| The Church of God has been charged to get the | | | | know the latest weather report but miss the |
| Word out to all the world and make disciples (students) | | | | significance of the times. Too many remain oblivious to |
| within every nation, teaching them to follow Yeshua's | | | | the fact that a EUROPEAN STORM IS BREWING |
| (Jesus') teachings. What did Yeshua teach? Yeshua | | | | (Matt. 16:2-3). Many won't realize it until it HITS HOME |
| boldly proclaimed the good news of the Kingdom of | | | | and they're devastated!There's precious little time left |
| God, the immortal family of divine beings soon to reign | | | | to help sound the alarm and let the sirens go off. |
| over all the earth. He also taught His students how to | | | | We're supposed to serve as God's EARLY |
| live a life that graces the Gospel and compliments the | | | | WARNING SYSTEM (Jer. 44:4). From the |
| Kingdom. We're to become more godly, more | | | | Watchtower of Faith we're able to see what's on the |
| Christlike, more Kingdomlike, daily, in anticipation of its | | | | horizon and pick up on our spiritual radar screen the |
| Dawn.But Yeshua also warned of TURBULENT | | | | clear and present danger Europe presents. We know |
| TIMES to occur just before His landing on the Mount | | | | what's going to happen, based upon biblical facts, and |
| of Olives to liberate Jerusalem and secure David's | | | | declare it with confidence (Rom. 4:17).If we don't help |
| Throne (leading to Israel's deliverance).We know that | | | | warn the world, giving everybody a chance to escape, |
| certain prophecies were not to be fulfilled until these | | | | we'll be held accountable for their deaths (Ezek. 3:18). |
| "last days." Therefore their sealed messages weren't | | | | Isaiah 42:19 warns about God's servant going blind and |
| to break their silence until the appointed time (Dan. 12:9). | | | | His messenger going deaf; Isaiah 56:10 rebukes blind |
| With the advent of the nuclear age, we've been living, | | | | watchman and dumb watchdogs that don't know how |
| for the first time in history, with the weapons of mass | | | | to bark and are asleep on the job! Obviously God didn't |
| destruction that can erase all life from off planet Earth! | | | | "hire" them that way. This is so serious that God must |
| (Matt. 24:21-22).The early Church preached the Gospel, | | | | warn us about it, (and you're being warned right now) |
| but within the framework of addressing issues and | | | | because apparently many won't pass this part of our |
| concerns of their time and place. For example, they | | | | Christian test, deserting our posts, and running like |
| emphasized Yeshua's necessary death and | | | | Jonah. Such Christian-doves will get swallowed up in |
| resurrection. The biblical approach is to offer "meat in | | | | the belly of the Beast! There's nothing new under the |
| due season," custommade messages, tailored for the | | | | Sun: just as Yeshua's closest friends fell asleep just |
| times, "becoming all things to all men," using current | | | | before His trial and crucifixion, it appears some will nod |
| events as a prop and a podium. The apostles and | | | | off just before our Church and nations are |
| evangelists preached Christ and Him crucified, and | | | | scourged.An important part of Yeshua's teachings, |
| didn't deal with Yeshua's prophecy about Jerusalem's | | | | relevant to this generation, is the warning signs of |
| imminent fall and the Temple's destruction. Why? | | | | what's about to strike, so everyone can prayerfully |
| Because it wouldn't affect the daily lives and national | | | | watch and seek shelter before it's too late (Lk. 21:36). |
| affairs of their Gentile audience.However, today the | | | | But we're to share His survival course with others so |
| European Beast is taking shape and form before us, | | | | they can know what to look for and expect and how |
| while the American, British and Jewish peoples | | | | to receive around-the-clock protection by trusting in |
| continue their nosedive to oblivion. Both of these | | | | Him. We can help save lives and prepare people for |
| intertwined events were clearly prophesied (Lev. 26; | | | | what's just ahead, whether it's World War III or the |
| Deut. 28). And it's only with our God-given | | | | Lake of Fire (Jude 23).Signs reveal what direction |
| understanding of biblical prophecy that we can see | | | | we're heading and how close we're getting to that |
| where these trends are rapidly heading. Both the Book | | | | destination. We're to share our God-given light of |
| of Daniel and the Book of Revelation reveal a Gentile | | | | understanding with the world that they may be |
| confederation of nations to emerge upon the world | | | | warned. That is our solemn privilege and responsibility. |
| scene just before Messiah comes, wrecking havoc | | | | How nations or individuals respond is not our |
| upon Israel and opposing the Heavenly Army (Dan.7; | | | | responsibility, it is between God and them.Ezekiel's |
| Rev. 13; 17).These prophesied headlines will directly | | | | warning message is the same as Yeshua's and Paul's: |
| affect the lives of every member of the Church of | | | | repent or face the judgment of God. Likewise, |
| God and nations of Israel! We're living in the prophesied | | | | Revelation's message is to repent of such things as |
| time of a knowledge explosion, of mass transit and | | | | murder, occult practices, immorality, idolatry, etc. and |
| rapid communication, and have truly become a global | | | | begin to obey the commandments of God and hang |
| village (Dan. 12:4). Therefore these "geopolitical" | | | | on for dear life to Jesus' teachings (in attitude and |
| prophecies are most personal and pertinent.It was | | | | actions, in word and in works). However, God has |
| necessary for God to first identify Israel today (the | | | | decreed that His final warning to the world before the |
| so-called lost 10 Tribes) so the Church could deliver His | | | | Storm breaks should be directed to His People Israel, |
| message to them, preserved by the Prophets for our | | | | now identified as prophesied, and that it should include |
| time. We're to warn the sinful Israelite nations that the | | | | exposing the European Beast as a satanic system |
| Holocaust was only a preview of what's to come! | | | | opposed to the saints of God and His government.If |
| Many different groups and organizations (for better | | | | God preferred that we stuck to a general message of |
| and for worse) have helped to restore Israel's identity. | | | | salvation rather than to warn about a specific |
| But Herbert W. Armstrong was the most influential, | | | | POLITICO-RELIGIOUS POWER rising in Europe, then |
| through his inspiring book The United States and Britain | | | | He wouldn't have given us such inspired details in the |
| in Prophecy, as God ordained (Isa. 49:6). How else | | | | Bible! Those who think otherwise are vainly dismissing |
| could we go with the Gospel to the "lost sheep of the | | | | the Prophets and Revelation as unnecessary. They |
| House of Israel" unless God directed us? How could | | | | think they're so smart but they're acting like fools (Rom. |
| we warn about the imminent "Time of Jacob's | | | | 1:22; Job 38:2). God knows what He's doing. Anyone |
| Trouble" unless God sent us?Many professing-Christian | | | | can preach a generic message, but only the Children |
| ministries today are still lost in their own little religious | | | | of Light can understand the fine print in God's Word |
| worlds (Ezek 34:4-5). They still don't know or care | | | | and reveal His Secrets to mankind.All the magicians in |
| who Israel is or reject our identity (yet express interest | | | | the times of Joseph and Daniel put together couldn't |
| in our Jewish brethren), although God expects His | | | | provide the right answer to the questions of their day, |
| shepherds to help remind Israel of our biblical roots and | | | | yet those two witnesses gave God the glory and |
| responsibilities and regather them as "One Nation | | | | revealed truth that could only come from God (Gen. 41; |
| Under God," a truly "United Kingdom" (Ezek.37:22). It | | | | Dan. 2:30). Likewise, God expects us to share HIS |
| appears that they're happy believing they're Gentiles | | | | DIVINE REVELATION (Isa. 48:6). This deeper |
| (with their counterfeit Christianity/Gentile religion) and | | | | understanding and special relationship with God and His |
| don't want to return to bibilical ways and days, | | | | Word ought to be evident to outsiders as something |
| preferring their perverted scatter-brain traditions (Hos. | | | | truly unique (Deut. 4:6-7; Jn. 15:15).May the Church of |
| 1:9).As brought out in my timely book, Beyond Babylon: | | | | God share the complete teachings of Yeshua, His full |
| Europe's Rise and Fall, "Christ referred to WORLD | | | | gospel - individual and national - with all the world. Such |
| WAR III as the GREAT TRIBULATION (Matt. 24:21-22). | | | | priceless teachings about the Kingdom of God, faith |
| He'd given an outline of prophetic events to occur just | | | | and forgiveness, also warn about frightening events |
| prior to His Second Coming. Although we can't know | | | | that will signal the end of this age and help usher in the |
| the exact time or date, we can know when it's very | | | | Wonderful World Tomorrow.May we faithfully explain |
| near!"Yeshua taught that the end time would be very | | | | the spiritual significance of today's bad news (through |
| similar to Noah's time and how it was in Sodom and | | | | the light of Bible prophecy) and emphasize the GOOD |
| Gomorrha. Didn't Noah know what was about to | | | | NEWS that we have a Savior from sin and a |
| happen? Wasn't Lot warned about imminent | | | | Deliverer from men!Come Lord Jesus! Hosanna in the |
| destruction? YES! Biblical precedent provides the proof | | | | Highest!David Ben-Ariel is a Christian-Zionist writer and |
| that the people of God won't be left without a clue | | | | author of Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall. With |
| (Amos 3:7).The Church of God, His called-out ones | | | | a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his |
| (drafted to be delightfully different and wonderfully | | | | analytical articles help others improve their |
| weird, living "ahead of our time"), are called Children of | | | | understanding of that troubled region. Check out the |
| Light (I Pet. 4:4; I Thes. 5:1-6). We haven't been left in | | | | Beyond Babylon blog. |
| the dark, in stark contrast to those around us who | | | | |