ELEVEN FULFILLMENTS OF BIBLE PROPHECY REQUIRED FOR THE END OF THE AGE

[Stephen R. Rizzo]

1. EXISTENCE OF A 200,000,000 MAN ARMY IN THE EAST Revelation 9:16 "And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twohundred million; I heard the number of them." An army of that size had never existed until China's army reached thatnumber in the 1960's. 2. REDEVELOPMENT OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (EUROPEAN COMMUNITY) Daniel 2:32-33 "The head of the statue was made of fine gold, itsbreast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, itslegs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay." Daniel 2:40-43 "Then there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron;inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters all things, so like iron thatbreaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces. And inthat you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly ofiron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have the toughness ofiron, and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong andpart of it will be brittle. And in that you saw the iron mixed withclay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but theywill not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine withpottery." The fourth kingdom of iron is the Roman empire according to Daniel'sinterpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The two legs are thedivision of the Roman empire into an eastern portion called theByzantine empire which ended in the 1400's and a western portion basedin Rome which ended in the 400's. The nations of Europe since theRoman empire dissolved have never adhered or formed one empire butcontinue as separate nations, however, the European Union now has 15Member States and is preparing for the accession of 13 eastern andsouthern European countries. 3. RETURN OF THE ONE PURE LANGUAGE, HEBREW, TO ISRAEL Zephaniah 3:9 "For then I will return to the people a pure language,that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him withone consent." Prior to the restoration of Israel in 1948, Hebrew was a deadlanguage. Now Hebrew is spoken throughout Israel. 4. REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE, RESTORATION OF TEMPLE WORSHIP AND ANIMALSACRIFICES IN JERUSALEM For several end time prophecies to be fulfilled, the temple will haveto be rebuilt. Revelation 11:2 "Leave out the court which is outside the temple anddo not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they willtread under foot the oly city for forty-two months." Daniel 9:27 "And he will make a firm covenant with the many for oneweek, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrificeand grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one whomakes desolation, even until a complete destruction, one that isdecreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate." Daniel 9:26 "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cutoff and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come willdestroy the city and the sanctuary." Some archeologists believe that the temple mount is actually 340 feetsouth of the Dome of the Rock site, putting the Dome of the Rockwithin the Court of the Gentiles. This may be the court outside thetemple that is left out. There are many groups already working on preparations for the newtemple. The blueprints are already done, the temple garments havebeen made, and there have already been attempts to lay the cornerstoneof the temple. The only thing standing in the way of the constructionof the new temple is Islam's third holiest site, the Dome of the Rockand government support for such an undertaking. Some possiblescenarios for the rebuilding of the temple are as follows: 1. The persuasion and performing of miracles by the Antichrist andFalse Prophet convinces the Islamic world to approve the rebuilding. 2. The United Nations will negotiate the rebuilding of the templefollowing a war with the armies from the North (Russia and Islamicforces). This assumes that the war with the armies from the North isnot the battle of Armageddon as some feel and that this attack occursbefore the rapture or tribulation period begins. The supernaturaldestruction of the Russian army and Islamic forces will cause anoutpouring of Christian worship and zeal amongst the Jewish people whowill reconstruct the temple. 3. It is determined that the site of the first two temples isactually south of the Dome of the Rock, and the court of the gentiles(Dome of the Rock) will be left out of the 3rd temple. A group in Israel called the Temple Mount Faithful have obtained mostof the clothing, instruments and other equipment required for templeworship and are actively preparing for the laying of the thirdtemple's cornerstone. 5. APPEARANCE OF THE RED HEIFER AFTER 2000 YEARS Numbers 19:2-7 "This is the statute of the law which the Lord hascommanded, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you anunblemished red heifer in which is no defect and on which a yoke hasnever been placed. "You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and itshall be brought outside the camp and be slaughtered in his presence.Next Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his fingerand sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meetingseven times. "Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its hideand its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned. "Thepriest shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, andafterward come into the camp, but the priest shall be unclean untilevening." A red heifer will be required to be used in the process ofpurification described in the book of Numbers. In May 1997 the firstRed Heifer was born in 2000 years. Another red Heifer was born inIsrael in March of 2002. 6. INCREASE IN KNOWLEDGE AND TRAVEL Daniel 12:4 "But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal upthe book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, andknowledge will increase." Billy Graham was quoted as saying, "ninety percent of all theengineers and scientists who have ever lived are alive today." Airtravel, space travel, DNA research and human cloning are all examplesof the rapid increase in knowledge in our generation. 7. RETURN OF THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS TO ISRAEL Zephaniah 3:10-11 "From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia My worshipers,My dispersed ones, will bring My offerings. In that day you will feelno shame because of all your deeds by which you have rebelled againstMe; For then I will remove from your midst your proud, exulting ones,and you will never again be haughty on My holy mountain." In 1984, Operation Moses saw the airlift of 15,000 Jews who hadalready fled to refugee camps in Sudan to escape starvation. In 1991,Operation Solomon flew 20,000 Jews to Israel from Ethiopia itself. Afurther airlift began in June of 1999, aimed at transporting the last3,000 members of the Quara Jewish community from northeastern Ethiopiato Israel. 8. THE RISE OF RUSSIA Ezekiel 38:2,4,8 "Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land ofMagog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy againsthim. I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I willbring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of themsplendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all ofthem wielding swords. After many days you will be summoned; in thelatter years you will come into the land that is restored from thesword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to themountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its peoplewere brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, allof them." In order for some end time events to occur Russia will have to be astrong nation with a strong military. 9. RETURN OF RUSSIAN JEWS TO ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:7-8 "Therefore behold, the days are coming declares theLord, when they will no longer say, as the Lord lives, who brought upthe sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, but as the Lord lives, whobrought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israelfrom the north land and from all the countries where I have driventhem. Then they will live on their own soil." In the 1970's and 1980's there was a mass exodus of Russian Jews outof Communist Russia. In 1999 the Associated Press reported a dramaticincrease in the number of Jewish immigrants from Russia, bringing thelargest number of Russian Jews to Israel since the early 1990's. 10. TECHNOLOGY FOR THE MARK OF THE BEAST Revelation 13:16-17 "And he causes all, the small and the great, andthe rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves to be given amark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that noone will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark,either the name of the beast or the number of his name." On May 10, three members of a family in Florida became the firstpeople to receive the biochip implant. Each device, made of siliconand called a VeriChip, is a small radio transmitter about the size ofa piece of rice that is injected under a person's skin. It transmits aunique personal ID number whenever it is within a few feet of aspecial receiver unit. VeriChip's maker describes it as "aminiaturized, implantable, radio frequency identification device(RFID) that can be used in a variety of security, emergency andhealthcare applications." Is the biochip the mark of the beast to be used by the antichrist? Wecan't really know. What is significant is that people are beingsoftened to the idea of a mark or an implant as a means of maintainingsecurity, providing medical information, and regulating a moreinterdependent world. As attitudes change, fears subside, and peopleare convinced of the need for such a mark, the true mark of the beastwill be easily introduced to the world by the antichrist. 11. PLANS FOR THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT The United Nations, World Trade Organization, International CriminalCourt, UN peacekeeping/police force, numerous UN NGO's, and otheragencies are preliminary steps to the formation of a one worldgovernment. We now have the communications technology,transportation, and the pro-globalization media necessary to usher inthe one world government headed by the antichrist. The increasingterrorist threat and the middle east conflict will only speed up theformation of this governing body as fear and promises of bettersecurity make more people willing to give up their nationalsovereignty for global governance. 12. INSTANT COMMUNICATION AROUND THE WORLD Revelation 11:3, 7-10 "And I will grant authority to my two witnesses,and they will prophecy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed insackcloth. When they have finished their testimony, the beast thatcomes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome themand kill them. And their dead bodies will lie in the street of thegreat city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where alsotheir Lord was crucified. Those from the peoples and tribes andtongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and ahalf days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in atomb. And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them andcelebrate; and they will send gifts to one another, because these twoprophets tormented those who dwell on the earth." Television and the 24-hour news networks make it possible for peoplearound the world to see the dead prophets and rejoice at their deaths. Luke 21:28 "But when these things begin to take place, straighten upand lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near." Luke 21:32 "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass awayuntil all things take place."