God's version of United Nations

Another outtake from study by Richard Jordan on Revelation 16:

He says in Revelation 16: [13] And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
[14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

These demonic spirits are going to go out and deceive the nations into coming together to fight against the Lord Jesus Christ.

The issue here is that these spirits--the devils that come out of the mouth of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet--go out and deceive the nations, and through their ministrations all the world is deceived. The kings of the earth are deceived into gathering themselves together against the Lord.

Zephaniah 3:8 is one of the more peculiar verses in the Bible. It’s so different from what the religious mind has taught you to think that sometime it’s a little difficult to comprehend.

[8] Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

When does Jehovah rise up to the prey? At the Second Coming. He says, “For my determination is to gather the nations.” Here’s what God determined to do.

Somebody says, “I knew it; God established the United Nations.” Well, you know, that’s not too far from the truth, but it isn’t the way they mean it.

“My determination,” God says, “is to form a United Nations that I may gather the kingdoms together to pour on them all my fierce anger.”

That’s why over in Isaiah 10 when God describes the Antichrist, He says he’s “the rod of mine indignation in my hand.” God uses the wrath of men to praise Him.

Oh, I hope I can impress upon your heart about this. There’s something going on here in the deception of the religious system, and the world system out there, that God Almighty is going to use in order to accomplish His purpose.

Again, verse 13: [13] And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

Notice that these spirits are satanic and they’re working miracles. Now, for some people, a supernatural demonstration, or the appearance of one, is the answer to any question or doubt whether or not God was involved.

These spirits of devils, Satan’s cohorts, are working miracles and God is allowing it in order to use that to damn some people with and destroy them.

You know, that’s heavy to me when I think about it. I think how God can use even that rebellion of men to accomplish His purpose.

Revelation 13: [11] And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

[12] And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
[13] And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
[14] And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

This man has a power and a wonders ministry! He’s going along and the big banner over his cause is, “Power Ministry! Miracles! Wonders! Signs! Miraculous demonstrations!”

Verse 15: [15] And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

This false prophet has miracle-working power that is satanic in origin and is designed to carry on the purpose of Satan.

Revelation 16: [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

The Hebrew word for Armageddon means “the hill of the crowd,” or “the hill of the multitude.” You’ll find it’s a very popular place in your Old Testament for wars and battles. They don’t just take place on the hill, but there’s a great plain that goes out called the “plain of Megiddo.” Joel calls it the “valley of decision.”

There’s this wrong idea that there’s just going to be this one big battle in this valley and that’s where Christ’s going to come, and it’s all going to be over with, but the Second Advent of Jesus Christ is a LONG campaign; a war waged across all of Palestine.

The place where Armageddon is one place of intense warfare where Jesus Christ personally meets the Antichrist. Jesus Christ fights all up and down the Mediterranean coast, fighting in all of that area.

Revelation 14: [19] And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
[20] And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

When he talks about the blood up to the horse’s bridles, he’s not talking about the blood being that deep, in the sense that a swimming pool is up to my neck. He’s talking about being SPLASHED that high.

It’s not like dirt; you can’t pile up blood—it would flow out. What it is like is in Zechariah 1: [7] Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
[8] I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.

The army comes back and the first horses are red, the next horses are speckled and the next horses are white.

Notice how long it says in verse 20: “By the space of a thousand six hundred furlongs.” That’s estimated to be 180 miles. You go out 180 miles from Jerusalem and draw a radius around. Even beyond the border of the country, blood’s going to splattered!

You know something, there’s going to be a real war that goes on over there. It’s going to cover a lot more than Armageddon. So why is Armageddon the issue over here? Because, folks, in any battle, there’s a key point where things turn.

The Antichrist, when he sends the armies of the world, and the nations are against the Lord Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ comes back and starts destroying them, that begins to cause that blood to flow and the campaign to begin.

You’ll see verses after verses on this battle, but there comes a point where the Antichrist comes himself against the Lord and that’s where that (key point’s) going to be. Jesus Christ meets him out on that battlefield and destroys his army.