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Acts 17
31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in
righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance
unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Welcome to Issue number 22 of the Judgment is coming newsletter. May God bless you as you are encouraged and as you eagerly await the soon return of the Lord Jesus! The signs of impending judgment are all around us! It is a source of encouragement to the Christian as we know the Lord Jesus will very soon return!
I would encourage you to set your love upon the Lord. It is a personal choice to make a decision to set your love upon the Lord. This means you choose to grow in His Word by reading it daily, to be obedient and faithful, and to trust in Him with a loving heart in the midst of a trial. By doing this you are drawing near to the Lord.
James 4
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands,
ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
God gives many blessings to His people and He wants His people to draw close to Him. As a result of setting your love upon the Lord, there are many blessings. All He wants is your love and trust.
In Psalm 91 above, there are several blessings given to the person who has set his love upon the Lord. Remember, it is a personal choice and act of the will to set your love upon the Lord. Here is a breakdown of six blessings in Psalm 91 starting at verse 14:
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore
1) will I deliver him
2) I will set him on high, because he hath known my name
3) He shall call upon me, and I will answer him:
4) I will deliver him and honour him
5) With long life will I satisfy him
6) and shew him my salvation
Whole sermons could be made for each of the six blessings listed. It is interesting that all six blessings apply to life here on earth as well as in the life to come!
We live in days of great apostasy where many choose to fall away from the Lord as they accept false teachings and enjoy the many delights of the devil such as rock music and the occult. Yet in these last days there are those who have chose to remain faithful to the Lord Jesus. They have set their love upon the Lord Jesus and seek to live and do that which pleases the Lord. As a result there are many blessings here on earth as well as in heaven for such a person!
I encourage you reader, to draw near to the Lord Jesus and to set your love upon Him in these closing days of human history!
Rev 22
20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Over the years I have wondered when this invasion will occur. There have been many who suggest this invasion will occur before the rapture of the Church. Today some believe this invasion will occur before the rapture and are looking at the current world events as they anticipate the Magog invasion very soon. I believe they are wrong as this invasion does not occur before the rapture or before the 7 year tribulation period begins.
Others believe this invasion will occur sometime in the middle of the 7 year tribulation period. Again, I believe they are wrong as the invasion does not occur at this time either.
In this article I'll show evidence that puts the Magog invasion near the end of the 7 year period. This evidence is so great that it cannot be ignored!
Here is the Scriptures that points to the timing of the Magog invasion:
Ezek 38
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I
will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know
that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Ezek 39
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my
judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that
day and forward.
Notice what happens after Russia and the allies are destroyed in the Magog
invasion.
1) God will set His glory among the heathen
2) all the heathen shall see the judgment of God
3) Israel will know their God from that day and forward!
Consider this: the antichrist will not be given credit for the destruction and judgment of the Magog invasion. God Himself will get all the glory. Also notice that after the destruction of the Magog invasion, Israel will know their God from that day and forward! Friends, the spiritual conversion of Israel does not occur until the end of the 7 year tribulation. Israel will not know their God before the tribulation, at the beginning of the tribulation, or in the middle of the 7 year tribulation. They will have their spiritual restoration at the end of the 7 year tribulation period.
This fact alone refutes all other Magog timing arguments. The Magog invasion occurs at the end of the tribulation not at any other time.
Israel will know their God from that day and forward!
The Bible prophesized that Israel would be restored as a nation in two stages:
Stage 1: physical restoration
Stage 2: spiritual restoration.
In 1948 and 1967 and onward, Israel was restored physically. They became a nation after almost 2000 years of being scattered to the nations. Israel continues to grow and be restored to their land this very day.
Israel is a nation is still in the process of being physically restored. However, they still are not yet spiritually restored as a nation. Right now Israel does not know their Messiah, Lord, and Saviour, the Lord Jesus.
The spiritual restoration of Israel occurs at the end of the 7 year tribulation period. At that time Israel will turn their hearts to the Lord Jesus and be restored spiritually. Here is the description of that time when those in Israel turn to their Messiah, the Lord Jesus!
Zech 12
8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is
feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall
be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the
nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they
have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son,
and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of
Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
CURRENT SITUATION AND ISLAM'S MOTIVE FOR WAR
Currently in 2007, Israel is under great stress from all the Arab Islamic nations who are seeking to destroy them. Here is some evidence that proves that the coming Islamic vs Israel war is NOT the Magog war.
What is the motive for this current and coming war? Well, the Islamics want to destroy Israel as a part of their religion. They have religious reasons why they want the complete destruction of Israel.
What is the motive for the Gog Magog invasion? The answer is greed and money! Look at what the Bible says:
Ezek 38
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go
to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls,
and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate
places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the
nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions
thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered
thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle
and goods, to take a great spoil?
Notice that the motive for the Magog invasion is greed and money. They invade to take a great spoil. Even the nations who watch the invasion know the goal is to take a great spoil and say so in verse 13 above.
Therefore the Magog invasion is a totally different war from the current war about to start between the Islamic nations and Israel. The Arabs are not invading Israel in order to take a great spoil. They are already filthy rich from oil money! Instead they invade (and will be destroyed) for their religious goal of attempting to destroy Israel in the name of Islam. I would say that no one believes the Arabs seek to invade Israel to take a great spoil. When a war breaks out between Islam and Israel, no country will say: Have you come to take a great spoil? Instead, the Islamic nations with their religion of Islam seeks the complete destruction of Israel. The motive for the coming Arab Islamic war is not greed and money.
Also, when the Magog invasion occurs there will be no walls in Israel. Currently, Israel is building massive walls to keep out all the Islamic suicide bombers. At the time of the Magog invasion the walls will be down. (verse 11 above)
ALLIES OF THE MAGOG INVASION:
Here is an interesting thought. In the list of the allies for the Magog invasion, Syria and Egypt are missing. I'm going to say that those two nations will suffer great defeat at the Islamic invasion of Israel. When it comes time for the Magog invasion, those two nations will have suffered such a great defeat that they will be unable to participate. This is why they are left out when God lists the nations that will participate in the Magog invasion. Here is the list of allies to the Magog invasion.
Exek 38
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee
forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all
sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them
handling swords:
5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and
all his bands: and many people with thee.
Currently Syria and Egypt are big players in the coming war against Israel. For those two nations to be absent from the list of allies indicates they have previously suffered severe judgment from God. When the Magog invasion occurs, these two nations are in no position whatsoever to attack. This is why God leaves them out of the list of nations attacking Israel in the Magog invasion.
Syria, for example, will suffer great judgment. Here is what the Bible says:
Isa 17
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city,
and it shall be a ruinous heap
The capital city of Syria will be destroyed in an instant and become a ruinous heap. This sounds like nuclear weapons! Perhaps in this coming war with Israel or the next, Syria will suffer great defeat and judgment from God. This is why Syria is not listed with the Magog invasion.
The same will be true of Egypt. In this war or the next they also will suffer great defeat and judgment from God. Egypt will not be able to assist in any way in the Magog invasion.
This list of allies to the Magog invasion also tells us something interesting. Persia is Iran and this nation will be around to join in with the Magog invasion. This means Iran will not be destroyed in the any future war until the Magog invasion at the end of the 7 year tribulation period. This nation of Iran that has given many public threats against Israel, will survive until their time of judgment and destruction in the Magog war.
SEVEN MONTH CLEANUP ISSUE
Some get hung up on the fact that Israel will burn the Magog weapons for 7 years and it will take 7 months to clean the land and bury all the dead.
Here is the description of that event:
Ezekiel 39
9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall
set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the
bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall
burn them with fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any
out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they
shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith
the Lord GOD.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place
there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the
sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury
Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they
may cleanse the land.
Points to consider:
1) Israel burns the weapons of war for 7 years
2) Israel buries the dead of the Magog army for 7 months
Some argue that this event cannot happen at the end of the 7 year tribulation because Israel will be still doing it into the 1000 Kingdom of the Lord Jesus. Think it through, why not? Why can't Israel burn the weapons for 7 years into the Kingdom age? I can see Israel burning the Magog weapons into the Kingdom age. Consider this: One of the judgments of God in the book of Revelation the destruction of all the grass and 1/3 of all trees on earth. It makes sense for Israel to burn the Magog weapons at the end of the 7 year tribulation in order to let the land of Israel heal and replenish after all the judgments of God fall upon earth. So yes, I don't see any problem with Israel burning up the weapons of warfare into the Kingdom age.
CONCLUSION
The evidence from Scripture shows that the Magog invasion will occur at the end of the 7 year tribulation period or Daniel's 70th week of prophecy.
The following verses show quite clearly that after God destroys the Magog invaders that Israel will know their God. We also know that the spiritual awakening of Israel occurs at the end of the 70th week of Daniel's prophecy. See below:
Ezek 38
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I
will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know
that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Ezek 39
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my
judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that
day and forward.
God gets all the glory for the destruction of the Magog invasion. As a result, the lost will know that God intervened to protect Israel. The nation of Israel will know their God, Lord, and Saviour from that day and forward!
We also saw the motive for the current Islamic war is not the same as the motive as the Magog war. Currently the Arabs have their motive of the complete destruction of Israel in accordance with their Islamic religion. The Magog motive for war will be greed, money, and ill-gotten gain.
Therefore, the coming Magog invasion will not occur until near the end of the 70th Week of Daniel's prophecy. This means the current and coming wars do not include the Magog invasion.
The huge difference between the biblical God and the Calvinist God is clear. The biblical God punishes men for rejecting the salvation He provided for everyone, which all could have accepted by their free will-and punishes them for their sins, which are contrary to His will, none of which they had to commit but chose to do so.
But the Calvinist God condemns to hell those whom He could save if He
so desired but for whom He sovereignly chose not even to have Christ
die and from whom He deliberately withholds the salvation He pretends
to offer them-and punishes them for not accepting. Yes, that's a huge
difference.
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I think it makes a lot of sense not to follow a man. Instead it is much better
to be a Biblicist. Just follow and believe what the Word of God says. When
a person says: I'm a 5 point Calvinist then he is labeling himself as a
man follower. Was Calvin Divine? Did he receive new or extra revelations
from God? Of course NOT! Then stick with being a Bible believer and stop
identifying yourself with a man and his 5 points!
Eph 5
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
"Zombie" GM crops - so called because farmers will have to pay biotech companies to bring seeds back from the dead - are being developed with British taxpayers' money.
The highly controversial development - part of a £3.4m EU research project - is bound to increase concerns about the modified crops and the devastating effect they could have on Third World farmers.
Environmentalists charge that it appears to be an attempt to get round a worldwide ban on a GM technology so abhorred that even Monsanto has said it will not use it.
The ban is on the so-called "terminator technology", which was designed to modify crops so that they produce only sterile seeds. This would force the 1.4 billion poor farmers who traditionally save seeds from one year's harvest to sow for the following one instead to buy new ones from biotech firms, swelling their profits but increasing poverty and hunger.
Since the ban was agreed under a UN treaty seven years ago, companies and pro-GM countries - including the United States and Britain - have pressed to have it overturned, so far without success. But the new technology promises to offer companies an even more profitable way of achieving dominance.
Zombie crops would also be engineered to produce sterile seed that could be
brought back to life with the right treatment - almost certainly with a chemical
sold by the company that markets the seed. Farmers would therefore have to pay
out, not for new seeds, but to make the ones they saved viable.
...continued...
ETC's report also says that if the new technology is developed, governments
and regulators will insist that all GM crops will have to be engineered to
be "zombies" to try to prevent contamination and in the process deliver
farmers into complete dependence on the biotech companies.
It adds, however, that no containment strategy is foolproof and that the genes will inevitably spread anyway through pollen.
The Transcontainer project insists that it is "specifically targeted at European agriculture and European crops". But it admits that such technologies "may become a problem for farmers in developing countries."
ETC warns that if the technology is commercialised it will "ultimately be
adopted indiscriminately" everywhere. It concludes: "A scenario in which farmers
have to pay for a chemical to restore seed viability creates a new perpetual
monopoly for the seed industry."
http://environment.independent.co.uk/lifestyle/article2666422.ece
Here is what the evolutionist/scientist David Suzuki has to say:
Keeping an eye on transgenic crops By David Suzuki Jun 13 2007
...continued...
Transgenic crops are not simple products like widgets, ipods or even automobiles.
They are living organisms that can interact with other creatures in the environment
in myriad ways. Nature is complicated. When you modify an organism at a genetic
level, it shouldn't surprise anyone that the results are also complicated, and
often unexpected. Transgenic crops are, in many ways, radically new and should be
subject to the greatest of scientific scrutiny, not suppressed by proprietary concerns.
http://www.rockymountainoutlook.ca/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=128&cat=48&id=1005430&more=0
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Fooling around with the DNA and genes of crops is very dangerous and no one
really knows the long term impacts to health or to the environment. The bottom line
in all this seems to be money and the extreme love of money!
What is the purpose of terminator seeds? Do they offer any benefit? No! What good are they other than extorting money from farmers who then are forced to raise their prices to cover costs?
Only greed and extreme love of money would cause the creation of terminator seeds. There is no other reason for doing such an evil thing! On top of all that, playing with the genetic code of plants can cause an ecological disaster! Here is what the Bible says as a warning to those who will do "anything" for money and ill gotten gain:
1 Tim 6
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many
foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted
after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with
many sorrows.
James 5
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come
upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness
against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure
together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which
is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped
are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished
your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
In these last days lost people are obsessed with money and they are building their treasures with ill gotten gain! The average consumer is cheated and has money extorted at every corner. Just look at the price of gas at the pumps for another example of the greed of lost people.
But there is coming an end to all this evil! The Lord will send Divine judgment at the appointed time and money will mean nothing! The only thing that really matters is the acceptance of the Lord Jesus as YOUR Lord and Saviour! A person is either saved or lost! Which are you? It's time to make your choice!
John 3
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that
the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is
condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God.
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36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth
not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Southern California's water fluoridation push may expose infants to dangerous levels of fluoride M. T. Whitney
(NewsTarget) Plans to increase the fluoride in Southern California water systems may have negative effects on the development of infants' teeth when fed with formula. The American Dental Association has warned that increased amounts of fluoride in water systems may cause infants to grow up with teeth that appear damaged.
What you need to know - Conventional View
The ADA states that fluoride is important, but too much can cause dental fluorosis
to the enamel of infants' not-yet-developed teeth.
Dental fluorosis affects the appearance of teeth, causing them to yellow or develop white spots. It also can cause the pitting or mottling of enamel (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_enamel ).
The group recommends breastfeeding infants to keep them away from water while their teeth develop. If using a formula mix, the ADA recommends using low- or non-fluoridated water as the liquid mixer.
The federal Centers for Disease Control estimate that roughly one-third of children between the ages of 12 to 15 years have some degree of fluorosis. (More information here.)...continued...
What you need to know - Alternative View
Statements and opinions by Mike Adams
The so-called "fluoride" added to public water systems isn't really fluoride. It's a toxic waste from coal plants or industrial chemical processors known as fluorosilicic acid. "Fluoride" is simply a code name for the chemical.
If this "fluoride" wasn't dumped into public water supplies, it would have to be disposed of as a toxic waste. Chemical companies save money on toxic waste disposal by selling the chemicals to cities who drip it into the water supply.
Today's water fluoridation laws are based entirely on junk science and power politics and have nothing whatsoever to do with dental health.
Resources you need to know
Citizens for Safe Drinking Water: www.nofluoride.com
Bottom line
Fluoride in the water affects the dental health of infants, and some municipalities
might add fluoride without warning about the risks to your child.
NewsTarget Network (c)2004,2005 All Rights Reserved
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People are being slowly poisoned by fluoride in their water, chemicals in the
food, and even genetically modified food. This is why there is so much cancers,
diabetes, and other illnesses.
It is really important to repent of your sins and accept the Lord Jesus now. The days we live in are dangerous and the coming days will be worse! For the unsaved, death and hell can come very suddenly and unexpectedly. People do not live forever! Remember, it just takes a few heartbeats to perish and die in your sins!
2 Tim 3
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
The top brass at American Express, chagrined at the discovery of its people tracking plans, met with CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) last week to discuss the issue. One outcome of the meeting was a promise by American Express to review its entire patent portfolio and ensure that any people-tracking plans be accompanied by language requiring consumer notice and consent.
The meeting was organized after CASPIAN called attention to one of the company's more troublesome patent applications. That patent application, titled "Method and System for Facilitating a Shopping Experience," describes a Minority Report style blueprint for monitoring consumers through RFID-enabled objects, like the American Express Blue Card.
According to the patent, RFID readers called "consumer trackers" would be placed in store shelving to pick up "consumer identification signals" emitted by RFID-embedded objects carried by shoppers. These would be used to identify people, track their movements, and observe their behavior.
The patent also suggested such people-tracking systems could "be located in a
common area of a school, shopping center, bus station or other place of public
accommodation."
...continued...
http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/american-express-tracking-patent.html
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I believe that RFID tags will have a role to play in the coming kingdom of
the antichrist. Right now Wal-mart is requiring all their suppliers to use
RFID tags in their products. The retail giant, Wal-mart, is also enjoying
a huge expansion as they continue to add new stores. All this increases the
use of RFID tags in products. These RFID tags are also getting very
sophisticated and smaller. Some are active and constantly beam their signal
while others are passive and can be read by RFID readers once in range.
This scenario will be happening soon: A consumer purchases a product using his bank card or credit card. The imbedded RFID in the product with then be electronically identified to that consumer at purchase time. If the product is something a person wears then that RFID tag goes with that person. A reader anywhere could then read that RFID tag and identify the user. A person could walk into a library, for example, and RFID tracker units could read the RFID tag. The person could literally be tracked from RFID "consumer tracker" unit to the next RFID reader. This would allow tracking of human movement. The technology is here right now to do this. All that is needed is more RFID readers scattered around so people could be more readily tracked.
Keep in mind that RFID is not the mark of the beast. That is coming after the rapture and during the 7 year tribulation period. During that time the antichrist will demand worship. All who bow the knee and worship him will be given a special mark of some kind. Any who refuse the mark of the beast will be hunted down and killed by those loyal to the antichrist. All the technology for such a system is in place today. It is just a matter of time!
Therefore, it is time to make your decision today! The Lord Jesus is coming back very soon to rapture home His blood bought people. Are you saved or lost? Do you accept or reject the Lord Jesus as your Lord and Saviour? Make your decision as time is quickly running out!
John 3
36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that
believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth
on him.
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Get the message out! Judgment is coming and it has already started! It is long past time to repent and get right with God! The Lord Jesus (second person of the Trinity and God in human flesh) is the Only Saviour. Come to Him today before it is too late for you!