Santa's got nothing on this ride in the sky

In Deuteronomy 33, Moses dismisses the children of Israel with a final blessing, or benediction, before his death. He starts by saying, “The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.”

“This is one of those strange passages,” explains Jordan. “Those ten thousands of saints there are not Israel because God didn’t come forth from Sinai. This whole passage is Moses prophesying to Israel about what’s going to happen at the Second Coming!

“He goes down through the chapter talking about each one of the tribes of Israel and tells them what they’re life is going to be like and literally identifies what’s going to be said about them in the last days. It’s kind of one of these ‘course of the nations’ addresses.

“Deuteronomy 33:26-27 says, ‘There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
[27] The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

“When did God back in Exodus ride upon the heavens? It’s not back there. When is He going to ride on the heavens according to the prophets? Second Advent. Flying over, He’s going to defend them.

“You see, the kingdom comes after He destroys His enemies and gets rid of them all. The last verse in Deuteronomy 33 says, [29] Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

“That hasn’t happened, but it will happen when the Lord comes riding upon the heavens, His excellency upon the sky, coming in and destroying them.

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“Psalm 68 is a whole psalm about the Second Coming. Here’s the Lord coming back. Verse 4 says, [4] Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.

“Notice, here’s God riding on the heavens by His name JAH, which is a contraction for Jehovah. You want to see Him do what Deuteronomy’s talking about? Psalm 68:16 says, ‘Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.’

“Where’s the Lord going to dwell forever on the earth? In Mt. Zion, the hill, a part of Jerusalem. This is the place.

“Verses 17-18 say, [17] The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
[18] Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

“This army of mighty ones that’s coming is an army of angels; it’s an angelic army and it’s going to go with Him to execute His wrath. Part of the reason it’s an angelic army is, first it’s got to get rid of all the satanic angelic forces—gather them up, corral them, and throw them into darkness.

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“You remember the Maniac of Gadara in Mark 5? He’s in the tombs cutting himself and Jesus, who comes up to cast the devil out of him, asks, ‘Who are you?’ and the maniac says, ‘I’m Legion.’

“They say the Roman Legion was made up of 2,000 soldiers. The idea there is it's not just one devil in the guy; there’s as many as two thousand. Well, why would one guy have 2,000 devils in him? The thought there is Satan had gathered his army together.

“Jesus showed up and Satan thought He was coming to do His stuff, so Satan gets his army in place and occupies the people of Israel, which is how he occupies the land, and he’s making Israel his captive so that they can’t be used by God, and there’s more demons in the land than Jews so that Jew’s got that many more demons in him.

“By the way, where do the demons go when they’re cast out? They went into the pigs and the pigs ran down into the water. People say, ‘What, God doesn’t like pigs?’ If you go back in Isaiah 65 and 66, you’ll discover that part of the Baal worship, the pagan religion Israel’s involved in, swine were part of the worship.

“The maniac was not some psychopath with a cutting fetish; he was out there worshipping his god. The mutilation, the bloodletting, the swine flesh . . . You see, in Isaiah those things are associated with the Baal worship that’s going to control Israel.

“They go into the pigs and take the symbols of their religion down into the pit, which is exactly what Jesus does with Satan and the Antichrist. He throws them down into the darkness. He throws the Antichrist and the false prophet into the lake of fire and Satan into the bottomless pit for the thousand years and then off into the lake of fire.

“The more you go over this, the more you can put these verses together and the more you begin to think about what’s going on in prophecy as SOMETHING REAL.”