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Pamphlet 1718 Zephaniah kc 7-1

There shall be another, a false messiah also riding on a "white horse" (Rev. 6:1),
who will appear before the Faithful and True Messiah comes
and who will claim that it is he who is the true messiah.

"The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly." (Zeph. 1:14)
The great Book of Zephaniah is about the warning to all nations of the Great Day of the Lord,
the return of Yeshua Messiah,
who shall come with His saints and subdue all nations
and set up the just and righteous Kingdom of God upon Mt. Zion.

The apostle John gives us a "picture" of that Great Day when the King of kings and Lord of lords returns
and subdues all nations and establishes His righteous world rulership on earth, i.e. the Kingdom of God!

Rev. 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war.
There shall be another, a false messiah also riding on a "white horse" (Rev. 6:1),
who will appear before the Faithful and True Messiah comes
and who will claim that it is he who is the true messiah
and he shall successfully deceive the whole world by his signs and wonders into believing his Big Lie (2 Thes. 2:9-12)!

Such will precipitate the fury of God's wrath to be poured out at the sound of the 7th Trump.

[12]His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
There will be "fire in His eyes" all right when Jesus Christ returns
and as we noted in our previous studies He shall utterly "consume" with that fire all that is evil and wicked
and EVERY knee shall bow before Him.

It is important to note that the subject being discussed here in Rev. 19 is the coming of Jesus Christ
to judge and subdue (make war) and to rule all nations henceforth "with a rod of iron" (vs. 15).

To that end, ALL the kings of the earth shall submit their crowns to the King of kings (He shall wear them ALL)
who in turn shall give those crowns to the saints of the most high who shall enforce His Word among the nations...

He knows who!

Perhaps your name is on one of those crowns!
Rev. 5:10 "And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth."

[13] And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
[14]And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
These are the saints of the Most High who are clothed in righteousness!

Rev. 19:8 "And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen,
clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints."

[15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

[16]And He hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

The "sharp sword" is His Word which proceeds out of His mouth:
Rev. 1:16 "...and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword:
and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength."

To rule with a "rod of iron" simply means that His Word will be "strictly adhered to" during the Millennium,
i.e. communism, socialism, and liberalism will not be allowed to flourish.

As it written, the announcement of this change of government SHALL BE "proclaimed to all nations"
before that Great Day by God's elect when they are delivered up, those "Hidden of Yah" (Zephaniah).

Joel gives us some more details of that proclamation that shall go forth to the nations of the coming kingdom, of "He who shall come to judge and make war":

Joel 3:9-14
Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: [10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. [11] Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. [12] Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. [13] Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. [14]Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
"Jehoshaphat" (Jeho-shaphat) means "Jehovah-judges", or "Yahveh pronounces sentence".

We just read that the nations shall be gathered in the Valley of Jehoshaphat,
that Valley of Decision, and they SHALL HEAR the "Decisions of the Judge"!

And though as we also just read "their wickedness is great",
and therefore many leaders shall not heed the warning,
nevertheless before that gathering in the valley of decision the good news that the Kingdom of God is coming,
i.e. the gospel of the kingdom (coming), shall be proclaimed (heralded as a trumpet)
"in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come (Matthew 24:14)".

Yes, Jesus Christ will usher in that glorious time we call the Millennium
when justice shall be executed and His truth shall flow as a river of living water unto all nations.

However, it is also written that on that glorious day He returns there be a great cleansing,
a tremendous thumping, as His feet touch down upon the Mount of Olives and it splits asunder (Zech. 14:4).

Remember, Jesus Christ told His disciples as He departed from the temple in Jerusalem
that when He returns "there shall not be left one stone upon another,
that shall not be thrown down (Luke 21:6)".

That is because that great city of Jerusalem shall have become the seat of the abomination of desolation,
the one who has come claiming he is the messiah and claiming that the "city" belongs to him.

The truth of the matter is, as the capital of Babylon the Great it shall have "become the habitation of devils,
and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird (Rev. 18:2)".

Woe to that great city!

Therefore that city shall be given the final warning, the final witness, the final "woe" as recorded here in Zephaniah.

It shall even be in the street (open square) of that polluted city that the two witnesses shall lie three days
prior to the return of the King of kings.

Rev. 11:8 "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom [idolatry, spiritual perversion] and Egypt [oppression, spiritual captivity], where also our Lord was crucified [i.e. Jerusalem]."

And now the proclamation to Jerusalem, that filthy and polluted (Sodom), oppressing (Egypt) city!

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