The nation of Israel is in the forefront of the
news
continually.
Although we have
many end time
events happening
all around us,
Israel
remains the
focus of the
coming
New World
order. To the
mind of the
elite that are
clamoring to
solidify their
complete power, Israel stands in their way when it comes to the
vast riches to
be found in the
Middle East.
The unrest from
an age old
hatred between
half brothers
continues to
simmer and is
fast approaching
the boiling
point when the
lid will be
blown off the
region and this
area of the
world will be
thrown into a
major war.
In the book of
Zechariah, the
prophet gives a
look into our
future when
nations think
they can impose
their will onto
God’s land and
His chosen
people:
12:3 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.
The Palestinian
Authority, led
by the terrorist
in a suit,
Mahmoud Abbas,
calls for the
recognition of a
Palestinian
state without
Israel’s
participation or
consent. This
rabid Anti
Semite would
impose the will
of the world on
a tiny nation
that he feels
could not resist
the dictates of
a world body
called the
United Nations
that is filled
with the Israel hating countries in their
majority. It’s a
shrewd move of a
wily old fox who
plays the game
of political
chicken with the
world.
Already
this terrorist
in a suit has
petitioned third
world countries
to recognize the
formation of a
Palestinian
state on the pre
1967 borders as
early as this
September,
that
will include East Jerusalem. The push and political pressure is growing
on
Israel
and its duly
elected leaders.
How long will
Benjamin
Netanyahu stand
against this
type of pressure
from within and
without? I think
the world
underestimates
this man’s
resolve to not
give up ground
to terrorist
whose only goal
is to destroy
his nation and
push them into
the
Mediterranean
Sea.
As a statesman,
he is playing
his diplomatic
cards close to
his chest and
will “negotiate”
for as long as
he can. But
there will come
a point soon,
when the cards
will have to be
laid out to
play. Will he
honor the world
body who tries
to impose a
Palestinian
state to the
security risk of Israel? Will the Prime Minister of
Israel and his
party in control
allow the danger
that is lurking
at every
direction and is
on every border
surrounding
them, to be
also, the fox in
the henhouse? I
believe he will
not, as he knows
the outcome.
Then what will
happen when he
refuses to
remove all
Jewish people
from the lands
of
Israel
that God gave
them, and refuse
to surrender the
West Bank which
includes Judea
and
Samaria
to these Jew
Haters? Abbas
demands that the
area be “Jew
free” and will
feign oppression
and human rights
violations. I
believe you see
the precursor of
that response
now being played
out as test run
in Libya. The international community
has staged a
“Defacto war” on
the forces of
Omar
Kadafi in the
name of the
protecting the
“human rights of
the people of
Libya”.
ABBAS AND THE ARABS PROMOTE WAR BY DECEIT
When the leaders
of this newly
recognized
government
complain to the
world, and the
UN of perceived
atrocities,
either real and
fictitious, (it
doesn’t matter),
then will the
world respond as
they have in Libya?
Zechariah
prophecies that
all
Judah
will be a cup of
trembling, to
all who comes
against Jerusalem:
12:2 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.
12:4 In
that day, saith
the LORD, I will
smite every
horse with
astonishment,
and his rider
with madness:
and I will open
mine eyes upon
the house of
Judah,
and will smite
every horse of
the people with
blindness.
12:5 And
the governors of
Judah
shall say in
their heart, The
inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of
hosts their God.
12:6 In
that day will I
make the
governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and
like a torch of
fire in a sheaf;
and they shall
devour all the
people round
about, on the
right hand and
on the left: and
Jerusalem
shall be
inhabited again
in her own
place, even in Jerusalem.
12:7 The
LORD also shall
save the tents
of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David
and the glory of
the inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
do not magnify
themselves
against Judah.
12:8 In
that day shall
the LORD defend
the inhabitants
of
Jerusalem;
and he that is
feeble among
them at that day
shall be as
David; and
the house of
David shall be
as God, as the
angel of the
LORD before
them.
12:9 And
it shall come to
pass in that
day, that I will
seek to destroy
all the
nations that
come against Jerusalem.
THE GOG-MAGOG
INVASION
Are we now,
today setting up
the Gog-magog
invasion of the
nation of
Israel?
Most
commentators
point to
Russia
as the leader of
an invasion,
with Iran and the outer ring of Muslim
nation heading
up the invasion.
It gives me
pause to think,
in this time
when there is
only one
superpower, who
seems to be
involved in any
human rights
endeavor,
whether it’s in
its best
interest or not,
is the United States of America. In times
past, I would
not have dreamed
or the thought
come into my
mind, because
the USA was Israel’s staunchest ally…at least
until the
present
administration.
Our current
president has
made so many
overtures of
sympathy to the
Muslim world to
appease them, to
give them hope
for the removal
of their enemy
Israel, that one
has to wonder,
“would Obama,
‘the one”,
defend Israel
during this
invasion?” or
would he be a
co-conspirator
or complicit led
by a commander
of our armed
forces that is
more apologetic
to the Muslim
cause than to
our oldest ally
in the region?
The idea makes
me shudder to
think that it
could be true.
Whether is be
true or not, let
me point to one
area of prophecy
concerning this
invasion that
bears scrutiny
for every
freedom loving
citizen in the
Americas.
When you read
the 38th
chapter of
Ezekiel starting
in verse 1, you
read down to
these verses:
38:12 To
take a spoil,
and to take a
prey; to turn
thine hand upon
the desolate
places that are
now inhabited,
and upon the
people that are
gathered out of
the nations,
which have
gotten cattle
and goods, that
dwell in the
midst of the
land.
38:13 Sheba,
and Dedan,
and the
merchants of
Tarshish,
with all the
young lions
thereof, shall
say unto thee,
Art thou come to
take a spoil?
hast thou
gathered thy
company to take
a prey? to carry
away silver and
gold, to take
away cattle and
goods, to take a
great spoil?
WHO ARE THE
MERCHANTS OF
TARSHISH?
The merchants of
Tarshish is a
reference to sea
traders from the
West, including
the Europeans
countries, such
as Spain,
Portugal, the
British Isles,
and spreading to
the UNITED
STATES OF
AMERICA
as their
discoveries of
our land in days
past.
Set in the
backdrop of the
end-times’
Gog-Magog War,
America’s
possible role in
any Middle
Eastern conflict
becomes all the
more significant
in that its
impact upon
“Democratic
Globalism” and
the Commercial
Empire would be
overwhelming.
Naturally, it is
impossible to
avoid either
Antichrist, or
the
pre-positioning
of his military
in the Holy
Land, as it is
prophecied to
come to pass,
but with
the climate of
pro-Arab,
pro-muslim
policies being
proliferated by
our present
governmental
agencies, the
implication is
that we will sit
idly by, or be
indirectly
involved.
Another
possibility, is
that America will be so weak militarily
that we won’t be
able to stop any
invasion from
happening. Time
will tell. For
our abandoning
Israel,
could there be
judgment for our
inaction and our
throwing Israel to these dogs?
“These
Merchants of
Tarshish, whose
primary concerns
regarding this
pending invasion
of the Beautiful
Land, are
centered on the
commercial
impact to their
own
prosperity—prosperity
which would
adversely be
affected by such
an incursion
into the
Glorious Land
(not that they
care for Israel).
Therefore, and
by the time this
tome is
completed—special
interest should
be shown by the
United States of
America, as well
as the UK, South
Africa,
Australia, New
Zealand,
Canada—all the
young lions”
(Tribulation-network)
Could it be
spelled out in
one word, OIL?
Will our troops
be part of the
invasion? I pray
that we are not
as there is no
indication from
scripture that
we are involved
directly, but
the following
verses give the
people of the
free world
reason to be
anxious:
Ezekiel chapter
39:
39:2 And
I will turn thee
back,
and leave but the sixth part of
thee,
and will cause
thee to come up
from the north
parts, and will
bring thee upon
the mountains of Israel:
39:3 And
I will smite thy
bow out of thy
left hand, and
will cause thine
arrows to fall
out of thy right
hand.
39:4 Thou
shalt fall upon
the mountains of Israel,
thou, and all
thy bands, and
the NATIONS that
is with thee: I
will give thee
unto the
ravenous birds
of every sort,
and to the
beasts of the
field to be
devoured.
This passage
shows that God
will destroy
this invaded
army leaving
only 1/6 left
alive. That
means that
almost 85% of
this army will
be fed to
ravenous birds
of their flesh
and blood after
being destroyed.
You might as
well, say that
they were wiped
out. And when
this army is
destroyed, will
God follow the
limping few
making their way
back to their
homeland for
further
destruction.?
The following
passage alludes
to it,
especially if
the exchange is
nuclear in
respect to
contamination or
God’s judgment
coming to their
homelands.
Ezekiel 39:21-24
“I will display
my glory among
the nations, and
all the nations
will see the
punishment I
inflict
and the hand I
lay upon them.
From that day
forward the
house of
Israel
will know that I
am the LORD
their God. And
the nations will
know that the
people of
Israel
went into exile
for their sin,
because they
were unfaithful
to me. So I hid
my face from
them and handed
them over to
their enemies,
and they all
fell by the
sword. I dealt
with them
according to
their
uncleanness and
their offenses,
and I hid my
face from them.
ONE OR TWO GOG-MAGOG WARS?
Some feel that
there is only
one Gog-Magog
battle and it is
connected with
Armageddon, but
it’s apparent
that there are
two separate
wars when God
deals with the
heathen that
come against His
people. Why do I
say that?
Because when
Jesus Christ is
setting His foot
on the
Mount of Olives
as written in
Zechariah, then
He would be
revealing
Himself in the
first person to
His people. This
previous war
reveals God
Jehovah to His
people and they
clamor for the
rebuilding of
the temple and
the
re-institution
of animal
sacrifice.
These are
two completely
different wars
approximately 7
years apart. One
war is after the
Tribulation
starts, and the
last at the
glorious
appearing of our
Lord Jesus with
His saints
riding on white
horses.
WHAT TIME IS
IT?
How soon will
this prophecy be
fulfilled? I
believe it could
happen rapidly.
As we have
studied on this
site, a war of
the surrounding
Arab nations
that touch the
border of
Israel
will be
forthcoming, and
it could be soon
with all the
unrest in the
region. When
Israel
defeats them by
divine
intervention and
takes the land
promised to them
by God to
Abraham, then
there will be
several reasons
for this coming
Gog-Magog
invasion.
First is
economic.
Israel
is reported to
be on a huge
reserve of
natural gas that
will make them
independent of
other countries
for this energy
and possibly an
exporter of this
gas to other
countries.
It is
also reported
that
Israel
is sitting on a
vast reserve of
light sweet
crude that is
comparable to
what Saudi Arabia
has in reserve,
but it is of the
light sweet
crude variety,
not the heavy
tarry stuff the
Saudi’s sell.
This type of oil
is easily
refined into
gasoline and
other petroleum
products. It
will be the
enticement that
greedy men
cannot ignore.
The second, and
the most
important, is
religious. The
muslim world
thinks that
Allah is with
them, and they
must force the
appearance of
their 12th
imam by spilling
innocent blood
of Israel. These nations have been
preparing for an
invasion for
many years.
Since the last
Lebanese/Israeli
war,
they
have been
stockpiling
advanced
weaponry on all
of
Israel’s
borders. The
stock pile is
not for defense
on their part,
but invasion and
the next
strategic war.
You can read
about this
coming war in
Psalm 83. It is,
I believe, the
next war on the
horizon and just
out of view.
With Egypt as Israel’s only assurance of a treaty
to her south
evaporating with
the departure of
President
Mubarak and the
seeming
overtaking of
the political
scene by the
Muslim
Brotherhood,
then the stage
is being set.
When this
coalition is
soundly
defeated, as
prophesied it
will be, then
and only then
will the
following
scripture be
found as true:
Get ready; be
prepared, you
and all the
hordes gathered
about you, and
take command of
them. After many
days you will be
called to arms.
In future years
you will invade
a land that has
recovered from
war, whose
people were
gathered from
many nations to
the mountains of Israel, which had long been
desolate. They
had been brought
out from the
nations, and now
all of them
live in safety. You and all your troops and the many nations with
you will go up,
advancing like a
storm; you will
be like a cloud
covering the
land.
(Ezek.
38:7-9)
Israel
for the first
time, will live
in what they
believe is
safety…this
could be
translated,
“carelessly”. As
they will let
their guard down
because of the
commanding
defeat of the
Psalm 83
coalition, and
sets up the
Gog-Magog
battle.
The conditions
grow more
apparent and
ripe for coming
to pass. Some
say, maybe this
year, or
sometime in
2012, but the
point is, the
scenario and the
players are in
position. War
could be
plastered all
over your TV
screen tomorrow
or the next. As
the world
settles into an
ever
increasingly
alarming set of
events, the
world apart from
the believers
who have faith
in Jesus Christ,
are growing more
fearful. They
wring their
hands without a
clue on solving
the earth’s
problems, let
alone it’s
political ones.
People without
the assurance of
a God who is in
control are
running to and
fro trying to
set up “world
peace”. There
will be no world
peace, as man is
prone to sin,
greed, and the
lust of the
flesh. It is
spelled out in
your bible, and
we are living it
right in front
of our eyes
daily.
As the time of
the end of days
grows more
pronounced with
each passing
event reported
in the news,
then what is a
person to do
with all these
events spiraling
out of control?
As you may have
discovered, the
Church with its
saints will not
be a witness to
these events.
When will that
time be, and how
much will we
see? It is not
revealed, but
scripture points
to a sudden
interruption in
human events
that makes the
world stand on
its head. It is
the greatest,
most spectacular
event in all of
human history.
What is that
event? It is the
coming of our
Lord to remove
the children of
God out of the
way of His
coming wrath. As
Jesus said in
Revelation
chapter 3:10:
3:10 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.
3:11 Behold,
I come quickly:
hold that fast
which thou hast,
that no man take
thy crown.
War and
tribulation is
coming. The
world feels it
and every human
being is holding
their breath
wondering what
will happen
next.
Unfortunately,
most in our
world have no
hope, but in
themselves. But
we have hope and
a source of
strength and a
promise of
future glory:
1st
Thessalonians
4:16-17
For the Lord
Himself will
descend from
heaven with a
shout, with the
voice of an
archangel, and
with the trumpet
of God. And the
dead in Christ
will rise first.
Then we who are
alive and remain
shall be caught
up together with
them in the
clouds to meet
the Lord in the
air. And thus we
shall always be
with the Lord.
WHAT IS YOUR DECISION?
My
reader, what are
you going to do
when the hour,
the Day of the
Lord is upon
this earth? When
wrath comes,
Israel
is vindicated
and saved, and
the ungodly
thrown into the
lake of fire at
the Great White
Throne Judgment?
Remember, all
the preceding
events could
happen quickly
and the door of
salvation be
closed to all
who wish to be
counted amongst
the saints of
the Church.
Israel
is the door to
the timing of
end time
prophecy, and
Jerusalem
is the key. Time
is drawing down
and the time for
decision is at
hand. Will you
be cast head
long into the
Great
Tribulation or
meet Jesus in
the air? You
decide.
Hebrews
9:27 And
as it is
appointed unto
men once to die,
but after this
the judgment:
9:28 So
Christ was once
offered to bear
the sins of
many; and unto
them that look
for him shall he
appear the
second time
without sin unto
salvation.
If I can help
you in anyway,
pray with you,
talk with you
about your need
for Jesus
Christ, or jut
listen, drop me
a line to
realteam1999@sbcglobal.net,
or visit me
online at
www.churchofgod-usa.org.
This is Mike
Taylor, wishing
you God speed,
until we meet at
Jesus feet.