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Teresa Hillebrandt's avatar

The entire chapter of Isaiah 24 is timely and applicable to your excellent article. The Chapter describes the condition of the earth, and especially the land of Palestine/Israel/Jerusalem during the coming Great Tribulation/Time of Jacob's Trouble (Jeremiah 30:7-8)(Obadiah 1:12). It will be wasted by judgement until at the Second Coming of Christ, the nations of the earth will be broken (Isaiah 24:21)(Daniel 2:44-45). After this has come to pass, "The Lord of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously". *Notice the present tense used, as is frequently the case in the Bible for the future, in order to express something that is absolutely certain to occur. Here are just a few verses from Isaiah 24. 1 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited." Therefore, "behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." (2 Corinthians 6:2)(Isaiah 49:8).

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Dawn - I was brought up in a Bible (KJV) believing and preaching church and I came to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 20. I well know the verses you shared in this essay and I know pastors are still disputing if the TRUE Church (the body of believers in the finished work of Jesus on the cross at Calvary) will be spirited into the heavenlies PRIOR to the 7 years of "great tribulation" - I will leave all of that "disputation" to the clergy. I am just praying throughout each and every day for God's will to be done on EARTH as it is in HEAVEN (from the Disciples Prayer the Lord Jesus gave to the original 12 disciples while He ministered here on earth).

Bless you for being a faithful sharer of The Word.

I will guy you a cup of "whatever" you enjoy right now!!

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