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Date 3/1/15??PROPHECY UPDATE NEWS HEADLINESYesterday's Prophecies - Today's Headlines??3/1/15HEADLINES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH?TRACKING BIBLE PROPHECY? dismisses Netanyahu attempts to prevent emerging Iran deal as 'fruitless' Iran's Zarif criticizes Netanyahu's 'scaremongering'Obama, Netanyahu on Collision Course 6 Years in the MakingObama vows veto of new Senate legislation ensuring vote on Iran deal Netanyahu Congress Speech Targets Obama Iran Deal, Israel Voters Netanyahu visits Western Wall ahead of US speech, vows to fight Iran dealNetanyahu at Western Wall: I respect Obama, but it's my duty to ensure Israel's security Netanyahu boards plane for Washington: I go as an emissary of the entire Jewish people Netanyahu's address to Congress will be most important speech of his lifeFundamentally Freund: Obama - More concerned about silencing Israel than protecting it Iran cleric vows to 'raise flag of Islam on White House' to avenge Israeli attack Amid political tensions, Israel reportedly lobbies US for military funds IDF drill prepares for large scale unrest in West Bank, collapse of security coordination with PA Jewish groups condemn Boteach 'genocide' ad on Susan RiceAnti-Israel divestment push gains traction at US collegesReport: UN Secretary General hints Israel deliberately targeted UN peacekeepers in Lebanon Sisi speaks of stability, relations with Gulf nations, need for joint Arab force Egypt court lists Hamas as terrorist organization, sentences Brotherhood leader to life Hamas says Egypt listing it as terrorist organization is "shocking and dangerous" Senior Fatah official calls for using 'force' against Israeli 'occupation' Liberman calls to 'outlaw' Israeli Arab extremists after protests against Herzog, Livni UN: Iraq violence kills at least 1,100 in FebruaryUS-led coalition launches air strikes on ISIS targets in Iraq, Syria Pentagon scraps attack on Mosul; Iraqi forces not ready for major battleMother of James Foley Forgives Jihadi John for Beheading SonAssyrian Christians under increasing assault from ISIS fight back ISIS to release 29 Assyrian Christians, monitoring group saysIslamic State group throws homosexual off roofMissing UK teens seen on video in Turkey before going to Syria Syrian army takes villages in south Kurd rebel leader in Turkey calls on militants to attend disarmament talks Kurdish rebels call disarmament move historic, want Turkey to step up reformsIran offers to safe-guard Iraqi artifacts after ISIS rampage in Mosul museum Bahrain charges 17 bombing suspects Yemen, a U.S. counter-terrorism partner, teeters on edge of collapseGulf countries relocating embassies in Yemen Thousands protest against Newcastle march of UK branch of German anti-Islam group Egyptian defense minister leads military delegation to Moscow, aims to increase cooperation Investigators probe whether Nemtsov murder was meant to destabilize Russia Russian opposition leaders allege Kremlin links to Nemtsov slayingWhy the Kremlin Is Blaming Putin Critic's Murder on a 'Provocation'Nemtsov planned to reveal Russian links to Ukraine conflict: PoroshenkoBoris Nemtsov: 'I'm afraid Putin will kill me,' politician said weeks before being shot deadBoris Nemtsov Joins List of Dead Vladimir Putin CriticsRussian President Vladimir Putin vows to punish Boris Nemtsov killersSir John Sawers, ex-MI6 chief, warns of Russia 'danger'After Boris Nemtsov's Assassination, 'There Are No Longer Any Limits'UN chief condemns murder of Russian opposition leader Nemtsov Russians to march in memory of murdered critic of Putin Lithuania signs US deal to replace Russian gasObama Judge Invites Repatriated Illegals To Return, Seek US JobsU.S. Attorney General Holder says race at least partly to blame for his struggles with RepublicansIRS watchdog reveals Lois Lerner missing emails now subject of criminal probeReports of possible deal on DHS funding reignites chatter about Boehner ouster7 Reasons Net Neutrality Is a Threat to Your FreedomGoogle wants to rank websites based on facts not linksStockholm: Microchipped office workers feel 'very modern' using hand-implanted chips to open doorsPope Francis attacks 'throw-away' economic globalizationGreek PM accuses Spain, Portugal of anti-Athens 'axis'Greece runs out of funding options despite euro zone reprieveGas prices soar in California as supply shrinksEarthquake measuring 5.5 strikes off Guatemala 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Molibagu, Indonesia5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Sarangani, Philippines5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Nansan, ChinaPopocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 26,000ftColima volcano in Mexico erupts to 25,000ftKliuchevskoi volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 23,000ftSheviluch volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 20,000ftReventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 15,000ftNearly Beaten in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes a Comeback by SeaEbola outbreak: Sierra Leone vice-president quarantinedMIT designs 10-minute ebola testThree leprosy cases confirmed in FloridaCommon Birds May Be Spreading Lyme Disease In California More Than Known, Study ShowsConservatives Mostly Silent on Gay Marriage at CPACOwners who refused cake for gay couple close shopOne-Third of Audience for Christian Books, Radio, TV, and Movies Is Unchurched2/28/15Italian parliament approves symbolic recognition of Palestine PLO offers qualified praise for Italian parliament vote on Palestine Italian MPs vote for Palestinian state, but conditions 'disappoint' PLOWith Gaza war in rear-view mirror, Southern residents brace for another round Gaza Terror Group Trains Women to Become JihadistsHarassment of Jews on the rise worldwide, study findsAIPAC: We never opposed Netanyahu's Congress speechNetanyahu: Congress speech is not illegitimate because American public supports IsraelNetanyahu: World has 'given up' in Iran nuke talksA Partial Accounting of the Damage Netanyahu Is Doing to IsraelWhite House Officials: Netanyahu Most Serious Threat to Iran DealUS official: Iran nuclear talks advancing, no deal likely next week US bill would require congressional review of Iran nuclear agreement 'US will be able to detect Iranian sprint to nuclear bomb,' ex-Obama aide says Iran, six powers to hold nuclear talks in Switzerland on March 5 Iran cleric vows to 'raise flag of Islam on White House' to avenge Israeli attackIn message to US, Iran test fires new weapon in naval drillIran nuclear deal, ISIS threat stimulating Sunni powers to unite - even with Israel ISIS, Iran Are Agents of 'Apocalyptic Islam' Paving Way for 'Islamic Messiah,' Says NYT Bestselling AuthorNew Docs Reveal Osama bin Laden's Secret Ties With IranOsama Bin Laden Aide Found Guilty in 1998 Embassy BombingsKerry: 'We Are Actually Living in a Period of Less Daily Threat to Americans'Former Gov. Rick Perry: Obama has made the world less safe 'Knives are out': Hawaii Dem faces backlash for taking on Obama over 'Islamist' extremismRev. Franklin Graham Warns Fox Viewers DC Has Been 'Infiltrated By Muslims'Pentagon gives up plan to take Mosul from ISIS by springtimeUS-led coalition air strikes against Islamic State target Kobani Series of bombings kill 19 in IraqIslamic State fighters attack Samarra ahead of army offensive Jordan takes no chances in confronting native Jihadis Lebanon Army Chief: "The Army has no choice but to win over terrorism" Cameron says Britain will do what it can to track down 'Jihadi John'Onward Christian soldiers: US filmmaker, self-styled revolutionary trains faithful to fight ISISAssyrian Christians Cry Out 'The Whole World Is Watching History Repeat Itself' as ISIS' Relentless Horror Escalates in SyriaThe True Story Of What Happened To The Assyrian Christians When ISIS Attacked And Why Their Fate Will Be A MASSACREUN condemns Islamic State's 'barbaric terrorist acts' in Iraq Dozens of Syrian and Iraqi migrants rescued off Romanian coast Turkish police seal off street outside US consulate, detain suspect Muslim day at Oklahoma Capitol hit by anti-Islamic protests American blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh for 'crime against Islam'Dozens of Australian women 'supporting terrorism'Muslim teacher denies influencing 6 Canada teens to travel to Syria to join ISISReport: Quebec judge denies woman hearing until hijab removed Ukraine crisis: 'Military threat from east to remain' despite truceGazprom Says Ukraine's Prepaid Gas May Run Out by Sunday Morning The EU's plan for an energy union would call Vladimir Putin's bluff Boris Nemtsov, outspoken Putin critic, shot dead in MoscowDeaths shake Ukraine truce; Poroshenko wary of Russian threatThousands of Mexicans getting second chance to stay in USFeds to Ban Popular Ammo; NRA Rips Obama's Anti-Gun AgendaVandalism in Arizona Shut Down Internet, Cellphone, Telephone Service Across StateThere's already a conspiracy theory brewing over net neutralityRepublicans strike back: FCC member invokes Star Wars in net neutrality fight NSA Spying Wins Another Rubber StampChina censorship sweep deletes more than 60,000 Internet accountsBoehner: Democrats Using DHS Funding As 'Blackmail'US House rejects three-week security funding extension US Senate passes one-week security funding extension Obama signs bill funding homeland security department for one week Greek debt crisis: German MPs back bailout extensionNearly one in 6 Americans willing to jeopardize finances for a vacationRick Perry: 'Unemployment rate is a sham'Economic downturn linked to uptick in suicide rates among adultsStocks crushed records in February Chicago nears fiscal free fall with latest downgradeOil Prices Tumble As Pace Of Rig Count Decline Slows7.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Nebe, Indonesia5.7 magnitude earthquake hits near Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Panguna, Papua New Guinea5.1 magnitude earthquake hits the West Chile Rise5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Nebe, Indonesia5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Karumbu, IndonesiaSheviluch volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 30,000ftPopocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 26,000ftColima volcano in Mexico erupts to 24,000ftKliuchevskoi volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 19,000ftSangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 18,000ftReventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 15,000ftToll soars to 250 in Afghan avalanche: officialQuirky Winds Fuel Brazil's Devastating Drought, Amazon's FloodingCalifornia farmers may face another year without U.S. water suppliesFreezing temperatures to wrap up coldest February in 80 years in NYC, more snow to start MarchSemi-frozen breakers rolled ashore in New England amid record coldWhat Some Scientists Says Is Causing the 'Pause' in Global WarmingMost Americans see combating climate change as a moral dutyEbola: Sierra Leone village in lockdown after 31 new cases recorded Scopes that caused UCLA superbug deaths linked to past outbreaks Three infected with measles at Las Vegas seafood restaurantWatch out for nasty global flu surprises, WHO warnsSupreme Court ruling on Obamacare subsidies would affect millionsLegal marijuana begins in Washington, D.C. as 'green rush' is onPhil Robertson at CPAC: 110 Million Americans Have STDsGay marriage proponents claim 'right side of history'South Carolina college scrutinized for 'biblical' stance on homosexualityArmond Budish urges U.S. Supreme Court to strike down same-sex marriage bans, including Ohio'sAlabama court recognizes adoption by same-sex parent Michigan couple's Supreme Court brief in gay marriage case focuses on 'injury to children'Google scraps plan to block porn on BloggerPROPHECY UPDATE NEWSLETTERSTAY INFORMED, GET EQUIPPED, BE ENCOURAGEDPre-Millennium - Pre-Tribulation - PrePARED*If you missed an issue or did not receive your daily copy - All Newsletters are archived at:???(Featured Article at Bottom)?IN TODAY'S NEWSLETTER...?U.S.-Israel ties fraying over Netanyahu's planned Iran speechIt takes a Jew...?North Korea vows 'merciless' war against USHas antichrist ascended to world stage?The Second Coming - A Unique Day2 inescapable truths about GodFeatured Article: Life On Earth In The Millennium???U.S.-Israel ties fraying over Netanyahu's planned Iran speech - By Matt Spetalnick and Dan Williams - ??Signs are growing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned speech to Congress against a possible nuclear deal with Iran could damage his country's broad alliance with the United States.?The right-wing leader's acceptance of a Republican invitation to address the U.S. legislature already brought Netanyahu's long-strained relations with President Barack Obama to a new low due to the overture's partisan nature.?And while U.S. and Israeli officials insist that key areas of cooperation from counter-terrorism to intelligence to cyber security will remain unaffected, the deepening divide over the Iran talks is shaping up as the worst in decades.?Israel fears that Obama's Iran diplomacy, with an end-of-March deadline for a framework nuclear agreement, will allow its arch foe to develop an atom bomb. Tehran denies it is seeking nuclear weapons.?Previously Israel has always been careful to navigate between the Republican and Democrat camps. The planned address, however, has driven a rare wedge between Netanyahu's government and some congressional Democrats. Some two dozen or more of them plan to boycott the speech, according to unofficial estimates.?Embarking on Sunday on what he described as "a fateful, even historic mission", Netanyahu, who is running for re-election in a March 17 ballot, has framed his visit as being above partisan politics or to win votes.?"I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people," Netanyahu said as he boarded his plane in Tel Aviv.?Hard-line U.S. supporters of Israel insist Netanyahu should take center-stage in Washington on Tuesday to sound the alarm over the possible deal, even at the risk of offending the White House and long-time Democratic supporters.?But a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the "politicized" nature of Netanyahu's visit threatens "what undergirds the strength of the relationship".?As one former U.S. official put it: "Sure, when Netanyahu calls the White House, Obama will answer. But how fast will he be about responding (to a crisis)?"?At the same time, many people on both sides of the debate over Netanyahu's speech point to the two countries' history of being able to "compartmentalize" diplomatic disputes to preserve cooperation on other shared priorities.?FRAYING RELATIONSHIP?Last month, U.S. officials accused the Israeli government of leaking information to the Israeli media to undermine the Iran negotiations and said it would limit further sharing of sensitive details about the talks.?And Israelis have long fretted over the possibility that Washington might not be as diligent as before about shielding Israel at the United Nations and other international organizations.?One Israeli official said this was becoming more worrisome as the Palestinians are resorting increasingly to global forums like the International Criminal Court to press grievances against Israel and as Europe is losing patience with Israel over settlement building on occupied land.?Netanyahu is expected to use his speech to urge Congress to approve new sanctions against Iran despite Obama's insistence that he would veto such legislation because it would sabotage nuclear talks.?Using strong language, Obama's national security adviser Susan Rice called the political partisanship caused by Netanyahu's coming address "destructive to the fabric of the relationship" with Israel.?"What the prime minister is doing here is simply so egregious that it has a more lasting impact on that fundamental underlying relationship," said Jeremy Ben-Ami, head of J Street, a liberal pro-Israel lobbying group aligned with Obama's Iran policy.?Netanyahu, who will address the influential pro-Israel lobby AIPAC on Monday, has remained defiant. Even so, he is expected to try to keep tensions from spiraling.??It takes a Jew... - Stan Goodenough - evening of March 3, 2015 will mark the beginning of the Fast of Esther that leads into Purim, the Jewish festival marking their deliverance from the Haman of ancient Persia who stood at the forefront of a genocidal plot against the Jews. ?On that day this year, as Israel's Jews - who are seven hours ahead of the United States - enter the fast, Benjamin Netanyahu will stand before the US Congress to explain for all to hear the genocidal threat to the regathered Jewish people that would be posed by the nuclear-armed Amalekites of modern-day Persia - Iran.?God is sending one of His own from Jerusalem to sound the alarm to the world. He wants the nations to heed the warning before the window closes and the chance to choose truth over lies is gone.?US President Barack Obama is ostensibly concerned that, in coming to address Congress next week on the looming danger of a nuclear Iran to Israel's six million Jews and their state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will sabotage the effort to dissuade Tehran from developing the bomb.?A bit like Chamberlain would have felt had he heard, while en route to Munich, that Churchill had broken parliamentary protocol to issue a grave warning to the British people about the peril of signing an agreement with Hitler. The British prime minister would have cursed the man who would succeed him for potentially scuttling the pending agreement that would bring "peace in our time." ?Chamberlain-like, the 'leader of the free world' today insists that the P5+1 (the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China) has adopted the best possible course to prevent Iran from endangering world peace.?Netanyahu, whose home is this neighborhood, and who has been fighting for his nation's survival since early adulthood, understands the makeup of its Islamic regimes and the perils they pose better than Obama ever will. The Israeli has been elected to protect a nation that was en route to being wiped out just a few decades ago as a direct consequence of the above-referenced Munich Diktat. He believes the pact being brokered by Obama & Co. to be dangerous appeasement of the ayatollahs that leaves Tehran within easy reach of a nuclear weapon.?It is the prime minister's "most sacred duty...to speak up while there is still time to speak up," emphatically stated Israel's ambassador to Washington, Ron Dermer.?"For Israel, a nuclear armed Iran would be a clear and present danger." Just as Hitler was towards Europe's Jews, Dermer warns that, "Iran's regime is both committed to Israel's destruction and working toward Israel's destruction."?Its presidential pride hurt, the White House lashed out at Netanyahu, accusing him of going behind Obama's back by accepting Congress's invitation to speak.?Affronted American media men, like Fox News' Shepherd Smith, ripped into the Israeli leader - as if they were the experts and he a mere lightweight in these matters - and tried to damage Dermer's credibility by scorning him as incompetent to represent his country to the USA.?More - or as much - to the point, while Russia and China's readiness to gamble with Israel's security and existence may be unsurprising, the complicity of Britain, France, Germany and the US in appeasing the manic mullahs of the world's most dangerous regime is treacherous and self-destructive.?Instead of scurrying to embrace Muslim states like Saudi Arabia, and smilingly participating in photo opportunities with Iranian officials, these (once-upon-a-time) Judeo-Christian nations should surely be in Israel's corner.?But they can't stand to be.?Well, the Bible warns: "Pride cometh before a fall."?And as US President Harry Truman believed: "With great power goes great responsibility." ?If today's Americans are not careful - the fall of the most powerful nation on earth is poised to be a long and irreversible one.?Many concerned observers believe that fall has already begun.?Surely, American citizens and, especially perhaps, Europeans (given the continent's blood-soaked anti-Semitic history), rather than sit at the table with global terrorists, your leaders should be directing such comments at these proven enemies of peace:?Iran, Arab League, Islamic world: We are far closer to the Jews than we will ever be to you.?Our roots and oldest traditions are in the religion that was brought into the world and introduced to mankind by the Jewish people. Our nation states were established on the faith foundations laid by the nation of Israel.?Whereas we owe a very, very great deal to the Jews - even in this sense our own national histories - we don't really owe you anything.?We are indebted to Israel for the construction of the positive pillars on which our societies stand - those received from the founding fathers of Israel, who gave us the Bible and, with it, our kings, prophets, apostles, and Jesus Christ Himself.?We also bear a very real responsibility for our shameful negative treatment of the Jewish people through the centuries.?It was our professing Christian forebears - even more than your Muslim forebears - who for centuries carried out anti-Semitic outrages and massacres and destruction, up to and including the Holocaust.?Even our insistence that those Crusaders, Inquisitors, Cossacks and Nazis were not true Christians can't change the fact that their bloody blasphemies were perpetrated under the sign of the cross and in Jesus' name.?Had Islam never been conjured up, and had its adherents not treated the Jews as they have done and are doing - Christianity would have had more than enough reason to stand by the Jewish people against any other violent anti-Jewish religion that might have appeared on the scene.?Muslim states, we read you. ?Your Quran teaches that we are your enemies - all Jews and Christians - the People of the book. You relate to us as your eternal foes, and chant and sing about our ordained subservience to you and our eventual destruction at your hands.?Yours is a bloodthirsty creed. Unlike the Founder of Christianity, who preached and practiced love and the laying down of life for others, the founder of Islam preached and practiced butchery, the mass murder of all who would not accept his ways. To this day, hundreds of millions of your people follow his teachings; millions wish to emulate him.?Your followers are responsible for the most horrific and barbarous violence in the modern day and age. From wars around the planet, horrendous executions in your own lands and territories, and reprehensible acts of carnage in the hearts of our cities, you are terrorizing the world and threatening to drown it in blood, for Allah.?But listen, and listen well. Today, standing side by side with the Jewish state of Israel, we want you to know that you could not be more wrong.?You are mistaken if you think we will allow you to continue to deny the Holocaust slaughter of six million Jews that was perpetrated during war by a tyrant millions of our boys fought and fell to stop.?You are mistaken to believe you will get away with your perpetual incitement to violence against Jews in their national home, your relentless calls for jihad, and your arming and training of forces set on destroying this nation and stealing her land.?You could not be more wrong if you believe we will talk and talk and talk while you delay our efforts and dissemble, even as you continue unabated and defiantly to build.?Iran, don't you dare take even one more step or continue for even one more day in that direction. Do, and we will slap such severe, irreversible sanctions on you as to bring your country to its knees. We know that millions of yours will suffer, but the fault will lie with those working to develop the means to destroy another nation that just so recently saw a third of its people wiped out.?It is the responsibility of the Judeo-Christian nations of the world to do everything possible to defend Israel against all of her foes, especially against the likes of you.?Today you have been served notice that we will do so.?Do not test our resolve.?This is what our once 'Christian' countries should be communicating to the Islamic world concerning the people Christendom has mistreated so appallingly down the ages.?It is what we should say, but apparently we never will.?Today it seems that the multiplicity of nations that have an annual Holocaust memorial day on which to recall the horrors and commemorate the victims use this as a shield behind which to hide from accusations of unrepentant anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.?How quickly we have forgotten. What an enormous gulf stands between "never again" and the modern day foreign policies of most states.?The P5+1 are fighting to see Iran left as a threshold nuclear state. That she will be within short reach of unleashing a nuclear holocaust on Israel they seem insouciant about paying attention to, loathe to make the hard decisions that would deal effectively with the danger.?Even if Iran only wants to wield the threat, her hatred of Israel and desire to annihilate her is as openly and loudly expressed as Hitler's ever was.?The great powers would never knowingly place the lives of their own citizens under the risks they are thoughtlessly placing Israel's. But Jewish life is cheap. We have seen just how cheap since Madrid in 1991, when the world began insisting that Israel give land to those intent on destroying the Jewish state, and continue giving land despite the mounting number of Jewish casualties as a direct consequence of surrendering that land.?Knowing all of this full well, the P5+1 still dares to go this way? What hypocrites and anti-Semites. What a deceiver the West has become, sunk in the naivety of its post-war, liberal-peacenik mindset. Diplomacy is their 10 commandments, and they apply it with the conviction that the people across the negotiating table think as they do. There is a complete lack of insight into the way the Muslim mind works, for example, into Islam's division of the world between the House of Islam and the House of War.?It is taking the Jews, who have been perpetually persecuted, to recognize the face of their persecutor. They're tuned in and alert, whereas the great tragedy is that the West is oblivious and won't wake up until 9/11s happen on mass scale across the Western world, groups like the Taliban are entrenched in power, and the nations are in full-scale retreat before Islam.?Then it will be too late. ?A point to ponder: Does the Judeo-Christian West, whose religious legacy places a high value on human life - and yet which is willing to play with Israel's existence in such cavalier fashion - realize that in the Middle East, Arab life is not valued by Israel' s Islamic neighbors but is, in fact, dirt cheap? Hundreds of thousands of people could be killed in Saddam 's Iraq, hundreds of thousands can be killed in Syria, untold thousands can be slaughtered by ISIS - and until images of the latter's graphic killings of individual white men penetrated our living rooms via TV, the nations so bent on gambling with Israel's fate never gave a damn.?The flux in the Middle East is showing very clearly what disregard for human life Islamic thinking has, if only the West would heed the warning. Whereas Western governments tiptoe around their Muslim voting blocs, Muslims themselves are prepared to slaughter one another quite openly. It's not just Jews and Christians they are after, but other Muslims who don't think Islam the way they do, or who stand in the way of their hegemonic ambitions.?The West imagines at its peril that it is out of the danger zone. Unless its leaders awaken quick smart, these nations will be overcome. We are not living in an age of reasoned diplomacy; we are heading deep into a new age of war. The Bible says so and explains why. See Zephaniah 3:8; Joel 3:9-16; Ezekiel 38: 7-9 ff; Zechariah 14:3-11; Revelation 16:14-16.?Governments need to hear Netanyahu. God is using one of His own, sending him from Jerusalem to sound the alarm, wanting the nations to heed the warning before the window closes and the opportunity to choose truth over lies is gone.??North Korea vows 'merciless' war against US - Korea vowed to wage a "merciless, sacred war" against the United States on Thursday, days before the launch of annual joint South Korea-US military exercises that have incensed Pyongyang.?"Nuclear weapons are not a monopoly of the US," the ruling party's official newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, warned in an editorial carried by the state KCNA news agency.?"The US is seriously mistaken if it thinks its mainland is safe," the editorial added.?North Korea "will wage a merciless sacred war against the US now that the latter has chosen confrontation", the Rodong Sinmun said.?North Korea regularly ramps up the bellicose rhetoric before the start of the annual joint military exercises that always see a sharp surge in tensions on the divided peninsula.?Seoul and Washington insist they are defensive in nature, but they are condemned by Pyongyang as provocative rehearsals for invasion.?North Korea had offered a moratorium on nuclear testing if this year's joint drills were cancelled -- a proposal rejected by Washington as an "implicit threat" to carry out a fourth nuclear test.?The editorial came as South Korea and the United States conducted a joint naval drill Friday, involving 10 South Korean warships and a US Aegis destroyer.?The drill was a prelude to the eight-week Foal Eagle exercise which kicks off Monday and involves air, ground and naval field training, with around 200,000 Korean and 3,700 US troops.?A week-long, largely computer-simulated joint drill, Key Resolve, also gets underway Monday.?North Korea has made threats against the US mainland before, although it has never demonstrated a missile strike capability of that range.?Although its nuclear program remains shrouded in uncertainty, Pyongyang is currently believed to have a stockpile of some 10 to 16 nuclear weapons fashioned from either plutonium or weapons-grade uranium.?A new research report by US experts published this week estimated that North Korea could be on track to have an arsenal of 100 nuclear weapons by 2020.? ?CONVERGENCE of the End Time SignsCONVERGENCE of the End Time Signs"CONVERGENCE of the End Time Signs" -?Bible Prophecy fulfillment is in a period of acceleration, a time of Quickening, the world is racing towards Armageddon, now more than ever we must be ready! We are about to enter a time like no other time, a time that no man has ever seen, a time like no other time in the history of this world, as a matter of fact we are about to enter the end times. Since the dawn of mankind, there have always been wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, famines, pestilences, disease, strange-weather and false Christ's just as Jesus predicted. Fast forward nearly 2,000 years since Jesus made this prediction, and you have today's headlines lining up exactly with the Word of God. The big thing?isn't?that these events?are happening today, is that they are all happening at the very same time! Bible prophecy is being fulfilled right before our very eyes.? Fulfilled prophecy is increasing in frequency and intensity just like birth pains, and Jesus said when you see these know that I am near, even at the door.All the signs of the last days are converging at the same time. 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This movie gave me the chills. - Terrance Alan - Kaukauna, WI??Thanks so much for the DVD There will be Tribulation...I watched it the other day, finally.?? It is well done and really holds your attention. In fact, it's unrelenting...which of course is what it needs to be. - Rich and JoAnne - Temecula, CA??VISIT OUR STORE BY CLICKING HERE???To order and more information - Click Here?Has antichrist ascended to world stage? - Leo Hohmann - buffs speculate about Greece's new prime minister?Alexios Tsipras has been prime minister of Greece for just over a month and is already a candidate for another office, according to some Christian prophecy buffs - the office of "Antichrist."?Tsipras has "burst onto the scene," as one blogger describes it, at a time of great economic uncertainty in a country, Greece, that was the 10th member to join the European Union in 1981. And, of course, everyone knows that the Bible predicts the antichrist will arise from a 10-member confederation of nations, presumed by many to be the European Union, which is seen as the "revived Roman empire" described in Daniel and Revelation.?This Euro rock star has "appeared out of nowhere over the last couple of years, almost magically," writes one prophecy blogger with sights on Tsipras.?Among the characteristics that have put the 40-year-old leader on the radar of antichrist hunters are:?1) He is a young, charismatic leader suddenly assuming power in Greece and executing actions "in his own name." He apparently issued his own oath of office to himself.?2) He recently met with Pope Francis at the Vatican to discuss a peace deal for the Middle East.?3) He is an avowed atheist of Jewish descent.?4) He is of Greek nationality.?5) He was born on July 28, 1974, which that year fell on the Tisha B'Av or the 9th of Av on the Jewish calendar, the day on which many Jewish calamities occurred including the destruction of first and second temples and the eviction of Jews from England in the year 1290 and from Spain in 1492.?6) He is rabidly anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist.?WND contacted several prophecy experts and Bible teachers to get their take on this phenomenon.?Joel Richardson, author of the best-seller "The Islamic Antichrist" as well as "Mideast Beast" and "When a Jew Rules the World," is as interested as anyone in the rise of the world figure the Bible calls the antichrist. He's written two books that deal explicitly with that topic. But, he says, it can become a distraction.?He points to all the misses of the past few decades in which well-known global figures were seen as the embodiment of Satan on earth - Ayatollah Khomeini, President Clinton, Javier Solana and nearly every pope.?And who can forget the suspicions about Ronald Wilson Reagan? Didn't he have six letters in each name? Perhaps this theory was popular among Russian Christians, while at the same time believers on this side of the Cold War had their eyes on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. (Remember that ugly mark on his forehead?)?Today, many fixate on Prince Charles and Princes William or Harry, citing the "beastly" symbols in the royal family's crest.?President Obama is in his final years in office, but rest assured, Richardson said, this article will be followed by dozens of comments declaring that it would be remiss for any good antichrist speculator to ignore the fact that Obama is indeed the lawless one, the Son of perdition.?But come on, Obama is so yesterday, others will argue.?There is a new kid on the block who is gaining the attention of today's antichrist pointers. The man is the new Greek prime minister.?"The problem with the list of evidence against Tsipras is that there are only two of the signs that one could point to as a scripturally defined characteristic of the antichrist," Richardson said.?He is, after all, quite charismatic, and such a nice looking fellow, too.?Yes, but couldn't this be said of virtually every world leader, at least to some extent? Richardson gives that one a swing and a miss. Strike one.?What about his "anti-Semitism"??Check, you may have something here, notes Richardson.?"Clearly, the antichrist will be a great hater of God's covenant people. There are too many biblical passages that point to this reality to cite here," he said.?He was born Jewish.?"The most glaring problem with the sometimes popular notion that the antichrist will be Jewish is the fact that every single type of the antichrist in the Bible was an antagonistic gentile ruler," Richardson points out. "Whether Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Antiochus IV Epiphanies, or the various Roman caesars, none were Jewish."?All were gentile world leaders who engaged in the invasion and ravaging of the land and the people of Israel. It is common to hear Christians argue that the antichrist must be Jewish, for the Jews would never accept anyone other than a Jew as their Messiah. The problem with this line of thought is that nowhere does the Bible say that the antichrist will claim to be the Jewish Messiah. Instead, it says he will deceive the leaders of Israel into entering into a covenant with him (Daniel 9., Isa. 28:15). This will more than likely be some form of security agreement."?A big whiff from our prophecy expert on this one. Strike two.?OK, so what about Tsipras's Greek ethnicity? Surely the antichrist will be Greek, right??This argument is rooted in the fact that Antiochus IV Epiphanies, perhaps the Bible's greatest type of the Antichrist emerged from the broken Alexandrian Greek Empire.?"But if one considers the two chapters which focus in on Antiochus as a type of the Antichrist, Daniel chapters 8 and 11, neither chapter ever points to Antiochus' ethnicity, but instead these chapters point to the region from which the antichrist will emerge," Richardson notes. "The very title 'King of the North' which is applied to both Antiochus and the antichrist throughout Daniel 11 is a title which clearly points to the geography of the antichrist as emerging from the same general region as the ancient Seleucid dynasty."?In modern terms, this correlates roughly to Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.?Further study of these chapters reveals that the Antichrist emerges out of the region of the Seleucid dynasty and begins as a leader of little account. He is called a "small horn."?While intriguing, it looks like another strike, perhaps a foul tip into the catcher's mitt. Oh, by the way, that's strike three if you're counting.?"In the end, there is absolutely nothing of any substance that would indicate that the new Greek Prime Minister is the antichrist," Richardson concludes.?Yet, many prophecy watchers will waste countless hours over the next few years of their life obsessing over yet another false antichrist.?"How many souls will not be won as a result?" Richardson asks. "How many poor and needy will not be cared for? How many hours of prayer will be passed over? How many hours of Bible study will be neglected??Could antichrist be coming into focus?Carl Gallups, a Baptist pastor and author of "Final Warning: Understanding the Trumpet Days of Revelation," a book that strikes close to this issue, is also skeptical about the new Greek prime minister's antichrist qualifications.?First, we must be honest with scripture, he said. There will be a generation that finally sees the "real deal" in the way of the antichrist.?The apostle John was declaring the "spirit of antichrist" already present in the first century and "even now many antichrists have come."?It is also a fact that the Bible contains a plethora of distinguishing characteristics of, and warnings about, the antichrist. In the New Testament, Jesus himself gave specific details regarding the diabolical figure (Matthew 24) and related the topic back to the book of Daniel. While speaking prophetically about the end-times generation, Jesus told His disciples (who would eventually represent the church itself), "When you see the abomination ..."?The apostle Paul gave the church more details about the antichrist (2 Thessalonians 2), and John gave the church even more particulars (Revelation 13). The book of Daniel is chock full of antichrist identification facts from chapters 7 through 11.?"So, there seems to be a biblical precedent for the people of God to cautiously engage in a process of 'contextual biblical discernment' concerning the times in which we live, including at least the biblical understanding of the antichrist figure that surely is to come," Gallups said.?However, in the 2,000 years since the time of Christ, Christians have attempted to identify many characters as "the antichrist."?Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, various popes, various U.S. presidents, and other powerful world leaders have made the list. And, it is no secret that many Christians claim to see "antichrist spirit" characteristics in any number of current world leaders. Again, their batting average has been abysmal and if these prophecy gurus were baseball players they would not even make it in the minor leagues.?"There can be little doubt that the 'spirit of antichrist' continues to grow stronger with the passing years and the continual degradation of the world's attitude toward the Word of God and Jesus Christ," Gallups said. "The advice I give to Christians who inquire upon this subject is: carefully discern the times, rightly divide the Word of truth, stay cognizant of the growing spirit of deception and deceit so that we might speak biblical truth and relevance to the decaying culture around us, and keep the main thing - the main thing. Winning souls, equipping the saints, and effectively advancing the Kingdom of Jesus Christ in hearts and lives."?Beware of 'Chrislam' and similar deceptions?Mark Biltz, author of the "Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs," says Tsipras is not the antichrist, and this type of speculation is a waste of time.?"We need to stay focused on the Messiah, not the anti-messiah," he said.?The Bible says the antichrist will be a master deceiver, and most of modern Christianity is vulnerable to deception because they adhere to replacement theology, he said. This is the idea that the church has replaced Israel as God's chosen people and God is done with Israel.?Revelation says that God will have His "two witnesses" on earth in the same time frame that Satan has his antichrist and false prophet, Biltz noted.?Biltz believes more focus needs to be on understanding and dividing sound doctrine from false doctrine, rather than pointing to various personalities. If the focus is on a man, deception will be the rule. Biltz writes:?"Here we are coming upon Purim and the story of Haman and Esther. A few months ago we had the story of Hanukkah and Antiochus Epiphanes. What was the difference between Haman and Antiochus? Which one will the antichrist be more like? Historically, Haman came first and Haman wanted to kill all the Jews regardless. He was all about annihilation. Then came Antiochus. Antiochus did not want to kill all the Jews as he was all about assimilation. Hitler was a type of Haman. The antichrist will be more like Antiochus and will be more concerned with assimilation. We see this happening now with the advance of Chrislam and all the churches coming together under the banner of assimilation."?When the antichrist does take power, those who refuse to assimilate into his system will be annihilated.?"So what will be advanced is, 'You can keep your Jesus, just submit to me as well.'"?"Most people, given this option, will compromise because they do not know Torah principles or believe they are all done away with and we are only under grace. They will think God will understand if they submit because they are under grace and after all we still 'believe' in Jesus."?In Daniel, it says he will look to change the "times and seasons."?"Many don't understand this is talking about God's appointed times and festivals such as Passover," Biltz said. "Because the church is on the wrong calendar they have done just that. As a matter of fact, next year Easter is a month before Passover! How do you celebrate the Resurrection a month before Christ even died?! Only if you changed the times and seasons! Believers need to wake up and get on God's calendar, or they may think they figured out who the antichrist is but are completely deceived."?The Second Coming - A Unique Day - neilwani@?? If after the Abomination of Desolation, the date of the return of Jesus is known, the people that hold to the rapture at the seventh trumpet of Revelation have a big problem. They have to exclude the scriptures in Matthew 24 32-51, Matthew 25 1-13 and Mark 13 28-36 as the second coming because in these passages, no one knows the day or the hour. ? These are the scriptures of the saints in the tribulation: ? ?We know the antichrist rules 1260 days after the abomination of desolation. ? Rev 13 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. ? Rev 12 13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. ? Daniel 7 ?25 He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, Shall persecute the saints of the Most High, And shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand For a time and times and half a time. ?26 'But the court shall be seated, And they shall take away his dominion, To consume and destroy it forever. ? The marker for the antichrist to continue for 42 months, and the marker of time, times and half a time is the abomination of desolation. In the tribulation, after the abomination of desolation, the tribulation saints will know the day of His return in Jerusalem on Mount Zion. That day will be a unique day. The daylight will be taken away. The sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. This is spoken in Zechariah 14. ? Zech 14-5 ?Thus the Lord my God will come, And all the saints with You. 6 It shall come to pass in that day That there will be no light; The lights will diminish. 7 It shall be one day Which is known to the Lord- Neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen That it will be light. ?8 And in that day it shall be That living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, ? On that day for sure the wise servants will know when the sun and moon are darkened that it will be the day of the second coming. In Luke 12 35-48, the wise servants do not know the hour but it does not say they do not know the day. There are 2 watches for the hour and the passage is consistent with the day of the second coming. ? In Mark 13 28-37, there 4 watches from sunset to sunrise.? In Zech 14 6-7, the sun is darkened. In Zech 14-8 it says "But at evening time it shall happen That it will be light". This is one day and the Lord comes back within that day at evening. It makes no sense that 4 watches are needed from sunrise to sunset, especially if the hour is going to be in the evening. Instead of a normal daytime on that day, the lights will diminish and it will not seem like day or night and then at evening it will be light. This gives the approximate time of the second coming and not consistent with the watches for the feast of trumpets in this passage. On this day the hour may also be known since it is in the evening but before the next day. If the time of sunset is known, the hour of the second coming may be known. In Mark 13 28-37 it states that no man knows the day or the hour also alluding to the feast of trumpets.? ? Matthew 24 29 "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. The tribulation ends 3 1/2 years after the abomination of desolation. This verse is saying as soon as it ends, the day of the second coming will occur. ? So the scriptures in the generation that is to watch for a day when all things are coming together are to watch for a day other than the day of the second coming. And it will happen in the generation that saw the Fig Tree (Israel) bud. And this is the same day talked about in Luke 21 29-36 and gives great hope that the rapture is before the tribulation. ?Luke 21 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man. ? Please e-mail comments to: neilwani@ ???2 inescapable truths about God - Greg Laurie - Greg Laurie explains how to tell if you're 'right' with the Lord?Years ago I was invited to go to the Philippines and speak to Christian leaders from around the country and encourage them. Even though we were just finishing a tour in Israel and it would be a long trip, I saw it as a wonderful opportunity.?We arrived in the Philippines, and before we left for our scheduled speaking engagement, we were invited to address a group of Christian businessmen. Afterward one of the businessmen asked me where we were going next.?"We are going to Davao City, on the island of Mindanao, to minister to some leaders over there," I said.?"You are going where?"?"We're going to Mindanao."?"Do you know what's going on over on Mindanao?" he said. "A communist group has taken over the island. There is chaos. They are shooting people in the streets. Why are you going? We can't even find any Filipino pastors to go over there, much less someone from America."?Of course, I began asking myself the same question. Why am I going? No one told me about this.?Then he added, "But I must say we applaud your courage."?As we prayed about it, however, we felt that God was still telling us to go.?The man who coordinated the event had arranged for us to travel to Mindanao in a government plane. (Of course, going into a communist stronghold in a government aircraft was not my transportation of choice.) It was a transport plane with no seats, and we stood in the plane along with about 150 people on the way to Davao City. As I looked out the window and watched the sun come up that morning, I thought, I'm going to die. I think that's a given. We are going to go there, and someone is going to shoot us. This is it for me. I was really worried.?But as I was reading the Scriptures, I came upon Psalm 139: "If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me. If I say, 'Surely the darkness shall fall on me,' even the night shall be light about me; indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You" (verses 9-12 NKJV).?I looked out the window of that huge plane and thought, Here I am. And as the sun shines, the Lord is with us. He will hold on to us.?As we arrived on the island of Mindanao, a group of government vehicles with mounted guns were waiting to take us into the city. Our meeting went well, and we returned home safely. Everything was fine.?God had comforted me through the words of Psalm 139. And there are two important attributes of God that stand out in this psalm: 1) God is omniscient, which simply means that he is all-knowing, and 2) God is omnipresent, which means that God is present everywhere.?God knows everything. Psalm 147:4 says that "He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name." Think about that. In this massive universe, God knows the name of every star out there. And in spite of that, he knows what is happening on this little planet called Earth.?He knows what is going on not only with the people that he created in his image, but he also knows what is going on in the animal kingdom. Jesus said, "What is the price of two sparrows - one copper coin? But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it" (Matthew 10:29 NLT). God is aware of all of these details.?In spite of this knowledge of what happens in his creation and in the animal kingdom, he is vitally aware of what is happening in every individual life. He is interested in us as individuals. Proverbs 15:3 says, "The Lord is watching everywhere, keeping his eye on both the evil and the good." He is aware of everything that is happening. There is not a single thing that happens on this earth that escapes the knowledge of God.?Not only is God all-knowing, or omniscient, but he is also omnipresent, which means that he is present everywhere. Again, Psalm 139 says, "Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there" (verses 7-8 NKJV).?This can be comforting or frightening. If you are not right with God and are trying to run from him, it isn't going to work. Wherever you go, he will be there. But if you are walking with God, the fact that God is omnipresent brings great comfort. It means that you never will be alone.?Death does not hide us from God. God is present everywhere, on both sides of the grave. Distance does not separate us from God. No matter where you go, he is there. Darkness does not separate us from God. The psalmist said, "Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You" (139:12).?God sees. Nothing escapes his attention. There are no secrets with him. If your life is right with God, then it is comforting to know that God sees you.?Knowing that we cannot escape his presence and realizing that he is all-knowing, how does that affect you? If it terrifies you, if it frightens you, if it fills you with fear and shame, that would be an indication that your life is not right with him. On the other hand, if it brings comfort and strength to your life, that would be an indication that your life is right with him.?If the realization that God knows everything and is present everywhere encourages you in life, then you are probably walking with God. But if it frightens you, then maybe you aren't.?FROM THE HEART??IF YOU HAVE BEEN BLESSED THROUGH THIS MINISTRY, THEN WE ASK THAT YOU WOULD PLEASE REMEMBER PROPHECY UPDATE IN YOUR GIVING - WE ARE TRULY,?TRULY,?THANKFUL FOR YOUR SUPPORT??Prophecy Update has no corporate sponsors. This ministry is paid for and prayed for by readers and supporters. 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Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else." 2 Corinthians 9:10-13Prophecy Update is a 501 (c) (3) tax exempt -?non-profit?organization, and all your donations are tax deductible.??If you have been blessed by Prophecy Update and would like to help support this ministry financially. You can make a secure donation online by going to:DONATE NOW?Or Visit our website: ?prophecyupdate. Or write us at:?Prophecy Update P.O. Box 40516 Bakersfield, CA 93384-0516???FEATURED ARTICLE?Featured Article: Life On Earth In The Millennium - A Bible Study by Jack Kelley - Lindsey once speculated that at his judgment Satan hurled two accusations at God. "You're not just and You have no love." In past studies we have seen how God demonstrated His perfect justice through Israel and His perfect love through the Church.? In this study, we'll talk about a time in the future when both perfect justice and perfect love will govern the lives of people on Earth.?Israel lived under an absolutely just system of law. It was clear and concise, made no exceptions, and showed no favoritism. There was blessing for obedience and punishment for disobedience in an obvious cause and effect relationship. What they did determined what they got. God said to them, "Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." (Exodus 19:5-6)?The Church has showcased the incomparable riches of God's grace. We're the most blessed of any group of humanity and the only thing asked of us is that we accept by faith the free gift of salvation, purchased in advance for us with God's own life. Yes, God is pleased if we live our lives in a manner that expresses our gratitude to Him, and rewards us for doing so, but the only thing He requires is that we believe in the one He has sent. Then they asked Him, "What must we do to do the work God requires?" He answered, "The work of God is this, to believe in the one He has sent"(John 6:28-29).?In the Kingdom Age believers will be saved by faith, like the Church, but will be required to keep the Law as evidence of their belief, like Israel. I say this because it's pretty clear that salvation by grace through faith alone will end with the rapture of the Church.? Otherwise there would be no need for a temple in Israel during the Millennium, with all nations being required to make an annual pilgrimage to Israel to observe the Feast of Tabernacles (Zech. 14:16-19).? Also, Isaiah 2:2-3 says all nations will stream to the Lord's Temple.? The Lord will teach them His ways and they will walk in His paths, and the Law (Torah) will go out from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.?Therefore, perfect justice and perfect love will be combined. This will be God's final answer to Satan and His final attempt to dwell among His people in peace. Will it work, or like Israel and the Church before it, will the Kingdom Age end in failure??We've only talked about Law and Grace but there were actually four other attempts at peaceful coexistence between God and man leading up to them. For a complete understanding of man's history with his Creator, we'll need to review these others as well. They're called dispensations, or administrations, and all together there are seven of them.?The 7 Dispensations?Throughout history God has dealt with His people in different ways as part of the process of revealing His character. Each of these dispensations has has begun with an agreement between God and man that man subsequently violated, ending the relationship in failure and requiring a judgment from God.?1) Innocence ... Between the Creation and the Fall of Man God interacted freely and personally with man. Man was created immortal and while he had agency (the power of choice) he didn't have a sin nature. God placed Adam and Eve in His garden and gave them only one restriction. They were not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.? But they violated this restriction and were expelled from the Garden. Adam, Eve, and the Serpent were all judged, the Creation was cursed, and sin entered the world.?2) Conscience ... Between the Fall of Man and the Great Flood God allowed man's conscience to rule without Divine interference. Because of man's newly acquired sin nature, the result of this was "the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." (Genesis 6:5) After repeated warnings, God destroyed all but 8 members of the Human race in the Great Flood.?3) Human Government ... from Noah to the Tower of Babel. After the Flood, God allowed man to establish his first system of government. But the people disobeyed God's commandment to go forth and replenish the Earth, setting about instead to build a great city and a tower to protect themselves from another flood. They also used the tower to study astrology, a corruption of the Gospel that God had written in the stars using the names of 12 constellations. So God gave each of the 70 families of man a unique language that other families weren't able to understand. This caused confusion and distrust among the people and they drifted apart to be scattered through out the world, and God destroyed the tower.?4) Promise ... God set Abraham's descendants apart as His Chosen People and promised Abraham and Sarah a son through whom He said He would bless the world. But they grew tired of waiting for Him to keep His promise, and produced a son on their own, calling him Ishmael. Later, when God gave them Isaac, the son He had promised, Ishmael was sent away causing bad blood between Ishmael (Arabs) and Isaac (Jews) that continues to this day.?5) Law ... from Mt. Sinai to Pentecost. After God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, He gave Moses the 10 Commandments and offered the Israelites the land He had promised to Abraham along with a life of peace and plenty if they obeyed His Law. After 2000 years of vacillating between obedience and rebellion that resulted in them rejecting the Messiah, God finally had enough, expelled them from their land, and dispersed them throughout the world. (But not forever.? The Dispensation of Law was interrupted seven years short of its allotted time. After the Rapture, during the final 7 years, also known as Daniel's 70th Week, Israel will have one final chance to live in obedience to God and accept their Messiah.)?6) Grace ... The Church Age. No longer requiring that righteousness be earned through obedience to the Law, God imputed His own righteousness to man by grace through faith in the completed work of the Lord Jesus, promising eternal blessing and a place in His own house to all who accept. It was the most outrageously lavish gift ever bestowed, free for the asking. But by the end of the Age of Grace most of humanity will have rejected His gift, choosing instead to live on their own terms, betting that either God doesn't exist, or if He does He'll allow them into His kingdom anyway. After removing the relative few who have accepted His gift so they'll be safe with Him, He'll punish the rest through the most severe time of judgment ever visited on Earth.?7) Kingdom ... the 1000 Year Reign of the Lord, also known as the Millennium. At its outset Satan will be bound, all unbelievers will be expelled from the planet, the curse will be removed, and God will once again dwell in the midst of His people. You'd think that finally man could live in a manner pleasing to Him. Whether he will or not is the subject of our study.?Who Are You Calling A Failure??Some in the Church might question the view that the Age of Grace has been a failure, but that's because we're among the few who have accepted the Lord's free gift of pardon and will therefore enjoy its benefits. Remember, God's desire is to reconcile us to Himself (Colossians 1:19-20). He doesn't want for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). And yet over the last 2,000 years most people have turned down His gift and gone their own way. After doing everything He could, short of violating man's free will and forcing him to accept the pardon He offered, most of mankind will have rejected Him. Can you blame Him for being so angry as to unleash the full fury of His wrath against them??Even in the Church, the response to God's gift of eternal Life has been more apathy than adoration. When less than 10% of people who claim to be born again have adopted a Biblical world view, it's clear that there's been a serious disconnect between His gift and our gratitude. When compared to God's desire the Age of Grace has been a failure.?This is no more of a surprise to God than the outcome of His previous attempts. He doesn't do things so He can see how we'll respond. He already knows that. He does things so we can see how we'll respond. Paul said every thing that was written in the past was written to teach us. (Romans 15:4)? So far the lesson has been that no matter what God has done to draw us near, man is untrustworthy and rebellious, pushing God away and bringing judgment upon himself as a result.?Now For The Kingdom?Before we go on, let's remind ourselves that the Church will be in the New Jerusalem during the Millennium and not on Earth.? The people on earth will be Israel and surviving Gentiles from the Great tribulation, all believers, who will populate the nations.? Still being in their natural state, they'll soon be? joined by the children they will bear.?OK, so what about the Kingdom Age, will it be a failure too? A study of the Kingdom Age shows that at the beginning, life will be as close to heaven on earth as one could imagine.? There will be peace on Earth and goodwill toward men, just like the angel promised to the shepherds on the night of the Lord's birth (Luke 2:14).? The creation, freed from the bondage of the curse, will be responding eagerly to mankind's husbandry, with harvests so plentiful that it will be time for planting a new crop before they can finish bringing the old crop in (Amos 9:13).? Perfect weather and overflowing bounty will make work a joy instead of a burdensome toil. Long life spans will return as sickness and disease again become rare occurrences (Isaiah 65:20). "Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with cane in hand because of his age. The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there" (Zech. 8:4-5). This will be true throughout the world because the Lord will settle all disputes between the nations.? They will not take up arms against each other, nor will they even? train for war anymore (Isaiah 2:4).? Every man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree and no one will make them afraid (Micah 4:4).?The Bible only mentions one Temple in the Millennium.? It will be in Israel and daily sacrifices will again be the norm, administered by the Levitical priesthood.? The Millennial Temple will be quite different from the historical Temples.? There will be no incense altar, no menorah, no ark of the covenant, and no wash basin.? The veil between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies will be replaced by a wooden screen, and the entire interior will be covered in wood rather than gold, as in former temples.?? Of the Levitical feasts, they will celebrate only Passover (no lamb), Unleavened Bread, and Tabernacles, with world wide representation only required for Tabernacles (Ezekiel 40-46).? Although the Bible doesn't say this, I imagine the rest of the world will utilize some form of the synagogue system of worship, first developed by Ezekiel during the Babylonian captivity and still in use today.?We're only given glimpses of the beginning and end of the Kingdom Age, but because of the shocking difference in the two, we can surmise that after a period of time things start going downhill fast. The Lord's administration will be just but inflexible. He'll rule them with a rod of iron and His punishment for disobedience will be harsh and swift. For example, nations who refuse to participate in the annual Feast of Tabernacles will not receive any rainfall (Zech. 14:16-19).?But natural man has a sin nature and will eventually rebel against the Lord's rule.? Psalm 2 tells the story.?Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One.?"Let us break their chains," they say, "and throw off their fetters."?The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them. Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying, "I have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill." (Psalm 2:1-6)?Once again created beings will presume to free themselves from the rule of their Creator. But the King ruling the Earth was put there by God Himself, and that makes Him the King of their kings. Then He'll remind them of their position in the hierarchy.?I will proclaim the decree of the LORD : He said to me, "You are my Son; today I have become your Father. Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. You will rule them with an iron scepter; you will dash them to pieces like pottery."?Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. (Psalm 2:7-12)?In an event that was later modeled in the Biblical adoption ceremony (Galatians 4:4-7), the Father formally named His Son heir of His estate and bequeathed His inheritance to Him. All the nations are His, and He has the authority to rule them as He pleases. Man's choice will be to obey or suffer the consequences. Obedience will be rewarded with blessing, but rebellion will bring destruction.?We're neither told how many will be saved during the Millennium, nor what their destiny will be.? What we are told is at the end of the 1000 year Kingdom Age Satan will be freed and will have no trouble recruiting a large army from among the nations for one last attempt to regain his lost empire. He'll find a ready audience for his deception and his army will soon be as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore.? From all over the world they'll come to surround God's people and His Holy City. But in one sudden burst of flame from Heaven they'll be devoured and Satan will be cast into the Lake of Fire for eternity (Rev. 20:7-10).? Once again, man rebels, God judges and another Age ends in failure.?Then the end will come, when he (Jesus) hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For he "has put everything under his feet" (Psalm 8:6).?Now when it says that "everything" has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all. (1 Cor. 15:24-28)?At that point, God's response to Satan's accusations will be complete, and His judgment will be final. Heaven and Earth will be purified. Eternity will begin, and God will reign supreme. Hallelujah!?If You Died Today, Would You Go To Heaven?Find out, visit:Prophecy Update - GoodSearch Toolbar Prophecy Update Toolbar is free to download and allows you to raise money for our cause every time you search or shop onlineDID YOU KNOW?You can submit an article, leave a comment or praise report at email:prophecyupdate@bak.Maranatha! 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