Last Days Timeline, A literal interpretation of biblical prophecy, second edition by Gregory Supina - HTML preview

The majority of power and wealth in a humanistic system is usually held by only one or two percent of the entire population, sometimes only one person. Then this ruling elite grudgingly grants some power and wealth to an additional ten percent or fewer, to the most easily manipulated dupes who blindly worship the elite, since the elite cannot control everything themselves. After these, another ten percent or fewer will be granted some rights and a comfortable living, because they provide the information, entertainment and luxuries demanded by the elite, or administer logistical necessities for the kingdom. But, in all humanistic systems, the vast majority of people, about eighty percent, are kept much poorer and have no God-given freedoms or rights, but are severely controlled by all three of the upper classes. Yet our God Jesus almost exclusively walked among, chose, called and ministered to the lowest class in the hierarchical systems of the beast’s humanistic fourth kingdom.

The poor and disenfranchised elect from the common people are actually the only ones free to believe and apply the New Covenant teachings of Jesus. So they are the true inheritors God’s just, equitable, loving kingdom on earth. For the elite do not concern themselves with those “lowly” souls, since the top three classes are usually obsessed with raising or at least maintaining their status as human gods in the humanistic hierarchical system. Only the elect in the lower classes can even comprehend the core doctrines of the Messiah’s just, pure love. The upper classes are all guarding their money and power, so they are never free to love anyone in a truly just and God-like way. So they are not even aware of spiritual creations of God, and their spirits are not capable of making true covenants of eternal love for God or anyone else. Besides, love covenants must be ratified by God Himself. But the upper classes are slaves of Satan, known to Satan by name, carefully watched, and strictly kept obedient to Satan by the whips of ruthless taskmasters, and serve only pride and money. So the upper classes are never in a close enough relationship with God to truly ratify any covenants.

The upper classes are deeply influenced by deluded expectations and an extreme fear of losing their physical power and wealth, which is just a fleeting vapor soon blown away by solid spiritual winds. Then these most slavish slaves of Satan strive to please their demon and demonic human masters, who promise them security and eternal life on earth, although their weak enslaved masters do not even possess the power to save themselves from the end waiting for them. God alone is able to

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provide security, for either a spiritual or a physical life. So their lives are always remain delusional, empty, dark and insecure. But their superficiality and spiritual stupidity make their minds of flesh feel secure, and some emotionally feel like superior gods. Then they bribe, threaten and deceive the lower classes, to keep them subjugated, so those upper classes can steal from them to maintain their power and wealth, which kills their entire souls. However, the upper classes can never gain enough power to keep the lower classes as slavishly devoted to Satan as they are themselves. Consequently, some elect spirits trapped in lower classes always receive some real truths from Jesus’ Holy Spirit.

In humanistic systems, it is the downtrodden of its lower classes who are most blessed, and granted God’s kingdom of heaven. And Jesus’ kingdom on earth will be handed over to these physically impoverished ones in the end (Mat. 5:3). Also, elect spirits have often received more opportunities to actually practice the loving wisdom of Jesus’ teachings during the last two millenniums, but so have Satan’s minions to practice their deluding, distracting, depressing lies. More elect now turn to God’s ways, albeit many without consciously realizing that these cherished truths in their spirit have come from and can only be empowered by the Spirit of our God Jesus. At the same time, dupes in Satan’s world order, especially his theistic and secular humanists, have worked even harder at confusing, nullifying and suppressing those truths. And some of Satan’s servants have even attempted to steal credit as the inventors of those truths, then twist those truths into meaning the opposite of what God’s creations and His Word reveal. Then, whenever elect spirits receive, guard and maintain the right meanings of those truths, the devil’s elite persecute, war against and kill those awakened elect.

As the Spirit of Jesus has gradually revealed and illustrated ever more of His truths to elect spirits throughout the earth over the last two millennia, the beast’s Roman kingdom has also disseminated more lies of Satanic humanism into all the world. So the conflicts between competing sources of information, and between the actual truths and lies presented in the media, has increased too. And those who place their faith in Roman humanism, who live only to serve the lusts and pride of their own flesh, have become more desperate to defend those lies and destroy God’s truths, more than they ever have been in all history. Satan is now whipping his slaves into laboring night and day to evangelize his invented religion of humanism, or to at least lure the lusts and pride of the flesh into sins, so he can distract souls away from God’s truths; lest elect spirits see those truths, are drawn to them, then begin to build humble, honest abundant lives of loving and being loved upon His truths.

If anyone trusts in the real teachings of the real Jesus, secular or theistic humanists will try to nullify that faith with their lies, false reasoning, distractions into sins, and so on. Then, if they cannot nullify the actions of faith in the believer, they will attempt to physically destroy the believer’s ability to express that faith, through severe restrictions or imprisonment. But, if they cannot stop the voice and actions of the believer, humanists will kill the believer. For the beast’s Roman Empire must serve Satan by maintaining its system of artificially glorified parasites ruling like gods over dehumanized inferiors in unjust hierarchies. Humanism cannot ever allow the elect to establish systems where all siblings in the family of humankind are equally respected and can responsibly enjoy their freedoms; where the gifted serve others according to their gifts in a true meritocracy; where all expect loving, restorative and equitable justice in all matters of the law and life; where each receives a fulfilling livelihood varied according to individual needs and good inner desires; and where none are esteemed over others except our God Jesus, who is the only trustworthy Head of every man. Nothing like a true biblical democracy, with humbly serving, honest authorities like Moses, can exist while only humanists rule a land, whether those humanists are atheists, agnostics or belong to a fake church.

Yet Jesus is stronger than all of today’s many factions of Rome in this world put together, and His rule over the spirits in the hearts of His elect is stronger than Rome’s religious power over the flesh.

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Roman humanism is a religion of the flesh alone, and the majority of its precepts flow from the desires and pride of the flesh into the spirit. So it is not nearly as effective as God’s almighty power working in and upon the spirits of the elect, causing their spirits to exert control over the mind and body of flesh. At any rate, the elite in the beast’s Roman kingdoms have always been dividing its people, causing the various sects of its own dupes to attack the divided elect, where those elect unite in groups under only a few truths but are separated from the other elect through humanistic lies.

Of course, you could also say that Jesus is the one who has caused divisions among the general population of common people, among the “feet” of the four kingdoms, by working in the hearts of His elect since the first century. For the truths of Jesus have been breaking them into more factions or “pieces” in every generation. Over time, greater and greater divisions have formed, separating those whose spirits desire just love from those whose spirits remain unjust and unloving. Now this process is speeding up and intensifying, further dividing those who build love upon the truth from those build hate upon the lie. And when this dichotomization process is complete, Jesus will return.

The statue of the four kingdoms in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream revealed how the devil had altered his strategy for governing his kingdom of sinners in about 600 BC, and how he would then develop and evangelize his new system. From that time on, Satan would convert all his kingdoms, including all his false religions, into hierarchical systems, where every man believed he was his own god. Gone were days when demons would pose as gods of his people, performing magic and providing signs to force kings and their people into fearful worship and blind obedience. In the old system, a demon god would simply command a human to murder another human, and the human would do it. This was good, since demons loved this kind of entertainment. Yet it was always too easy for another human to reason with those blindly superstitious souls about the consequences of their murders, or simply lie about the demon god the victim coming to destroy the murderer. So Satan had to remove all reasoning from men and nullify their lies about the confusing array of demon gods. And, by the time the devil completed his fourth Roman kingdom, men would still be totally manipulated and deluded by demons, but would remain stubbornly irrational, and without any regard for their demon gods. For, in his new religion of humanism, men would think they were the only gods ruling over their own destinies, and no longer listen to reasoning, nor fear revenge from demon gods. Then their demon gods could cause them to murder without interference. And murders increased exponentially.

The devil began by making Nebuchadnezzar believe this lie, that he was his own god who ruled over his own destiny for his own glory, as the chief god of himself. Then, in the next Persian kingdom, all the lords, any nobles any kind of power, began to believe this lie. After this, the third Greek kingdom convinced the people that, if the will of a common man was made strong enough through humanistic brainwashing, so he could murder without mercy, he could become his own god too. And Greeks also invented myths to reinforce the idea that a strong man could overcome the power and will of a demon god. So, by the time the fourth Roman kingdom of the demonic beast came along, every Roman citizen believed he was a god who ruled over his own destiny, and could overcome the power and will of any demon god. Then this final Roman kingdom evangelized their faith throughout the world. But, of course, the wills of these human gods inevitably clashed, even regarding the smallest and most insignificant matters. So this Roman kingdom was highly factious and has now divided into thousands of warring factions, where each human god strives to carve out his own peronal kingdom. But this system was far more sustainable and entertaining for Satan and his demons, since it caused far more murders than all of the devil’s previous invented religions ever caused in the past.

The Stone which appeared in the dream and eventually destroyed Satan’s humanistic four kingdoms, would come and grow during the later days. That is, this Stone is the Messiah and God Jesus, whose

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kingdom would grow after His first advent, then annihilate the devil’s fourth kingdom at His return in the end times. And Jesus’ kingdom would becomes a huge mountain through His revival of His true church during the sixth seal’s era, only one generation before He comes to crush the devil’s fourth Roman kingdom into dust during the seventh seal’s era. But the Roman feet begin to crack as soon as His true apostolic church of the fourth century started to spread His freeing biblical truths in the first century. And the legs showed cracks all the way up to the torso by time Wycliff sowed the seeds of the Reformation in the 14th century, as the Lollards read the Bible in the vernacular of the people throughout the land. Fissures spread all the way up to the head by 18th century Awakening in England and the Americas, when biblical principles flew to ends of world. So, by the time the beast comes to revive his Roman kingdom and take his last stand against our God Jesus, that psychopathic humanistic empire will be very fragile and sensitive. And the return of Jesus will finish it off. Then, as Jesus Himself remains and teaches the world, all the vengeful and unjust Roman laws of Satan’s religious kingdom will be forever recognized as spiritual filth from hell by everyone living on earth.

The true church of the end times will be prepared to serve Jesus, ready to practice God’s laws and ways throughout earth during the millennium of His rule as the King of world, after the dust of the beast’s kingdom has blown away in the winds of true biblical teachings. When Jesus returns, all the spirits of the elect on earth will be awake, able to see that all laws, traditions and ways practiced by governments, churches and families of any kind are indeed based entirely upon spiritual precepts, are either the means of working God’s principles in the lives of His creations or are Satan’s principles designed to destroy God’s good creations, are either just love from spirits or unjust hate from spirits.

Then “the days of those kings” in this dream, the time when the Stone comes, refers to the time when all four kingdoms, and spiritual principles of them, had finally arrived, when all four parts of the Satanic beast (Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome) completed the foundation and structure of the demonic humanistic religion that was to bind all sinners into the devil’s world order. After that, all additions to that religion would be mere superficial decorations, simply appendages tacked onto the core principles established before that time. And the completion of the fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire, occurred when its fascist government had formed. And that began in 49 BC, when Julius Caesar took over Rome. But he had simply prepared Rome for Augustus Caesar, who later became the first Emperor of Rome (ruled as the sole dictator from 27 BC to AD 14). Thus, Jesus was born in the middle of the rule of Augustus, in 6 BC, to fulfill the prophecy from Nebuchadnezzar’s dream.

God gave Daniel a vision of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and its interpretation so he would record it for the benefit of the elect living throughout the last days, but particularly for the elect who would need to survive the end times. For it described how Satan’s four kingdoms and its demonic religion of humanism would be created to rule over that devil’s world order, and how it would be crushed into dust by the Messiah. So this prophecy in that dream was to give hope and faith to God’s people during the two millennia of the last days and especially during the end times. And this dream was not merely about events occurring during the time of Satan’s third empire (Greece), such as about the war of the Maccabees. Nor was it about any other time in history before the future end times during the eras of the sixth and seventh seals. For the first appearance of the small Stone cut out referred to the first advent of the Messiah Jesus. And this happened just as the fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire, formed and became a fascist dictatorship, as the image of the final beast. But a long period of time had to occur after that, for the kingdom of this Stone to grow enough to fill the whole earth.

By ratifying a New Covenant relationship between the elect and God, Jesus formed His one true and eternal church of Israel, after the fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire, became a fascist dictatorship and the dominant world power, in the image of its final ruler, the beast. Jesus then gradually taught

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and strengthened His inner, spiritual kingdom, built it up on a foundation of the most solid kind of rock, upon Himself, and on His truths which cannot be broken. This New Covenant church has been mostly an inner invisible kingdom since the days of the apostles in the first century, residing only within the spirits of His awakened elect Jews and Gentiles. These elect have been scattered, but each one was taught and trained to uphold some biblical truths, often without knowing the Source of those truths. Nevertheless, this true church existed, grew in both numbers and in the truths it understood.

Now His true church is almost ready to become visible again, that is, during the sixth seal’s revival. So it never has been and never will be destroyed, although the beast’s kingdom has always tried to eliminate it, and will continue to try until his bitter end. Satan knows it is impossible to stop the almighty Holy Spirit of Jesus from teaching and training the spirits of His elect children to love in just and equitable ways, but that devil keeps on trying. God’s ancient church of Israel, which always consisted of many elect Gentiles brought into her, shall never die, nor ever be replaced by Satan’s visible fake humanistic churches and synagogues, in spite of outward appearances. God’s spiritual people of Israel, formed through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, have also received a new relationship with God at Jesus’ first advent, in spite of themselves, through His unearned and unmerited grace alone. And the maintenance of this new relationship depends solely upon the works of God in and through His people, not upon the elect themselves. Consequently, since nothing on earth or in heaven can ever stop God from completing the works He wills to do, His church shall welcome His return as a fully prepared, just, loving bride, ready to labor in all of His restorative works throughout the earth.

Most humanistic false churches teach the eschatological doctrines of either amillennialism, postmillennialism or dispensationalism, which are all based on replacement theology. Then some interpret Nebuchadnezzar’s prophetic dream to mean that their own humanistic churches will someday destroy the beast’s kingdom and rule the world, since this kind does not believe Jesus will physically return to destroy Rome and rule the world Himself. Other humanistic churches believe Jesus will physically return, but still somehow believe their churches will be superior rulers of the world and surviving Jews will be second-class citizens of their own glorious kingdom. However, God and His words oppose all those spiritual prostitutes who actually ride on the back of the Roman secular humanist beast, who support and benefit from the demonically controlled beast’s kingdom, whose survival depends on its hierarchical class systems, unjust judicial systems, rule by terrorism, financial oppression, exploitation of the poor, selfish ambitions and so on. Whenever they support humanistic despots like Roman emperors, Hitlers, Stalins, Trumps and the like, they are openly declaring their worship of Satan and his beast, as well as their hatred for the real God and His words.

However, when the Bible was written, a king was his kingdom and the whole kingdom fell if the king fell. So, when the Bible says that our God Jesus will be the King of the world when He returns, it means He will be the entire kingdom, and He will never die. But Jesus did not assign roles to any of His disciples based on humanistic principles, not based on how much they flattered him, nor on a warped system of meritocracy that measures only selfish ambition. Rather, our God Jesus created all spiritual and physical gifts in His disciples, then taught and trained them to effectively use those gifts for the good of His kingdom. So He personally assigned each individual a role according to the way He designed each one to joyfully express one’s own calling and destiny. And all were priests of God, but the teaching and judging elders, His assistant teachers and judges like the apostles, were to be the servants of all, just as He has served all from the beginning of time. So there could be no classes of priests, only serving priests and more sacrificially serving priests, all siblings in the family of God.

God gave Daniel the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream to prophesy that the Stone, the Messiah, will personally destroy the beast and the beast’s kingdom through His own power, then rule

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the entire world through that same power. His omniscient and omnipotent Holy Spirit of God will teach and guide each individual elect soul upon the earth. And this is what we hope upon. For we certainly do not want the priests and pastors of the fake humanistic churches in charge of anyone or anything on earth when Jesus returns. For think about how horrible it has been when those theistic humanists gained the power. Remember their inquisitions and ruthless oppressions. Remember their racism and their cruel exploitations of siblings in the family of humankind. Remember how they supported the terrorism and unjust laws of biased judicial systems. Of course, they say they have changed. But they are still the same humanists they always were, clinging to all of the core false doctrines which led them to practice brutal tyranny in the first place. And, as soon as they see any opposition to their power, the human gods of false churches instantly resort to the same lies, crimes and acts of terrorism that their churches committed in the previous centuries. So we want nothing to do with them now, and Jesus will want nothing to do with them when He returns to rule this earth.

Augustine’s rhetoric and the arrogant words of theologians in those fake humanistic churches may paint a pretty picture of churches ruling the world, with human gods ruling that church. But the reality of that kind of rule is not so pretty. It is Satanic. We need Jesus, our God, to rule the world.

Isaiah also prophesied about Babylon’s destruction. But he sometimes he spoke about the destruction of Babylon’s physical kingdom by Persia. Then, at other times, Isaiah spoke about the destruction of the beast’s final Roman kingdom, since his head is Babylon and the beast’s kingdom is Babylon in the end times. Also, we must remember that Assyria ruled Babylon for a few centuries, until about 609 BC. So, in the days of Isaiah, who was writing his prophecies from about 740 to 686 BC, both Babylon and Assyria were the same kingdom. Thus, there were times when Isaiah was prophesying about Assyria, but was actually prophesying about Babylon during the end times. Another interesting thing about Isaiah’s prophecies about the beast’s Babylon in the end times is that he recognized how Babylon’s king, otherwise known as the beast, will be one with Satan. That is, in parts of Isaiah’s prophecies, he does not differentiate between Babylon’s end-time king, the beast, and Satan himself.

Isaiah 14:1-27 (ESV): “For [Yahweh] will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose

Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach

themselves to the house of Jacob. And the peoples will take them and bring them to their

place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land as male and female slaves.

They will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed

them. When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with

which you were made to serve, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:

‘How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased! The Lord has broken the staff of the

wicked, the scepter of rulers, that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that

ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

“The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing . The cypresses rejoice at

you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up

against us.” Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to

greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of

the nations. All of them will answer and say to you: “You too have become as weak as we!

You have become like us!” Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps;

maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.

“‘How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the

ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven;

 

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above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in

the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself

like the Most High.” But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit. Those

who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: “Is this the man who made the earth

tremble, who shook kingdoms, who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities,

who did not let his prisoners go home?” All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his

own tomb; but you are cast out, away from your grave, like a loathed branch, clothed with

the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a dead body

trampled underfoot. You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed

your land, you have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers nevermore be named!

“‘Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess

the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.’ ‘I will rise up against them,’ declares the

[Yahweh] hosts, ‘and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, descendants and

posterity,’ says [Yahweh]. ‘And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of

water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,’ declares [Yahweh] of hosts.

[Yahweh] of hosts has sworn: ‘As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so

shall it stand, that I will break the Assyrian [Remember, the ‘Assyrian’ here is the Babylonian, since

Babylon was just a city in Assyria during Isaiah’s time.] in My land, and on My mountains trample

him underfoot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder.’

This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that

is stretched out over all the nations. For [Yahweh] of hosts has purposed, and who will annul

it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?”

In the end times, God will again show grace to the natural branches of Israel, and “again choose Israel,” as His priests to the world. God “will set them in their own land” too, as we have already begun to see. All of this will be through God’s “compassion on Jacob,” on the Jews, not because they will earn this favor. Indeed, literally all Jewish and Gentile elect are sinners saved into freedom from lies and sins through His unmerited grace. When we saw God begin to fulfill this prophecy, near the end of the 19th century, most of the Jews whom He “set ... in their own land,” were apostate. Many were secular humanists, and many still are secular humanists, although many of those Jewish secular humanists are able to love from their spirits, and are His elect, destined for Jesus’ eternal salvation.

Many elect Gentiles began to support the land of Israel recently too, and set the Jews in that land. Then the ESV says “the house of Israel will possess [the Gentiles who bring Israel back] in the Yahweh’s land as male and female slaves.” And the “house of Israel” would refer to the temple in Jerusalem. So this implies that those Gentiles will become “slaves” of God, serving in His temple. However, a better translation might be something like this: “And the peoples [i.e., the Gentiles] will take and bring them [i.e., the Jews] to their place and they will possess [or inherit] the house of Israel [i.e., the Jerusalem temple] in the land for the servants and maids of Yahweh.” Now it is true that the Gentile elect, who help bring Jews back to Israel, are gathered into the true New Covenant church of Israel, into the Messiah’s tribe of Judah in particular. And very many Gentiles will be brought into Israel after the revival of God’s true church in era of the sixth seal. But this verse seems to focus on the success of the Jews returning to their promised land, in a way where they will even possess or inherit the temple in Jerusalem. And they have already done this, in part. Israel now owns the temple mount, but simply made arrangements with Muslims, allowing them to keep their mosque and the Dome of the Rock on the temple mount, for now. But Islam will fall and the Jews will be able to build their third temple there soon. In the meantime, Israel “will take captive [the Muslim nations]

 

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who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them,” until many of those lands become true Christian nations. For the Muslims are the inheritors of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires.

Isaiah also prophesied: “When Yahweh has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, you will take up this taught against the king of Babylon: ‘How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!’” (Is. 14:3-4, ESV). Israel’s “rest” can only occur after Jesus returns, for no peace was prophesied for Israel from days of ancient Babylon until that day. So this is a clue about the time period which this Scripture is prophesying about. Clearly, this is not talking about any other seemingly permanent or lasting “rest” that supposedly occurred after the Babylonian captivity, since the sixth century BC. For Israel has always been under a threat of invasion since then. Here Isaiah also mentions Babylon by name. And, although Babylon was a great city in Isaiah’s day, it would not become a dominant world power that threatened Israel until more than 77 years after Isaiah prophesied this, until the days of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar. So he is prophesying about the future beast of the end times, about the fourth Roman kingdom of Babylon.

Isaiah was telling us how the “insolent” beast in the end times will oppress and persecute Israel. For Babylon, through its subsequent kingdoms of Persia, Greece and Rome, always had and always will have an “insolent fury” against God and God’s people, just as all the other prophecies declare. But, in the end times, when Jesus returns, Babylon finally will be utterly destroyed, even in a way that will cause Israel to proclaim: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!” And they glorify God for Babylon’s fall, since they will add: “Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution” (Is. 14:5-6, ESV). It will be Yahweh in their Messiah Jesus who shall destroy Babylon, and receive their glory. Here we also see that the singular “oppressor” called “Babylon” includes multiple wicked “rulers” who strike and persecute a number of “peoples” in multiple “nations.” So it will not be Israel alone that Babylon will oppress in the end times, but the “peoples” of God, who would include the New Covenant Gentiles brought into Israel. Thus, this prophecy is not so narrow in its scope that only the land of Israel will receive rest from Babylon.

After Yahweh brings Babylon to its end, Israel will also proclaim: “The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing” (14:7, ESV). The “whole earth” (Hebrew=kole ehrets) indicates the world-wide scope of this prophecy. And here the expression, “the whole earth,” is not just a poetic device, not merely a figurative way of saying that Babylon’s destruction will feel like a big thing in the eyes of a few hundred devout Jews, and even to a few Gentiles. In the context of all the other prophecies, and even in its local context, Isaiah is prophesying about events that affect literally the entire world, not just Israel and the Middle East. This also means that the extent of Babylon’s oppression and persecution will also be world-wide. By the end times, this city of Babylon, which Isaiah prophesied about before it became a dominant world power, would exert its wicked influence over rulers and nations throughout the earth. Then later prophecies, like those of Daniel, revealed that Babylon would conquer the entire world as the head of three subsequent Satanic kingdoms, through Persia, Greece and Rome. And, since its power was Satanic, it is a spiritual power, therefore a religious power involving morals and laws. It was to rule through the deceptions of its religious doctrines and philosophies, which we now call humanism. And we see that it has done exactly this.

Neither the Middle East nor the rest of the world has ever been “at rest and quiet” for any length of time, and will never be, until Jesus returns to destroy Satan’s world order, especially that devil’s invention of selfishly ambitious humanism. Therefore, this prophecy is definitely about the time of the Messiah’s second advent, in the end times. And when our God Jesus destroys Satan’s kingdom of Babylon, Israel will say: “Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the

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shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations. All of them will answer and say to you: ‘You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!’ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers” (Is. 14:9-11, ESV). So all who partook in Babylon’s world-wide power, even “all … leaders of the earth” and “all … kings of the nations,” will fall into Sheol below, that is, into hell. All will become “weak” and powerless there, without any people or any things to exploit. In hell, their expensive garments, which esteemed themselves above others, will be filthy rags. And they will have no palaces or mansions, only hell’s empty vacuum to dwell in. Then they will sleep on the spiritual maggots who served their whims on earth, and cover themselves with the spiritual worms who guarded them on earth. Also, when it says they are “of the earth” and “of the nations,” it indicates a world-wide scope for this prophecy. And, if it is about the whole world, it is about the end times, when Jesus will return to slaughter those leaders and kings.

If Babylon, which is the beast’s future kingdom, shall be destroyed in the end times, and will become as “weak” as the other Babylonian or humanistic nations that perished and went to hell before it, then, logically, all the past and current humanistic nations are weak and hell-bound too. It means that ancient Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome were weak and hell-bound. It means all the humanistic unjust dictatorships and exploitative empires of history were weak and hell-bound. And so are all the current humanistic nations. After all, they were and now are all factious, and built by fragile human sinners on a foundation of fading vaporous delusions about their own god-like status. So the Messiah Jesus, who is Yahweh God, will soon cast all those deceiving leaders and rulers into hell, after their short lives on earth. Not one of those loveless non-elect souls will avoid their just sentence of hell.

When Jesus returns to rule the earth, all the survivors will be the elect who know that no man nor any nation has any real power over anyone, since all power is centralized on one Lord of the earth, our God, High Priest and King Jesus. Just as the people loved David because he was both an actively serving priest and a king who risked his life for them, so will they love Jesus. A tiny remnant of Babylon’s religion will still survive during the millennium of Christ’s rule on earth, and that form of humanism will stir up the rebellion of Gog and Magog after the thousand years. But Jesus will soon crush it too. So the earth will be entirely purified, free from all forms of that devil’s evil religion, purged of all Satan’s perversions raised since Adam, walking solely in God’s realities and truths.

When Jesus returns, He will cast Satan and his fallen angels into hell, along with the human beast, whom they possessed and entirely controlled. These evil ones will not sleep in the higher regions of Sheol, not in the skies that separate hell from heaven, where the dead wait for the judgment of God, but go directly to the inescapable prison of the eternal spiritual realm. Then the redeemed elect will triumphantly declare: “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How your are cut down to the ground, you who laid nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit. Those who see you sill stare at you and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home? All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb; but you are cast out, away from you grave … down to the stones of the pit, like a dead body trampled underfoot” (Is. 14:1-19, ESV). The beast and the demons will have no graves, though they once boasted of being greater than the Most High God.

First God created a body for Himself, a heavenly body that would also become His body on the temporary earth, which He would soon create. And we call that body Jesus, our oldest Brother who

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serves us through His love. Then Jesus created the heavens and the earth, even the land of heaven made of eternal spiritual substances, where all His created and beloved elect spirits could dwell in spiritual bodies forever, as He and His siblings served them. While doing so, God also made one spirit to be the opposite of Him, and called him Satan. So our God Jesus formed Satan in His image, with many powers of Himself, but with one missing attribute. And that one lacking attribute was love. Then Jesus also formed loveless angels in heaven, to serve Satan. But because Satan and his host of angels were loveless, none had any desire to serve through love. Rather, Satan and his non-elect angels all wanted to be esteemed and served through loveless vanity. They all longed to be worshiped like the Most High God was worshiped. But God was worshiped through the love of His elect children, and through the love of all His other living elect spirits. So none of the loving elect angels or creatures in heaven could ever honestly worship Satan or those demons, in spirit and truth.

Because all loving creations worshiped God instead of him, Satan and his army of loveless angels rebelled against God, just as God expected. So God then cast Satan and his loveless ranks into the skies above a place reserved for them, and into a state where they could only perceive the earth and material universe, but also bound their powers. There Satan, who still wielded much of God’s power to create, made the spirits of non-elect humans to serve his will on earth, beside God’s elect children who were also placed on earth, to learn to appreciate the difference between God’s love and Satan’s loveless ways. But a time would come when Satan and his army of fallen angels would be thrown down into hell, into the place reserved for them. There they would not perceive the earth, nor bear any power over the perceptions of God’s elect children there. And all of Satan’s loveless non-elect human spirits would not be allowed on the earth either, but would need to wait in the skies above hell for their judgment, which would expose who they truly were to God’s elect children. And that time on earth would come when our God Jesus came to serve the earth as the King of all His elect.

When Isaiah described Satan here, he was also referring to Babylon and its Satan-possessed beast, who shall “sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north,” as the head of Satan’s four kingdoms on earth. Satan in the Roman beast will be the “man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, who made the world like a desert” (14:16). And that beast will be what we now call an atheistic secular humanist and a fascist. Likewise, all the demonically controlled despots, all the Roman Emperors, Hitlers and Trumps of history, are merely little copies of that beast, who also stive to make the world into a desert. So, like their master Satan, they will all “go down to the pit, like a dead body trampled underfoot.” All will be loathed with disgust by heaven’s elect for all of eternity.

For a pure biblical theist, for an awakened elect spirit who worships God in spirit and in truth like Isaiah, faith acknowledges the absolute sovereignty of God over all aspects of life, and over one’s own destiny. To the awakened elect, God alone can create and define all laws and truths, all effective teachings of responsible freedoms and rights, as well as all other realities. So a loveless humanist, who wants to be a god that owns people and other creations of God, who wants to invent self-serving rules and laws, who defines freedoms and rights as the ability to enslave or destroy others, is actually trying to usurp the throne of God and give oneself powers “like the Most High” God, although one never serves all life through love, like God. This is the core sin of Satan and the ultimate sin of all Satan’s children, the loveless and ruthless sin inherent to the most evil religion Satan ever invented for his kingdom of the world order, the core doctrine of the religion of humanism. And this is the religion that Satan perfected and spread throughout the world through his fourth kingdom of Rome.

Some of the verses in this prophecy through Isaiah (14:12-14) are clearly about Satan. And Satan was prophesied to take Israel captive, transforming it into a false church, after they lost their love of God’s truth and began to syncretize the teachings of Babylon, along with the doctrines of Babylon’s

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subsequent three kingdoms called Persia, Greece and Rome. Then these prophecies are also about a “man,” about a mortal king who will not receive “his own tomb” on earth, who will die but not leave his body on earth like other kings. But no mortal king descended from Babylon has ever “fallen from heaven,” either figuratively or otherwise. No king of Babylon’s four kingdoms has ever died without leaving behind a body on earth. And other prophecies tell us that only mortal man called the Roman beast will be cast alive into hell, in the end times, on the day our judging God Jesus returns. Only this one embodiment of Satan, Satan’s thoroughly evil and cunning messiah, will leave no body of flesh behind for anyone to bury. And we must interpret Isaiah’s prophecy in the global context of all the words of God, for all Scriptures are completely harmonious, without contradictions, if we look carefully at them in the original languages. So Isaiah was indeed prophesying about the future beast.

Only the beast will be “cast out, away from [his] grave, like a loathed branch, clothed with the slain” (14:19). And this beast will have the spirit of Satan in him, controlling his every thought and deed, the angel who fell from heaven, then made it his sole ambition to “ascend to heaven” again, in a vain attempt to usurp all the power of the almighty Creator God and Owner of heaven. So these verses in Isaiah are about Satan, the chiefest of angels who was cast down from heaven, together with all his non-elect legions of angels, to be imprisoned by perceptions of the earth and material universe for a time. And, when Satan was cast down, he was granted a subject kingdom of sinners on earth, which included human sinners with either non-elect spirits created by him for himself and elect sinners too.

The authoritative Greek New Covenant Scriptures often call Satan’s kingdom the κόσμος, the “world order” or “world system,” which includes all the sinners who order or govern their lives according to Satan’s core principles, in his kingdom which has been trying to conquer the entire earth since the days of Adam and Eve. And Satan’s world order is opposed to God, in all his false churches and in all his secular subject kingdoms, in all that was created by his sinners, in all his families, religions, governments, businesses and other collections of dupes on earth. Yet these prophecies in Isaiah are also about one mortal king at the same time. For they include the “taunt against the king of Babylon” (Is. 14:4, ESV), when God Himself struck down Satan and his kingdom of the world order. For Satan will surely entirely possesses this future mortal king of Babylon, the Roman beast, and rule every thought of that man in a senseless, vain, ruthless attempt to rule the entire earth. But our God Himself, our Lord Jesus, will send plague after plague upon him, then cast him, all the imprisoned fallen angels, and the chained spirit of Satan into hell. And Jesus will also cast all the unrepentant sinners who did not love His just, equitable, merciful truths into physical death as well, causing all their spirits to sleep in the skies of the spiritual realm until their Judge Jesus sorts out the non-elect from the elect with truths in His teachings, then casts all the non-elect lovers of darkness into hell.

Thus, these verses are not about the mortal man called Nebuchadnezzar, nor about any other king of the four kingdoms of Babylon except the beast. And that beast will not only inherit the earthly headship of Nebuchadnezzar over the four religious kingdoms of humanism established by Satan through Nebuchadnezzar on earth, but will also inherit the creator of those four anti-God kingdoms himself, who is Satan. These verses must be about the last and greatest king of Babylon, the one whom Daniel and John called the beast. For Isaiah wrote this prophecy about Babylon while it was still being ruled by Assyria, before Nebuchadnezzar was born, and it was obviously about the end times, when the Messiah of God, with God’s entire Spirit in Him, shall cast that final beast into hell.

The beast shall be possessed by Satan, just as John prophesied. And, since Satan will be in the beast, that man will strive to make himself into the god of all the earth, will try to usurp God’s rule over all the earth. John’s Revelation prophesied that the beast will be the only mortal man who will be cast alive into hell, into what Isaiah called “the far reaches of the pit” (14:15) of Sheol, together with his

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lord who dwelt in him. And Isaiah, who called Satan the fallen angel named the “Day Star” (14:12) also called that same devil “the man [Hebrew=ish, meaning a mortal male human] who made the earth tremble” (14:16). Then God said, through Isaiah, that this mortal man would be slain and “cast out, away from [his] grave” on earth, along with Satan. Both together will be thrown into the pit of hell.

Again, just as John also prophesied (Rev. 19:20), Isaiah also tells us that the beast is a man, but that he will not be buried like other kings. So John alluded to Isaiah’s prophecy, when John prophesied that this man, the beast, will be cast alive into hell, which is the burning lake of sulphur. All the prophecies also confirm that a future, end-time king of Babylon will be a dominant world power, causing destruction and death throughout the world. This king of Babylon in Isaiah’s end-time prophecy was also the end-time king of Babylon in Daniel’s prophecy, but not Nebuchadnezzar himself, who could not even extend the reach of his kingdom into Egypt, Media or Persia. Rather, Isaiah prophesied about a future king, the inheritor of Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian throne over Satan’s four religious kingdoms, the king of the final Roman kingdom before its destruction. All the prophecies tells us that this final mortal king of Babylon will also kill his own people, the elect in his lands, both Christians and Jews, as well as burn his own assisting false church of the Great Prostitute in his own capital city of Rome. Then he will ultimately destroy all his land and all the people in it, all who worship him, because he will stand against God and against God’s just and loving ways. So the beast will cause God, who must maintain His ways for the survival of His people and His other creations, to destroy that beast, his lands and his dupes, to prevent that beast from destroying all life.

By the way, God will not kill the beast and his dupes because they unwillingly inherited the lies and sins of their spiritual forefathers in Babylon, but because their spirits very willingly will take up the same past lies and sins from their forefathers. For we should remember that God only added the guilt of a father’s sins to the sins of a child if that child willingly condoned or committed those sins of the father. Even so, God said He only added a forefather’s sins to the third or fourth generation of the unrepentant descendants who held on to the sins of their father (e.g., Ex. 34:6-7). And Ezekiel more thoroughly explained this “law” or teaching of God, telling us that God own the “souls” of all, that is, both their spirits and flesh, and that those who truly repent from sins and bear ongoing fruits of repentance “will not die,” indicating he was speaking about eternal life of the elect spirits who love God and His righteousness, or the second eternal death in hell of non-elect spirits (Ezek. 18:1-32).

God’s law seldom held even the deliberate sinners accountable for condoned lies and sins committed by their grandparents, great grandparents or great-great-grandparents either, “up to the fourth or fifth generation.” For, in those days, most people died young, so the lies and sins of deceased ancestors would usually be forgotten, and their descendants would normally remain ignorant of their lies and sins. So God will forgive sins done unintentionally through ignorance. But it is also possible for sinners to write down their lies and sins, or to pass on the knowledge of those lies and sins to future generations other means, even for thousands of years. Thus, it is also possible for generations in the distant future to willingly condone and partake in the lies and sins of those who lived even thousands of years before they were born. Anyone who does not love the truth can become the “son” or disciple of anyone else, past or present, through a consenting acknowledgment, esteem and emulation of the lying words and ways of another lying sinner. Then God will hold both that “father” and that “son” fully accountable for those shared lies and sins, even if the “son’s” condonation does not result in the same physical sins, since each lie always inevitably leads to similar sins, simply by being believed.

So the knowledge of the lies and sins of a father or forefather will obligate the child or descendant to confess and turn away from those lies and sins in repentance, with ongoing fruits of repentance, just as God’s Law and Ezekiel taught. For Jesus fulfills God’s Law in us and through us, even the full

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and real meaning of every law, even all that God’s true prophets like Ezekiel taught. Furthermore, if the lies and sins of a forefather were recorded, and a descendant approves and follows the lying words and sinful ways of that forefather, then that descendant shares in the guilt of that forefather, even if the descendant lives many generations after that forefather died. In fact, if anyone commits the lies and sins of any past or present sinner, that one shares in their guilt, and in their eternal punishment if their souls do not truly repent from those lies and sins. For God must remain fully just.

Our God and Judge Jesus even justly condemned some false preachers by holding them accountable for the lies and sins of Cain, the son of Adam, and also the recorded lies and sins of literally all the wanna-be false religious teachers who came after Cain. For anyone who condones the lies and sins of anyone else—even if they condone the lies and sins of someone who is not related, even if they condone the lies and sins of one who lived thousands of years ago—partakes in the lies and sins of that other person. Since one commits the same lies and sins as a “son” or a disciple of another liar and sinner, one has done so in the name of that other person one has esteemed. So one has actually committed those lies and sins in that other esteemed person’s name and for all the family bearing that esteemed person’s name. Thus, everyone in that family shares the guilt of that name as his or her co-conspirators, as direct participants in all the lies and sins of that family which bears that name.

Still, God’s law declares, “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin” (Deut. 24:16, ESV). Then the words of God in the prophecy of Ezekiel confirms this: “The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself’ (Ezek. 18:20, ESV). But remember, Ezekiel also maintained that a son would only be forgiven and counted righteous if that son confessed and repented from the sins of his father or grandfather, and did not partake in those sins (see Ezek. 18:14-18). Likewise, Jesus, has always fulfilled this law of God through all His actions and judgments of people living on the earth throughout history, and will determine the motives and intentions of each spirit regarding this law during the judgment day. Jesus never has placed the guilt of a parent or ancestor upon a child and never will, that is, not unless a child condones and practices the lies and sins of a parent or ancestor.

This prophecy of God through Isaiah also describes a very thorough destruction of Babylon and its arrogant citizens in the end times. God will completely annihilate the entire spiritual Babylonian empire on earth in the end, but first only the fourth Roman kingdom of the beast. Yes, the religion of humanism that was born in Babylon is definitely alive and well on the earth today. Babylon’s four kingdoms have grown in power and in influence since they first became world powers, and now rule the entire world. Still, only after after Jesus rules for a millennium will He destroy the last spiritual remnants of Babylon, although He will crush to dust the worst part, the Roman part, at His return.

Isaiah 16:1-5 (ESV): “Send the lamb [i.e, this ‘lamb’ refers to a vulnerable, weak refugee] to the

ruler of the land, from Sela [in Edom, south of the Dead Sea, now part of the state of Jordan], by way of

the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Zion [to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem]. Like fleeing

birds, like a scattered nest, so are the daughters of Moab [Moab is east of the Dead Sea, now part of

Jordan] at the fords of the Arnon. [These are fords across the Jordan River just north of the Dead Sea, at

the border between Jordan and Israel.] ‘Give counsel; grant justice; make your shade like night at

the height of noon; shelter the outcasts; do not reveal the fugitive; let the outcasts of Moab

sojourn among you; be a shelter to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor is no more

and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land, then

 

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a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent

of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness.’”

Vulnerable refugees, mere lambs, will flee from Sela in the nation of Jordan, across the Jordan River at the fords of Arnon, into Israel during the end times. This will occur at an indeterminate time prior to a “tent of David,” that is the Messiah’s body of flesh descended from David, coming to sit on the throne in Israel. In other words, it will occur not long before Jesus returns. So this flight of refugees shall likely be during the beast’s invasions of Israel, when he also invades many Christian lands near Israel, in the Middle East and Africa. This invasion will begin and end during the first half of the beast’s seven-year rule. However, this is somewhat puzzling, since the other prophecies do not mention that the beast will also invade Jordan. And why would anyone flee from Jordan, which the beast does not attack, and go to live in Israel, which the beast will attack twice before Jesus comes?

Then also consider how God commands Israel to treat these refugees from Moab very well, to grant them counsel (presumably about God’s Word), justice, places to dwell among them, comfort from the weather, and become “a shelter to them from the destroyer.” So these refugees from Moab seem to be the elect, and the “destroyer” surely must be the Roman beast. Then Jesus come soon after this flight of these refugees from Moab, to crush the beast and his kingdom into dust. The Messiah Jesus returns “when the oppressor is no more and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land.” At that time, Jesus will establish His kingdom on earth, and rule “in steadfast love,” sitting on His throne as the King and High Priest in faithfulness, judging and seeking justice as a diligent servant of the people, who is “swift to do righteousness.” But this clearly end-time prophecy about the beast and the return of Jesus does not tell us why the elect of Moab flee from Jorden, other than imply that the beast’s supporters will likely kill them if they stay in Jordan.

So this leaves us to speculate that the beast will have supporters in Jordan, who will persecute those who convert to Christianity. For, at this time, Christians will once again consider themselves to be a New Covenant branch of the priesthood of Israel, since converts from Islam to Christianity, at least those in Egypt and in the lands that once belonged to ancient Assyria, will build a highway through Israel, so they can worship at the third Jewish temple in Jerusalem. And Israel will let them do this, and welcome those Christians into their temple grounds to pray. So this must be why these refugees from Moab will flee into Israel, to escape persecution in Jordan, because they became Christians and know that Israel opposes the beast, but allows biblical forms of Christianity in their land. But, since they are Christians, not Old Covenant Jews, God commanded, in the Old Covenant Scriptures, that Israel must treat these refugees well. Likewise, their flight from Jordan will likely occur after the beast removes most of his troops from Israel and the Middle East, to fight in the world war after the first three and a half years of his reign. Then it seems that Israel will rebel and takes back their land from the few remaining forces that beast leaves behind. And it is after that when the beast orders his lands to behead all biblical Christians, all who do not belong to the Great Prostitute’s false Roman humanistic church. So it seems that these refugees from Moab will flee into Israel just after the beast’s supporters in Jordan begin to behead them, after the first half of the beast’s reign, but before the beast returns during the last few weeks or months of his seven-year reign to annihilate all Israel.

This is obviously a Messianic prophecy, since it is clearly about the beast’s destruction when the Messiah Jesus returns in the end times. For this is about when “the oppressor is no more and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,” just before “the tent of David” comes to sit on His throne. So it cannot be about any time in the entire history of Israel, Moab in Jordan, the Middle East or anywhere else the entire world before the end times. For there has been incessant oppression, destruction and the trampling of innocent souls underfoot in

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Israel and everywhere else throughout history. And the “tent of David” who judges from a “throne” can be no one except the Messiah, after He returns to rule the earth on the day that He completes the destruction of the beast and his entire Roman kingdom. Only Jesus can ever establish a throne “in steadfast love,’ in just and God-like love. Only Jesus is entirely sinless and able to “sit in faithfulness in the tent of David,” in a body of human flesh descended from David, as the human heir to the throne of David. Therefore, this flight of refugees from Jordan will occur just before Jesus returns.

Now God’s prophecy was granted through Daniel, God said, “Edom, Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon,” which are all parts of modern Jordan, will be delivered from the hands of the beast during the end times (Dan. 11:41). But here it says Moab, in central Jordan, will need to flee as desperate refugees into Israel. They will also “send the lamb to the ruler of the land … to the mount of the daughters of Zion,” that is, to the temple on the mount in Jerusalem, presumably as a burnt offering to indicate that they intend “ascend” up into Israel. And Moab shall be like “fleeing birds,” and birds here would represent heavenly spiritual beings. Then Moab will ask Israel for “counsel” (Hebrew=etsa, “counsel, advice”) about the laws of God and “justice,” which Jesus promised to fulfill in them and through them. So God commanded Israel to provide these refugees with shelter among them, because an “oppressor” or “exploiter” wanted to destroy and trample them underfoot.

So it seems that Israel will need to help Moab escape from Jordan, because Jordan will become their enemy during the end times. And that implies that, since the beast will not invade Jordan during his first campaign into the Middle East, Jordan will likely become an ally of the beast and turn against all Christians and Jews in their land. Thus, Israel will likely war against Jordan, especially after they free themselves from the beast’s rule when most of the beast’s forces leave the Middle East in the middle of his reign. So will a war with Israel intensify the persecution of Christian Moabites in Jordan, who will likely side with Israel against the beast? It surely seems that these fleeing refugees will be Christian converts in Jordan, whom the rest of Jordan will persecute due to their conversion to Christianity. And will their persecutors in Jordan try to kill them because the rest of Jordan is Muslim, or because the rest of Jordan became secular humanists who decided to worship the beast?

I would say that the rest of Jordan will become secular humanists and worship the beast, since that would best explain why the beast will not attack Jordan when he attacks the rest of the Middle East at the beginning of his reign. But this is all speculation. What we do know is that, shortly after this flight of refugees from Jordan, the Messiah will destroy the oppressor of Israel and these Moabites, then establishes His throne “in steadfast love.” And God’s command to care for refugees is actually a command for the whole church of Israel, for both the Old and New Covenant branches. All truly elect Jews and Christians will care for refugees. We will also give wise counsel and merciful justice to all who flee to us, God’s kind of advice and justice. For we are to shines a bright light that makes the light of the sun at noon seem like shade. And we are not to “reveal the fugitive” who flees the injustice of evil authorities in wicked lands, not to expose or uncover the refugees to their enemies who oppress and persecute them. True Christians are to do the opposite of what Trump does to them.

Isaiah 17:1-14 (ESV): “An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be

a city and will become a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer [located near the southern border of

Syria] are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them

afraid. The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the

remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the Lord of hosts.

“And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow

lean. And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears,

 

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and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim [farmland west of Jerusalem].

Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten—two or three berries in the top of

the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares the Lord God of Israel.

“In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. He

will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers

have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense. In that day their strong cities will be

like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because

of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation. For you have forgotten the God of your

salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant

pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger, though you make them grow on the

day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest

will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.

“Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of

nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters! The nations roar like the roaring of many

waters, but He will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the

mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm. At evening time, behold,

terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the

lot of those who plunder us.”

This is one of many parts in the prophecies God gave through Isaiah about the end-times. We know that this is about the end times because the city of Damascus (capital of modern Syria) has always continued to exist as an intact city, from the days before Abraham until this very day. In all these millenniums, it did not “cease to be a city” and “become a heap of ruins.” But it will perish in the end-times, sometime before the beast is destroyed at Armageddon, while Israel suffers from extreme hardships, likely due to the beast’s invasions. Today we see much warfare in Syria and Damascus, mostly among factions of Muslims and Kurds. Yet it is still a city and not “a heap of ruins.” But it soon will be ruins, not long before Syria and much of humankind “will look to His Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel,” when many in the world begin to worship the God of Israel. And much of this destruction of Damascus and Syria also appears to be the result of wars with Israel, as well as wars caused by “many peoples,” by roaring nations entering Syria, seemingly from across the seas and waters. But God Himself will rebuke those destroying foreign nations, and they shall flee from Syria. Those interfering foreign nations are likely Russia, Iran and the United States, who will probably flee from Syria due to the troubles God will cause for them in their homelands.

Although Damascus and much of Syria will be in ruins, peace will follow, and that peace will come to them after they convert to true Christianity, when they see themselves as the New Covenant branch of Israel again, when they begin a friendly dialogue with Israel. And their conversion, along with the building of a highway from Syria to Egypt, will occur long before the beast rises to power, not long after the revival of the true church during the era of the sixth seal. There is also a prophecy here about Aroer, which is now in modern Jordan, and likely refers to the modern village of 'Ara'ir in Jordan, according to Wikipedia. That town will be so badly ruined that sheep will graze there, and none will make the sheep there afraid. So there will be a time of peace there, when no soldiers are marching across their land, and no loud wars. This time of peace will be interrupted when the beast comes to invade the Middle East and parts of Africa. But that invasion will not necessarily involve many heated battles. Most nations might just immediately surrender, because they will know they will not have the armies and resources to resist the beast. So they will probably put up with the beast’s severe restrictions against Christianity and Judaism, and hide their religion for a time, until

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the beast has to withdraws his forces only three and a half years later. And Syria will likely become more of an agrarian nation after their cities are destroyed. But the beast will focus on populated cities, not scattered farms. So Syria will probably live in relative peace even after the beast invades.

God tells us that, “in that day,” that is, in the end times, “the glory of Jacob will be brought low.” This is saying that most of the population of Israel, a majority, will be killed during the end times. At first, they will prosper like a good harvest. Then they will suffer humiliation and famine. After this, and after the harvest of wars in the land, so few people will be left in Israel that the remnant will seem like the gleanings left after a harvest, like the few olives left upon the tree after it is shaken. By the time the Messiah Jesus returns and kills all the wicked non-elect on earth, and once the beast’s massive international armies ravage Israel for a week or more, most of their population will perish.

So God first says “in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low … in the valley of Rephaim” (Is. 14:4-6, ESV), in a valley west of Jerusalem, in a fertile valley leading to the coast and likely where the beast’s armies will draw near to that city, where Jesus shall destroy them “in that day,” in the same valley where the Philistines once gathered against Israel. Then God immediately goes on to say, “In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel” (14:7, ESV). For that will be the day when Israel’s God returns in a body of human flesh, from the sky, to slay the armies of the beast. That will be the day Jesus lands on the Mount of Olives and walks to the Temple gates, to take His place as the eternal High Priest of Israel and as the King of all the world.

After this, God tells us, “In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation” (14:9, ESV). This seems to refer to Syria again, after they abandon their idols like the “Asherim,” who was the chief female god of Syria, who tread on the sea where the beast’s armies shall come from, to slaughter many in Israel. This “Asherim” was the supposed wife of the chief male god and mother of many other gods, whom the God of Israel defeated. Syria will see Jesus descend and destroy the beast’s armies, then know that He alone is God, that there is no other God, nor any wife of God, nor any mother of God like Mary. For the Holy Spirit of God in Him created all that exists, and He began to do this before anyone or anything existed. But the cities of Syria, even their small towns, will be “deserted because of the children of Israel,” after their wars with Israel. And those wars will occur when Israel will still be prosperous, before the beast will come to make Israel itself a “desolation.” Then God tells us why most in Israel will be killed by the coming beast.

God told Israel that this will be why so many of them will fall in defeat to the beast’s international armies, why so many will refuse to flee into the safety of Jerusalem, then wait for their clearly prophesied day of salvation by their Messiah: “For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger, though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain. Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters! The nations roar like the roaring of may waters, but He will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm. At evening time, behold terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us” (Is. 17:10-14, ESV). There are so many prophecies about the day when the beast’s international armies shall come to plunder Israel, to slaughter all her people in an attempt to annihilate God with them. But Israel will not remember His words, and most will fight to their deaths, instead of waiting for Him to appear, to make those armies tremble and flee from His presence, until they panic and kill

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one another, until Jesus removes even the spirits of life from their survivors. By the evening sacrifice in the temple, Jesus will have come to to remind them that He is their Savior, after He has killed all those armies from around the world. And, by the morning, they will see the corpses of their plunders, with rivers of their blood in the valleys. If most of Israel did not fight to protect their crops and cash, if they fled into Jerusalem to wait upon their God, as God told them, they all would have been saved.

So Syria will repent to the Lord Jesus sometime long before the beast comes, likely after wars with Israel, but probably still in the era of the sixth seal. So the Gentile Syrians, and the nations that once belonged to ancient Assyria, along with Egypt, will enter the New Covenant church of Israel. They will become Christian nations who pray at the Jewish temple courts in Jerusalem. All these Gentile nations in the Middle East will be looking “on the Holy One of Israel,” most of them as converts from humanistic Islam to purely theistic Christianity. All these will remember the words of God, and know that He will return in a body of flesh to wipe out the internal armies of the beast when those plunderers reach Jerusalem. But most of Israel will forget the prophecies from God’s mouth, and will fight those armies to preserve their financial investments, dying in vain for what is not really theirs.

This prophecy about the destruction of the beast’s armies of looters also reminds us about all the other armies who will come against Israel and their God. For the words of God speak through Isaiah on behalf of all the children of Jacob and declare: “this is the portion those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us” (17:14b). God will rebuke and destroy “many peoples” who come against Israel in these last days. Like Syria, they will learn that, although Israel is not yet faithful, God has plans for them, and will fulfill His plans. So the almighty God may rebuke Israel, sometimes with severity and death. But He will also punish those attack them, and even in more devastating ways.

This prophecy, these words of God, also tell us that the destruction of the beast’s massive army will be completed in one Jewish day, which ends at sunset. And it speaks of an evening and a morning, the beginning of new day, after their Messiah comes to save them. This Messiah will be their God, and the Rock whom Daniel spoke about, the Stone who would grow into a mountain that would fill the earth and crush the beast into dust after He became that mountain, after many nations had been filled with His worshipers. So Jesus will come just before the beginning of a new Jewish day, in the evening, not long before sunset. Then He will remain at the temple until after sunset, when that new day begins. And, in the morning light of that new day, all who plundered Israel will be found dead, killed for the evil they committed against God’s land. Not a single looter will be found still alive.

Isaiah 18:1-7 (ESV): “Ah, land of whirring wings that is beyond the rivers of Cush [i.e., this

refers to a land beyond the rivers in Sudan and Ethiopia, the rivers which become the Nile River in Egypt, and

seems to refer to Egypt] , which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the

waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and

far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide [Is this Egypt?]. All you

inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a signal is raised on the

mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear! For thus [Yahweh] said to me: ‘I will

quietly look from My dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of

harvest.’ For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening

grape, He cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches He lops off and

clears away. They shall all of them be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the

beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey will summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth

will winter on them. At that time tribute will be brought to [Yahweh] of hosts from a people

tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose

land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of [Yahweh] of hosts.”

 

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This prophecy from God warns about a great number of deaths occurring throughout the entire earth, so many deaths that none will ever bury all the corpses. Rather, the world will permanently leave all the dead bodies to carrion eating birds who will feed on them all summer and to carnivorous animals who will feed on them all winter. For here God is addressing “all you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth.” God also tells us to look for a “signal … raised on the mountains … when a trumpet is blown” (18:3). And part of that signal is obviously the seventh trumpet, in the era during the end times, since God uses one of His phrases, “at that time” (18:7), which points to the day of Yahweh, to when Yahweh in Jesus will return to rule the earth after He destroys all the non-elect. And “the signal is raised on the mountains” (or what we might call hills) in Israel, including “Mount Zion, the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts” (18:7), near Jerusalem, where His third temple will be built. For that is the place to which Yahweh in Jesus shall return in the end times. It will be “at this time,” that God shall command the messengers in a one land to swiftly go to some other nation, urging them to bring a “tribute” to Yahweh in His temple, after Jesus has returned to Israel’s temple.

But God seems to disguise the identification of the land which must send the message and the nation to whom they are to send it, as though His cryptic description will mean something more specific and relevant in the end times, when it will be fulfilled, but will not mean so much to the people who read it before that time. Now God and His prophet Isaiah knew the name of Egypt. And the rivers in Cush are the head waters of the Nile River in Egypt. Egypt is “beyond” or down river from the land of Cush. Yet God did not mention Egypt’s name directly, although He seemed to quite clearly refer to Egypt in these somewhat strange ways, such as a land of “whirring wings” (or “clattering extremities”) “beyond the rivers of Cush” (i.e., beyond what is modern Sudan and Ethiopia). And, by the way, those “whirring wings” may refer to locusts, or to something Isaiah did not recognize in his vision, like helicopters, so he simply described in the only way he knew, in phenomenological terms.

So it seems that Egypt, not Cush, will send the message to the other nation which is to give the “tribute” or gift to Jesus in Israel. And God seems to have chosen Egypt to send this message because Egypt “sends ambassadors [Hebrew = tsiyr, “envoy, messenger, ambassador”] by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters” (18:2). That is, Egypt will be able to send the message, delivered by its officials, over the waters of the sea, to another “nation,” and “at that time,” just after Jesus returns, after Jesus kills all the non-elect on earth, and has destroyed the beast’s armies who attempted to annihilate all of Israel. And that message will be about how that other nation must bring or send a “tribute” [Hebrew = shay, “a gift, an offering as a homage, a present”] to Yahweh on Mount Zion, to “the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts,” that is, to the Jerusalem temple, where Jesus will be seated on His throne. So that other nation’s “tribute” or gift will likely include some of what Jesus will need to rebuild the land of Israel, after the beast has destroyed most of their lands. And Egypt will be sent to that other nation because they will still possess sea-going vessels which will be able to transport the other nation’s gifts to Israel, since Israel will likely no longer have ships, after the beast’s armies probably will have destroyed all of Israel’s ships. And remember that Egypt will have converted to Christianity long before the day that Jesus returns, and will remain a strong ally of Israel. Also, since God refers to Egypt as the land beyond Cush, it hints that Cush will be a Christian ally of Israel too.

Then the nation which will send that “tribute” or gift to Jesus in Israel is only vaguely described, with attributes that are not easily identifiable, as though God knew that Isaiah and Israel was not familiar with that nation and did not know its name back then, before 700 BC. But we do know that the nation which will send that “tribute” or gift must be prosperous Christian land, since it will be both willing and able to send what seems to be a very substantial homage to the King of the world, to Jesus. And this nation which sends the “tribute” will be across the sea, reached by the ships of

 

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Egypt over the waters, a distant land that cannot deliver the “tribute” by land routes. Also, that nation is twice described as “a nation tall and smooth [Hebrew = morat, “peeled,” likely men with shaved faces], to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide” (18:2,7).

So this powerful Christian ally coming with a “tribute,” must have very many surviving elect in it after Jesus kills all the non-elect. And it seems to have supported Israel and loved Jesus as wars devastated Europe, the east, the Middle East and Africa. It is not a nation that the European beast’s aggressive policies and wars affected and impoverished very much, nor a nation east of the beast’s empire, not the lands which were depopulated by the great world war, when a third of the earth’s people, mostly in the east, down to the Euphrates River (likely China, India, and other lands) had been killed. Nor would this land likely be north of Rome, since the beast’s aggressive enemy to the north (Russia?) and the beast would have kept those lands in wars and poverty, making them barely able to help rebuild Israel. And this feared nation of allies over the seas definitely would not be any of the lands which had sent soldiers to join the beast’s international armies to destroy all of Israel.

Therefore, this “feared” and “conquering” prosperous nation of “tall and smooth” Christian people, which must be reached over the waters by the ships of Egypt (either in the Atlantic through the Mediterranean Sea, or in the Pacific through Egypt’s Suez Canal) seems to be in either the far north, far south, North America, South America or a large island. Also, the nation sending this “tribute” must be known for its many rivers, since God specifically indicates, twice, that it is “a land the rivers divide.” So that Christian land or Gentile “nation mighty and conquering,” which is “feared near and far,” and divided by rivers, with massive resources, sounds very much like the USA or all of North America, although most “Christians” there are now fakes who oppose Jesus’ teachings, as Satanic anti-Christs who support oppressive and psychopathic oligarchies of beast-like fascist billionaires.

Thus, this prophecy gives me and others some hope for the people of North America, that they will soon repent into the truth and will turn to Jesus, during the revival of the sixth seal’s era, so they will not all be utterly destroyed by God in the end times. Although North America seems so deeply and heavily steeped in the lies and delusions of the devil’s religion of Roman humanism, and so willing to support brutal hierarchical class systems, there is still a possibility that they might repent. With the fascists currently ruling over the USA as I am writing this, it does not look good, for now. But the future, through Jesus’ personal teaching and training of elect spirits, and by His power, can change it.

Now, back in the days of Isaiah, Egypt was apparently ruled by a Cushite. So this may be another reason why Isaiah may have referred to Egypt as the land beyond Cush. But God’s prophecy in Isaiah still implies that He refers to Cush (parts of eastern Sudan, Eritrea, eastern Ethiopia, Djibouti and parts of north-eastern Somalia) as a place that will also become truly Christian, and an ally of Israel, just like Egypt will be. So it seems that Jesus will leave most of the people in Cush alive, after He removes the life-giving spirits from all the non-elect on earth at that time, just as Jesus will leave most in the land of “tall and smooth” people alive at that time. But, if there are some nations on earth where large portions of its populations are left alive after Jesus destroys two thirds or more of the people on earth, including all the non-elect, it implies that there will be massive redistributions of populations on earth before Jesus returns. It indicates that the beast and other anti-Christian lands will draw many non-elect immigrants into them, from everywhere on earth, all those seeking to build a “utopia” of strong hierarchical systems that can enslave and oppress other souls for personal gain. Then the Christian lands will draw many loving elect refugees into them, those fleeing from the cruel Roman humanism of other lands. So there will be a concentration of elect in some lands, but also a concentration of non-elect in other lands. And, after Jesus returns to destroy the non-elect, the lands of the Roman humanists will be left almost empty, while Christian lands will still be populated.

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Isaiah only knew that the nation called to send a “tribute” was very far away. And we cannot fully identify it, since God simply mentioned a few details about that people across the waters. But they will send their “tribute” or gift “when a signal is raised on the mountains” and “when a trumpet is blown” (18:3). And this will be the time when “all you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth” must “look” and “hear” that “signal.” That “signal” will be when Yahweh, “before the harvest” of His elect into His true priesthood of Israel, “cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and He the spreading branches He lops off and clears away” (18:5). Those cut-off ones will be the non-elect perishing throughout the entire world, whom Jesus will kill on the day He returns, those “left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth,” very many dead bodies abandoned without burial, throughout the summer and winter (18:6). It is “at that time tribute will be brought to Yahweh of hosts from a people tall and smooth … to Mount Zion” (18:7), just after this “signal” of Jesus returning to strike down the beast’s international armies in Israel and all the non-elect on earth.

Egypt sends a message to a far-away feared people who have shaved faces. Of course, Egyptians traditionally had shaved faces too. But Egypt will not send a messages to itself. So the nation which Egypt calls upon to bring a tribute to Jesus in Israel is not Egypt itself, but some other land, some distant, prosperous, feared, powerful nation which has many elect survivors still in it, after Jesus returns and destroys all His loveless non-elect enemies. And this prophecy obviously bears a world-wide scope. All the end-time prophecies are about the entire world, since God created His church of Israel to be priests for the entire world. So we cannot say that the nation to which Egyptian ships are sent must be near Egypt. For this prophecy is about the end times, about modern times, after our times. And Egypt already has ships, and access to other ships, which can traverse the entire globe. So the Christian nation which will send this “tribute” to Jesus and Israel, after Armageddon and after all the earth’s non-elect have died, could actually be located anywhere in the world, outside of the most devastated places on earth, anywhere the prophecies do not designate to destruction in the end times.

Here God also said, “I will quietly look from My dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of the harvest” (Is. 18:4). And God made this statement, that He would be “quiet” and undisturbed, as He gazed upon billions of dead human beings on earth, upon all whom He pruned and cut off, upon all the non-elect of the world who perished, upon their unburied corpses left to be eaten by His birds and His beasts. Yahweh will not be alarmed by this, but will “quietly look” upon it from heaven, from His dwelling place. And His eyes will radiate “heat” like sunshine, to warm the fearing frozen spirits of the surviving elect remaining on earth. And, after the elect have labored so hard to survive those end times, His look upon them will be like the “cloud of dew in the heat of the harvest,” refreshing their souls. But will the elect left on earth “quietly look” upon the dead? Some will be very upset, when they see non-elect family members, friends and co-workers, whom they trusted and depended on, suddenly fall dead beside them. Some will even accuse God of being ruthless and cruel for “murdering” those non-elect. Yet the elect who begin to think this way will soon change their minds, and see how those non-elect deceived and exploited them throughout their lives. The light of God’s revelations to their spirits, His “sunshine,” will prove that our God Jesus was right and just to eliminate those loveless non-elect, with all of their ulterior evil motives.

God sees and judges the motives and intentions of eternal spirits, and He knows that human flesh is merely a perception that He fully controls in the minds of those spirits. So the death of the flesh is not something that is terrible or fearsome to God. Nor is the death of the flesh terrible and fearsome to those who are in God, who know His heart and mind. We know that, when our flesh dies, our spirits will not be affected, but will simply wake up in the far more real reality of the spiritual realm.

 

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Then our spirits will remember all that God ever allowed our senses of the flesh to see, hear, touch, smell or taste, while He had been granting our spirits the perceptions of material existence. Not one detail will be lost from the memories in the minds of our spirits, nor distorted. Then our spirits’ minds will also recall all that our minds of flesh chose to conveniently forget or distort. So, with all of this information, all human spirits who ever lived on earth will find themselves before the judgment throne of our God Jesus, who will stand among us in body made of spiritual substances like our bodies, in a land made of solid spiritual substances, where there is no entropy nor death. We will all gather at the gates of heaven on the last day. And Jesus will judge all spirits by the motives and intentions of all they thought and did on earth. He will judge each one’s works by the God-like love each spirit gave to those who benefitted from one’s works, not by the number or size of the works. For our God Jesus judges by the heart. He does not judge by the number of points anyone tries to earn from Him, by the number and size of works done through His gifts of a body, strength, health, wealth and other material things. For all humans, all their carnal motivations, and all they used to do their works on earth had been created by Him, belong to Him and were granted by Him. So nothing anyone could do on earth could ever gain credits from Him. Only the growth of spiritual wealth, consisting of truth which builds up God-like love, will benefit us on the final judgement day.

Let me repeat, when Isaiah uses phrases like “at that time” or “in that day,” it usually indicates that his prophecy is about the end times. And Isaiah also said that God will wait until a chosen time (i.e., an appointed, ordained time) before He acts against His enemies, which is the end times, after God has separated the truth from the lies, after He has divided the elect from the non-elect, when He is ready to judge the spirits in flesh on earth, without harming the elect as He punishes the non-elect.

In the end times, God will cut off or prune off the non-elect, which is another way of saying God will kill them. Their corpses will be left on the ground after they die, to be eaten by the birds of prey and beasts of the fields. And this suggests the slaughter of a huge number of non-elect, far too many to bury. Our God Jesus will also slaughter the beast’s huge international army, all who are trying to annihilate Israel, as well as the beast’s entire Roman kingdom, the dominant world power at that time. And God calls His elect to pay attention to the way He slaughters all these loveless souls. For God tells all His elect to “look” and to “hear” as He does this terrifying deed (18:3). Then Isaiah tells us that a “tall and smooth” people will bring a tribute to Yahweh, to the temple in Jerusalem (Mount Zion), after Armageddon and after He destroys all the non-elect on earth. So we know that, although Jesus will partly restore Israel and the earth through His miraculous powers, He will also want His elect to partake in this work of redeeming the broken and lost lands on earth. For our participation in His works builds up our love for Him, and makes us one with Him. Now let us hear this prophecy.

Isaiah 24:1-23 (ESV): “Behold, [Yahweh] will empty the earth and make it desolate, and He

will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the

priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with

the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so

with the debtor. The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered; for [Yahweh] has

spoken this word. The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the

highest people of the earth languish. The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they

have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore

a curse devours the earth , and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt ; therefore the inhabitants

of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.

“The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh. The mirth of the

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more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. The wasted

city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter. There is an outcry in the

streets for lack of wine; all joy has grown dark; the gladness of the earth is banished.

Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins. For thus it shall be in the midst

of the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the

grape harvest is done.

“They lift up their voices, they sing for joy ; over the majesty of [Yahweh] they shout from

the west. Therefore in the east give glory to [Yahweh]; in the coastlands of the sea, give glory

to the name of [Yahweh], the God of Israel. From the ends of the earth we hear songs of

praise, of glory to the Righteous One.

“But I say , ‘I waste away, I waste away. Woe is me! For the traitors have betrayed, with

betrayal the traitors have betrayed.’ Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, O

inhabitant of the earth! He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he

who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened,

and the foundations of the earth tremble. The earth is utterly broken, the earth is split apart,

the earth is violently shaken. The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its

transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again. On that day [Yahweh]

will punish the host of heaven, in heaven [esteemed, exalted ones in esteemed, exalted places] , and

the kings of the earth, on the earth . They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit;

they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished. Then the moon

will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for [Yahweh ] of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and

in Jerusalem, and His glory will be before His elders.”

Here is another prophecy which will occur “on that day,” on the day the Messiah comes. Yahweh will come to rule “on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,” and these words of the Creator God once again call the Messiah by the name He gave to Himself, Yahweh, because the Messiah Jesus will have the fulness of God’s Spirit in Him. And God also tells us to pay attention to what He is saying, since He begins by using the Hebrew demonstrative particle, hinneh (“behold”). That is, God wants us to look at His words and understand them, because his message is important. For we will need to inwardly prepare for the end times, and repent before He returns to rule the world. What is about to happen is a tremendous loss of life, until this planet is almost “empty.” God will “twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants,” will force mass migrations due to great natural disasters which will reshape the face of the earth. But, after this, the Messiah Yahweh will physically return and bring joy to His people.

This is speaking about the whole earth becoming “empty” and “desolate,” and is clearly an end times prophecy. About two thirds of the people on earth, or as many as six out of seven in some places, will die by the time Jesus sets His foot on the Mount of Olives. And all the other prophecies about the end times confirm that this will occur. For it is because this will be a world-wide event of such magnitude that so many of the prophecies of Scripture are dedicated to describing and explaining it.

Humanistic religions think they can rely on their own invented gods to save them, since humanists think they can manipulate those gods into keeping them safe and prosperous. Some fake humanistic churches may try to justify their false teachings, which say that Jesus shall not return in a body of flesh, then insist that He will not physically devastate the whole earth. But they will die. Then other humanistic fake churches might psyche themselves up enough to think Jesus will whisk them away into the clouds, to protect them from the inevitable. But they will die like the rest. The wealthy may think their ruthless demonic god Mammon will save them, because Mammon deceives those inept

 

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and useless parasites into thinking they are superior to the people they duped and exploited. So they will actually believe their money can surely save their extremely valuable carcasses. But God will slaughter them and their hired security guards in their expensive bomb shelters, along with the poor.

“And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor. The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered; for Yahweh has spoken this word” (24:2-3, ESV). There will not be one person on the earth, nor any place on this planet, which will not be severely threatened and affected by the events of the end times, nowhere on earth where anyone will be safe from the wrath of God coming to punish the earth for their lies and sins. For Satan’s unjust world order, especially the hierarchical class systems and slave societies of his preferred religion of humanism, have lied, oppressed and murdered for so long and so extensively that they have now almost destroyed God’s good planet.

God will slaughter every kind of person who arrogantly desired to become a god ruling over one’s own destiny, even over the lives of His beloved children and His other creations. Some humanistic survivalists think their human strength, skills and weapons will save them. But, in the end, God will take the lives of all whom He chooses, and none can stop Him. God can use a microscopic germ to kill someone in an impregnable fortress, or cause the most skilled soldiers to turn against each other. God can and will kill directly through His own power too, and remove the life-giving spirits from the flesh of the surviving armies at Armageddon. The works and miracles of God will bring death to the wicked, but will also bring healing to the faithful who He chooses to save, as well as to their lands.

So the one who seeks to save his life will lose it. “On that day,” when Jesus returns, the only survivors, and the only dead who shall be resurrected, will be the awakened and repentant elect who have been willing to lose their lives for the sake of the true, biblical Jesus (Mat. 16:25). None but those who worship the real Jesus, in their spirits and in genuine realities and truths, will see all their hopes fulfilled “on that day,” as Jesus’ physical body walks into Jerusalem. Those who invent a fake Jesus, to align with their economic, political and other carnal ambitions, will not be saved “on that day.” Those who somehow think a Creator God, who judges against lies and sins, does not exist, will be forced to abandon those delusions “on that day.” All false religions in history, because all of them contributed to the devil’s invention of Roman humanism, will be mocked and vanish “on that day.” And all their delusions and lies, which caused hatred, divisions and murders on earth, will be washed from the earth, beginning “on that day.” For all the spirits born of the liar and murderer, whom the Scriptures call Satan, whom many fake churches have renamed “God” or “Jesus,” will perish “on that day.” Then the father of their spirits will be cast into the unescapable prison of hell. And, in its appointed time, their judgment will condemn those loveless souls to hell too, along with their father.

So many like to explain away or trivialize the end-time prophecies, or pretend that Jesus will not be so “cruel” and “unjust” that He will judge and condemn lies and sins on earth. But they make that mistake because our God Jesus has simply delayed the judgments of His second coming. And they do not understand that Jesus is a just God who patiently waits to enforce His judgments, until He has adequately taught, trained and separated His appointed elect from the non-elect on earth. Yet our God Jesus does indeed have a plan for this temporary material earth. The history of the earth is a predestined schedule or curriculum of study for His elect children, which He will use to educate them on the last day. And literally all of the events on earth will expose all that fails to meet His high standards of loving service for His heavenly creations, then also gradually reveal all His true and beneficial principles of just love, which He created to reflects His own inner attributes. For, after the biblical kind of judgment day at the gates of heaven, which will involve teachings for those able to

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repent, His elect children will enter the mainland of heaven to work together with Jesus there, to serve all His eternal living creations there. And this is God’s only ultimate goal which has ever been manifested in the Scriptures. God’s purpose is not the perfecting and completing of life on earth, not the instant punishment of our earthly perceptions of injustice on earth. Yes, part of God’s training of His elect spirits is to have them participate in His works of nullifying the devil’s works, and to build up His just, loving kingdom on earth, to do His will on earth as it is done in heaven. Yet the teaching and training of literally all the elect at one time, as they are all gathered together at heaven’s gates, is the real purpose of earth’s existence, when all can learn from all through Jesus’ illuminating wisdom.

There is a time for all things under the earth’s sun. There is a time for human spirits to dwell under the perceptions of earthly flesh, and a time for them to die. Then there is a time for God’s judgment of all the earth as well. And judgment, with teaching and training for elect spirits, or inner death for the non-elect, begins now, on earth. Also, since a division between loving elect spirits and those with unloving non-elect spirits is already rapidly accelerating, it means that the end times are coming within a short time. And Isaiah is clearly speaking about those end times here, about the days of the sixth and seventh seals, when most of the earth will die and the earth’s entire surface, both its lands and its waters, shall “twist” or be laid to waste. None can honestly tell themselves that this and other end-time prophecies are merely poetic and figurative language, not if they actually see what is now happening on earth, and not after they have seen many repetitions in history of the same kinds of devastation those prophecies describe. Those natural disasters and vain wars will be coming soon.

Let all who are granted the eyes to see now understand how this prophecy, in harmony with all the other prophecies of Scripture, declares that Jesus will return only after He judges the world, after He inflicts many deaths and much destruction upon the world. Therefore, we should not believe the false churches who say, “Our good and loving Jesus will never cause death and destruction, ‘for the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them’” (Luke 9:56, WEB). Yet, when Jesus said that, He referred to the elect drawn to Him after His first advent. For He also explained: “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind [this is His work of dividing and dichotomizing the just and loving elect from the unjust and unloving non-elect]. He who rejects Me, and doesn’t receive My sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day” (John 9:39, WEB). But humanistic false churches follow liars who spread hate and injustice, then love their “freedom” to lie in ways that cause murders. They have God’s Word, but are made blind and deaf to Jesus’ teachings. Thus, His words will surely judge and condemn them when He returns. During the end times, those hypocrites will not only physically die, but their spirits will be found empty and loveless on the judgment day too. So they will all go to hell.

As for denying that Jesus will judge the world, we must remember that He also said this: “For the Father judges no one, but He has given all judgment to the Son … He also gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is a son of man” (John 5:22,27, WEB). The utterly holy Spirit of the Father gave Jesus the almighty and unstoppable power to “execute judgment,” which will “deal out punishment” for human beings, because Jesus is God in a human body who can judge our flesh, as one who dwells in flesh together with us, as one who discerns between flesh and spirit. Furthermore, in His parable, Jesus revealed what He will tell His angels at His return: “Bring those enemies of Mine who didn’t want Me to reign over them here, and kill them before Me” (Luke 19:27, WEB). This killing of those who hate God’s just, loving truths, this slaughtering of unjust humanists who murder and enslave their siblings in the family of humankind, will be a hallmark of the end times.

Many deluded religious souls forget that Jesus is the same God who burned the arrogance of Sodom in the days of Abraham, because those people trampled the poor and even raped them. Jesus is the

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same God who freed Moses and the Israelites, who rebuked the cruel practices of the murdering and enslaving Egyptians, who mocked the demon gods they heeded with such devotion. Jesus also killed the flesh of wicked souls in New Testament times, such as the psychopath Herod (Acts 12:21-23), the corrupters Ananias and Saphira (Acts 5:1-11), and violent Israel by end of the Jewish-Roman wars in about 135 AD. Since then, Jesus has repeatedly struck down the corrupt, lying, arrogant, murdering flesh of whole empires, throughout history, because they did not love His just truths, and even suppressed it when the people began to believe it. When individuals or kingdoms hated our God Jesus, when they deliberately opposed His just and loving ways although they knew those ways were just, when they murdered and oppressed His elect who knew Him and His ways, Jesus did indeed destroy those individuals and kingdoms—usually by handing them over to delusions worked by their father, Satan, which led to internal collapse and the inevitable deaths of their bodies of flesh.

So now we must realize that our God Jesus is coming to judge the entire earth, to condemn very many to death, so the greater reality of their spirits can be judged on the last day. And it is very wrong for humanistic churches to teach that God wants us to continue in an exploitative, comfortable way of life, to refrain from repentance into a truly just, loving life, into a life which cares for all of our siblings in the family of humankind, into a godly life that even tends to and takes responsibility for God’s living and inanimate creations. There can be no justifiable reason for us to live solely for the devil’s favor, for things like the money Satan invented to oppress the citizens of his world order.

God wants His elect to live for Him, to walk according to their spirits, not according to the lusts and pride of their flesh. Jesus calls our spirits to learn from His Holy Spirit, so our spirits may store up spiritual treasures for ourselves, such as His real truths which build up just and God-like love. We need Him and His ways for ourselves, for our benefits on earth and in heaven. Jesus gave outright and explicit commands for us forsake the things of Satan’s world order. Yet churches today love only Satan and only the things of his unjust, destructive, murdering world order. It is not that those fake churches simply do not love His truths, which would be enough to condemn them, to cast them into delusions for the destruction of their flesh. In reality, those fake churches actively and zealously despise and oppose Jesus and His truths. They are devoted to the worship of Satan, whom they like to call by the name of Jesus and God. Those fake churches are clearly dedicated enemies of Jesus, attempting to usurp the throne of Jesus upon the earth, trying to establish Satan’s unjust, divisive and hate-filled kingdom on earth. They actually want to annihilate God’s just and loving kingdom on earth. Consequently, our God Jesus will command His angels to kill all who do not leave those fake churches, even all who do not repent and bear the truly redeeming, continuous fruits of repentance.

Even in his day, Isaiah realized that many souls preferred the false churches that refused to believe Gd’s teachings and, therefore, also ignored his own prophecies about the Messiah coming to judge the earth and slaughter of most people on it. For those Jews in Israel back then were like us. They had seen vain despots conquer lands solely for the purpose of gaining more wealth and having even more slaves bow to them like gods. So those Jews saw such things as normal, not as great sins before God, the Owner of heaven and earth. Those Jews no longer thought in terms of governing solely to provide a good and loving life for all the people and even for God’s animals in their land. Thus, God had to clearly explain to the Jews how they were to live, and how a Messiah would come to cause them to live rightly, by judging with true equity and justice. Then God gave them His reason for His future judgment of the earth, and told Isaiah why He would cause so much death and destruction upon it. The judgment of the earth in the end times was to be because: “The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the law, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting

 

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covenant. Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt” (Is. 24:5-6, ESV). God would annihilate all those “normal” ways of unjust evil which filled the earth for so long.

God wanted His just and equitable laws to be administered according to the ways He Himself had administered them throughout history. For God always applied His laws in a balanced and tempered way, by weighing the motives and intentions of the accused, showing complete mercy for spirits who truly repented, or might repent in the future. God did not judge by outward appearances, or give the same punishment for the same crime to those who sinned unintentionally. And God certainly did not allow for any revenge, nor for political and financial motives, to interfered with judgments. But the earth and the false churches adopted the ways of pagans and eventually preferred the vindictive and unjust Roman laws more than His just and loving laws, and always opposed the desires of their God.

Then God’s statutes included the ceremonies and feasts God created to remind His people about Him and His attributes, as a testimony before all the world. And these were designed to illustrate Israel’s freedoms through God’s kind of just equity, before the diverse populations of immigrants who came in contact with His world-wide priesthood of Israel. They were to be a witness and testimony before those with other religions and customs, and practiced only by His elect in true worship, in spirit and in truth. These were not to be forced upon outsiders, but merely observed by those who did not know the joy of Israel in the real God. Yet fake churches burdened outsiders with those statutes, and even violently coerced them into following their own false interpretations of those statutes, without ever really knowing or explaining their real purposes. So those false churches became odious to those outsiders, and even far more repulsive to God Himself. Yet those liars stubbornly refused to repent.

Then the future false churches of the end times, those to whom this prophecy applies, also broke “the everlasting covenant.” And this prophecy is not talking about breaking the temporary Old Covenant of Moses, but is God’s eternal New Covenant of salvation ratified by the Messiah, which Isaiah also prophesied about many times. God was prophesying through Isaiah that the false churches in the end times would not allow their spirits to be personally taught and trained by God’s Holy Spirit for their promised New Covenant salvation. Rather, they would war against God’s Law which Jesus’ Spirit fulfilled in and through His awakened true elect. They would break this love covenant with Jesus.

God’s prophecy in Isaiah suggested that, by the end times, most secular people and false churches will have completely forgotten God and His ways. And this will occur even though, according to the prophecies through Daniel, God and His just ways will be more fully known throughout the earth by then. Most of Satan’s world order will then lie and sin in heinous ways during the end times, until “its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again” (24:20b, ESV). And their hatred of God and His just ways has already began long ago. For, by the end of the 19th century, a few churches still knew the real God and served Him, at least in part. But, by the 20th century, when the fascism of Caesar’s kind of Roman humanism became mainstream again, those few partially awakened elect became as few “as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done” (24:13). Yet olives and grapes left behind at the harvest are mostly unripened ones, which require some time and more effort to glean before they can be eaten. Also, God’s angels will not receive a full harvest of fully ripened fruits until the last of the Sabbath years, until the end times.

Even now we see how “the earth lies defiled under its inhabitants,” with multiple wars murdering children and innocent civilians in carnal acts of greed, or in a demonic lust for power, plunder and irrational revenge. The whole world transgresses even the most basic, simple, clear natural laws and principles which God wrote in His creations and on every heart at birth. Then some even brazenly declare the lie that they commit these sins in the name of God! So Satan’s world order lies, deceives,

 

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cheats, commits fraud, makes laws to nullify God’s laws, oppresses, enslaves, murders to violate all God’s laws of just, equitable, restoring, redeeming, pure, God-like love in every way imaginable.

Then the world order distracts itself with carnal activities, fornication and substance abuse just to suppress and deaden the calling of their spirits to save themselves, so they can forget that they have any love in them, so they can no longer make covenants of the spirit with God or anyone else. It now seems that all churches have broken God’s “everlasting covenant,” because they do not want His Holy Spirit to personally teach them His Law, nor to be trained to rightly apply it. Consequently, in their pursuit of rewards from Satan’s world order, their hearts are emptied of all the joy of just love which comes only from God. Now “all joy has grown dark; the gladness of the earth is banished,” so they cannot even wake in the morning to see the blessing of the spirit of a bird sing in the sunight.

Those arrogant humanists, in the name of their economic and “scientific” progress, also polluted all the earth, even the entire atmosphere around the globe, and the vast oceans which cover most of the planet, up to the farthest, least inhabited places on earth. Therefore, world-wide earthquakes and striking meteors will soon signal the beginning of the end times, and the sixth seal’s era when God will revive and build up His priesthood of His true church. After this, most on the earth will perish.

Since this prophecy in Isaiah is speaking about “when the grape harvest is done,” and emphasizes the ruin and utter destruction of the whole earth, with very few survivors remaining, it refers to the times just prior to the day Jesus shall return, primarily to the time of the seventh trumpet, when the wrath of God shall kill all the loveless non-elect on earth. For no other prophesied time can possibly be described by the words found here. Any who say this is a figurative and exaggerated description of the Babylonian invasion and captivity are simply engaging in wishful thinking, not being honest.

But there is also an odd part of this prophecy. For, during the most bleak and horrifying times of death and destruction in the history of the world, during the end time and in the days of the beast, it says: “They will lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of Yahweh they shout from the west. Therefore in the east give glory to Yahweh; in the coastlands of the sea, give glory to the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One” (Is. 24:14-16a, ESV). This seems to occur just before Jesus returns, while the people of God are still being persecuted and killed. For the prophecy immediately goes on to say: “But I say, ‘I waste away, I waste away. Woe is me! For the traitors have betrayed, with betrayal the traitors have betrayed” (24:16b, ESV). So this surely would indicate the last half of the beast’s reign, when false Christians and Jews betray true Christians and Jews, to imprisonment and death. So, in the beast’s kingdom, it looks like the false church of the Great Prostitute will betray many of the true Christians in their land. And, in Israel, false Jews will side with the beast and betray the devout Jews.

Here Isaiah interrupts God’s prophecy to tell us about people from lands to the west and to the east, even about people from around the world. A people from the west will shout and sing for joy regarding God’s majesty and His works of wrath against the evil kingdoms at that time. Therefore, we know that some lands “west” of Isaiah’s homeland of Israel will be true Christians and genuinely faithful to Yahweh God, who is in the Messiah Jesus, the son of David whom Isaiah prophesied about. Because of the praise from those lands in the west, some lands “in the east” will respond, will then “give glory to Yahweh” as well, presumably because the lands in the west will provide the elect in the east with much needed aid in the name of Yahweh. This will also result in “songs of praise” to God’s glory, to the good opinion of “the Righteous One,” among the true Christians and devout Old Covenant Jews everywhere, even “from the ends of the earth,” although in times of horror and death.

 

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These nations who praise God will not be like the unjust, foolish, cruel, exploitative, dishonest, so-called “Christian nations” in our day. Rather, they will soon be truly Christian nations that will cast aside all hierarchical class systems, all notions of superior human gods, the oppression of humanistic financial controls, as well as all other forms of religious morality and laws which originated from the slave societies of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. The God-praising nations to the west and east will soon become truly just, wise, loving lands, who justly and equitably serve God by honestly and faithfully serving Jesus. Yet all we know about these these godly nations is that they will be “west” and “east” of Israel, and will affect the lives of those “from the ends of the earth.” We do not know how far “west” or “east” those lands will be. However, Israel itself will be one of those lands in the “east” and, therefore, the eastern lands which truly worship Yahweh in the Messiah Jesus likely will be near Israel. Then these zealous worshipers “from the west” will cause worshipers “from the ends of the earth” to “hear songs of praise” about God. So the western nations appear to be internationally influential, able to communicate on a global scale, and able to affect the “east” in very posive ways.

All this clearly indicates that, during the darkest days of the earth, just before Jesus returns, while the beast is still the dominant world power, there will be true churches existing, and some whole nations that have become faithful to the God of Israel in the Messiah Jesus. Also, from other prophecies, we know this true church will begin with God’s “sealing” of the elect during the era of the sixth seal, after the revival of truth, after the genuine Gospel is preached again. Then this true, world-wide church will mature in its spiritual knowledge, wisdom and strength, until it is ready, with garments of pure white linen, with its just and loving ways, to welcome their Husband’s arrival on the earth.

But this prophecy about the earth’s devastation, which is embedded in the prophecy about those godly nations from the west and east, then immediately followed by a prophecy about “traitors,” suggests the existence of a false church during those end times. And this false church would seem to be both a fake New Covenant branch of the church and a fake Old Covenant branch of the church, since the prophets and Jesus and the apostles never distinguished between the two. For, to them, God only ever created one priesthood of one church of Israel through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Now, since a fake church will “betray” both true Christians and true Jews, while nations from the west and east praise God, it also implies that a persecution of God’s faithful servants will occur at that time as well. And the worst persecution of awakened Christian and Jewish elect during the end times will occur in the last half of beast’s seven-year reign. During the last three and a half years of his reign, the beast will behead true Christians in his own lands and other places where his zealous worshipers dwell. Then the beast will probably also establish a network of traitorous Jewish spies in Israel at that time, to inform on devout Jews who rebel against his atheistic humanism and anti-God policies, which that beast will try to enforce in Israel after his first invasion, after he conquers Israel and the Middle East at the beginning of his seven-year reign. Therefore, this prophecy in chapter 24 of Isaiah seems to occur during the last half of the beast’s seven-year reign, as the earth is experiencing the worst and final plagues of God’s wrath, and those deaths on earth will only end when Jesus returns.

Nevertheless, the “terror and the pit and the snare” against the wicked of the earth will include all the deadly and destroying plagues of both the sixth and seventh seals, as well as the many spiritual and emotional pits and traps they place on themselves through all their lies and sins against one another. The “windows of heaven are opened” in the end times, to release God’s wrath, and will likely cause the very “foundations” of all lands on earth—their systems of government, health, infrastructure, economics, defense, business, education and so on—to be shaken to the core. The order and structure of every wicked land, especially the nations of Roman humanists, will be “utterly broken,” and the treaties and unions between nations will be “split apart.” The thoughts of unbelievers will be dulled

 

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by incessant and intense fear and anxiety, until they stagger and sway like fools inebriated by their sorrows, because their uninhibited transgressions will weigh so heavily upon their hearts. Inwardly, all will know that this is God’s wrath against their lies and sins, but few minds of flesh will admit it.

And when these ignorant, selfish, wicked drunks fall, they will never rise again, neither on earth nor in the spiritual realm. A few stubbornly unrepentant elect might exist among them, who shall repent into salvation at the gates of heaven after they die. But the vast majority will die and go to hell after the last day. For, during this time, Yahweh Jesus will judge, condemn and punish those multitudes of self-esteemed ones in their artificially exalted positions, all the wealthy in their positions of power and esteem, as well as all the self-serving and corrupt rulers on the earth. None of the wicked shall escape God’s wrath. None will remain alive on the day of the Messiah’s glorious advent and none will fool the judgment of their spirits’ motives and intentions by the piercing eyes of Jesus on that final day, when literally all who ever dwelt on earth must give an account of their spiritual actions.

This is also another prophecy about Armageddon, about how God will gather the wicked in the valleys of Israel for their destruction, “as prisoners in a pit” waiting to be punished with the death penalty. And on the day of their destruction, as the corpses of the beast’s armies lie in the valleys of Israel, Yahweh Jesus shall physically return to rule the earth from His Temple on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. And, as He rules, “His glory will be before His elders,” before His teaching and judging assistants, before His most spiritually mature disciples sent out on missions for the church of Israel.

By the way, the ESV translates a clause in verse 21 as: “the Lord will punish the host of heaven, in heaven.” But that is obviously a wrong translation in context. For we know God already cast out all the wicked from heaven, a long time ago, shortly after its creation. So there is no one left in heaven to punish. Actually, the two Hebrew words translated as “heaven” here (marom, “height”) actually refer to “exalted” or “esteemed” humans who delude themselves into thinking they are superior, above the common people, the rich and powerful. These deluded souls, together with governing rulers or “kings of the earth,” as well as their “hosts” or “armies,” will be punished for their unjust, inequitable and exploitative practices and laws. They will be killed, then put in a spiritual prison, in the “skies” of the spiritual realm. Then their souls will face our God Jesus on the judgment day, after the millennium of His rule on earth. This seems to be why God says: “They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished” (24:22). But after all this, after Jesus kills all of the wicked on earth, His rule will be so bright, just, equitable and loving that no other light on earth throughout history can be compared with it. Thus, “the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed” of their meagre lights, compared to Jesus’ light.

Isaiah 27:1-6 (ESV): “In that day [Yahweh] with His hard and great and strong sword will

punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and He will slay the

dragon that is in the sea. In that day, ‘A pleasant vineyard, sing of it! I, [Yahweh], am its

Keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day; I have no

wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn

them up together. Or let them lay hold of My protection, let them make peace with Me, let

them make peace with Me.’ In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and

put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.”

This is a prophecy begins by indicating what Yahweh the Messiah, whom we call Jesus or Yeshua, the almighty Creator God, will do to Satan. The Jews commonly referred to the deadly spirit of Satan with frightening figurative terms such as “Leviathan,” “dragon” or “serpent.” And, through Isaiah, God told us about the same end-times event that Jesus revealed to John in a vision: “I saw an angel

 

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coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. He seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years, and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time… And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison and he will come out to deceive the nations…. [and after Jesus crushes the rebellion of Gog and Magog] the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever” ( Rev. 20:1-3,7-8a,10, WEB). So this “slaying” or second death of Satan in the eternal spiritual prison of hell will actually occur twice.

Isaiah longs for the days after Satan is cast down, for the earth will then become “a pleasant vineyard, sing of it!” And, when the earth is freed from Satan’s lies and murdering, God promised: “I, Yahweh, am its Keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day; I have no wrath.” Since Yahweh in Jesus will justly rule over and guard the earth for a thousand years, no one will abuse or exploit anyone else on it, nor any of the living and inanimate entities there. Also, if any elect soul sins while Jesus is the King and High Priest of the entire world, that one will be redeemed through a judgment involving correcting teaching and training, with the providence of all that is necessary to restore an abundant loving life, because our God Jesus will “have no wrath.”

But look at what God says next: “Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.” First of all, since our God said this, and since we are made in His image to partake in His works for our spirits’ training on earth, then we also should say this same thing too. For our infantile and ignorant spirits need to learn to hate evil, and we need to participate in the works of our God Jesus to nullify and burn away the works of the devil. Yet Yahweh in Jesus did not say this because He wanted evil to exist so He could “battle” against it. Rather God said this because He saw the wretched state of the elect in His church. For His priesthood of Israel did not seek Him and His truths. Israel did not want to “battle” against evil. Instead, Israel embraced the ruthless injustice and murdering of Satan’s world order, because His church sought only that devil’s rewards of power, money and carnal pride. Therefore, God cried out: “Or let them lay hold of My protection, let them make peace with Me, let them make peace with Me.” God zealously desired to protect His priesthood of Israel from the deceptions of Satan. God wanted to march against the flesh-tearing “thorns and briers” of the sins caused by that evil spirit’s lies. But Israel did not want this.

At the present time, and since the days of Jesus’ first advent, the elect Jews and Gentiles in His church of Israel have refused to lay hold of God’s protection or make peace with Him. Instead, they learned from Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome to trust only in themselves and in their other human gods. And this turning away from the real God and His New Covenant salvation has worked nothing but conflict between them and their only Savior. Then this apostasy in Israel back then, in about 700 BC, also brought grief to the heart of God, as well as to the hearts of His fallible and sinful servants like Isaiah, who did look to Yahweh for “protections” from lies, so they would be prevented from committing sins. God’s genuine servants bear unfathomable sorrow for the church today, and sternly rebuke the church in love, because they know that many of those rebellious souls are God’s elect children, their eternal siblings born to share their home in heaven. God’s true and called servants also know that Jesus will not cast those elect into the everlasting spiritual darkness of their own invented delusions and lies, into the same pit where the loveless children of Satan will forever dwell. Rather, because elect spirits can repent, Jesus will correct and redeem them on the last day. Nevertheless, seeing the empty, futile, loveless lives of the elect in fake churches, when they could have fulfilled, meaningful, loving lives under the protection of our real God Jesus, is a sight that breaks the heart.

 

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