2017 HEADLINES: Year In Review

FEBRUARY

Anti-Semitism Plagues The Nation – On President’s Day, Anti-Semites made coordinated bomb threats against nearly a dozen Jewish Community Centers. This marked the fourth time that JCCs were targeted in 2017. In total, there were at least 100 anti-Semitic acts committed against over 60 JCCs, as well as Jewish Schools, in 30+ States.

At the same time, vandals toppled and damaged headstones at Jewish Cemeteries. About 200 headstones were vandalized in Missouri, another 100 were broken in Philadelphia, and more in New York. Around 400 Jewish headstones were vandalized in the first two months of 2017.

Demonic Democrats Shout Down Prayer And Boo The Name Of JESUS – At a Louisiana Town Hall, hosted by U.S. Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, a group of raucus Democrat protesters erupted in anger during the opening Prayer. The second that Chaplain Michael Sprague announced he would open the event with a Prayer, the crowd became unruly and began to shout him down. The childish hecklers began yelling, “Prayer?!”, “Pray on your own time. This is our time!”, and “Separation of Church and State!”

Not even a few seconds into the prayer, one attendee rudely shouted “AMEN! We’re done. SHUT UP.” One woman shouted “Lucifer” (the original name of Satan) when the Chaplain mentioned God. When he closed the prayer “in the Name of Jesus”, the room of rowdy Democrats erupted in riotous anger and loudly booed the Chaplain.

MARCH

Disney Forces LGBT Propaganda On Children – The once wholesome “Disney” company formed an unholy alliance with the LGBT Mafia in 2017. The unlikely union had been quietly forming for years, but apparently the powers that be at Disney were no longer worried about the backlash from their traditional audience. In the same week that Disney made headlines and history by airing their first same-sex couple kiss in a cartoon, the “family” company also announced that their new blockbuster live-action “Beauty and the Beast” film would feature the brand’s first ever “Gay storyline”.

Liberals Across World Blaspheme And Attack Lord Jesus’ Virgin Mother Mary – Across the globe there was a disturbing trend of blasphemous acts being committed against our God in 2017, but they were specifically targeting one key Biblical figure, the Virgin Mother of our Lord, MARY. Unexpectedly, most of the perpetrators of the recent unholy attacks against our Faith are not muslim men (as is usually the case), but instead liberal WOMEN.

During an International Women’s Day protest in Argentina, feminists staged a mock abortion on a woman portraying the Virgin Mary. A staunch Pro-Life Priest, Frank Pavone, said “This act shows what is at the foundation of the hardcore pro-abortion people. They HATE the Church, and they literally want to abort Jesus off the face of the earth in every manifestation of His Presence today.”

This opinion was proven 100% true at the Women’s March here in America, where Planned Parenthood advocates held up signs that said “If Mary had an abortion, we wouldn’t be in this mess”. This generation takes blasphemy to a whole ‘nother level.

APRIL

Greater Risk Of Global Pandemic Than EVER BEFORE – Warnings were raised this year, beginning in April, by health experts from numerous countries that the human race is at greater risk of experiencing a global pandemic than ever before. They also warned that we are currently ill-prepared to combat a worldwide outbreak. The experts are in agreement across the board that it is not a matter of “if” a pandemic will strike, but a matter of “WHEN”. An infectious outbreak of SARS, swine flu, bird flu, Ebola, Zika, Cholera, bio-terror, or a brand new disease altogether could kill MILLIONS.

American Public Schools Persecuting Christian Students – It has long been known by Christian culture warriors that there is an unGodly agenda in America’s public schools to indoctrinate your children. The liberal elite in this nation have been hell-bent on forcing curriculum about the LGBT movement, Islam, and Evolution down your kids’ throats, thus polluting their young impressionable minds.

Some teachers promoting this agenda felt so emboldened in 2017, that they discriminated against and persecuted Christian students. A case in April involved a lesbian teacher in Florida who forced at least three students in her class to remove their Cross necklaces. One of the students reported that Ms. Lora Jane Reidas, her Math teacher, approached her and said “I need you to take your necklace off.” She banned the Christian symbol from her classroom. At the same time, her desk was decorated with LGBT propaganda.

Disturbing Studies Reveal Historic Lack Of Biblical Knowledge In America – According to disturbing studies released in April, over 50% of Americans rarely or never read the Holy Bible. Only 1 in 10 hold a Biblical worldview. Only 25% of American Christians feel they have a personal responsibility to share the Gospel with others, and only 40% believe that the Holy Bible is truly the “Word of God”. If this were just a study of all Americans, it would be sad but not too surprising. The responses of so-called professing Christians in these studies, on the other hand, is extremely alarming.

MAY

Russian Bombs Detonated On Ocean Floor Could Leave Major U.S. Cities UNDERWATER – A former Russian Defense Ministry spokesman told the Russian news outlet, Komsomolskaya Pravda, that Russia had been burying nuclear bombs off the coast of America. Colonel Viktor Baranetz said that the “mole nukes” would be used to trigger a tsunami which could drown major American cities.

He went on to say, “While the Americans are deploying their tanks, airplanes and special forces battalions along the Russian border, we are quietly seeding the U.S. shoreline with nuclear mole missiles. They dig themselves into the ocean floor, and they sleep until given the command to detonate… Oh, it seems I’ve said too much, I should hold my tongue.”

Baranetz said that no computer technology can pinpoint the location or calculate the trajectory of Russia’s nuclear warheads. If Baranetz’s claims are true then major U.S. cities, such as New York, Boston, and Miami, could be devastated by a historic tsunami when the nuclear bombs are detonated. He says that the bombs are aligned in a chain to cause a “massive tidal wave” when they are detonated together.

Islamists Murder 28 Christians In Egypt Church Bus Attack – During Ramadan, the “holiest” season of the year for muslims, over two dozen Christian churchgoers were murdered in Egypt by Islamists. In total, 28 Coptic Christians lost their lives, and another 25 were wounded, at the hands of Islam’s adherents. A bus was travelling to a Church south of Cairo, when 3 four-wheel drive vehicles pulled up alongside and opened fire.

When the bus had stopped, 10 gunmen wearing fatigues and face masks exited the 3 vehicles and approached the passengers of the bus who remained alive after the first onslaught. Then came the life or death question… “Are you Christian?” When the passengers said “Yes”, the terrorists distributed a pamphlet of Quranic verses which explained “Ramadan”, the muslim holiday.

The attackers then ordered the survivors of the group to recite the “Shahada”, which is the muslim profession of faith. When the Christians refused, and said “No, we were born Christian and we will die Christian”, the Islamists opened fire at close range and murdered as many as they could. Christian persecution took place across the Islamic Middle East in 2017, as it always does, but unfortunately has become all too common in Egypt.

JUNE

Worldwide Terrorism Reaches ALL-TIME High – Lord Jesus said that “As the days of Noah were”, so shall the days on earth be in the Season of His Second Coming. In Noah’s days, “the earth was FILLED with violence”. The Hebrew word used for violence in this verse of Genesis is “HAMAS”, which means TERROR and the shedding of innocent blood.

It is very interesting that the word which God used to describe terrorism in the first Book of our Holy Bible is actually the name of Palestine’s largest Terror Group. So, Jesus was prophesying that the world would be filled with terrorism in the Season of His Return. New figures, released in June, from the Global Peace Index revealed that WORLDWIDE terrorism had reached an ALL-TIME high, fulfilling our Lord’s Prophecy.

50th Anniversary Of Israel’s Reunification Of Jerusalem – June 2017 marked the 50th Anniversary of Israel reunifying it’s Eternal Holy Capital, JERUSALEM, after God granted them miraculous victory in 1967’s Six-Day War.

Canada’s War On Christians – A Canadian Christian school was ordered by a Public School Board that it partnered with with to “CEASE” reading or studying from “any Scripture that is considered to be offensive to particular individuals.” Targeted Biblical verses included those which speak against homosexuality, fornication, adultery, idolatry, and witchcraft.

The Battle River School Division in Alberta, Canada, directed Cornerstone Christian Academy to refrain from teaching on any Biblical Scriptures which the board has determined violates Alberta’s “human rights” legislation.

Also in Canada, a new law passed in Ontario which gives the Government the right to TAKE AWAY children from parents that refuse to accept their child’s “chosen gender identity or expression”. So if a Christian parent tells their son, though he “believes he is a girl”, that God made him a male, the Government can TAKE their child away.

JULY

Transgender INSANITY – In July, a Canadian parent who identifies as a “non-binary trans-person,” worked to make her newborn baby the first newborn ever registered as “gender unknown.” She said, ”I’m raising my child in such a way that until they have the sense of self and command of vocabulary to tell me who they are, I’m recognizing them as a baby and.. outside of the restrictions that come with the boy box and the girl box.”

Searyl Atli Doty did not undergo a genital inspection after birth, campaign group “Gender Free I.D. Coalition” said in a statement. The group’s vision, stated on its website, is “to remove all gender/sex designations from identity documents.” Searyl’s mother said, “I am not going to foreclose my child’s choices based on an arbitrary assignment of gender at birth based on an inspection of their genitals.”

This case was a “world first”. It is a FIRST because it is INSANE! In America, Washington, DC joined Oregon in 2017 to become the first U.S. jurisdictions to recognize a THIRD gender on State-issued ids and drivers’ licenses. They now offer “F” for female, “M” for male, and “X” for non-binary or non-specified gender.

Celebrated Palestinian-American Activist Publicly Calls For JIHAD Against Republicans – Palestinian-American Muslim Activist Linda Sarsour, organizer of this year’s Left-wing “Women’s March”, publicly called for “JIHAD” against Republicans at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention in Chicago. She told her fellow Muslims to “not assimilate” in America to “please other people and authority”, but to rather make it their “top priority to please Allah and only Allah”.

North Korean Threat Is REAL – In 2017, the 33 year old dictator, Kim Jong-Un continued to be hell-bent on blowing up as much of the USA as he possibly can. For years, we have laughed at his many failed missile tests and launches, but in July his military appeared to have worked out the kinks. North Korea’s missiles flew much higher, much further, and for much longer.

A missile fired on July 28th, flew for around 45 minutes, going 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) high, and reaching a distance of 1,000 kilometers (621 miles). Missile experts say that if this missile were fired on a flatter trajectory, it would have major US cities within its range. If the experts have figured this out, and their opinions have been posted all over the internet, then we know full well that Lil’ Kim is aware.

ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles), like the one North Korea fired, have a minimum range of about 3,500 miles, but some are designed to travel 6,200 miles or further. This means that just about any ICBM would be able to reach Hawaii and Alaska, while California is well in range at only 5,600 miles from North Korea. Experts say that some of America’s most populated cities, such as Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, New York, and Boston are now within range of Kim’s missiles.

AUGUST

America’s Public Schools Forcing Islam Lessons On Your Children – Millions of Christian and Jewish children are being indoctrinated into the Islamic faith in America’s public schools. Every Holy Bible believer reading this seriously needs to ask your children if they have received any lessons on Islam. If they are in Grades 5-12, odds are that they have.

Israel’s “Arutz Sheva” News and “Creeping Sharia” reported on a program called “Access Islam” being forced upon your children, as an “educational religious program” in public schools across America. The Islamic indoctrination program was developed by the United States Department of Education and is funded by YOUR and my tax dollars.

If there was a program being shown in America’s public schools entitled “Access Christianity” or “Access Judaism”, the liberals and progressives would be up in arms. They only seem to shout “separation of Church and State” when it involves our God and the Holy Bible.

America Experiences Once In A Century Coast-to-Coast Total Solar Eclipse – On August 21st, an extremely rare Total Solar Eclipse crossed the United States for the first time in a Century. In the middle of the day, skies were darkened from one American coast to the other. The Moon passed between the Sun and Earth, blocking the face of the Sun, and leaving only its corona visible in the sky.

It was the first coast-to-coast total eclipse since 1918, and I believed it had prophetical meaning. I believed that it was a WARNING regarding the U.S. involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian “Peace Process”, and was specifically connected to God’s Holy City, JERUSALEM.

Historic Hurricane Harvey – In the SAME DAY, even during the SAME HOURS, of President Trump’s “Mideast Peace Team” meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, the first major hurricane to hit the “Lone Star State” of Texas in 12 years officially formed. The monster Category 4 hurricane “Harvey” was a record-shattering hurricane. It was the longest that a Texas landfalling hurricane remained a named storm after landfall since 1971.

The storm poured over 50 inches of rain, the greatest amount ever recorded in the Lower 48 states from a single storm. Harvey is expected to be the most expensive storm in U.S. history at around $200 billion, surpassing Hurricane Katrina. Climatologists called Harvey the worst rainfall event in America’s history.

SEPTEMBER

Historic Hurricane Irma – While Harvey was still wreaking havoc on the Lone Star State, and surrounding States, another monster hurricane formed in the Atlantic. Unfortunately, the President didn’t learn from Harvey to stop pushing “Land-for-Peace” on Israel. It was reported that Trump would meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Abbas on the sidelines of September’s United Nations General Assembly in New York.

His administration said the meetings would focus specifically on laying a foundation for the “Peace” talks. Hurricane Irma made landfall on the first day of the week that the UNGA officially kicked off. Irma was one of the strongest storms ever recorded, packing 185 mph winds before striking America.

It made landfall in the Caribbean as one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. It is the first storm ever observed, in any ocean, to sustain winds of 185 mph for longer than 24 hours. Irma maintained 185 mph for 37 straight hours.

Irma’s arrival into Florida, following Harvey in Texas, marked the first time on record that two Category 4 Hurricanes had made landfall in the United States in the same year. Hurricane Irma generated enough accumulated cyclone energy to meet the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s definition of a FULL Atlantic hurricane SEASON.

By itself, it was more powerful than 18 of 51 full hurricane seasons since 1966. Hurricane Irma covered the ENTIRE State of Florida, and also impacted surrounding States with hurricane-force winds and record flooding. At least 25% of homes in the Florida Keys were destroyed, and at least 65% of homes suffered major damage from Irma, according to FEMA. That is 90% of the Keys.

Mexico Devastated By Two Most Powerful Earthquakes In A Century – “It’s like Sodom and Gomorrah, like God is angry at us”… These were the words of Jorge Diaz, a Mexican government employee, after two of the most powerful earthquakes to strike Mexico in a century, 8.1 and 7.1 magnitudes, destroyed thousands of homes.

The quakes were felt by tens of millions of people. The disasters left at least 100 Mexicans dead. The quakes, though striking 100 miles from Mexico City, destroyed at least 45 structures in the country’s Capital. Widespread damage was reported in Morelos, Puebla, and in Mexico State.

OCTOBER

America’s Deadliest Mass Shooting In History – In October 2017, we observed America’s deadliest mass shooting to date, as a 64 year old lunatic murdered nearly 60 people, and injured over 500 others at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas. The Route 91 Harvest Festival took place outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, and drew nearly 25,000 concertgoers.

This was a perfect target for a demonic madman to take multiple innocent lives. Police say that the murderer opened fire on the crowd from a 32nd floor room of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, and that he took his own life before a SWAT team burst into his room.

Historic California Wildfire Outbreak – Even Secular Mainstream Media News outlets found it hard to describe 2017’s wildfire outbreak without using headlines and phrases depicting Biblical JUDGMENT. Among those that caught my eye were “Apocalyptic Scenes”, “Hell on earth”, “It’s like Armageddon is on”, “An inferno like we’ve never seen before”, and “Is the world ending or something?”

None of these phrases were taken from Biblical News Sites, but all were found on secular news sites which normally mock God. The LORD certainly has a way of getting even the most hardened skeptic’s attention. The wildfire outbreaks were described as “unusual” and “unprecedented”. Most of the country found it hard to ignore the disaster in California, but other States endured long bouts with fiery flames in 2017 as well.

About 10 MILLION acres of land had been burned in the U.S., namely in Oregon, Washington, Montana, and California. This greatly eclipsed the last decade’s average of 6 million per year, which was already extremely high to begin with. Over 170,000 acres had been scorched in just a THREE DAY period in California. There were at least 17 devastating wildfires burning across California at the same time. The fires destroyed over 3,500 structures, and forced the evacuation of over 25,000 residents.

NOVEMBER

Christian Persecution Reaches Another ALL-TIME High – Modern Christian persecution reached another all-time high worldwide in 2017, according to new reports and studies released in November. An International Catholic Charity, Aid to the Church in Need, found that Christians comprised 75% of those persecuted for their “Religion” globally over the past 3 years.

The Charity found that Christians are not only more persecuted than any other faith group, but they are also experiencing the very worst forms of religious persecution. A Christian persecution watchdog group, Open Doors, released a statement that “in 25 years of chronicling and ranking” the political and societal restrictions on religious freedom experienced by Christians worldwide, 2016 was the “WORST YEAR YET.”

According to the new studies, over 200 million Christians experience high, very high, or extreme persecution. Islamism remains the most dominant driver of persecution globally, and is responsible for initiating oppression and hostility toward Christians in 35 out of the 50 countries on Open Doors’ 2017 “World Watch List”.

Mysterious Heavenly Booms And Trumpet Sounds Baffle Scientific Community – Much like the ominous Trumpet blasts, which have been coming from the heavens for years now, strange “booming sounds” began to be heard in the skies across the globe. Meteorologists, geologists, NASA, local authorities and governments were all baffled.

The scientific community’s “experts” could only speculate about what was the cause for the mysterious sounds, which were often accompanied by the earth shaking. Some unsubstantiated explanations they gave for the sonic boom-like sounds were – supersonic aircrafts, meteors exploding in the atmosphere, or ground explosions.

The problem with those assumptions is that they were all proven wrong. In most of the cities which experienced the phenomenon, local militaries denied flying aircrafts, no meteors were reported or confirmed in the atmosphere, no earthquakes were confirmed by the USGS, and no explosions occurred. This has left newscasters, 911 dispatchers, and local officials scratching their heads.

If these mysterious loud booms were centered in one location, they could be easily explained away, but the fact that they occurred worldwide definitely raised the eyebrows of Holy Bible believers. The booming sound was heard in over 60 locations across the world in 2017. In America, there have been reports in about 30 States, and a dozen in the UK. Canada, Australia, France, and Finland also experienced the booms and shaking.

DECEMBER

“Gaytivity” Scenes Mock And Pervert The Birth Of Our Lord – One example of blasphemy, mockery, and perversion all rolled into one was 2017’s “Gaytivity” movement. After comedienne, Cameron Esposito, posted an image on Twitter of a Nativity scene in California featuring two Josephs, many in the LGBT community and their supporters erected “gaytivity” scenes of their own.

This was in no way the LGBT community trying to honor our Lord “in their own way”, but rather they were doing it to mock the Birth of our Savior, publicly blaspheme our God, and pervert the Holy celebration. The 2 Josephs wore pink and kneeled beside a Baby Jesus. Mary was nowhere to be found. They irreverently removed our Lord’s Virgin Mother from the scene altogether.

Christian Churches Begin Using “Gender-Neutral” Pronouns For God – In 2017, the dangerous confusion of the “Gender-fluid” movement spread into Christianity. As farfetched as it may sound, I was shocked at just how much this fallacy was embraced in Christian institutions and Churches across the world.

The biggest story leaving believers scratching their heads, during the Christmas season, was that the Church of Sweden was urging its clergy to STOP referring to God as a “MALE”. Even though every Book in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures leaves no doubt that HE IS, Sweden’s national Evangelical Lutheran Church decided that they no longer want to worship the God of the Holy Bible.

They would rather cower to the demands of a backslidden society, reinvent God, and sacrifice eternal Truth in order to appease sinners with a politically correct delusion. The Holy Bible doesn’t mince words about God being Male. If there is a Dictionary in Heaven pertaining to Churches of this world, next to the words “BACKSLIDDEN”, and “APOSTASY”, you will find a picture of the 2017 CHURCH OF SWEDEN.

President Donald Trump Publicly Recognizes Jerusalem As Capital Of Israel, And Keeps Promise To Move The U.S. Embassy To The Holy City – December 6th, 2017 was a historic day for the United States of America and for God’s chosen nation of Israel. In what I call the greatest day of Donald Trump’s Presidency, the POTUS gave a live address to the nation, and to the world, in which he officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital City.

He then added that he was keeping one of his most important Campaign promises by “directing the US State Department to begin preparations to MOVE THE U.S. EMBASSY from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem”. This was the best news of the entire year, and one of the very few POSITIVE “Signs of the times” in 2017. Thanks be to God that it was a BIG positive sign of President Trump finally being led by the right Bible-based advisors. HalleluYah!

In Historic United Nations’ Anti-Israel Vote, The Nations Gathered Against Jerusalem And GOD – On December 21st, 2017, we witnessed a 2,500 year old Biblical Prophecy by the prophet Zechariah come to pass before our very eyes, as the United Nations convened to gather together AGAINST JERUSALEM. The Global body represents “ALL nations on earth”.

The rare UN “emergency session” was held to vote on a historic anti-Israel resolution. The vote, called for by Turkey’s anti-semitic president Recep Erdogan and many other Islamic world leaders, “condemned the United States recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital”, and called on the Trump administration to “rescind its decision to move the U.S. Embassy there.”

Nearly 200 of the world’s nations voted on the measure. The vote had major implications concerning “Last Days” Biblical Prophecy. It publicly determined which nations oppose God’s chosen nation on the world stage, and which nations support His Jewish State. Over 75% of the world’s nations went on record as being “for or against” the Word of Almighty God.

128 nations set themselves up for coming destruction from the LORD. Of the 185 nations that voted, only SEVEN, yes “7”, voted on the side of Israel and the United States. Thus, they voted on the side of our GOD. I expect even more hostility towards Israel by the UN in 2018, as it will be Israel’s 70th Anniversary since being reborn as a nation.

May America continue to defend Israel in the New Year and always, and may Almighty God continue to bless and protect Israel until their Messiah, our Lord Jesus, COMETH AGAIN. 

2017 (and more specifically the Hebrew year 5777) was packed with Biblically-significant headlines and historic events. For more information on the many prophetical events that took place in 5777, read my article “A Year To Remember”. With the 70th Anniversary of Israel’s Rebirth coming in 2018, I believe even BIGGER historic Biblical Signs are coming! As I promised in last year’s article, my 2017 articles got bigger, better and BOLDER.

In 2018, you can expect more of the same. Plus, with the Benham Brothers now contributing weekly, you can look forward to more articles monthly then ever before! Thank you all for your continued interest, support, and shares. Please continue to help me spread Biblical Signs In The Headlines across social media, and the world, in the New Year. May The LORD bless all of you with a happy and healthy 2018, and keep looking up! 

“JESUS said, When you shall see ALL these things, KNOW that My Return is NEAR, even at the doors. TRULY I say unto you, the generation (to see all THESE things) shall NOT pass, till ALL these things be FULFILLED.” ~ Matthew 24/Mark 13/Luke 21