{"id":467,"date":"2008-08-30T03:18:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T03:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/august-an-end-time-scenario\/"},"modified":"2014-01-21T07:06:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T07:06:59","slug":"august-an-end-time-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/august-an-end-time-scenario\/","title":{"rendered":"An End Time Scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Scriptures tell us very plainly that we cannot predict when the rapture will occur or when the events of the tribulation period will begin.\u00a0 Jesus said, \u201cIt is not for you to know the times and seasons which the father hath put in his own power\u201d (Acts 1:7).\u00a0 Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote, \u201cNow concerning the times and seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you\u201d (1 Thes. 5:1).\u00a0 But this does not mean that we should not study prophecy or piece the events of the second coming together by comparing Scripture with Scripture.\u00a0 These events have been preached, charted, essayed, dramatized, theorized, and even fictionalized.\u00a0 They may all have their place as long as the truth has first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

For those of us who believe in the Blessed Hope, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep from reading into world events the events of prophecy.\u00a0 One of these days, a generation will read the actual events and rejoice to see the day.\u00a0 Until then, however, every other generation has the right, even the obligation, to discern the signs of the times as well as the color of the sky.\u00a0 The imminency of the rapture has been the great privilege of every generation.<\/p>\n

As we get closer to that grand event, it would seem right to think that we could see how the stage is being set even clearer than in previous times.\u00a0 Though we know not to be presumptuous, we look at these events almost with a yearning that it could be the actual time.\u00a0 We grieve for a lost world and are thankful that God is longsuffering to delay the day of judgment, but we also can\u2019t help being disappointed if the events of our time will not be the real events of His coming.<\/p>\n

What we can do is place the Biblical scenario over the current events and see if and where they match.\u00a0 There have probably always been certain world events that would fit into a prophetic scenario but when so many others do not fit then we know that it can\u2019t be THE fulfillment of the Biblical prophecies.\u00a0 The interesting thing about today\u2019s current events and the Biblical scenario is that the stage is filled more than ever with furniture that does fit whether or not the individuals involved turn out to be the specific prophetic characters.\u00a0 Who can deny that today\u2019s political candidates would love to have the charisma of a Hitler or an Antichrist?\u00a0 Who can deny that the new way of conducting a political rally is more like a Nuremberg rally or a rock concert than the Lincoln-Douglas debates?\u00a0 Who can deny that the western world today responds to symbolism over substance, image over reality, and political correctness over moral correctness?\u00a0 Who can deny that the western world is tired of Biblical Christianity and ready for a world encompassing ecumenicalism?<\/p>\n

In addition to the mood, consider the world events that could quickly develop into a Biblical scenario:\u00a0 Israel is under more pressure than ever and needs the protection of a western power;\u00a0 those powers to the north of Israel are but a few years from being ready to invade Israel; that northern power (Russian-backed Islam) is becoming an increasing danger to the western world;\u00a0 Europe is ready to merge into a ten part empire for its own protection and economic stability; all branches of Christendom are running back to Rome for unity and a more \u201cmeaningful\u201d liturgical church; economic pressure is causing many to desire government controlled programs; and perhaps most striking of all, a charismatic political candidate with no qualifications other than being able to emotionally charge a crowd is blindly but eagerly followed both in the United States and in Europe.<\/p>\n

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The general scenario<\/h2>\n

Closely following the rapture of the church, a western leader will sign a peace treaty with Israel to protect her from her neighbors.\u00a0 This western leader will rally European nations and eventually form a ten nation federation of which he will become supreme ruler and the eleventh nation.\u00a0 A religious body, evidently based in the west, will rise in importance along with this western leader until the ten nations discard her.\u00a0 This much takes place within three and a half years.\u00a0 At that time the northern nations invade the land of Israel, defiantly challenging the Israeli-European treaty but are defeated by the western confederation and an unexplained miracle from God.\u00a0 Having defeated the only world power capable of threatening him, the western leader breaks his treaty with Israel by desecrating the Jewish worship in Jerusalem.\u00a0 He then begins a reign of terror, partnered with an equally charismatic and naturalistic religious leader, that lasts until Christ returns.<\/p>\n

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The rapture<\/h2>\n

The rapture is the next Biblical event to happen.\u00a0 There are no signs that will indicate its nearness nor is it possible to calculate when it will happen.\u00a0 It has been almost two thousand years since the first coming of Christ and every generation of Christians has correctly been looking for it to happen in its life time.\u00a0 When it finally does come, the prophetic clock will begin to tick again and the tribulation period will begin.\u00a0 Seven years of tribulation will occur on the earth until Christ comes to the earth to put an end to Armageddon and bring in the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n

Because the rapture of the church is imminent, it does not have precursors.\u00a0 It would seem reasonable that it would occur when world events are set for the tribulation, but God is able to bring about such events whenever He chooses.\u00a0 It is the church\u2019s stewardship to be ready for it to happen at any time.\u00a0 \u201cEvery man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure\u201d (1 John 3:3).<\/p>\n

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A revived Roman empire<\/h2>\n

Both from the book of Daniel and Revelation, we understand that the western leader we know as the antichrist will form a ten-nation federation roughly encompassing the original Roman Empire.\u00a0 We have seen recently that even an inexperienced candidate for president of the United States can rally European nations and propose unification with them if he is presented as a charismatic leader looking for change.\u00a0 If such a leader is willing to make even the U.S. an equal (though perhaps a superior among equals) partner in economics and social reform, he could lead them into such a union very quickly.<\/p>\n

If, in addition, the harlot of Revelation is the Roman Church, we also see how she could come to power with the antichrist.\u00a0 Catholicism is gaining popularity in place of evangelical Christianity today both in the United States as well as in Europe.\u00a0 The recent threat of Anglican priests returning to Rome due to substantial changes in Anglican doctrine illustrates this possibility.\u00a0 The antipathy toward any other denominational name and the love of liturgy over personal faith can rally millions of westerners behind the Roman Church as well as the political leader of the west.<\/p>\n

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Antichrist<\/h2>\n

We know a lot about this man from major portions of Scripture (Dan. 11, Matt. 24, 2 Thes. 2, Rev. 13).\u00a0 We know that he will be a great orator with the ability to rally people and nations (Dan. 7:13).\u00a0 Barak Obama\u2019s unique ability to excite masses of people with no other personal qualification shows how ready the western world is for this person (it is shocking to see what amounts to a coronation for a king, not a president).\u00a0 The fact that he will not \u201cregard the God of his fathers\u201d (Dan. 11:37) has been taken to mean he may be Jewish, or that he may simply not be a true convert to the religion of his father(s).\u00a0 The controversy over Obama\u2019s lineage is interesting because his father is Muslim but he may not \u201cregard\u201d that as his own religion.\u00a0 That is unsettling enough for most Americans this election season, but it again shows how westerners are willing to accept that scenario regardless of its dangers or implications.<\/p>\n

The antichrist will \u201chonor the God of forces\u201d (Dan. 11:38); he will go \u201cforth conquering and to conquer\u201d (Rev. 6:2).\u00a0 Hitler also came to power by moving to solve a terrible economic situation but turning quickly to military force.\u00a0 Today\u2019s influx of Muslims in the west has brought economic challenges but also a growing security problem.\u00a0 We will find out more and more that Islam is an inseparable union of religion and politics.\u00a0 It is a pagan theocracy that must advance an all-or-nothing political agenda.\u00a0 This creates the opportunity for a new western leader to gain strength by combating the growing Islamic threat and also strengthening the European (Economic) Union.\u00a0 He would become the most powerful man in the western world and have only the Muslim Middle East as a rival.<\/p>\n

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The king of the north<\/h2>\n

The battle of Gog and Magog takes place at the middle of the tribulation period.\u00a0 The western king (Antichrist) has established himself over Europe and is protecting Israel because of his initial treaty with her (Dan 9:27).\u00a0 The king of the north is made up of those nations to the north of Israel which make up an eminent threat to Israel\u2019s security.\u00a0 Ezekiel names them \u201cthe land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal\u201d (Ez. 38:2).\u00a0 In our day we have understood these to include Russia.\u00a0 Ezekiel also names five other nations as allies:\u00a0 \u201cPersia, Ethiopia, and\u00a0 Libya . . . Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters\u201d (Ez. 38:5-6).\u00a0 These five are generally thought to be present day Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Germany, and Turkey.\u00a0 If these designations are anywhere near parallel to the ancient boundaries, we have no trouble understanding the threat they pose in our day to Israel.<\/p>\n

These northern nations will blatantly invade Israel, defying the treaty Israel has with the (now known) antichrist.\u00a0 The antichrist will come to Israel\u2019s rescue, defeating the northern power and establishing his own power over the entire globe (Ez. 38:18-23; Dan. 11:40-45).\u00a0 This scenario is so plausible today that it takes little or no imagination to picture it happening.\u00a0 Iraq is developing nuclear weapons and Israel is practicing retaliation.\u00a0 The United States is the only western power willing and capable of intervening.\u00a0 A charismatic leader who will have developed Europe into a supportive role could handle this situation with relative military ease.<\/p>\n

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The false prophet<\/h2>\n

If the Roman Church rides upon the beast in the first half of the tribulation (Rev. 17:3) and then is discarded by his western federation (Rev. 17:16), an even more terrible religious system will develop in the second half of the tribulation.\u00a0 The second beast is the false prophet who comes up out of the earth and brings a world-wide new age type of religion (Rev. 13:11-18).\u00a0 This religious man is ruthless, magical, technologically astute, and deadly.\u00a0 He will cause all the world (now that all rivals have been eliminated) to worship both Satan and the antichrist by receiving the mark of the beast.\u00a0 This mark will allow a person to buy and sell and also to be accepted by the politically correct establishment.<\/p>\n

Again, it takes little or no imagination to realize how a mark can be placed on the body that would revolutionize not only buying and selling, but also security clearances and world-wide tracking of virtually anything and anyone.\u00a0 Micro chips are already in use all over the world and body markings are now so common it is hard to find anyone without one.<\/p>\n

The false prophet will utilize a world-wide idolatry that is ready-made for such a time.\u00a0 Again, Obama\u2019s campaign has shown how the rock concert is now THE accepted method of presenting anything to the techno generation.\u00a0 Hands raised, shoulder to shoulder, screaming nonsense, worshiping the self-idealized moment of freedom and release, began in the 1930s at Nuremberg and was reaffirmed again in Germany at the Victory Column last week.\u00a0 That column is a historic symbol of two things:\u00a0 European military victory and personal moral freedom.\u00a0 The Germans call the Victory Column \u201cSiegessaeule\u201d or \u201ccolumn of victory.\u201d\u00a0 The Nazi greeting was \u201csieg heil\u201d or \u201chail victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And So . . .<\/h2>\n

I doubt if the current political and religious figures will be the antichrist and false prophet.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think they\u2019re smart and evil enough.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t doubt that the world is ready for the ones who are!\u00a0 The rapture will remove the Church and the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 The world will finally get what it wants\u2014a world without God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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