Babylon And The End Times

The Creation And Fall Of Adam

In eternity past, Lucifer, the highest archangel, in charge of praise and worship in heaven rebelled against God, his master and creator(Is.14:12-20). He succeeded in luring one-third of the angels of God to participate in his revolt against God(Rev.12:3-4). Thusly, he became Satan, the adversary of God. He and his co-conspirators were tried and sentenced to eternity in Hell and the Lake Of Fire(Matt.24:41). He appealed. This was before the creation of man. The one-week creation account in Genesis is actually a recreation. The original creation in Gen.1:1 was perfect. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”(Genesis 1:1 KJV). How did the Earth become formless and void? It was because of satanic rebellion. This is the gap theory.

God has to vindicate His justice by a retrial of the conspirators. Theologians call it theodicy, the vindication of God’s justice. Meanwhile Satan together with those angels who sided with him in the satanic revolt was cast out of the Heaven of Heavens into the Dark Void pending the outcome of a retrial. To vindicate His justice, God created man in His image and likeness. Man is the highest of all created beings. God put man in the Garden of Eden and suffered Satan to tempt him. He fell. Man, the epitome of God’s creation, made in His image and likeness will be condemned to Hell as Satan and his fallen evil. No angel is made in the image and likeness of God. God is a spirit being. Angels are also spirit beings, but they are not made in the image and likeness of God. They are not in the same class with God. Man is made in the image and likeness of God. Therefore man is in the same class with God. If man made in the image and likeness of God is condemned to Hell when he rebelled against God, then Satan has lost the appeal; he can no longer question the justice of God. So, human history is an appeal trial of Satan, and the Universe is a Divine Court in session.

One-third of the angels in heaven sided with Satan in the revolt(Rev.12:4a). He and his followers were cast out of the third heaven into the Dark Void and the starry heavens. This is the origin of evil angels called demons or evil spirits, the gods of the nations whom men worship. These evil spirits are locked in unrighteousness; for they can never repent. They have made their choice; it was an individual choice. The obedient angels are now locked in righteousness. They can no longer rebel against God. They shall for ever be faithful to Him. They have made their choice too; it was an individual choice also. After resurrection, the saints shall be locked in righteousness eternally. They shall be like the holy angels, incapable of sin(Matt.22:30; Mk.12:25; Luk.20:34,35). In the same way every man must be given opportunity to make one’s own choice. The sin of Adam is an imposition on the collective will of humanity. Every man must make his own choice individually. Every man must be responsible and accountable to God.

Man was also created to take the place of Satan in heaven to praise and worship God. In addition, God instituted a divine programme of redemption for man. The first promise of redemption is Gen.3:15. “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”(Genesis 3:15 KJV). Theologians regard this verse as protoevangelion. It foreshadows the preaching of the Gospel of redemption of man. But Satan was determined to take man to Hell with him. Hell was built for the Devil and his angels(Matt.25:41). Therefore he devised a counter strategy to corrupt the whole of humanity. If the whole of humanity can be destroyed or disqualified, God cannot reclaim rulership of the Earth, because He would have no man on Earth over whom He would rule. If Satan cannot win in a court of law, may be he can in the battlefield. He went to war with God. Thus, the origin of the cosmic conflict.

If the whole human race can be hybridized, then humanity will be consigned to Hell in time and eternity with Satan and his fallen evil angels, thusly defeating God’s plan to redeem man. How would Satan accomplish his plan? Satan was not devested of his anointing when he was cast out of Heaven Of Heavens. He makes perverse use of his powers and abilities. He dispatched a segment of his fallen evil angels to cohabit with human females. Satan and his fallen angels have abilities to take up human form and body and be visible to the naked eye. Satan succeeded in hybridizing almost the whole human race. Only Noah and his family were spared. The statement “Noah was righteous in his generation,” is better translated “Noah was pure in his descendants.”(Gen.6:8; 7:1). Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord(Gen.6:8). God established His covenant with Noah(Gen.6:18, 9:9). It is purely the mercy of God that Noah and his family were not corrupted. Noah walked with God.

To truncate the satanic onslaught, and preserve a pure human race, God wiped out the predeluvian human race including the fallen angels who did not keep their first estate and their humanoid offspring except Noah and his family(Gen.7). The human souls were imprisoned in Hell and the spirits of those fallen evil angels who participated in the satanic hybridization programme were incarcerated in the shaft of the abyss. 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 ‭1:6‬ ‭KJV‬‬). They will be employed by God for the punishment of those who do not have the seal of God in their forehead during the fifth trumpet judgment in the Day of the Lord’s wrath(Rev.9:1-12).

The OT underworld of the dead consisted of Hell where the unrighteous human dead were incarcerated, the bottomless pit which is the containment chamber for the fallen evil angels who did not keep the first estate as angels but cohabited with human females, and the OT paradise which was referred to as Abraham’s blossom. “There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.”(Luke‬ ‭16:19-31‬ ‭KJV‬‬). Before the arrival of Jesus the Messiah no man had seen God the Father. “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.”(John 1:18 KJV). Before the incarnation of Jesus, no man had ever entered Heaven. “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.”(John 3:13 KJV).

Until the blood of Jesus, the go’el(kinsman redeemer) was available to make atonement and reconciliation for the sin of humanity at the Mercy Seat in the Holy Of Holies of the Temple of God in the Heaven of Heavens, no man could be admitted into Heaven, not even Father Abraham or Moses. “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.”(John 8:56 KJV). When Jesus rose from the dead, he took the OT saints with Him. “Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.”(Matthew 27:50-54 KJV). The OT paradise under the Earth is now empty or nonexistent. When NT saints(believers) sleep in the Lord, they go straight to Heaven. The NT paradise is now in Heaven.

The Underworld Of The Dead

It is believed some of the fallen evil angels, the nephilim survived the deluge. Nimrod is believed to be a descendant of the giants. He is believed to be the first king of Assyria, Sargon I.

It was the fear of some of these giants that drove the ten spies to give an evil report of unbelief. They became guilty of unbelief and unpersuadablenesss. They saw the sons of Anak: Ahiman, Shehai, and Talmai. The Anakim were nephilim. They claimed they were like grasshoppers in their own eyes; and so also in the eyes of the Anakim. “And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”(Numbers 13:22, 33 KJV).

There were also other peoples groups accounted giants like the Emim(Deut.2:10,11), the Zamzumim(Deut.2:20,21), the Philistines, Goliath and his brother Lahmi(1 Sam.17:23; 1 Chron.20:5), Ishbibenov, Saph, and a polydactyl(2 Sam.21:16-22), and the Amorites. “For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.”(Deuteronomy 3:11 KJV). These fallen evil angels and their descendants were not always giants in physical appearance but had three characteristics: superhuman intelligence, extra-ordinary physical strength, and wikedness. But the God of Israel ensured they were wiped out amongst men. Jewish rabbis believe that animals were also involved in the satanic hybridization programme. If not, why did God destroy some animals?

“And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.”(Genesis 7:21-24 KJV).

The sentence against Satan and his fallen evil angels is executed in four stages. First, he and his fallen evil angels were cast out of the Heaven of heavens, the abode of God to the Dark Void and Starry heavens where they abide till this day. Satan and his co-conspirators have dwelt in the Dark Void and the Starry heavens for over six thousand years.

Second, precisely in the middle of the 70th week, they shall be cast down to the Earth by archangel Michael, the angel of God in charge of war, the protector of the people of God, the children of Israel, and believers in Jesus the Messiah, and the angels of God under his command.

“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”(Revelation 12:7-17 KJV).

When he is cast down to the Earth with his fallen evil angels, he will be filled with wrath and shall possess the antiChrist, the sea-beast who declares himself God, and demands worship of all mortals(Rev.13:2; 2 Thess.2:3). His most powerful subordinates, the wicked spirits in the Heavenlies will possess whosoever they can. The rest of them will seek refuge in the rebuilt city of Babylon, the commercial and religious capital of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire of Satan(Rev.18:2).There will be a preponderance of evil as nakedness and witchcraft escalate. There will certainly be Christians here on Earth at that time as evidenced by the fifth seal martyrs(Rev.6:9-11), those who shall be beheaded for the word of God and the testimony which they shall uphold(Rev.20:4), and those who will overcome him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”(Revelation 12:11 KJV). The controversy centres around whether these are “Tribulation Saints,” the “Left Behind,” after the Rapture has taken place as pretribulationists contend, or that the Rapture has not yet occurred, and all living saints shall go through the Great Tribulations as posttribulationists and prewrathers contend.

Third, when Christ retakes physical possession of the Earth at Armageddon(Rev.19:11-21), Satan shall be cast in the bottomless pit(Rev.20:1-4), whilst the antiChrist and the false prophet shall be cast into the Lake of Fire and brimstone(Rev.19:20). His fallen evil angels shall be also incarcerated in the shaft of the abyss and Hell.

Fourth, at the expiry of the Millennium, Satan shall be paroled for a season. He shall lead another revolt against God and the resurrected saints, using the same Germanic peoples(Magogites) who are his human minions and co-conspirators. They shall surround the New And Heavenly Jerusalem, the abode of Christ and the saints. God has had enough. Fire shall descend from God out of Heaven, and they will be enmolated in the heavenly conflagration. “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”(Revelation 20:7-10 KJV). After the final revolt, Satan shall be cast into the Lake Of Fire and Brimstone where the sea-Beast and the false prophet had been for a thousand years previously.

The Table Of Nations(Gen.10)

Noah And His Sons

The postdeluvian world was repopulated by Noah and his sons. Every man on Earth today is descendant of Noah and his sons. The three sons of Noah were Shem, Ham, and Japhet. Japhet was the eldest of the three sons. His descendants were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tuval, Meshech, and Tiras. Gomer begat Ashkenaz, Riphath, Togarmah. And the sons of Javan were Elisha, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. These are the Indo-European peoples that inhabit Europe, and parts of Asia. Ham begat Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. And Cush begat Nimrod. Cush in Hebrew means black. Therefore Nimrod was a black man. The descendants of Ham populated Africa, parts of Asia and the Southern Hemisphere. The descendants of Shem are Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. They populated parts of Asia, North and South Americas. Japheth the elder was the first born. He has the right of primogeniture which includes leadership, double inheritance, and family priesthood. He taketh away the first that He may establish the second. The priesthood went to his younger brother Shem. However Japhet retained double inheritance and leadership. Ham was cursed because he viewed his father’s nakedness when he was in a drunken stupor. He became a servant to his brethren.

“And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.”(Genesis 9:25-27 KJV).

The tent of Shem is a spiritual tent. Salvation is of the Jews who are descendants of Shem(Jon.4:22). The seven Beast Empires that negatively impacted Israel involved all the three sons of Noah.

The Tower Of Babel

The Ziggurat

After the deluge, God commanded Noah and his sons to disperse all over the Globe(Gen.9:1, 7). But Nimrod, a grandson of Noah through Cush, in defiance to God built a Tower and city to reach up to Heavens. He was a mighty one in the Earth. Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord(Gen.10:8). His prowes in hunting was not just about animals but men. Nimrod was a hunter of the souls of men. The beginning of His kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar(Gen.10:10). The Tower of Babel was built to reach up to the Heavens. It was for astrology and stargazing and the consultation of demons. There was a market around it. It acted also as a civic center. The leadership held sessions in it. It was also an educational institution. The caste of priests to Marduk, the god of gold and the patron deity of Babylon had their cultic institute in the Tower of Babel. It was a beehive of activities. The remnant of the Tower Of Babel, the Ziggurats are still in Iraq till today. Although today Babylon is not the seat of false religion of mother-child founded by Nimrod, it shall be restored to its pristine state in the latter days.

“Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth. And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven. Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.”(Zechariah 5:5-11 KJV).

A woman in an ephah, a holy measure is an abomination. The woman is Seminaris, the wife of Nimrod. The land of Shinar which is her base is Babylon where the false religion of mother-child worship began. God confounded their languages which led to a forced migration. As they migrated, they bore with them the vestiges of the religion of mother-child worship founded by Nimrod and his wife Semiramis.

(a) Education

Modern Education

Babel: A Global Ideal

But what is Babylon? Babylon is a global ideal, a false humanistic philosophical ideology epitomized in the one world religion and one world government of the antiMessiah, that exalts man above God. Satan said to the woman Eve, “Had God said? In the day that you shall eat of it, ye shall be as God.” Thus casting aspersions on the person of God. It questioned the existence of God. Indeed it does not recognize God. It began in the Garden of Eden when the Serpent beguiled Eve and she ate the forbidden fruit. After the deluge, it was given fillip by Nimrod who established false human government, and religion of mother-child worship and humanistic education and consumerism and commercialism. It will be epitomized in the last days by the false one world religion of the Dragon-Beast headquartered in Babylon. Babylon is the symbol of man’s rebellion and insubordination to God. It symbolizes everything that had its origin in humanistic evolution. Yes! There is a physical city called Babylon. It shall be destroyed. There is false humanistic region headquartered in Babylon. It shall be destroyed(Rev.17, 18). The whole Earth itself shall be salted with fire. “Seeing that all these things shall be destroyed, what manner persons ought you to be”(2 Pet.3:11)?

The global ideal originated from Satan through his minion Nimrod. Since Satan’s attempt to hybridize the whole of humanity failed, he has to devise some other means by which he could destroy or disqualify the whole of humanity. It is the philosophical concepts of atheism and evolution. It is called humanism. It is the concept and belief that man is God. It is not entirely new. It began in the Garden of Eden when Adam and his wife Eve ate the forbidden fruit.

“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”(Genesis 3:4-5 KJV).

The Hebrew word “elohim” translated “gods” in Gen.3:5 in KJV should have been translated “God.” In Hebrew “elohim” is generic. It could refer to the Almighty God, the Yahweh of Judah(Gen.1:1), the abominations of the nations(Exod.12:12, 15:11, 18:11, 20:3, 23) the fallen evil angels whom the Gentiles worship, and important human personalities(Gen.22:28). The context determines the meaning. Satan did not mean that on eating the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve were to become like the fallen evil angels, the gods whom the nations worship. He meant that they would be as God, the Supreme Being Who is the creator of the Heavens and the Earth. When the antiMessiah shall make his debut at the rebuilt Third Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, he shall sit in the Holy Of Holies displaying himself as being God.

“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 Thessalonians 2:4 KJV). Humanism would become the guiding principle of every human acitivity – government, religion, education, entertainment and media, culture and tradition, raising family, commerce and industry and technology.

There are four Cardinal points or pillars to humanistic philosophy. These are atheism, evolution, moral relativity, and amorality.

Atheism

Atheism

The word theism is derived from the Greek word theos which means God. When the letter a is added to a Greek word as a prefix, it negates it’s meaning. Atheos means no God. Atheism as a philosophy of life therefore means that there is no God, nor sovereign, nor creator, nor Being to whom man shall one day render account. But there is a sovereign God who created man in His own image and likeness, and is the possessor of the heavens and the earth(Gen.1-2, 14:19). The Bible dismisses as a fool anyone who claims and teaches that there is no God. The fool hath Said in his heart, there is no God(Ps.14:1; 53:1). The Bible did not try to prove that God is, but presented His existence as a self-evident fact both from nature and specific revelations(Ps. 19).

Evolution.

The Big Bang

Evolution is a collolary, a natural consequence of atheism. For if there is no God, then man is not created. If man is not created, then he evolved from lower forms of life. Evolution cannot account for the complexity and orderliness in nature. It does not stretch credulity to believe that the complexity and orderliness of the human body, it’s morphology, anatomy, biochemistry and physiology, the diversity of the histology and cell biology necessitate an intelligent creator at work. If man evolved from lower animals, he ought to have evolved to some higher animal ever since. But albeit, he is still the same old sinner, liar, cheat and murderer he has ever been from the Garden Of Eden. Evolution is an unrealistic and nonscientific insanity. Whatever that is called science that is opposed to the word of God is false. Apostle Paul writing to his protégé Timotheus admonished him saying: ” O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vein babbling, and oppositions of science falsely so called: which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.”(1 Tim.5:20,21). The evolutionists are not scientists at all. Science is the observation, study and experimentation with nature. And nature itself is not opposed to God: for God is the author and maker of nature. The evolutionists are rebellious and graceless men who seek to absolve their conscience of any responsibility and accountability towards God. They are intellectually dishonest men and women who think they can through denial of accountability to God extricate themselves from the wrath and judgment of God. For this reason also they attack and ridicule those of us who believe that God is and that He is the creator of all things in existence, man being the zenith of His divine genius and creativity whom He made in His image and likeness; our belief being a rebuke and condemnation to their unbelief and rebelliousness.

Moral Relativity.

The third pillar of humanisn is a logical outgrowth of the first two pillars. If there is no God, man is not created. If man is not created, he evolved. If he evolve, he is still evolving. If he is still evolving, there are no absolutes for living. There is nothing concrete, solid or eternal on which to build one’s life. Righteousness is conformity to a standard. And God is the standard for morality. If there is no God, there is no standard for morality. Man is still evolving, all is in state of change and flux. All is quicksand; there is no foundation. Everything is relative. This is moral relativism. If it feels good, you go and do it. If you like do it. You cannot tell me what to do, an I cannot tell you what to do.

Amorality

The fourth cardinal pillar when followed to its logical conclusion is utter chaos. This fourth pillar is pragmatic and relates to value systems and lifestyles, conduct and manner of life. If atheism and evolution are true, then amorality reigns supreme. There is nothing right or wrong. It is a matter of expediency and inexpediency, efficiency and inefficiency, likes and dislikes etc. You cannot tell me what to do: I cannot tell you what to do. For you to tell me what to do, you have made yourself the standard. And for me to tell what to do I have made myself the standard. And there is no standard. It is a matter of likes and dislikes. I did it my way. You go ahead and do it your own way. I did my own thing. You go ahead and do your own thing. Followed to its logical conclusion, there should be no government, no legislature, no judiciary, no law enforcement agents, no border guards, no soldiers to defend the territorial integrity and the values of nations. What this would result into is a dog eat dog society, the law of the jungle, the survival of the fittest. It is your thing; I cannot tell you what to do. If you do not leave alone, we are going to fight. When we fight, the winner takes all. There will be nothing like love, justice, mercy and humaneness.

Discourse

The worth, integrity, nobility and dignity of human life lie in the fact that God created man in His own image and likeness. He breathed into Him the breath of life, and man became a living being(Gen.1:27). If atheism is true, there is no God. And if there is no God man is not created. He evolved. And if he evolved, there is no basis for human dignity, worth, integrity or nobility. He is an animal in evolution. Out of such thinking emerges the proabortion mentality and euthanasia. If man is an animal, what is wrong with terminating unwanted pregnancies, and euthanizing the elderly who have outlived their usefulness. Millions of animals are killed for human consumption daily. Thousands of pets are put to sleep on a daily basis. So, what is wrong with eliminating unwanted humans; the mentally ill and the physically deformed. There will be nothing wrong with cannibalism, ritual killings, murder, oppression, racism, and political demagoguery.

Marvin J. Rosenthal has written, ” if there are no moral absolutes, no God-given eternal standard of right or wrong, then what is wrong with homosexuality, adultery, drugs, alcoholism, and wickedness and pervasions of every kind which have invaded and virtually dominate the present hour of history.” If there are no moral absolutes, incest and pedophilia and child pornography would be games anyone who so desires would play.

Ireland have legalized same sex marriage. The US Supreme Court has voted 5-4 in favour of Gay marriages, and thus became the 20th nation in the world to do so. No state in the US can delegitimatize Gay marriages or bar same sex couples from getting married. If homosexualism is legalized, what about pedophilia, incest, adultery, rape and bestiality, and sexual perversions of all kinds? These evils which destroy society carry the death penalty as does homosexualism under the law of Moses(Lev. 20:10-20; Rom.1:27).

Man is headed towards the globalization of humanistic thinking, which has captured, and now controls the minds of most men, especially in the western society. It is the philosophy of Satan, the Supreme personality of evil, the enemy of God, and the souls of men. In very many ways, through radio and television, the internet and the entertainment industry, the media, educational institutions, through music and cultural revolution, we are being bombarded by humanistic philosophy based on the supposition that there is no God, that man evolved, and that there are no moral absolutes.

But Apostle Paul admonished us that we must not be conformed to this world(Rom.12:2). The Greek word translated world here is aeion which is better translated age. It denotes the moving world. It is passing away. “Love not the world, neither the things that in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in Him. For all that is the world, the lust of the flesh, the last of the eyes, and the pride, is not of the Father, but of the world. And the World passeth away, and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.“(1 Jon.2:15-17). But unfortunately, and tragically for that matter, the humanistic philosophy of This Age(olam haze), is squeezing many of us, children of God, into its mold, and so tightly for that matter that we would be nigh unto spiritual death if it were possible. We must not be fashioned, molded, shaped, put into a box, wrapped up, and tied up with the ribbon of this age’s humanistic philosophy.

What can we do to get out of this choke hold, and suffocating grasp? We must be transformed by the renewing of our minds(Rom.12:2). In order not to allow the external godless philosophy of this unregenerate world system to come upon us and mold our thinking and mindset, we must be transformed by the word of God. The Greek word translated transformed in the KJV is metamorphou, from which we derive the English word metamorphosis. It is a biological term. In the Greek, it is a passive verb. The transfiguration of the ova to larva, pupa and the imago is inevitable while it is in the right environment. The ova has all the genetic ability to become the imago in the right environment. With enabling environment, the transformation is passive. In the case of spiritual transformation to maturity, the mind must first be renewed with the word of God. The renewing of the mind is active. This means that we have the responsibility to renew our minds by ingestion of the Word of God. If the mind is not renewed with the word of God, there can be no transformation to spiritual maturation. The word of God is the building block with which the Holy Spirit builds the image of Christ into our soul. We all with open face, beholding in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord( 2 Cor.3:18). The word is like a looking glass. When we look into the word of liberty, we see two images: the image of the Christ, and our own image. There will always be differences. We must then desire to conform to the image of the Christ, which gives impetus to the Holy Spirit, the divine surgeon, to carry out the inward organ transplant and the plastic reconstruction as it were. For the Holy Spirit to take full control of our lives, our minds must be renewed with the word of God. We must be doers of the Word not hearers only deluding ourselves. If we be hearers and not doers, then we are like the man that beholds his face in a glass, and goeth away, and forgeteth what manner of person he was(Jam.1:22,23). Why are we unable to retain a permanent image of our faces in our minds? Why do we often view our faces in the mirror and yet have no permanent memory of it? Is it only for the purpose of hygiene that we view our faces in the mirror so often? For starters, our faces like every other part of bodies are in the process of degeneration. Is it only for these reasons, personal cleanliness and aging that we view our faces so often in the mirror? Why do we always forget our facial looks?

Although this age’s humanistic philosophy will find its fulfilment in the antiMessiah who will set up an image of himself in the rebuilt Jewish Temple on Mount Mariah(Dan.9:27), and demand worship of all men, God will not let man prevail(Ps.9:19). Satan will not triumph. The antiChrist will be defeated(Rev.19:11-21). Man will not be deified. All the combined forces of darkness arrayed against the divine purpose, though enormous, formidable and powerful will not succeed. The omnipotent Father has spoken: ” Yet Have I set my king upon my Holy Hill of Zion”(Ps.2:6). ”And again, when He bringeth the first begotten into the World, He saith, let all the angels if God worship Him”(Heb.1:6). The enemies of our God and His Christ shall be destroyed(2 Thess.2:8; Heb.2:14; Rev.20:10-15). And then, every knee shall bow, and every shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father(Phil.2:10,11).

Amorality will result in anomie and anarchy. In order to avoid total chaos, some form of government must be instituted. What form of government did Nimrod introduce? It was a false human government. In Babel Nimrod instituted a false human government that blasphemed God and those who dwell in Heaven. He demanded total allegiance from its subjects and promised them false peace and security(pax et securitas) in a utopian golden age. The Utopia promised by Nimrod is flimsy, nebulous, and unattainnable . Even in this age man is pursuing this goal in the concept of singularity when man will become God, “Homo Deus,” free from sickness, disease and death, and live for ever in this mortal but ageless body, but yet a sinner as ever. This is in opposition to God’s plan to redeem man from sin and to glorify him in a new and glorified eternal immortal resurrection body, free from the ravages of sin, sickness and disease. Human nature can be altere through hybridization, immunization, and technology.

(b) Babel: The Origin Of False Humanistic Region.

Semiramis And Osiris

The origin of this false religion of mother-child worship is Babylon. It was founded by Nimrod and his wife Semiramis. After the confusion of languages at Babel, all the descendants of Noah spread it all over the world as they migrated bearing the vestiges of this false religion of mother-child worship. It is found among all peoples groups. It is Roman Catholicism. It is Islam. It is New Age Religion, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism and every other false religion. The archenemy of all these religions is Christianity and Judaism. The Romish Church, Islam, and Hindus have murdered Christians. In the last hour of history it shall be reconvened in its city of origin, Babylon, in the land of Shinar, as some sort of ecumenism(Zech.5:1-11). This false religion headquartered in Babylon, and its branches all of the world, in all forms and ramifications shall be finally destroyed at the outpouring of the final seventh bowl judgment(Rev.16:16-18:1-24). Mother-child worship is as old as humanity. It goes by different names amongst various ethnic groups. Among the Romans, it was Jupiter and Venus. Among the Greeks it name Aphrodite and Zeus.

Introduction And Institutionalization Of Mass Idolatry

With the survival of Noah and his family, the human race has been preserved pure. But satan being the enterprising spirit that he is went to work. After the deluge, God commanded men to disperse all over the Earth. But Nimrod, in defiance to God, built cities like Babylon, Nimrud, and Uruk. Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord(Gen.10:9). Nimrod was a great grandson of Noah through Ham and Cush. His prowess mentioned above has nothing to do with animals and hunting. Nimrod was a mighty hunter of the souls of men. Nimrod practised witchcraft. With him is associated the origin of false religion, false human government and commercialism. Babylon was not just a city, it symbolized a philosophical concept, a global ideal that was applicable to government, religion, education and commerce, indeed every aspect of human activities and existence. The evil concept that is Babylon shall be annihilated at the outpouring of the seventh bowl judgment.

The ziggurats of ancient Babel were not residential skyscrapers but minarets for the practice of astrology and star gazing. Mother-child worship began in Babylon. Semiramis was the wife of Nimrod and Osiris his son, believed to have been born posthumously, whom Semiramis believe to be her husband come back to life. In middle Eastern mythology, Osiris actually married the mother which was an abomination. Osiris, also called Tammuz, went hunting like his father and was killed by a wild boar. He came back to life after his mother mourned for 40 days. From this belief came the Roman Catholic practice of lent. It has nothing to do with the 40 day fast that Moses and Jesus observed. Till this day, mother-child worship involve women weeping for Tammuz(Ezek.8:14). When God confounded the language of postdiluvian earth-dwellers, and forced their dispersion to the four corners of the Globe, they carried with them the vestiges of their religion. There are no people on Earth who had not this religion in one form or the other. In Nnewi where I resided for 13 years during the days of the years of my seclusion, it is Edo and Ezemewi. At the Mbari in my town in Imo State, it is Afor and Oparukwu seated on her lap. Semiramis is called the queen of heaven(Jer.7:18, 44:17-18,25). She was so called, 700 years before Mary, whom the Roman Catholics refer to as queen of Heaven.

The ephah is a holy measure. A woman in a holy measure is an abomination. The woman in the ephah is Semiramis or Anat, the wife of Nimrod and mother of Tammuz or Osiris. The ephah was taken to its base in the land of Shinar where mother-child worship introduced by Nimrod began. It was Nimrod who founded Babel. It was from Babylon in the land of Shinar that it spread to all other parts of the world after the confusion of languages at Babel. Mother-child worship did not begin in Mecca in Arabia. So, Mecca in Arabia cannot be the land of Shinar.

That Islam is the symbol of mother-child worship is true, so also every other false religion. That Mecca is Babylon the Great, the Great Whore of Rev.17,18 is not true, though the spirit of Babylon, the spirit of mother-child worship controls Mecca as it does also Rome and did Pergamos, and the center of every other false religion other than true Christianity. So Rev.17 & 18 are not about Mecca. Neither is it about Jerusalem, for that would mean that the Medes and ten kings of the Eighth Beast Empire shall destroy the headquarters of the antiChrist and the capital city of the His empire. “And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 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. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”(Rev.17:12-18). Jerusalem has never been the headquarters of any religion that reigned over the kings of the Earth. Will the ten kings of the Eighth Beast Empire burn down the capital city of the antiChrist to whom they are allied? The antiChrist shall be in control of Jerusalem until defeated by Christ at the final battle of Armageddon.

(c) Babel: The Origin Of False Human Government

Nimrod: The Greater Hunter

We have stated that atheism, evolution, moral relativism, and amorality will lead to anarchy, a state of nomlessness. To avoid total anarchy some form of government will be instituted to put in the checks and balances. The Big Brother is the apex of evolutionary human society and demands total and absolute allegiance and control of human activities. The Big Brother does not believe in God. The Big Brother blasphemes God. The Big Brother sits in the place and position of God. The Big Brother declares itself God. It promises its subjects peace and security in a nebulous utopian golden Age. Every citizen works for the Big Brother. Every citizen has fiat money credited and lodged in one’s account, and is given government food stamps and handouts. This sort of government kills private initiatives and turns its citizens into robots and zombies.

To maintain the status quo, the state must be policed by government security apparatus. Distrust must be created among the populace. The sanctity of the family must be rubbished by destruction of the family fabric. The Big Brother is all in all. To get family members to inform on one another, the bond that holds them together must be broken. This feat is achieved by atheism, evolution, moral relativism, and amorality. If there is no God, there is nothing wrong with abortion, euthanasia, incest, and consanguineous marriages, homosexualism and lesbianism, and transgender, etc. It is a proven fact that inbreeding amongst close relatives leads to weaker generations and genetic abnormalities. The Big Brother like Adolf Hitler believes and practices eugenics. So, the physical and mentally challenged, and the economically sterile will be eliminated. The terminally ill and those suffering from debilitating diseases will be euthanized. The Big Brother will not bother fighting epidemics. It will be regarded as a process of natural selection, the means by which nature eliminates the weak and genetically undesirable. The Big Brother has no scruples with eliminating the elderly who have lived out their usefulness and are no longer economically viable.

The Seven Beast Empires Of Satan

The Beast Empires Of Satan

There are seven kings and their kingdoms which Satan have used to oppose the people of God. These are figuratively represented by Daniel as beasts in Dan.7. These are Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medopersia, Grace, Rome and Nazi Germany.

It The Eighth Beast Empire is the seventh revived. It is portrayed by the iron and the clay in the ten toes of the image of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream(Dan.2). Dan.2 parallels Dan.7. The image of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream correspond with the beasts of Dan.7. They are the Beast with 7 heads and ten horns ‎(Rev.13:1,2), which is the 8th and Final Beast Empire, the Fourth Reich. The Great red Dragon with seven heads and ten horns is Satan who is the God of this age, and the prince and power of the air(2 Cor.4:4; Eph.2:2;Rev.12:3). He has the same characteristics with the first Beast of Rev.13:1-10, the Sea-Beast. Both the Dragon and the Sea-Beast receive worship from men, The Sea-Beast of Rev.13 is the same as the Scarlet colored Beast of Rev.17:3. Polytheism is antiGod. When anyone or anything other than the true God is worshiped, Satan is glorified.

The Eighth Beast Empire

The two legs of iron, are the two divisions of the Roman Empire, the Western Roman Empire headquartered at Rome, and the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, headquatered at constantinopole which is modern day Istanbul. The Iron are the three power base nations that constituted the core of the Roman Empire. They are Magog, Meshech, and Tuval. To that we may add Javan(Greece). The six secondary nations are Babylon(Iraq, Arphaxad), Persia(Iran, Tiras), Cush, (Sudan), Phut (Libya), Gomer(Ukraine?, Turkey), Togamer (Turkey) [ Ezek.38:1,2; Rev.13:2).

The Arab people of today are a mingled people. They are an admixture of the descendants or remnants of Ishmael, the Moabites, the Ammonites, ‎the Philistines, the children of Ketura, the second wife of Abraham, the remnants of the Amorites, the Tyreans, Sidonians, and the other ethnic groups which the Sons of Israel did not wipe out completely as the Lord commanded Moses. There are two things that unites these peoples: the Islamic religion and the Arabic language. The Islamic religions imposes the Arabic language on any people conquered by Islam. Obviously there are some tribes which claim Arabic descent who are not direct offspring of Ishmael.

It is preposterous and historically inaccurate to name the remnant of the sons of Esau‎, the Edomites as the Romans. The Romans are descendants of Japheth, the eldest Son of Noah. The original patrician families that founded the city of Rome in the plain of Latium are the nomadic tribes of Japheth: Magog, Meshech, and Tuval. Magog was preeminent over his brethren. Most Roman Caesars ‎were of Germanic descent which were Magogites.

(d) Babel: The Origin Commercialism And Consummerism

Buying And Selling

In Igboland, there are four market days: eke, orie, afor, and nkwo. Each of these days is named after a deity. Every market in Igboland bears one of these names. Beside the market is a shrine to the deity. The priest of the deity administers the market. So every market in Igboland is dedicated to a deity. So, buying and selling is linked up with idolatry. Am told it is the same in Yorubaland. Commercialism is linked up with religion. A good number of businessmen and women are involved in rituals. Religion attracts and creates market for goods and vice vasa. Twice in His ministry, at the beginning, and towards the end, Jesus made a scourge and overturned the tables of money changers and chased away those who sold pigeons at the Temple in Jerusalem. The house of God should be a house of prayer, but they made it a den of robbers and thieves(Matt.21:13; Mak.11:17; Luk.19:46). The ziggurat was not only for astrology and star gazing but also served as a market and the stock Exchange. Because of a ready audience, it was also the center of entertainment. There, magicians and astrologers practised and displayed their acts there.

Financial inclusion is the means by which the Big Brother wants to gain absolute control over the lives of men. For the Big Brother to control everyone, the world must go cashless. Malaysia is at the verge of becoming the First Nation in the world to go totally cashless. In Sweden, those who are chipped with RFID need only wave their hands at NFC( Near Field Communication) reader at the train station or point of sale(POS) and payment is made and the money is deducted from their account. It makes life more wonderful but at the expense of our souls. The financial system we are talking about here when it is fully orbed will not be feasible without cashlessness. Cashlessness and the Mark Of The Beast will be in use worldwide before the emergence of the antiChrist. If you happen to be here at that time, how would react to it? I have said this several times, what the antiChrist will do is to harmonize its use worldwide, universalize it, and make it compulsory and mandatory. But it will be in use long before his appearance on the world stage.

From the 1970s our age has been declared the digital age, i.e., the age of numbering. Today, when someone asks for another’s number, he or she means the other’s phone number. We have pointed out that without BVN one cannot operate one’s account with any bank. Biometric data like passport size photograph, finger print, name, address, state of origin, date of birth, etc are no longer enough. One must have a number which is a set of digits unique to the individual. Of late, I wanted to order a book from Amazon. The transaction could not be completed without my international passport number or my NIN number. The implication is that Nigerians who do not have NIN or international passport numbers cannot purchase anything on Amazon. They want us to be a number compliant generation. Digitization is surreptitiously creeping in on us, and the saints have not been sensitized of its ultimate goal and danger. It is not innocuous; indeed, it is soul damming. It is part of the antiChrist’s infrastructure for global surveillance and control.

As Dr. Jaiyesimi Gbenga has pointed out, the buzz words in Nigeria today are “financial inclusion” and “mobile banking.” Our banks encourage us to do our banking activities on line through our mobile phones or tablets. Some banks offer as much as 80% charge free transactions. The bet, of course, is financial inclusion. If you don’t get online you will be financially excluded. In other words you lose some financial benefits. The UN, World Bank, IMF want all citizens of the globe to have digital identity for the purpose of financial inclusion and commerce. They call it “Global Digital Identity for Financial Inclusion.” It is all part of globalization and digitization. What that means is that every citizen of the Globe will have unique number of identification to be financially inclusive. When fully orbed, no one without this number will be able to engage in any meaningful business transactions. Does it not sound like the Mark Of the Beast without which no can buy or sell?

“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).

Ab initio, one would be required to provide this number on demand to do business, register as students in institutions. But as time goes on, microchip account will be generated in one’s name with this number alongside other biometric data specific to the individual which will later on be implanted hypodermically as RFID. Online and at POS, as well as on ports of entry, one would be required to provide this number. It will become one’s personal identity, unique to every individual on Earth. Anyone who opts out will be economically boycotted, and later on hounded to comply or be liquidated and vaporized altogether. We can go along with them until it becomes mandatory to implant it on our persons. That is the point of demarcation. It is the point of no return. It is the “divide” or “watershed.” Anyone who takes this number on his or her person has sold one’s soul to the Devil for eternity. Believers must have the bravado to say no at that point in time. And to be successful at that, we must start now to prepare ourselves mentally and to plan to opt out of the society when that time arrives. Believers who are waiting to be raptured before the antiChrist arrives will be hopelessly disappointed as they will be roped in unawares.

(e) The Family

A Christian Family

The family is under vicious assault from humanism. If there is no God, there is no standard for morality. God is the standard for morality. If there is no standard for morality what right have parents to tell their children what to do. If there is no God, children are under no obligations to obey their parents. Thus the fabric of the family is destroyed. Every society, institution or nation is as strong as its family unit. In SA the injured husband cannot seek redress in the case of adultary. In Germany siblings marriage has been legalized. Sexual relations between father and daughter, mother and son are practised in our society today. Thamuz was the first person to enter into sexual union with the mother, and later married her. He was the son as well as husband of the mother Semiramis. This is an abomination. This is exactly what Satan wants. When family members are in incestous relations one with another, there is neither love nor respect nor trust. Jealousy and envy will reign in such a family. They can easily betray one another. A father can betray the son to death and vice vasa. The mother can betray the daughter or daughter-in-law to death and vice vasa. No wonder then that a man’s foes shall be members of his own household(Matt.10:36).

The system of government of the Big Brother shall be based on mistrust. The antiChrist will trust no one. Therefore his citizens shall be encouraged to inform on one another. Parents shall report on their children, and the children shall be against their parents. The daughter-in-law shall be against the mother-in-law, and vice versa. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household(Matt.10:34-36). The Big Brother shall apply the principle of divide and rule. He will destroy family fabrics, and encourage evil of all sorts. He shall not respect family ties. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold(Matt.24:10,12). Even within the church shall arise false brethren who shall betray others. It shall not be advisable to trust anyone at that unless one can vouch for them. Now brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death(Mark 13:12). Those shall be evil days and times indeed.

(f) Babel: Contemporary Art And Media

Contemporary Art

Art once represented the highest aspirations of mankind. The art of ancient Israel found its highest expression in the worship of Jehovah, as seen in the stupendously magnificent adornment of the tabernacle and the temple, it’s high priest etc. Art was seen as an expression of faith. Although there are still some good artists who express the virtues of man and the wonders of creation etc, some contemporary artist exhibit explicit photographs of homosexual erotica such as sadism, masochism, sadomasochism, pedophelia and scatology.

Andres Serrano glories in his postmodern blasphemy, in which he displays a photograph of a crucifix immersed in urine. The fall of man has negatively affected every culture from the time of Adam to the present day, it is more telling in our age than in the previous ones. Unborn babies are murdered in their thousands each day all over the world. Sexual perversion is promoted by the entertainment media. Marriage, child upbringing and family life are under vicious assault. Our freedom to speak openly of biblical truth is fast being eroded. Little wonder therefore we are fast approaching the end of the ages.

Widespread Acceptance Of Humanistic Evolution(2 Pet.3:3-7; Rom.1:18-20)

Widespread acceptance of evolutionary thinking will characterize the general climate of thought in the last days prior to the emergence of the antiMessiah. This is evident in New Age belief and practices. This is also the general climate of thought in all secular institutions of higher learning, and amongst the academia and intelligentsia in our societies. Apostle Peter predicted this general climate of thought that will prevail in the last days in his second epistle.

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the Word Of God the heavens were of old, and the Earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that the was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heaven and the Earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men” ( 2Pet.3:3-7).

Here, in this passage of the Scriptures, Apostle Peter gives us a perfect definition of scientific uniformitarianism. Scientific uniformitarianism is a modern scientific theory and belief that all physical laws and principles, as well as psychological and sociological laws and principles after the appearance of mankind, have operated essentially the same way throughput time. This theory is the driving force of modern evolutionism. It is the official position in the leading scientific institutions in the world today. This is the one area in which the same old lie told Eve in the Garden Of Eden by the beguiling serpent, Satan, is used to deceive humans in the one area in which God holds accountable.

” For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the World are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse” ( Rom.1:1-20).

Every infant is born with some intrinsic knowledge. For starters, the infant is alive and conscious. It feels pain, irritation, and fright etc. it is also aware of its environment. Along with this intrinsic awareness is the knowledge that we are created by God. Besides this basic intrinsic knowledge is the fact that God has also revealed himself in nature. The general orderliness of nature tells us that there is a creator at work. The nitrogen cycle, the cycle of water between the Earth and the atmospheric heavens, the cycle of generation, life, death and regeneration, all these tell us of the Great Designer of the Universe that is God. For man to be spoofed into believing that evolution is a fact is a diabolical deceptive substitution for God’s direct creative Acts, the one area in which God holds man accountable; for he is without excuse.

Alas, for Satan has successfully negated the one area where men are held accountable by God. Though we may salve our conscience that we evolved, and therefore, there is no God nor universal moral standard by which we can live, even our own consciences convict us: for we are accountable unto God, and therefore inexcusable. Though scientific uniformitarianism denies God’s intervention in human history, God intervened in Noah’s day and drowned the world that then was in a deluge, sparing only Noah and his family. Modern man may sweep away the deluge under the rug as mythical and legendary, there are historical and scientific evidence of the deluge.

Before the AntiMessiah appears on the world stage, men are going to mock us believers in Jesus the Messiah, saying, where is the promise of His coming? This they will say because they believe in evolution. If man evolved, there is no God. And if there is no God, there is no divine intervention in human history. This they say because they are willingly ignorant of the fact that by the Word Of God, the heaven were made and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth(Ps.33:6). God made the world of Noah’s day out of nothing, creation ex nihilo. By the same word of God was the world of Noah’s day destroyed by water. The present world in which we live is reserved unto and shall also be salted with the fire of God’s judgment during the Great Day Of The Lord.

God also intervened in the days of Lot in the cities of the plain, Sodom, Gomorrah, Zeboim and Adama. In judgment, they were salted with fire and brimstone. So the mockery of humanistic evolution and scientific uniformitarianism is an empty mockery.

Evolution is also the central pillar of racism. It is supposedly the scientific basis of racism. The idea of inferior and superior races is founded on evolution. Much of Adolf Hitler’s philosophy was based on Charles Darwin’s Origin Of Species. Evolution especially of the Darwinian and Lamarckian variety is the central pillar of racism. Charles Darwin and Huxley were both proponents of Aryan supremacy. Adolf Hitler’s Nazism was the most vicious of philosophies built on evolutionism. The background for this is found in the teachings of Darwin’s contemporary propagandist in Germany, Ernst Haeckel, who was believed to be the most influential evolutionist in continental Europe.

As historian Gasman has shown, these men believed in the aristocratic and non-democratic character of the laws of nature. Up to his death in 1919, Haeckel contributed to that special variety of German thought which served as a seed-bed for Hitler’s national socialism. He became one of the Germany’s main and most influential ideologues for racism, nationalism, and imperialism. Hitler used the idea of biological evolution as the most influential weapon against traditional religion. He condemned Christianity for its opposition to the teachings of evolution.

As we can see, 2 Pet.3:4,5, predicted evolution will be the dominant thought in the world as we approach the 70th Seven of Daniel. It will be used to justify racism, pitting the kingdoms of the world ruled by Satan against the inferior Christians and Jews, the servants of God who keep His commandments, and hold to the testimony of Jesus the Christ. In the same way Adolf Hitler used humanistic evolutionary thinking to justify anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust, so will the antiChrist use atheistic philosophy to justify the annihilation of Jews, Christians, and all who refuse to be branded with the mark of the Beast.

Babel: The Global Ideal And Technology

Artificial intelligence

Tesla and Space X founder Elon Musk who wants to send man to Mars has warned that a future where AI is smarter than us will be dangerous. We must all become cyborgs if we are to survive the inevitable robot crisis. http://www.wired.co.uk/article/elon-musk-humans-must-become-cyborgs.

Please read this article. Understand what a cyborg is. That is where the world is headed. Can a cyborg be a good Christian? How will a cyborg fair as a Christian? Christians belonging to Generation X and beyond are faced with this choice even before the antiChrist hangs out his shingles. ‘And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil…’ should be our prayers in this end time as ungodliness fills the Earth.

We must pray, but also we must understand the times and the seasons, and the machinations of the evil one, and the variegated, subtle, and seemingly innocuous ways by which Satan wants to force us into his mold, and enslave us for ever. Man merging with machines may appear exciting and innocuous, but indeed, it is flagrant idolatry; it is antiGod. It is an alteration of the divine image in man. A time will come when those of us who reject merging with machines will look primitive and outmoded. It will be extremely difficult to function in society at that time outside of these machines. This will certainly put pressure on the younger generation to conform to become cyborgs. If it is not us, it will be them, our children, grandchildren, and great grandchilren. What shall we tell them when they come to tell us they want microchips and nanobots implanted in their brains to enhance academic excellence, crack computer codes, or enhance athletic performance? Believe me, this will certainly happen before the antiChrist emerges on the world stage. What shall we tell them? Is the Church prepared for this crisis of identity?

Do our church leaders, Pastors, and ministers know? Are believers open to learning about these issues? Or shall we pretend that it does not matter, like the self-styled preachers of righteousness who tell us: ” all we have to do is live right, and we shall be raptured whenever the Rapture occurs. What does it mean to live right? Does sin consist only in lying, cheating, murder, amorous relations, breaking out into open idolatry, etc? These sins consist of individual choices. What about gene alteration? A generation hybridized is a generation lost. What brought about escalation of evil in the antedeluvian world? Was it not alteration of the human genome by cohabitation of fallen evil angels and human females(Gen.6)? The goal of Satan has always been the same, it has not changed: to destroy or disqualify man. But he has added new methods in his arsenal. The antiChrist cannot take over the world without cyborgs. Jesus chided with Pharisees for tithing mint, anise, and cummin, but neglecting the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith(Matt.23:23). If we preach and teach success, the good life, promotion, prosperity, how to be happy all the time, etc; and leave out these weightier issues of the End Times, we would have acted like the hypocritical Pharisees. Shall we be commended before God?

A Pastor is an undershepherd under Jesus the good Shepherd. He is under “heaven’s oat” to teach the congregants by word of mouth and by example the whole counsel of God. This is enormous responsibility. He cannot only teach faith, prosperity, promotion, success, etc, and neglect the weightier issues of the End Times. It is not a matter of that is not my message. That is not what am called to preach. That is not my forte. Or am called to preach faith or healing, promotion, success, prosperity, divine protection, dominion, etc. If one had elected to be a Pastor, one has elected to preach and teach the whole counsel of God, more so the weightier matters of the end times. Evangelists must win souls and send them to the Church. Ministers who run parachurch ministries must teach whatever they called to teach. But pastors have enormous responsibility to teach the whole counsel of God.

Some believers do not know what a cyborg means. A dear saint defined it as follows: “Cybernetic organisms cannot have the spirit in them. They could only be programmed to behave like christian . But there’s no human yet whose whole body is made to function completely by electromechanical devices. I think a cyborg is still a medical fiction.” Is this the correct definition of a cyborg? She conflates a robot with a cyborg. A cyborg is a real human being who is merged with machines. He is a person who interfaces with machines and controls everything around him with microchips implanted in various parts of his body, and is in turn controlled by a giant computer somewhere run by the Big Brother, the government, some institution or organisation. His performance is tremendously enhanced by microchips. Sometimes he acts like a robot in areas where he is already programmed, but he is still capable of autonomous and independent actions in other areas where he is not programmed.

Satan is trying to force the believers into his mold especially through technology, and the cares of this life. The cares of this life are not in and of themselves sinful, but could lead one into compromising position of one’s faith. Our notion of holiness should not be repentance and righteous living alone. By righteous living I mean, no lies, cheating, no stealing, no sexual immoralities, etc. We know that a believer can do all these things and yet wind up not being raptured if he or she is surreptitiously lead into receiving the mark of the Beast. We must not be like the Pharisees, hypocrites who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, but neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. Jesus chided them: these you ought to have done without neglecting the others. We must teach holiness and righteous living. That is one side of the coin, the obverse. We must not neglect the other side, the reverse: the subtle ways by which we could be lured into compromises with the things of this world. Which believer does not know that lying, cheating, stealing, embezzlement of funds whether that of the Church or government or NGO etc, sexual immoralities, pornographies, and murders are sinful? These are givens.

But how many believers know that becoming a cyborg or being hybridised in any form will lead one to eternal damnation? Do they even know the difference between a robot and a cyborg? Do they know the meaning of transhuman, nephilim, hybrid human, or humanoid? Can any one imagine the pressure under which a young believer who is a graduate and highly skilled will be to become a cyborg less he lose his job to robots in the near future. The Church will be required to economically boycott the world before the Great Tribulation before the world economically boycott the Church during the Great Tribulation. How do we do that? By establishing businesses that cater to the needs of the Church especially in difficult times like the Great Tribulation. Yuval Noah Harari, a lecturer in history at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, has written a book tiltled Homo Deus, in which he painted a picture of uncertainty as what man will be and what he needs to survive in the next two centuries. Do the Churches have such foresight and prepare the younger generation for this kind of eventualities and exigencies?

Elon Musk has seen the difficulty from economic perspective and is warning the world: ” become cyborgs less you lose your jobs to robots.” He has also seen the spiritual aspect, and warns that “by artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.” He also said, without oversight, AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. The Church should see both the economic and spiritual perspectives and warn the believers: ” Don’t become cyborgs less you lose your precious and eternal souls to Satan.” Leaders are visionaries and  dreamers. They dream dreams. They see things ahead of time. They are watchmen. They see and warn others of what is coming ahead whether good or bad. Someone in England was imprisoned for suggesting that some day men in different parts of the world will be speaking to one another directly. He died in jail. But what he saw then in his mind’s eye is a reality in our day. Before the antiChrist shows up on the world stage, believers will be under economic pressure to become cyborgs.

(1) Men + Angels = Nephilim.

“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”(Gen.6:4-8).

The Hebrew word nephilim is the plural of naphal which means fallen one. They were the offspring of the unnatural union between fallen angels who sided with Satan in the rebellion, and were cast out of the Heaven of heavens which is the abode of the Almighty, and human females. Jewish tradition holds that some of them survived the deluge and gave rise to the giants that were of old like the Anakim. The sight of these men frightened the spies of Israel into making a false confession of their invincibility. “And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”(Num.13:33). Noah found grace in the eyes of God because he was not hybridised with fallen evil angels. The statement that “Noah was righteous or perfect in His generation” is better rendered, “Noah was pure in his descendants.”  “These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.”(Gen.6:9).

The only reason Noah and his household were preserved was because they were not hybridised; they were the only pure humans. It was the mercy of God that kept them from being hybridised, in order to preserve humanity. We must refuse to be hybridized in our generation. The younger generations, generation X, generation Z, and beyond are in danger of accepting these things unquestioningly as part of scientific development and advancement, not knowing it is to the detriment of their souls. They will be under enormous social and economic pressures to comply and become cyborgs less they lose their jobs to robots and become economically obsolescent and irrelevant. The highly skilled professionsls are more in danger. Therefore, it is obligatory for us to warn them. Jewish rabbis know these things and warn the world but Church leaders, our General Overseers, Bishops, Pastors, and Evangelists do not.

(2) Man + Animal = Humanoid.

(3) Man + Machine = Cyborg.

(4) Men + Angels + Animals + Machines = Nephilim

(5) Men + Angels + Animals = Nephilim

(6) Men + Angels + Machines = Nephilim

All these are also called transhumans or hybrid humans. The aim of Satan is to destroy or disqualify man so that he cannot be saved. These things are not new. Satan had experimented with these notions in antiquity. In antiquity it was man and angels as recorded in Gen.6 quoted above. But Jewish rabbis believe animals were also involved. Am inclined to believe that too. If not why did God destroy the animals also? “And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.”(Gen.6:7). Why did it repent God that He created animals also? We know that the sperm of a dog, under certain conditions can fertilize the ovum of a woman and vice versa. Under the law God decreed that those who engage in bestiality should be cut off from the living. “Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.”(Leviticus 18:23). “And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.”(Leviticus 20:15). This is not only because of demonization but also because of danger of hybridization.

  What is new today is the inclusion of machines. The 20th century German philosopher, Martin Heidegger warned that technology was going to destroy humanity. A cyborg can never be saved. And humanity is about to metamorphose into cyborgs. Raymond Kursweil claims we are already cyborgs; our cell phones, tablets and computers are extensions of ourselves. But the interface is limited through our fingers. But that is about to change with microchips, nanobots as small as blood cells, and neural lace through injectable neural mesh in the brain we can be connected to neocortices in the cloud, and can access enormous amount of information in an instant. Believers must be warned never to become cyborgs. Before we were Homo Sapiens, and then we became Homo Sapiens Sapiens or simply Sapiens. But very soon man shall be Homo Deus, man independent of God. Man doing his thing in defiance to God. But is he really man? He has lost his soul to Satan as he merges with machines, biometrics, and AI(artificial intelligence), and becomes an automaton. Scientists, philosophers, technologists, historians, and Jewish rabbis are talking about these things, but  the leaders of the Church are oblivious of it. C’est bien triste. It is very dismal.

The Tesla and SpaceX founder warned that a future where AI is smarter than us will be ‘dangerous.’ We must all become cyborgs if we are to survive the inevitable robot uprising. The rampant popularity of tattoos is desensitizing the world in a way that may cause the Mark of the Beast to seem as innocuous as ‘just another tattoo’. The prophetic words of the Bible have never rung more true and relevant than they do today with the transition to digital currency taking place in many countries and the reliance on identity now possible with a “mark” such as implanted RFID chips. NewFusion may be the first Belgian company to chip their employees, but with rumours circulating that other are considering similar policies, they likely won’t be the last. Three Square Market has implanted a rice-sized RFID microchip into 40 of its employees who volunteered. Some may opine that there is nothing dangerous about these technological innovations. They are here to enhance our economic status. In some ways, they make life more easier and more wonderful. They will certainly enhance economic status, but is life all about economy? I wonder!

You see my brethren, the issue is not that simple. Let’s take the hypothetical case of a believer who is highly skilled, employed by a technological company. Now the company comes up with a policy to have all employees chipped for the purpose of identification, security, to enhance performance, and ease of access to company facilities. Will this highly skilled brother or sister accept to be branded in order to retain his or her job, or refuse and lose his or her means of livelihood. Bear in mind that he or she is highly skilled and will not easily and readily land another job in another company. What if he or she does not know the implications of branding for a Christian since most pastors do not talk about it. Remember totoos have been popularised by sports celebrities who act as role models for the youths of our genetation. There are Christian football stars who wear totoos, and are quick to tell you they are innocuous. What we are saying is that the Church is not sensitising its members to the dangers of these things. If Christians do not know that they are of evil origin and may compromise their faith, how can they reject them? Today, it is one company in Belgium, tomorrow it will all companies all over the World. Do you see the reason why I say the Church must economically boycott the the world before the the world would economically boycott the Church. Totoos,  microchip, and biometric implants are here to stay. Believers need to be  sensitised to their dangers.

Machine + AI = Robot

Elon Musk has warned that man has to become cyborgs in order not to lose jobs to robots. How is the Church preparing its members to survive the foreseen  robots crisis without compromising their faith or losing their souls to the Devil? Are we going to fold our hands, and say, “it does not matter” , or “it is for those in Europe and America” ? If cell phones and computers are not for those in Europe and America only, so also AI and robots. Unlike the industrial revolution, the robots crisis may lead some in the Church, especially the younger generation to compromise of their faith.

Man wants to attain Godhood. By that they mean to conquer death and live for ever in ‎this sinful body of ours. By that they hope to become Homo Dei. That is the next stage of humanistic evolution.  Man does not want to conquer sin. Sin is not a problem to them. They have accepted it: they love it. To them there is nothing like sin. It is matter of like or dislike. The holiness of God is not enticing to them. What is enticing to them is immortality. They do not believe in God. They believe man evolved. Those of them who believe in God, do not believe He is interested in the affairs of men anymore. Some of them believe God created the world, set it like a clock to run according natural laws in creation and retired into heaven. They want man to live for ever in this wretched body of ours, in a sinful state independent of God, in defiance to His commandments.

Therefore man wants to merge with machines and become cyborgs. Would you like your sons and daughters in the military to be super soldiers and super policemen? These bio-engineered soldiers and policemen who interface with machines, are they still Homo sapiens? Some like Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal believe in parabiosis. They believe by transfusing themselves with the blood of young people they can attain longevity and with time immortality. This is not entirely new. What is new is the scientific approach. In antiquity among all peoples, warriors and priests of deities drank the blood of their captives and victims. By that they hoped to attain longevity and immortality. Witches and wizards transfigure into vampires bats to suck the blood of others to increase their longevity. But God forbids man to eat blood, even those of animals: ” For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls(Lev.17:11-14).

Raymond Kurzweil, Google’s director of technology has predicted the nearness of singularity. Singularity is a point in astrophysics when every exponent is one. With the exponential increase in computer technology and artificial intelligence man would have to merge with machines or become utterly irrelevant and obsolete. This will be the death of human civilization as we know it as cyborgs take over the world. Raymond Kursweil also wants to upload his soul into a computer and live as a software for ever. He wants to bring his late father or his replicant back to life. This would have been laughable were it not that these men are so serious, dedicated and committed to their goals. Aubrey De Gray, the British biologist with a formidable beards has a seven-point plan to conquer death. Formidable questions they are, but are they unanswerable? Certainly not. When men attempted to build a tower that would reach up to heaven, did God relax, fold His hands and say, ” it is unattainable.” He came down from the heavens to confound their language. With time man will achieve his aim of messing up humanity. But God in His omnipotence and infinite wi‎sdom will not allow that to happen. Before man archives his goal, God will swoop down from the heavens and reclaim His rule over and retake physical possession of the Earth.

Using hologram or robot, one can address any audience in their native language. The image of the Beast which the false prophet will cause to speak or arrest those who refuse to wear the mark of the Beast will be a robot fashioned in the exact copy of the Beast. “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”(Rev.13:15 KJV). Robocops and robosoldiers are now ready for use in the US, China, and in Russia. In the event of World War, many first world countries will field robosoldiers into the battlefield. Vladimir Putin, the president of the Russian Federation said: “the future of warfare is in the field of robotics. If the robots of one nation defeats another, the other nation has no choice but to surrender.” This is quite reasonable. If my robots have defeated yours, certainly your men have not choice but to surrender because your men cannot stand my robots. Robots are stronger than men. They can maneuver through difficult terrains, establish bridgeheads and conquer enemy territory before human soldiers move in to hold the position. In the event of widespread riots, some of these nations like US, China, and Russia can field robocops to quell the riots and arrest rioters.

Sexbots are now in use in Europe and America for those who can afford the cost. With time, the cost of production will plummet and it be at the beck and call of anyone who desires it. They are tailored accordingly to the specifications provided by the costumer. Many men are fed up with the foibles of women, and would rather do with a sexbot which is not saddled with human weaknesses and emotional variations. Sexual relations with these objects are temple-defiling sins that lead to demonization.

In laboratories hidden in the Amazon forest in Brazil and the Tropical African Rain forest in the Congo, scientists are busy tinkering and experimenting to incorporate animal and plant genes in the human genome. Hybrid humans who can live under water for days and months without breathing by photosynthesizing and generating oxygen have been demonstrated in sci-fi films. The carbon dioxide they generate by catabolism they recycle and reuse to generate oxygen via photosynthesis, and thereby bit air hunger. They are called green men. Because they cannot totally excrete the chlorophyll they produce by photosynthesis their skin is stained green. It is Hollywood that imagines and demonstrates it in sci-fi films and then the scientists go to the laboratory to make it a reality. Imagine a man with the agility and mentality of a tiger? Will he not tear other men to pieces when he is angry? The Big Brother wants such men in the army, police, and the secret service.

What greater power there is in man than to reproduce himself, than to see himself in his children. Children are a delight to their parents(Ps.127:3-5). God ordained that children should be born in holy heterosexual matrimony, and grow up in the family settings bonding with parents and siblings and near kinsfolks(Eph.6:1-4). But today, in these secret laboratories, children are grown in plastic womb with ova and semen harvested from criminal and felons. These children belong to the Big Brother; they have no known parents, no siblings, and no families. They are state property. Worst of all, their affects are flat: they have no emotions. They can kill without any sympathy or empathy to their victims. They are free from the scourge of guilty conscience.

Swarming drone technology can be used to eliminate anyone using facial recognition. It is written: “If those days were not cut short, no flesh(believers) shall be saved.”(Matt.24:22). They are called swarming drones because they swarm like bees and mosquitoes. They are as tiny as mosquitoes. They can be airborne and remain in flight for hours and days until they identity the target face using GPS and facial recognition. They are precision killing machines. They pierce the skull and penetrate into the brain and explode. Little or no damage is done to the rest of the body of the victim and the environment. Others who are not targeted in the vicinity are safe.

Fifth Generation Network

5G network is not just for fast internet connectivity, it is for transparency and visibility. It is for intelligence; it is Big Brother’s third eye. With 5G Towers, the Big Brother will be tracking you in the most dystopian form to gain absolute and complete surveillance. With 5G network, there are no barriers, everything and everyone is visible. 5G network sees through walls , metals, solid objects and barriers. The Big Brother can monitor everyone and everything. There will be no privacy nor secrecy. With 5G network you are visible and audible in your bedroom, closet, as well as in your office or in transit. 5G network is for global surveillance and control. With global digital identity, cashlessness, and IoT, no human activity will be private or shrouded in secrecy. The Big Brother knows everyone, sees everyone, and sees and knows what everyone is doing at all times.

Everyone’s life will be a video being broadcast to the Big Brother. And with a policy of zero tolerance to opposition and rebellion, this kind of Orwellian Government will put almost everyone in fear and dread of its security apparatus. From the sites you visit on the net, whom you chat with or chat up, places you visit, your friends and relatives, the companies you keep, your habits, and your purchases, your behavior, actions, and intents of your heart can be pretty well predictable. Rebellion will be almost impossible to organize, for it can be pretty well predicted ahead of time of actualization and nipped in the bud. In a society of this kind, men and women are literally paralyzed with in fear, cowered, and are zombies and robots to the system.

5G Towers will be installed every 300 meters or every 2-10 houses. 5G emits EMI up to 95Ghz which is potentially harmful to the human body. Potential effects are concers, fetal abnormalities, neurological abnormalities, neuropsychiatric abnormalities, and depressed immune system.

Artificial Womb

Ectogenesis

Technology is turning things around in our world. Medical technology is about to change reproductive medicine especially childbirth as we know it. In state-of-the-art laboratories, scientists are working on raising fetuses from conception to term outside of the womb. In medical parlance, it is called ECTOGENESIS in contrast to ENDOGENESIS.

The technology is quite complex though simple also. The plastic or artificial womb is like an aquarium filled with synthetic amniotic fluid. The fetus in the aquarium is connected to feeding tubes and monitoring cables. It grows as in a womb, but everything is perfect, in scientific sense in the artificial ectogenous environment. The right concentrations of sugars, lipids, amino acids, minerals, electrolytes and vitamins and hormones are maintained in such a manner that the fetus grows in a most healthier way possible. The feeding tubes stream all vital and essentials nutrients and oxygen to survive and develop optimally. The heartbeat is monitored and the fetal kick is monitored, recorded and charted and logged. Adjustments are made according to needs arising.

This is a giant scientific lip. There are ethical issues involved though. It will bring a fundamental change in human experience. It will change the way the female body is viewed. It will also usher in a new era of reproductive rights. So, how are people going to feel about it? How are people going to react to it. Obviously the reactions will be mixed. Some will be excited about it, others may be scared or even confused about ectogenesis.

It will certainly help a couple who cannot gestate, for instance, due to congenital absence of the womb or some other factors like the loss of uterus through septic abortion, damage to the uterus through accident etc. There will be no need for a surrogate mother to bear the fetus to term which could be very expensive and may endanger the life of the surrogate mother especially in the case where she is an elderly woman. In Western Europe, a good number of women are reluctant to go through pregnancy and bear children. They want to maintain their physiognomy. These women will now have opportunity to have children without being responsible for childbirth, a process that is scary and painful to most women.

Some pregnant mothers go for elective Caesarean section in order to avoid the pains of childbirth. These women will no longer have to worry about the discomforts of pregnancy and pains of childbirth. They will not have to worry about the personal risks associated with childbirth and the effects on their health and physiognomy. They will feel liberated. They will not have to make any sacrifices to give birth. For example, they could work, exercise, eat and drink whatever they like without having to worry about harming the babies in their wombs or hampering their development. A woman who is an alcoholic would not have to bother about her baby being tolerant to alcohol from her womb due to the high level of alcohol in her blood(blood alcohol level) which is passed over to the fetus through the placenta. The same goes for drugs of addiction.

On the surface, it does look like healthier babies and women are the outcome of this medical technology. On the other hand, some women who cherish conception, pregnancy and childbirth may feel cheated and disconnected from the sanctity of motherhood. What about the intimacy which only the mother can provide. Bonding begins from day onf of conception. This will be negatively affected. A father may opine, “just because I did not gestate my baby does not mean I cannot bond with it.” We are looking at a complex situation where the period of gestation in the mother’s womb must have already bequeathed the baby with a healthy human emotion. We are looking at a case where this healthy emotion may be absent. Some mothers may like to go through pregnancy and childbirth, to be cared for by their spouse and loved ones.

There is a bonding that goes on in pregnancy not only between mother and fetus but also between the fetus in the womb and other family members as they care for the pregnant mother the value of which may be incalculable. This essential part of human consciousness will be lost in an artificial womb. One day the family is called and informed that its baby is ready. They can come collect it. Especially in a typical African setting, there is some level of attention, respect, care a woman receives not only from her husband and the immediate family members but from the community during pregnancy.

Prior to this time babies have never grown completely in vitro. Conception takes place in the test tube(in vitro). At the morula stage, it is transferred to the womb of the mother or surrogate mother(in vivo) for further gestation till term. Whatever are the benefits, there will be an outcry and vicious backlashes from traditionalists: the God-fearing people who hold conservative social views. This kind of radical and unprecedented technology will threaten to disrupt the age-old interdependency between men and women. It will undoubtedly alter our view of society. It will increase the number of single mothers and fathers in our society. Ectogenesis will radically redefine motherhood. Members of the LGBTQ+ will be overjoyed; homosexual and lesbian couples can have as many children as they can afford to have have. Will this be a disruption in the natural order of flow. Will these babies be brought up in a healthy family environment?

The other thing we have to factor in is human stupidity. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis practised Eugenics during World War II. They cross-bred high profile German men and women in order to produce a purer and a better Aryan race. Geneticist have shown that it would have backfired. It would hav led to a weaker Aryan race in subsequent generations. Another Hitler may rise in the future to consider mass production of humans in the laboratory to subjugate other nations. Tanshuman might be bred in this way using two or more ova. One very obvious reason why this is scary is that humans have a penchant to pervert that which is inherently good. There has not been anything good created by God or man which men have not perverted simply because they are totally deprave. It is in the nature of fallen man to pervert that which is inherently good. Ectogenesis is not inherently evil in itself, but it may be put to evil use. It is subject to abuse by totally deprave humanity.

There is bonding in the womb between mother and fetus. In utero, the the fetus feels the same emotions that the mothers feels: joy, happiness, pain, sorrow, elation, fear, worry, anxiety, etc. A fetus grown in a plastic womb is emotionless. Its affect is flat. It will be even worse if it has no women to call mother or man to call father, and no biological relatives to call brother, sister, cousin or uncle throughout life. It will have no sympathy let alone empathy. People may hale it as scientific breakthrough that will help women who have no uterus which may well be true, but it will lead to mass production of men and women with flat affect who have no known biological or foster parents or relations, who will see themselves as soulless temporal beings like animals.

When I die that will be the end of it. There is no heaven where righteous men and women may live in eternal bliss, and there is no Hell where sinners may be punished in eternal torment. This is a dangerous trend, but it is not unexpected. The Igbos have a saying: “a n’aso mgbagbu ma o bu ngide eje ogu,” which interpreted means: “you do not fear being taken captive or killed when you go to war.” The fact that men might pervert what is good will not deter us from creating what is good, though men might put it to perverse use.

(h) Babylon: The Empire That Was

Modern Iraq

Babylon was the third Beast Empire Satan used to persecute Israel. Babylon under the leadership of Nebuchadnezzar II led Israel into captivity in 586 BC. There were three waves of invasion and exile, 606, 596, and 586. Babylon however was conquered by Medopersia in 539 BC by Cyrus the Persian. There has been attempts to rebuild Babylon as a Empire, but it had always come to naught. Babylon revolted against Medopersian rule in 521 and 514 BC. Each time the rebellion was quelled with minimal damage to the city wall which was subsequently repaired. Babylon as an empire will never be rebuilt. Saddam Hussein who claimed to be a direct descendant of Nebuchadnezzar II made concerted effort to rebuild Babylon as an empire but failed woefully. It was an enterprise that was doomed to fail from the beginning. Had he understood biblical history and the workings of God, he would not have nursed nor cherished such grandiose delusion.

It was the second of the Semitic empires that negatively impacted Israel. The first was Assyria. Babylon defeated Assyria at the battle of Babylonia in 626 BC and again at the battle of Nineveh in 612 BC. After the battle of Nineveh, Assyria never recovered. There is a movement of power here. The first of the world class empires to negatively impact Israel was Egypt. The foundation of Egypt was Hamitic through Mizraim. The empire itself was also Hamitic. Egypt was defeated by Assyria. It is not clear whether it is Nimrod or Asshur that founded Nineveh. However, it believed by many that it was Nimrod who founded the city. Therefore, the foundation of Assyria is also Hamitic. We must understand that after the deluge, all the sons of Noah dwelt together in the Mesopotamia. Not all Hamitic people left Mesopotamia. Nimrod, a descendant of Ham through Cush is beloved to be the first king of Assyria, Sargon I. He was also believed to be a naphal, one of the fallen angels who cohabited with human females who survived the deluge.

What we are trying to show here is the movement of power from Ham to Shem and then to Japheth the elder. When a peoples group was defeated, they did not regain power. So power moved from Egypt, a Hamitic people to Assyria and Babylon, though founded by Hamitic peoples but consisted largely of Semitic peoples. So, when Babylon lost power to Medopersia in 539 BC, power moved from Semitic peoples to Japhetic peoples. It will never again return to the Semitic or Hamitic peoples till the end of times. So, global power must remain in the hands of Japhetic peoples till the end of times. The next four Beast Empires of Satan, Medopersia, Greece, Rome, Nazi Germany were Japhetic in origin. The Eighth And Final Beast Empire of Satan will consists of all peoples groups, but the leadership and power base shall be Japhetic from Magog, Meshech, and Tuval.

Therefore, Babylon as an empire will never be revived, though the city of Babylon itself may be rebuilt and come into religious and commercial prominence. Although Babylon will be part of the ten nation coalition of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire of Satan, it will never be the political capital of the Empire. The Beast shall move his seat of government from somewhere in the land of Magog to Jerusalem at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel. “And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”(Daniel 11:45 KJV). The glorious Holy Mountain is Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. This also conclusively proves that Israel shall be in possession of the Temple Mount till the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel.

(i) The Rebuilding Of Babylon.

Babylon

Like Assyria, the foundation of the city of Babylon was Hamitic through Nimrod, the mighty hunter before the Lord. It was this Nimrod who instituted false human government and false religion, the mother-child worship, vestiges of which is evident amongst all peoples of the Earth. It was that Nimrod who in defiance to God builded Babel. Following the confusion of languages at Babel(Babylon), the various descendants of Noah bore the vestiges of the religion founded by Nimrod to the various parts of the Earth as they migrated. Although the foundation of the city is Hamitic, the rulers of the Babylonian empire were Semitic. As a city Babylon was never destroyed in the past as prophesied by Isaiah. “And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.”(Isaiah 13:19 KJV). It must be rebuilt and come into commercial and religious prominence in the last days. Both the Roman Catholics and the New Age Movement have a programme of Babylonization. They want to go back to their roots; all religions have their roots in Babylon. The ancestors of all the peoples of the Earth today migrated from Babylon.

Babylon as a city have started to be rebuilt. It was began by Saddam Hussein. It is now more or less an archeological site and a tourist attraction. There are some native Iraqis who dwell there. However, it will continue to be rebuilt until it comes into prominence as a commercial city and the headquarters of all religions, the one world religion. After Satan and his fallen evil demons are cast down from the Earth, some of these fallen evil angels, the principalities, the powers, and wicked spirits in the heavenly shall find abode in the rebuilt city of Babylon(Rev.12:7-9, 18:2). This brings an explosion in its population and commercial prominence. This Babylon, the center of commerce and religion shall be finally annihilated at the outpouring of the final seventh bowl judgment(Rev.16:17-19:21).

(j) Babylon In The Last Days

As we have pointed out, Babylon is not just a city, it is a global ideal that began in the Garden of Eden when Adam rebelled against God. After the flood, Nimrod built a city and a tower to reach up to heaven. It was called the Tower of Heaven and Earth, Etemenanki. It was the symbol of man’s rebellion against God. In it was encapsulated the symbol of man’s rebellion against God. There, the religion of mother-child worship was born. There also began false human government by Nimrod. Region is also associated with buying and selling. The sole aim is for man to live his life independently from God. For this to happen, the family fabric must be destroyed through humanistic education based on atheism and evolution.

In the last days, Babylon must be rebuilt as city in order for it to be destroyed as God spoke through the prophet Isaiah like Sodom and Gomorrah(Isa.13:19). The foundation has been laid by Saddam Hussein. He reconstructed the palace of Nebuchadnezzar and the Ishtar Gate. Babylon will once again become the religious and commercial capital of the world. All religions will be unified and will be headquartered in Babylon. Of late, the unity of religions’ document was signed. This will eventuate in one-world religion which the antiChrist and the false prophet shall push. Those who refuse to comply will be economically boycotted initially before being hounded and ferreted out to be massacred on failure to recant.

Atheism and humanistic evolution will form the bedrock of education in the last days. The Big Brother will take over education completely. Parents will only have their wards registered in government schools only if they are chipped and branded as the government decrees. Believers who refuse to comply with the Big Brother shall be economically boycotted. To survive, believers must have to learn to homeschool their wards. We have done very well in establishing Christian schools. In the future these Christian Schools will be deregistered because of failure to meet up with governmental requirements which would inevitably lead to compromise of our faith in Christ. When we are blackballed out of business or economically boycotted, we have to develop our own legal tender with which to trade amongst ourselves.

(k) The Final Destruction Of Babylon

Babylon both as a city and center of commerce and religion will finally be destroyed during the outpouring of the final seventh bowl judgment. First, the city will be destroyed with its impenitent inhabitants and its wares. The kings of the nations and the merchants of its wares shall weil for it. The destruction of Babylon shall begin when it shall be assaulted by the Medes. The Medes who are the Kurdish people of the day shall be the first to attack Babylon before it will be finally annihilated by the ten kings of the ten nation confederation of the 8th And Final Beast Empire of Satan(Isa.13:17-22). In the 1980s, Saddam Hussein killed their women and children with poison gas. ISIS targets the Kurds for annihilation particularly the Yazidis. Fueled by these grievances and further atrocities that will be committed against them by the Iraqis, they shall take out their vengeance against Babylon when the opportunity presents itself to them in the final bowl judgment. Interestingly, the destruction of Babylon shall be carried by the allies of the antiMessiah, the Kurds, and the armies of the ten kings of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire. God shall put it in their hearts to do so. “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. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”(Revelation 17:16-18 ).

Babylon is the mother of harlots and abominations of the Earth. It is the Great whore that sits on the scarlet colored Beast with seven heads and ten horns. The seven heads are the seven Beasts Empires which Satan has used to oppresss the Jewish peoples and the saints of the Most High. The ten horns are the ten kings of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire which Satan will use to oppress the Jewish people and the saints in latter days.

After the Armageddon Campaign, the antiChrist and the False prophet, the first and second Beast, shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone. Everyone with the mark of the Beast will be executed by Christ and the hosts of heaven. Satan himsel shall be incarcerated in the bottomless pit for a thousand years(Rev.20:1-3). He shall be paroled for a season at the expiry of the Millennium. He shall lead another rebellion against God with the descendants and followers of Gog and Magog. God has had enough. Fire shall come down from Heaven, and they shall be consumed in the heavenly conflagration. Satan himself shall be incarcerated in the Lake of Fire and brimstone where the first and second beast had been for a thousand years previously(Rev.20:7-10).

Avraham Shallom.

Objections To Pretribulationism(3)

(d) The Restrainer

Let me start from simple things first; the identity of the restrainer. The restrainer has been identified variously by pretribs as the Holy Spirit, the Church, human government, etc. None of these is the restrainer. The concept of the restrainer did not originate in the NT. The restrainer is an OT concept. The restrainer is a person, not an institution like the Church or human government. His identity has been known in antiquity for hundreds of years amongst Jewish scholars before the First advent of Christ. So, he cannot be the Church. He is clearly identified in Dan.12:1 as archangel Michael, the warrior angel of God who standeth for the people of God, Israel in the OT, and Israel and the Church in the NT. He is the one that casts down Satan and his hordes of fallen evil angels to the Earth from the Dark Void and starry heavens at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel(Rev.12:7-9), wrestled with Satan over the body of Moses(Jude 9). His identity was pretty well known to Paul’s immediate audience in 2 Thess.2:6-8, some of whom were Jewish. That was the major reason why our brother Apostle Paul did not bother to identify him to his immediate audience. He probably did so in his previous oral instructions while he was with them. Jewish scholars like Rashi also identified him as archangel Michael that will “amad” before the Great Tribulation begins. Further elucidation, see my article, “The Middle Of The 70th Week.” Link:https://mtzionheritageministries.com/2019/08/29/the-middle-of-the-70th-seven/

(e) That Day: The Rapture And The Parousia

It is general amongst all pretribs, some of whom were my teachers in the Bible School in the US, whom I reverence till today, to separate the rapture from the second coming of Christ. Most pretribs do not understand the biblical concept of THAT DAY. That day is the day in which Jesus appears in the heavens, raptures the saints, and the wrath of God begins. There are other substitute phrases that are used synonymously with it, such as the day of Christ, His day, the day of the Lord, the day of His wrath, etc, which are descriptive of some of its aspects. You can search these out for yourselves in the Scriptures. It begins with the rapture and ends at Armageddon. The saints are under siege here on Earth during the Great Tribulation. The saints are being killed(fourth and fifth seals). God is angry with the unrighteousness wicked who murder the saints. He swoops in from the heavens to pour out His wrath on the unrighteous wicked earth-dwellers who worship the Dragon-Beast and murder the saints of the Most High who refuse to bow to the image of the Beast. He is on a revenge mission to repay with tribulation those who trouble the saints(2 Thess.1:6-10). He rescues the saints first before He pours out His wrath on the unrighteousness wicked. The same day the Church is raptured, the seventh seal is broken, and the wrath of God begins.

It is therefore a reference to the second COMING of Christ. The Greek word is “PAROUSIA.” It is a compound Greek word made of “para”(arrival) and “ousia”(presence). It means arrival and subsequent presence with. It is used to describe the state visit by a king to a particular region of his domain. When he arrives, he stays to accomplish certain purposes. It is not just one day, a period of 24 hours. In the case of Christ Second Coming, it is heralded by the sixth seal, the cosmic and celestial disturbance. Then He appaeras in the heavens, the Shekhinah Glory(Matt.24.29-31; 1 Thess.4:14-18; 1 Cor.15:50-52), the appearance of the coming of the Son of Man. The first thing He does is to dispatch His angels to gather His elect from the four winds(corners) of the Earth after He seals the 144, 000 to be God’s representative on Earth. Why? Because He is about to punish the world for their evil, and the Church is exempt from His wrath(1 Thess.1:10, 5:9), and the 144,000 who are God’s representatives on Earth must be protected and shielded from His wrath(Rev.7:1-8). This is why the rapture occurs immediately after the sealing of the 144,000(Rev.7:9-17). And the rapture is followed by the commencement of the wrath of God in the day of the Lord in Rev.8:1 which is the breaking of the seventh seal. But the Pretribs have denied that the innumerable multitude from all tribes, tongues, peoples, nations were raptured saints, but rather have labeled them “Tribulation Saints.” Read that passage very well. There is no evidence they were all martyrs. Certainly they include the fifth seal martyrs(Rev.6:9-11), but they were not all martyred.

The rapture is the soul of the Second coming. You cannot separate the soul from the spirit. What follows the rapture is the wrath of God. Even Pretribs teach that after the rapture is the wrath of God, but they fail to concede that it is preceded by the cosmic and celestial disturbances, which is an obvious contradiction of Scriptures and gross inconsistency, simply because it destroys their pet doctrine of imminence, and sudden, secret, and silent rapture. Is the rapture sudden when the true believers who are of the day and light are not supposed to be taken unawares? The suddenness of His coming as a thief in the night references the unbelievers who are not in expectation of His coming, are of the night and darkness, are drunken and are fallen asleep(1 Thess.5:1-11; Luk.17:26-30). We, the saints, are not in ignorance; we are children of the day, not of the night, we are of light, not of darkness that “That Day” should oevertake us or come upon us unawares. Time and space will fail me to go into details. Let us search the scriptures ourselves to understand these things in order that we might have a handle on the End Times, rather than defend blindly wrongly conceived notions of the End Times which have been past down to us by our pretribs mentors and forebears. I was a Pretrib myself, and zealously defended it, until I understood from the teachings of Marvin J. Rosenthal and Robert Van Kampen, it was an unbiblically founded view and therefore scripturally contradictory and indefensible.

Avraham Shalom!

9 PASSAGES OF THE SCRIPTURES THAT LOCATE THE RAPTURE OR RESURRECTION AFTER THE GREAT TRIBULATION(2)

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 our previous post, we began to examine a few particulars of passage #1 of the Scriptures that speak of tribulation before Rapture. We shall now look at passage #2 which deals with the biblical motif of persecution/tribulation of the saints in the hand of the nonbelievers and God’s retaliation/retribution and relief to the saints.

PASSAGE #2

Interim Inter-tribulational or Inter-wrath Period

2 Thessalonians 1:6

“For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.”

This is the NET(New English Translation). The KJV(King James Version) translation of this verse says: “Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,”(2 Thessalonians 1:6-7).

There are key words in this passage of the Scripture which we shall look at. The first is “repay”(Greek: antapodounai) in the NET. The KJV renders it “recompense.” This is not a word that is commonly in use in today’s English except among lovers of KJV. It simply means “pay back” or “repay” as in the NET. For one to pay back, repay or recompense another, the other must have done something for or to him whether good or bad, and he owes him. That is fair enough. The other key words we shall examine are affliction and the cognate verb afflict. The Greek root word is “thlipsis.” It is usually rendered affliction, persecution, tribulation, distress, trouble. As we can see, the KJV renders it “tribulation.” The noun form rendered tribulation or affliction here is “thlibousin.” The cognate verb rendered afflict or trouble is “thliphin.” The afflicted or troubled is “tois thlibunois.” Another related Greek word is “thlibo” which is usually translated persecution. They are used interchangeably. Sometimes, they occur in tandem in the same sentence(Roms.8:35; 2 Tim.3:11; 2 Thess.1:4). Obviously they have a common root.

Our brother, Apostle Paul is telling the brethren in Thessalonica that it is righteous for God to pay back those who trouble, afflict or distress them with tribulation, trouble or affliction. In other words, there is Satan’s tribulation perpetrated by ungodly men on the saints of the Most High, and there is God’s own tribulation executed by the angels of God in flaming fire taking vengeance on the sons of disobedience, the unrighteousness wicked who kill the sons of God. God’s own tribulation on the unrighteous wicked is a “retaliation,” a “recompensation” a “retribution,” or “payback” for atrocities and evils perpetrated on the sons of God. In other words, God’s retaliation on the unrighteous wicked comes after Satan’s persecution of the saints in the person of the antiChrist and his acolytes. God cannot begin to punish the unrighteous wicked until they have carried out their persecution of the saints of God to the fullest. They must kill the saints in a rage that reaches unto the heaven. Their cup of iniquity must be full. God cannot begin to punish the wicked on intent only; they must actually carry out the act before God can retaliate. There will be no pre-emptive strike here. This is so in order that no one may be confused about the justice and fairness of God.

Another key word we shall examine is the Greek word “anesin,” from the root “anesis” which KJV and NET render “REST.” Some other translations like the NASV render it “RELIEF.” “Anesin” therefore means relief or rest from trouble, persecution, tribulation, affliction or distress. This relief that God will give the Thessalonians, is it any relief from any trouble or a specific relief from a specific trouble or tribulation? The context will tell us. This relief will be given, not just only to the Thessalonians but to “US,” that is, all believers who have faced persecution, tribulation, distress at any time in the course of the history of the Church. So, it is the ultimate relief. If our brother Apostle Paul had not included the clause “with us,” one could argue that the rest was limited only to the Thessalonians and must have been granted them in time past in their lifetime inasmuch as that local assembly of believers is extinct today.

Another very important fact is that our brother Apostle Paul specified the locus(time and timing) in the eschatological timeline in which the RELIEF or REST will be granted all believers, especially those living at that time of persecution by the antiChrist. And it will be given to “US”(all believers), when Christ is revealed(apokalupto) from Heaven with His Mighty angels in flaming fire taken vengeance on those who know not God nor obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus the Christ. This is not a secret, silent or sudden event inasmuch as it is preceded by the persecution of the saints and darkening of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. In other words, this vengeance is final, consummative and eschatological. It must occur after the final trouble believers will be troubled with. So, the relief or rest is coming to all believers after the final trouble, tribulation, persecution, or distress with which the believers shall be bedeviled. Therefore, it cannot be Christ’s coming at Armageddon in which He is accompanied by both the angels of God and resurrected and glorified saints inasmuch as the saints have not finally be evacuated to Heaven prior to this time at any point in the eschatological timeline. What is this final trouble after which all believers(US) will be given relief? Is it not what our Lord Jesus in His Olivet Prophecy described as the “Great Tribulation”(Matt.24:22), which will be different from all other troubles, persecutions, tribulations, distresses, afflictions, before and after it(Matt.24:21)? There was and will be none other like it in the annals of world history.

He went further to tell us in the Olivet Discourse that the rest or relief will come in the form of evacuation of the saints by His holy angels dispatched from His Shekhinah(in the Heavens) from the scene of trouble which is the Earth. This event will occur in the “Inter-tribulational Period” according to Dr. Charles Cooper or in the “Inter-wrath Period:” for it occurs in the interlude between the wrath of Satan(Rev.12:12) and the wrath of God(Rev.6:17), or between the Great Tribulation by the antiChrist and God’s retaliation or tribulation to those who trouble or afflict us. The only way any living believer can escape the Great Tribulation is to die before the Great Tribulation begins at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel. “All living believers must pass through the intelligence of the antiChrist in order to be eligible for evacuation from the Earth in the Rapture”(Johnson Sampson Oyedeji). All believers alive at the time of the Great Tribulation will go through the Great Tribulation. There will be no Rapture before the 70th week of Daniel commences nor will it occur in the first half of the 70th week of Daniel.

“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).

This evacuation will come after the persecution by the antiChrist[(Great)Tribulation] is terminated by cosmic and celestial disturbances, the darkening of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, the sign of the End Of The Ages which sends warning signal to the antiChrist and his minions that God is about to punish them for their evils, that is, the killing of Christ’s servants, the saints during the Great Tribulation(Rev.13:7). This is the breaking of the sixth seal(Rev.6:12-14), which will send the wicked earth-dwellers scurrying for nonexistent cover under the rocks and the mountains of the Earth(Rev.6:15-17). They will know instinctively that God is about to pay them back for their evils, and there will be no where to hide from His wrath. Who shall be able to stand? It is not stated any where in the whole of the Scriptures that any segment of the saints, no matter how holy their lives, shall be suddenly, secretly, and silently evacuated or whisked away from the Earth before the final or Great Tribulation and the cosmic disturbances that terminate it.

But our pretribulationist teachers, pastors, GOs and Bishops have confounded the hearts of the simple with fabulous tales of relief or rest to the super-righteous saints before the final tribulation or Great Tribulation while the rest of us less holy or unholy and feeble believers who could not make the “first roundup” will go through the Great Tribulation and earn or pay for our salvation with our blood which the Bible does not in so many words either implicitly or explicitly teach. Salvation is always by grace through faith. It is never by works in order that no man will boast, because God has concluded all men under Sin. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”(Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV). If any man should boast, let him boast in the Lord(1 Cor.1:31). Are we Islamic shahids that earn paradise with 72 virgins apiece via martyrdom and more so if they take out some infidels with them in the style of a sampsonic suicide?

The relief of the saints through evacuation by His angels into Heaven(episunagoge: upward gathering)[Matt.24:31] is now lateral or sideways gathering of the surviving unbelievers who did not take the mark of allegiance to the Beast into the Millennium. And the appearance of His coming(parousia) is now his second coming at Armageddon which occurs several years after the cosmic and celestial disturbances and the evacuation of the saints from the scene of the Great Tribulation(Rev.19: 11-21)[see graphics]. What a theological gimmickry?

This retaliation or recompensation or payback of God to those who trouble us, the saints, is it not the WRATH OF GOD IN THE DAY OF THE LORD from which it is explicitly stated in the Scripture that the believers are exempt?(1 Thess.1:10, 5:9). The wrath of God is it not for the CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE(Eph.5:6; Col.3:6)? After the Rapture is the wrath of God. No one will be saved after the Rapture by martyrdom or paying with his or her blood. Period. The only way left open for that person to obtain salvation after the Rapture if he is Jew is to go through the first six trumpet judgments in order to be purged, purified, and cleansed, and if a Gentile to go through all the trumpet and the bowl judgments, and to appear and be justified in Jerusalem at the Sheep And Goat Judgment of the Gentile Survivors of the wrath of God in the Day Of The Lord which occurs during the 45-day Restoration Period Of The Kingdom(Matt.25:31-46).

Avraham Shallom.

Objections To Preteibulationism(2)

(b) The Chronology Of The Scroll Of Revelation

The Book of Revelation is chronological. Rev.1 introduces Christ the risen Saviour walking in the midst of the seven candlesticks. The candlesticks are the seven local assemblies of believers in Asia Minor which is in modern day Turkey.They are representative of all local assemblies at every place at all times throughout the Church Age. Rev.2,3 contain the letters to the seven churches. Pretribulationists contend that the rapture occurs in Rev.4:1 because after Rev.3:22, the word Church is no longer used. How can anyone conjure up the rapture in Rev.4:1 when our brother Apostle John the revelator was invited into the Throne Room Of The Temple Of God In Heaven to be shown certain things to come? Some Pretribs teach that the sea of glass in Rev.4:6 represents the raptured saints. Some are of the view that Rev.5:6-10 indicate the raptured saints in heaven. This is what Pretribs are noted for. They impose their opinions on some Scripture passages without textual evidence. Biblical scholars call this eisegesis; importing meaning into some verses or passages of scriptures without textual evidence.

Admittedly, Rev.4,5 reveal activities in the Throne Room In the Temple Of God in Heaven. In Rev.4 God is seated on His Throne. Before Him are four living creatures(KJV: Beasts), and twenty and four elders. These four living creature are angels. Assuming the twenty-four elders are human, how do they represent the raptured saints? Whatever happened to the OT saints that rose with Jesus(Matt.27:52,53)? What Rev.5:6-10 described is a scenerio where John wept because there was no one worthy both in Heaven and on Earth to break the seven seals of the seven-sealed Scroll and to open the Scroll. He was consoled by one of the elders: that Jesus, the lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed to break the seven seals of the seven-sealed Scroll and to open it. This scroll is the Title Deed Of The Earth. Or is it a Certificate Of Debenture as proposed by J. Webb Miller? Jesus as the heir apparent to the throne of the earthly domain of God’s Universal Kingdom is the only one who has the authority to break the seals because God the Father has committed all judgment to Him. Where are the raptured saints mentioned in these verses of the Holy Writ? None. So, this view of Rev.5 is an imposition on this passage of Scripture which contradicts textual evidence. Pretribs do this very often to generate unnecessary controversy and wrangling.

Chronologically, Rev.1-5 form the background to the Scroll. It is assumed here that the theme of the Scroll Of Revelation is Events in the 70th week of Daniel. (Those scholars who view the wrath of God as the Theme Of The Scroll Of Revelation May extend the background of the Scroll Of Revelation to chapter 7, because the wrath of begins in chapter 8 at the breaking of the seventh seal). In Rev.6, the 70th week begins. Christ breaks a seal in heaven and certain events unfold here on Earth. Seal one is emergence of false christs(1-2), and the ultimate false christ, the antiChrist. Seal 2 represents wars, commotions, threats sand rumors of wars(3-4). Seal 3 is famine, pestilence and earthquakes(5-6). This brings the first three and one-half years, the first half of the 70th week to a close. There is as yet no targeted persecution of believers though some believers will die from wars, famines, pestilences, and natural disasters like earthquakes, and the usual hatred and persecution of believers by nonchristians especially in Muslim and Hindu nations and atheistic North Korea and communist China.

At the midpoint of the 70th week, seal 4 is broken, and the Great Tribulation begins(7-8). Seal 5 depicts martyrs under the altar in the Holy place in heaven(9-11). They were killed on Earth during the Great Tribulation which is seal 4. Seal 6 is cosmic and celestial disturbances which terminate the Great Tribulation(12-14). When this happens, the unrighteousness wicked know that God is about to punish them for their evils. Seal 6 is prelude to the end of the ages. It is the sign of the end of the ages. They run to hide under the rocks and mountains(Rev.6:15-17). The wrath of God is about to begin. But before it begins, the 144,000 must be sealed for protection and the saints raptured to take them away from the scene of God’s wrath.

In Rev.7:1-8, the 144,000 from the twelve tribes of Israel are sealed for protection. This is like the handing over of a baton in a relay race. God will not leave Himself without a witness. The Church is raptured, and the 144,000 become God’s witnesses on Earth. They are not evangelists as Pretribs urge us to believe. They are not even born again believers in Jesus the Messiah. They believe in the Messiah, but they do not that the Messiah is Jesus of the Christians. They are sealed to protect them during the Day Of the Lord’s wrath. One may ask, what about the two witnesses? Their ministry will soon expire at the end of the 70th week. Rev.7:9-17, the Church is raptured. The innumerable multitude are the raptured saints in heaven. In Rev.8:1, seal 7 is broken and the wrath of God in the Day Of Lord commences. Seal 7 when broken opens into the seven trumpets which contain the first series of the wrath of God. Rev.8 & 9 depict the blowing of the first six trumpets which bring the 70th week to a close.

What some teachers and commentators fail to understand is that the Scroll of Revelation even though chronological, contains parentheses, flashbacks and recapitulation, and periscopes. After Rev.9, John pauses the narrative to introduce the major dramatis personae. Rev. 10-14 do not necessarily advance the chronology. In Rev.10, Christ the chief protagonist is depicted as a strong or mighty angel with the Small scroll. The Small Scroll is the Big Scroll in Rev.5 with the seven seals broken, and some of the internal contents dispensed with in the blowing of the first six trumpets. Christ is the only one qualified to handle the Big Scroll. So He also is the only one qualified to handle the Small Scroll. In Rev.11, Christ’s chief servants, the two witnesses are introduced. This is a flashback and periscope to the midpoint of the 70th week. Their ministry begins at the Gentile takeover of the Third Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem at the midpoint of the 70th week, and is concurrent with the time allotted to the antiChrist to reign which is the second half of the 70th week, three and one-half years, 42 months or 1,260 days according to Jewish calendar which is lunar. Their ministry parallels seals 4-6 and the first six trumpets of seal seven. They are killed by the antiChrist on the last day of the 70th week and raised by Christ on day 4 of the 30-day Reclamation period of the Kingdom(Dan.12:12,13).

Rev.12 begins with a historical flashback to 4-6 BC when Christ was born. Verse 7 through to verse 9 speak of the cosmic war in the heavenlies which occurs at the midpoint of the 70th week when Satan is cast down to the Earth. Until Satan is cast down to the Earth, he does not posssess the antiChrist. Until Satan possesses the antiChrist, he(the aC) does not declare himself God. When Satan possesses the antiChrist, he declares Himself God, demands worship of mortals, and the Great Tribulation begins. Rev.13 is also parenthetic. It is a recapitulation of the carrier of the antiChrist and the false prophet that began at the midpoint of the 70th week. It is a recap of the events in seals 4-6. In Rev.14 Christ rescues the 144,000 Jews from the Edomite wilderness and brings them to the top of physical and earthly Mount Zion. There, the remnant of Israel who survived the 70th week are reconciled to God on day 3 of the 30-day reclamation period of the kingdom.

Rev.15 is prelude to the Final Seven Bowl judgments which cover Rev.16-20, culminating in bowl 7 which is Armageddon( Rev.19) and the incarceration of Satan in the Bottomless pit(Rev.20).

Rev.21,22 describe the New Heavens And New Earth which is the Millennial reign of Christ, the Rulership Of The Kingdom introduced in Rev.20:1-7. So, Rev.21 & 22 are a periscope on Rev.20:1-7 which is the Millennium.

So, we see that the scroll of Revelation though chronological has historical flashbacks and recapitulations, parentheses, and periscopes. Chronologically, it ends with the White Throne Judgment(Rev.20:11-15).

That Judaism will be the only voice against one world religion is false. It was based on Traditional Dispensationalism which teaches that the Church must be absent in the 70th week. Most pretribs are Traditional Dispensationalists because Pretribulationism props up Traditional Dispensationalism.

(c) Response To Dr. Amoran Who Denies Any Parenthesis In The Scroll Of Revelation, And Accuses Me Of Eisegesis

It is unfortunate that you do not see the pause in the narrative in the Scroll of Revelation after chapter 9. Chapters 10-14 deal with characters involved in the end time drama none of whom apart from our Lord Jesus the Christ who was introduced chapter 1, the believers in Rev.2&3, and the 144,000 in chapter 7, have been mentioned so far. These characters are Jesus the Mighty angel in chapter 10, the two witnesses in chapter 11, Satan and archangel Michael, the children of Israel and the believers in chapter 12, the antiChrist and the false prophet, the first and second beast in chapter 13, and the 144,000 in chapter 14. Bear in mind that the End Time narrative begins in Rev.6 at the commencement of the 70th week of Daniel. When an author pauses the narrative to discusses characters involved in a literary work, is that an advancement in the chronology(time)? I leave you to answer that question for yourself.

As per eisegesis, my analyses are based on textual evidence. It is proper however to bring in parallel passages as corroborative evidence. Scripture interprets Scripture is one of the five cardinal principles of biblical hermeneutics. When we look at Rev.12:1-2, we cannot but reference Joseph’s dream in Gen.37 where the Sun and Moon, and the 11 Stars did obeisance to him. When we neglect this passage, we get into the pitfall of those who say the mystical woman in Rev.12:1 is the Church. Did the Church give birth to Christ? When we look at Rev.12:3, we cannot but reference Isaiah 14 where Satan rebelled against God in eternity past. That is the origin of fallen angels. When we interpret Rev.12:4,5, we cannot but reference Matt.2 where Satan attempted through his proxy, Herod the great to destroy the infant Jesus. When we interpret Rev.12:6, we cannot but reference Rev.6:7,8, the breaking of the 4th seal when Satan through his minion the antiChrist attempted to destroy the woman and her seed who keep the commandment of God(observant Jews), and those who have the testimony of Jesus(believers). When we interpret the Great Red Dragon with seven heads and ten horns, we cannot but reference Daniel 2 & 7, the seven Beast Empires of history through which Satan persecuted Israel. But, by your view, and eisegetical interpretions, you have expurgated those who have the testimony of Jesus from the End Time scenario, leaving only the Jews as God’s only witnesses in the 70th week of Daniel, a view that is a defense of Pretribulational dispensationalism. Do take a verse or passage of the Scriptures I have exegeted, show me where I imported an extraneous fact(s) into it.

Avraham Shallom.

9 PASSAGES THAT LOCATE THE RAPTURE OR RESURRECTION AFTER THE TRIBULATION(1)

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.

We shall now begin to examine a few particulars of these passages of the Scriptures that speak of tribulation before Rapture. We shall follow them in the order in which our brother presented them though they more or less can be understood independently though complementary. The first we shall look at is passage #1 which says that the raptured saints are remnants or survivors who past through the Great Tribulation.

Passage #1

Interim Inter-tribulational Period

1 Thessalonians 4:15b

. . . that we who are alive, who are left [hoi perileipomenoi] until the coming [parousia] of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.”

This is the New English Translation(NET). The KJV says: “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.”

The key Greek phrase which we shall examine in this passage is “hoi zon-tes hoi perileipomenoi. As we can see, the phrase is hyphenated in the Greek. The literal meaning is “the living-the remaining or the living-the surviving.” Our brother Apostle Paul used the collective pronoun we, the living-the remaining, which means that this pronoun is inclusive of all the living and remaining or the living and surviving believers at that time. Some literal Greek translation reads: “we who are alive and left,” which boils down to the same thing, we who are alive and are remaining or surviving. The real meaning of perileipomenoi is “to leave or remain here and there,” “to leave all around.” The big question is what are we survivors or remnants of? We are the living remnants or living survivors of those who passed through the Great Tribulation. Plain and simple.

Another important Greek phrase we shall look at is “ten parousian,” which means the Coming. It is usually translated the coming like “erchomai.” It is a derivative of “ “parousia,” a compound Greek word composed of “para” and “ousia.” It means “arrival” and subsequent “presence.” It is used to describe a state visit by a monarch to a particular region of his domain. When he arrives, he stays to accomplish certain purposes. He may inspect some project in progress and commission another that is already finished. There will be a state dinner, etc. Can this visit be secret? Hardly. This is how the second coming of Christ will be. It begins with His appearance in the heavens(the Shekhinah), and the Rapture of the living and surviving remnants of the saints who passed through the Great Tribulation to meet Him in the air and His continuing presence to accomplish certain divine purposes during the Day of the Lord, culminating at His victory over the antiChrist and his forces at Armageddon(Rev.19:11-21), and the institution of His Millennial Kingdom.

Avraham Shallom.

Can A Believer Who Is Left Behind After The Rapture Be Saved?

Assuming a believer misses the Rapture when it occurs in the interlude between the end of the sixth seal and the breaking of the seventh seal(Inter-tribulational Period or Inter-wrath Period; The Prewrath Rapture View), can he/she still be saved? The affirmative view seems plausible on the surface, but when we examine the scriptures and the reality of the situation on Earth after the Rapture, I have great difficulty in understanding how a true believer who has not taken the mark of allegiance to the antiChrist(aC) during the Great Tribulation will be “left behind” when the Rapture takes place after the killing spree of the aC has been terminated by the cosmic and celestial disturbances(the darkening of the Sun, Moon, and Stars) which is the sign of the End Of The Ages[Matt.24:22]. What will be the reason? We propound this theory not fully comprehending the condition on Earth under which the Rapture will take place.

When the Sun, Moon, and Stars are darkened, what will the Earth look like? It will be very dark and cold; infact frozen. The warmth we feel and the light we see on Earth come from the Sun. The Sun is one of the smallest stars. It is approximately 189 million kilometres away from the Earth. If the Sun gets closer to the Earth, the Earth will be vaporized. If it gets farther away from the Earth, the Earth, its inhabitants and appurtenances will be frozen into one solid mass. What am trying to show is that whatever keeps out the Sun’s energy from the Earth will make the Earth very dark and cold. This event will be preceded by massive universal earthquake or series of massive earthquakes. The unbelievers, especially those with the mark of the Beast will run helter-skelter like chickens with the heads cut off trying to hide under the rocks and the mountains, invoking these to fall upon them and bury them out of sight from the wrath of the Lamb which is about to be poured out on them.

“And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 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 m ton 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).

Why? Because they know instinctively that God is about to punish them for their evils. He is about to pour out His wrath upon them for their evils. Because being crushed to death by the mountains and rocks is a far less horrible experience than facing the wrath of the Lamb which is about to begin. For example, during the fifth trumpet judgment, any inhabitant of the Earth without the seal of God on his/her forehead shall be repeatedly tormented by demonic locusts with the sting of scorpions for five months. I have been stung by a scorpion once, and I know better. It will be very horrible experience to be repeatedly stung by ordinary scorpions let alone demonized ones. Scorpions cannot fly, but locusts can. So, a locust with the sting of a scorpion is more deadly creature than an ordinary scorpion that cannot fly. Who shall be able to stand?(17). There will be utter chaotic confusion(Rev.9:12). When this happens the aC’s organized system is in disarray; telecommunications and electric power supply are disrupted by the EMP from asteroids, comets, and meteorites hauled to the Earth by the Sun when it turns into a black hole. Radio and TV stations will be out of service. Folks will not be able to make calls. This alone is enough to make some people run berserk. The massive snow from thunderstorm, and earthquakes and tsunamis, volcanic eruptions spewing out lava and ash blanketing the heavens will cut off roads, bury houses, cars, zero visibility, rendering mobility very difficult if not altogether impossible.

Emergency services will be zeroed. No one will be thinking of rescuing anybody; it will be every man for himself, and no one for his neighbor. This cosmic phenomena will literally stop the aC’s killing spree. Obviously no one on Earth at this time will have the bravado to go about enforcing some legislation at the risk of his own life. Some will be trapped in their houses, offices, cars, public buildings, unable to get out. Fortunately, these cosmic phenomena and celestial disturbances will be very brief. The darkness and the cold will be dispelled by the appearance of the Shekinah in the heavens.

“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.24:30-31, cp Rev.1:7).

Why are they mourning? Because it has suddenly dawned on them that atheistic evolution is a scientific sham, that the antiChrist is a false man-made god; and that the one and only true God of Israel and the whole Earth is about to take over His world and banish the infidels to Hell for eternity. That there is no remedy for them who had bowed to the image of the Beast, they will be consigned to fire and brimstone in the Lake of fire for eternity. It will take some time before the antiChrist recovers and gathers his forces to face Christ at Armageddon some years ahead(Rev.19:19).

How do believers react to this state of affairs?

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”(Luke 21:25-28).

The interval between the end of the sixth seal and the breaking of the seventh seal is an interim period of unknown duration, though very brief. It is a grace period within which erring believers and nonbelievers who have not taken the mark of allegiance to the Beast up to this time in the eschatological timeline may repent. What is the meaning of “then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” The phrases, “look up,” and “lift up your heads,” connote supplications, intercession and prayers, and expectation of deliverance, and evacuation from the Earth, the Scene Of The Great Tribulation. For it is written:

“Whosoever shall call upon the name of the the Lord shall be saved”(delivered, rescued by evacuation from the Earth)[Rom.10:13; cf Isa.45:22].

How can any true believer who had rejected the mark of the beast and endured the horrors of the aC’s persecution up to this time fail to invoke Devine Mercy, and call upon the name of the Lord? And for any so called believer who failed to call upon the name of the Lord, it shall be:

“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”(Jere.8:20).

Christ was addressing His disciples who were here then, and by extension the members of His Body who shall be alive during the Great Tribulation by the antiChrist. It is obvious that these predictions were not fulfilled in the days of the Apostles of the Lamb. Certainly they will be fulfilled in the future. The Olivet prophecy relates to both Israel and the Church. The twelve disciples were representatives of both Israel and the Church. Therefore, to relegate the Olivet discourse to the Jewish wastepaper basket is theological gimmickry.

The Rapture is about to occur; it is overhanging. Believers are looking up and lifting their heads in anticipation of their evacuation from the Earth when the Lord descends from Heaven with voice of the archangel and the trump of God(1 Cor.15:50-52; 1 Thess.4:13-18; cp Matt.24:29-31; Mk.13:24-27).

Every believer should be unassuming at this time. Every believer should repent and make supplications to God. Every disciple should repent, and make an appeal to God’s mercy. Why? Because once the trumpet sounds and Rapture takes place, anyone “left behind,” with the exemption of the 144,000, will face the wrath of God. What follows the Rapture is the wrath of God. And no true believer will face the wrath of God because God has not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus the Christ(1 Thess.1:10, 5:9). Anyone who calls himself/herself a believer, who does not take the mark of the Beast, and is “left behind” after the Rapture has been a false disciple all along. (What every true disciple will do at this time is to repent in sackcloth and ashes, and appeal to God for mercy and deliverance). The only way left open for that person to obtain salvation after the Rapture if he is a Jew is to go through the first six trumpet judgments in order to be purged, purified, and cleansed, and if a Gentile to go through all the trumpet and the bowl judgments, and to appear and be justified in Jerusalem at the Sheep And Goat Juddgment of the Gentile Survivors of the wrath of God in the Day Of The Lord which occurs during the 45-day Restoration Period Of The Kingdom(Matt.25:31-46).

If any believer is left behind after the Rapture, such a person is no longer a believer. He or she is not part of the body of Christ. The church was instituted at Pentecost and ends at the Rapture. Yes, he can be saved to enter the Millennium and repopulate the Earth. He will live a thousand years in this natural mortal body of ours. He will not receive glorified eternal immortal resurrection body till after the final resurrection after the White Throne Judgment(Rev.20:11-15). What if he/she is killed by the antiChrist and his acolytes? He/she died after the close of the Church Age. He/she will have to await final resurrection after the White Throne Judgment.

My dearly beloved brethren, I hope God will open ours eyes to see the absurdity and enormity of teaching that some believers will still be saved after the Rapture. It sounds pious, but not biblically realistic. It is an enormous uphill task. It is better to urge everyone to get raptured with the Church and not hope for redemption after the Rapture.

NB: Comments, opinions, and views will be entertained. For alternative and differing view(s), please present scriptural bases for your view(s), and lucid analyses of the situation on Earth at that time which validate your alternative and divergent view(s).

Avraham Shallom.

Are Rev.7:1-8 And 14:1-5 Proof Texts That Some Believers Will Not Go Through The Great Tribulation?

I have come across some believers who use Rev.7:1-8 and Rev.14:1-5 which deal with the 144,000 as proof texts to teach that some within the Church will not go through the Great Tribulation. There is problem with this interpretation because the Rev.7:1-8 passage makes it clear those sealed are Jews. Some noticing this dilemma teach that the two are different. They capitalize on the fact that it is not explicitly stated in Rev.14:1-5 that they are Jews to allegorize the group to be the faithful and uncompromising believers. For what purpose would Christ gather all the faithful and uncompromising believers from all over the world to the physical and earthly Mount Zion prior to the outpouring of the final seven Bowl judgments? This scene occurs on the 3rd day of the 30-day reclamation period of the Kingdom on the earthly Mount Zion, after the Great Tribulation, the rapture and the outpouring of the wrath of God in the first six trumpet judgments.

“Come, and let us return unto the Lord : for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord : his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.”(Hosea 6:1‭-‬3).

At this point in the chronology of the end times, there is not a single Christian on Earth in this physical and mortal body of ours. The people on Earth at that time are branded Jews and Gentiles, unbranded Jews and Gentiles, and the 144,000 who are unbranded with the mark of the Beast, but have the seal of the God of Israel on their foreheads. The 144,000 are a segment of the unbranded Jews who in addition have the seal of the God of Israel on their foreheads. When the redeemed of humanity sing in heaven, no one on Earth could learn, understand, and sing this song but the 144,000 with Christ on the earthly Mount Zion. This is the song of the redeemed. At that point in time, they are the only ones redeemed that are on Earth. That is precisely the reason why they are the only ones who could, understand, learn, and sing the song. It is a redemption song.

No true believer will go through any or part of the wrath of God(1 Thess.1:10; 2 Thess.5:9). And the wrath of God in the Day Of the Lord begins at the breaking of the seventh seal way into the second half of the 70th week of Daniel. This group of 144,000 are rescued by Christ from the Edomite and Judaean wildernesses. “I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them.”(Micah 2:12,13).

They match with Christ on foot to the summit of Mount Zion from the Edomite wilderness, and are joined en route by the remnants of Israel from the Judaean wilderness, Egypt and Assyria, other parts of Israel and Jerusalem and its environs. It is hermeneutical jingoism to label them Christians, seeing there are no Christians on Earth in this physical and mortal body of ours at this time in the chronology of the end times. They are referred to as firsfruits because they are the first group of Jews to believe in Jesus after the rapture. They are the first group to be saved to enter and repopulate the Earth in the Millennium. If they were believers, they could hardly be regarded as or merit the status of the firstfruits inasmuch as they are not the first to believe in Jesus in the Church Age. They interpret the phrase “from the Earth” to mean they are saved or redeemed from all over the world. They forget that God has plan. It is always the Jew first, and afterwards the Gentile.

Firstfruits refers to the first of the harvest in Israel. It is always dedicated to God as the firstborn to open the matrix of both man and beast(Exod.13:12,34:19; Num.3:12, 18:15). Christ is the firstfruits of those who slept. He is the first to rise from the dead and die no more(1 Cor.15:20,23). Members of the house of Stephaneus are the first to receive Jesus as their personal Lord and Saviour in Achaia, and dedicated themselves to the service of God in ministering to the saints(1 Cor.16:15). The Jewish believers in Palestine in the 1st Century were the firstfruits of His creatures(Jam.1:18). Our brother Apostle Paul regarded the whole body of Christ as the firstfruits of His creation waiting for the redemption of our body. This is in relation to the redemption of the whole creation. God had to start with man who is the zenith of His creative ability. Though not the first to be created, he is the epitome of His creative ingenuity.

“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”(Rom.8:18-25).

The first people to believe in Jesus were Jews. “Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.”(Jere.2:3). The first people to be filled with the Holy Spirit were also Jews. So also the first people to be redeemed to enter the Millennium will be Jews. The Gentiles do not qualify until justified at the Sheep and Goat Judgment after Armageddon. This is the proper interpretation because it is in keeping with God’s pattern of redemption to the Jew first and afterwords the Gentile(Rom.1:16). It is the same in relation to God’s wrath and punishment.

Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.”(Rom.2:9‭-‬11).

They label this group of faithfuls as the Recovered Church. Watchman Nee advocated this view which is still held by some of his adherents till today, though a minority view. It is a form of the “Partial Rapture Theory” which teaches that believers will be raptured at various points before and during the 70th week of Daniel depending on their spiritual preparedness and readiness. They equate the 144,000 with the faithful and uncompromising believers as exemplified by the Church Of Philadelphia and perhaps the Church Of Smyrna. This is an allegorical interpretation which has long been discredited because it distorts the Scriptures and is at best eseigetical. When the plain sense of Scripture makes sense, seek no other sense. That is face value hermeneutics.

One very important fact these allegorical interpreters fail to realize is that the 144,000 are not Christrians at all but Jews. They believe in the Messiah of Israel, but they do not believe that their Messiah is the historical Jesus of the Christians. The 70th week of Daniel is a transitional period and there are various groups on Earth at this time as we have pointed out earlier as were in Israel in the First Century AD. The 144,000 are different from other Jews because of their vow of celibacy, dedication and devotion to the God of Israel. They are not the only Jews not branded with the mark of the Beast. Shortly before the sounding of the seventh trumpet, multitude of Jews who are not branded with the mark of the Beast will be reconciled to the God of Israel on day 3 of the 30-day Reclamation Period of the Kingdom, thusly completing the spiritual kingdom of God.

Some Bible teachers label them evangelists who preach the gospel to the whole world and win billions to the faith. They claim the innumerable multitude in Rev.7:9-17 mentioned immediately after their sealing are their converts, the fruits of their efforts and labours who are all martyred, the so called “Tribulation Saints.” These are eseigetical assumptions read into this passage of the Holy Writ. There is no biblical evidence they are evenagelists. They live in hiding in the Edomite and Judaean wildernesses. How do we know that? Because the Scripture tells us that those in the land of Israel at the beginning of the antiChrist’s takeover of the Temple who repudiate his authority and escape immediate massacre find refuge in the wilderness for the whole of the second half of the 70th week of Daniel which is three and one-half years in duration and corresponds also with the allotted time of the antiChrist’s reign of terror(Rev.12:14). The reason why the innumerable multitude are mentioned immediately after the sealing of the 144,000 is because the Church is raptured immediately after their sealing.

“And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo. And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.”(Zech.12:10-14).

They are selected by God, 12,000 from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. There is no mention of their being Christians in these two passages. They are chosen of God as the first to be saved at the completion of the 70th week of Daniel. The purpose of thier sealing is to protect them from the impending wrath of God in the trumpet judgments. The fact that they are referred to as His servants does not mean they are saved. Had they been saved, born again, they would been raptured with the rest of the Church Age saints. Dr. Alan E. Kurschner shares this view.

“I view the 144,000 Israelites in Rev 7:4–8 as sealed in the sense of God choosing them to be saved when the end of the seven-year period is completed, fulfilling Daniel’s 70 week prophecy of the nation of Israel when they recognize Jesus as Messiah. They are also sealed in the sense of protection from the impending wrath of God (cf. Rev 9:4!) via the trumpets and bowls judgments. Some rather have claimed the 144,000 are saved at the moment they are sealed because they are described as “bond-servants.” However, as Robert Gundry has pointed out, this is not a necessary conclusion: “The designation ‘bond-servants’ (7:3), then, anticipates their role in the reestablishment of the Davidic kingdom. Isaiah calls unregenerate Israel the ‘servant’ of the Lord (42:18–25) in anticipation of the nation’s restoration (43:1ff.)—exactly the interpretation here given for the 144,000 [see also similar anticipatory statements in, for example, Jer 1:5; Luke 1:15]” (The Church and the Tribulation, 82). As we can see, Dr. Robert Gundry also shares this view which is biblically accurate. The role of the 144,000 is in the New Millennium. Therefore they match with Christ wherever He goes. They are members of human entourage in all of His earthly journeys during His Second Coming. 

One other fact we must look at is the time of their sealing. This is one reason why a proper understanding of the chronology of the end times is so vital to our interpretation of the end prophecies in the Bible. When we examine the chronology of the Scroll Of Revelation, we discover they are sealed after the breaking of the sixth seal(Rev.6:12-17) but before the breaking of the seventh seal(Rev.8:1). This period is a very short interlude between the cosmic and celestial disturbances associated with the breaking of the sixth seal and the breaking of the seventh seal. The sixth seal terminates the Great Tribulation. So, the sealing of the 144,000 occurs after the Great Tribulation. The Scriptures are silent as to how they survived the Great Trbulation. They probably hid with other Jews in the land of Israel who fled to the Edomite and Judaean Wildernesses at the abomination of desolation and the Jerusalem campaign by the antiChrist which precipitated the Great Tribulation. After the rapture, the Church Age has ended. The true believers are now in heaven. God now reverts back to dealing with Israel; hence the sealing of the 144,000. Besides, God will not leave Himself without witnesses on Earth. It is like the handing over of a baton in a relay race. 

Thirdly, they are not raptured when the Great Tribulation is terminated by the cosmic and celestial disturbances associated with the breaking of the sixth which is the sign of the End Of The Ages. If they were Christians, they would certainly have been raptured when the Great Tribulation was terminated. There do not seem to be any reason to leave them behind here on Earth. Rather than being raptured, they are sealed for protection with the seal of God which is the name of the God of Israel on their forehead. This seal grants them protection during the impending wrath of God in the Day Of the Lord. “Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.”(Rev.7:3).

Fourthly, their sealing is followed by the raptured saints congregating in Heaven(Rev.7.9-17). They also claim this innumerable multitude are all martyred. The passage does not in so many words state that. There is no evidence, they are all martyred. Some of them my be martyred no doubt as they certainly include the fifth seal martyrs(Rev.6:9-11).

So, who are the 144,000? They are members of the household of Israel selected by the God of Israel as His representatives on Earth after the Church is raptured. Their sealing shortly precedes the Prewrath Rapture Of The Church, just before the wrath of God begins. As representatives of the God of Israel, they need to be protected from the wrath of God in the Day Of the Lord which is about to begin at the breaking of the seventh seal in Rev.8:1. Hence, their sealing in the interlude between the end of the sixth seal and the breaking of the the seventh seal. This interlude between the end of the sixth seal and the breaking of the seventh seal is otherwise referred to as the “Inter-tribulational Period,” by the Rev. Charles Cooper simply because it occurs between the Great Tribulation by the antiChrist against the saints of God, and God’s Day of the lord’s wrath which is recompensation of tribulation on those who trouble the saints. “Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.”(2 Thess.1:6-10). For this same reason also, the “Prewrath Rapture Position” which teaches the rapture occurs in this interlude is alternatively named the “Imminent Inter-tribulational Rapture” by Rev. Charles Cooper of the Sign Ministries Inc.

The period between their sealing and the battle of Armageddon when Christ retakes physical possession of the Earth is a horrible period of the outpouring of the wrath of God in the Day Of The Lord. No one can go about preaching the gospel at that time. Even the two witnesses are more or less restricted to their location at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem till their death at the expiry of the 70th week of Daniel. Apart from the difficulty of mobility because of the outpouring of the wrath, there is also the problem of audience. After the breaking of the sixth seal and the attendant cosmic and celestial disturbances, every man on Earth is on the run for his dear life.

“And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 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.6:12-13, 15-17).

It is therefore preposterous to label the 144,000 evangelists. Who are they evangelizing? People who are hiding under the rocks and in the mountains, and invoking these to fall upon them and hide them from the terrifying wrath of the Lamb which is about to begin? To protect them from the devastating effects of the final seven bowl judgments of the wrath of God, they are hidden in Azal with other Jews who are reconciled to God on day 3 of the 30-day Restoration Period of the Kingdom.

“Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.”(Zech.14:1-7).

Conclusion

It is exegetically in violation of the Scriptures to claim that the 144,000 Jews prove that some faithful and uncompromising believers as exemplified by the churches of Philadelphia and Smyrna will be raptured before the Great Tribulation or that some believers will “escape” the Great Tribulation by being raptured before the Great Tribulation.

Avraham Shallom.

Objections To Pretribulationism(1)

Objections To Pretribulationism(1)

(a) The Innumerable Multitude In The Throne Room Of The Temple In Heaven

“After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”(Revelation 7:9-17).

It is clear from this passage of the Scripture that this innumerable multitude are from all tribes, nations, languages, and peoples. In other words, they came from all races, colours, and ethnic groups from all over the world. They came out of the Great Tribulation. No contest because it is so explicitly stated. They have palms in their hands which signal victory. They were victorious over the forces of darkness in the midst of the Great Tribulation and are gathered in Heaven. The pretribulationists tell us they were all killed(martyred) for their faith. They concede there will be massive killings in the first half of the 70th week from wars, famines, pestilences and natural disasters like earthquakes though believers may not be specifically targeted, and in the second half during the Great Tribulation by the antiChrist and his gangs of humanists. (During this period, the believers shall be specifically targeted because of their refusal to bear the mark of allegiance to the Beast). That is how, according to them, they will obtain salvation by suffering martyrdom. They call them “tribulation saints.” They were “left behind” after the Rapture according to pretribs. There is no evidence they were all martyred. This passage does not in so many words state so either explicitly or implicitly. Please, read this passage slowly, and see if it says that or not. Some of them no doubt are martyred, but not all of are martyred. They include those who are killed and those who are not. One thing characteristic of them all is that they all came out of the Great Tribulation. Unlike the fifth seal martyrs who were souls under the altar of incense in the temple of God in Heaven, these are in their glorified eternal immortal resurrection bodies. When did they acquire these bodies? Obviously at the Rapture.

Let us for once assume that the Pretribulational rapture view is correct. The Rapture has taken place before the commencement of the 70th week. Where are the raptured saints? Why are they not in the Throne Room Of The Temple Of God In Heaven, before the Lamb to welcome these martyred saints? They are expected to be there to welcome and rejoice with this great and innumerable multitude of saints who came out of the Great Tribulation via martyrdom. If the Rapture occurred in Rev.4:1 as the pretribs say, before the commencement of the 70th week of Daniel in Rev.6:1, then the raptured saints should be conspicuously present in the heavenly scene in Rev.4,5. The Pretribs realizing this now claim the sea of glass in Rev.4 and the revelator Apostle John in conversation with an elder in the heavenly scene in Rev.5 are the raptured saints. What rules of hermeneutics and exegesis would lead an astute theologian and biblical scholar to such outlandish conclusion? Note that the sea of glass in Rev.4:6 was vacant. To say that the sea of glass in Rev.4:6 represents the raptured saints in the Throne Room of the Temple of God in Heaven is reading into this verse of the Scriptures an event that would occur several years in the future. Rev.15:1-4 makes it clear the redeemed who minister to God in the Throne Room of the Temple Of God in Heaven in Rev.14:2-3 are standing on the sea of glass. Does that in anyway mean that the glassy sea before the Throne Of God in the Throne Room of the Temple Of God in Heaven represents the raptured saints? To say yes to that is a very wrong way of exegeting the Scriptures.

The fact that the rapture had already taken place means that all the good pastors, teachers, prophets evangelists, counselors, Church workers and their congregants are gone in the rapture, leaving only weak, feeble, and false Christians who did not make the Rapture. Now, let us examine the conditions on Earth during the first half of the 70th week. The first three and one-half years of the 70th week begins with emergence of false christs. “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.”(Matthew 24:4,5). This is the first seal: white horse and rider(Rev.6:1,2). It is followed by wars, commotions, rumours, and threats of wars. “And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:”(Matthew 24:6-7a). This is the second seal: red horse and rider(Rev.6:3,4). The natural consequences of war are famines, pestilences(plagues), and natural disasters like earthquakes. “: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.”(Matthew 24:7b-8). This is the third seal: black horse and rider(Rev.6:5,6). These three events occur in the first half of the 70th week. The events of the third black horse and rider bring to a close the first three and one-half years of The 70th week. How do we know? Because at the midpoint of the 70th week, the antiChrist shall unveil himself as a dead man come back to life, deify himself and demand worship of all mortals.

Let us analyze these events and see whether they are compatible with, conducive and favorable to evangelistic successes. The pretribulationists tell us these innumerable multitude will come to the saving knowledge of Christ after the good pastors and believers have been raptured. Who will hold these evangelist missions and crusades after the disappearance of the faithful believers, leaving only the feeble and false ones to contend with a large army of false christs, false prophets and teachers? Are conditions of wars, commotions, rumours and threats of wars, and rampant natural disasters like earthquakes favorable to evangelistic missions? Let us answer this questions honestly for ourselves. At this time in the eschatological timeline, whatever is left of organized Christendom is in disarray after the Pretrib Rapture of the saints. Who volunteers as missionaries? Who sponsors, supports, organizes, and runs these missions

Our brother Apostle Paul in his first letter to his son-in-the-Lord Timothy wrote:

“I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.”(1 Timothy 2:1-8).

Time of peace fosters a favorable atmosphere to the propagation of the Gospel. The reason why our brother Apostle Paul urged his son-in-the Lord Timothy to pray for those in authority is that there may be peace. Time of peace favours the preaching of the gospel. And that men may be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. People cannot believe unless they hear the gospel, and people cannot preach except they be sent(Rom.10:14,15). Are all the believers in the world today up to this number? How can feeble and false believers achieve in a short time of three and one-half years of wars, commotions, rumours of wars, famines, pestilences, and natural disasters, what the Church with all her faithful pastors and teachers have not achieved in two millennia of relative peace?

From the midpoint of the 70th week, the Great Tribulation begins. “Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another………..”(Matthew 24:9 & ff). This is the fourth seal: pale horse and rider(Rev.6:7,8). During the Great Tribulation, anyone who refuses the mark of the Beast cannot buy or sell. They will be hounded and ferreted out to recant or be killed on refusal to recant. And there will be false christs, false teachers and false prophets all there to deceive. The antiChrist and his gang will be performing outstanding miracles to deceive if it were possible, the very elect. “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 Thessalonians 2:9-10). The false prophet will command fire to come down from Heaven in the sight of men, and cause the image of the Beast to speak(Rev.13:11-17). What the prophets of Baal could not do when they contested with Elijah on Mount Carmel(1 Kin.18:20-40). And there is no biblical evidence that the feeble believers left behind match the power of the antiChrist and his followers to perform miracles. The ministry of the two witnesses takes place on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel. There is no biblical evidence there are others like them amongst all peoples all over the world. In other words, their powers and anointing were not duplicated in other parts of the world. Is this the condition for evangelistic missions and successes that will bring in millions or perhaps billions of souls into the Faith? Not only that but also, have them all massacred within a period of about seven years in duration. We assume here that the pretribulation Rapture view is biblically accurate and that the killing of the tribulation saints lasts the entire seven years of the 70th week of Daniel. How did these new converts to Christianity develop the inner fortitude in so short a time to endure the terrors and horrors of the Great Tribulation without recanting?

Professor J.F. Valvoord, the second president of Dallas Theological Seminary, one of the major proponents of Pretribulational Rapture view has told us, “neither pretribulationism nor posttribulationism is an explicit teaching of the Scriptures.” We can see that pretribulationism is not an explicit teaching of the Scriptures. Richard Mayhew in his doctoral thesis wrote: “………, the proof is logically invalid, at least unconvincing.” He too is a pretribber.

We can see the fraud that is pretribulationism. Pretribulationalism is a hoax. I weep in my spirit and soul for the body of Christ, especially for those in Europe and North American, and parts of Africa, especially Southern Nigeria where we have been fed with bread and butter Christianity, and promised we shall be raptured to Heaven before the antiChrist hangs out his shingles. If this error is not corrected, and believers hardened and toughened up a bit, and adequately prepared to face the hard conditions of the 70th week, especially the second half when the antiChrist institutes his reign of terror, before we enter the 70th week to face the antiChrist and his gang of atheists and humanistic evolutionists, some of us so deceived may commit suicide, some will kill their pastors, teachers, and prophets, out of anger and frustration that they have been deceived and sold fool’s gold, and betray one another, and roll over to worship the Dragon and the Beast in order to save their skin.

Avraham Shallom.

The Eighth And Final Beast Empire Of Satan

The Eighth And Final Beast Empire of Satan is the last empire Satan will use to persecute Israel, the Jewish people and Christians the world over before God Almighty defeats Satan, and the antiMessiah and their armies at Armageddon, and retakes physical possession of the Earth, and evicts Satan and his fallen evil angels out of the Earth’s premises. The identity and composition of this last evil empire of Satan is revealed to us in the Scriptures. It is the feet and ten toes of the image of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream consisting partly of iron and partly of clay. “His legs of Iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay”(Dan.2:33). “And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: for as much as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, for as much as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, Even as iron is not mixed with clay”(Dan.2:33,40-43).

The Revived Roman Empire

We see from here that the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan which is the fifth in the image of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Daniel 7, shall consist of ten toes made partly of iron and partly of clay. The fourth empire in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream consisted wholly of iron. We have previously identified this Empire as the Roman Empire. The two legs represented the two divisions of the Roman Empire; the Western Roman Empire headquartered in Rome, and the Eastern Roman Empire headquartered in Constantinople. The iron, the ancestry of the Roman Empire is present in the 8th and Final Beast Empire. This ancestry we have identified to be Japhetic through Magog, Meshech and Tuval. This three nation coalition constitutes the power base of the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan. The remaining seven nations, the clayey part shall be identified by Ezekiel and the scroll of revelation.

“And after this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and break in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.”(Dan.7:7,8).

In the vision of Daniel, the fourth nondescript beast, which signal the Roman Empire is the head on which stands the ten horns. It therefore follows the foundation of the 8th and Final Beast Empire is Roman in origin. The ten horns grew out of the fourth beast. The ten horns are the ten kings of the ten nation confederation, the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan. The ten horns of the fourth beast of Daniel’s vision are synonymous with the ten toes of the statue or image of the dream of Nebuchadnezzar. We have already identified three of these as of Japhetic descent through Magog, Meshech and Tuval. As we have pointed out earlier, the remaining seven horns or toes are identified by Ezekiel and John the revelator in the scroll of Revelation.

But we see here that there is another little horn that arises after the ten horns and roots out three of the ten previous horns. This little horn has eyes like the eyes of man and a mouth speaking great things. This little horn is the antiChrist. He shall overthrow the three kings of the three most powerful nations in the ten nation confederation. These three nations shall be the three most powerful nation in the world with the most sophisticated armies and up-to-date with the latest in military technology. To be very candid, the antiMessiah shall replace those three kings with his own puppets. There will aways be ten kings. The Beast-antiChrist is the overall ruler of the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan or the Emperor of the Empire.

What are these great things he shall be speaking about? He shall blaspheme the Most High God and the heaven-dwellers. He shall change the laws, times and seasons and shall wear out the saints of the Most High(Dan.7:25). Daniel reporting the interpretation of his vision by the angel said: “thus he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth upon the Earth, which shall be diverse from all other kingdoms, and shall devour the earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall arise after them: and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hands until a time and times and the dividing of times.”(Dan.7:23-25). We see here that the little horn is indeed the same Man Of Sin. The time, times and dividing of time is the same three and one-half years, 42 months or 1,260 days allotted to the antiMessiah which corresponds with the second half of the 70th week of Daniel.

The Table Of Nations.

Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet are the survivors of the deluge. They and their descendants repopulated the Earth in the postdeluvian period. Therefore they are the ancestors of the peoples of the Earth today. Japhet the elder had seven sons. They are Gomer, Magog, Medai, Javan, tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. Gomer begat Togarmah. Shem begat Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram. The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. And Cush begat Nimrod(Gen.10:1-32).

Postdiluvian Forced Migration Of Nations.

After the flood God commanded Noah, his sons and their descendants to disperse all over the Earth. But after 500 years, these men had not migrated, but rather in defiance to God built a tower that reached up to the heavens. This tower was not for the worship of God but for star gazing(astrology) and the consultation of evil angels. “And they said to one another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 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”(Gen.11:3,4). God Almight confounded their language. Because they could no longer communicate one with another, they were scattered abroad upon the face of the Earth. Those who spoke one language, moved together and settled in one location. Thus came into being the various peoples of the Earth and their languages.

Iron Mixed With Clay.

The Image Of Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

We have shown that the iron originates in the Roman ancestry. It is this same iron depicted in the legs of iron of Nebuchadnezzar’s statue that extends into the toes where the iron is mixed with clay. It is the same iron that represents the strength and leadership of the ten-nation confederation with its iron roots extending back to the Roman Empire. It is the iron grip of Rome that propels the leadership of the 8th and final Beast Empire. The iron differs from the clay in that clay does not mix with iron. These are peoples of differing religions and worldviews who come together for the purpose of accomplishing divine purpose. God has put it in their heart to give their strength and power to the beast until God’s will is fulfilled(Rev.17:13,17). There is homogeneity in the iron, but the clay is a composite of diverse minerals that may bond together but do not mix with one another. These peoples bond together in the seed of men, but will not mix with the iron; even as iron does not combine with pottery: the clay ancestry maintains its own separate distinctiveness.

The iron consists of people of Japhetic descent, and judeo-christian in worldview and outlook. The clay consists of various peoples, the majority of whom are Semitic, others Hamitic, and some even Japhetic. The only one thing uniting these peoples groups is the Islamic religion. Ten ancestral peoples groups, some with Roman Empire connections, others without, will combine with each other for the final campaign against the chosen nation of Israel and the elect of God. These nations will maintain the differing ancestral identities under the absolute iron grip of the leadership that traces its origin to Ancient Rome. So, it is evident that it will be from the iron represented in the legs of iron in Nebuchadnezzar’s statue that the strength and the leadership of the 8th and final beast Empire will arise. The Roman Empire was driven by Japhetic ancestry, so also all the other beast empire nations during the 70 sevens of Daniel, including the 7th beast Empire that reigned during the interlude between the 69th and the 70th seven of Daniel. So, iron represents the Japhetic ancestry or lineage, whilst clay the other peoples groups, the weaker nations that are allied to Rome. Therefore the 8th and final beast empire will be partly strong, made partly of iron, and partly brittle, made of clay.

Tracing the Roman Ancestry.

The Ten Horns

In order to understand who the iron nations will be, we must start with the iron legs of Nebuchadnezzar’s image. At the time the Scroll of Revelation was written, Rome was the reigning Empire. From where did the Roman people originate? The Roman Empire came into existence in the 1st century BC. At that time, the descendants of Kittim, the son of Javan and grandson of Japhet, dominated what is now the Italian peninsula.

Rome was founded as a city state. It later became a nation, and lastly an empire. It was not the descendants of Kittim that dominated the Roman ancestry. Rome became a republic near the end of the 1st century BC. It expanded into an empire, the largest at that time, at the beginning of the 1st century BC. According to Cyril Robinson, it was the inhabitants of the city-state who were considered Romans, not the inhabitants of the Italian peninsula.

In immemorial days volcanoes were both numerous and active along this western coast of Italy; and its plains were for this reason left almost untenanted by the primitive inhabitants(the Kittim) of the peninsula. Of these(people with a) rudimentary culture, very little is known. In historic times their descendants were still to be found in the Ligurian mountains above Genoa and in moorlands of Apulia and Calabria in the southeast. Elsewhere, however, at a very early date they were either absorbed or evicted by invaders(the Roman ancestry) coming from beyond the Alps(who are) the true Italian race. The original home of this verile people appears to have been on the Danube basin or even further north. They were, in fact, a branch of the great Indo-European stock, tribes of which in the process of migration found their way into many lands. From the language they spoke was derived not merely the Italian tongue, but Greek, German, Anglo-Saxon.

The Alps is located partially on the northern boundary of modern Italy, as well as in Austraia and Switzerland. North of the Alps lies the Danude River, in the southern region of modern day Germany. The inhabitants of the Danube River basin, and the region north and south of it are entirely of Germanic ancestry. According to Robinson, the ancestry of the inhabitants of Rome are rightly traceable to the Indo-European nomadic tribes who come from the area in Central Europe which we recognize as Germanic. These peoples are Japhetic in their lineage.

Walter Wallbank and Alastair Taylor also wrote about the early settlers of The Italian peninsula and the founders of Rome:

The Greeks and Romans were offshoots of a common Indo-European stock(Japhetic), and settlement of the Greek and Italian peninsulas followed stages that were broadly parallel. Between 2,000 and 1,000 B.C., when Indo-European peoples invaded the Aegean world, a western wing of this nomadic migration filtered into the Italian Peninsula, which was then inhabited by indigenous Neolithic tribes….One group(of these nomadic Indo-European peoples), the Latins, settled in the lower valley of the Tiber River, a region which became known as the plain of Latium.

…….Modern scholars believe that early in the eighth century B.C. the occupants of the small settlements on the hills in the Tiber valley united and established a common meeting place, the Forum, around which the city of Rome grew up.

It is well established that these tribes of nomadic Indo-European peoples, whom historians refer as Aryans, were of Japhetic descent. These peoples moved westward from the area of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. They moved on to what became the German-speaking people of Europe, and from there down to the Italian peninsula. What this means is that Rome was founded by northern Japhetic tribes who came down from the areas of Europe north of the Alps and the Danube basin. They travelled from the west coast of the Italian peninsula to the plain of Latium, where the city of Rome was founded. The Germanic areas of Europe and the former Soviet Union north of the Alps are settled by nomadic tribes of Japhetic descent. It is therefore probable that the founders of Rome were descendants of Magog, Meshech, and Tuval, although Magog seems most likely, inasmuch as it was the Magogites who settled in Central Europe from where originated the migration into the Italian peninsula. Although their lineage cannot be traced to any particular son of Japhet, it is certain that people of Japhetic extractions will be part of this 8th and final beast Empire, the iron nations in the toes of iron and clay. After a careful study of the migration of the sons of Japhet after God confounded the languages of the sons of Noah at the Tower Of Babel, the logical candidates for the tribes which moved north from the city of Babylon, over the Caucasus Mountains and west over the region north of the Black Sea into the Danube Valley will be the descendants of Magog, Meshech, and Tuval. It is likely that Magog is the ancestral line, though a combination of the three is possible. It is neither crucial not germane to our study to identify which one of these ancestral lines founded Rome, inasmuch as they are all Aryan descendants of Japhet.

There is a continuity in the Roman Empire represented by the legs of Iron in Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream, and the later ten-nation coalition described as iron mixed with clay. The same continuity also exists in the Aryan-Japhethic ancestry of the Roman Empire and the 8th and final ten-nation confederation, especially the three power base nations whose heads the antiChrist will overthrow. The crucial issue is not so much the location of specific geographic nations as is the ancestry of those nation that compose the 8th and final ten-nation beast empire.

The Identification Of The Three Nation Coalition.

I considered the horns, and , behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things”(Dan.7:8). “And the ten horns out of the kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three”(Dan.7:24). We can see that the little horn of verse 8 is the same as another king of verse 24. This little horn has eyes like the eyes of a man. Eyes signal intelligence. This king has intellectual prowess. And he has a mouth speaking great things against God and those who dwell in the heavens. He will overthrow three rulers from those ten nations. The little horn is a depiction of the antiChrist. The identification of these three nations is critical and germane to our study. Since Israel is now back in her own land as an independent nation, and are in possession of her Holy City Jerusalem, the unification of those three nations is the only prophetic event that must occur before the signing of the seven-year peace treaty between the many from within Israel and the antiMessiah which marks the terminus-a-quo(starting point) of the 70th seven of Daniel.

“And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief Prince of Meshech and Tuval, and prophesy against him, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief of Meshech and Tuval:”(Ezek.38:1-3). As we have pointed earlier, Gog is the tittle of the ruler of the land of Magog. The ruler of the land of Magog is also the political as well as the spiritual head of Meshech and Tuval. The Hebrew word translated Chief Prince in the KJV is Rosh. In Hebrew Rosh literally means head. But some translations render it as a people which some biblical scholars have associated with Rus which is Russia. But Rosh is not listed in the table of nations on Gen.10. There is no descendant of Noah called by that name, unlike Meshech and Tuval. Some Jewish Talmudic scholars do not take Rosh to be a people, but a title of leadership which is why it does not appear in the table of nations. The Hebrew word Rosh is often rendered head or chief. For example, Num.31:26(heads); 1 Chron.5:7(chief); Neh.6:70,71(heads). Gog is the national leader of Magog. He is also the international leader of Meshech and Tuval, thereby making him the leader of the three-nation coalition. Ezekiel tells us that the antiChrist will come from the line of Magog and will rule over these three nations, Magog, Meshech, and Tuval.

The overthrow of the three rulers of these nations by a man of Magogites descent will be a breaking news when it occurs. This event will identify the three nations when it occurs and also the antiChrist. This ruler who overthrows three kings will probably replace them with his own puppets. The 8th and final Beast Empire will comprise ten nations and ten kings. The antiMessiah will be the overall ruler or emperor of the empire. This is the only remaining major prophetic even that will occur before the antChrist signs the seven-year peace agreement with the many from within Israel, before the 70th seven of Daniel can commence.

Israel will make a seven-year peace agreement with the leader of the three-nation coalition for the sake of national security. “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”(Dan.9:27). Understanding the Japhetic ancestry and extraction of these three power base nations will give the best clue as to why Israel will be anxious to be their ally rather than their enemy.

The Identity Of Magog.

According to Josephus, the great Jewish historian of the 1st century AD, the Magogites are Scythians who moved eastward and westward from the region north of the Black Sea. To this agrees the Jerusalem Talmud, Yerushalmi Megillah 3:9, which identifies Magog as Goths, a group of nomadic tribes who destroyed the Scythians, and made their homes in the Scythian territory. The Talmud further comments: considering that the Goths were a Germanic people, the identification of Magog’s descendants as the Goths is in accord with Targun Yonasan to Genesis 10:2. According to Encylopedia Britannic, the Gothic language was the most certain base of the language spoken by the eastern Germanic tribes, the Visigoths in Europe. It is beyond doubt therefore that the Germanic line as we know it today is descended from Magog. It is certain therefore that Gog, antiChrist, will descend from the Germanic line of Magog, which has a direct link to the ancestry of Rome. Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler claimed the title Third Reich. Nazi Germany claimed to be a direct extension and heir to the rule of Rome as expressed over the centuries in the Holy Roman Empire(The First Reich), and the empire of Kaiser Bismarck, The second Reich.

The First Reich: The Holy Roman Empire

The Second Reich: The Empire Of Kaiser Bismarck

The Third Reich: Hitler’s Nazi Germany

The Fourth Reich: The 8th Final Beast Empire Of The antiChrist

The identity of the Magogites is clear, but their exact geographical location and boundary is not that clear. Obviously the large majority of Magogites are concentrated in the present day Germany. But large numbers are also found in Eastern and Western Europe. For example, the Austrians are Germanic, and speak the German language. Hitler annexed Austria to Germany in 1938. The Austrians were responsible for the murder of 2 million Jews during the Holocaust. Even within the former Soviet Union, there are large concentrations of people of Germanic extraction. In the past an appeal has been made by these people to have a country of their own in the former Soviet Union, in the Volga River region, south and east of Moscow. There are Germanic people in the Sudetenland in the Cezch Republic, and Silesia in Poland. It is possible that these peoples, could emerge from the former Soviet Union or present Russian Federation, inasmuch as the other two tribes, Meshech and Tubal are found within these boundaries.

The Identity Of Rosh.

There some biblical scholars who maintain that Rosh is a people rather than a title, from which Russia is derived(cf. Henry M. Morris, The Genesis Record, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1976). Mountains of books have been written by the proponents of this view about the Gog and Magog war in which Russia will invade Israel. According to the advocates of this view, this is the only major prophetic event that will occur before the 70th seven of Daniel, the last seven years of the present Earth’s history. But it more likely that Russia is derived from Rus, which has its origin in the 8th or 9th century AD. It is believed to be Scandinavian in derivation. We will probably never know whether Rus is derived from the Hebrew Rosh. All interpreters who identify Rosh as a peoples group, always trace its lineage to Russia, perhaps because of the similarity in pronunciation, and partly because of its association with Meshech and Tubal in Ezekiel 38. Robert van Kampen has suggested that if Magog only describes the ancestry of Gog, and not a reference to one of the three-nation coalition, then Rosh must be considered a specific ancestral group, and should not be translated ” Chief Prince” as rendered by the KJV. But it is clear from the table of nations that Rosh is not a peoples group by the virtue of its conspicuous absence. Therefore the KJV rendition is the correct one.

The Identity Of Meshech And Tubal.

Certain Jewish sources indicate that by the 8th century AD, the descendants of Meshech and Tubal were located in the western portion of the former Soviet Union. Meshech represents Moscovy, a region in the vicinity of modern day Moscow; and Tubal known in the Assyrian monuments as Tibareni, a region in and around the modern Russian city of Tobolsk, which is about a thousand miles(1,600 km) east of Moscow.

The Roman Connection.

Ezekiel 38:1-3 identified the three-nation coalition which had connection with the ancient Roman Empire, as depicted by the legs of iron from which the feet and toes of iron are partially derived. The Japhetic lineage that will dominate their empire will derive wholly or partly from its Roman ancestry as depicted by the iron in the feet and toes of iron and clay. There are some biblical scholars who believe that the antiChrist will come from Italy based on Dan.9:26. It was the Roman General Titus who destroyed the Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in 70 AD. But it must be noted that the patrician families that founded Rome as city-state in the plain of Latium were Aryan-Japhetic not the native Italians. As we have established earlier, the most likely candidates for the founders of Rome were Magogites, largely because the founders of the city-state of Rome came from the Danube basin, and secondarily because the Danube basin is the area in Central Europe where the Magogites were the primary settlers. We conclude therefore that the Magogites were the founders of the city-state of Rome out of which grew the Roman Empire. It is no coincidence that the German title kaiser is a derivative of the Latin Caesar, as is also the Russian Czar and Iranian Sha.

The Roman Empire dominated the Japhetic world of its time. The two legs of iron represented the western division headquartered in Rome, and the eastern division, also known as Byzantium headquartered in Constantinople. It is reasonably safe to assume that the iron in the toes of iron and clay is, at least, partially Germanic. The iron may be representative of the rugged, nomadic, Japhethic peoples that will be the driving force of the 8th and final Beast Empire; or it may be a broader representation of the Japhetic lineage in the 8th and final Beast Empire of Satan. Our conclusion therefore is that the three heads of the three-nation coalition that the antiChrist will overthrow, will be comprised of the three strong, nomadic peoples of Japhetic descent from the remote north, whose ancestry is traceable to the same people who founded and ruled the Roman Empire. The people are zealously antisemitic. These nations have maintained a consistent pattern followed by all the empires that have dominated Israel during the 70 sevens of Daniel, including the prophetic gap between the 69th and the 70th seven. All of these empires have been led by antisemitic leaders of Aryan-Japhetic descent.

The Identification Of The Seven Secondary Nations.

“And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. For God had put it in their hearts to fulfill Hie will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the word of God shall be fulfilled”(Rev.17:12,13,17). The scarlet coloured beast with seven heads and ten horns, on which the woman sitteth is the the Beast-antiChrist(Rev.17:3). The seven heads are the seven beast empires of Satan which he has used to persecute Israel throughout history. “The seven heads are the seven mountains on which the woman sitteth”(Rev.17:9b). The seven mountains are synonymous with the seven heads. “The beast that was and is not, even he is the 8th, and of the seven, and goeth into perdition”(Rev.17:11). The head of the 8th beast empire is one of the seven rulers of the seven previous beast empires of Satan. This man who had lived before and ruled over one of the seven prevous beast empires of Satan is the eighth head, to whom the ten horns of the 8th Beast Empire shall submit an give allegiance. He is a dead man come back to live. “The ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have not yet even received a kingdom as yet, but shall receive authority as kings one hour with the beast.”(Rev.17:12). These ten horns representing ten kings are contemporaneous with the beast that was and is not, and yet is. These have one purpose, and shall give their authority and power to the beast. For God had put it in their hearts, to execute His will, by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom, power and authority to the beast that was and is not, until the word of God is fulfilled. By surrendering their nations and giving their allegiance to the Beast-antiChrist, these kings are unwittingly fulfilling God’s purpose whilst at the same time, sealing their own doom. We have already established that anyone who gives allegiance to the antiMessiah by being branded or chipped in his name, that is, being Beast-marked shall be executed when Christ reclaims physical possession of the Earth at the final battle of Armageddon.

We have also proven that the three dominant nations that shall comprise the 8th and Final Beast Empire shall include the same Aryan-Japhethic lines that dominated the Roman Empire. The identity of the seven secondary nations can be determined in additional passages given us in the books of Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation.

The Identification Of Three Seconary Nations By Daniel and John.

The image of the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar and the Scroll of Revelation tell us the identity of three of the seven secondary nations of the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan. “And thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and break them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried then away, and no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole Earth. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall never be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it break in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the Dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.”(Dan.2:31-31,44,45).

We can see from this passage that although, by the time the 8th and Final Beast Empire was set up, four of the five beast empires depicted in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, were historically passé, their life was present in the feet and toes of the statue; for when the stone cut out of the mountain without hand, which is Christ, hit the image at its feet by defeating the Eighth And Final Beast Empire at the Battle Of Armageddon, the whole statue crumbled. So three of the seven secondary nation of the 8th and final beast Empire were Babylon, the head of gold, Medopersia, the arms and breast of silver, and Syrian Greek, the loins of and thighs of bronze. Remember that the Medes, who are the Kurdish people of today will be the first to attack Babylon, the great harlot city before it will be finally destroyed by the ten kings of the 8th and Final Beast Empire.

“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). It is not likely the Medes will be part of the 8th and final beast empire. The prophet Ezekiel did not mention them in his list of the nations that comprise the 8th and final beast empire(Ezek.38:5,6).

Usually Media is mentioned in tandem with Persia; for they were the primal architects of the Medopersian Empire. But we see that they are omitted in this passage in Ezekiel. But obviously they would be allied with the antiChrist, otherwise they would not have the audacity to attack the commercial capital of the 8th and Final Beast Empire. As we haven seen, Babylon, Persia, Syrian Greek(Javan), shall be incorporated into the 8th and Final Beast Empire alongside the Aryan-Japhetic nations of Magog, Meshech, and Tuval, the three power base coalition. These empires were the third, fourth and fifth best empires. The first and second, Egypt and Assyria, were not mentioned in the statue of the dream of Nebuchadnezzar II because the period covered concerned the time then present, that is, from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II to the End Of The Ages, the so called the times of the Gentiles. Although seemingly invincible, this multinational empire partly comprising the three power base coalition, Babylon, Persia and Greek Syria shall be annihilated by Christ when His final wrath is poured out upon the nation that know not God at Armageddon.

In Daniel 7, the beasts of Daniel’s vision, the winged lion was Babylon, the four-headed, four-winged leopard was Greece in its four divisions after the death of Alexander the Great; and the nondescript beast represented Rome and the ten horns the 8th and Final Beast Empire. The little horn, before whom three of the original ten horns were rooted out was the antiMessiah, the undisputed and absolute ruler of the Eighth and Final Beast Empire of Satan(Dan.7:1-8). “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool: his throne was like fiery flame, and His wheels like burning fire… I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time(Dan.7:9-11). We can see here that in the days of the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan, the Council of heaven shall sit, and the little horn shall be arrested and cast into the Burning Flame. The rest of the kings had their dominions taken away from them, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. Another translation reads, ” but an extension of life was granted to them for an appointed period of time.” This may mean that they were not immediately cast into the lake of fire as the antiMessiah and the false prophet were, but imprisoned in Hell or the shaft of the abyss where the kings of the Earth were during the Millennium, from which they shall be finally cast into the Lake of fire and brimstone(Isa.14:9). Biblical scholars have differing views as to what is meant by an extension of life was granted them for a season and time or an appointed period of time. A fuller examination of this statement and the various views held by different scholars is beyond the scope of this work.

These nations were also identified by John the revelator in the Scroll of Revelation. “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the Dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.” The leopard here stands for The Greek-Syrian Empire as in Daniel 7 which we have just examined. The bear stands for Medopersia, and the lion for Babylon. So the descendants of these kingdoms, shall align themselves with the antiChrist to form the 8th and Final Beast Empire as confirmed by John the revelator. The beast that rose out of the sea with seven heads and ten horns is the antiMessiah who received authority from the Dragon, Satan(Rev.13:1,3).

In summary, we can see the 8th and Final Beast Empire will comprise the descendants of the Babylonian Empire which is modern day Iraq, the descendants of Medopersian Empire which is largely modern day Iran. The Medes who are the Kurdish people of today, are found in eastern Syria, western Iraq, northern Iran and southern Turkey. There pockets of them in Armenia and Georgia. The Medes, through the PKK, the Kurdish Workers Party are fighting for independent Kurdistan. The 8th and Final Beast Empire also comprises the Greek-Syrian Empire which existed in the general vicinity of Syria after the Greek Empire ruled over by Alexander the Great broke up into four divisions; and also the original three-nation coalition, the three power base nation of Aryan-Japhetic ancestry that drove The Roman Empire. Like their ancestors, the descendants of these four beast empires will align themselves with Satan in the formation of the 8th and Final Beast Empire which Christ shall annihilate at Armageddon.

The Identification Of The Four Secondary Nations By Ezekiel.

“Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee”(Ezek. 38:5,6). Here the prophet Ezekiel reveals to us the identity of the four secondary nations alongside the three power base coalition. They include Persia. We can see that the Medes are omitted here. Nevertheless, they shall be the first to attack Babylon before the ten kings destroy it. It is obvious they will be allied to antiMessiah. The Hebrew word translated Ethiopia is Cush. In the table of nations in Genesis 10, Cush is a grandson of Noah through Ham. Today in modern Israel, Cush simply means black. When I visited Israel, I was hosted by my beloved brother Meno Kalisher and his wife Anat. one evening, I went for a stroll in the street, Eliezer Kashani street in East Talpiot, Jerusalem, where my host resided then. I came across some little Israeli boys and girls in the street. They called out Cushi. That means black. In biblical times, Cush referred to the black people inhabiting the general area we call Sudan today. It is written, Tirhakah came out of the land of Ethiopia(2 King.19:9; Isa.37:9). There is no king of the area we call Ethiopia today called Tirhakah. Tirhakah probably reigned over the general area called Sudan today. In Acts 8:27, a eunuch in charge of the treasury of Queen Candace was mentioned. She was described as the Queen of Ethiopia. Queen Candice never ruled over the land we call Ethiopia today. She was Queen Candace of Mero, an ancient kingdom in the general area we call Sudan in modern day. So, it is not proper for us to include modern day Ethiopia which was formerly called Abyssinia as part of the ten nation coalition. Since independence, the modern state of Ethiopia has always had a fairly good relations with Israel, except during the communist era in that nation.

Put(Phut) corresponds to modern day Libya. Gomer, a son of Japhet is believed to have settled in modern Ukraine. Beth-Togamah, the house of Togarmah was a grandson of Japhet is believed to correspond to present Armenia, eastern portion of Turkey, and a small portion of northwestern Iraq. We probably will not be able to fully identify who these peoples are until after the formation of the ten nation confederation. In summary, we can see that The prophet Ezekiel identified the four secondary nations of the ten nation confederation called the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan. They are Libya, Sudan, [Gomer and Togarmah]{Turkey}.

Seven Significant Facts About The Ten Nations Of The 8Th And Final Beast Empire Of Satan.

When examined in the light of the Scriptures, certain significant facts emerge regarding the consortium of nations that form the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan.

(1) Japhetic ancestry.

One thing that is obvious about this composite of nations is Japhetic dominance. Of paramount importance is the fact that all the seven sons and one grandson of Japhet are represented in the consortium of nations that constitute the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan. Whether the iron in the feet and toes of iron and clay represent the nomadic lines of Magog, Meshech and Tuval that was the driving force behind the Roman Empire, or all the Aryan-Japhetic lines that will dominate the Final Beast Empire may be difficulty to determine until the empire is fully established.

(2) Religion.

Another significant fact is that most of the Japhetic nations that will be represented in the composition of the 8th and Final Beast Empire will be Christian, Roman Catholic, or orthodox in their religious faith. The Semitic and Hamitic nations are Islamic in their religious faith. Perhaps this partly accounts for the immiscibility of the iron and the clay.

(3) Politics.

Most of the Aryan-Japhetic nation that comprise the 8th and final Beast Empire of Satan are democratic in their political worldview. On the other hand, the Semitic and Hamitic nations are either autocratic monarchies or autocratic secularists. They are absolutist in their worldview.

(4) All Three Sons Of Noah Are Represented.

All the three sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japhet are represented in the composition of the consortium of nations that form the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan. Libya and Sudan are of Hamitic extractions. Babylon is Semitic and the rest are Japhetic.

(5) Antisemitism.

Although both Jews and Arabs are Semitic peoples, descendants of Shem. However antisemitism is a term used exclusively to define hatred of Jewish people. Virulent Antisemitism is a common denominator in these nations. This is the main reason why they will join with the antiChrist, a dead man come back to life, who will lead the last empire Satan will use to persecute Israel and the Jewish people as well as Christians. When Satan is cast down to the Earth in the middle of the 70th seven, he shall be enraged, and shall go to make war with the woman, and the remnant of her seed that keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ(Rev.12:17).

(6) Persecution Of Israel Within The 70 Sevens Of Daniel.

It is of note that all the Beast Empire nations that Satan had used to persecute Israel during the entire 69 sevens of Daniel, are of Japhetic ancestry. The same holds true for Nazi Germany, the seventh Beast Empire that Satan used to persecute Israel in Diaspora, when it had no access to the Promised Land of Israel and her Holy City Jerusalem. It therefore follows that the 8th and Final Beast Empire will be no exception, inasmuch as it will be dominated by the Aryan-Japhetic lines of Magog, Meshech and Tuval, the three power base coalition representative of the iron in the feet of iron and ten toes of iron and clay in the image of the dream of Nebuchadnezzar. This 8th and Final Beast Empire will persecute Israel, the Jewish people, and Christians during the second half of the 70th seven of Daniel, the last seven years of the times of the Gentiles.

(7) Exemption Of Egypt And Assyria.

Of the seven heads of the Dragon-Beast, two are exempted from the composition of the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan. These are Egypt and Assyria, the two earliest empires of history that persecuted Israel. The reason adduced for this exemption that there will be a remnant of the children of Israel given refuge by God in the land of Ham, and in Assyria(Is.27:12,13). Therefore descendants of these two beast empires shall not be part of the consortium of ten nations that will persecute Israel in the last days.

(8) Geographical Locations.

(a) The Aryan-Japhetic nations, Magog, Meshech, and Tuval are located in the north of Israel. These nations are in Central and Eastern Europe, and perhaps, parts of Asia. God promised Israel through the prophet Joel that He will deliver Israel from an evil coalition from the north. “Then will the LORD be jealous for His land, and pity His people. But I will remove far from you the northern army, and I will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the East Sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill favour shall come up, because he had done great things.”(Joel 2:18,20). In the same vein, the prophet Ezekiel spoke of this coalition from the north of Israel: “And thou shall come from thy place in the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army.”(Ezek. 38:15).

(b) The remaining seven secondary nations firm a complete circle around the small nation of Israel. In comparison to these nations, Israel is like a little island in the midst of a great sea. “Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. Let the heathen be awakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.”(Joel 3:11,12). These nations that sorround Israel shall come against her in the second half of the 70th seven. Under the command of the antiMessiah and the armies of his three power base nations already in the land of Israel because of the covenant of apostasy and Jerusalem Campaign shall seek to wipe out Israel, towards the end of the Great Tribulation, shortly before God interrupts the Great Tribulation with cosmic and celestial disturbances. “In that day, God shall make the governors of Judah like an Hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.”(Zech.12:6). God shall devour these sorrounding nations when they invade Israel in the Jehoshaphat Campaign.

(9) Disintegration Of The Soviet Union.

Meshech, Tubal, Gomer and Togarmah were in the former Soviet Union. There were prophecies that the Soviet Union would collapse, not only to free the Jews in the evil Empire, but also in order to bring about the future formation of the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan. The writer was a witness at the meeting where these prophecies were given by a brother known to the writer. These prophecies have been fulfilled. The Soviet Union is no more, and the majority of soviet Jewry have been allowed to emigrate. However, we await the future formation of the 8th and Final Beast Empire of Satan, as we approach the commencement of the 70th seven of Daniel, the last seven years of the present Age.

Summary

As in Daniel’s day, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea after which four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from the other(Dan.7:2,3); today, the sea of humanity is roiling, at the end of which shall emerge these ten peoples groups that shall constitute the 8th and Final Beast Empire. To summarize, we shall lists these ten peoples groups with their possible modern names. As we pointed out earlier, the descendants of the three sons of Noah are represented in the ten nation confederation. They are as follows: Magog(Germany, they include all peoples of Germanic descent, the Franks, the Anglus and the Saxons from Lower Saxony in Bavaria, from which came the English people); Meshech(Muscovy, Russia); Tuval(Tobolsk, Russia); Javan(Greece), both in Greece proper and Greek Syria, there are troubles right now; Gomer(Ukraine, Turkey); Togarmah(Turkey, Armenia); all these are of Japhetic ancestry; Arpachshad(Babylon, Iraq), Tiras(Persia, Iran); Babylon and Persia are of Semitic descent; Cush(Sudan); Put(Phut, Libya). Cush and Put are of Hamitic extraction. Remember that the Medes of old who were part of the Medopersian Empire(Medai-Tiras), are not listed in the ten nation confederation of the 8th and Final Beast Empire. They are the Kurdish people of today. They are in the troubled region of the World. Right now, they are combating ISIS. Though not included in the ten nation confederation, they shall be most probably allied to it.

Some people wonder what shall become of America, the greatest nation in the history of humanity so far. America as it is today is a composite of the descends of all the three sons of Noah just as the 8th and Final Beast Empire would be, but the founders of the nation are Europeans of mainly Germanic ancestry; the Spaniards, the English, the French, the Italians, the Germans and Nordic people. So America is part of Europe. In both World Wars, America fought on the side of the allies. Today, America is the leading nation in NATO. We therefore conclude that America shall be either part of the ten nation confederation of the 8th and Final Beast Empire, or be allied to it. They shall be part of the iron, that is, those with Roman roots, and judeochristian values, as well as the clay, those with Islamic values.

Avraham Shallom.