THE COMING STORM, by JOEL ROSENBERG.

A storm is gathering against America, Israel and the Church, yet so many of our leaders seem to be asleep – unaware of the threats or unwilling to deal with them decisively.

One of the most serious is the prospect of the mullahs in Iran building nuclear weapons and using them against us and our allies, based on their genocidal End Times theology. This is why I wrote The Tehran Initiative, to help people imagine some of the worst case scenarios if we don’t take decisive action to neutralize the Iran threat. Though the book is fiction, the issues at the heart of the novel, unfortunately, are all too real. Indeed, this week brought more sobering news of how steadily Iran is moving towards that day.

Consider the latest developments:
“Iran’s nuclear program is struggling with low-performing enrichment machines but it would still be able to produce material that could be used for atomic bombs, according to a U.S. think tank,” Reuters reports. “In a report coinciding with rising tension between Iran and the West, the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) also said tougher sanctions could make it more difficult for the Islamic state to obtain key parts for its uranium enrichment work.

“A widely referenced Washington Post story from Monday has got folks feeling complacent about the parlous state of Iran’s nuclear program,” notes J.E. Dyer, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst. ”The [Washington Post] piece, crediting Stuxnet and sanctions, speaks of a ‘sharp decline’ in the output of low-enriched uranium (LEU) at the Natanz enrichment facility, along with the aging and low-performing condition of Iran’s original Pakistani-design centrifuge cascades.

Meanwhile, sanctions have apparently made it impossible for Iran to import high-strength maraging steel, forcing the Iranians to manufacture their newest centrifuges from less reliable carbon fiber….But there is more to the story.”

Dyer noted that “one of the most important facts is that, according to the September 2011 IAEA report, Iran had – as of mid-August 2011 – piled up a total of 4543kg of LEU. By Western intelligence estimates, that is enough for 4 nuclear warheads. LEU production began in February 2007, and the rate of production can be crudely gauged by noting that (again, according to IAEA reporting) Iran had 630kg of LEU in November 2008, 1763kg in October 2009, and 3135kg in October 2010.”

That said, an Israeli newspaper is reporting on new efforts to stop Iran without using military force. Ynet News: New virus threatens Iran’s nuclear program: After the Stuxnet computer virus that wreaked havoc on Iran’s nuclear program, a new virus named ‘Duqu’ threatens similar consequences

Here is the latest IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear activities (September 2011).
Recent article from Great Britain: New UN fears over Iran nuclear threat: The UN nuclear agency is “increasingly concerned” that Iran is still secretly developing a nuclear payload for a missile.
Inexplicably, President Obama is not taking decisive action to neutralize the Iranian threat. None of the GOP presidential candidates have given a major policy address focused on the Iran issue, either. But two NATO allies are speaking out.

“We must not be distracted from it by the momentous events of the Arab Spring. We must not ignore the steadily more urgent threat of Iran’s nuclear program,” said British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Tuesday during a tour of North African countries. “I think this [Iran nuclear] issue will become more urgent over the next year.”
“We have no quarrel with the Iranian people, but the regime in Tehran represents probably the most significant threat in the world to global peace and security,” said Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week after the revelations about the Iranian plot to launch terrorist attacks in Washington, D.C.
Joel Rosenberg.

CONTENDING EARNESTLY FOR THE FAITH by ALAN FRANKLIN.

I am going to be intolerant. Everything I say will be politically incorrect - but Biblically correct. I will explain just why society is falling apart, why children grow up confused and self-destructive, why nothing seems to make sense any more and we live in the age of unreason. For there IS a reason for all our troubles, a spiritual malaise at the heart of all ills. Here is some of what I will be preaching. 

Britain, America and many nations are falling apart because of spiritual deception. They now believe there are many paths to God. The Bible calls all other faiths idolatry. Britain was a center of Druidism when the first Christians arrived, over 500 years before Augustine arrived with his false theology. Druids sacrificed their children, just as we do today with around seven million babies killed in abortion butcheries since 1967. This is just one of the reasons God is judging us. 

The world is getting darker, closer to its destruction. Night is not yet here but it is late evening - a few minutes to midnight. We need to learn to trust the Lord completely and remember: God is still on the throne and prayer changes things. We have the Blessed Hope….. Psalm 71:5… “For You are my hope, O Lord God;You are my trust from my youth.” And remember, Proverbs 11:7 states: “When a wicked man dies, his hope perishes; all he expected from his power comes to nothing.” Beware, Richard Dawkins, arch-atheist and fool! 

Whereas: “Those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land,” from the 37^th Psalm, verse 9. It’s a reference to the coming Millennium. The world seems to be out of control. But it is never out of God’s control. And payday is coming….. “Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same” (Job 4:8) Satan pays in counterfeit currency. “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” (Hosea 8:7) 

Fear and uncertainty will grow as it becomes obvious the world is out of man’s control. Jesus spoke of His coming again in great power and glory but He said something else had to happen first (Luke 21:26)…. “Men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming on the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.” 

As we hear of all that is coming we are not to be subject to the spirit of fear. Jesus said: “In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Romans 8;37 says that in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. On the broad path almost anything is tolerated. Yoga is taught in church halls everywhere – the spirit of the serpent. It’s just exercise…or so deceivers claim. The aim, as in many false faiths, is to find the god within. 

This broad way leads to destruction as it is based on lies, like the New Age Movement, which is actually very old, the Emergent Church and so on. The Jesus way is the narrow way for He is the truth – the absolute truth. An unfashionable idea, one the world sees as intolerant. But the Bible makes it clear that there is but ONE way to Heaven, whether the nations believe it or not. We mostly don’t, here in Britain. 

Take a look at the Buddha statues in gardens on your way home and remember  the Second Commandment which starts: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God…” 

What will stop our society finally falling apart? Not more prisons, not more security cameras – but more of the word of God. In Paul’s first letter to Timothy he wrote (1 Timothy 4: 1-3) “But the Spirit explicitly says that in latter times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy seared in their own conscience with a branding iron, Men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.” 

Here we see, among others, the Catholic church, a major part of the coming Great Whore Church of the last days – forbidding marriage for its “priests,” banning meat on Fridays (until it ceased to be a mortal sin!) and so on. God calls their ideas “doctrines of demons” yet most of the church today will happily join with them in ecumenical events. Churches Together? Yes, false churches together! If you disagree you will probably be called a bigot. 

Four visitors to Britain came to find the church. They were still looking for it the last I heard. I told them we are a remnant church, a phrase they had not heard before. This should neither surprise nor dismay us. Luke 18 verse 8 quotes Jesus asking… “When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” The phrasing of the question suggests the answer is “no.”

When many of those who love their success-driven, name it and claim it churches go broke, lose their jobs and homes, will they still have faith in that wonderful god of wealth creation?  It depends on what their faith is based on. Paul details End Times society in Second Timothy 3: 1-5: “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as these.” 

Do you think Paul was talking about seeker-friendly Christianity – Christianity Lite- the feel-good Gospel? People who give the impression they are on the Lord’s side but do not act in accordance with His words, which is precisely how the antichrist spirit will be manifest. Antichrist will give many the impression he is Christ, by being a benefactor and bringing peace, before his true nature as a son of the devil emerges. 

In his first letter the Apostle John wrote these words to believers: (1 John 2:18) “Children, it is the last hour and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen; from this we know that it is the last hour.” When we think that John wrote those words over 1,900 years ago it is significant how accurately they capture the spirit of these last days. 

So are we wasting our time? Should we all go home and watch television, or wash the car? Or should we be anticipating the most exciting time in 2000 years, the second coming of Jesus Christ? Don’t allow the bad things happening rob you of the joy of this anticipation. The Bible says we are to yearn for the return of the Lord (2 Timothy 4; 7-8. Most of the church today is yawning, as our favorite American preacher Dr. David Reagan says…… 

Christians are not called to “win.” We are not to fight crusades – at least, not with armies.  In fact, in many ways we will lose the battle. The world is set to get a lot worse, very soon. Satan is the ruler of this world and will continue to be until our Lord returns, when Satan will be cast alive into the lake of fire. Satan has a master plan – but God has THE master plan. Satan is the ultimate loser, but he wins for a while. If he tries to remind us of our past we can always remind him of his future - no wonder he tries to stifle the study of prophecy! 

We cannot control Satan - as Christians our job is to stand for righteousness. Until our rapture or death, we have to spread the word, to speak out on behalf of God’s  principles.  Watchmen were set on high places, to warn of impending danger. The Lord has watchmen doing the same today – the SWRC (see our links) has as its motto the watchman on the wall. Ezekiel 33 tells of the watchman’s role: vs 2 onwards: “Son of man, speak to the sons of the people, and say to them: ‘If I bring a sword upon the land. And the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman,And he sees the sword coming upon the land, and he blows on the trumpet and warns the people,Then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his sword will be upon his own head.He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood will be on himself.

"But had he taken warning, he would have delivered his life.But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.”  

We as a watchman church are here to please God, not to please people. To be a light in the gloom, to tell people they do not need to choose destruction. All round the world Christians are being martyred in ever increasing numbers as the world’s hatred turns against real Christianity. In ALL Islamic countries becoming a Christian is a life threatening experience. Yet many in these countries are secretly becoming believers, facing death the moment their secret is out. They are pleasing God, not men. They are saving their souls when all around them are losing theirs. 

Yet all over the western world, millions of cars are purpose driven into church car parks every Sunday. A quarter of a million pastors listen to Rick Warren’s purpose driven messages and adapt them for their own flocks. Warren’s books sell in tens of millions. Surely this is the church victorious? Turn on the God Channels and you sometimes see churches with tens of thousands of members.  If the millions in the mega-churches were hearing the true Gospel, our societies, in Britain and America, would not be fast gurgling down the plughole.  So why is it happening? 

Deception is the answer- the main spiritual problem of the end times. Many churches are Laodicean – lukewarm. There is a great falling away from Biblical truth. Jesus said: “Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come IN MY NAME…” In His name! (Matthew 24:4-5). Beware!  Paul warns in 1 Timothy 4:1:  “In the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits…” 

The very word “fundamental” has acquired a bad reputation, when all it means when applied to Christians is that you believe the foundational truths in the Bible. Many ministers and bishops deny the basic, foundational truths of our faith – the virgin birth, the atoning  death and the resurrection of Christ.

As well as false doctrines there are false “Christs” deceiving many (Matthew 24:5).  The Greek word “Christ” means “anointed one.”  Jesus is the one and only anointed one, the true Christ, the only one who fulfilled the Old Testament prophecies of Israel’s Messiah.  He alone can baptize with the Holy Spirit.  Yet there are men today standing on platforms in churches shouting:  “I have the anointing!”  No they do not.  Only Jesus has the anointing.  The closer we get to the Lord’s return, the more false “Christs” will come, and many foolish people will follow them. 

Do not listen to those who claim to perform miracle healings or to “take authority” over the weather. Such men are deceived.   When I believed in the Kingdom Now philosophy that is everywhere in the false churches, we were always “claiming” things for Christ. In my stupidity I once walked round a well known newspaper plant, “claiming” it. I didn’t get it. In fact they took over our company. "We're gonna take this town (nation, planet) for Jesus Christ." Rick Warren says he will mobilise a billion Christians to do just that.

Funny, that’s not what Jesus said.   This  “Kingdom Now” teaching  has deceived many people, who are wasting good prayer time “claiming” their towns for Christ and marching through areas to “break Satan’s strongholds.”  We are not going to “take” any territory for the Lord Jesus.  It’s all His anyway.  We are not going to “bind” Satan or any other evil spirits over our towns.  That is not in our power to do.  Paul didn’t do that in the pagan towns. Ever since marches for Jesus started the world has become worse and worse. We are not going to “bring the kingdom in.”   

The Lord Jesus will do that with no help from us, after he destroys His enemies gathered in Israel. Only He acts, His enemies are killed with the sword that came from His mouth – REVELATION 19 VERSE 21.  In the meantime, far from “taking” any towns, we will be hated and persecuted, just as He forewarned us in John 15.   And, as evil waxes worse and worse, the professing church will continue deeper and deeper into apostasy, just as is happening today.   We do not need fables and follies, we need Godly leadership.

We must concentrate on saving souls rather than healing minds, with so-called Christian “psychology.” We need the faith in God that sent missionaries round the world and built Britain into the greatest nation on earth, something astonishing for a nation of our size, just as it is astonishing for Israel to be so strong today. A nation without true faith - not faith in faith but faith in Jesus -cannot stand for long. God judges nations in many ways and we have now lost our sovereignty while most people are too lazy and ill informed to have noticed.

We must start making judgments, for the claim that tolerance must be our guideline for life is itself an intolerant statement. God honors nations that honor Him, rather than question all that He has set out in His book – the Maker’s handbook, the book that guides us through life to everlasting life. Nations need conviction so that storms do not shake them and our democracy is failing as we have turned to man from God and our freedoms are following the Bible out of the door. The more we break His rules the more rules the godless government imposes until soon, all freedom has gone.

We are almost at that point, just awaiting a word from Brussels to act against evangelical Christians.A Baptist mother in GERMANY WAS ARRESTED AT GUNPOINT FOR TEACHING HER CHILDREN AT HOME. The family have had to flee to Austria. The rule was brought in by Hitler, who wanted state control over pupils’ minds- just like today. 

Chapter ten of Revelation shows Jesus at His second coming, portrayed as a mighty angel who returns to earth with the scroll open in His hand. He comes to claim the earth for His saints- us- who will rule with Him. Using Old Testament imagery, the passage says He will cry out “with a loud voice, as when a lion roars.”Woe to the fallen world. It has ignored God’s ultimatum and faces His wrath. But one day soon,  every knee will bow.

Visible reality all around us ranges from bad to disappointing. But this world is not our home. We are in it but not of it. In the pages of the Bible we read of “evidence of things not seen.” In 2 Kings Elisha was in Dothan and the King of Syria surrounded the city with many horsemen and chariots. Elisha’s servant was scared but Elisha told him there were more on the Israelites’ side than against them. Elisha asked God to open the man’s spiritual eyes- and he saw a mountain full of the chariots of fire and horses of Israel. 

When Syria or any other country next attacks Israel they will discover this all over again. 

Our five senses will die with us- they are temporary. What counts is the invisible – this is what the Bible is all about. Spiritual realities are different to what we see in the world right now as in Heaven, our Lord is preparing for His triumphant return. He is also preparing a place for us. 

Maranatha – come, Lord Jesus.

By ALAN FRANKLIN. Read more at http://www.thefreepressonline.co.uk/ 

DANIEL, THE TEMPLE, AND THE ANTICHRIST, by BOB MITCHELL.

BOB MITCHELL HAS WRITTEN A VERY INTRIGUING ARTICLE ON HIS WEBSITE BLOG AT http://www.bob-mitchell.blogspot.com/. IT IS  REPRODUCED HERE FOR YOUR INTEREST AND EDIFICATION.
 

THE BOOK OF DANIEL. FROM WHERE WILL THE ANTICHRIST ARISE?

FROM NERO TO THE POPES TO NAPOLEON TO HITLER TO MUSSOLINI TO KISSINGER TO CLINTON TO BLAIR TO WHO KNOWS WHO? PEOPLE HAVE, FOR CENTURIES, TRIED TO IDENTIFY THE ANTICHRIST.

AND GUESS WHAT?

THEY HAVE ALL BEEN WRONG. AND I COULD BE TOO!!

SO I WANT US TO LOOK AT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT THIS MAN (THE GREEK USES THE MALE "HE" TO IDENTIFY HIS GENDER) WHO WILL BE THE ULTIMATE BAD GUY. EVIL PERSONIFIED. YOU THOUGHT HITLER OR POL POT WERE EVIL.

THIS MAN, THE ANTICHRIST, WILL MAKE EVERY MEGALOMANIAC, SADISTIC, MURDERING, CUNNING, CONNIVING, TWISTING, LYING, TWO FACED, BLASPHEMOUS LEADER OF THE PAST LOOK LIKE MOTHER THERESA ON HER BEST DAY.

THE BIBLE DOESN'T SIMPLY CALL HIM THE "ANTICHRIST." IT CALLS HIM THE:

"MAN OF SIN"; "THE SON OF PERDITION"; THE WICKED SHEPHERD"; "THE BEAST"; "THE LITTLE HORN SPEAKING GREAT THINGS"; THE "ONE WHO MAKES DESOLATE"; "THE ASSYRIAN",  AND SO ON.

IN FACT THERE ARE AROUND 39 DIFFERENT TITLES FOR HIM IN THE BIBLE.

NOT THE KIND OF GUY YOU WANT YOUR DAUGHTER TO BRING HOME FOR TEA!

SERIOUSLY, THIS MAN IS ONE TO BE CAREFUL OF. ONE WITH WHOM WE SHOULD AVOID ANY CONTACT.

I KNOW I'LL BE TOLD "WELL WE WILL BE RAPTURED BEFORE THIS MAN COMES ON THE SCENE."  I AM NOT SO SURE!

LET'S LOOK AT THE PLAIN READING OF SCRIPTURE. WHAT JESUS SAID. WHAT THE APOSTLES SAID. NOT ONE OF THEM OR THE FATHERS THAT FOLLOWED AFTER THEM WROTE THAT WE WOULD BE TAKEN BEFORE ANTICHRIST COMES ON THE SCENE.

IN FACT IF YOU READ THE SIMPLE WORDS OF THE MASTER HIMSELF IN MATT. 24 YOU WILL SEE HE CONTINUALLY SAYS "WHEN YOU SEE..." WHEN SPEAKING OF THE COMING OF ANTICHRIST AND OTHER END TIME EVENTS. AND HE WAS SPEAKING TO HIS INFANT CHURCH.

NOT NON BELIEVING JEWS!!

ANYWAY THAT'S MY BEEF. I KNOW DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO BELIEVE OTHERWISE AND THAT'S DOWN TO THEM. WE EACH MUST STAND BEFORE THE LORD AND GIVE AN ACCOUNT.

BUT THE ANTICHRIST.........FROM WHERE WILL HE ARISE?INTERESTINGLY DANIEL MAKES THE POINT IN DANIEL 7 AND 8 THAT HE WILL ARISE FROM ONE OF THE AREAS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S EMPIRE THAT WERE DIVIDED AMONG HIS 4 GENERALS.

THE ONE PORTION THAT IS HIGHLIGHTED AS THE ORIGIN OF THE ANTICHRIST IS THE AREA LEFT TO GENERAL SELEUCID OR THE ASSYRIAN AREA. THE GREEN AREA IN THE MAP BELOW.



SOME WILL ARGUE THAT THESE PARTICULAR PROPHECIES WERE FULFILLED BY ANTIOCHUS EPIPAHNES WHO, IN THE 2ND CENTURY BC WHO OUTLAWED JUDAISM AND SLAUGHTERED A PIG IN THE TEMPLE. BUT HE DID NOT TOTALLY FULFILL EVERY ONE OF THE PROPHECIES CITED IN THESE CHAPTERS.

SO ALTHOUGH HE CAME CLOSE, THERE IS A GREATER, TOTAL FULFILLMENT TO COME.

BUT DANIEL 9 SAYS THE PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE (THE ANTICHRIST) WHO IS TO COME WILL DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY (THE TEMPLE).

WE KNOW FROM HISTORY THE ROMANS DID DESTROY THE CITY AND THE TEMPLE SO WE ASSUME THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE A WESTERNER IN A LAST DAYS REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE. YES AND NO!

THE BIBLE IS PRETTY CLEAR HE MUST BE FROM THE SELEUCID / ASSYRIAN AREA.

BUT HOW DOES THAT TIE IN WITH THE ROMANS?

WHAT MANY OF US TEND TO FORGET REGARDING THE ROMAN EMPIRE IS THE FACT THAT THE EMPIRE HAD AN EASTERN AND A WESTERN LEG.

NOW IN THESE DAYS THE EU IS CUDDLING UP TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND HAS CREATED THE MEDITERRANEAN UNION. NATIONS ALONG THE NOTH AFRICAN COAST AND THE MIDDLE EAST.

YOU SEE, FOLKS SAY WELL BECAUSE THE ROMANS DESTROYED THE TEMPLE AS DANIEL 9 SAYS, THE PRINCE WHO IS TO COME, THE MAN THE DESTROYERS OF THE TEMPLE REPRESENTED, MUST BE A EUROPEAN, FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

THE ROMANS DID DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY ......BUT........IT WAS THE TENTH LEGION THAT DID MOST OF THE WORK ESPECIALLY WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE.

THE TENTH LEGION WERE MAINLY DRAWN UP OF CONSCRIPTS FROM...YOU GUESSED....ASSYRIA.

THE BIBLE ALSO SUGGESTS THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE JEWISH AS HE MAY BE ACCEPTED AS THE MESSIAH. MOST RELIGIOUS JEWS WILL TELL YOU THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN BUILD THE TEMPLE IS THE MESSIAH.

YET WE ARE TOLD IN 2 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2 HE WILL SIT IN THE TEMPLE AS IF HE IS GOD. SO THE TEMPLE MUST BE BUILT!

WILL ANTICHRIST HAVE A HAND IN THIS PROJECT? MANY BIBLE COMMENTATORS SAY YES IN ORDER TO BE ACCEPTED AS MESSIAH.

SO LET'S LOOK AT THIS: ANTICHRIST MUST:

1. ORIGINATE FROM ASSYRIA OR BE DESCENDED FROM A FAMILY IN THIS AREA.

2. BE A PART OF THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE.

3. BE A PRINCE.

4. POSSIBLY BE A JEW.

5 BE INVOLVED IN THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE TO BE ACCEPTED AS THE MESSIAH.

Written by Bob Mitchell from Shofar Ministries at http://www.bob-mitchell.blogspot.com/.

THE THIRD JEWISH TEMPLE.

A Must Read Article by L.A. Marzulli: 


 A high ranking Islamic cleric tells thousands of Moslem children on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem that Jews will never build a temple on that site.

Prophecy Today – News Update

Recently, as many as ten thousand Moslem children were on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to demonstrate the next generation of Moslems that will defend and continue the safekeeping of the Temple Mount, the Al Aqsa Mosque, as the Moslem world refers to this piece of real estate sacred to both Jews and Moslems.
The Mufti, Sheik Sabri, told the thousands of children swearing by Allah that the Jews will never return to take the Temple Mount and build their Temple there which is the Jewish dream, and the Mufti said that dream will never be fulfilled.
Contrary to what the Mufti of Jerusalem’s wishful thinking, in the above article states, the third temple will be rebuilt.  He can proclaim that the Jewish dream of building the temple will never be fulfilled, but he has no idea who it is that he is dealing with.

The God of the Bible has declared through prophecy, events that are unfolding before our eyes. We have seen the fulfillment of Ezekiel 37, as the Jews were brought back from the four corners of the world and the establishment of Israel became a reality.  We have seen the 2000 year old prophecy of Jerusalem being controlled by the gentiles fulfilled, as Israel now has declared that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel.

The instruments have already been created for the temple sacrifices, when the Jews get permission to build it they will use them.  The stones have also been quarried and are ready to be placed on the Mount, when the deal is cut to allow the Jews to do so.

The one who arranges for the Jews to build the third temple will be the one-who-is-instead-of-Christ, or the Anti-messiah.  So if we are here and the deal is cut we will no exactly who he is, there’s no way around this.

The temple mount is a hot button issue and as of this post it is very clear that the Jews will not be able to build their temple as things stand at the moment. However, who amongst us would have imagined the creation of Israel a hundred years ago?  Who would have thought that the Jews would win a war against 5 of its Arab neighbors, in 1948?

Who would have foreseen the Arab Spring a year ago?  Events can change very quickly in the Middle East, and while at this time the Mufti can boast that the Jewish dream will never be fulfilled, at some point he will be proved wrong.

In closing today’s Post: There are those Christians in the replacement Theology camp that believe that the Church is now Israel and the promises that were given to her now belong to the church.  However, there is no scripture that points to this and in my opinion it is a grave error to position oneself in this camp.  Israel is back in her homeland after almost 2000 years of Diaspora.  This is not a coincidence but is the hand of the Almighty.  At some point in the future the third temple will be rebuilt, because the most Hight God, who sees the end before the beginning has declared it so!

For further information, please go to: http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/the-coming-third-temple-2/