What Now?

2025 Expectations (Predictions) and Preparations. A compendium of thought and spiritual reality.

2025 has arrived like a bad dream or a fantastic imagination, depending on your perspective, so what should we do with it?

On the Jewish calendar, their New Year’s Day is known as Rosh Hashanah. Historically, it’s a day of introspection, of reflection over the past year. There was a belief that YHWH’s Divine Council would gather on the New Year’s Day to discuss whose names should be added to or removed from the Book of Life. According to the Aramaic translation of the Book of Job, in Job chapter 1 the Divine Council gathered together to meet and discuss these very matters. This, according to the rabbis of the 2nd Temple Period, was what they had assumed was the background for the Book of Job. Job was being evaluated by the Divine Council which set up the scene between YHWH and the accuser of Job 1 and 2.

Mike Chu - AWKNG School of Theology, Academic Director

If you have spent any time around the feared and notorious mid-western, patriotic-leaning, family-committed, government-wary, God-lovin’, red-blooded dude, then you have probably heard of a bug-out bag. If you have never encountered one of these increasingly rare breeds of ole’-fashioned male humanity in the wild, then let me explain the bag to you…but first, why do they even have this notorious bag?

These elusive fellas have the unique and developed ability to pay attention, know their surroundings, ‘keep their head on a swivel,’ and discern circumstances without the unwanted influence of the paid prostitutes in mainstream media or the slick-haired preachers in the church-I-anity hierarchy cults who are both on the same mission. That nefarious mission is to entrap the unsuspecting and naive present-day targets in the dwindling middle class who still miraculously retain the most influential place in society. These special guys can hear the Max Headroom digitized voices of the pundits and the sugar-coated gospel-lite of the mega-preachers while filtering them both through the genuine soul of wisdom gained by experience and scripture, usually in the old King James Version.

These awake and aware guys can read the cultural weather patterns and know how to discern the times they were born. They see the evils of our time, and like their ancestors, they have enough chest hair to call sin ‘sin.’ They know when something doesn’t quite ‘smell’ right and their gut instinct is way more reliable than your AI smartphone app. I know these guys, I like these guys, I am one of these guys, and we all know that something is a bit ‘off’ right now. We are in an ‘all quiet on the Western Front’ kinda moment.

There seems to be an eerie type of fight-less-ness in the enemies of humanity who have been previously hell-bent on woke-i-fying every grain of sand on the beach of society. Their commitment level knows no restraint, as proven by their willingness to slaughter the innocent in the womb, castrate four-year-olds, dance yuckily and partially nude in public libraries, and demand sexual predators be allowed in your little girl’s restroom stall unrestrained.

It's like that scene in the Matrix movie where the flying robot killers were all just peacefully floating around the perimeter of Zion.

I have been telling our church for years that: “The Best Is Yet To Come,” and I have been dutiful to follow that statement up with, “but it is going to get worse before it gets better.” This current reprieve we are experiencing through the solace of the enemies is just intended to lull us to sleep so that their next move will catch us off guard. My prediction is that sometime shortly after January 20, we will see what has been slithering up their decrepit sleeve. It looks like their gameplan still could include a pandemic attempt (norovirus, monkeypox, bird flu, new Covid, confinement camps), but there is not much hope after a worn-out populous is still picking up the pieces from the last scam-demic with their angry faces fully attached. In fact, we may be getting farther and farther away from this option as the millions of vaccine-injured are getting hip to the jive about the cause of their many injuries.

In ‘other’ news, the MSM have been excitedly reporting the ‘eerie’ UFO sightings that are happening ALL the time now, IMHO, moving their listeners into a new fear zone that was once unfathomable. The deep state has also been working super-diligently and spending hundreds of billions (trillions?) of dollars just to get that so-called tyrant Putin to drop some nukes… or at least ONE nuke… c’mon man! Do what we are goading you into already! Thermonuclear War… and worldwide! Just like in all the apocalyptic movies that they have been making about ‘the day after.’ And dang it if he is not showing restraint, but that's okay because they are throwing color-revolution stones at the Middle Eastern hornet’s nest in hopes that they can get that three-thousand-year-old conflict ignited again. With the back-up to the back-up (Chyna and Taiwan) warming up ‘in the hole’ as they say in baseball.

If none of these materialize as these warmongering psychopaths seek, there is always another mass shooting they can incite (CIA - MKUltra), terrorist attacks by radicalized sleeper cells, a race war to breed (Daniel Penny, illegal immigration invasion), a class war to kindle (student loan forgiveness, helicopter money for liberals), or a good-ole’-fashioned religious war by Ordinations of cross-dressing sodomites and covering up decades of pedophilia in the largest denominations. This one is currently progressing organically with or without their help as dozens upon dozens of the big-name cool kids in popular ‘Christianity Today’ circles are dropping like flies from sexual, monetary, and chemical misconduct.

Something is up… and it ain’t just the chemtrails…

This is why our ‘dude’ has a bug-out bag. All these guys have different ways, amounts, and items in their bug-out bags, but they are centered on the same basic principle: “If stuff really hits the fan, I am ready… I can grab my family, my ‘bag,’ and we would be good for months in the unpopulated wilderness.”

These bags have a variety of weapons and their respective ammunition. They have survival gear and accessories of the highest quality (not that silly Dick’s Sporting Goods junk). They have the knowledge and skill to hunt, fish, process, and prepare just about anything that can run, swim, fly, or flee in order to preserve their family. Like MacGuyver, they can make a shelter from two feet of old denim jeans, a roll of duct tape, and some dental floss while making a fire from used bubble gum and wet dirt. They are basically prepared for anything, and all these guys have had their bags ready for a minute now… cuz, they know.

In all honesty, I do not officially have one, but that is only because I have unwavering faith in the provision, goodness, and promises of my real Dad, my Heavenly Father. I get why the spiritually peripheral fellas are planning with a bag… but my plans are securely locked onto the “Author and Finisher of my faith.” Besides, I live in the Soviet socialist regime of Illinois, where half that stuff is illegal.

I am a prophetic person, but not a prophet. So my following statements will be from a place of spiritual maturity and experience, NOT from a place of “Thus saith the Lord.” He that has ears to hear, let them hear.

#1 Economics

Prediction: My anticipation in this particular realm has been building for quite some time… multiple decades, actually. There is an old-school Biblical promise (that is WAY overused) about the ‘wealth of the sinners being laid up for the just’ (Proverbs 13:22) that most of the dispensational end-times preachers will connect to their pet eschatological systems because that ‘fun fact’ sells lots of books to greedy, modern Christians. I believe that that promise has more to do with divine justice than eschatology. The governments of the world have been slowly turning the stove dial up on the pot containing the frog-citizens through oppressive taxation, deleterious business climates, frustrating licensing/ordinances/regulations aplenty, and just plain evil legislation making the average person settle for some doop-de-do job instead of allowing the ingenuity and imagination of God inspire them to greatness.

I see these things as having peaked out, and we are coming down the other side of the mountain, heading towards the luscious valley filled with some promised land promises.

This will be much, much more true for the people who have been spending their ‘lean years’ learning about Kingdom stewardship, generosity, and covenant faithfulness. I see God orchestrating a reward for the authentic remnant who have gone through the multi-generational fire and have come out on the other side without the smell of smoke.

Preparation: If you have been dragging your feet on getting this area of your life completely in line with Christ and His ways, I strongly urge you to do it… TODAY… not tomorrow or next week. In fact, I believe this to be so important that I am going to be ministering in the upcoming weeks on what this looks like and why this is imperative in the Lord’s heart and Kingdom.

#2 Justice

Prediction: Lady Justice has been unmasked for much of my lifetime making her biased and abusive, but she was stripped embarrassingly naked over the last four years. The DOJ and FBI were legitimately weaponized against political opponents and courageous Christians. Through the lawfare launched against President Trump, the J6’ers, and a slew of other influencers on the MAGA side, even our zombie-like neighbors were shaking their heads at the blatant misuse of power. On the Christian side, we see praying grandmas get prosecuted because they dared to challenge the sexual revolution that produced Planned Parenthood abortion factories. Yours truly was threatened with a jail cell (twice) because I defiantly resisted the State and Federal government oligarchs armed with Hebrews 10:25 and the First Amendment when they made an executive order declaring the Church to be non-essential. The most egregious part of my nine-month melee with those tyrants was the lethargic and sometimes even happy attitude of the ‘believers’ who were excited about ‘online church’ (an oxymoron) or just quitting church altogether because now the government gave them a really good reason. It showed the true colors of the faux-church attender when they were rewarded for walking away.

Part of the soon-incoming hurricane of justice that will be coming ashore will be the reckoning of the masses who were pretending in their faith. Genuine New Covenant Fidelity can only be tested in the fire of trials, tribulations, and persecution. We experienced a junior version of these pressures and people fled the pews by the millions. I fear what the results will be when the real test come.

“Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’” (Matthew 7:22-23)

Preparation: Repent! God knows the heart of all eight billion people breathing air right now. In our arrogance, we think that when we are fooling the masses and getting away with it, and even God is dumbfounded as well. Nope. He knows, but He has been merciful. The mercy of God is longsuffering, but not forever suffering. It is time for us, this living generation, to get our hearts AND our lives (lifestyles) right with the One who made us.

“Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent. For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.” (Acts 17:30-31)

#3 Widening of the Chasm

Prediction: For much of the time since the 1900s, Americans have been slowly gravitating toward the ever-elusive and infinitely attractive ‘center.’ You can hear pundits and preachers alike touting the political correctness and niceness of compromise and appeasement. I have even heard preachers on national television make appeasement, non-hermeneutical statements like, “Jesus was tolerant!” I do not have the time nor the patience to go into a lengthy diatribe here about how infinitely holy the real God of the real Bible is. I pray that you, my very wise reader, are not one of the ignoramuses who have been gas-lighted into thinking that a little leaven DOES NOT leaven the whole lump (1 Corinthians 5:5-6)…

It has been mega-popular to be a person who developed professional-grade buttocks resistance to the poking of the fence posts. There are so many people who have been sitting on the fence between righteousness and darkness that their children actually think it is some kind of virtue to be able to straddle a fence top while pretending to be spiritual. The mushy middle is drying out, like the swamp will, and the gray area between black and white is about to experience the full force of the rising sun. The masses are sitting on the fence, and the Lord has lit the fence on fire. The chasm between good and evil is widening at a sprinter pace, and many will not be spry enough to outrun the inevitable gravity that will pull them into the abyss because our spiritual morbid obesity is even worse than the over 70% physical obesity rate.

Preparation: If you know one of the many, or God forbid, you have become a person who has compartmentalized your spirituality and ranked it at or below the median line of your life focuses, then please rectify that deadly error ASAP. If there is a sneaking shadow of self-righteousness attempting to hide the reality of this research project, then here are some mechanisms to help flush out the truth.

Every one of us has equal proportions to these three main assets of life: time, treasure, and affection. You may be thinking that you know some irritating rich peep who has way more money than you, and I would not debate that fact. BUT… you have an equal percentage. That man has 100% of his money, which is the exact amount you have. Same with time and affection. To find where your true spirituality ranks in your heart, you can do a simple assessment of these three assets, and you will know with irrefutable proof where the King and His Kingdom stand. If your money goes to Netflix, entertainment, stuff accumulation, and self-serving comforts in greater quantities than the Kingdom, then be honest with yourself. (Your checkbook register does not lie…) If your time is spent blink-less-ly engaged in a glowing screen, chasing the almighty dollar-per-hour motif, chauffeuring kids around the club-ball rat race, or with people who revel in lowering your quantity of life… more than the Family of God, then be honest with yourself. (Your calendar does not lie…) If your affection is wrapped up in some digital or chemical addiction, a person or furry critter that detracts or distracts, some commercialized sports team, a Hollywood creation, or a genre of music, instead of the Lover of your soul who gave His life and breath because of His great love for you, then be honest with yourself. (Your emotional attachments do not lie…)

We need to make the main thing the main thing.

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Matthew 6:21)

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.” (Matthew 6:33)

#4 Exposure

Prediction: Right now, as my fingers dance ferociously across my Apple keyboard, there is a world record and historically incomparable-sized tsunami brewing in the center of the Pacific Ocean headed at break-neck speeds towards the Left Coast, ready to wash a majority of ‘Team Liberal Progressive’ out to sea in a flushing that even Thomas A. Crapper would have never imagined. The name of this tsunami is ‘Exposure,’ and it has been slowly forming for generations. The majority of our hypnotized neighbors are surreptitiously unaware of how much satanic interaction has been incorporated into the major realms and institutions surrounding our daily lives. Bless their darling little hearts.

This mountain-sized wall of saltwater is bursting with revelations about the Epstein List that will empty out much of Washington DC by relocating even some of our ‘conservative’ leaders into jail cells for unspeakable atrocities on innocent children; the P Diddy list that will send the same electrocuting disgust through the ranks of the entertainment industry which will include 95% of all the people we once loved to watch and sing along with; the releasing of long-hidden files on the CIA’s assassination of JFK, their attempted assignation(s) of Trump with the Secret Service, the faked moon landing, the deep-state lies behind 9/11, the number of children internationally trafficked, abused, and irreparably demolished with the approval of our government leaders many of whom profited from said wickedness; Big Pharma being stripped of their legislative protections thereby proving that they have purposefully, profitably, and systematically poisoned, mutilated, diseased, lab-rat-tested, mutated, and genetically modified our whole national population sometimes just for the giggles of the billionaires who get some sick pleasure from watching people suffer; and last but not least the heart-sinking divulgation of how corrupted our churches, ministries, denominations, religious institutions, and (with intense trembling I take no pleasure in stating) many of our loved leaders who have prostituted the pure Gospel for thirty pieces of silver in popularity payments, celebrity status points, cult of personality club rankings, and moral failure cover-up blackmail bucks.

There will be people who will legitimately and literally not be able to handle the amount and type of exposed information, especially when they attempt to grasp the names of the people associated with that info dump. Some of our unwitting neighbors have believed, for all their lives, that our nation and our national figureheads are generally ‘good’ people who adhere to a tolerable moral standard. They will see images of satanic child sacrifices being performed by people they once idolized. The mass graves that are filled with people who ‘suicided’ themselves (not really) will turn their stomachs in such a way that they may not be able to mentally function from a healthy state.

Preparation: There will be a mass exodus of the world from the world. The majority of people who found comfort and solace in the basic perceived normalcy of their environments will be bent up in the fetal position in the corner of their basements, rocking back and forth with their thumbs in their mouths, praying for the sky to fall on them.

“In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.” (Revelation 9:6)

Even more disheartening, there are some ‘Christians’ who long for their ‘enemies’ to be tortured in this way, proving how far we have fallen as those called and commanded to be Image Bearers of Christ.

1 Peter 2:21:-24

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.

“By His stripes you are healed.”

When did ‘love your enemies’ cease to be a part of authentic Christianity?

When did ‘love the unlovely’ leave our hearts?

When did ‘mercy, forgiveness, and grace’ become unpopular?

When did ‘revenge, vengeance, and punishment’ stop being God’s responsibility and get delegated to unjust men?

When did John 3:16 get erased… the Cross became something besides an undeserved sacrifice of our selfless God for undeserving and selfish man… the character of God changed into something like what we think it ought to be?

This final statement of ‘preparation’ includes facets for all four categories. We need to prepare to open our hearts for the prodigal child’s return. Instead of adopting the self-centered and arrogant mindset of the older brother who strongly protested the love of the father who rejoiced at the repentant return of the little brother, we should let the father’s great love change our attitude. We should be ready to help the de-transition-er heal from their lifetime wounds. We should make room for the ultra-left liberal who sheepishly acknowledges the error of their former ways. We need to lay hands on and expect miraculous healing for the vaccine-injured instead of heaping condemnation injury on top of their physical injury. We need to ‘skoosh over’ in our pews to allow room for the transformation of the slimy, nasty, fat, hairy caterpillar who needs to exit their cocoon to become what God intended… a Monarch Butterfly filled with breathtaking beauty.

Those playing American church-I-anity by marginally belonging or participating in a sub-par church, with a limp-wristed pastor who has been taught by seminary professors who could not do ministry if you held a gun to their head will be in the suction under-toe of the tsunami. These churches MUST be emptied out of their pastor and have a radical experience with God if they are to survive Jesus, The Head of the Church, pulling candles out of the candlestand (Revelation 2:5). The remnant and authentic believers will be required to be in healthy and Biblical churches being led by scriptural elders unafraid of culture’s opinions. Those folks who call themselves Christians and are not part of a local body of believers in a committed and passionate way will also be lost in the waves as the world changes. They often brag about their disconnection through embracing their victimhood of being church-hurt to the glory of the one who hates the Church (ekklesia) the most, the devil. Jesus is in the Church (Revelation 1:13), and those who are with Him are not ashamed of it.

This last preparation is going to require us all to humble ourselves and fully allow the divine nature, the divine character of our Lord and Savior, to erase and overwrite our identity. This means we will have a requirement to be discipled and disciples more than just in name only. We are going to have no choice but to fully embrace being covenantal people in every area of our lives. We are going to need to fully embrace and embody the definition of Fidelity, unwavering Faithfulness through allegiance and loyalty second to no other generation.

I am still not packing a bug-out bag because the Finished Work of Christ has provided everything I will ever need.

Here is a video where I teach these things in greater detail:

The Best IS Yet To Come as we enter into THE Great Awakening.

Happy New Year, Dear Beloved family!
Steve

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Dr. Steve Cassell served as the “tip of the spear” in the state of Illinois when tyranny and fear culminated to capture freedom during the infamous COVID-19 pandemic. When the despotic oppression of State and Federal officials, intent on marginalizing and destroying the Christian moorings of society, unlawfully declared the Church as “non-essential” and attempted to shutter the gathering of the saints, Steve fought back as the first minister in the nation to take on the Goliath of government. Righteously empowered by the First Amendment and Godly resolve, Pastor Steve and Beloved Church were able to secure a Supreme Court victory for religious freedom that reverberated throughout the entire country, liberating the Church in America from the clutches of unlawful overreach. Now, Steve is invited as a National Speaker and Influencer for the Holy Cause of Liberty and the Finished Work of Jesus Christ (Tetelestai). Steve Cassell Ministries (SCM) is growing into a connecting point for authentic Christian Patriots to change the nation and world through local action and national impact. As a published author, professor of Biblical Studies (head of Pastoral Studies), and nationally known influencer, he has had the opportunity to inspire multitudes into repentance and sincere engagement against the insidious actors and ungodly agenda plaguing our society. These inspired citizens have been actively engaging in society, government, and politics to tear down oppressive and tyrannical intrusions into the church and the American republic.

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