Mortal human beings are rare but more valuable to God than the gold bars of Ophir.

Isaiah 13:11-16

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“I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.” Isaiah 13:11

The evil of the world is unbelief in God, the rejection of Jesus Christ who forgives unbelief, and opposing the presence of the Holy Spirit. Today’s world chooses to live by the beast that gives them what to speak, do, think, and feel. In their attitude and spirit, their arrogance and pride is heard as they say, “Who is like the beast? Who can make war with him” Revelations 13:4

The Lord is going to lay low the arrogant superiority of the global government of the beast and its global culture. That will be done in the Fifth Plague of Revelations 16:10-11 when the power center of the beast is plunged into darkness. At that time, people will no longer be empowered with uncanny knowledge, heightened intuition, extraordinary skills and talents, uncanny authority over others etc. All of that comes from the beast that has power over physiology to give people what to think, feel, say, and do. They will no longer be saying, “Who is like the beast? Who can make war with him” Revelations 13:4

“I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, a man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.” Isaiah 13:11-16

In today’s world, there are “mortal” people and the “superhumans”. “Mortals” are we who do not want the empowerment of the beast, such as we who follow the way of Jesus Christ. We choose to live by the Holy Spirit living within our spirit. The “superhumans” do not want anything to do with the “mortal” spirit where the Holy Spirit lives. They choose to live by the beast that hardens the spirit against Jesus Christ and empowers them with unnatural knowledge and abilities.

In these days, its extremely rare to find “mortal” people who are living as God’s creation as the temple of the Holy Spirit. “Mortals” recognize our need for Jesus Christ, unlike the “superhumans” who boast, “We see!”, “I know!”, “You can’t be!” etc. They feel so empowered and invincible in the face of “mortals” that they boast, “Who is like the beast? Who can make war with him” Revelations 13:4

In God’s eyes, “mortals” are more valuable than the most expensive gold in the world. That’s because we believe in Him, we realize our need for Jesus Christ, and we want the Holy Spirit to live in our spirit, “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:24

The “golden wedge of Ophir” was like a gold bar of today, like the “golden bar of Fort Knox”, as seen in the picture below. That gold is incredibly pure and rare symbolizing extreme value and wealth. “…the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold…” 1 Peter 1:7

Click here for a list of ways, quoted from the Bible, that human beings are combined with the beast to form “superhumans”. Scroll towards the bottom of the page. That is from the post on the “Number of the Beast is the Number of the Person”

“Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth will move out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts and in the day of His fierce anger.” Isaiah 13:13

When the heavens are shaken and the earth not rotating and spinning properly, everything goes wrong. Everything is thrown off balance which wreaks havoc on the earth. Severe havoc. Destructive havoc. Catastrophic havoc. Life-ending havoc. That is the day of the Lord’s fierce anger. “The earth is violently broken, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken exceedingly. The earth will reel to and fro like a drunkard, and will totter like a hut; Its transgression will be heavy upon it, and it will fall, and not rise again. Isaiah 24:19-20

Click here for the whole chapter of Isaiah 24.

“Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste, distorts its surface and scatters abroad its inhabitants.” Isaiah 24:1

When the heavens are shaken and the earth moved out her place, what is numbered below would happen, Click here for a post on Joshua 10:12-15 on “The Sun stands still and the Moon stops.”

1. People would be scattered/propelled across the Earth at a speed of 1000 miles per hour. (No survivors)
2. The oceans would continue moving at 1000 miles per hour and create a massive tsunami. (No survivors)
3. We would be faced with supersonic wind moving at (you guessed it) 1000 miles per hour. (No survivors)
4. The earth would be ripped apart.  “…and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth. Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell.” Revelation 16:18-19 (No survivors)
5. The oceans would pool at the North and South poles.
6. Earth’s magnetic field would be gradually reduced as spinning would slow down.

Click here for a post on the destruction of the earth from Revelations 16:17-21 of the Seventh Plague. Jesus Christ returns when the Seventh Trumpet blows of Revelations 11:15-18. Together, the Seventh Plague and Seventh Trumpet is within the Day of the Lord as described in Zachariah 14.

“It will be as the hunted gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up; Every man will turn to his own people, and everyone will flee to his own land. Everyone who is found will be thrust through, and everyone who is captured will fall by the sword. Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.” Isaiah 13:14-16

Those verses are describing a time of complete global disarray, chaos, violence, and persecution. That day will be as people being hunted, like a deer is hunted or like a sheep that is left alone with no protection from the wolves. This describes the total lawlessness of a demon filled world, “She has become a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.” Revelations 18:2.Click here for the post on Revelations 18 about the collapse of the global culture. “On that day people will be stricken by the Lord with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another.” Zachariah 14:13

Like a deer and sheep that runs to find its safe territory when being hunted as prey, every person will be running from their persecutors, seeking a safe territory among those who are like them. Like a sheep that finds protection within a flock and a as a deer finds protection among the herd. Everyone who is found alone, not within their safe territory, will be killed. Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished. This is like everyone who is found not serving the image of the beast will be killed. “The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.” Revelation 13:15 Click here for the post on the image of the beast.

“There’s one!” is a popular attitude in today’s culture, which refers to the culture of the beast setting as prey those who are not part of their community network. Seems “unreal” but it is really, really happening! It’s the simplest thing to just believe in the word of God, “…if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9

We are already living in the days when the image of the beast is in the world. The image of the beast is given breath/life to speak by speaking and living through people in every city around the world. That happens by the beast that has power over physiology to govern by giving people what to speak, do, think, and feel. Already, people who do not welcome the beast to speak and live through them are made to feel unwanted by today’s culture. It’s just a matter of time before people are literally killed for not serving the image of the beast.

That deadly persecution will happen at a time when the United Nations is established as the undisputed one world government. A time when the United States, Israel, and all of their allies are subject to the will of the United Nations. Already, China and Russia are two of the top three world powers, both atheists, against belief in God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. In fact, the majority of the countries of the United Nations are atheists that support mandating that the global population serves the image of the beast. The global culture includes those who welcome the beast to speak and live through them.

Even today, I see…what I call…the “psychotic lamb” quietly causing deaths of many people who do not support the beast speaking and living through them. For example, that happens through health care. A person can have the best health insurance in the world, but that insurance is only as good as the medical professionals providing the care. I’ve actually had people say that the reason their health care is better than mine is because they welcome the beast to speak and live through them, and I don’t. Some countries don’t have adequate health care of any type. Christians in countries around the world are literally being put to death [murdered] simply for living for Jesus Christ, and put in jail, and suffering imposed upon them in many forms.

Jesus says, “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” Matthew 5:11-12

“….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

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