A Message to my Moslem Friends Part 1
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Recently in August 2006 a friend ask me top read two books, the Quaran for the second time and also the book on the life of Mohamid. I told him I would do this and then write an article on what I had been impressed with without causing any more hostility or division, but instead trying to bring all true believers into unity to do our mission here on earth of bringing forth the Kingdom of God in this generation.
Rather than comment on all the similarities and all the differences of how the Quaran compares with the scriptures of the Holy Bible I have decided to select Bible Passages to communicate to the reader. I believe the word of God is a living word and will touch your heart that has been prepared as you read.
According to the Bible and also according to my personal experience prophecy received usually comes in small parts that we study precept upon precept and line upon line, the same as we study the Bible. We rely upon the Holy Spirit to direct our thoughts. To explain the scriptures of the word of God contained in the Bible I trust the word of God itself and God's Holy spirit to speak to you as you read.
I was told through the Holy Spirit God never speaks anything through a Prophet that is not in agreement with the words previously spoken through the Bible and every word should be tested with the old established word of God. The Bible was Spirit heard by its writers and spirit written and now the books are closed. Not one Jot nor Tittle is to be changed.
No one is to try to reason the things of God with there minds but to listen with there heart or intuition as to its truth. By the reasoning of the mind one can be deceived.
In 1980 when I was instructed to communicate with a Moslem financial administrator of an Arab nation I was told this man knew God in his own way and that I should speak to him about the spiritual things God had revealed to me even though he was Moslem and I was a born again believer in Jesus Christ being led by the Spirit.
I do not consider myself to be a religious person, because I see religion is made up of mankind setting rules of how they think God wants people to conduct themselves and worship God. I have a spiritual personal relationship with God where he directs and reveals his truth through his word and through the Holy Spirit to my Spirit or intuition. I do not let anyone or group make me feel guilty for not keeping certain rules or controlling my beliefs or life in any way. This is by total submission and trust that God is directing my life moment by moment.
We are all seeking truth. Truth always goes in a straight line from eternity past to eternity future. We believe God spoke to Abraham and Moses and this was written down as directed by the Holy Spirit in the writings of Moses. So everything after this must be in agreement with what was first written. The New must agree with the Old. The New Testament and any new revelation or writing must agree with the old. If the New Testament disagrees with the Old Testament, we are to disregard the new and stay with the old.
THE ARAB EMPIRE
The promise of God to Abraham had found fulfillment. Ishmael's descendants had created the Arab empire–one of the greatest the world has ever known.
And one of the least understood.
For five centuries after the death of Mohammed, the Arab Empire and it's Islamic descendants dominated the world. The Mediterranean was an Islamic lake, and Europe was barred from trade with the rest of the world. Yet few western schoolboys learn that it was the power of Islam that locked Europe in what we call the "Dark Ages."
We grow up thinking that the Islamic hordes were barbarians, and their modern descendants are ignorant "camel drivers." And yet, while Europe was in poverty and ignorance, the Arabs were establishing great libraries and centers of learning. It was the Arabs who preserved the great works of the cultures of Greece and Rome. While Catholic monks were locking away the thinking of ancient minds, Arab scholars were translating them and making them available for study. Many works, lost in the original, were finally translated into Latin from Arabic, and so preserved.
We were all taught the difference between Arabic and Roman numerals, but we may not have been told that the decimal system, logarithms, algebra and trigonometry are a legacy of Arab scholars. How many people know that in medical treatment, botany, geography, natural history, zoology, the Arabs were, in John Glubb's words, "centuries ahead of Europe." Glubb adds that the Arabs were superior in the manufacture of textiles, silk, embroideries, glassware, weapons and metalwork.
In all these things, the Arabs were the link with the past, but they made their own unique contributions as well. They introduced, out of their long poetic tradition, rhyming verse–unknown to the Greeks and Romans before them. They brought west the Arab idea of honor, and their code of chivalry was adopted and retained for centuries by the Spaniards–great fighters in their own right.
THE ISHMAELITES
The Arab peoples are brothers to Israel. They are the descendants of the firstborn son of Abraham. When Abraham and Sarah were old and despaired of having children, Sarah suggested they try something not entirely unheard of even in our world–surrogate motherhood. She suggested that Abraham take her maid, Hagar, and beget a child by her. The child would then theoretically belong to Sarah (Genesis 16:2).
It didn't work out. Once Hagar was pregnant, her life was so miserable that she fled into the desert. She nearly died there.
But an angel appeared to Hagar and told her to go back and submit herself to her mistress. Then, she was given an astonishing prophecy: "I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. And he will be a wild man [margin: a wild ass of a man]; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in [hostility] of all his brethren" (Genesis 16: 10-12). It is not a bad description of the Arab peoples, even now.
Abraham was 86 when Ishmael was born.
When Ishmael was 13, God appeared to Abraham, made it clear that the promises to Abraham would be fulfilled in Isaac, and made yet another promise concerning Ishmael: "And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation" (Genesis 17:20).
Ishmael would wait a long time for the fulfillment of that promise. The Bible has little to say about Ishmael after this, but we do know he lived 137 years and had twelve sons–the promised twelve princes. They are named in Genesis 25:12-18. Their land was the land we now call Arabia.
For generation after generation they lived in this hard land, living by raising camels and sheep. The prophecy that Ishmael would be a wild ass of a man found fulfillment in the fierce independence of the desert Arab. Independence bred tribalism, and tribalism brought incessant wars.
But these wars were nothing like the wars of Persia, Rome, and Greece. They were not so much for territory, control, or slaves. They were fought according to a strict code of honor and chivalry, and they were fought more for glory than anything else. Hence the code of honor. Glory depended on the battle being fought fairly and without treachery. Battles were often fought by appointment, and champions fought before both armies. According to historian John Glubb, "The Arab nomads were passionate poets and every incident of these chivalrous encounters was immortalized in verse and recited every night around the campfires which flickered here and there in the empty vastness of the desert peninsula."
Their religion was pagan to the core. They worshiped spirits and made pilgrimages to sacred rocks and trees. By the sixth century, the Ka'aba temple in Mecca contained some three hundred and sixty five idols.
Then came Mohammed, called simply, the Prophet.
MOHAMMED
Mohammed was known as a quiet, affectionate, and kindly man. He had been a caravan master prior to his marriage. Since his wife was a rich widow, he had plenty of time for solitude and meditation. He was forty years old in 610 A.D. when he had his first vision. He was sleeping in a cave in the mountains when, by his own account, the angel Gabriel spoke to him.
The message frightened Mohammed. He thought he might be demon possessed, but when he rushed from the cave, he saw the angel Gabriel "in the form of a man, with his feet astride the horizon."
Not surprisingly, he made few converts at first. It was three years before another vision commissioned him to preach, and his apostles numbered first three, then four. After four years of preaching, his disciples only numbered about seventy.
But Mohammed persisted. He claimed he was sent to restore the religion of Abraham, and he cited visions and revelations to his disciples. He claimed they were the actual words of God which he repeated word for word. His disciples memorized his recitations, and, after his death, they were written down to form the Koran.
According to Islamic thought, the will of God is made known to man through the Koran–the record of God's revelation to His messenger Mohammed. Mohammed is believed to be the last of a long series of prophets including Adam, Noah, Moses, Jesus, and others.
Islamic doctrine is based on five pillars called the "pillars of Islam." The first is the profession of faith: "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." According to Moslem doctrine, this profession must be recited at least once in one's lifetime, aloud, correctly, and on purpose, with an understanding of its meaning and with intent from the heart.
The second pillar is the familiar five congregational prayers in a day–bowing toward Mecca.
The third pillar is a welfare tax called the Zakat. The Zakat is a complicated "purification" tax levied at different percentages on different commodities. It's collected by the state, and is to be used primarily for the poor. An essential part of Islamic teaching is the doctrine of social service which involves the alleviating of suffering and helping the needy. The Koran says: "Man is by nature timid; when evil befalls him, he panics, but when good things come to him he prevents them from reaching others." The Koran threatens with the direst punishment in the hereafter those who hoard wealth without considering the needs of the poor. In Islam, the practice of usury is forbidden.
The fourth pillar of Islam is the fast of the month of Ramadan in which fasting begins every day at daybreak and ends at sunset. One can presumably eat all night long as long as one fasts in the daytime.
The fifth pillar of Islam is the annual pilgrimage to Mecca known as the Hajj. It is prescribed for every Moslem once in every lifetime, but it is conditional upon his means.
The Arabic term Islam literally means "surrender." A believer is called a Moslem (from the active participle of Islam) because he accepts "surrender to the will of Allah." Allah is the one God–creator, sustainer, and restorer of the world. Islam is uncompromising in its monotheism. The belief in the trinity, or the idea that man can become united with God is rejected because that would violate the unity of God. In Moslem theology, pride is the cardinal sin of man. In not recognizing his human limitations, man becomes guilty of ascribing to himself partnership with God and of violating the unity of God.
But the religion of Arabia prior to Mohammed was polytheistic. Mecca was the center of this idol worship. Its central shrine, the Ka'aba became something of a pantheon to many peoples. There were even Christian statues and icons in the Ka'aba. The Meccans encouraged all this, because when people made pilgrimages to Mecca, they brought trade.
Because the teachings of Mohammed threatened both the religion and the commerce of the Arabs of Mecca, they finally forced him to flee to Medina in 622 A.D. His flight, called the Hegira, marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.
Until his flight, Mohammed had taught a gentle religion, full of care for the poor, concerned with social justice, patient under tribulation and persecution. When he got to Medina, everything changed. As he began to acquire power, he announced that God had ordered all Moslems to fight the unbelievers. According to John Glubb, "The prophet, so patient, humble and devoted under persecution in Mecca, commenced to use power politics after his arrival in Medina. Not only does he resort to war against the Meccans, but in Medina he drives the Jews into exile and arranges for his opponents to be assassinated. Mohammed himself, however, claimed that he preached the same religion as Abraham, Moses and Jesus." In other words, Allah is Arabic for Yahweh, or Jehovah, the God of Abraham.
It is important for a western observer to realize that Islam draws no distinction between the religious and temporal areas of life. Therefore the Islamic state is by definition a religious state.
Glubb notes that Moslems in general do not believe that men can be made righteous by moral example or intellectual persuasion alone, but they consider that force is also necessary. Classical Islamic doctrine holds that the world is divisible into three parts: The zone of Islam; the zone of peace (those nations with whom Moslems had peace treaties); and the zone of war (the rest of the world).
Out of this grows the concept of jihad–"holy war" or "holy struggle."
Jihad is not so much concerned with the conversion of individuals to Islam, but rather the gaining of political control over the affairs of society to run them in accordance with the principles of Islam. Individual conversions are supposed to occur as a by-product of this process as the power structure passes into the hands of the Moslem community. In strict Moslem doctrine, conversions by force are forbidden. This did not keep Arab warriors from offering pagans the option, "Accept Islam or die." It was one of history's more effective missionary techniques.
Unlike Christianity, Islam is concerned with seeking to regulate, not only man's relationship with God (through his conscience), but human relationships in society as well. Therefore, there can be not only an Islamic "church" but also Islamic law, and an Islamic state. The dual religious and social character of Islam sees itself as commissioned by God to bring its own value system to the world through the jihad.
Mohammed died in 632 AD, and his successors carried out jihad with a vengeance. Within l00 years, Arab armies had overrun Spain, conquered northern Africa, advanced to Kashgar in central Asia, and taken Sind and Multan in India. As they went, Christians and Jews–considered "people of the book"–were allowed to retain their religion but required to pay a tax. All others were given a choice: accept Islam or die.
Few today appreciate the simplicity and egalitarianism of early Islamic faith. John Glubb notes that, "Prisoners of war brought to Medina expected to see palaces and imperial pageantry such as they had witnessed in Constantinople or in Ctesiphon. Instead, in the glaring, dusty square of a little mud-brick town, they would find a circle of Arabs sitting on the ground. One of them, a tall lean man, barefooted and wearing a coarse woolen cloak, would prove to be the world's most powerful emperor."
He was Umar Ibn Al Khattab and he may have been the greatest of all the Khalifs. Glubb remarks that, "in spite, or perhaps because of his humility and his profound piety, his word was law from one end of the empire to the other."
ISLAM IN BIBLE PROPHECY
Are these people mentioned in the Bible? Plainly, the Islamic peoples in general, and the Arabic peoples in particular,are major players on the world scene. Are they destined to affect the playing out of prophecy at the end?
First, who are they?
To Isaiah, they are Arabians (chapter 21:11-17, descendants of Ishmael, such as Kedar, Tema, and Dumah). But in the Islamic world, there are other families such as Edom (Esau–modern Turkey according to some, chapter 11:14), Moab and Ammon (children of Lot, Abraham's brother–modern Jordan, chapters 15,16), Damascus (chapter 17),and Egypt (chapter 19). These prophecies find both historical and future fulfillment.
Ezekiel also speaks of Edom and Moab in prophecies of the end times (chapter 25), and he adds Persia, Libya, Lud, and Phut, which takes in middle Asia and North Africa (chapter 27:10,21) . In chapter 30, he speaks of the fall of the nations of North Africa, including Egypt, in the time of the "Day of the Lord"–a clear reference to the end time. In the 38th chapter, Gog and Magog, whom many identify with parts of the Soviet Union, are linked with Persia and other Islamic peoples. Remember that there are millions of Islamic peoples in the southern Soviet republics.
Jeremiah speaks of Sheba (probably the area of modern Yemen, chapter 6), Egypt, Edom, and Ammon (chapter 9), Arabia (chapter 25), Moab (chapter 48), and others.
Among the minor prophets, there are references to Gaza (Amos 1:6), Edom (Amos 1:6,9,11 and Malachi 1:4), Moab (Amos 2:1), Ammon (Amos 1:13), Edom (Obadiah), and Egypt (Joel 3:19), all Islamic peoples in the modern world.
Then there is Daniel.
The prophecies of Daniel are too complex to detail here, but Chapter 11 is a crucial prophecy that, in spite of a typical fulfillment in the second century B.C., is explicitly for the end time. Daniel receives a message from the angel Gabriel which speaks of a king of the north and a king of the south. We believe the final "king of the north" will be a European leading a united Europe. It is plain that the king of the south will, at the time of the end, be an Islamic power.
But which Islamic power?
Remember that Islam is essentially an Arabic religion imposed on much of the Islamic world by force of arms. The fierce and turbulent individualism of the Arabs resulted in continuous infighting. Any weakness was seized upon by potential rivals and war ensued. In the process of time this individualism led not only to war but to Islam's own version of sectarianism. In Islam, as in Christianity, there are left wingers and right wingers, radicals and moderates, fundamentalists and liberals, traditionalists and moderates.
The individualism and sectarianism of Islam may have saved the world from Islamic domination. According to John Glubb, "The various Arabic-speaking peoples have never been united except by force" (P.243, A Short history of the Arab Peoples). But he also observes that "The great majority of Arabs even today are, in their heart of hearts, more emotionally loyal to Islam than to any national feeling" (p.252).
The reason for the War of Ezekiel 38 and 39.
The reason for this invasion is to free the people and fulfill the prophecies about the re-gathering of Judah with Israel
The War described in Ezekiel 38 and 39 is an invasion of the nation of Israel by a group of northern nations and the reason for the invasion according to the theme of Ezekiel chapter 37. This will be the fulfillment of the re-gathering of Israel with Judah who were separated in 722 B.C.
The reason for the invasion of this northern confederacy of nations is because the people held in bondage by these nations have been set free. as I have described in other wirings.
I want to emphasize this will be the people who occupied the northern part of Israel who were called Israel who are the 10 lost tribes of Israel who were never lost from God’s sight. This is not the Jewish people as people think of Jews and Israel being the same people.
The people Israel not the Jews, will be set free through the acts of the 7 trumpet judgments of Revelation chapter 8. When these people are set free they escape with the wealth of the northern nations and these nations led by an anti-christ person are trying to retaliate by destroying the nation and reclaiming all the wealth. This is just the same as what happened when Moses led the people of all the tribes out of Egypt in the great exodus.
Ezekiel chapter 37
1. The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2. And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
4. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
5. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
7. So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
The scriptures through out the Bible distinguishes between the prophecies of Israel and the prophecies of Judah throughout the Old Testament, but the church as a whole has misunderstood this. I will explain how scriptual and historic evidence shows how the prophecies of Ezekiel laying on his side for 390 days described in Ezekiel CHAPTERS 4,5 was fulfilled. These are in the articles about the 10 Lost Tribes being Found.
Since Israel and Judah separated in 976 BC they have never come back together. Even to this day they are not together, and don't even recognize each other. But Judah and Israel will be re-gathered as one nation in our generation
12. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14. And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
15. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16. Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17. And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18. And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
We are going to find in the 10 Lost Tribes article that the people of Israel are to be numbered as the sand of the sea and as the stars are in heaven because they are about 25% of the total world population. And they will all be gathered with the Jews or Judah.
19. Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20. And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21. And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22. And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23. Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24. And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25. And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27. My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28. And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Between Chapter 37 and 38 all the events of Revelation chapter 8 take place upon the nations, of Russia, Iran and all the other nations described in the invasions described in Ezekiel 38.
The leader of the band of nations a person called Gog refuses to set the people free. The two witness’s of Revelation chapter 11 will stand before Gog, just as Moses and Aaron stood before the Pharol of Egypt and have demanded that the people be set free.
This man in the spirit of Moses will stand before Gog and demand "Set my people Free." And this man Gog refuses. Each time Gog refuses to set the people free Moses is empowered to smite the earth with the rod of his mouth or by his spoken word as described about he power given to the BRANCH in Isaiah 11:1-5.
First trumpet
All the green vegetation upon 1/3 of the earth is destroyed by fire.
Second trumpet
All the water in 1/3 of the oceans is turned to blood.
Third trumpet
All fresh water is turned into wormwood on 1/3 of the earth.
Fourth trumpet
The sun quits shining upon 1/3 of the earth.
Fifth trumpet
The bottomless pit is opened up and demons and devils are allowed to torment evil people upon 1/3 of the earth.
At this point Gog releases the people who come out of the north countries with all the silver and the gold.
Like Pharaoh of Egypt Gog decides to destroy the people to take back his lost wealth and gain more. His invasion of Israel is the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38 & 39, as well as the sixth trumpet judgment.
Ezekiel Chapter 38
1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2. Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
Magog is the ancient name for the area north of the Black Sea, where the son of Japeth one of the sons of Noah settled..
3. And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
Meshech is said to be the ancient name of the city of Moscow, Russia. And Tubal seems to be the area in central Russia where the Tubal river Flows.
4. And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5. Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
Iran, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland and Germany are included in the names given in this invasion.
6. Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
7. Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
This is to happen after many days, implying the end times. and is not just against Jerusalem but all of Israel because the people have just been freed. This is similar to the Pharol of Egypt trying to kill the people as they crossed the Red Sea where the waters parted for the people of Israel.
This is the land that is bought back from the sword which I believe refers to the nation Israel established on May 14, 1948 and will include all the land in the original promise from the River of Egypt to the Ephrates River to the north.
8. After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
10. Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
The Land of Un-walled Villages. This seems to imply the idea of continuing the invasion by swinging North into the nations Europe and probably includes the USA.
11. And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12. To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
There are some Arab nations in the middle east that do not join in this invasion and onthe contrary protest with Europe and the USA to the UN.
Gog and Magog are invading Israel to regain the wealth that has been taken from the northern countries as I will explain later. Here we see that Dedan Saudi Arabia, and Tarshish France and the UK, England and the young lions which probably includes the USA, Canada, Australia, and possibly central and South American countries protest probably to the United nations but offer no resistance to the invasion.
13. Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14. Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
God seems to have his hand on Israel to Protect them although at some point prior to this invasion, I believe that Syria, will have them under siege for 42 months.
15. And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16. And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
I believe this will be an invasion force of 200 million soldiers.
17. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
A personal note to Gog, who I believe may end up being Saddam Hussein That he is the one fulfilling the prophecy of Ezekiel 38 and 39.
18. And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
The Great shaking of the earth, is a devastating earthquake that seems to cover the entire area and possibly the entire earth.
20. So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
The Earth quake evidently throws the invading armies into such confusion, thinking they are under attach that they start firing their weapons and kill themselves off, probably with a period of less than one hour.
21. And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
There will be the ultimate storm, evidently the tremendous explosions vaporize much of the flesh into the atmosphere and it rains blood, rain and hail. There seems to literally be a firestorm created that goes up the Coastal area’s of Russia.
22. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
23. Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
This may very well be the time where every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Ezekiel 39
1. Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
2. And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
This seems to imply that the dead number is actually 166,666,666, and 33,333,333 do survive.
3. And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
All Kinds of birds and the beast of the field will have a great feast eating the flesh of men.
4. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5. Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6. And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
The fire storm created seems to be blown by a wind into Russia itself.
7. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8. Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
The weapons are gathered by the people and they are used to supply the nation of Israel with an energy source that lasts for seven years.
9. And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10. So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
The place of burial near the dead sea. Is this the second reason for it being named the dead sea?
11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
Burying the dead will be such a gigantic task that it will take a large part of the population a period of seven months to clear the land of dead bodies and fury them.
12. And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13. Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
All the people will know that this has been an act of God and will give him glory for it.
14. And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
This implies that the bodies will be contaminated with atomic energy and the bodies will have to be gathered by special forces who are trained and protected against being contaminated.
15. And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16. And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17. And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19. And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20. Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21. And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
The House of Israel implies all the tribes of Israel turn to the Lord in a single day, with everyone knowing Jesus Christ as their Lord.
22. So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
39. And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
This refers to the captivity that began in 722 BC when Israel was taken into Assyria for 390 years and then scattered among the nations of the world to become about 20% of the worlds population. All the descendants of the Celtic people who have settled in many nations of the world.
24. According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
This (verse 25-27) is the fulfillment of Ezekiel 37, this is the only place in the scriptures that specifically state when Judah and Israel are re-gathered.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS THE REUNITING OF A PEOPLE WHO LOST THERE IDENTITY AND DON'T REALIZE WHO THEY ARE. ISRAEL IS MADE UP OF THE WHITE ANGLO SAXON RACE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND ALSO SOME OF EVERY OTHER RACE OF THE WORLD WHO HAVE ANCESTRY FROM THE ORIGINAL TRIBES. THIS IS THE TIME AND THE PLACE OF THE REGATHERING OF ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. tHE FULFILLMENT OF A MAJOR THEME OF ISAIAH, JEREMIAH AND EZEKIEL.
THE PEOPLE CALLED JEWS LIVING IN ISRAEL TODAY ARE PRIMARILY FROM THE TRIBES OF BENJAMIN, JUDAH AND PART OF THE TRIBE OF LEVI.
25. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
26. After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
27. When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
28. Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29. Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
The invasion of Ezekiel 38 and 39 is a modern day version of the armies of Israel being destroyed as they cross the red sea as they are in pursuit of the Children of Israel coming out of Egypt. Expect these events to take place between June 24, 2007 and December 24, 2011, the time remaining in the first half of the Tribulation Period. I would guess they will begin about 2009.
A different look at the Bible
The Bible is a book of books. The Bible is made up of 66 books. There are 39 Old Testament Books and 27 New Testament Books all combined into the book we call the Holy Bible.
The Bible is made up of all types of literature. It is made up of letters, statistical information, Historical information, books of wisdom, books of songs, and dictations from God himself.
The Bible is a unique book in may ways. It was written over a period of about 1,500 years, and it was written by at least 40 different individual authors. Yet all of these books by different authors have a common theme and speak of past, present and future events from the times they were written without contradicting one another. All of these prophecies agree, but we do not always understand the timing and sequence of these events.
What these authors have written is remarkable and speaks with authority of the known and unknown as well as unknowable. They speak uncompromisingly about mankind's accomplishments and failures, of the past, the present and the future.
These men felt they were being led by the inner feeling of the Holy Spirit to write, without the full understanding of what the words would mean to future generations. They were writing beyond their own writings and understandings.
The combinations of these writings of all the different authors written at different times in history, flow into a stream of inspiration, and revelation.
2 Timothy 3:16
16. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for proof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
The Bible is God breathed. In other words scripture is God produced. God used these men and their own individual personalities in revealing to mankind his thoughts and words he wanted to speak.
Who can say that God is not doing something similar today?
2 Peter 1:19-21
19. We have a more sure word of prophecy: whereunto ye do well that ye heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts;
20. Knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Jesus himself spoke of the scriptures and how they could be trusted. He was speaking of Old Testament Scripture when He said;
Matthew 5:18
18. For Verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
The jot is the smallest Hebrew letter. A tittle is a very small extension, similar to that of dotting an "i" that distinguishes the difference between similar letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
The point the Lord was making is that every word of the Old Testament is vital and will be fulfilled.
The Bible's 66 books contain 1,189 chapters, and 31,173 verses. There seems to be a concentrated focus on Psalms 117:, Psalms 118:, and Psalms 119:
The shortest chapter with the least amount written of the Bible is Psalm 117:, and the largest chapter with the most amount written is chapter 119:
Between the smallest chapter of the Bible and the Largest Chapter of the Bible lies the central verse of the Bible. This is located in the center of the Bible, with 594 verses from Genesis 1:1 to Psalms 118:8. There are also 594 verses from Psalms 118:8 to Revelation 22:21.
The First verse in the Bible.
Genesis 1:1
1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
The central verse in the entire Bible.
Psalms 118.8
8. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
The very last verse spoken of in the book of Revelation.
Revelation 22:21
21. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
These three verses speak of the Bible in the simplest of terms.
With 23 words These verses speak of the theme of the Bible. From the creation of heavens and earth to wisdom and seeking the spiritual rather than the fleshly. Then ends with the creator and the giver of life saying Grace be with you all. A statement of the death, Love and sacrifice by the Lord Jesus.
The Bible seems to focus like the bulls eye of a target upon the 118th Psalm. The center of the bulls eye is the 8th verse.
"It is better to Trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man".
Is there any More clear words that could define the Bible than these?
The 118th Psalm also speaks of the Pyramid of Giza. The Pyramid of Giza also seems to be a code of the whole Bible.
The Pyramid of Giza seems to be the words of all creation and history and prophecy of the earth written in stone.
The Pyramid points to the Bible and the Bible points to the Pyramid.
The 118th Psalm speaks of the Pyramid in speaking about the chief Corner stone. A chief corner stone can only refer to a pyramid and the Pyramid of Giza is the only one located at the central point of the entire land area of the earth. It is also the only pyramid with the chief corner stone missing.
This is referring to Jesus Christ in the 118th Psalm the chief corner stone that the builders rejected. The Pyramid of Giza is the structure speaking the same message in stone.
It was recently discovered By Dr. Eliyahu Rips that there is a hidden code in the Bible. It appears to to reveal the events that are taking place and have taken place thousands of years after the Bible was written.
Dr. Rips discovered that the 5 books of the Old Testament known to Jewish people as the Torah are encoded from from beginning to end. Revealed within the words that connect was the telling of a hidden story.
Each code is revealed through a spacing of letters. As you skip a given number of spaces you take the letter and place it to other letters in the order of the same spacing.
As these letters are added together they form words that give revealing information.
This is a simple description, but it is more than than just a simple skip code. It also has other dimensions.
By crisscrossing, going in various directions, forward, and backwards it goes through the entire scriptures within these five books written by Moses.
Hidden under the original Hebrew of the Old Testament there seems to be a network of words and phrases that give new revelation.
All spaces between words are eliminated between the words. A computer searches that strand of letters by the skip code. It starts at the first letter of the Bible and looks for every possible skip sequence.
The Bible seems to have many such codes. In the original Hebrew language the Old testament was written so each letter of the alphabet is also the symbol of one of the numerical numbers. So this is also the language making up the numbering system. Adding the numbers together may be an entirely new code to be discovered in our understanding, as we will discover in Isaiah 19:19.
Isaiah 19:19
19. In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
1. The 30 words of this verse written in Hebrew have a numerical total of the sum of 5,449.
2. It is a fact that that the distance between the north and the south poles divided by 500 million equals 5,449.
3. The number of Pyramid inches from from the base of the pyramid to the summit platform of the pyramid is 5449.
It is interesting that this 19the verse of the 19th chapter, is in the 22nd book of the Bible. This same number combination converted to the 19th book of the Bible to the 118th chapter and the 22nd verse seems to connect to the other.
As if 19 and 22 were a clue to some type of numerical index system of Bible revelation.
I have also noticed similarities with other numbers.
We have discovered how all the similarities connect to just one verse of the 31,173 verses in the Bible. This leads me to believe that all the other 31,172 verses may also have similar hidden knowledge coded into them also.
So what is the depth, height, and width of the knowledge of the Bible. The Bible itself says that it must be studied line upon line and precept upon precept.
Isaiah 28:9-11
9. Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.
We now see that the Bible seems to be multi-dimensional. Supernaturally put together by these more than 40 authors over a 1,500 year period. The Bible actually seems to be structured as one would expect a complicated computer.
We have 31,173 verses that contain many more concepts. Even one single verse has many possible meanings and combinations of precepts. Many possible variations such as skip sequences and conversion to numbers from letter may reveal a new meaning. We see the Bible mentioning this type of code system in the book of Revelation.
Revelation 13:16-18
16. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bound, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it's the number of a man; and the number is Six hundred threescore and six.
I once looked at the Bible strictly as a huge puzzle that should be spread out with all the precepts and lines upon a flat table. Then we should put the pieces together into a new understanding of rightfully dividing the word of God.
Now however I am seeing a greater possibility, equivalent to discovering a whole new universe. I see the Bible as multidimensional, and without any limitations.
Let the Bible answer the questions:
Bible
The Quran stresses that Noah, Abraham Jacob, Joseph, Moses and Jesus were all preaching the same message and the Quran was sent to confirm the earlier messages. It states that Muslims should believe in all of them without making any distinction between them.
Jesus Christ Lord
Luke 2:
10: And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11: For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
John 13:
11: For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.
12: So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
13: Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
Philipians 2:
5: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9: Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11: And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Romans 14:
7: For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
8: For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
9: For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
I Corinthians 1:
30: But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
7: 32: But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
12: 3: Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost
Ephesians 4:
3: Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4: There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5: One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6: One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
6: 4: And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
5: Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
6: Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
7: With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
1st Timothy
14: That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
15: Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
16: Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
2nd Timothy
1: I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2: Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4: And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5: But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
6: For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
7: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
8: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Jude
14: And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15: To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16: These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
17: But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Revelation 4:
8: And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
9: And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
10: The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
11: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
17:14: These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
