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How Shall We Tell The Children?
By Edward Chamberlain

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ANTICHRIST: THE ORIGIN OF HIS KINGDOM

Since the "abomination that maketh desolate" has not yet appeared after Jesus' crucifixion, and since we still see Jerusalem trodden down of the gentiles, and since we see a nation of Israel¹ with the Jews back in Palestine, and especially since we see Israel beginning to make peace with her political neighbors, we can safely conclude that while all of which Jesus and Daniel spoke has not yet been fulfilled, everything is getting ever nearer to fulfillment in the exact manner in which they spoke.

In Luke 21:20 Jesus told his disciples that they would see Jerusalem encircled by armies. Ezekiel 36:1 through 39:29 is a prophecy concerning the reestablishment of the nation of Israel when it has been gathered back into the land of Israel out of every nation on earth. This passage says that this regathered Israel has been brought back into the land that God promised to the seed of Abraham. The Apostle Paul in Galatians 3:16 affirmed that seed to be Jesus Christ. The prophesies of Ezekiel speak of armies coming into Israel after this "in-gathering" at a time when Israel is at peace with her neighbors. Within the context of the whole of this prophecy, it is evident that these armies of which Jesus was speaking in Luke 21:20 come from all around the former Roman Empire, and that they come up deceitfully, and in anger, after a period of time in which Israel has been at peace with them, and is undefended.

Ez. 36:24 speaks of the time when God will gather the Jews back into Israel after a period of time when they have been dispersed all over the world, "For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land." The first return of Ezra and Nehemiah's time does not fulfill all of that scripture, and therefore the return of those Jews during that time was but a type of in-gathering.

Then in Ezekiel 36:25-27 God tells those regathered Jews that he is going to cause them to become "clean" to him once more, i.e. He is going to reestablish His covenant with the Jews again. But before that happens, it is evident that it is God's intention to gather together all of the nations that have persecuted Israel throughout history and to judge them of all the afflictions they have poured upon Israel. God has said he was going to do this at a time when Israel was living in peace with her neighbors after he had gathered them back into a nation from out of every land upon the earth.

The 37th chapter of Ezekiel indicates when Israel first comes back into the land of promise, that they will do so in spiritually dead condition. But at some point during the process of gathering the nations against them, the "Son of Man" will prophecy unto them, and the Spirit of God will move upon them, and their spiritually dry, dead bones will come alive again, and they will finally be a nation of priests unto Almighty God in Christ Jesus. Revelation 14:1-5 is applicable.

Some of the nations which God intends to bring against Israel are given in the first 6 verses of the 38th chapter of Ezekiel, and the principal one of these nations is listed as: Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. This refers to the people who populated the former lands of Russia to the north of Israel which are even now reappearing from Soviet oblivion. This race of Gog, from the land of Magog is to be chief among the other races that are included in a federation of races, which will include the peoples of: Persia, or modern day Iran; Ethiopia, Libya, and Gomer, who was the father of all the Celtic races, or the modern day Indo-Europeans; and Togarmah or modern day Turkey. The land of Magog is the land from around the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea northward, eastward, and westward, it is mostly the area of eastern Russia, Siberia, and western Asia. Every race or nation of people is to be included who have persecuted the Hebrews since the Assyrians, and then the Babylonians, and then the Romans scattered them over the face of the earth, and left them without a nation until 1948 A.D.

It is from one of these nations that the "kingdom" of Antichrist will come and from that kingdom he will use His tremendous political charisma to forge the region into an Empire that will extend throughout Russia, Europe, Asia Minor, and North Africa. All of which gives me hope that America has either declined or been spiritually revived at the time of the end.

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