Richard Dawkins challenges Christianity, but Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s response about God, faith, love, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ is authentic and will impact many. Its real and I believe it will convince many to follow her path to hope and meaning in life. I hope Richard Dawkins can humble himself as Ayaan Hirsi did and pray to God, but sadly, I think pride won’t allow it.
I hope you enjoy this exchange as much as I did. It is worth sharing with others that are searching for the truth.
Every single day, Muslims are quite open about their hostility and hatred toward what the West stands for, and they do not hide their plans and goals for living in the West. They might be Islamic preachers or leaders or imams or just your garden-variety Muslims. When someone says they hate you and want to kill you, you better stand up and take notice. When someone says they want to take over your country, you should pay attention. When someone says the West must be destroyed, you should start listening carefully. When someone says women are second-class citizens, we should take note. When someone says they want to see all Jews killed, followed by Christians, you better not ignore them. When someone says they have come to obliterate our way of life, we should be alert and attentive.
The only thing that really matters is this: when will we start listening to them and start believing them? Or will we wait till they have fulfilled all their promises and plans about us and the West? Only a fool ignores such things and seeks to keep his head in the sand.
Muslim immigrants in Dearborn, Michigan, openly declare they want to destroy America. “This American empire must fall. People are willing to fight and put their lives on the line to bring these Western empires down.”
Texas imam Main Al Qudah: “We Are Here to Impact & Establish Islam in America.” “The communal obligation is to make sure that Islam is well established in this society… to integrate Islam in the USA… to impact the American identity… We are here to impact the community at large… establishing Islam in this society… building more masjids.”
An imam in Alabama, Ragab Abdelmoneim of the Islamic Academy of Huntsville, openly told his audience that Muslims must be ready to sacrifice their lives through jihad in order to establish “the religion of Allah” in the United States. He claimed that victory over America is closer than ever.
Muslim Student Association (MSA), at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). “Muhammad promised us that Islamic caliphate will be established on earth, and we will fight and die for that cause”.
Residents in a neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, are complaining that they are forced to listen to the Islamic call to prayer 5 times a day, starting as early as 5 a.m.
25 years ago, New York suffered the deadliest Islamic terrorist attack in history. Since then, the Muslim population in the U.S. has grown from under a million to nearly 5 million. Now, Muslims who have openly stated that America deserved 9/11 are being elected to positions such as Mayor of New York.
Meanwhile in Dearborn, Muslims are reportedly demanding that churches stop ringing their bells on Sunday. “This is a Muslim-majority city and you have to respect us. According to Sharia, church bells cannot be louder than our Islamic call to prayer.”
American Muslim: “First we elect Muslim mayors and soon we will have a Muslim president.”
A guy from Somalia living in the US: “Haha, you work all f***ing day, you don’t got s***. Thank you for working so hard so I can be home all day free. Go to work for me white boy, white girl. Yeah, go to work for me you fu*king white animals.”
Islamic scholar Mohammad Nusairat in Chicago drops the mask: “We did NOT come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah.”
California Islamic scholar Moustafa Qazwini: “I pray I exit this life as a martyr, just like Ayatollah Khamenei. I want to die with martyrdom, not in a hospital bed. We ask Allah every day that we are killed and martyred in his path.”
“Dirty f***ing slut, shut your mouth, disgusting dog-faced whore. I’ll buy you and make you my slave.” This video of a Muslim migrant in Montreal, Canada, berating a female officer is still one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen. It shows how they view non-Muslim women.
Muslim woman to Nick Shirley: “Islam will take over America and the whole world. That is our plan because of our religion.”
Muslims should ‘Sacrifice Their Blood for the Sake of Allah,’ Says Imam Ragab Abdelmoneim in Maryland.
TERRIFYING: These are Muslim Imams in FLORIDA “I want the governor of Florida to be Muslim. I want Muslims in the House, Muslim senators.” “We don’t apologize about jihad. We are not afraid of jihad. Jihad is who we are.”
This video of a Muslim man lashing out and saying, “Are you jealous that we’re taking over,” to Christians holding crosses has gone viral.
Zul Mohammed, a Pakistani immigrant, ran for mayor of Carrollton, Texas: “I do not support the United States.”
Islamic cleric in the UK: “Islam is not here to coexist. We were sent to dominate the world, to extinguish and wipe out every other religion. We are superior to everyone else. We should not be shy to say it. And if that requires fighting, so be it.”
Shocking data reveals: Out of 50 million Muslims in Europe, 40 million are on welfare and receive social benefits
Sharia law implemented in Belgium. A Muslim woman was attacked by Muslim men for showing her arms in public, it is forbidden in Islam!
Imam: “The future is ours. Every nightmare of a Muslim Europe will come through… Islam will enter every house.”
UK Under Threat! An Imam openly brags about exploiting freedoms to push Sharia and take over. He mocks the West: “You guys are the idiots, letting it happen”.
Syrian migrant in Germany “Since the majority of Germans are non-Muslim, they are infidels… The Germans are obliged to welcome us because they are our servants.”
“Sharia for UK, Allah Akbar”, shout Muslim immigrants in UK.
Muslim refugee on Italian TV brags “We have RIGHT to stab people with knives, rob & run!”
An Islamic scholar said: “This is our country. We don’t like the cross on the England flag. You should replace it with a plain white flag with just ‘England’ on it.”
French Islamic scholar Mehdi Kabir says in Paris: “Women have no right to go out if they wear makeup, perfume, and do not wear Islamic clothes. Women must walk on the low side of the road and leave the middle path for men.”
13-year-old Muslim boy in Germany says: “This is a land of infidels, and they are obliged to take and welcome us Muslims because we are superior.” Integration is a myth. This is the radicalised mindset they are brought up with.
Muslim refugee in Germany: “I’ve been here for three years and I hate everyone. This is a country of infidels. I don’t care that they accepted me as refugee. A Muslim who doesn’t accept me is a million times better than a non-Muslim who accepts me.”
Translated from Spanish — Islamic preacher: “When Muslims become the majority in the West in 40 years, non-Muslims will have to convert, pay the jizya, or die, because sharia rules.”
An imam in France claims that Muslim men cannot control themselves around women who wear perfume.
A Shia Muslim procession in Manchester sparked outrage after horsemen dressed as jihadi warriors galloped through Wilmslow Road in Rusholme. The event, named Muharram, is a commemoration of Imam Hussein’s martyrdom with black flags. British police officers were seen escorting hundreds of Shia Muslims marching through the street.
Queers for Palestine. How crazy is this? Don’t they know that Islamists kill Queers? And yet, one of the best examples of this is what scholars call the Red-Green Alliance, which is an alliance between secular progressives (‘Red’) and Islamists (‘Green’).
The progressive movement promotes secularism, feminism, LGBTQ rights, and individual autonomy, while Islamists want to order public life according to the Qur’an and the Sharia. Despite these profound ideological differences, the two find common ground in their hatred towards the West, nationalism, and of course, Israel.
Given their ideological differences, it is inevitable that one side will exercise greater influence over the coalition than the other. It’s true that political alliances begin with shared grievances, but over time the movement with the more comprehensive moral framework is more likely to shape the coalition’s direction.
I will begin by looking at the progressive side of the coalition by looking to Gad Saad who offers an important insight into one dimension of this phenomenon through his concept of “suicidal empathy.”
His theory helps explain why some progressives are reluctant to subject what are labelled marginalised groups or ideologies to the same level of moral scrutiny that they apply to others. Groups viewed as historically marginalised therefore acquire a degree of moral immunity from criticism because disagreement itself is interpreted as hostility towards victims. In many Western institutions, identity and historical oppression go hand in hand.
These frameworks define the boundaries of working relationships, which helps to explain why progressive activists excuse illiberal positions with Islamists, but are unwilling to do it with Christian conservatives. Within their moral framework, the decisive issue is not the content of a group’s beliefs, but where the group is located within perceived structures of power and oppression.
Islamists are granted the baffling courtesy of being part of marginalised groups, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. At the same time, conservative Christians are viewed as part of the privileged of society. As a result, any criticism of Islam is often treated as reinforcing oppression, whereas criticism of the latter is regarded as an act of justice. This results in an asymmetrical moral landscape in which two groups with comparable views on issues such as sexuality or gender are judged according to different standards because of the identities they represent — rather than the ideas they advocate.
The asymmetry within the coalition reflects a deeper difference than political strategy. It arises from the moral architecture of the two movements themselves.
To be sure, empathy is very important as a moral virtue, but it cannot serve as an organising principle of civilisation. Every society must answer questions that extend beyond compassion if it hopes to make consistent moral judgments. Among the questions every society must answer are these: What is a society’s source of authority? After all, every society needs a final standard that determines what is true, good, and morally binding. For many progressives, moral authority is frequently located in lived experience, identity, and an evolving moral consensus, whereas Islamists locate ultimate authority in divine revelation as expressed through Sharia Law. Every moral framework must also explain how competing values should be prioritised.
Every political movement tells a story about the source of human suffering. For the progressive left, oppression functions as the central explanatory framework. History is understood largely as a struggle between marginalised groups and systems of power based on race, gender, sexuality, colonialism, or economic inequality. In this narrative, injustice persists because dominant institutions perpetuate unequal power relationships. The moral task, therefore, is to dismantle oppressive structures, amplify marginalised voices, and create more equitable social arrangements.
The Green Alliance operates from a fundamentally different theodicy. Islamist movements generally locate the world’s disorder not primarily in social structures but in humanity’s rebellion against God’s revealed will. This is a fundamental difference that sometimes Westerners are not aware of. Over time, much progressive thought has shifted from grounding morality in universal reason to grounding it in lived experience, identity, and moral sentiment. Islamists reject both approaches. For them, divine revelation — not autonomous reason or subjective feeling — remains the ultimate source of authority. Revelation trumps both reason and feelings.
From their perspective, the solution is not merely political reform but submission to God through the implementation of Sharia Law and the restoration of a rightly ordered Islamic society. In this framework, justice is achieved when human life conforms to divine revelation rather than autonomous human judgment.
This differs fundamentally from the progressive account of oppression, which seeks liberation through the transformation of social structures rather than submission to divine authority.
This is where Islamism has a more robust source of continued influence. It has a comprehensive understanding of authority, community, sacrifice, and moral obligation. It provides the moral framework capable of sustaining long-term political and social movements rather than a postmodern understanding that merely reacts to changing cultural conditions. t can form institutions that educate future generations and sustain long-term commitments because its members understand themselves as participating in something larger than the political moment. They are working on behalf of God, which supplies them with a divine purpose.
By contrast, movements organised primarily around feelings and changing cultural priorities often revise their priorities as cultural circumstances evolve. This explains why Islamists are good at influencing political organisations and universities. Their political vision is not limited to protest or social reform but is rooted in a comprehensive religious worldview that includes concepts such as jihad, understood by many Islamist thinkers as the obligation to struggle for the establishment and defence of God’s order in society. Whether pursued through political, social, or, in some cases, violent means, jihad functions as part of an integrated moral and theological framework rather than as a temporary political slogan.
By contrast, what Gad Saad describes as “suicidal empathy” encourages an unwillingness to critically evaluate the goals and assumptions of groups perceived as marginalised or historically oppressed.
If criticism is treated as a form of victimisation, progressive activists may become reluctant to examine ideological commitments — including Islamist conceptions of jihad — that conflict with their own stated commitments to liberal democracy, individual rights, or gender equality. In this sense, a coalition driven primarily by empathy may gradually yield intellectual leadership to a movement whose objectives are defined by a more comprehensive and internally coherent vision of political and religious life.
The contrast becomes even clearer when the two movements are viewed side by side. Progressive movements often derive their moral language from concepts such as equality, liberation, and historical redress. Islamist political movements derive their political vision from religious commitments that they understand to possess transcendent authority. These traditions should not be collapsed into simplistic categories, nor should all Muslim individuals or organisations be treated as sharing identical political goals. Nevertheless, where Islamist movements explicitly seek to organise political life according to religious principles, they operate from a framework that integrates theology, law, ethics, community, and political purpose into a unified vision. That comprehensive character gives such movements a different kind of organisational coherence than movements whose moral vocabulary is more fluid and responsive to changing cultural conditions.
The Red-Green Alliance therefore illustrates a broader principle about political coalitions that are at work. Alliances are not sustained merely by shared enemies, but by the moral frameworks that animate them.
Movements organised primarily around empathy often struggle to resist partners whose vision — such as Islamism’s — is destructive. The long-term question is not whether the alliance will survive but which moral framework will ultimately define it. The answer to that question should be obvious. Progressives that champion their cause for justice will have blood on their hands.
In Daniel’s final vision (Daniel 12:5-13), the question is posed, “How long until the end?” Alistair Begg explains that the response to this question is marked by gravity (gravitas – seriousness), mystery, and certainty. Moreover, he highlights what we can know with clarity: that the people of God will endure to the end. Just as Daniel did not understand all that this prophecy meant, we will not be able to fully comprehend it until it is fulfilled. We are called to carry on for God’s glory, aware of our mortality and clinging to the promise of rising in Him. Alistair Begg is a sincere Bible presenter and he does a good job with Daniel and a difficult topic. Each of us need like Daniel to get on with the job God has given us and “Go your way Daniel” but for us Biblical prophecy reveals it is the time of the end so there is now an urgency about doing the job God has called us to do.
“How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?” And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished. I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, “O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?” He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.: Daniel 12:6-9
The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) is an annual summit of some 4,000 culture-makers from across the globe who refuse the verdict that decline is inevitable, or that cultural self-hatred is a virtue. Instead — in the words of ARC’s founders — “by drawing on our moral, cultural, economic, and spiritual foundations, we hope to develop a more hope-filled vision for the future and re-lay the foundations of our civilisation”.
Great minds like Konstantin Kisin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Rod Dreher, Michael Shellenberger, Sir Paul Marshall and Katy Faust reminded us, the West may not be perfect but it is the cauldron of humanity’s highest aspirations — from universal literacy to the free market to the industrial revolution and representative self-government. Ours is the civilisation that invented the individual, pioneered the university, birthed modern science, eradicated slavery and globalised human rights.
No civilisation’s faults are beyond critique. What defies all reason are blanket denunciations of the West, so fashionable today, that run in parallel with an amnesia about its countless blessings and a refusal to judge other civilisations by the same impossibly high standards.
The crisis before us, ARC argues, is one of deconstruction. “Generations of Westerners have been taught to hate their own civilisation,” as Kisin put it in the event’s first session. “They’ve been taught that up is down and that good is evil.” Our liberalising impulse, he argued, “has mutated from the pursuit of freedom from tyranny to the pursuit of freedom from reality.”
Worse still is that those sponsoring the West’s demolition offer nothing substantive in its place. Speaking to ideologies like critical theory, Net Zero, DEI and post-colonialism, Sir Paul Marshall explained: “Almost all of these ideas and narratives are parasitic. They feed off an historic body of good foundational ideas but then pervert and erode them. None come from a place of optimism. None of them bring unity. None of them set out a path to human flourishing.”
There is no one with more clarity or hard-won insight to interrogate our modern maladies than Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who fled Islam in Somalia in her 20s to become one of the West’s foremost apologists. True to form, she did not disappoint at ARC this year.
In a sit-down interview with Kisin, Ali described the conditions she escaped: violence, forced marriage, compulsory religion, a scapegoating reflex that blames all ill fortunes on the West or the Jews, schools as indoctrination machines, police as agents of state terror.
On securing asylum in the Netherlands, Ali explained, she was floored to discover a world untold — of women able to choose their own husbands and careers, people free to worship or not worship as their conscience led, schools that imparted knowledge and formed character, police whose goal was to help, journalism that held governments to account, and a society that resolved conflict without brutality.
This is the unparalleled bounty of Western civilisation, she told ARC’s audience — and it’s precisely what we risk losing unless we adjust our current trajectory.
In pressing home just one example, Ali explained that when she first came to the West, “I could walk day and night freely, bicycle about 24 hours a day if I wanted to, wearing whatever I wanted to. And now, a few decades on, we’re in a place where women are afraid to go out.” As evidence, she invoked Britain’s rape gang scandal that victimised up to 250,000 young people, according to a recent report.
In short, the third worldism from which our civilisation originally set itself apart is one we can expect to return to if we refuse to correct course. Fortunately, God has told us the end of HIS STORY and after Satan and his Antichrist are defeated, next on God’s agenda for planet Earth is Jesus Millennial Kingdom. The nation God established for His purposes will finally fulfil its destiny with its Messiah, Jesus ruling the nations of the world from a magnificent new Jerusalem.
Go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net to get prepared to rule and reign with Jesus for the next 1000 years.
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Romans 12:12
Romans 12:12 is part of Paul’s sustained teaching on transformed community life. In Romans 12:9–21, Paul fires off a rapid series of characteristics of genuine love, and in verse 12 this compressed triad of joyful hope, patient affliction, and faithful prayer.
Each of the three is a pairing of disposition and circumstance. Joy paired with hope — the joy is not in the present situation but in the future certainty. Patience paired with affliction — the patience is not avoidance but endurance within the hard thing. Faithfulness paired with prayer — not prayer as inspiration strikes, but disciplined, ongoing, faithful practice. The three together form a sustainable way of moving through whatever life brings: looking forward (hope), leaning into the present (patience), and staying connected to God through it all (prayer).
As we are in the last days before Jesus returns to restore righteousness He has told us that tribulation is ahead for believers that will refine His church and preserve the remnant. We will need hope, patience and prayer and empowerment by the Holy Spirit to remain faithful through this testing period.
Across Australia and the rest of the Western world, Christians are increasingly finding themselves treated as unwelcome because of their beliefs. Social hostility is growing simply for holding to traditional Christian convictions. How should Christians respond?
For generations, the foundations of Western civilisation were deeply shaped by Christianity. Its teachings influenced our understanding of human dignity, charity, justice, morality, and the belief that every person is created with inherent worth because they bear the image of God. Churches stood at the centre of communities, Scripture shaped public life, and Christian beliefs were not viewed as something strange or dangerous, but as a vital part of the cultural fabric of the West.
But something has changed.
Across Western nations, Christianity is no longer simply being questioned — it is increasingly being rejected, ridiculed, and pushed towards the margins of society. The beliefs that shaped generations are now often portrayed as outdated, harmful, or incompatible with the modern world. For many Christians, the concern is not that society has different opinions. Disagreement has always existed. The concern is that the conversation itself is changing.
A society that once encouraged debate is increasingly moving towards dismissal. A society that once allowed competing ideas to exist side by side is becoming more hostile towards certain beliefs (Christian and Jewish). And for many Christians, the question is becoming unavoidable: what happens when a culture no longer wants to debate Christianity, but wants Christians to remain silent?
This is the reality many believers feel they are facing today and we should not be surprised as Jesus warned us this would happen prior to His return to restore righteousness.
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” Matthew 24:9-14
Keep in mind that Jesus Millennial Kingdom is next on God’s agenda for planet Earth. Be prepared, go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net.
Colin Lillie speaks out on faith, family, freedom and fighting cancel culture. Colin Lillie is an award-wining songwriter and musician and the husband of Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
Colin Lillie is a man committed to faith, family and freedom. In that order. Speaking with The Daily Declaration, he said it wasn’t always that way. The talented musician (who is married to rising conservative star Jacinta Price) was born in Scotland. He’s also been in recovery for the past 18 years. Describing himself as a “Scozy” (Scottish Australian), Lillie testified to falling out with God, falling in with a bad crowd, and using alcohol to self-medicate trauma from an abusive past.
He credits God with righting the ship.
Raised in the church, he warmly recalled the experience as giving him time to breathe.
After his family had moved away from that Christian community, Lillie described a time of spiritual searching. Yet “nothing,” he shared, “seemed to ever fit.”
Discussing recovery and rediscovering the “connection with his higher power”, Lillie said, “I may have left God. He never left me.”
Almost two decades sober, he then recounted that reconnecting with Christ didn’t happen overnight. It took time.
While his Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step sponsor was a great man of faith, Lillie says he resisted the Christian concept of surrender as weakness.
It was only when he realised that God was the sole agent responsible for his salvation that Lillie put his broken life completely into God’s hands. With the sinner’s prayer in hand, Lillie turned his eyes towards the cross and asked God to turn his life around. This came complete with a desperate moment involving a river and the somewhat comical image of Lillie being kicked awake by an old Indigenous woman. Recalling his journey, Lillie said he “committed to doing whatever it took to change.”
His big three commitments today are: 1. Sobriety 2. Jacinta 3. Citizenship. In other words: faith, family and freedom.
Also big on the family list are his sons. “I’m proud of all my boys, Lillie shared, “and what incredible young men they’re becoming.” One of whom, he said, “became a strong Christian after doing the Alpha Course.” To this, Lillie asserted, “We need to remind boys and young men that they are very important in building a better tomorrow.”
Letting God back into his life also unlocked Lillie’s vocation. With the gift of being sober came the gift of music. This gift, he explained, gave him a way “to speak truth in a way he never felt able to.” Talking further about his music career, Lillie told The Daily Declaration that music and testimony are “the best ways to communicate with people.”
As such, he now searches out opportunities to speak at rehabs. What grounds him is the Word, and a firm conviction that “You never stop learning.” One of those bigger lessons, he added, was learning that “You cannot stop God from being in your life once you’ve opened your heart to him.” Adamant, Lillie made it clear that he takes no credit for how far he’s come since then. Nor does he take credit for the family he has today. All that credit he hands back to God.
“When we follow Christ,” Lillie stated, “we are asked to examine our own hearts.” The goal is to be a good man, he added. That can only happen “by cultivating a relationship with God.”
Is there life beyond earth? Are UFOs real? Do aliens exist? Have extraterrestrials visited the earth? What’s real and what is not? Does the Bible speak of it? And what does it all mean? For the first time, Jonathan Cahn addresses it and opens it up – and reveals the existence of actual aliens on earth!
Polls reveal that 40% of people believe aliens exist and more recently that number is increasing. Perhaps because of the number of video games and movies being produced with aliens and extra-terrestrials.
This is another video that shows we are in the Biblical prophesied end times prior to Jesus return to restore righteousness and usher in His Millennial Kingdom. If you want to be prepared to rule and reign with Jesus in His Millennial Kingdom go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net.
The Scriptures present a unified prophetic framework across the Old and New Testaments – God’s Kingdom Ultimately Triumphs. Below are the key passages from Daniel, Jesus Olivet Discourse and Revelation organized by source and theme, with connections between them. This information was generated by a new FREE AI – KIMI 3.
The Scriptures present a unified prophetic framework across the Old and New Testaments. Below are the key passages organized by source and theme, with connections between them.
Daniel 2:31-45 — Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of a statue (gold, silver, bronze, iron/clay) representing successive kingdoms, culminating in God’s eternal kingdom: “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed… It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.”
Daniel 7:1-28 — Four beasts rising from the sea; the “little horn” speaking boastfully; the Ancient of Days taking His seat of judgment; “one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven” given dominion, glory and kingship over all peoples that is everlasting.
Daniel 9:24-27 — “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness…” The prophecy of the “Anointed One” being cut off, a ruler who will destroy the city and sanctuary, and the abomination that causes desolation.
Daniel 12:1-4, 11-13 — “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then… Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.”
Matthew 24:15 — “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand…” (Parallel: Mark 13:14; Luke 21:20 speaks of Jerusalem being surrounded by armies)
Matthew 24:4-8, 11 — “Watch out that no one deceives you… You will hear of wars and rumors of wars… Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains… many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.”
Matthew 24:9-12 — “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other… the love of most will grow cold.”
Matthew 24:14 — “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”
Matthew 24:29 — “Immediately after the distress of those days ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'” (Parallel: Mark 13:24-25; Luke 21:25-26)
Matthew 24:30-31 — “At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.” (Parallel: Mark 13:26-27; Luke 21:27)
Matthew 24:32-35 — “When you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”
Matthew 24:36, 42-44 — “But about that day or hour no one knows… Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come… You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”
Matthew 24:45–25:46 — Parables of the faithful/unfaithful servant, the ten virgins, the talents, and the sheep and goats — all emphasizing watchfulness, preparedness, and active faith.
Revelation 2-3 — Messages containing warnings, promises to overcomers, and the repeated exhortation: “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Revelation 4-5 — The Lamb who was slain found worthy to open the scroll sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 6:1-17; 8:1 — The four horsemen (conquest, war, famine, death), martyrs crying out, cosmic disturbances, and the great day of wrath: “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”
Revelation 8:2–11:19 — God’s judgments upon earth, sea, waters, and heavens; the abyss opened with locusts; the two witnesses prophesying in Jerusalem; the seventh trumpet announcing: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.”
Revelation 12-13 — The woman and the dragon; war in heaven; the beast from the sea given authority over every tribe and people; the beast from the earth (false prophet) causing all to worship the first beast; the mark of the beast. Revelation 17-18 — The fall of Babylon the Great.
Revelation 14:14-20; 16:12-16 — The harvest of the earth; the great winepress of God’s wrath; the kings of the earth gathered to Armageddon.
Revelation 19:11-16 — “I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True… He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God… On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.” Revelation 19:19-21 — The beast and false prophet captured and thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:1-15 — Satan bound for a thousand years; the first resurrection; the saints reigning with Christ; Satan’s final rebellion; the great white throne judgment; death and Hades thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:1-5 — “Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away… He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” Revelation 22:12-13, 20 — “Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End… Yes, I am coming soon. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”
Table
| Theme | Daniel | Olivet Discourse | Revelation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abomination of Desolation | Dan 9:27; 11:31; 12:11 | Matt 24:15 | Rev 13 (beast in temple) |
| Great Tribulation/Distress | Dan 12:1 | Matt 24:21 | Rev 7:14 |
| Cosmic Signs | — | Matt 24:29 | Rev 6:12-14 |
| Christ’s Coming on Clouds | Dan 7:13 | Matt 24:30 | Rev 1:7; 19:11 |
| Resurrection | Dan 12:2 | — | Rev 20:4-6 |
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The New York Times (NYT) replaced Alliance for Responsible Citizenship’s (ARC) 2026 Reconstruction theme with White Christian Nationalism in a hit piece attacking the Jordan Peterson alternative to the World Economic Forum.
Correcting the sloppy write-up by Lauren Jackson (NYT), Katy Faust, President of Them Before Us wrote in a 16 July post on X, “A New York Times reporter had nearly 200 speakers, dozens of research papers, and three full days of programming to draw from.” Instead, the article’s author, Lauren Jackson, “quoted two people who weren’t even in the building.”
“I was on that stage,” Faust fired back. “I’ve served on ARC’s advisory board since before the project even had a name. So let me do the job Jackson skipped.”
The Them before Us founder and president then explained, “This year’s conference, held June 23–25 in London, drew roughly 4,000 attendees from more than 80 countries to discuss everything from artificial intelligence and energy policy to education and demographic decline.”
“Jackson’s article,” Faust argued, “frames ARC as part of ‘an escalation of Christian nationalist rhetoric that offers a unifying mission for the religious right everywhere.’” “It’s a serious charge,” she added, “and one [that] readers would reasonably expect to be supported by careful reporting from the conference itself.”
Jackson’s sources were “Yale sociologist Philip Gorski, author of The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, and philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah.”
By Faust’s count, “nearly 300 words are devoted to Gorski alone.” “The only quotation [the NYT used] from anyone who actually spoke at ARC,” she explained, “is a single 10-word line from Rod Dreher: “A civilisation will die if it loses its sacred story.”
Jackson’s article, titled “The Elite Conservative Trying to Revive ‘Western Civilisation’”, is one big pseudo-intellectual rant. This comes complete with an “oppressor-oppressed” Marxist dichotomy, whereby Jackson paints ARC attendees as a working-class hating, anti-‘progressive’ aristocracy. Right from the start, Jackson alleges that ARC is “funded by oil and gas companies, billionaires and evangelical Christians.”
Nothing is said about the millions of dollars that flood into the WEF, the LGBTQ lawfare racket, and left-wing NGOs aiming Moa’s Cultural Marxist axe at all that’s good, holy and excellent.
With far-left talking points about Christians and conservatives in hand, Jackson’s piece then devolves into a contempt-laced deconstruction of Western Civilisation. This merges into a demonisation of Christians, then into a defence of “diversity,” mass immigration and multiculturalism.
Why the excitement over those policies? Well, Jackson makes her reasoning clear. These ideologies “challenged the idea that Western countries shared a single history, culture and religion.” Now a “coalition of conservatives are trying to bring the idea back.”
For Jackson and apparently the NYT, ARC is pushing the “oppressor’s myth” of Christian civilisation and its “sacred story.” In the end, it’s not ARC attendees who are pushing bigoted elitism. It’s Jackson’s Intersectionality lens that masks elitism and envy behind a veil of inclusion and equity.
Faust’s criticisms of the piece are justified. The Western Christian tradition is far from a figment of ARC’s imagination. Fallible men and women built Western nations on the back of Christian tenacity, guided by both godly wisdom and biblical morality. Western nations testify to the grace of God on full display in the uniqueness of Jesus Christ (John 14:6 et. al.).
Although more malevolent than benevolent at times, the West is an existential, historical, technological, and ultimately spiritual fact. Despite their revisionism, this fact and the common grace that God pours out on a world that often hates him are realities both an ungrateful Jackson and the NYT still benefit from.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. As Faust proclaimed in a separate post prior to this year’s “Age of Reconstruction” ARC exchange, “When people ask me, ‘What is ARC?’ I tell them, ‘It is the righteous inverse of the World Economic Forum.’” ARC is not “top-down elitism. It’s bottom-up responsibility.” It’s “not globalism. It is about embracing the best of nationalism.” It’s “not [an] ideology.” It’s “about building a better future, based in social, economic, historical, and biological reality.”
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