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Noted below is a link to a brief teaching from Pastor Ray noting upcoming conflicts not profiled in the book of Revelation.
This teaching is presented by Restoration Church. Restoration Church is one year old. Pastor Ray serves as pastor–he is a Church Planter with the Northwest Baptist Convention in the Pacific Northwest. Your prayers and support are appreciated. For additional information visit the church website at: www.RestorationChurchCamano.com
Upcoming conflicts not profiled in the book of Revelation
1. The expansion of Israel’s borders (Genesis 15; Ezekiel 47-48)
18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.” (Genesis 15)
This is likely the outcome of a war against Israel (perhaps the Psalm 83 war). The results are:
2. The Psalm 83 Conflict
1 O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads. 3 With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish. 4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.” 5 With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites, 7 Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre. 8 Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants. 9 Do to them as you did to Midian… 13 Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind. 14 As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze…16 Cover their faces with shame, Lord, so that they will seek your name.
The Coalition / Axis forces:
Tents of Edom = [decedents of Esau] Palestinian Refugees and Southern Jordanians
Ishmaelites = Saudi Arabians * Moab = Palestinian Refugees and Central Jordanians
Hagrites = Egyptians * Gebal = Northern Lebanese * Amalek = Arabs South of Israel
Ammon = Palestinian Refugees and Northern Jordanians
Philista = Palestinian Refugees and Hamas of Gaza Strip
Inhabitants of Tyre = Hezbollah and Southern Lebanese
Assyria = Syrians and perhaps Northern Iraqis included * Children of Lot = Moab and Ammon
The controversy:
The outcome/result:
3. The destruction of Damascus (Isaiah 17; Jeremiah 49:23-27)
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins. 2 The cities of Aroer will be deserted…3 The fortified city will disappear… 9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation. 10 You have forgotten God your Savior; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress. Therefore, though you set out the finest plants…yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.
The controversy:
The outcome/result:
4. A strike on Elam (Jeremiah 49)
35 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “See, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might. 36 …I will scatter them to the four winds, and there will not be a nation where Elam’s exiles do not go. I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who want to kill them; I will bring disaster on them…
The controversy–there is a distinction between Iran, Persia, and Elam):
The outcome/result:
5. The Gog/Magog conflict (Ezekiel 38-39; Gen. 49:22-27; Joel 2:2-20)
2 “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him 3 and say…4 I will turn you around…5 Persia, Cush and Put will be with them…6 also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops… 11 You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people… 18 This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused… 19 … there shall be a great earthquake20…The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble…22 I will execute judgment on him…I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops… CHAPTER 39 14 People will be continually employed in cleansing the land… [for] seven months…15 … anyone who sees a human bone will leave a marker beside it until the gravediggers bury it in the Valley of Hamon Gog, 16 near a town called Hamonah. And so they will cleanse the land.’
The coalition / Axis forces:
Magog, Rosh = Russia and the former Soviet republics * Persia = Iran * Cush = Sudan,
Ethiopia, and Eritrea * Put = Libya, Algeria, and Tunisa * Gomer, Meshech, and Tubal =
Turkey (and possibly Germany and Austria) * Beth-togarmah = Turkey, Armenia, and some parts of
Asia Minor and Central Asia
The outcome/result: