Part 4 of 6 – Kingdom of God

Equipping God's Saints (Followers of Christ) through the Prophecies of the End Times …

Finally, we have a plan of salvation. The interesting thing is Satan always tries to imitate the “Plan of Salvation”. I call Satan's plan “The Plan of Damnation”.

Plan of Plan of

Salvation Damnation

1. Repentance 1. Worship the Beast
2. Baptism in 2. Receive the
   Jesus name mark of the beast
3. Infilling of the 3. Demon
   Holy Spirit possession

The first step of the Plan of Salvation is worship Jesus as Lord. You repent. You accept Him as your Lord.

The first step of the Plan of Damnation according to Revelation 13:15 is that you must worship the beast, the Antichrist.

The second step of the Plan of Salvation is you take the name of Jesus in baptism.

The second step of the Plan of Damnation is you take the name of the Antichrist. Revelation 13:17 says:

“You receive the mark of his name.”

The third step of the Plan of Salvation is you are filled with the Holy Spirit.

The third step of the Plan of Damnation is probably being filled with the spirit of Satan; being demon possessed.

I want to say this to you ~ the most important thing that I could ever say to you is make sure you are born again and don't ever have anything to do with the mark of the beast or pledge allegiance to a world governmental system or a man. Make sure your allegiance is with Jesus Christ, and Him only.

When a person is born again, he becomes part of the Kingdom of God. What is being in the Kingdom of God like right now? What will it be like during the 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ upon the earth?

The 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ upon the earth is called the millinium. It is going to be a marvelous time. The lion lays down with the lamb and there will be peace on earth, good will toward men. Not one war for 1,000 years. I'm sure you want to be there.

The end of the age of human government and the beginning of the Kingdom of God occurs at the Battle of Armageddon. The Bible's most detailed account of the Battle of Armageddon is found in Revelation 16:12-14:

“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.”

Notice two things:

The Euphrates River is going to be dried up when the Sixth Vial is poured out. This is to facilitate the invasion of Israel by the kings of the East. The Euphrates River being dried up is a huge prophecy because the Euphrates is the principle water source of the Middle East.

On January 13, 1990, the Indianapolis Star carried the headline: “Turkey Will Cut Off Flow of the Euphrates for One Month”. What happened was Turkey built a huge Ataturk Dam and they needed to fill up their reservoir when the dam was completed. They actually stopped the flow of the Euphrates for 30 days. What does this mean?

This means that this 2,000-year-old prophecy could only be fulfilled as of 1990. Right now, Turkey has the ability to raise the dam and stop the flow of the Euphrates. The Bible prophesies that the Euphrates will be dried up to allow the kings of the East to invade Israel.

In Revelation 16:13, above, it says that there will be three spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet. And these are the spirits of devils drawing the kings of the earth, come on down against Israel for the Battle of Armageddon.

Then we have the “Last minute warning” in Revelation 16:15:

“Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.”

That's like God saying, “I'm coming. Make sure you stay ready. Don't get sloppy. Don't fall asleep at the wheel.”

Revelation 16:16 continues:

“And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”

This is the only passage in the entire Bible where the word “Armageddon” is used. Armageddon comes from two words, “har Meggido” or “Hill of Meggido”. The city of Meggido is up on the hill overlooking the plane of Meggido, which is also known as the Valley of Jazreel ~ seven miles wide, fifteen miles long. That's where the Battle of Armageddon will begin. It will finish 160 miles to the south at the Gates of Jerusalem.

Another account of Armageddon is given in Zechariah 14:2:

“For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished, and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.”

Remember in Revelation it said the spirits of devils gather the nations to battle. Here in Zechariah, God says, “I will do it.” Is this a contradiction? No. God uses Satan for His own purposes. So the nations of the earth are going to be convinced to come down to do this evil thing, and that is ~ fight against Israel.

The Jews are teetering on the brink of defeat. The battle begins in northern Israel. They fall back down the Jordan Valley before the superior fire power of the international community. It may be the armies of NATO. It may be the world community armies. Exactly how that whole force is going to be structured, I can't tell you.

Can you just see it … Israel is at the gates of Jerusalem for her last stand. Picture it ... The young Jewish soldiers are bone weary. They've been fighting for days. They look at their ammunition boxes and they are empty. They realize the end of their nation of Israel is come. Perhaps President Ahmadinejad of Iran was right ~ Israel is going to be wiped off the map ~ Israel is going to be driven into the sea. But those young, Jewish, soldiers remember, their mothers taught them, “When Israel needs Him the most, Messiah will come.”

Some of them may pause for a moment to look to the Mount of Olives. That

is where Messiah is going to come to. They may say, “Messiah, if you're going to come, right now will be the perfect time.”

The Bible tells us what happens in Zechariah 14:3-4:

“Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.”

The Bible actually says there is going to be a great earthquake that will kill 7,000 in Jerusalem at that time.

The Jewish people are expecting their Messiah to come to the Mount of Olives. I can see the Jewish soldiers and the other Jews as they rush out to meet their Messiah. Let's look at the account in Zechariah 13:6. They rush out to meet their Messiah, the guns have fallen silent. The international army is amazed at this scenario taking place in front of their eyes ~ the descent of Jesus Christ from heaven with His armies. The Jews rush out to meet their Messiah. They fall before Him to worship Him.

I see one young Jewish soldier who looks down at the feet of the Messiah and he sees there are scars in His feet. Jesus reaches out to him and he notices a scar in His hand. The soldier says, “Messiah, where did you get these wounds?” It tells us in Zechariah 13:6:

“... What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.”

All of a sudden 2,000 years of spiritual blindness comes peeling off the Jewish mind and they say, “So, You are Jesus. Oh, Messiah, we have been so blind. We have been so arrogant, so proud. Could you ever forgive us?”

Does anybody know what happens when someone asks Jesus to forgive them? I personally know He forgives them. He forgave me.

Continuing on, this same scene is one chapter earlier in Zechariah 12:10:

“And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced [whom they have crucified], and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.”

The Jews weep because of their rejection of their Messiah.

This is when the milennium begins, the 1,000 years of peace. Daniel talked about it in Daniel 7:9:

“I beheld until the thrones were cast down and the Ancient of days did sit ...”

The thrones of human government are going to be put aside. All governments will be suspended and Jesus will be crowned King of kings and Lord of lords.

Daniel 7:27 tells us more:

“And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.”

The kingdom will be given to the saints, the born again people that have been raptured to meet the Lord in the air. Now they are going to rule and reign as kings and priests with Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, Revelation 5:9-10 tells us that the people there, the redeemed, are rejoicing, saying:

“... and has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.

And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”

The Bible says, “The meek shall inherit the earth.” Do you know we are in training right now to reign? That's what being a Christian is all about. We are taught to love those that hate you; do good to those that despitefully use you. That's the law. Those are the principles that will rule the world during the 1,000 years of peace. No wonder it's going to be peace on earth, good will toward men.

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, of whom I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.