I decided to start a monthly series on my perspectives on world and church issues. Some will have some bearing on end time Bible prophecy.<\/p>\n
For those who do not know me and found this post through a search engine. I have had a website called The Prophetic Years<\/a><\/strong> for over ten years. For the last three years the site also hosts a Blog named “World and Church Trends and Bible Prophecy<\/a>“<\/strong>. This blog is where these monthly perspectives are posted along with other posts of interest usually related to the Blog title. I will create a special category on the sidebar for these perspectives so you can find them all in one place. Comments are allowed if you read and adhere to my commenting policy.<\/p>\n I am sure many are not going to want to accept my perspectives for July because just too many want to fly off in the Rapture by the- day-after-tomorrow. Nevertheless, I am not here to itch anyone’s ears. I call it like I see it. If you insist that the Rapture “has”<\/strong> to occur in the next few years you might as well take your ball and go home, because your playing on the wrong field.<\/p>\n ____________<\/p>\n Let me start July’s perspective by saying I read an article yesterday by a very well known and usually very good Bible prophecy teacher that dogmatically said the Rapture must occur by 2011 because all had to be completed 70 years\u00a0 from the creation of Israel in 1948. Thus, all has to be complete by the Feast of Trumpets 2018. He believes the rapture occurs at least seven years prior to the Feast of Trumpets 2018 so the Rapture must occur before the fall of 2011. This prophecy teacher is not alone, there are quite a few like him although perhaps they are not quite so dogmatic.<\/p>\n Now if you really believe that you will be gone in less than 15 months you might as well send me all the surplus money that you have. <\/a> <\/strong>All you need is enough to keep you going for another 15 months. I wonder what this teacher is going to say for an encore after 2011 comes and goes. I suppose 70 years will be changed to 80 years and if that don’t work out it will become 120 years. It makes me wonder how long some people will continue to buy into speculations on certain passages as if it was biblical truth. These Rapture speculations have been going on my whole Christian life and not one has got it right yet.<\/p>\n This teacher also wants us to believe that the war of Psalm 83 and Ezekiel 38 will be fulfilled before the final seven years, or prior to the end of next year. So we can all just blow our minds out of our butt and pretend that the Psalm 83 war and the Ezekiel war with its huge assembly of armies containing 9 nations can assemble a huge army and come down against an Israel living at peace and security in just one year? It simply is not going to happen!<\/p>\n _______________<\/p>\n Bible prophecy teachers have been speculating for years that Israel is going to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites any day now, and without the help of the United States. About six months ago I came to the conclusion that this is very unlikely to happen. If a war were to break out now between Iran and Israel it certainly would also include the Arab Hezbollah and Hamas proxies. Yet, Iran is not mentioned at all in the Psalm 83 Arab war to cut off Israel from being a nation. So how can that be?<\/p>\n I have thrown around different ideas myself but I still think it is because there will be a Revolution in Iran<\/a><\/strong> before they make the decision to develop nuclear weapons. The Iranian people are against the Islamic regime and\u00a0 they have the army with them. If it comes to a revolution the army will fight with the people. Even voices of the elite Revolutionary Guard<\/strong> say they will not fight against the people. The regime is hiring outsiders to keep the people from gathering in large groups because they know if there is ever a national gathering like last summer again they will lose control. But sooner or later it is going to happen. It might take a few more martyrs but when the change comes it will happen in a day. The present ruling twelver’s will flee into exile.<\/p>\n What would Iran be like after the Revolution? It first will want to stop the sanctions and get aid and development from the West. All nuclear programs will be converted to be used for peaceful purposes and they would all be opened to international inspection. Actually Israel and Iran will become quite friendly and I think economic alliances will be set up. The Middle East will become a very wealthy place and it will be living in peace and that is the picture that we see before the war of Ezekiel 38. Most in Bible prophecy want to make that war imminent and in this decade but it just does not fit. I think the Ezekiel 38 war is more likely almost twenty years down the line. We cannot make Bible prophecy fit our own schedule based on our wanting to see the return of Christ in our lifetimes. So what will happen to the Arab nations that are now an imminent danger to Israel. I think Palm 83 describes that. At the time of the Ezekiel 38 war these nations are no where to be seen. Borders are gong to change radically in the Middle East. I think Israel, Iraq and Iran will be the big winners. The Arab nations that surround Israel will be the big losers. Then we will see peace in the Middle East until the time of the Ezekiel 38 Gog war.<\/p>\n ___________________<\/p>\n In Afghanistan we could win and we still lose our objectives. The tribal war lords that control that nation might agree to anything if it will get the U.S. to pull out. However, as soon as we are gone they will resort back to their tribal ways. There can be no strong central government in Afghanistan. What we need to do is hit terrorist camps anywhere they are located and not try to build a nation ruled by democracy where there can be no democracy. Even our own Western democracy is hanging by a thread. We should try to keep what our forefathers game us before we think we can tell others to live by the values that we are now so freely give up.<\/p>\n ___________________<\/p>\n We need to stop illegal Immigration it is not bringing us the best from other nations, it is bringing in many criminals. There simply is no reason why the federal government could not stop it if they really wanted to. If Mexicans and Central Americans knew that we had people that would use deadly force on the border and that they would be imprison when caught they hardly would come at all. If we did not allow employers to hire illegals and if illegals did not get free benefits they would leave this country. Most of them are remaining here hoping for another amnesty. We need to make it clear that any immigration to the United States will only be done legally.<\/p>\n __________________<\/p>\n Some Christians do not understand Bible prophecy and Eschatology one iota and that is why secular news organizations pick up what they say and make Christians out to be complete idiots. For example, the Christian illiterates will remember that somewhere in the Bible it talks about the sea turning to blood. So they see some red in the oil spill in the gulf and give others the suggestion that they think it could be a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Had they actually read the prophecy they would have to be complete idiots to believe that an oil spill is any fulfillment of it. But that is where we are at in Christian education these days.<\/p>\n First off,\u00a0 they should know that a third of the sea first turns to blood during the Trumpet Judgments. Anyone have a clue how they think we got to the Trumpet Judgments before the Day of the lord? The Trumpets occur after the time when everyone is hiding in the holes in the ground to protect them from what they see coming upon the earth? Clearly we are not in the times described in these chapters in Revelation.<\/p>\n Further, the prophecy specifically says a burning mountain will fall into the sea and that will make the sea turn into blood. So a asteroid or some comet is having an encounter with the Earth and not some Gulf oil spill. Right after that great body hits the sea and turns it to blood another body called Wormwood falls on the land and turns the rivers to blood. So oil spills do not fulfill Bible prophecy the judgments come out of heaven. So quit telling media about Bible prophecy when you have no understanding of it yourself! We saw the same thing happen with the burning wells of Iraq. Certain people were suggesting that it was a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. We really can’t expect media to have a clue about Bible prophecy but Christians should, and if they really do not know Bible prophecy they should just keep quite and let the media go to a more reliable source .<\/p>\n ______________________<\/p>\n One clear sign that we are getting near the end times is defection from the true faith to heeding doctrines of demons. We see that occurring on an every increasing scale even among Christian teachers, churches, and books. There are the heretical books like The Shack<\/a><\/strong> that promote Universalism among other heresies and is so big that most Christian teachers and pastors will not dare touch this sacred cow. But for every book like The Shack there are hundreds that are even more heretical but not quite as big. Many Christian books stores are now half filled with every kind of heresy.<\/p>\n