The assembly of the United Nations comes against Israel to destroy her. 

Ezekiel 23:46-47

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“For thus says the Lord God: ‘Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to trouble and plunder. The assembly shall stone them with stones and execute them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.” Ezekiel 23:46-47

The trouble coming against Israel today benefits one powerful entity, the United Nations. The goal is to submit Israel to conform to the will of the members of the United Nations so the UN can be established as the one world government.

We see the word of God being fulfilled in front of our eyes as an assembly of nations has been brought against Israel. That assembly of nations is indeed the member countries of the United Nations. That assembly also includes the masses of the global culture that riot and protest against the existence of Israel. Israel is given up to trouble as she confronts hostility on every side from places such as the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Stria, Iran, etc. Israel is given up to plunder as the territory of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has been taken from her, as seen in the picture below,

The picture to the right is the original territory of Israel as described in Ezekiel 48. The picture to the left is Israel after the land has been plundered and is now without the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. That is a huge, huge piece of territory plundered from Israel. How amazing it is that the territory of Israel in Ezekiel 48 is the same territory of Israel today, minus the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The assembly brought against Israel will also be those among the Battle of Armageddon of Revelation 16:12-17.  “For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to assemble them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty…And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.” Revelation 16:14, 16 While we see the trouble and plundering of Israel today, the Battle of Armageddon will be much, much, worse, and the killing of the Jewish people will be much worse. Israel will burn in fires. Click here for a post on the Day After the Battle of Armageddon.

Today, we see Israel being stoned with stones, which are instruments to bring pain, suffering, and death. Those stones are hurled from the members of the United Nations through laws and all sorts of mandates. Those stones include the riots and protests against Israel coming from the masses of the global culture in cities across the globe. Those stones include the constant wars that Israel engages in. This becomes much worse in the time period centering around the Battle of Armageddon. The houses of Israel will be burned in the fire.

What we see happening in Israel should be a great concern for this present world government and the global culture it has created. That’s because the destruction coming to Israel will be the destruction coming to this world. God’s determination is to gather the nations to pour out the fury of His judgment on them. The same nations assembled against Israel will be destroyed along with Israel, “Therefore wait for Me,” says the Lord, “Until the day I rise up for plunder; My determination is to gather the nations to My assembly of kingdoms, to pour on them My indignation, all My fierce anger; All the earth shall be devoured with the fire of My jealousy.” Zephaniah 3:8 Click for the full chapter of Zephaniah 3.

The world government and its global culture feels invincible because they live by the entity that has control over physiology to control what people do, think, say, and feel. This entity enables the image of the beast to speak and live through the masses of the global culture. In their attitude they boast, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” However, in the Fifth Plague of Revelation 16:10-11, the power center of the beast is destroyed, which renders the world government and its global culture powerless. For the masses of the global culture, that is a day of trouble, plunder, violence, chaos, death, and upheaval of every type. In that powerlessness and chaos arises the Battle of Armageddon in the Sixth Plague of Revelation 16:12-17. The Day of the Lord enters to destroy this earth, and the return of Jesus Christ comes.

Global warming is instrumental in bringing the destruction of the power center of the beast and is the Fourth Plague of Revelation 16:8-9. The more powerful the United Nations becomes as the one world government the hotter and more intense the heat of global warming becomes.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we do not have a nation on this earth to call our own, our nation is the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth. If the Jewish people would have accepted Jesus Christ 2000 years ago, they would not have a nation on this earth and would not be facing the fury of God’s judgment today. “Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.” Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” John 18:36-37

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1