Zechariah 14:1-9 ESV
“Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil
taken from you will be divided in your midst.
For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to
battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women
raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people
shall not be cut off from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against
those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet shall
stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the
Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley,
so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half
southward. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of
the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the
earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come,
and all the holy ones with him.
“On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost. 7
And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the Lord, neither day nor
night, but at evening time there shall be light.
“On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem,
half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall
continue in summer as in winter.
“And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that
day the Lord will be one and his name one.”
Biblical Israel Today
In these last days, since Jesus Christ, the Messiah, gave
his life up for us on a cross so that he could free us from our slavery to sin,
Israel is all people who believe in Jesus Christ, whether Jew or Gentile by
birth. For, in Jesus’ death, he destroyed that barrier between Jew and Gentile,
and he made us all one in Christ Jesus, through faith in him.
So, just because people are physical descendants of Abraham,
it does not make them Israel, and it does not make them Abraham’s children. It
is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the
children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. So, we who
believe in Jesus as our Lord are the children of promise.
For, the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed.
Scripture does not say "and to seeds," meaning many people, but
"and to your seed," MEANING ONE PERSON, who is Christ. So, in Christ
Jesus we are all children of God through faith. We are all one in Christ Jesus.
If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to
the promise.
Physical Jerusalem is no longer the Holy City, either, for
it is of Hagar, the slave woman, because she is still in slavery with her
children. So, the Jews who reject Jesus Christ as their Messiah are no different
than the Arabs who don’t believe in Jesus Christ. But the Jerusalem that is
from above is free, and she is our mother. So, we who believe in Jesus are the
Holy City.
And, who do Scriptures say are the children of promise?
Those who believe in Jesus. And, who are the persecutors of the children of
promise? It says it is the Jews who reject Jesus Christ, and it is the Gentiles
who reject Jesus Christ. For, they are of the slave woman, not of the free
woman, so they will not share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son, who
is Jesus Christ, the promised seed of Abraham, through whom all nations will be
blessed.
[Rom. 9:6-8; Gal. 3:10, 16, 26-29; Gal. 4:22-31; Eph.
2:14-18; 1 Jn. 2:22]
Against Jerusalem
So, in these last days, the battle is not against physical
Jerusalem. The Jews are NOT the persecuted ones! Satan is not against the
physical nation of Israel nor is he against the physical city of Jerusalem, for
they are of Hagar, the slave woman, for they are still in slavery to sin. And,
Scripture says this:
“Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the
Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.” ~ 1
Jn. 2:22
So, this is saying that any Jew or Gentile who denies that
Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, is the antichrist, for they deny both the
Father and the Son. And, this means, too, that any Jew, who rejects Jesus
Christ as the Messiah, does not believe in or worship the one true God –
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. So, unbelieving Jews are not the children of God.
So, this judgment is not against the unbelieving world, but
it is a judgment against God’s people who today are those who profess faith in
Jesus Christ. And, he is judging his people, the church, because of her
idolatry, her false prophets and false teachings, and because of her adulteries
and impurities.
And, the purpose of this judgment is that the Lord might
refine his adulterous ones in a furnace of affliction to test them like gold,
so that they will call on him as their only God, and so he will answer them and
say, “They are my people,” to which they will respond, “The Lord is our God.”
Amen!
And, I believe that the worldly and adulterous church here
in America is undergoing such a judgment of God right now via all the upheaval
that is presently going on in our nation. And, I believe that the Lord is
indeed bringing the nations, i.e. the New World Order against the American
church.
But, I also believe that the adulterous church, who
unequally yoked together with the government and with the unbelieving world,
and who turned the church into a marketplace, and who put another head over the
church other than Jesus Christ, helped pave the way for the entry of the
nations to come into our country to take it down, and to overtake it.
Against the Nations
The interesting thing about this is that the USA is part of
those nations which are coming against America and the church in America to
destroy her. So, this is an “inside job.” So, this also means that our leaders
have betrayed the people by turning us over to the enemy to destroy us. And, I believe
this will become even more clear as time progresses.
And, what this means, too, is that much of what we are
presently seeing take place within our nation is orchestrated by our leaders who
are underhandedly taking us down while performing as though they care about us
and that they are working for our good.
So, when God then turns against the nations who he used to judge
his adulterous church, that means he will turn against the USA, as a nation, too,
because of their part in coming against his people, his saints. For everyone
who is of this beast who God is using to judge his adulterous church, he will
then visit one day in judgment, too.
The Lord Will Be King
I believe it will be at this time that the Lord will then
gather together his holy ones and to set up his millennial reign on the earth,
though I admit that my understanding of all of that is not complete.
But what I do know is that there is a day coming when Jesus
will return for us, his holy ones, i.e. the ones who died with him to sin that
they might live to him and to his righteousness, by God’s grace, through faith in
Jesus. And, we will all be together with him for eternity. And, he will wipe away
all the tears from our eyes. Sorrow and pain will be no more. No evil shall exist.
No one who practices evil will be taken to be with the Lord, either.
And, Jesus will be King over the whole earth. And, his name alone
will be named as God and as Lord, for there will be ONLY ONE LORD – Father, Son
and Holy Spirit. For, no other gods will exist, and no other gods will be
worshiped other than the one true and only God, our Savior and Lord.
I
Will Lift My Eyes
An
Original Work / December 12, 2012
Based
off Psalms 121-125
I will lift my eyes to my Lord Most High.
My help comes from Him, who saved me from sin.
He will not let your foot slip, and He who watches will not
sleep.
Our Lord watches over you, and your life He will keep.
I will lift my eyes to my Lord Most High.
My help comes from Him, who saved me from sin.
I give thanks to Him.
I will lift my eyes to my God in heav’n.
I look to the Lord. My sins, He’s forgiv’n.
Because of His great love for us, He made us alive with
Christ.
Through the kindness of our Savior, He gave us new life.
I will lift my eyes to my God in heav’n.
I look to the Lord. My sins, He’s forgiv’n;
My home, now in heav’n.
Praise be to the Lord, who is on our side.
Our help found in Him. He gives peace within.
Those who trust will ne’er be shaken. God will supply all we
need.
Our Lord has done great things for us. He’s our friend,
indeed!
Praise be to the Lord, who is on our side.
Our help found in Him. He gives peace within.
I can count on Him.
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