The Faithful Watchman

“May you live in interesting times.” This backhanded blessing is claimed to be derived from a Chinese curse. In reality, the expression is of English origin. “Interesting times” is a euphemism for times of trouble, making the blessing into a veiled warning of misfortune.

Whether warning or blessing, we certainly live in interesting times.

Many ministries that focus on Bible prophecy are emphasizing the rising darkness and pointing to developments that will come to fruition during the Tribulation—after the Church has been raptured. Other evangelical ministries ignore any warning in their effort to emphasize only the grace and mercy of God—leaving those who reject Jesus’ offer of salvation oblivious that His wrath abides on them (John 3:36).

Read more at: harbingersdaily.com

As Catholics around the world eagerly awaited white smoke from the Sistine Chapel, a pastor in rural Pennsylvania watched a very different kind of white smoke pouring from a humble chapel at his church.

At 9:02 p.m. May 6, a 32-year-old man named Kyle Kuczynski allegedly detonated a stick of dynamite on the altar of the chapel at St. Teresa of Calcutta Church — so named because Mother Teresa once visited it — in Mahanoy City. Surveillance footage turned over to law enforcement revealed that Kuczynski had been casing the chapel, entering at least three other times earlier in the week.

Read more at: theblaze.com

Muslims are buying and transforming American churches into mosques — and Americans are angry about it!

But is their anger being directed at the right source?

Recently, a year-old video clip of a Muslim cleric went viral on X. In it, Muhammad Musri, president of American Islam and chairman of the board of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, delivers a sermon saying that, due to its “unimpressive dogma” of “someone” being crucified for them, Christianity is dying out in America, preparing the way for Islam:

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As America moves further away from its Judeo-Christian roots and becomes ever more like pagan and Communist regimes that celebrate death and/or practice child sacrifice, Planned Parenthood’s bloody business is booming.

The abortion giant whined in one of its latest annual reports about the “traumatic” 2024 election, when pro-life Donald Trump beat the abortion-mad Kamala Harris, no doubt because Trump could possibly hurt Planned Parenthood’s (PP) growing but murderous business, which brought in over $2 billion in revenue for 2023-2024. In its main annual report for the last two years, PP bragged about performing 402,200 abortions.

Read more at: pjmedia.com

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 was felt across Israel early Wednesday morning.

Residents of Israel reported that the quake was felt, among other places, in Haifa, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and additional towns in central Israel.

The epicenter of the quake is likely Crete, Greece, where an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 was reported.

In March, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 was felt in the city of Eilat. No injuries or damage were reported.

Read more at: israelnationalnews.com

The far-left leadership of the Episcopal Church announced Monday that it is severing its nearly 40-year partnership with the U.S. government to resettle refugees — all because the Trump administration dared to classify white South African Afrikaners as refugees in need of protection.

The same Episcopal Church that prided itself on aiding persecuted people from war-torn regions is now walking away from its commitments simply because the next wave of refugees are white Christian farmers — victims of violent racial targeting in post-apartheid South Africa.

Read more at: truthpress.com

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected the new pope of the Catholic Church on Thursday afternoon.

Prevost will take the name Pope Leo XIV.

Prevost, 69, was born in Chicago and is the first American pope and the Church’s 267th pope. He will lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

Read more at: dailywire.com

Have you taken a look at what’s going on in the world right now?

In Israel, the war is heating up again, and new fronts against Israel’s existence are emerging. The Islamic world has renewed its chant for the destruction of Israel. Just when you thought it was time to end the war, the war is seemingly reigniting.

In the United States, there is an entire Islamic movement in Josephine, Texas. The push is so great to establish Sharia law that they have purchased over 200 acres of land, where they plan to create an Islamic city within the State of Texas. Make no mistake, this is equivalent to the Old Testament establishment of “high places” of pagan worship centers.

Read more at: harbingersdaily.com

Although I read a variety of news sources and websites to stay abreast of rapidly accelerating issues in the world, Rolling Stone Magazine is not one of them.  However, it was pointed out to me that an article recently appeared in their publication with the following very intriguing headline: “People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies”.

The article begins with a story about Kat and her husband.  After only a year of marriage, they began experiencing tension.  Rather than engage in marriage counselling, her husband began using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse their relationship.  Acting like a modern-day Pontius Pilate, he dedicated much of his spare time posing “philosophical questions” to his phone’s AI bot, trying to train it “to help him get to the truth.”

Read more at: harbingersdaily.com

Why have earthquakes and violent volcanic eruptions suddenly increased in activity? The vast majority of these earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are along the Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire is a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, or earthquakes, that wraps around the edges of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly 90 percent of all earthquakes on earth occur along this Ring of Fire, and the ring is dotted with 75 percent of the most active volcanoes on earth, so that is why the Ring of Fire is the most seismically and volcanically active zone in the world.

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