Prophecy Update: USA in the Cross-hairs 2/27/19
What will the world look like when Anti-Christ rises? The book of Revelation indicates that it will be a world at war. Daniel 11:37-39 describes Anti-Christ as honoring a god of fortresses. The Hebrew word we translate as fortresses is ‘mauzzim’ and means force, strength, and a fort. In Dan.8:24 God says of Anti-Christ, “His power will be mighty, but not by his own power, and he will destroy to an extraordinary degree and prosper and perform his will; He will destroy mighty men and the holy people.” If this is what Satan will do through his evil servant then he has to move the nations toward war.
The tensions in the world were ratcheted up in the last few weeks. War birds are in the air and many are crying peace, peace, when there is no peace. India attacked Pakistan, China threatened Taiwan, the Palestinians are threatening war against Israel, Iran threatens war against practically everyone, and Venezuela is in meltdown. I believe that war will break out in the Middle East soon and the result of that war will be Israel gaining complete control over Judea and Samaria. The introduction of another Middle East Peace Deal will cause war. Russia is going to respond to that war and will eventually lead the nations in Ezekiel 38-39 to fulfill what God said would happen. However, what will become of the United States?
We have a civil war going on in America between good and bad, light and darkness. The Church is suffering from apostasy in many quarters. The Pope went to the Islamic world for a conference, here is a headline describing what happened: “IN THE NAME OF ALLAH: THE END TIMES ‘UNIVERSAL PEACE DOCUMENT’ POPE FRANCIS SIGNED WITH ISLAMIC LEADER MAKES NO REFERENCE OF ANY KIND TO JESUS CHRIST OR THE BIBLE.”
This first paragraph of this article sent shivers up my spine. “The pope and the grand imam of al-Azhar have signed a historic declaration of fraternity, calling for peace between nations, religions and races, in front of a global audience of religious leaders from Christianity, Islam, Judaism and other faiths. Pope Francis, the leader of the world’s Catholics, and Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the head of Sunni Islam’s most prestigious seat of learning, arrived at the ceremony in Abu Dhabi hand-in-hand in a symbol of interfaith brotherhood.” Will all Catholic churches in the USA go along with this uniting with Islam?
One of the clear marks that we are in the end times is the falling away from the faith among Christian churches. God says in Dt.32:4 that He is the “Rock, all of His works are perfect, His ways are just, a God of righteousness with no iniquity, righteous and just is He.” God’s ways and works are not to be compromised. Many have mixed Jesus and other gods together. Chrislam is one of those movements uniting Christianity with Islam. This is syncretism and God warns us against having any other gods before Him. There is also the mixing of Christianity with immorality. The Methodist Church is in the midst of a huge split over the moral questions regarding marriage. The NY Times had this headline: “Why a Vote on Gay Clergy and Same-Sex Marriage Could Split the United Methodist Church.”
“The United Methodist Church teetered on the brink of breakup Monday after more than half the delegates at an international conference voted to maintain bans on same-sex weddings and ordination of gay clergy. Their favored plan, if formally approved, could drive supporters of LGBT inclusion to leave America’s second-largest Protestant denomination.” Last night the Methodist voted for righteousness. Delegates approved the “Traditional Plan” in a vote of 438-384. The Plan maintains the denomination’s stance against homosexuality, gay marriage, and the ordination of noncelibate homosexuals while promising to better enforce those rules. Notice that 384 voted to abandon the Biblical view. That is a huge defection from the truth.
A group of Christian leaders gathered in Edmond, Oklahoma, over the weekend to push back against an effort to mainstream homosexuality in the Church. “Stephen Black, executive director of First Stone Ministries, says it’s a push already embedded in several mainline denominations and threatening to tear apart others: a message that says the Church needs to not only love and minister to homosexuals, but also to accept their lifestyles and mainstream them into church ministries.” Satan works in deceptive ways. He will push people in the church to be loving towards something he wants you to compromise on. The compromise leads to apostasy. This has already happened to many churches.
What is apostasy? Holman’s Bible Dictionary says, “Apostasy is the act of rebelling against, forsaking, abandoning, or falling away from what one has believed.” I see this in the liberal churches of America. Apostasy reveals itself in the Emerging Church movement, the BDS movement, and the Chrislam movement. The churches in America are constantly under pressure from the world and Satan to adopt beliefs and positions that violate the deepest held convictions of all believers. I believe that God gave us the book of Jude to warn us as a church against false teachers. Jude 3-4 says, “Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”
The Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement in many churches and universities is designed to destroy Israel. They are repeating the pattern that happened in Germany. From 1933 to 1939 the Nazis systematically excluded Jews from participation in German life. In 1933 they began a boycott of Jewish owned businesses. Jews were barred from working in any civil service jobs. In 1934 and 35 the persecution became worse with the institution of the “Nuremberg Laws”: anti-Jewish racial laws where Jews no longer considered German citizens, could not marry Aryans, or fly the German flag. Between 36-37 Jews were being systematically sent to concentration camps and 1938 saw the famous night called Kristallnacht.
“Josef Goebbels coordinated a nationwide night of antisemitic terror, subsequently known as Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). On the night of November 9, 1938, synagogues were burned, Jewish shops looted, Jewish homes vandalized, Jews were beaten and abused. Ninety-one were murdered and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps.”
The BDS movement in America is strongly supported by several mainline churches, at least 36 universities, and some in government. The Bible predicts that every nation will turn on Israel and hate her. That unfortunately means that the USA will turn on the Jews. Today we have these politicians who support BDS, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28 year-old “Democratic” socialist, Bernie Sanders, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American Muslim from Minneapolis; Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American Muslim from Detroit; and Tom Perez who is the head of the Democratic Party. One day their views will hold sway in the USA. Satan is using the same methodology he used in Germany to cause people to hate Israel. The BDS of today will lead to the concentration camps of tomorrow.
Universities also support BDS by divesting from Israel. Algemeiners had a report: The Algemeiner’s 2nd Annual List of the Most Challenging North American Campuses for Jewish Students. At the top of the list was the University of Michigan.
With Donald Trump planning to roll out his peace plan for the Middle East, I am getting very curious to see what will be in the deal. I fear that if America decides to pressure Israel to give up land, the hand of Gods judgment will be against that decision. God’s Word is clear that Israel is about to receive from the Lord all of the land of Israel. The so-called West Bank is the biblical heartland called Judea and Samaria. This administration is the most pro-Israel administration in my lifetime so it does not make sense that they would force the Jews to give up their land. My problem is with the rest of our government. Too many politicians are against Israel living in the Biblical Heartland. This is a huge problem.
The problem with many of our politicians who are pro-Israel is that they are against the settlement program. Jews are moving into the Biblical Heartland and our politicians are against that. God is very clear about this in Amos 9:14-15, “Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, and they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them, they will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, and make gardens and eat their own fruit. I will also plant them on their land and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given them says the LORD your God.”
God says that Israel will live in their ancient cities, be planted there, never to leave! This flies in the face of the UN, EU, Russia, China, Islamic States, and many in the US. I believe that it will take a war to get this done, we are on the brink of this war. Iran threatens this war every day, as does the Palestinian Authority. Lebanon is run by Hassan Nasrallah: bent on the goal to kill every Jew in the world. The world yawns at these evil leaders. Thank God that He has blessed the Israeli Defense Force to protect Israel. Thank God that He has promised to defend Israel. Ezekiel 36 tells us about that defense: vs.6 ‘Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, “Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have endured the insults of the nations.’ God’s wrath will drive this war coming. The insults of the nations will stop!
