“And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain. And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”(Daniel 11:36-45 KJV).
Four Regional Powers In The End Times
Before we enter into the 70th week of Daniel and the antiChrist emerges, the Earth shall devolve into four regional powers: The King of the West who shall be the antiChrist and the most powerful of the four regional powers, the king of the South consisting of African nations south of the Sahara(Sub-Saharan Africa), the King of the North, consisting of whatever is left of the Russian Federation after the separation of Meshech and Tuval with nations in Central Asia; and the kings of the East, a hodge-podge of nations in the Far East: India, Japan, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc. Egypt shall be isolated, neither part of The King Of The West nor Sub-Saharan Africa, nor the Arab League.
These passages were compiled by our brother, Alan E. Kurschner, Ph.D., Eschatos Mimistries. I have the pleasure and liberty to comment on them briefly.
In passsage #8 we looked at the great multitude which no man could number. In passage #9, we shall look at the first of the Final Harvest.
The Great Tribulation Before The Rapture
PASSAGE #9
Revelation 14:12–16
This [refuse the Mark of the Beast] requires the steadfast endurance of the saints—those who obey God’s commandments and hold to their faith in Jesus. Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: ‘Blessed are the dead, those who die in the Lord from this moment on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so they can rest from their hard work, because their deeds will follow them.” Then I looked, and a white cloud appeared, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man! He had a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the temple, shouting in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud, “Use your sickle and start to reap, because the time to reap has come, since the earth’s harvest is ripe!” So the one seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.”
The KJV says:
“Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.”(Rev.14:12-16).
The Greek word rendered patience by the KJV is “hupomone.” It is better rendered steadfast endurance as in the NET. It is endurance, perseverance under persecution, pressures, trouble, distress, pain or tribulation. The perseverance of the saints is predicated uponthe third angelic announcement. What is the third angelic announcement?
“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”(Rev.14:9-11).
What fueled the perseverance of the saints under the persecution by the antiChrist is the understanding that if any man buckles under torture and receives the mark of allegiance to the Beast-antiChrist, he shall burn in Hell for eternity without let. It is incomparably easier to endure temporal pain no matter the severity than to burn in unquenchable fire for eternity. Those who die in the Lord are killed because of their refusal to bear the mark of allegiance to the Beast. They are blessed because having suffered temporal pain, torture, captivity, starvation or martyrdom are exempt from eternal inferno. They shall be rewarded in paradise. Their works do follow them.
We must not lose sight of the fact that Rev.14 is parenthetical. The three angelic announcements were made at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel at the beginning of the Great Tribulation. But now, the Great Tribulation has come to an end, having been terminated by the cosmic and celestial disturbances associated with the breaking of the sixth seal. We are now in the interlude between the end of the sixth seal and the breaking of the seventh. The sixth seal is the sign of the End Of The Ages which signals the wrath of God. The saints are not appointed to God’s wrath. Therefore, they must be evacuated from the Earth which is the scene of God’s wrath. The Earth and it’s inhabitants have gone through the the hour of testing which must test all who dwell on the Earth(Rev.3:10). The wheat and the Tares have come to maturation. The Earth is ripe. It is now the hour of harvest(Greek: therisai).
The angel that is seated on the cloud is no doubt our Lord Jesus the Christ. He is the Judge of the whole Earth. The Father God has committed all judgment to the Son. The lone angelic voice commanding the sitter upon the cloud to cast in His sickle and reap is no doubt God the Father. All three persons of the Godhead are referred to as angels in the OT(Gen.18). Cloud is Heaven’s transport mechanism. It also signals glory. That He has a sickle in His right hand indicates He is about to reap the Earth. The sickle is the instrument of harvest. Judgment must begin in the house of God. The harvest is in stages. The 144,000 have been sealed to protect them from the wrath of God in the Day Of The Lord and to subsequently enter the Millennium. The other Jewish survivors of the first six trumpets are saved to enter the Millennium at the end of the 70th week of Daniel( Zech.12:10-14). The next in the sequence of harvest are those who died in the Lord as well as the living remnant of the saints who did not take the mark of allegiance to the Beast. They are harvested to Heaven. There is no shedding of blood here. This is the glorious Rapture of the saints.
Next in the sequence of harvest of the Earth to the Rapture is the wrath of God which ends in a bloodbath at Armageddon(Rev.14:17-20). And finally, the Sheep of the Sheep and Goat Judgment(Matt.25:31-46) of the Gentiles who enter the Millennium in their mortal bodies to repopulate the Earth alongside the 144,000 and the other Jewish remnants.
The Greek word ethnos(plural: ethnon) does not adequately and accurately translate the Hebrew word goy(plural: goyim). No word in Greek can adequately translate “goy(im).” It is from the Greek word “ethnos” that we derive the English word ethnic and its cognates. Admittedly, ethnos is the nearest Greek word to the Hebrew goy. Whenever the word ethnos is mentioned, what comes to mind is the English equivalent, nation. Admittedly, the Hebrew word “goy” is also used to refer to a nation. For example, God promised to make a Abraham a great nation, “goy gadol”(Gen.12:20. The modern socio-political concept of nation is that of nation-state such as Ghana, Nigeria etc. However, in Hebrew, the word goy is any person other than a Jew. The Jewish political and religious mindset recognizes only two groups of people in broad categories, viz; the Jew who is any descendant of Abraham through Jacob, and the non-jew which is the rest of humanity. In other words anyone who is not a descendant of Abraham through Jacob. The Jews are the “circumcision,” and the non-Jews are the “uncircumcision” or “goyim”(Eph.2:11).
The term Jew is an English derivative of the Hebrew “Yehudi,” which means man of Judah, the official reference to the Israelite of the Southern Kingdom under the leadership of the Davidic dynasty. After the Babylonian captivity of 586 BC, it became the common appellative of all Israelites of both the Southern and Northern Kingdoms descent. We must remember that the Northern Kingdom was taken into captivity into Assyria in 722 BC. As Assyria was defeated by the Neo-Babbylonian Empire in 612 BC at the battle of Nineve, the Israelite exiles in its realm of Northern Kingdom descent were absorbed into the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Thusly, the name of Judah gained supremacy over his brethren in fulfillment of the prophecy of Jacob concerning Judah on his deathbed in Goshen in the land of Egypt: ” Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise”(Gen.49:8).
The LXX consistently translates goy as ethnos. In English ethnos and goy are variously translated as nation , heathen or pagan. Both heathen and pagan smirk of religious discrimination. In judaistic religious thought any non-Jewish person is a goy, a heathen or pagan- a person that does not know the God of Israel- a person in a non-covenantal relationship with the Jahweh of Judah, the LORD GOD of Israel. Therefore there were the Jews and the heathen which referred to the non-Israelite ethnic groups that inhabited the land of Canaan primarily, and generally the rest of humanity. This is the judaistic and OT dichotomous view of humanity. The OT dichotomous view is a broad categorical view which did not take cognizance of the petty religious discrimination and racial segregation within Judaism which classified Gentile proselytes to Judaism into several categories. The only way for a non-Jew not to be a heathen or pagan was to convert to Judaism, i.e., become a Jew. When a non-Jew converted to Judaism, he or she is no longer a pagan or heathen, but a Jew, though with reservations contingent on the depth of conversion and degree of commitment and observance of the Law of Moses. This understanding probably explains why the worshippers in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost were regarded as Jews though, obviously some were proselytes to Judaism(Acts 2:10).
The predominantly Jewish protochurch in Jerusalem expressed bewilderment over the gift of the Holy Spirit to non-Jews who had not earlier converted to Judaism(Acts 10:44-48), and chided Peter for dining with the Gentiles in the house of Cornelius, the Roman centurion(Gal.2:12,13). It may be pertinent at this juncture to remind us that there was no dust raised over a similar conversions amongst the Samaritans who were mongrel Jews(2 Kin.17:24-44), but rather Apostles Peter and John were dispatched to administer the Holy Spirit to them(Acts 8:14-17). Proselytism was an accepted means of conversion of a non-Jew to Judaism(Matt23:15). From the foregoing, it was evident that if a non-Jew wished to be a Jew, he had to convert to Judaism. Although he was not well accepted, it was evident that this practice of discrimination against the proselytes was contrary to divine injunction in the Law of Moses. If a Gentile who lived amongst Jews wanted to observe the Passover, he was welcome, but he must first be circumcised(Exod.12:48). When the children of Israel left the land of Egypt, the congregation was a mixed multitude. There were Egyptians as well as other sojourners in the land of Egypt who saw the wonders, and signs performed by the God of Israel who decided to cast their lot with the people of Israel. They were strangers alright, but they were free to worship the God of Israel alongside native born Israelites. It was for this reason of discrimination and segregation that Jesus chided the Pharisees who compassed land and sea to make proselytes, only to turn round and make twice a child of Hell than themselves(Matt.23:15).
We must remember that the Jewish eunuch so rendered, either from natural, accidental, intentional or deliberate orchidectomy was barred access into the congregation of Yahweh(Deut.23:1). One born outside wedlock was also denied access into the congregation of the Lord(Deut.23:2). So also was the Moabite and the ammonite because they did not meet the children of Israel with bread and water on the way when they came out of the land of Egypt(Deut.23:3-6). we conclude therefore that the word Gentile more appropriately captures the meaning of goy in the OT Jewish religious thought.
The Bible records that on the day of Pentecost, there were Jews from every nation under heaven in Jerusalem(Acts 2:5), some of then no doubt were proselytes to Judaism. Following Peter’s message, about three thousand souls were added to the number of the disciples(Acts 2:41). Is there evidence that they were all Palestinian and Diaspora Jews only? Of the Gentile converts to Judaism, were there none that believed on that day of Pentecost? Evidently some of them believed on that day, and were also filled with the Holy Spirit. Why was it that no one raised eyebrow about that? Why did it not raise a lot of furors? If these Gentile converts were regarded as non-Jews, why were the Jewish leaders of the protochurch in Jerusalem fussy with Peter over the conversion of the Gentiles in the house of Cornelius?(Acts 11:1-18; Gal.2:1-21). The bone of contention was not just that those men were of Gentile descent, but they were uncircumcised. The Gentile coverts to Judaism were circumcised just like the Jews as a sign of covenantal relationship with the God of Israel. When a Gentile converted to Judaism, he was required to be circumcised like his Jewish counterpart as a sign of covenantal relationship with Yahweh, the God of Israel. Naturally, the Jewish male infant undergoes the ceremony of “brit milah” on the 8th day from the day of birth according to God’s command to Abraham(Gen.17:9-14; Rom.4:11), which was later incorporated into the Law of Moses(Jon.7:22,23).
Gentile Proselytes To Judaism
Although Gentiles who showed interest in Judaism were categorized as inquirers, audientes, supplientes, genufletes etc, when a Gentiles advances from inquiries arising from curiosity to commitment to the God of Israel by submission to circumcision and observance of the Law of Moses, he was regarded as a true proselyte to Judaism, and therefore a Jew, even though he was not quite well accepted. This probably explains why no dusts were raised over the Gentile proselytes to Judaism who were in the number added to the protochurch on the day of Pentecost though the Jewish leaders of the Protochurch in Jerusalem were later to be fussy with Peter over his preaching of the Gospel to the Gentiles in the house of Cornelius. Cornelius was probably regarded as a righteous Gentile, i.e., a Gentile who showed interest in the God of Israel, and followed it up with good works especially towards Jews and the nation of Israel, but was not yet fully converted to Judaism by being circumcised and being fully observant.
Segments Of Proselyes
When Christianity began in Palestine, it was as a sect within Judaism. Paul was accused of been heritical to the point of blasphemy because he taught the Jews in Diaspora that circumcision and the observance of the Law of Moses was not necessary for salvation(Acts 21:21; cp Gal.5:6, 6:15), contrary to the teaching of the judaisers from Jerusalem. Jews who abandoned their commitment to Yahweh in the days of Antiochus sought to remove their jewishness by hiding the mark of circumcision(1 Macc.1:11-14). Paul’s Jewish convert to Christianity in the Diaspora had no such scruples. As far as the protochurch in Jerusalem was concerned, a true Gentile convert to Judaism who had proved his commitment to Yahweh by circumcision and strict adherence to the Law of Moses was Jewish, otherwise the fussy reaction of the leaders of the protochurch in Jerusalem to Peter’s incursion to the house of Cornelius with the Gospel was sensless and meaningless if the protochurch had earlier admitted to her fold Gentile converts to Christianity who had no prior conversion to Judaism; inasmuch as it was evident that some of the converts to Christianity on the day of Pentecost were proselytes to Judaism as contained in the phrase ” …. visitors from Rome ( both Jews and converts to Judaism ); ….”(Acts 2:10,11).
It was the teaching of the Judaisers in Antioch in Syria, which was contrary to that of Paul and Barnabas that gave rise to the Jerusalem Council and the first encirclicle from the Church leadership in Jerusalem to the Gentile Church in Antioch in Syria. Both Paul and Barnabas conveyed this good news to the other Gentile churches they founded. Paul encountered these Judaisers in various Gentile cities he ministered in the Roman Empire. It was these Judaisers and Judaists who informed the Jerusalem community against Paul(Acts 21:21). In order to please the elders of the church in Jerusalem, avoid an uproar, and prevent persecution against the Nosrim, Paul compromised his Faith in Jerusalem, a hypocritical act of which he had earlier accused Peter in Antioch(Gal.2:11-21). Paul was not afraid of being lynched or imprisoned on account of the gospel he passionately preached, nor did he lack the intellectual ability to defend his teachings; his choice was a misguided love of the brethren. The counsel of the elders in Jerusalem was ill-informed and led to compromises on both their part and that of Paul(Acts 21:17-26). It availed nothing in that Paul in spite of adherence to the counsel of the elders was subsequently arrested, molested, tried, and imprisoned(Acts 21:28).
The Ecclesia
However, with its trichotomous view of racial groups, the NT introduced a new dimension to the Jewish religious concept of identity, by the divine creation of a new international community of believers who have expressed faith in the soteriological and substitutionary works of Christ on the Cross of Calvary. Like the OT dichotmous view, the NT trichotomous view is also a broad categorical view which within the OT dichotomous view creates room for Jews and Gentiles in one international family of God whilst disregarding the petty religious discrimination and racial seggregation within Judaism in relation to the rest of mankind. This is only possible because of the new life in Christ Jesus. Therefore Paul commands believers to give no offence neither to the Jew, nor the Gentile, nor the church of God(1 Cor.10:32). The Church, the Ekklesia, a called out people, are called out from amongst Jews and Gentiles into Christ. So, the Church consists of any number of these two groups, who have expressed faith in the risen Saviour, Jesus The Christ, our Lord. The relationship between the three groups is represented in the diagrammatic schema of two circles. The intercept of the two circles constitutes the Church of God.
With regards to the Church, petty religious and ethnic discrimination was evident from the very beginning. For example, in the early church in Jerusalem, the Grecians complained against the Hebrews that their women were neglected in the daily distribution of provisions(Acts 6:1). The Grecians were Hellenized Jews. The Hebrews were native born Palestinian Jews. The grecians also felt that they were not well recognized as the other Jews. Besides, further attempts were made to coerce the Gentiles believers to submit to the Mosiac ritual of circumcision as a prerequisite to true conversion and salvation. Efforts to resolve this disturbing development led to the convening of the Jerusalem Council and the injunctions that follwed(Acts 15). Therefore, it was a self-evident fact that petty religious discrimination and racial segregation were rampant in early Christianity as in Judaism. It was therefore virtually impossible to devise a concept of categorization that could take care of the various groups. As is common in our day, nearly any social parameter, vocation, city of origin, language etc could constitute a means of categorization. This phenomenon was not altogether unprofitable; for some of these groups catered to the needs of their member more efficiently than the larger body of Christ would do.
With regards to divine retribution, the Bible clearly states in Rom.8:1, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit….” The believer in Christ Jesus will not be judged in the sense that he will not be sentenced and banished to Hell, being already justified by faith in Christ Jesus ( Eph.2:8,9 ). What will be tried or judged is the work of the believer(1 Cor.5:10). The Bema Seat judgment of the believer (1 Cor.3:11-17 )is one of two events that will take place in heaven after the Rapture of The Church during the 30-day Reclamation Period of the kingdom(Dan.12:11), the other being the marriage of the Lamb. It is the outcome of this judgment that will determine our roles as co-regents with Christ during the Millennium(Matt.14-30). There are other views of the location of the Bema in the sky, and on Earth, of which one would do well to take note of. However, the location of this event is not our concern in this reflection.
The Jew will face trial during the time of Jacob’s trouble which is the Great Tribulation, and the Trumpet Judgments(Jer.30:7; Matt.24:21). The unbranded and saved remnant of Israel will be exempt from the Bowl Judgments being hidden in Azal(Zech.14:5). There are some biblical scholars that argue that the Great Tribulation is strictly judgmental of Israel. Hence, the christian may not be involved, the Rapture having occurred earlier, except for the so called Tribulation saints. This view is pretribulational. It does not have the mandate of the Scriptures; it is not strictly an explicit biblical teaching, but rather an inference derived from a theological mold. There is no single verse of Scriptures that teaches rapture before tribulation. The assumption that the Great Tribulation is strictly a divine retribution against Israel, and therefore excludes Christians is blatantly unbiblical.
The Great Tribulation provides trial and purification for the Jew, Gentile, and the Church of God, the three divisions of humanity. The hour of temptation(Peirasmos) that shall try all those who dwell upon the Earth(Rev.3:10), which is the Great Tribulation is inclusive of all, and exempts no one, the Jew, the Gentile, and the Church of God. The faithful and uncompromising Christian exemplified by the Church of Philadelphia is not exempted from the Great Tribulation, but is given protection within its sphere, and then delivered totally out from within its sphere after its interruption by the celetial disturbances associated with the breaking of the 6th seal(Rev.6:12-14; Matt.24:29-30), prior to the breaking of the 7th seal which is the wrath of God. The compromising Christian, exemplified by the church of Thyatira is not offered divine protection during the Great Tribulation, and therefore faces the full brunt of the Great Tribulation by the antiChrist, but is also delivered from it after the cosmic disturbances interrupt the Great Tribulation. The 144,000 are not sealed till after the cosmic disturbances which portends the wrath of God is about to be poured out upon the living wicked earth-dwellers(Rev.6:15-17; 7:1-8). They have passed through the Great Tribulation before being sealed for protection from the wrath of God in the trumpets and the bowls.
In the interlude between the 6th seal and the breaking of the 7th seal, the Church is rapture and the 144,000 from the twelve tribes of Israel are sealed for protection by the appearance of the Son of Man in the heavens, the Shekinah. Therefore the interlude protects from the wrath of God by the rapture of the Church and the sealing of the 144,000. The remnant of Israel other than the 144,000 are further purged, purified and cleansed by the outpouring of the wrath of God in the trumpet judgments. Shortly before the sounding of the 7th trumpet, the unbranded remnant of Israel are saved, thus completing the spiritual kingdom of God(Rev.10:7). The bowl judgments target the antiChrist and his minions, all those who have the Mark of the Beast. This accounts for the survival of the Gentiles who do not have the Mark of the Beast after the battle of Armageddon, who will appear at the Sheep and Goat Judgment. The Sheep, those justified, will repopulate the Earth in the Millennium alongside the saved remnant of Israel.
The Prewrath Rapture view is acceptable because it understands that there is only one Second Coming of Christ, the episunagogue being an integral part of the Parousia, the first initial act being the cosmocelestial disturbances(Matt.24:29-31). As the Church is a bride to be joined to her husband and therefore must be purified, even so is Israel an estranged wife to be reconciled to her husband after her purification. At the Second Coming of the Messiah, every unbranded Jew shall be saved(Zech.10:10-12; Rom.11:25,26). This would come as a result of their recognition of the Jewish Messiah as the historic and Christian Jesus; ” they will call upon Him whom they have pierced.” In the three divisions of humanity in our reflection on ethnon, there is no room for Tribulation saints. The Pretribulationist are yet to offer any scriptural basis for the fate of these saints. Will there be second rapture or will they enter heaven or the millennium in their mortal bodies? The Church Age closes with the rapture of the Church. No one can be saved and become a part of the bride of Christ after the rapture.
In the Sheep and Goat Judgment in Matt.24:31-46, The Son of Man has come in His glory with all the holy angels. He sits upon the throne of His father, David, and all nations are gathered before Him. There are some that believe that the Sheep and Goat Judgment is an allegory of the wrath of God upon the heathen in the Day of the Lord. In structural symbolism, this is understood to be the same as the trumpet and bowl judgments of Revelation, which are contained within the 7th seal, and culminates in the final destruction and devastation of Babylon, and the war of Armageddon at which the armies of the nations are annihilated( Rev.8,9,16,17,18,19; Is 13:19-20). This view is at best tenuous and allegorical and therefore has not gained much traction and credence amongst biblical scholars.
Before the nations are judged in the Sheep and Goat Judgment, Satan must be incarcerated in the shaft of the abyss for a thousand years(Rev.20). So, there is really no need for chapter break between Rev. 19 & 20, insofar as the incarceration of Satan in the bottomless pit for a millennium is a direct consequence of Christ’s defeat of his human armies at Armageddon.
As we have pointed out earlier, the Greek word translated nations in KJV, is ethnon, which is the plural of ethnos, is best translated Gentiles. As previously mentioned, the word nations immediately invokes in our minds the modern socio-political concept of nation-states such as Egypt and Syria etc. But this is not what is in view. What is in view is the sun total of all non-Jews, peoples of all races other than Jews who have not received Jesus as their personal Lord and Saviour, but are not branded with the Mark of the allegiance to the antiMessiah(Rev.13:18).
Obviously God does judge blocks of peoples socio-politically referred to as nations such as Ghana, Nigeria, etc. This judgment is an on-going process as we can see from both remote and Contemporary events. The war of Armageddon and the destruction of political Babylon and the Babylonian harlot indicate the final eschatological and consummative annihilation of the antiChrist and antisemites from all nations which as we pointed out some biblical scholars believe to be allegorically portrayed in the Sheep and Goat Judgment of the Gentiles. In the Sheep and Goat Judgment, Ghanians who survive the war a of Armageddon who are not beast marked, are not brought together to be judged as Ghanians based on the iniquities of the nation of Ghana. Rather, antisemites and antiChristians from all nations who survive the war of Armageddon and are not beast marked are ultimately wiped out, leaving the Zionist and the pro-Christians to enter the Millennium and repopulate the renovated Earth. This is not to say that national boundaries may not be recognized by the government of Christ. The Earth will be totally renovated and reorganized and new boundaries may be created. No nations will be subjugated by others, and all nations shall be subject to the rule and reign of Christ.
The Bible makes it clear that God is providentially involved in the affairs of nations of the world. The Scriptures state unequivocally that God reigns in the affairs of men and of nations, and also determines the boundaries of nations(Deut.32:8). For example, in the scramble for Africa, Western European nations struggled to acquire colonies in Africa with the egoistic motive to procure cheap labour, and raw materials for the support of their domestic industries, but the invisible hand of God was in operation, behind the scene as it were, determining and setting the boundaries of the new nation-states of Africa in relation to the number of the children of Israel. The Sheep and Goat Judgment will be the judgment of all Gentiles involved with Israel and the believer in Jesus Christ during the Great Tribulation. These two groups of peoples, the Jews and the Christians are covenantally related to Jesus, the one according to the flesh, and the other according to the Spirit, and could be referred to as His brethren in a relativistic sense(Jon.20:17).
The criterion for their condemnation or justification is their relative treatment of Christ’s brethren. Admittedly, His brethren would be Jews waiting for the coming of the Messiah, and believers in Jesus waiting for the Second Coming of Christ who repudiate the authority of the antiChrist(Rev.12:17). Interpretatively, the context would be the eschatological 70th Week of Daniel. Granted, the text has a wider application. In the middle eastern culture, hospitality to the stranger is associated with the recognition of whoever the stranger represents(Gen.24; Matt.10:46; Mk.9:41). Consequently, any hospitality shown to the Jew or Christain in dire need at any time whatsoever, is indirectly, and in an ultimate sense shown to Christ, and would invariably and inevitably receive a commensurate reward. Evidently, this would receive an added impetus in the context of the 70th Week of Daniel.
What is the reconstruction of the biblically accurate sequence of events of the end times to one who has THE MARK OF THE BEAST? It is like medicine after death. A physician who administers the most potent medicine after the death of his patient is a physician of NO value. Those of us Prewrathers who teach those who are covid vaccinated the PreWrath Rapture view are physicians of no value.
We must first of all warn our audience about the dangers of the C19 vaccines, then we can teach them the correct sequence of events of the end times after they have resolved not to ever take any of the C19 vaccines nor the RT-PCR tests. When we do the opposite, we put the cart before the horse. We go no where. We must chase away the fox first, then the hen can be warned against wandering in the bush.If we don’t chase away the fox first before warning the hen against wandering in the bush, the hen would be dead.
“Vaccine passports are digital identity schemes that can expand to include credit history & online behavior:” WEF report.
This is from the horse’s mouth. It is a Global DIGITAL IDENTITY SCHEME. It can EXPAND to include CREDIT HISTORY and ONLINE BEHAVIOR. It is not a VACCINE. It is THE MARK OF THE BEAST. It is a DOUBLE EDGED SWORD, a WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION, a GLOBAL DEPOPULATION AGENDA. The LOGO of the WEF is 666 hidden in plain sight.They are killing two birds with one stone: population reduction and global 🆔 scheme.
The Logo Of The WEF With 666 Hidden In plain Sight
This people couldn’t be clearer. Every one on Earth either gets it or starves to death. Bill Gates has said everyone must get it. That is the agenda of the WEF. Klaus Schwab said: “until everyone is covid vaccinated, no one is safe.” Everyone must have a C19 vaccine digital ID that will be linked to CBDC. Microsoft has patented a cryptocurrency with bodily activities. The patent number is WO2020060606. Obviously THE MARK OF THE BEAST hidden in plain sight. The covid plandemic was cooked up by the global elites and the WEF to herd the whole of humanity into being digitally 🆔ed. According to Noah Yuval Harari, the covid pandemic is what convinced the world to accept digital 🆔. It is an ARTIFICIAL HEALTH THREAT manufactured by the global elites to get the masses of humanity to surrender their free will to be controlled by the global elites. It is medical tyranny.According to Kristalina Georgieva of Romania, the head of the IMF, there is no pandemic, it is all about Digital 🆔.How could one hear things like these from those involvedin the scheme and still remain skeptical or dismiss C19 as a pandemic and the covid bioweapon and Digital 🆔 scheme as a vaccine? This medical tyranny will lead to One World Totalitarian Government.It is an ARTIFICIAL THREAT manufactured by the global elites to get the masses of humanity to surrender their free will to be controlled by the global elites.
Vaccination At The Centre Of The New World Order
The diagrammatic schema above prepared by the WEF says it all. Vaccination is at the centre of the NWO, Global Governance, Digital ID, Business and Economy etc. Without mRNA Vaccination, there will be no global digital ID. Remember Kristalina Georgieva of Romania 🇷🇴, the current head of the IMF said, “there is no pandemic. It’s all about digital ID.” Your Vaccination status will determine whether or not you get CBDC, Digital Currency and whether or not you use it and to what extent.
This diagrammatic schema is from the WEF. See its logo on the topmost left corner. It is not prepared by any conspiracy theorist. Take a look at the circles, the inner and outer. At the centre is vaccination which is highlighted to make it conspicuous. At the periphery one finds digital ID, CBDC, NWO etc. mRNA vaccination is at the centre of digital ID and CBDC. This is from the horse’s mouth. Kristalina Georgieva of Romania🇷🇴, head of the IMF said there is no covid pandemic. It is all about digital ID. CBDC will be issued by the World Central Bank which is the BIS(Bank For International Settlement). It is a smack in the face of those who are rather pushing a false narrative that NIN will metamorphose into CBDC which will in turn metmorphose into The Mark Of The Beast. Now hear the bombshell: you CANNOT own a CBDC and operate it unless you are a cyborg or a humanoid or a transhuman. In other words, your DNA must be altered by prior and repeated mRNA injections and or repeated RT-PCR tests.
The WEF said there are too many people in the World. They want only 500 million people with altered DNA alive out of the estimated 7.8 billion people in the world prior to covid plandemic. The rest are excess human beings(Noah Yuval Harari), useless eaters(Dr. Lima Leboeuf, quoting Dr. Henry Kissinger). The remaining 500 million will be humanoid zombies and cyborgs who will be herded into 36 15-minute smart cities around the globe, two of which are Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria.
Since the introduction of mRNA injections, there are excess deaths in US, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 🇳🇿, Israel 🇮🇱 etc. A tsunami of deaths is occurring amongst the vaccinated population. Kazuhiro Haraguchi, the former internal affairs minister of Japan, has become the first major politician to apologize to the unvaccinated. He said to the unvaccinated, “you are right, the vaccines are killing millions of our loved ones.”
In the US today, maternal and infant mortality rates have gone back to what they were 40 years ago. That means, all the gains of maternal and child health in the last four decades have been lost or reversed and rubbished by the introduction of mRNA injections. Mothers are dying with their babies in their wombs according to professor Peter McCullough. Young and healthy athletes who had mRNA injections are dropping dead in the field of play. There is now Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. Young covid vaxxed men and women, even children are developing and dying of cancers which were before only seen in the septagenerian, octagenarian etc. He that has ears 👂to hear, let him hear. Let no man decieve you(Matt.24:4).
Luc Montaigne, the renowned French virologist who found out AIDS was caused by HIV said if you have had first and second doses of the covid vaccine and a booster, test yourself for HIV. If positive, sue your government. Within a forthnight, he was dead. The French government said he died of natural causes, but private autopsy by family members said he was murdered. He was in his nineties though.
Prof Arne Burkhardt, the world renowned foremost pathologist carried out histological studies on the testes of 39 young men who died after covid vaccination. They all suffered from azoospermia. He concluded that if he were a young woman, he would not start a family with covid vaccinated male. Within two weeks, he was dead. The German government said he died of natural causes, but private autopsy by family members said he was murdered. He was in his nineties. Other studies have shown that the fertility rate in the mRNA vaccinated is reduced to 60%. In the subsequent generation, i.e., their offspring, it is zero.
According to Prof McCullough, nine peer reviewed studies say the mRNA vaxxed are dying of AIDS. This is due to the fact that their immune system has been destroyed by the mRNA vaccine. What the architects of the covid vaccines are not telling us is that the majority of covid vaccinated people will die in the next five years(2025 – 2030), due to compromised immunity and a host of other side effects.
According to Prof Michael Yeadon of Oxford University, they have gone ahead and re-engineered all vaccines with the mRNA base. mRNA is in all childhood vaccines, enbrel(a drug used in the treatment of autoimmune rheumatoid arthritis manufacture by Pfizer), insulin, dental anaesthetics and other injectables. They want to make it the treatment protocol for all ailments. So, DO NOT TAKE any vacvines.
According to Dr. Reiner Fuellmich who is now in prison custody in Germany for his activities since the onset of the covid plandemic, CBDC will be issued by a single central World bank.According to Dr. Peter Koenig of Switzerland, the QR Code of the covid vaxxed and PCR tested are now used as digital ID by banks in Switzerland and other Nordic countries. They are linked up with other QR Codes and are capable of storing immense and unlimited data.
CBDC will NOT be issued by NIMC. NIMC is NOT in charge of currency in Nigeria let alone in the whole world. Why are they arrogating to NIMC and Nigeria 🇳🇬 the authority neither has. Nigeria and NIMC are small fries in the scheme of things in the end times. They do only what they are told by the globalists and their institutions like the WB, IMF, UN, WHO, their financial overlords and benefactors. NIN is at the behest of the WB, so also the revision which is about to begin. If NIN will metamorphose into CBDC and The MARK OF THE BEAST, what will you say about China where the vacvine QR Code is already in use as a means of identification in 15-minute smart cities, and Klaus Schwab is already touting it as a model for the rest of the world. Their persistence in touting NIN as the mark of the beast is nothing other than cognitive disonance(Mattias Desmet). The more you look 👀, the less you see. Ojukokoro! Abracadabra!
On the inner circle of the diagrammatic schema by the WEF on the NWO, it is written: economic and business implication of vaccination. What has vaccination got to do with bussiness and economy. Everything. Because if you are not vaxxed, you are not a cyborg or humanoid. “The unvaccinated have no place in our society,” so says Mario Draghi, the former Prime minister of Italy. He that has ears 👂to hear, let him hear.
A whole book could be written on this diagrammatic schema prepared by the WEF. It summerises their plans and purposes. In this future world 🌎, the NWO, everything is dependent on VACCINATION. If you are unvaccinated, you CANNOTobtainhealth insurance, you cannot travel, you cannot go to school or establish or run a business or participate in any civic activities.Global governance,science and religion, finance, depend on it. Can you imagine, you CANNOT go to church unless you are modRNA vaxxed. You are not part of the society. Mario Draghi said, the unvaccinated are not part of our society. Klaus Schwab said no one is safe except everyone is vaccinated. Bill Gates was even more audacious: everyone MUST be vaccinated. Where is free will then ?Where is freedom? And whatever happened to democracy? What they are telling us is, unless you are reprogrammed into a humanoid(human 2.0), become a cyborg or transhuman, you CANNOT participate in the NWO. You say, Bro Zion, no one is talking about vaccines now. Why are you obsessed with it? They are going to bring it back, and it will be forcibly implemented. We would have to get out of the grid, vamoose into the bushin order to avoid forced vaccinations.TheEuropean Union have approved the use of self-replicatingmRNA that will be passed onto the unvaccinated by transfection.
Dr. Geanina Hagima, a gynecologist from Romania who has testified in the Romanian parliament regarding the C19 crimes against humanity for which she was sanctioned by the Medical College, has presented research about The TranshumanistAgenda of the European Union through Biodigital Convergence which is in progress. Dr. Hagima has exposed nanotechnology in the C19 and other vaccines, and has done rainwater analysis displaying the building blocks of nanotechnology. She explains Biodigital Convergence: what happens when biology and digital technology merge? According to her, digital technology is opening up striking new ways to:
Change human beings – our bodies, minds, and behaviours;
Change and create other organisms;
Alter ecosystems;
Sense, store, process, and transmit information;
Manage biological innovation;
Structure and manage production and supply chains.
The European Union Transhumanist agenda is in consonance with the agenda of the WEF to change humanity.They are working in tandem.And what is Biodigital Convergence? Biodigital Convergence is the interactive combination, sometimes to the point of merging, ofdigitaland biological technologiesandsystems.
Christine Lagarde, former head of the IMF, who is now head of ECB(European Central Bank Bank), says bank notes contribute immensely to Climate Change, so priming and brainwashing, railroading and hoodwinking the masses into accepting Digital Currency. With Digital Currency, the noncompliant, the unvaccinated can be locked out of the economy with a simple click of the button.
Oh! You see, the WEF and His Majesty’s Government are coöperating. The Magogites are ruling the world through the WEF and HM Government is their GRAND patron. Bear in mind that the Anglus and the Saxons are Magogites who migrated to the British Isles from Lower Saxony in Bavaria. Magog is the first son of Japheth the elder(Gen.10:2), and has the right of primogeniture which amongst other things includes leadership, priesthood and double inherititance. Global leadership shifted from Ham to Shem and then Japheth with whom it rests till the end of times.
The Shift Of Global Power From Ham To Shem And Then Japheth
The CBDC proposed by HM Government will be implemented worldwide through the BIS(Bank For International Settlement)and the Central Banks of nations. The WEF has told us that C19 vaccine passports are DIGITAL IDENTITY SCHEMES that can be expanded to include CREDIT HISTORY and ONLINE BEHAVIOR. And that includes your CARBON FOOTPRINT as well.
Why are they ignoring the Social Security Number(SSN) which has existed for nearly a century in Europe and US and Canada(North America) and the nascent NIN in Nigeria, and talking about expanding the C19 vaccine passport to include credit history and online behavior? C19 vaccines have killed millions and permanently injured millions more. According to Prof Roger Hodgkinson, the Canadian pathologist, covid vaccines have killed over an estimated 20 million people worldwide and injured 2.2 billion more, and some of them permanently. It dovetails perfectly into their global agenda of world depopulation and control through digital 🆔.
The Church And The Mark Of The Beast
Please, don’t get me wrong. I do not belittle the Mystical Body Of Christ, the invisible Church, the Body Of All True Believers In Christ. I love them. Am concerned about them. They are my brethren in Christ. Am part and parcel of it. From the pulpit to the pew, all in the Church aren’t true believers. And we seldom know who is who considering the fact that the weeds and the tares are growing together(Matt.13:30).
I think there is urgent need to teach the Body Of Christ, THE EVOLUTION OF The Mark Of The Beast. Believers ought to know how it will evolve in order to follow the evolution and spot the Mark and avoid it altogether at all costs. The world will not call it The Mark Of the beast. The onus of identification of The Mark Of The Beast rests with the saints of the Most High based on its description in the Holy Writ. The danger is that once the root is implanted under the skin, all that follows to the REAL McCOY is onlineupgrade. I didn’t invent that. The WEF said so in their report quoted above. According to Yuval Noah Harari, the next in human evolution is surveillance under the skin. It has already begun with C19. Man is now a hackable animal. Free will is over.
But when it comes to informing the saints of the evolution of the Mark Of The Beast, I find the visible Church and her leadership and teachers mostly practically useless. They are not telling us the truth. They don’t seem to know the TRUTH. So, they CANNOT teach nor tell us the truth. This is a very serious matter. Of what use is the most potent medicine after death? The best physician and the dick surgeon are powerless, masterly inactivated and incapacitated once the patient is dead. As the Igbos say, once the baby dies the maid or nanny is jobless and must be relieved of her duty. She goes home.
Let me state it clearly, no mincing of words, in bald language and with no holds barred: once one has been branded with the Mark Of The Beast, the most accurate biblical construct of PreWrath eschatology or the sequence of events of the End Times is of no consequence. They have already complied with the Mark Of The Beast. It is a matter of automatic upgrade. It is all or none law. Every good thing the governments offer is exclusively for the vaccinated. “The unvaccinated are not part of our society,” says Mario Draghi, the former Italian prime minister. It is a matter of time, these things will be made clear to everyone.
Covid Vaccine Digital ID Is Under The Skin Already
Digital 🆔 is already here with us: it is the covid vaccine and PCR test QR Code. And don’t tell me, we are all intelligent beings, we can understand. We do not need to belabour the issue. How many times did we hear the Gospel before it made sense to us, before we believed? There are very few of us who heard the gospel once and believed. We eat practically the same foods everyday in order to remain nourished and healthy. We teach our children and remind them again and again about the same things until they sink in. It is exactly the same thing when it comes to spiritual food. If we don’t review our subjects very often, we forget due to memory decay. Am alarmed at how easily I forget certain things if I don’t review them often. Therefore, I formed the habit of reviewing certain things every day. There are chapters of the Bible I read everyday without let.
The Church is under Satanic Premedication and the anaesthesia will be administered very soon. As Dr. Jaiye has said, the pastors have put their congregations under sleeping pills. That premise is correct, though I totally disagree with his inference that the NIN will evolve into the Mark Of The Beast. What happens to C19 vaccine QR Code already implanted under the skin of the vaccinated? Truth is parallel whether spoken at the shrine of Amadioha, Ogun, Sango, the Buddhist Temple, Hindu temple, the synagogue, Church etc. When we study the cultures and customs and traditions of the Middle East, we see some of the same basic principles and practices as are annunciated in the Jewish Bible among other ethnic groups though they were idol worshippers. It tells us that TRUTH is parallel. For example, The Code of Hammurabi which antedates The Mosaic Law of the Old Testament contains the same legal principles as are annunciated in the Mosaic Law. NIN is national, but the Covid vaccine digital scheme is international. It supersedes NIN.
Food As A Bargaining Chip
Food will be used as a bargaining chip. If one doesn’t have The Mark Of The Beast, one does not buy and sell.
“and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”(Rev.13:17 KJV).
Secondly, the food from the industry will be GMOs. By persistently eating GMOs, the eater is hybridized. Whether through GMOs, vaccines, other injectables, climate change, chemical sprays and chemtrails, there is a total war on humanity being waged by the globalists. The goal is to kill off 7.5 billion people, the excess human beings(Noah Yuval Harari), the useless eaters(Dr. Lima Lebow), and the remaining 500 million will be patented humanoid zombies who will man robots that farm the land for the global elites. One is either destroyed or disqualified by hybridization.
If food production is totally industrialized, the food manufacturers will control the supply. Look at what is happening in the Netherlands. The government wants to chase the farmers out of their lands in the guise of providing accommodation for new immigrants. It wants to take over food production and replace natural seeds with GMOs. In the US, the Biden Administration pays farmers to destroy their crops in order to create artificial food scarcity. So, there will be attempts to concentrate the food industry in the hands of the cronies of the antiMessiah. If one does not buy and sell, one does not eat. If one does not eat, one dies. So, food is a means of control of the masses. Bill Gates, the vaccine freak and eugenicist is the largest land owner in the US. Does that ring a bell?He is also developing AI to identify “harmful speech.” And what is harmful speech? Any speech or act that persuades someone to skip a dose of mRNA vaccine. His or her social media and bank accounts could be blocked or frozen. Such a person could be face legal charges and prosecution.
The Synthetic Messenger RNA is not science but lies. It is genetic poison. The SYNTHETIC mRNA technology is a quantum computer operating system intended to alter human genetic makeup, kill off a substantial portion of the human population, the useless eaters, the vulnerable and turn the survivors into humanoid zombies. Believers and indeed any person who fears God should have nothing to do with synthetic mRNA technology. Come not near it while you are in possession of your senses. I have been shouting it from the get go that the covid vaccines are no vaccines at all but viral gene based therapy. I had no scientific evidence then but just divine intuition and premonition. Now evidence abound.
Dr. William Bay took the Australian health regulator, APHRA to court over the mRNA injection, and worn. Dr. Mike Yeadon said about the case, “This is HUGE. There are tears of joy, not just in Australia but across the world. The criminal malfeasance from our government health bureaucracy has been destroyed in Queensland Supreme Court.” Here’s what Dr. William Bay said after the court handed down it’s decision:
“I think the vaccines are shit mate, they’re absolute shit, they are killers. They destroy people’s DNA – and i’m telling you this Australia and the world as a registered doctor.
This is coming from a registered Australian medical professional; themRNA vaccines are poisonous. They are bad for you, they are not good for you. They are harming your children they are harming you.
Everything you’ve heard has been there to deceive you. I have been vindicated in court today. To let you know the people of Australia that you have been lied to by the medical regulator.
The medical regulator APHRA has lied to you.
Justice Bradley in Supreme Court has today declared me 100% correct …. WE HAVE WON”
Make no mistake about it. The vaccinated are infertile and fast becoming imbeciles too with 20points drop in IQ. The PCR test apart from indirectly vaccinating the recipient also lobotomizes him or her. Chemical(biochemical and hormonal) Frontal Lobe ablation renders the C19 vaccine recipient an imbecile for life. Anatomically it is there and connected to the rest of the brain, but it is functionally useless. The depopulation agenda of the WEF is on track. They want to collapse world economy, cause inflation and food scarcity. The masses are more pliable when they are hungry. Whoever controls the food will control the people says Henry Kissinger. But they forget also that a hungry man is an angry man. And that the most unexpected can be expectedfrom a humiliatedpeople(French philosopher, Mark Ribald).
When will The Mark Of The Beast be revealed? At the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel no doubt. But it will be in use long before that time. I have been shouting it for the past decade now. It is here now. It is mRNA vaccine digital 🆔. He that will hear, let him hear.
Human Health And The Mark Of The Beast
Of late two young Nigerians slumped and died. This sort of thing was extremely rare before the advent of covid vaccines. And some want us to sweep it under the rug and not say a word about it. Some have called for the arrest of Professor Noah Yuval Harari. On the contrary, I do NOT think he should be arrested. Who is going to arrest him anyway? Are they not the ones who set him up? He is telling us the truth with no holds barred unlike the hypocrites in the Church – GOs, bishops, Pentecostal archbishops and pastors – who urge us to get the C19 vaccines, who say fornication is damning, a mortal sin, a sin unto death, unpardonable, but altering human DNA is a venial sin and pardonable. It is on our body they say. It does not affect our spirit and soul. They groan and moan under the weight of NIN but keep mute about the C19 vaccines which alter human DNA and have killed millions and maimed others and rendered them infertile and subhuman. Hypocrites, blind guides of the blind who strain at a gnat but swallow a camel(Matt.23:24). They will both fall into a pit. They are the ones that should be called out.
If you think the covid vaccines are over, you have another thing coming. The synthetic mRNA is being reengineered for all vaccines, autoimmune diseases and cancers, and will become the mainstay of medical treatment. Time is coming when we shall be compelled to take these vaccines or get out of the society. We shall hide in the bush to escape forced vaccinations. At that time, if you are 50 years old and above, and sick, if you ever enter the hospital, both general or private, you wouldn’t get out. You would be euthanized unless you are remarkably rich and contribute immensely to the global agenda or play what is deemed a significant and vital role in the system.
Those of us who teach eschatology from the PreWrath Rapture perspectives MUST emphasize this MOST important point or our work is USELESS. What is PreWrath eschatology to one who already has the MARK OF THE BEAST? Zoach!
Technology And The Mark Of The Beast
It is dangerous to read only the Bible. Some people boast about that. When you read George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, do they not throw some light on the End Times Scenario? When you read only the Scroll Of Revelation, you may end up thinking the Mark Of The Beast is just like a tribal mark or a number tattooed on the hand or forehead. No, it is far more than that. It is AI. It is a quantum computer operating system that reprogrammes one into a humanoid zombie. It connects one to the Internet Of Body and things. It is alien nanotechnology. It is self-assembling nanoscale technical device injected under the skin. It is a depopulation agenda. It is transhumanism via gene therapy and bioengineering. It is human-machine interface. It is human-demon interface. It is human-demon-machine interface. Human beings will interface with machines and demons. One is reduced to a patented electronic device. One becomes hackable and programmable. One is visible on Bluetooth, has a QR Code and Mac Address and IP Address.
It alters one’s genetics. A plasmid DNA has entered into the human genome. One is demonized and externally manipulated. One loses free will, and becomes a humanoid zombie. One is monitored 24/7. One loses freedom. One can be programmed to behave in certain way, commit crimes, say certain things and even die in a particular way – say heart attack, thrombosis, degenerative brain disease, cancers, blood dyscrasias or simply drop dead etc.The commonest cause of death today is Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. Pediatricians have also found out that the covid vaccines are implicated in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Man Reduced To Numbers
They want you to become a number with a microchip under your skin so you can be a hackable animal. Human beings have been given numbers from time immemorial. I have given several examples in the past. But let me remind us of the case of the Jews as Concentration Camp inmates. They were given numbers before they were exterminated. It is a process of dehumanization.It salved the conscience of the Nazis that they were dealing with mere numbers and not persons.It is a psychological process of desensitizing the murderers of human sympathy and empathy.
When it comes to the Mark Of The Beast, you are not just given a number but a number with a microchip under your skin and much more that alters your humanity, personality, and dignity. The Mark Of The Beast is not just a mark or a number, it is alien nanotechnology and metamaterials.There are lots about it that meet the eye.There are lots about it that we do not yet know let alone understand.
Let no one deceive you(Matt.24:4; Eph.5:6; 2 Thess.2:3; 2 Tim.3:13; 1 Jon.3:7). If a subject is mentioned once in the Bible, it is not very important, but if it is repeated several times, it is VERY important.
NIN/SSN: A Precursor?
NIN does NOT change your genetic code. NIN does NOT give you blood clots. NIN does not cause menstrual irregularities and disregulation. NIN does NOT cause miscarriages or render fertile women and men infertile. NIN does NOT cause Guilliane Barre syndrome nor degenerative brain diseases. NIN does NOT cause cerebral aneurism nor blood clots in the brain. NIN has not killed any athletes nor does it cause them to keel over. NIN does NOT cause myocarditis in children and young men and women. NIN does NOT cause Sudden Adult Death Syndrome nor Multiple-organ Inflammatry Syndrome(MIS) in both children and adults. NIN has NOT caused anyone to fall down suddenly, somersault and die. NIN does NOT make you visible on Bluetooth. NIN does NOT give you a QR Code on your person.Even in the graveyard, the covid vaxxed are visible on Bluetooth and their QR Codes detectible.
I don’t know anyone who has put his NIN on a microchip(RFID), implanted it in his forearm or hand and is using it to buy and sell on the net as some in Sweden are doing with the C19 vaccines QR Codes. NIN is NOT universal, transnational nor mandatory. NIN is national. Your NIN identifies you as a Nigerian as much as the Social Security Number(SSN) identifies an American as a US citizen. In Europe and America SSN has been in use for over a hundred years. It has not metamorphosed into the Mark Of The Beast, nor will NIN. NIN is not on your person. It is external. It is time we stop leaving the substance to pursue the shadow. It is time we stop majoring in the minor.
Numbers have been used to identify people from time immemorial. In class in the primary schools we were given numbers in the class registers. When your number is called out by your teacher during roll call you answered present. When we write exams, we are given numbers. When I registered in Ife University in 1979, I was given a number 791177 which appeared on my 🆔 card. No other student will ever get that number in the history of the university. Giving people numbers is not new at all. I still remember the number I was given to write common entrance into Secondary school in 1972, OW/3245. Military personnel, soldiers and police officers are given numbers which identify them. But these are not The Mark Of The Beast.
Everyone on our WhatsApp platform has NIN. Anyone who has a phone # registered in his or her name has NIN whether he or she knows it or not. If NIN is The Mark Of The Beast, then we all have it. We might as well close this platform and go home. Registering for NIN is not the first time our biometrics like finger print and facial recognition were captured. Long before the introduction of NIN, our finger prints and facial ID were captured when we registered our phone #s, got our drivers license or international passport.
Mainstream Media
Over 1000 covid vaxxed athletes have dropped dead, the MSM have never once drawn our attention to it. If at all they say anything about it, they blame it on everything else other than the covid vaccines. There are about 32 speculations about the causes of adult sudden death syndrome including social media hatred, running too fast for athletes, and viewing television for hours, playing video games for hours or days nonstop, none of which is new. All over the world, even here in Nigeria, some who have taken the C19 vaccines have dropped dead suddenly, the MSM have never said anything about it. There is no record of adverse reactions to the covid vaccines or death at the NCDC website, whereas some have died from the COVID vaccines and others maimed. What a shame! The leading cause of death in the US and Uk is now Sudden Adult death Syndrome.
Vaccinated women have had miscarriages, the MSM have never said a word about it. Gynaecologists and Urologists who run fertility clinics have being reporting increases in female and male infertility, after the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines, the MSM have been deaf and mute about it. All over the world, statistics have reported excess deaths since the introduction of the Covid-19 vaccines, the MSM have been silent about it. Morticians, undertakers, and insurance companies have reported excess deaths, strange blood clots, following the introduction of Covid-19 vaccines, but the MSM has ignored it. It does not take an angelic visitation to see where their allegiance is. They are the stooges of the WEF and His Majesty’s Government.Thy are partners in crime with the WEF, the British Crown, the government of nations, Big Pharma and medical establishments and Health Institutions, and military industrial complex.They are complicit in the genociding of humanity.
The world is on a collision course with its Maker. Evil men will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived even in the Church(2 Tim.3:13). Deception is the other of the day.
Take Covid for instance. Scientists are lying. Governments are lying. Pastors are lying, NGOs are lying. Big Pharma are lying. Medical doctors and medical associations are lying. MSM are lying. How on Earth will the world get better when it filled with liars, cheats and their lies. In Nigeria, soldiers and policemen frame young men up and kill them if they refuse to be exhorted. Young men in Sagamu don’t want to work, but they love luxury and the good life. So, they are busy stealing from the accounts of the masses every day with the collusion of some bank workers.
The Synthetic Messenger RNA
Stefan Oelrich, the CEO of Merck in a secret meeting of Big Pharma executives(I have posted this video here several times) said the covid vaccines are gene therapy not vaccines. That if they announced them as gene therapy, 95% of the world population would not receive them. They had to call them vaccines. This is deceitful.
Psychological Brainwashing
Tell a big lie. Repeat it often, and people will start believing it. Joseph Geobells, the NAZI chief propagandist employed this psychological method which he learned from his Master, the Fuhrer himself, Adolf Hitler to deceive and to hypnotize the German populace, the most educated at that time in the whole wide world. Do you know that psychologists have found out it is easier to decieve and brainwash an intelligent and educated people than a village palm wine tapper or a stark illiterate? The German society in the 1930s and ‘40s was a prime example. They were brainwashed to hate Jews. The same is happening today. Antisemitism is on the rise in Europe and America, and we are more educated than ever. Humanity is being brainwashed, hypnotized and reprogrammed and the WEF is at the Centre of it. How many village farmers and palm wine tappers are CIA, FSB, MI5, and Mossad agents? None. They are usually educated people: professors, university dons, scientists, government officials, CEOsof Big Pharma, Big Techs etc. often times, they are recruited without their knowledge of it. When they realize it and want to opt out, they are threatened and cowered into submission or held down by mouthwatering and lucrative offers.
Psychologists have also found out, it is easier to hypnotize the masses of humanity than an individual(Professor Matthias Desmet). Find something that makes the masses afraid and neurotic, usually a health scare. Besides, there are campaigns of intimidation, calumny, gaslighting and social engineering to bully the human populace to submission. Scientists who cry foul are silenced by threats of loss of job and grants for research, aborted carreers, and even death threats. Hundreds have disappeared into thin air, vaporized, or died under mysterious circumstances which are usually labeled natural deaths or suicides.
Covid Vaccine-Induced Maladies
Now evidence abound. 25% increase in cardiac emergencies amongst vaccinated children, and young adults. Over 1000 athletes have fallen down in the field of play and died. 80% of vaccinated mothers in the first trimester of pregnancy suffer miscarriages. Stillbirths, death-in-utero, abnormal babies with black eyes – so called COVID BABIES OR PANDEMIC BABIES – who die within 2-3 weeks of birth are on the increase. Thromboembolic phenomena, blood clots so thick they cannot be dissolved by the usual fibrinolytic agents, stage 4/5 cancers appearing within weeks of vaccination, prion(neurodegenerative) diseases even in the young, blood clots in the brain, massive cerebral aneurisms(aneurisms are rare except in combat life), autoimmune diseases, HIV+ tests etc. These are unheard of in medical history.
The list is endless. Pfizer’s own documents has 9 pages of adverse reactions and effects and show that over 90,000 people died within 2 weeks of the commencement of covid vaccinations. According to Prof Roger Hodgkinson, Canada’s leading pathologist, the covid vaccines have killed 20 million people worldwide and injured 2.2 billion others. Despite these mountains of evidence, some Christians who suffer from mass psychosis and cognitive dissonanceand amnesia want us to go on receiving these vaccines for another 20-30 years in order to conduct cohort studies. How many people will be left alive or remain normal by then? They themselves would even be dead and gone, and wouldn’t be available for the study. Or else turned into lobotomized humanoid zombies who will not question anything.
Please NEVER believe whatever anyone says just because he is educated, a self-acclaimed scientist like Anthony Fauci who says any attack on his person is an attack on science, a government official, a pastor, a GO, a Bishop or self-acclaimed man of God. Search out the TRUTH for yourself. Be a Berean(Act.17:11). A jingoistic cowboy pastor ceremoniously took the vaccine in sports dress, and opined, “don’t follow the conspiracy theorists. Take the vaccine.”
That the vaccine gets the Big Brother under your skin is no longer a conspiracy theory. It is now a conspiracy fact. If you think otherwise, please consult Noah Yuval Harari, the intellectual and philosophical patron of the WEF. On the day of judgment, you will stand alone to give account of yourself to God. Mr “Alagbaja” told me to do it will not be acceptable when tendered in evidence. Every man must give account of himself to God(Rom.14:12).And for the health officials who are jabbing people on the streets, the excuse that you are simply obeying orders and performing your duty as a health official or professional would not be tenable.
AnthonyFauci is no scientist but a REPTILIAN who serves his master the Devil and whose duty it is to populate Hell and render the remainder of humanity utterly useless humanoids; so also is Bill Gates. I say this before God the Father, before my Lord and Saviour Jesus The Christ and the Holy Spirit bears me witnesses with my own spirit that it is so.
Every day that passes by, more evidence are revealed. But the narcissistic, psychotic and Machiavellian sociopaths amongst believers will NEVER see it. So, we write not to warn them but as an evidence of their just recompence. And that the faithful may be strengthened in their resolve and the simple may learn and tremble before God who works wonders and mysteries His will to perform.
Prewrath Eschatology
Satan always has his antidote to every biblically accurate doctrine. Suffering and persecution are the lot of the saints, but for those who don’t want to suffer, it is the Pretrib Rapture view. God loves you so much He will NOT suffer you to meet the antiChrist. You will be secretly spirited away on the wings of the eagle out of the planet Earth before the antiChrist hangs out his shingles.
Pretrib is a FALSE doctrine. In no time, it will be obvious to everyone who holds it dear as true biblical teaching when the antiChrist brokers a 7-year peace pact between Israel and 7 of its Arab and Islamic neighbors and the saints are still much here.
Am also convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the Prewrath Rapture view is the most biblically accurate of all Rapture views. In the chronology of Rapture views, it is the latest, and yet the oldest. It is the oldest in that it was exactly what the Apostles of the Lamb and Church Fathers taught. It is the latest in that it is the last to be annunciated and given a theological LABEL. It is contradicted as it were by the other four rapture views – Pretrib, Midtrib, Posttrib, and the Partial Rapture Theory(which I consider to be utter eschatological NONSENSE).
There is a more potent satanic antidote to the biblically accurate rapture view. The first is that majority of those who teach this including the two ministries whose founders originated it, The Sign Ministries(Robert Van Kampen of blessed memory)and Zion’s Hope Inc(Marvin J. Rosenthal who passed into glory earlier this year) DO NOT teach on the EVOLUTION OF THE MARK OF THE BEAST. They are totally silent about it. They say nothing about the C19 Plandemic and it’s vaccines. If they ever mention covid in passing, it is the hardship the lockdowns and mandates engendered and brought upon humanity.
The two Prewrathers who have the bravado to say something about it, i.e., Joel Richardson and Nelson Walters dismiss it offhand as having NOTHING to do with THE MARK OF THE BEAST. They make bold to state that UNTIL the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel, and the debut of the antiChrist at the rebuilt Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, The Mark Of The Beast CANNOT be implemented. The Scriptures DO NOT say so. (We go by what the Scriptures say as much as by what they do NOT say). This is a very DANGEROUS PRECEDENT in that The Mark Of The Beast is SCIENTIFIC. Science by its very nature which is the investigation of knowledge is not static nor stationary but dynamic and EVOLUTIONARY. It is always being improved upon. It can and will be UPGRADED. We must also bear in mind that the official narrative about C19 and its vaccines have proven false in every case. And that lies and deceptions are the order of the day.
Digital Slavery
Prewrathers and and indeed all believers must avoid microchipping in all its forms and ramifications. We must avoid DIGITAL SLAVERY at all costs which is where the world is headed. It has already come to FULL SWING and ORBE in China as matter of governmental decree. The people of Scandinavia have already embraced it as a exciting and useful scientific development even without persuasion by those in authority. Nearly all transactions in Sweden are cashless using microchips and C19 vaccines QR Codes in RFIDs in the ARM OR HAND or BOTH which are meronyms OR SYNECDOCHES for the WHOLE PERSON.
By MANDATES, QR Codes are being surreptitiously implanted in people Worldwide in the guise of Covid vaccines and RT-PCR tests. This practice renders our PreWrath Rapture eschatology redundant if we embrace it. It is like the most potent medicine administered by the most skilled physician or dick surgeon after DEATH.
While we ravel in our knowledge and bask in the euphoria of touting the PreWrath Rapture Eschatology as being the most biblically accurate view of eschatology which it is, we MUST NOT fiddle with the covid vaccines, PCR tests, fool around with microchips and vaccine digital 🆔s. They are slippery creek banks.
PreWrath Rapture eschatology is NOT an end in itself. It is a means to an end. The END is we must NOT take THE MARK OF THE BEAST: we MUST be rapturable and indeed be raptured; and we MUST enter Heaven.
As always, the choice is the individual’s. Man is a free moral agent. We make our choice to remain free or relinquish our freedom to the Global Elites, the forerunners, precursors, FORESHADOWS and heralds of THE antiMessiah.
PCR Test
A brother suggested that those who have The Mark of the Beast on their foreheads are double amputees and I agreed with that. It sounded reasonable. Now l know that that’s not true. In a video at the airport where passengers are scanned by UV scanners, those who glow on their foreheads are not double amputees. They are those who had the RT-PCR test. The buds used to swab the nose are NOT made of cotton but graphene oxide fibers laced with Luciferase and dipped in ethylene oxide which is a known carcinogen(cancer agent). In the video which I cannot post here, UV light was shined on these swabs and they glowed, so also the vaccines in the vials.
There are swabs made of cotton, not graphene oxide fibers, not laced with the enzyme luciferase and not dipped in ethylene oxide. The original swabs for PCR test are made in China. What has helped some of us who has had the PCR test in Nigeria is that the local swabs are not made with graphene oxide fibers and are not laced with luciferase nor dipped in ethylene oxide. The same is true of some of the PCR test swabs made in India. Those who are lucky to be swabbed with these CANNOT exhibit phosphorescence under UV light. They are the ones who are quick to say we are spreading covid vaccine misinformation and disinformation. The wicked and dubious perpetrators love it that way because it further advances their cause.
Those swabbed with this kind of swab do not exhibit the glow phenomenon under UV light. These things are easily verifiable. There are UV light touches. You see them in use in the video. The buds of the swabs appear like ordinary cotton fibers to unaided eye, but when examined under the microscope, they are hollow and tubular. Under UV light scanner, they glow. When stuck into the nose during PCR test, some of these graphene oxide fibers pass through the tiny holes in the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone unto the forehead where they exhibit phosphorescence under UV light.
Dr. Carrie Madej said they are indirectly vaccinating people through the PCR test. That is exactly true. That is why some people have THE MARK OF THE BEAST on their foreheads. It is NOT because they are double amputees. The forehead is made up of the frontal bone and a thin muscle called the frontalis. It is not the proper sight for injections even in a double amputee.
From the heart, the blood flows upward to the head. That’s why the graphene oxide in the nose lodges in the forehead. The blood flows downwards from the shoulder to the fingers. That is why those who are vaccinated exhibit the phosphorescence at the sight of injection in the arm(deltoid), forearm or hand. This could be left or right hand depending on where they are injected. We know from the Scriptures that the Mark Of The Beast could be on the right or left hand or forehead.
“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”(Rev.13:15, 17-18 KJV).
“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”(Rev.14:9-12 KJV).
“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.” (Revelation 20:4 KJV).
The reason why those with the Mark Of The Beast CANNOT be saved is not because they are the worst sinners, neither is it because God is unwilling to forgive them: but because they are no longer human. The question of forgiveness and repentance does not even arise. God covenanted with Adam to redeem pure humans not humanoids or transhumans. The mRNA vaxxed have altered DNA.
The authorities have their closed circuits TVs under UV light at the airport or any port of entry. The passengers are viewed as they file through. They don’t really know what is going on. Those who don’t glow are intercepted. Some of them have genuine C19 vaccine QR Code cards. They got these genuine QR Codes but are not vaccinated. They bribed their way, but they wouldn’t get far before they are discovered. They won’t be allowed entry nor departure unless they are vaccinated. They are in a dilemma.
So it is better not to travel till all Covid restrictions are removed. But the bad news is that they aren’t going to remove them. It is THE MARK OF THE BEAST. It is here to stay. It could be more or less enforced depending on whom is in power in a particular nation, state or area. In Jigawa State, Nigeria, youth corpers are mandated to take the vaccine, and some of them have left the service because of that. It is the antiChrist himself that will make it mandatory worldwide and will enforce it. Don’t wait until that day to know what it is. Tomorrow may be too little too late.
Biden announced on 18th September, 2022 the Covid pandemic is over, but unless you are a US citizen, you cannot get into the US except you are fully vaccinated. Besides, the Biden Administration has extended Covid lockdowns and measures till April 2023. Why?Even if they remove covid vaccine mandates, they have gone and re-engineered all vaccines with the mRNA technology.Whatever vaccine one gets now, one is digitally 🆔ed. Prof Michael Yeadon has been warning about it. Who has ears to hear with, let him hear. Besides, Klaus Schwab addressing the B20 summit in Bali, Indonesia said that covid vaccines from all G20 countries will be equally acceptable and that everyone must be fully vaccinated or PCR tested. Why? Is covid a threat to anyone? No. It is in pursuance of their global agenda of getting everyone on the globe digitally 🆔ed preparatory to the introduction of CBDC for the cashless system of the antiChrist: and killing off the vulnerable to reduce the world population to the barest minimum.
Dr. Christiane Northrop, a well known anticovid vaccine crusader said she and her group were transiting through an airport in the US and were asked to show their Covid vaccine passports. She told them plainly they were not vaccinated and wouldn’t get vaccinated. It is their right as citizens. But there were some in their group who said they were vaccinated and whiped out their Covid vaccine QR CODE certificates. The airport authorities told them they were not vaccinated even though their QR CODES were genuine. Indeed they had obtained genuine Covid vaccine QR CODES but they were not vaccinated. It is not everyone that says he or she is vaccinated that is vaccinated.
The Covid vaccine certificates have been bought and sold and are being bought and sold even till today. Some just received placebo – normal saline or water for injection. And others NOTHING at all. The vaccine manufacturers know what they are doing. Even in the same batch, some vials contain ordinary water for injection and some normal saline. Some vials contain various percentages of graphene oxide. They don’t want all the recipients to drop dead at once. That would be too alarming and shouting.
Those who received placebo are their advocates that the vaccines are safe. In Britain as well as in the US, there are excess deaths since the introduction of the covid vaccines and people are keeling over and athletes are dropping dead in the fields of play. People are dying in there sleep. One thing common to them all is that they are all vaccinated with the covid jabs. The world’s most renowned cardiologist, Dr. Peter McCullough has attributed this phenomenon to injury to the myocardium by the synthetic mRNA vaccines induced spike proteins and the release of cathecholamines on waking from sleep or under stress which cause arrhythmias and sudden death. It is for the same reason that people are keeling over in the streets. Some vaccinated soldiers have died in their sleep in their camps. The Pentagon has now suspended mandatory covid vaccination for US servicemen. What about those who were dismissed from the military because of their refusal to be covid vaxxed? Besides, there are other vaccines mandated for servicemen: they have all been re-engineered with the same mRNA technology in the covid vaccines. Either way, there is no escape.
Dr. Northrop suspected they had an instrument through which they are able to know who is vaccinated and who is s not. And she was right. There are UV light TV monitors, body scanners and touches. In the future, robots, humanoid or otherwise would be deployed to roam the streets to identify those who aren’t vaccinated.
Church And Humanity
Humanity is duped and the Church is fiddling. We must warn humanity. We must warn the brethren. If all one could do is tell people not to take the PCR test and the Covid vaccines, one would be a hero in Heaven. I would rather spend a few minutes to tell someone to believe in Jesus and not take the vaccine than to spend hours trying to teach him the correct sequence of events of the end times. I spent seven years teaching eschatology in this town, I wonder how much of the details my audience remember. In fact some of them are Covid vaxxed already and have had the PCR test too. In Revelation 14, the three angelic announcements – which are the everlasting Gospel – are: worship God: Babylon, the false religion of the antiChrist is fallen; and don’t take the mark of the beast(6-11). In time of emergency, you don’t have time for elaborate teachings and doctrines. Are they important? Sure. But now, time is of essence, and certain urgent and most important pieces of information must be given primacy.
A friend of mine who is an evangelist just announced to me he has just concluded a 60-day crusade, but he and his entire family are covid vaccinated. Another friend of mine, a pastor told me he and his family and entire congregation are covid vaxxed. Blind leaders of the blind. They will both fall into the pit. Another minister who preaches on Holiness held a meeting in Abuja and participants who came from abroad had to be vaxxed to come into the country. What a parody of Holiness! How can you be preaching Holiness and believers have to get The Mark Of The Beast to attend your meeting? Is that Holiness? What a travesty of Holiness. Another minister whom I respect told me to stop sending him any of my posts on the dangers of Covid vaccines. He says he is not a medical doctor, and wants to concentrate on his calling: he has so much to read. But sadly he is undecided on Covid vaccines, and some of his congregants are already Covid vaxxed with his tacit approval. Yeah, a man of God must study to show oneself approved unto God(2 Tim.2:5). But of what use is the shepherd’s study when his sheep are in Hell? What is biblical scholarship to a man whose soul is in Hell?
Another minster told me he is not a medical doctor and wants to devote his entire life to to his calling: he has so much to study and learn. Good decision no doubt. But meanwhile some of congregants have also taken the Covid vaccines and are chipped already. Has he forgotten that God’s people are destroyed due to lack of knowledge(Hos.4:6). That a priest who lacks the relevant knowledge is ineffective. That he would not be excused in Heaven regarding his ignorance about covid and its vaccines simply because he is not a medical doctor. He should read the Talmud. The rabbis discussed practically everything on Earth that is relevant to human existence. Few doctors know about covid and its vaccines.
Am so happy that the TRUTH about covid and its vaccines has got to the riverine areas and villages in Nigeria. Government mandates or not, and Gov-idiots in the guise of doctors and health care workers who dismiss the TRUTH about Covid vaccines and PCR test as misinformation by what they consider Cov-idiots like myself not withstanding. My body my choice, educated or not, having heard the truth, the choice is the individual’s. Let NO man deceive you(Matt.24:4).
The word millennium is derived from two Latin words, “mille” which means thousand, and “annum” which means year. Millennium therefore means one thousand years. In eschatology, the millennium refers to the one thousand -year reign of Christ which occurs at the end of the present age after the battle of Armageddon. The word millennium occurs only in chapter 20 of the Scroll of Revelation in the entire Bible. It is used six times in the first seven verses of Revelation 20. It refers to the literal one thousand-year reign of Christ. Although the reign of the Messiah was well known to the OT prophets, the length of that reign was not specified. Therefore its duration was not known to the OT prophets. They knew it would be for a long time; for the prophet Isaiah wrote:
“There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed”(Is.65:20).
If a man who dies at the age of one hundred years is regarded as a child, then certainly the old shall be several hundreds of years of age.
Millennial Views
It is part of the mysteries of the kingdom of God. A biblical mystery is something that has always been part of God’s plan which was not revealed in the OT, but was revealed in the NT, and is always known by divine revelation. We can see that the millennium has all the three characteristics of a biblical mystery. It therefore qualifies, and should be referred to as a biblical mystery; for there is no way John the revelator would have known it other than by divine revelation, inasmuch as it was not revealed to any of the OT or NT prophets who were before him. It was not even revealed to any of his contemporary apostles and prophets. Though they were aware of the Reign of the Messiah, none of them other than the Apostle John the revelator specified its duration in their writings.
God created the world in six days. On the seventh day He rested, and He hallowed it(Gen.2:1-3). After the creation of man, God leased the world to Adam. The Heaven of Heavens belong to God, but the Earth has He given to the sons of men(Ps.115:16). Adam was to be God’s representative in the earthly domain of His Universal Kingdom. God is a spirit being without a physical body with which to relate to the external physical environment . So, He could not rule the world directly. He could only do so by proxy. Adam became His point man. Adam was to reign over the Earth for six days, each day corresponding to a thousand years or a millennium(2 Pet.3:8). The seventh day is the Shabbat of the Lord. Man works for six days, the seventh is the Shabbat of the Lord(Exod.20:8-11). Therefore Adam’s rule over the Earth was to last six millennia. According to Jewish calendar we are in the sixth millennium. This year beginning Tishri 1 is 5776. The Jewish calendar which is lunisolar is dated from day one of the creation of Adam. At the expiry of the sixth millennium, at the commencement of the seventh millennium, the rulership of the Earth will revert back to God who is the owner and Land Lord of the Earth.
“Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor of the heavens and the earth”(Gen.14:19).
But Adam transferred the rulership of the Earth to Satan when he transgressed the commandment of the LORD “not to eat the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the Garden of Eden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”(Gen.2:16,17). Satan became the god of this Age(2 Cor.4:4). Satan’s rule over the Earth will expire at the end of the sixth millennium which is the end of God’s lease to Adam. Adam’s transaction with Satan was legal and binding inasmuch as Adam was God’s representative in the earthly realm of His Universal Kingdom. Adam had the legal right to transfer the lease to Satan inasmuch as he was God’s representative in the earthy domain of His Universal Kingdom, but not the moral right.
In the temptation Satan promised to hand over to Jesus the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them if He would bow down and worship him(Matt.4:9; Luk.4:6,7). Jesus did not question Satan’s right to the rulership of the Earth, simply because it was a legal transaction between Satan and Adam. If it were not so, the temptation would carry no weight. As a matter of fact, Jesus addressed him as the prince of this age(Jon.14:30). He is the god of this age and the prince of the power of the air(2 Cor.4:4; Eph.2:2). Satan was seeking a subordinate role for Jesus under his rulership in the Millennium. He attempted to trick Jesus into accepting the crown without the cross. If Jesus had failed, there would have been no pure human blood with which to redeem man. There would have been no kinsman redeemer or “Goel.” If Jesus had condescended, Satan would have scored the goal he failed to score when he attempted to hybridize the whole human race in Gen.6. He very well knew that Jesus was God’s representative in the earthly domain of God’s Universal Kingdom after the fall of Adam. Satan being the trickster that he is never mentioned to Jesus the duration of his reign over the Earth. It was a limited rule based on the duration of God’s lease to Adam.
Adam never had the Title Deed of the Earth. The Earth was never sold to Adam. The Earth was leased to him. What he had was the certificate of occupancy which would be withdrawn at the expiry of the lease. The Title Deed of the Earth belongs to God who is the eternal LORD of the Earth. The Title Deed of the Earth is the Seven-sealed Scroll which is kept in storage at the Throne Room of the Temple in Heaven. Adam was not qualified to break the seven seals and to open the Scroll. No man in Heaven nor on Earth was qualified to break the seals and to open or unroll the Scroll. No angel was qualified either(Rev.5:1-3). No wonder therefore that John the revelator wept sore(Rev.5:4). But the Lion from the tribe of Judah has prevailed to break the seals and to open the Scroll(Rev.5:4-14). Man could play the role of the “goel,” but he was not sinless. The holy angels who did not ally themselves to Satan in the rebellion in Eternity Past were sinless being locked in righteousness but could not play the role of the “goel” because they were not human. The “goel” must be a human being, the kinsman redeemer. Jesus, though God, is both human and sinless. So, He has prevailed. He is the kinsman redeemer, the “goel.”
At the expiry of the sixth millennium, God will recover his rulership of the Earth. Because God the Father has no physical body, He can only rule the Earth by proxy. The first Adam failed. The second man prevailed.
“The first man is of the earth earthy: the second man is the Lord from the heaven”(1 Cor.15:47).
As the last Adam, Jesus took the whole of humanity to the cross. As the second man, He created a new species of humans. If any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a new species of human being(2 Cor.5:17). Jesus created a new species of human beings, the 42nd generation(Matt.1:17). Jesus will be the Father’s representative here. Though He is God, He is also man. He has a physical body with which to relate to the external physical environment. Of all the three persons of the Godhead, Jesus is the only one who possesses a physical body with which to relate with external physical environment. Because He is the Son Of Man He can represent God here on Earth. In the millennium, Jesus shall reign over the Earth in the behalf of the Father.
Throughout all ages, great men have assayed to establish a kingdom on Earth that would last a thousand years. Charlemagne(743-814 AD) nursed the ambitious plan of a thousand year Holy Roman Empire. Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Nazi Germany, referred to his empire as The Thousand-year Reich. Unfortunately it lasted for just twelve years(1933-1945). That men had toyed, romanced and grappled with the idea and notion of a thousand year kingdom on Earth is evident in history. They could not achieve it because they did not begin to fill the lofty credentials of the “Goel.” It is the prerogative of the God-Man. Jesus is the God-Man, the heavenly archetypal man.
The Millennial Reign Of Christ.
The Eschatological Timeline: The Millennium occurs After The 45-Day Restoration Period Of The Kingdom
The Millennium will begin 75 days after the close of the 70th week of Daniel, 45 days after Christ physically repossesses the Earth at the end of the Battle of Armageddon. At the start of the Millennium, Satan shall be evicted from the Earth’s premises, and incarcerated in the bottomless pit throughout the entire length of one thousand year reign of Christ”(Rev.20:1-3). According to the prophet Daniel, after God recovers His rule over the Earth from Satan, The LORD GOD Almighty will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed:
“And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall never be left to another people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever”(Dan.2:44 ).
God Almighty shall reclaim His rule over the Earth at the blowing of the seventh trumpet. The antiChrist and his Eighth And Final Beast Empire, the kings of the East, North and South and their kingdoms shall still be in existence at that time. They shall be annihilated four weeks later at the battle of Armageddon.
Prior to the breaking of the seals, God the Father hands over the Tittle Deed of the Earth to the Son who then proceeds to break the seals. This is very significant. Adam never had the Tittle Deed of the Earth. Therefore Adam was never the sovereign ruler of the Earth. As we have pointed out, Jesus is given the Tittle Deed of the Earth. In other words, He shall be sovereign over the Earth. The Father shall give Him full authority to rule the Earth. Nevertheless He shall be subject to the Father in order that the Father may be all in all.
“For He has put all things under His feet. But when He saith all things are put under Him, it is manifest that He is excepted, which put all things under Him. And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all”(1 Cor.15:27,28).
Although Jesus will be the absolute and sovereign ruler of the Earth in the Millennium, He shall still be subject to the Father who is the sovereign Lord of the universe.
David: The King Of Israel
This is a controversial subject. Would it be David, the king of Israel who would be resurrected to rule over the nation of Israel in the Millennium? Or would it be David’s Greater Son, our Lord and savior Jesus the Christ? We will probably never be that sure until we enter the Millennium.
On both sides of the top of elevated Mount Zion on which sits the Millennial Temple will be areas designated for the residence of David, King of Israel. The prophet Jeremiah wrote:
“But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I shall raise up unto them”(Jer.30:9).
Whether this is a direct reference to David who shall be raised up to rule over Israel in the Millennium, or David’s Greater Son, Jesus, is not readily resolved. The prophet Ezekiel added his voice:
“And David my servant shall be king over them; and they shall have one shepherd: and they shall walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes , and do them”(Ezekiel.37:24).
The nation of Israel shall no longer be divided. They shall have one shepherd and one God, and David will be prince over them. There will be no more false gods, and idolatry shall be wiped off from the Earth. “The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens”(Jer.10:11).
“And I will set up one shepherd over them, and shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them and he shall be their shepherd. And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it”(Ezek.24:23,24 ).
Robert Van Kampen, one of my fathers in eschatology is of the opinion that whereas Christ rules over the whole earth, David shall rule over Israel. Christ shall rule over the whole Earth from His Throne Room in the rebuilt Third Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. This will be the Fourth and the Millennial Temple sitting atop the summit of the renovated, expansive and elevated Mount Zion. On either side of the holy area, to the east and to the west, will be areas designated for the prince, from where David will rule over Israel. Jerusalem, the capital city of Israel shall be renovated and so also the whole land of Israel.
“Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the place shall remain after the manner thereof”(Jer.30:18).
The twelve Apostles of the Lamb shall be rulers over the twelve tribes of Israel.
“Ye are they which have continued with Me in my temptations. And I appoint unto a kingdom, as My Father hath appointed unto me; That ye may eat and drink in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel”(Luk.22:28-30).
“And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son Of Man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye shall also sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel”(Matt.19:28).
Other Kings And Kingdoms
During the Millennium, there will still be nations. These nations will be administered by their own rulers. The resurrected saints shall have oversight over these nations. The resurrected saints shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
“Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years”(Rev.20:6).
The saints who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, who had not worshipped the beast neither his image, who refused to be beast-marked either on their foreheads or in their hands shall also be resurrected, and shall reign with Christ for a thousand years in the Millennium.
“And saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years”(Rev.20:4).
These other nations shall have their own governmental structure and organization under the overall rulership of Christ. During the Millennium, God’s glory shall illuminate not only Israel and her Holy City Jerusalem, but also all the other nations of the world and their cities.
“And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.”
Solomon, the wise, rich and opulent king of Israel is usually not spoken of as a prophet, but in Psalm 72, he prophesied about the universal reign of the Messiah over the nations and kings of the Earth.
“He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.”
“They that dwell in the wilderness(the Arab and Asian nations) shall bow before Him: and His enemies shall lick the dust. The Kings of Tarshish and of the isles(European and Asian nations) shall bring presents: the Kings of Sheba and Seba(African nations) shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before Him: all nations shall serve Him”(Ps.72:8-11).
During the Millennium, all the nations of the Earth will not only serve and glorify God, they shall also serve and honor Israel. They shall not afflict the Jewish people any more as they do in the present age.
“Thus saith the LORD GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And Kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: and thou shall know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me”(Is.49:22,23).
The final ingathering of the Jews from the diaspora at the end of the Battle of Armageddon shall be effected by the Gentile survivors of the Day Of The LORD. As they congregate to Jerusalem for the Sheep And Goat Judgment, they shall bring the Jews who survive the wrath of God in the diaspora. The Jews who survive the Day Of The LORD in diaspora shall be witnesses of these Gentiles in the Sheep and Goat judgment of the Gentile nations, either to justify or condemn them: inasmuch as these Gentiles will be judged on the bases of their treatment of the Jews during the Great Tribulation at the hands of the antiChrist. The believers then in their eternal immortal resurrection bodies shall be their witnesses as well.
These nations are the Gentile survivors of the wrath of God.
“The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf. They shall lick dust like the serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear before Him”(Mic.7:16,17).
They shall come out of their fortresses, the rocks and mountains where they were hiding during the wrath of God(Rev.12:14-17). They shall come trebling, and in fear and dread of our LORD. They shall assemble in Jerusalem for the Sheep and Goat Judgment.
“when the Son Of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory: And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He separate them one from another, as the shepherd divideth his sheep from the goat”(Matt.25:31,32).
The sheep shall be justified. They shall enter the millennium and repopulate the Earth alongside their Jewish counterparts. The goats shall be liquidated and consigned to Hell.
During the Millennium, the Jew shall be revered unlike in the present age when they are denigrated, maligned, and persecuted.
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you”( Zechariah.8:20-23).
This should not be a surprise; for Jesus shall rule the world from His Throne Room in the Fourth And Millennial Temple on Mount Zion. People shall come from all over the world to see God in Jerusalem. In those days, it shall be fashionable to befriend a Jew in order to facilitate access. This is not bribery but seeking divine favour.
Events In The First Day Of The Millennium
There are about five specific events that occur on the first day of the Millennium. These events are recorded sequentially in Revelation 20 & 21, with the exception of Rev.20:7-15, which is parenthetic and records the The White Throne Judgment which occurs at the end of the Millennium. The parenthesis of Rev.20:7-15 is a detailed explanation of the second death which occurs at the end of the Millennium at The White Throne Judgment. The second death is the Lake Of Fire.
“And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire”(Rev.20:14,15).
The Sheep and Goat Judgment which also occurs on the first day of the Millennium is not recorded in the Scroll of Revelation, but is recorded in Matt.25:31-46.
(1) Satan Chained
God gave Adam a limited control over the earthly domain of His Universal kingdom. This limited but powerful control over the Earth was usurped by Satan when Adam fell through transgression. So, Satan became the god of this age. The consequence of the fall was the corruption of the whole human race and the entire creation. Jesus came to reverse the consequences of the fall. The redemption of man and the whole creation occurs instages. At His first advent Jesus dealt with spiritual death brought about by sin. At His second advent, He will wrest physical control of the starry heavens and the Earth from Satan. He will reclaim God’s rule over the Earth. He will receive absolute, divine and sovereign control over the Earth. Therefore Satan and his demonic hordes shall be evicted from the Dark Void and the starry heavens and from the Earth’s premises.
Precisely at the midpoint of the 70th seven, Satan and his hordes of fallen evil angels were evicted from their abode in the dark void and the starry heavens. “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels. And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him”(Rev12:7-9).
At Armageddon, Satan’s forces under the command of the antiMessiah shall be totally annihilated. The antiChrist and the false prophet shall be cast into the lake of fire, but Satan and his fallen evil angels shall still be roaming the Earth until incarcerated in the shaft of the abyss. To eliminate his influence in the lives of the citizens of the Millennial Kingdom Of God, Satan and his evil demonic hordes must be evicted from the Earth’s premises and incarcerated in the bottomless pit.
“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal of upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years shall be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season”(Rev.20:1-3).
Christ would have none of Satan’s influence on the citizens of his millennial kingdom. Therefore he must be bound and incarcerated. Although it is not mentioned that his demons were bound, it is obvious that they too were bound with him, lest they negatively influence the citizens of the millennial kingdom of the Messiah. Because he will be bound for a thousand years, he will, of necessity be bound on the first day of the Millennium.
(2) The Sheep And Goat Judgment
With the antiChrist’s army and the armies of the others kings and kingdoms of the Earth destroyed at Armageddon, and anyone with the mark of the beast executed, all that will be left would be the ones who do not have the mark of the beast. Before any of these can enter the Millennium to repopulate the Earth, they must pass through the Sheep and Goat Judgment to determine their eligibility to enter into the millennial reign of the Messiah.
“When The Son Of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory: And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats; And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on His left. Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come Ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungered , and ye gave me Me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave Me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took Me in: Naked, and ye clothed Me: I was sick and ye visited Me: I was in prison, and ye came unto Me. Then shall the righteous answer Him, saying, Lord, when saw we Thee an hungered, and fed Thee? or thirsty, and gave Thee drink? When saw we Thee a stranger, and took Thee in? or naked, and clothed Thee? Or when saw we Thee sick, or in prison, and came unto Thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, Ye have done it unto Me. Then shall He say unto them on the left hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungered, and ye gave Me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave Me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took Me not in: naked, and ye clothed Me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited Me not. Then shall they answer Him, saying, Lord, when saw we Thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto Thee? Then shall He answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to Me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal” (Matt.25:31-46).
Jesus shall personally conduct this judgment from His Throne in the Throne Room of the newly built Fourth And Millennial Temple at the center of the Holy Area at the summit of renovated and elevated Mount Zion. It shall occur when He comes in His glory with His holy angels, just as we have pointed out after the Battle Of Armageddon(Rev.19:11-21). All nations, that is, those who survived the wrath of God and the final battle of Armageddon, shall be gathered unto Him in Jerusalem. All survivors of the day of His Wrath who were not immediately executed as a result of being beast-marked shall appear before Him in Jerusalem. None of the Gentiles who appear at the Sheep And Goat Judgment shall have the mark of the beast. Any survivors of the wrath of God who bears the mark of the beast shall be immediately executed. If any man has the mark of the Beast, the wrath of God abides on him.
All His angels will be with Him. It therefore follows these survivors shall be miraculously gathered to Jerusalem, considering the devastation caused by the final wrath of God. It shall take 45 days to gather all surviving Gentiles to the land of Israel for this judgment. It is within this 45-day period, the Restoration Period of the Kingdom, that the Earth will be renovated.
Jews who survive the wrath of God would not be required to appear at this judgment, having accepted Him as their Messiah when they see His nail-pierced hands(Zech.12:10-14), shortly before the sounding of the seventh trumpet when the mystery of God is finished at the completion of the spiritual kingdom of God. Of course, Jews who survive the day of His Wrath, who are beast-marked, shall be executed instantly like all others. But the plain truth is that no one with the mark of the beast will survive the wrath of God; for the wrath of God abides on any one who is beast-marked(Rev.14:9,10). The Greek word translated nations in KJV is “ethnos” which could also be rendered heathen, peoples, or Gentiles. The Hebrew equivalent is “Goyim” which is used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish peoples. It is not a reference to independent political states. It refers to individuals of all ethnic groups other than the Jew. So the sheep and goat judgment is the judgment of individuals of all ethnic groups other than the Jew who survive the day of His wrath, rather than independent nation states. No Jew will appear or be judged at the Sheep And Goat Judgment.
God’s wrath would have destroyed anyone who has the mark of the beast(Zeph.1:17). “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascended up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name”(Rev.14:9-11).
When the first avenging angel poured his bowl into the Earth, it became a noisome and grievous sore upon the men who had the mark of the beast, and upon them who worshipped his image(Rev.16:2). Most probably therefore, no one with the mark of the beast shall survive the Day Of His Wrath which ends with the seventh and final bowl judgment at Armageddon. However if any man who is beast-marked is left alive after the Battle of Armageddon, the one shall be instantly executed; for no man with the mark of the beast shall appear at the sheep and goat judgment much less enter the Millennium.
Besides, those who appear at the Sheep And Goat Judgment do not seem to know why they are being judged. This is not what one would expect of those who have denied Christ and were beast-marked. It is therefore obvious that it will be Gentiles who rejected the mark of the beast, who neither acknowledged the antiChrist as God, nor Christ as Messiah, who somehow survived the wrath of Satan during the Great Tribulation, and God’s wrath during the day of the Lord, who will be required to make their way to Jerusalem during the 45-day restoration period to appear at the Sheep And Goat Judgment of the Gentile survivors of the wrath of God in the Day of The lord.
The basis of this judgment will be the Gentiles treatment of Jews and Christians in hiding during the great tribulation by the antiChrist.
“And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me”(Matt.25:40).
Their treatment of these Jews and Christians would be considered as their treatment of Christ Himself.
“Then shall He answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as Ye did it not to one of the least of these, Ye did it not to me”(Matt.25:45).
The witnesses at this trial will be surviving Jews who have just been regathered from the diaspora, and perhaps resurrected saints who will reign with Christ in the Millennium. The reason why I include Christians among His brethren is because the Dragon shall make war with the remnant of the offspring of the woman who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ(Rev.12:17). Just as Jewish remnants in their mortal bodies gathered to the land of Israel from the diaspora at the end of the Battle of Armageddon shall be present to witness the Sheep And Goat Judgment, so also shall the resurrected saints in their new glorified eternal immortal resurrection bodies be present to witness; for they shall be priests of God and reign as kings with Christ for a thousand years.
“Bring forth the blind people that have eyes and the deaf that have ears. Let all nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, it is truth. Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen; that Ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am He: before me there is no God formed, neither shall there be after me”(Is.43:8-10).
The Jewish witnesses will not be objects of Christ’s judgment. When the nations are gathered, the Gentiles will be permitted to present their witnesses from amongst the Jewish survivors in order that they may be justified. The surviving Jews from amongst the Gentiles are God’s witnesses that He is just in His acquittal or as the case may be His condemnation of the Gentiles. The resurrected saints shall also be witnesses that He is just in His acquittal or else condemnation of the Gentiles as the case may be. Those who haveharmed Jews and Christians or otherwise refused them assistance in their time of distress shall be condemned whether or not they are beast-marked.
“Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from Me, Ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels” ( Matt.25:41). Those who befriended Jews and assisted them, the righteous Gentiles shall be spared, and go into eternal life, but those who did not shall go into everlasting punishment(Matt.25:46).
It is not enough not to take the mark of the beast. It is not enough not to harm Jews and believers. Indifference towards persecuted Jews and Christians merits one the status of a goat. Christ shall say to them,
“inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteousness into life eternal”(Matt.25:45,46).
The cynical ones who believe that the fact that they are not beast-marked merits salvation shall be condemned. On the other hand, those who are not beast-marked, who lay no claim to salvation shall be justified. Although these gave drink to His thirsty brethren, fed the hungry, clothed those who were naked, visited the prisoners, invited the strangers and destitute amongst them into their homes, they did not believe it was sufficient to earn them salvation, nor did hey believe they were doing it to Jesus. They expressed wonder as to when they did all these. Salvation is by grace alone through faith, and that also the gift of God. These righteous Gentiles were also elected before the foundation of the world(Eph.1:4,5;2:8,9).
(3) The Beheaded Martyrs Resurrect
The time of resurrection of the beheaded martyrs is a controversial issue amongst biblical scholars. Were they raised from the dead at the time of the rapture of the saints, or were they raised, and given a new eternal immortal resurrection body on the first day of the Millennium? One thing is very clear, this group of martyrs may include some of those under the altar at the breaking of the fifth seal who were given a new eternal immortal resurrection body at the Rapture.
“And when He had broken the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with aloud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given to every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled”(Rev.6:9-11).
The fifth seal martyrs were told to wait until their fellow brethren who were to be killed were also martyred. There is a complement of believers to be martyred during the Great Tribulation by the antiChrist. When that number is complete, God amputates the Great Tribulation with cosmic disturbances associated with the breaking of the sixth seal. At the Rapture of the church when the Shekinah appeared in the heavens, shortly before the breaking of the seventh seal, these martyrs were also raptured and received new eternal immortal resurrection bodies. If the beheaded saints were part of the fifth seal martyrs, why were they left out until the first day of the Millennium?
“And I saw thrones, and they that sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the word of God, which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image , neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years”(Rev.20:4).
As we have pointed out earlier, when they came to life, and received their new eternal immortal resurrection bodies, earlier at the Rapture of the church or on the first day of the Millennium is a debated issue in some theological circles. Malvin J. Rosenthal and Robert Van Kampen are of the opinion that these particular souls, beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, must be given their new eternal immortal resurrection bodies on the first day of the Millennium. The Greek verb translated ‘lived’ in the KJV or ‘came to life’ in the NASV is “ezesan.” It is in the aorist active tense. Dr. Robert Gundry, the noted Greek scholar, in a private communication with Robert Van Kampen, commented:
“The parallelism of the aorist verb in this passage, for sitting, giving, living and reigning, indicate actions that take place at the same time. Naturally it is the context which determines the time referred to by these verbs, clearly at the beginning of the Millennium, because the passage in question ends with ” and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years, ” thus defining exactly when the action takes place.”
They conclude therefore that the beheaded martyrs were raised from the dead on the first day of the Millennium rather than at the Rapture of the church. When they rose from the dead, at the Rapture or on the first day of the Millennium is not vital to our teaching on the end times. However, there seem not to be any reason their resurrection from the dead delayed until the first of the Millennium as commented by Dr. Alan E. Kurschner.
The First Resurrection
The first resurrection refers to the general resurrection of believers and saints of all ages unto life. As we have borne the image of the earthy, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly(1 Cor.15:49). It is accomplished in phases.
(1) The first phase occurred when Christ who is the firstfruits of them that slept rose from the dead.
“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept”(1 Cor.15:20).
When Christ rose from the dead, the OT saints and believers also rose with Him.
“And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the city, and appeared unto many”(Matt.27:52,53).
Did these dear saints re-enter their graves to await the resurrection at the Rapture? I doubt very much.
(1) The first phase occurred when Christ who is the firstfruits of them that slept rose from the dead.
“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept”(1 Cor.15:20).
When Christ rose from the dead, the OT saints and believers also rose with Him.
“And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the city, and appeared unto many”(Matt.27:52,53).
Did these dear saints re-enter their graves to await the resurrection at the rapture? I doubt very much.
(2) The second phase is the resurrection of the dead in Christ which occurs at the Rapture.
“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God; neither corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality”(1 Cor.15:50-53).
We shall be raptured to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with Him.
“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them that are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rose first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words”(1 Thess.4:14-18).
(3) The third phase will be the resurrection of the beheaded martyrs on the first day of the Millennium?
“And I saw thrones, and they that sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they live and reigned with Christ a thousand years”
(4) The fourth phase of the first resurrection is the resurrection of the saints who lived in the Millennium. Although it is not explicitly mentioned in the Scriptures, it is logically reasonable that those who entered the Millennium in this mortal body, and repopulated the Earth will some day exchange it with a new glorified eternal immortal resurrection body; inasmuch as flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption(1 Cor.15:50).
I personally believe that the millennial saints would be amongst the ones whose names are found in the scroll of life at the White Throne Judgment, and therefore would be justified. There are some biblical scholars who believe and teach that all those who appear at the White Throne Judgment will be condemned. Why are there the scroll of life and the scroll of works? If those whose names were not found in the scroll of life were condemned, it therefore follows that those whose names were found in the scroll of life would be justified.
If the millennial saints are not justified at the White Throne Judgment, where then are they justified? The essence of the scroll of works is to show everyone who appears at the White Throne Judgment that by works no man shall be justified. By works every man shall be condemned, because by works of the law shall no man be justified; for by the law of works is the knowledge of sin( cp Rom.3:20). All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God(Gal.2:16,17; 3:11,24; 5:5:4; Rom.3:23). And again the wages of sin death, but the gift of God is eternal life through our Lord Jesus the Christ(Rom.6:23)
The resurrection of Christ who is the firstfruits of them that slept, the resurrection of the dead in Christ, the resurrection of the beheaded martyrs, and the resurrection of the millennial saints are all part and parcel of the first resurrection which is the resurrection unto life. “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection, on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years”(Rev.20:6).
The Second Resurrection: The Second Death
The second resurrection is the resurrection unto condemnation. It is the resurrection of judgment(Jon.5:29). It is the second death. It occurs at the White Throne Judgment.
“Death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death”(Rev.20:14).
This is in contrast to the first resurrection which is the resurrection unto life. The firstfruits of the second resurrection, the resurrection unto condemnation, will be the antiChrist and the false prophet, who shall be taken captive at the Battle of Armageddon and cast alive into the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone(Rev.19:20).
The Identity Of The Beheaded Martyrs
Robert Van Kampen of blessed memory was of the opinion, though not adamantly that the beheaded martyrs of Rev.20:4, are the same as the fifth seal Martyrs under the altar. I personally do not share this view. I dohave some strictures with his view. First, the fifth seal martyrs were told to wait until their fellow brethren to be killed were fulfilled. Then and only then would God avenge their death. There is a complement of believers to be martyred during the Great Tribulation by the antiMessiah. When this is number of saints to be martyred is complete, God interrupts the Great Tribulation with cosmic disturbances. And then the church shall be taken away from the scene of persecution, raptured as it were. Second, what will be the reason for leaving those beheaded martyrs behind when their fellow saints are raptured? Thirdly, it is not mentioned that the fifth seal martyrs were all beheaded. All we were told is that they were slain for the word of God and the testimony which they upheld. The way and manner in which they were martyred was not revealed. Fourthly, it is highly probable that the beheaded saints were amongst them, but is evident that not all those who were killed for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus had their heads cut off. Rev.20:4 stated unequivocally that these martyrs had their heads cut off. It therefore follows that they are a special group of saints whose testimony were particularly provocative andinsulting to the antiChrist and his evil empire.
However, I do share the view with Robert Van Kampen that these martyrs who had their head cut off were Jewish believers who would bear witness of Christ in the Holy Land during the Great Tribulation. These Jewish believers do not only refuse the mark of the beast but will go about brazenly, from one city to another in the land of Israel, right under the noses of the antiChrist and the false prophet, proclaiming the gospel and persuading their fellow countrymen not to be chipped with the mark of the beast. Their behavior would be considered subversive to the government of the antiChrist. It is likely that the antiChrist would not see them as religious buffoons who are to be ignored but rather as treasonous felons. The antiChrist will view them as political rivals and anti-governmental subversives. Hence, the execution by decapitation. The Greek word is “cephalizomai” which means to cut off the head, or decapitation. This is to show the gravity of their offense, and to serve as a deterrent to other would-be subversives. They are indeed anti-governmental and subversive; for they represent the rival government of the Messiah.
We know that they would not have gone all over the cities of Israel before the Son Of Man comes(Matt.10:23). In other words their job would only be complete when the Messiah annihilates the antiChrist and his armies at Armageddon, and retakes physical possession of the earth. Therefore their number is probably not complete until the end of Armageddon. Hence, their resurrection on the first day of the Millennium 45 days after the Battle of Armageddon. So, some of them who were amongst the fifth seal martyrs would have have to wait till the first day of the Millennium to receive their new eternal immortal resurrection bodies, rather than at the Rapture of the church. Without the faithful witness of these martyrs, the remnant of Israel who would follow the Messiah into the Millennium would have died in unbelief. Because of their special witness, they shall be raised to life to reign with Christ for a thousand years. They have led many to Christ at the expense of their own lives. They shall shine like the stars for ever(Dan.12:3). Are Jewish believers the only ones who will be beheaded during the Great Tribulation? Or is it only in the land of Israel that Christians will be beheaded during the Great Tribulation? The answer is emphatically no. The fifth seal martyrs are from nations and tongues. It is certain that some of them were beheaded for the word word of God and the testimony which they upheld. In that case therfore, it is certain that some of them were among the beheaded saints mentioned Rev.20:4.
(4) The New Heaven And New Earth
Before the Millennium begins, the present heavens and Earth have to be cleansed from the defilement of sin. The wars, the famines, the pestilences and earthquakes, the Great Tribulation by the antiChrist, the cosmic disturbances asssociated with the breaking of the sixth seal, the seventh seal and its attendant trumpet and bowl judgments and the final Battle of Armageddon will cause a lot of devastation on the Earth and its environs and the atmospheric and starry heavens. Therefore the Earth and its environs, the atmospheric and starry heavens shall be renovated to make the Earth habitable again before the millennial reign of Christ begins. As touching this, the prophet Isaiah wrote:
“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come mind. But be ye glad and rejoice in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy”(Is.65:17,18).
The destruction of the present heaven and Earth shall be a limited destruction not total annihilation. Apostle Peter in mockery of the scientific uniformintarians who deny that God ever intervened in human affairs in the past nor shall intervene in the future called attention to the Noahic flood.
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. For this they willing are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heaven were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the present heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with a fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness”(2 Pet3:3-13).
As the world of Noah perished in the waters of the deluge and had to be renovated, even so shall the present heavens and Earth perish in the fires of the Day Of His Wrath, and shall be renovated to make it habitable again. It is also comparable to the kind of devastation that occurred in Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities of the plain, Zeboim and Adama when they were destroyed with fire, brimstone and sulfur from heaven. Except for the Jewish and Gentile remnants protected by God, the entire Earth shall be filled with death and destruction. The destruction caused by the Day Of The LORD, shall be a limited one, not total annihilation. So the new heavens and new earth shall not be entirely new but refurbished heavens and Earth. The Greek word translated new here is not “naos” but “kainos,” which refers to something old but renewed or refurbished. So this is not creation “ex nihilo,” creation out of nothing, which is a primary creative act. It is not a direct or primary creative act. It is an indirect or secondary creative act, that is, creation out of what is already in existence. It does not refer to something entirely new, which has not exited before, but rather the renewal of something that has existed before.
The renovation of the heavens and the earth shall begin on the first day of the 45-day Restoration Period of the kingdom and completed by the first day of the Millennium. It is not difficult to imagine how Jesus will renovate the heavens and the Earth. The survivors of the wrath of God, and the Sheep and Goat Judgment shall still be in their mortal bodies. They shall repopulate the Earth.
The eternal fires shall burn in Edom throughout the Millennium as a momorial of His indignation towards antisemism.
“Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at the plague thereof. As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD , no man shall abide there, neither shall the son of man dwell in it”(Jer. 49:17,18).
It will take seven months to bury the dead at Armageddon, and seven years to dispose of the wreckagesof war.
“Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this the day whereof I have spoken. And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the hand staves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of the graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog. And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD. And they shall severe out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. The passengers that pass through the land, when they seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog. And the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land”(Ezek.39: 8-16).
There will be a restoration of the edenic relationship between heaven and Earth. It will be new heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth righteousness(3 Pet.3:13). The evil consequences of the fall of Adam shall be removed. There will be no more erratic weather patterns, no excessive monsoon rains, no hurricanes and tropical storms. There will be no more swelling of the oceans, no more flooding. There shall be no more oceans in the first place. There shall be seas or perhaps big rivers. Animals will be restored to their pristine edenic state. There will be no more carnivores. All animals will be herbivorous. The lion will eat straw like the ox. A toddler shall put its finger in the den of the cockatrice. There shall be no hurt and destruction in the Holy Mount of the Lord. There shall be no more poisonous serpents. All animals will be tamed by the glory of God that fills the Earth as the waters cover the sea.
“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, and the spirit of counsel and mighty, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; And shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His ears: But with righteousness shall He judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins, and faithfulness the girdle of His reigns. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and the little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea”(Is.11:1-9).
We see here that all creatures shall revert to their pristine pre-fall estate. The rule of the jungle will no more apply. It shall be no more be dog-eat-dog society, the survival of the fittest. All creatures will be tamed. Men will no more be mugged by wild beasts; for there shall be no wide beasts at all. All animals whether domestic or wild(living in the forest) shall be tame. There shall be no more poisonous snakes. All snakes shall lose their venom. There shall be no more snake bites let alone envenomation. The rattle snake, the spitting cobra, the constrictor boa and the anaconda, the grizzly bear, the lion, the tiger and the leopard, the rhinoceros, the chimpanzee, the gorillas, the buffalo, and all other animals and creatures shall be at peace with one another and with man.
There shall be no poisonous lizards and insects. There shall be no more blood sucking insects. All mosquitos shall feed on fruit juice. All insects shall feed on fruit juice and vegetations. The vampire bat shall no more suck blood either of animals or of humans.
There shall be no more poisonous sea snakes. All fishes shall be at peace with one another. The shark shall become herbivorous, so also the whale, and all other sea creatures. They shall not hurt no devour in My holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
The deserts of the Earth shall be reclaimed. The whole Earth will be of one weather, subtropical. There shall be no more torrential downpours. The Earth shall be wetted by the dew of the heavens every morning and evening. The Canadian and Siberian permafrost shall be reclaimed. So also the Arctic and Antarctic oceans. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans shall varnish freeing huge expanse of land for farming and human habitation. In this age scientists tell us that one-fourth of the ice-free surface of the earth can support a population of 40 billion people. Food does not go round because of human greed. In the Millennium the curse on the Earth shall be lifted. The Earth shall yield her increase. There shall be no more drought and no more famines and dearth. There shall be no pestilences, no earthquakes, no tsunamis, and no volcanic eruptions. Mountains shall no more spew hot ash and larva. There will be plenty to eat and drink. The Earth shall yield her increase. Human greed and corruption shall be things of the past. There shall be no more hoarding of commodities. Food preservation will be at the optimum level. Wastage of food, if any, shall be minimized. There shall be equitable distribution of wealth. Everyone will produce maximally and take what one needs. There shall be no competition let alone cut-throat competition.
There shall be no more insect vectors of diseases. There shall be no more parasites. All bacteria, viruses, rickettsia and chlamidia shall be non-pathogenic. The river of life from under the Throne Room of the Lord shall water the Earth, bringing healing to the land. It will always be planting season and harvest time. There will be natural drip irrigation from the river of life from the Throne of the Messiah in the Fourth And Millennial Temple on the renovated and elevated Mount Zion in Jerusalem, and the dew of heaven shall wet the earth morning and evening. The tree that shall grow by the banks of the river of life shall yield twelve manner of fruits for the nourishment of the body. The leaves of the tree shall be for the healing of the nations and for the maintenance of health. Citizens of the millennial kingdom shall live out their lifetime. Those who die at the age of one hundred shall be regarded as infants. They shall be no more infants of days. But the sinner being an hundred years old shall be cursed(Is.65:20).
This shall be the time the whole creation had waited and travailed for.
“For we reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him that hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are save by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it( Rom.8:19).
The whole creation alongside the redeemed of the Lord groan and travail together until the present time, waiting for the redemption of our body, when we shall receive our glorified eternal and immortal bodies, when we shall be free from the frailties and restrictions of our mortal bodies, into the glorious Liberty of the sons of God. The whole creation itself shall be freed from the bondage of corruption into the glorious Liberty of the sons of God.
It is the time of regeneration.
“And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son Of Man shall sit upon the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel”(Matt.19:28).
We see here that the twelve apostles of the Lamb shall judge the twelve tribes of Israel in the Millennium.
It is the time of restoration of all things.
“And He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heavens must receive nail the time of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began”(Acts 3:21).
Jesus must remain in heaven until the time of restitution of all things when God Almighty shall regain control of the Earth; then shall He sit upon the throne of His father David, and rule over Israel and the whole Earth.
Nations will not learn war any more; for there shall be no more wars.
“And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plow shares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more”(Is.2:4)
Hebrew shall be the universal language in the Millennium. This will ease travels and communications. Because there will be good infrastructure, it will be extremely easy to move around. Though there will be national boundaries, border crossing will be facilitated by one international language and the good intentions of the citizens of the millennial kingdom.
The Lord shall rule the Earth with a rod of iron. No murderer will be kept alive at the expense of law abiding citizens of the millennial kingdom.
The nations shall congregate to Israel to worship the Lord in His Temple on Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
“And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He teach us of His ways, and we shall walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem”(Is.2:3).
No Idols And No Idolatry
There shall be no more arguments as to which is the true God; for Satan and his hordes of fallen evil angels shall be evicted from the Earth’s premises and bound in the shaft of the abyss for a thousand years: thusly eliminating their corrupting influence on the citizens of Christ’s millennial kingdom. There shall be no more idols to worship.
“The idols shall be abolished from the earth. For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heaven”(Ps.96:5).
“Their idols are silver and gold”(Ps.115:4).
“The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands”(Ps.135:15).
“The gods that have no made the heaven and the earth, even they shall perish from under the earth, and from under these heavens”(Jer.10:11).
“And the idols He shall utterly abolish”(Is.2:18).
All the idols would have been done away with during the Day Of His wrath.
“And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake terribly the earth. In that day, a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they have made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; to go into the clefts of the rocks, into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth. Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?”(Is.2:19-22).
Men shall no more practice witchcraft. There shall be no more observers of times nor necromancers nor star gazers. There shall be no more secret societies nor false religions. With Satan and his fallen evil angels bound in the bottomless pit, the antiChrist and the false prophet cast into the Lake of fire and brimstone, and all the idols and graven images destroyed during the Day Of His Wrath, there shall be no more sacrilege. This shall be the state of affairs throughout the Millennium until Satan is paroled at the end of the Millennium, when he shall deceive the nations in the four quarters of the earth.
“And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea”(Rev.20:7,8).
With the curse on humanity greatly reduced, Satan and his fallen evil angels incarcerated in the shaft of the abyss, the antiMessiah and the false prophet cast into the Lake of fire and brimstone, and the idols utterly abolished from the Earth, God, man, and His angels shall have unbounded fellowship and communion. It will be heaven on Earth. The heavens and the Earth shall be in holy union and embrace.
The New And Heavenly Jerusalem
There are some biblical scholars, especially of the pretribulation persuasion that teach that the new and heavenly Jerusalem shall appear at the end of the Mellennium as part of the New Heaven And New Earth. How long this new heavens and earth will last is not specified. Beyond this, according to them is the eternal state. But a careful examination of the Scriptures will reveal that the new heavens and new Earth is synonymous with the millennial reign of Christ. And the new and heavenly Jerusalem and the conjoint Fourth And Millennial temple on the renovated and elevated Mount Zion is the focal point of the millennial reign of Christ. After the Millennium and the subsequent White Throne Judgment is the Eternal State. Whatever the eternities future would look like, we are not told. The secret things are for God; but the things which are revealed are for us and our children, to the end we may keeps the words of the instruction(Deut.29:29). Therefore we shall be content with what is revealed, and not venture to thinker and speculate with divine secrets of the future.
Jesus promised His disciples that after the Rapture, He will never again be separated from them.
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again , and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also”(Jon.14:1-3).
After the Rapture we shall never be separated from Christ again.
“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them that are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout , with the voice of the archange,and with the trump of God: and the dead inChrist shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words”(1 Thess.4:13-18).
As we can see, it is explicitly clear that the church will never again be separated from Christ after the Rapture. And in the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word shall be established(1 Cor.13:1; Numb.35:30). This is indeed so because after the Rapture of the church, after the end of the 70th of Daniel, during the 30-day reclamation period, while the forces of God are pounding the antiChrist and his evil kingdom here on Earth, the Bema Seat Judgment of the believers at which the saints are rewarded and bejeweled and the Marriage Of The Lamb to His decorated bride will take place in Heaven. The bride who now becomes the wife, will never again be separated from her husband. The new Jerusalem which is now in construction in Heaven will descend from Heaven to rest on summit of the renovated and elevated mount Zion. At the summit of mount Zion is The Fourth And Millennial Temple described by the prophet Ezekiel(Ezek. 40-43), built by Christ Himself during the 45-day restoration period of the kingdom. The new and heavenly Jerusalem shall be the residence of the resurrected saints, the wife of Christ and the OT saints and the angels of God during the Millennial Reign Of Christ.
“And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And He that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And He said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son”( Rev.21:2-7).
Here the new and heavenly Jerusalem is referred to as a bride adorned for her husband. This is a metaphor. It is no more the bride of Christ as the house of the newly wed is the wife of the man. The house of the newly married man is the bride to extent that the wife dwells in that house. When he is home, he sees the wife who welcomes him. She is the centerof attraction and the joy of the husband, and vice versa. The just decorated church at the bema seat judgment, newly wed at the marriage of the Lamb now abides with Him in the new and heavenly Jerusalem descended from God out of Heaven. It is the tabernacle of God amongst men. It is hollow at the base and merges with the Throne Room of The Fourth And Millennial Temple at the summit of Mount Zion. This city has no temple, God and Christ are the temple of it(Rev.21:22). In reality the city does not need another temple. It is conjoint and contiguous at the base with The Fourth And Millennial Temple on the renovated and elevated Mount Zion, probably the highest point on Earth in the Millennium. The Fourth And Millennial Temple projects upwards in the center of the city.
The inhabitants of this city shall not need the light of the sun, moon, and stars to get by. The dwellers of this city are God, His angels and the resurrected saints of both the OT and NT. God and his angels have no physical bodies. Jesus and the resurrected saints have glorified eternal immortal resurrection bodies. Neither God and his angels nor Christ and the resurrected saints require the physical light of the sun , moon and stars. They have the life of God, “Zoe eioneis,” in themselves. The life of God in them is the light. “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men”(Jon.1:4). The Lamb is the light thereof(Rev.21:23). The light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not(Jon.1:4,5). The light source of the believer is in his spirit. It is the new life in Christ. In this age, it is eclipsed by the mortal body. But in the regeneration, it shall be unhindered, unhamperd, and unimpeded by the new and glorified eternal immortal resurrection body. The resurrected body is both transparent and translucent. In the resurrection there are no secrets. Everyone sees through everyone and knows what the other person is thinking. Thoughts are loud and transparent. There shall be no natural nights in this city. Therefore, It shall be always 12 noon.
In that city, there shall be no death, no ache, no pain, no sorrow, therefore there shall be no crying. The former things of pain, sickness, disease, death are passed away. These are the consequences of sin. When sin is eliminated, so are its consequences. The nations of them that serve Him shall walk in the light of it: and the Kings of the earth shall bring their glory into it(Rev.21:23). These are not earthly kings in their mortal bodies. The risen and glorified saints shall reign with Christ. They are the kings and priests of Christ. They shall be given rulership over nations, peoples, and tongues. They are the ones who shall bring the glories of the nations of the earth in the Millennium into the new and heavenly Jerusalem.
Men in their mortal bodies cannot approach this city. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incoruuption(1 Cor.15:50). The mortal body cannot tolerate the light of this city. It shall literally melt away. Anyone who ministers in the anointing of the Holy Spirit knows that it wears out the physical body. There is a level of the anointing that this mortal body of ours cannot tolerate.
“There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s scroll of life”(Rev.21:27).
The unglorified saints living in their mortal bodies here on Earth in the Millennium cannot approach this city. They have not experienced consummative sanctification or glorification. There are still intrinsic imperfections and impurities in these souls in their mortal bodies. Therefore they cannot approach this city. They can worship in the temple in some designated areas but they cannot enter into the new and heavenly Jerusalem.
In contrast to the Earth in the Millennium, though minimized, because Christ shall rule the Earth with a rod of iron(Ps.2:9; Rev.12:5; 19:5), there will be pain, ache, sorrow and death. It will be so, because those who enter the Millenium and repopulate the Earth, do so in their mortal bodies. They shall still be subject to sin. They still have to come to the saving knowledge of Christ every man on his own. Some will not accept Christ as their personal Saviour. Because they sin, they shall die young. Those who die at the age of 100 years shall be regarded as babies. “There shall be no more thence and infant of days, nor an old man that hath not fulfilled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be acursed”(Is.65: 20). There shall still be sin in the Millennium amongst those living in the mortal body. But it shall be reduced to the barest minimum due to the presence Christ, the saints, and the holy angels, and the absence of Satan and his fallen evil angels. Christ shall rule the Earth with a rod of iron. There shall be immediate and swift punishment of sin.There shall be no delayed punishments for sin.
“And He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bear twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: the leaves of the trees were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and His servants shall serve Him: And they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever”(Rev.22:1-5).
As we have pointed out, the new and heavenly Jerusalem which descends from God out of heaven shall be contiguous with The Fourth Temple at the summit of the renovated and elevated Mount Zion. The renovated and earthly Jerusalem shall be the capital city of the world. The temple is the center of attraction in the Millennium. It is the seat of Christ’s Government, the headquarters of His Administration. Men from all over the world shall flock to it to pray and to see God in the flesh. In this temple, the heavens and Earth are in holy union and embrace. In the temple, God, man, the resurrected as well as those in their mortal bodies, and the angels of God are in holy communion. It is the focal point of the Millennium. It is the merging of the spheres. In it, the living in their mortal bodies and the dead and resurrected in their glorified eternal immortal resurrection bodies are in holy communion and embrace.
The Throne Room of Christ’s Government shall be in the temple. From that Throne Room, the river of life shall flow in two directions. Upwards to the heavenly Jerusalem. Downwards to the earthly Jerusalem and the rest of the world. The river that flows downwards to the earthy Jerusalem and the rest of the world is described in Ezekiel 47. This river shall water the land of Israel and the rest of the world. It shall be teaming with fishes. It will heal the land and make it fruitful. It will make the desert blossom like the rose. It shall flow into the sea(Ezek.47:8). The seas of the world which have been polluted by human activities and the judgment of God in the day of His wrath shall be healed, and purified by the waters of this river of life. There are some that teach that there shall be no seas in the Millennium because the seas and the fresh water lakes were destroyed by the wrath of God. “And there were no more sea”(Rev. 21:1). But it is obvious from Ezek.47:8 that the downward flowing river shall end up in the sea. The prophet Zechariah spoke of living waters that shall flow out of Jerusalem:
“And it shall be that in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be”(Zech.14:8). The prophet Joel predicted that a stream shall flow out of the house of the Lord: ” And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim”(Joel 3:18).
The trees shall also bear fruits for food. The leaves thereof shall be for the healing of the nations(Ezek.47:12). The Hebrew word translated medicine here means bruises and minor ailments. That is quite understandable because sin itself and its evil effects on the human body shall be drastically minimized. We shall elaborate on this in our study of the earthly Jerusalem in the Millennium.
Here we are more interested in the river that flows upwards to the new and heavenly Jerusalem. It flows in its Broadway. On either side of the river, and in the midst of it, shall be a tree that bears twelve manner of fruits. These fruits shall be food for the dwellers of the new and heavenly Jerusalem. The leaves shall be for the healing of the nations of them that are saved. Now, do the inhabitants of this city ever get sick? No. Why do they need healing? They do not need healing. They need the leaves of this tree for the maintenance of health. Angels eat food. Manna is the food of the angels(Ps.78:24,25). When Jesus rose from the dead, He ate broiled fish(Luk.24:42). Resurrected saints also eat food. Food is for maintenance of the body. The leaves of this tree aid in the maintenance of health.
The Dimensions Of The City
“And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof and the wall thereof. And the city lieth four-square, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the heights of it are equal. And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel”(Rev.21:15-17).
One of the seven avenging angels with the seven last plagues who talked with John the revelator has a golden reed to measure the city, the wall and the gates. That one of the seven avenging angels was called to measure the city probably indicates that this is not an event that occurs at the end of the Mellennium, that is one thousand years after the wrath of God, but rather prior to it, at the beginning of the Mellennium. The city has the shape of a cube. The length, the breadth and the height of it are equal, about twelve thousand furlongs. A furlong is about one-eighth of a mile. This is about 1500 miles or 2500 km. A reed is a measuring instrument used in the ancient Near East. It is about ten and one-half feet long, about 10 meters. He measured the wall thereof, it was about 144 cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. A cubit is the length of an average man from the tip of the middle finger to the tip of the elbow. 144 cubits is equal to 216 ft, or 72 yards, about 66 meters. This is the thickness of the wall. It is thicker than the wall of Jericho and Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon. It is virtually impregnable. The wall of the city was made of glass, and the city itself of pure gold like clear glass. Do we suppose that these are earthly materials? No. This city is built of heavenly materials.
A full description of the new and heavenly Jerusalem is given in our comments on the Scroll of Revelation. In that comment, the other aspects of the city like the gates of the city, the foundations of the city, the substance of the foundations, the substance of the gates and the lights of the city are described in fine details.
The Marriage Supper Of The Lamb
The timing of this event in the millennial reign of Christ is not specified in Scripture, we know it shall take place in the early stages of the Millennium. The marriage of the Lamb to His bride has taken place in Heaven during the 30-day reclamation period after the Bema Seat Judgment of the saints at which they are bejeweled. The bride is now rewarded and decorated with crowns of gold studded with precious stones, jewelries, and gems. The Earth has been restored during the 45-day restoration period. The Earth and the heavens have been cleared of demons. Satan is bound in the Bottomless Pit for a thousand years. The fallen evil angels are sent to Hell or imprisoned with Satan in the abyss. The antiChrist and the false prophet have been cast into the lake of fire and brimstone.
The new and heavenly Jerusalem has descended from God out of heaven. It is merged at its base with the fourth and millennial temple built by Christ on the renovated and elevated Mount Zion. The 144,000 Jews hidden in Azel during the final wrath of God are now reunited with Jesus, the Messiah of Israel and all mankind(Zech.14:5). All Israel is now saved(Rom.11:26). The Gentiles who survived the Great Tribulation, the wrath of God, and were justified in the Sheep and goat judgement have repopulated the Earth. Thenew heavens and new Earth have been created. The earthly and millennial Jerusalem have been renovated, and has become the eternal capital of the Earth. Jesus, the Messiah of Israel and of all mankind has been coronated King of kings, and Lord of lords. He sits on the throne of His father David, and reigns king for ever from the throne of God and of Christ in the Throne Room on The Fourth And Millennial Temple on Mount Zion. All is now set for the marriage supper of the Lamb. The bride is united with her husband in the new and heavenly Jerusalem.
The marriage supper of the Lamb is the reception that follows the wedding or marriage of the Lamb that has taken place in Heaven earlier. On that day, Christ will drink anew the fruit of the vine with His disciples in His Father’s Kingdom. “But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s Kingdom”(Matt.26:29). It is interesting that here Christ refers to the millennial kingdom as My Father’s Kingdom. Although He is sovereign over the Earth, He is subject to the Father who is all in all(1 Cor.15:27,28).
This will be the most glamorous wedding of all ages, with all the pomp and pageantry of the heavens and Heaven of heavens. God Almighty will make a feast of wines on the lees for all nations.
“And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the LORD GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it”(Is.25:6-8).
Food and drink shall be in excess of everyone’s fill. The bride shall be resplendent in glory, and the scene stupendous. The only thing that shall be compared to it will be the marriage of the Lamb that took place earlier in Heaven.
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come , and His wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. And He saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called to the marriage super of the Lamb. And He saith unto me , These are the true sayings of God”(Rev.19:7-9).
The heavens, the galaxies will display their stupendous glories in magnificent splendor. It will be a lavish banquet unlike anything seen before. Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb(Rev.19:9).The bride will be adorned for her husband, gorgeously appareled(Rev.21:2). Christ Himself shall be so glorious in appearance that the light of His countenance shall illuminate the whole universe. The marriage supper of the Lamb shall be part of the celebration of God’s victory over the kingdom of darkness, on the same footing as The Marriage Of The Lamb , and The Bema Seat Judgment of the saints.
The Bride
There are some biblical scholars who believe and teach that the bride will consists of the saints of all ages. I do not share that view for the simple fact that John the baptizer refers to himself as the friend of the bridegroom. He that has the bride is the bridegroom. Jesus is the bridegroom, that is not debatable.
“He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease. He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly , and speaketh of the earth: He that cometh from above is above all”(Jon.3:29-31).
John’s own testimony about himself is that he is a friend of the bridegroom. He stands by thebridegroom and hears His voice. This therefore my joy is fulfilled. He cannot be Christ friend standing by Him at the wedding and the subsequent reception, the marriage supper, and be part of the bride at the same time. My conclusion therefore is that John is Christ’s bestman.
Christ’s own testimony about John the baptizer is that:
“Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater that he”(Matt.11:11).
Of all those born of women, there hath not arisen any greater than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. The questions are who are those born of women, and who are the least in the Kingdom of heaven. My understanding is that Christ was referring to the OT saints, and the NT saints. Of all the OT saints there was none greater than John the Baptist, but the least among the NT saints, the church, the bride of Christ, the least is greater then he. My conclusion therefore is that the OT saints are not part of the bride of Christ, inasmuch as John the baptizer who is the greatest of them all is less than the least of the NT saints, is not part of the bride but his friend or bestman at the wedding in heaven and the marriage supper, the reception on Mount Zion in the new and earthly Jerusalem.
The Attendees
At every wedding and the subsequent reception, there are invited guests. At the marriage super of the Lamb there will also be invited guests. The Father and the Holy Spirit though invisible to those in their mortal bodies will be the hosts of the wedding. The OT saints will be the there. John the baptizer will be Christ’s bestman. Some of the greats among the OT saints like fathers Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Elijah, David etc will be seated at the table. The angels of God will be there. Some of them, like the archangels Michael and Gabriel will be seated at the table. A good number of the angels will wait on the guests, inasmuch as they are ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation(Heb.2:14) Those in there mortal bodies who repopulate the Earth in the Millennium will be there. The 144,000 of the children of Israel who follow the Lamb wherever He goes will be there. They will most probably be part of Heaven’s security details. The Jews who survived the Great Tribulation and the wrath of God in the Day Of the Lord shall be there.
How do we know that the marriage supper of the Lamb shall take place on Earth? Because there was found there one who did not have a wedding garment( Matt.22:11-14). This is probably one of the survivors of the sheep and goat judgment. This cannot happen in Heaven. This cannot happen in heaven because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit in corruption(1 Cor.15:50).
Summary
“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom as of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever”(Rev.11:15).
The celebration of the marriage supper of the Lamb marks the completion of the defeat of Satan and his fallen evil angels. Satan, the supreme personality of evil, the corrupter of the Earth and all mankind has been defeated, evicted from the Earth’s premises and incarcerated in the shaft of the abyss. The antiMessiah and The False Prophet have been cast into the Lake Of Fire And Brimstone.
“And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.”(Rev.19:20 KJV).
All those who gave allegiance to Satan by capitulating to the authority of the antiMessiah have been destroyed. God Almighty has reclaimed His rule of the the Earth usurped by Satan. Christ has regained physical possession of the Earth at Armageddon. He has received the Kingdom from the Father, and crowned King of kings, and Lord of lords. He has re-established the Kingdom Of God on Earth over which He, Christ would rule for ever.
“And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth “(Rev19:6).
The Jewish survivors of the Great Tribulation and the Day Of The LORD have come to the saving knowledge of Christ. The Gentile survivors of the Great Tribulation, the wrath of God, and the Sheep And Goat Judgment have been brought to the saving knowledge of Christ. They have entered into the Millennium to repopulate the earth alongside the remnants of Israel. All nations, kindreds, peoples and tongues are represented. The church has been raptured, The Bema Seat Judgment at which the saints of all ages are rewarded and bejeweled have been held. The decorated bride of Christ is married to Him. The heavens and the Earth have been cleansed from the defilement of sin. The new heavens and Earth have been created.
“Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered nor come to mind”(Is.65:17).
The whole Earth is restored and renovated. The new and earthly Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel and of the whole Earth has been rebuilt. The fourth and millennial Temple have been built on the summit of Mount Zion, the highest point on the new Earth. The new and heavenly Jerusalem, the abode of the bride of Christ, all resurrected saints and the angels of God has come down from God out of heaven to merge with the the millennial temple at its base on Mount Zion. Christ is reunited with His bride never to part again.
“And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away”(Rev.21:3,4).
From the Throne Room of God and of Christ, livings waters flow downwards towards Jerusalem and the rest of the earth, bring healing to the Earth and the seas. The waters team with fish, and there are lots of fishing activities. The tree by the banks of the river yields fruits which are food, and the leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations of them who dwell on earth in their mortal bodies of bruises and minor ailments.
From the Throne Room also the river flows upwards as it were to the boardway of the new and heavenly Jerusalem. The tree which grows by the banks of the river and in the midst of it yields twelve manner of fruits. The fruits are food for the dwellers of the new and heavenly Jerusalem, some of whom are angels, and others resurrected saints in their glorified eternal immortal resurrection bodies. The leaves of the tree also are for the sustenance of health.
From the Throne Room, Christ shall rule over the Earth with rod of iron. David or his greater son is king over Israel. The twelve apostles judge Israel. The saints reign with Christ over the nations of the Earth, and are priests of Christ, and of God. The glories and wealth of the nations are brought into the new and heavenly Jerusalem in which there is no night. It is always day. Man, angel, and God are in holy communion, union, and embrace. The heaven and Earth are in holy embrace. From year to year, all nations come to worship God in Jerusalem and to observe the yearly feast of tabernacles(Sukkot). Jerusalem andits Holy Temple are the focal point in the Millennium. The Jews are revered all over he world, and there is no more antisemism(Zech.8:23).
With this, the Earth has been restored more or less to its pristine state before the fall of Adam.
The Deluge: The Destruction Of The World Of Noah’s Day
“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son Of Man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the Ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son Of Man is revealed.”(Luk.17:26-30).
In the Olivet discourse, we see the most extensive and exhaustive teaching on the End Times The Lord Jesus The Christ gave to His disciples prior to His death, burial, resurrection, ascension into Heaven and session at the right hand of the Majesty in the Heaven. The Olivet Discourse was triggered off by the question His disciples asked Him concerning the End Times as they sat on the Mount Of Olives overlooking the Temple on the Temple Mount. He had previously communicated to them the fact that the second Temple then standing on the Temple Mount, built by returning exiles, and gorgeously and extensively refurbished by Herod the Great would be destroyed to the extent that one stone would not be left on top of another that would not be thrown down(Matt.24:2). That particular aspect of His prophetic message is now history. The second Temple was destroyed by the Roman general Titus in 70 AD as also prophesied by the prophet Daniel(Dan.9:26). It was this previous communication that generated the question:
“Tell us, when shall these things be, and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the age?”
As we have pointed out severally in our previous articles, the Greek word “eion” translated world in the KJV is better translated age. It is not referent to the physical world but the moving world. In Judaism, there is the concept of two ages, the present age, “olam haze,” and the age to come, “olam haba.” Both ages occur within the context of the physical world, the planet Earth, but at different times in its history. The present age is coming to a consummate end, and a new age, the “olam haba,” the age to come will be inaugurated. The end of this age will merge into the beginning of another age, the age to come. The Greek word for the end of the world(age), “sunteleia” is better translated “end of the ages,” because the two ends of the ages, the end of the present age, and the beginning of the age to come are merging together. The end of this age moves into the beginning of the age to come.
After our Lord Jesus The Christ enumerated certain events that would occur before the sign of His coming and the End Of The Ages, He compared the prevailing atmosphere in the world prior to that day to the prevailing atmosphere in the days of Noe and Lot. It therefore follows that we shall gain insight into the prevailing conditions on Earth in the End Times through the examination of the prevailing conditions on Earth in the days of Noe, and the prevailing conditions in the days of Lot in the cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, Zeboim and Adama. The fifth of the five cities of the plain, Zoar was spared destruction as an act of divine mercy towards Lot and his family, the nephew of Abraham the Hebrew, the friend of God.
The Lord gave two examples, because in the mouth of two or more witnesses every word shall be established(2 Cor.13:1; 1 Tim.5:19; Heb.10:28). In the last days God shall give power unto His two witnesses to testify of these things(Rev.11:3). The specific events the Lord enumerated will occur within the context of the 70th seven of Daniel beginning with the appearance of the Man Of Sin, who will sign the covenant of Apostasy with the many from within Israel, or the covenant with death as the prophet Isaiah called it(Is.28:18). Although these prevailing atmosphere shall be heightened, intensified, and epitomized in the days of the antiMessiah, in the context of the 70th seven, leading to the Day Of the Lord, the End Of The Ages, Armaggedon and the establishment of the NewMillennium, they shall begin to take shape and be recognizable in the gap of time, the indeterminate period between the 69th and the 70th sevens prior to the emergence of the antiChrist at the commencement of the 70th seven of Daniel. We live in this indeterminate period which is fast approaching its terminus-ad-quem which is the commencement of the 70th week of Daniel. When we critically examine the days of Noe, and the days of Lot in the period of his sourgeoning in the cities of the plain, certain facts will begin to emerge. We shall examine these facts in the light of the prevailing conditions on Earth in our day, in order to determine how close we are to the emergence of the Man Of Sin, the terminus-a-quo or the commencement of the 70th seven of Daniel.
In the days of Noe and of Lot, men were eating and drinking, buying and selling, and marrying and being given in marriage. At the surface, these are ordinary, normal human activities that are common to all ages of human history. Every man who has lived on this planet called Earth, has eaten and drunken water and or wine. Likewise every man has bought or sold at one time or the other. But why did the Lord single out the days of Noe and the days of Lot in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah? Were there some elements of these common human activities in those days that rendered them unusual and unique, and marked them out? Were there some things uncanny about these common, ordinary human activities in the days of Noe and Lot? We shall see by looking at how people lived in those days and what they did.
(1) The Nephilim Are Here Again.
In the days of Noah, men began to multiply upon the Earth, and daughters were born to them. “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose”(Gen.6:2).
The Nephilim: Sexual Violence Towards Human Females
The Hebrew word “elohim” which is translated God in the KJV is the plural of “el.” It simply means gods. It is generic. It is applied to God Almighty, the God of Israel(Gen.1:1), the idols of the nations(2 kin.17:29), to angels(Heb.2:9) and important human personalities(Exod.22:28). Prior to the Satanic revolt, all angels were called sons of God. But after the Satanic rebellion, the angels who sided with Satan, the fallen evil angels, became known as the sons of gods. The sons of God in Gen.6:2, should read sons of gods, because they are fallen evil angels. Angels are spirit beings without physical bodies. But they have the ability to take on a form comparable to the human body and become visible and palpable.
These evil angels, the sons of gods, took on human bodies, and cohabited with human females. These fallen evil angels were fascinated by human females and sex. The offspring of these mixed marriages between human females and evil angels were called “nephilim.” “Nephilim” is a derivative of the Hebrew cognate verb “naphal” which means “to fall.” The sons of gods are fallen angels. The product of their inappropriate and unnatural union and unholy cohabitation with human females are “humanoids.” They were giants. They were “hybrid humans” or “transhumans.” They were men of renown. They were mighty men. They were evil men. Men of formidable stature and physique and superhuman intelligence. They were superlatively wicked and evil, above measure. Because of their presence, evil was increased on Earth in those days. So, the nephilim were characterized by superhuman intelligence, superhuman physical powers and abilities, and extraordinary cruelty and wickedness.
God ordained a distinction between men and angels, as He did between male and female humans, but Satan wants to obliterate those distinctions. Satan was not just a rascal up to some mischief just for the fun of it. It was a calculated attempt by Satan to subvert God’s plan for the redemption of mankind by hybridizing the whole human race in order to prevent the birth of the Messiah from a pure human female.
“and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”(Gen.3:15 KJV).
God preserved Noah and his family from the contamination of the Satanic hybridization programme. The sentence in Hebrew rendered “Noah was righteous in his generation”, is better translated “Noah was pure in his descendants”(Gen. 2:9: Ronald E. Showers). In order words Noah and his ancestors and descendants were not affected by the Satanic hybridization exercise. The rest of humanity in the days of Noah were hybridized.
This is exactly the same thing that Satan and his acolytes are doing today with the gene based(mRNA and rDNA) covid vaccines. A pilot programme is going on in Ghana to test the efficacy of synthetic mRNA based malaria vaccines. Africans are the Guinea pigs of this new experiment. They will certainly bring it to Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation to kill people and render the survivors infertile humanoids. They are testing synthetic mRNA based vaccines on humans for the treatment of cancers and autoimmune disorders. Apart from genetically hybridizing humans, these vaccines contain alien nanotechnology that turns humans into cyborgs and patented electronic devices visible by Bluetooth, GPS and QR code scanner.
Hybrid humans could not be redeemed. Little wonder therefore that Noah preached for 120 years that God was going to destroy the world that then was with water without the benefit of winning a single convert. Rather they mocked him while he builded the Ark: that it had not rained before and was not going to ever rain. After a hundred and twenty years of fruitless preaching amongst the atedeluvian earth-dwellers, the same day Noah entered the Ark, it began to rain. The rest of humanity were wiped out by God in the deluge. God demonstrated to us that hybrid humans could never be saved. You can preach for eternity but they will never believe and will never be saved because they are beyond penitence.They could be religious, but they would never be saved.Why? Because they are not humans.The question of repentance and forgiveness do not even arise. God covenant with Adam to save pure humans not humanoids.
God never covenanted with Adam to redeem humanoids, but pure humans made in His image and likeness. Not righteous men: for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God(Rom.3:23). Redemption is after its kind. Jesus did not take on Him the nature of angels, but became the seed of Abraham, a pure human, in order that He might be a merciful and a faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God in order to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
“For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.”(Hebrews 2:16-18 KJV).
Brethren, have you ever asked yourself why Noah preached for 120 years, and had no converts except for immediate members of his family? The answer to this question is found in Gen.6:9: “Noah was a just man and righteous in his generation.”
The KJV is not accurate here. The phrase “righteous in his generation is better rendered “pure in his descendants.” They were the only ones whose ancestry were not hybridized. Noah and his family were the only pure humans. The rest of humanity were hybridized. They could not be redeemed. Salvation is after its kind. Jesus is the kinsman redeemer, the “goel.” God convenanted with Adam to redeem man made in the image and likeness of God(Gen.3:15). For the sam reason, Jesus took not on Him the nature of angels, but He took on Him the seed of Abraham, in order that he may be made like unto His brethren.
Don’t let anyone deceive you by saying changing your DNA does not affect your spirit but only your body. It is our spirit that will go to Heaven, not our body. And that our genes are mutating all the time. Yes, our genes are mutating every now and then, but that’s not enough to change us from pure humans to some other hybrid creature. It is not the same as a human-mouse chimera. Hybrid humans are not pure humans. They are chimeras. They CANNOT be saved or redeemed. Redemption is after its kind. That’s exactly the reason why those who lived in Noah’s day could not be saved. There are hybrid humans amongst us today. There are humanoids amongst us nowadays. There are cyborgs amongst us nowadays. They are all tranhumans. They will never be saved. It is not a matter of body and spirit alone. They are completely of a different species. It is not a matter of innocence either; they are a different species altogether. The covenant of redemption is between Adam, a pure human and his descendants and God, not human chimeras.
Remember that as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the day when the Son Of Man is revealed. There will be attempts to hybridize humanity. Satan’s plan has always been the same: destroy or disqualify. The easiest way to hybridize humanity is by vaccination with gene based vaccines like synthetic mRNA and rDNA, and chemical injections. These gene based vaccines contain alien nanotechnology and metamaterials that turn the recipients into not only hybrids but cyborgs who are connectable to quantum computers. As we see men and women hybridized by gene based vaccines, we know we are in the days like those of Noah, and fast approaching the commencement of the 70th week of Daniel. There are men and women who are happy to be cyborgs, who see themselves as supermen and superwomen(superhumans), Homo sapiens sapiens and human 2.0, the new Species.With nanobots in the brain, connected to neocortices in the cloud, one could become a Beethoven or Mozart or an Albert Einstein, so says Klaus Schwab of the WEF, and Raymond Kursweil also.
The evil angels who took part in this satanic assault on humanity and their humanoid offspring were imprisoned by God in the abyss, under darkness, waiting for the judgment of the great day of the Lord(2 Pet.2:4; Jud.1:6; Rev.9:1-12). Satan’s counterstrategy is very simple, disqualify and or destroy the whole human race, and thereby defeat God’s plan to reclaim rulership and physical possession of the Earth(Gen.3:15). If there are no pure humans, who is Jesus fighting for? There would be no pure humans to repopulate the Earth after Armageddon over whom Jesus would reignin the Millennium.Thusly GOD would be defeated and Jesus “killed.”
In this day and age, the “nephilim” are here again. Not everyone we see on the planet Earth today is a pure human. There are humanized demons and demonized humans. Scientists of satanic persuasion are busy in the laboratory trying to produce humans with superhuman abilities. Through genetic engineering, they hope to produce human beings with the characteristics of some extinct and extant animals and plants. Through computer and bioengineering, they want to programme these abilities into men by introducing plant and animal genes into the human genome. Men can also be turned into zombies through social engineering by health scare, lockdowns, social and physical distancing and other forms of social rehabilitations. In his novel, “1984,” George Orwell demonstrated how the Big Brother through stringent policies and draconian measures socially engineered the public to his will and to fit into his mold.
Without overcoming Sin, they want to overcome Death. They want to bypass Sin, and overcome sickness and disease and death. Without dealing with the issue of Sin, they want to evercome sickness, disease and death. Aubrey De Gray, the British biologist with a formidable beard, has a seven-point plan to overcome death. Raymond Kurzweil, an American Jewish scientist, the author of “Singularity Is Near,” and the director of technology at Google, wants to recall his father to life, and programme his own soul to live as a software in a computer for ever. There is a Singularity University where they are pursuing these goals.
Noah Yuval Harari, a professor of history and philosophy at Hebrew University Of Jerusalem, the intellectual patron of of the WEF, said: “The next in human evolution is to get under your skin. Man is now a hackable animal. Free will is over. Future generations will look back and say, it all began in 2019 with Covid-19.”Why did he say that and what did he mean by that? The Covid-19 vaccines have introduced a Global System Of Digital Identity.
This would have been laughable were it not that these men are so serious and determined to achieve their aims and objectives. This is not unlike the Tower of Babel. With unity of purpose, fallen man has the divine and inert ability to accomplish anything it sets its heart on. The reason why God confounded human language was to stop man from building a tower that would reach up to Heaven. Man in his fallen state and sinful body wanted to enter Heaven in defiance to God. If God did not stop man, he would have accomplished that purpose even in his fallen state. Today, fallen man wants to bypass repentance, regeneration, and sanctification and live for ever in a sinful body. Never for once think it impossible for man to accomplish his purpose. If men conceive and imagine it, it is achievable. Left alone by God, it would be a matter of time, perhaps several generations before man breaks through to his humanistic utopia. It was for this reason that God chased fallen Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, and stationed Cherubim with flaming sword to Guard the tree of life, lest they eat of it and live for ever in a sinful body.
“And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life(Gen.3:22-24).
While a piece of metal placed on water sinks, man has built ocean going vessels that weigh thousands of tons with both crew and cargo. Man overcame gravity to put aeroplanes on air that carry tons of cargo and crew. Man broke through gravity and overcame weightlessness to put man on the Moon. Man has sent unmanned aerial vehicles to Mars. Within 25 to 50 years of the modern world, human presence on Mars and other planets would be a reality. Elon Musk is obsessed with giving man a bolthole, an interplanetary escape route to mars in the event of a catastrophe that would end human life on the planet Earth. It would be foolhardy for anyone to think that fallen man cannot accomplish any goal he sets for himself. It will be utter foolishness for anyone to think that fallen humanity cannot overcome sickness, disease and death, and live for ever in a sinful body. If unstopered by God, they could accomplish their goal and do immeasurable damage to the human soul. It would be a horrible tragedy for humanity if fallen, sinful man is trapped in a sinful body for eternity. But as in the days of Noah, just before man accomplishes his purpose to live for ever in sin in this wretched body of ours, God will intervene to save humanity from satanic machinations and destruction.
The intertainment industry in the US alone runs into billions of dollars annually. This is ridiculous, considering the fact that millions of children around the world and refugees go to bed on an empty stomach. All kinds of games have been devised by man to amuse himself, to derive joy and happiness which only God can give. Our celebrities in sports, film industry, music, media and the arts earn billions annually while poverty rages on. But these men and women celebrate nothing other than their sexualities. In Nigeria, our musicians sing of nothing other than sex and nakedness, and are smiling to the banks. Why is there so much obscenity in music and contemporary arts, and yet the society patronize them? It is because of humanistic thinking that has pervaded every area of our society and the associated moral decay.
Hybrid humans, with or without The Mark Of The Beast are unacceptable to God. Therefore they cannot be allowed by Christ to enter the Millennium and repopulate the Earth. No hybrid human will enter Heaven or taste the Millennial Reign Of Christ. In other words, none of this people can be saved. They are doomed for time and eternity. Sometimes, we do not know who they are. Because the wheat and the tares are growing together, they are most times indistinguishable from the lot. I warn all believers everywhere to be careful who they marry, both clergy and lay, lest one’s offspring and spouse be disqualified from entry into heaven, lest they be betrayed by their own spouses and children. I warn believers to be careful who they make their confidant lest they be betrayed by their supposedly bosom friends and confidants.
Every true believer in Christ is indwelt by the Holy Spirit. The essence of His presence in our lives is primarily, amongst other things, to guide us into the divine will in every aspect of our lives. As believers in Christ, we should be able to make the right choices in life. At whatever instance we come to a fork in the road, the Holy Spirit indwelling our spirit, will point us in the right direction: “this is the way, walk ye in it.” Should we choose the wrong direction, the inward witness will indicate we have made the wrong choice. Therefore, we should jettison it. This is not an article on the leading of the Holy Spirit, but because of the primacy of the leading of the Holy Spirit and the seriousness of the social and spiritual realities and implications of the presence of the nephilim amongst men, even in the church, both in the pulpit and pew, I have to digress to give this warning.
Besides, there are occult groups and secret societies like the illuminati, the freemasons, the black nobility, etc, who claim superiority to other humans, both by descent and some secret esoteric knowledge which they claim to possess. Some of them claim to know Jesus and dine with him, but their works are evil. Their machinations are to subdue and subjugate other humans by all means.
Note
“And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink and rose up to play”(Exod.32:6).
Of late, some of our brethren have come up with the notion that there were pure humans in Noah’s day who perished in the deluge simply because they did not believe in the warnings of God given by Prophet Noah. Although this notion was possible because unbelief is a serious offense, it was indeed far fetched simply because the righteous judgment of God would mean that pure humans and innocent children be spared divine retribution. But that was not the case.
The other possible scenario would be that there were some pure humans of the age of accountability who did not believe or heed the warnings of prophet Noah, but were not married and therefore had no children. So, they perished in the deluge. Those of them who were married, married humanoids and their offspring were humanoids and therefore not eligible to redemption. These are possible scenarios by which we could account for the death of everyone else except the members of Noah’s immediate family.
If there were some pure humans in Noah’s day who perished in the deluge simply because they did not believe in the warnings of God through prophet Noah that God was going to destroy the word that then was, some of them would have been married with children. Those children would have been pure humans and innocent too, especially the infants and neonates. Why didn’t God spare those innocent children and infants and neonates? It would have been unjust of God to condemn the innocent children, infants and neonates with the wicked and unrighteous.
The implication of this statement is there were no pure humans who begat innocent children, infants and neonates who were eligible to divine mercy on grounds of innocence inasmuch as such children, infants and neonates would have been spared destruction in the deluge on grounds of innocence. The conclusion is that all adults up to and above the age of accountability were hybridized and their offspring humanoids and therefore ineligible to divine mercy on grounds of innocence. So, Noah and members of his immediate family were the only pure humans.
The words “generation,” “genealogy,” “genetic” etc are cognates and derivatives of the word “gene.” “Perfect” in Gen.6:9 was not about moral perfection. It did not mean that Noah had no sins.
“For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.”(Eccl.7:20; cp 2 Chron.6:36 KJV).
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”(Rom.3:23 KJV).
The fact that Noah was perfect did not relate to morals but rather biological purity. Noah was pure in his descendants and progeny. In other words, his ancestors were pure humans not human chimeras. Noah and his ancestors and descendants were pure in their genetic constitution as humankind. They were pure human species. Simply put, they were not hybrids nor humanoids nor transhumans.
Also the word “corrupt” in Gen.6 was not about morals but genetic corruption and biological impurity. Animals were also involved thusly necessitating their destruction in the deluge as well.
(2) Indifference To, Acceptance, And Legalization Of Sexual Immoralities.
In the days of Noah, men were marrying and being given in marriage, likewise in the days of Lot. Was this the common ordinary heterosexual marriage between a man and a woman which God ordained in His infinite wisdom(Gen.1:27,28, 2:24)? Absolutely not. Were it the normal heterosexual marriages, there would been nothing special about it. Although, the Scriptures did not specifically mention homosexual and gay marriages in the days of Noah, we can see that it was practised by the “nephilim.”
Lesbians
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.“(Gen.6:5).
The hybrid humans were atheists and humanists. They did not believe in God. They did not believe in God’s moral absolutes. They did not believe in moral obligations towards their fellow man. They did not treat humanely those who were physically challenged or disabled, or socially underprivileged, or mentally challenged or handicapped. Theirs was a dog eat dog society, the law of the jungle, the survival of the fittest. The society gave vent to all forms of sexual perversions. Incest, homosexualism and lesbianism, pedophilia, adultery, wife swapping, rape, bestiality and gay marriages were socially accepted. The disabled, the underprivileged and the mentally challenged were sexually exploited and abused. They were also physically abused.
The English word “sodomy” and its cognate “sodomite” are derivatives of the word “Sodom,” one of the major cities of the plain where Lot dwelt. In Sodom, homosexualism was practised. It was socially acceptable and accepted. Young boys and girls were sodomised by these evil and wicked men. The men of Sodom assaulted the house of Lot in order that they may know the visitors. The Hebrew word “yada,” translated know in the KJV means to know intimately in a sexual manner. It means to have carnal knowledge. There was no law and order in the city any more. No one came to the aid and rescue of Lot and his visitors. The rulers of the city acquiesced in these things. It was a state of anomy.
Homosexuals
Sodomy is synonymous with homosexualism. Under the law of Moses, it carried the death penalty(Lev.18:22,29). Under the new covenant we are not mandated by Heaven to kill the sex perverts. But they should and are encouraged to repent of their evil ways. The days of ignorance God had overlooked. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent(Acts 17:30). There is a just recompense of reward for these errors from God for those who engage in these acts and have pleasure in those that do them(Rom.1:27).
In the days prior tothe Day Of The Son Of Man, these social evils and wickedness and abominations shall resurface and be accepted generally and legalized. America is now the 20th nation to legalize gay marriages. In Europe and North America, LGTBQ+s are now well accepted. One may be sued for discriminating against them. Obama, the American President travelled thousands of miles from America, to tell the government and people of Kenya, to throw away their age old social, moral and religious values, and legalize homosexualism, lesbianism and gay marriages. In South Africa, a man may no longer claim damages in the case of adultery. In Germany, some groups are advocating for the legalization of incest, at least, amongst siblings. In the near future in some societies, men and women may get wedded to their cows, horses, dogs, pigs or any of their pet animals. There are animal brothels in Europe where men and women practise bestiality. Pressure will be put on pastors by the powers that be to conduct these marriages. Believers who object to these things may be blackballed out of business, financially blackmailed, and rendered bankrupt by litigations and boycott and sanctions, sued, tried and found guilty of discrimination and hate speech, and imprisoned, physically assaulted and killed. Some churches and denominations may comply with these changes. Ministers amongst them who repudiate established church authority will be defrocked, excommunicated and ostracized. These groups, advocates of Gay rights are intolerant of and violent towards opposition.Liberal wokism is on the rise. The conservative left is gaslighted and cancelled. The right is politically correct.
In some universities in the US, christian fellowships which object to accommodating gays as members or leaders are deregistered. There is organized assault on established christianity. It will not be long before churches and christian ministries shall be deregistered and their properties confiscated and impounded because of failure to comply with government directives, laws, edicts even decrees to wed homos and lesbians, men and women and their pet animals. In those days, organized christendom will be no more. Megachurches will cease to exist, and small underground cells and secret rotational fellowship units will come into existence. In those days one can only fellowship with those one trusts. Despite that, there will be betrayals and treacheries. When these abominations become rampant, we should look up; for the Day Of The Son Of Man, the day of our redemption draws near.
“Let no one deceive you: It is because of these things that the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience”(Eph.5:6).
(3) Indifference To, Acceptance Of, And Legalization Of Organized Criminality. I
”And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that He made man on the Earth, and grieved Him at His heart”(Gen.6:5,6).
Al Carpone: Crime Syndicate
In the days of Noah, evil and wickedness were increased on Earth. Men were so wicked and cruel. The imagination of man’s heart was continually evil. Organized criminality was so rampant that the society and human government were indifferent to it, powerless to do anything about it, or were part of it. Likewise in the days of Lot, there was no law enforcement because either there were no legislature and judiciary or like in every corrupt society, they were part and parcel of organized criminality. If you could not beat them, you joined them. In order to survive, one either acquiesced in these things or doled out huge amounts of money regularly to pay for one’s protection.
We could see an example of this in Israel in the days of the judges, at a time when there was no king in Israel, and every man did what was right in his own eyes(Judg.21:25). The levite from Mount Ephraim had gone to retrieve his concubine who had returned to her father’s house in Bethlehem of Judah due to her infidelity to her husband. She played the harlot. As they journeyed, they came by nightfall to Gibeah of Benjamin. Although they were Israelites, there was not a single native of that city that was willing to take them in. Probably, they were aware the hoodlums in the city would demand they bring them out in the night in order that they may know them. It was only a stranger, a sourgeoner from the tribe of Ephraim that was willing to receive them into his house. At night, they were assaulted by the sons of belial in that city. They demanded to know the man. They wanted to know the levite sexually. These hoodlums were not interested in the wife of the levite, but the levite himself. What a perversion, In the end they were made to do with the wife of the levite whom they sexually abused and assaulted all night till the the small hours of the morning and she died.
The levite divided the dead body of his wife into twelve parts and sent them by the hand of messengers to the twelve tribes of Israel. That was a solidarity call for Israel to come together to demand justice. When Israel demanded that the hoodlums be delivered to face justice, did the elders of Benjamin comply? Their refusal to hand over the hoodlums was indicative of their acquiescence in evil and a measure of the depth of moral decay, depravity and turpitude in the city. The elders of the city and the civil authorities had no sense of moral justice any more. Their refusal to hand over the criminals to be punished, to face the music, led to a bitter war that lead to the death of thousands of Israelites from the other tribes and nearly wiped out the tribe of Benjamin from among the tribes of Israel(Judg.19,20,21). That sort of thing happened because there was lawlessness. There was lawlessness because of favoritism, corruption and bribery and the powers that be were unwilling to administer justice. There was lawlessness because there was no fear of God before their eyes. Where there is favouritism, justice is weakened and so dies.
It was exactly so in the days of Noah and Lot. When the angels of God visited the city of Sodom, there was no single native of the city willing to take them in. Only Lot the stranger received them. The sons of belial in the city assaulted the house of Lot atnightand demanded to have them that came to Lot’s house, in order that they might know them. Did the city officials come to their rescue? Absolutely not. It was so because they were part of the system. A city that could permit such wickedness have acquiesced in evil.
As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the day when the Son Of Man shall be revealed. In the day before the Son of Man comes, sexual perversions of all sorts will be socially acceptable and legalized. In the street where I live, an eight-year old girl is being sexually assaulted by her father, and nothing has been done about it simply because the government in Nigeria has no plans to protect children from sexual assault. There is a strip club in this town, and some of my neighbors have attended and boasted to me about it. Nudism and all forms of sexual immoralities are becoming socially acceptable, and will sometime in the future be legalized. I have witnessed group sex by a group of university students by the poolside in this city. These social evils were unthinkable in African society a short while ago. Those who kick against these social pervasions will be the ones ridiculed, ostracized, sued and jailed, and blackballed out of business, physically assaulted and lynched.
(4) Commercialism And Consumerism
Likewise also in the days of Lot;….. They bought, they sold,……
Cashless Economy
As we pointed out earlier, buying and selling are ordinary normal human activities. We all buy and sell at one time or the other. But there is something uncanny about the buying and selling going on in the days of Lot. It was not the ordinary normal human activity of buying and selling that we all engage in at one time or the other. If it were ordinary, there would have been nothing special about it that warrants comparing it to the buying and selling that will go in the days when the Son Of Man is revealed.
In heaven, there is no buying and selling at all. There is no trade by barter either. Every man produces maximally and takes what he needs. Buying and selling is of satanic origin. It was introduced after the fall as part of the Satanic system of government. Satan is the god of this age(2 Cor.4:4). Buying and selling are associated with idolatry. From time immemorial, markets are almost always located next to the shrine of gods. Amongst the Igbos of southeastern Nigeria, for instance, the four market days are named after deities. Every market is associated with a deity and is almost always located next to the shrine of the deity. The four market days, Eke, Orie, Afor, Nkwo are associated with deities. Every market in Igboland bears one of these four names. In ancient times, these markets were established by sacrificing human blood to the deities involved. The markets were usually administered by the priests of the deities to whom they were associated or dedicated. Things may have changed of late in some places, but in ancient times, this was how markets were established and operated in Igboland.
Beyond this, even in modern days, there is a lot of idolatry involved in buying and selling. Lots of people who buy and sell as a means of livelihood are involved in idol worship, fetishism and occultism. There are businessmen and women who will not step out of their houses unless they have done some rituals and incantations. Some others will not open their shops nor talk to nor sell to any customers unless they done some rituals and incantations. Lots of big time businessmen are involved in occultism, idolatry, and are members of secret societies. In Nnewi, where I lived for thirteen years in seclusion, there are very few rich men who do not belong to one secret society or the other, even prominent members of Pentecostal Churches. To this day some sacrifice to idols in order to prosper in their businesses. Some even practise ritual killings and human sacrifice in order to attract customers.
Even in the so called civilized countries, the cutthroat competitions that rival corporations engage in is amazing. They are all missed up with one another in litigations. They always spying on one another, trying to subvert one another etc. Some of the things that the rich engage in, some poor fellows would rather remain poor than get involved in such things. It is the same old humanistic principles of self-enrichment that govern these corporations. The age old biblical moral values are not part of their company policies. Besides, they are so caught up with buying and selling that they have no time for God. Some of them have no time for their families. Sometimes, marriages have broken up and families destroyed because spouses have no time for each other and their families while buying and selling.
The worst aspect of this buying and selling is the consumerism that has been infused into it. The western societies and Japan are already taken up by consumerism. Of later, China, Hong Kong, South Korea and other prosperous countries of South East Asia have caught the same bug. And I dare say, that the same bug is fast infecting Africa. Every model of car has a new make each year, so also are smartphones and other items. Almost every piece of electronics has a new version each year. Some people are so caught up with these things that they can do almost anything to get the latest version of cars, electronics and smartphones etc. In New York City, a young man was gunned down just because his assailant wanted his new iphone. He took nothing else from his victim, though he had money in his pocket.
If a believer is not careful, he or she could be consumed with consumerism and commercialism like the rest of the world. Some have gone into debts in order to keep up with the latest version of cars, etc. We as believers should not allow ourselves to be squeezed into the mold of the world. This is obviously the aim of the Evil One, to squeeze us into the mold of the world, to keep us consumed with worldliness to the detriment of our souls.
(5) Intertainment.
Debauchery
They did eat, they drank,…
Eating and drinking are ordinary normal human activities. We all eat and drink. If we do not eat and drink, we die. It is that simple. But the eating and drinking that was going on in the days of Noe and Lot went beyond the ordinary eating and drinking we all engage in on a daily basis in order to sustain life. It is comparable to the kind of eating and drinking the Israelite engaged in during the apostasy in the Sinai. It is written,
This kind of eating and drinking and partying are associated with and eventuate in sex orgies. The Canaanites practised this kind of orgies which involved heavy drinking, eating and sexual escapades as a kind of worship to their gods. The Israelites were lured into this kind of sacred prostitution when they were joined to the Midianites at Baalpeor, ate the sacrifice of their gods and engaged in sexual immoralities with Midianitish women, for which reason twenty-three thousand of them fell in one day.
“Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”(1 Cor.10:8).
Yearly, on Valentine’s day, men and women overeat, get drunk, do drugs, and participate in sex orgies. On that day, many young women and men lose their virginities and are possessed by Bacchus, and initiated and inducted into the Hall Of Fame Of Sexual Immoralities. Towards the approaches of the 70th seven, this kind of eating and drinking will be more rampant. For whatever reasons, birthdays, marriages, marriage anniversaries, end-of-year parties, etc, men and women will overeat, get drunk, do drugs, and engage in sex orgies. It is on occasions like this that many girls and young women are raped. There was a young beautiful woman involved in athletics. All the male athletes approached her for friendship, but she refused. One day she got drunk and was raped by eleven of them.
“Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.”(1 Cor.15:32c KJV).
Debauchery and surfeiting will be rampant in the last days. Epicureanism will become the philosophy and guiding principle of the lives of the majority especially the frivolous youths.
(6) Season Of Anomy
The Whirlwind Of Anomy
Because these evils destroy the moral fabrics of the family and society, a society that permits them becomes normless. A society becomes normless because it has no moral values and laws. Moral laws are based on moral values which in turn are based on what is right or wrong. And God is the standard for morality. If there are no moral laws, it is because there are no moral values. And if there are no moral values, it is because God has been legislated out of the family and society. It is not possible for a society to believe in moral justice without belief in the existence of God. Human life has worth and value to the extent to which God is seen as the creator of man in His image and likeness. Atheism teaches that there is no God. If there is no God, man is not created. If man is not created, he evolved. If he evolved, he is still evolving. If man is still evolving, he is an animal. If man is an animal, what is wrong with abortion, euthanasia, and canibalism?
If man is still evolving, there are no moral absolutes, and no moral standards. Everything is in a process of evolution. If God is the standard for morality, and there is no God, then there is no standard for morality. Everything is quicksand. There is no such thing as right or wrong, good or bad. It is only a matter of likes and dislikes, efficiency and inefficiency. You do your own thing, and I do my own thing. You cannot tell me what to do and I cannot tell you what to do. You respect my wishes and values and I respect yours. This is the kind of reasoning that produces normlessness, anarchy and utter chaos.
Evolutionists are atheists, and atheists are evolutionists. Evolutionists and atheists are normless and therefore amoral. Moral relativism will always lead to amorality. A society that legalizes homosexualism and lesbianism and Gay marriages, incest, adultery, bestiality and other social evils has destroyed it’s moral fabrics, and is headed towards anarchy. So it was in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah before God intervened to arrest the onslaught on morals. And so shall it be in the day before the Son Of Man is revealed. Where there is no king with divine mandate, lawlessness reigns supreme.
“In those days, there was no king in Israel, and every man did that which was good in his own eyes.”(Judg.21:25).
So it was in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah before God intervened to arrest the onslaught on morals. And shall it be in the day before the Son Of Man is revealed.
(7) The Age Of Humanity.
Humanism: If It Feels Good To You, Do It
When God is legislated out of the family, home and society, man reigns supreme. The rule of man is the rule of Satan; for Satan is the god of this age and the Prince of the power of the air(2 Cor.4;4; eph.2:2). The New Age Movement teaches that man is God. They also believe that man is evolving. They have evolved a doctrine to explain away the Rapture when it occurs. They teach that man will evolve to a new and higher order of humans. Some will fail to evolve, the christians and their ilk. These will be whisked away by aliens from outer space simply because they failed to evolve. They so teach, being ignorant of the Scriptures and the power of God. In the day when the Rapture shall take place, the beginning of the Day Of The Son Of Man, there will not be any man on Earth who will not come to the sudden realization of the existence of God. On that Day, all the kindred of the Earth shall wail because of Him(Rev.1:7). In that day, the evolutionist, the atheists, the idolaters and the new agers, shall throw away their idols of gold, and of silver and bronze and wood which they had made for themselves to worship to the bats and the moles; to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the top of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of His Majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the Earth. They shall invite the mountains and rocks, to fall upon them, and hide them from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the Great Day Of His Wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand(Is.2:20,21; Rev.6:16,17).
They teach that they will fail to evolve because they do not believe and know that they are God. This lie is being touted by the new agers. It is not new. It is the same old lie that Satan told Eve in the Garden Of Eden,
“in the day ye shall eat of this fruit, ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil”(Gen.3:5).
As in the days of Noah and Lot, men became law and God unto themselves, and oppressed and killed one another, so shall it be in the days when the Son Of Man is revealed. God shall send a strong delusion that they should believe the Lie that man is God(2 Thess.2:11). God will not send this delusion upon men, but will permit this delusion to come upon men, because they legislated Him out out of His world and humanity which He created to glorify Himself. Nature abhors a vacuum. Man is a temple being. Man is a created being. Man is not God. If God does not reign supreme in the spirit and heart of man, something else has to take His place. This would be Satan and his fallen evil angels. Man without God is possessed of Satan and his fallen evil angels. Man is a temple being. There is no man in his normal senses that will claim divinity. It is irrational, deceived, deluded, disillusioned, disoriented, dislocated and possessed man that will ascribe divinity to himself.
There is a slogan afloat today in the high places of the Earth, to make this century, the 21st century, the century of humanity. What does this mean? They want to remove all references to God and His vestiges from the planet Earth in this century. But God will not let man prevail.
“Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight(Ps.9:19).
As in the days of Noah on the whole planet Earth, and as in the days of Lot in the cities of the plain, Sodom, Gomorrah, Zeboim and Adama, shortly before man prevails, God shall swoop in from His glories in the heavens unto the planet Earth to rescue the righteous and destroy the wicked humanists.
(8) No Supernatural Intervention In Human Affairs.
Because of wide spread evolutionary thinking, the people of Noah’s did not believe in God. If there is no God, then there is no supernatural being who could intervene in human affairs. So, man is not accountable to any divine being. It therefore means that there is no supernatural or divine being to whom man is accountable.
Noah spent 120 years building the Ark. As a prophet, he warned the people of his day of a coming deluge. Prior to this time, it had never rained. Every evening, dew came from heaven and wetted the ground. The whole Earth was of one weather, subtropical. The Ark could not have been built by Noah and his three sons alone. He probably hired men to help him build the Ark. They received wages to help him build the Ark but did not enter into the Ark. They must have mocked him while he built the Ark, and spoke of a coming deluge. They must have thought that old age was taking its toll on him, though he was not the oldest man alive in his day. Methuselah was still alive then, and died shortly before the deluge. Had they not believed in evolution, had they believed in God, they would have believed in divine intervention: they would have believed the teachings of Noah, and taken his warning seriously.
In the days of Noah, Evolution created the general intellectual and philosophical climate that dominated their thinking. This is also the intellectual and philosophical climate that will characterize the last days.
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the Earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water perished: but the heavens and the Earth, which are now, by the same Word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”(2 Pet.3:3-7).
In this passage of the Scriptures, Apostle Peter gives an apt description of the theory called Scientific Uniformitarianism. Scientific Uniformitarianism teaches that all physical laws and principles- as well as psychological and sociological laws and principles after the appearance of mankind- have operated in essentially the same way throughout time. This theory is the driving force behind modern evolutionism which is taught in all leading educational institutions worldwide. Although this is a modern scientific theory, we have shown that it is not new. It was exactly what people felt and taught in the days of Noah and Lot. It is Satan’s lie concerning the origin of mankind, in order to hoodwink them into thinking that there is no God to whom they will be held accountable.
Apostle Paul warns us:
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:… “(Rom.1:18-20).
Ungodliness is wrong thoughts towards God whilst unrighteousness is wrong acts towards God. Men naturally think wrong thoughts towards God before they engage in wrong acts towards Him. God will punish men for both, because the knowledge of God is a self-evident fact in the life of every man. God has revealed Himself in nature, man inclusive. His eternal power and Godness are evident in general revelation.
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handiwork. Day unto day uttered speech, and night into night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the Earth, and their words to the end of the World. In them hath He set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.”(Ps.19:1-6).
There is a basic intrinsic awareness in every man of the existence of God. Beyond this basic knowledge is the general revelation of God evident in nature. It is a denial of one’s own consciousness, self-deception of the utmost sort to deny the existence of God, because His eternal power and Godness are self-evident within man and revealed in His creation around us. Evolution is a scientific farce, a sham. There is no substitute for God’s direct creative acts(creation ex nihilo), creation out of nothing, and His indirect creative acts(creation out of what is already in existence). Evolution is an ersatz, inferior satanic substitute for God’s direct creative acts, the one area in which all men are without excuse. Human beings can and are being deceived in this area, Satan having successfully negated the one area in which God holds man accountable. This satanic negation may salve men’s conscience that they are not accountable, it changes nothing in the eyes of God, inasmuch as they are without excuse.
Scientific Uniformitarianism obviously leaves no room for divine intervention in the affairs men. But this assumption is based on ignorance of the fact the heavens and the Earth were made by the Word of God.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”(Gen.1:1 KJV).
”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.“(Jon.1:1-5).
It was by this Word that the world of Noah’s day was destroyed by water, and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by fire and brimstone. It is also by this same Word that the present heavens and Earth are reserved unto fire awaiting the judgment of the great day of the Lord. That God had intervened in the past to judge mankind is contrary to the thinking of humanistic evolutionists and scientific Uniformitarians. They consider the notion of a worldwide flood mythical and legendary. Although the geological formation of the present age are attributable to the noahic flood, humanistic evolutionists in denial of literal creation and divine intervention in human history attribute it to the billions of years of evolution.
Unfortunately there are some christian scientists who share this evolutionist view, and rationalize away the fourth commandment.
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days thou shall labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days God made heaven and Earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it.“(Exod.20:8-11).
Because God created the World in literal six days, He rested the seventh day and hallowed. As we haven seen in 2 Pet.3:3-7, time is coming when men will no longer think seriously of the Christ’s Second Advent as cataclysmic, universal intervention by God in the course of human affairs. The reason adduced for this sceptical attitude is blind adherence to scientific uniformitarianism – a theory which maintains that all natural laws and processes have never yet been interrupted(or newer or higher laws introduced) so as to bring a total destruction of human civilization through the direct intervention of God. They maintain that since there is no God and therefore no divine intervention in the past, there is no cause for fear that there shall be any in the future. In answer to the sceptics, Apostle Peter alluded to two events in the past which are not explainable on the basis of scientific uniformitarianism. The first is the creation of the heavens and the Earth by the Word of God, and the second is the destruction of that world by a worldwide flood. The world(cosmos) that then was being overflowed with water perished(apoleto). The Greek word rendered perished in kJV is “apoleto.” It means limited destruction not total annihilation. The second event, the worldwide flood serves as the basis for the comparison of the second coming of Christ and the final destruction of the cosmos to the limited destruction(apoleto) of the world of Noah’s day.
(9) Racism.
The idea of inferior and superior races has its origin in evolution. Evolution, especially of the Darwinian and Lamarckian varieties, has been used as the scientific basis of racism. Much of Hitler’s philosophy was based on Darwin’s origin of species. All the 19th century evolutionists like Darwin and Huxley were unrepentant proponents of Aryan supremacy. Adolf Hitler’s Nazism was the most vicious of the racist philosophies based on evolutionism. The background was founded on the teachings of Ernst Haeckel, Darwin’s contemporary propagandist in Germany, who probably was the most influential evolutionist in continental Europe.
According to historian, Daniel Gasman, Ernst Haeckel and his fellow social Darwinists set about to demonstrate the aristocratic and non-democratic character of the laws of nature. Up to his death in 1919, Haeckel contributed to the special variety of German thought which served as a seed for National Socialism. He became one of Germany’s main ideologue for racism, nationalism, and imperialism. Hitler used Haeckel’s so called scientific evolution as the basis for his own racist philosophy. Hitler stressed and singled out the idea of biological evolution as the most powerful weapon against traditional religion. He repeatedly condemned Christianity for its opposition to the teachings of evolution. Hitler believed that evolution was the hallmark of modern science and culture, and defended its veracity as tenaciously as Haeckel. Just as Richard Wagner was the musical patron of the Nazis, Stewart Chamberlain was also their philosophical patron. He ardently supported Hitler’s biological evolution.
As we approach the 70th seven of Daniel, evolution will be the dominant scientific thought in the World. It will be used to justify racism, thus pitting the Kingdom of Satan against the observant Jews and the christians, when the antiMessiah makes his debut at the rebuilt Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah, unveils himself as a dead man come back to life, and demands worship of all mortals. As Hitler used evolutionary thinking to justify his ruthless antisemitism, so will the antiChrist use his atheistic philosophy to justify his goal of wiping out Jews and Christians, and anyone else who refuses to take the mark of the beast, or worship his image. He will probably not permit blacks to live whether or not they agree to take his mark.
(10) the Deification Of Man
Adolf Hitler And His Nazi Cronies
The prevailing philosophy of life on Earth today is humanistic evolution. Humanistic evolution teaches that there is no God, who created man, to whom man has to one day give account. This philosophy of life leads to utter chaos. If there is no God who created man in His image and likeness, to whom man shall one day be held accountable, then man evolved, and is still evolving. Besides, he is God unto himself, and therefore unaccountable and not responsible to anyone else but himself. But it is written that every man shall give account of himself to God(Rom.14:12). If there is no God, there is really no basis for law and order and human government is unsustainable.Law and government without God’s moral laws and principles is tyranny and totalitarianism.
As we have pointed out earlier, this is the same old lie that Satan told Eve in the Garden of Eden, that man is God. In almost every sphere of life, humanistic evolution reigns supreme: in our educational institutions, in the corridors of power, in commerce and industry, in entertainment, in the scientific world, most unfortunately in the citadel of religion itself. The world is ripe for the antiChtrist’s harvest, or better still Satan’s harvest. The antiMessiah shall be the ultimate humanist. Towards the approaches of the 70th seven of Daniel, there shall appear on the world’s political stage, a superman, a consummate politician, charming, mesmerizing, a man with a superhuman intellect and memory, dissolving doubts, resolving supposedly insurmountable political issues, like the Palestinian question etc. It is this man that the mass of humanity will deify in the rebuilt Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. This shall be the ultimate Abomination Of Desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet(Dan.9:26; Matt.24:15).
As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son Of Man. Men defied themselves. Every man was God unto oneself and was accountable to no one. Every man did what was good and right in his sight. But just before Satan achieved his aim of destroying humanity in general, God intervened and saved Noah and his family in the Ark, and wiped out the rest of humanity in the deluge. As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the day when the Son Of Man is revealed. On the same day God rained fire and brimstone on the wicked dwellers of Sodom and Gomorrah, God rescued Lot and his family. In like manner also, on the same day the Saints are raptured, God will begin to pour out His wrath on the living wicked earth-dwellers and worshippers of the antiMessiah.
Prior to the commencement of the 70th seven of Daniel, there are certain prophetic events which must be fulfilled. These events are prophetic markers that warn believers of the nearness of the end of the prophetic gap of time between the 69th and the 70th sevens of Daniel(indeterminate intermediate period), the so called the timeless period, the Church Age, the Gentile interlude or the Mysterion, and the beginning of the 70th seven itself. In this article, we shall examine these prophetic events in the light of our times in order to determine the closeness of the commencement of the 70th seven of Daniel.
(1)The Return Of Jews To The Land Of Israel In Unbelief.
For the 70th week of Daniel to be fulfillled, Jews must be back in Eretz Yisrael, the land which God gave them and their forebears. “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and the Holy City of Jerusalem”(Dan. 9:24). Sixty-nine weeks are now history. We live in the prophetic gap of time between the 69th and the 70th sevens. The Scriptures also promise the regathering of the Jews to the land of Israel in unbelief prior to the commencement of the 70th seven.
”And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whether the Lord thy God had driven thee,…… And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and He will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecute thee. And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as He rejoiced over thy fathers:”(Deut.30:1, 5-8).
The sequence of events as foretold in this passage of is of utmost importance. First, verse 1 speaks of blessings and curses which would come upon the Jews in Eretz Yisrael as they obey or flout the commandments of the Lord, and their global dispersion, the diaspora as a consequence of their disobedience. Secondly, in verse 5, their physical restoration to the land of Israel is promised. Thirdly, their spiritual restoration is promised in verse 6. Fourthly, in verse 7, the defeat of their enemies by the God of Israel is promised. Fifthly, a future is referred to, when all Israel shall obey the commandments of the Lord their God. And lastly, a future time of prosperity that will come to the land and people of Israel, a consequence of their obedience to the commandments of God. This future time is of course synonymous with the Millennial Reign of their Messiah, Jesus the Christ our Lord.
This sequence of events is reflected in the prophet Ezekiel’s prophecy of the restoration of Israel:
”For I will take you from amongst the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you. And a new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.”(Ezek.36:24-26).
It is clear from this passage that Israel will return to the land in unbelief. A lot of human efforts go into this regathering, but clearly the hand of the Lord is behind it. The modern State of Israel was established in the spirit of self-reliance, strategy and industry and alliances of the Jewish people. After its return to the land, Israel will need cleansing from sin and purification of heart. Again this will be by the handiwork of the Lord. After the Holocaust of the Second World War, Israel returned to the land in sinfulness and unbelief, as dry bones(Ezek.37:11). Some of the early pioneers were atheists. Some even practised Buddhism. Although Israel has experienced successes in military, economy, Science and technology, and indeed every area of human endeavors, and has contributed immensely, out of proportion to the paucity of her number, to the betterment of the human condition, this is by no means near the promised prosperity in the Millennium. Whereas the present successes of Israel are seen in the spirit of self-reliance, their increases in the Millennium will be clearly seen as the handiwork of God.
(2) The Re-establishment Of The State Of Israel.
Israeli Soldiers Praying At The Wailing Wall
Following the destruction of the Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in 70 AD, Jews were scattered all over the world, the so called diaspora. After the Bar Kochba Revolt(132-135 AD), Jerusalem was ploughed with yokes of oxen, rebuilt, renamed Aelia Capitolina, by Roman Emperor Hadrian and Jews were barred from it under the pain of death. For nearly two millennia, the land of Israel lay desolate. The hope of recreating a Jewish state in Palestine was like a nebulous dream. Although there was never a time when there were no Jews in the land of Israel, even in Jerusalem, they were no longer in control of the land.They were in the minority.
Several powerful kingdoms ruled over the land. There was The First Arab Period, The Umayad, The Crusaders, The Second Arab Period, The Mamalukes, the Abbasids etc. For four hundred years, the land of Israel was ruled by the Ottoman Turks(1517-1917 AD), until defeated by the British general Edmund Allenby in 1917 during the First World War.
During the Enlightenment, Jews in Europe were assimilated into the European nations in which they lived. The Enlightenment worked better in western European nations like Germany, Austria, France. Theodor Herzl, the Austrian Jew reputed to be the father of the modern state of Israel was an assimilated Jew. What roused his passion for a Jewish homeland in Palestine was the Dreyfus Affair in France. Theodore Herzl was a journalist covering the Dreyfus Affair in France for an Austrian newspaper. Captain Alfred Dreyfus was an officer in the French Army who was falsely accused of espionage. Dreyfus was a Jew. During the trial, Herzl saw the antisemitism to which Jews were subjected in Europe, and decided that the best thing for the Jews was to seek an independent homeland of their own. At a stage, Britain offered Uganda to the Zionists which was soundly rejected.
The movement to establish a national home for Jewish people is called Zionism. The first Zionist Congress was held in Berzl, Switzerland, in 1897. It was organized by Theodor Herzl and his bosom friend, a psychiatrist, Max Naudor. Their efforts created a reawakening amongst Jews especially in Eastern Europe and Russia to return to their ancestral homeland. Before the first Zionist Congress, Theodor Herzl published a pamphlet, “The Jewish State.” After the First Zionists Congress, he wrote: ” Today I have established the Jewish state. In five years, perhaps fifty,…..” That was prophetic. In exactly fifty year, in 1947, the UN voted in favour of partition of British Mandate Palestine between its Jewish and Arab residents. At the end of the Bristish Mandate, on 14th May, 1948, Israel became independent under the leadership of David Ben Gurion. Unfortunately, Theodor Herzl never lived to see the creation of the Jewish State, for he died at the age of 44 in 1904. At the creation of the Jewish State, his bones were reinterned in Jerusalem on Mount Herzl.
The Balfour Declaration, 2nd November, 1917.
After the First World War, the British government through its foreign secretary Lord Balfour, favoured the Establishment of Jewish homeland in Palestine with the famous Balfour Declaration, in recognition of the role of Chaim Weizmann and other Jews in support of the British war effort during the First World War. Dr Chaim Weizmann was a Jewish chemist, a professor of chemistry at Manchester University who provided the British with synthetic acetone from corn for the manufacture of cordite gunpowder. Dr Chaim Weizmann later became the president of the Zionist Congress and the first president of the state of Israel.
Prior to 1948, one of the barriers to the emergence of the antiMessiah was the absence of a Jewish State. Today a unified Israel, not a divided Kingdom(Ezek.37:15-28), stands tall in the comity of nations. It has sterling contributions to humanity. The Israelis built the first cell phone, and the Intel mother board used in computers all over the world. Little Israel has the highest start-up per capita in the world. Israeli dairy farmers produce one of the most proteinacious milk in the world, second only to Holland. Israel is a leading power in solar energy. An Israeli Jew Simcha Blass and his son, Yeshayahu, invented the plastic emitter in drip irrigation which enables farming in the Negev desert, and has been adopted by many third world countries. Jews were involved in the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bombs dropped at two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki that lead to the end of the Second World War. An exhaustive enumeration of the contribution of Jews and Israel to humanity is beyond the scope of this article. Suffice it to say we are blessed to have Israel as an independent State in our day and age.
(3)The Jewish Regain Of Control Of Jerusalem.
The events of the 70th seven of Daniel are centred on the land of Israel and her Holy City, Jerusalem. The 70-week prophecy of Daniel concerned Israel and her Holy City, Jerusalem.
”Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy”(Dan.9:24).
The starting point of the 70 sevens of Daniel was the promulgation and issuance of the decree of Arterxerxes Longimanus to restore and rebuild the Jewish Holy City Jerusalem(Nehemiah. 2:5). According to Sir Robert Anderson, this decree was issued in445 BC.
”Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandments to restore and rebuilt Jerusalem unto the Messiah The Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times”(Dan.9:25).
The First Advent of the Messiah was in relation to the land of Israel and the Holy City of Jerusalem. Several significant events in the life and ministry of our Lord Jesus The Christ, took place in and around Jerusalem: His birth and annunciation took place in Bethlehem close by. He was presented to God in the Temple in Jerusalem as The Lord commanded Moses(Luke. 2:23,24). He attended the Jewish feasts of Passover and Hanukkah in the Temple in Jerusalem (Jon. 2:13, 7:2). In Jerusalem, twice, both at the beginning and end of His ministry, He chased away those who were buying and selling in the Temple. He overturned the tables of the money changers and those who sold doves(Jon.2:14,15).
At the pool of Bethesda, in Jerusalem, He healed the paralytic(Jon.5:1-16). At the pool of Siloam, He restored sight to the man that was born blind(Jon.9: 1-41). At the outer court of the Temple, He dialogued with Nicodemus(Jon.3:1-21). His passion and agony in the Garden Of Gethsemane, arrest, trial, crucifixion, burial and resurrection, ascension took place in and around Jerusalem(Matt.26-28; Mk.14-16; Luk.22-24; Jon.18-24). In the Temple, He gave The Temple Mount Discourse to His disciples(Matt.23,23). On the Mount Of Olives, He gave the Olivet Discourse(Matt.24-25; Mk.13; Luk.21). He ascended to Heaven from the Mount of Olives overlooking the Temple Mount in Jerusalem(Acts 1:9), and the angels of God promised He would come back in like manner as His disciples saw Him go into heaven(Acts 1:10,11; cp, Zach.14:1-4). In the light of these Scriptures, repossessing the city of Jerusalem by the Jewish people is strategic to and a very important prophetic marker of the approaches of the End Times.
Following the destruction of the Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem by the Roman general Titus in70 AD, Jews were scattered all over the Globe, the so called Diaspora. After the Bar Kochba rebellionin136 AD, the Roman Emperor Hadrian rebuilt Jerusalem, renamed it Aelia Capitolina, barred Jews from entry into the city under the pain of death. Although there had not been any time when there were no Jewish presence in Jerusalem, Jews were not in the majority and in control of the city of Jerusalem for nearly two millennia. At the end of the British Mandate over Palestine, Jews lost control of Jerusalem to Jordan, at the end of the War Of Independence. It was not until after the Six-day War in 1967 that the State of Israel gained full control of Jerusalem, and declared it its eternalcapital to the consternation and confusion of the Palestinians and Arabs, and the nations of the world. The US under the presidency of Donald J. Trump has relocated its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv after recognizing it as the eternalcapital of Israel, the first nation so to do in modern times, since Israel regained its independence in 1948.
As we have pointed out earlier, because the 70-weeks prophecy of Daniel deals with the people of Israel, and thy Holy City, the prophecy of the 70th week could not be fulfilled until the Jewish people take control of the land of Israel, at least in part, and regain control of the Holy City of Jerusalem. It is obvious from the Scriptures that Israel will not regain full control of the whole land God promised their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the extent of the land reigned over by King David and Solomon, his son and successor: for God will punish the nations for parting His land which He gave to the children of Israel by a covenant of salt(Joel 3:2). The Jews are now in control of the land of Israel, at least, in part; in full control of her Holy City Jerusalem. This barrier was removed in 1967, paving the way for the Second Advent of our Lord, Jesus The Christ.
(4) The Rebuilding Of The Third Temple.
In the history of Israel, every period of the kingdom is associated with a temple in Jerusalem. The period of the kingdom from the institution of the monarchy to the carrying away into captivity in Babylon is referred to as the First Temple Period or simply the First Temple(1080-586 BC). This period of the kingdom is associated with the temple built by King Solomon. This temple was destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon in 586 BC.
After 70 years in exile in Babylon, the Jews were freed by the decree of Cyrus the Persian in 538 BC, according to the words of Jeremiah the prophet(Ezra 1:1-4; Jer.25:12, 29:10). Thus began the Second Temple Period or simply the Second Temple(538 BC-70 AD). By 515 BC, the returning exiles had completed the Second Temple. This temple, located on the same site as the first was extensively and lavishly refurbished by Herod the Great. It was this temple that was in existence during the life and ministry of our Lord Jesus The Christ. This temple was destroyed by the Roman general Titus in 70 AD as prophesied by the prophet Daniel and reiterated by our Lord Jesus The Christ in His Olivet discourse, thus ending the second Temple Period(Dan. 9:27; Matt.24:1,2).
As we have pointed out earlier, each period of the kingdom corresponds to a temple. The modern state of Israel was established in 1948 following the end of the British Mandate over Palestine. Up to now, there is no Temple. Despite the absence of any Temple, the Jews refer to this period of the kingdom as Third Temple Period or simply the Third Temple(1948-end of the 70th week of Daniel, which corresponds with the death of the two witnesses of Rev.11). During the Yom Kippur War, when Israel was almost annihilated by her Araband Islamicneighbors, the then Defense Minister of Israel, the legendary one-eyed general, Moshe Dayan said, “The Third Temple is over.” Up to now as at that time, there was no Temple. Yet this period of the kingdom without a king is referred to as the Third Temple.
”For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king ; and shall fear the LORD and His goodness in the latter days”(Hos.6:4,5).
Today Israel is an independent state in the comity of nations, but it is without a king. There is no high priest with an ephod and teraphim, no umim and no thumim, and no sacrifice because there is no Temple. During the Day Of The Lord, the children of Israel shall return to the LORD their God, and David’s greater Son, our Lord Jesus the Christ shall be king over them, and the High Priest of God. He shall be a priest upon the throne( Zach.6:13).
The major events of the 70th week of Daniel are centred in and around the Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem.
”Let no one deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of Sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or worshipped: so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing that he is God”(2 These.2:3,4).
In order for the antiMessiah to make his debut at the Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where he unveils his identity as dead man come back to life, and displays himself as God, demanding worship of all mortals in the middle of the 70th week of Daniel, a temple must exist on the Temple Mount. Up to now, the Temple Mount is occupied by the Muslim Dome of the Rock, the Golden Dome and the Al-aqsa Mosque.
Prior to the 70th seven or even within the first three and one half years of the 70th seven, the third Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem must be erected. This is probably one of the feats of politics the antiChrist will perform that will endear him to the Jewish people. However, it is most likely that after the covenant of Apostasy is made with the antiMessiah that the Jews will be permitted to rebuild their Temple, though we must remind ourselves, that the rebuilding of the temple is not mentioned as one of the major events in the first three and one-half years of the 70th seven of Daniel. The scriptures are not precise when the third Temple shall be rebuilt, but there ain’t too many options. It is either prior to the 70th seven of Daniel, or in the first three and one-half years; for a temple must of necessity be standing, and animal sacrifice and meal offering resumed prior to the midpoint of the 70th seven when the Man of Sin is revealed, and the sacrifice and oblation caused to cease.
The Temple Mount, is the most expensive piece of property on Earth today. As a matter of fact, it is not up for sale or grabs. Jews, Muslims, christians and the international community are interested in it. There is a lot of controversy surrounding this piece of real estate. When Israel wrestled control of Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967, the then defense minister of Israel, Moshe Dayan returned the key to the Temple Mount to the Muslim Waqf as gesture of good will. What a costly mistake. Unfortunately Jews are not even allowed to pray on the Temple Mount. Those who move their lips there are arrested.
The real issue however is the location of Holy Of Holies of the temple. Studies by Asher Kaufman indicate that it is not under the Dome Of The Rock, but a little further northwest of the mosque, under the Dome of the Tablets, a location directly west of the Eastern or Golden Gate. It therefore means the Jews could rebuild their Temple on the site of Solomons Temple while the Dome of the Rock is still standing. If that is the case, the Muslim Dome of the Rock is in the outer court. This may be what is meant by the angel’s instruction to John the revelator, not to measure the outer court of the temple.
”And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for is given unto the Gentiles: and the Holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months “(Rev. 11:1,2).
Forty and two months is three and one-half years which is the length of the second half of the 70th week of Daniel, the time allotted to the antiChrist to reign and the two witnesses to minister. The ministry of the two witnesses is concurrent, co-incident, and simultaneous with the reign of the antiMessiah.
“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.”(Rev.11:3-4 KJV).
“And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.”(Rev.13:5-6 KJV.
In the light of this understanding, it may be possible for the Jews to rebuild their Temple at the shortest notice without tampering with Muslim Dome Of The Rock. All the materials for the rebuilding of the temple have been procured and prefabricated. Over $100 million dollars have been raised for the rebuilding of the temple. Priests of the family of Aaron and levites have been identified by DNA tests, trained, and are rehearsing and doing test runs, on the wings, waiting to resume Temple worship and animal sacrifice, grain offering and the pouring of libations(drink offering) at a moment’s notice. Vigorous search is being made for the red heifer. Several have been identified but disqualified by a few strands of black or white hair. Recently a pure red heifer was found. Crowd funding is being used to raise money for the cloning of red heifers. When this is successful, there will be no lack of red heifers. The Golden Altar Of Incense has been reconstructed, the Sanhedrin, the Jewish counsel of 70 elders has been reconstituted, and a Cohen Gadol appointed.
It is possible that an entire Temple may not be built, but only a tabernacle-like structure that could be erected quickly to provide a place for worship and animal sacrifice, not unlike the temporary structure called the tabernacle which Moses erected in the wilderness. Greek scholars tell us that the Greek word used to describe the temple the antiChtist will desecrate at the midpoint of the 70th seven permits such a view. At any rate, a place of sacrifice is not necessarily a precursor to the 70th seven of Daniel, and in reality may not be built until shortly before the midpoint of the 70th seven of Daniel.The Scriptures did not tell us when the sacrifice and the oblation will begin, but that they will be terminated at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel.
There is also the question of the Ark Of Covenant. The Ark Of Covenant must also be found and returned to the Holy Of Holies of the Rebuilt Third Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah, Jerusalem; another supposedly or seemingly insurmountable odd. Where is it? Must it be restored to the Holy Of Holies in order to restore Temple worship and resume animal sacrifice? There are a number of speculations as to its location: an underground vault at the Temple Mount, spirited away to Ethiopia before the Babylonian invasion, France etc. Will a new one be constructed? Yes, a new Ark can be constructed. But what about its original contents like the two tablets of the Ten Commandments written with the finger of God, the pot of Manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded which are irreplaceable if lost?
(5) The Establishment Of The Three-Nation Coalition.
”After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things”(Dan.7:7,8).
The ten horns
We can see here that there are ten horns. Horns signify power and authority. In Rev.13:1, the ten horns have ten crowns. The crowns signify that they are sitting or reigning kings. The little horn which is diverse from the ten was not one of the original ten. The tittle horn has eyes which signify intelligence. It has a mouth and spoke great things. So this little horn is human after all. It spoke boastful words and blasphemed the God of Heaven and the Heaven-dwellers. This little horn is the antiMessiah. The little horn is one of the appellatives of the antiChrist.
The little horn was so powerful that it overthrew three of the original ten horns. Since these horns are sitting kings, contemporaneous, it therefore means that the antiMessiah shall overthrow three of the original kings and replace them with his own puppets. Obviously these three original kings were not in agreement with his plans and purposes, hence their dethronment. Remember that this little horn does not directly rule any one of these three nations, but rather is the overall head of the ten nation confederation. This agrees with words of the Scriptures in Ezek.38:2; for Gog, of the land of Magog, is the head of Meshech and Tuval. As we have pointed out earlier on in our previous article on the Eighth And Final Beast Empire Of Satan, these two peoples groups who constitute Magog, Meshech and Tuval, the Germans and the Russians do not naturally agree. So, it will take a powerful and ruthless leader like the antiChrist to unite them.
With the exception of Russia itself, nearly all the eastern European countries which were part of the former Soviet Union are now part of the EU. Europe and North America are one already. Add to that Russia, one has a very formidable military alliance.
”And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no Kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast”(Rev.17:12,13).
These ten kings are contemporaneous with the antiChtist. They have unity of mind and purpose. They give their power and strength unto the beast who is the same as the little horn. We see why three of the original ten horns were overthrown. They did not have unity of mind and purpose with antiChtist. So they were replaced with pliable puppets. We can see that the overthrow of these three Kings or leaders of Magog, Meshech and Tuval, by a very powerful politician from Magog which is Germany, and their replacement with malleable puppets from the same, will be one of the major pre-70th week events. It will be a major event that will make headlines, a breaking news.
We must also remember that people of Germanic extraction are found not only in Germany, but also in Austria, in the Silesia region of Poland, in the Sudetenland in the Czech Republic, and in Russia, south and west of Moscow. The Franks too are of Germanic descent, so also are the Anglus and the Saxons whose ancestors came from Lower Saxony in Bavaria, Germany. So, this great leader of Germanic extraction could emerge from any one of these areas. Adolf Hitler was originally from Austria, and became a German citizen. So the antiMessiah could come from any one of these areas. In identifying the antiChrist, what matters is not necessarily geography but ancestry. It is this extremely powerful and ungodly military leader, the antiChtist incognito, the worst Jews-hater of all times, that will sign a seven-year peace agreement with Israel that will mark the commencement of the 70th seven of Daniel. This will be a major event that will make headlines. So we believers in Jesus the Messiah, must be watchful, even as we are faithful and prayerful, in order that we may observe these significant End Time Events when they occur, in order that they may not come upon us unawares.
Summary
The first three events(1-3) have been accomplished. What remains are the last two events(4,5), rebuilding of the Third Temple and the establishment of the three nation coalition. These two events can happen literally overnight. We must be watchful so that we can notice when these two events happen. Once the three nation coalition is established, the 7-year peace agreement between Israel and her Arab and Islamic neighbors to be brokered by the antiChrist can take place at any moment(Dan.9:27). And once the covenant is brokered, the 70th week of Daniel has begun.
This chapter deals with two evil and wicked personalities and their activities in the end times. These two personalities are human: for they possess physical bodies, and are therefore able to function in this physical world. However, they are not alone: behind them is a third personality, Satan, the god of this age. These three persons constitute the satanic trinity. We have pointed out earlier that Satan mimicks God: for he said, I will be like the Most High…(is.14:14). So, whatever God does, he tries very hard to copy. But unlike the Divine Trinity, there is no equality involved here: Satan is the supreme leader; the two other personalities, the First and Second Beasts are only his subalterns and minions. In the Divine Trinity, the three persons of the Godhead, The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit are of the same substance and coequal but choose to submit to one another. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus The Christ said, My Father is greater than I. And again I and My Father are one. This a mytery: the Father is greater than the Son, yet they are one in substance and coequal. In the satanic Trinity, Satan is the supreme leader. I shall not proceed further with this comparison. This is just to give us an idea of the copycat that is Satan.
The First Beast:Verse 1-10
(1) “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.”
John the revelator stands on the sand of the sea, and sees a beast rise up out of the sea. Although the sea signifies the mass of people, it could also stand for the underworld of the dead. In that case, this may be an indication the first beast comes out of the underworld of the dead, a different mass of people so to say.
Dr. Marvin J. Rosenthal believes the sea here refers to the Gentiles. In that case the antiChrist will be a Gentile. This assumption cannot be biblically substantiated. As matter of fact, it contradicts the Scripture. For the antiChrist to be acceptable to the Jews as the Messiah of Israel, he must have Jewish blood. One of the appellatives of the antiChrist is “Another.”Based on Christ’s statement in John 5:43, am inclined to believe that the antiChrist will be of Jewish ancestry
“I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.”(John 5:43 KJV).
A Gentile CANNOT be the Messiah of Israel. The antiChrist will claim to be the true Messiah of Israel. For the Jews to accept him as the Messiah, he must have Jewish ancestry. The Jews cannot accept a Gentile as their Messiah. So, it is doubtful whether the antiMessiah is a Gentile. Considering other factors, he may probably be a mongrel Jew. In that case, one cannot categorically state that he will be a Gentile.
“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; according to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”(Deut.18:15-19 KJV).
But the antiChrist is an imposter. Therefore he shall be a Samaritan. A Samaritan is a mongrel Jew, a Jew of mixed blood. He is also Gog of the land of Magog(Ezek.38:2,3). Therefore he will be a Jew of mixed blood. That should not be difficult to understand inasmuch as Jews are scattered all over the world. The Jews accused Jesus of being a Samaritan and having a demon. By that they meant He was a pseudomessiah, the antiChrist. But Jesus was not a Samaritan neither did He have a demon.
“Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me. And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.”(John 8:48-51 KJV).
The revelator is among the living. But he sees a beast come out of the underworld of the dead. Like his father and mentor, who had taught him in the underworld, the dragon in the previous chapter, he bears seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and in addition to that, upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
In Middle Eastern culture, kings are synonymous with their kingdoms. The context sometimes distinguishes between the two. At other time the phenomenon of double reference may be implied which obviously is the case in this context. Therefore, the Eighth And Final Beast Empire is a composite Beast Empire with all the characteristics of the seven previous Beast Empires. We have enumerated these seven Beast Empires in the previous chapter. Inspite of having all the characteristics of the seven previous Beast Empires, this Eighth And Final Beast Empire consists of ten horns. We have earlier stated that horns symbolize powers. Therefore, the Eighth And Final Beast Empire consists of ten nations or better still ten peoples groups.
That these horns have crowns indicate their rulers are sitting kings, contemporaneous. We shall enumerate these nations or peoples groups later on. One thing is obvious, all these horns owe allegiance to The Beast who is the overall head and absolute ruler, or more appropriately the Emperor of this beast Empire. The Beast-King or better still Beast-antiChrist, like the Beast-Nation over which he reigns is a composite personality with characteristics of the most prominent of the emperors of the seven Beast Nations. These emperors were the worst and impacted Israel negatively. On his head, are the names of blasphemy: this phrase indicates that unlike Israel, a theocracy, which these nations have persecuted throughout history, these nation were idolatrous.
As nations, they never believed in the God of Israel and they never worshipped Him, but rather were blasphemous of Him and persecuted His people whom He had chosen. They were Gentile Nations and had no allegiance to The God of Israel. However, that did not mean that there were no individuals amongst them that knew the God of Israel. These nations were the exact opposite of Israel. Their gods were idols, their temples were dedicated to idols, their priests were priests of idols. They were satanists, they blasphemed the God of Heaven: hence the names of blasphemy.
(2) “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.”
This composite and nondescript beast is like a leopard, the Greek Empire and the worst of its kings, Antiochus IV Epiphanes or Antiochus theo Epiphanes, Antiochus god made manifest, who persecuted the Jews, and is a prefigure of the antiChrist. The feet were like those of a bear, the Medopersian Empire and the worst of its kings who persecuted Jews in exile. And his mouth as the mouth of a lion: the Babylonian Empire and its worst king, Nebuchadnezzar II who took Israel into exile in Babylon. We see here that three of the ten nations that constitute the Eighth And Final Beast Empire are mentioned: Greece, Medopersia and Babylon. The nondescript beast itself and its own kingdom are one, i.e., Rome. The others are named in the book of the prophet Ezekiel, viz: Magog, Meshech, Tuval [Rome], Cush (Ethiopia in The KJV, but more appropriately Sudan), Phut(Put or Libya), Gomer and Togarmah(Turkey, Azerbaijan). In Ezekiel 38:1-6, the Beast himself is referred to as Gog who is the head of Magog from whom came the ancestors and founders of Rome. We shall delve more into this when we study the beast empires.
And the dragon gave him his power, and his seat and great authority. After his expulsion from Heaven Satan indwells the Beast-antiChrist. He empowers him: he gives him his power, his seat and great authority. This exchange with Satan and the resultant transformation occur precisely in the middle of the 70th seven of Daniel’s 70 Seven prophecy. At this point, the Beast suffers from a sever mental disorder called Political Megalomania. He has a psychiatric problem, but he does not know it. Indeed, he is more than a psychiatric case, it is political ‘Galomania. He becomes a dictator, a political demagogue. He proclaims himself to be God and demands worship of all mortals. And the Great Tribulation begins. This event coincides with the 4th seal of Rev.6:7-8.
(3) “And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.”
In verse 3 one of the seven heads of the Beast was wounded or slain to death. This means that the man died. But his deadly wound was healed, which means he came back to life. And all the world wondered after the beast. We can imagine what it would look like for the world to understand that this world leader is a dead man come back to life. This man lived in time past and ruled over one of the seven previous Beast Empires. He was slain to death with a military weapon in battle. Now he is revived to rule over the Eighth And Final Beast Empire. It is not only that this man is a dead man come back to life, his kingdom also is revived. We have pointed out earlier that this man would remain incognito and unrecognized as a dead man come back to life until the middle of the 70th seven of Daniel when he is unveiled, when he makes his debut at the rebuilt Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. Who would be willing to oppose such a man? I wonder! Only believers, Jews and a few nonconformist nuts. Nevertheless, believers will not be able to kill him. Only our King Jesus, the true Messiah shall be able to kill him.
(4) “And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?”
In verse 4, the effect of this realization on the world is that the mass of humanity will follow him out of fear. They go after him straightaway as an ox to the correction of the stocks. They worshipped the Dragon who gave power to the Beast: and they worshipped the Beast, saying, who is like unto the Beast? Who is able to make war with him? We have established that Satan rules by proxy. When the Beast is worshipped, Satan is worshipped also. So these Beast-marked worshippers of the Dragon-Beast are satanists. Jesus said, he who receives me received Him who sent me(Matt.10:40). When we worship Jesus, we worship God the Father also . Similarly those who worship the antiChrist worship his master the Devil. Why do the world worship the Dragon and the Beast? Because they cannot make war with the Beast. Why is it that they cannot make war with him? Because they don’t have what it takes. To resist the Beast-antiChrist one must have The Father, Son and The Holy Spirit. It requires strength beyond oneself. He is a dead man come back to life. He is too powerful for the world to handle. He is a man alright, but not an ordinary man. He is humanoid.
(5) “And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.”
In verse 5 a mouth is given him to speak great things and blasphemies against God. This man shall seek to change times and seasons and utter blasphemous words against the God of Heaven. Dan.11:36-39 gives us further insight into the carrier of the infamous and notorious Beast-antiChrist. We shall delve more into this when we look in depth at this man in our study of eschatology. Whatever this man does, he will not exceed his allotted time of forty and two months or three and one half years.
(6) “And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.”
Verse 6 tells us that this man’s blasphemy is against The God of Heaven and His abode or tabernacle and those who dwell in Heaven. He knows who God is and His angels. He had lived in Heaven before. He is a fallen angel who was booted out of Heaven alongside his Master, Satan when they revolted against God in Eternity Past.
(7) “And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.”
Verse 7 tells us that power was given him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. This is the great tribulation which begins precisely at the breaking of the 4th seal of the scroll of Revalation 6:8. The breaking of the fourth seal occurs precisely at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel. The Great Tribulation will be amputated by the cosmic disturbance of Rev 6:12. Except those days were shortened, there shall no flesh be saved(Matt.24:22). But for the elect sake those days shall be shortened. What is shortened is the great tribulation not the forty and two months allotted to the Beast-antiChrist to reign and two witnesses to prophesy. Power was also given him over all kindred and tongues(languages, peoples) and nations. He shall have worldwide influence.
(8) “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
Verse 8 tells us those who shall worship this man are those whose names are written in the scroll of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. These were not saved by the blood of the lamb. Here we see that Jesus was chosen by God to die in atonement for the sin of humanity before the foundation of the world.
(9) “If any man have an ear, let him hear.”
Verse 9 tells us to pay attention to what is written. The words are particularly reassuring and comforting here in verse 10.
(10) “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.”
The KJV translation is not particularly helpful here. A better translation would be: “if any man is destined to go into captivity, into captivity he goes: and if any man is destined to be killed with sword, with the sword, he shall be killed. Here is the patience and faith of the saints.” These are like the fifth seal martyrs under the altar(Rev.6:9-11).
“Wait until your brethren who should be killed like you were killed should be fulfilled.”
The patience and faith of the saints lies in the fact that those who should be killed would be killed and those who are to go into captivity, into captivity they go. So there is no need for us to be overly fearful; for what will happen will happen according to the will, plan, and purpose of God. If we take the sense of the KJV translation here, what it means is that eventually God will turn the table on the antiChrist and his followers. He and his followers shall be taken captive and killed at Armageddon. The statement, “he that killeth with sword shall be killed with the sword, and he that leadeth captivity shall go into captivity,” is a Hebrew idiom that means, “moral decay demands divine judgment.” Overripe fruit is in a state of decay: it cannot be eaten, it must be discarded.
The Second Beast or The False Prophet: Verse 11-18
“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.”
Here in verse 11 the revelator saw another beast, but unlike the first Beast, the second Beast came out of the Earth, another part of the underworld of the dead. Inasmuch as the Earth was formed from the sea, it is probable that the second Beast’s emergence from the Earth implies a subordinate role of the second Beast to the beast first. [Marvin J. Rosenthal believes land here may refer to Israel, which if true means the false prophet may be a Jew]. This is indeed the case as the second Beast has only two horns though he spoke as a dragon. Though he has two horns, he bears no crown. Therefore, though he has some form of authority which stems from the horns, his is not a sitting and reigning king in the class of the first Beast or in the the class of any of the ten horns of the First Beast. In other words he does not rule over any nation. He is not a reigning king. That he spoke as dragon implies he is not the dragon but that his power derives from and is subordinate to the dragon who is the actual and invisible ruler or the god of this age.
As we have pointed out earlier, the Dragon is the head of the satanic Trinity, but because he is invisible, he reigns by proxy through his minions, the First and Second Beasts, the Beast-antiChrist and the False Prophet. He has horns like a lamb. Remember Jesus is the Lamb Of God who taketh away the sin of the world(John 1:29). We have earlier established Satan is a copycat. He has his own lamb in the person of the Second Beast who will establish a false religion which will lead the world to the worship of a false god, Satan. So the Second Beast is a religious leader. Jesus the True Lamb of The One True God established The True Religion through His Apostles, based on His finished works on the Cross of Calvary, but the Second Beast will establish a false religion that will mislead the world to the worship of a False god, Satan.
(12) “And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.”
In verse 12, the Second Beast receives all the power and annoiting of the First Beast, his superior, for the sole purpose of misleading the living wicked earth-dwellers to worship the First Beast who is a dead man come back to life. In verse 3, The Dragon, Satan emptied himself into the First Beast, giving him his power, his seat and great authority for the sole purpose of his being his earthly representative; in the same vein, the First Beast reproduces himself in the Second Beast in order that he may represent him where he could not be. Neither Satan nor his subordinates are omnipresent. Omnipresence is the prerogative of the three persons of the Godhead. However, there is a phenomenon called “demonic expansion” which Satan and his minions could use to give the false appearance and impression of being in different places at the same time. This is not the same as omnipresence. Therefore the Second Beast, the False Prophet is his enforcer. Just as Jesus the good Shepherd has an army of under shepherds, the False Prophet has an army of false prophets under his command to carry out the programme of the Beast-antiChrist.
True Christianity is the worship of the one True God, but in Satanism, there are many gods. Satan is the author of idolatry, polytheism and pantheism: they worshipped the Dragon who gave power to the Beast, and they worshipped the Beast(Rev.13:4). In this one world religion to be established by the False Prophet, there will be many false christs(Matt.24:5) and many false prophets(Matt.24:11). But all these shall be subordinate to the ultimate antiChrist and the ultimate false prophet who in turn are subordinate to Satan, The Dragon. Satan is not bothered by the confusion created by the multiplicity of religions. He is the author of it all and it serves his purpose. Men can believe they or anything else is God. They can worship anyone or anything but the one true God, Satan is satisfied. When anyone or anything other than the one true God of Israel is worshiped, Satan is worshipped and glorified.Idolatry is falsehood. It is lies. And Satan is the author and father of lies(Jon.8:44).
(13,14) “And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.”
Apart from the fact that the First Beast is a dead man come back to life, the inhabitants of the Earth have also to grapple with the fact that the Second Beast performs miracles and signs and wonders which do not appear fake, but genuine. “He maketh Fire come down from heaven in the sight of men.”(13). By means of these outstanding miracles, he is able to hoodwink the living wicked earth-dwellers into making an image to the First Beast who had a wound by the sword and did live. It is a given that anyone with outstanding powers to perform miracles will win and attract followers, considering the fact that the mass of humanity are gullible.
The images of the First Beast were made of wood, stone, bronze, silver and gold, every man according to what he could afford. These images in the likeness of the Beast were to be worshipped. Rev.9: 20 says they worshipped demons and idols. How did they do that. Through these images. Though these images were made of inanimate materials like wood, stone, bronze, silver and gold which neither can see, hear, talk nor walk, they were indwelt by demons. In my own part of the world, initiated images, masks and idols that can be harmful to or even kill the uninitiate are not new at all. There was a brother known to me who was studying Fine Arts at the University at the time of this incident. He travelled to particular city in the south of Nigeria with his wife. On their way back, they bought a mask. Unbeknownst to them, the mask was initiated. Every night he was severely weeped until a minister identified the mask as the source of the oppression. As soon as it was removed, the oppression ceased. Masks, images and idols though inanimate can be indwelt by demons.
By worshipping the demons in the statues of the beast, they worship the Dragon. The demons indwelling the images are subordinates of Satan. The false prophets hoodwinked the wicked earth-dwellers to commit mass idolatry. Individuals will have demonized images of the beast, made of these materials we have enumerated to keep in their homes as evidence of their allegiance to the Beast-antiChrist. When God shall begin to pour out His wrath on the living wicked earth-dwellers, adorers and worshippers of the Dragon-Beast, they shall throw always these idols or images of the beast to the moles and to bats to seek non-existent refuge in the caves and rocks of the mountains.
“And the idols He shall utterly abolish.”
“And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth. In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they have made. Each for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the top of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth”(Is.2:18-21).
“Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens”(Jer.10:11).
(15,16) “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:”
Besides the little images of the Beast that people have in their homes, cars, and offices, there are enlivened images of the beast in public places for passers-by to worship. The enforcer is the one who enlivens the statues of the Beast. He gives them power both to speak and to cause as many passers-by who refuse to bow to these images of the Beast should be killed. This is not unlike the days of the Roman Empire, when Emperor worship was practised. Citizens were required to offer a pinch of insence to the statue of Caesar at the city square as sign of allegiance. Those who refused were arrested, prosecuted, and blackballed out of business.
Before these images can do their work effectively, the enforcer will cause everyone, rich or poor, small or great, free and slave, to receive a mark on their forehead or right arm. These marks will enable these these publically displayed enlivened images of the beast to identify those who do not have the mark of the beast and to cause them to be killed. What are these enlivened images of the Beast? They are probably robocops equipped with AI and NFC to identify those who have not the mark of the beast. Artificial Intelligence has empowered our generation to send unmanned aerial vehicles to Outer Space, use drones to gather intelligence and in targeted killings. There are authomated driverless cars and robots which perform countless chores in industries and homes.
I had dialogues with two of my brethren in the Lord, friends and protégés, in private telephone conversations, on computer programmes and AI. What both of them said are quite interesting and enlightening. I posed each of them this question in private dialogue. How could a combination of numbers 0-9 produce intelligence? Austine Agbasi, a reverend gentleman and a businessman said “computer programmes are demonic incantations.” Kola Arimoro who happens to be an IT specialist, said “in AI, there is what is called fuzzy logic, and they give nod to the supernatural by such terms as daemons and wizards.” My conclusion is that there are more to computers and AI than meet the unaided eye. Elon Musk says “by AI we are summoning the demon.” What does he mean by that? With AI, the world is inviting the antiChrist.
The other question we should ask ourselves is what is the mark of the beast? There was a time when it would be too wide a guess to answer this question, but not today. In animal husbandry when a pig farrowed, the piglets are chipped to identify them and monitor their growth and age. The chip as a seal is a sign of ownership, authenticity, identity, security and for protection. The reason why the antiChrist wants his mark on everyone is to say I own everyone, I protect everyone and everyone owes allegiance to me. Jesus, you have no subjects or followers here, so get out. That would not be because there are believers who will not take the mark of the beast and unbelievers who also will reject it for ideological reasons. India have a national ID programme. Nigeria of all nations in the world have launched electronic ID called NIN which would be used to withdraw money from the bank. Sweden have begun to implant microchips on its citizens. The first woman to be chipped boasted, “I am the first swede to be chipped.”
(7) “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
In verse 17, it is written: “that no man might buy or sell save him that have the mark of the beast or the number of his name.” The world is progressively moving towards a cashless society. In Sweden over 95% of transactions are cashless. Most bank transfers are cashless. The world would one day, in no distant a future go cashless. Why would the antiChrist horde food? The breaking of the first three seals of Rev.6 will lead to war, famine, pestilence and earthquakes. These factors can cause severe economic crisis and lead to severe dearth and extreme scarcity of food, goods and services. There probably would be agricultural and economic boom prior to the 70th seven of Daniel’s 70 sevens prophecy. With the advancement in modern technology, genetically modified food(GMO), new species with increased yield, improvement in livestock farming, the world may one day have plenty for everyone to eat.
Scientists have found out that one-fourth of the ice free surface of the Earth can support a population of 40 billion people. The antiChrist being the smart Alec that he is would stockpile food in the days of plenty which he would use as a bagaining chip in time of scarcity. Not unlike in the days of Joseph in Egypt: seven years of plenty was followed by seven years of famine and scarcity. If one does not have the mark of the beast or the numbers of his name, one cannot buy or sell because every transaction is electronic. We can imagine what it would be like for those who have not adequately prepared for this situation. What one purchases online is delivered at one’s door by robots and drones. All transactions will be monitored electronically.
(18) “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”
We simply call this number 666, but in actuality it is a computer bar code consisting of 18 digits. This number on a microchip alongside other biometric data specific to the individual shall be implanted on the forehead or right or left arm. Whatever is the case, whether the antiChrist is here or not, believers should not accept any form of biometric implants into any part of their body for whatever reason. It is not by force. Satan is not dumb. He knows if it is forcefully implanted, it would not count. But it can be done by coercion. We must not be hoodwinked into accepting the mark. If anyone takes the mark, the one is doomed for eternity; for the wrath of God abides on the one for ever.
“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” ( Rev.14:9-12 ).
Amen. If anyone takes the mark of the Beast, the one shall be banished to Hell. If anyone takes the mark of the Beast, the one is doomed for eternity. If anyone is branded with mark of allegiance to the Beast, the one has sinned beyond repentance. If anyone takes the mark of the Beast, the fate of the one is sealed for eternity. He is unrapturable and ungovernable by God.
