PAUL’S CONVINCING ILLUSTRATION

GALATIANS 3: 6-9

15 Years IS A Big-Deal

A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD

A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD, A BULWARK NEVER FAILING

OUR HELPER HE, AMID THE FLOOD, OF MORTAL ILLS PREVAILING

FOR STILL OUR ANCIENT FOE DOTH SEEK TO WORK US WOE, HIS CRAFT AND POWER ARE GREAT,

AND, ARMED WITH CRUEL HATE, ON EARTH IS NOT HIS EQUAL

2ND VERSE

DID WE IN OUR OWN STRENGTH CONFIDE, OUR STRIVING WOULD BE LOSING,

WERE NOT THE RIGHT MAN ON OUR SIDE, THE MAN OF GOD’S OWN CHOOSING,

DOST ASK WHO THAT MAY BE?CHRIST JESUS , IT IS HE, LORD SABAOTH,

HIS NAME,FROM AGE TO AGE THE SAME, AND HE

MUST WIN THE BATTLE• AMEN

READ GALATIANS 3: 6-9

LEAVES DISCUSSING THE GALATIANS EXPERIENCE IN CHRIST, AND

MAKES A MAJOR SHIFT (IN THIS BRILLANT LAWYERS CASE) ---- AND PRESENTS AN IRREFUTABLE ARGUMENT by …

RETURNING TO HIS FAVORITE SCRIPTUREPASSAGE

OPENS THIS PART OF HIS ARGUEMENT

BY DIRECTING THE GALATIANS ATTENTION TO HOW THEIR “FATHER” WAS SAVED …

LETS LOOK FIRST AT THE BI-LATERAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN GOD AND ABRAMREAD GEN 12:1-3ABRAM OBEYED … “KEY”GOD INITATITES A UNI-LATERAL

AGREEMENT

GOD’S CLARIFIES PROMISES TO ABRAM

12: 7 “To your descendents I will give this LAND”

13:14 “lift up your eyes, …. For all the LAND which you can see, I will give to you and your descendents forever…….”

14 After LOT’s rescue, and rejecting the King of Sodom’s offer to take all the rescued “goods” .. Abram is blessed by Melchizedek

GOD ENCOURAGES ABRAM

(YOU DID RIGHT IN REJECTING THESE “GOOD’S”) BECAUSE

15: 1 “… I (GOD) AM YOUR SHIELD, YOUR EXCEEDINGLY GREAT REWARD” (WOW)

15: 2-3 ABRAM DOES NOT MINCE WORDS…“HOW CAN THIS BE, SINCE I AM CHILDLESS”GOD: “ONE WILL COME FROM YOUR OWN BODY WHO WILL BE YOUR HEIR”

GOD: COUNT THE STARSSO SHALL YOUR DESCENDENTS BE

15:6 “AND HE (ABRAM) BELIEVED GOD AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS”

(ABRAM SAID “AMEN” TO WHAT GOD SAID.)15: 8-17 GOD THEN MAKES an

UNCONDITIONAL UNI-LATERAL AGREEMENT WITH ABRAHAM …. AND HIS SPECIFIED DESCENDENTS

15: 18 “TO YOUR DESCENDENTS (ISSAC AND JACOB…) I HAVE GIVEN THIS LAND”… (details given) .. 1/10 of today

15 years LATER GOD INSTITUTED WITH ABRAHAM THE SIGN OF THIS UNI-

LATERAL COVENANT

CIRCUMCISION (CUTTING) .. A SIGN OF BELONGING TO THE COVENANT

(LIKE BAPTISM FOR THE CHRISTIAN… BAPTISM DOES NOT MAKE YOU A CHRISTIAN, IT IS A SIGN THAT YOU ARE IDENTIFIED WITH CHRIST)

WHAT IS PAUL’S ARGUMENT?

HE IS SAYING… LOOK, ABRAM WAS DECLARED RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH …. 15 YEARS BEFORE CIRCUMCISION WAS EVEN INSTITUTED

SO, CIRCUMCISION CANNOT BE A CRITIAL ISSUE “TO BE DECLARED RIGHTEOUS”…. IT IS SOLELY FAITH. (remember 400 years later came the law)

PAUL IS IMPLYING 2000 YEARS AGO, TODAY AND 2000 YEARS IN THE FUTURE …. SALVATION IS SOLELY BY FAITH (THROUGH GRACE)

BESIDES THE LAND

GOD ALSO PROMISED ABRAHAM: 1. I WILL MAKE YOU A GREAT NATION DONE 2. I WILL MAKE YOUR NAME GREAT DONE

(JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND MOSLEMS)

3. YOU SHALL BE A BLESSING DONE(NOBEL PEACE PRIZE)

4. I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU DONEAND I WILL CURSE THOSE WHO CURSE YOU

5. AND IN YOU ALL THE NATIONS OF THE DONE

EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED (CHRIST)

ABRAHAM TRIES TO CHANGE THE TERMS OF GOD’S UNCONDITIONAL

UNI-LATERAL CONTRACT

GOES TO EGYPT AND OBTAINS A HAND MAID FOR SARAH… AND HAS AN AGREEMENT WITH SARAH…

HAGAR GIVES BIRTH… AND BEGINS THE ARAB LINE

IN TIME, GOD SAYS “NO WAY” … MY PROMISES ARE FOR YOU AND SARAH TO HAVE A SON.

REMEMBER

GOD GIVING THE “LAW” DID NOT ALTER HIS CONTRACT (400 YEARS LATER)

GOD ALLOWING ISRAEL TO HAVE A KING DID NOT ALTER HIS CONTRACT

GOD SENDING HIS SON “INCARNATE” TO BETHLEHAM DID NOT ALTER HIS CONTRACT (IN SEVERAL WAYS IT FULFILLED IT)

WHAT HAS YET TO BE FULFILLED?

THE LAND

GOD HAS AN ENEMY TRYING TO NEGATE GOD’S PROMISES

SATAN HAS TRIED TO WIPE OUT THE JEWS FROM HAMAN, HEROD, NERO TO HITLER TO … MUSLIMSSATAN TRIED TO WIPE-OUT CHRIST

(MANY THINK HE THREW A PARTY WHEN CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED)

• SATAN HAS TRIED TO PREVENT THE JEWS FROM OCCUPING THE PROMISED LAND

SATAN WILL USE A PERSON CALLED ANTI-CHRIST TO PURSUE THESE

GOALS

REMEMBER: AFTER WW 1, AND THE DEFEAT OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE… THE WEST PARTITIONED UP THE ARAB LAND… (ARAB’S WANTED IT ALL) GIVING A LAND FOR THE ARABS (TRAN’S JORDAN) AND A

LAND FOR ISRAEL TO BE ADMINISTERED BY ENGLAND AS MANDATED BY THE BALFOUR DECLARATION .. ACCEPTED BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS, JULY 24, 1922 (FYI: RUSSIA AND THE FRENCH TRIED ALSO TO TAKE OVER PALESTINE PRIOR TO THE BALFOUR DEC.) Jews to go to Israel and Arabs to go to Jordan

AFTER 17 YEARS, FOLLOWING NUMEROUS TERRORISTS ATTACK’S IN ENGLAND/PALESTINE BY THE ARABS.. ENGLAND RENIGED ON THE BALFOUR DECLARATION (and has gone downhill ever since as a major power) … NO LONGER BRITISH POLICY TO HAVE A HOMELAND FOR THE JEWS (1939) … IMPLICATIONS…

FOLLOWING THE HOLOCOST

US ACKNOWLEDGED ISRAEL’S RIGHT TO EXIST AS A SOVEREIGN STATE (1948) .. THEN OTHER NATIONS FOLLOWED SUIT… EXCEPT FOR THE ARABS. RESULT: WAR WAR WAR WAR

SO WHAT IS SATAN’S CURRENT PLAN

DIVIDE AND CONQUER PAST FOUR US PRESIDENTS AND SEC. OF STATE EU ARABS UN RUSSIATWO or THREE STATE “SOLUTION” WOULD

MAKE ISRAEL INDEFENSEABLE

SATANS FINAL PLAN

WORK THROUGH ANTI-CHRIST TO DESTROY JEWS AND CAPTURE JERUSALEM/ISRAEL FROM JEWS.

NEGATE GOD’S COVENANTWHERE WILL ANTI-CHRIST COME

FROM?

FIRST LETS BE CLEAR

SCRIPTURE IS ALL ABOUT THE MID-EAST (ITS MID-EAST CENTRIC)

• IN FACT, SCRIPTURE IS ALL ABOUT THE “CENTER OF THE WORLD” …. (ITS JERUSALEM CENTRIC)

PSALMS 135:21VARY RARELY DOES SCRIPTURE TALK ABOUT A PEOPLE GROUP OUTSIDE OF THE MID-EAST

REMEMBERREMEMBER PEOPLE GROUPSPEOPLE GROUPS

FROM CREATION TO ABRAHAM –

FROM ABRAHAM TO ACTS 2

• FROM ACTS 2 TO REVELATION 22

ONLY GENTILES

GENTILES PLUS JEWS

GENTILES PLUS JEWS PLUS CHRISTIANS I COR. 10:32

LETS LOOK AT THE NATIONS WHO ANTI-CHRIST WILL USE

PEOPLE GROUPPEOPLE GROUP BOOK OF BIBLEBOOK OF BIBLE

GENTILES

GOD PUT TIME-LINE FOR THE FUTURE FOR EACH GROUP IN

DIFFERENT BOOKS

GENTILES

JEWS

CHRISTIANS

DANIEL

EZEKIEL/ZECHARIAH

GOD PUT TIME-LINE FOR THE FUTURE FOR EACH GROUP IN

DIFFERENT BOOKS

GROUP (THRU ETERNITY)GROUP (THRU ETERNITY) PRIMARILY:PRIMARILY:

GENTILES

JEWS

CHRISTIANS

DANIEL

EZEKIEL/ZACHARIAH

REVELATION

GOD PUT TIME-LINE FOR THE FUTURE FOR EACH GROUP IN

DIFFERENT BOOKS

GOD WILL JUDGEGOD WILL JUDGENUMBERS 24:14-18ISAIAH 25:8-10MICAH 5: 2-6ISAIAH 63: 1-4HABAKKUK 3:3-7

JOEL 3: 2-4

EZEKIEL 25:

SAUDIA ARABIA, JORDAN

MOAB (SEE ABOVE)ASSYRIAN (IRAN/IRAQ)EDOM (JORDAN)CUSHAN AND MIDIAN

SINAI PENINSULA• TYRE/SIDON/COASTS

OF PHILISTIA -LEBONAN AND GAZA

• AMMON/MOAB/EDOM/PHILISTIA

BY THE WAY(NO RUSSIA, NO ROME)

DANIEL 9:26DANIEL 9:26

“and after the sixty-two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself,

AND THE PEOPLE (OF THE PRINCE WHO IS TO COME) SHALL DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY”

WHO IS THE “PRINCE WHO IS TO COME” (ANTI-CHRIST)

WHAT PEOPLE DESTROYED JERUSALEM?????

WHERE DID THE PROPHESY OF “ROME” COME FROM

NOW IT GETS INTERESTING

WHO DESTROYED JERUSALEM IN 70 AD?

WAS IT THE ROMANS (ITALIANS) UNDER GEN. TITUS?

OR ????? I REFER YOU TO JOSEPHUS TRAVELING ARMY RELATIVELY SMALL HIRED CONSCRIPTS ALONG THE WAY GEN (5*) VESPASIAN WENT BACK TO ROME DUE

TO DEATH OF NERO … WITH MUCH OF HIS ROMAN ARMY AFTER DEFEATING TOWNS OF JUDAH

LEFT HIS SON, TITUS, TO DEFEAT JERUSALUM

5TH, 10TH, AND 15TH LEGIONS WERE ARABS

MOST HISTORIANS FEEL FROM JOSEPHUS RECORD, GREATEST AMOUNT OF CONQUERS WERE ASSYRIANS (ARABS)

JOSEPHUS RECORDS THAT THE ARABS SLICED UP THE JEWS TO SEE IF THEY HAD SWALLOWED ANY JEWELRY … KILLED 2000 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN… BEFORE TITUS COULD STOP THEM

RECORD STATE THAT TITUS ORDERED HIS GENERALS TO PUT OUT THE FIRE OF THE TEMPLE… BUT THE ARABS WERE NOT ABOUT TO OBEY/WERE OUT OF CONTROL

SO WHO ARE THE “PEOPLE THAT DESTROYED JERUSALEM” IN 70 AD?

PROBABLY 95% OF EVANGELICALS SAY ROMANS … thus the “Prince to come” will come from the Roman Empire.

PROBABLY 4% OF EVANGELICALS SAY ARABS THUS THE “Prince to come” will come from the Arab

EmpireTHAT LEAVES 1%... So what does this position

indicate?

CONUNDRUM

DOES DANIEL 9:26 APPLY TO 70 AD? DANIEL , ZECHARIAH, JESUS AND JOHN

(REVELATION) TALK ABOUT JERUSALEM BEING DESTROYED

JOHN WROTE REVELATION IN APPROXIMATELY 96 A.D.…. AND HE WROTE IT WAS STILL FUTURE.

SO PERHAPS DANIEL 9:26 DOES NOT APPLY TO 70 A.D.

SO WHO IS GOING TO ATTACK ISRAEL/JERUSALEM?

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS GO TO THE PLAY-BOOK, SCRIPTURE,……. GO TO EZEKIEL and REVELATION FOR THE ANSWER…

IT IS PLAINLY DESCRIBED IN EZEKIEL 38 AND Revelation 17: 9-11

Lets first look quickly at EZEKIEL 38:1-6

SEE DIAGRAM

ANTHROPOLOGY

PUT --- MANY SCHOLARS IDENTIFY AS LIBYA, BUT ALSO ADD ALGERIA, MOROCCO, AND

TUNISIA

CUSH --- SUDAN MAGOG --- COULD INCLUDE THE “STAN’S” THAT BROKE OFF FROM RUSSIA

PERSIA --- IRAN (AND IN BIBLE TIMES INCLUDED AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN)

WHAT DO THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON?

ALL MUSLIM NATIONS

INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS

REV 20: 4 “… AND I SAW THOSE WHO HAD BEEN BEHEADED FOR THEIR WITNESS TO JESUS (DURING THE TRIBULATION)…” SURAH 47:4 “When ye encounter the infidels, strike

off their heads.”

JOHN 16:1-4 (Jesus telling disciples) “YOU WILL BE HATED BY ALL NATIONS…AND ANYONE WHO KILLS YOU WILL THINK HE IS OFFERING A SERVICE TO GOD.” QUR”AN ON KILLING INFIDELS: SURAH 9.5

MORE INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS

DAN 7:25 “HE WILL CHANGE THE SET TIMES AND LAWS” KORAN REQUIRES USE OF THE ISLAMIC

CALENDAR

• HADITH INDICATES JESUS WILL RETURN (AT DAMASCUS) AND BE THE MAHDI’S (WE KNOW AS THE ANTICHRIST) ASSISTANT WITH THE PURPOSE TO KILL ALL THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS

NOW LETS SEE IF REVELATION 17: 9-11 SUPPORTS THIS INTERPRETATION?

“THIS CALLS FOR A MIND WITH WISDOM: THE SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS ON WHICH THE WOMAN IS SEATED; THEY ARE ALSO SEVEN KINGS (EMPIRES), FIVE OF WHOM HAVE FALLEN, ONE IS, THE OTHER HAS NOT YET COME, AND WHEN HE DOES COME HE MUST REMAIN ONLY A LITTLE WHILE. AS FOR THE BEAST THAT WAS AND IS NOT, IT IS AN EIGHTH BUT IT BELONGS TO THE SEVEN, AND IT GOES TO DESTRUCTION.”

EIGHT WORLD EMPIRES BEFORE JESUS RETURNS IN GLORY

EVANGELICAL PROBLEM41

WHO IS THE 7TH EMPIRE?.. IF YOU MAKE THE ANTICHRIST TO COME FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE? --- THEY ARE THE 6TH EMPIRE.

IT CANNOT BE ROME

NOTE

EACH RULED OVER THE MID-EAST AND

JERUSALEM

NOW LETS SEE IF REVELATION 17: 9-11 SUPPORTS THIS INTERPRETATION?

“THIS CALLS FOR A MIND WITH WISDOM: THE SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS ON WHICH THE WOMAN IS SEATED; THEY ARE ALSO SEVEN KINGS, FIVE OF WHOM HAVE FALLEN, ONE IS, THE OTHER HAS NOT YET COME, AND WHEN HE DOES COME HE MUST REMAIN ONLY A LITTLE WHILE. AS FOR THE BEAST THAT WAS AND IS NOT, IT IS AN EIGHTH BUT IT BELONGS TO THE SEVEN, AND IT GOES TO DESTRUCTION.”

SO

BOTH EXEKIEL AND REVELATION ARE IN PERFECT AGREEMENT AS TO THE PEOPLE THAT WILL ATTACK ISRAEL AND ATTEMPT TO DESTROY JERUSALEM … MUSLIMS

ANTI-CHRIST WILL BE A MUSLIM … PROBABLY FROM TURKEY OR ITS SURROUNDING NATIONS

CONCLUSION 1

GOG (ANTI-CHRIST) WILL BE HEAD OF TURKEY AND/OR LEBANON… A MUSLIM … AS ALL THE NATIONS THAT WILL COME AGAINST ISRAEL/JERUSALEM as described in Ezekiel ARE today MUSLIM.

GOD (EZEKIEL 39:16) WILL BRING THESE NATIONS TO ISRAEL FOR JUDGEMENT… AND HE (GOD) WILL WIN

WHEN: PROBABLY AFTER THE RAPTURE BUT BEFORE THE TRIBULATION BEGINS

ALL NATIONS will come to Israel to destroy the Anti-Christ… HOWEVER Jesus returns in the heavens, they WILL ALL turn INSTEAD to fight HIM: GOD WILL JUDGE DURING THIS BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON (END OF TRIBULATION) .. SATAN LOSES .. AGAIN

CONCLUSION 2

GOD ALWAYS KEEPS HIS PROMISESGOD OFTEN MAKES US WAIT (SOMETIMES

4000 YEARS) JESUS WILL PRESENT TO ISRAEL AT THE

BEGINNING OF THE MILLENIUM …. THE LAND … FOREVER

YOU CAN’T IMPROVE ON GOD’S PLANSATAN WILL END UP IN LAKE OF FIRE…

WITH ANTICHRIST AND FALSE PROPHET