CONFRONTING MOUNTAIN LIONS AND YOUR SURVIVAL

After reading in Ezekiel chapter 7, that all who survive and escape will flee to the mountains, and there the wild beasts will bereave them of their children, I thought that dosen't seem like that could be describing our civilized country. With lingering doubts in my mind about who these scriptures are foretelling of, I put my bible away and turned the television.

A program on the television was about a game warden in an elementary school classroom telling the children that the mountain lion population has exploded. And that they are potential prey for mountain lions since they're smaller than adults. "A mountain lion is less likely to take down a 6-foot-tall man than a child," the game warden said. The children were instructed to not run if they encounter a mountain lion, but to stand and face it with both arms raised to appear larger. To run would only cause the mountain lion to pursue.

Those who flee to the mountains will risk attack and need to anticipate dealing with this problem, since that's primarily where mountain lions are.

After seeing this program, I knew the Lord confirmed to me that He has everything ready and in place for His word to be fulfilled.

The scriptures also designate specific types of events in various geographic locations. A third of the people will perish in the cities by famine and plague," but the plague is not contagious because they aren't perishing in the countryside from it. The famine is more severe in the city because the population is concentrated and the supplies are cut off.

SWORD IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

By paying careful attention to Ezekiel chapter 7, we can see that the four judgments are not all in the same place. 

In the country, there are fewer people and more food, -- farms with livestock and grain silos, but they will perish by the sword.

In addition to attacking and invading armies, desperate starving citydwellers will begin to pillage the countryside.

People living in the country shop in cities for supplies. But after the attack, the city has been reduced to rubble.

In fact, the Bible, Isaiah 33 specifically says that highways will be desolate--no travelers on the road, that explains Isaiah 3 where the Lord will cut off all support and all supplies of food and water.

 Isaiah Chapter 2 sets the timing of the context : in the last days, and mentions the day of the Lord. Their land is full of silver and gold, "no end to their treasures," and they bow down to the idols cleverly made by their hands. Our society is consumed with materialism. Therefore men shall flee "to the caves and the rocks,"  and holes in the ground -- which signifies seeking shelter from radiation.

Like a man suffering blistering heat in a barren desert seeks shade from a tree, those seeking relief from radiation will hunt for underground shelter.

YOU CAN KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN

Second Peter 2 makes clear what is going to happen, because the Lord condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and He made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire that fell from the sky. That is a good example of a nuclear bomb.

Ezekiel 1:4 "I looked and behold a whirlwind coming out of the north." [nuclear blast emits 400-mile-per-hour winds, nearly three times more powerful than 150-mile-per-hour Category 5 hurricanes] and an immense cloud of fire infolding itself, surrounded by brilliant light..

THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH SEALED THE CONNECTION

When I decided to read the Book of Jeremiah, I began to recognize a connection between Ezekiel and Jeremiah, where in Chapter 1 the Lord tells him disaster will be poured out from the north, and that the Lord will summon the kingdoms of the north.

I remembered Ezekiel's description of a mushroom cloud, and he said he saw it coming from out of the north. And I'm convinced that it's the disaster--the unique and unheard of disaster--described in Ezekiel 7 that has never been done before, and will never be done again according to Ezekiel 5:9.

So, as I read Jeremiah he continues talking about this great destruction from the north, and the scorching wind, and the alarm of war, the whole and is devastated. And then it says, "An army's coming from the land of the north." North becomes one of the repeated identifiable characteristics of this one-of-a-kind event in our immediate and imminent future.

THE PHRASE "FROM THE NORTH" MAKES A HUGE IMPACT ON UNDERSTANDING THESE SCRIPTURES

In Jeremiah 1:14, we learn that the Lord said that from the north, disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land. Once again we learn of an attack from the north, in a manner never done before, and which "will never be done again."

Without question Jeremiah talks of the same disaster from the north that Ezekiel describes. Yet we can take comfort in the promise that "they will fight against you, but not overwhelm you--for I will rescue you, declares the Lord."

Jeremiah says all this will happen because we have forsaken the Lord. In our American society today, this rings true as the courts allow schools and governments to throw out or destroy any mention of the 10 Commandments.

Worsening matters, authorities also have forsaken the word of God by prohibiting school prayer. Such deliberate policies have lead to disasters such as the shootings of many high school students in Columbine, Colorado.

In Jeremiah 2:34, we learn of the "lifeblood of innocent poor upon your clothes," a verse often quoted at abortion rallies where people fight for rights of unborn children.

Jeremiah also states that "disaster will follow disaster," as the whole land lay in ruins where people committed adultery, and they thronged in houses of prostitution, well-fed lusty stallions neighing for another man's wife. Jeremiah asks, "Should they not be punished for this?" but adds "do not destroy them completely."

The United States of America is guilty of every single indictment that you can possibly find in the most thorough search of holy scriptures. I challenge anyone to find a single exception. Like a defense attorney tries to find a technicality or a loophole to get his client off, I tried but there are no such verses.  

WE'RE  TOLD WHEN THE ATTACKS WILL OCCUR

I began to understand from Jeremiah some timing information. It says they're planning to attack at noon, but that shadows grew long, the daylight faded--so they're going to make it a night attack.

I already knew verses in the New Testament about the Lord coming like a thief in the night. And on that night, two men will be in a field, one will be taken, and one will be left. For anyone who hopes to be taken as in the rapture they need to take heed to Luke 17:37 the one who is taken is a dead body that the vulture gather around. Ezekiel 18 says it is the souls who sin that will die and 2 Peter 3 tells us that the new earth will be the home of the righteous. For Zechariah 2 says the Lord is coming to dwell among us and here we will be with him. 

Then, Jeremiah tells us that the Lord is going to take away the harvest. The leaves on the trees will wither, and He'll give poisoned water to drink.

I knew that could be caused by radioactive fallout dust. I began to understand why Ezekiel says to store up food, with famine coming, caused by a harvest being contaminated by radioactive fallout dust.

But it occurred to me that for a harvest to be taken, it has to be out there--vulnerable. I'm from an agricultural valley, and work for farmers. I recognized these scriptures also are important timing information. Harvest time is in the fall and I knew that Jesus said no man knows the day or hour, I now I do know the harvest will not come, causing a sudden unanticipated wide spread food shortage.

A LARGE AND MIGHTY ARMY WILL COME FROM THE NORTH

I found Ezekiel 38 talking about Gog and Magog, Persia, Cush, Gomer, and others who come from their place in the far north. This is also another passage of scripture pertaining to the Day of the Lord.

It says they will come against the people in a land of unwalled villages, living peacefully and unsuspecting--without walls and gates and bars--gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land. The United States fits these descriptions.

Ezekiel calls the attackers "a great horde and a mighty army."  The Day of the Lord in Joel 2 is also about a large and mighty army that comes, such as never was of old and never will be in ages to come. Before them, fire devours and behind them flames blaze. Before them, the land is like the Garden of Eden. Today's California has immaculately manicured vineyards and fruit orchards as far as the eye can see in every direction and is called the fruit basket of the world. It lies like the garden of Eden.

WE KNOW THAT THE ATTACK IS CERTAIN

They will attack us, but they will not be able to destroy us completely. We will recover; we will retaliate. We will prevail and emerge as the champions of the world.

Ezekiel 38 gives the same scenario. The invaders get turned around and fall in the mountains of Israel--which I know signifies mountainous regions of the United States. These areas range from the Appalachians and the Sierra Nevada, to the Cascades, the Rockies and other high-elevation areas. The large and mighty army of Joel's is later referred to the northern army that gets driven back out across a parched and barren land, and that is the land that they burned as they invaded.

This is all connected together. The Day of the Lord is referred to as a sudden destruction that comes upon unsuspecting people who are busy buying and selling and building and planting, and marrying and giving in marriage.

All this happens, while they're saying peace and safety, and sudden destruction will come upon them. Immediately following the Day of the Lord, the sun will be darkened, and they moon does not give its light. It's a day of darkness and gloom. It's the result of smoke-filled skies coming from the cities burning.

Smoke is particles, soot, ash rising high into the sky because of the heat of the fire. When the heat dissipates, these particles begin to float down. They're referred to as fallout. 

FALLOUT DUST IN THE BIBLE

One day I tried to share some of my new found insight of end time scripture, but she complained, "I'm sick and tired of hearing about doom and gloom. The Bible is a big book. Why don't you read something different once and awhile?"

I ignored her suggestion right then, and continued reading. But that very night I awoke around 2 o'clock in the morning by the throbbing pain in my shattered leg. I couldn't sleep.

So I decided to turn on the lamp and read my Bible. Right when I picked it up, the words my wife spoke to me earlier that day suggesting that I should read something different once in a while echoed in my mind. I thought, "Well, maybe she's right."

So, I turned near the front of the Bible far from anything I had been reading, and when it opened, the verse my eyes focused on was Deuteronomy 28:24. There I began to read, "The Lord will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder. It will come down from the skies, until you are ruined." I thought, "Can this be talking about fallout dust?"

RADIATION SICKNESS IS A WASTING DISEASE

I read the preceding context. It says the Lord will smite them with a wasting disease, fever, inflammation, blight, mildew, sores, tumors, scabs, and boils, and itch from which you cannot be cured.

I became convinced it was describing radiation sickness. This is what the scriptures say people will suffer as consequences of their disobedience.

Deuteronomy 28 starts out describing a nation that harkens diligently to serve the Lord and obey his commandments--that that nation will be placed high above all nations on the earth. We above all the nations of the earth fit that description best. I became deeply convinced that God himself is consistently revealing to me through the Bible what is going to happen. Even when I try to read about something different for a change, I find more even more scriptures confirming the coming endtime distress most certainly includes global thermal nuclear war.

Indeed, Deuteronomy goes on to say that those who survive will be given abundant prosperity, and their blessings are describes on and on, until it comes to a "however"--if they "turn from following my commandments, these curses will come upon them."

DANIEL 9:11 PREDICTS GREAT DISASTER

On another day, I was reading in the Book of Daniel and believe it or not, Daniel 9:11 says, "Therefore, the curses and sworn judgments written in the law of Moses--which is by the way of the Book of Deuteronomy--have been poured out on us because we have sinned against you.

"You have fulfilled the words spoken against us, and against our rulers by bringing on us a great disaster. Under the whole heaven has never bone done, like what has been done to Jerusalem."

So the coming great disaster of Daniel 9:11  is the curses of radiation sickness and fallout dust according to Deuteronomy 28!

I want to make a point about the name Jerusalem. It may have been the capital city in the time of Daniel. In visions of the future Daniel may have seen a major modern city and assumed it was what Jerusalem had evolved into. Time has a way of changing things. But our capital city today is Washington, D.C.  New York City boasts itself  as the capital of the World because of the United Nations headquarters located there.

But the point is like Shakespeare said, "A rose called by any other name still smells the same." We know this great disaster that's coming isn't coming upon today's Jerusalem because those people there don't dwell in a land of peace, whose cities have no walls--such as that referred to in Ezekiel 38:11.

Instead, the Jerusalem of today is a land of suicide bombers, and because of the violence, that city is building a 40-mile-long, 20-foot-tall concrete tilt-up wall. These scriptures absolutely are not talking about today's Jerusalem.

CLICK HERE NOW FOR PAGE 6