Chapter 15.15
Armageddon
When,
Where, How – Ishmael & Isaac – Blood Feud - Islam – The Qur’an – Blood
Libel
Chemical,
Biological & Nuclear Warfare – Great White Throne Judgment – Supper Time
Two
Battles – USA – Russia - North Korea – Arabs – China – Japan - Egypt – Gog
& Magog
First
Word
The word "Armageddon"
appears only once in the Greek New Testament, it comes from the
Hebrew word har məgiddô, meaning "Mountain of
Megiddo". It is actually not a mountain, but a hill
created by many generations of people living and rebuilding on the same spot.
This battlefield lies in the northern part
of Israel, east of Mount Carmel and stretches from the Mediterranean Sea
eastward across the northern part of Israel.
Many wars were fought on the plain of Har-Megedon. The term “Armageddon” has been used “symbolically”
whenever in a Great War the need was the greatest for God’s help.
In this final battle, the restraining force, which is the Holy Spirit,
has gone from earth; there is no longer any restraint on man and man will just
do whatever is in his heart. This brings
up the RAPTURE doctrine which
I will not cover here, but accepting the Belief System of
this doctrine, the church of believers will be removed; saved, gone, along with
the Holy
Spirit which is in every believe.
ü
Noah was saved from destruction in the Ark and
ü
Lot was saved from the destruction of Sodom and
Gomorra.
“I will also keep
you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test
those who live on the earth”.[1]
Hill of Megiddo - From
Wikipedia
Getting Ahead of God
To talk about Armageddon, it
seems reasonable to look at what leads up to this World War
Sarah gave her maidservant Hagar to Abraham to father a child,[2] (This is where we get the phrase “God helps
those who help themselves”;
this is not in the Bible.) and Hagar
gave birth to a son named Ishmael.[3] Abraham loves Ishmael and raises him in his
home as his “FIRST BORN” son. Fourteen years later Sarah
gives birth to Isaac her first son,[4]
but who was the ‘SECOND BORN” to Abraham.
Flavius
Josephus – Who
is this guy?
Most scholars quote Josephus writings like everybody knows who he is...
Well, I didn’t. Josephus (37 A.D. to 100 A.D) was born
Josephus ben
Matthias (son of Matthias) and for some
time lived with the Essenes
who gave us the Dead
Sea Scrolls; he studied with the Sadducees and as well as the Pharisees
to determine which sect was best; he became a
Pharisee at the age of 19 and
later became a high
priest in Israel as well as the governor of
the province of Galilee.
He fought against the Romans and was taken prisoner. His life was spared when he predicted that
would become governor and two years later he did. The Roman Vespasian gave him all the
writings of the Prophets and Scribes that were found in the Temple for
him to write the history of Israel.
ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS is a twenty-volume historiographical work
composed by the Jewish historian Titus Flavius Josephus in
the thirteenth year of the reign of Flavius Domitian, the
Roman emperor, which
was around 93 or 94 AD. Antiquities of the Jews contains an account of the history
of the Jewish people.
Josephus took on Flavius’s name as his middle name and became a Roman citizen, however most Jews
considered him an unforgivable traitor. Josephus’s texts were written in Hebrew and later translated into Greek.
He had the common knowledge of the people as well as the physical
documents that were needed to be considered a legitimate historian. Josephus was born into a family of Priest
about four years after the death of Jesus Christ. When you read his writings, it’s just like he
had the Book
of the Law in front of him as he wrote and I’m sure he did. He was
NOT a follower of The
Way.
Josephus on Ismael
Josephus, the Jewish Historian writes in 70AD:
“As for Sarah, she at first loved Ismael, who was born of her own
handmaid Hagar,
with an affection not inferior to that of her own son, for he was brought up,
in order to succeed in the government, but when she herself had borne Isaac,
she was not willing that Ismael should be brought up with him, as being
too old for him, and able to do him injuries when their father should be dead”.
She therefore persuaded Abraham to send him and his mother to some
distant country. Now, at the first he
did not agree to what Sarah was so zealous for, and thought it an
instance of the greatest barbarity to send away a young child (14 years of age) and a woman un-provided
of necessaries.
But at length he agreed to it; because God was pleased with what Sarah
had determined; so he delivered Ismael to his mother, as not yet able to go by
himself; and commanded her to take a bottle of water, and a loaf of bread, and
so to depart and to take necessity for her guide.
When the lad Ishmael was grown up, he
married a wife, by birth an Egyptian, from whence the mother was herself
derived originally. Of this wife were born to Ismael TWELVE SONS. These inhabited all the country from
Euphrates to the Red Sea, and called it Nabatene. They are an Arabian nation and name their
tribes from these, both because of their own virtue and because of the dignity
of Abraham
their father.
Ishmael
What follows is a very important detail
to digest. It is at the request
of Abraham
that Ishmael
became the nation that it is today. Abraham
loved Ishmael
and wanted him to receive a blessing like the promised
given to Isaac.[5] God hears
Abraham’s prayer
and promises Ishmael
to become a great nation also with TWELVE TRIBES, but he would NOT receive THE
COVENANT that
was promised through Isaac.
Ishmael’s Twelve Tribes are Nebaioth,
Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah,
Massa;
who we know as the MIDIANITES,
EDOMITES, EGYPTIANS and ASSYRIANS; the great desert people of the Middle
East.[6]
These twelve tribes were given a
vast land, much more than Isaac, but they wanted the land of the covenant too…. AND STILL DO.
Blood Feud starts
The Angel tells Hagar
that when Ishmael
is born, he will
be a wild ass of a man and live in hostility toward his brothers and
they will be against him also.[7]
The covenant
was promised by God to Abraham and Sarah a free woman, not to Hagar
a bond woman, a maidservant. Ishmael
was born of the flesh (Free Will); Isaac was
born of the promise. (Predestined)
Ishmael
is fourteen years old when Isaac is born and begins to make fun of him.[8] Ishmael is jealous because he himself was the FIRST BORN of Abraham, yet
the blessing of the covenant of God would be with the SECOND BORN, Isaac.
In the beginning Cain became jealous of Able who was favored by God and Cain killed him. This is repeated again with the two brothers;
when Ishmael
became jealous of Isaac.
This jealousy developed into hatred and has lasted some 4,000 years.
The promised land of God was passed down through Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob,
not through Ishmael[9]
which is the source of the friction between the Arabs and the Jews
today; specifically the city of Jerusalem. Remember
this.
The Qur’an on Allah
Koran, Quran, Qur’an; the accepted
transliteration is Qur’an and the word Muslim is preferred over the
word Moslem according to Wikipedia. In the Qur’an it is presented that the Christian, Jew
and Muslim all follow the SAME God of Abraham.
According to Islamic belief, Allah is the proper name of
God, and humble submission to His
Will, Divine Ordinances and Commandments is the pivot of the Muslim
faith. "He
is the only God, creator of the universe, and the judge of humankind”.
The Qur’an insists... Muslims
believe... and historians
affirm... that Muhammad and his followers worship the same
God as the Jews.
BUT, the Qur'an portrays
Allah as
both more
powerful and more remote than
Yahweh,
and as a UNIVERSAL deity,
unlike Yahweh
who closely follows the Israelites.
What people believe can
be more powerful than the truth.
(Hal Lindsey)
Islam
Islam purports that
the True
Covenant of God and bloodline of Abraham
rests with Ishmael
the First Born and NOT with Isaac
the Second born.
ü
They believe that the scriptures were distorted and changed
by the Jews
to establish themselves as the heirs to the covenant.
ü
Islam says Abraham
had eight sons NOT twelve; all
reared in Mecca
not Hebron.
ü
They claim it was Ishmael who was about to be
sacrificed on Mount Moriah NOT Isaac.
ü
They claim the title deed to the land was passed
down through the Arabs not the Jews.
Israel
had defeated the Arab world five times in
succession; humiliated, the Arabs are out for revenge.
The Muslim’s cannot even get along with
their own sect as there is a long running blood feud between
the Sunnis
and the Shiites
power bases.
Today
Islam commands; “Fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them and seize
them, beleaguer them and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war”.
Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud says; “We shall never call for or accept a
negotiated peace. We shall only accept
war... Jihad... the holy war.
We have resolved to drench the lands of Palestine and Arabia with the blood of
the infidels
or to accept martyrdom for the glory
of Allah”.
Islamic Jihad... to
die for the cause of Islam is an honor... A passport to paradise.
Blood
Libel - Rabbit Trail
Blood
Libel; the BIG LIE: A medieval
lie against the Jews. Blood libel stories were fabricated that the Jews kidnapped
Christian children, ritually killed them and used their blood in the making of unleavened
bread for Passover
as well as for other religious purposes. They drank their blood... they were blood suckers.
They required their children to cause harm and kill non-Jewish children and
take their goods.
Christians
were ignorantly caught up in this propaganda and Anti-Semitism was born; HATE and division... Hitler
used it as well as the Ku Klux Klan.
Anti-Semitism started when the early church fathers
labeled the Jews as Christ Killers, children of the Devil, demonic, blood
thirsty pagans, and plague carriers.
Bishop John Chrysostom in AD 345 wrote the
following:
“The Jews are the most worthless
of all men. They are lecherous, greedy and rapacious. They are perfidious
murders of Christ. They worship the devil; their religion is a
sickness. The Jews are the odious assassins of Christ, and for killing God there is no expiation possible, no
indulgence or pardon. Christians
may never cease vengeance, and the Jews must live in servitude forever. God
always hated the Jews.
It is incumbent upon all Christians
to hate the Jews”.
Jew
Hunters
are used in God’s plan today to aid in the return of the Jews to the nation of
Israel. First, He will fish for them and
pull them in by love,[10]
later He drives them in by fear. Today,
although Anti-Semitism still exists, many Gentiles are being drawn to the Jews
and seek to help them.[11] The USA as a “Nation” has certainly supported
Israel; but new leadership has caused it to wane.
Pray for the leaders of our nation
Ezekiel 37:12 – I will bring back the Nation of
Israel
12 This is what
the Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring
you up from them;
I will bring you back to the land
of Israel.
NIV
Israel Becomes a State
As the Muslim prays toward
Mecca, the Jew scattered among the nations prays towards Jerusalem
believing for the day they will return as breath to “dry bones” in the grave.
On May 14, 1948 David
Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionis Organization and
president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared "the
establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the STATE OF ISRAEL."
Neighboring Arab states invaded the next day in support of the Palestinian Arabs. Ever since, Israel has fought wars with
neighboring Arab states (Wikipedia)
Ezekiel 37:4-6 – I will put breath in the dry
bones of Israel
4 Then he said
to me, "PROPHESY to these bones
and say to them,
`Dry bones, hear the word of the
LORD!
5 This is what
the Sovereign LORD says to these bones:
I will make breath enter you, and you
will come to life.
6 I will attach tendons
to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath
in you, and you will come to life.
Six Day War
Israel has relied on Pre-emptied
strikes
for survival, and will do so again.
Wikipedia: The six day war began
on
Israeli initiated aerial clashes over Syrian territory, Syrian
artillery attacks against Israeli settlements in the vicinity of the border
followed by Israeli response against Syrian positions in the Golan Heights and encroachments of increasing intensity and
frequency (initiated by Israel) into the
demilitarized zones along the Syrian border and culminating in Egypt blocking the Straits of
Tiran and ordering of the
evacuation from the Sinai Peninsula of
the U.N. buffer force.
Within six days, Israel had won a decisive land war.
Israeli forces had taken control of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt,
the West
Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan,
and the Golan
Heights from Syria.
Ever since the six day war, efforts have been
underway to get Israel to go back to the pre1967
borders in order to have peace, but peace will never come, because the
Arabs are never satisfied with what they have and besides that the Israelis
borders would become in-defensible, setting up another pre-emptive
strike by Israel to protect herself. (Which will happen)
Now here is where we are
The Nation of Israel is
growing; they have been supported with Military Technology by the
United States. They are surrounded by
Muslim’s who want them dead and gone.
They are outnumbered ten to one.
The best weapon they have is “Pre-emptied Strikes”.
The
Prophet Zechariah prophesies
about a future war; “Jerusalem has become a cup of drunkenness; a heavy stone causing the
nations to gather together PLOTTING to heave this stone Israel away.” [12] (Pray that the USA is not part of this)
Jesus predicts this future event of Jerusalem being surrounded as a SIGN of the end times that Jerusalem will be
trampled by “Gentiles”;
those who are not of Jewish descent.[13]
What’s next?
Israel is safe in their land,
but is threatened by Egypt and Russia... But they need some allies.
The Anti-Christ from Rome will negotiate an alliance of protection, a seven year covenant of peace;[14]
between Israel
(the Jews) and the Arabs
(the Muslims), [15]not
only of peace, but of protection; but they will break the alliance just three and one half years into it.[16] This is known as “Jacobs Trouble”; Isaiah
calls it “A
covenant with death”. [17]
NOTE: There will
never be a lasting peace until the return of Jesus Christ.
Scripture says that the Anti-Christ will
set up his Image in the temple to be worshiped proclaiming himself to be God. This action is called the “abomination
that causes desolation”. When
this happens, the name of the Antichrist will finally be revealed; although already suspected.[18]
With that said, the temple or at least the Holy of Holies must be rebuilt before the final holocaust comes.[19] Then it happens, great distress[20] unequaled from the beginning of the world,[21]
and if God did not shorten it, no one would survive.
Russia makes a
mistake and sides with the Muslims and attacks Israel.
Two Battles
A magician keeps you looking
at his left hand while his right hand is doing something else. Don’t take your eyes off the right hand;
while you are thinking Russians, China and North Korea; the real players
are the Muslims and
the Jews;
this is what the battle is about.
The place is the “Hill of Megiddo” which is geographically the
center between three continents; Europe, Asia, and Africa.
There are actually two battles or wars that are to take place on the Hill of Megiddo;
or I could say there is just one battle, but in two phases; it starts, then is
put on hold for 1,000 years and then picks up again for the final conclusion.
ü
The first battle between the Muslims
and Jews
last for about 3 ½ years and is
about LAND.
ü
The second and
final battle
is between Satan
and Jesus
Christ and lasts for less than
one day. This battle is about SOULS.
When will all this happen?
Jesus tells us when this will
all occur. There will be SIGNS in the sky;[22]
heavenly bodies will be shaken, the sea will roar and toss, nations will be in
anguish and perplexity, Jerusalem will
be surrounded by the Muslim armies and their allies.[23]
He says look for these SIGNS and you will
know the time is very near. He says that
the “Generation that sees these signs” will not pass away and will see it all
happen. It starts 3 ½ years into the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
What the war looks like Part 1 – phase 1
The
first siege against Israel before the Millennium. Just getting started.
NOTE: There has
never been a weapon of destruction that man has invented that he did not
use. Right now in 2013 North Korea is flexing its muscles
telling the world that it now has NUCLEAR capabilities with its missiles and are
exporting these missiles to whoever can pay for them; like the Arabs with their oil money... The only
thing North Korea produces is WEAPONS. They
trade their weapons for Oil and currency to Syria and Iran whose target is Israel.
Most of the Middle East has “Chemical and Biological Weapons” and NUCLEAR weapons would just be icing on the cake... The news is reporting today of their use of chemical weapons.
ü
Biological
weapons
include microorganisms
and toxins that cause plagues like cholera and tuberculosis, there’s anthrax
and botulisms
and the Super
Plague for which there is no
cure.
ü
Chemical weapons include nerve
gas, mustard gas and Sarin gas that attack your lungs and now Russia has one
called Novichok
which is ten times more toxic than nerve gas.
Some of these chemical agents are so
virulent that they can kill instantaneously and
have such fine partials that they can penetrate most filter systems.
ü
There will be
famine
throughout the earth and plagues. People
will kill each other to get their food, wild beasts scavenge for food and go
after mankind.[24]
Revelation 9:7-10 – Sounds like APACHE HELICOPTERS
to me
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for
battle and their
faces
resembled HUMAN FACES. They had
breastplates
like BREASTPLATES OF IRON, and the
sound
of their WINGS was like the thundering
of many horses and chariots.
They had TAILS that STINGS like scorpions.
NIV
NOTE: As you
read John’s account in the “Revelation”,
it must be noted that the many chapters are NOT in sequential
order,
but are inserted from time to time to provide information on what John sees and describes as
best as his mind can understand it.
Neither John nor the prophets had ever seen a helicopter or a bullet, much less a nuclear bomb.
What the war looks like Part 1 – phase 2
The second siege against
Israel before the Millennium. Things literally heat up nuclear. Israel cannot fight a war in a convention
military manner with men and equipment, but inevitable will move with a “Pre-emptive first strike” of nuclear
weapons. This is referred to as the “Sampson Option”. We will go down, but so will our
enemies. In America we call this the “Doomsday Weapon”;
you die, we die; everybody dies.
To the Muslim; to blow themselves up with the infidel is a guaranteed PASS TO PARIDISE. Scripture describing what happens in a nuclear explosion;
says the sky
is rolled back like a scroll. [25]
The atmosphere is violently pushed back causing a vacuum; then it rushes back
in on itself with the same force. (The sky literally is rolled back as a
scroll)
ü
A nuclear bomb can generate 150 million degrees
of heat in a millionth of a second;[26]
ü
Our skin falls off our bodies while we are still
standing[27]
ü
Our faces are burned and we are in pain and
anguish... Terror seizes all mankind.[28]
ü
The nuclear bombs trigger earth quakes; debris is
blown into the air so thick it blots out the sun. Fire, smoke and sulfur fill
the air and rain down on the earth.[29]
ü
100 pound hailstones fall on the people,
livestock and homes.[30]
ü
The radiation from the fallout pollutes and
poisons one third of the waters.[31]
ü
Most die, the land is laid waste and desolated,
very few live through this.[32]
How it all begins 666
In the middle of the
tribulation we find in Revelation at the Sixth Seal, the Sixth Trumpet
and the Sixth
Bowl,
Satan releases his un-holy trinity to
gather the kings of the earth to do battle
Satan the anti-god, the Anti-Christ and
the False
Prophet make up this SATANIC TRINITY.[33] These slimy, filthy, loathsome, disgusting FROGS are evil spirits of propaganda coming out
of the counterfeit
trinity to seduce all the kings
of the world to come out to the battle of Armageddon. Sadly, the whole world would include an army
from the United
States.
God gets involved and dries up the Euphrates River[34] for the Kings of the East to march through (literally translated “Kings of the Rising Sun”).
This
would be 200 Million Asians.[35]
This river is 1800 miles long and is 10 to
30 feet deep and 300 to 1200 yards wide.
It extends northwestward from the Persian Gulf to present-day Lebanon.
It is reasonable to take this scripture literally. Eastern powers like Japan, China, India and others prepare for an invasion of Israel as
the waters of the Euphrates dries up.
The Kings of the East combine
their armies with the Kings of the North
and South. This is actually a trap
prepared by God that later triggers the battle of Armageddon.
AMERICA
Scripture refers to the USA as
“Coastal
Lands” [36]
or the “Land
beyond the river of Ethiopia”.
The first word in Isaiah’s prophecy is “WOE”; America does not get off free.[37] The USA will
receive some “
The sad part for Israel is that the nations of the world
including the USA,
know what Russia
and the Muslim
Arabs are up to and DO NOTHING to help Israel, but simply offers only a shallow
rebuke[38]
concerning the actions of the Russians.
America
has turned away from God’s principals, our President has said that
we are no longer a Christian nation; we have embraced all religions or maybe
none at all; inviting judgment.
Much has been given to America, much is
expected.[39] Billy Graham says,
“If God doesn’t
judge America, He’ll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah”.[40]
Russia helps the Muslims
The Kings of the South, Arab-African confederacy headed by Egypt[41]
and the King of the North Russia,[42]
will launch an all-out invasion against Israel.[43] The Arabian Peninsula of Ethiopia is the Arab States ...
Southern Ethiopia is Africa.
CIS is the Commonwealth of Independent
States.
There are currently 12 former Soviet Republics, including Russia,
Belarus, Ukraine and the Republic of
Georgia. There allies are Persia (Iran),
Turkey, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer and Torarmah.
ü
Russia wants easy oil. Although they have oil, it’s not very
accessible
ü
Russia wants a warm water sea port
ü
Russia wants the 12 billion tons of magnesium
chloride and twelve billion tons of sodium chloride in the Dead Sea. There is also 2 billion tons of potash for
enriching soil.
ü
The Muslims Arabs want the land of Israel. What a deal.
Keep in mind that this is all the continuation of the 4000 year old war
between Abraham’s
first born son Ishmael (Muslims) and
his second born son Isaac (Jews).
SIDEBAR... Russia gets
greedy and there is a classic double
cross by Russia
against the United Arab Republic
as they pitch their tents between the Dead Sea and The Mediterranean Sea
and Mount Zion. They do a devastating
battle with each other and Egypt succumbs,[44] but
a few countries get away; Edom, Moab and Ammon, [45]
Armageddon preamble
Remember, in the middle of the
tribulation, Gog (Russia) and Magog
(its
allies) lead
an attack against Israel in a valley in Lebanon. This is a region of mountains with a valley
running from North to South. Hamon-Gog
in Hebrew means “the multitude of Gog”.
Russia and the Arab nations come against Israel and cover the land like
a cloud.
Ezekiel 38:16 – Russia comes
against Israel like a cloud over the
land
16 You will
advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In
days to come, O Gog, (Russia) I will bring you against my land, so that
the nations may know me when I show myself holy through you before their eyes. NIV
Armageddon - First Half
Part one or the first half of
Armageddon takes place before the Millennial reign of Christ. The nature of forces unleashed on the armies
sounds much like that of a nuclear bomb which
can generate 150 million degrees of heat in a millionth of a second; you are disintegrated before
you hit the ground.[46]
It produces an earthquake
that swallows up masses of the enemy,[47] fire and brimstone rain down;[48]
the radiation melts the flesh off their bodies as
well as their animals; [49]confusion abounds and the armies start killing
off each other.[50] There is such devastation, that only one sixth of the Russian army survives;[51]
God provides a burial site for the “five
sixth” of decaying
dead.[52]
Jerusalem
The earthquake convulses
Jerusalem and it splits into three parts
and seven thousand people are killed[53]
and the Mount of
Olives splits in half making a great
valley.[54] At this very same time the two witnesses are being caught up to heaven. (NOTE: Some students
of the Word BS says the great city mentioned is Babylon
and not Jerusalem,
but my BS
disagrees because Babylon in covered on its on elsewhere. Jerusalem is often referred to as Babylon
because it whored after other gods.).
Revelation
16:18-20 – Jerusalem is split into three parts
18 Then there came flashes of lightning,
rumblings, peals of thunder and a SEVERE EARTHQUAKE.
No earthquake like it has ever occurred
since man
has been on earth, so tremendous was
the quake.
19 The
great city (Jerusalem) split into three parts,
and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great (symbolic of
Jerusalem) and gave her the
cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.
20 Every island fled away and the mountains could
not be found.
NIV
100 pound Hail
This is the LAST DAY
of the tribulations. The
great earthquake makes islands disappear, mountains and cities are leveled, and
what’s left is destroyed with 100 pound hail.
Just
for the record; a talent, or “talantos”
in the Greek, is actually translated to be
about 114 pounds, anyway men still blasphemed and curse God.[55] In the OT a blasphemer
was stoned to
death; today men still blaspheme God while they “get stoned”.
NOTE: This study is
focused primarily only on the battles of Armageddon; the
war between the Muslims
and the Jews
and Satan and
Jesus Christ. There is a vast amount of other things going
on at the same time that I am not reporting on, but can be found in my word
study Eschatology;
the last things to happen on earth.
Christ finishes the Battle
This is Christ’s second coming
and He makes war against the Muslims and their allies and ALL are
killed. The instigators; the Anti-Christ and the false prophet are
chunked into the lake of fire[56] and Satan is bound for 1,000
years in the abyss.[57]
God summons the animals, birds and vultures[58] to come to “The Great Supper of
God”.[59]
(Armageddon). I won’t describe it here, but for supper, the
birds and animals have a smorgasbord of goodies, they start with feasting on
their soft eyes.[60]
This is in contrast to “The Marriage
Supper of the Lamb” given for the saved; the redeemed.
The
Last Day - Tribulations
Summary of the last day of the
tribulations;
ü A great
earthquake will cause an upheaval of nature which will alter the shape of the
earth, possibly returning earth to its correct axis.
ü The Two Witnesses that are rotting
in the street are resurrected. (Raptured)
ü Men actually
hear God’s voice as He calls to them.
ü Great fear grips
the hearts of man as they encounter the light of THIS
ü Satan is bound by an Angel and cast into the
bottomless pit for 1,000 years
ü Jesus returns as
King of Kings and Lord of Lords with millions of the redeemed to fight the Antichrist
and his armies at the battle of Armageddon where
the foe is defeated.[62]
ü This last day marks the first day
of the 1,000 year reign of Christ.[63]
ü His Saints will
rule over those that DID NOT TAKE the “Mark of the Beast”.
ü The remnant
nations, those that survived; those that refused
the “Mark of
the Antichrist” will inhabit the
earth and multiply and every year come to worship King Jesus in
Jerusalem.
ü All Israel; the Jews that were “saved”
return to city of Jerusalem.[64]
Millennial Reign
OK; all is at peace for 1,000
years during the MILLENNIAL
REIGN of
Christ which I will not cover here, but all is at rest. The Millennium is a TRANSITION
PERIOD that
is somewhat like how the earth had been in the Garden of Eden and the coming new earth and eternity. Better than it was, but not as good as its
going to get.
During this thousand year reign the nations will be taught the ways of
Christ, there will be no war,[65]
the animals will live in peace,[66]
the poor and the needy will be lifted up,[67]
there will be prosperity
and the earth will produce a bountiful harvest.
All wicked and evil men are now gone from the earth; only the SAVED remain and multiply. During the Millennium there will be many
born and man will still have free will and it is
still possible to sin because Sin will not be totally purged till after the millennium
when God burns up everything in the earth including the wicked and gives us a brand new earth.
Armageddon – 2nd half - preamble
OK this is where we pickup
with the second half or Part Two of Armageddon
just after the Millennium.
In spite of a perfect rule of peace and
prosperity, sin
comes back into the world again, proving man has a sinful
nature and cannot change apart
from the Holy
Spirit drawing him.
Interestingly enough, nothing in the scriptures indicate that those who
are born during the millennium will be required to make a decision
for Christ until after Satan is
cut loose from the abyss to deceive the nations again. Some of these people will grow up “conforming
outwardly” to Christ and His teachings, but inwardly they really don’t
care “one way or the other”.
They will be easy prey for Satan who wants to sift them like wheat.
Satan, who has been
imprisoned for 1,000 years, is now let
out to deceive the nations. The Day of the Lord is set in motion. This is the continuation of the battle that
started back during the middle of the tribulation period.
NOTE: Before the judgment, a thousand years must
pass and then a short period for
Satan to do his thing. So it’s actually
a little longer than 1,000 year before “all Hell breaks loose”.
Revelation 20:7-8 – Satan is released after the
thousand years.
7 When the thousand years are over,
Satan will be released from his prison
8 and will go out to
deceive the nations in the four
corners of the earth Gog and Magog (Russia and its
allies) to
gather them for battle. NIV
Gog and Magog - Russia and its allies
The Term “Gog and Magog” mentioned here is
symbolic of “Ezekiel’s”
record of a similar battle fought before the millennial reign. This battle was primarily with Russia
and her allies
(Egypt) coming against Israel. Although Russia is defeated, there will be a
number of survivors.
This SECOND BATTLE of Gog and Magog is with Satan enlisting those from the nations that are
still living at the end of the millennium, including Russia. Gog is the King or leader and Magog
is a people or nations that follow him. God
allows armies as numerous as the sand to gather and surround the capital city
of Jerusalem,
then He destroys
ü The first battle is just before the beginning of the
millennium and is with Russia and her Muslim allies against Israel. There are some survivors.
ü The second battle is at the end of the millennium, 1,000
years later with armies coming from the four corners of the earth. There are NO survivors, man nor animal.
This is known as “THE
Armageddon – The conclusion
This is the final battle or
war of Armageddon; the conclusion as Satan’s armies come against the city
of Jerusalem,
the city that God loves and FIRE comes down from
heaven and Satan
is defeated[68] and
is thrown into the lake of fire[69] along with the Antichrist and his false prophet who are already there. At
the same time the Heaven will disappear, the elements
destroyed, the earth
will be laid bare; nothing survives... It’s all gone... THEY HAVE NOW
BEEN JUDGED.
Heaven & Earth Destroyed
- My BS
Somehow in my BS; with the Church gone, the Holy Spirit gone, the saved resurrected and raptured; fear and evil
is running rapid, perhaps the Nations will just start blowing each other up
with nuclear
bombs, releasing all the fuel
and energy that’s stored up within
the bowels of the earth,
purging the earth of all evil and sin. [70]
This makes way for a new heaven and a new earth.[71] Just
saying.
I have another thought in my BS. God assigned the EARTH to the “immortal” angel Satan to
oversee and protect it and I believe it was forever. Satan
with his “free
will” desired to be just like God and have all the earth WORSHIP him. God just gives the whole thing to him and his
friends and then bowls this burning bowling ball of hell fire
into eternity somewhere. Although it’s a little toasty, Satan
gets exactly what he has always wanted; the earth is now his
and is
lit up like a Christmas tree to give light to a solar system somewhere.
You cannot put new wine into an old wineskin… It cannot contain it, the
skin would burst[72]…
The wineskin of earth must be purged and a new wineskin of purity must be
created to hold this new creation for eternity.[73] (We get a new earth)
After the earth is destroyed, the Bible does not say what happened to the newly
saved Gentiles
and Jews
during the Millennium
period; but the scriptures are clear that God removes His own before total
destruction.
Did you see it? While
avoiding the burning
lake of fire is certainly a BIG PLUS,
the BIGGER DEAL is that we are NOT separated from God for eternity with no hope.
Great White Throne Judgment
With Heaven and Earth
destroyed, that pretty much ends this study on Armageddon,
but I continue on to mention The Great White Throne which
is judgment
for the wicked
dead.[74] The nations and the righteous living have
already been judged. Anyway our life is choice
driven, we can choose to be judged at the “Judgment seat of Christ” [75]
or at “The Great
White Throne”.[76]
The Books will be opened and everyone will give an accounting for
what they have done.
ü
The
Book of the Law, the covenant, the Bible,
which is the word of God that judges them
ü
The
Book of Deeds containing the account of man’s works on earth.
ü
The
Book of Life,
the names written down of those that accepted Christ as the son of God and the
Messiah.[77]
We WILL all be judged... It’s in the Book
[1] Revelation 3:10 - I will also keep you from the hour of trial that
is going to come on the whole world
[2] Genesis 16:3-4 – Sarah gives Hagar
to Abraham
[3] Genesis 16:15-16 - Ishmael is born to Hagar
and Abraham
[4] Genesis 21:2-5 – Isaac is born to Sarah
and Abraham
[5] Genesis 17:18-21 – Abraham asks God for Ishmael to be blessed too; He
will be the father of twelve rulers BUT MY COVENANT I WILL ESTABLISH
WITH ISAAC,
[6] Genesis 25:13-18 – ISHMAEL HAD TWELVE SONS; Nebaiot,
Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and
Kedemah
[7] Genesis
[8] Genesis 21:9 – Ishmael made fun of Isaac.
[9] Genesis
[10] 2 Kings
[11] Zechariah 8 23 – Men will
be drawn to the Jew; `Let us go with you, because
we have heard that God is with you
[13] Luke 21:20-24 – When you
see Jerusalem is surrounded, know that desolation is near
[14] Daniel
[15] Ezekiel 38:2-6 – Russia
is linked with Islam
[16] 1 Thessalonians 5:3 –
They don’t have a clue about the treaty of peace destruction
will come on them suddenly,
[17] Isaiah 28:15 - We have made
a COVENANT
WITH DEATH,
and with Sheol
[18] 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 –
The Anti-Christ’s name is revealed when his
image is set up in the Temple to be worshipped
[19] Ezekiel 38:15-16 – Mighty
Armies from the Far North
[20] Matthew 24:21-22 –“Great Distress” unequaled from the beginning of the
world until now-and never to be equaled again
[21] Revelation 13:7 – The Anti-Christ is given authority and power to make war
[22] Luke
[23] Luke
[24] Revelation 6:8 – Killings, famine, plagues, wild beast
[25] Isaiah 34:4 - The sky will be rolled up like a scroll
[26] Revelation 6:12-14 –
Nuclear explosions, earth quakes, smoke... The sky receded like a scroll,
rolling up
[27] Zechariah
[28] Isaiah 13:6-8 – Terror, Pain, Anguish, their Faces aflame and burned
[29] Revelation 9:18 – A third of mankind was killed by the Fire, Smoke and
Sulfur
[30] Revelation 16:21 – 100
pound hailstones fall from the sky
[31] Revelation 8:10-11 –
Wormwood... Waters are poisoned... people die
[32] Isaiah 24:1-6 – The earth
is laid waste, men are burned up and very few
are left
[33] Revelation 16:13-16 –
Three frogs; The Satanic Trinity; dragon, beast and
false prophet
[34] Revelation 16:12 – The Great Euphrates River is dried up
[35] Revelation 9:13-16 – The
four bound angels are released with a Two Hundred
Million man army to kill a third of mankind.
[36] Ezekiel 39:6 – The USA is the coastlands.
[37] Isaiah 18:1-2 – WOE to the USA.
[38] Ezekiel 38:13 – The USA only fusses with lip
service at Russia
[39] Luke 12:48 – To whom much is given, much is expected
[40] Genesis 12:3 – I will bless those who bless
Israel, and whoever curses
you Israel will I curse;
we need to help Israel
[41] Daniel
[42] Ezekiel 38:15 – Kings of the North is Russia
[43] Ezekiel 38:11-12 – Israel
is invaded; I will invade plunder and loot and gathered from the nations, rich
in livestock and goods
[44] Daniel 11:42-45 – The Nation of Egypt does not escape
[45] Daniel 11:40-41 – Edom, Moab and Ammon escape the double cross
[46] Zechariah
[47] Numbers
[48] Ezekiel 38:22 – Nuclear fallout; Rain, Hailstones, Burning Sulfur
[49] Zechariah
[50] Judges
[51] Ezekiel 39:2 – Only one
sixth of the army survives the battle
[52] Ezekiel 39:11 – God will bury Russia and
its allies it will be called the Valley of Hamon
Gog.
[53] Revelation 11:13 – Seven thousand people killed in Jerusalem as a tenth
of the city collapses.
[54] Zechariah 14:4 – Mount of Olive splits in the midst there of toward
the east and toward the west and makes a great valley
[55] Revelation 16:21 – 100
pound hailstones fall on them and they cursed God on account of the plague of
hail was so terrible
[56] Revelation 19:19-20 – ANTICHRIST and FALSE PROPHET thrown ALIVE into the Lake of fire
and burning sulfur.
[57] Revelation 20:1-3 – SATAN is bound 1,000 years in the Abyss during the
millennial reign of Christ
[58] Ezekiel 39:17 – Every kind of bird and wild animal assembles to eat the flesh and drink the
blood of the dead
[59] Revelation 19:17-18 –
Come birds, gather together for The Great Supper of God;
eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men
[60] Revelation 19:21 – The
birds had a feast and gorged themselves on their flesh
[61] Zechariah 14:6-7 – A unique day known to the LORD; a day where there
will be no light, no cold or frost when evening comes, there will be
light; it
will be neither daytime nor nighttime.
[62] Zechariah
[63] Zechariah 14:9 – Christ
will be king over all the earth; there will be one LORD, and His name the only
name
[64] Zechariah 14:16 – Survivors
go every year to Jerusalem to worship the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of
Tabernacles
[65] Isaiah 2:3-4 – The
survivors will be taught the ways of God; nations shall not lift up sword
against nation
[66] Isaiah 11:4-8 – There
will be peace between all creations; the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox
[67] Psalms 7:6-12 – The poor
and the needy will be delivered
[68] Revelation 20:9 – They
surround Jerusalem and fire comes down from heaven and
devoured them.
[69] Revelation 20:10 – The Devil, Satan is
defeated & thrown into the lake of fire where
he will be tormented day & night for ever
& ever
[70] 2 Peter
[71] Revelation 21:1 – There
will be a new heaven and a new earth
[72] Matthew
[73] 2 Peter
[74] Revelation 20:11 – Judgment for the unbeliever is at the great white throne
judgment
[75] 2 Corenthians
[76] Revelation 20:12 –
Everyone great and small stand before the throne where BOOKS WERE
OPENED and
if your name is not in the book of life you
are thrown into the lake of fire.
[77] John 12:48 – There is a judge for those that reject Christ and do not
accept His words; -- Romans 3:19-20 – The whole world is accountable to
God. -- Revelation 20:15 – Anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire
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