An extremely personal post and about Biblical Prophecy
Why my handle is "Aussie17"....
Things in the world are moving at such an incredible speed, it must be driving some of us doozy!
More than a year ago (January 2025), when I wrote this article right after Donald Trump’s inauguration—when everyone was thinking things were going to happen positively, like the harms of experimental mRNA vaccines were going to be exposed and that they will recall the mRNA vaccines, I received a lot of hate comments from many friends, akin to losing friends and family when I told people the COVID vaccines were really dangerous.
Unfortunately, the mRNA vaccines are still available on the market. You need to understand that this isn’t merely a procedural war at the FDA but it’s a spiritual war taking place right now.
The Meaning of "Image of the Beast"
This is a very difficult post to write because it will offend many people I love. I know I will also lose many subscribers and paid subscribers with this post, and this makes me a little sad. When I started this substack journey, I always heard a “still, small voice” in the back of my mind that said, “
First of all, let me just say that I am not a prophet, and these are nothing but observations. I have no agenda, I’m not paid (nothing behind a paywall), so I can speak freely. I have no sponsors and I do not endorse any alternative health products. I’m not looking for engagement.
This is an outlet for me to express myself, and if you don’t like it, you must stop reading so you don’t lose your peace of mind. You can also decide that I am not a real Christian. To be honest, I never stepped into an “organized” church in 30 years since my teenage days because I felt really uncomfortable about it.
I will explain why at the last section of the article.
If you are not interested in biblical prophecies—or if you are a huge believer in Donald Trump’s “White Hats in control”, “Trust the Plan” or “4D Chess” narrative, my suggestion is to skip this article because this is a trigger warning.
*Trigger Warning* begins here
There are a few signs that suggest Biblical prophecy may be coming true right now.
First, Donald Trump is the first U.S. president with the name “Donald.” This name comes from the old Gaelic (Scottish/Irish) word Dòmhnall, which means “ruler of the world” (from words for “world” + “ruler” or “mighty”).
Jesus mentions “the ruler of this world” twice in the Gospels:
John 12:31 (NKJV): “Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.”
John 14:30 (NKJV): “I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.”
Second, Trump is the first president to use phrases involving “safe” and “peace” in two major global campaigns, once in his first term and then in his return.
During his first term, he often promoted the COVID-19 vaccines as “SAFE and effective.”
In his second term, he established the “Board of PEACE“ (a new international group, chaired by him, focused on overseeing peace efforts like Gaza reconstruction, backed by a UN resolution in late 2025).
This echoes a Bible warning:
1 Thessalonians 5:3: “While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.”
Finally, this connects to the sixth angel’s second visit to the Euphrates River in Revelation, where the Euphrates River dries up to prepare the way for “the kings of the east.”
Revelation 16:12: “Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.”
In the Bible, the Euphrates often symbolizes God’s provision of prosperity and life to people (both to the just and the unjust) in the world. This river is about to “dry up,” meaning that the prosperity given by God freely to all humans, good and bad, is about to stop.
In practical terms, this means that we are almost at the point of no return in the valley of decision.
Are we at Armageddon? The Valley of Decision!
The Substack article by Jonathan Larsen is making waves. In summary, according to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), U.S. military commanders at over 30 installations across all branches have been framing the ongoing war with Iran as a biblical event tied to “
Why I stopped going to organized church for over 30 years - A Very Personal Story
The video clip below reminded me of my teenage years when my college friends would drag me to organized churches. I remember going to different variations of it, some with more music and dancing, some louder, some quieter, some with priests, some with pastors. But in the end I never felt comfortable about it for various reasons.
For many years of my life I have been a lone Christian and never interacted with other Christians except having two pen pals (yes, I’m that old!) whom I interacted with from the USA, both of them over 60 years older than me—and they spent quite a bit of effort explaining Christianity to me.
Although I knew some important and often-used verses in the Bible, I have never read the Bible from page to page because I often see it as a laborious effort and it seemed really boring.
Around 2016, when I was older and when Donald Trump appeared on the scene, I became deeply engrossed in American politics because it shaped the world. Back then I predicted that Donald Trump would win the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, and I won a 500-dollar bet with a pharma colleague who thought I was absolutely nuts.
Believe it or not, I was also very engrossed in the “QAnon” phenomenon, and it absolutely contributed to why my nick is “Aussie17” (for those of you who know what it means, but I don’t want to explain it here). I could quote Q posts to people according to the specific numbers and stuff.
But sometime in 2020, after COVID started, I left my job because I could not travel (I was a pharma director with Japan–Asia Pacific responsibilities, and it required 75% travel), thinking that I would return to work in a few months… As the COVID travel requirements dragged on and on, and then the vaccines came out and dragged the fiasco even longer, I became depressed with life and almost suicidal because I could not work due to vaccine mandates and you should know by now what I think about the genetic experiment. I would scour through QAnon posts to understand what is coming next.
One day, when I slept crying and suicidal, I heard a loud voice in my head (for those of you who have experienced this, you know what I mean, but for those who have never, I understand that you might think I have a brain tumour, but I don’t).
Here’s what the voice said to me: “If you had put as much time into reading the Bible as you did reading, studying, and memorizing QAnon posts, you would be in a much better spot right now.”
The next morning when I woke up, I decided that before I die, I’m going to read the whole Bible at least once from start to finish. For a while I was reading 7–10 hours every day, going straight from Genesis all the way to Revelation.
Then someone told me I had read the wrong version, so after I finished, I thought, “Okay, just to calm my OCD—I don’t want to miss heaven because of the wrong Bible—let’s do the King James Version now.” When I finished that one too, the voice in my head came back and said, “Now compare: which one do you know better—QAnon posts or the Bible?”. Then I said, I know QAnon 10 times more than the bible. And then I said, “OK, I know what you are implying”.
Since then I’ve read the whole Bible more than 10 times (that was 4–5 years ago), and honestly I’ve lost count. Someone once told me a big Harry Potter fan read the whole series over 50 times cover to cover. So I’m determined to show I can do the same with the Bible. The entire Harry Potter books have over a million words, and the Bible is only about 60% of that length. If someone can love Harry Potter that much, then clearly I still haven’t read the Bible enough.
Now let’s get back to what I think about the video clip above.
I do not want to speak badly about other Christians or churches, or what they do, but this is simply what I think. If you believe that they are right and if it gives you peace of mind, more power to you.
This is all about understanding the difference between symbol and substance. God has always communited to us through symbols, descriptive languages, and also through dreams and visions. Symbols and descriptive languages are meant to be versatile because His words are eternal. Prophecies fulfil throughout different times and eras again and again until the Lord lays it to rest. If He desires it, He can lay men’s proverbs to rest but His words are eternal (continuous) until He decides otherwise.
Ezekiel 12:22 - “Son of man, what is this proverb that you people have about the land of Israel, which says, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails’?” Tell them therefore, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will lay this proverb to rest, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.” But say to them, “The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.”’
Many Christians today fail to understand the difference between symbol and substance. Many are worshipping and idolizing symbols while ignoring the substance. They are present in the body (visible) but absent in the Lord(the invisible).
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Symbols are merely copy and shadow of heavenly things to come.
Hebrews 8:5 - who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, “See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
God wanted the pattern to be extremely accurate because it is His communication tool for mankind thats why He emphasized “See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
All these symbols (patterns) have been fulfilled in Jesus Christ (the substance!)
Colossians 2:17 “which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ”
The Confusion of the Babylonian Christians
Once you get the difference between the substance (reality!) and just the symbol (patterns/outward appearence), you see where the mix-up started for the “Babylonian Christians.”
It began back in Isaiah 39. That’s when King Hezekiah got proud and showed the visitors from Babylon everything in the temple treasures.
Those treasures stood as symbols of God’s spiritual gifts— knowledge, wisdom healing, prophecy, and other blessings from the Holy Spirit. But Hezekiah focused on the shiny outward stuff instead of the true spiritual reality behind it.
Isaiah 39:2 “silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory”
The temple symbolizes His body, but the Babylonians saw only the physical aspect of the symbol. Because they saw the physical riches of the temple treasures, they loved them, took the treasures home, and plagiarized the treasures in their own image. In the prayer for Donald Trump mentioned above, my interpretation is that they are plagiarizing prayers to replicate a certain wealth (perhaps a piece of land or oil in the Middle East that God has long abandoned because its symbolic purpose has been served).
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
John 2:21
¹ At that time Merodach-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
² And Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his treasures—the silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory—all that was found among his treasures. There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
³ Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?”
So Hezekiah said, “They came to me from a far country, from Babylon.”
⁴ And he said, “What have they seen in your house?”
So Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”
⁵ Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:
⁶ ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the Lord.
⁷ ‘And they shall take away some of your sons who will descend from you, whom you will beget; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”
⁸ So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good!” For he said, “At least there will be peace and truth in my days.”
Isaiah 39
The whole confusion stems from not knowing the difference between symbols and the substance, or between physical appearance and spiritual reality.
This started back in the days of King Hezekiah, and it’s still going on today.
There is nothing new under the sun!
“That which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun.”
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Thank you for your attention in this matter!
Signing off for now
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Good and honest post sir. I'm a Pastor of a small independent church and have read all the schools of prophecy. It amazes me how much bad stuff is out there.
You are right about the symbol of the Euphrates. The symbol of it drying up means the demand and supply just in time delivery system will collapse.
When you look at the story of the Fall of Babylon, Cyrus diverted the Euphrates River and in one night Babylon Fell. Read Daniel 5. Cyrus was a type of Jesus. When Jesus determines the time, Babylon will fall in one hour, as is stated in Revelation 18 three times. In that moment the whole world economic system will collapse.
At that point, only those who are in Christ, abiding in the secret place of the Almighty, under the shadows of the wings of the Most High God will survive. Psalm 91 is crucial for those wanting to know how to make it through what is coming.
Donald Trump is being led by Dominion theology and Paula White. This theology believes a Golden Age is coming. It's a great lie. Jesus is coming sooner than even I think and most are not prepared because they are listening to Christian Zionists/Nationalists. Jesus said, My kingdom is not of this world. Psalm 46 is good too.
I assume you're also up north:-) [pineapple with Sunnies :-D]
I've paid attention to what has been going on. I found the COVID response to be disturbing but there is an alternate timeline that would have been far worse. People who paid attention to Trump, back in 2014, ought to have understood his opposition to childhood vaxxen and exercised some caution. He also called out paedos in 2012 and called for them to be executed.
I've watched for over a decade and concede that I don't know what's going on, nor do I have the means to understand because I do not have all of the information, so I've merely been an observer in recent times. I would still like to see COVID criminals held to account but, at some point, people must take responsibility for their own decisions and actions. Information concerning contra-indications for the vaxxen was out in the public domain from the beginning - granted, not everyone had the wherewithal to be able to find or make use of that info but many strove to provide simplified summaries.
I focused on scientific concerns, particularly the lies surrounding HCQ/Zn [1], and SARS-CoV-2 [2] and later, the vaxxen. The initial lies prompted a heightened sense of caution wrt the vaxxen. Being a traditional Catholic, I was also aware of various things in Revelation that seemed to align well with what was going on in the world. Even it is was not a matter of fulfilled prophecy, the wise ought to have taken pause to *think*.
PDJT, being named 'Donald', and 'Trump' (Originally Dumpf, meaning a bent or large person) also carries layered meaning...Who is being Trumped?
I'm inclined to reserve judgement, yet awhile.
Consider the following:
Benjamin "son of the right hand" or "son of the south". Originating from the Bible as the youngest son of Jacob, it signifies strength, familial connection. The name Netanyahu is composed of two elements: Netan, derived from the Hebrew root natan, which means to give, and Yahu, a shortened form of the divine name Yahweh. This guy is of Polish origin and named himself thus. One of those, I suspect, whom Jesus might have referred to in John 8:44, Rev 2:9 or Rev 3:9. Consider, also, Amos 5:26-27. I'm left wondering about 'Saving Israel for last'.
In regards to reading the bible I, too, have been meaning to read the whole of it end to end but somehow never succeed. I usually resort to the Douey-Rheims translation of the Vulgate. The D-R online has both the Latin text and English translation side by side. I prefer to read my printed edition but the online bible is nice for quick searches.
[1] Mehra et al. used an intentionally(?) flawed protocol, amateur-hour dose-reporting, and fraudulent (Surgisphere) dataset. It was known, in 2003, that HCQ/Zn can block ACE2 receptors. (((They))) also failed to bring Bromhexine and Camostat mesylate to the fore. Imagine if someone had tried an HCQ/Bromhexine/Zinc protocol very early on. I also looked into cell-culture based testing of HCQ. There were two (perhaps 3) experimental flaws: 1) Vero E6 cells are derived from a Green monkey cell line so the ACE2 receptor was never going to bind with the hACE2 optimised RBM. 2) Calu-3 cells do not express ACE2. 3) In tissue culture, the presence of Catalase would result in cleavage of the spike (Furin cleavage site) thus presenting the TMPRSS2 binding motif, thus bypassing the ACE-2 early binding phase.
[2] SARS-CoV-2 should have behaved as other +ve sense, SS RNA viruses, and it should have peaked quickly and become extinct but did not.