JACOB'S TROUBLE AND THE DAY OF THE LORD
The time of
Jacob’s trouble
and the Day of the Lord will soon be upon us. We will
start our account at
the seals of the Book of Revelation, however this is
to enable the reader to
pick up the time thread of the article. Once we have
discussed the first four
seals, we will then take the reader back prior to
Jacob’s Trouble for new
knowledge about this time. Be prepared to learn new
knowledge with this article
and many others, which are at our site. Do not believe
us, read every scripture
in the Bible and ask God to lead you into truth. If
you have that mind, God can
work with you. We have learnt a certain amount of
knowledge up to this point, but
the scriptures state that we must continue to grow in
grace and knowledge as we
continue our journey to eternal life. The first
three seals of the
book of Revelation are: Ishmael Assyria Famine Let’s
compare the scriptures The seals
are about the
events which lead up to and culminate in Jacob’s
Trouble. The seals tell us
what is going to happen to Israel just prior to
Jacob’s Trouble, and then
culminate in the worst time of trouble ever seen in
Israel. 1st
Seal
-
White Horse, Ishmael Rev 6:2 And I
looked, and behold, a white horse. He
who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to
him, and he went out
conquering and to conquer. The rider of
the white horse
is identified in the following scriptures. The rider
had a bow, Ishmael was an
archer. The rider
had a crown,
Ishmael had 12 sons who were princes. Gen 21:20 So God was
with the lad; and he grew and
dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. Gen 17:20 And as for
Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold,
I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and
will multiply him
exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I
will make him a great nation. The above
scriptures show
clearly that the 1st seal is Ishmael. He
will conquer Israel. At the time
of writing, the
Arab nations are a huge threat to Israel with the
onset of terrorism. The
Arab’s hatred of Israel stems from the time of Ishmael
and Isaac. Eze 25:15 ‘Thus says
the Lord GOD: “Because the
Philistines dealt vengefully and took vengeance with
a spiteful heart, to
destroy because of the old hatred,” 2nd
Seal
-
Red Horse, Assyria Rev 6:4 Another
horse, fiery red, went out. And it
was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace
from the earth, and that
people should kill one another; and there was given
to him a great sword. Isa 10:5 “Woe to
Assyria, the rod of My anger And the
staff in whose hand is My indignation. Isa 10:6 I will
send him against an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath I will give him
charge, To seize the spoil,
to take the prey, And to tread them down like the
mire of the streets. Jer 50:17 “Israel is
like scattered sheep; The lions
have driven him away. First the king of Assyria
devoured him; Now at last this
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his
bones.” 3rd
Seal
-
Black Horse, Famine Rev 6:5 When He
opened the third seal, I heard the
third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I
looked, and behold, a black
horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in
his hand. Rev 6:6 And I
heard a voice in the midst of the four
living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a
denarius, and three quarts of
barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and
the wine.” Lev 26:26 When I
have cut off your supply of bread, ten
women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they
shall bring back your bread
by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied. Lam 5:9 We get our
bread at the risk of our lives,
Because of the sword in the wilderness. Lam 5:10 Our skin
is hot as an oven, Because of the
fever of famine. 4th
Seal
-
Pale Horse, Death Rev 6:7 When He
opened the fourth seal, I heard the
voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come
and see.” Rev 6:8 So I
looked, and behold, a pale horse. And
the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades
followed with him. And power
was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to
kill with sword, with hunger,
with death, and by the beasts of the earth. This is the
time of the
culmination of Jacob’s trouble, which is described in
Ezekiel chapter 14. The
following four judgments
are little known or spoken of by church people, but
like it or not, know it or
not, these are the judgments which God is going to
send on Israel and Judah,
because of their disobedience to Him. The four
judgments of Ezekiel
14 v 21 are: the sword,
the famine, the
wild beast and the pestilence. Eze 14:21 For thus
says the Lord GOD: “How much more it
shall be when I send My four severe judgments on
Jerusalem the sword and famine
and wild beasts and pestilence to cut off man and
beast from it? Let’s
compare the scriptures. Fourth seal,
a pale horse,
death Rev 6 v 8
states; The horse
has power over ¼ of the earth to kill with sword,
famine, pestilence and wild
beasts Rev 6:8 So I
looked, and behold, a pale horse. And
the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades
followed with him. And power
was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to
kill with sword, with hunger,
with death, and by the beasts of the earth. Eze 14:21 For thus
says the Lord GOD: “How much more it
shall be when I send My four severe judgments on
Jerusalem the sword and famine
and wild beasts and pestilence to cut off man and
beast from it? These four
judgments cause
2/3 of Israel to perish. Eze 5:12 One-third
of you shall die of the pestilence,
and be consumed with famine in your midst; and
one-third shall fall by the
sword all around you; and I will scatter another
third to all the winds, and I
will draw out a sword after them. Eze 5:13 ‘Thus
shall My anger be spent, and I will
cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be
avenged; and they shall know
that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I
have spent My fury upon
them. The above
scripture shows
that 1/3 of Israel and Judah die of pestilence and
famine, 1/3 die by the sword
and only 1/3 of Israel survive the judgments of God,
and they go into captivity
with the sword after them. The time of
Jacob’s trouble
is the time of God’s wrath on Israel and Judah. Jer 30:7 Alas! For
that day is great, So that none is
like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, But
he shall be saved out of
it. Mat 24:9 “Then they will
deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and
you will be hated by all
nations for My name’s sake. However, God
is a merciful
and loving God. He will not send the judgments on
Israel without warning them
yet again. We know that God has sent His prophets all
throughout history to
warn of impending disaster on His people. We see that
once again God sends His
end time watchman to Israel to warn them. Now we take
the reader to the
time before Jacob’s Trouble…… The Watchman
gives a warning
of impending destruction and captivity on the House of
Israel and Judah. The watchman
must warn the
whole house of Israel, Judah, and the exiles. Notice the
following
scripture regarding God’s wrath on Judah. Eze 5:5 “Thus says
the Lord GOD: ‘This is Jerusalem;
I have set her in the midst of the nations and the
countries all around her. Eze 5:6 She has
rebelled against My judgments by
doing wickedness more than the nations, and against
My statutes more than the
countries that are all around her; for they have
refused My judgments, and they
have not walked in My statutes.’ Eze 5:7 Therefore
thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because
you have multiplied disobedience more than the
nations that are all around you,
have not walked in My statutes nor kept My
judgments, nor even done according
to the judgments of the nations that are all around
you’ Eze 5:8 therefore
thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Indeed I,
even I, am against you and will execute judgments in
your midst in the sight of
the nations. Eze 5:9 And I will
do among you what I have never
done, and the like of which I will never do again,
because of all your
abominations. Eze 5:10 Therefore
fathers shall eat their sons in
your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I
will execute judgments
among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter
to all the winds. Eze 5:11 ‘Therefore,
as I live,’ says the Lord GOD,
‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with
all your detestable things
and with all your abominations, therefore I will
also diminish you; My eye will
not spare, nor will I have any pity. Eze 5:12 One-third
of you shall die of the pestilence,
and be consumed with famine in your midst; and
one-third shall fall by the
sword all around you; and I will scatter another
third to all the winds, and I
will draw out a sword after them. Eze 5:13 ‘Thus
shall My anger be spent, and I will
cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be
avenged; and they shall know
that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I
have spent My fury upon
them. Eze 5:14 Moreover I
will make you a waste and a
reproach among the nations that are all around you,
in the sight of all who
pass by. Eze 5:15 ‘So it
shall be a reproach, a taunt, a
lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are
all around you, when I
execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and
in furious rebukes. I, the
LORD, have spoken. Eze 5:16 When I
send against them the terrible arrows
of famine which shall be for destruction, which I
will send to destroy you, I
will increase the famine upon you and cut off your
supply of bread. Eze 5:17 So I will
send against you famine and wild
beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and
blood shall pass through you,
and I will bring the sword against you. I, the LORD,
have spoken.’ ” In verse 5
this warning is
addressed to Jerusalem, and in verse 17 is the
description of their punishment,
the four judgments of Ezekiel 14 v 21. This is the
time of Jacob’s
trouble. Notice it is not Satan’s wrath it is God’s
wrath. We have not known
this before, this is new knowledge. Also we have not
mentioned the four
judgments for a long time, it is the time of Jacob’s
trouble, it is a time when
2/3 of Israel are killed. Amo 9:8 “Behold,
the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the
sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it from the face
of the earth; Yet I will
not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” Says the
LORD. Amo 9:9 “For
surely I will command, And will sift the
house of Israel among all nations, As grain is
sifted in a sieve; Yet not the
smallest grain shall fall to the ground. Amo 9:10 All the
sinners of My people shall die by the
sword, Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor
confront us.’ The above
scripture shows
plainly that Israel goes into captivity so we do not
need to prove this
further. Israel and Judah go to captivity, and they
will be the recipients of
God’s wrath at the time of Jacob’s trouble. Now back
to the warning of the
watchman to Israel and Judah. Eze 3:4 Then He
said to me: “Son of man, go to the
house of Israel and speak with My words to them. Eze 3:5 For you
are not sent to a people of
unfamiliar speech and of hard language, but to the
house of Israel, The above
scripture shows
some very interesting facts, the watchman must speak
God’s words. It is a waste
of time putting our interpretation and our ideas or
thoughts in things, God’s
words are the words which will be used by the
watchman. There are many
penalties listed in Ezekiel for those who claim to be
prophets and speak their
own words, and God has not sent them. So it is very
clear that God’s words will
be spoken by the watchman. Here we see
what the watchman
is to say……God’s words. To whom? The house of
Israel {remember
Judah is included along with the exiles, which we will
prove shortly.} Who is the
house of Israel?
America, England, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and
the other countries who
make up the 12 tribes of Israel. This is the time of
Jacob’s trouble. Eze 3:10 Moreover
He said to me: “Son of man, receive
into your heart all My words that I speak to you,
and hear with your ears. Eze 3:11 And go,
get to the captives, to the children
of your people, and speak to them and tell them,
‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’
whether they hear, or whether they refuse.” The exiles
are given the
warning Eze 6:2 “Son of
man, set your face toward the
mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, Eze 6:3 and say,
‘O mountains of Israel, hear the
word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the
mountains, to the hills, to
the ravines, and to the valleys: “Indeed I, even I,
will bring a sword against
you, and I will destroy your high places. This is a
part of the warning
message. To the land of Israel. This warning goes to
the Jews and Israelites
living in the actual nation of Israel today. Eze 7:1 Moreover
the word of the LORD came to me,
saying, Eze 7:2 “And you,
son of man, thus says the Lord GOD
to the land of Israel: ‘An end! The end has come
upon the four corners of the
land. Eze 7:3 Now the
end has come upon you, And I will
send My anger against you; I will judge you
according to your ways, And I will
repay you for all your abominations. Eze 7:4 My eye
will not spare you, Nor will I have
pity; But I will repay your ways, And your
abominations will be in your midst;
Then you shall know that I am the LORD!’ Eze 7:5 “Thus says
the Lord GOD: ‘A disaster, a
singular disaster; Behold, it has come! Eze 7:6 An end has
come, The end has come; It has
dawned for you; Behold, it has come! Eze 7:7 Doom has
come to you, you who dwell in the
land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near,
And not of rejoicing in the
mountains. Eze 7:8 Now upon
you I will soon pour out My fury,
And spend My anger upon you; I will judge you
according to your ways, And I
will repay you for all your abominations. Eze 7:9 ‘My eye
will not spare, Nor will I have pity;
I will repay you according to your ways, And your
abominations will be in your
midst. Then you shall know that I am the LORD who
strikes. Here we see
the punishment of
Israel the time of Jacob’s trouble and who brings it.
In verse 9 above, is the
answer, the Lord who strikes. The
following verses contain
the warning messages. Eze 7:15 The sword
is outside, And the pestilence and
famine within. Whoever is in the field will die by
the sword; And whoever is in
the city, Famine and pestilence will devour him. Eze 7:24 Therefore
I will bring the worst of the
Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will
cause the pomp of the
strong to cease, And their holy places shall be
defiled. Eze 7:25 Destruction
comes; They will seek peace, but
there shall be none. Eze 7:26 Disaster
will come upon disaster, And rumor
will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision
from a prophet; But the law
will perish from the priest, And counsel from the
elders. We have seen
plainly that the
watchman warns Israel, Judah and the exiles of the
impending captivity. Have
they listened and heeded the message of the watchman? Jer 6:17 Also, I
set watchmen over you, saying,
‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said,
‘We will not listen.’ Jer 6:22 Thus says
the LORD: “Behold, a people comes
from the north country, And a great nation will be
raised from the farthest
parts of the earth. Jer 6:23 They will
lay hold on bow and spear; They are
cruel and have no mercy; Their voice roars like the
sea; And they ride on
horses, As men of war set in array against you, O
daughter of Zion.” Amo 9:10 All the
sinners of My people shall die by the
sword, Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor
confront us.’ Read Jer. 6
verse 17
carefully, God will send His watchmen to warn Israel
but they will not listen
and heed the warnings. When God is
satisfied that
the warning has gone out, then the time of Jacob’s
trouble will start. God will
ensure that all Israel hears the warning message.
Notice the following
scripture: Isa 9:8 The Lord
sent a word against Jacob, And it
has fallen on Israel. The old King
James has it a
little more clearly: Isa 9:8 The Lord
sent a word into Jacob, and it hath
lighted upon Israel. THEN JACOB’S
TROUBLE Eze 12:27 “Son of
man, look, the house of Israel is
saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days
from now, and he prophesies
of times far off.’ Eze 12:28 Therefore
say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord
GOD: “None of My words will be postponed any more,
but the word which I speak
will be done,” says the Lord GOD.’ ” People think
that the end is
a long way off and that all the prophecies are for the
future, not for the
present time. However, at the time the watchman gives
his warning, God says,
there shall be delay no more. These events are now
about to come to pass. Just prior
to Jacob’s trouble
starting, some people will be counted worthy to miss
this terrible time and
will be spared this horrendous event. Luk 21:36 Watch therefore, and
pray always that you may be counted worthy to
escape all these things that will
come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” Psa 37:37 Mark the
blameless man, and observe the
upright; For the future of that man is peace. Psa 37:38 But the
transgressors shall be destroyed
together; The future of the wicked shall be cut off. Psa 37:39 But the
salvation of the righteous is from
the LORD; He is their strength in the time of
trouble. Psa 37:40 And the
LORD shall help them and deliver
them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, And
save them, Because they trust
in Him. In Ezekiel
Chapter 2 is
described a scroll, which contains lamentations,
mourning and woe. The prophet
had to eat the book and then go and warn the
Israelites of the impending
trouble. (Chapter 3) This is referring to Jacob’s
trouble. Only six seals and the
6 following trumpets are revealed at this time. The 7th
trump and
remaining 7 plagues of the Day of the Lord are covered
by the little book in
Revelation 10. The end time prophet of God eats the
whole book. Firstly the
modern day Israelites are warned and after Jacob’s
trouble the gentile nations
are warned of the 7 plagues of the Day of the Lord. Prior to
captivity. Eze 12:10 Say to
them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “This
burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the
house of Israel who are
among them.” ’ Eze 12:11 Say, ‘I am
a sign to you. As I have done, so
shall it be done to them; they shall be carried away
into captivity.’ Judah and
Israel go to
captivity. Eze 12:16 But I will
spare a few of their men from the
sword, from famine, and from pestilence, that they
may declare all their
abominations among the Gentiles wherever they go.
Then they shall know that I
am the LORD.” There are
very few left when
Israel go into captivity. Also note
this terrible
thing, Jacob’s brother, Esau, actually stands by and
watches as their very own
brother goes into captivity, then they gloat over
their brother’s misfortune.
Look at these verses. Oba 1:9 Then your
mighty men, O Teman, shall be
dismayed, To the end that everyone from the
mountains of Esau May be cut off by
slaughter. Oba 1:10 “For
violence against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off
forever. Oba 1:11 In the day
that you stood on the other side
In the day that strangers carried captive his
forces, When foreigners entered
his gates And cast lots for Jerusalem Even you were
as one of them. Oba 1:12 “But you
should not have gazed on the day of
your brother In the day of his captivity; Nor should
you have rejoiced over the
children of Judah In the day of their destruction;
Nor should you have spoken
proudly In the day of distress. The false
prophets of Israel
are warned and dealt with also. Eze 13:15 “Thus will
I accomplish My wrath on the wall
and on those who have plastered it with untempered
mortar; and I will say to
you, ‘The wall is no more, nor those who plastered
it, Eze 13:16 that is,
the prophets of Israel who prophesy
concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace
for her when there is no
peace,’ ” says the Lord GOD. False
prophets must reap what
they have sown. These
scripture are very
serious, even if we are righteous we cannot save our
own children, these things
are that serious. Eze 14:20 even
though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it,
as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “they would deliver
neither son nor daughter;
they would deliver only themselves by their
righteousness.” Eze 14:21 For thus
says the Lord GOD: “How much more it
shall be when I send My four severe judgments on
Jerusalem the sword and famine
and wild beasts and pestilence to cut off man and
beast from it? The
following scriptures are
a brief description of the terrible times ahead in the
time of Jacob’s trouble. Jer 30:7 Alas! For
that day is great, So that none is
like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, But
he shall be saved out of
it. We know that
a terrible time
is coming for Israel and Judah because they would not
obey God. They have
idols, they are unfaithful to God they commit
abominations, they have rejected
God’s statutes and judgements. They have to learn the
hard way, God will punish
them now, but they will learn the errors of their
ways. Eze 5:10 Therefore
fathers shall eat their sons in
your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I
will execute judgments
among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter
to all the winds. Eze 5:11 ‘Therefore,
as I live,’ says the Lord GOD,
‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with
all your detestable things
and with all your abominations, therefore I will
also diminish you; My eye will
not spare, nor will I have any pity. Look at
these dreadful events
during Jacob’s trouble people eating each other,
fathers eating their own sons
and sons eating their own fathers. This sounds almost
too horrible to believe,
but it is going to happen. God is sick of their
dreadful ways, and they must
learn to change from their sins. Israel and
Judah are taken
into captivity, amid death and destruction, this is a
dreadful time and we must
not look forward to it, but it is necessary for God to
be able to work with
these people. Notice this
dreadful
description of Israel and Judah’s condition whilst
they are in captivity. Lev 26:39 And those
of you who are left shall waste
away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; also
in their fathers’
iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste
away. Lev 26:40 ‘But if
they confess their iniquity and the
iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness
in which they were
unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked
contrary to Me, Lev 26:41 and that I
also have walked contrary to them
and have brought them into the land of their
enemies; if their uncircumcised
hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt Lev 26:42 then I
will remember My covenant with Jacob,
and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with
Abraham I will remember; I will
remember the land. Unless
Israel repents God
will leave them to rot in captivity. Once Israel
and Judah are in
captivity, then the end time Elijah goes to them and
turns their hearts to
their Father and the Father’s hearts to the children.
Israel, now completely
humiliated and homeless, destitute and slaves in a
foreign land, are now at
long last willing to listen to God’s end time prophet
Elijah and his commission
from God. Luk 1:16 And he
will turn many of the children of
Israel to the Lord their God. Luk 1:17 He will
also go before Him in the spirit and
power of Elijah, ‘TO TURN THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS
TO THE CHILDREN,’ and the
disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready
a people prepared for the
Lord.” Mal 4:5 Behold, I
will send you Elijah the prophet
Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of
the LORD. Mal 4:6 And he
will turn The hearts of the fathers to
the children, And the hearts of the children to
their fathers, Lest I come and
strike the earth with a curse. People
realise Jacob’s
trouble was necessary to cause Israel to repent. Eze 14:22 Yet
behold, there shall be left in it a
remnant who will be brought out, both sons and
daughters; surely they will come
out to you, and you will see their ways and their
doings. Then you will be
comforted concerning the disaster that I have
brought upon Jerusalem, all that
I have brought upon it. Eze 14:23 And they
will comfort you, when you see their
ways and their doings; and you shall know that I
have done nothing without
cause that I have done in it,” says the Lord GOD. The message
of Elijah will be
that God is prepared to forgive Israel if they repent
and have a correct
attitude and heart and believe God. As long as they
have obedient hearts and
minds God will work with them. His heart will be
turned to them. Their hearts
will be turned to the Father. Also we know that Elijah
will restore all things… We also see
in the verses
from Ezekiel that the captives will have a change of
heart, but unfortunately
it will take a great deal of suffering before that is
achieved. Mat 17:10 And His
disciples asked Him, saying, “Why
then do the scribes say that Elijah must come
first?” Mat 17:11 Jesus
answered and said to them, “Indeed,
Elijah is coming first and will restore all
things. You have
probably realised by
now, that you have learnt very little new knowledge in
the church since the
death of Mr. Armstrong. The church must continue to
grow in grace and
knowledge. There are still many new things to be
learnt. We see that the end time
Elijah restores all things. The end time Elijah will
have some fantastic new
knowledge from God to share with the final era of His
church. During
Jacob’s Trouble the 5th
seal occurs. The martyrdom of saints, is included in
the 4th seal.
God’s people are put to death and persecuted right up
until Christ’s return.
This is mainly because they have to prove their
faithfulness. One of the
biggest tests for the church will be to see if they
are prepared to believe and
accept the new knowledge of eternal life. Before the
martyrdom we know that the
gospel must have first been published. Mar 13:9 “But watch out for
yourselves, for they will deliver you up to
councils, and you will be beaten in
the synagogues. You will be brought before rulers
and kings for My sake, for a
testimony to them. Mar 13:10 And the gospel must
first be preached to all the nations. Notice the
context of the
above scripture, it is talking about a martyrdom and
persecution of saints, but
before that will happen the gospel must first be
published. It will be very
difficult, once the persecution starts to get any work
done, so it is made
clear by Christ that the gospel will have been
published before the martyrdom
of saints begins. Whilst
Israel is in
captivity, they learn to turn to God and follow His
ways. Elijah turns the
hearts of the Fathers to the children and the hearts
of the children to the
Fathers during this time. The following scripture
shows that God leaves them
alone to come to the realisation that they must change
their sinful ways and
follow the ways of God. Hos 5:15 I will
return again to My place Till they
acknowledge their offense. Then they will seek My
face; In their affliction
they will earnestly seek Me.” Then the
Father gets them out
of captivity. Mic 2:12 “I will
surely assemble all of you, O Jacob,
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will
put them together like sheep
of the fold, Like a flock in the midst of their
pasture; They shall make a loud
noise because of so many people. Mic 2:13 The one
who breaks open will come up before
them; They will break out, Pass through the gate,
And go out by it; Their king
will pass before them, With the LORD at their head.” Read this
scripture over
until you really understand what it says, the Father
goes to Israel and Judah
which are in captivity and He goes on ahead of them to
lead them out of
captivity. Now their king shall pass before them. Who
is their king? Jer 30:9 But they
shall serve the LORD their God, And
David their king, Whom I will raise up for them. Jer 31:8 Behold, I
will bring them from the north
country, And gather them from the ends of the earth,
Among them the blind and
the lame, The woman with child And the one who
labors with child, together; A
great throng shall return there. Jer 31:9 They shall
come with weeping, And with
supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to
walk by the rivers of
waters, In a straight way in which they shall not
stumble; For I am a Father to
Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn. Eze 34:11 ‘For thus
says the Lord GOD: “Indeed I Myself
will search for My sheep and seek them out. Eze 34:12 As a
shepherd seeks out his flock on the day
he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek out
My sheep and deliver them
from all the places where they were scattered on a
cloudy and dark day. Eze 34:13 And I will
bring them out from the peoples
and gather them from the countries, and will bring
them to their own land; I
will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the
valleys and in all the
inhabited places of the country. Eze 34:14 I will
feed them in good pasture, and their
fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There
they shall lie down in a
good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains
of Israel. Eze 34:15 I will
feed My flock, and I will make them
lie down,” says the Lord GOD. Jer 23:7 “Therefore,
behold, the days are coming,”
says the LORD, “that they shall no longer say, ‘As
the LORD lives who brought
up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ Jer 23:8 but, ‘As
the LORD lives who brought up and
led the descendants of the house of Israel from the
north country and from all
the countries where I had driven them.’ And they
shall dwell in their own
land.” The Father
says He will
search and seek for His sheep. Notice verse 8 of
Jeremiah 23. The Lord who
brought up and led the descendants of the house of
Israel. This is just another
proof of the amazing new knowledge regarding the
return to earth of the Father
and what He will do on His arrival. Eze 34:23 I will
establish one shepherd over them, and
he shall feed them My servant David. He shall feed
them and be their shepherd. Eze 34:24 And I, the
LORD, will be their God, and My
servant David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have
spoken. These
fantastic scriptures
explain some wonderful new knowledge for us, this is
truly amazing. God the
Father returns and together with David, search out
Israel and Judah and bring
them back to their own land Israel. Now look at
this exciting
scripture, what do you think is going to happen to the
nations which took
Israel and Judah captive? What do you think will
happen to them? Remember they
are cruel nations and Israel and Judah have had a
terrible time at their hands
whilst they were in captivity. Read this
scripture, the
nations which took Israel captive will now serve
Israel, how amazing… Isa 14:1 For the
LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and
will still choose Israel, and settle them in their
own land. The strangers will
be joined with them, and they will cling to the
house of Jacob. Isa 14:2 Then
people will take them and bring them to
their place, and the house of Israel will possess
them for servants and maids
in the land of the LORD; they will take them captive
whose captives they were,
and rule over their oppressors. Isa 14:3 It shall
come to pass in the day the LORD
gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear
and the hard bondage in
which you were made to serve, Isa 14:4 that you
will take up this proverb against
the king of Babylon, and say: “How the oppressor has
ceased, The golden city
ceased! Isa 14:5 The LORD
has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of the rulers; Notice verse
2, the people
who took Israel captive, will now serve the Israelites
as servants and
handmaids. Notice the
following
scripture, when the Israelites come out of captivity,
God makes them walk out
on a highway, just as they did in the days when they
came out of Egypt. How
interesting, they actually had a road to travel on
then, and in the near future
when they come out of their captivity, God will give
them a highway to walk on. Isa 11:15 The LORD
will utterly destroy the tongue of
the Sea of Egypt; With His mighty wind He will shake
His fist over the River,
And strike it in the seven streams, And make men
cross over dryshod. Isa 11:16 There will
be a highway for the remnant of
His people Who will be left from Assyria, As it was
for Israel In the day that
he came up from the land of Egypt. Notice this
following
scripture which shows that the Israelites actually
fight against, plunder and
defeat a number of nations on their return from
captivity. Isa 11:12 He will
set up a banner for the nations, And
will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather
together the dispersed of
Judah From the four corners of the earth. Isa 11:13 Also the
envy of Ephraim shall depart, And
the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim
shall not envy Judah, And
Judah shall not harass Ephraim. Isa 11:14 But they
shall fly down upon the shoulder of
the Philistines toward the west; Together they shall
plunder the people of the
East; They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab;
And the people of Ammon shall
obey them. Isa 11:15 The LORD
will utterly destroy the tongue of
the Sea of Egypt; With His mighty wind He will shake
His fist over the River,
And strike it in the seven streams, And make men
cross over dryshod. This is
exciting knowledge
for us, and it would be a good idea to read it again,
and let this wonderful
knowledge sink in. Once the
Israelites reach
Israel, God expects a changed attitude from them. He
expects them to
demonstrate remorse, a changed heart and mind, and to
demonstrate belief in
their God. Eze 43:10 “Son of
man, describe the temple to the house
of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their
iniquities; and let them measure
the pattern. Eze 43:11 And if
they are ashamed of all that they have
done, make known to them the design of the temple
and its arrangement, its
exits and its entrances, its entire design and all
its ordinances, all its
forms and all its laws. Write it down in their
sight, so that they may keep its
whole design and all its ordinances, and perform
them. Eze 43:12 This is
the law of the temple: The whole area
surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold,
this is the law of the
temple. If Israel
change their minds
and have a correct attitude and heart, God will show
them the plans of His
temple. The above verse shows this, as well as the
following verse. Eze 40:4 And the
man said to me, “Son of man, look
with your eyes and hear with your ears, and fix your
mind on everything I show
you; for you were brought here so that I might show
them to you. Declare to the
house of Israel everything you see.” Eze 43:7 And He
said to me, “Son of man, this is the
place of My throne and the place of the soles of My
feet, where I will dwell in
the midst of the children of Israel forever. No more
shall the house of Israel
defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their
harlotry or with the
carcasses of their kings on their high places. Eze 37:24 “David My
servant shall be king over them,
and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall
also walk in My judgments and
observe My statutes, and do them. Eze 37:25 Then they
shall dwell in the land that I have
given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt;
and they shall dwell
there, they, their children, and their children’s
children, forever; and My
servant David shall be their prince forever. Eze 37:26 Moreover I
will make a covenant of peace with
them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with
them; I will establish them
and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in
their midst forevermore. Eze 37:27 My
tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed
I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Eze 37:28 The
nations also will know that I, the LORD,
sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst
forevermore.” ’ ” This is
amazing truth, God
allows the Israelites under King David to build His
temple. God will live with
them forever. These above
scriptures show
that the Father with David will bring Israel and
Judah, back to their own land
of Israel. Joe 3:1 “For
behold, in those days and at that time,
When I bring back the captives of Judah and
Jerusalem, Joe 3:2 I will
also gather all nations, And bring
them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will
enter into judgment with
them there On account of My people, My heritage
Israel, Whom they have
scattered among the nations; They have also divided
up My land. The
following scripture shows
what happens when Israel return from captivity. Jer 16:14 “Therefore
behold, the days are coming,” says
the LORD, “that it shall no more be said, ‘The LORD
lives who brought up the
children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ Jer 16:15 but, ‘The
LORD lives who brought up the
children of Israel from the land of the north and
from all the lands where He
had driven them.’ For I will bring them back into
their land which I gave to
their fathers. Isa 49:8 Thus says
the LORD: “In an acceptable time I
have heard You, And in the day of salvation I have
helped You; I will preserve
You and give You As a covenant to the people, To
restore the earth, To cause
them to inherit the desolate heritages; Isa 49:9 That You
may say to the prisoners, ‘Go
forth,’ To those who are in darkness, ‘Show
yourselves.’ “They shall feed along
the roads, And their pastures shall be on all
desolate heights. Isa 49:10 They shall
neither hunger nor thirst, Neither
heat nor sun shall strike them; For He who has mercy
on them will lead them,
Even by the springs of water He will guide them. Isa 49:11 I will
make each of My mountains a road, And
My highways shall be elevated. Isa 49:12 Surely
these shall come from afar; Look!
Those from the north and the west, And these from
the land of Sinim.” Isa 49:13 Sing, O
heavens! Be joyful, O earth! And
break out in singing, O mountains! For the LORD has
comforted His people, And
will have mercy on His afflicted. Also on the
way back, many
nations join themselves to Israel, they realise that
to follow God is the best
way. Isa 56:8 The Lord
GOD, who gathers the outcasts of
Israel, says, “Yet I will gather to him Others
besides those who are gathered
to him.” Zec 2:11 “Many
nations shall be joined to the LORD in
that day, and they shall become My people. And I
will dwell in your midst. Then
you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to
you. The
following scripture shows
that the above mentioned nations who joined themselves
to Israel on their way
back to Jerusalem are in fact the great multitude
mentioned in Revelation. Rev 7:9 After
these things I looked, and behold, a
great multitude which no one could number, of all
nations, tribes, peoples, and
tongues, standing before the throne and before the
Lamb, clothed with white
robes, with palm branches in their hands, Rev 7:14 And I said
to him, “Sir, you know.” So he
said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the
great tribulation, and
washed their robes and made them white in the blood
of the Lamb. Notice this
amazing new
knowledge regarding the children of the people who
were taken captive. In Deut.
28 v 32 it was shown that the Israelites watched in
vain as their children were
taken from them. Deu 28:32 Your sons
and your daughters shall be given
to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail
with longing for them all
day long; and there shall be no strength in your
hand. Now we see
what actually
happens to those children, when God sets His hand to
rescue His people from
captivity. Isa 49:20 The
children you will have, After you have
lost the others, Will say again in your ears, ‘The
place is too small for me;
Give me a place where I may dwell.’ Isa 49:21 Then you
will say in your heart, ‘Who has
begotten these for me, Since I have lost my children
and am desolate, A
captive, and wandering to and fro? And who has
brought these up? There I was,
left alone; But these, where were they?’ ” Isa 49:22 Thus says
the Lord GOD: “Behold, I will lift
My hand in an oath to the nations, And set up My
standard for the peoples; They
shall bring your sons in their arms, And your
daughters shall be carried on
their shoulders; Isa 49:23 Kings
shall be your foster fathers, And their
queens your nursing mothers; They shall bow down to
you with their faces to the
earth, And lick up the dust of your feet. Then you
will know that I am the LORD,
For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.” That is just
amazing, the
children of the captive nation of Israel, who the
Israelites thought were dead,
will be brought back to them by the nations who took
them captive. The kings
and queens of these nations will actually be their
nurses and look after them.
These kings and queens will bow down to the people of
the nation of Israel. The
nation of Israel are God’s people. And again
notice this great
scripture. Isa 49:25 But thus
says the LORD: “Even the captives of
the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the
terrible be delivered; For
I will contend with him who contends with you, And I
will save your children. Isa 49:26 I will
feed those who oppress you with their
own flesh, And they shall be drunk with their own
blood as with sweet wine. All
flesh shall know That I, the LORD, am your Savior,
And your Redeemer, the
Mighty One of Jacob.” The
following scripture
indicates that it was necessary for Israel and Judah
to undergo the horrendous
events of Jacob’s Trouble in order for them to
eventually end up with the
correct attitude and heart. Eventually it will be very
plainly evident that the
horrors of Jacob’s Trouble were the only way their
hearts and attitudes could
be changed. God knows best, He is a loving and
merciful God. Eze 14:22 Yet
behold, there shall be left in it a
remnant who will be brought out, both sons and
daughters; surely they will come
out to you, and you will see their ways and their
doings. Then you will be
comforted concerning the disaster that I have
brought upon Jerusalem, all that
I have brought upon it. Eze 14:23 And they
will comfort you, when you see their
ways and their doings; and you shall know that I
have done nothing without
cause that I have done in it,” says the Lord GOD. Incredible
as it may seem
even the Israelites themselves admit that they had to
go through Jacob’s
Trouble. They loathe themselves for the evils which
they have committed, and
they understand why God had to bring this disaster on
them. Eze 6:9 Then those
of you who escape will remember Me
among the nations where they are carried captive,
because I was crushed by
their adulterous heart which has departed from Me,
and by their eyes which play
the harlot after their idols; they will loathe
themselves for the evils which
they committed in all their abominations. Eze 6:10 And they
shall know that I am the LORD; I
have not said in vain that I would bring this
calamity upon them.” The below
scripture will make
great headlines after Israel come out of captivity.
Notice that the whole earth
has to hear about God’s rescue of Israel. Isa 48:20 Go forth
from Babylon! Flee from the
Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, Declare,
proclaim this, Utter it to the end
of the earth; Say, “The LORD has redeemed His
servant Jacob!” Isa 48:21 And they
did not thirst When He led them
through the deserts; He caused the waters to flow
from the rock for them; He
also split the rock, and the waters gushed out. Isa 48:22 “There is
no peace,” says the LORD, “for the
wicked.” The Holy One
of Israel will
be made known to the entire world. Isa 66:19 I will set
a sign among them; and those among
them who escape I will send to the nations: to
Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who
draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands
afar off who have not
heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall
declare My glory among the
Gentiles. The whole
world will at last
know the truth about the Father, and Christ. THEN THE
MARTYRDOM OF SAINTS Rev 6:9 When He
opened the fifth seal, I saw under
the altar the souls of those who had been slain for
the word of God and for the
testimony which they held. Rev 6:10 And they
cried with a loud voice, saying,
“How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge
and avenge our blood on those
who dwell on the earth?” Rev 6:11 Then a
white robe was given to each of them;
and it was said to them that they should rest a
little while longer, until both
the number of their fellow servants and their
brethren, who would be killed as
they were, was completed. Mat 24:9 “Then they will
deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and
you will be hated by all
nations for My name’s sake. Mat 24:10 And then many will be
offended, will betray one another, and will hate
one another. These above
scriptures make
it plain that there is going to be a martyrdom of
saints brought on by Satan.
Notice the scriptures below showing how the true
firstfruits of God will be
treated by their own brethren, the actual members of
God’s church. Isa 66:5 Hear the
word of the LORD, You who tremble at
His word: “Your brethren who hated you, Who cast you
out for My name’s sake,
said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified, That we may see
your joy.’ But they shall be
ashamed.” The brethren
think, in some
strange way, that the ones being cast out will do some
harm to them or damage
their beliefs. Because they have cast out the brethren
they think God should be
glorified. But look what happens to them…… they shall
be ashamed. Let’s notice
what the book of
Daniel has to say about this time. We pick up the
story speaking of the King of
the North… Dan 11:29 “At the
appointed time he shall return and go
toward the south; but it shall not be like the
former or the latter. Dan 11:30 For ships
from Cyprus shall come against him;
therefore he shall be grieved, and return in rage
against the holy covenant,
and do damage. “So he shall return and show regard
for those who forsake the
holy covenant. Dan 11:31 And forces
shall be mustered by him, and they
shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall
take away the daily
sacrifices, and place there the abomination of
desolation. This event
happens just prior
to the Day of the Lord, please see Matt 24 v 15-22,
but we have put it in here
to show the flow of events leading into the Martyrdom
of Saints. Now we see
in the following
scriptures the trouble that God’s people then
encounter. Dan 11:32 Those who
do wickedly against the covenant he
shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know
their God shall be strong,
and carry out great exploits. Notice there
will be action
against the covenant. But the people who KNOW their
God will be strong and do
great exploits. It is so very important that we know
God the Father and Christ.
There is new end time knowledge about God the Father
and Christ at this web
site, be sure to read it and learn it. Look how vital
it is to know about God
in these end times. Dan 11:33 And those
of the people who understand shall
instruct many; yet for many days they shall fall by
sword and flame, by
captivity and plundering. There are
some who know their
God and teach many, but unfortunately the people being
taught still go through
Jacob’s Trouble and martyrdom. Unfortunately they left
things too late and
needed to be tried in the fire for righteousness sake. Now notice
what happens next. Dan 11:34 Now when
they fall, they shall be aided with
a little help; but many shall join with them by
intrigue. This is sad
indeed, we see
that there is a group of God’s people, who know the
truth, know their God and
teach others about it, but it would appear they are
only a small group. Then
when other church people see that they have the truth,
they join them, but in
hypocrisy. How sad that is and yet there are many
scriptures that back up this
very disturbing situation. Eze 33:31 So they
come to you as people do, they sit
before you as My people, and they hear your words,
but they do not do them; for
with their mouth they show much love, but their
hearts pursue their own gain. Mat 25:10 And while they went
to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were
ready went in with him to the
wedding; and the door was shut. Mat 25:11 “Afterward the other
virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to
us!’ Mat 25:12 But he answered and
said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know
you.’ The above
scripture shows a
very sad picture for quite a number in God’s church so
we must be very careful
to be diligent in our calling. Notice that
even some of
those who have insight will be martyred. They too have
to be refined for their
own good. Dan 11:35 And some
of those of understanding shall
fall, to refine them, purify them, and make them
white, until the time of the
end; because it is still for the appointed time. Let’s notice
an amazing fact…
the Father returns, read on for some wonderful new
knowledge. DURING THE
MARTYRDOM OF
SAINTS GOD THE FATHER RETURNS TO THE EARTH. THE FATHER
RETURNS WITH THE
SAINTS. Dan 7:21 “I was
watching; and the same horn was making
war against the saints, and prevailing against them, Dan 7:22 until the
Ancient of Days came, and a
judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most
High, and the time came
for the saints to possess the kingdom. This is
plain and simple
truth from the pages of your Bible, God the Father
returns during the martyrdom
of Saints. We will show
by scripture
that the Father returns during the martyrdom, however
the martyrdom lasts all
the way through to the 7th trump. Zec 14:5 Then you
shall flee through My mountain
valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.
Yes, you shall flee As you
fled from the earthquake In the days of Uzziah king
of Judah. Thus the LORD my
God will come, And all the saints with You. Do not think
that this verse
refers to Christ, it does not, this is talking about
the Father. Notice what we
have seen clearly so far, the Father returns during
the martyrdom of saints and
He returns with the saints. These are the resurrected
saints which are dead at
this present time eg. Abraham, Moses, Daniel, etc.
these are returning with the
Father. 1Th 4:14 For if we
believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so God will bring with Him those who
sleep in Jesus. Jud 1:14 Now Enoch,
the seventh from Adam, prophesied
about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord
comes with ten thousands of His
saints, Deu 33:2 And he
said: “The LORD came from Sinai, And
dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount
Paran, And He came with ten
thousands of saints; From His right hand Came a
fiery law for them. Deu 33:3 Yes, He
loves the people; All His saints are
in Your hand; They sit down at Your feet; Everyone
receives Your words. Read these
scriptures over
again, God the Father comes with the saints. CHRIST
RETURNS WITH THE
ANGELS Mat 16:27 For the Son of Man
will come in the glory of His Father with His
angels, and then He will reward
each according to his works. 2Th 1:7 and to
give you who are troubled rest with us
when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His
mighty angels, Rev 19:11 Now I saw
heaven opened, and behold, a white
horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and
True, and in righteousness
He judges and makes war. Rev 19:12 His eyes
were like a flame of fire, and on
His head were many crowns. He had a name written
that no one knew except
Himself. Rev 19:13 He was
clothed with a robe dipped in blood,
and His name is called The Word of God. Rev 19:14 And the
armies in heaven, clothed in fine
linen, white and clean, followed Him on white
horses. Rev 19:15 Now out of
His mouth goes a sharp sword, that
with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself
will rule them with a rod
of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the
fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God. Rev 19:16 And He has
on His robe and on His thigh a
name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. These above
scriptures
confirm this amazing new knowledge that the Father
returns during the martyrdom
of saints, with the resurrected saints. Jesus returns
with the angels. The sixth
seal is the
heavenly signs, this ushers in the Day of the Lord. Rev 6:12 I looked
when He opened the sixth seal, and
behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun
became black as sackcloth of
hair, and the moon became like blood. Rev 6:13 And the
stars of heaven fell to the earth, as
a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by
a mighty wind. Rev 6:14 Then the
sky receded as a scroll when it is
rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved
out of its place. Rev 6:15 And the
kings of the earth, the great men,
the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every
slave and every free man,
hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the
mountains, Rev 6:16 and said
to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on
us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the
throne and from the wrath
of the Lamb! Rev 6:17 For the
great day of His wrath has come, and
who is able to stand?” Joe 2:30 “And I
will show wonders in the heavens and
in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. Joe 2:31 The sun
shall be turned into darkness, And
the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great
and awesome day of the
LORD. Joe 2:32 And it
shall come to pass That whoever calls
on the name of the LORD Shall be saved. For in Mount
Zion and in Jerusalem
there shall be deliverance, As the LORD has said,
Among the remnant whom the
LORD calls. Isa 34:4 All the
host of heaven shall be dissolved,
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll;
All their host shall fall
down As the leaf falls from the vine, And as fruit
falling from a fig tree. Now after
the heavenly signs
and before the Day of the Lord, we see the sealing of
the 144,000. These are
the firstfruits of God. These are the dead saints and
some who are alive at
this time who qualify to be firstfruits. This means
that the dead saints are
resurrected at this time. We know that they come to
earth with the Father,
which has been proved in the above scripture. So this
is showing that they are
alive, and sealed at this time. Rev 7:3 saying,
“Do not harm the earth, the sea, or
the trees till we have sealed the servants of our
God on their foreheads.” This seal is
not the Holy
Spirit. God’s people already have His Spirit, it is
the Father’s name on their
foreheads. Rev 14:1 Then I
looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on
Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four
thousand, having His
Father’s name written on their foreheads. Notice, also
that the
firstfruits include the dead saints and those who are
alive and who qualify to
be firstfruits. Notice the live saints are sealed at
this time. Remember the
dead are raised first, the live saints are changed
after the dead saints are
resurrected. Notice this scripture which shows that
the live saints are sealed,
therefore they are firstfruits. Rev 9:4 They were
commanded not to harm the grass of
the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only
those men who do not have
the seal of God on their foreheads. This above
scripture depicts
an event during the blowing of the 5th
trumpet, the 1st Woe,
during the 7th seal. This event occurs
after the sealing of the
144,000. So we see
that the
firstfruits are sealed, they belong to God the Father
and Christ, they are
sealed before the 7 trumpets. You might challenge the
time setting, as this is
not the last trump, but a careful study of scripture
shows that the Firstfruits
are special, different from the saints in some ways: 1Co 15:23 But each
one in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His
coming. Also notice 1Co 15:52 in a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at
the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and
the dead will be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed. The word
“at” is explained in
the Strong’s concordance, which is quite remarkable,
as these prepositions are
not usually discussed, however this word at can mean
before. With the
above information in
mind, we see that the 144,000 firstfruits are sealed
when the scripture states
- before the 7th trumpets. Rev 14:4 These are
the ones who were not defiled with
women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who
follow the Lamb wherever He
goes. These were redeemed from among men, being
firstfruits to God and to the
Lamb. After the
sealing of the
firstfruits, the day of the Lord starts. Also the
event of the
appearance of six men and a man with an inkhorn. Those
who sigh over Jerusalem
are marked out. THE TEMPLE
IS DEFILED Eze 9:1 Then He
called out in my hearing with a loud
voice, saying, “Let those who have charge over the
city draw near, each with a
deadly weapon in his hand.” Eze 9:2 And
suddenly six men came from the direction
of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his
battle-ax in his hand. One
man among them was clothed with linen and had a
writer’s inkhorn at his side.
They went in and stood beside the bronze altar. Eze 9:3 Now the
glory of the God of Israel had gone
up from the cherub, where it had been, to the
threshold of the temple. And He
called to the man clothed with linen, who had the
writer’s inkhorn at his side; Eze 9:4 and the
LORD said to him, “Go through the
midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem,
and put a mark on the
foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the
abominations that are done
within it.” Eze 9:5 To the
others He said in my hearing, “Go
after him through the city and kill; do not let your
eye spare, nor have any
pity. Eze 9:6 Utterly
slay old and young men, maidens and
little children and women; but do not come near
anyone on whom is the mark; and
begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the
elders who were before the
temple. Those who
have the mark on
their foreheads are spared this slaughter. They have
their hearts right with
God and are horrified at the way man is living his
life here on earth. The way
of God is forgotten and blasphemed, man just does any
imagination of his heart,
there is no fear of God. These people, who have the
mark, will be marked out
and will not have to suffer this impending slaughter.
They have not defiled the
temple. Many things
happen at the
return of the Father. One of them is that at this time
the abomination of
desolation is set up in the temple. Remember that the
Israelites built the
temple under the direct supervision of King David. Now
some of the church
members have turned against the true members of God’s
church and taken the side
of the little horn. This has resulted in the temple
being defiled. Dan 11:31 And forces
shall be mustered by him, and they
shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall
take away the daily
sacrifices, and place there the abomination of
desolation. When the
Father returns He
stands on the Mount of Olives, and an earthquake
divides the mountain. This
creates a valley, and the Israelites flee through here
to the valley of Achor.
The scripture states that the Israelites stayed in the
mountains around Jerusalem
on their initial return from captivity. Zec 14:4 And in
that day His feet will stand on the
Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives
shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a
very large valley; Half of
the mountain shall move toward the north And half of
it toward the south. Zec 14:5 Then you
shall flee through My mountain
valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.
Yes, you shall flee As you
fled from the earthquake In the days of Uzziah king
of Judah. Thus the LORD my
God will come, And all the saints with You. The
following scripture is
possibly dual, referring to Israel and the church, in
some of the verses, but
primarily it is referring to the church and their
situation during this time.
It could well be that when the church members accept
the knowledge of the
truth, they qualify to be protected from the dragon
during this time. They flee
to a place prepared by God to be fed for one thousand
two hundred and sixty
days. Rev 12:3 And
another sign appeared in heaven: behold,
a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten
horns, and seven diadems
on his heads. Rev 12:4 His tail
drew a third of the stars of heaven
and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood
before the woman who was
ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as
it was born. Rev 12:5 She bore a
male Child who was to rule all
nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught
up to God and His throne. Rev 12:6 Then the
woman fled into the wilderness,
where she has a place prepared by God, that they
should feed her there one
thousand two hundred and sixty days. Luk 21:36 Watch therefore, and
pray always that you may be counted worthy to
escape all these things that will
come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” After the
dragon is cast to
the earth he persecutes the woman, {church}. The
church then flies to her place
where she is nourished from the presence of the
serpent. These church members
have now accepted the knowledge of the truth and have
also qualified to be
protected. Rev 12:13 Now when
the dragon saw that he had been cast
to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth
to the male Child. Rev 12:14 But the
woman was given two wings of a great
eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her
place, where she is
nourished for a time and times and half a time, from
the presence of the
serpent. Rev 12:15 So the
serpent spewed water out of his mouth
like a flood after the woman, that he might cause
her to be carried away by the
flood. Rev 12:16 But the
earth helped the woman, and the earth
opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which
the dragon had spewed out of
his mouth. Now we see
there are still
church members who are left and have not qualified to
be taken to safety. These
brethren have to be tested in severe trials to prove
faithful to God. God must
be very sure of His people, eternal life is at stake.
Notice the dragon goes to
make war with them. Rev 12:17 And the
dragon was enraged with the woman,
and he went to make war with the rest of her
offspring, who keep the
commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus
Christ. THEN THE DAY
OF THE LORD The Seventh
Seal is The Day
of the Lord it is a time of God’s wrath on the gentile
nations, it comes on
them due to their heart and mind and behaviour. They
are totally rebellious,
they worship idols they have ignored God’s statutes
and ordinances, they are
proud and lofty, haughty, sinners, they are liars,
they deal falsely with each
other and show no love or compassion. They oppress the
poor, the fatherless and
the orphan. They must change their ways and the only
way this will happen is
the Day of the Lord. The Day of
the Lord is
divided into 7 trumpets, the last 3 trumpets are 3
woes. The last trump or the
third woe is divided into 7 plagues. 1st
TRUMPET Rev 8:7 The first
angel sounded: And hail and fire
followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown
to the earth. And a third of
the trees were burned up, and all green grass was
burned up. During the
first trump, Gog
and Magog come up against Israel who are in the Valley
of Achor living in
safety. These nations think that Israel is an easy
target and try to invade
them. Eze 38:8 After many
days you will be visited. In the
latter years you will come into the land of those
brought back from the sword
and gathered from many people on the mountains of
Israel, which had long been
desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and
now all of them dwell
safely. Eze 38:9 You will
ascend, coming like a storm,
covering the land like a cloud, you and all your
troops and many peoples with
you.” Eze 38:10 ‘Thus says
the Lord GOD: “On that day it
shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your
mind, and you will make an
evil plan: Eze 38:11 You will
say, ‘I will go up against a land of
unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people,
who dwell safely, all of
them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars
nor gates’ Eze 38:12 to take
plunder and to take booty, to stretch
out your hand against the waste places that are
again inhabited, and against a
people gathered from the nations, who have acquired
livestock and goods, who
dwell in the midst of the land. The Lord
does not stand by
and let these nations destroy Israel. Eze 38:22 And I will
bring him to judgment with
pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him,
on his troops, and on the
many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great
hailstones, fire, and
brimstone. Eze 38:23 Thus I
will magnify Myself and sanctify
Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many
nations. Then they shall know
that I am the LORD.” 2nd
TRUMPET Rev 8:8 Then the
second angel sounded: And something
like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown
into the sea, and a third of
the sea became blood. Rev 8:9 And a
third of the living creatures in the
sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. 3rd
TRUMPET Rev 8:10 Then the
third angel sounded: And a great
star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it
fell on a third of the
rivers and on the springs of water. Rev 8:11 The name
of the star is Wormwood. A third of
the waters became wormwood, and many men died from
the water, because it was
made bitter. 4th
TRUMPET Rev 8:12 Then the
fourth angel sounded: And a third of
the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third
of the stars, so that a
third of them were darkened. A third of the day did
not shine, and likewise the
night. 5th
TRUMPET
1st WOE Rev 9:1 Then the
fifth angel sounded: And I saw a
star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was
given the key to the
bottomless pit. Rev 9:2 And he
opened the bottomless pit, and smoke
arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great
furnace. So the sun and the air
were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. Rev 9:3 Then out
of the smoke locusts came upon the
earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions
of the earth have power. Rev 9:4 They were
commanded not to harm the grass of
the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only
those men who do not have
the seal of God on their foreheads. Rev 9:5 And they
were not given authority to kill
them, but to torment them for five months. Their
torment was like the torment
of a scorpion when it strikes a man. Rev 9:6 In those
days men will seek death and will
not find it; they will desire to die, and death will
flee from them. Rev 9:7 The shape
of the locusts was like horses
prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of
something like gold, and
their faces were like the faces of men. Rev 9:8 They had
hair like women’s hair, and their
teeth were like lions’ teeth. Rev 9:9 And they
had breastplates like breastplates
of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the
sound of chariots with many
horses running into battle. Rev 9:10 They had
tails like scorpions, and there were
stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men
five months. Rev 9:11 And they
had as king over them the angel of
the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon,
but in Greek he has the
name Apollyon. 6th
TRUMPET
2nd WOE Rev 9:13 Then the
sixth angel sounded: And I heard a
voice from the four horns of the golden altar which
is before God, Rev 9:14 saying to
the sixth angel who had the
trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at
the great river Euphrates.” Rev 9:15 So the
four angels, who had been prepared for
the hour and day and month and year, were released
to kill a third of mankind. Rev 9:16 Now the
number of the army of the horsemen
was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. Rev 9:17 And thus I
saw the horses in the vision:
those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red,
hyacinth blue, and sulfur
yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the
heads of lions; and out of
their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone. Rev 9:18 By these
three plagues a third of mankind was
killed by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone
which came out of their
mouths. Rev 9:19 For their
power is in their mouth and in
their tails; for their tails are like serpents,
having heads; and with them
they do harm. Rev 9:20 But the
rest of mankind, who were not killed
by these plagues, did not repent of the works of
their hands, that they should
not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver,
brass, stone, and wood, which
can neither see nor hear nor walk. Rev 9:21 And they
did not repent of their murders or
their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their
thefts. Before the 7th
Trump
sounds God’s end time prophet eats a little book. As
mentioned earlier. The
Ezekiel scroll represents the warning to the modern
day Israelites about the
impending time of Jacob’s Trouble, and the little book
in Revelation 10 is a
warning to the gentile nations, as the end time
prophet is told to prophesy
again to Kings, nations, peoples and tongues. This
warning is likened to the
final warning which Moses took to Pharaoh before the
10 plagues were sent on
Egypt. Now the modern day warning of the 7 plagues of
the final 3rd Woe
and 7th Trump is to go out. This warning
message contains the new
end time knowledge which God has given to His end time
prophets and this
message completes the mystery of God. The end time
prophet is also
instructed to measure the temple of God. This is done
by how the members,
ministers, and others in positions of authority,
accept the new knowledge which
God puts into His end time church. God judges their
hearts, motives and
actions. They will be measured by their belief or
disbelief, and acceptance of
the truth, and the way they act. The two
witnesses are
prophesying at this time, we do not know when they
start their commission, but
we know that they are killed at the end of the 2nd
Woe, which is the
end of the 6th trumpet. We know they
prophesy for 1260 days. Among
their many duties, they warn of the Day of the Lord.
They have power over the
rain and the waters and can defend themselves with
fire. These are modern day
types of Moses and Elijah. 7th
TRUMPET
3rd WOE
SEVEN LAST PLAQUES This is the
last trump, it is
divided into the 7 bowls of wrath or 7 last plagues
which God pours out on the
gentile nations. Once the 7th
trump
is sounded, we see that the Father and Christ begin to
rule. Rev 11:15 Then the
seventh angel sounded: And there
were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of
this world have become the
kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall
reign forever and ever!” Even though
we know The
Father has always been in charge, we also know that
Satan is the God of this
world, and has continued to lead this world into
misery, destruction,
deception, and despair. At this point the Father and
Christ begin to reign. Then the
long awaited
judgment and reward of the dead. The bond-servants,
the prophets, the saints
and those who fear God’s name. Rev 11:18 The
nations were angry, and Your wrath has
come, And the time of the dead, that they should be
judged, And that You should
reward Your servants the prophets and the saints,
And those who fear Your name,
small and great, And should destroy those who
destroy the earth.” We then see
a war in heaven
and Satan and his demons were cast down to earth, and
salvation, power and the
Kingdom of God comes and authority of Christ. Rev 12:10 Then I
heard a loud voice saying in heaven,
“Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our
God, and the power of His
Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren,
who accused them before our
God day and night, has been cast down. Satan’s rule
is now ended and
Christ and the Father begin the Kingdom of God with
salvation and strength. |