Aerial warfare from Lord Himself flying over

Here's an outtake from tonight's study at my church:

Psalm 110 says, [1] The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Acts 2: [34] For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

[35] Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
[36] Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

That's Peter's interpretation. A foe is not an enemy; a foe is an active enemy. You can be somebody's enemy and just sit quietly, but when you're their foe, you're out to get 'em. Israel has now declared themselves as out after Christ, explains Richard Jordan.

Acts 7: [54] When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

[55] But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
[56] And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

I know what the preachers say, "Well, He's standing there to receive Stephen." Like every time some saint dies the Lord stands up. If that's true, He'd never sit down because saints are dying all the time. That's preacher talk from guys who don't know anything about what they're talking about.

The reason in your Bible that's He's standing is He sat until it's time to pour out His wrath. Now He's standing up; it's time to pour out His wrath.

Of course He didn't, and the reason He didn't is God interrupted the prophetic program right at this point and when Jesus Christ comes back in Acts 9 it's not to pour out His wrath; it's to save His chief enemy, Saul of Tarsus, and introduce a dispensation of grace--something new.

But that doesn't mean He isn't one day going to stand up and pour out His wrath. Isaiah's talking about just that time.

This is nothing new in Isaiah. We could spend the whole evening looking at verses like Isaiah 3: [13] The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

Isaiah 33: [10] Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

What does He do? He pours out His wrath on them. He comes back to set Himself up to be King.

Isaiah 42: [13] The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.

[14] I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

He's going to pour His wrath out, justly, righteously. So in Isaiah 28:21 it says, "The Lord's going to rise up."

[21] For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

You see that word "as"? He's going to give you two illustrations of what it's going to be like when the Lord rises up to pour out His wrath.

In your Bible, over and over and over again in the Old Testament Scripture there are illustrations where God will look at something that took place in history and say, "You see that? That's the kind of thing I'm going to do when I come back in my wrath."

When you read your Old Testament, you're not reading dead, past history. It is history; it's real history, but why would God put that event in the Bible and not another event? Because this event is an illustration of something that's coming in the future.

So, when you read stories in your Bible, always keep in the back of your mind, "This is not just a dead story to teach me some, you know, moral or some historical event. There's something in these accounts to teach me some doctrine.

Zechariah 14:4, describing the Second Advent of Christ: [4] And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

He leaves the Mount of Olives in Acts 1; the angel says, "You've seen Him go and in like manner He's going to come back."

The next time Jesus Christ puts His foot on the ground it's going to be on the Mount of Olives where He left!

Zechariah 14: [3] Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

Notice it says "as when he fought in the day of battle." So if you go back to the book of Joshua, for example, and you see the Lord fighting in the days of battle, Zechariah says, "You see what's happening in that Second Advent? It's going to be like He fought back there."

Look at II Samuel 5 and this is one of the ways that, in my personal, private, individual opinion that I recommend, your study of the Bible can be really exciting because over and over and over there will just be a little reference like this and if you go back and find it, you find, "Wow, look at all that!"

In II Samuel 5 David is fighting the Philistines: [20] And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

[21] And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
[22] And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
[23] And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
[24] And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.

In other words, the idea is, "David, make a circle around these guys, don't fight them yet, but when you hear the sound of the aircraft coming in overhead, that's going to be me, and I'm going to go forth and fly over them and zap 'em."

At the Second Advent there's going to be some aerial warfare from the Lord Himself as He comes flying  over. 

Watch that happen in Isaiah 31: [5] As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Just like back there with David, He's down here fighting these dudes and the Lord says, "Just be patient, take up your position, and when you hear me flying over, deliverance is there."

Isaiah says the Lord's going to come like that. He comes out of heaven and He comes down through that territory and for two and a half days He's waging war day and night. You say, "Why does it take so long?"

Because He's specifically taking out their positions.