{"id":2274,"date":"2018-06-25T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/enddepravity\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2018-06-26T06:34:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T11:34:52","slug":"looking-back-on-the-prophetic-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/enddepravity\/looking-back-on-the-prophetic-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Looking back on The Prophetic Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bible prophecy has been of great interest to me since 1973 but until 1999 I only discussed it with friends. Back in the seventies and eighties I was hoping that the Lord’s coming would not be later than what Hal Lindsey and Jack Van Impe were projecting (before 1988). After that date came and went, I started thinking that the tribulation should start around 1993 or 2000. That was mostly based on Grant Jeffery’s timelines. I drove my friends nuts parroting his speculations.<\/p>\n

By the mid 1990’s, I no longer had all my apples in the 2000 cart. As much as I did not want to believe it could be so long, I said if these events did not take place around 2000 they probably would not occur until around 2030. This was based on the biblical week model with a day being a thousand years..<\/p>\n

I had acquired a lot of knowledge about the Bible and prophecy over the years but I was mostly talking to myself. Over twenty years ago I got the opportunity to take an early retirement from government. I came to the conclusion that the Lord arranged the early retirement so that I could do some kind of ministry. With my knowledge of Bible prophecy, and my awareness of the rapidly expanding Internet, a teaching ministry on Bible prophecy and current events seemed like a good fit.<\/p>\n

I bought the domain name thepropheticyears.com in 1999 and then started writing and uploading information. My first articles were about signs of the times. The original articles on my website still can be found on this link from my homepage<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong>When a correlation is done on these various signs it points toward the end of the age occurring between 2030 and 2040. Since I wrote those articles, I have been consistently projecting that 2030-2040 timeline.<\/p>\n

My goal for the first year of my website was to get 1000 hits. I reach that goal but not by much. The goal in the second year was to double the hits. I handed out business cards to get people to go to my website. I was hoping that the hits would keep doubling each year for a while. Back then I knew nothing about search engine optimizing. It took almost two years to get the website listed in any Internet index. The website was not indexed by Google until 2002. In those days everyone did not get indexed by Google. You had to have your ducks lined up, submit your website to Google and have unique content to get indexed.<\/p>\n

After Google indexed the website, I got more hits in a week than in the previous two or three years. I also soon learned that hits do not mean that anything was actually read. It is the number of page views that are important and the time spent on the website. Only about 20 percent of the page views stay on the site long enough for anyone to actually read an article.<\/p>\n

For the last ten years page views have averaged about 7000 a day. After you consider the time factor and those who are returning just to look at new comments, I think less than ten percent of the page views are actually people reading one of the articles. That means only a few hundred articles are actually read each day.\u00a0I guess I should not complain. Most pastors do not have that big of an audience.<\/p>\n

I never joined the social media so that is a more recent limiting factor. I don’t regret that. Serious people search the Internet for content not the social networks. I think the top social networks may have already jumped the shark. Some people have had enough with all the surveillance, the leftist bias, the trolls and the narcissism. Also, Christian worldviews like mine are now being censored in the social media and it seems that it will only get worse in the future.<\/p>\n

I started blogging on the website around 2006. The blogs are time-consuming but they do give visitors a way to interact other than through email. When I started my blogs I mostly just wrote a short blurb and linked to or quoted articles written by others. I thought blogging often would bring numbers to the website. The increase was only minor since such blog articles with little original content rarely get highly indexed. Blogging this way soon made little sense to me. So for about the last ten years I have written most of the content in my Blog articles. Blog posts before then are being deleted as the links to other people’s articles break and the topics become no longer relevant.<\/p>\n

There are about 1000 original articles written by me on this website and there are many thousands of comments on the Blog articles. I figure that I wrote a couple of million words over the last two decades.<\/p>\n

Some of the best articles on my blogs are found on the sidebar of both blogs. Other top downloaded articles written mostly before I started putting them on blog posts can be found from the website homepage. The Revelation commentary that I wrote in 2004 can also be found from the website homepage. The best way to find any article I wrote on a topic is from the search box near the bottom of the website homepage.<\/p>\n

What would I do different in hindsight? I would have bought and learned a top-notch website development software like Dream Weaver instead of using freeware that soon went obsolete. I would also have included Bible prophecy in my domain name. It won’t rank under the Bible prophecy term without it.<\/p>\n

What I am most proud about The Prophetic Years ministry is that I have never collected a nickel for doing the ministry. Nothing was ever sold and I never accepted donations. I also have never compromised my message for popularity. I have had other Christian websites take down their link to my site because I opposed something they taught or a false teacher that they promoted.<\/p>\n

It appears to me that we are living in the prophetic years that\u00a0concludes with the return of Jesus. Christians teaching about such things are going to be increasingly rejected even by mainstream Christianity.<\/p>\n

Christianity is now compromising big time with the world to be acceptable to the increasingly depraved leftist culture. Although they may not admit to it, cultural Marxists with Liberation Theology are taking over the leadership of all denominations. You can identify them by their social gospel and worldly worldviews.<\/p>\n

These religious social justice warriors have one thing in common. They do not tolerate fundamental Bible believing Christians. They also mock those that take Bible prophecy literally. The day is not far off and actually is already here when these humanistic “Christian” leaders beat down Christians not going along with their social gospel and their agenda of making their churches and organizations more worldly.<\/p>\n

It will not be long before they report Christians saying certain biblical truth to civil authorities as being hate speech. They will think that their censoring of non culturally correct scriptures and their twisting of others is actually doing God a favor. That already is happening in some western nations.<\/p>\n

I am not under the delusion that The Prophetic years website will be allowed to exist on the Internet much past 2020. It is not allowed in China and other Marxist countries. Europe and the British commonwealth countries are also rapidly outlawing the biblical Christian worldview.<\/p>\n

Christian media organizations in America telling the truth are being labeled as hate organizations by the elitist well-funded Southern Poverty Law Center. The Internet giants are now using information from this cultural Marxist hate group to determine what is hate speech on the Internet. Only the treat of lawsuits are preventing wholesale take downs of Christian and conservative information on the Internet. Put one more leftist judge on the Supreme Court and the Christian worldview will be outlawed on the Internet and in American society.<\/p>\n

When I started my website, the insanity that we see today was unthinkable. Back in 1999, who could believe that homosexuals, feminists, Marxists and Islamists would unite and become a mafia that would usurp the western Christian culture in less than 20 years? The West is now post Christian. Most of the rest of the would is also antichrist. Even the Jesus still claimed in parts of Africa and South and Central America is just the false Jesus of Rome or the Word Faith hucksters. This falling away from the true Christian faith to embrace lies and doctrine of demons is a sure sign of the times.<\/p>\n

You are reading information on The Prophetic Years website as we live in the prophetic years foretold in the scriptures. I think the prophetic years will be fulfilled in a decade or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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