{"id":1620,"date":"2025-10-23T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:39:44","slug":"iron-mixed-with-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"Iron Mixed with Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 27, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/feet-of-iron-and-clay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/feet-of-iron-and-clay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/feet-of-iron-and-clay.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/feet-of-iron-and-clay-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/feet-of-iron-and-clay-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Last Days there will be confidence and confusion, democracy and imperialism. We will see men rise up with great authority and yet have limited abilities. There will be great deception in man&#8217;s ability to rely on himself, on humanism. Educational strength will be compromised by avarice desires. Hopes will be mixed with lying signs and wonders. Strong militancy will be mixed with hatred toward any kind of authority. And so, the weaknesses of mankind will be the ultimate undoing of the Antichrist Empire of the End; it will be pulverized by the Kingdom of Christ. 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