Levant (meaning “the rising of the sun in the east”) is the old-world European name used for 500 years to describe the Middle East territory controlled by Muslims, covering the Mediterranean coast of Turkey down to Egypt.
“When Obama
and our government refer to the terrorists as ISIL they are giving the tip of
the hat to the Muslim Brotherhood,” explained Jordan in his Wednesday night
study. “The terrorists, by using the name ISIL, are saying, ‘Our goal is not
just to have Iraq and Syria; it’s to have Lebanon, Jordan, Israel.’
“When our
government uses the term ISIL, that’s a kind of code signal to those guys that
says to them, ‘Hey, it’s okay for you to take Israel.’ They’re literally giving
a wink and a nod to the terrorists’ goal of (controlling) more than just Iraq and
Syria.
“The problem
with that is right in the middle of that region is the only democracy and the
only ally we have.”
*****
Earlier
today it was reported on FOX that, “ISIS is looking for Armageddon-style
battles.”
Interestingly
enough, Jordan’s study Wednesday was out of Joel 2, which educates the “believing
remnant” in Israel about how Armageddon is going to come and deal with the real
enemy behind the scenes, using the supernatural armies of heaven to accompany
the Lord Jesus Christ as He comes out of heaven at the Second Advent.
Joel 2:7-8
says, “They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like
men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not
break their ranks. [8] Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk
every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be
wounded.”
“They’re
going to be moving straight forward, not breaking ranks,” explained Jordan. “There’s
just going to be one column of these soldiers following the Lord, undiverted.
“Mighty men
is a special description of these guys. They can’t be wounded, they can’t be destroyed,
and when they come they don’t leave anything behind them. When you
read that, you know immediately this is no natural bunch of humans.
*****
The passage
goes on, 9] They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run
upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the
windows like a thief.”
“There’s going to be
house-to-house urban warfare,” says Jordan. “They’re literally going to come
back and swarm like ants over the territory as they go through, and they’re
going to take out everything that offends and destroy it.
“Verse 10
says, ‘The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the
sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:’
“We talked
about the atmospheric turbulence that surrounds this army of thousands of
soldiers, in all kind of battle armor, as they come through that region.
“I think
about how in Arizona, when they have these sand storms come through, it looks
like a big round wall that goes up about 15,000 feet in the air.
“When it
says the earth is going to quake, the Book of Amos picks up right there. Amos
1:2 talks about an earthquake that, if you read the commentaries, nobody in
history knows how to identify because it’s nowhere else in history or Scripture; this is prophecy looking into the future.
“Joel 3:11
says, 11] Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and
gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come
down, O LORD.’
“That’s the
Lord’s attitude about the United Nations. Zephaniah 3:8 says, ‘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.’
“In the tribulation
with the Antichrist, the Lord gathers up all these nations, gets them united against Jerusalem and then, as the prophet says, ‘There they are; come get ’em!’
“It’s
important to understand this supernatural army is going to be required because
they’re going to be fighting supernatural enemies. There’s a behind-the- scenes
spiritual conflict being brought to a conclusion at this point.
“Isaiah 13
says, ‘Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto
them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 3] I have commanded my
sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them
that rejoice in my highness.“A ‘sanctified one’ is called a saint. In the Book of Jude, when it says the Lord shall come with 10,000 of His saints, He’s not talking about coming with 10,000 humans. He’s talking about the sanctified, set apart elect angels who stayed true during the angelic revolt.
“Isaiah 13:
4-6 says, ‘The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great
people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the
LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. [5] They come
from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of
his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
[6] Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.’
[6] Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.’
“I love when
it says he 'mustereth the troops.’ He literally goes out and gets all of the
artillery, all of the weapons, all of the implements of war and gathers those
angelic armies together.
*****“Jesus says in Luke 11:20-22, ‘But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. [21] When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
[22] But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.’
“Notice
Satan (the strong man from Jeremiah 31:11 who’s holding Israel captive) is
armed. He’s carrying. He’s got an army that works with Him and these guys are
ready to fight. They have armaments, implements, warfare kinds of things.
“The reason
that army from heaven comes is there is a supernatural war in the spiritual
realm of life.
“By the way,
in Isaiah 13:2 is something interesting. When it says ‘shake the hand,’ it’s
like, ‘Over here, guys, here’s the way to get in!’ But you see how it says ‘that
they may go into the gates of the nobles’?
“There’s
literally a portal through which these angelic host are going to come to get
into the battle.
“It’s
fascinating to me, we have a term in modern-day mythology and movie-making
called 'Stargate.' There’s even a movie and TV series by that name.
“If you back
into the ’60s, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis wrote these books (including Narnia) about
the portal where you get into the other realm.
“In the old
soap opera ‘Dark Shadows,’ there was a mirror where you’d go through it into a
world where Lucifer (Leviathan) reigns. It was a portal from one dimension to
the other.
“I read that
verse and say, ‘Boy, they’re using that word right out of the Bible.’ In the Bible, like in Genesis 28, Jacob sees the gate of heaven and the ladder
where the angels are and they go up and come down and he says, ‘This
is none other than the house of God; it’s the gate of heaven.’ Here’s the
portal, the passageway.
“Where hell
is is in the heart of the earth and there are passageways from the surface of
the earth down into hell. You understand, if you have a prison like hell is, when
Jesus talks about the ‘gates of hell,’ that’s a place you go in to room. It has
bars and locks on it with keys to the gates. So it’s an entrance way.
“This
stuff’s real and the descriptions of it are real descriptions. Jesus is going
to come with real armies because the enemy He’s going to deal with are real
enemies and the armies are going to be angelic armies.”
(To be
continued tomorrow . . . )
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