PURPOSE
The Bible’s revelation of world events which occur from the end of Sealing, to the Loud Cry time
INTRODUCTION :
Gen. 15:18 “In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.”
Psa. 105:8-11 “He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word [which] he commanded to a thousand generations. Which [covenant] he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel [for] an everlasting covenant: Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.”
BRIEF HISTORY:
* 1st Exodus – Joshua conquered Palestine, established a kingdom there, but Israel failed to keep God’s law, and the Israelites were displaced 3 times: The 10 tribes in 721 BC by Assyria, The 2 tribes in 587 BC by Babylon, though they came back after 70 year, they rejected and killed the Messiah, and were displaced by the Romans in 70AD.
* 1900 – 1945 – The identified unbelieving Jews returned themselves to Palestine but were disturbed by Hitler who killed thousands in WW2. But in 1948, they were mandated by the UN to be an Independent state, but in 1967 they were attacked by the Arab countries but Israel defeated them and added more territories to its map: Gaza strip, West Bank which included west Jerusalem, and the Golan heights. This started a war of words and fire sometimes in these occupied territories.
1. SIGNS OF THE ZIONIST RETURN: Zeph. 2:1-2, 4- 9
“Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Before the decree bring forth, [before] the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger come upon you…For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites ! the word of the LORD [is] against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant…I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified [themselves] against their border. Therefore [as] I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.”
Zeph. 2:3,6,7 “Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger….
“And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.”
NOTE: – This is the fate of the unbelieving Jews who came in to occupy the Promised Land, while still rejecting Christ as the Messiah. The nations that will also lose their territory to the Lord are: Palestinians (Gaza, West Bank, Golan Heights), Moab, Edom, Ammon (Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, part of Arabia. Until the entire territory promised to Abraham’s descendants shall be reached. Gen. 15:18 “In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt (Wadi Ayrish) unto the great river, the river Euphrates.”
ISRAEL – IN THE MIDIST OF THE MUSLIM WORLD !!!
2. SIGNS OF WORLD UNION OF RELIGIONS
Isaiah 8:9-15 – “Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us. For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say ye not, A confederacy, to all [them to] whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid…“….And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.”
These conferences are prompted by fear (of terrorism, nuclear threat of falling economies, climate change, etc.), but God’s people are warned not to join these confederacies and not to fear. In fact when the churches (verse 14-15) and the governments shall press for the Union of church and state and go to the War, we are hereby commanded to oppose the confederacies. However, that will bring upon us the out-spoken Jacob’s time of trouble. God shall seal and deliver them (verse 16-20). The war of the ‘carpenters” on Israel and the confederacy of the nations occur from the end of sealing of 144,000 to the slaughter of Ezekiel 9. It is the first sign of the blowing of the 4 winds (of Rev. 7:1).
MARANATHA 259 – 260
“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 1 Thessalonians 5:3. While the work of salvation is closing, trouble will be coming on the earth, and the nations will be angry, yet held in check so as not to prevent the work of the third angel. At that time the “latter rain,” or refreshing from the presence of the Lord, will come, to give power to the loud voice of the third angel, and prepare the saints to stand in the period when the seven last plagues shall be poured out. I was shown the inhabitants of the earth in the utmost confusion. War, bloodshed, privation, want, famine, and pestilence were abroad in the land. As these things surrounded God’s people, they began to press together, and to cast aside their little difficulties. Self-dignity no longer
controlled them; deep humility took its place….. 2TG. 17: 10
“Here you see that this unification of the world, engendered to bring peace and harmony out of the present chaos, will instead bring an even greater time of trouble. And why? — Because though the beast may bring Communism and Capitalism to mutual agreement, and cause them to bow down to the image of the beast, yet those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will never comply. From this you see that the whole plan is directed by a supernatural power whose aim is to boycott the people of God. They shall nevertheless be delivered.”
Isa.30:30-31
“And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and [with] the flame of a devouring fire, [with] scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, [which] smote with a rod.”
Assyria will fall by God’s audible voice. The first fall of Assyria shall be in Palestine. If in the type Jonah gave a 40 days deadline before the fall of Assyria, then our message will have some time deadline before her fall. If the kingdom is set before her eyes (Isa 31:9) while she is yet in Palestine, then we can make a simple chart like this one:
* NOTE: This chart is only a sketch of what we understood form the study. The columns are not in uniform scale and some events do overlap.
3. SIGNS IN NATURE Joel 2:30-32
“And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.”
Both the BLUE and BLOOD Moon and eclipse occurred this very year in the Northern Hemisphere. One Historian said that since it occurred in the Jewish festival season for this year, history says a great calamity is looming against the Jewish people! 70 yrs also a sign: 1948 – 2018.
Joel 3:15 – 16
“The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD [will be] the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I [am] the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.”
Both the BLUE and BLOOD Moon eclipse occurred this very year in the Northern Hemisphere. One Historian said that since it occurred in the Jewish festival season for this year, history says a great calamity is looming against the Jewish people! The 70 yrs: 1948 – 2018, another sign.
4. SIGNS OF TROUBLE
Jere. 30:1-9 “For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. And these [are] the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins,
as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.”
1 SR p 36:3- “here lay down the man Jacob and rose up the Israel, exemplifying the agonizing experience through which his posterity must victoriously pass before they, too receive a new name.”
2TG.17.9 -“The two-horned beast exercises all the power which the first beast, the leopard-like, exercised, again showing it to be a world power. Indeed, it requires just such a power to compel all the inhabitants of the earth to worship as he commands, and to implement a likeness of a church and state government that is as outdated as are the Middle Ages themselves. Yes, it takes such a power to influence the world, save those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, to bow down to it.”
EW 36,37
“A decree went fourth to slay the saints, which caused them to cry day and night for deliverance. This was the time of Jacob’s trouble. Then all the saints cried out with anguish of spirit, and were deliverance by the voice of God. The 144000 triumphed”.
* Comments on Joel 2:15-19 – 1TG 43:17
“This second trumpet, however, is not to announce the day of God but to sanctify both a fast and the people, to call the assembly, from which not one is to be excluded… here we are plainly told that Gods people are to face persecution and distress and that unless they keep close to the Lord their very existence may be at stake, God’s name dishonored and the heathen allowed to rule over them and to challenge their faith in God…(Gods people) “must now be delivered from the General Conference, the antitypical Edomite brethren.”
Dan 12:1-2 “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.”
2TG7:10 -11.
“Here we are told that in the time of trouble these arise, some to live forever and some die again … do you now realize that not only the time of trouble is at the door but even this special resurrection. Do you actually see that in the time of trouble, while the living saints are being delivered, these dead who arise to everlasting life are also delivered graves ? ”
2TG8:21-22
“God finds refuge and freedom for them in their own land where nothing shall be lacking.”
5. SIGNS OF WARS
HOW PALESTINE WILL BE PREPARED
Isaiah 14:29-32 – “Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying serpent. And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant. Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, [art] dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none [shall be] alone in his appointed times. What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.”
The rod that beat Palestine was Joshua and his Exodus forces, but the kingdom of old Israel was broken down because of their sins: the 10 tribes in 721 BC by Assyria and the 2 tribes of Judah carried away by Babylon in 587 BC. Now in these last days, modern Israel, the 144 ,000 will be more terrible than a rod – they will take over Palestine like a flying snake of fire !
Zech. 1:17-21 “Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem. Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What [be] these? And he answered me, These [are] the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. And the LORD showed me four carpenters. Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These [are] the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up [their] horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.”
*This is yet another record of wars – here. Palestine is to be captured by the 4 horns that scattered the 12 tribes of Israel (Assyria and Babylon – now Iran, Iraq area). This time in the last days, they shall come as “carpenters” to build the new Kingdom of Judah for the 144,000 ! God will allow them to clear the land for the 144,000 to come in.
Luke 19: 43, 44 “For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.”
Luke 21:24 “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” (Jesus confirming Deut. 28:50-68).
Great Controversy page 36
“The Saviour’s prophecy concerning the visitation of judgments upon Jerusalem is to have another fulfillment, of which that terrible desolation (in AD 70) was but a faint shadow.”
World war III fought about Jerusalem Zechariah 14: 1, 2
“Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.”
The events in Zech were written in the reverse e.g. this war in Zech. 14:2-15 cannot occur while the Lord has taken control of Jerusalem and protect it with a wall of fire (Zech. 2:5, 10-12) and has made His church there His church there as strong as God (Zech 12:1-3, 8) , and has opened a fountain to cleanse it (Zech 13:1-2). This battle is therefore is fought before the house of Judah is established.
If all nations come for war at Jerusalem, that will be a world war – World War III. In Zech 14:2, Jerusalem is conquered, half of its citizens displaced, houses looted and women raped. All these things cannot be done to New Jerusalem after 1000 years. This war is premillennial.
Zech 14:3-5,10-11
“Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee [to] the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, [and] all the saints with thee…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. And [men] shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.”
* The Lord comes down on Mt. Olivet to fight, make it a great rift valley of about 72km wide (verse 10-11) with a watershed ridge in the middle. To this valley, God’s people-144 000 and Great multitude shall run to the Lord. After 1000 years, God will not come down to fight, He sends fire (Rev 20:9-10).See GC663.
Zech 14:12-15- “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. And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour. And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel…And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.”
The Lord will use plagues, not fire, to fight the warring nations . Judah, 144,000, shall also fight as it was in Joshua’s and Gideon’s time. The 2nd Exodus take over of Palestine will thus be similar to the first (Isaiah 11:1-15/Jere 23:1-8). The 144,000 shall fight to capture territory and wealth of the gentles round about, until their borders reach the promised limits (Gen. 15:18/Ezek 48).
Zech. 14:16-18 “And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And it shall be, [that] whoso will not come up of [all] the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that [have] no [rain]; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.”
This is proof that this war is fought during probationary time for the world, because converted nations are still joining the Kingdom Church – the “House of David” (Zech 12:1-3,8). The feast of Tabernacles will occur after the close of world probation, during the time of plagues. It is the Coronation of Christ as King of kings. The 144000 & G. Multitude will observe this Heavenly Feast that marks the end of the Gospel harvest, while on earth in the Kingdom in Palestine.
Isaiah 31:6-9
“As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver [it; and] passing over he will preserve it. Turn ye unto [him from] whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you [for] a sin. Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited. And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.”
The only condition God wants of us is to repent and seek Him (revival and reformation), then Assyria (USA and her allied forces) shall fall and us gathered to our father’s promised land , in the peak of WW III.
USA’S NATO forces will be confused and especially fear the arrived God’s ensign (flag) or sign of His kingdom, and shall run away to their countries, defeated.
Trouble, Wars, elements of Nature, are all signs of a great Event – The Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord
– the Judgment of the Living. The main preparations for this is to sigh and cry to obtain the Seal. Also:
Zech. 8:16-17 “These [are] the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these [are things] that I hate, saith the LORD.”
Zeph. 2:3,6,7 “Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.”
May we be zealous in doing so. Amen.
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