Nearing Midnight: Prince of Persia Provocation? - Terry James - http://www.raptureready.com/rap16.html
It is staggering to consider. We are at a moment in human history that gives every signal of being the time when the Lord will intervene catastrophically into the sordid, debauched affairs of rebellious mankind.
We chronicle those signals in detail day by day here at Rapture Ready. It takes deliberate obstinacy to deny that this generation fits that which Peter described:
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceiving's while they feast with you; Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray. (2 Peter 2:12-15a)
Seems to me that to societal and cultural descent into end-times-level lasciviousness has just been added a troubling although fascinating, geopolitically profound factor of prophetic significance. I refer to the most recent eruption of turbulence right smack in the center of the region on planet earth where humankind began and where the Bible says things will again be centered at the very end of the Age of Grace. The "cradle of civilization" is sobriquet for Mesopotamia. This area that surrounds the Euphrates-Tigris rivers spawned the world's population in the geographical sense. (Unless one is an evolutionist, of course. But, even many holding this point of view admit that Mesopotamia was the place major civilized enclaves had their genesis.)
That region has been the epicenter, as Joel Rosenberg would call it, of the ongoing battle on earth of good vs evil-God vs Satan. We learn of that ongoing conflict in a major episode, as recorded by Daniel the prophet, who was seeking answers from the Lord about his people, Israel, and what would be their fate.
And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days. (Daniel 10:10-13)
Daniel's angel-visitor had just gone through a titanic battle that required the assistance of the archangel Michael to overcome. An angel of great power called "the Prince of Persia" didn't want God's messenger to get through with the prophetic message. That same powerful angel no doubt has sway over the region we know today as Iran and Iraq, formerly called Persia and Babylon. That prince apparently rules a territory beneath which resides in a holding cell of sorts called "the abyss" evil spiritual entities of enormous significance for the Tribulation period-the last seven years of human history leading up to Christ's Second Advent. We read of these minions that await their time to be loosed upon a judgment-deserving world, I believe, in Revelation chapters 9 and 16.
Presently, the Prince of Persia seems to be stirring Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to mischief that could ignite the whole region in a conflagration of epic proportion.
The leader of the ISIS forces that are murdering and subjecting to Sharia Islamic law all within the territories they take has replaced Osama bin Laden as the most dangerous man in the world, according to the pundits. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was released from Iraq's largest detention camp only to go straight to the camp of the Islamist haters of America and Israel. He now has America and the world in the grip of satanically spawned confusion as to what to do.
His actions show with superb, demonstrative clarity the foolishness of the decision by President Obama to release the five prisoners in exchange for the soldier who deserted his post and was subsequently held by the terrorists of which he wanted to become a part. Soon, they, too, will be leaders of forces bent on destroying America and Israel.
All attention is more and more again turned to that specific geographic area of the world where it all began. The prophet Zechariah foretold that such would be the case at the time just before human history is consummated. Zechariah told that he was given a vision of a cauldron-like container that represented end-times evil on a worldwide scale. He prophesied, saying about the one giving the vision to him:
And he said, this is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven. Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. (Zechariah 5:8-11)
I am of the opinion that we have been watching that end-times base of evil being set in that region God's Word calls "Shinar," particularly since the first Gulf War-Desert Storm.
The Prince of Persia, I think, is provoking the evil within Islam-in concert with all other evil in the world- to push all of mankind toward making a total break with their Creator. Armageddon will be the first result, but, thankfully, the return of Jesus Christ to put an end to the madness will be the ultimate outcome.
It is staggering to consider. We are at a moment in human history that gives every signal of being the time when the Lord will intervene catastrophically into the sordid, debauched affairs of rebellious mankind.
We chronicle those signals in detail day by day here at Rapture Ready. It takes deliberate obstinacy to deny that this generation fits that which Peter described:
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceiving's while they feast with you; Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray. (2 Peter 2:12-15a)
Seems to me that to societal and cultural descent into end-times-level lasciviousness has just been added a troubling although fascinating, geopolitically profound factor of prophetic significance. I refer to the most recent eruption of turbulence right smack in the center of the region on planet earth where humankind began and where the Bible says things will again be centered at the very end of the Age of Grace. The "cradle of civilization" is sobriquet for Mesopotamia. This area that surrounds the Euphrates-Tigris rivers spawned the world's population in the geographical sense. (Unless one is an evolutionist, of course. But, even many holding this point of view admit that Mesopotamia was the place major civilized enclaves had their genesis.)
That region has been the epicenter, as Joel Rosenberg would call it, of the ongoing battle on earth of good vs evil-God vs Satan. We learn of that ongoing conflict in a major episode, as recorded by Daniel the prophet, who was seeking answers from the Lord about his people, Israel, and what would be their fate.
And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days. (Daniel 10:10-13)
Daniel's angel-visitor had just gone through a titanic battle that required the assistance of the archangel Michael to overcome. An angel of great power called "the Prince of Persia" didn't want God's messenger to get through with the prophetic message. That same powerful angel no doubt has sway over the region we know today as Iran and Iraq, formerly called Persia and Babylon. That prince apparently rules a territory beneath which resides in a holding cell of sorts called "the abyss" evil spiritual entities of enormous significance for the Tribulation period-the last seven years of human history leading up to Christ's Second Advent. We read of these minions that await their time to be loosed upon a judgment-deserving world, I believe, in Revelation chapters 9 and 16.
Presently, the Prince of Persia seems to be stirring Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to mischief that could ignite the whole region in a conflagration of epic proportion.
The leader of the ISIS forces that are murdering and subjecting to Sharia Islamic law all within the territories they take has replaced Osama bin Laden as the most dangerous man in the world, according to the pundits. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was released from Iraq's largest detention camp only to go straight to the camp of the Islamist haters of America and Israel. He now has America and the world in the grip of satanically spawned confusion as to what to do.
His actions show with superb, demonstrative clarity the foolishness of the decision by President Obama to release the five prisoners in exchange for the soldier who deserted his post and was subsequently held by the terrorists of which he wanted to become a part. Soon, they, too, will be leaders of forces bent on destroying America and Israel.
All attention is more and more again turned to that specific geographic area of the world where it all began. The prophet Zechariah foretold that such would be the case at the time just before human history is consummated. Zechariah told that he was given a vision of a cauldron-like container that represented end-times evil on a worldwide scale. He prophesied, saying about the one giving the vision to him:
And he said, this is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven. Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. (Zechariah 5:8-11)
I am of the opinion that we have been watching that end-times base of evil being set in that region God's Word calls "Shinar," particularly since the first Gulf War-Desert Storm.
The Prince of Persia, I think, is provoking the evil within Islam-in concert with all other evil in the world- to push all of mankind toward making a total break with their Creator. Armageddon will be the first result, but, thankfully, the return of Jesus Christ to put an end to the madness will be the ultimate outcome.
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