UNDERSTANDING THE TIMES: The Youth, The Church, My Responsibility

Pastor Toks Oshokoya

To understand the word “times” in this context, we must consider, put together three distinct elements and link them. This is beyond mere chronological passage of moments.

These three factors constitute what is termed “times” in the contextual usage of the word in the scriptures

Chronology

“And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise,…” Daniel 2: 21

“But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days.” Daniel 2: 28

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come...” 2 Tim 3: 1

“…That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ,…” Ephesians 1: 10

2 Tim 4: 1

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;”

Hebrews 1: 1-2

These are not just mere minutes, hours and days but much more.

the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.

Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος dēmos meaning “the people”, and -graphy from γράφω graphō, ies “writing, description or measurement”

[1]) is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings.

Demography encompasses the study of the size, structure, and distribution of these populations, and spatial or temporal changes in them in response to birth, migration, aging, and death. As a very general science, it can analyze any kind of dynamic living population, i.e., one that changes over time or space (see population dynamics). Demographics are quantifiable characteristics of a given population.

Demographic analysis can cover whole societies or groups defined by criteria such as education, nationality, religion, and ethnicity. Educational institutions[2] usually treat demography as a field of sociology, though there are a number of independent demography departments.

[3] Based on the demographic research of the earth, earth’s population up to the year 2050 and 2100 can be estimated by demographers.

If you remember the statement in the book of Daniel 9

“…Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression,…” Daniel 9: 24

Indicates the linkage between the people of a particular demographic order, their geographical location, tendency and spiritual/prophetic allotment in God’s Plan!

“And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth” Genesis 9: 12, 13

“And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee…” Genesis 17: 7

God has His eyes on set on the generations of men and has His expectations from each successive ones.

“Even all that the Lord hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;..” Numbers 15: 23

And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season. Luke 1: 20b

“One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works. And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.” Psalm 145: 4-7

“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring…

Numbers 15: 23

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse” Malachi 4: 5, 6

and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up” Psalm 90

“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace;….” Romans 13: 8, 9

“… by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you” 1 Peter 1: 23 – 25

“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:...” Ecclesiastes 12: 1, 2

“And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said. And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel…” Joshua 14: 10 – 15

Who is well stricken in years?

Joshua 13: 1, 2

Luke 1: 7, 18

Genesis 18: 11 – 14

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Sociologists and Scientists have done these classifications:

The Silent Generation is the demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the Baby boomers. Demographers and researchers use mid-to-late 1920s as starting birth years and early-to-mid 1940s as ending birth years for this cohort, with 1928 to 1945 a widely accepted definition.

It is unclear where the term originated. As young adults during the McCarthy Era, many members of the Silent Generation felt it was dangerous to speak out.[1] Time magazine first used the term “Silent Generation” in a November 5, 1951 article titled “The Younger Generation”, although the term appears to precede the publication.[2][3][4] The name was originally applied to people in the United States and Canada but has been applied as well to those in Western Europe, Australia and South America. It includes most of those who fought during the Korean War. In the United States, the generation was comparatively small because the financial insecurity of the 1930s and the war in the early 1940s caused people to have fewer children.[3] They are noted as forming the leadership of the civil rights move.

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Baby boomers (also known as boomers) are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. The Baby Boom generation is most often defined as those individuals born between 1946 and 1964.

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In Western Europe and North America, boomers are widely associated with privilege, as many grew up during a period of increasing affluence

[2] due in part to widespread post-war government subsidies in housing and education. As a group, baby boomers were wealthier, more active and more physically fit than any preceding generation and were the first to grow up genuinely expecting the world to improve with time.

[3] They were also the generation that reached peak levels of income in the workplace and could, therefore, enjoy the benefits of abundant food, clothing, retirement programs, and even “midlife-crisis” products.[clarification needed] However, this generation also has been criticized often for its increases in consumerism which others saw as excessive.

The boomers have tended to think of themselves as a special generation, very different from preceding and subsequent generations. In the 1960s and 1970s, as a relatively large number of young people entered their late teens—the oldest turned 18 in 1964—they, and those around them, created a very specific rhetoric around their cohort and the changes brought about by their size in numbers.

[5] This rhetoric had an important impact in the self-perceptions of the boomers, as well as their tendency to define the world in terms of generations, which was a relatively new phenomenon. The baby boom has been described variously as a “shockwave”[2] and as “the pig in the python”.[3]

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Generation X (or Gen X) is the demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the Millennials. Demographers and researchers typically use birth years ranging from the early-to-mid 1960s to the early 1980s.

Generation Xers were children during a time of shifting societal values and as children were sometimes called the “latchkey generation”, due to reduced adult supervision as children compared to previous generations, a result of increasing divorcerates and increased maternal participation in the workforce, prior to widespread availability of childcare options outside the home. As adolescents and young adults, they were dubbed the “MTV Generation” (a reference to the music video channel). In the 1990s they were sometimes characterized as slackers, cynical and disaffected. Some of the cultural influences on Gen X youth were the musical genres of grunge and hip hop music, and independent films. In midlife, research describes them as active, happy, and achieving a work–life balance. The cohort has been credited with entrepreneurial tendencies.

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 Millennials also known as Generation Y (or simply Gen Y), are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with 1981 to 1996 a widely accepted definition. Millennials are sometimes referred to as “echo boomers” due to a major surge in birth rates in the 1980s and 1990s, and because millennials are often the children of the baby boomers. The characteristics of millennials vary by region and by individual, and the group experiences a variety of social and economic conditions, but they are generally marked by their coming of age in the Information Age, and are comfortable in their usage of digital technologies and social media.

Millennials came of age in a time where the entertainment industry began to be affected by the Internet.[103][104][105] In addition to millennials being the most ethnically and racially diverse compared to the generations older than they are, they are also on pace to be the most formally educated. As of 2008, 39.6% of millennials between the ages of 18 and 24 were enrolled in college, which was an American record. Along with being educated, millennials also tend be upbeat, with about 9 out of 10 millennials feeling as though they have enough money or that they will reach their long-term financial goals, even during the tough economic times, and they are more optimistic about the future of the U.S. Additionally, millennials are also more open to change than older generations. According to the Pew Research Center that did a survey in 2008, millennials are the most likely of any generation to self-identify as liberals and are also more supportive of progressive domestic social agenda than older generations. Finally, millennials are less overtly religious than the older generations. About one in four millennials are unaffiliated with any religion, a considerably higher ratio than that of older generations when they were the ages of millennials.[106]

Millennials, also known as Generation Y or the Net Generation, are the demographic cohort that directly follows Generation X. The term Millennials is usually considered to apply to individuals who reached adulthood around the turn of the 21st century. The precise delineation varies from one source to another, however. Neil Howe and William Strauss, authors of the 1991 book Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, are often credited with coining the term. Howe and Strauss define the Millennial cohort as consisting of individuals born between 1982 and 2004.

Other proposed dates for Millennials:

Overall, the earliest proposed birthdate for Millennials is 1976 and the latest 2004. Given that a familial generation in developed nations lies somewhere between 25 and 30 years, we might reasonably consider those the start and end points.

There is a great deal of variation from one individual to another within any generational cohort. Nevertheless, the particular environment for any generation affects those individuals in ways that are observable as broad tendencies. This definition of the term discusses those reported tendencies for Millennials in the workplace, Millennials and technology, Millennials and culture.

Millennials grew up in an electronics-filled and increasingly online and socially-networked world. They are the generation that has received the most marketing attention. As the most ethnically diverse generation, Millennials tend to be tolerant of difference. Having been raised under the mantra “follow your dreams” and being told they were special, they tend to be confident. While largely a positive trait, the Millennial generation’s confidence has been argued to spill over into the realms of entitlement and narcissism.  They are often seen as slightly more optimistic about the future of America than other generations — despite the fact that they are the first generation since the Silent Generation that is expected to be less economically successful than their parents.

One reported result of Millennial optimism is entering into adulthood with unrealistic expectations, which sometimes leads to disillusionment. Many early Millennials went through post-secondary education only to find themselves employed in unrelated fields or underemployed and job hopping more frequently than previous generations. Their expectations may have resulted from the very encouraging, involved and almost ever-present group of parents that became known as helicopter parents.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

It is all about SELF – Me, Mine & I

All dependent on ‘motivating’ me, mechanically!!!

1 Kings 10: 14

“Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,…”

Daniel 3: 1

“Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon”

Revelation 13: 17, 18

“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six”

THE AGE OF LAWLESSNESS

2 Thess 2: 3

“Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless THE FALLING AWAY comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,…”

Which law? God’s Own Laws of course!

When man believes that he may choose what is right or wrong by himself! He becomes the judge of his own life and situations. Lawlessness or Apostacy!

Apostacy is “The turning away from revealed divine truth, in rebellion and disobedience”

God has ordained that to a great extent, He will through His Church, which is His Governmental body on Earth, restrain the lawlessness of man.

When the Church fails and apostasies, God’s restraint is withdrawn!

History proves it!

Humanism takes away from God the absolute right to establish absolute ground rules for what is right and what is wrong in the society!

Ephesians 5: 8 – 15 STABILIZERS

For ye were sometimes DARKNESS, but now are ye LIGHT in the Lord: WALK as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) PROVING what is acceptable unto the Lord.

And have NO FELLOWSHIP with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

(Do not go down to Egypt! Not to Shechem Gen 33 Jacob!

Gen 38: 1 “And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah”)

Wherefore he saith, AWAKE thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, REDEEMING the time, because the days are evil.

Wherefore BE YE NOT UNWISE, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

(1) And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

(2) Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,

(3) Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

(4) Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

(5) Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

1 Peter 1: 13 – END; 2: 1 – 3

“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, BE YE HOLY; FOR I AM HOLY.

Good morning Saints of God.

The video clips that you will be watching are real and alive.

The “time” has come.

This is the deceptive “Me” Philosophy.

I hereby seek to bring to your remembrance a message that I preached (July @ UJ Soweto and August @ TCBC Lagos with power point presentation) on “Making It Through These Last Days”.

If you would remember, amongst other scripts, we zeroed in on the book of 2 Timothy 3: 1-9.

“…perilous times shall come… for men shall be lovers of own selves…”

The “Perilous Times” predicted by the holy apostles is here.

This time period is characterised by the “Me! Me first…Me last (and others) Philosophy”.

This is the Luciferian Deceptive Message to the world of men, his colourful kite hoisted lofty to capture the unsaved and unregenerated men who are otherwise made in God’s image.

It’s all about thinking about You! You are the centre of the world and every matter!

Doesn’t that sound good?

Except that you didn’t notice that you are being nudged to live in the thought that “You are the first, you are the last, it’s really about YOU being the alpha & omega!”

If you are the the “alpha & omega” of your world, where is your creator? I guess you didn’t reason up to that point before you swallowed Oprah Winfrey doctrines.

What Lucifer has been doing through his agents in the talkshow industry, soul motivators, oratory political speakers, certain class of “rights” agitators, etc is to push the human race to mimic his actions that was reported in the book of Isaiah 14: 12-14 “…For thou has said in thine heart, I will…I will… I will… I will… I will be like the most High”.

The generality of the human race has been progressively goaded to be on this precipice – The New Age Philosophy.

Men have been made to think that it is both cute and a sign of “self confidence” to believe that “it’s all about Me” !

Yeah, yes “I” can!

What “I” think… what “I” choose to like… what “I” decide that is right for “Me”… what “I” decide is not right for “Me”…

“I” make all the laws…

“I” decide what is morally acceptable or not…

It is “I” and “I” that must be satisfied…

Nothing is no longer absolutely evil and nothing is good except what “I” classify them to be…”

In other words man has taken the title and function of “I am that I am”!

Since “I” like “Me”, then to hell with any differing opinion of anybody – parents, church leaders, community leaders, guardians and mentors (do they even exist again?), the moral society and even God motivated inner consciences!

Please take time to examine deeply the underlying philosophies of

● The Same-sex Rights Movements,

● The Pro-Abortionists,

● The various Terrorist Groups,

● The Pervert Religious Leaders,

● Corrupt & Selfish Politicians, Judges and Law Enforcement Agents,

● The Internet Fraudsters, Electronic Hackers,

● The Drug & Human Traffickers,

● The Movie Industry and Entertainment Practitioners,

● Pedophiles,

● Armed Robbers,

● Assassins,

● Money launderers,

● serial sex offenders,

● Arms traffickers,

● Youth Cult Groups and Gangs, etc.

It’s all about gradually replacing God with the man!

It is all about projecting IDOLS! Making images and idols that will provoke God’s wrath and judgement.

These are the things to watch out for… what to pray against. .. what to resist from infliterating our minds and souls… pray for the youths!

In your patience, possess ye your souls!

Contd…..

There is a difference between “WHAT IS HAPPENING” and “WHAT IS GOING ON” in the realm of the spirit! 

What I will reveal to you may sound stupid and crazy to you, however do please know that I am not in any way cerebrally weak or inferior!

I am well educated and cannot be said to be unintelligent in any way, but that is not my strength!

“WHAT IS HAPPENING”? –

Most negative opinions that influenced these hateful perspective about Trump is the interpretation of “what is happening”.

This is largely what you are fed with by powerful ‘all-conquering’ media cartels of the World now! CNN, etc.

Newspaper organizations are now owned by same conglomerates. Digital media have been bought by same powerful groups… almost all of them.

Those still independent have, either not caught their attention, or being gradually squeezed to death!

Really

Hidden Agenda: War against the Knowledge of God.

Mission: Destroy the worship of Christ Jesus, by all available means.

Vision: Establish a New World Order. This new order is to eventually become that of the AntiChrist – the offspring of Satan, himself.

As long as minds of the people are being bombarded daily with carefully manipulated news articles, talk shows, tainted documentaries (hosted by ‘captured’ employees, motivated by fat pay cheques, fame and in some cases, intimidation), you will gradually think the way they want you to!

Every logic, arguments and ideas presented cunningly are designed to appeal to your human reasoning without deference to God’s opinion as written in His Word.

Now these plans and gradual phase-by-phase implementations started decades ago, before our fathers and mothers, in Africa, even heard about Christianity.

For now, they are using LGBTQ movements, abortionists, so-called Atheists and free-thinkers, unwary ‘human rights’ movements and, funnily, radical Islam, to attack, pressure and emasculate those believe and practice the worship of Jesus Christ. This is ushering the EndTime persecution of God’s people as foretold in Matthew 24 by the Lord Himself.

These people actually hate both Christians and Moslems!

However, for now, they intentionally tilt things in favour of the latter, to achieve weakening of Christianity using ‘divide-and-rule’ tactics.

They control and manipulate national economies.

They have their appointees heading the Economic Cartels.

They can make some countries to suffer and some seem to ‘prosper’, as long as the laws and social systems align with the vision – make God worship and Christianity look unnecessary and irrelevant!

By these tactics, promoting instant wealth and fame among youthful artists, musicians and actors, by absorbing them into the Illuminati.

Almost totally or increasingly and progressively, Generation X, Generation Y and Generation Z are already ‘captured’.

Have you noticed that these demographic age groups are now increasingly addicted to social media, anti-bible opinions, alcohol, sex and drugs?

Suicidal tendencies increasing?

Why? Godlessness.

Souls being harvested on daily basis into Hell!

These youths deceive themselves by saying that they are singing about ‘love’ whereas, actually it is not love but debauchery, promiscuity, self-worship, gangsterism, immorality, excessive sexual deviances and lack of moral control.

Check out lyrics of the songs you now sing… full of vulgarity and promotion of godless lifestyles.

YOU KNOW THAT I AM SAYING THE TRUTH!

About 4000 years ago, a powerful emperor ruled in Babylon, over most of the known world, he was the great Nebuchadnezer.

He pondered in his heart one day, thinking – what kingdoms would come after his own. God gratified him with a dream, popularly refer to as the metallic image of Nebuchadnezer. He saw a composite metallic IMAGE OF A MAN, that had succession of degrading metallic parts, from the head – gold, chest – silver, belly – brass, legs – iron, and feet – iron+clay respectively!

God revealing in advance that human governance will be increasingly soulless, dictatorial and godless with increasing lowering qualities.

“The FOOL has said in his heart, that there is no God”

To establish the foreknowledge of the nature of humanity, in godless self-governance, God revealed to a prophet in exile called Daniel, in two dreams. Each in symbols and imageries, indicated that men without God will gradually become ANIMALISTIC in reasoning, social order and governance! Successively, the animals were becoming more and more weird in nature till a fierce DRAGON took over!

Go check History books, these two men really existed and lived in the then world. Archeological proofs exist.

What do think brought into popular focus all these REALITY SHOWS and competitions that makes participants to debase themselves publicly?

The media (electronic + print + internet) has taken full control in the last decade. Whoever, whichever group own the Press controls the Press, and controls how the people think and are opinionated!

What many do not know is that, the Illuminati/Freemasonry and other New World Order groups, had systematically bought over and absorbed almost all the independent news media organizations in that world in the last 10 years! The Press, in Western World is largely controlled by Satanists, who disguised as intellectuals, atheists, free-thinkers, defenders of human rights, etc.

The idea is to make godliness IRRELEVANT and UNNECESSARY to living and prospering!

Conclusion:

Certainly, I disagree with your allusion that the ‘best’ people, with ‘best hearts’ (whatever that means) are those who do not believe in the existence of God!

I am emphatic that this cannot be true!!!

Or else God’s Word is a lie – “The Fool says in his heart that there is no God!”

In the book of Romans Chapter One, God says “…that their foolish hearts are darkened since they rejected the knowledge of God…”

Who is then the liar? God? Or ?

Much more to say and explain but …

My counsel, return to God.

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THOSE THAT SUPPORTED THE IMPEACHMENT

Democrats

APC

Illuminati

Lesbians

Gays

Muslims

Homosexuals

Freemasons

Satanist

Secret societies

The Templars

Abortion supporters

Trans gender supporters

Haters of God

Climate change supporters

Atheist