Prophecy Special - 9/11 - The Final Solution of God, No. 9

PS09

This is literal. It is very hard to speak to people who want to adjust the thinking of God to human viewpoint. It is very hard to do, and it is very hard to have a conversation on one simple little basic fact that "Thus says the Lord." This is what the Bible says. The book of the Revelation is thrown out in most religious groups as being something so esoteric that it cannot be understood. Well, if you let it be understood in what the words mean, it's perfectly clear. It always interprets the symbols when those are used, right there in the context, or that same symbol is used someplace else in the Scripture. So we have a clue to what is going on. This simply means that you can't be a dummy about the Scriptures. You have to have the whole frame of reference. So you have to have somebody who can explain it who has gone through a theological background of the whole Scripture to get the frame of reference of what God is doing for Israel; what He's doing for the gentiles; what He's doing for the angels; and, what He's doing for the Christians. Those are the four main bodies that he deals with. They all end up in the book of the Revelation in the end times in their completed state.

In the previous session, we showed you the seal judgments which were the first thing brought from this scroll. We had this in Revelation 6. The first seal had a rider on a white horse. This was the antichrist imposing a false peace and safety on the era in which he lives, and particularly on Western Europe. The second seal, when it was broken, brought forth a rider on a red horse representing warfare in various parts of the world. The antichrist is trying to mute this. He's trying to get people to stop letting their old sin natures bring conflict between them. The third seal brings forth a rider on a black horse. Worldwide famine and inflation will run rampant. The fourth seal brings forth the rider on the ashen or the pale horse representing death. This includes death by wars; by famine; by violence; by disease; and, by animals.

This moves us to the point of the mid-tribulation and goes beyond. One of our athletic people corrected me when I was trying to figure out who the four horsemen of the apocalypse were in the athletic world. Of course, he was right. It was Notre Dame and Knute Rockne the coach who became famous with the four men at Notre Dame University on the field. They became known as the four horsemen of the apocalypse after the book of the Revelation.

Seal number five is the cry of the martyred tribulation believers because of their testimony for the Lord Jesus Christ. These are not church people. These are not Christians. These are people who were born again during the tribulation by information left behind, such as what is being recorded up in our audio recording room right now; the little booklets on evangelism; and, the Word of God in one way or another that people will have access to, not the least of which are the Bibles. Seal number six is havoc in nature from a huge earthquake; the sun darkened; the moon blood red; falling stars as meteors; the sky rolled back; and, the mountains and the islands in upheaval as the earth fault structures come into play, both under the seas and on the earth's surface.

In order to understand seal number seven, we need to understand the progression of the book of the Revelation. We need to get this straight. Seal number seven leads to the seven trumpet judgments. They are progressive. So at about seal number four, they get to about the midpoint of the tribulation. From then on, they're moving through the rest of the seven-year period. When we get down to the seven bowls, as we will see, it is so horrendous what is taking place that it has to be within the last few weeks, or month or two, before Christ returns and the battle of Armageddon takes place. Otherwise, there would be no humanity left alive on the face of the earth.

The effect of the seal judgments is that humanity of unsaved people are struck with terror, and they seek to hide themselves from God. They know who is doing these terrible things under these seal judgments, and terror will strike them. That's what's beginning by what happened on 9/11 with the terror activity, something the United States has never known before. This is going to be worldwide. The ecumenical church, under the false prophet, will rise to the zenith of its religious power over all mankind. All religious groups are brought together into one conglomerate. That will be in the first part, the first three-and-a-half years. When they get to the midpoint when, Satan makes the antichrist the ruler of all nations, then the ecumenical church, the woman who rides the beast, will be thrown off and destroyed, and the antichrist will set up his own religious system with the false prophet where the antichrist himself will be God.

Again, I remind you, this is where history is moving. This is the reality of the Word of God. This is the trouble with people trying to understand terrorism today. They do not understand the simple statement. It is a doctrine of Islam recorded in the Koran, and expanded in the traditions, the Hadith of Muhammad, that Christians and Jews are infidels, and if they will not convert to Islam, they are to be killed by the sword. Now, whatever you may want to do with it, and wherever you may want to apply that to the human situation today; to the social situation today; or, to the governmental situation today, that has nothing to do with the fact that this is what it is taught by Muhammad, the great and sacred prophet.

Muhammad is viewed by Muslims as a very holy person. When you have a chance to talk to Muslims, you will discover that they don't read the Koran. It's not like we read the Bible. It's a mishmash book. It was not put in an orderly way or a chronological way like the Bible begins with the beginning of Genesis, and then progresses in an orderly fashion to Revelation. You come from a start to an end. These things were written by Muhammad when he was under a hypnotic catatonic state, and it was written down on all kinds of materials. Then after his death, all of these pieces were collated together. The way they arranged them was that the longest revelations that the spirit world gave him were put first, and the shortest ones at the end. They have nothing do with one another.

So it's very easy to discredit Muhammad as one real all-time great con artists. But you have to be careful not to do that, because to the Muslim, he is a very holy man. As we know from the Word of God, because our frame of reference is the inerrant Scripture, that is nothing of the sort. So the book is confusing, and it makes the Lord Jesus Christ just a prophet. It denies that He is the son of God. It claims that the person who died on the cross was a look-alike. It claims that Christ never died and rose again; that He is dead; and, that He is not the living Christ. And you have to understand that most Muslims don't even know what their religion teaches.

So this whole religious system is moving toward the deification of man, and terror will be the technique that the antichrist uses to impose that kind of a religion on people. After all, what is the antichrist going to want you to believe? That he is God. He will also promise that following him, you are a potential God. That's exactly what Hinduism teaches today, and what Mormonism teaches. So you have to remember that the terror system that you see within the setup of Islam is the system that Satan is going to use with the antichrist.

So the false church dominates the antichrist's political powers as the Roman Catholic Church did in the Middle Ages. There are 144,000 Jewish evangelists, 12,000 from every tribe. One of our ladies was telling me how somebody told her there were only two tribes left--Judah and Benjamin, and that there were not 12 tribes. Well, that's ignorance, so you don't want to waste your time talking about that. The Bible shows us here that God knows the Jews who come from these 12 tribes, and their background, and they're still around. There'll be 12,000 of them. They will have a seal of God put upon them so they will not be able to be killed. They will be proclaiming the truth about the antichrist and about salvation through the grace of God. The communication media will be controlled by the antichrist through the U.N. They will give the impression that they are on top of things, and that they are dealing with these disasters of God.

So we come to the social outlook--the world at mid-tribulation. The northern confederacy of nations, led by Russia at the close of the first three-and-a-half years, will break out in affiliation with the Arabs into a war condition of attack upon Israel. What happens to Russia and her allies is described in Ezekiel 38-39, which is beyond our purview here. But you may read it, and you will see that fire from heaven comes down. Perhaps it's nuclear. And God destroys all of the troops brought against Israel; He protects the nation; and, only a sixth of them survive to get back to Russia.

The Two Witnesses

Verse 5: "If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemy." This is one blast of halitosis if you ever saw one. People find very quickly that fooling around with these two gentlemen is not a good idea. If anyone would desire to harm them, he is killed in this manner. It's just a blast of fire that comes out of their mouths, like two dragons. They are invincible. People begin to suspect that these two guys have something from higher up than anything that's going on in the world of the antichrist.

Verse 6: "These have the power to shut up the sky in order that rain may not fall during the days of their prophecy." There is no rain for three-and-a-half years. "And they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, to smite the earth with every plague as often as they desire." They do exactly that. These, of course, are plagues like what has happened in the past. This was done by Moses; smiting the earth; turning the water into blood; and, bringing plagues upon the Egyptians. The whole point of this is that the antichrist can't control this. He can't stop them. He can't control them. He can mute the news coverage of them, but he cannot stop what they are doing. They are invincible. Anybody who gets close to try to take hold of them will be killed. The result is that it's very embarrassing to the antichrist, showing that he is not in charge. That is not a good thing for someone who is a god.

"When they had finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them and overcome them and kill them." Finally, the antichrist, the beast, comes out of the abyss. The abyss is in the center of the earth. It's the realm of demonic spirits. This is probably, in all likelihood, where hell will exist. But in any case, he comes up, and this man, empowered by Satan, finally is permitted by God to kill the two witnesses. This sends a moment of thrill and joy: "Our man, our leader, really is a god."

Verse 8: "And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also the Lord was crucified." These witnesses had a spectacular ministry during the first part of the tribulation. They will now be killed by the antichrist, and their bodies will be left in the street on display in the city of Jerusalem for three-and-a-half days. And the people of the tribulation will rejoice over what has happened to these two witnesses of God. This is history. This is a preview of history--the prophetic truth that is going to be fulfilled.

Verse 9: "And those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies (very easy for television to do) for three-and-a-half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb." The antichrist will say, "Let them lie there in the street. Let them lie there on that street in Jerusalem. Don't scrape them up. Just keep the cameras on them. Well, that's a bad mistake, as he will discover.

"And those who dwell on the earth." That, again, I remind you, is a technical term for unbelievers. "Those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry, and they will send gifts to one another because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth." They had tormented unbelievers. So they decide to have Christmas, a big Christmas party, a big celebration party. They give gifts to one another to celebrate this wonderful event--that the mouths of these two men of God have been silenced. This is what the unbeliever (or the carnal Christian) always wants to do. He wants to silence the mouth of the person who speaks from the frame of reference of Scripture. He wants to direct us away from the frame of reference of the argument of the realities of the truth, the authority that only the Bible bears upon it--the stamp that it's a book that men could not have written. It had to be under divine guidance. Therefore, in contrast to all other religious writings, it is the Word of God.

Verse 11: "After three-and-a-half days, the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who were beholding them." The TV cameras are going.

It was very much like the coverage of 9/11. I happened to come from the teachers' prayer meeting when the first tower had been hit in New York City. Mrs. Danish said, "Look at this." I looked, and it wasn't but a few minutes later when there came the other plane around, and while we were standing there looking at it, we see the second tower hit. And not long after that, we see the crumbling of the first tower. Then after that, the crumbling of the second tower; the pandemonium; the turmoil; and, the fear on the faces of people down there on the street.

Well, this is what they're going to have. Suddenly, as they're having a party over the death of these two men, now they see them come back to life. This is something the antichrist can't do. He can fake things, but he cannot actually give the breath of life.

"And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, 'Come up here.' And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them." If the antichrist wants to imitate something, let him try that. Jesus Christ went up into a cloud that took him out of the people's sight. Now his servants are taken into His presence in the same way. Millions of people will hear this voice from heaven, and they'll record it.

Furthermore, in that hour, at that very moment, as they're rising to go to heaven, verse 13 says, "There was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city of Jerusalem collapses. 7,000 people will be killed in the earthquake and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the god of heaven." They begin to get it--what is actually happening.

At the midpoint that we have reached here in the tribulation, in Chapter 17, we see that at this point the antichrist destroys the ecumenical church. Revelation 17:16: "And the ten horns which you saw and the beast (that's the antichrist and the ten nations associated with him), these will hate the harlot" (the ecumenical church). So you can have an ecumenical service, but God says it's a service of harlotry; spiritual adultery; and, spiritual fornication. It is totally condemned by God. You don't mix believers and unbelievers in one pot. "The ten horns which you saw and the beast (the antichrist and these ten nations) will hate the harlot and make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her up with fire." They turn against the ecumenical church, and they destroy this system. So the antichrist can set himself up in the temple, his own image, and become the head of his own religious system. At this point, in order to do this, he turns against the Jews.

Jesus pointed this out in Matthew 24:15: "Therefore, when the abomination of desolation." Now since we have been back in Daniel 9, we know now what the abomination of desolation is. It is the image of the antichrist in the temple of the Jews in Jerusalem purporting to be their God. "When you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel." That happens at the mid-tribulation, through Daniel the prophet. "Standing in the holy place, let the reader understand."

This is further expanded in 2 Thessalonians 2:4. In the context, this is speaking of the antichrist: "Who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called God or object of worship" So he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

So the false prophet sets up a whole new religious system where the antichrist himself will be in the temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, that has been rebuilt, to be worshipped. When the antichrist is not on the scene (because he is not omnipresent--he's a human being), his image will be there with lifelike qualities to impress the people who come by in order that they may worship that. The false prophet is in control of this religious system in behalf of the antichrist. We looked at this last time in Revelation 13:11-18.

Well, now something else takes place. In Revelation 12:12, things begin coming apart in Satan's plan, and in the antichrist's program in one way or another. In Revelation 12:12, there is a great battle. The final battle of the angelic warfare takes place in outer space. It is Michael and the holy angels against Satan and his evil angels. The devil loses. Michael and his angels defeat Satan and his demons.

Verse 12 says, "For this reason, rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them." Well, who is dwelling in in those heavens at this time? The Christians are all in heaven now. The believers from all ages are in heaven. "Woe to the earth and the sea." We'll see what kind of woe comes upon the earth and upon the sea. "Because the devil has come down to you having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time." Now, what do you think that means? The devil knows most everything. He has a great intelligence system and great knowledge. He was the wisest, smartest creature that God ever made, and he still is. What he knows is the timetable. He knows what we're learning here. He knows what the book of the Revelation has revealed. When he loses this battle with the angels of God, he is thrown out of heaven.

Jesus said, "I saw Satan cast down from heaven." Jesus was previewing what he knew was going to happen. Now, Satan can no longer go to accuse the believers in heaven. He no longer has access to the throne room of God. And he has only a short time. He figures it out. He's a good Bible student. He knows he's got three-and-a-half years left that God has allotted him to run rampant. So he knows that that's all the time he has now. By this time, he knows that he can't win. So what can he do? He can frustrate.

The Battle of the Bulge in World War II was the final effort of Hitler and the Nazi armies. The Nazis were finally stopped by General Patton, who made a marvelous 180-degree turn of his Seventh Army, and came charging back down to Bastogne and broke through the lines to relieve General McAuliffe. Bastogne was a critical city. It was the crossroads that the Germans had to have to go on to try to get to the coast, which was their objective, and to divide the allies in half. That would just break up the whole advance that had been made thus far.

When the word came back to Hitler that Patton had defeated them, he knew that the party was over. So from then on, he was pulling his troops back to Germany, and he was ordering a scorched earth policy. He even ordered that all of Paris be burned to the ground. The Louvre and the priceless pictures and objects of art that were there were to be destroyed. He put in charge a general that he considered the most reliable, who always obeyed his orders precisely. But this one time, the general could not do it. He just could not destroy a cultural city of such fame as Paris. And he disobeyed. This was an act of God to save the city.

But the devil goes to a scorched earth policy to destroy as much as he can before God fulfills the final three-and-a-half years of His covenant with Israel. He finishes the 490 years, and thus restores to Israel all her covenant blessings and promises. Under her Messiah Savior Jesus Christ, Israel becomes the leading nation of the world; Jerusalem is the capital of the world; and, her 1,000-year kingdom begins. Satan empowers the antichrist. He forms that false trinity: Satan; the antichrist; and, the false prophet. The antichrist keeps trying to keep the spirits of the world up. But he attacks with a vengeance the people of God.

Revelation 12:17: "And the dragon was enraged with the woman (with Israel) and went off to make war with the rest of her offspring." There is a great outburst of anti-Semitism. "Who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus." He wants to destroy Israel, and to oppose the Christians. He blasphemes God, as we saw in Revelation 13:5-7 as never before. The false prophet himself has great demonic satanic powers, occult powers, as we saw in Revelation 13:13-15. He still awes the world with these events; these deceptions; these signs and wonders; and, miracles. Well, the satanic trinity is the devil's final attempt to bring order to the human relationship that the old sin nature has been tearing up for him.

Socialism

The Seven Trumpets

The First Trumpet

This trumpet is sounded, and God reigns down hail and fire mixed with blood; it splatters all over the streets; it splatters all over the people below; it splatters all over their houses and their lawns; and, a third of the earth is burned up. A third of the trees burn; and, a third of the green vegetation is burned up.

The Second Trumpet

Verse 9 says when that it hits, it creates a tidal wave condition; "A third of the creatures which were in the sea and had life, they die." Naturally, they can't live in blood. A third of the ships were destroyed by this tidal wave condition that has been created.

Now, all of this is being reported in some way or another, like on the nightly news. It's going to happen. And the terror is mounting beyond anything people can imagine. Those who have been instructed in the Word of God; who are reading the Word of God; or, those who are studying to this sermon out there in the tribulation will know what's happening. They know where all this is moving. They've got it together. They know that they're going to probably end up as martyrs. But some of them will survive in the seclusion of Petra, in the mountain enclave that the Jews will rush to.

The Third Trumpet

Verse 11: "The name of the star is call Wormwood." Wormwood is a bitter and a caustic and a toxic substance. "A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters because they were made bitter." People in their desperation and their thirst will just drink whatever they have to. They'll drink the blood in the water, and they'll drink this poison water in desperation. People sometimes are adrift at sea in a lifeboat. When in their desperation, they drink saltwater, and that's deadly.

The Fourth Trumpet

God created the earth exactly the right distance from the sun, so it's not too cold, and not too hot. Life can survive. Some parts of it are very cold. Some parts of the equator are very hot, but they are survivable. You could not have very much difference in the earth's distance from the sun without having everything collapse here in the nature that is on earth; the structure; the life forms; and, the whole bit. So here, a third of the sun is out, and a third of the moon is out. Light is denied this earth.

The Fifth Trumpet

So here we go with trumpet number five. We're talking about locusts here who, in fact, are demons. And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth, and a key to the bottomless pit which was given to him." This star is undoubtedly Satan. He is given the key to the bottomless pit, and he opens the bottomless pit, the doorway to the center of the earth. "Smoke went up out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace." Naturally, the inside of the center of the earth is a great cauldron of heat and molten lava. "The sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit, and out of the smoke came forth locusts." These undoubtedly are demonic spirits. "They came out upon the earth. Power was given to them as the scorpions of the earth have power." They have the power to kill.

If you've ever had the sting of a scorpion, it is pretty startling. It's a jolt. And you know that something has hit you. So here in verse 4, "They were told that they should not hurt the grass or the earth (the things that locusts would normally go after), or any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their forehead." This is the seal of God the Holy Spirit that they are believers. "And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man." They will not attack the vegetation. They will only go after people who have the mark of the beast. The people are unable to escape their agony by suicide. They will try to get away from this. For five months, the people of the antichrist's world are under the agony of these creatures which are stinging them and causing great pain and great agony. They want suicide, but they cannot kill themselves.

In Matthew 24:21, Jesus, says "And then there will be such great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be." Jesus is talking about the mid-tribulation when these creatures are turned loose. They're going to give a new meaning to suffering.

Revelation 9:7: "The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads, as it were, crowns like gold. Their faces were like the faces of men. They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like teeth of lions. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots of many horses rushing to battle." It's hard to know what all this means, but it certainly sounds like Halloween. These locusts are going to have a very grotesque appearance--these demonic creatures.

Verse 10: "They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months." There's no point in trying to speculate whether these are some kind of military machines. We have no way of knowing that. But coming from the middle of the earth, the abode of the demonic world, they're probably demons.

Verse 11: "They have as king over them the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, it is Apollyon." That's Satan. He is their king. These two names mean "destroyer." "Abaddon" in the Hebrew is "destroyer." "Apollyon" in Greek is "destroyer." So this clearly refers to Satan, who is the leader of the demonic angels. Verse 12 says, "The first is passed. Behold, two woes are still coming after these things."

The Sixth Trumpet

In the fourth seal, one-fourth of the world's population was killed. Of the 75% that are left, a third of that is killed. That makes half the world's population of over 6 billion people who are now dead by the sixth year of the tribulation. Over 3 billion people have been killed. A billion is a number that's very hard for us to comprehend. It's a thousand millions. It's an enormous number. The death will be fantastic all over the world.

"The number of the armies of the horsemen coming across was 200 million. I heard the number of them. This is how I saw in the vision," John says, "the horses and those who sat on them. The riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and brimstone, and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and brimstone." Here again, we can only speculate whether these are some kind of military machines. But the point is that death is going to be commonplace, and it's going to be fantastically horrible. You can imagine the burial detail that you're going to need for this kind of an operation.

So verse 13 said that a third of mankind was killed by these 3 plagues: by the fire; the smoke; and, the brimstone which proceeded out of the mouth of these angels. "For the power of the horses is in their mouths and their tails. Their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm. The rest of mankind who are not killed by these plagues (from these four angels--demons who were released) did not repent of the works of their hands so as to worship demons and the idols of gold and silver and brass and stone of wood, which can neither see nor here nor walk." Can you believe it? These people, unbelievers, see this happening under this suffering. What do they do? They still do not submit to the Lord Jesus Christ. "They did not repent of their murders nor their sorceries." By the way, that's the Greek word "pharmakeia" for drug and drug addiction. That's what sorceries are. They worship demons through drugs. "And of their immorality, nor of their thefts." Isn't that interesting? Stealing is one of the great things. Well, you can see how in this desperate time, people are going to do whatever they have to try to survive.

The Seventh Trumpet

Revelation 11:15-19: "And the seventh angel sounded (blew his trumpet), and their rose loud voices in heaven, saying, 'The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.' And the 24 elders (representing the church) who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshipped God, saying, 'We give you thanks, O, Lord God, the Almighty who is and who was because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.' And the nations were enraged and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth."

Isn't that interesting? Here at the end, we're going to close it down now. God says, "Christians, I haven't forgotten what you've done. You're going to be rewarded." This business of rewards is what our life is all about. We plead for people to do certain Christian service activities (who could do it). But we excuse ourselves for a lot of trivialities that don't matter in the long run. It's just that the heart is not there to do it. But God says, "It will be a time to give rewards to His bond servants."

The Seven Bowls

The First Bowl

The Second Bowl

The Third Bowl

Verse 5: "And I heard the angel of the water saying, 'Righteous are you, who are and who were, O Holy One, because You judged these things (that's the Lord Jesus Christ); for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it.' And I heard the altar saying, 'Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.'"

The Fourth Bowl

The Fifth Bowl

The Sixth Bowl

The Seventh Bowl

All the evil and false religion has come from the Tower of Babel in the city of Babylon. It all comes back to rest upon her, and the wrath of God is poured out upon this city at the very end. The voice from heaven announces the end of the tribulation judgments. A worldwide gigantic earthquake takes place, greater than any in the history of the world. Babylon itself is split into three, and collapses. There are great atmospheric disturbances, and political and ecclesiastical Babylon, headquartered there, are destroyed.

Verse 20 says, "And every island fled away and the mountains were not found." The islands and the mountains disappeared. Verse 21: "And huge hailstones, about 100 pounds each, came down from heaven upon men. And men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail because this plague was extremely severe." These are hail stones 100 pounds in weight. Do you realize what that means? It's not just one or two, but a regular hailstone shower of stones of that weight. Whatever is left is going to be smashed, living or material.

Civilization has now reached its end under Satan. It all comes into shambles. The curse of God is there, and these people are eternally unrepentant. What is taking place in the terror attacks like 9/11, and the fear and lack of peace and uncertainty that is permeating the American republic is a preview (the beginning) of all of this that we have seen revealed to Daniel in his final week of God's dealing with his people, Israel.

Following this event, the Lord Jesus Christ comes from heaven in His Second Coming. We return with Him. He takes over the world, reorganizes it with our direction and administration, and a new world begins. It is an era of 1,000 years of peace. The greatest opportunity of mankind; the greatest inventions; and, the greatest forward progress far beyond anything we can imagine now will take place. But it will be a great time. You and I will be right at the very center of it. That's good news.

Dr. John E. Danish, 2002

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