Dear John,
Your article dealing
with 2006 was real good and a blessing. I too believe that The
Psalms correspond with the years of the 20th and
21st centuries. I have repeatedly emphasized that truth in my
studies. I would like to add a point that many seem to be overlooking.
In Psalm
106:47 Israel is crying out to the
Lord, “Save
us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen [Gentiles],
to give thanks unto Thy holy name, and
to triumph in Thy praise.” Considering the
world situation as of this moment, doesn’t this plea of Israel suggest that a war is going to break
out in the Middle East before the end of this year? Doesn’t
this Scripture also suggest that the war will go badly for Israel, to the extent that
they will cry out to God to intervene and deliver them from their
enemies? Doesn’t this Scripture also suggest that the Jews
in Israel will be pleading
for the Lord to bring “home” to Israel the Jews from other countries to
help them defend the nation of Israel
in their time of direst need? Think about it!
Now read Psalm 107:1-3. In these verses, corresponding with 2007,
Israel is giving thanks and praise to the Lord, and urging all of
their people [secular and religious] to speak out for the Lord, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He hath
redeemed from the hand of the enemy.”
Take careful note! This is not talking about the spiritual redemption of Israel. Rather, it is talking
about Israel being delivered from their enemies.
It certainly seems to suggest
that the war of 2006 will have gone so badly against
Israel, that their very annihilation as a nation will be staring
them in the face, but then the God of Israel
will miraculously intervene, and Israel will be delivered. These verses
in Psalm 107 also state that the Lord has
“gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and
from the west, from the north, and from the south.” Could
this be the reason Israel
is “redeemed” from their enemies at that time? Is it
possible that when Jews all over the world see that the Israeli military
is being defeated at every turn, and that the very existence of Israel as
a nation is at stake, that hundreds of thousands of Jews from all
over the world will suddenly rush to Israel by every possible means
to fight for their land and their people and their “home?”
Is this the miracle that God will work at that time to “save” Israel
“from the hand of the enemy”?
I don’t know!
But I think these passages deserve a much closer scrutiny than what most
of God’s people have given them thus far. I have thought for a long
time that a short, but terrible conflict had to occur in Israel and
the Middle East before the Antichrist could come on the scene to “confirm the covenant with many,” Daniel 9:27.
I think these two passages fit that scenario perfectly.
What do you think?
God bless you brother.
The Lord is using you in a mighty way to get the truth of His Word out to
the masses. May God’s people everywhere continue to “hold up
your hands” in prayer, and by their financial support.
Pastor F. M. Riley
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Thanks, Pastor Riley! Let us hope for the best this year!
If not, there is always next year. :)
John