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I feel compelled to point out that it is now 2026. You say, “So what?” It’s now just 7 years until 2033. Again, “So what?” Well, something about the End Times is increasingly being thought about, but rarely said. Someone will blurt it out soon, so I might as well prepare you for it. Besides, if it happens to be true, then it would be fair to ask, “Why didn’t somebody warn us?” Well, here is my warning, just in case. With some nuance to notice, please. In Matthew 24, about His Second Coming, Jesus said:
Therefore it is good to look around and ponder what is happening in our days, and to err on the side of readiness rather than scepticism. I offer this heads-up with the same wonder and reserve in which Christians since Jesus’ day have wondered if their times are the End Times. For instance, they must have wondered during the persecution under the Romans, Nero, the Fall of Jerusalem & the desecration & destruction of the Temple. Or when Byzantium fell. Or later, around World War 1. During or after World War 2 with Hitler, the crushing of Jews, and the reconstitution of the state of Israel. Likewise, in our point in time, here is something to ponder: Could it be that, like His seven-day creation and His seven-day week, God is working on a seven-millennium timeline? 2000 years from Adam to Abraham, 2000 years to Christ, 2000 years to His Second Coming, 1000-years of shalom/rest, before the final Judgment. (Isaiah 65, Revelation 20). And if 33AD was the year of Jesus’ atoning death, resurrection, ascension, and sending His Spirit, then 2033 would mark the Second Coming and the start of the seventh millennium. Now the “Second Coming” can include a series of events over perhaps seven years, including the rapture, a deal with Israel, a betrayal followed by the Great Tribulation, culminating in His Triumphal Return. So would 2033 mark the end of the seven years or the start? If the end, then when do the seven years start? As I said, it is now 2026. Or 2033 could mark the start of the seven years, so be watchful over the next 14 years. There are other calculation problems to consider. Some say that Jesus was born 2-6 years before 0 BC/AD. In that case, the 2000 year mark could be as early as 2027. Which means mathematically the time could already be unfolding. “What are we meant to be looking for?” Now that’s a better question. I will answer below in my graphic on the many relevant verses... But first this huge caveat: there are other views of interpreting the relevant passages. This graphic illustrates:  Below is a grid of the relevant passages, as interpreted from a Premillennial view. Note that the timeline below the grid is not to scale but sectional. And the timeline is only "Plausible." But the Second Coming more generally - that's "Confirmed."  Signs Premillennials watch for:
. Israel will have a period of significant peace; . A northern invasion will end with the destruction of the invaders; . A treaty between Israel and an Antichrist; . A third Temple… There are more, but by this point, the seven years would be happening, and it would be obvious to watchful Premillennials. . The rapture might have happened at the start, middle or end of the 7 years. But since the rapture will take us by surprise, it's a difficult sign to look for until it happens. As for these other signs, however, if we see developments moving in those directions, we should take note! Could I be wrong? Yeah - on many aspects! Even the model. But possibly being wrong about the details doesn't mean we should say nothing about the End Times. The main point is still confirmed: Jesus is coming again - soon - so be watchful and ready. Being watchful and ready includes discussing what the scriptures say, and what the signs might be. What's the difference this all makes? 1) Be watchful. Do your own study on which view of the End Times you think is plausible. Notice when something happens that advances one of the signs of the end. 2) Be ready. Whichever view you favour, the main point of Jesus telling us all this is not correctness, but to be ready all the time - whenever he returns. Because every day we draw closer to His Second Coming. And it could be anytime. It could be soon, very soon. Even 2026. Or during the next 14 years. Life, dignity, equality, liberty, and justice for all. Os Guinness speaks personally and summarily about what has proven over time to be able to turn back the decline of our times, and produce a human-friendly future. - Nominate Foundations needed for freedom, dignity, justice - or they will not last. - Name Character. Let's not be naive about oppressions and promises from bad character. - Consider worldviews. Reality requires us to search truth, not merely what we find convenient. Here are Os's hard-won truths: 1. The Will to Power is very dangerous. 2. Answers to the meaning of human existence produce culture and civilisation. 3. The West's greatest social debt is to the Hebrews. 4. Confession is strength, not weakness. 5. Cultural change is a by-product of how we each live life. 6. This task is for everyone everywhere. 7. Biblical faith is uniquely the key to renewal. Return home. There can be restoration. The humanity of our future depends on what we do with these realities. Q: Why is it that the Royal Commission, and Labor in general, can't bring itself to say anything discerning about any religion?
A: Well this RC is framed and run by the self-named "socialist democratic party," and socialism has features that make it "not equipped to handle" antisemitism, religion or worldviews in general. Here are 6 examples: 1. Some socialists dream simplistically of harmonious Society. - So to criticise someone, even someone doing bad things, would upset the harmony. So rather than say no, say nothing. Observe Commissioner Bell claim, “it is not the Commission's purpose to shame or to so further division in our society much less to try and resolve the rights and wrongs of particular disputes.” Either that’s her socialism speaking, or that of those who framed the RC’s terms of reference, or both. But it prevents socialists from speaking against antisemites and allowed them to escalate under Labor. 2. Socialists propose that religions are irrelevant to politics. - So to admit that there are religious causes to social conflict would admit that religion actually matters in politics. That would open the door to public discourse about worldviews and politics. 3. Some socialists believe their worldview is a special case, entitled to state power in a way that religious worldviews are not. They do not see theirs as one worldview among many at the public table. They do not believe it should be subject to limits of state influence. Their worldview is the state. Their church is the state. To them separation of church and state means separating only religions out of the state. - So they propose limits to religious worldviews that they have no intention of applying to their own worldview. 4. Thinking they are "not religious" blinds them to their own impact on religions and morals. Socialists regularly introduce legislation not merely to allow their own moral codes but to restrict others from expressing dissenting views. In Australia from 2000-2025, 74 Laws have been passed on morals that restrict Christian freedoms to dissent. Almost all those laws came from socialists. Laws limiting religious discourse, same-sex relationships, marriage, surrogacy, religious organisations staff, abortion, gender self-identification, confession, VAD, family views, health care, prayer, conversion, religious education. - Socialists’ denial that their worldview has religious impact renders them unable to recognise religious causes of antisemitism or social conflict. 5. Socialists conflate all religions so they can consign them to silence. Socialists mistakenly want the public square to themselves so they can choreograph society in peace. Every dance troupe needs a choreographer - them. For the greater good. And honest socialists admit they want to remove all religions from public life for various reasons - too disruptive, primitive, unscientific, regressive - but also because removing all religions removes almost all worldviews that might challenge their secular socialist state. They want to influence the whole public sector - all government services - to indoctrinate the public with their own worldview. So socialists do not differentiate between religions, because to do so might allow a competing worldview to remain in public life. They think, "better to remove them all." Attempts to conflate-and-silence all religions are increasing, such as in January, as part of Labor’s post-Bondi legal reforms. Labour tried to introduce a criminal vilification offence. It was eventually removed during late night party negotiations with the Liberal Party, because it was revealed that the definitions of vilification were so broad as to potentially criminalise all religious criticism. Then months later, this RC heard Labor MPs advocating again for the introduction of a similar criminal vilification offence. (The Australian 29/8/26 p7). So a criminal vilification offence will likely show up again as a recommendation from this Labor RC. (Oh, and it happened again just today, with the Digital Duty of Care Bill.) - Socialists try to conflate all religions to remove them all, and this prevents them from discussing religions with nuance or appreciation. 6. Socialists don't want us to think well about religions. Because thinking well about religions means thinking well about worldviews - including socialism. Socialists don't want to be considered along with other worldviews, because this might expose that socialism's secularity does not make it a neutral, but a negative worldview. Why? Because: . Excluding all supernatural worldviews from public discourse actually ignores a primary aspect of society's shared national cooperative, that in reality needs proper expression and negotiation. . Repressing religions represses freedom of conscience, freedom of religious discourse and free belief. This inevitably requires more surveillance and control to the point of totalitarianism. For the greater good of course. . Another worldview is better at handling social cohesion. One that can openly address religions because it is one. One that believes in the equality and dignity of all. One that has reasonable constraints, but advocates freedom for all. One proven by history. One that is not culturally bound. One that can unite Australia yet allow competing worldviews. - So to prevent us from such thoughts, socialists tend to think or say little about religions. That's half a dozen reasons why socialism is "not equipped to handle" antisemitism or social cohesion. What do you call a can-opener that doesn't open cans?
What do you call an investigation that doesn't investigate causes? Whatever it is, that’s what you can call this Royal Commission into antisemitism and social cohesion. A non-Commission. A Royal Omission. It is avoiding its primary commission - to investigate the causes, to hopefully identify solutions. Last week the RC's public hearings closed, without having interrogated any sources of antisemitism. Think of that! The RC had ASIO submit about declines in national security measures under National Security Committee ministerial oversight, despite increasing National Security warnings about probable threats, particularly to Jews in Australia. (The Weekend Australian 5-6/9/26). And yet no government ministers responsible for these downgrades were interrogated. Ministers who allowed antisemitic threats to continue. Including the Prime Minister's role as chair of the National Security Committee of cabinet. Yesterday Howard called on Albanese to volunteer to face the music if the RC won't call him. We had the laws necessary to intercept and prosecute public antisemitic incitement to violence, but ministers responsible failed to approve their use. This RC failed to interrogate them. We all witnessed various public scenes of leaders inciting crowds to antisemitic violence, and yet: No hate preachers were interrogated. No anti-Israel or anti-Zionist lobbyists, protesters or organisers, No Palestine Action Group leaders, no pro-Palestine protesters, No university protest organisers were interrogated. No socialist paper editors or authors, No muslim, No Nazi, No promoters of anti-semitic views by Greens or The Muslim Vote. (The Australian 29/8/26 p15). No one who has been publicly on record inciting antisemitic violence has been interrogated by this Royal Commission. Commissioner Bell justified, “it is not the Commission's purpose to shame or to so further division in our society much less to try and resolve the rights and wrongs of particular disputes.” Imagine this justification being used by other RCs! Past Royal Commissions interrogated and even prosecuted the guilty. This is how they found solutions. Think of priests at the RC into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Heads rolled at NAB during the Banking RC. The RC heard plenty of victim statements, but so far has investigated none of the perpetrators identified. If the terms of reference are so narrow they won't allow interrogation of perpetrators and enablers, then they must be broadened! Otherwise this can-opener won't open cans. In the future, some will claim we “already had a RC into antisemitism.” But did we really? Clearly we should call this the Royal Omission. The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion wants to hear from us citizens about what is causing social division, above and beyond antisemitism. Submissions open until the end of May. Make a submission. My submission starts like this:
In my professional work, I teach widely about worldviews and their influence on how we behave, individually and as groups and societies. Subcultural groups and government departments are no exception. Our worldviews prompt our behaviours. I offer six causes of antisemitism and social division in Australia, and specific solutions to them.
This is really an UPDATE on my previous post, “Stop Equivocating" Senator Jonathan Duniam answers ACL's questions about the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Act 2026, which was passed this January. Key points:
The bigger story now is that since 2022, the federal government has underfunded and degraded the capacity of ADF, AFP, ASIO, Home Affairs, National Security Committee (chaired by the PM!), to police bad actors who violate these values. (NB: Greens would make it worse by their recent election policy, “No discrimination in immigration.”)
National Security’s capacity to act must be restored, to detect, interfere, intercept national security threats as they used to. This is the real story from which Labor’s legislative push has distracted us since Bondi. Reported by ADF, AFP, Home Affairs leaders, in The Australian newspaper. - Paul Scanlon (a former ADF tactical assault group commander and a veteran of several deployments with Australian special forces, in The Australian, Jan 9-10, 2025) - Mike Pezzullo, who was secretary of the former Department of Immigration and Border Protection 2014 to 2017, then the Department of Home Affairs 2017 to 2023 (The Australian, Jan 18-19, 2026.) As long as we’re talking about controversial laws, we’re overlooking the culpability of the government over National Security! The other big story is that Labor and Greens keep trying to limit free speech - especially regarding Christian morals, as per their Socialist views against the church & family. - Labor offered no defence when the Australian Law Reform Commission denied Christian schools the right to employ Christian staff; - Labor introduced the Misinformation & Disinformation Bill with loopholes to shut down whatever they determine is untrue; - Labor introduced the first draft of the Hate Speech with loopholes that would have threatened free speech on contentious issues. I say, I don’t trust Labor to safeguard free speech and civil discourse, I think they are trying to undermine it, to control us in their way of Socialism. My previous post applies to how we, and national security, must be free to talk about national threats. Stop Equivocating and Specify To equivocate: To use equivocal language, to deceive someone or to avoid committing oneself to a position. synonym: lie. [Making false equivalents.] All religions are not the same. Islam is not equivalent to Judaism & Christianity. All Muslims are not the same. Moderate Muslim-folks-just-trying-to-get-by are not equivalent to political or militant, violence-advocating, radical Imams who are inciting terrorist actions. We need to apply the hate speech laws to them specifically. Specify the causes of bad. It is high time for Australian leaders to speak unequivocally, to specify the causes of antisemitic violence, such as we saw last night on Bondi Beach. The violent ones have been unequivocal over the last two years about what they want. Who? Specifically, the so-called "pro-Palestinian", antisemitic, violence-advocating Muslims and sympathisers. Every week, they explicitly broadcast their violent intent in their rallying cries, such as "globalise the intifada," "from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free,” “where’s/gas the Jews,” etc. They rally behind the flags of genocidal Hamas, Hezbollah, and foment with Iran's Ayatollah. It's not like their views are hidden; they proudly proclaim violence to the Jewish race - what more evidence is needed! We should detain such teachers or deport them to countries that align with their views. Because we don’t want those views taught here, this is specifically what we must not import. Immigration officials, stop equivocating about religions and apply this reasonable, specific filter. Such specific muslim worldviews must be prosecuted under hate speech laws because they promote actual violence, which we've just seen yet again. Sure, sure, if the ISIS connection had proved false, and if the perpetrators turned out to have some other kind of antisemitic worldview, then we will specify that worldview too. The point is, name and remove the violent view specifically. Equivocating allows specific violence to worsen. It is tacit approval. Equivocating allows such muslims to do to Australia what happened in: Mauritania 1958; Iran 1979; Sudan 1989; Afghanistan 1996/2021; Somalia 2006; Gaza 2007; Libya 2011; Yemen 2014… In Australia, we must resist such specific, violence-inducing worldviews. Specify the causes of good. At Federation, Australia worked for freedom - not freedom to spruik “anything," such as these violent worldviews - but freedom to do as we ought, according to Natural Law, to the ways things should be, to a Judaeo-Christian ethic. That's the specific kind of freedom at the heart of the unifying Australian project. So now again we must specify those once-assumed values that do produce a peaceful society. Even atheists agree that these are specifically Biblical values. Stop equivocating. Don’t equate all religions with each other. Don’t say, “keep religion out of politics." Politics reflects values, and values come from worldviews, so we must specify which values we do want as our reference points and specify those we do not. Equivocating about worldviews only allows bad values to infiltrate and influence us. Specify Judeo-Christian ethics of Federation as a unifier. And specify violent Sharia, violent tribalism/paganism, or violent naturalism/socialism, as dividers. History repeats how these three drift towards tyrany & violence. And don't equivocate about "Christianity causing wars too," because specifying reveals that wars are caused by sin, by departure from Christianity. Christianity is not equivalent to worldviews in which violence is adherence to their core doctrines. Look, I understand the temptation to equivocate to avoid conflict - we give their words the most positive spin we can, to try to sort-of-agree. But equivocation produces false agreement. It deceives us. It allows evils that should be resisted. We can’t equivocate our way to real solutions. We can't solve problems we won't even name. That’s why, for some time now, we have seen Australian leadership failing to distinguish between good and evil. Then failing to stop evil’s spread. Stop equivocating. Specify. Name the problems, name the solutions, and be specific about what you mean. [Update 30 January 2026: This is what we, and national security must be able to say. How laws are made is a bit different - see my future post, Hate Speech Bill and national security.]  PS: Our card to our local Jewish community on Dec 15 2025.
PPS: Action steps - Mark Leach at Never Again Is Now: (Watch this 5-minute overview) "And over, and over again, people have asked me, ‘what are we to do now?’, ‘what comes next?’. So, what can you do now? Firstly, sign and share a pledge to combat antisemitism. Secondly, email (or call) your Federal MP to ask them to address antisemitism in the following ways: 1. Address the scale and composition of our immigration policy. We need to ensure that anyone who is predisposed by virtue of religion or political ideology towards antisemitism, is not granted a visa to enter, or remain in Australia. 2. Show moral leadership by holding to account all those community leaders (religious, political, etc), who rally people around the hatred of Israel, the hatred of ‘zionists’, who lead antisemitic chants and speeches, such as calling to ‘globalise the intifada’ or establishing a muslim state ‘from the river to the sea’. 3. Shut down any mosque or Islamic centre or community group or charity that is teaching violence against Jews or ‘infidels’, or which calls for the establishment of sharia law or an Islamic government in Australia. These groups pose a clear and present danger to Jewish life in Australia. Click on the link below which will connect you to your MP. Once you have entered your address it will automatically load your MP (so ignore the first MPs name you see). You can edit the email if you want to change the wording or emphasis. https://actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QEZDQUY= Thirdly, will you donate generously to build our influence? The more money we have, the more impact we can have to build a country where our Jewish community is safe and free. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. What better gift can you give to the Jewish community at this time than using your voice, your networks, and your money to ensure their safety in this country? https://www.neveragainisnow.com.au/donate? These are practical steps. Will you take them? Yep, here in Australia, in very plain sight. Please don't be sucked in by ABC & Nine. The Australian and Sky have it right. Today I received a good statement from Never Again Is Now, contrasting the difficult facts with the simplistic falsehoods: "The announcement that Iran is behind at least two, and probably more, of the antisemitic attacks in Australia comes as no surprise to anyone who understands the ideology and methodology of the Iranian regime.
"In the days ahead there will be two ways to understand and frame these events. "The first way frames this as proof that we don’t have any internal problems with antisemitism and social cohesion here in Australia. This was all a result of foreign interference. And all the rallies that we see each week are solely a result of Australians uniting behind their horror at the atrocities being perpetrated in Gaza, against innocent Gazans, by the genocidal, criminal Netanyahu regime. "To understand events in these terms is catastrophic error, which continues to show the naivety of Australians and the success of the Iranian propaganda and terror campaign against Israel, Australia and Western Civilization. "The second way to understand these events is to see them as unmistakable proof of what many of us have been saying since October 7, 2023: Israel is our ally fighting an existential war against our common enemy Iran and its Jihadist proxies. The war in Gaza is simply the most openly violent front of the broader war that Iran and the Jihadists are waging against western civilization, including Australia. What Israel is doing in Gaza is responding to the literal invasion of its territory by an Iranian proxy. What Australia is doing is responding to an incursion into its territory by Iranian proxies. The difference is a matter of degree, not of kind. "The Prime Minister rightly said at his press conference that Australians, “want killing in the Middle East to stop, and they don’t want conflict in the Middle East brought here”. "What the Prime Minister, and all Australians need to understand, is that the path to both these outcomes runs through Jihadist Islam, and its chief sponsor, the regime in Iran. "Killing in the Middle East will stop when the Iranian proxy, Hamas, is defeated, and every Jihadist group in the Middle East realises that Israel cannot be defeated militarily. The greatest advance towards peace in the Middle East has been the defeat, by Israel, of Hezbollah, and the destruction, by Israel and the USA, of Iran’s nuclear program. "In this context, it is hard not to think that the Albanese government's decision to recognise Palestinian statehood plays straight into the hands of the Iranian regime and will do nothing except prolong the bloodshed. "This issue of Palestinian statehood can be resolved only once the Palestinians, and the Iranians, and every other group in the region abandons the religious fantasy of eliminating Israel. Peace will only come through military strength. Any weakening of Israel’s military capacity will simply delay the achievement of peace. "With regard to importing foreign conflicts into Australia it is clear for all to see that Iran, and its proxies are operating in Australia. The war is here, and it is nothing less than a war of civilizations. The Palestinian cause has become the Trojan horse by which the Iranian backed Jihadists are dividing and undermining western civilization. The “free Palestine” movement is in fact the vanguard of the Jihadist and Marxist takedown of western civilization. "The Prime Minister and ASIO are to be commended for their actions with regard to the Iranian Ambassador and the IRGC. Now we need them to show the same insight and resolve with regard to Iran’s remaining proxy in Australia, the “Free Palestine” movement. "Yours in making antisemitism unthinkable, Mark Leach Founder Never Again Is Now This is the kind of Christmas message I would have given if I'd thought of it! Well done Mark Fairley. From me to you all, may your Christmas be full to overflowing! Also, given the year Israel has had, I thought it worth sharing this reflection through Jewish eyes, that made mine overflow - again. Especially the crescendo moment "the great I AM!" Shalom Shalom. I'm well overdue for an update on Cheers Neighbours’ Network. Plans about whose auspices Cheers come under have changed since last time (long story), but there is light on the horizon maybe with Worldview Aus who I now work for. WVA is still finding its organisational feet, and there's no urgency, but it's good to have insurance, childsafe training etc. And the connection between Cheers & Worldview Australia is strong as ever.
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