HERE COMES THE BRIDE- A City From On High

What is the BRIDE of Christ? Or should I say who is IN the Bride of Christ??? The Bride are the called out ecclisea, the remnant, the ones spared from the wrath of Yahushua. The Bride are the ones who have made themselves ready (Revelations 19:7) The Bride is not Israel or modern day church goers...the Bride is deeper that that. The Bride is a mystical occurance, a mystery, and unrevealed secret. No one knows who the Bride is. She is veiled, hidden, just like a betrothed women in jewish trdition,.Her identity is hidden(face) unitl the revelation of the Bridegroom. She is set apart and in waiting. And in her time of waiting she is given time to make herself ready for her Beloved.  And her readiness is what determines her election.

Jesus said, "When the student is ready, The Teacher shall appear"(Matthew 13) He also said that there would be foolish brides and wise ones, in His parable of His return. There would be chaste people, who would be awaiting the Bridegroom, but they would become lazy and complacent, they would not be ready for the Bridgroom when He came. And the way the parable reads....is that they clearly had a choice,and could have been made ready, if they would have chosen the part that the wise virgins chose. And the wise virgins choice was to daiy keep watching, keeping oil in her lamp, not sleeping or distracted by the world...obviously set apart unto the Master...doing what He bid her until He return. Sitting at the feet of the Master, choosing the better part. So.... SHE WAS OBEDIENT. Are we??? Our readiness will determine our being received into the Bride, the Holy City.

Readiness is obedience where there is no unturned stone....no sin or guilt or sickness in us that we have not dealt with, confronted and put under His blood. Disobedience has been eradicated, dispelled, it has no place in us anymore-because we have made ourselves surrendered to the Lamb. We have chosen to prepare ourselves in the beauty of holiness, not because we have to- but because we want to. When you love and are in love, you will go to any extreme in preperation to see your beloved. We know this. Who is our first LOVE? If he is First, THE MOST PURSUED SOUGHT AFTER LOVE, the fruit will be there to show it.

Ever met anyone in love????  Is there any queston what that person thinks about, talks about eats, drinks and sleeps 24/7?All the outsiders look upon that person and say "all you care about is so-in-so!" And it is true. No real love ever comes without persecution and when someone is in love they are compelled, driven, obsessed and zealous for that love. No one can stand between it or deter loves attention. No one. Ridicule comes, inevitably, by those who are waxed cold in their love. Praise only comes from those who rejoice in love and rejoice in the bride and bridegroom. All others wag the head and nay say "loves" abandon. They do so because it is foolish to the ones who have passed the time of love. It is foolish to pursue LOVE with such intensity and yearning to those who are barren of love. They are jealous because their house became desolate of the sound of the bride and the bridegroom within and their hearts waxed cold.

So at the readiness of our souls, when the soul is READY, when we have made our readiness by humbling ourselves to our Maker and by removing the stumbling block of our sin. When We are "ready' THEN He appeareth...soooo, conclusion being, when the Bride is READY...THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH FOR HER in the Spirit. He appears when she appears IN HER READINESS... When we truly see Him we shall be like Him. BEHOLD the Lamb who taketh away the sin of the world. He taketh away our sin WHEN WE BEHOLD HIM! If we are not being transformed, if we are lukewarm, WE ARE NOT BEHOLDING HIM AS HE IS. We have some other Image of Him erected in our minds THAT IS NOT HIS TRUE LIKENESS. It's another jesus and another gospel. Not the POWER of the Cross.

The Bride is collectively, seperately, preparing Herself through the rigteous acts of the saints, her fine linen is what she clothes herself in and that linen is DEEDS...odedient deeds choosing righteousness in humility to Her King. She is making herself ready! No one ever had to chide a bride about being prepared on her wedding day. For the honor of the Bridegroom she prepareth. For her own honor and for the honor of the wedding guests. SHE MAKETH HERSELF READY. Every detail of the Wedding is important to the Bride, hastening to the day of the marraige. And thus we are, if we are in love, FIRST LOVE, with our Beloved Christ and "if" we are in readiness when He returns for us. Sending the Holy City down from heaven upon our heads.

He will return as a THEIF, He even said so Himself. What does that mean? In every other reference to the THEIF IN THE NIGHT in the Old Testament...the term"theif in the night " refers to God sneaking up on His people or enemies with JUDGEMENT. It is not a favorable term for anyone, not even the Bride. Only favorable for the READY ONES. If the Bride delay in her preperation and making ready and the Bridegroom Appears, taking her unaware, like a theif in the night, then she, will be counted with the foolish virgins, who will be shut out in everlasting darkness and share her portion with the hypocrites, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Regret and worldly sorrow that leads to miserable, continual torment.

But to those who are wise, The Day of His Coming(Visitation) will be a day of great rejoicing! He will not catch her unaware because this bride was watching and listening and preparing, keeping her garments white and oil in her lamp, not falling asleep but being vigilant, INTENTIONAL. Continually repenting of SELF/THE BEAST WITHIN.

Watch ye therefore, and pray always , that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass , and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36 Jesus said this to His future Bride. Only those accounted worthy will escape the terrible judgements poured out on mankind. ONLY those who are watching and praying will be worthy to escape and STAND before the Son of Man. Obviously HE is the thing to be feared here... The judgement came from Him and He is the only one who can protect us through it. But for those who are NOT READY...He won't!

Ephesians 5 says" Christ gave Himself up for His Bride to make her holy,cleansing her by the washing of the water of the word and to present her to Himself as a RADIENT church, without spot or wrinkle or blemish, but holy and blameless." He makes the Bride ready by the Spirit, by the Word...and then the Bride makes herself ready BY STAYING- ABIDING IN READINESS...Her garments are READY- Clean, pure...

He is coming back for a RADIENT, beaming, glowing with His glory, a beautiful BRIDE. There is victory in that and we should find victory in our preperations and our readiness. The greatest weapon we have against the enemy is our READINESS-WORTHINESS.

But how can we be worthy when we are not????? That IS the whole point! Never forgeting the former purification of our sins(II Peter 1:9) NEVER. We must continually stay on our faces concerning our own sin, sinfulness, attitudes,motives, unforgiveness, envy. We must drive them all out of our houses from before our eyes and WE CAN! We are not worthy but HE IS! We are not innocent in any matter and if we are then He will avenge us. However, its' been my experience that when I'm innocent over here....I'm probably guilty over there in some way...so we NEVER stray from mourning our sins past and present and even mourning that we do not enter into temptation. When we have been washed, there is a humility that proceeds and staying in that humility is our only safekeeping. If we forget His great mercy towards us, and begin to think we are sanctifying ourselves...it is THEN that we have lost grace to endure and stand in the days to come. We are the righteousness of God in Christ, not in ourselves- PERIOD and FOREVER.

When someone is ready, they are ON! There is no delay or wait, they are available and competent for what is at hand. Like a skilled athelete that is prepared for competition, they have certainly done everything required to make them READY to perform at optimal level. Not being prepared, often means defeat! There is no reason for us, as His bride, to be defeated because He went before us and made the way! He rent the veil, He payed the price. He overcame!!!! We are not a defeated church/bride if we have come out from the world and live seperate lives unto Him and if we keep our hearts tender before Him, keeping the love of God that abides, remains,-"if" we abide in the VINE. Not returning to the heart made of stone, that the law produces or the keeping of it; not trusting in our own ability to serve Him. On the contrary, we cry out day and night, night and day, to be found worthy of the Lamb and allowing the heart made of flesh to live in us to thrive as we trust the finished work of Christ.

The BRIDE has many promises for these last days. Many will want to claim those promises, that have not come by means of the cross or repentance, making them thieves who wish to come up another way. These promises in the Word will not be theirs in the day of His wrath. It is going to become very clear WHO HIS BRIDE IS and by all to see. There will be no question, who is radient and who is not! Yahushua is not coming back for a compromising whore. He is coming back for a Bride WORTHY OF HIM, who is glorious inside and bold and unashamed of her love for the Bridegroom. A Bride THAT WILL pay the price for loving Him as He did her and a bride that is REDEEEMED.

We, the REDEEMED are the NEW JERUSALEM, which is THE BRIDE coming down from heaven(Revelations 21:2) The BRIDE is a city, holy- in the heavenlies and it comes down upon those who overcome the beast! Just like the Great Harlot, the whore of Babylon is a city( Revelations 17:18) which was the city of Babylon the great; ruling in the heavenlies- all the kings of the earth are drunk with her harlotries, the Scripture says.

 If the Whore of babylon is a City and so is the Bride of Christ, both depicted as female. One is vile and demonic while the other is holy and blessed. These are both pictures of the spiritual world and the Principalities and Rulers of this world. As the collective Bride of Christ gaineth strength by overcoming, we hasten that City's arrival. Babylon the Great IS FALLING NOW and the angels rejoice in that! That spiritual government is being destroyed in the heavenlies. As above so beneath.

If THIS city is depicted a a woman, it depicts a wicked government in the spirit world and that government is over all the children of pride. It is over all those who tolerate Jezebel and it is over all of them that worship the beast and receive his mark. BUT, to those who overcome the Harlot, the Beast and Jezebel, THESE are under the GOVERNMENT OF THE BRIDE! They are under the covering of the Holy City, the NEW JERUSALEM, not made with hands, this is THE BRIDE! He writeth the name of that City upon those who overcome!

"Here Comes the Bride...All Dressed in White." HaleYaHuWaH!

Do we really believe THE KING OF KINGS is coming back for a fearful, defeated, abused BRIDE? Not what my bible says. NO WAY...He is coming swiftly on a white horse to avenge His Bride and slay her enemies by the Word of His mouth! It is HIS WORD that slays the enemy...always has been always will be! And He is not coming back until He puts every enemy under His Feet! Whose feet???? Who is His body??? Under His Bride's feet, for He is the Head and she is the Body! And death is the LAST enemy that will be put under the Lamb/His Brides feet!

Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 11:4.. but with righteousness He will judge the needy, with justice He will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth; with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

I Corinthians 15:24Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27For he “has put everything under his feet.”^c

^{We are His feet! And when we dont fear death or man or devil or government or famine or prison...WE OVERCOME DEATH! For in the fear of death do all these things lie therein...He is coming back for a MATE that will love Him with the Intensity that He loves her...and what would He not give up for her? What would He withhold from her? Nothing. Total Abandon of Himself was and is His love and so will OURS BE...since death is the last enemy and the one that MUST be defeated for Him to return...I emplore you DIE TO YOUR FEAR OF DEATH. Die to all fear of man. Die to the fear of suffering.Die to the fear of isolation.. When you are dead...then so IS DEATH. Death has nothing over you when you have no fear of it! It is DEFEATED!Here are promises in His Word that we can slay the enemy with IF we are truly in the VINE and are His branches, if we are truly The Bride who is watching and praying and repenting and keeping her garments white and her lamp full of oil. Remember He slays His enemies with His Word and the breath of His mouth. So He then, would most definitely agree with His Wife to be, when she prays and calls upon His Name and ask according to His Word whatever she will. He being moved by compassion would answer from on high and by the breath of His mouth bring down her enemies by His Word!}

^{This is a love story, mind you, of the Messiah and His beloved. The Greatest Love Story Ever Told...Every remnant saint is at a different point and place in their overcoming. No one can attest to that point of overcoming but The King and The Judge Himself. But in our overcoming, when we have overcome to the point of being worthy of the The Bride coming down from heaven...worth of that Holy City, which is the Bride, to come down to us...when we are READY, we can rest assured, She, that City, that New Jerusalem, is coming down upon us. Coming out of the whore(City) of Babylon repenting of her blasphemies and harlotries, coming out to be seperate of that spirit lest we receive her plagues. In obedience to our Bridegroom and Overcoming Power- we will come into that Holy City... or should I say He sends that City down upon the ones who have made themselves ready.}

There are two types of disciples in the last days Jesus speaks of...the ones who will be put to death Matthew 24:9 and the ones who not a hair on their head will be harmed. Luke 21:18 All of His true elect will be persecuted.The former is the most glorious of the Bride and the latter -glorious  to continue in the earth radiating His Power, being His demonstrated fear in the earth. Nothing can stop her and death is only Victory, for she will lay her life down for her Bridegroom. Like Him, no one taketh her life, but that she lay it down freely. That will be our grace and decision in the final testing. The better resurrection comes to the Bride who layeth her life down for the gospel, for Her King. The other saints who are in the Bride will demonstrate His Glory and whoever toucheth a hair on her head, toucheth the apple( the pupil) of His eye. Those that touch His anointed Wife will suffer immediately. Dont believe me? Read His promises for His beloved...

Zechariah 2

1Then I looked up—and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand! 2I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.” 3Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another angel came to meet him 4and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of men and livestock in it. 5And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will be its glory within.’ 6“Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven,” declares the Lord. 7“Come, O Zion! Escape, you who live in the Daughter of Babylon!” 8For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After he has honored me and has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye— 9I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them.a Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me. 10“Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord. 11“Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you. 12The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem. 13Be still before the Lord, all mankind, because He has roused himself from his holy dwelling.” THe Lord PROMISES He will protect His scattered People. He will take up His Bride's cause. This is speaking of the New Jerusalem and Him choosing Us again, His people. He will rouse Himself and We, His Remnant Bride will KNOW that He liveth amongst us. This is the overcoming Bride that goeth through the tribulation and He will raise His Hand AGAINST them that touch Us!. Jerusalem will be a City with no walls, meaning there is no boundary to here in physicality, the measuring of her is the number of them who are scattered to the four winds- the four ends of the earth...for She is like the sand of the sea, like the promised descendents of Abraham, like the stars of the heavens, scattered to the four winds of heaven. This prophecy is a promise concerning His true people in the last days as the book of Zechariah is an apocalyptic book. Understand- those who touch His pupil, the apple of His eye will suffer much harm and those that give their lives and are martyred will be the grains of wheat that will fall into the earth and die bringing forth much fruit( REVIVAL)! We should be rejoicing in these days rather than fearing what is to come for PERFECT LOVE and He is That, casteth out All fear! Zecharaih 14:12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. Yes, the Lord will defend the land of Israel and the literal city of Jerusalem, those who have looked upon the One they have pierced, the familes that have mourned how they pierced Messiah, for He will open their blind eyes at end of the time of the Gentiles. But the Edomite jews He will not justify, those from Esau. There are many jews that will not repent and who is a true jew but those of the household of faith. But His Bride , His people, Gentile and Jew, will be protected. Not without bloodshed, many will die for the Glory of the Bridegroom who cometh, Maranatha! But He promises and is not a man that He should lie, that He will dwell among His people and He will rouse Himself for Her. Malachi 3:16-18 16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. This is a prophecy about the coming last day of the Lord and He says we, then, will be able to discern between the wheat and the tare and will spare us that fear Him. We are His apple, We are His jewels. Malachi goes on to say in chapter 4: 4 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lordof hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. 4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. That Word is for Now, Oh Bride, Oh Bride of Christ cry out for the prophet Eliyahu before the Great and Dreadful Day for Our Bridegroom sendeth him to Us and all the proud and all who do wickedly the Lord shall burn them up! But unto Us who fear His name shall the Sun of Righteousness ARISE (be roused) with healing in His wings and We shall go forth in these days and grow up as calves in the stall. Meaning PROTECTED! And We shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the sole(s) Our feet! Whose feet? The Bride's Feet! The Lord says, in that day, that the righteous will become more righteous and the wicked more wicked,but that the righteous will shine with His glory and the mouth of the wise shall feed many. His countenance will be upon us and eminate through Us like unto Moses face being in the glory of Yahuwah! It will be very clear WHO His Radient Bride is...even physically. Jesus said: Revelation 3:10-13 King James Version (KJV) 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. 12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. 13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Revelation 2:10-11 King James Version (KJV) 10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. 11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be terrified, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight. Joshua 10.25 MY Bride Divine OH My Bride Oh My Bride My Bride Divine Thy Rest I Seek, Oh Love Divine... Oh, Bone of My Bone.... Oh Flesh of My Flesh... One Taken from My Rib... My Wounded Side... For None Such Have I Longed For... Since Before The Beginning of Time... A Helpmate Suitable For Me Are Thine... One Which Would Sacrifice Thy Life For Mine... For I Gave Everything For Thee... And In Return Thou Wilt For Me... Oh Heaven's Joy... Oh Love Divine... My Father's Pleasure... My Glorious Bride... I Redeemed The Whore... And Made Her Clean... Washed Her With My Word... And Became Her Curse... For I Loved Her... Like Unto Hosea and Gomer... For She Was Worth The Price I Payed...  For Her Sanctification... My Blood Doeth Stay... For She Embraced... My Sacrifice... And Washed Her Robes... Pure and White... Without One Spot... Or Wrinkle ,She... Has Made Herself... Adorned For Me... She Sleepeth Not... Sitting At My Feet... Her Lamp Is Filled... My Enemy's Defeat... She Waiteth For Me... Her Candle Lit... And Veils Herself... To Me Be Fit... Awaiting Her Bridegroom... My Faithful Wife... I Shall Return... To Save Her Life... She Is The Apple of My Eye... And I, A Wall Of Fire, AM I... Surrounding Her... A City With No Walls... My New Jerusalem... The City of My God... For I AM Roused For Her... Cleaving Unto My Bride... That None Shall Devour... None Shall Touch... My Sacred Virgin... My Bride Divine... The Bridegroom Cometh! Like a Theif In The Night! Woe Be Unto Them! That Toucheth My Wife!

Bird Banquet, The Great Supper of The God and Lake of Fire
Revelation 19:17   
An angel calls the birds
     "And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great Yahuwah; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great." (Rev. 19:17:18)
   We have seen Christ on the white horse ready to slay the wicked with the sword of His mouth 1915. Now an angel appears calling the birds to feast on the flesh of kings and even horses. The kings then join the beast to fight the one on the horse. Then beast and false prophet are cast into the fire and the birds filled themselves with flesh.

Birds image from Heralds of the Morning, 1909.

The Fowl of heaven are the judgement Yahuwah brings
 upon the disobedient and rebellious, those that do not love Him. He holds back judgement (or the enemy) when we obey. But when we disobey The Most High cannot cover us because He will not break His own law.

Our willfull disobedience destroys us, not Him. He gives choice and grace for a period of time, but when the grace runs out, He allows the enemy to discipline us to bring us back to Him. Many may die and many be slain by the sword, who do not turn back or away from their sin. This is the consequences or wages of sin that bring forth death that He warns us of...His laws are protective boundaries to keep us from the harm of the enemy. He put His laws in place for our protection NOT for our bondage. When you understand this you want to obey His commands and they are not burdensome. They are the way of Life and they become your delight.


 All through the Holy Scripture God punished His people when they become wicked, along with the wicked, through wild beasts, the fowl of heaven, jackels ,liliths, satyrs, lions,doleful creatures,owls and dragons Isaiah 13:21 .Look these terms up in the hebrew and you will see that these are demonic creatures(demons) that the Lord "visits" on His backslidden people; because they refused to repent and turn away from their wickedness. After much pleading through his holy prophets, The Almighty sent these things into the houses and palaces of "the wicked" to desolate them. Read, study the word "desolation" and how the Lord desolates His sanctuary...which is His people! He desolates what has become an abomination to Him. He departs from them leaving them to the creatures in the spirit world that come to devour, to ruin, to spoil, to kill and to destroy.

He punishes the arrogant and the proud and the haughty with these beings. They even manifest themselves visibly and invisbly through the flesh of men and through beast. His commandments are not suggestions and as we presume upon His mercy and continue in disobedience. there always is a day of reckoning and recompense. He is not mocked. if we sow sin we reap the wages of death and destruction. If we sow to the flesh we reap destruction. If we ignore His commands we will pay in this life and when pay day comes, the enemy is not playing and he will make sure, because of the "legal rights" we gave him... to make us pay every cent.

Judgement begins with the household of God. Judgement is when the wrath of God is demonstrated upon those who do not obey the gospel. The last dispensation before Christ returns, seemingly, The Almighty, in the Book of The Unveiling of Jesus Christ ie Revelations, is the same Elohim we see that the hebrews knew in the Old Testament. The Holy Father and The Son are One. Christ did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it. He said..."If you love me, keep My commandments. The law is kept through loving Him suprememly and is written upon our hearts. If we Love Him we will keep His commandments and this is His commandment- that we love one another that our joy be made full. If we love Him we will love, from the heart, our brother, If we love Him, abiding by His law means dying to ourselves, being crucified with Him. If we Love Him we will amend not to bring reproach upon His Name anymore. That's it.


Loving Truth and obeying the Truth is observing All of His Commandments. Being careful to observe all that He says and hearkening unto the voice of The Great Shepherd, simply put...



 

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments . . . that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. . . . And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. (Deut. 28:15, 16, 26)

Standing in the sun
   Why would the angel be in the sun? This is not good news for the masses of humanity who have chosen the way of evil.
   "And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thess. 2:8-10). Also compare 1608 where the angel poured out his bowl on the sun.
   The "Wicked" one Paul describes is the antichrist, the one who opposes and exalts himself above God (v.4). In our current chapter, he is the beast that gets thrown into the fire while his followers are killed and eaten. The one standing in the sun is then calling for the punishment of the beast and of the kings and everyone else who joins him.
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People have chosen the sun (either as an object of worship, or the day of the sun for the same purpose).   Now,  here is an angel - obviously much larger and more powerful than the sun even."

Brightness
   The angel stands in the brightness of the coming of Christ (Matt. 16:27). The wicked one, along with those who have chosen to follow him, are destroyed by the brightness of the Lord's coming. They cannot endure the purity of His character. We have seen this angel before (or one like him)
   "And . . . I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, not on any tree. And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." (7:1-3).
   The other angel ascends from the east. The Hebrew for "East," is literally, "rising of the sun." Here in chapter 19, the angel stands in the full, bright sun. The breeze of the early four winds is to become a hurricane. The four angels and the angel in the sun are standing � an indication that they are ready for action (See Dan. 11:2-4). Let's compare the scene when the sixth trumpet sounds.
   "And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: . . ." (9;14-16).
   We may take these horsemen to be the same ones who ride their white horses with Christ. They are the angels of heaven 1915.

Where else do we see the birds?
   Here is the passage: "And he [a mighty angel from heaven] cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird(demonic). For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. . . ." (18:2, 3)
     The major source for the imagery comes from Ezekiel. See ez3917.
    We saw the caged birds as deceptive religious doctrines of the massive end-time religious power 1802bi. After Christ on the white horse slays the wicked by the sword of truth of His mouth, the deceptive teachings will devour those who taught these things, removing the end-time wicked from further sympathy. These leaders and the horses (or people who supported them 1601ch) do not receive an honorable burial. (Compare to the death of the two witnesses 1109.)
    The birds flying in mid-heaven (the atmosphere) is in contrast to the three angels who flew there 1406d. In fact, this comparison is included in the table matching concepts between chapters 14 and 19 � r19t. The birds could also represent the evil angels.
    Eagles are pictured in the fate of those left behind in Luke's account of the coming of Christ lu1737.

19:18
Come eat kings, mighty men, horses and all
   "Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great." (Rev. 19:18)
   A picture of the universal nature of the wicked. Compare the group that calls for the rocks and mountains to fall on them 0615.
Horse meat
   The horses were seen in chapter 6 as the people who follow their leader as a horse follows the direction of its rider. Perhaps the same pertains here 0601ch.

19:19
War declared against the rider and his army
     "And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. (Rev. 19:19-21)
   This critical time of the final battle against the Lamb is seen several times in the book of Revelation.
 

12:17 1217	And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
13:15	And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
16:16-18 1616su	And he [God] gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
17:14 1714	These [ten kings, supporting the beast] shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

19:20
Beast and prophet tossed into the fire
     "And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh." (Rev. 19:19-21)
   I included verse 19 in the text above to show the "battle." They gather and then are taken. Of course their "capture" has some action, but the text doesn't describe it. This is also the picture seen in the description of the battle of Armageddon of chapter 16 and with the ten kings of chapter 17. See texts above.
   The slaying of the false prophet is drawn from the experience of Elijah after Mt. Carmel re1616fp. We see this also in the book of Daniel da0711. Casting the beast into the fire may have been drawn from the experience of the golden calf de0921.

Why now?
   Why would beast and false prophet be sent to the flames now to wait through the thousand years? They apparently don't. We look at this question and more, in connection with the lake of fire in chapter 20. r20o. These two are false religious systems. God acts in total fairness. I believe that he brings these two systems down at a time when the people involved will understand His justice. Leaders and followers of the systems are punished at this time. Let's look back at the plagues. The three-part alliance breaks up at the time of the seventh plague apparently when the people involved see that they have been deceived re1508al.

The remnant slain(backslidden and the wicked) by the sword
  "And the remnant [of the wicked] were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh." (Rev. 19:21)
    The kings and armies are left to be slain apart from those systems that had been their shelter � their chosen structure of deception. Many will have given all their energies and resources to make the systems work for their salvation. Now they stand with their sand-based house washed away � alone to experience the fury of the storm. The Scriptures, as a sword, condemns them. They are without excuse and are slain to lie dead over the surface of the earth.
   We discussed the punishment of burning when studying about the smoke of torment of the beast worshippersre1411d.
Surprise
   "They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed." (Luke 17:27-30)
   How can we avoid being swept into the end-time false religious movement? Only by staying close to the Lord and by depending on His word. Listen to the prayer of Jesus: "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." (John 17:17) Grapes image © Correl.
Today is the time to make our calling and election sure. Today is the time to renew our covenant with our Redeemer and to cling to Him.

Ezekiel 39:17
  And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

 

Title: VULTURES -- BIRDS THAT FEED ON CARRION -- ARE SUDDENLY INCREASING DRAMATICALLY IN ISRAEL BECAUSE ISRAELIS ARE FEEDING THEM, CARING FOR THEM

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Subtitle: Almost everyone in the world despises birds of prey who feed on the flesh of dead animals! How, then, do you explain the phenomenon whereby Jewish citizens of Israel are suddenly attracted to vultures, even to the point of setting up feeding and caring stations?

The answer seems simple: this is another sign of the coming End of the Age. Can the "separation of population" scheme of Prime Minister Sharon (Unilateral Disengagement) possibly associated with this vulture phenomenon?

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The Jews of Israel are suddenly showing great concern and affection for vultures, to the point where the population is increasing dramatically! Is Revelation prophecy about to be fulfilled? While some might consider this possibility to be an unwarranted leap of speculation, you must admit that Israel today is moving inexorably toward the final fulfillment of numerous End of the Age prophecies. Cutting Edge has devoted much time and space chronicling this exciting record. She was reborn as nation on May 14, 1948, despite the overwhelming opposition of Arabs and Europeans alike. She has fought five major wars since then, most of them against considerable odds. Israel today numbers 6.6 million citizens living amidst 300+ million Arabs who universally want to kill her once and for all and throw her out of the Middle East. The very fact that tiny Israel can withstand this kind of opposition is proof positive of the Omnipotent power of Almighty God. God gets the glory when He defends tiny Israel against overwhelming foes. Listen:

"The Lord did not set His love upon you and choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the fewest of all people. But because the Lord loves you and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know, recognize, and understand therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, Who keeps covenant and steadfast love and mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations ..." [Deut. 7:7-9; Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary; this parallel feature also available in the Thompson Chain Reference Computer Library]

God gets the glory when He delivers a tiny Israel from such a host of her enemies that no one in their right mind could ever anticipate victory. Keep this Biblical fact in mind as we go through the rest of this article.

FINAL CALL TO FEASTING ON THE FLESH OF THE FALLEN

Now, what are we to make of the fact that Israelites are suddenly protecting these ugly, filthy, disgusting vultures with a zeal akin to environmentalists protecting a bird on the Endangered Species list? Let us review our news article, written by a Christian author, Noah Hutchings, whose books we carry in our bookstore.
NEWS BRIEF: "Israeli Love Birds", by Dr. Noah W. Hutchings, Prophetic Observor, July 4, 2004
The buzzards of Israel are displaying affection for each other in multiplying and also, the Israeli people have a rather strange affection for the buzzards ... The birds of prey are frequently poisoned by Israeli farmers. Israel's 'Spreading Wings' program to resuscitate the vulture population has set up 20 feeding and nesting stations around the country.
When the Jews were absent from the land during the Diaspora, the land became a virtual desert. With no trees or grain crops, the wild animal and bird population of Israel, including the vultures, disappeared. Now that Israel is back, trees cover the land and extensive farming of all kinds provides food for the birds and wild animals once more. The vulture population at Gamla on the east side of the Sea of Galilee has been increasing in recent years, but pesticides and eating deer and other animals which have been shot has also poisoned some vultures.
But, setting up nesting and feeding stations for vultures throughout Israel is increasing the vulture population. Now, even mating vultures that have been injured and cannot fly are mating because of the scientific effort which has made this type of mating possible. Why does Israel have such an affinity for vultures? Prophetic Scriptures assign a very important function to the fowls of the air who feast primarily on carrion, like vultures, after Jesus has slaughtered untold millions of the army of Antichrist. Listen:
"Then I saw a single angel stationed in the sun's light, and with a mighty voice he shouted to all the birds that fly across the sky, Come, gather yourselves together for the great supper of God, That you may feast on the flesh of rulers, the flesh of generals and captains, the flesh of powerful and mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all humanity, both free and slave, both small and great!"
"... And the rest were killed with the sword that issues from the mouth of Him Who is mounted on the horse, and all the birds fed ravenously and glutted themselves with their flesh." [Rev. 19:17-18, 21; Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible; this parallel feature also available in the Thompson Chain Reference Computer Library]
This description is of the so-called "Battle of Armageddon". I do not use the word, "battle" for the "Battle of Armageddon" shall be a complete slaughter of the soldiers and leaders of the army of Antichrist, with no casualties amongst the Armies of Heaven led by Jesus Christ (Rev 19:14-15). The Bible says that Jesus shall simply say one word and they shall all fall slain. The unsaved world has recreated what the Battle of Armageddon really is, teaching that it is a final battle fought between the mighty nations of the earth at the very End of the Age. The Bible cannot allow this interpretation as you can see for yourself by reading Revelation 16:16 and 19:11-21.
Let us take a moment now to read an interesting commentary on these verses.
"The carcasses of God's enemies shall be food for all the fowls of heaven. This is according to a Jewish tradition, Synopsis Sohar, p. 114, n. 25: "In the time when God shall execute vengeance for the people of Israel, he shall feed all the beasts of the earth for twelve months with their flesh and all the fowls for seven years." It is well known that both beasts and birds of prey are accustomed to frequent fields of battle, and live upon the slain. There shall be a universal destruction; the kings, generals, captains, and all their host, shall be slain." —Adam Clarke's Commentary
The emphasis in this verse is upon the general term, "birds of prey", birds that feed on the flesh of the dead. In this case, as noted above, the dead shall be lying in great numbers on a field of slaughter.
Notice also the words, "... a single angel stationed in the sun's light, and with a mighty voice he shouted to all the birds that fly across the sky, Come, gather yourselves together for the great supper of God ..." This prophecy sounds very much like God Himself, or this mighty angel, shall issue forth some kind of divine signal to all birds of prey, especially calling them to this field of final slaughter of the soldiers of Antichrist's army. Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary states that, in the Israel of old, birds of prey were, "excepting during the winter three months, so numerous everywhere in Palestine as to be almost gregarious (flocking together)".
Since 1948, rainfall has returned to normal ancient levels in Israel, and much of the original type of vegetation has returned; therefore, it should not be too surprising her ancient flocks of birds of prey should return. However, as Dr. Hutchings pointed out, what is really remarkable is that the Jewish citizens of Israel are showing unusual signs of care for these carrion-feasting birds.
RUSSIAN-LED INVASION OF ISRAEL
However, before this climactic slaughter, when Jesus kills the armies of Antichrist, God prophesies similarly against the Russian-led armies attacking Israel (Ezekiel 38-39)
"And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Say to the birds of prey of every sort and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves and come, gather from every side to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, even a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel at which you may eat flesh and drink blood. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, of goats, and of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan [east of the Jordan]. And you shall eat fat till you are filled and drink blood till you are drunk at the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you." [Ezekiel 39:17-18; Ibid.]
Once again, let us check with the Adam Clarke Commentary as to the meaning of these verses. However, we shall pick up the explanation in verse 12 of Ezekiel 39:
"It shall require a long time to bury the dead ... This slow process of burying is distinctly related in the three following verses, and extended even to a bone, ver. 15; which, when it was found by a passenger, the place was marked, that the buriers might see and inter it. Seven months was little time enough for all this work; and in that country putrescence does not easily take place: the scorching winds serving to desiccate the flesh, and preserve it from decomposition ..."
"Gather yourselves to my sacrifice" - This is an allusion to a custom common in the east: when a sacrifice is made, the friends and neighbors of the party sacrificing are invited to come and feast on the sacrifice.
"Ye shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth" -- this is spoken of fowls and beasts here -- rams, lambs, and goats. The feast shall be as grateful and as plenteous to the fowls and beasts, as one made of the above animals, the fattest and best of their kind ... would be to the guests of him who makes a sacrifice.
"And ye shall eat fat and drink blood" - Who shall eat and drink, etc.? Not the Jews ... It is the fowls and the beasts that God invites, ver. 17: "Speak to every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, assemble yourselves-that ye may eat flesh and drink blood;" —Adam Clarke's Commentary
When God supernaturally destroys the armies surrounding Israel and His Bride(engrafted gentiles) (Ezekiel 38-39), they shall lay in great number, so great a number that the persons who would try to bury them shall need some help from on high. God provides this help by sending a Divine call to the birds of prey throughout the Middle East, to come to the battlefield to sumptuously dine on the dead carcasses of the wicked army which attempted to destroy Israel, the "apple of His eye"( meaning pupil of His eye).
As Adam Clarke noted, above, the wording "Gather yourselves to my sacrifice" alludes to an invitation common in the Middle East to invite friends over for a very specially prepared feast. God is celebrating His victory here in this wording, a victory over the enemies of Israel, made certain by His Omnipotent power!

SLAUGHTER OF THE HOUSE OF ESAU(Edomites)

Finally, God plans to give the birds of prey a similar feast of human flesh in the slaughter of the House of Esau in Isaiah 34.
Let us now examine pertinent passages from Isaiah 34:1-15 as God describes the slaughter He has prophesied against the House of Esau, which are today the Palestinians led by Yassir Arafat in Israel plus an even larger contingent of Palestinians residing in the Jordanian province of Edom and Moab.
"For the Lord is indignant against all nations, and His wrath is against all their host. He has utterly doomed them, He has given them over to slaughter. Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall rise, and the mountains shall flow with their blood ... The sword of the Lord is filled with blood of sacrifices, it is gorged and greased with fatness—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah [capital of Edom] and a great slaughter in the land of Edom ... For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense, for the cause of Zion. And the streams of Edom will be turned into pitch and its dust into brimstone, and its land will become burning pitch. The burning of Edom shall not be quenched night or day; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
"But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it; the owl and the bittern and the raven will dwell in it ..." [Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible; this parallel feature also available in the Thompson Chain Reference Computer Library]
Dr. Hutchings says that the vulture is certainly in view here, even though not specifically mentioned. Indeed, my Mirriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary says this about "vultures" -- "any of various large birds families ... that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion." Dr. Hutchings may very well be right: the "raven" mentioned in Isaiah 34 includes the vulture.
Cutting Edge has long believed that Israel's slaughter of the House of Esau as foretold in Obadiah 15-18 and in Ezekiel 34 will be the first major battle fought and will result in the fulfillment of these prophetic passages (Read NEWS1422, NEWS1620, and NEWS1625 for full details). The current "unilateral disengagement" plan which Prime Minister Sharon is pushing will provide the required separation of Jewish/Palestinian populations necessary before this slaughter can commence. This war will trigger the "final birth pangs" world war which will produce Antichrist.

CONCLUSION

Thus, we have three times in End of the Age prophetic Scripture where God prophesies that He is going to kill so many of Israel's enemies that He is going to call all the birds of the air which feed on carrion to come to the field of slaughter to eat the bodies. Is the fact that the Jews of Israel have suddenly developed a love for the most unlovely vulture another "sign of the times"? I certainly believe so.
Thus, we have two major End of the Age developments in Israel right now:
1) Israel is preparing to carry out God's annihilating judgment against the Palestinians (House of Esau). The separation of population is simply a practical development prior to the annihilation because Jewish leaders do not want to kill their own people.
2) God is miraculously rebuilding the flocks of birds of prey who feast primarily on carrion, the vulture being most common.
While these two events seem unrelated, both point to the reality that God is bringing all details of His prophetic Word to a climax in the Middle East as a single unit. In God's good timing, the first war in which God will call the vultures in the Middle East to come to feast upon the slain; we believe this first annihilating war will occur between Israel and the Palestinians, as we note above.
The time for repentance for all unbelievers throughout the world is speeding by. Turn to Jesus now, before the time for your repentance has come and gone. Truly, the events of this day demonstrate that the End of the Age is close at hand. Are you spiritually ready?
   Warnings of Rev. 14 and Consequences of Rev. 19

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Amazing parallels between the two chapters invite our attention. God keeps His word.

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Revelation 14 Three angels' messages		Revelation 19 Three voices
6-11  [three angels] flying in the midst of heaven		17  [angel in the sun] birds ... in ... the midst of heaven
6  flying in the midst of heaven		1  voice of a great multitude in heaven
6  having the everlasting gospel		1  Salvation ... to ... our God
6  [for] those who dwell on the earth		2  judged ... harlot who corrupted the earth
6  preach to ... every nation....		1  voice of a great multitude in heaven
7  loud voice [of the first angel]		1 loud voice [the first voice]
7  fear God and give glory to Him		1  glory and honor ... to ... our God
7  hour of His judgment has come		2  true and righteous are His judgments
7  worship Him who made		1  power to ... our God
7  worship Him who made heaven		4  the four living creatures ... worshiped
7  worship Him who made ... [earth, sea, waters]		4  the twenty-four elders ... worshiped
8  another angel ...  saying [without loud voice]		5  a voice ... saying [without loud     voice]
8  Babylon is fallen ... made all nations drink		2  harlot who corrupted the earth
8  Babylon ... that great city		2  the great harlot
8  wine of wrath of her fornication		2  her fornication
9  third angel followed ... with a loud voice		6  voice ... great multitude [waters, thunderings]
9  if ... worships ... beast ... wine ... wrath of God		15  He ... treads the winepress ... wrath of God
9,10  worships best ... image ... receives mark ... drink		20  beast ... mark ... image ... cast into the lake of fire
10  wrath of God ... full strength		6  Lord God Omnipotent [all powerful] reigns
10  tormented with fire and brimstone		20  beast ... image ... burning with brimstone
10  tormented ... presence of ... holy angels [and] Lamb		11-14  [Christ on white horse] judges and makes war � armies of heaven, clothed in ... white ... followed
11  smoke of their torment ascends forever ... no rest		3  her smoke rises up forever
11  worship ... beast ... image ... mark of his name		20, 21  who received  ... mark ... image.  rest killed

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The Faithful Saints (ch. 14)		The Faithful Wife (ch. 19)
12  patience		7  rejoice ... marriage of Lamb has come
12  who keep commandments of God		7, 8  made herself ready ... linen is righteous acts
12  ... and the faith of Jesus		8  granted to her to be arrayed in fine linen
13  Blessing for those who die in the Lord from now on		9  Blessing [for those called to] the marriage ... True sayings