Two Sides of the Coin of Destiny

In every conflict there are at least two opposing sides, and there are those who encourage it, and profit because of the conflict, the powers who would desire to fan the flames of conflict in order to create schemes that they can use to manipulate, and fabricate an atmosphere in which they can achieve their agendas.

In our time now we are seeing the fruition of the seeds of ancient conflicts that have been growing, and cultivated for centuries.  We are seeing conflict forming, and the polarization of the modern world.  Ancient conflicts, hatreds, bitterness, and feuding, that has been cultivated, orchestrated, and refined to produce the desired effect for the enemies of Truth.

We see the polarization of North, and South beginning with the collapse of Alexander's empire, and the formation of the various Kingdoms that would eventually evolve into two great empires, one in the northern regions, and the other in the southern regions.  The two great Empires having two distinct, and diametrically opposed ideologies.  The perfect situation, and atmosphere for conflict.

The Greco-Roman empire of the north, with their polytheistic-libertarian ideology was extremely tolerant of people types, and religions, creating a strong atmosphere of organization, creativity, great wealth, and technology.  The polytheism of the ancient empire has been rearranged, and adjusted into a neo-polytheism, which not only is tolerant to all religions, but has been transformed to encompass every ones personal version of Christ, and this tolerance itself is a neo-polytheistic paradigm.  So instead of having many gods controlling all aspects of life, they have many different versions of Christ that provides all of their perceived desires, and needs, and everyone is duty bound to tolerate each groups version of Christ, or their particular god of choice.  This culture-relevant doctrine is Neo-Polytheism or more accurately Syncretism.

The Libertarian concept is the other aspect that makes this system extremely strong and adhesive.  Personal freedom has always been highly valued by the Greco-Roman world, and has never been realized easily.  The Roman name for the goddess of freedom was Libertas, hence the word liberty, and this goddess of Liberty has been translated into many cultures.  Libertas for the Romans, Marianne for the French, Columbia for the Colonies of America, hence the name "District of Columbia", and she has been transformed into the emerging "Goddess of Democracy" for the peoples of the East. This great Empire, and ideology, spread its influence throughout the world by trade, military conquest, and exploration.  This influence became the catalyst that would create the Western World, and tie it firmly to its origins.  The United States, Canada, Australia, Mexico, and the South American Countries are all examples of this ideological influence. This is the ideology that binds them, and Europe together for a common purpose, a common destiny.

The powers of the south were eventually organized by the formation of the Arab-African Muhammadan Caliphate, the Empire of the South.  Many southern cultures, and tribes were gathered together, and organized by the monotheistic religion, polarizing and unifying the leaders of the Caliphate, tracing their origins all the way back to Ishmael, the first born son of Abraham.  The first born son, who, according to history, was cast out, along with his Egyptian mother, and the following prophecy was spoken by the Angel that saved both Hagar and her son Ishmael:

 When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes. Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bow shot away, for she said, “Do not let me see the boy die.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.  God heard the lad crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.  Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”  Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the lad a drink. God was with the lad, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer.  He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Also another prophecy concerning Ishmael's future was spoken to Hagar when she was pregnant with Ishmael, and she was fleeing the anger of Sarah her Mistress:

Now the angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.  He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”  Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.”  Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”  The angel of the Lord said to her further,“Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall call his name Ishmael, Because the Lord has given heed to your affliction. “He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone,  And everyone’s hand will be against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers.”

The great Caliphate of the South coming from a legacy of conflict, and a struggle for dominance.  This great Islamic Empire evolving into a Monotheistic-Authoritarian/Totalitarian Power, became an influence that would be deep seated in the minds and hearts of all those who would be dominated by it.  Spreading its own influence to many countries, it has become the other side of the coin.

The ebb, and flow of the conflicts between these two great powers have been the subject of many history books, college studies, and prophecies.  Each ideology is distinct, and creates specific doctrines, which in turn create choices, and ultimately those choices create a destiny.  The differences between these two ideologies are great, ancient, deep seated, and completely irreconcilable in nature.  Both in vying for dominance have always had the vision of global completeness, in the sense that they both are systems of social control and organization.

In every great conflict, it is possible for a malevolent influence to escalate the conflict, but there has to be a point of contention, a thing, or place that is desired by both sides, or something that can give a strategic advantage to one of the opponents.  God said to Ezekiel:

“Thus says the Lord God, ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands around her. 

And the Psalmist sings:

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,  Is Mount Zion in the far north,  The city of the great King.

Every nation considers its own capital city as the most important one of all, but it is quite obvious which city is most important to God ultimately.  The one which He considers as the center of the world.  This city which has been called a "heavy stone" and a "cup that causes reeling".  It is to be the future capital of the whole earth, the royal city of the Great King.  It has become a focal point of contention, a prize, an ally, and a foothold in the oil-rich Middle-East for the empire of the North, a strategic foothold, and a bone of contention for the empire of the South, and it has always been the bane of the Zionist, who by holding onto the land so tightly they would not recognize the time of their visitation, and the One who created them, essentially dooming themselves as transgressors, unless they repent, turn to Jesus Christ, and let it go.

These three factions are the main players in the scenario that has been spoken of in the writings of truth, and they have been sealed in their destinies by their beliefs, practices, and desires.  God has foreseen the end from the beginning, and He has always preserved His Truth, and the true believers in spite of the systems in which they may reside.

It is important to understand that this world situation has not happened by chance alone, but has been manipulated and adjusted over the centuries to produce the required scenario, and naturally the question would be, manipulated by who?   Who is the one that greatly desires the total destruction of mankind?  Who has been a liar, and  murderer from the beginning?  Who is able to influence the hearts and minds of men to do evil?  Who is the one who has tried to destroy the creation of God from the beginning?   He is the one that instigated the very first conflict, and the very first murder, the one who has been behind all of the failures, and conflicts of mankind from the beginning, and yet at the very first moment in the garden when the first conflict was born, so was the solution.

The Seed, that wonderful Seed that will deliver the fatal blow, and ultimately destroy evil forever.  That great promise of the Seed that was given to Adam and Eve that they held on to for the rest of their lives, and that wonderful promise has been kept, and eagerly anticipated by everyone who has ever believed the truth.   Jesus said:

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

And Paul writes:

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed,” that is, Christ. 

Jesus is the Seed that would come, He would become the first, the One that would become the Tree that would bear much good fruit. He became something brand-new, something that had never existed before, God and man,  something wonderfully marvelous.  Having died, and risen He is the King of Heaven, and Earth, who is to give life to all who have believed in Him, and He will rule forever, Amen.

But there was also another seed mentioned in the garden.  The Lord said to Satan:

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”

Satan's seed, the seed of evil, the one who would proclaim himself to be God, the one who would destroy to an extraordinary degree, the one who would bring about desolation.  The false Christ.  The one who would succeed by deception, and influence.  The opposite of the true Christ, the one who would become the anti-Christ,  Satan's counterfeit.  The false seed that would also become something 'brand-new', something that had never existed before.  "The one who would come up out of the Abyss, and go to destruction".  The one "who was, and is not, and will come".  "The abomination that causes desolation".   

The ruler that is to come, and "his people" are spoken of in Daniel 9:

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the ruler who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined. 

And then Daniel writes more about the ruler who is to come:

And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

The apostle John wrote:

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

The evil Emperor from the past, brought up from the Abyss, and reinstalled into the realm of the living.  Such a one would certainly be considered an abomination, an evil unnatural thing.  Something that exists because of the activity of Satan in order to fulfill an evil purpose.  Something that had never existed before.  An evil tree, that would bear much evil fruit.  One who would once again become the Emperor of North, the one who would control all the military power and wealth of the entire northern, and western coalition.  Who would once again be the Emperor of the "Roman world",  "Iron mixed with clay".  What did the Angel tell John about the Emperors?

The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition.

Later on in the chapter the Angel explains to John that the "woman whom you saw, is the great city that reigns over the Kings of the earth".  It is quite obvious that He is making it clear to John that the city is Rome, and the seven Kings are the Emperors, at this time there were five that fell:  Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, Caligula, and Nero. "And one is", which was Vespasian the sixth. There are some who would argue that there were other Emperors in that year, but Vespasian was the only one at that time who was in control of Israel, Jerusalem, and the Temple, and the legions named him Emperor when Nero died.  Which, according to the spiritual timeline, makes him most certainly the only sixth.  The Emperor Vespasian was the sixth Emperor that was in control of Jerusalem, and the Temple.  He was Emperor when his legions, lead by his son Titus, destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple.  Which drove out all the people, including the Zionist rebels from Israel, and since that time the Gospel has been preached throughout the world.

How can a beast that has only seven heads have eight?   he was, and is not, that means he was alive, and is dead, and is coming back.  


And what of the seventh?  It is obvious that there is a space of time between the sixth, and the seventh, an interval, a time of waiting.  What is it that brings the interval to an end?  What is it that starts the timeline again?  In order to answer that we must consider the question:  What stopped it? The event that stopped the timing of the Seventy weeks is the destruction of Jerusalem, and the Temple at 70 AD.  

There are many prophecies about the future, that are recorded in the book of Daniel, many prophecies specific to the times in which this article is concerned.  In chapter eight, the Angel is telling Daniel about the distant future, and the time of the end of the nations that would arise out of the short-lived Alexandrian Grecian empire, and a sign is given to Daniel, two milestones that have to be reached in order to make way for the Emperor of the end.  The Angel said of those nations:

“In the latter period of their rule (sovereignty), When the transgressors have run their course (come full circle), A king will arise, Insolent and skilled in intrigue. “His power will be mighty, but not by his own power, And he will destroy to an extraordinary degree, and prosper and perform his will;  He will destroy mighty men and the holy people. “And through his shrewdness he will cause deceit to succeed by his influence; And he will magnify himself in his heart, And he will destroy many while they are at ease.  He will even oppose the Prince of princes, But he will be broken without human agency.

With the rise of the League of Nations in 1920, and the United Nations after the second world war in 1946, all of the nations have experienced the decline of their own personal "sovereignty", and the global vision of these international organizations to avert all conflicts that would lead to another world war.  In promoting their self appointed agenda to maintain peace, and stability, they have created an atmosphere of micro-management and global control.  This agenda will only become more powerful, and controlling, in the name of "global security".  So it is easy to recognize that we are experiencing the age of the decline of each "Nations Sovereign Rule".

In addressing the next milestone mentioned in this particular scripture, it is important to point out the fact that sometimes the truth that surrounds a certain situation, or people might seem extremely harsh, but we have to remind ourselves that Truth is, and always will remain the Truth, no matter how we might feel about it.

From the religious leaders that incited Christ's murder to the Zionist revolt against the Romans that brought about the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, to the Zionist movement of the late 19th century, it is easy to see what has always been important to them, and it is easy to see what has always been their vision.  John wrote about the events immediately after the resurrection of Lazarus:

Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what He had done, believed in Him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs.  If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

But they did lose the very thing that they were trying so desperately to hold on to, their place, and their nation. Their purpose, agenda, vision, and bane has always been their place, and their nation.  Their nation was removed from them, and their House was left to them desolate, because they did not recognize the time of their visitation.  They rejected the Truth about their own God, and even though they may be sincere, they are sincerely mistaken, and unfortunately, according to their own God Jesus Christ, it is a fatal mistake, because they did not believe God's witness to them. 

They are the Transgressors that have returned, to take back by force what was taken away from them so long ago. They rejected their King, their own God, the very author of Judaism itself.  It is easy to see what their vision is, what they seek, what they long for.  They want what they had.  They have almost come full circle.   Speaking about the latter days, the Angel said to Daniel:

For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.  And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.

They have staked their whole future on a false vision, a pipe dream, something that they shall never realize,  even when they build the Temple again, and maybe even find the Ark of the Covenant, and the Tabernacle, and the gold altar of incense, and even begin the Temple service again.  They will still not have God, because they are rejecting His Word concerning Jesus Christ,  Who is the only way to God.

The admonition concerning the Zionists has never changed through the centuries, John the baptist reproved them for their unbelief when they came to him:

So he began saying to the crowds who were going out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?  Therefore bear fruits in keeping with repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.  Indeed the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."

Also Paul wrote:

Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.  And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

So the message to the Zionist is clear, as Jesus has said:

If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.

The course of action for the Israeli is clear, Repent, and become a disciple of Christ.  Become a true Jew, and speak the truth.  Leave that place while you still have time, abandon the stumbling block of Zionism, and promote the spreading of the Gospel to the world.

Paul spoke of all the righteous people that have ever served God, and said:

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.  For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland.  And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return.  But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

And John writes of that City:

Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 

The message to the Greco-Roman-Western world is similar, and yet it needs to be prefaced:  It is extremely foolish to purposely step into the middle of a 3000+ year old family blood feud, yet that is exactly what we have done.  We have allowed false religious doctrines, economics, and global pressure to influence our decisions, it has cost us dearly, and will only get worse.  Solomon spoke about this kind of foolishness:

He who is surety for a stranger will suffer, But one who hates being surety is secure.

We have allowed ourselves to be used for something that is not righteous, not only that, we have become accessories, before, and after the fact.  We have to understand that even those who try to help others to lift that "Heavy Stone" will be severely injured.

Instead of focusing our resources on developing, and strengthening America, we have become involved in a UN campaign to police the planet, which robs us of the lives of our young, and will break the economy.  We must stop trying to police the world.  Helping other countries that are allies is essential, but being duped into depleting ones own resources to critical levels is stupid, and in doing so we will never be able to balance the budget of the Nation, and be responsible stewards. 

If someone that loves freedom, and righteousness wants to come here, and find a home, and safety,  then as always they would be welcome,  but we must understand that being surety for the rest of the world is a fools game.  Protecting ones home, and family is the duty of every man, but stretching that idea to fit a global paradigm is suspect, unacceptable, and betrays the wisdom of the founders in regard to national autonomy.  It is impossible to transform the world into a giant America.
  
Even though from the beginning in the garden, God gave men the Prime directive of Civilization, "to fill the earth and subdue it", everyone must understand that anything that can be acquired through aggression is not eternal. The European, the Westerner, the Zionist, the Muslim, and everyone else, must all understand that the things that are eternal are acquired through love, understanding, and faith in Jesus Christ.  Obedience to His commandments is essential to understanding the Truths of our existence.

All of the nations have a common enemy, a malevolence that seeks to destroy us all, but God has given us the Truth to deliver us from the evil that would destroy us, and that Truth is Jesus Christ, Who will soon return, and set all things aright, and recompense each man according to what he has done whether good, or evil.  We must not be manipulated by fear, but be inspired with faith, and the love of the Truth.  All religions are false, if they do not practice the Truth, because Jesus Christ is the only Truth.  If anyone thinks himself to be a disciple of Christ, then he must walk in the same manner as He walked.  May the Lord Jesus give us the strength to uphold the Truth.