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Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gab TV, GETTR, Truth Social Jesus, when asked by His disciples what are the signs of the end of this age, told them about many fearful things but then said, “This is only the beginning of sorrows” – another gospel calls this “The Births Pangs”. I am of the opinion that something happened 9/11, 2001. The Lord woke me up that morning quite dramatically, I will never forget it. My alarm clock radio was going off and some woman was practically yelling, “America is under attack!” I was half asleep thinking, “How on earth is my alarm clock radio on!?” What was even stranger was that it was in the off position!? While listening to this woman quite upset about America under attack, I was trying to figure out how the dang alarm-clock radio was even on!? Finally, I had to turn it on and then back off again to finally get the thing quiet! I sat there for a moment and thought, ‘could this lady be telling the truth!?’ I thought it was like a ‘War of the Worlds’ segment or some dramatic reading. Finally, I decided to go to my room-mates room, I watch TV at the time and was taking a break from screens and entertainment in that season of life, my roommate had the cable-TV in his room. He opened his door with a look of shock and awe, he had been watching the news. We stood there together and watched the second plane fly into that second tower. It was like waking to a nightmare. I still wasn’t fully awake and still dazed from how the alarm clock (that I never used) woke me up while technically turned off!? Throughout that day the Lord was speaking to me a lot. And what I kept hearing was things like, “Everything just changed” and “You will remember this day forever” and “I am using this event to get the whole worlds attention” and finally, “This is the beginning of sorrows, the beginning of the birth pains”. I read much of the book of Revelation throughout the day and what the Lord showed me some 22 years ago continues to be proven true. “The Beginning of Sorrows” to me, refers to the time period before the very end. In this time period the Lord will be getting the whole world’s attention, practically pleading with everyone, saying, “Return to me. I never intended for you all to live this way. You were supposed to be in a garden, living with me, sinless, in abundance, full of joy!” Hebrews 12 (25-29) prophesy’s that God will once more shake the earth but not the earth only, now the heavens also! God is going to shake everything and do everything in His power to remind us, “I never intended for you to live this way. I am going to restore everything. I am going to fix all of this.” But we have to return to Him. We have to want Him. He isn’t going to force us. These “birth pangs/pains” are used metaphorically by Jesus to describe the world leading up to the end, much the way that a woman pains, terribly sometimes, before she actually goes into labor. My wife in fact had three days of horrible contractions, very painful, with our first child and then finally the labor. The labor was actually rather fast but the contractions leading up to the labor were in many ways harder. They started slowly, the pain increased as the time went by, then they became closer together and increased in intensity and pain. I think this is the absolute perfect metaphor for what we are living thru right now. As time progresses the intensity increases both in magnitude of the events and in the amount of suffering. What was happening a few times a year in the early 2000’s is now happening almost weekly and with greater calamity. The weather, the politics, the wars and rumors of wars, the world turning to strife and disagreement, plagues, Covid-19, famines, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc. it’s all increasing as time progresses through these last days. If you overlay Revelation Chapter 6 with Jesus’ discussion in Matthew 24, Luke 21 and Mark 13 about the birth pains/pangs, there seems to be a congruency and similar prophecy. The first horseman of the Apocalypse (as they are sometimes referred to) comes to conquer, the second horse and its rider comes to take peace from the earth, the third horseman attacks the economics and food supply, while the fourth horseman brings death to the earth. Is this not exactly the world we are living in? I am old enough to remember the world before 9/11. Trust me it was very different. In the world pre-9/11 we hardly discussed most of the things regularly on our minds today: the end of the world, aliens, UFOs, conspiracy theory, WW3, etc. these things were simply fringe and had no effect on most of our lives. If we talked about the end of the world, we talked about it as if way off in the future for another generation, perhaps our children’s or our children’s-children’s generation? These last days Biblical events simply weren’t happening, not in frequency and not in enough intensity to provoke us to think, “Jesus is coming back so soon!” But all that changed with 9/11. The years following 9/11: wars and rumors of wars, tsunami’s, earthquakes, year after year after year, more calamity and strife throughout the nations. And now, post-Covid, it’s worse than ever. And ALL these things were prophesied a long time before we were born, to live in this time, having front-seats to witness the end of this age. It’s incredible even to be writing the words. I personally believe the fourth horseman has been unleashed. I believe that is what we experienced as Covid and then that vaccine galloped across the earth. Revelation warns us of “sorcery” several times. And what is sorcery? And why is it important when dialoging about Covid and vaccines? Have you ever watched a children’s Disney film and the witch comes to the screen with a boiling black cauldron of some brew and we see her adding a bat into the pot with some purple bubbling liquid that gives off a small explosion!? Well, that is Biblically called sorcery. Our world would probably call that a potion? But the Bible would refer to that as sorcery which is a form of witchcraft but different in that one would be creating something like a drug or potion, literally translated, “The Divining of Roots”. The Greek word for sorcery that the Bible translates from is pharmakia. And yes, it is from this pharmakia that we derive our word pharmacy. Well, isn’t that what a pharmacy is? Making potions that we ingest - the “divining of roots”? Revelation warns us that death will be unleashed upon the earth but also that man will turn to sorcery/pharmakia to combat it (Revelation 9)!? This was written 2000 years ago!! Wow! How amazingly accurate is the Bible! In eternity perhaps we will be asked, “So where were you at the end of the world?” Perhaps they will find out we were alive in these times, perhaps in eternity we will be much more aware of what an amazing and important time to be alive? And what will we be able to say we were doing throughout these years? Were we busy trying to convince the world to righteousness? Or did we hide out in our bunkers, with our stockpiles of guns, food and gold bullion!? (I jest a little.) There has never been a better time to shine than right now! There has never been a better time to know our God and Father than 2023! God wants to bring salvation to the earth! He always has. That has always been His heart. And what if no one is interested??? What if we are all so busy trying to find our own salvation? Building spaceships to the stars, amassing armies and arsenals, getting ready for WW3, stockpiling savings accounts, gold and silver and doing everything we can to make sure we are going to survive… But who is seeking their God? In times like these, with eternity at our doors, it might be more important to prepare our hearts and souls meet our God, face to face… wouldn’t you think? But instead we run to the stores and stock pile toilet paper… toilet paper of all things!? If we leave our Father, the truth is, there is plenty to fear. But with our God… death has no victory, this world can not overcome us, we are free from the law of sin and death! The most triumphant ending to any story ever is unfolding upon the earth. And God has to shake everything. It’s the only way to get our attention. When times are good it’s business as usual. God has to shake us out of our slumber so we finally consider these things. Now some will only harden their hearts but many will turn away from these things of sin and corruption and they will find the salvation of the Lord! The truth is, these four horsemen are helping us to find our way back to God, before it is too late. At the end of this age, everything changes. The die is cast and then the judgment. This is our time to give our lives for a purpose, for a heavenly and everlasting purpose. We won’t have another shot at this. We get one life. One life to offer as a living sacrifice to our God before heaven, to show Him we love Him and we love His people. I pray this message encourages you. I pray you are not filled with shame or guilt but instead Hope - that you remember the goodness of God and return to Him, or if you are already with Him, I pray that this message inspires your faith and provokes you to live for Christ like you’ve never lived before!! A Great Victory is ahead for us!! Now is the time to believe!! There’s never been a better time to walk with God then right now Here… at the world’s end. I hope you are blessed by this… Much love to the saints, You shine God’s light And you keep the darkness at bay!! More to come… In fact, The Best is yet to Come!! - Robert Anthony

Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gab TV, GETTR, Truth Social Have you ever considered what would happen if God stepped into our world? I mean in a very literal way. Maybe while we are at work and suddenly there is an uproar because a lover of Jesus just prayed for a person blind from their birth and their eyes opened! Maybe at the supermarket someone close to Jesus started preaching by the produce department, a crowd gathered around and people thru tears and repentance started falling to their knees and giving their lives to Christ! Maybe at the scene of a terrible car accident wherein a man and his family all died but a follower of Jesus, full of faith prayed for them and they all came back to life! How would we respond if God very literally stepped into our world? What if you met a man at the Department of Motor vehicles who seemed to know a lot about you but you had never met this person before in your life. What if he started to tell you mysteries about your life, things that no one on earth could possibly know, maybe even your own wife!? What if he started to proclaim some of the mysteries of God’s kingdom and then, as if a ghost, suddenly disappear!? What if a man looking almost like a beggar steps into the back door of your church and comes right up to the pulpit in the middle of the pastors sermon and gently and humbly asks if he could say something… what if the pastor refused and without thought asks the stranger to either sit down or to leave the church… what if the man insists that he has a message to give the church from God… and again, after the pastor refusing the glory of God shines upon the man as he leaves and you realize God had just walked into the building just before the stranger disappears. There are so many stories, real life stories I have to tell from my own life about God stepping into our world. We can call these, Holy Disruptions or Suddenly Moments. The fact of the matter is that God did step into our world, in the corruptible flesh of a man, born of a virgin woman, by the power of the Holy Spirit, therefore He is the Son of God. God’s own Son came to us, He quite literally stepped into our world. How did they receive Him? Have you read the stories? If God came into our world in 2023, in America, into our lives, our town halls, our hospitals, our supermarkets, our churches, our street corners and malls, How would we receive Him? God just showed up to a small town in Kentucky, at a rather nondescript university called, Asbury. He disrupted everything. Class schedules, small town politics, the traffic, the peaceful life of main street, their one grocery store and few small motels were all suddenly turned upside down! When God shows up everything changes. Everything. And many of us have been praying for this! Many of us have been praying, fasting, preaching, hoping and believing that God would show up and change our nation and save us! But what are we really praying for, in truth? We are praying for a tremendous disruption to invade our world and change everything. All of Christianity changed after the Welsh Revival, then came Azusa Street and everything changed again, for the whole world, missionaries went world-wide with this message of God’s Spirit alive! The tent revivals started and things all changed again in America and the world. Billy Graham’s televised crusades and the Jesus People movement changed everything again. But then there seemed to be a lull. Benny Hinn and many of the tele-evangelists and miracle workers showed up on the scene but the revival seemed to slow down quite a bit. Church attendance started to peak and then slowly started sliding downhill. The next twenty years plus we had to witness pastor after pastor and church after church fall apart for sexual immorality and various issues of greed and immorality. The past twenty years have been especially hard on us Christians. It’s been challenging navigating Christianity in America this 21st Century, watching a generation rise and fall. But many of us have not stopped believing in the goodness of God and His faithfulness, for every generation. Jesus came into the world at the appointed time. And at large the world did not receive Him. At the height of His ministry, when He entered the city of Jerusalem, riding on a colt, only a band of rabble, a few thousand maybe at best, were there to receive Him as king. They cried out and worshipped Him, “Hosanna, Hosanna in the heightest, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” But only a day or so later the crowd shouted to Pilot, “Crucify Him! We have no king but Caesar!” How few actually received Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us, standing before us, loving us day by day, living in our midst? So few actually received Him. Revival is all about God Himself showing up in our world. The miracles that God has done thru me, I never took credit for them, ever. I was always fully aware that this was in fact God’s doing. Did He use me as a vessel? At best. But God has spoken thru donkey’s and used prostitutes and sinners to perform His will, how much really does He need any of us in order for Him to show up on the scene, like at Asbury…. God showed up on that college campus after a young man started repenting at a humble chapel service, crying out “God to save me!” The hearts cry of that young man started a several week event that has now spread to college campuses around the nation. Revival is all about being inconvenienced. We have these lives, and schedules, and agenda’s, plans and goals, we have these desires and bills, and mortgages, and marriages and children… but then in the midst of all of this, sometimes quite suddenly, God shows up. And when God shows up, how will we respond? Jesus came to His disciples quite suddenly, practically out of nowhere and said, “Come and follow me.” James and John, Peter and Andrew were all fisherman and literally in the middle of the days work… but they chose the better thing, they left everything behind and went and followed Jesus. Our Holy Bible would look quite differently had they responded otherwise. We read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John because those men responded to God when He showed up in their lives – but how differently would the story have gone if no one responded to God, standing before them? But now look to eternity. As hard as it is, try and picture the kingdom of God as we first enter it – will we enter with boldness and confidence because of how we loved Him or will we, even as Christians, enter heads hung low, wondering why we are even there because of how average a Christian-life we lived? We will all stand before Him one day. What will we say? “Sorry Lord, it just wasn’t convenient…” or “It was all yours, Lord, everything. I’m glad I gave it all to you…” They ended the meetings, I understand, at Asbury. Maybe it was the Lord shifting things? Maybe it was God showing them that He has a better plan…? But I fear otherwise. I fear that Jesus was still there and wanting to do more for His people but the rulers had had enough of Jesus and asked Him to move on. I hope I’m wrong. We may never know for certain this side of eternity. But, “Lord, if you show up on my property, if you show up in my town or my school, or my business, or my church – I commit to you now in writing before all these people, I will not ask you to leave. Period. If you bless me with your presence in such a way, please stay as long as you like. I will make room for you. I will allow you to bless your people however you would like.” “Father, look at the hearts of those who love you. Do not look at merely the hearts of our ruling elite but look at the hearts of the people… they want you Jesus… they are saying in their hearts, “Hosanna, Hosanna in the heightest, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” And they are laying down beautiful offerings of worship and praise at your feet. Come for your people. We will receive you.” “If our hearts are not ready, prepare our hearts…” “We are broken and afraid, incomplete and imperfect but we want you Lord…” “Come Lord Jesus, Come…” “We won’t turn you away…” “Amen.” I was preaching the end of last year and I said, “2023 will be a year of preparation.” I encouraged everyone to prepare their hearts for what the Lord is about to do. Get ready. I encourage every one of you who wants God to prepare yourselves. God is about to show up in our nation in a mighty mighty way, and spread throughout the nations! It’s an exciting time to be alive. The Best is Yet to Come! Much love friends, Robert