Come Jesus Come - With Commentary

Dennis Edwards: Of course, we groan with all of the creation for the return of Christ to set the world right and bring peace and plenty for all. But God is bound by His word. Jesus won't come today because the prophecies must first be completed. The world government and Antichrist will first arrive bringing persecution to God’s people as we have seen in the past in both Russia and China and in other communist countries. 

The "Great Tribulation," and their trumpets found in Revelation 8-10, will proceed the coming of Christ. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the rapture or gathering together of God’s children to Him in that supernatural event occur. 

While the saints enjoy the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in heavenly places, God’s wrath found in Revelation 16 in the seven vials shall be poured out on the unbelieving and Antichrist worshipping world. But even then many will not repent and evil men led by demonic spiritual forces will bring the world to the point of total annihilation. 

At the Battle of Armageddon is when Christ returns physically to the earth to stop the carnage and save mankind from total destruction. The Devil will be bound a thousand years and the Antichrist and his False Prophet will be cast into the Lake of Fire until they repent or face the second death. 

Christ will reign on earth for 1000 years. After which the Devil will be released for a short while and go forth and deceive the nations once again and bring them against the Holy City headquarters in or around Jerusalem. It's at that point that God destroys the surface of the earth with fire and recreates a new heaven and a new earth. 

Those who accept Jesus as Lord and Savior will live with God in His heavenly city. Those whose good deeds out weighed their bad deeds though they either believed not, or obeyed not, will get to live on the surface of the New Earth and continue in their process of spiritual growth until they too accept Christ and learn to love and obey Him. 

That's the happy ending, or happy beginning because we will have eternity ahead of us to continue to learn to love and live like God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Don’t wait until death to accept Christ when you will see Him in the spiritual realm. Accept Him today and start storing up rewards in Heaven by your acts of love and truth. Start living today. There is only one way. Jesus Christ is the way. He's the truth, and the life. Call upon Him today and He'll answer. He's just a prayer away. 

 

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Is Jordan's King calling for a Holy Covenant on the Middle East?

Here's some news that came out before Christmas that I didn't have time to post.

Jordan’s King Rejects Change in Status of Jerusalem, Its Holy Sites

(Reuters) Jordan’s King Abdullah on Wednesday rejected any attempt to change the status of Jerusalem or its holy sites, and said peace would not come to the region without a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In another related headline we read,

Palestine’s Abbas Says U.S. Jerusalem Decision ‘Greatest Crime’ 

(Reuters) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday, the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was the “greatest crime” and a flagrant violation of international law.

And now a week later,

Tens of Thousands of Indonesians Rally Over Trump’s Jerusalem Stance

(Reuters) Tens of thousands of Muslims marched from the main mosque in Indonesia’s capital to a square in Jakarta on Sunday to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Dennis Edwards: Again we see the Arab's reaction to Trump's decision to move the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. In many posts, I have mentioned the "Peace-Pact" or "Holy Covenant" spoken of in Bible prophecy concerning the last days.  Some Bible prophecy experts believe that the Bible foretells of a Holy Covenant before the 2nd Coming of Christ. Speculation about what the Holy Covenant could involve increased when Israel became a nation in 1948. In 1967's Six-Day War Israel gained more territory, while the Palestinians became more frustrated with the world's lack of enforcing UN resolution 242. That resolution promised to form a two state solution with both Jews and Palestinians having Jerusalem as their capital.

Because of the tension over Israel's aggressive stance concerning land areas that were formally Palestinian, many have thought the Holy Covenant might involve a compromise to placate both Israel and Palestine over their differences. The importance of the  7 year Holy Covenant  confirmed by many nations, is that it is broken half way through the 7 year period. The breaking of the Covenant and the placing of the Abomination of Desolation in the Temple are the signs Jesus gave for the beginning of the Great Tribulation or sometimes called "Jacob's Trouble." If we are understanding Scripture correctly, the Antichrist is the author or promoter of the Covenant and also he who breaks it. Could Trump's decision to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem be a catalyst to a situation in which a Holy Covenant is deemed necessary and agreed upon by many nations concerned? If so, we could be living in some very exciting and yet very sobering days.

Other articles since Christmas have noted that Trump's decision to embrace Israel's desire for Jerusalem to be it's capitol has moved America away from being able to negotiate a settlement between the Jews and the Palestinians. These articles have noted that Russia is seen by the world in a better position as negotiator because of it's positive action to stop IS in Syria. The Russians are now making a more permanent military/naval base in Syria. So her presence in the Middle East will not diminish and her relationship with Turkey and Iran, two key nations in the famous future Battle of Armageddon or the battle of Ezekiel 38 & 39, continues to be strengthened. 

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