We all need to watch and pray because we really do not know how everything will shake out as we near the end of the age. I think a few surprises are in store for us before the great tribulation.<\/p>\n
It now looks like Israel and Iran will be going at it. Iran has almost 100,000 troops in Syria and they now are threatening Israel. Israel said they will not allow Iran to establish military bases in Syria but Iran is establishing them anyway. If Iran does not reverse policy, Israel will soon strike Iranian threats in Syria. When that happens, Iran is likely to launch attacks against Israel. That exchange would not end well for Iran.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, America is likely to pull out of the Iranian deal and Iran might publicly start up its nuclear development program again (they never really ended it). That is going to put taking out Iran’s nuclear capabilities back on the front burner. In any case, if Israel and Iran attack each other, America is going to be aiding Israel and Russia is going to be aiding Iran.<\/p>\n
I don’t think the events happening this year will bring Russia down against Israel in any fulfillment of the Ezekiel 38 war. However, it could lead to fulfillment of the prophecy about Elam in Jer 49 34-39. In that prophecy, it appears that people of Southwestern Iran are evacuated to all nations on earth. Nuclear radiation might explain it.<\/p>\n
As I said in an earlier post, this is Israel’s 70th year and something significant is likely to happen this year to change the whole middle east paradigm. That something seems to be shaping up because of the Iranian agenda to establish dominance over the fertile crescent. If hostilities breaks out between Iran and Israel, Hezbollah is going to attack Israel. Israel will then take over Lebanon and perhaps part of Syria. The beginning of the expansion of Israel toward its God-given borders could be that significant prophetic event.<\/p>\n
Is this expansion the putting forth of leaves that is mentioned in the fig tree parable (Mr 13:28-30)? I tend to believe that Jesus was suggesting that after Israel puts forth leaves all the end time prophetic events would occur within just one generation. A generation in the Bible is from one generation to another, it is not a lifespan as some suggest. For example, the Bible tells us that there were 42 generations from Abraham to Christ (Mt 1:17).\u00a0 When a picture is taken today that includes children, parents, grandparents and great grandparents we say the picture represents four generations. Today a generation is about 20 years. I think most Bible prophecy students can agree that the all end time prophetic events can be fulfilled within 20 years.<\/p>\n
It is possible that hostilities with Iran will lead to the Ezekiel 38 war a few years down the road. However, it is even more likely that there will be world war before Russia and her allies come down against Israel. I think satanic supernatural intervention will play a role in ending the next world war. The intervention is likely to be in the form of Marian apparitions and alien disclosures. The deceptive message delivered will be the basis for world religions coming together to force nations to stop warring against each other.<\/p>\n
So how do we get to this forced peace? I think we can make a reasonable conjecture from the scriptures. Revelation tells us that the Beast has a woman riding on his back. That woman is religion that claims a relationship with God but is really in harlotry with Satan’s world system. The rider on the white horse under the first seal who has a bow but no arrows indicates conquering through a message of peace. Many throughout Church history believe that the rider on the white horse is Christ or Christianity. Others think the rider is the Antichrist. I think it could be pseudo Christianity attempting to conquer the earth through a religious kingdom now message. In other words, the rider on the white horse could be the same identity as the Harlot of Revelation 17 who rides the Beast\/Antichrist into power. That would make the rider the so-called vicar of Christ who rules from the Vatican.<\/p>\n
There is a movement in pseudo Christianity that is seeking to bring the Kingdom of God on earth through worldly social justice programs and “new spirituality”. The social justice programs are nothing but Christianized communism and the new spirituality identification is nothing but Christianized eastern paganism. Think of a world war followed by Marian apparitions and alien disclosures calling for peace, spiritual unity and an evolutionary leap forward and you get the picture.<\/p>\n
We also may have it wrong about Israel signing a peace covenant with a secular figure. Israel very well might sign the covenant with someone in the Vatican in Rome. The Vatican wants to administer the holy sites in Jerusalem. Keep in mind, that during much of history the Vatican was running Europe. It became known as the Holy Roman Empire and it was run by the Pope. That could happen again after another world war and the demonic deceptions that I suggested.<\/p>\n
After a great war, a new spirituality movement might be sweeping the globe and Israel might agree to sign a covenant with the Vatican Harlot for Jewish self-preservation. The Holy sites will then be administrated by the Vatican. Is this global religious movement the overflowing scourge taking place on earth and the covenant with death that Isaiah 28 speaks of? The verses are talking about Israel.<\/p>\n
Isa 28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:<\/p>\n
Isa 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
After signing the covenant, Israel is allowed to build her Temple, but as soon as they start laying the foundations the two prophets appear. The message the prophets deliver will throw a monkey wrench in the worldwide kingdom now peace movement. The message the prophets deliver will enrage the progressively minded world.<\/p>\n
“What do you mean that the time for the promised Jewish Kingdom has come and everyone needs to repent of their sins and keep the commandments because the God of Israel is a holy God and the only way to salvation is through Jehovah???”<\/em><\/p>\n
The world will seek to kill these prophets but they will not succeed until Satan comes in with a supernatural Antichrist.<\/p>\n
Those who think they have end time prophecy all figured out are probably in for some major surprises fairly soon. We know what happens after the Day of the Lord begins because the events occurring in that day are defined in scripture. However, world events leading up to the Day of the Lord are still pretty much a mystery that might not play out as some have led us to believe. In any case, we are living in exciting times, but since we do not know how everything will play out, believers need to watch and pray (Mr 13:33).<\/p>\n
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