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THE KEY TO WHEN A MIDDLE EAST WAR BREAKS OUT
Is primarily dependant on WHEN U.S. TROOPS LEAVE!
Iran,
Syria, & Turkey do not want war until we Leave!
This is ONE of the reasons we hear lots of Saber Rattling
By Iran in HOPES it will WARD OFF an Israeli Nuke Site Hit.
If Israel were to strike the sites Now war might NOT Occur
But if Israel WAITS until U.S. troops leave it definitely WILL,
Because once U.S. ground troops leave they WON’T Return!
June 28, 2010
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It takes several months for the U.S. to get the logistics and troops in place in the Middle East to fight a successful war. Operation Desert Storm made this obvious to all who watched it.
With the current administration in Washington, I assure you, once our troops are pulled out, they will not be sent back. The Arabs and Persians will then attack Israel and some three and one-half years later the final great battle of Armageddon will close the Age of the Gentiles with the Second Advent of Jesus Christ the Messiah.
Romans 11:25-27 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. [26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Matthew 23:37-39 – O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Zechariah 13:8,9 – 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.
Hosea 1:10,11 – Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. [11] Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
[9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
Begin Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM POST
Iran is Surrounded by US Troops in 10 Countries
BY Tzvl Ben Gedalyahu
Iran literally is surrounded by American troops, notes an oil market analyst, Energy and Capital editor Christian A. DeHaemer. There is no evidence of an imminent attack, but he connects a number of recent events and the presence of American soldiers to warn that oil prices might soar — with or without a pre-emptive strike aimed at stopping Iran’s nuclear power ambitions.
Iran is bordered on the east by Pakistan and Afghanistan, where U.S. troops have been waging a costly war, in terms of money and lives, against Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other terrorists.
The Persian Gulf is on Iran’s southern border, and last week’s report, confirmed by the Pentagon, that 11 warships had sailed through the Suez Canal, raised alarm bells that the U.S. is ready to fight to keep the Persian Gulf open.
Iran has threatened it could close the waterway, where 40 percent of the world’s oil flows in tankers, if the United Nations or the United States by itself carry out harsh energy sanctions against the Islamic Republic. An Israeli ship has also reportedly joined the U.S. armada.
Kuwait, which is heavily armed by the U.S. and is home to American bases, is located on the southwestern border of Iran. The country’s western neighbors are Turkey and Iraq, also home to American bases, and Turkmenistan, the Caspian Sea and Azerbaijan are the Islamic Republic’s northern neighbors.
The U.S.army last year advanced military cooperation with Turkmenistan. An independent Caspian news agency has confirmed unusually heavy activity of American troops along the border with Iran.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Brigadier General Mehdi Moini said last week that his forces increased patrols, including tanks and anti-aircraft units, along the border with Azerbaijan because they noticed increased American activity.
Iran charged that Israeli forces were also present, sparking a virtual war alert among the Iranian Guards.
In addition, the Times of London reported earlier this month that Saudi Arabia has agreed to open its air space for Israel Air Force jets, a claim that the Saudi monarchy denied. It similar denied Iranian news agency claims that Israeli helicopters unloaded military equipment at a northwestern Saudi Arabian air base, from where Israeli planes theoretically could reach Iran in the shorts possible time.
There has been no confirmation of Israel-Saudi cooperation from any other source, but one IDF reserve officer, who has been involved in secret military projects for private companies, told Israel National News that the it could be true if both countries found it in their common interests. Saudi Arabia does not recognize Israel and has treated the Jewish State with disdain. However, the possibility of Iran’s dominating the Arab world with nuclear power has changed all political scenarios.
Several defense websites have reported that Israel is deploying one to three German-made nuclear submarines in the Persian Gulf as a defensive measure against the possibility of a missile attacks from Lebanon and Syria, as well as Iran.
“The submarines of Flotilla 7 — Dolphin, Tekuma and Leviathan — have visited the Gulf before,” DeHaemer wrote, “but the decision has now been taken to ensure a permanent presence of at least one of the vessels.”
Amid the buzz of increased military activity around Iran looms the specter of higher oil prices, which is DeHaemer’s field of expertise. “The last oil price shock in the Middle East was
in 1990 when the United States invaded Iraq for invading Kuwait. The price per barrel of oil went from $21 to $28 on August 6…to $46 by mid-October.
The looming Iran War is not priced in,” he warned in his news letter.
Iran has the third-highest oil reserves in the world and is second only to Saudi Arabia in production. If any action prevents the flow of Iranian oil, the price of “black gold” would soar, he added.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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Horns of the Beast
are Await ing a K
ing in the Middle East!
The Horns are Waiting to Give Their Kingdoms to the Beast,
And I believe God will soon put it in their Evil Hearts to do So!
The Beast will initially score a victory over Israel for 3 & ½ Years
Then Jesus & Saints win Armageddon Battle at H is
Second Advent!
June 28, 2010
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The Beast of the East is
the 11th Horn and, as Antichrist, he will surround Israel in the Negev Wilderness
for three and one-half years, where his hand will confine them for that period.
Daniel 7:24,25 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his h
and until a time and times and the dividing of time.
This is when God puts in the ten king’s hearts to surrender the individual power and strength of their kingdoms unto the Beast.
Revelation 17:17 – For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Revelation 17:12,13 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
This is the attack that defeats Israel, leaving only one third in Israel (“left therein
) in Israel’s Negev Wilderness.
Zechariah 13:8 – 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.
This is where the one-third Jewish remnant flees and remains for 1260 days.
Revelation12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
This is when Antichrist calls all the old world nations to come to Jerusalem to help him wipe out all the Israelis in the Negev at the final battle of Armageddon. But he will be powerless to do it even with the great armies come to help him, because at this time God begin to fight for Israel, so none will be able to help him.
Daniel 11:45 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
This is what happens when all the forces of the Beast attack at the final great battle of Armageddon.
Revelation 17:14 – These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Daniel 12:1 – And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Revelation 19:19-21 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
[21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
This is when the remnant of Israel, after three and one-half years in the Negev, is restored to fellowship with God by Messiah’s return at His Second Advent.
Zechariah 13:9 – 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.
Begin 2 Excerpts from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
Excerpt 1 from The Weekly Standard
The Return of the Ottomans
Lee Smith
During the 500 years the Ottomans ruled the Arabic-speaking Middle East, they were hated throughout the region, not only by the regional minorities (Christians, Jews, Shia, etc.), but also by their Sunni Arab coreligionists. In the last few weeks, however, half a millennium’s worth of history has been conveniently forgotten, perhaps even forgiven, as Turkey has emerged as a regional power and the guarantor of Arab interests – against Israel. Long before Arab nationalism identified Israel and the U.S. (and before that the European powers) as the enemy, it was the Ottomans who were called to account for everything that was wrong in the Arabic-speaking regions.
In the end it all comes down to sectarianism. Turkey is Sunni, Iran is Shia, and despite the Ottoman Empire’s long history of oppressing their imperial subjects, the Arabs prefer anything to the prospect of Persian hegemony. If it means casting their lot with the progeny of those who enslaved them for centuries – well there is great comfort in custom. (Weekly Standard)
Excerpt 2 from the Associated Press
Turkey Opposition Gains Ground Amid Eastward Drift
Suzan Fraser
As the dust settles after the May 31 Israeli commando raid on a Turkish aid ship to Gaza, Turkey’s resurgent opposition seems to be gaining traction by articulating fears that Erdogan is steering NATO’s only Muslim member away from the West.
The secular pro-Western Republican People’s Party has a popular new leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who made a name for himself by exposing corruption within Erdogan party’s that led to two senior officials stepping down. Kilicdaroglu’s party has also criticized Erdogan’s confrontational style against Israel.
An opinion poll published Saturday shows 38.8% backing Erdogan’s party against 31.3% for Kilicdaroglu’s Republicans – up from 25% support under the previous leadership. (AP)
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SONG OF MOSES LATTER DAY SERIES – NUMBER 1
June 27, 2010
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The song of Moses, in Chapter 32 of Deuteronomy, and the introduction to it in Chapter 31, is an outline of the future historical events that are ahead for God’s chosen people, the nation of Israel, from the time
of the death of Moses until the Second Advent of their Messiah, the Son of God, Jesus Christ. The song of Moses carries us unto “the latter days” of this present Gentile age.
Deuteronomy 31:15,16 – And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. [16] And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
After many years of failing to properly observe all the ordinances under the covenant of the law, God sent his messenger John ahead of the messenger of the covenant, the Messiah, to announce the Christ had arrived to fulfill the covenant that only he could perfectly keep as a man.
Malachi 3:1 – Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
But King Herod beheaded Messiah’s messenger, and the Israelites rejected the messenger of the covenant, King Messiah. Historical Israel has paid a terrible price for not letting their Messiah gather them together, having been cut off spiritually, when
their temple was declared to be spiritually desolate just before they crucified him, and then being told it would remain spiritually desolate until he returned to be accepted as the one they rejected.
Matthew 23:37-39 – O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left unto
you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Because they rejected their Messiah, the only begotten Son of God, the messenger of his covenant, God forsook them, and the historical record of some 1978 years has, is, and will continue to be fulfilled in the many evils that have befallen them as a nation. Even today, among many Jews, there is always the question, “Why has the God of Israel allowed all these terrible things to come upon us, why can we find no peace, why has our God forsaken us?”
Deuteronomy 31:17 – Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day.
Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
For hundreds of years Israel was a disjointed skeleton, scattered across the surface of the earth, like spiritually dead, dry bones, in a great valley. They have been the most persecuted and despised people on this planet for some 1940 years, with
some six million having been murdered in the Nazi holocaust. And, even now, they have known no peace for the 62 years they have been a recognized nation. The evil that has befallen then in the “latter days” of this age, from 1936 to the present, has been the most intense.
It has been as Moses said it would be in the “latter days.”
Deuteronomy 31:29 – For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of
the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Never, in the history of God’s dealings with Israel, have they been spiritually further away from him than at the present time.
They have long since stopped trusting in their God to deliver and restore them, and they are far removed from placing their faith in their true Messiah, Jesus Christ. They are trusting in a security wall, their own military might, and the most powerful nation on the earth, the United States, to deliver them from their many enemies.
The most intense time of suffering for Israel is still future, of that I am certain, and I am of the opinion it will begin before 2015. Israel will be driven into the Negev wilderness by its many enemies, two-thirds of its population will perish, Jerusalem will fall, and one-third will make it into the Negev, where they will remain for 1260 days.
Revelation 12:6 – And the wom an fled into the wilderness, where she h
ath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Zechariah 13:8 – 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.
Zechariah 14:1,2 – 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.
The residue (remnant) of the Jews who do escape will not be cut off from the city of Jerusalem forever, but will be brought back from the Negev from the Negev in victory by their Messiah following their 1260 day confinement there.
And he will be their God, and they his people, for all eternity.
Zechariah 13:9 – 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.
Matthew 23:38,39 – Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
The horrible period of time of Jacob’s trouble will be ended when the Messiah comes to end the battle of Armageddon.
Jeremiah 30:7-9 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. [8] For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: [9] But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
Islamic World NOW Revitalizing A KING Of The EAST!
China will come against Israel at the last great Battle
Of Armageddon along with the Russian Land of Magog
The 2 Kings will be called from Satan’s Euphrates Seat!
The long Euphrates touches Turkey, Syria. Iraq, & Iran!
June 26, 2010
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Revelation 16:10-16 – And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom w as
full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, [11] And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. [12] And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
[13] And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. [14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
[15] Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
[16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Ezekiel 38:2 – Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
Ezekiel 39:1,2,6 – Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [2] And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: [6] And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Begin Excerpt from IMRA via Saudi Gazette
INDEPENDENT MEDIA REVIEW ANALYSIS
Saudi Gazette
23 June 2010
“China seeks to attend Organization of the Islamic Conference(OIC) meetings”, Agence France Presse
By Habib Shaikh
SUBJECT: Revitalizing China/ Muslim World relationship
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organization of the great Islamic Conference (2nd R), meets with journalists in Beijing, Tuesday (22 June).
The head of the world’s largest Muslim grouping, a 57-member pan-Islamic
organization based in Jeddah, met with high-level officials and visited China’s Muslim regions of Ningxia and Xinjiang almost one year after bloody fighting in Xinjiang between Uighur Muslims and Han Chinese. – AFP
JEDDAH – The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and China have
agreed to jointly organize a seminar on the historical relationship between China and the Muslim World in order to consolidate friendly relations between China and the OIC and explore future possibilities.
During the eight-day official visit of the OIC Secretary General Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu to China, which concluded on Tuesday, both sides agreed that the OIC and China would work together to enhance their traditional friendship and to increase exchanges and cooperation.
According to informed OIC diplomatic sources, the Chinese leadership officially requested permission to attend OIC periodic meetings, as an initial step toward the enhancement and promotion of bilateral relations.
On the basis of the fruitful interaction and discussion between the Chinese and OIC delegations, both sides highlighted the historical dimension of the Chinese-Muslim World relationship referring to the centuries old bond of friendship and cooperation between the two great civilizations.
They expressed their determination to continue to cooperate to further theexisting relationship in all areas of mutual concern.
Both sides explored different avenues for enhancing the consultation and cooperation between the OIC and China, particularly in the political, economic, trade and cultural fields.
Both sides recalled that the OIC and China share comm on positi
ons on many
international issues and highlighted the importance of support provided to each other on issues of shared concern with particular reference to the issue of Palestine and the Middle East peace process.
The Chinese side emphasized that it attaches importance to the role played by the OIC as an influential intergovernmental organization.
The OIC stressed that it respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China.
During the course of his visit Ihsanoglu was received by Wu Bangguo, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, and Yang Jiechi, the Foreign Minister.
He also held meetings with the Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun and Director General Wang Zuoan of the National Administration
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EVERLASTING Revelation Gospel – Part 5
June 26, 2010
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Revelation 14:6,7 – And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, [7] Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Remember Chapter 14 is a parenthetical chapter, not subject to a chronological sequence of the events before or after it.
This is man’s last chance during the church age to hear and believe the everlasting gospel. The rapture of the saved occurs in Revelation 14:14-16, and the rupture of the lost in verses 17 to 20.
Revelation 14:14-16 – And I looked, and behold a white cloud,
and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. [15] And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. [16] And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
Jesus, the son of man and of God, comes wearing the crown of glory and honor in Hebrews 2:9.
Hebrews 2:9 – But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
His cycle comes down by one hand and sweeps on the earth near the ground to sever the feet of the wheat, while his hand grasps the wheat in its upper portion to pull it up when it is severed. This is the catching out and carrying to heaven, of those who have believed the everlasting gospel of verse 6. It occurs before the wrath of God is poured out
on the earth in the rupture of the earth in verses 17 through 20 on those who would not believe it.
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Revelation 14:17-20 – And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. [18] And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
[19] And the angel thrust in his sickle into
the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. [20] And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
This particular angel thrusts his sickle INTO the earth. We are advised in verse 20 as to WHERE the sickle makes its earthly penetration; somewhere in Israel “outside the city,” which is the city of Jerusalem. The word used for winepress is “LENOS,” which means: “a trough dug in the earth, a ditch or canal, or anything shaped like a tub.” The winepresses with which John was familiar were rectangular in shape and made of, or dug out of, the rock of the earth. Blood-red wine was made from grapes. The ripe clusters were carried in baskets and thrown into the press. The winepress consisted of a shallow trough built above the ground, or excavated by chipping it out of limestone rocks in the earth. There were also countless village and household winepresses, but since the one to which John refers is one in a vineyard field, one made by chipping out a rectangular trough in limestone rock, I will limit my discourse to that type. One end of this type was made lower, such that the blood-red liquid from the grapes would flow into it, after being pressed out by the feet of humans in the shallow end.
So both the upper and lower sections of
the winepress presented a view of a blood-red trough in the crust of the earth.
John, in his vision, looks down upon the earth and, from this aerial view, recognized the city of Jerusalem, a city he had looked down upon many times from the Mount of Olives. He beheld “without” (outside) Jerusalem, to the east, the greatest winepress ever seen by human eyes.
He saw a trough (lenos) in the earth 1600 furlongs (185 miles) in length. The opening of the earth caused by the angel’s sickle had caused blood (haima) to come up “out” (ek) of the winepress to a depth of about five feet (“unto the horse bridles”). The Greek word used for blood is haima, which can mean real blood, or any object taking on a blood red color, or any liquid that has a blood-red hue. The Hebrew word for blood is also used to describe a blood-red liquid rather than body blood, as we find stated in Genesis 49:11 – “Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:” The moon will not turn to real blood in the Tribulation Period, but it will take on a blood-red hue, as is described by the use of the word haima in Revelation 6:12 – “And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;” Before this Update is over I will carefully pull together everything previously stated, and thereby put together a full exposition of Revelation 14:19,20. For now I will take time to describe one of the most terrifying creations of God in the distant past: a flood-basalt plain.
In the distant past, six major rips in the crust of the earth have produced six great basaltic flood plains. These great cleavages of the earth’s crust occurred in zones along the dashed lines of Birth Pang Figure 3. They represent old magma extrusions associated with the initial stages of continental drift. Dr. W. Kenneth Hamblin, in his standard geological text, The Earth’s Dynamic Systems, states: “Where the rift system passes beneath a continent, the continental crust is split and great volumes of basalt are extruded and spread out over large areas of the continent. These great floods of lava fill the lowlands and depressions in the existing topography.” The rift system that passes beneath the continent from the Gulf of Aqabah northward through Israel is a prime candidate for the sudden creation of a raging flood basalt plain. The following quoted material, concerning flood basalt plains, was extracted from Volcano, volume 2 of A 1982 Time-Life series that examines the workings of the planet earth: “Flood basalts are generated atop the upper mantle. When tension opens fissures in the crust, the fluid magma spurts directly to the surface. The sheer volume of it dwarfs all other volcanic activity: a week long flow can release 360 cubic miles of lava, 10 times the volume of Mount Rainier.
Extremely fluid magma suddenly spurts to the surface through a line of hundred of offset dikes, each one as much as 15 miles long and fifty feet wide. The lava from such individual fissures, about five cubic miles per day, is so hot and runny that it speeds down the slightest slope at speeds up to 10 miles an hour, creating a lava sheet as much as 100 miles wide.
A standard textbook notes – “sooner or later they must recur.”
This liquid rock can hit the surface at temperatures from 2300 to 2900 degrees Fahrenheit. This is double the temperature required to cremate a human body. At these temperatures, the flesh would disappear from the body before it hit the ground, were it directly exposed to the initial air heat flash surge near the crack through which the magna extruded. All that would remain would be a human skeleton. At the same time that the Mount of Olives cleaves in its midst, and all the land in Israel from Geba to Rimmon is lifted up, what follows will happen to the antichrist’s army in the Jordan River Valley, as indicated in Zechariah 14:3-12.
Zechariah 14:12 – And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
At some point in time, near the end of the Tribulation Period, the great rift valley of Israel will suddenly rip open from one end to the other. For a period of time after this ripping a vast flood basalt plain will be created along a 1600 furlough (185 mile) section of the valley. Looking down on it from heaven in his vision it looked like a north-south winepress. It was east of Jerusalem, along the Jordan River Valley, as a long rectangular trough in the crust of the earth filled with blood.
Tremendous tectonic changes will completely restructure the entire valley from the Gulf of Aqabah to Lebanon. The fissures will close abruptly at the end of the Tribulation Period from the southern end of the Dead Sea to Lebanon. However, limited volcanic activity will continue south of the Dead Sea, in what once was Idumea, throughout Christ’s Millennial Reign from “generation to generation,” according to Isaiah.
Isaiah 34:8-10 – For it is the day of the Lord’ s vengeance, and the year of recompence
s for the controversy of Zion. [9] And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. [10] It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Now, considering John’s description of the great winepress in Revelation 14:19,20, in light of one of God’s fantastic creations in the earth, let us compare God’s linguistics with God’s science. What John saw looked like a great lenos (trough or ditch or canal) about 185 miles long. I call your attention to Figure 24, Part A, which is an excerpt from a 1970 diagram by Dr. Fruend showing both sides of the Dead Sea Rift. The long dashed black lines that run north and south along both sides of the Dead Sea, from the Gulf of Aqabah through Israel, are great fissures in the crust of the earth. These fissures erratically weave down through the crust of the earth to eventually make contact with great undersea lakes of magma. Part A of Figure 24 gives a picture of these fissures as though you were looking down on them from a satellite, while Part B pictures the same fissures as though you
were deep within the earth looking northward, and could see their downward progression into the earth. These fissures are where they should be to comply with the description by John. They are “without the city,” which is the city of Jerusalem. The word lenos does fit the characteristics of the Jordan River Valley, which is a great trough in the crust of the earth.
John saw haima come up out the lenos to cover an area some 185 miles long. John viewed a blood-red liquid (haima), which we call lava, spread across the great trough (lenos) to fill what we know as the Jordan River Valley. And the blood-red liquid filled the valley to a depth of about five feet (height of a horse bridle). Please note that, on Part A of Figure 24, a lone fissure veers off from the main trough,
then extends northwest past the Tel of Armageddon, and finally goes on to Haifa, where it meets the Mediterranean Sea.
If you measure northward from the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqabah to the point of departure by the fissure that extends to Haifa, you will discover it is 1600 furlongs, or 185 miles. I believe this 185 mile section of the Jordan River trough is the great winepress that John saw filled with a blood-red fluid as he looked down upon the earth in his vision.
Please observe Figure 25. God, for some time, has brought an unbelievable tonnage of hot flowing rock upward into the Red Sea Fault. As this liquid rock makes contact with the water- cooled Red Sea floor, it solidifies into new basaltic crust. This new crust is forcing two great plates, the Arabian and African, to move away from one another at a rapid geological rate. This particular segment is moving faster than others in the Middle East. Please note that, on Figure 25, while the Red Sea section of the fault is spreading rapidly, the great Rift Fault running up both sides of the Jordan Valley, is locked tighter than a drum. Long ago God pushed together these two great tectonic plates, which are separated only by the Jordan Rift Valley between them. God’s horizontal pressure fused both sides of the valley floor to these plates, like one would push together two pieces of clay. It is this horizontal pressure that locks the fissures in place and prevents magma from spurting to the surface on both sides of the valley. The locked section, (See Figure 26), is held together by a strong tensional force placed there by God. In the Red Sea section of the rift God is generating a force that is in direct opposition to His tensional force that locks the section through Israel. Tensional forces are building in the Gulf of Aqabah, and soon the southern opposing force will end a long struggle by ripping apart the northern section to form a flood basalt plain. It will be sudden, abrupt, and horrifying. God will suddenly create flood basalt plains 185 miles long that begin at the Gulf of Aqabah, and then extend up to the east end of the Valley of Jezreel. On both sides of the Jordan River Valley hot fountains of blood-red liquid, now confined by pressure below the fissures of Figure 27, will suddenly shoot hundreds of feet into the air. And a heat flash will blast toward the west to reach the foothills of the mountains
of Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, and toward the east to smash against the bluffs of the mountains of Moab and Ammon. I believe Figure 28 is what John saw from the air in Revelation 14:19,20. When the angel, who has authority to say when fire is to be released on the earth, tells the angel that has the sickle to stick it into the earth, then as the sickle goes in, the vine of the of the earth (the antichrist’s army) will feel the wrath of God. God does not have to use the creations of man to fulfill his prophecies. As he did in the flood of Noah, he will destroy man “with the earth,” but this time it will be fire from the earth, rather than water on the earth.
Revelation 14:18 – And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
Men and women do have a choice – do your want to be taken out at the rapture by faith in Christ, or be a part of the rupture when God’s wrath is poured out?
I Thessalonians 5:3,4,9 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. [9] For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
I Peter 1:23 – Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
The everlasting Gospel has the gift of everlasting life!
John 5:24 – Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath EVERLASTING life, and SHALL NOT come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.