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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?”
One day soon, the Kingdom of the Babe born over 2,000 years ago as foretold in Bethlehem, Israel will be the only one on earth left standing (Psalm 47; Micah 5:2-5). I joyfully explore this prophetic truth in this edited 2013 blog repost. Merry Christmas indeed for those that are waiting for Christ to come again as it is written in God’s Word of truth (Psalm 119:41-44; Hebrews 10:37-38)!
Originally Posted June 9, 2013
Flying up through the clouds “to meet the Lord in the air” is not only our first exciting experience as immortals in new spiritual bodies (1 Thessalonians 4:17, NKJV), but the event also serves to glorify us before and remove us from the world that is about to endure the full outpouring of God’s wrath brought immediately thereafter by Christ and finished at Armageddon (Revelation 6:12-17, 14:14-16, 16:12-21, 19:11-16). From our vantage point in the sky, we will watch the cataclysmic convulsions and upheaval of the earth that destroys all of its cities except Jerusalem; bringing forth new mountains where there were valleys and valleys where there are now mountains (Isaiah 40:3-5).
Then the Lord will give the command sending forth His angelic armies to battle at Armageddon thoroughly defeating the evil, immortal pretender to His world throne and Satan along with their armies (Revelation 14:17-20, 19:17-21). So, what is next? We would have no idea if it were not for the revelation of God through Israel’s prophets, our Lord Jesus Christ and His apostles written in Scripture. According to the prophet Zechariah, at the end of that first day of the Lord, Christ will stand victorious on “the Mount of Olives” in Jerusalem ready to fulfill all that has been foretold concerning His Kingdom reign and work of restoration (Zechariah 14:1-11, NKJV).
With us as His co-laborers, the curse of sin and death will be lifted from the earth and the universe which is the major reason the physical creation is waiting for the liberation of God’s eternal sons first from the same curse (Genesis 3:17; Romans 8:19-22). Then the Lord by the Word of His power will begin to restore the earth and all of creation (Isaiah 35:1-2, 49:8, 65:25). Even now, we mortals in Christ are enjoying “the firstfruits of the Spirit” as part of this future creation wide restoration (Romans 8:23, NKJV). And we shall reign with Him on the earth! The eternal sons of God will rule and have supernatural strength like the angels to enforce the Lord’s righteous program as each is assigned (2 Kings 19:35; Psalm 149:5-9; Luke 22:29-30; Revelation 2:26-27, 5:9-10).
Why does God debut His Kingdom on the destructive ashes of His wrath poured out with very few survivors? Why not destroy everything as will be eventually done and bring on the brand new eternal creation right then? The intermediary step of restoring the earth and all creation in the aftermath of God’s wrath at the Second Coming of Christ is about vindication, rewards and promises! The Lord vindicates the suffering of His saints that waited millennia for His overthrow of the earth’s wicked oppressors as well as His righteous Word and wisdom (Psalm 37:7-10; Romans 12:19; 2 Thessalonians 1:3-10).
He also rewards His saints that served Him faithfully during their mortal lives with possession of this present earth liberated from the wicked (Psalm 37:11, Matthew 5:5). Finally, the Lord’s return to and restoration of the earth is tied directly to fulfilling the divine promises made to Israel for the restoration of the nation and kingdom under the rule of the Davidic dynasty which He does as a descendant in the royal line (Matthew 1:1-2:12, 21:1-11, 27:11, 37; Luke 3:23-38). To reject that Christ returns as Israel’s long awaited King-Deliverer to keep God’s promises to restore the nation and the glory of the Davidic kingdom is to willfully reject huge portions of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation including Isaiah 11:10-16, 35:3-10, 44:21-23, 49:1-26, Zechariah 12-13, Acts 1:6-7, 3:11-21, 13:13-41, Romans 9:1-11:36, Revelation 1:7 and 7:1-8.
This is in fact, what a small group of professing Christians called amillennialists do that not only reject God yet has any literal future dealings with ethnic Israel or a reign on earth, but also the express revelation given to the apostle John that presents the time period for the reign of Christ and the saints over Israel and this current earth as “a thousand years,” (Revelation 20:4-6, NKJV). Another group called post-millennialists rejects the literal millennial reign of Christ and His saints preferring instead to believe the present churches will make the world better and the Lord will come after this. Are you kidding me? On both accounts this is what happens when men start outside of and reject God’s Word!
With application to all Scripture but in context, God’s prophetic Word, the apostle Peter writes, “knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit,” (2 Peter 1:20-21, NKJV). Since God does not intend for us to have private interpretations of His prophetic Word that confuse and divide His people (everybody with divergent interpretations cannot be right), all professing believers need to purposely stick with the interpretation the Holy Spirit will give if we start humbly in the Word, not outside of it (1 Corinthians 1:4-10; Ephesians 4:4-6).
Scripture is consistent and unequivocal; God still has plans for His people, the Jews, and our resurrection to immortal glory as eternal sons at Christ’s return are part of them (Jeremiah 3:14-18). And while according to His Word we will spend the first thousand years of our immortality reigning with Christ on this present earth restored, know that our ultimate goal is not Heaven separated from earth, but a new, eternal Heaven on a new earth God will create before our very eyes (Isaiah 65:17-19; 2 Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 21:1-22:7).
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