Nine specific
prophecies in the Bible will occur within the final seven years prior to the
Battle of Armageddon. By
examining these prophecies, we can get a sense of how
close we are to Armageddon.
The final seven
years will begin when the Antichrist and the International Community give their
support to Israel’s right to exist in the land promised to Abraham by God. This
is called the Confirmation of the Covenant (Daniel 9:27 & Genesis 15:18). Israeli
Prime Minister Netanyahu has informed President Obama that he will accept
Secretary of State Kerry’s framework agreement for peace. Negotiations were
started on July 29, 2013, with a goal of reaching an agreement within nine
months. President Obama has said, “The timeframe that we had set up for
completing these negotiations is coming near and some tough decisions are going
to have to be made.”
A war will begin
from the vicinity of the Euphrates River (Revelation 9:13-16). The Euphrates
River starts in Turkey and passes through Syria and Iraq. Then it converges
with the Tigris River, which borders Iran, and empties into the Persian Gulf.
4,486 American soldiers were killed during the Iraq War. The “Arab Spring,”
occurring in North Africa (Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia, all around to Syria) is
toppling governments and keeping the Middle East in constant upheaval. The
presence of radical Shia and Sunni Muslims, plus Al Qaeda and Hezbollah
throughout this region assures that hostilities will continue to increase.
The West Bank
(Judea) in Israel will become a place of great tribulation (Matthew 24:15-21).
Ever since the United Nations recognized a Palestinian state within pre-1967
borders, Israel has been considered an occupying power by the world community.
The creation of a Palestinian state will leave about 100,000 to 200,000 Jews
living in land transferred to Palestinian control. However, many of the West
Bank Jews say they are not leaving their homes. Former Palestinian Prime
Minister Salam Fayyad has said, “We will allow Israeli Jews to live in
Palestine as Palestinian citizens under Palestinian law and sovereignty. We
will treat our Jewish minority and grant them rights and demand from them
obligations exactly as Israel does for its Palestinian minority.”
The Temple Mount in
Jerusalem will be placed under a sharing arrangement between Jew and Gentile
(Revelation 11:1-2. A law was introduced in the Israeli Knesset on November 1,
2013, to place the Temple Mount under a sharing arrangement so that both Jews and
Muslims can worship there.
The Jewish temple
will be built on the Temple Mount (Revelation 11:1-2 & 2 Thessalonians
2:3-4). Israel has been subsidizing nonprofit organizations that advocate the
building of the Third Temple, and Israel Minister of Housing and Construction
Uri Ariel has expressed his wish to see the future construction of a “Third
Temple” in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount. Meanwhile, the
Temple Institute has created authentic vessels and garments for use in the
Third Temple, made according to the exact requirements and specifications of
Biblical law.
The Temple Mount
will be placed under the supervision of the world community, and the leader of
the world community, which will at that time be the Antichrist, will stand on
the Temple Mount claiming to be God (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4). Currently, Jordan
administrates the Temple Mount holy places through the Waqf (Islamic trust).
This arrangement enjoys an international consensus, according to the Jordanian
foreign minister. However, as the Israeli Knesset debates the future
sovereignty of the Temple Mount, MK Moshe Feiglin and other Israeli lawmakers
have increasingly lamented the lack of religious freedom for Jews and
Christians there. Non-Muslims are forbidden to pray or carry Bibles when
visiting the compound for fear of provoking Muslim unrest. If the United
Nations is the infrastructure on which the Antichrist will build his one-world
government, the UN may soon take control of the Temple Mount, and the leader of
the world government will feel justified in claiming ultimate authority there.
A world government
will dominate the world for three and one-half years prior to Armageddon
(Daniel 7:23 & Revelation 13:7). The nations of the world are increasingly
recognizing the authority of international law. We now have the World Bank, the
World Trade Organization, the World Health
Organization and the
World Court just to name a few. We have a World Court to adjudicate the
international laws of the emerging world government.
Each person on earth
will be required to have a mark or a number in order to buy or sell (Revelation
13:16-18). On May 11, 2005, President Bush signed the Real ID Act. Enforcement
will be carried out in four stages, beginning in April, 2014. REAL ID mandates
that Americans produce federally approved identification cards (compliant
driver’s licenses or state-issued ID cards) upon demand. It compels every
citizen to share personal information and unique biometric identifiers in a
nationwide database. Even after several deadline extensions, many states
continue to object to its costs, and civil rights groups oppose it as an
invasion of privacy. Nevertheless, REAL ID is a precursor to the global
identification system which will be used to track and control everyone. Without
proper identification, subjects of the Antichrist’s New World Order will not be
able to hold a job, open a bank account, or receive healthcare or food.
The world community,
led by Russia and Iran, will invade the nation of Israel. (Zechariah 14:2-3
& Ezekiel 38 & 39) Iran (Persia) and Russia (Meshech—root word for
Moscovi or Moscow) are now in alliance. Iran is the leading advocate of “wiping
Israel off the map.”
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