Doves,
The bible goes into great detail in many places about God the Father's end times army. I have written many times about it on the 5Doves site but it wasn't until recently when I was researching the Book of Ester that I found out the date as to when this army starts it's horrific ride to kill one third of the population of earth.
Some background on this army.........
Ezekiel 37 says that this army will be comprised of resurrected Jews from the whole house of Jacob. Meaning all the descendants of Jacob that have ever lived for thousands of years.....hundreds of millions of them. Verse 11
Ezekiel 37 says that these resurrected Jews will have the Spirit of God the Father put in them after their resurrection. Verse 14
Joel 2 is just one of many passages that describes the ride of this army and verse 11 authenticates that it is indeed God's army.
Revelation 9 tells us what God considers an “exceedingly great”army. There we find that this army is comprised of two hundred million personnel riding fire breathing horses that have heads like lions. We find there also that this army is tasked to kill one third of earth's population as it traverses / makes it's ride.
Habakkuk and Joel describe how there is no obstacle these horses are encumbered with. Mountains or water or whatever are no hindrance to these horses meaning to me that they are able to also fly.
Ezekiel 37 indicates that this resurrected army is bodily resurrected but is not conscious for a period of time. The breath of life which in this case comes from the four winds is withheld from this army until the timing is right. (verse 9) There are four angels who are tasked to hold back the four winds from blowing consciousness back into these people Revelation 7:1 and Revelation 9:14 until the time is right.
Revelation 9:14 says that these four angels had to wait until the hour, day, month, and year were correct before they could release the four winds to blow consciousness back into these people so that they could begin there ride. So this great army is to be held in “suspended animation” for a period of time.
Do we know from scripture where these people will be held in suspended animation and when they will be released? I believe so
We learn in Zechariah 14 that God the Father creates this new Holy “untainted”protected valley east of Jerusalem large enough to accommodate all of His “elect”. These elect that are to be gathered there to this new valley by His angels as per Matthew 24:31. This “elect” consists of....the great multitude which no one could number of..... the dead and the alive in Christ. It will consist of the remnant living Jews. And it will consist of this huge group of resurrected Jewish people who are “the whole house of Jacob / Israel”. We learn in Revelation 9 that this new valley and this protection zone must extend hundreds of miles east from Jerusalem at least to the Euphrates River because that's where the four angels are staged overseeing this great army. These four angels are inside this protection zone so this new protected valley has to extend hundreds of miles from Jerusalem all the way to the Euphrates.
So....... a little more back story is needed before we determine the date as to when this army is made conscious by the four winds and released to complete it's mission. For now this army is in suspended animation within the protection zone of this valley being watched over by four angels at the Euphrates River.
At or near the mid point of the 7 year period..... after being gathered to this new valley / security zone by God's angels..... the alive and dead in Christ will be “born again” in the living waters of the new river in Jerusalem which contains the blood and Spirit of Jesus deposited there nearly 2000 years ago. When this process is over and the air space above Jerusalem is safe, we, the church, will be turned from mortal to immortal in the twinkling of an eye then to rise and meet Jesus in the clouds above Jerusalem. Then to be whisked away to a place of safety for the remainder of the 7 years or approximately 3.5 years.
Before the church goes through the “born again” process the 144,000 have to be sealed. They are the first fruits of this whole harvest process. They come from the living Jews and the great Jewish resurrection (whole house of Israel /Jacob). Twelve thousand from all of the twelve tribes. They are sealed with the mark of the Father on their foreheads and then will accompany Jesus wherever He goes. Meaning to me that they go up in the rapture as Jesus's church does.
This now leaves the living Jewish remnant in this protected valley along with the whole house of Jacob, those hundreds of millions being in “a pause mode” at the River Euphrates.
The church is now gone and the remainder of God's elect are inside of this security zone. This is when the wrath of God and the Lamb begins as described in Revelation 8. There in Revelation 8 we see one third of the earth destroyed by fire. It's trees, grass, sea, rivers, and creatures. That means that approximately one third of the countries of the world are destroyed by these calamities.
If the trumpet judgments are in chronological order and I certainly believe they are this destruction of one third of the earth and it's countries happen during the first four trumpet soundings. It's at the sixth trumpet sounding where we see God's end time army activated to make it's ride. So they ride after one third of the earth and it's countries are destroyed by fire.
I know it's taken a long time filling in this back story but it was necessary for you to get a clear picture of all of this to then be able to determine the date when God's army starts it's ride.
Ok... we can finally transition over into The Book of Ester or as Paul Harvey says.....for the rest of the story. And again remember Ecclesiastes 1 states that.... what has happened before will happen again.
Now...toward the end of The Book of Ester we see the Jews get their revenge on all of their enemies.....not only at the Kingdom's headquarters but throughout all of the Kingdom's providence's. As per Ester there were at that time in that kingdom 127 providence's (countries) scattered all over the known world from India to Ethiopia that this king ruled over.
With the permission of the king the Jews were allowed to destroy all of their enemies within this vast area.
Now... fast forward to God's end time army. It's a resurrected Jewish army and it will have permission by God the Father to go out and kill all of the enemies of the Jews just as in Ester's time.
How many countries / providence's were involved in Esters time where the revenge was enacted? 127
Now lets do some math....as per world statistics there are approximately 192 countries today in the world in which we live.
As we discussed above....the bible says in Revelation 8 that one third of these countries will be destroyed before the ride of God's army in Revelation 9.
If we remove one third of all the existing countries of the world today(which will be destroyed) what do we have? 192 x .666 = 127
Do you think that is a coincidence?.....I didn't think so!!
So... just as in the time of Ester God's end time Jewish army will be dispatched to 127 countries to kill their enemies. They will kill one third of the population of the remaining world. Some countries where the hate is strong for the Jews like the Islamic countries will be nearly annihilated whereas other countries may only sustain a small percentage of deaths.
If you paid attention to the land mass described in The Book of Ester you can probably now determine what one third of the earth will be destroyed by fire before this army rides.......The America's
Remember what continents Ester mentioned where her army of Jews rode....from Asia to Africa (India to Ethiopia). The end times army will ride there again.
…...What was before will be again there is nothing new under the sun....
It certainly appears that the continents of the America's will be the ones destroyed by fire. That certainly is a very very terrible thought / conclusion.
Finally we can get to the timing of the ride of God's army. Remember they are poised and ready and have for a period of time been put in suspended animation within this new security zone at the river Euphrates. They are ready to have consciousness blown into them by “the four winds”. And as per Revelation 9:15 this will happen at a specific hour, day, month and year.
The “when” of when of this is again found in The Book of Ester. It will start exactly when it did centuries earlier. As per Ester 9 this will happen in the twelfth month, the month of Adar, on the 13th day of a particular year.
If my tribulation time line is correct from the revelations of Psalm 119 this resurrected Jewish army will begin their horrific ride on the 13th of Adar in the year 2023....... after they remained in suspended animation in this new valley for approximately 9 months waiting for the four angels to release the four winds to blow the breath of life back into them. The wait time frame in Ester was from the 23rd of the third month to the 13th day of the twelfth month.....around 260 days.
9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
So I believe as per scripture this is the date when the resurrected Jewish army will mount their fire breathing horses.
Blessings Doves.....John B
P.S. Do you think when this information gets out the price of real estate will radically increase in Europe, Africa and Asia.....and decline significantly in the America's? I am thinking sadly.... yes