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Volume 1 A Book on Bible Prophecy

by Ernest Angley

Prophecy fulfilled and prophecy yet to take place run through the
fabric of the Jewish nation. God's covenant with Abraham for the
future of his seed is the foundation of understanding why God has
moved for Israel in such amazing ways all these years, even in the
face of their disobedience. God's covenant of promise meant the
Jews would have wanted for nothing had they obeyed God. The
blessing of God was upon Israel until the people rebelled to the
extent He was forced to lift His blessing, turn the land into
desolation. Yet people throughout the ages have fought for the January 1990
land, struggling to control wasted cities, desolate countryside.

Why all that fighting when better land was available? Why not
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just move somewhere else? Because God's anointing still rests
upon the Holy Land. God's anointing has never lifted from it
although the devil hates that land and has done all he could to disrupt God's covenant of promise to
the Jews. The devil and God have been at war since the fall of Lucifer from heaven, for Lucifer has
sought to destroy everything of God he could. In the process, many wars have been instigated and
fueled by the devil. Not until after the gathering back of the Jews to the Holy Land will the devil be
defeated in the war to end all wars, Armageddon.

The devil knows that God keeps His covenant, he remembers why God put a rainbow in the sky for
one man: a promise to never destroy the Earth again with water. No matter the degradation man
has lived in since, how shabbily he has treated the God who made him, there has never been
another flood to cover the Earth. The devil hates that rainbow, despises what it stands for; but the
Lord has placed it before him in the sky again and again. The many colors aren't what make that
rainbow so wonderful, but the reminder that God keeps His promises, His covenant.

It's important to review God's covenant of promise to Abraham in order to have understanding of
God's prophecies. In His covenant, God had said that the Holy Land would always belong to
Abraham's seed through Isaac, the son of promise. God made the land and He gave it to Abraham.

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Since it's God's, He has the right to give it to whomever He chooses. The land shall not be sold
for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me (Leviticus
25:23). God's covenant has nothing to do with how people live; it's not dependent upon man, only
on what God promises. Israel's welfare has always depended upon their keeping the statutes of
God, His commandments, on whether they walked in the light of God.

God is keeping His prophecies, determined that everything He promised will be fulfilled. Just
what did God's covenant with Abraham include? Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get
thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a
land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee,
and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing (Genesis 12:1,2). Notice, God first
told Abraham that He would show him a land. The land the Lord showed Abraham was the
covenant land for his descendants. The people came into that promise when God told Abraham
that he would become a great nation.

And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now
thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and
eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to
thy seed for ever (Genesis 13:14,15). This promise includes much more land than Israel has ever
possessed, but they are to have it all. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so
that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered
(Genesis 13:16). God was saying that so many people would be a part of this covenant there would
be no way to number them.

Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it
unto thee (Genesis 13:17). God made no conditions here: He based the covenant upon Himself,
not upon Abraham's faithfulness. At no time did God condition His promise; it's an unconditional
covenant of grace, the reason Israel will get the land back, no matter how many people have been
there and claimed it. God keeps His promises.

In Genesis 15:18, In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto
thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river
Euphrates. Those complaining that Israel even now has too much territory will really be upset
when they see this promise fulfilled.

And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, As for me, behold, my
covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. And I will establish
my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an
everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give

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unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land
of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God (Genesis 17:3,4,7,8).
Everlasting—a covenant with no end on this Earth.

Although God had promised Abraham an heir, after a number of childless years passed, Abraham
took things into his own hands. Listening to Sarah, He used her handmaid to try to fulfill God's
promise. He got ahead of God. Ishmael, whose descendants today comprise the Arab world, was
born; and it brought great conflict. Ishmael was not the son through whom God planned to fulfill
His covenant promise (Isaac, the true son of promise came later). After Ishmael was born, Sarah
had second thoughts, and pressed Abraham to cast out Ishmael. At first Abraham refused, but God
spoke to him, instructing him to do as his wife wished. Ishmael had to go.

Ishmael had lived in Abraham's tent twelve years; that was his home, he was born there. Abraham
is the father of all the Arabs; but they, like Ishmael cannot stay in that tent. It was not promised
them, and that's the reason they have been driven out. The promised seed, Isaac, and the son by
the bondwoman, Ishmael, were not able to stay in the same tent—and never will the Arabs and
Jews possess the same land.

Galatians 3:17,18, And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in
Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that
it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no
more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Had Israel been given to the
Jews by the Law, the story would be different today. The battles over the Holy Land would not
have taken place, for the Jews never would have had a land to return to. But God gave the land to
Abraham by promise, and God keeps His promises.

If you resent what God is doing for the Jewish people, if you are upset because you think they
aren't living as they should, that they have not accepted the Lord Jesus, you are looking at God's
covenant promise the wrong way. Look at God's promise, not man's. God will take care of the Jews
one way or the other.

We read how God moved for the Jews in Egyptian bondage: Exodus 2:24,25, And God heard
their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and
with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto
them. It wasn't because they were living for Him that God moved. God heard their groanings,
remembered His covenant, and sent Moses to lead them out of bondage. Israel is a covenant
nation. If you try to look at them in any other way, you will be confused over why God has blessed
and helped them when they have been so disobedient to Him.

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Moses was ordained of God to bring the Israelites out of bondage. Although Pharaoh's daughter
had adopted him, Moses was reared by his own mother long enough for the will of God to be placed
into his heart. Even in Pharaoh's palace, Moses knew his destiny: He knew he was to lead the
Israelites out of bondage. By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of
God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ
greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of
the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he
endured, as seeing him who is invisible (Hebrews 11:24-27).

Moses saw God's plan, but like Abraham he got ahead of God; he missed God's timing. And it
came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his
brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew,
one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there
was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. And when he went out
the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him
that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? And he said, Who made thee a
prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian?
And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. Now when Pharaoh heard
this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh (Exodus
2:11-15). Moses decided to give up on the Hebrews. Losing sight of God's great covenant, he saw
only unworthy people who were disobedient to the will of God, who had no understanding of His
love.

Pharaoh in his wickedness made slaves out of the Hebrews; many of them died, worked to death.
Historians tell us that in the slime pits of Egypt the Hebrew slaves worked their fingers down to
just stubs. And yet, God was with them although most didn't live holy and many served idol gods
even after they left Egypt.

Moses stayed away from Egypt and the bondage of his people forty years, herding sheep in the
desert of Sinai until at last God's timing was ripe. Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his
father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert,
and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared
unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the
bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed (Exodus 3:1,2). This burning bush
is a type, a shadow, of Jewish persecutions. From the burning bush, from the groanings of the
people, God talked to Moses on behalf of the Hebrews. God had heard their cry, seen the cruelty of
their taskmasters. Returning to Egypt, Moses, through the miracle hand of God, led his people out

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of 400 years of bondage. Miracle after miracle, God gave them in Egypt and in the wilderness.

Again I say, God remembered them not for their love of Him, but because of the covenant He made
with Abraham. God is working for the Jewish people today for the sake of that same covenant, not
out of regard for their faithfulness to Him. The Jews are His covenant people; it's a covenant that
will stand. God will never forsake them.

God is saying to the Israelites, I have blessed you and helped you. Remember how I brought you
from the land of Egypt. Forty years in the wilderness I clothed you. I didn't let your shoes, your
clothes wear out. I spread a table in the wilderness. But when you disobeyed me, I brought
judgment. All the people who were old enough to have known better but still turned away from
me, all those twenty years old and upward, I let die in the wilderness. Only Caleb and Joshua were
exempt. I mothered you who remained. Into a land flowing with the milk and honey of my
promise I led you. I also warned you that if you didn't walk holy before me, didn't keep my
ordinances, I would disperse you, drive you out. I would let you become slaves, captured by the
wicked kings of the Earth.

In spite of my warnings, you failed. You have failed, but I remember my covenant, a covenant of
grace, unconditional. I made no conditions: I promised the land to Israel forever! There can be no
changing. I willed it to you with a will that cannot be altered. Remember how I dealt with you in
the wilderness.

Forgetting God's covenant and tender dealings, the Jews many times turned to other gods,
disgracing God's name; but He was still their God. He told them in Leviticus, And if ye will not
for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary
unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. And I
will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be
astonished at it. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword
after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste (Leviticus
26:27,28,32,33). The Hebrews en route to Canaan, recorded in these passages in Leviticus, knew
the Lord's prophecy of the consequences of their disobedience. They didn't seem to take God's
warnings seriously, for when Moses was on the Mount receiving the Ten Commandments, the
Israelites made a golden calf to worship. "This is the god that delivered us out of Egypt!" they
cried. It brought disaster.

Disaster was still falling years later because Israel broke God's covenant again and again. She was
carried captive to Babylon. God didn't break the covenant, Israel did. When you break God's

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covenant, God's commandment, you are in trouble. Going against thus saith the Lord, not
accepting what God has said, brings God's judgment.

The Lord has more to say about the disobedient, And upon them that are left alive of you I
will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a
shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they
shall fall when none pursueth (Leviticus 26:36). That's the way it's been in the history of the
Jewish people. In any other nation they've inhabited, they have been without strength. Six million
Jews were killed in World War II. On the whole, their hearts fainted within them; they bowed
down in alien lands.

In spite of Israel's waywardness, God promised to gather them back: Fear not: for I am with
thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to
the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my
daughters from the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called by my name: for I
have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him (Isaiah 43:5-7).
These are the prophecies of God. Prophet after prophet has given revelations of the Jewish nation
and what will happen in the future.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that they shall no more say, The
Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The
Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the
north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell
in their own land (Jeremiah 23:7,8). Notice, the Lord is saying that Palestine is the Jews' own
land. God has never, never said anything else. Why have so many nations wanted that tiny land
full of rocks, rocks, rocks when plenty of nations possess fertile ground? Because the devil has put
a desire into the hearts of people for that covenant possession. He knows it's God's treasured
possession, that God is guarding His land.

We find in Ezekiel 36, that the Lord didn't say He would gather Israel back because of their
obedience—they weren't obedient—He said He would gather them back for His sake. Verse 22,
Thus saith the Lord God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine
holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, wither ye went. God
promised Abraham unconditionally, just like God promised those who would be born-again an
unconditional Calvary of grace.

No matter how unworthy, no matter how disobedient the Israelites have been, no matter how often
they have turned away from God or how many idol gods they have worshiped, God is keeping His
covenant to gather them back from all nations and to make a mighty nation out of them. He

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promised them Palestine, all of it; everything that was in the covenant for the children of Abraham
regarding a permanent inheritance is to be theirs. The Jews will not forfeit their right to the land;
they have a right to reclaim it. God says it can never belong to anybody else in His sight, but He let
Israel know that before their covenant of promise would be realized, He would disperse them,
punish them for their disobedience, for their unfaithfulness.

And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I
will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you,
saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be
carried away captive (Jeremiah 29:14). God is saying, I caused you to be carried away, I
scattered you and I will bring you back.

Jesus foretold the scattering of the Jews when He was here: And they shall fall by the edge of
the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be
trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled (Luke 21:24).
We live in the age of this great sweeping plan.

And now therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city,
whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword,
and by the famine, and by the pestilence; Behold, I will gather them out of all
countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great
wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell
safely (Jeremiah 32:36,37). Again we read that the Lord reveals that He drove them there in great
anger. In great wrath He did it.

He goes on to say, And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: And I will give
them one heart, and one way [the way of holiness], that they may fear me for ever, for
the good of them, and of their children after them (verses 38,39). One heart, one mind,
looking to the Lord, accepting Jesus Christ. Jesus is the heart of God, isn't He? That they may fear
me…How long? Forever. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will
not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that
they shall not depart from me (verse 40). God said, I'll put so much fear in their hearts that
they'll never depart from me, they'll never fail me again. They will be clean and holy. I'm going to
clean them up! God will make them as holy as Calvary makes the true born-again Christian.

In the forty-first verse, Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant
them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. For thus
saith the Lord; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I
bring upon them all the good that I have promised them. And fields shall be bought in
this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand
of the Chaldeans (verses 41-43). In 1921 more and more Jews started trickling back to the Holy
Land, a land that had been desolate for so many years.

People began to buy up the land—God said the land would be bought. Men shall buy fields for

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money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the
cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for
I will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord (verse 44). Everywhere, in the valleys,
the mountains, one can see the fulfillment of these prophecies.

In 1948 the Jewish state was set up in 1948. The Lord said that the land would be divided, and that
that division would be an abomination. Jerusalem was divided in 1948 and then the Six Day War
took place in 1967. Easily Israel won because God fought for her. Once again the Holy City was
under Jewish control. Once again they had access to the Wailing Wall, one of their most sacred
places of worship. It doesn't matter how many enemies Israel has, or how people feel about her,
Israel is God's covenant nation. In other words, God made a covenant with Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob; and God isn't going to break that covenant. It is a great covenant that God gave.

Why do the Jews have a right to take over the Holy Land after having been absent so many years?
Because God said it. I love the Arab people; they have been so very gracious and kind to me, so
hospitable. I have worked with them, ministered to them; but I must preach the truth, give it to
people as God has laid it down. Israel is a covenant land, and God's covenant cannot be broken. If
we don't understand God, we won't accept all that He is doing.

Let's look at more prophecies about the Jewish nation. He [God] shall cause them that come
of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with
fruit (Isaiah 27:6). Is this prophecy being fulfilled? Israel is growing abundant fruit, shipping tons
of it to different nations. Beautiful flowers, fields of roses, bloom in what used to be desolate land.
God keeps His promises.

Through Amos, God spoke to the land: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the
plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed;
and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. And I will bring
again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and
inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall
also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land,
and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith
the Lord thy God (Amos 9:13-15). God is keeping that promise.

But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit
to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. For behold, I am for you, and I
will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown (Ezekiel 36:8,9). Here God is speaking
of the land, telling of its great anointing, that life is leaping up everywhere. And I will multiply
men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited,
and the wastes shall be builded (verse 10). God has done just that; He's brought Jews in by

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the thousands from all nations. The wasteland is continually being built up; the land becoming
fertile; the desert, indeed, blooming like the rose. It's marvelous to behold!

The hour of the great gathering back to the Holy Land has come. The Israelis have put their lives
on the line for that land, and fought for it with the strength of God. Bowing no longer, Israel has
become the "biggest little nation" on Earth. Did hardships make them strong? No, it took more
than that. It took God to help them. Nations that want the favor of God must leave their hands off
Israel. Israel is God's chosen land, the Jews His chosen people.

Ezekiel continues: And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase
and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you
than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Yea, I will cause men
to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt
be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men (Ezekiel
36:11,12).

The Jewish nation is represented by the fig tree in the Bible. Jesus said that when the fig tree
bloomed, people would know His coming is nigh, even at the door. Now learn a parable of the
fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that
summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it [the
coming of the Lord] is near, even at the doors (Matthew 24:32,33). The fig tree has bloomed
in our day.

And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye
have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord,
saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take
you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you
into your own land (Ezekiel 36:23,24). Here He's saying again, own land, own land. Then will
I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and
from all your idols, will I cleanse you (verse 25).

The time will come when the Jews will no longer pass by Jesus Christ in favor of the traditions of
their fathers. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the
nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they
shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one
mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in

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bitterness for his firstborn (Zechariah 12:9,10).

One Jewish leader said that when Israel took back Jerusalem in 1967 it was the greatest day of their
lives—but a greater day is coming! The day they find Jesus to be the true Messiah, the true
Redeemer. And when they realize that He died for them, when they look upon the One they
pierced, the One they rejected crying, "Away with Him! Crucify Him, crucify Him!" they will know
great mourning!

Opening up their hearts to the Lord, the prophecy will be fulfilled that says, A new heart also
will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit
within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments,
and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be
my people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses:
and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. And I will
multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no
more reproach of famine among the heathen. Then shall ye remember your own evil
ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own
sight for your iniquities and for your abominations (Ezekiel 36:26-31).

One day the Jews will be delivered in their souls, just as the Gentiles have been delivered through
Jesus Christ. It is coming; God is going to see to it. But God didn't make a covenant to spare all the
people, just a remnant.

Those who mean business will cry out for Jesus. There will be a reaching for Calvary by those
Jewish people, and a nation will be saved in a day. But the many, many who will not accept Jesus
will die, saith the Lord in His Bible. The Jews do not know the sorrow that lies ahead of them.
Only a few men will be left at the end of the Tribulation Period. We must believe in our hearts
what God has said.

Jesus came to Israel; there was a Calvary on that land because it's God's land. Study this hour;
know God's will; yield to it in everything. Let God have His way, and you will be amazed at your
understanding of this final hour.

Many think that the Christian church has taken the place of Israel, that all the prophecies in the
Word of God are for the church and not Israel at all. They reason that since Israel has failed God,
God has laid her aside and raised up the church, giving Christians the blessings that were promised
to Israel. They're wrong. The nation of Israel will be restored; they will possess all the land that
God promised them.

After the Jews are gathered back, after the Rapture, the Antichrist will come, set up his kingdom.
In the beginning, the Jews will accept him as their Messiah, the one they've been looking for. He

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probably will rebuild the temple, although we don't know for sure; we just know it will be rebuilt.
Three-and-a-half years into the Tribulation Period the Antichrist will set himself up in the temple
of God, proclaiming that he is God. Israel's eyes will be opened, and they will know he is not the
Messiah. Then their troubles start all over again.

Jesus said: When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation [the Antichrist],
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place…then shall be great
tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever
shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved
(Matthew 24:15,21,22).

The journey of the Israelite people has been a most astounding one. Never in all the history of man
has there been anything like it. In the middle of the Tribulation Period, they will find themselves in
the fiery furnace heated hotter than it's ever been.

When the three Hebrew boys were thrust into the fiery furnace, it killed some of their enemies.
That's what's going to happen at the end of the Jew's journey. The Fourth Man is coming again to
slay the enemies of the Jews in the Battle of Armageddon and to put the devil, bound by one angel
with one chain, into the bottomless pit. The Fourth Man, the Son of God, is coming to destroy.

God has a hiding place for the Jews during this time; He will cover the obedient with His mighty
hand. Again He will shelter them just before He comes forth at the end of the Tribulation Period,
King of kings and Lord of lords, the Son of God, the Fourth Man. Those who put the Jews in the
fiery furnace of the Great Tribulation of persecution will be slain.

Know where we are in Bible prophecy; know that the Antichrist, the devil/man, is on his way to set
up his kingdom. His spirit has been raging for ages, from Nimrod's Babel right on down to our
day. Dethroning God in the hearts of men, going against God, instilling unbelief in God's promises
are Lucifer's daily pursuits. Wanting nothing to do with God, seeking the devil through astrology,
sorcery and other arts of the devil, man has been led astray by Lucifer down through the ages.

The kingdom of Nimrod's Babel is an extension of the kingdom of Lucifer; and when the Antichrist
takes over, it will still be the same age-old kingdom—only worse. But Lucifer does not have much
longer to terrorize the Earth, for in the Tribulation Period the great cry will ring forth: "Babylon
has fallen!" The devil's reign will have come to an end.

Jesus is the Rock that will destroy all evil, everything unlike God, and then a kingdom of peace
ruled by Christ in love will be set up. What a glorious time for those who love and serve the Lord
when the curse is lifted from the Earth, and Jesus rules and reigns in the Holy City of Jerusalem!
Those who do not go up to Jerusalem to worship, those who do not honor God, will have no rain
upon their crops. And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the
earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall
be no rain (Zechariah 14:17).

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Because of God's covenant promise, are the Jews better off than the Gentiles? Should the Gentiles
be jealous? God provided for Ishmael; he didn't go lacking, but jealousy was there. Being jealous
of what God does for another puts one on very dangerous ground. That old spirit of jealousy is
strictly of the devil. The jealousy of Ishmael caused and is still causing great destruction.
Multitudes have been killed.

There is no need for the Gentiles to be jealous of the Israelites, for God has given a Calvary. We are
the Rapture generation. The Jews are looking forward to their Messiah, and we are looking
forward to being changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, caught away to be with the Lord
forever. God hasn't left His adopted children out. We have the light, the blessings of heaven, the
opportunity to be part of the Glorious Church in the Rapture. The Lord Jesus is coming for us; we
have been adopted into the family of God. The totally obedient, those without spot or wrinkle can
look forward to being changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, taken not to the Promised
Land of the Jews, but to the promised land of eternal life. The Lord wants to take into heaven
Gentiles and Jews alike, all who will accept His Son. Jesus said: I am the way, the truth, and
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). Only through the cross of
Jesus, Jesus the door back into Eden, can you enter heaven. God's ways are not man's ways nor are
His thoughts our thoughts.

Yea, saith the Lord, I keep my promises, I keep my covenants. I am the Lord thy God. I have
spoken many, many things, and the enemy has caused man to doubt and to turn away from my
prophecies. But the hour will come that man will see that my prophecies are true prophecies and
I have spoken, that I cannot lie. I have spoken of the soon coming of my Son, Jesus, and it will
take place, saith the Lord. I have told you again and again that you're in the final hour, and it is
the final hour, saith the Lord.

Oh my people, use my love and my faith and do my work in this short period of time that you
have. Do not hesitate, but do my work, do my will and know that redemption draweth nigh. Lift
up your eyes and see the harvest fields…and I have promised the multitudes for your hire. And I
will give them to you, and they will be redeemed and delivered. And your reward will be great.

Do not weary, trust in my promises, trust my prophecies. All will be fulfilled, saith the Lord. I will
walk with you, and I will be with you. You will not be defeated because I the Lord thy God hath
spoken, and I the Lord thy God hath promised it. You will be victorious in the name of my Son
Jesus, saith the Lord.

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