Bible Prophecy and Inspiration

Yesterday I talked about how immanency seems to be a factor in the last days.  The Lord says He will come like a thief in the night.  However, if He didn’t come until Armageddon, that doesn’t suggest like a thief in the night at all.

If He could come at any time, then He could definitely come like a thief in the night.

There is a section in Luke chapter twelve that refers to “Watchfulness.”

Luke 12:35-48 – ³⁵ “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, ³⁶ like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. ³⁷ It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. ³⁸ It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night. ³⁹ But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰ You also must be ready, because the Son of
Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

⁴¹ Peter asked, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everyone?”

⁴² The Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time? ⁴³ It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns. ⁴⁴ I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁵ But suppose the servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time in coming,’ and he then begins to beat the menservants and maidservants and to eat and drink and get drunk. ⁴⁶ The master of that servant
will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

⁴⁷ “That servant who knows his master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows. ⁴⁸ But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

This isn’t talking about the believing and unbelieving.  That’s why I underlined what I did above.  This is talking about the servants of the Lord.  About the ones not living the way they should for Him and living a life that is no different than all the unbelievers around them.

Looking for the Lord everyday helps keep us from sinking into the world.  We have to take the warnings deathly seriously.  This is not the only one either.  The New Testament is full of the exact same types of warnings.  The warnings are for us right now.  If we put them off and live worldly, sinfully, evil, and ungodly, and we know we are, what message are we sending to our Lord?

Take a stand in love for Him.   Take a stand against evil, which once again shows your love for Him.

He is going to come soon, because all the signs are happening.  For many, and I mean many, it’s going to be
like a thief in the night.

The first couple of days we talked about the Arab Spring and how it pertains to the Gog and Magog War.
Yesterday we started talking on another movement which is Occupy Wall Street.  Both of these movements are a combination of using the masses and the news media to further the cause of a New World Order.

When you try to divert a river, you go downstream and dig huge diversions and slowly get the river to flow in that direction.  The river is too powerful to just stop and make it go where you want.  You need its
own power to help.  That’s what we see now.  Enough people over time have changed their thinking to embrace socialism.  The rich have gotten richer and the poorer have gotten poorer.  Now the middle class is slowly losing ground due to the bad economy, brought on by the housing bubble and the banks tightening down.  As a result the extended unemployment has gotten many in the middle class dependent on the
government.

We left with the question yesterday of where does the spirit of a one world order come from?

Well we know Jesus is going to rule and reign on His throne and rule the nations after He comes back.

Revelation 20:4- ⁴ I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Daniel 2:44-45 – ⁴⁴ “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. ⁴⁵ This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.  ……..

However there is another that has wanted to take the place of God.  He wants to establish his throne and be like the most high.

Isaiah 14:12-15 –¹² How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! 
You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
¹³ You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my
throne above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the
sacred mountain.
¹⁴ I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself
like the Most High.”
¹⁵ But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit.

Satan has wanted to be like the Most High.  He wants to be worshipped.  He wants to sit on the throne and make the world worship him.  That’s why he wants the world to be under one power.  It’s the spirit that is pushing for the One World Government or the New World Order.  It’s another attempt at the Tower of Babel, which is man coming together to reach Heaven without God.

Those who are doing so are following Bible Prophecy exactly.  Only God could have prophecy written about 2000-3500 years ago and have the very people who don’t even believe in Him follow it.

The devil and the antichrist are trying to get the world together in socialism so they may rule it.  They want to control the commerce.  Satan will make it to when he defiles the temple of God and calls himself God, people will either worship him or they won’t buy or sell.  They also will be sentenced to death.

Occupy Wall Street is the first open attempt to get the masses in this country chanting for socialism.  Wall Street stands for capitalism.

It’s amazing to see all the prophecies strengthening as we grow nearer.  The one thing you need to do is put all your faith in Jesus and not into this world.  You will only have peace with what’s going on when you do that.

The last couple of days I have be talking on how the Arab Spring is strengthening the prophecy of the Gog and Magog War in Ezekiel chapters 38 & 39.

Today I will be talking on how a world dictatorship and one world order functions much better under socialism than democracy.

The news media realized just how influential and ripe the listening public is right now by seeing the reaction to the Arab Spring.

Enter “Occupy Wall Street.”

Who comes up with these names?

It’s another term for Hate Capitalism, but that doesn’t sound as catchy or as good when trying to influence the masses.

Have you wondered why the news media would take the tea party and try to smear them as being unruly hate mongers?  They are the picture of true protesters.  Hold their signs nicely and clean up the place after they leave.  The problem is they are trying to get their old democracy back and the government and news media have been working very hard to get us where we are at.

Where is that?  They have been working hard to bring us down as softly as they can into socialism.  They don’t want anarchy in the world’s strongest nation, just for it to equal out with the others.  Anarchy is the exact opposite of what they want.  They want to bring the whole world together under one rule.

Getting us to national healthcare is not about healthcare as much as it is being the most important issue when getting a nation to be socialized.

The reason for world Socialism is so we don’t blow each other up, overpopulate, treat each other poorly, etc.  The powers at the top in government feel that they should lead this measure for the world’s own good.

Where does this spirit of a one world order come from?

Tomorrow we will continue on with this.

Yesterday we started on the significance of the Arab Spring and how it fits with Bible Prophecy.

In the last days we have the Gog and Magog war which names many members of nations that will attempt to annihilate Israel.  This war is in chapters of Ezekiel 38 and 39.

I didn’t always believe the War was in conjunction within the tribulation period or Armageddon, but upon further study I don’t see how it cannot be.  The most important reason, but certainly not the only reason is the passages at the end of Ezekiel 39.

Ezekiel 39:21-29 –  ²¹ “I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay on them. ²² From that day forward the people of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God. ²³ And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. ²⁴ I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my
face from them.

²⁵ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name. ²⁶ They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid. ²⁷ When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the
countries of their enemies, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of many nations. ²⁸ Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. ²⁹ I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the people of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

The end of the Gog and Magog verses matches that of when Jesus comes back in last few chapters of Zechariah.  Those verses relate to Revelation 19.  When do the Jews realize recognize their Lord and Messiah?  At the end when Jesus comes back.

Back to the significance of the Arab Spring.  All the nations mentioned in the beginning of Ezekiel 38 are nations mentioned that will join Russia (Magog) in this invasion.

Ezekiel 38:1-6 –  ¹ The word of the LORD came to me: ² “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him ³ and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. ⁴ I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. ⁵ Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, ⁶ also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.

One thing that is significant about the players is they all seem to be Muslim countries.  Put is always stated to be Libya and its surrounding close neighbors including Tunisia.  Certainly fits with the times in the fact that Russia is always looking to lead the world; and Israel’s Muslim neighbors have a hatred that the Jews are in Israel or the fact that they are even alive.  The two will work together to achieve and further their goals.  Does it work out for them?  Not according to the end of Ezekiel 38 or the chapter of 39.

The Arab Spring just keeps pushing this future prophecy closer and closer.

Tomorrow we will talk about the other prophecy strengthening before our very eyes.

I am going to go over two prophecies that have been forming in front of our eyes this year.  Many end times prophecies are strengthening as we move towards the second coming, but two of them this year have been moving rather quickly and are no small feats.

The first one we’ll hit on is the Arab Spring.  We’ve seen Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya all come out from dictatorships.  The West and America championed these advancements.

In no way do I condone the atrocities’ that those dictators put on their people, but let’s take note on where the countries leadership is heading today.  The Muslim Brotherhood has a heavy influence in these countries.  Before the dictators were exactly that, dictators.  Their agenda was their own, which means don’t
rock the boat, hang low and you’ll be off their radar.   That means if Christian’s we’re hanging low and not irritating the King, no problem.  Same went for other groups.

That’s gone now.  Islam in the name of Allah and the Koran are supposed to conquer.  If those who are not Muslim do not conform, they are persuaded to change their faith up to the point of death.  Before, the dictators did not like that dissention.  They wanted order in their own way.  So to say the Arab Spring has
not been good for non-Muslims, is to make an understatement.

Does the news media talk about the Christian persecution?  Not very often at all.

Why?  One answer is; a blinded news media towards God is going to error on the side of those trying to kill His bride and His chosen people.

Tomorrow we’ll continue on the Arab Spring plays into Bible Prophecy.

Matthew 24:21-22 – ²¹ For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. ²² If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.  NIV

That was the NIV version.

Here is the KJV version.

Matthew 24:21-22 – ²¹For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 

²²And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake
those days shall be shortened.  KJV

No flesh be saved.  If the Lord didn’t have a promise to keep or decided He didn’t want to come back and intercede, no flesh would be saved.

In the last days the Bible indicates that there would be weapons that could wipe out mankind.  They didn’t exist until the mid nineteen forties.  Right at the same time the Jews were being slaughtered which also led to them being allowed to go back into their old homeland.

I used to believe the Gog and Magog war preceded the tribulation until further study.  Now I believe the
scriptures intertwine and reveal it’s one with Armageddon.  However, that’s a later study.

The thing we are going over today is that unless those days are shortened no flesh would be saved.

Ezekiel 39:1-6- ¹ “Son of man, prophesy against Gog and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. ² I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel. ³ Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand. ⁴ On the mountains of Israel you will
fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals. ⁵ You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. ⁶ I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the LORD.  

Zechariah 14:12-15- ¹² This is the plague with which the LORD will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. ¹³ On that day men will be stricken by the LORD with great panic. Each man will seize the hand of another, and they will attack each other. ¹⁴ Judah too will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected—great quantities of gold and silver and clothing. ¹⁵ A similar plague will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.

No mistake that this sounds like the kind of weaponry that exists today.  Here is something else that points to the fact its weapons we do have today.

Ezekiel 39:12-16- ¹² “‘For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. ¹³ All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I am glorified will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign LORD.

¹⁴ “‘Men will be regularly employed to cleanse the land. Some will go throughout the land and, in addition to them, others will bury those that remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search. ¹⁵ As they go through the land and one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker beside it until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. ¹⁶ (Also a town called Hamonah will be there.) And so they will cleanse the land.’

This was unheard of until this last generation.  Now from what we know about weapons of mass destruction and radioactivity, etc, this is exactly what will need to happen.

We are in the last days and this prophecy like all the others is ready to happen soon.  If Jesus doesn’t come back in the last days, no flesh would be saved.  However, for the elect sake (Israel) and His promise, He is coming back to rule and reign on this earth.