Revelation Prophecy: Noah, Daniel, and Job

Discussing current events and how they relate to Biblical prophesy. What are some critical signs are pointing to the imminent Rapture of the Church?

When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” Then another horse went out, a fiery red one, and its horseman was empowered to take peace from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And a large sword was given to him. (Revelation 6:3-4)

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Are we heading towards World War Three? THE WEEK UK, January 3, 2024

Iranian-backed militias have launched attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria, intensifying fears that Israel’s war with Hamas could draw in regional allies and escalate into a wider global conflict.

Since the start of the deadly conflict in Gaza, Iran’s Lebanon proxy Hezbollah and Yemeni Houthi rebels have carried out dozens of attacks, particularly on ships in the Red Sea. Britain and the US are drawing up plans for an armed response, with the UK threatening to take “direct action”.

The Israel-Hamas war is “part of the grander scheme from the axis of resistance”, Christopher O’Leary, director of the Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell, told CNN, “the Iran-controlled strategy to gain power through groups like Hamas, like Palestinian Islamic jihad, Hezbollah… and the Houthis.”

“We’re in the middle of World War III against Iran-led radical Islam, whose tentacles are already in Europe,” said the new Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz in the Jerusalem Post this week on his first day of work. It comes just a week after Kim Jong Un warned that the actions of the US and its allies have pushed the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war.

The US and its allies “already find themselves in a new cold war” with China, argued historian Niall Ferguson in The Times, while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine laid bare the divide between “the countries of the ‘Rimland’ (the Anglosphere, Western Europe and Japan) and those of the Eurasian ‘Heartland’ (China, Russia and Iran plus North Korea)”. A war in the Middle East “might be the next crisis in a cascade of conflict that has the potential to escalate to a Third World War”.

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About four-in-ten U.S. adults believe humanity is ‘living in the end times’ Pew Research Center, December 8, 2022

In the United States, 39% of adults say they believe “we are living in the end times,” while 58% say they do not believe we are living in the end times, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.

Christians are divided on this question, with 47% saying we are living in the end times, including majorities in the historically Black (76%) and evangelical (63%) Protestant traditions. Meanwhile, 49% of Christians say we are not living in the end times, including 70% of Catholics and 65% of mainline Protestants who say this. Viewed more broadly, the share of Protestants who say we are living in the end times is greater than the corresponding share among Catholics (55% vs. 27%).

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WHAT DO THEY KNOW? Mark Zuckerberg’s new apocalypse bunker sparks bizarre conspiracy as Americans fear billionaires are Doomsday prepping THE SUN, US, December 29, 2023

MARK Zuckerberg has been building an underground bunker and it’s led to panic and wild conspiracies on social media.

The Facebook founder’s underground bunker, estimated to be worth around $270 million, is being built on the northeast side of Hawaii’s Kauai island.

Details about Zuckerberg’s newest property have been revealed and it is quite luxurious.

Zuckerberg has been buying up land near his Hawaii property to gain more building space, Business Insider reported.

The underground bunker will include “its own energy and food supplies” and “what appears to be a blast-resistant door,” according to an investigation into the space by Wired.

It is 57,000 square feet, roughly the size of a football field.

PayPal founder Peter Thiel wanted to build a $10 million doomsday mansion in a remote area in New Zealand in 2022 but was denied, The Daily Mail reported.

The spot would have been built in the hills with a very modern look.

He wanted the inside to feature a spa, meditation pod, and a library overlooking Lake Wanaka on New Zealand’s pristine South Island.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI allegedly is in an arrangement for the bunker with Thiel.

Other underground bunkers have been rumored but nothing has been confirmed.

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What happens when nations sin against God to the point of no return?

Throughout history, these 4 judgements (war, famine, plague, and dangerous animals) have always been associated with wrath:

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of bread, to send famine through it, and to wipe out both man and animal from it, even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

“If I allow dangerous animals to pass through the land and depopulate it so that it becomes desolate, with no one passing through it for fear of the animals, even if these three men were in it, as I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“they could not deliver their sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

“Or if I bring a sword against that land and say: Let a sword pass through it, so that I wipe out both man and animal from it, even if these three men were in it, as I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“they could not deliver their sons or daughters, but they alone would be delivered.

“Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath on it with bloodshed to wipe out both man and animal from it, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“they could not deliver their son or daughter. They would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.

“For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send My four devastating judgments against Jerusalem—sword, famine, dangerous animals, and plague—in order to wipe out both man and animal from it! (Ezekiel 14:12-21)

National sins bring national judgments. Though sinners escape one judgment, another is waiting for them. When God’s professing people rebel against him, they may justly expect all his judgments. The faith, obedience, and prayers of Noah prevailed to the saving of his house, but not of the old world. Job’s sacrifice and prayer in behalf of his friends were accepted, and Daniel had prevailed for the saving his companions and the wise men of Babylon. But a people that had filled the measure of their sins, was not to expect to escape for the sake of any righteous men living among them; not even of the most eminent saints, who could be accepted in their own case only through the sufferings and righteousness of Christ. Yet even when God makes the greatest desolations by his judgments, he saves some to be monuments of his mercy.

God used Babylon as His agent of judgment against Israel for their sins of idolatry and rebellion against Him. There were actually several different times during this period (607-586 B.C.) when the Jews were taken captive by Babylon. With each successive rebellion against Babylonian rule, Nebuchadnezzar would lead his armies against Judah until they laid siege to Jerusalem for over a year, killing many people and destroying the Jewish temple, taking captive many thousands of Jews, and leaving Jerusalem in ruins.

Was the destruction of Israel a real historical event?

Archaeologists Find Evidence of the Iron Age Siege of Jerusalem / Inside Science, September 20, 2019

In the 6th century B.C., the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, fearful that the Egyptians would cut off the Babylonian trade routes to the eastern Mediterranean region known as the Levant, invaded and laid siege to Jerusalem to block them. His army destroyed the temple the Hebrew king Solomon built there, and forced the city’s elite to exile in Babylonia.

So began the Babylonian Exile or Captivity, an event that shaped modern Judaism. A new archaeological discovery puts a rare physical stamp of authenticity on an event described in the Hebrew Bible.

Israeli and American archaeologists have found evidence just outside Jerusalem’s old city that apparently supports the Biblical description. In an area called Mt. Zion, which is also known as Western Hill, they found the remains of a home of someone the Bible calls a “Big Man,” one of those probably sent to exile. He would have had a beautiful view of Solomon’s Temple, the holiest place for the Hebrews, and he may have left in a rush.

The dig that uncovered the home is directed by Shimon Gibson, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Rafi Lewis, a senior lecturer at the Ashkelon Academic College and Haifa University in Israel. The excavation has been in process for more than a decade.

“Training staff is quite exhaustive,” Gibson said. “It is difficult because it is so complicated.”

Unlike usual digs where depth equals time — the deeper you go the farther back in time you are — in Jerusalem the ground has been worked by inhabitants so that older material could be found above newer material.

In and around the ruins of the house, the archaeologists found an ash layer mixed with half a million shards or pieces of pottery, arrowheads typical of the Babylonian arsenal and a piece of gold and silver jewelry — all typical of that time. Pottery shards and ash are usually found in the trash, but Gibson pointed out no one keeps arrowheads and jewelry in a trash bin. Someone probably left in a hurry.

Similar four-finned arrowheads have been found in other places in the Middle East, dated to around the time of the Babylonian attack. There is no record of a comparable event in Jerusalem that would have produced similar detritus. Lamps found in the ash layer are also from that time.

The story of the siege is supported by Babylonian scribes, who wrote what archaeologists call the Babylonian Chronicles on cuneiform tablets hardened in ovens, according to Laurie Pearce, a lecturer in Mideast studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Why would Noah, Daniel, and Job be delivered from the coming wrath? What made them righteous?

They were faithful

Noah (Genesis 6:5-9)
Daniel (Daniel 1:8-21) – taken into captivity
Job (Job 1:1-8)

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They were obedient

Noah (Genesis 6:22) – 100 years of building the ark
Daniel (Daniel 6:10-11) – even having to defy the King’s decree
Job (Job 1:20-22) – lost animals, servants, and his children

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They were in the minority – Matthew 7:13-14, 20:16, 22:14

Noah (1 Peter 3:20-22) – eight out of millions
Daniel (Daniel 6:11-15) – the only one recorded who defied the decree
Job (Job 19:13-22) – even close friends turned on him

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They endured for the Lord

Noah (Genesis 5:32, 7:11, 8:13-14, 2 Peter 2:5)
Daniel (Daniel 1:1-6, 6:16-17, 7:15, 28, 8:27, 10:1-3)
Job (James 5:10-11)

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They humbled themselves to God’s will

Noah (Hebrews 11:7)
Daniel (Daniel 9:1-19)
Job (Job 42:1-6)

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They were loved by God

Noah (Genesis 6:8-9)
Daniel [Daniel 9:23, 10:11, 19 (greatly loved ESV)]
Job (Job 2:3, 42:7-17)

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These three men are selected as they came from different “worlds”; Noah witnessed the world destroyed and rebuilt, Daniel witnessed the temple destroyed and rebuilt, and Job witnessed the prosperity destroyed and rebuilt. But, these three righteous spiritual heroes “could not have prevailed with God in prayer to save the people” from the coming disasters.

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Will 2025 mark the point of no return and the beginning of the Lord’s judgement? Are these same 4 judgements (war, famine, plague, and dangerous animals) coming again?

When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” Then another horse went out, a fiery red one, and its horseman was empowered to take peace from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And a large sword was given to him.

Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague, and by the wild animals of the earth. (Revelation 6:1-8)

With a world population of about 8 billion, “a fourth of the earth” killed by these judgements will be about 2 billion people. And this will only be the beginning of all of the Tribulation judgements to come. 

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Current events are aligning with Biblical prophecy

Source: https://raptureandendtimes.com/2024/12/13/revelation-prophecy-noah-daniel-and-job/