260713 Middle-east post 15

Satan has spent many centuries gaining de facto title to the world via his servants. This is what happened before Noah’s flood and satan has been building his title portfolio again ever since, by the continued selling of his illicit wares. Once he holds property or title of any sort, he won’t let it go if at all possible. If it stays off the market, then a property remains unsold. Think of it a different way. If a person holds a title for some sporting ability, then in many cases he holds it until he accepts a challenge. Until he accepts that challenge, he theoretically cannot lose that title. For example, it takes a fight to take the title off a boxing champion, so if he won’t accept the fight, then he may well retain his title; fighting a match may put his title at risk. In a way this is what happened with Egypt’s pharaoh; it took Moses to challenge him in a conflict that pharaoh was unable to back off from later on until he lost the title (the title to ownership of Israel in this case). Fights are often necessary to win something.

Today satan holds a lot of title in our world. But since the Ottoman empire (Turkey) was defeated in WW1, and the Balfour Declaration of 1917 allocated Palestine to Israel, satan has been defending his title portfolio. He would have wanted to keep Palestine because this would keep Israel out. The Balfour Declaration was not good for satan. Then when Israel took a small part of Palestine in 1948, satan’s portfolio took another hit. The original land of Israel especially with Jerusalem and particularly the Temple Mount was under satan’s control for a long time, but now the fight was on to keep his title to this property. The thing is that once it became a battleground, it could be lost; “no battle” was better if he wanted to keep his title to this property.

In fact, this is what it’s all about. Satan can hold his property better if he doesn’t have to fight for it; fighting introduces a real risk of losing it. It is clear from prophecy, however, that if God is to take back title for His people Israel and for His created world in general, He will choose to win it through conflict, just as He won title for His people Israel via the conflict which pharaoh lost against God’s servant Moses.

Today God has set things up in the world that will cause satan to have to defend his title through conflict. We can see how politics have become divisive issues lately, with strong feelings for and against leaders and such. Satan will be desperate to retain Palestine, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, necessary for the control of God’s people Israel. Therefore this is where the conflict will be centred. Satan’s servants are being pressured to fight for control of Israel especially Jerusalem. The 2017 hamas charter demands control of Israel’s land and for Jerusalem as their capital. And Temple Mount will become the hottest property in the world soon.

But the conflict isn’t only over Israel. God is going to take back title for the whole world, leaving not one place at all for satan and his servants. Armageddon will complete God’s battles for the takeover of the whole world in readiness for the 1000-year reign of peace over the whole world by Christ the Messiah.

There will be a coming 7-year period culminating with Armageddon, with the world in such conflict that destruction on a massive occurs. Wars, famines, earthquakes, ultra-mass-fatalities, extreme natural disasters; this 7-year period will have it all, more destructive than all the disaster movies put together! And God wins all title!