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Oh Jesus, savior, master, creator. You're the alpha. Omega, you're the king of kings.
So Tom, you don't think the rapture is 2 or 3 years down the road? No. No. I think it's before then and I'm going to tell you why today. My name is Tom and you're watching the Watching River channel. I'm really glad you're here. I hope you're well.
I want to remind you that I am not a prophet. I am not a pastor. I'm just a guy sitting here by the Snowy River in the middle of Connecticut talking about Jesus. I want to read a few scriptures and then we'll get into our chat. Okay.
I'm going to go to Revelation 3:10. "Because you have kept my command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world to test those who dwell on the earth." That hour of trial, aka the 70th week of Daniel, the seven-year tribulation is coming soon to this world.
1 Thessalonians 1:10. "and to wait for his son from heaven whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come."
Let's go to 1 Thessalonians 5:2-6. "For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape. But you, brethren, But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober." Give me an amen. Thank you.
Let's go to 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18. "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus, we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words." Comforts me. I'll tell you that every day comforts me. I'm going to meet Jesus in the air. It's not the second coming. His feet don't touch down on the Mount of Olives.
One more. John 14:1-3. "Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am, there you may be also." Beautiful words of Jesus right there. Just so beautiful.
So, some ask me, Tom, do you think we could still be here in two or three years? My answer is no. My opinion, I'll tell you why. Okay.
People will say, "Well, how how can you say that the rapture has to happen before two or three years from now?" Well, I'll show you and I'll use two points to show you, and I think I could dig up 10 more, honestly. But I'm going to just talk about two things that show me this world is not sustainable and that the seven-year tribulation is getting close to beginning. I'm going to start off with this one. Okay.
Elon Musk was on a podcast about two months ago, two I think it was December 22nd, 2025. So, a little over two months ago, he was on a podcast called Moonshots. I want to read some of these quotes. Please listen to these quotes from Elon. Okay.
"One side recommendation I have is don't worry about squirreling money away for retirement in like 10 or 20 years. It won't matter. You won't need to save for retirement. If any of the things that we've said are true, saving for retirement will be irrelevant."
Then the guy who runs the podcast, Peter Diamandis said, "What's your timeline for Singularity?" And Eli said, "We're in the Singularity. I don't have to just have courtside seats. I'm on the court and it still blows my mind and sometimes multiple times a week just when I think I'm like wow and then it's like two days later more wow." He's talking about the growth of AI. "I think we'll hit AGI which is artificial general intelligence next year in 2026." Now he said this in December so he's talking about this year 2026 hitting artificial general intelligence. "I'm confident by 2030 AI will exceed the intelligence of all human beings combined."
Peter Diamandis said, "There's no concept of let's deliberately slow down, right? It's impossible at this stage, right?" Elon said, "Yes. I'd previously advised that we slow it down, but that's pointless. I've said I think we're going at it too fast, guys. I've said that many years and I finally came to the conclusion I can either be a spectator or a participant but I can't stop it." End of quote.
That guys is unbelievable. You know artificial general intelligence in 2026 means that AI is smarter at any particular subject than any human being on Earth. And that's hitting this year. I just We're talking about massive job losses due to this. We're talking about a a chaotic environment of technology going haywire. I don't see it. You know, this podcast showed these guys kind of laughing this off. Everything was kind of, you know, joking around about it, but you know, they understand the dangers of it. And I remember telling you what, two years ago, Elon Musk and 150, I think 150 other people signed a document saying, "Let's slow this down. We can we don't we we can't keep control of it. Let's slow it down." But others just said, "No, we're going for it. It's a lot of money in it. It's great." And they went for it. And now there's no stopping it. And I don't see this in the book of Revelation because they literally say that this threatens humanity. This could be the extinction of humanity. But let's go for it. We don't have much time. I don't And and you know what? Elon Elon Musk keeps changing these dates. I've been following this for years. And he said before, well, by 2035 we might have a AGI. Now he's like by by 2026. It's like it's just growing so fast.
All right, my next point. President Trump's plan for the Gaza Strip and the border of peace. Okay, we're at a point right now. We're nearing this deadline where Hamas is supposed to disarm so they can start rebuilding Gaza. It can't happen. It's just It can't happen. It's not in scripture that Gaza gets rebuilt into the Riviera. It's just it can't happen. Maybe this can be delayed another 6 months. Maybe because they're fighting this war with Iran and you know, maybe they'll try to negotiate with Hamas that maybe this could linger on a little while longer. But we're kind of at that line where decisions are being made about Gaza. And it ain't going to be every country's pause in that strip of land building. They may start bulldozing it. They're not going to be building the Riviera on the Gaza Strip. At some point, the seven-year tribulation is going to start or the rebuilding of Gaza. Now, I'm not a betting man, but if I were, it would be the seven-year tribulation is about to start. I just think we're at a line. We've gone too far with prophecy. It's that boulder chasing after Indiana Jones in that first Indiana Jones movie. That's what Bible prophecy is right now. And it ain't going back up that hill. That that stone, that boulder is not going to roll back up that hill. I don't see the rapture being years away. That's just my two cents. I don't see it. I That's why I always tell you I'm looking up every day. I think all the signs have converged. I think this Middle East war is major. I think the things we're seeing there are major prophetic wars are going on right now. And there are wars and rumors of wars. There are earthquakes in diverse places. We're living in the last days. That's my two cents. It's worth about Well, wait a minute. They don't make pennies anymore. So, that's my nickel. There you go. I rounded it up.
All right. So, let's go to what's going on in the world. All right. First, I'm going to silence my phone, which I should have done so nobody bugs me. Now, I'm going to tell you. All right. Here we go.
The IDF issues an evacuation notice for all of southern Lebanon and tells everyone to exit north to the Latani River. And that's happening right now. And there are thousands and thousands of people leaving southern Lebanon going north because they've been told to do it. It's appearing on their cell phones. You got to get out. Massive, massive stuff is coming to southern Lebanon. It's already started. But now they're saying, get out. Get out. They're done with Hezbollah. And I think the Lebanese government is really regretting not taking care of Hezbollah. But who knows? Who knows?
Uh, right before I hit record, there was a joint missile attack from Iran and Hezbollah on Israel. Uh, Israel today said a couple waves of combined missile fire from Iran and Lebanon towards central Israel, but only a few missiles and they were all successfully intercepted. It's like this is this way this war is being fought is it just to me it feels like the hand of God is guiding this because man Iran has just not impressed anyone with their response. You know they did not think nobody thought that that strike that opening strike which killed Kmeni and a lot of other leaders that they would happen in broad daylight. It's so simple. Like, wouldn't you think if you knew countries were threatening to come after you and they had all that everything over there ready to strike, wouldn't you not meet in a build I I just can't imagine thinking, well, they'll never strike in the daytime, you know? But that's what they thought. They thought they only strike at night, so let's go have our meeting and kaboomi woomy. There you go.
Bubba News from Telegram shared this. He said, "This is huge. Israel just struck the Assembly of Experts building in K. K is in Iran. It's QOM. Uh this was not a military target. This is the 88 member clerical body constitutionally responsible for selecting Iran's next taco supreme leader. Reports indicate the building was hit while members were casting ballots to choose Kmeni's successor." Read that again. Israel bombed the election. They bombed the constitutional process for selecting the one person who could theoretically unify the regime, negotiate on its behalf, and sign a ceasefire. Israel struck while they were counting the votes for the appointment of the supreme leader. This happened yesterday. Amir Sarfati said Israel attacked them while they were counting the votes to choose the next supreme leader. And an Israeli source said, "It is unclear how many of the 88 Council of of Experts members were there at the moment of the attack, but there was a gathering in the building during the attack." Later, Iranian news agency Fars said the assembly of experts was not harmed. It is in the final stages of selecting a new leader. According to the report, the people who were at the attacked building earlier today were the vote counters. So you wouldn't it's not a good day to be a vote counter yesterday in Iran. Um that's what they're saying as of right now. What else?
Beginning of Sorrows News shared this on Telegram. According to Noam Amir, who is Israeli military and security commentator on channel 14 in Israel, quote, "May someone explain to Kmeni's son that it really doesn't matter if they declare him or not. The son is a psychopath more than his father and he's a target whether he's officially declared or not." Defense Minister Israel Katz said this. "Any leader appointed by the Iranian terror regime to continue leading the plan to destroy Israel, threaten the US and the free world and the countries of the region and oppress the Iranian people will be an unequivocal target for elimination. It does not matter what his name is or where he hides. We will continue to act with full force together with our American partners to dismantle the regime's capabilities and create the conditions for the Iranian people to overthrow and replace it." Amazing times we're living in. Wow.
President Trump says he is willing to supply weapons to Iranians to help them fully overthrow their government. Said that yesterday. He also said Iran no longer has air defense systems or detection capabilities and must prepare for major damage. A reporter asked President Trump yesterday, "Did Israel force your hand to attack Iran?" And he said, "If anything, it was the other way around." H Tucker Carlson didn't like hearing that one because everyone was saying, "No, no, no. Israel owns Trump and they twisted his arm." But he's like, "No, it was the other way around." Found that interesting. He also announced the US N President Trump announced the US Navy will escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible.
Check this video out. The Israel Foreign Ministry said, "Do you see this missile? This is an Iranian missile that fell inside Iran and struck innocent civilians." Now think about how many other times this has happened. Crazy video. It looks like a snake to me. Doesn't it look like a snake? Hm. Interesting.
Bubba from Bubba News shared this yesterday. He said, "Israel was very busy today." And he wrote this late last night. So he's talking about yesterday. "Soon this two-f frontont war will become three fronts, four fronts. Israel fighting up to eight or nine fronts or more within the next few weeks or months is very probable when looking through the prophetic lens with the daily headlines pointing into the exact same direction. 2026 will be unlike any year you or I have ever seen. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. Amen." I'm totally agree, Bubba. I totally agree. Yeah, we will never see anything like what we're going to see leading up to this rapture. He also said this, "Starting to see more attack activity picking up in the Elam area of Iran. There was even an explosion and an attack in the Bushir province close to the Bushir nuclear power plant."
Man, keep your eyes on Jesus. Don't let this stuff worry you, you know, or trouble you. Remember Jesus said, "Don't let your heart be troubled. He's in control. He's not rattled. You know, you just trust in him. If if it starts worrying you, shut it off and say, "Jesus, I trust in you because he is coming soon."
Israel today shared this on Telegram. US Central Command Chief uh Brad Cooper says his forces are using one-way attack drones designed by Iran to attack the Ayatollah regime. He said, "We took them back to America. We made them. We made them better and fired them right back at Iran." Wow, that's pretty wild. Grabbing their own drones, 10.0ing them up and then firing them back over there. What else?
The IDF before I hit record estimates a few minutes ago, this was a few minutes before I hit record, we have at least two more weeks of joint Israel USA attacks on Iran. Now they're saying about two more weeks. Yesterday they said four weeks. So we'll see. We'll see.
Jerusalem Post shared this. The IDF prepares for possible Houthy attack as official says group has rearmed itself with Iran's help. The official further warned that with the assistance of Iran, the Houthies have rebuilt their ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial aerial vehicle capabilities which could potentially reach Israel. So, the Houthies are doing their Houthy thing. They're crazy. It's like a dance doing that Houthy thing.
Um, Israel today shared this last night, Middle East time. "Wave after wave of Israeli warplanes are rapidly eliminating Iran's ability to launch ballistic missiles at Israel and targets across the Middle East." And then US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on what lies ahead for Iran last night said, "You're about to see this campaign intensify as the two most powerful air forces in the world take part take apart this terrorist regime."
Then this was late last night, Middle East time. The US says it's destroyed 17 Iranian naval ships, including one of its submarines. We are sinking the entire Iranian Navy. And they sunk one of I think they sunk that submarine with a torpedo. I think. Hold on. I I've got that somewhere here. It was breaking right before I hit record. "A US submarine sunk a prized Iranian warship by torpedo. The first such sinking of an enemy ship since World War II," Secretary of War Pete Hexith said this morning. There you go. What else?
Iran says it's closed the straight of Horamuz again and that prices will soon surge to $200 a barrel. That's their goal. That's what they want to happen. I got a feeling that President Trump and Netanyahu aren't going to let that happen. We'll see where it goes.
This is from the New Republic. Uh, just, you know, disclaimer, but this was all over the place. It's just fascinating. "Military leaders say Iran war is so Trump can bring about Armageddon." Did you hear about that yesterday? This was all over the place. Troops have logged more than 110 complaints about such comments with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Without any clear message coming from the White House with regard to the purpose of the Iran war, US military commanders have turned to Jesus, apparently telling American troops that the war is biblically sanctioned. H that's interesting.
China calls for the US and Iran to resume negotiations. China's worried about things. China says the Strait of Hormuz must remain stable and secure. China's worried.
Earthquakes the last 24 hour 52 over five, I'm sorry, 53 over 5.0 over 4.0 and 13 over 5.0. I know. There you go. How's about Want to go to Clown World with me? Let's do it. Let's do it. This is uh this is not funny. This is a nightmare.
If any of you guys live in this area, please confirm this and let me know if it's true, but Mississippi residents are complaining that Elon Musk's nearby AI power plant is so loud that they can't sleep. Listen to this. Residents of South Haven, Mississippi, a city close to the state's border with Tennessee, are sounding off to share their displeasure with billionaire Elon Musk's latest venture. According to an NBC News report, Musk, who seems to have his hand in every aspect of technology these days, he purchased an abandoned power plant in the city in 2025 for the use of his XAI company. The power plant currently has 27 turbines, a number which Musk hopes to increase. The turbines are so loud that people who live in South Haven are dealing with insomnia, but the company doesn't seem to care. February 17th, the city held a regulatory hearing at which residents could share their feelings. Let's just say they weren't very positive. Nathan Reid, who has lived in South Haven for all of his life, stated at the hearing, "This quote, 'This was not a thoughtful phase development. It was an industrial surge imposed on our residential community.' End of quote." 76-year-old Eddie Gossa explained he always assumed he would live out the rest of his life in South Haven in his South Haven home, but said, "At this point, I couldn't give my house away with all that noise." Can you imagine? I feel for those people. I can't even imagine. I heard it. It's Clown World. Later on in the article, they talked about how they spent over a million dollars putting up a sound wall, but they said it was cheaply made and just did nothing. It did not do anything for the sound. But I can't imagine, you know, having to deal with that sound all the time. clown world. You know, how's about you guys?
Okay, I haven't asked you guys to grab a cookie in a while, but this might be the day cuz I could use a cookie. Pause the video, grab a cookie, bring me back, too. Let's read some comments of the day.
Craig, "Wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, artificial intelligence, digital IDs, and neural link. Tom, we are in the last days." Amen, Craig. I agree. I agree. It's not sustainable.
Karina, "My 87year-old grandma has been sick for around a month and is starting to lose hope and will to live. Worse is that she's not saved. Greatly appreciate your prayers." Well, many people will pray for your 87year-old grandma, Karina. Thank you for sharing that. Yeah.
Nicole, "I'm here in the Middle East now. There are no flights in or out. Please pray for us that are here, saints." Amen. We will, Nicole. We're praying for you guys.
Christina, "I pray that the light of the gospel will shine into all the Middle East. Amen, sister. Amen."
To another one. Jonathan, "I feel so inadequate at times and feel like things aren't moving fast enough for me, but I have to realize I'm not on my time anymore. I'm on God's time." Exactly, brother. Exactly. Trust me. Trust me. If the Lord allowed us to pick the day of the rapture, it would be the wrong day. It would not be a perfectly good day. It would be the wrong day. Only the most high God is going to pick that perfect moment and that perfect day. And we're all going to know it. And I know when we're all face to face with Jesus, not one is going to say, "Why did you take so long?"
You know, Ash, "Dear Tom and Watchman River family, as I sit here and watch people being so scared, they are freaking out and worried about everything going on. But when I say I'm not worried or scared, they look at me like I'm crazy. But I say God knows what he is doing. And I have the the comfort to know I belong to him. And if something was to happen, I'll be with Jesus either through the rapture or it will be my time to go. Be absent from the body is to being present with the Lord. But I'm looking up every day knowing we are going home soon. I pray for everyone who is still lost in this world." It's good prayer, Ash. Yeah, there are many, many lost.
I always share the gospel at the end of these videos, six days a week. I think it's very important. And some people will say, "Well, why don't you share the gospel right in the beginning?" It's because somebody who doesn't know the Lord, if they start hearing the gospel right in the beginning of a video, they're going to be like, "I don't want to hear this." You know, but sometimes when they hear what's going on in the world and somebody shared the video with them, they they hang out this long. But I'm telling you right now, if you're one of those people that doesn't know Jesus or you're not sure, this is the most important part of the video right here is for you to understand that we're all sinners. Now, I know I know when you say sinners to unbelievers, it it almost sounds like we're accusing you of being an axe murderer. You know, that's not the case because when you understand what sin is, sin is just not being perfect. It's falling short of the glory of God or missing the mark. You know, God's standard is perfection. And his standard of perfection is beyond what we could even imagine. We can't do it. You know, the whole Old Testament was written with a lot of laws showing us, wow, you know what? It's not just the Ten Commandments. There's hundreds and hundreds of laws. I can't I can't do it. I could never do it. I can't even do the Ten Commandments because if I don't break them by really murdering someone, which praise God, I've never done. I've hated people in my heart. And Jesus said, if you hate somebody in your heart, you're guilty as a murderer. But that whole law was just placed there to show us you guys need a savior. And the most high God provided his only begotten son, Jesus. So Jesus left the throne and came here 2,000 years ago. And he put on human flesh. He was born of a virgin, conceived by the Holy Spirit and he came here and he lived a completely perfect life. He fulfilled the law completely 100%. His performance, Jesus performance was absolutely perfect because he is 100% God and 100% man in the same body. Fully God, fully man, walking this earth doing incredible miracles, incredible teachings. healing people, loving on people, just incredible. Jesus was like no other. But he came here to die. He came here to shed blood. Don't let anyone ever tell you what a bad ending he had. He was a good prophet, wise, but wow, what an ending. No, he came here to shed his blood to rescue you and me from our sin problem. That blood he shed is God blood. That atoning blood is so powerful that it can take your entire sin problem and remove it away from you as far as the east is from the west. It can it'll wash you white as snow. So all you have to do to be saved is say, "Jesus, I admit I'm a sinner. I have thought some pretty evil things in my life and I've done things I'm ashamed of. I'm a sinner and I need to believe in your blood and I now have faith in your blood that it'll wash me white as snow and I believe in your finished work on the cross. You were nailed to that cross. You shed that precious blood. You died. You were buried and you rose again the third day. Jesus, I need a savior. You are the savior of the world." And once you believe in the atoning blood of Jesus and in his finished work on the cross, you are saved. You are actually born again because God will place the Holy Spirit in you. You will be a new creation in Christ Jesus seated in heavenly places belonging to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And you know what? You will spend eternity in paradise. Do we deserve that? No. That's God's grace. And that's how we're saved. We're saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus. And grace means unmmerited favor or an unearned gift. That's how we're saved. It's all God. He gets all the glory. He gets all the credit forever and ever. Jesus gets the praise and glory. That's why I always say it's not based, our salvation is not based on our works. Our works are based on the fact that we were saved, but our salvation doesn't. Your works don't add to your salvation. Okay? Because if they did, you'd have to get some of the praise and glory. Nobody is getting it but the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords forever and ever. And I can't wait to be face to face with him soon and be singing his praises and thanking him for eternity for saving a wretch like me. You know, I know some of you can relate, but don't put it off. You don't want to face Jesus on judgment day. If you ignore this message, you're going to face Jesus on judgment day. You're going to know your sins are still with you because you rejected the payment now when you have breath in your lungs. And he's going to say, "Away from me. I never knew you." That is terrifying. I don't want you to have to go through that. Terrifying. Then you're led off to eternal separation from God. You won't say you're unfair because you'll you'll know. You'll say, "I heard it. My goodness. The only begotten son of God went to a cross, bled, died, rose again. He did that for me to save me." And when I had breath in my lungs, I was like, "Ah, I don't need that. Don't be that person. Time is short."
Okay. I prayed for you this morning in my prayer time. I prayed for every person who would watch this video. That includes you. So, like it or not, you've been prayed for. And if we're not raptured today, and I think today's a perfectly good day for the rapture if it were up to me, but it's not. It's up to the most high God. But God willing, I will see you guys tomorrow. I love you guys.
Oh Jesus, savior, master, creator. You're the alpha. Omega, you're the king of kings.