QUESTION: I don’t recognize Ezekiel 38/39 as Armageddon.
I recognize Ezekiel 38/39 as events (events leading up to a major nuclear war) leading up to America’s (Mystery Babylon) destruction.
After America has been destroyed THEN the antichrist will come to power and consolidate the remaining powers in the “New West”. (Basically EU countries)
16 And the ten horns (EU) and the beast (antichrist) that you saw will hate the prostitute. (America/American Church) They will leave her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
17For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by πuniting to give their kingdom to the beast,π until the words of God are fulfilled.
So you will have the New West which is controlled by the antichrist in the West and you will have China (200 million man army) controlling their region in the East.
Israel will be stuck in the middle!!
And both armies (antichrist vs 200 million man army) will fight for control of Israel. That is Armageddon.
America must be removed so that Armageddon can take place.
That is how I understand the Bible. But I am human. And humans make mistakes. So each individual Christian must read and study God’s Word for themselves and let the Holy Spirit guide them.
Peace be with you my brother in Christ.
ANSWER: Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful name!
That is wrong in context because the GOG-MAGOG Ezek 38/39 war which starts before Armageddon against ALMIGHTY, gets over only after the Millennium, where God proves a few important points, that the fallen nature within humans will make them trust in themselves unless they have believed Jesus Christ.
Satan was put in prison for a thousand years, by the grace and mercies of God and only believers were allowed to inherit the physical Kingdom of God for a thousand years, in spite, unless Saved, humans will follow Satan when tempted. This is proved by God, when God lets out Satan outside from his Millenial prison in to the earth. Satan will mobilize a physical troop like the sand of the Sea, and will come to surround the camp of the Saints who will be there ministering and residing in the fourth temple. This time again, Israel will be the target π―, because of the spiritual hate of weeds of unbelief down within the recesses of the heart of unbelievers.
The humans in the Millennium who were allowed into the Millenial Kingdom of the Father, for being a believer through judgment of Nations by Jesus himself, were allowed into it only as believers physically, but their children and grandchildren who were born to them, came to reject the spiritual message of God from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth, and instead enjoyed the Kingdom of God only physically for survival, and therefore lost the REPENTANT spirit within them and the need for them to accept the Saviour into their heart by humbling themselves as sinners in need of him. Even with Satan in prison, these Millenial dwellers on earth, when they failed to recognise the sinful fallen nature within them, their hearts swelled in pride just like Satan. Thus they were ready for the judgment of GOG-MAGOG ALLIANCE against God Almighty at the end of Millenial Kingdom of Jesus Christ and the Church. Hallelujah!
The Earth will be given a good environment of nature and abundance of food through restoration of the sons of God in the Millennium, in spite of it, they follow Satan at the end of it. Finally Jesus Christ the Almighty in his Shekinah glory, was always present within Israel for the Millennium, but people chose to stay in unbelief and come against the very God who has provided all good things throughout their Life in the Millennial rule of Jesus and the Church.
So the contextual reason for Armageddon and Ezekiel 37/38 remains one and the same, while Israel faces physically a existential threat from the world around it because of the rage of Satan as he knows his time to remain on earth is very short, God proves the Spiritual reason for it at the end of the old heaven and old earth, the hidden reason is because of inherent sinful nature which needed to be REPENTED and set right with God, instead of looking for survival apart from God on earth, which is the real reason of Ezek 37/38/& Armageddon.
Much Blessings.....
QUESTION: Saturday is the Sabbath and the Christian Church doesn’t follow God's Commandments by keeping the Sabbath Holy.
ANSWER: Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful and holy name!
Christians don't have an earthly Sabbath, but rather a perpetual one in their soul.
Here is the Bible Verse that expresses it right from the mouth of Jesus, "28: "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29: "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30: "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." (Matt 11:28-30).
The call to rest is internal with Jesus, and not external like the old earthly Creation (2 Cor 5:17), but rather the heavenly creation ready to occupy the New Heaven and New Earth (2 Peter 3:13). Jesus Christ who is the Lord of Sabbath has become the fulfillment of God's eternal Sabbath before God.
KEY VERSES
Matthew 12:8 (NIV): "For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."
Mark 2:27-28 (NIV): "Then he said to them, 'The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.'"
Luke 6:5 (NIV): "Then Jesus said to them, 'The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.'"
MEANING
AUTHORITY: Jesus claimed authority over the Sabbath rules.
COMPASSION: He taught that mercy and doing good are allowed on the Sabbath.
IDENTITY: This emphasizes His divine identity as Creator as the Son of God and also His role as the representative of humanity as the Son of Man for whose benefit the Sabbath was made.
Therefore they keep the 'Lord's Day' not out of compulsion of the law like the Old Testament (2 Cor 9:7; Rom 8:2, 4; 7:6; Gal 5:14, 16), but rather out of love for the Lord's people to be edified (John 21:15-17; Heb 10:25), and the command of the Church to be carried on like evangelism, Baptism and communion (John 14:15; Matt 28:19-20; 1 Cor 11:25-30).
UNDERSTANDING THE SPIRIT VS. THE LETTER
THE LETTER OF THE LAW: Refers to strict, literal obedience to external rules and regulations as a legal system to earn righteousness.
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW: Refers to the underlying heart, intent, and love behind God's commands, which the Holy Spirit actively produces in a believer.
NEW COVENANT REALITY: Rather than forcing compliance to external rules, the indwelling Holy Spirit transforms a person's inner desires, allowing them to naturally love God and others, thereby fulfilling the true intent of the law.
Much Love and Blessings...
QUESTION: A truly loving and holy god would purge sin but not sinners. The Christian god does neither. He purges most sinners, and purges no sin. All saved people continually sin. He has made no sinner sinless. So this god is not only unloving to most people, but he has also lowered his standard of holiness to tolerate sin in those he loves. Yet no Christians ever stop sinning, and this god kills humans. What is your take on that?
ANSWER: Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful and loving and powerful name!
You have understood inversely. God loves sinners, but hates sin, because it kills HUMANITY and separates it from Himself and his Love. His call to, Be Holy as your Father in Heaven is Holy, it does mean that God has called the Saved for a lifelong call to holiness, for which he rewards us now and mainly in eternity.
This is my own concern too, and of the true Saints who follow the Lord Jesus Christ all over the whole world, but the answer has been clearly given in the Bible, that until the body of sin does go away at the time of our physical death, the sin nature will not continue to exist. Once our soul will once and for all time enters the Presence of God at the time of our physical death, to forever have the closest communion with Father and the Son for eternity ahead, sin will leave us for eternity ahead (Rom 6:6; 2 Cor 5:11).
Until then we walk by faith, overcoming sin, sickness and death ☠️ ...ultimately, until the appointed time in which we will be redeemed in our new Glorious body to live sin free in the presence of God forever and ever. Hallelujah! Glory to God πͺπ½!
But until then, even though the penalty of sin to be free by our Faith has been paid for (Rom 6:11-23), yet we fight the power and presence of sin in our mortal body not to allow it to reign over us to produce fruit unto eternal life to glorify God and be pleasing to him always at all times in our daily lives.
But every time sin frustrates us by its power, we humble ourselves before God again by Faith and resist it to declare one again his victory over it by His Blood (Jam 4:7), through which we become cleansed to once again have fellowship with one another through God's restoration of His grace (Jam 4:6, 10). Hallelujah! Praise the Lord ππ½
"Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him (by salvation Faith), that the body of sin might be destroyed (by confession Faith), that henceforth we should not serve sin (but rather resist it to serve God)." (Rom 6:6).
WHAT IT MEANS
THE "OLD SELF" / "OLD MAN": This refers to who you were before following Christ—your former life, identity, and nature that was controlled by disobedience to God.
CRUCIFIED WITH HIM: When Jesus died on the cross, God views the believer's old sinful identity as dying alongside Him.
THE "BODY OF SIN": This does not mean your physical body is evil. Instead, it describes your physical life and actions when they were completely controlled or used as tools by sin.
DESTROYED / BROUGHT TO NOTHING: The original Greek word (katargeΕ) means to render powerless, inactive, or nullified—like unplugging a machine so it no longer has control over you.
THE GOAL: The purpose is freedom, so believers are no longer trapped as slaves to sin and can choose to live a righteous life instead by Faith choosing confession of their sin to God and people to overcome its power through cleansing from it that comes from God (1 John 1:7, 9; Rom.1:17; Heb 10:38-39).
Much Blessings....
QUESTION: Can the Antichrist be revealed to the people of Israel, by camouflage of explaining his identity from all religions? Antichrist will not be revealed this way. He has to be a messiah to Jews (John 5-43). The temple and ark of the covenant is key for Jews to believe in him!
ANSWER: Greetings to you in Jesus holy and wonderful name!
The Messiah according to the Bible is the first beast who will be a Gentile who will build the temple and restore the ark of the covenant. The classic Biblical Antichrist (Rev 13:1-10).
The very reason the Antichrist will go out "conquering and to conquer" the world of ideologies, is to conquer the heart of the Jews, and to bring peace ✌π½π️ to the Temple Mount immediately to make Jews start their sacrifice and continue it on the Temple Mount (Rev 6:1-8; Dan 9:26-27).
But at the midpoint, he will see an opportunity to bring the whole world into his control through 666, and therefore will break the covenant and cease the opportunity.
So let us watch and pray to escape the Great Tribulation that is coming upon the whole world from the Lord Almighty for the Abomination of Desolation which is the Antichrist seating himself as god in the temple of God (2 Thess 2:3-4), and be found worthy to escape it all through Rapture. Hallelujah!
Much Blessings.....
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