THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON

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THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON

• WORLD WAR III

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Two thousand years ago

• the Apostle John foresaw the end of the 21st
  century and prophesied saying ...

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• REV. 1613-1416 ... And he gathered them
  together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue
  ARMAGEDDON.

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• The word ARMAGEDDON means HILL OF MEGIDDO or the
  HILL OF GATHERING.

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The natural hill of Megiddo
is the site of an important pass through the
mountains of northern Israel which gives access
to the southern plains. Several strategic
battles in history have been fought there and
it has been said that MORE BLOOD has been shed
around that hill THAN ANY OTHER SPOT ON EARTH!
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• Anciently Megiddo's gates and walls witnessed the
  armed struggles of Assyrians, Canaanites,
  Egyptians, Greeks, Israelites, Persians,
  Philistines, and Romans. Although Megiddo was not
  a fortress in the days of World War I, note that
  the critical battle enabling the British Field
  Marshal Edmund Allenby to wrest control of the
  Holy Land from the Turks occurred at Megiddo
  where he began his offensive against them on
  September 18, 1918.

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• This makes it a fitting illustration for the
  impending worldwide destruction known to us as
  WORLD WAR III.
• JER. 2531 ... for the LORD hath a CONTROVERSY
  with the nations he will plead with all flesh
  he will give them that are wicked to the SWORD

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• This study focuses on the end of our modern era.
• Also known as - the last prophetic hour.
• The apocalypse

2,000 year day
Early rain-40yrs
Latter Rain- 7 1/2 yrs
1260 yrs-dark ages
4 BC- 70ad
538 ad- 1760ad
Today
Last Hour
Battle of Armageddon
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In this lesson...

• We will attempt to show
• 1) WHY Armageddon is going to take place
• 2) WHAT will happen as a result.

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We will touch on three areas highlighted in the
scriptures namely
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• 1. The restoration of the nation of Israel to the
  favor of God
• 2. The return of Jesus with the Bride to the
  earth to assist the Jewish ministry during the
  1000 years and
• 3. The destruction of the organized religious and
  civil systems of the world.

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• The Lord had originally chosen the nation of
  Israel given her His law and then dealt with
  her for 1500 years but as the years passed her
  heart became increasingly hardened because of
  sin until when Jesus came to His people John
  says

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JN. 111-12

• He came unto his own and HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM
  NOT.

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• The thoughts of their hearts were only evil
  continually as Jesus showed in a parable ...
• MT. 2133-41 ... when the husbandmen saw the
  SON they said among themselves This is the
  HEIR come LET US KILL HIM and ... they caught
  him ... and slew him.

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• This condition remained unchanged during the time
  of the Early Church for Paul said ...
• ACTS 1346 ... It was necessary that the word
  of God should FIRST have been spoken to you but
  seeing ye ... judge yourselves unworthy of
  everlasting life lo we turn to the GENTILES.

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• As a result of her spiritual blindness the
  nation of Israel was destroyed by Rome in A.D.
  70 as Jesus had prophesied she would be in ...
• LK. 2122-24 ... JERUSALEM shall be trodden down
  of the Gentiles until the TIMES OF THE GENTILES
  BE FULFILLED.

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• These TIMES represent a prophetic length of time
  of 2520 years which will be fulfilled in the
  Battle of Armageddon. In the meantime
• the Lord said of Israel

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HOS. 515

• I will go and RETURN TO MY PLACE TILL they
  acknowledge their offence and seek my face IN
  THEIR AFFLICTION they will seek me EARLY.

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• Along with this prophecy
• let us turn to ...
• ACTS 19-12 ... this same Jesus which is taken
  up from you into heaven shall so come IN LIKE
  MANNER as ye have seen him go into heaven.

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• These last two scriptures go together for when
  Israel turns toward the Lord Jesus will return
  to the Mount of Olives in Israel and save her
  from total destruction. She will be in the MIDST
  of her final AFFLICTION the Battle of Armageddon.

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• But first the gospel had to go from the Jews to
  the Gentiles for the eventual purpose that they
  would finally ...
• ROM. 1111-12 ... PROVOKE (the Jews) to
  JEALOUSY. ...
• ... and cause them to return to the Lord.

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• As a matter of history from A.D. 70 until
  December of 1917 the land of Israel suffered
  under the rule of one foreign power after
  another. As the 20th century began to unfold
  however it was time for the words of the
  prophets to be fulfilled. There are volumes of
  scriptures on this point but we will just quote
  one that is representative

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EZK. 3621-24

• ... For I will take you from among the HEATHEN
  (or GENTILES) and gather you out of ALL
  COUNTRIES and will bring you into YOUR OWN LAND.

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• On June 28 1914 the world was suddenly caught up
  in a war which raged for four years. Nations were
  pitted against each other on a scale never before
  imagined possible. The British moved in and
  captured Jerusalem from the Turks in December of
  1917 General Allenby and his troops took the
  city without firing a shot which was pictured in
  prophecy in

http//www.awwwsome.com/bugler/curious/amazing.htm
It was at meggido- Gen. Allenby broke the power
of the Turks - Halleys Bible Handbook
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• ISA. 315 AS BIRDS FLYING so will the LORD of
  hosts defend Jerusalem defending also he will
  deliver it and passing over he will preserve it.
• It took until November of 1918 to completely
  clear the land of Israel.
• Then

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• THINK OF THIS! within ELEVEN DAYS of that land
  being cleared the war that had raged for FOUR
  YEARS among so many other nations came to an
  abrupt stop!
• ISRAEL was in the hands of a BIBLE-BELIEVING
  NATION and the door was soon opened for the Jews
  to return to their own land.

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• World War I was fought for the purpose of taking
  the land of Israel from UNBELIEVERS and
  providing a homeland for the Jews.
• It is STAGGERING to realize that in the course
  of this ONE PORTION of Gods plan being
  fulfilled EIGHT AND ONE-HALF MILLION PEOPLE DIED!

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• Did the Jews of the world flock back to Israel?
  Of course not but Isaiah had prophesied ...
• ISA. 435-6 ... I WILL BRING THY SEED from the
  east and gather thee from the west I will say
  to the north Give up and to the south Keep not
  back ...

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• No sooner had the dust settled from World War I
  than a worldwide depression struck. People
  yearned for someone to lead them out of their
  misery. A man by the name of HITLER began to
  gather a following in Germany saying that the
  SOURCE of all the troubles was the JEWS! Remember
  this thought it will not go away!

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• In time Hitler came to power and began a program
  to exterminate the HALF MILLION JEWS living in
  Germany. Not content with Germany he began to
  reach out to enslave all nations and in LESS
  THAN A QUARTER OF A CENTURY the world was at war
  again!

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RememberWho Will Understand?Those Who Touch
These Stones TenderlyWho Will Erect a Monument
for Us?Those Who SurvivedAnd Who Will Speak for
Us?All Those Who Perished ITZHAK KATZNELSON
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memorial- LosAngeles Calif..
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• History would call it World War II and would
  record over FIFTEEN MILLION dead to which we
  could add the SIX MILLION Jews who were
  exterminated raising the total to an awesome
  TWENTY-ONE MILLION PEOPLE!

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• As a direct result of this war increasing
  numbers of Jews from all nations especially
  Europe and Asia immigrated to the land of
  Israel. Shortly thereafter the nation of Israel
  was recognized by the world as a nation on May
  15, 1948
• 1200 midnight palestine time.

President Truman meeting on May 8, 1951 with
Prime Minister David Ben Gurion of Israel and
Abba Eban. They presented the menora as a token
of esteem for President Truman's timely
recognition of the State of Israel on May 14,
1948. http//www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/stu
dy_collections/israel/large/1948.htm
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SONG 213 The FIG TREE (was putting) forth her
GREEN FIGS ...
May 14,1948 611 pm eastern time
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• Another direct result of World War II was the
  development of atomic warfare. Man had finally
  discovered how to eliminate himself completely
  and efficiently from the face of the earth!

About one hour after the bombing of Hiroshima on
6 August 1945.Photo the U.S. Army. little boy
A bomb- killing 200,000. 3 days later- fat man
was dropped on Nagasaki-70,000 died.
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• In any move of God there must be LEADERS.
• Today Israel exists as a nation but the Jews
  are NOT spiritual.
• Where will their spiritual leaders come from
• and who will train them?
• We will answer this in just a moment.

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• Meanwhile let us look at what the Lord has done
  among the Gentiles. James tells us in ...
• ACTS 1513-16 ... Simeon hath declared how God
  AT THE FIRST did visit the Gentiles to take out
  of them a people for his name. ...

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• This took place during the 40 years of the Early
  Rain Church but James tells us there is also to
  be a Latter Rain Church in ...

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• JMS. 57 ... Behold the HUSBANDMAN ... hath
  LONG patience ... until he receive the EARLY AND
  LATTER RAIN.
• The time of the Latter Rain Church will last for
  7-1/2 years.
• This time is at our very doors right now!

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• The purpose of the Early and Latter Rain is to
  produce 144000 perfect overcomers or the Bride
  of Jesus Christ as John tells us ...
• REV. 197 Let us be glad and rejoice and give
  honour to him for the marriage of the LAMB is
  come and HIS WIFE hath MADE HERSELF READY.

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• So by these scriptures and many others we see
  that the Lord has waited patiently for over 1900
  years to produce a SPIRITUAL BRIDE.

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• As we said the Latter Rain Church will be in
  order for 7-1/2 years.
• During that period the Spirit of God will bring
  His ministry into contact with those Jews who
  will be the ministry or earthly leaders for the
  next 1000 years.

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• Through the ministry of the Body of Christ they
  will receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost the
  SEAL of God as John tells us in ...
• REV. 71-4 ... And I heard the number of them
  which were SEALED ... AN HUNDRED AND FORTY AND
  FOUR THOUSAND of all the tribes of the children
  of Israel.

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or as Paul says it in ...

• ROM. 1125-26 ... There shall come out of Sion
  the Deliverer and shall TURN AWAY UNGODLINESS
  FROM JACOB
• The Latter Rain Church will be called a SPIRITUAL
  Zion.

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• We mentioned earlier that the Early Church was in
  order for 40 years. However as the apostles were
  martyred the church began to slip out of that
  pure spiritual condition into the traditions of
  men.

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As Paul said ...

• 2 THES. 23-4 ... there (shall) come a FALLING
  AWAY first and that man of sin be revealed the
  son of perdition ...
• As time went on an organized religious system
  called the Roman Catholic Church was set up with
  the help of civil government.

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• This combined civil-religious system of man
  determined to ...
• REV. 135-7 ... make WAR with the saints and to
  overcome them ...
• This open persecution existed for 1260 years
  during which MILLIONS of people were slaughtered
  for their faith in Jesus Christ.

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• This terrible bloodshed has NEVER been paid for
  but the Lord has NOT FORGOTTEN IT! Paul tells us
  that the Lord is allowing this horrible system of
  man to ...
• ROM. 21-5 ... (TREASURE) UP (or STORE up) unto
  (itself) WRATH against the DAY OF WRATH ...

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• Towards the end of this 1260 year period the
  great Protestant movement sprang up as people
  everywhere PROTESTED the injustices of the
  Catholic Church but by the beginning of the 20th
  century the movement had lost its momentum and
  Rome was hard at work wooing the Protestant world
  back home.

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• Her deceit has been SO CONVINCING that today
  the so-called Protestant world is ACTIVELY
  engaged in creating an EXACT LIKENESS or IMAGE
  OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH! As John tells us ...

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REV. 1311-15

• ... (this system says) to them that dwell on the
  earth that they should make an IMAGE TO THE
  BEAST ... and cause that as many as WOULD NOT
  worship the image of the beast should be KILLED.

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• This sounds like the 1260 years ALL OVER AGAIN
  and it IS only WORSE!
• The desire of those running mans civil-religious
  system is quite simply to RULE THE WORLD and
  to eliminate ANYONE who opposes this plan.

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The combined Catholic-Protestant force IS ...
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REV. 1711

• ... THE EIGHTH (HEAD) and is OF the seven and
  goeth into perdition.

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• The PRINCIPAL civil support will come from the
  TEN MEMBER NATIONS which are ...
• REV. 1712-13 ... TEN KINGS which have received
  no kingdom as yet but receive power as kings ONE
  HOUR with the beast.

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• This ONE HOUR represents 15 years which in fact
  is ALMOST UPON US.
• Europe which is predominantly Catholic will
  throw its support behind the Pope of Rome as he
  makes an all-out effort to bring a FALSE PEACE to
  the world.

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• At the beginning of this hour religion will
  start to persecute those who RESIST her GUILE.
  Then the Latter Rain Church will come into order
  and shine brilliantly for 7-1/2 years.

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• During this 7-1/2-year period 144000 natural
  Jews will receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
  At the end of this half-hour Jesus will return
  for the remainder of His Bride as Paul shows us
  in ...

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1 THES. 413-17

• ... For the Lord himself shall descend from
  heaven with a shout ... (and) WE which are ALIVE
  AND REMAIN shall be caught up together with them
  in the clouds ...

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• After the Bride is taken up and the 144000
  natural Jews have been sealed on the earth the
  Lord will begin to vent His anger step-by-step
  on the false religious system

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For the Lord said through David ...

• PSA. 13921-22 ... I HATE them with PERFECT
  HATRED ...

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• The number SEVEN is the number of PERFECTION. So
  we see that for the remaining 7-1/2 years of the
  total 15-year period the Lord releases on the
  world ...

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Seven last plagues...

• SEVEN angels having the SEVEN LAST PLAGUES for
  in them is FILLED UP the WRATH OF GOD.
• Rev 151

7 angels- overcomers/bride members Rev 1910 Rev
229 Rev 164-7 7 even so- Peter? (Acts 118
Peter- not so lord) Rev 191 people Rev
195,10 (same person)
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• These vials of plagues will cause every nation on
  earth to experience food and energy shortages
  disease will spread to an unparalleled extent.
  The population of the world will become
  increasingly bitter and lawless.

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• Many nations will collapse economically while
  others will stockpile their defense weapons. A
  DESPERATE world that is choked with too many
  people and starved for food and energy while at
  the same time ARMED TO THE TEETH with nuclear and
  atomic weapons will TURN to the Catholic Church
  and DEMAND a solution!

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• Unable to satisfy the demands of an angrily
  hostile world the Man of Sin will finally point
  to ISRAEL and say
• The CAUSE of the worlds misery is the JEWS who
  control the Holy Land and in particular the CITY
  OF JERUSALEM!

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• This great DECEPTION will persuade the armies of
  Europe to converge on Israel. At the same time
  Russia will move HER armies in to enhance her
  world strategy and the Arab nations will move to
  AVENGE once and for all the grievances of the
  past.

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JOEL 39-16

• Proclaim ye THIS among the Gentiles PREPARE WAR
  wake up the mighty men let all the men of WAR
  draw near let them COME UP ...

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MIC. 411-12

• Now also many nations are gathered against thee
  ... BUT THEY KNOW NOT THE THOUGHTS OF THE LORD ...

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• The 15-year period draws quickly to a conclusion.
• The Jews in Israel see NO WAY out of their
  situation!
• The armies of the world come EVER CLOSER ...

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EZK. 381-28-9

• ... Son of man set thy face against Gog the
  land of Magog ... and prophesy against him ...
  thou shalt come ... against the mountains of
  ISRAEL ... Thou shalt ASCEND and come like a
  STORM ... to cover the land ...

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• Israel is SURROUNDED as the nations of the world
  tighten their stranglehold on her.
• The fighting is fierce and bloody!
• City after city is overrun as the armies draw
  near to Jerusalem.

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FOCAL POINT OF THE WAR-

• As the nations converge at Jerusalem.
• East vs. West
• The blood runs thick through the deep valley of
  Kidron. (Just east of the city by Mt Olives)
• Rev1420 approx. 200 miles. (furlong 1/8th mile
  1600 x 1/8 200)
• Joel 32,12,14 valley of decision
• valley of Jehosophat
• valley of Kidron

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• Finally by SHEER FORCE OF NUMBERS the foreign
  armies pour into the city of Jerusalem itself
  and as Zechariah tells us ...

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ZEC. 142

• ... the CITY shall be TAKEN and the houses
  rifled and the women ravished and half of the
  city shall go forth into captivity and the
  RESIDUE of the people shall NOT be cut off from
  the city.

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• At this precise point several events take place
  ALMOST simultaneously

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1)

• When Jerusalem falls Israel finally realizes
  that there is NO HOPE LEFT whatsoever so in a
  last bid to DISTRACT the advancing armies and
  gain more time she unleashes ALL of her NUCLEAR
  and ATOMIC WEAPONS in a strike against strategic
  WORLD centers and ...

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2)

• No sooner have the buttons been pushed than a
  NATURAL EARTHQUAKE convulses the area around
  Jerusalem. The shaking is violent and terrible
  and as Israel prepares to take her LAST BREATH
  she turns her eyes toward heaven and CRIES TO THE
  LORD FOR HELP!

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At that point

• the GREATEST EVENT since the resurrection of
  Jesus Christ from the tomb takes place as John
  tells us ...
• REV. 17 ... (JESUS) COMETH WITH CLOUDS and
  every eye shall see him and they also which
  pierced him ...

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• Jesus will appear on the Mount of Olives with the
  Bride as Zechariah prophesied ...
• ZEC. 129-10 And (Jesus) will pour upon the
  house of David ... the SPIRIT OF GRACE ... and
  they shall look upon ME whom they have pierced
  and they shall mourn for him ...
• ... and ...

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ZEC. 136

• ... one shall say unto him What are these wounds
  in thine hands? ... Those with which I was
  wounded in the house of my FRIENDS.
• Later on in Zechariahs account we see ...

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ZEC. 143-5

• Then shall the LORD go forth and FIGHT against
  those nations ... and the mount of Olives shall
  CLEAVE in the midst thereof ... And (the residue
  of the Jews) shall flee to the valley of the
  mountains ...

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• Although many in Jerusalem will have already been
  killed there will still be some left alive.
• When the earthquake takes place and the Mount of
  Olives is split in two it will provide a WAY OF
  ESCAPE for this remnant that is left.

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• The prophet Ezekiel also foresaw this great
  earthquake ...
• EZK. 3819-23 ... Surely in that day there shall
  be a GREAT SHAKING in the land of Israel ...
  (and) every mans sword shall be against his
  brother. ...

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• WHY do the armies of the world turn on one
  another?
• Zechariah tells us in ...
• ZEC. 1413 ... that a GREAT TUMULT (or noise)
  FROM THE LORD shall be among them and they shall
  lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour
  ...

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• This comes about when Israel is cornered and
  hurls her atomic weapons at the heavily populated
  centers of the world.

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• At that point the TEN HORN nations of Europe
  REALIZE that the beast system has DECEIVED them
  into engaging in a NUCLEAR WAR!
• Then ...

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REV. 1716-17

• the TEN HORNS which thou sawest upon the beast
  these shall HATE the whore and shall make her
  DESOLATE and NAKED and shall eat her flesh and
  BURN her with FIRE ...

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• These nations will feel that if THEY are going
  to be destroyed in an atomic war
• theyll want to MAKE SURE that the beastly system
  that brought it about in the first place is ALSO
  DESTROYED!

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• In addition as nuclear weapons begin to fly
  across the skies and WHOLE CITIES with MILLIONS
  of people are instantly cremated
• the armies of the nations that were previously
  so-called allies will AUTOMATICALLY become
  ENEMIES.

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• The combined stockpiles of nuclear and atomic
  weapons for Russia and the United States ALONE
  are an explosive force IN EXCESS of TEN TONS OF
  T.N.T. for EVERY man woman and child!

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• Russia the United States and Europe in
  particular will pull out all the stops and
  throw EVERY WEAPON IN THEIR ARSENALS at each
  other.
• It is interesting to note that this is a repeat
  of an actual battle fought by ancient Israel
  only on a larger scale.

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• The original account is found in
• 2 CHR. 2022-25 For the children of AMMON and
  MOAB (a type of civil powers) stood up against
  the inhabitants of MOUNT SEIR (a type of
  religious powers) UTTERLY TO SLAY and destroy
  them ... (and) every one helped to destroy
  another. ...

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• This worldwide destruction reduces the major
  nations of the world to barren radioactive
  wastelands.
• To the nations NORTH of Israel such as Russia
  and her satellites the Lord specifically says ...

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EZK. 396

• I will send a FIRE on MAGOG and among them that
  dwell carelessly in the ISLES (or Gentile
  nations) and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Noah
Japeth
Gomer (Celtic)
Magog (Russia)
Madai (Medes)
Javan (Greece,Syria)
Tubal S of Blk Sea,Spain
Meshesh (Russia)
Tiras Thracians
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• With the nations of the world in the process of
  destroying each other
• and the armies of those nations in Israel
  turning against each other to devour one another

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• the Lord allows what man has unleashed to
  trigger a VIOLENT STORM OF HAIL over these
  armies as John describes it ...

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REV. 1621

• And there fell upon men a GREAT HAIL out of
  heaven every stone about the weight of a TALENT
  (which is about 100 pounds) ...

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This rain of HAIL

• will help eliminate more than 83 of the foreign
  armies in Israel for the Lord prophesied through
  Ezekiel ...

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EZK. 391-6

• I am against thee O GOG ... And I will turn thee
  back and LEAVE BUT THE SIXTH PART OF THEE ...
  Thou shalt fall upon the open field for I have
  spoken it saith the Lord GOD.

101

• There is not one part of mans system in the
  world that is left untouched by the mighty wrath
  of God.
• The Apostle John describes it in detail.

102

• The World Council of Churches (the beast)
  together with the kings of the earth (civil
  powers) and the false prophet (symbol of the
  Roman Catholic Church) will be UTTERLY CONSUMED
  in a lake of fire.

103

• This LAKE OF FIRE is another term for the BATTLE
  OF ARMAGEDDON as we read in ...

104
REV. 1919-21

• And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth
  and their armies ... and with (them) the false
  prophet ... (and) these ... were cast alive
• into a LAKE OF FIRE ...

105

• Those nations which are not instantly burned up
  will NOT escape the vengeance of God.
• Zechariah tells us that the major nations of the
  world will be RADIOACTIVE FOR GENERATIONS.

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ZEC. 1412-15

• And THIS shall be the PLAGUE wherewith the LORD
  will smite all the people that have fought
  against Jerusalem Their FLESH shall CONSUME AWAY
  while they stand upon their feet and their EYES
  shall CONSUME AWAY in their holes ...

107

• ... and these populations will suffer the
  torturous and lingering death of RADIATION
  POISONING. Jeremiah tells us that ...

108
JER. 2533

• ... the SLAIN OF THE LORD shall be ... from one
  end of the earth even unto the other end of the
  earth they shall NOT be lamented neither
  gathered NOR BURIED THEY SHALL BE DUNG UPON THE
  GROUND.

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• Zechariah gives us a picture of the utter
  devastation brought about by Armageddon.
• Even though this FIRST applies directly to
  Israel it may also be used to glimpse the
  awesome vengeance of the Lord on a worldwide
  scale for Zechariah prophesies in ...

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ZEC. 138-9

• ... it shall come to pass that in all the land
  saith the LORD TWO PARTS THEREIN SHALL BE CUT
  OFF AND DIE but THE THIRD SHALL BE LEFT THEREIN.
  And I will bring THE THIRD PART THROUGH THE FIRE

111

• The population of the world will swell to
  approximately SIX BILLION at the outbreak of
  World War III

112
at its conclusion

• there will only be around TWO BILLION left
  alive.
• The other FOUR BILLION will either be INSTANTLY
  CREMATED
• or die afterwards from the horrible effects of
  radiation sickness.

113

• As the radioactive dust of the battle settles to
  the ground and most of the world lies in ashes a
  FEARSOME SILENCE grips the world!
• The words of the Apostle Jude will have been
  fulfilled to the letter ...

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JUDE 14-15

• ... Behold the LORD COMETH with ten thousands of
  his saints To execute JUDGMENT upon all and to
  convince all that are ungodly among them ... of
  all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners
  have spoken against him.

115

• The Bride of Jesus Christ will REJOICE with great
  joy for they will be AVENGED and will be made
  ...
• REV. 59-10 Kings and priests and we shall REIGN
  ON THE EARTH.

116

• ... for as the TABERNACLE of God they will come
  with Jesus Christ to set up righteousness in the
  world ...
• REV. 212-3 ... Behold the TABERNACLE OF GOD is
  WITH men and he will DWELL with them and they
  shall be his people ...

117

• The WHOLE WORLD will stand still as the survivors
  gaze out at the remains with terror-filled eyes.
  NOTHING will move except in Israel.

118

• The Jewish ministry working in perfect harmony
  with the Bride of Christ will open the word of
  God to the survivors in Israel ...
• ROM. 1126 And so ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED ...

119

• Next the task of cleaning up the land will be
  undertaken. Now all the weapons must be burned
  and the bodies buried ...

120
EZK. 398-14

• ... And they that dwell in the cities of Israel
  shall go forth ... and BURN THE WEAPONS ... with
  fire SEVEN YEARS ... And SEVEN MONTHS shall the
  house of Israel be burying (the dead) that they
  may CLEANSE THE LAND. ...

121

• As the people of the land go about their tasks
  they pause to stare in open-mouthed WONDER at the
  results of the TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE!
• Not only was the Mount of Olives split in two
  but the earthquake has also caused a NATURAL
  RIVER to spring up from Jerusalem and flow to
  the east and the south.

122

• Looking further south
• they see that the earthquake caused the DEAD SEA
  area to be HEAVED UP and an opening to appear at
  its southern limit.
• This sea which has been a SCAR on the land since
  the judgment of Sodom is now charged with LIVING
  water!

123

• This new body of water begins a redemptive active
  to bring LIFE to the barren wasteland of southern
  Israel. The land itself is healed even as the
  soul of Israel is healed!! The prophet Ezekiel
  explained it in this manner ...

124
EZK. 3625-28

• Then will I sprinkle CLEAN WATER upon you ... A
  NEW HEART also will I give you ... I will take
  away the stony heart ... and I will give you an
  heart of FLESH ... and I will be your God.

125

• Jerusalem will be established as the CENTER of
  the Lords work for the next 1000 years and a
  little season as Jeremiah lets us know in ...

126
JER. 317-18

• At that time they shall call Jerusalem the THRONE
  OF THE LORD and all the nations shall be
  gathered unto it ...

127

• ... for the Lord will be there to oversee the
  rule of God upon the earth for ...

128
2 SAM. 233-4

• ... He that ruleth over men must be JUST
  ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be AS THE
  LIGHT OF THE MORNING when the SUN RISETH even a
  MORNING WITHOUT CLOUDS ...

129

• Who is more qualified than our Lord?
• As Moses said long ago ...

130
DT. 324

• He is the Rock his work is perfect for all his
  ways are JUDGMENT a God of truth and without
  iniquity JUST and right IS HE.

131

• With Jesus and His Bride working through the
  Jewish ministry the words of Isaiah quickly
  reach fulfillment.
• Isaiah said in ...

132
ISA. 3026

• Moreover the LIGHT of the MOON shall be AS the
  LIGHT of the SUN and the LIGHT of the SUN shall
  be SEVENFOLD ...

133

• The LIGHT OF THE MOON represents the
  understanding of the Old Testament
• the LIGHT OF THE SUN represents that of the New
  Testament.

134

• During the 1000-year Day of the Lord
• there will be a PERFECT or SEVENFOLD
  understanding available to Gods people.

135

• This perfect understanding will produce perfect
  overcomers or NEW HEAVENS and a NEW EARTH
• as Isaiah tells us in ...

136
ISA. 6517-25

• For behold I create NEW HEAVENS and a NEW
  EARTH and the former shall not be remembered
  nor come into mind.

137

• As the survivors of Armageddon from the nations
  of the EAST begin to travel in search of food and
  purpose
• they come in contact with the Jewish ministry
  who
• in turn invite them to COME UP to Jerusalem.

138

• Only the nations to the EAST of Israel have
  survived to any great degree.
• as prophesied by John in ...
• REV. 1612 ... that the way of the KINGS OF THE
  EAST might be prepared.

139

• This is quite a statement
• when you consider that the population of CHINA
  ALONE stands at ONE BILLION PEOPLE today!

140

• As the wandering few of the nations come up to
  Jerusalem and behold the BEAUTY of the land the
  ORDER and JOY of the people and the UNMATCHED
  WISDOM of the Jewish ministry
• they return to their lands and say ...

141
ISA. 21-5

• ... COME ye and let us GO UP to the MOUNTAIN
  OF THE LORD ... and HE will teach us of HIS ways
  ...

142

• As time goes on and the nations hear more and
  more about the DIVINE GOVERNMENT in the land of
  Israel.
• the Lord through His ministry will REQUIRE ...

143
ZEC. 1416-21

• ... that EVERY ONE that is left of all the
  nations which came against Jerusalem shall even
  GO UP from year to year to WORSHIP the King
• the LORD of hosts ...

144

• Those nations which rebel against the authority
  of Jerusalem will have NO NATURAL OR SPIRITUAL
  RAIN fall on their land.

145

• The resulting contrast can be imagined when you
  visualize ONE nation of people BLESSED of God
  both naturally and spiritually and RIGHT NEXT
  DOOR a rebellious nation on the verge of
  starvation.

146

• RIGHTEOUSNESS shall be OPENLY REWARDED as
  Zechariah says in ...
• ZEC. 820-23 ... In THOSE days it shall come to
  pass that ten men shall take hold out of all
  languages of the nations even shall take hold of
  the skirt of him that is a JEW saying We will
  go with you for WE HAVE HEARD THAT GOD IS WITH
  YOU.

147

• ... and the REPROACH which has been upon the
  natural Jews for centuries will be lifted for
  the Lord said through Zephaniah ...
• ZEPH. 319-20 ... I will get them PRAISE and
  FAME in EVERY LAND where they have been put to
  shame. ...

148

• The word of the Lord in righteousness and
  holiness is what brings all of this to pass
  during the 1000 years.
• The Apostle John as he viewed this period
  through the eyes of prophecy said ...

149
REV. 79-17

• ... I beheld ... a GREAT MULTITUDE which no man
  could number ... And one of the elders ... (said)
  unto me What are these ... and whence came they?
  And I said unto him Sir thou knowest. And he
  said to me These are they which came out of
  GREAT TRIBULATION and have washed THEIR ROBES
  and made them WHITE in the blood of the Lamb. ...

150
for ...

• REV. 1115 The kingdoms of this world are become
  the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ AND
  HE SHALL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER.
• AMEN!

151
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