The Scourge Of Racism
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‘“Comfort, yes, comfort My people!’” says your God. ‘“Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins,’” (Isaiah 40:1-2, NKJV). The glorious Second Coming of Jesus Christ is tied in very important part to the divine promise to deliver and comfort remnant Jews in Israel and scattered over the face of the earth after all of their many centuries of travail at the Lord’s hand for sin (Isaiah 40:3-5, 9-11; Jeremiah 30:10-11). For bound up in the second phase of Christ’s work from the Father is His awesome coming for vengeance and the comfort of His people (Isaiah 61:1-2; Matthew 5:4).
In the soon coming day of Israel’s comfort by the Lord, it will have been thoroughly fulfilled what was first written by Moses that He “will judge His people,” (Deuteronomy 32:36a, NKJV). In lieu of annihilation for transgression, sin and iniquity--as was done to many similarly guilty nations--to include instigating the death of their King (Zephaniah 3:1-7; Matthew 27:11-26), the Lord destroyed Jerusalem and the temple and scattered the people to the four winds in AD 70 as double punishment (Jeremiah 30:12-15; Hosea 3:1-5, 5:8-15). With all of the foretold horrors of suffering that followed, yearning for the land of Zion continued until the Lord in step with His prophetic Word at the turn of the 20th century began to show He was again hearing Israel’s cry (Psalm 44, 74, 79, 80, 106:40-48).
After two world wars, the victorious nations in pity for unspeakable Jewish suffering consented to accept the formal creation of a Jewish State, even Israel on May 14, 1948. Immediately, the new nation was at war and against all odds prevailed in it and the several that have followed (Isaiah 66:5-9). However, scattered Israel’s troubles and sorrows as double punishment from the Lord are not yet over. In the buildup to the time of “Jacob’s trouble” looming large ahead in which out of fear of Him the nations will permit the temple to be rebuilt, God alone will prevail for His people (Jeremiah 30:4-9; Revelation 7:1-8, 8-11:2). When their strength is gone and there is no hope, then my God in compassion shall again act to deliver Israel (Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 46; Jeremiah 30:16-24).
Why does God do this for Israel? Is it not because God is a God of grace and mercy and they are His chosen people that He loves with an everlasting love; gathering them back to Himself in the land of promise (Deuteronomy 7:6-11; Isaiah 41:8-16, 43:1-13, 49:14-21, 51:1-16; Jeremiah 31; Romans 11:1-10)? The Lord will come down from Heaven before every eye to deliver His people, the remnant of Israel and comfort them with grace and forgiveness in all of their mourning especially over what their 1st century forefathers did to Him and their own unbelief (Psalm 18:1-17; Isaiah 51:17-52:10, 66:10-17; Micah 7:14-20; Zechariah 12:10-13:1, 7-9). Immediately, the Lord will also summon the remaining scattered Jews to Him in Israel (Isaiah 11:11-14; Zephaniah 3:8-13).
They will come weeping and singing for joy from the four corners of the earth to which they were scattered with the Lord’s power on display to help them (Isaiah 11:15-16, 35, 49:8-13; Micah 4:1-8). Some will be assisted by surviving Gentiles who also rejoice with them in this latest and last foretold turnabout in one of the greatest love stories in the history of the world; God and Israel, reconciled in and by Christ forever (Isaiah 49:22-26)! When they are all gathered to the Lord in the land, then He shall heal and restore them completely as part of His comfort; giving them “beauty for ashes,” joy in the Holy Spirit for mourning and new clothes of praise (Isaiah 61:3; Zechariah 8:1-8, NKJV)!
The redeemed sons of Jacob shall also set about under the leadership of Christ their King to “rebuild the old ruins,” “raise up the former desolations,” “repair the ruined cities” and enjoy all of the many blessings He shall bestow upon them as they move forward in their divinely ordained eternal comfort (Isaiah 61:4-9; Zephaniah 3:14-20, NKJV). Finally, they will live in the peace and security they have longed for; peace and security only the Almighty God can provide (Jeremiah 23:5-8; Ezekiel 28:24-26, 34:25-31)! They, for their part will overflow with continuing joy in Christ their King and the blessings of righteousness bestowed on them by the Father before all nations (Isaiah 61:10-11; Ezekiel 39:21-29).
Now, in these latter days it is important that faithful Christians stand for support with unredeemed Israel in their ancient land and scattered over the earth in accord with the working of God. Understanding though, that only a tiny, elect, mortal remnant will see Christ come, it is of the greatest importance to facilitate the proclamation of the Gospel to them especially by their own redeemed, messianic brethren so that many will be saved. For indeed, the visible vindication and comfort of the saints composed of multitudes of Jews and Gentiles made righteous in Christ by faith and resurrected to immortal glory at His appearing will coalesce with all of God’s foretold promises of comfort to that surviving, mortal remnant of Israel (Romans 11:11-15)!
Israel is forever the natural branches of the olive tree God planted and He comes to deliver that we Gentiles in certain number He knows are grafted into. To see it any other way is blatant arrogance and damnable heresy (Romans 11:16-29). The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”
David cries out, “Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men,” (Psalm 12:1, NKJV). Being a prophet, David like Micah after him is alarmed as he looks at the future shown to him by the Holy Spirit and sees the increase in the ungodly and decrease of the godly in the world (Micah 7:2a). They see such times as we now have on the earth when the ungodly are being allowed to give full vent to their wicked desires and deeds (Psalm 12:2-4, 8; Micah 7:2b-4). Meanwhile, God’s faithful die through natural means and martyrdom. Isaiah tells us it is to remove them from evil’s face and John to glorify God (Isaiah 57:1-2; John 21:18-19).
As it concerns martyrdom, Daniel and the Lord Jesus Christ speak of the coming globally violent assault of the Antichrist on Jews and Christians (Daniel 7:1-8, 15-25, 8:23-25, 9:20-27, 11:36-45; Matthew 24:15-22; Revelation 11:1-7, 13:1-18). The faithful among American Christians must come to accept that the assumed superiority and divine grace inherit in the invented doctrine of “American Exceptionalism” as perpetual is not factual in the face of God’s prophetic Word! Severe and violent persecution is coming upon the American Christian faithful as it has our brothers and sisters now in many nations around the earth and finally all because our Lord Jesus declares it is.
Far in advance He warns, ‘“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake,’” (Matthew 24:9, NKJV, emphasis mine). Unless therefore, one is calling the Lord a liar, it has been and will be as He has said! The stage is nearly set in our nation for violent persecution to descend like a sudden flood upon us as the ongoing rebellion against God, His Anointed and Word continues escalating. For the godless and apostate haters of Christ and His faithful will not long suffer our peaceful though powerless opposition to their rebellion. It is inevitable that violent persecution will be used as foretold to do away with Christians!
How do you know this? Again, Jesus said so! As well, the written historical evidence of the violent lashing out of evil against real and perceived opponents is legion and certainly includes the Bible where for example, Herod slaughtered children attempting to kill Christ as a rival and the Jewish religious establishment carried out their plan to do so for the same reason by pagan hands (Matthew 2:13-17; Luke 23:13-25). Indeed, the Lord warns us about the murderous treachery of religious church folk as foes (John 16:1-4)! Finally, I was also born during and later witnessed the televised attempt to squash the American Civil Rights Movement with the tactics of violent intimidation and murder.
Christian submission to suffering and death in faith following the example and as the express will of our Lord Jesus Christ is not just because of a confidence in His soon return to stop it and our resurrection from the dead, but also His complete vindication of us. As I write in The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics, it is a distinctive characteristic of aspiring strong men of God in Christ’s image to trust Him for vindication (Isaiah 50:4-10). God’s vindicating justice may take thousands of years as it will finally be for righteous Abel, other Old Testament saints, Christ Himself and many Christian martyrs after Him, but it will come (Psalm 94:1-3; Matthew 23:29-36; Revelation 17:1-6, 18:1-19:4). God’s vindication is thoroughly fulfilled in His holy vengeance (Genesis 4:8-15; Deuteronomy 32:34-43).
From eternity the Most High set a day that He would launch His time of vengeance on the earth. He only quelled the antediluvian rebellion at its high point with the flood of Noah’s day. But the Father initiated His “days of vengeance” (sustained and progressive) beginning with the Jews at the height of their 1st century rebellion foretold first by Moses, then Christ for rejecting and having Him put to death (Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Luke 19:41-44, 20:9-19, 21:20-24, NKJV). Thus, the days of vengeance are in part the Father’s vindication of Christ’s violent martyrdom (He is pre-eminent in all things--Revelation 1:4-5) and began when Rome destroyed Jerusalem and the temple in AD 70.
As the prophet Jeremiah warns, if the days of vengeance began with Israel, their end will include all the inhabitants of the earth (Jeremiah 25:29-33). For the Lord’s vengeance on scattered Israel will peak during the time of the Antichrist and end at the Second Coming of Christ to deliver what will be only a remnant (Isaiah 10:20-22, 11:11-16; Jeremiah 30:1-11, 31:7-11; Revelation 7:1-8). When Jerusalem is again surrounded by armies--those of the Antichrist, Christ the agent of God’s vengeance on the unique “Day of vengeance” (which is also the “Day of the Lord”) will bring it at His return (Isaiah 34:1-8, 42:13-15, 59:16-20, 63:1-6; Joel 3:1-17; Zechariah 14:1-7; Romans 11:25-36; Revelation 15:17-20, 16:12-21, 19:11-21, NKJV)!
Truly, as was the year of God’s favor (now stretching to nearly 2,000 years), so, the Day of His vengeance is in the Lord’s heart as part of the Father’s two phase work for Him as His Anointed (Isaiah 61:1-2). In announcing His first century arrival, the Lord stopped short of declaring the Day of vengeance because He was fulfilling only phase one of His work at that time (Luke 4:16-21). But just as surely as He successfully carried out phase one leading to the cross and this dispensation of grace, He is to carry out phase two without mercy upon the wicked that have harmed the Jews and His righteous ones by faith from all peoples (Psalm 12:5-7, 94:4-23; Isaiah 35:4; 2 Thessalonians 1:3-10)!
In that Day of vengeance, the righteous, peculiar people of God will rejoice in the glorious vindication our Lord brings us because we trusted in Him and willingly suffered in His cause and image (Psalm 58:10-11; Matthew 5:43-48; Romans 12:17-21). For a thousand years of Kingdom joy as perfected, immortal rulers on the earth, we will be entrusted “to execute vengeance on the nations,” (Psalm 149:1-9, Revelation 2:26-27, 20:4-6, NKJV). After this will come a final, insane rebellion against God which He will put down with a complete destruction of the physical creation and by confining rebel angels and men to the lake of fire forever (2 Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 20:7-15)! The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”
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