The King of kings and Lord of lords by Pat Marvenko Smith

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The Coming of the Messiah (Maschiach) of Israel

 Translation by the New King James Version

Commentary by Robert D. Mock MD

robertmock@biblesearchers.com

 

Topics

A Model of the Oracles of Zechariah approaching the Great Day of the Lord

The Literal Coming of Jesus is with a literal resurrection and a literal destruction of the wicked.

Michael, the Archangel, the Prince of God’s People

The Day of the Lord is heralded by the Seventh Trumpet of the Archangel.

The Day of the Lord, Yahshua will begin His rule with a Rod of Iron

The Day of the Lord demands an active preparation by his servants (saints)

 for He will come as a thief. (Secret Rapture or Unexpected Rapture?)

After the Day of the Lord, Yahshua will reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords

until death (the wages of sin) is conquered and destroyed.

 

 

A Model of the Oracles of Zechariah

Approaching the Great Day of the Lord

 

One model we can use with literal sequence in the Book of Revelation would suggest the final seven years on this earth, would have three and one-half of progressive prosperity and progressive control of all the political, economic and religious arenas of world governance and then three and one-half years of ‘The Time of Satan’s Tribulation (Seals one to six for eighteen months) and “The Time of the Wrath of God (The seven trumpet and vial plagues for eighteen months)  

 

During the beginning of the seven years, the Nation of Israel will buy into this era and Israel will demonstrate to the world her capacity for rapid political, economic and religious dominance in the world.  By this time, the full lands of promise are under the power and control of the Knesset in Israel.  Israel has taken possession of the West Bank; the land of Samaria (Shomron) is under rapid development with cities and villages sprouting throughout the landside. On the east side of the banks of the Jordan, Basham and Gilead in the land of Syria and Jordan are under the control of the Israelis and Lebanon, including Tyre and Sidon now fly the Israeli flag. (Zechariah 9 and 10)

 

Zechariah 1 - The Lord of hosts sends his four cherubim, the four horses of white, red, bay and dappled and they range out over the whole earth and declare “The whole world is resting quietly and at peace”  (Zechariah 1:11) Life is one of abundance and time is closing in on almost seventy years (1933 – 2003) since the official persecution of the Jews began in Germany in April 1, 1933 and the beginning of the era of the Holocaust A national boycott was instituted against all Jewish shops and businesses.  Storm troopers were stationed in front of Jewish-owned shops.  The Star of David in yellow and black was painted over thousands of store windows, and signs, “German, Defend yourselves! Don’t buy from the Jews, The Jews are our Misfortune or simply Jude.  This same sign, the yellow Star of David, eventually came to be a forced personal insignia that all Jews had to wear on their clothes when they walked outside their homes.  Under what became known as the Nuremberg Race Laws (1935), Germany began a systematic division of the people of Germany in Germans and Jews. 

           

Can we now see, the Angel of the Lord (Yahshua) state, “How long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry these seventy years?  (Zechariah 1:12) 

 

Then the Angel of the Lord, Yahshua, proclaimed:

                                    Zechariah 1:14-17, parts -

“Thus says the Lord of hosts;

I am zealous for Jerusalem

And for Zion with great zeal.

I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease;

For I was a little angry,

And they helped –but with evil intent….

I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy;

My house shall be built in it,

And a surveyor’s line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”….

My cities shall again spread out through prosperity;

The Lord will again comfort Zion,

And will again choose Jerusalem.”

 

Then the Prophet Zechariah saw in vision four horns (Zechariah 1:18-21) What are these? 

 

Zechariah 1:21 -  “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could life up his head; but the craftsmen are coming to terrify them to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

 

Zechariah 2 - Then the Lord sent a ‘man with a measuring line’ to measure the Jerusalem that the Lord of hosts wants to inhabit, for it was told to the prophet,

 

Zechariah 2:12-13 - “And the Lord will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land and will again choose Jerusalem.  Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused from His holy habitation.”

 

Zechariah 3 - As we progress though the oracles of Zechariah, the priesthood is re-consecrated with Joshua (Yahshua’s namesake ) as the High Priest and Satan standing on the right hand to oppose Him. (Zechariah 3:1) The High Priest is filthy and unclean, yet he is clothed in ‘rich robes’ and a ‘clean turban’. (vs. 4) The High Priest is then commanded to ‘walk in My ways, keep My command, judge My house…have charge of My court…and I will give you places to walk.” (vs. 7) and the beginning of a theocratic government is beginning to form. 

 

With this, a promise is given to send a wondrous Sign,  ‘My servant the BRANCH. (vs.8) and that the Lord of hosts would ‘remove the iniquity of that land in one day.” (vs.9) as an invitation was given to the ‘Day of the Lord.” 

 

Zechariah 4 - Then the Temple of the Lord is constructed with the Holy Spirit promised to the governor (symbolized by Zerubabbel) of Israel, a civil system of governance by governors throughout all the land akin to the era of peace throughout the era of Persian rule under Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerses the Great. (Zechariah 4) Under the governor, the foundation will be laid and his hands will finish it. (vs. 9)

 

Upon the completion of the Temple, we then are introduced to the two olive trees that sit to the right and the left of the lamp stand. (vs. 11) Who are these?  They ‘are the two anointed ones, who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth.” (vs. 14)  Who of all the potential anointed ones in the history of Israel, were taken to heaven and represent the House of Israel before the Lord of hosts.  Well, the greatest of the prophets, Elijah, was taken up to heaven in the horse and chariot, a kebab and did not see death. Also the greatest of the Lawgivers in the history of the world, Moses, did die but his body was disputed by Michael, the Archangel with Satan and according to tradition, resides also in heaven to represent the children of the chosen. Here we are introduced to the two witnesses in the final 3 ½ years of this earth’s history in the Revelation.  (Revelation 11) 

 

Zechariah 5 - Suddenly the era of peace and prosperity comes to a screeching halt.  Zechariah in vision sees a flying Megillah, an object that looks like a 35.5 by 5 foot tube or cylinder similar to the small Megillah scrolls that the Oracles of Zechariah was scrolled up to look like.  In front of this flying Megillah was a container with an evil fire offering that was encapsulated with a leaden seal.  It flies by two fires that come out of the container and the fires cause the wind to lift the Megillah evil fire offering by its stork like wins and lift off from earth into the sky.  This object was taken to the land of Shinar, the present day Iraq and set on its base. (Zechariah 5:1-11) What do we have here but a two stage device nuclear missile?

 

What will happen to this missile?  According to the oracles, ‘this is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth. (vs. 3) or according to another translation, over the whole Land of Israel.  Will this missile be in the hands of the Saddam Hussein in Iraq or will the land of Shinar in the former land of Babylon become the new habitation of the Antichrist and the One World Confederation of the World Nations?  The purpose of this missile will be to expel the thieves, the economic mercenaries, from the earth and to expel all who swear falsely by the Name of the Lord.  Are we seeing a nuclear conflagration over the whole earth or a limited nuclear war in the Land of Israel?  We have to wait and see how the Lord will play out his hand according to His own purpose.  Are we seeing here the final end of the Time of Tribulation, the Abomination of Desolation in the Temple and the entry of the two witnesses in the final 3 ½ years before the coming of Jesus

 

The Time of God’s Wrath - If the Oracles of Zechariah can truly be paralleled with Revelation’s account of the end of times, the Time of Tribulation is over.  The seal of God is placed upon the foreheads or the thought process of the saints, and the Mark of the Beast is placed on the forehead in an era of progressive mental control and on the hand in an era of progressive economic control.  This is the Sixth Seal.

 

The Seventh Seal opens with the Trumpet Plagues and the Vial Plagues being poured out upon this planet.  We now enter an era of extreme catastrophic disasters which are recognized truly as ‘Acts of God’.  While the whole earth is undergoing convulsions of a magnitude unknown in historical mankind since the Flood of Noah, the Land of Israel appears to be reforming, rejuvenating, restoring itself, and the people in the Land are in full preparation for the Coming of the Lord.  The two witnesses are in the Land and with the cosmic powers at their disposal; they not only stand as a witness to the Lord of hosts, but as a protector to the Land and its people.  

 

Zechariah 6 - In Chapter six of the Oracles of Zechariah, it appears that Divine help is to be sent once again to build the temple.  Once again the cherubim, the horses ‘spirits’ that sit under the throne of God are sent out over the face of the earth, this time with chariots.  It appears that proceed from two mountains like bronze, simulated like the burnished bronze from the throne of God.   If the Lord of hosts is now resides in the cosmic sphere over Jerusalem, with His throne in the celestial world beyond the dimensional gates of our existence, then the four horse and chariot like cherubim stream forth from over the Temple site which sits between the Mount of Zion and the Mount of Olives.  Then we see an elaborate golden crown to be made for the ‘Man, whose name is the BRANCH!” (Zechariah 6:12) that was to be places first over the High Priest Joshua (Yahshua) (vs. 11) As the coming priest-king after the order of Melchezadik, Yahshua will receive His authority and His rulership from the His Father, the Lord of hosts. This temple to be built appears to in preparation for the coming millennial kingdom.

 

Zechariah 7 - The people in the Land of Israel are now commanded to change their feasts. The fasting that was done during these feast, was now to be replaced with true governmental, religious and personal change.  They were now to become obedient, and ‘execute true justice, shoe mercy and compassion, everyone to his brother. They were not to oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor.  Evil was to be eradicated from the land. (Zechariah 7:9-10)

 

Zechariah 8 - The feasts of fasting that were mourning the times of exile and destruction would now become Feasts of Feasting and Celebration (Zechariah 8) 

 

Zechariah 9 - Then the preparation of the Land of Israel must be made for the return of Zion’s King.  The boundaries of the nation would expand. Lebanon, Damascus, Tyre and Sidon would come under the possession of the Lord.  (Zechariah 9:1-4) The king of Gaza will cease to exist (vs.5), and the ‘pride of the Philistines (Palestinians), the ‘blood’ oaths from his mouth, the ‘abominations from between the Palestinians teeth will be removed, and those that are left after the terrorist are removed from the land. And they shall become like the Jebusite who dwelt peaceably with the Israelites in the days of David, the king.

 

The people of the Land of Israel were now to make preparation for the coming King, this time again, as prior, riding on a donkey, and a great time of restoration from the enemies of the Israel, this time with the bent bow of Judah and also now with the fitted arrow of Ephraim (vs. 13) The Lord of hosts will go before them to fight their enemies and to save them and Israel will once again become like ‘jewels of a crown’ (vs. 17) 

 

Zechariah 10 – The oracles continue and now begin to see the true restoration of the flock and the return of the House of Joseph to the Land of Israel.  First the Lord of hosts restores the land by bringing in the Latter Rain. (Zechariah 10:1) The land will bloom with abundance to the envy of the world which is under catastrophic changes in crustal shifting, plate tectonic moving, cometary catastrophes, contamination of water sources, and the release from the bottomless pit, the Abyss, the demonic hordes that have been kept imprisoned there since the flood to possess those that are in rebellion against God.  (This study comes from the inter-testament books of Enoch, Jasher, Jubilees and a historical review of the records of the apocalyptic literature of Qumran of the Essenes and the early Christian church.) 

 

This era will be one in which the peoples of the world will become peoples without a shepherd.  The mighty control systems of the world will begin to crumble.  The religious denomination, the mighty economic institution, the cradle to grave health industry, stock markets of the world, and all the protections of the insurance industry will begin to disintegrate.  The Lord of hosts will begin to punish the shepherds, the religious bishops and pastors, the economic and stock and bond gurus, the power players in the health and insurance industries, the politicians who evolve more and more regulation of oppression and control will come under the cosmic wrath of God.  (vs. 3-4)  In the meantime, the House of Judah will be strengthened and the House of Joseph will be saved.  (vs. 6)  The restoration of the House of Israel will begin as the last save haven on this planet earth will be the Land of Israel.  The Lord of hosts will remember His people in the far countries (vs. 9) and He will begin the process of restoration of the House of Israel by first bringing them out of Egypt and Assyria (Syria) and into the land of Gilead and Lebanon (vs.10), whose reclamation was noted in Zechariah 9.  At the same time these political governments will disintegrate. (vs. 11) The people of the Lord will begin to learn one thing, to walk up and down in the Name of the Lord. (vs. 12) 

 

Zechariah 11 – At this time, the ideological breaks will begin to form in the Land of Israel.  The vast numbers of immigrations from other lands will bring citizens into the lands that have grown up with no knowledge of their heritage and their inheritance.  They have been in a spiritual wilderness and a Torah based society and economy will have to be built around this mighty act of reclamation.  (vs. 4-9) Many of the false shepherds within society and the religious community will be cast out. The political shepherds in the surrounding nations will cease to exist. (vs. 1-3 and 10:11)  Will there be a civil war, where the bonds of brotherhood between Judah and Joseph will once again collapse? (vs. 14)   Some have suggested it, yet what can be determined is a paradigm shift will be made in the whole matrix of political and civil government, the wholesale economic reform away from the abusive capitalistic world economic systems, the isolationism in the Torah based orthodox community will have to be shattered to accommodate the massive progression into a future theocratic millennial society.  The perceived covenants between God and His people will be severed in order to restore the true covenants that have been broken and altered over and over. (vs. 10) Little by little the agony of pure reformation will take its toll as all the control system within the society of Israel will be demolished. (vs. 15-16) 

 

Zechariah 12-13 – Here we are now nearing the final day of the Lord.  This time the burden of the Lord, the oracles, are on the land of Israel.  While Jerusalem will continue to make the nations surrounding her continue to act delirious and intoxicated as one without reason or sanity, (vs.2) the city of Jerusalem will continue to be a heavy stone that destroyed any nations that seeks to obtain and possess her.  This is the beginning of the last moments in this historical era of mankind.  The historical review of Zechariah truly does in literal fashion bring us to this moment, the great Day of the Lord. 

 

Matthew, also an apostle and a witness to the death and resurrection of Jesus, talks about a “Sign of the Son of Man” that would appear in heaven to announce to the world of His coming. Look at the sequence of these events and assume that they are literally true in that sequence. 

 

Matthew 24:30 –“Then the Sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.  And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heaven to the other.”

 

·         The Sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven

·         All the tribes of the earth will mourn, not just the tribes of the House of Jacob.

·         The Son of Man will be seen literally coming in the clouds.

·         The coming will be silent like a thief, the visibility will be literal and physical, and then the angels will descend with the sound of a great trumpet. 

·         The seventh trumpet will sound by the voice of an archangel and the trumpet of God. (1 Thessalonians 4:15-18)

·         The saints of God, the elect, will be gathered from all the corner of this planet earth. The rapture and the Parousia will be literal, physical and seen by all the inhabitants of this earth.

 

This is not the only event that will go on at that time.  You see, the coming of the Lord will be complex, multifaceted and reaching far beyond the limited views of traditions felt by each sectarian interpretation.  This passage in Matthew was written by an orthodox Jew.  Yet he was a follower of Yahshua, who by faith in Jesus, now accepted Him as the redeemer and the Savior of this world. 

 

These saints were the ones, the Apostle and Rabbi Paul (Shaul) said,  

 

“If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” 

 

Before we get any farther, it is important to affirm this point.  All of our studies are for our personal interest, study and spiritual edification.  Our salvation is secured by our literal testimony (from our mouths) of our faith in the literal and physical act of Jesus in His ministry, on the cross, in the tomb, and upon His resurrection.  Then why are we doing all this study?  It is my personal opinion that by understanding clearly the literal word of God, we might be intense deceptions that even ‘the every elect’ might be deceived.

The Literal Coming of Jesus is with a literal resurrection

and a literal destruction of the wicked

 

As we continue with the Literal (and not spiritual) Coming of Jesus, we will look carefully at another event that will be taking place simultaneous at this time.  Let us first look at the Book of Daniel.  Understand, Daniel was not speaking or writing to the Jewish and Gentile followers of Yahshua in the 1^st century A.D., he was speaking to his people, who were under his ministerial control in the Babylonian and Persian Empire, the Jewish people is exile from Jerusalem.

 

The second part of the passage suggests that like the following passage in 1 Thessalonians. 4:15-18, that a general resurrection will occur, not to the saints in Christ who died during the tribulation, but also to the people of Daniel, the Jews, as suggested in Revelation 11:18, when at the blowing of the seventh trumpet of the Lord, the twenty four elders before the throne of God fall down on their faces and worship God, saying,

 

Revelation 11:18 - ‘The nations were angry, (and now surround Jerusalem, God’s earthly capital, at the end to destroy her) and Your wrath has come (second coming of Yahshua), and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, (resurrection and Judgment of the dead) and that You should reward Your servants the prophets (Old Testament messengers of God ) and the saints (the New Testament messengers of God), and those who fear Your name, small and great, (all others who now fear the Lord of hosts, but may not have know Him by that name, the believers in Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism etc. ) and should destroy those who destroy the earth.” (Harlot, Babylon, the One World Government, the Economic powerbrokers, the Religious institutions, who subject their worshippers to a religion of power, greed and control.

 

Daniel 12:1-3 – “At that time Michael shall stand up, the great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; and there shall be a Time of Trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time, and at that time your people (Jews) shall be delivered, every one who is found written in the book.” 

 

“And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, (pre-millennial resurrection) some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.   Compare with Revelation 20:5, 12) those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.”

 

 

Carefully look at these passages.  First of all we see associated with this time,

 

1.      The restoration of the Jews, the people of Daniel, who are found written in the book, the Book of Life. 

 

2.      We see the restoration of the living saints to a glorified state,

 

3.      We also see the resurrection of the dead, at the coming of Yahshua, which will include the resurrection of the Jewish and the Josephites (House of Israel who had physically lost their identity and had died), some to everlasting life (the prophets) and some to shame and destruction, which are identified as those ‘who destroy the earth.’ 

 

4.       We also see the resurrection of the saints, those who died in faith of Yahshua, who in Revelation 20: 4, which include:

 

“Those that had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus (followers of Yahshua)” but also those who had died or beheaded for their witness to “the Word (Torah) of God, (the orthodox Torah believing Jews) who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their forehead or on their hands.”

 

5.      We also see the destruction of all the people who live a life dedicated to power, greed and control.   These include the political and economic power brokers of the One World Government who rape and pillage the inhabitants of the earth and seek to rape and destroy the earth itself for their personal economic gain. 

 

6.      What is of interest is a process of restoration and destruction.  What many in the religious communities think, whether Jewish or Christian, is that state of the inhabitants of this earth and their destiny will be final and complete.  Well, for those who are killed and destroyed by the coming of the Lord, their destiny will be final and complete. 

 

7.      We also see the restoration of God’s holy people to a glorified state, in the capacity of living inter-dimensional lives like Jesus did after His resurrection, will ascend into the clouds to meet the ‘holy ones’ who have come from heaven with Jesus in all His glory.  These will include the prophets (holy ones) of the House of Israel and Judah, and the saints, who have life in faith in Christ, obeying and following every precept and pathway they have been directed to follow. 

 

Michael, the Archangel, the Prince of God’s People

 

This passage does tie in some interesting parallels.  Let us first look at Michael, known as the Archangel or the Prince over God’s people.  There are only five references to Michael in the Bible.  The first three are in Daniel,

 

Daniel 12:1-3 “At that time Michael shall stand up, the great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people (the Jews), and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time.  And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one who is found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.  Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.”

 

Here, Michael is called a prince and is associated with watching or guarding over the Jewish people at the end of times during the final days of tribulation, called the Time of Trouble.  This Michael is also around when the first resurrection is done at the second coming of Christ.  The second text gives a picture of another celestial and inter-dimensional struggle.  Daniel was by the Tigris River mourning and fasting for three weeks, when he saw a being of indescribable majesty. 

 

Daniel 10:5 - “I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen (priests wore linen), whose waist was girded with gold of Uphaz!  His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze in color, and the sound of these words like the voice of a multitude (many waters)”

 

This same certain man came hundreds of years later to John, who:

 

Revelation 1:12-16 - “saw seven golden lamp stands, and in the midst of the seven lamp stands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment (linen) down to the feet and girded about the chest with a gold band (gold of Uphaz).  His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire (torches of fire), His feet were like fine brass (burnished bronze), as if refined in a furnace and His voice as the sound of many waters. He had in His right (active) hand seven stars (seven churches), out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.”

 

Only Daniel saw this being like the ‘Son of Man’, yet his friends fled as in an immense terror.  Something was happening and the power of might was in the presence of this Being.  Who was this being?  No, He was not God, the Lord of Hosts, but he was the ‘Son of Man’, Yahshua.  Daniel fell into a deep sleep with his face to the ground, while John fell at His feet as dead.  

With the gesture of great courtesy, Yahshua in His pre-carnate glory, apologized for the three week delay since Daniel began praying and fasting.  He told Daniel he had been sent because ‘you have set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God.” (Daniel 10:10)  Was Yahshua the God of Daniel?  Did He send Himself or was He sent? And why the delay? 

 

Daniel 10:13-14 - “But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia.  Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision refer to many days yet to come.”

 

Once again we see this celestial being, Yahshua, who apparently was confronted and in conflict by an evil angel who was the guardian of the king of Persia.  For twenty-one earth days He was delayed in an apparent conflict from delivering a message with Daniel.

 

After he introduces this celestial being he introduces His mission to Daniel.  He would give him a prophecy of the future.  After his mission was accomplished, Yahshua, the Son of Man said;

 

Daniel 10:21 -  “And now I must return to fight with the prince of Persia; and when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come.  But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth. No one upholds Me against these, except Michael your prince.” 

 

Once again we see Michael, the prince of the people of God, called also Daniel’s or Daniel’s people’s prince.  Note closely though, many have felt that Michael and the pre-carnate Christ were the same Being.  Yet, the Son of Man, Yahshua (Jesus), differentiates Himself from Michael, the prince, who is the one who ‘upholds’ Christ.

 

In the Book of Jude, we find Michael disputing with the devil over the body of Moses when states;

 

Jude 9 – “Yet Michael the archangel, in contention with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you!’”

 

The clues continue.  Now Michael is an archangel, commissioned by God to dispute over the rights to the body of Moses.  When one understands the sefirot of the four creations of God as seen by the Jewish mystics, Yahshua, the Son of God is embodied in the center of the World of the Divine (White) and known as Yahweh Elohim and Metatron, the leading Archangel. As Yahshua represents the Lord of hosts, God the Father, in the center of the world of the divine, called the Tiferet or Beauty, so also Michael, the Archangel, is embodied in the center of the second world of creation, the angelic world.

 

Though part of the world of the divine, Yahshua (Jesus) assumes the role of the king or the leader of the world of the angelic hosts. Some Christians have rightly called Yahshua as the Leaders of the Angelic Hosts, the Chief Angel, where actually he is the king, called the Keter crown of this spiritual angelic realm. 

 

So who is Michael?  This is Michael the prince or chief angel who represents Yahshua.  As the archangel at the center or Tiferet or center of the angelic realm, he is Christ’s representative of the angelic world.  Yes, he is the prince of the people of Daniel, the chosen ones, the Jews and all the Israelites.  Why? The Israelites, as the chosen ones of God represent God’s formal channel of communication to this planet, the holders of the oracles of God and the genetic seed in which God chose to send His son.

 

The final passage we find in Revelation is over the final war in heaven,  

 

Revelation 12:7-9 - “And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.  So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” 

 

The only other passage in the Bible that mentions an archangel is in reference also to the resurrection and the seventh trumpet of the Lord.

 

1 Thessalonians 4: 15-18 – For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.  And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.  And thus we shall always be with the Lord.  Therefore comfort one another with these words.”

 

Does this identify Michael with the same identity as Jesus, as the Lord descending from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with the (seventh) trumpet of God?  Or does this text identify Yahshua as descending into this planet’s dimensional space, accompanied with the shout of an archangel, Michael, who also is heralding with the seventh trumpet of the Lord the last and final trumpet plague? Biblical evidence leans to the latter.

 

The Day of the Lord is heralded by the

Seventh Trumpet of the Archangel

 

At the very end of times, in the sequence of events found in the Book of Revelation, we find another mention of an archangel.  At this time the seventh trumpet of the Lord sounds.  Note that this event is from the vantage point of an observer watching this event while looking up from this earth.

 

Revelation 11:15-19 - Then the seventh angel sounded:  And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!”  And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying,

 

‘We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was and who is to come, because You have taken your great power and reigned.  The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that You should reward your servants the prophets and the saints.  And those who fear Your name, small and great, and should destroy those who destroy the earth.”

 

Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple and there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail. 

 

From all appearances, we are able to visualize an angelic being called Michael, an archangel, who appears to be the signet archangel that represents the very presence of the Person, Yahshua (Jesus), the Son of Man and the Son of God.  Michael will also be the Archangel who will deliver the final trumpet of the Lord, the seventh trumpet and Christ descends in the clouds of glory.

 

Compare this with the Seventh Vial or Bowl Plague in Revelation 16:17, while this vision of this event was by an observer watching it from heaven.

 

Revelation 16:17-21 - “Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven from the throne, saying, “It is done!”  And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth.  Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell.  And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.   And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent.  Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.”          

 

Closing up these final passages, we find the testimony of the literal and visible coming of Jesus.

 

1 Thessalonians 1:10 – “For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, …and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait (literally) for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath (literally) to come.”

 

1 Corinthians 1:7 – “Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. (a literal event)”

 

The Day of the Lord, Yahshua will begin His rule with a Rod of Iron

 

Remember when Daniel met this magnificent celestial being (Daniel 10:8) and we compared the description of this Being with the Son of Man, John saw who stood in between the seven lamp stands?  One of the descriptions of  in this picture was,

 

Revelation 1:12-16 - out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.”

 

Let us now explore these texts describing a ‘sharp two edged sword or the ‘rod of iron’, both of which are described as coming out of the mouth of Jesus.

 

 Psalms 2:6-8 – “Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion.”  I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me, You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.  Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession.  You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’” (Revelation 2:27)

 

Here is a fascinating text on the divinity versus the deity of Jesus.  Roman Orthodox Christianity claims the role of deity to the nature of Jesus in the Nicene Creed and is used as a whipping pole to all Christian bodies of believers as to whether they are actually a Christian denomination or a Christian sect with all the pejoratives that go with it.  Seventh-day Adventists came under this attack of being called a “cult” in the early 50’s with books accusing them of being cultic and sectarian and not being fully Christian.  Prior to this era, there was a strong alignment of Seventh-day Adventism that was Arian or semi-Arian in the acceptance that Jesus was a created being, the first of God’s creation.

 

Here is one of the key texts in the nature of Jesus and his primary role outlined in the apocalyptic texts in the Old Testament.  Also, here is the key identity between Old Testament and New Testament time of the end theology.  Compare this with John in Revelation 2.

 

Revelation 2:25-29 – “But hold fast what you have till I come.  And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations – ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’  (Psalms 2:9) – as I also have received from My Father; and I will give him the morning star. ‘He, who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

 

In Psalms, it is clearly, God the Father, the Lord of hosts, who claims, ‘I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion’.  This clearly is in reference to Yahshua who will come as King of kings and Lord of lords and claim Zion in Jerusalem as His Holy Mount. It also clearly defines the separateness of dimensional characteristics of Yahshua has as opposed to His Father, the monotheistic, Almighty God.

 

In this same text we also see the beginning of the pre-carnate nature of Yahshua’s being, as God began the process of creation.  “The Lord has said to Me, You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.” Once again, we see that the nature of Jesus’ being is different than nature of His Father. The nature is not a difference in substance or attributes, but whatever difference there is, it was Yahshua nature to bring the awesome power and energy of the Almighty God in another dimensional sphere.  At this point a large segment of Christendom will rise up in protest.  Here me out, so we are sure we are speaking the same language.

 

The Arian, or a believer that Christ is a created non-divine being, and the anti-Arians called the followers of Athanasius, or believers that Christ is divine and part of the deity of God the Father, are two polarity opinions in a long and vicious debate in early Christendom.  This debate eventually made both of the parties in this debate most un-Christ-like, or more like people doing evil things. It actually was a Hebrew concept of God put upon a Greek philosophy of creation, called Creation ex-nihilo, or creation out of nothing that became the fulcrum of this debate.   It was like trying to put a square block in a round hole.

 

The Hebrews did not believe we were created out of nothing.  They believe we were created with the very attributes and image of God.  Through these emanations or attributes flowing out from the Throne of God, through the Tiferet or Beauty, the central focal point of the world of the divine, all creation including man was made.  What is different about man? Instead of being created with one or several of these attributes of God, that angels and even lower animal species are created, man’s being, the “image of God” included all the attributes of God the Father, yet in a far diminished sphere or in a lower dimensional plane.

 

Modern science and even quantum physics is still struggling to understand the nature of living creatures in this three-dimensional world.  It is therefore folly for us to assume we even understand a miniscule of the knowledge of what life is like in other dimensions.  Let us assume that God, in His infinite wisdom, has the ability to clone Himself into another dimension.  Does this make two God’s?  No!  Yet the other dimension is inferior in power and eminence.  Let us put this in our sphere.  Suppose you have the ability to replicate yourself in a holographic form and put your being and image in miniature so that you could see and interact with it while it stands in miniature on the tip of your finger. Suppose you have the power and intelligence to make this image of yourself also have all of your internal organs, a miniature heart and a mind.  The only limitation, this being can only understand the limits of the world or dimensional sphere in which he resides.  With a pure interaction between you and you mini-holographic clone you could in reality experience what it is like to live in another yet inferior dimension. 

 

Do you really know what it is like to live as your son or daughter is living today.  Though they have only half of your genes, their identity as your son or daughter allows you to have a special interaction with them.  Why?  Because you have the capacity to know and to understand them. The problems with parents and children are less because we don’t understand them, than the fact that it hurts so much to understand them, because they are so much like us.  Through them you vicariously can relive out your own life again. Does this make man the progenitor of eventually becoming God?  Absolutely not! What it does do is to allow God to experience exactly what you and I think, feel, and care about. 

 

On the angelic sphere, in his pre-carnate state, Jesus, as the leading Archangel, represented as the Captain of the Lord of hosts, allowed Him to understand and experience life in the angelic dimensions.  This was the same Angel of the Lord, called the Captain of the Lord of hosts, which met Joshua prior to the battle of Jericho?

 

And so Adam was created in the ‘image of God’.  Also a “son of God”, Adam represented this planet as other “sons of God” represent life forms on other planets in the universe.  Created as a sefirot, or that same image as God, who was the image of the world of the Divine, so Adam was the sefirot of the world of Formation.  Compare this idea with the meetings of the sons of God in the heavenly council in the Book of Job and the twenty four elders who seat around the throne of God in the Book of Revelation. 

 

Because Satan, who usurped Adam’s position as our representative, and an arrogant maligning representative he was, went to heaven in Adam’s place, he truly made a faulty representative.   Not only was Satan not made in the ‘image’ of God, because he was not created as a sefirot, he also could not access all the thoughts, feelings and emotions of us humanoids.  In reality, he was a rebellious terrorist.  He was the first, and the model of a long line of terrorist’s archetypes in the history of man; devious, deceitful, not caring, parasitic, and an overpowering controlling being.  Out of him come all the attributes of power, greed and control. 

 

As God lowered Himself to clone Himself into the world of the angelic beings in the pre-carnate Son of God, so God once again lowered this pre-carnate Son of God out of the angelic sphere into our three-dimensional world.  So into this world came a babe, the son of Mary of the lineages of David of the House of Judah and also the House of Levi.  Yes truly he was a Melchizedek, the perfect priest-king.

 

Psalms 110:5-6 – “The Lord (Lord of Hosts) said to my Lord (Yahshua), ‘Sit at My right hand (active side), till I make Your enemies Your footstool.’  The Lord shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies!

 

Your people shall be volunteers in the day of Your power; in the beauties of holiness, form the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth.  The Lord has sworn and will not relent, ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.’”

 

Up until the second coming of Jesus stands as our priest in the heavenly sanctuary.  As our High Priest, He will enter the Holiest of Holies and present the blood of His death and sacrifice as sufficient in the legal courts of heaven to blot out our evil deeds.  When He exits from the Holy of Holiest on the last Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the Day of Judgment on this earth, He will come from behind the Daat, the dimensional veil that shields the Ein Sof, the Hidden and All Powerful God, crowned and robed in the regalia of the King of kings and Lord of lords.  This will begin the Great Day of the Lord.

 

Apparently this revolt in the angelic world had begun prior to the birth of Yahshua.  Along with a third of the angelic forces of heaven, Satan now had the power and dominion to present himself before the Christ child and seek ways to exterminate His life. 

 

Revelation 12:4 – “His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth.  And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.  She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne.”

 

Once again, this child, Jesus, had a future.  He was to eventually ‘rule all nations with a rod of iron.’ Notice carefully how it states, He was to rule not to destroy all nations with a rod of iron.  Many apocalyptic believers in the second coming of Jesus, believe his coming will be a quick rapture of the remaining good people and a scorch earth policy that will destroy all life left on this earth.  To them, when Satan is bound to the Abyss in the thousand years, he is trapped in three dimensional space on this desolate earth. 

 

According to the prophets and John, he is to rule but to whom is he to rule?  The chosen saints are immortalized, the 144,000 are standing before the throne of God and the great multitude will be standing on the sea of glass.  Are these the ones to be ruled?  Let us look at John’s description of the second coming of Jesus.  Outside of it being literal and accessible to all the senses in our three dimensional world, let us define its intent and purpose.

 

Revelation 19:11-16 - “Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse.  And  He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.  His eyes were like a flame of Fire, and on His head were many crowns.  He had a name written that no one knew except Himself.  He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.  And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses.  Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations.  And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron.   He Himself treads the winepress of fierceness and wrath of Almighty God...  And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS.”

 

As the Kings of the people were to do in the days of old, so Jesus will do in His role as the King of kings in the millennial kingdom.  Why the millennial kingdom?  Why is this world not perfect in this era?  Are not the saints to be made immortal and put in glorified bodies during this time?  According to Isaiah, with the rod in His mouth, He will judge with righteousness, and with justice he will make decisions and use this rod to strike the earth and by the breath of his lips, will slay the wicked.

 

Isaiah 11:3-5 - “He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears; but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth.  He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.  Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness the sash around his waist.”

 

We then must ask again, to whom will he rule?  To those who believe that Jesus’ coming is a scorched earth to destroy all life events, we do find evidence to a different picture.  Zechariah nine suggests that in a rebellious population, one (terrorist) that is filled “abominations from between his teeth” (Zechariah 9:7), will be a type of the final Antichrist and the armies of the nations of the world that will surround Jerusalem and destroy the last remnant of the God’s people.  God states that He ‘will take away the blood (oaths of hatred and genocide against the people of God) from his mouth” and will “cut off (or destroy) the pride of the Philistines” (Palestinian terrorists), (Zechariah 9:6) then he (Palestinians) who remains, even he (Palestinian and Arab Christian nationals) shall be for our God, and shall be like a leader in Judah.” (Zechariah 9:7)   What does this say for the nature of evil?  A large percentage of the populations of the people are followers of leaders of evil, yet the Lord of hosts knows in his great wisdom that they are not evil within themselves.  They are caught in a world of evil.  These are truly the victims of evil, who have known nothing but evil. 

 

Contrary to what many Christians think, sanctification, the process of separating ourselves away from the evil of this world, is a process more profound than just saying, “I believe” and letting Jesus do the rest.  We must give up our lives and follow him in the same manner that Jesus did in Judah and Galilee.  He had to depend upon his father and did not know the next path he would take.  This is a self-less life, one like a bond-servant, whose identity is totally to help and protect his master.  Did not Isaiah 110:6 state;

 

Isaiah 110:6 – “Your people (Israelites) shall be volunteers in the day of Your power; in the beauties of holiness, form the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth.  The Lord has sworn and will not relent, ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchezadik.”

 

The identity of Jesus with His people will be as a priest-king and His people will be as bond servants.

 

Day of the Lord demands an active preparation by his servants (saints)

He will come as a thief. (Secret Rapture or Unexpected Rapture?)

 

Revelation16:15 – “Behold, I am coming as a thief.  Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walks naked and they see his shame.”  And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon. 

 

The sixth seal is over in Revelation 16, when the Euphrates is dried up so that a way can be prepared for the kings of the east to mobilize their forces towards the city of Jerusalem.  These forces will be demonically controlled and driven by three evil spirits.  Are these people in control of their moral senses?   No.  They have one passion, to control, possess and destroy.  The power of Israel will appear to be so great at this time, with the past evidences of their God, working miraculously in their favor, that all the nations of the world will speak in one accord, Israel must be subdued, overcomed and destroyed.   The Nation of Israel in that day will be a different Israel that she is today.  As a nation, she will have been purified and tried in fire, a process that God is in complete control.  As we look at the nations of the world today, and the miniscule spot on the globe that Israel calls her own, why are we so afraid?

 

Give us a break!  It is not military power.  In spite of having nuclear warheads, the United States could obliterate Israel in a moment will little risk of collateral fallout on its soil.  For that matter, Russia could do the same, and not let even one battalion of troops head towards Israel.  No, the troops and armies of around the world will all congregate at the gates of Jerusalem in one vast plain, the plain of Megiddo.  But what is happening to the rest of the people around the world.  The whole global population will not be at Jerusalem! 

 

Matthew 24:36 – “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.  But as in the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.  For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”

 

Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.  Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.  Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.  But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would have come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.  Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”  

 

Okay, life as usual.  The rest of the world will be doing what they have been doing for six thousand years, living, eating, socializing and procreating.  The forces of the nations of the world will be our mercenaries and we can enjoy the spectacle by satellite TV.  Two things have happened to the world by this time.  The six last plagues will have caused vast disasters upon this earth, killing billions of people.  Life will be one of fear and trepidation of another stellar hit.  From all appearances, these cosmic induced disasters will appear to the regular human population to be caused by two global political terrorists, the two witnesses, strange men in ancient garbs who have access to significant cosmic powers living in the land of Israel. 

 

To the world government leaders, any potential attack against Israel has been repelled, any threat has been met with global disasters and conventional and nuclear power appears to be deactivated by the other dimensional powers of these two Israeli leaders.  Out of all these disasters, Israel will have stood protected, thriving, the field brimming with the fruits of harvest, the latter rain bringing an abundance of water.   Vast pockets in the rest of the world will be starving with all potable water sources contaminated with iron oxide, dying fields of harvest, livestock rotting in the fields.  Those areas still untouched by the last six plagues will be diligently trying to preserve the remnants of civilization and party and reveling the rest of the time to care for their depressions and anxieties of the future.  The vast populations of the world will be stuck on a horizontal plane of living, interacting only with other human.  They have totally forgotten to look up, take your mind vertical and try to perceive the mission of God in this whole earth. Yet will this be a secret rapture or an unexpected rapture? 

 

Luke, when he approaches the coming of Yahshua, intimates the necessity of watching, waiting, and preparing and is expecting his coming at the most unusual hour.  What is of interest, the second coming of Jesus is after the wedding, so therefore it is assumed that the bride is already in that other dimensional world called heaven or the throne of God.  Who then is he coming for?  His servants? Yet we see the twists of spiritual realities.  The servants are served by the Master. 

 

Luke 12:35-40 – “Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, that he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.  Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching.  Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them.  And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.  But know this that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.  Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” 

 

Maybe there is something to the texts that suggest that the holy ones that will return with Jesus at the second coming are not just the angels, but also human saints that are returning with him for the remnant of the saints that are left.  For those who suggest that the dead in Christ who will be resurrected at the second coming, are just the resurrection of the physical bodies for their spiritual bodies are already in heaven and have been bonded with Christ at the wedding, what about the texts that suggest we await in our graves, as asleep, awaiting the coming of the Lord.  Will the wedding be only a dream and we will have to collect our physical bodies to figure out what we actually did in the wedding?  How creative we get in our spiritual philosophizing.

 

Every segment of scripture when taken in context of the whole suggests that life after the second coming is not a retraction of the whole of creation that God created in the beginning.  Let us remember that after each step of creation, He pronounced it good.  Does that mean He will annihilate all the rest of his creation, the mountain, trees, birds, flowers, animals and fish?  This to me would be an abrogation of the real intention of God.  Rather I would suggest that He seeks to restore.  The theme of the prophets in the Old Testament is the restoration of the people of God and the restoration of this earth.  Must we be so arrogant to suggest that God seek not to restore but to rescue us from this evil earth and deposit us in some other dimensional world?  What about the cats and dogs, the horses, lambs and other creatures that have given so much meaning to our lives?  We will talk about that later in a discussion of the millennial kingdom and the new earth, but combining the themes of the Old and the New Testament suggests that the millennium is a process of restoration, so that larger numbers of the world population can be saved.   These are those that fear the Lord, but may not actually know Him.

 

After the Day of the Lord, Yahshua reigns as King of Kings

and Lord of Lords until death (the wages of sin) is conquered

and destroyed

 

For those who speak of the deity of Christ in the modern day concept of the Trinity must consider carefully what they are saying in reference to all the scriptures.  It is always our tendencies to simplify scripture to bring it down to our understanding.  Scripture was given to elevate us to life in the other dimensions of heavenly reality.

 

Daniel was sent in night vision to observe the cosmic reality that would unfold while Jesus was in preparation to return for the second coming.

 

Daniel 7:13-14 – “I was watching in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven!  He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. 

 

Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all peoples, nations and languages should serve Him.  His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed.”

 

Once again, here is the picture of Jesus, as our High Priest, approaching the Lord of hosts, here portrayed as the Ancient of Days, in the Holy of Holiest where the Throne of the Almighty resides.  On this day, Yon Kippur, Yahshua is ‘given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all peoples, nations and languages should serve Him.”

 

Up until this time, Jesus, since his ascension to the Throne of His Father, has been sitting at the right hand of God and serving as our High Priest.

 

Hebrews 9:11 - But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Of the blood goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.”

 

In reference to the High Priesthood of Christ, the first thing to know is that Jesus did not prepare for this job, he did not nominate Himself for this job, but as Aaron was appointed to the position of priest by God Himself (Exodus. 28:1) and also the succeeding High Priests after him, (Num. 20:23-28; 25:10-13) so Jesus was appointed by His Father to be the High Priest of this planet earth. 

 

Hebrews 5:5-6, 10 - “So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: You are My son, Today I have begotten you.” (Psalms 2:7) But He also says in another place: You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek” (Psalms 110:4)….called by God as High Priest, ‘according to the order of Melchizedek.’ To whom we have much to say and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.”

 

When Yahshua came to this earth the first time in Judea, he avoided and shunned any pretense of royal aspirations.  Only as He sat upon the donkey and walked into the gates into the city, as a king did He portray in type His future role as King of kings.  He came as the Suffering Servant, the Maschiach ben Joseph.  There is no picture of Jesus in the era after His death and resurrection, for the last two thousand years that He is portrayed as a king, a deity, a monarch or any action associated with royal intent.  Yet prior to His coming, He will be crowned King of king and Lord of lord (Daniel 7:14) and return as ruler of this earth.

 

Will Jesus remain King forever?  This title was given to Him by His Father, and according to Paul, the title of “King of kings” will be returned to the Father.  Though His kingdom and dominion will last forever, it does not mean that He will be King over this dominion forever.

 

1 Corinthians 15:22-24 – For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.   But each one in his own order: Christ the first-fruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.  Then comes the end, when He (Yahshua) delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He put an end to all rule and all authority and Power. For He must reign till he has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. …Now when all things are made subject to Him (the Lord of Hosts) then the Son Himself (Yahshua) will also be subject to Him (the Lord of Hosts) who put all things under Him (Yahshua), that God (the Lord of Hosts) may be all in all.”

 

Let us look at this sequence.

 

·         The resurrection of Christ who arose from the death at sundown after Passover was as the “first-fruit of resurrection.”

·         Then, the resurrection of the saints who are the “fruit of resurrection” are Christ’s at His second Coming.

·         Then comes the end of this planet earth, after the millennium. The end of this earth does not come with the second coming of the Messiah.

·         At the end of this planet’s existence, Yahshua delivers the Kingdom (that is the kingdom on earth) to His Father, the Lord of hosts.

·         When?  When Yahshua puts an end to all rule, authority and power (Power, Greed and Control).

·         Yahshua must reign (on earth) till He has put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy is death.

·          When is death eliminated? After the Great White Throne Judgment after the millennium. (Revelation 20:11)

·         When the kingdom is delivered to the Almighty One of Israel, Yahshua ha Maschiach (Jesus the Messiah) will be again subject to His Father, the God of Israel as all the rest of creation.  (Are we suggesting that Yahshua may be divine and part of the World of the Divine, but he is not the Omnipotent, Monotheistic God, and the Almighty One?) 

 

Here, after the coming of Christ, a millennium, or a thousand years will be determined upon the rest of the earth.  Here the millennial kingdom will be ruled.

 

Revelation 20:1-6 – “Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven…laid hold of the dragon,…Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit (Abyss), shut him up and set a seal on him….And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. …and they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.  …this is the first resurrection. (at the coming of Jesus)

 

Does the text infer or imply that Satan will be roaming to and fro upon this earth in a desolate state?  He not only is shut up but a seal is put on him.  He will be limited to a spiritual sphere by a power that man does not currently possess.  A bottomless pit also suggests a recess within the earth.  The Abyss is a mysterious place, because it appears to be a place for incarcerated spirit beings.  It was known as the abode of the demons and evil angels.  Called Abussos, or Tatooros, this place was not a place for evil and wicked people.  It was a dark, literally and spiritually, place where demons and was generally contrasted to the sky as a place unfathomable to the human eye and discernable only to God.  It was known as the abode of the evil and the demons (Romans 10:7, Luke 8:31), the abode of the Antichrist (the beast that ascends out of the Abyss) (Revelation 11:7, 17:8) and the abode of Abaddon or Apollyon, the leading angel of the underworld (Revelation 9:11) and capable of being sealed. (Revelation 21:1-3)

 

After Satan is bound and sealed up for a thousand years, suddenly John saw thrones being set up and judgment was committed.  In the Hebrew times, the king was also the judge of the nation. We are now reverting back to a monarchial theocracy.  And then it says, they lived and reigned a thousand years.  It is understandable that some of the saints will be investigating the Books of Deeds so they can understand the meaning of the judgment that was placed upon the wicked at the second coming of Jesus.  But when you set up a throne, this assumes rulership as well as judgment.  During the millennium, death will not have been conquered or eliminated.  So also genetic evil that is imbedded into the DNA of any human beings who survived the death of the national forces of the Anti-Messiah that were preparing to assault of God at Megiddo, will also have not been destroyed  Why do we assume people will survive and live on this earth after the coming of Jesus?  Well we don’t assume. Let us again read, what the prophets of Israel foretold.

 

Isaiah 66: 15-16, 18-21 - “For behold, the Lord will come with fire and with His chariots, like a whirlwind, to render His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire.  For by fire and by His sword (rod of iron that cometh from his mouth) the Lord will judge all flesh; and the slain of the Lord shall be many. (not all being on this earth.)”

 

“For I know their works and their thoughts.  It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory.  I will set a sign among them and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have heard My fame nor seen My glory.  And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. They shall bring all your brethren (the Jews or Israelites) for an offering to the Lord out of all nations, on horses and in chariots, and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, ‘as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. And I will also take some of them for priests and Levites,’ says the Lord.”

 

The picture is the same. The coming of Jesus is seen in multiple different images but they have all the same elements: fire, glory, destruction of the wicked, rod of iron to punish the nations.  Yet, there is no suggestion that the earth will be totally devastated or that all life or even human life will be annihilated.

 

Let us actually look at the Great White Throne Judgment and the final end of death and Hades after the millennium;

 

Revelation 20:11-15 - “Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them.  And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened.  And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things, which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each according to his works.  Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.  And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.” 

 

Death and Hades will be finally destroyed. But notice that the earth and our heaven disappeared when the Almighty God, the Lord of hosts made His presence known.  Where is this Throne scene?  Where else but in heaven.  Wait a minute.  Sinful people will stand in heaven before the Throne of God?  That is what the Bible says.  There they are judged, by their faith or lack of faith in Jesus Christ?  No, they are judged according to their works.  For those who did not know Jesus, but did recognize a being or power superior to them, if they lived a righteous and moral life, they could be found in the Book of Life.  If not, the lake of fire will be witness to their total destruction as well as Death and Hades too.  After this moment, the problem of sin is over.  Death can no longer claim any lives.

 

The End

 

 

Return to Part One - Behold the Day of the Lord is Coming

 

Topics

How the Jews, Moslems and Christians view the Day of the Lord

Millerism and the Great Awakening

The Seventh-day Adventist, a legacy of the Millerite Movement (1860

The Jehovah’s Witness, as a legacy of the Great Awakening (1879)

Dispensationalism and the Scofield Bible (1909)

Messianic Christians

Replacement Theology Churches believing that Jesus will not literally return to this earth

The Day of the Lord is the literal and personal coming of Jesus.

The Era of the Two Witnesses

The Two Witnesses will Return in the same manner as the Ascension of Christ

How the Jews, Moslems and Christians view the Day of the Lord

The Day of the Lord is the literal and personal coming of Jesus.

The Era of the Two Witnesses

 

 

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