This present world is destroyed. 

Ezekiel 36:28

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“Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” Ezekiel 36:38

God is comparing the flock of men in the ruined cities to the flock of slaughtered sheep on the feast days in Jerusalem. The sheep were holy sacrifices, and on the feast days the number of sheep sacrificed were massive in number. In other words, the slaughter in Jerusalem will be massive on this earth as the fury of God’s judgment is unleashed on them. This is described in the post about the “Day After the Battle of Armageddon from Ezekiel chapter 39. God’s fury is unleashed on Israel by the hand of the world government and its global culture. During the Battle of Armageddon (Revelation 16:12-17), just about the last major event before the Day of the Lord, the land of Israel will suffer utter destruction and Jerusalem will be filled with the slaughter of the flock.

The world government and its global culture by no means has a free pass in this world. The nations are assembled by God to unleash the fury of His judgment on them too, “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

What happens to Israel will happen to the world government and its global culture. The Battle of Armageddon involves the nations of the world and arises after the world government and its global culture are rendered powerless by the destruction of the power center of the beast in Fifth Plague of Revelation 16:9-10. During that time, there will be no more power over physiology and the ability to govern through thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors will be gone. This entity will be powerless to enable the image of the beast to live and speak through people. The ability to hold people to a specific station in life through the mark of the beast will be gone. Global warming, of Revelation 16:8-9, is instrumental in destroying the power center of the beast. The more powerful the United Nations become as the one world government the hotter and more intense the heat of global warming becomes.

The flock of the world government, its global culture, will be like the flock of slaughtered sheep on a holy day of sacrifice, a feast day. The feast will be for the birds of the air, “Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, “Come and gather together for the supper of the great God, that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great.” Revelation 19:17-18

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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