Then And Now Prophecy — October 13, 2024

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Introduction

Jehoshaphat, he’d been in several battles, he’d been in battles before. In this battle, was different than the others that he’s ever in. And it seemed like the whole world was against him, all of a sudden. Rumors came to him, not only rumors, but they began to have ominous reports that all around, a coalition of armies, all types of armies and nations, was coming up against Judah, and coming up, Jerusalem. They were coming this time to wipe Israel out for good, from every direction.

And then an anointed fellow stepped out. Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed. Jehoshaphat, by reason of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but it’s God’s.

They are so great in their heart they are going to take on the living God. They are so vast an army they’re going to try to wipe you out and challenge the most High. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, see, don’t get in my way.

In the beginning of this, Jehoshaphat took the singers and those that praise the Lord, and he put them right in front of the army. And the moment they begin to sing praises to the Lord, the Bible said, He set up ambushments against the nations, God did. And it said they were smitten.

When it set up the ambushments, the Bible said that all the nations were headed to mount Seir. When they got there, they decided, something happened to them. They turned around and begin to fight the very people that was going to join. And they wiped out everyone of that army. And when they got through with that, then the Bible said, they turned on one another, and self-destructed one another.

What were these ambushments? They looked at one another, and each one saw the enemy in the other one. There was a vision that came upon them, a fantasy of some sort. Imagination, saith the Lord, in their minds. An imagination in their minds. They imagined that that was their enemy. They imagined each one against the other. And it said they fought, and fought, and fought, until all of them were fallen upon the ground. A whole army, wiped every one of them out (2 Chronicles 20: 1, 3, 5 – 6, 14 – 17, 20 – 25)

Israel receive a report, the Bible said, that all nations shall come down upon you. Ezekiel 38 said out of the North shall he come with vast armies. All the communist countries that split away from the antichrist system shall come down upon the mounts of Israel (Joel 3: 1 – 2; Zechariah 14: 2; Ezekiel 38: 7 – 12; Ezekiel 39: 2).

And the Lord puts ambushments up against the enemy.

It says I will also gather all nations, will bring them down in the valley of Jehoshaphat. We know that’s the valley of Megiddo in the Bible, going to bring them right down there. So, Jehoshaphat and his people and the other armies that were falling, all of them at that time, were playing out a role that was to take place thousands of years later. It was God’s simple way of telling you it shall be done to those Israelites, and to those Jews, that believe in me. I will do what I have done here.

When He intervenes, these great armies are surrounding Israel, and she would have fallen.

And you know, with the chemical weapons, with the laser weapons, with out of space weapons, with the atomic weapons, which the Bible said they’ll have a flame of Thunder, and of fire, in Israel, and all over the world, will break out, everywhere. There will be, with these chemical weapons, and so forth, such confusion they won’t know one from the other, and God will set in there, and confusion will come upon them.

Now, many times today, sometimes, somebody may do something against you, but the battle will not be yours. Whatever you need in your life, it makes no difference. Whatever is, but when you let God fight that battle, and you let the Lord point the way, there’s times you sit still, and you praise the Lord in your heart, and you shout the victory.

Lord Jesus, when you bring those nations against Israel, after the translation and at the end of the great tribulation, the Bible brings out that you will fight for Israel. Despite the types of weapons that will be used, and despite the hundreds of millions of these great armies that will invade Israel, you will set up ambushments against them. Such confusion will come upon them that they will not know one from the other, and will self-destroy themselves. You will rule the entire earth from Jerusalem during the millennium period, and all nations will know that, indeed, you are the eternal God, the same person who came to die for our sins. We will be with you in heaven at the same time, and we will come with you in the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, which will be our eternal home.

Thank you, Lord Jesus, for our salvation, and these things are all pre-determined in your eternal counsel.

You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of the Sermon

We listened to a sermon titled “Then And Now Prophecy”, CD # 1123, preached by Brother Neal Frisby.

In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:

When you go to the air terminal, or the train depots or bus depots, or certain things like that, just before it takes off, just before they are going to leave, every one of them will give a call or a signal, you’ve got so much time. If you don’t get on that plane, they’re not going to wait for you, they’re going to go on, they give the call. And when they give the call, you have to be there.

And so right now, in the Bible, the Lord’s signs and wonders around us, He’s giving calls in nature, He’s giving calls in the signs of the word of God, He’s giving the calls through Israel, He’s giving the calls through miracles, He’s giving the call in every fashion we’ve ever seen in the patterns of weather, earthquakes, Bible preaching, and all of these things, the word of God, He is giving the call.

And one of these days, it’s going to be the last call, and that call is for all of us to get ready and prepare because we’re going to take off and meet Him in the air.

You know there’s a call for the translation, and that’s going on now, that He calls, the midnight cry. It’s getting close to the time, and when He makes that call, translation is taking up, and those that died in the Lord are gone. There is another call, tribulation upon all the world. Then there’s another call, the battle of Armageddon. Then there’s another call, is the day of the Lord as He comes down. Then there’s another call, the millennium. Then another call, and the great white throne judgment. Another call, then we get to new city, new heavens, and new earth, and so forth like that. For a thousand years before some of those calls, the elect was gone, in the Holy City. So, anyway, these calls are coming. He lifted His hand towards heaven, and they started taking place.

So, right now, where we stand, He’s giving the call to the elect. And towards the end of the age, the elect of God, the very ones that believe God, those are the believers, the Bible said, those that trust in the word of the Lord, and those that believe for eternal life that He has promised them, and they believe with all of their heart.

There’ll be a type of struggle, there’ll be a type of force, satanic force, that will go up against those upon the earth. There’ll be a lot of doubt, unbelief, trying to circle around them, and so forth like that. But it’ll be a time that they’ll stand still in the power of God. And they will know God. At that time the Lord will go forth and He’ll be greatly around us.

You know sometimes, we believe God, we act upon the promises of God, we pray, we move around, we do this, we do that, we do much on our own, because that’s working with faith, and then God steps in, and then the promises are ours.

All kinds of things that you face daily in your life, that possibly you do not know how to handle. And it comes a time when you just sit still. It comes a time when you don’t move. You allow God to move. But there’s one thing, while you are doing that, that you must do, and that is to sing praises to the Lord, and then watch how He moves.

Jehoshaphat, he’d been in several battles, he’d been in battles before. In this battle, was different than the others that he’s ever in. And it seemed like the whole world was against him, all of a sudden. Rumors came to him, not only rumors, but they began to have ominous reports that all around, a coalition of armies, all types of armies and nations, was coming up against Judah, and coming up, Jerusalem.

And Jehoshaphat, he didn’t know which way to turn because they, was on every side, they, was coming from every direction. He began to say how great the Lord was in the house of the Lord. They were coming this time to wipe Israel out for good, from every direction. He didn’t know just exactly which way to move or what to do. There’s always an answer, comes from the Lord. He did say this, he said, Lord, he commanded a fast, he commanded them to begin to pray at that time. Then he said, Lord, our eyes are upon Thee; there’s no which way to turn.

And then an anointed fellow stepped out. 2 Chronicles 20: 15 and 17: And he said, hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou King Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed.

First, you want to get out all the fear, and confusion, and then sit still. Be not afraid. Although there seems like to be millions of them around you, be not afraid, be not dismayed, don’t be confused.

Jehoshaphat, by reason of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but it’s God’s. They are so great in their heart they are going to take on the living God. They are so vast an army they’re going to try to wipe you out and challenge the most High.

Now, many times today, sometimes, somebody may do something against you, but the battle will not be yours.

This is a great story, because why will the Lord allow it to happen in the manner that it happened, was, His kindness was to Judah and Jerusalem, but He was reaching far in the future to that seed coming from them.

He was reaching clear on out several thousand years into the future, of predictions, forecast, and things to come, step by step.

Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, see, don’t get in my way. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Now, the word salvation of the Lord is mentioned here in the Old Testament. Jesus had not come yet for salvation, but it’s mentioned in different parts of the Old Testament, coming. He is our salvation, and at the end, there’ll be great salvation wrought in Israel on the sealing of the 144,000.

And the salvation, sometimes when you think you are a million miles from God, or something has happened to you, be still, and praise Him, and see His salvation move for you.

And he said, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed. See, at the end of the age, the elect will come against some of the things we’ve never seen in this world that will surround the elect of God, in different cults, and delusions, and different things that will take place upon this earth. Be still and know that I am your salvation, and I am your God. And watch them, they’ll drop like flies everywhere, and the elect will be carried out, by that is, in the great battle and tribulation, and so forth, and He’ll come and take us on out of there.

Fear not, nor be dismayed, tomorrow, he gives the exact time.

In this, God, when He talks about the elect , we do not know the exact day or the hour. He didn’t say we won’t know the week, the month, or the year, but we won’t know the exact day or the hour, but we’ll know, by the signs around us, we’ll know that it’s getting close.

Here, he says tomorrow, go out against them: for the Lord’ll be with you. Now, they were to do nothing, but He’s going to let them go out there at a certain time.

In the beginning of this, Jehoshaphat took the singers and those that praise the Lord, and he put them right in front of the army. And they got up and the Bible said they believed the Lord, and they went right out there where all those armies were surrounding. There wasn’t just one army, there were different nations, all kinds, and they were to meet mount Seir, another nation, to join them, to really add to their forces.

And it said, as they went out in front of these people, went out in front of the army of Jehoshaphat, they were singing the praises of the Lord, and they were shouting the victory, and singing the praises of the Lord. And it said, then, at that time, the Lord set up ambushments.

Now what these ambushments was, no one really knows, but there was ambushments. And He smit them at the time of that singing, and the time of them going.

The anointed man, and he said, you’ll find them at the end of the valley, he named it, when they went over there.

And the moment they begin to sing praises to the Lord, the Bible said, He set up ambushments against the nations, God did. And it said they were smitten. Now, this is a strange act indeed.

When it set up the ambushments, the Bible said that all the nations were headed to mount Seir. When they got there, they decided, something happened to them. They turned around and begin to fight the very people that was going to join. And they wiped out everyone of that army. And when they got through with that, then the Bible said, they turned on one another, and self-destructed one another.

What were these ambushments? They looked at one another, and each one saw the enemy in the other one. There was a vision that came upon them, a fantasy of some sort. Imagination, saith the Lord, in their minds. An imagination in their minds. They imagined that that was their enemy. They imagined each one against the other. And it said they fought, and fought, and fought, until all of them were fallen upon the ground. A whole army, wiped every one of them out. There wasn’t one left. That is utter confusion, the very thing that God said for the children of Israel, be not dismayed nor confused nor have fear in your heart for this great company.

And when Jehoshaphat got there, he rode in, and everything was quiet, and it said he saw nothing, but dead bodies fallen upon the ground for miles, and miles, and miles, dead bodies.

I don’t know whether they ever knew exactly what the ambushments were that God did, but when they went to singing and praising God, and put them in front of the army, is when God moved.

They come through, it said, they collected up all of the wealth, jewels, gold, all of the wealth of the armies. God gave it to them.

And Jehoshaphat himself said, right in that same chapter, it said, believe your prophets, and God shall establish you. And then he said, believe your prophets and He will prosper you, and they went over there and picked all the wealth up. And he said that to them before they left, not knowing what was going to be on the ground.

And all of the wealth was scattered all over the ground. It said they picked all of the wealth of the nations up and carried it back to Judah and Jerusalem.

Then it said all the heathen that were left around, and about, was in dismay, and they feared Israel, never made a move towards them, what ones were left. And the Bible said that Jehoshaphat had rest and peace, and was buried with his fathers after that.

Did you know that just what I told you is the very exact words that are in the New Testament that will occur again at the end of the age when God intervenes, and goes forth to fight with Judah and Jerusalem again.

Joel 3: 1 and 2: For, behold in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem. Now notice, He keeps saying Judah and Jerusalem. Now, there’s a seal, 144,000, going to be singing in there, they are going to be singing to God when He intervenes for Israel.

I will also gather all nations. Now, Jehoshaphat, all nations around him had gathered, against him, all nations. There was an ominous report that nations on every side, was gathered against him.

Israel receive a report, the Bible said, that all nations shall come down upon you. Ezekiel 38 said out of the North shall he come with vast armies. All the communist countries that split away from the antichrist system shall come down upon the mounts of Israel. See where God brings them?

It says I will also gather all nations, will bring them down in the valley of Jehoshaphat. We know that’s the valley of Megiddo in the Bible, going to bring them right down there. So, Jehoshaphat and his people and the other armies that were falling, all of them at that time, were playing out a role that was to take place thousands of years later. It was God’s simple way of telling you it shall be done to those Israelites, and to those Jews, that believe in me. I will do what I have done here.

You cannot fight the battle, little country like that. You cannot, all nations coming down there against you. Some will be on their side, but I will be the Lord, and I will be with you in the finality of all these things.

So, I’ll bring, in the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my heritage Israel, whom they have gathered among the nations, and they have parted my land.

The Bible said this, in Joel here, it says again, in verse 12 of Joel, the heathen, awakened, bring them all down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit under, in judgment of all those nations around about, will I judge them.

The heathen, you say what are they? They are people that do not believe in God, they are people that are atheistic, they are people of idols, they are people that have rejected the word of God. That’s what heathen is. A heathen is somebody that does not want God, rejects God, and he’s sitting there with nothing but a idol, or something like that. Those nations that come up against Jerusalem was the same way.

Now, although Israel had backslidden some, you have the 144,000 that are sealed. You have those that are singing and praising God. He’s going to intervene with them two prophets that are with them at that time.

It said multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision.

There is a decision to be made in your life before you die. There is a decision to be made at the end of this age. Which way are you going to go? Are you going to go on with trend, and tradition, dead systems, and people that don’t want to hear the word of God, people that want part of the word of God? Are you going on with the people that love all of the word of God, the people that let God, will, go before them, and believe every word in that Bible, believe all of the promises of God, and know about the signs and be ready for the call?

Israel, the Bible said in many, many, different Scriptures, they are in the valley of decision. All around, like Jehoshaphat, are around about. And Israel, not knowing which way to turn, they even entered the city, many of them in that city, but God intervenes in the middle of it. And He comes down, but not a one, like Jehoshaphat’s true people, not a one of the 144,000 that are sealed, they are typical of Jehoshaphat’s people, not a one of those, nothing happens to them. They just sit there, and they are singing too, the song of Moses, and they are singing the power of God.

And this little country, surrounded, and of course, the 144,000 are in there too, protected, and they are surrounded by armies, of Russian armies, some of the Arab armies, Eastern Europe, and all of that, it says in the Bible. It gives in Ezekiel 38, and many other parts of the Bible, Daniel the 11th chapter, the East, the North, and so forth, South, come up against them. And they are surrounded, not knowing which way, in the valley of decision now.

Here they are, the China mans, all of them, millions, I mean, hundreds of millions, are coming down through there; great war on.

But you know what? Here’s what the Lord said, He intervenes. Now, you’re going to see what happened, that happened with Jehoshaphat, is going to happen again.

When He intervenes, these great armies are surrounding Israel, and she would have fallen. God intervenes, the Bible says, chapter 19, you can read it in there in Revelations. And when He does, there’s a great confusion that sets in. And the Lord puts ambushments up against the enemy.

And you know, with the chemical weapons, with the laser weapons, with out of space weapons, with the atomic weapons, which the Bible said they’ll have a flame of Thunder, and of fire, in Israel, and all over the world, will break out, everywhere.

There will be, with these chemical weapons, and so forth, such confusion they won’t know one from the other, and God will set in there, and confusion will come upon them. It said the blood run 200 miles.

In the river Euphrates, it sets up the river which was dry, is running now, between the hail, and that, that’s a mingled up mess, that comes out of heaven. One hundred-pound hails come out of there and mingles with the blood that runs for, I think, 200 miles about the horse’s bridle at that time. And the armies are falling, like in Jehoshaphat’s, they are falling.

Israel will find out, they’ll be falling on every side, and Ezekiel 39 says, after He gets finished, there will be one-sixth of that army left, of the great Russian army and all communist satellites. One-sixth that will go back into the land, to the hinder part, probably way up in Siberia. That will be the only thing that will be left, one-sixth, and the dead will be for miles, and miles, and miles. Identically, the same things that happened to Jehoshaphat will happen. He even calls it the valley of Jehoshaphat, for he was at.

Zechariah, chapter, I believe 14, down towards the end of that chapter, it says Judah and Jerusalem, they go out and gather all the wealth up of the Gentiles, and they gather all together, and God gives them the wealth of all the nations. You read it in Zechariah, and they should gather all the spoil, all the silver, all the gold, everything that’s left, as that army lays there.

And then God appears to His people, and it says also in the Scriptures there, it says this, that all nations, around about, feared Israel after that, before the millennium start. The same as it’s said about Jehoshaphat. Futurist, step-by-step, those that believe God, and that 144,000 believe their prophets.

And it was turned over, not to the Jews that didn’t know God, or the antichrist Jews that were marked, or those that were all ruled out, but to the seed of God, the Hebrew, the ones that believe Him, the ones that come out of it, the 144,000, and all of Israel that He has, that is the true Israel. There’s given to them, for they’ll sit as kings and rule in the millennium, some of them. The elect, though, a higher order. They are up with the Messiah. They are up with King Jesus, and the Holy City is not far from them, at any time. It won’t come down any further until the end of all things, and they are with Him in there, as He rules out of Jerusalem there, and He will rule them with a rod of iron. That is perfect in God’s prophetic shadows, concerning the end of the age.

We know it’s the valley of Megiddo, we know it’s Armageddon, but He calls it the valley of Jehoshaphat where the great battle was fought, identically, step-by-step.

Whatever you need in your life, it makes no difference. It may be a problems, wherever you are at. You may want more earning power, it’s given in that chapter, it may just fall in your hands from God. You may need something for your family. You may need something in the future. Whatever is, but when you let God fight that battle, and you let the Lord point the way, there’s times you sit still, and you praise the Lord in your heart, and you shout the victory.

Scripture Reading

“It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.”2 Chronicles 20: 1

“And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.”2 Chronicles 20: 3

“And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court, And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?”2 Chronicles 20: 5 – 6

“Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benalah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation; And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not your’s, but God’s. To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow to out against them: for the LORD will be with you.”2 Chronicles 20: 14 – 17

“And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever. And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten. For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another. And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped. And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.”2 Chronicles 20: 20 – 25

Jehoshaphat, he’d been in several battles, he’d been in battles before. In this battle, was different than the others that he’s ever in. And it seemed like the whole world was against him, all of a sudden. Rumors came to him, not only rumors, but they began to have ominous reports that all around, a coalition of armies, all types of armies and nations, was coming up against Judah, and coming up, Jerusalem.

They were coming this time to wipe Israel out for good, from every direction.

And then an anointed fellow stepped out. Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed.

Jehoshaphat, by reason of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but it’s God’s. They are so great in their heart they are going to take on the living God. They are so vast an army they’re going to try to wipe you out and challenge the most High.

Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, see, don’t get in my way.

In the beginning of this, Jehoshaphat took the singers and those that praise the Lord, and he put them right in front of the army.

And it said, as they went out in front of these people, went out in front of the army of Jehoshaphat, they were singing the praises of the Lord, and they were shouting the victory, and singing the praises of the Lord. And it said, then, at that time, the Lord set up ambushments.

And the moment they begin to sing praises to the Lord, the Bible said, He set up ambushments against the nations, God did. And it said they were smitten.

And when Jehoshaphat got there, he rode in, and everything was quiet, and it said he saw nothing, but dead bodies fallen upon the ground for miles, and miles, and miles, dead bodies.

I don’t know whether they ever knew exactly what the ambushments were that God did, but when they went to singing and praising God, and put them in front of the army, is when God moved.

Now what these ambushments was, no one really knows, but there was ambushments. And He smit them at the time of that singing, and the time of them going.

When it set up the ambushments, the Bible said that all the nations were headed to mount Seir. When they got there, they decided, something happened to them. They turned around and begin to fight the very people that was going to join. And they wiped out everyone of that army. And when they got through with that, then the Bible said, they turned on one another, and self-destructed one another.

What were these ambushments? They looked at one another, and each one saw the enemy in the other one. There was a vision that came upon them, a fantasy of some sort. Imagination, saith the Lord, in their minds. An imagination in their minds. They imagined that that was their enemy. They imagined each one against the other. And it said they fought, and fought, and fought, until all of them were fallen upon the ground. A whole army, wiped every one of them out.

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.”Joel 3: 1 – 2

“For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.”Zechariah 14: 2

“Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.”Ezekiel 38: 7 – 12

Now, there’s a seal, 144,000, going to be singing in there, they are going to be singing to God when He intervenes for Israel.

Israel receive a report, the Bible said, that all nations shall come down upon you. Ezekiel 38 said out of the North shall he come with vast armies. All the communist countries that split away from the antichrist system shall come down upon the mounts of Israel.

It says I will also gather all nations, will bring them down in the valley of Jehoshaphat. We know that’s the valley of Megiddo in the Bible, going to bring them right down there. So, Jehoshaphat and his people and the other armies that were falling, all of them at that time, were playing out a role that was to take place thousands of years later. It was God’s simple way of telling you it shall be done to those Israelites, and to those Jews, that believe in me. I will do what I have done here.

When He intervenes, these great armies are surrounding Israel, and she would have fallen. God intervenes, the Bible says, chapter 19, you can read it in there in Revelations. And when He does, there’s a great confusion that sets in. And the Lord puts ambushments up against the enemy.

And you know, with the chemical weapons, with the laser weapons, with out of space weapons, with the atomic weapons, which the Bible said they’ll have a flame of Thunder, and of fire, in Israel, and all over the world, will break out, everywhere.

There will be, with these chemical weapons, and so forth, such confusion they won’t know one from the other, and God will set in there, and confusion will come upon them. It said the blood run 200 miles.

And Israel, not knowing which way to turn, they even entered the city, many of them in that city, but God intervenes in the middle of it. And He comes down, but not a one, like Jehoshaphat’s true people, not a one of the 144,000 that are sealed, they are typical of Jehoshaphat’s people, not a one of those, nothing happens to them. They just sit there, and they are singing too, the song of Moses, and they are singing the power of God.

“And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel”Ezekiel 39: 2

Israel will find out, they’ll be falling on every side, and Ezekiel 39 says, after He gets finished, there will be one-sixth of that army left, of the great Russian army and all communist satellites. One-sixth that will go back into the land, to the hinder part, probably way up in Siberia. That will be the only thing that will be left, one-sixth, and the dead will be for miles, and miles, and miles. Identically, the same things that happened to Jehoshaphat will happen. He even calls it the valley of Jehoshaphat, for he was at.

“Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.”Revelation 7: 3 – 4

Now, although Israel had backslidden some, you have the 144,000 that are sealed. You have those that are singing and praising God. He’s going to intervene with them two prophets that are with them at that time.

“And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.”Zechariah 14: 14

Zechariah, chapter, I believe 14, down towards the end of that chapter, it says Judah and Jerusalem, they go out and gather all the wealth up of the Gentiles, and they gather all together, and God gives them the wealth of all the nations. You read it in Zechariah, and they should gather all the spoil, all the silver, all the gold, everything that’s left, as that army lays there.

And it was turned over, not to the Jews that didn’t know God, or the antichrist Jews that were marked, or those that were all ruled out, but to the seed of God, the Hebrew, the ones that believe Him, the ones that come out of it, the 144,000, and all of Israel that He has, that is the true Israel. There’s given to them, for they’ll sit as kings and rule in the millennium, some of them. The elect, though, a higher order. They are up with the Messiah. They are up with King Jesus, and the Holy City is not far from them, at any time. It won’t come down any further until the end of all things, and they are with Him in there, as He rules out of Jerusalem there, and He will rule them with a rod of iron. That is perfect in God’s prophetic shadows, concerning the end of the age.

I read from Scroll # 83:

Most nations ignore the prophecy about Jerusalem but not too far in the future it will rank again as a major issue! The Bible forecast this!” “Behold I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people around about. (Zech. 12:2) The Lord said, I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle! (Zech. 14: 2) Cup of trembling denotes the nations would get very shakey and nervous because of events surrounding Jerusalem!” – “According to Ezek. 38 Russia finally makes up her mind to possess this land. Probably using several Arab nations to prepare the way for her march into Israel! – Zech 13: 8-9, “reveals two thirds of the people in Israel shall die but the third shall be left in it, and this part He will bring through the fire and refine them as silver!” – Zech. 14:2, “says, the city shall be taken, houses rifled, women ravished, etc. – But then Zech 14:3 reveals the Lord shall go forth for Israel and fight against those nations! This climatic event in history is edging closer!”

IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MIDDLE EAST “PROBLEMS, will arise, a man of consummate wickedness, events are paving the way! He evidently rises out of the Roman Empire in Europe and moves his operations near Jerusalem!” (Dan. 11:45) – “And after the Jews build their Temple (Rev. 11:1-2) he sits in it claiming he is god the last 42 months of the Tribulation!” (II Thes. 2:4) – “But at the end of his rule Russia rebels because she wants this spot of wealth and control from the center of the earth; and has an evil thought to invade to get silver, gold, goods, etc., that the anti-christ has under his power! (Dan. 11:43) And this causes a terrible eruption exploding into Armageddon. (Verse 44) But neither one of them succeed to control this location and wealth, but true Israel does!” (Zech. 14:14,20) – “The Lord will be King of the earth in this location!”

The sermon continues:

“for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”Revelation 19: 10

Now, many times today, sometimes, somebody may do something against you, but the battle will not be yours.

And the salvation, sometimes when you think you are a million miles from God, or something has happened to you, be still, and praise Him, and see His salvation move for you.

Whatever you need in your life, it makes no difference. Whatever is, but when you let God fight that battle, and you let the Lord point the way, there’s times you sit still, and you praise the Lord in your heart, and you shout the victory.

There is a decision to be made in your life before you die. There is a decision to be made at the end of this age. Which way are you going to go? Are you going to go on with trend, and tradition, dead systems, and people that don’t want to hear the word of God, people that want part of the word of God? Are you going on with the people that love all of the word of God, the people that let God, will, go before them, and believe every word in that Bible, believe all of the promises of God, and know about the signs and be ready for the call?

Lord Jesus, when you bring those nations against Israel, after the translation and at the end of the great tribulation, the Bible brings out that you will fight for Israel. Despite the types of weapons that will be used, and despite the hundreds of millions of these great armies that will invade Israel, you will set up ambushments against them. Such confusion will come upon them that they will not know one from the other, and will self-destroy themselves. You will rule the entire earth from Jerusalem during the millennium period, and all nations will know that, indeed, you are the eternal God, the same person who came to die for our sins. We will be with you in heaven at the same time, and we will come with you in the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, which will be our eternal home.

Thank you, Lord Jesus, for our salvation, and these things are all pre-determined in your eternal counsel.

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