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World war is on the near horizon.
Today's headlines foreshadow unprecedented global conflict, and the Bible shows this
comes long before what most call the Battle of Armageddon.
Soon, prophecies of unfathomable horror—-centered around what the prophet Isaiah calls simply
"the war"—-will not be ignored, dismissed or scoffed at, but will be world news unfolding
before all nations.
God's Word is graphic.
The next half hour will be among the most chilling and sobering of your life.
The World to Come.
The Restored Church of God presents David C. Pack.
Millions today believe the next big events to strike Earth are recorded in the book of
Revelation.
That book does carry enormous prophecies, and background from it sets up examination
of extensive prophecies in the Old Testament—-which have everything to do with what lies immediately
ahead.
Briefly, many at least know the final evil system, led by a Satan-possessed leader called
the Beast, is coming.
Billions will worship this Beast, "saying…Who is able to make war with him?"
His system does bring terrible war.
One more head is expected and most focused on.
But notice!
The heads of this system are yet ahead: "The other [the 7th] is not yet come; and when
he comes, he must continue a short space.
And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the 8th, and is of the 7, and goes into
perdition [that's destruction]."
This 8th Beast with ten other kings "make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome
them."
Keep this simple.
We are not awaiting the 8th head—-the one destroyed by Christ when He returns to rule
for 1,000 years.
A great superpower—-the 7th head—-comes much earlier, and now almost certainly very
soon.
The war that God uses this king —-also called the king of the north or prince of Tyre—-to
bring is our subject.
How it starts and spreads, who it affects and its unimaginable severity must be understood.
The early chapters of Isaiah are the place to start.
The first verse shows the message concerns Judah and Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is the capital of Judah—-one of the twelve tribes descended from the patriarch
Jacob.
It is today's Mideast nation called Israel.
The term Jew comes from Judah.
God is angry, and explains why: "I have nourished and brought up children, and they
have rebelled against Me," and "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed
of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked
the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward."
Later we'll see God's anger extends to all Israelite tribes.
It merely starts with the Jews.
Verse 5 begins to picture the consequences of their actions: "Why should you be stricken
any more?
You will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and
bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, bound up, nor mollified with
ointment.
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour
it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers."
The strangers here are surrounding nations, eventually including the 7th king's armies.
This graphic language describes the moral and spiritual state of today's Judah.
The next verses show the devastating scope of Judah's destruction: "The daughter of
Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged
city.
Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been
as Sodom, and…Gomorrah."
Fire and brimstone utterly destroyed these ancient bastions of evil.
Next, God urges repentance—-change!
"Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease
to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow.
Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: but if you refuse
and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword…"
This sword—-a symbol of all-out war—-will become crucial later.
Verse 24 shows God's plan to solve the problem: "Therefore says the Lord, the Lord of hosts
[meaning armies], the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease Me of My adversaries, and
avenge Me of My enemies: and I will turn My hand upon you…I will restore your judges
as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called,
the city of righteousness, the faithful city.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they
that forsake the Lord shall be consumed."
Chapter 2 continues with what God next intends, "In the last days [our time]…the mountain
of the Lord's house [a third temple] shall be established in the top of the mountains
[that's the large nations], and shall be exalted above the hills [the small ones];
and all nations shall flow to it."
Think of the beginning of Isaiah as a panoramic summary.
Let's now get specific.
Like much of God's Word, Isaiah is written "precept upon precept; line upon line, line
upon line; here a little, and there a little."
Most people just don't understand how the Bible is written.
Details of the terrible run-up to a world government in Jerusalem are found throughout
Isaiah, but also in other prophets.
Here a little and there a little.
Notice this: "Behold…the Lord of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah
the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, the mighty
man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the prudent [men God is going to take away],
the ancient, the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counsellor, the cunning artificer,
and the eloquent orator.
[Every type of leader!
The vacuum is then filled with poor replacements.]
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
And the people shall be oppressed, everyone by another, and every one by his neighbor:
the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable."
Eventually things culminate in—-get this!—-"Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because [God
says] their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His glory."
One look at just the secular conditions in the nation called Israel today thunders this
message.
Think of this: "They declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not.
[they're not embarrassed] Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves."
The next verses show the run-up to this ruin and fall.
Recall as we read the "here a little, there a little" principle: "Moreover the Lord
says, because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton
eyes…Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters
of Zion, and the Lord will discover [The meaning in the Hebrew is make naked] their secret
parts."
Other passages explain this includes mass rape—-a horror of war throughout history.
Verses 18 through 23 show the comforts and excesses of privileged Western life will be
stripped away, including jewelry and fine clothing: "It shall come to pass, that instead
of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set
hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead
of beauty."
As for men?: "Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in [get this] the war."
This is a time of hopelessness and despair: "In that day seven women shall take hold
of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called
by your name, to take away our reproach."
At this point, when Judah has been humbled, God intervenes.
Notice also something else: "In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautiful
and glorious, and the fruit of the earth…excellent and comely for them that are [get this] escaped
of Israel.
[Many of Israel—-the other tribes—-had to escape.
Why will become clear.]
And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem,
shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged
the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and the spirit
of burning."
Fix in your mind—-more than Zion needed deliverance.
Those of Israel had to escape the war.
Let's now see how it started and spread.
Ask: Who is Judah's chief ally?
Who would come to her rescue in time of great need?
The United States, with Britain, is the obvious answer.
The Bible foretells an end to the "special relationship" between America and Israel—-leaving
this tiny nation surrounded by enemies to fend for itself.
Notice what the prophet Zechariah recorded: "Then I cut asunder My other staff, even
Bands, [notice] that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel."
This verse alone proves Judah and Israel are not the same.
America descends from the tribe of Joseph—-the most powerful Israelite nation, followed by
Britain.
Request America and Britain in Prophecy for this incredible truth and understanding.
God snaps this symbolic staff the very day Christ's tiny mustard seed-sized Kingdom begins.
Those who have seen my broadcast "How God's Kingdom Will Come—-Not What You Think!"
understand.
A vulnerable Judah is then exposed—-and now isolated and hated without an ally.
The prophet Ezekiel describes the attack, and how it spreads to all Israelite countries—-largely
the democratic nations of the West.
Ezekiel is given an unusual instruction in a verse most people know nothing of.
Yet what it portrays is almost unfathomable.
Let's read it.
"Take you a tile…and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: and lay siege against
it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount [that's a siege ramp] against it;
set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about."
But the vision is not just for Jerusalem: "Moreover take…an iron pan, and set it
for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face against it, and it shall
be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it.
This shall be a sign to the house of Israel"—-the other tribes, with Jerusalem merely being
where events start.
God brings the siege because of the "iniquity"—-lawlessness—-"of the house of Israel" and "the house of
Judah."
He further tells Ezekiel, "Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels
a day [very little]: from time to time shall you eat it [not often].
You shall drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin [very little]: from time
to time shall you drink."
This is extreme rationing because sieges stop the flow of anything in or out.
Next is a further picture of famine but also coming captivity for these nations: "The
Lord said, even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles,
where I will drive them.
Moreover He said unto me…I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall
eat bread by weight, and with care [very careful how much they eat because it won't last
long]; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment [notice this language]
: that they may want bread and water [they won't get enough], and be astonished one
with another, and consume away [Horrible.
But why?] for their iniquity [again lawlessness]."
Bread and water is generally a diet of punishment.
But here conditions are so bad the Jerusalem populace can't even get enough of these.
Ponder what is coming!
Chapter 5 confirms the war starts in Jerusalem before spreading to all Israelite nations:
"Thus says the Lord God; this is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations
and countries…round about her."
Again, disobedience is the cause of God's anger: "She has changed My judgments into
wickedness more than the nations, and My statutes more than the countries that are round about
her: for they have refused My judgments and My statutes, they have not walked in them.
Therefore thus says the Lord God; Because you multiplied more than the nations that
are round about you, and have not walked in My statutes, neither have kept My judgments,
neither have done according to the judgments of the nations round about you."
Here is God's chilling proclamation because of unwillingness to obey Him, so they could
copy Gentile nations: "Therefore…I [God says], even I, am against you, and will execute
judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
And I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more
the like, because of all your abominations."
What comes next—-in severity and scope—-is historically unprecedented, and never to be
repeated.
God even says there will be cannibalism.
Carefully read verse 10, but also, Leviticus 26:29 and Deuteronomy 28:53-57 to see how
graphic He is.
It brings no satisfaction to report these things, but they are in your Bible.
Someone must warn you of them.
Continuing—-slave trade is involved: "I will execute judgments in you, and the whole
remnant of you will I scatter into all the winds [that's all directions]."
God then turns His focus to idolatry and false pretenses of worshipping Him: "As I live…surely,
because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your
abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall My eye spare, neither will
I have any pity."
God is angry—-and will no more tolerate these things.
War, famine, disease, and even wild animal attacks, bring mass death.
Let's read, "A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall
they be consumed in the midst of you: and a third part shall fall by the sword round
about you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a
sword after them…These things are future, not past.
God continues,…Moreover I will make you waste, and a reproach among the nations that
are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations
that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and
in furious rebukes.
I the Lord have spoken it.
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction,
and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will
break your staff of bread: so will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they
shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the
sword upon you.
I the Lord have spoken it."
Ezekiel next shifts to the other eleven tribes: "The word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Son of man, set your face toward the mountains [that's the nations] of Israel, and prophesy
against them, and say, you mountains [or other nations] of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
God…Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down
your slain men before your idols."
The churches of Christendom today are brim full and running over with idols and wrong
pictures of every kind.
Despite what they may think, the modern nations descended from Israel do not worship the true
God of the Bible, never mind as He intends.
Continuing the picture of horror, "I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of
Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars."
Cities will be utterly destroyed.
Notice: "In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places
shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols
may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works…abolished.
And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am the Lord."
Only after such horrible punishment will a few in Israel be ready to listen: "Yet will
I leave a remnant, that you may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations
[the escaped of Israel, recall Isaiah], when you shall be scattered through the countries.
And they that escape of you shall remember Me among the nations where they shall be carried
captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which has departed from Me, and with
their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for
the evils which they have committed in all their abominations."
Jeremiah takes a different look at this period.
Many Old Testament prophets recorded similar statements, but let's read Jeremiah: "These
are the words the Lord spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
For thus says the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child?
Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all
faces are turned into paleness?"
This pictures men wracked with intense pain as though they were going through childbirth.
"Alas!
[God continues] For that day is great, so that none is like it [again God describes
an unprecedented time, adding]: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble."
See that this trial is not worldwide but limited to Israelite nations—-as opposed to Christ
in Revelation 19:15 "smiting all nations."
Verse 12: "Your bruise [the Hebrew means ruin] is incurable, and your wound is grievous.
There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.
All your lovers [allies] have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you
with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one [a coming European power],
for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased.
Why cry you for your affliction?
Your sorrow is incurable…I have done these things unto you."
Like Ezekiel and Isaiah, Jeremiah shows the turning point.
The rest of the chapter pictures God destroying Israel's enemies and exalting her above all
nations: "Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries,
every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil,
and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey.
For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the Lord;
because they called you an Outcast, saying, this is Zion, whom no man seeks after…and
you shall be My people, and I will be your God.
Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goes forth with fury [against His enemies], a continuing
whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until He has done it, and until He has performed
the intents of His heart [get this]: in the latter days [again, our time] you shall consider
it."
Will you consider it?
Recall that Isaiah says the latter days include when God's Temple is built in Zion—long
before events in Revelation.
The cleanup period when Christ comes and defeats His enemies and rebuilds Jerusalem and Judah
and the whole world, ultimately—is the message of Zechariah 14.
The seventh revival of the Holy Roman Empire will have already been destroyed by a group
of nations after it relocated to Jerusalem.
The remaining army of this European power is destroyed by Christ when He relocates His
government to Zion.
Let's summarize.
Christ snaps the alliance called "Bands"—-the brotherhood between Israel and Judah.
Surrounding enemies mount a devastating siege.
At a point, a great European power gets involved.
The war spreads to the rest of Israel.
After a long period of unceasing, terrible punishment, Christ intervenes and ends the
war.
The natural question is—-what are we looking for now, other than the deterioration in modern
Israel's alliances?
It is obvious to those watching this is already fast occurring.
Realize a dominant power won't appear out of nowhere.
In the midst of the immigration crisis, growing terrorism, Brexit and more, Europe is now
entering a crucial period of change.
This power can rise quickly amidst such upheaval.
Expect more headlines like this one: "European SUPERSTATE to be unveiled: EU nations 'to
be morphed into one' post-Brexit."
Growing, insoluble problems striking Europe demand a towering strongman—-leading a very
powerful system.
Your Bible says one is coming.
And you will see it.
God uses a people He calls, "the rod [meaning "a stick used for punishment"] of My anger"—-Assyria—-a
people now living in the heart of Europe.
Watch for Europe's rise to dominance.
It will set the stage for the events of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
Don't be misled by common narratives—-the popular teachings.
The next World War does not yet involve Revelation—-it comes long before events described there.
1 Thessalonians shows the atmosphere in Judah when Christ comes to establish His mustard
seed-sized Kingdom, the very day Israel's serious troubles begin in route to World War
3.
If you have not done so, watch my broadcast on this subject.
Now notice the swift, shocking change in events: "When they shall say, Peace and safety;
then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they
shall not escape."
Those who think the world is already at war between clashing cultures will soon realize
today's events are relatively nothing.
Conditions will grow infinitely worse and eventually engulf all the nations of the West.
What is coming is beyond imagination.
Therefore most will be caught completely off-guard.
But this does not have to include you!
You know the truth.
I echo the apostle Paul's words to God's Church: "But you…are not in darkness, that that
day should overtake you as a thief."
Take seriously Christ's instruction to, "Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may
be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass."
A dark time in a long tunnel is coming.
Conditions described in the Old Testament will become stark reality.
It will be truly awful for those living in nations descended from Jacob.
But God provides a way out.
Seek Him—-use the resources on The Restored Church of God website.
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Until next time, this is David C. Pack, saying, "Goodbye, friends."
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