Final Scenario of Middle East Tribulation Period is in Place!
Jesus Judgment Seat for Believers is not a far Distant Event.
This is the Time to Examine what You Believe about Prophecy.
February 25,2014
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Prophecy now shows little resemblance to pre-1740 Teaching.
Prophecy revisions occurred during the period 1740 to 1832,
Many from the ‘Evangelical Age’ and the ‘Great Awakening’
I have tried for 40 years to change people’s minds about what is taught today by a great majority of prophecy teachers. I have tried to follow the instructions Paul gave in Colossians 3:23-25
Colossians 3:23-25 – And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; [24] Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. [25] But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
I understand experimentally what Paul wrote in II Corinthians 5.2!
II Corinthians 5:1,2,10,11 – For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. [2] For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: [10] For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. [11] Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
I was born in 1932, a year after the Japanese forces conquered Manchuria as a prelude to the eventual conquest of China, and when Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Party was beginning to rise to power. I became a believer in 1944. I enlisted voluntarily in the Korean War. I was a synoptic analyst in the southern half of the ancient Roman Empire in 1952 and 1953 across the Holy Land. I served in the northern half of the ancient Roman Empire in Europe from 1959 to 1961. I served in the Far East in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966.
I chose to retire from the USAF National Security Agency in Washington D.C. as a Synoptic Analyst in 1971 to attend and graduate from the Missionary Baptist Seminary in Little Rock Arkansas, and the Arkansas Tech University. I’ve been the Pastor of Dardanelle MBC for 40 years.
While I was in the Holy land and Europe I had access to many old religious books prior to the pre and post writers from 1740 to 1832.
First of all, let me state absolutely, I AM NOT A REVISIONIST. The revisionists arose in strength from 1740 to 1832, a hundred years before I was born.
I have attempted to repair the damage these revisionists have made, which I believe will cause great harm when they do not come to fruition as they predicted.
By the time I had been taught, trained, trained others, and attended numerous Military Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL’s), Colleges, and Seminaries, I came to believe many of the conclusions most Bible Scholars believed prior to the Evangelistic and Great Awaking Ages had been thrown out, reversed, changed, or completely revised. Many changes were introduced into Prophetic Teachings by the revisionists of the Evangelical Age and the Great Awakening I do not believe.
Before 1740 there were two beliefs as to when the catching out of the saved would occur: (1) At the end of the Tribulation Period at the 2nd Advent, and (2) On the sounding of the 7th Trumpet, the last trump in a series of 7.
1976 Quote from Page 78 of “Tectonic Chaos”
Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having SEVEN HEADS and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
The seven heads of the Beast in Revelation 13:1 represent great world governments of the past in which Satan has been actively involved. The last world government is now rising again at the present time around Israel and will soon produce the Antichrist. Prior to God separating from His wife, the nation of Israel, six great world Kingdoms that existed before, and at, the time of the cross are, in chronological order, as follows:
(1) The Egyptian
(2) The Assyrian
(3) The Babylonian
(4) The Medo-Persian
(5) The Grecian
(6) The Roman
The rising last Kingdom will incorporate all the cunning and skill in the arts and sciences that have been handed down from the previous kingdoms. Man has come a long way since the days of the cruel Pharaoh of the Exodus, but all that modern man has learned is based on the root contributions of these kingdoms – and soon all the knowledge and expertise of sinful mankind will be centered in the final kingdom.
The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are ten Arab nations who will form the nucleus of the final kingdom, and the ten crowns are the power of the kings that will rile them. For years we have pictured the typical Arab as a scrawny little fellow on a camel in the desert with a comic expression on his face. This viewpoint is quickly changing. Oil is replacing the U.S. dollar in international importance – and soon ten Arab nations will have gained economic control of much of the earth’s wealth. We will not try to stop them because of the Soviet Union – and the Soviet Union will not try to stop them because of us and Red China. The world power block will block itself as the Arab nations prosper in our midst.
End 1976 Quote from “Tectonic Chaos”
The 7th Kingdom was the great Umayyad Caliphate which drove the Romans back into Europe from the southern half of its Empire. It was the largest of the 6 Kingdoms before it.
The 8th Kingdom (Caliphate) will also have an Islamic Caliph, the Mahdi, the Beast, the Antichrist.
I have watched my 1976 “Tectonic Chaos” book quote come to fruition over the last 38 years. So what’s next?
1) The land of Magog (Russia) growing in Power
2) Gog, the Chief Prince of Greater Syria, the Mahdi Antichrist, rises to Power
3) Revelation 12:6 – And the woman (Israel) 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.
4) The Sounding of the 7th Trumpet in Revelation 11:15 fulfills the LAST Trump sounding in a series of 7.
Before 1740 Bible Scholars believed the three “HE’s in Daniel 9 were Jesus Christ.
Before 1740 many Bible Scholars did not believe there was a full 7 weeks of years (2560 days) left to fulfill in Daniel’s 70 weeks of years (490 prophetic years, each one 360 days in length)
Before 1740 the war in Daniel 38 and 39 was not considered by many to be a war that preceded the Tribulation Period as many teach today.
If you label me as revisionist of prophetic prophecy, I confess to being guilty of revising most of the prophetic teachings that came out of the Evangelical Age and the Great Awakening, which are now alive and thriving across all the earth.
I’ve taught for some 40 years that when Ezekiel wrote his prophecies, descendants of Meshech and Tubal dwelt in what was later known as Greater Syria, the place from which the Chief Prince will soon Arise. Gog is the Islamic Mahd, the man of sin, that Wicked, the Micah 5 Assyrian – Gog will be the Antichrist.
Gog is not the Chief Prince of Magog – He will be the Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal (Greater Syria) and, by the time of the final battle of Armageddon, He will be Caliph over a Caliphate of size rivaling the vast Umayyad Caliphate.
Since I am living on biblical borrowed time and am watching Ezekiel’s “Land of Magog” (Russia) being restored to military power by Putin as he feeds Syria’s Assad with military hardware and financial assistance, Lord willing, I will make my last gasp one that repeats the things where I do not agree with many of the last days prophetic teachers.
OUTLINE OF GENERAL EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH CORRELATION OF EZEKIEL 38 AND 39 WITH DANIEL 12 AND REVELATION 12.
Ezekiel Chapter 38 deals with the initial attack of Gog the Antichrist against Israel at about the same time the earthquake of Revelation 6:12 occurs in the Jordan River Valley of Israel. When the attack occurs some three and one-half years remain until the battle of Armageddon ends the Tribulation Period.
Revelation 12:6 represents the period of three and one half years between Chapters 38 and 39 in Ezekiel, when Gog drives Israel into the Negev Wilderness, and leaves her there for some three and one-half years, by-passing the Negev and driving across the northern Sinai to conquer Cairo and all Egypt. Gog remains there and establishes a vast Islamic Caliphate from Morocco to New Guinea.
Daniel 11:40-43 represents the initial attack against Israel just described and Gog’s three and one-half year Caliphate reign from Cairo. Daniel 11:44,45 represents his return to Jerusalem to call all the old world nations to come and assist him in finally destroying the Jews. The land of Magog (Russia) comes down to join him and the 39th Chapter of Ezekiel begins with attack against Israel at Armageddon and ends with fire coming down on Magog (Russians) as described in Ezekiel 39:6 and also in Revelation 16:16-21.
Ezekiel Chapter 39 deals with the final attack of Gog against Israel in the Negev Wilderness after he drove her there some three and one-half years before. This is the time when he asks the people of the land of Magog (Russia) to come down and help him utterly destroy Israel at Armageddon. The Chapter then continues on into the Millennial Reign events following Armageddon, beginning with the burial of the millions of the bones of Gog’s army scattered across Israel, amounting to 5/6 of his great army.
Ezekiel 38:1,2 – And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.
Gog (high extension) appears for the first time in Ezekiel. He is the Antichrist of who so much has been written. Please note that he is identified as the “chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Many commentators, especially in the last 100 years, have not identified him as the Antichrist, but have identified him as the ruler or chief prince of the land of Magog, which I do not believe Scripture justifies. Before the 19th Century, many identified him as the Antichrist.
In verse 2 Ezekiel is told to set his face against two separate things, a person and a place. The person is Gog (Antichrist), and the place is the land of the descendants of Magog where it existed in Ezekiel’s day. If we do not locate the territories of Magog, Meshech, and Tubal as they existed in Ezekiel’s day, then we can have no idea as to where the Antichrist will soon rear his head, or the area from which his attack will be launched. More than 2500 years have slipped by since Ezekiel wrote his prophecies, and the bloodlines of all three men been distributed across the entire planet. In order to correctly identify the area, from whence the Antichrist will attack Israel, we must identify where the descendants of Meshech and Tubal were residing in 500 and 600 B.C. Why? Because the Antichrist is not the chief prince of Magog, he is the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. He will come from the area where their descendants were settled in 500 and 600 B.C.
I will attempt to use two different sources to locate where the descendants of Meshech and Tubal were clustered at the time of Ezekiel’s writings. The first is found in the 27th chapter of Ezekiel, and the second is from the Assyrian monument stones of that period. Ezekiel 27:3 – “And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.” Tyrus (Tyre) was a seaport on the southern coast of what we know today as Lebanon, which is directly north of Israel. Tyrus built its first great sea wall to protect its harbored ships more than 3000 years ago, and was a thriving seaport in Ezekiel’s day. Its ships carried merchandise from the countries of the east across all the Mediterranean, and even as far north as the shores of the English Channel. Zidon (Sidon) was also a sea port, and less than 20 miles separated the two cities. The wise men of Tyrus were the navigators of the ships, and the men of Zidon were the deck hands, as portrayed in Ezekiel 27:8 – “The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.” Now, bearing all this in mind, let us look at Ezekiel 27:13 – “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.” Meshech and Tubal were warlike tribes, who often took their captives (persons of men) and the vessels of brass they had captured, or hammered out themselves, and carried them to the NEAREST seaport for trading. The captives were, of course, loaded on the ships and sold as slaves in foreign ports of trade. Why the NEAREST seaport? Because, in Ezekiel’s day, travel was by foot, donkey, camel, and horse. People always carried their trading goods to the nearest port, particularly slaves. Therefore, I conclude that Meshech and Tubal must have roamed in the area we know today as Syria, Lebanon, northwestern Iraq, and southern Turkey. Meshech and Tubal are the Mushki and Tabali of the Assyrian stone monuments. In the time of Sargon and Sennacherib (700 B.C.) the territory of Tubal adjoined southern Cilicia, while that of Meshech filled the highlands to the east of Tubal. Considering the locations derived from the Bible and stone tablets, it appears that the Antichrist, as the chief prince of the area once occupied by Meshech and Tubal, is likely to arise, and eventually to attack Israel, from Syria or Lebanon. And, since Lebanon is virtually controlled by Syria, Greater Syria is the best location for his homeland.
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