YOU ARE NOW ON THE CUTTING EDGE

With the Daily News coming from the Middle East being a steady drum-beat of war and rumors of wars on the one hand, and false peace talks that keep tugging on our heart strings on the other, I think it would be highly instructive for us to determine exactly what time in world history we are now living.

Turn with me to Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, as we read:

So, the answer of the hour is, "What Time Is It?" Of course, everyone wants the time in which they live to be a time of peace and security, as everyone just wants to be left alone, so they can grow up, marry, raise a family, and see grandchildren, just like so many families in our past have done, and this is an understandable feeling.

However, our "feelings" cannot get the way of a proper understanding of Biblical principle. The Bible teachings that not every age, every generation, or every era is like another. Jesus wept over Jerusalem just before He descended into the city to begin His last week of ministry before the cross. He lamented, "For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground [kill you], and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." [Luke 19:43-44]

Jesus' prophecy of such utter death and destruction did occur just like this when the Romans devastated Israel in AD 70, completely burning and dismantling her Temple, and crucifying so many Jews they denuded the natural landscape of trees. You see, the time period in which those Jews of Jesus' day was not just like the many that had preceded it.

Likewise, the people living in the time of Martin Luther certainly lived in an era which was unlike anything the world had ever seen. Suddenly, the Holy Spirit blew upon Luther, opening his spiritual eyes so he could see the paganism and the untruth of Roman Catholicism. For the next 300 years, Europe and Britain were convulsed with attempted revolution, war, and the terrible inquisition as Rome attempted to seize back her lost authority and influence. Before this era was over, 8 million Born Again Protestants had been martyred.

The 20th Century is an era unlike any in world history. This century has seen more wars, rumors of wars, famines, natural disasters, and downright bloodshed than any other in history. For the first time in human history, we experienced world wars. Did you know that, prior to World War I, we had never seen anything like a global war; we had experienced some mightily large regional wars, but never a world war?

Keep this fact in mind, for we shall return to it later in this article. Now that we have established that not every era of history is like another, let us ask the question: in this era in which we are living -- is it a time of love or a time of hate, of rending or of sewing, of peace or of war? The Bible tells us quite clearly.

Turn with me to Joel 3:1 --

"For behold, in those days and at that time when I shall reverse the captivity and restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem …" Stop right there for a moment -- think of modern history -- we know exactly when God restored Israel back to her land, do we not? He restored the fortunes of Israel on May 14, 1948. Therefore, you can write this note in your Bible margins next to this verse: "Fulfilled May 14, 1948".

Now, let us continue with this incredible prophecy:

"I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehosaphat, and there will I deal with and execute judgment upon them for their treatment of My people, and of My heritage Israel."

Therefore, we should expect to see God's judgment repeatedly falling upon the enemies of Israel immediately following her rebirth as a nation. And we see exactly that! Since then, wars were fought in 1956, 1967, 1973, and 1982. The outnumbered Israelites won each of those wars, but each time permanent peace eluded them, as their Arab enemies became ever more implacable and hateful.

Let us return to Joel 3:7b, as God warns the enemies of the Jew: "… I will return your deed of retaliation upon your own head." The Palestinians should carefully bear this warning in mind, even as they are attacking, killing, and mutilating scores of Jews in an effort to annihilate them man, woman, and child. In fact, God is addressing the Arab directly here, as verses 3-6 of this chapter clearly indicate.

Now, God turns His attention to the whole world during these End Times, after Israel has come back to her land. In verse 9, we read: "Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare War! Stir up the mighty men! Let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, 'I am strong, a warrior'! " [Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary]

Notice that this prophecy is an exact reversal of the prophecy relating to the end of all war, as Jesus begins His Millennial Reign. In Isaiah 2:4, we see that Messiah will put an end to war. "... 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."

But, in the era immediately after Israel is restored back to her land, we see the prophecy of war, of every nation coming systematically into the Valley of Jehoshaphat [generic term for Middle East] for God's judgment of war.

"Let the nations bestir themselves and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about. Put in the sickle, for the vintage harvest is ripe; come down and tread the grapes for the winepress is full; the vats overflow, for the wickedness of the peoples is great. Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the Day of the Lord is near in the Valley of Decision!"

Then, in Zechariah 12, we see God foretelling a very special plan for His city, Jerusalem. Beginning in verse 1, we see God foretell an oracle, or judgment for Israel, as He begins to prepare her for the return of Jesus Christ. In verse 2, God says: "Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup or bowl of reeling to all the peoples round about, and in the siege against Jerusalem, there will also be a siege against Judah [Israel]. And in that day, I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all peoples: all who lift it or burden themselves with it shall be sorely wounded. And all the nations of the earth shall come and gather against it."

Finally, in verse 9, God says: "… I will make it my aim to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem."

Thus, anyone who fights against Jerusalem is really fighting against the God of Israel, of the Holy Bible, against Jesus Christ Himself! But, God will allow matters to seemingly get out of hand against Israel, so that, when He stretches forth His hand to deliver Israel, He will get the glory. Thus it is that we see, in Daniel 12;1, that things get so bad, Michael the Archangel, and Protector of Israel, has to "stand up" in Heaven and go forth to fight for Israel.

Unless you have been living on another planet in these days, you know that the threat of all-out war seems to be continually breaking out between Israel and the Palestinians, with the rest of the Arab world expressing willingness to come to the aid of the Palestinians. Could this be the spark for the kind of global judgment of which God speaks in Joel 3? Yes, it is, and we know this because of Obadiah 15-18. Turn your Bibles there.

The first 14 verses of this one-chapter book have already been fulfilled; but, in verse 15, God leaps all the way to the very End of the Age. "For the Day of the Lord is near upon all the nations." With this reference to the Day of the Lord, we see that this prophecy is yet to be fulfilled, and when it is fulfilled, it will be done so at the End of the Age. Conversely, when we see the stage being uniquely prepared for its fulfillment, we can know that this is one more sign that the world is indeed, in the End of all things.

God then pronounces 100% annihilation of a people from Edom whom God calls the House of Esau. In 1993, I emailed the Israeli Embassy to ask them who the House of Esau was, and if they had modern-day descendents. Two days later, I received an email back from a Rabbi, telling me that the modern-day descendents of the House of Esau were the Palestinians, led by Arafat. However, their home was in Edom, and more Palestinians live there than within Israel.

Later, I confirmed the accuracy of this information with a retired Bible scholar, Dr. Robert Amos.

Suddenly, the terrible accuracy of today's Daily News hit me right between the eyes! I could see the stage being set for an all-out war between the Palestinians of Yassir Arafat and Israel, a war that will result in the complete annihilation of the Palestinians. Finally, God revealed in verse 18 that this war will erupt out of Israel and will burn the House of Esau to "stubble", so that they would be destroyed as if they had never existed.

This is the scenario being played out in your Daily News, every single day! However, this war will only be a spark that is designed to explode across the globe, eventually becoming known as World War 3, and out of the smoke, dust, and disaster of this war, Antichrist will come, with great lying signs and wonders.

Today, we are seeing the greatest of diplomatic efforts to establish a Palestinian State that no one really wants; however, this nonsensical effort does have the effect of fulfilling Isaiah 34:12, as NEWS1819 details. This "peace" will simply set the stage for a great war in the Middle East, probably the war out of which Antichrist shall come striding.

DEMONIC VISION THAT WILL FULFILL PROPHECY PRECISELY

Let us turn now to the plans of the occult, to see how their plans fulfill Bible prophecy exactly. Now let us return to one of the greatest occultists in history, Masonic leader, Albert Pike. As do most occultists, Albert Pike had supernatural spirit guides, who dispensed "Divine Wisdom" as to how to achieve the New World Order. A "spirit guide" is a "being" who meets someone who has given themselves over to the practice of the occult; however, please understand that many people who are practitioners of the New Age Religion do not view this as a bad thing. In fact, they would argue vociferously that they are filled with happiness and joy by interacting with their "spirit guides", not realizing that they have been temporarily deceived by Satan who, along with his demons, can appear as an Angel of Light in order to deceive ("And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness ..." 2 Corinthians 11:14-15).

Albert Pike received a demonic vision, described below. On January 22, 1870, Pike and one of his international co-conspirators, Guiseppe Mazzini, published the Plan which would establish the New World Order. This Plan was kept very secret, kept only within Freemasonry circles since the time of its inception, known only to fellow occult Illuminist conspirators. (This information is taken from a book from a former Luciferian Illuminist, Doc Marquis. His book is "Secrets of the Illuminati" and reveals much formerly hidden detail known only to Illuminists. I have since verfied this information with former Satanist Cisco Wheeler).

The secret Pike plan to control the world foresaw the need for three (3) world wars.

The First World War was designed to enable the Czarist Government in Russia to be finally and completely overthrown. The new Russian government was foreseen to be atheistic and militaristic. Further, Pike specified that this new Russian Government was to be Communistic.

History records that this First World War did, indeed, occur just as listed, above. The Western powers in Europe, in conjunction with the United States, financed Lenin's expedition into Russia, they financed his government consistently, and we have financed Russian Communism at least once per decade since then.

The Second World War was foreseen to originate between Great Britain and Germany. However, one of the planned results of this war was to strengthen the new Communist Russian government, so that it could weaken and destroy other governments and religions.

History again records that the Second World War did, indeed, accomplish this objective. The war started when Germany invaded Poland, causing Great Britain to declare war on Germany. Very soon, the troika (3's) of powers were set up to wage this war. The Black Magic occultists allied themselves when Germany linked with Italy and Japan; the White Magic occultists allied themselves together as Great Britain linked with the United States and Russia. Do not be deceived. This war was fought between two (2) New World Order forces, the "evil" alliance of the Axis Powers or the "good" alliance of the Allied Powers; the war was between the Black Magic forces against the White Magic forces.

Certainly, the Pike vision of the Second World War building Russian Communism into a super power was fulfilled to a startling degree. Historians have always been mystified as to how Churchill and Roosevelt could have given away all of Eastern Europe to the Soviets, when the preponderance of power was clearly against the Soviets. Clearly, when Roosevelt and Churchill ceded all of Eastern Europe to Russia, the Communist Government of Russia, now known as the U.S.S.R. {Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) completed its transition to a super power, exactly as Pike's vision had foretold. And, let us not forget that the Second World War had given Russia capabilities it had not possessed before the War. Not only did we build up the Russian military to a frightful degree, but we had also built entire factories East of Moscow that gave Russia an instant manufacturing base. Even though Russia had paid dearly in human lives during the War, they came out of the conflict a superpower. Thanks to Roosevelt, Russia now had a kingdom to go along with its new military and industrial base. [See Seminar 2, "America Determines The Flow of History" for full details]

Now, you know that Freemason President Roosevelt gave this territory to Russia simply and only because he was being true to Pike's vision of 1870!! You will never read this true history in any of your books!!

The Third World War was foreseen to be between Judaism and Islam. This demonic prediction is incredible in many ways, beginning with the understanding that this demonic vision of a third world war occurred in 1870, a time when Israel did not exist as a nation, and when no one except Fundamentalist, Bible-believing Christians believed it would ever exist again. Secondly, in 1870, the Turkish Ottomon Empire had held a very firm grip on the Middle East for over 300 years, and no one living at that time could ever have seen, with human insight, that Turkey's control would ever be wrested away.

ISRAEL WILL NEVER AGAIN BE MILITARILY DEFEATED!

God promises Israel that, once she returns to her ancient land, which He gave to Abraham, that she will never be militarily defeated again. Listen:

"And I will bring back the exiles of My people Israel … and they shall no more be torn up out of their land which I gave them, says the Lord God." [Amos 9:14-15]

Since one of God's most common type of judgment is war, we are not surprised to see war break out within hours of Israel's announcement of statehood on May 14, 1948. Israel's Arab neighbors immediately attacked from all sides; even though Israel was terribly outgunned and outmanned, God gave her the type of military victory which we see again and again in the Old Testament. This first war reminded me of the war in which Gideon was given the victory over 132,000 enemy army, even though he had only 300 men! God gave Gideon the victory even though he was outnumbered 440 to 1. Israel's 1948 victory over the combined Arab armies should have sent the message to an unbelieving world that God was back in the business of protecting Israel in the same manner in which He protected her in the Old Testament.

"Egypt shall be a desolation and Edom [House of Esau] shall be a desolate wilderness for their violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land." [Joel 3:19] Please remember this verse the next time you hear of Arab terrorists blowing up innocent Jews. The Palestinians have perpetrated the worst kind of violence and shedding of innocent blood. They will be well-deserving of the annihilating judgment promised in Obadiah by the Lord.

Then, God continued: "But Judah shall remain and be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation … for the Lord dwells in Zion." [Joel 3:20]

Remember during all this Arab talk of hating the Zionists and wanting them dead, the Lord your God is the biggest Zionist in the world, and He has promised utter, devastating physical judgment for all people who threaten Israel or Mount Zion, which is the Temple Mount.

Watch the events in Israel very carefully, because the final chapter is being written there. The demonic 'guiding spirits' of Freemasonry, of the leaders of the New World Order Plan, are planning a final, definitive Third World War, which will begin between Israel and her Arab neighbors and spread to the entire world. Literally, out of the smoke and destruction of this Third World War, Antichrist will come striding!

Thus, when you hear news that peace is nearly at hand, you know not to believe it. When you hear that a cease-fire has been proclaimed, you know that it will not last! No Christian should allow their heart to be vexed as to whether or not peace will break out in the Middle East, or that war will be averted. We know from Scripture that the Time of this Age is, unfortunately, war and not peace, hatred spilling over into all-out global war, not love among men.

In fact, during the past 2,500 years of world history, mankind has known either unremitting war or slavery. A history teacher once described history as a "record of man's wars with the few years of peace in between". This description is very accurate. Since the heart of man is inherently evil [Jeremiah 17:9], we know that disagreements and wars will constantly be the norm, and not the exception. We in America since World War II, and especially since President Reagan, have known so much peace at home, no wars involving Americans abroad, and unprecedented material prosperity, that we cannot conceive that this all might be coming to an end really fast.

Now, do not get me wrong; I am not, by nature, a pessimistic person. I have an adopted son, and 4 other children ages 35 to 25. And, I have a beautiful, red-haired granddaughter. The life God has given me is sweet.

However, God has called us to be realists, and not so idealistic we cannot see what is happening around us. Jesus told us to be "wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." [Matthew 10:16]. Jesus further told us we would know the End of the Age when we look out upon the world and see the signs the Bible gives by which we shall know the Antichrist is close. Listen to His words:

"... when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." [Matthew 24:33-34]

Today, the signs of the End of the Age are everywhere. Today, for the first time in world history, we see that the nations of the world have been economically reorganized into exactly 10 super nations, with NAFTA as Nation #1 and Western Europe as Nation #2. This reality kicks the prophecy in Daniel 7:8, giving us the only sequence of events by which Antichrist would arise. Listen:

"I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things."

The sequence is this: 1). Daniel sees the world reorganizing into only 10 super nations; this occurred from 1992-1996. 2) Daniel sees Antichrist arising up among the 10 horns, obviously one of them, the same kind of person they are. Or, to put it another way, each of the 10 kings will be just like Antichrist. Therefore, we can know that, since 1996, the next event on God's prophetic calendar is the appearance of Antichrist. 3). The Antichrist destroys, or causes to be destroyed, three of the original 10 super nations.

We truly stand at the precipice of the greatest event of history since the time Jesus ascended back into Heaven nearly 2,000 years ago. Since the "birth" of Antichrist is foretold in Matthew 24, let us go quickly there for more enlightenment. In this chapter, Jesus says in verse 8, that the signs of the End of the Age were like "birth pangs" by which a woman gives birth. However, what is the baby to be born by these birth pangs of wars, rumors of wars, famine, and earthquakes? There are actually two babies prophesied to be born in Matthew 24:

In verse 15, we suddenly see Jesus talking about the Abomination of Desolation in the Temple as Daniel foretold in 9:27; but, wait a minute, the Temple was destroyed in AD 70, along with the nation, Israel. Clearly, if an abomination is going to have to be committed, then the Temple has to be rebuilt, and the nation of Israel has to be reborn. Therefore, when Israel was reborn on May 14, 1948, the first baby being born came into existence.

Further, the Antichrist is the one whom Daniel foretells that will commit the Abomination of Desolation. Therefore, Antichrist is the second baby to be born in Matthew 24. This is the event laying straight ahead of us now, being played out in your Daily News. The same birth pangs as those accompanying the birth of Israel will accompany the birth of Antichrist -- Wars, Rumors of Wars, Nation rising up against Nation and Kingdom against Kingdom, Famines and Earthquakes in many places throughout the world.

These type of birth pangs are what we are seeing today, and which will get so very much stronger so as to produce Antichrist. And while the Church will be Raptured before the Antichrist confirms the Covenant with Israel's leaders, we are likely to go through the rest of the birth pangs of Matthew 24. We will be spared the similar judgments found in the Book of Revelation, but will have to go through these terrible birth pangs of Matthew 24, a terrible global war which will be known as World War III. That war seems to be directly ahead.