The Situation Is Now as Prophesied – Scoffers Galore & a Homeland!
December 9, 2005
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II Peter 3:3,4 – Knowing this first, that t here
shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, [4] And saying, Where is the promise of his coming
? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
When Napoleon swept across Europe, many of the preachers of that time were certain he was the antichrist, but that was not possible
? Why Not? – Israel w as not back in its homeland
as a nation, surrounded by her natural enemies, who are also the sons of Abraham.
They could not attack Israel until she was biblically in place.
When Kaiser Wilhelm of World War I came on the scene with Prince Otto Bismarck, there was a teaching among many theologians that one of them must be the antichrist, but that was not possible? Why Not? – Israel was not back in her homeland as a nation, surrounded by her natural enemies, who are also the sons of Abraham.
They could not attack Israel until she was biblically in place.
When Hitler arose in Germany, Mussolini in Italy, the Emperor and his warlords in Japan, there arose disagreement among biblical teachers as to which one of them was the antichrist, but that was not possible.
Why Not? – Israel was not back in her homeland as a nation, surrounded by her natural enemies, who are also the sons of Abraham. They could not attack Israel until she was biblically in place.
Since Israel became a nation in 1948 it has been completely surrounded by its natural enemies, who are also the sons of Abraham.
And Scoffers are multiplying like flies. And Israel is back in place
in her homeland as a nation, surrounded by her natural enemies, who are also the sons of Abraham.
Alright, now that the biblical requirements of scoffers galore and Israel back in her homeland have been met, can we identify the antichrist? No! Why Not? Because Israel does not yet have a mindset of “Peace and safety,” and since the attack will not occur until Israel has that perception, we cannot identify the antichrist.
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – 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.
When will that state of mind exist among Israelites? I do not believe it can occur until the security barrier/wall/fence is complete. When it is finished, Israel will believe she has “peace and safety” because of a very great nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, which she knows she can accurately send on warheads to any Arab nation around her. Once Israel has the Palestinians inside the security barrier she will experience a feeling of “peace and safety” on both her inner Gaza and West Bank borders. With her anti-missile protection and capacity to retaliate, she will have a sense of “peace and safety” about Iran launching a Shihab nuclear warhead against her. And since she successfully defended her outer borders in 1948, 1967, and 1973, she is super confident she can do it again anytime, which will add to her feeling of “peace and safety.” This is the reason I have been anxious for the security barrier to be finished. Israel says it will be finished in 2006.
They are going to have to go “lickey-dee-split” in order to complete it but, after the March elections, I do anticipate a rapid acceleration in daily building activities, and feel confident it will at least be finished by the spring of 2007.
I believe Israel could meet the biblical requirement of believing she has, after some 1,926 years, finally achieved a condition of relative “peace and safety” as a nation among the nations of the world, perhaps as early as 2007. I believe Israel could be attacked by the antichrist as early as 2007, and that is it very likely such an
attack will occur before 2012.