What is the situation of believers in Afghanistan?

Precarious. We know from the media but also from local sources that the Taliban are going door to door to weed out unwanted elements. Who are unwanted? Everybody who collaborated with the West (especially teachers), but also homosexuals and non-Muslims. Christians are in grave danger. Anybody who is exposed will be severely punished.

What would be their fate?

It is becoming an all too familiar sight, seeing the back of President Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and other cabinet leaders when the questions about Afghanistan get too difficult and it speaks volumes.

The United States has turned its back on Afghanistan, and it is part of this president’s commitment to cause America to retreat from the world stage and diminish in every way to become just another nation thus allowing for what the bible describes happening in the last days.

While that may sound over the top, consider what President Biden has done. He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory for sure, but it is more than that. He is causing America to become cold-hearted.

We have left Americans and friends behind to suffer the tender mercies of the Taliban. Just yesterday, as the last of our troops, were being withdrawn, I learned of a church in Texas on the phone with a church in Afghanistan as they were praising God while gunshots rang out, joining the saints before the throne of the Lord. Small children were telling their parents that they would not renounce the name of Jesus.

Americans are still trying to do what is right despite an honor-less president and administration. Former special operations members of the military were responsible for helping hundreds of Americans and green card holders escape before the bombing closed the gates to the small hope that remained. Private planes flew in to help many more leave as the American government turned its back on the right thing to do.

Unfortunately, none of this should surprise the bible-based observer. When we understand an often overlooked parallel between Jesus and Israel, we can see that America plays the role of John the Baptist. Israel must increase and America must decrease to fulfill Israel’s role in the last days.

That is why the decline of the United States has shifted into overdrive. Consider what has happened since this year began. We have lost our energy independence, law and order, doubled down on sexual immorality, created massive inflation, lost our work ethic, and so much more.

In just one month, the United States has lost its global influence to allow the rise of China and Russia as the greater players on the world stage, just as the Bible reveals in Revelation. China will now be in control of the Silk Road that crosses Afghanistan and crosses the Euphrates River into Israel, a road that allows the large army we see in Revelation 14.

The Taliban has little idea what to do with the 10’s of thousands of Humvees, guns, night vision goggles, planes, and helicopters left behind, but it is a safe bet that China would be willing to give them lots of cash to take it off their hands and retro-engineer it all to outfit their military. Remember there are millions of young men without the prospect of wives due to the one-child policy.

Seeing the back of President Biden and Secretary Blinken is emblematic of what to expect of them in the coming days. It has committed us to an America last agenda that will have eternal consequences.

Many Christians can’t see the truth of any of this because we all need the eye salve offered by Jesus and the ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.