A HEART THAT SEES


 A HEART THAT SEES



                “Lift up your heads, O gates and be lifted up O ancient doors that the King of glory may come in! Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O gates and lift them up, O ancient doors that the King of glory may come in! Who is this King of glory? The Lord of Hosts He is the King of glory.” Ps. 24:7-10



                David was a man after God’s own heart and there are reasons why Jesus was often called “The Son of David” In type and shadow, David was a prophet, Priest and King and god furthermore promised him a throne that would last for eternity and one of His offspring would reign on His throne forever.



                We know that the Psalms are more than just nice poetry for Jesus said in Luke 24:44: “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”



                David had a heart that could see. He saw beyond his present time. In the procession that carried the Ark of the Covenant back to Zion, he danced wildly before the Lord. In physical terms I see him trying to portray something even bigger than what was going on that day. He was seeing a time when the King of glory would come in. Zechariah speaks of this time and it can be describing no other time than the end of the age at the battle of Armageddon when Jesus will conquer all of the nations of the world that come up against Jerusalem. IN that day the Lord of glory will show up and destroy those evil armies and HE will set foot on the Mt. of Olives and He will enter through the eastern gate to take up His earthly millennial reign. Let’s read about it:



                “Behold, a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. For I will gather ALL THE NATIONS against Jerusalem to battle and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off    from the city. Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when He fights on the day of battle. And in that day HIS FEET WILL STAND ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mt. of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south. And you will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. THEN THE LORD MY GOD WILL COME AND ALL THE HOLY ONES WITH HIM.” Zech. 14:1-5

                The rest of the chapter goes on to describe the millennial reign of Christ. And where it says that the Lord will come with His holy ones, this is what is described in Revelation 19, where Jesus comes with His saints, all of them riding on white horses. There in this very soon coming time, Jesus returns with his saints to defeat the world’s armies at the battle of Armageddon when he takes the beast and the false prophet and throws them alive into the Lake of Fire.



                When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem, he walked into the city on foot in respect for Scripture that says that Jesus will ride into Jerusalem on a white horse. Previously Kaiser Wilhelm had had not such respect and rode into Jerusalem on a white horse as is typical of conquering generals.



                There is an interesting and miraculous story behind that victory over Jerusalem, for it had been ruled by the Ottoman Turks for centuries. But a couple of ministers in Britten were discussing the coming invasion of Jerusalem and one man said to the minister,  I believe that “aeroplanes” are going to play a major role in this coming battle. I read my Bible and my Newspaper side by side and Isaiah 31:5 says:

                “Like flying birds so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem.  He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and rescue it.”



                So five months before the invasion, the British military passed over Jerusalem dropping leaflets warning of the coming invasion. The Ottoman Turks had never seen airplanes before and they were so frightened by this omen that the raised a white flag and surrendered without a shot being fired.



                We don’t study Bible Prophecy like our forefathers did back in 1917 and what we do study is distorted by our traditions and our replacement theology so that we remain blind to God’s miraculous restoration of Israel to its land.



                In the six day war, Israel was still a fledgling nation, barely getting their acts together. They had 3 tanks, to fend off the 60 tanks of the enemy now on their border. The men in the 3 tanks decided it would be better to die in battle than to flee, so they headed into the fray vastly outnumbered. But when they reached the point of contact they were met by Arabs carrying white flags and ready to surrender. Then said they had seen the vast armies of Israel covering the land and so they surrendered and were taken back in handcuffs. (Does the story of Elisha come to mind and the hills covered with the armies of the Lord?)



                Now Israel is surrounded once again and vastly outnumbered. Negotiations are being made for peace as they seek to sign a covenant with the many for peace and the building of the third temple as a house of prayer for all nations.



                Unfortunately, there is a mixture of good and evil in this upcoming event. It is good because Daniel prophesied this covenant 3500 years ago in Daniel 9:27 and Jesus reiterated it in Mt. 24: 15 as an end time event. So in spite of their best efforts to fulfill Bible prophecy, this rebuilding of the temple is going to prove disastrous, for when they are saying “peace and safety” then will come sudden destruction. The antichrist will enter into the temple and declare himself to be the God of this world and true Israelites and Jews will be forced to flee to the mountains just as it says in Mt. 24:15-22.



                This event will be the beginning of the great tribulation and the time of Jacob’s Trouble just as Jesus said.



                So even though we may not understand every last detail of how it will all unfold, we can know that Israel is God’s signpost of end time events. Many Bible scholars believe that the time of the end officially started when Israel became a nation again in 1948. There are countless miracles that have taken place politically and militarily so that it is obvious that God is watching over His Word to perform it.



                For better, or for worse, I believe that God has sent Donald Trump to set end time events into motion for I believe that the time has come for God’s prophetic time table to be engaged. I don’t know for certain if this coming “covenant with the many “ is the actual one mentioned in Daniel 9:27, or if it is just leading up to it, but we certainly see the signs of our Lord’s return and the events leading up to it.



                It is important that we stick close to our Bibles as these events unfold. There are many opposing views and visions for Israel. Some long for its annihilation and complete destruction… some long to set up man’s kingdom in defiance of the God of heaven. The globalists want to create a fake millennium to be ruled by a fake Christ so as to deceive the masses… Others, like the Vatican want to make it the religious capital of the world by uniting all religions together. The Muslims want to restore Jerusalem to the Turks of the Ottoman Empire so that they can rule the world as in days of old. They want to regain their long lost Caliphate and to be ruled by their 12th Imam. (A figure that perfectly matches our Biblical antichrist.)



                In the end, however, David’s view, the vision he saw with his heart, will be the one that will prevail… for the King of glory will indeed come in and will reign on the throne of David. For God has said:

                “My covenant I will not violate, nor will I alter the utterance of My lips, once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. His descendants shall endure forever and his throne as the sun before Me. It shall be established forever like the moon and the witness in the sky is faithful.” Psalms 89:34-37.



                And Paul picks up on these everlasting covenants that God made with Abraham and with David. These covenants are not conditional upon Israel’s obedience for they are sworn by God upon His own holiness and not ours.  And this is confirmed in Romans 11:29 as Paul tells us that the gifts and the calling of God concerning Israel are irrevocable.

               

                This is exactly why Israel is back in its own land today and why people from all of the nations are streaming back into it. God says through Amos:

                “Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel and they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them and they will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, and make gardens and eat their fruit, I will also plant them on their land AND THEY WILL NOT AGAIN BE ROOTED OUT FROM THEIR LAND WHICH I HAVE GIVEN TO THEM” SAYS THE LORD YOUR GOD.” Amos 9:13-15



                Through Ezekiel, God made these promises:



                Thus says the Lorde God, “Behold I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone and I will gather  them from every side and bring them into their own land and I will make them one nation in the land and on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them and they will no longer be two nations and they will no longer be divided into two kingdoms … “My servant David will be king over them…And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them and will set My sanctuary in their midst FOREVER. Mu dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their god and they will be My people. And the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst FOREVER.” Ezekiel 37:21-28 (parts) Read the whole chapter and chapter 38 as well where it says:

                “After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations and they are living securely all of them…” Ez. 38:8



                Ezekiel goes on to describe in great detail the true temple that will be built by the Messiah during His millennial reign after the antichrist and the false prophet and the globalist cabal has been destroyed by the brightness of His coming.



                I don’t claim to be an authority on these things and there are scholars much better than I in the details of these matters, but I do believe that God has sent for the His Word and it will not return to Him until it has accomplished the thing which is spoken. We can wave our traditions in God’s face all we want to, but it will not change what God has sworn upon His own name and upon His own holiness.



                God made His everlasting covenants with Israel and we as the church did not replace Israel, but were grafted into Israel so that by faith in Israel’s Messiah, we too become Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise. So when God told Abraham that through him all the nations of the earth would be blessed, He meant it and that is why we should be doubly careful to sort out that which is of God and that which is of the antichrist and the Pope and the New World Order… for in the end… only the Word of God will remain standing.



                Do you have a heart that sees? Do you have a heart that will believe what the Word says over the opinions of men and religions? It is crucial that we do so if we are not to be deceived in the coming years.

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