Bible Prophecy& The Gospel Message

Middle East and international events are signs proclaiming that the return of Jesus

Christ and the Kingdom of God on Earth are near.

Are you prepared?

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2 Peter 3:8

Promises to the fathers of old

Abraham

The blessing of all nations through him and his seed.

Genesis 12:1-3Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Promises to the fathers of old

Abraham

Innumerable seed

Genesis 15:5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Genesis 22:17That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Abraham

The everlasting, personal possession of the territory lying between the Euphrates and the Nile and between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, known in the terms of modern geography as Palestine and Arabia, and Biblically, as the Holy Land.

Genesis 13:14-17And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

Promises to the fathers of old

Abraham

These promises have not been fulfilled

Acts 7:5And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

Galatians 3:16,29Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Promises to the fathers of old

Isaac & Jacob

The promises to Abraham were reiterated to Isaac & Jacob

To Isaac God said in Genesis 26:1,2,4And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

To Jacob God said in Genesis 28:13, 14And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Promises to the fathers of old

The Son promised to David is Jesus Christ, who will sit on David’s throne when it is restored in the era of His reappearing on the earth

2 Samuel 7:12-14And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.I will be his father, and he shall be my son.

Acts 2:30David being a prophet knew that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, He would RAISE UP CHRIST, TO SIT ON HIS THRONE

Luke 1:30-33And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.   He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest;  and the Lord God shall give unto him THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID.  And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever;  and of HIS KINGDOM there shall be no end

The Son Promised to David

Hebrews 11:13-35,39,40

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Tower of Babel, artwork by Peter Bruegel, year

1563Museum in Vienna

Austria

New EU Parliament in Strasbourg

Europe:Many tongues one voice

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.2 Thessalonians 2:3,4

Dominus Deus noster papa - Our Lord God the popeDeus alter in terrâ - Another God on earth

Idem est dominium Dei et papae - The dominion of God and the pope is the same

Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.Ps 100:3

There will be a time of anguish greater than any, since there was a nation

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Matthew 24:6,7

Start of conflict Conflict Continent Location Cumulativ

e fatalitiesFatalities in 2014

Fatalities in 2015

1978War in Afghanistan

Asia  Afghanistan

1,240,000-2,000,000 14,277 416

2009Boko Haram insurgency

Africa

 Nigeria Cameroon Niger Chad

15,000 10,849 4,814

2011 Syrian Civil War Asia  Syria 220,000 76,021 6,758[

2011 Iraqi Civil War Asia  Iraq 35,829-

61,82921,000-47,000 3,050

Current conflicts with10,000 or more deaths per year

Start of

conflict

Conflict Continent Location Cumulativ

e fatalitiesFatalities in 2014

Fatalities in 2015

1948 Israeli–Palestinian conflict Asia Israel Palestine

24,220+ 2,220+ 1

1988 War in Somalia Africa  Somalia 500,000 2,983 4112003 War in Darfur Africa  Sudan 178,258+ 2,101 141

2004 War in North-West Pakistan Asia  Pakista

n 56,724 5,496 712

2006 Mexican Drug War North America  Mexico 150,000+ 8,156+ 622

2011 Libyan Civil War Africa  Libya 13,225 2,825 413

2011

•Yemeni Crisis•Houthi rebellion•South Yemen insurgency•Al-Qaeda insurgency

Asia  Yemen 25,000 7,700 68

2012 Central African Republic conflict Africa  CAR 7,472+ 5,186+ 82

2013 South Sudanese Civil War Africa  South Sudan

10,000-50,000+

6,383-

40,000+ 149

2014 War in Donbass Europe  Ukraine 5,793 4,771 1,022

Current conflicts with 1,000 – 9,999 deaths per year

They shall beat there ploughshares into swords and their pruning hooks into spears

Joel 3

Famine

Pestilence

Over 10,000 deaths world wide

from Ebola

Spread from the death of one person who

infected their mother – their

doctor travelled to other communities where the disease

was contracted and passed to

other travelling people

Greater than 1.5 magnitude

•95 earthquakes yesterday•661 earthquakes in the past 7 days•3,023 earthquakes in the past month•38,307 earthquakes in the past year

Earthquakes

Map shows all earthquakes world wide in the last 7 days

Global terrorism index 2014

10,000 terror attacks in 2013

17,958 deaths

61% increase on 2012Source: Institute for Economics and Peace

Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world

Luke 21:26 NIV

2 Peter 3:3

There shall come in the last days SCOFFERS

walking after their own lusts.

2 Tim 4:3-4

The time will come when they will not endure

SOUND DOCTRINE

They shall turn away … from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables

…Except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved.

The eight countries with known nuclear capability have enough weapons to destroy all life on earth 50 times over in less than an hour.

US Centre for defense information.

And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

Zechariah 14:12

Ezekiel 38 lists various names that can be identified with nations around the globe

Verse 1Gog, Magog, Chief Prince (translated as Rosh), Meshech, Tubal

Verse 5Persia, Ethiopia, Libya

Verse 6Gomer, and Togarmah

Libya (Put) remains today, bearing the same name, lying just west of Egypt.

Persia, also remaining to the present, is now known as Iran.

Biblical Ethiopia (Cush) is not the Ethiopia of today but rather the land just to the south of Egypt, Northern Sudan.

Chief prince – Rosh – Russia

Meshech – the Modern Russian city of Moscow, capitol and largest city of the Soviet Union

Tubal – the Russian city of Tobol'sk

Togarmah was a descendant of Noah through Japheth then Gomer (Gen.10:1-3). He is know to Assyrian records as Tilgarimmu.

The inserted "L" is not uncommon and, more than likely, was silent.

Tilgarimmu was a city state in Eastern Anatolia (Asia Minor, modern Turkey), more specifically, as Ryrie states, "the south eastern part of Turkey near the Syrian border."

Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

Ezekiel 38:14-16

But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-3

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US hired islands in the British Indian Ocean Territories to have a naval base so they are within striking distance of Russia and the Middle East.

2,900 miles to Baghdad5-6 hrs flight time

God’s long term plan for His creation is stated in Numbers

14:21

"But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be FILLED WITH

THE GLORY OF THE LORD."

The Prophet Isaiah was inspired to write declaring,

"For thus saith the Lord…..God himself that formed the earth…..he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited……."

Isaiah 45:18

THE EARTH SHALL BE FULL OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD

THE EARTH SHALL BE FULL OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD as the waters cover the sea. (Isaiah 11:9)

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 2:4)

He shall judge the poor of the people, He shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor…..His name shall endure for ever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun; and men shall be blessed in Him; all nations shall call Him blessed. (Psalm 72:4,17)

The nations shall bless themselves in Him, and in Him shall they glory. (Jeremiah 4:2)

And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek, and his rest shall be glorious. (Isaiah 11:10,9)

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

Daniel 9:24,25

70 Weeks - Split in to 7 Weeks & 62 Weeks & 1 weekFrom the command to restore Jerusalem to beyond the death of Christ was 490 years

The Last Days…The city of Jerusalem was returned to the modern nation of Israel in June 1967, 49 years from that date would be June 2016.

The last autumn feasts before that date would be in September 2015. The Torah calendar web site gives Rash HaShannah (start of the civil calendar) of 2015 as the start of the 120th Jubilee Year, and as the year 6001, which would be the start of the 7th 1,000 year day.

After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.Numbers 14:34

And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.Ezra 4:6

…of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.Mark 13:32 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no,

not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.Matthew 24:36-39

CHRIST'S COMING:

“This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye (the Apostles) have seen him go into heaven”Acts 1:11

…Then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.Mark 13:26,27

THE METROPOLIS OF HIS RULE:

“At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem; neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart”

Jeremiah 3:17

THE NATURE OF THE KINGDOM HE WILL ESTABLISH ON EARTH:

“The God of heaven shall set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever”

Daniel 2:44

THE EFFECT OF HIS RULE:

“It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains (i.e. at Jerusalem) . . and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more”

Isaiah 2:24

The kingdom of God will last a Thousand Years

Christ and His brethren will be kings and priests over the mortal inhabitants of the earth

Sin and death will continue among the mortal, but in a milder degree than now

At the end of the 1,000 year Kingdom there will be rebellion of the nations of mortal people

This uprising will be suppressed by a judgment

Those that have died during the Kingdom period will be raised and along with the other mortal

inhabitants will be judged resulting in the immortalisation of the approved, and the

consignment of the rejected to destruction.

Sin and death will then be completely abolished

None will then remain but a generation of righteous, redeemed, immortal persons, who shall

inhabit the earth for ever.

At the end of Kingdom period, there will be a change of rulership

Christ will surrender His position of supremacy, and become subject to the Father, His work will

then be finished

God will manifest Himself as the FATHER AND FRIEND OF ALL

The Kingdom of God

Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.Rev 1:3

…Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.Luke 11:28

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.Ps 1:1-3

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.Ps 119:1-4

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.Rev 22:14

Personal salvation requires effort on our part.

We must put ourselves in the Way of Truth, for it is the way to life eternal.

Romans 1:16, 17

And we must obey the principles set down in the Word. The steps to salvation are:

BeliefRepentanceBaptismObedience

The call is the same today as it was in the 1st

century:

Repent and be baptised in the name of

Jesus Christ

for the remission of sins

Are you prepared?