Answering Your Questions
End of the Age News
By Dave Robbins
Here at Endtime Ministries, we receive literally hundreds of questions and comments on a daily basis via email and on our website blogs. These are answered in many ways, such as direct correspondence, Letters to the Editor in Endtime Magazine and on these ETA News segments.
So today, I would like to answer several questions that you have sent in over the last few weeks.
Q. Is the Great Tribulation the Wrath of God or the Wrath of Satan?
A.According to Revelation 12:12, the three and one half year tribulation period is the Wrath of Satan.
Q. I have been watching your videos on your plan to send a magazine to every Jew in Judea with instructions that they should come to Jerusalem when the holocaust begins. However, doesn’t Luke 21:20-21 tell the Jews to flee Jerusalem if they are in the city and not to enter if they are in the country?
A. Luke 21 deals with two different times. In verse 10-11, Jesus foretold many of the signs of the endtime. He spoke of great earthquakes, famines, pestilences and “fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Then in verse 12, he said, “But before all these things.” Then in verse 12-24 He talked about things that would happen before the signs of the endtime. These things happened in the first century when the Jews were forced to flee from Israel and were scattered among the nations of the world. Notice in verse 24 that it says the Jews would be led away captive into all nations.
This has happened over the last 2,000 years. In verse 25, Jesus returns to prophesying about the times leading up to His second coming, which are just ahead of us now. In the times just ahead, Jerusalem will be a safe haven for the Jewish people. Zechariah 14:2 tells us that Jerusalem will be under Jewish control until the battle of Armageddon. During Armageddon half of Jerusalem will be captured by the world government armies of the Antichrist. Jesus will them come, fighting for the Jewish people and saving them from their enemies.
Q. Where is China, the Dragon, in all of this? They are making huge waves both economically and politically forging alliances everywhere including Latin America. China is allied with Russia and much more capable militarily at this point.
A. China is not mentioned in the Bible. Revelation 12:9 tells us that the dragon, referred to in the Book of Revelation is Satan.
This has happened over the last 2,000 years. In verse 25, Jesus returns to prophesying about the times leading up to His second coming, which are just ahead of us now. In the times just ahead, Jerusalem will be a safe haven for the Jewish people. Zechariah 14:2 tells us that Jerusalem will be under Jewish control until the battle of Armageddon. During Armageddon half of Jerusalem will be captured by the world government armies of the Antichrist. Jesus will them come, fighting for the Jewish people and saving them from their enemies.
Q. Where is China, the Dragon, in all of this? They are making huge waves both economically and politically forging alliances everywhere including Latin America. China is allied with Russia and much more capable militarily at this point.
A. China is not mentioned in the Bible. Revelation 12:9 tells us that the dragon, referred to in the Book of Revelation is Satan.
Q. Who is the “Mother of Harlots” and who are her daughters?
A. The “Mother of Harlots,” mentioned in Revelation 17:5 is referring to the Roman church that will rule over the one-world religion just before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and her daughters are the Protestants that will join the one-world church in its alliance with the Antichrist.
Q. You teach that a peace treaty between the Israelis and Palestinians will start the final seven years to the Second Coming of Jesus. But the Bible says that no man knows the day or the hour (Matthew 24:36). Which is right?
A. Both are right. We may not know the exact day or hour, but we will know the approximate time according to the seven-year peace treaty prophecy given in Daniel 9:27. In 1 Thessalonians 5:2-5 the Apostle Paul said that only those living in darkness would be surprised at the coming of the Lord.
“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.”
Q. Is there room on the Temple Mount for both the Dome of the Rock and the Third Temple?
A. Yes. In 1975, a physicist, Dr. Asher Kaufman published a new theory suggesting that the Second Temple was originally situated approximately 100 meters north of the Dome of the Rock (see fig. 1) and that the Holiest of Holies was directly over the Dome of the Spirits. This would leave plenty of room to build the Third Temple on the Temple Mount.
Q. Is there room on the Temple Mount for both the Dome of the Rock and the Third Temple?
A. Yes. In 1975, a physicist, Dr. Asher Kaufman published a new theory suggesting that the Second Temple was originally situated approximately 100 meters north of the Dome of the Rock (see fig. 1) and that the Holiest of Holies was directly over the Dome of the Spirits. This would leave plenty of room to build the Third Temple on the Temple Mount.
Q. I am from Uganda. In our country, the issuance of a National ID is very serious. We were recently told that by 2015, if one does not carry the card, all business transactions will be impossible. I am afraid that this is the Mark of the Beast mentioned in Revelation 13:16-18. Is this true? Help me, I am scared.
A. The full implementation of the Mark of the Beast will occur when the Antichrist will cause every person to have their own unique identification number and then use that number to economically sanction them to comply with his world governing system. A National ID for every person is definitely a precursor to this system.
There are two things one should never do to make sure they do not take the Mark of the Beast. (1) Take a mark of identification on or in your body. (2) Pledge allegiance to, thereby worshipping any world leader or world government.