Because there are still 5 days from Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) sunset until Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), the former ending the Age of grace and sealing judgment (by that time even the very least of the Body of Christ will have been taken up), the latter announcing the beginning of the Messianic Age, it is difficult to say when the final battle raging over Jerusalem shall be. But we know this for sure: after Yom Kippur comes ONLY judgment.
The reference is to the plain of Megiddo. Towering
above the plain is the fortress of Megiddo, named Har-Megiddo ("the hill
of Megiddo"). It was located in the southern part of the Jezreel (Esdralon)
Valley, guarding the pass of the best north-south trade-route in Canaan.
Many great battles have been fought there1.
And just before another great and climactic battle will be fought here
the Lord will come one last time like a thief to catch up the last, remaining
members of His Body.
At sundown of Yom Kippur, when the time for repentance and forgiveness, for salvation and blessing comes to an end, the shofar, this trump of G-d2, sounds one final, long and mighty blast. This announces the end of the time of grace, and the sealing of judgment. Just as the tribe of Dan - whose name means "judgment" - always was last in the breaking up and setting up camp of Israel in the wilderness3, so only judgment follows the breaking up camp in the earth of G-d's redeemed.
For "at the command of the L-RD the Israelites would SET OUT, and at the command of the L-RD they would ENCAMP."4
Therefore the tribe of Dan is no longer listed among the tribes of Israel5. G-d's judgment has taken his place and has fulfilled his "prophetic pattern". Even as the tribe of Levi IS now listed among the tribes because G-d's true Assembly of the Firstborn has been redeemed from the earth.
According to my understanding, the first of G-d's judgments of the Great Day of G-d's Wrath6 will be the battle at Har’mageddon: Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley is part of the whole of the Galilee. Approximately 250,000 Palestinian Arabs with Israeli citizenship live in the Galilee. Consequently Yasser Arafat has already claimed this part of the Galilee as a "natural" part of the Palestinians' claim to the Land of Israel and should be included in a "just" and “compromising”7 peace accord. It appears that the nations' leaders will attempt to annex the Galilee by force to the established, but short-lived, state of Palestine, which will lead to a bloody encounter with Israel's Defense Forces, but especially with the Holy One of Israel and would be, because of the international involvement, WWIV8.
The area marked green on this map of the Galilee (and part of Samaria) indicates the Jezreel Valley; the area circled red shows the small town of Megiddo, and above Tel Megiddo, formerly called Har Megiddo, which is translated into the English Armageddon. To the upper right is the city of Tiberias, at the Sea of Galilee, and at the upper left the city of Haifa, at the Mediterranean Sea. Megiddo is near the scenic and much travelled major road # 65, close to a junction. On the left road # 65 borders the Jezreel valley connecting with roads leading to Haifa, and on the right crosses the valley up to the city of Afula, connecting with roads leading to the Sea of Galilee.
This map excerpt shows the greater part of the
Galilee. The distance from Afula to Nazareth is 12 km, from Afula to Tiberias
41 km and to Haifa 48 km. However, the distance from Afula to Jerusalem
is 120 km. Hence, the battle of Armageddon is in the Galilee, and precedes
the one over Jerusalem, when G-d will gather the nations into the valley
of Jehosaphat to enter into judgment with them there9.
It will rage over Jerusalem, according to my understanding, and will be WW V, at which time the Lord Yeshua will return to the earth10. This battle - the most bloody, most catastrophic and devastating of all the wars ever waged in man's history11 - does not occur right after Yom Kippur; but PRIOR to Sukkot, the festival which represents the beginning of the Messianic Reign. As stated before, between Yom Kippur and Sukkot are 5 days, reckoning from sundown to sundown. That would mean 5 divine days, i.e. 5 years.
In view of the fact that historically major disasters befell the Jewish people on Tisha B'av such as the destruction of First and Second Temple, the first crusade, the edict of expulsion from Spain and the Inquisiton, and many other disasters, it is quite possible that the disastrous battles over the Galilee and Jerusalem erupt during that time. As I finish the pages of this book on "The Unchangeable Calendar of G-d", the three weeks of mourning prior to Tisha B'av have begun, because today is the 17th of Tammuz, July 20th, 2000. Working day and night to finish these pages, feeling so urged about it that I could not do much else, I did not realize that it would be precisely on the 17th of Tammuz that the pages of this book would be complete and on line. How most appropriate!
The "Camp David" summit meeting is, I believe, a major warning shot of what is to come, for the Summit ended and the three weeks of mourning began --- then Barak and Arafat decided to remain and return to the negotiating table. Indeed, this IS a time of mourning, as the apostasy of Jews in Israel and abroad is spreading. Thank G-d for the Remnant which lifted once again its voice at a great rally on July 16th in Tel Aviv, when aproximately 150,000 Israeli Jews protested the dividing of the Land of Israel and of JerusalemY. Joined - though not visibly - to this rally were many thousands of Christians who fasted and prayed for G-d to act in behalf of Israel, and against the division of the Land.
Now is the time to act as admonished in Joel 2:12-17, perhaps G-d will become jealous for His land and have pity on His people according to verse 18 (KJAV):
12 Therefore also now, saith the L-RD,
turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping,
and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your
garments, and turn unto the L-RD your G-d: for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
14 Who knoweth if he will return and
repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink
offering unto the L-RD your G-d?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify
a fast, call a solemn assembly:
16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation,
assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts:
let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
17 Let the priests, the ministers of
the L-RD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare
thy people, O L-RD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen
should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where
is their G-d?
18 ¶ Then will the L-RD be jealous for
his land, and pity his people.
| 2 1 Cor. 15:52; 1 Thess. 4:16 | 3 Numbers 10:25 |
| 4 Numbers 9:18, 23 | 5 Revelation 7:4-8 |
| 8 Revelation 16:13-14, 16 | 9 Joel 3:10-17 |
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