Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The Fate of Our Nation "Part One"
Prophecy Chat by Sharon L. Clemens
Students of Bible prophecy continue to ask, "Why is the United States of America not found in Bible prophecy ? What happens to us?" When a group of evangelical Christian business leaders in Naples, Florida asked that question of Joel Rosenberg last weekend, he told them he didn't know why "the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the face of the earth in the history of mankind - is not ever clearly mentioned in or clearly alluded to in Bible prophecy concerning the last days. " He said, "I don't know because the Bible doesn't tell us." He did suggest two potential scenarios that "could render the U.S. a non-factor in the last days: Scenario #1: the U.S. could implode economically after the rapture...Scenario #2: the U.S. economy could melt down in a Great Depression before the rapture."
What we do know for sure, Rosenberg said, is that the Scriptures warn us not to put our trust in worldly wealth. "In Matthew 6:19-21, Jesus said: 'Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal; for where your treasure is, there is your heart also.'" [For Rosenberg's complete FLASH TRAFFIC: WASHINGTON UPDATE, "Economic Meltdown: What Does The Future Hold," visit his web site at: www.epicenter09.com
I have speculated that the Russian invasion of Israel in the War of Gog and Magog [Ezekiel 38 and 39] may also coincide with a U.S. economic and/or political meltdown. The remnant is praying for the Lord's mercy, as we wait for Him to claim His bride, the church.
REVEALING WORDS FROM ISAIAH, THE PROPHET
The prophet Isaiah also has a lot to say about The Fate of a Nation. I am indebted to Dr. Dave Breeze for his commentary on Isaiah as I teach this prophetic book. Isaiah reveals why the Lord judges a nation and what the signs of coming judgment are, so that the remnant of believers is forewarned. The Lord ALWAYS warns before judgment, if we have eyes to see and ears to hear [Amos 3:7].
COUNTERFEIT PEACE:
* In Isaiah 1:19-20, the prophet sets down the principle of The Divine Economy. "If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel [against God], you shall be devoured by the sword' for the mouth of the LORD has spoken." Although Isaiah spoke these words to ancient Judah, they are a divine principle for all the nations. Our obedience to God determines our fate; we choose either blessing or cursing.
* In chapter 2 of Isaiah, the prophet lists the signs of a nation ripe for judgment. He begins by previewing the Millennial Kingdom when Christ will rule in His Kingdom of peace and prosperity as the Prince of Peace. Jerusalem will be the capital city of the world, Mt. Zion of God, and He shall reign and enforce the laws of God from Israel for all the nations of the world. [Isaiah 2:1-3]
* In Isaiah 2:4 is one of the most abused passages in the Word of God. "He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." The prophet Micah repeats this promise in Micah 4:1-5. Ironically, this verse is boldly emblazoned on the United Nation's building in New York City, with one significant omission. THE FIRST LINE IS OMITTED: He [Christ] shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people...
* The OMISSION of God will be the downfall of the nations. Mankind rebels against God, crediting the promise to bring peace to the world to themselves!
* 1 Thessalonians 5:3--"For when they [mankind] say, 'Peace and safety!' then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape." When man claims he can bring peace and prosperity to the earth apart from God, then the nations of the earth are doomed to destruction because they have exalted themselves above God.
* Rather, mankind should chisel the words of Joel 3:9-11 on the U.N. building because they have failed to prevent war. Instead, we are living in an age of war increasing in frequency and intensity, just as Christ prophesied war would increase, until His return [Matt. 24]. Joel 3:9ff -- "Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears..." THIS IS JUST THE OPPOSITE OF THE PROPHET'S WORDS IN ISAIAH AND MICAH. INSTEAD, JOEL'S WORDS WILL BE FULFILLED WHEN ANTICHRIST LEADS THE REBELLING NATIONS OF THE WORLD AGAINST ISRAEL AT THE END OF THE TRIBULATION IN THE GREAT BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON! But the nations will be destroyed by God at that time [Zechariah 12-14] and their pride will be judged.
OTHER SIGNS OF A NATION RIPE FOR JUDGMENT:
Isaiah lists the signs of judgment beginning in Isaiah 2:5, but he begins with a merciful call to repentance: "O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the LORD." Just as Judah would have been spared had the nation repented, so our Lord will be merciful to the U.S. if the nation would submit to national repentance. Even so, He will protect the righteous remnant. Note that anything that comes between us and the Lord is an idol.
* 2:6--"filled with Eastern ways." Our nation is enamored with false religions from the East: Eastern meditation and "the new spirituality," which used to be called New Age religion, but has now gone main-stream. It takes the form of contemplative prayer, breath prayers, and Yoga which in Hinduism, for example. The church is also full of magic and the Occult. Magic is simply ascribing supernatural power to inanimate objects such as talismans--even religious symbols such as the bread and wine, crosses, labyrinths or prayer paths for deep meditation which manipulates the consciousness, making us susceptible to demonic influence. Syncretism is being touted as "love" as it promotes tolerance of all religions calling them "truth" or "many paths to god." Matraiya, the New Age false christ claims to be the fulfillment of the Christ of Christians, the Imam Mahdi of Islam, the Matraiya Buddha of Buddhists, and Hinduism's christ. What did our Lord say? "I am THE way, THE truth, and THE life. No one comes to the Father except through me." [John 14:6] EVERY BELIEVER SHOULD BE ABLE TO QUOTE CHRIST'S WORDS IN ORDER TO CORRECT THE LIE OF "MANY TRUTHS."
* 2:7--"a land full of silver and gold, horses...and chariots." Materialism has become our god, and we put our trust in our 401K rather than God. [Matt. 6:19-21]
* 3:8-10--"idols, the work of our own hands." Humanism is man-centered religion. All false religion is some form of humanism. The power and ability of man is seen as our savior--science, psychology, man's wisdom--a worship of the power of man. God will judge the empires and power of man when He returns, and they will never rise again. [Daniel 2:44]
* 2:11-19--"pride." Paul warned Timothy that in the last days "men will be lovers of themselves..." [2 Tim. 3:2] Man has made self-esteem a right and his own comfort his primary focus and entitlement. Yet pride was what caused Lucifer [Satan] to fall from heaven [Isaiah 14:12].
* 2:20-21--Will gold and silver save us? Our faith must be in God, because in the Tribulation, unsaved mankind will be hiding in the holes of the earth where their gold and silver came from, terrified at the wrath of God. [Rev. 6:15-17]. Not even bomb shelters will save man from the coming judgment when God shakes the earth.
* 2:22--The bottom line? It is insanity to put our trust in fragile man who is only as strong as his next breath, "the breath in his nostrils." God asks, "For of what account is he?" Proverbs 3:5, 6 -- "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths."
As we enter these exciting days of signs of His return, look for the paths the Lord will reveal and follow them. This will bring Him great glory as we "do business" or "occupy" until He comes. Also, repent personally and in behalf of our nation as Daniel did for Israel [Daniel 9]. It may be that the Lord will hear from heaven and heal our land.
In Him We Wait, Work, and Watch,
Sharon
[Prophecy Chat is a weekly commentary of current events in light of Bible prophecy. Sharon L. Clemens is an evangelical, premillennial, dispensational teacher of eschatology. She can be reached for comment or questions by e-mail at farmgrove@verizon.net]
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PRETRIB RAPTURE DISHONESTY
by Dave MacPherson
When I began my research in 1970 into the exact beginnings of the pretribulation rapture belief still held by many evangelicals, I assumed that the rapture debate involved only "godly scholars with honest differences." The paper you are now reading reveals why I gave up that assumption many years ago. With this introduction-of-sorts in mind, let's take a long look at the pervasive dishonesty throughout the history of the 179-year-old pretrib rapture theory:
Mid-1820's - German scholar Max Weremchuk's work "John Nelson Darby" (1992) included what Benjamin Newton revealed about John Darby in the mid-1820's during his pre-Brethren days as an Anglican clergyman:
"J. N. Darby was a very subtle man. He had been a lawyer, or at least educated for the law. Once he wanted his Archbishop to pursue a certain course, when he (J.N.D.) was a curate in his diocese. He wrote a letter, therefore, saying he had been educated for the law, knew what the legal course would properly be; and then having written that clearly, he mystified the remainder of the letter both in word and in handwriting, and ended up by saying: You see, my Lord, such being the legal aspect of the case it would unquestionably be the best course for you to pursue, etc. And the Archbishop couldn't make out the legal part, but rested on Darby's word and did as he advised. Darby afterwards laughed over it, and indeed he showed a copy of the letter to Tregelles. This is not mentioned in the Archbishop's biography, but in it is the fact that he spoke of Darby as 'the most subtle man in my diocese.'"
This reminds me of an 1834 letter by Darby which spoke of the "Lord's coming." Darby added, concerning this coming, that "the thoughts are new" and that during any teaching of it "it would not be well to have it so clear." Darby's deviousness here was his usage of a centuries-old term - "Lord's coming" - to cover up his desire to sneak the new pretrib idea into existing posttrib groups in very low-profile ways!
1830 - In the spring of 1830 a young Scottish lassie, Margaret Macdonald, came up with the novel notion of a catching up [rapture] of Spirit-filled "church" members before Antichrist's "trial" [tribulation] of non-Spirit-filled "church" members - the first instance I've found of clear "pretrib" teaching (which was part of a partial rapture scheme). In Sep. 1830 "The Morning Watch" (a journal produced by London preacher Edward Irving and his "Irvingite" followers, some of whom had visited Margaret a few weeks earlier) began repeating her original thoughts and even her wording but gave her no credit - the first plagiarism I've found in pretrib history. Darby was still defending posttrib in Dec. 1830.
Pretrib promoters have long known the significance of her main point: a rapture of "church" members BEFORE the revealing of Antichrist. Which is why John Walvoord quoted nothing in her revelation, why Thomas Ice habitually skips over her main point but quotes lines BEFORE and AFTER it, and why Hal Lindsey muddies up her main point so he can (falsely) assert that she was NOT a pretribber! (Google "X-Raying Margaret" for info about her.)
NOTE: The development of the 1800's is thoroughly documented in my book "The Rapture Plot." You'll learn that Darby wasn't original on any chief aspect of dispensationalism (but plagiarized the Irvingites); that pretrib was initially based on only OT and NT symbols and not clear Scripture; that the symbols included the Jewish feasts, the two witnesses, and the man child - symbols adopted by Darby during most of his career; that Darby's later reminiscences exaggerated his earliest pretrib development, and that today's defenders such as Thomas Ice have further overstated what Darby overstated; that Irvingism didn't need later reminiscences to "clarify" its own early pretrib development; that ancient hymns and even the writings of the Reformers were subtly revised to make it appear they had taught pretrib; and that after Darby's death a clever revisionist quietly made many changes in early Irvingite and Brethren documents in order to steal credit for pretrib away from the Irvingites (and their female inspiration!) and give it dishonestly to Darby! (Before continuing, Google the "Powered by Christ Ministries" site and read "America's Pretrib Rapture Traffickers" - a sample of the current exciting internetism!)
1920 - Charles Trumbull's book "The Life Story of C. I. Scofield" told only the dispensationally-correct side of his life. Two recent books, Joseph Canfield's "The Incredible Scofield and His Book" (1988) and David Lutzweiler's "DispenSinsationalism: C. I. Scofield's Life and Errors" (2006), reveal the other side including his being jailed as a forger, dishonestly giving himself a non-conferred "D.D." etc. etc.!
1967 - Brethren scholar Harold Rowdon's "The Origins of the Brethren" quoted Darby associate Lord Congleton who was "disgusted with...the falseness" of Darby's accounts of things. Rowdon also quoted historian William Neatby who said that others felt that "the time-honoured method of single combat" was as good as anything "to elicit the truth" from Darby. (In other words, knock it out of him!)
1972 - Tim LaHaye's "The Beginning of the End" (1972) plagiarized Hal Lindsey's "The Late Great Planet Earth" (1970).
1976 - Charles Ryrie"s "The Living End" (1976) plagiarized Lindsey's "The Late Great Planet Earth" (1970) and "There's A New World Coming" (1973).
1976 - After John Walvoord's "The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation" (1976) brutally twisted Robert Gundry's "The Church and the Tribulation" (1973), Gundry composed and circulated a 35-page open letter to Walvoord which repeatedly charged the Dallas Seminary president with "misrepresentation," "misrepresentations" (and variations)!
1981 - "The Fundamentalist Phenomenon" (1981) by Jerry Falwell, Ed Dobson, and Ed Hindson heavily plagiarized George Dollar's 1973 book "A History of Fundamentalism in America."
1984 - After a prof at Southeastern College of the Assemblies of God in Florida told me that the No. 2 man at the AG world headquarters in Missouri - Joseph Flower - had the label of posttrib, my wife and I had two hour-long chats with him. He verified what I had been told. But we were dumbstruck when he told us that although AG ministers are required to promote pretrib, privately they can believe any other rapture view! Flower said that his father, an AG co-founder, was also posttrib. We also learned while in Springfield that when the AG's were organized in 1914, the initial group was divided between posttribs and pretribs - but that the pretribs shouted louder which resulted in that denomination officially adopting pretrib! (For details on this and other pretrib double-mindedness, Google "Pretrib Hypocrisy.")
1989 - Since 1989 Thomas Ice has referred to the "Mac-theory" (his reference to my research), giving the impression there's no solid evidence that Macdonald was the real pretrib originator. But Ice carefully conceals the fact that no eminent church historian of the 1800's - whether Plymouth Brethren or Irvingite - credited Darby with pretrib. Instead, they uniformly credited leading Irvingite sources, all of which upheld the Scottish lassie's contribution! Moreover, I'm hardly the only modern scholar seeing significance in Irvingism's territory. Others in recent years who have noted it, but who haven't mined it as deeply as I have, include Fuller, Ladd, Bass, Rowdon, Sandeen, and Gundry.
1989 - Greg Bahnsen and Kenneth Gentry produced evidence in 1989 that Lindsey's book "The Road to Holocaust" (1989) plagiarized "Dominion Theology" (1988) by H. Wayne House and Thomas Ice.
1990 - David Jeremiah's and C. C. Carlson's "Escape the Coming Night" (1990) massively plagiarized Lindsey's 1973 book "There's A New World Coming." (For more info, type in "Thieves' Marketing" on MSN or Google.)
1991 - Paul Lee Tan's "A Pictorial Guide to Bible Prophecy" (1991) plagiarized large amounts of Lindsey's "The Late Great Planet Earth" (1970).
1991 - Militant Darby defender R. A. Huebner claimed in 1991 to have found new evidence that Darby was pretrib as early as 1827 - three years before Macdonald. Halfway through his book Huebner suddenly admitted that his evidence could refer to something completely un-rapturesque. Even though Thomas Ice admitted to me that he knew that Huebner had "blown" his so-called evidence, prevaricator Ice continues to tell the world that Huebner has "positive evidence" that Darby was pretrib in 1827! Ice also conceals the fact that Darby, in his own 1827 paper, was looking for only "the restitution of all things" and "the times of refreshing" (Acts 3:19,21) - which Scofield doesn't see fulfilled until AFTER a future tribulation!
1992 - Tim LaHaye's "No Fear of the Storm" (1992) plagiarized Walvoord's "The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation" (1976).
1992 - This was when the Los Angeles Times revealed that "The Magog Factor" (1992) by Hal Lindsey and Chuck Missler was a monstrous plagiarism of Prof. Edwin Yamauchi's scholarly 1982 work "Foes from the Northern Frontier." Four months after this exposure, Lindsey and Missler stated they had stopped publishing and promoting their book. But in 1996 Dr. Yamauchi learned that the dishonest duo had issued a 1995 book called "The Magog Invasion" which still had a substantial amount of the same plagiarism! (If Lindsey and Missler ever need hernia operations, I predict that the doctors will tell them not to lift anything for a long time!)
1994 - In 1996 it was revealed that Lindsey's "Planet Earth - 2000 A.D. (1994) had an embarrassing amount of plagiarism of a Texe Marrs book titled "Mystery Mark of the New Age" (1988).
1995 - My book "The Rapture Plot" reveals the dishonesty in Darby's reprinted works. It's often hard to tell who wrote the footnotes and when. It's easy to believe that the notes, and also unsigned phrases inside brackets within the text, were a devious attempt by someone (Darby? his editor?) to portray a Darby far more developed in pretrib thinking than he actually had been at the time. I found that some of the "additives" had been taken from Darby's much later works, when he was more developed, and placed next to or inside his earliest works! One footnote by Darby's editor, attached to Darby's 1830 paper, actually stated that "it was not worth while either suppressing or changing" anything in this work! If his editor wasn't open to such dishonesty, how can we explain such a statement?
Post-1995 - Thomas Ice's article "Inventor of False Pre-Trib Rapture History" states that my book "The Rapture Plot" is "only one of the latest in a series of revisions of his original discourse...." And David Reagan in his article "The Origin of the Concept of a Pre-Tribulation Rapture" repeats Ice's falsehood by claiming that I have republished my first book "over the years under several different titles."
Although my book repeats a bit of the Macdonald origin of pretrib (for new readers), all of my books are packed with new material not found in my other works. For some clarification, "The Incredible Cover-Up" has photos of pertinent places in Ireland, Scotland, and England not found in my later books plus several chapters dealing with theological arguments; "The Great Rapture Hoax" quotes scholars throughout the Church Age, covers Scofield's hidden side, a section on Powerscourt, the 1980 election, the Jupiter Effect, Gundry's change, and more theological arguments; "The Rapture Plot" reveals for the first time the Great Evangelical Revisionism/Robbery and includes appendices on miscopying, plagiarism, etc.; and "The Three R's" shows hypocritical evangelicals employing occultic beliefs they say they have long opposed!
So Thomas Ice etc. are twisting truth when they claim I am only a revisionist. Do they really think that my publishers DON'T know what I've previously written?
Re arguments, Google "Pretrib Rapture - Hidden Facts" and also obtain "The End Times Passover" and "Why Christians Will Suffer 'Great Tribulation' " (AuthorHouse, 2006) by media personality Joe Ortiz.
1997 - For years Harvest House Publishers has owned and been republishing Lindsey's book "There's A New World Coming." During the same time Lindsey has been peddling his reportedly "new" book "Apocalyse Code" (1997), much of which is word-for-word the same as the Harvest House book - and there's no notice of "simultaneous publishing" in either book! Talk about pretrib greed!
1997 - This is the year I discovered that more than 50 pages of Dallas Seminary professor Merrill Unger's book "Beyond the Crystal Ball" (Moody Press, 1973) constituted a colossal plagiarism of Lindsey's "The Late Great Planet Earth" (1970). After Lindsey's book came out, Unger had complained that Lindsey's book had plagiarized his classroom lecture notes. It was evident that Unger felt that he too should cash in on his own lectures! (The detailed account of this Dallas Seminary dishonesty is revealed in my 1998 book "The Three R's.")
1998 - Tim LaHaye's "Understanding the Last Days" (1998) plagiarized Lindsey's "There's A New World Coming" (1973).
1999 - More than 200 pages (out of 396 pages) in Lindsey's 1999 book "Vanished Into Thin Air" are virtually carbon copies of pages in his 1983 book "The Rapture" - with no "updated" or "revised" notice included! Lindsey has done the same nervy thing with several of his books, something that has allowed him to live in million-dollar-plus homes and drive cars like Ferraris! (See my Google articles "Deceiving and Being Deceived" and "Thieves' Marketing" for further evidence of this notably pretrib vice.)
2000 - A Jack Van Impe article "The Moment After" (2000) plagiarized Grant Jeffrey's book "Final Warning" (1995).
2001 - Since 2001 my web article "Walvoord's Posttrib 'Varieties' - Plus" has been exposing his devious muddying up of posttrib waters. In some of his books he invented four "distinct" and "contradictory" posttrib divisions, claiming that they are either "classic" or "semiclassic" or "futurist" or "dispensational" - distinctions that disappear when analyzed! His "futurist" group holds to a literal future tribulation and a literal millennium but doesn't embrace "any day" imminency. But his "dispensational" group has the same non-imminency! Moreover, tribulational futurism is found in every group except the first one, and he somehow admitted that a literal millennium is in all four groups! On the other hand, it's the pretribs who consistently disagree with each other over their chief points and subpoints - but somehow end up agreeing that there will be a pretrib rapture! (See my chapter "A House Divided" in my book "The Incredible Cover-Up.")
2001 - Since my "Deceiving and Being Deceived" web item which exposed the claims for Pseudo-Ephraem" and "Morgan Edwards" as teachers of pretrib, there has been a piranha-like frenzy on the part of pretrib bodyguards and their duped groupies to "discover" almost anything before 1830 walking upright on two legs that seemed to have at least a remote hint of pretrib! (An exemplary poster boy for such pretrib practice is Grant Jeffrey. To get your money's worth, Google "Wily Jeffrey.")
FINALLY: Don't take my word for any of the above. Read my 300-page book "The Rapture Plot" which has a jillion more documented details on the long-hidden but now-revealed history of the dishonest, 179-year-old, fringe-British-invented, American-merchandised-until-the-real-bad-stuff-happens pretribulation rapture fad. If this book of mine doesn't "move" you, I will personally refund what you paid for it!
Dave,
I was disappointed not to find any reference to the subject of the post in your comment. The subject of the post I submitted for Eye On The Sky was "The Fate of Our Nation" based on the first discourse in Isaiah, chapters 2 to 5. Instead, your comment consisted only of criticism against those who have published anything on a pre-trib position regarding the rapture of the church. Did you choose this platform for discussion because I take a dispensational approach to eschatology? I assume so, although the rapture had no mention in my three posts on Isaiah. Or, did you choose to bring up the subject because your focus is to confront anyone who is dispensational in order to present your own books as an alternative point of view?
If we were debating the rapture timing, I would have to insist it be done from Scripture, not from anyone's book or opinion about when a certain teaching became mainstream. You did not cite the Bible in your comments. I think the question is "What does the Bible say?" Not, "What do authors say about church history?"
I came out of an a-millennial view of eschatology to a dispensational interpretation after years of study of the Bible--not from extra-biblical writing. If a discussion of Biblical interpretation is not done using the Scripture, then it is a fruitless argument, and Paul warned Timothy to "avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will." [2 Timothy 2:23-26]
Personally, if your blessed hope lies in a post-trib or mid-trib rapture and you have peace with your Lord about that interpretation, then I am glad for you. Know that I also have peace with God regarding my view of a pre-trib rapture. It is my expectation of our Lord's imminent, any-moment return that has driven me for over thirty years to study His Word, teach the Bible, and live a Godly life as I am able through the power of His Holy Spirit [Titus 2:11-13]. I want to be able to stand before Him at the Bema and hear "Well done thou good and faithful servant." That means my work is to occupy until He comes, whenever He comes. We are here to bring glory to God, not ourselves [Isaiah 43:6b; Colossians 1:16].
In Him We Wait, Work, and Watch,
Sharon
The latest word The Lord has dropped into my spirit is 'Israel.' After much praying, studying the news, and its pertinence to The Word, this is what I've concluded:
The last main notch in the prophetic timeline is sooner than you may want to believe. (For those of you who just said "we don't know the hour" you are correct, but God gave us things to watch for so that we may not be surprised.)I believe the last main event before The Tribulation to be the 144,000, (the remnant of Israel,) turning to Christ as Messiah.
President Obama's recent ultimatum given to Jerusalem, (to halt all building and settlement in the city,) was awfully brazen. Any who went up against Jerusalem in history were destroyed. It's the apple of God's eye.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts: "After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me." (Zech. 8-9)
I see the US in an upcoming battle with Israel over Jerusalem, in which our demise will convince the faithful 144,000 Jews, (who are truly seeking to find The Messiah,) of Jesus being The True Savior.
Let us be the salt of the earth, so that unbelievers may thirst for The Living Waters.
Love in Christ
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