Edition 120: April 4^th 2012

The USA in prophecy

News events and commentary:

●Netanyahu is to call for an early election in spite of the fact that his party is stable. Speculation is that it’s due to his desire for a consolidated platform before striking Iran.

●An Arab politician is to launch a pro-Israel political party! His aim is to support and work with the Jewish state.

●Obama places America in grave danger, by supporting homosexual marriage. A strong nation is built on the Godly principles in family, church and state. All three are being eroded now; but the surprise is for the President to assist in destroying one of those strong pillars. Homosexual marriage is not about rights. It's about re-defining what God has defined!

Obama is confirming that the "days of Noah and Lot" are here! That will be the title of the next edition.

The USA in prophecy

Right up front let me stress that there is no verse of scripture in the Bible that identifies the USA or most other Western nations clearly. We have to use the application of various verses rather than direct interpretation. But as you will see, we still end up with some pretty compelling evidence identifying the USA.

It’s not God’s style to leave us uninformed or in the dark.

I’ve seen some really off the wall, weird stuff on America in prophecy...mostly pure rubbish!

There is some good news for the United States in the Bible, and some terrible news. Read on my friends!

This edition is based on many Bible chapters dealing with the nations of the world in the end time scenario.

These chapters do not identify the USA directly, but there are many double references and types and shadows that do most certainly apply.

There are some who believe and teach that because the US is not in prophecy directly, that it will simply become weaker and weaker until it is of no relevance on the world stage.

I don’t buy that.

There are some who believe that the US will suddenly be destroyed and disappear from the world stage. Again, I don’t buy that. Of course it could happen, but I’m pretty sure that a major event like that would be mentioned in prophecy.

Why has God preserved the US till now?

 I don’t think there is a nation on earth that has done more to perpetuate and spread evil and sin around the world that the US, particularly in the moral sense. It will pay for that somewhere down the line.

Of course America, with many other nations will pay for the mass murder of their own unborn.

On the other hand, God has saved the US up till now, because no other nation has done more to spread the gospel around the world than the US. It has been the world’s leader in missionary work and still is in many respects. It still spreads the light of God’s word around the world. The fast growing worldwide Messianic movement, God’s work, is really taking off in the US.

The US has put more money into missionary work, the publishing of Godly material and humanitarian work than any other nation.

The US has also been the home to the world’s largest Jewish population outside of Israel.

With our God these things are of major importance.

►God does not allow a nation to be destroyed because of its sin. He allows a nation to be destroyed because there is no more “light” and “salt”!

Obviously the “light“and “salt” are the very factors that keep sin at bay!

“We, the true believers are the “light of the world” and “salt of the earth,” says the Bible.

Salt acts as a preservative, it gives flavour, and is also typed with judgement on sin in the Bible. But it also says that “when the salt has lost its savour, it’s good for nothing but to be cast out and trampled under the foot of men.” And of course ‘light’ gives Godly sight.

God will most certainly judge a nation for its sin, if it’s light and salt has become ineffective. But right now America is hanging by the thread of its remaining light and salt.

Is all okay?

The light and salt in the US is fast being put out and neutralised. All is not okay!

Interestingly the US is spearheading the Messianic movement and is still very active in mission work. But it is also spearheading the cursed interfaith movement and the equally as cursed Emergent church movement. It seems to be right at the forefront of the devils work and the work of God.

The mega-churches of the US are becoming more respectable to the world and with the world. They’re becoming more and more materialist. They deliver one useless motivational message after another.  Their gospel has become watered down and worldly.

There’s enough truth there to get people born again and on the road to salvation, but more and more, you’re seeing people getting started in a mega church and then they have to develop and grow their faith outside of that environment.

The denominational churches of the US are just like all of them around the world...they’re dead, useless counterfeits of the real thing.

The biggest danger for the US right now is that its spiritual light goes dim and its salt loses its effectiveness. And unfortunately this is happening right now. This is just why spiritual darkness and sin has advanced so much.

Of course the politics of the “road map to peace” and other such things will soon turn God’s fury on the USA, but more about that later.

Some say that all the big tornadoes and other natural upheavals in the US are a sign of God’s anger on the US. That is not true. Yes, natural upheavals are intensifying in frequency and intensity, but there will be about four billion people killed on the earth in the tribulation period.  The current natural upheavals are a teddy bear pick-nick compared to what’s coming soon.

How long will the US be a friend of Israel?

This of major importance! It’s especially important because of the size of the US as a nation and an economy. It’s also important because of the size of the Jewish population in the US.

Many people will die as a result of this very subject in the near future.

The future of the US and other nations is linked to their relationship with Israel. This is simply because God has a wonderful plan for Israel in the end times. Satan knows this and knows that the coming salvation of the Jews means that his time is just about up.

This is why God says in His word, that if you bless Israel you’ll be blessed and if you curse Israel, you’ll be cursed!

Many other Western nations are united with the USA in their friendship with Israel at this point, which is why they’re hated by devil and Islamic extremism.

America’s friend...Islamic extremism!

People reading this would cringe. What about 9/11, they’ll say. “America is no friend of radical Islam” they’ll say.

You need to read all of what follows to see what I’m getting at...and it’s very, very important. It will soon affect the whole world!

The nutshell story behind Islamic extremism is this:

They believe that God started His work with Moses and the children of Israel, who failed God and did not start the Muslim religion. God rejected them and then moved on to Jesus and the prophets who also failed God by not starting the Muslim religion. God rejected them and moved on to Mohammad who did start the Muslim religion. They believe that the previous two are God’s enemies and their very existence in an anathema to them. (Some aspects of Islam believe that Jesus will return but as a servant of Mohammad.)

This is exactly why Muslim extremism despises the Jews and the so-called Christian countries. (I’m not talking about the nominal moderate Muslims.)

The USA in all honesty and sincerity wants peace in the Middle East. Their choice is the “roadmap to peace” which is a ‘two state solution’. This is God’s roadmap to war. It’s not His choice.

Let me tell you something shocking: The heart of Islam doesn’t want peace with Israel (or the US). It doesn’t want a ‘two state solution’.

The Muslim religion supposedly believes in peace. But what they believe is that anything outside of Islam is for war and not peace. Peace to them is a Muslim world. Peace to the Muslim means the absences of resistance to Islam.

It’s like a rapist. To him peace is when the rapist stops resisting!

Stupid American politicians and leaders think Islam wants peace.  This is why America will facilitate the “roadmap to peace.”

The Islamic Arab world wants all of Israel and wants it all as an Islamic state under Sharia law. God knows this well. God’s plan is a one state solution...a Jewish Israeli state, which will all become part of His huge prophetic plan for the close of the age, which will of course come to pass, simply because it’s God’s plan. How can it not!

America finds itself allied with Israel. So far, the US has stood with Israel and God has blessed America for that.

Let me tell you that the world’s “roadmap to peace” and the two state solution for Israel, created and sponsored largely by the US, is the roadmap to Islamic control and domination of Israel! Did you read that...read it again!

America legitimately wants peace in the Middle East. The world economy is linked to the oil price and the US would not want its economy wrecked because the oil price goes through the roof...and rightly so! Any conflict in the major Middle East oil producing nations will send oil way too high.

Ulterior motives or not, the US wants to see peace between Israel and its neighbours. We can’t fault that desire for peace can we?

But what we need to see and understand is that this is all a very ‘charged’ spiritual environment. We must find out and know what God’s will and plans are.

Micah 4:11-12 “Now also many nations have gathered against you, who say, “Let her be defiled” and “Let our eye look upon Zion..” But they do not know the thoughts (plans) of the Lord, nor do they understand His counsel; for He will gather them like sheaves for the threshing floor.”

Jeremiah 18:12 “We will walk according to our own plans and we will do the imagination of our own evil hearts.”

The above two verses could have been written for the stupid American politicians and their “roadmap to peace” or two state solution! (And of course the other nation of the world who are involved.)

So here’s the wrap up. Islamic Arabs want Israel. They want all of it. They want to turn Israel into an Islamic state. They’ll go along with the “two state solution” as a strategy and step towards getting it all!

America comes along and wants to motivate peace in Israel. They’ll sign and make peace with Islamic extremists to create two states in one land. America does not know that Islam will use this as a strategy to get the whole land.

God does know this and has another very different plan!

The single biggest issue for the US and its future lies right here in its relationship with Israel. Will it assist the nations of the world in throwing Israel under the Islamic bus or not?

America may think it is big and important, but it is nothing in the face of God’s wrath, which will arise over the whole Israel / Islam issue.

I have no interest in the politics of America at all suffice to say, that the political leaders will eventually turn against Israel. They’ll create the environment for Israel to be ripped up. When they do...beware USA, your days are numbered! Your stupid politicians have been blinded by the devil.

Here are a few verses of prophecy that many won’t like one little bit. They relate to the modern day scenario.

The leaders of the world would do well to study and understand the following verses. These verses spell out God’s plans and their own doom and destruction.

Joel 3:2 “And I will gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat (means: “The Lord will judge”) and I will enter into judgement with them there, on account of My people, My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have also divided up My land.”

Zechariah 12:3 “It shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the world are gathered against it.”

Zechariah 12:9 “It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all nations that come against Jerusalem, and I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they have pierced; they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son.”

Zechariah 2:11-12 :Many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and they shall become My people...and the Lord will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land and will again choose Jerusalem.”

Note that in the above verses all the nations of the earth are in focus. Obviously this will include the United Sates.

Peace will come to Israel God’s way. God will use Israel to bring salvation to the world. He will not allow Islam to bring it’s religion to the world from Israel.

The USA will cause and bring war to Israel in the name of peace. They think they can make peace with Islam. They think that the roadmap will bring peace. They think a two state solution will make everyone happy! They have forsaken God’s word and ways; they will be making ‘peace’ with Satan himself.

The American Jews in prophecy.

Again there’s no single verse that identifies the US Jews directly, but let’s use some application and common sense.

Ezekiel 34:13 “I will bring them (Jews) out from the peoples and will gather them from the countries and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all the inhabited places.”

Ezekiel 36:24-26 “I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean...I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you...”

Isaiah 49:19 “For your (Israel) waste and desolate places and the land of your destruction will now be too small for the inhabitants and those who swallowed you up will be far away.”

Zechariah 10:10 “I will bring them back from the land of Egypt and gather them from Assyria, I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, until no more room is found for them.”

Jeremiah 32:37-38 “Behold I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury and in great wrath. I will bring them back to this place and I will cause them to dwell safely. They shall be My people and I will be their God.”

Isaiah 11:12 “He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”

In the verses above note that all nations, countries, peoples are being addressed. This again would obviously include the United States.

These verses show in no uncertain terms, that there will soon be a great re-gathering of the Jews to the land of Israel. If you look at the context, it’s obviously not referring to the return from the 70-year Babylonian captivity. It’s a massive second exodus, which has already started, albeit a lot more slowly than it will soon become!

The Jews will return to the land of Israel initially in their spiritual blindness. Once they’re home, God will lift the veil of blindness and they will see who their Messiah is!

Isaiah 42:16 “I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them...I will not forsake them.”

Isaiah 35:5 “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped.”

2 Corinthians 3:16 “Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.”

Here’s something worth thinking about, especially if you’re a German or have German friends and relatives:

Isaiah 60:14 “Also the sons of those who afflicted you; (Nazi Germany) shall come, bowing to you and those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you the City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.”

Obviously this verse above also applies to the mass murdering leaders of the Catholic Church during the dark ages (Inquisitions etc) who perhaps killed more Jews than the Nazis. But then there’s not much chance of the Catholic Church bowing to the newly saved Jews in repentance!

Please have a good look at this very short, simple and yet profound verse of scripture below. This amazing verse applies to so many aspects of modern life and the modern world. Of course you can apply it to God’s plans for Israel and the US inspired two-state solution as well:

►►►Proverbs 28:4 “Those who forsake the law ;( Word of God) praise the wicked.”

Let’s apply some Bible verses.

As said above, none of these chapters identify the US directly, but we can get a lot out of this by application. Many Bible prophecies have a double reference. In terms of interpretation they apply directly and there is often a wider application.

Isaiah 18:1 “Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, who sends ambassadors by sea...a nation powerful and treading down, whose land the rivers divide. All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth see the banner lifted up on the mountains, and when he blows a trumpet, you hear it...the birds of prey will summer on them and the beasts of the earth will winter on them. In that time a present will be brought to the Lord of hosts, from a people tall and smooth of skin.”

Ezekiel 38:13 “Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish and all their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take a plunder. Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?”

The merchants of Tarshish are believed to be sea-traders from the area of present day Spain and the UK. The “young lions” would be a reference to the commonwealth nations including the US, because the symbol of the UK is a lion. I know that’s stretching it a bit, but even if we exclude that, this is undoubtedly WW111 and the US will be involved.

The surrounding verses of Ezekiel 38 and 39 are without any doubt the third World War.

Revelation 18:2 Babylon the great is fallen is fallen and has become a habitation of demons, a prison for every fouls spirit...”  This chapter is titled “The fall of Babylon the great.”  The entire chapter deals with this monumental fall. The reasons are identified. They’re because this place has become completely demon possessed. It has also become “glorified” in luxury and materialism.

Revelation 18:23 “The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore...for by your sorcery, all the nations of the earth were deceived.”

There is no doubt that these chapters have a double reference.

The “Harbinger” application of Isaiah 9:10 to the US is an excellent exposition by Rabbi Jonathan Chan. It’s now on top of the New York Times bestseller list. The book is most certainly not pleasant reading spelling out the soon coming destruction of the US.

Here it is: (It’s a hyperlink that will take you to the book)

And for those interested here is the Rabbi’s Messianic ministry. (I haven’t had the privilege of meeting Rabbi Jonathan yet, but I do know some of his congregation members. Yes, that’s you Joanne!)

http://www.bethisraelworshipcenter.org/

There are many who identify the USA with Babylon in the Bible. Again we need to use application here. End time Babylon refers in some places to religion. It undoubtedly refers to the Catholic Church in some verses. In others it refers clearly to the world system as a whole. In others it refers to the world economic or banking system. By application we can say that the USA, as the strongest nation in the world does fit in with some Babylon verses, but most certainly not all.

Some hidden messages:

The Great Seal of the United States is very insightful. There’s been so much written about it that I’m not going to go into all the detail. But here are the big issues:

The eagle (national bird) holds a scroll saying in Latin “One nation out of many” This was after the United States was created out of 13 colonies. In the Eagle’s talons are a bunch of 13 arrows. In the other is an olive branch with 13 leaves. Then we have a shield with 13 red and white stripes.  Above the eagles head is a cloud surrounding a blue field with 13 stars. The motto E Pluribus Unum has 13 letters

In fact there are ten features of 13 contained on the seal alone.

In Bible numerics, 13 is the number of rebellion to God.

The reverse side of the seal contains a pyramid with 13 steps with the year 1776 in Roman numerals at the base. The top of the pyramid contains the ‘all seeing eye’ of Lucifer. At the bottom is a scroll with the words in Latin “New World Order”

What’s interesting is that all the monetary coins and notes have been changed at various times except the one dollar bill, and this is the one rich with the occult!

The United States has so much occult material stamped on its very existence...it’s simply amazing!

Here’s another seemingly innocent little parallel:

This is the holder of the ‘light’.  She is known by many names. She is the queen of Babylonian who brings satanic darkness to the world.

The queen of Babylonian, Semaramus appears as the light-giver in many images, the one above left is one of them. I hope you recognise her. The torch represents the eternal flame of Nimrod, the sun god. This woman is also called the” queen of heaven” as well as the “daughter of Babylon”.

Here is much more on the subject:

http://yahushua.net/babylon/liberty/pagan_statue.htm

Jeremiah 51:6-7 “Flee from the midst of Babylon...for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance...Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord’s hands that made all the earth drunk...therefore the nations are deranged.”

Jeremiah 51:49 “As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon, the slain of the earth shall fall.”

Is it all coincidence, or is it meaningless? These things are pointers, harbingers. There was an unseen hand in the creation of these things that point towards a tragic near future!

The pride of the USA:

Isaiah 13:19 “And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans pride, will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.”

Habakkuk 2:4 “Behold the proud, his soul is not upright in him; but the just shall live by his faith.”

One thing that’s pretty unanimous about the US: They are generally a proud nation. God hates pride. In fact the Bible says that “pride goes before a fall.”

Pride also manifest in the love of money and the possession of material things, turning it into a god. The US is a nation of champions in this regard, and it’s worsening.

The US will soon encounter a dramatic economic collapse. It was solely responsible for the previous world recession created by the incredibly stupidity, dumb, idiotic sub-prime system. The world paid the price for that system of arrogance and greed. They haven’t learnt...it’s coming again.

This time it’s in a slightly different form. It’s national or government debt, which is way out of control and getting worse by the second. Even if you own the money printing press, debt reaches a level of un-sustainability. Once you can no longer service debt, you’re finished.

What happens then is that all sorts of psychological factors like fear, greed, and panic, all come into play at once. You get a run on banks, stock markets collapse and an economic nightmare takes hold.

The problem is that when the excessive fast growing national debt situation goes bang, It will again knock on to the whole world. It will create a massive world recession and depression in some nations. It will be the worst recession of all. It will be spearheaded by the emotion and sentiment of fear and panic.

The graph below shows US national debt and its projection at the current rate: (It will never get to the top level, because it will all collapse long before.)

The previous sub-prime created recession was a classic case of "pride growing before a fall.”

The above graph is exactly the same thing again!

Unfortunately because of the size of the US economy and their national arrogance, the whole world will again be negatively affected.

The US economy will collapse: The actual numbers don’t really matter that much. Once sentiment and emotion comes in, it takes over and rules!

Right now the US economy is growing slightly. It’s not falling out of bed. But that’s thanks to corporate America and not government debt. The government debt side of things will eventually affect the corporate world. But let’s remember that the current US recovery is fragile with great dangers facing it.

Here is perhaps the biggest danger to face the US economy and almost nobody knows anything about it.

A very real danger.

Very few people have any idea of the great danger inherent in the US economy right now.

Yes, corporate America is doing okay, but let’s break this down. Actually it’s only a segment of the corporate world of big business that’s doing okay. Most big businesses in the US that are orientated towards the domestic economy only, are not doing well. It’s only those with hefty exposure to China and the Asian continent that are doing just fine.

You see, China is a monstrous hungry beast! It’s just starting to emerge from half a life of domination by Marxist Leninists. It’s still got a terrible communist government, but the economy has been let loose and liberalised to some degree. The massive population now has an insatiable desire for commodities, cars, and in fact all the goodies that the western world loves.

China is a huge consumer of American goods of all sorts. If it were not for China, India and some others in Asia, the US and the world would still be in recession!

China’s communist government has allowed all of this free trade to take place openly.

But here’s the issue: China is one of the nations that will come against Israel in the great WW111 of Gog and Magog in Ezekiel 38 and 39. China will be allied with the Palestinians and Arab world against Israel and her allies, which will most probably include the US (unless the wheels really come off)

Even now China has a government that should not be trusted.

If China restricts trade with the US, the US economy is doomed. This is a very real probability.

China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, and India want to dump the US dollar for international trade. If they do, the dollar will collapse in value.

Yes, I know that almost all nations of the world will come against Israel right at the end, just before the Second Coming, but WW111 is likely to take place ahead of that by about seven years or so.

China actually holds the economic future of the US in its hands!

The deadly cycle:

 ►“Life liberty and happiness” has become the well known slogan for the nation. This is what is called the “American dream”.

► “In God we trust” is another well known slogan of the US.

► “One nation under God” is yet another.

But be careful out there!

Like a cycle of doom, liberty has a nasty habit of turning into captivity! The American dream will become a nightmare!

What will turn the dream to a nightmare? Glad you asked; it will be when the light goes dim and the salt loses its savour.  It is the job and duty of the true church, the born again believers to keep the darkness out. That’s was light does...it drives darkness out.

You see, liberty without the restraint supplied by the gospel, quickly becomes licence! Liberty then becomes captivity to the will and way of Satan.

Without Godly influence, liberty squeezes God out and in comes another god. “One nation under God” becomes “One nation under the god of humanism”  “In God we trust,” soon becomes “In the god of our own creation, we trust.”

Here are other well known American slogans:

●“Don’t mess with Texas.” Okay, but I would rather say ...”Don’t mess with Israel!”

●“Every man is a king.” Yep, that’s just the problem! Job41:34 “He (Satan) is king over all the children of pride.”

●“The evil empire.” That’s what its government is becoming!

●“I have a dream.” The American dream is in grave danger of becoming a nightmare!

●“The silent majority.” No, not anymore...the majority are going the wrong way and the church is silent!

●“The whole world is watching.” Yes, Hollywood has corrupted the entire world!

●“The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time and with the wrong enemy.” This slogan speaks of a past war, but has a tragic future application! America will eventually go to war against the living God!

The future of the USA

The USA will not suddenly go down the tubes. It has a very great chance of remaining relatively strong so that it can be aligned with the antichrist. It is most likely to be the ring leader of the nations of the world, who will all turn against the God of glory in the tribulation period.

If it were to remain a strong nation under God it would have to submit to God’s plans. If it were to remain a strong nation under God its ‘light’ would have to stay bright and it would have to remain ‘salty’.

Right now Satan, the father of lies and deception, is gaining a foothold in the US and the US is blind to it.

Don’t get me wrong, as the Spirit of God is poured out from on high, there will still be large numbers of people gloriously saved and set free. What I’m talking about here is the bigger picture for the US and particularly the direction it is taking as a result of its demonised political leaders.

There’s still a very good chance that America will have the largest number of truly saved believers of any nation, but some big-time repentance is needed.

The USA, with the world will be hit hard as soon as conflict breaks out in the Middle East and as soon as Israel is drawn in. The oil price will go through the roof and that will cripple the world economy. At the same time the tower of US debt will collapse as emotion rules the roost. Forget about recession; depression is coming.

Summary:

You may agree or disagree with this summary. I want to tell you that it is the truth!! Believe it or not!

The good news for the US is that it still has a lot of spiritual light and salt. Further good news is that it is still a friend of Israel.

These two issues are not cast in stone by any means.

The good news for the US is that it could be spared and saved on the basis of national repentance.

The bad news is that’s unlikely to happen!

The very fact that sin is advancing and getting worse at such a rate is a terrible sign that the church is getting darker.

The US inspired “roadmap to peace” in Israel is a slippery slope that the US has stepped onto, boots and all.

Just like God allowed the Pharaoh of Egypt to arise for His purposes, the US is now arising for its fateful encounter with the living God in judgment and destruction.

A great many Americans are charging down the road of “life, liberty and happiness” in their prosperity. But they’re filled with sin, blind to God’s word and about to step right into hell.

America will finally come to a bitter end in the Jezreel valley!

There are a very large number of people in the US that will heed all the warnings. They will truly be the “nation under and trusting in God,” but they will be the minority and the remnant!

Proverbs 11:2 “With the humble is wisdom.”

Proverbs 4:23 “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”

Here’s a sculpture at the Holocaust Museum in Israel. How much of a hand will the United States have in the coming second Holocaust?

Shalom and grow in grace!

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Edition 119: April 29 ^th 2012

Are the days numbered for the church?

News events and commentary:

●Israel has just celebrated 64 years of being reconciled as a nation. This began with independence in 1948. This is of major importance and part of the subject of this edition.

●I’m almost finished writing two new books, which will soon be available on this website. Here’re the covers:

I’ll share more about these books as soon as I’m finished writing and compiling them, which should be in a week or so. I’ll soon be starting a new book as well, which will be a real shocker as well as a real inspiration.

Are the days are numbered for the church!

If our Lord is not coming in the next 200 years or more, then it’s not really important to know the things about the timing of the coming of the Lord. This is exactly why people got it so wrong at 1000AD and many other times in the past.

But if our Lord is coming very soon, it IS important to know as much as we are entitled to know.

If you get to the station early and the train is only coming in an hour, you’ve got plenty of time to wonder off to the shop or read a book or anything else. If the train is due in a minute and you can already hear the rumble, should you get ready? The answer is obvious.

Right now, many are blind to the soon coming of our Lord and they actively discourage others to get ready, or to have anything to do with eschatology. They actively encourage others to ignore the signs of the times and live as though everything will continue as always. There’s no urgency they say.

But there are a fast growing number of church leaders who are unanimous on one thing and that is; The Lord is coming very soon! There are many churches that are really all hearing the “rumble” of the Lord’s soon coming right now, at the same time!

► I want to now look at some shocking facts, numbers and principles, and at some amazing signs of the soon coming of our Lord.

How many will be saved?

The word of the Lord gives us many shocking indications that only a few will be saved. That will still be a very large number, but it will be few in terms of the professing church and also few in terms of the world population.

Let’s have a look at some Bible verses:

1Timothy 4:1 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times, some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.”

1Timothy 5:15 “For some have already turned aside after Satan.”

Matthew 24:12 “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.”

Revelation 3:16 “So then because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I will spew you out of My mouth.”

2 Thessalonians 2:3 “...For that day will not come unless the falling away (great apostasy) comes first.”

Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to Me Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?” And then I will declare to them, “I never knew you, depart from Me...”

These verses above all relate to the church. The verses are shocking indeed. They paint a picture that is contrary to much of what is believed today.

The big thing is that many think they’re just fine, and that our Lord will pat them on the back and say “well done” when actually, He’ll say “depart from Me” Of course there are many who will be just fine with our Lord when He appears, but that’s not our subject now.

Please read these verses above again and let the truth sink in.

►Now let’s look at some Bible verses relating to the Jews who are being saved and will be in the near future.

Romans 11:5 “Even so then at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.”

Zechariah 8:12 “...I will cause a remnant of this people to possess all these things, and it shall come to pass that just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you and you shall be a blessing.”

Amos 5:15 “Hate evil, love good; establish justice in the gate. It may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Joel 2:32 “And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance as the Lord has said among the remnant whom the Lord calls.”

Isaiah 10:20-21 “And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, will never again depend on him who defeated them, but will depend on the Lord the Holy On e of Israel, in truth. The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God.”

Romans 11:25-26 “For I do not desire that you be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that hardening in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles has come in and so all Israel will be saved.”

The “all Israel” to be saved, would be the entire remnant and not every single person.

So, now we see almost the same thing relating to the coming mass salvation of the Jews. Only a remnant among them will be saved, just as with the church.

We must take these things very seriously.

Because the issue is so critical our Lord gives us all many deadly warnings.

Ezekiel 3:18 “...When you give no warning to the wicked...his blood I will require at your hand”

Acts 20:31 “...Remember that I did not cease to warn everyone with tears for three years.”

Colossians 1:28 “Him we preach warning every man in all wisdom...”

So now we have the Bible itself showing that only a remnant in the church and in Israel will be saved.

You can sit back and scream the odds at God. You can say that He isn’t fair. You can come up with all sorts of reasons why all these verses above are wrong and you are right. That’s not very clever.

The best thing to do is simply to accept the Bible at face value and turn your heart and soul to our great Lord in humility, repentance, desperation and in sincerity and truth.

Our Lord will never turn anyone away who set’s his heart after Him and does His will, even if it takes some time to get going!

The soon coming end of the era:

If you’ve read previous editions, you’ll be aware that the seven Feats of the Lord have an amazing prophetic parallel. The first four have been fulfilled to the actual day. The remaining three are still to be fulfilled.

Now if the last one which is Tabernacles will be fulfilled in the Second Coming and setting up of the Millennium, that would obviously be at the very end of the seven-year tribulation period. So, if we come forward seven years it will bring us to the Feast that signals the start of the tribulation.

This is the Feast of Trumpets, or Rosh Hashanah.

Again I’ve indicated in many previous editions that the Feats of Trumpets of 2014 may well be the start of the tribulation period. (Note I said “may well be”)

There are so many signs all dovetailing and coming together now that there’re far too much for it all to simply be coincidence. So, if it’s not Trumpets 2014 it’s pretty close anyway!

If the tribulation period is going to start within a few years, it means that the church era is coming to an end and the salvation of the Jews is about to go into top gear.

Of course if you believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, this means that the true church will be gone by then.

Personally, I lean towards this position, but I can walk happily with the ‘pre’ and ‘post’ crowd.

The only post-tribulation crowd that I find it difficult to walk with are those bound in legalism. Their view is so solidly cast in stone that they condemn and insult others who don’t have their view. It’s good to remember that legalism is as witchcraft!

A very interesting exposition:

First things first! No, I’m not date setting. The problem is that many have gone to the other extreme and thrown the baby out with the bathwater. They’ve fallen into the camp condemned by our Lord:  2 Peter 3:3 “Knowing this that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying “Where the promise of His coming, all things will continue as they were.”

This may come as a shock to many!

We may be at the very last year until the church begins a fast, terminal decline. If not it is very, very soon!

There’re many clues our Lord gives us for the timing of the end of the age. “The times of the Gentiles” is one of them.

Luke 21:24 “And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.”

Here’s the big question. When will the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled? If we can know this, then we can know when the tribulation period will begin and salvation will come to the Jews.

Is the church age or era synonymous with times of the Gentile”?  The term “Times of the Gentiles” relates clearly to the dispersion of the Jews and Gentile occupation and power over Jerusalem and Israel as a whole, by extension.

The term “times of the Gentiles” includes the church, but isn’t restricted to it.

The name “Ephraim” is well understood to refer collectively to the ten lost tribes of Israel. They fell into disobedience and were scattered among the Gentile nations. They then became Gentiles, so to speak.

There is a popular school of thought out there that these ten lost tribes have not completely lost their Jewish identity.

Either way, the ten tribes will be reunited with the others. All twelve tribes according to a number of prophecies will again come into being. The book of Romans, chapter 11, sees the “natural olive branch” as all twelve tribes.

A remnant of all twelve will be reunited.

Some believe that “Ephraim” refers to the USA. This may be true by extension, but not in actual interpretation.

So, it can be demonstrated that “Ephraim” and the “times of the Gentiles” are linked.

Now have a look at this amazing portion of scripture:

Isaiah 7:5-8 “Because Syria, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah have taken evil counsel against you saying, “Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabeel” ‘Thus says the Lord God: It shall not stand, nor shall it come to pass. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; within 65 years Ephraim will be broken, so that it will not be a people.

Okay now things get interesting. The above verse was fulfilled way back when. But as with many Bible prophecies they have a double reference and application. This is one of them.

Could this be a reference to the end of the “times of the Gentiles”? Could this be referring to our day?

If “Ephraim” is a reference to the Gentile era, including the church, and the times of the Gentiles refers to Gentile domination over Jerusalem and Israel, and it will be “broken in 65 years”. What can we get from that?

Well, quite simply, Israel has now just celebrated its 64^th year since independence from Gentile control. Next year will be “65 years”

If we apply Isaiah 7:8 to this time period, it could mean that next year is going to be critical for the world. “Ephraim will be broken” it says. This could refer to great troubles coming. We do know that the restoration of Israel will be in terrible and troublesome times.

It’s now 64 years since Israel’s independence. Next year is 65 years. Is Isaiah saying that “times of the Gentiles” are just about up, and we’re about to see God intensify His plans towards the remnant of Israel?

A bit earlier in chapter seven, Isaiah mentions his son, Shear- Jashub. This name literally means, “The remnant shall return”

Then a bit further on in the chapter we see the wonderful “Immanuel” prophecy speaking of the “virgin conceiving” and Israel’s eyes being opened to their Messiah.

A word of caution: This is all application and not direct interpretation cast in stone. But it is all interesting when we tie it all together with so many other signs of the times!

We’re commanded to watch for signs of the times.

Here are just a few verses amongst many:

Titus 2:13 “Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our Lord...”

Hebrews 10:25 “...Exhorting one another, and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.”

Matthew 16:3 “...Hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.”

Luke 21:29-31 “Look at the fig tree and all the trees. When they are already budding, you see and know for yourselves that the summer is now near. So you likewise, when you see all these things happening know that the kingdom of God is near.

Matthew 24:33 “So you also when you see all these things, know that it is near even at the very doors.”

1 Thessalonians 5:4 “But you brethren are not in darkness so that this day should overtake you as a thief.”

Summary:

Will you be one of the ‘remnant’ of God’s people?  My prayer for you is exactly that!

The 65 years of Isaiah could well be a warning from our Lord. I may be wrong also. What I’m not wrong about is the fact that our Messiah is coming soon, and it’s time get serious about our spiritual lives.

Knowing God’s program and His plans should inspire us to know our Lord more and better. Only this way can we face the future with confidence.

My prayed for you and me is that we may know our Lord and His word and be known by Him.

1 John 5:4 “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world...”

Here’s a painting Raphael representing the prophet Isaiah.

Shalom and grow in grace!

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Edition 118: April 24^th 2012

Whom shall I send?

News events and commentary:

●With the recent remembrance of the Holocaust, I wonder how many are saying (and rightfully so) “Never again!” That’s not the intention of Islamic extremism. They are the new Nazis.

●The US has been stockpiling up to $800million worth of weapons in Israel...with permission.

●Rumours abound in high places that Israel and the US are preparing for military action.

●Iran prepares to block oil being transported through the Straits of Hormuz.

●The US is preparing for military action in Syria.

Whom shall I send?

Isaiah 6:8 “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said, “Here I am, send me!”

Our great, wonderful, King, Lord and saviour, has an army to do His work for Him in this day. Let’s look at who qualifies, who does not and why. It’s not enough to be available, there is much more involved.

Right up front let me tell you who the people are that make up the Lord’s army. They are the crucified ones. They are the cross-bearers. They are the ones with the power of death and resurrection working in them!

They are not those who simply profess to be Christians. They are especially not a great many who are self appointed into ministry.

If you are not one the cross-bearers, you will be building what is doomed. You will be motivated and dominated by self, the flesh, the world and the demonic. You will substitute the church for living Yeshua / Jesus!

Babylon means confusion. The man made church is just that...it is all confused, it’s full of division and sectarianism...it will not stand because it’s the church of the flesh.

We are to bring people into the Kingdom of the living God and not dead church institutions!

God created a body with one head. He did not create many bodies hanging out of one head. He did not create many heads and one body. He created one single body with Himself as the one single head. We are His body, He is the singular head.

Do you know where and who the multi-headed monster is. The beast with many heads is a portrayal of Satan in the book of Revelation.

Is the monster your head, or the Master?

Divided churchianity has followers who become like them. They all believe what their division believes and become dependent on it and each other. The institution is preeminent. They believe it’s the work of God, while it’s actually the work of man and the flesh. It’s the way to spiritual desolation.

The great commission is Kingdom orientated. The Kingdom of God is not the church. It includes the church, but it's much more. The Kingdom of God is not divided against itself! We need kingdom vision.

Some big church organisations are nothing more than institutional corporate businesses. They operate just the same way. They are a like a mixture between a sports club and a business corporation. Their staff are position seekers, recognition seekers, authority seekers, money seekers. They’re full time professionals with databases and flow-charts and Jesus is their sponsor!

God says that one of the churches in the seven of the Revelation is actually hosting the “seat of Satan”

Instead of resurrection life, you’ll substitute it with works, laws, nice programs and the like. Many leaders have made an idol out of the institutional church. Much of the modern church is an idolatrous system of evil traditions.

“Whom shall I send,” says our Lord. “Who shall ascend to the mountain of our God and King?”

So, our Lord is looking for those whom He can send. Isaiah 66:2 “On this one will I look: Om him who is poor and of a contrite spirit and who trembles at My word.” Here we have the ones that God is looking for! Note the qualifications.

This is a description of those who are crucified and taking up their own crosses, not so?

Are these liberal Christians, or evangelical Christians or maybe, they’re charismatic Christians?

Some idiots think that the way to really get into God’s good books is to study, and become a learned scholarly product of the local cemetery, I mean seminary.

You know, sometimes people leave a church because they’re fed up with it going nowhere, only to go down the road to another church and there is the same old wrinkled whore, only she’s now got a different dress on. Before you scream the odds at me for calling a church a whore...no I didn’t God Himself did in quite a few places in the Revelation!

Many people go from one church to another genuinely looking for a deeper reality to their spiritual lives. God is calling them, but they get fed with idolatry, and phoney whitewashed facades of truth.

Do you know that many church leaders have misguided the church and led it astray? They’ve led it into the arms of Satan. Do you think that’s too strong? Well. Do you know that in God’s assessment of the church in Revelation 3 He accuses one church of “knowing the depths of Satan?”

The transfer of life:

True Biblical Christianity must (and does) produce deep inner peace and rest...it must be so. In fact you can use exactly this as a measure for your own growth.

What happens when you’re obedient to our Lord and you’re taking up your own cross? Let me give you a clue: It’s pretty similar to what happened to our Messiah. What happens is resurrection.

Here’s something amazing to think about: After the resurrection and before the ascension, our Lord appeared to and only dealt with His own. For us this speaks of the real meaning of holiness, which is separation. That is the right way. Of course we’re in the world and must partake in it, but there must be an inner total separation from the world’s spirit (and many things of the world)

The application of the cross of our Lord produces death. This is the way to deal with self or the flesh nature, the world system and the demonic.  Do you know what death is? It is separation. Death separates us from all that is not of our Lord.

Only then can we fully come into wonderful resurrection life now.

Only then can we transfer the life of God to others.

We impart who and what we are to others and not just what we say!

We are being sent by our Lord to be witnesses to death resurrection and glory. This is our amazing job.

This was exactly the way the disciples of our Lord and the early church (up to about 300AD) “turned the world upside down” Acts 17:6

Are you turning the world upside down, or is it turning you upside down?

The days ahead.

There are so many prophetic things dovetailing together right now. We’re going into critical and dangerous times. There’ll be untold masses of people who’ll soon be looking for real truth. The Spirit of the Lord is being poured out now and will be in greater proportions.

Will you be able to transfer God Himself to others? Or will you simply invite them to your church?

Of course there are many wonderful churches, called and anointed of our Lord, but there are perhaps more in number today that are institutions of deception.

The message of the cross is not popular today, be aware of that, but it is truth. It is the only right way.

Quotes from Watchman Nee

These quotes may not be exact; they’re from memory (from the 70s)

Nee’s book “The Normal Christian life is an absolute shocker. It is so far from today’s normal, that it’s totally foreign. Most regular churchy types would see it as blasphemy! The book is centred on the theme “Not I but Christ” this is what Nee called ‘normal’ for the believer.

●The blood of the Lamb washes away our sins, but the cross strikes the very root of sin.

●God’s way is not to make us stronger and stronger, but weaker and weaker all the way to death. Too many are not weak enough. The old nature must die on the cross. You can’t renew the old nature, you can only kill it.

●The end of self is God’s beginning.

●The most spiritual cry anyone can make is “O wretched man that I am.” This when God comes rushing in.

●As “I decrease, so He increases.”

●The Christian life is not a changed life but an exchanged life. It’s my old life for His new life.

●The cross has borne me, now I must bear it.

●I don’t need more patience, I need more of Christ.

●The tragedy of too many Christians is that they’ve gone too far for the world to use them, but not far enough for God’s purposes.

Nee’s book “The messenger of the cross” is also a shocker. It’s absolutely essential for anyone involved in missions. The book is centred on the principle of the messenger of the cross being a crucified person!

We are not to replicate church systems or institutionalised Christianity. We’re to replicate life. We’re to transfer the very life of God to a dying world.

We have great “treasure in earthen vessels”. For the treasure to be seen the vessel must be broken. This is the glorious work of the cross.

You know the story of the woman with the alabaster jar containing a precious ointment used to anoint bodies for burial. To release the beautiful fragrance the jar had to be broken.

This is the work of the cross in our lives. It delivers us to death, but then the beautiful fragrance of the Holy Spirit fills the surroundings!

Some issues.

I often wonder why so many people move on and forward into ever worsening sin. We can’t change that, it’s not our job, but what is our job is to preach the law, which identifies sin and then to preach the answer, which is Christ and Him crucified.

Those who reject the law think there’s no such thing as sin. “It’s just a lifestyle choice” they say. So, what does the church do? It removes the preaching of the law as the “schoolmaster to lead them to Christ” 

Can you see the horror in that? These churches are responsible for damning many to hell because they’ve watered down the very thing that identifies sin.

Truth is an immovable powerful force. If you try to move or change it you won’t succeed, but you may well succeed in producing the fruit of deceivers, which is confusion.

God will provide the way ahead for what He has started in you. He will not provide a gift that essentially replaces Him in your life.

Here are some quotes from an old-school favourite -  A.W. Tozer:

●In Christ I have died, yet I’m more alive than before.

●I live on earth, yet I’m seated in heaven. I live on earth, but I’m not at home here.

●I lose my life to save it. I’m strongest when I’m weakest!

●When I’m acutely conscious of sin, I’m most sinless.

●I’m unworthy, yet the ‘apple of God’s eye’.

●The deeper Christian life is only deeper because the average Christian today is so shallow.

●You can’t be fully blessed until you’re fully conquered.

Summary:

Our great Lord is looking for messengers who are themselves the message. They’re the crucified ones. These words are easy to write and read, but they must be applied if we’re going to get anywhere significant with our Lord.

Today there’s a monster and a Master out there. The multi headed monster is the most popular, but is hell bound with all his followers.

The multi headed monster is closely related to the whore of Babylon

Many have great difficulty paying the price required by our Lord, simply because they don’t see the value. What value is there in the attributes of the whore of Babylon?

Today shallow shepherds produce shallow sheep. They don’t know any better! These shepherds are useless in delivering people from slavery to sin, because they themselves are enslaved to the world.

The one who’s filled with the Spirit of the living God will be able to see clearly. You can have as much of our Lord’s Spirit as you want or as little.

The big mark on your life of true spirituality will be your desire to be holy and to impart it and see and help others move into this glory.

The work of the cross in our lives produces a deep rest and solitude. It’s from this position of rest that we go out to war and become effective!

Proverbs 11:30 “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he who wins souls is wise.”

Proverbs 12:12 “The root of the righteous yields fruit.”

Here’s a painting by Marc Chagall titled Solitude

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Shalom and grow in grace!

Edition 117. 17th April 2012

Why are great catastrophes coming?

News events and comment.

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●The Muslim Brotherhood starts aligning itself with Iran...angers the US.

●Russia is massing troops on Iran's northern border. They're expecting conflict soon and will come to Iran's aid.

●The US has it's second aircraft carrier on the way to the gulf, while French submarines wait in the same waters.

●Iran's Ahmadinejad again warns the West that they will regret any armed action. (17 April)

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Why are great catastrophes coming

In this edition I want to look at some very import factors relating to the reasons for the soon-coming great catastrophes and calamities that are about to hit the earth with ferocious intensity.

The first and obvious reason, is because God says so in His word.

But God doesn't do things without reason, or without warning, so let's dig into these things.

As with everything in the Prophetic Scroll, this is not designed to give you knowledge. Its overall purpose is to do that, and assist you in turning your heart and soul towards our Lord in an ever-deepening way. Its pointless knowing many things and having a cold heart.

The Bible says that "peace will be taken from the earth" (Revelation 6:4) (Matthew 10:34) No peacemaker will succeed until the Prince of peace returns!

The first big thing we must understand is that there is a huge conflict on the go in the spirit world. We won't see or understand things correctly if we don't understand that.

The spiritual conflict then manifests in the world through people driven by spiritual forces moving or occupying them.

Truth and error travel the same highway, but we must understand that truth and error are essential spirits. The Bible talks of the "Spirit of truth and the spirit of error." These two spirits are in growing conflict. Many times error is very close to the truth, but because of the evil spirit behind it, it is a counterfeit.

The reason why many can't see the truth is because they don't have the Spirit of truth. They've been blinded by the god of this world and his spirit of error.

The single biggest underlying reason why God will bring terrible judgement on this world is not because the world rejects Him. It will be because they actively come against God's revealed will purpose and plans.

God will not allow the full manifestation of evil.

Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it?"

Jude 14-15 "Behold the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly...and all the harsh things which the ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."

Romans 1:18 "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness

Romans 2:2 "The judgement of God is according to truth..."

Matthew 5:13 "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses it's flavour, how shall it be seasoned. It is then good for nothing, but to be thrown out..."

Galatians 5:9 "A little leaven leavens the whole lump." 

Hosea 4:1 "There is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land." The rest of this chapter goes on to describe the terrible judgements that come on a land as a result.

God is absolutely fair and just!

He never acts in judgement without warning first.

All the big judgements of the Old Testament were preceded by many warnings.

If God warns society against homosexuality and society ignores Him, whose fault is that? If God warns against the worship of false gods and the people ignore Him, whose fault is that?

God has given and presented His truth, His ways and His will to mankind in the form of His word, and with His word, He's given the author, His Spirit.

God has provided all the answers in His word. He's provided His own Son as a sacrifice for salvation. He's provided everything we need, to be led into all truth.

He's provided all the warnings to this modern world in His word.

God's judgement is preceded with the offer of grace, mercy, compassion and forgiveness, but if rejected, judgement follows.

At the end of the day, every unbeliever will have to say "amen" to their own judgement.

But there are many people out there who not only ignore God's warnings, they've set themselves up to attack and actively come against the living God. Some don't even know that they're tools of the devil himself.

If you want to be an ordinary garden variety unbeliever...good luck. But if you want come against God's revealed will and plans...beware, beware!

God has tolerated rebellion against Himself for ages. The problem is that these things don't stay static. As said, we're in a spiritual environment of conflict. There is a fast growing concerted attack on God's word and ways in this day.

Coming against God's plans sets you up against Him!

Another big reason why God will soon bring judgement upon this world is because it has fallen in love with sin. Sin is progressive, it rarely stays static. The more people get into sin, the more they need.

Sin always leads to the rejection of God. That then leads to open hostility towards God and His word.

You see, when you get involved in a particular sinful lifestyle, God says it's sin and wrong. Either you need to repent or reject God word. But how can you reject God's word without rejecting Him? You can't have a sinful lifestyle and worship the true God at the same time. Something will have to give in.

Sin must by it's very nature reject God's holiness.

God loves the people of the world, but He is also just fair and holy.

God will not allow the full manifestation of sin, because when sin has fully matured, Satan is enthroned as a god and the true God and His word are displaced and cast down.

►The end of sin is the replacement of God and His word with the devil and his word. This why God will not allow it to fully develop.

A tragic example:

One individual set out recently to destroy this website. I was threatened as well. By the way, this website is greatly loved by many and greatly hated by traditionalists.

This person is not born again and is a multi-faith universalist. He believes in the universal legitimacy and validity of all religions. He believes in coexistence and tolerance between all religions. He believes that love between them all is all that matters.

Yet he hates me and this work. He has a particular resentment for the fact that this work has grown mightily. He hates the fact that I portray Christianity as exclusive and not inclusive of all religions and lifestyles.

But hang on a minute, I thought this guy believed in universal coexistence and tolerance?

It seems that he does believe that, except for those that hold and proclaim the truth!

The one single thing that separates true Biblical Christianity from all other religions is the cross of Christ and His resurrection. If all other religions were legitimate, it would make the cross meaningless and the resurrection pointless.

Unfortunately this individual like a great many others in this day, are filled with a satanic hatred for the true crucified and risen Christ! These types will accept anything and everything except the truth.

Unfortunately this individual is on thin ice. It's not because he rejects God's word or salvation plan, but because he actively attacks and comes against Gods plan and His work.

The reason a big Third World War will soon break out.

Replacement theology replaces God's call and plan for the Jewish people with church. It goes much further. Replacement theology replaces God's word with the word of the world in all it's human wisdom. It glorifies man and brings down God.

The world's "Roadmap to Peace" is a classic example. It rejects God's word and replaces it with the word of many meetings, councils, roundtables, conferences and the like.

Joel 3:2 "I will gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into judgement with them there, on account of My people Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land."

Here is God's word and plan for Israel:

Amos 9:15 "I will plant them (Israel) in their land and no longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them, says the Lord."

Can you see the reason why God will bring judgement on the world? It's because they have chosen the worlds "Roadmap to Peace" which is nothing more than dividing up the land and rejected God's word.

Can you see that you can't have both? If you are going to go with the plans of the world, you must reject God's word and replace it with the world's word.

Replacement theology is more far reaching than you might imagine. It includes replacing much more than Israel with the church. It actually replaces God with the devil.  Replacement theology will see you doomed to hell!

All the roundtables of the world are doomed. They're all inspired by the god of this world. They'll all soon unify to come against Israel, because this is God's word and choice!

As they come against God and His word they replace it with their own word and plan. But it doesn't end there. How will they come against God and His word? They'll attack Israel! This will lead to the final attack by God on all of His enmies.

Great War and destruction is coming. We don't know the exact timing yet. We do know that's it's all coming very soon. The Great War will involve the major world superpowers and Israel. According to the descriptions it will be a World War and will be the most destructive yet seen by the world.

This great conflict, WW111, will all be centred around Israel, it will occur because the world dominated by its god, will set itself up to come against the living God and His choice and plan for Israel.

Israel herself will see great destruction, but will be brought through it all by our Lord. This will be the time when Israel turns to our great Saviour in great numbers, although that is already starting.

The reasons for the coming world economic catastrophe

There is a soon coming world economic collapse. The world will head into recession and some nations into full blown depression. The cause will be simply because debt has got out of control. Government created debt has been around for ages, but the day you can't service debt is the day you're finished.

If this happens on a global scale at the same time it will cause a collapse in confidence and a sudden deterioration of all fiat (paper-based) currencies.

The psychological issues involved in a market collapse are the main driving forces. Fear and uncertainty lead to panic. Panic leads to irrational actions. There will be a run on banks. Banks will collapse. From here the economic catastrophe will spread at lightning speed to all financial institutions around the world.

This will cause a great economic tsunami and a great shaking of all things that people put their hope and trust in.

This will prepare the way for a one-world currency and a one-world government.

The single biggest reason for the collapse will be unrestrained government debt getting out of hand worldwide at the same time.

These things can happen very quickly. Fear spreads like wildfire!

But the overall reason will be so that Satan can set up his system of world control.

Why is Europe headed for destruction?

 Do you know what the anthem of the European Union is? Here it is:

The EU adopted this as their anthem. The words are by Friedrich Schiller in 1785. It's called the Ode to Joy:

Joy, bright spark of divinity,

daughter of Elysium (a mythological afterlife ruled by many gods)

Fire-inspired we tread thy sanctuary.

Thy magic power re-unites  all that custom has divided.

All men become brothers

Under the sway of thy gentle wings.

Above is the EU building in Strasburg. It was deliberately designed to resemble the tower of Babel painting. Europa riding the bull was depicted on one of the coins and here she is in statue form as well. This is reminiscent of the woman riding the beast of Revelation.

Europa was a mythological figure who was abducted by the satanic god Zeus, who manifested as a bull according to the legend. He rode off with her and the two had sex, producing a son.  Zeus was one of the representations of Satan. The throne of Satan in Revelation 2:13 is believed to be the throne of Zeus. She is also associated with the goddess Astarte (Easter) in other myths and legends.

Here is a sculpture of Europa riding Zeus (Satan) dating back to 400BC.

Europe has become more and more evil. It's become spiritually dark. This isn't only the story of Europe, but Europe is by far the worst of the Western nations. I can see this visually in the statistics for this website. There are very few visitors from Western Europe.

Europe combined with some of the Muslim nations further east, has a fatal prophetic future. It will host the antichrist and lead the world in a second Holocaust against Israel.

The EU may break up or reform soon. But well into the tribulation period, Europe will have two "legs"; the western and eastern legs. The eastern leg will include Turkey and perhaps a few other Muslim nations. It will become increasingly hostile to Israel.

We're already seeing much of Europe becoming Muslim.

It's interesting that we're seeing more and more EU logos springing up at meeting and conferences where the normal logo of stars in a circle has now been changed to look like the all seeing eye!

God will allow Europe to continue for some time until His purposes have come to pass. You don't want to be in Europe or have any association with it once the antichrist has been revealed and once the tribulation has begun. Hopefully the true church will not be here then. (Note I said "hopefully")

God will bring Europe to total and complete destruction at the end of the tribulation period. The main reason will be because of its actions against Israel and the dividing of the land of Israel. It will be because they hosted Satan himself. It will be because they actively reject and come against God's choice, will and plans, and replace them with their own.

Joel 3:2 "I will also gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into judgement with them there on account of My people, My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have also divided up My land."

We see the outcome of this verse further on. Joel 3:9-10 "Prepare for war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them all come up. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears."

On that subject:

In front of the UN building is a statue with the verse "They beat their swords into plowshares and the spears into pruning hooks" inscribed on it. Boy, did they get that wrong! That's a verse for the Millennium. What comes first before the Millennium is the verse above in Joel 3:9-10!!

Here it is:

Europe will be united in it's enmity for Israel with many other nations of the world. They think the road to peace comes out of their Satan-ruled minds. Dividing the land of Israel does not bring peace!! It brings war...big-time!

There's a big difference between those that simply reject God's word and those that actively come against God's plans or try to change them completely into the opposite.

Galatians 6:7 "Do not be deceived God is not mocked."

A very big difference between the Old and New Testaments.

There is an undeniable huge difference between the judgements of God that fell upon God's enemies in the Old Testament and the New.

In the Old, we see many huge, massive demonstrative supernatural and physical judgements. Some people have tried to explain them away with natural phenomenon, but that's all rubbish. We see fire falling from heaven, entire cities wiped out. A woman turned to salt, water flooding the world and many more.

In this New Testament era we see nothing of the sort. Natural earthquakes, tsunamis and the like are all natural events. Yes God will use these and they will increase in intensity, but they're nothing like the big Old Testament judgments.

Prophecy describes the same sort of judgements as in the Old Testament coming again except much worse.

This is one the big reasons why many including myself believe that the Old Testament has not been completed. The final week of Daniel's 70 weeks is the completion of the Old testament and a return to that manner of severe demonstrative judgements.

This is another reason supporting different dispensations.

Ephesians 1:10 "That in the dispensation of the fullness of times, He might gather together in one all things in Christ..."

Ephesians 3:2 "If indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God..."

Hebrews 1:1 "God who at various times (lit=dispensations) and in different ways spoke in times past..."

God will win!

What an an amazing statement. How could He not. He is God!

The true church of the living God is on the road to victory. It may not look like it sometimes!

If God is in His people by and through the new birth, His people are the ultimate victors, even in death.

Here are some portions of verses describing true born again believers, also called the church.

●"The gates of hell will not prevail against them."

●We are "God's workmanship."

●We are the "household of God."

●We are the "planting of God."

●We are the "temple of the Holy Spirit."

●We are the "bride of Christ".

●We are the "body of Christ".

●We are "the overcomers".

●We are the "light of the world".

●We are the "salt of the earth."

We don't win because of who we are in our own self effort, we win because we have the living God as part of our very being.

We win because we are born into God's family and God's army. We may be a lot smaller, just like the armies of the children of Israel under David facing Goliath, but just like that story we will win. In fact we have won already!

In the midst of all of this there is a powerful satanically inspired counterfeit church growing up right beside the true church. It has been produced by Satan's bride...his people. Satan, the god of human good and evil comes in camouflage as an angel of light!

This counterfeit church has a counterfeit god, a false gospel and a false spirit driving it. Don't be fooled by it. Yes it will become dominant and very big. Don't be fooled. The Bible prophesied that it would be just like this.

Prophecy has, is, and will be triumphant!

The amazing thing about prophecy is that it's coming to pass exactly as proclaimed in the Bible.

Of course there are many things in the Bible that are types and allegories, but this does no damage to the literal interpretation of Bible prophecy.

Bible prophecy was fulfilled literally and exactly in the Old Testament. Not one failed. Prophecy in the Old and New Testaments have also had the same pattern of fulfilment. All the prophecies of the Bible relating to these end times, which began with the rebirth of Israel, are and will be fulfilled in the same manner.

Do you want to gamble your life against those odds?

Summary

It's not very clever to set yourself up as an enemy of the living God! Preacher reading this...take note!

The one big reason why God's judgement will fall hard soon is because many people and nations will actively come against God's revealed prophetic plan. They will come in huge numbers, feeding off the deception imbedded in each of their hearts. They're on a collision course with God.

People that replace God's will with their own, actually replace God's will with Satan's and Satan is in eternal conflict with our God.

This eternal enmity is coming to a head now. This will soon escalate in intensity and frequency.

Please understand that you can't simply reject God and His word. You can do that for a time, but you will eventually have to come against God and his word. When you do this you are an active enemy of the living eternal truth and it's God.

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Obadiah 1:3 "The pride of your heart has deceived you..."

Amos 8:11 "Behold the days are coming says the Lord, that I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord"

James 4:4 "Do you not know that friendship with the world is hatred towards God?

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Here's an image of Elijah the prophet on a stained glass window. Elijah was one of the types of the rapture of the church, being taken alive to heaven.

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Shalom and grow in grace!

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