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| GERALD FLURRY WROTE ON ARMIES OF ARMAGEDDON |
GERALD FLURRY WROTE ON ARMIES OF ARMAGEDDON
PART 1 –
A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF BIBLICAL ARMAGEDDON with BIBLICAL interpretations.
PART 2---
The Armies of Armageddon written by Gerald Flurry
From the Nov/Dec 2008 Trumpet Print Edition »
INTRODUCTION
2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
By reading the above part 2 of this article which are the words of Gerald Flurry of Philadelphia church of God, and comparing them with biblical interpretations of PART 1 OF THIS ARTICLE, one could CONCLUDE whether he had interpreted biblical Armageddon with words of God—OR WHETHER THEY ARE HIS OWN WORDS!
God’s servants should explain prophecies with scriptures—
Lu 24: 44--all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning Me.
And we know new testament is all about JESUS CHRIST, of His new covenant.
Ps 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Then the whole bible is concerned of JESUS CHRIST.
IN RE 5: 9, WE SEE IT IS JESUS CHRIST WHO OPENS THE SEALS OF BOOK OF Revelations---HE SPEAKS FROM HIS OWN WORDS!
We see the end result of Revelations is the establishment of NEW JERUSALEM, where His temple is established among His people, Re 21:2,3, 22: 3,4, Eze. 48: 35, therefore all Revelations are about the establishment of the everlasting TEMPLE , the
SANCTUARY OF GOD, IN THE MIDST OF sanctified ISRAEL, HIS CHOSEN FAMILY, Eze. 37: 28.
As such, purification of ministry, Mal 3: 2,3 done first, that is why ministry were portrayed as being sent to nations in captivity—
Eze. 12: 15--they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.---this scattering among nations was done to the ministry who rebelled in His SANCTUARY, please read that chapter to see, that prophet in vs. 3 and others in vs. 13-15 are sent to Babylon , the land of Chaldeans, there they would be corrected, Jer 32:28, Jer 19:8, Jer 20:5, Jer 27:22, Jer 25:11, afterwards Babylon would be punished, Jer 25:12.
So ministry which were spiritually scattered , ARE SHOWN the wrongdoings of those places (their own sins), when leader as Nebuchadnezzar, rules them---(those are not God’s ways!)
Then they realise that LORD does REQUIRE THEM TO BE SUBJECT TO HIS COMMANDS, and not the men’s commandments ---then LORD could establish them to make the eternal covenant!---so the bride of Christ is purified, as a NEW BORN seed of ISRAEL!
2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
Each person among God’s called out , Jn 6: 44,45, has to be made a spiritual house, as living stones, a holy priesthood, 1Pe 2:5 , a stone to be built upon, Eph 2:20, the CORNER STONE, Isa 28:16, 1Pe 2:7.
Therefore---THE PARABLE or comparison of “Armageddon”---“Jehoshaphat valley”
Where nations are gathered –shows how the LORD pleads with them and fight them to correct them to be in His SANCTUARY!
The bible stories are about LORD’S family of ISRAEL, Amos 3: 2, His throne that has to be a holy place where a holy habitation is expected! When we sin, we defile the place, there are specified ways, His Judgments to be followed so that WE SERVE HIM IN THE Righteousness unto Holiness, which HE HIMSELF GIVES US through HIS SACRIFICE, Ro 6: 3-7, 19-22!
Gerald Flurry speaks of UNBIBLICAL THINGS, AND of PEOPLE—WHO ARE NOT HAVING A COVENANT WITH GOD—(that is like Nebuchadnezzar!—Nebuchadnezzar would speak of all nations under him!---NOT ABOUT Jerusalem, which is LORD’S CONCERN!)
He says in his article about Germany, Berlin wall, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russia, Vladimir Putin,-- -Steinmeier-- Gerhard Schröder-- Edmund Stoiber—Vatican-- Hitler-Stalin pact-- Daniel 8 speaks of a fierce German ruler-- Russia versus Georgia is bringing in the Daniel 8 man, a man who will finally stand up and use power: the king of the north! This is the rise of the Holy Roman Empire. It’s back!--- a European superpower--
Daniel 11:21 says this end-time Antiochus will “come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries,” yet will be a vile person.
Thus, Gerald Flurry refers to people of the world---
But notice---HOW JESUS CHRIST RECORDS HIS THINGS OF SANCTUARY AND about His family, Amos 3: 2---
ABOVE Gerald Flurry MENTIONED OF Dan 11: 21-notice vs. 28---
Dan 11: 28-- his heart shall be against the holy covenant;
Who has the HOLY COVENANT?
SO DAN 11: 21 SPEAKS OF A MAN WHO BROKE LORD GOD’S HOLY Covenant!
The holy Covenant was with Philadelphia church of God, Eze 16: 8---even if others break it, the leader has the responsibility to watch and guard---BUT HE HIMSELF BROKE IT WITH A. Harrison, Eze 8: 16 (Eze. 8: 16 refers to 25 ministers in east, at the time of breaking covenant, Eze. 44: 7 {referring to Bamah abomination, Eze. 20: 29, which the gentiles knew, Eze. 39: 21-23}), again, Eze. 11: 1,2 (25 men in east), Eze. 44: 7 (covenant broken as strangers of Bamah taken as ministers of PCG, in 1999, as recorded in PCG news bulletin at that time), covenant broken, Ez 16: 59, covenant broken because of strangers, Jer 51: 51---all those vss. referring to how they broke the covenant –and they were sent into captivity, Eze. 12: 3-15, to many nations! They became enemies inside the SANCTUARY! THEREFORE LORD EVEN PROFANED THE SANCTUARY, Eze. 24: 21, and the LEADERS, Isa 43:28, ministry, LORD’S servants’ time of punishment had come, Jer 46:21. ---Ps 74:3---The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
La 2:7 The Lord has spurned His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces Into the hand of the enemy.
ALL SHOULD KNOW THAT THIS IS THE CHURCH WHERE GOD HAD PLACED HIS NAME! --- any other place is a different story, LORD WOULD NOT BOTHER---but this church has the responsibility of Judah and Jerusalem where LORD SHOULD BE WORSHIPPED ACCORDING TO HIS ORDINANCES!
Revelations 16 records the war OF JESUS CHRIST at ARMAGEDDON with HIS ENEMIES—look at that chapter written below—HOW LORD’S WAR FULFILLS AT Babylon ---THE WAR OF ARMAGEDDON IS CONCERNED WITH Babylon and the CUP OF HIS WRATH—Re 16: 19! This cup is given to Judah and Jerusalem, Jer 25: 15-18, and all prophecies would come to pass in Judah, Jer 25: 12,13.—Jer 25: 15-26 is a list of nations which were given the cup! They describe Judah in other chapters like Jer 43—to –50, Eze 31-32! And in other prophecies! –therefore the prophecies fulfil in church, where God placed HIS NAME! this is a correction work!
Re 16: 1 - pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.--in vs. 19, the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath---is given—to Babylon –this cup has wine—Ps. 75: 8, it is made up of fire, brimstone, Ps. 11: 6, fire is God’s words, Jer 5: 14, and His fire consumes wickedness, Isa 9: 18—SO LORD PURIFIES MINISTRY WITH HIS WINE!
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.—WATERS are people , multitudes, who SITS AS A WHORE, Re 17: 1, 5, 15—whore is Babylon the great harlot, referring to church of last era, Philadelphia Church of God , Eze. 16: 15, who broke the marriage covenant, Eze. 16: 59, 44: 7, Jer 51: 51.
6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.(they had spiritually killed the lives of brethren by disfellowshipping them and not caring for God’s sheep, Jer 23).
12 - And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; (when ISRAEL stumbled and fell into NORTH, they are ---living by the river EUPHRATES, Jer 46: 6, SO THE WATERS OF EUPHRATES SHOULD BE FINISHED!—men’s commandments should be finished!).
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.—in many scriptures ministers are spoken as beasts—they are influenced by dragon the devil! Re 12:9--
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. TP—page 40---G.Flurry wrote---“how many true prophets are there on earth today? Only one.
—therefore—the false prophet (he is false after he was no more prophet, Ps. 74: 9, after his responsibilities were removed, Isa 22: 25). ---then he made the ministry rally round him---
Gerald Flurry wrote in Royal Vision ---July/ Aug 2007 ---page 15
“ Will you unify around God’s leader today?”
All of God’s ministers need to unify around headquarters.
WHEN MINISTRY EXALTS FALSE PROPHET who exalts himself against God, they are kings and princes under the false prophet! They exalt devil! –they serve a man and NOT GOD!
They project another medium of H.W.Armstrong!
Isa 29:4-- Your voice shall be like a medium‘s, out of the ground;--- 6 You will be punished by the LORD of hosts With thunder and earthquake and great noise,--- 7 The multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel,-- Shall be as a dream of a night vision.-- 10 For the LORD has poured out on you The spirit of deep sleep, And has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, namely, the seers.--- 11 The whole vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed,
In Eze. 12; 15, the ministers as princes (royalty given in Eze. 16: 13), are the kings of Re 16: 14—they were scattered in nations as said in Eze. 12: 15, 32: 9, (Eze 36:19-- I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them according to their ways and their deeds.)---and then AFTER JUDGMENT, LORD brings back their captivity from nations (Isa 11:12 He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.)
LORD’S WORDS COME TO PASS—Eze. 12: 25-28!---THE BANNER IS SET UP IN http://www.restoringcaptivity.com
Re 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.—it is the BRIDE of JESUS CHRIST who would be given clothes of Righteousness, Re 19: 8, as she is naked, Re 3: 17.---LORD came as a thief during LORD’S DAY, it is to purify Levi, Mal 3: 2,3, it is gentiles’ times, Eze. 30; 3.
T-Prophet booklet—page 32—para 2—GF wrote—
Referring to Mic.2: 7-8----God’s people have become His enemy, because they have ripped off their wedding garment—the fine linen—righteousness of saints. -Rev.19:8-
Zeph.1:8 say they wear strange apparel----this is a real spiritual marriage—and referring to verse 10 ---he wrote—depart from the polluted church!
SO ONE SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT LORD HAD GIVEN Gerald Flurry KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN THE LAST DAYS!
Re 16: 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. SO THAT IS THE PLACE WHERE Jer 25: 15-17 CUP OF FURY WAS GIVEN! ---ARMAGEDDON!---there the ministry is assembled a nations!
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.---ALL HEARTS SHOULD FEEL THIS QUAKE!
19 --- great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her THE CUP OF WRATH OF HIS FIERCENESS---THIS IS LORD’S Judgment AGAINST THE ISRAEL OF RO 9: 4,6 (for all ISRAEL is not ISRAEL---but those who serve Him in His temple, are ISRAEL--Ro 9: 4,6). This is the Judgment of church leaders!
TP booklet—Gerald Flurry wrote—page 97—para 3 and 4
We guard the law and government Levi established. That’s what the ministers should be doing today. That’s what God is holding them accountable for. They not only have the responsibility to “keep” or obey. The law and government, but to PRESERVE OR GUARD IT, FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH!
PLEASE COMPARE all prophecies with WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS—2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Therefore---prophecies cannot be interpreted with one’s own words!
MORE ON Babylon ---
Babylon IS COMPOSED OF MANY NATIONS (as history repeating of Nebuchadnezzar recorded in Daniel) which ARE DEPICTED AS the nations that were scattered by God (IN A SPIRITUAL CAPTIVITY, {by word of God, IT IS WORDS THAT WOULD FULFIL, Eze. 12: 25-28}), THIS IS A PUNISHEMNT BY WORD OF GOD, Re 19: 13, for disobedience to repent before Him, Eze. 12: 15, there are lists of those nations in Jer 25, Ps. 83, with details in Jer 46, 47, 48, 49, all of which say HOW THE CHURCH LEADERS HAD DONE AGAINST GOD, EXALTING THEMSELVES AGAINST GOD!
EXAMPLE—OF MOAB---Jer 48: 26 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
27--For was not Israel a derision unto thee? 42-- And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.
(ISRAEL is compared to Moab , BOTH A DERISION UNTO THE LORD!
–Jer 48 gives many reasons why ISRAEL is compared to Moab ---and ONE MAJOR REASON IS EXALTING AGAINST GOD!
God family vision—page 24---para 2—Gerald Flurry wrote and taught—NOT TO EXALT MEN--
Christ wants to be certain that we do not look to any man more than Him—that we will never exalt a man or ten men above Jesus Christ.
We are to love God, our husband, above the members in the church. It is vital that we understand this lesson.
That means LORD taught him not to exalt men!
But, who exalted against God?
TP—page 40---G.Flurry wrote---“how many true prophets are there on earth today? Only one.
RV-PENTECOST 2007---Gerald Flurry wrote that “he is god with capital “G”—God”!---THAT WAS HOW HE EXALTED himself AGAINST GOD!----SO IT IS THE ONE PROPHET WHO EQUALED himself WITH GOD!
Here is how Gerald Flurry exalted H. W. Armstrong ---A MAN!
GOD FAMILY VISION –GERALD FLURRY—Page 87—para 4—
“As you study this, you will begin to understand that honoring Mr. Armstrong as our father is very closely tied to honoring God the Father.”
BIBLE WARNED—WHEN THE LORD’S DAY BEGIN---it is when “man of sin” exalts himself ABOVE GOD, 2Th 2:3 , and WHEN HE SITS AS RULER OF GOD’S CHURCH, sitting as GOD in the TEMPLE OF GOD!---then he would do things according to his words, and not according to God’s Judgments!—for instance disfellowshipping brethren, when God does not like to do so, --Eze 45:9 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: "Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people," says the Lord GOD.—Gerald Flurry disfellowshipped most of us gentiles too!
Like Paul, I will continue to magnify my office that I might save some. ... The ministers have to magnify this office ... God’s ministers must understand this concept deeply and lead God’s people to magnify my office – which is really God’s office. [TP pg. 70p1,2,3] – Paul magnified his ministry through extending his ministry to gentiles --Ro 11:13---but Gerald Flurry compares God’s throne to his office!---COULD Gerald Flurry DO ANYTHING WHAT THE LORD DOES---could he even create a drop of water---or A HURRICANE?—men should understand WHAT LORD COULD PERFORM THROUGH HIS THRONE IN HEAVEN!
Following God’s Man is actually following God. [TP pg. 11p5]---2Th 2:3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Gerald Flurry MADE MEN OF GOD to rally round him---
Gerald Flurry wrote in Royal Vision ---July/ Aug 2007 ---page 15
“ Will you unify around God’s leader today?”
All of God’s ministers need to unify around headquarters.
That means---Gerald Flurry had made his own religious empire and exalts himself as God—a few biblical comparisons about him are written below-
• AS PRINCE OF TYRE---Eze. 28: 2---Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: (vs. 5, 17 also)
• AS CEDAR--Gerald Flurry was compared to the best cedar in God’s garden, in Eze. 31---and this cedar exalted himself against God, Eze 31:10, in that chapter Pharaoh is compared to Assyrian and cedar, vs. 1-2, 18.
• This is why LORD punishes PROUD king of Assyria, Isa 10: 12,
• AS King of Assyria –he said-- Isa 14:13-- I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north;---notice –he is seated at NORTH! Because he stumbled towards NORTH, Jer 46: 6---
• LORD’S PURPOSE IS TO ERADICATE THIS ASSYRIAN FROM GOD’S LAND ISRAEL, Isa 14: 25,26.
• Da 8:25 "Through his cunning He shall cause deceit to prosper under his rule; And he shall exalt himself in his heart. He shall destroy many in their prosperity. He shall even rise against the Prince of princes; But he shall be broken without human means.---PRINCE of princes, KING of kings, LORD of lords, is JESUS CHRIST , the ONE GOD ALMIGHTY, Isa 9: 6,WOULD BREAK him (it is not a human who would break him, BUT JESUS CHRIST!)
• Da 8: 24-- his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
RV-PENTECOST 2007---Gerald Flurry wrote that “he is god with capital “G”—God”!---THAT WAS HOW HE EXALTED himself AGAINST GOD! Following God’s Man is actually following God. [TP pg. 11p5]---
Da 8: 24—25—as above stated---Gerald Flurry TOOK GOD’S POSITION (capital “G” God)---and HIS POWER WAS MIGHTY---then he destroyed God’s holy people, even ministers of God, through giving false teachings, to follow him as GOD!---God’s ministers must understand this concept deeply and lead God’s people to magnify my office – which is really God’s office. [TP pg. 70p1,2,3]
GOD SAYS OF LEADERS—TERRORIZING IN THE LAND OF LIVING—LORD GOD made Philadelphia church of God the land of living, Eze 16: 6! yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.--- Eze 32:24 "There is Elam and all her multitude,--- Who caused their terror in the land of the living;-- Eze 32:26 "There are Meshech and Tubal--- caused their terror in the land of the living.--- Eze 32:27--the mighty Who are fallen of the uncircumcised, Who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war; They have laid their swords under their heads, But their iniquities will be on their bones, Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.---the mighty in land of living ARE NONE OTHER THAN THE MINISTRY, SO THEY ARE COMPARED TO NATIONS!
BUT LORD GOD TOO caused HIS terror in the land of the living; AND PLACED ALL UNCIRCUMCISED AND ALL WHO ARE SLAIN BY GOD’S SWORD, IN PITS, Eze 32:32—LORD HAS POWER –HE IS ALMIGHTY!
GOD’S WAYS OF COMPARISONS-- SHOULD BE SEEN--- THE NATIONS mentioned in Eze. 32—in the above vss. ELAM—MESHEC AND TUBAL---are compared to Pharaoh in Ez 32. –this -Pharaoh (God created him for LORD’S DAY , Ro 9: 17 (as God wants to show HIS POWER TO Pharaoh , Ro 9: 17), he is as the leader of God’s people, when LORD’S people of Judah went to Egypt , Jer 44: 1, 43: 7, (that is when they sinned, they are considered as having gone back to Egypt, BUT---LORD did not want them to go to Egypt, Jer 42:19---as GOD IS HEAD OF CHURCH, HE ADMONISHED Judah (church), not to sin! ----Jer 42:19 "The LORD has said concerning you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have admonished you this day.---Judah is church of last era---LAMENTATION BOOKLET ---PAGE 11---G.FLURRY wrote--“JUDAH WAS THE ONLY TRIBE OF ISRAEL LEFT TO DIRECT THE WORLD TO THE TRUE GOD. ----GOD’S TRUE CHURCH HAS THAT RESPONSIBILITY TODAY. ”----
GOD WILL DESTROY THE POWER OF ALL THESE SPIRITUAL NATIONS, and there would be signs of fear, darkness—Eze. 32; 6-10—when Nebuchadnezzar says his words very proudly, vs. 11, LORD SENDS HIS SWORDS THROUGH gentiles, the mighty warriors, vs. 12, to make Nebuchadnezzar , nations, and multitude fall, vs. 12.---SO ALL NATIONS GATHERED AT ARMAGEDDON WOULD FALL!—
The one prophet who hath been in the midst of rebellious ministers, Eze. 2; 5,6 made all mighty men in church to come against God, by using his own words, Jer 2: 30! ---In the HISTORY OF ISRAEL, one would NOT HEAR ANYTHING LIKE WHAT THESE LEADERS SAY! Bible does not record any such things as exalting men or things in THE TEMPLE OF GOD! Neither did they have performing arts, or news broadcasting service from church, other than GODLY INSTRUCTIONS for people of ISRAEL!—today ISRAEL is the called out, who serve God, Jn 6: 44,45, not all ISRAEL is ISRAEL, Ro 9: 4,6!
NOBODY SHOULD EQUAL himself TO GOD, like how the prophet did!
Isa 40:25 "To whom then will you liken Me, Or to whom shall I be equal?" says the Holy One.
Isa 46:5 "To whom will you liken Me, and make Me equal And compare Me, that we should be alike?
• Da 11:36, 37 "Then the king shall do according to his own will: he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, {gods are those who get God’s words, Joh 10:35}—therefore Gerald Flurry exalted above all servants of God. ---Gerald Flurry does his own will!
• Dan 11: 28-- his heart shall be against the holy covenant;----holy covenant was with Philadelphia Church of God , Eze. 16 : 8 only they could do against it!
• horn of Moab, magnified himself against the LORD, he is like ISRAEL, Jer 48: 25-27, 42,
• Jer 46, 47, 48, 49, speaks of nations which are compared to ISRAEL, and finally Jer 50, 51 is compared to Babylon, ruled by Nebuchadnezzar!
• This is like Nebuchadnezzar exalting, with PRIDE---Da 5:20,
• A list is found in Jer 25; 18-26 (Jerusalem and Judah included in vs. 18, which was given the cup of wrath of God, MENTIONED IN RE 16: 19.
SO THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO FIGHT GOD IN HIS TEMPLE , DOING A WORK OF THEIR OWN, EXALTING THEMSELVES!
LORD will stop this kind of work among God’s servants forever, Eze 29:15, Eze 31:14,
LORD JESUS CHRIST humbles the proud and exalts the meek, Eze 21:26, Mt 23:12, Lu 14:11, Lu 18:14,
AND JESUS CHRIST WOULD BE MAGNIFIED IN THE WHOLE WORLD, beyond ISRAEL!--Mal 1:5 Your eyes shall see, And you shall say, ‘The LORD is magnified beyond the border of Israel.’
The following quotes are from “CUP OF FURY OF Jer 25 AT ARMAGEDDON”—
In --http://www.restoringcaptivity.com
AT ARMAGEDDON
In Re 16: 19, LORD gave the cup of wine of His wrath to Babylon. His Judgments are true and Righteous, vs. 7.
The nations that came against God were gathered at Armageddon, vs. 16, and the cup of wine of vs. 19 were given to all the nations under Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon---
THEY ARE THE NATIONS MENTIONED IN Jer 25: 15-27.---SO WE SEE THAT AT ARMAGEDDON Jer 25 NATIONS ARE GATHERED –IN FACT ALL NATIONS OF EARTH ARE GATHERED, Jer 25: 26,---AND --- AT ARMAGEDDON TOO, ALL THE LEADERS OF THE WHOLE EARTH WERE GATHERED, RE 16: 14-16 FOR THE BATTLE OF THE DAY OF THE LORD.---BUT, SWORD OF GOD DEVOURS THEM!
These spiritual countries all fought the LORD, not repenting, Re 16: 11.
Eze. Chap 4 discussed the siege of Jerusalem, the famine to the leader, how they would eat defiled bread , how the leader bear the iniquity of house of ISRAEL and house of Judah!---in Eze. 24: 24 Ezekiel of bible was a sign to "son of man" of Ezekiel , the prophet of Eze. 2: 5, who fell, Ps. 74: 9, through iniquity.
THE LORD TEACHES THAT ALL HIS Judgments –laws—commands HAVE TO BE HONOURED BY ALL WHO SERVE HIM! How will others honour if the ministry does not honour Him? How will they teach others about guarding JESUS CHRIST’s things if they do not guard?
How will they teach repentance towards God to be humble before Him—IF THE MINISTRY DOES NOT HUMBLE BEFORE GOD TO REPENT FOR Eze. 44: 7?—COULD THEY BE HYPOCRITES?
SO THE LORD GAVE THE CUP OF HIS WRATH IN THE FORM OF HIS SWORDS, Jer 25: 16,27,--Judgment THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD THROUGH GENTILES, Eze. 16: 40-42
This sword of God coming to Judah in Egypt and other countries were a PLAGUE, they could not bear, Re 16: 21.
LORD WINS THE WAR, RE 17: 14.
MYSTERY Babylon –RE 17: 5
ALL THE COUNTRIES, LANDS UNDER Nebuchadnezzar WERE MADE UP WHEN THE PLANT Judah, Eze. 16: 7, 8--Isa 5: 7, BECAME CORRUPT! THEN THEY WERE SCATTERED –AND THEY WERE GIVEN TO Nebuchadnezzar OF Babylon.
THAT IS WHY IT IS MYSTERY Babylon –SHE IS THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, RE 17: 5, (she committed Eze. 16: 15 and as she did not repent, became as Lev. 19: 29, land getting wicked!) AND MORE DESCRIPTIONS OF HER BEHAVIOUR IS WRITTEN IN Eze. 16; 15 ONWARDS IN THAT CHAPTER UPTO VS. 59, AND THE LORD PRONOUNCED “WOE” TO HER, -- Eze 16:23 "Then it was so, after all your wickedness––‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord GOD––
Babylon is ruled by Nebuchadnezzar--
In Re 17: 1, the mystery Babylon, the harlot of Re 17: 5 sits on MANY WATERS—and “waters’ are peoples, multitudes, nations, tongues, Re 17: 15.
WHEN THE HARLOT WAS SCATTERED IN MANY NATIONS OF THE EARTH, Jer 25: 26, ---they would become a LARGE NUMBER—WITH MANY TONGUES (different nations speak many languages, following gods of those lands, having idols, speaking perverse things-OTHER THAN GODLY THINGS--they fought the LORD with such things!).
THUS THE LORD WALKED AMONG THE WATERS (peoples made up of spiritual tribes of ISRAEL ) TO SAVE THEM,
Isa 16: 1-Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.- 5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and He shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.(that is the way HE ESTABLISHES new Jerusalem!)
PICTURING ISRAEL AS IN MANY NATIONS THAT ARE AGAINST Jerusalem, HE IS CORRECTING THEM TO BRING THEM BACK FROM CAPTIVITY –FROM MANY NATIONS!
He is Redeemer of ISRAEL, Isa 54: 5, He makes the bride ready giving her clothes, Re 19: 7,8—brings her as a virgin, Isa 62: 4,5—the LORD’S anger turned away, Hos 14: 4, ---they should take the words of God and return to the LORD, Hos 14: 1,----AND HE WOULD RECEIVE THEM GRACIOUSLY, VS. 2. THUS THE SECOND EXODUS, Isa 11: 11 IS FROM –NORTH COUNTRY AND NATIONS , NOT FROM Egypt—Jer 23: 7-8.
All this work as A SHORT WORK, Rom 9: 28, Hab 1: 5, was done on LORD’s day, to take away the sin out of ISRAEL—through the east wind, the LORD does it, Isa 27: 8,9.
ISRAEL would return to the LORD from NATIONS, Jer 23: 7,8---after pouring His spirit, Eze. 39: 28-29, They shall be called the “Holy people” , “Redeemed of the LORD”, Isa 62: 12. THEY WERE IN ARMAGEDDON!
PLEASE AWAIT—
“VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT AND ARMAGEDDON” for more on Armageddon with more biblical interpretations!
NOW COMPARE THESE BIBLICAL INTERPRETATIONS WITH THE ARTICLE OF GERALD FLURRY--
PART 2
The Armies of Armageddon
From the Nov/Dec 2008 Trumpet Print Edition »
The Russia-Georgia conflict and Germany’s response is far more important than the fall of the Berlin Wall! Here is why.
The world is focused on the American elections. But there are even more important elections coming on Sept. 28, 2009. Those will occur in Germany. ---After this momentous election, one man will rise to power in Europe. A man we have been anticipating for years.
German leadership is currently in turmoil. After the last German election in 2005, the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats pinned together an unwieldy “grand coalition” government with Angela Merkel as its head. Three years later, that political alliance is full of divisions. It looks as though it may not last until the next election day. Chancellor Angela Merkel has used her office to try to play peacemaker with her coalition’s various factions, but now it looks like she is in serious trouble. Something has forced her hand: Russia.
In August, the Red Army invaded Georgia, one of the former Soviet satellites that hosts part of an important oil pipeline leading to Europe. Georgia had been turning toward the West and nato, but Russian tanks put a stop to that. They showed the world how bold Russia is and how far its leader, Vladimir Putin, is willing to go.
Angela Merkel is from East Germany, so she knows what Russian rule is like. But because of her shaky government, she has been unable to steer her own country’s foreign policy. Germany sees what power Vladimir Putin has, and it is scared. Merkel wants to react by standing up to Russia, and, according to Stratfor, she is now abandoning her peacemaker approach to find a way to get control of Germany’s foreign policy.
But Merkel is coming to a dead end: a network of German leaders who have different plans. This group of leaders is like the Nazi underground network that developed during and after World War ii, ready and waiting to come to the surface and establish its own vision for Germany’s future. And it is a deadly and terrible vision! Now, the upheaval in the grand coalition opens the door for someone else through flatteries and deceit to put together a coalition and become chancellor—next September, if not before. -----Steinmeier wants to resurrect the “Great Germany.” He doesn’t like America. He believes Germans have a fundamentally different mentality than Americans.
Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is another important part of this network. After ruling in Germany for seven years before Merkel, he took a job as an officer in Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy company. Both Schröder and Steinmeier are very friendly toward Russia. There is a pro-Russian sentiment in Germany. Even as Russia invaded Georgia, some of Germany’s media outlets attacked America and sided with Russia. Many Germans are excited about how Russia’s invasion has exposed the weakness of America. And many Germans want a strongman of their own like Russia has in its former-kgb-agent prime minister.
Germany’s tumultuous government and its urgent need to deal with Russia may also bring another important German to power: Edmund Stoiber. Stoiber is the best friend the pope has in Germany, so he is not out of the running for making a comeback as the leader of Germany and of Europe. The Vatican is the world’s listening post; it has a lot of power. It also has definite plans for Germany and Europe’s future—a Catholic future. Europe is going to have to be pared down if it wants to deal with Russia; the pope definitely wants it pared down to a Catholic core.
But did you know that Germany and Russia have probably already dealt with their most urgent differences? Considering the involvement of Schröder and Steinmeier, all kinds of agreements could unfold. I believe that Germany’s leaders may have already agreed to a deal with Russia, a modern Hitler-Stalin pact where Germany and Russia divide countries and assets between themselves. ---Any such deal that may have been struck between Germany and Russia is a precursor to war!
Russia’s conflict with Georgia, Germany’s reaction to it, and a German-Russian pact will bring a man on the world scene like we have never seen before. This man is prophesied in your Bible! Daniel 8 speaks of a fierce German ruler to come “in the latter time.” Verse 23 describes him as a “king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences.” “And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many …” (verse 25). This king comes acting like he wants peace, but he is lying! He will be a ruthless and violent man—preaching peace but practicing war!
Daniel 11:21 says this end-time Antiochus will “come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries,” yet will be a vile person. Verse 25 shows he will war against the king of the south with a great army. ----I believe we might see the Daniel 8:23 man within this year! This is Germany and Europe’s moment! ----The Daniel 8 man is going to change the German landscape—economically, politically and militarily. Germany needs a man for emergencies. What we see developing now is just such an emergency, and Germany is about to bring that man to power. This is what’s just ahead of us! We have seen the king of the south, radical Islam, come together and begin to push. We are now seeing the “kings of the east,” Russia and China, aggressively assert their power. And Russia versus Georgia is bringing in the Daniel 8 man, a man who will finally stand up and use power: the king of the north! This is the rise of the Holy Roman Empire. It’s back!
Herbert Armstrong said in 1960, and even before, that there would be a European superpower that would be greater than the United States or Russia. Do you see this prophecy, which came from the Bible, coming to pass step by step by step? Do you see how America is falling apart, how our dollar is collapsing, our alliances are fracturing? Our people ---. They do not want to be distracted by war, or saving their nation, or obeying God!
Russia’s invasion of Georgia, if you can believe it, has far greater significance than the fall of the Berlin Wall! It is the first military strike of the kings of the east! The world is thundering toward Armageddon! Read Revelation 16:12-16. These armies of Armageddon are already on the world scene today! Are you ready for what is coming? Are you paying close attention to what is occurring before our eyes?
But even in this oncoming destruction there is also hope! God has revealed something else that we should remember. Though Anglo-America is doomed to fall, and the kings of the north and south and east are to engage in the most horrific World War iii, the rest of Daniel 8:25 shows the end of this violent and bloody king of the north and his armies: “he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.”
This means this violent king will fight God! All these men will be destroyed by Jesus Christ Himself. When you see this man come on the world scene, you can know that the God who prophesied all this is coming back! Jesus Christ is about to return! This is wonderful news beyond anything you can imagine: Jesus Christ is about to return and put a stop to all war! That too is coming! Are you ready for it?
With editorial assistance by Philip Nice
THAT WAS WHAT GERALD FLURRY OF PCG WROTE—
CONCLUSION
Since JESUS CHRIST is concerned of family of Israel, Amos 3: 2, LORD GOD’S WILL IS TO ESTABLISH HIS SANCTUARY IN THE MIDST OF ISRAEL FOREVER, Ez. 37: 28, HIS WILL TO BE WORSHIPPED ON SABBATHS AND NEW MOONS, BY ALL FLESH, Isaiah 66: 22,23, and Jacob prophesied of blessings and curses to his children to befall in the latter days, Ge 49, and the blessings would come to Joseph, Ge 49: 22-26, and Ephraim gets it, Ge 48: 20, 1 Chr 5: 1, PCG got it, Eze 16: 8-14---therefore PCG is considered as Ephraim, SHE WOULD LEAD ALL ISRAEL CHOSEN, RO 9: 4,6 AS STATED IN Eze 16: 60-63, LORD GOD JESUS CHRIST would bring all Israel families unto Him, HE WILL BE THEIR GOD, and THEY HIS PEOPLE, Jer 31:1, all flesh too would come to worship with Israel, Isaiah 66: 22,23, as He poured His spirit on all flesh, Joel 2: 28.
We do not know who the people are, but JESUS CHRIST knows!—HE WOULD ACCOMPLISH HIS WILL.
Ephraim broke Covenant as he could not use battle arms, as he refused to walk in His law, Psa. 78: 9,10, ---just as that PCG failed in her test of harlotry, Eze 16: 15 (she did not keep SANCTUARY LAW, Le 22: 25, but committed Eze 44: 7 against Le 22: 25!
LORD GOD sent them into spiritual captivity, Eze 12: 3-15, to Babylon among Chaldeans, Ez. 12: 13, which is shown in Eze 1 onwards. They became Laodeceans!
And then LORD GOD fights them in Jehoshaphat valley, that is another way He says of Armageddon, Re 16, and shows how He gives the CUP OF HIS WRATH, to correct them, it is recorded in Jer 25, Psa. 11: 6 (it has fire, brimstone), and LORD GOD CLEANSES THEM AS A VIRGIN, Isaiah 62: 4,5, to marry her as a virgin, NEW JERUSALEM, Re 21: 2,3!
LORD GOD provides her the clothes of Righteousness, Re 19: 7,8, through HIS SACRIFICE, when they get baptised unto His name, Acts 2: 38, they get His Holy Spirit, and get cleansed of all sins, to be servants of Righteousness , from His baptizm unto His death, Ro 6: 3-22, then they could get married as BRIDE OF JESUS CHRIST, Re 21; 2,3, Re 22: 3-4.
Then JESUS CHRIST would see a holy seed through the LIGHT OF HIS SACRIFICE, Isaiah 53: 10---they would make the new Covenant, Eze 16: 60-63, it is an Eternal Covenant!
With such a work of the LORD GOD JESUS CHRIST, THE MARVELLOUS COUNSELLOR, God’s people would never more leave HIS LAWS, but teach them to generations, Isaiah 59: 21, Psa. 78: 5-7!
ALL PRAISE BE TO JESUS CHRIST THE MARVELOUS COUNSELOR, MAY ALL HIS WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED. THANKSGIVING TO YOU O LORD GOD JESUS CHRIST, FOR ALL THE WORK DONE AMIDST ISRAEL YOUR CHOSEN, Amos 3: 2, TO SAVE THEM FROM THE GRAVE SITUATION THEY FACED, THAT COULD HAVE MADE ISRAEL GENERATIONS WIPED OUT, THANKSGIVING TO YOU JESUS CHRIST AGAIN FOR ESTABLISHING NEW JERUSAELM, AMEN AND AMEN.
Gentile witness 2
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