by Charles Ryalls

updated 7-14-2003

Ezekiel has a message for the People, an encouraging word about their future. “Things are going to get better. The Lord has a plan, and you are going to love it!” ( My paraphrase) Anyone who tries to tell you that the Church took the place of Israel, what we call replacement theology, tell them to go back to the book and read it again. God has not forsaken Israel, and He is about to bring them to the front of the world stage as never before. Like most of my writings, we are going to pull up a few scriptures. Lets start with a peek at the future of God’s chosen people:

EZE 37:24 " `My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees. [25] They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever. [26] I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever. [27] My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. [28] Then the nations will know that I the LORD make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.' "

Lets tear this apart for just a moment:

EZE 37:24 " `My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd.

This is the first reference to David. He will be KING. This is not David who was once king in Israel, this is “Son of David” Yeshua. Ezekiel is saying the Messiah who comes from the line of David will be their King and shepherd. It’s the messianic Kingdom of Yeshua. Where’s it going to be?

 [25] They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your fathers lived.

Yes, that same land that the whole world has been in a tug of war over, for nearly four thousand years. How long will it last?

They and their children and their children's children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever.

Hey, there’s another mention of David. This time he’s a prince. This I believe is a reference to the resurrected King David of the past who will serve under Messiah as the ruler over the Lands of Israel.

 [26] I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever. [27] My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. [28] Then the nations will know that I the LORD make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.' "

And the Temple of God will be with them forever. This is the temple that will be built in the very near future and will be the seat of Yeshua’s Government. From here He will rule all the universe.

This is all great news. I can’t wait and I know you feel the same. But before it all happens there are a few details to work out.  Israel needs to be re-gathered from all the nations and brought back to the land of Jacob. Right now there are literally more Jews in New York than in Israel. There are also Jews living in other nations.  So, when will this re-gathering take place? Not until the Jews feel safe to return and the call of the spirit is in their hearts. They must know once again that the Lord still lives among His people. They will come when they know that Yeshua was, and is the messiah. Right now they are partly blinded to this truth but the Lord is going to open their eyes and all of Israel will be saved in a day.
Paul tells us when that lifting of the blinders will take place.

RO 11:25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

Jeremiah 30: 3 The days are coming,' declares the LORD, `when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity and restore them to the land I gave their forefathers to possess,' says the LORD."

JER 30:10 " `So do not fear, O Jacob my servant; do not be dismayed, O Israel,' declares the LORD.   `I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid.
 

So when the fullness of the Gentiles is come in, is when their blindness, or hardness will be removed. Lets do a little work and see if we can figure out how this might come about, and maybe get an idea of when. This re-gathering is going to be from all nations and it’s going to come from the United States more than any other nation. When Israel was released from captivity in ancient Babylon in the sixth century BC many chose to stay in Babylon. For hundreds of years there was a multitude of Jews in that land. They had sent down roots and become accustomed to living there.

 America is the modern Babylon of the end times prophecies. And once again there is a huge number of Jews living in “Babylon” (America) and God is going to call them home.  In the verse above from Jeremiah it says that they will have peace and security. These are words that you hear every day in the news in connection with Israel, but there is no peace or security. Not yet, because they still have enemies all around them and living within their borders, that are bent on  their destruction. Islam is the sworn enemy of Israel and of Christians. Their Religious / Government system has a three fold plan which is openly stated; To eliminate all Jews from the earth, To kill all Christians, and to convert all the rest to Islam. They feel totally justified in using any form of violence or terrorism to achieve these goals. According to Bible prophecy as I understand it, these Islamic Arab nations will soon bring an all out attack against Israel. This is vividly shown in Ezekiel 38 and 39.

There seems to be a problem today with this scenario.  How do all these nations come against Israel and there is no one to defend her?  Where is the United States? Shouldn’t we be mentioned in the prophecies as being there to help? After all, aren’t we the most powerful nation on the planet and the number one ally of Israel? Remember that as I have said before, America is the end times manifestation of Babylon.

 I know that there are other opinions about this, that the city of Rome or the Vatican City and the Catholic Church or Babylon in Iraq, are the Babylon of Revelation 17 and 18. But in those passages as well as verses in Jeremiah 50 and 51 and Isaiah 13 and 24, there are many indicators that can not and will not ever be fulfilled by these other choices. For example, none of these other places are home to the largest number of Jews, is the hammer of God ( police of the world), the largest consumer ever on the earth. It must be a deep water port city, has armies with air power, has many powerful ships at sea, and many more things.  It must be a city, or country that is host to all the world’s leaders (the U.N.?), and has a kind of power over all the kings of the earth. It must be an ethnically diverse land that is powerful from it’s beginning. Spoiled by many rivers and divided by one large river.  One must read each of the attributes and see if it fits these other scenarios like Rome or Iraq. It doesn’t !  It only fits America in this age.

This all means that the United States is going to get a terrible pounding, a judgment from God for our sins and it will be done at the hands of the kingdom of the Antichrist, at least in part. The Lord Himself may send natural judgements as well, such as earthquakes or cometary impacts.

REV 17:15 Then the angel said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. [16] The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. [17] For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God's words are fulfilled.

I encourage you to read all of these chapters because they are very important to us. Before this devastation happens though the Lord is going to call His people out of Babylon and back to the land of Jacob.

REV 18:4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;

  This is a call, not to the Church, but to “My People” Israel. This is paralleled in the chapters of Jeremiah and Isaiah.  I believe that this call will be understood by the Jews in Babylon (America) because their eyes will have been opened by this time. They will once again know with assurance that God is with them and that Yeshua is Messiah. There will be a mass exodus from all the nations as Jews return to their homeland and to the new temple that will be rising up in her midst. This call must take place after the Gog battle of Ezekiel 38.

But that means that the Arab nations have launched their combined force against Israel and has been defeated by the hand of God as shown in this passage. Would the Arabs attack Israel without first considering the response of the United States? No! So then we can assume that the united State is out of the picture for some reason before this ill fated attack begins!. There doesn’t seem to be anyone standing by to protect Israel when this attack is launched.  Yet god is not going to bring His wrath upon  Babylon (America) until the Jews are removed . There must have been something else that has happened to cause the United States and the entire West not to respond to the call.  The lord does not want Israel to be saved by anyone. He wants them to stand alone.  Alone except for Himself.  He is going to show her and the world His glory. He is going to make her trust Him alone, for deliverance.

EZ 20: [42] Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land I had sworn with uplifted hand to give to your fathers.

What happened to the West and America? Here’s what I think. The United States and the west at this time, has suffered an event that has left it in a state of confusion and economic upheaval, unlike anything that has ever happed before. Suddenly without warning all the best of Americas citizens just flat out disappeared. The Rapture has taken place. All the best people from every walk of life are gone. Doctors, Nurses, and all sorts of Medical practitioners and volunteers are Gone. Manufacturers all over the West have lost there best employees and men of integrity, the people who were honest and hard working and never cheated or stole from their employers. The military is in shambles. Rescue workers and fire and police are in chaos. As much as 30 percent of the population is gone, A.W.O.L.  And it’s the same in every Christian nation.  Canada, Australia, Great Britain and others all in a mess, with the best leaders missing.

Now over in the Arab nations, in Asia, and most of Africa and the communist nations, things are pretty must the same. Well there are a few people missing but not nearly as many. So in the twinkling of an eye the complete balance of power has shifted. Now America is on it’s knees and Israel looks like a steak dinner to a pack of hungry wolves.  So the attack begins. Russia with it’s former southern Baltic states which are all Islamic, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, they’re all there. But it’s a trap. It was a snare laid  by the Lord Himself. They are totally defeated and Israel is untouched!

The Palestinians are no longer yapping about getting Jerusalem for themselves. They are busy removing the wreckage of the Dome of the Rock and the Mosque that used to be there. They are clearing the Temple mount of the last of their false religion. The Temple of God is about to be built. This sounds the rallying call to the Jews of the world, “Come home My People!”  And as Millions of Jews leave the United States, taking their businesses and their money with them, America is experiencing yet another blow against it’s failed economy. Before it can recover or have a chance to regain it’s strength, ten ambassadors are going to give their power and authority to the control of Satan’s own son, the Antichrist, and they will deal a final death blow to the Babylon of this age.

America is what is holding up the end times events. The Rapture is probably the very thing that will take it out of the way. The rapture is a witness to the Jews that Yeshua is and was the Messiah. The Rapture is probably the next big event for the world. The rapture is also what opens the door for the author of evil to come on stage and establish his death hold on the unsaved of the world.

2TH 2:3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. [4] He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

  2TH 2:5 Don't you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? [6] And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. [7] For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.

Is the rest of the world in position for this scenario? I think it is pretty much there. In the last few weeks we have seen several things take place that would indicate that we are. The United Nations has overwhelmingly approved the establishment of a World Court. This court will have authority over all national sovereignty. That means that the UN can come to your door and arrest you and try you for a crime without due process, without the protection and guarantees of the constitution.

Iran has now proven it’s ability to launch a missile and hit Israel. They have also taken delivery of 9 Soviet Typhoon class nuclear submarines.

Syria and France have entered a new pact and is making threatening gesture toward Israel.

Clinton has issued executive orders giving himself the right to suspend the government and congress and to take total dictatorial control in the event of any emergency that endangers the national infrastructure.  This could be the Y2K event, a natural disaster, a terrorist attack real or imagined, or the Rapture.

The United Nations, which I believe to be the final empire, the eighth from which the Antichrist will rule has set in motion a plan to divide the world into ten economic regions. I expect these region to each have an ambassador who is one of the ten heads of the beast.

The government has put into motion a required identification system so that all citizens can be tracked by a single number that has all of your  personal information attached to it. Look for that to become an implant or mark on your body. The technology is already there.

The federal reserve continues to trade off third world debt for dollars by adjusting it’s value leaving the American tax payer making up the difference. This also has the effect of bringing all the world’s currency closer to par so that the jump to a single currency is easier.

Due to the effects of El Nino’ and now La Nina, the world is faced with a famine of unprecedented proportions. Meanwhile it is floods, fires, Earthquakes, volcanism, asteroids, and any other thing you can imagine in numbers like we have never seen.

I could go on  but you have the news services same as I, and before I can get this document written there will be several more items that could be added . You get the idea. The Lord is calling to the Church, “Get ready, I am not far off. Repent and be holy.”

In conclusion, I just want to say once again, that the United States is Mystery Babylon, of this age and it’s removal from power is imminent and it destruction, inevitable. Israel will stand with the God, alone, in the final days. We could be within days of all these things coming to pass. Are you ready?