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EARNESTLY CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH:
BIBLE PROPHECY:
THE GENTILE NATIONS PART 3
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Sermon Number 1 – The Origin of the Nations Sermon Number 2 – The Babylonian System Sermon Number 3 – Broad Overview Of Biblical History Sermon Number 4 – Daniel Chapter 7 – Introduction To The Antichrist Sermon Number 5 – The Antichrist Continued Sermon Number 6 – The Son of God and The Son Of Man Sermon Number 7 – Daniel Chapter 8 Sermon Number 8 – Lead Up To Armageddon Sermon Number 9 – The Rapture Of The Saints Sermon Number 10 – The Western Alliance Sermon Number 11 – The Restoration Of The Nation of Israel Sermon Number 12 – The Northern And Southern Alliance Sermon Number 13 – More of The Northern and Southern Alliance Sermon Number 14 – The Eastern Alliance – Armageddon Sermon Number 15 – The Conclusion Of Armageddon Sermon Number 16 – A Suggested Order Of Events Sermon Number 17 – The Judgement Of The Nations And The Gentile Nations In The Millennium
Earlier in this series we have already dealt quite extensively with the role of Israel in Bible Prophecy, but we are going to briefly stop here to discuss the restoration of Israel to the Promised Land. That Israel would be restored to the Promised Land is one of the great subjects of Bible Prophecy. Though the process of the restoration of Ezekiel’s vision of “the valley of dry bones” had already been well underway, it became an official international fact in one day on May 14, 1948 when David Ben Gurion issued the official proclamation reestablishing the State of Israel in fulfillment of Isaiah 66:8-14 which says:
We rejoice greatly at the restoration of Jerusalem and the nation of Israel. At Earnestly Contending For The Faith we are big hearted lovers of the Jewish people and the nation of Israel. If you are saved and you are not a lover of the nation of Israel and the Jewish people, then your heart is not right with God. Without the restoration of Israel to the Glorious Promised Land much Bible Prophecy concerning the Gentile nations could not be fulfilled. Deuteronomy chapters 28 through 32 are God’s prophetic commentary on the sad history of the nation of Israel. Deuteronomy 28:1-14 deal with the blessings that Israel will enjoy in the land if they will be obedient unto the voice of God. Deuteronomy 28:15-68 deal with the curses that will be upon Israel if they will not harken unto the voice of God. Sadly, for most of the history of the nation of Israel she has been under the curse of God for her disobedience unto God. In Deuteronomy 28:63-64, God warned Israel that He would scatter them among the nations for her disobedience. These verses say:
In Deuteronomy 29:24-28 we see the amazement of the nations at the wrath of God that was poured out in judgment upon the land of Israel. These verses state:
In Deuteronomy 30:1-3, God promises restoration to the land for Israel. God said in these verses:
Ezekiel 20:34, Ezekiel 20:41, and Ezekiel 28:25 also promise a gathering from the scattering of Israel. In a few moments, we will look at Ezekiel 36 which deals with the restoration of Israel to the Promised Land. Before the events of Ezekiel 38 and 39 could take place, Israel had to be restored to the Promised Land contrary to the heresy of Replacement Theology. Replacement Theology states that the church has replaced Israel in God’s blessings and in the fulfillment of Bible Prophecy. That is convenient theology for the whore of Revelation 17 and Satan’s bride. Replacement Theology comes from the crypts of Roman Catholic and Protestant harlotry and theology. The literal interpretation of the Bible will not lead to Replacement Theology. The Bible demands literal fulfillment of Bible Prophecy. Literal fulfillment is the reason that Replacement Theology is an abomination before God and a slap in the face of God’s integrity. Replacement Theology denies that God will do what he has promised to do for the nation of Israel. Replacement Theology makes God a liar. Replacement Theology is the wicked tool that Satan hatefully uses to manipulate worldwide apostate Christianity into persecuting the Jewish people and denying the right of Israel to exist as a nation. Replacement Theology violates every everlasting covenant that God has made with Israel and the Jewish people. The four prophetic covenants under the Abrahamic Covenant that included covenants related to the seed, the land, the throne, and the heart are unconditional, everlasting covenants whose promise is based upon the I WILL of God. They do not depend upon any action or inaction of man for their fulfillment. Therefore, no apostate theologian’s Replacement Theology can abrogate those covenants. In terms of God’s Biblical plan for the nation of Israel, Replacement Theology was dead on arrival. The promise for the restoration of the nation of Israel is given in Ezekiel 36:16-28:
So, in these verses we see both the reason for the scattering of the nation of Israel into the nations and the promise of her restoration. How much more so has the United States of America profaned the name of the Lord Jesus Christ through the promotion of the abominations of abortion and sodomy. The United States of America is the recipient of a much larger measure of God’s grace than Israel. Abortion is not birth control. Abortion is the Satanic murder of the innocents. Sodomy is not inborn, natural affection. Sodomy is the Satanic perversion of God’s gift of sex to mankind. American “Christianity” is not Bible believing Christianity, but is instead self worshipping idolatry. These are the very same sins for which the nation of Israel suffered the wrath of God. Let’s continue on with God’s promise to restore the nation of Israel. God further expands upon his promise to restore the nation of Israel in Ezekiel’s vision of “the valley of dry bones” in Ezekiel 37:1-28. In Ezekiel 37:1-19, it is shown to be a process where God brings the stick of Joseph, or Ephraim, together with the stick of Judah to make them one stick in his hand. The stick of Joseph represents the ten northern tribes and the stick of Judah represents the two southern tribes. Then God makes the following statement in Ezekiel 37:21-28:
These verses once again emphasize the everlasting nature of the relationship that Israel has with God. These verses also again emphasize the everlasting nature of the Davidic covenant. How a Bible believing Christian can apply these verses to the Church is beyond me unless they have allowed their theology to trump the Word of God. The Church has never been two sticks in the hand of God. The Church is the Bride of Christ. Israel is the bride and wife of God the Father. God the Father put away his wife Israel. The Lord Jesus Christ will never put away his bride. The Church was not birthed or re-birthed from a valley of dry bones. The Church was born in the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ. So, the Church cannot be resurrected from a “valley of dry bones”. The Bible believing church has never died and never will because the gates of hell cannot prevail against the church of the living God. The Church is never referred to as Joseph and it is never referred to as Judah. The Church has never been called upon to use carnal weapons of warfare, but Israel has. The weapons of the Church’s warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of Satan’s strong holds. So, the conclusion must be that Ezekiel chapters 36 and 37 refer to the modern day restoration of Israel and not to the Church. If Ezekiel chapters 36 and 37 do not apply to a literal earthly Israel, then they make absolutely no sense when applied by apostate Anti-Semites to the Church. Therefore they apply to a literal, earthly Israel that is being restored to the Promised Land. There has never been a time in the history of the Church when the members in apostate denominational churches have been more anti Jewish and anti Israel. The reason for that is that our churches are full of unsaved, professing Christians who hate the Jew. If you hate the Jew, then you are not saved. The Lord Jesus Christ was and is a perfect Jew born and raised under God’s law given to the Jews. He fulfilled the law because he was a sinless Jew. He was sinless because he was Very God in the flesh. He could not have sinned because He is God. It is through the restoration of the Jews that the entire world comes under the full blessings of God Almighty. It is this same restored Israel that will come under attack from an alliance of nations commanded by Gog who comes from out of the north to attack Israel either just before, or right at the start, of the Tribulation. That view of the timing of the attack is not accepted by many Bible students. Some believe that the attack by the northern alliance will take place at the mid-point of the Tribulation while others believe that the attack will take place at the end of the Tribulation. The truth of the matter is that an argument can be put forth against either of the positions, but we believe that an attack either at the start of, or just prior to, the Tribulation is the most defensible. We will elaborate further on what we believe the Bible teaches a little later on.
We now turn to the military alliance commanded by Gog that will enter into that glorious land of Israel from the north. Turn in your Bibles to Ezekiel chapter 38 and let us begin reading in verse 1:
We also must remember that all prophecy uses Jerusalem and Israel as the geographic reference point. One of the tasks before us is to identify the nations that were set before us in Ezekiel 38. It is not a task that is without some difficulty and controversy. One of the points of difficulty is the location of Magog, Meshech, and Tubal. We must remember that the locations given in Ezekiel 38 and 39 are geographic reference points and not references to peoples. Some of the lands called out have been conquered and occupied by many different peoples some of whom have moved from their ancient locations in what is now modern Turkey to locations between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and to locations on the northern shores of both the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. During recorded history, there have been at least 38 different ethnic groups that have occupied either all or part of the area under discussion. Some of the major groups that have controlled this area includes the Hittites, the Phyrgians, the Lydians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Assyrians, the Scythians, the Armenians, the Romans, and the Turks to name a few. In terms of today’s geography, these lands would include Turkey, the Republic of Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. The Republic of Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia are sandwiched between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea in what was at one time called Togarmah. Some would even include Ukraine, extreme southern Russia, and Kazakhstan located on the northern shores of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea within the bounds of the lands described in Ezekiel 38. We would remind you that all of the locations just mentioned are to the north of Israel. Many times we frame our interpretation of Bible Prophecy in terms of current events. That can lead to errors in interpretation if we do not locate the countries under discussion in their ancient geographical context. Most of the older and/or ancient maps that we find depict Magog, Meshech, Tubal, Togarmah, and Gomer inside of an area that includes all of modern Turkey and the land that lies between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. Many Bible students try to follow some of the original inhabitants of Bible lands to their point of migration and end up, for instance, putting Gomer in Germany because it fits a Bible Prophecy viewpoint that they have been taught. That will not work. In Ezekiel 38 and 39, God is not calling out specific ethnic backgrounds, but is instead calling out specific geographic locations. When God calls out specific geographic locations in the Bible, the lands are still where they were when he first identified them though some of the inhabitants may have migrated to other locations or some of the names of the nations may have changed. We said that to say this: Togarmah is identified as being the north quarters. In other words, it was the farthest north extent of Ezekiel chapter 38's boundaries. A look at any ancient map showing Togarmah will reveal that its northern most boundary was located at about the midpoint of the eastern shore of the Black Sea and the midpoint of the western shore of the Caspian Sea in the area of the Caucasus Mountains. There was also a time in ancient history when greater Armenia occupied this same territory. We have not found an older and/or ancient map that locates Meshech and Tubal outside of northern modern day Turkey. Many Bible Prophecy teachers try to make Meshech into Moscow and Tubal into Tobolsk: both of which are in Russia. That mistake is made because many have read Russia into the prophecy of Ezekiel 38 and 39. Many have made that mistake by breaking the rules of transliteration when moving a word from one language to another and in conjunction with breaking that rule they have relied upon the corrupt American Standard (per)Version, the New American Standard (per)Version, and the New King James (per)Version. In these perversions they use the word “Rosh” in Ezekiel 38:2-3 and in Ezekiel 39:1 instead of the phrase “chief prince” as is used in the King James Bible. If you are looking for something to support a “prophetic position” that you hold, it is but a small step from “Rosh” to “Russia”. “Russia” is a word that did not enter the English language until late in the eleventh century. Moving from “Rosh” to “Russia” involves a consonant change that violates the rules of transliterating from one language to another. The same type of mistake is made when Meshech is transliterated to Moscow. Given all the information in Ezekiel 38:1-6, we must conclude that Meshech and Tubal can only be located within the boundaries of modern Turkey. With all that being said, we do not rule out Russia as being a participant in the conflict as a supporting ally, but Russia will not be the instigator of the conflict. The attack in Ezekiel 38 will come from within the borders of modern day Turkey. In other words, Turkey with her allies will instigate the attack. The northwestern border of ancient Persia, or what we know as modern day Iran, butts up to the southeastern border of Turkey. Have any of you noticed the vitriolic Anti-Semitic and anti Israel rhetoric that almost daily spews forth from the Satanic mouths of Recep Erdogan of Turkey and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran? We also have two nations from North Africa aligned against Israel. These we will call the Southern Alliance. These two nations are Libya and Ethiopia. There is some disagreement as to the location of ancient Ethiopia. Some have placed it in North Africa where Sudan is now located just to the south of Egypt. Still others have placed it in south Saudi Arabia where Yemen and Oman are located. The modern country of Ethiopia is located southeast of Sudan. It is land locked having Somalia and Kenya on its southern border, Eritrea and Djibouti on its eastern border, South Sudan on its western border, and Sudan on its northwestern border. Both Dedan and Sheba are located in southern Arabia. Tarshish is another story. Some take Tarshish as being Tarsus in southeast Asia Minor in what is now the mid southern coastal area of Turkey. Still others place it in the southern coast of Spain. While it seems that Sheba, Dedan, and Tarshish will protest, it also appears that they will not put up any active resistance. Many times folks will make the mistake of believing that all wars are about the human desire for power, land, and wealth. They never seem to look for the spiritual motivations behind men’s actions. The wars in the Tribulation are motivated by Satan’s spiritual warfare against God and his chosen people. Satan seeks the destruction of the Jewish people and the nation of Israel. Satan is the founder of all false religions and the father of hatred. False religion and hatred are tools of spiritual warfare that Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet will use in an attempt to destroy Israel. So let’s look for the spiritual root that drives the nations in Ezekiel 38-39. What is the common spiritual thread that drives these nations? The answer is, of course, Islam. If you would place all these nations on a modern map and do an analysis of their economic, political, and religious systems, you would find that the common core is Islam. If you want to get a view of the desperate environment that Israel exists in, we would encourage to click on this link to pull up a map that graphically illustrates the plight of the nation of Israel. On the map, the light green areas represent the Sunni Muslims and the dark green areas represent the Shia Muslims. You will see that Israel is represented by a small white dot in a sea of green. The particular map that we refer came from the 2009 CIA World Factbook. The situation has only become worse in 2013. Satan’s hatred of Jews, Israel, and Bible believing Christianity is the engine that drives Islam. Do not buy into Satan’s lie that it is so-called “radical Islam” that is the source of the problem. That is a lie that pukes forth from the deceived and defiled minds of Western political and religious leaders. It is a stench in the noses of true Bible believing Christians. Islam is radical. The use of the phrase “radical Islam” is the most outrageous form of tautology spewing forth from the spiritually and morally degenerate minds of today’s Western political and religious leaders. That includes the United States. Western political and religious leaders have been sent strong delusion and have believed the lie that they can compromise with Islam and ensure their survival. The type of compromise we are talking about is the weak-kneed, unprincipled, fearful run-and-hide response of ungodly and decadent United States political leaders in response to the wickedness and demonic mayhem of Islam. You cannot compromise with the Devil and win. Because America has forsaken God, we have been given a spirit of bondage and fear that we will not recover from without national repentance. Let’s return to the Book of Ezekiel chapter 39 and read the whole chapter:
According to Ezekiel 38:16, God will bring the Islamic alliance of Ezekiel 38 against the land of Israel, but it will not be for their victory. Ezekiel 39:2-6 says that it will be a crushing defeat for them resulting in five out of six of them dying on the mountains of Israel at the hands of the Lord God. There will not be any of the world’s armies involved in the destruction including Israel’s. The destruction is strictly at the hands of God. In Ezekiel 39:8-11 we see Israel taking seven years to destroy and clean up the weapons of the Gog and Magog army. In those verses we also see Israel being rewarded with the spoils from a war they did not even fight! Amazing! According to Ezekiel 39:11-16, the carnage will be so great that it will take seven months for Israel to clean up the stench and bury the bodies of those who die at the hands of the Lord. In Ezekiel 39:17-21 we see the gathering of fowls of the air to feast upon the carnage brought about by the destruction of the northern army. At the end of this great slaughter in Ezekiel 39:22, Israel will realize that the great slaughter came about at the hands of God. In Ezekiel 39:23-29, we see again the reason for Israel’s captivity and her restored to fellowship with God. According to Isaiah 48:11, to pollute the name of the Lord is to give glory unto another. God says in Ezekiel 39:7 that he will not allow His people to pollute His name anymore. Three different times in Ezekiel 20:9, Ezekiel 20:14, and Ezekiel 20:22 God pronounces judgement upon Israel because they had polluted his name. God is jealous for His name. According to Exodus 34:14, God’s name is Jealous. Six different times God says He is a jealous God. The name Jesus means “Jehovah saves” , or “Jehovah is salvation”. According to Philippians 2:9-10, it is that name that is above every name and the name at which every knee will bow. Philippians 2:8-11 says:
Philippians 2:8-11 is the glorious realization of Exodus 20:7 which says: “ Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain”. Let’s continue on with the northern alliance. God gives further revelation on the northern alliance in Joel chapter 2 and also in Revelation chapter 9. Turn in your Bibles to Joel chapter 2 and let’s read verses 1-20.
A detailed analysis of the two passages just read will reveal the many parallels between them. Joel 2:20 ties the verses in Joel chapter 2 to a northern army. Joel 1:4 and Joel 2:25 refer to locusts which tie those verses to Revelation 9:3 and Revelation 9:7 thus connecting the two prophecies together. Joel 2:2, Joel 2:10, and Joel 2:31 describe a day of great darkness while Revelation 9:2 shows the sun and the air darkened by reason of the smoke. Joel 2:8 is paralleled by Revelation 9:6 because in Joel chapter 2 men fall on their swords and will not be wounded while in Revelation chapter 9 men shall seek death and not be able to find it. Both Joel 2:25 and Revelation 9:3 describe a locust army. The Tribulation is a time of supernatural disasters and phenomena. It is a time of darkness where we see the sun darkened as in the Book of Joel. Darkness covers at least parts of the earth in Revelation 6:12 and Revelation 9:2. The Tribulation is a time of massive earthquakes as we see in Joel 2:10, Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8, Luke 21:11, Revelation 6:12, Revelation 8:5, Revelation 11:13, Revelation 11:19, and Revelation 16:18. The king over this locust army is none other than Satan himself. He is the destroyer known as Abaddon and Apollyon of Revelation 9:11. Satan goes forth to make war against the Lord Jesus Christ, his angels, and his saints in Revelation 6:2, Revelation 11:7, Revelation 12:7, Revelation 12:17, Revelation 13:7, Revelation 17:14, and Revelation 19:19. In the Book of Revelation, Satan is seen as the conqueror, the angel of the bottomless pit, the beast, the dragon, that old serpent, the Devil, and Satan. Satan’s religious political agent is the Antichrist. Satan’s political religious agent is the False Prophet. Satan has at least 30 different titles in Scripture. In the Tribulation, Satan is the great motivator and controlling influence of all the military might that has as its goal the destruction of Israel, the Jewish people, the Church, and Bible believing Christians. Satan is also the driving influence behind the great alliance of eastern armies that will attack Israel during the Tribulation. That is the topic of our next discussion.
During the Tribulation, there will be an army made up of 200,000,000 men that will come into Israel from the east across the dried up bed of the River Euphrates . This will be the largest army that has ever been assembled. It will culminate in the bloodiest event in human history at Armageddon. Turn in your Bibles to Revelation chapter 9 and let’s start reading in verse 13:
In these passages, the Bible does not specifically identify who the kings of the east are. Keeping in mind that the Tribulation wars are not about geography, but are instead about the destruction of the nation of Israel, the annihilation of the Jewish people, and the annihilation of Christians, we can look for a common spiritual thread that runs through the nations located to the east of Israel that would drive them to seek the destruction of Israel, the Jews, and Christians. Once again, that common thread is Islam. Islam is Satan’s wicked whore and Muhammad is her consort. The vilest forms of Jew hatred spews forth from the hellish Islam that controls most of these nations. These nations would include Kazakhstan with an Islamic population of 8,822,000, Turkmenistan with an Islamic population of 4,757,000, Afghanistan with an Islamic population of 28,072,000, Uzbekistan with an Islamic population of 26,469,000, Tajikistan with an Islamic population of 5,848,000, Kyrgyzstan with an Islamic population of 4,734,000, Pakistan with an Islamic population of 174,082,000, Bangladesh with an Islamic population of 145,312,000, Indonesia with an Islamic population of 202,867,000, parts of India with an Islamic population of 160,945,000, and parts of China with an Islamic population of 21,667,000. As of 2009, these eastern nations had Islamic populations totaling 972,537,000. With Islam being the fastest growing Satanic religion in the world and with four years having elapsed since the last figures were compiled, those numbers have increased significantly. Many of the aforementioned countries have Islamic populations approaching 100%. Notwithstanding China’s relatively small Islamic population, there is also the issue of China’s critical need for oil and gas which have been discovered in huge quantities in Israeli waters. China’s 2012 population figures were 1,344,130,000. Another significant player in this scenario is Russia with an Islamic population of 16,482,000. Russia has been historically Anti-Semitic even without her significant Islamic population. The question that follows from all this information is: “Can these eastern nations raise an army of 200,000,000?”. The answer is, yes, of course. Add to all that the fact that the world Islamic population exceeds 1,571,198,000 and from a worldly perspective Israel and the Jews have impossible obstacles to overcome to ensure their survival. Further complicating the scenario for Israel and the Jews is the addition to the mix of the Jew hating Roman Catholic whore and her Protestant harlots. These groups make up another 2,184,060,000 most of whom are nominal professing Christians at best. Then entereth the Lord Jesus Christ and it is all over for the Jew hating Islamic, Roman Catholic, and Protestant devils. Any church or religion that hates the Jew is of the Devil and that especially includes Roman Catholicism and Islam. What we will deal with now is Armageddon.
Armageddon may be the most talked about future event in world history. It is an almost universally occurring event in all the world’s major religions including Islam. The Mahdi is the Islamic messiah that brings death and destruction with him. The Iranian antichrist, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dreams of the coming of the Islamic antichrist known as the Mahdi. The Mahdi is yet another name for Satan incarnate. The Mahdi and his Armageddon is the greatest desire of the Satanic Iranian Ayatollahs. Armageddon is the battle to end all battles during the Tribulation. It is the last battle before the Gog and Magog battle following the Millennium in Revelation 20:8-9. We are about to read 61 verses that give a very broad overview of the events of Armageddon. Turn in your Bibles to:
Zephaniah 3:8 pictures the time of the gathering of the Gentile nations for the judgment of God. God’s purpose in gathering the nations is to pour out His indignation and wrath upon the nations. Revelation 14:10 pictures the undiluted wrath of God being poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation. God states that He will devour the earth with the fire of his jealousy. This is an event that takes place during the Tribulation and ends at Armageddon. Armageddon is an event that can be classified as the all time horror of horrors. Words cannot adequately express the carnage that will take place during Armageddon. In Joel 3:4, Palestine (and Palestina) are seen as the ultimate judgment place for those that hate the Jewish people. Bible believing Christians should never refer to the land of Israel as Palestine. That is not God’s name for it. God has chosen Palestine as the place of destruction for the wicked nations that persecute and murder the Jew. Palestine is the graveyard of nations whereas Israel, or Canaan-land, is the place of blessings for the nations. In Exodus 15:14, when the children of Israel entered into Palestina, it brought great fear upon all of its inhabitants. In Isaiah 14:29-32, we see the destruction of the rod of Satan in Palestina. The rod of Satan is none other than the Antichrist. Palestine and Palestina are used only four different times in the Bible and are never used in the context of anything but the destruction of the nations that hate the Jew and Israel. In Joel 3:1-8, we see the reasons for God’s judgment upon the Gentile nations. Three major reasons are set forth in these verses for the judgement of the Gentile nations. These reasons are: (1) they drove the Jewish people out of the land of Israel and divided (parted) the land of Israel among themselves. (2) They sold the Jewish people into slavery. (3) They stole the holy things of God for display in their temples. For a nation to seek to divide the land of Israel in “land for peace deals”, is to seek national and spiritual destruction at the hands of God. In other words, it is national suicide. The place of the nations’ judgment is stated to be at Jerusalem in the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat literally means “Jehovah judges”. The Valley of Jehoshaphat is thought to be the deep ravine which separates Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives through which the Kidron River flowed. In Joel 3:8, we see that the nations are delivered into the hands of the children of Judah. The Gentiles are issued a call to war by God in Joel 3:9-16. The plowshares and pruning hooks are symbols of peace while the swords and spears are symbols of war. The Valley of Jehoshaphat is seen to be full of multitudes of people. According to Joel 2:10 and Joel 3:15, the judgment takes place during great earthquakes and great darkness. Turn in your Bibles to the Book of Zechariah. Let’s read Zechariah 12:2-6:
Zechariah 12:2-3 states that there would come a time when Jerusalem will have become a cup of trembling and a burdensome stone to all the nations of the world. That time has been upon us since the wonderful day of May 14, 1948 when David Ben Gurion issued the formal declaration reestablishing the nation of Israel. Hallelujah! Since that time, Israel has become an hearth of fire in the hands of God to all the nations that surround her. From 1967 through 1989, out of 865 resolutions in the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly, 526 were against Israel. That means that 61% of their resolutions were in condemnation of Israel! That makes Israel a burdensome stone to the nations with exclamation points!! So, what does the Bible say about the so-called “Palestinians”. The bidding of the Bible is that the nations of the world will come into Palestine for their destruction. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Since the nation of Israel was reconstituted on May 14, 1948, she has constantly been at war with those warmongering, “peace loving” Muslims. Since the official proclamation reestablishing the nation of Israel she has been involved in 11 (eleven) major wars and/or conflicts up to an including the 2012 Pillar Of Defense Operation. These wars and conflicts included the 1948 War Of Independence, the 1956 Egyptian Suez War, the 1967 Six Day War, the 1967-1970 War Of Attrition, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the 1982-1985 Lebanon War, the 1988-1992 Palestinian Intifada, the 2000-2005 Palestinian War, the 2006 Lebanon War, the 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead War, and the 2012 Operation Pillar Of Defense War. None of these wars was started by any act of war by the nation of Israel. I have come to call all that advocate and follow Satan’s Islamic whore “Satan’s Swine”. Islam is an unclean thing in the hands of Satan. To seek compromise with Islam is to seek and grovel after destruction and ungodliness. For any professing Christian to advocate for the so-called Palestinians, is to show a Biblical illiteracy that leads to willful spiritual blindness and the wrath and judgment of God. The God of Islam is yet another of Satan’s reincarnations of the Old Testament Baal. Elijah the prophet said, “How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.”. There is a deafening silence in unbelieving American Christianity. The spirit of fear of Islam has gripped our nation. The spirit of fear and bondage has gripped this ungodly nation of America and its mostly unsaved people. Jehu the prophet said to King Jehoshaphat, “Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD”. How long will weak kneed Christians stand by and not defend Israel from the onslaught of Satan. Professing Christianity’s compromise with Satan’s spies and lies will lead to their destruction. |
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