# 8. Coming World Events. "Meanings of: Armageddon-Euphrates-Death Decree."

     THE imagery, or the symbolism, used to describe the SIXTH plague is borrowed from the Old Testament. The term ARMAGEDDON is clearly symbolic, for it is an invented name. There is no literal place on earth by this name, nor has there been. The Hebrew prefix HAR means "mountain", and refers to the symbolic location upon which the 144,000 are gathered--- Mount Zion.

     The word Armageddon is used to symbolize the final struggle between good and evil, the last moral and religious crisis in the history of mankind just before Christ's Second coming.

     Many hundreds of years before John's time the Prophet Isaiah depicted the "king of Babylon" as the personification of Satan.....
     Isaiah 14:13  "For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:"
NOTE: (j.b.) Do we have a parallel to this remark for the present, or is this far into the past?  YOU DECIDE!
     "Evangelical Christendom" , January 1.1895 P.15 [Publisher J.S. Phillips, London]
     "As Cardinal Giuseppe Santo, who became POPE PIUS 10th, said this:  "The Pope is not simply the representative of Jesus Christ. ON the contrary he is Jesus Christ, under the veil of flesh. Does the Pope speak? It is...Jesus Christ, who is speaking. Hence, when anyone speaks of the Pope, it is not necessary to examine, but to obey"
NOTE- How does the Pope (s) handle this verse then?
 
     John 14:6  "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
 Note: Does this not exclude the Pope (s) and Mary? Plus confessions of sin the men called Priests?  YES!

      The original Hebrew word for the phrase "mount of the congregation [Isa.14:13] is "HAR-MO'ED" It is Satan's great goal to place himself in the place of Jesus Christ, to receive worship {it is he, Satan, many worship on Sun-god Day, even without their knowing!]  It is where God told His people to assemble for deliverance from their enemies....
     Joel 2:15-16  "Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet." Joel 2:23  "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month."
     Daniel 11:44-45  "But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him."
NOTE: Please, compare these two verses, notice the stark Between light and evil darkness/ differences?

      In the final conflict/controversy between good and evil God will allow Satan to "gather" his forces to his "mountain,". But the sixth plague will frustrate Satan's attempt to place himself above the Creator, during this plague God will dry up the "great river Euphrates," meaning God works via the Holy Spirit, will open the eyes of many deceived people, who turn on his and his beast system, for deceiving them all, but it comes too late for for to be saved, and they know it, thus the anger!

                                                    Meaning of Euphrates.

       One of old Babylon's prime strengths was its location, the river Euphrates ran right through it....
       Jeremiah 51:13  "O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness."
      Over 500 years before Christ, God punished haughty Babylon by allowing the Persian King Cyrus to conquer it. Cyrus and the kings with him came from the east [ Jeremiah 51:11-12  "Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.  Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon." (Medo-Persian Empire began in 539 B.C, read Daniel 2,4 chapters)
     Jeremiah 51:36  "Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry."
      Isaiah 41:2  "Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow."
      Isaiah 45:1  "Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;"
      Isaiah 46:9-11  "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it."

NOTE: Please do not miss this last passage, because it shows not only that God is, but that He can arrange YOUR future as well!

    The "Babylon" referred to throughout Revelation is an apostate religious system which sits, as did ancient Babylon, upon "many waters". These waters, represent the many "peoples, and multitudes, and nations and tongues."
      Revelation 17:15  "And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues."
    Are those who having been totally deceived, by the illusion of the beast's "Christianity,", the Holy Spirit has opened their eyes, and they turn and destroy their deceivers, but too late to do them any good towards their salvation, as Probation has closed and the Judgments made and stand fixed. There's no 2nd chance, we each have a life-time of chances---agree? AS these now awake people, stop supporting her, Babylon and her "waters" are dried up  Rev.17:13,14,16 presents a "flashback' showing how Babylon secured her power prior to the sixth plague.
      The dragon (primarily Satan, but in a secondary sense, modern spiritism- Humanism, Pentecostalism, Catholicism) , the Beast [the resurrection of the Church and State as one power] and the false Prophet [apostate Protestantism] who will all  join hands, will deceive the world through the agency of the "Three Unclean Spirits" [Revelation 16:13]. In particular Protestant America will experience [ it is now gaining more "converts than any other human in-devour] a great false spiritualistic revival shortly before it sets up a system of government resembling the Roman Catholic Church-State of the Dark Ages.Apostate Protestants, will reach out and grasp the hand of spiritism, and will join with the Papacy to support Babylon.

Note: Unknown at this date 5/2014, if U Tube is still carrying the Pope Frances message to the Pentecostal and Evangelical Assembly held earlier this year, with Kenneth Copeland and Tony Parker in a video link. The main message?  "We are ALL Catholics, the Protest is over!" Already signed and on board are the Anglicans, the Lutherans, some Baptists, the Russian and Greek Orthodox, all the Eastern religions including the Deli-Lama and Muslims. In fact an Imam, a Greek Orthodox head and high ranking Rabbis were all together in Israel  for a Papal State visit this past few days!
    What's the import?   Well heard of Vatican Two?  [1999]A signed by all the above and more, stating that they all recognize the Pope as the ultimate Religious authority!  Heard Bush # 1 speak of the New World Order? This is it!  So how close are we to Christ's return?

                                               THE DEATH DECREE. 

     THIS CHURCH-STATE CONFEDERACY will have "one mind"- one purpose, to war against the Lamb, Christ, and those that follow Him..
      Revelation 17:13  "These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast."
     It will at first be urged, to "get right with God"and join with them and their fellow "Christians", into apostasy with them! When invitations, and urging don't work then the word will go forth, that opposition just can not be tolerated, and that it is better for the few to die than all to to die, as whole nations will be brought into peril and confusion and ever increasing lawlessness. Simply due to the fact this system holds that all these plagues are are due to humanity leaving God and we all must join hands and worship God, and on SUN-god Day! In their mad attempt to persuade the Sabbath keepers to line up with them on their man-made holy? day!
    Finally a decree will be given that ALL Sabbath-keepers of the 4th Commandment who will not fall in line, with them, are denounced as deserving the severest punishments afforded to all heretics, death!.....
      Revelation 13:15  "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."
     Thankfully before many are murdered, as "heretics" please know that Rome STILL holds that it is she, that declared WHAT HERESY IS, AND THAT SHE HAS THE RIGHT TO KILL THEM. to lose a few is better than to lose all idea! That's when Micheal "Stands-up" and says "IT IS DONE"  and returns to earth, to begin evils total elimination!
     Joel 3:16  "The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel."
    Isaiah 30:29-30  "Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.  And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones."
     Hebrews 12:26  "Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven."

    The great and self-important Babylon will then collapse, as they see Jesus returning to earth, and they will flee from His presence as hailstones, up to 90 pounds in weight, and fire are doing their work of destruction of sinners. 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8  "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: "
   Revelation 6:14-17  And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? 

Dear Reader, I hope and pray that Y O U will be able to stand because Christ' Spirit is in Y O U!

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