WHY GOD SUFFERS ISIS? {Final Gathering of the Nations introduction} 1. First we must consider how the word suffer has changed from the King James English of 1611until now, suffer meaning in the Bible to allow. So we might ask why does the Almighty and omnipotent God of the universe, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, allow ISIS? a. Consider for example the verse in Matthew 11:12 how the violent take the kingdom of heaven by force or violence, which is very appropiate for ISIS for with all their habitual violations of all the 10 commandments, offenses against the Father of the Lord Jesus, they have really been deluded by Satan into thinking they are seeking some kind of paradise with many virgins given them, which is truly a nightmare within itself. Wuest writes his translation of Matthew 11:12 as “Indeed, from the days of John the Baptizer until this moment, the kingdom of heaven is being taken by storm, and the strong and forceful ones claim it for themselves eagerly.” b. We are more familiar with the New King James Version of Matthew 11:12 of “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” 2. Next we must consider how those such as ISIS and the majority of the unbelieving in Christ world just thinks they are just taking the kingdom of heaven by puny human wisdom and aggressiveness of group behavior; and if we have any hope at all of resolving WHY GOD ALLOWS OR SUFFERS ISIS extreme and violent acts of behavior, really offences against Him, we must try to get inside the mind of God on this matter. The only hope for this is in what He has allowed us to know in the Bible! 3. This introduces the real cloud against understanding, and that is the false world value system of the majority in the world of unbelievers. God is seldom allowing His own to be killed –brutal truth—but is rather now allowing one brand of unbeliever to kill and destroy other brands of unbelievers. The names and world labels are different, but it comes down to the brutal truth that almost all being killed are not IN CHRIST, the favorite word of the Bible for Christians since the word Christian is used only 3 times in the Bible and was given by outsiders looking at Christians. For example the majority of the world value system, more false world labels, does not accept the reality that God once destroyed every man, woman, and child on the face of this earth for their wickedness; and the one reason that He does not do it now if both because of a few believers, that He promised never to destroy the earth again by water, His present and soon plan being to destroy it by fire as Peter wrote, “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” (II Peter 3:10) NOTE: Now admit it world, you don't believe this either and you have some false world wide value system that you share in common with ISIS more than with the Bible. We won't get into it now but this is a world wide value system that comes from Satan, the prince of this world. Just think of the simple value systems the world falsely has of evil which do not consider that the greatest evil is the refusal to accept in faith the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for the sins of the world. If the world was as good right now as the majority think, we would have heaven now on earth, and that is more of the violent and aggressive taking the kingdom of heaven by force. 4. This is too long not to tell from the Bible WHY GOD SUFFERS ISIS, it sounds like news articles that drag out the gist to get you to read the whole article. Stated simply and with the words of Christ Himself in Revelation--TO GATHER ALL THE NATIONS TO THE great last BATTLE of Megiddo and Jerusalem Israel. Is God's plan working in the confined area of the Middle East. Well count them one by one and how the count is rapidly growing to a close: first, the US was suckered under false pretenses to “drying up the river Euphrates” (Rev 16:12), remember that the Euprates was the core of Iraqi before the US and its allies destroyed the nation; then the unclean spirit/frog of Assad in Syria brought in Russia, Cuba, and Dr. Carson says China. Now with the recent events in Paris, the French are bombing in force, as if to get revenge. Of course you know also according to the Word of God that: Temporal and Fallible World Justice Replaced with Infallible “To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection. See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.” (Deuteronomy 32:35-39) This is not to say that justice is required to wipe out these unclean frogs/vermin under the disguise of a religions cause from the face of the earth; however it is just to say that God plans in due time to take care of it Himself, and that due time is drawing very close as signalled to us in the world news as the gathering of the nations around Israel. Of course it is His plan to gather all the nations around Israel so that the world can see what He is about to do; in order to punish ISIS and their allies; and to end the present world citizen in order to usher in the New Earth. 5. You might want to read for yourself about the gathering of the nations for the End. “And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.” (Revelation 16:12-17) 6. And you may want to read for yourself the death gurgle of this old earth at the END. It is not going to be pretty or painless. “And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. God's plan starts in Jerusalem and spreads to the cities of the world And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent... The world blasphemes God as their true colors show ... and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. (Revelation 16:18-21) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Consider this to be only an introduction because so many things from the Bible are yet to be stated and proven! I. The Final Gathering of the Nations in Joel 3:2. II. Correction on Above, this is only the final gathering of nations on the old earth, there is a final eternal gathering of the nations on the new earth. Zechariah 14 “ And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.” (Zechariah 14:16) III. ISIS is striving to take a kingdom by force. More exegesis on Matthew 11:12, those who strive to take the kingdom of heaven by violent force. IV. ISIS, just wait until you retreat from the armies of the nations to the Valley of Jehoshaphat (Kidron) }http://bibleatlas. org/regional/valley_of_jehoshaphat.htm} V. How ISIS fits into the Detailed Exegesis of Revelation 16. VI. The Ultimate fate of ISIS, Detailed Exegesis of Zechariah 13 and 14. VII. A world history perspective on ISIS and Assad, etc. How many nations like Assyria against the northern kingdom and Babylon against the sourthern kingdom and Israel were allowed by God, really planned by God to destroy the nations of God's people; then once used were destroyed. We thought the world of God's interest centered around our puny nation, but now we see the fanal world wide dealings of God to be in the Middle East and centered around Israel. Even as Paul says in Romans that Gentile Christians were grafted into the body of Christ after Israel, so God's protetion at the final will be around Israel. The only area that will survive will be around Mount Zion where God will lowered the New Jerusalem. |