SOON IT WILL BE
THE TIME FOR THE WARNING TO THE HOUSE OF
IS JACOB’S
TROUBLE JUST AHEAD OF US?
WHO IS JACOB TODAY?
WHAT WILL
ACTUALLY HAPPEN DURING THIS TIME?
IS
Very shortly now,
Jacob’s Trouble is going to make a horrendous entrance
into the lives of millions of people belonging to the
House of Israel and Judah.
As we already
know, from the faithful teachings of Mr. Armstrong,
the modern day Israelites who will encounter this
trouble they are the English speaking countries, of
LET’S UNDERSTAND
FROM THE OUTSET, THAT
God will not send
this disaster on
Notice the
following scriptures on this subject.
Eze 2:3 And He
said to me: "Son of man, I am sending you to the
children of
Eze 3:5 For you are not
sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard
language, but
to the house of Israel,
Eze 3:6 not to
many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard
language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely,
had I sent you to them, they would have listened to
you.
Eze 3:7 But the
house of Israel will not listen to you, because they
will not listen to Me; for all the house of
We see here that
God’s end time messenger, the watchman, is of the same
language as the house of
The watchman must
take his commission very seriously, because if he does
not warn people, their blood will be on his own
hands. God knows His end time messenger very
well. God knows that he will be faithful. God
has put an enormous responsibility on his
shoulders. The watchman knows this and has the
ability to perform whatever God wants. This is
not because of his own strength, but he knows that all
things are possible with God.
Eze 3:17 "Son of
man, I have made you a watchman for the house of
Eze 3:18 When I say
to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give
him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from
his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man
shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will
require at your hand.
Eze 3:19 Yet, if
you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his
wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in
his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
Eze 3:20 "Again,
when a righteous man
turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity,
and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall
die; because you did not give him warning, he shall
die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has
done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will
require at your hand.
Eze 3:21 Nevertheless
if you warn the righteous man that
the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin,
he shall surely live because he took warning; also
you will have delivered your soul."
The watchman is
not sent to a foreign country with foreign
language. He is to go to the English speaking
countries.
The following
scripture shows that God’s end time watchman, who is
to warn
Hos 9:8 The
watchman of Ephraim is with
my God; But the prophet is a
fowler's snare in all his ways Enmity in the house
of his God.
Hos 9:9 They are
deeply corrupted, As in the days of Gibeah. He will
remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.
This is
astounding scripture, here we see God’s end time
messenger actually being hated by God’s church.
The reasons for this hatred are mainly because the
watchman believes God and has the faith and courage
and strength to stand up and be counted in days of
peace, and he tells the church their sins. He
doesn't stand around in flowing robes with smooth
words of praise for everyone. He states, hard
hitting cold facts, which are hard to handle. He calls
a spade a spade, and unfortunately there are a lot of
lukewarm white washed sepulchres in the church in the
end time. A lot of God’s people do not
believe God. They simply twist scripture to suit
in with what they want to believe, they just want to
hear smooth things and be lulled off to sleep.
Just ask yourself
when was the last time you learned anything new at
church?
God’s church must
grow in grace and knowledge.
God’s truth and
end time warnings are not bed time stories to drift
off to sleep while we are reading them. They are
urgent dynamic warnings of national annihilation and
impending siege followed by national captivity by a
cruel nation.
Read the above
paragraph again and let that statement sink in to your
mind. This is going to happen, it is not some
wild dream of ours, or some plot on a T.V. show.
This is real and is going to happen to you and me in
the very near future. Do something about it now,
turn to God. A lot of church people think that Jacob’s
Trouble is not going to happen for years and years,
and that if it does happen it will just be a spanking
for
English speaking
God is a loving
and merciful Father, and He will not allow this
terrible time to come on
Amo 3:7 Surely the
Lord GOD does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret
to His servants the prophets.
This time of
trouble is to come on Jacob, it is 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.
God will warn
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.
Lev 26:27 'And after
all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary
to Me,
Lev 26:28 then I
also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even
I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Deu 30:19 I call
heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I
have set before you life and death, blessing and
cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and
your descendants may live;
Eze 2:3 And He
said to me: "Son of man, I am sending you to the
children of
Eze 2:4 For they are
impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to
them, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord
GOD.'
Eze 2:5 As for
them, whether they hear or whether they refuse for
they are
a rebellious house yet they will know that a prophet
has been among them.
God has sent many
warnings, but the people of
All of the above,
are abominations to the Great God who gave us this
country.
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.
Let us see an
overview of events which will unfold very soon.
Firstly we see the watchman. For a time he
cannot warn
This is before
Jacob’s Trouble.
Eze 3:26 I will
make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so
that you shall be mute and not be one to rebuke
them, for they are a
rebellious house.
Eze 3:27 But when I
speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you
shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.' He who
hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him
refuse; for they are a
rebellious house.
So we see that
the watchman cannot speak for a time, during this time
he is growing in knowledge which God is giving
him. He is preparing the warning message and
waits patiently on the Lord until the time for him to
speak and to warn the Israelites is made known to
him. Remember that when the warning does go out,
there will be little time left before Jacob’s trouble
starts.
Notice these
conditions in Leviticus.
Lev 26:14 'But if
you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these
commandments,
Lev 26:15 and if you
despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My
judgments, so that you do not perform all My
commandments, but
break My covenant,
Lev 26:16 I also
will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over
you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume
the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall
sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat
it.
Lev 26:17 I will set
My face against you, and you shall be defeated by
your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over
you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
Lev 26:18 'And after
all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish
you seven times more for your sins.
Lev 26:19 I will
break the pride of your power; I will make your
heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
Lev 26:20 And your
strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall
not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the
land yield their fruit.
Lev 26:21 'Then, if
you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey
Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues,
according to your sins.
Lev 26:22 I will
also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you
of your children, destroy your livestock, and make
you few in number; and your highways shall be
desolate.
Remember these
are not our thoughts and ideas, we don't guess or
imagine anything, all we need to know is in God’s
word, He tells us. We just need to look for it
and search as for pearls, and God will reveal these
things to us.
The following
scriptures show that
Isa 9:8 The Lord
sent a word against Jacob, And it has fallen on
Isa 9:9 All the
people will know Ephraim and the inhabitant of
Hos 5:9 Ephraim
shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; Among the
tribes of
Unfortunately, during Jacob’s trouble
Hos 7:11 "Ephraim
also is like a silly dove, without sense They call
to
Hos 7:12 Wherever
they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring
them down like birds of the air; I will chastise
them According to what their congregation has heard.
Hos 12:1 "Ephraim
feeds on the wind, And pursues the east wind; He
daily increases lies and desolation. Also they make
a covenant with the Assyrians, And oil is carried to
Hos 11:7 My people
are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to
the Most High, None at all exalt Him.
These scriptures
show plainly that the watchman warns Israel of their
backsliding, that they were told to return to God,
that they would be chastised, that they would run to
Egypt and Assyria, that they were proud, and they will
be desolate, they daily increase in lies and
desolation.
Once the warning
goes out, the time of Jacob’s trouble will be very
close. Notice
the following scripture.
Lev 26:16 I also
will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over
you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume
the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall
sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat
it.
Lev 26:19 I will
break the pride of your power; I will make your
heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
Lev 26:20 And your
strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall
not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the
land yield their fruit.
Notice that once
the pride of your power is broken, you sow your seed
in vain, because your enemy will eat it, so that
sounds like a very short time indeed.
Look at the following scripture, the people
think that the trouble
is far off. There is probably very few who
even believe that it will happen at all.
But take heed and see what the God of Israel says. He says there
will be no more delay.
Eze 12:27 "Son of
man, look, the house of
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.' "
Notice the urgency of the following scripture:
Hab 2:1 I will
stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And
watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will
answer when I am corrected.
Hab 2:2 Then the
LORD answered me and said: "Write the vision And
make it
plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.
Hab 2:3 For the
vision is
yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will
speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait
for it; Because it will surely come, It will not
tarry.
Notice this
scripture, write the vision, and make it plain upon
tablets, that he may run who reads it.
This shows how
quickly things will happen once the message goes
out.
The subjects that
the watchman is learning are considered foolishness by
other church members, but he pushes on regardless of
public opinion, he is only interested in what God
wants of him. He is a faithful servant.
Once God makes
known to him when to give the warning message it will
then be given to
Then very shortly
after the warning message goes out Jacob’s trouble
will start.
Now back to the
warning for
Let us see what
the warning is about, we know that
The first three
seals of the book of Revelation are, White horse, Red
Horse and Black Horse. They represent the
following:
Ishmael
Shortage of
food
Let’s compare
the scriptures.
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.
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.
2nd
Seal Red
Horse -
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
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 "
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 ; Jacob’s Trouble reaches climax
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 Jacob’s trouble as mentioned in Ezekiel 14.
These are four
judgments, which God will send on
The four
judgments of Ezek 14 v 21 are: Sword, famine, wild
beasts and plague.
Let’s compare the
scriptures:
Rev. 6 v 8 states
that the pale 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?
The above
scripture says
Eze 9:8 So it was,
that while they were killing them, I was left alone;
and I fell on my face and cried out, and said, "Ah,
Lord GOD! Will You destroy all the remnant of
Eze 9:9 Then He
said to me, "The iniquity of the house of
God’s four
judgments cause 2/3rds of
There are
currently about 424,000,000 people in English speaking
countries of
I will repeat
that figure, about 280,000.000 people will die in
Jacob’s trouble. About 141,000,000 will go into
captivity, but only 1/10 will come out of captivity
that means about 14,000,000 will come out of this
terrible time alive.
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 5:15 '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.
The above scripture shows that 1/3rd
of Israel and Judah die of pestilence and famine, 1/3rd
die by the sword, and 1/3rd go into
captivity with the sword after them.
The following
scripture shows that only 1/10th of
Isa 6:11 Then I
said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered: "Until the
cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, The
houses are without a man, The land is utterly
desolate,
Isa 6:12 The LORD
has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many
in the midst of the land.
Isa 6:13 But yet a
tenth will
be in it, And will return and be for
consuming, As a terebinth tree or as an oak, Whose
stump remains
when it is cut down. So the holy seed shall be
its stump."
The same
explanation is seen in the following scripture
Amo 5:3 For thus
says the Lord GOD: "The city that goes out by a
thousand Shall have a hundred left, And that which
goes out by a hundred Shall have ten left to the
house of
The time of
Jacob’s trouble is the time of God’s wrath on
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.
The following scriptures show that
Deu 28:10 Then all
peoples of the earth shall see that you are called
by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of
you.
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.
We know that God
does not send disasters on people without first
warning them, and as we have shown, God does warn His
people. God’s end time messenger, the Watchman, warns
Israel, Judah and the exiles of the impending disaster
which is going to come on them very soon after the
time of the warning, it will not be delayed. God
says He will delay no longer.
Eze 12:27 "Son of
man, look, the house of
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 just
simply won't believe that this warning message is for
their time, in the very near future. They have
seen many people saying "repent the end is near ". Then things
go on as before, and nothing happens. This time,
God says He will delay no longer, but
The watchman
takes his commission very seriously, because if he
does not warn people, as God instructs him, the blood
of those people will be on his shoulders.
Eze 33:7 "So you,
son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house
of
Eze 33:8 When I say
to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you
shall surely die!' and you do not speak to warn the
wicked from his way, that wicked man
shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will
require at your hand.
So far we have seen that the watchman must warn
We have seen that
the 4th seal, the climax of Jacob’s
Trouble, continues on into the 5th seal of
the Martyrdom of Saints.
This time
of Jacob’s trouble is the first three seals of
Revelation, culminating when 1/3rd of
Israel and Judah, die of the sword, 1/3rd
die from famine and pestilence, and 1/3rd
go to captivity.
These three seals at their worst become the 4th
seal
A very
interesting section of the Bible is found in
Leviticus, God states plainly there, the blessings for
obedience and the penalties for disobedience. It
is interesting as it would appear that this is the
order of events that will begin Jacob’s trouble.
A careful study of Chapter 26 will reveal that as God
brings on disasters, He expects
Let’s notice how
Jacob’s trouble will start.
Lev 26:14 'But if
you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these
commandments,
Lev 26:15 and if you
despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My
judgments, so that you do not perform all My
commandments, but
break My covenant,
Lev 26:16 I also
will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over
you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume
the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall
sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat
it.
Lev 26:17 I will set
My face against you, and you shall be defeated by
your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over
you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
Look at the order
of events:
Terror
Consumption, and
burning ague.
Consumes the
eyes.
Sorrow of
heart.
Sow seed in
vain.
Enemies shall eat
it.
I will set my
face against you.
You will be slain
before your enemies.
They that hate
you will reign over you.
You will flee
when none pursues you.
We have recently
seen the terrible terrorist attacks on
Terror has
begun!
Could consumption
and the burning ague, which eats the eyes be nerve or
chemical, or germ warfare?
Sow your seed in
vain, enemies will eat it. This is the
nation of locusts which God sends to eat everything,
read Joel 1.
I will set my
face against you. God
brings on these disasters for
You will be
slain. We
will be invaded by a cruel nation.
You will flee. Already United
States of America and most of
These events are
repeated in Deuteronomy and in Isaiah we see a flow of
events, coming one after the other. Notice
the next scripture, also notice that the day of
their appointed death is sooner than would have
happened if the end time events did not occur.
Isa 28:18 Your
covenant with death will be annulled, And your
agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the
overflowing scourge passes through, Then you will be
trampled down by it.
Isa 28:19 As often
as it goes out it will take you; For morning by
morning it will pass over, And by day and by night;
It will be a terror just to understand the report."
Notice the last
part of the above verse, in the New American Standard
Bible, it is translated as: and it will be sheer
terror to understand what it means.
Now let us look
at the flow of events in Leviticus, after the above
mentioned terrors.
Lev 26:18 'And after
all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish
you seven times more for your sins.
Notice, the
availability of repentance, but if
Lev 26:19 I will
break the pride of your power; I will make your
heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
Lev 26:20 And your
strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall
not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the
land yield their fruit.
Lev 26:21 'Then, if
you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey
Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues,
according to your sins.
Again God wants
Lev 26:22 I will
also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you
of your children, destroy your livestock, and make
you few in number; and your highways shall be
desolate.
God sends the
wild beasts, this is listed elsewhere as, crawling
animals with venom, wild dogs, birds, lions, tigers,
leopards, etc.
Lev 26:23 'And if by
these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk
contrary to Me,
Lev 26:24 then I
also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish
you yet seven times for your sins.
Repentance is
still available, but if
Lev 26:25 And I will
bring a sword against you that will execute the
vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered
together within your cities I will send pestilence
among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand
of the enemy.
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.
Lev 26:27 'And after
all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary
to Me,
Lev 26:28 then I
also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even
I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Again repentance
is available but if
The following
scripture is the final series of punishment God
sends before
Lev 26:29 You shall
eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the
flesh of your daughters.
Lev 26:30 I will
destroy your high places, cut down your incense
altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless
forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you.
Lev 26:31 I will lay
your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to
desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of
your sweet aromas.
Lev 26:32 I will
bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who
dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
Lev 26:33 I will
scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword
after you; your land shall be desolate and your
cities waste.
Lev 26:34 Then the
land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies
desolate and you are in your enemies' land; then the
land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
After the total
destruction which is caused by the locusts, Lev 26 v
16 the watchman calls a national fast day, for the
church and the nation of
Joe 1:13 Gird
yourselves and lament, you priests; Wail, you who
minister before the altar; Come, lie all night in
sackcloth, You who minister to my God; For the grain
offering and the drink offering Are withheld from
the house of your God.
Joe 1:14 Consecrate
a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the elders And all
the inhabitants of the land Into the
house of the LORD your God, And cry out to the LORD.
Joe 1:15 Alas for
the day! For the day of the LORD is at
hand; It shall come as destruction from the
Almighty.
We also know that
the daily sacrifice is taken away and also at the same
time, the abomination of desolation is set up.
The daily
sacrifice is the continuance of the Holy Days and the
Sabbath.
The abomination
of desolation is the observance of Easter and other
pagan rites.
As well as
commandment breaking. A more detailed
explanation of this is given below.
Let’s look at
some new knowledge revealed by God. The abomination
which makes desolate is the keeping of Easter, the
burning of incense to the Queen of heaven and the
keeping of this celebration by the people of
God.
Jer 44:22 So the
LORD could no longer bear it,
because of the evil of your doings and
because of the abominations which you committed.
Therefore your land is a desolation, an
astonishment, a curse, and without an inhabitant, as
it is
this day.
Jer 44:23 Because
you have burned incense and because you have sinned
against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of
the LORD or walked in His law, in His statutes or in
His testimonies, therefore this calamity has
happened to you, as at this
day."
Jer 44:24 Moreover
Jeremiah said to all the people and to all the
women, "Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are in
the
Jer 44:25 Thus says
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: 'You
and your wives have spoken with your mouths and
fulfilled with your hands, saying, "We will surely
keep our vows that we have made, to burn incense to
the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to
her." You will surely keep your vows and perform
your vows!'
Jer 44:26 Therefore
hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who dwell in
the land of Egypt: 'Behold, I have sworn by My great
name,' says the LORD, 'that My name shall no more be
named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the
land of Egypt, saying, "The Lord GOD lives."
Jer 44:27 Behold, I
will watch over them for adversity and not for good.
And all the men of
Read the above
verses very carefully, notice in verse 22 the
abominations which you have committed therefore your
land is a desolation.
The explanation
of the abomination is shown very clearly in
scripture. We do not have to guess or imagine
what it is. God reveals things to His people so
that we can grow in knowledge. Everything we
need to know is contained in the scriptures, it
depends on how much effort we put into study and
whether or not we believe God, just exactly what we
get out of the bible.
The following
scripture gives a further description of the
abominations which are being committed in
Eze 8:6 Furthermore
He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are
doing, the great abominations that the house of
Eze 8:10 So I went
in and saw, and there every sort of creeping thing,
abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of
Israel, portrayed all around on the walls.
Eze 8:11 And there
stood before them seventy men of the elders of the
house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah
the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his
hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.
Eze 8:12 Then He
said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the
elders of the house of
Eze 8:14 So He
brought me to the door of the north gate of the
LORD's house; and to my dismay, women were sitting
there weeping for Tammuz.
Eze 8:16 So He
brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house;
and there, at the door of the temple of the LORD,
between the porch and the altar, were
about twenty-five men with their backs toward the
temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east,
and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.
Eze 8:17 And He
said to me, "Have you seen this, O
son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of
Eze 8:18 Therefore
I also will act in fury. My eye will not spare nor
will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears
with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
These are the
abominations which God hates and they cause the land
to be desolate. What a disgrace this is.
No wonder God says He won't have pity nor will He hear
their cry.
Dan 12:11 "And from
the time that
the daily sacrifice
is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is
set up, there
shall be one thousand two hundred and
ninety days.
This is very
serious scripture because at that time of 3 ½
years it would appear that the witnesses are
also giving their testimony also the Holy City is
trampled for 3 ½ years and the power of the holy
people will be shattered.
Notice the
following scriptures:
Rev 11:2 But leave
out the court which is outside the temple, and do
not measure it, for it has been given to the
Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city
underfoot for
forty-two months.
Rev 11:3 And I will
give power
to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one
thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in
sackcloth."
Dan 12:7 Then I
heard the man clothed in linen, who was
above the waters of the river, when he held up his
right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by
Him who lives forever, that it shall be
for a time, times, and half a time;
and when the power of the holy people has been
completely shattered, all these things
shall be finished.
So we see that
the period of 3 ½ years is going to be a very serious
time and a devastating time as well.
We know that
during this time that God’s end time watchman gives
the warning message to
These people will
be willing to listen to him, but some do not obey what
God tells them. Notice the following scriptures,
remember this is the end time messenger and the end
time people of God.
Eze 33:30 "As for
you, son of man, the children of your people are
talking about you beside the walls and in the doors
of the houses; and they speak to one another,
everyone saying to his brother, 'Please come and
hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.'
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.
Eze 33:32 Indeed you
are
to them as a very lovely song of one who has a
pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument;
for they hear your words, but they do not do them.
Eze 33:33 And when
this comes to pass surely it will come then they
will know that a prophet has been among them."
We know that at
this time, Michael, the great prince, will
arise.
Dan 12:1 "At that
time Michael shall stand up, The great prince who
stands watch
over the sons of your people; And there shall be a
time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a
nation, Even
to that time. And at that time your people shall be
delivered, Every one who is found written in the
book.
Let’s look at the
events spoken of in Daniel about the times of the
end. Every one who is found written in the book
will be delivered.
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!"
Rev 11:16 And the
twenty-four elders who sat before God on their
thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God,
Rev 11:17 saying:
"We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One
who is and who was and who is to come, Because You
have taken Your great power and reigned.
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."
Rev 11:19 Then the
temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of
His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were
lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and
great hail.
Here we see
something which most of our readers will find hard to
believe, this is in fact the reign of the
Father. Notice the description of Him, Lord God
Almighty, 24 elders worship Him, and His great wrath
has come. The Day of the Lord, is to come.
We see that He
rewards the saints, the prophets and those that fear
His name small and great.
So this is when
the dead and the living spiritual firstfruits, are
resurrected {or changed}. They return to the earth
with the Father.
This is the reign
of the Father, and at this time He rewards the
Firstfruits. These are very special to God and
to Christ, they belong to the Father and Christ, they
are firstfruits, they are the first to be resurrected
after, of course, Christ who has gone on before us as
He is the first of the firstfruits.
Look at this
scripture:
1Co 15:23 But each
one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits,
afterward those who are
Christ's at His coming.
Did you catch
that? Read it again, Christ is resurrected and
raised first, then the firstfruits, then they that are
Christ’s at His coming.
Joh 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the
Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him
up at the last day.
The resurrection
of the firstfruits happens before Christ
returns. The firstfruits are resurrected before
the other people of God, because they come with the
Father, Christ comes with the angels.
Mat 24:31 And He will send His angels with
a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather
together His elect from the four winds, from one
end of heaven to the other.
Keep in mind the
fact that the dead must rise first, in keeping with 1
Thes. 4 v 16.
Then the live
firstfruits will be changed to spirit and raised to
the clouds where they are gathered together by the
angels.
The firstfruits
are very special people. They are
spiritual giants like Abraham, David, Moses,
Daniel. These people have overcome great things
in their lifetimes, they have proven to be faithful
and have a great reward, far above the reward of most
of the people of God. There will be people
alive today who will prove to be firstfruits.
We have gone a
little off track, so back to the main thrust of this
article, which is the warning message to
We know that some
people will be accounted worthy to escape Jacob’s
trouble. Notice the following
scriptures on this subject.
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.
Some people who
sigh over the abominations in
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."
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
Some people will
be watching and praying to be counted worthy.
Zep 2:3 Seek the
LORD, all you meek of the earth, Who have upheld His
justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may
be that you will be hidden In the day of the LORD's
anger.
During Jacob’s
trouble,
Deu 28:49 The LORD
will bring a nation against you from afar, from the
end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a
nation whose language you will not understand,
Deu 28:50 a nation
of fierce countenance, which does not respect the
elderly nor show favor to the young.
Deu 28:51 And they
shall eat the increase of your livestock and the
produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they
shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the
increase of your cattle or the offspring of your
flocks, until they have destroyed you.
Deu 28:52 "They
shall besiege you at all your gates until your high
and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down
throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you
at all your gates throughout all your land which the
LORD your God has given you.
Look at the above scripture, the walls which
Deu 28:53 You shall
eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your
sons and your daughters whom the LORD your God has
given you, in the siege and desperate straits in
which your enemy shall distress you.
Deu 28:54 The
sensitive and very refined man among you will be
hostile toward his brother, toward the wife of his
bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he
leaves behind,
Deu 28:55 so that he
will not give any of them the flesh of his children
whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the
siege and desperate straits in which your enemy
shall distress you at all your gates.
Here we see that
the Israelites eat their offspring during the
siege. This must be a terrible time of famine
and severe hunger for people to eat their own
children, and yet here are the words of God about
these dreadful events, which will occur very soon
now.
Also we see that
the nation that puts us under siege is a cruel
nation.
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."
Notice the
dreadful conditions befalling
Lam 4:8 Now
their appearance is blacker than soot; They go
unrecognized in the streets; Their skin clings to
their bones, It has become as dry as wood.
Lam 4:9 Those
slain by the sword are better off Than those
who die of hunger; For these pine away, Stricken for lack
of the fruits of the field.
Lam 4:10 The hands
of the compassionate women Have cooked their own
children; They became food for them In the
destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lam 4:11 The LORD
has fulfilled His fury, He has poured out His fierce
anger. He kindled a fire in
The people are
burnt, starving to death and even resort to eating
their own children in order to stay alive.
Unfortunately verse 12 shows us that this whole
situation could have been avoided if they had heeded
the warning message from God.
Lam 4:12 The kings
of the earth, And all inhabitants of the world,
Would not have believed That the adversary and the
enemy Could enter the gates of
This scripture shows that
This will be a
dreadful time for
Towards the end
of Jacob’s trouble there is a famine of hearing God’s
word.
Amo 8:11 "Behold,
the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, "That I
will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of
bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the
words of the LORD.
The watchman is
to go on and warn the other nations about the time
just ahead of them, the Day of the Lord.
This is the
second part of the watchman’s commission, firstly he
ate the book, spoken of by Ezekiel,{this was the
warning message to
Rev 10:8 Then the
voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again
and said, "Go, take the little book which is open in
the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on
the earth."
Rev 10:9 So I went
to the angel and said to him, "Give me the little
book." And he said to me, "Take and eat it; and it
will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as
sweet as honey in your mouth."
Rev 10:10 Then I
took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate
it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But
when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.
Rev 10:11 And he
said to me, "You must prophesy again about many
peoples, nations, tongues, and kings."
Notice the last
few lines, you must prophesy again before many
peoples, nations, and tongues, and kings.
So we see that
the watchman has a twofold commission. But
firstly his immediate concerns are the warning
message, which must go to
Jer 6:17 Also, I
set watchmen over you, saying,
'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said,
'We will not listen.'
A very
interesting thing also happens during Jacobs’s trouble
some certain leaders of
Eze 20:3 "Son of
man, speak to the elders of
Eze 20:4 Will you
judge them, son of man, will you judge them?
Then make known to them the abominations of their
fathers.
The watchman then
explains
They have
forgotten God’s Sabbaths, His laws, statutes and
ordinances. They must learn to change from their
evil ways.
Hos 4:2 By
swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and
committing adultery, They break all restraint, With
bloodshed upon bloodshed.
Eze 22:8 You have
despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
Even though what
is going to happen to
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
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.
We see plainly by
this scripture, that
The following
scripture shows that even the Israelites knew that God
had to bring Jacob’s Trouble on them to change their
hearts and attitudes, they loathe themselves because
of the evils they committed.
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."
5th
Seal is the martyrdom
of saints, the martyrdom begins during the time
of Jacob’s trouble.
There is a time
when many of God’s people will have to die, mainly to
prove to God that they can be trusted for all
eternity. This is because during this life they
rejected the end time knowledge which God has restored
to His church in this end time. They must now prove to
God that they are worthy, unfortunately this will
mean, torture and death for them.
Ezekiel chapter
34 is about the Ministers in God’s church and applies
to them and they must heed and repent of their wrong
ways.
Notice the
following scripture, this not only applies to the
ministry but to all members of God’s church, we must
be careful not to reject new knowledge as God restores
it. We must continue to grow in grace and knowledge. Notice the
penalties for not doing this.
Hos 4:6 My people
are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you
have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from
being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the
law of your God, I also will forget your children.
The above
scripture is a sober warning for all of us in God’s
church.
The following is
a summary of some of the abominations which have been
committed in
God sends His
prophets to warn
The following is
from Ezekiel 22.
A city shedding
blood, she makes idols contrary to her interest for
defilement. You are guilty with your bloodshed
and defiled by your idols. Your rulers shed
blood, they oppressed the alien, they wronged the
fatherless and the widow. You have despised My holy
things, and profaned My Sabbaths. Men eat at
the mountain shrines and commit acts of
lewdness. They uncovered their fathers
nakedness, and humbled women in their menstrual
impurity. One has committed abominations with
his neighbours wife, and another has lewdly defiled
his daughter-in-law. And another has humbled
his sister, his fathers daughter.
They take
bribes to shed blood, they take interest and
profits, they injure their neighbour for gain by
oppression, and have forgotten the Lord. You
have acquired dishonest gain by bloodshed.
There is a
conspiracy of her prophets in her midst, they devour
lives, take treasure and precious things and make
many widows.
Her priests
have done violence to My law and have profaned My
holy things, they have made no distinction between
the holy and the profane, and they have not taught
the difference between the unclean and the
clean. They hide their eyes from My Sabbaths,
and the Lord is profaned among them. The
leaders are like wolves, tearing the prey, by
shedding blood and destroying lives for dishonest
gain. The prophets have smeared whitewash for
them, seeing false visions and divining lies for
them, saying 'thus says the Lord God, when the Lord
has not spoken.
Is it any wonder
God has to completely burn them and get rid of the
greater majority of
We need to wake
up and change our ways, and believe God before the
time for repenting is over and God deals with great
wrath on His people. There will come a time when
God will no longer hear. He has been patient for
approximately 6000 years and has warned and waited for
people to change for a long time. He will not
wait forever, He will act, and that will happen very
shortly.
What we have
shown in this article is not a pretty bed time story,
it is the cold hard truth and the facts. God will send
His watchman. Some
of God’s church will not recognise him as a prophet,
until it is too late for them, because they do not
believe God. A group of people will come to hear
what he is saying and he will be well known, but their
hearts are not with him, some people will be counted
worthy to escape Jacob’s trouble.
During Jacob’s
trouble
This is not your
usual go to sleep article. This article
is designed to wake you up and warn you of this
dreadful time.
You have been
told. Will
you heed the warning or just go back to watch
T.V.?
That decision is
up to you.
