THE BOOK OF JOEL AND “THE DAY OF THE LORD”

Joel was God’s spokes person during the reign of Joash (835-796 BC) over the southern kingdom of Judah. Joel stresses the sovereign power of God over nature and shows how God uses nature to get the attention of the people. When an ominous black cloud descended upon the land of Judah – dreaded locusts, Joel understood that it was God’s terrible judgement on the House of Judah for sin. In a matter of hours , every living green thing had been stripped bare. Likewise we should understand that when terrible floods and fires descend upon our land that it may well be the judgement of the Lord for sin, e.g. transgenderism, LGBTQ issues, gay marriage and godless laws.

For us Joel is an important book, because God showed him that as terrible as His judgement was with the locust plague it was by comparison nothing compared with God’s future judgements during “The Day of the Lord“. It will be a time when God not only destroys His enemies but He also brings unparalleled blessings to those who faithfully obey Him.

Biblical prophecy reveals that “The Day of the Lord” is fast approaching as persecution of Christians and Jews escalates and apostasy in the church is rampant with acceptance of homosexual pastors and gay marriage widespread.

The Hebrew name Yo’el means “Yahweh Is God” The name is appropriate to the theme of the book, which emphasizes God’s sovereign work in history. The courses of nature and nations are in His hand.

LOSING AUSTRALIA: HOW MULTICULTURALISM BEGAN AND HOW AUSTRALIA WAS LOST

Multiculturalism Introduced: 70’s Whitlam Labor Government

The Whitlam Government dismantled the White Australia Policy and with it, the longstanding expectation of assimilation. In its place, Australia was reframed away from the idea of one people with a shared national identity and toward an ideology of multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism Australia

What should have occurred instead was the adoption of a genuinely multiracial policy, one that welcomed people to Australia regardless of background, but with the clear and non-negotiable expectation that upon arrival, they would adopt the Australian way of life and fully integrate into our existing culture, to fully become Australian.

That didn’t happen; instead, they were encouraged to hold onto their existing culture.

Australia Redefined by Multiculturalism: 70’s to 80’s Fraser Liberal Government

Malcolm Fraser didn’t reverse Labour’s experiment. He locked it in. Under Fraser, Australia stopped being described as a culturally unified nation and was redefined as a “multicultural society”. The idea that Australians should share a common culture was discarded.

Multiculturalism Entrenched: 80s to 90s Hawke and Keating Labor Governments

Multiculturalism became explicit state policy, bureaucracies multiplied, advisory councils appeared, and taxpayer-funded ethnic advocacy bodies were entrenched.

Citizenship was redefined away from equality and toward group-based identity politics.

“Diversity” became a moral command handed down by our lords and masters in Canberra.

What Was Lost

Let’s be absolutely clear about what was lost in this process. Australia already had a culture, an Australian culture. A culture shaped by our history, language, institutions, customs, and shared Christian foundation.

It is entirely reasonable to expect that when migrants come to Australia, they adopt that culture and assimilate into our way of life, that is how successful nations function, that is how social trust is built.

What Australians were never asked for was the creation of parallel societies, where people live in Australia but never truly become Australian. (You know what I am talking about — you have seen it.)

People come here because Australia is safer, freer, and more prosperous than the countries they left behind. Yet far too many of those we have chosen to admit have imported the very social, cultural, and political failures that originally forced them to leave. The obvious question is, why bring those problems and those people here at all? It is a good question and one that deserves an answer.

It is perfectly reasonable for us to expect newcomers to leave behind old feuds, vendettas, dysfunctional politics, and to adopt our Australian way of life. That is the social contract. If someone is unwilling to do that, flights leave daily. So I ask you again, why are we allowing such people to come here at all?

Demand better from your leaders, demand an immigration system that serves Australians first, demand assimilation, social cohesion, and loyalty to our nation, not endless appeasement of activists, bureaucrats, and Marxists. A nation that cannot assert who it is will soon be told who it must become.

Stop being afraid of the slurs. Racist. Nazi. Sexist. Misogynist. These words have been screamed into meaninglessness by the Left and now carry no moral authority. Do not be afraid to speak the truth, do not apologise for defending our culture, our country or our people.

Reject the lie that self-respect, love of country, and pride in our Christian foundations amount to hatred. There is nothing virtuous about national suicide and nothing moral about silence in the face of cultural erasure.

The choice is no longer abstract: defend Australian culture now or lose it forever. History will remember those who stayed quiet to avoid being called names, and it will remember those who had the courage to stand when it mattered.

How do you want history to remember you? As a coward or as someone who stood up and made their voice heard?

Article originally published at Let’s Talk About It by Senator Ralph Babet, 22 December 2025

Ralph Babet is a Christian who wants to restore our Christian heritage. I cannot see that happening. In fact, it is amazing that Parliament is still opened with prayer which is a constant reminder of that Christian heritage. These facts: the Greens party members do not enter parliament until after prayer, and the godless bills that are being passed into law demonstrate that most members of parliament no longer believe in the God of our Bible. We are a goat nation under the judgement of God. Floods and fires are just the beginning of judgement.

IS THIS END-TIMES GOD’S JUDGEMENT?

On October 15th, 2025, the skies over China darkened — and then opened up with a fury unseen in decades. Within days, the mighty Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the arteries of China’s civilization, turned into monstrous torrents that devoured everything in their path. Entire cities vanished beneath walls of water. Villages were erased from the map. And more than one million people were forced to flee for their lives. The rainfall was relentless — supercharged by shifting climate patterns and atmospheric rivers that dumped weeks’ worth of rain in just hours. The result? Both the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers surged past record flood levels, bursting through dams and levees that once stood as symbols of Chinese engineering pride.

IMPORTANT TO KNOW THE EVIDENCE FOR A GLOBAL FLOOD

 Using the Bible, well-documented historical events, and some math, we find that the Flood began  approximately 4,359 years ago in the year 2348 BC. Genesis teaches it; Jesus and the apostles confirmed it. It also explains most of the rocks and fossils and obliterates billions of years. Without millions of years , evolution is impossible – not that it is possible if millions of years were granted. We should therefore be prepared to defend a global flood along with the rest of the faith, as well as refute arguments against it.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honour Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.1 Peter 3:14-16

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.” 2 Corinthians 9:5-6

The evidence for the global flood of Noah’s day is extensive and it can be found on two websites http://www.creation.com and http://www.answersingenesis.org.

The world must reject Noah’s flood as it destroys evolution which is their attempt to explain away the Cosmos without God. Noah’s flood also proves that God judged the world and destroyed all but the eight people on the ark God instructed Noah to make. Who wants to believe their creator would do that? Evolution has been one of Satan’s most effective ploys to deceive mankind into rejecting God.

What about now? Both Jesus and Peter told us that people will reject the true history of the world including Noah’s flood at the time before Jesus returns to Earth to rescue His Saints and God pours out His wrath a second time on an unrepentant world with the Trumpet and Bowl judgements.

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all... so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.” Luke 17:26-27,30

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.Matthew 24:38-39

In Peter’s second letter, he prophecies about future scoffers following their own sinful desires and denying Christ’s return. They “deliberately overlook” two foundational truths. The first was God created the world out of water and the second was the global flood of Noah’s day.

Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.2 Peter 3:3-6

Jesus returns on the clouds with the angels to gather the Saints, first the resurrected Saints and then those alive on Earth. “Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.Revelation 1:7

God then pours out His wrath upon the Earth with the Trumpet and Bowl judgements. It so happens that His judgement last one year and ten days exactly the same time as God poured out His wrath the fist time with Noah’s flood. Why one year and ten days? When Jesus returns it will be a Jubilee year and the year before a Jubilee year is always one year and ten days.

AUSTRALIANS COMPELLED TO DENY REALITY

As the law stands, Australians are compelled to deny reality or face severe penalties. When Julia Gillard’s Labour government removed sex-based protections in the Sex Discrimination Act, she put us on a path of destruction that has enormous ramifications. We now find ourselves in a dire situation where free speech, parental rights and women’s sex-based rights are being erased and undermined. Children are put on irreversible pathways that cause catastrophic harm. And we risk great penalties if we oppose the lies that underpin the legislation. The media has been increasingly exploring the ramifications and this article by journalist Chris Uhlmann highlights some of the nonsense being conducted under the guise of law.

Bad ideas do damage and, to borrow from Orwell, we live in an age where restating the obvious has become a civic duty. So here goes. There is such a thing as binary sex. It is etched in your chromosomes and biology, and you cannot change it. Human beings are male or female. A vanishingly small number are intersex. That is a biological anomaly. It is not a third sex. We also use the words man and woman. That is gender. You can legally change your gender. If you wish to do so, good luck to you. No one should discriminate against you. But your rights are not the only rights, and when identity collides with reality in a plural society, compromise is unavoidable. As a general rule, the vast majority should not be forced to make profound changes to customs, laws and language to accommodate a tiny minority. The legal right to change gender should not compel others to deny the reality of sex, because it is the definition of tyranny that you demand I sign up to a fantasy. Conceding that gender can be changed with nothing more than a form and a fee is a big enough leap.  

Conceding that sex is fluid is an assault on reason. But the obvious is now being obscured. The concession to change the law on gender now leads to a demand to deny science. The activist playbook never changes: assert, extend, sanctify, silence. Sentiment overrules reason, and those who insist on fidelity to the truth are traduced. Who could have imagined that the ordinary meaning of male and female would one day be put on trial, and that the very body created to defend women’s rights would argue that “female” is essentially meaningless? But that is exactly where we are: no one can change sex, and it is cruel to enforce the lie they can. Ridiculous laws have rendered the words ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ meaningless. This is dangerous and results in the erasure of hard fought and won protections for women and girls.  

The Sex Discrimination Commissioner cannot define her own portfolio. Anna Cody has no simple definition for “sex” or “woman.” How ludicrous that an Office for Women can exist that includes men. In dissolving the boundary between sex and gender, the commissioner is engaging in institutional betrayal. The office created to defend women now seeks to erase them. If sex is stripped of its biological anchor in law, on what grounds could any male who declares himself female be denied entry to real or virtual single-sex spaces? Does the commissioner truly believe that in a world where any man can change gender by nomination alone, predatory men will not exploit that licence to prey on women? The reality is, there are already countless examples of males taking advantage of these laws to the detriment of us all. This mess needs cleaning up before even more catastrophic harm is done in the name of gender ideology.

article by journalist Chris Uhlmann “We Should Never be Compelled to Deny Reality” 21st October, 2025.

A nation that denies God’s truth is destined for judgement. Is it any wonder then that we are seeing climate calamities occurring with increasing frequency and fury. God is in control and Biblical prophecy reveals we are in the last days of Satan’s rule. The time when God pours out His wrath upon an unrepentant world with the Trumpet and Bowl judgements of Revelation 8 and 16 is imminent.

Next on God’s agenda for planet Earth is Jesus Millennial Kingdom when Jesus and the glorified Saints will rule over the nations of the Earth from Jerusalem. You need to prepare for this time as they will be ruling with a rod of iron. The curse is not lifted so people are being born and dying. They still need to make the choice to repent and accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. To understand why Jesus Millennial Kingdom is a necessary interim period before the new heaven and new earth go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net. There you will find all the information you need to prepare for your assignment. Develop your God given talents here and now. God will use them during His Millennial reign.

EVERY MAN AND WOMAN WILL GIVE AN ACCOUNT TO GOD

Every man is made by God, every man will give an account to God, and that truth will outlast any human power to defy him. God is righteous and holy and He will judge evil and wickedness. How many people in the world are living in accordance with this truth? Sadly, not many, so let us that know the truth, do our best to follow the Holy Spirit’s lead to alert those to this truth, to whomever He takes us. Just follow His lead. Don’t try and do anything in your own strength that is wasted time. God sent the Holy Spirit to indwell every believers spirit so we can once again be the lamp of the Lord as stated in Proverbs: “The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.Proverbs 20:27. A lamp cannot function without oil which is the Holy Spirit.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others” 2 Corinthians 5:10-11

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BIBLICAL HISTORY SHOWS US GOD’S PEOPLE REPEATEDLY IGNORED HIS WARNINGS OF HIS COMING JUDGEMENT

An estimated 25% to 30% of the Bible is prophecy and much of it is now fulfilled, no mistakes, so why don’t we believe the end times prophecies that are now being fulfilled in our time?

I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purposeIsaiah 46:9-10

Although it appears Enoch and Noah preached the coming end of the pre-flood world, no one responded. Even with the witness bore through the name Methuselah, which meant his death shall bring judgment, no action was taken except for Noah and his family.
Throughout Scripture, the response of these ancient people is conveyed—they continued eating, drinking, and marrying until the promised curtain closed. The same is said of those in the cities of the
plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, which were destroyed by fire and brimstone.
This pattern is repeated throughout the entire Bible. A warning of judgment is given by God and ignored.
The warning is repeated through spokesmen sent by God, and those warnings are unheeded. Promised signs appeared, and those too are disregarded. Time passes, and people take that as further proof there will never be a judgment. But in every case, the promised catastrophic event occurs just as foretold.
This was the case with the flood. Then with Sodom and Gomorrah.
We observe it happen to the northern ten tribes of Israel by the hand of the Assyrians. Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, and Micah had warned them. Warnings had begun with Moses, close to 700 years before the event. Israelites were told if they didn’t repent and turn from idolatry they’d be driven out of the land. Micah clearly stated the Assyrians would come from the north. And it happened. Prophets also preached to the southern tribes in Judah, and the events there paralleled what had happened in the North. These
two southern tribes had received the same warnings from Moses recorded in the Torah. They’d hear from Joel, Isaiah, Habakkuk, Jeremiah, and others. Yet they never responded, and the Babylonians invaded Judah and carried them away into captivity. Beyond the Assyrian and Babylonian captivity, those same
prophets warned of a time when Israel would be scattered to the four corners of the earth. This would be fulfilled after Jesus ascended into Heaven when the Romans besieged and eventually ransacked
Jerusalem in 70 AD.
This pattern of warning, unbelief, and judgment has repeated itself over and over. Sadly, we see it today, the end times signs which Jesus, John (Revelation) and the prophets have given us are being ignored and as Peter warned scoffed at.

Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation. 2 Peter 3:3-4

What are you doing with Jesus warnings in the Oliver Discourse – Matthew 24 and Mathew 25? Do you know we are living in the last days before Jesus returns first to rescue the Saints but then to pour out His wrath on an unbelieving world with the Trumpet (Revelation 8) and Bowl (Revelation 16) judgements?

For evidence of the worldwide flood of Noah’s day go to http://www.creation.com or http://www.answersingenesis.org.

IRAN IN BIBLICAL END TIMES PROPHECY

Iran is facing an unprecedented water crisis, with dams running dry, rivers vanishing, and millions at risk of displacement. Could this catastrophic drought be more than a natural disaster? Many are asking if these events were foretold in the Bible, as signs of prophecy unfold before our eyes. In this video, Joshua explores the crisis, its impact, and the possible prophetic connection with Israel.

Water and energy outages are now a daily occurrence as the country edges closer to “day zero”, with warnings Tehran’s water supply could run dry in just weeks.

“We are talking about a possible day zero in Tehran,” Professor Kaveh Madani, Director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health said.

“We are facing this situation of no water and no electricity during extreme heat and on top of that, we are seeing wildfires here and there, dust storms, and so on.”

ISRAEL WILL RULE ALL OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD

If only the world knew that the tiny nation of Israel is the nation God established for His purposes and in the not too distant future it will finally fulfill its destiny when Jesus returns to destroy the Antichrist’s army at the battle of Armageddon. Jesus will then set up His Millennial Kingdom from a reconstructed Jerusalem on the highest mountain of the world.

Jerusalem in the Millennium on the highest mountain. During the time God pours out His wrath upon an unrepentant world with the Trumpet (Revelation 8:6-) and Bowl judgements (Revelation 16:1-), the topography of the world is changed.

And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found. And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.Revelation 16:30

Thank goodness God told us in advance how the end times will play out for both Jews and Christians. It is a time of tribulation that escalates to great tribulation before God steps in and raptures the living Saints to heaven, but not before He raises the dead in Christ first.

Where do you stand with God? Proverbs 9:10 tells us that: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”, do you fear Him? You should as He hold your future in His hands. If you reject His wonderful offer of salvation through Jesus Christ then you will face His coming wrath, poured out with the Trumpet and Bowl judgements. I have given you the Scriptures outlining what is coming, Do you really want to face them?

The fifth Trumpet judgement: “Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.” Revelation 9:3-6

Time is short, This is the most important decision you will ever make, Where you spend eternity is the outcome.

TIMELINE FOR THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS

God allows the Antichrist 1260 Days. What is the Timeline of events in those challenging 42 months of the Great Tribulation? Why does God allow this? What are God’s purposes? This amazing Nelson Walters video tracks the Great Tribulation event by event. He reveals that God raptures His Saints before He pours out His wrath upon the earth with the Trumpet (Revelation 8:6) and Bowl judgments (Revelation 16:1). God protects his Saints from judgement, His wrath, but not from tribulation, which purifies His church. The seven seals and the seven churches reveal what God is doing in the last seven years (70 weeks of years – Daniel 9:24) before Jesus returns to earth to defeat the Antichrist at the battle of Armageddon (Revelation 19:11). It is at the sixth seal, at the end of the sixth year that the celestial signs appear in the heavens that precede the rapture (Rev. 6:12-14 and Joel 3:14). Likewise it is the sixth church, the church of Philadelphia that is raptured. It is evident from Scripture that the church of Laodicea is the church that is left behind to face the wrath of God.

CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA: “I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name… Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.Revelation 3:8,10

CHURCH OF LAODICEA: ” I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realising that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.Revelation 3:15-19. They still have the opportunity to repent, and I am sure many will. They will be great witnesses for Jesus Christ during the time God pours out His wrath upon the earth for one year and ten days. It is the same time, He poured out His wrath upon the earth with Noah’s Flood.