The conflict in the Middle East is positioned within different worldviews.
History tells us that certain individuals have a desire to conquer the world and go on rampages shooting, looting, and rooting out ethnicities they abhor, so they are the overlords (e.g. Alexander the Great & Genghis Khan).
Wars
In the Bible, we read this fascinating statement:
- In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. (2 Samuel 11:1)
War keeps people loyal to rulers. The ruling lord protects subjects from the other war lords. The testosterone of youth has an outlet. The egotistical, muscled, gorilla-like male soldiers can beat their chest. Heroes are made for the children, the feeble, the women and lesser subjects at home to idolize.
The ruling class know that unless they can control those over whom they rule, they will be dismissed, and have to do what everyone else does to survive. Ego deflated, Humpty Dumpty falls off the perch, along with his privileged lifestyle.
Taking the above into consideration, what is happening in the Middle East is nothing more than history repeating itself within a modern context.
Another view is that Jews are God's chosen people and within the Bible it states that they are promised an eternal right to occupy and rule over the land between the Euphrates and Nile rivers.
A third view is that the Ashkenazim originated from the ancient Khazars and are simply doing what they have always done: steal, pillage and destroy what belongs to others.
A fourth view is that today's Jews have rejected their Messiah and are seeking to return to Jerusalem to await the coming of the King of Kings, who will set up an eternal government over the globe, wherein they will rule the peoples of the Earth.
A fifth view is that today's Jews are of the Synagogue of Satan and are simply fulfilling what is written in Bible prophecy. They will set up a temple in Jerusalem and deceive the world by creating a fake messiah as the King of kings over the Earth. Many in the world will be deceived and accept him to be Lord Jesus Christ returned.
In respect to the fifth view, this is clearly outlined in the Bible, and is what we see taking place today. Like many matters, there are numerous variations regarding interpretations of events when it comes to incorporating exactly how this is to happen. The fifth view actually incorporates elements of the other views when the puzzle is pieced together.
Realistically, we have to admit, for any prophetic event to happen, all that is required is the prophecy and its fulfillment. While the prophecy is being fulfilled, unless we understand the big picture, we cannot form an accurate view of what to expect. Once fulfilled, we can then (diagnostically) analyze how events unfolded.
Analogy
In some ways, it's like a child thinking that, by eating only Big Macs with fries, illness will never occur. Told illness is likely to happen, being healthy, the child shrugs off the prediction.
Forty years later, suffering from consequential subclinical scurvy, systemic lupus erythematosus, premature aging and bronchial pneumonia, a medical diagnosis is sought.
Unless the one making the diagnosis understands the person's eating habits and lifestyle since a child, a misdiagnosis and lack of remedy is likely — one of the reasons iatrogenesis is the USA's third leading cause of death.
Prophecy
For the Bible's prophecies to be fulfilled, certain events have to happen.
We can say that the Synagogue of Satan is simply following what is written in the Bible to set up a one world government under a new world order, having brought about a devastating global financial collapse, and this has nothing to do with biblical prophecy being fulfilled.
Rapture
Having only read the Bible from Genesis to Job, when I first heard of the rapture of genuine Christians, I thought the preacher was mad — insane, crazy!
However, that night (Feb. 1975) in a vivid dream, I was shown:
1. The Spirit pouring out the latter rain before the final harvest (Joel 2.23; James 5:7),
2. and speaking to the wise in what seems like thunders to the unsaved and foolish half-hearted Christians (Revelation 10:1-4; Matthew 24:1-12),
3. before Lord Jesus raptures the genuine Christians to meet Him in the clouds (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17),
4. as our bodies are instantly changed from mortal flesh (1 Corinthians 15:51-53),
5. a short period after the Antichrist has been declared to be the coming Lord Jesus Christ (2 Thessalonians 2:4),
6. with the deceived choosing to worship this imposter (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12; Revelation 13:4),
7. who came out of a country that is an island North West of Israel (Daniel 8:9).
While reading the rest of the Bible, I found all the seven points I was shown in the dream are corroborated by the Scriptures, as indicated above.
Over the years, I have found that while there are many dogmatic assertions about numerous matters (all based on the Bible), what I have learned, here a little and there a little, stacks up.
Taking an objective view, and being a practical person, when I finally decided to analyze the prophecies in the book of Daniel to see how valid they are today, I discovered the majority of interpretations all fall short because they overlook certain criteria that need to be taken into account.
Revelation
Misinterpretation occurs interpreting the book of Revelation (written AD 95-96), which clearly states in the first sentence that it is not about past events.
- The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants what must soon take place.... (Revelation 1:1)
Yet numerous interpreters claim that events in Revelation refer to the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70 and the fall of angels from God's presence prior to the flood of Genesis, not recognizing that "what soon must take place" means "everything written now" is to occur "afterwards" (AD 96+) and has not happened prior to this.
Soon
The problem with the word "soon" is it may mean "next week" or "next month" or "next year".
However, when downloading instructions from the Eternal One, who lives outside of time, "soon" could even mean "two thousand years".
Today, though, we are seeing events unfold that demonstrate the "soon" in the first sentence of the Book of Revelation is very pressing — something not seen before in history.
Eschatology
From the 1970s to 2000s, Bible-thumping eschatologists were not making sense to me:
- The Roman Empire being formed again never looked like happening.
- The Scofield-dispensational view that claimed a "rapture" could happen at any minute was clearly nonsense.
- Israel being a nation uniquely formed in a single day — beginning in 1917 and given nationhood status in 1947 does not constitute one day.
(NB: the church, on the other hand, as a spiritual entity was formed in a single day.)
Regardless of what spin a person puts on the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, its reality is being fulfilled before our very eyes.
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