Revelation Six - When The Four Horsemen Ride
Have you ever seen someone try to fit a mattress into a Honda Civic? Right. It can't be done. Unfortunately, we do the same thing in our beliefs about the Last Days. We take one of the biggest topics written about by the prophets and try to stick it into the Honda Civic of Eschatology - the tiny sliver of time that we call the Great Tribulation. What is that huge topic spoken of by the prophets? The Redemption of Israel. That is a truly gigantic mattress to try and fit inside such a tiny car. So, maybe we shouldn't. ———————————— Keep this ministry alive with a donation. And, read my two books: I created an Android App that will help you read through the Bible in a Year. You can find it here: https://revelationsix.com/android-apps/ If you miss my rantings about geopolitics, idiocy, resource collapse and incompetent globalism, follow me on Twitter. ———————————— The Trouble With Jacob's TroubleOf the 250 chapters written by the prophets in the Hebrew Scriptures, more than 70 speak of a future Redemption of Israel. That's a huge number of chapters about something that everyone seems intent upon denying. Amillennialists, Postmillennialists and Preterists either claim that those chapters do not matter because they are either symbolic of the church or it's happened already. Pretribbers claim that this happens at the beginning of the Great Tribulation, and Post Tribbers claim that these chapters describing Israel's salvation are just a retelling of the time of the Millennium. But wait, who is ruling and reigning in the Millennium? Here is the key passage that directly describes who it is that rules and reigns during the Millennium: 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. - Revelation 20:4-6 (NKJV) Is this ISRAEL ruling over the nations during the Millennium? NO! The Millennium is not about the Return of Jacob to God. And, it is astounding that no one is interested in Israel's Redemption, except as an afterthought. So, I've been wracking my brains trying to understand why every eschatology casts Israel and Jerusalem upon the ash heap of history. Normally, when you do enough research, you can find some scholar - usually a Jesuit - who proposed the idea in the first place. But, when seeking for the origins of this rejection of the Return of Israel, I'm coming up empty. Oh, I can point to quite a few theological miscreants who ground their hatred of the Jews into their doctrines. That list is quite long. And, you might make a case for Augustine being the one who led the charge - with his Amillennialism that gave Rome the right to massacre all who opposed her. Now that I think about it, maybe it was Augustine. He certainly liked to symbolize everything - including God's promises to the Children of Jacob and to the Land of Israel. And Protestants still seem to like Augustine. There are even a few Baptists and suchlike who have Augustine in their personal libraries. Jeremiah 30So, what's the Trouble With Jacob's Trouble? The short answer is: Everyone - except two people - says that Jacob's Trouble is the Great Tribulation. I literally cannot find anyone except Charles Spurgeon and myself who are willing to say publicly that Jacob's Trouble is NOT the Great Tribulation, and that it must happen long before any of that happens. Maybe I haven't been looking hard enough, or the records of such people might only be found in the dusty corners of some storage room of a long-forgotten library. But, I am deeply disturbed by this lack of evidence. In fact, here's a link to the search result from Google: "Jacob's Trouble is not the Great Tribulation" Every result points to something that I wrote, and I find that to be absolutely horrifying. No one is willing to even contemplate this as a question? Not even a Little? Wow. It's as if Christians are actively seeking God's judgment upon themselves by fulfilling this verse: For I will restore health to you - Jeremiah 30:17 (NKJV) And yes, judgment is coming for all who mistreated the Children of Jacob. But, that's not the main reason why Jacob's Trouble is important: Because Jacob's Trouble is all about the Redemption of Israel. Jeremiah 30 is ONLY about Jacob's Return to God. There is literally no mention of the Antichrist or any other element of the Great Tribulation in that chapter. Yet, every theologian confidently proclaims that Jacob's Trouble is the Great Tribulation. Except for Spurgeon, there are no exceptions to this rule. What a horrifying situation for the Body of Christ to be in. And, the price for this terrible ignorance will be high. In fact, the price is already being paid by our warped and twisted theology. This needs to stop, and that means looking again at the Redemption of Israel. Lord willing that will be the next series. And, with 70+ passages to deal with, this will be a very big project. For those of you who are interested in what I've said about Jeremiah 30, go here: Jeremiah 30 and 31 That page provides a link to the audio version of that chapter. Or, you can go to YouTube, to listen to it there: When Gog Comes - 14 - Jeremiah 30 And 31 (I am not a fan of the sound quality. I was about two or three inches too close to the microphone.) A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. – Proverbs 22:3 ———————————— Keep this ministry alive with a donation. And, read my two books: I created an Android App that will help you read through the Bible in a Year. You can find it here: https://revelationsix.com/android-apps/ If you miss my rantings about geopolitics, idiocy, resource collapse and incompetent globalism, follow me on Twitter. ———————————— |
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