We don’t know what God plans for His Church on earth in these last days, but we do know that Jesus promised to come back to take His Church off the earth before the wrath of God falls on this satanic world system. With mobs and Sodom and Gomorrah playing out in the streets, the Church should be aware that the Rapture grows ever closer.<\/p>\n
Because Israel rejected her Messiah everything has been on hold until God takes out a risen bride for His Son to rule and reign with Him. After this fullness of the Gentiles comes in, God will again deal with Israel to fulfill the remaining week of years foretold in Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy (Dan 9:24-27).<\/p>\n
The four horsemen first ride, bringing in global governance and the setting up of conditions on the earth for the final week of years to play out. That week of years starts with the signing of the covenant with the northern leader that scripture identifies as the Beast\/Antichrist. During all of the first half of the last seven years God sends two witnesses given supernatural powers. Israel and the world will have no choice but to hear about God’s plan to set up His Kingdom from Jerusalem with Jesus returning and sitting on David’s throne.<\/p>\n
The whole world will be given this truth so there will be no excuse to reject it other than they love their sins, hate God and hate the Jews. These satanic reprobates love making up lies to convince themselves and others that they are not accountable to the Creator of the universe but nevertheless everyone is.<\/p>\n
We see the lies happening today across the world. The satanic lies are being taught everywhere in the disguise of evolution, humanism, science, social justice and being woke with more lies. If this insane woke movement continues and gains a strong leader in Europe, I would not totally rule it out as being the start of the riding of the white horse. More likely the riding of the white horse will be more like a second coming of Hitler who rises during the world depression caused by Covid-19. It likely will be an European authoritarian response to the red\/green axis working to destroy Western civilization.<\/p>\n
In the first half of the seven years two prophets give their testimony in Jerusalem for 1260 days. The northern leader suffers a fatal head wound, rises, and is given power by Satan to kill God’s witnesses in Jerusalem. The Day of the Lord containing the wrath of the Lamb and the Wrath of God then plays out because the world rejects a kingdom led by Jesus. The ten kings ruling the world at that time give their power to what we know as the Antichrist. He enters the Temple of God claiming to be greater than anything called God (2Th 2:4). In other words, the world believes that this satanically empowered leader has the power to prevent Jesus from returning to lead the promised kingdom of the Jews.<\/p>\n
The Antichrist will try to destroy all Jews but many of them will flee to the mountains where they will be protected from the Antichrist. God will then destroy all enemies opposed to Jesus. That is what the Day of the Lord is all about.<\/p>\n
Most reading here are aware of these things, but it still seems that some are looking for tribulation events to start to play out before the two prophets arrive on the scene. That won’t happen. When God is dealing with Israel, He always sends His prophets before judgement. The Kingdom once again will be offered to the modern leaders of Israel through the testimony of the two prophets. However, those leaders will once again fear what Caesar will do to them and reject God’s truth for the world’s lies. The nation of Israel will make a covenant with death (Isa 28:15).<\/p>\n
Those today that think God is directing the leaders of Israel in their unbelief are not seeing things clearly. The leaders of Israel do not believe in Jehovah. If they believe in anything, they believe in the God of this world. Satan using the blind leaders of Israel are setting up Israel for its total annihilation. Of course God is not going to allow that to happen.<\/p>\n
The Ezekiel 38, 39 war is not going to take place before the two prophets arrive as some continue to teach. Israel is not going to see the light because of God’s intervention for Israel before the 70 weeks of years of indignation are completed (Da 9:24). After that they are given grace and the scales are removed from their eyes. Two-thirds in the land of Israel will not even survive the tribulation of those days (Zec 13:9).<\/p>\n
Christians make a tragic mistake when acting like unbelievers in Israel are one and the same as believers in Israel. Jesus is the Messiah of Israel. Jews must believe in the Messiah that God sent to Israel to be saved. In the Church age, all people are only saved by hearing and believing the Gospel of Christ. After the Church age of grace to the Gentiles is over, only a third of Israel will be refined through the fires of the great tribulation and go into the Kingdom. No unbeliever (Jew or Gentile), will ever enter the Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Those thinking that God is going to fulfill Ezekiel 38 and 39 before the tribulation cannot from scripture build a reasonable case as to why that is. They put the Gog war before the tribulation because they do not know where to fit it in the tribulation.<\/p>\n
Some are saying that Jehovah becomes known in Israel through the Gog war but then years later Israel somehow still signs a covenant with the Antichrist. That is not logical. The Ezekiel war has to be late in the great tribulation. Ezekiel 39:22 says “the house of Israel shall know that I am Jehovah their God, from that day and forward”. How can Israel come to know Jehovah from that day forward but not also come to know Jesus as some with this view claim? The God of Israel became born into the world as the man named Jesus. The risen Jesus is the only visible image of Jehovah. The Gog war takes place before Armageddon but claiming it occurs before the tribulation makes little sense.<\/p>\n
Here is the way I now think it goes down: God destroys Gog’s army. At that point Satan and his demons gathers all nations to come against the coming of Jesus at Jerusalem. One hint of this timing is that Israel does not even search for bodies until after 7 months (Ez 39:14). That is because the armies gathered by Satan, the False Prophet and Beast will be added to Gog’s army for the Great Supper in Israel that God prepared for the birds. The prophets do not talk anywhere about two suppers for the birds. It is known as the great day of God Almighty.<\/p>\n
Gog’s army will be an initial gathering of northern nations against Israel. However, the last battle when all nations come against Jerusalem will occur less than 7 months later where they will be annihilated in the valley of Jehoshaphat (Joel 3). There will not be much left of this army to bury (Zec 14:12) but the action against Israel by Satan bringing all nations against Jerusalem will prevent Israel from burying Gog’s army until after all the forces of the Beast are all destroyed.<\/p>\n
Some might now be wondering why Bible prophecy “experts” cannot come to agreement on the sequence of end time events. Most of the latest theories seem full of holes to others that study the passages. That could be because God sees no need for the Church to know the fine details of this period. After all, the Church will play no role in the tribulation even if some teach differently.<\/p>\n
I think God intends to keep Satan in the dark about how and when the end time events play out until after He removes His Church. Until then, Satan does not know the times or the sequence of events. That is why Satan has had Antichrist figures in the wings since the Roman Empire. Those thinking they uniquely know about the sequence of end time events and write books about their conjectures will likely continue to be proved wrong.<\/p>\n
In spite of what some Bible prophecy watchmen are continually saying on the media, Gog with his allies are nowhere near ready to come against Israel as described in Ezekiel 38 and 39. It would still take years to build this army and Israel is not even living in security as the text says. Israel probably does not get that security until they sign a covenant with the Antichrist. That covenant sets Israel up for the arrival of the two prophets who will hinder any military action against Israel until their testamentary is complete.<\/p>\n
The Bible Prophecy watchmen on the media who are continually claiming that the Ezekiel war is the next thing to play out keep recycling a view that ignores a lot of details in scripture. Thus, they see Gog coming down every time Israel or Russia sneezes. This ranting by the watchmen borders on religious fervor rather than anything the Bible actually teaches. They might first be looking for the riding of the four horsemen, the ten kings, global governance and of course the Rapture. The Gog war occurs late in the tribulation after the horsemen ride and after the two prophets give their testimony. Many OT prophets spoke of the end time judgement of nations that come against Israel and any contextual reading that was not already fulfilled in the past puts them all in the Day of the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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