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Feature Article – Continued in front of me once. I would like to bring her to the Middle East and say, “Get on that bus. What do you want to do, get in that bus or go into that Baptist church? Where are you going to feel safer, Rosie?” But people will still listen to her. They will listen to HER rather than listen to THIS. The King Becomes Enraged Persecution will come, but what happens when persecution comes? What does it say in verse 7… …the king was enraged… It does not say the king was “unhappy,” it doesn’t say the king was “disturbed,” it says he “was enraged.” It’s a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the Living God. He is enraged. God is angry. I have pointed out before that Abraham has two kinds of descendants: the anthropological and the theological; the descendants by birth and the descendants by second birth. And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. (Gen. 12; 3) Amazing. Any civilization that has persecuted the Jews or that has persecuted the true church has come under the wrath of God. I teach in Indonesia. In Indonesia in the past few years 3,000 churches have been burned to the ground by the Muslims. In East Timor, Muslims murdered 300,000 Christians. Nobody cares; most do not even know about it. In the Auckland Islands they have murdered between 30-40,000. Nobody cares. But the worst area of Indonesia is where the “Sharia” – Islamic law – is enforced in a place called “Banda Aceh.” I speak in Banda Aceh and I speak at a Bible college in Indonesia where I help train young Indonesian evangelists and seminarians for the ministry. They are going into Muslim villages to plant new churches and to preach the Gospel, facing the prospect of persecution and martyrdom knowingly. These are people 18, 19, 20 years old. Their attitude, of course, is “Jesus died for me; it would be my privilege to die for Jesus.” They are not like the money preachers in America: “You don’t have to suffer; you’re a King’s kid! Blabit-and-grab-it!” These people in Indonesia are Christians; they are REAL Christians. Yes, I have seen “real” Christians in America. I have seen “real” Christians in Tennessee. But the only places I have seen real Christianity is where the church is persecuted. Oh, I can show you real Christians in Tennessee, I can show you real Christians in England, I can show you real Christians in Australia – I can. But to see real Christianity, come with me to Indonesia, come with me to Kenya, and you will see real Christianity. There is a big difference. So in Banda Aceh they persecute Christians terribly. CNN does not care, ABC does not care, the BBC probably applauds it. Nobody seems to care. “Go ahead, Muhammad, persecute Christians.” Only I hope you are a real good swimmer. Well over 90% of the aid that came to the tsunami victims came from the Christian countries. Despite a doubling of oil revenues in the previous year, the Saudi Arabians and the Gulf Emirates gave chicken feed. But although more than 90% of the aid came from the Christianized countries, more than 90% – in fact more than 95% – of the victims were Muslim. It is God’s judgment the same as the earthquake in Pakistan. People in a lot of churches and denominations have this misconception that the Protestant Reformers rediscovered the Gospel: Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, whatever. That is not true. There were people who never lost it. In England they were called the “Lollards,” the followers of John Wycliffe. In Central Europe they were called the “Bohemian Brethren,” the followers of John Huss. In Western Europe they were called the “Waldensians.” They were always around. There was never a time when there were not born-again Christians. It is just that during the Holy Roman Empire (which was neither “holy” nor “Roman”) the Pope always had the means to stop the expansion of the Gospel. True believers were terribly persecuted. Can you imagine 40% of the population of Europe being wiped out? Well, it happened. After the pogroms against the Christians and the Jews were carried out by the medieval papacy, 40% of Europe’s population was wiped out. 40% of Catholic Europe was killed overnight. During the Middle Ages they had something called the “Bubonic Plague”; “Black Death.” The king becomes enraged! He Sends His Army But when He is REALLY enraged, when someone persecutes His people, He sends His army. He always gets somebody worse than they are. Israel could not believe God would use the Philistines, or the Assyrians, or the Babylonians, or the Romans, but He did. He gets somebody worse than they are. Then when He uses them as His instrument of judgment, He gets rid of them. Who is God’s army of judgment today? Again, it is not a coincidence that the countries at the center of world events in the Bible are the same countries at the center of world events now. Islam is God’s judgment on backslidden America, Britain, and Europe. Islam is God’s judgment on His own people Israel. This is God’s judgment. Despite the threat, our own politicians, our own President, will not protect the borders. This is God’s judgment. For a year after September 11 th , the President – I am only telling you, it is not political, just a fact – continued the Express Visa program for Saudi Arabians to come in. They gave 10,000 visas to Saudi Arabians in a single year alone to come live in this country, students and so forth. This is an invasion. Paris, France – burned. Bradford, England – burned. London, England – bombed. My native New York – bombed. Madrid, Spain – bombed. “But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire. (Mt. 22:7) Yes, murderers. 3,000 killed on September 11 th , my sister’s husband being one of them. 3,000. That is how many babies we abort every year in the United States? No, that’s how many babies we abort every DAY in the United States. Murderers. 40 million? 40 million since Roe vs. Wade? We are a nation of murderers. The King is enraged! We are under His judgment. Now do not worry, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon!” (Is. 21:9; Jer. 51:8; Rev. 14:8; 18:2). Once the Babylonians fulfilled their purpose, God got rid of them; He got rid of the Assyrians, He got rid of ALL of them. Islam’s goose is well-cooked. We have unfulfilled prophecies in Isaiah and so forth of the wholesale destruction of Arab Muslim capitals that has never happened. Damascus must be destroyed before or when Jesus comes, so must Kedar (Saudi Arabia), so must Ammon – these prophecies have never been fulfilled as yet. And the Hebrew word is not just “destroy”; it is “obliterate.” It is the same word for what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah. These Arab capitals are going to disappear from the face of the earth. God is going to destroy them. The Lord is going to make war against the Arab world, against the Muslim world and destroy these nations AFTER He uses them to bring judgment and correction to the Judeo-Christian nations who have turned their back on Him. THAT is what happened in the first century, that is what happens in the last century; that is what is happening NOW! The Mis-Dressed at the Feast But what happens next? “Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all they found, both evil and good; and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests. But when the king came in to look over the 10 Moriel Quarterly • December 2009
dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes, Again, not having the garments of salvation, not properly attired for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. …and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?’ And the man was speechless. (Mt. 22:10-12) When unsaved people who reject the Gospel stand before the Lord, they will be speechless. Atheists will be speechless; they will have nothing to say. They will have nothing to say to the King. In Judaism, Yahweh is a King. Hebrew prayers are, again, prefaced by the liturgical introduction, “Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha’olam” – “Blessed are You, Lord God, King of the Universe.” Yahweh is the King. They will have nothing to say, they will be speechless! The Darwinist will be speechless! The gay and lesbian activist will be speechless! The abortionist will be speechless! The National Organization of Women will be speechless! The American Civil Liberties Union will be speechless! They will be speechless! So will the liberal theologians. They will be speechless. All their big talk now? They will be speechless. The rest of us will also be speechless, except for three words: “Thank You, Jesus!” Or in my case, two words: “Todai, Yeshua!” “Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Mt. 22:13) Something being increasingly propagated in the last 10-12 years is “Annihilationism.” In England it is championed by John Stott, the Anglican theocrat. “Hell is not eternal and conscious, it is just an annihilation.” There are saved Christians – supposedly saved – teaching this. Well, the term in Greek for the smoke of their torment going up forever and ever (Rev. 14:11) is an interesting term: “anabaino eis aion aion.” It’s simply the Greek way of translating the Hebrew, “from age to age.” The smoke of their torment went up, “anabaino eis aion aion” It is the same term used for the eternal high priesthood of Jesus, the same term used for the eternal glory of God, and the same term used for our salvation. In other words, if hell is not eternal and conscious, how can we be sure Heaven is? It is the same term. John Stott does not deal with that in his book. There is More to Hell than “Hell” But look what it is saying... …‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, [but] few are chosen.” (Mt. 22:13-14) What do I mean, “There is more to hell than ‘hell’?” Well, it is not what I mean; it is what the Bible says. There is more to hell than “hell.” It is not just the “Lake of Fire,” it is not just the “outer darkness” where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, it is not just the “smoke and the torment” going up forever and ever. There is more to hell than that. This person actually got into the wedding feast and saw it and saw the Lord. Hell will not just be “hell”; it will be the conscious absence from Heaven. They will see what they could have had and should have had. They will know what should have been and what could have been. They will know what those who repented and accepted Jesus are going to have: everlasting life. Somehow this guy got in! They are going to know, consciously, what they missed as well as what they have instead. There is more to hell than “hell. God bless. For many are called, but few are chosen. (Mt. 22:14) NOTES: ‘The invitation,’ by Danny Hahlbohn, www.inspired-art.com/inspiredartworks/home.html, by permission for one time use. Quote of the QUARTER ! Samuel Adams, said: “The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave... These may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.” - Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772 Feature Article – Continued A menorah was engraved in stone around 2,000-years ago and found in a synagogue recently discovered by the Sea of Galilee and is thought to be one of the earliest depictions of a menorah. Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman legions in 70 A.D. JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to symbolize Judaism, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday. The menorah was engraved in stone around 2,000 years ago and found in a synagogue recently discovered by the Sea of Galilee. Pottery, coins and tools found at the site indicate the synagogue dates to the period of the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem, where the actual menorah was kept, said archaeologist Dina Avshalom-Gorni of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The artist might have seen the menorah during a pilgrimage and then recreated it in the synagogue, she suggested. A small number of depictions of the menorah have surfaced from the same period, she said, but this one was unique because it was inside a synagogue and far from Jerusalem, illustrating the link between Jews around Jerusalem and in the Galilee to the north. The menorah, depicted atop a pedestal with a triangular base, is carved on a stone which was placed in the synagogue’s central hall. The temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman legions in 70 A.D. The Arch of Titus in Rome, erected to mark the Roman victory, depicts troops carrying the menorah from Jerusalem to symbolize the defeat of the Jews. The menorah became a Jewish symbol and is featured today on Israel’s official emblem. Most other depictions of the menorah were made only after the temple’s destruction, and if this finding is indeed earlier it could be closer to the original, said Aren Maeir, an archaeology professor at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. “If you have a depiction of the menorah from the time of the temple, chances are it is more accurate and portrays the actual object than portrayals from after the destruction of the temple, when it was not existent,” he said. The ancient prayer house was discovered in the town of Migdal, usually identified as the birthplace of the New Testament’s Mary Magdalene, whose name is thought to be based on the town’s. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fa1_1253301416 December 2009 • Moriel Quarterly 11
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