Jim's Eschatological Info

While it’s easy to become engrossed in all the myriad aspects of prophecy concerning the return of our Lord, we need to be focused on the main topic. Or should I say the main Man, Jesus. The above title is a directive to the Apostle John when he fell down in worship at the feet of the angel who was instructing him. “And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, ‘See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy‘ “ (Revelation 19:10).

The word “testimony” as used here is the judicial witness that Jesus is who our bible says He is. In fact, the entire Book of Revelation is an angelic “testimony” given to John for our consumption. “And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the Word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw.” (Revelation 1:1-2). Authentic Christians in these last days will not be ashamed of this testimony concerning Christ even if the result is their own death. “And they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.” (Revelation 12:11).

The word “spirit” of prophecy is the underlying, animating force of our words of testimony. It’s the vital essence of truth making up the very nature of prophecy. The angel told John that he was a fellow servant who had this spirit of prophecy as did the apostle. He then added that all John’s brethren have it as well. This implies that we Christians all have this spirit of prophecy urging us to share our testimony of Jesus, our soon coming King.

Yes, the main topic of prophecy is Jesus. It’s all about Him. Everything He did from His acts of creation, His Old Testament appearances, His coming into the physical realm to redeem mankind from sin and death through His miraculous birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension to His Father’s throne are all part of our testimony. Of course, His second coming to judge the earth and establish His Kingdom just as the angel detailed to the apostle John in Revelation should be a major part of our witness and testimony. Of course, our personal testimony of how we came to know these things and how it has impacted our lives is a useful part of sharing with others.

If you’re a Christian who is at all interested or intrigued by biblical prophecy, don’t keep it to yourself. You have “the testimony of Jesus.” And, “The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

Maranatha, Jim

I’ve written a new article concerning the new Jerusalem John describes in Revelation Chapter 21. There seems to be much misunderstanding as to its timing and nature. This is my attempt to bring clarity to this topic. I realize that some of my conclusions may be controversial but give it a read and let me know what you think. I tried to stick to an objective hermeneutic throughout. I’ll also provide a permanent link below on this site.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YBumf0RPuggflXBpg9Gf_RCA5bmJ0x1ltbI4IulfWqY/edit?usp=sharing

Maranatha, Jim

The descriptive “reviler” is simply someone who rails publicly against another person’s beliefs and actions. A reviler ostracizes, ridicules, and makes fun another’s religious faith. The apostle Paul tells us such a person is doomed to hell. “Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). He also warns not to even associate with a reviler. “I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or is a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner-not even to eat with such a person.” (1 Corinthians 5:11). Of course, this does not mean someone who disagrees with your theology, but someone who is actively demeaning you for your understanding of scripture.

If you find you are being reviled, you’re in good company. The religious leaders reviled the man born blind whom Jesus had healed. “Then they reviled him and said, ‘you are his disciple, but we are Moses disciples.'” (John 9:28). Jesus Himself was reviled while on the cross. “And those who passed by reviled Him, wagging their heads.” Matthew 27:39). “Even those crucified with Him reviled Him.” (Mark 15:32). Jesus, however, did not respond in kind. “Who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return.” (1 Peter 2:23). He should be our example. We should also emulate the Apostle Paul. “And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure, being defamed, we entreat.” (1 Corinthians 4:12-13).

As the Holy Spirit continues to remind us and teach us about soon coming eschatological events, don’t stop sharing your knowledge of these things with whoever is receptive, it’s eternally important. Undoubtably there will be scoffers and revilers attempting to belittle and ridicule your positions, even from your own families and local church. But know that Jesus has your back. “Blessed are you when they revile you and persecute you and say all kind of evil against you falsely for My sake.” (Matthew 5:11).

Maranatha, Jim

The book “Last Days Events-Sequence and Synchrony” is now available in electronic form on Amazon. If you download it to any device other than Amazon’s Kindle, you’ll need to first download the Kindle app that’s shown on the site. Here’s the link: Last Days Events Sequence and Synchrony – Kindle edition by Weinert, James. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Maranatha, Jim

Globalism, or the quest for centralized world population control of all aspects of life, is the number 1 political issue across the world in this year of 2024. Whether it’s the platform of the WEF or the UN’s agenda 2030 or the WHO’s attempts at absolute control or the trend toward open national borders or climate change, etc., it’s easy to see the world-wide effort toward a new world order of central governance. This issue of globalism is at the heart of elections taking place across the globe. While there are certainly other important issues, globalism is tops even if you don’t realize it. Here in America, where I am writing this, we are nearing an election where a confirmed globalist incumbent is running against an anti-globalist. For the time being, it seems the anti-globalists are gaining in strength as has been recently demonstrated in some EU countries. The European Union has been held up as an example of what global control might look like if only stubborn countries would be willing to give up their national sovereignty.

The globalist world leaders are taking this threat seriously and taking appropriate action, so they do not lose the gains they have made in the last two decades. They are getting involved by injecting huge sums of money into national elections supporting globalist candidates and exerting their power wherever possible against the anti-globalists. For example, even the Pope (a staunch globalist) is taking punitive action against Archbishop Vigano (an ardent outspoken anti-globalist).

We Christians are aware of this globalist scheme to unite nations, political leaders, thought leaders, wealthy businessmen, etc. as it is foretold in our Bibles. Revelation chapters 17-18 describe this global entity in great detail. We know her as Mystery Babylon who corrupts the nations with her wiles. Is there any way to stop her from exercising world- wide control? Perhaps the results of upcoming elections may trip her up for a time in reaching her ultimate goals, but she will ultimately “reign over the kings of the earth” (Revelation 17:18).

The greater Mystery Babylon grows, the greater our personal resolve to fight her globalist ambitions and “come out of her” (Revelation 18:4) should be.

Maranatha, Jim

These words of Jesus spoken during His Olivet discourse are of great significance for this last-days generation. He was referring to prophecies given by the prophet Daniel 500+ years earlier, telling us to read and watch for them in the future-our day. Importantly, He said that the one reading these prophecies in Daniel could “understand” them. Daniel himself had difficulty understanding what was being told to him even though Gods messenger was sent to make him understand. “Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision refers to many days yet to come.” (Daniel 10:14). Daniel later stated: “Although I heard, I did not understand.“(Daniel 12:8). God’s messenger then told Daniel; “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end….The wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.” (Daniel 12:9-10)

When Jesus told his disciples (and us) that we could understand Daniel’s prophecies, Daniels extensive use of the term ‘understand’ should jump out to us as I’m sure it did to His disciples, as they would have been familiar with the scroll of Daniel. Here’s the direct quote from Jesus; “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place, whoever reads, let him understand. “ (Matthew 24:15)

Therefore, based on Jesus’s words, from the time they were uttered in 30AD, it’s been possible to comprehend Daniel’s prophecies-if we are wise; that is, apply wisdom from the Holy Spirit. When Jesus said, “let the reader understand,” He was either making a proclamation, uttering a prayer to His Father, opening the minds of His followers to understand Daniel, or all of the above. I believe this was the occasion Daniel’s words were unsealed by Jesus and made understandable to the church. He subsequently poured out the Holy Spirit a few weeks later giving Christians the most important tool necessary for understanding the things of God.

We are living in prophetic times. Don’t make the mistake of setting prophetic scriptures aside as complicated or not understandable. In fact, these scriptures should be prominent in your studies, so they are recognizable when they are fulfilled. Quoting Daniel, “the wise will understand.”

Maranatha, Jim

The beast (antichrist) is described in Revelation 17 as having seven heads and ten horns. The ten horns are clearly described: “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.” (Revelation 17:12-13). These ten are undoubtedly the same ones mentioned in Daniel: “The ten horns are ten kings who shall arise from this kingdom.“(antichrist’s). (Daniel 7:24). The ten kings are also likely the toes of iron and clay on Nebuchadnezzar’s image that are destroyed at Jesus’ second coming: “You watched while a stone was cut without hands (Jesus), which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay and broke them in pieces.” (Daniel 2:34). The ten kings are crushed by Jesus at Armageddon when he returns. This is confirmed by Ezekiel in chapters 38 and 39. There we see the kings of the earth gathered together with the antichrist (Gog) completely destroyed by Jesus. That Ezekiel is speaking here of Armageddon I have addressed in a previous post; Ezekiel’s GOG-Magog War is Armageddon – Jim’s Eschatological Info (eschatontrails.com)

Assuming the above is correct, we can look to Ezekiel to help identify the ten kings allied with the antichrist. “Behold I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal….Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya….Gomer and Togarmah from the far north.” (Ezekiel 38:3,5,6). Ezekiel denotes seven kingdoms originating from Asia Minor (descendants of Japeth) and northern Africa (descendants of Ham). The listed northern kingdoms (Meshech, Tubal, Gomer, and Togarmah) are all placed by the most trusted scholars in modern day Turkey. The north African nations mentioned (Ethiopia and Libya) are in Hebrew Cush and Put –Sudan and Libya. Persia stands out clearly as modern-day Iran. Therefore, with reasonable certainty, we can list at least four of the ten Kings to come: Turkey, Iran, Sudan, and Libya. Note that these are all Islamic countries encircling Israel. That gives us clues to speculate about who the other six may be. Allow me to propose some likely candidates: Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Algeria. They are all candidates as they are Islamic republics also encircling Israel. Of course, there are many other potential candidates.

As we approach these last days, we need to keep our eyes open for a ten-nation confederacy forming against Israel that likely includes Turkey, Iran, Libya, and Sudan. These ten nations will become a mighty tool in the hands of the antichrist.

Maranatha, Jim

The author of the attached article Jonathan Feldstein does a good job of bringing us up to date on the current abandonment of Israel by the international community. It’s prophetic that Israel will ultimately find herself alone on the world’s stage with Yahweh and the true Christian church her only allies. Truly, those are the only allies she needs.

Israel Standing Alone Among the Nations of the World – Israel365 News

Maranatha, Jim

When man fell into sin via Adam in the garden of Eden he was cursed to a limited life of toil for his very existence. Not only was mankind cursed, but the ground including plant and animal life as well. In fact, the apostle Paul tells us that the entire material and physical realm was cursed. “For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subject to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope: because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.” (Romans 8:19-22). The “whole creation” by definition means everything God created in the first six days including the entire cosmos or universe. This “bondage of corruption” that the universe is now subject to is described by the scientific term “entropy“. For a detailed look at entropy see my article “Entropy in the Bible” here: Entropy in the Bible – Google Docs.

Because of the curse and the imposition of entropy, our universe appears as an inhospitable chaotic place. Think supernovas, colliding galaxies, deadly gamma ray outbursts, black holes that gobble up anything that comes near, asteroid impacts, and any number destructive forces in play thru ought the cosmos. But this begs the question “did god create it that way?” Maybe. When God created the sun, moon, and the stars, and stretched out the heavens on the fourth day, He saw that His new creation was “good”. After He was done with the six days of creation He collectively called everything just created “very good”. Is the current state of our universe what God described as very good? Again, maybe. I think most likely not. According to Paul once the sons of God are revealed the destructive entropic curse will cease in all creation including the universe in all its vastness. If that truly is the case, as I believe, the cosmos will revert to its pre-fall state. We can only speculate what that may be like but suffice it to say the night sky will never look the same. Adam was the only man that ever saw it. Yes, “the creation itself will be delivered”.

We Christians can look forward to an awesome and amazing future. If we knew all that God has in store for us, it would likely be incomprehensible to our finite minds. Thinking on these things should evoke excitement in you-it does for me!

Maranatha, Jim

From the time of Abraham and his grandson Jacob (Israel) the focus of our bibles is the nation of Israel, its people, their covenants with our Creator, their land promise, their blessings and their curses, and, of course, their descendants. We Christians are adopted and grafted into their blessings due to the fact that our faith in Christ gives us an inheritance as He (Jesus) is the promised Seed. (Galatians 3:29).

The fact that Israel even exists today as a sovereign nation is an absolute miracle fulfilling many prophecies. Not only does she exist, but after nearly 2000 years of dispersion to the other nations of the world, since 1948 she is back in her traditional homeland and her capital city of Jerusalem that dates back 3000 years to King David, today speaking revived Hebrew, her ancient native language. Observant Jews have always known the land promise of God through the Abrahamic Covenant as well as many other prophecies that foretold of their regathering in the last days to their homeland in Zion where God chose to place His Name. Throughout the diaspora for the last 2000 years Jewish Passover seders ended with the phrase “next year in Jerusalem”. They never gave up hope and in our day that hope is realized. The path that resulted in the modern Jewish nation is simply miracle after miracle after miracle. I won’t go into detail here, but there is little doubt that God is orchestrating events fulfilling His prophecies along His timeline. It’s not been an easy road for the Jews due to the fact that they are a “stubborn” people though chosen by God as a conduit to bring forth universal salvation. Throughout their history they have strayed from the directives of God resulting in strong discipline. Their many wars, captivities by other nations, pogroms, Hitler’s holocaust, rampant antisemitism, etc. are some examples of discipline from God. And it’s not over. The “time of Jacob’s trouble” or the “tribulation” is in our near future. This current Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran war resulting (unbelievably) in wide-spread antisemitism is leading into an end-time scenario where Israel will find herself alone without political allies in this world. She does have two allies however, real Christianity that understands Israel’s place in history and the most important one, God Himself. All of biblical history attests to the fact that when the Jews turned fully to God as their standard bearer, their success was assured. That is what their nation and their leaders need to do today, if they want complete victory in all their battles.

As Christians, we need to be praying continually for peace in Jerusalem and for knowledge of Jesus as their Messiah to spread in Jewish communities. We need not align ourselves with all their political and moral shortcomings, but we do need to support the existence of the Jewish state based on God’s covenants and make known our disgust of the rampant antisemitism pervading our societies. We know how this all ends as stated by Paul in this message to Christians; “For I desire, brethren, that you should not be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the gentiles has come in. And so, all Israel will be saved as it is written: ‘The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.’ ” (Romans 11:25-27).

The fact that today a sovereign nation called Israel abides in our midst is proof positive that we are living in the end-times. Keep following the drama surrounding Israel and you will stay abreast of what God is doing to prepare for the second coming of His Son.

Maranatha, Jim