Dear Armageddon Soldier (Poem, Letter)

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See: Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel

[Written for a future reader....]

Dear Armageddon Soldier:

Please, please DON’T GO! Hear this, my heart’s plea to you.

Resist orders that from hate-filled leaders spew!

Mutiny, or just go A-W-O-L!

In any and every way, just rebel!!!

This letter I write to you in 2020,

Not knowing how much longer your day will tarry,

Hoping one day you’ll see this before having obeyed,

Any and all orders Israel to invade.

As you read this, please try my heart to perceive,

As I share what’s predicted, and what I believe.

It’s all based on haunting details in The Holy Bible,

About the fate of soldiers in Armageddon’s battle.

By the time you read this, consider your predicament.

By then, of the predictions, you’ll be very cognizant,

About how, years after all true Christians were raptured,

All hell began to break loose, and all life was censured.

As economies collapsed, many governments have faltered. 

Calls for global solidarity are no longer fractured.

An attractive, wise leader has stepped in to fill the void.  

To restore some sense of normality folks once enjoyed.

But with many people, land and sea animals now dead,

And destruction of trees, waters, even grasslands widespread,

The world has now realized something that is incredible:

Much of life is normal in the nation of Israel! ¹

You will recall how, when normality became unglued,

Many folks, maybe even you, began to blame the Jews, 

So in haste, to Israel most of them immigrated,

And by that, much racial hate toward them was placated. ²

But with increasing hardships, folks now much more desperate,

To the wise leader, more power they want to delegate.

For control of militaries, he has long salivated.

Now by him, some militaries are ...quickly captivated.

Soldier, you now find yourself under this leader’s command,

And orders have been issued to invade the promise land.

As part of a coalition, led by Iran,

To capture gold, silver and livestock, that’s the plan! ³

If you follow-through as your commanders insist,

‘To calm desperations and hunger that persist’,

Please know this: You’re steeped in Bible predictions,

Trapped in the leader’s anti-Christ’s pretensions.

Years ago, by his mark, you and other folks were branded,

His ‘loyalty price’ from a world in disasters stranded.

Without his mark, it would have been difficult to survive.

When he said, ‘I am GOD!’, evil shifted to over-drive! ⁴

Sounding like Hitler in skillful orations,

He is full of hateful Jewish obsessions.

Ponder what will happen to his soldier instruments,

Who’ll engage in pending Armageddon incidents.

This coalition army will seem, initially,  

To have invaded Israel, quite successfully.

But then by a sudden turnaround it will be confronted, 

With rain, great hailstones, fire and brimstone on folks plummeted. 

By an earthquake of incredible magnitude,

The land will be flattened, then a brief interlude. ⁵

In a flash, skies will be lit, Jesus and His allies,

And one word from Him will dissolve your flesh, tongue and eyes. ⁶

And after that vast army He will have destroyed,

He’ll destroy nations from which soldiers were deployed!

In Grace, He may spare a remnant, and might even relent.

Read what He did with Nineveh when Jonah preached, “Repent!”

This event will signal His Millennial Reign,

During which He’ll get all folks into His ‘righteous lane’.

No devils, no wars on Earth for a thousand years. ⁷

But you won’t enjoy it …if dissolved with your peers!

But if you can manage to escape this fate,

And somehow survive Earth’s tribulation state,

By all means, look me up so I can look you in the eyes.

Just ask for me among Jesus’ …resurrected allies! 

                                  ~~o~~

The last thing Armageddon soldiers will likely see and hear will likely be in the skies over Israel, the sight of Jesus, with His hosts of resurrected saints, uttering a word that will dissolve their entire body. It would be exactly like folks who saw the flash from the Hiroshima bomb blast, and then immediately felt their flesh dissolving. (I wonder what that word might be...) But from this incident, no one else or the environment will be negatively affected. Animals and birds of prey will enjoy a feast, and the soil will be richly fertilized with the flesh of humans and horses! Only uniforms, ID tags, boots, weapons, bones and horse riding gear will be left where soldiers and horses fall. This army will be so large that it will take 7 months to find, mark and then bury all the bones, and the (then wooden) weapons used will supply fuel for many across post-tribulation Israel for 7 years. See: Ezekiel 39, Zechariah 14 and Revelation 16. 

For more see: Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel

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¹ See: A People Un-walled (Series). FYI, grassland ecosystem help sustain, support, and fulfill human life, and are critical for sustaining human well-being. See: Ecosystem Services from National Grasslands

² See: The Coming Lame Blame (Poem). Also see correlations between: Matthew 24:9, Isaiah 49:17 and Zechariah 10:10

³ See: Ezekiel 38

⁴ See: Daniel 12, Matthew 24 and Mark 13. Revelation 13:11- 18 discuss the mark of the beast. 

⁵ For thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land…’ (Haggai 2:6) ‘Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” (Hebrews 12:26) The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. (Ezekiel 38:20) All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up… (Zechariah 14:10)

⁶ And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people [soldiers] who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, and their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths. (Zechariah 14:12) It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem… Then The Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle. (Zechariah 12:9 and 14:3) A remnant group will remain in each. See: A Forced Reconciliation (Poem) 

⁷ See: Revelation 20, Isaiah 2:4, Joel 3:13 and Micah 4:3