Friday
morning just
past brought
the placement
of the
capstone on
the building
end-times
volcano for
me. It will be
pseudo
peace–or the
inception
thereof—that
will cause the
tribulation to
explode upon
the
end-of-days
generation and
spew the
contents of
the
apocalyptic
volcano’s
judgment and
wrath upon an
incorrigibly
wicked world
of earth
dwellers.
Tony
Blair, the
former British
prime
minister, then
representative
of the Quartet
as Middle East
peace broker,
set the
capstone
beneath which
the volcano’s
pressures
continue to
build. The
currently
visiting
lecturer at
Yale said on
NBC’s "Today
Show" that he
thinks peace
between Israel
and it’s
blood-vowed
enemies could
come as early
as January of
next year. He
didn’t use the
words
“blood-vowed.”
Those are
mine. And,
they are
warranted as
descriptive of
the
Arab/Islamic
states
surrounding
the tiny
Jewish nation.
It is just the
sort of
“peace”
guarantee that
will set in
motion the 21
specific
Revelation
judgments that
will eventuate
in Christ’s
return to put
an end to
man’s
murderous rage
against the
Jew--against
God himself.
I’m
not saying
Blair is the
Antichrist or
that this
prediction by
him is going
to produce
that final
tempest as
given in
Daniel 9:26-27
and throughout
Revelation,
chapters 6-19.
But, this
mindset by the
world’s elite
of the
international
community
presages the
eruption that
will bring an
end to man’s
humanistic
antagonism to
the Creator.
Israel’s
falling for
the pseudo
peace
arrangement
will result in
what the Old
Testament
prophet
Jeremiah calls
“Jacob’s
trouble”
(Jeremiah
30:7). Jesus
said it will
be the worst
time in the
history of
Planet Earth
(Matthew
24:21).
With
the capstone
of
determination
to impose
luciferic
compromise on
Israel in
place–through
forcing the
nation to
divide the
land God gave
Jacob's
descendants
forever—all
other
prophetic
ingredients
that make up
the lava broth
continue to
heat up within
the sin-filled
mountain of
end-time
earth.
The
planet indeed
groans within,
as it did in
the Apostle
Paul’s day:
“For we know
that the whole
creation
groaneth and
travaileth in
pain together
until now”
(Romans 8:22).
Jesus
himself spoke
of the
planet’s
metaphorically
biting its
tongue while
awaiting all
of human
history to
play out. It
yearns for the
Master
Director’s
calling the
geophysical
elements forth
to eruption
during the
last seven
years
preceding His
second advent:
“And
when he was
come nigh,
even now at
the descent of
the mount of
Olives, the
whole
multitude of
the disciples
began to
rejoice and
praise God
with a loud
voice for all
the mighty
works that
they had seen;
Saying,
Blessed be the
King that
cometh in the
name of the
Lord: peace in
heaven, and
glory in the
highest. And
some of the
Pharisees from
among the
multitude said
unto him,
Master, rebuke
thy disciples.
And he
answered and
said unto
them, I tell
you that, if
these should
hold their
peace, the
stones would
immediately
cry out” (Luke
19:37-40).
Jesus,
who made all
things, and by
whom all
things
consist–i.e.,
are held
together
(Colossians
1:17)--was
saying that if
man withheld
his praise at
that moment,
the volcano
that makes up
this fallen,
sin-filled
world would
have exploded.
The very
stones would
have protested
in opposition
to mankind’s
rebellion.
Creation
itself would
have attested
to Christ’s
deity, of His
absolute right
to rule. The
world is
boiling within
today. It is
groaning, and
with increased
convulsions of
protest to
anti-God human
efforts to,
like Lucifer
himself, usurp
the throne of
the Maker of
all things
good.
Pundits
on the nightly
news are
constantly
commenting on
the records
being made in
weather
disasters.
With the
earthquakes
recently
inundating the
planet from
the U.S. to
Chile, to
China, to
Iceland,
to…you name it
–even those
who haven’t a
clue about
Bible prophecy
are astounded
and a bit
intimidated,
according to
their on-air
demeanor.
Their
nervous
laughter as
they trade
witticisms
with the
weather
reporters turn
serious when
the tornadoes
begin to
rumble,
apparently in
record
numbers, and
in places that
we used to
think of as
relatively
safe from the
EF-5 monsters
like the
twister that
crushed and
swept Iowa
last week.
Nations
are in what
looks to be
the advanced
stages of
end-times
perplexity.
While America
boils in
political
turmoil and
Israel deals
with scandals
within its
leadership
that threaten
the Olmert
government,
the petroleum
maelstrom
continues to
generate
economic
uncertainty
for those who
want to
construct
one-world
order, which
they alone–in
their
opinions—have
the right to
control.
Tony
Blair, on the
same "Today"
program, told
Matt Lauer
that he feels
it is the
religions of
the world that
might provide
the answers to
the many
problems
around the
globe. All
religions, if
they joined in
a spirit of
problem-solving,
would be a
powerful
force. It
would bring
all together
in a spiritual
lovefest of
new world
orderliness.
At least,
that’s my take
on Blair’s
comments.
Blair
is putting his
rhetoric into
organizational
action. He
launched his
“Faith
Foundation” on
April 30. One
definition of
the
organization
is: “…a new
coalition to
harness the
moral
leadership of
people of
faith to do
good and to
show the
relevance of
faith to the
challenges of
the modern
world.”
The
folly of this
misguided
attempt at
altruism is
that only the
Prince of
Peace can do
what Mr. Blair
proposes–and
He isn’t
invited into
the project.
The world
indeed groans
under the
building
pressures to
thwart any
effort of God
Almighty to
set things
straight. We
revisit the
Scripture, and
get a
follow-up
scriptural
glimpse of
where we, as
children of
God, stand at
the present
hour in this
Church Age
(Age of
Grace):
“For
we know that
the whole
creation
groaneth and
travaileth in
pain together
until now. And
not only they,
but ourselves
also, which
have the
firstfruits of
the Spirit,
even we
ourselves
groan within
ourselves,
waiting for
the adoption,
to wit, the
redemption of
our body. For
we are saved
by hope: but
hope that is
seen is not
hope: for what
a man seeth,
why doth he
yet hope for?
But if we hope
for that we
see not, then
do we with
patience wait
for
it.Likewise
the Spirit
also helpeth
our
infirmities:
for we know
not what we
should pray
for as we
ought: but the
Spirit itself
maketh
intercession
for us with
groanings
which cannot
be uttered”
(Romans
8:22-26).
That
groaning
includes, as
never before,
the comforting
words of Paul,
the prophet
who unveiled
the rapture
mystery of 1
Corinthians
15:51-55 and 1
Thessalonians
4:13-18:
"Looking for
that blessed
hope, and the
glorious
appearing of
the great God
and our
Saviour Jesus
Christ” (Titus
2:13