Why the Coming Conflict Will be the Last of this Gentile Age!
September 2, 2006
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There have been many religious wars in history, perhaps the most obvious being the ancient Crusades from Europe against Islam, but in the religious wars of the past, regardless of whether you classify one or the other as secular or religious or both, they have been wars involving non-Jews versus non-Jews, or, to put it in Biblical terms, Gentiles versus Gentiles. The Jews were not able to field an army to conduct a war from 135 A.D. to 1948. The time for the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem ended in 70 A.D. to fulfill the first part of the prophecy of Jesus in Luke 21:24, and the Old City of Jerusalem was temporarily restored to Jewish possession in 1967, thereby fulfilling the “times of the Gentiles” in the last part of Luke 21:24 for repossessing it.
Luke 21:24 – And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
However, both Zechariah and John advised it would once again fall to the Gentiles (Non-Jews) for a brief period of 42 months (1260 days, or time, times, and half a time, or three and one-half prophetic years) just before the final battle of Armageddon. However, once again, following the 42 months, during the battle of Armageddon, Israel will recapture Jerusalem, and will be restored to it for a thousand years, calling the Lord their God, and God calling them his people.
Zechariah 13:8 to 14:2 – 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.
Revelation 11:2,3 – But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. [3] And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
So Luke 21:24 has already been fulfilled, and we are not waiting for the “times of the Gentiles” to be fulfilled for Jerusalem, but for “the fullness of the Gentiles” age to finish, to “come in” to fulfillment, so that the reign of Christ over all the earth for a thousand years will begin after the battle of Armageddon.
Romans 11:25 – 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.
II Corinthians 3:12-16 – Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: [13] And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: [14] But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
[15] But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
[16] Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
Never before in history have all of the Islamic descendants of Abraham through Ishmael and Keturah been arrayed against both Israel and all unbelieving Gentile infidels as they are today, and never before has there been a spirit of Jihad sweeping across the area of the known world when the Bible was written.
It is a call to death for the cause of Allah that is both real and being answered. This coming final war, no matter how many minor skirmishes are fought before the big one does begin, is the last of the Gentile Age, and the call to it by the forces of Islam is a call by the Satanic trinity of the Devil himself – it is the call of the spirit of Antichrist. The unique juxtaposition and character of the national and ethnic groups are now in perfect Biblical position for the first time since the prophecies were written, and the only real question left is this – Just WHEN will it actually begin? Only God knows the precise answer to that question! My guesstimate, and it is no more or less than that, is at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.
I believe the call to the final great battle of Armageddon is the call of the three frogs of Islam to come and die for Allah.
I believe the seat of the beast is
Islam, and the Dragon out of the River Euphrates sends forth three frogs representing his Satanic trinity, whose call will gather the Muslims to the call of the kings of the east around the Euphrates for the final war to bring an end to the Age of the Gentiles at Armageddon.
Revelation 16:10-16 – And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was 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.
The following United Press International article was extracted from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert.
It is brief, but puts the Isl amic mindset in simple form
at, namely that this is not just a secular war for material gain, but a direct theological ideology conflict to the death for the cause of Allah against the Infidels and Jews, who do not follow the traditional teachings of Muhammad and his Koran.
Begin Article Excerpt by Joshua Brilliant
Hizballah’s Introduction
August 30, 2006
By Joshua Brilliant
UPI
Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon found a booklet that provided a glimpse into that movement’s religious indoctrination. It extolled holy war and martyrdom and provided examples from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ experience. There are several gates to Heaven and the most prestigious of all is the one for those involved in a Jihad, the document says.
Yoram Kahati, deputy director of Israel’s Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, which the intelligence community uses to release declassified materials, noted that Hizballah considers its fighters “mainly Muslim-Shiite Jihad fighters who fulfill a most important religious commitment.”
Disarmament and cease-fire with Israel are not long-term options since such moves would seem to break religious principles. Hence Hizballah will persistently refuse to disarm, and Iran is going to back it. Hizballah leaders in Lebanon “are going to rebuild and strengthen themselves and if they feel they can carry out (operations)…they have a right to abrogate the cease-fire,” Kahati cautioned. (UPI)
End Joshua Brilliant Article Excerpt
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