In June 1967, the Arab states surrounding Israel, initiated the Yom Kippur war. They chose to attack on Israel’s most unguarded, vulnerable day: a day when that nation always bows in solemn contrition to make atonement for their sins.
September 23, 2015 marks the start of the 49th year since the June 1967 uprising. We are entering the 49th year and that is how the bible dealt it. The seventh day is day of the Sabbath, the seventh year was a Sabbath year and the 49th year is a Jubilee year.
It marks 7 x 7 years or seven Sabbath periods. It was a time defined by God to release all debts and free all slaves. On that day, many slaves would voluntarily choose to remain in the house of their masters, bound by love, through a hole drilled in their ear lobes.
Could September 23 mark the fulfilment of the years needed to atone for the offence to God’s people and does that mark the moment when God exacts vengeance on the offenders?
On that day, the Pope will visit the US and the next day he will be the first ever pope to address the US congress.
I do know from eschatology that the New World Order is likely to introduce a socialist order that starts with the cancellation of debts in exchange for allegiance to that order, and what the bible refers to as “the prince” or “Antichrist”. They will accept a mark of allegiance that will enable them to function within the system, but it is a mark of enslavement.
The technology for that is mature. Biometric identification was perfected by Mondex, which means Money + Dexterity or “Money through your right hand”. It uses a RFID tag embedded in the right hand.
Not all technology is bad, per se. A lot of technology has benefitted the world, greatly, and an RFID tag may well help to curb crime and make our world a safer place. Thus, I will take a sober stance on Mondex, for it is not the technology per se that is sinister, but how a darker mind might use it – and I can’t really speculate about that.
Coinciding with the deception of freedom will be the truer freedom for those who, though free in Christ, choose to seal their love and faith, by remaining the bond-slaves of Christ: our master and king. True freedom was always defined by the right to choose yet choosing to do right. That is what Oscar Schindler said to camp commandant Amon Goeth.
According to the Book of Revelations, angels will seal those who invoke covenant with Christ. The releasing of apocalyptic judgments will exempt them, just as the angel of death once passed over the Jews awaiting liberation from Egypt.
It is interesting how many speculations and conspiracies have coincided with this period. Some believe a comet or large asteroid is heading our way, but NASA firmly denies that. With so many amateur astrologers around, NASA would find it hard to conceal a different reality.
Besides there is an army of conspiracy theorists who are hell-bent on making a case for such a catastrophe, so if there was any real evidence I am sure it would have surfaced already. Truly, it is hard to sift fact from fiction and to stay sober in the face of rapidly advancing events, because the theorists are also generally ill-informed and overly-emotive.
Certainly we do expect the 4th lunar eclipse or so-called “blood moon”, in a rare tetrad last seen when Israel become a state in 1948. That is a mathematical certainty and will certainly coincide with the feast of trumpets in September this year.
Trumpets will herald the judgments of God according to Revelations, so it would fit the whole script for the trumpets of Israel to herald a period of great upheaval. Could this herald an earthquake capable of felling the Abomination of Desolation? Would that bring atonement for June 1967 by enabling the rebuilding of the temple? Could the trumpets herald a season of global economic collapse? Could we see a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions?
I suspect that is all possible. What I do, however, think is certain, aside from any physical upheavals, is a more subtle shift in global politics that will have far-reaching consequences for the world, as we know it. What form that will take, I can’t tell.
Many significant watershed moments in history passed unnoticed. Even the birth of Jesus or the cross where He died, was witnessed by few. A handful witnessed the Treaty of Versailles, the surrender of Japan and the suicide of Hitler. My view of world affairs and of God’s ways has always been one of not letting the obvious obscure the significance of the less obvious.
Well, whatever, I do think we live in very serious times. Top financial experts like Buffet have confirmed their worry about a coming economic storm. World resources indices have tumbled. China is in financial trouble. The global climate is showing serious signs of stress.
Drought and famine is spreading in Africa and Australia. Rampant fires are raging in California. Trouble is all around us – that is not speculation. You can read it all in the daily news.
The question is, “What will you do about it?” Will you cut your losses, make your salvation sure in Christ and accept the price that will demand, or will you trade your soul for the alternatives on offer and pay a price anyway?
The day is soon coming where sitting on the fence will not be the third option.
(c) Peter Eleazar @ www.4u2live.net
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