Saturday, December 31, 2011

The fig tree is blossoming

The ultimate and final Yom Kippur for the new nation of Beulah [Isaiah 62:4] will be on the last day of the seventieth week, as prophesied by Daniel and described in Revelation, a ‘week’ of seven prophetic years, exactly 2520 days. Then, five days later the final Sukkot will occur, after His people have made ‘atonement for their iniquity’, and then seventy five days after Yom Kippur, a fully restored and forgiven Israel will celebrate the final Hanukkah. This fits exactly with the additional days given by Daniel 12:11-12 ...thirty days plus forty five days equals seventy five.
At His Return, Christ will fulfil these Autumn festivals, exactly as he did with the Spring festivals during His first advent.

Matthew 24:32-34 – Christ tells us to learn from the fig tree, when it breaks into leaf, we can know that the end is near and this present generation will live to see it all.
Obviously, it was not that generation who heard His prophecy, but He means the last generation before these things take place. They ‘will live to see it all’, means within a lifetime, that is three score and ten = seventy years. The prophecy in:
Ezekiel 12:25-28 ....it will be put off no longer, you rebellious people [the Jewish people, symbolised by the fig tree] in your lifetime, I will do what I have planned......these prophecies are for a time far off.....Y’hovah says: there will be no more delays, it will be done.
.....tells us that within ‘your lifetime’, when the fig tree ‘breaks into leaf’ ,that is when Judah, again has control of the Land, Y’hovah will act once more in His creation. Therefore within seventy years of May 1948 - before May 2018, we can expect the commencement of the end of this present age.

Many of the Scriptures that I have pointed out and explained, will be at odds with some traditional doctrines and theology. Because of the seriousness of these issues and the probable direct consequences these events will have on you and your family, each reader must draw their own conclusions. Read the prophecies that describe future happenings, carefully comparing the different interpretations as given by various Bible scholars. But, the only real test of truth is God’s infallible Word, read literally (excepting the obvious allegories) From what I have read, most writers on end times subjects, simply ignore a lot of scripture, especially in the Old Testament, and my experience is; that when asked about this, they just do not reply.
Actually, disbelief and being ignored is what I expect when I point out the prophetic scriptures. After all, that was the general reaction to the prophets themselves. I will continue my task of trying to bring understanding to you and whoever cares to listen.
As Ezekiel was told in Ezekiel 33:7, it was his job to warn people, so if they refuse to listen, just can’t see it, don’t want to know, doesn’t suit their preconceived notions, or simply do not care – that is their concern, but I will not be responsible and will have saved myself.
Acts 13:40-41 Beware lest you bring down upon yourselves the doom prophesied. See this, you scoffers, marvel and begone, for I am doing a deed in your days, a deed that you will never believe when you are told of it. Ref. REB abridged.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Lord does not abandon those who seek Him.

Psalm 9:1-2 I will praise You, Lord with my whole heart. I shall rejoice and exult in You.
Psalm 9:3-4 You have upheld my rights, as a righteous Judge. My enemies turn back, they fall and perish.
Psalm 9:5 You have rebuked the nations and overwhelmed the ungodly.
Psalm 9:6-7 The enemy are finished, even memory of them is lost. The Eternal Lord has established His throne for the Judgement.
Psalm 9:8-9 He it is who will judge the peoples with justice, He is a tower of strength for the oppressed.
Psalm 9:10 Those who acknowledge You will trust in You, for You do not abandon those who seek Y’hovah.
Psalm 9:11-12 Proclaim His deeds, for the Lord does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
Psalm 9:13-14 Show us favour, Lord, raise us from the gates of death, so we may praise You.
Psalm 9:15-17 The nations are trapped in a pit of their own making. The Lord will make Himself known. All the nations who are heedless of the Living God, depart to Hell.
Psalm 9:18-20 The hopes of the poor and needy will be realized, for the Lord will arise and judge the nations – they will know that they are but mortal.

Psalm 10:1 Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
Psalm 10:2 The arrogant wicked pursue the afflicted – may their schemes be their downfall.
Psalm 10:3-6 The wicked boast of their plans, they revile the Lord and don’t consider Him. Their ways are always devious, they scoff at their adversaries and because nothing happens, they think it never will.
Psalm 10:7-11 The wicked person is full of deceit and violence. They catch innocent people and murder them secretly. He says to himself- “God has forgotten, He sees nothing”.
Psalm 10:12-14 Arise, Lord, set Your hand to the task. Do not forget the afflicted. The wicked reject You and say that You will not call them to account. You see that they love mischief and trouble. Their victims commit themselves to You, the helper of the fatherless. [The fire judgement, prophesied over 70 times in the Bible.]
Psalm 10:15-16 Break the power of the wicked and evil peoples, call them to account. The Lord is King forever and the evil neighbours have gone from Your Land.
Psalm 10:17-18 You hear, O God, the lament of the humble, encourage them and answer their prayer. Bring redress, so that no one will again inspire terror.
Ref: REB,NIV. Some verses abridged

My comments; These two Psalms tell us that the Lord will act when His righteous people pray to Him for deliverance from the plans of their evil neighbours. Jeremiah 12:14-22
Isaiah 59:18-20 According to their deeds, the Lord will repay. He will come as a Redeemer to Jacob and all who repent of their sins. Deut 32:41-43
Note, how in Ps 10:16, how the Land is cleared of all godless peoples. This allows His people, righteous Israel to gather and live there. Ezekiel 28:25-26 Before the Return.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Disaster is decreed

Jeremiah 11:6-8 Y’hovah said: Proclaim the terms of the Covenant to Judah. I gave solemn warning to your forefathers, obey Me – I told them. But they did not obey, so I brought upon them all the penalties that I had warned about.
[Both Israel and Judah were exiled from the Land, as punishment for their sins. Jeremiah 2:7-8]
Jeremiah 11:9-14 Y’hovah says: Now, the inhabitants of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem conspire against Me, both the House of Israel and the House of Judah have gone back to the sins of their forefathers. Therefore, I am about to bring upon them a disaster from which they cannot escape. They may cry to Me for help, but I will not listen. Do not pray for these people, for I will not listen to them when they call to Me in the hour of their disaster.
[The Jewish people and the Israelites scattered around the world, who refuse to acknowledge and obey Y’hovah, will not be protected in “the hour of disaster”.

Jeremiah 11:15-17 What right have My people to be in My holy place, with their sinful ways? Can any sacrifice or offering atone for your evil ways and ward off the disaster that threatens you? Now, you will feel sharp anguish, once you were His holy people, now, with the roar of a mighty storm, He will burn up and consume you. Y’hovah, who had planted you has decreed disaster for both the House of Israel and the House of Judah because of their evil ways, provoking His anger.
[‘burn up and consume’ - The coming fire judgement, prophesied over 70 times.]

Jeremiah 12:14 These are the words of Y’hovah about all those evil neighbours who have encroached onto the Land which I allotted to My people Israel, as their holding: I shall uproot them from their places and I shall uproot the House of Judah from among them.
Jeremiah 21:14 I shall punish you as your deeds deserve, I shall kindle a fire in your Land, it will devour everything around it.
Jeremiah 25:30-33 Y’hovah roars from on high, He thunders from His dwelling place, He shouts against all the inhabitants of the Land. The great noise reaches the ends of the earth, Y’hovah brings a charge against all mankind and has handed the wicked over to the sword. Ruin spreads from nation to nation from a worldwide mighty tempest and those slain on that day will lie scattered from one end of the earth to the other, they will be as dung spread over the ground.
Isaiah 29:5-6 Yet the horde of your enemies will crumble into dust. Suddenly, in an instant, punishment will come from Y’hovah with thunder, earthquake and a flame of devouring fire. Reference: REB, NIV, KJV. Some verses abridged.
[This terrible Day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath, will bring severe judgement to all the inhabitants of Greater Israel. Ezekiel 20:46-48 The coronal mass ejection that Y’hovah will use on that Day will affect the whole world, and then Jeremiah 30 and Ezekiel 36,tell us of how His righteous people will gather in Israel, to be His people and Y’hovah, their God.]

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Deliver us, Lord

Isaiah 63:7-10 I shall tell of the Lord’s unfailing love and of the great things He has done for His people, in His compassion for Israel. He said: surely they are My people, they will not be false with Me. So, He, Himself delivered then from their troubles. He carried them through all the days of old. Yet, they rebelled and grieved His Holy spirit, so He turned against them and allowed enemies to conquer them.
[God chose and prepared a nation that would be His friends and a witness about Him to the world. Sadly, they rebelled against their Maker, so their punishment was exile. This was to be for a defined period, Ezekiel 4:4-6, now we look forward to the full and final regathering back to the Land.]

Isaiah 63:11-14 When in exile, they recalled the days long past and how Moses shepherded his flock through the sea and into the Promised Land, by the power of the Holy spirit. Thus, You led Your people and thereby gained everlasting renown.

Isaiah 63:15-16 Look down from the heavens – Your lofty throne and see us, Lord, for You are our father. Where now, is Your zeal and Your valour, You are withholding Your compassion from us. Even though Abraham may not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us, You, Lord, are our Father and our Redeemer from of old.
[“Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us” The ten Northern tribes, now lost to general knowledge, can still call on their father and Redeemer of old.]

Isaiah 63:17-19 Why, Lord, do You let us wander from Your ways and harden our hearts, so that we no longer revere You? Turn again for the sake of Your servants, the tribes that are Your inheritance.
Why have enemies trespassed on Your sanctuary? Why have our enemies trampled the Land? You have not ruled over them, they are not Your subjects. We are Your people from ancient times, Your servants and witnesses.

Psalm 106:47 Deliver us, Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, so that we may give thanks to Your Name and make Your praise our pride.

Reference: Revised English Bible. Some verses abridged.