PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 241September 15, 2005
IF? HOW? WHEN? Those are the Questions? Part 3
Luke 21:35 – For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
I am very much afraid that this Scripture is going to be fulfilled in the not too distant future for both believers and unbelievers – unbelievers because they don’t accept Jesus as the coming Messiah, and for believers because many of them believe the rapture theories that came out of the great evangelical movement after 1740. Believers also hold to the very popular teaching that antichrist will arise in the northern half of what was once the great Roman Empire, and they are waiting to see him come on the scene in the European Union. Additionally, most reject the pre-1740 teaching that the three “he’s” in Daniel 9:27 refer to Christ, and not the antichrist, and think it ridiculous to believe that the prophecies of Daniel, Ezekiel, Revelation, etc. may all be fulfilled in the area of the known world when they were written, and not in the entire earth as we know it today. In the first edition of my first book, “Tectonic Chaos,” I began to warn those who would listen of the tectonic chaos the Bible said would come on this earth. Also, in the same edition, which I wrote in 1975, on page 78, I warned of the antichrist coming out of Syria, and that the 10 horns in Daniel and Revelation, plus the 10 toes of Daniel, were Arab nations. Please consider the following quote from 1975, which seemed insane to many at that time, but the possibility of it being correct doesn’t seem too farfetched today.
QUOTE – FIRST EDITION “TECTONIC CHAOS”
“Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
The seven heads of the beast in Revelation 13:1 represent six great world governments of the past in which Satan has been actively involved. The seventh government is rising at the present time around Israel, and will produce the antichrist. Prior to God separating from his wife, the nation of Israel, six great world governments utilized the power of Satan to affect her. These six great world empires that existed before, and at, the time of the cross are, in chronological order, are (1) The Egyptian, (2) The Assyrian, (3) The Babylonian, (4) The Medo-Persian, (5) The Grecian, and (6) the Roman.
The seventh kingdom (head) will incorporate all the cunning and skill in the arts and sciences that have been handed down from the six previous empires. Man has come a long way since the days of the cruel Egyptian Pharaoh of the Exodus, but all that modern man has learned is based on the root contributions of these six empires – and soon all the knowledge and expertise of sinful mankind will be centered in the seventh kingdom.
The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are ten Arab nations that will form the nucleus of the seventh kingdom, and the ten crowns are the kings that will rule them. For years we have pictured the typical Arab as a scrawny little fellow on a camel in the desert with a comic smile on his face. This viewpoint is quickly changing. Oil is slowly replacing the dollar in international importance – and soon ten Arab nations will have gained economic control of much of the earth’s wealth.”
END QUOTE FROM 1975 “TECTONIC CHAOS”
What is Your Attitude Concerning Biblical Prophecy? Is the Bible Inspired? It Determines Your Prophetic Viewpoint!
The attitude that men and women hold worldwide is at least strongly influenced by whether or not they believe the Bible is the inspired Word of the living God, who sent Christ to earth as his only begotten Son. To those who believe it is, the question is never IF a prophesied event will occur, but rather HOW and WHEN it will occur. It is the HOW and WHEN that causes believers to disagree, not IF an event will occur. To believers IT will happen, but HOW and WHEN is open to a wide variance of interpretation, opinion, and speculation. In Luke 21:5,6 Jesus spoke these prophetic words to his first New Testament Church.
Luke 21:5,6 – And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, [6] As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Some 40 years later his prophetic words were fulfilled as recorded in the first part of Luke 21:24, when Titus overran the Temple Mount in 70 AD. (See Prophecy Archive Update 111)
Luke 21:24 – And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
I believe the second half of Jesus’ prophetic utterance was fulfilled in 1967 when Israel, for the first time in almost 1900 years recovered the ancient Temple Mount from non-Jews. (See Archive Prophecy Update 112)
But what about the following prediction by the Spirit of Christ, concerning the state of Israel’s final generation, when once again they will be overrun before the fullness of the Gentile Age comes in some three and a half years later.
Romans 11:25 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
I believe HOW this prophecy will be fulfilled is coming into view in Israel and across the Middle East at the present time. When the disengagement process is over, the security barrier is finished, and the terror groups confined inside it then, for the first time since Titus and his army leveled the Temple Mount in 70 AD, Israel will begin to believe and say, “Now we finally have peace and safety.” (See Prophecy Update 12)
So, WHEN they come to this mindset as a people, then sudden destruction will come upon them from the north in the person of 10 Arab nations led by the antichrist. It will be a lightning surprise Jihad, and will bring sudden destruction to some two-thirds of the Israeli population. Israel will be driven into the Negev Wilderness south of Beersheba, where she will remain for three and one half years.
So WHEN will this attack occur? I can only give an opinion as to the calendar year of occurrence. And in order to put it in a way that may at least be of some use, I believe it could occur as early as 2007.
WHEN it occurs, the following prophecies will begin to be fulfilled quite rapidly concerning the antichrist and the attack.
Daniel 11:41 – He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. (See Archive Prophecy Update 46)
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. (See Archive Prophecy Update 7)
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. (See Archive Birth Pang 43)
HOW will the last 1260 days of the tribulation end?
Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 –And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. (See Archive Prophecy Update 52)
Luke 21:11,28 – And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. [28] And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.