America is rife today with so-called “politicians” and “educators” and “social engineers” who believe in (and have become proponents, evangelists for) “globalism,” but in a bad sense!
They want the United States to virtually cease to exist (a situation that may not be as unrealistic as we once thought) … and merely become a “player” in the world community of “people!”
Down with U.S. sovereignty, hegemony … let some “world court” and international “police confederacy” rule the earth!
Is this why our beloved Country can hardly be found (even if it can be found at all) in Bible Prophecy?
Back to my word … “globalism!”
Maybe that’s why that liberal crowd wants unlimited immigration and open borders … in a not-so-veiled attempt to dilute “America” into a non-entity! A “melting pot” in which no Judeo-Christian values survive!
Incidentally, this scenario will lead to a (temporary) one-world leader some day, a charismatic dictator the Bible labels “anti-Christ!”
Now to my Text today, Isaiah 14:1-2, concerning the future Millennium, of course.
“For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.” A set of conditions that have never (thus far) been realized!
No wonder we call Israel God’s “chosen nation!” But note this is a collective term here, not speaking of individual election. Deuteronomy 14:2 teaches … “For thou (ISRAEL) art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the Lord HATH CHOSEN thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the NATIONS that are upon the earth.”
Isaiah then adds that some day God “will set” (a verb meaning “to cause to rest, to be pacified,” obviously implying “no more war”) Jacob (another name for Israel, the Jews) “in their own land,” the “Holy Land” some of us still call it. This became a possibility (and reality) in the year 1948, during my lifetime! But folks, “their own land” includes a whole lot more real estate than they now occupy! Israel is now just a “sliver” of what she will be during the Millennium!
Then Isaiah 14 has “strangers” being joined to Israel, meaning foreigners, non-Jews! Willingly joined to Israel! That verb “cleaving” means “to bond, attach,” even to “abide.” I hear no more anti-Semitism in this Clause. “Global Peace!”
Verse 2 almost sounds like the “nations” (the noun “people” here is indeed plural, “peoples” from different ethnic backgrounds) will become “servants” to Israel! “They (Israel) shall take them (former enemies) captives, whose captives they were; and they (Israel) shall RULE OVER their oppressors.” Yes, not historical, but future … Millennial!
Just as the Church is the Bride of our Lord Jesus Christ … I would not be one iota surprised to find that Israel is the Bride of God the Father! Isaiah 54:5, Jehovah speaking to Israel … “For thy Maker is thine HUSBAND; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.” Then no wonder Old Testament “idolatry” is often called (by the Prophets) “spiritual adultery,” despicable “whoredoms!”
What a future awaits Israel, redeemed Israel!
Us too, for once the Rapture occurs (at least 7 years prior to Jesus returning to earth to rule those thousand years) … we shall “ever be WITH the Lord!” Right by His Side during every second of that golden Span of time! (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
Truly a “new world order” is rapidly approaching, when Jesus rides that white horse out of Glory! (Revelation 19:11)
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
This is why a “Judgment of the Nations” will occur at the beginning of the Millennium, at the end of the Tribulation. Matthew 25 style!
Yes, one world Ruler all right … JESUS! Now that’s called “globalism,” in a very good sense!
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