Posted on 08/13/2005 1:43:17 AM PDT by American in Israel
Blessings to my fellow Freepers.
I have been a long time poster here on Freeper, but normally I always stay in the Foreign Affairs section. So much news, so little time. But this time, while I am still posting about my experience in Israel, my subject is eschatology, or the study of final prophetic events of the end of this age.
For thousands of years prophecy's in the Bible have sat on the pages like little kitchen clocks, wound up tight and frozen in place. No ticking, no action, just a paper weight. For many generations they have been knick-naks of curiosity for us to ponder over and set back in place when frankly, they do nothing. They are fun to talk about, but cannot hold interest long because they just do not apply to our lives much.
Much of the Bible is doctrine, and teaches us how to live in a right place with our Creator. Much of the bible is History which teaches us a different thing, not doctrine but what life is like. But part of that history is prophecy, not of the past, but of the future. God is timeless and omnipresent. So God when he tells us prophecy, does not tell us what He wants, He simply tells us what happened then.
This is a very significant time in Biblical History. This as in today, this Saturday, this week. This is a day that was written about in those little kitchen clock prophecies that you and I have played with, but frankly ignored more often than not. When is the last time you read from the Prophets in the Bible?
Imagine my shock last year when I discovered that many of the little kitchen decorations sitting on the shelf for a couple of thousand years have suddenly sprung to life and have been ticking in the empty kitchen of my Old Testament Bible study?
It is not that one is ticking, but many suddenly are!
For example Isaiah 14:29-32 and Zephniah 2. Long dormant, from the day of their birth, their little dials are moving now, and the ominous sound ticking is reverberating in that empty room. Today is an important day, a day of the next ratcheting click is upon us once again.
This Saturday is the evening of the Sabbath before the 9th of Av on the Hebrew calendar. This is an important day in History, a day of disaster that affects the world. It is the day of the destruction of both temples, a day of the beginning of the Spanish Inquistion, a day of the beginning of the World Wars in Europe. It is the day of the beginning of the expulsion of the Jews from their land by the United States of America. It is a day of infamy, of disaster and of historical shifts of the mega sort.
This day of the year is a traditional fast of mourning for the Jewish people, and may just become a day of mourning for the United States. People often say to me they do not see the United States in prophecy for some strange reason. There is a reason for that. One, they are looking in the wrong places, and two, because where it is listed it is not for good, but for bad.
In Isaiah 14, a puzzle is placed, a keyhole to the prophecy that you must find the exact key to fit. Once that lock is unlocked, the clock begins to count down to the destruction of the Palestinians. Not a normal destruction, but a complete wipeout from the Hand of God. This puzzle, or key hole is simply put like this:
Isaiah 14:28 This is the burden which came in the year that King Ahaz died.
Isaiah:29 "Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, Because the rod that struck you is broken; For out of the serpent's roots will come forth a viper, And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.
Let me translate this into a key.
King Ahaz died over 200 years after King David conquered the Philistines in the area of Gaza and annexed their land into his kingdom. Nobody had seen a living Philistine for generations when this prophecy came, and to this day we know virtually nothing about their fishing villages in this area as they were effectively wiped from the earth. There is very little remains of them even for archeologists. We do know that they were a Greek colony of people and that they were worshipers of Baal. We do not know what became of them.
This is very significant, as the Prophecy could not have meant the Philistines of Ancient times as when this prophecy was given, there were none. It has to be a prophecy of a modern race of people claiming to be Philistia.
Like the Palestinians, who pronounce it Falistia, as in Arabic they do not have a P sound. They may not be able to pronounce it, but they claim to be it. Funny huh?
Now we have defined the location of the lock, let us define the key.
The area of Palestine was always a backwater nomans land since the Islamic Horde wiped out the remnants of Israel's culture 1400 years ago. Nobody set up a kingdom there, it was always just a place, not a state. The Arabs, Christians and Jews that lived there were subject to various Kings and rulers, that changed like the tide, but none chose to live there or set up a kingdom there. Who would? It was an economically depressed land that barely supported the people that sustenance farmed its hot and unforgiving landscape. It was always ruled from afar, as a very poorly producing tax land by distant rulers.
That changed in the early days of the Nazi Empire. A local clan leader united the Arabs under the Nazi flag and became known as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He set up a kingdom on the coattails of Hitler pronouncing unity in the goal of extermination of the Jews.
He was a harsh task master to the Arabs, living with a Nazi king is always so I suspect. But he whipped the Arabs into some semblance of unity. A unity that was not shattered when his rule was broken by the British in their victory over Hitler at the end of the war and the formation of the State of Israel.
29 "Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, Because the rod that struck you is broken..
And the timer, for the first time in over 2500 years ticked.
That Rod, was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and who he struck was that people, the Arab immigrants to the historical land of Israel. They were to be united again under the nephew of the Grand Mufti within one generation. His name was Yassar Arafat.
The word for Rod in Hebrew is Shevet, it is also used for Tribe. The rulers of the "Falistia" were a tribe from the Egyptian conquest. So both meanings of the word are in play, it is a pun, son. Who says God has no sense of humor?
For out of the serpent's roots will come forth a viper,
And the timer ticked again…
The Hebrew word for serpent is nahash, it simply means snake. But the word for viper is the word sefaph, it means a poisonous snake.
Yassar Arafat proved to indeed be a poisonous snake. It was he who invented modern terrorism as a State sponsored ideal. It was he who founded the death squad in Arab controlled lands here that execute any political opposition in public torture sessions. It was he who changed the living standard from then thousand a month (80% of the wages of his Jewish neighbors) to an average barely a thousand dollars a month. And it was he who crushed the people under an iron boot of multiple terrorist police forces battling for supremacy under his unforgiving rule.
Life became much harder under the hand of this ruler. And the next generation of Palestinians grew up in Arafat's schools, being trained from birth to be bomb fuses for Jihad, and being trained that the land they never owned, and the cities they never built was actually theirs and worth dying for. But, he, like all dictators eventually do, died.
And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.
And the clock ticked the third time.
This time there is no successor from the root of the Rod or Tribe, the offspring of Arafat is the present government forming under the careful hand of President Bush from the ruins of the terrorist regime of Arafat. It is forming in a democratic way, the violently abused "Falistia" fresh from the mind numbing Jihad factories called schools. America my friends, pays for the books in those schools. The victims of those brainwashing factories are voting in Hamas and Fatah, the two most notorious terrorist groups in the Middle-East. Fatah who founded terrorism, and Hamas, who spread it through the West.
While we gave them democracy, we placed them under terrorist leaders, for it was America who insisted that Arafat be given rule and reign over the Arabs of Palestine when he was defeated in his bid for a kingdom in Lebanon. A bid that lead to the slaughter of over 100,000 Arab Lebanese.
The Hebrew words translated as fiery flying serpent here is literally flying viper with a side picture of demonic power. And demonic it is, for Hamas has instituted a Taliban like rule in Gaza that puts Afghanistan to shame. Instead of a trail and public execution, the roaming Hamas thugs make Islamic Fatwas on the spot and slaughter any passerby's that are deemed not Islamic enough.
Such was the fate a couple of months ago of a young betrothed couple walking together on a public beach downtown Gaza City. They had the grooms young sister as a escort, as a young couple are not allowed to be unescorted by a family member according to the social rules of Islam. This was on a public beach in the main city mind you, not some private place. Hamas ruled on the spot that the young sister was not enough escort and informed the couple of the fact by four of them emptying their AK47's into the bride to be. They then beat her remains to a pulp with bats and iron pipes and then continued on to hospitalize the groom and his little sister.
Truly, the Palestinians live with a dragon as a ruler now.
This key clearly unlocks the timer on this prophecy, and the next step is the complete destruction of the Palestinian Arabs.
First a promise to the Christian Arabs, a people who are rarely spirit filled and rather bitter towards the Jews due to being raised and steeped in this bitter regime of Islamic rulers. But a people most oppressed of any in this dark area of the world. For the Islamic's hate the Christians most of all as the Jews are all dead or gone.
Isaiah 14:30 The firstborn of the poor will feed, And the needy will lie down in safety;
But then the next part chills the blood:
I will kill your roots with famine, And it will slay your remnant.
The first born will be saved, but the families will be destroyed. Even among the poor there will be few survivors, but among the Muslims?
31 Wail, O gate! Cry, O city! All you of Philistia are dissolved; For smoke will come from the north, And no one will be alone in his appointed times."
This phrase speaks in Hebrew of appointments in the smoke, and there will be no loners without appointments in it. That appointment is destruction and the smoke? Well remember that God appeared as a column of fire by night and a cloud or SMOKE by day.
God Himself may be coming to destroy them.
But the most chilling statement in the whole prophecy for Americans, the pushers of this "Roadmap to Peace" that demands that Israel surrender the land given to them by God, is the last line:
Isaiah 14:32 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, And the poor of His people shall take refuge in it.
When this all goes south as it clearly will with the destruction of the Palestinians, What will be said to the Nation that pushed this plan on Israel and its innumerable Condis' and Powels and Generals and diplomats serving the hard line?
That the land of Israel is founded by God, for His people, not the political solutions of a Nation that has no right force the land to be given to others.
This my friends is a rebuke to America that we will ignore to our peril.
I think this part is interesting. I've read that the following is to be the rule; the SOP; the way of the law in the NWO Global government. It MAY be possible to get by with a first time parking ticket. But the 2nd time, this would be the sentence on the spot. And all greater "crimes" would garner such "justice" on the spot by whatever law enforcement happened along or got involved:
Instead of a trail and public execution, the roaming Hamas thugs make Islamic Fatwas on the spot and slaughter any passerby's that are deemed not Islamic enough.
Certainly time to be walking close to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
I confess that I used to think such things were mere coincidence. But I've realized over the decades GOD ALMIGHTY DOES HAVE A HOBBY, AFFINITY, PENCHANT, for such line-ups of dates, meanings, portents . . . AND, that we are fools if we pay no attention.
Let us be watchful, prayerful, circumspect and walk wisely with our God--THE GOD ALMIGHTY--THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
Good points.
And, Jocko just pointed out to me . . . LOL . . . that this thread is from 2005. Interesting.
I know (have talked to some personally) that the President has had excellent prayerful prophetic input from good prophetic voices, sources. THEY consider him to be a bona-fide serious Christian.
I know some source(s) assert that he is working quietly with some [temporary, for sure] success to neutralize the NWO folks.
I personally don't know which side it will turn out that he lived on, came down on. Your statements have plenty of logical plausibility. I just don't see his role as that cut and dried.
My own speculation is that he may fear man too much. He may be too double minded. He may straddle the fence to much. And, he may "just" be trying to stay alive long enough by doing what the NWO folks demand so that he can do what good he can get away with.
I just don't know.
Regardless, prayers for him, our republic, our world and certainly FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM are Biblical and highly in order.
Sure. I realize now, that this is from 2005 but have just put you on.
Perhaps you've been reading "too much" Dimitru Duduman?
Use DOGPILE.COM to find his docs hosted by his Grandson on the net.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
Sure. Have you on the new END TIMES, DREAMS, VISIONS, PROPHECY PING LIST.
Am reconstituting it of those who let me know they want to stay on or be put on. Some "oldies" are opting out due to busy-ness. Understandable. Just so folks let me know one way or the other. If no word, will take "oldies" off.
LUB
Did you get around to the Revelation one? Do you have a handy link?
Thanks.
As it is certainly KJV which rolls around in my head! I need such a search function. Sometimes Bible Gateway just doesn't catch my thinking very well. Silly Computers.
Live each day as if it was your last. Have joy in your heart until we all go home.
I still think this is such an excellent document.
This is a particularly true line:
God will build relationally. The only things that are going to last are built on love, not convenience; on commitment not on want or need. Love expresses itself through relationships. These cannot last except with love
(1 Cor. 13).
Great Post. Thank God Arabfat never signed the BJ Piece Deal and gave them Jeruselum too. Also can you imagine if Saddamn was still in power what this would be like. My guess is this is a post Saddamn rewriting of the rules.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Shalom Israel
Me too.
And trying to stay up with Him in the meantime.
Putting you on the new, revised one.
Thanks.
There's a raft of folks hereon who seem to have Romans 10 & 11 torn out of their Bibles. Amazing.
Well said:
Live each day as if it was your last. Have joy in your heart until we all go home.
Make sure I am on that list. Thx.
very impressive, I too wish to be added to the list.
Amen!
LOVE.
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[And then there's the Scripture that warns that in the last days some will have their hearts grow cold. God forbid!]
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Jesus is the vine, we are the branches, we must keep abiding in Him. He *is* Love. Let us love one another, even as He first loved us.
Lord, please light the fire, that once burned bright and clear. Replace the lamp of my first love, that burns with holy fear.
Thanks, Quix for the good word.
All blessings to you always.
jm
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