THE FLOOD IS RISING – THE LAST DAYS – THE POPE BLESSES ICE! – THE NEW ANGLICAN ARCHBISHOP – A BAPTIST COMMENT ON CHARLIE KIRK (October 2025)
THE INTRODUCTION
There is so much written by Christians in the analysis of their faith, and in current events and about News items in the world. More and more opinion is coming out and we could almost call this “a writers fest” even “a pen-talk fest.”
The whole problem with that is that we are in the last days of the church age and opinions are everywhere. Very sadly, in all that passes now in Christendom, very little is conservative, that is, biblical. There are some good Christian blogs around, and some large sites like SermonCentral and RaptureReady, among others, maintain conservative values.
One issue I have with all that is being written – and I relate this to myself – is that words may come along and filter into the world community, but how are the facts affecting the writers? We do not deal in academics. We deal with truth, and God’s word, and the testimony of Christ. We don’t approach those matters light-heartedly.
I have tried to study current affairs and world events as they might pertain to prophetic development, for 65 years. It is quite astounding in that time to see the different waves of directions that washed in and then washed out. For example there were some (very foolish in my opinion) who were maintaining that the Rapture was going to happen in 1988; then in September 2025 with the Feast of Trumpets. Well, we are still here!
The expression, “will come in like a flood” has its origin in this verse – {{Daniel 9:26 “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come, will destroy the city and the sanctuary, AND ITS END WILL COME WITH A FLOOD - even to the end there will be war. Desolations are determined.”}}
I don’t have the time to analyse that verse as it is not the main focus, but it pertains to the 70 weeks of Daniel’s prophecy. The 62 weeks and Messiah being cut off is the death of the Saviour. “The people of the prince who will come” pertains to Rome in AD 70 BUT/AND “the prince who will come” is the Antichrist who comes from the region of the old Roman Empire. He will attack Jerusalem on the eve of Armageddon – Zechariah chapters 12 and 14.
However when all these things are approaching towards the end of the 7 year Tribulation, the END COMES VERY QUICKLY. Things pick up pace very dramatically. It is like the incoming flood.
We are not in the Tribulation because the Rapture has not happened yet, BUT let us not miss the point that the flood waters are gathering and starting to flow with a certain rapidity. What is happing in the world today is gathering momentum very fast and I am actually surprised at how quickly things have happened, this year especially.
I know some who read this don’t believe in a Rapture but think things continue until the Second Coming. That is not a debate for now – I have written on length about that matter. Nevertheless even those ones must see the great advancement towards the end. The one thing I ask is that you will be open-minded about the scriptures I will share.
THE PROPHECY OF THE LAST DAYS (OF THE CHURCH AGE)
God does not share a whole lot about the world in the final days of our Church era, but evil leaven has done its evil work and has produced destruction in the world.
Let me ask this, “Have you seen how hateful many non-Christians are becoming, and more intolerant? Have you noticed how money now is king and the world and its people have become greedy for money? Have you noticed how violent and ruthless many parts of the world have become, and don’t exclude the USA in that? Have you noticed how faith is falling away and how the bible seems irrelevant to many Denominations? Have you noticed the rioting in the USA over recent years and in other nations; protests especially coming now from satanic Islam? Have you noticed the great distortions these days with sexuality and gender and WOKE and demonic activity in films and literature and so much more?”
I think most people must be aware of all this happening, and happening so fast, we can say it is like a flood beginning. Well, if you have, then you are acknowledging scripture. Here is a passage explaining the conditions we see, probably the most revealing we have about the last days of the Church age:-
{{2 Timothy 3:1-5 “Realise this, that IN THE LAST DAYS DIFFICULT TIMES WILL COME, for men will be lovers of self, LOVERS OF MONEY, boastful, ARROGANT, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, UNHOLY, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, HATERS OF GOOD, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, (and) HOLDING TO A FORM OF GODLINESS, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE DENIED ITS POWER. Avoid such men as these.”}}
{{2 Timothy 3:12-13 “Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. EVIL MEN AND IMPOSTORS WILL PROCEED FROM BAD TO WORSE, DECEIVING AND BEING DECEIVED.”}}
There is so much in those verses that they are a bright mirror on our societies. I want to share a few thoughts on various subjects.
[1]. THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
As I write this there is a proposed “peace solution” in the Israel/Gaza/Hamas war. Some agreement here might be reached but it will not be lasting. Peace will only come when the Lord Jesus returns in His Kingdom.
Do note this though. {{Daniel 9:27 “AND HE WILL MAKE A FIRM COVENANT WITH THE MANY FOR ONE WEEK, but in THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering, and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”}}. The verse speaks about the Antichrist/World Ruler who appears after the Rapture and the first thing he will do is solve the Middle East conflict to bring peace to the region. In the verse “with the many” is Israel. This will be a peace that will last just 3.5 years until about the start of Revelation 11.
What I want to say about this is that we are in the days of the call for peace. That is how close I think we are to the end of the Church age.
[2]. CLIMATE CHANGE! AGAIN!
This hoax will not go away. Why is it a hoax? I am not going to repeat the many, many good people/scientists on YouTube who refute this hoax but it is a DELUSION brought on nations in the Paris Agreement by the UN Marxist controllers and the WEF. You remember it used to be called “Global Warming” but the name changed because there is no global warming.
The once great National Geographic Magazine I have been getting since 1975 because I am one of the few life members remaining - since Disney has practically taken it over, it has been all about climate change in nearly every article. There are catastrophic predictions about great sea rises and ecosystems being destroyed and starvation sweeping the planet. It is so sad that the credibility of this once great magazine is being forced into propaganda by Disney which is a WOKE and strong left (Marxist) organization today. Walt Disney would be horrified. There are no sea rises. All is a manipulated delusion. They own the ABC – Go figure!
Puny Australia that produces about 1% or less of world emissions (and don’t trees like that carbon dioxide!) tries to take the lead in destroying its remaining coal power stations and is flooding the country with windmills and solar, especially windmills. All this comes from China and Australia is making communist China rich because the Marxist Government in Australia under a communist Prime Minister, loves China and hates the USA. And hates Israel, and Jews and Christians.
The great irony of all this is that because the Marxist Government hates fossil fuels (Australia is blessed with some of the world’s best resources of coal and gas and uranium) then it buys windmills from China made with coal fired powered plants USING AUSTRALIAN COAL. When a man or a nation turns from God, it is capable of the greatest stupidity. So much more can be cited about world stupidity and gathering wickedness, but I want to turn to more serious issues for Christians.
[3]. HOW DO BLESS A BLOCK OF ICE?
Right at the beginning of October 2025 there were videos of the Pope blessing a block of ice. He was in company with a pagan group of environmentalists and he actually placed his hand of the block of ice, somewhere around one ton or less, and blessed it. Can you believe that?
Yes you can believe that if you believe this verse – {{2 Timothy 3:5 (and) HOLDING TO A FORM OF GODLINESS, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE DENIED ITS POWER. Avoid such men as these.”}}
We have men (AND women now!) who have ascended to ecclesiastical positions, who do not believe God and almost certainly are not converted. They belong to the kingdom of darkness. The bible to them is not inspired.
The Pope is no better than the previous Francis one. He is an environmentalist meaning he accepts pagan teachings on the environment. Pope Leo slammed Vice President Vance in a statement. Is this Pope a socialist/Marxist? He is a universalist and greatly opposes the cleaning up of America’s migration mess, and opposes the death penalty, and seems sympathetic to abortion.
One made a comment I thought was clever. He said, “It’s a pity the Pope did not bless ICE rather than ice.”
Let’s leave the Pope there and move to a surprising reaction involving Baptists.
[4]. BAPTISTS, WAKE UP AND GET BACK TO THE BIBLE
I have a post on what Charlie Kirk’s wife said after his death. It mentioned the despicable things the enemy is doing. They are rejoicing over the assassination of Charlie and mocking him. The nearest I can get to that is the hatred of the crowd here – {{Matthew 27:29-31 and after weaving a crown of thorns they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand, and they kneeled down before Him and MOCKED HIM saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” They spat on Him and took the reed and began to beat Him on the head, and after they had mocked Him they took His robe off and put His garments on Him, and led Him away to crucify Him.}}
The unsaved man hates God but may not say it. Jesus said that those who were not for Him are against Him. There is no middle ground. There is no sitting on the fence. Some of the hatred from the left, and the homosexual community, and from MSNBC and from the Democrats is so despicable that we wonder now in what age we live. Actually we know that, for I said it earlier – at the end of the Church age.
I want to quote Doctor Phil here. A clip on his channel revealed three horrible people who are rejoicing over Charlie’s death.
QUOTE – [[“Some of what we have seen is nothing short of twisted, nothing short of hateful. There are people in our country, people you know, that I know, people that we work with, ride public transit with, that are actually celebrating his death, cheering on that someone shot him in the neck with a high powered rifle.”]]
One of the three Doctor Phil cited was a hateful woman who was raving on about Charlie Kirk being a Nazi. It was sick. Another example was a medical worker who posted a video on Tik Tok saying, “I’m glad he got shot. I hope he dies. I don’t care.”
Now this is the disturbing one Dr. Phil spoke about. [[“A coach at Baylor University posted, ‘This makes me giggle,’ in response to the breaking news report. What is horrifying is that Baylor University is a Baptist-based University”]], and Dr Phil said, “It is based on Christian doctrine, religious doctrine and so we have someone who has at least some intelligence, and another, a coach leading our young people at a Christian University that can celebrate this.” (Charlie Kirk’s assassination).
One expects a high standard from American Baptists but I have been very disappointed at what the American Baptists now represent. I know there are many good Baptists and pastors but the trend is there and it is WOKE, inclusive, and liberal.
[5]. LOOKING AT A VERSE MORE IN DEPTH
{{2 Timothy 3:5 (and) “HOLDING TO A FORM OF GODLINESS, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE DENIED ITS POWER. Avoid such men as these.”}}
We are living in those days Paul penned to Timothy. Our current age is that of Laodicea and I would calculate it began in earnest in the 1950s. It was then that places of higher learning AND some Seminaries and Denominational Colleges, were adopting German higher criticism and Freudian psychology. People in professorships, and lecturers began to question the bible’s accounts, especially from Genesis, and the miracles.
Churches, especially Denominations appointed liberals to important positions and the whole structure was weakened. One denomination I know of describes the bible as “contains the word of God,” having changed it from, “The bible is the word of God.”
You reap what you sow and now we are doing the reaping. Homosexuals are ministers in churches and the socialist gospel is preached and is all inclusive of gender, sexuality, politically correct language, and all other aberrations,
God has a remnant people in the Denominations and it is imperative in these days of strengthening evil that we keep the faith very tenaciously. It is very close when the Lord says, “ENOUGH”, and removes His people (the Church) out of this scene before His great wrath falls from Revelation 6 onwards.
[6]. ONE LAST EVIL TO CLOSE WITH
The Church of England in Britain has done the unthinkable and appointed a woman to the position of head of the church, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Personally, I don’t hold to ecclesiastical positions as found in Anglicanism and Catholicism but my observations are that the women trying to gain those positions are often feminists, and WOKE and certainly liberal.
Feminism has stormed all positions of men in leadership. It is the world’s way with CEOs, judges, Governors, Heads of Departments, and the list now is endless. I know some will call me a misogynist, but God does have a divine order. Adam was the federal head of creation as Christ is the federal Head of the Church, His Body.
We either accept the bible’s teaching on this or we reject it. Those on God’s side believe what the bible says. The reason why we see the professing church in such a mess is because we have abandoned the scriptures. Certain Denominations have appointed women to positions the New Testament forbids. There are three I can name straight away but the only one I will mention because it is relevant here, is the Church of England, and I know the argument, “There are not enough men.” Even if there were, these feminists would still be storming the doors.
How many of us have already forgotten the disgraceful performance of the woman Bishop that conducted Donald Trump’s inauguration service? I have an article on that I have not posted yet.
[7]. WHAT SAY THE SCRIPTURES:-
Any woman who vaunts herself into any church leadership OVER A MAN for whatever reason, usually of power, has offended the scriptures.
{{1 Timothy 2:11-15 “Let a woman quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness, BUT I DO NOT ALLOW A WOMAN TO TEACH OR EXERCISE AUTHORITY OVER A MAN, BUT TO REMAIN QUIET, for it was ADAM who was first created and then Eve. It was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being quite deceived, fell into transgression, but women shall be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.”}}
The appeal is to creation. Two things are as plain as day. (1). A woman is not to teach regarding the scriptures (this in the context of “over a man”). (2). A woman is NOT to have spiritual authority over a man. The bible is so clear on this matter.
What of this new head of the Church of England. Her name is Sarah Mullally now the Archbishop of Canterbury. She is a strong supporter of Black Lives Matter (BLM), and of Abortion, and of same sex marriages, a follower and promoter of liberal theology. [[In particular, she voted for the introduction of same-sex blessings (liturgical blessings for same-sex couples) into the Church of England and “has repeatedly promoted unbiblical and revisionist teachings regarding marriage and sexual morality.” Mullally led the Living in Love and Faith project, a dialogue process on sexuality questions that created havoc in the English church.]]
One has written – “But for Anglicans globally, about two-thirds of whom live in countries like Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda, the appointment of the first female Archbishop could further highlight their difference with the mother church in England.” The Sydney Anglicans, a strong body and the most evangelical in the world, will have nothing to do with this. It is a disease in Britain, and Britain is starting to melt in a mess in many ways, especially because of Islam and a WOKE King and now an immoral, liberal Head of its Church.
“The Guardian,” a strong left wing British newspaper, and supporter of organisations like the Democrats, and Prime Minister Starmer, said this about Mullally – “Sarah Mullally is known to be wise, intelligent, courageous and compassionate. That should serve her well in the battles ahead.” That is what you’d expect from the Guardian.
I will leave the closing comment to The Gospel Coalition – [[“If we leave aside the provocative appointment of a woman (which is disturbing enough in itself to those who hold to complementarian theology), Mullally’s record as a bishop, and in the General Synod of the Church of England, demonstrates how unfit she is for this role. As Archbishop Laurent Mbanda of Rwanda, the chair of the GAFCON Primates Council that represents by far the majority of Anglicans across the globe, has put it, she “has failed to guard the faith and is complicit in introducing practices and beliefs that violate both ‘the plain and canonical sense’ of Scripture and ‘the Church’s historic and consensual’ interpretation of it.”]]
[8]. TOBIAH THE INFILTRATOR
When Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem as Governor he was appalled at what he discovered in the Temple. Tobiah was there, a man who mocked God, threatened Nehemiah and was an enemy. Here is the record of what Nehemiah did –
{{Nehemiah 13:3-9 “It came about, that when they heard the law, they excluded all foreigners from Israel. Now prior to this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, being related to Tobiah, had prepared a large room for him, where formerly they put the grain offerings, the frankincense, the utensils, and the tithes of grain, wine and oil prescribed for the Levites, the singers and the gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests, but during all this time I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had gone to the king. After some time, however, I asked leave from the king, and I came to Jerusalem and learned about THE EVIL THAT ELIASHIB HAD DONE FOR TOBIAH, by PREPARING A ROOM FOR HIM IN THE COURTS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD, and it was very displeasing to me, so I threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room. Then I gave an order and they cleansed the rooms, and I returned there the utensils of the house of God with the grain offerings and the frankincense.”}}
The enemy was actually in the Lord’s House. All over the world today the enemy has infiltrated God’s people and in high positions as well.
I must draw this to a close as it is getting long. Christians, wait on the Lord. Be not deceived for many antichrists have gone out among the churches.
RF
