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The Stage Is Set: Will It Be Judgment Or Destruction?
Added: Nov 27th, 2007 6:51 AM
By Jeffrey K. Radt
November 27, 2007
We need to repent and pray for the forgiveness of our nation's sins.
Specifically, we need to pray for God to have mercy on us all.
In a few days, America will never be the same as I fear that we are
about to enter a new realm in our spiritual relationship with our Lord
and Creator. I might even go so far as to say that we will have
reached the proverbial point of no return.
Our God is a God of grace, mercy, and love. However, He is also a God
of holiness, righteousness, and justice. For instance, Nahum warned
that while God is one who is righteous and holy He is also one who
will not tolerate sin (Nahum 1:2-3):
"A jealous and avenging God is the Lord; The Lord is avenging and
wrathful. The Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserves
wrath for His enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
and the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished."
The Bible also says that God will bless those who bless Israel, and He
will curse those who curse Israel (Genesis 12:3). The Bible says that
he who touches Israel touches "the apple of God's eye" (Zechariah
2:8).
The upcoming Annapolis conference is akin to our government thinking
they can poke God in the eye and blind Him long enough so that they
can create a legacy on their own terms and independent of His plan for
His chosen people as well as mankind.
They will leave a legacy all right, but will anyone be around to read
about it in history books?
Does it bother anyone else to watch a so-called Christian president
and his administration blatantly thumb its nose at God? I'm sorry, but
any true Christian who has spent time reading his or her own Bible
would know that Israel is off limits and that true peace will never be
established until Jesus Christ returns again.
To ignore history - - especially recent history - - all for the sake
of political expediency is dangerous and arrogant. To continue to push
such initiatives is suicidal, borderline psychotic, and it shows a
disdain for God and His truths not to mention a complete
misunderstanding of Scripture and eschatology.
SETTING THE STAGE
Dr. David R. Reagan has published a truly remarkable study of recent
world events and their prophetic significance in relation to Israel on
his Lamb & Lion Ministries website. I encourage you to take some time
to read his report in its entirety because it provides some additional
in-depth information on this topic and adds comments on why we may be
at a critical juncture in our nation's history.
His thesis is the foundation of this piece and in many cases several
excerpts will be included here given their grave importance to
upcoming world events with immense spiritual implications.
What emerges from the reading is a clear and accurate account that we
are on the threshold of the Tribulation and, as Dr. David Reagan puts
it, "we are living on borrowed time."
To begin with, God is the one who establishes nations and He is the
one who takes them down (Daniel 2:20-21). When a nation rebels against
God, He responds first by raising up prophetic voices to call the
nation to repentance.
These are not people with supernatural knowledge of the future. They
are simply those who have the spiritual gift of discernment to see
where a nation is missing God's mark. In other words, they know how to
apply the Scriptures to current events.
If a nation refuses to listen to the prophetic voices, God will then
send remedial judgments. That is to say that God will do what He has
to in order to get our attention. Deuteronomy 28 lists the many forms
that these judgments can take, which includes economic failure,
rebellion of youth, an epidemic of divorce, confusion in government,
foreign domination, and military defeat. The chapter also mentions
natural disasters like drought, crop failure, and pestilence.
Sometimes God uses signs of nature to underline the importance of
major events. More often, He uses signs of nature as remedial
judgments to call nations to repentance. He has always spoken to the
world through signs of nature. One example that comes readily to mind
is the birth of Jesus when God placed a special light in the heavens.
Another is when Jesus was crucified and the earth experienced three
hours of darkness and a major earthquake.
There are also many examples of remedial judgments in the Bible that
involve natural disasters. For example, the plagues with which God
afflicted Egypt in order to convince Pharaoh that he should release
the children of Israel from captivity. I could go on and on.
Clearly, both the Bible and history attest to the fact that God has a
pattern of dealing with nations.
Sadly, there are times when a nation ignores such messages from God
and instead digs in against Him and His calls to repentance. This is
the point of no return and it is often referred to as "when the wound
becomes incurable" (Nahum 3:19, Jeremiah 30:12, and Micah 1:9).
It is at this point that the Lord will deliver the nation from
judgment to destruction.
Do all natural catastrophes represent remedial judgments of God? No -
- most are products of the natural processes of our weather systems.
How then can we determine when a natural calamity is a remedial
judgment?
Dr. David R. Reagan suggests, "One important factor is the timing of
the event as it relates to the sins of the nation. Another factor is
the magnitude of the event. Remedial judgments are designed to have
great shock value in order to capture people's attention and force
them to think with an eternal perspective. The most important factor
is God's Spirit witnessing to the spirits of those to whom He has
given the gift of prophecy. They will be motivated to speak forth with
a united voice."
The culmination of the remedial judgments on the U.S. in recent
history seemed to come with 9/11. This tragedy was a wake-up call from
God for our nation to repent. Personally, it fulfilled this very
purpose in my own life.
There is no question that our national sins have called down remedial
judgments from God. Yet, as Dr. David R. Reagan brilliantly catalogs,
"what I think we may have failed to realize is that since 1991, many
of the judgments we have experienced have been directly related to our
mistreatment of Israel."
DRESS REHEARSAL
The Bible provides us with many signs we are to watch for that will
signal the soon return of Jesus Christ. The signs related to Israel
are the most important.
The key to understanding where we are on God's prophetic timeline is
to take a closer look at the Jewish people and the state of Israel
since they are God's timepiece.
God often points to future events and says they will occur when
certain things happen involving Israel. A good example can be found in
Luke 21:24 when Jesus is quoted as saying that He would return "when
Jerusalem is no longer trampled down by the Gentiles."
In the end times, all the nations of the world will come together
against Israel over the issue of Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:3).
Tragically, even though many of our blessings as a nation have been
due to the fact that we have historically been a safe haven and friend
to the Jewish people, it was the early 90's when we began to turn
against Israel.
Believe it or not, we were the ones who forced Israel into adopting
the current suicidal policy of appeasement and we have been twisting
her arm ever since, pressuring them to divide up the land that God
gave them as an everlasting possession.
White House correspondent William Koenig recently wrote a book titled
Eye to Eye. It was subtitled, Facing the Consequences of Dividing
Israel. The thesis of the book is that many of the natural calamities,
economic setbacks, and political crises experienced by the United
States since 1991 have been directly related to actions we have taken
to force Israel to surrender territory to the Arabs.
Koenig is a devout Evangelical Christian who has the gift of prophecy.
Accordingly, he has the discernment to see the supernatural
relationship between world events and judgments of God.
His book had a very prophetic cover. It showed President Bush looking
over his right shoulder at a hurricane, and in the eye of the
hurricane was a Star of David, the symbol of Israel.
The title of the book, Eye to Eye, was suggested by Koenig's wife. She
took it from Matthew Henry's commentary on Isaiah 52:8 - -
"They [the watchmen] shall see an exact agreement and correspondence
between the prophecy and the events, the promise and the performance;
they shall see how they look upon another eye to eye, and be satisfied
that the same God spoke the one and did the other."
In other words, in the end times there will be people who are
prophetically gifted to recognize the correspondence between Bible
prophecies and world events.
In his book Koenig shows the amazing parallels between U.S.
mistreatment of Israel and subsequent natural calamities, economic
setbacks and political crises. Let me share just a few of the examples
he gives.
The Madrid Conference -- This conference, which we forced on Israel,
marked the beginning of the "land for peace" process. The opening of
the conference on October 30, 1991, coincided with the formation of
"the Perfect Storm." This was the record breaking storm along our
Atlantic seacoast which produced 100 foot high waves and heavily
damaged President Bush's home at Kennebunkport, Maine. The headlines
of USA Today on November 1, 1991, had the stories of the storm and the
Madrid Conference side by side.
Round Six of the Bilateral Peace Talks -- In June of 1992 Yitzhak Rabin
was elected the new Prime Minister of Israel. We immediately insisted
that he come to Washington, D.C. and meet with Yasser Arafat. The day
that meeting began, August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into
Florida with winds of 177 miles per hour. The damage done amounted to
over $30 billion -- the most costly hurricane in U.S. History to that
point in time.
Arafat at the United Nations -- In September of 1998 Yasser Arafat was
invited to speak to a special session of the United Nations that was
held in New York. President Clinton arranged a meeting with him to put
pressure on Israel. As the meeting took place, Hurricane Georges
smashed into the Gulf Coast causing over $6 billion in damage.
Arafat and a Palestinian State -- With our encouragement, Arafat
announced that he was going to proclaim a Palestinian state on May 4,
1999. Even though President Clinton later persuaded Arafat to postpone
the declaration to at least December, on the very day the proclamation
was to have been made (May 3rd in the U.S.; May 4th in Israel), the
most powerful tornado in U.S. history tore through Oklahoma City with
wind speeds of 316 miles per hour, destroying over 2,000 homes.
The Camp David Summit -- From July 11 through July 24 in the summer of
2000, President Clinton hosted a summit conference between Israel and
the Palestinian Authority. Clinton pressured Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Barak to surrender the heartland of Israel. During these precise
dates, a major heat wave struck the South Central U.S. and fires broke
out in our Western states. At one point, there were over 50 active
fires that consumed over 500,000 acres before the end of the month.
White House Ramadan Celebration -- On Thursday evening, November 7,
2002, President Bush hosted a dinner at the White House to honor the
Muslim religious holiday called Ramadan. In his speech that evening,
the President said:
". . . this season commemorates the revelation of God's word in the
holy Koran to the prophet Muhammad. Today this word inspires faithful
Muslims to lead lives of honesty and integrity and compassion . . .
"We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call
on Abraham . . ."
Two days later a total of 88 tornados hit Arkansas, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania..
The Middle East Peace Plan -- On April 30, 2003, U.S. Ambassador Daniel
Kurtzer presented the "Road Map" peace plan to Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon. It was a plan formulated by an ungodly coalition called
"the Quartet." This group was made up of Russia, the European Union,
the United Nations, and the United States. It called for Israel to
surrender Gaza and its heartland of Judea and Samaria to the
Palestinians. On May 3rd Secretary of State Colin Powell departed for
the Middle East for talks to implement the plan. On May 4th Secretary
Powell met with terrorist leader Hafez Assad of Syria and made a
commitment to him to include the surrender of the Golan Heights in the
peace plan. That day a swarm of tornados began tearing apart the
Central United States. Over the next 7 days, there was a total of 412
tornados -- the largest cluster ever observed by NOAA since it began
its record keeping in 1950. The previous record had been 177 in 1999.
In summary, between October 1991 and November 2004, the United States
experienced:
* 9 of the 10 largest insurance events in U.S. history.
* 9 of the 10 greatest natural disasters as ranked by FEMA relief
costs.
* 5 of the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history
* 3 of the 4 largest tornado swarms in U.S. history.
All of which were linked to our attempts to pressure Israel into
either dividing up its land or surrendering part of its capital city
of Jerusalem.
The world would laugh and call these coincidences, but Christians
don't believe in coincidence. God is sovereign. He is in control.
The most recent chaotic event in Israel was the forced withdrawal of
all Jews from Gaza. It began on August 7, 2005 and continued through
the 22nd, as nearly 9,000 Israelis were uprooted from their land and
homes. Many had been in the area for as long as 35 years.
It was a heart-wrenching event to watch women and children manhandled,
synagogues violated, torah scrolls desecrated, houses bulldozed,
graves dug up, and farms destroyed. Entire Jewish communities were
forcibly removed from land which God has given to the Jewish people as
an everlasting possession (Psalm 105:8-11).
And while this travesty was taking place, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice began applying more pressure with the following
statement: "Everyone empathizes with what the Israelis are
facing . . . but it cannot be Gaza only."
What was the supernatural response from God?
The withdrawal ended on August 22nd, and ON THE VERY NEXT DAY, the
government of Bermuda announced that a tropical depression had formed
off its coast. Dubbed "Katrina," the storm quickly developed into the
most powerful hurricane in modern history.
It slammed into New Orleans and the Mississippi coast four days later
on the 27th. The hurricane disrupted 25% of our crude oil production
and destroyed our nation's largest port (the 5th largest in the world
in terms of tonnage).
It is also interesting to note that the hurricane hit just three days
before New Orleans -- which often refers to itself proudly as "Sin City
USA" -- was scheduled to host an ungodly event that had come to be
called "The Gay Mardi Gras." The theme this year was to be "Jazz and
Jezebels."
The previous year the event drew 125,000 revelers who proudly flaunted
their perversion publicly in a parade that featured the bizarre.
Incredibly, this event was sponsored by a group that has named itself
"Southern Decadence."
New Orleans is known for its occult practices, particularly voodoo.
The city is also infamous for its high murder rate and its rampant
political corruption.
Nonetheless, I do not believe the storm was meant primarily as a
judgment upon the city of New Orleans. Rather, I see it as a judgment
on our entire nation for our mistreatment of Israel. The consequences
of the storm were national in scope.
Still not convinced that perhaps God was trying to tell us something?
Rabbi Joseph Garlitzky, head of the international Chabad Lubavitch
movement's Tel Aviv synagogue, recounted for WorldNetDaily a speech he
gave soon after Hurricane Katrina:
"We don't have prophets who can tell us exactly what are God's ways,
but when we see something so enormous as Katrina, I would say
(President) Bush and (Secretary of State Condoleeza) Rice need to make
an accounting of their actions, because something was done wrong by
America in a big way. And here there are many obvious connections
between the storm and the Gaza evacuation, which came right on top of
each other. No one has permission to take away one inch of the land of
Israel from the Jewish people."
Some of those "obvious connections" or eerie similarities between
Katrina and the evacuation of Gush Katif, including parallels in
events, names and numbers:
* Close to 10,000 Jews were expelled from their homes in the Gaza
Strip and parts of Northern Samaria. Katrina's death toll was just
over 10,000.
* America's population ratio to Israel is about 50:1. Ten thousand
Jews who lost their Gaza homes is the equivalent of about 500,000
Americans who have been reported to have been displaced as a result of
Katrina.
* Gaza's Jewish communities were located in Israel's southern coastal
region; America's southern coastal region was hit by Katrina.
* Katrina, written in Hebrew, has a numerical equivalent of 374,
according to a biblical numbering system upheld by all traditional
Jewish authorities. Two relevant passages in the Torah share the exact
numerical equivalent: "They have done you evil" (Genesis 50:17) and
"The sea upon land" (Exodus 14:15).
* Bush, from Texas, and Rice, from Alabama, were the most vocal U.S.
backers of the Gaza evacuation. Hurricane Katrina hit the states in
between Texas and Alabama - - Louisiana and Mississippi.
* Similarity in scenes: Many residents of Jewish Gaza climbed to their
rooftops to escape the threat of expulsion, while residents of the
Gulf Coast climbed on their own rooftops to protect themselves from
the rising waters.
* Gush Katif was an important agricultural area for Israel, providing
the Jewish state with 70 percent of its produce. A New Orleans port
that exported much of the Midwest's agricultural production was
destroyed by Katrina.
Why is the Bush Administration so willing to ignore recent history in
pursuit of the elusive prospect of peace in the Middle East?
CURTAIN UP
President Bush could have created a historical legacy by promoting and
pushing a domestic agenda that resonated with the hearts and minds of
his conservative base of supporters.
However, instead of using his bully pulpit to advance vital measures
important to us he's decided to take a path that will lead to infamy,
not fame.
Speaking of President Bush, many are asking why such a committed
Evangelical would put such inordinate pressure on Israel. More and
more, people are asking, "Why doesn't President Bush see the prophetic
significance of end time Israel?" Dr. David R. Reagan recently put
that question to Bill Koenig when he interviewed him. His response was
very illuminating.
Koenig pointed out that President Bush was raised in the Episcopal
Church and in recent years has attended the Methodist Church. Although
there are pastors in both of these churches who recognize the
prophetic significance of modern Israel, the vast majority of the
spiritual leaders in both churches (and especially those on the
national level) believe in Replacement Theology. This is the theology
that says God washed His hands of the Jewish people in the First
Century and replaced Israel with the Church. They therefore see no
prophetic significance to the re-establishment of Israel.
Koenig stated that within the Bush Administration the President is not
the only victim of this erroneous theology. He is surrounded by godly
people who have also grown up spiritually in Replacement churches. So,
even though these people may respect the Judaic roots of their faith,
they have no appreciation for the prophetic significance of modern day
Israel.
I guess it's just another case of the blind leading the blind.
I also find it incredibly fascinating that Jesus said the signs of the
times would be like "birth pangs" (Matthew 24:8) describing the end
times by referring to them in a way that all cultures and peoples can
understand - - pregnancy and birth.
A casual reading of any of the media's news reports on the upcoming
Annapolis peace summit from this past week has uncovered some striking
parallels with Jesus' use of symbolism that should raise some
eyebrows.
For instance, consider that one article stated that "Annapolis may
well bring us closer to what European Union foreign policy Chief
Javier Solana is saying is doable within nine months, referring to a
peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians that would birth a
Palestinian state on Israel's covenant lands..." (italics mine).
I do not believe that it is mere coincidence that such verbiage has
been used in connection with issues involving God's holy land.
Blogger Michael Mickey of The Rapture Alert recently postulated that
the United States could be sitting on a cataclysmic time bomb.
In a widely read post from last week, Mickey wrote:
"As the United States prepares for its upcoming Middle East peace
conference to be held in Annapolis, God is, in my opinion, drawing our
attention to the fact that He is keeping a close eye on developments
concerning this most blessed of nations lending an ear to Israel's
enemies and, in fact, providing them with support to obtain portions
of Israel's God-given covenant lands.
"How is God drawing the attention of those willing to see the
spiritual connotations of events transpiring in the world around us as
Annapolis draws near, potentially placing our nation in great peril of
coming up on the curse side of God's promise of blessing and curse
recorded in Genesis 12:3? He's drawing our eyes toward Yellowstone - -
and dramatically so of late, in my opinion.
"The Independent recently unveiled an article on its site entitled
"Yellowstone: The Time Bomb Under America."
"The opening lines of the article are anything but comforting, reading
as follows:
"Deep beneath Yellowstone National Park lies a vast super-volcano
which, if it blew up, could devastate much of the US. Recently, it's
been a bit too restless for comfort.'
"Too restless for comfort indeed when we consider that Annapolis may
well bring us closer to what European Union foreign policy chief
Javier Solana is saying is 'doable' within nine months, referring to a
peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians that would birth a
Palestinian state on Israel's covenant lands!
Conclusions?
"Trying to find the United States of America in Bible prophecy is like
looking for a needle in a haystack. May Yellowstone be an answer as to
why? I'm not sure but the last paragraph of the Independent's article
certainly doesn't close the door on that being a possibility:
"And what if the ground at Yellowstone does not start to go down?
Well, these calderas, he admits, occasionally they burp. Let's hope
the park's belly-ache resolves itself - such a "burp" would shake half
of the planet.
"In spite of God's clear warning provided in Genesis 12:3 that He will
bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse her, the United
States, potentially within a year of a peace deal coming into
existence that may well lead to the prophesied cries of 'peace and
safety' foretold in 1st Thessalonians 5:3, is casting God's Word aside
in spite of many Christian leaders and Jewish rabbis publicly warning
against the United States helping Israel make what Bible prophecy
clearly demonstrates to us is the equivalent of a covenant with hell
is anything but wise!
"I don't know about any of you but, if I was sitting on a time bomb, I
think I'd be careful concerning how my actions might influence the
outcome of my predicament, especially if the bomb's designer was
watching my every move with trigger in hand and I'd been amply
forewarned by those who know him best that certain practices of mine
could lead to disaster for me!
"But that's just me.
"May the Lord have mercy on those He is willing to, particularly those
of us who love Him and fear His righteous judgments."
A major eruption at Yellowstone in modern times would be devastating.
It would obliterate the national park and nearby communities, spread
ground-glass-like volcanic ash from the Pacific coast to the Midwest,
and cause worldwide weather changes from the airborne dust and gases,
according to Smith, who described the potential effects in detail in
his book Windows into the Earth, published in 2000.
A modern full-force Yellowstone eruption could kill millions, directly
and indirectly, and would make every volcano in recorded human history
look minor by comparison.
God is on His throne. He is in control. He cannot be mocked. He will
not tolerate the division of His holy land. Nor will He tolerate gross
immorality that mocks everything that is moral and decent.
God loves our nation. He has blessed us more than any other nation.
His Word says that to those to whom much is given, much is expected
(Luke 12:47-48). His Word also says He disciplines those whom He loves
(Hebrews 12:7).
Another thing His Word makes clear is that when He sends discipline,
the fundamental purpose is never to punish. Instead, the purpose is to
call us to repentance so that we might be saved.
Here's how the prophet Isaiah expressed it: "When the earth
experiences Your judgments, the inhabitants of the world learn
righteousness" (Isaiah 26:9b).
Our God is truly a God of amazing grace. Even when He pours out His
wrath, He does so hoping that it will provoke repentance so that
people can be saved.
We as a nation have set our jaw against God. We are tempting Him to
move us from judgment to destruction. Our God is so merciful. He is
patiently sending us one wake-up call after another because He never
pours out His wrath without warning.
Make no mistake, a wake-up call from God is on the horizon. It is
imperative that when that call comes we don't simply roll over and hit
the snooze button - - again.
I pray that this time we'll have the heartfelt desire to want to
change our ways, repent and refocus our hearts and minds on what's
truly a worthwhile pursuit: A relationship and life with our Lord and
Savior.
I pray that the hearts of our leaders to be opened to the significance
of Israel in Bible prophecy.
As the representatives from many nations across the globe converge on
Annapolis this week, they are all ready to play their role on the
stage of world history.
The curtain may be rising on this 'historical" peace summit, but the
curtain might also be closing upon the stage of human history as we
know it.
The rest of us will wait with baited breath for the resulting
spiritual response that looms over us. The only question that remains
is whether or not God will send us judgment or destruction.
Sources Cited
Lamb & Lion Ministries: Home of Christ in Prophecy. (2005). Hurricane
Katrina: The Prophetic Significance Retrieved November 23, 2007, from
http://www.lamblion.com /articles/prophecy/signs/Signs -10.php
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