There are more than 500 prophecies unfulfilled concerning the last days. The “times of the Gentiles” is a time on the earth when God deals with humans through Gentile governments. Since the fall of Jerusalem on the 9th of Av, 586 BC, there has been no legitimate king in Israel.  For 2606 years, Israel has been under Gentile rule. Since 1948, this has been changing! Israel was declared a nation on May 14, 1948, thus bringing Israel back on the international map. The Gentile nations do not want to give up control of the earth.

“Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” Luke 21:24b

Caretakers for the King of Kings

Every king, president, prime minister, dictator, or leader of a nation has been a steward of his or her nation for the King of Kings, Jesus!  At the beginning of the “times of the Gentiles” God taught the entire world a very important lesson. Nebuchadnezzar was the first Gentile ruler governing under the “times of the Gentiles” program. God met him in an important way. As king, Nebuchadnezzar exalted himself. God humbled him. Daniel describes how God sent Nebuchadnezzar into the wilderness for seven years and how he was made to eat grass. He lost his kingdom so that God could teach this:

“In order that the living may know that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind, and bestows it on whom He wishes and sets over it the lowliest of men.” Daniel 4:17b

God’s message to every ruler of the world is that they are a steward, caretaker, placeholder for the true king: Jesus Christ. Authority has not been given to kings and rulers to deny the authority and sovereignty of Jesus. All scripture testifies that authority for ruling comes from God and not man. If a leader chooses to go his own way, he will be in direct conflict with the king of kings!

“All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.” Matt. 28:18

“For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.” Col.1:16

Jesus has ultimate authority over every ruler during the “times of the Gentiles.” These two passages point out that Jesus’ authority extends to both heaven and earth. He controls both the seen and unseen world. When the rulers of the world do evil, they may think that they have power over Jesus but it is not the case. Jesus had an interesting conversation with Pilate.

“So Pilate said to Him, “You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?” Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”  John 19:10-11

Pilate lived under the illusion that he was in control of Jesus’ fate. In fact, according to Jesus and Daniel 4, every ruler placed in their position of authority was placed there by God Himself. Jesus alerted Pilate to this very fact with a caveat. Caiaphas, the High Priest, had the greater sin because he delivered up Jesus to Pilate! This leads me to a very important point that confronts us today.

Stewards do not have the right to deny the return of the King

Psalm 2 describes how the kings of the earth plot their revolt against God and His anointed king Jesus.

“Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying, ‘Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” Psalm 2:1-3

A key word that many prophecy teachers use is ‘convergence’. There are many signs of the end times that are coming together at the same time. National and international rebellion against the Judeo/Christian worldview is one of those signs. The final kingdom on the earth is described for us in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7. According to Daniel 7, this kingdom has ten horns and seven heads and comes from the area of the Mediterranean Sea.

“The final kingdom describes the fourth beast. Unlike the others, it is nondescript. While the others are given animal-like descriptions, none is given for this one. This fourth beast is described as being diverse, emphatically different from all the others. It completely subdues and breaks in pieces all that precedes it. It appears as far more ferocious than the previous three empires. The fourth beast has ten horns. But while it begins with ten horns, an eleventh horn arises, the little horn, that uproots three of the ten others. Having uprooted the other three, it begins to speak great things. With the uprooting of three horns, seven of the original remain, and the little horn is now an eighth, rather than an eleventh. Once again, as in Daniel 2, the uniqueness of the Fourth Empire is emphasized.” ldolphin.org  

The convergence of governments around socialism means that they are committed to state control. State control leads to the abolition of the family, abolition of private property, and economic control.  

“A recent survey conducted on behalf of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that some, particularly millennials, have a preference for collectivist economic systems—communism, fascism, and socialism. Each of these systems rest on one central theme: the suppression of the individual.’ ‘Millennials stand out for voting heavily Democratic and for liberal views on many political and social issues’ (pewsocialtrends.org). Millennials, born between the years 1981—1996, have been indoctrinated by socialistic propaganda in the public schools for their entire lives!” raptureready.com 

The US election is a battle between those who want the nation to join some global government and those who want to remain free. The globalists want abortion, immorality, state control of the economy, property, and religion. The other side wants Christian ethics to prevail, are pro-life, and promote a pro-constitutional government.

When George Bush Sr. talked about a New World Order in 1990, all of our presidents since then, tried to uphold this ideal. President Clinton signed NAFTA, President George Bush Jr. led an international war on terror, and President Obama signed the Paris Climate Agreement. All of these actions were leading to integration with global government.

Then came President Trump who put a stop to this madness! This article brings out the rise of the battle from the two sides. It advocates that everyone voted for Joe Biden because he will return us to the good old days of globalism.

“Trump abandoned the New World Order, Biden will rejoin it. This current president, though, has separated himself from his predecessors’ internationalism. Donald Trump ran for president on the nationalist, protectionist, far-right populist platform of “America First.” He is the first president since World War II to look inward, towards isolation, rather than outward, for the future of America. Nationalism is simply the pursuit of self governance for a given “nation” or “people.” He left the Paris Climate Agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Iran Nuclear Deal, even gone as far as threatening to leave NATO.”  dailycardinal.com 

One of the big problems we face today is that nations do not want to act as obedient servants of the one true King – – Jesus. They want to go their own way and forge their own evil paths. The path that God wants them on is to bless Israel, live by the rule of law encased in the Ten Commandments, and make God the center of their attention once again. Blessing Israel is the one thing that Satan will move nations to deny. What really gets the globalists angry is the way Trump has treated Israel.

“How an Israeli thinker became one of Trumpism’s foremost theorists. The Israeli writer Yoram Hazony is one of the American right’s most celebrated thinkers. Yoram Hazony, president of the Herzl Institute think tank in Jerusalem. Eli, the West Bank settlement Hazony moved to after finishing his American education in the early 1990s, is one of many illegal Jewish communities in the majority-Palestinian territory.  Eli is a physical symbol of the most aggressive right-wing form of Israeli nationalism, a religiously informed territorial maximalism that sees Jews and only Jews as the rightful owners of the biblical Holy Land. Evangelical Christian organizations and donors contributed between $50 million and $65 million to settlements between 1998 and 2018. In a September 2016 essay in Mosaic (a Tikvah-funded conservative journal), he argued that Trump’s ascendance, together with the Brexit vote, represented an emergent divide in global politics — between nationalists, who believe countries should be free to choose their own destiny, and liberal imperialists, who wish to dissolve national borders and impose their secular, deracinated vision on an unwilling world.” vox.com  

Hazony influenced Trump to stand for nationalism against the globalist imperialists who were trying to destroy America. If you read Hazony’s work carefully, it becomes evident that his vision is a universalization of the Israeli settler’s mindset: a recovering of the land of Israel. This nationalist mindset has some key points of agreement with Trump’s vision for America.

The left hates Trump’s pro-Israel stance and especially his love for the settlement movement. The settlement movement will be successful because it is God’s will for His land to be given to His people Israel!

Have you ever thought about why God has raised up leaders in Israel who believe all of the land of Israel is theirs by divine right?

One of the things we have learned over the past 100 years is that Jews are not safe in other countries. I am glad that Jews have found a home in America and that America has treated them well.

Anti-Semitic forces are even now at work in America. They are very angry at what President Trump has done with Israel. They are especially angry at his support for the settlement movement and the desire to proclaim that Israel has the right to her land.

Zionism teaches that Israel needs a land of its own so they can protect themselves from anti-Semitic forces. God raised up leaders who believe in prophecy and in the Israeli settlement movement. They are reclaiming land, which God calls His land.

Prophecy is very clear that Israel is going back to the very land that the settlement movement is  claiming. Political leaders have been resisting this for many years, they are called antichrists.

“Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.” 1 John2:18

Many antichrists have tried, and failed to destroy Jews and Israel. Hitler tried to destroy Jews; he is one of many antichrists. When the Antichrist rises, he rule over the final kingdom on the earth. That final kingdom will have ten kings who give their authority to the beast, so the ten kings precede the rise of Antichrist. Daniel and Revelation explain this for us.

“Then the king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will speak monstrous things against the God of gods; and he will prosper until the indignation is finished, for that which is decreed will be done.” Daniel 11:36

“There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him. And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, that is, those who dwell in heaven.” Rev.13:5-6

Stewards can be antichrists!

All throughout history individual leaders have fallen to Satan’s wiles to become evil and hateful. In the first century, Nero was an antichrist-type figure.  He would dip Christians in tar and light them on fire! These antichrist leaders have come and gone, but the church still stands. The promises to Israel are coming to pass in our day.

Only those with the faith of Abraham will have the courage and fortitude to make it through the current chaos. Romans and Galatians admonishes us to come with the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all — everyone who trusts in the promises of God.

“Without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder for those who seek Him.” Hebrews 11:7

Trust the Lord this week with all of your heart. He will keep you in the storm!