FORTRESS A PLACE OF SAFETY, PROTECTION AND REFUGE
Contrary to
what we've been told, Daniel
11:39 implies that the antichrist will be
obsessed about those humans gathered from the nations
and living in safety (fortress) in the wilderness. Ezekiel 38:8-11
and Revelation 12:14-17 also
Isaiah 11:10-16 and Ezekiel
20:33-38
From Strong’s Concordance #4581: ma`owz
(pronounced maw-oze') from #5810; a FORTIFIED PLACE;
figuratively, a defense:--force, fort(-ress), rock,
strength(-en), (X MOST) STRONG (hold).
www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/.../H4581/ma%60owz.htm
The Blue Letter Bible and Gesenius' Lexicon
defines the word "fortress" as "a PLACE or means of
SAFETY, PROTECTION OR REFUGE." http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H4581&t=NASB
The "strongest
of fortresses” from Daniel
11:37-39
He will show
no regard for the gods of his father’s or for the
desire of women, nor will he show regard for any
other god; for he will magnify himself above
them all. 38 But instead he will honor a god of
fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know; he
will honor him with gold, silver, costly stones and
treasures. [39] He will take action AGAINST the
strongest of fortresses with the help of a
foreign god; (Satan) he will give great
honor to those who acknowledge him and will cause them
to rule over the many, and will parcel out land for a
price.
The antichrist will
regard NO god; not the gods of his fathers, or the
desire of women or any other god, "he will
magnify himself above them all" including
and most assuredly not the LORD, the God of Israel. Like
his father Satan he is a
narcissist who loves no one but himself.
He will be
obsessed with those humans LIVING IN SAFETY who have
been "rescued
out of his hand" that he is denied access to! Daniel 11:41
and Revelation
12:14-16
The one thing
the antichrist will regard is obedience to Satan
and the destruction of the "woman in the wilderness"
living in the place of human safety/refuge, the
strongest fortress.
The antichrist
will spend great amounts of treasure to destroy God’s
place of human safety and refuge and "will honor him
(Satan) with gold, silver, costly stones and
treasures", he then at a later time will think an
"evil thought" Ezekiel 38:8-10
to take action against the "strongest place of human
safety".
Where will the
strongest “fortress” in the world be during the
tribulation? It’s at the “center of the world”, Ezekiel 38:12.
The antichrist,
will take action against Israel with the help of
Satan, the foreign god by
indebting his own people to him and “cause them to
rule over the many and will parcel out land for a
price."
The Bible
depicts the antichrist as being obsessed against those
living safely in the wilderness depending on God and His
Messiah. He tries to deny that dependence on God, by
expending a great amount of treasure to destroy that
fortress/place of refuge. Daniel 7:25
He indebts and
enslaves his own adepts to Satan whom acknowledge him
and willingly purchase Israel’s land as equity and
“parcel it out for gain”
This scheme of Gog, against the
"woman in the wilderness living in unwalled villages
with neither bars or gates" Ezekiel 38:11,
Revelation
12:9-17 in the presence of the LORD and His Messiah,
I believe occurs
late in the tribulation around Passover,
April 23, 2016.
To you five
dove regulars; we have been presenting to you for the
past 26 months several articles that point at a
simultaneous 'horizontal rapture' over Passover March
25, 2013.
Where
the “remnant” is gathered from the four corners of the
earth into the wilderness during the “storm of the LORD”
that brings Satan and his angels to earth, while God's victory, power and
kingdom, and
the authority of His Messiah arrives and establishes
the Kingdom of God in the wilderness.
The Accuser of our
brothers, who accused them day and night before God, has been
thrown out, the tribulation has begun! Ezekiel
38:8-12 and Revelation 12:10 also Isaiah 11:10-16
and Ezekiel 20:33-38
THEN SATAN DOES THE CONFIRMING
Daniel
9:27 And he shall
confirm the covenant with many for one Shavua/week: (between Shavua, May 27, 2012 and May 15, 2013) and in the
midst of that Shavua (#65 and
66 over Passover March 25, 2013) he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the
overspreading of abominations he shall
make it desolate, even until the consummation, and
that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Giving
Him the glory an Ezekiel 33:6
watching
one REPENT
the Kingdom of God and the authority of His Messiah is
at hand