A Letter from Irvin Baxter

This is my 12th and final letter to you in the year 2016. It’s been another great year here at Endtime Ministries. Your faithful prayers and support have made it all possible. Thank you very much!

 

Many people have been saved this year through the on-going efforts of Endtime Ministries. Our daily webcast and radio programs, our weekly television programs, Endtime magazine, the Endtime website, social media, Jerusalem Prophecy College, and conferences around the world have preached the message that the end time is now throughout the year. We’ve led tours to Israel and to Europe during 2016. We’ve also conducted prophecy conferences in England, France and Jerusalem during 2016 plus 37 prophecy conference throughout the United States.

 

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It was so exciting to accomplish the production of our new 8-lesson DVD series, “From Here to Armageddon” and the very important single DVD, “America’s God-Given Destiny”—a must see for every American! In spite of this whirlwind of activity, we still have the feeling the year 2016 was preparing us for the greatest revival yet to come.

U.S. Embassy Moved to Jerusalem?

President-Elect Donald Trump boldly promised to move America’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Congress passed a law in 1995 mandating this move. However, they left a loop-hole. They said the president could ask for a waiver from this law if he felt it would endanger national security. It is required that this waiver be renewed every 6 months. Since the law was passed in 1995 every president has enacted the waiver in order to avoid moving the embassy to Jerusalem. If President Trump does what he has said he will do, this will produce a major shift in the Middle East equation.

 

Trump has stated that he will attempt to negotiate a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. He says this would be the deal of all deals, and, of course, he’s the person that wrote the book “The Art of the Deal.” He may well attempt to move quickly to achieve a Middle East peace agreement so that he can move our embassy to Jerusalem as part of that agreement.

America will Turn Away from Globalism

The world has been moving rapidly away from the nation-state structure to a system of global governance ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The process has been called globalization or globalism. World leaders have encouraged open borders and free immigration policies. The number one issue in the recent presidential campaign was globalism vs. national sovereignty. Hillary Clinton unequivocally endorsed open borders while Donald Trump championed building a wall so that we could enforce our borders.
The Bible prophesies a system of world government for the times just ahead. Revelation 13:1-2 describes the world government of the end time. It prophesies that the end time kingdom of the Antichrist will be made up of Germany (the leopard), Russia (the bear), Great Britain (the lion) and a ten-nation alliance out of Europe symbolized by the ten horns. The one major world power absent from this end time world government prophecy is the United States (the eagle). However, the eagle is depicted in Revelation 12:14 as protecting Israel from the Antichrist and Satan in the end times. From these two passages, we can conclude that America is going to turn away from globalism, as Donald Trump has promised, and will remain Israel’s best friend. It appears that Trump’s victory in the recent election will move America toward the fulfillment of these prophecies.
Protestants and Catholics Move Toward Global Religion

 

The clearest prophecy describing the world government of the end time is given in Revelation chapter 17. It shows the seven-headed, ten-horned world government beast of Revelation 13 with a woman is riding on its back. Who is this woman? We are given six specific clues as to the identity of the woman of Revelation 17.

1. The woman is a city (verse 18)
2. The city sits on seven hills (verse 9)
3. The city presides over a vast international system (verse 15)
4. The woman is dressed in purple and red (verse 4)
5. The woman was drunken with the blood of the saints (verse 6)
6. The woman has daughters (verse 5)

There’s only one city on earth that fulfills all of these clues.

1. Rome is a city.
2. Rome is known as the “City of Seven Hills”.
3. The church believes the pope should be ruler of the world. When the pope is crowned, he is declared to be the father of princes and kings of the earth, the ruler of the world, the vicar of our Savior Jesus Christ on earth.
4. There are two ruling bodies of the Roman Catholic Church: the College of Cardinals and the College of Bishops and Archbishops. It is the official policy of the church that Cardinals wear red while Bishops and non-Cardinal Archbishops wear purple.
5. The dam broke on the Reformation in the 16th century. Attempting to stem the hemorrhage from the church, Catholicism moved against its enemies by force. Millions were killed by burning at the stake and by many other forms of torture. During that time, the woman was indeed “drunken with the blood of the saints.”
6. When the Protestants broke away from the Catholic Church, the Council of Trent was held, condemning many practices of the Protestants. The feud between
   Catholicism and Protestantism continued unabated for the next 400 years. However, in the 20th century the Roman Church switched its tactics. In 1962-1965, Vatican Council II was held. Out of that ecumenical council, the church issued the following statement: “We the Mother Church our opening our arms for all of our daughters to return home.” Since that time, the Roman Church has referred to Protestants as her daughters.

 

Beyond all doubt, the woman on the back of the beast is apostate Roman Catholicism!
The prophecy of the woman riding the 7-headed, 10-horned beast in Revelation 17 foretells an alliance between the political powers of Europe and the religious power of Roman Catholicism and her Protestant daughters. It will be nothing short of the alliance between the Antichrist and his religious partner, the False Prophet.

 

It is hoped by many that the planned return of Protestants to the Catholic fold will be completed in the year 2017. Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the church
at Wittenberg Germany in 1517. Consequently, the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation will be commemorated in the coming year. It is the goal of many Catholic and Protestant leaders to declare the end of the “protest” and the healing of the divisions in Christianity. Many prominent Christian leaders plan to travel to Rome during the coming year for the purpose of signing a statement of unity of faith and purpose with the Vatican.
This unification of Catholicism and Protestantism through compromise is clearly prophesied in Revelation 17:5. Fortunately, another thing is prophesied as well. In the very next chapter, Revelation 18:4, Jesus issued the warning: “…Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” While apostate Christianity is moving toward an alliance with the world government of the Antichrist, true Christians will be separating from this unholy alliance and will be moving back to Biblical Christianity.

WWIII?

Revelation 9:13-16 prophesies a war that will kill one-third of mankind. The prophecy states that this war will begin from the Euphrates River. The Euphrates begins in Turkey, flows down through Syria, then all the way through Iraq, and finally empties into the Persian Gulf along the Iraq-Iran border. This is the area from which an unprecedented war will begin, wiping out one-third of the world’s population. Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran are all Islamic nations. It is obvious that Islam will be heavily involved in the greatest war the world has ever known.

 

ISIS captured approximately 40% of the Euphrates in 2014. Battles have raged up and down the Euphrates River since that time. In December 2015 Russia and the United States entered into a secret agreement. They agreed that Russian forces would fight ISIS on the west side of the Euphrates while U.S. forces would fight ISIS on the east side of the Euphrates. This has resulted in Russia and America, the world’s two greatest nuclear powers, fighting up and down the Euphrates River at this present time.

 

In order for the present conflict to expand into WWIII something will have to spark the broadening of the conflict. None of us want this to happen, but it is going to happen. The only question is: “When?”. Will it be in the coming year of 2017?

World Continues Toward Cashless Society

Revelation 13:16-18 prophesies that, in the end time, a system will be set up requiring a person to have a mark or number without which they will be unable to buy or sell. This prophecy could only come to pass since the invention of the computer and the Internet.
Our world is moving rapidly toward conducting purchases electronically instead of using cash. For example, Sweden has 1,600 banks. Nine hundred of them will not receive cash deposits nor can you get any cash from them. Furthermore, many of Sweden’s businesses now are refusing to deal in cash at all. This trend is sweeping through other countries as well.

 

The move toward a cashless society is gaining tremendous momentum throughout the world. A huge percentage of people in our world now receive their paychecks by direct deposit and many more pay their bills electronically.

 

There’s no doubt about it. The world is preparing for the prophesied Mark of the Beast and will continue to do so during 2017!

 

Since we will be going to both Israel and Rome, this will be a fourteen-day tour. We will leave the U.S. on April 30 and will return on May 13.

 

The two most prophesied cities in the Bible are Jerusalem and Rome. You will tour both of these cities and will learn what the Bible foretells for each of them during the times just ahead. If you would like to reserve your place on our Rome-Israel tour, simply call 1-800-ENDTIME (1-800-363-8463). Ask to speak to someone about the tour. Don’t wait! It will be here before we know it.

A SPECIAL AND URGENT NEED

Since we began televising “End of the Age”, the Daystar Network had given us a bonus play each week in addition to the time slot we pay for. During 2016, they sold all of their bonus time slots. Consequently, our airtime was cut in half, but there was no reduction in charge.

 

Likewise, TBN had given us two bonus plays on their Church Channel Network in addition to airing our program on TBN. TBN sold the Church Channel resulting in the loss of two bonus plays per week being discontinued.

 

These two developments cut our revenues from Daystar and TBN virtually in half with no reduction in our costs. Consequently, we have a deficit for 2016 that needs to be resolved by the end of this year. That deficit is $470,700.

 

If God has blessed you so that you could make a special end-of-the-year donation, it would help us so much at this time! Though this is a considerable amount of money, yet if we all do what we can, I know God will supply this need.

 

If 470 people donated $1,000, that would meet the need. If 47 people donate $10,000 each, that would do it as well. Or if 4,700 donated $100 each, the need would be met. Please pray about what the Lord would have you to do. If you are unable to help, please pray with us that God will supply this important and urgent need of $470,700 by December 26!
Partners, thanks for all that you do. From Judy, myself and the Endtime staff, have a very Merry Christmas and a blessed and wonderful New Year!
Because the Endtime is Now!

 

P.S. Now is the time to plan your end-of-the-year giving. A special gift to Endtime Ministries will greatly bless Endtime and also possibly lower your tax bracket, saving you thousands of dollars.

 

If you own stocks or securities that have gained in value, you can donate them to Endtime, receiving a tax credit for their full value today while paying no capital gains tax on the increase in their values. You win and Endtime Ministries is blessed! It’s something to prayerfully consider. For more information about this, call us and ask to speak to my
daughter, Jana Robbins.