Israel in the Past, in the Present, and in the Future

The nation of Israel had a very unique history, unlikely that of all the other nations. Created by God, privileged with all the super natural events while taken to the Promised Land, promised to the patriarch Abraham, whom God chose to be their father. He was a man after the heart of God for his zeal for God. Born in the days of Noah, he lived in Noah’s house for a period of time, where he learned the ways of the Lord and served the Lord all the days of his life. He destroyed all his father’s gods out of zeal for God and was put in prison for a time. (The Book of Jasher) No, Abraham was not a worshipper of gods, contrary to what Christians think. He was influenced by Noah and his son to follow the true God. He took a strong stand against his father’s gods and made sure that they were destroyed. While in Haran, the Lord called Abraham to leave his country, his relatives and his father’s house, to the land that He was going to show him and the Lord said to him, And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you and curse him who curses or uses insolent language toward you; in you will all the families and kindred of the earth be blessed. And, Abraham departed, as the Lord had directed him… He was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. (Gen.12). From this man of faith and obedience, came the nation of Israel established by God Himself.

Four hundred years the descendants of Abraham lived in Egypt, as God told him. Subjected to the Egyptians’ demands and hard work, Israel suffered much until God called the man Moses to deliver them. It was a time of great deliverance, after God brought judgments upon the Egyptians for not let the people go. They were seventy people in all when they arrived in Egypt; four hundred years later they had multiplied to over a million people. Moses, who was adopted by the daughter of the king, was considered their son, but he chose to leave their life style to save his people. Starting, he killed an Egyptian for mistreating one of his brothers, and then fled to the land of Median, where God called him to save his people from slavery. That was forty years later after he had left Egypt. Afraid, he hesitated to answer to the call for his past hanged over his head. With the help of his brother Aaron, he went and miraculously he delivered the people. This was a new chapter in the lives of the people.

That was the beginning of their journey through the wilderness for forty years.  It was there that God manifested His presence by miracles and wonders. To start with, He parted the Red Sea for them to cross it on dry land. It took all night for those people to arrive to the other side. He brought them out, on eagles’ wings safe and sound as He told them in Exodus 19:4:  You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.  All through the forty years they wandered through the desert, God provided a cloud in the day time to protect them from the heat of the sun and a pillar of fire in the night to provided them light. These were years of teaching them to be a nation different of all the rest. They were to be priests unto the Lord and light to the world around them as a testimony of their true God. On the third month of their journey, God descended to Mount Sinai to covenant with them.  The mount was wrapped in smoke, for the Lord descended upon it in fire; its smoke ascended like that of a furnace and the whole mountain quaked greatly (Ex. 19:18). The seriousness of that event took the people by surprise and fear. They were facing the holiness of their God which was to compel them to keep His covenant with Him, so not to be judged.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem

This was a warning directly from YAHSHUA to Jerusalem, as He saw the spiritual condition of the place. He wept [audibly] over it. Luke says that as YAHSHUA approached, He saw the city, and He wept over it exclaiming, would that you had known personally, even at least in this your day, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank [with pointed stakes] about you and surround you and shut you in on every side and they will dash you down to the ground, you, and your children with you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not come progressively to recognize and know and understand the time of your visitation. (Luke 19:41-44). Years later, in the year 70 A.D. it happened exactly as He told them. His heart burned for that city called the “City of God.” His warning was prophetic with certainty of Jerusalem’s future. His weeping translated the gravity of the judgment coming to the city. Our Lord’s crying over a sinful and rebellious city against Himself and all that He had done for the nation, marks a time, in the space of God’s timing for serious judgment against it. YAHSHUA’S tears washed Jerusalem’s grounds with sorrows for the city, which refused to accept Him; a nation that rejected Him to the point of crucifying Him. He said, I must continue on My way today and tomorrow and the day after that- for it will never do for a prophet to be destroyed away from Jerusalem! (Luke 13:33). Jerusalem is without a doubt, an apostate place. Because of their rejection of God, Jerusalem is morally and spiritually corrupted. Figuratively called Sodom and Egypt for what they represent, as a copy of these nations. Revelation 11:8 says, and their bodies (the witnesses) will lie in the street of the great city (Jerusalem) figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. YAHSHUA’S calling the nation for repentance was ignored, bringing them serious consequences without mercy.

At the healing of a crippled man by Peter and John, (after YAHSHUA’S ascension) the people were amazingly surprised, to whom they responded: You men of Israel, why are you so surprised and wondering at this? Why do you keep staring at us, as through by our power or piety we had made this man to walk? The God of Abraham and of Isaac and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has glorified His Servant and Son  YAHSHUA, Whom you indeed delivered up and denied and rejected and disowned  in the presence  of Pilate, when he had determined to let Him go, but you denied and rejected and disowned the Pure and Holy, the Just and Blameless One, and demanded a murderer to be granted to you, but you killed the very Source of life, Whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses (Acts 3:12-15).

The Prophet Isaiah, many years before YAHSHUA came to earth, prophesized saying, who has believed our message [of that which was revealed to us] and to whom has the arm of the Lord been disclosed? … For [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender plant, and like a root out of the dry ground…He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains and acquainted  with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him…He was oppressed, He was afflicted, He was submissive and opened not His mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth. By oppression and judgment, He was taken away; and as for His generation, who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of (Israel’s), to whom the stroke due? (Isa. 53). John wrote this of Him: He came into the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him; He came for His own, and they who were His own did not receive Him and did not welcome Him (John 1:11-12). As these prophecies were being fulfilled through Him, He uttered another message of warning to the nation, specifically to Jerusalem, saying, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who continue to kill the prophets and to stone those who are sent to You! How often I have desired and yarned to gather your children together as a hen [gathers] her young under her wings, but you would not! Behold, your house is forsaken! And I tell you, you will not see Me again until the time comes when you shall say, Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord! (Luke 13: 34-35). YAHSHUA was a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, as Isaiah prophesized it. YAHSHUA said, whoever hates Me also hates My Father; if they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you… (John 15). The hate that the nation had for YAHSHUA passed on to their followers. Hebrews 11: 37 we read: Some heroes and heroines of the faith were killed through hate that the Jews had against YAHSHUA. It says, they were stoned to death; they were lured with tempting offers; they were sawn asunder; they were slaughtered by the sword; [while they were alive] they had to go about wrapped in the skins of sheep and goats, utterly destitute, oppressed, cruelly treated.

When the Cock Crowed

Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked excessively that you be given up to him, that he might sift you like grain; but I have prayed especially for you, that your faith may not fail; and when you yourself have turned again, strengthen and establish your brethren. And Peter said to Him, Lord, I am ready to go with You both to prison and to death. But YAHSHUA said, I tell you, Peter, before a cock shall crow this day, you will three times deny that you know Me (Luke 22:31-34).

The hour was approaching, when our Lord was going to face trials and death. He spent his last days and hours with His disciples instructing them on what was about to happen to Him. Those hours were solemn hours for the disciples solely depended on YAHSHUA. The news of His coming death caused fear and uncertainties in their heart with confusion of their understanding. At that time, YAHSHUA had a warning for Peter that caused a change of heart. He said, Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked excessively that you be given up to him, that he might sift you like grain… (vs.31). But YAHSHUA would not allow Satan to do that to weak Peter. Instead, He prayed that Peter’s faith may not fail; and when he had turned again, to strengthen and establish his brethren (vc.31-32). But Peter insisted saying, I am ready to go with You both to prison and to death (vs.33). A spiritual warfare was going on for the life of Peter in those hours without him knowing. YAHSHUA was defending and protecting him thorough prayer. But Peter ignorant of what was happening, refuted the Lord implying that he was strong and ready to die with YAHSHUA. A sign then was given to Peter by the Lord to prove to Peter His prophetic utterances to be right. He said to Peter: before a cock shall crow this day, you will three times deny that you know Me (vs.34). A cock is a male bird – rooster. Roosters break the dawn with a wakeup call for the world to get up and go. The rooster is the most reliable alarming clock there is. YAHSHUA used this to tell Peter that nature’s clock will prove him the veracity of YAHSHUA’S words. Wanting to get warm, Peter mingled himself with some others around, not knowing that they were going to test him. Peter’s weak personality couldn’t resist the first simple affirmation from a servant girl, his first encounter: “This man too was with Him.” He was confronted by two more, the third one emphatically insisted saying, It is truth that this man also was with Him, for he is a Galilean! On the third time that he was challenged, Peter began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, I do not even know the man! And at that moment a rooster crowed (Matt.26:74).

While Peter was still speaking, the cock crowed affirming YAHSHUA’S words to Peter and at the same time, The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And he recalled the Lord’s words, Before the cock crows today, You will deny Me thrice. Peter went out and wept bitterly (Luke 22:61-62). YAHSHUA’S eyes looked deeply into Peter’s soul and Peter, ashamed of the past few hours, was faced with his own failure, for the reality check caught him in a crucial time, when he rejected YAHSHUA’S warning. When his eyes met the eyes of the Savior, he had nothing to say, but weep for his actions. In life, there is always a rooster who will warn us of our actions. It is called the conscious. Often times, we shut it off, not wanting to admit our wrong doings, for the pleasure of it.

YAHSHUA warned Judas before his betrayal to save him from the terrible consequences, but his heart was fixed in doing it, no matter the cost. However, remorse took hold of his life; he lost it under the control of Satan, ending up in hell. At times we get angry at warnings, when pride controls the situation. We continue dancing around the fire that is about to devour us, until too late.  Ignoring warnings brings consequences we do not want to face. There are no excuses and justification when we know what is right and remain doing wrong, ignoring the voice of reason.  The Word of God says that any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin (James 4:17). Thus says the Lord: Stand by the roads and look; and ask for the eternal paths, where the good, old way is; then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it! Also, I set watchmen over you, saying, Hear and obey the sound of the trumpet! But they said, We will not listen or obey… Therefore, hear, I am bringing evil upon this people, the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened and obeyed My words, and as for My law, they have rejected it (Jer.6:16-17,19). In Peter’s case, he heard the prophetic words from our Lord, but as Israel rejected the warnings, in the desert, so, did Peter. However, the Lord gave him another chance and re-instated him to his position of apostle. His love for the Lord was tried three times, commending him to “Feed My lambs.” This time, Peter’s heart was repented and contrite before the Lord. He followed Him the rest of his life and died as a martyr for the Lord.

Peace That Will Bring Destruction

Peace is sought to be attained today through the alignment of nations as the Mideast with their neighbors, most importantly Israel.  They call it the Abraham Accords, and the Cyrus Accord. Israel is in the center of prophecy. A nation created by God, has broken the covenant with Him by walking away from His commandments to worship other gods and do what they pleased in their gross way of living an immoral life contrary to God’s commandments. They rejected their Messiah and chose the cruel King Caesar, as their king, when they shouted crucify him, away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him! Pilate said to them, Crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar! (John 19:15). Israel is under coming judgment without escape. The Prophet Jeremiah so prophesized, Alas! For that day will great, so that none will be like it; it will be the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he will be saved out of it. (Jer. 30:7); Daniel 12:1b: “And there shall be a time of trouble, straightness and distress such as never was since there was a nation till that time.” No peace without YAHSHUA, the Prince of Peace, will last. Paul confirmed by saying, “When people are saying, all is well and secure, and, there is peace and safety, then in a moment unforeseen destruction will come upon them as suddenly as labor pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no escape (I Thess. 5:3).

In spite of these peace accords Israel will be invaded by the Northern alliance countries. These invading forces are Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, of Meshech and of Tubal. Persia, Cush and Put or Libya with them, Gomer Togarmah in the uttermost part of the north. The Lord says, Behold, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord; that is the day of which I have spoken (Ezekiel 39:9) These present countries are Iran, Cush or Ethiopia, Put or Somalia, Gomer or present-day Germany and Armenia with Russia as the leader.

Would That You Had Known

This is a solemn phrase of regret to those at the end the road. Facing the consequences, without a way to mend the decision made. We often regret certain decisions when facing the results of them. But the regret coming to us from God is serious and concerning, because it involves decision He is making against our actions. At the end of our Lord’s life on the earth, He called the attention of Israel, exclaiming, “Would that you had known personally, even at least in this your day, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For a time is coming upon you when you enemies will throw up a bank about you and surround you and shut you in on every side; and they will dash you down to the  ground, you [Jerusalem]  and your children within you ; and then will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not come progressively to recognize and know and understand the time of your visitation [that is, when God was visiting you, the time in which God showed Himself gracious toward you and offered you salvation through Christ]. (Luke 19:42-44).

The days were getting closer for our Lord to offer Himself as the ultimate sacrifice for His people and the world. A warning was given, but not received well, for there was not belief to apply to YAHSHUA’S words. His heart was bleeding for the people, as He wept over the city (Luke 19:41). Israel was deaf and blind spiritually to the reality of YAHSHUA’S prophetic words. O how He tried to save them from the coming disaster! His love flowed audibly over the city of Jerusalem; the city of God. Destruction was eminent if they did not repent; YAHSHUA saw the stubbornness of their hearts and wept, as He saw the consequences of their hard hearts looming in the near future. Another time He warned them saying, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who continue to kill the prophets and to stone those who are sent to you! How often I have desired and yearned to gather your children together as a hen [gathers] her young under her wings, but you would not! Then He declared, Behold, your house is forsaken (abandoned, left to you destitute of God’s help)! And I tell you, you will not see Me again until the time comes when you shall say, Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord!” (Luke 13:34-35).

Fake Peace on the Horizon

Can you hear the trumpets announcing the fake peace soon coming near you? It is as if we were reading the prophetic words from the Bible, in particular the first letter Paul wrote to the Thessalonians. Please read chapter 5:3 with me: When people are saying, All is well and secure, and There are peace and safety, then in a moment unforeseen destruction will come upon them as suddenly as labor pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no escape. Middle East nations are uniting in an agreement of peace like never before. Enemies becoming agreeable to peace is a question we need not to ask, for if you are tuned with the Word of God, you will know the times.  The book of Daniel says that Israel will enter into a firm covenant with the many for one week  (of seven years) and in the midst of it he shall cause the sacrifice and offering to cease [for the remaining three and one -half years] and  upon the wing or pinnacle of abomination [shall come] one who makes desolate, until the full determined end is poured out on the desolator (Dan. 9:27). What do we see here is Israel entering into an agreement with many nations, fulfilling the time for its judgment. The Prophet Isaiah prophesized about this covenant saying, “Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem! Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement -when the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter…I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plummet; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be annulled and your agreement with sheol shall not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, then you will be trodden down by it” (Isaiah 28:14-20). The interesting thing is that some of the nations in agreement for peace with Israel now will be the same ones coming to attack it later, prophesized in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. We see that Israel is vehemently after this peace, leading the way, under the power of the antichrist, who is active in the world, but not yet his time to be introduced.

After their peace is established in the world, a surprising destruction will take over them. It is important that we born-again Christians be aware of the signs rising up, pointing to the time, when we must be found knowledgeable of the Word of God, in order that we do not follow the deceit spread around the world, for Paul said, The coming of the lawlessness one is through the activity and working of Satan and will be attended by great power and with all sorts of miracles  and signs and delusive marvels, lying wonders- and by unlimited  seduction to evil and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they did not welcome the Truth but refused to love it that they might be saved. Therefore, God sends upon them a misleading influence, a working of error and a strong delusion to make them believe what is false (II Thess. 2). Who are they? Those who have not believed the truth to be saved. For God has not appointed us (the Christians) to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord YAHSHUA the Messiah, Who died for us so that whether we are still alive or are dead, we might live together with Him and share His life. Therefore, encourage one another and edify one another just as you are doing (I Thess. 5). Who is the lawlessness one Paul is talking about? The antichrist. He is seemly active on the world, carrying his plan to deceive as many as he can today through electronic gadgets and other means.

God’s Purpose in Lazarus’ Death

When YAHSHUA received the news that Lazarus was sick, He was staying in Peraea beyond Jordan with His disciples, which was more than a day’s journey. By the time the news arrived, Lazarus had died. YAHSHUA knowing that, He remained there two more days, before He went to see Lazarus. He said, Our friend Lazarus is at rest and sleeping; but I am going there that I may awaken him out of his sleep. The disciples answered, Lord, If he is sleeping, he will recover. However, YAHSHUA had spoken of his death. So, then He told them plainly, Lazarus is dead (John 11:4-14). That happened at the time when the Jewish Passover was at hand, (11:55). Lazarus death and resurrection coincided two weeks before YAHSHUA’S death and resurrection. According to the Restored Vision book by A.E Ware the death and resurrection of Lazarus took place exactly two weeks before that of our Lord YAHSHUA, and precisely the same days of the week. The messenger sent by the two sisters must have left Bethany on Thursday, April 16th and reached our Lord on Friday, April 17th. Lazarus died on Friday, April 17th, and rose on Monday, April 20th; our Lord died on Friday, May first and rose on Monday 4th of May, in exact fulfillment of every statement He had made upon the subject. Lazarus death was not an isolated case, without a significant meaning that of connecting him to a prophetic event to happen many years later in the life of the Jewish nation. Lazarus, was a type of the nation of Israel, which was destroyed A.D.70 and remained dead as a nation, until the time when it was reestablished in the year 1948. Lazarus’ resurrection pointed to a time in history when his nation would arise from the ashes into life.

The urgency of the moment of Lazarus’ sickness didn’t concern our Lord, for He knew the perfect timing when He should go to attend to Lazarus’ situation, fulfilling the Father’s desire for that important moment in His life on earth, for it was the time when YAHSHUA’S messiahship would be brought to light. Lazarus’ illness and death was for the glory of God. The burial of Lazarus for four days constituted a case of no doubt in the minds of the people that YAHSHUA was the Messiah, the Son of God. The Sabbath on April 25th A.D. 33, was therefore the last day of the great Messianic time prophecy of the “seventy weeks” minus one or 483 of 490 years, as measured in Gentile time. (Dan. 9:24-27). However, that day, the Jewish nation showed their ultimate rejection, for settling their minds to kill YAHSHUA, their Messiah. Which happened two weeks later, but on God’s calendar and purpose. Our Lord YAHSHUA Messiah from the very beginning experienced the hatred of the Jewish leaders and knew well that in spite of all His miracles and manifested grace they would reject and kill Him. One week after our Lord was in Jericho He was crucified and six of the seven weeks of years (483 0f 490) were completed in A.D. 26 to 33, which would now have to be relived at the end of the Christian era as a period of retributive judgments, the desolating nature of which the Apostle John received by revelation from our risen Lord and recorded in the book of Revelation (Restored Vision, A.E Ware).

When My Faith Shall Be Sight

The thrill of that day will be loud and clear for all of us who know the Lord. The joy will be indescribable, when finally, after thousands of years, the promise will no longer be just a promise, but a reality. The sound of the trumpet of God, the voice of the archangel, summering us up will awaken our deep feeling of joy, a feeling never felt before, leading us up to meet YAHSHUA, our bridegroom. This has been a lifelong preparation. From the time we enter in relationship with God, it starts the preparation for that day through the process of sanctification by the Holy Spirit. Without it we cannot see God (Heb. 12:14).  While following the world, many Christians are eager for that day, without realizing that unless he walks in faith and in sanctification, he will not experience the rapture. No matter what he does in church or outside church, missionary works or any other service in the name of YAHSHUA. First and above all, for us Christians is to have a relationship with God. That means to make time to stay in His Word, obeying what He commands us to do. Walking every day with Him, making Him part of our life in all its aspects. We are facing an unprecedented time in history, when we see the world turning its axis in the direction of distraction. What does it mean if not prophecy of long ago being fulfilled in its speed of time, while we marvel and fear the outcome ahead of us? There is no need to be glued to the news, for they know nothing that has been predicted by the Word of God. This is a time for readiness, for alertness with our lamp filled with oil, waiting for the middle-night call, Arise to meet the bridegroom! There will be no time left. The time will be now.

Reckoning the Unprecedented Times

Nations frown at each other with the latest weapon of mass-destruction, ready to use in retaliation against each other, expressing the hatred harbored for many years for disputes not settled. It is “wars and rumors of wars” as YAHSHUA described to be in these unprecedented times.  Countries sacrifice their sons and daughters for useless wars time and time again trying to bring peace, so they say. But is it so? When they are not killed in combat, they come home either mentally ill, or handicap, and homeless in some circumstances, for their mental inability to hold a job. Families are destroyed and a growing number of homeless fills the under-bridge refuge, finding comfort in drugs. This is a world in chaos and confusion for all those of us who have not perceived the signs of time YAHSHUA alerted us was coming. What are really behind the world’s agenda in order to bring in One World Order?  One of them is the plan to build Smart Cities. They are 15-minute cities. These cities already exist in varies big cities in this country. It encloses the masses to a small area where they are easily controlled by face recognition. Police in this country are planning to deploy “Al-driven recognition technology,” capable to identify anybody who enters the public domain. Surveillance technology, already installed, supposedly for safety, will be weaponized to enforce their agendas to control our behavior.

How will they succeed in making the masses submit to them? Well, that’s no longer a matter to wonder. We have experienced first-hand through their behavior in trying to control the people in the pandemic time, by forcing the vaccine on people all over the world through fear. Businesses doors were closed; many were closed indefinitely. Prices of everything including food, went sky high, jobs were scarce for a while. We are living in an unprecedented time. These are the days YAHSHUA alerted us in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: Days of Noah, Days of Lot. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; nations will rise against nations, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place; the love of the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity (Matt. 24:6-7,12). We have been alerted about these days, although we didn’t know how it would possible. From the time world governments all over the world became enemies of the people, the doors were opened for the impossible to happen. Their obsession in controlling the people became so intense, they created the plan to weaponized surveillance technology already in place. “Facial-recognition, together with vehicle license- plate scanners will allow law enforcement to track the movement of everyone, whether on foot, or on a bicycle, on a subway, or in a vehicle.” (Leo Hohmann). In a state of deceit, governments are misleading their subjects about their decisions. They are no longer friends of the people; their plans are to enslave the people in order to conform them to their plans. They are establishing rules hard to follow, robing the people of God’s-given freedom in every aspect. Faces recognition will facilitate them to apply correction on those who will not comply. This is in preparation for the antichrist to take power over the world. He will then implant chips on hands or heads, which is his mark. This chip is the ultimate control on men; it carries his DNA on everyone who will take it. The latest vaccine was the precursor of his mark. We saw how many agreed to take it, including those who call themselves Christians. For they did not perceive the true meaning of it. His mark will render people’s complete allegiance to him in One World Order, in which he will implement one religion, he being the only one to be worshipped.

Revelation 13: 16-17 says, “Also he compels all, both small and great, both the rich and the poor, both free and slave, to be marked with an inscription[stamped] on their right hand or on their foreheads, so that no one will have power to buy or sell unless he bears the stamp, [that is] the name of the beast or the number of his name. High technology will be key in implementing what’s to come. Although, we do enjoy its conveniences right now. However, behind all these conveniences there are complete control looming on the horizon approaching faster and faster without the masses perceiving it. The artificial intelligence, (IA) for example was created to replace the human reasoning in decision making. It refers to computer systems capable of performing complex tasks that historically only a human could do, such as reasoning, making decisions, or solving problems. In many ways it is perceived to be more intelligent than the human mind, but it is actually only analyzing data in response to a human designed algorithm.

Come My People, Hide Yourselves For a Little While

There is a storm brewing out in the entire world, rapidly getting stronger and stronger. It has become visible to many of us who are spiritually awake, while others continue asleep in their comfortable life-style without realizing it, for they have no knowledge neither understanding nor perception of the coming judgment, as the Bible says, For behold, the Lord is coming out of His place to punish  the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also will disclose the blood shed upon her and will no longer cover her slain and conceal her guilt (Isa.26:21). But in the midst of God’s judgment, there is hope for His people- those who revere and honor Him. It is called “The blessed hope.” We are awaiting and looking for the blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Messiah YAHSHUA, Who gave Himself on our behalf, that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people eager and enthusiastic about beneficial deeds. (Titus 2:13). When the Lord comes out of His place to apply judgment on the earth, will He spare His people? Or will He gather them with the wicked to destroy them? No, that is inconsistent with His nature; with the way He acted in the past judgment when He saved the few righteous people, who lived among the wicked ones. In the case of righteous Noah, He provided an arch to save Him from the universal flood; in the case of Lot, God sent His angel to pull him out of the city before destruction. Israel was taken out of Egypt before the last judgment fell on the land. Egypt’s army was destroyed and left under the Red Sea, when it closed on them.

The world’s iniquities are multiplying with the time approaching its judgment. The worse it gets, the closer and certain it is for God’s judgment to fall on it. This is a sign God’s people must not ignore; He calls each of us to be set apart in times as this. One cannot hear His voice when involved in the world’s chaos. Come alone to meet Him, that’s the call He makes in Song of Songs chapter 2: Rise up, my love, My fair one, and come away; for, behold, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land; the fig tree puts forth and ripens her green  figs, and the vines are in blossom and give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one and come away (S.S 2:10-13). At the sign of iniquities’ maturity, it will be the time to get away from it all and be at the presence of the Lord in order to hear His voice more clearly. “The time of the singing has come.” The invitation is for all those who love the Lord. It is in His presence that we will be hidden from His wrath. He calls us now to be in His presence to receive His instructions for this end-time. That’s the only way to escape it all; knowledge, discernment and understanding of His word will carry us out of the coming storm.