PROPHETIC HIGHLIGHTS
By
Doug Krieger
Part 1
I receive numerous e-mails and calls to highlight most of what we consider to be the more salient prophetic issues of our time—especially those leading up to the actual Second Coming of Christ (Acts 1:11; Revelation 19:11-16; 11:15-18).
On occasion some think it imperative for me to be seen in public announcing these prophetic platitudes in as concise a fashion (which is improbable for me) as possible. Thanks to the miracle of Microsoft, I designed a PowerPoint Presentation of the prophetic highlights which you see hereunder with added transition to make sense of the slides—what you shall witness is a hybrid of PowerPoint and Word all wrapped within the panoply of eschatological imperatives which we deem the core of announcements leading up to the Parousia, the coming of the Lord in glory, and the manifestation of His Millennial Reign on this earth.
THE PROPHETIC POTLUCK SERIES - #2
PRESENTED AT THE HOME OF PASTOR DOUG SHEARER
OCTOBER 7, 2007 – Doug Krieger @ THE TRIBULATION NETWORK
“SIGNS OF THE TIMES”
(Matt.
16:3)
“THE TIME OF THE END”
(Dan.
12:4)
“IN THE LAST DAYS PERILOUS TIMES WILL COME”
(II
Tim. 3:1)
The terms and phrases relating to the final days of human government – of what is known as THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES (Luke 21:24; Rev. 11:2), wherein “Gentile World Powers” hold sway over the earth, over the Beautiful Land (Israel), are referred to as the “Last Days” in which “Perilous Times Will Come” – these days are the END OF DAYS, the “Time of the End.”
These “days” – although commencing from the times of the apostles who declared, “. . . has in these last days spoken to us by His Son . . . .” (Hebrews 1:2) must be considered from Peter’s perspective:
“But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (II Peter 3:8).
Indeed, let it be understood that Israel’s rebirth mirrors the “days” (two thousand) wherein it is said of their dispersion and ultimate ingathering from among the nations to their ancient homeland, and their final resurrection when Messiah shall restore them to their original covenantal destiny:
“Come, and let us return to the Lord; for He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight. Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord, His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, like the latter and former rain to the earth” (Hosea 6:1-3).
This prophetic disclosure astounds! On the THIRD DAY Christ arose from the dead (Matthew 17:23; 20:19; Mark 9:3; 10:34; Luke 9:22; 13:32; 18:33; 24:7, 46; Acts 10:40; I Cor. 15:4) —even so, on the third day the Millennial Reign of Christ will encompass the earth as that Sabbath Day – the Seventh Day – of rest, and so will be fulfilled the words of the Apostle Paul when speaking, I affirm, of Israel’s third day:
“For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but LIFE FROM THE DEAD?” (Romans 11:15)
As Jesus, according to this sign: “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40) . . . even so, He Who is the Resurrection and the Life shall quicken our mortal bodies on that day and on that day shall be fulfilled the words of the prophet Zechariah:
“In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness . . . and in that day it shall be that living waters shall flow from Jerusalem . . . and the Lord shall be King over all the earth” (Zechariah 13:1; 14:8a, 9a).
Therefore, we audaciously declare: The same Jesus Who was raised from the dead on the third day by the Spirit of Life (Romans 8:11) – yes, raised by the Father (Rom. 10:9, I Cor. 6:14; 15:15; II Cor. 4:14; Gal. 1:1; Eph. 1:20; Col. 2:12; I Thess. 1:10; I Pet. 1:21) – is the same One – through the “power of an endless Life” (Hebrews 7:16) – Who shall yet raised up Israel on the Third Day – hence, His resurrection shall mirror Israel’s!
These are the ultimate days – the ultimate DAY – the consummation of the age – toward which we press, awaiting the Day of the Lord as it rapidly approaches.
Here are the 10 PROPHETIC HIGHLIGHTS which await our consideration and ultimate consecration and commitment to our Lord:
THE END OF DAYS
n THE PROPHETIC IMPERATIVE
n HUMAN and EARTHLY CONDITIONS
n RELIGIOUS BABYLON – THE GREAT APOSTASY – THE FALSE PROPHET
n COMMERCIAL BABYLON–THE KING OF TYRE
n POLITICAL-CIVIL BABYLON – THE ANTICHRIST-BEAST & BEAST NATION
n THE RISE OF PROPHETIC ISRAEL
n THE THREE END-TIME’S WARS –
THE ORACLE OF DAMASCUS
GOG-MAGOG
ARMAGEDDON
n THE RISE OF THE TWO WITNESSES –
n THE END-TIME REVIVALS
n THE PROPHETIC RESPONSE
Let us at once consider:
1. THE PROPHETIC IMPERATIVE
The following Scriptures focus the believer upon the mandatory importance, the prophetic fulfillment, wherein believers by their study and consequent blessing thereof, shall be riveted, in the time of the end, upon the prophetic Scriptures, as they anxiously determine the purposes of God as revealed by His prophets. To speak condescendingly of such diligent study is anathema to the injunction of the Spirit of God—to the contrary, knowledge of God’s purposes, as revealed through the prophetic Scriptures, shall INCREASE and BECOME GREAT at the “time of the end.” (Please see: DESPISE NOT PROPHECIES on the Tribulation Network).
Daniel 12:4 – (Amplified) - But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the Book until the time of the end. [Then] many shall run to and fro and search anxiously [through the Book], and knowledge [of God's purposes as revealed by His prophets] shall be increased and become great.
I Pet. 1:10-12; I Thess. 5:1-2; Matt. 16:1-3; Rev. 1:3; Rev. 22:6-7;
II Pet. 1:16-21; I Thess. 5:20; II Tim. 4:8; Acts 1:11 – “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”
AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH – SO SHALL IT BE IN THE DAYS OF THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN
2. HUMAN & WORLD CONDITIONS – AT THE END OF DAYS
Ø Worldly Cares and Indifference – Luke 17:22-36
Ø As in the days of Noah – Corruption, violence,
debauchery, unbridled wickedness – “thoughts
of his heart was only evil continually” Gen. 6:5
Ø Antichrists and False Prophets – Luke 21:8;
Matt. 24:4-5; Matt. 24:23-28 and 24:30-31
Ø Wars and Rumors of Wars – Luke 21:9-10; Matt. 24:6-7
Ø Peace and Safety – then destruction – I Thess. 5:3
Ø Earthquakes & Roaring of Waves – Lu. 21:11; Matt. 24:7
Ø Famines and Pestilences – Luke 21:11; Matt. 24:7
Ø Cosmic Signs in the Heavens – Luke 21:11; 21:25;
Ø Persecution and Testimony–Luke 21:12-19; Matt. 24:9-10
Ø Jerusalem Trampled by Gentiles Until…Luke 21:24
Ø Lawlessness abounds – Matt. 24:12a
Ø Lukewarm conditions – Matt. 24:12b; Rev. 3:16
Ø Egocentric – Lovers of self – II Tim. 3:2-5a, 7
Ø Scoffers – Where is His Coming? – II Peter 3:5-7
Ø Lovers of Money, Boasters, Proud, Blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power . . . always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth –
THE RISE OF BABYLON THE GREAT
Perhaps the most dramatic prophetic encounter of the New Testament is the apocalyptic unveiling of the final expression of Gentile World Power as embodied in civilization’s march to its dramatic and awful fullness: BABYLON THE GREAT.
John ensconces that Great City – in a final and hideous graphic – a Woman who rides the Seven-Headed/Crowned-Ten-Horned Beast from the Abyss who turns on the Apostate Woman, devours her as the dogs who ate her prototype, Jezebel – but whose mysterious commercial empire and city is BURNED – and who infernal leadership faces the Wrath of the Lamb wherein this Mystery’s leadership: Beast and False Prophet, along with their idolatrous Image endure the Wrath of the Lamb, the Wrath of God.
BABYLON THE GREAT IS TRI-PARTITE
Revelation 16:17-19 – “IT IS DONE!” – “And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a GREAT EARTHQUAKE, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on earth – now THE GREAT CITY WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS, and the cities of the nations fell. And GREAT BABYLON was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath” (See Rev. 6:12 – Sixth Seal-Great Earthquake; Rev. 8:5; Rev. 11:13 & 19.)
The summary of her judgment is distinctly unfolded in order of the Almighty’s disgust:
Judgment of Religious Babylon – Revelation 17
Judgment of Commercial Babylon – Revelation 18
Judgment of Political-Civil Babylon – Revelation 19
3. THE GREAT APOSTASY – THE WOMAN RIDES THE BEAST–THE RISE OF RELIGIOUS BABYLON
II Thess. 2:3 – “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away (APOSTASIA) comes first . . .”
I Tim. 4:1-3 – “Now the spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.”
Revelation 17 – Entire Chapter – Merging Religion with Commerce & Politics! Apostasy is that flagrant, insipid, nauseating putridity which mixes militant religion with the state, amalgamated in marriage through the vows of commercial gain and exploitation; in sum:
THE CROSS, THE CROWN, AND THE COFFER
Let us now turn to religion’s temptation and adultery – wherein the Revelation declares her: MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH – for she “graces” the Beast, and his outrageous expression of Gentile World Powers, commenced upon the Plains of Shinar in ancient Babylonia, only to survive and ascend from the abyss in the Latter Days.
Her accomplice, her PARTNER IN CRIME, is only to oblige to use her MORAL COVERING for his nefarious pursuits to enrich himself – and herself – through this awful and mutually destruction arrangement of connivance.
4.
POLITICAL-CIVIL BABYLON – THE RISE OF ANTICHRIST
and THE BEAST NATION
THE ANTICHRIST-BEAST
Antichrist is a final end-times PERSON – with many “Antichrists gone out into the World” already.
Antichrist is not a Jew, the Pope, Islam, a New-Age Joke nor are his origins Euro-Centric – he heads up that BEAST NATION, the acme of Gentile World Power as seen in Revelation 17-19 – POLITICAL BABYLON – His TITLES are manifold –
Please See: REFLECTIONS ON THE ANTICHRIST
TITLES OF ANTICHRIST
Antichrist – I John 2:22; Man of Sin & Son of Perdition – II Thess. 2:3; Lawless One – II Thess. 2:8-9; The Beast – Rev. 11:7; Bloody and Deceitful Man-Psalm 5:6; Wicked One – II Thess. 2:8; Man of the Earth – Psalm 10:18; Mighty Man – Psalm 52:1; The Enemy – Psalm 55:3; Adversary – Psalm 74:8-10; Head over Many Countries – Psalm 110:6; Violent Man – Psalm 140:1; Assyrian – Isa. 10:5, 12; King of Babylon – Isa. 14:4; Son of the Morning – Isa. 14:12; Abominable Branch – Isa. 14:19; Spoiler – Isa. 16:4; The Nail – Isa. 22:25; Branch of the Terrible Ones – Ezk. 21:25-27; King of Tyre – Ezk. 28:12; Little or Younger Horn – Daniel 7:8; Coming Prince and Prince of the Covenant – Dan 9:26, 11; Vile Person - Dan 11:21; Willful King – Dan. 11:36; Idol Shepherd – Zech. 11:16-17; Angel of the Bottomless Pit – Rev. 9:11
THE SECOND BEAST
THE FALSE PROPHET – LEADS IN THE WORSHIP OF THE BEAST AND THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST
The items listed above reveal the full nature of this most cruel and inhuman figure, as well as his economic, military and religious empire and quest for total hegemony; indeed, it is not sufficient to surmise that the bodies, souls and the ultimate desecration of the human spirit befits his Satanic disposition, for he will be the full embodiment of that Morning Star, Son of the Morning, the Day Star, whose “tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth” (Revelation 12:4). Yes, the same one of whom it is said:
“And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any long; so the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him” (Revelation 12:7-10).
His casting out demands his “rising as the Beast from the abyss” (Revelation 11:7) and his immediate persecution of the Two Witnesses (Revelation 11:7), whose presence evokes this warning: “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time” (Revelation 12:12), for “when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child” (Revelation 12:13) – and though the Woman is helped by the earth, for “the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth” – this, nevertheless, provides his outrage: “And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God (Israel) and have the testimony of Jesus (the Church)” (Revelation 12:17).