The American Wisdom Series

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Pamphlet #8051

Daily Bible Study

The Four Winds

PART (1)

INTRODUCTION

This is the way God exercises justice and judgment with complete fairness. Should one not be willing to receive the same thing he or she "dishes out" to others. We have a proverb that says, "He can dish it out, but he can't take it". Well, if you can't take it then you BETTER NOT "dish it out", because you're "gonna get it comin' right back at you"!

Now it has become even more exciting than ever because we have come to the point in history when wondrous, even amazing, "earth shattering" current events are taking place and prophecies are being fulfilled at such an ever increasing rapid pace that it has become evident to those with eyes to see and ears to hear that we are approaching the final hour of temptation when the false messiah, the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, makes his "personal appearance" as Jesus Christ, claiming fulfillment of the 2nd advent. For those without eyes to see and ears to hear, which is the majority of the world including most of Christianity, there remains an atmosphere (smoke) of perplexity and anxiety even as their "hearts fail them for fear" (Lk. 21:26), a clearly visible SIGN of the end times (and of the 5th Trump) which is happening all around us each and every day and a phrase we shall well know the meaning of by the conclusion of this series on the Four Winds.

Did you know that Jesus Christ foretold us all things relating to the signs and events just preceding His triumphant return? It is only necessary for us then to look to the Word of God and "understand" the simplicity of the things He told us concerning the final generation. He made it SO SIMPLE in fact that He had the apostle John NUMBER THEM, 1 to 7, in the Book of Revelation. It doesn't get any easier than that! So if you believe Jesus' words then here is HIS PROMISE to YOU concerning the signs of the end times:

Mark 13:23
But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

Matthew 24:1
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

[2] And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

[3] And as He sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

Matthew 24:4
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

[5] For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

[6] And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

People may fear terrorism to a point, and violence in the streets, but there are no rumours of large scale wars like the WWII looming about! NONE! The demise of the U.S.S.R. and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall on November 11th & 12th, 1989, ended the Cold War, which ended the "rumours of wars" in this verse.

But notice that even the end of the "wars" and the "rumours of wars" did not signal the beginning of the sorrows (verse 8)! However, what follows in the next verse DOES, so we MUST understand what it means!

Matthew 24:7
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:

So what does this verse mean, "nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom?" It is really quite simple and is made clear in the Greek from which it is translated. First, the word translated "against" is the Greek word "epi" which means "upon" or "up against", as "along side of". There is NO WAY it means in "opposition to". It means "touching" as in together. This is important so here is the Strong's definition in it's entirety:

epi, ep-ee', Greek 1909; a primary preposition properly meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution [with the genitive], i.e. over, upon, etc.; of rest (with the dative) at, on, etc.; of direction (with the accusative) towards, upon, etc. :- about (the times), above, after, against, among, as long as (touching), at, beside, × have charge of, (be-, [where-]) fore, in (a place, as much as, the time of, -to), (because) of, (up-) on (behalf of), over, (by, for) the space of, through (-out), (un-) to (-ward), with. In compounds it retains essentially the same import, at, upon, etc. (literal or figurative).

egeiro, eg-i'-ro, Greek 1453; probably akin to the base of Greek 58 (agora) (through the idea of collecting one's faculties); to waken (transitive or intransitive), i.e. rouse (literal from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figurative from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence) :- awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, (a-) rise (again, up), stand, take up.

agora, ag-or-ah', Greek 58; from ageiro (to gather; probably akin to Greek 1453 (egeiro)); properly the town-square (as a place of public resort); by implication a market or thoroughfare :- market (-place), street.

nations = ethnos, eth'-nos, Greek 1484; probably from Greek 1486 (etho); a race (as of the same habit), i.e. a tribe; specially a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually by implication pagan) :- Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

kingdom = basileia, bas-il-i'-ah, Greek 932; from Greek 935 (basileus); properly royalty, i.e. (abstract) rule, or (concrete) a realm (literal or figurative) :- kingdom, + reign.

What is Jesus talking about? This is One Worldism. This IS the rising of the one world political beast of Revelation 13. It is happening right before our very eyes, if you can see it. The kingdoms of Europe have already risen together with the implementation of the Eurodollar and the Americas, including Canada and Mexico, are swiftly being brought under "Dollarization".

It is fitting that inthe begining of this century the world's finance ministers met in Washington, D.C., though not without protest demonstrations against the IMF and the World Bank.

Then too, at the same time the Third World countries met together in Cuba. Here is the Friday, April 14, 2000, AP headline:

Cuban Summit Concludes in Havana

By James Anderson
Associated Press Writer
Friday, April 14, 2000; 6:04 a.m. EDT

HAVANA – Dozens of Third World leaders were unveiling a strategy to combat poverty enveloping half the global population and help their nations join the industrialized world in its technology revolution.

Concluding a three-day summit in Havana today, members of the Group of 77 have vowed to press for a greater say in multilateral lending institutions, the World Trade Organization and the U.N. Security Council.

All have one objective, the leaders said in draft summit proclamations issued Thursday: to give the majority of the world's poor a real stake in globalization – an economic order they say so far has trapped millions in poverty and threatens the stability of developing nations...

Let's continue with the rest of verse 7 in Matthew 24:

Matthew 24:7 (...continued) and there shall be famines, andpestilences, andearthquakes, in divers places.

Amos 8:11
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

And what are "pestilences"? Pestilences are diseases which follow famines, so these are the social "diseases" brought about by the famine, and boy do we have plenty of them. Where would you like to start: homosexuality, illegitimacy, perverse justice, crime in the streets, prisoned schools, ad nauseam, ad nauseam!

Earthquakes are "commotions" as in shake-ups! (Look up the word yourself.)These commotions are occurring in "divers places", not meaning geographically, but such places as the financial markets for instance, which have been "shaken up" and today all the global financial markets shake, and not so long ago the oil market got shaken by Opec (they say). And there are commotions in many other arenas of society and in other parts of the world as well.

These pestilences and commotions are called "troubles" in Mark 13:8, and Luke 21 says they will be accompanied by great signs in the heavens.

Nevertheless, we are now witnessing the emergence of the one world political beast of Rev. 13 rise up as the nations and kingdoms unite together in the marketplace, as Matthew 24 verse 7 comes to pass exactly as it is written.

And that brings us to verse 8.

[8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.