JUDGEMENTS OF GOD BEGINNING WITH THE SEVEN SEALS

BY JO kelly

Rev. 5 : 1: "And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals."

The Lamb was the only one worthy to open the scroll and release one seal after another, revealing the coming judgments.
Rev. 6: 1: "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, "Come and see."

The tribulation is the dark day of the Lord, as foretold in the Book of Revelation and other prophetic books. It is described by the prophets. Amos pronounced a "woe" unto those who desired this coming dark day of chastisement and judgments. He wrote, "Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?” ( Amos 5:18-20).

We see in Scripture the coming day of the Lord in judgment is not a glorious day for men on earth, but a dark day of God's vengeance, wrath, and judgments poured out. The only ones exempt are the 144,000 sealed Jews, of the twelve tribes of Israel, and the Revelation 12 woman whose destiny is to flee and be protected near Moab, in the Petra/Jordan wilderness (mountain) stronghold. These shall be nourished and reconciled to the Lord, in that day, when God's purpose is fulfilled on earth resulting in the destruction of the wicked and reconciliation of the elect who will know Jesus as their Savior in that day when he hides his face from them no longer. .

God declares, in His Word, He will chastise and judge Israel, along with all the wicked on the earth. This includes all left on this earth at the time the Lamb of God opens the scroll containing the seven seals we see in Revelation 6: 1. Each seal is broken, then released by the Lord to go forth in succession. God will give many over to a reprobate mind to believe a lie and suffer damnation. These are those received not the love of the truth but walked in the broad path leading to self destruction. This was the way they choose, but we know God said only the straight and narrow way is the way leading to eternal life.

The horses and riders of the Revelation 6 seal judgments are instruments used by the Lamb, as tools in his hands. The riders and horses personified are God's tools and used as his rod of justice and chastisement on an ungodly world. Like the Israelites of old, Israel and the wicked then on earth, have forsaken the one true God to serve other gods, of mammon, pleasure, and even of drugs bringing an altered mind and a life resulting in demonic manifestations as well as addictions leading to crime, evil, and self-destruction. The wages of sin always result in death.

Even though the horse and riders bring forth judgments by the Lord to fulfill contents of the seal judgments of the scroll, we see men still do not repent of their evil sorceries. "Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts."...Revelations 9: 21

In the Old Testament days, King Manasseh was condemned for his evil sorcery, as was Egypt and their magicians; Babylon, and those in the days of King Nebuchadnezzar. The Word sorcery” is "pharmakeia" in Greek. It is is the root word and source of our English word, "pharmacy.". In the NT days, this word meant “dealing in poison” or “drug use. ” It was used in speaking of divination and spell-casting also, as in Ezekiel and other passages.

Paul warned about sorceries in his writings. The sorcerers often used drugs, along with their casting of spells, incantations, and amulets to conjure up demonic, occult, powers. The acts of the flesh are obvious and seen in Galatians as: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and SORCERY; hatred, discord, jealousy,and rage; rivalries, divisions,factions, envy; drunkenness, carousing, and the like. Paul said, "I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."

In Malachi 3: 5, God declares that he will be a swift witness against the sorcerers. Spiritual Babylon uses sorceries to deceive all the nations around it in the final days. Many will become intoxicated with the cup of evil deception they choose to partake of and drink. Thus, they will drink of the cup of God's wrath He excutes in His righteous justice.

We read of a world gone mad in the end time days. Every man does what is right in his own eyes, not what is right as seen by God. These will be harshly judged by the Lord, who says He is the swift witness against all sorcery. These using witchcraft, drugs, potions, and working by means of the powers of evil; desire to cast aside God's laws and power and serve the god of this world along with his evil powers. Even when the judgments of God fall upon them, we see they "repent not" of their sorceries! Revelation tells us that all sorcerers “will be in the lake of fire that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death” (Revelation 21:8; 22: 15)

The opening of the seventh seal results in total silence in heaven for one-half hour. before further preparation for judgments to come. We then see the preparation of the seven angels, next, given trumpets, and another angel standing at the altar with a golden censer, given much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar before the throne. The prayers are not heard, but are seen in Scripture. Then we see the fire of the altar put in the censer, by the angel, and cast into there earth. Next, we see silence was broken by the sound of voices heard, thunderings, lightenings, and an earthquake. Then, the first angel sounded the first trumpet with hail and fire mingled with blood being cast upon the earth. The third part of trees on earth were burnt up and all green grass was burnt up after the silence in heaven preparing for the coming storm of judgment to proceed. Just as the plagues in Egypt were literal, so will these trumpet judgments be literal upon the earth.

Men will have free will and choose to serve evil instead of good, as we see in this day. The result will be their own destruction and the lake of fire after the seals, trumpets, and bowl/vial judgments on earth..

Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world. God's power is greater than all power of the enemy. We were called to come out of the world and be separate, a people dedicated to the Lord and walking in His ways of truth. God never said weapons would not be formed against us. However, he did say no weapon formed would prosper.

The Lord speaks of those who forsake or who do not serve him, saying; I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread; and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee: I, Jehovah, have spoken it. (Eze. Eze. 5:15-17)
God used the Antichrist and his war against mankind as if arrows or a tool in His hand, when released by the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, in heaven.

Thus says the Lord GOD: “Pound your fists and stamp your feet, and say, ’Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine.” Thus will I spend My FURY upon them. (Eze. Eze. 6:11-12) o

From these Scriptures, we can understand that what may seem like terrible natural disturbances (wars, hunger, starvation, death, attack by vicious beasts) are actually the result and expression of God’s vengeance and judgment to fall on men. Thus God’s wrath is seen in the seals and the fourth seal of wrath is seen, in Revelation, in advance of all the judgments of the sixth and seventh seals.

Ezek. 33: 27-Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.

"For thus says the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the wild beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?" Ezek. 14: 21.

Ezekiel 5: 17 says, "I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken."

Furthermore, the Lord declared in Ezekiel 12: 16: "But I will spare a few of them from the sword, famine, and plague, so that they can tell of all their abominations among the nations to which they go. Then they will know that I am the LORD.". God has an elect remnant that will be reconciled.

Judgment upon the world is coming and God used the Antichrist and even death and hell in his punishments and chastisements. The question is, will you be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son if man? Our Lord told his disciples to pray to be accounted worthy to do so. Many claim the righteous are subject to the wrath and vengeance of God along with the wicked. However, we read it is the wicked that God is angry with, not the righteous. The faithful believers of his body are not appointed to wrath or the time of Jacob's troubles, for Daniel's people, and for those spewed out into tribulation.

Will you be a part of His Church, the body of Christ on earth who will be a counted as worthy? Or, live as the unfaithful who are neither cold or hot, but lukewarm to be spewed or vomited out of mouth into tribulation? The choice is ours. The right choice is to make sure we are walking with the Lord leading us on the straight and narrow path to eternal life. The broad way may look appealing, but it leads to destruction. We must be sure to make our calling and election sure.

Blessings,
Jo Ann Kelly-7/2018

JERUSALEM: A BURDENSOME STONE

by Pastor Mike Taylor

“And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

v.15  And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.” (Amos 9:14-15)


Has God cast away His people, Israel? Of all the nations of the earth, no other has been so blessed as Israel when she followed after the ways of God. But no other people has been so cursed, as when she forgot her God and followed after pagan gods and idols. Some will say that God divorced Israel and cast her away and the Church has replaced her. But is that true? Has God cast away His people who He brought up out of Egypt in ancient times. Has He cast off the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? The history of the nation of Israel is over 4000 years long and details cannot be fully covered in one offering, but we will touch on the high points of the historical events leading to the modern day establishment of the nation of Israel and the promises made to her.

ANCIENT ISRAEL INTO CAPTIVITY

Israel provoked God by her idolatry and following after the gods of the Canaanites who they drove out before them, but not all. God warned them repeatedly through the prophets that judgment and an evil was coming upon them if they refused to repent and come back to the true God of Heaven, Jehovah (YHWH). Till finally, God had had enough of their idolatry and unrighteousness and cast them from His site.


“For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.” (1st Kings 14:15)


“ For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.” (Jeremiah 21:10)


“Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

14, But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.” (Jeremiah 21:13-14)

And so it was according even to historical records that Israel was cast away from God's sight for 70 years into the Kingdom of Babylon. But God was not done with Israel and history shows that Cyrus, King of Persia decreed in 538 BC, the returning of the Jews to Judea and authorizing the rebuilding of the Temple, which was nothing out of the ordinary for this unusual monarch (II Chronicles 36:22-23; Ezra 1:1-11; 6:2-5).  God used a pagan king to return the nation of Israel back to their homeland. This was Israel's first dispersion and it's return to their ancestor's land. Israel dwelt in the land even under the rule of other nations, including the Roman Empire until the appearance of the Messiah, as they never regained their independence until recent modern times.


The Bible shows that from the time of the rebuilding of the Temple by Israel until the coming of the Messiah, Yeshua Moshiach , Jesus the Christ was exactly 483 years when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a foal of a donkey and the city proclaimed Him King with a loud voice “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest”


It was the only time that Jesus allowed the people to proclaim Him their King. Three days later on the day before Preparation Day for the Passover week, Jesus would be crucified on a cross by the Romans with the Jewish authorities as accomplices. From that hour, the prophetic time clock for the prophecy given to Daniel by Gabriel the ark angel stopped. God gave Israel 40 more years from the crucifixion to recognize Jesus as Messiah, until in 70 AD, Jerusalem and the Temple of God were destroyed by the Romans. Then putting down revolts with the last in about 135 AD, Jerusalem was completely destroyed and the land plowed under with salt and the Jews and Israel were no more. Remaining Jewish people were dispersed to distant lands by their conquerors and Israel was basically forgotten with her name changed by Rome to “Palestine” in recognition of the Philistines, Israel's most hated enemy.

JEWS, A MUCH PERSECUTED PEOPLE


Down through the ages, the Jewish people were persecuted and were forced into submission to other nations and cultures, and no other people would endure such a treatment and continue their own culture, besides the Jewish people. Fast forward to the 20th Century and a push for creating a nation for the Jews starting with the Balfour Declaration in 1917. History shows us that the declaration read as follows:


“His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country”


Due to rising antisemitic prejudices in the nations that harbored the Jewish people, the land of Israel was divided up for a homeland for Jews and Arabs, but almost immediately the Arab-Israeli conflict erupted and Jewish travel to Israel was minimal at best. Enter Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich for the persecution of the Jewish people we now know as the Holocaust where 6 million Jews died in gas chambers, ovens, and other means of extermination such as firing squads.


I read in horror the account given by Jack Kinsella in the Omega Letter concerning what happened in central Europe nations such as Poland in cities including Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka. Of the millions who entered these camps, only a handful emerged.


“Can you imagine the outrage, had the Allies known of these camps? Clearly, the moment the Allies discovered that the Germans were systematically exterminating the entire Jewish population of Europe, the entire tenor of the war would have changed.

No matter how critical other military targets may have been, it is difficult to imagine that any of them could be more critical than the death camps. No matter how many lives might have been at stake because of other targets, there was nothing that compared to the carnage of the Nazi death camps.

What a terrible shame that they didn't know. Think of the millions of lives that could have been saved, had they destroyed those death camps, even as late as the last year of the war!

Except they did know. And they did nothing.” (Jack Kinsella, Omega Letter)


You read that right. America did nothing. We knew, but we made excuses that the war effort did not allow us to use equipment and resources to save a people targeted for extermination. It was reported by a Jewish man, 19 year old Rudolf Vrba who informed the Allies through a Jewish Rabbi with what would become known as the Auschwitz Protocols of what Nazi Germany was doing to a whole race of people. Our war department had a policy in place and spoken of by Assistant secretary of war John McClory of the standing policy that no military resources should be allocated for "rescuing victims of enemy oppression."

('Victims of enemy oppression' was a code for "Jews". The Allies ACTUALLY had a policy in place to let them die.)


I am ashamed of my government duplicity talking from both sides of their mouths when it came to the war effort and the saving of people from Germany's goal of world dominance. But out of evil, came about the fulfilling of a long ago prophecy that God used the evil intents of men for good and for His own purpose.

ISRAEL WOULD BE REBORN


The prophet Ezekiel was given a vision by God in the valley of dry bones where God brought Israel back from the dead. Everyone thought Israel would be no more, but God had a different idea:


“And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

(22) And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.” (Ezekiel 37:21-22)

The chapter speaks of the past, the present and the future of modern day Israel. Israel was regathered to her own land with more and more people from other countries from all over the world are making their aliyah, or immigration to Israel. National Israel was born in one day on Pentecost, May 14, 1948:


“(7)(  Before she utravailed, she brought forth;Before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child

(8)  Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things?

Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day?Or shall a nation be born at once?

For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.” (Isaiah 66:7-8)


It was and is truly a miracle and reinforcement that God has NOT abandoned His people Israel. Israel has had to defend herself since her inception and rebirth as a nation from her Arab neighbors having gone to war with her time and time again. Each time, Israel has been victorious over huge, seemingly, insurmountable odds that seemed impossible to overcome. “But with God, all things are possible”. Even today, the world conspires to bring Israel to ruin. Her present Prime Minister and the man of the hour to lead Israel in these perilous times, Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed in many speeches of the resolve of his government to never allow the attempted extermination of the Jewish people.


"If anyone thought that following the horrific events of the Holocaust this malignant phenomenon would vanish from this world, it is today obvious that he was wrong."

"The sad fact is that while we mark the Holocaust Memorial Day here at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, some chose to attend the show of hatred against Israel held as we speak in the heart of Europe," Netanyahu said.

"We will not let Holocaust deniers carry out another Holocaust of the Jewish people. This is the supreme commitment of the state of Israel."
Speaking at the International Holocaust Memorial Day in Auschwitz, the PM of Israel was quoted in the Jerusalem Post: 

“Israel, he said, must stand at the forefront of all civilized nations and warn them about impending danger – while also preparing to defend itself against all threats. “I promise, as head of the Jewish state, that never again will we allow the hand of evil to sever the life of our people and our state,” he solemnly added. Netanyahu chose not to specifically refer to the Iranian regime and its nuclear drive, but has drawn a link between the Nazis and the Iranian threat to the Jews in many recent speeches.” see:

(http://www.jpost.com/International/Netanyahu-at-Auschwitz-Never-again)
Despite the lessons of the Holocaust, the world learned nothing. The burden of Jerusalem remains as heavy today as ever it has over the millennia.

"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it." (Zechariah 12:2-3) 

No other nation has caused so much division and world anxiety as the tiny nation of Israel. In the past quarter century, subsequent presidents of the USA have tried to broker a “Peace Treaty” with the Palestinians (a made up people) and Israel, but have failed. Why? Because the Arabs within and without Israel will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state and let them live in peace. Their goal, their intent, and their speech proves that their only ambition is to drive the Jewish people into the Mediterranean Sea to drown. They want the so called “Palestine” to be “ Judenrein” (Jew-free). No free people can bargain with the likes of those who only wish your death and destruction, much like Hitler and Nazi Germany. To be against Israel is to go up against the God of Heaven who proclaimed that Israel would always be a nation before Him: 

35“Thus saith the Lord that giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, that divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; the LORD of hosts is His name:

36,If those ordinances depart from before Me, then the seed of Israel shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.

37, Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord." (Jeremiah 31:35-37) 

It would be well advised that the Evangelical Church such the likes of the “Christ at the Checkpoint” (sic) which began in 2010 as a biennial conference with the idea that Jesus was a Palestinian who could be suffering under Israeli occupation today as he once suffered under Roman occupation. 

David Neff, who co-convenes an annual evangelical-Jewish leader dialogue, said his Jewish friends have expressed some nervousness over recent gatherings and activities, including Christ at the Checkpoint, which took place in March, 2010.

“I think it’s more anecdotal at this point, but nevertheless, it is reasonable to think that with Christ at the Checkpoint people getting the attention of some,” Neff said, referring to Lynne Hybels, wife of megachurch pastor Bill Hybels, and progressive evangelical leader Tony Campolo. “There’s no question: People who have sympathies for the plight of the Palestinians have more access than they used to.”
WARNING TO THOSE WHO ARE ANTISEMITIC

As we approach the end of days and the beginning of the Tribulation, we find more rabid disinformation and bias, and outright antisemitism against the nation of Israel. Do the likes of the above mentioned organization and it's leaders defy God's command to support His chosen people? Are we begging for judgment to come upon them and us, those of us especially who live in the USA as the past supporter of the nation of Israel?

“And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” (Genesis 12:3)

The wise bible believing Christian would do well to stand with Israel and have God on their side, as God has called Israel the apple of His eye:

“For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.” (Zechariah 2:8)

That is why I say that God chose POTUS Trump as supporting Israel in this hour, just as He did King Cyrus. There has never been a better friend to Israel, than this present administration, and frankly, I believe it is God's doing.

ISRAEL AND THE COMING TRIBULATION

According to dispensationalists, when Jesus was on earth He offered the earthly kingdom to the Jews. Because they rejected it, the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies in regard to their rulership of Palestine and predominance over the nations could not be immediately put into effect. Of necessity there came a gap of centuries during which the Christian Church has played a separate and distinctive role designed by God.

But this role is not a spiritual fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies regarding Israel. The period of Christian Church history is a parenthesis, not foreseen by the Old Testament prophets and not designed to fulfill their forecasts. This period of the Church will come to an end when the Christian saints are forcefully removed :

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” (1st Thessalonians 4:17-18)

This happens seven years before the glorious appearing of Christ in the clouds of heaven and his coming rule and reign on earth, when His Feet touch the Mount of Olives.

God has set aside Israel temporarily for the Church Age, as we are as mentioned a parenthesis between Israel being set aside and the coming Tribulation, when God the Father will turn His full attention to the national salvation of Israel. But God will not let Israel go unpunished for their national rejection of Him. God said that He would try them as silver and gold is refined in the fire. Many will die, many will be saved, and many will proclaim Jesus as their Messiah.

“But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

3, And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

4, Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. “ (Malachi 3:2-4)


The last seven years of this earth's history after the rapture of the Christian saints and before the glorious second coming of Christ are said to be the final week of Daniel's seventy-week prophecy (Dan. 9:24-27). During this seven-year period the great tribulation predicted by Daniel and Christ will occur.

The seven-year period is divided into two periods of three and one-half years each. During the first three and one-half years Israel enters into a covenant with the Antichrist. But at the end of this period the Antichrist breaks the covenant and begins a three and one-half year persecution of the Jews. This is all said to be in fulfillment of Daniel 9:27:

"He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven,' but in the middle of that 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And one who causes desolation will place abominations on a wing of the temple until the end that is decreed is poured out on him"

Notice that Israel is still a nation, even then. They have been through more wars such as Ezekiel 38-39, or Psalm 83, but Israel still stands, but by making a peace treaty with the prophesied Antichrist, they will realize half way through the Tribulation that they have made a deal with the devil when he enters the newly built temple of God and sits in the Holy of Holies and proclaims himself to be God in the flesh. The AC is not their national savior, but will become their risen Hitler on steroids. He will attempt to eradicate Israel and finish what Hitler only started, but he will ultimately fail. For God comes to fight for them and their enemies can only mourn their eventual destruction.


“Behold, the day of the Lord is coming,And your spoil will be divided in your midst.2, For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,The houses rifled,And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 

3, Then the Lord will go forthAnd fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.4, And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,From east to west, Making a very large valley;Half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.” (Zechariah 14:1-4)


This is at the Battle of Armageddon and the King of kings and Lord of lords will come a destroy all rebellion upon the earth and save the remnant of national Israel.


11,“ Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.

 12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had[e] a name written that no one knew except Himself.


13,And he was clothed with a with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.

 14, And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean,[f] followed Him on white horses.

 15, Now out of His mouth goes a sharp[g] sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

 16, And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written:

KING OF KINGS ANDLORD OF LORDS.” (Revelation 19:11-16)


“And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.” (Zechariah 14:12) 

Israel will never be uprooted from her land again, as the Lord promised. They will be tried and purified, but those who survive the Tribulation as alive mortal men and women will go into the Millennium to repopulate the earth during the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ. Amazingly, the Church will join Jesus Christ as the judges of the earth and those who have been killed during the Tribulation and raised to life and those that live during this Millennial reign. 
 “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.” (Revelation 20:4)


We are those (the Church of the Living God) who sit on thrones judging righteously according to what is given to us by God. We will sit on thrones with our Lord and King Jesus just as He sat down on His Father's throne. Revelation chapter 3, promised by Jesus our Savior: 

“' He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.” (Revelation 3:21)

And Israel will become the center of the Kingdom of God with Jerusalem lifted high and all people of the earth will stream to Israel to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 

“All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.

11, and men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited." (Zechariah 14:10-11) 

3,  Thus saith the Lord; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain.
4,  Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

 5,  And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

 6,  Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the Lord of hosts.

 7,  Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;

 8 , And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness"  (Zechariah 8:3-8)
ISRAEL IS GOD'S TIMEPIECE


Israel is the centerpiece of Bible prophecy.  Its existence and history are proof positive of the accuracy of Bible prophecy.  To this point in the historical record, Bible prophecy -- where it can be proved at all -- has proved to be 100% accurate, 100% of the time.

It continues to unfold before our eyes.  We've only touched on the high points in the Big Picture, but the pattern is unmistakable.  Events foretold to take place in the history of Israel and in a single generation, somewhere in time are happening now-- events that can only happen once -- are coming together -- all at once and in THIS generation.

The same God that predicted what has already occurred with such unerring accuracy will continue to perform His Will until His Purpose is accomplished.  Bible prophecy proves God is still on His Throne and is intimately concerned with the affairs of men.

"Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:" (Isaiah 46:9-10)



Yes, my reader, Israel will be tried, but a remnant will fill the earth with children and their children for a 1000 years. Israel will be the center of the Kingdom of God and Jesus will rule from Jerusalem and those who go into the Millennial Kingdom will never be afraid again for a thousand years. As God promised, Israel will NEVER AGAIN be uprooted from the land that God gave their forefathers. God made a promise to Abraham, and God keeps His promises...let God be the truth and all other liars. Remember, our God, the true God of Heaven, YHWH, the great I AM, that I AM will bring all that He has said come to pass. Best get on the side of God and His people.


All who stand with Israel, stand with the Lord Jesus Christ and His Word. God's Word cannot lie. He is coming soon for a chosen people unto Himself and this age will end. Next, comes the purification of Israel and rebellion extinguished from this earth. Since Israel is back in her land , Jesus prophesied:


“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

(33) So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

(34) Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

(35) Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” (Matthew 24:32-35)

Israel being reborn is that fig tree that has blossomed, and Jesus proclaims His nearness when that happens.

A generation by God's Word is 70 years, 80 years by strength. Israel just celebrated 70 years of being a nation. How much longer is this generation? We are that generation...we are the people who watch Israel and know that our Lord and Savior is close, very close, even at the door...don't wait any longer, not a moment can be wasted. To wait too long will send those who disbelieve or are slow to embrace the Gospel message to be alongside Israel as SHE is purified. Your chances at salvation are today, for tomorrow we are not promised. The world could turn upside down any day now. Don't let the coming of our Lord catch you by surprise. Believe what the Lord God said:

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

(v. 11) Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.” (Revelation 3:10-11)

Israel is in her land, never to be uprooted again, proclaiming because of her habitation of God's land that Jesus is coming soon...are you ready?


This is Pastor Mike Taylor praying you make that decision for Christ today. If you need counseling, prayer, or just a listening ear then email me at realteam1999@sbcglobal.net, . God bless you my brethren, 

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