Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from “Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations” by Dave Hunt

The language in Ezekiel 38 is apocalyptic. This war will be Satan’s most vicious and final attempt to destroy Israel (and mankind made in the image of God). Antichrist will lead the armies of the entire world against Jerusalem. The Messiah will intervene to rescue Israel and mankind and to stop the weapons of mass destruction from wiping out the human race – weapons that have been launched against Israel (not only atomic but chemical and biological), and hers launched in retaliation. Antichrist and his armies will be destroyed. Otherwise, as Christ warned, “there should no flesh be saved” (Matthew:24:22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
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As we have seen, God has two purposes at Armageddon: He is going to demonstrate His power by punishing the world in righteousness; and He will prove Himself to His people, the Jews, worldwide, breaking their stubborn hearts once and for all. Thereafter they will never rebel against Him again…. Some of the language in the prophecies related to this event is derisive in describing man’s rebellion: “The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us” (Psalm:2:2-23 [2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, [3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. [4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision. [5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. [6] Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. [7] I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. [8] Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. [9] Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. [10] Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. [11] Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. [12] Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
See All...). The scene turns to heaven: “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision” (Psalm:2:4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
See All...). The fact that a derisive laugh will come from God is terrifying evidence that His patience is exhausted. Judgment will fall!

This prophetic psalm is about Jerusalem, the Messiah who will rule there, man’s opposition to God’s will, and God’s punishment because of this rebellion. God has warned the world, “Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him” (Psalm:2:12Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
See All...). But mankind as a whole refuses to bow the knee to the Creator and to His Son and stubbornly rushes on to judgment.