THE BIBLICAL PROPHECY- The War between the 2 Posterities -Part 6

However, nowadays, in Israel, there still exist a rest of sincere people, fearing God that really hope in the return of theocracy. Therefore, to these people God has made the promise of restoring theocracy.
“‘See, I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then
suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
Malachi 3: 1
“Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the
King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors that the King of glory may come in. Who is he, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty- he is the King of glory. Selah.” Psalm 24: 7-10
The Jews during Jesus believed that Messiah will restore the terrestrial kingdom at His first coming (Luke 19: 37-38 That is why the disciples were fighting between themselves because they wanted to know who was the greatest of them all; Jacob and John asked their mother to ask Jesus for important positions in His Kingdom. Indeed, even John the Baptist was perplexed as he too had hoped to be freed from jail he was in and where he saw no kingdom coming.
”He sent them to the Lord to ask: ’Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?’ When the men came to Jesus, they said: ‘John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else’?” Luke 7: 19-20
“They stood still, their faces downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, asked
Him: ‘Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days’? ‘What things? ‘he asked. ‘About Jesus of Nazareth,’ they replied. ‘He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.”
Luke 24: 18-21
The prophets had in fact announced the eternal kingdom of Messiah over Israel, but the disciples didn’t understand the stages of God’s plan/design. In fact, Christ had to come at first to suffer our redemption and afterwards, during His 2nd coming, for the judgement of nations and for establishing theocracy. That is why Jesus had to clear things after His resurrection for 40 days while He stayed to teach them things about God’s kingdom. Nevertheless let us notice
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that they haven’t received the answer they were expecting regarding the precise moment Israel was about to be restored; the Lord’s answer is according to His teaching because the restoration of the Jewish nation is part of God’s secret. Regarding this subject, the apostle Paul tells us in Romans 11: 25 that Israel’s hardening (the rejection of Messiah by the Hebrew nation) is a mystery.
In conclusion contrary to some teachings the Church is not the revival instrument for the Jewish people because, according to the Biblical prophecies, Messiah Himself will do it at His visible return on Earth. – 2 pages above Zechariah 12:10-14
“I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of
the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: « The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.” Romans 11: 25-27
In 1948, there has been nevertheless a partial restoration of the Hebrew nation at the creation, at that time, of the Israel state as a sovereign country, thus confirming the Biblical prophecies and especially Isaiah 66: 7-9. But the real restoration implies the return of God’s glory (meaning the national conversion, the recognition by all Jews of Jesus as the Messiah and the King, the restoration of the old administrative form of governing: the theocracy – Isaiah 1: 26; Isaiah 2) which will all become real only at Jesus-Christ’s visible return. Only God knows the date- the hour and the day- of this event. Nevertheless, this shouldn’t stop us from evangelising Jews. (Matthew 28: 18-20).
The Resurrection of Saints living before Jesus-Christ and those alive during the Great Tribulation
All believers that lived before the first coming of Jesus will be resurrected at the 2nd visible coming of Jesus-Christ. In fact, the 1st phase of the 1st resurrection regards entirely the Church (1 Thessalonians 4:13-17). The 2nd phase of the 1st resurrection regards the saints who lived before the Church’s age and those of the Great Tribulation.
“I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ 1,000 years.”
Revelation 20: 4
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This passage confirms that the dead before the dispensation/ the grace will resurrect after the Great Tribulation, after Israel’s restoration. All these stages accomplished, Jesus/ Yeshoua will then restore His millennium.
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The Millennium and its different interpretations
(Zechariah 8) Lord Jesus-Christ will reign over the earth for 1,000 years with His Church, with the saints from the Great Tribulation and with Israel – all unified in a single body. To better understand the millennium, we have to turn to Adam and Eve who died of their disobedience. According to Scriptures, they haven’t lived more than a day, meaning no more than 1,000 years. Indeed, the Word says that a day is equal to 1,000 years and 1,000 years are worth a day. (Psalm 90; 2 Peter 3: 8). Thus, we understand that in order to reach eternity, we have to live more than a day, more than 1,000 years. Methuselah’s days were 969 years. – Genesis 5: 27 He needed only 31 years to reach 1,000 years or in other words, eternity. Due to the fact that the first Adam had failed his mission, God has sent Jesus, the last Adam, so that all humanity who trusts in Him enters eternity. (1 Corinthians 15: 45-47).
The promise for millennium had been given to David in 2 Samuel 7: 14-16, when God promised him to enforce his throne forever. So, Christ, David’s posterity by flesh (Romans 1: 3) will establish the future kingdom based on his alliance, his covenant with king David. It will be God’s governing over Earth or the restoration of theocracy. (Isaiah 2)
While he was in Babylon, the prophet Daniel received great revelations regarding the setting up of the Messianic kingdom.
“In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands-a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces. « The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and the interpretation is trustworthy. » Daniel 2: 44-45
Compared to other prophecies, this passage states the age when the millennium kingdom will be established. It will be during ‘the time of these kings’, in other words during the Beast’s reign of Revelation 13: 1-10, which will be helped by 10 horns or 10 kings/presidents (Daniel 7: 24-27), the equivalent of 10 toes of Nebuchadnezzar’s statue. (Daniel chap. 2)
These 10 kings didn’t exist 2,000 years ago at Lord’s first coming. During the Roman Empire these 10 horns represented the 10 Germanic tribes.
“In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was
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led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.” Daniel 7: 13-14. Here Messiah, along with all saints, is invested with the millennium reign on earth.
“In the last days the mountain of the Lord ‘s temple will be established as
chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. Many nations will come and say: ’Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord , to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.’ The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. Every man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the Lord Almighty has spoken. All the nations may walk in the name of their gods; we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. ’In that day,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will gather the lame; I will assemble the exiles and those I have brought to grief. I will make the lame a remnant, those driven away a strong nation. The Lord will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever. As for you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion, the former dominion will be restored to you; kingship will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.” Mica 4: 1-8 (see also Isaiah 2)
During His millennium reign, the Lord will restore the theocratic government in Israel. “I will restore your judges as in days of old, your counsellors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City. ».” Isaiah 1: 26
Like in the garden of Eden, all animals will eat grass and there will be no enmity between them: “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.” Isaiah 11: 6-9
All nations will go up each year to Jerusalem to worship Y.H.W.H. and to celebrate the feast of tabernacle which will be then restored. (Zechariah 14).
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As we have already noticed, the millennium reign had been promised to king David and his posterity (2 Samuel 7: 14-17). Later, it has also been proclaimed by John the Baptist (Matthew 3: 1-12), by Jesus the Messiah (Matthew 4: 17) and by the disciples and apostles (Matthew 10) as being near. Nowadays, God’s kingdom manifests itself through the sanctified life of all saints in Christ (Luke 17: 20; John 3: 1-8; Romans 14: 17) and doesn’t hit the eye, because it will be seen only after the ‘harvest’ or after the judgement of nations (Matthew 13: 39-43, 49-50).
Only after the harvest, the kingdom will be truly restored here on earth, when Messiah will re-establish the monarchy/David’s dynasty in His own person. Then, He will gather all children of Israel spread all over the planet and will re-establish His domination over the whole wide earth for 1,000 years.
This kingdom will be offered to the Father by messiah after He will defeat the last enemy: the death (1 Corinthians 15: 24-26). Therefore, nobody will know death during the millennium.
According to the parable of the poles from Luke 19: 11-27, there are those saints with lots of fruits from their gifts and ministries. These ones will receive authority to govern cities in the millennium kingdom and will have positions similar to those of Israel’s judges (Isaiah 1: 26). Thus, some will rule 3 cities, some 5 or some, even whole dozens.
In conclusion, stay strong in witnessing your faith in Jesus.
During the millennium, there will be 3 types of believers:
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On one hand, the Christians of the raptured Church who are resurrected and returned on earth in glorious bodies (1 Corinthians 15: 40-57). They will look like angels because they will be asexual; so, amongst these saints, there will be neither man nor female (Galatians 3: 28) and for this reason they will not multiply. (Luke 20: 27-38)
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On the other hand, there will be the saints of Israel resurrected before the time of grace and those who entered the millennium kingdom alive.
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Finally, there will be the men converted during the great tribulation (both categories: resurrected and alive) Matthew 25: 31-40. Those who would have never known resurrection will continue to have kids, too and these kids will be those who, during the millennium, will have to face the snake’s seduction after these 1,000 of jail time for satan. (Revelation20: 7-10)
Those 4 different types of millennium
We have seen in the previous pages that the Church is not destined to suffer the future wrath. Jesus-Christ will rapture her before that time in the same way He kept Israel safe during the 10 plagues against Egypt. (1 Thessalonians 5: 9).
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Nevertheless, because of the confusion that exists in the Evangelical culture regarding the Church’s place during the great tribulation, I stop and talk beneath about the different interpretations of the millennium.
“I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ 1,000 years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the 1,000 years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years. When the 1,000 years are over, satan will be released from his prison.” Revelation 20: 4-8a
This passage talks about the persons that will live and reign with Christ during 1,000-year period. The controversial/divergent interpretations of this paragraph gave birth to 4 types of schools regarding the millennium.
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A-millennium
Augustin d’Hippone (beginning of 5th century) was the father of this doctrine later adopted by the Roman Catholicism. This is the current position of the Reformat and Lutheran Church.
For the a-millennists, the millennium corresponds to the present domination of Christ in heaven over the dead faithful souls. In their opinion, there is no visible reign of Christ on earth before the future eternity. The number 1,000 is symbolic and doesn’t mean the exact duration of 1,000 years. Thus, Jesus-Christ’s return will happen after the millennium. Of time, including the great tribulation will take place before the Lord’s return which will happen in one phase. Therefore, Lord’s visible return on earth will take place immediately after ‘His return into air’ with the faithful and those resurrected (the rapture). After this, while the rest of the people will resurrect for the last judgement, the believers will forever rejoice of the blessings through a new sky and a new earth.
This point of view is in disagreement Scriptures which clearly state that Lord Jesus-Christ will reign for 1,000 on Earth together with His beforehand raptured Church. In addition, we must know that Augustin d’Hippone, like most of the church fathers were anti-Semitic. Following their own interpretation of this Biblical prophecy, they have completely forgot the major role the Jewish nation plays in the ‘eschartic’ (in Greek) or ‘acharith’ (in Hebrew) signs, meaning in the signs of the end time. In their view, all prophecies concerning this people are attributed to the Church now as she has replaced Israel. But what
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credit can we give this Biblical interpretation while these persons were animated by such hate towards the Jews?
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Post-Millennium
Post-Millennium is undoubtedly the least famous position. This theory has appeared in the 17th century thanks to the Dutch Reformat theologian Johannes Koch and thus, it has been approved by some Reformat and Baptist churches.
For the post-millennium people, the millennium would come on Earth before Jesus-Christ’s return thanks to some progresses made into the preaching of the Gospel (both for Jews and Christians alike). Therefore, in their opinion, Jesus-Christ and the Christians are already on the way to reign on earth. Generally speaking, the Post-millennium supporters consider that the great tribulation and the apostasy have already passed and that the world will end one day by Christianising the entire world, which will thus end a long period of peace, justice and prosperity (1,000 years in a symbolic sense), when the principles of faith and Christian morale would be universally accepted.
Nevertheless, they contradict themselves by stating that naturally, not all the people would become authentic and that evil will be reduced to its minimal expression. Finally, Jesus’ return would be followed immediately by all people’s resurrection, by the last judgement and by the appearance of a new sky and a new earth. In conclusion, they assimilate the first cup rider from Revelation 6: 1-2 to Christ and the world conquering by His Ekklesia and by the Gospel, when in reality it is about antichrist. Surely Jesus-Christ has already won the battle 2,000 years ago and He doesn’t go as conqueror to win again (John 16: 33). Also, His weapon is the sword of the Word and not the arch (Revelation 19: 15).
For the partisans of this doctrine, the Church’s rapture will not take place because she is charged to establish Y.H.W.H.’s kingdom here on earth. Some go even further and form political parties in the hope of instituting the millennium through the power of ballot boxes; that is how far this false interpretation of the Biblical prophecy goes! It is only a utopia, a pure illusion because only God is able to install universal peace. (Acts 1: 3-8; 3: 19-21) By the way, the a-millennium thinkers also defend this doctrine of replacing Israel with the Church.
The Historic Pre-Millennium
The doctrine of the historic pre-millennium has turned up in the 2nd century and was introduced by some church fathers such as Papias, Justin the Martyr, Irene, Tertullian etc.). This is the official position of the Mennonite Church and of that
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of the Salvation Army Church and also of a considerable number of theologians of different protestant denominations.
All pre-millennium believers think that Jesus-Christ’s return will precede the millennium. Therefore, the millennium is going to happen between Jesus’ coming and the introduction of future eternity. Nevertheless, there are 2 types, quite different of pre-millennium: the historic one and the one based on dispensation (that revolves around grace).
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3)Pre-Millennium believers of historic type
Its supporters believe that before Christ return there will be: the nations’ evangelisation, the apostasy and the antichrist’s appearance and of course later the great tribulation. (That is why they are also called post-tribulationists.) They also believe it very probable if not certain that Israel will return in his country according to the Old Testament prophecies, fact recognised also by the a-millennists and post-millennists for which however Israel has replaced the Church in God’s design. Israel’s return in his land must have taken place before the Lord’s return, but the historic pre-millennnists are divided regarding the Jews ‘conversion foretold by Romans 11. (Some believe this will happen before, some say immediately after Christ’s return).
Christ’s return is understood as a single phase, which is completely false. The Lord will return firstly for His Bride and later, after 7 years He will come in a visible way on Earth (not seen only on the clouds- n.tr.) for the Israel.
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4)Pre-millennists of dispensionist / grace type
This current has developed during the 18th century by J.N. Darby and his position is the apostles’ position; apostle Paul’s included and also my own, too.
God used Darby to bring light into truths concerning the millennium, truths that satan kept hidden for a long time.
The dispensionism is determined by 2 main principles:
– The literal interpretation of the prophecy: all prophecies regarding Christ’s return and those concerning end times (the apostasy, the great tribulation, Christ’s visible return, the restoration of Israel, the last judgement…)
– The fundamental and permanent distinction between Israel and the Church
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God/Y.H.W.H. has 2 purposes: a terrestrial one with Israel and a celestial one with Ekklezia – she contains herself a number of Jews converted to Christianity. The prophecies of the Old Testament concern only Israel and not at all the Church, which is a bracket that nothing could foretell, a special dispensation in the history of salvation; so as a consequence the dispensionists claim that these
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prophecies will not be able to come to pass but after the Church’s time, in a different kind of grace/dispensation that will follow, that of the Kingdom which corresponds with the millennium –the time that precedes Christ’s return on earth.
So, the dispensationists take the Old Testament prophecies regarding the establishment of Israel’s Kingdom and interpret them literally. It is important for us Christians to understand that God has not rejected or abandoned His nation Israel. Israel’s return in his country is on its way, so Christ’s reign is over the Jewish kingdom during the millennium.
During the first coming of Jesus-Christ on earth, the Lord offered Jews both a terrestrial kingdom and a spiritual one (where people enter through repentance and faith John 3). This offer being rejected, Yeshoua established His Church, a hidden mystery until now or a bracket that put an end for a while to Y.H.W.H.’s plan for Israel, design which will nevertheless be fulfilled during Jesus’s second coming on earth.

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The 7 Cups Full of God’s Wrath
In the Bible, bowls or cups, like we call them today represent the judgement when they regard God or the seduction when they talk about Babylon.
“After this I looked and in heaven the temple, that is, the tabernacle of the
Testimony was opened. Out of the temple came the 7angels with the 7 plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. Then one of the 4 living creatures gave to the 7angels 7 golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the 7 angels were completed.” Revelation 15: 5-8
During the Great Tribulation, the 7 angels will tip over the 7 cups of Y.H.W.H.’s wrath over the entire kingdom of the impious man and over all his worshippers. These scourges are similar to those that hit Egypt during Moses’ time.
“Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, ‘Go, pour out the 7 bowls of God’s wrath on the earth.’ The 1st angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly and painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped his image.
The 2nd angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.
The 3rd angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they
became blood. Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: ‘You are just in these judgments, you who are and who were, the Holy One, because you have so judged; for they have shed the blood of your saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.’ And I heard the altar respond: ‘Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments.’
The 4th angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to
scorch people with fire. They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.
The 5th angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. Men gnawed their tongues in agony and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.
The 6th angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates and its waters were dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. They are
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spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty ‘Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed.’ Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
The 7th angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, ‘It is done!’ Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. From the sky huge hailstones of about 100 pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.” Revelation 16
The 1st cup: ugly and painful ulcer
“The 1stangel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly and painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped his image.” Revelation 16: 2
“‘Skin for skin!’ Satan replied. ‘A man will give all he has for his own life. But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.’ The Lord said to Satan, ‘Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.’ So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes. His wife said to him: ‘Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die’!” Job 2: 4-9
“Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, ‘Pray to the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the Lord.’ Moses said to Pharaoh: ‘I leave to you the honour of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.’ ‘Tomorrow,’ Pharaoh said. Moses replied, ‘It will be as you say, so that you may know there is no one like the Lord our God. The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials and your people they will remain only in the Nile’.” Exodus 9: 8-11
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An ulcer is a malign scourge that usually makes terrifying progress despite all remedies opposed to it. It causes the eating of the flesh and open wounds stuck to the skin. Remember that the Egyptians and Job were touched by this disease.
The 2nd cup: the sea transformed into blood
“The 2nd angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.” Revelation 16: 3
“The Lord said to Moses: ‘Tell Aaron: <Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt-over the streams and canals, over the ponds and
all the reservoirs’-and they will turn to blood. Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in the wooden buckets and stone jars.>’Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into
blood. The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt. But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh’s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.”
Exodus 7: 19-22
The 3rd cup: the streams transformed into blood
“The 3rd angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: ‘You are just in these judgments, you who are and who were, the Holy One, because you have so judged; for they have shed the blood of your saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.’ And I heard the altar respond: ‘Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments’.” Revelation 16: 4-7 and above: Exodus 7: 19-22
The 4th cup: an extreme heatwave
“The 4th angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire. They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.” Revelation 16: 8-9
During the first 15 days of August 2003, France was hit by an unprecedented heatwave, bigger than that of 1947. Beginning with the 3rd of August, it reached very high temperatures: most part of the French territory had over 35°C while for no less than 10 days there was even over 40°C. During 1-20 Aug. 2003, due to this heatwave, more than 15.000 persons died, amongst which half of them were over 85 years old.
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The beast’s worshippers will suffer a bigger heat that that of 1003. The climate control will not help stop this furnace.
The 5th cup: darkness over the Beast’s throne
“The 5th angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. Men gnawed their tongues in agony and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.” Revelation 16: 10-11
“Then the Lord said to Moses: ‘Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that
darkness will spread over Egypt darkness that can be felt.’ So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. No one could see anyone else or leave his place for three days. Yet all
the Israelites had light in the places where they lived. Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said: ‘Go, worship the Lord. Even your women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds behind. »” Exodus 10: 21-24
The Lord has taken me one day in spirit and showed me the Earth from space. Darkness was so deep that no artificial light produced by men was able to penetrate it. Not even the Sun‘s light was to be seen, that is how weak it was. Nevertheless, I could see dots of sparkles all over the Globe – they were Christians faithful to the Lord during that harsh time!
The 6th cup: Euphrates dried up
“The 6th angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates and its waters were dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.” Revelation 16: 12-17
The Euphrates is a river that begins to flow from Turkey; it crosses Syria and Iraq and then connects in Iran to another affluent.
The 7th cup: Babylon’s destruction, the end of nations’ times
(Jeremiah 51, Revelation 18)
“The 7th angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, ‘It is done!’ Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. From the sky huge hailstones of about 100 pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.” Revelation 16: 17-21
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The verb ‘collapse’ in this passage is ‘pipto’ in Greek and means ‘to descend from a high place towards a lower level, to lose its authority or to have left without power’. Jeremiah’s prophecies regarding Babylon’s destruction will be fulfilled at the end of time during Messiah’s return on Earth. (Jeremiah 51)
“Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” Luke 21: 24b
The nations’ times correspond to this long period in the human history started with the Judah’s captivity in Babylon in 586 B.C. and will end with the destruction of Nebuchadnezzar’s statue which represent in fact the worldly political powers. (Daniel 2:31). This destruction will take place due to shockwave produced by the stone detached ‘without the help of any hand’- Daniel 2: 34-35; 44.It is obvious this regards the return of Lord Jesus-Christ in all His Glory/Shekinah (Revelation 19: 11, 21).
“Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by. See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed upon her; she will conceal her slain no longer.” Isaiah 26: 20-21
The judgement imposed by the 7 cups, also called Y.H.W.H.’s wrath doesn’t regard the Church/ Ekklesia. The Lord will hide His people, He will lift up into the sky and then He will judge the Beast’s kingdom. In fact, it is important to know by all the saints that they are not called to suffer these scourges: “They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead–Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.” 1 Thessalonians 1: 9-10
“For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thessalonians 5:9
Despite all these cups poured out over the evil one‘s kingdom, people (those persons signed with her mark) will keep on refusing repentance, which will thus push them to commit the unforgivable sign: the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (Revelation 16: 10-11).
“After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: ‘Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.’ All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the 4 living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
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saying: ‘Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honour and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!’ Then one of the elders asked me: ‘These in white robes–who are they, and where did they come from?’ I answered: ‘Sir, you know.’ And he said, « These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, ‘they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the centre of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes’.” Revelation 7: 9-17
Therefore, they will remain untouched, as stone, by the call for the repentance made by God’s servants and especially preached by His 2 prophets described in revelation chapter 11. It is highly probable that certain persons will refuse the mark of the impious man because they will convert to Lord Yeshoua and though the Holy Spirit will start a big revival during the great tribulation; nevertheless, this fact won’t stop the beginning of World War III.
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The Armageddon War
”In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and
Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land. They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine that they might drink. ‘Now what have you against me, O, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done. For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your
Temple’.” Joel 3: 1-5
“I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle.” Zechariah 14: 2-3
”’When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know
that its desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not
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enter the city. For this is the time of punishment in fulfilment of all that has been written. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea’ ” Luke 21: 20-25
Jesus’ prophecy in the book of Luke 21:20-25had to happen in 2 stages. The first stage took place in the year 70d.H. when the Roman army attacked Jerusalem causing the Jews’ exile between nations and the 2nd phase will be fulfilled during the great tribulation on the day the nations led by the beast will attack Jerusalem.
“How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.” Jeremiah 30: 7
Although, in the past, the Jews was fought by the snake’s posterity (nations such as: Egypt, Assyria, Canaan, Babylon, Rome …), during the 4th empire they will be much worse persecuted – until Messiah‘s return on Earth.
The Swedish Alfred Nobel has left an inheritance of almost 32 million of crowns at his death. He gathered this fortune thanks to his invention: the dynamite. In fact, his will, which is supposed to have been written in 27.11.1895 in the Swedish-Norwegian club from Paris didn’t mention any money for his direct successors, but asked the creation of an institution charged with the yearly awarding of those people who bring great services to humanity, thus allowing through their research and work the considerable amelioration and the progress in science and culture- fields divided into 5 disciplines: peace/diplomacy, literature, chemistry, psychology/medicine and physics.
Despite this institution, it is weird to find out that great scientists who received the Noble Prize have had a role to play in building weapons. Funny way in serving humanity! So far, since World War II there have been recorded more than 20 local wars, more than 46 political assassinates, 50 personal rebellions, 80 revolts for independence, more than 200 social, political, racial and religious revolutions.
I also must mention that the future World War III can’t be prevented because man’s heart is evil, only God can change it when this first one has the desire to have it transformed (to be at His disposal). Despite the fact that since the beginning of history men have looked for peace, wars had always been their
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inheritance (Jeremiah 6: 14). This fact shouldn’t surprise us because the demons are behind the armies of this world.
The Euphrates leaves from Turkey, crosses Iraqand flows into the Indian Ocean.
The drying up of Euphrates will allow the world armies to attack Israel: “The 6th angel poured out his bowl on great river Euphrates and its waters were dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty. ‘Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed.’ Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.” Revelation 16: 12-16
“At the time of the end the king of the South will engage him in battle and the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots and cavalry and a great fleet of ships. He will invade many countries and sweep through them like a flood.” Daniel 11: 40
The king of South is the chief of the Egyptian state and it is written that he will fight against the impious man (‘will engage him in battle).
The characters from this passage are easily identifiable. So, there will be an African-Arabic led by Egypt (the king of South) which will organise an invasion against Israel. The Northern king (Russia and China) will drop on him (over the impious man) like a storm, with chariots (motorised army)and cavalry of almost 200 million soldiers according to Revelation 9: 13-16 and with other numerous vassals. Russia and its allies will launch an invasion over the Middle East – territory Russia wished for since Napoleon.
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Let us also notice that the book of Ezekiel chapter 38 describes almost 26 centuries before this displacement of the great Russian force and also its plan of attack against Israel: “So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, « Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet-a vast army. Then he said to me: ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: <O, my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel>’.” Ezekiel 38: 7-12
From this passage, Israel’s future richness is to be believed:” [properties]”. Nowadays, there is enough gas trapped between the unending cliffs of Israel to power the geo-thermic energy for many countries’ electricity. Plus, one of the most important minerals lying on the bottom of the Dead Sea is potassium, as powerful fertiliser. In the future, this element will become vital for food. In conclusion, we understand that these riches will determine Russia and its allies to attack Israel.
One of the main factors in the Middle East conflict was the threat with the Russian intervention. This threat has stopped Israel to completely exploit its success from 1956 following the Sinai War. In 29 Oct. 1956, the Israeli army has started the conquest of Sinai Mountain and reached the km 30 by the Channel, but the next day the British and the French launched an ultimatum to Israel and Egypt, asking them to withdraw up to km 16 on both sides of the Channel. Israel has accepted unlike Nasser Arafat. Tsahal (the Egyptian president) continued his advance in Sinai and occupied. The disorganised Egyptians fled leaving tons of material that Israel later recuperated. On the 3rd of Nov. 1956, U.N.O voted an immediate cease of fire. While Ben Gurion slowed the advancement of the Israelite army at km 15 by the Channel, the Egyptians continued their progression up to Sharm-El Cheikn. On the 5th of Nov., the British and the French reached the harbour Port Said and so, Israel accepted the cease of fire. As a reaction, the ex-U.R.S.S. through Nikolai Bulganin, threatened Israel violently:’ The Israel Government plays dangerously with his future’ and sent planes into Syria and submarines in the Mediterranean Sea.
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On the other hand, U.S.A. too put pressure on Israel to retreat from Sinai. The cease of fire was imposed on Israel right when the Egyptian army was on the verge of surrender. In fact, Russia was deeply engaged in supporting the Arab countries as guaranty of keeping her domination. But, according to the prophecies, Russia will be excluded from taking part into the affairs of Middle East and will use military force to have an impact in the region.
In the same way, U.S.A., at present Israel’s ally, will join the Western countries. The armies resulted from the union between The Arab Confederation the Black Africa will be neutralised by Russia and her allies. Nevertheless, the Russian powers and their allies will be annihilated and only 2 big blocks will be left to fight the final battle of Armageddon: the Occidental powers led by a Roman dictator or by the Impious Man on one side and the sea of Oriental Army led by China on the other side. (They will fight for the world supremacy but there will be only one official religion according to the Bible-n.tr.).
The Chinese will lead this great Eastern army and will take advantage of the Middle East chaos to go and fight against the Beast for the Earth supremacy. Their army will number almost 200 million soldiers. (Revelation 9: 16).
The Euphrates will empty the 6th cup, which will allow the Chinese to easily penetrate ‘the holy land.
The fall of demons
“Immediately after the distress of those days, ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken’.” Matthew 24: 29
“And the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.” Revelation 6: 13
“The 3rdangel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-the name of the star is Wormwood. A 3rd of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.” Revelation 8: 10-11
As you well know, in the Bible, the word ‘sea’ (‘thalassa’ in Greek) represents the disorganised world, nations without Y.H.W.H.. The bitter waters are a symbol for the Word of God. Remember the story of Elisha from 2 Kings 2: 15-22. The waters of Jericho River were bitter and the prophet Elisha made them well again by dropping salt into them. We notice in fact that the world is in
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chaos and that the waters, meaning the word preached in many churches are bitter nowadays. By the way, God tells us in Amos 8: 11 that He will send a famine over the whole country:”
“The 5thangel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.” Revelation 9: 1-3
“Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with 7 heads and 10 horns and 7 crowns on his heads. His tail swept a 3rd of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born.” Revelation 12: 3-4
“And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down-that ancient serpent called the devil, or satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: ‘Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. Therefore rejoice you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.’ When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who who had given birth to the male child.” Revelation 12: 7-13
In these passages, the stars represent the fallen angels (the devils)that will be chased away from heaven (the 1st sky, the visible one) by the angel Michael and his angels ( Revelation 12).
These demons will fight the saints and Jews and afterwards, they will travel the nations in order to enrol and prepare them for the battle of Armageddon.
“They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty. ‘Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully
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exposed.’ Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.” Revelation 16: 14-16
According to the Biblical prophecies, the last world war will be organised by: the dragon, the beast and the false prophet. This diabolic trinity will prepare the nations for the attack against the Woman’s posterity, which are the Jews that wait for the Messiah. The ancient snake is animated by such a hate towards the Israeli – hate that has always been manifested through (undeserved) acts of violence against the Jews. With antichrist as their leader, all nations (Western and Eastern camps alike) will fight against the chosen nation of Israel and therefore, this conflict will spread over the whole world.
The plan for this 3rd world war (conflict inspired by unclean demons coming out of the false prophet’s mouth, from the beast’s mouth and also from that of the dragon’s – Revelation 16: 12-14) has as foundation the instrumenting of the Israeli-Arab conflict’s intensification.
The Origin of the Israeli- Palestinian Troubles
On the 2nd of Nov. 1917, during full world war, the British minister of Foreign Affairs Lord Balfour printed a letter where he indicated to his government to create in Palestine ‘a Jewish national foyer’.
In 14 May 1948, 30 years later, the Jews have officially restored their nation in Palestine. Nevertheless, without knowing, they have thus created an unimaginable problem by chasing the Arabs away from the land they were living for centuries. No man can or will be able to convince these nations to stop hostilities.
The Hebrews will never be convinced to leave their country given to them by Y.H.W.H. and on which concerns the Arabs, they also refuse to accept the Jewish occupation over their territory which they consider their own country. The crisis in the Middle East will continue to escalate in a future world war.
If another world war starts today, with all the nuclear, chemical, biological, atomic weapons man possesses today, the Earth will be destroyed with a power of 30 times bigger than Hiroshima’s bomb. And the entire Palestine zone being like a barrel full of gunpowder, all can happen in any moment now.
According to Scripture, the nations will gather for ‘the battle of the great Day of the Lord’. The armies of the whole wide world will confront each other in a place called in Hebrew: ‘Armageddon’: “The 6th angel poured out his bowl on great river Euphrates and its waters were dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. They are spirits of demons performing miraculous
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signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.
‘Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed.’ Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.” Revelation 16: 12-16
Armageddon is a Hebrew expression formed of the word ‘arm’=’mountain’ and the word ‘meguiddo’which indicates a locality in the North of Palestine. The Mountain of Megiddo is a little hill situated near the Mediterranean Sea and towers the valley leading to east. This depression long of almost 23 km and wide of approximately 35 km will be the desired strategy point for the armies during the final battle of the World War III.
Then the snake’s hate for the Woman’s posterity will reach the climax. Fortunately, these days will be shorten because of an event that will precipitate the return of Lord Yeshoua with His bride, the Ekklesia.
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The Division of Jerusalem
While the world precipitates towards the final great conflict of its history, the city which will attract all eyes is neither Paris, nor New York, nor London, nor Brussels, but Jerusalem. This metropolis is the Lord’s horologe.
It is venerated by Christians, by Jews and Muslims alike, which makes her the religious centre for most of the world population. The conflict around the ‘Jerusalem’ subject will keep on being a pressing stone for nations and for their leaders: “‘I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.” Zechariah 12: 2-3
On the Sunday of 22nd of May 2011, during a well anticipated speech before AIPAC [the main pro-Israeli lobby], the American president Barack Obama
reaffirmed his support for the creation of a Palestinian state or for pushing Israel’s borders back to those before the 1967 war.
Regarding France, its president Nicolas Sarkozy stated on the 31st of Oct 2011 that the 27 countries of European union should ‘have a single voice’ in the eventuality of recognising a Palestinian state before U.N., in Sep. 2011:’The 27 countries of E.U. should express in a single voice. Together, we have to assume our responsibilities. France (…) will take the initiative, we want the unity of Europe’, he declared. The peace negotiations with Israel have been blocked and now the Palestinians hope that in principle, by the 20th of
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Sep., their state will adhere as integral part to U.N.O.(which happened in 30.11.2012!-n.tr.) and the recognition of Palestine with the borders before 04.06.1967( The War of 6Days) which means the entire Cis-Jordan, the band of Gaza and the East of Jerusalem. In a meeting Sarkozy had on Wednesday, according to Express newspaper, he let people believe France is going to recognise the Palestinian state in autumn by assuring them that ‘ he takes full responsibility if the peace process is not going to be relaunched soon.’- see http://un-echo-israel.net
These different meetings between state leaders confirm the fulfilment of Joe’s prophecy:” I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.” Joel 3:2
The verb ‘to divide’ from this verse is said ‘cialaq’ in Hebrew and means ‘to share, to separate and to plunder’.
According to Biblical prophecies, the Jews will be exiled in the wide world during the last world war. Israel will be divided and Jerusalem will be cut in 2: a piece for the Jews and another one for the Arabs. This division of the holy city will cause Messiah’s anger at His return.
Jerusalem, Yeruwshalaim in Hebrew, the unified and eternal capital of Israel was not long time ago more than the slogan of a law voted in 1980 by the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament). This law evoked the division of the holy metropolis with the Palestinians and thus has inevitably started an intense controversy. The ex-prime minister Ehud Barak found out about it on his own skin during the negotiations of David-Taba Camp, in 2000, when as a consequence, he was accused , including by Ehud Olmert (his former prime-minister who was then the major of Jerusalem) of having wished for Jerusalem’s liquidation (cheap selling). But, some years before that, Olmert himself proved that even the most tenacious taboos could be diminished in time: he evoked for the first time officially and without any significant reactions the possibility of renouncing at the Israeli sovereignty over certain Arabs suburbs of Jerusalem that had been annexed to Israel after 1967’s war.
The Palestinians want that this document takes into account the thorny problems of this conflict such as: the status of Jerusalem and the borders of the future Palestinian state. For although E. Olmert only evoked vaguely this declaration of non-constraint for Palestinians, his proposals concerning the possible division of Jerusalem meant a break-up with the past circumspect politics adopted by the Israelite government and by most Israeli ministers with ideas/positions well expressed.
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“The Israeli people would be ready for this evolution: the Hebrew public opinion is extremely variable and is cemented, for short or long term, on their leaders’ positions. The examples of complete change in politics don’t miss in the local politics’ history, such as the retreat from Gaza conducted by prime-minister Ariel Sharon or the agreements from Oslo signed by the Rabbi”, explains Yoram Peri, a professor of political sociology from a University of Tel-Aviv.
Nevertheless, almost 2/3 of Jews (59%) still oppose a retreat from the Arab suburbs, according to an opinion poll done by Israeli newspaper Haaretz:
” The front for the refuse of dividing Jerusalem is eroding, but the subject lingers on and stays extremely controversial due to the affective and symbolic meaning as the only historic capital of the Jewish nation.”
Yossi Alpher, a politic analyst, specialised in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process reminds us that: ”As long as no solution for the holy places can be found, and nowadays there is none, the Jews will be always afraid that these concessions regarding the periphery of the city will end up with the return to the borders before 1967, when the old town was under the control of the Jordan state, when Jews had no access to the Weeping Wall, the holliest place of Judaism”.
The Judgement over the religious Babylon by the Politic Babylon
The Religious Babylon is formed of most Apostate, Ecumenical and heathen Christianity, led by the 2nd beast of Revelation 13: 11-18. This beast is none else than the Pope who will play a preponderant role. More precisely, it is the ‘Super Church’ composed of all world religions.
Nevertheless, Lord Yeshoua will judge the Religious Babylon and the Political Babylon will be charged with the destruction of the first Babylon. Y.H.W.H. will thus be in control of this war.
“The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God’s words are fulfilled.”
Revelation 17: 16-17
The Cross The 7- Arms Candelabra or the Light and Salt for This World
The 7 trumpets
The Great Tribulation
The White Horse Rider
satan
The throne
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Christ’s birth (Luke 1)
The rejection of Messiah by most Jewish authorities and by most Jews (the 4 Gospels)
The crucifixion and the resurrection (Luke 23: 33-46)
The Church’s Rapture and the saints’ resurrection (1Thessalonians 4: vs.13-18)
Christ’s tribunal
(2 Corinthians 5:10)
The Lamb’s Wedding (Revelation 19: vs.7-8)
The 70th week (Daniel 9:24-27)
the Image and the sign of the Beast (Revelation 13: 11-18)
The 7 cups of Y.H.W.H.’s wrath (Revelation 15)
Jerusalem under siege by nations
(Luke 21 :20-24)
Revelation 17
satan freed (Rev.20:7)
The war between Gog and Maggog (Rev. 20:8)
Satan’s defeat and that of Gog and Maggog (Rev. 20:9)
satan thrown in the lake of fire (Rev. 20:10)
The Last Judgement (Rev. 20: vs. 11-15)
Death and Hell thrown into the lake of fire
(Rev. 20:14)
New Jerusalem come down from heaven
(Rev. 21 and 22:1-5)
Ekklesia’s birth (Acts. 2)
The proclamation of the Gospel in all nations (Acts and the 4 Gospels)
The saints’ rejection and persecution
(Acts and the 4 Gospels)
Christ’s return with the Ekklesia
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Armageddon
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Satan tied up
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Then nations’ Judgement
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The saints’ resurrection and of those dead during the Great Tribulation
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Judgement and then Israel’s revival
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1000 years
Zech 12/ Rom 11/ Mat. 25:32-46/ Rev. 19 and 20
CHAPTER V: JESUS-CHRIST’ S VISIBLE
RETURN WITH HIS CHURCH
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THE LORD’S DAY
The expression ‘the Day of the Lord’ or ‘The Lord’s Day’ suggests a time when God will intervene openly and visibly into human affairs.
”But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.” 2 Peter 3: 10
This day will start with the rapture of the Ekklesia and will open the judgement time before the white throne (Joel 1: 15). Zephaniah 1:14-18 describes it like a day of:
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destruction;
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devastations or accidents;
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darkness ;
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clouds and fog;
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trumpets and war cries against strong cities and ‘high towers’.
“Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly, as labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.”
1 Thessalonians 5: 1-3
The Lord’s coming will take place in Israel (Jerusalem) on the Mount of Olives where He climbed to heaven. (Matthew 28:11; Acts 1: 9-13). Nevertheless, this event will be visible by all planet people.
“On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.” Zechariah 14: 4
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“Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen.” Revelation 1: 7
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Lord Jesus’ return
“Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came
up to him to call his attention to its buildings. ‘Do you see all these things?’ he asked. ‘I tell you the truth, not one stone here will be left on another; everyone will be thrown down.’ As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. ‘Tell us,’ they said, ‘when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age’?” Matthew 24: 1-3
The word ‘coming’ or ‘parusia’ in Greek comes from another Greek word ‘pareimi’, which means ‘presence’. In the Roman Empire, when an emperor wanted to go into a new conquered province the inhabitants of that region had to prepare for months and months to welcome him. Christians should also prepare to welcome the Lord as it should, as He deserves.
In Hosea 6: 3, the Lord’s coming is compared with the aurora and with the first or the spring rain and also with the rain of the last season. For a better understanding this reference to the spring rain you have to know that the Hebrew nation was an agricultural people completely dependent on the 2 rain seasons. (Jeremiah 5: 24).
On one hand, the rain of the last season (‘megoswsh’in Hebrew means spring rain), a rain that consisted of heavy rainfalls, very appreciated due to the fact that it fell before the harvest and after a long time of summer drought). Let us understand that when the Lord will return, He will wet the earth with his glory after long years of spiritual drought and anguish.
On the other hand, the rain of the first season (end of October, so in autumn), ‘morech’ in Hebrew means ‘torrential’ rain. This rain opened the agricultural year by softening the soil hardened by the summer drought and thus prepared the cultivable surfaces for seeding.
“I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose
rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. ‘He will rule them with an iron sceptre.’ He treads the winepress of the fury of
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the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: ‘King of Kings and Lord of Lords’.” Revelation 19: 11-16
Many persons based on Matthew 24: 36 say that the Lord Jesus-Christ doesn’t know the date of His return. They forget that Yeshoua Ma’shia while on Earth, He was 100% man and 100% Y.H.W.H./ God. He voluntarily and completely disrobed himself of His glory, thus renouncing his omnipotence, omnipresence and omniknowledge, according to Philippians 2: 5-8. But, as God, He knows all things. (John 16: 29-30). Zechariah 14: 3 tells us that The Eternal One will appear to fight against the nations and He will set His feet upon the Mount of Olives. In vs. 7, he tells us that:” It will be a unique day, without daytime or night-time-a day known to the Lord. When evening comes, there will be light.” Yeshoua is indeed, truly, the Eternal One and He knows perfectly the day of His return, when He will enforce His judgement upon the Impious Man and upon Babylon. Hallelujah!
During the visible return of the Lord, the Beast, the Impious Man, the Earth’s kings/presidents and all their armies will point their weapons against Jesus and His Church (Revelation 19:17), but their attempt will be futile. These armies will have no effect; the bullets and missiles will ricochet without causing any damage. Then, these words will be fulfilled:
“No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue
that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me, » declares the Lord.” Isaiah 54: 17
“We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation.”
Psalm 91: 7
The destruction of the Beast, the Impious Man
“But with righteousness he will judge the needy; with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.” Isaiah 11: 4
According to this passage, at His return, Lord Jesus-Christ will hit with the power of His breath the Wicked One or ‘Rasha’ in Hebrew, which means the impious man. This verse sends us to 2 Thessalonians 2: 8:” And then the lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendour of his coming.”
While the Beast and the false prophet will be thrown alive in the lake of fire and of sulphurous (Revelation 19:20),all the other soldiers, other ranks and officers, will be killed by the sword which will get out of the Lord’s mouth and also by the birds of the sky that will devour at ease their flesh.
“Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.” Matthew 24: 28
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I can only ask the world great leaders who trust their won power to repentance; they need to repent of their sins because the coming days will be awful.
Satan tied up for 1,000 years
“And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.” Revelation 20: 1-3
The Lord will order an angel to tie the devil up for 1,000 years so he wouldn’t seduce the Earth inhabitants for the millennium period. Let us remark that the Lord doesn’t even bother to deal with satan Himself, but puts an angel in charge. We have here a beautiful illustration of our Lord’s sovereignty; He will send to jail this odious and malefic being with all his demons. There will be no sin on the planet afterwards. After taking the devil out of the picture, Yeshoua will destroy all the world political powers.
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The Destruction of the Political Babylon
“How broken and shattered is the hammer of the whole earth! How desolate is Babylon among the nations! I set a trap for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it; you were found and captured because you opposed the Lord.”
Jeremiah 50: 23-24
“This is what the Lord says: ‘See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon and the people of Leb Kamai. I will send foreigners to Babylon to win now her and to devastate her land; they will oppose her on every side in the day of her disaster. Let not the archer string his bow, nor let him put on his armour. Do not spare her young men; completely destroy her army. They will fall down slain in Babylon, fatally wounded in her streets.” Jeremiah 51: 1-4
“’Before your eyes I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the wrong they have done in Zion, ’declares the Lord. ‘I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who destroy the whole earth,’ declares the Lord . ‘I will stretch out my hand against you, roll you off the cliffs, and make you a burned-out mountain. No rock will be taken from you for a cornerstone, nor any stone for a foundation, for you will be desolate forever,’ declares the Lord”. Jeremiah 51: 24-26
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“After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendour. With a mighty voice he shouted: ‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a home for demons and a haunt for every evil spirit, a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird. For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries’.”
Revelation 18: 1-3
“When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her. Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry: ‘Woe! Woe, O great city, O Babylon, city of power! In one hour your doom has come’!’”
Revelation 18: 9-10
We have understood from the prophets that the name Babylon is often used with sense as antique city or Babylonian nation. Like we have already noticed, Babylon appears under 2 aspects in these end times: the political Babylon and the religious Babylon. The political Babylon represents the Beast’s confederation of empires or the last aspect of political powers ‘domination. This is the statue from the vision of Nebuchadnezzar.
“’You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue-an enormous,
dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay.” Daniel 2: 31-33
As we know it, it refers to Europe – the deader of nations, whose judgement is also announced in Daniel 2: 34-35:” While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.” In this passage, the detached stone that hits the statue without help from any hand is Messiah/ Ma’shia. Yeshoua Himself will hit Babylon, the Beast’s empire, and He will judge it of all its crimes and idolatries.
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The Nations’ Judgement
“Enoch, the 7th from Adam, prophesied about these men: ‘See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and
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to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him’.” Jude 14-15
“Then the trees of the forest will sing, they will sing for joy before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.” 1 Chronicles 16: 33
Enoch, the first prophet from the Biblical history, is also the first man to announce the Lord’s return with His saints to judge the Earth. This judgement will take place in the Jehoshaphat Valley.
The Jehoshaphat Valley
The name ‘Jehoshaphat Valley’ in Hebrew is’ Yehosaphat’, which means ‘Y.H.W.H. is judging’.
“‘Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side. Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow so great is their wickedness!’ Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.”
Joel 3: 12-14
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right: ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
Then the righteous will answer him: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ The King will reply: ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’ Then he will say to those on his left: ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or
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needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ He will reply: ‘I tell you the truth whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” Matthew 25: 31-46
Remark that in this passage there are 3 types of people: at first 1)the sheep, or the wheat which represent the persons converted during the Great Tribulation and not the Church’s saints who will be taken into heaven 7 years earlier during Jesus-Christ’s visible return (Revelation 7: 9-17); then there are 2)the goats, meaning those who don’t have faith in Jesus, the worshippers of the Impious Man who will have the mark of the beast and are also called tares (Revelation 16: 8-11) and finally, 3) there are those called by Jesus: ‘the smallest of my brothers’, meaning the Jews or Abraham’s physical descendants, those who will be terribly persecuted by the beast’s army and whom the Christians of those end days will help the same way the righteous people did it amongst the nations for the Jews (for instance for those Jews during Hitler’s cruel persecution).
The nations’ judgement is also called ‘the harvest’ in the parable of the wheat and the tares. “Jesus told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. The owner’s servants came to him and said:<Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?> ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. The servants asked him: <Do you want us to go and pull them up?> ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn’.’ « Matthew 13: 24-30
The nations’ judgement will be a time of separation for people between the wheat, on one side, which are the Christians and the Jews converted to Lord Yeshoua during the Great Tribulation and the tares, on the other side, who represent those heathen persons worshipping the Beast. This division doesn’t regard the Church at all because she will be raptured to heaven firstly and afterwards Christ will return on Earth.
The nations’ judgement will be exercised by the Church’s saints: “Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?” 1 Corinthians 6: 2
The angels will gather the people from all nations and all corners of the globe to be judged. No man will escape the Lion of the tribe of Judah! Some will try to hide into rock caves and into dust to escape God’s wrath and the majesty of
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His splendour, but that will be a futile try as Lord’s eyes see everything. “This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 13: 49-50
“Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the Lord and the splendour of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth. In that day men will throw away to the rodents and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship. They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from dread of the Lord and the splendour of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.” Isaiah 2:19-21
Israel’s Judgement by the 12 Apostles
“You are those who have stood by me in my trials. And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Luke 22: 28-30
“And if I drive out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.” Matthew 12: 27
The 12th tribes of Israel will be judged because of their disbelief by the 12 apostles of the Lamb. During Jesus the Messiah’s first arrival, Israel as a whole entity or in other words as a nation, instead of repenting in order to be restored, he rejected him. Yeshoua Ma’shia was in fact rejected by his people. (John 1: 11; Luke 20: 9-18). Nevertheless, this repentance will take place during the visible appearance of Christ with His bride: the Ekklesia.
Repentance, Freedom, Revival and National Restoration for Israel
“At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people-everyone whose name is found written in the book-will be delivered.” Daniel 12: 1. This text speaks of the time when Israel will be restored, in other words during the great tribulation. The archangel Michael will defend the Jews against the ancient snake. Those marked in the book of life will be freed and saved by Messiah.
This passage is confirmed by apostle Paul in Romans 11: 26: “And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: ‘The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.”
Many persons believe that Y.H.W.H. has abandoned His physical people, meaning Israel, but the Scriptures teach us quite the opposite.
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“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great, like the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, and all the rest of the clans and their wives.” Zechariah 12: 10-14
This passage clearly speaks of the coming of the Holy Spirit over the Israelites at the return of Lord Jesus and His Church, which will cause a great revival in Israel, the Hebrew nation’s repentance and conversion. It will surely be the Jews’ national restoration: “So when they met together, they asked him: ’Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel’?” Acts 1: 6 (see also 3: 19-21)
In Samuel 8, the children of Israel asked Samuel the prophet to give them a king to lead them like all other nations. Although this demand displeased God, the election of a king over Israel didn’t meant the end for the theocracy in Israel.
In fact, Y.H.W.H. continued through different leaders such as king David to lead the Jewish nation. The theocratic kingdom stopped after the Babylonian captivity when Israel stopped being a nation and when Y.H.W.H.’s glory left the temple of Jerusalem. (Ezekiel 11: 23) Only Messiah is able to restore theocracy.
“So when they met together, they asked him: ’Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel’? He said to them: ‘It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.” Acts 1: 6-7
The disciples’ question regarding the restoration of theocracy, the return of God’s glory in Israel is legitimate. Despite the temple’s reconstruction once again after the Babylonian captivity (2 Kings 24), by Nehemiah and Ezra, Y.H.W.H.’s glory didn’t manifest in the temple. This fact is confirmed by the verses in Malachi chapter 2: 17 and chapter 3: 1.
“You have wearied the Lord with your words: ‘How have we wearied him?’ you ask. By saying, ‘All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them’ or ‘Where is the God of justice’?” Malachi 2: 17
In the light of this verse we notice that the nation of Israel has realised that despite the temple’s reconstruction, God wasn’t inside it. This shouldn’t surprise us as the cult had become completely paganised: the offerings weren’t been made according to the instructions of Torah. (Malachi 1: 6-14).

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Sunday has become the Lord’s Day for many Christians, who are being influenced by Ignatius of Antioch (dead in 107 A.C.): ‘Those who once lived under the ancient law of things have known the New Hope. Those don’t observe the Sabbath anymore, but the Sunday, the day our life has changed through Christ and through His death.’
The Sun’s day (‘solis dies’in Latin) was therefore rebaptised ‘the Lord’s day’ (dominus dies) to remember His resurrection. We can find this Christian mention in all Latin languages nowadays.
Sunday owes its character of day of rest and of celebration to the emperor Constantine. Here it is the law promulgated in 07.03.321 A.C.:
‘May all judges, town folks and artisans rest during the venerable day of the Sun. But those who live in the country may work in peace and in all liberty the culture of their fields, being expected that often, there is no other day favourable to putting the seeds into the soil and planting the vine; so, they shouldn’t let the favourable time pass and thus, frustrate the welcome intentions of heaven.’(Justinian Code, L. III, 12th title, 3rd law 3, written in Latin in the Lord’s Day, by Louis Thomas, professor in theology, vol. II, AppendixIII, page 21,. Geneva and Paris, 1893).
The same principle is applied to the yearly months:
-in January, they used to honour god Janus, also called ‘the god of bears’, the guardian of heaven gates and of gods’ dominium. He is represented by 2 faces: one turned towards the past and one towards the future.
-the month of February derives from the Latin ‘februaris’, word that belongs grammatically speaking to the verb’s family ‘februare’ meaning ‘to purify’, in Latin. The Romans had indeed this custom of purifying the dead that month.
-March refers to the homonym god; the god of war and of youth enrolled on the front, but is also the god of spring.
-the month of April means ‘the opening of flowers’ due to spring.
-in May, the Roman goddess of fertility and of spring “Maia” used to be honoured.
-in June, Romans celebrated Junon, the goddess of gods and the queen of sky associated with fecundity.
-in August the emperor Augustus used to get the glory.
-September, October, November and December mean: the 9th, the 10th, the 11th and the 12th months.
Because of the Gregorian calendar, at present many Christians don’t know the Biblical or Hebrew calendar and nor the meaning of the 7th celebrations of Y.H.W.H. that the Jews had to observe. The refuse of the Orthodox Jews to recognise antichrist’s future calendar will be another reason of persecution during the great tribulation.
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The Beast’s Power, Authority and Throne
Satan has proposed Lord Jesus the governing of the Earth if he would accept to give him glory.
“The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the
kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, « I will give you all their authority and splendour, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to.
So if you worship me, it will all be yours.” Luke 4: 5-7 – but what Jesus had refused, the Impious Man, the false Christ or better said the beast will accept. Revelation 13:2b tells us in fact that
“The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.”
Who is the dragon? Revelation 12: 9 presents him to us :” The great dragon was hurled down– that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.” We find here the ancient snake of Genesis 3;15 whose posterity/seed fights the Woman’s posterity. Then snake will offer the impious man, to antichrist 3 things: the power, the authority and the throne. (Revelation 13: 2).
-the power or ‘dunamis’ in Greek means ‘the power to do miracles’, ‘power’, ‘force’. “For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible.” Matthew 24: 24. Apostle Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10: ” The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.”
I believe that the miracles of the Impious Man will take place in these end times and will be especially of scientific nature (genetic manipulations, technical progresses, the development of mass-media and especially the internet etc.) Nowadays, more and more Christians seek miracles and signs and will fall in the old snake’s trap because satan knows people love miracles. Even in the past, there were plenty of false prophets that received from satan the power to do miracles in order to cheat the believers. Among these false prophets were the pharaoh’s wizards, the Chaldean magicians, Baal’s prophets etc.
-the authority, said ‘exuzia’ in Greek means the capacity to govern or to lead. The snake will give antichrist the capacity to rule the world with the power of conviction.
-the throne: the 3rd thing proposed by the snake to antichrist will be the throne or the government of the unified world.
The Beast or the antichrist, the world leader needs therefore power, authority and throne to impose his domination over the planet. Once he has these things,
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he will proclaim himself God, he will ask everyone to bring him a cult and he will establish his temple in Jerusalem, in Y.H.W.H.’s temple. (2 Thessalonians 2:4). Antichrist’s system is already comfortably set up in many churches with a functioning contrary to the Bible. In these churches, the truth is no more preached and the sin is tolerated and even encouraged. Like we have already seen, the Beast’s reign will be established as soon as the Church will be raptured and it will be characterised by the great tribulation, which means the persecution of those Christians left behind after the rapture and of Jews, too. Satan’s hate against the Woman’s posterity will then reach the climax.
The heathen united nations that are satan’s posterity, led by the Beast will attack Israel in the following days. In fact, like the pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, the Roman Emperors, Hitler who fought the Jews so he could destroy them all, in the same way, the impious man will do everything possible to turn the Hebrew nation into dust. In that time, the paroxysm of satan’s hate towards Y.H.W.H.’s people will be reached.
“Therefore rejoice you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.” Revelation 12: 12
“But now many nations are gathered against you. They say, ‘Let her be defiled, let our eyes gloat over Zion!’ But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord; they do not understand his plan, he who gathers them like sheaves to the threshing floor. ‘Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron; I will give you hoofs of bronze and you will break to pieces many nations.’ You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.” Micah 4: 11-13
Psalm 83:3-9 depicts perfectly the ill-intended plans of nations regarding Israel: “With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish. ‘Come,’ they say, ‘let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more.’ With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you – the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites, Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre. Even Assyria has joined them to lend strength to the descendants of Lot. Selah Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river
Kishon.”
Jesus-Christ has also confirmed this prophecy:” When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. For this is the time of punishment in fulfilment of all that has been written. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. They will fall by the sword and will be taken as
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prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” Luke 21: 20-24
Let us note that during the war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, U.N. has sent in Palestine the ‘I.F.U.N.L.’ (International Force of United Nations from Lebanon) with the mission of securing the border between Lebanon and Israel/Palestine. These U.N. soldiers will not return home in their countries before Jesus’ return, because according to the Biblical prophecies, they are already in position for the future attack of united nations against Israel. Waiting for the 3rd world war, satan prepares his troops by seducing them with his image and by printing inside them (in their hearts) his mark.
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The Beast’s Image and Sign
“He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.” Revelation 13: 15
The king Nebuchadnezzar had built a statue high of 90 feet and wide of 9 feet (around 30 meters high and 3 meters wide) which everybody had to worship. Daniel’s 3 companions: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were thrown alive in the blazing furnace because they dared disobey that order.(Daniel 3) These 3 men prefigure the Church’s saints who will be persecute during these end times, because of their faith. Nebuchadnezzar’s statue is the symbol of the state religion which will force people to worship a man-hand-made creation. This phenomenon has already started in Babylon (the 1st empire) and was continued, during the history, by numerous dictators who had imposed the adoration of their own image to their subjects –see Roman emperors, Japanese sanctuaries of Shinto, the communist cult of personality etc. During the great tribulation, meaning during the antichrist’s reign, there will be the same: people will be forced to worship the dragon, the beast and its image. But what could this image be?
The Television
The T.V. and internet play a vital role in setting up antichrist’s ideology: “Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honour of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.” Revelation 13: 14-15
The word ‘image’ (in Greek‘eiko’) means ‘representation’. We know that the Bible forbids crafting any representation from: heaven, earth or underground
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because God opposes idolatry. (Exodus 20:4 and Deuteronomy 5:8). The Beast’s image is in fact the glorification of both the impious man and his system.
Therefore, the television and the internet appear as useful tools to spread out the Babylonian ideologies.
“And God spoke all these words: ‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the 3rd and 4th generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.” Exodus 20: 1-6
“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made
it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.” Romans 1: 18-23
The Beast’s image is surely the television because the entire mass-media has the purpose of praising the impious man and his system. Many people have become so dependent on these tools that they can’t live without them. We live in a world that constantly asks for man’s eye’s attention. In fact, satan knows that ‘the eye is the lamp of the body’ (Matthew 6:22) and that if the eye is sick, then the whole body is sick, too. Therefore, the evil one has elaborated such a strategy that the more seductive, the more destructive it is, tending thus to get the constant human being’s attention. Whether it happens on the street, at work or at home, images have invaded our daily life. The advertisement panels incite men’s greed and consume; the T.V. and the internet encourage the immorality by attacking non-stop the human subconscious in order to distract it from making a connection with the Lord. It is a proven fact that the T.V. can spread subliminal messages with the mission to manipulate the subconscious. Also, T.V. – present in all homes, even in the most modest ones, is a redoubtable weapon in the enemy’s hands. THE BIBLICAL PROPHECY- The War between the 2 Posterities
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By following the T.V. programs, even a vehement atheist can be shocked by the sky-rocking immorality of this mass-media. Women and men fill with seduction, movies and shows that encourage homosexuality, adultery, murder, suicide, witchcraft, divorce, violence, pornography, hate; all these make the daily routine of our T.V. and all this at hours of great public audience. Milliards of persons absorb passively these images and suffer its devastating consequences.
According to a Canadian T.V. channel, the T.V. influences all age categories and especially children. This influence varies depending on the number of hours spent in front of the T.V., on the content of the watched shows and on the age of the young viewer. This channel reveals that children are the most sensitive to violent images and messages. In fact, children have difficulties in understanding the difference between fiction and reality, in addition watching violent scenes generates logically stress and fear especially for young girls. Another perverse act of television: making violence banal by this mass-media causes the insensitivity regarding this phenomenon and develops aggressive behaviours in many youth. In conclusion, it is up to the parents to have the responsibility to protect their children from watching brutal and frightening contents at time of high audience. Usually, for a child, T.V. can also damage his/hers school or work productivity when it stops him/her from doing the essential activities needed for the psychological and mental development of this youth. Children’s spare time, especially for toddlers, should mainly focus on playing games, exploring the nature, playing a musical instrument or practising a sport.
Children are bombarded non-stop by all kind of mass-media, even with images and messages of sexual nature (on T.V., in magazines, newspapers, in different advertisements, through video games, music, movies and internet). For although it is true that the T.V. could be a way of educating the youth in responsibilities and risks over their sexual behaviour, these questions are seldom talked about adequately in those shows that contain so much material with depraved content. Amongst the multiple adult programs, an incalculable number of them have verbal and visual references on immoral sexual activity.
Usually, all representations which exalt sexual relationships are not balanced by clear messages on protected sexuality or especially regarding the holy aspect/attitude on this subject.
The television trains also the syndrome ‘buy me this’. The parents must recognise the powerful commercial influence of the T.V. every time they take their kids in a shop. Some kids’ shows are nothing else but advertisements for half an hour even, which promote products. When the kids are little, we are able to reduce the effects of ‘buy me this’ by limiting the time spent in front of the T.V. for the educative shows and by using only channels without ads.

In the light of this information, it is obvious that the T.V. is an instrument of choice that antichrist will surely use to manipulate the public opinion, to mark the people’s conscience and to incite them to a way of life that exults sin.
666: the Beast’s mark, an imitation of the Christians’ sign/mark
In order to understand the Beast’s mark we have to study first Christ’s mark over the Christians. Knowing that satan will imitate God, it is clear that the Beast’s mark will be a counterfeit of the true mark, a way of copying the Christians: “and said to him: ‘Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it’.” Ezekiel 9: 4
“Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” Revelation 7: 3
“And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession–to the praise of his glory.” Ephesians 1:13-14
” And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4: 30
According to the Bible, the Christians’ mark is symbolised by several things: The Holy Spirit, the Name of Jesus-Christ (Revelation 14:1), the name of the New Jerusalem (Revelation 3:12) and the name of the Father.
The Christians faithful to Y.H.W.H./Yeshoua are marked by the Holy Spirit by God Himself who is our seal (Ephesians 1: 13-14; 4: 30). The Holy Spirit is holy; therefore holiness is the Christians’ mark (1 Peter 1:2). He is the Spirit of truth, so our distinctive signs are also truth and love. (Romans 5:5).
God’s children will compulsory manifest the Holy Spirit:” But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” Galatians 5: 22-23a
“When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.” Romans 6: 20-22
“He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to
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receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666.”
Revelation 13: 16-18
It is written that the Beast’s mark (666) is also her name (Revelation 14:11); in exchange this name is the Beast herself, the impious man, the antichrist. So, the beast’s mark will have to match her character which suggests: bestiality, anarchy and rebellion. Above all, this sign is a spiritual mark printed in the HEART of impious people filled with hate against God (2 Timothy 3: 1-5).
The Beat’s mark is a certain manifestation opposed to the fruits of the Spirit.
The obligation to have the beat’s mark to buy and to sell
“He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to
receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.” Revelation13: 16-17
The Beast’s mark is also a system, a way of thought functioning or better said the antichrist laws. Those who will refuse her mark (functioning, laws and systems) will suffer a persecution that could mean death. These times would be indeed very difficult for those Christians who had missed the rapture because they will have to face the Big Challenge or Tribulation,(or Trouble, extreme Trial that will touch their skin and not a simple displeasure-n.tr.). In fact, they will not be able to buy nor sell anything without the beast’s mark, meaning without moral compromise. Nowadays, we notice the beginning of these things because it is harder and harder for Christians who preach against sin to sell their message on various support books, videos, DVDs, etc. in the so-called Christian libraries.
Antichrist’s system will use bank transactions, especially credit cards or online cheques to exercise his domination over the entire world.
The beast’s mark will also be associated with the social life. Today, we can’t buy or sell without using our banks. The cheques, bank cards and systems of fidelity cards have become indispensable in any transaction.
A pay card is equipped with a magnetic band (stripe) or/ and an electronic chip that allows payment for a merchandise or for a service. But mostly, these magnetic stripes allow people to be localised on any point of the globe. Maybe some of you hardly believe that we live this, but the Scripture has long announced this vast complot. Let us understand that this gigantic manipulation orchestrated by the devil has been on the move for a long time now. Let us not be doubtful to the point of not seeing the century we live in. It is obvious we go towards a system that gradually stops the use of cash in favour of cheques and
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bank cards. However, unlike liquid money, these ways of payment follow agreements between banks regarding cards emission and cashing cheques.
Thus, the persons unbound by the beast will be finished, expelled from banks and not allowed to have cheques or do any other payment using a bank card: they will not be able to buy nor to sell. The prophecy in Revelation 13: 16-17 takes therefore its whole meaning and reveals the full perversity of the system we live in.
A mark printed on the forehead and on the hand
Why would then the beast’s mark be printed on the forehead and on the hand?
Know that satan is Y.H.W.H.’s imitator; he tries to copy the Lord in order to seduce people better. God was the first to ask His people to have a mark on their bodies:” Hear (Schema), Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.”
Deuteronomy 6: 4-8
The Jews had to wear God’s mark, which is His Word, on their hands and forehands.. The hand is said ‘yad’ in Hebrew and means ‘power’, ‘force’ or even more ‘authority’; it is a symbol for action. The forehead is said ‘towfafa’ in Hebrew, which means’ sign or more explicit thought.
Remember that we have to adore God with all our thoughts: “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think [ let it make the object of your thoughts] about such things.” Philippians 4: 8. Our actions are the result of our thoughts: we think and then we act. So, if we think of God’s Word, we act according to Him. Those men and women, who will have the beast’s mark, will think and act according to her. They will be as if remote-control objects, without their own free will, because they will be manipulated and controlled according to satan’s desire. They will believe the thoughts coming into their spirit are theirs, when in reality they will be inspired by satan. The subliminal images and messages on T.V. will replace their own will so that the beast’s thinking could be inoculated to these people.
For many people, the beast’s mark is but an electronic, under-skin chip, but we have to have to get it well into our spirit that the mark is above all a spiritual sign. It is true that soon people will end up accepting this chip for sanitary and
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mainly security reasons which would seem to answer their needs. The chip is nothing else but a supplementary way inspired by antichrist’s system to control people. Anyway, it is possible that this chip whose last prototype doesn’t have more than 2 cm (0.40 microns from a hair section) to be implanted for practical reasons on hand or forehead. This chip has been already implanted for ‘isolated cases’ such as: royal heiress to prevent a loathsome abduction, for children with divorced parents to stop terrible kidnappings or for mentally sick patients and people suffering a genetic disease like Alzheimer. The list only grows bigger each day…
This microchip is so tiny that its implantation on hand goes unnoticed…

O single injection is enough to set it in place…
The needle with the microchip is smaller than a coin.
Nevertheless, personally, I have the strong conviction that the beast’s mark is invisible, meaning printed in the heart of people (in the soul and in the spirit) and according to 1 Timothy 4:1-2 and Mark chapter 7, the Christians will be each of them marked with the Word, but also as a whole, as part of the Lord’s Church. (Hebrews 8:10).
Many people are waiting to see the beast’s mark in a visible way, but it will be more subtle than that, it will be the spirit and the name of the beast in the human conscience or subconscious. The Bible confirms this fact in this passage: “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through
hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.” 1Timothy 4:1-2. The expression ‘marked with iron’ or ‘marked as a condemned man/criminal’ is said ‘kateriazo’ in Greek and means: ‘those with a soul stigmatised by the signs of sin’. In a medical term, this word means ‘to cauterize’. Therefore, the beast’s mark will be printed in people’ conscience; that is why Y.H.W.H. wants us to keep the Word in our hearts: “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you!” Psalm 119:11 and to set our minds on divine things: “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” Colossians 3: 2
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In conclusion, the beast’s sign is ‘a way of thinking’; a way of life or better said ‘the antichrist’s laws’ which have been already promulgated in many countries (the legalising of the homosexual marriage, the abortion, the euthanasia etc.) All those who won’t accept these laws and this new way of life will be persecuted. It is known that in France those who denounce homosexuality as being a sin are passible of being fined with 30,000 de euro and 3 years jail term; we realise to which point we are close to the Lord’s coming and to the appearance of antichrist. Nowadays, those who refuse compromise are treated as ‘Martians’. People are so touched and fascinated by the beast’s mark that they accept evil under all its forms: the evil is called good and the good is called evil (Isaiah 5:20). In the same way, the persons who don’t meet the requirements for a set-up way of living will be forced to live their Christian life clandestinely. Many assemblies have already closed their doors because of their refuse to be in accordance with this present century. Plenty of churches, pastors and Christian organisations have accepted the mark of the beast without realising. In the years to come, it is very probable that pastors might be forced to follow a theological formation where worldly authorities will teach how to preach a politically correct Gospel. The theological diploma will thus give them the authorisation to exercise their ministry. Those who won’t have it will be forced to close the buildings of their assemblies. The Christians who refuse to belong to a federation or to bless the homosexual marriage will also be persecuted; these things are in the air for some time now.
Those who wear the mark of the beast or the mark of Christ will be recognised by their fruits. These 2 plants: the tares (or thorny weeds in NKJ Bible) and the wheat, like the goats and the sheep with all their specific markings, will be divided after the Church’s Rapture (Yeshoua’s coming on the clouds) until the Lord’s return on Earth. – Matthew 25: 31-47. The parable of the tares and the wheat (Matthew 13: 24-30 and 36-43) shows us that right where the wheat is, satan plants his tares, meaning the snake’s posterity that is taken for the Kingdom’s children.
Many are those who naively believe that the number 666 will be marked visibly on people’s foreheads and hands. Others think the beast’s mark will be a computer situated in Belgium and called ‘666’ which will have gathered all information about this world’s individuals. But satan is more cunning and not at all stupid to reveal his plans in plain view! Don’t expect to read the number 666 on a forehead or on the right hand of someone, because the mark of the beast is a spiritual mark that is already acting on human conscience. Those people who would have received this mark will suffer the 7 cups of wrath of God and will be condemned to the eternal ruin. (Revelation 14: 11; 19: 20)
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