Prophecy pundits say Trump’s troop withdrawal leads to Armageddon
I’ve been listening to an interview that Brannon Howse had with pastor and author Andy Woods about his book The Middle East Meltdown. He, like so many prophecy writers today, believes Ezekiel 38 and 39 are about modern-day Russia and nations surrounding Israel in a war that will lead to the deaths of billions of people. For Howse and Woods, war is prophetically inevitable. Peace is impossible.
This means that when Pres. Trump calls for the end of the US’s involvement in foreign wars, prophecy writers see it as evidence that the apocalypse is near.
For decades, portraying Russia as the end-time bad guy has been popular. For example, Glenn Beck brought up the Ezekiel 38–39 “Gog and Magog” prophecy a few years ago. Beck has formulated his views on the Ezekiel prophecy based on Joel Rosenberg’s book Epicenter (2006) and novel The Ezekiel Option (2005) and interviews he’s had with him. In The Ezekiel Option, Rosenberg writes:
The journey that follows is fiction.
The prophecy upon which it is based is true.
The cryptic vision of a Hebrew scribe—writing twenty-five centuries ago—foretold one of the most horrific periods in the future of mankind.
Yet even today it remains one of man’s great unsolved mysteries.
Its central premise was once discussed in a speech before the U.S. Congress, and was believed to be both true and increasingly close at hand by one of America’s greatest presidents.
That president was Ronald Reagan. Like Beck, President Reagan was relying on very bad prophetic “intelligence.” There was nothing intelligent about it.
Rosh is not Russia
Like Rosenberg, Andy Woods argues that the Ezekiel prophecy is about Russia and Iran and other current Middle East players. But there is no mention of either Russia or Iran in Ezekiel 38 and 39. Finding Russia there is based in part on the use of the Hebrew word rosh (ראש). Rosh does not refer to Russia. Rosh means “head.” The first word in Genesis 1:1, for example, includes the word rosh (בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית): “In the beginning. . . .” At the “head” of time.
The following is a list of Hebrew words where the word rosh is used.
Benjamin Netanyahu is the “head” (ראש) or Prime Minister of the Israeli government as the podium shows:
The reading of Ezekiel 38:2 should be read as “the chief (rosh) prince of Meshech and Tubal” (38:2; 39:1) and not the “prince of Rosh,” that is, the ruler of modern-day Russia. Charles Ryrie, author of the Ryrie Study Bible, acknowledges that rosh is not a proper name: “The prince of Rosh is better translated as ‘the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.’” Ryrie, like Woods, was a dispensationalist, but he knew his Hebrew better than Woods.
Woods appeals to the Hebrew lexicographer Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842), but does not interact with other Hebrew scholars who disagreed with him in his day. I interact with Gesenius’ arguments in my book The Gog and Magog End-Time Alliance.
The modern-Hebrew spelling of “Russia” (reading from right to left) looks nothing like the Hebrew word rosh. The only common Hebrew letter is resh (r).
Daniel I. Block translates Ezekiel 38:3, “[Son of Man], set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince, chief of Meshech and Tubal.” Here is Block’s explanation:
[Rosh] is therefore best understood as a common noun, appositional to and offering a closer definition of [the Hebrew word] nasi [translated as “prince”]. Accordingly, the prince, chief of Meshech and Tubal, combines Ezekiel’s preferred title for kings with a hierarchical designation, the addition serving to clarify the preceding archaic term.
Primitive battle in modern times?
Then there’s the problem with the weapons used in this supposed end-time war with Israel. They are ancient weapons: bows and arrows, spears, clubs, shields (Ezek. 39:9) and chariots (39:20). The claim is often made that God was revealing modern-day weaponry in terms that Ezekiel and the people of his day could understand. Bows and arrows are said to be missiles and rocket launchers. Horses are “horsepower.” Chariots are tanks. All of this from interpreters who claim to interpret the Bible literally.
Howse and Wood insist on interpreting prophecy literally, and much of it should be interpreted literally, but in numerous cases in Ezekiel 38 and 39 where that principle should clearly apply, they do not interpret the prophecy literally.
Hal Lindsey, author of The Late Great Planet Earth (1970), is well known for his claim that the locusts of Revelation 9:1–12 could be Vietnam-era “cobra helicopters.” He writes:
I have a Christian friend who was a Green Beret in Viet Nam. When he first read this chapter he said, ‘I know what those are. I’ve seen hundreds of them in Viet Nam. They’re Cobra helicopters! That may be conjecture, but it does give you something to think about! A Cobra helicopter does fit the sound of “many chariots.” My friend believes that the means of torment will be a kind of nerve gas sprayed from its tail.
The way the so-called literalists like Lindsey, Rosenberg, and Woods interpret the prophecy confuses everyone—the people in Ezekiel’s day and our day.
The missing spoils of war
Andy Woods quotes Ezekiel 38:13:
Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you, “Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?”
He claims this passage refers to modern-day Israel, and yet he never mentions these specific commodities in his interview with Howse. But the Bible does. The following is a description of the spoils the Israelites brought back from their period of captivity among the Babylonians and Medes and Persians:
Every survivor, at whatever place he may live, let the men of that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, together with a freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem (Ezra 1:4).
Tear down those walls!
Notice that the Ezekiel prophecy describes a time when the people were living in “unwalled villages” (Ezek. 38:11). Today, Israel is a nation of walls. In the book of Esther, we see that there were Jews who were living in relative peace in “unwalled towns” (Esther 9:19, KJV) when Haman conspired against them. The same Hebrew word perazah is used in Esther 9:19 and Ezekiel 38:11. It’s unfortunate that the translators of the New American Standard Version translate perazah as “rural towns” in Esther 9:19 instead of “unwalled villages” as they do in Ezekiel 38:11. It’s the same word!
It’s obvious that Ezekiel is describing a future battle that was in Israel’s near future about 2500 years ago. The most likely fulfillment are the events surrounding the book of Esther.
“One late manuscript to Esther 3:1 and 9:24 refers to Haman as a ‘Gogite.’” Haman wanted to “destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus” (Esther 3:6), but failed in the attempt.
The end-time in Ezekiel 38–39 is not a reference to our day, but the time God judged Israel’s enemies. Haman (Esther 7) and his sons (9:10) were executed and the Jews rebuilt the temple and were reestablished as God’s covenant people. The New Testament does not say anything about a rebuilt temple or a future holocaust of the Jews, something Andy Woods and other dispensationalists believe and teach (Zech. 13:7-9). For a thorough study of this topic, see my book The Gog and Magog End-Time Alliance.
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Repenting churches of saints the abolished works you do counts against you (your not a vessel of mercy by faith alone )
Men & churches only teach what they believe or what they were sin flesh works faith training taught somewhere
they will sell you all the religion and doctrine you will swallow,get their paycheck ,vacations ,house car,travel for holy conferences
their sin law bondage preaching faith without works are dead- Jesus overcame this by blood power of His rapture 1st judgement cross
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight:
for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth,nor of him that runneth,but of God that sheweth mercy.
Paul said,
“By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves;it is the gift of God;not of works,
lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8-9).
Romans 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,being made a curse for us:
for it is written,Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
You can write down the very minute your spirit was raptured into Christ & Father & Son & Temple
holy Ghost put in you
Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into
the kingdom of his dear Son:
We take our by mercy by faith by faith alone John 10 faith to the grave The waiting for the
dead body & those alive at the last trump is hardest part,that concluded Jesus raptured
1st judgment rapture of Romans 11:29 ALL of creation & us groans until the rapture the
adoption by both Father & Son ends (we judge the martyrs) the earth & heavens burnt up
(everything is re-installed ) then we come back to war & judge & rebuild as saviors Obadiah 21
Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body,that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body,
according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Just a few rapture notes 1 of many: exposing no Daniel 9 bloody headed curse of the repenting saints ^ in the grave or alive- book of Revelation poured in your grave & those alive [ungodly & repenters wife #1 ] that miss the rapture remain for last 7 years of tribulation no God’s wrath,no God’s great wrath,no satan’s great wrath rapture mysteries
their Lord as well as ours
1 Corinthians 15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
The Preacher,unvailes the seed of Promise king David’s rapture house house of by faith alone.King David preaching 1st judgment rewards only of the good saints of mercy by faith alone(next 2nd judgment of the wicked ungodly & repenters Matthew 25 10 repenting born again virgins the wicked
ungodly @ Matthew 25 (10 repenting virgins born again workers of iniquity sheep/goats )1st & 2nd judgment
Job 31:3Is not destruction to the wicked?and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Ecclesiastes 9:2-4 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
NON repenters preaching rapture blood faith power of his cross faith salvation to terrestrial unbeliever repenters- born again }}}
celestial- born from above quickened spirit Acts 15 Gentile rapture bride Rapture vessels of mercy, vessels of honor {premade before the earth then heavens were} preach rapture faith to save the Hebrews 6:1-8 fiery thorns tares fallen repenting saints you need to be saved from drinking the dregs of the 1st and 2nd cup of wrath
Matthew 25 [10 repenting sin loving virgins sheep & goats ] ungodly & sin loving repenters born again vessels of dishonor miss 1st judgment
rapture of blood power faith of Christ cross rewards only given only to pre-made congregation of the righteous believers.
Divorced repenting ungodly & repenting born again sin loving sinners workers of iniquity wife #1 Matthew 25-1-2 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
1 Corinthians 1 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
1 From: Sha’ul, called by God’s will to be an emissary of the Messiah Yeshua; and from brother Sosthenes
2 To: God’s Messianic community in Corinth, consisting of those who have been set apart by Yeshua the Messiah and called to
be God’s holy people — along with everyone everywhere who calls on the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, their Lord as well as ours:
Wife #2
2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Psalm 1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Psalm 75:8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Isaiah 51:22 Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
Romans 9:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Matthew 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Galatians 2:7-8 King James Version (KJV)
7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
1st the rapture then we come back for war after the last 7 years of tribulation & wrath only judgment we come back to war/judge & war/rebuild for 1,000 years
Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
(there are 2 cups of wrath 1st cup = ungodly & sin loving repenters that never go in the rapture [in the grave or alive]drink the dregs of the 1st cup of wrath- book of revelation poured out on your bloody head Daniel 9 .]
(there are 2 Gog and Magog wars – both of theses are after the last 7 years of tribulation & wrath only judgment divorced Wife #1 consist of ungodly @ the Matthew 25 [10 repenting virgins goats /sheep ] bloody headed cursed Christ divorced his wife #1 all ungodly & repenters must pay this price they missed the rapture (the 1st judgment.)
Next at the 2nd coming the 2nd judgment of wrath only ungodly are not judged BUT drink the dregs of 2nd cup of wrath ^ 2nd death @ the judged Matthew 25 [10 repenting virgins goats /some sheep are saved all others drink 2nd cup of wrath 2nd death
Ezekiel 38–39 “Gog and Magog” prophecy
Obadiah King James Version (KJV)
1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.
2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
8 Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
15 For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it.
19 And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
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Hosea 6:1-6 Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten,
and he will bind us up.
2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning;
and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a
morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy
judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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Philip3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that
which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Jer 33 Jesus & His Acts 15 Gentile nation rapture bride come back to judge as saviors & to save
the 2 families Israel & Judah
Romans 10:19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith,I will provoke you to jealousy
by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Romans 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through
their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Job 11:6 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is!
Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Isaiah 40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished,
that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
Jeremiah 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they
have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable
and abominable things.
Ezekiel 7:Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,2 Also, thou son of man,
thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according
to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. …
the new washed 2nd Spirit of Father given to 1st risen rapture Spirit Christ & His bride/His body/His
church of 1st born 1st fruits NEW congregation of the righteous highest priesthood-judges & counsellors
& saviors say to Jews & 4 gospels Come! Be more perfect righteous by faith alone
wife #2 Acts 15 Gentile rapture bride we try to save ungodly & Matthew 25 sheep /goats repenting born again saints wife #1, to get them into the rapture house of king David.
Wife #1 ungodly & Matthew 25 10 repenting virgins saints they can’t get out of the grave for last trump must drink 1st cup of dregs last 7 years of tribulation & wrath
await the 2nd coming 2nd judgment most have to drink 2nd cup of dregs some of the Matthew 25 sheep/goats can be saved made whitestones of eternal shame
Father ^ never repents ^ rebukes a repenter refuses to make them a son of God; makes Jesus (the only one propeation that can repent for you )make them a son,
you only 1 promise
Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave;I will redeem them from death:
O death,I will be thy plagues;O grave,I will be thy destruction:repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come.
And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
webpqk@gmail com Randy Lewis
Royal law,love thy neighbor,i teach all 66 spirit rapture
books of the bible to regenerate the children of the light rule the day with Christ/
His congregation of the righteous on Father’s holy mountain & restore both children
that rule the darkness repenting stars & the moon that is Levies tied to forehead
of Aaron eternal priesthood
John 5:21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead,and quickeneth them;even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Just ask, the Acts 15 wife #2 Gentile rapture bride church of 1st born ministers of church of Christ
we have a hidden gospel of rapture salvation and so many mysteries to unveil
1 Corinthians 10:32 Give none offence,neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles,nor to the church of God:
1 Corinthians 15:36 Thou fool,that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: