Doves,
The bible says just prior to the tribulation period....in the so called end days....there will exist a period of lawlessness in the world.
Righteous Americans are well aware of this and are confronted by it's effects daily. Many of our legislated laws that are in place are totaling ignored. Prime examples are our border and immigration laws and our two tiered justice system where in Washington the elites and their actions are held to a different or no standard at all.
That lawlessness was demonstrated last night when our nation without a shred of evidence participated with other lawless countries to attack a sovereign nation.
In the Pentagon and State Department briefings this morning the press corps ask for proof that Syria indeed attacked it's own people. After a terrible display of tripping over their own tongues and dodging...... the moderators couldn't provide any evidence to warrant the attack......because there is no evidence. If there was.... it would be pasted on the front page of every newspaper in the world for all to see.
Trump via his campaign (and since) promised nothing like this would happen on his watch. He was to bring out troops home and not participate in these mindless false flag wars that have become standard operating procedure orchestrated by the deep state.....i.e. the Luciferians that run this world. His actions and his false rhetoric (lies) yesterday speak volumes as to where he fits into the gut pile / demonic cesspool in DC.
Speaking for myself, I have lost any respect I had for Trump who I / we thought might be the new standard bearer for righteousness and common sense.....only to find out he appears to be just another “player” for the deep state.
All that said though, it appears that his actions and the recent actions by Israel may usher in Ezekiel 38-39. I say this because Russia and Iran (and their allies Turkey, Hezbollah, etc.) have announced that they will attack Israel directly in retaliation for last weeks Israeli attack in Syria. When this happens Israel will defend itself and I believe retaliate. Push will then lead to shove and the tiny country of Israel will be overwhelmed in a matter of days........hence the Ezekiel prophecy and then God the Father's intervention on Israel's behalf just before Israel is totally wiped out.
As per my discernment of scripture, once God the Father appears on the world stage many facets of the end times scenario will occur in a relatively short period of time.
He stops the attack on Israel but only after a large portion of it and it's people have been destroyed. He steps on the Mount of Olives and causes it to split in two. And in doing so He creates a huge valley several hundred miles long to be used as a safe refuge for the escaping Jews. Zechariah 14:3-onward.
He destroys the invading armies with flooding rain, great hailstones, fire and brimstone. He strikes the enemy troops with madness so that ….”every man' sword will be against his brother”...
It appears this will happen in conjunction with the opening of the sixth seal in Revelation 6. There and in Zechariah 14 and Joel 2 and many other places we see this “Day of the Lord” described. A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness Joel 2....there will be no light, the lights will diminish, neither day nor light, but in evening time (when it should be dark) it will be light Zechariah 14.....the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood Revelation 6.
I will list below many other references to...... The Day of the Lord. It's my belief that it is not a day but a relatively short period of time when many events transpire.
Some of those being.....
--God the Father's wrath on Israel's enemies
--Jesus's wrath
--Resurrection of the whole house of Israel as per Ezekiel 37, hundreds of millions of dead Jews from the lineage of Jacob to be used by God as an exceedingly great army
--The first fruits of this great Jewish resurrection, the 144 thousand to be sealed and taken as Jesus's entourage
--The resurrection of the dead in Christ......rapture
--The resurrection of the alive in Christ......rapture
--The real stars which are soft and small falling to earth as over ripe figs
--The sky above rolling up like a scroll from horizon to horizon, leaving darkness
--The darkening of the sun and moon above
--A great worldwide earthquake
I believe that “The day of the Lord” starts / kicks off the 7 year period know as Jacobs trouble or the 7 year tribulation period.
Verses referring to “The Day of the Lord” below...
Isaiah 2:12
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low
Isaiah 13:6
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 13:9
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Ezekiel 13:5
Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
Ezekiel 30:3
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Joel 2:1-2
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains.
Joel 2:11
And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executed his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
Joel 3:14
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Amos 5:18
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Amos 5:20
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Obadiah 1:15
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
Zephaniah 1:7
Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
Zephaniah 1:14
The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
Zechariah 14:1
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Thessalonians 5:2
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the LORD so cometh as a thief in the night.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up
The above verses only scratch the surface as to the full magnitude of what happens during …..The Day of the Lord. It will be the most horrific day / period that this world has ever witnessed.
Other areas of scripture like Ezekiel 38 and 39, Revelation 6, Joel 2, Obadiah 1, Haggai 2, Isaiah 13, Isaiah 11, Isaiah 5, Zechariah 12 and 14, Deut.32, Habakkuk 3 and Revelation 9 go into greater detail as to what happens at …..The Day of the Lord.
I guess I got a little off track or down the line from my original thoughts on our present day lawlessness, so just chalk it up as.... a glimpse of the soon future.
Blessings.........John B