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