Prophecy - The End Times

[Nell]

I don't know when this article was posted but in lignt of yesterday's attack on Israel (October 7, 2023) it's interesting.

https://www.gotquestions.org/end-times-Israel.html

"There is much turmoil in Israel today. Israel is persecuted, surrounded by enemies—Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, etc. But this hatred and persecution of Israel is only a hint of what will happen in the end times (Matthew 24:15-21).

The latest round of persecution began when Israel was reconstituted as a nation in 1948. Many Bible prophecy scholars believed the six-day Arab-Israeli war in 1967 was the "beginning of the end."

Could what is taking place in Israel today indicate that the end is near? Yes.
Does it necessarily mean the end is near? No.

Jesus Himself said it best, "Watch out that no one deceives you. . . . You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come" (Matthew 24:4-6)."

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

[Nell]

I heard an interview between an American news source who asked a Jewish reporter on the ground in Israel. The question was something like this: How did the Israel Defense Ministry call up so many reserves so fast to muster to the situation in Israel?

Paraphrased answer:
All people of Israel are in the military. All are in the reserves. We have seen war before. We are trained on what to do when we see the signs of war. So the reserves didn't need to receive an order to report for duty. Reserves see what's happening is bad, and report for duty without hesitation.

This is on the events happening before our eyes on the world stage. What do you think is happening in the heavenlies? What is happening in the spiritual realm? We are commanded to "be ready". I think we have a great example of the readiness of the Israel military. They already know what to do. They have been trained. What about us? Are we fighting a spiritual battle? Will we even recognize a call to spiritual action should the call be issued?

Do we know and appreciate the signs of spiritual warfare? Will we wait for orders or will we just report for duty? Have we trained up according to scripture for the coming days? Our call for duty today should start on our knees.

The verse "watch and pray" should be much more meaningful today than it was last week. If we aren't adequately trained up now, we should get there. There's a message here. Maybe not the same message for each of us, other than the command "be ready".

Nell

[Nell]

Huh?

...426 earthquakes on the day Israel was invaded.


This is amazing....it really happened. 426 earthquakes on the day Israel was invaded by Hamas. Whatever the significance, we don't know. I think the only thing we can say for for sure...it was a foreshadow of things to come.

Nell


Additional confirmation: Earthquake Archive

Note: this video is in a loop. It begins with the light bulbs shaking so you know when to stop it. Unchecking "loop" doesn't help me. It's about 60 seconds.

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Nell

Huh?

...426 earthquakes on the day Israel was invaded.


This is amazing....it really happened. 426 earthquakes on the day Israel was invaded by Hamas. Whatever the significance, we don't know. I think the only thing we can say for for sure...it was a foreshadow of things to come.

Nell

Every time Israel is attacked and invaded, they gain more of their promised land.

One of these times they will get their temple too.

[Nell]

This is my theory, but it makes sense to me. When you hear about children/babies openly being slaughtered in Gaza, some people are horrified, but some people are apparently unphased. How can this be?

In the United States alone, since abortion on demand was legalized in 1972, over 60,000,000...60 million lives of children have been taken. Around the world the count of innocent lives taken due to legalized abortion on demand is untold.

It seems to me that in some parts of the world, including the United States, people have become desensitized to the loss of its innocent children. Watching the news on TV today, some still protest—-not the taking of innocent lives, but those who stand against the brutality-to-the-death of children. These things should not be. God will judge.

Biblical evidence
"The laws given to Moses by God expressly forbade the Jews to do what was done in Egypt or in Canaan. “You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Moloch, and so profane the name of your God” (Leviticus 18:21).

Yet kings such as Ahaz (2 Kings 16:3) and Manasseh (2 Kings 21:6), having been influenced by the Assyrians, are reported to have worshipped Moloch at the hilled site of Topheth, outside the walls of Jerusalem. This site flourished under Manasseh’s son King Amon but was destroyed during the reign of Josiah, the reformer.

“And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Moloch” (2 Kings 23:10)."

Nell

[Nell]

Who is Laodicea? It would be unlikely that anyone who has been "in" then "out" of the Local Church of Witness Lee would not not recognize the description of Laodicea from Revelation 3. Especially Rev. 3:17 highlighted below. Pride and arrogance are one hallmark of Witness Lee's "ministry", which continues in the LC leadership to this day.

What about the remainder of the Lord's brothers who come together in organized “churches” around the globe? Laodicea is everywhere. He knows the works of all his children. A serious warning in Rev. 3:22: if you have an ear to hear, hear what the SPIRIT SAYS to the churches. Listen to the Spirit...not the men who are in leadership. It's important to have an ear to hear the Spirit.

Revelation 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things said the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would thou were cold or hot.
16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue you out of my mouth.
17 Because you said, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that you may see.

19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.

1 Timothy 4:1 - Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. ...

I don't recall that Lee, et al, practiced "forbidding to marry" but I do know that they, practiced arranging marriages...maybe they still do. Abstaining from meats is "commanded" globally as part of the "Green Cult".

Even so, there is a declaration of love to Laodicea and call for repentance.

Again, who is Laodicea? Is the church in America near the time of being spewed out of His mouth?

Nell

[Nell]

Another serious warning: 1 Peter 4:17
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?