BIRTH PANG NUMBER 40
The Remnant of Israel,
Past, Present, and Future!
Part 5
March 15, 2002
Revelation 12:12
[12] Therefore rejoice, ye
heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters
of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great
wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short
time.
I must confess that, since large segments of the
this 12th chapter are parenthetical to the entire book, this may be
associated with the three woes that begin with the blowing of the fifth
trumpet, and end with the blowing of the seventh trumpet. It may be that the wrath of the devil is
poured out on man during this period, while God’s wrath is associated with the
seven vials of wrath that follow.
Revelation 8:13 to 9:2
[13] And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through
the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of
the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! [1] And the fifth
angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was
given the key of the bottomless pit. [2] And he opened the bottomless pit; and
there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the
sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Revelation 16:1
[1] And I heard a great voice out of the temple
saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath
of God upon the earth.
While rejoicing is going on in heaven, because of
the permanent removal of the devil, three great woes are being experienced by
“the inhabitants of the earth” due to his presence among them. The devil pours out his wrath at an
accelerated rate because he knows he only has a short time to vent his anger. Revelation 12:13 returns us to be troubles of
a small section of mankind – the surviving one-third of the nation of Israel
trapped in the Negev wilderness.
Revelation 12:13
[13] And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto
the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
The woman is what remains of Israel after the attack
that drove her into the Negev and conquered Jerusalem. If the attack were to occur in the next three
years, it would amount to some 1.7 to 1.9 million Israelis.
Zechariah 13:8 to 14:2
[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. [9] And I will bring the third
part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try
them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will
say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. [1] Behold, the
day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
[2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city
shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the
city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be
cut off from the city.