Something Huge And Prophetic Is Rapidly Unfolding On Earth

Common Sense Commentary:

Since I retired from the pastorate nineteen years ago, I have read, online, literally tens of thousands of articles, statistics, reports, financial and economic information while simultaneously comparing world and national events with prophecy and Scripture in general.  The bottom line of my conclusions is short and simple:  The foretelling and forthtelling (prophecy) in God's Word is coming to pass with increasing speed ... as a bus going down a steep hill with no brakes and a jammed accelerator.  I think we are living near the end of the dispensation of the Church Age.  Beginning with the Apostles there are seven periods within the Church Age.  The last of which is the Laodicean "luke warm" church period. Read about it in Rev.3:14-22  and you will see the average church at this time in history.  The very next verse, Rev.4:1,  at the end of the Church Age, John says, "After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in Heaven:  and the first voice which I heard was as it were a trumpet talking to me:  which said, come up here...."  This parallels the timing in 1Thess.4:16 of the end of the church age followed immediately by the sound of the trumpet, the shout of the Archangel, Christ's return to  Resurrect true Christians and their Rapture up into Heaven.  This perfect parallel is no accident. The type is too similar to the event. 

The amazing, myriad, of unbelievable occurrences in the world today remind me of my first of many tours of the Holy Land.  Arriving there, for the first time, in 1954 just six years after the re-establishment of the nation of  Israel, I was awe struck into a spiritual awakening.  As we left for Jerusalem, we saw  working camels, Bedouins dressed much like Bible days, herds of sheep and a thousand  sights so typical of the ancient past.   I flew out of and through modern cities with modern people in a modern airliner into the extremely small and antiquated nation of Israel.  Almost all of the Biblical names of rivers, streams, cities, mountains, lake and sea were still there.  In Texas these things are often separated by 800 or 900 miles. Canutilla in west Texas to Texarkana in northeast Texas is over 800 road miles.  Brownsville in south Texas to the far northwest corner near Texline is nearly 900 road miles. But in Israel, everything is so close together that it seems like an ancient, unchanged, holy stage designed by our Creator to "show and tell" in easily understood reality, the life of Christ.  It was not like a Hollywood movie set.  It was simply "real", an unstaged stage set in a tiny but perfect, chosen spot of earth surrounded by two seas and a sea of enemy states of nearly two billion Muslims.   This arrangement could only have been devised by and for the purposes of God.  There is no place on earth remotely similar to the Holy Land. I have been on every continent but Antarctica and Australia.   Jerusalem is divided by three major religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism.  All believe it to be a Holy City for very different reasons.  There is no other.

This indescribable awakening in my soul in 1954 is building up again in a crescendo of events unfolding  in our country, the world, the Muslim states, the Holy Land and Israel today.  The news is like paraphrased prophecy repeated in secular language.   The prophecies I refer to were given over 2000 years ago.  This bus load of prophecy began to move in 1948 with the beginning again of a new nation of Israel .... a prophecy fulfilled.   It rolled slowly forward but gaining speed.   Prophetic events were more and more coming to pass.  Faster and faster prophecy moved across the earth.  Now, it has suddenly exploded in speed and danger. 

The attention of the world has been focused primarily on Israel, Arab lands and the Holy Land since 1948. Remember, Israel is a plot of rocky ground about the size of the "eye" of a ten foot tall 1800 pound Kodiak Grizzly Bear surrounding the eye.   Israel is the eye in size and the 41 Muslim nations within 3000 miles of it is the Grizzly.  Five of these nations are immediately surrounding Israel which is backed up to the Mediterranean Sea with no where to go and nothing to do but defend themselves to the death.   Next year (2012), there will be two Billion Muslims in the world.  That is 2000 X 2000 X 2000 or 2000 Million Muslims, nearly one of every four people on earth.   Ninety eight percent of those are within 3000 miles of Israel but mostly closer.  That is 1,900,000,000 Muslims surrounding Israel  which has less than 6 million Jews and 2 million Muslims.  That means there are 317 Muslims near Israel for each Jew in Israel.  There are few to no Jews  living in Muslim countries but one of every four people in Israel is a Muslim.  So, how is it possible for Israel to defend itself attack after attack and survive?  Especially with 2 Million Muslims living in Israel whose loyalty is not with Israel.

If you had been watching the Watts riot in L.A. when a huge mob jerked an innocent truck driver out of his truck and beat and kicked him nearly to death, whose side would you be on?   If you were witnessing a fight between 317 Muslims against 1 Jew, whose side would you be on?  Who would you expect to lose that fight?  If you said, "That one Jew", you would be wrong.  Israel has no place to retreat and they won't.  They can't.  They MUST stand, counter attack and defeat such an enemy or they all die.  They cannot afford to give ground.  They must win and they will use atomic weapons if they are losing.  It's either that or the end of their nation and death of their people.  You see, that tiny country and that one surrounded, besieged Jew is not alone even if their only friend (USA) walks away and leaves them to their fate.  They are not alone.  God is with them and one man and GOD is a majority which cannot lose.  Don't overlook the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  They will see the truth in the last days and accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah and Savior.  Pray for Israel.

Pass it on.  RB