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WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. AN INVITATION TO YOU: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________ t  Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://archive.org/details/www.-08.30.2021.-will-things-ever-return-to-normal ________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, August 30, 2021, and this is Episode #30 of Series 2021. This episode is titled “Will Things Ever Return to Normal?" _______________________________ The simple answer to this question is NO. Things will never return to normal.  Despite what some false hopefuls may think or say, America--and the entire world, for that matter--is headed on a trajectory that is fulfilling Bible prophecy to the tee. You see, God predicted certain things in the Bible regarding the time period shortly before the return of Jesus Christ. These predictions will come to pass because God said they would. Nothing can stop their coming to pass. They must and will happen just as Jesus Christ said they would. The dangerous thing is that people all over the world are ignoring these predictions to their own peril--both earthly peril and spiritual peril. Indeed, most people are not even aware of the predictions of Jesus. Yet, for those of us who are aware of them, we see them being fulfilled every day before our very eyes. Just to give you an example, the United States of America falls off the map in the Book of Revelation. In other words, the Bible predicts that America will lose its worldly influence and respect, thereby preparing the way for the rise of the AntiChrist. Are we not even now witnessing the loss of America's influence and respect after the recent  fiasco in Afghanistan? Has not the United States of America been humiliated and vilified for its despicable failure to keep its commitments to our allies? But all this is not to say that we have lost all hope. On the contrary, we are living in what may be the most exciting time in human history, second only to the first coming of Jesus Christ. We are living in the generation that may very well see the glorious appearing of Christ in the magnificent event called the Rapture. Are you ready for it? If not, I urge you to get ready now! Tomorrow may be too late.  The Rapture will mark the most pivotal event in human history next to the first coming of Jesus Christ. At the Rapture, all born-again believers will be removed from the earth. The result of this sudden departure of all Christ-Followers will be chaos unlike the world has ever known. Imagine all Christ-Followers suddenly leaving the earth all at the same time in a single instant! Following the Rapture, the world will cry out for a world leader to restore order. Such a leader will arise. He is called the AntiChrist. At first, he will seem benevolent. He will be charismatic. He will have a magnetic personality and possess what look like amazing leadership skills. But underneath it all, he will be Satan personified. He will deceive the world with His seeming achievement of peace. But in the middle of it all, his true nature will be revealed. When the AntiChrist first appears, the Jews will believe that he is their long-awaited Messiah. But when, in the middle of the seven-year Tribulation, the AntiChrist enters the Third Temple (which, according to the Bible, will soon be rebuilt),