If Not Pre-trib, Then What?

Is it safe to say that the Pre-trib Rapture doctrine is a religion in and of itself? Sad to say that, yes, with some it has become just that. Some people won't even listen to you if you try to challenge it...or if you have spoken against it. But is it biblical? Certainly it's not un-biblical.  (Yeah, it's unbiblical.  Judgment begins at the house of the Lord. Jeremiah 23, Ezekiel 13, Isaiah 28)  What do I mean? Well, I mean that you can use the Bible to make a case for it.  But we can make a case for a lot things.  Is it a given? No, it's not a given. It's not clear cut. There is ambiguity. As with many things, there is room for error and room for interpretation. But people defend that doctrine adamantly.  But you better not teach it.

And I don't really blame them for believing in pre-trib rapture. After all, God promises to protect his people. Just read Psalm 91, for starters. Clearly God says that we are not appointed for wrath. (I Thess. 5:9). His people will be hidden in that day. And what is the tribulation period other than the wrath of God poured out upon a world (including his people) that has forsaken him and become consumed with the wickedness of their desires. The tribulation is about separation. About threshing and winnowing. In that day it will become clear who belongs to God and who doesn't. (Malachi 3:18)

But is the rapture the only way God can protect his people in that day?

God is omnipotent. He can do anything and is not limited to one way of doing something. The only time he is limited is when he limits himself. He can't lie. He does what he says he's going to do. If he said it, you can depend on it. There's a certain level of confidence believers can have. We can depend upon God and his word. The doubt comes in when we've misinterpreted his word. Or when we disobey. Or when we plainly just don't believe.

So what does his word say about that day?

I'm going to give you a brief outline of the start of the 'Day'...the Day of the Lord...the tribulation of the earth. For brevity, I'm not going to go into each point within this post. You can go back and read the other posts. It's all there. Certain things you have to understand.

• America is Babylon
  
• Babylon is Destroyed at the beginning of tribuation
• God's people will escape unharmed  (but not unpunished)
• God's people will be hidden

Do you get it? Do you see a picture developing? God's purposes for the tribulation are much greater than what we think. God is going to re-gather his people in that day. There will be one people and one language. (Ezekiel 37) Do you think he's talking about just Israel? Just the "jews"? Who is a jew? Who is Israel? And who is Judah? Don't skim over this point! If you do, you'll miss the whole thing. Romans 9 tells us who is Israel.

The great re-gathering:

Isaiah: 2:1-4; 11:1-16; chapter 35; 43:4-6; 49:22; 52:6-10; chapter 54; 56:8 and chapter 62. Jeremiah: 3:12-19; 16:14-16; 23:3-8; 34:3-8; 30:7-10; 31:31-36; 32:37-42; 33:7-26; 39:25-29; 50:4. Ezekiel: 11:16-20; 28:25-26; 34:11-16, 22-26; 36:24-28 and chapter 37. Hosea: 1:10-11; 2:14-23, chapter 3. Amos: 9:11-15. Zechariah: 2:4-13; 12:1-10; 13:1; 13:1-5.

Pre-Trib? You Believe In Two Raptures

Just want to point something out which may be overlooked by some. Jesus, in Matthew 24, discusses the days leading up to his return. In verse 31 he talks about a rapture...a gathering together of his people to join him in the sky just before he sets foot on the Mount of Olives.

Matthew 24
v30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
v31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

So, if you hold to the pre-trib rapture doctrine, then you also have to believe there will actually be TWO raptures. One at the beginning of tribulation, and one at the end, just before Christ returns. Incidentally, both raptures involve the sounding of a trumpet. Revelation also talks about seven trumpet judgments. Interesting to note that both the bowl judgments and the trumpet judgments conclude the tribulation period. That must mean those two sets of judgments happen simultaneously. (But that's a different study.)


If there's only one rapture, then Jesus is post-trib.

But doesn't Jesus also say "Then two [men] will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left." just a few sentences later in the same discourse?

What's he talking about...and 'when' is it relative to the tribulation? Is he talking about a pre-trib rapture? Or are those "taken" actually taken to judgment? It's something I plan to study in more detail.

Clues....Revisited

So let's look at those clues again. This time hopefully with a little more scrutiny.

The Time of God's judgments will begin...

• with sudden destruction
• with the complete destruction of Babylon (America)
  
• in the early evening (for the residents of Babylon)
  
• in the spring (for the residents of Babylon)
• after 62 Feasts of Weeks, starting from the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem
• when the king of Babylon is throwing a great feast

http://wakeupbabylon.blogspot.com/2010/04/clues.html

OK, right off the bat, the Daniel 9 clue regarding a count of 62 can go on the scrap heap. Look, I shouldn't have included that clue anyways. In hindsight I realize how ridiculous it was to be so certain of something that clearly was just a "maybe". By that I mean I was looking at a certain interpretation of that clue which was clearly not something of which I could be certain. However, I became more certain of that clue when I saw the state dinner being prepared for that day. I thought it was a confirmation.

But what about the rest of it. Look folks, that's all still very valid. However, I want to go into a couple of those clues a little bit more.

In the springtime, for the residents of Babylon. OK, is this really supposed to mean the springtime? Let's take another look at those supporting verses. Is this really only "springtime" we're talking about here or can that window of time each year be interpreted a little more broadly?

Isaiah 17:11
In the day you will make your plant to grow, And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish; [But] the harvest [will be] a heap of ruins In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

• Plant to grow, seed to flourish. It's talking about seeds here so this is probably considered springtime. But maybe this window could be pushed out to mid-summer? When is the last application of pesticide?
  

Isaiah 18
v5 For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect [finished, complete] And the sour grape is ripening in the flower, He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks And take away [and] cut down the branches.
v6 They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey And for the beasts of the earth; The birds of prey will summer on them, And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

• OK, as discussed earlier, this word "perfect" means complete. The grape vine goes through several stages each year. The first stage is Bud Break. The next is Flowering, when the sour grape is ripening. This leads me to believe it's some time after Bud Break but well before the grapes are actually approaching ripeness.
• Will summer on them. This leads me to believe that the 'Day' begins well before summer is considered finished.
  

Habakkuk 3:17
Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls-

• Again, I'm reading this as saying the 'Day' begins well before harvest.
  

Isaiah 21:1
The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea. As whirlwinds in the South pass through, [So] it comes from the desert, from a terrible land

• This one is more subtle. Technically it can be ignored altogether. The phrase "as whirlwinds pass through" is being used primarily as a word picture to describe what's happening. Tornadoes are very destructive and very sudden. However, because of the other verses regarding springtime I think this particular word picture has more meaning and in fact adds confirmation to the time of the year.
  
• Many teachers over the years have taken this word "South" to mean, geographically, in the Middle East. Specifically, southern Judah. What I believe this means is southern Babylon. So then clearly this would be whirlwinds, or tornadoes, which start in the south (Texas, Kansas, and so forth), and then pass through the Midwest. Again, this typically happens in the springtime in America.

Can we definitively say what time of year this is talking about? Well, sort of. I think, based on these verses, we can expect the 'Day' to begin in the springtime. But I'm using this term loosely. Spring here begins at the end of March. Summer here begins at the end of June. Do I think this is the time frame it's talking about. Yeah, I do. Typically during this time the gardens and fields are sown, pesticides are applied, the sour grapes are ripening (usually by mid-May). So yeah, I'd say we're talking about the May-June time frame. Could it go into July a little bit. Yeah, I suppose so. It all depends on the weather in any given year.

I want to touch on one other clue: when the king of Babylon is throwing a great feast.

Now, I think a state dinner is probably the closest match to this clue. Go back and read the verses that pertain to it. You'll see it's a fairly significant get-together. People from various "rich and powerful" backgrounds are mentioned as being in attendance. It's a pretty big deal. But what I want to point out here is that it may not be a state dinner. And it may not even be publicized. Something to think about for those who think big banners will be waved on that day. Just stay alert and watchful. Isn't that what we're told anyways?

Can We Know the Year?

Can we even know which year the time of God's judgments begin? Can we know ahead of time? I'm not so sure anymore. Several of us thought we knew what the Daniel 9 clue was talking about. Man, people have interpreted that a hundred different ways from Sunday. Surely someone has to get it right. To be honest, I don't have any special revelation of what that chapter means.

But getting back to this question I've been asking myself. I'm not so confident we'll have that much foreknowledge. Look, we've been given a good amount of information already. God told us what to look for. But even that, hardly anyone acknowledges. Look, people believe what they want to believe. Many just go along with what others say. I was in that camp for a very long time. I haven't cornered the market on truth, but people, you have to go into it with an open mind. If you've already decided in your mind how things are going to work out, then you might as well stop reading here. Because what I'm finding in God's word is going mess with your doctrine big time...as it did mine.

Can we know the year? I don't know. Can we know what to watch for every passing year...absolutely yes we can. Maybe that's the way God wants it. Is it such a bad thing to be kept on our toes? Not at all. And I'll tell you what, thinking you know for certain which day it all begins is a very heavy burden. I'd rather not go through that again.

What Did I Learn?

Something I've been thinking about lately: what did I learn from this experience? What are the takeaways of being wrong about the 19th? As you know, I thought May 19th was the beginning of the Day of the Lord. What a giant coincidence. It just so happened that if you consider the "weeks" of Daniel 9 to mean "Feasts of Weeks" and start counting from the Fall of 1947, depending on how you count, you could end up with #1 of 7 starting May 19 of this year. Which we all know is past. But the huge coincidence came into play because the other things we were told to look for were present on that day as well. The time of year...the time of day...and the king of Babylon throwing a great feast. It all came together on that one evening. But it didn't happen. I'll rehash that more in a later post. But for now, what did I learn?

• Don't be so confident. I didn't go out and buy a Porche, or anything like that. But I was pretty sure. And yes, now I feel very silly. Bible prophecy is a difficult subject. Allow some room for human error. Be prepared to go but be equally prepared to stay. It took a couple of days to reset my expectations.
• Pull vs. Push. What I'll probably do in the future is not push so hard to let everyone know what I'm seeing. I'm really not sure there's much benefit to it anyways. I'll post it here. But aside from that, maybe not much else. Look, the majority of people just don't care. That's been my experience. People who are watching may stumble across this blog. Or they'll be led here. But if people aren't watching anyways, it doesn't really matter. The only thing that really matters is a persons' relationship with the Father. And I'm not sure this kind of warning is going to persuade many hearts anyways. Besides all of this...Babylon won't know anyways.
  

Basics of the Christian Faith

Galatians 5
v22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
v23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law
v24 And those [who are] Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires
v25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

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James 1
v25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues [in it], and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does
v26 If anyone among you [fn] thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion [is] useless.
v27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

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Phillippians 4
v4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice
v5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord [is] at hand.
v6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
v7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
v8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things [are] noble, whatever things [are] just, whatever things [are] pure, whatever things [are] lovely, whatever things [are] of good report, if [there is] any virtue and if [there is] anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things

Wrong About the 19th

Update 2012/07/11

In "Quenched Like a Wick" I refer to the 2010/05/10 prediction as a mistake from the past that I was able to learn from.  It was, indeed, very regrettable.  As I said then, I did continue to study and I discovered where I went wrong.  I was hasty.  I hadn't put it all together yet, but what I did have seemed convincing enough.  But not only did I not have all the clues, I also misinterpreted the Daniel 9 "weeks" clue.  I interpreted "weeks" (shabuwas) as Feast of Weeks instead of "week of years" (7 years), as we would use the word decade to mean 10 years.  Shabuwa can mean either "sevens" or "Feast of Weeks" according to the Strong's Concordance.

Nevertheless, I leave this post here for the purpose of full disclosure.  While I wish this could be long forgotten, it's better to be honest with our mistakes.  I take consolation in the fact that even the watchman of Micah 7 was wrong (fell) once.  But he continued looking for the Lord and was shown the light.

In "Quenched" I show how the Bible does, in fact, show us the year, time of year, time of month, day of week, and even time of day that the Tribulation will begin.

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I admit it. I was wrong about the 19th...obviously. I thought I had made a pretty good case. Things seemed to line up with what I was seeing in God's word. What part was wrong? I'm not sure. My guess is the Daniel 9 clue. The counting of 62 and 7 from the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. The common thought was that the command happened in the fall of 1947 when the U.N. declared Israel a nation again after nearly 2000 years. All the other clues are not pinned to a specific year. In the evening, in the springtime, on a night when the king of Babylon is throwing a great feast. All of those clues can happen in any given year. This year there was a state dinner on the 19th. The same day as the Feast of Weeks. It all seemed to line up.

Where do we go from here? I plan to study even more. I take it as a matter of faith that the Bible is God's word to man. And I believe that all scripture is profitable and contains no vain words. That being the case, then we must be able to discern the times and seasons spoken of in God's word. Otherwise, those words, those clues, would be written in vain.

Of the seemingly small segment of believers actually watching earnestly for Christs' return, there's a debate about setting dates. Many feel that we shouldn't mention dates at all in reference to end-time studies. In one sense, I agree with this. If people are looking at a certain date and have no scriptural backing for that date, then why are they looking at that date in the first place? It's beyond me. There's so much nonsense out there, folks. The Bible clearly says that prophecy is not given by private interpretation. It means that your personal dream or experience may be from God, but it doesn't apply to everyone. Just you. Many people are looking at numbers on receipts or license plates, thinking that it must be a sign or warning. That's the nonsense I'm talking about.

I wish everyone were setting dates. But based on what they are seeing in God's word. It would mean that everyone is watching expectantly for Christs' return. It would mean everyone takes God at his word that he's going to do what he said he was going to do. It would mean that there was great faith in the earth.

Why This Year?

Updated 11/2/2010:
Obviously this was the incorrect interpretation of Daniel 9.
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So why this year? Why is this the year that God's time of judgments will begin? The time that begins with the complete destruction of America?

Daniel 9:25
"Know therefore and understand, [That] from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, [There shall be] seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times.

Look at the word 'weeks'. The hebrew word is shabuwa`

1) seven, period of seven (days or years), heptad, week

a) period of seven days, a week

1) Feast of Weeks

b) heptad, seven (of years)

SHABUWA (shaw-boo'-ah); Noun Masculine, Strong #: 7620: seven, period of seven (days or years), heptad, week; Feast of Weeks (Shavuot)

In the original Hebrew, Shabuwa is in plural form; meaning FeastS of Weeks rather than only one Feast of Weeks. This verse reads: “Seventy Shabuwas or Shavuots are determined.” Shavuot is one of the feasts call “The Feast of Weeks” ( known as Pentecost in the Christian churches).
There is only one “Feast of Weeks” per year. To extend the clarity to the fullness of the verse, it literally reads, “Seventy Feasts of Weeks”
http://www.yeshua.co.za/heavenly_daniel.htm

See also: http://danielstimeline.com/page6.htm

So we see the word "weeks" can be taken one of two ways. It can mean "a set of seven" as in 7 years. Or it can mean "Feast of Weeks". God's people were told by God to celebrate seven feasts per year, every year. One of these feasts is called the Feast of Weeks, which Christians recognize as Pentecost. The word "weeks" in Daniel 9 is saying we are to count 62 Feasts of Weeks and 7 Feasts of Weeks. Or 62 years and 7 years.

We're also told when to start counting. From the time the command goes forth to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. We know that this command went forth in the fall of 1947. The following spring of 1948 the Jewish state of Israel became official...again...after a couple thousand years. Then what happened? It was springtime. They celebrated Feast of Weeks #1 of 62. Last spring, in 2009, they celebrated the 62nd Feast of Weeks. That leaves us with 7 until Christ returns. So what is coming up in less than two weeks? Feast of Weeks #1 of 7.

How can we be sure?

Is there anything else we're told about that day?

The Time of God's judgments will begin...

• with sudden destruction
• with the complete destruction of Babylon (America)
  
• in the early evening (for the residents of Babylon)
  
• in the spring (for the residents of Babylon)
• after 62 Feasts of Weeks, starting from the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem
• when the king of Babylon is throwing a great feast

http://wakeupbabylon.blogspot.com/2010/04/clues.html

Are all of these true on the same day and time?

They will be. May 19th. In the evening.

Salvation

1 John 5:11-12 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.

This passage tells us that God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son, Jesus Christ. In other words, the way to possess eternal life is to possess God’s Son. The question is, how can a person have the Son of God?

Man’s Problem

Separation From God

Isaiah 59:2 But your sinful acts have alienated you from your God; your sins have caused him to reject you and not listen to your prayers.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

According to Romans 5:8, God demonstrated His love for us through the death of His Son. Why did Christ have to die for us? Because Scripture declares all men to be sinful. To “sin” means to miss the mark. The Bible declares “all have sinned and fall short of the glory (the perfect holiness) of God” (Rom. 3:23). In other words, our sin separates us from God who is perfect holiness (righteousness and justice) and God must therefore judge sinful man.

The Futility of Our Works

Scripture also teaches that no amount of human goodness, human works, human morality, or religious activity can gain acceptance with God or get anyone into heaven. The moral man, the religious man, and the immoral and non-religious are all in the same boat. They all fall short of God’s perfect righteousness. After discussing the immoral man, the moral man, and the religious man in Romans 1:18-3:8, the Apostle Paul declares that both Jews and Greeks are under sin, that “there is no one righteous, not even one” (Rom. 3:9-10). Added to this are the declarations of the following verses of Scripture:

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 it is not of works, so that no one can boast.

Titus 3:5-7 he saved us, not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior. 7 And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.

Romans 4:1-5 What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter? 2 For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about (but not before God). 3 For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” 4 Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

No amount of human goodness is as good as God. God is perfect righteousness. Because of this, Habakkuk 1:13 tells us God cannot have fellowship with anyone who does not have perfect righteousness. In order to be accepted by God, we must be as good as God is. Before God, we all stand naked, helpless, and hopeless in ourselves. No amount of good living will get us to heaven or give us eternal life. What then is the solution?

God’s Solution

God is not only perfect holiness (whose holy character we can never attain to on our own or by our works of righteousness) but He is also perfect love and full of grace and mercy. Because of His love and grace, He has not left us without hope and a solution.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

This is the good news of the Bible, the message of the gospel. It’s the message of the gift of God’s own Son who became man (the God-man), lived a sinless life, died on the cross for our sin, and was raised from the grave proving both the fact He is God’s Son and the value of His death for us as our substitute.

Romans 1:4 who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 4:25 He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.

2 Corinthians 5:21 God made the one who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the right-eousness of God.

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

How Do We Receive God’s Son?

Because of what Jesus Christ accomplished for us on the cross, the Bible states “He that has the Son has life.” We can receive the Son, Jesus Christ, as our Savior by personal faith, by trusting in the person of Christ and His death for our sins.

John 1:12 But to all who have received him--those who believe in his name--he has given the right to become God's children

John 3:16-18 For this is the way God loved the world: he gave his one and only Son that everyone who believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18 The one who believes in Him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

This means we must each come to God the same way: (1) as a sinner who recognizes his sinfulness, (2) realizes no human works can result in salvation, and (3) relies totally on Christ alone by faith alone for our salvation.

If you would like to receive and trust Christ as your personal Savior, you may want to express your faith in Christ by a simple prayer acknowledging your sinfulness, accepting His forgiveness and putting your faith in Christ for your salvation.

http://bible.org/article/gods-plan-salvation

Why March 18th Was Crucial

Updated 12/21/2010
This post was based on the incorrect interpretation of Daniel 9.  However, the king's feast of Isaiah 21 will some day help to confirm the start of the Day of the Lord.
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Remember the clues we've been given.

The Time of God's judgments will begin...

• with sudden destruction
• with the complete destruction of Babylon
  
• in the early evening (for the residents of Babylon)
  
• in the spring (for the residents of Babylon)
• after 62 Feasts of Weeks, starting from the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem

http://wakeupbabylon.blogspot.com/2010/04/clues.html

Are these clues enough to know beyond reasonable doubt on which day the judgment begins?

NO.

Why not?

Because there is a dispute about which day the Feast of Weeks is to be observed.

"Shavuot (Feast of Weeks/ Pentecost) is the Biblical harvest-festival celebrated 50 days after the Sunday which falls out during Passover. These fifty days are called the Counting of the Omer. The Rabbis incorrectly celebrate Shavuoth on the 6th of Sivan."

http://www.karaite-korner.org/shavuot.shtml

Understand, I'm not taking sides. It doesn't matter who's right. It only matters what God thinks is right.

But wait. There's another clue. This clue ties everything together and confirms the other clues.

• when the king of Babylon is throwing a great feast

So what happened on March 18th?

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/03/obama_white_house_honors_mexic.html

Folks, an entire chapter of the Bible was written about this last clue: Isaiah 21.
The watchman knows which day Babylon is destroyed because he saw the king's feast being prepared.

Prophetic Message by Lance Lambert

Sunday 18 April 2010, Jerusalem Israel

Do not fear neither be dismayed for that which is coming upon the face of the earth, for I am with you, says The Lord. Nevertheless I have a serious controversy with the nations. They are seeking to divide My Land says The Lord, the land that I covenanted to give to Abraham and to his seed after him through Isaac and Jacob, as an everlasting inheritance. This I will not allow without devastating judgment upon those nations who pursue this plan. I have arisen with intense and furious anger and will not back down until I have destroyed their well being. I will cause their economies to fail, and their financial system to break down, and even the climate to fail them! I will turn them upside down and inside out and they will not know what has hit them, whether they be super powers or not. For I am the only One, the Almighty God and besides me there is none to compare.

Do they believe that in their arrogance they can contradict and nullify covenants that I the Almighty have made? Do they believe that they can change what has gone forth from My mouth with impunity? It is My Word and My decree that has gone forth concerning the seed of Abraham. It will not be changed by man. I and I alone am Almighty. Do not fear!

For this reason a new and a far more serious phase of judgment is commencing. Do not fear, it is I who is shaking all things. Remember that in Me you have peace but in the world tribulation. Trust Me! I am shaking all things so that which cannot be shaken may remain. When all your circumstances become abnormal, discover in Me your peace, your rest and your fulfillment.

In this phase the old and powerful nations will become as if they are third world countries, super powers will no longer be super powers but countries such as India and China will arise to take their place. A great company of the redeemed will come out of these two countries. In all this change, do not fear.

I know your weakness and your tendency to fear, but do not be dismayed at these things. In the midst of all this shaking, this turmoil and strife, there are two peoples that lie at it's heart, the true and living church and Israel. I will use these matters, these events, to purify one and to save the other! Do not fear, above the storms, the shaking, and the conflict, I am the Everlasting and Almighty One. In Me you cannot be shaken, you can only lose what is not worth holding!

http://www.lancelambert.org/prophetic6.html