Prophecy Update: Birth Pangs since 2014 5/22/2020
Many are asking about the signs of the times. God has called us to understand the times in which we live.
The prophet Daniel told us that Israel would fulfill a prophecy in 490 years. After 483 years, Messiah Jesus showed up and the clock stopped. Today there are seven years left to the prophecy. We call those seven years the tribulation period and this period is for Israel to accomplish a goal on the earth. Right before tribulation period, God will remove the Church in a resurrection called the rapture. I believe all of the signs of the times are pointing to the rapture happening very soon. The birth pangs that Jesus warned us about are what bring in the final seven-year countdown. The birth pangs are getting more intense and that is our clue that the rapture is very close! A key verse for understanding the signs of the times is:
Luke 24:25, “There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves.
2014-2015 The four blood moons, a warning from God that something major was going to take place in regards to Israel. The blood moons are caused by eclipses of the moon which result in the moon appearing blood red. Four occurring in a row are called “astronomical tetrads.” The four blood moons happened on Passover and Feast of Tabernacles two years straight in this time period. When blood moons happened in years past, something significant happened regarding Israel. For instance, a tetrad occurred on Passover and the Feast of Trumpets in 1493 and 1494. “In 1492 King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain ordered the expulsion of all Jews from Spain, about 200,000.” http://ipost.christianpost.com/post/the-four-blood-moons-in-history-and-next
I was interested to learn that there were four blood moons in 1967-68 on Passover and Feast of Tabernacles. This is significant because God caused Israel to win the Six-Day War. That war resulted in Israel capturing Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria. This is direct biblical prophecy fulfilled. The specific prophecy is, “Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” (Luke 21:24) I have read many accounts of the Six Day War and all of the accounts describe miracles. Israel did not think they could win the war. A joke was going around Israel, “Last one here, turn out the lights.” The world thought the war was going to be a holocaust. A documentary called, Against All Odds, Israel Survives recounts the amazing miracles. In it, “Michael Greenspan, a seasoned journalist, presents eyewitness accounts and commentary by high-ranking government officials, generals, soldiers, historians and foreign leaders telling the remarkable stories of Israel’s miraculous victories.”
To understand our times, you must understand what God did in 1967. He initiated the process by which Israel will rebuild the Temple and possess, settle, and rule all of the land of Israel. Israel captured her capital city in 1967. The controversy over Israel’s victory in 1967 has repercussions for the world even to this day. The UN, EU, and entire Muslim world call it an illegal occupation! Consider this article by Bernard Avishai June 24, 2015. “Did Obama ‘Abandon Israel?'” “From the moment President Obama took office, Netanyahu’s envoy saw him as promoting “an agenda of championing the Palestinian cause and achieving a nuclear accord with Iran.” Since his election, Barack Obama pushed the idea that Israel must go back to pre-1967 borders. He wanted to make sure that Israel could not have Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem. In a speech from Ramallah, President Obama said, “I’ve returned to the West Bank because the United States is deeply committed to the creation of an independent and sovereign state of Palestine. The Palestinian people deserve an end to occupation and the daily indignities that come with it.” Notice the date; it was 2013. God was moving the ball forward in His plan. The blood moons the next year signaled that God was setting up conflict to fulfill Biblical prophecy.
In 2014-2015, the Russians and Iranians entered Syria. The preliminary steps to the Gog Magog invasion were beginning. Ezekiel 38 & 39 record this prophecy. Hamas started a war with Israel. The Obama administration passed the JCPOA. “The JCPOA is part of resolution 2231 voted by every member of the UN Security Council, with the following timetable…20 July 2015: Resolution vote…Adoption Day: October 2015…Implementation Day: 16 January 2016…the JCPOA came into effect.” Resolution 2231 The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is a plan to curse Israel. Obama gave the Iranians 150 billion dollars. What did Iran do with the 150 billion dollars? They spent it on arms and terrorists. Also of great significance, on June 30, 2015 the Bethlehem star showed up again. Last time it appeared was 2000 years ago! This is signaling the coming of Messiah. In those two years, the pressure on Israel from the New World Order, led by Barack Obama, was tremendous. Obama helped the Iranians take control of the Middle East, so much so, that the Saudi’s turned to Israel for help. This is mind blowing!
2016-2017 2016 was a pivotal year for Israel. It was an election year in the USA and one candidate was making waves concerning Israel. Donald Trump said that he would declare Jerusalem the eternal capital of Israel, against the will of the UN, Barack Obama, Russians, Chinese, European Union, etc.! Trump signaled that the Palestinian Authority was a failure and not a partner for peace. This upset the New World Order in ways I can not imagine. This was an eruption of political warfare. Could God be moving the super power USA to do what has not been done since Cyrus King of Persia did in 535 B. C.?
Ezra 1:1-2 says, “Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying: Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.”
Hearing what Donald Trump said about Israel upset President Obama. On October 27, 2016, Charles Krauthammer wrote this commentary, Is Obama Preparing a Parting Shot at Israel?
“Last week, the U.N.’s premier cultural agency, UNESCO, approved a resolution viciously condemning Israel (referred to as “the Occupying Power”) for various alleged trespasses and violations of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Except that the resolution never uses that term for Judaism’s holiest shrine. It refers to and treats it as an exclusively Muslim site, a deliberate attempt to eradicate its connection — let alone its centrality — to the Jewish people and Jewish history. This UNESCO resolution is merely the surreal extreme of the worldwide campaign to delegitimize Israel. There have been indications for months that President Obama might go to the U.N. and unveil his own final status parameters of a two-state solution. These would then be enshrined in a new Security Council resolution that could officially recognize a Palestinian state on the territory Israel came into possession of during the 1967 Six-Day War.” Obama was to have his revenge on Israel.
On December 23, 2016, the UN passed Resolution 2334 designed to cut off Israel from her settlements and Jerusalem. This is from the UN document:
“Condemning all measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, including, inter alia, the construction and expansion of settlements, transfer of Israeli settlers, confiscation of land, demolition of homes and displacement of Palestinian civilians, in violation of international humanitarian law and relevant resolutions, Expressing grave concern that continuing Israeli settlement activities are dangerously imperilling the viability of the two-State solution based on the 1967 lines.”
Shockingly, the United States did not veto this resolution. This is another curse on Israel from the United States.
2016 saw another eruption against the New World Order. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump sent the globalists into a tailspin. The reason that this is important is because of Jerusalem. Trump said in March of 2016 that he believes that Jerusalem is the eternal, undivided, capital of Israel. This sent the UN into a frenzy. To top it off, he said he would move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In 2016-17, the globalists launched illegal surveillance of both Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. The goal was to destroy their administrations and stop them from blessing Israel. In December of 2017, President Trump withdrew the United States from the UN Global Impact on Migration, repealed the Obama Care mandate, officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and brought Christmas back to the White House. This sent the globalist, leftist, anti-Semitic elements of the United States, EU, and UN into a rage. Why is this important? Because it had been 50 years (a Jubilee) since the recapture of Jerusalem and 70 years from when the UN declared that Israel could become a nation: Coincidence? I don’t think so!
The Great American Eclipse happened on August 21, 2017. The eclipse began in the northwest and crossed the Cascadia, Yellowstone, and Madrid earthquake zones crossing over the United States and exiting over Florida. In seven years, on April 8, 2024, another solar eclipse will begin in the northeast and make an X over the United States, right over the Madrid fault where the Mississippi and Ohio rivers meet. Ominous for sure!
On May 14, 2018, the United States moved their embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. CNN, speaking for the New World Order had this to say, “If the United States moved the embassy to Jerusalem, it would mean that the US effectively recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. That would overturn 70 years of international consensus, and, many argue, would effectively signal the end of moves to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians.” Israel saw it differently, as did many Christians. They saw it as prophecy being fulfilled. Israel minted a coin with Cyrus king of Persia and Trump next to each other. “Rabbi Mordechai Persoff of the Israeli group, which also holds activities in the US, said that Trump, like Cyrus, made a “big declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of the holy people.” Times of Israel
If you take the world’s temperature over what Trump is doing concerning Israel, they have a fever of 105! Turkey vows war with Israel, raising an army of 1 million Muslims to destroy Israel. Iran is on the march in Syria, attacking Israel. Since 2018, Israel has bombed Iranian military in Syria to keep them weak. Israel opposes the bases Iran is building in Syria and vows to destroy them. The United Nations condemned Israel 21 times in 2018; only six other condemnations were issued to other nations – a whopping 80% condemnations to one nation! Since 2016, the UN directed administrators to compile a list of businesses operating in Judea and Samaria so they can expose them as being against the two state solution. In February 2020, the UN listed American companies claiming they are supporting Israel and breaking international law. UN list The UN and the New World Order are desperate to punish the USA for supporting Israel. Who do you think is the greatest enemy of the New World Order concerning Israel? Christians!
I found this article on ProphecyNewsWatch, Solar Minimum, about the sun. It is very interesting as it gives evidence on how a famine could break out on the earth. The coronavirus is being used by the New World Order to control people. God, in the meantime, has sent locust plagues, pestilences, and famines to the earth to get people to repent. The solar minimum is controlled by God as another attempt to get us to repent.
“Sadly, most mainstream news outlets are largely ignoring this story, but at least a few are covering it. The following comes from Forbes… While we on Earth suffer from coronavirus, our star–the Sun–is having a lockdown all of its own. Spaceweather.com reports that already there have been 100 days in 2020 when our Sun has displayed zero sunspots. Here is what the New York Post is saying… Our sun has gone into lockdown, which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, scientists say. NASA scientists fear that we could potentially be facing “a repeat of the Dalton Minimum”…which happened between 1790 and 1830 — leading to periods of brutal cold, crop loss, famine and powerful volcanic eruptions.” The article went on to say, “Of course this would be an exceptionally bad time for such a cataclysmic climate shift, because African Swine Fever has already wiped out approximately one-fourth of all the pigs in the world, colossal armies of locusts the size of major cities are systematically wiping out crops across much of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and fear of COVID-19 is greatly disrupting global food supply chains.”
I am praying that we will see a revival in America. God has been moving in several nations, sending revival.
It is Friday morning and I read that churches are opening in California in defiance of the governor’s orders. Attorney Robert Tyler expects as many as 3,000 churches across California could have in-person services on May 31. Gov. Newsom said, “more than 1,200 pastors have signed a “declaration of essentiality” that announces their plan to reopen on May 31 while observing physical distancing and other precautions. The U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division told Newsom in a letter that his stay-at-home order discriminates against churches and places an “unfair burden” on them.” Things are heating up across the USA as more states are threatening churches/Christians for exercising their first amendment rights. It is clear that some governors are antichristian. The Chrisian Post article said, “We have 50 real-world government examples of liberty or tyranny – 50 real-time experiments in whether state governments moved towards liberty (as in Texas and South Dakota) or absolute control (as in California, Michigan, and New York). Nowhere can this contrast be better seen than in how the state authorities deal with churches versus how they deal with abortion, ordering churches closed while deeming Planned Parenthood and other abortionists “essential services.” Here are some examples of antichristian behavior:
• The mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, was demanding that churches hand over a list of anyone who attended any of their services. When Mat Staver and Liberty Counsel threatened to sue, the city backed down.
• The governor of Illinois postulated that church services may need to be banned for a year.
• Overzealous administrators have sought to ban churches even from holding “drive-in” church services, which follow the mandates to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.”
The list of attacks on Christians could go on for a few pages, but my update is already pretty long. Pray with me that the churches open up as a demonstration of faith that our God is bigger than some virus, bigger than any government, bigger than Satan! Praying for you that you are healthy, strong, and trusting in the love of Jesus this week! joemaggelet.com
