Interactions With Ken Smelko

Ken Smelko:

I had this thought……………..

Mystery Babylon, both Harlot and City, will be revealed during the first half of the 70th week of Daniel. It will gain power and authority over the kings of the earth during that time, catapulted by the 7 year covenant with the many by the AC, which jump starts the 70th week. The Beast allows Mystery Babylon, the Harlot, to keep it under control until mid week. The beast then reveals itself as the AC and sets up the abomination that makes desolate. The AC then destroys the Harlot religion, the city is destroyed later during the Wrath of God.

At the mid point of the week (start of the Great Tribulation), the AC will move his headquarters from Mystery Babylon the city, to Jerusalem and demand worship. Some say his initial headquarters will not be Mystery Babylon. I interpret it otherwise, since both are dependent on each other during the first 3.5 years of the 70th week. When the covenant is made and the week begins, the seals of the scroll (containing the wrath of God and deed to the earth inside) are broken by the Lamb leading to the opening of the scroll and ability to view the Wrath of God. The first seal is magnanimous. It contains the covenant, the false christ, mystery babylon the city and harlot arise, and the temple construction begins. Our answer will be certain when the Revelation of Jesus to John is unsealed, at the breaking of the first seal. IMO.

Dr. Avraham Shallom:

It will certainly be possible for those of us who study eschatology(End Time biblical prophecy), to identify the antiChrist and Mystery Babylon from the commencement of the 70th week of Daniel(Dan.9:27). The other group of people that will know him will be members of his inner circle. The rest of humanity will be ignorant of his true identity which will be veiled until the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel. If the scornful leaders of Israel knew his true identity at the beginning, they would not enter into a covenant with him in the first place.

Within the first half of the 70th week, the antiChrist will gain power and authority over the kings of the Earth first through subtle peace diplomacy(1st seal: Rev.6:1,2, Matt.24:4; Mk.13:6; Luk.21:8), and later on through wars, commotions, threats and rumours of wars(2nd seal: Rev.6:3,4; Matt.24:5,6; Mk.13:7,8a, Luk.21:9), and famines, pestilences and earthquakes(3rd seal: Rev.6:5; Matt.24:7b; Mk.13:8; Luk.21:10,11).

As you rightly pointed out, the 7-year peace treaty with the many from within Israel will play a major role as it marks the starting point of the 70th week. Besides, it enables the antiChrist to station a protection force in Israel, thusly, granting him access to the Middle East without firing a shot. However the antiChrist will not be revealed to the rest of humanity until the midpoint of the 70th week when he relocates his headquarters to Jerusalem, the city between the two seas in the glorious Holy mountain, where he prolaims himself God, and violates the third Temple.

“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”(Dan.(11:45).

In the midst of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease…(Dan. 9:27b). He as God sits in the Temple of God displaying himself as God(2 Thess.2:4).

It is not Mystery Babylon that keeps the Beast under control. It is the restrainer whom orthodox Jewish scholars had identified in antiquity as the archangel Michael(Dan.12:1). When he is removed at the midpoint of the 70th week, the antiChrist will manifest.

“And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”(2 Thess.2:6-10).

Until the restrainer is removed, the antiChrist will not manifest.

I dealt with this issue to some greater details in my article on The Great Tribulation. As a matter of fact, the woman(Mystery Babylon) rides the Beast(antiChrist). In other words, she comes into prominence through the political clout of the Beast(Rev.17:3). The antiChrist destroys the Harlot because he brooks no rivals, and besides, she has served her purpose of mesmerizing the wicked earth-dwellers to worship the Dragon-Beast. The Beast used the woman to gain notoriety. The woman on the other hand garnered wealth by ingratiating herself to the Beast. As you rightly pointed out, they are dependent on each another. Nevertheless, the antiChrist is the senior partner. It shall be a marriage of convenience. The Divorce shall be effected when the Beast has achieved his goal of world domination. The destruction was carried out by the ten horns of the Beast-antiChrist. God puts it in their hearts to destroy the Harlot(Rev.17:17-18). The destruction of Mystery Babylon is part of the seventh bowl judgment(Rev.18).

It may well be true that the antiChrist will relocate his headquarters from Babylon to Jerusalem. What that would mean is that he would first have moved it to Babylon from somewhere in the land of Magog; for the antiChrist shall be a magogite(Ezek.38:2). No doubt Babylon shall be his commercial and religious headquarters(Rev.18).

The covenant with death marks the breaking of the first seal. Until all the seven seals are broken, the content of the Scroll which is the wrath of God cannot be viewed as the seals are on the exterior of the Scroll.

The first seal appears or seems to be magnanimous as you said, but a subtle and dangerous deception of the sons of Israel. It is a “covenant with death” ; an “agreement with Sheol”(Hell, Hades). It is “seeking refuge in lies” ; and “hiding under falsehood.” “Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:”(Is.28:14-15). God will disannul the covenant with death. Their agreement with Hell shall not stand. “And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.”(Is.28:18).

The scornful leaders of the sons of Israel shall be utterly deceived by the antiChrist, hoodwinked by his initial apparent benevolence. In the midst of the week, he shall utterly subvert the sons of Jacob. It shall be so terrifying for them to understand that they have put their security in the hands of the worst Jew hater in history, a dead man come back to life.

As per the Temple, what the Scriptures reveal is that a Place of worship for the Jewish people on the Temple Mount shall be in place before the midpoint of the 70th week for the antiChrist to desecrate it at that point in time. Exactly when it shall be built is any one’s guess. Whatever anyone may say about it shall be speculation. Though the Jews have raised millions of dollars, procured materials for the building of the Third Temple based on a plan drawn from Ezek. 40-43, it is most improbable that a structure of that magnitude will be reared up on the Temple Mount prior to the advent of the Messsiah. What the prophet Ezekiel described is the Fourth and Millennial Temple on Mount Moriah built by Christ Himself after the war of Armageddon during the 45-Day restoration period. I have posted two articles relating to this issue on our website. Link: https://mtzionheritageministries.com

Shalom! Maranatha.

Dr. Avraham Shallom:

“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which 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 which 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 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).

Interim Inter-Tribulational Rapture

In this classical Rapture passage, our brother, Apostle Paul’s tells the believers at Thessalonica that at the Rapture, the believers who are alive and remain shall be caught up with those who had slept in the Lord before this event, to meet the Lord in the air. The Greek word translated remain here is “perileipomenoi” which means to leave all around, to remain, to survive. This phrase is better translated, “the living, the remaining” or “the living, the surviving.” The question is what are we survivors of?

If the Rapture had taken place before the Great Tribulation, it would be wrong for brother Paul to speak of this group of believers as “the living, the surviving.” But if this group of believers had past through the Great Tribulation, it would be appropriate for our Brother Paul to so describe them as the living who had survived. Therefore, “the living, the surviving” are believers who had past through the Great Tribulation, and survived the horrors of its persecution by the satanic minion, the antiChrist.

Persecution is not what we desire and pray for as we desire, pray, and work hard for prosperity. In spite of that, they come upon us anyway. Unarguably, the persecuted Church is stronger in the faith, but worldliness can bedeville the Church with more subtle, and difficult challenges than persecution. In persecution, the lines are clearly drawn, but they ain’t so clear with the cares of this life, prosperity, pursuit of happiness, and the good life. The desire to acquire the good things of this life can lead one astray in very subtle ways. In persecution, our physical life and property are in danger primarily even though the ultimate goal is to alienate our souls and spirits from Christ, but on the other hand, in those areas where believers are not physically assaulted, the daily assault on our spirits and souls could be very enormous.

“For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together”(Matt. 24:28 ). The gospel according to Matthew was probably originally written in Aramaic, and later translated into Greek, because it was not likely Matthew, a tax collector understood Greek to such extent as to pen this gospel directly in Greek unless, of course, he employed the services of an ammamuensis. Besides, Aramaic was the language in which Christ ministered to His disciples. This fact does not help us to understand the text as this original manuscript in Aramaic is extinct if at all it existed.

There are three Greek words that are germane to our understanding of this short parable by our Lord Jesus in the Olivet Discourse. The first “ptoma” which is translated carcase in KJV. In the parallel passage in Luk.17:37, the Greek word is “soma” which simply means body. The other word we would look at is aetoi which is translated eagles in KJV. Some other translation render it vultures. The vulture is a class of eagles. All eagles are carnivores, but the vulture is a carrion, a scavenger. In every other place where aetoi is used, it always refers to angels(Rev.4:7; 8:13; 12:14). The usage here cannot be an exception. So this is a metaphor. It should not be rendered vulture at all; it established an a priori case for the Pretribulational Rapture position which sees vultures feeding on dead bodies at the end of Armageddon, and the living survivors gathered sideways into the Millennium.

The third is the Greek word “episunago” which is rendered gathered in KJV. “Sunagoge” means gathering, but the prefix “epi” which means upon, gives it direction. In other words, episounago means gathered upwards. This understanding is in contradiction to the sideways gathering into the Mellennium assumed by the pretribbers who interpret vv.29,30 to be the end of the wrath of God at Armageddon, and v.31 as the sideways gathering of the survivors of the wrath of God into the Mellennial kingdom of Christ by the angels of God.

We conclude therefore that Matt.24:29-31 teaches that the Rature of the saints, both the living and those who have fallen asleep in Christ occurs after the Great Tribulation, and the cosmic disturbances, the darkening of the sun, moon, and stars, and is effected through the agency of the angels who gather upwardly both the living saints and those who have fallen asleep in Christ to meet the Lord in the air.

Avraham Shallom.

Will The Mark Of The Beast Be Implemented Only From The Midpoint Of The 70th Week?

Of late two videos on the End Times have made their way to our platform in which the authors emphatically stated that the antiChrist and his image must be visible from the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel for the Mark Of The Beast to be implemented. Is this view biblically valid? It is this point that I would like to address in this post.

There are videos on the social media where some important personalities or government officials are purported to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. But on close examination, it is doubtful whether they received anything at all. The global elites are already humanoid without the vaccine. What they want to avoid is dying from the vaccine. 666 is the number of man. It is humanism. In Hebrew numerology and gematria, 7 is the number of divinity, and 6 is the number of man. Humanism is man doing his thing independent of God. This is already going on right now, to hybridize men and make them unrapturable. Gene enhancement is taking place in all fields of human endeavors; military, police, education, sports, technology etc. Become a cyborg and you will never be raptured. The mark of the Beast is here already. Some cyborgs are already dead and have gone to Hell. Every minute 106 die all over the world. Some cyborgs have already died. One said on BBC, “I don’t feel am human anymore; am a cyborg.” Can he be saved since he is humanoid? You see, 666 is here already. Not everyone will accept it. So, at the midpoint of the the 70th week of Daniel, the antiMessiah will be unveiled as a dead 💀 man come back to life. He will make it universal, mandatory and trans-national by legislation and the false prophet, his enforcer, will enforce it. That is why it is written,

“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: 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.13:16-18).

Some translations read, “he forces all or he compels all…..”(Rev.13:16). Why is he using force, the mechinery of government? Because advertising, persuasions, incentives, cajoling, and threats have failed. Was that the first time it was introduced? No. It has been there before he signed the covenant of apostasy at the commencement of the 70th week of Daniel. If one lacks this understanding, one would lead oneself and others into taking the mark of the Beast before the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel claiming it is not the mark until the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel and the antiChrist sits on the throne of God in the rebuilt Third Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. Will a real Temple be built or a makeshift structure? The Bible does not specifically state either. It does not matter.

We must understand that as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the day when the Son Of Man is revealed(Luk.17:26-30). There was an attempt to hybridize humanity, and it covered hundreds of years. Noe preached for 120 years without the benefit of a single convert except the immediate members of his family.

The antiChrist’s decree at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel is the last straw that will break the camel’s back. It is the last satanic act to get all humanity to worship the Beast and the Dragon, and to kill all those who refuse the mark of the Beast, in order that no one may be eligible to Rapture or entry into the Millennium and thereby defeat God.

“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?”(Rev.13:4‬ ‭KJV‬‬.

This is satanic and cannot be allowed to stand. That’s why God will cut short the Great Tribulation for the elect’s sake who despite severe persecution refuse the mark of the beast(Matt.24:22).

The Great Tribulation will be just about a year in duration before it will be terminated by God with the breaking of the sixth seal which is associated with cosmic and celestial disturbances. When this occurs, the antiChrist and his acolytes are in disarray. They are frightened out of their wits. They scurry to rocks and mountains to seek nonexistent refuge.

“And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us 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?”(Rev.6:15-17).

Will the mark of the beast be then introduced and implemented for just about a year? No. Ask them if they know that. Satan is wiser than that. It is here with us now, and some are wearing it now, and others who wore it have died and gone to Hell. When they want you to wear nanobots in the brain in order to entice you to become a Mozart or a Beethoven, that is the mark of the Beast. When they want you to undergo gene enhancement to be a super athlete, that is the mark of the Beast. All major militaries of the world are producing super soldiers and super policemen ; that is the mark of the beast. When your children want to change their sexes or to identify as nonidentified and the government takes them away from their parents to undergo sex exchange operative procedures, that is the mark of the beast. When student wear microchips or nanobots in the brain for academic excellence and superhuman intelligence, that is the mark of the beast. Anything that alters the human gene or genome to make us unacceptable to and independent of God is the number of man. When ISIS and Hizbollah fighters take Captagon which gives them superhuman energy to go for days without sleep, kill without remorse of conscience, that is the mark of the bead. One’s genome can be altered by simple injection or tweaking of the DNA . When men are socially engineered to become stolls and robots, that is the mark of the beast. With prolonged use of alcohol and recreational drugs, application of terror and torture, the gene can be altered and passed on to future generations.

“Little children, it is the last time: and as ye heard that antichrist shall come, even now there are many antichrists; whereby ye know that it is the last time.”(1 John 2:18 kJV)

What shall we do with this verse of the scripture? Deny it exists till the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel. Those who teach that the mark of the beast is not valid and cannot be implemented till the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel when the antiChrist is unveiled do not quote or refer to this verse of the Scripture. They are playing mind games. Whatever will make anyone deny Jesus in these last days is antiChrist and portends the mark of the beast.

“Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, even he that denieth the Father and the Son.”(1 John 2:22 ASV).

“and every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh; and now it is in the world already.”(1 John 4:3 ASV).

“For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.”(2 John 1:7 ASV).

To understand these scriptures and put them into proper perspectives in the end times, we must understand that the antichrist is not just a person, but also an ideology, a spirit, a movementpolitical, religious, philosophical, commercial, scientific, technological etc. They begin way before the 70th week of Daniel. We are in the midst of them now. Those who teach that the mark of the Beast is only effective from the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel do not refer to these scriptures. They only run with Rev.13:16,17 and perhaps Rev.14:9-14. If one teaches on love or marriage, one does not run with one verse of the scriptures to the neglect of other ones germane to the topic. To build the big and perfect picture, one must bring all the relevant scriptures together. Why do they neglect these important principles that scripture interpretes scripture, scripture must compared with scripture, and that there should be no antinomies(contradictions) on such an important issue as the mark of the beast which borders on eternity and its origin is Gen.3:15; Gen.6 which form the foundation of eschatology? Jesus warned us that there will be a repeat of these conditions in the last days. Some of them don’t know the five cardinal principles of biblical hermeneutics because they were never trained in good Bible Schools or are just downright dishonest. To limit it to just a period of about a year is absurd and biblically unfounded and unsubstantiated and unsupported.

Let no one deceive you by any means(Matt.24:4). He that has ears to hear with, let him hear(Rev.2:17,29).

Let me add a little piece to clarify my point. One other principle of biblical hermeneutics is immediate and wider context. When you examine the immediate context of Rev.13:16,17, you conclude that the mark of the beast is only effective from the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel when the antiChrist makes it universal and mandatory by legislation and the false prophet enforces it. But when you examine the wider context, immediately, there is a contradiction. But remember that one of the cardinal principles of biblical hermeneutics is that there should be not apparent contradictions. So, a common denominator must be found that resolves the contradiction. What is the common denominator in this case? The mark of the beast. It must be in the immediate and wider context. So, the mark of the beast must be in use before the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel when the antiChrist makes his debut at the rebuilt Third Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. Do you see how it works? We do not pluck it from the air. It is not private interpretation. It is based on the scriptures.

There is another principle of hermeneutics that will help you understand what am talking about. It is what is called near and far view of prophecy. If the antichrist is present in the 70th of Daniel, he must be present now. The scriptures we have examined attest to that. If the mark of the beast is present from the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel, it must be present now. For if the antiChrist is present now, his mark must be present now. That is why I say, if you are hybridized now, you have the mark of the beast. It may be subtle, but it is present now inasmuch as the antichrist is present now.

The forceful implementation of the mark of the beast will be for a brief period of the second half of the 70th week of Daniel – seals four and five – the Great Tribulation and the martyrs under the Golden Altar of incense in the Holy Place in the Temple Of in the Heaven of heavens. The second half of the 70th week of Daniel is divided into two unequal parts: the Great Tribulation and The Day Of The Lord. The Great Tribulation covers the fourth and fifth seals. The sixth seal is the cosmic and celestial disturbances that terminate the Great Tribulation. It is the sign of the end of the ages. There is a brief interlude between the end of the sixth seal and the breaking of the seventh seal. In this interlude, the Shekhinah, the dwelling, the visible presence of the God of Israel appears in the Heavens. This is the sign of His Coming. There is only one sign though; two sides of the same coin. The darkening of the Sun, Moon, and Stars will throw the Earth into utter darkness and extreme cold temperatures. The Earth will be dark and frigid. Fortunately, this will be a temporary phenomenon. The appearance of the Coming of the Son Of Man will dispel the darkness and the cold precipitated by the cosmic and celestial disturbances.

The sign of His Coming and of the end of ages sends warning signal to the unrighteous and wicked earth-dwellers that God is about to punish them for their evils. That is why they scurry for cover under the rocks and the mountains invoking these to fall upon them and hide from the impending wrath of God which is about to begin(Rev.6:1-17).

But the saints are not appointed to God’s wrath which is about to begin(1 Thess.1:10,5:9). When the seventh seal is broken, the wrath of God begins(Rev.8:1,2). Ergo, the 144,000 from the twelve tribes of Israel must be sealed for protection from the wrath of God(Rev.7:1-8). They are not evacuated from Earth which is the scene of God’s wrath. On the other hand, the saints must be evacuated from the Earth in this brief interlude before the breaking of the seventh seal. The day the saints are evacuated from the Earth, the scene of God’s wrath, the seventh seal is broken and the wrath of God in the day of the Lord begins.

The Second Half Of The 70th Week Of Daniel: The Great Tribulation And The Wrath Of God

The wrath of God consists of the trumpet and the bowls. The first six trumpets occur within the second half of the 70th week of Daniel. So, what then is the length of the Great Tribulation?

The allotted time to the antiChrist to reign is 42 months, from the midpoint of the 70th week to the death of the two witnesses which marks the end of the second half of the 70th week of Daniel(Rev.13:5; 11:3,7). The death of the two witnesses marks the terminus-ad-quem(end) of the 70th week. However the persecution by the antiChrist which is the Great Tribulation does not last for the whole of the 42 months. It is cut short, amputated in order to keep some saints alive for the Rapture(Matt.24:22), and also keep some unbranded unbelievers alive to repopulate the Earth in the Millennium. If it’s allowed to last for the whole of the 42 months allotted to the antiChrist, no unbranded person will survive, both believers, Jews and Gentiles. Remember Google has mapped out the whole Earth. With the economic boycott of the unbranded and the relentless search to ferret them out from hiding by use of demonized robots, drones, etc, it will be virtually impossible to keep any one of them alive if the Great Tribulation were to be allowed to run for the 42 months allotted to the antiChrist to reign.

The fifth trumpet lasts 5 months(Rev.9:10). Of all the events in the second of the 70th week of Daniel, it is the only one with known duration. The bowl judgments last for 23/24 days beginning from day 6/7 of the 30-day reclamation period of the kingdom following the blowing of the 7th trumpet which characteristically opens into the seven bowls(Rev.11:15). On the 3rd day of the 30-day reclamation period of the kingdom, the mystery of God is finished as the remnant of Israel are saved, thusly completing the spiritual kingdom of God(Rev.10:7). On the 4th day, the two witnesses resurrect. On the 5th day, the 7th trumpet is blown and God Almighty reclaims His rule over the Earth(Rev.11:15).

On the 6th or 7th day of the 30-day Reclamation Period of the kingdom, the seventh trumpet which opens into the seven bowls is blown, and God Almighty reclaims His rule over the Earth. The last and 7th bowl judgment ends at Armageddon on the last day of the 30-day reclamation period of the kingdom. At this point, God Almighty reclaims Physical possession of the Earth. The extra 45 days is for the restoration of the Earth devastated by wars, pestilences and earthquakes of the 2nd, 3rd and 6th seals and by the wrath of God(7 trumpets and 7 bowls) before the millennial reign of Christ begins. It is really not part of the equation of the wrath of God. So blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the one thousand three hundred and five and thirty days(Dan.12:12,13). Having delineated the timeline and loci of these events in the eschaton, we can hazard a guess of the rough estimate of the length of the Great Tribulation.

The fifth trumpet last five months.

“And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.”(Rev.9:10 KJV).

The sixth trumpet which is longer may last about a year. If the first four trumpets which are most probably shorter in duration last about a year, it follows that the Great Tribulaion will be about a year in duration with a margin of error of a month or thereabouts. This estimate would mean that the wrath of God will last about two years and four months or thereabouts with a margin of error of a few months.

Will the mark of the beast then be implemented for just about a year? We have shown that ab initio, he employs advertising tactics, incentives, cajoling, mass bribery etc to sell it on the populace. Later on then, He turns to brute force to implement it. This is not the first time he will change tactics and strategy. At the beginning of his career, he uses subtle peace diplomacy to win some nations like Israel and Jordan etc. This is the first seal(Matt.24:5; Rev.6:1,2). This is the emergence of false christs and the ultimate false christ who is the antiChrist. The first seal can be rightly named DECEPTION. Some nations will reject his false peace overtures. He then switches over to brute force. He will go to war with these nations. This is the second seal of wars, commotions, rumours and threats of wars. Nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom. Peace will be taken away from the Earth in order that men might kill one another(Matt.24:6,7a; Rev.6:3,4). So, we conclude that the mark of the beast will be in use before the antiChrist makes his debut at the rebuilt Third Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel.

Avraham Shallom.

Conversation with Ken Smelko

Ken Smelko:

The internal content of the scroll is the Wrath of God. Only the Lamb who was slain has the authority and blessing of God to open and execute its contents. The outer seals contain judgments and events pertaining to the kingdoms on earth– expediting the coming Day of the Lords’ Wrath. When the seventh seal is opened, the scroll can be unrolled and its contents viewed — which is the much heralded Day of the Lord by many prophets, including Jesus the Lamb of God who was slain.

I don’t see how anyone can dispute that the first six seals are assigned to the end of the age of man and the execution of the Great Tribulation by Satan and his seed. They are on the exterior, the outside, of the scroll. While everything contained inside the scroll is directly from God, through Jesus.

Dr. Avraham Shallom:

As you have rightly pointed out, it is unreasonable for anyone to contend that the wrath of God begins before the breaking of the seventh seal. However, pretribbers, in order to defend their pet doctrines of immense and pretribulation rapturism do so, albeit foolishly. Because the Church is not appointed to the wrath of God; if they begin it at the start of the 70th week of Daniel, then, in their thinking, the Church is excluded.

The content of the scroll is the wrath of God. Until the seven seals on the outside of the scroll are broken, the content of the scroll cannot be accessed and viewed. Unarguably, the wrath of God begins after the breaking of the seventh seal. To teach that the wrath of God begins at the commencement of the 70th week is biblically unjustified. It was concocted and fabricated by pretribbers to keep the believers out of the 70th week of Daniel, and so also out of the Great Tribulation by the antiChrist. This doctrine is based on the theology of convenience, happiness, and the good life. Because God loves us He cannot suffer us to go through the Great Tribulation. Their premise is right, but their inference is wrong. That God loves us does not mean that we cannot suffer. Indeed, it is given to us in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but to suffer for His sake(Gal.1:29). Let them go to our brethren in the North of Nigeria who are hacked to death on a daily bases by intolerant muslims, and teach their pet doctrines.

Ken Smelko:

What in your opinion is the length of the Great Tribulation?

Dr. Avraham Shallom:

The allotted time to the antiChrist to reign is 42 months, from the midpoint of the 70th week to the death of the two witnesses (Rev.13:5; 11:3,7). The death of the two witnesses marks the terminus-ad-quem(end) of the 70th week. However the persecution by the antiChrist which is the Great Tribulation does not last for the whole of the 42 months. It is cut short, amputated in order to keep some saints alive for Rapture(Matt.24:22). If it’s allowed to last for the whole of the 42 months allotted to the antiChrist, no unbranded person will survive, both believers, Jews and Gentiles. Remember Google has mapped out the whole Earth. With the economic boycott of the unbranded and the relentless search to ferret them out from hiding by use of demonized robots, drones, etc, it will be virtually impossible to keep any one of them alive if the Great Tribulation were to be allowed to run for the 42 months allotted to the antiChrist.

Of all the events in the second half of the 70th week of Daniel, the fifth trumpet is the only one with known duration. The fifth trumpet lasts 5 months(Rev.9:10). The bowl judgments last for 23/24 days beginning from day 6/7 of the 30-day reclamation period following the blowing of the 7th trumpet which characteristically opens into the seven bowls(Rev.11:15). On the 4th day of the 30-day reclamation period, the two witnesses resurrect. On the 5th day, the mystery of God is finished as the remnant of Israel are brought into saving relationship with the God of Israel(Rev.10:7). The spiritual kingdom of God is completed on day 3 of the 30-day reclamation period of the kingdom(Hos.6:1-2).

On the 6th or 7th, the seventh trumpet which opens into the seven bowls is blown, and God Almighty reclaims His rule over the Earth. The last and 7th bowl judgment ends at Armageddon on the last day of the 30-day reclamation period. At this point, God Almighty reclaims Physical possession of the Earth. The extra 45 days is for the restoration of the Earth devastated by wars, pestilences and earthquakes of the 2nd, 3rd and 6th seals and by the wrath of God(7 trumpets and 7 bowls). It is really not part of the equation of the wrath of God. So blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the one thousand three hundred and five and thirty days(Dan.12:12). Having delineated the timeline and loci of these events in the eschatology, we can hazard guess of the rough estimate of the length of the Great Tribulation.

The fifth trumpet last five months. “And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.”(Rev.9:10 KJV). The sixth trumpet which is longer may last for about a year. If the first four trumpets which are most probably shorter in duration last about a year, it follows that the Great Tribulaion will be about a year with a margin of error of a month or thereabouts. This estimate would mean that the wrath of God will last for about two years and four months or thereabouts with a margin of error of a few months.

Ken Smelko:

Will Jerusalem Be Divided?

Avraham Shallom:

We know from our study of eschatology that Israel has come to be. Not only that, it must retain control of Jerusalem. The end time prophecy in Dan.9:24-27 concerns Israel and her Holy City Jerusalem. Israel may not and indeed will not be able to regain control of the whole land given her by God, but must remain an independent entity with Jerusalem as the eternal capital till the end of times. If Israel had lost control of Jerusalem why would the antiChrist enter into a 7-year peace treaty with her? In the middle of the seven when that treaty is broken by the antiChrist, what does he do? He relocates his headquarters to Jerusalem. Abbas says Jerusalem is the capital of Palestinian State. But the Temple is in East Jerusalem. And that is where the Third Jewish Temple will be erected.

To inform us that Israel must retain control of Jerusalem to the End Of The Ages, Jesus said,” And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” ( Luk. 21:20-24 ).

But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.”(Mark 13:14-19).” When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened”(Matt. 24:15-22).

The reference in the Olivet Discourse is to the Jewish people and their Holy City Jerusalem. If the Jews have lost control of the city, there would be no reference to the Shabbat. The Palestinian Arabs are mostly muslims and do not observe the Shabbat. Besides, the Great Tribulation is referred to as the time of Jacobs trouble(Jere.30:7). If the Palestinian Arabs are the occupiers of the city, then it would be the time of Ishmael’s trouble. But it is not.

I have never been interested in the Paris conference, because I knew from the Scriptures that nothing would come out of it. So, also any which future conference to wrest control of Jerusalem out of the hand of the Jewish people. Except for for brief period, 1,260 days, the second half of the 70th seven allotted to the antiChrist, Israel will never ever again lose control of Jerusalem. Even during that brief period, there will still be Jews in hiding in the city who shall oppose the antiChrist. As I always say, eschatology is the future history of world revealed. If you want to know the future history of the world, then master the end times.

Your interpretation, analysis, and application of Eph.2:2 is apt.

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others(Eph.2:1-3).

What this means is that we should not swallow hook, line, and sinker, as true whatever comes from the meanstream media. They must be viewed through the prism of the word of God. This enormous responsibility entails an in-depth understanding of the word of God, more so mastery of End Time prophecy. The course of this Age is controlled by the Prince of the power of the air(waves, atmosphere, starry heavens, dark void). Satan is the god of this age. The Greek word translated world in the Scripture quoted above is aion. It’s better translated age. It is the moving world. And it is coming to a consummate end, albeit, predetermined by the sovereign will of the Almighty.

This is the faith and patience of the saints that everything, the good and the bad, the ugly, pleasant and unpleasant work according to His sovereign purpose. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose(Roms.8:28). In the absence of this understanding, the ignorant believer may become befuddled and fearful and anxious. I have heard a lot of bad news in the last few days that I almost despaired but for the refuge in His word, that is, He is in sovereign control of all things, and that all things work together for good in accordance with His predetermined purpose and ultimate end.

And then I wonder how any believer not matter his status in the Church can understand the times and the seasons in ignorance of biblical prophecy?

Biblical prophecy has never been more relevant than now. Unfortunately it is not being given pride of place in the teachings in our churches here in Nigeria, especially in the south. What they call prophecy is that which the Church leaders prophesy to the congregation. We need that, but this is far more important.

We need to understand the times and the seasons in order to appreciate His moves. Like I said earlier, we need to view the goings-on in the world through the prism of His word, i.e., His prophetic word concerning the End Times revealed in the Scriptures of old.

Avraham Shallom.

The Kurds

The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu has just declared his support for an independent Kurdish State. This is an interesting end time development in the geopolitical arena. The Kurds of today were the Medes of old. They are descendants of Madai, one of the sons of Japheth(Gen.10:2). Together with the Persians of old, they founded the Medopersian Empire that took over from the neoBabylonian Empire of Nebuchadnezzar II. Their general, Darius the Mede commanded the Medopersian army that conquered Babylon in 539 BC(Dan.5:31). The Iranians of today are the descendants of the Persians of old. The Persians descended from Tiras, one of the sons of Japheth(Gen.10: 2). Both the Kurds and the Persians are of Japhethic extractions. They are not Arabs. They are Indo-European peoples. The Medes of old started the Medopersians Empire about 550 BC before they were joined by the Persians. Once the Persians joined, they dominated the Empire. One of their most popular king was Cyrus, the Persian whose decree in 538 BC ended the Babylonian captivity after 70 years according to the prophecy of Jeremiah of Anathoth(Jer.25:11,12, 29:10; Dan.9:2).

The Seven Beast Empires

Medopersia is the Fourth of the seven Beast Empires Satan used to persecute Israel in exile. On the image of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Dan.2, it is represented by the breasts and arms of silver, and the bear in Daniel’s vision in Dan.7.

The Images Of Daniel’s Dream And Vision

The Medes are found in four nations in the Mid East. They are in Southern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northwestern Iraq, and southeastern Iran. There are pockets of them in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. They are agitating for independent kurdistan. In Turkey, they are represented by the PKK, Kurdish Workers Party which has been labeled a terrorist organisation by the Turkish government. In Iraq, they enjoy a measure of autonomy. In both Syria and Iran ISIS enslaved their women and killed their men as did Saddam Hussein who killed their women and children with poison gas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their military wing in Iraq, the Pershmager is at war with IS as also in Syria under the umbrella of the YPG. In both the Pershmager and the YPG, Kurdish women fight alongside their men in th war against ISIS. In Syria, their chief city Korbani has been devastated by the war with ISIS.

What makes Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu’s support for an independent Kurdish state historically significant is the fact that the Kurds(Medes) will not be part of the ten nation confederation of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire of Satan over which the antiChrist will rule(Ezek.38:5,6; Rev.13:2, 17:12). Secondly, during the seventh bowl judgment of the Harlot City, the Medes will be the first to attack Babylon(Isa.13:17-19) before it will be finally destroyed by the ten kings of the Eighth Beast Empire under the antiChrist(Rev.17:16,17). The Medes will therefore be allied to the antiChrist.

Father Adams of South Africa, a literary expert, advised his students, “If you want to know English, read the Bible.” By that he meant the KJV. My advice to you my brethren is “if want to know the future history of the world, study biblical eschatology; for eschatology tells us how the world will end.”

Avraham Shallom.

9 PASSAGES OF THE SCRIPTURES THAT LOCATE THE RAPTURE OR RESURRECTION AFTER THE GREAT TRIBULATION(6)

These passages were compiled by our brother, Alan E. Kurschner, Ph.D., Eschatos Ministries. I have the pleasure and liberty to comment on them briefly.

In passage #5 we established the fact the the Rapture occurs after the [Great] Tribulation of those days. In this passage #6, we shall see that the “peirasmos” is the Great Tribulation, and that suffering is part of the Christian experience.

The Hour Of Peirasmos

1 Peter 4:12–17

“Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice in the degree that you have shared in the sufferings of Christ, so that when in the revelation [apokalypsis] of his glory you may also rejoice and be glad. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of God, rests on you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or as a troublemaker. But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name. For it is time for judgment to begin, starting with the house of God. And if it starts with us, what will be the fate of those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?”

The KJV says:

“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”(1 Peter 4:12-17).

Our brother Apostle Peter in his general epistle to the body of Christ which was sent out from Rome, the seat of his evangelistic missions, metaphorically referred to as Babylon(1 Pet.5:13); for Babylon did not exist in the First Century AD, spoke of a trial by fire which shall come upon the believers as though some strange thing happened to us. The Greek word translated trial here is “peirazmos.” It is the same word rendered “temptation” in Rev.3:10, which hour of temptation or trial God promises to keep(protect) the faithful and uncompromising Philadelphian believers from within(ek: out from). Our brother Apostle Peter makes it clear here that the believers will witness this fiery trial or temptation which shall test everyone that dwells on the Earth both believers and nonbelievers. It will be so fiery it will be as though some strange things happen unto us believers.

Our brother Apostle Peter was referring to a fiery trial which was on-going in the immediate period, but he was also like the other prophets of Israel before him alluding to the fiery trial at the end of times which is the Great Tribulation. He called on all believers to rejoice in the midst of this trial though fiery and strange inasmuch as we are counted worthy to be partakers of Christ’s suffering. Why? Because in His revelation(apokalupsis), when His glory shall be made manifest, we shall also rejoice with exceeding joy. If we are reproached for the name Christ, we should be happy inasmuch as the the Spirit of His glory rests upon us. On the part of our persecutors, he is evil spoken of, but on our part He is mightily glorified. We as believers must not suffer as murderers, evildoers or criminals, troublemakers or thieves or robbers. If we suffer in the name of Christ, as Christians, happy our we; we must not be ashamed. We should be happy that we bear his name and are called upon to suffer shame or be humiliated and dehumanized for His name’s sake.

Our brother Apostle Peter went on to say that judgment must begin in the house of God. In other words, the saints must be tested, put to trial first during this fiery trial which is the Great Tribulation before the unbeliever will face theirs in the Day of the Lord. If judgment begins with us believers, what shall be the end of the unbelievers who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus the Christ. For if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear. They shall be punished with everlasting destruction in the Lake of Fire away from the presence of the Lord(2 Thess.1:9).

In the light of all this, how biblically accurate could one be to posit that the Church shall be exempt from the final fiery trial, the Great Tribulation?

Avraham Shallom.

9 PASSAGES OF THE SCRIPTURES THAT LOCATE THE RAPTURE OR RESURRECTION AFTER THE GREAT TRIBULATION(5)

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 passage #4, we looked at the person and activity of the restrainer. In passage #5, we shall examine and establish the teaching that the Rapture occurs after the [Great] Tribulation of those days.

PASSAGE #5

Interim Inter-tribulational Rapture

Matthew 24: 21–22, 27, 29–31

“For then there will be great tribulation unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen. And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be delivered. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. . . . For just like the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming [parousia] of the Son of Man will be. . . . Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. ”

The KJV says:

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”(Matt.24:21-31).

Matt.24:9-14 is a panorama on the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation begins in v 9. Verse 15-31 is a periscope on the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation is precipitated by the Abomination Of Desolation which is the image of the antiChrist, the man of lawlessness(KJV: man of sin), erected in the Holy Of Holies of the rebuilt Third Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem at the Gentile takeover of the Temple at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel when the antiChrist makes His debut on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The statement, “And then shall be Great Tribulation,” indicates that the Great Tribulation is precipitated by the preceding event which as we have pointed out is the abomination of desolation(Dan.9:27; v 15).

The Great Tribulation will be a worldwide programme implemented by the antiChrist, but its epicenter shall be the Holy Land of Israel and its Holy City, Jerusalem. During the Great Tribulation, believers, Jews, and anyone else who repudiates the authority of the aC by refusing to bear the mark of allegiance to the Beast on his right hand or left hand or forehead shall be executed, tortured, imprisoned or starved even to death.

Verse 29 makes it clear that the gathering together of the saints to meet the Lord in the sky shall be effected by the angels of God when the trumpet is blown with the voice of the archangel, an incident which occurs AFTER the [Great] tribulation of those days, and the darkening of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, which is the sign of the end of the ages. This tribulation is no doubt the Great Tribulation mentioned in v 21 which shall not be comparable to any in the annals of history. The Great Tribulation is synonymous with the “Time Of Jacob’s Trouble.”

“For thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.”(Jeremiah 30:5-7).

We can see that that Day is Great and there is none like it. When the antiChrist takes over the Temple Mount, sets up his image in the Holy Of Holies of the Rebuilt Third Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah, and surrounds Jerusalem with his armies, fear shall take hold of every Jewish Israeli. Because they are seized with fear, they shall put their hands in their loins like a woman in the pains of labour. We can see that the time of Jacob’s trouble begins at the middle of the 70th week of Daniel, not at its commencement, when the abomination of desolation is setup in the Third Temple which is the image of the antiChrist. As a matter of fact, the Israelis will be happy at the commencement of the 70th week because of the peace deal brokered by the antiChrist between Israel and seven of its Arab and Islamic neighbors and the resumption of animal sacrifice and drink and grain offering which had been suspended since 70 AD when the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans. Peace with its Arab and Islamic nations will boost Israeli economy through trade. The economy will be booming during the first half of the 70th week of Daniel. Israel will enjoy a relative while the rest of the world is plunged into wars and rumours of wars, and commotions. The Prophet Jeremiah says the same things as does Daniel whom our Lord Jesus quotes in His Olivet Discourse.

“And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.”(Daniel 12:1).

This day shall begin when the restrainer, archangel Michael “amads;” that is, ceases to do what he normally does, that is fight for and defend the people of God, the children of Israel, and the believers in Jesus the Christ(2 Thess.2:6-10). The Prophet Isaiah declares that it shall be terror to understand the REPORT.

“Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.”(Isaiah 28:14-19).

The scornful leaders of Israel shall trust in the peace treaty which the aC shall broker between Israel and her Arab and Islamic neighbors, not knowing it shall be like the treaty of Hudaibiyyah(628 AD) which Mohammed broke to attack the Arabs of Medina, like the non-aggression pack between Germany and Russia, the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement(1939) which Hitler flagrantly violated to invade Russia.

What report? That the antiMessiah has taken over the Temple Mount, erected his enlivened image in the Holies Of Holies of the Rebuilt Third Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah, surrounded Jerusalem with his armies which are the most sophisticated and equipped with the most up-to-date(state-of-the-art) in military weapons. This day, an extended length of time, not a 24-hour period is different from all other. This period will be the worst period in the history of humanity on Earth. There will be none like it. The Holocaust will pale in comparison. It will be a terribly difficult period because the bed shall be shorter than he that lies on it, and the duvet narrower than he the tries to wrap himself with it.

“For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.”(Isaiah 28:20).

In v 30, the tribes of the Earth, the wicked earth-dwellers, those who have the mark of the Beast, are weeping and mourning at the sighting in the sky of the Son Of Man coming with power and great glory. Why? Because they realize He is about to punish them for their evils. This is the wrath of God. These are not secret, silent, nor sudden events which shall precede the rapture of the saints.

We see our Lord Jesus says in the Olivet Discourse the same thing that Apostle said to the Thessalonians. The Day of the Lord, from which the believers are exempt(Col.3:6; Eph.5:6) cannot begin until AFTER the revelation of the Man Of Sin(Lawlessness), until AFTER the Great Tribulation, until AFTER the cosmic and celestial disturbances associated with the breaking of the sixth seal(Rev.6:12-14), which is the sign of the End Of The Ages, and will abruptly bring the Great Tribulation to an end.

Abraham Shallom.

9 PASSAGES OF THE SCRIPTURES THAT LOCATE THE RAPTURE OR RESURRECTION AFTER THE GREAT TRIBULATION(4)

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 passage #3, we looked at the inseparability of the Rapture from the Second Coming of Christ. In passage #4, we shall focus on the person and activity of the restrainer.

PASSAGE #4

Interim Inter-Wrath Period

2 Thessalonians 2:8

“and then the lawless one [aka Antichrist] will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his coming [parousia].”

The KJV says:

“And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:”(2 Thess.2:8).

“And then” shows that there is a precedent. The precedent is in verses 6 & 7. “And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.”(2 Thess.2:6-7).

The mystery of iniquity is already at work in the world, but it cannot come to its full orbe until the restrainer is taken out of the way. The restrainer is not identified by our brother Apostles Paul in this passage of the Holy Writ probably because he was well known to his immediate audience some of whom were Jewish. However, the restrainer is revealed in the OT book of Daniel(Dan.12:1). The restrainer is an OT concept. We do not need to look to NT scholars to reveal his identity because his identity is pretty well known to the Jewish people before New Testament times. He is archangel Michael who standeth for the people of God in both the Old Testament times and in the present. He contended with Satan over the body of Moses(Jud.9), and he will wrestle Satan and his fallen evil angels down to the Earth from the Dark Void and starry heavens at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel(Rev.12:7-9). Then shall he desist from his restraining duty as the archangel that defends the people of God. When he “amads” then shall the lawless one(antiChrist) be revealed, and then, there shall be Great Tribulation.

This event occurs precisely at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel when Satan and his hordes of fallen evil angels are cast down to the Earth from the starry heavens and the Dark Void. Satan will be very angry, full of wrath because he knows it will only be a short time of three and one-half years before he will be cast into the bottomless pit and incarcerated for a thousand years which is the length of the Millennial reign of Christ and the saints in the kingdom(Rev.12:12). Out of wrath, he will possess the Beast, give him his power, seat, and great authority to reign on his behalf(Rev.13:2). It will be a reign of terror. He will make war with the saints and overcome them(Rev.13:7). When the woman(Israel) flees into the wilderness, he will be after her in pursuit. He will wage war against the remnant of her seed who keep the commandments of God(observant Jews who repudiate his authority) and have the testimony of Jesus(believers who refuse his mark of allegiance). It is the unveiling of the antiChrist, the man of lawlessness at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel that will precipitate the Great Tribulation.

When the complement of the saints to be martyred is reached(Rev.6:9-11), Christ will paralyze(Greek: katergeo) him by the breath of His mouth and the brightness of His Coming. This is not outright destruction but masterly inactivation and total incapacition. The only things he can do are to kill the two witnesses at the expiry of their ministry, and to gather his forces to be annihilated by Christ at Armageddon(Rev.11:7, 19:11-21).The lawlessness one will still be alive but rendered more or less powerless and redundant until finally destroyed at Armageddon a few years later(Rev.19:11-21).

Avraham Shallom.

A Return To Babel

The World: A Global Village

After the deluge, Noah and his family who survived dwelt together in the land of Shinar which was in Mesopotamia. And they began to multiply and increase. God’s plan did not change after the deluge. It was increase, multiply, replenish the Earth and subdue it, as it was before the deluge.

The Ziggurat: Artist’s Impression

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”(Genesis 1:28 KJV).

“And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”(Gen. 9:1 KJV).

God’s plan for man was to disperse all over the Earth. Instead, in defiance to God, man remained together in one big city. They built a tower to reach up to the Heavens.

The Tower Of Babel: Artist’s Impression

“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”(Genesis 11:1-4 KJV).

The reason for the tower was to make a name for themselves. They wanted fame and honor. They did not want to be scattered abroad upon the surface of the Earth. Contrary to God, they wanted to remain together in one big city. Overcrowding breeds sin, and all manner of evils. But that was exactly what they wanted. They were not interested in keeping God’s commandments. They were not interested in His holiness. They wanted to do their own thing. They wanted to live their lives independent of God. They wanted to be God unto themselves.

So, they built a tower to reach up to the Heavens. The aim of this tower was not to worship God, but to make themselves famous – to make a name for themselves. It was for the consultation of demons, and the worship of Lucifer the archenemy of God. The man at the center of this rebellion was Nimrod, one of the grandsons of Noah through Cush and Ham. This man was believed to be one of the offspring of human female and fallen angelic intermarriage who survived the deluge. There were a couple of them that survived the deluge who became known as the nephilim, the descendants of the giants. The sons of Anak, Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai were of this stock. They were they who frightened the spies to give an evil report to Moses and the elders of Israel(Num.13:22,33). The sons of Israel were instrumental in wiping out these humanoids and their offspring such as Goliat of Gath, his brother Lahmi, and Ishbibenov, a polydactyle(Judg.1:10; 2 Sam.21:15-22; 1 Chron.20:4-8). These fallen evil angels and their humanoid offspring were the ones who taught men witchcraft and the curious and wicked acts that men practise today.

Every king that had ever aspired to world domination had always wanted his subjects to worship the same gods or himself, speak one language, practise the same culture and traditions, and be devoted and committed to the defense of his kingdom even unto death. Antiochus Theos Epiphanes, the seventh ruler of the Seleucid dynasty in Syria-Palestine was a prime example.

The architect of this misbegotten idea was Nimrod. Nimrod was believed to be the founder of both Babylon and Assyria. He was believed to be the first king of Assyria, Sargon I. Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord. He was a hunter of the souls of men. He misdirected men to worship him and his wife Semiramis. He is the author of false human government and idolatry. In Babel, men and women were interconnected to one another. They knew one another. They worshipped the same gods. They spoke the same language. They were one. This oneness was not borne out of love. As a matter of fact, they preyed upon one another. The weak were subordinate to the strong. It was a dog eat dog society, the survival of the fittest. The law of the jungle was in operation. The rich and the strong were preying upon the poor and the weak. Wickedness was increased on the Earth, and the thought and the imagination of man’s heart was evil continually. It repented God that He had created man(Gen.6:5,6). Rather than destroy man as He did with the deluge, God instead instituted a forced migration to all parts of the Globe by confounding their language.

Globalization: The New World Order

The New World Order

Today men are scattered all over the Globe. It will be extremely difficult to get them to live together in one big city as in Babel. But that can be overcome by turning the world into a global village. Globalism was the philosophy behind the building of the Tower Of Babel. Globalism is the philosophy that man is master of himself and the world and will live together in one big village and be interconnected to one another. The goal of globalization is to return humanity to Babel where they lived together in one big city, spoke the same language, practised the same culture and traditions, worshiped the same god(s), had one great superhuman ruler, where the weak and poor were subject to the strong and the rich. The ruled obeyed the rulers unquestioningly and were pawns in the game of chase played by the rich and powerful rulers. At the center of this development are a few global elites armed with wealth and technology. With a few handouts and food stamps, rent assistance and free health care, the poor majority will be made subordinate to the rich minority.

The language and communications barriers can be overcome by technology. Anything written or spoken can be translated into almost any of the major languages instantly. With holograms, leaders can address their subjects in any language as though in their presence. With holograms, whatever the leader says in one language can be instantly translated and spoken to any audience in any language at the same time anywhere in the world as though it were by the leader himself. At Babel, the world spoke one language. Therefore the world will be made to speak one major language. At Babel, the world had one means of exchange(one currency). Therefore, there must be one world currency. At Babel, the people were controlled like zombies and told what to do. Therefore a programme of zombiefication of humanity must be instituted through technology. The natural order ordained by God must be replaced with an artificial order invented by man. In that way, the world would no longer be God’s but theirs who are the inventors and creators of the new artificial order. Their signature must be on everything they have invented or altered. Everything they invented or altered must be patented. There signature must be on everything. Hence the need for global digital ID system.

(a) One World Government

Global Citizenship

To bring the people back to Babel, the world must have one central government. The nationalistic tendencies of men must be played down. Globalism must prevail over nationalism. Men’s love for, and dedication and commitment to their nations must be replaced with the global ideal. Globalists are also advocates of one world government. There will still be nations but national boundaries will be blurred and made less significant by making individuals who acquiesce in the wishes of the globalists global citizens. Globalists are socialists. If a person is hybridized by taking the mark of the Beast, he or she becomes a global citizen. International passports will no longer be required for travels. Only global citizens can travel abroad. They can go anywhere they choose to go. They will not need visas. There will still be regional powers, but one regional power with the most powerful army and economic resources will emerge the sole ruler of the world for a season. This role will be played by the king of the West who will be the antiChrist. The West will be the Revived Roman Empire. It will have dominance over the kings of the East and the king of the North and the king of the South. For a season they will all submit to him. They will finally oppose him as prophesied by the prophet Daniel(Dan.11:36-45). However, at Armageddon, Christ will destroy all of them to reclaim physical possession of the Earth.

“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,”(‭‭Rev.11:15-16‬ ‭KJV‬‬)

The Four Regional Powers Of The end Times

“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND Lord OF LORDS. And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 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. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.”(‭‭Rev.19:11-21‬ ‭KJV, emphases added‬‬).

Christians must know this is the direction the world is headed and refuse to be part of it. Globalists are transhumanists and transhumans. Therefore every citizen of the Globe must be a humanoid or better still a cyborg, to use a more modern term. Christians must not submit themselves to be reprogrammed into humanoids either by RFID implants or vaccination with mRNA or rDNA(recombinant DNA) vaccines and manipulated to become global citizens. Global citizens actually are at the mercy of world elites who have the power to programme whatever they so desire into the lives of their humanoid subjects. Cyborgs are hackable humanoids. The outward benefits like ease of travel, government handouts and food stamps, free health care and rent assistance, and government jobs and being able to buy and sell are nothing compared to the damnation of Hell.

Even in the here and now, global citizens can be dispensed with at any time by their elitist overlords. For example, if a global citizen is fifty years and above, not significantly rich nor plays what is considered to be a very crucial or vital role in the system, he or she is considered an economic waste. He or she is regarded as economically obsolescent and irrelevant. He or she is a useless eater. He or she has outlived his or her usefulness and can be easily dispensed with. He or she is disposable. He or She could be programmed to die through the internet or simply euthanized. Why? Because the globalists want to reduce the world population to a manageable size, about 500 million humanoid zombies. Therefore, they encourage abortion in the name of family planning, euthanasia, and population reduction through plandemics, scandemics, wars and civil crises like violent riots like those of BLM and Antifa, and terror attacks, etc. They create their new world order out of chaos.

Does it surprise you that globalists are sponsors of terror and wars? They want only physically virile men and women to run their system and be on their payroll. They will be superslaves. Healthy young adults can serve in the military which will be very paramount in those days. They can be made productive in so many ways. But the elderly are considered economically sterile and obsolescent – excess human beings(Yuval Noah Harari), and useles eaters(Dr. Lima Lebow, citing Henry Kissinger). They have outlived their usefulness. They are no longer productive and are parasitic on others. They are disposable. The geriatric are disposables. Therefore the NWO will practice eugenics as did Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

The NWO will not last long because it is not economically sustainable. They advocate abortion and euthanasia for the disabled, invalid, and the elderly, and low birth rate. It means that world population will decrease rapidly. Young and able bodied men are dying in the battlefield. If the systems is allowed to run for a significant length of time, it will self-destruct. The welfare state will be run on financial system based on fiat currency, run away inflation, a grand Magic-Bean ponzi scheme as it were. A lot of folks will be on state welfare, Universal Basic Income(UBI). And there will be wars in diverse place gendered by these evil practices. Sooner or later, the globalists will run out of food stamps and handouts. They will run out of money to maintain their welfare system. We can see that it is not sustainable. It will not work. It probably will not last a decade if left to run as they desire. But certainly God will inetervene as in Babel and destroy it from above. It is utter rebellion against God. It is anti-human and anti-God.

(b) One World Religion

The False Prophet

The globalists are not altogether irreligious. They know the power of religion. Like Carl Max said, “religion is the opium of the masses.” It will be extremely difficult to control the masses if their allegiance is to different deities. The world must be made to have one religion. At other time man was not created because there is no God. But now, there is God. He is the Father of us all. Let us forget our religious differences and come together and worship one God. That will be their mantra. This is the religion equivalent of Eric Fromm‘s philosophical ideology and concept of the universal brotherhood of man. We can pray together. After all we worship the same God. This is the goal of ecumenism. The Pope is at the forefront of it. The Unity of religions has been signed. They want to put all religions in one melting pot.

But sometime in the future, we will know who this God is. He is man. His title is the antiChrist.

“Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”(2 Thess.2:4 KJV).

He will declare himself God and demand that men worship him. Those who repudiate his authority and claim to deity will be hounded, hunted down, and ferreted out to be imprisoned, tortured, and killed as the case may be.

Humanism is the philosophical concept that teaches that man is God. If man is God, he was not created. If man was not created, there is no God. Therefore man evolved from lower forms of life. Atheism and evolution have the same goal, humanism. Evolution is not science but scientific insanity. If there is no God, then there is no morality because God is the standard for morality. Therefore everything is relative. There are only likes and dislikes. Moral relativism will lead to amorality, anomie(state of nomlessness) and anarchy. Do we see why globalism is not sustainable, because it is based on evolution which is scientific insanity. The ultimate goal is the destruction of humanity: the same as AI, HUMAN REPLACEMENT and EXTINCTION.

That all religions are one is a lie. That we all worship the same God is a lie. And even far more so, that man is God.

“Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?”(Isaiah 2:22 KJV).

He is man, and therefore cannot be God. The religion of the globalists is humanism in public, but satanism in secret. Adolf Hitler and his colleagues were satanists. They belonged to witches’ and wizards’ coven. They practised witchcraft. Men will be made to believe the lie that man is God.

“And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:”(2 Thess.2:11).

In the original Greek, it is the lie, “te pseudei.” It is not just any lie, but a specific lie, the lie that man is God. Jesus told the Jewish religious leaders:

“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).

Who was He referring to? The antiMessiah. All men will worship him. If they refuse, they will be made to do so when apprehended or else be killed, tortured to death, starved to death, imprisoned etc.

(c) One World Curreny And Cashlessness

One World Curreny

The globalists have been advocating for a one world currency for a very long time. There are even rumors that it has been printed, ready to be put to use at the right time, at a moment’s notice. We know that paper currency will soon be done away with. China has produced its own digital currency, the digital renminbi. There is talk of the digital Dollar. The world is fast becoming cashless. Today, in most cities of the world, most transactions are cashless. It is cumbersome to handle cash. Cash can be lost in transit creating a big hole in one’s finances. With CASHLESSNESS, heists can be virtually eliminated because there will be no need to convey physical cash from one place to another.

Cashlessness

The world is headed towards one world currency also. It will bring an end to trade wars. There will be no need for tariffs on imported goods. This one world currency will also go digital and become cashless. In Sweden, for instance, 95% of transaction are cashless. Most businesses prefer online transfers. Most banks also encourage their clients to do online transfers. There is less risk involved. It reduces the workload on bank workers. There will be no need for multiple branches of one bank in the same city inasmuch as fewer clients will visit the banks in person.

With cashlessness, it will also be easier for the Big Brother to control the masses. All transactions will be logged and monitored. If all transactions are done online, and one’s account is frozen, the one is instantly economically boycotted. With a click of the button, one can be locked out of the economy. The one can neither buy nor sell. Hunger is a weapon of mass control as much as is food. If one cannot buy and sell, one would be hard pressed to cave in to the demand of the powers that be.

The cashless currency will be CBDC, Central Bank Digital Currency. It will be controlled by one world central bank. This will be the Bank for International Settlements(BIS). BIS is the apex bank in the world. Below it are the international Monetary Fund(IMF), the World Bank(WB), the European Central Bank(ECB), and lower down, the Central Banks Of Nations, and then the commercial banks. The BIS through the IMF will issue a booklet, a guideline, to the central banks of nations on how to run CBDC. There will also be Digital Currency Monitoring Authoriy(DCMA). Without Digital 🆔, one cannot operate a CBDC. The Digital 🆔 is of course, the covid vaccine or PCR QR Code. In Switzerland 🇨🇭, Sweden, the Nordic countries as in China, most banks require customers to have a covid vaccine or PCR QR code. Peter Koenig talked about how his account was blocked by a bank in Switzerland, compelling him to take a PCR test. When one does a PCR test, one gets a QR Code just as one who is covid vaxxed. This QR Code is linked to other QRCodes that one has, and can store enormous and unlimited amount of information. Though covid is not a public health threat, the CDC and FDA have issued the 10th dose of a new and improved covid vaccine, and urging the public to avail themselves of it. The EU and Japan have approved for use in EU countries and Japan respectively the self-replication mRNA which will be in circulation for life. Studies have shown that even the older version of mRNA is still in circulation 709 days after injection and can last as long as 1023 days in circulation. There are 500 doses in a lifetime. The goal is to kill off the vulnerable, leaving only 500 million augmented humannoid zombies as survivors.

(d) Digital Identity

Radio Frequency Identity(RFID)

Digital identity in the form of Radio Frenqency identity(RFID) is fast becoming popular especially in Sweden, China, US etc. It has any number of uses. It can be used to track people with dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, any neurological disease and mental illness, do purchases online, buy train tickets, book Uber services or make hotel reservations. The Big brother can use it to monitor, track and trace criminals and felons, and sex offenders like pedophiles, kidnappers, child abductors, and rapists. Some school systems use it to monitor absenteeism. And parents can use it to know the whereabouts of their wards at anytime. It can to a large extent curb child kidnapping. At the moment, wherever it is in use, it is voluntary. But times comes, when it will be mandatory by legislation. In Sweden, some have gone ahead and implanted their Covid-19 vaccine QR Code as RFID in the forearm or hand. Metaverse may require you to confirm your identity in order to log in to your Facebook account by logging in with your vaccine ID. Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the IMF said there is no covid pandemic; it is all about digital ID. The goal of Covid-19 mass vaccinations is among other things, to give everyone a digital ID.

Log In With Vaccine ID

It is all about digital ID for cashless society. For the digital economy of the antiChrist to functional properly, every citizen must have a digital ID, not only on a piece of paper, not on passports or drivers licenses nor on smartphones, tablets, nor computers but on the person of the individual. The mRNA vaccines with nanites provide that vehicle and link. The mRNA vaccines are vehicles for nanoscale chips that link the vaccinated with digital currency. Microsoft has patented such a currency with bodily activity data:WO2020060606. The mRNA vaccines are the computer operating system that provides the link between the individual and the cryptocurrency of the cashless society of the antiChrist. According to Elon Musk, the mRNA vaccine was introduced to bring us closer to AI.

Cashlessness will run pari passu with digital identity. India has completed its digital identity programme, Aadhaar. Nigeria wants to institute one postcovid for the purpose of financial inclusion. That is the catch phrase and buzzword: financial inclusion. It is also the incentive to mass compliance. Financial inclusivity will be very attractive to the poor masses. Therefore, there are calculated attempts to destroy small and medium-size businesses and make the masses poorer and the rich richer. One of the goals of the Covid-19 plandemic is the transfer of global wealth to the 1% of the 1%. The lockdowns were instrumental in achieving this object. Believers must be aware of these developments and know how to take appropriate measures to protect their interests and those of their loved ones. For further details see my article: “How Believers Can Survive The End Times.” Link: https://mtzionheritageministries.com/2020/03/16/671/.

IoT

Internet of Things(IoT)

The development of the computer and the internet have revolutionalized the way we think and act. Very soon everything will be out there on the internet. It is not only objects but human beings as well, the so called IoTB. The aim of the globalists is to make everyone on Earth a cyborg, humanoid or transhuman. At the height of it all, everyone will be linked to one another on the internet. As a matter of fact, with 5G or 6G etc, individual cyborgs will be part of the network. There will be no more privacy. There will be no more human rights or civil liberties. The Big Brother will know everyone, see everyone, and know what everyone is doing at any point in time. All these will be recorded and stored away. They can be called up at anytime. All one does in 24 hours will be logged and stored away to be invoked at the appropriate time whenever needed.

At this point in time, the world itself would have become not just a global village but one big smart city with smart houses and the inhabitants cyborgs who have merged with machines. Noah Yuval Harrari, called this type of beings Homo Dei. At this point, men have metamorphosed into God. Each man is now God unto himself. This is the height of humanistic evolution. Evolution as taught in universities has never been a natural phenomenon but scientific insanity. This time around, men will be made to evolve to the next level by technology. This is technological evolution. Is it really true that man will ever become God? Certainly not.

Singularity is the death of humanity and human civilization as we know it. No man who is merged with machines can enter Heaven. These are they who have the Mark of the Beast. These are they who shall be annihilated at Armageddon. This people are not governable by God nor rapturable. They are rebellious. They are like their master Lucifer who rebelled against God his maker in eternity past with one-third of the population of angels in Heaven(Rev.12:3,4). They will not be permitted to enter the Millennium. They must be tucked away in Hell for eternity. Their master, Satan, and Lucifer knows this. He knows Hell is built for him and his fallen angels(Matt.25:41). But he wants to take to Hell as many men as he possibly can take with him in order to cast aspersions on the person of God in whose image and likeness man was made. Man was made to glorify God, but Satan wants man to serve and glorify him contrary to God’s intents and purposes.

This is what Raymond Kursweil calls singularity, the point at which machines are smarter than men and men have to merge with machines to remain viable and relevant. They are not telling us the whole truth. At this point, majority of humans are mere pawns in the hand of the global elite. They are like robots. They can be programmed to die or commit crime or do almost anything the Big Brother wants them to do. They can be programmed to be depressed or commmit suicide etc. They can be programmed to think in a certain way and not the other way round. This will be the height of abuse. It will be the apogee of man’s inhumanity to man. They have no mind of their own. They will be controlled by the big Brother through the internet. Majority of the people who advocate transhumanism have failed to take cognizant of human stupidity. There is nothing developed by science that men have not abused. The computer and the internet are already being abused, and will continue to be abused. At the epitome of it all, men will be turned into objects to be played around with to the pleasure and merriment of the wealthy globalists.

Man, AI, And 5G Network

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Without technology life on Earth would be more or less static and drab, just as it was with our primitive forebears. Technology is development. As new technologies emerge, life on Earth becomes more pleasant, more enjoyable and more wonderful. But it also creates new problems. Consider what life on Earth would be life if there were no bicycles, no cars, no ships, no aeroplanes. How would our homes be like if there were no electricity, running water and no indoor toilets and refrigerators and no freezers, no television, no thermostats etc. What would life be like if we could not refine crude oil and there were no telephones? We take these things for granted, but there was time when they did not exist. Think about what life would be if we were denied our smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops, cars etc. Some fifty years ago, there were no smartphones. Modern banking would be impossible without the computer. About four decades ago, there was no internet. Today, it as though we cannot live without it. A little while ago, it did not exist. With new technology comes new opportunities and challenges. So it is with 5G network and AI. Technology has merits and demerits, advantages and disadvantages, and blessings and curses. If there were no air planes, there would be no plane crashes. What would warfare be like if modern military equipments had not been invented? Can the modern soldier fight like our primitive forebears with bows and arrows, with dane guns, chariots, and on horsebacks?

5G Network

5G networks brings a much faster internet. It also introduces other modalities like transparency, visibility, and control. With 5G, the Big Brother can always know where you are and what you are doing at home, in your office or workplaces and car or in transit. There are also some health issues like depressed immune system, cancers, neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. The major problem with 5G is not these long term effects, but the unbridled inroad into the privacy of the average citizen. There will be loss of individual privacy, human rights and civil liberties. When combined with digital identity through RFID, nanopartles in the brain or blood vessels, neural laces implantable through neural mesh, a whole new world is opened. From the Big Brother’s giant computer anything can be programmed into the life of the average citizen from depression to suicide, madness, murder, comfusion and death. So believers should be very wary if they live in areas of 5G coverage, and have implantable wears on their person. Our counsel is that we should not suffer ourselves to be chipped at all and avoid smart houses and cities.

Smart Cities Of The Future

What A Smart City Will Look Like

The future cities of the world would be smart cities. Smart cities are made up of smart houses. In a smart house most property are automated through AI, from kitchen utensils to thermostats in the bathrooms, refrigerators and TV sets in the sitting room. It will be very exciting and exhilarating to live in any of these cities. Google is building one in Canada. China also is building smart cities, so also UAE and KSA. To live in these cities, one must become a cyborg. In these cities, there will be IoT. No body will have to go to the grocery store in order to buy groceries. Orders will be placed from the home via the internet, and filled by robots and supplied by drones or robots. There may be no humans at the grocery stores or perhaps a few to make sure everything is running smoothly. There will be no Post Office, no Cinema etc. Human contact will be reduced to the barest minimum. Doctor-patient relationship will rarely involve direct human contact except in serious and emergency cases as doctors will follow their patients through smart doctor-patient apps. In patient clinic will be very minimally negligible.

Once a believer becomes a cyborg, he or she is disqualified. Why? Because he or she has become hybridized through technology. If any man takes the mark of the Beast, the wrath of God abides on him(Rev.14:9-11). Smart cities are really smart. They will be very enticing and alluring, more so to the younger generation. On no account should believers agree to live in smart cities simply because one has to become a cyborg to live in a smart city. Cyborgs have altered human nature through technology and cannot be redeemed. Cyborgs are transhumans. And transhumanism is antiGod and antiChrist.

In smart cities, people have little or no interactions with one another. Ergo, immunity will be very low. A lot of folks are going to die due to low resistance to sickness and disease. So, from the point of view of immunity, the antiChrist’s system is not sustainable. It will self-destruct. Of course, this is in conformity with the plan of the globalists to reduce world population to about half a billion. It will be easier to monitor and control a population of half a billion than 8 billion. This half a billion people will be cyborgs interconnected to one another and to electronic gadgets through the IoTB, all under the control of the Big Brother’s quantum computer. The vast areas of free land will be farmed by robots. From plant to animals and birds, all will be GMOs. This is all geared towards devesting all creation of the signature of God, the creator and possessor of the Heavens and the Earth(Gen.1,2, 14:19).

AI And Hybridization

Transhuman

Man can be hybridized in a number of ways. The old time method which Satan employed in time past is intermarriage between fallen evil angels and human females. Animals were also involved. The angels who participated in this Satanic hybridization programme and their humanoid offspring are imprisoned, kept in chains under darkness, waiting for the judgment of the Great Day of the Lord.

“And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.”(Jude 6).

“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;”(2 Peter 2:4 KJV).

Man can also be hybridized through gene sequencing, chemical injection, and alteration in the laboratory, incorporation of animal and plant genes into the human genome. Incorporation of animal gene into the human genome can also be achieved by vaccination with mRNA or rDNA vaccines. This method works faster essentially in a situation where it is coupled with health scare as with coronavirus. The mass of humanity who are gullible including some Christians can be manipulated and deceived by the globalists who claim to care about their wellbeing but are actually wolves in sheep’s clothing.

“The greatest tyrannies are perpetrated on the name of the noblest causes.”(Thomas Paine).

A more subtle way will be by turning human beings into cyborgs through biometric implants. These implants, nanobots, nanoparticle and neural mesh, connect men to the Big Brother’s Central Computer where they can be further processed and manipulated to think and act in a certain way chosen by the Big Brother. Through such means men can be programmed to do almost anything and even to die in a certain way. The one so hybridized will be hoodwinked into thinking he or she has become a God unto himself or herself, a Homo Deus of sorts.

He might even think his thoughts are intrinsic not knowing they are extrinsic and are being projected into his or her mind from external sources. Thoughts can be inserted or extracted from one’s mind, one’s thoughts can be broadcast on the net. A cyborg is a hackable animal; he has lost his free will. A person so controlled is at the mercy of the controller. This method of hybridization is attractive and exciting to the younger generation. In the future, there will be implants to enhance academic or athletic performances. Nanobots in the brain can connect students to neocortices in the cloud. The student can download almost any material into his brain. This will vastly enhance academic performance and excellence. There will be fewer students on university campuses. Lots of courses can be studied online. Students will only be present on campuses for a week or two at any time to attend practicals or do a practicum. Examinations will conducted online. Men and women will be able to perform beyond their natural abilities which will no doubt be enticing to many. Without proper instruction, Christians may fall prey to these advances in technology especially in situations where church leaders are totally ignorant of its ramifications, and clueless about its implications and damning nature and do not talk about it from the pulpit.

They will link it up with education, trade and travel. Those who reject it will have their bank accounts frozen or altogether taken over by the Big Brother. Students who reject it will be deregistered or lose their admission into institutions of high learning. In Nigeria today JAMB requires candidates seeking admission into universities and other tertiary institutions to present certificates of Covid-19 vaccination in order to write UTME. Young graduates who are eligible to serve the nation for one year are now required to present Covid-19 vaccine certificates to enter NYSC camps for training. In some teaching hospitals in Nigeria, patients are required to present certificates of Covid-19 vaccination in order to be booked for elective surgery. Some day, even in accident and emergency, patients will not be attended to unless they have proof of Covid-19 vaccination. If extended to the financial sector, the unvaccinated will have their accounts frozen and be financially and economically locked out of the society, totally ostracized and boycotted.

Implantable digital ID in the guise of vaccines links the digital currency to the body.

“The unvaccinated are not part of our society,” says the Italian prime minister Mario Draghi.

No vaccine no UTME, no vaccine no NYSC. It looks to me like a trade license. The unvaccinated are gradually being excluded from the society. One day, it will be no vaccination nor banking. And if there is no banking, there will be no buying and selling. And if you don’t buy and sell, you starve to death. It is that simple.

They will link it up with trade license, international passports, driver’s license making it impossible for those who reject it to go to school and to be virtually economically boycotted and ostracized from the society. At this time, the faith and trust of every believer in Christ shall be seriously tested. Make no mistake about it, those who have been taught that the saints shall be whisked away from the Earth before the arrival of the Coming Prince, shall not see it as the real McCoy. After all the Rapture has not yet taken place and the Man Of Sin, the Son Of Perdition is no where in sight.

Satan and his gang are bent on carrying out a coup d’etat against God and His holy ones. Their plan is very simply. If every inhabitant of the Earth is surreptitiously hybridized, there will be no one to rapture and there will be no pure humans left for Jesus to reign over in the Millennium. In this way they hope Jesus would be soundly defeated and “killed.” But that would not be allowed to happen.

Satan wants to thoroughly mess up humanity through technology. The most disheartening thing about it is that the Church as an institution is oblivious of the fact at the moment. A little bit more time will be required to carry out the work of sensitization. That is why we plead with God that the leader of the free world should not be a globalist nor antichrist, but rather one that favors free speech, civil rights and individual and civil liberties. He should not be a globalist who believes in NWO. He should be an advocate of nationalism and not globalism. We plead with Daddy he should be one who favors believers or at least believes in freedom of speech, worship and of religion and association, not the one that believes in one world government and one world religion. The work of sensitization of the saints to the implications of wearing nanobots in the brain, or RFID on the hand or forehead, or vaccination with mRNA or rDNA vaccines which have the potential of reprogramming and altering one’s genome is enormous, and requires, dedication, commitment, understanding and wisdom to convince the simple and to subvert the naysayers.

Abraham Shallom.

Classical Rapture Passage In 1 Thess.4:13-18 And Matt.24:29-31 In The Olivet Discourse

“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which 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 which 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 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 Thessalonians 4:13-18 KJV).

1 Thess.4:13-18 is the classical Rapture passage. It is the gold standard. Any other Rapture passage of the Scriptures must contain some or most of the salient points of this passage. We shall examine this passage in oder to see what the salient points are. In order to fish out these salient points, we must understand first why our brother Apostle Paul wrote this First Epistle to the Thessalonians. Our brother Apostle Paul wrote this letter to correct a wrong teaching that has entered into the Church of the Thessalonians. Some of the brethren in the Church of the Thessalonians or some invited teachers have confounded the minds of the brethren by the teaching that the resurrection is past alread and that the suffering and persecutions the brethren in Thessalonica were passing through were as a result of the outpouring of the wrath of God in the Day Of The Lord. In other words the Day of the Lord has begun, and the Thessalonian brethren were in the Day Of the Lord. This teaching was subverting the faith of some of the Thessalonian brethren who embraced it. If this teaching were true, it meant that the Thessalonian brethren had missed the Rapture and would be eternally separated from their loved ones. Paul wrote to correct this wrong teaching. The resurrection of the dead in Christ will occur at Christ’s second Coming. Because Jesus conquered death, at His second Advent, He will bring those who died or slept in the Lord with Him. We, the living the remaining, will not go before those who died in Christ.

Daniel’s 70 Sevens

In order not to be tedious and somewhat pedantic, we shall not repeat points we have already proven when we studied this passage in the original Greek language. Why the living the remaining? We have established that the Greek word rendered remaining here is “perileipomenoi” which means “to survive,” “to remain” or “to leave here and there.” We are the living who have survived the Great Tribulation. Our pretrib brethren will be quick to point out that there is no mention of the Great Tibulation in this passage. Sure, but it is alluded to by the phrase, “the living the remaining.” What are we survivors of? We are the survivors who have passed through the Great Tribulation. Those of us who shall be alive and remaining after the Great Tribulation shall be caught up(Greek: harpageisometha, derived from harpazo which means to catch up), raptured to meet them in the sky. And this event will occur when Christ descends from Heaven with a shout accompanied by His holy angels. The archangel in their midst shall blow the trumpet. The voice of the archangel sounding the trumpet of God shall wake up the dead in Christ. His voice in the trumpet sound shall cause them to rise from the dead first. The dead in Christ shall be raised. They will be the first to rise from the dead and meet Christ in the sky. Then we, the living the remaining shall be translated instantly to meet them in the sky. The phrase, the living the remaining is hyphenated in the Greek original(the living-the remaining; hoi zontes-hoi perileipomenoi). It is obvious from the text that the living or surviving remnants come out of the Great Tribulation. From henceforth, we shall forever be with the Lord, never to part again.

First, the Rapture occurs at the resurrection of the dead in Christ. The first to rise from the dead on this occasion would be the dead in Christ. The dead in Christ come back with Jesus. The living and the dead are raptured together but the dead in Christ shall be the first to ascend after Christ’s descent from the sky. This event occurs at the “Prarousia,” the second Coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus the Christ. There is no honest exegete who will separate the Rapture from the second Coming of Christ. The Rapture is one of the prime events of the second Coming of Christ. There is no way we can separate the two without doing violence to the Scriptures.

Christ’s descent from the Heavens is announced to the whole world by the accompanying brightness which will brighten the sky from one end of the Heavens to the other and the shout, and the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God. The darkened universe brought about by the cosmic and celestial disturbances associated with the breaking of the sixth seal will be dispelled by the appearance of His Coming, the Shekinah in the Heavens. We see here that the resurrection of the dead is linked up with the “Parousia,” Christ descent at His second Coming and our gathering together to meet Him in the sky. This is the comfort of the saints in the midst of the Great Tribulation. There is nothing secret, sudden, silent about this incident(except for those who are not expectant of His Coming), being preceded by the Great Tribulation(fourth and fifth seals) and the cosmic and celestial disturbances of the sixth seal.

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”(Matthew 24:29-31 KJV).

Let us now examine this passage of the Scriptures in the Olivet Discourse, and see if it has the salient points of the classical Rapture passage. The event described in this passage occurs after the [Great] Tribulation of those days and is followed by the darkening of the Sun, Moon, and Stars which no doubt is cosmic and celestial disturbances association with the breaking of the sixth seal. The Great Tribulation of those days corresponds with the fourth and fifth seals. The breaking of the sixth seal throws the Earth into utter darkness and frigidity. The darkness and cold is dispelled by the appearance of the Coming of the Son Of Man which is the Shekhinah Glory. The tribes of the Earth will be mourning as they see the Son Of Man Coming in power and great glory. Why? Because He is about to punish them for their evils. This is the same sequence of events outlined in Rev.6. After the cosmic and celestial disturbances(12-14) is the sudden realization by the Beast marked earth-dwellers that God’s wrath is about to begin and who shall be able to stand? Therefore, they seek vain refuge and enter into the rocks and the mountains saying, “fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him sits on the throne, for His wrath is about to begin, and who shall be able to stand.” This is equivalent to the inhabitants of the Earth shall mourn in the Thessalonian passage.

Christ appears in the sky. He dispatches His angels with the great sound of the trumpet. Then the saints are gathered from one end of Heavens to the other. In the classical passage in Thessalonians, the narrative is picked up from the sixth seal, the darkening of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. Here, the author goes back and picks up the narrative from the fourth and fifth seals, the [Great] Tribulation of those days. This is followed by the sixth seal, the darkening of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. We see the appearance of the Shekinah after the sixth seal, the darkening of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. Then He dispatches His angels with the trumpet of God to gather together His elect from one end of the Heavenly to the other. We see here that all the essential elements of the classical Rapture passage are present in this passage in the Olivet Discourse, with the explicit additional information that this events is preceded by the [Great] Tribulation of those days which as we have shown is implied in the classical Rapture passage in Thessalonians by the hyphenated phrase, “the living-the remaining” or “the living-the surviving.” Armageddon is not in view in this passage. It is still some time away in the future. We do not know exactly how many years away because we are not told.

We can see that there is no way an honest exegete can factor in Armageddon into the equation at this time. It is theological gimmickry to say that those who were taken were taken into the Millennium.

Avraham Shallom.

W A T C H(4)

The Ten-Nation Confederation

Sudan 🇸🇩

Sudan 🇸🇩 is one of the seven secondary nations of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire 😳 Of Satan. In OT times, the region west and south of Egypt 🇪🇬 was referred to as Cush. Cush in Hebrew means black. The KJV renders it Ethiopia 🇪🇹 which is not biblically accurate and could be misleading.

Cush is a grandson of Noah through Ham, his youngest son. However, modern day Ethiopia was formerly known as Abbysinia until the early 1930s when it became known as Ethiopia 🇪🇹. In OT times, it was known as Sheba. The Queen 👸 of Sheba came from the ends of the Earth 🌎 to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater than Solomon is here(Luk.11:31). He is J E S U S. The Eunuch in charge of the treasury of Queen Candace(Act.8:27), the chancellor of the exchequer so to say, is not from Ethiopia as the KJV alleges but from Meroë which was in the region of modern day Sudan. Therefore, Queen 👸 Candace of Ethiopia 🇪🇹 was actually Queen Candace 👸 of Meroë which was in modern day region of Sudan 🇸🇩. Meroë was one of the kingdoms that emerged from the Cushitic Empire of Taharqo(biblical Tirhakah) after its disintegration(2 King.19:9; Isa.37:9). Other kingdoms in this same region were Mukuria and Alodia(Alao). So, Sudan 🇸🇩 will be the first of the 7 secondary nations of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire Of Satan to normalise relations with Israel. The others will be Libya 🇱🇾(Put), Greek Syria 🇸🇾(Javan), Turkey 🇹🇷 and Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 (Gomer and Togarmah: it is Turkmen that inhabit Azerbaijan), Iraq 🇮🇶(Babylon👶 or Arphachshad), and Iran(Persia or Tiras). The three power base nations are Magog, Meshech, and Tuval. These are the founders of the Roman Empire. It is the Iron in the two legs and toes of the image in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Dan.2. These are the European 🇪🇺 nations of which Germany 🇩🇪 is the the head and heart(Centre).

Two Scripture passages give details of these nations or better still peoples groups(Ezek.38:1-6; Rev.13:2). Leopard is Greece 🇬🇷 or better still Greek Syria 🇸🇾. Bear is Persia or Iran. Bear is the symbol of the Medopersian Empire. But Media will not be part of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire Of Satan but will be allied to it. Lion is Babylon 👶. See Dan.7. In the Eighth And Final Beast Empire Of Satan all the descendants of the three sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth are represented. See Table of nations in Gen.10-11. Ham sired Cush, and Cush begat Nimrod. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. He founded the ancient kingdoms of Babylon and Assyria. He, in defiance to God builded Babel, introduced Mother-Child worship(one world religion), and false humanistic goverment(one world government). Nimrod was a blackman, for he was the son of Cush whose name means black. He was believed to be Sargon I the First king of Assyria. He was believed to be a “naphal,” a fallen angel who cohabited with human females or their offspring who survived the deluge. The nephilim who survived the deluge were subsequently wiped out by the sons of Jacob(the children of Israel 🇮🇱). For further details 😀, please see my article, “The Eighth And Final Beast Empire Of Satan.” Link: https://mtzionheritageministries.com/2019/09/21/568/

When we understand these things, we can monitor the major developments of the End Times, and thereby ascertain the nearness of the commencement of the 70th week of Daniel.

We shall simplify it and make it palatable as much as we can. Majority of us have no knack for history or geography as also for Mathematics. But we cannot divorce history from eschatology. We must understand where we are coming from in order to know where we are going. We do not need the details as do professional historians and historiographers but the salient facts germane to eschatology.

Libya 🇱🇾

Who would have thought Libya 🇱🇾 would one day think of normalising diplomatic relations with Israel 🇮🇱 when Muamar Gaddafi was the president? When Palestinian hijackers seized Air France 🇫🇷 Airbus in 1976, they flew it to Benghazi in Libya 🇱🇾 before they finally landed it at Entebbe Airport in Uganda 🇺🇬. IDF paratrouper commandos commanded by Yoni(Jonathan) Netanyahu, the elder brother of the incumbent Israeli 🇮🇱 Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu led a mission to rescue the hostages. He was the only Israeli soldier that died in the mission. This revetting story is told in books like “90 minutes At Entebbe” and “Operation Thunderbolt.” This is to remind us of the extent of antagonism and hostility from Libya 🇱🇾 under Muamar Gaddafi. Today, Gaddafi is gone and Libya 🇱🇾 is no longer antagostic to Israel 🇮🇱. No condition is permanent in this world. Men are born, they grow old and die, but God lives for ever. Generation comes, and genration goes, but the Earth 🌎 forever 💙 stands(Eccl.1:4). The only thing that is constant they say is change. But I know that the only thing that is constant and eternal is God. There is a sense 👏 in which God is the only one eternal. For instance, God was in eternity past before anything else was created. Everything else has a beginning but God has no beginning. Men and angels whether holy or fallen evil angels 😇 have a beginning. In this sense, only God is eternal. In the French Bible, the Hebrew word Yahweh which is rendered LORD in the KJV is translated “Le Eternal,” which means the “THE ETERNAL ONE.” What an apt discription and beautiful dynamic equivalent! Regimes come, and regimes go. We have seen many 👨 of them in this nation, Nigeria 🇳🇬. The current one will also pass away. Their tenure will soon expire. As a matter of factor, some of them are already dead, though purported to be alive.

In like manner, when Umar Bashir was president of Sudan 🇸🇩, who would ever mention diplomatic relations with Israel 🇮🇱. Last year, he was ousted in a bloodless coup, and now, there is a regime change, Sudan 🇸🇩 has signed a diplomatic accord with Israel 🇮🇱. No condition is permanent in this world. No matter how tough the opposition, The God Of The Heavens 🙏 and of Israel 🇮🇱, the Father Of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus The Christ can turn the situation around at any moment in order to fulfill His Word. The Heavens And The Earth 🌎 may pass away, but God’s word will not pass away(Matt.24:35). God’s word will remain inviolate, immortal and dynamic in those who believe in Him.

It is written by Jeremy the prophet that The Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. When Mary, the mother 👩 of our Lord Jesus was due for delivery, she was still resident in Nazareth in the Galilee. She and her husband Joseph had no immediate plans to relocate to Bethlehem in Judaea. A decree went forth from Ceasar Augustus that every citizen of the Roman Empire should be enumerated in his or her native village, town or city(Luk.2:1). In demographics, this is called “de juri” population. There is a “de juri” population, and there is a “de facto” population. There is a de juri” census and a “de facto census.” The same prophet also wrote that following the birth of The Messiah, The king of Israel 🇮🇱 and the Jews, “Rachel shall weep 🙌 for her children and refuse to be consoled because they were no more”(Jere.3:21; Matt.2:18). The envy of Herod The king of Judea, a puppet 🐶 of Rome, led to the fulfillment after he felt deceived by the Magi, the wise men from the East who enquired of the birthplace of the King 🤴 Of The Jews, for said they, “we have seen His Star in the East and are come to worship Him(Matt.2:2). He was alarmed . He took a desperate action which led to the massacre of innocent 😇 children. God’s word will never fail.  He has a way of turning situations around in order to fulfill His word and accomplished divine purposes. He will turn the table on His enemies.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”(Isaiah 55:8-11 KJV).

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) 🇸🇦 practises the toughest and most virulent brand of Islam ☪️ called Wahabism. Mecca in KSA which is the center of Islam 🕋 is the birthplace of Muhammed. From Israel’s 🇮🇱 independence on 14th May, 1948 untill recently Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 has maintained a pariah pose toward the Jewish state. But today, what do we see? KSA has changed its pose towards Israel 🇮🇱. Without its approval, no Arab state would dare talk of diplomatic relations with Israel. The Saudis 🇸🇦 do things differently. They are the masters of the game of diplomacy. They operate through proxys. They are shadow masters. Even when it comes to terrorism, they are shadow sponsors. They will not send their citizens to die as Islamic sahids(martyrs), but the citizens of other Arab and Islamic nations can die. They will provide the money 💰. They are masters of the game. Their petrodollar speaks for them. Money 💰 answereth all(Eccl.10:19).

For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.”(Eccl.7:12 KJV).

The truth is that time is drawing near. Things are changing fast because both God and His angels, the Devil 😈 and his fallen evil angels 😇, and man are working in concert to bring history to a consummate end. So, things must change, and that very rapidly; for time cometh when no man shall work(Jon.9:4, 11:9).

Iraq 🇮🇶

The other nation amongst the 7 secondary nations of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire Of Satan is Iraq 🇮🇶. In biblical times it was referred to as Babylon. Babylon is the third of the 7 Beast Empires that persecuted Israel 🇮🇱, the first and second being Egypt 🇪🇬 and Assyria. We must distinguish Babylon as an empire from Babylon as city and peoples group and also Babylon as a religion which is Mother-Child worship or humanism. In King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Dan.2, it was represented by the head of gold in the image king 🤴 Nebuchadnezzar II saw. In Daniel’s dream in Dan.7, it was represented by the winged lion. Babylon is modern day Iraq 🇮🇶. Iraq 🇮🇶 is very important 👏 in the formation of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire Of Satan in that the city of Babylon rebuilt by Saddam Hussain which is in modern day Iraq 🇮🇶 will be the religious and commercial headquarters of the Empire. Babylon as both city and religion will be destroyed by God at the outpouring of the final seventh bowl 🥣 judgment(Rev.17,18).

The Medes who are the Kurds of today 😀 shall be the first to attack Babylon.

“Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.”(Isa.13:17-22 KJV).

It will finally be destroyed by the ten kings🤴 of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire Of Satan.

“And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.”(Rev.17:16-17 KJV).

When Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq 🇮🇶, he had a four stage plan to conquer Jerusalem. Till today, after his ouster by the Americans, Iraq has no diplomatic relations with Israel. We know that that will change very soon. If other Arab nations can establish diplomatic relations with Israel, why not Iraq?

Iran 🇮🇷

Iran(Persia, Tiras) is one of the seven secondary nations of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire Of Satan. But today as it stands, Iran 🇮🇷 is the most acidic and vitriolic enemy 🙄 of Israel 🇮🇱. By all means, both covert and overt, it seeks the destruction of the Jewish state . We must make a distinction between the regime in power 🔋 and the people of Iran 🇮🇷. The vast majority 🙄 of Iranians 🇮🇷 want peace with Israel 🇮🇱 and the US 🇺🇸, but the Islamic regime in power 🔋in Tehran is something else. Inasmuch as His 👋 Word has said it, it must come to pass. God says, I believe it, and that settles it. Iran 🇮🇷 must change its pariah pose towards the Jewish nation. . There may or may not be a regime change 🤔. God is not limited to any one method. He is the omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent 🕉 God, the Sovereign Lord of the universe 🙏. He cannot be straight-jacketed. He is not bound by any stereotype. He cannot be put in a box. God cannot be boxed and tied up with a ribbon and labeled 🏷. He can do something one way at one time, and another way at another time. There are one and a thousand ways open to Him to fulfill His Word and accomplish His plan and purpose. He works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform.

Ghanbar Naderi, an Iranian journalist, a columnist with Kayhan International speaking from Tehran on Chinese CGTN called on Tehran to stop threatening Israel 🇮🇱 with destruction and to respect the sovereignty of other nations like Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 and Israel in the region. The regime in Tehran needs to come to grips with reality. If not the present regime, may be some other in the near future will recognise the sovereignty of the Jewish state and accordingly establish full diplomatic relations with her.

Turkey 🇹🇷

Gomer is one of the sons of Japheth the elder. And Gomer begat Togarmah. In ancient times Gomer and his descendants inhabited the area referred to as Turkey 🇹🇷 and perhaps parts of Ukraine 🇺🇦 Armenia 🇦🇲 and Azerbaijan 🇦🇿. By and large, the highest concentration of the descendants of Gomer and Togarmah is in modern day Turkey 🇹🇷 except the southern and western parts which are inhabited by the Medes which are the modern day Kurds.We can state safely with reasonable degree of certainty that the Turkmen of today who populate Turkey 🇹🇷 and Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 are the Gomer and Togarmah of old.

In the formation of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire Of Satan what matters is ancestry not geography. We may not be able to delineate these peoples groups accurately in relation to modern states until the ten peoples group confederation is formally instituted. In the past Israel 🇮🇱 has had good relation with Turkey 🇹🇷 but the coming of Tayyip Recep Erdoğan into power has changed the equation. As we have already established, no condition is permanent. A regime change could do the tricks. Erdoğan will not rule Turkey forever. Even while he is still in power 🔋, his attitude towards Israel 🇮🇱 may change. There are other factors like economy, finance, and politics other than religion, history, and age old animosity that influence relation between nations.

The final covenant of peace ✌ between Israel 🇮🇱 and its Arab and Islamic neighbors to be brokered by the Man 👨 Of Sin will certainly involve Turkey 🇹🇷 inasmuch as these two 😋 peoples groups are found majorly in its borders. So, Turkey 🇹🇷 is one nation on which we the watchers must keep an eye and watch ⌚ with keen interest as touching its political developments. There is no doubt that when most of the Arab and Islamic nations surrounding Israel have developed diplomatic relations with her, the nonconformist nations will be more or less isolated in terms of trade, commerce and political, and economic cooperations. This isolationist state may force it to establish diplomatic relations with Israel 🇮🇱.

Syria 🇸🇾

The current prime minister of Lebanon 🇱🇧, Israel’s 🇮🇱 neighbour to the North is interested in peace with Israel 🇮🇱. Talks has begun secretly. The same is true 👍 of Syria 🇸🇾, Israel’s 🇮🇱 neighbour to the north and east which incidentally is in a pertual state of war with Israel 🇮🇱 since 1948. No situation is too hard for God to change. Is there 🤔 anything too extraordinary for God to do?(Jere.32:27). There are no impossibilities with God(Mk.14:36). With God all things are possible. And all things are possible to him that believeth(Mk.9:23). “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”?Hebrews 11:6 KJV).

I will stop here for now 😤 with this powerful 🔋 song culled from the Scroll 📜 of Jeremiah(Jere.32:27).

Behold, I Am The LORD, The LORD GOD of Hosts. X 2

Is there anything, X 2

Too hard for me?

Is there anything 🤔 anything 🤔 anything 🤔

Too hard for me? X 2.

There is nothing, nothing, nothing, too hard for you.

So shall He fulfill all His 👋 promises at the time appointed to the consternation of enemies and the joy of His faithful servants who put their hope and trust in Him in Jesus mighty Name. Amen.

Avraham Shallom.