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Friday, May 10, 2019

The Strong Delusion, Part 1

THE STRONG DELUSION, Part 1

5-10-2019

A “strong delusion” is prophesied in 2 Thessalonians 2:11.  But what is it?  Exegetes, commentators, and Bible teachers have issued several opinions for the delusion’s definition but I consider them all wrong simply because these people are also affected by the strong delusion and cannot or will not understand the truth.

2 Thessalonians 2:11 KJV  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

DELUSION DEFINITION: From Thayer: error, wrong opinion relative to morals or religion; error which shows itself in action, a wrong mode of acting; error, that which leads into error, deceit or fraud.  From the NET Notes: a deluding influence; a working of error

As the Thessalonian verse says, “they believe a lie”.  It is not they necessarily reject the truth and would rather believe a known lie.  It is because they do not know or understand the truth and believe the truth to be an error.  As Isaiah claims in several places, the vast majority of the followers of God are BLIND, they cannot see, accept, or understand the truth so they believe a concocted lie, although they do not think it is concocted.  Fortunately, Isaiah states that a coming event will open their eyes and they will finally understand.

Isaiah 29:9 NET You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind!.…..

Isaiah 42:19 NET My servant is truly blind, my messenger is truly deaf. My covenant partner, the servant of the LORD, is truly blind.

Many people have many different delusions but the primary delusion among Evangelicals; Christians; prophecy students; and others with some knowledge (or misunderstood knowledge) of end time’s events is based on the following concept: 

Founded on a platform of a Dispensational timeline, it is taught that all Christians will be raptured (which is the Latin equivalent of the Greek word harpazo) prior to the beginning of a seven year period of tribulation leaving the Jews of Israel in control of the world.  During this tribulation period a powerful man, popularly known as the Antichrist, will arise and destroy much of the world.  This period will only end with the return of Jesus Christ.

This delusion consists of several layers of prophetic misunderstanding including:  Dispensational thinking as supposedly thought up by John Darby that the Church will be gone and the Jewish temple will be rebuilt with the sacrificial system reinstalled; the misinterpretation of the Seventy Weeks prophecy found in Daniel 9:24-27 as the basis for a seven year tribulation period; the belief that the so-called Jewish founding of modern Israel is the fulfillment of many Old Testament prophecies; and the misunderstanding that the Revelation written by John is a blueprint of the events that will occur during the tribulation period.

Dispensationalism – The First Layer
The concept of dispensationalism has been attributed to John Nelson Darby (11/18/1800 – 4/29/1882).  Although Darby employed the concept of dispensationalism in his teachings, preachings, and writings some people disagree that he originally instituted the concept.

From Dispensationalism Publishing House

For years, critics of premillennialism have argued that John Nelson Darby was the source for the doctrine of the rapture and dispensationalism. Building upon years of research in seventeenth century and eighteenth-century English theological writings, William Watson argues that dispensationalism and the ideas associated with it were long part of British theological discourse.

Dispensationalism is a theological system that teaches biblical history is best understood in light of a number of successive administrations of God's dealings with mankind, which it calls "dispensations." It maintains fundamental distinctions between God's plans for national Israel and for the New Testament Church, and emphasizes prophecy of the end-times and a pre-tribulation rapture of the church prior to Christ's Second Coming. Its beginnings are usually associated with the Plymouth Brethren movement in the UK and the teachings of John Nelson Darby. 

It is an approach to biblical interpretation which states that God uses different means of working with people (Israel and the Church) during different periods of history, usually seven chronologically successive periods. 

1.   Innocence (Genesis 1 -3) - Adam and Eve before they sinned
2.   Conscience (Genesis 3-8) - First sin to the flood
3.   Civil Government (Genesis 9-11) - After the flood, government
4.   Promise (Genesis 12-Ex. 19) - Abraham to Moses, the Law is given
5.   Law (Exodus 20 - Acts 2:4) - Moses to the cross
6.   Grace (Acts 2:4 - Revelation 20:3) - Cross to the millennial kingdom
7.   Millennial Kingdom (Rev. 20:4-6) – The rule of Christ on earth in the millennial kingdom

The underlying destructiveness of Dispensational thought is that it destroys the unity of Scripture and establishes two different plans of salvation.  First, it destroys the unity between the Old and New Testament Scriptures instead of seeing it as a single Book with a progressive unfolding of the divine plan. Second, it teaches that Grace through the sacrifice of the Lamb of God is a temporary interlude that allows some "Gentiles" a window of opportunity to be saved apart from animal sacrifices. Third, it demands a reversion back to Judaism and to a very Jewish Kingdom in which God has preferential treatment of certain people based upon either their genealogy or their religion.

Dispensationalism has established the mind-set that Jews are saved by the law, while the "Gentiles" are saved by grace. This "Dual Covenant Theology" is being espoused by a number of preachers, though some of them (like John Hagee) actually deny it. They deny it, while at the same time affirming that Jews are in a Covenant relationship with God apart from Christ. What Covenant is that? Obviously, it can only be the Old Covenant, since it can hardly be said that adherents to Judaism are under the New Covenant.

Notice that the “rapture of the Church” is a necessity for the Age of the Jewish Kingdom to exist.  The future Jewish Kingdom will last for seven years which is called “the tribulation period”.  This tribulation period is a result of the completely inaccurate interpretation of the seventy weeks of Daniel prophecy.

Darby’s teaching has become enshrined in the Scofield Reference Bible, the most popular of all reference bibles.  Dispensational Theology has been refined to some extent and persistently defended by Dallas Theological Seminary founded by Lewis Sperry Chafer.

The prominent groundbreaker of dispensational theology is the Scofield Reference Bible first appearing in 1909 and revised in 1917.  It is said this Bible with it’s unique (at the time) reference system was financed and encouraged by Jewish bankers living in England, to enhance and further their goal of convincing the Christian church of their self-conceived “chosen people” status in light of their upcoming plan to retake Palestine which became the state of Israel in 1948. 

Although Darby claims the idea of dispensationalism just came to him “out of the air”, the Scofield Reference Bible highly promoted dispensationalism and the Dallas Theological Seminary turned it into an American Evangelical doctrine.  Scofield's notes on the Book of Revelation are a major source for the various timetables, judgments, and plagues elaborated on by popular religious writers such as Hal Lindsey, Edgar C. Whisenant, and Tim LaHaye, along with many others.

Millennial Views
There have been three substantial views as to the relationship of the Millennial Kingdom and the return of Jesus Christ.  The pre-millennial view is the most scripturally valid and is authenticated according to information written by John in the Revelation.

Pre-Millennialism, The Oldest View: The pre-millennial view is the view that holds that Christ will return to earth, literally and bodily, before the millennial age begins and that, by His presence, a kingdom will be instituted over which He will reign.  The early Christians were almost unquestionably pre-millennialists. The New Testament itself indicates that the apostles expected the Lord to return and set up His Kingdom in their lifetime.

Amillennialism: This view holds that there will be no literal Millennium on the earth following the 2nd coming of Christ. It tends to spiritualize all the prophecies concerning the Kingdom and attributes to the Church those prophecies relating to Israel. Its adherents are divided on whether the millennium is being fulfilled now on the earth (Augustine), or whether it is being fulfilled by the saints in heaven (Kliefoth).

Postmillennialism: Postmillennialism, the most recent of the 3 major views concerning the establishment of the Millennium, is almost extinct at the present time. Postmillennialism basically suggests that the world will get better and better until the whole world is Christianized, at which time Christ will return to a kingdom of peace.

By way of clarification, it should be noted that while all dispensationalists are by definition premillennial in their eschatology, not all premillennialists are dispensational in their theology.

Tribulation Views
At least four semi-official views concerning the relationship between the tribulation period and the return of Christ have been postulated.

The Pre-tribulation belief which holds that the Rapture will take place before the tribulation, that the Church will be with the Lord for seven years, and will return with him when the tribulation is over.

This view is the most popular among the vast number of dispensational pre-millennial believers.  The Church is raptured prior to the seven year tribulation period and the return of Jesus occurs at the end of the tribulation period.  This view would promote two returns of Christ: one as the harvester and another as the King of the Kingdom.

There is no scriptural evidence that any raptured human will return with Christ at the end of the tribulation.  Actually there is no evidence that the soul of any dead human is in the heavenly realm of God.

The Mid-tribulation belief which holds that the Rapture will take place in the middle of the seven years of tribulation, that the Church will be with the Lord for 3 1/2 years, and will then return with him.

This view is mostly held by those who believe the actual tribulation begins at the middle of the seven years of tribulation.  As the Pre believers, this group imagines that all raptured humans will return with Christ at the end of the tribulation.

The Pre-wrath belief which sees the Rapture and the return of the Lord as one event sometime in the second half of the tribulation immediately followed by a "shortened" time of Great Tribulation.

The pre-wrath viewpoint was developed in 1990 by Marvin Rosenthal which was presented in a book with the same title.  It is not certain of the popularity of this view at the present.  Rosenthal’s rapture occurs at some point prior to the end of the tribulation period.

The Post-tribulation belief which is that the Rapture will take place at the end of the tribulation, that the Church will be lifted to the Lord and return with him.  They believe the Rapture and the Return of the Lord are one event: that the Church will be caught up to meet the Lord as he descends from heaven.  They believe there is only one coming of the Lord - at the end of the tribulation.

The Saints of the Most High God (Daniel) i.e. the elect and the overcomers, all agree that the gatherings of the Saints, both dead and alive, will occur at the return of Jesus Christ.  If anyone currently believe there is a tribulation period then we are living in it at the taking down of Mystery, Babylon (i.e. central Rothschild bankers, the deep state, and the Globalists).

THE NATION OF ISRAEL – THE SECOND LAYER
The next layer of delusion of the blind is the racial ethnicity of the people referring to themselves as Jews.  Most of the world, except for a handful of elect people with knowledge of the truth, declare the Jews as the ancestors of Hebrew Israelites and the actual descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  As will be shown below, some are actual Judahites, or actual Jews, but the majority are Edomites, partial Edomites, Khazarians, and Persians, with none of them being actual descendants of the lost ten tribes of ancient northern Israel.

The so-called lost tribes of Israel will be discussed later, but for now a few facts will be presented.  Assyria launched several assaults against the northern nation of Israel.  Samaria, the capital of Israel, fell to the invading Assyrians in 721 B.C.  Although it is possible some Israel citizens escaped capture, the vast majority were either killed or deported to an area presently known as Eastern Turkey close to the Caucasus Mountains.

When the land of Palestine became the nation of Israel in 1948 most evangelical and fundamental Protestants in the USA immediately declared the new nation to be a miracle of the workings of God.  It was viewed as the fulfillment of the regathering of Israel into the Promised Land. They further declared that the war which broke out in 1948 was the beginning of the Great Tribulation, the Antichrist would soon appear, the Jews would be saved from destruction by Jesus’ return at the last minute, and they would then be converted and preach the Gospel to the world.

Of course this did not happen:  with no mass conversion to Christianity; no appearance of a fictional Antichrist; and the failure of the return of the Lord. There were too many prophecies these preachers did not understand or simply did not believe because of their prophesied blindness to the truth.

Modern Israel Part 1 - Edomites
An Edomite is an ancestor of Esau, the fraternal twin of Isaac.  Not all Jews today are necessarily Edomites, but all Edomites or partial Edomites call themselves Jews.  The term “Jew” is an abbreviation of Judah (also consists of the tribe of Benjamin and some Levites).  Edom was integrated into the Judean Jewish culture during the Hasmonean uprising prior to the birth of Christ.  Herod’s mother was an Edomite.

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XIII, ix, 1:  Hyrcanus took also Dora and Marissa, cities of Idumea, and subdued all the Idumeans; and permitted them to stay in that country, if they would be circumcised, and make use of the laws of the Jews; and they were so desirous of living in the country of their forefathers, that they submitted to the use of circumcision and the rest of the Jews’ ways of living; at which time therefore, this befell them, that they were hereafter no other than Jews.

The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition:  Judas Maccabeus conquered their territory for a time (B.C. 163; Ant. Xii, 8 par. 1, 2). They were again subdued by John Hyrcanus (c. 125 B.C.) by whom they were forced to observe Jewish rites and laws (ib. 9, par. 1; xiv. 4, par. 4). They were then incorporated with the Jewish nation, and their country was called by the Greeks and Romans ‘Idumea’ (Mark iii. 8; Ptolemy, Geography v. 16). With Antipater began the Idumean dynasty that ruled over Judea till its conquest by the Romans. Immediately before the siege of Jerusalem 20,000 Idumeans, under the leadership of John, Simeon, Phinehas, and Jacob, appeared before Jerusalem to fight in behalf of the zealots who were besieged in the Temple (Josephus, B.J. iv. 4, par. 5).  From this time the Idumeans ceased to be a separate people.

Jews, or some branch of them such as partial Edomites, became the only people remaining to fulfill Isaac’s blessing and the Zionist prophecies of Edom (which states that Esau is to be given the dominion blessing for a while). These will be known by their character, and the manifestation of their Zionistic methods. We would expect Edom’s Zionism to be fulfilled by violence, theft, and bloodshed which is also the way of modern Jews. In contrast, we would expect the true, godly Zionism of Israel (Joseph) to be fulfilled by peace, righteousness, and justice that would be a blessing to all families of the earth.  The modern nation of Israel is ruled by Edomites calling themselves Jews.

Esau was born “reddish all over”.  It’s not certain if reddish refers to his skin color or the color of his hair, although “like a hairy garment” appears to indicate his body hair was reddish.  If his hair was indeed red then his complexion, like most with red hair, would be reddish in nature.

Genesis 25:25 NET The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.

Most likely Esau’s hair and complexion were reddish.  Modern pictures of Israeli soldiers reveal many with reddish hair and a reddish beard.

The modern Jewish nation of Israel, that is, those who adhere to some form of Judaism and reject Jesus Christ— is the only modern nation that can fulfill the prophecies of Edom. In incorporating Edom into the nation of Judea and its religious system by the Maccabees, the inbred Jews became the heirs of both sets of prophecies— prophecies of Judah as well as the prophecies about Edom.

The current state of Israel is a fulfillment of a prophetic promise of God to Esau that he would be given the dominion blessing for a time since it was taken by trickery and fraud by Jacob from Isaac. 

Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of soup and was swindled out of his scepter (kingship) blessing by his fraternal twin Jacob by posing as Esau.  When Esau discovered that his kingship blessing had been tricked from Isaac by Jacob he cried in regret and asked Isaac for a blessing as well.  

Through the power and mind of God, Isaac gave Esau a prophetic blessing that Israel and Judah endured until their destruction and captivity from Assyria and Babylon and that we (the world – particularly the 10 tribes of Israel) are enduring today.  The Edomites attempted to move in to Canaan but the northern area was inhabited by foreigners brought in by Assyria called the Samaritans in Jesus’ day and southern Judah was occupied by Babylonian troops.

Here is the prophetic blessing that Isaac gave Esau: 
  
Genesis 27:39-40 NET  So his father Isaac said to him, "Indeed, your home will be away from the richness of the earth, and away from the dew of the sky above.  (40)  You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck." 

The unlawful acts of Jacob would require punishment by the laws and standards of God.  Although God informed Rebekah that the slightly older son (Esau) would serve the younger son (Jacob) she took matters into her own hands and incited Jacob to perform the acts of deceit and trickery.

Genesis 25:23 NET  and the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."

When the fraud was discovered by Isaac, he knew that eventually God would take away the promises obtained by Jacob and give them to Esau.  We will discover the blessing shift did not fully take place until 1948 when the Edomite Judeans gained control of a portion of Canaan by political manipulations.  The majority of the so-called Jews and leadership of the current nation of Israel are not Judahites but are full or partial mixtures of Edomites.  As the Pharisees stated, they are of the seed of Abraham but are not fully, if at all, the seed of Jacob and Judah.  The blessing will be reversed again at the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Most or maybe even all of the Jews who denied Christ were Edomite imposters and most of those who accepted Him were true Judean Jews of the line of the tribe of Judah. Those who did believe Him became known as Christians and not Jews any longer and these Edomite Jews who were particularly strong and numerous in the synagogues became the Talmudic Rabbi Jews of the Middle Ages and the Jews who also converted a half Mongoloid people (the Khazars) to Judaism - a distorted form of the belief in the God of Abraham (Jehovah or Yahweh) mixed with all sorts of anti-Christ hatred and ridiculous Dark ages customs and beliefs.

Along with the Babylonian Kabbalah being taught by their Rabbi's they form a formidable anti-Christian group today and secretly control the Christian seminaries (the "False prophet" of prophesy) promoting the pro-Israeli state to the tune of millions of US dollars in voluntary and in-voluntary (tax) donations towards their cause.

The Edomites attempted to regain the dominion throughout history and almost succeeded in the first century.  This may be a primary reason the Idumean leadership did not want a Judahite Messiah who would inherit the dominion blessing and leave the Edomites without a hope of ever gaining it.  Instead they incited the crowd and the Romans to crucify Jesus. 

Their plans were completely disrupted when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and killed many Idumeans with the remainder leaving the area towards Europe and Egypt.  They would now be forced to instigate their Edomite treachery on the inhabitants of Europe and the USA with the hidden concept of regaining the land by any means that became available.

The blessing prophecy predicts a time would come when Esau would receive the dominion mandate by force and be free to trample upon whomsoever he pleased. This is consistent with the character of Esau and his descendants.

In 1948 God fulfilled the Esau prophecy by allowing his ancestors to control the land of Palestine.  Like the fig tree cursed by Jesus, modern Israel inhabited by some Edomites are not producing any fruit and they will be cut down and burned.

Modern Israel Part 2 - Persians
Ancient Persia is currently known as Iran.  Many Iranian/Persian Jews migrated to Palestine during the Jewish incursion that captured sections of land and killed many Palestinians prior to 1948 when Israel was founded and declared a nation.

The Persian Jews were created during the days of Esther.  After the persecution of the Jews by Haman many of the Persians converted to Judaism.  Most likely to benefit from the honors bestowed on the Jews by the Persian government and perhaps to avoid persecution.

Esther 8:17 KJV  And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

Demise of European Jews
Towards the close of the ninth century the Jewish settlements of Germany, who were nearly all of Semitic origin, had been virtually wiped out by the "mob-hysteria" that resulted from the First Crusade in 1096.

Like those of 72 AD Masada who committed mass suicide rather than surrender to the armies of Rome, a great many of the Jews of Germany and surrounding countries, when presented with the choice of baptism into "Christianity" or death at the hands of their captors, chose the Masada solution of suicide and family murder. 

By the close of the 1300’s much of Western Europe was essentially, completely empty of any perceivable real Jewish population. What the Crusades failed to accomplish in the eradication of Western European Jewry the "Black Death" virtually completed. Those Jews of that era suffered doubly; from the plague itself and from the proliferation of superstitious rumors stating they were responsible for the disease (Black Death) and their wells were poisoned. Earlier they were also accused of "the ritual slaughter of Christian children” which resulted in the burning alive of Jews in great numbers over the whole area of Europe.

Later some of the Sephardic Jews of Spain immigrated northward, accounting for some of the smaller Jewish populations of Western Europe (who are most likely, although not proven, the only real Jews of today).

Modern Israel Part 3 - Khazarians
Many modern Jews have been replaced by the Japhethic ancestors who are basically white Khazars of the Trans Caucasus, none of whose ancestors, as Benjamin Freedman points out, have ever placed a foot in the land of Palestine. This could cause a serious problem with modern Christianity's infatuation with the Jews and their "return to their Homeland”.

The Khazar Empire was slowly reduced by wars until the middle of the thirteenth century, when it became victim to the Mongol invasion.  The Khazarians had been sending groups to Poland and Hungary for several years and the Mongols forced many to follow this path.  This Mongol migration resulted in a strong, oftentimes politically overwhelming, Khazar-Jewish influence in Hungary and Poland particularly, but also in most of Eastern Europe.

The Khazarians list their linage from Japheth particularly from a son of Japheth named Ashkenaz.  From their immediate ancestor, Ashkenaz, the Khazarian Jews called themselves the Ashkenazi Jews to distinguish them from the Sephardims.

On March 18, 2014, The Times of Israel published a parody article based on the fact that most Israeli people—mostly from Eastern Europe—are descended from the Khazars, rather than from Abraham.  The basic facts, of course, were correct.  The parody was the claimed resettling of Jews in the Ukraine and Crimea, which formed the original homeland of Khazaria.

There have been many individuals over the centuries who have converted to Judaism: Falashi Jews who are black-skinned; Chinese Jews; Japanese Jews, and many others.  However the most important are the Khazar Jews, whose ancestors converted to Judaism about 640 A.D. These alone form about 85-95% of today’s Jews around the world.

The Jewish Encyclopedia tells how the Khazars, a Turkish-Mongolian nation, converted to Judaism about 740-800 A.D. Many Jews scoffed at this idea, even after Jewish author, Arthur Koestler, drew attention to this portion of Jewish history in his 1976 book, The Thirteenth Tribe. But then in 2012, using the new gene science, the DNA results came in, proving that Koestler was right after all.

While the Khazar conversion may be well known in Jewish circles, it is certainly not well known in Christian circles. Such knowledge would discredit Christian Zionism’s main premise that the Jewish “return” to the old land of Israel is the fulfillment of God’s promise to Israel. If Zionism is more of a Khazar invasion-by-immigration event, coming largely from Russia and Ukraine in the north, then Zionism is more likely the fulfillment of the great invasion prophesied in Ezekiel 38 and 39. In other words, Zionism is actually the invasion of Gog and Magog, not the return of Israel to a former homeland.

The origin of the Ashkenazim, who are the Eastern European Jews, as distinct from the Sephardic, or “Spanish,” Jews. The Sephardic Jews trace their origin to Judea before they were expelled from the land in their wars with the Romans.

The Ashkenazi originate long before Abraham was born Genesis 10:23 says that Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah were the sons of Gomer, son of Japheth. Since all Semitic people take their name from Shem, this indicates that the children of Ashkenaz are not even Semitic!

King Joseph of the Khazars wrote a letter in 960 A.D. to a Jewish doctor in Cordova, Spain.

“Joseph then proceeds to provide a genealogy of his people. Though a fierce Jewish nationalist, proud of wielding the ‘Sceptre of Judah’, he cannot, and does not, claim for them Semitic descent; he traces their ancestry not to Shem, but to Noah’s third son, Japheth; or more precisely to Japheth’s grandson, Togarma, the ancestor of all Turkish tribes. ‘We have found in the family registers of our fathers,’ Joseph asserts boldly, ‘that Togarma had ten sons, and the names of their offspring are as follows: Uigur, Dursu, Avars, Huns, Basilii, Tarniakh, Khazars, Zagora, Bulgars, Sabir. We are the sons of Khazar, the seventh . . .”

The Fulfillment of Ezekiel 38 and 39
Togarma is listed also in Ezekiel 38:2, 6 as being allied with his father Gomer and his uncles (Magog, Meshech, and Tubal) in their invasion of “the mountains of Israel.” Far from being of the lineage of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, these are the prophesied enemies of the nation of Israel.

Dispensational Evangelicals and Christian Zionists, not knowing this aspect of Jewish history, have assumed from the beginning that the Jews were Israelites and that the Russians were the invaders prophesied in Ezekiel 38 and 39. But Jewish history itself shows that the invaders would not be Russians themselves, but Khazars from Russia and Eastern Europe in general.

In other words, just because the invaders came down from the north does not make them ethnic Russians. Because they had been conquered by ethnic Russians many centuries earlier and had been incorporated into Russia, they were part of the territory of Russia, while retaining their identity as Jews.

The prophet, Ezekiel, tells us that the utter destruction of Gog, Magog, and Togarma will occur in the end of this age prior to the Millennial Kingdom.  Ezekiel 39:17 is referenced in Revelation 19:17 showing that this will occur at the end of the present age. When the moment of truth arrives, Christians will be forced to recognize that most of the Zionists, coming from Eastern Europe, were actually fulfilling the prophecies of Togarma, Meshech, and Tubal.

Ezekiel 39:17 NET "As for you, son of man, this is what the sovereign LORD says: Tell every kind of bird and every wild beast: 'Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my slaughter which I am going to make for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel! You will eat flesh and drink blood.

Revelation 19:17 NET Then I saw one angel standing in the sun, and he shouted in a loud voice to all the birds flying high in the sky: "Come, gather around for the great banquet of God,











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