Devil Dancing Determines Deadly Diplomatic Decisions!
July 24, 2006
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As an analyst who is a believer, I am bound to accept the final outcome of the last day Middle East conflict as ending in a cataclysmic war, which finally terminates in the battle called Armageddon. I have no other choice. I have studied the great and small wars of history, and one thing sticks like a sore thumb – Diplomatic decisions, in general, stink!
And they always stink if you are diplomatically negotiating with devils. The taste of dainties obtained by negotiations with a demon may taste sweet when the paper is signed, but it will turn to poison later, and the end result eventually produces a much greater death toll than would have occurred if you had destroyed the demon. Israel will soon be found diplomatically dancing with the local devils of the Middle East and the results will eventually be disastrous for her, as they were for Europe when it danced diplomatically with the devil Hitler. Fellowship with the demon leaders of fanatical religions and ideologies leads to partaking of the dainties of their deceit and cunning – they simply cannot be trusted. The worst kind of war is one between peoples having diametrically opposed religious beliefs, in which they consider the ones not holding their belief as hell bound unbelievers, particularly if one or more of the beliefs happens to think their god approves of sending them there early.
Psalm 141:4 – Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Proverbs 23:6 – Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
Matthew 10:34 – Think not that I (Jesus) am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Jesus is properly called “The Prince of Peace,” but he knew before his reign of peace, from which he earned the title, there would be nothing but war after war until he returned, due to the depraved character of those he came to save. The “War on Terror” is a religious war that has no solution depraved mankind can reach other than Armageddon. The question for believers is not “how” it will end, but rather “when” it will end. For the unbeliever the question is “how” can WE bring in peace, but for the believer it is WHEN will Jesus return to being in peace. It is impossible for man to maintain peace.
He cannot be trusted to eternally keep his word because he inherited Adam’s nature. Man’s covenants established by negotiations are made to be broken.
God can be trusted to eternally keep his word.
Consequently, his covenant will never be broken.
As a young man I watched Hitler break agreement after agreement, and finally cause World War II on September 1, 1939. I watched the blood and gore of that war spill out across the surface of the earth, always remembering the diplomatic negotiated settlement Neville Chamberlain and Hitler reached at Munich, which caused Europe and the world to resonate with this cry, ‘Peace in Our Time’. The world did not have the courage to unite and crush the tyrants of Germany, Italy, and Japan, until it became a question of having to do it or die – Neither does this generation have the courage to stand against the ungodly tyrants of Islam, and they, like the tyrants of World War II, are being allowed to grow stronger with each passing year. The tyrants of the Axis Powers in WW-2 and the Axis Powers of Islam today, have a characteristic that shows up in their love for negotiations. They love it because they never intend to keep any agreement. It is just a means to obtaining everything they want at a minimum cost to themselves – It is merely a means to an end result they have already decided.
The current crisis is vibrating to the cry of “diplomatic negotiations and a cease fire is the only way.” So we will have, as they say is always best, a diplomatic, political, negotiated, settlement to supposedly end the current Middle East Conflict, and “won’t it be wonderful there.” And then, in a few years, the diplomatic, political, negotiated, agreement will again be broken, but this time Islam will be much more united and much stronger militarily, and Israel is going to be driven into the Negev. Then Europe and the United States will cry out for guess what? You got it – a diplomatic, political, negotiated, agreement – and three and a half years later the antichrist will break it by calling the forces of Asia, Eurasia, Europe, Russia, and North Africa together in Israel to fight the great last battle of Armageddon, after which we will finally have peace with the Prince of Peace.
No one will be able to help the antichrist when he sits in his palace (appeden) on the temple mount, surrounded by the tabernacles (tents) of his mighty gathered horde, because when he orders them south to destroy Israel in the Negev, Michael will stand up, the horde will be destroyed, and Messiah will return to being peace.
Antrichrist plants himself as Allah himself on the sacred ground where Solomon’s Temple once stood, and sends out a call to all nations to come and help him forever eliminate the descendants of Jacob,
the nation of Israel. These invitations are extended to those nations who were once part of the old Roman Empire, which reached its maximum expansion under Trajan.
The nations will come from the known world at the time the Book of Revelation was written, which was “the whole world” of the prophetic writings. They will come from Europe, Eurasia, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The antichrist will direct them from the Temple mount in Jerusalem, and they will “go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.” The reason that “none can help him” does not mean no one will make the attempt, it means that 10,000 nations could not help him when God decides to destroy him and his army with the greatest display of geological and meteorological hell ever unleashed on this earth.
In verse 45 the word translated as “tabernacles” is OHEL. It always means “tents,” never a temple made of stone. The word translated as “palace” is APPEDEN, meaning a pavilion or palace tent, and it is never translated as “temple.” APPEDEN refers not to a rebuilt temple on Jerusalem’s temple mount, but to a command post pavilion on the Temple mount from which the antichrist issues his commands. At the time of Daniel’s writings, it was the custom for all kings to have a portable type of command post that could be quickly set up in a position from which the king could issue his orders to the men in the field. The picture painted in Daniel’s account is of the antichrist in his command post on the Temple Mount with the tents of his men stretching from Haifa, past the Tel of Armageddon, through the Plain of Jezreel, down the Jordan Valley, and up to Jerusalem. He will, by this time, consider himself a God, and his followers will follow him as the God of their final Jihad. He will sit in his pavili on command post
on the Temple mount claiming to be like Allah.
There are many who insist, because of what is written in Daniel 11:45 and II Thessalonians 2:4, that a temple must be rebuilt on the existing temple mount before Jesus returns. I rather doubt that this will happen. I KNOW that one will be built AFTER He returns, but I do not believe one will be built BEFORE He comes to rule and reign from Jerusalem.
II Thessalonians 2:4 – Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
When Paul wrote this verse he used the Greek word NAOS for “temple.” There are two Greek words in the New Testament that are translated as “temple,” NAOS and HIERON. HIERON is always used to refer to a temple made of stone, like the three that once historically stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. However, NAOS can refer to any type of container that houses something, such as a local one made up of human bodies as an assembly (ekklesia) among which the Spirit dwells, or an individual human body where the Spirit of Christ dwells, or as a collected family of people in which the Spirit dwells individually. Paul used NAOS a total of eight times in all his epistles.
But he always used HIERON to refer to a temple of stone, that is, unless he used NAOS in II Thessalonians 2:4 for such a structure. My point is this: if Paul wanted to leave no doubt he was referring to the antichrist perched in a rebuilt temple of stone on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, he would have used HIERON, rather than NAOS in II Thessalonians 2:4.
The word NAOS means “an inner sanctuary, a dwelling place.” The suffix on it varies as to the part of speech it represents. The total number of times Paul used NAOS in his epistles, where it is translated as “temple,” are found in the following Scriptures.
I Corinthians 6:19 – What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
I Corinthians 3:16,17 – Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? [17] If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. (The “you” and the two “ye’s” are plural)
II Corinthians 6:16 – And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (The two “in’s” may be translated as “among” or “in” – either is correct. The “ye” is plural).
Ephesians 2:21,22 – In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: [22] In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
II Thessalonians 2:4 – Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
I believe this pictures him as claiming to be the God of all men, and he is proving it to himself, and the whole world, by setting on God’s Temple Mount in his Command Pavilion to establish himself as the sanctuary of God.
Paul only used the word HIERON twice where it is translated as “temple,” once by writing it himself, and again in dictating a previous episode in his life to Luke in the Book of Acts.
Acts 26:21 – For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
I Corinthians 9:13 – Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
In both these cases there is no doubt he meant the Jerusalem Temple of stone.
For better, or for worst, I am convinced he would have used HIERON, rather than NAOS, if he meant a temple of stone in Jerusalem.
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.
The reason that “none shall help him” is very simple, it
is because none CAN help him, as the first verse following in the 12th Chapter validates. He, and the mighty army he calls together, to come and destroy Israel (which has been militarily trapped in the Negev for three and one-half years), are both on the verge of being zapped by God. When God’s wrath is poured out on them there is no power that can help antichrist, or his army. The verse following Daniel 11:45, which is the last verse in Chapter 11, and, remembering the chapter divisions were supplied by the KJV translators, the next verse in a continuous narrative would be 12:1.
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.
According to Ezekiel 38:19 to 39:2, five-sixths of the antichrist’s army will be destroyed by natural phenomena God unleashes on them.
Ezekiel 38:19 to 39:2 – For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; [20] So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. [21] And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother. [22] And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. [23] Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord. [1] 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:
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
This unleashing of God’s power is also mirrored by most of the Old Testament prophets in many places, and most emphatically by John when God’s wrath is poured out at Armageddon.
Revelation 16:16-21 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. [17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. [21] And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
And, as the battle of Armageddon is ended by the 2nd Advent of Christ, the doom of the false prophet, antichrist, and his armies, is graphically described by John in Revelation.
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.