No. 1664:
Is it possible to give a brief overview of the end-time events and to date some of the events?
Where will the USA or the federal state of the USA.
Which in many ways is not mentioned in the prophecies about the end-time.
Today the federal state of the USA is the most powerful and important country in the world.
We see this not least in their protection of God's people the Jews.
Where the State of Israel and the federal state of the USA are allies to be reckoned with.
But when the Antichrist and the resurrected Roman Empire emerge.
Then the USA must in some way be almost erased?
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2011/09/nr-204-jesus-sier-han-og-faderen-kommer.html
Joh.e. 13. 19 Now I tell you these things before it happens, so that when it does happen you may know that I am he.
2 Pet. 1. 19 Therefore we have the prophetic word confirmed in us. And you do well to hold fast to it, as a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
20 But above all, you must know that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
When it comes to the prophetic word, there are many things to consider
We all have an interpretation that is colored by our theology, our experience and not least what we experience in the present.
The present is for us humans – God is opposite, from eternity to eternity.
For with him a thousand years are a day, and a day a thousand years.
It is not so for us, who live in many ways opposite to this.
But God’s word will always be fulfilled when the time is right.
Then we will understand it and acknowledge the fact.
At least on a completely different basis than what we "believed" before it came true.
For me, the fact that Israel returned to its own homeland and the state of Israel was established in 1948
As well as the fact that Israel today has all of Jerusalem in its possession, is one of the surest and clearest of biblical prophecies that have come true and are coming true.
Israel gained control of all of Jerusalem in 1967 during the so-called 6-day war.
I am aware that this is only the beginning of the fulfillment of prophecies that God's word has spoken about.
Will happen and upcoming events that lie ahead of us.
I am not going to explain all prophecies and what God's word says here in every sentence. But we can take some of God's words with us.
Among other things, that now the time of the Gentiles is about to ebb.
We see that Israel will increasingly be at the center of the fulfillment of prophecies and God's word.
Luke 21. 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, or be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”
Jerusalem has been trampled by pagans since the death of Solomon around 1000 BC, at least since the exile to Babylon around 600 BC. Israel has not had sovereignty without an overlord for a very long time.
Jerusalem has not had absolute Jewish sovereignty from then (well before Christ) throughout the modern era until 1967, when Israel recaptured it in the Six-Day War.
In fact, this is a period that began with the captivity of the Jews to Babylon around 600 BC and ended in many ways in 1967.
But we know that it is only when Jesus returns to Jerusalem that this word will be fully fulfilled.
Then Jerusalem will be besieged and taken by the Antichrist and Israel will have to flee to survive as a people and nation, again!
Isaiah says something important:
Isaiah 21. 11 The burden of Dumah. To me they cry from Seir: Watchmen! How far is What is the night? Watchman! How long is the night?
12 The watchman answers: Morning comes, but also night; if you want to ask, ask - come again!
It is obvious that after Israel returned to their own land that God gave them through his many promises and covenants to them.
It is with doing God's word that will be fulfilled.
How long exactly before Jesus comes again to take the bride, and the Antichrist will rule this earth for seven years.
No one knows the exact day, month and year for this.
But that we see that the prophecies are fulfilled, and we are in the middle of end-time events now like never before.
What can we expect to happen?
In order and where do we stand today?
Give such a clear answer, is an impossibility.
But we do know something, and the time is ripe for this.
Today the USA is the strongest country in the world. But the word of God says that the Antichrist will arise within the old Roman Empire, which in many ways is within Europe and where the EU is a precursor to this I am pretty sure of that.
The fact that the EC as it was first called, and the EU has come into place.
Is definitely part of the plan that the Devil and the Antichrist have.
Or to put it another way.
It is within this system, area and government that the old Roman Empire was. As the word of God said through several of the old prophets, not least the prophet Daniel. As we read, among other things, in Daniel 2 and elsewhere.
That the Antichrist who will then lead a union, and which will culminate in the battle of Armageddon. Mentioned among other things in John's Revelation Chapter 16.
My Bible comments John the Baptist
Read for yourself here:
https://www.janchristensen.net/bibelkommentar-hoved.php?side=bibelkommentarer-Johannes-aappanberging
Do we find prophecies about the USA and the English-speaking world?
Possibly a few places in the word of God?
What one can also mention. Is that since neither the USA, Great Britain nor any other English-speaking countries are specifically mentioned.
Will those countries probably be wiped out when the Antichrist appears?
Since the word of God has a lot of prophecies around that time.
Not least in from John. Rev. Chap. 4 onwards which from chapters 4 – 18 is more or less exclusively about that time.
As well as other places in the word of God. Both in the OT and NT.
One of them is here:
Ezekiel 39. 4 On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as food for all kinds of birds of prey and for the wild animals of the field. Ezek 29:5 Ezek 32:4-5 Ezek 39:17 Rev 19:17-18
5 You will fall on the open field; for I have spoken, says the Lord, the God of Israel.
6 And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live securely in the isles, and they will know that I am the Lord.
7 And I will make my holy name known among my people Israel, and I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
https://www.steiare.no/Inder/okindergaard/Profetierne.html
These are actually two chapters where Gog the Army with his allies receives his judgment.
There Gog is probably Russia, since Gog is an old name for Russia and in Russia in general.
Then we read in verse 6 the following:
"And I will send fire upon Magog, and upon them that dwell securely in the isles; and they shall know that I am the Lord."
Who are the islands, those that dwell there?
Could this be primarily the USA/Great Britain, which may be the islands mentioned there?
Will they perish then in nuclear war?
Or have they first become so weak due to great upheavals in their own country?
Where the nuclear missiles will completely end the USA and Great Britain as a superpower?
Then it will be open to the Antichrist, who will arise within the old.
Resurrected Roman Empire.
Mentioned in several places in the Bible, including in Daniel 2.
It is probably right to say that now Israel will have a much larger place within the prophecies of the Bible and what it speaks of will happen now in the end times.
There is no doubt in my mind that the point of the tongue is when it comes to weapons.
There will also be economics, presumably, and other things.
It will take place in the Middle East.
It is Israel and the Middle East that will be the focus and there the Bible's prophecies about the end times will take place.
If you look at Revelation, the first three chapters are dedicated to the church and Jesus.
Then you come from chapter four onwards.
Is that what happens after the church is raptured, to be with the Lord and celebrate the wedding.
So you can say that from chapter 19 onwards it is mostly dedicated to eternity, and the 1000-year kingdom is mentioned.
Where it is clear that Jesus will rule this earth for 1000 years.
Should we take this literally?
I can't see that we shouldn't do that.
There is nothing mystical or speculative about this, right?
We see an enormous hatred of Jews. An anti-Semitic hatred that is actually a hatred of God.
Where one completely irrationally and without meaning hates the Jews, among other things. because they defended themselves against Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups. Iran and other states are also part of this hatred that Israel defends itself against and is then hated by everyone.
As God's word says they will be, solely because God has in a special way promised to look with favor on them as the people he has in a special way chosen.
Not because they were better and greater than others.
But because they were the worst and least.
In my eyes, this is neither rational nor normal.
What and how does this come from?
The Arabs have 700 times more land than Israel.
They belong much further east than the Jews.
They have settled down.
The Jews are the only people group that has been a national state within the lands that are being fought over today.
It is Gaza, Samaria, Judea and Jerusalem.
+ the rest of Israel that extends north to Mount Hermon and up towards Syria with the Golan Heights.
Down to the Negev deserts and the border with Egypt.
In short. The land of the pitchers as the Bible calls it all.
https://www.janchristensen.net/israels_historie.pdf
The way I see it all. So this battle is, and this is spiritual.
Where Satan and his demons are behind the whole agenda.
Which will culminate in the battle of Armageddon, and the subsequent defeat of the enemies of Israel and God.
Then it will be completely different and a showdown in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
All nations will be judged whether they will enter the 1000-year kingdom or not.
The basis for the assessment will be how one has stood against Israel and the Jewish people.
After Israel got its land back in 1948, there is an undertone that it is to erase this people that is Satan's main purpose.
Also, the removal of all Christian-Jewish values, often called Judeo-Christian values.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian
Also, we can also include that Satan's goal is also to destroy God's church.
First, that we are not evangelizing.
Second, that we as believers do not follow God's words in life and doctrine
I have written something about this in my Bible commentaries for John's Revelation which I include at the end.
Then about the USA and this topic we are now discussing here in this article.
https://www.janchristensen.net/bibelkommentar-hoved.php?side=bibelkommentarer-Johannes-aappanberging
From John's Revelation 6. 7 When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature cry out: "Come!"
It is not yet the end. It has just begun. If God had not intervened, humanity would have gone very badly.
Matt. 24. 21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. 22 If those days had not been shortened, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
8 Then I saw a pale horse. The name of the horseman was Death, and the realm of the dead followed him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth, so that they could kill with sword, famine and pestilence, and with the help of the wild beasts of the earth.
Here 1\4 of the people will be killed and then this seal must refer to the Gog war that will initiate the first part of the great tribulation.
That this must be understood symbolically is in the text. One cannot hear such a large number, but only imagine. The number is so large that for John it is by far the largest army he has heard. Twenty thousand times ten thousand is: 200,000,000
Is two hundred million. The number can be far greater that is killed by the Lord and Israel. Through this battle, several great powers are eliminated and the way is opened for the Antichrist and the old Roman Empire to take over the complete ruling position over the whole world.
These nations go down and home.
Ezekiel 38. 3 Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. 4 I will turn you around and put hooks in your jaws. Then I will bring you out with all your army, with horses and horsemen, all of them in splendid clothing, a great company with large and small shields, all of them armed with swords. 5 People from Persia, Nubia and Put are with them; all of them have shields and helmets. 6 Gomer and all his bands, the people of Togarmah in the far north and all their bands, many peoples are with you.
First, Russia is mentioned with its neighboring countries. Then Iran, Libya and Ethiopia. And finally Germany (Togarmah) who also has its allies with them. Could it be Sweden and Finland? Little Norway and Little Denmark can be spared because of our support for Israel? Or will we also be included? I do not want to state anything with certainty!
39. 6 I will send fire upon Magog, and upon them that dwell securely in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
This must be the USA, Canada, and Great Britain with their allies.
We read of the same battle in Daniel.
Daniel 11. 40 And in the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him, and the king of the north shall come against him with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall come upon land after land, and shall overflow them. 41 And he shall come into the pleasant land, and ten thousands shall fall: but these shall escape his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. 42 And he shall stretch out his hand upon land, and Egypt shall not escape. 43 And he shall have power over all the treasures of Egypt, and over all the precious things of gold, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Nubians shall follow him. 44 Then rumors from the east and from the north will terrify him, and he will go out in great fury to destroy and utterly destroy many. 45 He will pitch his royal tents between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain. But he will come to his end, and no one will help him.
