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(Cont. from Page
10/4/99).
THE KOSOVAN
AND SERBIAN TROUBLES AND THE
GOD-GIVEN SCRIPTURAL REASONS FOR THEM.
BECAUSE OF THE SPIRIT
ASPECT AMONG
SONS OF
ISHMAEL,
GOD HAS
PROMISED:
"I will do to them as they are doing to My chosen people even to this
day; I will pay them back in their own coin." (2 Esdras 15:21 NEB). As
the present system of things draws to a close, this is being fulfilled.
In
Genesis 21:9,10 it states: "And Sarah kept noticing the son of
Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham,
poking fun. So she began to say to Abraham: "Drive out this slave
girl and her son, for the son of this slave girl is not going to be an heir with
my son, with Isaac!""
Ishmael was
sent away, but God promised to form both sons into great nations. (Gen 21:11 13 NEB).
But now, during the time of the end of satan's evil systems, Almighty God is
fulfilling another promise: "And you, Asia, who have shared the
beauty and the splendour of Babylon, alas for you, poor wretch! Like her you
have dressed up your daughters as whores, to attract and catch your lovers who
have always lusted for you. You have copied all the schemes and practices of
that vile harlot. Therefore, God says, I will bring upon you terrible evils:
widowhood and poverty, famine, sword, and plague, bringing ruin to your homes,
bringing violence and death. Your strength and splendour will wither like a
flower, when that scorching heat bears down upon you. Then you will be a poor
weak woman, bruised, beaten, and wounded, unable to receive your wealthy lovers
any more. Should I be so fierce with you, says the Lord, if you had not
killed My chosen ones continually, gloating over
the blows you struck them, and hurling your drunken taunts at their corpses?
Paint you face; make yourself beautiful! The harlot's pay shall be yours;
you will get what you have earned. What you do
to My chosen people, God will do to you, says the Lord; He will consign you to a
terrible fate. Your children will
die of hunger; you will fall by the sword, your cities will be blotted out, and
all your people will fall on the field of battle." (2 Esdras
15:46-57 NEB).
Centuries
later, the apostle Paul described the enmity between Isaac "born in the
manner of Spirit" from God, and Ishmael "born in the manner of
flesh" as follows: "But just as then the one born in the
manner of flesh began persecuting the one born in the manner of Spirit, so also
now." The persecution of Spirit sons of God by sons of Ishmael
continues. (See Gal 4:22-31). Those of Babylon and Asia, Egypt and Syria
described in 2 Esdras 16:1,2 are for the most part Muslim sons of
Ishmael. (NEB). They are being punished
by God for their continued persecution of the Spirit sons of Isaac, according to
His promise.
As to Babylon/Iraq it is written: "The
dust and smoke will reach the sky, and all her neighbours will mourn for
Babylon. Any of her survivors will be enslaved by her destroyers." (2 Esdras 15:44,45 NEB). The fulfilment of this scripture is ongoing.
(Cont. on Page
19/5/99A).
18/5/99.
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