"THE DAY IS NEAR WHEN THE MOST HIGH WILL BEGIN
TO
 BRING  DELIVERANCE  TO  THOSE  ON  EARTH."
(2 Esdras 13:29 NEB).

According to verses 33-38 of this prophecy, Godless nations will be 'caught' at the same time that faithful servants of God are delivered. But why do the nations hate the Most High God so much as to unite in a countless host to wage war against the return of His Son The Christ? It is because Almighty God is perfect in all His ways and has created The Christ Michael His Firstborn Son in His "image". He is the one "whom the Most High has held in readiness through many ages" and will be revealed as the new prevailing Spirit within all nations. (13:25,26 NEB).  All  mankind will feel this in their spirits, but the great majority will not be prepared to accept it: "On hearing his voice, all the nations will leave their own territories and their separate wars, and unite in a countless host, as you saw in your vision, with a common intent to go and wage war against him. He will take his stand on the summit of Mount Zion, and Zion will come into sight before all men, complete and fully built."  (13:33  36 NEB).

The reason why the Godless majority will war against the Son of God when they hear his "voice" is that they are worshippers of satan, his evil spirit and his system. They reject the Spirit Law of God and worship demoncracies, dictatorships, and "dungy idols". They will all be destroyed through The Christ's "voice" from heavenly "Mount Zion" by the Spirit of God.

Mount Zion is "the City of the Living God, heavenly Jerusalem, before myriads of angels, the full concourse and assembly of the first-born citizens of heaven, and God the Judge of all, and the spirits of good men made perfect, and Jesus the mediator of a new covenant". (Heb 12:22-24 NEB). These first-born citizens of heaven are incorruptible spirits who will assist The Christ Michael in the destruction of all corrupt worldly systems and the high  ranking ones who sponsor them. But how will they be destroyed? "He will destroy them without effort by means of the Law     and that is like the fire".  (13:38 NEB).

"FLAME" IS AN ADVANCED WARNING OF SPIRIT "FIRE".
Witnesses of the "flame" of the Kings Cross Underground fire are an example of those who have had advanced warning of the prophesied Spirit "fire". The "flame" signified that The Christ Michael was taunting them with their evil plottings and the spirit tortures they are soon to endure after death. (13:38 NEB). The advancing hordes of nations who will attack the "man" (The Christ) risen from the "sea" (mankind) will experience the same condemnatory Judgement according to the Law of God as did the victims of the Kings Cross fire. (13:3  5 NEB). "Suddenly all that enormous multitude had disappeared, leaving nothing but dust and ashes and a reek of smoke".  (13:11 NEB).

But what about those who survive? "The very person from whom the danger will then come will protect in danger those who have works and fidelity laid up to their credit with the Most High." (13:22,23 NEB).  Those  with works and fidelity laid up to their credit are eager for The Christ's coming. They have aligned themselves with the Spirit Law of God through The Christ, so have nothing to fear from the Judgement of God through His Christ.

THE REASON WHY NATIONS WILL UNITE AGAINST GOD.
When the spirit permeating all human life is the righteous Spirit of God, the Godless (who hate true Christians and the Justice of God) will rise up in a countless host to wage war against this righteous Spirit and His holy requirements     with the effect that it will expose and denounce their evil spirits. By lying against the truth, the Godless will be running away from "lion"-like justice, only to meet up with the immovable "bear"-like retribution of God. Through The Christ Michael and the heavenly assembly of "Mount Zion" their lying spirits will be revealed by the truth, Judgement, and condemnation of God.  (16:63-67 NEB).

2/5/98.
 

.

PREVIOUS
PAGE

SUBJECT
INDEX

HOME
PAGE

SCRIPTURE
INDEX

NEXT
PAGE