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Sept. 23, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Sermon #057 - Ezekiel Ch 38-39 - The timing and location of Armageddon...
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Welcome to today's sermon.
I'm Mike Adams of Abundance.Church, and today we are taking a detour because of current events.
We are sort of forced to cover Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 because of what's happening in the world right now with Israel and Lebanon and Persia, Iran, other countries, Syria, all heading into an escalatory war.
Interestingly, a war, or horrifyingly, a war that will likely involve the mass bombing of the mountains of southern Lebanon.
Those are the very same mountains that Ezekiel refers to when talking about where the people of Israel will ultimately take refuge one day.
So let me read a little bit of Ezekiel 38, and then I need to correct a misnomer that has persisted in Christian books and the Christian church, which is this utterly false belief that Gog and Magog refer to Russia.
They do not.
There is, in fact, there is no Bible scholar that continues to assert that Gog and Magog refer to Russia.
Gog refers to a leader and Magog is the land of the leader.
In other words, Magog is the land of Gog.
So Gog is a leader and Magog is the land of the leader.
And it does not refer to Russia.
The Russian people did not come from the Scythians that were often—it was a misalliteration, in essence, that led to that belief.
And in fact, the Russians came from the Scandinavians, and it was centuries later that the ethnic ancestors of modern-day Russia were even referred to as Rus.
So, it's got nothing to do with the Old Testament of the Bible or the Prophet Ezekiel and Gog and Magog.
In fact, it is really important to understand what Gog and Magog refer to.
Because when you understand that, you will have a much stronger understanding of what is happening and how it relates to biblical prophecy.
And of course, I'm going to be going to be reading from an important book here.
I'll give you the citation when we get there, but we will be talking about the Etruscans that migrated from modern day Turkey to Rome.
In fact, to, well, parts, I mean, parts of Greece.
So we're going to try to answer the question of, is this war that is being initiated right now in the Middle East, is this the Battle of Armageddon?
We will answer that question as best we can.
Also, who, who is Gog and Magog?
Who does that refer to?
And then where does the battle of Armageddon actually take place?
And at what time period or what other events are necessary for the battle of Armageddon to occur?
So let's, let's read Ezekiel 38, just some of it to get the taste of it.
I'm not going to probably read the whole thing, but verse one, now the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, set your face against Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh Meshach.
and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal.
I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out with all your army horses and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.
So this appears to say that God will go to war against the enemies of Israel who are referred to as Gog and Magog.
Then verse 5, Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet.
So, of course, Persia, referring to Iran, Ethiopia, part of Africa, Libya, North Africa.
You might assume that Egypt becomes part of this as well, although that's not mentioned.
Verse 6, Gomer and all of its troops, the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops, many people are with you.
So it's talking about a multinational attack on Israel.
Now, the reason many people would naturally think that this may be happening right now is because, as I'm recording this, there are bombs being dropped by Israel onto southern Lebanon.
In fact, Some kind of bunker buster mega bomb is one of the things that happened.
And then the Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon is launching numerous rockets and missiles, some which are ballistic missiles, at targets in Israel.
And then at the same time, Iran is talking about joining this war, trying to Troops from Iraq are being called up.
There appears to be a military convoy of vehicles from Yemen.
Yemen is threatening to engage in a land invasion of Israel from the south.
And then troops are being called to station in Syria.
And the government of Lebanon has announced that if Hezbollah is attacked by the IDF, that the standing army of Lebanon will join Hezbollah.
So that's why many people believe that This was prophesied in Ezekiel 38, because so many nations appear to be allied against Israel at this moment.
So, verse 7, prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you, and be a guard for them.
After many days you will be visited.
In the latter years, you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate.
They were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely.
You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.
Thus says the Lord God, this is verse 10, On that day, it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan. - Hmm.
And he appears to be speaking to Israel.
You will say, quote, I will go up against a land of unwalled villages.
I will go to a peaceful people who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor gates to take plunder and to take booty to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations who have acquired livestock and goods who dwell in the midst of the land.
So he's saying that Israel will have an evil thought to essentially plunder the lands around it of otherwise peaceful people.
And many people would look at this and say, well, that appears to be what Israel has done with the West Bank and with Gaza and potentially with southern Lebanon.
So again, this is not a geopolitical sermon, but I'm relating it to current events to help All of us understand what Ezekiel 38 may be saying about this, or at least to understand why people believe that this may be the end of days.
Although, as you'll hear here, I'm not convinced that that's the case.
But hear me out, and of course, make up your own decision.
Verse 13, Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish and all their young lions will say to you, have you come to take plunder?
Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?
Therefore—and this is still the Word of God here, verse 14—therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, thus says the Lord God on that day when my people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it?
Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you.
Again, this is the invasion from the north.
All of them riding on horses.
A great company and a mighty army.
You will come up against my people Israel like a cloud to cover the land.
It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.
Thus says the Lord God, Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them?
So this gets complex because we're talking about quotes within quotes.
I mean, first of all, it's Ezekiel the prophet who has been given these words, and then he's quoting God, who is saying that Ezekiel should tell the invaders the following things as if God said them, at least That's the best I can make of it here.
So yes, this gets highly complex, but we do know a few things.
We know, number one, there will be multiple nations allied against Israel.
We also know they will come from the north.
Now, it had been assumed by many, many Christian authors that that meant that Gog must be Russia.
Even though Russia is not technically just straight to the north, you know, Russia is mostly to the northeast.
And to the north is, well, Turkey and more of the modern day EU, right?
That's what's to the north.
So if it was Russia that was going to be leading this multi-nation charge against Israel, why wouldn't the Bible say northeast, right?
Why would it say north?
So then we hear the following words of prophecy.
that appear to show God going to war with the armies from the north.
Verse 18, and it will come to pass at the same time.
When Gog comes against the land of Israel, says the Lord God, that my fury will show in my face.
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath, I have spoken.
The fire of my wrath.
So this is going to involve some kind of fire or fireball.
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken, surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
Whoa, a great earthquake in Israel?
Verse 20.
So that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at my presence.
The mountains shall be thrown down.
The steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
Now this sounds like, of course, a great shaking of the earth, which could be caused by another cosmic impact.
So let's see if anything here might fit into a cosmic impact or not.
Or is this just God's earthquake?
Well, let's read forward and find out, because there are clues here.
Verse 21, I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all my mountains, says the Lord God.
Every man's sword will be against his brother.
There will be people killing each other themselves.
There will be civil revolt.
And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed, famine and, you know, war.
I will rain down on him On his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, the following thing.
Okay, here's the verse.
Flooding rain, great hailstones, fire and brimstone.
Oh, so it is a comet impact.
So, here we have it said, now very clearly, now that we understand that comets cause a mass ejection of material into the air, it causes A raining down, a flooding, because also the inner cores of most of these comets are frozen ice, by the way.
So there would be a flooding rain, great hailstones, that would be the outer mineral crust or shell of the comets, as those break up and are ejected into the atmosphere.
When those fall, those are great hailstones, fire and brimstone.
So yes, sulfur, other elements, massive explosion, massive fires, and of course, great earthquakes that he says, he says, the mountains shall be thrown down.
I mean, we're talking about avalanches, the sides of mountains collapsing, talking about the steep places shall fall.
That is the steep mountains shall be leveled and every wall shall fall to the ground.
So he's talking about probably man-made walls, but also possibly mountainous walls, they shall all fall to the ground because the shaking would be so great.
So in this time that Israel is attacked by Gog, which we'll get to, and this multinational attack on Israel, there will be a great comet impact that is the wrath of God, unleashed there will be a great comet impact that is the wrath of God, unleashed against the enemies of Israel, but also Because, of course, a comet is an area effect weapon.
And then he says, he says, Thus I will magnify myself and sanctify myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, then they shall know that I am the Lord.
In other words, he's saying, as the Lord, when I rain down this comet and it shakes the mountains and levels the place, everybody's going to know that God is real.
That's what he's saying.
And don't forget, the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field shall all shake at my presence.
He's talking about the oceans being rocked.
The mountains thrown down, and then flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
So yes, this is talking about a comet impact.
Let there be no question about that.
But it seems interesting, thinking that, you know, just as Israel is being attacked by Gog and Magog, that the timing of this great comet impact Well, guess what?
We already have a timetable of comet impacts from the Book of Revelation.
We've been talking about some of those recently.
What's critical to understand here is that Ezekiel 38 and 39 refer to the exact same comet impact that is referred to at the end of the Tribulation.
They are one and the same.
They are one and the same.
And in understanding this, you know, we realize Jesus' second coming happens at the end of the Tribulation.
The end of the tribulation is marked by the final common impact, which appears to be something that destroys much of the earth and that levels mountains.
This is even referred to in Revelation.
We were just covering that the other day.
So, it's actually the same event.
So, Ezekiel 39 also talks about this great sacrifice in the mountains.
It's the same sacrifice that Matthew was talking about in chapter 24, verse 28, where Jesus is telling us of this great sacrifice where there are going to be carcasses and vultures.
In Ezekiel 39, it also says, birds of prey will gather to eat the flesh of the men and the horses.
So, these are the same events.
I mean, these are just two different descriptions of the same event.
It's a three and a half year Tribulation, which begins with the first trumpet, which is the first comet impact.
It ends with the final comet impact that is described as, well, the seventh trumpet in Revelation.
Christ returns, but at the same time, we are looking at the final battle, Armageddon, the final battle of multiple nations against Israel.
When God intervenes with that final comet impact and shakes every mountain flat.
So, just to avoid confusion, these are all referring to the same events.
And if you want all of the academic citations for this, you can read The Comets of God, which is the book I've been quoting from quite a lot, and it really lays it out in great detail.
It really helps to understand Scripture.
For example, in Ezekiel 38 and chapter 39, it tells of the presence and appearance of God to save the Jews, saying, quote, be known in the eyes of many nations.
And Matthew chapter 24 verses 29 to 30 states that Jesus will return at the end of the tribulation period.
So, as this book asks, if Ezekiel 38-39 occurs at the beginning and not at the end of the tribulation, then that would have to mean there would be two second comings.
So that's not the case.
Many people believe that Ezekiel 38 happens at the beginning of the tribulation.
But that doesn't make sense if you believe what Matthew wrote.
So actually, this great war against Israel is at the end of the Tribulation, which means that what we are watching today in 2024, this is not the great war against Israel.
This may be the very beginning of some multi-year process that ends with that, but this is not the big one because we haven't even had the first trumpet yet.
We haven't had the first comet impact.
Now, maybe that's coming next week.
Who knows?
But if it is, well, we will all know about it.
Let's talk about, let's talk about GOG for a minute because The misconception is that Gog refers to Russia.
Gog does not refer to Russia, and there are no Bible scholars today that continue to express that belief.
That has been completely disputed, completely debunked.
That is not the case.
refers to a leader that was known as, this is going to sound funny, but Gugu, that's G-U-G-U, Gugu, who was the king of Lydia.
And Lydia is in modern day Turkey.
And the capital of what was Lydia was Sardis, S-A-R-D-I-S.
So Gugu was the leader, and Magugu is how it was referred, the land of that leader was referred to.
So Gugu is Gog, and Magog is Magugu.
And it's about Lydia, which is modern-day Turkey, and then Many people in past famines and wars, they migrated from Lydia to Greece and they became part of the Roman Empire.
And if you fast forward to today, what was Rome then would now be called the EU.
So what Ezekiel 38 and 39 are actually referring to is the armies from the north of Gog and Magog Are actually the armies of Turkey and the EU, which is from the north, not northeast where Russia is.
Russia has nothing to do with this prophecy.
This is about Turkey and the EU.
Now, it's interesting because, of course, Turkey, which is about 96% Islam, Let me see if I can find it.
I think Turkey has announced they are cutting off all economic ties with Israel.
Turkey has control over key energy pipelines that provide energy, fuel, petroleum, and natural gas to Israel.
If Turkey decides to cut off those pipelines, Then that would be, in essence, an act of economic warfare by the ancient Lydia, in essence, because Lydia was in modern day Turkey.
So that could be considered part of a war from Gog.
But then the EU, you've noticed countries like the UK increasingly saying we will not export weapons to Israel.
And I believe that Spain has joined One of the – well, South Africa has of course filed articles of war crimes activities against Israel in the ICJ, the International Court of Justice.
I think it's Spain that has joined in some of that effort, although I would need to confirm that.
But in the UK, there are efforts underway to block weapons export to Israel because of the very heated debate about Israel's use of those weapons and whether or not Israel is committing war crimes in its methods of warfare against the Palestinian people and against the people of Lebanon.
with the exploding pagers and the exploding radios and so on.
Now, I am not here in this sermon to issue my opinion or judgment on those issues.
I'm simply trying to explain the context of this.
The takeaway is that what Ezekiel actually prophesied was that Israel would be attacked by a multinational army or multiple armies that come from Turkey and the EU, not Russia.
Could Turkey attack Israel very soon?
Yes, absolutely.
Could the EU turn against Israel very soon?
That seems well within the realm of possibility depending on how things move forward here.
But still, we don't have the timeline in place for Armageddon.
This isn't the seventh trumpet.
This isn't three and a half years into massive global meteor impacts.
So again, what's happening today in 2024, if you believe Ezekiel's prophecy, this is not the end times battle.
But there are some interesting things about it.
Let's, let's read chapter 39.
And I admit there are some convincing elements.
Some of them we're about to read.
Chapter 39, verse 1, And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and I will turn you around and lead you on, bringing you up from the far north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.
But that's probably referring to the mountains of southern Lebanon.
Verse 3, then I will knock the bow out of your left hand and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.
Well, what does that seem to be saying?
That Israel will defeat the artillery or the missiles or the rockets of the nations that are joined together to try to defeat Israel.
See?
To knock the bow out of your hand and to cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.
I mean, bow, arrows, that's artillery, or that's rockets, you know?
Verse four, you shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you.
Now, Israel just bombed the mountains of southern Lebanon with a massive bunker buster bomb.
Just happened a day before I recorded this.
And some people thought it was an atomic detonation.
It had a mushroom cloud and a shockwave that was visible from many tens of miles away.
So that also matches verse 4 here in chapter 39 of Ezekiel.
Again, you shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the people who are with you.
I will give you two birds of prey, every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
So this is what we were just talking about a few minutes ago.
This is talking about that the men and the beasts will be killed.
They will be scattered across the landscape and they will be devoured by the birds, the carry on birds.
And this is also mentioned, of course, in Matthew.
Verse six, and I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the coastlands, which is talking about the west coast of Lebanon, right?
The Mediterranean, well, the Great Sea, Mediterranean coastline right there on Lebanon.
Then they shall know that I am the Lord, so I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let them profane my holy name anymore.
See, this is interesting to me because he's saying, I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel and will not let them profane my holy name.
He's saying that by doing this, I will appear as the Lord even to the people of Israel who have been against me.
Because Israel in the modern day has turned largely to sin.
Israel is the abortion capital of the Middle East.
Israel is the LGBT capital.
Tel Aviv is a city of gay parties and rampant drug use and sexual perversion and transgenderism and so on.
I mean, that may be controversial, but it's not wrong.
That is a fact.
Most of Israel today is not religious.
It is a secular society for the most part.
So most of the people of Israel have forgotten who is the Lord.
So that's why God is saying this.
He says, Then the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
Surely it is coming and it shall be done, says the Lord God.
This is the day of which I have spoken.
Now, this is very interesting.
Because the next verse talks about what you could interpret as a disarmament of Israel.
He says, verse 9, then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears.
And by the way, one of the U.S.
anti-tank weapon systems is called the javelin.
Javelins and spears and they will make fires with them for seven years.
They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forest because they will make fires with the weapons and they will plunder those who plundered them and pillage those who pillage them, says the Lord God.
That's interesting because Israel has nuclear weapons and you can convert nuclear material into peacetime nuclear energy.
So when Ezekiel here says, verse 10, they will not take wood from the field because they will make fires with the weapons.
That could mean that they will demilitarize their nuclear weapons and they will turn them into peacetime nuclear power.
And then he says, then they will plunder those who plundered them and pillage those who pillaged them.
So Israel will then plunder the other nations of the world that took from Israel.
Well, who are the nations that took from Israel and how will Israel plunder those other nations by demilitarizing or de-weaponizing itself?
Well, one argument, and again, this is just my own interpretation, is that the UK and the US have, in essence, plundered Israel, or they have exploited Israel, as a giant military base in the Middle East in order for the Western nations to have affordable access to the energy from the Middle East, which is a kind of resource plundering of the Middle East.
And because of the presence of Israel, the United States, through the weaponization of Israel, has been able to project a lot of power in the region, even back from the days of the Gulf War.
And on top of that, the U.S.
maintains many military bases in places such as Syria and also Iraq, even to this day, or right near Iraq.
These military bases are to exert power to allow the West to have access to affordable energy, which is a form of resource plundering.
And Israel has, in essence, paid a price for its position here.
And especially when we talk about this Armageddon battle, Israel Is largely destroyed along with other nations because of the comet impact.
Everything is shaken.
Every mountain is flattened.
Every wall, every building is flattened, including the buildings in Israel.
I mean, understand that Israel does not escape this comet impact either.
And in fact, the devastation is so complete that no one can make war in the area any longer.
Almost everybody's dead.
So that would explain the demilitarization, the conversion of weapons into peacetime energy, and then a reversal of the plundering.
No longer would the West be able to plunder the oil of the Middle East and kind of force Israel to engage in this projection of power.
Instead, Israel would be forced to engage in some kind of peacetime restructuring of trade.
And thus, you could say that Israel would then be trading with other countries nearby in order to survive.
Again, most of the population would be wiped out.
And you could possibly say that Israel would then go plunder resources for itself.
Perhaps Israel would have the most soldiers surviving, although I doubt it.
And one of the reasons that I'm skeptical about that is because if you think about who is most likely to survive a cosmic impact, it's people who live underground.
And who lives underground right now in the region?
Well, there are incredible, complex, deep caves.
In Turkey, and there have been for thousands of years, and these deep caverns have been expanded significantly by Hezbollah over the last several decades, just as there are elaborate tunnels underneath Gaza built by Hamas.
And so, believe it or not, those tunnels provide some degree of shelter from cosmic impacts.
Unless, of course, the meteor hits directly on top of your tunnel system.
In which case, your tunnels are toast.
And some tunnels may collapse, obviously.
Great earthquakes and so on would collapse tunnels.
But anybody on the surface would just be obliterated.
You know, you're talking, even mentions it in Ezekiel 38.
You're talking hailstones and brimstone and fire and everything else.
And, you know, surface dwellers are toast.
It's the people underground that might have a chance to survive this and then to resurface.
And I think that if we continue with Ezekiel 39, I think it kind of speaks to this fact that almost everybody is killed.
says, I'm skipping to verse 13, Verse 12, for seven months, the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
Indeed, all the people of the land will be burying and they will gain renown for it on the day that I am glorified, says the Lord God.
Yeah, you can imagine a lot of people would turn to God if a giant meter wipes out this whole region.
Verse 14, they will set apart men regularly employed with the help of a search party to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground in order to cleanse it.
At the end of seven months, they will make a search.
The search party will pass through the land.
And when anyone sees a man's bone, he shall set up a marker by it till the barriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.
The name of the city will also be Hamona.
Thus they shall cleanse the land.
So we are talking about a post-apocalypse mass burial, cleaning up all the dead bodies, and it's so many that it takes seven months.
That's a long time to clean up all the bodies.
Just tells you about the devastation.
And some of the devastation, of course, appears to be from the war.
And a lot of the devastation seems to be from the impact of the meteor.
And then, finally, in the last few verses of Ezekiel 39, God is explaining that Israel shall be restored After the mass wipeout of most Israelis and most everybody else, and that all the wickedness of Israel shall be reversed and they will once again embrace God.
So here's how it is said by Ezekiel.
I'm going to skip to verse 25.
Therefore, thus says the Lord God, now I will bring back the captives of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel.
And I will be jealous for my holy name after they have borne their shame and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to me.
Remember, he's talking about, you know, Israel has been bad, has been evil.
They have to bear their shame and they have to reveal their unfaithfulness, right?
But it all turns around.
He continues, when they dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid.
He's talking about they forgot me.
They forgot the Lord when they were afraid of nothing.
They had too much abundance.
They became apathetic, you see.
Verse 27, when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations, then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land and left none of them captive any longer.
And I will not hide my face from them anymore, for I shall have poured out my spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord God.
So he's saying, at least this is my interpretation, he will offer a final forgiveness after the near total destruction that he unleashed.
The skies are darkened.
the region.
So he will, let's call this God's nuke from orbit scenario.
So here we are in the final days of the tribulation.
The earth has already been impacted by numerous comets.
The skies are darkened.
The growing season is short.
The world would be cold actually.
A famine and war, pestilence, you know, disease and civil unrest would be everywhere.
There'd be massive death across the planet taking place, spanning this three and a half years.
A desperate search for resources would be underway.
Many nations would suffer mass starvation.
There would be internal revolutions and coups.
And then in this context, Turkey and the EU end up leading a war against Israel, probably again in a quest for resources for final survival, and other nations join in this.
Now remember, multiple meteors will have already hit Earth before this, so much of the United States will have been wiped out because of the meteor that hits the Atlantic Ocean.
That will inundate the East Coast.
It will probably destroy Washington, D.C.
Well, it will definitely destroy Washington, D.C.
And then another meteor hits the continental United States and poisons all the rivers and destroys much of America.
America will be out of the picture.
That's why America is not mentioned in this final battle, by the way.
There is no America.
America is already either completely nullified or destroyed by that time.
So the Middle East is still left alive because there were no impacts directly in the Middle East until this one.
This impact, this one is the one that levels the mountains.
It shakes the seas.
It flattens every structure.
It destroys Israel's enemies from the north, but it also destroys most of Israel, leaving only a few survivors.
Who then turn back to God, probably people who have underground, you know, Israeli bunkers that somehow survived this.
And then they realize that they should have listened to God this entire time.
God forgives them.
And then those people probably end up, I mean, I'm not sure that anybody's left on earth after the seventh trumpet runs its course.
At least God would forgive these people of Israel after all their years of wickedness.
That's the story that's being told.
Let me read for you from the comments of God.
Analysis of the Scriptures has made it clear that the Battle of Ezekiel 38-39 and the Battle of Armageddon are one and the same.
We have looked at which end-time country or political conglomerate Magog represents.
The next question is where this battle may take place.
Ezekiel 38-39 repeatedly refers to a battle in the mountains.
And Armageddon, the word Armageddon, literally means a mountain rendezvous of troops.
Analysis of scripture reveals a specific mountain location.
It's clear that this great battle would be at Mount Hermon.
Not at the hill of Megiddo, as popularly thought, Mount Hermon.
Now, what's fascinating about this, which does line up with current events, is that Mount Hermon is a mountain that's right on the border of Lebanon and Syria.
It's in southern Lebanon, but quite a ways north of the border with Israel.
I'm looking this up online.
It's west of Damascus, Syria.
It rises to 9,200 feet.
It's the highest point on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
It's sometimes considered the southernmost extension of the anti-Lebanon range.
At its feet are the two major sources of the Jordan River.
The Jordan River is the river that is referred to by both Israel and the Palestinians when they say, from the river to the sea.
They're talking about from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
And this river comes from the feet of Mount Hermon.
It's also been historically known as Sirion.
It's been a sacred landmark since the Bronze Age.
It represented the northwestern limit of Israelite conquest under Moses and Joshua.
On the slopes of this mountain are temples with Greek inscriptions.
Wow.
And since the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, there's about 40 square miles of Mount Hermon's southern and western slopes have been part of the Israeli-administered Golan Heights.
and And they've been developed for recreational use, including skiing.
So this is, of course, disputed territory.
I mean, I guess the whole region is disputed territory, but this is a significant Geological feature that has been recognized for thousands of years.
So this is where the Battle of Armageddon takes place.
Back to the book, The Comets of God.
As noted earlier, in Hebrew, names often give information about the place being named.
In Hebrew, Chermon means sacred or sanctuary or asylum.
So as Armageddon In the context of the armies of the world that are to gather in the mountains, should be translated as a mountain rendezvous of troops.
Mount Hermon, in the context of the Jews fleeing the invading armies, should be translated as sacred mountain or mountain asylum.
This makes Mount Hermon a sacred mountain, a mountain of asylum or sanctuary.
So in Hebrew, The words Har-Magedon and Churman have a, we have a mountain rendezvous of troops taking place at the mountain asylum to which the Jews have fled.
So in other words, the original Hebrew words tell us what this means.
This means the Jews will be taking refuge on the rugged Mount Hermon.
Or Hermon, I'm not sure how it's pronounced locally, which is full of caves and hiding places.
And it's not unlike the Afghanis who took refuge in the mountains after Russia invaded their country in 1979.
Mount Hermon is a massive mountain on Israel's northern border with Lebanon.
The highest of Mount Hermon's three distinctive peaks is called Mount Zion.
This is why Scripture sometimes referred to this battle as taking place at Mount Zion.
For example, Isaiah chapter 34 tells how the indignation of the Lord will be upon all the nations and their armies to utterly destroy them, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood, and on the day of the Lord's vengeance and the controversy of Zion, and the streams therefore shall be turned into pitch.
This is the Mount Zion of well-watered Mount Hermon, which has a number of streams on it, not the small hill in the southwest part of arid Jerusalem that is also called Mount Zion.
So, Mount Zion refers to one of the peaks of Mount Hermon, where Armageddon takes place.
And then the streams being turned into pitch, which is a reference to molten rock or lava flowing down the stream beds, speaks of a volcanic eruption to take place on the day of the Lord's vengeance.
And of course, volcanic eruptions are set off by, or can be set off by earthquakes, which can be set off by comet impacts.
So when a giant comet hits the earth, you know, it shakes everything and it can Shake open, you know, volcanic portals to the Earth's magma layer, essentially.
You know, if you shatter and shake a volcanic mountain, you can open it up and cause a new eruption.
Additional evidence for this comes from Revelation chapter 14, verses 19 through 20, referring to the great wine press of the wrath of God.
Describing that on the Day of Judgment, the harvest in this winepress will be trodden, so that blood will come out of the winepress even to the height of the horse's bridles by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Well, we can map that, you know.
Revelation chapter 19 verse 15 explains that Jesus, on the day of his return, comes dressed for battle to treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Now, if this battle is to take place on the mountains on Mount Hermon, then the winepress should be nearby, right?
The physical expression of this winepress must be the Hula Basin that lies below Mount Hermon.
Moving down from Mount Hermon, you encounter the upper valley of the Jordan River and the Hula Basin.
The Hula Basin is a 5 km by 15 km by 1 km depression.
that the Jordan River flows through.
Ancient lava flows once blocked the Jordan Valley in the Hula area and dammed up the river within this depressed area, creating a rough bowl-shaped area.
However, in time, the Jordan River cut through the lava dam and continued its rapidly descending journey to the south.
In Hebrew, the word Jordan means descends.
So since ancient times, a small lake called Hula Lake has been fed by the waters that drain into this basin, which is likened to a winepress in Revelation chapter 14. - Mm-hmm.
From Hula Lake, the Jordan River continues to flow south until it enters and then flows into the Sea of Galilee.
After it emerges from the Sea of Galilee, it continues on until it ultimately reaches the Dead Sea.
So, now we have a geological description for the wine press that is mentioned.
Revelation chapter 14 says that these blood-stained waters are to flow for a total distance of 1,600 Hebrew furlongs, or about 184 miles.
The distance from the spring at Mount Hermon and the beginning of the Jordan River down to the Dead Sea And then continuing southeast up into the river Zered with headwaters near Bozrah is about 1600 Hebrew furlongs.
So there you go.
So from the book here, it seems that the main battle site of Mount Zion on Mount Hermon Jesus trods the winepress, the bowl-like area at the foot of the mountains where the invading armies have assembled.
From Mount Zion at Mount Hermon, Jesus is to then head south to the mountainous area near Bozrah, or Basrah, and effect another bloody slaughter.
This is why Isaiah chapter 63 and Jeremiah chapter 49 tell of Jesus flying like an eagle coming from Bozrah with garments already stained with blood as if he had trodden the winepress.
Presumably, he is seen flying like an eagle on his way to effect a third bloody slaughter.
This time at a smaller winepress called the Valley of Jehoshaphat, I think that's how you say it, which seems to be in or around Jerusalem, The multitudes in the Valley of Decision may be a reference to the much larger valley below Mount Hermon where the main battle takes place.
These sites and topography seem to fit the scene painted by scripture.
I'm also seeing from this book, The Comets of God, that he's saying that the comet activity of the sixth seal is, that's the comet of the Battle of Armageddon, not the seventh seal.
Well, that makes more sense because the seventh trumpet or the seventh trumpet and the seventh vial are the earth-destroying impacts.
But impact number six could be survived.
So let's explain that a little bit here, and then we're close to wrapping this up.
But in the book here, it shows that the Battle of Armageddon and the Battle of Ezekiel 38-39 are the same final end times battle when God shows the fierceness of His wrath.
And that's Revelation chapter 6, chapter 11, 16, and 19, Ezekiel 38, and Isaiah 34.
As explained earlier, this battle is to involve the kings of the earth gathering together for a battle in the mountains and comets falling to the earth, including a large impact that causes a great earthquake and raises dust into the atmosphere on the great day of his God's wrath, Revelation chapter 6, verse 17.
The sixth seal as well as the seventh trumpet and seventh vial all involve these same elements.
The kings of the earth gathering together for a battle in the mountains.
Comets fall into the earth and a large impact causing a great earthquake and raising dust into the atmosphere blocking the sun and causing the moon to turn red.
These events occur on a day the sixth seal calls the great day of God's wrath.
The day of which the seventh trumpet says, thy wrath is come, and the seventh vial says, God will show the fierceness of his wrath.
The sixth seal tells about comets coming in to bombard the earth.
Quote, the stars of heaven fell onto the earth.
And then see also Isaiah 34 and Matthew 24, also talking about stars falling from the heaven.
From the heavens on this day, while Luke chapter 21 says the sea and waves will roar, the sixth seal also tells how these impacts cause a great earthquake with dust from the impacts rising up into the atmosphere so that the sun became black and the moon became as blood with the shock waves from the impacts causing the atmosphere to roll back.
Quote, the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together.
Some of the later impacts were so large that, quote, every mountain and island were moved.
Since the sixth seal covers the same events called for at the end of the sixth vial and the beginning of the seventh vial, It is clear that the seven seals give a general overview of the major events of the seven-year tribulation period, including the time period of the seven trumpets and seven vials.
As already noted, the first four seals tell of the first few years, possibly three and a half years, of the tribulation period, beginning with political and religious upheaval, the subsequent move to war, then worldwide famine, and finally worldwide plague and death.
On the other hand, the seven trumpets and vials tell of the last few years of the Tribulation period, possibly three and a half years, which are to be characterized by seven rounds of comet impacts.
So yes, this gets a little bit confusing.
I'm a little bit confused too, but there are some charts provided in this book.
But fortunately, we have the following.
In other words, the last three sequences of prophesied events given in the seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven vials all come to an end at about the same time during the last part of the tribulation period, and they all involve the same basic events.
Remember that the sixth seal tells of comets that will bombard the earth, we covered that, and cause a great earthquake with mountains moving.
A dust will be rising into the atmosphere so that it blackens the sun and reddens the moon.
This will occur while the kings of the earth gathered in the mountains of Israel ask the mountains to hide them for the great day of His wrath is come.
And then God's victory is clear when Revelation 6.17 asks, Who shall be able to stand?
The seventh trumpet speaks of the comet bombardment, the impact-generated earthquake, the great hail ice blocks that come from the ice of comets breaking up and nations being angry.
So here's the bottom line.
You've got trumpets, seals, and vials.
And it appears that the fourth seal It gives rise to trumpet 5 and vial 5.
The 6th seal speaks to trumpet 6 and vial 6.
The 7th seal speaks to trumpet 7 and vial 7.
But seal number 5 is... it does not have associated trumpets and vials.
Yeah, not to make it confusing or anything.
Basically, Yeah, we're all turned to dust in the end.
I think that's the way to summarize this.
So I'm done reading from that book right now.
I think we're all confused enough.
But here's the bottom line.
The events that are described In Ezekiel and some of the other chapters that we mentioned, especially in Revelation, the flattening of mountains, the shaking of oceans, the total destruction of all man-made objects and so on, do you realize that the energy necessary for this to take place, the level of energy for earthquakes that achieve this result, this cannot come from even all of mankind's atomic weapons detonating all at once.
Still not enough energy.
The only source of this energy that is consistent with the physical laws of the universe that God put in place, the only source is comet impacts.
High relative velocity, large mass impacts.
And for those of you nerds out there like me who are curious about, well, how much energy is found in these, well, it's one half mass times velocity squared.
So the velocity is really where the energy gets going.
And relative velocities in space can be extremely high, like 40,000 miles an hour.
I would be more comfortable if we could describe that in meters per second.
I'm more of a metric guy, being that I run a lab and all that, but it's almost unimaginably fast.
And depending on the mass of the comet and the composition of the comet, These can go right through the entire ocean.
They can hit the floor of the ocean, the crust, and they can smash through miles of the crust.
Or if they hit land, they will eject a lot of material into the atmosphere.
So look, the bottom line here is even if God ultimately forgives Israel from all of its shame and its wicked ways, And God unleashes, that would be, I guess, the sixth impact there, or trumpet number six is the one that happens during that battle of Armageddon, and it destroys all of Israel's enemies and most of Israel itself.
Even if you survive that, well, comet number seven is on the way.
When comet number seven hits, as we've covered previously, it's pretty much over for all of Earth as we know it.
So God does not save Israel in the end.
He doesn't save anybody left on Earth.
The Earth is reset.
The only people that survive this are people in orbit or people on Mars.
So look, it appears that God is going to end the simulation, which is something I spoke about earlier in previous sermons.
God's going to end the simulation for Earth.
In his mind, he's like, well, it was a nice experiment.
We tried it.
You can imagine God in heaven.
He's like, I gave them the morals.
I gave them a list of 10 things not to do, you know?
He's like, I told them again and again.
I gave them consciousness and free will and living water.
I gave them figs and cinnamon and they still screwed it up, you know?
Yeah, ultimately humankind is destroyed and probably only represents a little blip in the history of the cosmos.
One failed experiment in a universe of many experiments.
And I'll leave you with this controversial thought.
The reason why God can walk away from Earth and just allow a meteor to take out the whole planet and kill everybody is because God's running many experiments on many different worlds.
He probably downloaded guidelines for all those civilizations, tried to teach them, you know, math and geometry and agriculture.
And had Jesus, like wise men, appear to other cultures on other planets around other star systems and taught them how to become civilized beings.
And some of those civilizations turned against God and they all have meteors headed their way.
And then the planets that actually embrace God, God probably sort of altered the course and spared those planets.
It does not appear that Earth will be spared.
Now, I do believe that prophecy only shows us one possible future, actually.
Perhaps the most probable future, but I also believe that God is willing to forgive.
So I believe there's a chance that if humankind were to repent for its sins and turn against its wicked ways and embrace God and call for forgiveness, I think Earth could be saved.
But I don't see Earth on that path.
I don't see Israel on that path.
I don't see the United States on that path.
I don't see Turkey on that path, or any country for that matter.
I don't see Earth being saved unless something really dramatic changes the course of history.
What do you think?
Do you think mankind can turn against its wicked, evil ways of greed and selfishness and pompousness and arrogance and worshiping false idols and pretty shiny things instead of obeying God?
Because it seems to me that the nature of mankind I've even done a sermon on this point.
The nature of mankind defaults to selfishness and greed, which becomes evil in the larger context of society.
And so I don't think that human beings are born hardwired in a way that is consistent with God's expectations of a civilization.
So unless we change who we are, I don't think we can change our course.
And that means that human civilization, on planet Earth, its days are numbered.
It's a good thing that our souls are bulletproof and that we're only here for a short time anyway, and this is a proving ground for our behavior, our morality.
It's a test for us.
And whether we die of natural causes or die, you know, eating a giant comet ball, your soul is going to be judged based on Your behavior and what you did on this earth.
So don't fret over the idea that we may all die in a giant cosmic collision, if indeed that were to even happen in our lifetimes, which may not happen.
But if it did, don't fret over that.
Praise God for the experience of life, for the gift of what we've been able to live through so far.
And the fact that our souls will join with our creator after this life, which is obviously nothing but a simulation created by God anyway.
Maybe meteors are just the, uh, you know, the game over signal for this simulation.
They certainly will mean game over.
So.
Nothing that NASA can do, nothing that government can do, there's no law, though we'll pass a law to stop collisions!
No you won't.
The foolishness, the childishness of humankind will be on display for all the world to see, all the greed, everything.
Um, humanity, I've called it a suicide cult.
It's a very infantile species of little child minded people who are occupied with petty things.
Occupied with celebrities, and how big is this celebrity's booty?
And this celebrity is promoting this fashion purse, and it's like, who cares?
Nobody cares.
Humankind is preoccupied with things that don't matter, for the most part, and they've lost sight of the things that do matter, which is our spiritual development and growth.
And ultimately, the great creative cosmic force in the universe is a force of love.
And if we can't remember what love is in this lifetime, well, we're probably doomed for eternity.
At least those who can't recognize love or even find a way to express it.
Follow the teachings of Christ and you shall be saved, no matter what happens to your body, no matter what happens to your planet.
If Earth is vaporized, but you've lived a life in alignment with Christ, you shall be saved.
So, all the rest will sort itself out.
Thank you for listening.
God bless you.
I'm Mike Adams.
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