and he even cloaks his demonic claws in a disguise of love. Scripture tells us he appears to us as an angel of light, so that we will believe him. If you’re caught up in strange spirituality that goes contrary to the Word of God, I challenge you to think on these things today. If what you THOUGHT you knew about your spirituality turned out to be WRONG, WHEN would you like to know?
EPISCOPAL CHURCH MEMBERSHIP
DROPS BY NEARLY 500K SINCE 2015
MICHAEL GRYGOSKI, OCTOBER 18, 2026
The Episcopal Church’s years-long decline continued in 2025,
with the denomination having nearly 500,000 fewer members
than a decade earlier, according to a new report.
The Episcopal Church released an analysis of its 2025 Parochial Report, which found that the liberal Mainline denomination had about 1.425 million members last year. By comparison, the denomination reported a total of 1.917 million members in 2015, or around 492,000 fewer members. “Membership continues its slow decline, a trend that has persisted for decades,” the report states.
In-person Sunday worship attendance has fallen from about 600,000 in 2015 to about 407,000 last year. The 2025 figure is also slightly lower than in 2024, when the denomination reported Sunday worship attendance of more than 413,000.
The analysis also counted 6,673 open parishes and missions last year, down slightly from 6,707 in 2024. Baptisms dipped slightly as well, from 19,624 in 2024 to 19,316 in 2025, according to the report.
Like many Protestant denominations in the United States, The Episcopal Church has seen a considerable decline in membership over the past several decades. In 2010, the denomination reported that its number of active baptized members in its domestic dioceses had dropped below 2 million, with an overall total of 2.125 million when including overseas dioceses. Many factors have contributed to the decline in membership and attendance, but the denomination’s increasingly progressive theological direction has alienated some.
In 2003, for example, when The Episcopal Church consecrated the Rev. Gene Robinson as its first openly gay bishop,
scores of congregations and a couple of dioceses left in protest.
In October 2025, the denomination released its 2024 Parochial Report, which, unlike past annual reports, did not include a total membership count. At the time, The Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs said in a statement that the report reflected “responses to new and revised questions that were compiled by former members of the House of Deputies Committee on the State of the Church and approved by the Executive Council in October 2023 and January 2024.”
FRANKLIN GRAHAM SAYS:
JESUS IS COMING BACK
AND IT IS NOT GOING TO BE FAR DOWN THE ROAD
BREANNA CLAUSEN, OCTOBER 19, 2026
During a lengthy sit-down interview with Fox News Sean Hannity, evangelist Franklin Graham boldly detailed to a largely secular podcast audience the list of extraordinary evidence showcasing that our world is living in the season of Jesus’ return. Hannity, who subscribes to Roman Catholicism, softly noted his skepticism, telling the son of the late Billy Graham that he finds Revelation “the most difficult book of the Bible to understand” and “scary.”
“You once said to me that you think the end times are at hand,” Hannity began, “but didn’t the apostles think that?”
With this, Graham had an open door he didn’t let go to waste, unraveling a remarkable list of characteristics pointing to Jesus’ soon return, including growing enthusiasm for globalization, socialism, and antisemitism, as well as the startling emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
“John wrote the book of Revelation. In chapter [13], he speaks about a one-world system,” Graham emphasized. “George H. Bush talked about the ‘new world order.’ Both the Republicans and Democrats have been focused on this path towards globalization—a one-world system.
30 years ago, [people asked] how’s that gonna happen?
Today, with AI, with supercomputers, and this push for globalization…
It’s coming, Sean.”
The rise of socialism in the United States and across the West
also plays a significant role, according to the evangelist,
who highlighted that the future “one-world system”
detailed in the Book of Revelation has an overt similarity to communism.
“The Communist Party was strong and very powerful in this country, especially with the trade unions in the 30s,” he described. “World War II comes along, and then at the end of the Second World War, you have the McCarthy hearings, and all of a sudden, it just went quiet. Where did all these people go? They went underground. They got into your universities; they got into the media. Very smart. Now here we are, 70 years past World War II, and segments of our country are embracing socialism.”
It was at this point that Hannity began veering the subject toward mass immigration and other policies doing significant damage across western nations—but Graham wasn’t through pointing out the incredible prophetic implications of these topics. “Well, I believe, Sean, what’s happening is we’re seeing God moving the players, the pieces on this big chessboard [approaching] the return of His Son,” Graham underscored, before diving further into what the Bible says is coming.
“There is going to be a one-world system. There is going to be the Antichrist.
You won’t be able to buy, sell, or trade without his mark,” he noted.
“It’s going to be on the forehead or on the right hand. If you don’t have that mark,
you can’t go to the hospital. You can’t go to the grocery store. You can’t buy gasoline.
You can’t pay your rent.”
Graham reminded Hannity that this Antichrist system has bewildered readers of Revelation for thousands of years—but not anymore. “It’s called the ‘mark of the beast,’ and the Bible says it’s ‘666.’ It’s numerical. What is a computer? It’s numerical,” he explained. “Even 30-40 years ago, we wondered how that was going to work. Today, that can happen.
They already in Europe have been testing a computer chip under the skin that you can actually do your banking through and so forth. 30 years ago, the technology wasn’t there. It is here today. We know that in the end times, the monetary system of the world is going to be controlled by one entity, one source, one person.” The danger of this technology isn’t going unnoticed, Graham added. “People within AI are warning that it could be the ‘end of mankind’—this isn’t some preacher saying that,” he stated. “They could control the pathogens, they could take over the computers that control the nuclear weapons, and all of these things that could be unleashed. It’s frightened them.”
Suddenly, the evangelist shifted to a different tone, ever mindful of the vital need to share the clarity, hope, and salvation offered through the Gospel. “My hope is in Jesus Christ,” Graham stressed. “I know that one day this world is going to come to an end. My life is gonna come to an end one day. But at that point, I’m gonna be in the presence of God. That’s where my hope is. My hope is not in the Republican Party or the Democrats or some other future political system. It’s not in the UN. It’s not in the Communist Party of China. It’s in Jesus Christ and Him alone.”
There is another hope and promise—routinely forgotten—from God’s Word: the Blessed Hope of the rapture of the church and the assurance that Jesus Christ will transform the world at His coming. “[Revelation is] the final picture of God’s judgment against the world for rejecting his son, Jesus Christ. The Bible teaches that those that are saved will be taken out, and then God’s judgment is coming [during the seven-year Tribulation period].”
“Jesus is coming back,” Graham declared.
“He is going to come back, and He is going to establish His throne here.
There’s gonna be a new Jerusalem. He is coming down, and He is going to reign.
That is going to take place. When that’s gonna take place, I don’t know…
but it’s not gonna be that far down the road.”
“Jesus told us to look for signs,” Graham implored. “In Matthew chapter 24, He gives us great examples of what’s coming and what we ought to be looking for. If you look today, [you can see] the signs.” Graham further noted that the signs pointing to the nearness of Christ’s return are becoming unavoidable, with preachers across the world heralding this astonishing message. “If you go on YouTube and start watching different pastors and preachers, one common thread right now is the second coming of Jesus Christ,” he detailed.
“Pastors from all around the world are all beginning to focus on this subject.”
“I believe the time is near,” he reiterated,
“and that’s why we all need to examine our own hearts and our own lives and say: God, are we ready?”
The attraction of worship that accommodates human desires rather than submitting to the one true God, whose moral authority cannot be rewritten to suit our preferences.
“Let us make a name for ourselves.”
Rather than honor God, they seek greatness and security on their own terms.
The global order they envision echoes that ancient rebellion associated with Nimrod: humanity united in defiance of its Creator.
Behind the promise of liberation lies spiritual deception.
The church of the living God should be distinct from the world.
“Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.”
Jeremiah 6:16
