So Is the Rapture Now on Hold? – Pastor Mark Henry and Alex Newman

Understanding the Times – Condensed Transcript

Program Focus: Post-election analysis (Nov 5), prophetic implications, and the globalist push toward a one-world system.

Setting the Stage

• Jan Markell opens by noting the historic U.S. election and asks what it means for believers and biblical timelines (unchanged prophetically).

• Public pushback highlighted: opposition to criminalizing “praying grandmothers,” indifference to child trafficking, contempt for people of faith, border chaos, and the drift toward socialist/Marxist policy.

Guests

• Pastor Mark Henry (Revive Church, Brooklyn Park, MN; 412 Church, San Jacinto, CA).

• Alex Newman (Liberty Sentinel; author of Deep State: The Invisible Government Behind the Scenes).

Election & God’s Sovereignty

• Alex: The “Deep State” is in panic after the result. Their long campaign—smears, prosecutions, imprisonments, attempts on Trump’s life—did not prevail. He cites Daniel chapter 2 (cf. Daniel 2:21) to stress that God sets up and removes kings.

• Mark: Parallels Nebuchadnezzar’s humbling with evident decline in current leadership; despite media, money, and violence, the outcome is a miracle.

• Yuval Noah Harari clip: A Trump win would be a “death blow to the global order.”
  Mark: God interrupted globalist plans.
  Alex: Timing unfolds by God’s timeline (cf. 2 Peter chapter 3, esp. 2 Peter 3:9).

The Next 66 Days (Before Inauguration)

• Concerns: Section 3 of the 14th Amendment gambits on January 6, 2025, civil unrest talk, security risks, possible assassination attempts, economic shocks, and escalation of wars (e.g., pressure to expand conflict with Russia).

• Potential market/dollar turbulence; BRICS moves; media/intelligence censorship push intensifies.

Spiritual Dimension & October 7, 2023

• Jan references October 7, 2023 as a moment of unleashed evil globally.

• Mark: Expect demonic agitation in transitions; Satan weaponizes government against God’s people (cf. Romans 13 for God’s design of government). The agenda advanced: anti-Semitism, sexual/ideological harm to children, hostility to the Church.

Is the Rapture “On Hold”?

• Mark: No. The Rapture is imminent—no sign needed; Jesus can come at any time. Tribulation signs (e.g., abomination of desolation) are for those in that period, not the Church. Meanwhile, Jesus is building His Church (cf. 2 Peter 3:9).

U.S. Policy, Israel, and Iran

• Expect a shift away from favoring the Islamic Republic of Iran and toward Israel under new leadership.

• Alex: Past policy has often armed or enabled Islamist movements while giving token support to Israel—an outrage with deadly consequences.

UN “Summit of the Future” & “Pact for the Future”

• Alex (attended as press): The UN’s Pact for the Future advances global governance via:

  • Criminalizing “misinformation,” “disinformation,” “hate speech” (terms weaponized against Christians and biblical truth).

  • Tech collusion: UN-Google partnership to bury dissenting information and promote UN narratives.

  • Action Item 54: Empowers the UN Secretary-General to declare global emergencies, coordinating all sectors under UN primacy (a pathway toward centralized rule; cf. Revelation 13 for final global governance).

  • Push for nations to uphold rulings of the International Court of Justice.

• Mark: The Pact recycles the 10 points of Marxism with polished language—aiming to subjugate national sovereignty to the UN (cf. Genesis 11; Acts 17 for God’s design of nations).

• Spiritual indicator: The UN’s meditation room and roots in occult figures (e.g., Alice Bailey) reveal a demonic undercurrent opposing God’s order.

Why Target the Children?

• Alex: The UN’s long-standing education agenda aims to reshape beliefs (cf. Proverbs 22:6; Luke—“a student…will be like his teacher”).
  Programs like the World Core Curriculum explicitly promote one-world ideology and undermine biblical foundations.

What Leadership Might Do

• Potential U.S. response: bills to defund/exit the UN, state-level refusal to obey WHO/UN overreach; new administration could withdraw from Paris, and even from the UNFCCC, undermining the climate control regime.

• Alex: Heading to COP 29 (Azerbaijan). Expect globalists to fortify their climate architecture to outlast a U.S. policy reversal.

Exhortation to the Church

• Mark & Alex: Do not place ultimate hope in politics. Our mission remains: preach the gospel, disciple children, live godly in a crooked generation (cf. Romans 13; Genesis 11; Acts 17).
  Salvation call: “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.”

• Prayer & fasting mattered; God appears to have granted a reprieve—use it to reach the lost.

Closing Encouragement (Read on Air)

“When the time was right: the sea parted, the walls fell down, the lions went hungry, the sun stood still, the waves were calm, the stone was rolled away, the clouds were parted, and the Lord ascended. And when the time is right, the King of Kings will return. He is never early and He’s never late—He’s always right on time—and His plan for you is good.”