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Students of The Holy Bible, The Mind of Christ,
Learn the gravity of prophecies written thrice.
Understanding key aspects of what’s on His Mind,
Is intended to help us, with Him to align. 1
And when more than three times some key points are affirmed,
Perceive by exclamation points, they are CONFIRMED!!!
That is when, to the world, He is is signaling,
Precepts about which folks …should be trembling!!!
A massive, global earthquake is on Earth’s horizon,
As affirmed and confirmed in 13 prophetic mentions,
Across both the Old and New Testaments,
Impacting all islands and continents. 2
Planned to occur near the end of the great tribulation,
It'll signal the end of the first promise land invasion,
And the beginning of The Lord’s Millennial reign.
That’s when survivors are forced into His ‘righteousness lane’.
Earth quaking…
In Israel, anti-Christ armies will meltdown,
And every mountain, hill and wall will then fall down,
Filling in valleys until all the land is a plain.
But Jerusalem will be a highly raised terrain. 3
Earth shaking…
And with the whole world rocking and reeling,
No wall anywhere will be left standing.
Across the Earth, all steep places shall fall,
As she hears and obeys The Lord’s ‘shake’ call!
Search for commentaries on the significance of this,
There is one, key perspective you might very likely miss.
There’s confusion about which of these points prophetical,
Are spiritual, metaphorical or physical!
Many Bible prophecies tie folks up in knots,
When, between key points, they fail to connect the dots.
As between all The Lord’s ’shake the Earth’ prophecies,
We connect strategic dots, I’ll share what I ‘see’.
Isaiah ‘saw’ global leveling of valleys, mountains and hills.
There’re many views, but only one correlates to, and would fulfill,
What Ezekiel ‘saw’ at the end of the first invasion:
At The Lord’s fury, all mountains and steep places cast down!
Except…
Jerusalem is raised up in Israel, then a plain!
These views suggest all but one place on Earth will be a plain!
Could this hint at a lesson that Nimrod once learned,
The same by which, today, Afghanistan is ‘burned’? 4
Lesson: Governance is enhanced, in a plain’s broad expanse!
The Lord says, ‘once again’ He’ll shake Earth to move out of her place.
So He’s done this before! In the flood were continents displaced??
Could this be The Lord’s complex strategy,
To reshape Earth’s total topography?? 5
Continents united…?
One language selected…?
Folks in a plain, the world over…!
And for a while, a lot fewer…! 6
Earth, shaken out of her ‘now’ place…?
Returning to her ‘prior’ base…?
Tribulation is over and folks are glad…!
One king, as Adam and Nimrod’s subjects had…! 7
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1 In reiterating key prophecies, The Lord apparently practices His key principle iterated in these verses: Deuteronomy 17:6, 19:15, Matthew 18:16, 2 Corinthians 13:1 and Hebrews 10:28.
2 See: Isaiah 2:19;21, 13:13, 24:19-20; Ezekiel 38:19-20; Haggai 2:6-7& 22; Matthew 24:7-8, 29-30; Mark 13:8-9, 24-25; Luke 21:10-11, 25-28; Hebrews 12:25-26; and Revelation 16:17-18. Ponder this: the number, 13, never refers to anything considered good.
A key point in understanding Bible prophecies is to study them in context of how they reinforce each other to discern which points are metaphorical versus physical. So much of The Bible is metaphorical in The Lord’s endeavor to explain spiritual things to us who are corporeal. Thus, we may easily miss His points when He’s really speaking of physical things. The fact that, in the same verse, Ezekiel 38:20 mentions mountains, steep places and walls being thrown down, seems to eliminate the interpretation that the words, mountains and hills, refer to human governance institutions, as they do in many other Bible verses. I believe this verse is not metaphorical, but refers to the physical reshaping of the topography of Israel, and Earth, writ large. Yet many, if not most, Bible commentators omit to make this link. Consider the many references in The Bible to hills and mountains ‘melting’ in the presence of The Lord, obviously referring to the Earth quaking, not a spiritual or metaphorical phenomenon.
3 See: Zechariah 14:10-12
4 See: Genesis 10:8-12 and 11:2. Nimrod was king over several cities. Afghanistan’s difficult mountainous topography, ethnic complexity, and tribal and local loyalties produce enduring political fragmentation.
5 Some scientists and Bible scholars understand Earth was one land mass. Some Bible scholars understand the worst ever earthquake, promised in Isaiah 13:13 and Haggai 2:6, might rejoin all continents and eliminate all mountains and valleys, physically. This plausible notion indicates the purpose of mountains might be to make room for flood waters, especially since there is no mention of oceans in the first 6 chapters (pre-flood) of Genesis. I find it insightful that there are 7 continents separating the floodwaters. Biblically, the number, 7, is significant from several perspectives.
6 See: Zephaniah 3:9 (re. one language) and Isaiah 13:12 (very sparse human population). The Book of Revelation is also very clear on the devastating impacts tribulation plagues will have on the populations of human, animal and sea creatures. Read it often and be blessed per Revelation 22:7.
7 Before Adam and Eve sinned, The Lord was effectively Adam’s ‘king’. Prior base refers to pre-flood and pre-Tower of Babel.
